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VOLUME XXV
WARRENTON, Pf. CM TUE SPAY; FEBRUARY 3, 1920
Number 10
A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTER ESTS OFWARRENTON AND WAR KEN COUNTY
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(By W. BRODIE JONES)
The members of the Cotton Associa
tion should be present at the meeting
here Friday when opportunity is to be
offered them for sale of second grade
cotton.
The Association is striving thru the
great ability and energy of President
Wannamaker to be of monied value to
the entire cotton belt. It is destined
to fill this need.
The first opportunity offered local
ir embers should receive their careful
attention for it means monied return
over and above that which is offered
cn the staple by the buyers today.
The Cotton Association is a factor in
the South which is to play a tremen
dous part in the coming years toward
obtaining a just reward for the cotton
producers of the Southland.
Smith Aren't you afraid of getting
the influenza?
Jones (gloomily) No; what's the
use
? Baltimore Post.
'What'3 a menu, pa?"
"It is a printed paper with the prices
of food to show you what you can't
get-
Not Enthusiastic.
"So you want to be my son-in-law,
do you?" asked the man, with as much
fierceness as he could assume.
"Well," said the young man, "I
don't particularly want to be, but I
suppose I shall have to be if I marry
your daughter." Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph. "How do you account for this sudden
outbreak of interest in psychic
science?"
"I suppose since spirits are now
banned in this world we have to look
for those in another". Exchange.
"Do the doctors give your friends
any hope for their rich uncle?".
"Not a particle. They say he may
live for years."
Housewife "If you love work, why
don't you find it?"
Tramp (sadly) "Alas, lady, love is
blind." London -Tit-Bits. .,
"Is your husband a good provider,
Dinah?"
"Yessum; he's a good providah all
right, but I'se alius skeered dat nigger
gwine ter git caught at it." Chronicle
The Strength of Cheerfulness
"Give us the man who sings at his
work! Be his occupation what it may
be, he is equal to ay of those who fol
low the same pursuit in silent 6ullen
ness. He will do more in the same
time he will do it better he will per
severe longer. One is scarcely sensi
ble of fatigue whilst he marches to
music. Wondrous is the strength of
cheerfulness, altogether past calcula
tion its powers of endurance." Car
lyle. -
The visitor to the lawyer's office
stood in amazement.
"I say, old man!" he exclaimed.
"Whatever has happened to you ? Had
a motor" smash or what?"
The lawyer shook his head wearily
as he gingerly touched his bruised and
bandaged fac.
"No. You remember that case the
other day when I defended a man
charged with assault? Well, I made
a strong plea for him on the ground
that he was a fool rather than a crim
inal." "Yes, but"
"I did it so well that he was acquit
ted and he waited for me outside the
court." San Francisco Argonaut. .
J. T. WARING SENDS THESE:
Say! if you want a streak of "good
reading luck" that will put "pep" in
your "amusement" motor and want to
"breeze" yourself up with the latest
reliable news then subscribe to the
Warren Record for 1920.
And since I had a talk with them
I leave the flowers on their stem
No? pluck them to interfere
With their weet scent of winter cheer.
Lawyer" What do you want a di
vorce for lady, does your husband
abuse you?"
Lady "No but he snores."
Lawyer "Didn't you marry your
husband for better or for worse?"
Lady "Yes, I did, but I didn't mar
ry mm for a brass band."
Jjjjon't kiss away your best girls tears
though you sure do feel like trying
tor if you An v,
Is
sure to keep on crying.
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MEMBERS URGED TO COME
Opportunity To Give Option On
Low Grades Of Cotton At
Substantia! Increase
WANNAMAKER ENGINEER
ING 300,000 BALE DEAL
Foreign Manufacturing Enter
prises Want Cotton and Oppor
tunity Given Membership of
the Association.
President A E. Paschall of the War
ren County unit of the Cotton Asso
ciation with a membership of over
two hundred farmers of the county,
has called a special meeting to con
vene in the Court House Friday morn
ing, February 6th, at 11 o'clock.
The purpose of the meeting is to
give the membership an opportunity
to dispose of their cotton at higher
than market prices thru arrangement
made by the National Director of the
Association.
