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0 ■ * VOLUME 38. THE SMITHFIELD HERALD TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1919. Number 36 NEXT SATURDAY MEMORIAL DAY Hon. Cameron Morrison, of Charlotte, to Be the Orator of the Day—Every Returned Soldier ofthe Great War is Invited to Attend and Wear His Uniform-Those Who Went to Camp and Those Who Went to France. Ladies to Prepare Dinner for All Confederate Veterans, Their Wives and Widows. The Holt-Sanders Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy has planned to have a big memorial ser vice at the courthouse in Smithfield next Saturday, May tenth. It is to be a double memorial—in honor of the veterans of 61-65, who gave their lives for a cause they loved, and for the youth of the present day who gave their lives in the great world-war. Every man in the county who was enrolled in our army to fight in the great world-war is specially invited to be present, and if possible, to wear his uniform. Hon. Cameron Morrison, of Char lotte, one of the leading orators of the State, has accepted an invitation to be present and deliver the address on this memorial occasion. The people shbuld come out and hear him. The Daughters of the Cofederacy are greatly "interested in this memorial and urgently request that Confederate veterans, their wives and widows, at tend, as the ladies will prepare dinner for all such, and endeavor to make the occasion an enjoyable one. It is also urgently requested that the relatives of all soldiers who died or were killed in service are requested to send to Mrs. W. M. Sanders, pres ident, Smithfield, N. C., the name, company, date of death and any other information they may have regarding such soldier’s death, including any and all letters, etc. These will be taken care of and returned imme diately after copying. The time is short, so act at once. TAFT IGNORES POLITICS FOR SAKE OF LEAGUE. Richmond, Va., May 3.—“1 am a re publican and expect to live and die one, but it is a small potato reason in reference to an international ques tion to oppose it on the ground that it will help a democratic president or the democratic party politically,” declared William Howard Taft in a speech here tonight. Taft spoke to thousands who crowded into the city auditorium to hear him make a Vic tory loan address. Vociferous ap plause greeted his statement, and when the laughter had subsided Mr. Taft said: “The Lord knows there are reasons enough for not voting the democratic ticket without bringing on something like this.” During the afternoon he addressed several thousand people at the fair grounds. SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS. Advices at White House Indicate Re turn of President Before End Of May. Washington, May 3.—Intimation that a special session of Congress will be called by President Wilson to meet about June 1, was contained in confidential dispatches received in Washington to-day from Paris. It was said, in authoritative admin istration quarters, that it was quite possible that if the situation in Paris should develop rapidly the special session might meet even before June 1. In that case the call would be made by cable. It was made clear in today’s dis patches that the President was confi dent it would be possible for him to return to the United States before the end oi the month. Woman's Club Meeting. An important meeting of the Wo man’s Club will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:45 o’clock. The early hour was fixed on account of the meet ing at the Baptist church. iPEAKERS FOR COMMENCEMENT Sew York Minister Will Preach Bac calaureate Sermon at Wake Forest This Y'ear. With commencement at Wake For :st only six weeks off, President Po ;eat has announced that Dr. John Iler nan Randall, pastor of the Mount Morris Baptist church, of New York nty, and Dr. A. T. Robertson, of the ;lass of 1885, and now professor of New Testament ii* the Southern Bap tist Theological Seminary, of Louis ville, have been secured as speakers for the occasion. Dr. Randall is one of the foremost ministers of the country. He will preach on the evening of baccalaure ate sermon, June 11, and the com mencement address on Thursday, June 12. In the evening the annual alumni address will be given by Dr. Robert son of the seminary, followed by the senior class reception in the society halls. Friday, June 13, will be the last day of the commencement exercises. Super-Poison Gas. From the minute when the Ger began lawlessly to use poison gas it was certain that retaliation in kind was inevitable. American chemists at once set to .worlc to make that retalia tion so powerful that Germany should bitterly regret her violation of what had been supposed to be the recogniz ed laws of warfare. American scien tific intelligence proved itself superior to the boasted German efficiency in this field. It has been known ever since tltf armistice was signed that remarkable results had been obtained in the manufacture of poison gas in this country. But the details have not been made public until quite recently. An exceedingly interesting account of the manufacture of “methyl” has just been published in the New York Times. It appears that Major-Gen eral Sibcrt, who had command of our chemical warfare, service, planned to have three thousand tons of this ter ribly destructive gas in readiness, in liquid form, for uses this spring. The assertion is made that ten tons would be more than enough to depopulate Manhattan Island. What three thou sand tons would do might readily be imagined. “Methyl” is described as an oily, amber liquid having the fragrance of geranium blossoms and deadly by contact or by inhalation. It is even said that “a drop on the hand would cause intolerable agony and death after a few hours.” Yet not • one worker