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TARBORO, N. C, TUESDAY, AUG. 8, 1922
ALL THE LOCAL NEWS
Fh1T7T7T71
DA
DOES YOUTH SNEER
l AT HONEST LABOR?
(By J. J. DAVIS, Secy, of Labor)
No higher duty rests upon the Any
ericari citizen of today than his duty
to the coming generations. This duty
Js two-fold. It demands that the Am
erican of today footer and preserve
the high ideaJs of America and Am
ericanism as conceived by the fath
ers of the republic, and that he hand
. down to the next generation the prin
ciples of the republic unsullied and
unstained,. But it also demands that
he provide a virile, healthy next gen
eration to continue the nations march
toward higher ' and 'better thingsr a
generation endowed with the physical
and mental strength and courage that
are. vital if the fundamental institu
tions of our form of government arc
to be preserved and the high hopes
and aspirations of the, inspired pa
triots -who if ounded the republic are1
to be carried on to 'realization. -
America today may well profit by
the warning set forth in the Old Tes
tament: "Spake I not unto you say
ing, Do not sin against the child; and
: ye -would not hear? Therefore behold
also, his blood is required." Truly,
America of the.future will be forced
to pay in blood for the child who to'
day goes down to his grave before his
time, driven by a nation's neglect or
by the untimely exploitation of indus
try, whose greed blots out the in
stincts of humanity.
A Rel Problem.
All America is gradually awaken-
teg to the vital importance of the
problem of the child, and from one
end of the country to the other there
are coming into existence orgamtea-
: fare of the children. Government has
joined hands with .private philan
thropy In the work of saving chil-.
dren. Federal and state authorities
are responding to the growing senti
ment among the people that America
must do its full duty by the coming
veneration. We are moving in the
right direction. Wo must move more
tepidly. .
America loves her babies, but there
are nine other countries where
newborn baby has a better chance of
growing to healthy childhood than in
America. America reverences its mo-
tnernouu, out wieic ntc , uwi .ca
tions where it is safer for a woman to
become a mother. The federal gov
ernment, to overcome thi3 handicap
against the mothers of our future
1 generation and the 'babies that make
up that generation, has invested this
year $1,240,000 in the enterprise of
having infants and mothers. Under
the Shepherd-Towner law, adminis
tered thru the' Children's Bureau of
the Department of Labor, the spend
ing of this ioney rests with the indi
vidual states, and the funds are al-j
loted to 'the states which accept the
benfits of the law, to be used direct
lv in aervioA and instructions for
mothers and 'babies. The state plans
for maternity and infant aid are sub
mitted to the Federal Board of Ma
ternity and Infant Hygiene, and the
approval of the board clears the way
for the allotment of funds and the
Immediate .beginning of the" work of
saving lives.'
PUn Are Mad.
The plana for thin work drawn by
the states show a broad appreciation
of the problem. They differ widely be
cause many of the states have been
backward in the development of this
line of, government activity. As fun
damental steps, these states propose
to insure accurate birth registration.
improved milk supplies", and atate sur
reys of medical and nursing facilities
for maternal and infant care. In the
states' with well organised child hy
giene services where the pioneer
tage of the work has been passed,
increased numbers ' of country and
community public health nurses who
will make accurate surveys of facili
ties for saving babies..
. The Children's Bureau of the De-
C00QCR01ATTRE
MAXWELL
III
MEET LAST NIGHT
A good crowd was present at the
special evangelistic services at Keech
Chapel -last night. The evangelist used
as his text, Luke 12:20, "Thou fool,
this night' thy sou shall be required
of thee, then whose things shall .those
be which thou has provided?"
