If You Want Results The difference between the Or dinary and the Extraordinary is only a few cents. Your Ad’vcr tisinjr deserves to bring Ue.nbis. Tit the Herald columns. Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper-Established 18 8 2 For Smithfield “One thinp at a time and that done well Is a very pood rule as man can tell.” In '21> let’s concentrate On a hotel, new and up-to-date. 47TH YEAR EIGHT PAGES TODAY SMITHFIELD, ('., TUESDAY MORNING, JANU ARY 29 1929 EIGHT PAGES TODAY NUMBER 9 By Arthur Brisbane /•EXTRA CONGRESS. EXTRA •TROUBLE— PROSPERITY'S RACK LOG — MR. I.l'CEV HALF RIGHT— WISE KING AM A M I.I,All— There is to be an extra session of Congress, so well informed .Washington reports, and the far mer will wait for “relief” until the nwt- Congress gathers. Mr. Hoover probably wishes that milestone were passed. The farm question is this: How can you make those en gaged in a thoroughly disorganiz ed haphazard industry as pros perous as those in industries thor oughly organized on a scientific production and selling basis? Changes in the tariff are pro-, dieted. “Big financial and iwhis- [ ,trial interests feel that tariff, changes are needed." If they feel tliar way. the j changes will be made, and prob- \ ably should be made. Big buss- , ness has. its faults, but it knows! what the country needs, realising that the big man can get onh i his part of what the little man can earn. All our prosperi*^ comes down to the fact that people EARN INC. i more can SPEND more. Mr. Ecker of the Metropolitan ; Life Company, puts it in words: 1 “The people earn tit teen to twen ty billions more than it costs them t° IN’e. Those extra 'billion^ | are prosperity’s back log." Mr. Luccy. the obi Northnmp-j ton cofcl.lt1!' win. knew President | /'oolidcf when :l boy. is suppnsi d | to have given little Calvin tiii1 ad vice, " Keep ymir -ia- bi.-ci tight, and ho 11 , it v.'iit tulip in wag." President <'',olidgv took that good advice about On t mu’-i There is no information as in the advice concerning shoes. It if harmful (■. luce children's shoes too tight. laming tightly around tin- anklr-, pressing the VffM'l.o impeding tIlf flow of I,loot], gives t ho lo-urt move work to do. t'obMur laiccy war only kali 1 a n.. King Amanullali ol Aiglmnis tau 111 rt'"t ered - iddonly a: d vio lently what American luado. u'oo: tort ini da. t - a tv di-c.y.rinK sh.w IV, that it i-a-1 "H-V to change men-.- habit- hy pmdatna.mn o' law. Amanullali tame -hack from hi Vi-iv to r.ngiaml no:,ring Ku ",, pean clothes, his wife lashionaldy dressed, short skirts, - h -tork jngs. nothing to cover up Itci face. Hi* announced that women Afghanistan were also to go with their face uncover..!, no more v elusion.’ . Tribes ro- again 1 .him. arm ed, drove him into fortress. King Amanullali changed hi mind. Afghan gills, s. nl to educe'oil in Hu- model'll «; " Turkey am w cone home, hum mean dress is to be abolished, .ud diers of Afghanistan are to »• allowed to follow and lew down to their religious leaders, the Holy men. or Pirs, ami women will he kept in seclusiun. All t'„... suggested reforms will J,e thrown overboard. Wise Aman nllah, he wanted peace. The Chinese, poor creatures, (butehei ed, tawed, forced into revolutions of whieli they do no. know the meaning, know at leas', one thing, and that is, that it is important to have go-d mad.-. Mr. fl. Waiter deed, ( t the Santa Ke Kuilroad, 'litotes an en gineer just back fmm I hina: "Pood from South China cannot reach those starving in Northern China because of fifteen hundred impassable miles. : I FfCdcf’dc n. Mum ford (left) and Herbert W. Mumtord, two iarn brothers who rose side by side to the head of two great agricultural col icjfCS* or.e ir. Missouri, and the other in Illinois. Rumor Nailed As Entirely False Co-op Meet Here Is Wei! Attended ,M. Mann Discusses Ferti lizers and Group Insurance; Optimistic As To Future ol' Association Ui M1' i hr ntuM luruvl.N ui tended meeting's ‘if the county unit of ihc* North Carolina Colton As r< t.t.ji was hold here Saturday al'ici noon . at *J:HO o‘cluck. M. C. Mann of the Raleigh office talk ed to the members about fertiliz ers. urices and cooperative buy inu'. He also announced that group in.«uranee would he avail liJe t ■ members of the associa tion v.i.hin a few weeks. Mi. Mann stated that all the meetings *»T as> ociation for the paL .everal weeks hail been well attiriel and that members are taking man' idere.