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JffiAD SOUTHERNER WANT ADS FOR A BARGAIN USB SOUTHERNER WANT ADS FOR QUICK RETURNS. : 1m m. i I I El LOCAL COTTON, NINETEEN CENTS. PA Y OUTHEMN VOL. 53 NO. 57. EDGECOMBE COUNTY WIRY BE SURVEYED SOON BY THE FARM TENANT C0MM1SSIDW Jo Ascertain Whether Tenancy Is Duel to Inherited Physical Defects, Crop Failures, Market Conditions, Accidents, Dis ease, or Deaths in the Family, Or Lack Of Start in Life. Re lation of Land Credit, Time-Merchant Credit, and Lein. John Smith, tenant farmer. ! 1 Why Is he a tenant, how does he live, can ho rise to ownership, and if so how this is the subject of a survey of social and economiconditions on one thousand North Carolina farms, to be conducted this summer by the Commission on Farm Tenancy appointed by the State Board of Agriculture. The commission consists of Clar ence Poe and C. C. Wright repre senting the board of agriculture, B. F. Brown of the state , division of markets, E. C. Brown of the depart ment of rural social science at the University,of North Carolina, E. C. Lindeman of the North'.Carolina Col. lege for Women at Greensboro, and Carl C. Taylor of the department of agricultural economics at North Car olina State College of Agriculture. The survey will be financed by $400 eoch from the state division f markets, the University, and. State College of Agriculture. This $1,800 will be duplicated by the department of farm economics and rural life of the ,U. & Dept. of Agriculture, Questionnaires covering all phases of a farmer's life from his family history to h V . ' :'? i;mic and social conditions will e filled out for each of 350 farm families In an pst era county,- Piedmont countyj and a-'mountain,' county. The counties most likely to be selected are Edge combe, Chatham and Madison. '. -' , pletu&s will be ; taken of every farm home surveyed in order to make graphic presentation of the social trd 'economic eon'ditions ijpon ; ten ant farms of the "state, information about tne farni owner and the hired man wiif also, be gathered as a basis for comparative study. -The farm owner will be asked to tell his ex perience in, securing, land, in order that the commission might have the information to devise a proper way to enable other less fortunate farm ers to secure land. The committee will visit the coun ties under stirvey and hold confer ences with the landlords and tenants to determine if possible, some way to secure homes for landless farmers. C. O.- Zimmerman, of the depart 4 - ... ment' of agricultural economics at Stat: College,: '. will have charge of the field, research. The surveys will be carried on by four advanced stu dents, in agricultural economics, two frorafthe State College of Agricul ture ndr two from the University. Tht survey will ; continue . from June-1 Until September. At the con cluskft'.of the field work the findings will hi tabulated and soon afterward prestotetf .to the public In order to determine by scientific measurement the standard of living of each tenant, ths vJhVestigators will ask questions concerning -his housing conveniences, his 'educational opportunities, his so cial andf civic -relationship, and his outlook 'on life.' Where' possible they will ascertain the economic history of each case. In particular they will attempt to find whether tenancy is due to inherited physical defects, to crop failures; 'ac cident's,' market conditions,' diseases, or deaths in the family, or to a lack f a start in life. ' What, ia the relation of land credit, timeTmerchant credit, preferential lan41ord lein, and the market system to farm tenancy? What proportion of the Jenants can rise in the agricul turaHadder from tenancy to owner ship? . How can the stae, the land lord, .the, merchant, the church, or the public- school help, the tenant who shows that he has the character istics, which would fit him for land ownership? The survey will attempt to -answer these-questions. . .' MR. O. BATTL7 SICK. Mr. O. Battle was reported on the giek list yesterday. itfiss" ASSOCIATED P: LOCAL MILK PLANT F The Scotland Neck Commonwealth in a recent issue carried the follow ing news item: The Tarboro Southerner in its is sue of a few days ago stated that in the June issue of the American City Magazine a full account of Tarboro milk plant would be given, and thus magazine, which has a wide circula tion, naturally will be ready by many people who otherwise would never, hear of the name of our sister town. - Some time ago, too, The Ladies' Home Journal carried a description of this plant and since then letters have been received from. far and wide asking about both the plant and also requesting information . concerning Tarboro itself and in all probability Tarboro will secure a number of new dtlsens through this project. Scotland Neck can too, through new! enterprises, attract new and de sirable citizens, so why not pull to gether and secure at least one new enterprise that will be such a model of. efficiency that it will both adver fiaa iiacl f and th town as a whole throughout the entire country. ICAL SOCIETY FINE EXHIBIT 'ST.' LOUIS, Mo., May 22. A fea ture of the annual session of the American Medical Association which ipened here today, was an educa tional exhibit, presented by forty eight physicians, of recent advances in medical science, teaching and or ganization,' Most of the national organizations devoted to education of the public, including the Child Hygiene associa tion, Rod Cross, American Society for the Control of Cancer, the Asso ciation for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease and the national or ganization