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(EIte 2^1'nilit _ESTABLISHED 1882-£) Published Every Tuesday and Fri day B> Beaty & Lassiter Printing Cn.. 11 \y2 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 Year ...... $2.00 Six Months.1.00 Threp Months. 50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOC’TSON BOARD PLAYS PARTISAN POLITICS ver since the Republican party went into power here last December The Herald as a newspaper has done what it could to give full publication to the j official acts of the party, and such acts as Hive been praiseworthy this publication has been in the forefront in giving full credit to the Republi cans for them. We have believed that they went into office holding the wel fare of the people above any parti san politics, and some of their acts would justify this opinion. But their action in failing to reelect Mr. H. V Rose as county welfare officer here yesterday, placed them before the people in a way nothing else has done. The question of the best inter est of the people versus the currying of political favor with a disgruntled Democrat and town came before them, and they chose to pay a politi cal debt rather than do the best thing for the people’s interest. '*Tr’ In 1919 when the legislature pass ed the Act creating the Welfare De partment of the State, one of the fundamental ideas of the workings of this department was that politics should play no part in appointing persons to perform the duties of wel fare superintendents. The fundamen tal idea has been carried out in Johnston County until yesterday. During the six years Mr. Rose has served in the capacity of County Wel fare superintendent, no complaint has been made of his work, either of omission or commission. He has maintained a high type of efficiency which is recognized in the State De partment in Raleigh. His work has taken him into every nook and corner of Johnston County, through heat and cold, in the day and at night- He has worked unceasingly and tireless ly, and the only charge which tne Re publcan Board could bring against him is that he is a staunch and loyal Democrat, and that he has remained true to Democratic principles. On the other hand, the newly elect ed superintendent, who can hardly hope to become as efficient until as many years have elapsed, is the wife of a man who devoutly fought the welfare work two years ago, classed it as a useless expense, and who re fused to be recommended for re-elec tion on the County Welfare Board because his conscience forbade his countenancing such a waste of the taxpayers’ money. He did all in his power on the stump, in mass meet ings and in legislative halls, to have the welfare work in Johnston Coun ty abolished. “ Consistency, thou art a jewel.” Red Cross Report on Disaster The American Red Cross has is sued a sworn statement of receipts and disbursements of the Coal Glen Mine Disaster Relief Fund. They an nounce total receipts of $38,798.08 and total disbursements of $38,585.07, leaving a balance of $213.01. This statement, they claim, does not include administration expenses, which are provided for by the Amer ican Red Cross out of separate funds appropriated for that purpose. All1 disbursements reported were made for the direct benefit of the sufferers Of the funds received, $12,606 19 was announced as having been con tributed by organizations and indi viduals, while the remainder was sent in by Red Cross chapters and from Red Cross National Headquarters. Johnston County people contributed around $50. © -o Favors Tax Reduction Hon. E. W Pou. Congressman from the fourth district has announc ed himself as favoring an early re duction in surtax rates. He believes I rates of 25 or 20 percent as income 1 tax would not be too low, and thinks that though his constituents are for he most part ^prmers, ’‘very few of them are satisfied with a bill so dis courages the use of capital as to im pair. in the end, the purchasing pow er of those who till the soil.” -o Ford Buys Ships Henry Ford has entered a bid for 200 ships the Shipping Board is of fering for sale for scrapping. Ford's bid is the last and highest offer in the hands of the Board. The President’s Vacation Although President Coolidge is va cationing at the summer White | House in Swampscott, Mass., his cab inet officers have access to him for discussion of pressing affairs of state- The war debts and the Chinese question are among topics which have had his attention recently. MR. MY ATT COMMENTS ON WYATT CASE A letter has been received by the editor