SCHOOL CLOSES AT
WILSON’S MILLS
Dr. Newman of Elon College
Makes Literary Address;
Other Exercises.
The commencement exercises began
at Wilson’s Mills High school Tues
day evening with Class Day exercis
es as follows:
Piano Solo _...Miss Newman
Welcome __Joseph Barbour
Essay_Maude Tomlinson
Oration ______Wilson Uzzle
Duet_Maude Tomilson and Robert
Uzzle
President’s address --Joseph Barbour
Class History and Prophecy
_____ .Robert Uzzl ■
Class Poem_Talbot Godwin
Last Will and Testament __Wilson
Uzzle
Valedictory____ Thel Smith
Class Song_ Class
Presentation of Diplomas_Super
intendent H. B. Marrow.
Benediction.
Wednesday at eleven o’clock the
literary address was delivered by Dr.
N. G. Newman o,f the Department
of Philosophy of Elon College, after
which certificates were presented to
eleven seventh grade graduates.
Dr. Newman’s address was a splen
did exposition of the purpose of one’s
life, a subject especially fitting to
discuss before high school graduates.
He began by asking three questions
as a basis of his remarks: From
whence came I ? For what am I
here? Whither am I going. Accord
ing to Dr. Newman, it makes no dif
ference from whence man came
whether from a monkey or a clod of
dirt, and as to whither he goes need
not worry man so much provided he
has answered the second question,
“For what am I here?” This ques
tion is one everyone must answer.
Everyman and woman must ask,
“What is my job and how can I
perform it?” God has placed man in
a complex world, with the opportuni
ty to become great by solving un
solved problems. Dr. Newman call
ea to tne attention oi tne young grad
uates numerous unsolved problems of
the day—problems which concern in
dustry, disease and international re
lationships, which are a challenge to
the young generation. He pointed out
that the only way to solve these prob
lems is to discover what God’s plan
is. There is no such thing as think
ing out a human plan. The prob
lems of life must be worked out ac
cording to the divine plan. He il
lustrated this thought by telling how
Brunei, the distinguished Engineer,
whose greatest engineering triumph
wa sthe Thanes tunnel completed in
1843, got his plan for making the
tunnel from God. When human in
genuity had been exhausted and the
task seemed hopeless, Brunei, one
day happened to watch a worm fur
row in a tree. He became fascinated,
and finally took the worm and studied
it under a microscope. The result
was a machine fashioned after the
worm’s head which was successful in
tunneling the Thames. The divine
plan was here all the time waiting for
man to discover it. A better known
illustration of this thought cited by
Dr. Newman is the aeroplane. Man
worked for ages on a flying machine
and finally by studying the birds the
aeroplane was perfected.
The conclusion which the speaker
drove home to his hearers was that
the purpose of education is to bring
forth a race of people which can solve
problems which have never been solv
ed. He discussed three factors in
education—the home, the school and
the church—upon which rests the an
swering of the question “For what
am I here?”
When the speaker had finished, it
was the opinion of most who heard
him that seldom have Wilson’s Mills
people been privileged to hear so fine
an address.
The commencement exercises came
to a close Wednesday evening when
a play: “The Dust of the Earth” was
presented by high school pupils.
Marshalls for all the commence
ment occasions were: Ola Beaty,
chief; Gladys Tumage, Charles Wil
son and Milliard Parrish.
A bbttle consigned to the sea off
the coast of Japan by the navy depart
ment of the Japanese Government Ap
ril 13, 1921, was found on the shore
at Tillamook, Oregon, not long ago.
It is 4,700 miles from Oregon to Ja
pan in a direct line.—Dearborn Inde
pendent.
LOCAL UNITS TOBACCO
COOPERTIVES MEET
Prominent Speakers at Four
Oaks and Hopewell; R.
B. Whitley Director.
Johnston County, with a majority
of its 39 local units of the Tobacco
Growers Cooperative Association in
session, set the pace combined effort
for cooperative marketing last Friday,
when President George A. Norwood,
of the association and director J. Y.
