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MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME ACCURATE, TERSE, AND TIMELY l VOLUME XXVII WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1922 NUMBER 33 alter r ' r IflfiH SCHOOLS TO OPEN NEXT MONTH Norlina AddsTeachers Training Course to Curriculum; New Teachers For Warrenton. COMMITTEEMEN ORGANIZE The School year in Warren opens in many section during the first two weeks of September. Warrenton will oueri on September 5, with seven n-w teachers Superintendent Allen says. The Macon High School will open September 4th, almost all of last year's faculty returning. The date of opening of he Norlina High School is not definitely settled, owing to delay of the contractor in finishing the building, but will prob ably be about September 18. Oine and Manson will go to this school. Wise will open about September Cth with a new corps of teachers in most of the rooms. They are Mr. E. O. Smithdeal, formerly superintendent cf the Youngsville School, Principal; E. T. Boyette and Miss Emily Milam, High School. Grade Teachers, Miss es Jennie C. Alston, Gladys Sledge, Carrie B. Dunn, Margaret P. Alston, and Miss Martha E. Morris, Music Teacher. Afton-Elberon-Axtell School will open about September 25, with Mr. B. U. Rose as principal, and with four assistants, and more room. At Vicksboro, Miss Kate,M. Gainey will be principal, with threr assist ants. There will be only one white school in Fishing Creek Township, the Areo la school being the township high school. This will be put in good con dition, with an additional room added, and four teachers in the faculty. This six months school will open on Oct.26. Mr. Herbert Scholz will again be at the head at Drewry-Nutbush, and 'the! school will be better able to meet the needs of these forward-looking peo ple. Another room is to be added here. Vaughan is to be a new center of consolidation, the upper grades from the Johnson-Odell school joining with them under the guidance of Prof. Nix on and his three assistants. The newest addition to the cunty school system is the teacher-training department at Norlina. The head of this department is placed here by the State, and a full year of trailing for teachers is offered. High school graduates attending will receive the Elementary A certificate without State examination; eleventh graders, the Elementary B. Approximately two-thirds of the school committeemen of the county, called to order in the Court House last Saturday morning by the County Superintendent, J. Edward. Allen ar ranged for the new census, for trucks, for consultation about repairs and buildings, and for planning for the future organization of the county schools. The committeemen present were quite enthusiastic, and indicated a determinaion that the progress of ine schools should continue, ft was announced that beerinniner o - with this year, a permanent census nouid be filed and permanent re cord of every child of school age in the county should be kept for refer ence. It Was further ncrvoorl V.at mV dvers transporting public school -'"uren to school should be given de Unite rules which thev should be re q?lred to obey, including a dead stop eyery railroad crossing, no speed Jjeater than 15 miles per hour, no uren to be permitted ride out e trucks, and every truck to carry ne-ded safety devices. After the meeting, the school com mitteemen decided to perfect a per anent organization, and N. H. Pas- p; ,Was elected President. J. K. nnell. Vnan :J.x TT m Rod ii ieHiuent ana a' Cj' Was Secretary-Treasurer. it; voted to meet again on call of the lament. marriage licenses. 10Mowmg marriage license een issued since the last edition iw ass to Fannie Rodwell: John xon ;;,stella Kearne c George I iUinnie Belle Brown; che? I Myrtle Harris; John M- ett to Mary Anna Davis. John Bur Supt. Allen Defends Position of Dr. Brooks On School Tax Rate To the Editor of The Warren Record, 1 have neither the time nor the wish to argue the question of the ef fect of the reduction of our valuation on our tax rate for teachers' salaries; but, since you as newspaper man and I as school man are both doing educa tional work, it behooves us to correct all errors. Three of 'these inadverten ly crept into your editorial last week under the caption "The Question of Law." First, your editorial reads "Dr. Brooks admits that he has $88,000 more equalizing fund than last year, and it is respectfully submitted that gives the necssary funds to Warren nearly ten fold." The truth is, the counties had called for every cent of this during the past year, long before it was due. This is a part of the $910,000 that the counties asked for, 1921-22. The State hopes to get the same next wear, but by no means can look for more. Second, you say "In the first place the 37-cent rate is like last year's bird nest a thing of the past. The only rate that we have to consider is not a 'validation but an 'enactment' that the commissioners shall not be required to levy more than 39 cents on the hundred dollars." But, Mr. Editor, you failed to read in that law the four words which give -to what you quoted its right to exist. The four words are these; "In every other county. . Read what the Attorney General of the State says about it: "That act divides the counties into two classes; first, those which had already levied a tax in accordance with the instructions of the State Board of Education, and second, those which had not at the time of the en actment of the law levied the tax. The