--V BMITHFIELD NEEDS: —Bigger Pay Roll. —A Modern Hotel —Renovation of Opera House. —More Paved Streets. —Chamber of Commerce. S-—-r Johnston County’s Oldest- and Best Newspaper-Established 1882 s JOHNSTON COUNTY NEEDS: County Farm Agent Better Roada Feeding Highways Equal Opportunity for Every School Child Better Marketing System More Food and Feed Crops * /* SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1926 $2.00 PER YEAR VOLUME 44—NO. 24 * * * * R.C. Gillette Head CountyCommittee Princeton First in Signing Up Group Leaders For Cotton Association; Mr. Mack Makes Statement *Thc county re-sign up commit tee of the cotton association met on Tuesday, March 16 at the court house at which meeting Mr. H. H. B. Mask, field director of the as sociation. gave a very helpful and instructive talk on the past prog? ress of the association and told of the plans for the new signup on the next contract. A number of the farmers pres ent gave short talks and pledged their support towards building a bigger and greater association in North Carolina. A plan was adopt ed to reach all loyal members as soon as possible and the county committee headed by Mr. R. C. Gillett as chairman is putting its shoulder to the wheel and going to work to the limit to see that John ston county is the first county in the state to sign up twenty-five per cent of the crop produced. Princeton is the first community in the county in which all the group leaders have signed the new contract. They are 100 per cent strong for the cotton association and other communities are said to be coming close behind them. Mr. Paul W. Mack, in comment ing on the work of the cotton as sociation said: “We meet some times with all sorts of reasons for not being a member of the cotton association and sometimes our members give a very poor ex cuse for not wishing to continue as members. In making a few calls this past week I had the pleasure of calling on one member that ad vanced the idea that he had lost money by being a member of the association, for he claimed he would have sold his cotton at 24 cents and did not believe the as sociation was going to realize that much. In our conversation I found that he had bought several bales of cotton last fall at 24^ cents and he still has that cotton on hand. I asked him why if he was such a good salesman that he had not sold that as he claimed he could have done with what he had delivered to the association. That kind of got him up a tree and he confessed that he was a farmer and not a salesman and believed he would help carry on the work of the association in the future.” BEN FRANKLIN’ ORIGINAL EPITAPH MADE PUBLIC New York, Benjamin Franklin’s original epitaph, which had been kept hidden in the collection of a Chicago business man since its dis covery 20 years ago, has been made public. The inscription differs in only a few words and punctuation marks from the widely known epitaph of “Poor Richard.” It follows: The body of B. Franklin Printer Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out And stript of its lettering and gilding. Lies here food for worms. But the work shall not be wholly lost For it will, as he believed, ap pear once more In a new and more perfect edi tion Corrected and amended By the author. AUNT ROXIE SAYS— By Me ue doctors ort to Know dat de reason so meny hard blood ves sels dese days is because dey is jinwl to so many hard harts. Father ■ and Son President Calvin Coolidge and his father Col. John Coolidge. SELMA GIRL THROWN FROM CAR IS STILL UNCONSCIOUS ~ — -* Snow Hill Wins In Scout Rally Awarded Loving Cup and Decorated With Badge; Kenly Wins Third Place Goldsboro, March 20.—Boy Scout rroop No. 1, of Snow Hill, won ruscarora Council’s Scout cham pionship as a result of the Scout rally which was held at the Com munity building in this city last evening and which was attended by more than two hundred people, the majority of whom were visi tors from Mount Olive, Kenly and Snow Hill. Troops Nos. 1 from Snow Hill, Kenly and Mount Olive participat ed in the contest, and the event was iiiterestnig and instructive from start to finish. The feature of the entire contest was the establish ment of a knot-tying record by Troop No. 1, of Mount Olive, twelve knots being tied in the short space of 51 seconds. The honors in sending a mes sage by the use of the semaphore system went to Snow Hill. Kenly won the first aid prize and Kenly also took the fire by friction hon ors, the time being 22 seconds. The re.cue race, in which five boys were carried for fifteen yards, was won by Snow Hill, while Mount Olive took the song contest in a walk. The Snow Hill delegation, however, came back strong, and walked away with the yell prize. Dr. W. H. Smith, Dr. W. J. Crawford and Leslie Weil, of Goldsboro, and F. W. Dixon, of Snow Hill, acted in the capacity of judges. The Snow Hill troop was award ed the Council’s loving cup and each scout was decorated with a badge reading: “Member of cham pionship Troop, Tuscarora Coun cil. Mr. Leslie Weil, national coun cil representative, decorated each of the fortunate scouts. GET-TOGETHER MEETING OF TOWNSHIP FARMERS Every progressive farmer in Cleveland township is requested to meet at Shiloh school house at 7:30 p. m. on Thursday, March 25, for the purpose of organizing a local Farm Bureau through which to promote harmony and prosper ity. A. M. JOHNSON, Farmers of Granville county bought 432 pecan trees during the week of March 8. Miss Leone Blackman Re ceived Fractured Skull Sunday When Negro Ran Into Car in Which She Was Riding NEGRO IS IN JAIL Selma, March 22.