North Carolina Newspapers

TWO KILLED WHEN TRAIN LEAVES TRACK Engine and Several Cars Thrown from Rails Between Kenly and Lucama Friday Afternoon When Atlantic Coast Line Train Met With Serious Mishap. Engineer Robert Wilson, of Rocky Mount, and George Kent, his negro fireman, were killed and fifteen pas sengers were badly shaken up and suffered minor injuries when the Ha vana Special of the Atlantic Coast Line, known- as train No. 86, north bound, was derailed two miles south of Lucama Friday afternoon, says a dispatch to the daily papers. The cause of the derailment has not been determined. The train was composed of 14 cars, ten of which were Pullmans. Eight cars were derailed and the mail and baggage cars were thrown from the right of way, one in a field on the right and the other on the left. The engine left the track, went down the right embankment and turn ed turtle and the tender was turned up on its side. The cab was thrown in a ditch on the left carrying with it Engineer Robert Wilson, of Rocky Mount, who was so badly scalded and mangled that he died in a short while after the accident. Gecyge Kent, the negro fireman whose home was in Wilson county, was killed instantly. A special was sent out from Rocky Mount and the passengers were taken to that city. The tracks are blocked and the trains are being detoured. McADOO WOULD REDUCE BURDENSOME TAXATION He Proposes Lightening War Load by Taking Off a Billion Immediately— He Outlines His Plan. Washington, March 4.—An imme diate billion-dollar reduction in fed eral taxes was suggested in a state ment issued in Washington Thursday by William G. McAdoo, former secre tary of the treasury. The present tax burden is too great, he said, and is “having an injurious effect on busi ness.’ Mr. McAdoo proposed that collec tion of a tax to establish a sinking fund for retirement of the war- debt, which was recommended by former Secretary Glass to begin with the fis cal year 1920, be prepared for two years and that the deferred payments of European interest be funded un til Europe is in position to pay its in terest charges. “By discontinuing purchases of lib erty bonds for retirement under pro visions of existing law, the treasury would be relieved of a large burden now reflected in the floating debt and which otherwise will have £o be made up by taxation,” said Mr. McAdoo. “It would seem that reduction of our tax bill for the next two years in this manner could be accomplished and that it would involve the issuance of additional bonds to the extent of probably not more than one and a half billion dollars. “I trust that the ways and means committee of the house of represen tatives in which all tax measures must, of course, originate, will con sider this question in its broad relax ations to our general economic wel fare. The immediate burden of tax ation is too great. It is having an in jurious effect on business. It is a contributing factor of large propor tions in the high cost of living. Its inevitable tendency is to stifle new en terprise and to throttle initiative. It is both unscientific and inequitable. In view of the approaching decline in our export trade with the inevitable re duction in the volume of business in the country, it will become doubly im portant to revise and to reduce taxa tion in order that business may not have to carry an unnecessary tax bur den throughout this period of read justment.”—Associated Press. THE CONSTITUTION GREATER THAN THE INDIVIDUAL The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Govern ment. But the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Gov ernment, presupposes the duty of ev ery individual to obey the established Government.—President Washington. EX-CAPTAIN OPPOSES BONUS. He Tells the Committee Satisfaction Of Having Fought Reward Enough For Vets. Washington, D. C., March 4.—Flat opposition to financial relief legisla tion for former service men, the first to be expressed by a former soldier, was asserted today before the House ways and means committee by Walter W. Bums of Green Point, New York, a former artillery captain. “A mon ey handout” to the ex-service men, he said, “would simply be thrown away.” Practically no former soldiers or sailors are without employment, Bums said, adding that most of them do not know the effect payment of a bonus would have. Outstanding gov ernment obligations would depreciate if a bond issue was authorized, Burns said. All soldiers would take a money grant if Congress authorized it, he told the committee. Representative Rainey, Democrat, Illinois, replied that this was true even of members of Congress, “who talk and vote