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VOLUME 38.
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THE SMITHFIELD HERALD FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919
Number 17.
81ST DIVISION MAY
NOTCOME SOON
Ts'ot Included in List of Troops Order
ed Back—Is at Mussy-Sur-Meuse.
Division Is No! In Army of Occupa
tion, and Is Having a Very Quier
Time—Col. S. L. Faison, Command
ing 60th Brigade, Writes Senator
Simmons Glowing Account of
“Wildcats” in Action.
Washington, Fob. 26.—Coincident
with the war department’s announce
ment that General Pershing plans to
send the 30th division home during
the month of March, Senator Lee S.
Overman received a letter today from
Col. S. L. Faison, formerly of Char
lotte, commanding the 60th brigade,
which pays wonderful tribute to the
valor of +he North Carolina boys in
that division.
After seeing the Tar Heels fight in
France, Cclonel Faison says he would
re-echo the words of Robert E. Lee,
uttered more than a half-century ago,
when the commander of the Confed
erate armies exclaimed: *
“There go the North Carolinians
God bless them. They have always
done their duty.”
While i1 now appears certain that
the famous 30th division soon will sail
for home, it was learned at the war
department today that the 81st divi
sion, composed of selectmen from
North and South Carolina and Tennes
see, prob-.bly will remain in France
for some weeks to come. The 81st
has not been put upon priority, nor
is it with the army of occupation. The
war department says the present loca
tion of the division is on the Meuse
river; to be specific, at Mussy-Sur
Meuse.
The department does not know when
General Pershing plans to release the
81st.
Howeve-, General Pershing has
cabled his program for sending 13 di
visions home and the 81st is not in
cluded in the 13. The proposed sail
ings cover the months of March,
April, May and June. Sc, it appears,
the 81st will be ameng the last of the
divisions leaving France unless Gen
eral Pershing amends the order of dc
parture as it now stands.,
Wth the exception of the army of
occupation, the war department has
made a tentative promise that ah
American troops in France will be or
the way home before August. Officials
are not advised why the drafted men
from the Garolinas and Tennessee
comprising the 81st are practically at
the bottom of the list, but the best
information obtainable at the depart
ment today was that this division is
“taking things easy” at Mussy-Sur
Meuse and that it has not been put
upon the priority list for sailing.—
Theodore Tiller in Greensboro News
SENATE VOTES FOR
POPULAR ELECTION.
Bond Issue for Veterans and Ware
house Bill Approved on Second
Reading—Six Months’ School Gets
Final Reading.
(News and Observer, 27.)
To provide increased pensions foi
Confederate veterans during the next
two years, the Senate passed on its
second reading yesterday Senatu
Lovill’s bill authorizing a bond issue
of a half million dollars annually for
the next two years.
Popular election of county school
boards by .the people won by a sub
stantial majority when Senator Lind,
sey Warren’s bill came up for its
third reading, being the first time that
such a measure ever went through
either House of the General Assem
bly during the score of years the
fight has been on in North Carolina.
Six months’ school term for North
Carolina is now authorized by law,
the department education bill having
passed on its final reading yesterday
without a dissenting vote.
State-wide system of cotton ware
houses is provided for in Senator
Price’s bill, which went through the
Senate on its second reading yester
day.
Complete revision of the bastard\
laws to the end that the father shall
be charged with the education of his
illegitimate children is contained in
Senator Burns’ measure wdiich passed
on its final reading.
Passage of the revenue act on its
second reading avas without incident
except for the addition of an amend
\ ment taxing public amusement parks
$250 annually and adjusting the li
cense tax on building and loan asso
ciations in satisfactory manner to the
organizations.
Major Paul C. Paschal, of the thir
tieth infantry, has been awarded the
distinguished service cross for extra
ordinary hercism in action in the Bois
d’Aigremont, France, July 15, 1918.
He is from Chatham county.
HOUSE PASSES NEAL BILL.
