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VOL. XXI.
PLYMOUTH, N. C' FRIDAY. 'MAY 19, 1911
NO. 48.
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VACCINATION COSTS
I FAMILIES
QUARANTINE LAW REPEALED
AND NO PROVISION MADE FOR
FREE VACCINATION.
VACCINATION FEE 50 CENTS
Senator Baggett Says Hundreds of
Poop Whites ond Negroes Are
Spreading the Disease Cost to a
Fimily For Vaccination.
( Raleigh. Discussing the repealing
of the state law requiring smallpox
parents to be quarantined, Senator
J. R. Baggett, of the fifteenth dis
trict said: "I did not realize that the
health act' passed by the legislature
removed quarantine from smallpox.
I believe that the legislature made
a serious mistake in so doing, be
cause it did not provide a protection
lor the people in lieu of the quar
antine, namely: vaccination without
cost.
' "There are hundreds of poor whites
nnd negroes who are spreading the
disease In different counties in the
state. Since the last meeting of the
legislature there has occured more
smallpox scattered . in various parts
of the state, than I have ever noticed
at any other one time during the
spring ' of the year, and unless the
medical societies of the different coun
ties volunteer their services and the
boards of health appropriate funds to
meet the emergencies, we may expect
an epidemic when the winter comes
on, because smallpox is a winter dis:
ease,".
Senator Baggett. asked a physician
what was the fee for vaccination and
the physician replied that it was 50
cents. Whereupon Senator Baggett
declared that this caused the man
with a family to ' expend more for
vaccination than it cost to quaran
tine smallpox patients. "It is true,"
he said, "that the more intelligent
people get vaccinated, but we need
to protect the masses and the poor."
Senator Baggett heartily commended
the mayor of Raleigh for his action
regarding quarantine.
A SPLENDID INSTITUTION
Members of State Board of Health
- Health Bulletins are Free.
The North Carolina Board of Health
Is made up of the following gentle
men: G. G. Thomas, M. D., president,
Wilmington; Thomas E. Anderson,
M. D., Statesville; J. Howell. Way,
M. D., Waynesville; W. O. Spencer,
M. D., Winston-Salem; Edward C.
Register, M. D... Charlotte; David T.
Tayloe, M., D. Washington; J. E.
Ashcraft, M. D., Monroe; J. L. Lud
low, '. C. '' E., Winston-Salem ; Richard
H. Lewis,. M. D... , Raleigh; W.- S.
Rankin,- M. D.," secretary and treas
urer, Raleigh; C. A". Julian, M. D.,xas
sistant secretary for hookworm dis
ease, Raleigh.
It issues monthly bulletins which
it. sends to any citizen of the state
free, upon request. The bulletin for
March, 1911, has the following con
tents: ' "The Holman Association for Rural
Nursing."
"Taylorsville Goes Forward,"
"Opposition to Health Legislation."
"Constructive Legislation."
"The Kidneys and Their Boss."
"Note of Smallpox and Vaccination
'in Philippine Islands."
"Quarantine and Disinfection."
"Public Health Laws of North Caro
lina." .
"Morbidity and Mortality Reports."
The office of the state board is at
Raleigh.
Wake County Maintains Quarantine.
; It is a notable fact that Raleigh
and Wake county authorities have de
termined to maintain quarantine for
smallpox in spite of the fact that the
state health authorities had the
quarantine law for smallpox repealed
on the ground that the proper pro
tection is vaccination and that the
quarantine is merely an expensive
institution for the few who hold out
against neglect of vaccination. '
Rats and Matches Destroy Property.
State Commissioner of Insurance
James R. Young says reports of
fires starting from "rats and match
es," are coming in to him with ?
degree of frequency that makes some
precaution against these sources of
fires an imperative necessity. He
says, too, that the -logical remedy
for this is for 'the people to use only
the safety matches that rats cannot
cut fire from and that cannot give
rise to fires from careless use:'-by
persons, another prolific ' source of
fires.
