"Unmoved though wiltings
sneer and rivails rail;
Studious to please, yet not
ashamed to fail."
CONSCIENCE!
I would rather fall out with
my neighbor then with my
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WARRENTON COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922
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0. E. S. CHAPTER GIVES
FIRST WORK AT
Members of Chapter Guests At
6 O'clock Dinner Before
Conferring Degree Work.
OXFORD
4 MAKE AUTOMOBILE TRIP.
Chosen from among the Easterr
Star Chapters of North Carolina, of
ficers and members of the Warrenton
Chapter Nd. 85, conducted the first
degree woik before the new chapter
in Oxford Thursday evening. The
Oxford? chapter was installed in the
afternoon by State officers, and the
work last night was conducted by the
Warrenton Chapter in the presence
of these officials and of, delegates
from a number of Eastern Star Chap
ters of North Carolina.
The Warrenton delegation left yes
terday afternoon by automobile. They
were entertained at 6 o'clock dinner
by the Oxford Chapter. Supt. J.
Edward Allen and Worthy Matron
Mrs. Howard! F. Jones expressed their
pleasure in being present and the
honor which had been conferred upon
the Chapter.
Past Grand Master J. Bailey Owen,
a member of the Warrenton Chapter,
with Mr. Roy O. Rodwell, Past Mas
ter of Johnson-Caswell Lodge, joined
the delegation in Henderson.
Miss Louise Allen, former Grand
Matron, took part in the State instal
lation exercises yesterday afternoon
as Grand Marshall.
Members of the Warrenton. group
included Mrs. Howard F. Jones
Worthy Matron; Supt. J. Edward Al
len, Past Grand Patron and Worthy
Patron? Mrs. J. Edward A. Ten: E. E.
f:iiim r. and Master of
Rnrwpli TrpSS1JTP.r: .Mis Ms.rv Loniss
Allen, Past Grand Matron; Miss Mary
it r.ji . tt xv r
Rodgers Jr.. Misses Mary Russell and"
Sue Burroughs, Emma Hall and Mrs
W. A. Burwell. ... ...
The delegation returned last night.
Bible Class Entertained
The members of the men's bibV.
class of the Episcopal .Church were
verv eniovablv entertained at the
home of their teacher, Mrs. R. J.
Jones, recently. They were joined by
the young ladies of Mrs. Van Alston's
class in a candy stew, after which
the evening was agreeably spent ?n
games and other entertainments.
FORD NATIONAL SALES
INDICATE GOOD FUTURE.
DETROIT, JanT 25. Retail sales
of Ford cars, trucks and Fordson
tractors have again exceeded the mil
lion mark for the year 1921, accord
ing to a statement given out today by
the Ford Motor Company.
The Ford factory and assembly
plant production figures reached a
total of 1,050,740 cars, trucks and
tractors for the year, with retail
sales by dealers approximating 1,093,
000, which in the United States alone
surpassed the 1920 retail sales record
by 104;213 Ford cars and trucks!
The Ford Company says the outlook
for 1922 is decidedlv ontimistic. In
tact, concrete evidence already exists
in that car and truck retail sales for
December 1921 exceeded December
1920 sales by almost 25 per cent., and
Fordson tractor retail sales for the
same neriods show an increase of
a.
over 100 per cent, for December, 1921,
as well as an increase over the total
tractor sales for the mGnth of No
vember. These facts . seem to indicate that
not only are the farmers buying more
freely, but that the general public is
becoming more responsive and recep
tive. -
Another point brought out by a
comparison, of production figures for
the past two years shows that Ford
enclosed cars are gaining in popular
ity, as 23 per cent, of the 1921 pro
duction were Sedans and Coupes as
against a total of 18 per cent, for the
year previous. ,
The Ford Company believes that
this recent 'deduction, while not a
large one, is especially important at
this time, as it should go a long way
toward stabilizing market conditions.
Ford is giving employment at pres
ent to approximately 40,000 men in
his main plant at Detroit, the im
portance of which is emphasized
when consideration is given to the
fact that nearly 20 per cent, of tha
city's population is directly depend
ent upon the F.ord Motor Company.
TEACHING EVOLUTION
FORBIDDEN BY BILL
IN KENTUCKY HOUSE.
Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 26.-
Teaehing.of evolution as it relates
to the origin of man would! be for
bidden in any school ' county grade,
"city high school, college or univer
sity which receives support wholly
or in part from the State, under a
bill introduced in the House of
Representatives today by Repre-
senative Ellis of Barren Cqunty.
The measure forbids teaching of
"Darwinism, aethism, agnosticism,'
or evolution as it pertains to the
origin of man." It was referred to
the committee on Kentucky statutes.