from Mr. Gilmore Myatt, from Babylon, N- Y., in which he com ments as follows or the Wyatt case: “I was interested in the Stephen Holt murder case, therefore didn’t want the paper to stop, the more on account of this case. I don’t expect to see this man Wyatt, however, get hardly any sentence out of it. “I do not know the exact facts con-' nected with the case so should not say what I think of it until the tes timony is all given. i^ong isiatia nas nail many cases ; similar to this. One noted case east ol' Babylon was a duel at night be tween a prohibition enforcement agent and a supposed bootlegger. In this case, Downs, who held a special disypensation from the Ku Klux Klan as well as being a prohibition agent, was killed. Ryan, who it was sup posed did the killing, was acquitted, his plea being he took the officer’s au tomobile for a party of hi-jackers trying to hold up his car for the li quor. Testimony also was introduaed showing the dead man wore Klan re-1 galia, which the defending lawyers vigorously attacked and was a strong point in favor of the accused. The town of Southampton even refused to pay compensation to the widow of, Downs, claiming he was in Brook haven townhip outside of his terri tory of deputization. The trial was held in Brooklyn after a long but successful effort to get a change of venue. MR. FLOWERS CONTINUES Editor Tlie Herald: Please allow me space in your pa per to continue my article on Gener al Topics: Chapter 4 (Continued). We have been taking lots of interest in our | school affailrs, and roads for 12 or 15 years and have made some im-1 provements and some mistakes. Now we should come together on a coun ty unit as to running our roads and school system. We have local school and high, local roads and main roads, so they are run on a different scale. You use one to get to the other. When we come to work in union on our most important affairs, why then we can run our county government much cheaper- There isn’t any section of country that can get along with out some help from us, so the same thing applies to helping the other section of get help for our section. Chapter £>. Now as to county unit as to a special tax, the majority of the local school districts have a spe cial tax, but they all need a special tax so they can hire good teachers and the upkeep of the school. There’s lots who live in special tax districts when they are giving in their taxes they claim that they don’t live in the special tax districts so they get out of paying any special tax. Now, I am going to call the attention of you “higher ups” who claim you pay the most taxes, and think you can send to the big schools and patronize the truck system, and get your chil dren on a eight or nine months school ing, and the poor tenant who tends your lands has to house the crop with his children and send his children to the local school, which they are gen erally poorly equipped. Now, I ask you if those poor tenants aren’t the main stay of your living? That being true, why not help the party who is helping you? Whenever we come to the point that we can realize when we are helping the poor and needy build up themselves, then we will build up for ourselves, and not be 4ere. Now, when a generation of peo ple climb so high, don’t they fall and some poor person come along and >earer in a solicitor of this county, ake the lead and make a great prog ress ? We had just as well to consider •ight now what is to he done to put Johnston County on a more moral ind business basis to help build up a setter citizenship. We may build all :he big schools we please, but there is the greatest building yet to build, md it is going to take lots of good workmen to do this building. This building we will call it building up a good citizen, so this is the most need ed building Johnston is in need of to day. Over twenty years we have been letting rotten politics and making and selling be our standard bearer, now it will take us forty years of hard work to get back where we were twenty years ago. Up to twen ty-five years ago we had a standard When we have a good solicitor of our county the nwe have a standard bearer, and when we don’t have a solicitor our next standard bearer is the high sheriff. Now let’s nujce our sheriff the standard bearer and start the wheel rolling. I know any man who is capable of being sheriff can serve for two years if not any longer. Now, who has got backbone enough to come out and say he is going to help the sheriff of Johnston County be our standard bearer from now on ? There