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Daily WEATHER TONIGHT QHTHEMEK LOCAL COTTON, V RAIN AND COOLER 16 1.2 CENTS VOL. 43 NO. 18 ALL THE LOCAL NEWS TARBORO, N. C, . FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1922 ASSOCIATED FHKSS S TOBACCO growers LEASE PROPOSALS ARE TAKEN UP THE GREATEST PER CAPITA WEALTH RALEIGH, April 7. Directors of the Virginia-Carolina Tobacco Grow, ers Cooperative Association and rep. resentatives of warehouse interests in Worth Carolina are in conference here today on proposals of the asso ciation to buy or lease warehouses in phe eastern section of North Caro lina. Tobacco men say if they are unable to secure sufficient warehous ing facilities they will erect their own. . PRICES UP IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK, April 7. There was no let-up to the broad dealings of the preceding sessions of the week nt the active opening of today's stock market, and the trend of prices was upward again. FRENCH CABINET APPROVES POINCARE TEXT AT GENOA PARIS, April 7. The French cab cl today approved the text of Pre mier Poincare with written instruc tions U the French delegation at the Genoa conference, based on the gov ernment's memorandum of January 31. It was declared the discussion of reparations questions was outside of th scope of the conference program. ' ABOUT THE HART FAMILY. A few weeks ago the following let ter whs received: 0 "Spring City, tenn., March 14 ' "Editor of The Southerner. "Doer sir: One of my friends saw a copy of your paper in which there was an ad asking the whereabouts of the Hart family. My maiden name was Hart and of course we are in terested. Will you kindly let me know how to get in touch with those who advertised. Haven't a copy of the paper, it was lost. "Thinking you in advance for any information and help, I am, "Yours respectfully, "Mrs. HARRIET HOYAL." If there is any one who can and will give Mrs. iHoyal the desired in- formaliomt would be greatly appre ciated. Returned Horn Lett Night.. Mr. Hyman Philips, who has been from home for several weeks, return. ed horns last night. He is looking well and his many friends are glad to welcome him tome again. TRIED INFLUENCE BURGH VENIREMEN LOS ANGELES, April 7. Herb V ert S. Hockin,' under arrest charged with having tried to influence the veniremen in the second trial of Ar thur C, Burch, for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, was said by court attaches today to be one of the 28 men convicted at Indianapolis sev eral years ago in the conspiracy of ship explosives. , To Our Merchant Friends. If times are prosperous and you are selling many goods, you caisell more by advertis ing.. . If times are dull, the only wiy to sell your merchandise is to advertise and display them. A 'candle hidden underneath a bushel measure will never be seen. (By JOHN PAUL LUCAS) RALEIGH, April 7. What county in North Carolina has the greatest per capita wealth? One would most naturally assume that Mecklenburg, Guilford, Johns ton, Forsyth, Sampson, Wake, Cum berland, Edgecombe, Wayne, Robe son or some of the othef counties in the state whose crop values each year are "high in comparison with those in other counties would claim the distinction. Such is not the case, however. These counties produce the greatest wealth, but their purchases of food and feed stuffs from other sections have always tutken the larg est part of what they have produced each year. As a matter of fact, the counties whose per capita, wealth ranks high est are not in the cotton or tobacco belts at all. The mountain county of Allegheny has the post of honor, and next in order are Clay, Tyrrell, Cam den, Graham and Orange. Most of the mountain 'counties and a few in other sections which have often been viewed with some degree of condes cension by the counties which have considered themselves wealthier are really more fortunately situated in the matter of accumulated wealth. North Carolina as a whole, accord ing to the last figures published by the Federal Census Bureau, ranked 47th among the 48 states in the mat ter of per capita wealth, being saved from bottom position by the state of Mississippi this, in spite of the tre mendous wealth which we produce each year and which places us fourth among the agricultural states in the union r.nd well on toward the head of the list among the,' industrial states. An analysis of the situation reveals the fact that counties in which the prouction of food and feed crops has been neglected and practically all acreage and , energy devoted to the production of money crops are poor er than the counties which by na ture are less fortunately situated and in which the people, perforce, or from choice, have raised their living at home. This situation is an indictment of the ordinary farm practice in the cotton and tobacco sections, and is no lees an indicitment of the intelli gence cf the farmers of these sec tions. If the wealth which hag been produced in Johnston, Wayne, Rob eson, Sampson, Halifax, Wilson and some ether counties which are so co piously blest with soil resources had been kept at home during these past years through the simple expedient of producing at home the food and feed stuffs for which thin wealth has been squandered they would be rich beyond their wildest dreams of 1919. Land in those counties would be sell ing at from $200 to $300 per acre. Their soil resources are are so great that even at ordinary prices they will be able to make tremend ous strides in the matter of wealth accumulation if they will even now adopt the common sense plan of rais ing their living at home as the first consideration of their farming prac tice.