PLANS FOR GOOD
ROADS OUTLINED
North Carolina Good Roads As
sociation Proposed Measures
For Special Session of Legis
lature to Act On—Road Bonds
Be Non-Taxable.
Chapel Hill, Aug. 4.—The ^orth
Carolina Good Roads Association has
formulated its plans in preparation
for the special session of the legisla
ture that is to meet in Raleigh Au
gust 10th at which time it means to
take up certain preliminary matters
incident to the bill it hopes to put
through the 1921 session providing
for a State system of hard surfaced
roads. The Legislative Committee,
consisting of T. L. Gwyn, Chairman,
*Miss H. M. Berry, Secretary, John
Sprunt Hill, P. C. Whitloch, and W.
A. Me Girt, has just had a meeting at
which it was decided to ask the speci
al session to act on three matters
which, because of their very nature,
should be passed now. These three
things, as stated in a letter the Sec
retary has sent to every member of
the Legislature, are:
’ First, a bill relating to the con
struction and maintenance of a State
system of hard surfaced roads con
necting the county seats and princi
pal towns of all the counties of the
State. So important a matter, in
volving vast expenditures in the larg
est construction problem the State
has yet attempted, should be worked
out with great care and after much
consideration. The Association sug
gests that the special session appoint
a joint commission of the House and
Senate to work out a bill, leisurely
and in consultation with the State
road officials and others, providing
for the construction, adequate main
tenance, and protection of this sys
tem of roads, and have same ready
for presentation to the General As
sembly of 1921.
Second, if in your judgment any
concrete expression from the people
is needed to convince us of the wis
dom of embarking upon this great
public enterprise, that a referendum
in regard to the construction of a
State System of highways be sub
mitted at the November election.
The third item is in regard to the
exemption of road and other public
improvement bonds from taxation.
This is a very vital matter if our
counties and towns are to continue to
finance such public improvements as
public roads, bridges, school houseg,
sewer and water systems, street im
provem nts; in short, any sort of pub-,
lie improvement which requires the
sale of bonds. As this matter will
require a referendum, which, if act
ed r" now, can be submitted in con
nection with other tax matters in No
vember; but if deferred until the reg
ular sos.-ion next winter, final action
cannot be taken until 1923 and, in the
meantime, the sale of our public bonds
is becoming increasingly difficult.
Miss Berry, the Secretary of the
Association, feels that since all three
of these matters ai'e of such vital im
portance and are such as can be dis
posed of in a very short time, that no
opposition to their introduction into
the special session is likely.
MEADOW NEWS
Mrs. J. L. Lee and children spent
last week end with relatives in Wil
son.
Mrs. Mary Barbour of Smokes, S.
C.. who has been visiting relatives in
this section for the last two weeks,
has returned home.
Mrs. J. M. Lawhorn of Benson was
the guest of Mrs. Eldridge Barefoot
last, week end.
Mr. R. B. Lee who is a student in
King’s Business College of Raleigh
was in our section last Sunday.
The community service meeting at
Meadow last Friday night was a suc
cess. It wall be held again Friday
night, August 13. Let everybody come
out and boost the community.
The district meeting of the W. M.
U. will be held at Trinity on the 3rd
Sundav afte? loon. August 15, begin
ning at three o’clock. Several good
sneakers will be on the program and
everybody is invited to attend.
Benson, R. 2, August 4.
The United States has doubled its
consumption of petroleum since 1911.
MATTERS OF INTEREST IN BRIEF
It now appears that Tennessfee will
reject the Woman Suffrage Amend
ment. Then comes North Carolina’s
turn. Will she follow suit? Some
months ago the State Legislatures
were ratifying the Anthony Amend
ment so rapidly that some Represen
tatives in State which had not taken
up the question were fearful that
they would not get a chance to vote
on the question. It now appears that
many of the Representatives in the
State Legislatures are not so anxious
to vote for the Suffrage Amendment
as they appeared at one time to be.
Women took part in the Oklahoma
primary Tuesday for the first time.
Three thousand men charged the
county jail at Center, Texas, Monday
and took therefrom Lige Daniels, a
negro, who is charged with the mur
der of Mrs. Margie Hall, a white wo
man. and lynched to a tree in the court
yard.