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AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TOWNS
The State Literary and Historical
Association Plans to Extend Work
by Literary Addresses.
Raleigh. The Literary and His
torical, association of North Carolina,
Prof. E. K. Graham, of the University
of North Carolina, president, and
Clarence H. Poe, of Raleigh, secre
tary, is moving in the direction of
carrying into effect the plans of the
association for extension work in the
way of addresses in leading towns of
the state by prominent literary men
of the state under the auspices of the
local literary clubs. The idea is to
have a series of lectures on succes
sive nights in the different towns
under the auspices of some college or
the local literary and historical and
school enthusiasts. Among the speak
ers that Secreary Poe is in position
to induce to fill engagements of this
kind are: Dr. Edwin Mims, Dr. E. K.
Graham, University of North Caro
lina; Dr. W. L. Poteat, Wake Forest;
Dr. D. H. Hill, A. & M. college; Prof.
M. G. Fulton and Prof. M. G. Con
nell, Davidson college; Prof. E. C.
Brooks and Dr. Few, of Trinity. The
plan also contemplates co-operation
with local book club3 for the addresses
indicated. The state Literary and His
torical association will continue to
hold its annual sessions in Raleigh as
heretofore. There has been an effort
recently to induce a change to rotat
ing about the state.
Work of the Baptist Churches.
In 1814 the Baptists of the United
States gave for missions $134,112, and
had only 64 missionaries employed.
Last year they gave $865,585 for mis
sions, and there were 300 mission
aries on the foreign field. In 1853
Southern Baptists raised $21,000 for
foreign missions and $13,000 for hone
missions. There were two foreign
mission stations one in Africa, and
one in China. In these two fields
19 missionaries were at work. The
home missions board reported 77 mis
sionaries at work and 642 baptisms in
the same period. Last year $100,797
was raised for foreign missions in the
territory of the Southern Baptist .'on
vention and there were 231 missVi
aries on the foreign field. The home
board reported last year 283 40? with
1,066 missionaries at work anrt 1SS,
000 baptisms.
Home Mission Workers' Officers.
In rounding up its three day's ses
sion at Raleigh, the Woman's Homo
Mission Society of North Carolina
conference ' selected Weldon for the
next meeting place and elected aa
officers the same ladies who served so
effectively the past year:
Mrs. R. B. John, Fayetteville. pres
ident; Mrs. Barrow, Elizabeth City;
Miss Lillie Duke, Durham; Mrs. J.
C. Angier, Durham, vice presidents:
Mrs. B. N. Mann, Durham, recording
secretary; Mrs., N. E. Edgerton, Sel
ma, treasurer; Mrs. Ida T. Wilkins,
Weldon, superintendent of supplies;
Mrs. R. O. Burton, Raleigh,, confer
ence editor; Mrs. J. G. Fearing, Eliza
beth City, conference corresponding
secretary; Mrs. T. W. Costen, Jr.,
Gates county, field secretary; Mrs.
John Doub, Jonesboro, superintend
ent of press work; Mrs. W. s H.
Speight, Raleigh, fourth vice presi
dent. I. O. O. F. Convention A Success.
The annual session of the North
Carolina Grand Lodge of Odd " Fel
lows was signally successful, both
from the viewpoint of businessac
complished in the sessions and in the
entertainment that was accorded by
the Winston-Salem Odd Fellows and
people generally. M. L. Shpiman was
elected grand warden in connection
with the selection of the grand officers
for the next year. The grand lodge
accepted the invitation to come to
Raleigh next May. Winston-Salem
gave the members a good time.
Shaw University Negro Graduates.
Diplomas and certificates of gradu
ation were awarded to 788 graduates
of Shaw University, for negroes, dur
ing the commencement exercises held
at Raleigh. The annual address was
by Dr. Judson B. Thomas, of Chicago.
Fraternalism was his theme. The
largest class of graduates was in
medicine with 24 members, there were
others in pharmacy, theology, bach
elor cf arts, bachelor of science, nor
mal training department and others.
