VOLUME 37. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918. Number 34
MR. BRYAN HEARD
HERE YESTERDAY
AMERICA'S DISTINGUISHED
CITIZEN AT SMITHFIEl.D
Mr. Bryan Delivered His Famous
Lecture, "The Making of Man" to
A Large Audience at the Earner
Warehouse. Was Drought To
Smithfield Through the Efforts ot
Supt. Marrow of Turlington Graded
School.
Through the efforts of Supt H. B.
Marrow, of Turlington Graded School,
the people of Sm^hfield and Johnston
County had the privilege and pleasure
of hearing Hon. William Jennings
Bryan at the Banner Warehouse yes
terday.
Seated on the platform with Mr.
Bryan were Rev. Dr. Calvin S. Black
well, of Norfolk, Supt. Marrow, Judge
F. H. Brooks and Mr. W. M. Sanders.
Judge Brooks presided and asked that
the audience- stand while Dr. Blnck
well led in prayer. Judge Brooks
then eloquently presented Mr. Bryan
as "Citizen of America."
The first half hour of Mr. Bryan's
address was devoted to the great war
and the necessity for standing by the
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President in the prosecution of the
war. He said that before war was
declared we might have our opinions
about it, but now it was the patriotic
duty of every citizen to join shoulder
to shoulder with the administration
to carry the war to a finish. He urged
that the people buy Liberty Bonds and
WTar Savings Stamps and show to the
boys who had given their all upon the
altar of their country that we were
standing by them to every man, wo
man and child.
Following this introduction Mr.
Bryan delivered his famous lecture,
"The Making of Ma*." We are all
striving to better conditions in farm
ing, stock-raising, government and in
everything ? doing all this for man.
Then if a man is so important it is ex
ceedingly important that some atten
tion be paid to his making. His
ancestry and heridity he has nothing
to do with, but he is after all, largely
the architect of his own fortune. It
is very important to take care of his
body and his mind, but the most im
portant of all is his moral and
spiritual nature. He may have a
strong body and a highly developed
mind, but if the moral side is undevel
oped he is after all a failure in the
highest sense. Religion is man's re
lation to God. The first thing is to
believe in God, then the Bible as the
word of God, and Jesus Christ as the
Savior of men.
No synopsis can give an idea of the
greatness of the address. Only those
who iieard it and saw the mam behind
it could really appreciate the lecture
in its fulness. It was a temperance
address of the highest order, a plea
for education, and a great tribute to
the Bible as the Book of God.
A large crowd heard Mr. Bryan,
the people coming from all the towns
of the County, and a large number
from the country.
New Ruling on Sugar.
Raleigh, April. ? The retail mer
chants of North Carolina have recent
ly bee* taking too large a margin on
sugar, in the opinion of the Food Ad
ministration,' which has issued a new
ruling, effective at once, governing
the sale of sugar.
Under the new ruling, no dealers
will be allowed to charge a margi* of
more than one cent a pound on sugar
in original packages. On sugar that
has to be reweighed and repacked, a
margin up to 1 1-2 cents a pound is
allowed. Under no circufrista*ce*
must the maximum price exceed 9c
without the specific permission of duly
authorized Food Admi*istration offi
cial.
THE NEWS IN SELM A.
Selma, N. C., April 24. ? Mr. W. D.
Anderson, a former resident of Selma,
was in town from his home in Eagle
Rock Monday on business.
Attorney J. R. Williams and Mr- H.
B. Brannan, of Clayton, were here
Monday for a few hours on business.
Mr. R. E. Richardson, of Wendell,
spent afew days here the first of the
week with friends.
Messrs. Jesse C. Ellis and C. H.
Killette, of 'Clayton, were here'for a
few hours Monday.
Mess. J. A., A. L. and W. H. Batton,
and G. W. Murphy, of Wilders town
ship were in town Wednesday for a
few hours.
Messrs. C. W. and H. P. Barnes, of
the Archer Section, were here Satur
day on business
Miss Sallie Upchurch returned Sat
urday from Rex Hospital, where she
had been for the past few weeks for
treatment.
Quite a number of our people will
go to Smithfield tomorrow to hear the
address by Hon. William Jennings
Bryan.
