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VOL. XI.
FINAL EDITION
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER"l6f"7f
FOUR PAGES
NO. 217
Community Drama Stirs
Appreciation of Beauty
Actual Participation In Re-creation Of State's
History Bringing Roanoke Islanders To
. Whole-Hearted Co-operation And To Deep
er Pride In Local History
"Because It makes many people
.join together to create beauty,"
answered Miss Elizabeth B. Grimball,
.director of' drama and pageantry,
' the other day in answer to the ques
tion, Why is the pageant valuable?
Miss Grimball has prepared the scen
arios, directed the training of the
participants, and selected the cos
tumes for the historical moving pic
tures to be filmed on Roanoke Island
jiext week.
' "The drama makes vivid certain
truths and vital things in the life of
the race," Miss Grimball continued,
"And besides, those kinds of recrea
tion that are only passive in which
the people themselves have no part
cannot long be satisfactory. Recre
ation which is really "re-cr9ation"
if Is the result when people them
selves actively participate, and It
can never wholly die. As an in
.atance of the power of community
drama to bring people together in ac
tive co-operation, we have the whole
hearted zeal with which the folks of
Roanoke Island are working upon
the pictures to be filmed there in the
next few days. Though it is their
history, they would never have been
so much Interested had they not had
an active part in reproducing it."
"Community drama focuses all the
.art life and talent in the community.
It is playing an Important part in
fostering our own art here in Am
erica, and is destined to play a still
more Important part, as it spreads
more generally among the people of
.the nation." .
Miss Grimball is much more than
dimply a director of pageantry. She
is author of a number of plays and
pageants which have been success
fully produced in many parts of the
United States, among which are
"The Children of Light," a pageant
presented at Portland, Maine, in
1919; and the "Snow -Queen," a play
wrncn was the only Christmas ma
tinee feature presented at the Broad
Street Theatre, Philadelphia's lead
ing playhouse, in 1916. A short one-
act play by Miss Grimball appeared
on the Century roof, in New York,
during the same year. She has
wVltten ten pageants In the last three
jeers.
Miss Grimball was boin in Charles
ton, S. C, and there received her
arly education. She then went to
Boston, entered the Curry School of
Expression, and graduated with hon
or under the instruction and train
ing of William Seymour, one of the
dramatic directors oC the celebrated
Daniel Frohman. She had some
theatrical experience in New York,
and for the last seventeen years has
been directing plays end pageants.
She Is a member of the board of di
rectors of the American Pageantry
Association, and is on the National
Committee of Church Drama and
Pageantry of the Ep'scopal Church
of America.
As president of the Inter-Theatre
Arts Club ot New York, Miss Grim
ball is the leader of a working group
of artists, writers, architects and di
rectors who have studios in the Art
Center Building, in New York. She
has produced large pageants in the
East, the North, and the South, and
also in France during the stay of the
American Expeditionary Forces
there. Mies Grimball was production
manager of "The Voice," a great
pageant produced on the Vanderllo
estate, in Westchester County, New
York, in 1919. In the summer of
1920 she directed a demonstration
pageant for the National Confer
ence of the Episcopal. Church, at
Wellesley, Mass.
In the same year, Miss Grimball
did a lecture tour of sixteen of the
leading cities of the United States,
on "Community Drama and the
Equipment of Little Theatres." Dur
ing the war, Miss Crlmoall was at
the head of the Golden Players, pro
fessional actors from the ranks of
the A. E. F., who produced the play.
"It Pays to Advertise," and "Seven
Keys to Baldpate." and also Joseph
LIndon Smith's pageant. "The Pearl
and the Pirate," in many parts of
France. She has lived and worked
in New York City during the last 15
.years. '
After Hie Roanoke Island pictures
havebeen completed. Miss Grimball
will go to New York to do demonstra
tion lectures In the course to be pre
there In connortlon with the
'.-wM par--- - . "America In the
l&f v - rn t Inn $ rj
NO SOLUTION OF
DIISHPROBLEM
Relations Between England
And Troubled Isle Back On
Basis On Which Stood Two
Months Ago
London, Sept. 16 (By The Associ
ated Press) Relations between Eng
land and Ireland stood today as they
did before Eamon De Valera came to
London on July 14th to discuss with
Lloyd George the possible basis of
ending the Irish controversy.