The farmers of the county are urg-
ed to consider the ODDortunitv as set:-
forth in the folowing letter to all
county chairmen:
"President J. S: Wannamaker, of
the American Cotton Association, hag
a deal on for 300,000 bales of low
grade cotton to be exported. Foreign
mill representatives are now in this
country awaiting our action. We are
asking for an option on this cotton,
good until February 10th, under th
following conditions and terms:
"Low middling cotton. . .41c per lb
Strict good ordinary 39c per lb
Good ordinary cotton 37c per lb
Ordinary cotton.. 35c per lb
These prices are net to seller f. o. b.
his shipping point, cotton weighed
and graded at assembling point.
"Now, in order for North Carolina
cotton producers and dealers to take
advantaco of this ffeK we are asking
that you, as County Chairman, call
meeting of the County Association, at
once, for the purpose of explaining
this offer to the Association members.
We believe it the best offer available
at the present time for these grades
of cotton, and that should the sale
be affected, it will result m. getting
much low grade cotton off our hands
much to he benefit of all. Option
blanks have been wired for by the
Raleigh office, and will be forwarded
to you just as soon as they arc re
ceived in any number which you may
need.
"The tersm of th sale are eighty
per cent cash on delivery; twenty per
cent deferred payments, said deferred
payments bearing interest at six per
cent and secured by a syndicate of
foreign banks and guaranteed by their
government. All these securities win
be examined and approved before the
cotton is delivered.
"These foreign mills, through their
representatives, recognize they are
asking something unusual in requir
ing an option, and in asking for de
ferred payments. For these reasons
they are willing to pay a price sub
stantially above the market for the
cotton.
"The officers of the American Co
ton Association realize that in a deal
of this size, it is necessary to give
these foreign buyers the option in or
der to enable them to perfect ar
rangements for handling th deal. The
mills to which this cotton will be sold
have been idle for years, and the deal,
if put through, will start these millJ
to consuming cotton and relieve our
market of low grade cotton.
sufficient options are m
hand the Cotton Association will be-
L pivfi and ship cotton. All
options, with a warehouse receipt at
tached or the equivalent thereof,
should be deposited at a local bank
which is authorized to deliver this
cotton to the order of J. S. Wanna
makr, only, after the terms of the op
tion have been fully complied with.
"We want to urge you to call this
meeting as early as possible, and to
see in person, if possible, owners of
low grade cotton, urging all these to
be present at the meeting. We sin
cerely believe this is one of the big -gest
things the North Carolina and tha
American Cotton Associations can do
for the cotton growers at the presen.
time, and we want to see as many
holders of these low grades of cotton
profit by the scheme as possible. u
(Continued On Second Page)
TO
DAY
Shakespeare-
oil Man
Concerning man, Shakespeare said:
"What a piece of work is. man! How
noble in reason! How infinite in fa
culties! In form and moving, how
admirable! In action, how like an an
gel! In apprehension, how like a
god!"
This will serve as a preface to Mark
Twain's opinion of man. Take your
choice.
Mark Twain said:
"Man can't sleep out of doors with
out freezing to death or getting the
rheumatism; he can't keep his nose
under water over a minute without
being, drowned. He's the poorest,
clumsiest excuse of all the creatures
that inhabit this earth.
"He has got to be coddled, housed
and swathed and bandaged to be able
to live at alL He is a rickety sort of
a thing any way you take him, and a
regular British Museum of infirmities
and inferiorities.
"He is always undergoing repairs.
Amachine as unreliable as he is would
have no market.
"The higher animals get their teeth
without pain or inconvenience. Man a
come through months of cruel torture,
at a time when he is least able to bear
it. As soons as he o-ets fhpm thov
must be pulled out again. The second
set: win answer tor awhile, but he will
never get a set that can be depended
on till the dentist makes one.
"Man starts in as a child and lives
on diseases to the end, as a rgular diet.
He has mumps, measles, scarlet fever,
whooping cough, croup, tonsilitis, diph
theria, as a matter of course.
