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VOLUME 39
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1920.
Number 35
BODY OF EDWIN POU
BEING BROUGHT HOME
Young Naval Hero Who Lost His Life
In Prance September 1918 to Have
His Final Resting Place in His Na
tive Home Town.
The U. S. S. Nereus is on the At
lantic Ocean speeding its way to New
York from Brest, France, bringing
home the bodies of 150 naval dead
who sacrificed their lives for their
country that they may find a resting
place in the land that gave them birth.
Among this one hundred and fifty is
the body of a native son of Smithfield
who lost his lie in a seaplane accident
at lie de Teudy, France, in Septem
ber 1918, just a few weeks before the
armistice was signed. The ship is ex
pected to arrive in New York on Sun
day, May 16. A fitting service will
be conducted by Secretary Josephus
Daniels after which the bodies of
these naval heroes will be shipped to
their former homes where interment
will be made.
The body is expected to arrive at
Smithfield either Tuesday or Wednes
day of next week. From the station
it will be taken to the Episcopal
church where a funeral service will
be held conducted by the rector, Rev.
H. S. Hartzell assisted by Rev. S. A.
Cotton, pastor of the Smithfield Meth
dist church. The interment is expect
ed to take place in the city cemetery
about 3:30 in the afternoon of the
day of arrival here.
We hope to be able to make definite
announcement of the hour of the ser
vice in Tuesday’s Herald.
A last resting place for their hon
ored son was offered the family 'at
“Arlington” National Cemetery, but
they felt that he, had he expressed
himself, would want to sleep “the long
last sleep in Smithfield where he loved
and was loved.”
RECKLESS MOTORISTS
AND ROAD SENTENCES
With no intention whatever of pass
ing on the merits of the case appeal
ed from his court to the Superior
Court in Wake county, we incline to
the belief that City Judge Harris is
making a start toward underwriting
the life and' limb of the local way
faring public that will produce re
sults. A man alleged to have been
intoxicated drives his car into another
motorist; Judge Harris sentences the
defendant to six months on the roads.
Never, so far as we are sware, hav
ing met either of the two drivers or
their cars, we hope that some evidence
will be produced that will justify the
staying by the Superior Court of the
road sentence; but road sentences are
just exactly the proper cure for the
most glaring of the traffic evils.
Five and ten-dollar fines—indeed,
fines of any sort,-—have hardly any
effect on those who by their wanton
disregard for the law endanger the
lives of themselves and others. There
ought to be a distinction made, of
course, between the infraction of traf
fic1 ordinances and the deliberate or
heedless breaking of general statutes
passed for the protection of those who
travel the public highways. Howev
er, the punishment for rashness or
callousness oh the part of automobile
drivers is seldom half severe enough.
Nor will it suffice to find an isolat
ed and aggravated case; the courts
should get a fresh grip and treat all
reckless motorists rough enough to
teach the lesson due them.—Raleigh
Times.
Southern Baptists m Convention.
The Southern Baptist Convention is
in session at Washington City. Vice
President Thos. R. Marshall delivered
the address of welcome. Dr. J. B.
Gambrell, of Texas, was elected pres
ident of the convention for the fourth
time, thereby breaking a precedent.
Dr. Thos. W. O’Kelly, of Raleigh, pre
sided at the opening session. Six
thousand delegates registered for the
opening day’s attendance. It is ex
pected that there will be ten thousand
delegates present.
Price to Hold Meeting in Dunn.
Rev. Thurston B. Price, General
Evangelist of the Methodist church,
South, will conduct a meeting at thej
Methodist church ’in Dunn, beginning j
May 16. Rev. Mr. Price held a meet-j
ing in Benson sometime ago which j
was very successful. He will be as-1
sisted by J. Dale Stentz, singer.
FOUR OAKS NEWS NOTES.
Four Oaks, May 13.—Mr. F. Hunter
Creech is at his old home for a ,few
days greeting friends. He came
down fron) New York to be present at
the Buies Creek finals at which' place
he will address the alumni today.
Mr. Reid Adams is at home from
Trinity Park.
Miss Julia Thornton of Goldsboro
spent Sunday here the guest of her
cousin, Miss Onie Lewis.
Prof. Robey W. Adams is at home
again for a while, his school at Cor
nelius, N. C., having closed.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Adams have re
turned from a visit to friends in At
lanta,, Ga.
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auc r vui vans juinvi uan vaaui ut
feated Benson 14 to i Monday.
