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v. V OLUME XXVL WARRENTON, WARREN COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUAR 18ri92r Number 7 A WEEKLY NEWS! vl'EK DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTT " -. I WS; TT TT TT W i V I I V I I 1 1 I 1 if I 1 II t s News in a Nutshell $ ' By W BRODIE JONES NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Saturday was observed as Lincoln's birthday. Flags hung from many windows, tatres carried special pictures, and uie evening papers featured stories of his life. Excerps from his Gettys burg and Inaugural addresses impress ed the worth of one genuinely great who, "with malace toward none, with charity for all," exercised his great ness in the preservation of the union. Alumni ot Columbia were present at their annual meeting Saturday when the class of 1899 unveiled a bronze tablet to Mayor John Purroy Mitchell. Mayor Mitchell was a grad uate of the college. He was New York's greatest mayor. He was kill ed during the war when he fell from an airplane. Glowing tribute was paid to his memory by President Nicholas Murray Butler, Colonel Arthur Woods and by Major Robert L. Bullard, com mander of the second division of the A. E. F. in France. Col. William Bar clay Parsons, commander of the En gineering Corps overseas, builder of the subway system of New York, as chairman of the board, of trustees, ac cepted the gift from the President of the mayor's class. Jo Davidson, who completed busts of all the allied lead ers in the world war, and made the Mitchell memorial, was among the no tables present. I Major General Bullard, in his ad- dress at Columbia alumni day, paid a f splendid tribute to the service of ser- j vice men who stayed in America dur- ing the war. The last sentence of his j terse, forciful address carries a wealth j of meaning, "it is the ideal of a sol dier to play a given part, but to chose it, and where, belongs to his country.' "Say, I got a story about your home town today Warrenton, the Town That Owns Itself -I'm going Jtp. publ ish it soon." The speaker was Joe Jones, a classmate of Missouri, who is Assistant Sunday editor of the Newark Ledger. Charles G. Dawes of Chicago, form erly Brigadier General and Chief of Supply Procurement in the A. E. F., made a stormy report to a coramis- I sion in Washington last week investi- I gating the cost of the war. He de cried the narrowness which had triea to make this a party war, and he damned the pinhead investigations which since have hounded many good I statement, "Everything considered t f don't think a single, solitary dollar fwas wasted in France. The business jof the army is to win the war, not to quibble around with a lot of cheap buying. We did not keep a double entry system of books over there. We jwere fighting and getting the stuff to the men. Hell and Mariah, we were- jn't trying to keep a set of books. We were trying to whi the war." Lieutent Charles Nungesser, "ace of aces," arrived Monday from France. He is credited with forty-fotir Ger- jman planes and wears thirty-nine dec 40iiiions, highest awards of the allied nations in the war. He is at the hotel Chatham with Marquis de Charette, I his interpreter and friend, who is a jgrandnephew of James K. Polk, a ! President of the United Statesu Every day is Sunday in Zkn City, I HI., according to a feature story in The Evening World of Monday. The 'correspondent writes satirically of conditions there in an effort to kill jany sentiment for the Blue law move ment which the. press, the theatre s and the public condemn. Zion City, a town pf moro than 5,000, is headquartetrs of the Zionist. It ailows no movies, no pieatres, no drug stores, no saloons, po secret societies, no card placing, p dancing, no gambling, no Ja.s fjUsic no swearing, no tobacco, no and no love stories. The con past with life here make the Ionjj ptide interesting. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, general overseer of the ciiy, f coming to New Yor in the Spring a white robed army of lvo We Satan from all strongholds front Bowery to the Bronx. Food prices here are practically as Sh as in the Fall. Some dishes have ren parked 10 per cent lower, but a is practically at the same rat a "i September; Clothing and shoes lave seen the big reductions, and win-il (Continued On Second Page) en MR. BAILEY STATES THAT STATE IS NOT PROSPEROUS Many Ate Misled By Our Rank As An Agricultural State. While We Produce Much Wealth Our Net In Come is Small. (J. W. Bailey, In News & Observer) Ms. J. W. Bailey takes issue with those who claim that North Carolina is a rich state. He admits that the crops grown place the State among the States leading in value of Agri cultural products; but says that the net wealth, after paying expenses leave the State not a rich State. That the income tax returns place North Carolina far from the head of the list. The gist of the argument, however, is in the fact that though we produce, we do not market advantageously. We make the crops which place us fifth or sixth in production of agri cultural wealth, yet we buy those things we should not buy and then pay out the bulk of the crop value in buy ing food stuff ect. His tarticle follows: What May Be Done To Enable Our People To Hold The Wealth Thei Create? The editor of the University