Messrs. F. B. Whitley and Roger
Strickland spent Sunday in Wilders
township with friends.
Lieut. L. L. Shamburger, of Camp
Sevier, is ill town for a few days
visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. R. J. Noble left April 15th for
San Antonio, Texas, to visit her son,
Lieut. Robert P. Noble, who has
charge of the X Ray department of
the U. S. Hospital at the Kelly Fields.
Messrs. G. W. Evans and Hector Mc
Neil motored to Raleigh Wednesday
night to see the Bird of Paradise at
the Academy of Music.
Mrs. Mary E. and Miss Mamie
Richardson left Wednesday for a
months visit to relatives in Birming
ham, Ala.
Mr. J. L. Cockerham, of Washington,
D. C., is in town for a few days. Mr.
Cockerham is in the employment of
the government.
Mr. Sheldon Austin left Wednesday
afternoon for his home in Durham
after spending a few days with rela
tives here.
Mr. W. D. Debnam, of Kinston,
spent the week-end here with his
father, Mr. L. D. Debnam.
Messrs. N. E. Ward and J. A. Jones
spent Tuesday in the Capital City on
business.
We regret to note that Postmaster
W. H. Etheredge continues ill at his
home on Anderson street.
Mr. D. W. Hamilton will leave Tues
day for Fremont, where he will re
main for some time looking after his
farming interest there.
Mr. A. K. Eason has accepted a
position with the Woodard Drug Com
pany, where he will be glad to have
his friends call on him.
Supt. E. H. Moser will go to Shiloh
tonight (Wednesday) where he will
deliver an address on War Savings
Stamps and Liberty Bonds.
Local railroad men report that
eighteen train loads of soldiers passed
through Selma last Monday going
north. They were probably enroute
for an embarkation point. The
trains carried about l.OOO1 men each^
U. S. A. locomotives are being used
on this division of the Southern Rail
way for the past few weeks to pull
the heavy freight trains. The letters
U. S. A. are printed on the side of the
huge engines. These are engines that
were made for the Russian govern
ment before it sold out to the Germans,
and now are being used to pull the
heavy freight trains between Spencer
and Selma.
Quite a number of our people are
in Smithfield this week, attending the
Superior Court which is in session
there.
Mr. J. D. Massey is in Washington
this week on business matters.
Mr. H. A. Hood, of Camp Jackson,
is home for a few days to visit his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hood.
Union Revival Services for all the
churches in Selma will begin here the
first Sunday in May. Committees
from the different churches will meet
tonight at the Baptist church to make
the final arrangements.
The remains of Miss Annie Stancill
arrived in Selma Friday night from
Richmond, Va., and were interred in
the family burial ground near Selma
Sunday morning. Miss Stancill has
been in a Richmond hospital for treat
ment for sometime, and while out
walking with a nurse last Thursday
evening fell from a bridge, the fall
resulting in immediate death. She
was the daughter of Mrs. Eliza Stan
cill, and besides her mother, has
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SOME REASONS WHY JOHNSTON COUNTY
SHOULD VOTE THE SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX
1. Teachers cannot live o* the
present salary. Wages in every
other line of industry have pone up
to jueet, in some measure, the high
cost of living. The teacher's salary
has remained practically what it was
years ago. An adjustment must be
made.
2. More is expected of the schools
than ever before. Therefore, the
schools must have better prepared
teachers. It is going to cost more ;
money to get them.
3. The rural districts need better
schools. If better prepared teachers
with a vision of community uplift went
into the rural sahools to stay, the
country schools would soon be on a
level with the best town schools and
the exodus from the country to the
town on account of school facilities
would cease. The country would then
develop as it should.
4. The good teachers would seek
the country schools and stay thee,
if they were better paid.
5. Every rural district in the
county would get more money back !
than it paid in on account of the spec- I
ial tax, because the railroad and cor- j
poration taxes would be proportion
ately distributed.
6. The county is able to pay the
teachers better salaries. The think
ing people know that more money is
is absolutely necessary to run schools.
7. Girls who work in the mills and
clerk in storps get more money than
teachers who have spent years in
preparing for this important service.
