i
" "MY BON,
- deal with men
who advertise,
' you will never
lose by It." .
Benjamin Franklin.
THE WEATHER
Probably showers tonight and Wed
nesday. Warmer In Interior. Moder
ate northeast and east winds.
VOL 8
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA,
TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14TH, 1919.
NO. 243.
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ELIZABETH CITY SEWER COMPANY
MUST EXTEND MAINS SAYS COUNCIL
City Refuses to Buy Sewer System But Enacts
Ordnance for Compulsory Sewerage Along All
Streets Accessible to Mains
El..aueth City will not purchase
its wi:ter and sewor systems not for
the present, at least.
Hut Elizabeth City will not give up
the idea of a complete sewer system
for the eatire city.
At a special called meeting of the
City Council Monday night an ordin
ance was enacted making it compulso
ry for any resident on a street hav
ing access to the sewer system to
connect with the Bewer.
This, it is believed will eliminate
from the city In the Immediate fu
ture about four hundred surface toi
lets. The rest are to be eliminated, if
the program of the Council is car
ried out, along with the extension of
the mains of the sewer company by
the sewer company itself.
City Manager Slmonds has succeed
ed in persuading the State authorities
to extend for one year, or until Oc
tober 1920, the time when the State
law regulating surface toilets goes
into effect.
It is hoped that by the expiration
of this time limit the sewer company
will have laid a complete system of
mains for the entire town.
. The committee appointed by the
' Council at its regular meeting on the
first Monday In the month to look in
to the advisability of purchasing the
city's water plant and sewer system
from the Elizabeth City water and
sewer companies, reported unfavora
bly on the proposition, especially in
view of the price that would have to
be paid for the plants.
The fact was recalled by the
committee that in time past the
sewer company had tendered its
mains and equipment to the City free
provided that the city would take ov
er and operirfe the. system
The committee also recited the fact
that some years ago when suit was
brought against the sewer company
to compel the company, to lay certain
mains, the court held that the com
pany could not be compelled
to lay the mains unless owners of pro
perty along streets on which the
mains were laid be compelled to con
nect with them. At that time the City
Council was given to understand that
the sewer company was ready to lay
the proposed mains as soon as a com
pulsory sewerage ordinance should
be enacted.
In view of these facts the Council
Incorporated In the ordinance com
polling property owners to connect
with mains on streets where sewers
have already been laid a further pro
vision that when new mains are laid
property owners are required to con
nect with them within sixty days after
they are ready for use.
The City manager has been directed
to advise the proper officials of the wa
lUer and sewer companies of the Coun
cil's action Monday night and to no
tify these officials that the Council
will expect the sewer company to be
gin the extension of its mains in the
near future.
M. C. A. GYM CLASSICS
START THIS WEEK
The Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium
classes started Monday night. The
woung men's classes are held at
eight o'clock Monday and Thursday
nights; the business mens classes
are held at five o'clock on each Mon
day and Thursday.
These classes are arranged for the
benefit of the men of the city, and
cost nothing but a little effort.
The men who havn't gymnasium
suits can secure them at the Y. M.
C. A. office at small cost.
AFFAIRS OF FRANCE
ON PEACE BASIS
Paris, Oct., 18. -Decrees publish
ed in the offlolttl Journal this morn
ing place the official affairs of France
,on a peace basis, ending the state of
jeige, lifting the censorship, and
transferlng Jurisdiction from army
to prefectures.
WANTED CASHIER. HOURS 12
to one and six to ten at night
Standard Pharmacy. oet lltf
MAKES LONG TRIP
OLD TOWN CANOE
From New York to Elizabeth
City, and Expects to End Up
At New Orleans.
Newspaper reports were current
a day or two ago of a canoe trip of
600 miles from Philadelphia to Lit
tle Washington by two Ohians.
The trip was regarded as quite a
feat, but today Mr. Lefevre is In
Elizabeth City from New York, City,
having made the entire trip in an
"Old Town" canoe, and he has no
idea of calling his voyage at an end
until he reaches New Orleans.