-t in the a_tiv- j itit - -if tl’.e association than ever j before, lb also stated that the | as.;i sa’sn i> in the best condi-i lion it has ever been in and that, ibe prospects for its future were; After the meeting quite a large r.'.qvd r gave their order for fer tilize! s and Cokcr'< Pedigreed cut •'Kl!r ! MIDI'S HASri.AM) TOAD DIMS 01' (01.1) FASTI.AND, Texas. Jan. 12S. Rip is dead. The world famed honied frog, taken from the Kad land county courthouse corner stone months ago amid allegations that he had lived therein for .'11 years without food, water or air, left tin* world gracefully. Mis body was found recently. Rip’s head protruding above the leaves and sand in which lu* had been hihernatyig since his assert ed emergence from the stone, wit nessed by pastors and other lead ing c itizens, some of* whom sign ed affidavits to the genuinene-s of the veteran's removal. While there was no inquest, the popular verdict wa< tiiat Rip, lur 'd out by the sunshine, wa- chill Details concerning disposition of •he body had not been announced. Waiting at the Church. “Moso deyi is one prenchah in dis town flat’s powTul angry at me tonight.” *‘How come?” “Ah done hired hi:n to p'fawm de obsequies at mah wedding an’ 1 didn’t show up.”—Life. Many a man’s better half has separated him from his last quav Tantalizcr There are <‘X;tr’!y enough let les’s in the line below to spell h< name of a person in .’smith* held m- Johnston ( -unity, -in.I :.t the one ileeinlv-rii;;: their "iinii1 Lind |>!'e.se;:lin ,- a eopy of 11 Vis paper to the Herald '.Hire, we will present a free lirkel to '.lie Vi* torv Theatre. Tic-k'-ts no t he rolled for before the bill ;v. in»r is.-aw. ('an oil Stephenson deciph ered his name last issue. TODAY’S T A N'T A LiZKK feodyiwlxo Wildest Sort of Stor ies Told Concerning' Death of M i c r o Child; Welfare Offi c e r F’inds Report Without Foundation William Watkins is dead. 1 hero is a vacant desk in the ii - . giade ro< ni of the Micro school. There is an empty chair in the home of Mr. ami Mrs. Bert Watkins, who live near Micro. I'utiufr the six years of his life, little William li\ed in the obscur ity of his immediate noighbor hi od. I>ul in his death which ec cuircd some weeks auto he has at tuned n notoriety born of that elusive thing called gossip that has leached such proportions that the public is entitled to know the H lith concerning; the passing- of the litlh> fellow. l ru- story which has passer from lip to lip not only in the Micro community hut in other stations of the county and in migl Kw'injf counties is to the ef fcc; that this little hoy was bru tally whipped in school Minu ueiks ago and that as a result he d ed in the Johnston County llos r al. Tite fact that his eoflin was i t permitted to he opened during c the fumral has been taken as ev idence that the Micio school folks. It . llitvnant, the physician, and the John? ton County H >s pital have been endeavoring to hide something. The wildest sort of ;; :i it’s have been told concerning his d< nth. Somebody called on the sheriff to take some steps in the mutter. Sheriff 1-itzgerald prop oily turned the ease over to Mrs. D. .1. Thurston, county wel 1‘m e supi rintendeut, who made a tit iiougdi investigation and linds tin* facts to h(* as follows: “On Monday. Jan. 7. little Wil li- :n Watkins went on the truck tu .-Tii:ml at Micro as usual. Dm in-:- the day the little hoy seemed to he sick and kept his head on the desk the most of the day. '1 he., teacher herself at the end of school put Liu* little hoy on the tim-k L > go home. ’I lu* little tel-j low v. . able to walk from the tiuek to his house but he became si.k enough that his parents call ed in Dr. Hinnant, physician of Md-ro. Dr. Hinnant. found that the. child was in a serious condition ard ho brought him to the John* strn Countv Hospital. His trouble «•;••• 3 diagnosed a? spinal menin t>h and hr grow worst* until he pn-.sod away on -Ian. 12. The disease lining very contagious and infrctious. the utmost care was taken not to spread it. The body was wrapped in a clean sheet, placed in a coffin with instruction? that the coffin be not opened. The reason for these precautions was explained t«« the parents of the child who -eenud to accept them in good faith. 