8. On the schools ha*g the future
of our country. The children now
growing up must get their impres
sions from the schools. Our democra
cy depends upon the schools. Every
public school in America is training
for self-government and the perpetua
tion of American Ideals. The sn*e< ~
of our nation depends on how well
that task is done. Figure it any way
you please, the school teacher is the
safe guard of our American institu
tion;). The reason for any failure ia
this fundamental task is in the finan
cial starvation of our schools.
I). This war is teaching us that a
democracy to live and to be secure
must depend upon an Educated Citi
zenship.
10. Teacher scarcity is becoming
a national peril. We have been
asleep so long on this proposition that
schools and colleges are saying to
their graduates "Anything but teach."
The situation is alarming. School
teachers are literally flocking to fields
where they can find a living. Closing
the schools or lowering the standard
of teaching is a blow at democracy,
because either gives aid and comfort
to ignorance and incompetence.
11. We must keep our schools go
ing. No preparedness is more im
portant than better schools. But it
is folly to longer work for less than a
living. The joys of successful teach
ing won't pay the grdcer, the merch
ant, and the tailor.
12. May I ask one question?
What is an ordinary school teacher
worth anyway to our kind of democra
cy? Answer that question honestly
and you'll be for art increase in salary.
13. Are we able to pay teachers
better salaries? With 30c cotton,
35c tobacco, $2.50 wheat, $2.00 corn
and 35c eggs, $1.00 hens, with every
thing we have to sell bringing fabu
lous prices, with prosperity hitting us
almost harder blows than we can
stand, I fancy our people in Johnston
County are going to be too liberal
hearted and too unselfish to refuse
better pay for the school teachers of
the county.
14. I am for more efficient rural
schools. So are you. Well this is the
first step in that direction, because it
will attract more efficient teacher?
into the work of Rural education and
uplift.
E. H. MOSER.
several brothers and sisters here, and
elsewhere in the county. One brother,
Mr. Hubert Stancill, is in the train
ing camp at Camp Jackson.
There will be a meeting: of the
stockholders of the Johnstonian Pub
lishing Company next Friday night in
the Merchants Association offices at
8:30 o'clock for the purpose of elect
ing the officers and effecting a perman
ent organization. All the equipment
for the plant has arrived except the
paper press which has been delayed
in shipment. The plant will be locat
ed in the Temple building on Ander
son street.
Mr. Bernice L. Talton and Miss
Lena Grassy, of Goldsboro, were
married last Sunday at the home of
the bride, and arrived here on the
afternoon train. Mr. Talton is a
promising young man of Selma, and
the bride is a charming and popular
young lady from the Capital of
Wayne county.
We understand that Local Board No.
2 will send eleven more white men to
Camp Jackson next Friday. Deputy
Sheriff Wiggs is being kept busy
bringing in the slackers. Three were
brought in by him today (Wednesday)
all of th^m being colored men.
Mrs. R. Stancill and family, of
Selma, wish to express their sincere
thanks for the lovely flowers, expres
sions of sympathy and the many kind
nesses of friends during their recent
bereavement.
THE GERMANS MAKE
DEMAND ON THE DUTCH.
The Hague, April 23. ? The Dutch
Cabinet met in extraordinary ses
sion to consider an ultimatum from
Grrmany.
London, April 32. ? The German
ultimatum to Holland, according to
advices received in London, demands
the right of transit not only for civi
lian supplies and of sand and gravel
through Hlland, but also for war
materials. The privilege of transit
is asked not only on the Dutch
canals but also on the railways.
Germany has never before made any
claim of the right of transit for avow
ed war materials and the yielding of
Holland on this point would be equiva
lent to the abandonment of Dutch
neutrality.
Use Corn Flour.
Washington, April 25. ? Americana
are now in a position to observe total
abstinence from wheat flour and de
pend wholly upon corn, according to
the most recent estimate of the actual
milling output of cornmeal.
