? ? ? ? ? ?' ? ? ? * ? * *? * ' * ? ? VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 29, 1923. FOUR PAGES. NO. 200. Took 1500 Mile Tour At Cost Of Cent A Mile 1 1 Moyock High School Boys See Two State Capitals and En joy Two Weeks Automobile Touring in Virginia and N. C. at Co?t, Including Grub and Lodging, of 812 Each A fifteen hundred mile tour of twol states that took them from the seal to the mountains and back again at a total cost, including meals and ( lodging for the two weeks consumed In making the trip, of less than a cent a mile was the amazing expe rience of a party of Currituck County high school boys this month. T. B. Elliott, teacher of agricul ture at Moyock High School, was in charge of the party, which consisted of the members of his class In agri culture at Moyock High. They left home on Monday. July 30, and got hack on Saturday. August 11. and when Mr. Elliott had figured up the total expenses of the trip the cost to each boy in the party was a few cents less than $12. The equipment consisted of two Ford trucks, two tents, two big buckets and 10 frying pans, and for each boy on the trip two suits of overalls, two khaki shirts, four suits of underwear, a tin cup. a knife and fork and spoon, a toothbrush and a blanket. The trucks were achool trucks owned by the County Board of Education and used in the trans portation of pupils to and from school. These trucks were provided for the trip by the County Board of Education without charge. "I had planned to teach these boys animal husbandry during the coming session," said Mr. Elliott, who was telling an Elisabeth City business man of his trip without a thought of its being given any pub licity, "and as a background for the course I whnted them to see the best stock farms In Virginia and North Carolina. So we started out with that as our main purpose, but with the idea also of seeing as much of North Carolina and Virginia as pos- j slble enroute and of having a gen eral good time. "We did all three, and advertised Currituck County's progresslveness< in education to boot. t)ur trucks were adorvied with big banners on i which were printed 'Currituck's Fu- j ture Farmers,' 'Moyock's Agrlcultur-1 al Class/ iWfl Learn by Seeing,' and the like. One banner bore the in- < =eorfptUm ? Vgjom-jCurrltuck to Chero- [ kee.' We didn't quite get to Chero- j kee, but we did get to Haywood. "Richmond was our first objective and we went by way of Portsmouth,, Suffolk, Smlthfield, Camp Lee. or! rather what was Camp Lee, and Pe tersburg. Ten miles beyond Rich mond we stopped to look over the noted Curies Neck farm, one of the : biggest stock farms in Virginia,, where prize-winning t>uroc Jersey hogs and Hereford cattle are bred. This farm produced the chamlpon Duroc Jersey boar at the Virginia j State Fair In 1921. It lias a herd of 4 50 hogs and 50 brood sows. "From Curies Neck farm we went, back to Richmond, where we stopped j long enough to look over the capltol and other fctate buildings, and then ? by way of Petersburg, Dinwiddle and J Clarkaville, we took up our Journey! to Roxboro, where we inspected the loka stock farm with its Hereford cattle and Berkshire hogs. By way , of Mebane and Burlington we then ( went to Greensboro, where we looked over Tom Pemberton's Hoi-. stein herd and his big dairy. We also] visited.Mr#. J. F. Steven's dairy and saw her herd of Holstelns, which Is1 said to have In it the finest Holstein " cow In the State?an animal with a record of having produced 12 gal lons of milk in one day. We saw an other cow In this herd from which we were told ten gallons had been milked the day before we were there. Before leaving Greensboro we visit ed Greensboro College for Women and the North Carolina College for' Women. We also went over the big j farm in charge of I. W. Antrum near! Greensboro on which there are 1,800 I acre* in clover and alfalfa. "At Winston-Salem we went over1 the tobacco plant of the R. J. Rey nolds Company and out from Wins-! ton- Salem visited the Reynolds estate with Its famous Jersey cattle. They were fitting show animals at this nlace for an exhibition tour of the principal fairs of the southeast and j some of my boys, seeing the atten tion being given the prize animals,' each of which was blanketed and get ting the benefit of a breeze from an i electric fan, remarked that It would I be a fine thing to be a Jersey cow. 1 "At the Reynolds^Lybrook dairy. the herd