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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1922.
XV, NPMBEB 82.
TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE
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iff ricultuiraL oemomtoataoini.:ifliu!J -U Aim
vwtiw n it? ti ti TO FLY AR
pnMMITTEE APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE JOINT STOCK
LAND "BANK AND REPO RT BACK WITH RECOMMEN
DATIONS TO A LATER MEETING.
I
OLGEROUiUP
UNO
WORLD
iit-pl 111" of the
Commerce was held yesterday
at four o clocK at tne .
fTice at which time two t
were presented for
Chamber of CIHC M M I WHIM) Tflfl
UII1U Ul IIULLI IIUUU I UU
SCURRILOUS TO ADMIT
TO THE MAILS
afternoon
Mayor's
propositions
Consideration.
The first Avas the employment j
a. an agricultural demonstration, Associated
2ent fur the intensive uexeiop- -
V.pnt of an agricultural demon-, , Th cj. f
agent tor tne mtensrv e v f)(;U supposed to expose the 7"
A . ... . . uu
HUNDREDS OF
SIMFEIfOS
(By Associated Preal
London, May 23. In an at
tempt to fly around the world.
j Major W. T. Blake, of the Royal
I Air Force, and Captain Norman
IMacMillan, plan to hbp off from
I Croydon! at noon tomorrow.
jThey expect to complete the trip
;in two months.
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J
I90FIY. POSTAL
ERflPLOY EES
(By Associated Press
Belfast, May 23.' The great-
-A
Holloy
stration
A. :j X. i . f r
est raiu in recent uisiory ox xre-
lanu was carnea out toaay.
Swarms of police are sweeping
,Wonm-ut of the community Hives of certain picture stars, is "H"" iT a a or
deopm - u. . i , ...V ea up two hundred Smn Fem-
vnrrmind Ti" Scot- too scurrilous to be admitted m . , T . , v
lninieuiateJ.N sunounum . ers, most of whom are Irish Re-
. , i- tJn-mifrh local and the mails accorumy; to a ruling' ,i. e-
aud FM aid. After of Mark Herron, Deputy United lbhean army officers.
Mate aim it m ftftp riistript AHnrnAv ! Ihe Northern government's
discussion aim .XL"-" r:::r: ,1 action was takfm in an fW tn
followinsr resolution, ine ironuspiece is a picture - -, . -
COLONIAL COSTUME
BALLAT VA. PAGEANT
(By Associated Press
Richmon, Va., May 23. The
'irginia Historical Pageant pro
rvm for the remainder of thp.
i . a t timnrooo all Sinn U'nin -n Anrnninn 1. 1 V. i .
neautitui i i " Kjxiijj. x juu xjA.gau.iAa- viccii. win ue carnea out as
was
i i -- nnl flflIIVIIIMF';i Ik l.M, tj ,1 -M- lt3Ll IVj tj -A t f A 11 V V
niucti
T If I F I LLiy. m. c) - , -i
i tTatu t or iVlpnhistonheles. a
,gin ana a motion jncnire camera, ; , bouvuuicu wopuc uamage
UNITARIANS MEET IN
CONFERENCE
Clark and passed:
Kesolved : That, the Chamber j
,,f Commerce g: on record s j
favin-inir the proposition of em- j
nloviur an agricultural admin- j
is tration agent, and that three
fi.mmittees be appointed to rais;
koOM per month each with
which to maintain said agent.
The Slate Agricultural Depart-I
went will furnish a man and con
tribute a like amount, the
,v,,i,v! i.:.miirprl lopflllv hein"
.,Mnr,i mid mid throu-h :ary Week exercises which open-
. ;IU1 U M. L I V l. -
lie Chamber of Commerce.
The Chambeir of Commerce
Committee Approves Joint
Stock L a nd B ank Today
The committee of the Chamber
of Commerce appointed at the
meeting yesterday afternoon met
tblS mo mint? m thft dirAP.tnrn
room of the Scotland Neck Bank
in company withMr. J. E. Pe
igram, of Durham, who is organ
izing tne domt Stock Iand Bank
for this section and who has of
fered a. unit of the bank to
Scotland Neck.