"Afterward, as he goes along, his
life continues to be threatened at every
turn by colds, coughs, asthma, bron
chitis, quinsy, consumption, yellow
fever, blindness, influenza, carbuncles,
pneumonia, softening of the brain, and
a thousand other maladies of one sort
and another.
"He's just a basketful of pestilent
corruption, provided for the support
and entertainment of microbes. Look
at the workmanship" of him in some of
ajits particulars.
"What is his appendix for? It has
no value. Its sole interest is to lie
and wait for stray grape-seeds arm
breed trouble.
"What is his beard for? It is just
a nuisance. All nations persecute it
with the razor. Nature, however, al
ways keeps him supplied with it, in
stead of putting it on his head.
"A man wats to keep his hair It is
a graceful ornament, a comfort, the
best protection against weather, and
he prizes it above emeralds and rubies
and half the time Nature puts it on
so it won't stay.
"Man isn't even handsome, as com
pared with the birds; and as for style,
look at the Bengal tiger that ideal
of grace, physical perfection, and maj
esty. "Think of the lion and the tiger and
the leopard, then think of man that
poor thing! the animal of the wig,
the ear-trumpet, the glass eye, the
porcelain teeth, the wooden leg, the
silver wind-pipe a creature that i3
mended all over from top to bottom."
From Metal Bulletin.
Ic Of
and Mappiiiss
Life is like a child pursuing the
rainbow.
In the child's hand is a peppermint
Every little while the child must stop
and rest. With ach rest it nibbles at
its candy and forgets the rainbow for
a little while.
The rainbow that men pursue is the
thing called Happiness.
It is ever elusive, it i
is never cap
tured because like the rainbow it
exists only in the mind. The rainbow
changes its appearance and location as
the eye changes its position and Hap
piness changes as the mind does.
What was looked forward to as the
greatest Happiness when we were
twenty would not attract us for a
moment at forty. 7
The peppermint stick, however, is
real. It is food and shelter and cloth
ing and occupation. It has stripes
like the rainbow and as we enjoy it
we say we are happy. But we always
discover that the rainbow after all is
the real Happiness and we begin
again to pursue it.
Happiness is expectation, and noth
ing else.
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BUSY DAY FOR WORKERS
Dr. Henry Highsmith- Address
e$ Both Races On Require
ments for Certificates
PROF. C. H. JOHNSON HEADS
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Medical Examination of School
Children Presented As Portion
of Teachers Duty In the State
Free Treatment Plan.
Both the white and colored teachers
meetings here Saturday were record
breakers for attendance. All of the
seventy one colored teachers were in
attendance at the colored graded
school as well as twenty three from
other counties.
Teachers of both races were - ably
addressed by Dr J. Henry Highsmith
of the, State Board of Examiners who
presented the requirements of the
State for certificates and urged the
importance of reading circle work and
the attendance upon summer schools
and institutes. He referred in this
connection to the Summer school to
be held here during the coming sum
mer. The duty of the teacher to examine
the school children for remediable de
fects apd how to conduct this exam
ination was presented by Supt. Allen.
Dr. G. M. Cooper who was to make
an address on this subject send the fol
lowing wire: "My baby ha pneumonia.
Impossibl for me to ge to teachers
meeting; could not get substitute ou
such short notice. If you will send
list of teachers, both races, with ad
dress and number pupils enrolled in
each school I will send supplies with
full instructions to each teacher im
mediately. If you will urge them to
comply, with our request we can pro
perly pardon 'clinics "this summer for
Warren county."
Supt. Allen called upon ex-superintendent
Jones for remarks. Mr. Jones
was given an ovation. He stated his
pleasure at being present and willing
ness to assist in any capacity for the
advancement of the educational inter
ests of the county.
The white teachers association was
organized with Prof. C. H. Johnson, of
Norlina High School, as president;
Miss Mariam Boyd, vice-president;
Miss Sue Broom, secretary. A High
School Text Book Commission was
appointed as follows J. Edward Al
len, J. B. Aiken, C. H. Johnson, H. A.
Nanney and Miss Mariam Boyd. The
purpose of this commission being to
adopt standard text books for all the
county high schools.
