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Do You Know Of A Vacant Lot in Smitlifleld that need Beautify ing? Enter it in the Yard and Garden Contest, Then Beautify! Smithfield want# a hotet^ ^ -But it also wants to es- he tablish a Livestock Sta tion Yard. mo of 47TH YEAR THE HOME NEWSPAPER SIX PAGES TODAY SMITHFIELD, N. ( TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1929 NUMBER 52 Farm Convention Next Great Event Program Built Around State Wide Agricultural Program As Advocated by Governor O. Max Gardner RALEIGH, June 24.—The an nual session of the State Far mers’ and Farm Women's con vention to be held aj State Col lege July 22 to 27, will be the next great gathering of farm people in North Carolina and will probably be the greatest session of this organization. “The program will be built around the organization of a state-wide agricultural program as advocated by Governor O. Max Gardner," says James M. Gray, secretary of the convention. “The first session will he at eight o’clock Tuesday morning, July 2!> when the different sectional groups will meet until eleven o'clock. At that ‘hour, the men and women will gather in Pullen Hall for the formal opening and to hear addresses by Govern-.'. Gardner, President E. C. Brooks and Commissioner William A. Graham. M. L. Adderholdt, of Lexington will make the annual president’s address and Mrs. W. T. Whit-sett will make her address as president of the State Federatin'!, of Home Demonstration clubs. Prof. W. H. Darst, director of the crop improvement work will also explain the new plan for seed certification.” On Friday morning. July 26, the whole convention will hear the recommendations developed in the sectional meetings for a state wide agricultural program and these will be adopted or rejected as the body decides. On Wed nesday afternoon, July 24, it planned to organize the Nortn Carolina Crop Improvement Asso ciation. The Cooperative Cotto.i Association will also meet at th? college during the convention.” Officials of the convention have arranged a series of interesting recreational events, sight-seeing expeditions, musical numbers ami other diversions for the late aft ernoons and evenings. As usual, the college will make no charge for rooms hut visitors must bring their necessary bed covers ar.d toilet articles. Meals will he serv ed at a low rate in the college dining hall. Dean I. O. Schaun, head of the school agriculture, extends a cordial invitation for all farmers to attend. The homemaker and her job will be studied by rural women of North Carolina who attend the annual short course. Last sum mer, over 600 women were pres ent for this course and indications are now that an equally largo number will he present lhis sum mer. The program has been com pleted by Mrs. Estelle T. Smith, director of the course. The three high spots of the short course will he the annual meeting of the State Federation of Home Demonstration clubs 01: Thursday, July 25 at clever o’clock, recognition of the five master farm homemakers Thurs day evening at. 8:30 on the cam pus. the cotton dress style revu. and the presentation of college certificates on Friday to those* who have attended four sho; courses. Clean Up Day. All who have loved ones buric at the cemetery at Mrs. D. A Overbee's near Union church wi' meet Wednesday morning, Jut: 2ti. early and bring tools to worl with. J. W. PITTMAN. Tantalizer There «re exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith field or Johnston County, and to the one deciphering their lame and presenting a copy of this paper to the Herald office, we will present a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for befoie the following issue. Wade Talton deciphered his name last issue. TODAY’S TANTALIZER fareddvis Jlow the Boulder Dam in Colorado ill Look^ This drawing made under the direction of Raymond F. Walter, •■♦lief engineer of the Interior Department, gives the “present concep tion of Boulder Dam as planned." If plans are not changed it will look like this when completed. Budget In Hands Of Commissioners School Budg'd Pre sented at Meeting Held Thursday; Ac tion Will Be Taken First Monday in July 'I he hoard of education and the hoard of county commissioners met in joint session here last Thursday to consider the school budget. No action was taken at this time but the matter will bo acted upon on the first Monday in July. The school budget was presented complete except as to the amount necessary to he in cluded for insurance as provided under the workmen’s compensa tion act. From a set up of the budget printed elsewhere in this issue, it will he seen that the general con trol is $.3,360 less than the bud get of last year. Instructional service, which includes salaries of teachers, principals, superintend ents, and supervisors, is $18,230.25 less than last year’s budget. Op eration and maintenance of plant which includes the cost of jam tors, fuel, light, repairs and in Isurance, is $27,131.37 more than last year. This *nclease is due mainly to the fact that county ! insurance on school buildings is I carried in three-year policies | which are cheaper, and the poli I cies for this insurance fall due jin 1920-’30. Transportation increases $1,750, due mainly to the operation of more trucks. Capital outlay, for the purchase of new trucks, de creases $6,824.18. Debt service increases $21,2112.00, which is due to the fact that $210,000 funding bonds recently sold here are in cluded in the budget. Also proper payments to sinking funds for bonds other than serial are in cluded. The expenditures for 1 !