\mendn cnts to Incorporate the Eight
Hour Day and to Substitute Com
missioner of Labor Instead of Com
missioner of Public Welfare Both
Voted Down.
Raleigh Feb. 26.—The House toda;
entered into a strenuous discussion of
the chiid labor bills, the Saunders
bill and the Neal substitute, that dif
fered mainly in point of composition
of the commission to enforce the ch:ld
labor law, the Saunders bill having
ttat State Commissioner of Labor as
well as the enforcing official and the
Neal substitute the Commissioner of
Public Welfare to enforce the laws,
both agreeing on the secretary of the.
State Board of Health and the State
Superintendent of Schools as the oth
er two members of the' commission,
which tho Neal bill denominates t'~e
“child welfare commission.”
In the end the Neal substitute was
adopted by a large majority and
amendments were voted down to incor
porate the eight-hoar day and subst,
tute the commissioner of labor for the
commisisoner of public welfare, both
offered by Representative Saunders.
The bill only passed second reading,
■owing to objections to final reading
by Representative Gardner.
Both houses received a special mes
sage from Governor Bfckett transmit
ting the explanation and apology of
Provost Marshal General Crowder to
the newspaper story on North Caro
lina mountaineers’ resistance to the
draft that was included in his reporc
and stirred the storm of denunciation
in both houses last week.—Charlotte
Observer.
RUSSIANS TOO WEAK TO
SMASH THE BOLSHEVIKI.
Trotzky Rules Because He Can Con
fer or Deny Privilege of Eating.
He Nears End of Game.
London, Feb. 26.—Premier Lenine
and War Minister Trotzky and their
higher officials of the soviet govern
ment “know the game is up, but do
not know how to get out of it or wh"t
to do,” is the belief expressed by II.
V Keeling, an English trade unionist,
in an interview in the Westminster
Gazette. He recently arrived in Eng
land from Russia, where he spent five
years in close contact with the Rus
sian working classes.
Mr. Keeling, who frankly admits he
was first attracted by Bolshevi
ideas, says Bolshevism in its present
phase is nothing less than a “starva
tion conspiracy.” He believes when
Lenine and Trotzky show the slight
est sign cf weakening they will be
done for. As a result, he said, they
simply go ahead “working their ma
chines round and round and grinding
out anybody they think is dangerous ”
“On the one side,” he continues,
“are millions of people too absorbed
with the thought of how tv get food
for themselves, their wives and chil
dren to think of anything beyond the
moment and are too exhausted to re
sist, and on the other la favored few,
relatively well fed and prepared for
any violence and cruelty to save
themselves from losing their privi
leges, and slipping Into the vortex
of famine. For whatever may have
been the original idea of Bolshevism,
its secret now is simply that it con
fers upon some and denies to others
the privilege of eating and that all its
other deeds of violence and cruelty
are as nothing to the supreme cruelty
of withholding food.”
Asked why the Russians do not re
volt and smash the whole thing, Mr.
Keeling said:
“The Russians have been used to
tyranny end have a sort of submis
siveness which makes them accept
things, but I can assure you they ay\
sick to death of it and nine-tenths of
the people who keep in with the Bol
sheviki and have to pretend to like
them, would do anything to get rid of
them if they knew how.”—Associated
Press. {
RECURRENCE NEXT WINTER
OF FLU IS PREDICTED.
Washington, Feb. 26.—Recurrence
next winter of the influenza epidemic
which caused thousands of deaths in
all parts of the country during ti e
past five months was predicted today
by Rear Admiral W. C. BraisteaJ,
Surgeon General of the Navy, in a let
ter to Representative Fees of Ohio,
urging that an appropriation be made
by Congress for research work to de
termine the cause of the disease and
its cure.
An appropriation of $300,000 for the
study of disease is carried in the sun
dry civil bill now before the House,
but Admiral Braistead said this would
not be sufficient to undertake the re
search work on the necessary large
scale. Ho recommended a special ap
propriation to be divided between the
public health service, the surgeon
general of the army and the surgeor
general of the navy.