- . ; In every county and on every in dividual farmit is net income that counts, not gross income. LLOYD GEORGE LEFT WITH DELEGATES F OR GENOA MEET LONDON, April 7. Lloyd George headed a party of twenty delegates which left today for Genoa, scene of the international economic confer ence Monday. GENOA, April 7. Gabriele D' Annunzio will participate in the Ge noa economic conference as a repre sentative of Italy's seamen, Italitn papers say. FARMER DIES AFTER FI SONSIC ED MILK CAMPAIGN RALEIGH In Wilson Today. ( Mr. W. 0. Howard and Mr. O. D. Ingram are in Wilson today attend ing federal c'ourt which is in session there this week. RALEIGH. April 7. So effective was the recent milk campaign con ducted in the city of Raleigh that the importation of a considerable amount of milk from points In Virginia was necessary for a few days in order to supply the demand until arrange menls could be made for securing an increased supply from farmers of Wake county. The retail business of the Pine State Creamery jumped from ap proximately 200 to 400 gallons a day. One cafeteria has been using almost five times as much milk since the campaign as it used before. Ev ery soda fountain in the city has noted a marked increase in the sale of milk drinks and ice cream. Results of the campaign in Raleigh compare favorably with the results of the campaign at Winston-Salem several months ago when the demand for whole milk was increased 40 to 50 percent. In other cities similar re sults have been noted. The daily home '.economics! and health experts who have put on the campaigns in cooperation with the civic bodies and local dairymen in the cities which have had them, have brought home to the people the value and importance of milk as an , abso lutely essential part of the diet of every child and every adult. Dr. W. S. Rankin,, secretary of the board of health, has declared emphatically it is impossible to grow a physically perfect man or woman without milk It is nothing else than a crime, in his opinion, to attempt to raise children without their minimum of a quart of milk a day. It is a crime not only against the child himself or herself, but a?ainst future generations. Nutrition experts the country over are coming more and more to the unanimous conclusion that the cow is not only the foster mother of hu manity, but that it has played a part in the development of civilization second to no other animal. Old "Bossy" is coming into her own. ' WITH AW AXE CONCORDIA, Kansas, April 7. L. H. Tremblay, a farmer, whose five sons were hacked to death with an axe Tuesday, was found dead at the home of his neighbor today, where he had been staying since the crime. No trace of poison has been found. Experts had put him through a grilling in connection with the crime. REF USED CONSIDER SEPARATE WAGE AGREEMENTS IRISH 'PUDS' SMASH LIOUOR VALUED AT MAN! POUNDS NEW YORK, April 7. President Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking before the Cen tral Trades and Labor Council today, answered the plea of T. H. Watkins, a bituminous operator, for the nego tiation of a separate wage contract by districts, saying: "It is no far cry from separate agreements to the feudal system of individual contracts between opera tor and workers. Organized labor fhen would become helpless." ICS MU T ROE HAWAII BELFAST, April 7 One hundred membpis of the Irish Republican army forced their way into a bonded storehouse of the customs house in Dublin last night and smashed casks containing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of whiskey, dispatches received here today said. The liquor itlidliivcd to have been shipped from Belfast. , , HONOLULU, T. H., April 7. An other misconception of the status of the Hawaiian territory as a part of the United States came to light here with the receipt of a communication by a local bank from the collector of internal revenue at Washington, re- turniiijr a check on the bank, "be cause the Hawaiian islands are not in the United States." The commissioner's letter request at the Methodist fjiureh :Sduday at 11 a.nv'and" at the BaptisVehurch at EDUCATIONAL PICTURE AT SCHOOL AUDITORIUM COTTON MARKET. Yesterday's Today's Close. Open. Close. May ........ 17.81 17.86 17.78 July T7.31 17.34 17.28 Oct ........ 17.10' 17.14 17.09 Dec. ... 