SM1THFIELD PLANS
TO BUILD HOSPITAL
At A Meeting Tuesday Night the
Business Men of the Town Decided
to Build A Fifty Thousand Dollar
Hospital. A Nice Sum Subscribed at
This Meeting.
Smithfield took the first steps Tues
day night in a meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce to build a hospital.
A goodly number of the citizens were
present and showed a lively interest
in the subject of a hospital for the
town and community and Johnston
county. Mr. W. A. Cooper of Raleigh,
who has been a trustee of Rex Hospit
al for the past fifteen years, was pres
ent at the meeting and told something
about the work of a hospital and its
real worth to the community. He also
made some suggestions as to the or
ganization of plans to finance the
hospital. First, he suggested that a
company should be organized to furn
ish the money to secure the grounds,
building and equipment. Second, let
a second organization be formed to
be known as the Hospital Association,
and this association to assume con
trol of the hospital by lease or other
wise and manage it through a board
of trustees who shall appoint a sup
erintendent to manage it.
These suggestions were well receiv
ed and upon motion of Mr. T. S. Rags
dale the meeting decided to take up
the question along the lines suggest
ed. The motion as finally passed pro
vided for a corporation of $50,000
capital to build and equip a hospital
with two wards, an operating roam,
necessary offices and twelve to twenty
private rooms.' It also provided that
the stockholders should receive an an
nual rental. While it is not regarded
as a money making institution from
the start, it is planned to pay a divi
dend to those who furnish the money
to build it.
A subscription committee consist
ing of Messrs. F. H. Brooks, T. S.
Ragsdale, C. A. Creech, H. P. Stevens
and T. R. Hood was appointed and au
thorized to solicit funds with which
to build the hospital. Subscriptions
were taken for a little more than ten
thousand at the meeting Tuesday
night.
It is the intention of the soliciting
committee to make a thorough can
vass of the town and community for
subscriptions and also to try to inter
est the people of the entire county in
the move. Subscriptions will be re
ceived from anybody anywhere in the
county. It is the intention of the pro
moters of the hospital to make it a
memorial to the young men of Johns
ton county who went forth to fight for
their country in the world war. It
has been suggested that a tablet on
which the names of all those who gave
their lives for their country ssall be
inscribed.
A hospital is a needed institution
to any community and no more worthy
monument can be builded to those who
went heroically to (the front at their
nation’s call than an institution for
the aid of suffering humanity.
Dr. Register Dead.
One of the best known physicians
of the South, Dr. E. C. Register, of
Charlotte, died at a sanatorium there
Wednesday after a short illness with
pneumonia.
For a. number of years he has been
publishing the Charlotte Medical Jour
nal, which he founded and which is
regarded as one of the leading organs
of the medical fraternity. He had
held every office in the medical fra
ternity open to a southern doctor, and
he was considered perhaps the best
informed man in the south on the lite
rature of medicine. It is understood
that Dr. Register’s library which is
reported to be one of the largest pri
vate libraries in the south, has been
bequeathed to Trinity College.
Hughes Not a Candidate.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 17.—Charles E.
Hughes has written a letter to Coun
ty Clerk Frank Dewey asking him not
to proceed with plans to present Mr.
Hughes’ name in the state primary as
a candidate for the Republican nomi
nation for the presidency.
“I cordially appreciate your person
al interest and friendly sentiment you
express,” Mr. Hughes’ letter reads.
“I am utterly unv/illing, however, to
undertake a second candidacy.”
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McADOO WILL NOT PERMIT USE
OF HIS NAME ON BALLOTS
Advocates Sending Unrestricted Dele
gates to Democratic National Con
vention.—Believes That at This
Critical Time No Man Or Woman
Should Be Bound to Particular Can
didate.
New York, Feb. 18.—William G'bbs
McAdoo announced today that he
would not permit his name to be used
on presidential primary ballots in the
various states and that he advocated
the sending of uninstructed delegates
to the democratic national convention.
The former secretary of the treasury
said he believed the highest construc
tive leadership can best be obtained
if the national interest “is not sub
merged in a contest of individual can
didates.”
“Personally,” Mr. McAdoo continu
ed, “I would be delighted if the next
national convention might actually be
a great democratic conference here
the utmost freedom of action should
prevail and where the motive of high
service alone should control.”
