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LOCAL COTTON,
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FIFTEEN AND ONE-HALF
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VOL. 42 NO. 83.
MACK QUITS
ONLY FOR
Fourth Successive Attack
Sends Him Back to Bed;
Meetings Going Ahead with
Miss Palmer Preaching.
THREE SERVICES SUNDAY
Cyclone Mack talked twice yester
day,'' leaving the hospital both times
io make his appointments. The an
nouncement that he would be at the
tent last night brought easily three
thousand folks to hear him and tho
weakened from confinement and
shock, he sub-consciously worked
himself into normal gait and is today
paying for the effort in the hospital.
He will be unable o preach to
night, Dr. J. G. Raby, his physician,
announced this morning. Just about
day break he suffered the fourth sue
ccssive attack of nephritic colic and
while able to sit up, read his mail and
attend to some correspondence dur
ing the morning, his condition is not
as good as it was yesterday.
The services will go ahead just the
' same and the evangelist, battling
with all hi8 strength against the at
tacks that have sent him to bed and
made an operation imminent, win
i make a final struggle tomorrow to
whip himself into shape for the clos
ing meetings Sunday. Whether this
: can be done or not, depends for the
most part upon his physicians.
Last Night's Dramatic Effort. '
, No single service in the Tarboro
campaign has been more dramatic
than last night's. Mack sat in a chair
and with a clear voice began his ser
mon :'n what to him was a strange,
easy fashion of speaking. It wasn't
long before he was breaking the good
resolution to talk slowly and without
the usual panegyrics that contribute
so forcefully to his delivery. He was
' soon walking up and down the plat
form, off and on the platform, and
out into the congregation he came
at the end of his sermon to make the
plea or professions.
He waited only for one verse from
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trum and made his call. He asked for
rcconsecration and professions of
faith and in a voice gradually grow
ing weak, declared that he did not
, have strength to make his usual ap
peal. A score or more of folks all
: over the house stood UP, about a
dozen of whom afterwards sought
admission into the church.
The preliminaries were so good
last night that Mack's part was made
easier. Long, patient drilling has de
veloped a choir that surpasses all
the early expectations of either Choir
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director aiones or mr. lucneiiaon.
Supplementing a great song service
last night was a quartet selection
rendered by Mr. Jones, Mr. Pender,
Mi. Whitlark and Mr. McClure.
: Barring Mack's picturesqueness,
which lends a cumulative strength
,a tit npAonliintr ta Tin TAaturp
X we service inut BLBiiua vuv inure
tnan Mrs. uooue playing in me
minds of all who have heard her. It
has needed no heralding in Tarboro
it speaks for itself.
I If Mack recovers sufficiently, he
may preach to mea only Sunday aft
ernoon, according to his planning last
v night. There will prooaDiy De a union
service Sunday morning and even
ing. In addition to the noon day
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service at the Tarboro Knitting Mills.
Last night the hosiery mill folks
attended the service in a body. To
night the Odd Fellows will attend in
a body and occupy reserved seats. -
Mackf said last night:
"There is not a tear stained face
woman here tonight," he said, "or a
broken hearted man, or a home with
a skeleton in the closet or a ghost In
the life that the Lord, is not fie pans-
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HOSPITAL
ONE SERVICE
cea. He sayg that he comforts all that
mourn. I am glad that he is the God
of all comfort and comforts us in our
tribulation.
"It was a long time before I knew
what tho Bible meant when it said,
'I will give unto them beauty for
ashes.' I searched commentaries and
Bible dictionaries but one day it
dawned upon me. you have seen a
life burned out by sin and reduced
to ashes an the Lord came in and
transformed an revolutionized and
recreated and made beautiful. About
the only hope some of you fellows
will ever have of being good looking
is to get an old time, back woods,
knowable, tellable, feelable, seeable,
understandable case of calico reli
gion that will put a shine on your
face and a sparkle in your eye, a
shout in your sou and victory in
your life.
"The Psalmist says," he con
tinued, "I will beautify my people
with salvation. Bless God that's why
I am so good looking. (Prolonged
laughter and applause J. He says He
can give you the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness. I know
that is true from personal experience.
