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WEATHER TONIGHT OUTHER LOCAL COTTON, . RAIN AMD COOLER 16 1-4 CENTS. VOL. 43 NO. 19. ALL THE LOCAL NEWS TARBORO, N. O, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1922 ASSOCIATED PRESS NER Tarboro Should Strike For (Golden Opportunity AN OPPORTUNITY THAT COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME TO TAKE ' HOLD OF THE COOPERATIVE MARKETING, SYSTEMi TARBO- RO CAN BE MADE A GREAT TOBACCO CENTER IF IT WILL STRIKE NOW: NEXT FALL WILL BE TOO" LATE. The Southerner does not pretend to be V prophet, t there are some thihgiTthat are no plainly written up on the pages of time that a way-faring man, though a fool, can not err . therein. . Last Friday at Raleigh the ware housemen of the state were asked, to meet with the officialsrf the Tobac co Cooperative Marketing system so as to come to some understanding about the uses and leases of the many tobacco warehouses for the coming season. . Most of the warehousemen near and around Tarboro have turned of fers of these officials down and flat ly refused to lease their, houses or work with the farmers, who hayi al. ready signed these cooperative mar keting contracts. '"' If fO The greatest opportunity thafc Tar-fcoro- has ever had is now presented to our people and the question now is, will' our pefaple take advantage of it? Thii is the view taken by The Southerner. It wiil be remembered that" the first tobacco warehouse 'built in this state ftt of th Atlantic Coast Line Was built in Tarboro'i and 'Ttwas aimed the Pioneer Warehouse. The tobae.-o' market started out then 'in goodhap"eVtufafer a few' years' it Went down -and 'it is impossible -to estimate what Tarboro has lost by allowing this tobacco market to go' down. That was a golden pportnity that slipped from Tarboro and the town was a loser thereby. Another great opportnnity is now knocking at our doors. What will Tai'boro do with it? The Southerner predicts that if the owners of the warehouses here and the tobacco people and the citi zens' and the business men will get in line with this great cooperative mar keting movement, it will be the big- geit tJihig Tarboro can put across. No tnin can stand up and say that Tai'boro has not had in the past many a golden opportunitl, but many of these opportunities have been allow ed to pass by unnoticed and unheed ed. Today another opportunity is knocking at our doors. Will 'Tarboro heed thie knock or will it keep the door closed? If Tarboro will act at once, it wllrf bt the receiving point for the tobac co from fitt, Martin, Halifax, Edge combe, part of W'lson and probably other counties nearby. .' PRECINCT MEETING J OF NO. 1 TOWNSHIP The precinct' meeting of precinct No. 2 of. township No. 1, was held Saturday afternoon at the City Hall. The foljowing executive committee was elected: H. P. Foxhall, chairman, W. E. Page, W. C. Pitt, Mrs. F. G. Davis, H.;H. Philips. : The following delegates to the county convention that meets in Tar ' boro April 15 ware elected: Cicero Price, W. E. Page, Zeb C. Cummings , E. C. Winslow, H. P.. Foxhall, Earl West, C. H. Butler, W. C. Pitt, L. V. Hart, W. D. Leggett, George How ard, Forest Sledge, Dade Barnes, Joe Harris, Mrs. F. G. "Davis, John L. I Bridget's, Mrs. Nina Powell, Mrs. Ada Bass. Miss Ellen Walston. Mrs. Htn- . 1 f ' T7 n W 1! T Keel, Will Rochester, Edgar Clark, A. F. Cross, i. E. Morrisette, Wm. H. Powell. ; . Levietkea at Newport Now. , NEWPORT NEW8, Va April 10J --The giant liner Leviathan tarrfed today in recopditipainjr here. L IKE Bib REDUCTIONS FOR CHICAGO, April 10. Reductions ranging from 25 to 45 percent will be declared on all railroads west of Chicago and St. Louis in round trip fares to western summer resorts ef fective in some territories May 15, in others June 1, according to Geo. J. Maguire, chairman of the tariff bureau of the Western Passenger As sociation. Reductions of 20 percent on fares to eastern resorts will be declared in eastern railroads and ap plied concurrently on the western lines, it was announced.. The measure of reduction is declared to ibe not only the greatest for summer rates since America's entrance into the world war, but far greater than any for a number of years before that war, even when lower reduced fares were offered because the basic rates were much lower. The summer re ductions supplement homeseeker rate o"f a one-way fare plus $2 for round trip, which went into effect in March. . The summer tourist tickets will be 'sold daily until Sept. 30 at the price of a one-way fare plus one-tenth to one-hnlf fare, the larger reductions being for the longer distances trav eled. For example, a round trip from Chicago to Yellowstone, Colorado, or the Pacific coast, will cost one and one-tenth times a one-way fare, and a round trip from Chicago to a Wis consin resort will usually cost one and one-half times a one way fare. Similarly the reduction on the round trip to Yellowstone or the coast will be less in proportion as the tourist's starting point is nearer his destina tion. As a rule the return limit will be Oct. 31, tout some tickets to Mich igan and Wisconsin points carry a 30-day limit. The reductions will represent a concerted effort on the part of the railway companies to build up pas senger traffic, it was stated. MUCH COMPLAINT ABOUT