Joyner, formerly State superintendent
of Public Instruction, were greeted
by enthusiastic audiences of farmers
at two points in the county.
Four Oaks local, the banner unity
of Johnston county, with 90 members
gave a warm reception to Dr. Joyner,
who said, “In my 17 years of service
with the State in the emancipation
of our children by education, as I saw
the mothers toiling in the fields to
eke out a bare existence, I realized
that a far greater problem was before
the 82 per cent of our population
composed of the farmers. I am glad
of the opportunity to have a hand in
this great movement.”
Taking as his text the words of
Chief Justice Clark in the recent de
cision of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina, upholding the contract of
the tobacco cooperative, Dr. Joyner
pointed out why “the cooperative sys
tem is the most hopeful movement
ever inaugurated to obtain justice f r
and improve the financial condition of
the farmers.” Stating that the asso
ciation had added from 30 to 50 mil
lion dollars to the pockets of the
farmers in three states, he pointed out
that it has helped to increase the
price of tobacco in three states over
last year fully 20 per cent in spite
of the fact that a much larger ci-op
was raised in 1922 than in 1921.
Dr. Joyner stated that the most
important recent development of the
association was the growth of local
organizations which has greatly aid
ed in increasing the membership from
65,000 to 89,000, have assisted in
collection close to $60,000 damages
from contract breakers and by almost
weekly communication with head
quarters of the association, have as
sisted in shaping its policies and con
gratulated the farmers of Johnston
county especially, upon having per
fected such a number of strong and
loyal locals.
President, George A. Norwood, of
the tobacco association addressed an
enthusiastic meeting of the members
at the Hopewell School local last Fri
day. President Norwood said, ’‘A
farmer does not know the price of
his crop unless he has organization,
and unless we organize we will al
ways remain on a wage basis.” Point
ing out that cooperative marketing
said that by this means the farmer
J will be able to carry the excess of a
makes for economy, Mr. Norwood
said that by this means the farmer
will be able to carry the excess of a
crop over, thereby saving the loss that
has always resulted from dumping
and maintaining an even and reason
able price for his labor.
R. B. Whitley of Wendell, director
of the tobacco association from John
' ston and Wake counties for the past
^ season was the first of the directors
chosen by the electoral delegates
whose selection became known at Ra
leigh headquarters by the arrival of
certified returns. Mr. Whitley’s re
election was accompanied by a vote
of thanks from the delegates, ex
pressing appreciation of the valuable
work he has given to the building up
of the association during the past
year.
Incomplete returns up to Monday
noon indicate a complete change in
the directors elected by the member
ship of the old belt of North Caro
lina. The new directors elected in
Western Carolina are Clyde P. Har
ris, of district 7, who succeeds S. T.
Peace; C. T. Hall of W’oodville, Per
son county, who succeeds E. G. Moss
of Oxford; G. R. McQueen of Lake
View who succeeds Southgate Jone3
of Durham; R. H. Montgomery of
Reidsville succeeding J. W. King of
Greensboro to the directorate of 11th
district, and A. S. Spear of Boon
ville, Yadkin county who succeeds A.
L. Bunker, as director of the 12th dis
trict. Most of the newly elected di
rectors are distinguished as strong
dirt farmers and have been very ac
tive in the affairs of the cooperative
association during the past twelve
months.
Messrs. Moss and Southgate Jones
of Oxford and Durham respectively
View of the May Day Festival Given by the Students of
Selma Graded School Friday, May 4th, 1923
! DISORDERS OCCUR IN
PROVINCES OF CHINA
Authorities Making No Attempt to
Ransom Captives From
the Bandits
Washington, May 16.—Advices
from the Peking legation to the state
department today reported a series of
disorders in various sections of China
and declared there was no indication
of having had negotiations between
the brigands and Chinese authorities
over the release of American and
other foreign citizens held at Shan
tung. The department today made
this statement:
‘'Early in the morning of May 13 a
band of men attempted to rob a bank
in Tongshan. Since it was feared that
an attempt might be made to loot rail
way property the company of Ameri
can troops who were stationed there
prepared for action. Fortunately the
necessity for this did not arise.