against salaries and mileage allot ments but always take the money.” Bums contended that the satisfac tion of having fought to defend the country was sufficient reward. “If the war had continued two weeks more every American soldier would have been so tickled they wouldn’t want any bonus,” he added. Representative Garner, Democrat, Texas, said not a former service man in his district had written in favor of the proposed financial relief. “They don’t know you are in Con gress then,” a representative of a sol dier organization seated in the com mittee room interjected. Even the American Legion is divid ed on the question, Bums said, adding that he was a member of that organi zation and had talked with many oth ers opposed to the Legion’s plans. Those who need a bonus would squan der it and those who don’t need it would put it in a bank he argued. Reclamation of arid lands in the West and South with preferential right to all former service men to en try on existing drained public lands was urged by a delegation headed by Representative Smith, Idaho. MRS. JOHN HENRY BONER DIES Widow of North Carolina Poet Passes O n Anniversary of Husband’s Death. Winston-Salem,. March 6.—Mrs. Boner, widow of the late John Henry Boner, a well known poet and literary man, died at a hospital here today, aged 76. Her husband died March 6, 1903, just 17 years ago today. Mrs. Boner was a daughter of the late Eld ridge and Nancy Smith, of Raleigh, and was married to Mr. Boner in that city in 1870. Soon after the marriage they went to Washington, D. C., where the husband secured a position of proof reader in the Government print ing office. Later he was literary edi tor of the New York World, resigning his position with that paper to go with the Literary Digest. He died in Washington, the remains being brought to his native city here for interment. During their life Mr. and Mrs. Moner entertained many noted literary men.—News and Observer. Mrs. Boner was a half sister of Mr. E. G. Smith of this city. Mr. Smith’s father was twice married and was the father of nineteen children—14 by his first wife and five by his last. Roper to Quit His Office April 1. Washington, March 4.—Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal reve nue, will retire from office April 1. There was no indication as to the identity of his successor, although it was understood that Secretary Hous ton would make a recommendation to the President next week. It was regarded as certain that the job of collecting the nation’s revenues would not go to any man now in the bureau. Stock Brings Highest Price on Record New York, March 4.—The highest price ever recorded for the sale of one share of stock, in the history of the New York stock exchange was paid yesterday when ten shares of Atlantic Refining company common stock sold for $1,350 a share. The previous rec ord was made May 9, 1901 when Northern Pacific touched $1,000 dur ing a panic. EDWIN SMITH SANDERS DIED HERE SATURDAY Passed Away Quietly at His Home— He Was In His Fifty-third Year Funeral Held at Methodist Church Sunday. While his friends knew that Mr. Ed. S. Sanders was afflicted with Brights disease they were unprepared for the shock they received Saturday morning when the news was circulat ed that he was dead. He passed away peacefully in the early morning hours. When he was called for break fast his little son could not wake him. When Mrs. Sanders went to his bed side she saw that he was dead. He had been dead only a short time. For the past two or three months he had been in rather poor health and had not been at his post at the San ders Montor Company where he had been employed since he returned from Missouri a little over a year ago. The day before his death his condition ap peared to be slightly improved. He had not taken his bed but was able to be up around the house and was down town a few days ago. He was buried Sunday afternoon, in the Smithfield Cemetery his funeral being conducted from the Methodist church at three-thirty by his pastor, Rev. S. A. Cotton. The pall-bearers were Judge W. S. Stev ens, Judge F. H. Brooks, Messrs. T. R. Hood, H. L. Skinner, T. C. Young, J. D. Spiers, N. B. Grantham and Harry P. Stevens. Misses Bettie Lee San ders, Emily Smith, Corinna Sanders and Bessie Sanders, nieces of the de ceased, carried the beautiful'floral of ferings and placed them upon the mound. Mr. Edwin Smith Sanders, son of Willis H. and Lucinda Smith Sanders was born September 23, 1867, near Elizabeth church, six miles west of Smithfield and spent the larger part of his life near the scene of his birth, having been a resident of Smithfield for