VOLUME 38.
SMITHFIELD, N. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9,1919
Number 97
FRICK MILLIONS TO CHARITY.
Vast Estate of Over 150 Million Dol
lars Goes to Public Institutions—
Leaves Mammoth Art Gallery To
New York.
Henry Clay Frick, multi-millionaire
iron master and collector of art, left
all but $25,000,000 of his vast estate
to public, charitable and educational
institutions, according to terms of his
will make public in New York Sat
urday.
The value of the public bequests,
after $25,000,000 is set aside for his
widow, son and daughter, is $117,000,
000, exclusive of 151 acres of Pitts
burgh real estate left for a public
park.
The Frick mansion and art collec
tion in New York city valued at ap
proximately $50,000,000, with an en
dowment of $15,000,000 additional to
maintain them as the Frick collection,
are given to the public at the termi
nation of Mrs. Frick’s life. This
makes Mr. Frick’s largest single gift
to the public total $65,000,000.
Princeton and Harvard universities
and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology are bequeathed approxi
mately $25,000,000, divided so that
Princeton will receive about $15,000,
000 and Harvard and Technology each
about $5,000,000.
About $5,060,000 is left to the Edu
cational Fund Commission at Pitts
burgh and Pittsburgh hospitals are
to receive bequests amounting to
about $500,000 each. Five hundred
thousand dollars bequests were also
left to various hospitals throughout
the State.
The Society of the Lying-in Hospit
al of the City of New York is left
about $1,500,000.—New York Dis
patch.
Gigantic Airship Over 500 Feet Long.
Barrow-in-Furness, Eng., Nov. 30.
—The airship R-80, which is of a
larger design than the R-34, which re
cently visited the United States, is
expected to be completed and handed
over to the Admiralty here by Christ
mas. Airship construction, under or
ders of the government, has been sus
pended here, but as the R-80 was 95
per cent, finished, it was decided to
complete her.
The airship embodies the latest im
provements in British design. Her
hull is of stream line shape. She is
535 feet long, 70 feet wide and has
an overall height of 85 feet. Her
lifting power (total) is 38 tons and
four engines, each of 240 horsepower,
will give her a maximum speed of
65 miles per hour. A crew of 15 or
16 will be able to navigate the ship.
THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE
WILL DISCONTINUE TRAINS
Wilmington, Dec. 6.—The Atlantic
Coast Line railroad announced from
its general offices here this afternoon
that effective midnight next Tuesday,
its trains No. 57, Wilmington to Flor
ence; No. 58, Florence to Wilming
ton; No. 59, Wilmington to Fayette
ville, and No. 60, Fayetteville to Wil
mington, will be discontinued. The
company explained that this curtail
ment of train service is in compliance
with the order of the United States
Railroad Administration for conserv
ing fuel. The company is preparing
orders for discontinuance of other
trains all over the system, though
these have not been yet made public.
NEWS AROUND BENSON.
(Benson Review.)
Supt. Root says that the electric
line from here to Smithfield will soon
be completed and that work will soon
begin on the sub-station after which
Benson will have a full supply of
light and power. He says that unless
something aforeseen turns up we will
have lights furnished by the -Carolina
Light and Power Co., within twenty
days.
Within the next few months a lot
of building will be done in Benson if
material can be secured. The Farm
ers Commercial Bank is anxious to be
gin its building, so is J. H. Boon &
Son who are going to erect a two-;
story brick building on their lot on
West Main street. Mr. L. Gilbert is
planning to erect a building on the
lot just back of the Benson Drug Co.
as soon as his material arrives. From
what can be learned there is no limit
to the building and repairing that
would be done here now if material
could be secured.
Mrs. Laura Hodges died at her
home about four miles west of Benson
last Sunday and was buried at Hodges
Chapel Monday afternoon. She leaves
several children, who have the sym
pathy of their many friends. She
was a member of Hodges Chapel of
long standing and lived up the ten
ents of her faith. A good neighbor
and friend to all, she demonstrated
the worth of the religion she profess
ed.
MOST SUCCESSFUL BOX PARTY.
Over Six Hundred Dollars Raised At
Four Oaks School—Micro In Need
Of New School Building.
The interest in educational matters
at Four Oaks is growing. A box par
ty was given at the Four Oaks grad
ed school Wednesday night, Novem
ber 26, and over six hundred dollars
was realized. This is the biggest
amount raised at any box party on
record in this county. The school has
a splendid faculty and they are look
ing toward bigger things for the
school.