The antievolution bill provides
that any professor or teacher who
teaches any of the prescribed sub
jects shall be fined $50 to $500 or
given ten days to one year in jail
or both for each offense. A. P.
E. J. GAY JR. HANDLES
STUDEBAKER SERVICE.
E. J. Gay Jr. will be local service
representative of the Studebaker
Corporation here after Feb. 1, an
nounced J. P. Scoggin local dealei
yesterday. The station will be main
tained in the same building on Main
Street
Mr. Gay will also operate a garage
in connection with the service sta
tion. He assumes control of the
oldest automobile agency under the
same firm name in the county. Mr.
Scoggin has been dealer here since
the E. M. F. days and has placed
many Studebaker products in Warren.
Mr. Gay has been in Warrenton for
some time. He has been with the
Bovd-Gillam Motor Co. as a skilled
mechanic for more than a year.
Mr. Scoggin . said yesterday,
competent hands and owners of these
cars will receive excellent service m
the same headquarters
H. H. FOSTER TO. .PRACTICE
MEDICINE IN MACON SECTION.
Dr. H. H. Foster will practice med
icine in the Macon community. Dr.
H. Malcoln Horton left the county
about three weeks ago. He will not
-eturn there to practice medicine, ac
cording to information reaching this
3fnce.
Dr. Foster attended the Graham
High School in 1913-14. He was af
terward at Wake Forest and Jeffer-
son. ne served, as an intern m jiam
field, New Jersey.
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Helen McGlnnis of Chicago has
been convicted as being an automo
bile vamp. She smiled sweetly at
Martin Metzer as he was driving by
in his car. He asked her to go riding
with him. When he regained con
sciousness at a lonely spot in the
country his money and diamonds
were gone and so was Helen. One
to ten years for her.
NINTH HOUR LOCALS.
Mr. Griffith of the Mergenthaler
Linotype Co., Brooklyn, is installing
a Model 14 Linotype at The Press
Publishing Co. today. The machine
replaces a Model K. which has been
in constant use since 1914
Mr. Ken K. Lyon of Southampton,
Long Island, New York, is a guest of.
his classmate, W. Brodie Jones. Mr.
Lyon leaves Monday for Littletoi
where he will be associated with Mr.
Jones in producing The News Re
porter. The Community Booster meeting of
the past Friday evening y was much
enjoyed by those who braved the
weather. Prcf. and Mrs. W. C.
Strowde were in charge of the program.
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Postmaster General Will Hays has announced his resignation from
the cabinet to take a position as director general of all national moving
picture productions at a salary of $150,000 a year. He posed, as shown
here, after a conference, in which President Harding gave his consent ta
his leaving the cabinet.
COTTON Ml TOBACCO
LEAD IN CROP VALUES
Variety of Other Crops Shows
Why North Carolina Ranks
THIRD ACREAGE IN CORN.
By FRANK PARKER
Agricultural Statistician.
RALEIGH, Jan. 25. The enviable
lank of fourth in value of North Car
olina's important crops, calls for the
reason thereior. uver naii oi tne
$262,880,000 value of all crops belong
to cotton and tobacco alone.
Many States and authorities have
the idea that North Carolina is almos
solely given over to cotton and tobac
co, but according to the Co-operativ-
Crop Reporting Service of the State
and Federal Departments of Agricul
ture. this State produces as great a
number of different crops on a com
mercial basis as any S tate in the
Union. Corn is valued at over 3S
million dollars; hay at 14 millions
sweet potatoes at almost ten, and
Irish potatoes near six millions,' while
peanuts stand at over seven millions
in value. Soy beans equal over font
sorghum cane and cow peas over two
million dollars. Fruit and truck run
into the millions, also, although the
rugged western counties c?o not pro
duce many of these- crops in grea
quantities, the farmers up there pro
duce valuable products from their
mountain-side pastures in the form o
livestock, both domesticated and tour
ists. The several crops mentioned and
the livestock productions are ample
evidence that North Carolina has di
versified farming interests.
It is interesting to study the State';
diversity of leading crops and thx
percentage of their total acreage
which follows: Corn 33.5 per cent; cot
ton 20.5; all small grain 10.6; all ha
9.6; pastures (cleared) 8.0; tobacco
j 6.3; soy beans 3.3; cow peas 2.6; pea
j nuts 2.4; sweet potatoes 1.3; velvet
beans (all) 1.0; sorghum and Irish po
tatoes 6. each. Several lesser fieln
crops and the fruits are not included.
