VOLUME 41
SM1THFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1922
NUMBER 98
JUDGE O. H. ALLEN
IS HOLDING COURT
Last Court Before He Retires
From the Bench; The
Sheppard Case
The regular two weeks December
term of court began here yesterday,
the first week to be devoted to the
criminal docket and the second week
to the civil docket. 'Judge 0. H.
Allei, of Kinston, is presiding, and
this will be his last court before re
tiring from the bench. The last leg
islature passed a law permitting
judges who have served for fifteen
years or more and who are over Co
jears of age to retire on half pay,
these retired judges to act in the
capacity of emergency judges to hold
special terms of court etc. Judge
Allen being over sixty-five years of
age, and having been on the bench
for twenty-six years is eligible . ■>
retire. He will be succeeded by
Judge-elect Henry Grady, of Clinton,
who has figured prominestly in the
papers recently, having- been charg
ed with being at the head of the Ku
Klux klan in this state.
This week being devoted to crimi
nal eases, the Sheppard murder
trial will come up. This is probably
the outstanding case of the criminal
docket. It will be recalled thht
Sheppard is charged with the mil
der of Deputy Sheriff J. M. Oneal of
Wilders township. He has been held
without bond in the jail here pend
ing trial.
CLOSE CHURCHES TO
COMBAT INFLUENZA
STATESVILLE, Dec. 9.—On ac
count of the prevalence of influenza
in Statesville the churches, schools
and picture shows of the town have
been ordered closed for a period of
ten days. This decision was reach
ed this evening by the mayor and
board of aldermen upon recommen
dation of the local physicians.
Mayor Briston called the doctors
of the town to hold a conference in
his office this afternoon at four
o’clock and upon their recommenda
tion the order was made effective
at once purelf as a precautionary
measure. It is estimated that there
is now from 200 to 300 cases of in
fluenza in town and while there have
been no deaths nor have any serious
cases developed, still it was thought
safer to close all public meeting
places temporarily in order to avoid
a possible epidemic.—News and Ob
server.
W. N. HOLT APPOINTED
CHAIRMAN NEAR EAST RELIEF
A representative of the Near East
Relief organization was in the city
last week and appointed Mr. W. N.
Holt dhairman for this county. Mr.
F. H. Brooks has led the drive for the
near east sufferers heretofore, and
the people have always responded
liberally to the call for help. Mr.
Holt without doubt will be quite as
successful as he takes charge of this
worthy enterprise.
D. G. S. Girls Entertained.
Miss Irene Myatt delightfully en
tertained the D. G. Girls at her home
on Second street last Thursday eve
ning. Sewing and games were engag
ed in for sometime after which a
salad course was served.
“Satisfaction Guaranteed.”
“You are certain,” the middle-aged
woman customer said, “that this
young century plant will bloom in a
hundred years?”
“Positive of it, ma’am,” the florist
assured her. “If it doesn’t bring t
back.”—Elizabeth B. Allen, in Greens
boro News Pithy Paragraphs.
BOLL WEEVIL SPECIALIST
TO BE HERE JANUARY 7
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Mr. Bartlett, secretary and
| treasury of the Eastern Carolina |
Chamber of Commerce, was in
| the city Friday and made arrange- ]
rnents to have Mr. Koker, special- I
| ist on boll weevil control, speak j
here os January 7, before the
J business men and farmers of this
| community. The meeting will be j
| held in the Court House, -n '
talk is designed to help the boll
weevil situation.
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THE WRONG IDEA ABOUT
SCHOOLS
A few weeks ago, I noticed in this
paper a pitiful plea of a farmer for
the return of a school which had been
removed from his neighborhood. It
struck me as being a shame for the
farmers, who was willing to stay in
the country and till the soil, and de
ny himself the comforts of town-life,
for the welfare of both the country
and the town, to be denied good and
convenient schools for his children.
We cry “hard times,” high cost of
living, and yet we are doing all that
we can to make farm produce scarce,
and therefore high priced.