Micro has a £ood attendance this
year. They have already added an
extra teacher. They are badly in
need of a new school building. One
teacher is having to teach in the
Junior Hall.
OPERA HOUSE BE REMODELED.
Water and Sewer System to Be
Extended.
The City Fathers of the town of
Smithfield have planned some exten
sive improvements for the immediate
future. The recent, rapid growth of
the town has made it necessary to ex
tend the water and sewerage system.
The town plans to put in about eight
thousand feet of new lines, and thus
give the benefits of water and sewer
age to a great many families that do
not now have it. The new sanitary
laws of the state are having much to
do in getting people to decide to put
water in their homes.
Another greatly needed improve
ment that the town is planning is a
remodelling of the city market and
town hall. Quite a number of chang
es ai*e anticipated on the ground floor
in tfie connection with the market
stalls and the Mayor's office and
guardhouse. In the hall there is to be
some changes that will add greatly to
the appearance and comfort of hall.
The present hall is so arranged that it
cannot be made at all comfortable on
a cold night and the entertainments
given here in the winter time would
often be much more largely attended
if the people had any assurance that
the hall would be warm.
Pershing Given Rousing Welcome.
Fayetteville, Dec. 5.—Fayetteville
and North Carolina gave a rousing
welcome today to General John J.
Pershing, commander in chief of the
American Expeditionary Forces, on
his visit to the State for the inspec
tion of Camp Bragg. A great con
course of people greeted the General
as he rode through the streets of Fay
etteville following his inspection of
the camp and heard him in a brief
address delivered from the balcony
of the old market in the center of the
city. He paid an exceptional tribute
to the men of the 30th division and
spoke encouragement for the Ameri
can Legion.
In this connection General Persh
ing declared that “in the troublesome
time that exists throughout the world
and in view of the tide of false no
tions that has already reached our
shores, it is well that we may look to
the men who have returned victorious
from Europe to sustain the principles
upon which our government is found
ed.”
Almost every section of North Car
olina was represented in the gather
ing that gave General Pershing a Tar
Heel welcome.
Making Herself Cheap.
It is pitiable to see a girl make
herself cheap and not know it. True,
her mother may tell her that she is
playing the fool, but she is so sure
that playing the “vamp” is the proper
thing that she would not believe her
mother. But the parents who have to
suffer the chagrin because of,the folly
family standing because of the folly
of their wouldbe “vamps” are really
the ones that deserve the sympathy.
Some girls remind us of the cheap
John merchant who is so anxious to
sell his wares that he hangs them out
over the side-walk, with the result
that wares already undesirable be
come less so.—Sampson Democrat.
Basket Ball At B. C. A.
There was a basket ball game Sat
urday, November 22, between the
Buies Creek basket ball team and the
boys from Johnston county that are
in school at B. C. A.
The Johnston boys won 27 to 14.
We girls from Johnston county are
proud to own it since our Johnston
boys backed it up. US.
Visited in Princeton.
Miss Helen Daniel of Henderson
passed through Smithfield Thursday
(Thanksgiving) on her way to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Massey
of Princeton where she spent the
week end, returning home Sunday. !
GENERAL REDUCTION OF
TRAIN ALLOTMENT IN SOUTH
Sweeping Curtailment of Passenger
Service to be Effective at Midnight
Tuesday.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 5.—General cur
tailment of passenger train service
throughout the southern region of
the United States railroad adminis
tration, effective at 12:01 a. m. Tues
day, was announced tonight at head
quarters here.
No specific reduction was announc
ed, it being left to each federal man
ager to take off as many trains as
may be spared without serious incon
venience to the public.
In addition to taking off passenger
trains, it was announced that federal
managers will discontinue many par
lor, club and sleeping cars which add
to the weight of trains and increase
consumption of coal.
No reduction in freight service is
contemplated in the southern region,
it was said, because scarcity of coal
cargoes and a consequent shutting
down of many industries already has
greatly reduced freight haulage.
Regarding the order to reduce pas
senger train service, the announce
ment from the regional director’s of
fice saiJ that “there has been no at
tempt to arbitrarily reduce service os
a percentage basis in the region be
cause conditions vary on different
roads and in different sections to such
an extent that an order of this kind
would result in an unnecessary incon
venience to the public in some places
and at the same time fail to bring
about the greatest practicable cur
tailment in others.”
On some divisions of certain roads,
it was explained, it might be possible
that no trains would be taken off. On
others the reduction might range as
high as forty percent. Figures on
reduction on the various roads are
not expected here for several days.
Federal managers have been work
ing on them, however, for a week or
more in preparation for just such an
order.
