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TARBORO, N. C, THURSDAY;"aPR. 20, , 1922
ASSOCIATED PRiSS
VOL. 43 NO. 28.
ALL THE LOCAL NEWS
DAILY
$150 lit Prizes Awarded
County Commencement
the following prizes will be of
iertd for the county commencement:
General Prizes.
School having largest percentage of
Enrollment in parade (Tarboro
City School excepted (: Ten dollars
in fold, given by the First Nation
al. Bank.
School having most attractive line in
) parade (Tarboro City School ex
cepted) : Flag and Bible, presented
j by Junior Order, U. A. M.
School winning most points in track
events: Ten dollars .in cash, given
by Pender Hardware Company.
School winning championship base
ball game : Ten dollars in cash,
given by Hart Mills.
School winning tug-of-war contest:
Tfn dollars in cash, given by Drs.
Baker and Green.
School Winning relay race: Ten dol
lars in cash, given by J. L. Mc
Gehee. ,
Literary Event, Individual Priiei
Spelling contest: Gold me'dal, given
- by Colonial theatre.
Declamation contest: Gold medal,
given by J. W. Ums'le'ad, Jr.
Recitation contest: Gold medal, given
by Jacocks & Btiyster.
Sight reading contest: Gold medal,
given by J. H. Bell's Sons.
Short tflory contest: Gold medal, giv
es by R. B. Joscy.
HifV Schwl Boy Track Eventt.
100-yard dash: $2,60 shirt, presented
; by Foxhall & Ruffin. t.
440-yard' dash : Any pair oxfords by
Caih Store.. " '
880 yard run: $5 Century fountain
; pen!, by W. P. McCraw Drug Co. '
Standing broad jump: 2 Boy Scout
t shirtsr by The Thomas Co.
Running broad jump: 300 ft, Ray
flashlight, by Beck Electric Co.
Standing high jump: Choice of base
ball glove, by Austin Hdw. Co.
Running high jump: Selection of 2
ties, by Benjamin's Store.
Potato race: $3.50 scarf pin, by D.
H. Harris & Son.
Sack race: Selection of straw hat,
by W. R. Worsley.
Throwing baseball: Choice of mitt,
by Marrow-Pitt Hdw. Co.
Shot put: Selection of pair basket
ball shoes, by E. Saied'A Co.
Pole vault: Selcctioin of $2.50 shirt,
by Rosenbloom-Levy. Co.
High School Girl.' Track EvenU
Girl winning most points in track
events: 1 bbl. self-rising flour, by
O. O. Boykin.
100 yard dash: 48 pounds Gilt Edge
flour, by R. B. Peters.
60 yard dash: No. 2 Brownie kodak,
by E. V. Zoeller & Co.
Standing broad jump: $5 corsage by
V. H. Creech, florist. .
Running broad jump: Fern dish, by
. W. L. and J.. E. Simmons.
Standing high jump: Selection of 3
75c Victor records, by Fineman
Music Store.
Running high jump: Selection pair
silk stockings, by J. Levy.
Flag race: Selection pair silk stdek-
",, ings, by P. Shugar. .
Baseball throw: Half ioen photo
graph, by. Hightower & Howell,
., '. any $4 style. "
Grammar Grade Boys' Track Events
100 yard dash: Selection of Tennis
shoes, by Tom Mallette.
SO yard dash: Selection of $1.50
knife, by Cook's Drug Store.
Running broad jump: $i savings ac
count, by. M. G. Mann, at First
Ntl6nal Bank.
Running high jumpi $1 savings ac
count, by M. G. Mann, at First
"'. National Bank.
Three-legged race: 2 bbl. jringersnap,
by Fenders Stores, No. 64. ;
Sack race:" $1 savings account, by
M. G. Wann, at First National
. " Bank. ' "
Potato race: Any $1 knife at Cook's
Drug Store, by W. C. Douglas.
Baseball throw: Any $t knife at
Cook's Drug Store, by J. B. Aiken.
G PAPER 1ST
ENGLISH SHEET
MEXICO CITY, April 20. Org
anization of the "Society of Old Tim
ers of Mexico," recruited from Am
ericans and Britishers who have re
sided in Mexico for more than 20
years, has revealed some interesting
history in connection with the activ
ities of English language newspapers
here since the republic was founded.
