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VOLUME 38. THE SMITHFIELD HERALD TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1919. Number 16 PERSHING PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE Says His Troops “Turned Impending Defeat Into Overwhelming Vic tory.”—Speaks at Paris Dinner. Benson, Sharp and Hoover Also Speakers at Washington’s Birthday Celebration. Paris, Feb. 22.—General Pershing, Herbert Hoover, Ambassador Sharp and Admiral Benson were speakers today at the annual luncheon in hon or of Washington’s birthday given by the American club of Paris at the Palais D’Orsay. Responding to the toast to -the American army, General Pershing expressed his thanks to the American people for the support they had given the expeditionary forces. “Whether keeping lonely vigil in the trenches, whether attacking ma chine gun nests or performing the drudgery ef the rear or supplying the front line, each man has done his duay,” said General Pershing, “and he has felt that he had behind him the support of the whole country. By his courage, indomitable will, his splen did organization and his tenacity, the American soldier has turned impend ing defeat into overwhelming victory. I drink to the American soldier, than whom there is no better in the world today. Long live the American sol dier.” Admiral Benson, replying to the toast ol tne navy, saici in numorous vein, that the navy had also perform ed its duty, but desired to be modest about it. He recalled the fact that General Pershing, before joining: the army, was a midshipman, adding: “It is a good thing for us that he has since left the navy.” Admiral Benson said during the last months of the war, the organiza tion of the navy watch along the Atlantic coast and the positions of the various squadrons of dreadnaughts, cruisers and destroyers, made it im possible for the German navy even to attack the allied transports. Now that the state of war is over, the navy had taken over numerous merchant ships, and at present was actually manning 37 ships engaged in the task of helping Hoover feed Europe. “There has been few moments in the world’s history more pregnant with anxiety than today,” said Mr. Hoover. “The situation in Europe is so chaotic that every one must in the end refrain from discussing problems with preconceived ideas. The results of four years of destruction, not alone among the allies, but also in the en emy countries must be met. “Before the war the supply of food in Europe was sufficient to last six months. But European production was never at such a low ebb as at present; it has practically stopped. The situation, however, is not des perate. “Conflicting ideas, we hope, will be removed, and that the good common sense which helped the father of our country to conduct the destinies of our country through troublous times will enable his successor to help guide the world out of its present pre dicament.” Ambassador Sharp briefly reviewed his four years at Paris. The question confronting the world today, said the ambassador, was to arrive at a state of good will, friendship and interna tional comity for which the American soldiers have been fighting. “All jealousy should disappear be tween nations,” he continued. “Wi must all strive toward a better world, without envy or jealousy.”—Associa ted Press. TWO METHODIST CHURCH PAPERS CONSOLIDATED. Greensboro, Feb. 21.—At a joint meeting last night of the two boards of Methodist publications—The North Carolina Christian Advocate, publish ed at Greensboro, the official organ of the Western North Carolina Confer ence, and the Raleigh Christian Ad vocate, published at Raleigh, the offi cial organ of the North Carolina Con ference, it was decided to consoli date the two publications under the general designation of the North Car olina Christian Advocate, which will be published in Greensboro. ROCKY MT. AND SELMA SPLIT EVEN IN BASKET BAi.L. Rocky Mt., Feb. 23.—The Rock/ Mount High School backetball team split even in the last two games slav ed. The first was with Selma at that place, the locals losing by a score of 14 to 12. It was necessary to play two periods of five minutes each to break the tie. which was 11 to 11. The Selir a boys threw the winning goal simui taneously with the blowing of the whistle on the final act of what proved a basketball tragedy for Rocky Mount. —News and Observer. 1,238,831 OFFICERS AND MEN RELEASED. Orders to Demobilize 1,530,000 More. Fewer Discharged Last Week Than Since November—Defer Interview With March. Washington, Feb. 22.—The weekly interview with General March, Chief of Staff, having been deferred be • cause of a holiday, the War Depart ment made public today the usual statistical! review of the progress of demobilization, showing that a total of 74,313 officers have either resigned or been discharges from the army tc date, with 1,104,518 men have been released. Orders issued up to February 20 provide for the demobilization of an ■ proximately 1,530,000 additional me::. 