(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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
an<i ask questions about yourself and ?
trade while you burgle th-? room?" ,
"Yes," said the burglar, "folks ex
pect that ever since they began to
put these burglar sketches in vaude
ville With the young, pretty ones,
like yourself, we burglars have to
disci;.- the nebular hypothesis and
sociology. We can't get near the re
sults that we get out of the old girls.
Where is your money?"
"I haven't any. How do you treat
the old girls, as you call them?"
"Aw, we just stick pins in their
feet and they tell where the money is
hid pretty quick? Haven't you got
any jewels?"
"No, they are in the safe deposit
vault. 1 see your flash light isn't
working well. You will find matches
on the bureau. And please tell me ?
do you think Bacon or Shakespeare
wrote the latter's works?"
"I think Spencer wrote them. Isn't
there really anything valuable I can
take here?"
' I'm sorry; not a thing," said Miss
Gemmill.
"Well," said the burglar as he re
tired through the window, "I'll have
to take your word for it, but I cer
tainly \vi h you wire an old girl, be
cause I need the money."
The burglar also entered two other
Wilinette homes, but encountered
persons r.wake in both, which caused
him to retire.
Russia and Constantinople.
New York World.
That Russia is to have Constanti
nople TYarigrad, City of Caesar, or
the Czar ? was arranged in 1915 and
has been taken for granted. The time
liness of Preimer Trepoff's announce
ment of the fi'cts nios', significant.
Rum.nia, whose only outlet for wa
ter trade is the Bosporus, will not be
pleased, but sin- is in no case to an
tagonizv the one Entente power that
can aid her. The Athens palace par
ty, still dreaming of a revived Byzan
tine Empire under "Constantinople
XII.," will be angered; but the Veni
zelists will be less moved. The Turk
may be stirred to Irish endeavor, but
he is probably doomed in any event;
Consantinople will be German or Rus
sian. Many Englishmen still distrust
"the Bear that walks like a man;"
but they have taken bitter doses since
;he war began, and will not rebel at
a Russian Bosporus.
On the Continent, interest as
great i. felt in Trepoff's promise to
Poland. A reunited Poland under
Russian suzerainty is a fairer offer
than a Poland, not reunited, under
German rule, for part of which local
home rule is promised only if the
Polish volunteers satisfy the German
start by their zeal and numbers. But
while Poles hope, Germany holds the
country.
In Russia the announcement shoulii
have great effect in easing the troub
les over the high control of the war
and in drowning whispers of the
Geimanophile peace party. Constanti
nople was the world metropolis more
centuries than Rome. Its trade value
has diminished with the Suez Canal,
but it is still capable of surpassing
Petjrograd. And it is the warm-water
p< ;-t of the mythical "will" of Peter
the Great, in which every Russian be
liever puts his simple faith.
Hear the noted Dr. Ott at the Opera
House Friday night. General admis- 1
sicn: Adults 50 cents; children 25 1
cents.
The 1< /g'T part of Mexico consists
>f 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 * ' ^
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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 <?, to the highest.
1 also want to tell you all that I will be in the same store at
th. ame place the year 1017, so call to see me at The Smithfiehl
Hart! ware Company.
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Having decided to discontinue handling Shoes ? as
every Store in town is a Shoe Store ? have decided to in
crease my Furniture Lfne and cut out Shoes. Therefore,
1 am offering my entire stock of the well known brands,
Rol>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.