VOLUME 41 SMITHF1ELD, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1922 NUMBER 63 TO COMBAT MALARIA IN EASTERN N. CARJ j State Will Use Tons of Qui-, nine—Work Begin in 20 Counties in 1923 Draining swamps, oiling stagnant waters and stocking lakes with mos- } quito-catehing minnows is too costly ! and too ineffective a means of con- : trolling malaria in eastern North j Carolina and next year the State Board of Health is planning to in vade twenty counties in that section of the State with ten tons of quin ine and let the mosquitoes do their worst. Five grains of quinine every day i for every man, woman and child in j the infected district, whether infect ed or not, and from ten to thirty grains for those who are infected will drive out the disease in two years, and raise the standard of health in that section from 30 to 35 per cent in the opinion of State Health Officer, W. S. Rankin. Plans for the work have been worked out on the basis of .experi ments made by the board covering a period of several years, under the direct supervision of Dr. H. A. Tay lor, of the International Health Board. No other means has proved effective, and cannot prove effective until every mosquito has been killed approximately 15,000 sq. miles. Drainage of that much territory, much of it under water for many months in the year, and the extermi nation of the mosquito would bank rupt the State government, in the opinion of health authorities. The only other means of control is in killing the last malarial infection, and let the mosquito live unmolested. The work, covering a five-year pe riod, will cost approximately $250,000. Uder the plans worked out by Dr. Rankin, a staff of medical offi cers will be sent into a county, and a careful examination will be made of every citizen in the county. Blood tests will be made to determine if there is any malarian infection. Edu cational work will be undertaken to secure the co-operation of the entire citizenship. Infected people will be started off with thirty grains of quinine daily for three days, followed by ten grains daily for 56 days. Uninfected persons will be given five grains a day for 56 days to immunize them from infection. That treatment fol lowed ‘during the mosquito season, April to October, will immunize the entire population from malaria. Recurrence of malaria will be im probable in subsequent years. In time the entire population of the ma laria infested districts of the State will be immunized, and the problem of malarial control will no longer be numbered among the works of the State Board of Health. Dr. Ran kin is convinced that it is the only way in which the State can meet the situation. In preparing the campaign North Carolina has again taken the lead* in health work in America. Investi gations made here and in Arkansas have proved that quinine used in tensively is the only method by which infected areas can be cleaned up. Killing cut the mosquito is nuw admittedly able to reduce malaria by only ten per cent, while quinine has proved 99 ne • cent * ffective. Experiments made by Dr. Taylor covered a territory a mile wide and ■ some ten miles long, with a popula tion of 1,476, an active infection in 46 per cent, and a potential in fection of 90 per cent. Quinine treat ment has rendered the entire terri tory free from infection. Nothing has been done about he mosquito himself, and it is estimated that the entire property valuation of the ter ritory would not drain it effectively. Dr. r.e.’ kin will ask the Genera! Assembly ,n 1923 for an initial ap propriation of $25,000 with which to begin the work and an increased ap propriation mnual'y thereafter — News and ( serve’* FORTY GALLON WHISKEY STILL CAPTURED NEAR HERE A forty gallon copper still was captured Wednesday afternoon about three o’clock three miles east of Smithfield. Mr. J. D. Stephenson led the raid on the whiskey machine. GOLDEN WEED BRINGS GOOD PRICES SO FAR Lumberton and Fairmont Markets Report High Prices; Cooperative Warehouses Receive Weed. The Lumberton tobacco market sold at auction during the four sales days last week 169,450 pounds of to bacco for $32,834.01, an average of $19.31 the hundred for the entire sales. The average for the first four sales days on this market last year was $5.59, the average this year be ing almost four times as much as that of 1921. The amount of tobacco offered on the local auction market is expected to increase as the selling season ad vances. The fact that the tobacco growers are grading and tieing their tobacco before offering it for sale will no doubt result in slower marketing than under the old system of selling it “in the rough.”—Lumberton Robe sonian, Aug. 7. FAIRMONT, Aug. 5.—Fairmont sold tobacco this week at prices that were absolutely satisfactory to the farmers. Opening Tuesday with 54,848 pounds selling for the sum of $7,896.63, an average of $14.40, Wed nesday the market sold 44,222 pounds for $7,408.84, an average of $16.75. Thursday 80,113 pounds of the weed were sold for the sum of $16,894.24, average of $21.09. Friday the total number of pounds was 79,022, which sold for the sum of $14,842.76, av erage $18.78 The total for the four days was 258,205 pounds selling for the sum of $47,042.47, an average for the week of $18.22. The first four days sales last season brought the sum of $20,148.23, an average of $5.59. These being certified figures there can be no doubt as to the veracity of the statement as some have ex pressed regarding the reports from the markets after the opening sales. On Friday’s sale in one warehouse two farmers were heard to kick on the price they had been offered but were told that it was on account of the offerings not being tied and grad ed. They are working today on their tobacco, tieing and grading it, and will offer it on Monday’s sale. Just why the average this year is nearly four times that of last year for the first four days cannot be so readily explained, but some of the members' of the local Tobacco Grow ers Co-operative association ex press themselves as believing the advance due to the presence of the association.