Due to the cancellation of the In
verness conference, truce may con
tinue, i
Boy Killed In
Auto Accident
Lexington, N. C, Sept.
16 (By The Associated
Press) Roosevelt Estes,
19 years old, is dead; and
Pierce Leonard has a
broken leg as a result of
the automobile in which
they were riding hitting a
wagon. The men are said
to have been drinking and
a warrant charging man
slaughter has been issued
for Leonard.
SAYS HARD WORK
WAY TO HEALTH .
Man With Competency At
Seventy-two Keeps Up Car
Begin Organization I ADDITffIl? rrniii
Uf Cotton Growers AUIJUUiLL nviiUi
IN THREE WEEKS
H. William Elected ( luiiriium Of
Committee To Organize County I
Association
Dr. n w Viin.i.o m. .
pentering With Expectation 8ion Se-vice of the State Department
Of Rounding Out Centurv 1' Agriculture a Raleigh, addressed!
a group of one hundred Pasauotank i
County cotton raisers and Elizabeth (
City business men at the office of
County Agent G. W. Falls Friday j
morning on the organization of an
mar-
i And District Attorney Declares
Has Sufficient Evidence To
Convict The Comedian On
Charge Of Murder
New York, Sept. 16 Although en
tering his 72nd year with enough
money to retire and take up golf.
Frank D. Johnson nf nmnkivn . " . l,,c
oronf k 1, , V, V. a880Ciai'on ior the co-operative
Arbuckle To Be
Tried For Murder
San FranriHco, Kept, 10 (By
The AN8(M-iateI Press) Ar-
buckle will be tried for murder,
It whs decided today.
'
CROWN PRINCE HAD
VERY CLOSE CALL
Brusa, Asia Minor, SeDt. 16 fRv
The Associated Press) Crown
Prince George of Greece, while on
TlnilPH tn firaot hnn.a. nil 1... LI . . .
and sen then, ' """ Bft f CUn- K"gre 8tated ,
For the last fifty vears he ha. . "f? 'f the .rBanJ
worked ton tn tu, , w Bl" UP uu,uuu Dales of cot- .
this nLl 1 , Ur f d8y Bt ton ,n North Carolina before the or- ' !
this pursuit and now is putting up a ganization could be perfected and
nTSSX t "V? bal"v
tnunhP.1 h .,, v more tnan the "quired number, have'
ed it. " ""Ven P by the growers. San Francisco. Sept. 16 (By The
Last July while he was working L n , pre8,dent of th Associated Press) Roscoe Arbuckle
on the house it was M Z t. ?h, T Bank f TrU8t Cmpany of,wl t0 ithl" the next three
ning. Digging himsel ou "o "the SmS??"1 ' the di"triCt attorne -
debris, Johnson rubbed some arnica f f r . P . 'ow- nounced today, adding that he had
onto his bruises and was Zl I ol h. ?S"JWV iufflcta" eV,dence " convlc' tn
r , H "'tuno, HOW tlHU. W. .1 . 1 niOV O PnmaHlan nn n
wniiams, rrea Brothers and, E. C.
nevo uuonary Bright; Providence, Charlie Davis.
Kincr CKritinn Nnf
To Visit United States :
Copenhagen, Sept. 16. (By The
Associated Press) Rumors that
King Christian of Denmark Is short
ly to pay an official visit to the Unit
ed States are unfounded.
The rumors probably arose from
the fact that many influential Danes
and Americans living at present here
were of the opinion that an official
visit to America br the King and
Queen would be likely to further
strengthen the natural bonds of
friendship between the two nations.
They also thought that it was de
sirable the King should go as his own
ambassador and express Denmark's
gratitude toward America in getting
back Danish Slesvig from Germany.
Job the next day.
the battle front with hia tot w. ...... .... . . .. ' nngni
King Constantine, narrowly escaped one hundred. He has a but wo o ?Zl vt u t V PTlU
capture twice by Turkish irregulars, his original teeth an"Be"y a hair S ?' o"' J" Walt6r Per
escaping a ha.ll of bullets. has fallen from his head S S" SCOtt' and E P Cart-
. , ? ne,aa; wrlght; Nlxonton, Milton B. Sample
' fcX C?"'d ha? knocked off and W. F. Jennings, and J. H Terry
Shantung Que.tion """" J- -
inva, I:::... . The members of the committee
7 I ..u V ' t"aBLerer- P'unioer appointed will work in their resi.ee
r,ttel:P.Trhanger; d8C- tlve "PB to interest cotton!
