VOLUME 42
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1923
NUMBER 93
BIG CROWDS HEAR
BAPTIST PASTOR
Preaches From Subject: “My
Dream for a Greater, Bet
ter Smithfietd
Almost capacity crowds attended
the sei'vices at the Baptist church
here last Sunday morning, the con
gregations being swelled greatly on
account of the absence of the Metho
dist pastor, who is attending confer
ence.
In the morning the pastor, Rev.
S. L. Morgan, discussed the function
of the Preacher in the Community.
He showed how in the complex life
of the community no one can live
even a day without the help of a
host of other people, and so the com
munity enters into a tacit agreement
to distribute the necessary labor of
•the community among a great many
workers—the doctor, the lawyer, the
banker, the merchant, the teacher,
the editor, the carpenter, and so on
indefinitely. Each one becomes a pub
lie servant, his position a sacred trust
and the public has the right to re
quire that each department of work
shall be done efficiently, and even
courteously. Each one becomes a
specialist in his line. This furnishes
the true basis for cooperation and
community progress.
To the preacher the community
says, “Most of all do we need the
specialist in the most important in
terest in our community life, namely,
that which concerns our moral and
spiritual welfare. We are too busy
about our daily affairs to think con
stantly about how this or that might
affect our souls and the souls of out
children. We are in danger of losing
sight of the highest ideals. You be
a seer, a prophet, for us; be a con
science for us, be a trumphet for us,
arousing us from our slumber, if we
lose the spiritual vision.” This for
any community is the greatest need,
and the minister declared, for no com
munity can build enduring prosperity
without keeping religion in the fore
ground.
The evenng sermon was devoted
more definitely to a discussion of lo
cal conditions. The preacher’s sub
ject was “My Dream for a Greater
Better Smithfield.” His dream was
summed up under several heads. First
that our city should be one noted for
the courtesy and refinement of its
people. He spoke of spending some
hours in Harrisonburg, Va., where
everyDoay seemea courteous ana
gracious and refined. It made it
seem a most delightful place to live.
In the same way Smithfield can ad
vertise itself widely as a desirable
place to live. Two highways pass
through the town and visitors from
many states almost daily stop and
touch the life of our people; they will
tell hundreds of miles away w'hat sort
of town and people we are. So we
can be a light to people from every
comer of our country, for we are
situated at the hub of the county.
Next he dreamed of a city beautiful
Ruskin, the ppeacher reminded us,
has shown that there is a close con
nection between beauty and morali
ty. Tidiness and attractiveness and
beauty promote morality. Our peo
ple should each one do all that is pos
sible to make his own home and prem
ises tidy and beautiful, not forget
ting the back yards and outhouses
And we should cooperate to a at
tract new industrial and enterprises,
and thus attract new workers and
new citizens, thus indirectly building
up the churches and promoting the
work of the kingdom. A live chamb
er of commerce or the Kiwanis Club,
the minister said, could do great
things in this direction.
Special emphasis was put in the
sermon on the matter of sanitation
and health. People would not be at
tracted to a community unless it had
a reputation for healtffffulness. He
cited instances of places in our state
that put vast sums in paving streets
while permitting malaria to cripple
the efficiency and endanger the lives
of its citizens.
More should be done for promot
ing true culture and enthusiasm for
education. Not enough of our young
people finish the high school; not a
BIG DAY CORBETT
HATCHER SCHOOL
Dedicate Building;— Jr. Order
Presents Flag and Bible
—Dr. Brewer Spoaks
Thursday was a day to be remem
bered in the Corbett- Hatcher sec
tion when the new school building:
for those two districts was formally
dedicated, the Junior Order having:
charge of the exercises. This new
school building with six class rooms
and a splendid auditorium is an
achievement of which the communi
ty should be proud, and the large
crowd present Thursday was evidence
enough that the people of that en
tire section are proud of it
Dr. Charles E. Brewer, president
of Meredith College at Raleigh, was
the chief speaker of the occasion mak
ing a fine address on the principles ,
of the Junior Order. Mr. Price pre-;
sided over the program there being
several other speakers than Dr..
Brewer. Rev. Mr. Posten of Kenly
for the Junior Order presented the
school a Bible which was accepted
by Rev. Mr. Cashwell of Wendell.
The flag was presented by Dr. Brew
er, Supt. Marrow acceptnig in on be
half of the school. After these
speeches, Mr. J. H. Broadwell, for
a long time a teacher but now retir
ed from this work being over 80
years old, made a few remarks which
were appreciated by all present.
The barbecue and picnic dinner was
no small part of the day's enjoyment
The Corbett-Hatcher school open
ed on No. 5 when the other six months
schools in the county opened, and the
enrollment now numbers about 140.