The speaker said in part: "God did
not condemn this man because he had
great possessions, or for having bus
iness ingenuity; he did not condemn
him for being a leader of his time-
God did rigidly condemn this man
because tie was spiritually shallow
enough to believe that man could de-
elop the soul with material things-
He had no sense of the divinity of
man.' He was a soul-starver. Tarboro
is full of people who are allowing
other things which are perishable to
crowd God out of their lives. This
man allowed covetousness : you peo
ple allow malice, jealousy, envy,
pride, gossip, or social desires to
crowd God out of your plans. God
made each life tnd left a place for
Himself to occupy. What the engineer
is to the fast' sweeping train God is
to the human life. The train would
go somewhere without haying an en
gineer but in all probability it would
go to certain destruction. You may
be living without God, but your soul
will go to hell, and your life and
character are already a pitable fail
uro.; .'V '"
FINANCIAL CONTROL RAIL LOBAR BO.RO
OF
GERMANY
ASKED
LONDON, July 19. Lloyds Reg
ister reflects the depression in the
shipbuilding world, For the quarter
year ended rn June there was a de
crease of 816,000 tons in ships under
construction in the United Kingdom
as against a year ago. Also work had
been suspended on 481,000 more
tons. Tonnage launched during the
quarter is 185,000 less than March.
Construction abroad
material decrease.
also shows
BY FRANCE PREMIER
By The Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 8. Drastic meas
ures of financial control in Germany
is provided for in Premier Poincare's
draft of conditions, under which the
French government is willing that the
Reichsbank shall have moratorium to
the end of the present year.
The conditions are expected to in
elude the exploitation of German
customs, mines, railroads-and forests
control of the Reichsbank and Ger
many's bank note press, and supervi
sion of foreign currencies as well as
exports and imports.
They will be considered by the fi
nancial committee of the allied con
ference today.
A BIG BEER RAID
THIS MORNING
iSheriff Leggett has had his eye on
a certain location near larboro for
some time, and this morning walked
into a big bunch of beer.
This beer was some distance from
the public road, but no still was lo
cated anywhere in the woods.
The still had been recently moved
as on the branches of the trees and
bushes near where the beer was dis
covered were found soot and ashes.
The bootlegger had made his get
away before the arrival of the sheriff.
BULGARIA READY TO
RECEIVE AID FROM
E
WILLING TO
REHEAR
SENIORITY STATUS
By The Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 8. W.
G. Stone,- president of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, today
telegraphed sixteen chiefs of the rail
road brotherhoods asking them to at
tend a conference in Washington on
Friday to consider the railroad situa
tiqjj.throughout the country aTUj to
"avert an impending calamity of col
lapse in transportation."
CHICAGO, Aug? 8Tcting on
President Harding's new suggestion!
for ending the i-ail strike, the United
States Labor Board today stood ready
to promptly consider the seniority
question, the solo remaining barrier
to peace on the railroads, a.majority
resolution adopted last night assert
ing the board's willingness to reopen
the hearings.
MODIFIED
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AND
WILL
GET VOTES IN OHIO
T
YPHDON
CASUALTY
RIGAN
A
RECORDERS COURT.
The docket at the recorders court
yesterday was light, only three cases
having been tried.
Jesse Hunter wa tried for setting
fire to woods without meeting the re
quirements of the statute providing
for the proper notice. The defendant
was convicted and made to pay One
penny and costs. ,
J, T. Bullock was aoquirred on a
charge of retailing liquor.
Frank Parker, charged with assault
on his wife, was fined f 15 and made
to pay the costs. , "
FRED WIGGINS AHEAD.
; The $10 gold piece offered by the
First 'National Bank is bringing in
each day some of as fine melons as
were ever seen in Tarboro, The first
melons weighed around 70 and 80
pounds and looked big enough, but
yesterday Mr. Fred Wiggins brought
in a melon that tipped .the scales at
,88 pounds, and when this melon was
put in the window everybody passing
t
asked what will Mr Weeks do about
this? But yet Mr, Weeko may get by
this, for be is sure a watermelon
raiser. . " ,s
partment of Labor is at work on the
whole child welfare problem in a big
way. It is finding the facts upon
which Intelligent and effective -means
for solving the problem can be based.
Not alone the infant but the growing
child must be safeguarded and fos
tered, andthe Children's Bureau, is
delving into all matters pertaining to
the welfare of children and child life
among all classes of our people. The
field is wide and the task is vast. Co-
SOFIA, BULGARIA, Aug. 8 Bul
garia's mines, forests, rivers and rail
roads offer excellent opportunities
for enterprising Americans, in the
opinion of King Boris, and the popu
lar young monarch is anxious to have
American business men and capital
lists come to Sofia to look over the
fiefld. "We wilf give them every ad
vantage and opportunity to invest
their money in profitable enterprises,
the kmg said recently to the corre
spondent. "We would prefer to deal
with American than anyone else. We
like them for their honesty, their
quickness, their originality and their
resource. They may be assured of
the most cordial welcome here,"
'. Bulgaria, it may be said conserva
tively, is making a really remarkable
recovery from the effects of the war.