The nation's normal consumption of
wheat flour is 8,000,00 barrels per
month. According to the latest esti
mate the maximum capacity for
milling corn meal of all the mills is
the United States running 24 hours
per day and 30 days per month ex
ceeds 9,000,000 barrels per month. As
many of the smaller mills are run but
10 to 12 hours per day, however, the
estimated actual production of corr
meal is placed not to exceed 6,000,00C
barrels for the month of March. This
estimate exceeds the estimate of 1917
py appromimately 100 per cent, show
ing the large increase in corn milling
machinery since that time, and the
present prospect is that the output will
increase with each succeeding month
The estimated monthly production
of corn flour for October, 1917, was
250,000 barrels, while the estimated
maximum milling capacity for corr
flour for March is placed at 540, 00C
barrels. It is believed that during
the past 18 months the milling capa
city for corn flour has been increased
500 per cent.
The United States Food Adminis
tration announces that it is now readj
to care for all corn meal demands ir
any part of the United States. If the
American people would give up wheal
flour ENTIRELY there would be ai
abundance of corn meal, with what
corn flour there, is available, to care
for all our needs until after the next
harvest.
French Ships Torpedoed in Spanish
Waters.
Washington, April 23. ? News o1
the torpedoeing in Spanish territo
rial waters of the French steamei
Provence was contained in diplomats
dispatches today from France. The
vessel entered the port of Polomas
Catalonia, badly damaged. The
Spanish press the dispatch said is in
censed over the incident.
The people are getting more anc
more interested day by day in Libertj
Bonds and War Savings Stamps.
AT THE CAPITAL OF BANNER.
Benson, N. C., April 25. ? Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Hill spent several days
recently near Mount Olive visiting
relatives.
Mrs. Edgar Johnson recently re
turned to her home in Oxford after
spending some time here with rela
tives.
Mr. R. C. Wells, agent of the Coast
Line here, has moved his family here
from Spring Hope.
Mr. and Mrs. W W. Hockaday and
children went to Franklinton Saturday
and spent a day or two with relatives.
Messrs. J. F. Lee and A. W. Hodges
went to Fayetteville Tuesday on busi
ness matters.
Mrs. Cox, of Sanford, is here visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Fonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Weeks have
moved from Dunn here. Mr. Weeks
has a position with the Peacock
Drug Store.
Mr. J. F. P. Stewart died Tuesday
at his home in Coats aid was buried
yesterday afternoon. Mr. Stewart
formerly lived in our town and was
an esteemed citizen.
Miss Daisy Bryant returned the first
of the week frm a few days vi6it to
relatives in Wilson.
Messrs. J. E .Wilson, d. Will Moore,
B. D. Creech, N. T. Ryals and several
other Bensonians attended Court
yesterday in Smithfield.
Dr. W. T. Martin and W. II. Royall
left this morning for Raleigh on busi
ness matters.
Mrs. Walter Strickland will leave
today for a few (iays visit to her hus
band at Columbia, S. C.
Mrs. H. L. Graves is spending a few
days here at the home of Mr. and
' Mrs. Almon Parker.
Mr. L. D. Debnam, of Selma, was
; in the city yesterday on business
matters.
; Mr. Willie Moore, son of our towns
i man, Mr. E. F. Moore, who has been
I in Smithfield for the past several
months, was here yesterday.
Mr. J. A. Stewart, of Coats, was
here Tuesday on business matters.
Mrs. R. K. Olive, of Fuquay Springs,
was here Tuesday on her way to visit
friends in Elevation township.
Deputy Marshal George F. Moore
we*t up to Spring Hope Tuesday
where he made a raid on wine sellers.
Mr. W. H. Massengill is spending
1 several days in Sampson County on
t business.
Mr. J. C. Stancil, of Smithfield, was
here Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss Julia Canaday left the first of
the week for a visit to friends in
1 Aulander, N. C.
Miss Ennis, of Buies Creek, has
been here for several days visiting at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. E.
Williams.
Mr. John Holmes, of Farmville, was
J here Sunday for a short while. He
had been to attend the funeral of Mr.
| Randal Overby, of Angier.
The small child of Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Smith had the misfortune to fall
from a chair this week and break its
j arm. However at this time it is get
ting on nicely. .
Miss Estella Lassiter, of Elevation,
was here a few days recently at the
J home of her sister, Mrs. W. II. Mas
sengill.
( Mrs. R. T. Surles and daughter,
Miss Gertrude Surles, are visiting at
' Fuquay Springs this week.