Messrs. Chester Cole, Bud Lee and
Johnny Moore, went to Raleigh Mon
day on business.
Mr. Moses Adams, a highly respect
ed citizen and farmer of near Four
Oaks died Saturday night after a
short illness. He had been a member
of Primitive Baptist church for sev
eral years.
Mr. Jno. T. Cole left Wednesday for
Wilmington to visit his brother, Mr.
Nathan Cole, a prominent young at
torney.
Rev. C. E. Stevens left Tuesday for
a few days stay in Washington, D. C.
He will attend the Southern Baptist
Convention while there.
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Adams went to
Morehead City Tuesday for a short
stay with their daughter, Mrs. B. F.
Royall.
Miss Martha Barbour is in Wilson
with her sister Mrs. 0. E. Matthews,
who is in Wilson Sanatorium.
Messrs. Tom Canady, Dalton Lee,
Nathan Keen and N. I. Lee, went down
to Cherry Point Saturday for a few
days fishing. They report “good
luck.” Mr. N. I. Lee will remain there
for some time.
Mrs.' C. H. Wellons left Saturday
for Conway, S. C., to see her sister,
Mrs. R. S. Wellons who is reported
quite ill.
Mr. Willis Parker and Miss Myrtle
Barbour were married on Wednesday
May 5th at the home of Mr. Willis
Barbour, the bride’s father, near Four
Oaks. Mr. Parker is the son of Mr.
Ebb Parker, of the Pisgah section,
and a successful farmer. Miss Myrtle
is the attractive daughter of Mr. Wil
lis II. Barbour. Our best wishes to
the happy young couple.
Mr. Robbie C. Lee left Thursday for
Richmond, Va., on a business trip.
Mr. Jas. T. Allen has returned from
Washington, D. C., and northwestern
Virginia. He reports a nice trip and
some exceptional racing.
Mr. M. C. Carr returned to Clinton
Wednesday on account of death of
his mother.
Mr. Jas. M. Thornton has returned
to New York City after a few days
here and at Fayetteville where his
sister, Mrs. Felix Stewart is in the
hospital.
Four Oaks has at last organized a
ball team and have hopes of a winning
team. Captain Moore says he has the
right material if, they will get in
shape. They play the opening game
of the season at Smithfield Friday,
May 14th. Go to it boys and show
’em.
Sunday, May 23, will be free day at
the Chautauqua in the big tent in
Barbour’s Grove of the four days—
May 21st to 24th inclusive. We are
expecting everybody within reach to
take advantage of this our first Chau
tauqua. This includes citizens of
Smithfield as the Four Oaks people at
tend the Chautauqua in Smithfield
each year and will again this year.
Come on Smithfield; let’s see it
through.
Mayor Resigns After 24 Hours.
Mayor Charles Rankin after holding
office for 24 hours as mayor of Fay
etteville, resigned giving as his rea
son that the board of aldermen had
relieved him of all responsibility in
their appointment of committees. He
alleged that these committees were
employes of a local bank which would
place the financial affairs of the city
in the hands of that institution, thus
preventing his administration from
being of service to the people.
Carranza Still Fighting.
Reports from Mexico in yesterday’s
papers say that the deposed President,
Carranza, is with a small body of his
faithful followers near the village of
San Marcos where for eight hours he
personally directed the fighting
against the revolutionists.
JUDGE A. M. NOBLE
WRITES FROM SAMOA
In Which He Gives Interesting Facts
In Regard to a Divorce Case of A
Samoan Couple.
The readers of The Herald will be
glad to read the following comm»ni
cation from Judge A. M. Noble, of
Tuteula, Samoa. From time to time
when Judge Noble was in Samoa be
fore he sent some vei'y interesting ar
ticles to this paper which quite a
number of people appreciated. He
promises to send others in the future
which are sure to be full of interest
and instruction. This article deals
with a Samoan divorce case. It is as
follows:
Until the establishment of the Gov
ernment, polygamy was practiced to
a great extent among the Samoans.
The Missionaries always fought the
practice, but could not overcome it.
As a consequence of the long estab
lished custom of having many wives,
marriage is not regarded by them now
as a sacred union, but more as a com
pliance with the regulations of the
Government. It is not unusual to see
couples marry, separate, secure di
vorce and marry again all within one
year. Some of the old Samoan chiefs
would make Dewolf Hopper look like
a piker. During the past five years
one hundred and forty-six divorce
cases were disposed of. In ninety per
cent of the cases adultery and deser
tion afforded the grounds. It was one
of the cases that go to make up the
other ten per cent, that afforded a
great deal of amusement at the trial,
and in conrfection with which the let
ter given below was mailed to me,
and wlfich is quoted verbatim.