“On the night of May 13 a small vil
lage near Peitaiho was held up by
bandits who looted the salt revenue
office and several shops.
“The diplomatic corps in Peking on
the morning of May 16 decided that
I because of the unsatisfactory nature
of reports from Lincheng the dean of
i the diplomatic corps should ask the
I Chinese government the reason for the
failure of the negotiations. The dean
should also ask for exact information
as to what the Chinese government
has done and is doing. The Chinese
government should also again be re
minded that the sanctions would in
crease progressively as each day
elapsed.
I
CHILD KILLED BY AUTO,
W. H. BOND, RALEIGH, HELD
Raleigh, May 15.—H. W. Bond
young printer, who was arrested
early today charged with running over
with an automobile and killing John
McKee Horton, five-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. Horton, here last
l night, was still in jail this afternoon,
having been unable to furnish $1,000
bond.
Bond did not stop the automobile
after it struck the child,according to
the police. The little boy died a few
minutes after reaching a local hos
pital. Bond told the police he was
too frightened to stop. He was ar
rested at the union station, where he
had taken some friends to a train,
six hours after the accident.—Asso
ciated Press.
A total of 1434 rat tails were
turned in by the children of 11 schools
in Chowan County as a result of a
"Kill The Rat” campaign put on by
County Agent N. K. Rowell.
Doctor: How did your husband take
pneumonia ?
Dovey Dawson: Doctah, he bought
hisself a diamond shirt stud.—Life.
requested to lay down the extra bur
den of work entailed by their duties
as directors which they have so faith
fully carried out in the first year of
the association’s activities. The
thanks of the growers go to them as
well as to the other retiring members
whose free gift of time and thought
has greatly aided the association in
its first and most dificult year. Indi
cations from Eastern North Carolina,
from Viriginia and South Carolina
are that there will be little change
in the personnel of the directors from
most of the 22 districts in which the
89,0000 members of the association
reside.
STRAWBERRY CROP WORTH
A MILLION DOLLARS
V Wiiniiftgtonian Saw The Sight Of
His Life At Chadbourn
Recently
During one day this week, fifty
, five refrigerator car loads of straw
; berries were shipped from Chadbpurn
! to New York, Philadelphia and oth
| er northern markets. Mr. R. 0. Han
son, of Wilmington, who spent Wed
J nesday at Chadbourn, says that he
[ saw the sight of his life as an on
looker at the strawberry shipping
; station there. It was a unique spec
, tacle close to Wilmington, and yet
| very few people of this city have
j ever beheld St. They have never
; been at Chadbourn during the busy
I season w'hen luscious strawberries
were being sold for spot cash and
moved north by the train load. Mr.
Hanson witnessed growers and buy
ers carrying on transactions which
involved a cash outlay of $40,000
during the morning hours of the day.
i The recipients of the cash were berry
growers of the Chadbourn section.
A moving picture of a strawberry
marketing day at Chadbourn would
be great. Early in the morning auto
trucks, automobiles and vehicles of
every description arrived with peak
loads of crated berries, and the anti
cipation of the growers and the
' eagerness of the scores of buyers to
bid for North Carolina’s delectable
berries makes an exciting scene,
while the rumbling of cars being
shifted into position for icing and
loading adds to the din made by
screeching locomotives making up
solid train loads of berries. When
the long trains of berries are ready
to go, the throttle of the locomotives
are pulled open and northward they
go on the fastest schedule precious
freight ever was carried. The berry
trains stop only at Rocky Mount to
change engines and re-ice the cars;
from there they rush to New York
and northern destinations without
stop. Strawberries, picked in North
Carolina today are eaten in New
York tomorrow.