Growth of Insurance Business. 1 1
The commissioner of insurance
says there are now twice as many
insurance companies doing business
In this state as in any other state In
this section of the country and ap
plications for admission are coming
in with unusual frequency.
Norman Lewis Paid Death Penalty.
Norman Lewis, the slayer of Chief
of Police J. M. Stailings cf Spring,
Hefte, Nash ; county, . died ra-'the "elec
tric chair without ""making any state
ment whatever a" to the crime.
CONGRESS TALKS
OF DJ0U1I
HOT WEATHER 13 PROVING TOO
MUCH FOR THE 80LON3 IN
WASHINGTON.
MAY FINISH BY JUNE 15
It Is Expected That the Reciprocity
Bill Will Be Passed Within the
Next Month.
Washington. Although the special
cession of congres is but little more
than a month old, talk of adjourn
ment has already become general. Re
publicans in both branches have been
hinting that a recess during the hot
weather would not interfere with leg
islation, while many Democrats in the
bouse are beginning to believe they
will be through with all they care to
enact of their legislative program
within another month.
High temperature experienced in
Washington served to stimulate in the
Democratic representatives more in
terest in the summer resort matters
1nan in tariff questions. For several
days they have been considering the
possibility of getting through for the
summer by June la.
SECRETARY DICKINSON QUITS
Henry L. Stinson. of New York New
Secretary of War.
Washington. Secretary of War Ja
cob McGavocck Dickinson of Tennes
see, the Democratic member of Pres
ident Taft's cabinet, has resigned, and
Henry L. Stimson cf New York, re
cently defeated Republican candidate
for governor of that state- has been
given the war portfolio.
In the letters exchanged between
tho president and ?: j: ' Dickinson, no
reason' other tb uem.an0f pressing
private affairs i-nat is " "or the . sec-
retnrv'a rotir: t gOVCfment.'
Mr. Dlckins?!flal V,wio his Ten
nessee home imme.11 upon the
qualification of his successor. He ex
pects to devote his attention to busi
ness and will not return to the prac
tice of law in which he was engaged
FORMER WAR SECRETARY
AND HIS SUCCESSOR.
JACOB M. DICKINSON
HENRY L. STIMSON.
when President Taft appointed him
secretary of war in March, 1909.
Coincident with Mr. Dickinson's re
tirement came the announcement of
the appointment of C. S. Millington
of Herkimer, N. Y., to be assistant
treasurer of the United States in New
York. Mr. Stimson was the Roosevelt
candidate for governor, while Mr. Mil
lington was a former member of the
house from the Twenty-seventh New
York district and Is a close friend cf
Vice President Sherman. In the two
pppointments official Washington
found food for speculation and many
politicians thought they saw therein
t!. first step of the administration to
straighten cut the tangled skeia:-
Its WVffl
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COURTING THE
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THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS AWARDED FOR THE BEST NA
TIONAL ANTHEM. NEWS ITEM.
CITY OF JUAREZ CAPTURED
FEDERAL GENERAL NAVARRO
AND 500 SOLDIERS SURREN
DER TO REBELS.
Situation In Mexico Increased in
Gravity Following Victory'
of Revolutionists.
Navaror and Officers
Are Paroled by Madero.
Juarez, Mexico. General Ma-
varro and his twenty-seven offl-
cers were paroled by General
Madero. After inviting them to
dinner,'' he announced that if
they would promise on their
honor not to leave the city they
could have the liberty of the
town. They agreed to do so.
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. This little
bullet-riddled city is the provisional
capital of Mexico, and Francisco I.
Madero, Jr., provisional president, and
his staff have taken complete pos
session after winning the bloodiest
battle of the Mexican Revolution.
