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VOLUME 41 SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1922 NUMBER 11 AUSTIN ELECTED COTTON DIRECTOR Eight Others Voted For; 907 Votes Qast and Mr. Austin Received 458 When the 907 votes for director from this district of the Cotton As sociation, were counted last Saturday, it was found that Mr. W. H. Austin had been elected by a big majority. Because of unfavorable weather con ditions, the time for voting was ex tended until noon Saturday, and at that time the office of the County Farm Agent was crowded to see the counting of the votes. Two candi dates had been chosen at a previous meeting here, these being Dr. S. H. Crocker, of Stantonsburg, Wilson county, and W. H. Austin. Mr. A. M. Johnson was an independent candi date and several others, as the tally of votes showed, received votes. Messrs H. P. Stevens and H. 1. Ogbum kept tally while Messrs S. J. Kirby and J. P. Parker counted the votes. Mr. Austin received 458 votes; Dr. Crocker, 254; Mr. A. M. Johnson, 182; A. J. Fitzgerald, Princeton, R. F. D., 6; C. W. Horne, Clayton, 3; Wm. D. Avera, 1; Tur ner Edgerton, Kenly, R. F .D., 1; S. J. Kirby, 1; D. T. Creech, Pine Level 1. Other directors in the state which have been chosen are B. O. Townsend, of Harnett, R. W. Christian, of Cum berland, Mr. Slatton, of Pitt, Dr. G. M. Pate, of Robeson, and Mr. L. D. Robinson, of Anson. There is a con test between Mr. Mosely of Lenoir and Mr. Dan Patrick, of Green, and the other district has not been heard from. It is reported that very likely Mr. Raiford B. Whitley, of Wendell, for merly of Selma, will be the director for the tobaceo association from the Johnston and Wake districts. SMITHFIELD SMOTHERS TARBORO QUINT, 110-8 Tarboro Boys Completely Out classed by Local Boys; Stephenson Stars. In a lop-sided game here Thurs day night the Smithfield Highs com pletely smothered the Tarboro Highs by the score of 110 to 8. The Tarboro boys were outclassed as the score would indicate. From the start to the last whistle the visitors were in the power of the local quint. The first half ended with the score 56 to 6. Captain Ellington ran in two substi tutes in the last half—J. Caudill for Brown and C. Stephenson for E. Caudill. Despite this the locals scored 54 points to the visitors two in the last half. Stephenson, cen ter, scored 9 field goals/ in the first half and 8 in the last, making a total of 34 points. E Caudill scored 18 points in the first half. Capt. El lington scored 24 points. Godwin, holding his forward to no goals, caged eight field goals. C. Stephenson scor ed 14 points in the last half. The passing of the Smithfield boys was good but that of the visitors was inaccurate and slow. The ball was kept in Smithfield’s half of the court most of the time. Tarboro’s midget, Johnson, played the only game for the visitors that could be called fair. He scored 6 of Tarboro’s 8 points. He caged four fouls of five chances. Line-up and summary: Smithfield (110) Tarboro (8) ! Position Caudill, E ___-Simmons Right Forward | Ellington-Denson | I-eft Forward Stephenson, R.-Crane Center Brown - Johnson ' Right Guard Godwin - Staton ! Left Guard Smithfield scoring: Fie1! goals, El lhig+on if; E. Caudill 9- Stetmenson ! 17: Gouwin 8; J. Caudill 2- C. S:-> >h- i east n 7. F~ul goals: Ellirgton 0 rut I of 3 chances. Tarboro scoring: Field j goals: Denson 1; Johnson 1. Foul! goals: Johnson 4 ovjt of 5 chances. Substitutions for Smithfield—Cau-! dill, J., for Brown, C. Stephenson for , E. Caudill. Substitutions for Tar boro—Evans for Staton. Referee: Tyner; Scorers Barnes and Wharton; Timekeeper Ennis. Prayer Meeting. Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. the pastor will continue his talks on the Holy Spirit. Read Jno. 16:^2 to 15. A i WOULD CUT EXPENSES IN SCHOOL OPERATION Superintendent Brooks’ Pronounce ments May Put Some Supervis ors Back to Teaching. j Raleigh, Feb. 4.