VOLUME 40
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1921
NUMBER 57
BONUS MEASURE
GOES TO COMMITTEE
Parties Divide When Pro
posal Is Submitted to
National Congress
Washington, July 15.—The admin
istration won its battle in Congress
today when the Senate, responding to
President Harding’s recent request
recommitted the soldiers’ bonus bill
indefinitely to the Finance Commit
tee.
The vote for recommittal was 47 to
29, and was interpreted by Democrats
to mean the “death” of the bill but
by Republican leaders to mean post
ponement for only 12 months, with no
substantial loss to war veteran bene
ficiaries.
Both parties divided on the roll-call,
nine Republicans voting against while
eight Democrats joined the bulk of
Republicans for recommittal. Repub
lican losses on the vote were offset
exactly by Democratic accessions, as
two more Republicans were paired
against recommittal and three more
• Democrats for the motion.
How Senators Voted
For recommittal: Republicans,
Borah, Brandgee, Calder, Cam
eron, Cummins, Curtis, Dilling
ham, Edge, Ernst, Fernald, Fre
linghuysen, Gooding, Halo, Kel
logg, Kenyon, Knox, Lodge, Mc
Cormick, McKinley, McNary, Nel
son, Moses, New, Nicholson, Nor
beck, Oddie, Penrose, Poindexter,
Shortridge, Smoot, Stanfield, In
diana, Sterling Wadsworth, War
ren, Watson, Weller and Willis—
39.
Democrats: Dial, Glass, King,
Myers, Simmons, Underwood and
Williams—8.
Total for recommital—17.
Against: Republicans: Bursum,
Capper, Elkins, Harreld, Jones,
(Washn) Ladd, LaFollette, Nor
ris and Sutherland—9.
Democrats: Ashurst, Culber
son, Broussard, Caraway, Fletch
er, Gerry, Harris, Harrison, Hef
lin, Hichtcoek, Jones, (N. M.)
Hendrick, McKellar, Pitman, Rob
inson, Sheppard, Stanley, Walsh,
(Mass.) Walsh, (Mont.) and Dat
son, (Ga.)—20.
It was also announced that
Senators Phipps, Republican, Col
orado, and Townsend, Republican.
Michigan, who were absent, were
paired in favor of recommittal
and that Senators Reed, of Mis
souri, and Trammel, Florida,
Democrats, were paired against
recommittal.
A motion of Senator Kenyon, Re
publican, Iowa, to have the bill
brought back at an early date was re
jected, 69 to 7. Senator Pittman.
Democrat, Nevada, thereupon an
nounced he would make a motion ev
ery week here after to bring back the
bill from the committee.
Strong clashes between Democratic
opponents and Republican advocates
of recommittal marked the closing de
bate. But they were mild as compar
ed to the scenes which followed the
roll-call. Among those incidents was
a challenge by Senator McCumber,
Republican, North Dakota, champion
of the bill, to Senator Reed, Demo
crat, Missouri, to settle a question of
veracity “outside,” and shouts of “sit
down,” made to Senator McCumber by
Senator Watson Democrat, Georgia.
Too Much Rain for the Picnic
Last Saturday was too rainy a day
for people to enjoy picnics. There
was said to be twenty-five hundred
people wno assembled at the John W.
Yelvington bridge in Cleveland town
ship for a get to-gether picnic last
Saturday. There was so much rain
that quite a number of people left
before dinner. Dr. C. C. Taylor of the
A. & E. College, Raleigh, was there
to make a speech, but it was to >
rainy to have a speech. The people
took to the automobiles for shelter.
Dinner was served at 2:30 p. m. Be
sides the regular dinner carried there
was a great deal cf Brunswick stew
and barbecue.
The place is all right for an ordi
nary time but there is too much red
clay there for a rainy day picnic. One
man stated the case by saying the
people had planned for a good time
and a great day but were rained out.
Mr. Robert Blauvelt, of Wilson,
spent Sunday in the city.
COUNTY HOME AGENTS WORK.
Report of Johnston County Home
Demonstration Agent, January 3,
to June 30th, 1921. A View of the
Work Done.