The obligations of citizenship in
a democracy are supreme, he said, and
therefore he should “regard it as the
imperative duty of any man to accept
a nomination if it should come to him
unsolicited.”
“I am not seeking the nomination,”
the letter read, “and am reluctant to
do anything that would create the ap
pearance of a candidacy.”—Associated
Press.
MAD DOG MADE A RAID
IN PLEASANT GROVE
Bit A Number of Other Dogs and One
Boy and Was Later Killed—Not
Known W’here He Came From.
A correspondent wrote us a few
days ago about the raid of a mad dog
made through Pleasant Grove town
ship. After fighting and biting a
number of dogs and one boy the dog
was pursued by some men on a Ford
car and killed near Rehoboth church.
We have heard of no danger befalling
the boy that was bitten. The dog
failed to bring the blood.
Since this rabid dog bit a number of
other dogs on his route through Pleas
ant Grove the people of the section
through which he passed should
watch very carefully every dog they
meet. The better plan would be to
kill every dog that is suspected of
having been bitten. One child’s life
is worth all the dogs of the county.
There is a law on the statute books
touching such cases and the people
should seek to know something of its
provisions and govern themselves ac
cordingly.
The Dog Law.
Section ,3305, of the North Carolina
Revisal of 1908, reads as follows: “If
the owner of any dog shall know, or
have good reason to believe, that his
dog, or any dog belonging to any per
son under his control, has been bitten
by a mad dog, and shall neglect or re
fuse immediately to kill the same, he
shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty
dollars to him who will sue therefor;
and the offender shall be liable to pay
all damages which may be sustained
by any one, in his property or person,
by the bite of any such dog, and shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined
not more than fifty dollars or impris
oned not more than thirty days.”
GENERAL NEWS.
Coca Cola dividend of one dollar on
each of the 500,000 shares of stock
was declared at the meeting of the
directors held in Atlanta Tuesday.
Five enlisted men were drowned in
the sinking of a naval water barge
Wednesday off the Cuban coast. No
details of the sinking have been given.
Women voters are being urged to
line up with some party but not to be
come “regulars” and go to the polls
as mere endorsers of platforms others
have written.
Albert Loner, secretary and treas
urer of steel and iron mills in Illinois,
was arrested in Chicago Tuesday
charged with bribing the internal rev
enue collector, giving him $15,000 to
obviate payment of $150,000 income
tax.
The police department of New York
City put through its biggest financial
bargain Wednesday wjjen it purchased
the Penobscot, a steam ship, for one
dollar. The Penobscot was built
three years ago at a cost of $400,000.
It will take the place of the police
boat, Patrol, which has seen 20 years
of service in the New York harbor.
ASKS HELP FOR
STARVING ORPHANS
Judge Brooks, Chairman for Armeni
an and Syrian Relief Campaign,
Calls on Johnston County Sunday
Schools to Aid in This Worthy
Cause.
I have finally agreed to accept the
Chairmanship in this County for the
Near East Relief Fund, which was
last year known as the Armenian and
Syrian Relief Fund, under Hon. Geo.
H. Bellany, State Chairman.
The^ are about one and a half mil
lion people who are in inimate dan
ger of dying from starvation during
the winter unless relief is sent them
soon. There are 250,000 helpless
children who could be saved by quick
action from America. These people
have suffered untold persecution from
the hands of the miserable Turks.
Their men were killed, their women
taken into harems, and their people
driven from their homes. Recent re
ports coming to America, are that the
women were stripped of their cloth
ing and driven across the desert by
the herds. The sands of the desert
are_ strown with the dead carcasses
of these people, who would drop by
the way side, faint from hunger and
fatigue, and left there to die. The
people of this country were the first
Christian nations of the earth, and
they have suffered untold hardships
for the sake of their religion. The
people of America cannot appreciate
what it means to be a Christian in
that land. It is hard to believe the
stories that are brought to America
from these wretched people. They
still cling to their faith in God, and
hold out their pitiful hands to Ameri
ca for help.
Johnston county is asked to pro
vide for 64 orphans. It will cost only
$60.00 a year, $5.00 a month, to care
for an orphan in the Near East. There
should be no trouble to raise twice
that much money in Johnston county,
for this worthy cause. The Presby
terian Sunday school of Smithfiold, a
(few Sundays ago pledged to take care
of 12 orphans, and the Baptist Sunday
school did as well or a little better.