249,000 of whom are those returned from overseas. The table of dscharges per week showed that on the basis of early re turns from the camps fewer men were released during the week ending to day than in any week since November 28. The discharged totalled 23,009, against 08,000 the preceding week and 195,000, the record week December 14. The table showed that the 249,000 men listed as returned from overseas did not include 15,000 commisisonod officers, but did include 57,000 classed as sick and wounded. LOOK AFTER INCOME TAXES. A Deputy From the Office of Collector Bailey to Be in Smithfield March 8th to Assist in Making Out Re turns. Get ready for the Income Tax man. He will arrive in Smithfield on March 8 and will be located at the hotel, where he can be consulted without charge. “Bring in your figures, your prob lems, your doubts, and your ques tions,’ ’is his invitation contained in the announcement of his coming visit. The Collector of Internal Revenue at Raleigh, N. C., is sending one of his ''deputies, M. E. Ellington, solely to help people in this vicinity to de termine their individual liability and to coply with the law’s requirements as to 1918 incomes. His office hours will be 9 to 5 each day, and he will remain in town until the close of business on the 10th. ‘This free advisory service,” writes Collector Bailey, “is planned for those who are required for the first time to consider their liability and to make sworn returns. “Many thousands who were not af fected by the prior Federal laws tax ing incomes must this year file re turns. Here are the requirements. “Every unmarried person who had a net income of $1,000 or over during 1918; and every married person, who, together with (wife or husband) and minor children, had a net income of $2,000 in 1918.” “The advice and services of the deputy collector are entirely free and he is authorized to administer the oath required on returns free of charge. Persons who arc taxable should make payment when filing their returns by attaching check or money order. “This tax is a war burden; it is a part of the price of victory, the great est victory that the world has known. I believe the people of this district will meet it fully; and I am offering every facility of my office to aid them to determine their individual liabil ity.” I)r. Mary Walker Dead. Watertown, N. Y., Feb. 22.—Dr. Mary Walker died last night at the age of ‘eighty-seven in her home on Bunker Hill, near Oswego. She had been ill for some time. She was a sur geon in the Civil war and was award ed a Congressional medal of honor. She gained considerable fame by be ing the only woman allowed to an . pear in male attire by act of Con gress. Dr. Walker was born at Oswego and received her medical education at the Syracuse Medical College from which she was graduated in 1855. She practiced medicine for a while in Col umbus, Ohio, and then settled in Rome, N. Y. For fifty years of her life, Dr. Walker had never worn woman’s at tire, having discarded it for coat and trousers, which she considered not only as more comfortable, but as symbolic of the independence of wo man, of which she was an advocate When on the street, Dr. Walker wore over her frock coat a mannish looking cap and carried a walking-stick. And, unfortunately for her reputation, the eccentricity as to clothing overshad owed everything else, and the fact that she had done good work as a Civil War nurse and had devoted many years of life to advocating the cause of woman in general, was lost sight of, because very few would take her seriously. 0. MAX GARDNER HERE TOMORROW The Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina to Speak in Smithfield at the Cotton Meeting—Big Crowd of Farmers and Business Men Should Hear Him. The situation in regard to cotton i ■ attracting considerable attention at this time. Those not directly inter ested do not know how tense the sit 1 ation has become. The cotton farme's ! are confronted with two things that they can ill afford to meet—the low price of cotton and the high price of fertilizers'. The present crop of co1 ton still in the farmers’ hands was ihade on a thirty cents a pound bas The present price of fertilizers is based on a thirty cents a pound basis or higher. What is to be done ? It’s up to the farmers, merchants bankers and business men to solve the problem if it is to be solved. To th. - end a big meeting of farmers and merchants, business men and bank ers is to be held in Smithfield tomor row. Hon. O. Max Gardner, Lieuten ant Governor of North Carolina, wifi be here to speak to the meeting. Gov ernor Gardner, as his friends are call ing him, is one of the best speakers in the State. He has a message for th> people and it is hoped that a big crowd will be here to hear him. Now is thg time for the farmers and merchants, business men and bankers to stand together