Clubs: Barbour, Batten, Brogden,
Benson, Emit, Glendale, Johnson, Mi
cro, Kenly, Meadow, Mill Creek, New
Hope, Pine Level, Plain View Pleasant
Grove. Polenta, Pomona, Princetpn,
Royall, (Elevation), Selma, Smith
field, Thanksgiving, Wilson’s Mills.
Membership—380.
Consultations 390; Letters 711;
Circular 842; Bulletins 1,655; Visits to
club members 108; Meetings 105; At
tendance 4,089; Miles 2,986.
General Remarks for January
Work with clubs—increased work
with memberships, lessons in poultry
and sewing work. On group center
with Supt. Hipps and other education
al workers. Held meeting in County
Home Demonstration Advisory Coun
cil in my office to plan work. Held
Dairy School with Specialists and
County Agent (my part of the pro
gram was the preparation of milk
dishes). Assisted some club mem
bers in marketing products. Find
much interest in curing hams and
canning sausage.
Since my arrival in Johnston Coun
ty 1 have been favorably impressed
with the fine spirit of cooperation
existing among all County Workers.
They have done everything possible
for me and the work which I repre
sent. I am deeply indebted to Miss
Mamie Sue Jones, my predeccessor,
for the services rendered during the
first week.
General Remarks for February
Special meetings attended: Group
meeting of teachers and “L..
Conference in Raleigh.
During our short month I have con
tinued work with By-Products of Meat
Curing, Canning Sausage, Curing
Hams, Sewing and Poultry.
I also helped plan School Domestic
Science equipment, Sunday School
Banquet and two Dairy Schools.
As chairman of Domestic Science
Department of Smithfield Woman’s
Club, I gave to an appreciative class
of twenty women, a lesson on Fish,
and working with steam pressure.
I am delighted with the increased
interest in Demonstration Work
among girls, women and teachers. Our
membership is growing rapidly.
General Remarks for March
Gardening, Poultry, Food, Clothing,
Millinery Demonstration, Making ov
er six old dresses, Altering Patterns.
Special Easter Program — Food
value and preparation of egg dishes
also appropriate games.
Two Dairy Schools—Farm a.1 i
Home Demonstration Agents With
Specialist from Dairy Division.(Home
Demonstration Agent gave food value
and preparation of milk dishes.
Helped a family can 76 quarts of
beef. (Father cannot eat pork.)
Helped bride with Interior Deco
ration of home.
Enrollment of girls and women still
growing.
Four requests for work where there
is no organization.
General Remarks for April
Gardening.
Curing meat.
Clean-up week.
Requests coming in.
Helped plan group commencement
programs.
Special meeting, Smithfield, Wo
man’s club—Sanitary and whiskey
condition in town and county.
Group commencement—Thanksgiv
ing,? leasant Grove and Wilson’s Mill.
Organized Johnson Club.
Suggestions for commencement
dresses and decorations.
General Remarks for May
Special work in millinery this
month. Also helped a goodly number
of girls and women plan commence
ment dresses.
More women cooperating with
Home Demonstration Agent than here
tofore.
Ordered three canning outfits and
other canning supplies for club mem
bers.
Gave two programs in convenient
kitchen, and have request for another.
Gave one yeast bread demonstration
and have requests for three others.
Planned exhibits for fairs.
Arranged for Johnston County dele
gates to attend Short Course for Club
girls at Peace Institute, Raleigh.
General Remarks for June
Special—Assisted with State Short
Course at Peace Institute, Raleigh,
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MORE ABOUT CO
OPERATIVE SELLING
National President Farmers
Union Strong for Plan;
Makes Appeal
Charles S. Barrett, president of the
National Farmers’ Union is chairman
of the organization committee of the
Georgia Co-operative Marketing As
sociation for cotton. Mr. Barrett’s ap
peal to the cotton growers of Georgia
to support the co-operative marketing
plan is given, in part below.
Since the same conditions confront
North Carolina cotton farmers as con
front Georgia cotton farmers and
since the cooperative marketing pro
gram Mr. Barett advocates is identi
caly the same as the North Carolina
cooperative marketing program for
cotton and tobacco, his message is of
interest to all North Carolina farmers
and especialy to members of the or
ganization of which Mr. Barret has
been for fifteen years the national
head:
Uncle Reuben, 1 am talking to you!