act validated the levies of the first class and directed those of the second class to levy 39 cents on" the $100.00. Your county i plainly not within the last class." Therefore, us section 2 plainly says, its rate of 37 cents levied last year .was continued as the highest that the commissioners "shall be required" to levy in this county for 1922-23, instead of the 39 cent rate that Mr. Jones asked the commissioners to levy. But let" us read further in the law omitting unimportant verbiage; "he State Board of Education shall appor tion to each county unable to provide a six months' school term, after levy ing the taxes validated and author ized, an amount to provide a six months' school -term." And this also leads up to the third correction that I wish to make. Let's stop thinking Dr. Brooks is a dicta tor meddling in our affairs. Look at the words of the law. When can a county draw from the equalizing fund? Nothing can be plainer; only "after levying the taxes validated and authorized in section 1 of this act." What were the taxes so validated, in Warren County? All of us know that the taxes so validated were $53,500, being the amount that was raised by the 30 cent rate on the 1920 valuation, or 37 cents on' the 1921 valuation Not until this county did what the law re quired it to do, could the State do what the law required it to do. And, Mr. Editor, we cannot call Dr. Brooks a dictator in the face of such a law as that. But your editorial says, "It is not denied that Dr. Brooks informed the authorities here that they must raise the amount of money here from less property that was raised last, year or you cannot par ticipate in the equalizing fund.' The Legislature did not say so. We ma not call Dr. Brooks an autocrat but 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet'." You are quite wrong. " Dr. Brooks doesnot tell us that we MUST do any thing except what the law says MUST be done. He told us that. in his judg ment the laws would require the counties to raise the same , salary fund as last year, and Ipoints out that our share of the Equalizing Fund, plus county taxes even at the rate you advocate, would leave us a de ficit of about $10,000, which we may be able to make up by borrowing and by increasing taxes the year after to mv it back with interest. We can get thP $58. 5C0 any way we prefer; but the law says we must have it before we can get the State money. 1 he law did not say we could get btate money (Continued On Page 6) FRANKLIN BOARD VOTES FOR BRIDGES Construction Work Well Under Way on Warrenton-Louis-burg New Short Route. MR. WINSTON PROMOTING Progress is being made on a direct road from Warrenton to Louisburg, following action by Messrs. Moses Winston, J. J. Tarwater, W. G. Ro gers and other interested citizens who with the town's business men have raised a $1,000 that a more direct route might be opened to the capi tal of Franklin. - The citizens of Louisburg are expected to supplement this fund by a liberal contribution. Construction work is being pushed by Messrs. J. M. and Walter Bur roughs, Mr. Willis Pinnell and their force. Mr. Winston has been on the ground almost constantly with these men and the outlook is for a good road within three weeks. , -The Franklin County Board of Commissioners Chm. A. J. Joyner, W. D. Fuller, W. C. Wilder, J. P. Timberlake, and C. C. Hudson yes terday agreed to construct 16-foot steel bridges, with concrete abutt ments, over Fishing and Shoccd creeks. Messrs. Moses Winston, G. H. Ma con and W. Brodie Jones were guests of Supt. of the County Home J. J. Holden at the annual county dinner at the home on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Jones outlined to the commissioners- and other. Franklin County persons the general purpose of the movement. He was followedby Mr. Ben T. Holden of Louisburg who en dorsed the road, particularly because "my good friend Mose Winston is in favor of it and I know the project is all right." , - The ; eommissioTfsdroveverp the proposed route and expressed a de sire to have the four-mile gap buift and the entire road improved. The new road will cut the distance to Louisburg to 24. miles and shorten the route to Raleigh by from 12 to 15 miles. Local Officers Elected; Colored Firemen Return The Colored Fire Company of this town just returned from the annual tournament of the North Carolina Colored Volunteer Firemens Associa tion held at Tarboro last week. They report a delightful time; that every thing possible was done by the citizens of Tarboro co give the Fire men a good time and hearty welcome. The Warrenton Company had as delegates, in addition to the other members of the Company present, R. L. Stainback and N. W. Alston. President John Somerville Plummer of Warrenton was reelected for about the 26th or 27th -consecutive-time, and Peter Collins was reelected as Re cording Secretary. This action speaks well for the zeal and efficiency of these officials and is an honor we are quite sure they ap preciate. . - The Rev. N. H. Shepherd of Hol- lister, pastor of the Sulphur Springs Church, and the Rev. C. G. Lowe of Whayleyville, Va., opened a series of meetings at Sulphur Springs on Mon day evening. Services will be held at 3 and 8 p. m. Local Store .Manager Brings His Bride Here From Statesville, N. C. J. N. Hart Jr., local manager of the Pender Stores, is receiving congratu lations of friends here over his mar riage to Miss Ola Boyd of Statesville on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Hart re turned to