Sportsman Lefevre came on the
outside from New York to Cape
Charles, there he crossed the Chesa
peake Bay to Norfolk Harbor, to the
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, to
North River and Currituck Sound,
thence thru Albemarle Sound. He
stopped over at Elizabeth City for
repairs and supplies and expects to
I continue his trip Wednesday momrn-
ing.
J The craft is an eighteen foot canoe,
jSponson model, with detachable
motor and his cruising speed is 12
miles an hour, though he can make
eighteeen miles an hour.
Lefevre is a French Canadian hun -
ter and trapper. He expects to
reach New Orleans by the first of
December. He will ship his canoe
from New Orleans to Canada and
make the trip home by rail in order
to get home for the trapping season.
ITALY AGREES
TO FREE STATE
Paris, Oct. 14 Italy has agreed to
the creation of a free state in Flume
port remaining under the control
of the League of Nations, says the
Petit Parlslen which claims to have
reliable information.
AT ALKRAMA
WEDNES. NIGHT
Congressman John H. Small will
speak at the Alkrama Wednesday
night on the League of Nations, ex
plaining Just what the League Is
and what it means.
There will be no admission fee
and the public Is cordially invited. !
The address has been arranged to be
i
delivered after the prayer meeting rived at Henderson yesterday ana to
servlce at the churches and after thejday gave bond of. $10,000 for his ap
flrst show at the Alkrama. It is pearance at the March term of supe-
hoped that men, women and child-,
ren will hear Mr. Small.
Arrangement for the Lecture was
made by the Educational Department ,
of the Housewives League of this '
clty.
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TWELVE MEN
SAFELY ACROSS
Mineola, October 14th
With twelve of the sixty-two orlg-
inal starters safely across the conti-
nent and preparing to start their re-:
turn flight, the. first half of the trans
continental fllitht entered its final .
nhann todav.
By sundown it is expected that the
remaining contestants will have;
w
checked in at the two seaboard con
trol stations.
Maynard is expected to leave San-
Francisco this afternoon.
V. S. COURT IN SESSION
United States Court
here this morning.
convened
BUYING GOODS
Miss Mattie Banks Is in New York
City .buying goods tor Fowler
Company.
MITCHELL. FEREBEE
Attractive Daughter of Mrs.
E. M. Sawyer of Belcross
Weds Halifax Man
A marriage of much interest In
this city and section was solemn
ized at four o'clock Saturday after
noon at the First Baptist Church of
Norfolk when Miss Mary Wiley Fer-
ebee of Belcross became the bride of building a Far ttastern Umpire
Mr. Meade Harrison Mitchell of Lit- . Empire which will become a "peril
Ueton. j!o Aiuerjca" and threaten the safety
The church was. beautifully deco- f tho world, Senator Lodge of Mass
rated with rose colored dahlias, acusetts, the Republican leader, de
ferns and rose colored candles. The ( clared today in the Senate In urging
wedding music was rendered by J adoption of his amendments to the
Miss Watkins of Norfolk and the Peace treaty under which German
impressive ring ceremony was per- J rights In Shantung would be return
formed by Dr. Vines, pastor of the.Bd t0 China Instead of being award-
First Baptist church.
The bride was becomingly gowned
in a handsome travelling suit of ,1 gaining control of Chjna, Senator
dark blue tricotlne, with hat and Lodge said and he predicted that she
accessories to harmonize, and car-jould use China's vast man-power
ried a corsage boquet of brides . to endanger the safety of both Amer
roses. , ica and Europe.
Immediately after the ceremony "It is impossible to see," said
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell left on the: Senator Lodge, "how any consclen
steamer for Washington, Baltimore, tious American can oonsent to any
New York and other northern cities. I act or treaty that will extend the
On their return they will make their 'power of such a nation as Japan
home in Halifax, N. C.
Attending the wedding from out
side the city were Mrs. E. M. Saw
yer of Belcross, mother of the bride;
Miss Cora Ferebee of Washington,
D. C. and Mrs. W. T. Sledge of Fair
mont, sisters of the bride; Mrs. G.
