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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA.SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1920
NO. 261
VOL. V.
AMERICAN TOYS
FOR AMERICANS
Plenty of Them and No Reason
For Not Being Proudly Pa
triotic at Christmas Says
Toyman
New York, Nov. 12-"There will
be plenty of American made toys of
ndleos variety or Ame'lcan hlld
ren this Christmas" said Harry C.
Ives president ot the Toy Manufac
L ol the U. S. A. at the offices
of the Association today when asked
to explain the systematically circu
lated reports that Santa Claus would
be forced to fly a foreign flag be
cause of a shortage of toys of a do
mestic make.
.All talk of that sort," he con
tinued, "is bosh it is worse it is
deliberate and interested misrepre
sentation. Our own compilation of figures
based upon monthly reports from our
members and the statistics of the
United States Department of Com
merce prove conclusively that the
American production of toys of all
.... .i.ioit rinlln to the
kinds, irom me iiuVw -
m0Bt elaborate mechanical plaything,
la not only sufficient to supply the
needs of our children but also that
we have been able to export this
year more than $3,000,000 worth of
dolls, toys and playthisgs.
"The American production of
toys
for 1920 IS, conse
01 nnn Ml 07
Of that total
A n y , V V V , v v v . - .
v ' .... A ..nHnn n f
000 000 represents me
dolls rarfglng from the stuffed cloth
variety to the finest quality through
out and surpassing anything in dolls
ever produced anywhere In the
world I do not manufacture dolls
but i' have had the fact absolutely
proved to me.
"Included in the balance ot $65,
000 000 worth ot American toys are
playthings ot all kinds and all made
of honest materials, nnv -v
manshlp and auraouuy
with originality of ideas and design
and of truly educational value that
ian them in a class by themselves.
"I have been astonished to see in
the daily press articles In regard to
imported toys which would tend to
make American mothers believe that
at the coming holidays there will
not be enough American toys for
their children. Toys are national
to the country of origin as they have
been since the days of the early
Egyptians, It there is any good rea
aon why American children should
have foreign toys forced upon them
when the supply ot their own nation
al playthings is ''abundant, I have
never heard ot it.
"We must all recognize that there
has been a glamor cast around the
toys of other lands vby people who
have visited the concentrated toy
centers in Eurpoe. The American
toy industry has no such centralized
character but if we could take all of
the toy factories of the United
states and group them around the
"Toy .Town" of America, Wlnchen
don. Mass., it would make a collec
f.ptories that would over-
shadow the toy districts ot any other
country. Just as an example ot the
diversified character of the factories
which would be brought together in
such an Ideal toy center we would
have dolls, baloons, tops, doll fur
niture, musical toys, automobile and
spring toys, mechanical trains, wheel
toys, sleds, coaster wagons and a di
versity of products impossible to
enumerate, The volume ot to ship
ments which would leave these fac
tories is probably almost beyond the
comprehension of the reader. For
example one toy factory has a record
of shipping five carloads ot toys to
a single dealer on one day, which re
presents, of course, only a small part
of the total annual production. Bal
loons, bubble pipes, marbles, and
other itemB that are so small that we
would all pass them by without
thought are being shipped by the
millions every week. One balloon
factory alone produces a million dol
lars worth of balloons annually.
"When a shipment ot a few cases
of foreign toys arrives at one of our
ports it is a matter of news to the
reporter who meets the ship, but If
he would go to .the freight terminals
in his home city on the coast or to
any ot the large toy distributing
centers throughout the United States
he would find car loads of Amerl
can toys pouring into' these term!
nals week by week In a volume that
would exceed the imported toys many
times over. Just as car loads of tops
are leaving Vermont, carloads of
sleds sre leaving Maine and Michi
gan, carloads of coaster wagons are
leaving New York, carloads of wheel
SAYS CUELTY INCREASED
Chicago, Nov. 13 Statistics show
ing complaints ef cruelty to wife and
and children increased 238 per cent
since prohibition, said the superin
tendent of of Juvenile protection here
today. He said that the reaction ex
pressed Itself in surliness and abuse
but family non support has decreas
ed. HARDING MAROONED
Point Isobel, Tex. Nov. 3 Kept
off the fishing grounds by a cold
northerly storm and virtually mar
ooned on the land side by impassa
ble roads, President-elect Harding re
mained at his cottage today.