The Bulgarian population today has
food, clothing, good health, shelter,
money and the other elements of ma
terial contentment, and for this the
principal reason is the labor of the
masses, their sobriety, energy and
thrift, and their satisfaction with liv
ing conditions. 'The work of the Vol
unteer Labor Army is another cause.
Bulgaria is a nation of peasants.
More than four-fifths of her popula
tion of 5,000,000 work on the land.
LIST-SWELLED WITH
28 THOUSAND LIVES
HONGHGNG, Aug. 8' Typhoon-
stricken Swatow, the mangled, mis
erable caricature Of a port of one
week ago, doggedly goes about her
task ghastly that falls to the survivors
of the storm, with 'burial of the dead.
The bodies of 28,000 have been re
covered. The death topp triples the
former estimates and cuts in half the
former population.
These figures wre jriven in a cir
cular by the Swatow Chamber of
Commerce from its Hongkong bu
reau.
By The Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 8. With state
wide primaries in Ohio, Arkansas,
and Alabama, and the republican
state convention in Texas, the politi
cal periscope today trained especially
on the Buckeye state, where the re
publican voters in the president's
home commonwealth voted to deter
mine two well-defined issues, modified
prohibition and approval of the Hard
ing administration. Carmi A. Thomp
son of Cleveland, gubernatorial can
didate, is the standard bearer of both
Harding forces and a strict prohibi
tionist. -
SHIP01ERSTAK
E
HEAVY LOSSES NOW
COUNTY FATHERS
HAVE A BUSY DAY
LONDON, Aug. 8 The shipown
ers of the world have lost 1,300,000,
000 pounds sterling as a result of the
recent slump in marine freights. This
is the estimate of "Fairplay" in its
semi-annual review of the Shipping
sale market.
A carjro steamer of 7,500 tons
brought 06,000 pounds sterling in
March of this year, according to the
figures. Then the freight market went
to pieces, and today the same vessel
would not bring more than 62,000
She cost 258,750. in March, 1920, but
only 58,000 at the height of the big
boom in 1312, -
ON TRIAL FOR PART
UNIONS
W
SHOOTING M
ITER
By The Associated Press.
LOUISA, Va., Aug..' .Herbert
Buckley, Louisa County Lumberman,
one of eight men charged with shoot
ing up the home of ReV. J. R. Glenn,
at Pendleton, Va., on the night of
June 0, went on trial today in circuit
court here. Buckley, five white men
and two negroes were indicted yes
terday by a special grand jury charg
ing feloniously shooting up the min
ister's home with intent to kill. '
L
NOT ACCEPT LAST
PEACE
PROPOSALS
By The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. Presi
dent Harding's second proposal for
immediate termination of the railway
sh-opcrafts strike, which, called upon
the strikers to return to work -and
both sides submit their differences to!
the Railroad Labor Board for settle
ment, awaited today formal action by
both sides in the controversy, but the
'rejection of this proposal by the un
ions is foreshadowed in statements
made by their leaders here.
Harris has many friends here who
were glad to see him back in his old
home again.
RETURNED FROM WILSON.
.' Mrs. A. C. -Spelr, who has been vis
iting her parents in Wileon for the
last few days, has returned home.
GUEST OF MRS. A. C. SPEIR
Miss Annie Walls of Wilson is the
guest of Mrs. A. C. Speir this week.
Mr. Luther Harris, a former resi
dent of Edgecombe county, but now
living in Birmingham, AUu, is here
operation by all the people is vital to! this; week on a visit to his brother,
the success oi the undertaking. ... Mr. D. H. Harris, near Tarboro. M.
SOLICITING FUNDS FOR
THE COLORED FIREMEN
Messrs. J. A. Weddell, Ed Barden
and J. E. Simmons have been out all
day soliciting funds for the state
convention of colored firemen, which
meets heTe next week. .