“U. S. Naval Station,
Tutuila Samoa,
January 23, 1920.
1U. lUi. eJUU^C
Subject: Request for Sentence of Di
vorce.
1. Respectfully request, ask per
mission, would oblige me very much
and be kind, Will you let me have the
pleasure, I wish to Divorce my wife.
2. The reasons are that I want Di
vorce.
3. She disobey and dislike me.
4. When I told anything she will
do, she said, you go to hell, who are
you I obey, and evil speaking.
5. She like fight me alway.
6. If I spoke to her anythings,
that time she pick up a stone or stick
or a knife, and throw me or hit, but
myself not beat herself, only rebuke
and apologize.
7. She kicked me in my chest, that
I was in the Naval Hospital month
ago.
8. She pray to the God to die me
quick—Execrate.
9. She spoke me at six times, she
want to get Divorce from me, but I
told her, Abide with me.
10. She want to gone away from
me and wander from home.
11. She dislike in my children from
another woman. (Step-children).
12. She want kill a herself when I
came late in home. I am to serve in
the Government, and I am not charge
of myself that is the matter what
some time I came late in home. She
know the time start of the FitaFita’s
Liberty 4.30 p. m., except Wednesday
and Saturday 1 p. m., When I over
that time, she get mad and cbme over
me and hit me, but I do nothing only
apologize. I am swear in the truth
I am very endure for her, and I am
slavery and anxious about her. I
never unkind conduct to Tier, I gave
to her what she want, money, full ra
tions every day, and good dress, ev
erything that she want, and her par
ents with all the family. I hope in
God’s spirit widness to explain in
your mind every thing what I told, but
you not believe me. Will you allow
me, to let me have a Divorce, because
I full anxious to her, and she is alien
ate. But that woman of/my wife is
useless of the words from our Lord,
“Take care and love each other.” She
bid me by the other Fita Fita who
gone to Manua the last trip of the U.
S. S. Fortune, to say thus: “When you
arrive back in Tutuila, you tell Tam
aligi I never, never go down there
again, no more. I stay with my
mother and father with my family.
I no want of him no more.” I believe
she said that, but I no got no letter
from her. \
I am the Truth,
Your obedient Servant,
TAMALIGI.”
Can you beat it? #
A. M. NOBLE,
April 6,1920 Pago Pago, Samoa.
v.
SECRETARY DANIELS
REPLIES TO CHARGES
Shows Sims Failed to Meet Expecta
tions During War, Six of Which He
Mentions.
Secretary Daniels in appearing be-|
fore the Senate investigating commit
tee to answer charges made by Admi
ral Sims against the Navy Depart
ment's conduct of the war, unsparing
ly arraigned the admiral for violation
of regulations and criticism of his fel
low officers. Sims, according to Dan
iels, did not measure up to expecta
tions in various ways. The following
six special shortcomings of the Ad
miral were submitted by Secretary
Daniels:
1. He lacked vision to see that a
great and new project to bar the sub
marines from their natural hunting
grounds should be promptly adopted
and carried out, no matter what the
cost or how radical the departure
from what ultra-prudent men regard
ed as impracticable.
2. He seemed to accept the views
of the British Admiralty as superior
to anything that would come from
America and urged these views even
when the Navy Department proposed
plans that proved more effective.
3. In public speeches and other
ways he gave a maximum of credit to
British efforts and minimized what
his country was doing.
4. He coveted British decorations
and seemed to place a higher value
on honors given abroad than by hon
ors that could be conferred by the
American government.
5. He aspired to become a member
of the British Admiralty and wrote
complainingly when the American
Government declined to permit him to
accept such tender by the King of
England.
6. He placed protection of mer
chant shipping, with concentration of
destroyers at Queenstown, as the
' main operation of our forces abroad,
failing to appreciate that the protec
tion of transports carrying troops to
France was the paramount naval duty
until I felt impelled to cable him per
emptorily that such was our main
mission.
Two Deaths In Oneals.