Six men entered a bank at Moline,
Illinois, just before noon Tuesday and
took away $20,000. They then fled
in an automobile.
The national debt was reduced more
than seventy-six millions during the
month of July.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
nominee for Vice President, will open
his campaign in Chicago on August
11.
Two new cases of typhus fever
have developed on a vessel which
reached New York Sunday from Hav
re.
FIGHTING MESSAGE HANDED
DEMOCRATS BY GOY. COX
Speaking From Roped Arena Says He
Will Carry The "Offensive” To
G. O. P.
Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 4.—A fighting
message to democrats and republi
cans was given by Governor Cox in
an address today at a local democrat
ic picnic.
Speaking from a roped arena, for
boxing events on the picnic program,
Governor Cox advocated definite is
sues, declared he would carry the o'f
fensive in "a considerable fight” for
which he predicted success. Incident
ally, he promised that his address
Saturday, accepting the presidential
nomination, could be understood “ev
en by school children.”
“Boys, I’m ready for the fight,” he
declared to the cheering plaudits of
several hundred members of the Gem
Citv Democratic club, of this city,
“We need make no defense,” the
governor continued. “Ours will be
'.he offensive fight from the begin
ning to the end, and it will be a con
siderable fight. Make no mistake
about that. I have the faith in me
that there will be triumph of right
principles, which will serve notice on
the republican leaders for years to
come. I w;.s about to say that it
would be a democratic triumph. It
will net be that. It wall not be a vic
tory in the partisan sense, it will be
a triumph of the right.”
Turning upon his opponents, the
governor continued.
“We’ve w in before. We will win
again, because we’re right.
“The opposition lias been good to
us, and the advantage that it has giv
en us will be. recounted in the stir
ring days ahead. The opposition has
adopted a course of doing what we
farmers used to do—vf ploughing
around the stumps, of seeking to
avoid the things that perplex.”
Names Suggested for Hospital.
A few weeks ago and retreated lat
er there _was an item in this paper
asking that names be suggested for
the Hospital which is soon to be op
ened in Smithfield. Within the past
few days several names have been
suggested as follows:
“Edith Cavill.”
f “The Good Samaritan.”
“Friendship Hospital.”
“Smithfield. Sanitarium.”
“Smithfield Hospital.”
“The Oasis.”
“The Johnstonian Hospital.”
These names have been suggested
to The Herald this week. If others
d'dre to suggest a name, let it come.
The equipment is coming in rapidly
and it is hoped to have the formal
opening within the next few weeks.
The annual convention of the Quak
ers of North Carolina is now in ses
sion at Cuilfcrd College. About 200
delegates are in attendance.
PROPERTY VALUATION
IN JOHNSTON COUNTY
Real and Personal Property Is
More Than $57,000,000. Near
ly Three Times as Much as
Under Old Assessment. Values
Given By Townships.
Johnston county taxables have
grown greatly within the past few
.years, and the report of the assessed
values of real estate during the pres
ent year will be a revelation to many
who do not realize how fast the
wealth of the county is increasing.
The work of the men who have had
the revaluation in hand is now com
plete and a remarkable showing is
made.
In 1919 the real estate valuation of
Johnston county was $15,477,315.
Personal property $7,912,383. Total,
exclusive of railroads and banks, $18,
134.511.
In 1920 the total value of the real
estate aggregates $41,340,148; per
sonal property, $57,407,467. It is
nearly three times as much as tie
old assessment.
The new assessment by townships
is:
Clayton, -$6,773,121
Wilson’s Mills_1,312.307
Pleasant Grove _ 1,537,628
Cleveland _ 1,633,873
Elevation _ 2,589,390
Banner _ 4,241,702
Meadow - 2,207,288
Bentonville _ 1,406,702
Ingrams _ 3,291,522
Boon Hill _ 3,974,461
Micro _ 1,398,856
Beulah _ 3,345,106
Oneals _ 3,741,769
Wilders -_ 2,892,923
Pine Level _ 1,781,559
Selma —;_ 6,029,140
Smithfield _ 9,322,653
These figm-es are exclusive of rail
roads, corporations and banks.
