NEW YORK CITY IN
GRIP OF INFLUENZA
More Than 2,000 New Cases Are Re
ported Within A Space of 24 Hours
_Number of Cases in Chicago Less
_Courts Stopped in Memphis—
Three Deaths In Gastonia.
“Three deaths from influenza and
pneumonia in Gastonia since the dis
ease became epidemic in that city a
week or ten days ago^and one death
in Beaufort, where about 150 cases in
a mild form exist, represent th^ fa
talities in North Carolina from the
malady,” says Monday’s News and
Observer. Gastonia reports from
four to five hundred cases of a mild
form. ^
“As a precautionary measure the
Beaufort authorities closed up the
schools a week ago but so far the
schools have not been closed in Gas
tonia. About forty cases of the dis
ease in a mild form exist at Graham
and the State health department has
sent two nurses to aid in their treat
ment.
“Fuquay Springs reported a num
ber of cases last week and the schools
were closed there, but are expected to
reopen again this week. A few cases
are also reported from near Cary in
Wake county.
“Except for sporadic cases in a mild
form, the State health department has
received no reports from other places
that would lead to the belief that an
epidemic is in sight. Every precau
tion is being taken to prevent the
spread of the disease in this State.”
Two Thousand Cases in New York.
New York, Jan. 25.—Despite the
strenuous efforts being made by the
health authorities to check the spread
of influenza there were 2,855 new cas
es of the malady reported during the
past twenty-four hours, Health Com
missioner Copeland announced tonight.
This was an increase of 494 over the
number of cases reported during the
previous day. Deaths from the dis
ease numbered thirty, a decrease of
three from yesterday, while seventy
five persons succumbed to pneumonia.
Since January 1 there have been a
total of 8,799 influenza and 3,187
pneumonia cases reported. In the
same period there have been 159 in
fluenza and 1,099 pneumonia deaths.
Health Commissioner Copeland has
called a conference for tomorrow af
ternoon of the nursing emergency
council and all other organizations
having any facilities that may be use
ful in controlling the influenza epi
demic. It is planned at this time to
co-ordinate all efforts of the various
organizations with the health depart
ment.
Decreasing in Chicago.
Chicago, Jan. 25.—Influenza and
pneumonia cases are decreasing, it was
announced today by Health Commis
sioner Robertson.
During the last twenty-four hours
Dr. Robertson said, 1,350 cases of in
fluenza and fifty-one from pneumonia,
were reported. During the same pe
riod there were fifty deaths from in
buenza and fifty-one from pneumonia.
Stops Memphis Courts.
Memphis, Jan. 25.—Sixteen cases of
influenza in mild form were reported
to the city health authorities today,
making a total of seventy-two thus
far reported. A majority of the
churches of the city suspended ser
vices today and all theatres remained
dark. The courts will not hold ses
sions this week and the schools have
been ordered closed beginning tomor
row.
Land, Labor and the Farm Income.
The views of many farmers in the
corn belt are reflected in the letter of a
subscriber who writes: “The labor
question is bothering us here. The
quality and amount of work get poor
er every year in spite of the increased
wages. I don’t know that it is much
inducement for a man to try to do
any more than he is able to manage
himself, with the help of the neigh
bors. In spite of this difficulty, land
is soaring right up and is selling at
prices ranging from $175 to $550 an
acre. Where are we going to land?
Some will land in the county house
when prices take a tumble, as they are
bound to.”
Whether or not every one shares
this farmer’s troubled outlook on pres
ent conditions, it can not be denied
that he has some grounds for his
views. The three big subjects of the
day are the cost of labor, the price of
land, and the cost of living. At pres
ent there is a tremendous urge behind
projects to raise wages still 'higher,
another strong tendency toward higher
prices for land, and a popular clamor
of unusual vigor for lowered food
prices.
Wth labor high, rent or taxes high,
and farm products the subject of a
price-lowering campaign, the farmer
may well bestir himself to look after
his own interests.—Wallaces Farmer.