—State Superin | tendent E. C. Brooks, who had two j legislatures standing on their heads, which position often symbolized the correct intellectual attitude of the body, now has the city superintend ents with difficulty holding to their feet. His conference with them yester day resulting in pronouncements almost sure to end many of the smaller ones to supervision person ally and many of the supervising teachers to the old grind of class work, is the first big effort of t he department to meet the popular out cry against the expensive operation of the schools. The first wail came up from the politicians; but few of them would do the perfectly obvious thing—place their hands on the fruit less tree that should be pruned sharply or cut down outright. Yet, a survey of the schools has shown that the teaching has a most aggravatingly disproportionate cost. It often happens that the lowest sal aries are tied up with the highest per capita cost and that the rooms vary in size by 100 per cent. These things working against uniformity make for expense. Mr. Brooks told the superintend ents how much “supervision” he was wont to do in the prehistoric days of teaching. He does not ignore the supervisor; the need of such work in the great number of counties is man ifest. But as an institution per se there is some difference of opinion. Teachers who meet the excellences may get along without the super visor whose fine teaching is needed in every school day. The committee appointed to work out some plan of settling the differ ences as to tuition will probably find a way to give each child in North Carolina the constitutional six months term and then the question of tuition will be in order. The stale superintendent is not disposed to al low a charge for any pupil until the state’s law has been met.—Greens bor Daiy News. COMMISSION TO SELECT TEXT BOOKS NEXT WEEK RALEIGH, Feb. 3.—The state board of education will make its de cision in the selection of text books for North Carolina grammar grades schools Saturday, February 11. The method of procedure in making the selections also will be decided at that time. The state text book commis sion recently submitted its report recommending books for the gram mar grades, and text book men have been in Raleigh for some time await ing final action by the board of edu cation.—Brock Barkley in Charlotte Observer. Triumphs of the Conference. The Washington Conference gave the world another sensation yesterday in plenary session. It was scarcely less impressive than the proceedings that startled the world on the opening of the Conference, November 12, when Secretary Hughes in clear, clean, bus inesslike utterance presented the astounding American program for scrapping capital ships, and for a ten year naval building holiday. The important difference between these two high peaks of the Confer ence is that the one dealt in proposals and recommendations; the other pre sented these proposals and recom mendations concreted into signed agreements. The great Conference, and meas ured by its achievements it is much the greatest international conference of all time, has finished its work. There are still some details to be ad justed that will consume a few more days. But the achievements that optimism hoped for, prayed for, vast as they are in actualities, and vaster yet in potentialities, are today, em bedded in history. The achievements of this Confer ence mirror the demands of the great ' human heart of the world. —New j Yoik Herald. Trees planted on the public high- ! ways would add very much to the \ comfort of travelers in the summer time. RUSSIAN STEPPES COVERED BY DEAD Skeletons of Animals Min gled With Bodies of Men and Women uia, Volga Kegion, Russia, Jan. 7. — (By Associated Press)—When the snows melt next spring the Russian steppes will be strewn with skeletons. They will resemble the high prairies of the American cow country in the days when big cattle outfits had in sufficient hay to carry their stock through a hard winter. But among the skeletons of cattle and camels there will be the bones of hundreds of thousands of men, wom en and children who fell exhausted in their quest for bread, who lived the simple lives their peasant ancestors lived for centuries and had little con ception of the political upheaval which made this famine more terrible than that of 1891. They wandered and millions of them are still wandering. There was noth ing to eat in their homes so they started on the trek for bread. Some drifted westward to the Volga and found death in the typhus ridden rail way centers, or among the horrors of refugee camps along the Volga; others started for Turkestan; still others started eastward toward Sibe ria, the land of gold and wheat which has always been so alluring to the Russian moujik, who heard little of its vastness, its hardships and its heartlessness. The peasants knew nothing of modern ways. They were unable to buy tickets on the railways, unable to get permits to ride on trains burdened with the red army and food for Moscow and Petrograd. When their animals dropped