are too many people'in this great county of our setting back not turning a hand to help make this a better county to live in and bring up our boys and girls in. a 'i v7 w y i wcuii/ tu tan aw j w u i aticu* tention once more. Now, for eleven and one-half years I have spent in trying to make this a better place to live in and I think it’s high time for someone else to bristle up courage enough and get out and do something. You owe it to your family, county and state too. Why you would be doing your neighbor the best deed you ever did if you would go to him and tell him what he was doing and ask-him to please quit or you were going to prosecute him to limit, and do so if he did not quit. But please don’t wait until your community has got so bad you can’t hardly stay at home in any peace. Why just come out and let your light shine and let everybody know just where you stand. Chapter 0. Now I will have a few words to say as to our situation in Johnston County. Now please bear in mind I travel over lots of differ ent roads and know their conditions better than most people do. We should have a county unit road sys tem whether we have the circuit road system or not. The County Com missioners should set aside about $25,000 every year for special road work. I know of two places in Eleva tion township which are in need of that amount at each place, and it’s nothing but right for the whole coun ty to help pay to fix it, and then move on to some other place and fix it and right on around until the whole county is reached. The greatest mistake in the coun ty today is not help those weak sec tions in building up bad places of roads and help up-keep them also. We must consider there are many sections in the county where there isn’t a cent of automobile or truck taxes going back to help mantain the roads, and it is right for the Coun ty Commissioners to see that every person pays his just amount of taxes, and then spend a certain amount ev ery year in putting those bad sec tions in good shape. So in ten years we would have very good roads all over the county and wouldn’t miss By N. E. H. BETWEEN YOU AND ME SUNDAY AFTERNOON. * * * WE DROVE to Powhatan. * * * AND ON the way there. * * * MY WIFE asked me. WHAT SORT of a place it was. AND HOW many people lived there. * • • AND A lot of other things. SO I took a deep breath. * * » AND DID my best. • • • TO MAKE it interesting for her. ♦ * * AND I explained. THAT POWHATAN. WAS A community. * * * OF REMARKABLE progressive ness. AND THAT the stores. * * * WERE REALLY more elaborate. * * * THAN THOSE of Smithfield. * + * AND THAT the shndv streets. FORMED A picture. * * * OF INTENSE beuty. * * * AND THAT the homes. * * * WERE ALL surrounded. * * * BY VELVETY lawns. * * * AND BEAUTIFUL shrubbery. * * * AND I also went on to say. * * * THAT THE fire department. ♦ * * WAS GENERALLY recognized. * * * AS THE most efficient. » * * IN NORTH Carolina. * * * AND THAT the streot cars. * * * WERE OF the latest type. * * * AND WERE operated. ★ * * ON A regular schedule. * * * AND AS a matter of fact. * * * 1 BELIEVE I told her. * * * QUITE A number of other things. ALL OF which were interesting. AND HIGHLY educational. * * * AND I really believe. * * * THAT SHE appreciated it. * * * AND JUST about then. * * * WE TURNED a curve. * * * AND CAME to Powhatan. ’ * * * AND SHE had a chance to see. * * * WHAT THE place. REALLY LOOKED like. * * * AND SHE took a long look. * * * AND THEN. * * * SHE TURNED to look at me. * * * AND AFTER that— * * * BUT WHAT’S the use. EVERY MARRIED man knows. * * * WHAT HAPPENED next, * * * I THANK you. anything by doing so, and then we wuld be up-building the whole county. Will continue this article later R. L. FLOWERS. PERSONNEL SIVIITHFIELD LAYMEN’S FEDERATION These men are working individual ly and collectively for the salvation of souls and the promotion of God’s Kingdom: OFFICERS: I. W. Medlin, presi dent; P. H- Kasey, vice-president; F. H. Brooks, secretary. GROUP CAPTAINS: No. 1, W. H Austin; No. 2. R. E. WThitehurst; No. 3, N. L. Perkins; No. 4, Lawrence Brown; No. 5, M. B- Strickland. MEMBERS J- S. Arnold, W. H. Austin, W7. J. Alford; F. H. Brooks, B- M. Brannan, 0. V. Booker, J. D. Barbour, Lawrence Brown, C. H- Brown, S- D. Broad well, W. R. Bizzell, F .K. Broadhurst, W. C. Coats, Durwood Creech, C A. Creech, H- A. Crumpler, J. E. Coats, J. D. Dickens; W. L. Ellis, Paul H. Eason, H. D. Ellington; F C. Fitzgerald, Rev. H. R Fair cloth. W. L. Fuller, N. T flowers, R. S. Fleming; Dr. W-. H. Goodwin, W. M. Gaskin, Roy