, ...., Clcllumll) W1)0ll car. growers th co.operatlve market.
" " a,,u uuus Ul law8 gov- dur nif the month onHi nn.i.. it
Prohibition officers contemDlate
confiscating Arbuckle's J25.000 au
tomobile on the ground that it was
used to transport liquor.
Japan May Take This Course
China Declines Take Shan
tung On Jap Terms
If
APPEAL DENIED IN
LeROY VS. SALIBA
16 (By The Assocl-
Toklo, Sept
ated Press)
Japan may
Shantung question at the Washing
ton disarmament conference if China
declines the recent proposal of Ja
pan with regard to the turning of
Shantung over to China.
It is intimated that erning real estate, so as to save all n . K "Cl0Der 1&"
refuse to discuss the title Lrrh.n. u ZlV?! are three dollar9 a
i 11,0 ouccessiui organization of the
D , "Z Z growers may mean a tremendous
KedUCed Personnel difference in the returns received for
For Coast Artillery blowing D "kllgore'i address,
onei BDeecnea wpta mnia h n
- w asuuw U T W.
Prohibition Trebles
Grape Growers Profits
LLOYD GEORGE ILL
Inverness, Scotland, Sept. 16 (By
The Associated Press) Lord Daw
son, physician to King George, has
been asked to attend Premier Llovrt
George, who is ill , at his summer
home.
Organization Fosters
Interest In Sport
Big Ten And Missouri Valley Con
ference Represent College Popu
lation Of 100,000
SdD Francisco, Sent. 16 (Bv The
Associated fFress) Prohibition has
trebled the profits of the grape' grow
ers of California, -grapes Jumping
from ten dollars to albundred dollars 1,1
a ton. This year's crop Is valued at FIREMAN AND ENGINEER
ITC AAA AAA -
f f u,uuurvvu,
I Washington, Sept. 16. (By The As
sociated Press) Five Southern coast
artillery commands have been placed
on a reduced personnel basis, in line
with the reduction-in-the-army poljcy
of the administration.
The commands affected are Cape
Fear, N. C, Charleston, S. C, Savan
nah, Ga., Tampa, Fla., and Mobile,
Alabama.
were made hv n p
mcLTary, or the Agricultural Ex
tension Service, P. H. Williams, Gur
ney P. Hood, and Eugene S. Scott.
SAYS HAREM BEST
PLACE FOR WOMAN
Beautiful Turkish Wife Former
MEET DEATH IN WRECK
Clinton, Iowa, Sept. 16 (By The
Associated Press) Engineer Thomaa
Lea and Fireman John Johnson were
HINSDALE FUNERAL
HELD TOMORROW
Last Surviving Colonel Of Con
federate Army Living In
North Carolina Dies At
Raleigh Home
Raleigh, Sept. 16 (By The Associ-
o".
killed When an engine of the Chicago ated Press) The funeral of Colonel
& Northwestern west borond passeng- John W. Hinsdale, who died here
er train was derailed at a washout yesterdav. will hp hoiri tnmnrmu,
near Bellepiaine. Colonel Hinsdale was the last siir-'
vlvlng colonel of the Confederate'
Arfcy livlnS In North Carolina.
Chicago, Sept. 16. (Bv The Asso
ciated Press) One of the chief rea
sons for the great Interest in college
sports in the West in the last few
years has been the presence in the
Middle West of the two largest col-1
lege athletic organizations in the
world.
The Western Intercolleelate Ath
letic Conference, or as It Is better
known, the "Big Ten." which on.
ened its football practice yesterday,
covers the territory east of he Mis
sissippi. The Missouri Valley con
ference obviously covers territory on
the sunset side of the big river.
The methods of administration and
the rules of the two organizations are
identical with the exception of one
or two minor details. Their success
has attracted the attention of college
men throughout the country. The
Pacific Northwest Conference Is grad
ually taking its place among: the new
er institutions of the Pacific rn.
while with the beginning of the col
legiate season of 1 922 a conference
will take shape In the South.