Before I was saved I was one of those
cross-grained, bitter, vinegary, sar
castic, contorted, twisted, biased kind
of characters that looked like the
advance agent of a cyclone with my
jaws locked and tongue tied and you
couldn't twist a conversation out of
me; that is, if you didn't belong to
the small coterie of my friends.
"Abou the only thing that anyone
ever got out of me was a grunt but
the morning after I was . saved I
walked down the streets and the old
trees were bowing and the fence was
laughing and it seemed to me - that
everything was rejoicing and my
jaws were immediately unlocked and
my tongue was untied and I was 1
speaking to everybody that I met.
i waa wearing the warment
of praise and gladness instead of
heavines3 and sorrow and melancho
lia. :. ' '
"Now turn with me to Psalms 103:
'Like as father pitieth his children,
so the Lord pitieth them that fear
Him.' He pitieth as a father. Read
in connection with this Isaiah 66-13:
'As one whom his mother comforteth,
go will I comfort you and ye shall be
comforted in Jerusalem He comforts
as a mother. He pities as a father
and comforts as a mother. He takes
the place of father and mother.
"Who can comfort as a mother?
Oh, the tenderness, the gentleness,
the compassion suggested by this
word mother. Others may sympath
ize. but the mother can comfort. I
can feel my old mother now at two
o'clock on a cold morning putting a
flannel cloth on my chest, saturated
with turpentine and covered in tal
low and greasing the bottom of my
little feet and giving me mo'asses
and Jerusalem oak seed and tucking
the cover around my neck .and kiss
ing me. and saying, "God bless my
precious boy.' She went to Heaven
on the third day of last January and
the last word she said before she got
in Father's old carriage was 'Son,
press on and preach the gospel, Ma'll
be looking for her boy! Yes, I know
a father can pity but it takes a
mother to comfort. I see it in my
own home. I can pity my children
when tbey cut a finger or knock off
a toe nail but it takes Rena'to kiss
away the tears and comfort them.'
"Have you ever heard of such an
experience as is mentioned in Prov
erbs 25-19: 'Confidence in an unfaith
ful man in time of trouble is like a
broken tooth and a foot out of joint'
I have found as a rule that men are
your friends while you have good
health and prosperity but when you
meet with reverses, trials and diffi
culties, how they forsake you. The
broken tooth and the foot out of
joint fail you just at the time when
(Continued on page two.);
TARBORO,
LLDYD GEORGE TO
LEAVE DEC 12 FOB
ARMAMENT MEET
Hope For Early Settlement of
Dispute Over Japan's Re
quest For Ratio.
BRITAIN AS PEACEMAKER
LONDON, Dec. 2. Premier Lloyd
George is planning to leave on De
cember 12 for the Washington con
ference, it is learned here today.
Hope for an early settlement of
the- dispute arising from Japan's re
quest for an increase to 70 per "cent
n capital ship tonnage allotted her
under the American limitation plan,
centered in the efforts of Great Bri
tain to bring Japanese views into
harmony with the United States.
TO TAKE UP
Japan Halt Progress in Her Demand
That Naval Rario Bo Increased
From Seven to Ten.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. The
conference is making very little ad
vancement from day to day. It is
absolutely in a deadlock over the na
val situation. Japan contends that
her present ratio of naval strength
is 7-10. The American government
is just as firmly contending for the
ratio get forth in the Hughes propo
sal. It is hard to say who will yield,
but there will probably be some
yielding done before very long, as
this conference ' must accomplish
something that they can show the
people, whether it be an actual ac
complishment or simply a pooposi
tion to justify theis assembling.
Various other problems also came
up in the discussion today which per
tain principally to China, and refer
to the withdrawal of foreign troops;
the right of other nations to main
tain police in China, and also the
control of lines of communication.
SOUTHERN CUTS RATE
ON CARLOAD LOTS
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 2.
Announcement was made by the
Southern railroad officials here of a
10 per cent freight rate cut on car
load lots of commodities, to take ef
fect some time in December.