of Red Polls was Inspected and the boys miw for their first time cow* milked by machinery. Here we InM- cted also the Ane herd of Tam worlh hngi and the hnrd of Angora goat* nnd the flock of Southdown nhrep Kopt on this farm. Here were al*n n large number of Percheron colt" t>red from the farm marea and a pun-bred Percheron stallion. "From Winston-Salem we went on bv way of Mocksrllle and Taylors vllle to Plowing Rock, where we spent Sunday. From there by way of Morganton we went to Aahevllle where w*> vlalted the Rlltmore eatate and Inspected Its dairy. "Canton was our next atop and out from Canton we aaw H A. Oa bornf'a herd of Guernseys. aald to be the finest In tho State. "Canton waa as far weat as wa / reached, with only two countle* be-1 tween us and the eastera boundary i of Cherokee. I "At each of the stock farms rtatt Attacks Theories Of Higher Critics IUit. Thurston Price Would Face The Knemy In The Open He Smjn In An Add rem* Lake Junaluska, Aug. 29.?A man can be both an evolutionist and a Christian, (but only when he la neither a strong Christian or a deeply con vinced evolutionist, declared Rev. Thurston B. Price, evangelist, in a sermon this morning at the Bible and E/vangellstic conference, with which the Southern .Methodist Summer As sembly will come to a close next Sun day. "What will the Higher Critics do with Jesus Christ" was Rev. Mr. Price's subject. He selected as his text the words of Pilate at the trial of Christ before his crusiflxlon ?Matthew 27: 22?"What "Shall I do then with Jesus, who is called I Christ." There Is today, the preacher said, a movement against Christianity ! called "higher criticism." which he : declared could be much better named "destructive criticism." The Bible, he said, "will stand or fall a com pleted plan." "The day of Robert Ingersol and I Tom Paine were palmy days for! the church of Cod compared with I todsy." he told his congregation. ! "For in those days we had the enemy of a real Christianity fighting out In the open, marching under their own ! flag, while today they are getting #o ; Intermingled with our own folk' and are preaching so much real truth ' (and a half truth is more dangerous any time than a wjiole lie) that we hardly know when it is safe to shoot or who to shoot at, for fear wo will unjustly Injure some brother Christ ian who may only differ with us in ?interpretation.' which of course, would be the rankest sort of Intol erance. Speaking of the theory of evolu tion, Rev. Mr. Price said. "If evolu tion of man from a ground worm (they have dropped the ape theory now) Is true, then there was no ?fall of man!' If no fall, then no need for the 'the one perfect man. or sec ond Adam." If man evoluted from animals, and animals have no (mor tal soul, then when and how did ihan get an Immortal soul?" In making the statement that a man cannot be both a strong Christ ian nnd a deeply convinced evolution ist the evangelist declared that Christianity and the evolution theory could not-fee-reconclled under logical analysis. KLANSMAN BURIED BY KOBED BKETIIKEN Pittsburgh. August 29?Klansman Thomas E. Abbott, murdered In riot ing last Saturday night at Carnegie, was burled here yesterday with hun dreds of Klansmen present and min isters attired In full Klan regalia of ficiating. ed the salient or distinctive feature* of the particular breed of stock on that farm were pointed out and ex plained, and I believe that the value of the course that the boys are to take this year In animals husbandry will be greatly enhanced by the trip. ??But the value of the trip, In my opinion. Is not to be meanured In terms of knowledge to be gained in any claws room. This was the first time these Currituck youngsters had seen the mountains. Western North Carolina to them was everything be yond Raleigh, Just as Eastern North Carolina to people In the mountains who have never been to the coast Is everything beyond Winston-Salem. Now they know the true significance of 'The Land of the 8ky,* and have gained a new respect for their own State. "The return trip was made by way of Hendersonvllle, Chimney Rock. Shelby, Oastonla, Charlotte. Rock Ingham, Plnehurst and Raletgh. At Plnehurst we visited the Plnehurst dairy and saw Ita Ayrshire cattle and Berkshire hogs. We camped at Lake view. and there the boys enjoyed bathing and swimming. At Raleigh we visited State College, paying par ticular attention to the dairy farm.; We also visited