The deposits of the two banks at
Chadbourn volume up hourly and
daily during the berry season, and
that has been specially the case this
season, because berries have brought
a fancy price since the first crate
was sold at Chadbourn. Of course
there are other markets in Columbus
county and in other berry growing
districts of other counties, and it is
believed that the value of this sea
son’s movement will amount to more
than $1,000,000.—Wilmington Star.
MENRY FORD BUYS BIG
GARNET QUARRY IN N. H.
Boston, May 15.—A plant for the
quarrying and finishing of garnet
for use in the automobile manufac
turing industry will be erected al
most immediately on the 200 acre
property near Danbury, N. H., recent
ly purchased by the Ford Motor Com
pany, it was learned here today. The
site is declared to be one of the best
in New Hampshire and approximate
ly $600,000 was involved in its pur
chase from the Garnet Grit Company
of this city.
Nathan C. Harrison of this city,
who acted for the Ford Company in
the deal said tonight that the com
pany planned to mine and ship the
garnet to Detroit in its rough state
until the plant here is completed.
He that loves not lives not, and he
that lives by the Life cannot die.—
Raymond.
I
FLOOD AND FIRE
SWEEP HOT SPRINGS
Property Loss Is Over a Mil
lion Dollars; One Life
Reported Lost.
Hot Springs, May 15.—Hot Springs,
its business district swept by flood
and flame, tonight was slowly re
covering from the effects of the
storm which late yesterday sent a
torrent sweeping down from the
mountainside leaving in its wake a
trail of destruction, which, in mone
tary loss, is estimated well in ex
cess of a million dollars.
Store fronts smashed, bath houses
wrecked and debris strewn about to
night stood as mute evidence of the
fury of the elements.
Earlier reports that there had been
heavy loss of life were not verified
when a check was made today by
city officials and newspaper men.
Hotel Is Largest Loss.
Destruction of the Marquette hotel
by fire caused one of the largest indi
vidual losses. The building with its
furnishings was valued at approxi
mately a quarter of a million dollars.
In addition to the Marquette hotel
a dozen or more store buildings, al
most an entire block, were laid waste
by the flames.
Tonight a company of Arkansas
national guard was on duty patrol
ling the area wrecked by the storm
and fire.
While Hot Springs was cut off
from wire communication with out
side points last night and early to
day, many stories of heavy death
loss were spread. Some placed the
toll at 17, while one said that 50
persons had been killed. Immediately
on restoration of wire service to the
stricken city, the fact was quickly
established that there had been no
deaths, and that the number of injur
ed would be small.
Two Airplanes Arrive.
The first of two airplanes carrying
representatives of the Associated
Press landed here early tonight. A
plane which started from Muskogee,
Okla., with representatives of the
Muskogee Phoenix, an Associated
Press member, made the trip in one
hour and 20 minutes.
A second airplane carrying an As
sociated Press representative from
Kansas City landed about an hour
later.
While the property loss will be
heavy, only one person so far was
reported seriously hurt. Mrs. Katie
Christanson was caught in an auto
mobile when the flood swept down
from the mountains and engulfed
Central avenue, the principal busi
ness street in the city, and was in
a hospital tonight, her skull crushed.
Physicians said her chances for re
covery were slight. s
Reports received here from Benton,
Ark., stated grave fears were felt
for the safety of farmers in the
Saline river valley south of Benton.
The Saline rose swiftly last night.
Efforts were being made this after
noon to communicate with farmers in
the river bottoms.—Associated Press.
DR. GRADY READ AN
EXCELLENT PAPER
The Wilson County Medical Society
j held its regular monthly session
! Thursday evening at 6:30 in the grill
, room of the Cherry Hotel. A delic
! ious supper was served. The „ »1
| room was unusually attractive with
, its decorations consisting of a profu
i sion of Spring flowers,
j The regular routine business was
' disposed of in the usual way. There
I vas cnlv one paper for the even'eg
] This was a paper on “Medical Eth
j ics” and was read by Dr. J. C. Grady
I of Kenly. It was a most interesting
| as well as instructive paper and was
' thoroughly enjoyed by all present,
j l'r. Grady was well versed on his
j subject. His paper was discussed by
( Drs. P. P. Lane, H. B. Best, W. S.