>28-’2'i have been $18,407.16 less than the budget, for this same year. This is used as a credit on next year’s budget. Also as a credit to reduce the levies next year there b $36,000 more allocated by th* Equalizing Hoard than was allow ed the past year. SMITH FIELD HOY (JETS HONORS AT HARYARl A news dispatch from lam bridge, Mass., published in recen issues of state papers tells of a honor which has coin etc Dave Renton Wharton, son of I)r. am Mrs. L. 1). Wharton of this city who is at Harvard University. H has been awarded a Harvar scholarship, which is the higher academic honor granted from th Harvard Graduate School of Art and Sciences, The article charai terizes Mr. Wharton as one <; the most prominent students :> Harvard University. He has bee very prominent in academic an social circles during his atten< ance at the Graduate School c Arts and Sciences and has achie\ ed several high scholastic honor G. W. I^aitha.11 of U»nion count says he would rather have so; beans in iris corn than fertil-iz* for the succeeding crop if he hi to make a choice. County Council Holds Meeting ! 1'iiiifls In Ilund I'm Home Demonstration Work Thru .Inly; Pledges Taken and Plans l aid For Increasing Contributions j Around forty women anil rti’N , were present at the meeting: of the County Council of home dem onstration work held here SaUir | day afternoon, and the meeting I had to do for the most part with i ways and means for continuing home demonstration work in ■Johnston county. According- to | Mrs. Estelle Smith, district home agent, who conferred Saturday with Mrs. Ira C. Whitley, presi dent of the county council, and Miss Ruth Jones, secretary-treas urer, the work will go on as long; r.s funds are in hand to match the amount put up by the state. Repo its made to the county council Saturday insure tiie con tinuance at least through July, anj plans were laid for raising mi i v money for the cause. A to tal of $13*5.72 in cash was turned over to the treasurer which cam:* from the following sources: the Meadow club, $47.75; Corbet c Hatcher, $17.7."); Carter-Massey, $18.32; Poplar Springs, $*>.33; Pleasant Grove, $5.50; Cleveland, $1.00. Four Oaks 1-11 club, $1.21; * Kenl.W $1.00; stunt night, $31.SO. Pledges in the amount of $/0 in cash aim 25 chickens were ! taken at the meeting Saturday, j and plans were made for soliciting 1 funds outside the home hemonstra I Lion clubs. i The meeting was characterized by enthusiasm and both the wo men and girls feel confident that the little more than a hundred dollars per month necessary to maintain the work in the county will Ik* forthcoming. The county agent, Miss Minnie Idee Garrison, was not present Sat urday, having been called to her home near Rock Hill, S. C., on account of the serious illness oi her mother. corin' to adjockn Till KSDAY AFTERNOON At a meeting of the John ston County Bar Association held yesterday afternoon a resolution was passed asking the court to adjourn Thurs day afternoon in order that the members of the Johnston county bar may attend the State Bar Association in ses sion at Wrightsville Beach, i The court granted the request , and in order to clear the dock et by Thursday afternoon i court w iil open at I) o’clock L each morning. > Carry Huckleberries to New Yorl Messrs. Edward Britt and Kay f mnnd Green carried a truck an t tractor load of hucklelwrries t n New York last week. The loan 1 contained -527 crates. They mad - the trip in MO hours. t|l AKTKK-rol M> EGG IS .. k EXHIBI TED AT THIS OFFICJ Mrs. Loudeiia Holt of Seim* y brought a large h«n egg to thi - office yesterday morning. The eg • weighed a quarter of a pound an d measured eight and a half inchi around the long way. Judge Midyette Opens Court Here | Places Responsibility F o i Crime I'pon the Homes, Ir Charge to (irand Jury Judge G. E. Midyette, of Eliz abeth City, who is presiding ovei a term of criminal Superior court here, in his charge to the grand jury yesterday, placed the re sponsibility for so much crime squarely on the homes. It is not the inefficiency of the courts that puts about twice as many while men as negroes on the public roads of North Carolina. It is not the laxity of judge or jury that is responsible for the fact that the majority of the crimi nals in tbe state penitentiary are white boys under twenty-five years | of age. But it is laxity in the I home that is causing more dis honesty, more immorality an i