News Letter ws.s misled not only by the num ber of automobiles our people own (on the deferred payment plan) but also by the fact that in 1919 North Carolina ranked fourth or fifth among her siter states in the value of her agricultural products, and in 1920, notwithstanding the drop in prices, will rank fifth or sixth. Toe question arises, how is it that a people who produce so much elemen tary wealth, have so "tle net income to show for it? How is it that a peo ple whoso farm prod .cts sell for so much more than the farm products oi other states, get so . much less net in come than do the people of those other states? This is the mosi interesting inquiry that I know of, and the most import ant. I venture to suggest that the General Assembly would do well to re solve itself into a committee of the ivhole and consider it ten days. I ven ture to hope and to predict, it will be the main question in North Carolina from now on. I commend it to the study of the University and all our colleges. If they shall solve it, they shall have all the subsidies they ask for and much more. I commend it to the newspapers, and promise them if they solve it, they shall have all the ubscribers and advertising they want. I commend it to the politicians and all the farmers associations and organiza tions, promising them any reward they may choose if they will solve it. A population of only 2,500,000 that produces enough agricultural wealth per year to give them a rank of from fourth to sixth in the United States the great(jst agricultural nation on earthcannot be said to be lazy or to be wanting in knowledge of their work. The fact specks eloquently of the labor and the skill of our farmers. It is the proudest fft I know of concerning our Commonwealth. But how is it they have so little to show for their labor and skill ? It is not because they do not get the money. They do. It is not because they do manu facture their raw material.We manu facture as much cotton as we produce. We have some of the largest tobacc factories in the world. . I can only give my opinion, and whereas hereinbefore I have been giv ing facts, I new worn the reader that I am giving only my opinions. Suggestions First, it cost the farmers of North rrolina more to produce their crops than it cost the farmers of most other States. Our agricultural mcome of from $400,000,000 to $700,000,000 (ac DENIES M n Of cording to prices), is very great; but! And, again, while this State produces f f Droduction is also very 'very little of those other essentials of ereat. The net yield is very little for each average farmer. It is nothing in iji-Q hs and worse than noth- iricr wnv uuea ii vow - ot j : iis mnrB r.nan .. . ii 4. Wn nnr crons' It COSC OWlt-i iu f We must use fertilizers in great quantities. ' Does this not suggest to yov tbi: any plan that may be devised to get fertilizers to our people at the lowest SMGS THAT By CET..iW.?IES B Si I AM AWFUL -: ill I tiSiA MOCK 1 1 III I 1 llZ2k ROT LOOKS IK I VlM SIMPLY IHTKE J I I Ml "MARKET FOR A I I COOK WILL t ! " V YOU BE MY .Kip aSj3j , esaa" bmxttAtKXiAL cost, will tend to enrich the people of this State. I contemplate no war on the fertilizer companies, but rather co-operation with them. We could not get along without them. And let me say that I am suggesting no war what ever on capital. I am in for getting more of it, not for destroying any of it. If the reader translates .what I have to say in a howl against "Wall Street", the Federal Reserve System and the government, he will get no- where. The best that can be said for merchant on time. The supply mer that sort of thing is that it is the chant borrows from the hank. Pav harmless explosion of minds that real- mo SiiCTvo uui, uao iiw vaaLj to think through to the remedy. The worse to be said ot it is that it often proceeds from enf ious and ambitious men wh in the exploitation of their own vainglory would lead the people to destruction. a The use of fertilizers requires the advancement of cash, May 1, or the payment of five per cent plus a rate of six to Nov. 1. Any plan to save this five per cent plus a rate of six will tend to enrich our people. And, again, our farmers ought to learn to so supplement their fertilizers with home-made compost as to reduce their necessities. The trees of our tforests, the corn stalks, cotton-stalks, tobacco stalks in the fields, if properly cared for, will reduce any farmer's commercial fertilizer needs out-half. Our farmers lose much of their profits buying hay and corn. They could produce these. Any plAn that may be devised to get them to doing this, will tend to enrich our people. Usually when a man wants to get anything done, or not done, he asks the legislature to "pass a law." I do not advocate passing a law to make it a hanging crime to buy corn or hay in North Carolina. But I throw out the suggestion perhaps some legislatuse may take hold of the matter and hatch out something. And, again, North Carolina labors in tae handicap of ruinous freight rate discriminations. The Virginia cities and other cities have grown rich at our expense. Virginia cities and other cities and other cities have grown rich at our expense. Virginia farmers produce nothing like the wealth that our farmers produce, but Virginia's taxable income is $84,000,000 more (40 per cent more) than North Caro lina's. I throw out this suggestion: If the Corporation Commission wU give less study to ways and means of taxing our people and more to stopping the tax laid upon us m freight rate discrimi '.nations, the Corporation; Commission's tax problems will all be resolved in the rapid increase of our wealth. It is : the shortest way out, Gentlemen. material welfare, coal and iron, Any- thing, therefore, that may be done to reduce f reignt-rates on coai ana iron, ri" rn cuai 211111 iiuu iicaici w ua. " -- - will tend to increase our we aim. Next to cold is water-power; and, we ouht to i0 in the development of it. , u , Less study of the small matters, and more attention to the practical neces- NEVER HAPPEN On Aftfl nil 4 i I at7T J Cartoon Co n. v. sities of material progress ought to be our program. A wealthy people can take on all the modern improvements, fads and fancies, in Government; but a poor people cannot afford the diver sion. And, finally, North Carolina does not sufficiently realipe uporher labors and great production in agriculture be cause her producers are at the mercy of the market. Many of them live on credit. They buy from the suddIv day nes; must sen or deliver at the market, They are at the mercv of the buvera. Anything, therefore, that may be dona to deliver us from or to modify our credit system, or anything that may be done to enable our farmers, the producers, the tenant farmers as well as the land-owners, to market their crops in an orderly fashion, not all at once, but gradually, anything that will tend to stabilize our market prices, will go far to conserve to them the wealth they have justly earned by their labors. The farmer who carries his own "Federal Reserve" in a good bank in the form of cash can get the j tst the market offers, No matter what may be done, many, I am aware, will get no advantage from it; but on the other hand many others will, 9nd . this leads me to remark that thousands of our people threw away in 1918-1919 the lrst opportunity for fi nancial independence since 160. It was a tragical spectacle of folly. Such an opportunity will not come again. But there will be opportunities of less magnitude. Anything, therefore, that may be done to get our people to take care of their earnings and by thrifty economy and self-denial to save up ready working capital, will tend to en rich the commonwealth. -No govern ment can do for a people what .they refuse to try to do for themselves. But whatever our State and nation can do, they should do. These are, in my estimation, some of the larger and more pressing prac tical problems before us and before the General Assembly. Most of them i are of an agricultural character. And I suggest, therefore, that some legis- j lator ask what our State Department of Agriculture s doing aboutt them, and also, whatever it may be doing, that it be called upon to do more: It has large funds. It ought to have great influence. It ought co be the dominating department of our govern ment. It ought to do som- great thinking and some great execution for the farmers and all the other people of our commonwealth. But, to be sure, I would not suggest that the farmers should not also be doing some great hard thinking and some real execution on their own ac- count; for it is everlastingly true that the man who does not look out for himself will not be looked out for, Very truly yours, J. W. BAILEY. Raleigh, February 10, 1921. "If none of us made any mistakes k there'd be no pencils with rubber . ends. THE HEADLIGHT HAZY (By Howard F. Jones) We ae giving valuable space to a few editorial squibs from the Head light which will enable the editor to get his views before the public. Note the samples. "If the brains of some of our legis lators were put in a mosquitoe's bill and squirted in a gnat's eye he wouldn't even blink"Headlight. Warren county has two "legisla tors": does the Headlight refer to either or both ? "$1800.00 is not sufficient salary for two competent men in the Clerk's office" Warren Record. "Who is the incompetent one the Clerk or his Deputy ? "Headlight. tfoth in the brain of the Headlight r neither in the opinion of men who have business with the office. "With Lawyer Daniel, Recorder Rodwell, Register of Deeds Dowtin, and Deputy Clerk Jones attending the Legslature this week, we expect to see the bill for the increase of certain office holders in Warren County." Headlight. And Editor Hardy -"jumped the train" and tagged on behind, but he doesn't know now whether it was "the increase of certain office holders," as he says; o the increase of the sal aries of certain office holders, or both; nor could he find out. We don't be lieve we will tell him. Let him guess some more. "We know of at least one man in Warren county who will take the va cancy caused by the resignation or death by starvation of the Sheriff. And he eats, sleeps, walks and talks like any other man. He is of good sound mind and not crazy. And we were astonished when he said -he he thought he wouldn't starve on the job. So with the present in cumbent howling for more pay, we suggest that he resign and 'give our man a show." Headlight. As the Headlight's "man" "eats, .epswalksu andtalks-and as- thatr seems to be all the qualification need ed in a public officer in the