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Measures Most Of These Be
ing Enacted Into Law As
First Written
BUDGET
HEADS
LIST
(By M. L. Shipman)
Raleigh, March Q.—The 1925 Gen
eraj Assembly goes down in history
as one which followed the Governor
m0re than any other in recent years
Other Legislatures have been influ
enced by Governors, but scarcely to
the extent that the one just ended has
been led afound by Governor McLean.
The 1921 and 1923 General Assem
blies were “led up the hill” by Gover
or Morrison, and the 1925 body was
“led down the hill” in the path of
economy by Governor McLean. And j
as if to atone for the action of its
predecessors in following Morrison,
the present body went even fui^her
than any before it had gone and gave
to the Governor greater powers than
any executive in North Carolina has
ever had and enacted measuures at his j
bidding which will revolutionize the ,
administration of the State govern- j
ment.
Governor McLean sponsored or en
dorsed 23 measures which were pre
sented to the Legislature. Most of
these were enacted into law as orig
inally written, one or two were slight
ly amended, but all of any import
ance, except one, got through during
the last two days of the body and
those which came up this week were 1
expected to be put across before ad
journment Tuesday night.
Chief among the Governor’s recom
mendations were the creation of an
executive budget system placing all |
departments and institutions on a
budget basis and making the Gover- I
nor head in fact of the State’s finan
cial policies; transferring the auto
license bureau, and the insurance de- ;
partment revenue collecting powers
to the Revenue department in order
to co-ordinate the revenue-collecting
agencies of the State and to eliminate
unnecessary employes; creating a
state department institution out of
the state prison hitherto operated as
a private corporation; creating a
State department of conservation to
take over the functions of the eco
nomic and geological survey: ap
pointing an official executioner to
relieve the warden of State prison of
that duty; deposit daily with the
State Treasurer of all funds instead
of monthly as heretofore so as to ob
viate to an extent short term financ
ing and save interest; creation of a
pardon attorney to assist the Gover
nor in investigating clemency cases;
an educational commission to investi
gate the educational system of the
State; a wage investigation commis
sion to go into the salaries paid State
employes, eliminate useless employes,
bring salaries into line with actual
work done and establish a standard
salary scale; a $20,000,000 bond is
sue for roads; and other measures of
more or less importance.
The Governor also recommended a
constitutional amendment creating a
pardon commission, but this was put
off last Saturday until the next ses
sion after some difficulty' over its
term arose, the Governor saying he
would try out the pardon attorney for
the next two years.
Other measures which had the
Governor’s “O-Kay” were to limit the
time in which checks issued by the
auditor would be paid by Treasurer;
to declare transfer of claims against
the state void if made before actual
adjustment and allowance of such
claims had been made; to place all
charitable state institutions on the
same basis and requiring those able
t" do so to bear the expenses of their
care; to create a Judicial Conference
to study methods of practice and pro
cedure; to create an Advisory Com
mission to investigate and report on
freight rate discrimination, to reduce
cost of public printing, and a number
°t proposals having to do with his
Program of economy in governmental
affairs.
Franker Than Most
QANTZ BROS’ GARAGE—Dodge
~orlc a specialty.—Classified ad in the
Rwanda Review.
j_ Off His Perch
if \
Gutzon Borglum, former Stone
Mountain memorial sculptor, who
was charged with malicious mischief
in regard to the plans for the memo
rial. Requisition papers have now been
withdrawn.
K1WANIANS HOLD
REGULAR MEETING
Discuss Proposed New Hospital,
The Coming- Exposition and
Joint Kiwanis Meeting
(By George Y. Ragsdale)
Kiwanis held its regular meeting
last Thursday in the Woman’s Club
Room, and an informal discussion
was held, in place of a regular pro
gram, concerning the proposed new
Hospital, the coming exposition, and
the meeting Thursday night of this
week here with the Selma and Ben
son Kiwanis Clubs. The Club had as
its visitor Solicitor Clawson L. Wil
liams, who is here for several weeks
in Superior Court.
Dr. Orr again brought up discus
sion relative to the hospital, and *ft
er some few minutes of general sug
gestions and proposals from the
floor, it was moved that the commit
tee of three, appointed at the last
meeting, be authorized to select three
members from the Woman’s Club,
who are to work with them, and au
thority was given them to act in
whichever ways ihey found best.
Dr. C. C. Massey, newly appointed
County Health Officer, made several
remarks about his work, saying that
he was still making plans which he
would shortly begin putting into ef
fect.