Quite a large crowd of Bensonians
will go to Smithfield this afternoon to
hear Hon. W. J. Bryan speak.
r Mrs. W. 11. Massengill left Tuesday
for a few days visit to relatives at
Four Oaks.
k
k Mrs. C. A. Fisher and children and
Mis-; Ruth Ronton, of Mathews, spent
a few days here recently with friends.
Miss Meta Harper, of Dunn, visited
I at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Preston
Woodall recently.
Owing to school commencement next
week the Red Cross rooms will not be
1 open Tuesday.
Rev. A. T. Lassiter is attending the
Fayetteville Presbytery at Lumberton
this week.
Dr. W. L. Poteat, of Wake Forest
College, will deliver the annual ad
' dress of commencement here next
! Tuesday morning at the school audi
? torium.
Oak Grove Wins.
Oak Grove played a game of Basket
I Ball against Pomona at Smithfield on
r April 13. The score stood 17 to 5 in
favor of Oak Grove.
BRUGES CANAL BLOCKED.
Five Old Boats Loaded With
Concrete Sunk.
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BIG NAVAL RAID ON OSTEND
Sir Eric Geddea Calls It "Extremely
Gallant and Hazzardous Raid."
London, April 23. ? Sir Eric Geddes,
first lord of the admirality, in supple
menting the admirality report on last
night's raid against Zcebrugge and Os
tend, said in giving the house of com
mons such information as had come to
hand of "this extremely gallant and
hazardous raid."
"I ask the members to appreciate
that most of the officers and men from
whom we have got to get the informa
tion have been fighting the greater
part of tho night and that some of
them are not yet in.
"The raid was undertaken uiider
command of Vice Admiral Roger
Keyes, commanding at Dover. French
destroyers co-operated with the Brit
ish forces. Six obsolete cruisers, all
from 20 to 30 years old, took part in
the attack.
"A force of monitors, together with
a large number of very small motor
boats took part in the operation,
which was particularly intricate and
had to be worked to a time table, and
involved delicate navigation on a hos
tile coast, without lights and largely
under unknown navigational condi
tions developed since the war, with
the added danger of mine fields.
"I should like to mention that the
officer who developed the operation
was killed." .
POSTMASTER AT SMITH FIELD
TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION.
Ill Health Given as Reason. Successor
To He Appointed at Early Date.
(S. R. Winters, in News and Observer)
Washington, April 23. ? Alf M. San
ders, who has been postmaster at
Smithfield, N. C., since January 12,
1914, has resigned. His resignation
is effective at once or as soon as his
successor qualified through the office
of the Civil Service Commission. Ill
health is given as the reason for the
resignation of the incumbent.
The Smithfield office ? the home of
Representative E. W. Pou ? is one of
the important postoffices in the Fourth
Congressional District. It ranks as
third class, and the salary of the post
master is $1,800. He is allowed $000
for clerk hire, aid the commission of
three cents on all money orders writ
ten will probably amount to $150 a
year. Thus the office is capable of
drafting upon the government for
$2,550.
The successor to Mr. Sanders will
be named at an early date through an
examination held by the United States
Civil Service Commission. Both
men and women are eligible to enter
the contest, with the age limit rang
ing from 21 to 65 years.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN COURT.
Hindu Kills Fellow Defendant and He
in Turn is Killed By U. S. Marshal.
San Francisco, April 23. ? A sensa
tional climax to the prolonged trial
of 32 persons charged with conspiracy
to foment revolution in India was fur
nished today when Ram Chandra, a
Hindu publicist and revolutionist, was
shot to death fti federal district court
by Ram Singh, a former employee and'
fellow defendant. While Singh still
pressed the trigger of his automatic
pistol, he too, was shot and killed by
United States Marshal James B. Holo
han, who fired across the room over
the heads of attorneys.
The trial started November 20, and
the case went to the jury tonight.
Registration In Smithfield Township.
The registration in Smithfield town
ship for the county-wide school tax to
be voted on Tuesday, April 30th was
only 395. This is hardly half of the
voters who were entitled ^ register.
The provisions of the law providing
for this election are such that if any
township has a majority for the tax
that township will have the tax with
out the aid of any other township..
But if a majority of the newly regis
tered voters of the county cast their
ballots for the tax the whole county
will have it even though several
several townships should by vote re
ject it