'lvne burial took place, and then it was that the tinfounded rumor began to circu lit:*. Newspaper correspondents in Wav.ne county even called citixens ,.f Micro to know about the story w'hich had been reported and which had the element** «>f v fro; L-pnge write-up. Others kept making inquiries, all of whom were assured that there was nothing to the wild rumor that the « hild had been beat practi TIM'S TO I*ACiK 4. I’LEASK i I Former Member U. S. Senate Dies Oscar \Y. I'nderwood of Ala bama, Passes At ■ uinia Estate After MonthV Illness F< -mer Sena ten- Oscar Umler ■ wood ( f Alabama »iio,j at his ( hi me in Virginia Friday morning j foili wing a long illness. Mr. Un I derwor d suffered a cerebral hem moirhage early in December and I later in the month was stricken by paralysis. He recovered for a I time but suffered a relapse a tv,w days ago. He is survived by a widow and two sons. Oscar W. J l ndt rwcod was’one of tiie tower- \ mg figures in Congress during his j M-ay, and attained national promi- [ j nonce through unusual <|ualiiies of j ^ta;e?m:vnship and a marked ca- j ! parity as a leder. His name was mentioned repetedly as a Demo-1 cra'u presidential nominee. He ' sfo-ved for thii.ty-rwo years as a j member of Congress from Ala | hama. lie was taken back to his inative heath for burial. | HONOR ROLL FOR KEN l A SCHOOL KENI/V. Jan. 28.—The follow i;|C is tin* honor roll for the I Ivrnly hi.uh school for the third First Grade: Ray Watson, Mar l'idu-'e Kirby, L"!a Fate. Second Grade: Ernest Wilkin son. Gladys Faye Barnes, Clydie L< Deans, Myrtle Outland. •''•cond Grade: Walton Kdyer j to.!. ThelberL Jo-htison, Arthur Raper, Joseph Hooks Richardson. .Mildred Atkinson. Elizabeth Dn »• i s. .Lenar a Etheridge. Elouisc Rape?*. Margaret Simmons. Tii i t • I Grade: Robert Davis, Mai.caret, Boyette, James Pierce. Fourth Grade: Wilbert Bass. Re luce a Fulyhum. Fourth Grade: Benjamin Alford. Fifth Graiie: Purcelle Rose, fifth Grade: Josej)hino Watson. Marie Jackson. Major Radford. S'xlh Grade: Y'irjjinia Watson. Eighth Grade: Inez Radford, AI e. rta Radford. Ninth Grade: Rebecca Askew, F icelle Barnes, Lora Coleman, Me’ba Watson. Leslie Watson, Eva Sullivan. Music Honor Roll, Mrs. Lassie H. Ed^erton. Teacher. Sarah Mae Woodard, Christine! Waddell. Mildred Howell, Alberta Radford, Ethel Johnson. Melba Mother’s Club Moots. Selma, Jan. 28.—-Mrs. W. M. Henry delightfully entertained the mem hors and guests of the ( . C. I,. e!u’) on Tuesday afternoon oft j hi-t week. After a short business j | mooting a most helpful and in - j | foresting .program was enjoyed. J The .subject for study was “l)e_ ! imjuent Children.’’ - discussed in ! 'at ion to the ‘’Juvenile Court". I '( hild Labor Laks", adn “Prison1 Reform." Papers on these re >ps since a Los Angeles judge awarded Jill,land ' hrd 3 ))c 'Stress whose upper lip was marred in an accident. Lett to right are Helen could tether lie dcid t'h'ln InVi "h at $d«<.0n0; Blanche Coopcrman, business girl who said she aillion. and Pc^- . de , t\\\. l1 “f her lins a, a -^ orrans ..hanoemng to her lips. $7,112 Gillila would million, Rev. J. M. Pam* <»1 Raleigh Has Been Invited to Confer With Membership Concern ing1 New Building At :ht Raptis: church last Sun day morning; the pastor, Rev. S. L. Monrun. made a hold challenge to his congregation to take steps to build a new church. He declar ed tlhat the Sunday school plant is altogether inadequate to the preen; needs, and that a new building is essential if tin* church as a whfde is to measure up to the needs of. the hour, or to aeohire the prestige in the com muni'ty to which it is entitled. He pointed out that in 103.2 the .hutch will eek orate its 100 th anniversary, the church having; been organized July 1 1. 1S32. He |ii*.atecl that liev. J. M. Page, of Raleigh. known as the building evangcMst of the Baptist Slate Convention. has hem invited to vi- : the church next Monday to | confer ahriiit hotter ulili/;ing tho j orc-eiit building, and that he has I her:' asked to bring along plans Yu . new house of worship. The na.'o :• poinded out that the sue | ’c- f.il working of the chinch’s financial system has inspired a hyree ( f confidence that the ! church can carry through such a : huiidinv? program without much 1 *traii'. Without any special effort j the church, through its weekly •-‘livol'i-pe sy.~t.em, actually paid sd.oiM) to the denc.minati-Hiai pro-’ gv-am in 102N, besides paying a!! it~. hills for current expenses' promptly through the year. A suhsit.antial building fund, he be lieved, could he accumulated dur- , ing the next three years by a i -ysteni of weekly giving. It was j proposed that members of the: church, arrange a conference in , ••egard to the matter next Mi unlay, when Mr. Page \isits the church Investigate New Crops. Messrs. 