the capltol building but could not get Into the hall of \ history or the State museum, as both' were closed when we passed through i on account of the President's funeral.' We a I so went over the grounds and buildings at St. Mary's, Meredith and Peace." "You seem to have stopped at ev ery point of Interest in the State ex cept Elisabeth City," said Ihe busi ness man to whom Mr. Elliott was telling his story. "Yes," Was the answer, "and we Intended to come by Ellaabeth City. But I was afraid of the expense of the ferry at Edenton and I did not know the road so well by Wllllama ton and Edenton. and a? there had been a good deal of rain we chose the roote by Emporia, Virginia, with which I Waa familiar." AUTO PLUNGES THROUGH DRAW Charleston. S. C.. August 29. ?A long distance telephone message from Mulllna today told of the drowning of six per sons near Conway early this morning, Mr. and Mrs. Suilou Culliver and three children, and Mrs. Marvin Connor, all of Conway, losing their lives when their automobile plunged through the open draw of Wac camaw bridge into the river. Marvin Connor escaped. Ten Counties Have Tested All Cows Are Now Fully Proterted Against Spreading Of Tuberculosis By Milk ftalelgh, Aug. 29.?The milk sup ply of ten countlea in North Caroli na is now fully protected against the spreading of the great white -plague, tuberculosis, the cows of these coun ties all having been tested, released and passed by officials of the State Department of Agriculture, accord ing to a report made public today by Dr. A. J. Fosset, Inspector in charge ( of this work. Inapections have been , completed in three other counties, he said, and these will be recommended ' for release this month. Fifteen, other counties have made appropria tions for carrying on this work in conjunction with the Agricultural Department and North Carolina State | College and Inspections are now go-i :lng on In nearly all of them, he add ed. "Our records show," Dr. DeFos j set continued, "that less than two I : per cent of the cattle In North Caro lina have tuberculosis at this. time. j |This is in contra~? to some of the! states In the north, where from 21 I [to 40 per cent tuberculosis is com mon. I could go out in Vermont, I I where I was stationed previous to :coming to North Carolina, and find [ more cattle infected with tubercu losis in one afternoon than we have l found here in a month's time. "North Carolina is wise to begin 1 _ln time to eradicate this dreaded j disease. The people have shown 'wisdom by wanting thn work carried [on. They will profit by the exper ience of the northern states. Where i we find tutberculosis cattle In North Carolina we can generally trace it to I Importations from some of the worst j Infected centers. For that reason j those who buy cattle from other states should make sure that they jare getting them from accredited herds. This will safegua/d their purchases and also the cattle already on their farms." i Along with his praise, however. ! Dr. De.Fosset finds something to ' | criticise, for ho says, "I am disap I pointed, however, to find so few cat tle^oji_lhe farms In North Carolina. With its climate and ideal conditions for year 'round grazing, this state could be made a great cattle breed ing state. These cattle could be used to restock those farms in the north which will have to get a new supply when the owners clean out their tuberculosis cows. From what ;I have seen since coming to this Htate to succeed Dr. Paul Vaughn I am sore that North Carolina needs more cattle. We are trying to make I health conditions better for these I cattle so that the herds may ho built \ up without danger of Infection by i , tuberculosis. Every month for the past 15. Dr. DeFosset said. North Carolina has l??d In the other states of the union! In the number of herds tested fori tuberculosis. In July the workers j of State College and the State-Fed-1 I eral department of agriculture test-| ed 2.582 herds comprised of 6.246 head of cattle. To date Hitnconvbe ? Cabarrus, Cumberland, Davidson, Davie. New Hanover. Pender. Rowan. ScoUand and Forsyth counties have i been released by the secretary of ag-, rlculture. Alamance, Wayne and Greene will be released Auguxt 31. Work Is being done or will com-j mence shortly In McDowell, Union,! Macklenburgl). Stanley. Robeson. | Randolph. Qutlford, Rockingham. Wilson. Durham. Franklin, Halifax,! Iredell, Wake and Stokes