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Join the pou-parrish post of the American legion, February 20-25 Slogan For 1928 Raise your food and feed stuff and “Live at Home” CONSIDER THIS! The Herald has the largest circu lation of any newspaper publish ed in Johnston County. That’s something to consider, Mr. Ad vertiser ! VOLUME 46—NO. 18 * % SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1928 $2.00 PER YEAR By Arthur Brisbane SOMETHING NEW IN TAXES— j MARRIAGE A SCHOOL SAVE A LITTLE— PROTECT RESOURCE— A learned legislator says mar ried women ought not to work, and if their husbands earn as much as $2,000 a year, the woman’s earn ings should be taxed 20 per cent. Under old laws a husband could take what his wife earned; even . now in England he controls the | thildren that she produces. For the State to rebuke her industry by taxing her earnings 20 per cent would be something new. Bolshevism deckles that little girls must not play with dolls, be cause that encourages the bourge ois or capitalist idea of family life, developing a taste for motherhood afcd household duties. Bolshevism interprets the little jl girl wdth a doll correctly, but will f no more overcome the love of the j1 dolls than it could overcome the instinct of self preservation. Ma- ' ternity is planted in the hearts of : little girls by a Power far above J Bolshevism, just as ambition of j another kind *is planted in the hearts of little boys. And that am bition is what makes Communism ! an impossibility. j: I>r. S. M .Taylor wires from Chi- j cago, “Contribute your opinion on : legalizing: companionate marriage.” | That question was settled when j Eve appeared from Adam’s rib. Woman is naturally monogamous, is determined to make man so, will ; do it eventually, and marriage is the school of monogamy. A companionate marriage ex- j pressed doulbt, proves lack of the 5 confidence on which marriage j should ,b© based, and, while it is perfectly legal now, divorce being legal, it is a poor, cold-blooded ■ort of marriage. r Fortunately, the average young couple have no doubts whatever, and only regret the marriage can- . not last a million years, just to I prove it. Sometimes they are disappoint- | ed, nearly always through the hus band’s fault. But meanwhile the children have been bom, blessed with the influence of trust and af fection. j The value of a man depe ids on the respect of his father and his mother for each other. If husband and wife start mar riage in doubt, each leaving the door open for escape, the children’s inferiority will reflect their par ents’ “I may decide to quit” mar riage. The important thing in marriage is the quality of the children, and the next generation. William Fox has bought *>07 more theatres, seating 350,000 for $100,000,000. Twenty-five years ago Fox got * into the theatre business because his employer refused to raise his $17 a week salary. Fox had just married. The employer said1, “Not only I can’t raise your $17 a week, but you are getting $2 too much. I am going to pay what you are worth, $16.” Fox had saved $580 on $17 a week, got control of a tifiy moving picture theatre, that could take in (Turn to page eight, please) Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith field or Johnston county, and if the right one deciphers his name and will present it to the Herald office, we will present him with a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the follow ing issue. Ira Seamans deciphered his name last issue. Today's Tantallier: cloascrennejnoh $25,000,000 Fire Nearly Wipes Out Town Photo shows firemen battling the blaze at Pall River, Mass The hre which caused approximately $25,000,000 damage nearly wiped out the town. Boy Near Kenly Is Hit By Autc ♦ Kenly Minister Was Drivinj Car; Group of Boys Play ing In Road and Little Fel low Stumbled In Gettinj Out of Way Marian Radford, nine-^tar-oli on of Sidney Radford who was hi >y a car Thursday afternoon ii ront of his home near St. Mary’ chool in Wilson county is slowl; mproving, and is expected to re over from his injuries. A crowd o joys were playing in the road witl i sack of rock as Rev. E. W. Maso] >f Kenly was passing. He 'blew hi lorn, and all the boys got out o he way, but Marian stopped t >ick up the bag and stumbled am ell against the passing car. H vas knocked unnconscious. Th •ar was said to be traveling at ilow rate. Mr. Mason took the boy at one o the Memorial Hospital in Wil ion, and was exonerated from al dame. The boy was painfully hurl lis nose having been broken, . jash cut on the back of his heac ind his eye injured. Give Six o’clock Dinner. Misses Nettie and Debbie Baile ,vore hostesses to a few friend it a dinner Wednesday evening February 8, at a six o’clock din ler, honoring the birthdays of Mis Lou Bailey and Miss Mattie Pierce Lovers were laid for six. The d€ icious menu was served in thre ••onrsps. Visits Benson Creamery. The members of the Lion’s elu went to Benson on Friday aftei noon to look over the creamer and the fine dairy farms. The went on an invitation given b Mr. J. B. Slack, manager of "th Benson branch office of the