(HE SMITHRELO HERALD Published every Tuesday and Friday BEATY & LASSITEK Editors and Proprietors, Smithfield, N. C. Entered at the Post OffW at Sasith 1eld, Johnston County, N. (J., ?s Second-class Matter. k"a7^^F?ub^cription : Cuk in Advance. line year, - ? . . . . $1.50 Fifht Months, .... 1.90 Six Months, .... .75 Three Montha. .... .4# THK FARM LOAN BANK. The Farm I^oan Hank, which will be for the people of North Carolina'!* benefit, ha." Ucu located at Columbia, S. C. It will be only a few weeks until it will be in working order, so that those who want to borrow money can do so. Hut before any person of any community can get money from the Farm Loan Hank a local association must be organized, constituted by those who want to borrow. For this purpose a meeting will be held in the Court House in Smithfield next Mon day, January 8, at 12 o'clock. Mr. W. R, Camp, of Raleigh, will be here to explain the workings of the system. All the citizens of Johnston County who are interested should be present at thiH meeting next Monday. ADDING SHIl'S TO THK NAVY. The navy's building plans for 1918 as suggested ly Secretary Daniels, and recommended by the General Board, provides for the construction of four battleships, three battle cruis ers, four scout cruisers, twenty de stroyers, nine fleet submarines, eigh teen coast submarines, one fuel ship, one transport, one destroyer tender, one fleet submarine tender and one gunboat. It seems to be the attitude of the House Committee to carry out this program, and if it is carried out, the Navy will have the following ves sels in commission in 1921: First line battleships, 27; battle cruisers, ?5; second line battleships, 25; armored cruisers, !?; scout cruisers, 13; first class cruisers, 5; second class cruis ers, 3; third-class cruisers, 10; de stroyers, 108; fleet submarines, 12; coast submarines, 130; monitors, 6; gunboats, 18; supply ships, 4; fuel ships, 15; transports, 5; torpedo ves sels, 6; special types, 8; and ammu nition ships, 2. GIVING ONE'S LIKE. Within the past few weeks several of the young men who went to the border last Pall as members of the National Guard have died of pneu monia. There is no war on between this country and a foreign foe. None of our boys have fallen *>n the battle line, but they have in a true sense ?civen their lives for their country. They are not acclaimed as heroes, neither is there a great and grand fu neral given them. Still they have died for their country. Down in South Carolina, not far from Columbia, there is u home made desolate because the soldier boy was brought home just before Christmas a corpse. He was one of six sons. His mother did not want him to go to the border. But he bogged her and told l*'r that some mothers had jriven their only son to go and be ready to serve his country, while she had live others. His mother finally consented. He died of pneumonia. His mother is sad, but not so much so as if her son had shirked a duty. South Carolina gave another son the v. eek before Christmas. This time the gifted Robert Gonzales, the famous paragrapher on the Columbia State. He also died of pneumonia. He gave up a fine position on The State and went to the border to serve his country. He was a patriot and died a patriot's death. It is true that he did not fall in the Battle's front leading a valiant charge against the enemy. Nevertheless, he has given his life for his country. He has made the supreme sacrifice. Others have done the same, and while no State funeral has been given them, they are per haps just as great heroes and deserve as great honor as if they had fallen on the battle line. All honor to them who are willing to serve their country to the uttermost. Many of the people of this town and community still remember the great lecture given here last winter on "Sour Grapes" by Dr. Edward Am herst Ott. We are glad to announce that he will be here again next Fri day night at the Smithfield Opera House. He is without a doubt the greatest lecturer who has ever vis itd this town and those who missed hearing him a year ago should not miss it this time. The Woman's Club is bringing him and in doing so they are rendering the community a dis tinct service. A crowded house should greet him Friday night. TOLL) IN PARAGRAPHS. Yesterday was the day for making new resolutions. How many of our readers resolved to try to live more economically during this year? ni A French railway company has given the Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, an order for 100 heavy freight locomotives. This order will aggregate about $4,000,000. The same company gave an order a few weeks ago for forty locomotives. Iff From time to time some one calls the attention of the public to the high cost of office holding. Whether this State of affairs be true or not cuts no figure in lessening the number of office-seekers. Neither do we hear of any