The trouble with this country is,
there is too much idle land, which
produces nothing; and too many non
producing consumers—too many peo
ple in the towns and too few in thr
country. ,
The thing which made Germany
great and powerful was the farm and
the farmer. The yousg man there
are encouraged to make their money
out of the ground, which is just as
sure a way of making it, and as
honorable a way as merchandising
or banking. Consequently, the
whole of the land is made rich, and
produces all that the people need to
live on, without having to pay such
high prices for the necessities of
life, I mean, in their times of peace.
In this country, nothing is done
to encourage young men to stick to
the farm, but every thing is done to
attract them from the farms. If the
farmers’ children ever get an educa
tion they must leave home and go
to town. If they have ambition for
an education, the farmer can not
keep his sons and daughters at home
to help till the soil. Consequently,
his land lies idle, and the country, as
a whole, is proportionately impover
ished; produce is scarcer; prices are
higher and the town-man has to pay
exhorbitant prices, because he has
induced the young men to leave the
farm and come to town.
For the country, we build such un
comfortable school buildings, and
furnish such incompetent teachers
that the farmers’ children are driven
from Pome. Consequently the towns
are so overcrowded with non-produc
ing brains and muscle that the town
people have to spend their profits
for charity.
W-> boast of our fine roads, prin
cipally because we think they will
induce all of the young people of the
farms to come to town to school, and
the farmer himself to come to town
to live. What advantage is it to have
the town overcrowded with people
who have no money?
The system of sending out expen
sive trucks to bring the children to
town, levying heavy taxes for the
purpose seems to be a wrong system,
retarding the progress of the coun
try. If the money so spent was
spent on improving the country
schools, it would encourage the young
people of the farms to stay at home
and help the town people to reduce
the cost of living.
Every township should have a
comfortable school buildings, furnace
or steam heated, and should have the
best teachers that money could hire;
and a town hall, where the young
people could have their debating so
cieties. their plays and shows, furn
ished by their native talent, to be
made their social center; and where
all the people could have their social
and political gatherings. There should
be in every group of townships, a
high school, reached by the good
roads. Then the young people would
be content to remain in the countn
and help to enrich bo£h the country
and the town.
The greatest men of our country
come from the farms; they breathe
the fresh air; exercise the muscles
and /• develop more active brains.
Therefore, we should do all in our
power to keep the farmer and his
children contented and happy, induc
ing them to stay on the farms; and
thereby enrich and cultivate the idle
lands, producing those products
which would make us all contented
and happy, by putting more money
in circulation and reducing the cost
of living. A PARSON.
Mrs. J. P. Cole, of Raleigh, was
called to the city Saturday on ac
count of the illness of little Louise
Spear. She was taken sick quite
suddenly Friday night with acute
appendicitis. She was taken to the
hospital Saturday morning and an
operation was performed. She was
geiting along nicely at the last re
port.
ED F. WARD MADE ;
CLERK OF COURT
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J. R. Barbour Newly Elected
Resigns Day After Tak
ing Oath of Office
Last Monday, being the first Mon
day in December the newly elected
county officers were sworn in includ
ing Mr. J. R. Barbour, of Benson,
who was elected clerk of the court.
However, on Tuesday, Mr. Barbour
tendered his resignation owing to his
state of health, and Judge F. A.
Daniels, of Goldsboro, resident judge
of the Fourth Judicial District, ar
pointed Mr. Ed. F. Ward as his suc
cessor. Mr. Ward took the oath of
office Tuesday afternoon and assum
ed charge at once. Mr. Ward has
been a resident of this city for about
fifteen years, his original home be
ing Lumberton. He came to Smith
field as private secretary of Con
gressman E. W. Pou, but soon decid
ed to locate here for the practice of
law and formed a partnership with
Mr. E. S. Abell, the firm being known
as Abell & Ward. Several years j
ago this co-partnership was dissolv
ed and Mr. Ward has practiced law
without a partner since that time.
He has always been active in poli
tics hut never sought any political j
office.
Mr. Ward is well qualified for the j
position he holds having graduated !
from Wake Forest College and later I
taking his degree in lay from that j
institution. He has also taken a !
course at A. & E. College at Raleigh
and at King’s Business College.
Associated with Mr. Ward as Depu
ty Clerk is Mr C. S. Broadhurst, j
who began his duties simultaneous |
ly with Mr. Ward.