THEY OPPOSE THE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Wilson Gives Guests Freedom to Tell
All That Took Place at Dinner—D.
nies League Would Interfere With
Monroe Doctrine—President Savs
League Will Fail Unless United
States Enters It.
Washington ,Feb. 26.—President
Wilson told members of the- Congres
sional foreign relations committees
tonight that unless the United States
entered the league of nations, t 'c
league should fall and chaos and tur
moil beyond description would result,
in Europe. Views of - Republican
members opposing the league^ const,
tution as reported to the .peace con
ference apparently were not change 1
by the conference.
Hitchcock, of the Senate commit
tee, said t"ne President held that de
cisions of the leagues executive coun
cil on disarmament would not be bind
ing until specifically approved by
each signatory nation, and that co ,
sequently the American Congress
would have the opportunity to pass
on the apportionment of armament
for every nation concerned. The Pres
ident said this section had been mis
construed
Concermng the clause giving the
right to the league to consider acts
threaten rg world peace. President
Wilson said that the clause was indef
inite and would bo made more clear by
writing in a safeguard which vtoulc
require that every recommendation by
the council should be unanimous.
It also was said that the President
informed I he Senators and Represent
atives that the disarmament provisio
would not interfere with the military
^raining of men, but that it was evi
dent that a trained body of mer
would not be a danger to world peace
if their armament supplies were kepi
in check.
Mr. Wilson said the provision foi
enforcing the determination of the
council in case it was disobeyed by any
nation wrould apply in only one case
and that where the party againsi
whom a decision was rendered hac
property, including territory, in its
possession which, it would not sur
render.
Discussion of the constitution a;
presented to the peace conference
was said to have been quite genera
and the President was questionec
closely especially by Senator Brande
gee, of Connecticut, Republican Lead
er Lodge and Senator Knox, of Penn
sylvania, former Secretary of State
took very little part.
The President, after making aT
opening explanatory statement, an
swered all questions freely and spe
cifically emphasized that his guest;
were free to discuss the conference ir
all its information with newspapei
men.
One question on which much time
was spent was whether a nation one*
in the league could withdraw, raiser
by Senator Brandcgee. The Presidenl
was said to have held that any coun
try could withdraw, but Senator Bran
degee contended this would be im
possible under the constitution as
now drafted.
President Wilson denied that th<
league plan would interfere with th<
Monroe doctrine, declaring that the
doctrine would be guaranteed by al
the member powers in the world so
ciety.
The President was said to have
held that the mandatories in the con
stitution were not compulsory, bui
required the consent of the nations t<
which the mandatory was assigned
Senators said he expressed the opin.
ion that the United States would de
.-ire to cecome a mandatory for Ar
menia.
On the question of American sover
eignty, the President, was said to have
taken the position that recession o1
American sovereignty wa3 not a nevs
precedent being an incident of every
treaty.
EIGHT BROTHERS KILLED
OR WOUNDED IN WAR
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 26.—O'
twelve brothers who entered the serv
ice, eight have been killed in action
one has lost an arm and a leg and an.
other had both arms amputated, sti!
another lost an arm, and the last ha:
been reported wounded, degree unde
termined. This is the war record oi
the family cf Miss Margaret Gilson
of this city, whose parents, Mr. anc
Mrs. C. M Gilson, live in San An
tonio, Texas.
Negro Sentenced to Electric Chair
April 26.
Kinston, Feb. 26.—James Warren
Colored, was sentenced to die in the
electric chair for the murder of Den
ver Hughes, a white merchant at Lb’
'zie, last fall. April 26 was the date
fixed by Judge Daniels at Snow Hil
court.
CUMMINGS NEW
DEMOCRATIC LEADER
National Committee Voted Complete
Reorganization for Aggressive
Campaign—Favors National Wo
man Suffrage—President Congratu
lated on Ili,s Achievements at Peace
Conference.
