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TARBORO, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1922
ALL THE LOCAL NEWS
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F
EVANSTON, ILL., MAY 13. In
the first report issued since he be
came president of Northwestern Un
iverstty, Walter Dill Scott emphas
ises the fact that, notwithstanding
the generous gifts of many benefact
ors, the cost of education, mounting
higher year by year, makes it lm
perative that an endowed educational
institution pay out much more than
. Is received from students. President
Scott says that this is true at North
western University.
"Years ago the university," he
says, "bound itself to the production
of men and women trained in mind
and character to a certain standard.
The cost of the product has risen. In
university finance, unlike the busi
ness world, there is little connection
between the cost of the product-education,
and the income 'of the educa
tional institutions,
"Student fees cannot be increased
in number or in the individual sum.
We cannot take care of any great in
crease in the number of students,
even if it could be gained without
educational sacrifice. Pr,actic$Iy.ey.-
ery school is working to its physical
capacity. We are working at the
point of greatest economy and effic
iency. Yet at present the school de
ficit is $143,800. Throughout the uni:
versity for every $3 a student pays
the university, $4 are paid out in
actual teaching expenses for him by
the university, taking no account of
general administrative charges, ren-
tl tar the use of the campus or
foundings, interest or fixed charges.
This $4 is an actual expenditure for
every student and will only increase
With i the increase of student num
bers. -,. ,
-If to the actual teaching expense
fair commercial rest were added
based oh the actual value of the edu
cational plant, it would appear that
the university spends on the student
W for every $1 he pays in."
E
AT WORK TO HALT
DANGERS OF U,,P
GENOA, May 13. The sub-corn
mission on Russian affairs of the
economic conference met today to
'consider tho Soviet reply to the al
lied memorandum, outlining the con
ditions on which the powers would
undertake the reconstruction of Rus
sia.'. ; ! -- v .
While the pessimists are proclaim
inf the Genoa conference dead, Pre
mier Lloyd George was alarmed at
the possibilities of a new political
crisis,' striving with others to create
binding truce to prevent the new
sAisras and postpone the dangers of
war. ' f '
" fOKlO, May 13. Japan is not
planning a separate treaty with Rus
sia, . fre foreign office declared. ;
'I GimIi of Miss Knight.
Misses Rosa Lee Stepp, Washing
ton City, Carrie Lee Johnspn, Will-
iamsport, Pa., Emma K. Jones, San
ford, Mary Denny, Red Springs, Lou
is Wilkinson and Helen Mrrian or
Rocky Mount, are the guests of Miss
Eliza Knight at her home near Tar
boro. '
BENJAMIN BLOCKS FAVORITE
TO WIN KENTUCKY DERBY
' LOUISVILLE, May 13. Eleven
tboroaghbred aristocrats of the Am
'erican turf were carded to face the
barrier at Chuchill Downs today in
the 4itb renewal Kentucky derby.
Benjamin Blocks, a three-year-qld
Morvieh, is the favorite.' ;
i COTTON REPORT. .
I Yesterday's Today's
i
Close. Open.'
Close.
19.84
19.48
19.52
19.52
19.42
Utf .19.45
' jsryil 19.87
JOct'l 1951
"Dee. L 19.54
13.95
19.64
19.50
19.60
19.40
Jan.'
19.43
ROM THE STUDENT
LLOYD GEDHG
HARD
THE SOUTHERNER
SATURDAY SERMON
And he delivered him to his moth
er. St. Luke, 7:15.
Tomorrow is Mother's Pay, and
this sermon shall be on mothers. It
shall be a collection of detached
thoughts, rather than a connected
essay:
1. A mother's love for her cVldren
is most like God's love for men, than
is any other human feeling to which
we may compare it. For instance,
mother's love goes out to one of her
children with the same intensity as
to all of them, and to a'.! of them as
intensely as to on. I mean, if a mo
ther has ten children, and loses one,
her grief for that one is as great as
if she had no others. God's love is
just like that. He loves each human
being, separate and apart from the
rest, as much as He loves them all.