YALE PRINCETON
Princeton, N. J.,,,Nov. 13. A van
guard of more than 50,000 spectators
overran Princeton today for the an
nual Princeton-Yale 'football classic.
The line-up shows that Captain Cal
lahan will play right guard for Yale
and thua not face his brother, who
will play center for Princeton
GERMANY WONT APPLY
Geneva, Nov. 13 (By The Associated
Press) Germany will not make for
mal application for admission to the j
League of Nations but would not ig
nore the invitation to become a mem- '
ber, said Dr. Herman Mueller, vice '
president to the foreign affairs com
mittee of the German Reichstag, in a
statement to the Journal de Geneve.
wagons are leaving the State of
Ohio and enormous shipments ot
dolls are leaving New York City.
"What figures," Mr. Ives was ask
ed, "are there to indicate the growth
ot the American toy industry?"
"Government figures compiled by
the Department ot Commerce show
that the exports of American toys in
1914 the last normal pre-war year
were $809120 while the same com
pilation shows that for the ten
months ending September 1, 1920
the exports of American toys to forty
seven countries was $3,102,630. The(
American export is very steady as in- j
dicated by the fact that for the ten
months in question the highest
monthly figures were $496,273 and.
the lowest $229,576 with a monthly1
average of $310,253. '
"Our own Association figures
show that the approximate output of
American toys In 1914 was $35,000,-
000 while a conservative estimate of
production for 1920 is $80,000,000.
"Imports from all countries in
1914 were approximately $9,000,000
or more than eleven times the '
amount of our exports in toys, while
for 1920 the government figures
for ten months show imports of .toys
from all countries as $8,149,935 ori
about two and two-thirds times the
amount of our exports which figures
constitute a remarkable record of
growth in an industry which was sup-'
posed by many to be very largely .
dependent upon foreign help. For
seven months out of the ten months
included In the 1920 figures as so
far issued, American toy manufac-.
turers exported to all countries more
toys than were fmported from Ger-i
many and our total exports tor all
countries for the total ten months
were within $226,235 of Imports
from Germany for the same period, j
"During tne years that foreign
toys were not available the demand
here for toys, of American manufac
ture naturally increased. American
toy makers met the increased de
mand not only In quantity and qual
ity but also by greatly augmenting
the 'lines' manufactured until they!
included virtually all the best num
bers or novelties for which retailers
here had usually sent abroad, so that
today the line of toys of American
manufacture is almost as completed
as combined lines of American and
foreign toys before the war and the
person who cannot find an American
toy to suit the needs of any Ameri
can child between the ages ot one and
fifteen is indeed hard to please.
"The fact that we are able to
supply the home market and still ex
port $3,000,000 In toys is, to my
mind at least, pretty clear evidence
of the fact that, as I said at the be
ginning of this interview, there will
be plenty of American toys this
Christmas for American children."
. "Will the price of American toys
be higher this Christmas than dur
ing the 1919 holidays," Mr. Ives
was asked.
The price of toys of American man
tifacture will be lower this Christ
mas than they were In 1914 when
the purchasing power of the dollar
Is considered although in dollars and
cents they will cost more. Despite
an Increase in materials, labor and
general overhead ranging from BOO
to 800 per cent in the toy Industry,
the price of toys has advanced less
In proportion than the staple pro
duct of other American Industries."
NOTICE TO LIGHT AND WATER
CUSTOMERS
On Sunday, November 14th, the Electric Light
and Water Plant .,will be entirely closed down, and
there will be neither light nor water service on that
day. All water customers will please take notice, and
draw sufficient water for Sunday use, Saturday.
This close down is made necessary in order to con
nect the new boiler to the steam lines.
Trusting that our customers will bear with us in
this inconvenience, and assuring them of better service
in the near future, we beg to remain
The Electric Light and Water Cos.
of Elizabeth City
BESTCITY WINS
O'ER ROCKY MT.
I , . 1
First Game of Championship Se-
ries Wa Close And SnaDDV
Score 27
Bestcity.
to 25 in Favor of
Aided by the breaks of the game
and a superb fighting spirit the Eliza
beth City football team defeated the
Rocky Mount High School team Fri
day afternoon in the first game of the
elimination series for the Eastern
championship.