Saturday was a very busy but pro
fitable day for the teaching force of
Warden state those in charge. -
ARMENIAN RELIEF SUNDAY
TO BE OBSERVED ON CIRUIT
Next Sunday, February 8th, is Ar
menian Near East Relief Sunday thru
put America. Armenia is the oldest
christian nation in the world. Their
fidelity to the christian faith has
brought upon them the wrath of the
inhuman Turk and caused a state of
indescribable persecution and starva
tion which christian America, in the
midst of her prosperity and plenty, is
asked to relieve.
In the name of our christian relig
ion, and for suffering humanity, will
we do it? I believe we will. -But to
save the thousands of starving women
and children we must act quickly. I
am asking that the people of the War
ren circuit come to the rescue in this
most worthy cause, and meet me at
our next appointment at your church
prepared to make a liberal contribu
tion. J. T. DRAPER.
'It is of no use whatever borrowing
trouble."
"Yet that is a loan which is always
oversubscribed.". Baltimore Post.
If hash had as fine-sound a name as
French Toast, more scraps would be
used. Selected.
"Every man gets a lot of advice
from loafers.
"Good luck never surprises a man
of good ability.'.'
If vou want anything bad enough
you can usually get it. Wood's Jewels
A -Prayer For
Schools-Orane
O God, Thou hast put into oui
hands the future of the race. We are
made co-workers with Thy spirit in
creating the world" that is to be.
Thou hast put every new genera
tion in the lap of the old, that there
may be a continuity of growth.
Awaken us to our responsibility.
Stir us up to our incomparable privi
lege. Make keen within us, the con
viction that we have no work more
vital to do than to teach.
Reveal to us the school as the
heart of the world's work.
Vast problems press upon us. The
world is upturned. The masses seethe
in the ferment of untried theories.
Yet the way is simple.
It lies through the child.
The road to the Golden Age runs,
through the schoolhouse.
There is no reform, however far
reaching, no establishment of justice,
however revolutionary, that might not
better be accomplished by patience
through the instruction of the chil
dren, than through the schemes of
politics or the violence of war.
Arms and disorder, destruction and
overturning, are man's way. The
school is Thy way.
Lay upon the conscience of every
teacher the divinity of his employ.
Give him the enthusiasm of his op
portunity. Show him the beauty, the
majesty of his calling, the marvel ol
his art, the proper pride of his crafts
manship! Make every parent realize that the
best gift in his power for the child is
the school!
Lay deep in every child's heart an
unmistakable ambition to learn, to
know, to come to mastery.
And to unfold to us increasingly
what education means! Shake from
us the ghost grip of the past, the nar
rowing hold of tradition, while we
still preserve what is good.
Deepen, broaden, enlarge, our con
ception of the - school. Make us. glad,
top'ft.more-forr.it'jas the 'best of
an "investments for the security of the
world.'
And show us that there can be no
salvation for the race that does not
first mean salvation for the child, by
striking from his brain the chain of
ignorance,, from his heart the iron rim
of superstition, and frornjiis hand the
curse of the unskilled.
Red Cross Em
ploys a Nurse
Miss Rose - M. Ehrenfeld, Director
Bureau Public Health Nursing and In
fant Hygiene met with the Executive
committee and other interested mem
of the Red Cross in the home of Mrs.
Kate P. Arrington last Thursday
night.
Miss Ehrenfeld was present upon
the" invitation of Mrs. Arrington, chm
of the county chapter, to give infor
mation of public health nursing upon
which field of service the county chap
ter was interested.
After presenting the subject from
every angle in concise form, the Exec
utive committee asked that such nurse
be provided as soon as possible.
; The speaker outlined the general
sphere of the nurse's work as being
educative and preventive. Bedside
care, she emphatically pointed out, was
impracticable. The worker would per
form a great service in giving advice
to mother's in the state of pregnancy,
by instructing midwives and by teach
ing infant hygiene the lack of knowl
edge of which caused many deaths and
great suffering.
, The bulk of the nurse's salary for
the first year will be bourne by the
Red Cross but assistance is expected
from the Boards of Education and
County Commissioners.