The per acre value of crops are: to
bacco $157, white potatoes $126; sweet
potatoes $98; sorghum 73; peanuts
$51.50; cotton $50; soy beans $37;
cow peas $21; hay $20; corn $15; oats
$12.50; wheat $10.60; and rye for
grain $9.00 per acre. The average
value of all crops, exclusive of fruit
truck, and pastures, is $34.00 per acre
for the year. 1921. Comparative :
ures for other States are not yet avail
able.
- Though we do have fourteen crops
grown on a commercial scale, the fact
that some of them yield the producers
a gross average of less than $15.00
per acre after a whole year's expense
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Others Remember Wilson Foun
dalionu With Gifts; Poem
oTTite GoM Star-Mother:
CHANCE TO GIVE REMAINS-
Contributions to the Woodrow Wil-
son f oundation Awards have come
irom several sources during the week,
County Chairman W. Brodie Jones
said yesterday. The opportunity for
tribute to the War President and
world advocate of peace through ar -
bitration will be open for several more
days.
Mrs. V. L. Pendleton sent $25 this
week for Mrs. Kate P. Arrington, who
is in Brussels. Mrs. Pendleton also
made a contribution to the fund.
A Gold Star Mother of Warren yes
terday sent $1 to the Foundation, with
this poem:
Only one dollar, but with it goes
All that a mother's prayers are worth;
A mother who gave her own' dear son
To die for the cause of Peace on earth.
God bless our leader and give him
health
He who worked so hard for the sad
world's peace
May he live to see the great cause
won
And the "League" make wars on the
earth to cease.
When history writes the name of
those
Who led our Nation bravely and bold, I
One name will be high on the scroll
of fame,
Woodrow Wilson, in letters of purest
gold.
A Gold Star Mother.
Those who will receive contributions
"n Warren are:
Varrenton W. Brodie Jones.
River Dr. John Harrison.
Judkins W. R. Vaughan.
Sandy Creek Ed Turner, J. K.
Piimell.
Fishing Creek R. I. Harris.
Roanoke H. L. Wall.
Smith Creek Mrs. A. G. Kayes.
Sixpound Mrs. J. S. Nowell.
Hawtree Mr. C. S. Perkinson.
Shocco J. V. Burroughs.
Fork R. E. Williams.
Nutbush A. E. Paschall.
A. certificate, bearing the- picture of
President Wilson, will be mailed each
contributor from National Head
quarters in New York.
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iuaKe an cnecics payame to xu. r.
Orow, ireasurer.
Seme v men are noted for their
radment others trv to argue with
their wives. j
The old-fashioned man who put -tal-
low on Tiia hnntff now has a son.who
puts it on his hair. . f
A GOLD STAR MO
J. B. DAVIS WILL SEEK
COTTON DIRECTORSHIP
IN MONDAY ELECTION.
Members of the Cotton Co-operative
Associations will ballot for di
rectors over the State Monday.
Mr. John B. Davis of this County
is one of the two candidates for
election in this district. Mr. Joy
ner of Northampton . is his oppon
ent. Ten directors are to be chosen
in the Cotton Association. The
Governor appoints one, represent
ing the State at large.
All members of the Association,
irrespective of acreage or produc
tion, are allowed one vote.
ROY DAVIS BUYS WINSTON
PROPERTY MAIN STREET.
Roy Davis has purchased the Wins
ton property adjoining the -Warren
ton Grocery Company and will operate
a garage and blacksmith shop theis
Mr. Winston closed his time business
wd will devote his efforts to manufac
turing
Mr. Davis came to 'Warrenton in
Ian. of 1919 from Newport News
where he had been working upon sub-
marine destroyers in the Navy Yard,
He has been in the garage business,
with this exception, since 1911.
He has been in chars-e of the
Studebaker Service Station for
J . P. Scoggin for some time.
Mr.
He
severs connection with tnic ae:encv
Feb. 1. and gives his entire time to
the new enterprise . in the Winston
property.
HOLT CHOSEN PRESIDENT
COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
Dr. T. J. Holt of Warrenton was
P IPC ten JiTOQiHont rf Tlio Wowni
County Medical Society at a t.
meeting of the societv held in the r.f-
fices of Dr. W. D. Rodders. Other
officers elected for the year 1922 are:
Vice-president. Dr. W. D. Rcdsers Jr:
and Secretary, Dr. C. H. Peete.
A very practical and interesting
paper on "The Value of X-,Rav.Exami-
nations ot fertiires
Dr. G. TT Mnr-mv Tn fh ; riioii;nn
which followed this reading the papex
xro-.-xr in'o-Viixr k-ir oil
the doctors present. ' Public health
I questions and many items of profes-
I sional interest were also taken up atj
I this meeting.