and plan to keep the price of cotton on a profitable levil. The meeting will be opened at elev.n o'clock, Wednesday morning, Febrr ary 1918. SENATE APPROVES BUILDING. Bill for Agricultural Structure Went Through Without Hitch Saturday. State-Wide Dog Law Now in Op eration. Authority to the Board of Agricul ture to build a new structure in Ral eigh whenever it has the funds availa ble is contained in Senator Daven port’s bill, which passed its final read ing in the Senate yesterday and now goes to the House of Representatives where it may meet with a rougher journey than it had in the upper chamber. Senator Brown objected to its third reading when it was sent in by the committee, but no one cared *o bother about it yesterday and it went through without a hitch. Passage of the bill providing for a new agricultural building was inci dental to the day’s work, which was devoted largely to thu transaction of routin ebusiness. The clerk read in droning tones the titles of scores cf bills and the Senators took things easy. In the gallery a solitary wo man viewed with interest a Senate at work. It was Washington’s birthday; it was a rainy day; many of the Sen ators had gone home, and hence no thing to induce vigorous discussion The conference report on the Ray dog bill was adopted without a soli tary dissenting vote, and the measure is now a law, as the House had already accepted the report. Senator Thomp son was disposed to raise a point of order about extraneouss matter hav ing been introduced by the commit tee in the shape of a new provision for making it discretionary with the board of county commisisoners as to whether the collar and tag shall bi required. The chair ruled with him, but he withdrew his motion and saved the Senate the time it would have taken to go through the regular par liamentary procedure of recalling the bill on its third reading agai'-. Besides Governor Doughton had held in the House that the procedure was proper and the Iredell Senator was disposed to yield to older heads, even though he is the peer of any when it comes to the law and the constitut’on —News and Observer. Wilson Arrived Sunday Night. President Wilson’s ship arrived m Bosccn Harbor Sunday evening, but all tne Presidential party remained oji hoard. Yesterday some time Pe yore noon the party came ashore and the President made a short speech in Mechanics Hall. The whole party left lor Washington by special train at 4:30 in the afternoon, arriving in Washington this morning. President Wilson had a much rougher trip coming home than he did going over. Some of the days half the party was confined to cabins but the President proved himself an ex cellent sailor and surrendered only once, when the waves and spray were dashing over the bridge and got a wetting while watching the destroyer escort bury itself while plunging about in the heavy seas. Mrs. Charlie G. Hicks has returned to her home in Raleigh after a visit to her sister, Mrs. C. T. Young. i JOHNSTON COUNTY BOY DECORATED — 1 DeWitt Hardison Awarded Distin guished Service Cross tor Meritori ous Action on the Battlefield. Though Wounded Himself He Work ed All Day Under Heavy Artillery Fire—Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hardison, of Kenly. Private Do Witt Hardison, 105th i Field Signal Battalion, American Ex i peditionary Forces, was sent tc j France May 22, 1918 and landed June | 12, 1918. He went “over the top” four | times without a scratch. All of hi j | company were killed or wounded ex ! cept four, and he wa sone of the lucky. I The last time he went over the top he ! helped break the “Hindenburg Line’ i DeWITT HARDISON. and didn’t get a scratch until he hud gotten back in his dugout. He was then struck by shrapnel in five places in the leg and one in the back. Not withstanding the fact he was wounded he went back on the battlefield and helped bring in the dead and wounded. He was then sent to Bath, England, to the hospital. He was there for almost two months. He was then sent to Winchester, England, and while there the armistice was signed. As soon as his wounds were healed he was sent back to his company to Ballon, France, where the 30th di vision is now stationed. On January 30, 1919, forty-nine out of the 30th division wore decorated with honors by General Pershing. He was one of the forty-nine. Also on January 30. He was sent the follow ing notification of decoration: Headquarters 30th Division American Expeditionary Forces, France, January 30, 1919. From Division Adjutant. To Private 1st Class DeWitt Hir dison, Co. C, 105th Field Signal Battalion. Subject: Decoration. 