Those present were much impress
ed with the field of service presented
by Miss Erhenf eld and felt that a
progressive move was made in the em
ployment of a nurse who will report
for work as soon as she can be pro
cured by the State Health Depart
ment. Honor Roll Afton School For January
First grade Nellie G. Martin; se
cond grade Grace Burroughs; Third
grade Louis Fuller, Roger Limer;
Fourth grade Daniel Limer, Evelyn
Limer; Seventh grade Mattie Lee Ful
ler, Martha Burroughs, Eddie Limer;
Eighth grade Lula Belle Fuller,
MABEL L. ROBERTSON, Teacher.
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21 ORPHANS COUNTY QUOTA
Ministers of Warren To Present
Cause of Christian Armenia
To Their Congregation
TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION
TO DRIVE COMING WEEK
Plans Are For Short, Intensive
Campaign; Dinner Conference
, In The Masonic Hall Friday At
One O'clock.
The Armenian and Syrian Rclkf
campaign which begins in the county
cn the next Sunay, February 8th, will
receive support from the citizenship
of Warren says County Chairman
Jones.
The local organization is to be pres
ent Friday at one for a dinnor con
ference at the Masonic Hall where tho
c?mraign to provide for the twenty
one orphans assigned as t.ic county's
quota will be discussed and the ne
cessity for immediate action be pre
sented. Sixty dollars, the minimum the cit
izens are asked to provide for each
child, will feed one of the orphans a
year, $120 will feed and clothe one a
year and $180 will feed, clothe, and
educate one for a year.
A full attendance of the following
workers are expected: Miss Julia Dam
eron, Woman's .chairman; J. Edward
Allen, treasurer; Dr. T. J. Taylor, Dr.
J. T. Gibbs; Rev. J. J. Marshall, Rev.
E; W. Ba-ter, Rev. J. M. Millard, Rev.
J. P. Harris, Rev Marvin Self, Rev.
J. T. Draper and the county organiza
tion by township:
Warrenton R. B. Boyd, Mrs. J. L!.
Rooker.
Fork R. E. Williams, Jr., Mrs. John
Clay, Powell.
Fishing Creek rWeldon T. Davis, Miss
rr'Eva.;'Du3c,C "------'-- -: '
Judkins -Ci N. Hardy, Mrs. Sharps
Brown.
River R. D. Fleming, Mrs. John H.
Harrison.
Hawtree Coley Perkinson, Mrs. Cher
lotte Story Perkinson.
Smith Creek Robert White, Mrs. J.
E. Redford.
Sandy Creek J. Ki Pinnell, Miss Jen
nie C. Alston.
Roanoke H. L. Wall, Mrs. Emma
Huckstep.
Six Pound J. J. Nicholson, Mrs, J. S.
Nowell.
Shocco J. Boyd Davis, Mrs. R. L.
Pinnell.
Nutbush A. E. Paschall, Mrs. Sam
Satterwhite.
The ministers of the county are
lending their support to the campaign
and with the details presented to the
above workers the response from the
citizenship of the county during the
canvass next week will be liberal.
CENSUS TAKERS USE
AEROPLANES IN WORK
Everything from aeroplanes to
snowshoes is being used by the
agents of Uncle Sam in taking the
1920 census of the United States.
About the only modern method of
transportation either on, over, or be
low land or water that has, not been
employed in enumerating Uncle Sara's,
nieces and nephews seens to be tho
submarine.
Aeroplanes have come in handy in
enumerating the dwellers on the
islands off the coast of Florida;
yachts and rowboats have been used
in the harbors of the country; native
canoes have been in demand, among
the Hawaiian Islands; "flivers" are
being used everywhere; the tried and
trusty mule team has carried the cen
sus takers out on the desert regions;
and snowshoes have become the trust
ed aides of the census gathers in the
northern states and Alaska.
Enumerator Turns Rescuer.
In the central part of New York
state, near Oswego, a few days ago
an enumerator making his rounds on
snowshoes arrived at an isolated farm
dwelling only to find that an able
bodied man was needed more than a
census gatherer as the man of the
family had been sick in bed for several
days and the farm animals were suf
fering for lack of food and water.
The census man, like any good neigh
bor would, stopped long enough to do
the chores, dig out paths through the
deep snow and put things in ship
shape order before continuing his
jounrney.