the past twenty years with the ex ception of about one year spent in Missouri. For quite a number of years he was city clerk and tax collector for the town of Smithfield and made a faithful and obliging officer. Two years ago he went to Missouri where he spent about a year. Returning here he accepted a position with the Sanders Motor Company which he held until forced to give it up on ac count of his health. He was a mem ber of the Methodist church and was a good man and had many friends who sorrow at his going. Mr. Sanders was twice married, the first time to Miss Evie Webb, of Franklinton, on February 20, 1892, who died several years ago. To this union were bom Robert W., of Louis burg; George R., now a student at Trinity College; Carrie Broadie, a student at Hollins Woman’s College, Hollins, Va.; Wilmer, who died in infancy; and Edwin, of Smithfield. Mr. Sanders was married the second time to Mrs. Della Kevil-Stevens on July 22, 1916, who survives him, with one child, Margaret. In addition two sisters and four brothers survive him as follows: Mrs. A. M. Sanders, of Smithfield; Mrs. J. Henry Smith, of Elevation; MeSsrs. Willis H. San ders, of Smithfield, John F., Claude and Robert A., of the Elizabeth sec tion. Less Than Sixth People in Full Vigor. At a recent meeting of the Ameri can Public Health Association in New York, Dr. W. S. Rankin, the president, made some startling statements with reference to the physical and mental health of the population of this coun try. Of the 110,000,000 citizens of this country, 45,000,000 are physically im perfect; 15,000,000 die annually; 3, 000,000 are in bed all the time, 1,000, 000 have tuberculosis, 2,500,000 con tract venereal diseases each year, from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 are cases of hookworm and malaria. Only 37, 500,000 are fairly healthy and 19,500, 000 in full vigor. With all our vaunt ed support of higher education insti tutions, it is interesting, perhaps sur prising, to find that there are more persons in the insane saylums in this country than in all the colleges and universities. It also is estimated that the former cost more to maintain than do the latter.—The Independent. It is a noble sight to see an honest man cleave his own heart in twain and fling away the baser part of it.— Charles Reade. BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO A GOOD MAN Hunter Creech Writes an Appreciation Of K. L. Barbour, the “First Citizen of Fbur Oaks”—A Friend, A Real Man, A True Neighbor. To the Editor: The news of the death of Mr. K. L. Barbour, of Four Oaks, was delayed in reaching me. In the coming years there will be those who will be searching through the old pages of The Herald—seeking for information about such men as Mr. Barbour. If I could but pay, in some small way, a tribute to him I would be happy; but, far more important, I would like to register on the pages of The Herald, for the benefit of posteri ty, some few things about Mr. Bar bour that I have not yet seen clearly mentioned. Born and reared within two blocks of Mr. Barbour’s home, during my early life I saw him almost as fre quently as I did the morning sun. I grew up to manhood, respecting and admiring him as a citizen, a friend, a real man and a true neighbor—in every sense of the word. Mr. Barbour can truly be called the first citizen of Four Oaks. He was, before the town was. “Barbour’s Grove” was known to all the country side as a hospitable halting place, long before the little village was in corporated. The constructors of the “short-cut” skirted his grove with what is now the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. They quenched their thirst with the clear, cool water of his old-fashioned well, cheered their lagging spirits with the drippings from his cider press, lay down be neath his majestic trees while Aeolus chased the summer’s heat away. The fleeting years watched the passing of the old cider press, and the cdd-fashioned well gave way to the mote modem pump; but, the gen uine, open-hearted, old-fashioned hos pitality remained with him until his death. When the railroad was completed, fond officials halted in the grove that had given them shade and comfort. They picked out a most beautiful aok tree that rose from the ground to the height of about ten feet in one splen did body,—then branched off in four stalwart trees that spread their reach ing branches to the clear blue of a Carolina sky. They said, “This town shall be called Four Oaks.” And, so it was. The old tree, which stood right in front of Mr. Barbour's home, became diseased and died. As a child, how often, I laboriously