10,000 Witness Funeral of Canary
Newark, N. J., Aug. 3.—A crowd
estimated by the police at 10,000 per
sons thronged the streets of the city
tonight to witness the funeral of Jim
mie, the pet canary of Emidio Rus
somanno, 65-year-old cobbler. Police
reserves were called out to preserve
order and clear the streets for the
funeral cortege.
Jimmie, described by its owner as
possessing a “song as sweet as the
voice of Caruso,”' choked to death
Sunday on a watermelon seed.
Leading the procession was a band
of 12 pieces, playing funeral dirges,
followed by a hearse, bedecked with
flowers and carrying a small white
coffin in which the bird’s body repos
ed.. The old cobbler, •tearstained and
visibly affected, rode in a coach with
a few intimate friends.
The cost of the bird’s funeral es
timated at 3400, was ^contributed by
the cobbler’s friends. When Jimmie
died, the old cobbler drew the blinds]
of his shop, hung out n sign, “Closed]
on account of Jimmie’s death,” put
crepe over his door and went into
dc/p mourning.
New Fords Coming to Town.
Mr. Ransom Sanders, general man
ager of the Sanders Motor Company, i
has just returned from Charlotte
where he went-in the Interest of his
company’s business in Ford Cars. Mr.
Sanders had a very Successful trip
and as a result he has been promised
an average of a Ford car daily for the
year ending August 1, 1921. This
will enable the company to greatly in
crease their Ford sales in this coun
ty, more than' doubling them. The
Sanders Motor Company has been do
ing a fine business and at present are
moving into their new garage near
the river, cn West Market street.
When completed this garage will be
one of the most complete in this sec
tion. .
This company, under the leadership
of Mr. W. Ransom Sanders, one of
the county’s progressive young busi
ness men, has forged ahead very rap
idly and is doing a very fine business.
It is well equipped to do a general
garage business, having efficient and i
careful mechanics who are able to
repair cars on short notice.
The Standard Oil Company is fifty
years cld this year.
CONCERNING “TAR
HEEL AFFLUENCE”
The State Has Grown From The
Desolation of War to Enviable
Position in Fifty Years—
Paid $169,206,000 Federal
Taxes Last Year.
Only a little more than 50 years
ago North Carolina was desolated by
war, woefully poverty stricken, pros
trate under the heel of th'ieving car*
pet baggers and negroes, supported by
Federal troops. The State had lost
more men in the war than any other,
its slave property was gone. Con
federate money, virtually its only cir
culating medium, had become worth
less; there was little Federal curren
cy and little to sell to secure it, for
the able-bodied men had been fight
ing and the negroes were celebrating
their freedom by loafing and talking
politics. The outlook was dreary in
the extreme.
In the fiscal year ended June 30,
North Carolina paid Federal taxes of
$109,206,000, which was doubtless
more than the entire wealth of the
State, outside of land, in 1870.
The Maryland district, which in
cludes Delaware and the District of
Columbia, paid only $120,752,457,
Texas, five times as large as North
Carolina, and with double its popula
tion. paid $103,000,000. Georgia, call
ed the “empire State of the South,”
paid $42,665,000, and Tennessee $35,
138,000.
The North Carolina figures are all
the more remarkable because the
State has no large cities, none in the
class of Baltimore, Washington, New
Oilcans, Atlanta, Dallas, Richmond,
nor even Norfolk or Savannah. It has
no big seaport. Its largest town is
Winston-Salem, of 48,000 population
with Charlotte somewhat smaller, and
Wilmington, Raleigh and Asheville
considerably so. It has, moreover,
very few millionaire^ But its per
capita wealth is larger than that of
any other Southern State, and it is
buying automobiles, it is said, at the
rate^of $50,000,000 a year. The basis
of its prosperity is, of course, tobac
co and cotton, both the growing and
'manufacture; lumber and truck farm
ing.
North Carolina has the oldest State
university in Am;. ica, its charter dat
ing from 1789. The State’s appro
priation for maintenance and building
is about $200 000. The Alumni Re
view, in pointing out its inadequacy,
says, under the head of “Gasoline and
Culture”:
At present North Carolina has 54
cents per inhabitant invested in uni
versity properties, fand $50, per in
habitant invested in automobiles. In
125 years we have built, up a universi
ty plant worth $1,350,000. In ten
years we have bought up $100,000,000
worth of motor cars! Wo are buying
motor cars faster than any other
State in the uni i, says the national
automobile chamber of commerce—
$50,000,000 worth a year! A hundred
and forty thousan 1 dollars worth a
day. including Su? day.
