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WARRENTON7N. C FRIQAY, MAY t4, 1920
Number 36
A SEMI-WEEWCriNEWSPAPEirDEVOTEDTO THE INTERESTS OF WABRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
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GREAT AB0I8ESS
Last Saturday Was a Day of Inspiration for
Page Followers-Court Room Was
Comfortably Filled
Saturday was a day of inspiration r
the Page !
Prtnnw I ho i nt
I0UC1' . , !,- J
uiiy
was beautltul ana me opeaKei-
and His
son Mr- Thad Page motored ;
er.. ..in'nn- in Wn-rrAntrvn
from Kaieis,
bout ten o'clock. He was met by Mr. j tion. Time was when the education of
V B. Boyd and others of the Page the child was thought to be the busi
Club and made to feel at home. j ness of the parent, and not a matter
He was introduced by Judge ThosJ for the public to be interested in. Be
0 Rodwell in a few well chosen and fore the War between the States there
appropriate woras oi commenuuuu.i,
andthen proceeded with his address,
hfrU st full account of his .
speech, as an examination of our ! a
columns will show that the latter half j a
nf thp weeK. ana ivionuay ox Litis weet
was filled with many things of inter
est to our citizens. .
Mr. Page said:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
'I do not feel that I have come ir.
the midst of strangers altogether. 3
come as a candidate for the office of
Governor most prized of all the of
fices of this great Commonwealth. In
seeking this position I do not do so to
merely gratify a personal ambition.
I appreciate the honor, but if it was
merely to gratify a personal ambition
I should not have entered the race; I
should not have undertaken the nec
essary hardship, nor should I have as
sumed the great -responsibility that 1
should have the honor. The motive
was fundamental, because I believe
that at this particular time in the
handling of the affairs of Government
that there is a place, an opportunity
for a man trained in business. We
are living under peculiar, cimcumstan
ces in a peculiar period, a condition
brought on by the mighty conflict
across the seas; a period of economic
and social disturbances. In the midst
of the greatest prosperity we should
be living in peace and contentment.
But there is more of unrest, more of
dissatisfaction, more of disturbance
than ever before.
"We have not stopped to think of
the wonderful development in North
Carolina in recent years; we have been
intensely interested in our own per
sonal affairs, and mo'st of us have been
very busy. I am sure that not many
of us have taken the time to observe
how rapidly we have forged ahead.
It is almost marvellous. But a little
while ago a statement in our leading
papers, taken from National Govern
ment figures, showed thai this State
had made more progress than all the
states in the value of its agricultural
products. Only three States in Amer
ica now exceed it. But a little while
ago we were 12th m rank; now we
are 4th in rank. Iowa, Illinois and
Texas only exceeding North Carolina
of all the States in the value of agri
cultural products. We have not stop
ped in our mad rush to bring things
to pass. In all lines we have tremen
dously exceeded the expectations of a
few years ago. In our own life time
ur manufacturing industries were
few- In a few families could be found
the Textile industry, here and there.
Today we have stepped up to the
second place in the Nation, only Mas
sachusetts being ahead of us in cot
ton manufacturing.
'Placing a compass upon Charlotte
and drawing n pivpIo nf no hnnrlrpd
Jules, embracing within that circle a
w of the counties . of upper South
Carolina but 'a snot.' and onethird
f the spindles of America would be
ound turning. Take Gaston county,
UVety years ago it had sixty-five Gov
Jent Distilleries and no cotton mills,
way it has one hundred and five cot
n mills and not a distillery. In this
ondorful development we have stepp
in per capita wealth. The time
cd tfc 0t been long as when we boast"
. that we were poor. We can do that
o ionger. in the space of 18 months
eittzens this State loaned to the
miir rnment one hundred and seventy
thisTS f dollais yet in spite of
bank endUS loan of our ndS' the
crea? twenty-one per cent in
begi.ln dePsits than we had at the
4 ninB of that period.
stiu. prnm'ent has not been standing
raent jTCOnomic progress and develop
ina?f ,un(1 anl touches our people
eat many places.
MfCPE
"The time was when our citizens
looked upon the Government as a sort
Ki rr PnliiOTvifln" fn nrnfopf yiit rir
I. " 2. Jl
uensiiip, our property auu numes.