1J. A. Sanders of Smith I tie I !. route 1, W. V. Blaekman ol i Bt • route 2, .1. W. Stephenson itid -John A. Smith went to Ingold |Friday where they visited the farm of Mr. I>. W. Christenson, field representative of the Colton As sociation for Sampson and Cum berland counties. They were in c1;-ted in a half an acre of V'-'ralian winter peas with which Mr. Christerson is experimenting as a winter cover crop. They were also interested in a new kind of ••greens” known rin the seed cata logues as broccoli. Mr. Chris ter ~on presented these gentlemen witti a ‘‘moss" of. greens which some of them report as a most delectable dish. MISS I I N A LKWIS IN MI'Sir I'KOOKWl Mis Luna Lewis, of Lour Oak'. a'ho is an advanced student in mii-ie at N. C. ('. \N .. participated n a musical program presented ut Nurt'b Carolina College Friday. The final numbers of tin- program were piano solos were rendered by Miss Lewis as follows: Tlu* lir.vt Clair du Lunc by Debussy 11id the second (la', otto by Bach Lon Weeks is Fatal I v Burned Found In Woods That Had Been Burned Over By Neighbors W h o Investigated Forest Fire Atragic happening to<>k place in Lower Johnston Thursday niprlvt when I.on Weeks, who has figured in Johnston county courts ’n recent years, wa> burned to death. According to information received here, on Thursday eve ren.t, Cicero Hudson and Hill Ih'yoti, of the Lower Johnston section, saw the woods afire and wor t to the scene for the purpose of extinguishing the flames. As they approached the tire, they (li.-i rtvered a man lying; in the words. Tin* lire had burned over him, and an old stump nearby was .-till hurtling'. Dr. Parker of Henson, county coroner, was sum moned anj an inquest held. In vestigation of the ground nearby revealed in the edge of a branch si me beer that apparently was ready to run in a still. The re mains of the deceased were taken ca.ro of by a Henson undertaker, and those who viewed the grue some condition of the body state that he was burned almost beyond recognition. Mr. Weeks was a single man forty years nf age. Those wiiu know him stat(‘ that he ha.I all* wrn made average yields and cotton produced 5 pounds per acre more than the average. Although they exceeded the 1027 production, the dedious fruits yielded poorly because of unfavorable conditions. The pecan production- more generally did better better than ' usual, although the several per i iods of exteieme weather and the losses resulting from insects an-1 di.-ease were severely felt in nu rne rims localities. ' “The Id leading crops exceeded in value those of P.*27 by $80,000. Odd and the hypothetic value o' all crops was $785,000,000, com pared with the 1027 value of $788. 000.000, an increase of $15,000,000 The cotton crop was worth abou $80,000,000 more than that of th< Poultry Car Is Loaded At Selma ("hnston County Poultry Keepers Receive Nearly si.(Hit) For Approximately 1 1,0(10 Pounds of Poultry Selma looked like circus day la't Saturday except instead of children waving balloons and Mowing “squedunks”, grown-ups were: delivering feathered fowls o- all descriptions to the poultry ear standing: on the siding not far ft ( in iho station. Thore were black chirks and while chicks, rod chicks and speckled chicks, hut in one respect they were all alike — the most of them had become hoarders in the poultry yard, and their owners were sending them lo northern markets to be de vour d as food to make way for a new stock of layers. .Johnston county poultry keep c: e.ndvcd Saturday marly $d000 it: c.i-h for poultry delivered at .the f ir in Selma. To be exact, 12.: -VS pounds brought $2,808.f>r>. Tlir •• lumdred families in John . n county were benefited from his .ale which is sponsored by • -i • Selma Kiwanis club with the cooperation of the State Division if Markets and d■ H. Slack, farm agent for the counties of Johnston, •simpton. and flamett. A car was loaded also at Dunn it..i me at f’linton. At Dunn, 1 pounds brought $2,000.89. A- Hinton, 18.100 pounds brought 84.2.10. !>(»>.VIIONS TO nk<;ko IIOSPIT‘AI. 1.0< \iKll HKRK Th* .luha-'Hon County bicgro Association in session Saturday staged a drive in ; -]u* interest of the colored lios | Vi ; I. It is the purpose to raise ! ijr.u ;ii order to t'm’nish a mom in ode to furnish a room in the | )< *d;tl. Tin* drive is expected to [!;..* filjout two weeks, at the ; -lose of w he ill a committee will I meet here to select the furniture. Recently colored citizens in and , aronnJ Selma contributed an ■unuur.t sufficient to furnish a rmm. in addition to these under takings, the hospital has been the recipient of a kitchen cabinet and a refrigerator which were nr. d d, besides numerous small lr.