resigning their office. If office holding is coming high, who is most responsible? Is it not the office hold er himself? HUT This year has been a great year for he railroads of the United States. However, a smaller mileage was built than in any year since the Civil War except 191f>. The mileage built last year totals 1,008, while the re cord for 1915 shows only 933 miles. The new year opens with rolling; stock orders calling for 170,000 freight cars, 2,349 passenger coaches, and U23 locomotives. ? a < II II II Sinct- sonic of our esteemed read ers failed to sec the notice of the meeting to he held here in the Court House inxt Monday for the purpose of learning more ahout the Farm Loan Hank, in a recent issue of The Herald, we are repeating the notice in this issue. In the hustling, hust ling, mad rush after the almighty dol lar and pleasure there are many who have no time even to read the local paper. H H 1i The Legislature will convene in Raleigh tomorrow. A caucus will be held tonight to select the Speaker of the House. There are three active can didates Gallatin Roberts, of Bun combe; Walter Murphey, of Rowan, and Henry F. Page, of Moore. The gentleman from Rowan seems to be in the lead. He was speaker of the extra term of the Legislature a few years ago and proved to be a fine presiding officer. C r ? II I II The State Highway Commission will meet in Raleigh on Monday, January S, to consider plans for the new year's work. One of the things that the Commission will do will be to ask the Legislature to pass a meas ure to provide for the maintenance of the roads already constructed in the Statu. Unless this is done, it is said, North Carolina will not be able to claim the $114,000 of the Federal Road Fund already appropriated among the counties of the State. M. K. liaracas Entertain. Fast Wednesday evening, the Bara ea Class of the Methdist Sunday school entertained in the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Hood. The house was lavishly decorated in holly and mistletoe, with the bril liant tints of the poinsettia appearing here and there. The guests, about fifty in number, were greeted at the front door by Miss Roberta Spiers and Mr. Paul Ma on, and the punch bowl, filled with delicious frappe, was in charge of Miss Eula Fairish and Mr. Walter Hand. Fishing was the first occupation suggested, and soon dexterous fishermen were drawing from the im provised pond some most amazing itches. Chief among these were the Christmi. horns, which soon filled the house with their own peculir music. 1Y.I)! of games were placed in the spacious drawing room, while the walls held two unique and original contests, one concealing in skillful anagrr.mo, the names of the Raraca members, while the other dealt in eggs, "exclusive" and "exaggerated" ? and all served "excellently." In both these contests Miss Bettie Wat son was the winner, and the prize was presented to her. Miss Nell Pickens then gave sev eral delightful readings, the subjects being appropriate to the occasion and the season. At the close of the evening a dainty supper was served by Miss Virginia Puckett and Miss Eula Parrish. The world's; highest powered motor -;hi p has been built in Italy for the Brazilian Navy, its oil motors devel oping ti,400-horsepowor. A North Dakota jewler has built a minute electric motor just such as a flea circus would find useful for oper ating it? trolley c\r?. Its total length is about five-sixteenths of an rich and its total weight is less than a grain. Hear the noted Dr. Ott at the Opera i House Friday night. General admis- | sicn: Adults 50 cents; children 2f> cents. Want** Paper. There is an interesting crusade now under way to induce people to save waste paper. Numerous articles art printed pointing out how profligate and reckless it is to neglect the pa- ; per that comes into the average , household in a hundred different ways, and the house-wife is urged to ' treasure it up not only as having a cash value for herself, but because it can be utilized to augment the con stantly diminishing supplies that come from the mills. As an impres sive illustration of the value of such economy it is stated that the Pennsyl vania Railroad receives $25,000 a year from the sale of its waste paper. Other big corporations are said to be equally provident in this line. School children are adjured to cultivate thrift by gathering all the newspapers, cir- > culars, magazines, handbills and other ' scraps that come to their houses or ' litter the streets. This is an excellent movement ' from nany standpoints, but it would gather momentum if some definite in formation could be given as to how these m-cumulatims of puper could be dispt s.