17.03 17.08 17.06 Jan. 16.94 16.98 16.97 Tomorrow night . at 8 o'clock historical picture will be shown in the City school auditorium. This pic- ture was prouced by the state board of education and the state historical commission, and deals with the earl iest settlements in North Carolina and the "Lost Colony." It tehows the first English expedition to America under Amadas and Barlowe; landing of Raleigh's colony on Roanoke Isl and; building of cabins and forts; peace times and war times with the Indians; theexperiences of the "Lost colony"; Virginia Dare, the first white child born in America; and va rious other thrilling features. Every one interested in the early history of North Carolina should see this picture. The price of admission will be 15 cents for children and 25 cents for adults, the net proceeds to be used for the high school athletic association. ' I ' ; ,' ed that "the matter be adjusted at Will Lecture Sunday. j once," and called attention to the Mr. George W. Young will lecture fact that a check for any obligation to the United States must be "paid at par.'' The bank's reply, after comment ing on the fact that many financial institutions, especially along the At lantic coast, have attempted charges as high as 10 percent exchange on, checks payable in this territory on the ground that Hawaii is "a foreign country." "When we have pointed out that Hawaii became a part of the United States by act of congress in the year 1898, they have usually been willing to cash said checks at par," the letter said, adding that the war risk insur ance bureau and the alien property custodian "have accepted our checks at par for years." The incident was similar to the experience of a Honolulu woman who 'attempted to cash in Baltimore a $25check on a Hawaiian bank. The clerk advised h not to try to cash the document on the ground that the "exchange would be $12 to $13." "You know, Hawaiian currency has depreciated considerably since the war," he added, sapiently. , : Another person, residing in Kan sas City, also is ignorant of the fact that Hawaii is not a foreign country but part of the United States, ac cording to a letter received by a florist here who advertises on the muinUnd. "I am a stamp collector and would like to know whether you would send me some stamps used in those isl ands,'' the Kansas man wrote. The florist sent two two-cent stamps, with a note that they had been purchased "at the postoffice, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii which contributed millions of dollars in fed eral income and other taxes to the support of the United States annu - i 7:30 p.m. Dr.. Young comes to Tar- boro highly recommended and the people are urged to hear him. Sev eral of our citizens have heard him and they speak in the highest terms of his lecture. The subject of his lec ture will be "A World Crisis Duty of the Hour." MR. J. L. McGEHEE SPEAKS AT SCHOOL Mr. J. L. McGehee addressed the pupils in the Central School this morning on the subject of "Good Citizenship." first among the qual ities of a good citizen, Mr. McGehee named respect fdr property consti tuted authority and obedience to that authority. Control of one's tem per, he said, is another important quality of good citizenship, for not only does a well-controlled temper prevent much trouble with the law, but it contributes materially to one's standing in the community. Mr. McGehee stated that money alone never brings' happiness, but that noverthlab.ihrift is necessary to good citizenship. Thriftless per- soD3--j not good vcitin Finally Mr. fcicGehee named sfinlindispcn- sable fitment of good citizenship the existence of thfproptr relationship betweeri tlfe individual and God. No- thing is More important, he said, than faith; in God amLwiflmgness to do His commands,-'.' COTTON ACREAGE IN IS TEXAS INCREASED CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, April 7, Cotton is already coming up on about 20,000 more acres of land in cultivation in Nueces county than last year and approximately 80 per cent of that amount is of the better staple variety, according to reports received by the Rural Land Owners Association. The amount of staple cotton being planted this year is the result cf the high premiums received last year on the better grade of cot ton. The percentage of cotton acreage in Nueces county this year has been decreased slightly but the acreage is considerably more, it is said, because of the new ground put into cultiva tion. Several years ago cotton was a negligible crop in this section, but in 1921 iNueccs county ranked third in the cotton producing counties of the state. Cotton planting was started in this section r.bout a month ago, but was set back sligghtly by cold weather. It is believed, however, that a very small percent of the cotton that had been planted was damaged. One thing that accounts for the rlofffump ill the uercent of acres planted in cotton this year is the sys tern of modified crop rotation which was worked out by the Agricultural and Ma.