H. Ferebee of Gregory; Mrs. W. S.
Barry of Belcross; Mrs. I'. V. Mitch-
ell of Littleton, mother of the groom;
and Mr. Norman Mitchell of Little-
ton, brother of the groom.
The bride is the very attractive
daughter of Mrs. E. M. Sawyer of
Belcross and has many friends in
j this city and section. Slia has been
in the government service at Wash-
I'ngton, D. C. for the past twelve
months.
The groom was recently
from army service where
released
he held
the rank of Lieutenant. He is a
prominent business man of Halifax,
North Carolina, and a member of
the Halifax Supply Company of that
city.
SITRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Miss Lauray Simpson was given
a surprise birthday party, Monday
night at her home on Morgan street.
Tjj0se
present were Misses Myrtle
Smp80n Emma Sherlock, Pina Al
bertson, Rosabelle Sprulll, Pearl
Spruill and Mabel Woodard; Messrs
Johnie Sexton, Harry Simpson, Ar
chie Munden, Lonnle Sherlock, Ben
nie Tarkington, William Simpson and
Chas. Sawyer.
BELL GIVES BOND
AT HENDERSON
(By Associated Press)
Henderson, October 13. J. K. C.
Bell, former sheriff of Vance coun
ty, who recently was indicted by a
Vance county grand Jury on three
counts, charging embezslement of
county, state and school funds, ar-
i . .
rior court to answer the charges.
Bell resigned as sheriff last spring
whUe the audit of his boks was be-
ing made, the alleged shortage be-
ing made good by ab bonding compa-
ny-
It is said that Bell is now living at
'his old home in Currituck county.
TEACHERS TAKING EXAMS
Pasquotank County teachers who
were not already armed with cer
tificates for their war against ignor-
ance have been taking the examina-
tlona today, under the supervision of
superintendent of Education, M. P.
Jenning8
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NO INDILAUUN ur
THE FLU EPIDEMIC
; !
St. Louis, Oct. 14 There is no in-
dicatlon of an epidemic of influenza
winter, nucurumB iu BVw "
the convention of the Association of
Military Surgeons of the United
States In session here today,
FLIES FROM FRANCE
TO AUSTRALIA
'
Issy Les Mollneaux, France, Oct.
14 Aviator Poulet started this
morning on his flight to Australia,
JAPAN PERIL
TO AMERICA
So Declares Senator Lodge at
Length in Senate Speech
Against League of Nations.
Washington,
Oct. 14 Japan ' is
ed to Japan.
Steadily and
relentlessly, Japan
over a coun try like China, especially
when the United States deliberately
drew China into the war with at
least an implied if not an express
promise to give assistance and pro
tection at the peace conference.
"The principal argument made by
those who sustained the deljvery of
control of Shantung to Japan
Is that Japan has promised at dif
ferent times to return it to China.
Whatever promises she has made
were all marked by one vital omiss
ion. In no instance do I tlnil that
Japan ever (Ixed a time when she
would actually return the province
to its rightful owners. To deter
mine what Japan is likely to do it
is necessary to consider what she has
done for twenty-live years."
.la n pa n was charged by Senator
Lodge with breaking inumerable
pledges regarding her course in
China and Korea; with violating the
"open door" poljcy destroying for
eign commerce in Manchuria and
Korea. He fundamental policy, he
said, had been "steady, relentless
aiming to get ultimate control of
the vast population and great ter
ritory of China."
"As it lias been in the past, so it
will be in the future jn regard to
Shantung." he continued. "Japan Is
steeped hi German ideas and regards
was as an industry. She means to
exploit China and build herself up
until she becomes a power formida
ble to all the world. She will use
ultimately the practically the unlim
ited man-power of China for mili
tary purposes Just as Germany and
Austria used in their armies the
man power of 26,000,000 Slavs, who
were utterly opposed to German dom
ination, to promote their schemes of
conquest. Japan will be able to
construct In that way a power which
j wm threaten the safety of the world,
she is already advancing In Siberia
an(j wjth her control there and China
developed as she means to develop it
she will threaten Europe.