Take tor instance the most import
ant. thf mnst. vital mnttpr of Ednca-
had not thought in terms of public
education. Alter we naa estaDiisneu
system of public schoolsit was but
system in name. But two decades
ui aiuv,
little oettei tnan snacKS, ana equip-
ment as poor. Then there came upon
the stage of North Carolina men oi
vision. Aycock, that matchless man
who gave to the children of the town
and country and upward yision toward
a brighter goal; Alderman Mclver
contributed to the great purpose until
the boast was that North Carolina was
building "a new school house every
working day in the year. '
"Disease that takes away our people
by the thousands used to be thought
a matter purely personal. Malaria,
Typhoid, Tuberculosis, were diseases
which concerned not the public but the
invidual family. But men of vast
wealth contributed large-sums to in
vestigation o the cause for these dis
eases and to find a remedy, and with
- a ii i-r ,, 4? ?
sucn success mat xne prevention ui
such diseases as malaria, hookworm,
typhoid and tuberjevilosia became- a
matter of -deep -interest to all the peo
ple, and a matter that could no longer
be entrusted to private enterprise. And
so the State is cooperating with the
communities and. counties in eradicat
ing these great handicaps to our eco
nomic progress.
".When the great War came on it
opened the eyes of our people to pur
true condition, for it proved that 33
out of each 100 men between the ages
of 21 and .31 (when we are at our best
physically) could not pass inspection
they were" defective.
"Great as our accomplishment has
been, what could it be with 90 per cent
of our citizenship physically perfect
ir so far as general health is concern
ed. No money that can be expended
is so worth while as that expended in
doing away with this great meance,
this great handicap to health, happi
ness and the pursuit of our daily vo
cations. "The Department of Good Roads,
the Agricultural Deparment, the Dem
onstration work have each had a place
in the great development that is ours.
The Agricultural Department and the
Demonstration work have forged us
forward to the fourth place in the
value of our agricultural products.
"I recite all of this to bring to yu
e controlling purpose of my candi-
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the
dacy. I ask you have we exercisea in and girg becarne disheartened and left
laying the foundation of . this great for the towns and for social recrea
material progress that business ;Mg-)tiom j dont blame them," said Mr.
ment necessary for so vast an enter- j page. a system of roads leading to
prise, is your uovenmicat x wv...
business principles? Is it run as a
large Corporate enterprise would be
run? I am not going to criticise our
Administation: it has been the custom
-r . -mi-it : nnnn
because our citizens have not realized ,
the importance of this necessary
change in our methods. We have not
organized to prevent overlappings
and waste of energies. Time has come
when we ought to so organize our state
Government activities that for each
one hundred cents of tax money ex
pended we should get one hundred per
cent of efficiency. I should employ the
best business experts to fiund out
where the overlappings and inefficien
cy lay and then eliminate them, in
order that the tax payer may know
that he was getting one hundred per
cent efficiency.
REVALUATION
"The most sentitive nerve in ou
make up lies not in our spinal column,
but in our pocketbook. It is not so
much the amount of taxes, but what
do we get for the taxes we pay? Turn
on the light' so all men may know what
rr T know there is great fear
land dissatisfaction in this County, be-
cause I learned as much at Littleton
a few night ago, but I want to give a
few facts to allay the fears of those
who are now restless and resentful of
the revaluation act. This is no new
thing. It is as old as the Constitution.
Section five, article three of our Con
stitution: 'Laws shall be enacted tax
ing at a uniform rate all money,
bonds, credits, etc., at its true - value
in money." This has been the law for
fifty years. This is merely an effort
to live up to our own Constitution.
"I shall be frank about this matter.
Any man who is not, does not deserve
you confi'dence. I am not going to
trim. I never learned how. I am not
going to be silent now. t We must be
honest with one another.
"The time has been when men tried
to see who could get his property on
the tax books at the lowest value. The
man who paid little taxes had to be
penalized because the man who had
property would put it on the books at
a low value if at all. So the burden
was unequal. "
"The revaluation act is an effort to
Wight this wrong. The man Who has
half d- the right thing
ir the valuation of his property is now
going to go the whole way. The rate
has not yet been fixed and will not be
until the Legislature meets in July. "
In a conversation with the Chair
man of the State Tax Commission he
assures me that enough property has
come to light to divide the tax rate by
Five and provably Seven. He stated
that already enough real estate has
1 t 1 il J 1 & .3 T
taxes to make two counties, and ofi
course this relieves the burden on ai. 1
other real estate. Alreatty in one
county of the State one man has plac
ed more personal property on the tax
books than all of the personal prop
erty of the county heretofore. I have
not the slightest doubt that the taxes
will be much less.. Personal property
has been escaping that rate was so
high that they did not dare list it. So
high was the rate that men resorted
to all means to evade it."