died from the effects of “methyl” while employed in its .man ufacture. So secret was the process that eight hundred men who were engaged in the work were voluntary prisoners in factories surrounded by stockades for three months previous to the armistice, and while actual manfacture was going on. With the armistice came the puz zling question as to what should be done with the large quantity already complete. The factory was situated near Cleveland, Ohio. It seems impos sible to denaturalize the deadliness of “methyl” by chemical action, yet “al most enough was on hand to destroy the entire people of the United States.” It was proposed to dump the poisonous stuff into Lake Erie, but Cleveland objected seriously to such a step—and no wonder. Finally, it was bi-ought in large iron containers —“methyl.” does not react on iron— in slow trains and with exceeding pre caution, to a point near Baltimore, and then taken out fifty miles to sea, where the containers Were gently lowered into water three miles deep. As this frightful chemical is *said to be seventy-two times deadlier than the German mustard gas, it would seem that a maximum of horror had been attained. If we imagine a war of the future in which through the ruthlessness and lawlessness of onp combatant destructive methods in volving the use of such chemical com pounds should be adopted by both, it is easy also to imagine a war which would be as mutually destructive as those which have been fancifully de scribed by writers of fictitious tales of future wars. On the other hand, it is not unreasonable to hope that the impending terror of such a war would make it inconceivable in actuality.— New York Outlook. Mrs. C. B. Williamson and little daughter, Virginia, spent the week end with Miss Laura Williamson of Knightdale, R. F. D. J. WALTER MYATT COUNTY SUPERVISOR Will Have Charge of the New As sessment of Johnston County Prop erty—Section Eleven of the State Revaluation Law Re-Printed for the Benefit of the Property Owners. Work to Begin at Once. The State’s Tax Commission has appointed Mr. J. Walter Myatt County Supervisor to have charge of the new assessment of property in this county. He will begin his work at ofice. Section eleven of the revaluation reads as follows: The county The.- county super\i sors and their assistants shall begin their work on the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nine teen, and shall continue the same as instructed by the State Tax Commis sion. They shall on the first day of May begin the collection of informa tion as to the value of property in their county , and when instructed to do so, shall begin the collection of specific information as to each piece of real property, taking up the work by townships, and in cities by \^ards. The county supervisor, or liis assist ant, shall visit and personally inspect each separate tract of real property, and shall require the owner thereof to answer each and every question which may be set out on the blank forms to be furnished by the State Tax Commission, which blank shall contain every question which, in the judgment of the State Tax Commis sion is a proper and necessary ques tion to be answered to ascertain the real value of the property, and which blank shall include specific inquiry as to the opinion of the owner as to its real value. The said blank shall also contain separate inquiry as to the number of acres cf land in cultiva tion, number of acres in timber, and value of the timber, number of acres, of waste land, and also the separate value of buildings, and when the own er is unable to give exact answer to any of such questions he shall ans wer them upon as careful an estimate as he may be able to make. The own er of the land shall be required to answer each and every such question and to make oath to the same in man ner and form as hereinafter provid ed, and if the owner refuses to com ply with this provision, or if he know ingly makes answer that is materially false, he shall be guilty of a misde meaor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court. The county supervisor or his assistant shall attach to said blank form any additional informa tion he may be able to secure with re ference to the value of such proper ty or as to any conditions of or sur rounding said property which would tend to increase or decrease its value. CHURCH ADVERTISEMENTS PAY. Presbyterians Want to Hae a Per manent Fund for the Newspapers. Dr. Charles( Steizle, publicity direc tor of the Presbyterian Church drive for a fund of $40,000,000 recently an nounced in New York his belief that newspaper advertising should become a fixed policy of the church. As a re sult of the drive a permaent policy of advertising to be paid- for out of annual budgets will be urged upon all Presbyterian churches by James B. Wootan at the Presbyterian General Asembly in St. Louis May 15 to 23. His report states that it is “good com mon sense”- for the church to engage systematically in paid advertising with a view to arousing interest in church services and activities. Mr. Wootan is general publicity director for the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He said, “No church can af ford not to advertise.”—American Press. Smithficld Defeats Selma Again. Smithfield put it over Selma in Friday’s game by the score of 6 to 2. The game was fast and exciting throughout. Features of the game: the pitching cf Wallace, and the all round playing of Anderson on second base, who accepted ten chances with out error, and scored three of the six runs. R. H. E. Smithfield 6 8 3 Selma 2 5 5 Batteries—Wallace and McCullers; Wilkins and Daughtery. SINK FLEET AS MORAL LESSON Daniel Favors Sending All the, Ships to Bottom With Proper Ceremonies. Are Virtually Useless— Secretary Says No Decision Is Reached As to International Naval Force. London, May 3.