PREVALENCE OF MOSQUITOES Many families of the town com plained last week of the prevalence of mosquitoes. In some localities they are numer ous. In many cases this time of the year these pests are found in old rain barrels, tomato cans, roof gut ters that have become clogged with dead leaves, and in the hollows of trees. It would be well for the sani tary officer to make an investigation at once. ; Entertain the Children. Mrs. Wiley Whitehead entertained the children of the Bright Jewel Band of the Methodist church at her home yesterday afternoon. Light re freshments were served to the little ones. It most a most enjoyable occa sion for the children. THE MAYOR', SCOURT. The following cases were disposed of by His Worship Mayor Foxhall this morning: Alex Thomas, disorderly conduct, was fined $2.85. , Oscar Shepherd, disorderly, $2-85. James Thomas, disorderly, $2.85. Andrew Johnson, disorderly, $2.85 G. E. Womble, disorderly, $2.85. Richard Cobb drunk and disorder ly, $7.85. V. E.i Grimes, speeding, $5. I. R. Cummings, reckless driving,, dismissed. , . Edgar Warren, reckless driving, $2.85. . -; .;... .. B. M. Bess, ipeediuff, $2.86, j THE SUMNER Every Monday Do Men Light a CandU, and Put It Under a Bushel? "The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall ; the desire of Knokledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no Ex cess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it." Charity is not only the most beautiful, but the most helpful thing in life; not only a blessing to those who live and prac tice it, but a support to those who receive it. The Lord oftert ariswered a proposition by asking a question: "And he said unto them, Is a Can die brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed? And not to be put on a candle stick." The Lord clearly means and de clares that a man should not light his candle, and crawl under the bed with it, and have all the light unto him self. Light is the heart and soul of life. In the shadow cast by a man's light, you may read a man's true character; if he uses his light as a means of prying out things for him self only and to mislead others for his own advantage, shun him, he is bad. The light of a true and good man, like the dews of heaven, which fall alike upon the just and unjust, sheds ts rays upon all. The man who holds his lighted candle high an clear does great good; though he may never know whose weary step it has guided, nor whose steps along th path of shame and wickedness, that it has checked. The light not only warns but it guides, follow the light When a person has the opportunity of light, and does, not avail himself neither God nor the law excueeth him. Ths law requires the town to keep light on the streets and side walks, so that the people may safely pass and repass; but should a person receive an injury because of lack of light, then the town must out of the tax money pay for that injury. Do we not really need light as much or more than the streets; to rightly and sufficiently light our con1 "ty for the progress and develop I the town, what are we 1 t it? Let us all keep ...es in the open, take tu under the bushels and beds; and have a white way not only by night, but by day, "The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun; The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done." While I stand for light all the time, I am told that light is not needed to tell that our good roads are rough and unmaintained. April 10, 1922. John L. Bridgers. KILLS 3 CHILDREN IN DERANGED CONDITION CHARLOTTE, April 10. Three small children, Blanche, 6, Bleecher, 4, and Hazeline, 3 months, and John Helms, their father, who early yes terday killed them with an axe, later blowing his own head off with a shot gun, will be buried today. Helms is supposed to have been temporarily deranged. Mrs. Helms and two elder children .Ruby Lee, 13, and Elms, 8 es caped. The tragedy occurred eleven miles from here at a farm house. PREMIER FACTA OPENS GENOA CONFERENCE GENOA, ItalyApril 10. Tho Ge noa economic conference was form ally opened today by Premier Facta of Italy. . Weatbe For Week. April 10 to 15: For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Unsettled, and warm, with ohowers first half of the week,, generally fair and cooler sec ond half. . 33 NATIONS GATHER AT GENOA FOR L GENOA, Italy, April 10. Thirty three nations from four Continents are in this ancient city today to be gin efforts to restore world normal conditions at the great economic con ference. I . f": k ! This congress is generally regard ed as the mosflmportant'and signifi cant meeting since the Versailles, peace conference, . ; K1'lY,V Delcxati-WaBioThf lead to arl Vcohomic' red5nslriicf1oh ' of Europe 'andjteliflllftitaftDn.of -Rus 'andjteliflllftitaftDn.of Ru mul opening will take plac sia particularJ The formal opening place at three o'clock m a afternoon, iri the historic palace of St. George, built in the year 12G0. 