-.ation? including bed linen. COATS-HOLLANP wkddint;. Miss Bessie Holland and Mr Starling Coats, both of Four Oaks, were united in marring* hero Saturday morning. The cer emony was performed by Justict of the Peace J. H. Kirk-man. Tht bride is the daughter of the lat< Mr. ami Mrs. Lonnie Holland while the bridegroom is the sol of Mrs. Julia Coats, of Four Oaks They will make their home ii Four Oaks. -'year before, and the productio: ( was 800.000 bales greater. Fo -'the Unit*d States, as a whole - the total value of the prinei-p* . crons in 1928 \vs $8,456,000,01* t compared with $8,522,000,000 e year ago.” Important Bills In Gen. Assembly Pleasure (o Allow Drug Stores To Dispense Whiskey Is Killed; Governor Gardner Finds Ally lor Australian Hallo! In Morrison By M. L. SHIPMAN KA l.-KICiH, Jan. 28.—Again this : pa.-t week the fieri era! Assembly was the center of interest as I many important measures came i up for consideration and the ! budget committee continued its ; work listening’ to pleas for added I funds for institutions and de | partmunU. Chief among measures up for consideration were the .bills providing for medicinal dis ! pensing of whiskey, liberalizing the divorce laws, sterlizing mental I defectives, barring lobbyists and I tagging them, workmen’s c.om jpcnsation, and many others. Gov ernor Gardner was trying to line I up forces for his Australian bal lot system and got. an ally in ! fcimer Governor Morrison but it I was reported that Kastern North Carolina would kill this measure joilhanti. rvo announcement was I made with reference to the state i highway commission, pardon eom i mission and state prison jobs I though it was indicated that Nat 'Townsend had refused the pardon j commissioner's post, j The Senate finaJlv killed the ; measure which would have liber alized the prohibition laws so that . whiskey might be dispensed by drug stores on doctor’s prescHp ; lions. The matter was referred back to committee for amend I'ments but even in improved form j it failed of passage. Representa iive Boren’s hill providing that five years of involuntary separa tion would constitute grounds for divorce was passed by the House and senf to the upper body. It was meant specifically to afford relief to the mates of convicts but many feared that it was an open ins- wedge to make divorce easy ar.d were opposed on that ground as the laws on this subject- are plenty lax now. A move to tag all those ap pearing in Raleigh in favor of bills as lobbyists failed in the ; senate after Senator Person had made* a valiant fight. His measure was far-reaching in scope and was | aimed" at. he .-aid, the big business I bite'iests of the state, especially | he power interests. A bill to pro vide for sterilization of mental de fectives was presented and re ferred to committee. This is in line with advanced thought of ’.he day and no doubt the measure wili have many friends when it >mes up for consideration. The heads of educational insti tutions appeared before the pow ers that be this week and urged that they be allowed more funds. Tile request for educational funds was pressed by leading educators of the state but no indication was given that any change* would be made from the recommendations of tlie budget commission, and all signs* pointed to reduction of soma cf the recommendations as this is undoubtedly an economy legisla ture and may be inclined to carry the cuts to extremes. Governor Gardner is having a hard time in his fight for an Australian ballot system. It i* reported that many influential Democratic leaders, especially from fclastern North Carolina, are fighting the proposition ami it will have hard sledding. Whether the undoubted demand from the people for honest election and se cret election laws will have any weight with legislators remain to he seen. At the present time the vocal powers are all favoring elimination of the Australian bal 1 lot bill by the easiest method. At the same time former fiOvernoT ! Morrison came out for the bill ’ proposed by Governor Gardner's 1 henchmen in the General Assem * biy and this may influence some 1 votes. During the week the sen ate passed the bill restoring to ■* the governor the right to fill va i nancies in the United States sen r ate brought about by death or , resignation. It is generally be I lieved that this is a political m6ve 0 designed to give Governor Gard a tier the right to name either M© Tl'RN TO PAGE FOtTH