Mr. Page told of the widow with
Insurance money loaned and listed,
-and of the business mah'with property
listed at one third of its value, both
paying same rate, and asked if this
inequality was to be allowed to re
main? Mr. Page again reverted to our
school system and spoke of the empty
school houses and of the poorly paid
teachers -women teaching for less
than is paid ordinary day laborer, and
asked were we to allow this condition
to remain ? Must the women teachers
do all the sacrificing ?
He again took up the subject of
Public Ha 1th work and said the time
would come when it would be looked
upon as a disgrace for a human being
to die of a preventable disease. That
we needed in each county a whole
time Health Officer who could devote
kis time to the prevention of disease,
and that the value in dollars and cents
to a community in having healhy,
strong boys and men, could not be
counted.
He touched again on the Road prob
lenC and said that there were never
any idle farms or empty farm homes
on a good highway. That the turning
away from the farms of the young
folks was because of a lack of good
roads. That the labor of the farm did
f not drive them away, but that ease of
j communication and social intercourse
being debarred by bad roads, the boys
your schools and churches and County
seats and towns is te great need of
the hour. )
In speaking of the great unrest, the
activities of the Reds, the Bolsheviki,
I. W. W's., he said he favored sending
every one out of this country who was
not an American citizen, and he would
put those , behind the bars. This
brought forth applause.
In speaking of the relation of capi
tal and labor, he said, "The time has
been when labor was looked upon by
capital .as just so many wheels and
belts, but these conditions have
changed. Capital has not the right
to say to Labor thou shalt work nor,
on the other hand, has Labor the right
to say to capital I shall work, when I
please, and if we disagree no other
labor shall work for you. Capital is
worthless without labor, and labor
could not live without capital. This
great question should be approached
with a sincere desire to make a fair
and just and satisfactory agreement.
I may be classed as a Socialist by the
thoughtless, but if so I take my stand
with Jesus Christ and with St. Paul."
Mr. Page then referred to the!
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WomansClub
iyes Banquet
DRV J. H. COOK DELIVERS
TALICTOFHOSE PRESENT
Several Other Gentlemen Made
iort Talks In Interest of Ed
ucation. All Present Pledged
Their Support.
The Womans Club gave a delightful
banquet t(K its members and invited
guests in honor of Dr. J. H. Cook,
Head of the Department of Education
of the Nrth Carolina College for
Wonien, on Thursday evening, eight
o'clock. Dr. Cook arrived in , town
Thursday afternoon and was the guest
of Miss Julia Dameron, President of
the Club.
Covers were laid for eighty guests.
Committees were appointed to deco
ratethe banquet Hall and arrange the
table ; artistically. Place cards of
unique design indicated the seats of
4:hose present. The banquet was
deliciously prepared and much enjoyed.-'
!; ' '
Miss Dameron presided with ease
.and dignity. Mayor John B. Palmer,
and Messrs. J. E. Rooker, Norwood
Boyd, B. B. Williams and - J. Ed
ward Allen were asked to give their
views of the needs of this community
of an1 adequate school building and the
importance of our getting together
with determination to make this town
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heartity endorsed the idea, and Super
intendent Allen threw deserved bo
quets at our present faculty.
Miss Dameron stated conditions now
existing in the State in respect to the
lack of properly trained teachers and
their compensation She stated that
i there were 700 empty school houses
this school year in North Carolina,
because the teachers were literally
starved out of the profession. That
7,000, or nearly one half of 'the teach
ers thia yer in North Carolina were
subtai&ard teacliiers--tafc eh. uhdei:
temporary certificates because no oth
er kind were available. That we only
pay 68 cents per inhabitant for educa
tion in our public schools; that Texas
spends $2.50 and New Jersey $3.50 per
inhabitant. She then introduced Dt.
Cook as head of the Department of
Education of North Carolina College
for Women, located at Greensboro.
Doctor Cook is a pleasant speaker
and knows his subject. He contrasted
the economic value of the trained and
the untrained, mind, and his audience
gave close attention.