Eight grades are taught, and ar
rangements recently made provide
for the boys and girls above the fifth
grade in the Sandy Springs district
to attend this school one truck be
ing operated. Sandy Springs has a
greed to use its special tax to help
maintain the Corbett- Hatcher school,
while at the same time two teachers
will teach the lower grades at the
Sandy Springs school.
The following constitute the corps
1 of teachers at Corbett- Hatcher this
year: Mr. Bascom Carroll of Mur
phy, principal; Miss Mary Pipkin, 6th
and 7th grades; Miss Myrtle Bailey,
4th and 5th grades; Miss Sarah Wel
lons, 2nd and 3rd grades; and Miss
Annie Pipkin, 1st grade.
proper proportion of them go off to
| college. More should be done to
counteract the bad influence of com
mercialized pleasure. Carnivals are
beneath the dignity of such a town
as ours, the preacher declared. Many
of the moving pictures are demoraliz
ing, and the community by friendly
cooperation with the management of
the moving picture men can greatly
improve in every community the
grade of movies shown. The Chau
; tauqua should be encouraged by the
best people, because it is not suf
ficient to take a merely negative at
titude to bad amusements; we must
make positive provision for our young
people to have recreation and amuse
ment that is positively wholesome.
The Chautauqua gradually creates an
appetite for amusement of so high
an order that the carnival becomes un
welcome.
Finally the minister discussed his
dream of a future city in which the
people would surrender themselves
the great principle of the steward
ship of time and service and money,
and the great tasks of the church and
the kingdom. The world is broken
and bleeding, hungering for love and
light. It is unworthy of our people
to indulge in the frivolities of empty
social life, when the wrorld calls
for the consecration of all their tal
ents and money in helpful service
Empires of the past have decayed
because people became rich and
abandoned themselves to frivolity and
luxury. No city can be permanently
prosperous, declared the preacher, un
less it puts righteousness above
money and wroldly success. The
hope for permanent prosperity lies
in our putting a strenmoaxHafo
in our putting a st^rotoger emphasis
on the church and vital religion.
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Corbett-Hatcher School in Oneals Township
Smithfield’s Assets
Five churches.
Ample school facilities.
A hospital.
Two strong banks.
Public Library (open once a week).
Two cotton mills.
Paved Streets.
Building & Loan Association.
Good Auction Tobacco Market.
Headquarters Cotton and Tobacco
Cooperative Associations.
National Guard Unit.
Kiwani^' Club.
Woman’s Club.
Two newspapers.
Trade center for 15.000 people.
Electric lights and pure water sys
tem.
County-seat best county in the
State.
Improvements t'niai C/onsideration
New $125,000 —g
Modern, up-to-date hospital build
ing.
A creamery.
Improvements To Work For
New or remodeled town hall.
Move paved streets.
Establishment of industry with
good pay roll.
Public Library open all the time.
CO-OPS DEFEATED IN
W A V N E C O 17 X T Y
The Tobacco G,Vowers’ Co-opera
tive Association yesterday met de
feat at the hands of two juries and
Judge Oliver H. Allen in Wake
County Superior Court.
Both juries returned verdicts
against the association and Judge Al
len then set aside a verdict favorable
to the association which had been ob
tained in the only other jury trial of
the week and moved several cases to
other counties for trial, over the pro
test of attorneys for trie association
The cases removed included four set
for trial next week before Judge C. C.
Lyon and two which had not been
placed on the calendar of the two
weeks’ special term now in progress.
Judge Allen became so direct in
the expression of his opinion as to
attorneys from California coming
here to try cases against North
Carolina citizens that E. L. Hayes,
a member of the firm of Anron Sapiro
of San Francisco, picked up his brief
! case and left the court room.
The incident occurred in connec
tion with the motion for removal of
i the Maynard Mangum case, one of
the largest brought by the associa
tio and which has already been to
the Supreme Court on the question
of an injunction. Mangum, a promi
ninet tobacconist of Durham and
formerly owner of considerable prop
erty in Wake County has retained a
number of lawyers to represent him.
The motion to remove was made yes
terday by Jones Fuller, of Durham,
and was resisted by W. T. Joyner and
Mr. Hayes.—News and Observer,
Nov. 17.
Mrs. Johnson Entertains
Mrs. Harry P. Johnson entertained
a number of young people Saturday
evening in honor of her guest, Miss
Elizabeth Sabiston, of Jacksonville,
but who is a student at St. Mary’s
School in Raleigh. The home w^
lovely with its decorations of chry
santhemums. Tables were arranged
for bridge, the feature of entertain
ment for the evening. After the
game, delicious marshmallow cream
topped with cherries and cake were
served.