Jesus expressed that fact of His Fa
ther's love in the parable of the
"Lost Sheep," in which the Shepherd,
when he lost one sheep out rf a hun
dred, could take no conifer; in the
fact that he had ninety-nine left, but
sought, inconsolable, for the one
which was lost. Mother's love is like
that.
2. Again, mother's love is like
f Co'cPs inasmuch as it does not depend
at all upon whether it is returned or
not. No other human passion is that
way. We love our friends as long as
they love us, but if they grow cold,
so do we. A man may love a woman
for a little while when she does not
love him, but let her stay indifferent
too long, and he turns his heart to
some more sympathetic lady. But a
mother loves a bad, ungrateful son
as much, and sometimes more, as she
loves the one who never gave her an
anxious moment. That is true of
God's love for man. It was for His
wicked and rebellious sons that He
came down and died. He said that He
would scarcely die for a righteous
man, but to save sinners was His in
finite longing.
.3. As the most dreadful thing in
the spiritual world is a false God, in
the natural world it is a false mother.
The more beautiful anything is when
it is right, the more hideous it is
when it is wrong. Just think of a
mother who neglects her children, or
teaches them evil, or who is selfish
towards them, or cruel to them, or
'HifTerent to the welfare of their
s. Mother's love is, after all, a
in thing, and like all human
9, it can possibly fall short of
it ought to be. It should be
angthened by the love of God
which cannot fail)
4. As a false God is dreadful, so is
a false worshiper. God's first com
mandment to men was to forbid
false Gods: and Jesus could not en
dure Pharisees, hypocrites, dishon
ored the true God whom they pre
tended to worship. So in the natural
world, next to a false mother, stands
a false son, in perversity. No base
ness in any man can possibly equal
in horror that of the man who is
wilfully ungrateful, neglected, care
less of the comfort, indifferent to
the wishes, unresponsive to the love
contemptuous of the religion, impa
tient towards the fancies,
mother.
of his
METHODISTS DISCUSS TEN.
MILLION-DOLLAR FUND
HOT SPRINGS. Ark., May 13.
The 19th quadriennial conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church South
began its final session of the pres
ent week here this morning. Tonight
the church finance board is to dis
cuss plans for obtaining a ten mil
lion dollar fund for the superannu
ated ministers which the conference
has already approved.
SWEET POTATO STORAGE
WAREHOUSE FOR TARBORO
(Rocky Mt. Telegram.)
The announcement that Tarboro is
to build a sweet potato storage ware
house before the coming fall and in
time for next year's crop in a further
vindication of the fact that Rocky
Mount was moving in the right di
rection a year ago when tMe propo
sition was launched hereabouts. And
with the formation of ; additional
storage warehouses and increased fa
cilities in caring for the tubas it is
to be hoped that a comprehensive
campaign of marketing these excel
lent potatoes may be undertaken and
that the great rank and file of the
nation may leasn what a sweet po
tato is like and where it may be se
cured the year around. When this is
the ease we have built up another
farming industry of great possibil-
ities.
TRINITY FOOT BALL
CLUB TO TRAIN AT
MOUNTAIN RECLUSE
DURHAM, May 13. Trinity Col
lege football players are to have a
training camp somewhere in moun
tains ot Virginia lor two weeks in
September, the Trinity athletic coun
cil has decided. Twenty-five players
will be given conditioning workouts
of a strenuous nature under Coach
Steiner and Assistant Burbage.
Student manager Smith and an as
sistant jvill bring the ' total of the
training camp to 28 persons.
The players will report to Coach
Steiner at some secluded spot in the
mountains far removed from all sum
mer resort influences on Sept. 3.
Then for two weeks they will be
carried thru the hardest kind of prac
tice in fundamentals of the game
Time will be given to lectures on the
science of the football play. Coach
Steiner plans to have his men in fine
trim for the opening game with Guil
ford on Sept. 30 and in the pink of
condition for the Carolina game on
Oct. 12.