I want to ask every Sunday school
in the county, Baptist, Methodist,
Presbyterian, and all denominations
to take a special collection during the
month of February, either the 22nd
or 29th, for this worthy cause. The
money could be paid cash or it could
be paid at the rate of $5.00 per month.
Quite a number of Sunday school
classes have agreed to pay $5.00 a
month this year for the maintenance
of this work. Anyone desiring litera
ture on this subject, as well as pledge
cards, can get the same by writing me
or calling at my office.
Feb. 19th, 1920.
F. H. BROOKS,
County Chairman Near East Fund.
CORINTH NEWS.
Wendell, Feb. 19.—Our school has
been stopped because of the flu but be
gan again Monday, February 16.
Miss Emma Davis spent the week
end with her sister, Mrs. Freeman
Thomason of Pleasant Hill.
Mr. Weldon Liles was among the
sick list for the past week but is out
again.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Davis motored
up to Wendell to see the eye specialist
Tuesday.
Miss Flonnie Liles has returned
from a visit to her sister Mrs. E. P.
Hales of Hales Chapel. We are glad
to see her home again.
We are glad jto see the farmers of
our community progressing so well.
Some have painted their buildings
apd £ome are erecting new dwellings.
Our school has organized a literary
society and has a fine program for
Friday afternoon. It is hoped the
attendance will be large.
Miss Verna Hocutt is home again
after an extended trip to Durham.
Mr. Albert Davis who spent the
past two weeks in Wilson county with
friends and relatives has returned.
Master Ronald Hocutt is out again
after a serious case of the flu.
It is hoped a large crowd will be
out for the services Saturday and Sun
day which will be held by Rev. C. H.
Cashwell. ~
EIG SIX.
The League of Women Voters, suc
cessor to the National Suffrage Asso
ciation, has -endorsed the League of
Nations but rejected universal military
training.
COTTON STORAGE
WAREHOUSE COMPANY
Organization Perfected Wednesday
Afternoon Under the Charter Which
Was Secured Last Week. Seventeen
Directors Named.
The stockholders of the Cotton
Storage Warehouse Company met in
the court house here Wednesday af
ternoon and organized under the char
ter which Messrs. J. W. Stephenson,
J. D. Parker and A. M. Johnson se
cured last week. A full attendance of
the stockholders was present and the
following board of directors was chos
en after the corporation adopted a
constitution and by-laws:
S. T. Liles, J. D. Parker, S. P. Hon
eycutt, 'S. T. Price, J. Rufus Creech,
C. M. Wilson, A. M. Johnson, W. H.
Flowers, E. G. Holland P. E. Johnson,
J. E. Yelvington, J. W. Stephenson,
W. H. Oliver, A. M. Rose, W. H. Aus
tin, W. N. Barden and Robt. A. San
ders.
The directors met at once and elect
ed the following officers to serve out
the present fiscal year which was made
to end June 30:
S. T. Liles, Wilson’s Mills, president
J. W. Stephenson, Smithfield, vice
president.,
A. M. Johnson, Smithfield, Manager
and Secretary.
R. P. Holding, treasurer.
Board of Directors:
Finance Committee: W. H. Austin,
J. W. Stephenson and A. M. Johnson.
Building Committee: W. H. Austin,
J. W. Stephenson, A. M. Johnson.
Mr. T. B. Parker, of Raleigh, State
Superintendent of cotton warehouses,
was present with Mr. J. M. Workman,
the State and Federal warehouse
specialist, and explained the steps to
be taken to come under the warehouse
acts.
BETHANY NEWS.
On February 14 at half past three
o’clock in the afternoon, the spirit
of Mrs. Lena Creech, wife of Mr.
Spurgeon Creech took its flight from
this world to God who gave it. Only
24 years old, it seemed as if she had
just begun to live when God called
her. Pneumonia following influenza
was the cause of her death. All that
loved ones could do was done but God
called her to go. Her funeral was
preached by her pastor, Rev. W. D.