The next meeting of the society is to
be held at Norlina durinsr the first
1 week in March.
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George W. Pepper, Philadelphia
lawyer, is the new senator from
Pennsylvania, having been appointed
by Governor Sproul to serve the un
expired term of Boise Penrose, Re
publican leader who died recently.
MRS. BICKETT EXPRESSES
APPRECIATION TO FOLK.
DEAR KittiNLfc, wno nave given
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to my dearhusband honor and rever-jvain.
ence, and love and tears, and to Wil-1
liam and t me sweet sympathy and j
sustaining prayers, we give you our I
heart-felt
thanks and grateful ap- j
preciation. Will you not pray for
us stmf jest without the strength and
inspiration he gave, we falter, and I
fail to follow those things he follow-
ed, those things that are true and
honest, and just and pure, and lovely,
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and of srood reoort?
For him, in private and in public
Me, tor individual, State and JNatipn,
there was but one ideal, the ideal con-
tamed m the Sermon on the Mount,
and the Ten Commandments. For
him, there was but one ideal life, to
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COL; SGOTT GDUUEDDS
B. COMPANY AT MIL
Captain S. E. Burroughs' Men
Praised For Soldierly Bei j
ing At Annual Inspection.
MEN GET HALF-YEAR PAY.
By KEN K. LYON.
"The best organization in the
State," was the way in whicr Col.
Don. E. Scott, Regimental Com. land
er, 120th Infantry, N. C. N. G. .char
acterized Company B. at theu an
nal inspection in the armory Wed
nesday night.
The Regimental Commander was
lavish in his praise of the local com
pany. "In regard to equipment and
well-arranged club rooms, as ii; all
around efficiency, your compati ; has
no equal among the other seventeen
companies in my regiment," he said.
Captain S. E. Burroughs, com
mander of the local unit, was ac-
corded his full meed of credit fcr the
splendid showing of his compai-y. in
the course of the highly commendh
tory remarks by the Colonel.
At the conclusion of the inspection,
the members of the company receiv
ed their nav for tho
I of service
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I Col. Scott, accomnanied hv Maior
James W. Jenkins. Gommnr.HPT th
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First Battalion, who assisted him at
the inspection, continued the follow
ing day on his tour of inspection of
the other State National Guard units.
VICTORY.
Editor Southern Planter
We have won a great fight, the
Nal is in sisht. Virginia and her si
ters the Carolinas, have put over
the tobacco sign-up contract. This
wonderful achievement is now the
hSSest thing in the way of co-opern-
tl0n in the, country, taken in cennee
ofJe. Eurley
I districts ot Kentucky, Indiana ana
Indiana
0hio' which have sisned up 85 per
I cent, ana are doing business. It
tne DI2Sest thing m the world.
till laf m
So
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out n we stop here, we have ac
I complished nothing; this is just the
machinery bought and installed and it
would all be worthless without effi-
cient operation. The milk in the coco
anut is the officers and directors. Wo
now come to the critical point of this
movement. We should elect men of
the best proven ability shrewd, hon
est men who have had experience and
who have made a success of their own
business.
A man is not fit to serve the public
that has failed for himself We must
have honest officers; men in whose
ability the public has confidence;
honest conservative men who can
command the attention and respect of
the buyer as well as the seller of
tobacco.
No matter what strength we may
have developed in our organization !t
will be 'doomed to ultimate failure if
we elect men not suitable for the work.
We do not want any wild cat scheme
or exponents. We must have men who
know men who know business who
know tobacco. We should have men
that have had experience and made a
success of raising, curing and reorder
ing. Men, in other words, who know
tobacco. We want a price for our to
bacco that will pay a smal or reason
able profit on our investment ana
labor, the same as other business
pays.
First, we want to value our farm,
equipment and the cost of producing
the weed, and a fair interest on the
plant and our labor. Then add a
small profit. With this we will be
satisfied. This, we should , always
have had. This we must now have
or ail our efforts will have been in
This must be obtained or the
country districts will be depopulated.
We must put our wives and children
in circumstances to compete with the
city folks favorably, so far as social
land educational advantages are con-
cerned. Otherwise our fields will be-
come a howling wilderness and our
boys and girls will flock to the cities
land become dwarfs.
Now, Mr. Tobacco Grower, it is up
to von to sac who voiir nfficers and
directors shall be. It all depends on
whom you select to run this the big-
gest machine in the world today.
jKach grower has a vote; use it with
caution.
C. R. S ANDERSON.
Cumberland uounty, ya.
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