Trinity is out to make a record in
football and the mountain training
camp was decided as a worth-while
venture in developing a good team.
Next year will mark Trinity's third
year in intercollegiate gridiron sport.
Trinity teams have had phenomenal
success in their two years on the
field. They have lost only one game
and tied two. Coach Baldwin this
year developed one of the drivingest
teams seen in North Carolina.
The athletic council at Trinity has
also decided to award monograms for
intercollegiate wrestling begun this
year. Men receiving this honor are
Midget, Taylor, Hardaway and Bai
ley. Basket ball stars were awarded
to Capt. Richardson, Spikes, Simp
son. Letters went to Brooks, Penn
ington and Neal.
STOP FOOD TRAIN
BELFAST, May 13. A postman
was shot dead in north Belfast this
morning.
The British naval radio station at:
Bunbeg Donegal was destroyed by
fire last night.
A train on the Donegal border
was raided by mutineers, and food
stuffs removed.
SMASHING BLOW AT
GANG TERRORISM IS
TAKEN AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, May 12. Police and,
civic organizations today saw in the
indictment of eight labor leaders
and the state attorney's threat to
use against them the law invoked 36
years ago to obtain executions of the
Hay Market rioters, a smashing blow
at what they termed gang terrorism.
Theindictments are forerunners to
scores of others, officials said. Few
of over 400 arrested have been re
leased. NEGRO BRICKYARD WORKERS
STRIKEs 'TROOPERS CALLED
HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., May 12.
Twenty state troopers were ordered !
here today to guard the town against i
the threatened outbreaks of thousand
negroes striking here at 35 brick
plants.
WM. DORSEY PENDER CHAPTER
THANKS ALL WHO ASSISTED
The officers and members of the
William Dorsey Pender chapter, U.
D. C, wish to extend thejr sincere
thanks and appreciation to all who
assisted in any way in the Memorial
Day exercises: to Mr. McCabe for
the use of the theatre, the orchestra
for their delightful music, Mr. Mose
ley and the teachers for their coope
ration, and the various committees
and their assistants 'in the parade,
program and dinner.
s
IT RS
PUTS LAMP BLACK ON HIS
COTTON, PREVENT THEFT
Near town lives an old colored
man by the name of Harry Po
well, whom everybody in Tar
boro knows.
A few days ago he had a bale
of cotton near his house placed
in a cart and rolled underneath
a shed.
Mr. W. L. Barlow, in passing
by, asked him why he kept this
cotton on a cart and Harry re
plied he had a "few hands that
afternoon and it was his only
chance to get it loaded for the
market.
Mr. Barlow told him that he
was doing a dangerous thing,
for most anyone could come by
that night and roll off the cart
and steal this bale.
On the following day Mr. Bar
low again passed by and saw
something black on this sale cart
and asked Harry what he had
done to his cotton.
The old man replied that he
had blacked this bale so that in
case anyone should steal it, he
would be able to identify it, as
his cotton, and sure enough the
old man had taken some lamp
black and literally covered the
entire bale with a black coat.
HURT SPECULATOR
Now that tax listing time has again
rolled around, it brings with it the
annual bugaboo that the law requir-
i-nfr t-V,a ov lief oVc frt litrr tlla OIY1 nil lit
, . " ? . .
Ul Lilt: vtiiiuua tiuj .imiLcinjmn.-u
for the coming year was passed for
the benefit of the speculators in these
crops, or to enable the taxing author
ities to find something else to tax.