1. Tljo Ccmmander-in-Chicf, Amer ican Expeditionary Forces, in the name of the President has awarded and presented you with the Disting uished Service C’-oss foe the act of meritorious conduct described as fol lows: Being a member of a detail to es tablish communication with the front line, you were caught in an enemy barrage during which your detail suffered many casualties. Although badly gassed, you c' ntinued to work for the entire day, always exposed to heavy artillery fire .after which you asisted in the removal of the wound, ed. 2. The Division Commander wishes to convey his congratulations upon your receipt of this decoration and for your gallant conduct while serving with this Division. By command of Major General Lewis. ANDREW J. WHITE, Lt. Colonel Inft. FOURTH (; K ANDCHI LI) OF PRESIDENT WILSON. A son was born to Mrs. Francis JL Sayre, daughter 0f Pres. Wilson, at the Jefferson Hospital at Philadelphia. Mother and child are doing well. This is the President’s fourth grandchild. The first, Francis B. Sayre, was born in the White House on January 17, 1915. The second, Eleanor Axson Wilson Sayre, was born at Jeffers Hospital March 26, 1916. Another grandchild is Ellen Wilson M?Adoo.1 The President, of course, has bean notified, and it is possible he may stop at Philadelphia on his way from Bos ton to Washington to see his daughter and her second son.—Press dispatch. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a r.cw friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.—Oilvcr Goldsmith. WANTS $1,500 MINIMUM SALARY FOR TEACHERS. Large Increases in Pay Necessary to Improve Scools, Says Claxton. Doubling: the salaries of teachers within the next five years and then adding- 50 per cent before another ten years have passed, so that the min imum average salary for teachers will bo $1,500—this is the program urged by Dr. P. P. C lax ton, U. S'. Commissioner of Education. Dr Claxton says: “It is only by very large increases in pay of teachers that we may hope to improve our schools, appreciably. Small increases of 5, 10 or 20 per cent will not avail, for they will not be sufficient to hold in the schools men and women of superior ability. “Teachers arc nonv paid less for their work than any other class of workers, and the increase in their pay in the last few years has in no wise been in keeping with the increase In pay of other workers; or with the in crease in the cost of living. While the cost of living has increased approx imately 80 per cent—food, 85 per cent; clothing 100 per cent; drugs, 103 per cent; fuel 53 per cent; and house furnishing goods, 75 per cent the salaries of teachers have increas ed only about 12 per cent. The pur chasing power of the salary of the teacher in our public schools, is, therefore, only about bo per cent ot what it was four years ago. “Many of the better teachers are leaving the schools and their places are taken by men and women of less native ability, less education and cul ture, and less training and experience. Many of the places are not filled at all. As an inevitable result the char acter of the schools is being lowered just at a time when it ought to be raised to a much higher standard. “Students now entering the norm ,1 schools to prepare for teaching are not of as good quality as they were formerly ,which means that the standards of the schools must con tinue to fall. In some normal schools the enrollment is far less than in former years. “The only remedy is larger pay for teachers. If school boards, legisla tors, and county and city councils would immediately announce the pol icy of doubling the average salary of teachers within the next five years and of adding not less than 50 per cent more at the expiration of this period, so that at the end of fifteen years the average salary of public school teachers would be not less than $1,500—about one and a half times larger than they receive at present— and then take steps for carrying out this policy, much good would be ac complished thereby at once. “Such a policy and such a prospect would attract to the schools more men and women of superior ability and would hold them, working con tentedly, and, therefore, profitably for the children and the public wel fare. Such increase in salary should carry with it an increase of not less than 25 per cent in the average length of the school term, which is now less than 160 days. “To those who are not acquainted with past conditions and who have given the matter no intelligent thought, the increase recommended may seem large, but in fact it is not It would in most States, mean a range of salaries from $1,000 to $3, 000. No person who is fit to take the time and money and opportunity of the children of this democratic repub lic for the purpose of fitting them for life, for making a living, and for vir. tuous citizenship should be asked to work for less than $1,000 a year in any community or in any State. No one who is unworthy of this minimum salary is fitted to do this work and no such person should be permitted to waste the time and money of the children and to fritter away their opportunity for education. “It is not for the sake of the teach • ers that this policy is advocated. Schools are not maintained for the benefit of the teachers. If men and women of ability are not willing to teach for the pay offered them they can quit and do something else for a living, as hundreds of thousands of the best do. It is for the sake of the schools, the children and the prosper ity of the people and the strength and safety of the nation that the policy is advocated.