It is proposed by the railroads to
make the reduction apply to an ex
periment period of six months on
carload shipments of wheat, corn,
oats, grains, flour and meal, hay,
straw, alfalfa, unmanufactured cot
ton, tobacco, cottonseed and prod
ucts, except , cottonseed oil and cot
tonseed meal; citrus fruits, potatoes,
dried fruits and vegetables, horses,
mules, cattle and calves, sheep and
goats, hogs,' poultry, eggs, butter,
cheese, and wool.
COTTON STORAGE WAREHOUSE
AT ROCKY MOUNT.
.. The citizens in and around Rocky
Mount have made such a big success
of the sweet potato storage ware
house, that they have decided to build
a warehouse for the storage of cot
ton. The building of a storage ware
house in Tarboro was agitated fiere
a year ago but it fell through and
nothing definite! has ever been done
since to revive this undertaking.
In the future, Tarboro must have
a storage warehouse or lose the sale
of a great deal of cotton on the local
market. " ! ' .
GOVERNORS ATTEND LIVE
J STOCK EXPOSITION
CHICAGO, Dec. 2. Ten govern
ors, enroute to the Governors' con
ference at Charleston, S. C, attend
ed the International Live Stock Ex
position here today. lj j
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SPLENDID SPEECH
Urge, Winter Cover Crops and Rait
ing Sheep in Paper Read Before
'Live Stock Association.
The following paper read today
by Mr. Zeno Moore at the annual
session of the N. C. Live Stock As
sociation in session at Elizabeth City
this week:
"I think it ig evident to all obser
vant farmers all over the state that
some changes, or revisions are now
inevitable, in the general plans, and
.nethods hitherto prevailing.
I shall not dwell on the contribut
ing causes that will force those
changes, nor even attempt to enum
erate nil of them.
, We must not overlook small prof
its, if they are easily earned. If while
we have been accustomed to make
some one thing to sell and with the
returns buy all else that we have, we
have found all three of these features
buying, producing and selling both
hard and risky. Our only alternative
is that I can see to avoid the neces
sity of some of that buying, at least
to the extent of producing for our
selves some of the things we have
been wont to buy, but which we can
produce more economically than the
man who has hitherto produced them
for us. One such commodity, you
must admit, is grass. Another, of
which it is equally true, is nitrogen.
If the German miner in Chile should
dig" his nitrate, and place it on Am
erican ships, free, you can still beat
that by a good deal. You can grow
the crops at a profit, that will give
you nitrogen free, as a by-product.
You cant, for ever, neglect that pos
sibility. For, let me tell you seriously
from now henceforth, farming can
be nothing less than a competitive
business, and competition is a won
derful thing to find, and to stop leaks
or waste. And in the cotton belt with
the boll weevil here,' or soon to be,
we shall be forced to destroy our
stalks, and othor rubbish, much tf
which we have hitherto turned into
our soils. How are We to keep up
our soil fertility? Can we do it by
buying more fertilizer, which will ne
cessitate the making, and the, selling
of more cotton, to pay those bills?
No. I tell you seriously, it can't be
done that way. We shall have to rely
more on manure. That is to say, we
must grow the crops that we can
grow most successfully, and that of
ten means feed crops. And our very
best markets for many of those crops
must be our own livestock. And the
sheep is without a peer, when it come
to taking cheap roughage (including
many objectionable plants) and con
verting such as he can assimilate into
articles of never ending demand, and
the refuse, in most valuable manure.
I did not intend to give a eulogy
on sheep, but a few more facts perj
taining to sheep that I want to call
to your attention.- Sheep raising
must -pay, somewhere. You have
many advantages over the sections
that have been growing them, and
have grown rich at it. In the cotton
belt, at least, winter cover crops are
now accepted as an important part
of good farming. Most farmers in
my section have cover crops. And
most of the best ones have a few
sheep." : -.' '
With the proper amount in cover
crops, we can winter more stock than
we can summer. We could easily fix
to summer more; and will not be do
ing our best till we de that. But I
know of no form of livestock that we
can summer for less expense than
sheep. As we have gradually risen
to better living conditions, we con
sume a greater relative amount of
our meats fresh; and will continue to
increase, both in the country and our
growing towns. The sheep meets
that demand admirably; furnishing,
at off seasons for other stock, a small
slaughter of most delicate and nutri
tious meat. : "
NO MOORE ID
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SET DEC. II TO 21
AS PAY UP WEEK
One Of Most Intensive Drives
Ever Inaugurated in Section
Planned by Dealers.