The statement also explained that
“an immediate and substantial saving
of fuel will result” from the curtail
ment and ask co-operation of the pub
lic. It also announced that where
local trains are suspended their ser
vice will be taken up by trains now
operated on through schedules.
STATE TROOPS ARREST
98 MEN IN STEEL TOWN
Charged With Conspiracy and Intim
idation to Prevent Work in Mills.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 5.—Ninety
eight men were arrested today at
Donora, a steel town on the Monon
gahela River 30 miles from here,
when troops of the state police raided
Lithunian Hall, headquarters of the
striking steel workers in that disti’ict.
The men were taken to jail, each one
charged with conspiracy and intimi
dation to prevent men from working
in the mills, and this afternoon they
were arraigned before Grover W.
Boyd, a justice of the peace. Each
was held in $500 bail for a hearing
next Thursday. Those who were un
able to furnish bond, and they con
stituted the majority, were taken to
the county jail at Washington, Penn.
All were foreigners, it was said at the
Donora Borough Hall, except seven.
The raid was the culmination of a
campaign by the authorities to rid the
community of men who, they say,
have been suspected of being impli
cated in bomb explosions that have
made Donora one of the storm centers
since the steel strike was called last
September. It was carried out soon
after another explosion had startled
the town early today. Felix Burk
hart a carpenter employed by the
American Steel and Wire Company,
was the victim, his house being dam
aged but none of its occupants hurt.
Votes $75,000 for School Building.
Lexington, Dec. 5.—A bond issue of
$75,000 has been voted in this place
for the construction of an additional
school building. Realizing that $75,
OOQi will not pay for a building suf
ficient to take care of the future de
mands, the board will contract for a
building which can easily be added to
later. It has been decided, according
to E. B. Craven, chairman of the
board, to have in the building an au
ditorium with a seating capacity of
1,2000 or 1,500 people, a basement
with a gymnasium, manual training
rooms for the boys and domestic sci
ence for the girls.
New Hotel for Raleigh.
Raleigh is to have a new hotel of
250 rooms, each with a bath, and is
to cost including furnishings about
one million dollars. Among the names
which have been suggested for the
new hotel, are the following: “The
Sir Walter,” “The Virginia Dare,”
and “The Esther Wake.”
HARNETT COUNTY TAKES
A PROGRESSIVE STEP.
Official Boards Appropriate for the
Health and Public Welfare Work—
Full Time Superintendent of Public
Welfare.
The officials of Harnett county have
put the county on the map as one of
the most progressive in the State
when the board of county commission
ers and the county board of educa
tion in joint session unanimously vot
ed for a full county and state public
health program, and also for an all
time county superintendent of Public
Welfare. The latter will cost . the
county $2,500 annually and the form
er $4,000 annually. The boards went
j fifty-fifty on both propositions and did
j it in the presence of many enthusias
tic citizens of both political parties.
The health program, in conjunction
with the State Beard of Health and
the International Health Board and
the Red Cross, will secure the county
a team of four workers for all their
time, including a Red Cross nurse.
In the matter of the County Super
intendent of Public Welfare, Mr. B. P.
Gentry, county superintendent of
schools, had been elected, but stated
that he found his school duties so
largely increased that he could not
carry on the public welfare work, and
wished to be relieved. The boards
then elected Mr. Chaffin, a well equip
ped young man who has given the
work special attention, and he will
take charge January 1.—Lillington
Dispatch.
Senatorial Callers Find President
Mentally Keen.
Washington, Dec. 5.—Two senators,
delegated by the foreign relations
committee to confer with President
Wilson on the Mexican crisis and re
port whether in their opinion the
president, by reason of his illness was
unable to exercise his function, left
the white house after a conference of
three-quarters of an hour with him
today, agreeing that he was in touch
with recent developments and was
mentally keen enough to form judg
ment on the questions confronting the
nation.
In the midst of the conference while
Senator Fall, republican, of New Mex
ico was outlining the, evidence on
which he is urging a break of diplo
matic relations, the president and his
callers were informed that William
O. Jenkins, the American consular
agent jailed at Pueblo, had been re
leased.
The advices left some doubt as to
the circumstances but the development
was accepted generally as relieving
somewhat relations between the two
governments.
The discussion with the president
produced no definite conclusion, as to
Mexican relations, but it was regard
ed everywhere as bearing on a sub
ject of endless speculation in congres
sional circles, whether the long illness
of the chief executive has to any ex
tent, rendered him physically incapa
ble of the duties of the presidency.