We are skyrocketing, toward the
top of the automobil1 column; but in
common school an 1 university invest
ments we soar aloft like Icarus of old,
like Dorius Green and his flying ma
chine!
Our 1,500 students already demand
almost exactly f.\ ice the space avail
able today—to say nothing of the fu
ture. We could just as easily have
5.000 as 1,500 students here, if only
the State would provide the facilities.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
college, with a large attendance, and
also a State institution, Is not con
nected with the university.
It is interesting to note that, while
Maryland has no State university, it
is giving to its State college and to
higher educational institutions twice
as much as North Carolina appropri
ates for its university.—-Baltimore Ev
ening Sun.
Gone Afters Thirty Fords.
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51 r. T. C. Young, of the Sanders
Motor Compary. left yesterday with
thirty drivers f r ’olu nbus, Ohio, to
drive back thirf r Ford cars for the
Smithfield and Sensor, garages. In
about five or six days there will be
plenty of Fords here and at Benson to
supply the demands somewhat.
KENLY NEWS
Kenly, Aug. 4.—Mr. Claud Edger
ton made a business trip to Golds
boro Tuesday.
Mrs. J. H. Kirby spent Monday in
Wilson.
Mrs. Frank Capps is spending some
time at Virginia Beach.
Mr. M. C. Bridget leaves today for
Bladenboro.
Miss Beulah Bailey returned home
Tuesday after visiting Miss Lona Bell
of Wakefield.
Miss Lolita Underwood has return
ed to her home in Roseboro after
spending sometime here with her sis
ter, Mrs. R. A. Turlington.
Misses Smith and Outlaw have
been on a visit with Mrs. J. C. Grady.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Bailey spent
Tuesday in Wilson.
Miss Clara Pope of Dunn and Miss
Henrietta Smith of Wilson are visit
ing Miss Lucile Holden for a few
days.
Mr. Donald Kirby of Fayetteville
arrived in town today to be the guest
of his mother, Mrs. J. H. Kirby.
Mrs. D. H. Gilbreath is on a visit
to relatives at Guilford college.
Miss Mildred Darden will entertain
tonight in honor of her guests.
Miss Janie MeKneil has returned
home after spending several days at
Montreat.
Mr. Geddy Jerome of Rose Hill
spent the week end in town.
Miss Hulda Best from Warsaw is
spending sometime with Miss Mildred
Darden.
Mrs. W. T. Bailey and son, Mr.
Dobbin Bailey, spent the week end in
Sampson county.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. High and Mas
ter John Sutton Broughton, have re
turned home after spending sometime
in Fayetteville.
Mrs. J. H. Kirby spent several days
in Dunn last week, the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. J. H. Barnes.
Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bullock of Wil
son visited Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brough
ton during last week.
Mr. James Kirby cf Dunn spent
the week end at home with his moth
er. Mrs. J. H. Kirby.
Miss Lola Wiggs of Salisbury is on
a visit with Mrs. Louis Gaylor.
Relative to Sanitary Conditions.
Mr. I . G. Whitley, Chief Inspector
Bureau of Engineering-, State Board
of Health, was here Wednesday and
Thursday looking after the enforce
ment of the State Sanitary laws. He
has made a survey of the town and
some of the things he found were not
of the kind to appeal to our town
pride. He says that he is surpri« jd
nt the conditions he found at the City
Market, in regard to its cleanliness,
sere, ning and other matters connect
ed. with it. He said he found rubbish
and refuse in many backlots which
shoulf'be removed. He feels that the
sanitary conditions of the town are
far frem what they ought to he. -It
would not cost much to clean un and
keen the town in good condition.
Mr. Whitley has a notice elsewhere
in this paper to the property owners
rf the town in regard to the State
Sanitary Privy law. H° told us that
he was going to return to Smithfield
about the first of September and was
going to issue warrants .for those who
vw making no efforts to comply
with the law.