In a corner room of the barracks,
which for two days had held4 out
against the teriffic fire of the rebels,
sits Gen. Juan J. Navarro, the Fed
eral commander, a captive, having
surrendered with almost his entire
garrison of several hundred men. His
sallow face is sunken, his head is
bowed and he does not talk, for the
bitter sting of defeat has dishearten
ed him. -
In contrast. In another part of of
the little town is Francisco I. Madero,
Jr., the conqueror, surrounded by the
members of his family and his staff,
Joyous, exultant and flushed with vic
tory, yet ready, he says, to make
peace with the Mexican government
if it is disposed to deal frankly 'and
sincerely with the Revolutionists and
without such vague promises as
"President Diaz' manifesto contains.'
The town of Juarez has been maul
ed by bullets and shells beyond rec
ognition. Several houses have been
burned, numerous adobe dwellings are
roofless, and some have large holes
in their walls, exposing to view their
wrecked interiors.
TAMPA STRIKE CALLED OFF
Striking Cigarmakers Return to Their
Benches.
Tampa, Fla. At a meeting of the
committees representing the five ci
garmakers' unions in this city, it was
unanimously decided to call off the
strike and a manifesto was issued
calling the men back to their bencnes.
The action of the joint committee in
volves ten thousand cigarmakers, six
thousand of which walked out and
the remainder failed to return to
work. "
The decision of the Joint advisory
committee followed a conference be
tween Circuit Judge Joseph B. Wall
and attorneys for the strikers.
Bail Is Denied McNamara.
Los Angeles. The application of
John J. McNamara, for the fixing of
bail on the charge of dynamiting was
disallowed by Superior Judge Bord-
well without prejudice and with leave
to renew it at any time.
Washington. The American Feder
ation of Labor issued an appeal for
funds for the defense of the McNam
ara brothers, in jail in Los Angeles
for dynamiting. The appeal for funds
states that the accused labor leaders
art- in jail as a result of a "vindictive
spirit of persecution."
PATRIOTIC MUSE
WILL FIGHT BOLL WEEVIL
Grocers Will Use Their Influence With
Farmers Urging the Planting of
Early Cotton.
. Atlanta. Declaring that the whole
sale grocers of the South have had
nothing to do with the "high cost of
living," H. A. Forchheimer of Mobile,
Ala., vigorously defended the South
ern Wholesale Grocers' Association, In
a paper which proved to be the fea
ture of the convention of that body,
which is now holding its twentieth an
nual convention in this city. At the
same meeting Hon. T. G. Hudson, com
missioner ot agriculture of Georgia,
enlisted the help of those present
against the further encroachment of
tne Loll weevil, wnich he characteriz
ed as the most serious economic prob
lem with which the South is con
fronted. Mr. Forchheimer began his paper
by repudiating the attacks made by
certain papers of the South charging
the members of the Southern Whole
sale Grocers' Association with boost
ing the prices of provisions when the
pi oducer was selling them at the usual
cost.,
"This is a malicious falsehood," he
said. "We have bad nothing more
to do with the high cost of food prod
ucts than we have had to do with the
high cost of ether commodities. As 1
analyze matters, the high prices that
have prevailed have been due to four
causes the tariff, trusts, drastic leg
islation and the well-known American
extravagance." 1
Resolutions against the parcels
post act' now before congress were
unanimously passed by the Southern
Wholesale Grocers' Association. This
matter was considered so urgent that
unanimous consent was given to the
proposal to consider it by the body
at large instead of having it pass first
through the usual channels of the
2escJution and the legislative commit
tees. GERMANS NAME OFFICERS
Next Saengerfest Goes to Jacksonville,
" ' Florida.
Atlanta. The German Saengerfest
came to a close with a ball in Taft
hall. The meeting of the German so
cieties of the South Atlanta League
has been a great success, and the visit
ers and the citizens of Atlanta have
enjoyed the affair more than they
have any similar occasion of the kind
that has taken place in the city in a
long while.