The Masonic Monitor, devoted to
the cause of Masonry, was the first
newspaper printed in English to ap
pear in Mexico after its independ
ence was achieved. It was founded
in 1826 and edited by the Rev. Jos
eph Poinsette, the United States Min
ister to Mexico, whose journalistic
efforts were incidental to his diplo
matic duties.
The first newspaper of general in
formation to make its appearance
was the American Star, founded by
Bernard and Brennan in Vera Cruz
during the occupation of that city by
General Winfield Scott. When the
American forces moved to Mexico
City the American Star followed the
colors and for a year was published
as a weekly.
Some interesting data may be ob
tainied from the files of this paper.
Frequent reference is made to the
social activities of Capt. Robert E.
Lee and Lieut. Ulysses S. Grant who
judging from the society columns,
Were well known thruout the capital,
"Parson" Jackson, who during the
civil war achieved greatness as the
immortal "Stonewall," also broke in
to print frequently.
Perhaps the most conspicuous ex
ample of the English language news
paper ever founded in the republic
was the Mexican Herald whose first
issue appeared in 1895. It fell afoul
of the Carranza administration in
1916 and its editor, Paul Hudson,
closed up shop. The Herald was the
first newspaper in Mexico to use a
leased wire for a general foreign
news report.
Thruout the past 20 years numer
ous trade ' papers have appeared,
Some lasting only a few months and
a few several years. Among these!
was the Mexican Financier, Modern
Mexico, Mexican Investor, Mexican
Trader and the Daily Record. The
latest effort to print a substantial
newspaper in English has been made
'by Felix Palavicini, editor of El Un
iversal, who last June started the
Mexican Post which aims to give an
American slant to Mexican news.
ANTI-CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT
IS CAUSING MUCH ALARM
. (By Associated Press.)
, AMOY, China, April 20., An anti
Christian movement is spreading rap
idly. Christian leaders and consular
authorities express alarm. It is said
the movement is backed by the com
munists. Want To New York Today
Mr. W. A. Hart and Mr. C. A.
Johnson left this morning for a bus
iness trip for New York where they
wil be for a few days. '
Grammar Grade Girls' Track Events
80 yard dash: 1 package Luxor face
v powder, by Edgecombe Drug Co.
Running high jump: 1 package Luxor
: face powder, by Edgecombe Drug.
Running broad jump: 1 pkg. Luxor
face powder; by Edgecombe Drug.
Three-legged race: 1 pkg. Luxor face
! powder, by Edgecombe Drug Co.
Obstacle race : 1 pkg.s Luxor face
' powder, by Edgecombe Drug Co.
Potato race: 1 pkg. Luxor face pow
der, by Edgecombe Drug Co.
MASON
IN MEXICO
PRESENTATION FLftK
BIBLE TO CITY
Yesterday afternoon at half past
three o'clock there was held in the
auditorium of the Tarboro graded
schools a very impressive service by
the Junior Order, when the local
council presented a Bifle and flag to
the school.
No fraternal order in the land any
where takes more interest i Hie
public schools than does the Junior
Order. And when the occasion arises
it has always stood true to the edu
cation of the people.
One of the main tenets of this or
der is that the Bible should be read
in the public schools of the country
and in some sections of the land it
has made many a hard fought battle
for the carrying out of this principle
for which they so strongly stand.
There is hardly a public school in
the state that has not had given to it
a Bible and a flag by the order and
these occasions are always impres
sive. The service yesterday was render
ed more interesting from the fact
that Dr. Brewer was present to make
this presentation address, which he
always does in a most telling way.
The Bible was received for the
school by Mr. Slaughter and the flag
by Mr. Moseley. Both these ad
dresses were loudly applauded.
AUTO CENTER IY
DETROIT, Mich., April 19. Es
tablishment of a great industrial cen
ter near Pontiac, 2f miles north of
Detroit, in which would be grouped
two or more of the .larger Detroit
automobile plants and accessory fac
tories from all parts of the country,
is seen here as a possibility following
announcement by the Grand Trunk
Railway that it is ready to lower the
grade of its tracks along Dequindre
street, from Jefferson avenue to Hale
street, in Detroit, a distance of about
one and one-half miles at a cost of
$4,000,000.