"But the country that she would
menace most would be our own, and
unless we carefully maintain a very
j superior navy in the Pacific the day
will come when the -United States
t will take the plae of France in
' another greut war to preserve civll
t ization. K
j "But there Is another reason eyei
more decisive to my mind than this
It is a great wrong, this giving of
Shantung over to the control of
Japan. Morally it is Indefensible,
and It is no answer to say that we
faile(l to object to the German seizure
of Shantung. As a matter of fact
the open door policy of Mr. Hay was
the reply to the German movement
and for the time, arrested it. The
to say that Just so we could trade
with these stolen territories we are
willing to let them be stolen. This
ftttack uoon the dead is the most re-
pulgiTe 0f au the President has aeen
fit to make. If ever there was a
disinterested policy it was.that of
Mr Htt- We -ot nothing from it
whatever that all the world djd not
get, the intention of the policy was j
to save China and prevent further
extension of foreign acquisitions of
Chinese territory. But even If it
had been otherwise it would be no
answer to wiiat it s now proposed
to do by this treaty, to say that we
'should have Interfered in behalf of
II. TITTLE
IIKKi: I OK THE WEEK
I ;u v ,ij iiouu .ueiiinnisi i llliren
Monday night a splendid congregation
was present to hear Rkv. 11. II. Tut-jtle'.-.
first sermon of the week. He
j directed his messa;;!' principally to
' members of the church, urging them
to. do elir'stian work. The hours
i for the service are nine-thirty to
A. r-.fi.. (t i i ., . .
ten-fifteen in the morning, and seven
tliirty in the evening.
Everybody is invited to nil the
services.
Rev. Tuttle asks that Wednesday
ho abserved us "Open Bible Day."
Here is his suggestion: "Read us
much of the Bible that day us you
will, and leave the book open on
your desk or table during the entire
day." He says it will have a good
influence on those who try it.
"Come to City Road and worship
with us, not only once, but many
times," says the pastor, Rev. J. W.
Bradley.
Korea in 1904. Two wrongs never
made right."
Few realize the significance or
ultimate effect of the Shantung
award, Senator Lodge declared, pic
turing as a parallel to Japan's eco
nomic rights, the "situation if Great
Britain had similar privileges in
this country. "The comparison that
most naturally springs to one's
mind," he said, "is the assumption
that Great Britain, with her control
of Canlda, which is a less rigorous
control than Japan exerts over Man
churia or Eastern Inner Mongolia,
were to hold under, her control the
port of New York, all the wharves,
all railway terminals also, including
our two principal railroads, the
management of our central custom
house, post ollice. cable terminals,
telegraph and telephone administra
tions, the absolute ownership and
control of of the Pennsylvania Rail
way thru to Chicago, with the right
to extend It at least as far as Kan
sas C'ty; the prior right to linance
or build and furnish supplies to all
railroads; of important mines, pre
sent and future, in that territory;
and any other Improvements that
our people thru this government,
might contemplate making in any
of that territory north of Washing
Ion and east of Chicago, provjded
Great Britain would perforin this
work for as cheaply as any other
responsible bidder.
Before acceding to this section of
the peace treaty the senate should
carefully note that such a grip of
Great Britain would mean not only
to the United States but to all other
natjons of the world wishing to do
business with the United States."
Emphasizing that the principal
argument in defense of the Shan
tung award was that China would
lose nothing as Japan merely secur
ed rights formerly held by Germany,
Senator Lodge said:
"People shut their eyes to the
moral issue and the methods em
ployed by Japan to get this claim,
and do not realize Its economel and
political significance. Attention Is
frequently called to the fact that
the. German concession does not in
clude the entire province of Shan
tung, some 35,000 square miles
(about the Rjze of Illonois.) with a
population of some forty millions,
but only the territory surrounding
the Bay of Kiaochow, some 200
square miles In extent, with a pop
ulation of 195,000; and it Is further
added that Japan has promised to re
store to China the political rights
over even this territory of Kiaochow,
retaining only the economic rights.