If any other will listen, they wii’
be more than welcome. And with our
whole community realizing as it does,
for the first time today, how deeply
its entire prosperity is dependent
upon yiours. I hope there will be
many.
But it’s YOU I’m talking to, Mr.
Farmer not only because it’s your
language that I am accustomed to
speak but because what I have to say
concerns your interests above all.
I want to talk to you about t!.
Georgia Cotton Growers’ Cooperative
Association and what it means to
you. And first, I want to explain to
you why I have accepted the chair
manship of the organization commit
tee that is trying to bring that as
sociation into being.
Because it is my duty. Because,
knowing what I do of the merits and
the meaning of this great co-operative
movement, if I failed to face it 1 would
be a shirker and a coward.
Because I know that his thing is
RIGHT.
Because I know that victory in this
battle means the final triumph of the
American farmer in the great war
the forces of which I have had the
privilege to lead or with which I have
been associated have been waging in
his behalf for a generation.
Because I know that this thing
spells economic freedom to Uncle
Reuben!
That is why I accepted the chair
manship of the organization commit
tee of the Georgia Cotton Grower’s
Cooperative Marketing.
Uncle Reuben, take my word for it
—this is a mighty serious business,
deserving your interest, and your at
tention, and your action, more than
anything else that lies before you to
day.
I am not asking you to rely upon
my own judgment exclusively, even
though what happens to be the result
of 25 years of intimate acquaintance
with farmers’ cooperative marketing
efforts all over the world. I only want
you to consider the fact that I hav<
talked this thing over very carefully,
not only with some of the foremost
farm leaders, but with great numbers
of the biggest economists, statesmen,
business leaders and financiers in the
United States, and not one has yet re
vealed a flaw in the plan.
For the Lord knows how long all
the farm leaders and all the farm
educators, and all the farm papers in
this country that are worthy of your
trust have been preaching co-opera
tive marketing to you. They have
spent their energy and some of them
that have come and gone like ships
that pass in the night have spent
their whole existence in educating you
to the point where correct action was
possible.
Uncle Reuben, that point has been
reached today. The fearful blow that
our presentsystem of distribution has
handed to you inside of the last two
years has opened your eyes like noth
ing before.
Uncle Reuben, you have at last
waked up to the fact at least, I hope
you have —that you are a genius for
producing the food and clothing of the
world, and the world’s greatest fool
when it comes to selling what you
have produced.
Uncle Reuben, you have got to the
point where you are thinking at last,
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SPECIAL SESSION TO
BE HELD DECEMBER 6
Legislature Will Consider
Finances of Cities and
School Defecit
The General Assembly of North
Carolina will meet in special session,
December 0, to provide relief for the
North Carolina municipalities suffer
ing from the invalidation of the 1921
Municipal Finance Act and to cure a
$700,000 deficit in the school funds of
the State.
Agreement for the call of a special
session was reached by Governor Mor
rison and the Council of State yes
terday but the formal call has not
yet been made. Reasons for the spe
cial session were set forth by the
Governor in a statement issued late
yesterday afternoon.
It was the sense of the Governor,
and Council of State tha the cities,
although thrown back on the revenue
encompassed within the limits of a
ten per cent increase over that avail
able from taxes, levied in 1918 can
get along very well until December
when the special session will authorize
them to bond the deficit created or to
borrow the money to meet, starting
the slate clean again with the re-en
acted 1921 Muncipal Act. The same is
true of the $709,000 school fund deficit
which the counties will be asked to
carry by advancing the State’s share
of the fund until December when the
legislature can provide for its pay
ment.
The re-classification of the teachers
by which North Carolina advanced
from the bottom of the list of States
to the fourteenth is assigned by the
Governor as the reason for the deficit
and a reason which the Governor feels
no shame for. The growth of the
school and the advancement of the
teachers were just beyond the imagi
nation of the State Superintendent
when he made his estimate of ex
penses.
Governor Morrison’s statement fol
lows:
“The Council of State unanimously
pave their consent this morning for
me to call an Extraordinary Session
of the General Assembly to assemble
on Tuesday, the sixth day of Decem
ber next.
“It is with very great reluctance,
and after the most careful considera
tion, that we reached the conclusion
that an Extraordinary Session of the
General Assembly could not be avoid
ed without great injury to the State,
and to the towns and cities of the
State. 1 had very earnestly hoped to
the contrary, but the statements from
many towns, and cities of the State
disclosed the fact that most of them
are already seriously hampered and
cannot hope to go for two more years
under the present authority to borrow
money and levey taxes.