A general discussion of the ap
proaching St. Paul convention was
held, and delegates from the Smith
field Club are to be electeu at the
first regular meeting in April.
The biggest Kiwanis meeting ever
held in Johnston county is to be
pulled off here Thursday night when
the Clubs of the county are to meet
jointly in the basement of the new
high school building.
Miss Sanders To Be
“Miss Four Oaks”
The Four Oaks items in our last
issue contained the announcement that
Miss Pauline Lee would represent
! Four Oaks in the Queen’s Contest at
the Exposition in April. It seems
I when Miss Lee was chosen it was not
known that girls off at school were
1 eligible, and when this was found out
a second mass meeting was held and
the vote taken again. In this contest
Miss Lee tied with Miss Clyde San
ders, who is a student at Coker Col
' lege. A child was blindfolded and
drew to decide the winner. Miss San
ders’ name was drawn and we under
I stand she will represent Four Oaks
in the contes^'
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LOCAL HI CAGERS
MAKE GOOD RECORD
Team Won Thirteen Games and
Lost Four; “White Jerseys”
Stand For Fair Play
ALL “FIRST TERMERS’
The Smithfield high school boys’
basket ball team has showed up ex
ceedingly wel during: the past bas
ketball season. They’ve won 13 games
and lost 4, which is a good record|
Two of the games lost were to col
lege teams. It lost to Duke Univer
sity Freshmen, Wake Forest Senior
class, New Bern High and Sanford
high school. It made a good show
ing in the State Championship series,
having fought the way up to the
semi-finals, losing to New Bern by
one point irf3 a two extra period
game.
With the exception of Stephenson,
all the boys on this year’s team are
all “first-termers” and Coach Rice is
to. be commended for the fine show
ing his cohorts have made this sea
son. One commendable thing about
the “White Jerseys’" is the fact that
each and every member of the team
believe in fair play and it is to the
credit of the team to say that only
once has a Smithfield player been re
moved on account of four personal
fouls being chalked up against him.
Each member of the quint deserves
praise for his fine team play. Adams
and Kirkman, D., guards, have been
mainstays of the team. Stephenson
is high scorer for the team, having
piled up 135 points, while Kirkman,
J., follows with 113. Caudill has
done consistent playing. The substi
tutes, Lawrence, Honeycutt, Watson,
Boyett and Gillette, have stuck by
the team faithfuully and Watson, in
particular, showed class in emer
gencies.
The scores
follows:
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
Smithfield
of the games are
11.. Clayton 10
24. . Micro 13
18.. Pine Level 8
29.. Cary 17
19.. Wake Forest
Seniors
24__Mt. Olive 6
24.. 5.nford 16.
14.. Mt. Olive 13.
24.. 5.nford 41
25Rockingham 15
36.. 5.Jiford All
as
22
Stars 26
Smithfield 14—Duke Freshmen 19
In these games Smithfield piled up
216. They held the strong Duke Fresh
216. They held the strong Dke Fresh
men team, which is considered the
best Freshman team in the State, to
a 5-point victory, and the Wake For
est team won by only three points.
In the championship series, Smith
field made 87 points against 56 for
the opposing teams. The scores of
the championship games are as fol
lows:
Smithfield 30.. Sanford 16
Smithfield 2_-Parkton 0 (forfeit)
Smithfield 27. .Maysville 11
Smithfield 28..New Bern 29.
Escaped Prisoner
Returns Hungry
Hiding out on cold nights, going
without food and continually dodging
officers of the law apparently did not
appeal to Roy Pollard, one of the
three prisoners who escaped from the
jail here nearly three weeks ago, for
i he came back last week and surren
dered to the officers. After risking
his life to escape he evidently found
that stolen liberty is not worth the
price and returned, saying that he
had been “perishing and freezing to
1 death.’’ He is now boarding with
the County and occupies his former
room at the top of the court house.
Beware of Slick
* Tongued Agent
A slick-tongued agent can put
almost anything over on an un
suspecting public, lad our peo
ple beware of indescriininate
booksellers upon our streets who
are said to be finding out books
whose doctrine is contrary to all
evangelical Christian churches.
RALLY HELD HERE
BAPTISTCHURCH
Dr. Charles L. Graves and Rev.
Walter M. Gilmore Among
Notable Speakers Present
COUNTED GREAT SUCCESS
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A rally meeting was* held with the
Smithfield Baptist church last Thurs
day, which attracted an unusually
large attendance from the various
churches of the Johnston association.