LIVE ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.
Paragraphs of Interest To North Car
olina People About North Carolina
Matters Clipped and Culled From
The Slate Papers.
Hickory is to have a new 100-barrel
flour mill the outfit to cost when com
pleted about $50,000.
Stantonsburg is building a $50,000
school building and has added two
acres to the school grounds.
The Presbyterians, who have as
esmbly grounds at Montreat, have
started a movement for two hundred
thousand dollars for improvements
there.
Eight new dentists who applied for
license before the North Carolina
state board of dental examiners have
received their license to practise den
tistry in this state.
Plans for a new high school building
containing 16 class rooms, manual
training, domestic science, and music
rooms, have been adopted by the Lex
in gf on school board.
A suburb of Hickory, Highland, is
to have during the coming year a
yarn mill. The machinery has been
purchased and the whole proposition
will amount to $400,000 or $500,000.
The Parent-Teacher Association at
Albemarle held a meeting recently at
which it decided to improve the school
grounds, a committee being appointed
to solicit the $2,000 necessary for the
improvements.
The state suffrage meeting opens in
Greensboro today. Men as well as
women will take an active part. The
speakers include Chief Justice Clark,
Miss Marjorie Shuler and Mrs. Ray
mond Brown.
Will L. Poston, facing trial next
week on charge of having killed his
neighbor, Otho Morrow, was found
dead in his cell in the Statesville jail
Friday, having hanged himself to the
cell door during the night.
A. L. G. Stephenson and W. R.
Bunn, owners of the Zebulon News,
have recently purchased a two-story
brick building for a home for their
paper. Mr. Bunn recently purchased
a half interest in The News.
Mr. John H. McNair, Laurinburg
capitalist,, is said to be worth more
than $8,000,000. He is one of the
state’s biggest cotton" growers and is
interested in many cotton mills as well
as numerous other enterprises. •
In a downpour of rain Sunday E. C.
Stone, of Durham, driving along the
street in his car struck Miss Annie
Windley, but did not hurt her seri
ously. Mr. Stone took her to the hos
pital where it was found her injury
consisted in a cut on the nose and a
bruise across the forehead.
Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Pro
gressive Farmer, had doubled the
amount to be given as a prize for the
best essay on Malaria making the
sum $50 instead of $25. The North
Carolina Landowners Association is
conducting an anti-malaria contest in
the public schools of eastern North
Carolina.
Friends of the management of the
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
company all over the south, as well
as in this state, will rejoice in the
wonderful showing made by this great
southern life insurance organization
for the year 1919, which was probably
one of the hardest years in the histo
ry of life insurance.
Tk» next session of Fayetteville
Presbytery will be held at Red Springs
in February. Dr. W. W. Moon, of
Union Seminary at Richmond, and Dr.
W. J. Martin, president of Davidson
College, will deliver addresses on the
“Million Dollar Campaign for Educa
tion” in the auditorium of Flora Mc
Donald College on Thursday evening,
February 12th.
One thousand four hundred and for
ty farms in Caldwell county sowed
13,536 acres in grain last year and
harvested 75,067 bushels last summer
and fall, according to the report of
John M. Crisp, register of deeds, who
compiled the report for the Agricul
tural Department at Raleigh. During
the threshing season Mr. Crisp issued
license to 26 owners or operators, of
threshing machines.
The trustees of the Methodist Chil
dren’s Home at Winston-Salem ex
pect to secure a manager in a few
days to direct the campaign to be con
ducted throughout the bounds of the
Western North Carolina conference to
raise a fund of $100,000 with which to
provide needed new buildings for the
institution and $75,000 to establish a
substantial nucleus for an endowment
fund. The plan is to start the cam
paign in March and conclude it April
25.