There has, of course, never been a
more fallacious idea, for the law re-1
quiring a listing of prospective acre-
ages to be planted to cotton, tobacco,
LISTING CROPS
HOT
passed at the instance of the depart- inK business until the slump in the
ment of agriculture. The informs-: price of farm commodities came af
tion. is desired by the bureau of the tel. the wal. The assot.iation faiie(1 to
statistician and is a valuable help in.
eomDilinsr statistics on which accu
rate estimates can be made by the
bureau of marketing and farmers
generally. I
As .still further evidence of the !
fact that the law is intended to help ;
the farmer rather than those who
prey on this class, C. B. Williams,'
dean of the department of agricul-.
ture, State College, writes Frank I
Parker, agricultural statistician of !
the department of agriculture, touch
ing on this very point.
"There is hardly "a day that we do
not have occasion to use statistical
information with reference to the
agriculture of the state," says Dean
Williams' letter. ."In order that we
may have the most reliable informa
tion every precaution possible, , it
seems to me, should be taken by the
state to secure accurate information.
"As we understand it, particularly
referring to the crop listing law, dur
ing this month the tax listers of the
various townships of the state shall
expect to secure from each farmer
an estimate or statement with refer
ence to various crops this year. We
think that this is a most excellent
method of securing definite informa-
tion. an(j t trust that you will be able
to have each lister secure complete
and definite information with refer
ence to the acreage of our various
erops bejn(r put jn tn;s year in North
Carolina. This data, if complete and
reliable, should give out to our peo
ple a stabilizing tendency upon our
markets and should aid in the pro
tection of our farmers in losses
brought about by the manipulation
of the market by speculative inter
ests." :
MOUNTED TROOPERS MARK
DEAD LINE FOR STRIKERS
HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., May 12
The first mounted troopers arrived
here today and patrolled the streets,
keeping the striking negroes moving.
A dead line for all except those on
business has been drawn.
Special guards have been placed at
the brick yards.
rr r r- u..n : v;u;tinn li
people in men oquare uin wee.
PRESIDENT AND WIFE
ENJOY. WEEK-END VISIT
ABSECON, N. J., May 13. Pres-'
ident and Mrs. Harding today are of three mere- in St. Louis. Sensa
enjoying a week-end rest at the Sea- tional developments are expected in
view Golf Club, near here... the next forty-eight hours.
MICHIGAN FARMERS
ASK TD DISSOLVE, IN
inn
WIL
DETROIT, May 13. If Circuit
Judge Arthur Webster of Detroit on
June 5 grants the petition of the
Gleaner Clearing House Association
that it be dissolved, the largest far
mers' cooperative buying and selling
agency in Michigan, and one of the
most important of its kind in the
United States, will pass out of exist
ence. The association filed its petition
for dissolution April 13, declaring
that altho its assets were considera
bly higher than its liabilities, present j
nrires on farm rommoriit.ipK were so !
low and the future outlook so uncer
tain that it believed it would quit
business "in fairness to creditors."
Total assets were placed at $719,
020.61 and liabilities at $446,745.33.
Charles R. Talbot, Detroit banker, is
acting as temporary receiver for the
organization.
The association, organized March,
::
907, became one of the most notable
organizations of its kind, numbering
j among its membership a large per-
centage of the farmers of Michigan.
MnnniitiDmrr$
UVU LUV. I M1ULU
From the outset the function of thej announced last autumn, has been al
association was to purchase goods inhered because of the lack of a chal
large quantities needed by farmers
an" ln lu,n IO nanQle lne Pnucis oi
the farm in large vplume.
The association maintained ntore
than a score of grain elevators and
warehouses in different parts of the
. 0..ani,atio accordine to
its officials, enjoyed a steadily grow-
show profits after that time, it was
explained,
A GREAT SUCCESS
Parents' Day, yesterday, was a
great success for the city school.