climbed to the top of the old stump. I watched it through the years, as visitors to the little town would tfsit “Barbour’s Grove” and take a souvenir from the old stump, and, finally, as it passed back into dust. “Barbour’s Grove” will long be re membered as the scene of many de lightful picnics, public speakings, camp-meetings, hobby-horses, lawn parties—it will be more fondly re membered as the place where so many of the children of the little town spent delightful hours in play. “Barbour’s Grove” has meant to the community what “The Commons” or the little “Park” means to so many other small towns. And, always, one knew that in the house at the back of the grove lived a kindly neighbor—a man whose heart pulsated with friendly feelings. In fruit season, a child seldom went to the Barbour home but what he ate of the fruit of the orchard. During her life time, the good wife of Mr. Barbour vied with him and shared the pleasure of keeping “open house” to the neighbors. Well do I remember the old apple ’"tree whose branches hung over the fence on railroad street. Mr. Bar bour generally conceded that the fruit which hung over the street belonged to the desirous passers-by. As a boy, when I wanted a mule to plow the little garden or to dc some hauling, usually, Mr. Barboui was the generous neighbor who ac commodated. Many are the times I picked cottor for him—my remuneration was nol solely the established price per hun dred, but free right to eat of tht grapes that grew on his vines, tht apples that fell from his trees, and the luscious melons that covered his well-kept and spacious patches. The closing years of his life wert BIG-VISIONED MEN NEEDED America Must Do Its Part to Main tain Peace of the World, Says Palmer. There never was a time which so needed big visioned and purposeful men who can rise beyond their im mediate environment into the clear at mosphere in which live the highest ideals, says A. Mitchell Palmer, at torney general, in Leslies. Problems are pressing upon us now with insis tent demand for solution, which will test the capacity of the coming gene rations to serve Christian civilization in a way that men of the past have never been tested. The peace of the world, with all it carries for the hap piness of the myriad millions of the earth’s people, is in the balance now, to be won or lost by the wisdom, the fidelity and the industry of men who today dream that the world will some time be a place where all men may live their own lives with assurance that not by might but by right, not by force but by common consent, will they re ceive that share of the world’s wealth and the happiness of living which the Creator designed His people to enjoy. Nothing that men may do is any longer the concern only of the actor himself, but affects the entire human race. The problems with which you must grapple no matter how restrict ed your sphere of activity may seem to you to be, will always have relation to the new conditions ci’eated by the closeness of all peoples to each other. It is a disturbing thought that there are so many people who fail to understand what America stands for and to realize the responsibilty which attaches to its leadership in free gov ernment. There are eminent American citizens of great intelligence and un doubted patriotism who preach the gospel of aloofness from the rest of the world which present-day condi tions make absolutely impossible. Neither the safety of the republic nor the happiness of the people who dwell beneath its aegis will be served by a narrow nationalism which refuses to be responsible to the currents of thought and action elsewhere in the world, which may affect ^us at any moment as they touched us in the world war and compelled our inter vention. We cannot any longer play the laggard’s part. We must do our share toward maintaining the peace of the world if only for our own sake, because every time the peace is up set, wherever the trouble may come, the reaction affects us and our inter ests.—Philadelphia Ledger. TWO GERMAN STOAWAYS LAND AT WILMINGTON Former Soldiers in German Army— Lived On Bread and Water For Sixteen Days. Wilmington, N. C., March 4.