• Mrs. Adolphus Godwin, who lived
near Moore’s school house in Oneals
township, died last Monday, May 10th
after a brief illness of only a few
days. Interment was made the day
following her death in the cemetery
near Noble’s Chapel Baptist church.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Ben Jones. The deceased be
fore her marriage, which took place
last July, was well known in her com
munity by her family name, Miss
Malissie Wall.
Mr. Lunsford Lewis, a well known
and prominent citizen of Oneals town
ship, diedl last Tuesday, the 11th, af
ter an illness of a few days following
a paralytic stroke, which attack he
suffered on Saturday of last week
while on the way from his home to
Selma. Mr. Lewis had lived for a
number of years near Antioch Baptist
church. The interment was made the
day following his death in the ceme
tery at Antioch church. He is sur
vived by a widow and three children,
the children being: Messrs. Milton
and Roscoe Lewis, and Mrs. Ramon
Creech. Mr. Lewis was a good far
mer, a good neighbor and a good man,
As such he will be missed and mourn
ed.
wniiam neans Mowen Head.
William Dean Howells, novelist and
man of letters, died in his sleep at
his, home in New York City early
Tuesday. He was in his 84th year.
Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, an old
friend, will officiate.
In accordance with the novelist’s
wishes, his body will be cremated and
the ashes tajten to Cambridge, Mass.
Mr. Howells was in the habit of
spending the winter in Savannah, Ga.,
and three weeks ago, while there, he
caught a severe cold that developed
into influenza. He was carried tc
New York to be near his son, John
Meade Howells, architect, and his
daughter, Mildred. Both were with
him when eh died.
Population of Mount Airy.
The population of Mount Airy is
4,752 showing an increase of 908 oi
! 23.G per cent according to figures an
' nounced by the census bureau.
BENTONVILLE NEWS.
Mr. J. M. Beasley returned home
Friday after a few days stay with
her daughter, Mrs. Mattie Stephen
son at McCullers.
Messrs. W. A. Powell and L. E. Cox
went to Raleigh Friday on business.
Mr. G. W. Massey and family of
near Clinton spent the week end in
this section with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mashburn went
to Mount Olive Saturday to attend
the Casey-Lipe marriage.
Mr. Darwin Hayes and Miss Annie
Massengill were married Friday af
ternoon at sunset; at Mill Creek church
Rev. Mr. Hudson officiating.
Messrs. J. D. Underwood and J. L.
Scotton of Smithfield were in our sec
tion "Friday on business.
Mr. Norman Westbrook spent the
week end in Wilmington with rela
tives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Britt and Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Stevens of Benson
spent Sunday in these parts with rel
atives.
Mr. Conley Langston and Miss No
ra Westbrook were quietly married
Sunday afternoon. We wish them
much happiness and pleasure through
life.
Bentonville, May 13.
Charged With Stealing Soda.
Elmon Wood and Tom Parnell, two
white men living a few miles beyond
Selma, were lodged in jail here late
Tuesday night charged with taking
three bags of nitrate of soda from Mr.
R. E. Whitehurst’s tobacco bam. Mr.
Paul Edwards chanced to pass Mr.
Whitehurst’s place which is just out
of town on the road over Buffalo, some
time near ten o’clock Tuesday night
and saw the men, one on a wagon
standing by and the other at the
shelter by the tobacco bam. Oa see
ing Mr. Edwards the two men decided
it was time to move on. He went and
called to Mr. Whitehurst who had gone
to bed. Together they went after the
men who escaped them for awhile, but
later they came near them at the de
pot. They had an automobile and
drove on and overtook the men who
were on a wagon with the three sacks
soda and drove around them and
stopped them and brought back to
Smithfield where they were turned ov
er to the county officials.
They were placed in jail and Wed
nesday morning taken before the Re
corder. On being asked if they were
ready for trial they answered in the
negative. They were remanded to jail
in default of a two hundred dollar
bond for their appearance at the Re
corder’s Court next Tuesday.
They gave bond Wednesday night
and returned to their homes.
Parnell has a wife and five children.
Wood is unmarried and lives with his
widowed mother. Both men farm on
the land of Mr. Henry Creech.
Wild West Show.
Ihe sluggers from Kenly and the
Smithfield Athletic Association stag
ed a nine act farce of seventeen scenes
here Wednesday afternoon, towit, a
base ball game. A total of twenty
nine runs was made, the visitors scor
ing five in the first frame, three the
second, three the third, while the lo
cals did not score until the third. They
piled up nine runs before their slug
ging spell could be stopped, a total of
twelve men facing the pitcher. In the
sixth they scored two and in the
eighth piled up four more.