prostitution, more disregard for the law of the land. a variety 01 oitenses are on the docket of this term of court, Judge Midyette told the grand jury, and a number deal with dis honesty. Extravagance was as signed as one reason for dis honesty. Living on a scale that one’s earnings will not justify too often leads to stealing. Example set by parents was cited as an other reason. If a parent is not honest in his dealings, .his boy, who watches him throughout six teen years or more, follows the same dishonest course. For the increase in immorality, Judge Midyette blamed lack of proper chaperonage of the young people. The word “chaperone” is no longer in our dictionary. Gins instead of being at home in the evenings by nine or ten o’clock, are out on the roads in automo biles without chaperones, coming in at two or three o’clock in the morning. While out, perhaps a blockade still or a blind tiger is visited. The driver buys a little liquor and both boy and girl take a drink. The only requirement, suggested the judge, concerning this night prowling is that the parents be not awakened when the young folks go in. Judge Midyette closed his charge to the grand jury with a plea for the enforcement of ail laws impartially. So long as a i law is on the books, it is the crystalized sentiment of civiliza tion, and should be observed. The | liquor laws, the speed laws, all laws should be enforced impar tially. When Judge Midyette com pleted bis charge, the officer as signed to this body, C. Q. Steph enson, was sworn in and the grand jury filed out to the grand jury room. W. L. Stanfield, of Selma, was selected as foreman of the grand jury. No cases were tried before noon but when the court reassembled at two o’clock the case state vs. Ber nice Narron and Lee Smith was called. The defendants plead guil ty to breaking into a box car and a sentence of not less than three nor more than five years in the state prison was impose 1. The case of the state vs. Tern pie Coats and Lindsay Lee, charg ed with assault with deadly weapon, was next called and a nol pros was taken as to Lindsay Lee. Tctmpie Coates plead guilty to the offense but judgment w as deferred until later during <*»urt. A. B. Johnson, a white man entered a plea of guilty as U stealing an automobile. He was given a sentence of not less tha'i three nor more than live years »' the state prison. The cases in which Fred 1^0' ton, Wiillie Layton, Narcissus Layton, Howard Otis and Jolv I Bell were charged with stealing chickens were consolidated an* the trial got under way aftei four o’clock. Mr. Balia nee Iii. Kenly, June 24.—Friends o 5 Mr. Jack Ballance are sorry 1 , learn of his illness. Mr. Ballane s has been in a Rocky Mount hos ;• I pital for several days. s “How do you make anti-freeze? “Hide her woolen pajamas.'1 A GOOD SCOUT. The Smithfield Hoy Scouts "ill present a three-act com ! edy. entitled “A Good Scout,” j at the schoo.l auditorium next Friday evening, June 28 at K:.'{() o’clock. The play depicts the purposes of the Hoy Scout movement and tells a thrilling story of the uplifting effect it had on one commun ity. A professional director has been employed to insure a successful presentation, (’has. Hilliard, "ho staged t!:e East ern Carolina Follies at the recent exposition in Farm ed lo. The prices of twenty-five cents for children and thirty five cents for adults will pre vail. in order that a packed house "ill attend this per formance. Pleasing specialties will he introduced between each act so that there will he no waits. Co. Agricultural Board Is Formed Representatives From Four teen Townships Meet Here and Select Officers; Dele gates Chosen To State Farmers Convention The first meeting of the John ston County Agricultural Advis ory Board was held here in the courthouse Saturday. This advis ory board is composed of two far mers from each township in the county and its purpose is to work out plans for the development of agriculture along with the county The meeting Saturday was well attended. Every township in the county save three was represent ed by at least one man, and five townships had their full repre sentation present. Quite a num ber of others were present at the meeting also, including business men from various towns in the county who are vitally interested in the agricultural problems of the county and are lining up with the program now being earned 'I Tie following officers were elected: T. C. Young, chairman; J. W. Stephenson, vice-chairman; J. B. Slack, secretary. Mr. Yeung made a short talk telling the pur pose for the organization of this board and the things it could and would be expected to do, express ing his willingness to aid in every way possible. After the election of officers the selection of representatives to uc State Fanners’ Convention was taken up and the following men ! were chosen to represent Johnston i county officially at this meeting: [C. Willie Lee, S. P. Honeycutt, P A. Boyette, W. W. Stewart, and 1 Howard Oliver. These men will help plan