—Sunday eve ning about 7 o’clock as Mr. W. R. Smith and family accompanied by Miss Leone Blackman, were re turning from a drive on highway 22 their car was struck by one driven by Romie Hastings, colored, at the intersection of Raeford and Wat son Streets. The impact was so great that Miss Blackman and Master Harold Smith were thrown from the car. Miss Blackman was picked up in an unconscious con dition and with a fractured skull. The little boy had only a few cuts and bruises about the face. Miss Blackman was rushed to her home with Drs. Vick and Per son in attendance. A local- .nurse was called in until Miss Zelda Smith of Raleigh, could be sum moned. The patient has never re gained consciousness and her phy [sicians hold out little hope for her recovery* though a surgeon has been called in consultation from Raleigh. Miss Blackman is one of Selma’s most popular young woman and the accident has caused a gloom to settle over the entire town. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are prostrated with grief, while no blame what ever, is attached to them. The negro’s car was turned over pnnd completely demolished though he escaped almost unhurt. He is in jail awaiting a hearing. MICRO HIGH SCHOOL WINS COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP Micro, March 19.—The Micro Five defeated Princeton in a very fast game recently to the tune of 119 to 15. The Princeton team was outclased by the Micro five. Mi cro was too fast for the Princeton bunch. Micro got a lead in the first few minutes of the game and Princeton was unable to overcome it. Micro high school boys have been very successful in basketball this season. They have not lost a game this season. Micro has won nine championship games out of nine. The boys of Micro high school who have been so successful in playing this season are: Carl Hatcher, Gold Barden, Oscar Brown, Ches ter Peele Fletcher Vann, and Bill Mozingo. Watch the date on your label and renew. Funeral Service For Cal Coolidge Simple and Brief With No Eulogy; Buried in Snow Covered Hills Plymouth, Vt., March 20.—Col. John C. Coolidge, father of the President, was laid at rest today. In the little community cemetery here, on a bleak hillside deep in snow, they buried him among those of his kin who had passed before him. The President and Mrs. Cool idge, their son John, representa tives of nation and state and a few relatives and lifelong friends stood in the snow at the graveside. At the white farmhouse where Colonel Coolidge lived for many years and where Calvin Coolidge passed his boyhood, the brief burj ial service of the Episcopal church was read by Rev. John White, oi Sherburne, pastor of the union meeting house in Plymouth, where the colonel worshipped. Six nation al guardsmen acted as body bear ers at the house and cemetery. There was no eulogy and no music. The expressed desire of the first citizen of Plymouth that his funer al should be without ostentation was respected. The service was held in the tiny parlor of the farm house, with folding doors opening to a sitting room as tiny. The dark grey casket, banked with flowers, stood but a few feet from the spot where Cloonel Coolidge stood one early morning to administer to his son the oath of office as Presi dent. A bank of lilies from the Pres ident lay on the casket, and beside was a spray of pink roses from Mrs. Coolidge. Other pieces, trib utes from government officials and friends in Washington, from the crew of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, from Vermont friends and organizations in which the col onel was active, banked one side of the room. A spray of calla lilies the gift of Plymouth neighbors, and the community custom decreed that all of them should be repre sented in the tribute. The short service ended, the min ister knelt for a moment by the side of the casket and then the Presidential group passed to an other room while six guardsmen carried the casket to the waiting hearse and the procession started to the cemetery. Rev. Mr. White, with fur coat thrown over his vestments, rode first in a snowmobile. Then came the hearse, mounted on runners and drawn by two black horses. The six body bearers followed on foot, and the Presidential party was next in a three-seated sleigh. The President wore a high silk hat. Attorney General Sargent accom panied the family. The procession passed down a roadway shovelled out of deep snow. Scores followed on foot to the little cemetery, about a quarter of a mile from the farm house, where the Coolidge plot had been shovelled clear of snow. As the clergyman uttered the brief committal service at the cem etery while the President stood with bared head, another scene of sorrow less than !»wo years ago was recalled. In June of 1924 the President and Mrs. Cooldge came to the ancestral home in order that their son Calvin might be buried here.—Associated Press. FUND IS STARTED FOR , ; J. H, WYATT’S FAMILY Raleigh, March 18.