-d f profitably. Where old news paper- are bundled up the Snlvation Arm} is willing to collect them and sell them for furthering its own 1 work. Hut how is- the average house hold to rid itself of the rest of the rubbish that grows with such rapid ity? The junk man scorns it. He ap parently is oblivious to the decreas ing supplies of white paper. He may take old magazines, but no miscella neous trash for him. So the carefully 1 saved paper grows until it becomes) a nuisance and then goes into the re- j ceptacle placed in the street for the j I official city collector. Thereafter its fate is uncertain. There should be some plan devised for providing an incentive for this re ally desirable economy. In Washing ton the school children are collecting old papers and selling them to secure money for a playground fund. In a month they sold over 200,000 pounds thus gathered. Some such scheme should be adopted here, if a real mo tive, either selfish or public, could be supplied foi carefully hoarding the waste paper which is now too often burned the results would be quite ap preciable, both in more material for the mills and in some tangible return to the ' aver. ? Philadelphia Record. The Kternal Warfare. Let us not forget tlmt democracy itself ic a spirit, not a political label. Its esse nee is the idea of equal op portunity for all men, and its chief est practical creed is that men are lit for self government if they are trust ed and trained. I* is a hard gospel but a divine one. Its very nature sets democracy in necessary warfare against some sort of privilege. When Jeffer on took it to his heart, the privilege was then in the shape of stupid kings and illiberal class ideas and a vast social injustice and indif ference; and the old philosopher and friend of man lined up his hosts against that form of privilege in such solid phalanx that the strength of that host has come on down the generations and is inspiring men to day to form new lines of battle against new shapes of privilege. For the benefit of the faint-hearted it can be justly claimed that it has to its credit a splendid tale of service to society. Sectarian fury has gone out of our life by reason of it. It has abolished legal slavery, enlarged manhood suffrage, lessened much so cial injustice, preserved the form of union, conquered wildernesses, and made itself to all the world the sym bol for wealth and prosperity. Under the probation of its greatest doctrine of individual freedom there has been born new masters in politics and new forms of danger in wrong-doing, and this new country finds itself called upon to outface, as it will outface, I believe, one of the distinctest moral crises in its life. ? Edwin A. Alder man at Reception to Woodrow Wilson, nt Norfolk, Va., April 2f>, 1911. she chatted with burglar. ? IS And the I'p.to-Date Intruder Cos- ]j >iped About 1'nychology an jj He Worked. (Chicago Herald.) M A- the burglar raised the window H M llr!cn (nmn ill, daugntcr n i?. j J. Gemmill, of Wilmette, sat up in |j bod. It was 4:.'i0 o'clock in the morn- J ing. i ??Nice evening,'* said the burglar. J "It's morning," said Miss Gemmill. J "An- you a regular burelar?" i "Yes, miss." , j "Then all I have to do is to s it here J anf an elevated plateau, with moun tain^ on the east and west. This 'h.teau is of volcanic origin. In appreciation of their liberal patronage of the last year, we take great pleasure in extending our very best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Every year you promise yourself that you are iroincr * to save up some money for next Xmas. Do you do it? < Most of us do not, or at least we put it off till we have tn 1 "stint" ourselves and then do not have enough. ' < We are now organizing a Pin-Money Club for this nur < pose, which will start the first Monday in Januarv and < continue fifty weeks. By saving * ' ^ i Ask us about this Club. It is a great plan to learn to SAVE ; it is a great plan to learn to become acquainted with this Bank and our methods ? which will do you lota of gcod in after years; and it is a great plan to have money for NEXT XMAS. Money that you SAVE that otherwise you would have thrown away. You don't have to stint for it. You will have this Money and NOT MISS A CENT, and you will enjoy it so much. If you are dependent, you do not have to ask anybody for MONEY for XMAS, and when you spend it, you can say "I am spending my own money." How good it will make you feel. We have ONE MILLION DOLLARS at our command, to lend on FARM lands. If you have a farm and need money, we can get it for you on FIVE YEARS time, and on short notice. If you desire to borrow money it will pay you to see us NOW. I want to tell the people throughout the County that I appre ciate the business given me in 191 erts Johnson and Rand work Shoes, and W. H. Miles fine Shoes, at first cost; and every pair in my house is new and up-to-date, as I have only been handling Shoes three years. Needless to say that every pair in my hands is worth 50 cents to $1.50 more than they were six months ago. as you know condition of the Shoe Market.