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??***???* * THE WEATHER * ********* Fair tonight and Tue*- * j(| ^/|\ ? CIRCLLATIOS -day. ? armer ,n north- * (O ^^InffllflTClTl 1^ OI^^^DIDI01^1^ * Satarrfav * nest portion. Gentle, * VSIN^IIJIIJJU /a? Vt"3 * ?> i It) * variable icinds. ? ? ' VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ~ ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1924. KIGIIT PAGES NO 107 STUDIES METHODS PUBLIC WELFARE Miss Ida Curry of U. S. De partment of Lal?or \ isita 3 North Carolina (bounties to Learn Conditions. Raleigh, May 5 ? Three counties. Guilford. Pitt, ami Vance, have been selected by Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson. Commissioner of Public Welfare of North Carolina, as those whose pub lic welfare work is to be studied by Miss Ida Curry, representative of the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of l*abor. accord ing to an announcement made, to day. at the office of the commission er. Miss Curry* it was stated, will conic .to this state about May 20 to gather information for the Bureau on the success of North Carolina's county system of public welfare. The Children's Bureau plans to is sue a publication on the actual re sults of county organization for child care and protection, and,has chosen North Carolina an Minneso ta as the two states in which to gath er the information, it was explained, as the county system is said to be in most successful operation in these two commonwealths. There is at present a great demand for such in formation from other states, accord ing to the Bureau. The work in Guilford, under Mrs. Blanche Carr Sterne, county super intendent of public welfare, has been selected by Mrs. Johhson for Miss Curry's study because, in the opinion of the Commissioner and that of S. E. Leonard, head of the bureau of county organization, Guilford repre sents outstanding welfare work in a county in which there is a large ci ty. She has chosen Pitt, in which K. T. Futtrell, is county superinten dent, as a representative rural coun ty presenting problems different from those In counties more thickly Inhabited. Vance County was chos en because of the good condition of its Institutions, jails, convict camps, chain gang, and county home, and because of the exceptional personal work of Its superintendent of public welfare, Mrs. W. B. Waddlll. Miss Curry, who will make this study, was for several years in charge of the county work of the New York State Charities Aid As sociation. She will arrive here on May 19 or 20 an will confer first with Commissioner Johnson, getting a general survey of the North Car olina county system, and will then visit the three counties. The Director of the Social Ser vice Division of the Children's Bu reau writes to Mrs. Johnson as fol lows: . |fr, "There Is a1 'went demand for In formation on what is being accom plished by county public welfare boards, details in regards to meth ods, etc., especially by other states that are considering securing legis lation for such boards. "We have, therefore, felt that one of the most helpful things that we could do would be to secure some first hand Information In regard to the way the county work has devel oped In two or three of the states that have been outstanding in this type of activity. Naturally, we have selected North Carolina as one of the two or three states In which we want to secure Information, and as the place where we would like to be gin." THREE SENTENCED ON CHARGES OF BLACKMAIL Cambridge, May 5.?William Cor coran. former district attorney of Middlesex County, was today sen tenced to from seven to 10 years. Mrs. Theresa Duggan to five years, and Warren Kane to from three and n half to Ave years for blackmail. The charges grew out of an invest! gatlon which led to the removal of Nathan Tufts as distritc attorney of Middlesex and in which Corcoran was named one of a blackmail gang which extorted money from wealthy men lured into compromising situa tions. XIWAN!A\H TO < 'KLKItltATK HE<X>ND AWIVKHHARY SOON Kiwunlans arc looking forward to the celebration of their second anniversary on Friday, May 16. when Rev. H. E. Myers, first Klwan lan president of the Elizabeth City club, Is scheduled to ? bo the guest of honor and thj principal speaker on the program. "I was at Myers church at Dur ham Sunday." said P. G. Sawyer Sunday morning. 'Hind he had a great congregation out to hear him. a congregation I am sure as large as any two congregations In Elizabeth City, lie has taken Durham by storm, and his entire congregation is singing his praises." Mr. Sawyer accompanied Mrs. Sawyer and Philip Grady. Jr.. to Durham Saturday where they will spend some time on a visit to Mrs. sawyer's sister. Mrs. W. T. Minor. Mr. Sawyer returned Monday morning, but while In Durham availed himself of the opportunity to hear Parson Myers preach. < FOB MOTHKIVH DAY Appropriate cards for Mother's Dsy msy be seen Id the window of Louis Selig. | mdr. DAWES PLAN GIVEN MAJORITY OF VOTES Be-'tn. May 5. ? Scattering re 'urn- from Sunday's *? (net ion indi cate that the coalition forces which j are supporting the Dawes plan has obtained a larg<* majority. FORMULATING CODE OF BUSINESS ETHICS (By Thf AMMliIrd Prtu) Cleveland. May 5 ? A universal , code of business ethics codifying ; the broad principles of honesty and fair dealing which serve as th?