dead the fam ilies walked on always hoping that food lay over the next knoll. But the country districts have no grain, or if peasant families have a small supply they conceal it in the effort to prolong their own lives un til another crop is harvested. In the larger towns there is food for sale at fabulous prices but the starving refugees have neither money nor goods to exchange and can only set down to await death or trudge on un til they sink of exhaustion. The bodies that lie along the rail roads are collected on cars and haul ed to centers where they are piled in frozen, snow-covered heaps to await burial. Freezing refugees remove all garments from the dead, so the froz en bodies are nude when the scaveng ers collect them. h amilies drift apart and wander aimlessly on to their inevitable fate. Human instincts are lost and they become little better than beasts. The city and town populations are so hardened to suffering that they are little moved by the misery which lies all about them. Death seems more merciful in the country for the refu gees; they sink into the white eover ing o$ the endless plain, and wolves strip their bones. From Perm and Ekaterinburg to the Caspian Sea death is stalking over the steppes. Russians, Cqssacks, Kalmucks, Kirg hiz and Tartars alike are meeting their end with hopelessness and pa tience begotten of centuries of un equal struggle against political ex- j tortion and unfavorable climatic con- ! ditions, made worse by ignorance of scientific methods of tilling the soil, j American corn will be too late to ; save many of these wanderers through the steppes, as well as the families who have elected to make their fight in their villages remote from the rail ways rather than endure the hard ships and death their neighbors have suffered along the main lines of trans portation. Entire village populations have died in the provinces east of the Volga and the animals which survive are so weak it is impossible to get adequate horsepower to deliver food to the thousands of snowbound, destitute settlements far from food stations. But, Maybe He Didn’t. A professor of biology addressed his class thus: “I propose to show you a very fine specimen of a dis sected frog which I have in this par cel.” Undoing the parcel he disclos- j ed some sandwiches, a hard-boiled | egg and some fruit. ‘‘But—surely I ! ate my lunch!” he said.—Cincinnati Inquirer. COMMISSIONERS MET YESTERDAY List of Jurors Drawn for the Term of Criminal Court Beginning March 13 The county commissioners met in regular session here yesterday. They authorized the payment of a few small bills, made a few changes in taxes where mistakes had been made in entering, and took action on a few outside pauper petitions. Below we give the list of jurors drawn for the March terms of Crimi nal court, which convenes Monday, i March 13: J. W. Pool, J. Willard Oneal, W. H. Smith, W. D. Avera, W. N. Holt, R. T. Hudson, L. D. Clifton, W. R. Smith, J. J. Broadhurst, E. S. Lassi ter, D. T. Creech, T B. Wall, Elling ton Tart, Adam J. Woodard, Robert Parrish, Victor Austin, Jno. A. Wil son, Don C. Smith, C. A. Johnson, E. L. King, R. W. Etheredge, J. D. Ham ilton, Z. B. Hill, B. N. Hamilton, Wal ter K. Eason, Stephen Westbrook, A. J. Fitzgerald, D. H. Holland, Emmett Adams, T. A. Creech, L. F. Austin, T. E. Talton, W. W. Hare, W A. Lassiter, H. B. Brady, J. B. Oneal. GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS MAY EXCEED EXPENSES - - President Harding Says Budget Sys tem Has Already Justified Itself. Gives Daws The Credit. Washington, Feb. 3.—Presidng to day at the second business meeting of the government, President Harding announced that instead of a deficit in government finances as was fore cast in December there now were prospects of a surplus of receipts over expenditures when the books are balanced at the end of next June. ■The President further announced it had been possible to reduce the government’s expenditures from a scale based on $4,500,000,000 a year to a scale of $3,974,000,000 and de clared, “that even in its formative period the budget system has justi fied our most confident expectations.” More than a thousand officials from all the departments met with the President and received the reports of the various co-ordinating agencies transmitted by Director Dawes of the budget bureau whom the President described as “the genius” who made possible the cut in expenditures. High officials who sat with the President at the meeting included Vice-President