Eas era Carolina Chamber of Con merce. They took as their guesl several farmers in and aroun Kenly. There were twenty who vii ited the creamery. Highway Number 22 Opened. The Wilson county end of higl way number 22 was opened Fr day. This completes the paving c number 22 through Wlson ar Johnston counties, and it is no open to the public. Accepts Cal lto Kenly Church Rev. E. W. Mason has accept* a call to the Missionary Bapti church here. He and Mrs. Mas* arrived Thursday, and are makir their home in the Baptist parso age. We welcome them to our tow MR. BALDY NOW WITH GOLDSBORO BANK We call attention to an adver tisement in this issue which an nounces that Mr. Francis H. Bald | of New York has .become associat ed with The Wayne National Ban! of Goldsboro as trust officer. Mr Baldy was with General Copnsa 'for Bankers Trust Company of Nev |York and is experienced in har.dl ing trust accounts. He received hi college education in North Caro lina. I The Wayne National Bank wa jorganied in 1872 as a state bah and. received a national chrter i 1914. Capital at first was quit small and deposits rather limite but the .bank has grown to be an in |stitutlon with resources of tu rn i 1 li o n dollars, serving a very wid territory. During the past year th 'deposits have increased $953,000.0 and the business of the trust com puny has increased materially. I A kiss is like a rumor becaus It goes from mouth to mouth. 5 Young Man ; Is Fatally ;| Injured !; Dewey Price Suffers Broken Neck and Fractured Ver 11 tebrae When He Falls From j Backhouse ; News reached here Saturday of ijthe death of Dewey Price, which i1 occurred at a Rocky Mount hospital j s early Saturday morning following ! a short illness. Mr. Price, who was > the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. 1 Price who live near town, was ? visiting relatives near Rocky ; jMount, when he fell from a pack i house on which he was working , ^and was fatally injured. He was! * immediately carried to the Rocky - Mount hospital where an X-ray ex- j 1 amination showed that he had suf , fered a broken neck and a dislo-1 i cated and fractured vertebrae. The , accident occurred Thursday but he lingered in a critical condition un til Saturday morning. 7 j The funeral was held Sunday 1 afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at Be , thesda church, conducted by Rev. - H. R. Faircloth assisted by Rev. s A. R. Creech of Nash county. In . terment was made in the cemetery - at the church. 2 j The deceased was twentyi-one 'years of age. He leaves a young wife. 3 | BOTHHI- IJSLiJJ-rKlJtllSrtMi BATTLE ENDS IN TIE PRINCETON, Feb. 10.—The Princeton high met the Smithfield high on a return agreement last Wednesday night on the Smithfield armory court, and the final score was 18 all. In the first minutes of play, Smithfield made a basket from the floor, but Princeton came back with three foul goals and two fields for a seven to four lead at the quarter. In the second quarter, Princeton continued to ring the basket with frequency and at the half time held a 13 to 9 lead. The game was fas tand furious, and the referee was having a hard time keeping up with it. The second half began just as the first half end ed and Princeton ran the score to ; 17-12. Up to this time Princeton had demonstrated much superior floor work anci goal tossing. In the (]ast half Smithfield came back with a noted rally and tied the score at 118 all, just as the bell rang. Gur ley of Princeton was high scorer of the game with eleven points, land his floor work was outstand ing. Uzzle for Smithfield came sec ond with seven points. On the de fense, Hill for Princeton and Rags dale of Smithfield, featured. Smith field haVing a game scheduled.for the next night refused to play off the tie, and thereby forfeited the game to Princeton. The two teams will probably play another game later in the season. This will be announced later. 1 j An optimist is a tourist Whc . Starts out with poor brakes, n< , spare, and a knock in the motor , and who wires 250 miles aheai »'for hotel reservations. 3 • ' ■ . | One should go slow in accusini ■a girl of intentionally applyini rouge t oher cheeks. She may havi s icarelessly rubbed her face agains her knees. Exposition Plans About Complett Sixth Eastern Carolina Ex position Will Be Held Ir Goldsboro April 9-14—In dustrial Pageant First Daj -♦ The program for the sixth an nual Eastern Carolina Expositior and Automobile show, scheduled tc be held in Goldsboro, the week oi April 9, is now about complete with the exception of an annua dinner speaker. The steering com' mittee met at the chamber of com merce rooms in Goldsboro Fridas afternoon and rounded out the few missing links. There is much spec ulation as to who the principa speaker will be this year due tc the fact that it is presidential yeai and everybody is looking for one of the candidates to be on the pro gram. The program as outlined anc approved by the committee, is bj far the best balanced program evei offered to Eastern Carolinians anc it is safe to say it will be highlj appreciated. Opening Monday afternoon, Ap ril 9th with the