; Mr. Pegram explained thor
oughly the system under which
,t his institution is operated cail
ing particular attention to the
fact that for every dollar put up
toeally a loaning power of fif
teen dollars is created Thai.
W ashington, May 23. The dis- jfore, if a unit of $25,000 is sub
overy through finger printing "seribeTi for here it would mean
that forty-nine of the four hun-jthat $400,000.00 would h Avaii-
jdred and sixty employees of the .able in loans.
registry division of the New I All funds would be handWl
llork Postotfice had- criminal throusrh 1
reeords was reported to Presi-jtions for the full amount of this
dent Harding by acting Post- unit, or $400,000.00. with a Wal
HAD CRIliriAL
RECORDS
CBv Associated Press!
lowing their raids and the burn- the rain did to the amDhitheatre master General Bartlett. All d,arr1 rii.f a
ing of buildings culminating : in where the pageant drama was n-y-nine were discharged. twho would supervise the loans
inc 1UUJ.I.ICJ. ui . w. j. wauu.cu, a y.nuuGCL. ne uoiomai costume
member of the Ulster parliament, ball will be held tonicht.
By John Paul Iucas
Boston, May 22. Churches'
ithroughout the United States
and Canada were represented at
: -i V r nnnildl TTnitQTlQ AlTllVtH'
xaiei.gn, may id. in anaiyz-
ITIOT "flirt Ckn rir r ri i n citiiqiat -i-m V c
here tonight, The program f sections o North Caro.
Th, followin. committees w-eP "i, T t?-v ' lina' is interesting . to contrast
Ihe fo losing coim uttees, c 0I the Amecan Unitarian asso- regults CQme frQm
TZt C Hoffman second T't S J'nF t the farmin practices in the rich
V heeler, Cr. Hot. man second jPark o the First Church m Bos- Eastern coun?ies -with their large
! liuaitfee : it. JOse, ir.. j ;, nllin)t wbioli has had n i
ri."-; ; -Tn plantations ana scores ot negro
continuous ministry since 1650, tenants, and those in the moun
preached the anniversary sermon. .tain and western counties where
n1, I . . ,( li line Tpati nrmT-o im i atciI tt- lace
i lUmUUUVV IUOilllJlf4 LllC Be?" .j .kj "Wii uiii;uluhi viJ xvuio
The second proposition v was sons 0f the 16 auxiliary agen- tenant farming and where all
the organization of a unit of a sf.;Pj4 wni trot nnflpv wav Of nap- farmers, land owners and ten-
tieular interest to the 2,000 dele- ants alle, nave had greater-fen-..Mtfx
ivll ho thp Tpcnit nf tt,P 'couragement m, as well, as ne-
' i -I
recent church membership cam
Any Other Than "Llveat
Home" Program Suicidal
R. L
li.nuf, B. Edwards;
fhir: C S. Alexander, W. .
Smith. S. A. Dunn.
er proportion of our farmers
were raising their living at home
last year than were in 1910.
The only way out for every
farmer in the cotton belt is
through the "Live-at-Home" pro
gram. Any other course is sui
idal. He will gradually develop
ether money crops but his first
efforts must e directed to rais
ing his own living on his own
land. He must 4 4 grow" into
SUFFICIENT LIVESTOCK
LEfTAFTERTDEFAMINE
A ftp. a,.0f 111 nATiailA.niA 1L
I committee passed 1 signed thu
following resv V. which will
be submits a called meetinir
jf the - .,er:
y of Resolutions:
Committee of Chamber of
the
Samara, Russia, T.lay
The Associated Press.)-
ample live stock
province to
. Amerce appointed by
rnamber ot Commerce of Scot
land Neck have looked into the
v.-(Bvj
cjnn., proposition of organizing a unit
K p- ii i i"L ejuiiit oiocii. uauu ranK oi
work the fields and w-.-aaa rtn , .