1 ECONOMIC PARLEY ARABS AND ZIONISTS OUTLINE DEMANDS IN LAWS OF PALESTINE JERUSALEM, APRIL 10. The division between Arabs and Zionists over he establishment of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine is becoming more clearly defined as to the tow poposing elements clash. Before Winston Churchill told the Arab delegation in London a few weeks ago that the creation of a nat ional independent government in Palestine could not be sanctioned now, the Arabs here has hopes that the Balfour declaration would be scrapped and that an independent Arab Palestine would be set up un der British advisors. Jamnl Effendi El Husseini, Sec retary of the Chiistian Moslem Com mittee, whose aim is to combat Zion ism, told The Associated Press cor respondent that the Balfour declar ation was "unjust and impractic able because it tends to sacrifice 500,000 souls it on the cross of pol itical Zionism. It is impracticable be cause it does not solve the Jewish problem since Palestine can at most accommodate only 2,000,000 of the 14,000,000 of Jews in the world". Mr. Husseini defined the demands of the Arabs df the Arabs as includ ing the right of Palestine to have control of its administering affairs and of Jewish immigration,' the priv ilege of administering its own fin ances and revocation of" the order that a Palestine police force be or ganized by recuiting former British soldiers. . '". " "We do not resent the throught of a British protectorate provided we are permitted to retain our national entity". laid Mr. Husseini. "We are even willing to permit our foreign relations to be dominated by British policy".. He pointed to the example of Malta as noe which Palestinians would be glad to emulate.' The Arab leader charged that' the economic development of Palestine had been retarded since the Zionist organization gained ascendency and declared that the Palestine govern ment, at the request of Zionists, was refusing to grant concessions to eith er English or American companies and that conquentty the land was economically stagnant, i He declared, that the only solution to the Palestine problem would be a return to the starting point after the armistice and a settlement in con formity with the wishes of the Arab population. The other eide of the picture is presented by Jevi Solomon, a leading Zionist -in Palestine who .declared that . the Jews were anxious and ready to do everything "in their pow er to. create friendly 'relations and mutual - undsntandi-rg with their IRISH MAY OBSERVE EASTER IE LONDON, April 10. The question whether the extremist republicans of Ireland will observe the anniversary of Easter week uprising against the English government in 1016 again this Easter, to oust the provisional government of Ireland and establish a republic, is being seriously consid ered and discussed in well informed cfreles of England and Ireland. Armed Troop- Arrive. DUBLIN, -April 10. Appearance of British armed troops on streets of Dublin yesterday was the first time since the creation of the Irish truce and caused a sensation. bretheren the Arabs who are of the same semitic race". "The presence of the Jews in Pal estine is far from being prejudicial to the interests of the Arabs", he said. 'On the contrary, it has proved very beneficial". He enumerated a number of en terprises which are being undertaken or planned by Jews. These included the Ruttenberg scheme forthe gen enation of electricity, the Haifa bonded warehouses for facilitating foreign trade, harbor improvements of Java to make it a navigable port all the year round and the building of several factories. These he said were only a few of the many Jewish schemes for the building up of Palestine. MEET HERE TODAY Mr. George Fountain states that he has been advised that the repre sentatives of the Eastern Carolina Baseball League will hold a session here this afternoon at 4 o'clock for the purpose of discussing the forma tion of a berth in the circuit. Much interest has been manifested in baseball throughout the eastern section of the state, and the fans hope that arrangements can be made whereby this Jeague can be formed and Tarboro will get in the game. ARCTIC EXPLORER HOPS OFF IN ALL-METAL PLANE .. CENTRAL- PARK, N. Y., April 10. Captain Roald Amundsen, Arctic explorer, hopped off in an all-metal monoplane today for Cleveland on the first lap of a transcontinental flight that will eventually take him to Seattle, where he leaves June 1 on a driftingvoyage north for the Polas regions. ATTACK BARRACKS AND WOUND CAPTAIN LONDON, April 10. Police bar racks of County Clare, occupied by Irish republican army units, were attacked this morning, according to Limerick advices. The captain in charge of the barracks was fatally wounded. BODY OF COL. BECK ON WAY TO ARLINGTON OKLAHOMA CITY, April 10. The body of Lieut. Col. Paul Ward Beck, who was slain by Jean P, Day, wealthy oil man and lawyer, is en route today to Washington for inter ment at Arlington National Ceme tery. K WITH ANOTHER UPRISING BASEBALL FANS TO Warehouse Owners Have Tendered Their Property T INDIANAPOLIS, Indr, April 10. The second week of the big coal strike got under way today with the union miners still presenting an un broken front. The situation in the non-union fields is becoming more favorable to the union's cause, according to John L. Lewis, the union's president, who re-established national headquarters here yesterday to direct the strike. CUT LOOSE RAFT OF LOGS. A raft of Jogs belonging to Mr. Joe Harris was cut loose from the bank last night. This raft was located just above the county bridge. The raft, consisting of 200 logs, was located just above the county bridge. Mr. Harris says he