eyes of the Headlight, we respectfully sug gests that the present incumbent hold to his job and not resign at the Head Hght's request in favor of the "man" who eats, sleeps, Walks and talks" we want somebody to collect the taxes, hold the Courts, serve Process es and then settles with a clean bal ance sheet with the County Board of Commissioners and the State Treas urer. "Evidently Mr. Jones has decided to shut up, as he hasn't either public ly or privately accepted our challenge to turn into the General Fund 25 per cent of our earnings from the County. Doesn't he take water easily." Head light. Hoot Mon! You just misjudged us. We have been awaiting to turn into the General Fund twenty-five per cent of your earnings from the County. know it won't be much, don't be ashamed, pass em along. We accept your challenge and will with great pleasure do as you suggest vi: "turn into the general fund 25 per cent of YOUR EARNINGS from the County." I have waited a week or so on you. I thought you would "bite," and now I have landed you high on the bank, where you can't "take water easily." I f NVW O-OSH'. VMOUUONT It Oft GRAND F fcvattfcOOVO PC their pA?ea vjvthout eeiM ew! 060, SO VVG MVOOUDNf WAFTA WASTE A VOTTA ft ISA N STANDS 4 V0K G-rfTlM OUT fWSLSE STATE. NENS VJEEKt CC6 NE SUfctt OO APPRECIATE. -CHE GOOD FELLERS WHO MAKE TVV VtfeBtT OF OB.OP- PM (N "f PAN VT. eacENO TV4E. MONCM, V4VTHOOT A8KEO'. Vt-L, Ki V4 OOl CMMtn - SHOULD PAY RESPECT TO GENERAL LEE'S DAUGHTEE Mr. Jones Proposes That Daughters of Confederacy Look After Grave; And that Highway Commission Run Road by Grave Howard F. Jones in Raleigh News and Observer May I utilize your columns to ad dress the people of North Carolina in reference to a matter that lies near my heart and should be of deep inter est to the people of the State. Before unfolding my plan may I preface my remarks by quoting from the closing paragraph of a letter writ ten to the Raleigh Sentinel August 15th, 1866 by. Doctor Soloman Green Ward who was asked to write an account of the "Unveiling ceremonies" over the tomb of (Miss) Anne Carter Lee. After giving a description of the ceremonies and bestowing honor where honor was due, he said in clos ing :- "It was eminently proper for tho citizens of North Carolina to pay this tribute of affection and respect to the daughter of the great and grand man who so often lead our sons to victory against such unegual numbers, and likewise an indispensible debt of grati tude they are under to the ladies of Virginia for their munificent kindness to our citizen solders in sickness and in health, as well as for their ;riou3 care in collecting the remains of our hero dead into cemeteries and bedeck ing their graves with floral offerings'. That debt of gratituie existed in 1866 and it exists today. To the, ladies and men of Warren county especially and to the Old North State this debt of gratitude has not grown less. ' You are cognizant of the fact that I made an offer to the Daughters of the Confederacy assembled at New Bern to take over the care of thia "loved spot", as Mrs Lee has called it. I coupled this offer with the further offer of donating in trust a small par cel of land surrounding the cemetery as a Park or flower garden,in which I had hoped and believed each State of the Confederacy would gladly place a choice tree or an evergreen shrub, as a token of affection. But there seers to be some misun derstanding of the intent of General Lee, or the hesitancy of caring for a grave in a private cemetery, and among a few determined efforts to must I say show there love for Virginia, by insisting on the removal of the remains to Lexington, Virginia. Those who did not know the facts have insisted on ascertaining the views of General Lee's family, and to their "surprise" have discovered that it was the oft expressed wish of Gen eral Lee and of Mrs Lee that their daughter's remains should not be dis turbed, but sweetly and qoietly rest beneath the sod of the Old North State One of the officials of the State Division of the U. D. C. has written to the "Virginia President" (of the U. D. C) "who at my srggestion wrote Colonel Lee about the matter" and "she (the Virginia President) "says that his reply was If the ladies of Warren county, who erected the mon ument over the grave wish to place the remains with the rest of the fam ily, he thought it would be very nice to have thei all together, but that it was "Up to the women of Warren to say ". The women of Warren have said. They consider the honor done them to entrust to their care the body of the daughter of "Our Chieftain", a sacred trust. They will forever keep virgil, that none may disturb, none molest the sweet sleep of Anne Carter But the women of North Carolina can aid them in doing suitable and adequate honor, and it is this plan which I desire to lay before them, and especially before the State Highway Commission. The changes of the past few years has made the approach to the ceme tery almost impossible by automobile. The road leading from Henderson to Jones Springs is a mile South of the cemetery. The road (formerly the Ridgeway-Jones Spring turn pike) is a mile and a half East of the cemetery. The connecting roads have been abandoned. (Continued On Second Page)
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