Anderson and I. W. Lamm.—Wilson
Times.
The violin once belonging to Pa
j gannie, the father of violin technique,
is kept in the Palazzo del Municipio
in Genoa. The violin is a product of
the master craft of Joseph Guaran
erius del Jesu. With three broken
strings, it lies in a silk-lined bex, in
, a large room, where the sunlight
seldom enters.—Dearborn Independ
ent.
GEORGE J. GOULD
PASSES IN FRANCE
_
One of America’s Greatest
Financiers; Developed
Estate of Jay Gould.
Mentons, France, May 16.—George
Jay Gould, the American financier,
who had been ill at Cap Martni, near
. here, died at 3 o’clock this morning.
I Mr. Gould was stricken with pneu
monia at his villa on March 20. For
several days his condition remained
critical, but he then rallied and on
April 3 was said to be out of danger.
Three weeks later, however, he suf
fered a relapse and on May 3 took
a turn for the worse.
The end came peacefully. Mr.
Gould’s wife and two children were
at his bedside.
George Jay Gould, financier and
railroad man, succeeded to the lead
j ership of the famous Gould family
upon the death of his father, Jay
Gould, December 2, 1892.
In addition to assuming responsi
bility, as trustee and executor, for
the $80,000,000 estate left by his
father, he carried on and expanded
the great railroad holdings of the
latter, and within a few years dur
ing which he applied the lessons
learned from the elder Gould, he be
came one of America’s foremost rail
road financiers. The 6,000 miles of
road left by Jay Gould grew into more
than 20,000 miles under the manage
ment of his son, while the many in
vestments in other huge enterprises,
including the Western Union Tele
graph Company, also were largely
managed by the principal heir.
George Jay Gould was bom in
New York City February 6, 1864, the
sixth in line of descent from Major
Nathan Gould, or Gold, the original
ancestor, who came from the South
of England in 1646 and settled in
P’airfield, Conn. While many of
Nathan Gould’s descendants attained
eminence in Colonial affairs and
through service in the Revolution
ary War, it remained for Jay Gould
to become the first financier.
The Gould family fortune dates
i from 1860, when Jay Gould, a
j partner in his father’s hardware
atun? in ut'ifwure county, iNew York,
j bought for ten cents on the dollar a
controlling interest in the Rutland
and Washington railroad, a little
bankrupt line running between Troy,
New York, and Rutland, Vt. Young
Gould, in addition to selling hard
ware, had studied surveying in his
spare time, and took an interest in
railroad building as a result of these
studies.
Two years after purchasing the
road, Jay Gould had succeeded in
extricating it frmo financial diffi
culties, whereupon he sold it at 120
the interest originally acquired at ten.
This was the first feat of that gener
alship which, over and over in later
life, made him the foremost railroad
developer of his time.
George Jay Gould, even when quite
young, showed an inclination to fol
low in the footsteps of his father. He
received a thorough education from
private instructors, and subsequently
entered Columbia University, but was
not graduated.
After a tour of Europe, he became
a clerk in the Western Union office,
where he developed such an apti
tude for detail that he soon became
the assistant of his father. George
j Gould was at his desk ten hours a
| day, and often remained long into the
j night, learning the business which,
j when he became its vice-president a
, few years later, operated more than
a million miles of telegraph wires.
This apprenticeship prepared him
| for the responsibility devolving up
I on him when Jay Gould died.—Asso
diated Press.
DR. E. Y. MULLINS
AGAIN HEADS BAPTIST
Kansas City, Mo., May 16.—Dr. E.
Y. Mullins, of Louisville, Ky., wgg
unanimously re-elected president of
j the Southern Baptist Convention at
I the opening session of the 75th an
nual meeting here today.
The secretary reported to the con
vention that 10,103 delegates were en
titled to seats. He said 2,004 had en
1 rolled prior to the opening of the ses
1 sion and that others were expected.
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