SUCCESSFUL CONTROL
OF THE BOLL WEEVIL
RALEIGH, Dec. 9.—In 1922 care- |
ful tests were made with the stand
ard dust-poison method for control
of Boll-weevil,—five tests were in
Scotland county and one in Bladen.
This work was under immediate sup
ervision of Mr. W. B. Mabee, Ex
tension Specialist in Entomology.
The method followed is fully ex
plained in Farmers Bulletin 1262 U.
S. Department Agriculture and Cir
cular 124, N. C. Extension Service.
These publications are obtainable
from county agents, or by applying
direct.
From three to six dustings were
given at night,—and the results gave
a net profit in every test. An aver
age of all six tests shows that the
dusted cotton yielded 328 pounds
more seed cotton per acre than did
the undusted cotton,—and this was
worth $29.76, one of the tests being
with long staple cotton; subtracting
the average cost of dusting, $4.88 per
acre for the season, there is an av
erage net profit of $24.88 per acre
from the operations. This proves
that the dust method was highly
profitable.
A table is given showing names
of farmers whose fields were used,
number of dustings, yield of dusted
and undusted plants, gain, value f
gain, cost and net profit per acre, in
each of the six tests.
The recently announced “Florida
method” is under study and it is
planned to try it in North Carolina
during 1923.
SHANTUNG RESTORED
TO CHINA BY JAPAN
PEKING, Dec. 10.—The province
of Shantung: was restored to China
at noon today by the Japanese. —As
sociated Press.
PEKING, Dec. 10.—The govern
ment announces that it has effect
ed an arrangement by which the ban -
dits in the province of Shantung
have been temporarily appeased.
The bandits have received $100,000
on condition that they refrain from
violence after withdrawal of tbe
Japanese troops. One thousand ban
dits have been incorporated in the
Tsingtao police force. The central
government, without military power,
was compelled to make this compro
mise in order to avoid the appear
ance of being unable to administer
the restored territory.—Associated
Press.
Mr. Chub Leonard, of Catawba,
spent Saturday and Sunday in the
city with his sister, Miss Lorene
Leonard. Miss Leonard accompan
‘ ied him home.
BOARD OF HEALTH
HOLDS A MEETING
Dr. Ilsley Reports on Work
Of County Health Nurse;
Presents Resolutions
Monday of last week, December 4,
the Board of Health of Johnston
County met here in the court house
with the “following members pres
ent: Messrs D. B. Oliver, of Pine
Level, chairman; L. G. Stevens, H. B.
Marrow, of Smithfield and Dr
Grady, of Kenly.
Or. M. L. Ilsley was present and
reported on the work being done by
Miss Mulberry, the county nurse.
This report showed that Miss Mol
berry has found a mind e • of cases
which need some attention and much
to be done in this field in the coun
ty.
Dr. Ilsley then presented to the
Board for its consideration tie ♦bil
lowing resolutions and tules govern
ing the practice ,'+' midwifery in
J o-t m county:
“Section I. It shall be unl-.wlmt
for any person to engage fcn the
practice of midwifery in Johnston
County without first qualifying and
registering with the County Board
of Health.
“Section II. To be entitled t,
registration the applicant shall pre
sent a medical certificate showing
1’ at she is free from tuberculosis,
ah venereal diseases, and any con
tagious or infectious disease, at
least two certificates from reputable
citizens showing that she is of goo 1
moral character and i.4 not addict
ed to the habitual use of intoxicants
or habit-forming drugs, and finally
a certificate from the duly appoint
ed county examiners of midwives
setting forth that she has taken the
prescribe dcourse and has acquired
the necessary knowledge to qualify
her.
“Section III. Upon any midwife
meeting the requirements of Sec. ?,
she will be registered and a license
will he issued to her to engage in
such work.
‘ Section IV. It shall be unlawful
for any midwife to make any intern
al examination or manual manipula
tion within the cavities of the per
son of any woman, either by means
of instruments or hands.
“Section V. It shall be unlawful
for any midwife to undertake the
management of any case of labor
that is prolonged more than eighteen
hours, or that is attended by unusual
general swelling of the patient, or
that is marked with hemorrhage, or
accompanied with convulsions.
