VOLUME 41
SM1THFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1922
NUMBER 35
DOCTORS DISCUSS
DRUG ADDICTION
N. C. Medical Society Passes
Resolutions; Pays Tribute
To Dr. Manning
In a speech before the House of
Representatives on January 13,
Hon. Lester D. Volk, of New York,
presented facts of a very comprehen
sive and intelligent nature on the
menace of drug addiction. Quoting
from Harper’s Weekly Mr. Volk
says:
“Drug addiction is undeniably a
very great evil which is probably in
creasing in extent. Undenably, too,
some of the grosser forms of it are
to be checked and abated by legis
lature and by police administration.
But the most important part of it
can be dealt with efficaciously only
by competent and conscientious
physicians in private practice. To
forbid such treatment of it would be
to place sufferers at the mercy of
institutions, which most of them
would rather die than enter, or of the
purveyors of ‘sure cures’ of the
most pernicious type. It may be that
further legislation, state and na
tional, is needed on the subject. But
it is absolutely certain that no such
legislation should be enacted with
out the fullest possible publicity, or
without first having a competent
and open investigation, which would
bring all the conditions and facts to
the intelligent attention of the law
makers. There must be no more
‘sneak’ legislation to enable design
ing men either to exploit the vices
or to batten upon the afflictions of
their fellows.”
Realizing the importance of se
curing intelligent legislation on this
matter at an early date, not only as
a means of properly treating those
that are afflicted but as a safeguard
to the practicing physician, the
Medical Society of the State of
North Carolina in convention at
Winston-Salem, April 25th, passed
the following resolution during the
meeting of the House of Delegates:
Resolved 1st, the Medical Society
of the State of North Carolina now
In session in W)in,ston-Salem, ap
prove House Resolution 258 provid
ing for a select committee of 15 to
inquire into the subject of narcotic
addiction in the United States. The
personnel of this committee to in
clude all doctors who are now mem
bers of the House of Representatives.
Resolved 2nd, that this Society
endorses the position taken by Hon.
Lester D. Volk, the propounder of
Resolution 258, which position he has
so ably and admirably sustained in
a speech delivered in the House of
Representatives on Jan. 13, 1922.
Resolved 3rd, that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to the Senators
and Representatives of North Car
olina in Congress and that they be
requested to use their best efforts
to bring about the adoption of the
resolution pfesented by Hon. Les
ter D. Volk.
Following the adoption of the
resolution a beautiful tribute was
paid Dr. J. M. Manning, of Durham,
by the profession, all of the dele
gates rising as an expression of
their confidence in the integrity of
Dr. Manning and as a remonstrance
against the persecution to which he
has recently been subjected.
North Carolina's Peach Crop.
The present prospect is for a very
heavy peach crop in North Carolina
this year. If the cold wind of yes
terday did not injure the young fruit,
the crop bids fair to be a record
breaker. Persons who for the first
time visit the sandhills of this State
are astounded at the tremendous
proportions which the peach-growing
industry is assuming. At the pres
ent rate of increase North Carolina
will in a few years be the largest
peach producing State east of the
Mississippi River, while the quality
of the fruit wll be second to none,—
Fayetteville Observer.
Isn’t Nature Wonderful?
“But surely,” said the haughty
dame, “if I pay the fare for my dog
he will be treated the same as pas
sengers and be allowed to occupy a
seat?”
“Of course, madam,” the guard re
plied politely, “provided he does not
put his feet on it.”—Pearson’s Week
ly. .
VIVID PICTURE OF TRAGEDY
OF FLOOD FOR CONGRESSMEN
A Million Acres of Farm Land Now
Under Water—Some Families
Still Cling to Their Homes
Vicksburg, Miss., May 3.—One mil
lion acres—25 per cent under cultiva
tion-inundated to a depth of from
thi’ee to fifteen feet, water-covered
and rapidly disintegrating farm build
ings, refugees housed in box cars,
tents and railroad stations, and here
and there a more persistent house
holder sticking to his dwelling despite
the lapping of the water against the
thresholds, viewed from the windows
of a special train which ploughed its
way through more than two feet of
backwater for a distance of 25 miles
from Carey to Vicksburg, gave the
Congressional delegation surveying
the ravages of the swollen Mississippi
a vivid insight today into the tragedy
of the river flood.
