VOLUME 41
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1922
NUMBER 4
FORD WOULD LIKE
TO BUILD BIG CITY
Would Make Muscle Shoals
Region Great Center of
Industry At Once
Detroit, Jan. 11.—The Muscle
Shoals plan of Henry Ford contem
plates one of the greatest undertak
ings in the history of industrial Amer
ica and if the Detroit manufacturer
obtains possession of the project in
Alabama he \*nll take immediate steps
to make that part of the south one of
the industrial centers of the country,
the Associated Press learned today.
His plan, it became known, includes
development of the property as a mod
el to be extended eventually to many
other parts of the country.
Mr. rords proposal includes the
building of a city 75 miles long in the
Muscle Shoals region. It would be
made of a number of large towns or
small cities. This is in line with the
manufacturer’s view that men and
their families should live in small
communities where benefits of rural
or near-rural life would not be en
tirely lost.
His proposal to the government in
cludes leasing of the property for 100
years. But before the expiration of
half that time he proposes to turn
the completed project over to the peo
ple of the district or to the govern
ment in such a way that no one in the
future will be able to make a personal
profit from the undertaking. He will
arrange that neither he nor any of
his heirs may realize any monetary
benefits from the Muscle Shoals plants
or the power developed, it became
known.
Mr. Ford proposes to make the proj
ect, if the government gives its con
sent, the outstanding achievement of
his career.
The Muscle Shoals project is, how
ever, only the start of a greater pro
gram, it bdcame known. This includes
the development of waterpower facil
ities in many parts of the country by
which persons in those communities
would derive power to run manufac
turing plants, light their homes and
run machinery on their farms. One
detail of the plan is the harnessing
by farmers of every creek and brook
that crosses their property i
Mr. Ford expects to leave here
about noon tomorrow for Washington
to confer with Secretary Weeks re
garding hip proposal of leasing the
Alabama plant.
If the government accepts Mr.
Ford’s bid, work at Muscle Shoals will
be started at once. The nitrate and
■th" r plants would V. run by steam
power, pending the time the great
dam that will require about two years
to build has harnessed the water at
this point. Then would follow devel
opment in the opinion of Mr. Ford un
til within a comparatively few years
an industrial center greater than
Detroit would have been built up.
Mr. Ford believes the Muscle Shoals
plan, if consummated, will be the
start toward development of the
Mississippi river valley. The manu
facturer believes this valley “ could
run the United States” if the water
now going to waste could be utilized.
Eventually, in Mr. Ford’s opinion,
the government could derive enough
revenue from these power projects to
support itself, thereby revolutionis
ing the financial system of the coun
try.
Mr. Ford h&s bent the greater part
of his energies during the last few
weeks to whipping into shape his
plans to develop the Alabama dis
trict in the event he obtains the lease
from the government. He has held
a large number of conferences on this
matter and his program is known to
be ready. This program includes def
inite steps toward development of
waterpower in every part of the
country. The manufacturer does not
believe it practicable to carry power
for long distances, and therefore has
evolved a plan to provide each dis
trict with its own project.—Associat
ed Press.
Coffee on Geraniums.
Pour hot coffee into the saucers of
your geranium pots every morning,
having it boiling if possible. It will
be sufficiently cool before it reaches
the roots of your plants and you will
be astonished at the wealth of blos
soms your plans will put forth—Har
nett County News.
GRIFFITH PRESIDENT
OF DAIL EIREANN
'Dail Eireann Also Selects A
New Cabinet; Griffith
States His Position
Dublin, aJn. 10.—When the dail
eireann adjourned tonight by consent
of all sides to February 14, the situ
ation which last was dangerous and
obscure has been to a great extent
clarified. The new president, Arthur
Griffith, and a new cabinet had been
elected and the way had been smooth
ed to putting into effect the terms
of the treaty.
The following cabinet officers were
named:
Minister of Finance—Michael Col
lins.
Foreign affairs—George Gavan
Duffy.
Home affairs—Eamon J. Duggan.
Local government—William T. Cos
grave.
Economic affairs—Bryan O’Hig
gins.
Defense—Richard Mulcahy.