Homer S. Cummings, of Connecti
cut, was e lected chairman of the Na
tional Democratic Committee Wednes
day and the committee voted a com
plete reorganization for an aggressive
! campaign in 1020, says a Washington
| dispatch.
I The resignation of Vance McCor
j miek as 'hairiPan, tendered several
j months ago, was accepted formally
! with a resolution of thanks to the re
tiring chairman for his work. A sim
ilar resolution was adopted in ac
cepting the resignation of Carter
Cdass, who resigned as secretary when
he became Secretary of the Treasury.
The committee adopted a resolution
greeting President Wilson on his re
turn to the United States and eon
gratulating him on his achievements
at the peace conference, and another
favoring the federal enfranchisement
of women. It also created a nation
wide woman’s auxiliary.
The resolution favoring the en
frnnehisement of women through an
amendment to the Federal Constitu
tion was adopted, 28 to Iff, after a
spirited debate. The resolution was
proposed by Senator Jones, of Nqw
Mexico ,a member of the committee
and chairman of the Woman Suffrage
Committee of the Senate, who urged
the committee to get behind the suf
frage amendment and to prevail upon
Democrat’c Senators generally to vote
for it before the adjournment of Con
gress.
THE WEEK’S NEWS IN KENLY.
Kenly, Feb. 25.—A concert will be
given in the Kenly school auditorium
on Friday evening, March 7. Many
interesting numbers will make up the
program, among which will be muse
by a convention of fiddlers. There
will be a quartet, recitation and other
numbers. The public is cordially in
' vited to attend. Admission will be
j free.
Mr. Yates Edgerton, who returned
from France, where he was in the na
val service, about the first of Febru
ary, has entered school at Trinity,
where he was a student before enter
ing the service. Mr. Edgerton spent
the webk-end with his parents here.
Miss Jame McNeal left Monday for
Baltimore to buy spring goods for
| W. T. Bailey & Son.
On last Friday evening Miss Jessie
! Eubanks delightfully entertained the
embroidery club, of which she is a
member, at the home of Mr. Fannie
’ Hooks. Those present were Misses
Gladys and Marie Kirby, Elizabeth
Farmer, Clyde Watson, Agnes Hales,
Beulah Bailey and Eunice Jerome
Mr. Hula Leach, of Wilson, was the
guest of Mr. H. F. Edgerton last Sun
day.
Mr. Geddie Jerome, cashier of the
Farmers Bank of Kenly, spent the
week-end at his home in Rose Hill.
The Kenly school honored George
Washington’s birthday last Friday
morning with a short program in the
auditorium. Though the weather was
, bad many parents showed their in
terest by attending.
Dr. J. C. Grady, Dr. R. A. Turling
, ton, Messrs. R. T. Fulghum, Frank
Capps and J. W. Darden went tc
Raleigh last week in order to take the
’ Scottish Rite in Masonry.
Mrs. E. O. Underwc-od, of Rose
wood, N. C., is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. R. A. Turlington.
Mrs. J. T. Edgerton is confined to
■ her room.
Mrs. D. H. Gilbreath left Monday
for Baltimore to buy her spring
goods.
JOIST COMMITTEE
READY FOR SLICING.
' The joint appropriations committee
of the General Assembly is up against
, the proposition of slicing appropria
tion requests to the extent of consul -
I erably more than a coll million in or
i der that North Carolina may make
both ends meet during the biennial pc
' riod. For State institutions, and for
, other purposes set forth in special
bills carrying appropriations, the
joint committee has been requested
for a total of $7,257,547.68, ox- about
fifty per cent more than was sought In
appropriations in 1917.
For 1919, the various State institu
tions are asking for $2,670,803 and for
1920, $2,433,895. Bills carrying ap
propriations call for $1,130,099.65 for
1919, and $1,012,750 for 1920.
In addition to all this, about two
and a half million dollars is requested
for permanent improvements.—News
and Observer, 27th.
NO HUN CANNON FOR TARHEELS
Smithfield, Goldsboro and Other Caro
lina Towns Cannot Get German
Field Pieces as Trophies of World
War.