Today’s journey, the third day of
the tour began at Memphis Monday,
was through the “backwater” spread
ing over the Yazoo basin from Bruns
wick Gap—an uncompleted stretch of
the Mississippi River levee system—
north of Vicksburg and through the
x azoo river.
From Carey, at present the north |
limit of the inland overflow—to Vicks
burg it was much the same sight—
abandoned farm houses, here and
there a knoll of high ground crowded
with corraled livestock, a raft mov
ing to the neighboring hills, or rail
road right-of-w'ay with piled up house
hold goods and refugees and at inter
vals a house built on “stilts” with the
occupants holding their ground mak
ing the best of the situation and ap
parently determined to stick it out.
Box cars, top floors of cotton gins,
railroad stations and loading plat
forms and tents pitched on the ridges
which dot the generally flat lowlands
now’ are housing several thousand ref- !
ugees, with the number expected to
appreciably increase as the waters
rise and spread further.
Approximately 2,000 are being car
ed for in box cars, 300 of which have
been distributed on sidings at central
points along the line of the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley railroad in the ov
erflowed area.
Members of the Congressional par
ty left the river commission steamer
Mississippi, aboard which the greater
part of the tour is being made at
Greenville early today and after an
automobile ride to Leland for a view
of neighboring plantations, curtailed
by a heavy rainstorm, boarded a speci
al train at the latter town for the rail
trip through the flooded sections to
Vicksburg.
After a visit to the National Park
here and a luncheon, the party re
boarded the Mississippi for a continu
ation of the southward journey.
Natchez, the next stop on the itine
rary, is expected to be reached late
tomorrow.
In its spread over the farm lands
in the Yazoo basin the water ultimate
ly will iundate sections of five coun
ties—Issaquena, Sharkey, Humphreys,
Yazoo, and the northern part of War
ren.
in many parts ot the area already
overflowed, seed was planted several
weeks ago.
Joseph C. Logan, Red Cross repre
sentative, who is directing relief work
in conjunction with state and local of
ficials, issued a statement today indi
cating that approximately 16,000 per
sons, mostly negro tenant farmers, al
ready have been reported as in need
of relief in Yazoo basin and several
other counties to the south.
“Rationing” began a week ago in
some sections. Thus far this week
subsistence for 3,000 persons for a
week has been distributed. It was
estimated from reports made by field
agents to the Vicksburg Red Cross
headquarters that upwards of 40,000
persons ultimately will be in need of
aid to tide them until the water sub
sides and food crops can be raised.
In addition to farm damage, mone
tary losses to the railroads operating
through the overflowed section is ex
pected to be heavy. T. L. Dubbs,
superintendent of the Yazoo and Miss
issippi Valley, estimated today that
the cost of keeping traffic open
through the back water between this
city and Carey was approximately $3,
000 a day.—Associated Press.
CO. SUPT. HIPPS
RESIGNS POSITION
County Board of Education
Elects Mr. H. B. Marrow
As His Successor
At a meeting of the Johnston
County Board of Education held
at Wilson’s Mills Friday afternoon,
Mr. W. H. Hipps, who has been
County Superintendent of schools for
the past three years, tendered his
resignation which was accepted, and
Mr. H. B. Marrow was chosen to
succeed him. Mr. Hipps tendered
his resignation to practice law and
will locate in Asheville. He will
leave about June 1 to take up his
new work. In a letter published
elsewhere in this issue, Mr. Hipps
thanks the people of the County,
teachers and Board of Education for
the cooperation they have given him
in his work.
In the selection of Mr. Hipps’ suc
cessor, the Board of Education has
secured a man whose training has
been along the lines calculated to fit
him for such work.
Mr. Marrow was superintendent of
the Smithfield Graded Schools for
three years, having resigned about a
year ago to practice law in this city.
Mr. Marrow graduated from the
State University in 1912 with an
Academic degree, going back later
and completing the course in law.