for public health nursing presented' outlines of their methods of work, their activities and com plete sets of the literature' used by them in their educational efforts. The United States Public Health service ' presented an exhibit of its work in child health and in the pre vential of venereal disease. Other exhibits included demonstra tions of work on the prevention of 'ringworm in the South, on the treat ment of cancer, on occupational the rapy, and demonstration of a method for showing by the x-ray the position and appearance of various organs within the abdomen. SICK IN BALTIMORE. News was received, here Saturday that Miss Sue Bunn who now lives in Baltimore had undergone an operat ion J Her condition yesterday waa a couraging. RETURNED TO THE COUNTRY. Mr Edwin Cooke who has been sick at the Hospital returned to the home of Mr. W. H. Kinlebrew where he has been living while teaching in the Nobles Mills School. '.-.' GREAT ADVERTISER OR TARBORO io lis IC INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS MUST BE LEAD BY CHUGH Propose Universal Conference of Church of Christ on Life And Work. DES MOINES, Iowa, May 22. Solution of civic, industrial and m ternational problems through applied Christianity "would seem to be the paramount task of the church," Rev. J. Ross Stevenson told the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church in the U. S. of America here today, in presenting the report of the spe cial commission on church coopera tion and union. To promote such a solution a Universal Conference of the Church of Christ on Life and Work has been proposed, he said, and "will probably be held in 1924. Plans for it are making satisfactory prog ress. "A committee has been formed in three sections, representing many Christian communions in continental Europe, in the British Empire and in the United States of America," Mr. Stevenson continued. "The purpose is to concentrate the thought of Christendom on the mind of Christ as revealed in the Gospels toward those great social questions, industrial and international, which are so acutely urgent in every coun try. The nations are yearning for purer politics. Industrial unrest is producing chaos and confusion. The basic ; motives of citizenship need strong reinforcement. In internation al affairs men -are seeking anxiously for permanent peace and deeper fel lowship. We believe. that the message and teaching of Jesus Christ afford the only solution. To set ourselves to discover His Will and under the guid ance of His Spirit to find wise ways of applying his teaching, would seem to be the paramount task of the church." Mr. Stevenson also reported that a committee is planning definitely for a World Conference on Faith and Order, which is expected to be held in 1925, probably at Washing ton City. APPEALTO KINGTQ SAVE HER 'STAND' LONDON, May 20. By appealing to King George, friends of Mrs. Car oline Orford hope to save from abo lition the little refreshment kiosk in St. James' Park which she has con ducted for the past 60 years and which has been in the possession of her family for three centuries. Mrs. Orford's great-great-gran d mothe started the business in a little shelter near the Mall, opposite jthe Horse Guards' Parade, and was 101 years old when she left it to her daughter. Successive mother-to-daughter transfers have kept the re freshment stand in the family's hands for more than 300 years. The site is now wanted by the of fice of works for the Guard's war memorial, but an influential commit tee is trying to have another location substituted. WILL INJURE THE PAVEMENTS. Recently there have been seen on the paved streets here such things as mowing machines with corrugated wheels and County drags. It is said by those who know that these things will damage the pave ments. Whan the weather gets warm there is a liabilty of tearing off the top dressing by these machines and drags thereby causing injury to the pave ments. . It might be well for the Commis sioners to have the .ordinances print ed so that the people may read the town Laws.1 TARBORO, N. C. MONDAY, MAY 22, 1922 COMPLETE LISTING The per capital white taxables of the state range from $235 in Dare to $3,423 in Scotland. The state aver age is $l,009-with Panlico, Camden, Ashe, and Graham left out on ac count for lack of the necessary in fromaticn in detail. See table elsewhere in this issue,. Sixtt-seven counties are above the state average ten are more than dou ble the' state average. Twenty-nine counties are below the state average. Five are worth less than $600 per white inhabitant at least on the tax books. They are Avery, Cherokee, Wilkes, McDowell, and Dare, in the order named. he richest county in per capital white taxable is not a manufacturing but an agricultural county-not For syth or Mecklenburg or Durham, but Scotland. Among these twenty-nine poorest counties in taseah ar$ four that rank h;gh in farm wealth: They are Sampson, Alleghany, yfyadkjn, f and Watauga, b'nAyWrd as ay taxpajv ing county J Alleghany, Yadkin ; from 25th to 89thnd tftafe&ga frdnttSSjfa Wayne is 'the richlsi farnjj itnjj' in the state but when it Worries to paying taxes it, falls 16 the 14th' place and Johnson falls from the 10th to the 58th place. Scotland operates on the basis of high tax valuations and low tax rate. It stands 6th in per capita farm wealth, 1st in per capita white taxa bles, and. 99th in tax rate for gener al county purposes and necessary ex pense. Alleghany stands 9th in per capita farm wealth 76th in per capita white taxables, and 100th in county tax rate. On such a basis it is hard to see how Alleghany is ever