Immense relief is felt in Dublin at
the turn events have taken, and this
will undoubtedly be experienced
through Ireland.
The temporary withdrawal of Ea
mon De Valera, and his supporters |
from the dail, which rumor had fore
cast, proved not to involve a perma
nent split. Mr. De Valera confined
his protest to the election of a new
president, declaring his unwillingness
to recognize the suitability to that
post of a man who, as chairman of
the London delegation, was bound to
give effect to the treaty, which, ac
cording to De Valera subverts the re
public.
During the luncheon hour, Mr. De
Valera and his associates who left the
hall, held a private meeting. Some of. |
the more ardent spirits advocated re
fusal to return, but moderate caunsel
prevailed and the dail reassembled as
a united body. The De Valera party
is meeting again tonight to formulate
plans for the future, but it was made
evident by the numerous speeches
from Mr. De Valera what those plans
are likely to be.
He holds that the decision of the
dail in favor of the treaty binds him
and his adherents not to obstruct the
new government in carrying out the
treaty, but he reserves the right of
free criticism, should Mr. Griffith in
the capacity of chairman of the pro
visional government do anything in
consistent with the rights of the Irish
people or the existence of the Irish
republic.
At the same time he expressed the
conviction thafEnglish hostility may
have to be faced. There is still in
tense suspicion existent on both sides
of the dail of the good faith of the
British ministry. De Valera was clear
in his assurances of the full support
of his party in resisting an attack
from an outside enemy.
Mr. Griffith was repeatedly press
ed by Mr. De Valera to define his po
sition, which De Valera described as
a new case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde.
Mr. Griffith was challenged to de
fine his attitude toward the republic >
and M evidently was supposed that '
he would have difficulty in reconsiling
his position as president with the po
sition o." chairman of the provisional
government.
Mr. Griffith, however, frankly rec- j
ognied during the transition period
the existence of the republic, which
he undertook to maintain, but he said
when the Free State was framed and
ready to come into operation there
must be a general election, so that
the people could choose between the
free state and th continuance of the
republic.
Mr. De Valera’s attitude toward
Mr. Griffith was considerate and re
spectful, and Mr. Griffith expressed
his cordial apfcwecibtflon of? this.—
Associated Press. I
New Bank Will Open Next Monday
_
Another meeting of the Farmers
Bank and Trust Company has been
held and Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald was
elected cashier. They will open their
doors for business Monday morning,
January 16th. The new bank will oc
cupy the building recently used by
the Citizens National Bank next door
to W. L. Woodall’s Sons. Mr. R. C.
Gillett is president of the new bank.
LIVING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
By REV. NEILL McINNIS
• One of the outstanding needs facing us today is^ deeper spiritu
ality on the part of the Christian people. This need can be met to a
great extent by each of us living more fully the Christian life. To this
end it is my purpose to direct you to some selected passages of Script
ure that will be of help.
To begin with, before there can be a very appreciable strength
ening of the Christian life it will be well for us to see what God’s
Word has to say with reference to the prayer life. In I. Thessaloni
ans 5:7 the Christian is urged to pray without ceasing. Then in Mat
thew 6:6, "But when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which seeth in secret and * * *
he shall reward thee openly.” Philippians 4:6-7, “Be careful for nothing
but in every thing by prayer-and supplication with thanksgiving let
your request be made known unto God and the peace of God which
passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds thru Christ
Jesus.”
A Christian also will be found studying the Word of God. 1. Tim.
2:15, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Also
Jn. 5:39, “Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal
life and they are they that testify of me.” Joshua 1:8, “This book of
the law' shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate
therein day and night, that thou uiayest observe to do all that is writ
ten therein. Then shalt thou find thy way prosperous and then thou
shalt have good success.”
There is also a doing side to the Christian life, for it is only by the
expression of our strong prayer life and study life that we grow very
much. I. Cor. 10:31, “Whether therefore ye eat or drink, do all to the
glory of God.” James 2:26, “ * * * So faith without works is dead al
so.” Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it
with all thy might * * *” Eph. 6:6, “Not with eye service as men
pleasers, but as servants of Christ doing the will of God from the
heart.” Col. 3:23, “And whatsoever ye do. do it heartily, as unto the
Lord and not unto men.”