recover ed all the timber, but tvas at a loss of $50 to get it back to his mill on the river between the Coast Line and county bridges. He has no idea who committed this act. County Commencement. At the meeting of the public school teachors of the county that was held here last Saturday, it was decided to have the county commencement in Tarboior Bomctime during the last week of April. A committee from the Kiwanis club of Tarboro will be conferred with today and the details and exact date for this commencement will be decided upon. Girls' Friendly Society. The Girls Friendly Society will have their regular meeting Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Ann Johnson. The hour has been changed from 7.30 to 7.45 o'clock. Members will please be on time. BUSINESS DEPRESSION OVER, NOW IMPROVING NEW YORK, April 10. Business depression is over and gradual im provement is expected, declared Dr. Hugh B, Baker, executive secretary of the American Paper and Pulp As sociation at the annual convention of paper manufacturers. DENIES HE WAS ASKED TO RETURN TO GREECE WASHINGTON, April 10. Re ports that he had been asked to re turn to Greec and resume premier ship were pronounced ridiculous to day by former Premier Venizelos. MARKET REPORT. Saturday's Today's Close. Open. Close. Jan. : . 17.15 17.90 17.40 17.21 17.21 17.08 17.80 17.26 17.16 17.12 17.08 17.74 17.32 17.32 May July Oct. Dec, 17.18 Who Will Take These Children T The following letter has been re ceived from Mr. John J. Phoenix, state superintendent of the Children Home Society of North Carolina: We have the following children ready for placement this month and if you are in position to -recommend any homes in your county who wish children of the ages mentioned, we would be pleased to give their appli cations prompt action: One boy, S months; one boy 2 months; one boy 1 month; one boy 2 years; one boy 6 years; one boy 7 years; one boy 14 years; 2 girls 8 years; two girls 12 -feraold. ' MINERS BROKEN ON STAND FOR 19 DEMANDS ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY TO BACCO WAREHOUSES IN THE CAROL1NAS AND VIRGRINIA HAVE TENTEDER THEIR PRO PERTIES; MORE THAN EIGHTY HOUSES IN NORTH CAROLINA TENDERED TO THE COOPERA TIVE ASSOCIATION OFFICIALS WHO MEET IN RALEIGH TODAY. RALEIGH, April 10. One hun dred ind fifty warehouse owners in the Carolinas and Virginia have ten dered the use of their properties to the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association and have signed contract to sell or lease their warehouses to the organization of 70,000 tobacco growers, which extends throughout the three states. Forty out of the 75 warehouses in South Carolina were signed over to the association Saturday at a meet ing of the warehousemen and direc tors of the association held in Flor ne S. according to M. O. Wil son, secretary of the association with headquarters in Raleigh. Saturday's meeting marked the successful close of a series of conferences which be gan April 5 at South Boston, Va., resulting in the sign-up of warehouse iin 28 out of the 35 dark and bright markets of that state, in the tender ing of more than 80 North Carolina warehouses to the organized growers of this state, and in the final addi tion of 40 warehouses through to day's meeting, which gives us a to- tal of 150 marketing centers for the association, which is ample to secure the needed facilities for handling a majority of the tobacco of the three states which is now under contract with the marketing association. . Following this week's successful scrie9 of meetings, there will be an important conference of the direc tors and officials of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association who will meet Judge Robert W. Bing ham of Louisville, Ky., leader and organizer of the successful pool of burley tobacco growers, and James C, Stone, manager of the Burley Growsrs' Marketing Association. Of ficials of the Carolina-Virginia As sociation who are expected at this : conference in Raleigh, April 10 are; Oliver J. Sands of Richmond, gen eral manager; Richard Patterson, manager - leaf department; C: B. Cheatham, assistant manager of leaf department, and President G. A. Norwood of Goldsboro. THE WESTS SHOWS GONE TO GREENVILLE The Wests Shows have completed an engagement here with the Kiwa nis for a week's stand, and they left Sunday for a week's stand in Green- ' ville. The Southerner can safely say that these shows, call them carnival or what not, are the cleanest and best that have been in Tarboro for many years. Mr. West, owner, will not allow anything questionable on ' the grounds and is making a reputa tion for himself and his shows that will redound to his credit as a show man. These shows have wintered here this season and Mr. West and hi as- t sociates have made many friends in Tarboro who will never forget them. Since Mr. West has been in our town he has become one of us, and it may be Mr. West will vote here next fall. He has shown himself to be a most public-spirited citizen and has always come to the front when-a call has been made for money or help in pushing the tewn forward.' Our people regret to know that Mr. West and his shows will leave, but they trust he will return and winter among as again. ' . : The Southerner wishes these shows - a. great tuccesa and a prosperous year.