VOLUME 41
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1922
NUMBER 61
THORNTON’S MUSIC
HOUSE NOW READY
Handsome Brick Store Will
Also House the Worley
Furniture Company
After a period of about four months
The Thornton Music House owned by
Messrs. G. E. Thornton & Son, Everett
Thornton, is about ready to occupy its
new home on Third street. During
this time the music establishment has
been located on the same street near
the market house, but the new build
ing is fast nearing completion, and by
the fifteenth of this month will be
ready for occupancy.
The new structure which is built of
red tapestry brick, is two stories high
with a mezzanine floor. The varie
gated effect of the brick with the stone
trimmings makes a very handsome
building which is estimated to have
cost about $25,000. Mr. W. S. Rags
dale is the contractor.
We are informed that the lower
floor will be occupied by the Worley
Furniture Co., which business has
been located in the Boyett building.
This company has a chain of furniture
stores in Wilson, Raleigh, Selma and
Smithfield. They have been here for
three years and have built up quite
I good trade. Mr. H. A. Crumpler
rs the manager and he is assisted by
Mr. Burlon Jones. They propose hav
ing a full stock of furniture for the
fall trade.
The mezzanine floor will be occupied
by the Thornton Music House and a
fine display of pianos and organs will
be arranged on this floor. The upper
story contains five offices which will
be for rent. They are well lighted
and ventilated and can be reached by
a stairway which goes up from the
sidewalk.
Mr. G. E. Thornton has been in the
piano and organ business here for 22
years. He is known far and wide,
having placed these musical instru
ments in hundreds of Johnston county
homes and many even outside the
county. About two years ago his son,
Mr. Everett Thornton, became asso
ciated with him, after having taken a
course in New York City in piano
tuning and player piano repairing.
Recorder’s Court Proceedings
The following cases were disposed
of in the Recorder's court here this
week:
State vs. Silas Moore, charged with
retailing without license. Defendant
not guilty and discharged.
State vs. Donnie Griffin, nuisance.
Defendant guilty.. Upon payment of
cost, judgment suspended two years.
State vs. Henry Robinson, secret as
sault. Guilty. Judgment, defendant
must pay doctor’s bill of $20 and $10
to Elmer Smith, prosecutor, also cost.
State vs. Jones, charged with carry
ing concealed weapon, found guilty.
Judgment, six months on roads. On
payment of cost, to be discharged af
ter sixty days.
State vs. Jack Dublin, excess liquor.
Defendant not guilty and discharged.
State vs. R. M. Hamilton and J. E.
Lewis, affray. Both guilty. Judgment
as to Hamilton, prayer for judgment
continued two years upon payment of
one half cost. Judgment as to Lewis,
must pay fine of one dollar and one
half cost. Defendant Lewis appealed
to Superior Court under $200 bond.
State vs. Geo. A. Braswell, assault.
Defendant plead guilty of cursing on
public highway. Upon payment of
cost, case continued two years.
Thanks for Watermelon
Mr. Needham Stevens who lives in
the Sanders Chapel section presented
The Herald Office a fine watermelon
yesterday for which we return thanks.
Mr. Stevens is one of those farmers
who have the best of everything
grown on a farm, and his watermelons
are certainly no exception to the rule.
Johnson Union Meeting
A meeting will begin at Johnson
Union Friday night, August 4, to last
ten days. Rev. J. H. Whitley of Ken
ly will assist Rev. H. R. Faircloth.
Proverbs are the condensed wisdom
of the ages.
GRAIN TESTS MADE
ON MR. TART’S FARM
Proves Johnston Can Grow
More Oats and Rye; Good
Seed Profitable
These results are from special vari
ety test work conducted on the farm
of Mr. Ellington Tart, Benson, No. 2,
in cooperation with the North Caro
lina Extension Service and Dr. E. Y.
Winters, Plant Breeding Specialtist.
One-tenth acre, variety Alabama
Blue Stem Wheat, N. C. Expt. Sta.
seed, 165 pounds.
One-tenth acre, Purple Straw
wheat, N. C. Expt. Sta. seed, 141 lbs.
One-tenth acre, Stoner wheat, N. C.
Expt. Sta. seed, 135 pounds.
One-tenth acre, Leaps Prolific
wheat, N. C, Expt. Sta. seed, 1181 lbs.
One-tenth Abruzzi Rue, N. C. Expt.
Sta. seed, 1711 pounds.
One-tenth acre Abruzzi Rye, Pedi
greed Seed Farm seed, 1614 pounds.