The "Big Ten," formerly the "Big
Nine," is the outgrowth of an old
organization which included th amaii
and large schools of the territories'
now covered bv the iwn iwi.irti w..
- " M H, IT il
tern conferences.
The Missouri Valley conference has
a decade of history, most of the time
A factor In the progress of the two
conferences has been the great
amount of athletic material they
have been able to draw on. The col
legiate population of their members
last year was more than 100.000
Both conferences have bpen
friendly to Increase In the number of
competitive intercollegiate sports.
Each hag made moves to enroll the
entire student body In athletics and
most of the schools have a commit.
sory rule for participation In ath
letics of the Brst year classmen.
Advocate Of Modern Idea World Represented
ZZS?' Ri,h" N" i In C!h Council Unhiari-!;
Pittsburgh, sept. i6 (By The As- Meet In Conference
Angora, Sept. 16 (By The Assocl
soctated Press) Delegates from all
over the world. reDresentlne 35 mil.
ated PrPl''Th .aa1...a h U,B w"r,u- presenting 35 mil- xvarragansett ner, K. I.. Se.m. .
harem is best adapted to woman's .r , "l "ere t0.aay at,en(J- ry 106 A880Clatea i'ress)-Laymen
nature nnrt it i. ht f, ., Diol 1,115 lUB eieve" general council of im many states ana rrom Canada Jennlr
order that she shouw L there." del J11 f .Refmed Churches afi8embl.ed here today ln a rellglou8
clared Muflde Ferid Tanem, the Na
tionalist novelist and beautiful wife
of Ahmed Ferid Bey, ex-minister of
finances, to the correspondent in an
interview. "The harem grew out of
holding the Presbyterian system.
FIGHT FOK 48 HOIIW
convention unusual because no mlm
Isters are eligible.
The 200 delegates are officers and
members of the Council of the Uni-
New York, Sept. 16 (By The Asso- taran Laymen's League and the
elated Press) Textile workers in Presidents of local chapters
the intelligent understanding of the "a"a "ess)-TextIle workers in P.u0ni. cnapters or the Newby and Weeks vi
marriage relation. It represents the the 8oUth Wi" be chanPloned In the 1afu" ,B the Inltarlan church of the Co.. Perquimans, new trial
marriage relation. It represents the
. , . week soon to start. President McMa- w111 contlue through tomorrow and
I am a reformed woman s rights . rr.i,. r., . Snniav
.Hvn,0,- .1,. j ....:.. VL lUD vYurRt-rs union
ji iur me luuepenuence oi tne
Raleigh, Sept. 16. The Supreme
Court found no error ln case No. 1
from Hyde County in which a negro
named Jones was convicted for the
killing of two other negroes and
throwing their bodies in a canal
near his house. The negro was con
victed on wholly circumstantial evi
dence. The bodies of the two vic
tims were first found, then the single
tree which fitted the dents made in
the skulls was found in the accused
man's house. The stick had blood
and some negro hair on it. Later
the cart on which the negroes were
hauled to the canal was found. It
had been borrowed from a neighbor.
Bloody chips, which fitted the new
cuts on the cart body, were also, re
covered about the house, showlne
that the negro or someone had tried
to hide evidences of the murder be
fore he returned the cart to its
owner. 1
In the batch of fifteen ODfnions.
the first handed down rim-in h
wwa..a UQ
new terra of court, were two writ
ten by the late Associate Justice
Allen. They were written by Judge
Allen Just before he left Raleigh for
his home in Goldsboro, where he
died suddenly.
The opinions follow:
State vs. Jones, Hyde, no error.
Sykes vs. Veneer Co., Tyrrell, no
error.
Armstrong vs. Spruill. Tyrrell.
reversed.
Blanchard
reversed.
Guthrie vs. Moore et al, Beau
fort, affirmed: Note this opinion
was written as the CourtgcecL
b'tt i;6d 5," dr'SeT oi' the Court, af
ter Justice Allen's death.
Jennings vs. Jennings et al, Pas-
new trial. Note: Thfn
opinion was written as the Court
decided, but filed by order of the
Court, after Justice Allen's death.
'Milling Co. vs. Phillips & Co.,
Pasquotank, no error.
Newby and Weeks vs. Realty
vs. Peanut Co., Gates,
now bc!n mud, and which will be
f' ! It Timber.