—The greatest mor al lesson of the war would bfe to sink the entire German fleet with proper ceremonies, Josephus Daniels, Ameri can secretary of the navy, who re cently visited the captured German vessels at Scapa Flow, declared in a statement to-day to The Associated Press. “The German fleet should be sunk in the opinion of American and Brit ish technical experts in Paris,” the secretary said. “Those who are not technical and who view the situation entirely from the moral side have the samg idea and believes that the ships should be sunk with bands playing and flags flying to keep company with the merchantmen the German navy destroyed. “I think the greatest moral lesson of the war would be the sinking of the whole fleet with an unforgetable ceremony. These ships, which I re cently viewed, are magnificent craft but virtually useless as a part of the American navy. In the first place you would never induce an American sailor to live in the cramped and unhealthy quarters, even of the later types, and none has bunker space suf ficient for our needs. The ships un doubtedly were built for fighting in the North sea and not for long cruis es as is necessary in our navy. Their armor, however, is better than the American or British.” The secretary said there is nothing approaching a concert of opinion as to the size of the international naval police force or as to what responsibil ity each ally is willing to accept. He added: “That all must be worked out wher the league of nations begins to func tion. With so many problems tc face, the nations are willing to leave that one until later.” THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION SUMMED UP The Italian delegates to the peact conference who Jeft Paris almosl ! abruptly when the members of the council of four, representing Greal Britain, France and the United States refused to grant Italy’s full claims tc Fiume and the Dalmation costal re gions, have been invited to come bad to Paris and resume their plac<^ ir the peace conference. Paris dispatches assert that by rea son of this invitation it is believed the Italians wil return to the French cap ish diplomats in Rome for several days have been discussing the controversy they were left off. French and Brit ish diplomats i Rome for several day; have bee iscussing .the controversy with Premier Orlando and Foreigi Minister Sonnino in an endeavor t< straighten out the tangle. The invitation of the council o1 j three it is understood, has in view th< j elimination of thq personal elemeni ■ in the controversy and the paving o1 | the way for a territorial adjustmeni i acceptable to Italy when the conferes are again together. In peace conference circles, Sunday was quiet. President Poincare had the members of the cabinet before hirr and discussed with them the prelimi nary peace terms. A meeting be tween the Inter-Allied and Germar credential commissions which was tc have been held, was postponed. Pres ident Wilson spent the day motoring. In Belgium the dissatisfaction ovei the awards to Belgium has resulted in a petition being presented to King Albert, asking him to decline to affix his signature to the peace treaty. A cabinet council Saturday recalled home the three Belgian delegates foi a conference which is to decide wheth er the conditions offered Belgium arc acceptable. A big patriotic demon stration was held in Antwerp Sun day at which demands were made foi the fulfillment of the Allied- pledges to Belgium.—Associated Press Dis patch, 4th. » County Board of Education Meets. The Board of Education was in ses sion all day Friday preparing the school budget for the six month' school law and Minimum Salary Law SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL. Secretary Glass Sends Strong Appeal for Final Victory Loan Effort. Will Take §400,000, 0000 Daily to Reach Quota. Washington, May 4.—With sub scriptions to the Victory Liberty Ix)an lagging to a greater extent than in any of the four previous loan cam paigns, Secretary of the Treasury Glass tonight at the beginning of the third and closing week of the-drive sent to all campaign committees a ^ strong appeal for a final effort that ( would not only raise but exceed the t minimum of §4,500,000,000. The Treasury today received no of ficial reports on subscriptions, but on the basis of subscriptions tabula ted last night slightly more than one- , third of the minimum quota hAs been raised. Unofficial reports received today were said that at the outside not more than four-ninths of the loan had been subscribed. Announcement I'arty. Clayton, May 3.—Mrs. R.B. Ellis entertained yesterday afternpon from 5 until 7 o’clock at her home in West Clayton in honor of Mrs. H. E. Aus tin, of Baltimore; Miss Mary Spence, of Goldsboro, and Miss Ora Raper, of Wilson. The home was beautifully de corated for the occasion. The quests were met at the door by the hostess and after meeting the guests they were directed to the drawing room by Miss Carrie Austin, where they en joyed a musical program. The sur prise of the afternoon came when the folding doors between the dining room and parlor were thrown open and under an arch of ivy and snow balls stood little Miss Kathryn El lis, daintily dressed in white and car rying pink roses, with Master Jack Moore holding a liandpainted card bearing the names, “Turley-Ellis, June 3rd,” while “O Promise Me” was being played. The bride-elect, Miss Dula Ellis, was then presented with a lovely gift by Mrs. J. W. Massey. It was then announced that Mrs. John T. Talton had won the prize in the contest and this was given to tie bride-elect. A ice course was served by Misses Deila Austin and Helen El lis. A Modest Type of Leader. The career of a worthy educator who died last month illustrates re markably