a long time, state-wine 1 agricultural program which is i'i line with Governor Gardner’s North Carolina agriculture. Many others present expressed the in tention of attending the state meeting part of the time and it is hoped that every tanner in the county who possibly can, will at tend this meeting part of the time at least. Short talks boosting the exten sion work started in the count> were made by Fred Waters, J. W Stephenson, J. L. Ia;e, \V. S. Larp W. T. Wilson, \V. V. Blackman J. A. Smith, A. J. Whitley, Jr. and others. J. B. Slack, count.' agent, told of some of the plan; for carrying on the work nov started A farm tour through variou: counties of the state was suggest ed and discussed at some long* ’l A committee was appointed i< work out plnas for this tou which will probably be made dur ing the first part of August. • The organization of local group in each township to work in con 1 nection with this county grou ‘ was suggested and it is hope that such groups can he organize in the near future. Such a pi a would make it possible for th ’ county agent to be of much moi benefit to the county. Meadow Women Give Chickens ! Contribute to F u n d to Continue Home | Demonstrator; Hail ! Damages Crops BENSON, Route 2. June 24.— I The cluib women of our community have collected some chickens, about 30, and sold them. The pro ceeds will go to help maintain Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, the home demonstration agent. Our women are very interested in the work that Miss Garrison has been doing during the past years and do not think that they can give her up. The tobacco fields of Messrs. E. E. Godwin, J. E. Hudson, Isaa: Hudson, J. M. Wood and Jasper] Marstiburn were today damaged 1 by the bail that came. The to- j foacco of Messrs. J. E. Hudson an.! Isaac Hudson is practically ruine.j and peo-ple think the best thing for them to do is to cut it off and lei a sucker come. The hail seemed j to have gone in a narrow streak Heavy winds accompanied tho hail. The cotton and corn were ! UUillitKlM SlMlie, L/U L itui. UflUl/ as the tobacco. About fifteen or twenty of our club girls and women attended the county-wide stunt night at Smith held last Thursday night. Every one seemed to enjoy the trip very much. The girls put on a stunt— “The Kitchen Band”—which was very enjoyable. 'We are sorry to note the illness of Mrs. J. N. Johnson. She has been confined to her bed for four or five days. We hope for her a I rapid recovery. Mrs. Fannie Gilbert, an aged woman of our community fell Monday and she is in very bad condition. She seems to have crushed some bones in the shoul der and hip. She is unable to move any part of her body ex cept her feet. We hope Mrs. Gil bert will soon be lip again. Miss Cornelia Johnson was sud denly taken ill last Monday night and has been quite sick, but she is getting along fine now. Mrs. J. G. Hudson, who has been confined to her bed for many weeks with an eating cancer, seems to show no improvement. Mrs. Hudson has suffered much during her confinement. We hope she may soon get relief. Mr. Seth Lee and family, of near Coats, visited Mrs. Lee's j father,'Mr. L. j,P. Johnson, last Sunday. Miss Geraldine -Smith, of the Methodist Orphanage-^at Raleigh, is visiting .jter ^ithetr'Mr. Allen Smith, arelatives of this community. Misses Mary and Annie Lee en tertained a large crowd of boys and girls at a party last Satur day night. The party was in honor of Miss Geraldine Smith who was visiting Misses Mary and Annie Lee. Mrs. J. L. Powers and daughter, Mary Kllen, of Republican, are .•pending a few days with Mrs. Powers’ mother, Mrs. RozelLa Lee. Miss Alice Johnson is attending summer school at K. C. 1. t • • Greenville. Misses Inez and Loverna Lang ston, of Bentonville, spent last Sunday with Misses Sarah and \ a rena Wood. Mr. Leander Johnson, who has a position in Washington, D. C. and Miss Rena Jernig<an, the youngest daughter of Mr. Hanr.1 bal Jernigan, were married Iasi Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Johnsor left immediately for Washington where they will live. Miss Maibel Johnson, who taugh music in the eastern part of thi state last year, has returned t« ■ her home here where she wii ' spend the summer with her father Mr. Pias Johnson. The reporter would like t» make a correction in the news o ; last week. Miss Ludie lane is no in summer school but is »pendinj > the summer with her father, Mi 1 J. Lilb Ix*e. > Miss Annie Nichols left Satur * day for her home near Charlottes - ville, Va., where she will spen< the summer. " - '"I Presidential Prospect j reparation? agreement has revived talk I among Democratic leaders at Wash-1 ington of rromotimg his presidential • candidacy in 1932. Young Is White House Prospect From Farm House To White House May Be Career of Owen I). Young; Debt Ne gotiations Have Put Him in Lime Light Prominent Democratic leaders i at Washington are already pro moting the presidential candidacy j for 1932 of Owen D. Young, the farm boy who became