Stancil at Bethany church, of which
she was a devoted member, on Sun
day where a large crowd of surviving
ones gathered to pay the last tribute
of respect. The pall bearers were
Messrs. James Moore, Robert Pittman,
W. W. Mumford, James Woodard, and
B. B. Batten. She leaves a heart
broken husband, two small children,
the youngest three weeks old, a fath
er, mother, five brothers, four sisters,
and a large crowd of friends to mourn
their loss. ■ But we feel that cur loss
is her gain.
The wife of Mr. Fred Smith who
lives on the Elwood farm died Tues
day, February 17, of influenza. She
leaves a husband and several small
children. /
The families of Mr. Joe Cockrel and
Mr. Milton Price, some of Mr. Bill
Bunn’s family, Mr. Jacob Creech,
Misses Sadie and Ruby Creech, are
sick of influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Creech of Durham
have been spending sometime in thi£
section.
Mr. Jacob Tyner, of Four Oaks,
visited Mrs. Ora Creech last Saturday
Mr. Julian Creech has returned
home after spending some time in
Ohio.
Mr. Austin Price, who has been sick
of influenza at Micro has returned
home.
Price’s school stopped Tuesday and
the teachers have gone home.
B.
Commission as Judge to Cranmer.
In compliance with his announced
determination, Governor Bickett Mon
day forwarded to Mr. E. H. Cranmer,
of Southport, his commission as judge
of the supreme court of the Eighth
judicial District to succeed Judge W.
P. Stacy, whose resignation reached
the Governor Sunday.
Taft to Be in Winston-Salem.
Former President Taft will deliver
a lecture in Winston-Salem Friday ev
ening, March 19, under the auspices
of the Rotary Club and Salem College.
His subject has not been announced.
WILSON’S ACTION CAUSES
MUCH SURPRISE IN LONDON
President's Reapper*ranee As Deter
mined Party in Peace Negotiations
Construed As Vlmost As Threaten
ing As Famous Order to Hate Mi ip
Ready to Take Him Home.
London, Feb. 1(5.—President Wil
son’s note to the Peace Conference on
the Adriatic question has furnished
London political and newspaper cir
cles with a surprise and interest sur
passing that evoked by the Wilson
Lansing correspondence. The Lansing
incident was regarded as an American
family affair, toward which foreigners
should be merely disinterested specta
tors. The President’s reappearance
as a determined party in the peace
negotiations was construed as almost
as threatening as his order for the
George Washington to be prepared to
take him home from France.
The first versions of the event gave
it the aspect of an ultimatum, which
meant that the council of the allies
must stand by the terms which Presi
dent Wilson accepted in December, or
America would shake the dust of Eu
ropean affairs off her feet altogether
and also that the council had framed
a stiffly worded reply adhering to its
January offer to the Jugo-Slavs.
Later information appeared to soft
en the •stiff-necked positions created
to both parties. This consisted of
messages from Washington that too
sweeping a construction has been giv
en to the President’s words, fortified
by news from Downing street that
the council had not finished compos
ing its answer. Nevertheless Premier
Millerand| cheerful observation to the
reporters on Friday—“there is not a
cloud ahead”—is taken as purely dip
lomatic optimism.—Associated Press.
PRIVATE CONTROL ON TRIAL.
Government Ownership of Railroads
an “Experiment in Socialism Neces
sitated by the War,” Says Hoover.
The return of the railroads to pri
vate ownership on March first will
mean the placing of private operation
on its “final trial,” in the opinion of
Herbert Hoover, expressed Tuesday
night in his inaugural address as pres
ident of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers, at New York. At
the same time Mr. Hoover attacked
government operation of either rail
roads or shipping as “experiment in
socialism necessitated by the war,” to
which there were many fundamental
objections.
“No scheme of political appoint
ment,” Mr. Hoover said, “has ever yet
been devised that will replace compe
tition in its selection of ability and
character. Both shipping and rail
ways have today the advantage of
many skilled personnel, sifted out in
a hard school of competition and even
then the government operation of
these enterprises is not proving satis
factory. Therefore, the ultimate in
efficiency that would arise from the
deadening paralysis of bureaucracy
has not yet had full opportunity for
development. Already we can show
that no government under pressure of
ever present political or sectional in
terests can properly conduct the risks
of extension and improvement, or can
be free from local pressure to conduct
unwarranted services in industrial en
terprise.”
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee to Meet.