Dr. E. C. Brooks, the state superin
tendent, states that the enlarged
school attendance has resulted in vir
tual elimination of the one-teacher
school. This is an evolution altogeth
er acceptable to this believer in larger
school districts and bigger school bod
ies. However, it intensifies problem
of teacher procurement. The twelve
thousand teachers of the state, which
include the 2,000 really prepared to
teach, cannot cope with the education- j
al problem wiJJj.ip^heavy recruitment.
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OF MUCH INTEREST
TO COTTON FARMERS
A Probable Large and Interesting
Sale of Low Grade Cotton Made by
The American Cotton Association—;
To Be Exported to France and
Belgium.
The undersigned has been request
ed by J. S. Wannamaker, President of
the American Cotton Association, to
represent the Association in Johnston
County in securing options on low
grade cotton for exportation to France
and Belgium. Very much to my grati
fication the Association .has an offer
for 300,000 bales of low grade cotton
at the following prices, f. o, b. ship
ping points:
Low middling at 41 cents.
Strict good ordinary at 39 cents.
Strict ordinary at 37 cents.
Ordinary at 35 cents.
I know that this will be interesting
to the members of the Association and
still more interesting to the fellows
who have been knocking the Associa
tion. Nevertheless, we are making
progress. At the New Orleans Con
vention, held last September, a dele
gate from another State suggested
that the Association importune the
.Federal Government to look after the
sale of our cotton in the foreign mar
kets. A delegate from North Caro
lina suggested that we had better take
the initiative ourselves rather than
wait on Uncle Sam for such an im
portant mission. The latter idea was
adopted and the Association has about
accomplished the sale of 300,000 bales.
The writer has never doubted for
one moment the justice and feasibili
ty of the Association’s plans. We
hope to make other sales of still
greater magnitude. I have all the
correspondence on my desk in regard
to this sale, and I will be glad to be
interviewed by any cotton grower of
the county who feels an interest in
the Association, whether a member of
the Association or not.
W. M. SANDERS,
Smithfield, N. C., Jan. 26.
The Farm Garage.
The farmer who uses his bam for
a garage is courting trouble. There
is danger of fire every time he drives
in or out. In fact the danger is ever
present. The engine may backfire and
ignite the chaff on the floor, or there
may be a slight leak in the gasoline
tank so that sufficient fumes will col
lect in the barn to be ignited from
the lantern when the farmer goes
about his evening chores. The best
place for the automobile is in a speci
al garage, separated from the other
buildings or so arranged as to pre
clude the fire menace. Wooden floors
have no place in a garage; cement is
best.
The garage as a fire hazard is being
recogijized by the state fire marshal.
He repots that 250 public garages in
Indiana were destroyed by fire last
year, and that 75 per cent of these
fires could have been prevented by the
exercise of care. No statistics are
given as to the number of private ga
rages that were burned nor of build
ings consumed by fire because of im
proper handling of automobiles and
gasoline. The fire marshal has issued
some rules that apply to the country
as well as to the city. They are as
follows:
“Do not permit smoking about the
garage, or near cars when tanks are
being filled. Do not permit open
lights or flames in the garage. Use
only incandescent electric lights. Do
not permit the motor to remain run
ning while the gasoline tank is being
filled. Do not yourself, or permit any
one else to light a match to see how
much gasoline is in the tank. Do not
handle gasoline except in approved
safety gang Do not use gasoline for
cleaning* purposes except in a room
separated from the main garage by a
fire wall. Do not permit accumula
tions of oily waste, but deposit such
waste and rags in approved waste
cans. Do not fail to provide a suffici
ent number of fire extinguishers, pails
of sand and other fire retardants. Do
not fail to keep the garage clean. Do
not permit cars to be stored in bams,
nor in other frame buildings with
wooden floors.”
A general observance of these rules
would result in fewer garage and oth
er fires with their consequent loss of
life and property.—Indiana Farmers’
Guide.
Steamer Picked Up By Cyclone.
The Norwegian steamer, Puna, was
driven 1,500 miles off her course by
a cyclone blizzard which raged for
four days while on a trip from New
York to St. Johns, N. F. One member
of the crew was washed overboard.