The Rocky Mount team entered the
game with a rush and by; a series of
line plays marched steadily down the
field for a touchdown but failed to
kick the goal. In the first quarter .
they also scored another touchdown '
on straight football after which they j
kicked the goal. Elizabeth City also j
scored in the first quarter
i
Thompson fumbled a punt and Eliza-;
ueu, u . u
Mount s goal. Lowry carnwi me ouu
over
by, a pretty end run and Sherlock
kicked the goal.
In the second quarter Rocky Mount
continued lta march through Eliza
beth City's line for a third touchdown
but failed again at goal. The half
ended with tfoo score: Rocky Mount,
19; Elizabeth City 7.
When the Elizabeth City team came
fl.11 nt IU Vinrriiltl In ir nf fhn
u,c "cm "l A t :
second half t seemed a different team.
ta lho u,.,.,, ,,, thev
i i i, tji,,, nfnt h ! will conduot both morning and even
completely took Rockyi Mount by sur-
prise and at the end of the third quar
ter Elizabeth City wa8 leading her
heavier opponents by the score of 21
to 19. Both on the offensive and de
fenehe Elizabeth City far outplayed
Rockv Mount in this quarter. The
line stiffened and Rocky Mount was
forced to surrender the balj' on
downs. In the offensive play each
member of the backfield was conspic
uous. McMullan waa the particular
star, but wag ably assisted by Duke,
Lowry and Jones.
In the four quarter Elizabeth City
still displayed great power and scored
another touchdown. Rocky Mount was
aroused by this Inst touchdown and
with three minutes to play started a
series of line plunges, with Meivin
doing the brunt of the work, which
tfave them a fourth touchdown and
brought them within two pointg of a
ti core. The final score was 27 to
25.
Other stars for Rocky Mount were
Thompson, the best quarter seen here
this season, and Whitley, who played
halfback.
By winning this game Elizabeth City
gained the right to play the strong
Red Oak team on next Saturday. The
game will be played in Red Oak.
While the Elizabeth City team realizes
the merit of the Red Dak team, they
believe they can turn the trick which
will put Red Oak out of the race and
give the local fans a chance to sop
another championship game on the
, limn jrrldlron.
' .Mi Silsnboth City wag Jubilant Fri
day night over the gritty right and
brll'iant victory won by the home
ton against a team that outweighed
them by 2S per cent.
O. T. Gilbert has returned trom ft
buying trip to New and other north -
em cltnes.
TWO 8TEAMER8 COLLIDE
New York, Nov. 13. The Spanish
mail steamer, Montserrat, from Ca
dis with 379 passengers, and the
steamer San Marcos from Galveston,
collided - off Staten Jsland this morn
ing. Some of the Montserrat's pas-
8cnBprs leaped overboard and One Is
known to have been rescued. The San
M"rcs proceeded to the pier.
she was beached safely and only one
passenger who Jumped overboard was
injured.
i CITY CHURCHES .
First Methodist
The First Methodist Episcopal
church, South, is "A 'house of prayer
for all people," which means that
everybody has a welcome at all the
services. Come and worship next
Sunday both morning and evening.
Tho minister, Rev. J. M. Ormond,
will nrannVi lilo 1nf aprmnn for tVilai
, , J ' ' " ' 1 " -
f nnnforonno vpni at plovpn n'rlnrk
fol,ow,ng Tue8(,ay iuornlng!
; he win leave for Rocky Mount, where
., 1 ,,,
' .u, , BCB0,UU "" "'
Kev. R. H. Willis, the presiding
elder of the Elizabeth City District,
will preach at seven-thirty p. m.
City Road Methodist,
Sunday School at nine-thirty
G.
1 F. Seyffert, superintendent.
I This Is the last Sunday before An
Dual Conference
The Pstor- Rev- J- W. Bradley
I ing services.
The subject for the morning wor
ship will be, "How to Whip the
Devil." At seven-thirty the sub
ject will be "A Bit of Personal His
tory. The public Is cordially In
vited to attend.
First Baptist
Rev. H. K. Williams, pastor.
Sunday School at 9:30 a. m., S. G.
Scott, superintendent.