the world's greatest compromiser by solving the reparations puzzle in Europe. This man, to whom the world ^ looked for guidance in settling the tremendous financial problems growing out of the World War, is regarded by Senator Carter Class of Virginia and others as the one outstanding Democrat to whom the party can turn. “He is a man of unquestioned ability and accomplishment," says the Mr. Young and Gen. Dawes took up the debt question in 1924, go ing to London without any official status. In Mr. Young’s brain was born the basic idea of the so called Dawes Plan—called so be- j cause Gen. Dawes was the pre- j siding member of the Repara | t ions Commission. Mr. Young, presiding over the most recent j negotiations, with J. P. Morga.i j and Thomas W. Lamont as as- j sociates, cleaned up, in less than 1 four months, the biggest and most1 complicated financial entanglement in the history of the world. This man of the hour is the product of a New York farm who educated himself. Born at Van Ilornesville, in Ilerkimcr county, N. Y., he worked on his father’s farm as a boy, driving in the cows from the pasture, milking them and doing the morn ing and evening chores. Later lie guide 1 a plow behind ja team of horses, helped with the harvesting and did other forms of farm work. When he hail lime, he attended school, and later worked his way through the law course at Boston University, com pleting a three year course in two years while earning enough for his keep by tutoring. in iyuM no was already on ucj path to success, though only twa years out of college, and married Miss Josephine Sheldon Edmonds of Southibridge, Mass. Five chi. dren were born out of the mar riage and four are living. Now Mr. Young is chairman of the oBard of the General Electric Company and chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America. He has engaged in many public activities, and won many honors the world oiver. Through it all his love for farm life has not abated. For Mr. Young, after moving to New York in 1913 and finding that his business often called him l to Schenectady, bought his fatn ■ er's old farm not far from the scene of his business activities. He 1 and his family live on the far.r. • when he is able to get away froir • his many duties in New York aru ‘ Europe. She: “Time surely separate: the best of friends. He: “Quite true. Fourteen year • ago we were both eighteen. Now l you are twenty-three ami I an thirty-two.” Baptists To Meet At Antioch Church All Day Union Meeting To Be Held Next Sunday; Inter esting Program Will Be Given The Little River Baptist Union will be held at Antioch BaptL.s church next Sunday, June 30, be ginning at 9:30 o’clock. The fol lowing interesting program has been arranged: Sunday Morning. 9:30 Sunday School. 10:30 Welcome Address to t'::* union by A. D. O’Neal. 10:35 Roll Call of all the churches. 10:40 Reading of previous min utes. 10:50 Business of the Union. 11:00 Sermon by Rev. Millar! Johnson. 12:00 Announcement by Rev. A. R. Creech. 1:00 Devotional by Sadie At kinson. 1:10 1 he Challenge of th? Churches by C. L. Batton. 1:40 What is the matter with our Sunday schools and churches •by J. T. Holt. 2:10 The need of revival in our Sunday schools and churches by C. S. Creech. 2:10 Reading of the Constitu tion and by-laws of this Union by the Clerk. 3:00 Open discussion for thj ■betterment of our churches a id Sunday schools by any one. 3:45 Report of Committee an 1 Miscellaneous. 4.00 Adjournment. J. M. RICHARDSON, Mod. J. R. ATKJNi&ON, Clerk. AGRICULTURAL TEACHERS. TO MEET IN RALEIGH 24-29. Albout 125 vocational agricul tural teachers from various pa>*rs of the state will meet in Raleign the week of June 24-20 to formu late plans for carrying out a more effective program of work according to J. Paul Shaw, agri cultural teacher at Benson. The.-e meetings are held annually in the summer and are a big help to ih* individual teachers. During th* conference the teacher has an op portunity to get additional info.1 mation on important subjects from the various experts at the college. At the same time and in con nection with the teachers confer ence the Young Tar Heel Far mers Club, a state-wide organi zation of agricultural students, will hold their annual meeting. These meetings are held to pro mote better all round work on the part of the student. Irving Lang don and Yoakum Matthews are delegates from the Benson chap- j ter. An interesting and educa tional program has been planned and very good conference is ex pected. NOTICE ‘^Final Judgment,” a sacred drama, will be repeated at 8:3b p. m., July 1, by the request of both white and colored in the A. M. E. Church at Wilson’s Mill* Admission 15 and 25 cents. MADAM E. L. BRUCE. Director. REV. C. C. MILLER, Pastor. Aunt Roxie Opine* By Me— “Hit amt evertx>dy dat’s et a a part uv a school uv fish dat’j highly educated. “P. S.—Hit don’t take edicatal peepul to know dat Smitbfield iT* de place to sell backer.”
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