> d??ca | logue of the Nation's commercial life was before the primary session | of the United States Chamber of Commerce here today. FARM LEGISLATION HAS RIGHT OF WAY Washington. May 5?rFarm relief I legislation is to be given right of { way in the Senate after the tax | and the remaining appropriation I bills are out of the way. under a ? decision reached today at a confer i ence of Senate Republicans. In ( order to speed up the program with J a view to adjournment before the f Republican National Convention at ! Cleveland. It was decided to hold : night sessions beginning tomorrow. AMERICANS ABROAD SUBJECT TO TAXES Washington. May 5? Americans ' residing abroad were held by the ' Supreme Court today to be subject i to the Federal income taxes upon ln j comes entirely derived from sources j within another country. Shippers Not Liable Washington, May 5?Shippers are not liable, the Supreme Court held today, for differences between the lawful interstate rate and the j amount actually paid on F. O. B. I shipments unless it Is specifically I provided for by contract. ONE THOUSAND IX ILLINOIS Ol'T FOR TON LITTERS Springfield, Ills., May 5. (Special) ?One thousand Illinois farmers ; have joined, the movement to pro jduce 2,000 pounds of pork from one litter of pigs through scientific feed ing and housing. RUSSIAN DELEGATION IS LEAVING GERMANY (By Tha Aiaociatvd Prut) Berlin, May 5.?Russian Ambassa dor Kreslstlnsky will leave Herlin j for Moscow tonight and the offices of the Russian commercial delegation i here will be closed, it is stated, until I satisfaction is given by Germany for the recent entry of the German pol ice into the building of the delega tion and search of the quarters for |the Communists' leader Botaenhardt. 'BONO DE4'LARED FORFEITED BI T LATER PIPKIN SUBMITS j Bond of $50 was declared f >rfeit ed and capias was Issued Monday in police court for Ralph Pipkin, on failure of the defendant to appear to answer to a charge of carrying a con cealed weapon. However, just be fore court adjourned the defendant's brother came Into court to offer a plea of guilty and the plea was ac cepted, with the imposition of the usual fine of (50 and costs. J. M. Benton and Moody Meads were taxed with the costs for oper ating motor cars at night with bright lights. Willie Jones and E. D. Stokes were fined $30 and costs each for Illegal poseBslon, while H. S. Sey mour of Camden was fined $5 and costs for drinking in a public alley. Fred Harris, colored, on a charge of drunk and disorderly conduct was fined $10 and costs. Billle Harris for speeding was let off with a fine of $5 an costs and a' warning, it being young Harris's third offense. Frank Gordon drew a fine of $5 and costs on a charge of dis orderly conduct growing out of a friendly scuffle In the Busy Bee Sunday night.* A Saturday night nc*ro near rlot. In which a picket fence sup piled the most dangerous weapon of offense resulted In charge* of as sault against Marie McClees, Llllle Jones and Jxuivenia Price, all col ored. Marie and Llllle each paid one third the costs; while the other third was taxed against I*ouvenia with an additional fine of $5. Lou? venla used the fence timber. The other members of the attacking party contented themselves with v??r-: bal assaults. Their intended vic tim waj Blla Whitehurst, but Ella found a knight of color who protect-' ed her, receiving on his own person the blow intended for her. METHODIST BOAKI) WOULD LIFT BAN Springfield. Mann, May 5. ? The I ban on worldly amusements of the Methodist Episcopal Church should | be llfltd because It "has not correct i ed the evil* named a* detrimental to the recreational life of our peo ple." the address of the board of bishop* to the quadrlennlal general conference of the church recom mended today. Only those amusements "which cannot he enjoyed in the name of Je hus Christ" should be barred, ac cording to the address. - - ? ?? ? - National Publicity Edition Work Going On Rapidly Now Work on the National Publicity. Edition of The Advance is going on rapidly and continues to receive the! endorsement of Elizabeth City busi-j nesa and industrial interests. Here with is presented the endorsement of T. T. Turner, live wire president of the Elizabeth City Merchants' As sociation. Elizabeth City boasts one of the most active and progressive mer-l chants' associations in the State of North Carolina. Feeling that out-of town shoppers were being kept away from Elizabeth City by the cost of getting down town from the Norfolk Southern passenger station, the Eliz abeth City Merchants' Association purchased a bus which is operated on a ten cent fare basis on regular schedule and which has come to be a great convenience. When Eliza beth City Is linked up with oth?r towns in this section