Washington, Feb. 25.—Asheville,
Waynesville, Rockingham, Smithfield,
Wadesboro, New Bern, Goldsboro and
approximately twenty-five other North
Carolina towns requesting German
cannon and field pieces ns trophies of
the world conflict should be prepared
for a sudden jar. Bills introduced
by No?dh Carolina Congressmen, and
similar requests from 1,000 towns
scattered the length and breadth of
the nation, were junked today by the
House Military Affairs committee.
The committee abandonment of the
measure was chiefly because they
didn’t have a ghost cf a chance for
presentation on the floor of the House
of Representatives at the dying 65th
Congress.
Some of the North Carolina Con
gressmen had introduced bills for Ger
man guns in wholesale quantities.
'Representative George Hood of the
/Third Congressional district had
placed a request in the House for a
German cannon for the principal town
in every county in the district. Rep
resentative Zebulon Weaver was quite
as generous, voting that innumerable
towns in the Tenth should be favored
with Hun guns fo~ their parks and
places of public gathering. Senator
I^ee S. Overman had joined vigorously
with Representative Weaver that.
Asheville should have the gun cap
tured by the Buncombe county boys.
Representative Yates Webb had re
quested two cannon for Shelby, Hick
ory, Morganton and Gastonia.—S. R.
Winters in News and Observer.
PRINCETON AND BOON HILL.
Miss Agnes Blackman and Mis*
Eunice Peele nvr- visitors '* town
Tuesday.
Miss Mattie Pope, of Dunn, is the
guest of Miss Hester Gurley this
week.
Sergeant W. M. Pearce has return
ed to his home near town, having been
released from the army.
The potions of the drug store will
regret to learn that Miss Evel/J
Humble, the prescription clerk, has
taken a position in Goldsboro and will
not be here any more.
The friends of Miss Rochelle Hin
tcn will find her at the new store of
B. N. Hinton at Mr. W. J. Massey’s
old stand.
The present school term has been a
most unfortunate one for the super
intendent and teachers of our graded
school. The influenza has repeatedly
taken out so many of the students
Miss Myrtle Nicholson., the superin
tendent, having had the flu, one
young lady teacher had it two differ
ent times, it became necessary to
c’ose the school for some weeks. Al
though it is a positive fact that we
have the most competent set of teach •
o^s that we have had in several years
♦hey have had to work under these
disadvantages—and yet the children
who could go have learned more a"d
have made more advance in their
studies—than they did in two years’
school previous to this term.
For the information of the relatives
and friends of Mr. J. W. Perry, Mr
Isaac B. Smith and Mrs. Edy Wood -
ard, we will state that from our best
information their condition has not
’"mproved any during the week, each
one seriously ill.
Mrs. Fannie Politz, from Baltimore
a daughter of Mrs. Isaac Smith, is
here at the bedside of her father.
Miss Lila H. Buie, a trained nurse
from Burlington, is visiting Mrs. A.
G. Woodard.
Mr. Henry Barnes, of Baltimore,
was here visiting his sister, Mrs. L. D.
Grantham Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Sugg and
children, of Raleigh, have been spend -
ing a few days with Mr. W. B. Sugg
in town.
Mrs. N. B. Hinton has gone to Wil
son county to attend the burial of her
sister.
Mr. George P. Massey of Sycamore
Hill, is confined at his home with
rheumatism.
Mr. Pu- kett Holt was in town Sun
day. Since his release from the army
he has taken up Smithfield as his
place of abode. We don’t see him
often.
Mrs. J. G. Johnson is spending sev
eral days in Raleigh this week.
Mr. John P. Ryals, one of the yourg
men of the 30th division which played
havoc with the Hindenburg line m
France, is in town visiting his brother,
Mr. W. 0. Ryals, for a few days. The
voung man’s home town is Benson,
N C.