One-twentieth acre Fulghum Oats,
Pedigreed Seed Farm seed, 82 lbs.
One-twentieth acre Red Appier
Oats, Pedigreed Seed Farm seed, 111.
pounds.
These are actual results, carefully
and accurately done under Dr. Wint
ers’ instructions. To my mind, it is
very conclusive proof that Johnston
county can grow more oats and rye
for hay, seed and winter and spring
grazing. These results also show
that it is v*"-y prcfitame to use good
seed from known sources.
The indications now are that good
seed of Appier Oats and Abruzzi Rye
are going to be scarce and higher near
planting time. If you buy Abruzzi
Rye seed be sure of its source and that
it is what you buy and not the ordi
nary rye.
Why not grow a few acres of Ap
pier Oats and Abruzzi Rye for seed
purposes? The demand now is great
er than the supply and naturally the
advent of the boll weevil is going to
increase the demand for these two
grazing ami money crops.—N. B.
Stevens, County Agent.
To Discuss Hog Cholera
Dr. F. D. Owen of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture will attend a spe
cial meeting at Pearce’s School House
Monday night, August 7th, at 8 o’
clock, to discuss hog cholera and its
control. There are several infected
herds in this particular community
and unless some steps are taken to
check this outbreak it will continue to
spread as long as there are any hogs
left.
You are cordially invited to attend
this meeting as it is of interest to
every hog owner living in a radius of
5 miles of these infected herds.
Dr. Owen has been doing this speci
al work for several years and is well
qualified to give you expert advice and
assistance at no cost to you other than
price of serum and virus used.
If you are interested, tell your
neighbors and attend this meeting.—
N. B. Stevens, County Agent.
Resolutions Adopted by Sunday School
Whereas, there is open and notori
ous violation of the prohibition law in
this community which is a detriment
to the young boys of the community
and to the older ones also;
And whereas, we realize that for
the officers to successfully fight the
1 liquor traffic and make a community a
decent place in which to live and rear
children they must have the support
of the Christian, law abiding citizens
of the community;
Be it now resolved by the Sunday
| school of Antioch:
1. That we condemn the blind tig
: ers and blockaders as public enemies
! of our community and as undesirable
citizens.
2. That we commend the officers,
of the county and township, especial
ly Judge F. H. Brooks, in their en
deavors to uphold the law and stamp
I out the liquor traffic and by this meth
' od urge them on to greater endeavors
■ in stamping it out.
3. That we pledge them our active
( support and assistance in stamping
I out the liquor traffic and bringing the
' offenders to justice.
A. D.. ONEAL, Supt.
W. O. HOCUTT, Sec.
SAVORY LOVING CUP
The Savory Loving Cup awarded by
Walter H. Savory of ihe Mergenthal
er Linotype Company to The Smith
field Herald for excellence of typog
raphy, make-up and general effective
ness of publication.
EDUCATORS LAY OUT
NEW JOB FOR C0Yi*L HAYS
Movies In Foreign Lands Libel On
American Life, Manners
and Morals.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (Capital
News Service).—That American mo
tion pictures misrepresent this coun
try abroad, diminish opportunity for
trade, restrict the entente cordial,
which should exist between the Unit
ed States and many eastern lands,
and interfere with the work of mis
sionaries, is the indictment brought
against the movies by many, most
recently the woman’s board for for
eign missions of the Presbyterian
Church.
It is explained that in such places
as Canton and Shanghai, China;
Toyko, Japan; Bombay and Calcutta,
India; and Jerusalem, Holy Land,
the popular pictures are the poorer
class of American “western” films,
showing drinking, cut-throat and
rough-riding cowboys, dan halls,
vice and crime. Exhibition of such
films brings large audiences and
much profit, but convinces the bulk
of the natives who see the picture
that America is a land of vice and
lawlessness. In the Orient, “eternal
triangle” pictures are the most
popular, with the result that the Am
erican woman, in the minds of many
natives, is a bold and painted fe
male who sells herself for a smile or
a piece of gold, smokes, drinks, cur
ses, and carouses,, while every other
man is a woman hunter and a rene
gade.
No greater piece of work, it is
pointed out, confronts Mr. Hays, os
head of the vast motion picture in
dustry, than making it imposible for
profiteering and calqulating exhibi
tors to wrong by libel their native
land, by exporting to ignorant aud
iences such films as will give these
who ought to „be taught to look on this
country with respect and admiration,
the idea that it is uncivilized, de
praved and vicious.