going to rank high in public schpols, public roads, and public health progress. Dare county has another notion. It is the poorest county in the state in per capitaMfrm. welth aqt, in white per capita taxables, but the county, tax rate is 89 cents per hundred dpi' lars os listed property;; against1 41 cents in Alleghany. On top of this are the special district school tax rate Every white school district but one TRADE ALARMED The American Cotton association is in possession of confidential in formation emanating from the high est authorities of the British cotton trade which indicate that the raw cotton situation for the near future is becoming very acute. Indeed, one of the leading cotton economists of Great Britain and closest students of the world cotton industry .frankly' ad mits that if the American cotton crop of 1922 does not exceed ten million bales, prices next winter will reach the high levels of 1920. It is admit ted that there is no hope for any im provement this year in the Egyptian cotton crop. British spinners gener ally are hoping for at least an Amer ican Crop of 12,000,000 bales, which is regarded as absolutely essential if anything like needed supplies are available for consumptive require ments during the cotton year of 1922-1323. 0 COUNTIES BRITISH C0T1 CANDIDATES' EXPENSES. The expense account of all County Candidates mast be filed with Mr. A. T. Walston , Clerk of the Superior Court on. Or before thsJlth day of May l2l. -,; ;,. .T-V A failure to do this (4 AaSe a mis- v v .... . ., , , ., demeanor by the Statute. All County Candidate would do weff t file in theI ' "-yjnia JbjCWwlnesday "May 24th. ' ( . -. OF THE RICH AND OF in Dare is a special school tax district In Alleghany only four of the 39th white school districts levy special school taxes, or so it was in 1920 The policy of Dare is the best pos sible thing for the children, no mat ter what it costs. Next week the counties will be ranked from high to low according to county tax rates for general pur poses and necessary expenses. The three tables (1) per capita country wealth, (2) per capita white taxables and (3) county tax rates, when put side for comparison, show three out standing facts in our cilization (1) areas of wealth and willingness to spend it for the common good on highways, schools, public health and public welfare in short, progressive hopeful areas, (2) areas of wealth & unwillingness, wealth and social pov erty-areas of poorly supported churches and schools, poor roads and stagnant public spirit, and (3) areas of little wealth and great willingness, poverty of purse, but exceeding rich ness of soul. "Meantime, there are 60 remote country counties in North Carolina Nineteen of them are steadily losing 'country population. And the same thing is true of 308 townships in the state. Schools, roads, health, store keeping, and banking are all in peril in the.e areas of social apathy. Tight-fisted citizenship solves no problem, of the public good anywhere Truthfulness in listing properties, generosity in public enterprises, and efficiency in expending tax money are fundamental matters. Not how much taxes we pay but how much the community gets back in clear public benefit is the essen tial thing. County government is now costing around 30 million dollars a year or nearly twice as much as state gov ernment ever cost. Like Abe Lincolns rat hole, it is worth looking into. Equity, honesty, and efficiency in public finance would quickly put this state at the top of the column of American commonwealths. We've got the goods but we do not know it, and still less do other states know it. WOMEN EXCLUDED AT EGYPT THRONE CAIRO, Egypt, May 20. Women are excluded from the throne of Egypt under. a royal rescript which has been issued establishing the right of succession by primogeniture. Prince Farouk, son of King Fuad, was designated as present heir to the throne. The rescript provides that if the King has no male children his eldest orothcr succeeds to the throne. The Mohamed Ali family are eligi ble for the throne except the former ex-Khedive Abbas Hilmi (who was deposed in 1914), but the exclusion does not apply to his descendants. Each king will secretly nominate three persons as pro-regent but par liament is allowed the right of ap proval or change. Mr. Harry Bell died at his home in Whitakers Sunday Afternoon at five O'clock. The funeral services will take place this afternoon. Mr. Bell was in his 78th year and was at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was one of the Confederate Veterans of the Local Camp. COTTON MARKET. Jan. . - . 19.65 19.87 19.81 May .... 21.20 21.20 tl.63 July Oct. .... ... 19.93 20.21 20.30 19.79 20.00 20.00 Dec .- 19.78 20.10 19.98 CAROLINA BACCALAUREATE REl.H.E.SPENCE, SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Beginning of the Commencement Exercises at the Tarboro Graded Schools Yesterday; All Churches Closed at Morning Service and Unite at School Auditorium; Large Congregation Hears Splendid Sermon by Head of Trinity Biblical Dept. The school auditorium of the Tarboro Graded Schools was crowded yes terday morning to hear the baccalaureate sermon by Rev. H. E. Spence of the Biblical department of Trinity college. The subject of Mr. Spence's discourse was "Dreams." He discussed this subject from the standpoint of dreams that we have had and dreams that have come true. EVERY WELFARE WORK IN EDGE COMBE COUNTY. We read in the Scriptures "that there came a man to seek the welfare of the children Israel." There is no man who has cme to seek the wel fare of the children of North Caro lina ; but the realization