Dr. G. A. Roberts, of the Veterinary
Department of the State College of
Agriculture and Engineering, was
elected president of the Southeastern
States Veterinary Medical Association
at the annual convention just held
in Birmingham.
MILLIONS OF TONS
OF SHIPS BY 1920
Senator Bansdell Makes a Prediction.
Shipping Board Will Own Over
Two-Thirds—Three Solutions of
Marine Problems.
Washington, Feb. 24.—Discussing
the American merchant marine prob
lem in the Senate today, Senator
Ransdell, of Louisiana, predicted that
within a few months the Shipping
Board would own one-half the ocean
going merchant vessels in the Unite!
States over 500 gross tons, and that
by 1020 ship construction in this
country would have increased the total
tonnage under the American flag to
approximately 19,000,000 tons.
“These figures,” the Senator said,
“lead to the conclusion that from tho
quantitative point of view, looking
only at the objective of securing an
aggregate amount of tonnage under
cur flag commensurate with the mari
time interests of the United States,
the problem of the American merchant
marine is solved.”
Of the predicted 19,000,000, the
Louisiana Senator estimated 14,525,
500 tons would be owned by the Step
ping Board. As the authority of the
board to operate vesfeels expires by
limitation six months after the formal
proclamation of peace, he said, it was
essential that legislation be provided
whereby the operation may be con
tinued.
Stating his opposition to a govern
ment subsidy, Senator Ransdell out
lined three possible solutions of the
merchant marine problem, as follows:
First, complete government owner
ship and operation of all ships, docks,
wharves, and terminals, on the same
principle under which Rumania and
Belgii'/' operated their shipping be
fore the war; second, ownership and
operation through a public corpora
tion controlled by the government un
der the same method by which the
war department operates the Panama
Railroad and Steamship Company;
third, government ownership of the
vessels and the employment of private
agencies fo rtheir operation.
The strength of th<» merchant ma
rine .however, he emphasized, “lies
in the number of trained, alert, re
sourceful shipping men whom it can
call to its service, on whise watch
ful, persevering and competent work
the success of a shopping venture de
pends.”—New York Post.
WILSON TO RETURN TO EUROPE.
The President Expects to Remain on
Other Side Until Peace Treaty is
Signed—Will Hardly Call Extra
Session of Congress Before June
First.
President Wilson will not call an ex
tra session of Congress until after his
return from Europe.
Senator Martin, of Virginia, Demo
cratic leader in the Senate, made this
announcement Tuesday after a con
ference with the President at the
White House, says a Washington dis
patch. While the President did not
state when he expected to reach home
after his second trip overseas, Sena
tor Martin gave it as his personal
opinion that it would not likely be
earlier than June 1.
President Wilson was said to feel
it his duty to remain in Europe until
the treaty of peace was concluded.
“The President said he would return
to Paris immediately after March 4,
and was positive that he would not
call an extraordinary session of Con
gress until he returns,” Senator Mar
tin said. “He did not state the date
of his return, nor did he authorize rna
to quotd^him in respect to that point,
but my personal opinion and judg
ment is that there is no reasonable ex
pectation of his being back prior to
June 1.”
Senator Martin was accompanied to
the White House by Senator Simmons,
of North Carolina, chairman of the
Finance committee. They conferred
for nearly an hour with the executive,
discussing in detail the congestion of
legislation in Congress.
LEVER PUTS IN BILL IN
REGARD TO COTTON FUTURES
Washington, Feb. 26.—Representa
tive Lever, of South Carolina, chair
man of thfc Agricultural committee
tonight introduced in the House a bill
to amend the cotton futures act to
reduce the number of deliverable
grades of cotton from 20 to 10 and to>
provide for government classification
of the certified stock of the cotton ex
changes.
The bill limits the number of grades
of white cotton which can be deliver
ed on contract to middling, fai-,
strict good middling, good middling,
strict middling, strict low middling,
and low middling, all the grades of
yellow tinged to good middling and
strict middling. Good middling, yel
low strained cotton also is included.