usual parade, fol lowed by the opening exercises or the inside of the building; the pre sentation of the industrial pageant under the direction of Mrs. Fran cis D. Winston of Windsor. The pageant will run in the afternoon for one and a half hours. The other episodes will be put on after re assembling Monday night. The sen ior queens, from all over Eastern Carolina will be presented and elected Monday afternoon and Monday night, and will also be got ten in the motion picture that will re made during the afternoon and iiight. Monday really bids lair to ue a banner day for the week. Tuesday afternoon the profes sional acts, brought direct from Chicago and NeW York, will make their debut in the form, of Mile, Austine, sensational dancer, recent ly having played with artists and models in this country and in the leading theatres of Paris and Lon don. Assisting her will be Baby Dorothy Johnson, the world mar vel, with the saxaphone. Little Miss Johnson is now appearing in the large theatres in Chicago. For the fun of the three days, Pantzer anc Arden, of London England will be there. This pair comes highly rec ommended. All of these acts in ad dition to the Arabian Serenaders the highest priced orchestra evei had at any of the expositions, wil go on twice daily for Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. Tuesday night will be the annua style show, and Wednesday night the junior queens will hold sway. Thursday will be the annual din ner of the Eastern Carolina Cham ber of Commerce, and the speake: of the noonday hour will also speal in the exposition building later oi in the day. Friday will be schoo day, with a special program fo: the children, featuring little Mis; Roberta Wynne. Friday night, th headliner of the week, will be 01 the program, Miss Mary Lewis o Metropolitan Opera company an. I in addition to this the motion pic ture made on Monday night wil be shown Friday night. The Ara bian Serenaders, elevenpiece or ichestra, will be on the prograr twice daily and will play for th three dances, Monday night, an Thursday and Friday night. Th |Cotton Textile Institute will be pu 'on Thursday morning and Frida morning up town in the MemorU immunity building. Participatin in this will be the Textile Inst tute of New York, The N. C. Mf* Association, the Power companic and the State College Textile D< partment. | “It is going to be our greates exposition,” Secretary Bartle said. More than one thousand wi take part in the pageant alone. . ready speculation is rife as to tl attendance. It looks as if all a tendance records will be broke with good weather, according 1 ;information at headquarters Kinston, of the Eastern Carolir Chamber of Commerce, the parei organization. ( | “What is all that racket ei there in your barn?” asked neighbor. | “Ma'S trying to set a ben,” r ' plied a small boy who was twin, i ing on the gate, “and you kno ; pa is county agent and lie’s tryit jto tell her how.” I New Cream Route Is Put On Benson To Feature Livestock In the East Carolina Expo sition Pageant at Golds j boro; P. T. Association To j Observe Founders Day -♦ j BENSON, Feb. 13.—A new |cream route will be put on Febru jary 14. The route is as follows: j Benson to Peacock’s Cross Roads, .stopping* at J. N. Johnson’s store; ! from there to the Newton Grove ! section; from there to Clinton; from Clinton the truck will follow j route No. 00 back through Dunn to Benson. To Observe Founder’s Day. The Parent-Teacher Association will observe Founder’s Day Febru ary 16 at 3:30 p. m. A pageant j “A New Vision” will be given by j members of the association. The !birthday cake will be donated by ' Mrs. J. H. Rose. The candle light- j ing ceremony will be used while lighting the thirty-one candles on j the birhday cake. Mrs. Parlia Hud-j son will give the history of the | Parent-Teacher congress. Special j (Turn to page eight, please) Items Of News In State And Nation James A. Hartness Is Named As Secretary of State; Hoover Announces Candi dacy; Hickman Declared Sane -■» More than usual interest has been manifested in the successor jof W. N. Everett, secretary of statfe who died last week. Gover- , 'nor McLean has been flooded with endorsements of various persons |for the position, but at 12:10 oclock Monday morning: he announced that James A. Hartness of States ville had been appointed". Chief among: the other aspirants was i Senator Pat H. Williams of Eliz abeth City. At the same time that Mr. Everette’s successor was an nounced, it was also made known that Senator Williams had receiv ed the appointment as Assistant (Director of the Budget, and had ac cepted. Mrs. T. W. Bickett, wife of former Governor Bickett, was also prominently mentioned for secretary of state. The sentence of Thomas E. Cooper, sent to the public roads of . New Hanover county for four con secutive terms of two years each, for violation of the state banking ^ laws, has been commuted to a term , of fourteen months, and Cooper , will be released from prison <^n , February 20. The commutation was { recommended by Judge Henry A. • Grady, the solicitor and ten of the I twelve jurors. * L Herbert