J. D. FOSTER IN CHARGE
The Tarboro Merchants Associa
tion met last night and decided to
put on one of the most intensive Pay
Up Weeks ever inaugurated in Tar
boro and vicinity. The time - set is
December 10 to 20, and a number of
merchants present at the meeting
pledged their moral and financia'
support to the porject.
J. D. Foster, secretary of the
chamber of commerce, will have full
charge of the campaign and associat
ed with him will be an executive
committee.
During the Pay Up Week this time
last year, more than $60,000 was
collected by local merchants and Mr.
Foster states that this Pay Up Week
will surpass the other in publicity
and intensity and it is expected that
the collections made will be nearly
doubled.
The merchants have reached the
point where the people will have to
come to their rescue or credit will be
in a deplorable condition next year.
Watch The Southerner for news
of the campaign and the names of
the merchants who are to partici
pate. E
OP FOOTBALL PLAY
Play Post-Season Game at Jackson
ville Tomorrow With Univer
sity of Florida.
CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 2 Carolina
winds up her football season when
she meets the University of Florida
tomorrow in Jacksonville.
The playing of a post-season game
smashes a well-established precedent
here, but the decision to accept Flor
ida's invitation ig generally approved
The two institutions have not met
before, and it is regarded as alto
gether suitable that they should be
gin their athletic acquaintance.
Both teams have tied South Caro
lina, a circumstance that justifies the
hope for a hard-fought match.
Letters and telegrams received
from Carolina alumni dwelling in
Jacksonville say that the city is look
ing forward to the event with the
keenest anticipation. It is only re
cently that the University of Florida
has won a high place in Southern
football, and the state is eager to see
its team tested against one that .has
collected the scalps of Maryland, V.
M. I. and Virginia.
EGG POOL EXPOSED.
The city food expert of Chicago
has unearthed an egg pool that comes
as near being a first class hold as
ever found out. This pool was mak
ing upon an average of thirty thou
sand dollars a day. The eggs placed
in the cold storage cost the owners
about nineteen cents and they were
retailed last week for more than 50
cents per dozen.
Eggs are scarcer on the market
here than has been for many years.
One man said he bought several doz
en egga yesterday but they cost him
65 cents per dozen. The country peo
ple say that the chickens have prac
tically stopped laying and in conse
quence they have no eggs for sale.
BELFAST, Dec. 2. An attack on
the Londonderry jail with the object
of releasing prisoners was repulsed
by the police, two of the latter be
ing killed.
LOCAL M
ANTS
UN V
RSTY WINDS
HAD 12 HUSBANDS;
DREW $400 MONTHLY
CHICAGO, Dec. 2. Mrs.
Helen Drexel, of Waukegan,
Illinois, is held by the Federal
authorities today on charges
of having married 12 husbands '
who served in the army or
navy, divorced nine, and re
ceived approximately $400 a
month from the government
for the past three years.
FARME
TO SECURE LOANS
North Carolina Folk, Are Getting
Hot After Federal Farm
Loan Board.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. North
Carolina folks are getting hot after
the Federal Farm Loan board. Sen
ator Simmons has taken up with that
board what seemS to be the inexcus
able inactivity and relay in the per
formance of its proper functions of
the Federal Farm Loan bank at Co
lumbia, S. C. From dozens of local
ities in North Carolina and from cit
izens, banks, trust companies and
local farm loan organizations, Sena
tor Simmons is receiving complaints
that applicants, some of which have
been filed as long as a year ago, have
not yet been acted upon, either fav
orably or unfavorably by the Federal
land bank at Columbia. Upon the as
surance from the Farm Loan board
officials that these banks would
function promptly, hundreds of North
Carolina farmers have relied on ob
taining loans from the Columbia
bank, but after complying with every
suggestion made by it, and after of
fering unquestionable and approved
security, (the farmers hav? been dis.
appointed and embarrassed, in many
cases having suffered severe finan
cial and business losses, because of
the inaction, neglect and delay that
seem to characterize the Columbia
bank.