The coal became exhausted before
land was reached and all available
woodwork was burned.
Every man must educate himself.
His books and teacher are but helps;
the work is his.—Webster.
JUDGE BIGGS WILL
LEAD GARDNER FORCES
Raleigh Lawyer to Lead the Gardner
Forces in the Democratic Primary
For the Democratic Nomination for
Governor.—Gives His Reasons for
Taking Up the Fight.
Judge J. Crawford Biggs, of Ral
eigh, will be Max Gardner’s campaign
manager for the primary fight for the
nomination for Governor. Judge Biggs
will direct the campaign from Ral
eigh. He has had much experience in
politics and is regarded as an able
Democrat. He was a delegate to the
first Democratic National convention
that nominated Wilson for President.
In a statement given to the press
Judge Biggs gives his reasons for
taking charge of the Gardner cam
paign, as follows:
“I have agreed to manage the cam
paign of Lieutenant Governor Gard
ner for the nomination for Governor
in the State-wide primary to be held
in June because I know he is eminent
ly fitted for the discharge of the re
sponsible duties of this high office.
“He is in the prime of a vigorous
manhood. He is an experienced leg
islator, a wise counsellor | a successful
fanner and business man, thorough
ly in touch with the needs and aspira
tions of our people. He was educated
at the A. & E. College and the Uni
versity where he \fras a leader by rea
son of his manly qualities and intel
lectual endowments. Admitted to the
bar, he soon became one of the lead
ing members of the profession. After
completing a technical training at
the Statp College, he taught for sev
eral ye*rs at that institution, and
then located in his native county of
Cleveland, where he at once rose to
a position of leadership. Following
his agricultural training, he soon ac
quired large farming interests and
for some years he has been one of the
largest and most successful farmers
in this section of the State and he
is likewise a successful man in other
business enterprises.
“Mr. Gardner was first elected to
the State Senate in 1911 and again in
1916, where he stood for progressive
legislation and was honored by the
Senate in his second term by election
as president pro tern. So splendid
was his legislative record that he was
nominate^ by the Democratic Primary
in 1916 for Lieutenant Governor with
out opposition. As the presiding offi
cer of the Senate in the sessions of
1917 and 1919 his ability as a parli
mentarian was recognized by all, his
fairness and courtesy were always in
evidence and no better testimony of
his eminent fitness for the high office
of Governor could be desired than the
fact that most of those who have serv
ed with him in the Senate are enthu
siastically supporting him for eleva
tion from his present position to that
cf the Governorship.
“I am satisfied that his candidacy
will appeal to the favorable considera
tion of the Democratic voters because
his political and private life are clean;
his ability and fitnes# have been dem
onstrated. He is the candidate of no
faction of the party; if nominated and
elected he will do equal and exact jus
tice to all. Successful in his own af
fairs, he wilt bring to the discharge of
the State’s affairs the same fine exe
cutive qualities he has displayed in
the conduct of his own business.
“Always a Democrat, he has labor
ed in season and out of season for the
success of the party, giving his time
and labor ungrudgingly, to the end
that its principles- might prevail in
State and Nation.
Thoroughly in accord with the rec
ord and policies of the Democratic
party in the war, he supported by
speech and otherwise, the great war
measures.
“His friends present his candidacy
to the Democratic voters in the June
primary, confident that they will, in
their wisdom, make him the standard
bearer of the party in the approach
ing campaign, and his eloquence,
splendid abilities and fine campaign
ing qualities will assure the party a
great victory next November.”
In the Interest of the Consumer
Raleigh, Jan. 24.—The Department
of Justice under Mr. Palmer is mak
ing further effort at the publicity
that is the due of the consumer.
Speakers from Washington are to visit
Raleigh in early1 February and h
meeting is to be held February 10th,
at 8 o’clock in the House of Represen
tatives.
The members of the North Caro
lina Merchants Association expect to
be in Raleigh in full force. Is the
consumer interested, and are the wage
earner and the salaried man really
eager to hold up their-end of the ques
tion?