Many parents, particularly the moth
ers, visited the school and went from
room to room observing the work of
different teachers. The visitors man
ifested much interest in everything
they saw, and their presence in the
school must have served as source of
inspiration to many sons and daugh
ters whose actual work in school had
never before been observed first
hand by their parents. The teachers,
the principal and the superintendent
deeply appreciate the interest shown I
by the parents who, possibly at some
personal sacrifice, came to visit tne
educational work shop of their chil-)
dren. Such visits not only serve to
raise the morale as far as the chil
dren are concerned, but they develop
both the spirit and the letter of co
operation between parents and teach
ers. FRENCH ARE THRU WITH
RUSSIAN AFFAIR AT GENOA
PARIS, May 13. As far as the
Russian problem is concerned, the
Genoa economic conference is con
sidered by the French as being end
ed, the foreign office announced.
The French will remain at the Ge
noa conference to discuss other ques
tions properly before the conference;
EXPECT SENSATIONAL
DEVELOPMENTS IN ARRESTS
r.HIPAfi-O. Mav 13. The nohce
. ahnut.t)lB in the recent
series of bombings and beatings that
culminated in the killing of two po
licemen tightened perceptibly today,
Auberitis said, with obtaining par
tial confessions there of approximate
ly, fifty men arrested and the arrest
PARENTS
DAY I
MOTHERS' DAY,
SUNDAY, MAY 14
Attend Sunday school and
chuich.
Tell her you love her.
Write her a letter.
Wear a flower.
Or do something for her.
Or in her memory,
And to her memory.
Live as she lived.
Be as she prayed.
E
FLYING BOATS WILL
L
DETROIT, May 12. Competition
for flying boats may be one of the
features of the annual gold cup re
gatta, to be held here Sept. 1, 2, 3,
and 4. The question will be decided
soon, it is announced, at a conference
between Commodore Fred R. Still,
chairman of the regatta committee,
and Colonel S. D. Waldron, president
of the Detroit Aviation Society.
The suggestion has been made
that the flying boat races for the
Curtiss Trophy be combined with the
gold cup program.
The gold cup regatta program, as
: lenge for the British International
(Harm.sworth) trorhy. As a conse
quence the piqgram, expected to re
quire- eight days, will be completed
within half that time.
Each of the three heat events, in
eluding the gold cup, emblematic of
the national championship, will be
run on Friday, Saturday and Mon
day, September 1, 2, and 4. The one
heat events will be staged Sunday,
September 3.
... The first race carded will be the
annual try for the Sallan Trophy,
each heat being over 25-mile course.
This is a cabin cruiser handicap, lim
ited to boats up to 17 miles an hour.
Then will follow the only hydroplane
race of the meet, the Detroit Trophy
for single engined, single step crafts.
These boats are of the Miss Chicago
type and will average between 60
and 70 miles an hour. The Miss Chi
cago won the event last year.
RAILROAD AGENTS WILL
CONSIDER ATTITUDE ON
LABOR BOARD DECISIONS
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., MAY 13.
The future attitude of the Order
of Railroad Station Agents toward
decisions of the United States Rail
road Labor Board, and reorganigat
ion of the order, are two important
questions expected to come before
annual convention of the agents body
which opens here May 15.
It was indicated that the organ
ization might be combined as a re-
gult o action takcn at the convention
with one or two other organizations
of the agents, telegraphers and clerk
thus effecting a combined member
ship of 65,0i)0. Its present member
ship is 11,000. The gathering may be
the last convention of the order un
der its present name, as the delegates
are to consider a proposal to charge
to the American Association of Rail
way Agents.
The adoption of a new constitut
ion in the process of reorganization
would bring up the question, it was
stated, of continuing of the clause
of the present constitution which pro
vides that members of the Order
must abide by decisions of the Unit
ed States Railroad Labor Board. This
clause was sdopted at the convent
ion of the order two years ago, with
in a month after the board was creat
ed. '
Since then one half according to
officials of the order, criticism of the
board has developed among members
who have felt, it was states, that the
board " was not given due consider
ation to the agents" and that it den
ies "the constitutional right of agents
who have telegraph duties to preform
to the legislate for themselves'
Consideration also will be given at
the convention, it was stated, to plan
for "impressing upon the, public and
the railroad managements the part
the station agents takes in the affair
of the railroads today",
COMPETE IN ANNUA
mm
ANNUAL
CRADUATE
PARADE YESTERDAY
AT STATE COLLEGE
RALEIGH, May 12. The annual
graduation parade in honor of the se
nior class, the last formal military
formation of the year, was held today
by the State College R. O. T. C. reg
iment, at which time the list of ap
pointments for the next college year
and the announcements of honors
was read by the regimental adjutant.