Coolidge, Secretaries Mellon, Denby and Wallace, General Pershing, Admijral K^ontz, Under Secretary Fletcher of state depart ment and Assistant Secretary Roose velt of the navy. Both the President and General Dawes who made the only other ad dress of the meeting, announced a direct saving of $32,000,000 and in direct saving of more than $104,000, 000 accomplished in less than six months through the operation of the co-ordinating agencies of the budget system. Mr. Harding further declared the efforts of the government towards economy had been reflected among the people at large. “I cannot but feel,” said the Presi dent, “that the government has in tiiis budget organization set an ex ample of care and thrift that has helped greatly to make saving fash ionable. If to some extent the gov ernment has been a leader in so praiseworthy a cause, we ought all to be gratified to have had a part in the affair. Much of the extrava gance of government has bee11 due to lack of sense of individual re sponsibility and the same is true in the corporate business and the pri vate affairs of the people. If our efforts here shall set a standard and j inspire an ambition for greater economics and higher efficiency, we shall have served not only the gov ernment but the whole public par ticularly well, perhaps, our example will be of service to the world.” Discussing the prospects of a sur plus instead of a deficit as was gen erally expected, Mr. Harding appeal ed for a continuation of the “care ful and painstaking effort which has been made contiuously during the first half of the year.” The cost of living fell seven per | cent in London during the month of j December. AN OLD COUPLE PASS AWAY AT GOLDSBORO Capt. T. W. Sloeumb Died at Noon Friday and His Wife Three Hours Later. Raleigh, Feb. 3.—Telephone mes sages tonight from Goldsboro said that Captain Thomas W. Slocumb had died at noon and Mrs. Slocumb three hours later recalled the golden wedding of the couple celebrated three years ago and the further re markable fact that their seven chil dren have survived them. Captain Slocumb did distinguished service with the Confederacy in whose battles he won his title. Until six months ago when his eight years under the Craig and Bickett admin istrations ended as secretary of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad, his life had been active and he was universally declared the best func tionary the road ever had. Shortly after dropping back to private life he became ill and he has been an invalid with death expectancy daily. Mrs. Slocumb had nursed him throughout his illness and was at her work yesterday and today. Her death was wholly unexpected and in Ra leigh where she and Captain Slocumb often visited their daughter, Mrs. Hattie S. Gay, Governor Bickett’s executive secretary, they were almost as widely known as in Goldsboro, their home. Captain Slocumb was 79 years old and Mrs. Slocumb 76. Everywhere he v as known he was loved for the grand gentleman, the like of whom will not return. Their four daugh ters and three sons who have grown into middle age with parents who were their seniors only in years, were with them today when they de clined to allow even death to separate them.—Greensboro Daily News. TWO SISTERS START ON HIKE TO MIAMI Misses Kathleen and Winifred O’ Malley Leave Atlantic City. Atlantic City, N. J., Feb. 1.—A hearty farewell was given to the Misses Kathleen and Winifred O’Mal ley of this city to-day as they started for their hike to Miami, Fla. The young women, attired in knickerbockers, shook hands with Mayor Bader and were cheered by a large assembly as they made the start from the City Hall. They are taking the hike as a vacation trip. If they obtain any contributions from their trip they will donate them to char ity. On their way they will distribute thousands of pieces of reading mat ter in praise of Atlantic City. The girls will cover a distance of about 1,350 miles. They expect to walk about 15 miles a day. For the last six months they have acted as nurses to their brother, Charles O’ Malley, who is an invalid here, hav ing been wounded during the war. The brother will be looked after by their other sister, Miss Julia O’Mal ley.