The impressive thought in his ad
dress wes: "Can ,we afford to penalize
our boys and girls because they live in
North Carolina; can we afford to han
dicap them by withholding an educa
tion that other States gladly giveV
He told of the visit to Greensboro of
a prominent educator who is gather
ing statistics for the Government to
show the natural ability of the youth
of the land the native talent; and he
was proud to say that the boys and
girls of Greensboro showed more abil
ity, more strength of mind than any
other group in the United States. The
purpose of this was to show that we
had the raw material that could be
cultivated into shining examples for
the Nation. That it was only a ques-
j tion of the proper expenditure of our
wealth in the education of our chil-
dren. That it was not a case oi pov
erty; that North Carolina ranked
fourth in the Nation; that it' was only
a question of realizing our short
coming in this great and important
duty for us to go forward to first
place for we have the material; we
have the bright minds; we have the
making of men and wemeh who would
be leaders of the Nation if we cease
to penalize them for living, in North
s-i i:
arountt.
Dr. Cook's address made a deep im-
the minds of those who?
pression upon
heard him and at the conclusion, upon
motion of Rev. T. J. Taylor a resolu
tion was unanimously adopted pledg
ing the support of air present to give
the boys and girls of Warren county
every facility to take rank with the
men and women of the Nation who are
leaders in the uplift of the State and
Nation.
At the close of Dr. Cook's address
President Dameron expressed the
thanks of the Club for the use of the
Hall, and thanked the gentlemen and
ladies for their presence, and Mr. J.
Edward Allen, on behalf of the guests
of the Club, offered a resolution of
thanks to the Club for the delightf ul';
ftveninsr. which resolution was adopted
with enthusiasm. Thus ended one of
the most delightful occasions
of the
history of the Club.
3
MEET
W bur
Last Saturday a Meeting Was Held in Court
House and a "Clean Sweep" Ticket .
Put in the Field
In accordance with the plans off
those advocating a. new ticket tor
County officers several citizens from
different sections of the County met
Saturday afternoon in the Court
House and took the following action:
The fllowing citizens were present
pither as spectators or as partici
pants: .
John S. Davis, member- House
Representatives, W. A. Connell, D. L.
Ryder, Grant Beardsley, Tom Wil
liams, A. F. Brame, John B. Palmer,
Dr. G. H. Macon, Louis Mustian, J. H. j
Fleming, Matthew Duke, L. O. Robert- I
son, Jim Frazier, Jim Burroughs, W.
E. Hall, Frank Newell, H.. P. Reams,
H. S. Ryder, Marvin Drake, E. L.
Green, J. F. Hunter, and the represeu
tative of the Record.
On motion of Mr. J. S. Davis, Mr.
Connell was nominated as Chairman,
and Mr. John Palmer as Secretary.
Mr. Davis drew from his pocket a
list of names and stated that he had
seen many of the citizens from differ
ent parts of the County and that they
had suggested the following as suita
ble candidates for office, and read the
list, as follows:-
For Member House Representatives,
John M. Coleman;
For Sheriff, E. L. Green;
For Register of Deeds---several
names had been suggested, towit : J .
B. Palmer, J. J. Macon, E. P. Allen,
and J. L. Coleman.
For Auditor, J. J. Macon, J. B.
For Commissioners
W. H. Dameron, C. W. Perkinson, J.
W. King, Sam King, W. B. Myrick,
Walter Wiggins, W. T. Davis, . E.
Allen, J. B. Ellington, H. Clyde Flem
ing, R. S. Register, W. A. Connell,
R. D. Fleming.
County Highway Commissioners -
W. T. Paschall, D. L. Rydep Walter
Wiggins, Dr: G. H. Macon, kdmund
White, W. B. Boyd. .
It was suggested that no nomina
tion had been made for Judge of the
Recorders Court', and the name of Mr
Frank H. Gibbs was presented.
Someone suggested that no Coro
ner had been named, and Mr. Davis
suggested Mr. W. C. Burroughs, but
he was not present and the position
was offered to Mr. Jim Burroughs, but
he being present declined.
Mr. Davis then moved that the Chair
appoint a Committee to retire and se
lect from these names or any others
that any one might suggest CandP
dates for the various offices named.
Mr. Matthew Duke suggested that
tne ume-nouoxeu tuaium
l 1 L L A ' 1 1 7 f vrrn 4 r I
was
to
give an omce noiaer two terms aim s ay an asked that this paper an
Mr. Peter M. Stallings had not had but noUnce that he could not accept; that
one term as Auditor that no opposing while he appreciated the compliment
candidate be named- of a nomination, under conditions ex
Mr. Weldon Hall stated that he was istlng he would have to decline,
satisfied from information he had
gathered that Mr. Frank Gibbs would Mr. W. H. Dameron Declines
not accept the nomination, and there- Mr. W. H. Dameron authorized this
lore suggested iuau uu wpuoiuB vx-
didate be . named against Mr. T. O.