by the com pletion of paved roads now under construction the possibility of pur chasing another bus and operating both buses on an Interurban sche dule has been given serious consid eration. The foregoing is cited as but one illustration of the enterprise behind the Elizabeth City Merchants' Asso* elation. It was the Merchants' As sociation whlcii established and ?keeps functioning a credit rating bu reau In Elizabeth City; it was the Merchants' Association which, through President Turner, put Into the hands of Secretary Job of the Chamber of Commerce and Postmas ter Hooper valuable data that expe dited the establishment of the star route mail service between Elizabeth 'City and South Mills scheduled to | begin on July 1; it is usually the Merchants' Association that is called | on first when there is a matter of | community Interest to be financed. It was to be expected, then, that such an enterprist^Hk the National | Publicity Edition of The Advance | would be endorsed by the Elizabeth i City Merchants' Association, i In issuing this edition. The Ad-i ,vance Joins hands with the Merch ants' Association, with the Chamber I of Commerce and with every civic Interest to make the advantages of j Elizabeth City and Its section better j appreciated throughout the State and throughout the Nation. jSHOl'LD MAKK APPLICATION CITIZK.V8' THAI .\IX(J TAMPS Young men from this city or sec tion between (he ages of 17 and 24) who wish to attend the Citizens' Mil itary Training tamp at Fort McClel-i lan, Alabama, or Fort Hragg. this j State, should get application blanks' I from J. H. LeRoy, Jr., or from Sec-1 j retary R. C. Job of the Chamber of Commerce. These plans must be re-i Another Endorsement :The Dally Advance. Elisabeth City, N. C. Gentlemen: - The National Publicity Edition! which you are going to issue in the I near future has my hearty support, | as I know personally that publicity | of this nature is bound to help the 1 communuity. j I beseech and appear to all the) "representative firms and business houses throughout this entire com munity to help support a publication of this nature. 1 also know it to be a fact that publicity of this nature has built up municipality after mu nicipality and knowing it to be the case I see no reasons why it can't be done for our home town and County. Trusting the entire community will endeavor to give The Advance their hearty support and co-opera tion in the Issuing of the National Publicity Edition, I beg to remain, Very truly yours. (Signed) T. T. TURNER, President, Merchants' Ass'n. lanta not 4ater than May 25. so It Is important thut those who wish to go make their applications at once. THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF CARIt Durham, May 5 ? With fitting' ceremonies and with 20,0000 in at-! tendance, the funeral of General Julian 8. Carr was .held here yes terday afternoon. Nicholas Murray Butler's Head Bloody But Unbowed His Pronouncement on Prohibition as u Failure Hat Brought Upon Him an Avalanche of Public Cri ticism hut He Stands hy His Gum ny rsonunT t. bmam, (C*?yrifht. I?34, By T*? Ad vane*) New York. May 5.?The Butlers i have It?the center of the American I public stage. William M. Tlutler of Massachu setts has Just been designated bv I President Cool Id *e an the new chair-1 man of the Hepubllcan National Committee and grand conductor of i the Coolldge campaign. General Smedley D. Butler, of th*?! United States Marines, has Just; weathered another of the ever-recur??; rlnK storms as director of public safety in Philadelphia. the .Secretary of the Navy announcing that he has no Intention of recalling the fighting', "devil dog" to Federal service. And I)r. Nicholas Murray Butler,1 president of Columbia I'nlvemlty ln? this city, has found himself the tai-. get of the most devastating "dry", barrage ever levelled at a single In-' dividual. Iir. Butler had the temerity toj stand up a day or two ago and an-i nounee that in bis humble opinion) the Volstead Act had brought nior^ ruin to the public morals than anyt Statute ever written on the books. Dr. Butler thus ventured where many before him bad feared to tread J He was not long In paying the pea-j alty of his baldness. Temperance boards, Antl Saloon Leagues, pastor and other reformers have brought their heaviest guns to bear on the unwary educator. The**; have averred that he stands virtually alone among the college heads of America In condemning fhe present] efforts and tho present methods em- ( ployed to enforce the prohibition lawn. They have attempted to In fluence the Patterson, New Jersey, board of education to withdraw an Invitation to I)r. Bailer to make the principal address at the cornerstone laying of the new Patterson High School on June 21. The hoard, how ever, has refused to act. and Dr. Butler will deliver the speech as scheduled. I Friends of Dr. T)utler say he has, taken s stsnd which Is not very dis-; similar to thst of President Coolldge. who recently declared thst whst the' country needs* Is law observance} rather than law enforcement. Dr.; Ilutler