“Section VI. It shall be unlawful
tor any midwife to handle any infant
after birth or any of accompanying
birth products without first thor
oughly washing and disinfecting her
hands.
“Section VII. It shall be unlaw
ful for any midwife to neglect to
drop solution of silver nitrate in the
eyes of the new-born infant not lat
er than two hours after birth, and
to cut, tie or dress the umbilical
cord with unsterile instruments and
dressings.
“Section VIII. It shall be unlaw
ful for any midwife to attend a case
of labor who has been in contact
wiith any infectious, or contagious
disease within one week, and if not
immune to the given disease herself,
two weeks.
Section IX. It shall be unlawful
for any midwife to fail to register
the birth of any baby that has de
veloped to the sixth month of preg
nancy.
“Section X. Any person, engag
ing in the management of labor with
out first qualifying and registering
ss provided in Sections I and II of
this Act shall upon conviction be
fined rot less than twenty-five dol
ors (825) or imprisoned in the dis
cretion of the court.
“Section XI. If any licensed and
registered midwife shall violate any
of the provisions of Sections IV,
V, and VI, VII, VIII, and IX, upon
conviction shall be fined not less
than ten dollars ($10) for each and
every offense and her certificate and
registration shall be cancelled.
“Section XII. The County Board
of Health reserves the right in its
discretion to revoke any or all li
censes issued under the provisions
cf this special act at any time.”
The Board adopted these resolu
tions with the following amendments
and changes:
First, Dr. Ilsley is to grant license
<o those applying so long as he re
SUGGESTIONS AS TO BOLL
WEEVIL.
For some time I have oeen think
ing about the cotton crop for 1923:
what damage the boll weevil may do 1
to the crop, what per cent of a cot
ton crop we may expect to save next
year. I have read a good many ar
ticles dealing with the destruction of
the boll weevil but he seems to be
a bad little fellow to handle. Sev
eral weebs ago our friend, Mr. John
A. Mitchiner of Selma, wrote a ve y
interesting article along this line
and which was published in The
Smithfield Herald. In this article
Mr. Mitchiner advised fencing in
your cotton patch and putting in
your chickens, turkeys and guineas.
This I think is the best suggestion
that I have seen in print. I am not
farming now but I was born and
reared on the farm and I feel a great
interest in the farming interests of
our country and especially in Johns
ton county and think that all the
good advice possible and every good
suggestion should be freely offered
our farmers. To begin with I would
advise all our farmers to go ove - i
their fields and pull off all the bolls j
left on the stalks and burn them, j
Think of the millions of boll weevils
you will destroy by doing this. Of
course you will not get them all but i
you will g.-: a At of t* : r-. cr if you
prefer ■ the wing of vour tam
ing plow an 1 with just the point on
plow up your cotton stalks, throw
them in piles and burn the whole
thing. Perhaps in this way you would
destroy even mo»e of the boil weeviis
than in the plan first suggested.
The thing you should do is to destroy
as many as you can now. I was talk
ing with a farmer yesterday who
ton! me that he pulled off a small
cotton boll a day or two ago and on
tearing it open found 13 well devel
oped boll weevils in it. Of course
there will not be that many in all
these little faulty bolls, some more
perhaps. Some of our farmers think
that perhaps the boll weevil will
freeze during the winter. I have
been told that you could not freeze
a weevil not even though you put
them between two blocks of ice. I
don’t know about this but I do be
lieve you can burn them.
Now friends after you have burn
ed all you can then hatch out your
guineas to work for you. I would
not advise you to raise turkeys for
this purpose. They are too slow and
also too destructive. A guinea ;s
active and will cover a large terri
tory each day and they do their
work well. Some years ago I plant
ed nine acres of tobacco and at that
time had only nine guineas but did
not have to worm my tobacco a sin
gle time. My guineas did it for me.
I don’t think it necessary to fence
in your cotton patch if you have
guineas on your farm as they are
very active and cover a large area
during the day and they usually stay
where they can find insects. If
you have boll weevil in your cotton
patch there will the guineas be found
most of the day. Think over these
things my farmer friend and if you
think it worth while, then try it.