The Japanese seem to have scrupu
lously avoided calling attention to
the most significant single fact; that
is, thai in the agreement which they
forced China to acode to in connec
tion with this settlement, they re
served a Japanese settlement select
ed by themselves, to remain under
the absolute control and direction of
Japan."
Japan's settlement rights, the
majority leader stated, include
wharves, railroad terminals, tele
graph and cable offices, postal facili
ties, customs houses and exclusive
railroad development rights into the
heart of China and outside of Shan
tung. "Certainly this is no very small
hold on forty million people," he
argued,
After the outbreak ot war the Jap
anese, Mr. Lodge said, 'apparently
strengthening their methods of clos
ing on open door and have
been more agresslve, if not to say
!ia;v. i).
SPECIAL RATES
FORTilE FAIR
Only Faro ar:J a Half Will Be
Cl.uvru fjr Hound Trip
Tickets to Bess City, Novem
ber 10 lo M.
'1 lie Southern Passenger Traffic
C'i uii in : 1 1 has granted special
round-trip excursion rates from
iio.ni!, t,u Hie .Norfolk Southern rail
road lo Elizabeth C'ty for tho Albe
marle District Fair.
Reduced rates have been author
ized on a basis or a faro and a half
for the round trip, minimum excur
sion fare, 25 cents, from stations on
the Norfolk Southern railroad to Elll
abeth City.
T'ckets will be sold November 10 to
14, Inclusive, and for trains sched
uled to reach Elizabeth City before
noon of November 15th, with final
limit November 17th, prior to mid
night ot which date the return trip
must be completed
This will be good news to the
people living in the ten counties,
within the territory covered by the
Albemarle District Fair.
MEETS TONIGHT
AT COURT HOUSE
The Aladdin Company will estab
lish a branch factory somewhere In
Eastern North Carolina. Elizabeth
City can get it by going after it.
There is a chance to get a college.
Some town is going to get it.
Tho Federal engineers have turned
down the preliminary survy of the
Pasquotank. The matter can be
appealed, however, if steps are tak
en promptly and properly.
These suggestions give an idea of
the Importance of the Chamber of
Commerce meeting tonight, and
Secretary L. D. Case urges that
all live members and hustling citi
zens be on hand at this meeting.
JOHN H. SMALL
AT FORKS FAIR
Congressman John H. Small will
be the speaker of the day at Forks
Community Fair Wednesday after
noon. Dr. Edward Knight spoke at Riv
erside Fair today and Is expected to
remain over and speak at Forks Wed
nesday .
W. C. T. U. MEETS WEDNESDAY
The W. C. T. U. will meet at the
home of Mrs. Fred Davis on Burgess
street Wednesday afternoon at four
o'clock.
Mr. Tuttle who Is holding a revi
val at City Road Methodist Church
will speak to the members and all ere
urged to be present.
OUT AFTER ILLNESS
It. H. Murden is out after a week's
illness from acute indigestion.
WANTED RELIABLE COLORED
girl to take care of two year old
child and help with housework.
Hours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Good
pay. Apply at Advance office 14tf
Insolent, in their treatment of the
Chinese."
In an effort to obtain control of'
China. Japan has almost forced
loans on her, Mr. Lodge declared.
! "It l;i the deliberate onlnlon of
both foreign and other observers,"
ho said, "that threats and bribery
were deliberately used. The pur
pose clearly was to tje up In Japanese
hands the best of the resources of
China at a time when other nations
were so occupied that they could not
interfere. Unless some change is
made in these records, China will be
seen to be largely mortgaged to the
Japanese In such a way and to such
an extent that the already acquired
rights of other nations will be se
riously Infringed."
In conclusion the Republican
Leader urged adoption of the amend
ments transferring to China the
rights in Shantung given to Japan
by the treaty.
Award of those rights to Japan, ha
said, was "a wrong to men and to
the cause of freedom and justice."