Warrenton on Tuesday and are making their home with Mr. and Mrs. Waiter B. Fleming. The , marriage ceremony was per formed at the home of the bride in Statesville by the Rev. J. H. Presley of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Hart attended the E. C. T. T. School at Greenville, the home of her husband. Mr. Hart, though here only a short while, has made many friends and they are welcoming his bride to Warrenton and extending good wish es for many happy years together. MORE WAGES FOR STEEL WORKERS 20 Per Cent Increase Granted By Big Corporations to Their Employees. EFFECTS 300,000 LABORERS NEW YORK, Aug. 22. Three big steel corporations, employing normal ly nearly 300,000 workers, today an nounced a 20 per cent, wage increase for all laborers in their manufactur ing plants. , The United States Steel Corporation ' took the lead, but was quickly followed by the Midvale Steel and ; Ordinance Company and the Youhgstown Sheet and Tube Com pany. In the absence of Charles Schwab and Eugene Grace of 'the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, no other official of that company would commit himself. Secretary Brown said, however, he did not know of any action that had teen taken on . the wage question. President Matthews of the Crucible Steel Corporation, said his company had taken no action "as yet." It was generally believed in financial circles that all important independent steel firms would announce increases with in a few days. News of the increase came as a sur prise to the financial district, proba bly because wage adjustments in oth er industries have been generally downward. BEFORE THE RECORDER. Recorder T.O. Rodwell had only one case before him on Monday. Anna Drake was found guilty of assault and fined $2 and cost. Clayton Trial Scheduled 1 0 O'clock This Morning Buck Clayton, under arrest for "re sisting an officer and making threats against depuy sheriffs guarding Sea board property at Norlina two weeks ago, will be tried at the Court House here this morning at 10 o'clock be fore Magistrate Ed Petar. The trial, scheduled to be heard by J. A. Meed er on last Friday morning, was con tinued until today. Soldiers Get Funds And Melons After Drill On Friday Pay checks from Uncle Sam for services from Jan. 1 to July 1 and the knowledge that watermelons from Warren awaited at the ice plant put music into the company as the route- stepped to North Warrenton, on the past Friday evening following the drill. ' . The attendance was good in the armory and after drilling, and other details of training, Corp. Owen Rob ertson, as company pay master, dis tributed the funds'The boys then sung as they marched to North War renton for the melons. Colored Association Holds Three-Day Ses sion at Baptist Church Many colored persons from War ren, Vance, Franklin and Halifax Counties were in session here with the first Baptist Church of Warrenton on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day for the fifty-first annual session of the Shiloh Baptist Missionary As sociation. Thirty-two churches were represented and more than fifty min isters were in attendance. The program opened on Tuesday with word of welcome from Mayor Frank H. Gibbs. Dr. T. J. Taylor and the Rev. Black, who are conducting a meeting at the Baptist Church this week, made splendid talks before the congregation on Wednesday. The purpose of the Association, ac cording to Clerk Mansfield S. Thcrn ton, is to help Shiloh Institute, t.ie Orphanages of the Church and to im prove the spiritual condition of the people of the race. Morning and afternoon business session have been held, with preaching at night. Rev. S. G. Griggs, as Moded ator, presided over the session and M. S. Thornton, Clerk for 45 years, assisting. It was the first meeting of the association in Warrenton in about 15 years. Huge Monster Sweeps All Before It On Ram page Through Woods Growling along, like some fierce monster of old, smashing its way over rocks as if f;hey were pebbles and sweeping trees to earth as if they were straws, a powerfl caterpillar tractor is cutting a detour near here for the State Highway Commission. A visit yesterday morning with Messrs. C. R. Rodwell, Frank Serls and Edmund White to the road to be repaired from Baltimore to Liberia demonstrated the advantage of power combined with skill in road building. The contractor for the hard-surfaced road is required to maintain s? st able detours in order that traffic may not be stopped. Such a detour is be ing constructed to lead across coun try by the County Home, connecti jr the Rocky Mount. Warrenton highway with Warrenton by the Clark's briJge route. The contractor is using an army caterpillar tractor which crawls on is own track, laying, it as it goes, over gullies, ruts, stones and bumps. Nothing halts it as a heavy road ma chine is pulled up hiirand down with the greatest ease. This five-ton tractor and machine can build an ordinary road almost In a walk. Manager Blalock Speaks In Court House Saturday Mr. U. B. Blalock, General Mana ger of the Cotton Association, will address the farmers of Warren in the Court House here on .Saturday after noon at 3:30 o'clock. The details of the cooperative sys tem of handling cotton will be the general theme of the address. ; The farmers of Warren are urged to be present. Consecrational Services 7At Baptist Church To Close On Sunday Night Consecrational services, which be gan in the Baptist Church here on Sunday, will close on the night of the 27, Dr. Taylor said yesterday. The