—Two German stowaways, Herman Leh mann and Joseph Wrann, both of whom are former soldiers in the Ger man army, arrived here today on the steamer Chickasaw, after subsisting on bread and water for sixteen days. The men are being held awaiting the arrival of an immigration inspector from Norfolk. With a view to reaching Baltimore, where they claim to have friends, the Germans slipped on board the Chick asaw at Nordham with twelve loaves of bread each and a two gallon bucket of water. On this they subsisted for twelve days until their water supply gave out, and then went four days without water. They were almost in sane of thirst when they made their presence known to the ship’s officers The reports come that a severe snow storm prevailed in the Blowing Rock section Sunday, the mantle ir some places being four feet deep. saddened by affliction. The deadly ravages of paralysis seized on to his earthly temple, shook it, and left hinr abiding his time in physical pain anc misery. But, not one time did I evei hear him complain, and I remembei the last time I saw him—how his face wore a smile, happy to see { young neighbor who had remembere< him enough to stop by to see him foi a few minutes. As neighbor, friend, citizen—his ex ample is worthy of emulation. Only in the stretches of time wil it dawn upon the people as to his rea and intrinsic value to the community which he sponsored and in which hi lived. F. HUNTER CREECH , New York, March 4. SMITHFIELD STEMMERY ELECTS OFFICERS Material for Building Being Placed On the Grounds—J. H. B. Tomlin son President of New Concern. The stockholders of the Smithfield Stemmery Incorporated, held a meet ing. last week and organized under the charter which had already bee* secured from the Secretary of State. The following board of directors were chosen: J. H. B. Tomlinson, H. L. Skinner, F. K. Broadhurst, J. A. Wellons and R. C. Gillett. Mr. Tomlinson was elected presi dent and Capt. Skinner was elected secretary-treasurer. A lot has been secured on Caswell street near the railroad and material is now being placed on the ground for the building. It is the intention of the company to have the building completed and equipped with the prop er machinery for a complete re-dry ing plant in plenty of time for next fall’s tobacco crop. KENLY NEWS We regret to learn of the illness of Mrs. P. H. Etheridge and her mother, Mi-s. Crawford. We wish for them both a speedy recovery. Last Friday night Miss Ila Lamm, of Lucama, became the bride of Mr. Edgar Bell, of Kenly. Mr. D. W. Sasser has accepted the position as general manager of Nar ron Central Railroad Company and is erecting a depot in Kenly. Mr. Fletcher Hill has been elected secretary and Miss Essie Sasser treas urer of the Narron Central Railroad Company. We are very glad to learn that Mr. Charlie Watson is recovering from a serious illness. Mrs. L. G. Gaylor left last week for Tennessee where she will be the guest of her brother, Mr. Preston Peacock. Saturday, March the sixth, the Nar ron Central Railroad Company’s en gine ran off the track at Little Mill switch. No one was hurt. Miss Bertha Edgerton* spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Edgerton. Everyone is glad to see Mrs. W. T. Bailey out again. Miss Inez Watson has been confined to her bed for several days. Miss Nellie Ballance has returned home from Raleigh where she attend ed King’s Business College. Kenly, N. C. In Memory of Little Rudolph Benson. On Sunday night February 1st as the death angel was gathering little gems for the Master’s kingdom, he slipped quietly and unseen into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lundy L. Ben son of Pleasant Grove township, and carried home to heaven the spirit of their baby, Rudolph. Little Rudolph was just one year six months and four days old, but during his short stay on earth, he had endeared himself to all those who knew him. He was tak en sick with croup on January 31st and died February 1. It is so hard to give up such a sweet and loving baby as little Rudolph was. To know him was to love him. He. leaves a father, mother and one little sister to mourn their loss, hav ing had one little brother to cross over the river of death five years ago. He was laid to rest February 2 by scores of sorrowing friends and rela tives at the Langdon family grave yard. A precious one from them is gone A voice we love is stilled A place is vacant in their home That never can be filled. L. N. P. Fundamentals of Liberty. This Governmertt, this offspring of our choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and ■ mature deliberation, completely free ■ in its principles, in the distribution of i its powers, uniting security with ener , gy, and containing within itself a pro [ vision for its own amendment, has a ■ just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, . compliance with the laws, acquies cence in its measures, are duties en [ joined by the fundamental maxims of l Liberty.—George Washington. Biscuits filled with homemade butter Have an extra added charm; There’s a way for you to prove it— Keep a cow upon your farm.