Hoover has formally en tered the presidential race. He states that he will refrain from l personal campaigning in the pre 4 convention primaries and will re j tain his official post as head of , the Commerce Department. Hoover pledges himself to continue the pol j idea of President Coolidge. , | Hickman got off the front page * of the newspapers when on last ; (Thursday he was declared sane by s a jury of eight men and four wo men. Two verdicts were rendered :in 45 minutes in the sanity trial ^ held in Los Angeles, one that Hick t man was sane on the charge of j murdering Marian Parker, and the ^ other that he was sane on the e charge of kidnapping the girl. Sen tence has not yet been passed1. Ar n (effort will be made for a new FIREMEN CALLED TO * EXTINGUISH FIRE ON CAIi it Friday night the fire alarn sounded in the dead hours of thi it night and the fire company wai a called to the New Smithfield To bacco warehouse where it wai i- found that a Ford roadster belong ;■ ing to Bernice Dublin, a colors »■ man, was on Are. The fire was pu g. out and the damage is estimated t jbe only $25 or $30. Love Leaps All Barriers .. %. Pretty Miss Beatrice Fuller, 1M, of Boston, Mass., a descendant of the.Pilgrims, is to wed Clarence Kclrien, colored World War Veteran. The young couple arc to be married by the Rev. George S. Brooks of Rockville, Conn. Merman Bummer wotting lo Have ' Bentonville Battlefield Made National Park B. F. Isenberg, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, “one of Sherman’s bummers,” as he remarks he is de scribed by a Southern woman, is very much interested in the pro posal to make a National Military Park out of the battlefield' at Ben tonville, Johnston county, writing Governor McLean that he will use all the influence he has toward bringing about the passage of the bill now in Congress. Mr. Iseniberg, who was in the battle at Benton ville, recently visited Mrs. J. H. Anderson at Fayetteville. “I was one of Sherman’s bum mers, (as Mrs. Anderson calls us) and was at Fayetteville, as well as all other places in North and (Turn to page eight, please) National Guards To Meet Raleigh Cagers The local National Guards bas ketball team will meet the strong Y. M. C. A. team from Raleigh here at the armory tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 8 o’clock. Both teams are in the pink of con dition and a snappy game is to be expected. Smithfield Boy Scouts Ride Wheels 48 Miles — ♦ Pedalling a bicycle forty-eight miles uphill and downhill with the determination of carrying back sixty points each to their respec tive patrols, Richard Noble and Ed win Broadhurst, two Smithfield lads, members of the Boy Scouts of that city, puffed into Goldsboro Saturday morning about eleven fifteen with the race half finished. They had “pedalled off” at eight fifteen that morning but one of the cycles encountered tirq trouble, causing them to double back to Selma. They lost forty-five min utes while the machine underwent repairs. They were satisfied with the progress they had made. Upon reaching Goldsboro the two young chaps called upon relatives; ate a hearty lunch, rode over the city, took in a picture show and hopped off again for home. While here they called in to see Scout master Rivers to make a detailed report to that executive but were unable to locate him. They made the return trip in one hour and fifty minutes. When interviewed these Scouts stated that they would receive sixty points for their patrols am a Merit Badge if they completec the trip back. Young Broadhurs undertook the trip on the pieced ing Saturday and arrived in the city in one hour and forty min lutes. He stated that there was : high wind blowing on that day am ’that it was to his back. He glide* ino the city with much ease. H> gave a shy grin and said ho caugh a ride back. The wind was agams him on the return trip and it wfa impossible for him to pedal in. H laughed and said, “Papa passed m on the road in his car looking fo me.” But the chap would not b 'outdone. He wras up bright an early this time with his wheel i fine working order. He made th trip with much ease. I It seems that there is a contes on in Smithfield between the diJ ferent Scout patrols. The losin parol must give the winners a fr* dinner. These two boys were oi for winning points. Young Nob .stated that he was going to gi\ this patrol sixty points when 1 | reached home. Young Broadhuri squared his shoulders and stat« .that Old Buffalo is going to w: -that dinner. ■ I Richard Noble is the son of M L and Mrs. A. M. Noble and is ; nephew of Mrs. John R. Morri .