The members of the State Demo
cratic executive committee will meet
in Raleigh Tuesday, March 2, at 8 p.
m., to fix date for holding precinct
meetings and county conventions of
the party throughout the State, and
issue the call for the State conven
tion, which is expected to meeet some
time in April to formulate the Demo
cratic platform and make ready for
the drive against the opposition later
in tiie year.
Mrs. Pankhurst in Kinston-Goldsboro
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, perhaps
the most famous woman suffragist in
the world, of England, now touring
parts of the United States, delivered
an address in Kinston Wednesday ev
ening in the basement of the First
Baptist church under the auspices of
the Young Ladies Circle of the con
gregation. Her subject was “The
Woman Versus Bolshevism.”
Tuesday evening Mrs. Pankhurst
addressed a large audience in the
court house auditorium at Goldsboro.
KAISER’S PRESENCE
REGARDED DANGEROUS
Fatally Ineffective Supervision of For
mer Emperor of Germany, Allies
State in Reply.—Immense Sacrifices
Of Allies Entitle Them to Ask Re
Consideration.
London, Feb. 10.—The new note
sent by the Allies to Holland again
urges the danger of the permanent
presence of the former Emperor un
der what is declared to be fatally in
effective supervision of a few kilo
metres from the German frontier. It
begs Holland to reconsider the ques
tion of asylum for the ex-ruler.
The note contends that the immense
sacrifices of the Allies entitle them to
ask the Netherlands to consider the
Allied viewpoint, but the powers do
not ask that she depart from her tra
ditions and policy. The powers point
out that the League of Nations has
not yet reached a state of develop
ment permitting it, or any tribunal
created by it, to take the needful
prompt and effective action.
The note expressed surprise at the
absence of any word of disapproval
of the former Kaiser’s crimes in the
Dutch reply, and reminds the Queen’s
government that by adherence to its
viewpoint it would assume the direct
responsibility of sheltering a criminal
from justice and for that propaganda
which is dangerous to Europe and the
whole world.—Associated Press.
WILSON’S RECENT ILLNESS
If RINGS SOME PROPOSALS
Resolutions Offered In Congress To
Determine Disability of The Pres
ident.
Washington, Feb. 18.—President
Wilson’s extended illness and the at
tendant discussion as to whether he
was incapacitated for continuing his
duties gave rise today to two propos
als in the House to clarify and sup
plement constitutional provision on
the subject It was maeje clear, how
ever, that neither proposal was aimed
at President Wilson, the intent being
to define the procedure for future
emergencies beyond any possibility of
misconstruction or partisan action.
The first proposal was in the form
of a resolution for a constitutional
amendment, introduced by Represen
tative Fess, of Ohio, chairman- of the
Republican Congressional Committee,
proposing to have the Supreme Court
determine the ability of a President
to discharge his duties, whenever au
thorized by a concurrent resolution of
Congress. If Congress was not sitting
when the emergency arose, the Vice
President would be authorized to call
a special session.
“Unless the constitution expressly
states that Congress shall be the
judge of the disability of the execu
tive,” Mr. Fes3 said, “it is argued that
it can not safely be allowed by infer
ence, especially would this be true
where the two departments might be
long to different political parties.
“The uncertainty of the constitu
tional question would strongly argue
the wisdom, if not necessity of an
amendment pointing the way out of a
possible embarrassment.”
Virtually the sarrfe procedure was
outlined in a bill introduced by Rep
resentative Rogers, Republican of
Massachusetts, and referred to the
Judiciary Committee along with the
Fess resolution.—Associated Press.
STATE NEWS.
Hamlet will vote ip March on $100,
000 bonds for school improvement.
The Farmville school board has let
contract to J. W. Stout for erection of
high school containing 24 rooms to
cost $125,000.
East Durham Baptist church of
which Rev. H. F. Brinson, formerly
pastor at Smithfield, is pastor, plans
to erect a building to cost $40,000.
The County Home in Wilson coun
ty has been sold at auction and on
land reserved for the purpose it is
the plan to erect a modem home.
Kinston business women are plan
ning the organization of a Chamber
of Commerce. It may have another
name but its purposes will be the
same.
A triple burial occurred in Greens
boro Tuesday when Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Pressley and their only child
Gracie, were interred in Green Hill
cemetery. All three were victims of
influenza and pneumonia.