It is estimated that there will be
more than a thousand people here
next week, including the itilegates to
the convention and visitors. :
SENATOR J. A. BROWN TO
SiMC AT MACCLESFIELD
Senator Joseph A. Brown of Co
Iumbus county will speak at Maccles
field this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
The subject of Mr. Brown's address
will be "Cooperative Marketing."
Mr. Brown is one of the m3t pro
minent business men and farmers of
Eastern North Carolina and a speak
er of much force. '
LEFT FOR MOUNT AIRY.
Mr. W". O. Howard left yesterday
to spend a few days with his family
at Mount Airy.
COTTON MARKET.
Yesterday's Today's
Close. Open Close
Oct. . - 20.83 20.51 20.12
Dee. .-" 20.84 20-53 20.18
Jan. 20.76 20.39 20.07
Mar. .... 20.77 2049 20.11
ilay 20.75 20.51 20.10
SELECT JURORS FOR
SEPTEMBER COURT
The following jurors have been
drawn for the September term of the
criminal court that meets on Septem
ber 11 :
Dock Proctor 13, A. F. Baker 1,
A. T. Batoheior 3 2, F. L. Castex 2,
J. F. Brown 8, W. C. Owens 9, W. W.
Dixon 3, W. D- Lane 5, F. F. Crouch
12, B. T. Harrell 1, D. H. Harrell 4,
E. Y. Lovelace 9, G. R. Gammon 6,
Carl Pitman 5, M. B. Hart 1, F. L.
Braswell 9, M. C. Daniels 4, W.. T.
Edwards 8, I L. Lewis 9, W. C. Pitt
9, W. K. Lewis 9, O. Statjr 12, B. D.
Jenkins 13, Jos. B. Taylor 1, J. H.
Wiggins 10, H. H. Harrell 9, G. W.
Mobry 12, R. E. Pitt 10, J. P. Mc
Dowell 5, J. L. Lyon 6, J. A. Forbes
9, Robert Jones 13, Percy D. Owens
9, D. Proctor 14, C. L. Pulley 1, D.
H. Rodger 1, J. H. Harrell 1, O. B.
Varnell, G. A. Pitman, W. P. Harris
9 C. K. Edgwood 8, W. R. Worsley
I, W. G. Cherry ii, J. L. Dupree 12,
and H. W. Cherry 11.
Mr. J. Rosenbaum and daughter,
Eleanor, Mist Annie Hyman, and
Misw Dora Jernigan left yesterday
for New York.
The County CommFssioners had a
very busy day yesterday. They were
in session from an early hour until
sunset.
Outride of the regular routine work
that always comes before the board,
there were many very important mat
ters presented to the commissioners.
A special appropriation was made
for the young child that is now at
the hospital for treatment. The child
is paralyzed and has been so for some
time, and is helpless. The appropria
tion was for 60.
A committee of ladies from Rocky
Mount with Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon
requested the commissioners to rein
state the office of home demonstra
tion agent. On motion of Commis
sioner Home, an appropriation of
$650 was made for this purpose for
the ensuing year. This motion was
unanimously carried. The same matr
ter was brought up before the board
of education and there carried. From
now on, the county will again have a
regularly employed agent who will be
on the job all the year. ,
A large committee of citizens from
Halifax county and a few from Edge
combe appeared before the board of j
commissioners and asked to have the
old Spoirs bridge rebuilt where it has
always been. The Halifax delegation
stated that the embankment from
the Halifax side bad been put in
shape that would insure passage all
the time at this point and that they
were ready and willing to build half
of the span if Edgecombe would build
the other half on this side of the
creek. This bridge located about one
and a half miles from Red Hill church
it- U' -Wmd will.. if built, save at
least four miles to those who wish to
go to Enfield and also lessen the dis
tance from Tarboro to Enfield by
four miles.
There is decided opposition to the
rebuilding of this bridge and in order
that this opposition may be heard ac
tion on the proposition was deferred
until the September meeting, when a
full board will be present.
At this deferred meeting the Whit
akers road district commission will
sit with the county board.
Mr. H. G. Brown was elected dele
gate to attend the State Association
of County Commissioners which will
meet in Chapel Hill, Aug. 15-17.
' The report of Miss Henry, public
welfare officer, was filed ; also the re
port of 'Mr. Zeno Moore, the county
demonstration agent.