—Policemen, brother officers who served with him on the local force, and other friends, have started a fund to provide for the family of Jesse H. Wyatt while he is serving his sen tence in the state prison for the killing of Stephen Holt. The former detective exhausted all his funds in taking care of the medical and hospital bills on ac count of Mrs. Wyatt’s illness and the family was left without ade quate funds for support. All living expenses and other necessary things will be met by checks from the fund started by the policemen. Different depart ments of the city government will share in the fund. This is one year when it will be wi6e to diversify crops in this state, say agricultural workers at State College. Atlantic’s Waves Work Havoc in New Hampshire Townj 'rhe freat ftormt? on the north Atlantic wrought havoc In some of the New England coast towns.' This p.cture shows how houses In Hampton Beach, N. H., were wrecked when the heavy seas broke down the breakwater. Dr. E. D. Soper Fills M. E. Pulpit Dean of Religious School at Duke University Makes Splendid Im pression on Hearers “Hidden forces are the forces :hat move the world,” said Dr. E. D. Soper, dean of the School of Religion at Duke University, who preached to a larged congregation n the Methodist church here Sun lay morning. “Water is a powerful :orce"but very modest; it seeks its evel. The silent sunlight makes ill nature rejoice. And so it is vith the Christian erligion. It is i hidden force that has a power :ul influence. Evil has to live on lotoriety, but goodness is just the jpposite. In developing this ;hought Dr. Soper paid his re spects to “eccesiastical muck-rak ng,” or in other words, gossip. Some folks, he said, think because jvil reports are true this is license .0 keep repeating them. But the >etter way is to forget them and nstead of looking for the “muck” n our acquaintances, make an ef fort to seek out the good. We vould be surprised, said Dr. So )er, to find several saints our our lommunities that we did not know >f. Dr. Soper used as a basis for iis sermon one of the seven par ties in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew about the leaven being hid n the thr£e measures of meal un il the whole was leavened. He in erpreted the parable with refer mce to the leavening influence of hp Christian relgiion in individ lals, human society and interna ional relationship?. The greatest hing Christianity has done in hu nan society is the establishment if the Christian family, and the learest approach to it was the Jew sh family where purity of life and lie teachings of the prophets were aught. As to our international re asons, one has only to read the lewspapers to see conditions in Europe. The relation of the Unit 'd States with China and Japan and vlexico are not what Christians vould have them. The relation of abor and capital is not always in tccordance with the golden rule. ‘If these things are not filled with Christ can we rest in peace?” ask id Dr. Soper. “Is it possible for hem to be permeated with the ipirit of Christ?” Dr. Soper is an >ptimist and thinks it is possible, rhe Christian relation is a hidden ;orce, but a force that will ulti mately triumph. Characteristic of his force is the fact that it does not seek notoriety. Christians nust and are willing to*be hid in Christ. That is the explanation Dr. Soper gives for young people long ng to go to the foreign field, as some look on it, to bury them selves. Churches must be willing :o be tiidden. Denominationalism nust be submerged by the kingdom >f God, and the coming of the tingdom is being brought to pass jy unobstructive personal contacts. \ Christian comes in contact with some one who is not a Christian ind is won into the kingdom. The service was one to be Te Two Captured By ! Federal Officers Men Supposed To Be Rum Runners Arrested jWith Whiskey In Car A rum running automobile and two men were captured at Harri son’s Lake between here and Princeton Friday night by Federal i officers. The car was a Buick and it was equipped with a smoke screen. When the car reached Har rison’s Lake the smoke gave out and as it slowed down to round the ; curve, according to reports, the officers dashed up and arrested the men. A Federal officer from I Charlotte and another from Fay ! etteville had been chasing the car j since it left Kinston but on ac | count of the smoke screen had not ‘succeeded in capturing it. Between seventy-five and one hundred gal lons of whiskey were found in the car. The men, Robert Seapark, and L‘. | M. Hamilton, were brought here I and placed in jail. Yesterday they | : were carried to Fayehteville to I await trial there in Federal court; this week. They are thought to be! regular rum runners. More Than Seven Miles Up Lieut. John A. Macready reach ed a height of 38,704 feet in his attempt, on Jan. 29, to set a world’s altitude record. (C. E., page 77,) When he landed at McCook Field, near Dayton, Ohia, the instruments were sent to Washington, where they were examined and checked by the Bureau of Standards. It! was found that Lieutenant Mac- j ready had flown to a height of! 38,704 feet. That stands as an of- j ficial record but it is not a world’s record. That is 39,587 feet, held by! j Callizo, of France. Lieutenant Mac-1 ready plans to make another at tempt soon to set a new world’s altitude record. i INDOOR CIRCUS AT OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT The Great Dalbeanie Indoor Cir jcus will be put on at the opera house here tonight. This circus is coming under the auspices of the Pou-Parrish post of the American Legion. Hobo Jim. said to be the : most comical man in the world, Grady, the wonder man, and Skyes, the wire-w’alker and trapeze won-1 der, promise plenty of fun for j those who