—N. Y. Herald. PROBABLY KILLED IN A SCHOOL TRUCK Mr. R. E. Lee, of Meadow Town ship, was here last Friday and told us that Miss Nelson a teacher in the Peacocks Cross Roads school had been called to see her cousin who was seriously hurt in a school truck near New Bern. The truck turned over dislocating Miss Nelson’s spinal col umn and breaking some of her limbs. Her cousin who left the county Thurs day was wanted at her bedside. It was not thought she could overcome the injuries she had sustained. *********** * HON. E. W. POU CONTRIB- * * UTES TO JEWISH RELIEF * * __ * * A telegram to THE HERALD * * from the State Director Publicity * * of Jewish Relief states that Con- * * gressman E. W. Pou of this the * * Fourth District is heartily in * * favor of the work being done and * j * sends a contribution to the cause. * i * Congressman Pou says: “It gives * j * me pleasure to participate in the * * Jewish Relief Campaign. I send * * you check for fifty dollars, and * * only wish the state of my finan- * * ces made it practicable to send * * check of larger amount. I wish * * for all who are taking part in * * this worthy cause the fullest * * measure of success. * *********** COUNTY SYSTEMS NEED A REVISION Governor Says County Gov ernment Act Is Out of Date; Needs Change A general revision of county gov ernment in North Carolina is contem plated in steps which Governor Mor rison is now taking with the approval of the Council of State, for the prep aration of legislation to be submitted to the 1923 General Assembly. Gov ernor Morrison is in process of ap pointing a commission of a score or more of distinguished men in the State to undertake the drafting of a reform measure which will be sub mitted to the Legislature as a basis for its consideration. Governor Morrison is satisfied that great improvement can be made in the county governments in North Car olina. The present law under which the counties of the State are govern ed, says the Governor, is out of date. It has been handed down, in its main principles, from the first county gov ernment act adopted after the War Between the States. “The only thing in the world that insures good and efficient government in the counties of the State is the men who are elected to fill the offices,” said the Governor yesterday. The law as it now stands, the Governor went on, is submerged in a mass of amendments, and special legislation to the extent that even the lawyers in many cases are puzzled. A com plete reorganization of the county government and the accounting sys tem in operation in them is the Gov ernor’s aim. While Governor Morrison was not yet ready to make any announcement of definite plans, he stated that he was selecting a commission for th* purpose of taking the whole matter into consideration and of aiding him in the drafting of a new law for sub mission to the next General Assembly. —News and Observer. The Steady Grind. The fellow who knows how to grind gets there in the end. Some people are always looking for sky rockets. They believe human affairs are guided by the genius of lock. They believe in a Santa Claus for adults. They expect to wake up some morning and find themselves wealthy, famous and powerful. 3ut the chariots of fire never appear. The golden lands that be at the end of the railbow are never reach ed. /cross their firmament the meteors of great success never flash. Its the steady grind day after day in the face of ups and downs that makes a fellow’s dreams come true. Constant application, persist ent, and dogged determination are the equalities that win at last. Shaking dice with fate is a fool's game. History records the victories of nc man who was not a day laborer in hfe’s harvest field. Good luck is the rarest flower that blooms and it blossoms mostly in the gardens of imagination. If your rival is a steady grinder, look out for him.—Selected. The Home Garden Campaign Governor Morrison’s “Home Gar den” campaign which has been taken up by the county farm agents of the State ought o bring results. A move ment which is of so much practical value to the people as a whole is very worthy and commendable. A home garden, for the person in both the country and towns, pays in many ways. It not only pays financially when properly managed, but it pays in the comfort and convenience of having fresh vegetables at any time; and then for busy man or woman who needs something to occupy their ex tra time, it will furnish wholesome diversion and profitable exercise. Let every one join in making the cam paign for a garden for every house keeper a success. Statesville Senti nel. Thinking of the Groundhog. “My debutante sister had her com ing out yesterday,” said the society youth. “Did she—er—see her shad ow?” asked he weather sharp, think ing of the old groundhog supersti tion.—Philadelphia Record.