Rodwell. Mr. Davis said Rodwell
would be a candidate on "other ticket"
and voters could vote for him if they
desired. Several demurred about
1 breaking into the plan of a "clean
sweep" and Mr. Rodwell and Mr. Stal
lings had opposing candidates named.
Mr. Matthew Duke wanted to know
I bow the new Candidates for Commis-
r . . i -
j sioners stooa upon
economy m puonc expenuimxe,
it could bring forth no satisfactory re
sponse from any body who knew.
The Chair then . appointed the fol
lowing to select the candidates: J. H.
Fleming, Grant Beardsley, J. S. Davis,
Jim Frazier, D. L. Ryder, who present
ed the following candidates for their taurant, barber shop, bakery, boot
resnective offices: j black stand, public stable, garage,
House of .Representatives, J. M.
Coleman
Sheriff, E. L. Green
Register of Deeds: Simon Gardner
Auditor, John B. Palmer
Commissionersr--W. H. Dameron,
John W. King, Weldon T. Davis, S. E.
Allen, R. D. Fleming
County Highway Commissioners j
ii i. Kvoer. waiter niKKina, xjl.
JH.' Macon
I Judge oi Kecoraer s ourt rrau.
H. Gibbs
I j2)Jf
DIM
L3
. Surveyor Frank Ryder
On motion of J. S. Davis a Commit
tee was appointed by the Chair to wait
upon the candidates narrd and ascer
tain if they will accept the nomina
tions tendered, and in case there
should be a vacancy in the nominees
that the Committee be empowered to
fill the vacancies on the ticket. Upon
this motion of delegating this central
ized power there were a few almost
j inaudible "ayes," but no "noes."
The Chair appointed J. S. Davis,
Jim Frazier and H. P. Reams. Mr.v
Reams suggested some other man, but
he was put through all right.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
No nomination was made for mem
ber of the Board of Education. Cap
tain B. P. Terrell's term expires and
he or his successor is to be elected at
the Primary. This is one of the most
important positions to be filled, and
it is leather strange that nobody sug
gested to Mr. Davis Captain Terrelrs
name. If he had named the citizens
from memory he might have over
looked his name, but he drew a list of
names from his pocket for the various
offices and Captain Terrell was for
gotten:
J After the meeting it being brought
to Mr. Davis' attention, he approach
ed the writer and asked him to insert
Captain Terrell's name as one of the
candidates nominated. This I could
nj;douti.jstated"that- the Record-r
would take pleasure in saying that he
overlooked the matter and desired
Captain Terrell nominated, and that
the Record would nominate Captain
Terrell.
On a vote being taken-. as to whether
or no a candidate would be nominated
for Judge of Recorder's Court the vote
stood 7 for and 7 against as announc
ed, but the representative of the
Record had nine for and seven against.
This vote showed the strength of the
meeting, though there were a few
more citizens present.
Mr. Frank Gibbs Declines
Mr. Frank Gibbs requests this paper
to announce that he cannot accept tho
nomination of Judge of the Recorder's
Court tendered him by the "new
ticket; . '
j Mr. Sam E. Allen Declines
' The "new ticket promoters placed
Mr. S. E. Allen in nomination as a
candidate for member of the Board u
J County Commissioners. Mr. Allen saw
: paper to state mat ne couia not uu-
cept the position of County Commis
sioner. His business and other per-
J SOnal reasons makes it necessary for
jhim to decline the nomination tender-
ed by the "new" ticket.
HAS SUPPLY OF PERMITS
The Superintendent of Public Wel
fare asks us to announce to the public
that he has a supply of permits n
hand, and that as children under 14
years of age are leaving the school
room, it will be necessary for them to
have a permit to work "in or about or
in connection with any mill, factory,
cannery, workshop, manufacturing
establishment, laundry, bakery, mer
cantile stablishment, office hotel, res-
place of amusement, brick-yard, lum
ber yard, or in any messenger or deliv
ery service." This does not apply to
agricultural workers.
Permits must be secured by parents
for their children if they desire them
to work, and these permits are .only
granted under the strictest scruitiny .
G. ! The U. D. C. will meet Friday 14th
instead of Friday next on account of
the absence from town of the Presi-
; dent, Mrs. Sallie -D. Twitty.
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