The grade improvements, it is said
here, will drive the opening wedge
for what promises to be one of the
largest railway improvement plans
within recent years.
Officials of the railroad company,
the Detroit Board of Commerce and
certain automobile companies have
carried on discussions for the last
year that included a plan for provid
ing an interurban line between this
city and the proposed new industrial
center so that Detroit workmen might
have fast transportation to he point
near Pontiac. It is declared decision
as to expansion of the plan has been
awaiting start on the Dequindre pro
ject. Due to high taxes certain automo
bile companies here have expressed
a desire to leave the corporate limits
of the ciy of Detroit and remove to
spme ether point. Local capitalists
have acquired a 1,000-acre tract near
Pontiac as the site for a part of the
new industrial project.
HE RESENTS MAID'S JOB.
SAN' FRANCISCO, April 20.
Floyd Glotz Bach will file a suit for
divorce from Madame Margaret Mat
zenauer, contralto, in the superior
court here, according to his attorney.
Glotz Bach said his return to the
Pacific coast to his former occupa
tion as chauffeur was because he was
no lady's maid. .
FORD DISCLAIMS REPORTS.
WASHINGTON, April 20. Henry
Ford in a letter to Secretary Mellon
disclaimed responsibility for printed
reports that he returned to the U. S.
Treasury $29,000,000 in war profits.
SCHODLTUE
SORT
EVACUATE
DETROIT
GovT Morrison To Speak
At County Commencement
Mr. W. A. Hart informed the Sou
therner this morning that Governor
Cameron Morrison would speak in
Tarboro at I o'clock at the county
commencement, to be held April 28.
This is great news for Edgecombe
people and they will rejoice to learn
that tha governor will honor us with
his presence on that day.
PROGRAM COUNTY COMMENCEMENT OF EDGECOMBE COUNTY
PUBLIC SCHOOLS,, APRIL 28TH.
10:00 Meeting; all entrants in track events, together with principals and
coaches, at the Colonial theatre.
10:00 Meeting all contestants in Grammar Grade Literary Contests in
High School Auditorium.
10:35 High School Boys' Track events begin on High School grounds.
10:30 Grammar Grade Literary Contests begin in High' School Buildins
10:45 High School Girls' Track events begin on High School Grounds.
11:45 Formation for piirade on High School Grounds.
12:00 Parade beginning at High School grounds on St. Patrick Street
thence down St. Patrick Street to Pitt St. Thence west on Pitt
Street to Main Street thence north on Main Street to Town
Commons.
1:00 Picnic Dinner on Commons.
2:00 Address by Governor Cameron Morrison.
2:45 High School Boys' Relay Race.
3:00 Grammar Grade Boys Track Events begin.
3:00 Grammar Grade Girls' Track Events begin.
3:15 Tug-of-War Championship.
4:00 Baseball games between team picked from High Schools of County
and team picked from the membership of Tarboro Kiwanis Club.
CAMBRIDGE OXFQHD
ASK PUBLIC FOR
LONDON, April 20. Oxford and
Cambridge Universities, for the first
time in their-long histories, are un
able to support themselves, and have
called upon the public for assistance.
This was disclosed in a reuort is
sued by the Royal Commission ap
pointed under the chairmanship of
ex-premier Asquith to investigate the
financial condition of the two insti
tutions, which two years ago was ad
mittedly so unsatisfactory that theJ
government granted each of them an
emergency subsidy of 30,000 pounds
annually, thus saving both colleges
from collapse.
Including these subsidies, Oxford
had an income of 824,710 pounds in
1920, while that of Cambridge total
ed 719,554 pounds. The commission's
report recommends increasing the
annual grants to 100,000 pound to
each, vvith additional provisions for
extending educational facilities for
women and paying pension arrears.
The commission stresses the point
that today the universities have re
turned to their original function of
ministering to the non-wealthy stu
dent, and have, in fact, become stu
dent democracies,
WOMEN ATTEND
STATE MENTION
RALEIGH, April 20-With women
participating for the first time, the
Democratic State tonveri'tion con
vened here oday. )4
The adoption of a platform was
the principal business, with Repre
sentative Pou delivering the keynote
speech. . ' .