He has been in school work practi
cally since leaving high school. He
was superintendent of the Chapel
Hill school and superintendent of the
school at Battleboro before coming to
Smithfield. Every summer for 11
summers he has taught school law
in the University summer school. In
1910, he organized a Teachers Bu
reau at the summer school and since
thatt time has had charge of it every
summer. Through this Bureau Mr,
Marrow has come in touch with
teachers from all over the state,
which fact will be quite an asset in
his new position.
CO-OP. MEMBERS TO MEEET
First Meeting of the Association Will
Be Held Here May 13, at the
Courthouse at 3 P. M.
As Chairman of the Johnston Coun
ty Cotton and Tobacco Cooperative
Marketing Associations, it becomes
my duty, and a pleasure, to call the
members to our first official meeting
at Smithleld, N. C., on May 13, 1922,
at 3:00 P. M. Wear your Co-op but
ton.
The district director of cotton, W.
H. Austin, will be with us, also the
district director of tobacco, R. B.
Whitley, to propose a program for
the coming selling season and to
feel out the members on some impor
tant moves to be made very soon.
No long speeches will be made. We
have talked long enough; we are
going to act from now on.
The sheriff, the doctor and the
undertaker are the only persons
that should prevent your presence
at the meeting. Tell your neighbor
member to drop his “crop-producing
work” at noon the 13th, and take up
his “crop-selling” work for the re
mainder of the day; and he shall be
blest.
A. M. JOHNSON, Chairman
Johnston Co. Co-op, Marketing Asso.
Oranges, Lemons and Bananas Grown
In Sampson County.
CLINTON, April 28—In Samp
son county, down in the southern
part on the farm owned by Jeremiah
Seavey, near Kerr station, Miss
Mary Moore has full grown ripe
oranges and large lemons ready for
home use and a plenty of them too,
she also ha| a banana tree which
bears full size bananas, these trees
are cared for in the winter days ly
covering them with canvas in order
to protect them from the freezing
weather and when the warm days
come all of this is removed and the
sunlight is let into the trees. The
writer visited the home of Seavey
during the first part of April and
saw the ripe oranges and lemons
hanging on the trees ready for pick
ing. That shows that fruits can be
grown in the eastern part of North
Carolina and any family who will
take the time and care can have
these fruits for home consumption
produced in their own front yard.—
Mt. Olive Tribune.
W. D. AVERA CHM’N
BOARD ELECTIONS
Board Appoints Registrars
And Judges of Election in
Each Township
At a meeting of the new Election
Board for Johnston County, which
was held here in Smithfield, Mr. W.
D. Avera was elected chairman and
Mr. W. Thad Hinton, of Clayton,
secretary. The following registrars
and judges of election were appoint
ed to hold the primary on June 3,
and the general election in Novem
ber. The first named man in each
township being appointed Registrar
and the last two will serve as Judges
of Election:
f\\ ilson’s Mills township: Registrar
W. C. Wilson; judges of election, Dal
ma Easom and J. A. Batten.
Clayton: H. A. Page; J. H. Atkin
son and C. G. Cole.
Cleveland: C. T Young; F. M.
Weeks and Sam Lee.
Pleasant Grove: Claude Stephen
son; B. I. Stephenson and Leonard
Johnson.
raevauon: u. u. lvieaun; imim.i
Hardee and C. V. Lassiter.
Banner: Willie Dixon; Julian God
win and J. B. Faircloth.
Meadow: G. O. Johnson; T. L.
Hudson and Miles R. Barefoot.
Bentonsville: K. L. Rose; Lafayette
Langston and H. C. Williams.
Ingrams: W. R. Keen; Bert Bare
foot and J. E. Lee.
Boon Hill: C. H. Holt; Harry Wat
son and L. B. Thompson.
Micro: W. N. Barden; Joe D.
Creech and Wade Holland
Beulah: N. R. Pike; A. G. Hooks
and Hardy Bailance.
Oneal’s: Roscoe Parker; W. H.
Brown and Lee Hocutt.
Wilders: J. M. Easoni; R. E. Bar
ham and Q. B. Hocutt.
Selma: R. W. Etheredge; C. F.
Kirby, and Hiram Chapin.
Pine Level: Alex Wiggs; W. L,
( reech and L. S. Thompson.
Smithfield: C. S. Broadhurst; D.
T. Luneeford and J. C. Stancil.
The Board of Elections is com
posed of two Democrats, Messrs W.
