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Jferalfr -ESTABLISHED 1882 Published Every Tuesday and Fri day By Beaty & Lassiter Printing Co.. Ill Vi Court House Alley, Smithfield, N. C. J. M. Beaty Estate, T. J. Lassiter Estate, and W. M. Gaskin, Props. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION': (Cash in Advance Only) One S'ear.82.00 Six Months.1.00 Three Months. SO Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCTTON TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1925 MYSTERY STILL SHROUDS GAINEY CASE. It is reliably reported here that the citizens of both Johnston and and Sampson counties living near the place of the burning of young Hu bert Gainey during the latter part of March are deeply interested in the young man’s cause and are deter mined that the ones guilty of this cruel outrage shall be prosecuted. This crime judged from such re ports as vve have been able to gather has far less mitigating circumstances about it than the Needleman case in Martin county which created such state-wide interest from the day of its consmuat'ion to the day its per petrators were safely lodged behind the gate of the state prison. Al though exonerated at trial, Needleman was indiscreet in that he talked too much about a woman who was ap parently engaged to another man. But here we have the story of a young man who has committed no offense at all but who, despite this fact, was assaulted in a most shame ful manner, stripped of all his cloth ing, thrust and held into a burning stump-hole until he lost conscious ness, and then deserted by his as sailants and left in the dark in the woods to his fate. By sheer force of his youthful strength he made his escape alone from the burning stump and rambled the burnt woods in a nude condition until the coming of dawn enabled him to find his way to the home of a negro woman where first aid could be administered. This is not the end of the story. Ever since his terrible mutilation he has been confined to his bed. He is now in a hospital in Dunn slowly recovering. The entire left half of his chest extending as far as the waist line is entirely void of skin and the muscles of the right arm are so badly burned that he is unable to move the left arm without the aid of the right. The interest that the people in the community where this crime was committed in trying to ferret out the facts in this case in order that the guilty ones may be tried and punished according to law, is most commendable. ■ The crime is ser ious enough to justify the state in joining hands with the lo^al citi zens in their baffling attempt to find convicting evidence against the mu tilators of this young man. H MID COMMENTS Roger W. Babson, widely known expert on business conditions, says i that business is at present time nor mal. A year ago it was seven per; cent below normal. The first of this j year it was one per cent above nor- ' mal. To the people in this section all | this sounds too optimistic, but Bab- j son is in the habit of getting straight j before he talks. In fact, getting facts 1 together is his regular line of busi ness and that is what he makes his money from. What he says is entitled to respect. In Asheville 700 carpenters have gone on strike for ain increase in | wages from 87^8 cents an hour to $1.00 an hour. This indicates that j Asheville has a building boom. Car penteres would have no chance of winning in a strike for higher wages un-'.ess there was a great deal of work for them there. Alnd by the way, the number of the carpenters in* the un- j ion there is surprisingly large. Seven hundred carpenters kept busy can do & great deal of building in a year. As a matter of fact, that whole sec tion of North Carolina is developing very rapidly. Some of the people up there think that the western part of the state is in for the same sort of phenomenal developnwht that has been going on in southern California and in Florida. i -o State Senator Foil of Cabarrus gives notice of his intention to push a movement to have the next Legis lature of North Carolina to pass a law making the teaching of the Bible in the public schools compulsory. His idea seems to be that the Bible should be a part of the daily work of the student just as arithmetic or read ing. The idea is absolutely impractical. It is possible that some method may be found whereby the Bible can be taught on a voluntary basis to the pupils who want it. A few high schools in the coiin try are now ex iperimenting with various methods. So far no plan seems to have shown up very satisfactorily. However, the movement is new and some feasible ; plan may be worked out yet. But to compel all students to take Bible as a part of the regular daily I school work is on the face of it ab solutely unworkable. Imagine a Methodist teacher instructing a class 1 in which are Baptists, Primitive Bap tists, Episcopalians, etc. Maybe it will ; be suggested that Baptist children | should be grouped together so that they could be taught the Bible ac ' cording to the proper Baptist doc 1 trine, the Methodists in another ■ group, and so on. This would soon be nothing but a big joke. It would also be mixing church and state, a violatidn of a fundamental American principle of government. T. H. F. WANTS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ROAD MATTER Editor The Herald: Please allow me the privilege to ask you to give us a further account of the action of our Board of County Commissioners