attend. A street parade i will be given before the show opens. A CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank each and every one for the kindness shown toward us during the serious ill ness of our little son, D. A. Jr. May the good Lord bless you all. MR. AND MRS. D. A. PRICE membered by those who attended it. Dr. Soper’s sermon has been a subject of considerable favorable comment, though good music also characterized the hour of worship. A quartet, Messrs. Paul Eason, I. W. Medlin, Marvin Woodall and W. C. Coates, rendered a beautiful offertory. Merchants Hold Institute Here Frank Stockdale Talks on “Snappy Customers and Snippy Clerks” First Evening Mr. Frank Stockdale, conduct ed the initial session of the Bus iness Institute here yesterday aft ernoon, though the number of bus iness men present was small. The institute will continue today and tomorrow with sessions each -aft-, ernoon and evening. The afternoon meetings which are held at two o’clock, are primarialy for proprie tors, managers of businesses and heads of departments. The evening sessions are arranged for both em ployers and employes. The programs, are planned, not for entertainment, says Mr. Stock dale, but for the improvement of business conditions in Smithfield. He is here to serve this city this week, and expects to put forth his best energies in making the in stitute a success. Last night he spoke on “Snappy Customers and Snippy Clerks.’’ The institute is sponsored by sixteen business firms of this city, but every business woman in the city is urged to attend. The mer chants who signed up for the in stitute are as follows: John A. Narron, N. B. Gran tham, Jordan-Edmundson Hard ware Company, W. D. Hood, R. P. Holding, Sundry Shoppe, Coats Hardware Company, Turnage and Talton, Holt Oil Company,’W. L. Fuller, W. J. Huntley, J. W. Moore, W. H. Austin, A. G. Rabil, L. D. Debj|am, The Smithfield Herald. HAM MEETING NOW IN THE HARVEST PROGRAM Danville, Va., March 19-—The Ham-Ramsey party, headed by Evangelist Mordecai Fowler Ham of Anchorage, Kentucky, is now in the closing day of a great city wide campaign in Danville, Vir ginia. Twentysix churches are par ticipating in the campaign, which is being held in a mammoth taber nacle in the heart of the city, and the immense building has been too small to accommodate the crowds from the very beginning. The Evangelist has been dividing the crowds—delivering the same ser mon to women only and then to men only, in order to give all an opportunity to hear. Mr- Ham preached practically five weeks before he gave an invi tation and the harvest period is just beginning. Local religious leaders are confidently expecting the greatest harvest of souls and the most widespread spiritual awakening that has ever been ex perienced in this section. The music for the campaign is under the direction of William J. Ramsay, chorister, assisted by Earl S. Rodgers, pianist. The meeting is * scheduled to close on March 28th, after which the party goes to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where they will open a tabernacle campaign on April 11th. Watch the date on your label. State Teachers Assembly Closes Eight Months School Is the One Task. Teachers Undertake , Raleigh, March 21.—“This one* thing we do,” became the solgan of the North Carolina Education sociation yesterday. The one thing is an eight months’ school term for every North Car olina school child, and to that task the representatives of the teaeh-, ers of a thousand communities ded - icated their lives, their highest re solves and their noblest impulses at the concluding session of the 42nd annual convention yesterday. Dr. Edgar Knight, professor of education at the university of North Carolina, was elected pres ident, and T. Wingate Andrews, of High Point, was elected vice president, but their election was but a formality. They have served their apprenticeship and know the ropes of the educational ladd»v that leads to leadership. "We want the issue stated plain ly and without equivocation,” said Roland H. Latham, who conies from the Jggest city in North Carolina none other than Winston Salem. “Let there be no doubt about what we stand for, and that in an eight months’ school term for every child. We can take care of the details after we get to the goal.” It was close to noon when the association adjourned after one of the most eventful sessions of its history. Its single resolution upj» crty due to the uneven distribution of wealth in North Carolina; and since it is necessary to provide ed ucational facilities and at the sa me time safeguard the tax rate, we believe that this inequality should be eliminated through amendment of the organic law of the State. “Therefore, be it resolved: “1. That the 1926 session of the North Carolina Education Associa tion endorses the program of the Legislative Committee in which is recommended that the. 1927 ses sion of the Legislature submi; a constitutional amendmtent to in crease the minimum school term Turn to page three, please The Mirror IS THIS tout. If the person who answers this description will call at Th» Herald office they will receire a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. | You were seen last Tuesd .y in front of tho Capital cafe. You woro black slippers, reJ i coat, light hose and your hair was bobbed. You looked as if you might be enjoying lifo to the fullest. Mr. The! Hooks reeogniz >1 himself in Friday’s Mirror.