Preaching at' 11 a. m. and 7:30
p. m. by the pastor. The morning
theme: "The Advantages of Pov
erty." The night theme: ,"A De
cided Young Widow."
The prusaders meet at six-thirty
Sunday evening. The B. Y. P. U.
meets at six-thirty Sunday evening.
The mid-week prayer meeting is on
Wednesday evening at seven-thirty.
The public Is most cordially in
vited to attend all these services.
Pearl Street Mthodbt
Rev. G. 8. Delano of Pine Bluff is
assigned as pastor for Pearl street
M. n. church to fill the vancancy
left by Rev. C. M. Warden, whose
third years as pastor ended on Sun
day, October the twenty-fourth.
Rev. Delano will arrive In this city
Saturday and will conduct the ser
vices at this church Sunday even
ing at seven-thirty. There will be
Sunday School at three o'clock Sun
day afternoon.
RlarkwHl Memorial IluptlNt
Sunday School will be called ut
line-thirty. E. F, Aydlett, supt.
The pastor, Dr. G. W. Clarke, wil!
conduct both services on Sunday.
The morning theme will be "Th?
Spirit Filled Church." Evangel:
'tic services wlITbe held In the eve.t
' Ing.
I The public Is welcome.
SHIPPING HOARD APPOINTED
Washington, Nov. 13 The ship
ping board appointed by President
Wilson was: R ear Admiral Benson
of Georgia, Democrat; Chairman
Frederick I. Thompson of Alabama,
Democrat; John N. Teal of Oregon,
Democrat; John A. Donald of New
York, Democrat; Chester R. Howell
of California, Republican; Guy D.
Goff of Wisconsin, Republican;
Charles Sutter of Missouri, Republi
can. '
Frank D. Byington, of Maryland,
was appointed commissioner ot pen
sions.: TWO CHIMNEY FIRES
The fire company was called out
by an alarm from box 62 at 7:10
Friday evening to a house on Duns
tan Lane, occupied by Pender Moore
and owned by Mrs. J. Y. Old. It
was a chimney fire and there was
practically no damage.
At 7:20 Saturday "morning the lire
company was called out by an alarm
from box 42 to a house on West
Fearing street occupied by N. R.
Rhodes and owned by T. P. Nash.
This was also a chimney fire and
there was no damage.
WOULD CONNECT
NATIONAL PARKS
Convention at Denver Plans to
Unite Cities and States of
West by Wonderful High-
way
Denver, Colo., Nov. 11 The ini
tial convention of the Park-to-Park
Highway Association with nearly
100 delegates in attendants, open
ed here today with a program calling
for congressional aid for the twelve
most westerly states in raising
$100,000,000 for hard surfacing the
6,600 miles of dirt roads that serve
us connecting links to form the Na
tional Park-to-Park-Highway. The
convention will last three days.
Stephen T. Mather, director of
the National Park Service, officials
of the American Automobile Asso
ciation, .. the Rotarlans, Optimists
and other western organization, are
i participating. The National Park-
to-Park Highway Association will be
put on a permanent organization
hnsia nnrt fttaife
and local branches
I fnrmpH in twplvn HtatPR and 100
citio8 of tne west.
Congress will be memorialized to
j.i mi,, .,m
L"'H
do, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Wash
ington, Oregon, California, Arizona
and New Mexico and connecting 11
National parks.
Representatives of the governors
of these states, as well as Utah, Ne
vada and Texas, are attending the
conference, which marks the close
of the official tour dedicating this
American motor way, with the start
and finish in Denver. The trip re
quired noon and night meetings
quired 75 days, noon and night meet
ings being held in towns on the
route to arouse the west to a greater
appreciation of its scenic, industrial
and agricultural possibilities.
This wonder highway In the form
of a lariat loop embraces an area
greater than continental Europe,
touching in the course of its scenic
running noRe, Mesa Verde, Rocky
Mountain, Yellowstone, Glacier,
Mount Ralner, Crater Lake, Lassen,
Yosemite, Sequoia, General Orant
and Grant Canyon National Parks.
A branch road will some day con
nsci iuu
Cheyenne, Great Falls, Spokane,
nect Z on National faric in man
Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Denver
are cn the route.