This rally was one in the series ar
ranged for all the associations of the
State during the first two weeks of
March, and participated in by the
Baptist State organization at Ra
leigh, assisted by many of the lead
ing preachers and laymen of the
State. Dr. Charles L. Greaves and
Rev. Walter M. Gilmore, of Raleigh,
were among the leading speakers in
the Smithfield meeting. Other speak
ers on the program were Rev. R. C.
WThite, of Clayton, who discussed the
Baptist State Mission program, and
Rev. S. L. Morgan, of Smithfield, who
spoke on the world situation in for
eign mission work. Dr. Greaves spoke
on Stewardship aryl ©better financial
methods, and Mr. Gilmore discussed
the significance of the 125 program
of Southern Baptists. Reports were
asked for from all the churches of
the association as to the outlook for
the benevolent budget for the present
year', and nearly all the churches re
ported that more or less systematic
every-member canvasses had been
made, and that on the whole the out
look for the year is encouraging. The
addresses showed that there is im
perative need for even enlarged con
tributions over the past year to all
ti e departments of the work of the
denomination, there being heavy in
debtedness on nearly all the boards
and institutions of the denomination,
incurred during the great forward
movement launched by the denomina
tion five years ago.
The Smithfield rally was counted
by all present a great success. Near
ly all the pastors of the association
were in attendance, and representa
tives from most of the churches.
The conference began at 10 a. m.,
and continued well into the after
noon, the ladies of the church serv
ing a bountiful lunch at the noon
hour. ®
Building Permits
Must Be Secured
We have been asked to publish from
the Laws of North Carolina in regard
to erection and inspection of build
ings and fire protection the following
section:
“2748. Building permits. Before
a building is begun the owner of the
property shall apply to the inspector
for a permit to build. This permit
shall be given in writing and shall
contain a provision that the building
shall be constructed according to the
requirements of the building law, a
copy of which shall accompany the
permit. As the building progresses,
the inspector shall make as many in
spections as may be necessary to sat
isfy him that the building is being
construucted ; ccording to the provi
sions of this law. As soon as the
building is compleded, the owner shall
notify the inspector, who shall pro
ceed at once to inspect the said build
i ing and determine whether or not the
flues and the building are properly
! constructed in accordance with the
building law. If the building meets
the requirements of the building law
the inspector shall then issue to the
owner of the building a certificate
which shall state that he has complied
with the requirements of the build
ing law as to that particular build
ing, giving description and locality
and street number if numbered. The
inspector shall keep his record so
that it will show readily by refer
| ence all such biulding as are approved.
The inspector shall report to the In
surance Commissioner every person
neglecting to secure such permit and
certificate, and also bring the matter
before the mayor, recorder or muni
cipal court for their .attention and ac
tion.’’
It is our unui&rstanding that the
town authorities expect to enforce
this law, which has hitherto been
neglected.
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Sam Barbour Dead;
Hyman Dodd Hurt
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SELMA'S BEAUTY QUEEN
CHOSEN
Selma, March 6.—At a mass
meeting of the citizens of Selma
Wednesday evening in the opera
house the beauty queen for the
Eastern Carolina Exposition was
lected. Mayor Wade Brown acted
as chairman and Mr. J. N. Wiggs
was made secretary. The voting
was done by secret ballot. Miss
Ruth Fulghum was elected, while
Misses Breattie Corbett , Rosa
Waddell, and Emma Lucas Ward
received a large number of votes.
METHODIST PASTOR
TALKS PLAIN TALK
Would Call The Churches Back
To Its First Love; Public
Opinion Needf? Higher
e Standard
A balmy spring day has, in the era
of automobiles, been the occasion for
small congregations at our churches,
but not so at the Methodist church
here last Sunday. The weather was
good, the crowd was good and the
sermon was good.
The subject of the sermon deliv
ered by the pastor, Rev. A. J. Parker,
was: "The Deserter and His Lover,”
and was based upon the text: “Nev
; ertheless 1 have somewhat against
thee, because thou hast left thy first
j love.” Rev. 2:4. The subject sug
gested sins that men and women do
not always like to hear about, but
this Methodist minister believes in
preachnig against sin in any form.
Mr. Parker began by stating that no
one is more admired by the public
than an honest, ardent, sensible lover;
nor one more to be pitied than some
sweet girl who has been deceived and
abandoned. Much that is called love
I is but lust, an affair to satisfy pas
sion; regardless the wreck of the vic
tim which fs cast aside and left a
derelict along the path of time. The
deserter in the army, the preacher
! pointed out, is second only to the
traitor, which the world never for
gives. The deserter of some poor!
girl keeps his station in life; the
world says she ought to have had
better sense, and some other girl in-1
cites the viper in.