Rev. J. F. Black has been preaching strong sermons, and Mr.' Coy Peters son, his singer, has appealed in mel ody as the congregations assemble at both morning and evening services. The attendance at the 8 o' clock even ing services has been good, but the 9:30 morning exercises have not been as well attended as had been hoped, a member of the church remarked yes terday. The efforts of Dr. Taylor and his assistants is toward arousing a deeper spiritual feeling among the christians of the town. Members of all denominations are cordially invited to attend. DIRECTOR PEACE SEES TIME MEN FOR CO-OPS. Director Sam T. Peace, of the Sev enth District, comprising Warren, Hal ifax and Vance counties, was in town yesterday in the interest of coopera tive marketing of tobacco. Mr. Peace said that he was meeting with very flattering success in obtain ing the signatures of time merchants to an agreement permitting the tobac co on which they have chattel mort gage or crop lien to be handled by the cooperative association. He . told of having already obtained the signatures of many of these mer chants and he will continue his effprts. VISITOR NOTES MANY IMPROVEMENTS SINCE 1879 Mr. Hugh Williams of Bollivar, Tenn., is a visitor in Warrenton after an absence of several years. Mr. Williams, with the touch of prin ter's ink upon his fingers having been emnloved on The Gazette and for a short while on The News papers pub lished in this town, went to Bollivar and established The Bollivar Bulletin of wich he is now editor and owner. He is accompanied to -Warrenton by his sisters Miss Mary L. Williams and Mrs. O. D. Porter of Raleigh and they are guests at The Hotel Warren. Mr. Williams express himself as being de ligted with the great improvements shown on every hand in Warrenton and remarked that the hotel would be a credit to any city. He left Warrenton in 1879. He said he was enjoying meeting the sons of his old friends and occasionally an bid friend. CO-OPS CELEBRAT2 AT NORLINA TODj it Speech By Blanks of Kentucky, A Brunswick Stew and Base Ball Game on Program. A 3,000 CROWD EXPECTED Farmers of all sections rally at Norlina today to hear J. R. Blanks of Kentucky on the cooperative mar keting of tobacco, to relish a bruns wick stew given by the citizens of Norlina and the farmers of Warren, to attend a Weldon- Norlina ball game and to close the day with a dance in celebrating the location of the tobac co receiving station zn that town. Though the roof has not been com pleted the' speaking will take place and the dinner will be served at the new warehouse to the south of town. "We have 400 gallons of stew," R. S. Register said last night in talking of the rally. "The farmers have of fered us everything we needed for the stew and we are ready to feed more than 3,000 persons." The baseball game between Weldon and Norlina promises interest.' Both teams will take the field in full strength. The day's program ends with a dance at the Norlina Hotel, which will be led by a Warrenton couple by request of persons of that town. The general arrangements for the day have been under the direction of Warhouse Manager R. L. Moss, who has been ably assisted by the citizens of Norlina. The rally is expected, Mr, Register told, to draw many far mers and business men interested in the new sales method. Wise Betterment As sociation Adopts Pro gramForYear'sWorl: The meeting of the Betterment As sociation for August was held at the home of Mrs. C. W. 'Perkinson, the school building being in the process of repair. There were eighteen pres ent. The club voted to co-operate with Mrs. Bickett in her work and a special committee for this purpose was appointed. It was voted to put on a one act play, "Suppressed De sires," within the next six weeks, under the direction of Miss Perkin son and Miss -Dunn. For the first time in the history of the club a special yearly program will be made out and followed as closely as possible. The keynote of the program will be service to the school and community and will deal with such subjects as public health, education, citizenship, recreation, and child welfares An interesting paper on Warren County history was read by Miss May Sallie Perkinson, after which refresh ments of pineapple sherbet and cake were served and the meeting adjourn ed to convene again as soon in Sep tember as the school building was re paired, at which time the meeting will be combined with a special clean up day, prior to the opening of school. The B. Y. P. U. social which took the form of a gypsy tea on th church grounds on the evening of August 18 gave much pleasure to both young and old. After tea, many games were played, some stories and jokes told and community singing participated in. A feature of the program was the cracker race. It was won by Mrs. R. I. Mulchi, she being the one who could eat a cracker in the shortest time and whistle. The recreatiye games and stunts were under the su pervision of Miss .May Sally Perkin son and Miss Emma Dunn, who fair ly bristled with new ideas gained this Summer at the N C. C. W. Summer School. The ladies of Sharon Church will give a lawn party on the church grounds on Saturday night, Septem ber 2 from 6 to 10 o'clock. Ice cream will be sold. The public is cordially invited to come and join in an even ing's pleasant recreation. Weldon Wins By Score 4 to 2. Warrenton lost to Weldon yester day afternoon in Weldon by the scorn of 4 to 2. Infield errors cost the town team the game, all of Weldon's runs coming in one inning.