The commissioners will meet at the
county home next Friday for the pur
pose of making a survey of conditions
there. Much work needs to be done at
the home and the commissioners de
cided they would make the visit and
see for themselves.
County and School Taxes.
Fob general school purposes there
has been an increase of 12 l-2c on
the $100. This increase has been
caused by deficits in the Rocky Mt.
and Tarboro graded schools, which
had to be taken care of in accordance
with the ruling of the state superin
tendent of public instruction. Dr. E.
C. Brooks. The deficits date back for
more than two years and will with
this increase of taxes be wiped out
this year.
The levy for teachers' salaries will
be about the same as they were for
last year.
It may be interesting to note that
there have teen material cuts in all
of the school districts where these
districts are out of debt, said cuts
ranging from five to fifteen cents on
the $100 and 15 to 45 cents on the
poll, and it will also be seen that the
cut in the local tax levies will about
offset the increase in the general levy
for schools. ;
The following form for the levy
of special taxes by the local commit
tees of each school district is given.
This form addressed to ie county
commissioners and signed by the lo
cal school committee of each district
LOVERS TO
SOLVE HIGH COST OF
DIAIGTHE HOME
BERLIN, Aug. 8. "Feathering
one's nest" is a formidable proposi
tion for the young German of today
who contemplates matrimony. Furni
ture and building costs have risen to
such heights and wages relatively
have sur.k to such depths that the
strains of wedding marches fail to
have much of a siren appeal for eith
er "Hans" or "Gretchen."
Tradition has long decreed that the
young iv.an in Germany is expected to
provide a house for his bride-to-be
before marriage. The latter, for her
part, should approach the altar with
a dowry sufficient to furnish her new
home with everything from broom to
bad-stead. Silverware and special com
forts for the household ordinarily sre
contributed by relatives or by guests
attending the wedding ceremony.
However, there is little prospect of
a German girl in the middle or lower
ci asses living up to this custom to
day. Depending on earnings of a few
hundred marks a week, she findi little
to save up for her doWTy. On the oth
er hand, the man of her choice de
spairing in his search for a place to
rent is forced to consider breach of .
promise when confronted with pres
ent building expenses. After deciding
to erect a brand new home for his
bride, he finds the prices of building ,
material art. more i than -. SI -Uiv5-.
whit thev were before the war. - ;- ".
It cos! 1,584.50 marks on July J,
191 4 ( to build 'a one-story oottage
covering 71) square meters, un dime.
1, this year, fcu?lding circles claim, . ;
eroction of such a dwelling entailed
en expenditure ol Hs,z'Jk) maa-Ks.
The costs rose 13-8 percent in May.
The stone required for a hou9e of
this sort in the summer of 1914 cost
700 marks, while now it demands an
outlay of 60,784 marks. Cement and
lime for it now cost 3,306.25 and 5,-
413. 1 0, respectively,, as against 60
and 73 marks before. Its roofing-
tile coats have risen from JM8.&0 to
17,f 19.30, and those for beams' from
264 to 24,850, while its flooring to
day would come to 4,169.75 as com
pared with 55.50 marks in 1915.
EUROPE PREPARING FOR
OCEAN RADIO TRAFFIC
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 8. "Apply
for your wave-length now, or you
wiK bo left out in the cold," was the
warning advice given to Sweden by
E. T. W. Alexanderson, of New York,
chief engineer of the Radio Corpora
tion of America, who is making a
brief business; visit to Sweden, his
native land. The Radio Corporation
has entered its bid for delivery of
apparatus arid equipment for the new
high-power wireles sstation which
Sweden is now building on itB west
coast. ' .
In an interview with the Stockholm
press, Mr. Alexanderson, a well
known radio expert, explained that
only an extremely limited number of
trans-atlantic radio stations could b
operated successfully without serious
interference.
and kept as a matter of record in tK
office of Mr. R. E. Sentelle for fu
ture reference. Every school district
committeeman in the county signed
these form3 recommending the taxes
that in their judgment were necessary
for running their schools.
"We, the undersigned school com
mitteemen for the ' school, Dis
trict No. in Township No. , hers
by petition your honorable body to
levy special local tax of enr.ta
on the one hundred dollars valuation
of property and cnts on the poll,
for the purpose of supplementing fca
district's public school fund."!