Senator Simmons intends to go to
the bottom of this matter and says
he is going to hold these organiza
tions to account for the power and
authority which Congress entrusted
to them to perform for the benefit
of the farmers of the country.
An unusual occurrence. Yesterday
morning, ye scribe saw an automo
bile with three men in it, dogs and
guns. They were out for a day's hunt.
The auto contained three generations.
The father was passably good look
ing, the son good looking and the
grandson handsome. All good sports-
New Telephone Directory.
The Carolina Telephone & Te'e
graph Company has just issued a
new telephone directory. This book
is well arranged and nicely gotten
up. It is about the neatest they have
ever issued.
MARKET REPORT
Wheat:
Dec. i.
May ...
Corn :
Dec.
May ...
Oats:
Dec. ...
May ;.
Lard:
Open. Close.
1.13 1-2 1.13 3-8
1.16 1-2 1.17 1-8
Open.
.48 :
.54 1-8
Close.
.48 1-2
.54 1-2
Close.
.32 7-8
.38 1-2
Close.
8.50
8.90
Open.
.... .32 1-2
. .38 3-8
Open.
8.45
.... 8.90
aJn...
May .
Peanuts: Va; 2a3c; Spanish 82 l-2c.
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Cotton:
RS ANXIOUS
Open.
17.00
17.02
16.79
16.34
16.95
Close.
17.15
17.12
16.85
16.40
17.36
Jan. ......
Mar. ......
May ......
Jly.- ......
Dec.
Clos.
. 17.18
- 17.16
. 16.92
. 16.50
- 17.22
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
MORSE ARRESTED
1EN LINER DOCKS
AT FRENCH PORT
Shipbuilder Unaware He Wat
Wanted in United States
On Defraud Charge.
TO PARIS FOR OPERATION
HAVRE, Dec. 2. Charles W.
Morse,-detained on 'the liner
Paris, when she docked here to
day. Morse said he was unaware that
he was wanted in America until in
formed last night.
He told officials that he planned
going to Paris for a kidney operation
but intended returning to the United
States shortly.
Morse said he was willing to re
turn to the United States by the net
steamer.
PARS, Dec. 2.- Havre police are
instructed by the French ministry to
arrest Charles W. Morse, American
shipbuilder and financier, as soon as
he landed from the liner Paris.
HAVRE, Dec. 2. Premier Briand
returned to France today from at
tending the Washington armament
limitation conference.
PENSIONED 'VETS'
State Auditor Has Been Kept Busy
Writing Check, For the Four
Different Classes.
State Auditor Durham has writ
tci." 1 erifion checks for $1,023,540
for thc Confederate Veterans,
The law divides the pensioners in
to four classes, according to their
disabilities. On ' this basis, Auditor
Durham has divided the fund of a
million dollars for the semi-annual
distribution. The yearly basis . on
which the pensions will be paid one
half of the amount on or before De
cember 15, according to their classes
follows: ,
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First class $150. ' ' J
Second Class- $135.
Third Class $120.
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Fourth Class $100. '
In the first class there are thirty
four soldiers and thirty-eight widows
who will get a total of $10,800 for
the year or half this amount in De
cember. In the second class there are eighty-eight
old soldiers who will get one
half of the year's appropriation of
$11,80.
In the third class there are 158 old
soldiers who will get one half of
$18,960.
The fourth class is by far the larg
est. In this class there are 4,831 old
soldiers, vf or whom there is a yearly
appropriation of $981,900. One half
of this amount will be distributed in
December.
Nearly half of those on the pension
lists this year are widows of Confed
erate veterans. Checks are being
mailed to the clerks of court of every
county for 5,111 old soldiers and for
5,026 widows of old soldiers.
MR. AND MRS. L L. CHERRY '
ARE GEETING ON WELL
Mr. Leon Cherry, who with his
wife and child was thrown from his
buggy a few days ago, was in town
today and stated that hi, wife nd
child are getting on very nicely. Mrs.
Cherry is still very sore from her
fall and shock but will soon be fully
recovered. The child is bright and
doing wel'.
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WANTED Boy to carry The;
Southerner in West Tarboro.
Apruy at Southerner office.
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