{while Edwin Broadhurst is the sc d Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Broadbur >iw r Jubilee Program Features Service -». Members Woman’s Mission ary Society Recount 5( Years of Growth at M. E Church Sunday Morning • -•- . | The preaching- service at the I Methodist church Sunday morning i was featured by a program put or iby members of the Woman's Mis sionary Society in the interest oi the Jubilee celebration being ob •served throughout Methodism dur ing 1928 in commemoration of the ! beginning of woman’s work fiftj I years ago. | Rev. D. H .Tuttle read as the | scripture lesson passages referring to the old Jewislh jubilee and pas ] sages giving the significance oi ithe seven Sabbatic years. Mrs. L ;T. Royall told why the Jubilee if •being celebrated and made an ap peal for all of the women of th( church to join the ten per cent whe are. carrying on the Woman’s mis sionary program. Mrs. T. J. Lassiter read an ac count of the organization of th( I women in 1878, the first work be iing in the interest of foreign mis sions. The foreign mission prograrr prospered through sacrifice anc | prayer, and during the period frorr 1885 to 1892 a home mission pro ■gram was started, numerous par Isonages being financed as well a; other home work. The children’! work was also begun during thi: period, and mite boxes were use< for the first time. Mrs. W. Ryal Woodall told hov the wmen began to give syste matically, and stresse dthe givinj of a tenth of theif income. J preachers’ wives loan fund was in augurated. Honorary life member ships were institued, and the Bab; ' roll begun, during the years fror | 1892 to 1906. The spirit of givinj was quickened through the 20t ' Century fund which was undertak ' en during the latter part of thes I Mrs. J. J. Broadhurst recounted ' the work of the years from 1906 to 1920, this being: a period of large individual gifts. It was dur j ing these years that the Home 1 work and Foreign work were unit 1 ed, since which time one board ha? B directed all of the activities of the Woman’s Missionary work. The past seven years have seen " the training of workers stressed * and Mrs. Thel Hooks told of the establishment of Scarritt Training School located at Nashville, Ten nessee, for the training of mis sionaries and Christian workers She called attention to the faei ^ that Smithfield has a represents i (Turn to page eight, please) B. Borden. They are both fine r. and is the grandson of Mrs. Elk a handsome chaps and won naan.' s, friends while in the city making n preparations for the start had it home.—Goldsboro News. Outlook For Cotton Better Than 1S27 Dr. (i. W. Forster Believes Prices Will Be Higher This Year If Acreage Is Not In creased -♦ RALEIGH, Feb. 13.—If the acreage planted to cotton in the United States is not increased over ten per cent this season, the price outlook is favorable. This is the opinion of Dr. G. W. Forster, head of the department of agricultural economics at State College, who has made a study of the situation with governnment al authoriteis at Washington in ‘ planning the farm outlook for 1928 in late January. He states that the production of 12,789,000 bales last season was a relatively small crop and while the carry over of 7,500,000 bales is rather large, it is not excessive in view of the small crop. Consumption this year will be in excess of 15,000,000 bales according to pres ent indications. This will make the carry-over on July 31, 1923 amount to about five million bales only. Dr. Forster states that an in crease in acreage of ten per cent this season with the normal yield of the past five years, will give the south a crop of about 14,000,000 bales. The foreign and domestic demand will not be materially dif ferent from last season though better conditions are anticipated in France and Italy. He finds that through the- period from 1920 to 192(5, there has been an increased an increased price of about one demand for cotton so as to cause cent a pound each year over the previous season. Farmers should keep in mind, however, that there*, ,-afce sproe areas where growers will find's hard to get a substitute crop for cotton and this may lead to great er increases in acreage; in West Texas and Oklahoma there are still millions of acres of potential cotton land; credit is easy in most of the cotton states and the agi tation for farm relief has led to the belief that Congress may en- ■ act legislation to stabilize prices at a higher level than that which would be caused by a free play of supply and demand. This may en courage heavier plantings in some sections. In North Carolina, the high prices for peanuts and tobacco may check any tendency to increase the acreage in those counties where these two crops are grown. i MINSTREL lO litj GIVEN AT WILSON'S WILLS i The Oakland Christian Endeavor | Society will present their black jface comedians and singers to an audience in Wilson’s Milsl school Friday night at 8 o’clock. More than twenty characters will take part in the show, which was written by Rev. Chester Alexan der, chairman of the Christian En deavor social committee. Among the soloists who will be heard are Messrs. Paul Eason, Dwight John son, Marvin Woodall and John Hines. Mr. Vilos Johnson, veteran black face comedian, will appear as “Black” Smith, and Mr. W. Whit ley as “Boll Weevil” Willie should draw much laughter. A Harmony Quartet and a mus ical wod-saw will be features of the after-piece. An admission of fifteen cents for all school children and twenty-five cents for adults will be charged. Aunt Roxie Opines By Me— Ah don’t wish to make sweep- * ng statements, but Smithfielii weds a broom factury.