by a Chris tian people of the necessity of wel fare work demands that it be done. Welfare is a compound word of mid dle English origin, and means to fare well, to live well. The Lord put the seal of his commendation on the necessity and goodness of welfare work, in his parable of the Good Sa maritan, putting the self righteous to shame. Of course in doing welfare work on the scale that it should be done, we are up against that hoary, old quebtion, spoken in the earliest dawn of the life of man, "Am I my brother's keeper?" This concentra ted expression of selfishness has kept constant pace with the passage of time and is as alive and vibrant to day as when first uttered, thousands of years ago. The progress and de velopment of civilization, where sof tened, blessed and guided by Chris tianity, has placed the duty of caring for its citizens, regardless of degree or station, upon its government. This became necessary because of the lively action of the twin brother of that ancient saying referred to, "Am I my brother's keeper", "Let the other fellow do it." That "other fellow," who has multiplied and in creased mightily, has not been his brother's keeper and will not be: And the "other fellow" has not, and there is no respect that he will do those thifigs that he should do; therefore the government must do all neces sary brother keeping and the things that "the other fellow" neglects and will not do. Hence a well defined and practical system of welfare work has been organized and pro vided for by the state, and is in suc cessful operation. The county work is a unit of the state system. We .are ..j i . ! 4U... rj-...mka County has its unit of welfare work in operation. The welfare worker, Miss Georgia Henry, has rendered faithful and efficient service. Few of us know anything of the sad condi tions existing in the county, sorely in need of help. An instance or two: one family of father and mother and j fifteen children, three married and off; their family is in need of succor, council and direction; another fam ily of a mother and five children, all daughters, and one a young baby, she occupied a house on land in the coun ty, and has been notified to move out, no duty rests upon the land own er to maintain her; she cannot go to jail, for she is not criminal; she can not go to the poor house, having health and will .to work, she is not t pauper, her only hope and depend ence is the welfare worker. The welfare worker, cannot render the aid, council and encouragement that cry out with biting need, because she has no means of transportation. Will net Edgecombe, commanding and worthy in her history, well to the fort in all that is good and progres sive, supply the transportation and MONDAY ALL THE LOCAL NEWS SERMON PREACHED BY Mr. Spence took no superstitious view of his subject, but treated it from purely a psychological stand point. He reviewed the story of the dream of Joneph in the Old Testament. He spoke of the great visions that men of the past and of the present age have had. His marshalling of histor ical facts was very fine, indeed. In conclusion he emphasized the fact that to make dreams come true four things are necessary: We must want things, we must work for them, we must watch for them, and we must also wait for them. While the subject of this address was "Dreams," yet it was a strong appeal to the graduating class and the audience as well that in order to have life in all its fulness and inten sity there must be the proper vision behind it all. This address was truly an inspira. tion. Many have spoken words of high commendation of the sermon. Mr. Spence held his audience from the very beginning to the last wood, and had it not been on Sunday tie would have received a great ovation in the way of applause. The following young ladies and gentlemen form the graduating class for this commencement: Margaret Battle, Eraa Brown, Ray mond Causuby, Wilson Crane, Alex Denson, Jack Denson, Maurice Light, Henry McNair, Ernest Price, Eve lyn Worsley, and Lucy Knight. COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOLS FOR WHITE TEACHERS. Thjie will be seven County Sum mer Schools for white teachers in the Northeastern section of the state this year. All prospective teachers and teachers holding cerificates below the elementary should attend a County Summer School in order to secure or raise their certificates. All teachers holding Elementary ceritificates may Hci'ure renewal credit by attending a County Summer School. Ttachers holding .one-year ceritificates should secure Summer School credit this year. Teachers from any county may at tend any, ge of the Summer Schools listed below. Write the County Super -intendent for information concern ing boarding "boarding arrangement. The Summer School term is six-week and teachers are urged to be present on the opening day. County Summer Schools for teach ers will be held at the following place and will begin on the dates given : Washington, N. C. May 29th, 1922 Trenton, June 12 Elizabeth City June 12th Mantoe, June 14th v j Chowan College, Murfreeboro, June 19th. ' Jacksonville, N. C. June 26th. Oriental, June 27th. County Supt. Sentell calls the attent ion of the white teachers of Edg. Co. to the above notice, and hereby noti fies them that he will assist any one of the teachers in making arrange ments to enter any of the county summer schools listed above. help to save the little girl children? This most desirable and necessary welfare work could and would be ' greatly further by good rAa well maintained. . John L. Bridgers. May 22, 1322. 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