HAVE AGREED IN PRINCIPLE
Toklo, Nov. 13 (By, The Associatde
Press) Newspapers today report that
the Japanese and American govern
ments have reached an agreement in
principle relative to the exclusion of
Japanese laborers from the United
Htiit' s, but that there Is disagreement
about the methods to be employed.
COAL 8HORT IN BUFFALO
Buffalo, Nov. 13. A doctor's certi
ficate was required today to obtain n
ton of coal here and with the ther
mometer around 20 above zero thou
sands with empty bins clamored for
coal. A marked shortage of natural
gas Intensified the demand. .
IN POLICE COURT
(. (. Price in police court Saturda,
wan fined sml routs for cruelty t'
animals. Alfred Itonmno, charged with
nfcu!t, wss taxed with the costs.
EHRINGHAUSNOT
TO RUN IN 1922
Will Not Be Candidate to Suc
ceed Himself at That Time
Says Solicitor of First Judicial
District
.
Solicitor J. C. B. Ehrlnghaus will
not be a candidate for nomination for
re-eiection in the June primary of
1922.
Hciloitor Ehrlnghaus, about to leave.
thf city, took time to say this much
to an Advance reporter early this
morning and hastened on wil.hout ex
planations or amplifications to an
awaiting automobile.
"I am saying this 8o that candidatts
who want to run for the office in the
Democratic primary may have time to
map out their campaigns," was his
only comment
Solicitor Ehrlnghaus is",now serving
his eleventh year as solicitor of this
district, having been nominated and
elected for three successive terms, the "
last two practically without opposi
tion. , (
He is a comparatively ypung man,
still under forty, and is one of the
most popular public officials in the
section. His law firm, Ehrlnghaus ft
Small, is one of the most successful In
Eastern North Carolina and enjoys a
large practice.
He Is a man whom, hiB friends be
lieve, should he aspire to higher of
fice, the people would be delighted to
honor.
A number of prospective candidates
are already mentioned as possible sue-
cessors, including one or two from
Elizabeth City; but so far as is known
here none of thesa candldatea has been
formally announced.
ENTERTAIN FOOTBALL BOY8
Tne Boy'fi' Athletic Association here,
enterUuined the Rocky Mount football
team Friday evening at the home of
Miss Dorothy Jones on West Main
street from eight to eleven. There
was music and dancing and a general
good time. Sandwiches, cocoa and
mints were served.
COTTON CONSUMPTION 8MALL
Washington, Nov. 13. Curtailment
of cotton manufacturing was reflected
in the October cotton consumption
statistics announced today, showing the
amount of raw cotton used for manu
facturing last month 399,837 bales, the
smallest of any month in six years.
8EBASEOPOL EVACUATED
London, Nov. IS. Sebastopol is be
ing evacuated and the British author
ities are requisitioning ships in Con
stantinople to take refugees from
that city, says a dispatch from Con
stantinople to the exchange telegraph
here.
General Wrangel's situation in
Northern Crimea is said to be des
perate. TOM MOOItti HTORES FILM
IN FIRE-PROOF VAULT
Tom Moore, who will be seen at
the Alkrama today In "Stop Thief,"
has a large fire-proof vault in which
he is storing hundreds of feet of film.
No, the pictures are not of himself
"except Incidentally, now and
then," as he puts It. They are mo
tion pictures which he has had made
of his small daughter Alice. They
show; her from the time she played
with a rattle, through the period of
learning to wak until now when she
Is Interested in story-books and tries
to spell out the words. Most ot the
""-.hours which Tom Moore spends
, r.ni,iwvn Btdin".r
spent with his small daughter, and
this past summer he has taught her
to swim.
HAYH GO THE LIMIT
Washington, Nov, 13 Secretary
Daniels said today that the Navy De
partment wil "go the limit" In stamp
ing out hazing at the Naval Academy
and midshipmen will be dismissed It
necessary to end the practice.
J.W. Munden Goes
With E. S. Chesson
Having recently sold my gents
furnishing business I take this
method of notifying the public that
beginning Monday. November 15th,
I, will bo connected with E. 8. Chess
on & Company's Department Store. .
I earnestly solicit the patronage
of my friends and will strive to give
the same courteous service ss in the
past.
Very respectfully,
J, W, Munden