well the new kind of lead ership that accomplishes great results without notoriety, and with honor and esteem but without popular acclaim. Professor Samuel T. Dutton was a leader in education and philanthropy. He was not a challenging and bitter tonged reformer, although he saw what was wrong in human relations with clearness, and had unfaltering courage in standing for justice. But it was not so much his mission to lead crusades, or to demand bold innova tions, as to co-operate tactfully with wholesome tendencies of sound hu man progress, and help to construct i the better order along with everybody else who was facing in the right di rection. To some readers this characteriza tion may seem quite negative, if not commonplace and vague, when one seeks for “upstanding” heroes of an other mold. Why, in these days when “current history” asserts itself in spectacular ways, should space be given to recording the qualities of a quiet, self-effacing educator, rather than to some other man whose recent death has been announced in large headlines? It is indeed quite possible that the man whose death is noted by millions or hundreds of millions may have been a true and typical leader, as well as a man of contemporary fame. This may be said in the most em phatic way of the late Theodore Roosevelt, whose power for almost forty years to influence and lead his fellow citizens lay in his being so es sentially an embodiment of American qualities, and so fearless in support ing the things he believed in. The qualities of leadership were always present in Mr. Roosevelt, and their exercises did not awTait the political accidents which placed him in high of ‘ fice. No one was keener than Mr. Roosevelt to recognize the intrinsic qualities of leadership in all useful spheres of activity, and to distinguish between the genuine leader and the spurious, or between a worthy fame and an accidental nottoriety.—From “ \ Teacher and Leader,” in the Amer can Review of Reviews for May, 1919. IUNS WILL HAVE TO GIVE UP COLONIES his is Among the Terms to Which Most Objection Will Be Offered— To I’lead For Leniency—Will Ask That the Sarre Area Revert Back to Germany After Period of Years —Will Fight to Hold Kiel Canal. London, May 3.—ReutOr’s learns rom reliable sources that among the erms of the treaty to which the Ger nans will offer the most objection is hat relating to the surrender of her olonies. They will urge that German Sast Africa, Togoland and Kamerun Hast Africa, Togoland and Kamerun >e left to her and, upon refusal, will isk to be assigned some part in the nature administration in the former jierman colonies. They will Ask that n any case Germany shall not be de barred from purchasing some Por tuguese colonies at a future date, should Portugal be willing to sell. A plea also will be made that the Sarre area revert to Germany after a term of years. The delegates will oppose any proposal to deprive them of sovereignty over the Kiel canal, while agreeing that it shall be free to the world’s commerce. They will oppose any so-called Polish corridor while guaranteeing to Poland the right of free transit both by rail and by the Vistula to Danzig and, while opposing any plan to deprive them of sovereignty over the city itself, will agree that portions of Danzig shall be reserved solely for Polish com- ' merce. Daily Airplane Passenger Schedules. An aeioplane has flown across the United States in fifty-two hours. An Italian machine has carried aloft sev enty-eight passengers. Daily flights are made between London and Paris, when a score cf passengers seated in upholstered cabins, decorated with gilded mirrors and lighted with elec tric candles, are carried 250 miles on a two-and-a-half hour schedule. The fare is one shilling a mile. In Ger many daily passenger service is main tained between Berlin and Munich— a distance of 350 miles. A flight was made the other day from Washington to New York in eighty minutes, reducing the time of the best express train to about one fourth. The average speed through out the flight was 102 miles an hour, and even this record has been increas ed five miles an hour in the Middle West. At this rate Chicago is brought to within five hours of New York and San Francisco less than twenty. A revolution in transporta tion, comparable to that which came with the railroad after the stage coach, seems assured for the near fu ture. The advantages of a passenger carrying craft which thus overlaps all natural obstacles at such a pace, as sure its acceptance. An American ex press company has recently offered to fill all active aircraft with express matter, leaving the rates to be ad justed. The change from a war to a peace basis in aeronautics, is a ques tion merely of readjustment.—Form “Travel by Air Routes Over Land and Sea,” by Francis Arnold Collins, in the American Review of Reviews for May, 1919. GREENSBORO FIRE EXPLOSION. One Man Loses Life When Conflagra tion Starts at Station of Oil Com pany. Greensboro, May 3.—An explosion in the warehouse of the Texas Oil Company’s sub-station here at 7 o’clock this morning caused the death of one man and a large loss to the oil concern. For several hours^ a tremendous fire was fed by large quantities of oil contained in two tank cars and stationary tanks of the com pany. The volume of smoke exceed ed anything ever seen at a fire here. The trestle over the Lithia street subway was burned and all morning southbound passenger trains were delayed several hours. The name of the man burned to death has not been ascertained. He could not be identi fied beeause the body was $o badly burned, and it is not certain that he was employed by the company. Mr. Walter Ives went to Raleigh Sunday and heard Evangelist McLen don Sunday night.
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