' ' Y-V I C- -- "V ha rt. n 4- o-m
m
I-OX.1T-1C. V-k . moo ,1
mftSt,.'-n An -, ... .
the fact .that it suffered
everely from the famine.
rugged, shaggy, "little
The
commercial dairying
raising.
cessity ior, producing tneir ac-
X- j 1 1- - p ii i -t
paign which, it was announced ;Luai llvmr Ilom Tne iana- .
brought 10,000 neAv members in- In the East and in some coun-
to Unitarian churches of North ''ties m the central part ot the
America. .otate a lew plantation owners
and supply merchants have
and hosr
Marjket facilities must
Ia4sxieEiite of,
these products. " 7, -
Value of Industries To The
Farmer
The situation in the Piedmont
00.00 and the committee togeth-
PP; With snmp lio momhara r P
ItOlSeS, l1f, P'lTjirnliPf rf P'riTkTinrti.nii
great, groaning camels and slow ;lt. 11TiaT1:mftllS!itr rt
, -I 1 1 UllUlUillWUOlT 1 VVllllllV. llti I'U
the said Chamber to organize
1 i
oxen oi tne tamme re
gions have withstood the winter's
moving
hunger as well or even
I l, n Al, .4 1 , i ...
To isolatp.fi snots tnt.allv .nob. ! Signed)
tho. nivmnsitif m f,v Rpntlnnr? Jpplr
setter ,.,,..1
Joint block JUand riank witn a
apitalization of $27,500.00. The
entnU bank would have a capi
al of $250,000 Avith ten units,
iach mi it would have a loaning
tapacuy ot i?-uu,uuu, or aDout
fifteen dollars for each one put
0. Much interest was manifest
ed in this proposition and the
1 -1 . .
enair vas requested toappomt a "r nr t 1 "" tenants and small farmers. Not
ecmmiltee to investigate this wimam nuw-iu e11 but m of these plantation r rr ;:TJJllf7 Th7v tp p
matter thorouo-Mv and renort Taft, was announced tonight ai ' a I i .plies and teedstutts. 1 hey aie ac-
o a eajiea meeting at an iimviii, ju me mst lwu cdis ihav
v ( his fommittpp was a nve-vear urogram, uuiaineu
follows: G. Hoffman. J. H. 80 percent of its ultimate go
i tif 1 II If 1 I If 111 i
cows, hogs, and even the
mg of corn and other feed for
work stock, for the very simple
ing in food the livestock as well j
as 'trie people has-suffered fre
latndous mortality. Thousands
of draft animals have fallen dead
m the road while hauling prec-
G. HOFFMAN,
--SA. DUNN,
J. IL ALEXANDER,
T. B. WHEELER.
JR.
mittee, under the leadership ot iPTiaT1(Q flTirl " nll fawn Mrif
ana western part ot tlie State nY.ns foorl hvpp tliP snows tn thp
3 .and in a few communities in the (villages. Others .have bei
n.asc as umerent. m tne -iea- j slaughtered for food but by far
mont and mountain counties the tlie reat proportion have gone
farmers have more generally through the winter and now, with
L-cen proaucing tneir 100a sup- isreen pasture owlv a month or so
are in fair shape for work.
re discouraged, even by dras-
customed to keeping cows for in
stance, and are beginning to find
off.
M. Ryazonoff, Commissar for 1
Most of them, particularly the
camels present a woebegone ap
pearance. These dromedaries
groan continuously as they lum
ber along the snow roads at a
rate of three to four miles an
hour, protesting over every
bump or snow drift in the road.
Alexander. Jr.. and S. A. Dunn, of $3,000,000.
It was the concensus of opin- I Of $2,387,516.37 pledged to
i'n of all present that these two; date, $1,431,715.14 has been paid
tfidertjtkings would revolution- 'in by 24,694 individuals, with a
conditions locally and !loss from death, insolvency,
- ,tic means, the growing of food that dairving on
jfor the family the keeping of seale may be profit
srrow-
7vT-. ita -1.4-1- rkl i-koc 1,, M-im 1 s n t.
1 Afiricnltnre ot Samara nrovmce. i . ' .
commercial i xu -n 4.1 ,ot more than a ton 10 to zU miles
ouuiiiieioiai . .nvs npVp nrp ofill Tnorp than 1 . .. ..
maybe profitable. A larg- Umn nno i, i,oi,i 1 1; 11 uay- ine norses pun ac lea'.
er number. keep poultry both for k left or 90 percent of those half of this load.
home use and as a means of m- iqoi ! kven with thnr scarcity and
creasing the farm income.