in regard to the Rim Road election. The people in general do not like to be ignored entirely and ruled by a few, and it seems that something is not dntirely satisfactory about this matter. According to your account of the matter last week a majority of 34 or 39 voted right in the presence of the board itself, favoring calling the election, and a very few words have been said about the numbers of sign ers on petitions before them. In fact it looks like the board has hid the petetioftis or has not come out in the open with a statement as to the majority on them. We want to know the majority on the petetions, and then if the majority shall rule we want to know why they refuse to call an election for a county-wide road system. You may publish this article if you desire, and under it give as a plain statement of the number on those pe tetions. L. H. STEPHENSON, Willow Springs, N. C., Route 1. May 11th. Note—The clerk to the Board of SAVE -with AFTER BATHING a rub with 4Bwamr Rubbing Alcohol will stimulate the whole body and you will feel that splendid glow of health and energy. Leading athletes use and recommend it Pint Bottle Sold only at Hood Bros. Smith field, N. C. County Commissioners informs us jthat final action in this road matter has not been taken. We shall Endeavor to give the public all the information we can get on the subject when the board shall meet again.—Editor. ABOUT ROADS AND SCHOOLS To the Editor of The Herald: Please allow me space in your pa i per to write on a few topics con cerning the welfare of Johnstdn coun ty as I see it. This is the first series on general topics as I spoke of in my local letter. I am going to take up two import ant subjects as to Johnston county needs help by the citizens as a whole —not a local unit but a coilnty unit. Chapter 1. My subjects are better roads and better schools. Now, my i idea may not meet with everybody as a whole ,but we understand there are two sides to everything and some times seven sides. Now, I think it’s better for us to differ on many sub jects for this reason. If we agreed on everything why we would 'not even get good results out of anything at all. Now haven’t we got to have good roads before we can ever expect to have good schools? Now please bear with me for just a moment. Doesn’t the county people bear all the expense of running our government? That being the case, why could we not get on some basis to better the conditions of both county and town? I consider what is good for the county is good for the town as a whole. Now sup pose there were a good road leading out of every towtn for about four dif ferent w ays that would come in touch with about every backwood section in the whole county. Chapter 2. Now I will give my views as to the county unit as to the Rim Road. Why would it not benefit the whole county, and why should not the people of the whole county come in and help bear the expense of 'building such a road? Have you ever i given one thought as to the people | way back in the back county were helping pay all the town taxes as well jas we fellows right around town, and it takes them all day to haul one load where we can haul as many as five or six a day, and why can’t you see : the good in a circuit road leading all ! around the county connecting up | with the main highways ? Now, we’ll take up Pleasant Grove | township first. Now suppose we lived \ eight or ten miles northwest of Ben , son, and wanted to go to Smithfield j ! which was 18 miles direct route, but | was 24 or 26 miles by the route of Bctnson. Now, wouldn’t it be much cheaper and better to come 8 or 10 miles to Benson and strike a hard j surface road than to travel on the j eighteen miles common road leading direct to Smithfield, and wouldn’t Smithfield be benefitted as well as Benson or any other sectidn in the county, which would be in the same position ?' Now we are aware that there are not many miles of good roads in Johnston county, and they just around a few towns, aind we will have to raise the tax rate and the county townships will have to do likewise and then we can’t have very good roads without some help from the townships that have towns and railroads to get taxes from, and those townships helping keep up the towns and railroads and not getting any benefit from either. Now I think the county commission ers should let the people thoroughly understand this road question and then grant ain elector to hold an elec tion and the people not understand the matter would be putting the county to great expense for nothing. But there can be an election held without very much expertise and don’t think there would be any kick. That would be to hold an election on the same old register. It would not cost over §300.00 to hold an election and use the register, cost of printing too. Chapter 3. Now, I will take up the question, someone has muddied the water and we can’t see how deep the mud hole is. It’s bad to tell which is the worst condition the road or school problems. Hei-e we are divided very badly and see-sawing ev ery way and getting nowhere. Now we all should know that we can’t all go to the town school, and vte need some high schools in the larger sec tions of the country. But how can they build high schools in the coun try let alone maintain them without some outside help. They have • no town or railroad to derive any rev enue irom. Now, unless the public gets near together in trying to solve our school problem, why