WAR MATERIALS EXPLODE.
ATHENS, April 20. Saloniki ad
vices report great loss of life as a
result of the explosion of war mate
rials near Saloniki railroad station.
Hundreds of children were buriied in
the ruins of a church on which shells
fell.
It is believed 1800 soldiers were
buried in the ruins of the barracks.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.
A contraband shipment of 14.000 tins
of opium and other drugs, valued at
$200,000, was seized on the China
Mail Co. liner Nanking today. ..
IRE FUNDS
Every day adds more, attractions
to the coming commencement and
from present indications it will in
deed be a giorious day for the coun
ty. The Southerner would say to
the people that this day is their day
and their gathering together in their
county seat on April 28 should be
productive of great good to all who
attend this commencement.
SUFFOLK FIST FIGHT
RESULT OF GOOBER
SUFFOLK, April 20. Peanut war
fare, which has been waged in Suf
folk lately, broke out this morning
in a fight on the streets between Col.
John B. Pinner, president of the Suf
folk Peanut Company, and his son,
John K. Pinner, one of the officers
of that company, and Otto C. Light
ner, eitor of a publication known as
the Peanut Promoter.
The light was the direct result of
an article appearing in the Light
ner's magazine, in which a violent
attack was made on Colonel Pinner,
charging himi with breaking faith
with the cleaners when he entered
into an agreement to clean the pea
nuts of the Peanut Growers' Ex
change. John F. Pinner, resenting the at
tack made on his father, struck Mr.
Lightner, it is said, and in the scram
ble following. Col. Pinner took part.
Lightner, according to eye witnesses,
did not put up a fight. All three were
summoned to a trial which will be
held in the Suffolk police court.
(By Associated Press.)
DUBLIN, April 20. Last night
was th? worst Dublin has experienc
ed since Easter. Continuous rifle
and machine-gun fire, and the noise
of military lorries rushing relief to
places attacked, kept the residents
awake all night.
BELFAST, April 20. Sniping was
renewed in the Short Strand scene
of last night's fierce riot. Two were
wounded. Mary Keehan, shot yes-v
terday, is dead, bringing the death
roll since Tuesday to eight.
Bate Ball Meeting Monday
All those who have subscribed and
also those who are interested in the
Team are requested to meet Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Com
missioners Room at the Court house
forhe purpose of prefecting a per
manent organization.
This will be very important meet
ing an all are requested to be pres
ent at this meeting.
: C. A. Johnson Acting Pre.
George Fountain, Acting Sec-
INDUSTRY WAR
DISORDERS
BECOME
WORSE
The Keynote Speech
Democratic Convention
(By Associated Press.)
RALEIGH, April 20. Represent
ative E. W. Pou declared in the key
note speech at the Democratic State
Convention here today that only
when the Republican party had fol
lowed the lines laid down by the Wil
son administration had it been able
o approximate success in any endea
vor. "They have tacitly abandoned any
hope tf successfully appealing to the
electorate at this year's election by
reason of any achievement of a leg
islativie character along domestic
lines,'' Representative Pou said, and
"are casting their hopes upon the
results of the Limitation of Arma
ment Conference and the treaties
there ratified."
Declaring the Republican party
had "floundered in confusion and
dawdl-'d with pitiful incapacity" since
their restoration to control of con
gress, Mr. Pou said he believed it to
be "literally true" that "even today
certain Republicans would rather do
some act that would in some way re
flect upon the career and fame of
Woodrow Wilson than to pass the
most, 'beneficient legislation which the
human mind can frame."
"Him they hate," he added, "and
him they have hated from the be
ginning of his career because of that
transcendent ability and impeccable J
character which have placed him in I almost to a science. All winter the
the foremost ranks of the world's j jiny visitors hje lived off the fat
immortals. Because of envy they hat- i 0f the land and tjjeir food has come
ed him in the. days of his activity and while' they have hardly flipped a fin
even now, as he aits in dignified re- j fur it When they are liberated it is
tirement, their bitterness goes out j n different story. Care must be taken
toward him and their venom they t0 fr,.e the smaller specimens first
continue to spread upon him. j and give them ample time to got out
"It could nut be expected that a f the way of the big fellows,
party which sees red and then goeaj A curious feature is " : some of
blind with madness at the very men- j fisll which spent the winter in
tion of a name would or could ap-1 the aquarium have just been liberat
proach the solution of grave prob-' e(1 and will return to the tanks again
lems in a spirit of intelligence or of
sincere patriotism."