There is another phase to the Christian life that we may well heed
and that is our giving back to God a portion of the material things
with which he has blessed us. I. Cor. 16:2, “Upon the first day of the
week let every one of you lay by him in store as the Lord hath pros
pered him * * *”. Malachi 3:10, “Bring ye all the tithes into the store
house and prove me now herewith if I will not open to you the wind
ows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that ye are unable to re
ceive.” II. Cor. 9:7, “Every man as he purposeth in his heart so let
him give not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful
giver.”
We should also make use of all the means of grace which God has
appointed unto us and especially the meeting together for worship.
Heb. 10:25, “Not forsaking the assembling ourselves together, as the
manner of some is; but exhorting one another and so much the more
as ye see the day approaching.” Matt. 22:37-39.
These few passages of Scripture are selected from a great body
of God’s truth and if you find others that touch along the lines, place
them under the different phases of the Christian Life and let’s apply
them in our lives.
CIGARETTE COSTS SMOKER LIFE
—WRECKS FIREWORKS PLANT
Alfred d’Andrea Walks Into Building
Containing Fulminate of Mercury
And Is Blown to Atoms.
Chester, Pa. Jan. 10—An inveterate
smoker this afternoon was blown to
atoms and caused considerable prop
erty damage at Morton when he walk
ed into a building containing hun
dreds of pounds of fulminate of mer
cury while contently puffing on a
cigarette. The building was on the
property of the Universal Fireworks
and Specialty Company. The deto
nation was heard in Media, Chester
and other points, within an 8-mile
radius, and caused a panic at Morton, j
Windows were shattered in various
homes near the fireworks plant.
The dead man is Alfred d’Andrea.
of No. 1335 Reed street, Philadelphia.
With two others he was engaged in I
mixing chemicals and was obliged to ;
go into a nearby shack, one story in
height, which houses the deadly ex
plosive. He failed to remove the ciga
rette from his mouth upon entering it,
and a second later a terrific explosion
occurred. The shack was lifted from
its foundations and fell to earth
many feet away. Horrified workmen,
after recovering from the shock, dis
covered the badly mangled form of
d'Andrea in a tree fifty yards from
the scene of the explosion. One arm
was torn away, and his body was
ripped open.
Four girl employes in the main
building 75 feet away from the ex
plosion, fainted and were carried from
the place. Scores of residents of Mor- j
ton rushed from their homes in total
bewilderment. Every window in the
home of Amandas Ackerman on Yale
avenue, 150 yards away from the
plant, was broken. A storehouse near
the plant lost every window and some
of the wall supports were weakened.
The site where the shack stood was
no more than a hole in the ground
covered with crushed stones. Coroner
Drewes, of Darby, took charge of the
corpse and removed it to his morgue.
fn July, 1920, the same company
suffered a bad explosion at the Mor
ton plant, but no lives were lost. It
is situated upon the Hippie estate,
and is owned by Italians. For years
it has ’supplied wholesalers with high
grade fireworks.—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
The first matches that would pro
duce a flame by friction were made
in 1827.
DOUBLE KILLING TAKES
PLACE NEAR ASHEVILLE
Young Man Beleived To Have Killed
Girl and Then Himself Ac
count of Marriage Refusal
Asheville, Jan. 11.—Miss Dorothy
Parker, 24, prominent society girl of
this city, and J. Turner Sharp, 30 of
Waycross, Ga., are dead as the result
of bullets said to have been fired by
Sharp this morning, supposedly, the
authorities say, because Miss Parker
would not marry him.
The dual tragedy occurred as the
two were walking in the city’s most
fashionable residential section. Both
died within a few minutes. Miss
Parker, a French instructor in the
Grove Park school, was en route to
her work when the shooting occurred.
Sharp had been visiting the girl for
about two years.
The girl, the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. J. W. Parker, and a graduate of
the Saint Genevive Covenant here.
Last evening her parents entertained
Sharp at dinner and this morning
he called to walk with her to school.