countlea. .Oreen county has distinguished It-, I self hy not having a single cow show ing tuberculosis symptoms when tested. DETECTIVES TAKE UP SEARCH AGAIN New York. August 29.?The body of a three months' old baby found In the Hudson river by the police who hare been searching for Lillian Mc Kensle, who was kidnapped from her carriage In front of a store 12 days ago, was Relieved to be that of the ml*nlng child. Mr. and Mrs. Peter McKenale. parents of the kidnapped child, af ter viewing the body, declared that it was not Lillian, and the detectives took up the search anew. Qt'lMrff WIXnow* ARK ATTJtACTIXCl ATTENTION The Qulnn Furniture Company thlsj week Is featuring oil cook stoves. Many persons passing the store have stopped to view the dlaplay of three or four different makes of stoves dls played In tb? big ftra? floor window. Messages To Cuba Will Be Censored New York. August 29.?The Com mercial Cable Company announced today that messages to Cuba were subject to censorship until further notice. Washington, August 28?Although no American official would discuss the imposition by Cuba of cable cen sorship between that country and the United States, it is believed by those outside official circles but in close touch with the Cuban situation that the step was taken as a precaution against possible serious political de velopment. FLYEKS BREAK FIVE AVIATION RECORDS! San Diego. Cal.. August 29.?Cap tain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter landed here late yes terday afternoon after breaking five records in aviation. JUNIOR ORDER HEARS CONVENTION REPORTS Worth Bagley Council, Junior Or der, heard with great Interest the re ports of the delegates to the annual convention at Durham, at Tuesday evening's meeting in the Junior Hall. The representatives were B. S. Sawyer, J. W. Johnson and J. W. Al exander. State Council Treasurer O. P. Hood also attended the conven tion, and so did W. L. Cohoon, chair man of the law committee. Rev. E. i F. Sawyer and C. M. West, past coun cilors, and J. E. Corbett. district dep uty. Highlights in the reports were: The appropriation of $25,000' by the State Council toward the estah-1 lishment of the Junior Order Orph-I anage In this State; Asheville selected as the meeting.) place of the 192 4 convention; A thousand new members added to the Junior Order during last year; | The best convention yet held, with many courtesies shown by the people ! of Durham and particularly by Trin ity Coll^gp. where the sessions \v? ro held and delegates were entertained. POLICE NOW LEAN TO SUICIDE THEORY New York, August 29.?Police ' here leaned today toward the theory ! of suicide by poison as an explana tion of the mysterious death of John ?Sutphen. private secretary, whose [body was found Sunday on the couch jin his luxurious apartment. Finan cial reverses, failing health, and the fact that his physician had cautioned him against further drinking, formed the basis of this theory. i ABANDON HOPE FOR BRITISH STEAMER (Bv 111* AuocUtud Prtu l Shanghai. August 29.?Hope was1 today abandoned for the British steamer, Mylie, Ave days overdue from Chltwangtao with coal and last Cfeeri on August 1 f> battling In th0 ty phoon. It Is now believed that all 1 aboard perished. Including six for-j eign officers and 50 odd Chinere in the crew. .K'IKjK W. M. I ION II WILI. HOLD Ct ltltiytVK FOfllT Edenton, August 29.?Judge W. | M. Bond left Tuesday for Norfolk,: but will be baek here Friday, at| which time he will make arrange ments to hold court next week in' Currituck County. MRS. HIGHSMITH IS IN PUBLICITY WORK Sanatorium. August 29.?That Mrs. J. Henry Highsmlth. who be fore her marriage wan Miss Kate Herring, Is to have charge of the publicity work for the North Caro lina Tuberculosis Annotation, the North Carolina Sanatorium for Ull Treatment of Tuberculoma, and the extension work of this Institution, Is the recent announcement made by Dr. L. H. McFlrayer, superintendent of the State Sanatorium. Mrs. Highsmlth is a trained news paper woman. She Is a graduate of Trinity College and studied Journal ism at the Pulltxer School of Jour nalism. Columbia University, New York City. She is well known to the newspaper fraternity of North Caro lina through her services for a num ber of years as publicity director for fthe State Hoard of Health, and dur ing the war as director of publicity for the State war savings campaign. ttOKA TO UAttTOMA Salisbury. Aug. 29.?