—News and Observer. Biff Porker. Mr. E. F. Boyette lulled a hog yes terday which tipped the scales at Aus tin-Stc-phenson Co.’s store at 680 pounds dressed. The hog was four years old. We are asked to state that there will bo preaching by Rev. P. L. Elliott at Live Oak Baptist church the first Sunday in March at 3 o’clock. Rev. R. R. Lanier will fill his regular ap pointment at Thanskgiving the first Sunday afternoon in March. REVENUE BILL IN THE HOUSE The Conference Committee Reaches Agreement on Ray Dog Tax Meas ure—Cigarettes Have Many De fenders In sesison last night the House re ceived from the commit tea of the whole the new revenue bill, adopted and passed it on second reading; adopted the conference committee’s report on the deservedly famous Ray dog tax bill and discussed Fords and automobile thieves for a while. Ic called up again the resolution to send a committee to Washington to ascer tain the status of road legislation and with great joy sent it to the table. The remaining actions of the reve nue that came up for adoption last night excited no comment on the floor until Poole, of Montgomery, elected to offer an amendment raising the privilege tax on the sale of cigarettes from $5 to $25. On no single issue that has been before the House this year has the opposition been quite so strong nor quite so varied. First, Mr. Doughton indicated that the Finance Committee didn’t favor the amendment because it had care fully approved the section as it stood. Second, Mr. Bryant protested against it in behalf of the farmers who raise the weed. Col. Cameron was against it because the manufacturer of to bace< didn’t want it. Mr. Sawyer op posed it in the interest of the smok ers. As a clincher, after Mr. Poole had stated the purpose of the amend ment who to reduce the number of concerns or individuals selling the smokes, Mr. Cold averred that the revenue act was not an instrument into which morals should be written. Adopt Conference Report. In the adoption of the conference report on the Ray dog bill, both the Senate and House recede from amend ments that were not concurred in either on the part of one house or the other. The principal bone of con tention, the proposition of tagging the dogs, is left to the county commis sioners and “wilfully ami intention ally” will be supplied to section prohibiting the running 1 large >* the dogs. The Senate recedes, in the conference report from the Harding amendment providing that the tax be spent on building and repairing school houses and the original provision that the tax go to the school fund stands. The report will go to the Senate today for concurrence.—News and Observer. 22nd. BAVARIAN PREMIER KILLED. . Minister of Interior Assasinated; Diet Sesison Broken Up. Copenhagen, Feb. 21.—Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier, was shot and killed today by Lieutenant Count Arco Valley, as Eisner was on his way from the foreign ministry in Munich to the diet, says a Munich dispatch. The shooting occurred in the Prnnnerstrasse, and Eisner receiv ed two shots, fired from behind in hi3 herd. Eisner’s body was carried into the foreign ministry, where it lies in the porter’s lodge. Soon after the shooting the judicial and police authorities arrived to in vestigate the assassination. There was great excitement in the streets of the city. ^The diet, which was holding its first session today, adjourned indefi nitely. Minister of War Also Killed. London, Feb. 21.—A German wire less message received here quotes Phillipp Scheidemann, German Chan cellor, as saying that Herr Rosshaup ter, Bavarian Minister of War, has been killed. Minister of the Interior Shot. Munich, Feb. 21.>—Herr Auer, Ba varian minister of the interior, has been shot. The shooting took place during a session of the landtag, while Auer was alluding to the assassination of Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian Premier. Auer fell wounded in the left side and Deputy Osel was killed and two officials were seriously wounded. The shots were fired from the pub lic gallery and caused a panic among the deputies. The diet building now is being guarded by the military. A New Arrival. Selma, Feb. 24.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Woodard on February 22, a son, Fred Archer Woodard. The Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives gavo r. dinner last night at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington in honor of Rep resentative Claude Kitchin, of Scot land Neck, the retiring chairman of the committe.
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