Jt is not the rtoliev of The Herald
to call attention to the shprt comings
of our town and community, but there
eon-ms a tune sometimes in the his
tory of most communities when a lit
tle constructive criticism does an
ormunt of good. It is because of our
love for the town and community that
ovo colline- attention to the critj
vdem« of Mr, Whitley. Sometimes it
becomes neres«arv for the surgeon to
do same cutting before his patient
O* 'f <2! T*/C> J I _ *
Tot fba ucQple of Smithfield all null
together for the cleanest and most
progressive town in the State.
Pritlp cf Two Weeks a Suicide.
A bride of two weeks killed herself
a Chattanooga. Tenn., Sunday night
by firino- a bp'Iet into bar brain while
lying in bed beside her husband. No
cause is given for the rash deed.
Negro Lynched in Texas.
\ negro in a Tevas mil charcrofi
with the murder cf an aged white wo
■ man, was trtken from the jail by a
wr-v, ootirvmtoa fif {i thousand, and
lynched Monday.
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HIGHER RATES WILL
SWELL U.S. TREASURY
Estimated to Add $100,000,000
Annually to Revenue — Will
Increase Taxes—Officials Ex
pect $22,000,000.00 A Year
More from Passengers.
Washington, Aug. 3.—Increased
revenues officially estimated at $100,
000,000 annually will accrue to the
treasury as a result of the advance
in transportation rates allowed the
railroads. The added income for the
government, officials said tonight,
would be derived from increased
transportation taxes which are paid
by the public, as well as through op
eration of the income and excise pro
visions of the revenue laws.
Transportation taxes for the fiscal
year ending June 30 aggregated ap
proximately $231,000,000. This sum
was made up from the three per cent
tax on freight charges amounting to
$125,000,000; the eight per cent tax
on passenger tickets, supplying $100,
000.000, and the eight per cent tax on
Pullman charges producing $6,500,
000.
Should railroad traffic continue at'
its present volume, all of these
amounts would be increased corres
pondingly with the advance permit
ted by the interstate commerce com
mission in its rate decision last Sat
urday. On this basis, officials of the
bureau of internal revenue calculate
the additional taxes will aggregate
$38,550,000 on freight, $18,700,000 on
passenger and $3,500,000 on Pullman
charges.
Another source of revenue would
be from income taxes levied against
the railroad corporations. Railroad
executives expect many of the carri
ers to earn sufficiently large returns
under the new rates to compel the
payment of income taxes for the first
time since pre-war days. It is from
this source that the treasury expects
to obtain a large portion of the re
maining $40,000,000 of their $100,
000,000 estimate. Officials placed the
amount from income taxes conserva
tively at $30,000,000 a year. f
The wage award of $600,000,000 a
year, one of the causes for a rate ad
vance, also will result in producing a
certain return to the government, for
it places most of the* railroad em
ployes within jurisdiction of the in
come tax laws. Amounts levied on
most of the workers will be small, but
it was pointed out, the railroad labor
army numbers more than 2,000.000
person:-. From this, number officials
believed the taxes would aggregate
a “substantial amount, probably $10,
000,000 or more.”
Officials also ai’e *studying the in
direct effect the rate increase will
have on revenue produced by the, ex
cise and miscellaneous taxes. Tracti-.
rally all of the excise taxes are based
on a percentage of the selling prices,
as the so-called luxury tax, and they
- gard it as certain that more reve
nue will be forthcoming as the orie
eff of commodities move upwards.—
Associated Press. •
Appointment to Preach.
We are requested to announce that
Elder H. F. Peedin will preach at
Pleasant View school house on the
fourth Sunday in August at three o’
clock in the afternoon.
In only twelve states of the forty
eight is the largest city also the eapi
Headquarters Opened in Raleigh
Chairman Thomas D. Warren, of
New Bern, has arrived in Raleigh and
opened Democratic headquarters at
220 Fayetteville street. Mr. W. T.
Joyner, son of ex-State Superintend
ent J. Y. Joyner, will be secretary to
the committee. He is a member of
the law firm of Burgess & Joyner. He
served in France during the World
War as a member of the 113th ield
Artillery.
Cbnii.™-n Warren is plannin c a
whiilwind campaign of the Sta as
the closing weeks of the campaign
draw near. The Republicans are al
ready making p speaking tour of the
State. Governor James M. Cox. the
Democratic nominee for President, 1
may come to the State before the close
cf the campaign.