They
itirourhotit this immediate sec
tion and that anv saprifipps
would Id; justified in order to
put tuem throusrh.
reason that they have made con- nave practiced more crop diver
iani aiiu large pronts irom ine
Pasants who have seen mem
I trs of their own families "and
neighbors die of hunger have
sification in their farming opera
tions, and in the cotton counties
were;in this section they are in much :saveu tneir cameis, noivses aim
and better Dosition to fisht the boll .(xen. Except m villages where
dearness of forage, the peasants
whom the correspondent encount-
ered were not selling their live
stock cheaply. Before the revo
lution, a good big work camel
in Samara province could be
iieetma' of the Unitarian Tern
IBMIOICAUSSOl
FOR CHANGE I
lEIIISTRIROTIDNi?
I!
cnange ot neart and otner caus- jhandling of these supplies,
es of less than 2-100 of one. per-1 In 1920 these folks
it ; " . , . : caught m their own. trap
uucicoi iix lUJUuouH 6 !csiuu ihiinaac. n ntn -l ' : flpvfltmn Ittipw nn honnf s ThPV i 1 ... i c trr 1. 1 mi. :..
11 V. 1' '1 I Vv uuuuicua w-l piouiauwu uvvucia .weevil. ""y - , nOUgllt lOT tU lO OK) TUUICS. 1 Ills
j will be divided between an openjand suppiy merchants in Eastern ! Another factor which: must not l ave not killed their beasts, presented $20 to $25. The 30,-
Carolma today would be bank- be overlooked is this: Not only j even when they knew that a tew!000000 to 50,000,000 rubles now
rupt :f they were forced to liq-Ure the farmers of the Piedmont ; pounds of horse flesh might !asked for cameis jn this district
uidate under present conditions. 'section fitted by experience to j mean a week's life to themselves. jrepresents only about half that
I know one man who was produce other crops than cotton,! Horses were' more precious Ipount when figured in gold
worth more than $250,000 two i but they have at , their doors a .than humans. Without livestock utr compared with prices asked
years ago. He told me a few 'market for practically all of the ! no food coul dbe brought from or otner commodities, livestock
days ago that if he were sold j food pi ducts they can grow, be-'.the railways and the seed for'is still held at a high figure,
out today he would probably not cause the industrial development .next year's crop would lie use-1 ; ;
have, his home left. This man ;of North Carolina has taken5 less in the box cars far from the:
is a gooa mrmer ana a gooa man place largely m tne riedmont sec- jlieids.
r4 , -
eranee society, wnicn will pre-
;nt special reports on "prohibi-
on results" and the Unitarian
j Laymen's League sessions.
j The 97th annual meeting of
ithe American Unitarian Associa-
will occupy Tuesday, with
Dr. Minot Simons, head of
the department of church exten-
WEATHER REPORT
St.
ion, reporting detailed finding?
of the committee which had
harge of the join-the-chureh
campaign. The Women's Alli-
r relief "from the present un-j"6 has been assigned Wednes-
. Gay ior us o:nu anniiai uilti .my:.
(By Associated Press
i.onis. Mo Mav 9f? A
Oiution anneal in to cono-rpsa
ms..act(ry conditions" regard
n the distribution of whiskey, i The May Week festival, the so
'' that governmental dis- cl evellt of tne annual meeting.
"'J'U Kill (II inorlirtlnol Tnr.Acino
" 'mlv in p;,i,ui oVo wa inir in the Copley Plaza Hotel. This type is tlie worst hurt of all
1 1 . 1 . ' . . I mi . TT,. il o ir -it-ill hp i 1 i. . e. -H,
lis scheduled for Thursday even
not the sort to take selfish ad- ;tion, and industrial settlements, j Ragweed and other vegetation : For North Carolina Generally
vantage of his tenants. His from cities to villages, offer a ', ordinarily considered of no food fair tonight; Wednesday partly
case is rather typical, but not as splendid market for all sorts of j value, have been used for forage, cloudy. Probably local showers
aggravated as that of hundreds food supplies. ;The animals have been able to ir. west portion. ' Little change
of plantation owners who sup- This means that the farmers of o only about half the work h. temperature. Moderate north
plied their tenants when prices Piedmont North Carolina have a! that a well fed beast would do. east and east winds.
were high constantly encouraged j distinct immediate advantage ov-1
; jthem to make large purchases in t pV the farmers of other sections : u q
-'order to swell their own profits, which have no markets i SI
limit.'.. I l ii
- '. ii i,y r ip
Association.