believes that without law ob servance there cannot be law en-j forcement. Therefore. he argues. If | a law has been passed In such a man-, ner and In such shape that it dO*t| not command observance, effortn to | "?force Jt are next to futile. The strength of all law lies in the will of the people to observe It. Fear j of punishment does not make the j law agiJMft%teallng effective. People ? do not ffml because they believe it Is morally wrong to steal. They "observe" the law in the mass. Dr. Ilutler believes that until a prohibi tion or rather a temperance law Is' written In such language that vlr-l tually all of the people will agree of. thei^* own accord to abide by It. at-' t emptor to "force" the law upon the.m will be in vain. Answering today attack* made! upou'felm at the Methodist General Conference in Springfield. Massachu setts, and |n Patterson, New Jersey. Df. Di/tlef'said: "Th^ religious and moral forces of tne" country, which with the best i Intentions brought into effect the policy of national prohibition by Constitutional amend men t? should recognize the fact that that policy has falli-d, ami that It bos brought In Its trail appalling and wholly un expected consequences In the field of i both public and private morals. "It Is my hope and belief that these name religious and moral forc es will rally to the pupport of a con structive public policy that shall ef fectively control the liquor traffic abolish the saloon, whether aeor? t or open, promote the cause of tem perance and public morals, as well as remove a chief Incentive to that spirit and habit of lawleHsness. which bids fair to undermine th* foundations of our whole social and political ordCr." Dr. Ilutler has flatly declined to meet any of the "drys" in Joint de bate. He saya his position is clear, unequivocally and known to the peo ple of the country. President Is Now Facing Many Important Decisions Opportunities for Leadership, Assert iveness uml Power of Executive to (lurli Multifarious Activities of Con gress Before ('oolitic Next Six Weeks t\y OAVII) MWRENTE (Copyright. 1924, By Thi Ad?anc?) Washington, May 3.?President Coolidge's opportunities for leadership, for assertiveness, and for curbing the multifarious tendencies of Congress in the present session are coming in a bunch?all in the next six weeks. Not since the day he succeed ed the late President Harding in office has there developed such an occasion for decision on pol icy. The course of the whole Coolidge administration, its character and objectives, will be charted now and may fur nish the basis for discussion in the coming Presidential cam paign* For Mr. Coolidge ha3 before him these essential things to decide: First, whether or not to sign the soldier Insurance bill. Second, whether to use hit* Influ ence In the conferences between the two houses to prevent the publlcn tlon of income tax returns and the removal of other features of the bill which are contributing to business uncertainty. Third, whether he will approve the Dursum bill passed by both houses providing for increased pensions for Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans. ? Fourth, whether he will sign tho McNary-Haugen bill providing for the creation of an agricultural ex port corporation and machinery whereby the price of wheat and oth er products shall be arbitrarily raised to come up to a fixed ratio with other commodities. Fifth, whether he will sign th?j immigration bill with clauses In it giving direct offense to Japan and impairing the good relations which have existed with that country es pecially since the armament confer ence and the recent earthquake. There are dozens of other bills In volving important principles but the foregoing constitute the outstanding measures. Mr. Coolidge said at the outset of his administration that he did not care to Indicate In advanc ? of action by Congress what his pol icy toward specific proposals would be. As a consequence Congress has gone ahead In many instances and legislated without regard to possible action by the President. Now Mr. Coolidge must face the problem of rejecting bills, some of which might have been nipped in the bud if he had indicated his firm Intention to disapprove them. The President has taken no action with reference to the making of all income tax returns public. The Sec retary of the Treasury has opposed this provision but Mr. Mellon does not have the veto power, The Sen ate has Just gone nhcad with the very provision which House leaders succeeded with difficulty In defeat ing. Whether the provision which permits anyone to see Income tax re turns will be retained after confer ence between the House and Senate is doubtful but already there is so much left to conference that the ad ministration's effort to get a good tax bill has been thwarted. Publicity r>f Income tax returns In order to prevent corruption Is approved but1 the opportunity for Individuals who are not law-makers to get trade se crets Is the chief objection. Under the House bill, the Information would be available to Congressional committees under regulations which i would safeguard the misuse of thc| lata by business competitors. Under the Senate bill, there Is no such pre-: caution. Anybody who wants to, walk Into the Treasury and flifd out trhftfr his business opponents are do ing can look at the Income tax r"-i turns. They ^irould be as public :n, library books. The Interesting |hlnc about t!i?