SOME COAL MINERS GO
BACK TO THEIR MINES
McAlister, Okla., Dec. 6.—The first
break in the ranks of the union min
ers occurred here today when the un
ion men formerly occupied in the
Dawley mines, six miles south of here
returned to work this morning in re
sponse to an ultimatum delivered by
Governor J. B. A. Robertson.
The men live in company houses
and Governor Robertson ordered them
to return to work or vacate the hous
es and make room for the 300 volun
teers now at work in the mines.
$10,000 Brick School Building For
Potecasi.
Another victory was scored for
Potecasi on Tuesday, November 26,
when the citizens of Potecasi Special
School District voted bonds to the
amount of ten thousand dollars for
the purpose of building a brick school
building and auditorium at Potecasi.
This makes the second victory for
Potecasi during the last six months.
Late in July, the citizens subscribed
stock to the amount of ten thousand
dollars for opening a bank. The bank
building is now near completion and
expects to open its doors in the near,
future with as neat and as modern
equipped bank as will be found in
any country town in eastern North
Carolina.—Roanoke Chowan Times.
Two Persons Killed by Airplane.
Two persons were killed and three
probably fatally injured at Chatta
nooga, Tenn., Sunday when a crowd
of spectators were struck by an air
plane beginning a flight. The injured
were children.
The United States paid one-eighth
of the entire cost of the war.
NEW DEPARTMENT HEAD.
Representative Joshua Willis Alexan
der, of Missouri, Succeeds Redfield
in President Wilson's Cabinet.
Representative Joshua Willis Alex
ander, of Missouri, has been nominat
ed by President Wilson for the port
folio of Secretary of Commerce, made
vacant November 1 by the resignation
of Secretary William C. Redfield.
Nomination of the Missouri member
of the House came as a surprise to
those who had been watching for a
Cabinet appointment, as he had not
been mentioned among those who had
a chance for the office.
Representative Joshua Willis Alex
ander was bom in Cincinnati January
22, 1852. His father, who was de
scended from the early settlers in
America, died when the son was only
seven years old. He attended the pub
lic schools of Cincinnati for three
years, when he and his mother, who
was a native of England, moved to
Canton, Lewis county, Missouri.
At Canton young Alexander finish^
ed his studies in the public schools
and entered Christian University, in
the same town, in 1868, graduating in
1872 with the degree of bachelor of
arts. In June, 1907, the same insti
tution conferred upon him the hono
rary degree of master of arts. In
June, 1873, he moved to Gallatin, Mo.,
and has resided there ever since.
Mr. Alexander studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1875. The next
year he was elected public administra
tor and was re-elected in 1880. He
served twenty-one years on the Board
of Education for the Gallatin district
and two terms as Mayor of Gallatin.
In 1882 he was elected to the Gen
eral Assembly of Missouri and in
1884 was re-elected and was chairman
of the appropriations committee. In
1880 he was again elected and served
as speaker of the House.
Mr. Alexander was judge of the
Seventh Judicial Circuit of Missouri
from 1901 to 1914, when he resigned
to take a seat in the Sixtieth Congress.
Mr. Alexander was named by Presi
dent Wilson as House member of the
United States Commission to the In
ternational Conference on Safety of
Life at Sea. He was chairman of
this commission.
Mr. Alexander was married in 1876
to the daughter of the late Judge
Samuel A. Richardson. They have
four sons and three daughters.—As
sociated Press Dispatch.
Go To School, Boy.
There is many a boy in Johnston
county today who is not going to
school who ought to be going to
school every day. This boy I speak
of is some where along in his teens.
He is spending his days rambling
through creek and woods following
with gun an old rabbit hound or, half
dressed-up, riding hither and thither
on an old Ford fliver. Every now and
then some one asks this boy why he
is not going to school. His reply is
almost invariable: “The teacher don’t
teach the eighth grade.”
Boy, whoever you are, don’t “go
West,” as Horace Greeley used to
tell your granddaddies—don’t “stay
South,” as Henry W. Grady used to
say; but do go to school. Are you
sure that you can sit down and write
your best girl a two-page letter with
never a mistake in it from the head
ing to the signature? Are you sure
you: can add, subtract, multiply, and
divide both common and decimal frac
tions with absolute ease and accura
cy? Do you know that you can make
rapid and accurate calculations in in
terest? How about mensuration?
Can you work lumber, tracts of land
and so forth? And how about your
hand-writing. Can you write a neat
attractive and legible hand? Boy,
these are for you. The public schools
exist for you and for your like; and
unless you are sure that you can do
all of these things you had better de
sert your gun and your dog and your
Ford and bag your fifth, sixth, and
seventh grade books and go to school.