President's Proclamation
In this current year, we now ap
proach the Time which has been ac
cepted by custom as most fitting for I
the calm survey of our state and the
return of thanks. We shall the more
keenly realize our good fortune
if we will, in deep sincerity, give to
it due thought, and more especially
if we will compare it with that of
any other community in the world.
The year has brought to our peo
ple two tragic experiences which
have deeply affected them. One was
the death of our beloved President
Harding, widen has been mourned
wherever theie is a realization of the
worth of high ideals, noble purpose
and unselfish service carried even
to the end of supreme sacrifice. His
less recalled the nation to a less \
captious and more charitable atti
tude. It sobered the whole thought
**fc.the country. A little later came
the unparalled disaster to the
friendly people of Japan. Thus calami
ty led for from the people of the
United States a demonstration of
deep and humane feeling. It was
wrought into the substance of good
works. It created new evidences )f
our international friendship, which
is a guarantee of world peace. It
replenished the charitable impulse of
the country.
By experiences such as these men
and nations are tested and refined.
We have been blessed with much of
material prosperity. We shall be
better able to appreciate it if we re
member the privations others have
suffered and we shall be the more
worthy of it if we use it for their
relief. We will do well then to ren
der thanks for the good that has
come to us, and show by our actions
that we have become stronger, wiser
and truer by the chastenings which
have been imposed upon us. We will
thus prepare ourselves for the part
we must take in a world which for
ever needs the full measure of
service. We have been a most
a most blessed people. We ought to be
most generous people. We have been
a most blessed people. We ougt to be
a most thankful people.
Wherefore. I, Calvin Coolidge,
President of the United States, do
hereby fix and designate Thursday,
the ‘29th, day of November, as
Thanksgiving day and recommend its
general observance throughout the
land. It is urged that the people
gather in their homes and their usual
| places of worship, give expressions to
their gratitude for the benefits and
blessings that a gracious Providence
has e' l owed i.oon them, and seek
the guidance of Almighty Gc-.l that
His favor.
In witness whereof I have here,
unto set my hand and caused to be
affixed the great seal of the United
States.
Done at the city of Washington
this fifth day of November, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty three, and of
the independece of the United
States the one hundred and forty
eighth.—CALVIN COOLIDGE.
EX-KAISER MAY BE
SENT TO AN ISLAND
Paris, Nov. 10.—Holland may not
be regarded as a sufficiently secure
retreat for former Emperor William,
of Germany, in view of the flight
of the ex-crown prince, it was said
today at the foreign office and a
second St Helora may be chosen for
him.—Associated Press.
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METHODISTS GO TO
WILMINGTON NEJCT
Bishop Denny [’reached on Sun
day—W. G. Farrar Ordain
ed to the Eldership
The North Carolina Conference of
the Methodist church has been in
session for a week at Elizabeth City,
and from the reports in the papers
it has been a great meeting. The
next annual session will be held in
Wilmington this being the only in
vitation that was extended for 1924.
Sunday Services
Elizabeth City, Nov . 18.—The
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
which has been in session here since
last Wednesday morning, will finish
its work and adjourn about noon
Monday. A large amount of work
still remains to be done, but Bishop
Denny is expected to move rapidly
tomoriew in order to allow the coo
fei nice to leave the city on the noon
tram
As in the case at each session of
the conference the matter which is
uppermost in the minds of the
preachers and laymen as well is the
question, “Where are the preachers
stationed this year?” This will be
the last business of the conference.
The North Carolina conference has
never enjoyed at one of its sessions
a more beautiful Sunday than to
day. During the week the weather
had been threatening, but today
dawn clear and bright and hundreds
of visitors came to El'zabeth City to
enjoy the Sabbath with the good
people of the city and members of
conference.
Early' in the morning the streets
were thronged with those who were
wending their way to church in or
der to get seats, and soon after 9:0
o’clock hundreds were there to en
joy the conference love feast, which
is held on Sunday morning of every
annual conference.
Dr. R. F. Bumpas and Rev. L. E.
Thompson were the leaders this
morning. -Testimonials and experi
ences were exchanged by the
brethren, many of whom had been
walking with God for a long time,
made glad the hearts of that gerat
audience as they told of their
experienced in the service of their
Ix>rd.
When Bishop Denny entered the
pulpit at 11 o’clock and looked upon
the great sea of humanity, filling
every seat and standing *round the
wans, garnered, many oi tnem, ior
the first time to look into the face
of a Methodist Bishop, to hear him
preach, it must have stirred his soul
and inspired him to a realization of
the great responsibilty of the hour.