D. Avera and W. Thad Hinton and
one Republican, Mr. R. I. Wallace.
MAKE GIFTS TO AMERICAN
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
National Academy of Sciences and
Greek Diplomat Aid in Cause
of Learning.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—(Capi
tal News Service).—Joannes Genna
dius, dean of the diplomatic corps
of Greece, has presented his magnifi
cent library of more than 50,000 vol
umes to the American School at
Athens. The only condition attach
ed to the gifts that a suitable hous
ing be provided. It is understood
that Mr. Wm. Caleb Lorimer, of Bos
ton, who is president of the board
of trustees of this school, is making
arrangements to have a building put
up to take care of the books. The li
brary, valued at more than a quar
of a million dollars, is said to be the
most complete in existence on Hel
lenic culture and will, it is predict
ed, make the American school at Ath
ens the worlds center for study ol
Greek and Byzantine civilization.
The donor states that he makes the
gift because of his respect and ad
miration for America and his grati
tude for Arrveifcca’s encouragement
and sympathy in the Greek struggle
for independence.
Dr. C. D. Walcott, president of the
National Academy of Sciences, an
nounces that a contract for the con
struction of the temple of science, to
be erected opposite the Lincoln Me
morial in Washington, has been let.
The temple will cost $1,300,000, and
will be completed in 1923. In its
great center rotunda will be demon
strated those experiments and prin
ciples of science which the layman
has hitherto had to take entirely on
faun, such as Foucault’s experiment,
first performed in the Pantheon at
Paris, by which 'the revolution of the
earth is made visible by a swinging
pendulum, the march and change of
sun spots, magnetic storms, earth
quakes, gravitational pull of small
masses, the pressure of light, living
bacteria, etc.
“For they can conquer who believe
they can.”—Dryden.
FIRE BREAKS OUT ON
ROOF OF TREASURY
Flames Which Threatened Serious
Damage This Morning
Finally Controlled.
WASHINGTON, May 3—Flames
which burst from the roof of the
Treasury Department shortly after
1:30 a. m. today, eating their way
through a superstructure and
spreading to the central portions of
the roof, were brought under control
after threatening heavy damage to
the building.
Leaping 30 feet or more in the
air, the flames lit up a large part
of the downtown section and sparks
were wafted across the streets to
the White House lawns. Awakened
by White House attendants, Presi
dent and Mrs. Harding dressed and
watched the progress of the flames
at a window.
Responding to five alarms, more
than 20 pieces of fire apparatus
''ngaged in the fight against the
flames before they were brought un
der control about 45 miputes after
they were discovered.
DUNN CASE TO HAVE RE TRIAL
Owner Valuable Piece of Properly
Must Yet Be Determined by
Suit Says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court yesterday sent
back to the lower court of Harnett
for a new trial the case of the At
lantic Coast Line against the Town
of Dunn brought to determine title to
Lucknow Square claimed by the town
as a public square and by the railroad
as a piece of property acquired by it
through a succession of deeds. The
Superior court gave a decision in fav
or of the railroad.
The property represents approxi
mately the acreage of a large city
block and is very valuable. In 1886,
according to facts agreed upon by
both parties to the action, it was con
veyed by Henry Pope to Henry Wat
kins and J. B. Edgerton in a thirty
seven and a half acre tract. In 1892,
according to the plaintiff, these own
ers sold the land containing Lucknow
Square to the Eatlt Carolina Land and
Improvement Company and on May
28, 1917, this company conveyed the
property, in which it is alleged the
Lucknow Square was included, to the
plaintiff who has occupied it since.
The defense clajmed that while Wal
ters and Edgerton were owners there
was a subdivision of the 37£ acres,
streets were laid off and the contested
property made into a public square.
In 1887 an auction sale was conduct
ed at which time it was stated that
the block under controversy should
remain a public square and should
never be sold. Since then, the town
of Dunn has improved the property.
Judge E. H. Cranmer, trial judge,
instructed the jury that seven years
adverse possession under known and
visible lines and boundaries and under
color of title will ripen title and be a
bar to all persons.