Business Interests, Women’s Organ
izations, Labor and Farming Inter
ests, Women’s Clubs, Fair Price Com
mittees, Chamber of Commerce, etc.,
are being invited to send representa
tives to this meeting.
IiOOXE NATIONAL PARK
NOW IS 150,000 ACRES
Asheville, Jan. 25.—The Boone pur
chase area containing 60,000 acres ac
tually acquired by the government
forestry service, and located on the
headwaters of Wilson’s creek and
John’s river in Avery and Caldwell
counties, and the Mount Mitchell pur
chase area of more than 90,000 acres,
actually acquired, located in McDow
ell, Yancey and Buncombe counties,
have been consolidated and proclaim
ed by President Wilson as the Boone
National forest.
More than 300,000 acres are includ
ed in the area specified’by the proc
lamation but almost half of this
amount is still owned by individuals.
The name Boone National forest has
been given this large boundary be
cause it was over these native forests
that the great hunter, Daniel Boone,
roamed for a number of years. The
reserve almost skirts the Boone Trail
highway in Wautauga county.—
Greensboro News.
Early Training in Citizenship.
The problem arising in the recon
struction period demand quite as much
devotion to country as those of the
war. Conditions of Social unrest can
only be settled by justice and right
training in citizenship. The kinder
garten provides this right training
early in life. The hope of our nation
lies in our children and all of the 4,
300.000 little ones of kindergarten age
should have this training which only
400.000 are now receiving.
The democratic kindergarten'is the
ideal place for first lessons in efficien
cy, adaptability, and good citizenship.
The games teach fair play, honesty
and consideration for the rights of
others; the patriotic songs and stories
sow the seed of love of country; the
block building, clay modeling and pa
per work lay the foundations of the
skilled mechanic and teach head and
hand to work together.
If more of our neglected little child
ren could have this splendid training
in honesty, efficiency and self-control,
there would be a tremendous saving
of money to the state in the mainten
ance of reformatories, prisons and
asylums. Our park benches contain
many pathetic'examples of dishonest,
inefficient, lawless men whose early
years were wasted. What better in
vestment can we make of our time,
our money and our effort than to fore
stall this lamentable result of neglect
,by early training in honesty, efficien
cy and adaptability, making citizens
who are an asset and not a liability to
the state ?
Appreciation of the kindergarten is
growing and parents all over the coun
try should work to secure its advant
ages for their little ones, all of whom
are entitled to receive them.—P. P.
Claxton, Commissioner of Education.
Johnston County’s First School Truck
Johnston county’s first school truck
to haul children to school was brought
here from Raleigh about the first of
the year. It was carried to Glendale
school in the northern part of the
county to a district just wes£ of Ken
ly. It hauled its first load of fifty
children Tuesday January 6th. The
truck has a splendid body on it with
seats lengthwise the body. The chil
dren enter from the rear end which
has steps. The manufacturer made a
mistake in putting a Ford truck out
fit under this good body. The engine
is large enough to pull the loads in a
city where the streets are paved and
the land is level but not on Johnston
coupty roads. The truck has the same
size engine as a Ford two passenger
automobile. It is plucky and does its
best but is not strong enough to pull
so many children. We hear that the
management has now limited the load
to twenty five children and really
wants to trade the truck. Sometimes
the larger boys have had to get out
of the truck and help push it up hill.
All it needs is a good strong truck
engine to pull it.
Hebrews Plan A University .
Noted Jewish 'scholars from all
parts of the world will meet soon in
Switzerland to prepare the foundation
of a Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The cornerstone of the university has
been laid already on top of the Mount
of Olives.
Thirtieth Division On Screen.
The war department of the United
States has ordered an intensive adver
tising campaign during the next few
weeks with a view to securing more
recruits. Wilmington is hoping to
have shown in all the theatres of that
city moving pictures of the Thirtieth
Division in action.
“Seats of the Mighty.”