The Bishop took for his text the
words, ‘Ye shall know the truth and
it shall make you free.” His analy
sis of knowledge, truth and freedom
was scholarly and lucid. His congre
gation listen* 1 to h'm wit! close at
tention for rore than ar. hour.
IroineiJ'.'.tcly ; fter th< stimon the
Bishop ordained .0 rhe office of
d« ae< n, Lindsay >'• ■; r, K. S. T,.
('< .'k and W J. l'i hci> and to the
eldership W. G. Farrar. This after
noon a special sermon of the confer
ence was held, Rev. R. F. Bumpas,
D. P., presiding, who had died during
the past year were read.
Attend Banquet In Raleigh
Judge and Mrs. F. H. Brooks at
tended the Jefferson Memorial ban
quet at the Yarborough hotel in Ra
leigh last evening. Dr. Edwin A.
Alderman, former president of the
University of N. C. but for the past
19 years head of the University of
Virginia, was the chief speaker of
the occasion.
Tent Meeting Still Continues
The tent meeting which has been in
progress here for several weeks, is
steadily gaining in interest and it
will be continued this week. Large
crowds attended the services Sunday
and much interest was shown in the
meeting.
Services are held every night at
7:30, and the public is cordially in
vited to attend.
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POINCARE IS SURE
FRANCE CAPABLE
TlftWfcs~j£j-ance Can Bring the
Germans to Terms; New
Penalties be Enforced
Neuill.v, France, Nov. 18.—Ray
mond Poincare, Premier of France, to
day served notice on the world that
France is determined to remain in
the Ruhr and the Rhineland until all
clauses of the Versailles treaty are
completely executed and ute ~‘>e$rity
of France is pained. |||
The Premier, who apparently was
in a combative mood, added that
new penalties against Germany
would be imposed until full satisfac
tion from Germany was obtained.
The Premier expressed no disap
pointment over the failure in the
negotiations for the creation of a
commission of experts to determine
Germany’s capacity to pay. He said
France was firmly resolved she was
quite capable of bringing Germany
to terms.
“France is determined,” said M.
Poincare, “not to evacuate the oc
cupied territories until the clauses
of the treaty signed at Versailles
have been completely executed and
we are firmly protected against fresh
policies of aggression.”
German defiance of the treaty as
regards military control and the re
turn to Germany of former Crown
Prince Frederick William called for
penalties against Germany, the Pre
mier declared, “and we shall take
them unless we obtain satisfaction.”
The occasion of the Premier’s
speech was the unveiling of a monu
ment to the war dead at Nueilly.
1 Great interest has been attached to
the speech inasmuch as it was the
first delivered by M. Poincare in
! the metropolitan district since he be
gan his Sunday oratorical campaign
Today the Premier stated France’s
case more bluntly and went farther
into France’s demands upon Germany
than he had done in tire provinces.
Hitherto he always had declared the
Ruhr would be evacuated progres
sively in proportion to the repara
tions payments.
“As much as we insist upon re
ceiving reparations,” declared M.
Poincare, “we are no less determined
to obtain our security. Germany for
a long time has played fast and
loose with the treaty's stipulations
destined to guarantee it. She has
paralyzed the action of the Inter
Allied Control Commission; she has
Been endeavoring to rebuild in se
cret her war weapons and to reor
ganize her military formations for
bidden by the treaty.
“Meanwhile, she authorized the
heir to the Imperial throne to re
turn to the country. She is welcom
ing the man who is inscribed at the
top of the list of those guilty of
responsibility for the war from the
exploits of whom my compatriots of
the Meuse department suffered dur
ing the greater part of the war. These
acts on the part of the German gov
ernment are impudent challenges to
the Allies—brazen violations of the
treaty, insolent outrages to peace.
“They call for sanctions. We will
take them unless we obtain satisfac
tion.”
A crowd of several thousand work
ingmen, dressed in their Sunday
clothes, and small bourgeois intellec
tuals, the latter the most impoverish
ed class in France in consequence of
the war and the greatest sufferers
from the present high cost of living,
cheered the words of the Premier
long and loud.—Associated Press.
Home Economics Dept. To Meet
The Home Economics Department
of the Woman’s Club will meet Wed
nesday afternoon at the Club room at
3 o'clock. The demonstration will
consist of yeast and bread varia
tions- An electric fireless cooker
will also be shown. All housekeepers
whether club members or not are in
vited to be present.
Tom Tarheel says: The farmers of
this State have caught the spirit of
the new North Carolina. Hence
forth they will be torch bearers in
the pageant of progress.