we will never get any where. Nfow, how are some of the country people going to send their chil dren to the town schools from the first grade on up? Now, can the country people attend eight or nine months school and make and house a crop, and furthermore cato a child take an education faster than it grows up ? Don’t you consider there is something besides book knowledge to education? Now, you can be taught anything in the world as to books and not be worth very much to yourself or anybody else either. My theory is that a person has forty years to be come old enough to have good sense. Therefre I say a person should not take a thoroughly graduate course before he reaches the age of forty. Now, what is the use to destroy the child’s mental powers to educate Wanted To Bur 500 bales good white cotton from wagons at high cash price Wanted To Buy Stock in the First and Citizens National Bank of Smithfield and the Farmers Bank and Trust Company of Smithfield. Ashley Horne & Son Clayton, North Carolina Mr. Farmer: We have a supply of Buckeye Riding!Cultivators Planet Jr. 1-h. Cultivators Cotton Hoes, 6 to 8 inches Come look them over. Get yours and cultivate your crop with little expense. Austin* Stephenson Co. Smithfield, N. C. a> m it so much faster than it develops it self. Please bear with me for just a little. Hav^you ever seen anything that there -was much interest taken “hi that wasn’t run to the extreme, let it be what it may. Now, here is one item that I am not going to say very much about at the present, and that is the school trucks. If the patrons of the school trucks want to sdnd to school their children on the truck, why let them furnish them and pay the expense of operating them also. I say there are enough Fords in any community for everybody who wants to go to the big school and and save thousands of dollars of our public school funds. Chapter 4. Now, as to our school situation as a whole. There w7ill have to be some means as to taking care of our small country districts and the large ones as well as small ones. Now have you ever given it a thought that way back in the back country that those people back t here are helping to keep up the railroads and towns aind not getting one cent taxes back to help build roads and maintain schools, or do they get any thing out of auto truck license taxes ; either. The whole county should pay a special tax for schools and roads, and let it be spent where needed worse. I will cotntinue this article later. R. L. FLOWERS SUNDAY SCHOOL DAY AT METHODIST CHURCH Sunday the Methodist church ob served Sunday School Day by giving an appropriate program at the elev en o’clock hour. The program was participated in by every department of the Sunday school. An offering was made for needy Sunday schools. At the evening hour, Rev. Mr. Kale, of Duke University, preached in the ab sence of the pastor, Rev. A. J. Par ker, who has been confined to his bed the past week. Mr. Parker is improving and expects to be able to hold regular services /next Sunday. REV. M. F. HAM TO ADDRESS BARACA-PHILATHEAS Raleigh, May 18.—John D. Berry, general chairman of the local con vention committe, announces that Rev. M. F. Ham, noted evangelist, has consented to preach to the Baraca Philathea convention in session here Friday afternoon, June 12th, at the City Auditorium. This will be the Sil ver Jubilee of the Baraca movement in North Carolina and extensive prep arations for the entertainment of the delegates are being made. The Tab ernacle Baptist church will be hSsF to convention of the Baracate and their sisters, the Philahteas, who are working hand in hand with them in promoting one of the greatest re ligious movements of modern times. The meeting will be in session from Juine 11th to 14th. ARCHER LODGE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT May 22-26, 1925 Primary Night Friday 8 P. M. Song of Welcome—Swieet Spring time-—Third grade. Tom Thumb Wedding — Second grade. Japanese Drill—Third grade. Operetta—Mother Goose Island— First grade. Sunday 11 a. m. Sermdn—Dr. J. T;1 Gibbs, Warren ton. Grammar School Monday 8 p .m. Quartette—Shadows of Evening— Ruby Moore, Aldie Barnes, Bessie Murphery and Vena Phillips. Merry Gipsy Band song and drill— Flag Drill. Play—Not a Man in the House. A Song of Home. Tuesday, 11 o’clock Address—Dr. Hubert Poteat, Wake Forest. Song—Call of Summer—7th grade. Presentation of Certificates ahd Prizes—Miss Mary E. Wells, Smith field. Tuesday 1 p. m. Picnic Dinner. Tuesday, 8 p. m. 3 one-act plays by Junior high school grades: 1. The Black Rooster; 2. Gainus and Gainus, Jr.; The Revolt. ULYSSES AT TROY (By P. D. Grady, Jr., Age 10 Years) Along with the Greeks Came Ulysses the bold, Who proposed that they build a wtooden horse Large enough to hold An army of men who would destroy The men of the garrison That defended Troy. Kenly, N. C. Berry Pickers Wanted! Wanted 80 hands to pick dewberries at once. Prompt pay. Rush! W. V. BLACKMAN Benson, N. C. Route No. 2 Light Colored Suits Bright Colored Neckwear A striking tho’ perfectly authentic and de * lightful combination. A Biscuit or Azure shade Schloss suit of modest hue with a tie so brilliant and un usual that it recalls the sash of the old Spanish Toreadors. Worn with white collar attached shirt— black boots—and you are a well dressed man The Suits - $20.00 to $40.0t) The Neckwear - 50c to $2.00 , Advice - Free N. B. 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