But the blame is not all on the
men. Public opinion, said Mr. Par
ker, is saying some uncomplimentary
things about our girls, hew they
have let down the bars and invited
merited criticism. Public opinion
needs to ne raised to a nigner stan
dard, so that the law may be en
forced and our country saved from
anarchy. “Smithfield,” he said, needs
to open its eyes. The City Fathers
and the public need to stand solidly
behind its faithful police, not handi
cap them, but support them.
The minister placed church mem
bership with such individuals on the
, level with a social club; their names
are on the church roll, but in life and
practice they have left their first
i love. The devil is not afraid of the
prayers of such folks, for they only
pray when in trouble. Mr. Parker
| called attention to the unsatisfactory
condition of the church, sounding a
note of warning. The state of affairs
I is not pleasing to God. But all is not
bad. The church is a splendid orga
nization, but it will not work by it
self. The good today is all that pre
vents utter destruction. He pointed
to the Savior, who is able to save
from the lowest depths of sin.
At the evening hour, Mr. Parker
continued the same theme. He told
how the church was good in many
ways. Nothing is saids'against its in
telligence, nothing against its activ
ity, but it has left its first love.
With Christ and the church, love
should be everything. Think of desert
ing Him who stands by us in all tri
als and tribulation. Think of ign r
injj Him who prays for us. Think of
driving anew the spear .into flis side
by our desertion. If the church is to
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Dock Hill Charged With The
Shooting Gives Himpelf Cp
To The Officers
INQUEST HELD YESTERDAY
An occurrence which came near
being a double tragedy took place
in the Baptist Center section in Clay
ton township Sunday night about ten
thirty o’clock when Sam Barbour was
shot and killed and his companion,
Hyman Dodd shot but not seriously
wounded.
Coroner C. Q. Stephenson was no
tified and early yesterday morning
an inquest was held at which the
conclusion was reached that Bar
bour came to his death by a gun in
the hands of Dock Hill. The follow
ing jury was sworn in and heard the
evidence: D. U. Thompson, A. M.
Barbour, Porter Duncan, J. C. Har
dee,® and \^illis Hardee. Two wit
nesses were examined: A. T. Cana
day and Charlie Harrison, these men
being the first on the scene after
hearing the shots. Both live near the
home of Dock Hill, where the trag
edy occurred.
According to our information,
Barbour and Dodd, both of whom
lived in Clayton township, drove up
to the home of Hill Sunday night and
Hill went out to talk with them. Hill
was said to be under the influnece
of liquor. His dog, so the story goes,
barked at the visitors, and they kick
ed at the dog. This apparently did
not sit well with Hill, who is said
to have gone into the house and pro
cured his gun. He fired the gun
twice, the first shot, a full load of
No. 6 shot, taking effect in Barbour’s
breast. The second shot wouunded
Dodd in the thigh and arm.
Barbour was about twenty-eight
years old and Dodd twenty-four or
five.
Hill gave himself up to the officers
and his case will be given a hearing
today before Judge Bond to deter
mine whether he shall be placed un
der a bond or retained in jail. Hill
is a man fifty-odd years old, is mar
ried and has several children. .
Election of Officers
Parent-Teacher Ass’n
The Parent - Teacher Association
will meet today at four o’clock in the -
high school auditorium. Members
are especially urged to be present at
tfie election of officers for the com
ing year. ®
Part of the program is being pre
pared by the primary department of
our school. It promises to be unusu
ally interesting and attractive. A
series of short talks have also been
planned.
It is hoped that every member will
be there and that all parents who are
not members will come and join the
organization.
Girls’ Team Wins
Over Orphanage
@_
An interesting basket ball game
was played between the local high
school girls and the Raleigh Orphan
age girls Saturday night at the Y. M. ®
C. A., building in Raleigh. In the
first half the game was close but in
the last half the local team gained
steadily an dat the end of the game
the score was 25 to 12 in favor of
Smithfield. The Raleigh girls played
w-ell but were outclassed by their op
ponents. Nell Meacham did extra
good playing for the home team, but
Carrie Parrish starred, having twen
ty points to her credit at the close of
the game.
The Smithfield girls will play Sel
ma here tonight at the Banner Ware- ®
house.
be effective, it must be united and
clean, with a love sQ strong that it ®
will bar out every trespasser, and
push on till the call comes to go home.
There are 700,000 telephones in
Chicago. It took twenty years for
the .first 100,000, but only twflpyears
f#*S!he last 100,000.