“The General Assembly of 1919,
which enacted the Revaluation Legis
lation, provided that the towns and
cities of the State could not levy in
the aggregate more than ten per cent
more taxes than was levied in 1918.
The towns and cities of the State had
looked forward to an increase in their
revenues from the usual revaluation
made every four years for many years.
The limitations placed by the General
Assembly upon them which forbade
their collecting more than ten per
cent more, than in 1918, denied the
towns and cities of the State the usual
increase in their revenues, which had
taken place at each tour year period
for many years.
“If the Revaluation Bill had never
been passed, and the , property had
been valued in the old way, the towns
and cities of the State would have had
their revenues increased much more
than was done under the Revaluation
with the ten percent limit. It was
an unusual limitation upon the right
of local self-government in the towns
and cities. The Municipal Finance Act
passed at this same session of tin
General Assembly rest-icted and
changed the old law with reference to
the right of towns and cities to bor
row money for necessary purposes.
The towns and cities, in consequence
of this, were very much hampered for
two years. It was generally expected
w’hen the General Assembly met in
1921, that this limitation of ten per
cent in excess of the revenues of 1918
would be removed, and the Municipal
Finance Act did remove it, and gave
(Continued on page 4)
SIGN POSTS FOR STATE ROADS.
Give Directions and Distances at all
Crossings; Mile Posts Will Be Ad
ded I^ater; Placing of Sign Post To
Be Well Under Way by Sept.
North Carolina roads are going to
have sign posts on them as soon as
the district engineers get their main
tenance plans into operation and care
of the roads will include maintenance
of sign posts at every crossing that
will give the wayfarer accurate and
understandable information as to
whither he is headed, how far it is,
and if there are any detours to be
made, the condition of the detour.
Orders to this effect have been is
sued to the district engineers by State
Highway Engineer Charles M. Up
ham. The nine district men have
been asked to submit to the chief their
notions of what the signposts ought
to look like and from among the nine
one design will be selected and made
standard for the whole State. Any
where the traveler sees one of the
signs he will know that it is accurate
and official.
WTith the constantly developing
stream of automobile travel in North
Carolina, the sign pests will be of in
valuable help to the people of the
State. No concerted effort, has ever
been made to properly mark roads,
although some work in this direction
has been made by counties. largely
it has been left to the whim of the
local advertiser and as often as not
sign posts get the traveler hopelessly
lost.
Mile posts will be added to the
roads as permanent construction pro
gresses. The sign posts are for im
mediate use, and later the roads will
be marked with a standard design of
stone markers to give the mileage. Mr.
Upham hopes to have the placing of
sign posts well under way in the State
before the first of September. De
signs by engineers are to be submitted
immediately and after that they will
be made in quantity lots.—News and
Observer.
Autos in Rock Quarry
Uncovery of a more or less general
practice of driving insured automo
biles in the 70 feet of water in the
old rock quarry a mile east of the city
reporting them lost and collecting the
insurance money, got under way yes
terday when Bagwell & Bagwell,
prominent firm of insurance brokers
here, instituted dredging proceedings
in the quarry.
Two automobiles were hooked, and
brought part of the way to the sur
face, but broke from their moorings
and slipped back into the 70 feet of
water. The steering wheel of one car,
thought to be a Hudson missing for
some weeks past, was brought to the
surface. Fragments of the other car
hooked indicate that it was a Ford.
Operations will be continued today,
and until the quarry has been thor
oughly fished.
A crowd of several hundred people
watched the fishing yesterday after- !
noon, and will probably gather to
watch it again today. No happenings
in the city has stirred more wide
spread interest than the development
of rumors that many lost automobiles
were at the bottom of the hole blasted
here in years past when considerable
quantities of stone were quarried.
Neither of the members of the
Bagwell firm could be seen last night,
but it is understood that rumors have
been coming to them for a week or
more past that more than one ‘lost”
car upon which they had recently paid
the owner insurance was at the bot
tom of the quarry. News of the efforts
to get them out spread and hundreds
of people were there yesterday af
ternoon to witness the program of
the investigations.