The seniors were aligned in the
rear of the regimental commander to
take the review, the organization be
ing handled by the newly appointed
qfficers.
Company "I," third battalion,
Capt. O. L. Bradshaw, of Lenoir,
commanding, was awarded the silver
loving cup offered by the military
department for having attained the
highest average in all forms compe
tition ouring the year.
The following members of the ju
nior class were promoted to the rank
of provisional captains and from the
list a lieutenant-colonel and three
majors will be selected at the opening
of college next fall:
Acting regimental commander, R.
W. Underwood, Durham; regimen
tal staff officers, D. B. Vansant,
Chestertown, Md.; C. S. Leigh, Win-ston-Saiem;
W. L. West, Jr., Ports
mouth, Va.; T. F. Bostian, China
Grove; acting 'battalion commanders,
C. H. Warren, Lenoir; T. L. Stall
ings, Louisburg; W. R. Anderson,
Mars Hill; company commanders, G.
T. Bostic, Shelby; J. B. Stepp, Black
Mountain; R. H. Roome, Jr., Hook
erton; J. E. Teague, High Point; W.
D. Yarboro, Hope Mills; J. S. White
rer, Hickory; C. B. Williams, Lyi
colnton; E. W. Harris, Seaboard; J.
L. Shuping, Morganton; E. T. Kearn,
Jr., Thomasville; B. F. Norris, Jr.,
Gastonia.
Colonel D. D. Gregory has received
from Mrs. Henry M. London, presi
dent of the Johnston Pettigrew chap
ter, U. D. C.7 the following letter of
appreciation for the part taken by
the regiment and band in the Memo
rial Day Exercises:
"Will you please convey to the
State College cadets my sincere
thanks for their presence at our me
morial exercises on May 10. I con
gratulate them on their splendid mil
itary appearance and commend them
for their loyalty and patriotism.
"The music seemed to me the
sweetest we have ever heard. Please
say to Capt. Price and the boys of
the band how much they added to
our program with their inspning
music. Did "Taps" ever sound sweet
er than when echoing over the hill
side? Tell them one and all how
proud we are of them and their coU
lege, and thank again to you and the
boys."
SOUTH BOSTON,!.,
IKES SOLID LINE
UP IN 'CO-OP' PLAN
RALEIGH, May 13. Following
the announcement that' the Froduc
ers Warehouse of South Boston, Va.,
has signed the standard five-year
contract with the Tobacco Growers'
Cooperative Association, news reach
ed Raleigh headquarters that the Ed
mondson Warehouse and the Planters
Warehouse of JSouth Boston have
signed up with the growers' associa
tion, making a solid line-up with the
association of all warehouses in the
second largest marketing center of
Virginia.
F. R. Edmondson of the firm of
Edmondson & Powell, has been ap
pointed warehouse manager of the
association at South Boston, with H.
C. Lacy, R. R. Murray, W. T. Shot-
well and R. J. Tuck of South Boston
as assistants in
the Vnn!fm4ntt)f
.t than, vr-3
all warehouses at
Mr. Edmondson comes of a line
of famous warehousemen, his family
having been in the warehouse busi
ness for over sixty years.
Hodges & Dejamette, former own
ers of the Planters Warehouse, have
accepted positions with the leaf de
partment of the Tobacco Growers'
Cooperative Association. Their house
has done an enormous business in the
past 30 years. South Boston will be
come the cooperative marketing cen
ter of Halifax eounty where 22,000,
000 pounds out ef 24,000,000
pound production are signed up with
in the marketing association. -