The pair were laughing and talking
when, seemingly without warning,
Sharp is said to have drawn an army
revolver from his coat and fired two
shots into the girl’s right temple and
then sent a bullet into his own head.
The couple were not identified un
til Mrs. Parker, brought to the scene
by the police on the belief that she
knew the girl, was prostrated upon
recognizing her own daughter. Sharp
came here in a search of health, it was
said by his friends. He was former
ly connected with an automobile
agency in Waycross, Ga.
A Little Girl Buried Near Hopewell.
About a year ago Mr. Uriah Thomp
son moved from the Hopewell church
neighborhood near Smithfield to the
Boswell plantation near Wilson. Their
little 8-months-old daughter died last
Monday and was brought to the
Hopewell cemetery Tuesday for burial
The burial took place at 1 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Boyett, Mr.
Albert Boswell, Mr. D. A. Thompson
and others accompanied them here
for the burial.
Cotton Ginned In Johnston.
There were 47,789 bales of cotton
ginned in Johnston county prior to
Jan. 1st, 1922 as compared with 47,
463 bales grinned to Jan. 1, 1921.
D. J. Yelvington, Reporter.
WEDDING POPULAR
YOUNG COUPLE
Miss Maggie Brown, Selma,
Becomes Bride of R. P.
Holding of This City
The Methodist church of Selma
was the scene of an unusually pretty
mi t riage Wednesday at one o’clock
when Miss Maggie Brown of that citv
• *
became the bride of Mr. R. P. Holding.
The church was tastefully decorat
ed with ferns and potted plants, a
quiet simplicity characterizing the en
tire arrangement. Mrs. P. V. Suiter,
tof Rocky Mount, cousin of the bride,
presided at the organ. She was at
tired in a costume of black velvet
with hat *o match and wore a corsage
of pink roses end fern. Prior to the
ceremony, Miss Bessie Holding, of
Wake Forest, sister of the groom,
sang “Until” and “Sweetest Story
Ever Told.” Miss Holding wore
black satin with hat to match, her
'•orsage also being pink roses and
fern.
As the notes of the wedding
march pealed forth the following
ushers took their places: Messrs C. P.
Harper, of Selma, P. E. Whitehead,
Ryal Woodall and W. R. Sanders.
The only other attendants were the
maid of honor, Miss Mollie Brown,
sister of the bride, who wore a blue
lace gown and carried American
Eeauty roses, and Mr. R. R. Holt, the
best man.
The bride never looked more lovely
than on this occasion. She was attired
in a becoming going away suit of blue
Poiret twill with grey trimmings,
with hat and other accessories to
match. She carried a handsome bou
quet of bride’s roses and orchids.
The impressive ring ceremony was
pronounced by Rev. G. B. Perry, pas
tor of the bride.
Immediately after the ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Holding boarded the
north bound train for a wedding trip
to New York and other points.
Mrs. Holding is the attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Brown
of Selma. For sometime she has liv
ed in this city holding a position with
the Sanders Motor Co.
Mr. Holding is the popular cashier
of the First and Citizens National
Bank, of Smithfield, having held this
position for a number of years. His
original home was Wake Forest.
Mr. and Mrs. Holding have a host
of friends here and over the state
who wish them all success and happi
ness.
WOMEN TO CAMPAIGN
IN THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY
Want to Make Old Dominion First
to Pass Blanket “Bill
of Rights.”
Washington, Jan. 11.—A campaign
to make Virginia “the first Southern
State to place its women upon an
equality before the law with men”
was begun, it was announced here to
day, by the National Woman’s Party
with the convening of the state leg
islature at Richmond. Similar cam
paigns, it was added, wil be conduct
ed in Maryland, Kentucky, Mississippi
and South Carolina.
The blanket “bill of rights” pre
pared by the Woman’s Party will be
introduced early in the session of the
Virginia legislature, it was said, and
an intensive campaign will be wag
ed in its support. Mrs. Gertrude
Robey, of Pyrcelleville, Va., party
chairman for the Eighth Congression
al district of that state, left tonight
for Richmond after a conference with
Alice Paul, vice president of the or
ganization. Mrs. Robey is to coop
erate with Mrs. Sophie Meredith, of
Richmond, state chairman of the par
ty, in conducting the campaign.