"They dare not risk their cause j
at the polls upon their domestic leg
islation," Mr. Pou continued with
reference to Republican leaders.
"They failed to provide against
the reactions that follow all wars.
i
They held the United States aloof;
i- 1.1 UL fUt I
irom toe wunu, ilii me it-nuii. Litoi
our foreign markets were destroyed,
and as against prosperity of the De
mocratic days we witnessed, with the
beginning of Harding's term, a con
tinuation of that depression already
begun with the defeat of the treaty.
"We fell from our high estate as
a leader of all nations to a point
where, literally, we had no real
friends among them; and it was per
haps not an extravagant remark by
the gentleman who said 'but for the
fact that so many nations owed us
money it was doubtful if our flag
would be saluted upon the high seas
of the world'."
Representative Pou charged the
administration with demoralizing the
civil service system in "their hunger
for jobs. When they have desired
jobs, instead of frankly saying so
and taking them as spoils," he de
clared, "they have, by cunning or
ders, cast aspersions upon faithful
employes discharged." He charged
"notorious and flagrant" disregard
of the civil service in respect to post
masters, asserting that ex-service
men who stood at the top of the list
of eligibles certified had been ignor
ed and '''partisan henchmen" appoint
ed. At Henderson, N. C., he said,
three democrats were-certified but no
appointments had been made.
Representative Pou devoted large
part of his address to state issues
and to the record of the democratic
party both in North Carolina and in
the nation at large, asserting that
"aa against the federal reserve law,
the farm loan act, the Underwood
Simmons tariff law ana! other meas
ures enacted during Mr, Wilson' ad-
ministration you have a do-nothinf
AQUARIUM FISH ARE
GIVEN
VC
TILL WINTER
MIAMI, Fla., AjJril 20. With the
exception of a few specimens ship
ped to institutions in New York and
Philadelphia, the hundreds of fish in
fhe Miami Asquarium who exhibited
themselves during the winter to tour
ists and homefolks interested in fish
ology, have begun their summer va
cations. They have been returned to
the Atlantic Ocean and have headed
toward their native haunts among
the Florida Keys or in the Gulf.
The glass tanks in the aquarium,
which scientists say contain during
the winter months one of the great
est varieties of marine life in the
world, are empty during the summer
and are so dry a fiddler crab could
hardly exist in them. In the fall the
fishermen, familiar with the habits of
the various species, go after them
with nets, traps and hook and line
and in a short time have enough to
restoctt them.
The job of releasing the fish is a
difficult one and has been reduced
in the fall. Caring for the fish day
after day, employes of the institution
'earn to recognize various
finny
guests by scars or other markings
and almost invariably a few of those
released in the spring will be found
in the tanks again when the fisher
men bring in fresh specimens.
REPLY TO NOTES
(By Associated Press.)
GENOA, April 20. The Germans
are divided on the form of reply to
Lloyd George's ultimatum that they
either withdraw the Russo-German
treaty or accept the penalty of dis
barment from the conference's dis
cussion of the Russian question. No
reply is expected before tonight. The
Russians say the treaty must stand.
PARIS, April 20. Instructions
sent by Premier Poincare to French
ambassadors at allied capitals insist
that energetic measures must be tak
en and penalties applied to Germany
if the Russo-German treaty is not
abrogated, regardless of what thj
Genoa conference may decide.
policy of the Republican administra
tion up to this hour.''
"You have, however," he said, the
"promise of the president that he is
going to build up a greater merchant
marine by means of a subsidy which
he hopes will cover, the loss of the
ship owners if he fails to bring a
full return load because he knows he
must scale that high tariff wall in
order to get rid of the return load.
The American- people in November
will decide whether they are willing
to be taxed to . provide the subsidy
which the president has recommend
ed. No more unjust or unscientific
plan for maintaining a merchant ma-
rine Could ba devised."
GERMANS SPLIT ON
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