“Standing alone and without fur
ther statement and explanation de
clared Justice Hoke in the opinion of
the court, “this charge could very well
be interpreted to mean that, notwith
standing a previous dedication and ac
ceptance, if plaintiff had thereafter
shown adverse possession, under
known and visible lines and boundaries
for seven consecutive years, it would
be a valid title.”
Then the court referred to an Act
of 1891, now Section 435 Consolidated
Statutes in whcih it is provided that
no person or corporation shall acquire
an exclusive right to any part of a
public road, street, lane, alley, square
or public way by reason of any occu
pancy thereof or by encroaching upon
or obstructing the same in any way.—
News and Observer.
The Test of Character
There is something finer than to do
right against inclination; and that is
to have an inclination to do right.
There is something nob'.er than reluct
ant obedience; and that is joyful obe
dience. The rank of virtue is not
measured by its disagreeableness, but
by its sweetness to the hearts that
love it. The real test of character is
joy. For what you rejoice in, that you
love. And what you love, that you are
like.—Henry Van Dyke.
CULVERT ON 2ND
ST. BE EXTENDED
Water to Be Put in Cemetery
—Other Improvements
By the Town Board
At the regular monthly meeting
of the town Board of Commissioners
Tuesday night several things of gene
ral interest to the town were pass
ed upon. For some time the work
of filling in the street at Spring
Branch on Second Street has been
going on, and the commissioners de
cided to complete that work at once.
The culvert will be extended, and
the street broadened so as to permit
sidewalks. Second street is one of
the main streets of the town and the
proposed work will be a decided im
provement.
Another action of the board which
will be welcomed by owners of ceme
tery plots was the decision to put
water in the old cemetery. This
cemetery has been a matter of pride
for the town since the Woman’s Club
undertook the keeping of it, but the
work of beautifying there has been
handicapped because of lack of wa
ter to water the growing plants. The
spigot will be placed as convenient
ly as possible to all parts of the
cemetery.
It was also decided at this meet
ing to fit up the room over the
town clerk’s office as a sleeping
place for the chief of police. A
telephone will be installed in order
that fire alarms may be turned i n
there during the night. The chief
if police should be easy of access at
all times and the new arrangement
promises to be satisfactory.
ADA JONES, MUSICAL STAR,
DIES IN A ROCKY MOUNT
HOSPITAL; BRIEF ILLNESS
ROCKY MOUNT, May 2.—Ada
Tones, musical star, died in a local
hospital tonight following a sudden
i'lness.
The noted comedienne, whose
songs and character sketches have
been carried to all corners of the
globe by the numerous phonograph
records she has made, was rushed
to St. Mary’s Hospital yesterday af
ter suffering a sudden collapse in
her hotel room here.
Miss Jones, who in private life is.
Mrs. Hugh Flaherty, of New York,
collapsed Monday morning, follow
ing her appearance at a local the
atre Saturday night. The collapse
occurred in her room at a local ho
tel some time yesterday morning,
where she was found in a semi
conscious condition by other mem
ber of her company when they came
to her room prior to boarding a
train for Tarboro, where she was to
have appeared last night. She was
quickly rushed to St. Mary’s Hospit
al, where her trouble was diagnos
ed as uremia and her condition re
alized to be most serious from the
beginning.
Relatives, including her husband,
who is also on the stage, and busi
ness associates have been advised of
her death, and are on their way to
this city.
Miss Jones made an unusually
large number of records, being giv
en much prominence by the Victor
and Edison companies. —News and
Observer.
Ada Jones appeared in Smithfield
recently in an entertainment given
under the auspices of the Fire De
partment.
FOREST FIRES SPREAD
THROUGH TWO STATES
ONEGO, Conn., May 1.—Bad For
est fir£s continue today. Jhousands
of acres of timber and sprout land
in Connecticut and Rhode Island
have burned. F. C. Capwell, fire
warden of the adjoining town of Con
vntry has 60 men fighting a destruc
tive blaze. Loss to forests in this
vicinity is placed at more than
$10,000.
In Cranston houses and barns and
large piles of lumber have been de
stroyed, in Warwick hundreds of
acres of valuable timber and sprout
land and in towns along the Rhode
Island and Connecticut line a dozen
different fires are burning today.--N.
Y. Herald.
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