Rum in Cocoanuts
t
Minneapolis, Jan. 9.—Two hundred
cocoanuts, which contained, not their
own natural milk, but a pint each of
strong Jamaica rum, were seized by
Federal agents today at a Minneapo
lis railroad station.
A cork plug coming out of one of
the cocoanuts led to the discovery of
the rum by an agent who was at the
station. An eye of each cocoanut had
been bored out, the. nut filled, and
a burnt cork stopper placed in the
hole.—Philadelphia Record.
NEW YORK’S WORST
STORM OF SEASON
Several Hundred Men, Wo
men and Children Beg
For Food and Clothing
New York, Jan. 11.—This section of
the country was lashed today by the
worst gale of the winter—a gale that
at 2 p. m. reached a velocity of 90
miles an hour off Sandy Hook.
Ushered in with snow and that later
turned to hail and rain the storm buf
feted New Yorkers without mercy,
carrying many across slippery side
walks and plunging them face down
ward jin slufchy streets. Umbrellas
were torn out of many a hand, win
dow glass fell tinkling into the street,
mail package boxes were blown down
and traffic generally hampered. Many .
pedestrians were injured.
Several tall stacks fell before the
wind. One, 80 feet high, toppled in
Trenton, N. J., falling on feed wires
that supplied traction lines and tying
up service for nearly two hours. A
chimney 12fi feet tall crashed in Brook
lyn.
Harbor traffic was hard l)it. A num
ber of small boats were blown from
their moorings and incoming liners
were held at quarantine by high
winds which made it impossible for
health officers to board them. With
the weather bureau sending out the
first full gale warning in many years
there was a tension noticeable in ship
ping circles.
Some concern was felt for the dis
abled army transport Crook, with
nearly 1,000 persons aboard, despite
radio messages that repairs had been
made and all was well.
Outside the city the full strength
of the storm was felt. New Jersey
and Long Island, especially along the
coast, v re hard swept and at se*.f
points a tangle of telephone and tele
graph wires was reported.
Several hundred men, women and
children, storm struck, appealed to the
municipal lodging houses for succor.
Preparations were made to supply
food and clothing to the needy.
Many fr^ak incidents marked the
storm.
At Garden City, Long Island, Pilot
C. B. D. Colver, flying a mail plane
from Cleveland and Chicago, reported
he had been unable to land even tho
he gave his plane the gas and nosed
her down almost perpendicularly.
Encountering freak wind that swirl
ed up from the earth, the machine
nosed down, seemed to hang for sev
eral moments dead still in the air.
Then the pilot flew over Hazelhurst
field and anchored his sleet-covered
ship by lashing it to a motor truck.
Trial of a divorce case in Supreme
court was delayed when one of the
jurors, out for lunch, was run down
by an automobile in the blinding
storm. He went home in a taxi cab
leaving the case to be concluded, by
agreement with only 11 jurors.
Tom Breen, 23, despite his best ef
forts, was blown into a taxi cab that
stood nearby with its door open. The
machine took him to a hospital where
he was treated for severe contusions.
Wind borne missiles of various
kinds knocked several pedestrians
down. One, Anna La Cart, was kill
ed by a l low from a limb of a tree
which had bt-en wrenched off by tin
gale.
Several persons were hurt when
portions of roofs and buildings corn
ices were blown into the street.—As
sociated Press.
Blackstone College Destroyed.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 10.—Black
stone Female institute, at Blackstone,
Va., was totally destroyed by fire
early this evening, entailing a loss of
$175,000, according to information
reaching Richmond tonight. Mem
bers of the faculty, board of trustees
and student body lost virtually all
their clothing and other personal pro
perty. There was no loss of life.—
Greensboro News.
An Observation.
Man has conquered the air. The
young lady at thq piano next door
hasn’t.—Detroit News.
Long before Christ was born the
people of India, Egypt, the Holy Land
and other Eastern countries us^d
lamps.
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