The deflation period, with the price
of automobiles and the inclination to
buy fallen flat, is believed to have
impelled owners in need of money to
drive their cars into the quarry and
report them lost or stolen. What sec
rets the dredging will eventually de
velop are awaited with the keenest
sort of interest. Bigger crowds are
expected out for today’s continuation
of the investigation.—News and Ob
server.
A number of the younger ctj vd
here enjoyed a delightful party Wed
nesday evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Avera, who live near
town, Misses Mary and Jane Avera
being the hostesses. Mrs. S. T. Hon
eycutt chaperoned the crowd.
JUDGE F. H. BROOKS
CALLS MEETING HERE
Representative Crowd Pres
ent to Lay Plans Against
Liquor Traffic
Quite a good sized representative
body of men and women from all
quarters of Johnston county met in
the Baptist church here Sunday after
noon at 4 o’clock pursuant to the call
made through the local papers by
Judge F. H. Brooks to consider the
proposition of ridding Johnston Coun
ty of the liquor making, selling and
drinking business.
Judge Brooks took charge of the
meeting and announced Hymn No. 20°
“Standing on the Promises of Goo, ’
stating that upon His promises this
meeting had been planned and the
work undertaken. After this song,
Rev. H. W. Bautom, pastor of the
Baptist church, made a very earnest
prayer for the meeting and work
about to be undertaken. Hymn No.
305, “More Like the Master” was sung
after which Rev. C. A. Jenkins, of
Clayton offered a very touching pray
er for the people engaged in the whis
key business that God might torn
them from their ungodly business.
Hymn No. 208, “There’s Power in the
Blood” was sung and Judge Brooks
then made a statement of the purpose
of the meeting, telling how that while
lying in bed nursing a sprained ankle,
he had felt impressed that the time
was ripe for a crusade for righteous
ness in Johnston County and a cam
paign against the liquor traffic—not
only to catch and convict the block
aders and bootleggers in the c urts
and esntence them to the roads, but to
capture them for and with Jesus and
convert their souls . He stated that
he had been Judge of the Recorder’s
Court for the past ten years that the
had tried and convicted 261 persons
for making or selling liquor; had im
posed road sentences totalling 68
years and six months, imposed fines
aggregating $2780.00 and suspended
judgment in sixty cases. He stated
’that in studying the situation he had
been impressed with the fact that the
liquor problem had not yet been sat
isfactorily solved and that not until
the love of Jesus Christ got hold of
the lives and hearts of the men en
gaged in the business would it be
stopped.
Judge Brooks stated that numbers
of men and women from various parts
of the county had written him appro’. -
ing the proposed plan of calling all
Christian people of the county to join
in prayer at sunset each evening for
the next thirty days asking God to
help them to get right with God—
to stop drinking the damnable stuff
and to step lending their aid and
support to those making liquor, and
to prepare the hearts of the men en
gaged in the nefarious business for *
great revival campaign in every com
munity in the county designed to
reach these men. He said, however
that in response to the card he sent
out, that he had received ^ne adversu
opinion and then read a letter from
Elder E. F. Pearce, of Boon Hill town
ship, which was as follows:
Princeton, N. C. R.F.D. 1
July 13th, 1921.
Hon. F. H. Brooks,
Smithfield, N. C.
My dear friend:
“Your card received today. I beg
to say that I have not read nor heard
of the proposed meeting there in the
Baptist church next Sunday to devis'
plans to rid Johnston County of the
awful whiskey traffic.
“I want to say in the outset that
I am as much opposed to drunkness as
any one. I can truthfully say that all
the Primitive Baptist in Johnston
county or anywhere else are opposed
to drunkness. I can say truthfully
the Lord is not in your plannings. The
Lord is not in your meeting. The
Lord is not in your plans to rid Johns
ton county of the awful whiskey traf
fic. Whiskey is like everything else
that is sinful, it is an evil sinful curse
here among the people and that to
stay. Why, I say the Lord is
in none of your doings to rid Johnston
county of this evil, is because you said
on your card ‘that we are expecting
to undertake great things for the
Lord.’ Jesus says: ‘Without me ye
can do nothing.’ Where is your
strength to remove these things? We
have none. Vain is the help of man.
The Bible says: Rev. 22:11 ‘He that
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