I)R. BELL, TELEPHONE
INVENTOR, IS DEAD
Sydney, N. S., Aug. 2.—Dr. Alex
ander Graham Bell, inventor of the
telephone, died at 2 o’clock this morn
ing at Beinn Ehreagh, his estate near
Baddeck.
Although the inventor had been in
failing health for several months he
had not been confined to bed and the
end was unexpected. Late yesterday
afternoon, however, his condition be
came serious and Dr. Ker, a house
guest, and a Sydney physician, at
| tended him.
IS MURDER LESS A CRIME
FOR BEING WHOLESALE?
What Is the Government Going To
1 Do ~Aboat~Kerrift?-Qtie&tkM--»—
ln Capital.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (Capital
News Service).—Development in the
coal and railroad strike and the
problems arising from them have oc
cupied so much attention in Wash
ington that the Herrin murders have
apparently been pushed to one side.
It is the belief of men prominent in
the government, however, that the
question '.here raised is too vital to
be long forgotten, and that either
Illinois or the United States Govern
ment must take some dractic action
before the American people will al
low the matter to rest.
It is pointed out that the condem
nation, horror* and indignation
aroused by the wholesale killing of
18, the wounding of 54, and the dis
appearance of 11 workers, on June
22, is not confined to any one section
of the country. The press of the Unit
ed States is practically a unit in its
anathmas upon the heads of those
responsible, in disgust with the find
ings of the coroner’s jury, and in its
demand that justice be done. A sig
nificant fact, it is noted, is the ab
sence of much of any comment from
labor papers.
That the cause of organized labor
has been dealt a powerful blow is
conceded on all sides; that the United
States Government must act if the
State of Illinois will not, is a demand
which comes from leading journals in
many States. If newspapers repre
sent public opinion, then neither the
murderers nor the attempts to mini
mize the affair have any sympathy
from the great bulk of Americans.
Editorials from leading papers ir,
practically every State, and many
Provinces in Canada, voice so vehe
ment a settlement for punishment for
the guilty, that,, as one Senator put
it, “The Federal Government could
not ignore the matter if it would.”
Omit Both.
An Eldorado Springs minister tells
this story: “A white minister had
just married a colored couple and :n
a facetious way remarked:
“‘It is customary to kiss the bride,
but in this instance we will omit it.”
The groom was fully equal to the
occasion and replied:
“It is customary for the groom to
give the minister a five-dollar bill,
but in this instance we will also omit
that.”—Biblical Recorder.
A prudent question is a proof of
, wisdom
TOBACCO BRINGING
GRATIFYING PRICES
Fairmont, Lumberton and
Other Points Average
From 16 to 19 Cents
Much interest is being manifested
in the prices tobacco will bring this
season, and the opening sales in South
Carolina and the early markets in
North Carolina are being watched ex
pectantly. Reports on the first sales
at auction indicate prices doubled
those of last year. The weed is aver
aging 1(5 to 111 cents a pound as com
pared with 5 to 10 cents in 1921. Ac
cording to the News and Observer
Lake City, thc^ largest market in South
Carolina, reported sales of more than
a half million pounds at an average
of $21.33 per hundred pounds. Lum
berton and Fairmont reported sales
of approximately 60,000 pounds at an
average of 19 cents per pound.
The News and Observer gives the
following as to factors it) prices:
Although higher prices were gener
ally expected this season, several fac
tors have a bearing upon the increase.
In the first place, the “early” belt
graded and tied its tobacco this year
for the first time instead of dumping
it on the warehouse floors fresh from
the curing barns, ungraded and un
tied. Better preparation of tobacco
for sale has always meant a better
price. Another factor is contained in
reports that the weed this year is of
superior quality as compared with the
first offerings in 1921. Last year’s
crop in the “early” belt was somewhat
light, chaffy and lacking in body and
“gum”. This year the quality ap
pears to be much better which also
tends to higher prices.
Mr. S. D. Frizzell writes the fol
lowing as to the bearing of coopera
tive marketing on the high prices.
—With- the - opcnmg-gatea-.at~M ullins,
S. C., bringing an average of from 16
to 19 cents, according to estimates of
the first day’s offering, it is very gen
erally conceded that the organization
of the tobacco farmers for Coopera
tive Marketing has been immediately
successful in boosting the price of
their product.
In South Carolina, as in Kentucky,
the growers received double the price
which was given them on last year’s
opening markets, and thousands of
farmers who sold tobacco from five to
ten cents in 1921 are now rejoicing
that losses have been changed to prof
its. This increase is largely attribut
ed to the Tobacco Growers Coopera
tive Association.