Gordon; N. T. Holland, C- E. Higgins, T. R. Hood; H. P- Johnson. B. G- Jones, Thom as Jordon, D. H. Jones, C- V. John son; J. A. Keen, P. H. Kasey; WT. H. Lyon, J. E. Lassiter, G. R Langston, Thomas Lassiter, William Lassiter, W. H. Lassiter, C. W. Lindsay; Dr. G. A. McLemore, Layton Mc Gugan, I. W. Medlin, V. A- Merritt; A- M. Noble; G. D Phillips, Percy Pittman, Ju nius Peterson; L. T. Royall, J- L. Rackley, T. J. Rand, W. S. Ragsdale. T. G. Strickland, W. H- Stevens, J. D. Spiers, A. G- Snipes, J W Set zer, M. L. Stancil, Britton Smith, M. B- Strickland, D. Carlton Stephenson, Don’t Starve, Eat What You Need Tak * PEPSALDINE TABLETS if your stomach needs help to digest your food. It is an actual fact that thousands of people are really starving; not for any lack of food, but because the «t(*nach and other digestive organs fail to absorb and take into the system the nourishment required for the rebuilding of the tissues When the food you eat is not properly digested, the entire sys tem is deprived of substance, and the food remaining in the stomach sours; therefore chemical and physical changes take place, very often producing very dangerous poisons, which being absorbed into the circulation produce results of the gravest char acter. Most of the ills with which mankind is affected might be avoided if the stomach were always kept in its original condition of perfect health. Many ills are caused directly from indigestion or constipation or both, in one of their various forms, and many • others are made possible only by the weakened and delapidated condition, resulting from stomach troubles and the consequent starring of the body. Many persons attempt to relieve their stomach troubles by fasting, forgetting that they are further im poverishing an already run down system. We do not believe that starvation ever cures stomach trouble, and it was for the purpose of aiding digestion that PEPSALDINE TABLETS were created. PEPSALDINE TABLETS contain the elements needed to aid the stomach in performing its important functions, allowing nat ure to restore to health, thereby giving it the needed rest. Eating improper foods will always produce dyspepsia or indigestion. Guaranteed to relieve if not money refunded. Thes« tablets may be obtained at the ®SUNDRY SHOPPE . . Opposite Court House Smithfield, N. C. Lee E. Sanders, Chester L. Stephen son, Robt. F. Smith, C. Q Stephen son, L. A. Smith; R. R. Talton, C. B. Thomas, G. E. Thornton, R. E Thomas; Clarence Utley, V J. Underwood, E. L. Woodall, H. C- Woodall, J. H. Woodall, R. E Whitehurst; T C. Young. These members, outside of Smith field, joinfcd Sunday July 5th: J. H. Branch, Smithfield, Route 1; C- L. Batten, Selma, Route 2; D. H Betts, Selma; E. L. Breedlove, Smith field, Route 1; Frank Batten, Micro; R. E. Daughtry, Smithfield, Route 1; J. M. Ferrell, Selma;; W. M. Holt, Princeton; J. T. Holt, Wilson’s Mills; E. G. Holland, Kenly, Route 2; Q. B. Hocutt, R.F D-, Clayton; J. W. Hamilton, Smithfield, Route 2; John L Jones, Wilson; Duke Marshall, Selma; Jasper Starling, Selma, Route 1; Ira Whitley, Smithfield, Route 1. Mr. Allen Johnson Dead Late Saturday afternoon Mr. Allen Putnam Johnson, one of Meadow’s citizens, died at his home- The burial took place Sunday afternoon in the family burial ground near his home, the funeral services being conducted by Elder J. B. Lee of Wilson. Mr. Johnson was about seventy five years old and was survived by a wife and three children. He was a member of the New Hickory Grove Primitive Baptist church for about thirty-five years and was a leader in that church; T Reduce Your Farm Lighting Cost NATIONAL CARBIDE - —in the Red drum | NATIONAL CARBIDE SALES CORP., 342 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. j For Sale by JORDAN-EDMUNDSON HARDWARE CO. Sm>thfield, N. C. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRICE AND A VALUE— A price is what you pay—a value is what you receive. A price includes a store’s profit and a value includes yours—otherwise it isn’t a value. Did you ever see a store without prices? No, but you have known stores without values. When you look at a Grantham price tick et, whether it reads 25c or $75.00, you know before any money changes hands, tnat you couldn’t receive better value or treatment from any other hands in Smith field. Cool Schloss Bros, suits $15.00 to $35.00 The right collar attached shirt $1 to $3.5Q N. B. Grantham Head-to-Foot Outfitters for MEN AND BOYS Smithfield, North Carolina }
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