American and European woman, but
now I believe the mistress of the
sentimental Austrian, the nagging
English woman and the calculating,
self-centered American woman.
"To these women, woman's rights
means the right to spend money on
foolish finery, to marry late, and be
childless. They live for the store
and the theater. They are respon
sible for a good deal of factory labor
expended in useless directions. They
won't work with their hands to
make their clothes, their minds are
filled with fashions, novels and
candles.
"Men have become their slaves,
and you call this western civiliza
tion. We Turkish women have had
out heads turned by the effort to be
come like these civilized women, and
In doing so some of us have lost our
.sterling old-fashioned qualities and
. become a costly, vain, destructive
creature like our sisters of the West.
I "We Nationalists are In favor of
abolishing the theory of polygamy,
though In fact It has long since ceas
ed as an Institution But we are sur
woman's place Is the home, and the
best way to keep her there Is the
harem, which gives her much lib
erty but not license. We are good
housewives, we wear more or less
a uniform gown and veil. In (he
streets, which prevents us being vic
tims to fashion, and at home, If we
do not i.h to see our husbands we
MAYFLOWER ARRIVE TONIGHT
Washington, Sept. 16 (By The As
sociated Press) The presidential
yacht Mayflower, with President
Harding and his vacation party
aboard, Is reported off Delaware
Capes and is scheduled to arrive in
Hampton Roads early tonight.
Church attendance and member
ship, advertising and publicity,
church organization and efficiency In
business administration, recruiting
the ministry, Sunday schools, com
munity service without distinction
between native and foreign born,
and the Unitarian opportunity and
obligation in college and university
centers will be discussed.
Jennette et al. vs. Hovev & Ca
Pasquotank, affirmed.
LeRoy vs. Sallba, Pasquotank, ap
peal dismissed.
Overton vs. Combs, Washington,
reversed.
Brown vs. Brown. Washington, no
error.
Wallace vs. Oil Co., Nash,
error.
Capps, admr., vs. A. C. L. R. R
Wilson, appeal dismissed.
no
Champagne Proves
Popular Medicine
New York,. Sept. 16 (By The Asso
ciated Press) Champagne Is enter
ing this port at the rate of six hun
dred quarts dally.. Last month's Im
ports were nearly twenty thousand
quarts from Spain and France for
medical use.
Attacked And Robbed jCITY ORDINANCE
By Police Officer' AIMED AT KU KLUX
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 16 (By The
Associated Press) Paul F. Daniel,
acting cashier of the Fulton Realty
Company, reported today that a po
liceman entered his office, attacked
him and robbed the safe.
El Paso, Sept. 16 (By The Associ
ated Press) Apparently designed
to counteract the activities of the Ku
Klux Klan, the city council has
adopted an ordinance forbidding
public gatherings or demonstrations
of masked persons.
TO OXHIDKR FORD'H OFFER
Washington, Sept. 16 (By The As
soclated Press) The Secretary ot
War and Henry Ford representatives
will confer Mondav concerning thp
Six Month For Stealing I'lutol
Thirty l)nyn For Carrying It
John Sutton, colored, was sentenc- Ford offer to purchase Muscle Shoals
ed to six months on the roads Friday property.
morning In recorder's court for the '
larceny of a pistol belonging to C. M. 1 IM)EH"T LIKE AIR
Harris, and was given an additional Washington, Sept. 16 (By The A
30 days for carrying concealed wea- soclated Press) Malar n.n.r.i n
pons.
(Thencher, chief of the srmy air ser
vice, has asked to be transferred to
command of troops In the field.
Dauntless Brings Home
Bodies ZR-2 Victims
New York, Sept. 16. By The Asso
ciated Press) The British cruiser
I Dauntless, bringing home the bodies
of the 16 American victims of the
ZR-2 disaster. arrived off Randy
Hook to-day. escorted by American
war craft. ,
MEETS TONIGHT
This evening at 7:30 the Busln ens
Men s Class of Blackwell Sunday c. H. Brock, secretary-treasurer
School meets at Frltchard'a Barber of the North Hirer Line, was ln Nor
bop. Refreshments served. oik on busing Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Jacocks have
returned from a motor trip to Ber
tie County during which they visited
friend, and relatives at Avoca and
y Intlsor.
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