VoL 43 SMITHFIELD. N. C., Tuesday, February 26, 1924 Number 17 OIL SCANDAL AND TAXES HOLD SWAY Congress To Pass On Biggest Piece of Leg islation Yet Consid ered. BUSY WEEK PREDICTED Washington, Feb. 24.—While the Senate continues this week its long quest in the oil case and its attack on Attorney General Daugherty, the House will pass the tax bill—the ma jor piece of legislation before this Congress. A vote on the measure, with the Garner income tax rates substituted for those proposed by Secretary Mel lon, probably will be delayed until the end of the week, as the House continues its tow weeks old fight re volving around this and allied sec tions of the bill. After disposing of the tax measure the House will take up either the annual naval appropiation bill or the McKenzie measure proposing the leasing of Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford. Meantime the Ways and Means Committee will give its attention to the soldiers’ bonus bill with a view to an early report. Service men who are members of the House are press ing for a vote on this measure with in a week after the tax bill is pass ed. The Senate will resume work this week on the first of the annual sup ply measures to come to it from the House—the Interior Department ap propriation bill which is before de veloped over action of appropriations committee in eliminating from the House draft provisions for electric power projects in several irrigation districts. Consideration of this measure will be interrupted by debate on the reso lution proposing investigation of the administration of Attorney General Daugherty but Republican leaders hope to dispose of the bill before the end of the week and clear the way for the Post Office and Treasury ap propriation bill which is before the appropriations committee. Both the Senate and House will turn aside from the legislative pro gram Wednesday to hold a joint ses sion in memory of President Harding. Secretary Hughes) will deliver the memorial oration in the House cham ber. President Coolidge and his Cabi net will attend the services. Last week the pastors of the John ston County association met in Smith field, the main object of the meeting being to arrange for a number of sec tional meetings in the association. It was decided to hold six meetings at convenient points with a view to reaching all the churches in the as sociation. A program is being ar ranged for an all-day meeting of the pastors and perhaps others, together with a missionary pageant present ed by the B. Y. P. U. workers of the association. The young people of the Smithfield church and several of the other leading churches will be asked to present the pageant at several of the churches. The meeting in Smith field is set for March 12, and Selma, Pisgah and Wilson Mills Baptist churches are asked to send represent atives to the meeting here. The ob ject of the meetings is to awaken in terest in rounding up the 75 Million Campaign this year. As a steamer was leaving the har bor of Athens a well-dressed young passenger approached the captain and pointing to the distant hills inquired “What is that white stuff on the hills, captain?” “That is snow, madam,” replied the captain.. “Well,” remarked the lady, “I thought so myself, but a gentleman has just told me it was Greece.”— Kind Words. Mr. J. P. Baker, of Kinston, is spending a few days in the city at tending court. SCHOOL CONTRACTS TOTAL $123,082.00 Construction Of Glen dale And Princeton School Buildings Will Soon Be Under Way. READY BY SEPTEMBER ISt. The Board of Education of John ston County Friday, February 22 awarded contracts for the construc tion of the Glendale and Princeton school buildings to Walter Clark of Wilmington, for the sum of $109,823. Derby & Burns, Inc. of Fayetteville, bid $303.00 less than Walter Clark, but stated in their bid that they could not deliver the building until September 30th; whereas Walter Clark’s bid called for occupancy on September 1st. Hence the contract was awarded to Walter Clark. The Board of Education is anxious to have these buildings ready by the opening date of school for the fall term. The heating contracts for both buildings were awarded to The Ra leigh Iron Works Company, Raleigh, at $2275.00 for Princeton and $4, 085.00 for Glendale. The plumbing contracts were awarded to B. W. Sugg, Smithfield, at $2.100.00( for Princeton and $1,800.00 for Glendale. The total cost of all contracts awarded for these two buildings was $123,083.00. These two buildings are two of a series of thirteen buildings in process of construction in John ston County. There were twelve contractors bid ding on the general contract for the building, and thirteen contractors bid ding on the plumbing and heating. The Princeton building will have twenty class rooms, auditorium seat ing one thousand, office library, rec reation space and laboratory. The Glendale building calls for sixteen rooms, auditorium seating 600, li brary, office and laboratory. J. P. MORGAN GIVES LIBRARY TO PUBLIC The unique and priceless collection of books and manuscripts begun by the elder J. Pierpont Morgan and added to by his son, the present J. Pierpont Morgan, no longer exists as one of the greatest prviate libraries in the world. It was turned over last week by Mr. Morgan to six trustees who were appointed to administer it ma a public reference library. The beautiful building designed by Charles F. McKim, situated next to the Morgan mansion at Thirty-sixth Street and Madison Avenue, goes with the gift. Mr. Morgan also gives an endowment of $1,500,000 to main tain it. When pressed for a valua tion of buildings and its contents, however, declare this a very conser vative estimate and suggest that a figure nearly double this would not be too high. Booklovers and collectors declare it the most magnificent gift of its kind ever mado to the public. The announcement was first made on Fri day to a group of newspaper men in vited to the Morgan library. The Morgan library is not easy of access. It has a heavy iron fence and gate on Thirty-sixth Street, with a watchman on guard, and when you pass that, there there are the great metal doors of the building itself, strong and heavy as those which guarded the Bastile. There are several at tendants on duty inside, and you real ize why when one of the first things you see inside on a glass-covered table is a collection of medieval books bound in gold with their covers stud ded with precious gems. The walls are covered with book stacks from floor to ceiling, a gallery running around most of the room where the second floor would be. The rich bindings are visible thriugh a heavy metal diamond grill. Before the fireplace is a polar bear skin that must have come from a grandfather bear. The floors are covered with rich rugs and there are several tables with glass-enclosed tops which con tain the Gutenberg Bible, the earliest Smithfield Dances Over Virginians at Dizzy Pace, Making the Score 19-7 SMITHFIELD WINS GROUP OIAMP’SHIP Defeat Wilson By 52-22 Count For Champion ship Of Group Seven In Eastern Carolina. CHANCE TO WIN STATE Goldsboro, Feb, 22.—Although they played a good game, the Wilson high school basketball aggregation, winners in their first championship clash with the Kenly high school five, this afternoon fell in defeat before the rushing onslaught of the Smithfield quintet by the count of 52 to 24. The scene of the game was shifted here early yesterday morning from Raleigh. By dropping this after noon’s game, Wilsoi( also dropped her right to continue in the race for the championship of Eastern Caro lina. Smithfield was simply too much for the Wilson county lads, and had lit tle trouble in annexing the encounter. Their pass work and defensive play was more than Wilson could solve and with Holland, at right forward, working on all cylinders, Coach Grif fin’s cohorts had little chance of cop ping the victory. Holland, lacked one point of shooting as many count ers as the entire Wilson five. He found the hoops for 23 markers, and played a jam-up all-round game. Wilson showed rare form, display ing good work throughout, but tfie winners were far superior to their opponents in all departments of the game. Smithfield won the champion ship of Eastern Carolina last season and if they keep up the performance displayed here this afternoon