One thing sure you had better kill
all the boll weevils you can, plant
early, cultivate fast and try to mane
as much July crop as you can be
cause the boll weevil will surely get
most of your August crop.
Yours truly,
L. E. WATSON.
Smithfield, N. C., Dec. 9.
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mains in this county, and when he
leaver, the county then the county
health officer shall grant these li
cense.
Second, All license shall be grant
ed free of cost to applicants and the
county health officer shall furnish
free of cost to the certificate requir
ed in section two.
Third, nothing in these resolutions
shall prevent anyone from practic
ing midwifery in emergency cases.
The secretary of the Board of
Health was instructed to send copies
tf the proceedings of this meeting
to all the papers in this county and
request that they publish the same.
H. B. MARROW, Secretary.
CLEMENCEAU ENDS
FORMAL SPEAKING
France’s War Premier Be
lieves America Now Un
derstands Her Duty
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9. -
Georges Clemenceau, the grizzleii
French war premier today ended his
“formal” speaking mission to Am
erica before the Philadelphia forum
in the Academy of Music with the
broad intimation that he believed he
had accomplished all of the three
purposes for which he forsook his
cottage by the sea in France.
Of two of them he evinced no
doubt. He was confident he had con
vinced America that France was noc
a militaristic nor an imperialistic
nation. He was equally sure he had
spread conviction that France in
tended to pay her debt to America—
not immediately, perhaps, but ulti
mately.
He re-quoted a paragraph from
President Harding’s annual message
to Congress yesterday, as an indica
tion that the third point—bringing
America back to the side of France
tnd England—also was being ac
complished.
The paragraph was the President’s
comment on the four-power pact,
which the executive said had brought
“a new confidence in maintained
peace" and which he suggested
“might be a model for like assur
ances, wherever in the world any
common interests are concerned.” •
“I told your chief,” Clemenceau
continued, “that when he pondered
on what I had said to him I believed
his feeling would find its way to
ward us. And I believe it has. But
I don’t know what the diplomatists
will make of it.”
It was again his “peace message”
that Clemenceau delivered to the rep
resentative audience that faced him
in the gaily decked Academy of Mu
sic.
But it was a plea for a peace based
on France’s ideals, and these ideals,
he declared, France would defend to
the last drop of her blood, even if she
had to defend them alone.
All the five “formal” addresses he
had made before were blended in this
last of the series. Now he was the
fiery Tiger, flashing defiance against
Franco’s enemies; new, the advocate
carefully stating his case; now an
old man pleading for his native land
that she be not misunderstood.
Several times he was interrupted
by applause.
At the end he was given a long
ovation.
Senator Pepper presented the for
mer premier as one possessed of
“more than his fair share of the
spirit of his fatherland—one of the
immortals, with patriotic spirit un
quenchable.”—Associated Press.
Community .Christmas Tree.
A committee composed of mem
bers of the Kiwanis Club, the Sun
day School superintendents, and
pastors of the town met Friday night
and decided to have the first Com
munity Christmas Tree this city has
known. The presents on the tree
which will be on the court house
square will be for children of the
community who receive special invi
tations though everybody is invited
to attend. A suitable program con
sistisg of Christmas carols, a story,
etc., yill be given at 5:30 o’clock, and
at six o’clock sharp the presents will
be distributed. The tree will be a
thing of beauty with its many color
ed electric lights.
Anyone who wishes to contribute
to the fund to supply the presents
may hand their donations to anyone
of the following committee: E. L.
Woodall, Chas. Davis, E. S. Edmund
son, H. V. Rose and T. C. Young.
f new YORK CITY WILL
FIRE ALL KLANSMEN I
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NEW' YORK, Dec. 9.—New j
1 York city employes holding- mem- J
bership in the Ku Klux klan will |
| be discharged when their identi- j
| ties are learned, Commissioner of j
| Accounts Hirschfield declared to- j
day in announcing an investiga- |
| tion of reports that the klan was j
I making a membership campaign j
among municipal workers.
I ! “The city,” he said, “will not j
| tolerate klanism in its govern- I
| mental departments. Every dis- j
| covered klansman will be fired.” j