* whole tnx fit nation Is t li ?? way the prod let Ion of Senator Smoot last nut -. iiinn had born verified. Ho wniI againat tax revision this Presidential i year berauso he foil that tiollticH and I radicalism would superaedo any se|?-nt|flc plan for tnx modlfloatlon. Ifnnld then thnt a combination ofj insurgent Republican* together with the Democratic minority would be1 enough to d"foat tho administration proposal* and might result In a tax bill that would do more barm than good. But the public opinion in sIhN d almost unanimously thnt an ??(Tort bo mado to revise the taxes. The Republican leadership hns boon struggling with Insurgency. Many regular Itcpuhlican* have fallod to attend sessions of the flenate nt | which their vote* worn badly need od. The Senate bill In tho end will be a hodge-podge moro rndiral than tho House bill. The supposition that tho conference between tho two houses will make a satisfactory bill is rapidly (crowing loss plausible. Mr. Coolldge himself has not Interfered In what Congress has done. As a re anlt b<* will receive'a bill with many features In It which would justify a root. In the dealre for an early ad Justment of Congress and the fear FARMING ON A BIG SCALE IN FLORIDA Currituckian Trying Out Sweet Potatoes and Other Truck on Thousand Aero Farm in Tropic State. The Gainesville Sun has the fol lowing story of the dolngB In Florida I of a native Currituckian and former Elizabeth City resident which will i doubtless Interest readers of this rewspaper: "Within the past year there has .u man moved to Alachua with his family that Is doing a great work j Tills gentleman Is W. W. Newborn, ' who hails from North Carolina. While a new comer to Alachua, he is an old hand at the business, espe cially that of Irish potato raising. Mr. Newbern has gone after the trucking business heavy, but he seems confident, and should he i prove successful. It Is going to mean !a development In that section that Is going to. attract many people to that place. "The Sun man called upon him and was received with a cordiality that at once assured us that he would be delighted to tell what he thought of Aluchua. He started off like t^hls: 'There is one thing we can count on. The soil is here, and demonstrations have.been, made that j this soil will produce Irish potatoes. | Of course I am not depending solely :on that crop to get by, but have other vegetables, and they are look | lng good, but mpre especially do I wish to muke good on tho potato ! crop. " 'When speaking of potatoes, let m<> say that I Include the sweet potato as well as the Irish. Both will do well here, and I am testing them out to the limit. Of course the market has much to do with a grower's success, but marketing has been my business for many years, and I am of the opinion that we will get by on that this season all right. I am certainly delighted with this section and shall make It my future home, and you may Just guess that I am going to have many of my North Carolina friends locate.* "We could go on by tho column an tell what this man had In mind and told us. but the spare Is not here. To give you somo Idea of the work he Is doing, before this article Is completed we are going to give you the acreage he has planted. Mr. Newbern has leased several acres of land on the property known as the Heerham farm, containing several hundred acres. Of course he has a world of good land, and ho has se lected tho best. which Is planted about like the following truck: < 'rop Acres Snowflake corn 125 Cucumbers 100 Irish potatoes 200 Watermelons 125 Means . 25 Sweet potatoes 250 Total 875 "You will notice that Mr. New hern has more In sweet potatoes than anything else, and he is en thusiastic over that crop. One thing is sure, he has about as fine a crop of Irish potatoes as the writer has ever seen. The other crepe be ing grown by Mr. Newbern are also In fine condition." MAIL AIR SERVICE ACROSS CONTINENT Washington, May 5?Dally air mall service between Now York and Han Francisco, taking 36 hours, will he Hiartcd July 1, Postmaster Gen eral Now announced last night. <'OTTOX MAMKKT N'pw York. May B?Cotton future* opened thin morning at the follow-yi log If vols: May 29.60; July 27.73-K Ortohor 24 02; December _ 23.41; January 23.IB. At two p. m. futuret wore quoted at the following levels: May 29.43; July 27.S7; October 24.24; Decem ber 23.57: January 23.20. Now York. May 5 ? .Spot cotton cloned steady this afternoon. Mid dling 30.OB. Futures closed as fol lows: May 29.85; July 27.95; October 24.30; December 23.17; January 23.37. that the Prosldent cannot overcome the radicals who hold the balance of power, the; measure* presented to him very Iflcely will be slfned.