H. V. R.
Work More and Waste Less.
When Judge Connor advised the
people to work more and waste less
he put his finger on the key of North
Carolina’s opportunity. If while pric
es are up our people will work to the
limit, produce all they can every day
and from that production save their
money in good investments, North
Carolina can in a few years become
one of the most prosperous States in
the Union. Now is the time to skim
the cream and to skim lots of it. Our
work today determines our future.—
News and Observer.
The retirement of Dr. H. Q. Alex
ander as president of the State Farm
ers Union at the meeting in Greens
boro this will be the chief topic of
interest about the session. One of
the things of most importance is the
election of the man to succeed him.
3 YEARS FOR WHITE SLAVERY.
Millard Parnell, Man of Family, of
Johnston County, Gets Long Term
In Federal Court.
Pleading guilty of violating the
Mann white slave act, Millard Parnell,
a white man, of Smithfield, with a
family of a wife and seven children,
yesterday was sentenced to serve
three years in the Atlanta prison for
carrying a 14-year-old girl to Vir
ginia for immoral purposes. The
man’s wife and several children were
in court, but their presence had little
effect upon the judge, who considered
above everything else the young girl
who had been wronged.
A letter proved the cause of Par
nell’s arrest in September after he
and the girl had been in Virginia for
several weeks. Deserting his wife he
took the girl to Richmond, where they
lived as man and wife, according to
the witnesses, for a week. They then
went to South Boston, Va., where
both secured employment in a mill.
Up to that time relatives at Smith
field did not know the whereabouts of
Parnell and the girl. He then wrote
a letter to a friend in Smithfield. The
letter was given to Sheriff Massey.
Parnell’s arrest followed in quick or
der.
The girl yesterday testified against
the defendant and told of the trip to
Virginia. She was committed to Sam
arcand Manor after her arrest but
was brought from there to Raleigh by
the Government as a material witness.
While in the city the girl was in the
custody of the Travelers’ Aid at the
union station.—News and Observer,
5th.
Red Cross Seals.
The annual sale of the Red Cross
Christmas Seals is now on. No more
beautiful expression of the Christmas
spirit can be made than for every let
ter, card and package to bear the
seal of the Red Cross. The seal
adorns the package, is a recognition
of the blessings of the Red Cross, and
the money will be used to stamp out
the Great White Plague.
APPRECIATING OUR LABOR.
If there is a section of country on
earth that should appreciate its labor
situation, that section is the cotton
belt of America. A large proportion
of the hired labor in the South is col
ored. It may not be the most pro
ficient perhaps, but men who have
had experience, North and South, in
handling considerable numbers of
hands usually express a preference
for negro as compared with foreign
labor on which the North has to de
pend. The negro talks the language.
He is of the community. His interests
are not in Poland or Bavaria or
Greece or elsewhere far away, but
right where he lives. His friends and
acquaintances and interests are about
him. As a rule he is interested in his
work. He is of a cheerful frame of
mind, and is loyal to the job and to
his employer.
The negro has his shortcomings
like everybody else. But they are
not very grave except in occasional
instances and where they are they are
confined to the individual, and are not
typical of the whole community pop
ulation. The negro is not an anar
chist. He has no quarrel with the
government. He believes in America
and in himself. He wants the best
home he can have. He wants the
best surroundings and conveniences
he can get. He likes to make a good
appearance. He is faithful, friendly
and as a rule law-abiding. As a work
er he averages, very well. The South
can be thankful that it has the negro
and will be wise in holding to him,
for the North has not done trying to
take him away.—News and Observer.
Senora Felipe Angeles Dead.
Senora Felipe Angeles, wife of
General Angeles who was executed
by the Carranza government in Mexi
co a few days ago as a traitor to his
country, died in New York Sunday,
without knowing of her husband’s sad
end. On account of fear for the safe
ty of her distinguished husband who
was with the revolution against the
Carranza government, suffered a
nervous break-down went to New
York three months. Because of her
critical condition she was never in
formed of the arrest and death of her
husband. She was 42 years old.
Twins Married Twins.
Sarcoxie, in Missouri had a “dupli
cate wedding’’ the other day. The
bridegrooms were twins, also the
brides. The two men are both veteri
nary surgeons. Both couples are to
live in the same county and their
homes have been furnished exactly
alike. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Love
less will live in one and Mr. and Mrs.
Harmon Loveless in the other.—Cap
per’s Weekly.