<%?v. John L. Yost, pastor of the Lutheran chnrch at Bear Poplar, Rowan county, has accepted the pastorate of Holy Trio Ity Lutheran church. Oaatonla, and will assume his duties there October 1. JIBADY POIt PALL T#ouis Sellg. "Your Jeweler Since 1#R2" has just completed redecora ting. repaperlng anrf repainting his Jewelry store and has everything In readiness and atune for the fall trade. Mrs. R. K. Plsk and daughter. Miss Flsk. of Moyock. were In the city Tueeday. (Mlsa Plsk was a mem.b?r of the Moyock High School debating team that went to Chapel Hill last eprlag. ADMITS STORY OF TREASURE A HOAX Hagerstown, Md.. August 29. ?Lee HouHcr, laborer, who last Thursday claimed to have discovered a box containing 1100,000 In gold and bills while working on a road near here, today declared that his story was a hoax. Witness Testifies He Warned Minister Cumberland Courthouse, Va., Aug. 29.?That he warned Rev. Edward Pierce that unless he "let up" in his criticism of the Oarretts he would have trouble with them was testified during the cross examination by W. M. Smith, commonwealth attorney of Cumberland County, who was a wit ness to the shooting and who was called as court witness in the trial of Robert Garrett today. The witness was grilled at length by the prosecution who attempted to break down his testimony and to show that his "power of observation was influenced consciously or un consciously by fear that the Garrett brothers could make it very disagree able for him In Cumberland County." EDENTON TO HAVE NEW AUDITORIUM Edenton, August 29.?The Eden ton Auditorium Company stockhold ers met. In special called meeting Monday evening and agreed to sellj to S. W. Taylor the property on Main street, next to L. F. Zlegler's store, for the erection of a flrst class mov ing picture and dramatic theater, which will be complete within a year. Mr. Taylor, who has struggled I with a show house on a side street! and made good with it, sees the pos- j pibilities of a flne theater property on Main street, which was the purpose^ of the Edenton' Auditorium Company. The company, being composed of local citizens, was not in favor of putting up a competitive amusement house and so the sale of the property to Mr. Taylor is a very happy solu tion of the matter. Edenton will get a flne opera house. Mr. Taylor will get a theater that will make him money an<^ main tain his reputation of furnlshiiu clean, up-to-date picture, and It will ? eliminate the one objectionable fea ture-?two theaters killing one anoth er by competition. ON BICYCLE HE TOWED PARTNER TO BERKLEY To pedal a bicycle to Virginia Beach is rather more of an under taking than the average Elizabeth City boy would ask for, but to make the greater part of the distarice with a companion in tow was the experi ence of Oscar Williams of Elizabeth j City this week. Oscar Williams and Graham Hed-1 rick, each about 17 years of age, left Elizabeth City Sunday on their hi-1 cycles to spend their vacation camp- j Ing at Virginia Beach. Five miles from the city in Camden County | young Hedrick had the misfortune to break a pedal and could no longer' make any headway under his own . power. Young Williams thereupon took his partner in tow and with ' such help as Hedrick could give him i with one pedal towed the latter to Berkley, where the damaged bicycle was repaired. T'ndaunted the young cyclists then continued on to their destinations where they report they are now hav-1 ing a flne time. PRINCESS ANASTASIA IS DYING IN l)ONIM>N ? fit Ttl* PrM.) London. August 29.?Princess An astasla. who formerly wan Mm. Wil liam II. Leeds. widow of the Amerl civn tin plat*- magnate and who mar ried I'rlnce Christopher of Greece In 1920, wax today sinking rapidly at her London horn**. Her doctor* stat ed that virtually all hope had been abandoned. The last sacrament* were administered by a priest of the Rus sian orthodox church. DEMONSTRATION IN <;iee. Jr., C. L. Tarkington. Her man Newberry. H. O. Berry, N. W. Stevens. W. T. Etherldge. S. B. Sey* more. F. E. Upton. P. P. Gregory. 'XVTfO* MAHKRT New York. August 29.?Spot cot ton closed steady with a 20 point ad vance. Middling 26.66. Futures closed at the following levels: Octo ber 24.39, December 24.30, January 24.01. March 24.06. May 24.03. New York. August 29.?Cotton fu tures opened today at the following levels: October 24.12-21, December 24 06-10, January 23.82-66. March 23.16 81, May 11 84-66.