It took three trials befoi'e the local
manager found the right man to
twirl. Beasley faced the visitors in
the first inning, Wallace the second
and third and Gordon began in the
fourth, holding them to three runs.
Holland began for Kenly and Neigh
bors succeeded him in the fourth. The
features were the splendid playing of
Boyette (who has but one hand) in
the field and at the bat, getting two
hits—one a three-bagger with the
bases full—and four runs out of five
times to the plate; for Kenly, the
pitching of Holland in the first and
second innings.
Score by innings—
Kenly _533 100 110—14
Smithfield _009 002 04*—15
Men fanned: By Kenly 7; by Smith
field 4. Hits by Kenly 10; by locals
10. Umpire, Parkins.
Durham Begins Campaign.
The annual anti-typhoid campaign
conducted by Durham county and the
city of Durham has been started by
the county health officer, Dr. A. Cheat
ham.
FOUNDER OF GREAT
INSTITUTION DEAD
Bishop John H. Vincent Organized and
Developed Chautauqua Literary and
'Scientific Circle.
The death of Bishop John H. Vin
cent removes a man who probably did
more for the promotion of education
in America than any other one man
that the country has known. And
that he did this not through any de
velopment of the formal educational
institutions of the country is not the
least remarkable thing about the ca
reer of a man who summed up in him
self a word and a system known all
over the world, the Chautauqua Insti
tution. The Chautauqua Literary and
Scientific Circle which he founded is
an American contribution to the edu
cation of the people, absolutely
American from start to finish, and of
which this country cannot be too
proud. For though it grew out of a
little summer campmeeting held by
several earnest Methodists in August,
1874, at Fair Point, on Chautauqua
Lake, New York, in the interest of
providing a broader and more effec
tive training for Sunday school teach
ers, in four years Bishop Vincent and
his associate, Lewis Miller, a typical
all-around American manufacturer, of
Akron, Ohio, and father-in-law of
Thomas A. Edison, had hit upon the
great idea of education through rec
reation and social relationships for
the grown-ups as well as the young,
and absolutely separate from school
or academic or collegiate or universi
ty influences.
The great fact that education does
not stop with graduation or with the
completing of a school course, and
that even those who have forgotten
their school days are neither mental
ly nor socially beyond the pale so far
as acquiring a grasp on things that
make for culture, were the twin foun
dation stones of the Chautauqua
movement. That it spread like wild
fire over the country, that under the
direction of the parent body at Chau
tauqua, New York, a system of sum
mer courses in addition to the home
reading of the winter times was de
veloped, that for ten years it main
tained a university granting degrees,
that it early made use of the Univer
sity Extension metho'ds of England,
but naturalized them on American
soil, and that after twenty-eight years
of unexampled success and usefulness
it gave up many, of its special func
tions and received its charter in 1902
as the Chautauqua Institution, a mod
el to all summer schools, are only a
few of the main facts in the story of
the movement. From the first to the
last it owed everything to the outlook,
the insight and the Americanism of
Bishop Vincent. Indeed, by means of
the Chautauqua Literary and Scien
tific Circle the Bishop did more than
any other influence to give the Amer
ican citizen that type of self-training
peculiarly fitted for a country which
is without caste and class and knew
neither peasant nor proletariat until
an imported radicalism tried to force
the ideals with the phrases as if they
represented something long inherent
in American life.
It was inevitable that the kind of
culture produced by Chautauqua
movements would be misunderstood
abroad and even misrepresented at
home. But the movement
has weathered all the indiffer
ence of the superior, all the sneers
of the doctrinaire. Bishop Vincent
survived long enough to see the little
summer-outing project achieve uni
versal recognition as a great educa
tional influence, while the acknowl
edged value of his work which early
in his career sloughed off all secta
rianism, gave a special glory to his
position as one of the pillars of a
denomination which from the days of
Whitefield on has always been close
to the people, but never more truly
served them than in this movement of
John H. Vincent’s devising.—Phila
delphia Public Ledger.
County Clinic in Sampson.
A tonsil and adenoid clinic was con
ducted at Clinton Thursday and Fri
day of last week under the direction
of Dr. Hollingworth, County Health
Officer, in which 38 patients were
treated. Dr. J. B. Wright did the
operating with the assistance of other
physicians and trained nurses. The
cost of each operation including an
aesthetic, operating room, nurse and
meals was $12.50. On June 6 another
clinic will be held.