Telegrams reaching Raleigh head
quarters from M. O. Wilson, secre
tary of the Association and other of
ficials of the organized growers who
were present at the opening of the
auction sales this week, state that
prospects are very bright for the as
sociation members.
Chadbourn, Aug. 2.—The tobacco
markets opened at Whiteville and
Chadbourn yesterday. Prices averag
ed at $21.90 per hundred pounds. Sales
at Chadbourn were 20,000 pounds and
at Whiteville 105,000 pounds.
Mr. David Southerland Dead
News has reached our office of the
sudden death of Mr. David Souther
land, which occurred at his home on
Smithfield, Route No. 1, Wednesday
morning at about eleven o’clock. Mr.
Southerland, his two sons, and a col
ored man were pulling fodder in a
field on Mr. Southerland’s place, when
without a moment’s warning, he fell
dead. Those in the field with him
went to him and also Mr. Robert Pow
ell, mail carrier on Route one, who
was passing the road at the time, but
he died almost instantly.
Mr. Southerland who was about 60
years of age, had suffered several
strokes of paralysis, but his death
seemed due to heart dropsy. He was
buried yesterday afternoon at four o’
clock at Little Creek church.
Good Advice.
As Sancho Panza says: “When
they give you a heifer, have the rope
ready.’” “That’s good advice. Here’s
something else worth remembering.”
“Well?” “When a promoter offers
to let you in on the ground floor look
out for trapdoors.”—^Birmingham
Age-Herald.
REJECT HARDING’S
PLAN END STRIKE
Agree to Principle of Two
Proposals But Balk at
Seniority Issue
New York, Aug. 1.—Railway exe
cutives of the nation today firmly but
courteously rejected the program ad
vanced by the Harding administration
for settlement of the rail strike.
/ Willing to accept conditionally two
suggestions put forward by the White
House—that both sides abide by the
wage decisions of the Railroad Labor
Board and that lawsuits springing out
of the strike be withdrawn—-the heads
of 148 roads declared emphatically
that it was impossible to reinstate
strikers with unimpaired seniority
rights, the third provision in the Pres
ident’s plan.
After being told by Robert S. Lov
ett, of the Union Pacific, that there
was no moral or practical reason for
budging from their position, the exe
cutives disbanded, caught the first
trains for their respective headquar
ters and indicated they were going a
head and would operate their roads
with the forces they had assembled
since the shopmen walked out on July
1.
The decision not to yield- on the
question of seniority was made known
to the White House by telegraph af
ter the rail heads had listened to a 20
minute address by Secretary of Com
merce, Hoover, who, as direct repre
sentative of the President, told them
in effect, that the administration held
the seniroity question of minor im
portance in comparison with that of
upholding the Railroad Labor Board.
This action was taken in the face
of a letter from President Harding ad
dressed to T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman
of the American Association of Rail
wav-Eyscutives embodying “the terms
of agreement, as I understand them,
upon which the railway managers and
the United Shop Craft Workers are
to agree, preliminary to calling off
the existing strike.”
President Harding had closed his
letter with these two sentences.
“I need hardly add that I have rea
sons to believe these terms will be ac
cepted by the workers. If there is no
good reason why the managers can
not accept, they will be obligated to
open direct negotiations or assume full
responsibility for the situation.”
In addition, Secretary Hoover had
urged upon the executives at their
morning session when the text of the
Harding letter was read that settle
ment of the rail strike was imperative
in view of the complicating situation
imposed by the coal strike.
It became very apparent from the
very opening of today’s conference
that the seniority question would be
the wedge which would divide admin
istration and railroad executives. Af
ter setting forth the reason why they
held this an unsurmountable object,
the rail chiefs ended their reply to the
President as follows:
“It is submitted that the striking
former employes cannot be given pref
erence to employes at present in the
service, without doing violence to ev
ery right of justice involved in this
matter and without the grossest
breach of faith on the part of the rail
roads to the men at present in their
service.”—Associated Press.
Three Baby Girls in Fayetteville
Fyetteville, Aug. 1.—Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Strickland of this city are the
happy parents of three girl babies,
born Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs.
Strickland reside on School street. The
birth of the triplets brings the num
ber of their children to eleven, the
oldest of whom is 21 today.
Mrs. Stricklnd is 38 years old. Her
husband is 43. Mother and babies
are doing fine.
Republican Convention Next Thursday
The Republican convention is called
to meet here next Thursday at ten
o’clock to nominate county officers.
! The meeting will be held at the Ban
ner Warehouse.
Asphalt deposits have been dis
covered neaT oil fields in the Argen
I tine Republic. The deposits contain
considerable quantities of vanadium.