—H. V. Brown in Lum berton Robesonian. All the warehouses to be operated in the South Carolina belt by the Co operative Tobacco Marketing * asso ciation opened for receiving tobacco this morning. While very few farm ers had learned the date when the warehouses would open, quite a number of the members of the as sociation brought tobacco to the lo cal co-operative market today and were apparently pleased with the new method of handling their to bacco. The warehouses will be open for receiving tobacco on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week.—Lumberton Robesonian. FIRST SHIPMENT OF COAL FROM ENGLAND NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—The first large cargo—10,000 tons of foreign coal to reach New York as the re sult of importers’ efforts to stave off a fuel famine among public utilities corporations, was brought in today by the Italian steamer Cherea, from Barry, Wales. The public utility to whom the coal was consigned was reported to have been scratching the bottom of its supply bins when the ship arrived. From now on, however, a steady stream of British mined coal will arrive at this port, it was announc ed, eliminating the possibility of a fuel famine among transportation, light and power works, which have purchased most of the tonnage now en route to America. ARCHIE STEWART IS CAUGHT AT HIS HOME NEAR SELMA Archie Stewart who yvas arrested sometime ago and who ran away before giving bond, was recaptured early Wednesday morning by Sheriff W. J. Massey, Mr. J. D. Stephenson and Mr. Charles Johnson. He was found at his home on a Selma route. NUMBER TEACHERS WILL BE REDUCED Cut in Tax Rate Will Cause A Shortage of About 100 White Teachers With the County 3oard of Com missioners cutting the County School Tax Rate from 60c to 50 for 1922-23 at their meeting in Smithfield on August 7th, the County Board of Education announced a corresponding cut in the number of teachers in the county for the coming school year. With the one-sixth cut in the tax rate and a three million dollar shrink age in the valuation of property in the county the cut will amount to about one-fifth of the three hundred and three white teachers and of the 76 negro teachers, which are employed in the county in 1921-1922. The sal ary of the teachers being fixed by the State and the length of the school term being prescribed by the Consti tution, the only way to harmonize the cut in revenue being to cut' the number of teachers employed. The special chartered city schools will share that cut with the county schools while some of these schools may still employ the same number of teachers if they will pay for the ones cut off by the County out of their lo cal taxes. This will mean that in many in stances the two-teacher schools (of which there are forty-four in the county) will revert to one-teacher schools; and that the three-teacher schools (of which there are twenty one in the county) will become two teacher schools. The cut will apply to all of the schools alike*, and the County Board of Education will an nounce later which schools will have to give up teachers that were em ployed last year. In deciding which teachers are to be cut out the Board will attempt to withdraw those teachers that can be dispensed with. The various schools of the county had asked for, and were entitled to under the average attendance they made last year, 49 additional white teachers and 21 additional negro teachers. The withdrawing of about fifty of the teachers already employ ed in the white schools and about 15 of those already employed in the negro school will leave the school with a shortage of about 100 white teachers aad about 30 negro teachers. STRANGE NEWS ITEMS FROM THE DAILY PRESS WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (Capi tal News Service).—A man in Lon don tried to hang himself. He was a poor hand at it, but he died just t if same. The doctor testified that there was -no sign of death by strangulation, so the Coroners duly brought in a verdict of “suicide by auto-suggestion,” the first of its kind on record. The theory is that the man believed he was hanging himself, because he had a handkerchief loop ed over a bed post and about his neck, and that the conviction that he was being strangled succeeded in killing him. It is not thought that killing one’s self by thinking one is dead will become popular! London also is responsible for the story of William Skinner, a sailor, who lost his life in the battle of Jut land. When his body was recovered the Usual brass identification disc was taken from his neck. On the reverse of it ,in words so fine they require a microscope for reading, is his will, leaving his all to his wife. This, the smallest and most unique will in the annals of law, has just been admitted to probate in the Lon don courts. The first aerial stowaway has safe ly made his flight. One Mike Stone, of Detroit, concealed himself in the mail compartment of the aeromarine eleven-passenger plane flying regu larly from Detroit to Cleveland, went to sleep, and woke up when the motors roared. He couldn’t make his presence known until the motors stopped, across the lake in Cleve land. Revival at Hopewell. A revival meeting will begin at Hopewell Free Will Baptist church on Friday night, August 18. The pastor Rev. H. R. Faircloth, will be assisted by Rev. J. Ruffin Coats. HEAVY RAINFALL HERE ON TUESDAY Wind and Rain Did Damage To Tobacco Belonging To Dr. N. T. Holland The rain storm accompanied by a £oo