“It’s a good thing a man does not
have to pay for but one seat on the
stock- exchange,” said a man in cot
ton town. “A seat on the exchange
sold recently for $109,000.”—Ex.
N. C. WOMEN MAY
VOTE NEXT FALL
Will Get "Right” before Next Elec
tion, Is Belief of Some—Just So
Majority of States Ratify Anthony
Amendment, N. C. Women Can Vote
Raleigh, Jan. 24.—Opinion prevails
that the women of North Carolina will
be able to vote in the general election
this fall, if not in the primaries that
precede the election.
This viewpoint is held by one of
the best posted constitutional lawyers
in North Carolina, who expressed
himself today. His name is not given,
because he gave his opinion over the
telephone, in response to a question
asked him from one of the state de
partments.
The question came up as to wheth
er, if a majority of the states ratified
the Anthony amendment and North
Carolina did not, the women of this
state rould vote in city, county and
state as well as in national elections.
The conclusion was reached that
whenever women can vote at all, un
der the constitution of the United
States, they can vote in any and all
elections, provided they are duly quali
fied. It was pointed out that if the
constitution says that sex shall be na
bar to suffrage, then women who can
vote in one election can vote in all.
Whether the suffragists will press
for ratification at the special session
has not been definitely announced.
There are some who, even though they
have not been avowed suffragists, fav
or the passage by the legislature of a
woman suffrage law, in order that it
cannot be said that North Carolina
was forced into the suffrage column
by the action of other states. The
weakness of this position, however, is
that the state’s suffrage laws cannot
be amended without an amendment to
the constitution, and by the time that
could be passed, the Susan B. Anthony
amendment would have gone into full
force.
No one can forecast whether the
North Carolina general assembly will
ratify the Anthony amendment. It is
probably more generally believed,
however, that it will, as it is now al
most a foregone conclusion that the
states ratifying the amendment will
be sufficient to append it to the con
stitution and that North Carolina will
not stand in the way of the tidal wave
of public sentiment.
It is generally believed that if the
women of the state are given the bal
lot before the primaries it will have
a bearing upon the gubernatorial
nomination, as one candidate is looked
upon as an avowed advocate of suf
frage.
That the enfranchisement of women
will affect the general political com
plexion of North Carolina is not
thought likely. The majority of them
no doubt, will vote the democratic
ticket, just like the majority of men
have been in the habit of voting since
reconstruction days.
Women’s influence will be felt most
largely in the selection of candidates
within the ranks of the major politi
cal parties. In the matter of law en
forcemerit, schools and other public
welfare measures, they contend they
are most interested.
Suffrage leaders vow they will see
to it that the double standard idea—
if such an idea exists—is abolished in
the courts; that when a woman is
sent to a reformatory the man in the
case must also be sent to a place of
correction. In school matters they
promise to take an active interest.
Further, they will, they say, give
more attention to the study of juve
nile delinquency than is being given
and will probe the enforcement of wo
man and child labor laws.—W. H.
Richardson, in News and Observer.
TRAINS COLLIDE AND
SEVERAL ARE KILLED.
Rear Sleeper Telescoped on Canadian
Pacific.—Many More Were Injur
ed.
North Bay, Ont., Jan. 25.—Fifteen
persons are dead and a large number
injured as the result of a collision
today between the two sections of the
Canadian Pacific express for Vancouv
er, which occurred about 11 miles east
of he1 e. The rear sleeper of the first
section, which was stalled, was tele
scoped by the locomotive of the second
section and eight passengers were
killed outright, seven dying later from
their injuries.
At the hospital where the injured
were taken it was stated that no fur
ther derths were expected among the
survivo s. The only names of the
dead which were available tonight
were tho*^ of Mrs. Peden and her twe
young sons, who were on their way to
Calgar:. The two boys were killed
outright and Mrs. Peden_ succumbed
later to her injuries.—Associated
Press.
It is the easiest thing in the world
for a man to deceive himself.—Ben
jamin Franklin.