-hanical College. A campaign for a system of crop rotation is be inir carried on in this county this year and according to M. C. Jaynes, county demonstration agent, many farmers are interested in the plan. This system calls for a rotation of one-fifth of the acreage eacih year, which is a method . of combatting root rot. This campaign for a system of modified crop rotation will be tar ried on by the Rural Land Owners Association in much the same man ner as was tne staple cotton cam- . i-.i: j.,. T-... paign last year, aecoruing to Miller, secretary of the association. Mr. Miller has been in Washington for some time working on the deep water project but on his return to Corpus Christi during the past week declared that he was well pleased with the attention the farmers had been giving the plan. Robert J. Kleberg of Kingsville, one of the largest ranch men in the southwest, is president of the asso ciation, while Cyrus B. Lucas, new president of the Cattle Raisers Asso ciation, is vice president. The asso ciation is not a land selling organi zation but is for the advancement of the interests of the rural land owner. SPRING A SURPRISE AT INQUEST OVER MERCER BODY NORFOLK, April 7. Authorities announced a surprise would be made tonight at the inquest into the death of Mrs. Ruth Mercer, whose body was found at Ocean View. Edward F. Mercer, husband, and Frank McEntee will be the chief wit nesses. Detectives said they had new evi dence but refused to divulge it. STEEL MILLS FEEL EFFECT IDLE MINE YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 7. Further effect of the coal strike on the steel industry was felt here to day, when the Republic Iron & Steel Company cancelled orders for the resumption of work' in the Bessemer plant. Still IB Bed. Master Charlie Keech, ' who has been' sick for several days, is still confined to his bed. His father. Mr. C. B. Keech, says his son it likcry to tee were made, Republicans Meet Here Today. The Republican executive commit tee will meet here today at 2 o'clock. Only routine work was done with the exception of the selection of dele gates to the state convention that meets at Winston-Salem. The Kiwanis had their regular .monthly meeting last night at their hall. The supper was served by the Parish Aid Society of Calvary Epis copal church. TESTS FOR BUTTER FAT MUNICIPAL MILK PLANT The following is the report made by the municipal milk plant for but ter fat of the milk bought at this plant: Name. Carstarphen A. L. Ruflin W. L. Bel! .... W. S. Clark H. James Panola Dairy Knight B. B. Howell Sam Clark F. G. Davis E. Stith L Geo. HowaruT H. A.Winchester 6.0 J. H. Price 3.3 A.M 4.1 , 5.0 4.2 3.0 4.2 3.4 4.8 " 3.0 4.3 4.2 " 4.1 3.8 Off Foi Goo.e Creek. Mr. H. S. Bunn, Mr. Charlie Aus tin, Mr. Latham Williams and Mr. Geerge Pennington left yesterday for a few days' stay at Goose Creek to enjoy a fishing trip. Mr. George Pen nington is trying out his new easting rod. The camp at Goose Creek has been recently improved and it bids 'Reports from the athletic commit- The county com- fair to be a most popular resort for remain in bed for sometime yet. mencement matter wm discussed. Tarboro'a fishermen and tportsmen. $54,850 APPROPRIATED FOR THE STATE HIGH SCHOOLS RALEIGH, April 7. An epoch was nnrked in the educational devel opment of North Carolina when, Sat urday afternoon, the state board of education appropriated $54,850 to aid in establishing standard four year high schools in rural districts in counties which have not had such schools heretofore, thus assuring a standard high school for every coun ty in North 'Caf'olina. - At 1he close of the last school year there were 28 counties in the state in which there was not a high school of standard grade. All of these 28 counties will be enabled to maintain such i school through the action of the board of education, and in addi tion there will be established 15 other high schools in the rural districts of counties which have not heretofore had a high school of standard grade outside of the towns of these coun ties. This act of the board is made possible by a law enacted by the last general assembly, and the appropria tion to the schools that will be af fected will range from $500 to $1, 250, the latter figure b,eing appro priated in most instances. A, high school of standard grade must main tain at least an eight-months term, have three teachers devoting their whole time to high school instruction and have an average attendance in the high school department of not less than 45 pupils. I Death from Infected Milk. CHICAGO, April 3. The death of Gwendolyn Armour, 6-years-old, the daughter of Philip D. Armour 3d. and tha illness of her younger broth er may have been caused by virulent micro-organisms on the milk fed to the children, was indicated when tha health commissioner issued orders that no milk from two Wisconsin farms should be brought into Chica go, A culture made from milk from the farm, eight miles west of Wau kesha, where the milk fed to the Ar mour children was produced, killed a guinea pig within 18 hours after the solution had been injected, the health authorities said. To Our Friend and Subscribers The So"1" icr wants all the news. It wants all the per- sonals, too. If anybody is sick in tiie home, if any member of the family leaves town or re- turns home, the Southerner wanis to know it. It also wants accounts of all social affairs. i" Send these hems to the .Southerner or phone them in.
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