American Medi-
NOBEL FOUNDATION BIVES
LARGE PRIZES
'ii'"ie, May " j. The 1m
st Year of xt1iQi
ln:1,''h,n' v.-hich annually dis
yJ'h prizes for outstand-
art.
acnievements m
science and poli-
COTTON MARKET
TDDAY'S mabket
MAY ' 21.32
,HJU 20.07
OCTOBER 19.91
DECEMBER 19.84
JANUARY 19.72
MARCH 19.55
wn.utod
f...i
"'i SHn
t' !V. nvizps will ' hpi-iTTTr.
-3... . ' , .. " KliJX
uuruis lVZ'Z and t.ho fnrv nriT?T?
. . vvv x y uiji
np!d out to each winner T"R nEMBET?.
:o2.0oJ'4S2 krono1 (about JANUARY .
MARCH . -l
l
The program for rriday will be j tut. every farmer m the cotton
i devoted to the affairs oi tne Jsections of Eastern North Caro-
i"V.,. Trti-l a 'a Tplio-ioilS Union, iflinn linrt
! W I A J ' , L L U 1 1 V. O i .... .-'. ' - JilliU l 111L "
Applying The Remedy
Now throughout the cotton
counties land owners, supply
merchants and others are realiz-
.ins tnat tneir only salvation un
der boll weevil conditions is to
! encourage every farmer, land
j owner and tenant alike, to pro
jduce on the farm their own liv
iing and the feed for their live
; stock. This doctrine has been
i preached' by agricultural leaders
! for the past 15 years, and yet
i there were fewer chickens rais-
I WO
Prommemit
if ESTEBDAY rS MABKET
21.53 ;ed in North Carolina last year
. .. : 20.30 than there we're ten years ago.
19.06 ; There was an increase of only
19.99 - five per cent in number of cat
19.81 tie in North Carolina during tho
19.68 Jast ten-year period, and a small-
peakers Will
Be Here Friday
The Secretary of the local well, Agricultural and Industrial
i
-.-a "ill A 1 , 1
diateiy available. And tney are
in somewThat better position to
immediately avail themselves of
this market. It must come j
about, however, that as the j
farmers of other sections of the j
State acquire experience in the !
I handling of food products a sys- j
tern of marketing will be devei- ,
oped so that from ever section j
of thp State smmlies mav be
brought to meet the demand for Chamber ot Commerce lias t ar- Agent ot tne Atlantic oasc
foodstuffs in the . cities and ranged for two prominent speak- Line Railroad will address the
towns which are at present look-' ers to talk to the farmers and meeting , on general conditions
ing to other sections of the coun-'business men of this section next cs they affect the farmer, and
try almost altogether for such Friday at eleven o'clock at the some remedies which might bJ
supplies, and are sending' mil- Dixie. Theatre. proposed. jff?'
lions of dollars out of the State ! Mr. N. G. Bartlett, Vice Pres- Roth hese pakers WJu
each month for these things. ident-Manager of the Eastern mcsaae of interest and
This home market is the legiti- Carolina Chamber of Commerce carrj a messa e oi in
tell of the aims of that or- importance aau u
ire; au-
busines
i Vi 4- fill -m q tTrpQ4' r P -f ll n qt Tfill
malt;, t iiz ii i i. ni jj i ex iivui j x. tnu . Km tv." - . i
heel farmer and it is his when- ganization and wnat it nopes iu rBiu
i- i- i, Poofn-T, "Mrrf li Hipncft or tarmers ana
i ,3., 4- 1;. ,l,,l,0li fV.T- H'.actPrn X OTTO tlienee Oi iaifcio
t- v i lie- lyuvij w v v. w
utilize it.
Carolina, and Mr. G; A. Card- men .to hear tncin.
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