The convention at the Turn Verein
hall, after transacting routine busi
ness, selected the following officers:
Honorary president, C. H. Toussaint,
Savannah; president, F. H. Hanne,
Jacksonville; secretary, Fred Bach
man, Jacksonville; treasurer, C.
Drickwedel, Jacksonville; attorney,
John D. Cappelmann, Charleston; first
vice president, J. H. Moellering, Sa
vannah; seond vice president, G. Man,
Atlanta; third vice president, G. Ste
cher, Tampa; fourth vice president,
A. Morgenstern, Charleston; fifth vice
president, Th. Winter, Brunswick, Ga.
It was' unanimously agreed to hold
the next Saengerfest at Jacksonville,
probably in April of next year.
Fought Woman on Niagara Brink.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. Fighting with
grim determination to end her life,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley of Buffalo, 60
years of age, was rescued from deatn
at the very brink of the cataract by
Constable Thomas Harslngton, who
faced constant danger of being car
ried over the falls with the demented
woman. Mrs. Hartley entered the
water about CO feet abovw the falls.
Her dress caught on a jaggod rock lo
feet from the brink of the falU. There
sho was held until Harrington hooked
a pike into her dress.
HOW ICES VIEW
HACE PREJUDICE
EXPERTS OF MANY PEOPLES
GIVE THEIR VIEWS AS TO
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
JAP, JEW, NEGRO, ITALIAN
Race Leaders Contribute to a Sympo.
sium Prepared by New York
Unitarian Club.
New York. Race prejudice la view,
ed from many angles by representa
tives of several peoples in a sympo
sium prepared by the Unitarian Club'
of this city.
M. Honda, editor of & Japanese
newspaper, declares that "if the pres
sure of a few thousand Japanese!
threaten your country, it does not
speak well for your civilization. The.
best way to kill race prejudice is not;
to speak of it or pay any attention!
to it."
"If we Jews," says Dr. De Sota,
Pool, "have any feeling against the
Christian It is because you do not liv
up to the teachings of Jesus." '
As for the Italians, Prof. Alberto!
Peconini, director of the Italian-Amer
ican Civic League, says: . '
"The chief reason of prejudice to
the Italian in the United States is;
because a certain type of criminals;
have been advertised. Yet there is
less percentage of crime among thej
Italians than among the other races."!
Dr. Booker T. Washington, for thej
negroes, declares that "race prejudice
in th,e South is growing less everyj
day."
MADERO NAMES HIS CABINET
Provisional Capital of Mexico Etab-J
lished at Juarez.
Juarez, Mexico. Mexico's provis
icnal government became an estab-j
iished fact with the naming of a cab-i
inet by Francisco L. Madero, Jr, the.
president of the provisional goven;
ment, and with the establishment ofj
a capital at the captured city of Jua-i
rez. The cabinet follows: j
Dr. Vasquez Gomez, minister of for-j
eign relations. j
Gustavo Madero, minister ofj
finance.
Venustiana Carranza, minister oI
war.
Frederico Gonzales Garza, minister)
of the Interior.
Pino Suarez, minister of justice.
Juan Sanchez Azcona, secretary to
the president.
Secretary of War Carranza willj
have charge of the railways an4 teie-i
graph, and his first act was to granti
permission for the repair of ' the;
Mexico Northwestern railroad. A gang)
of men immediately set to work on;
the torn roadbed south of Juarez. i
Gonzales Garza will have charge of
the mail service, and Secretary of thej
Treasury Gustavo Madero will direct
the affairs of the custom house. .
That the insurrecto army is morei
than an armed mob was shown in,
the complete absence of looting and,
cf intoxication and the quickness with
which the shattered city was cleared,
of its dead and wounded. The em
bargo against visitors was removed,
and curious sightseers in thousand
pcured across the bridges leading
from Ela Paso. ,
AN UNIFORM MEMORIAL DAY
Savannah Delegation to Little Rock
Convention Will Make Strong Bid. i
Savannah, Ga. Savannah Confeder
ate veterans will make a strong ef
fort at the reunion in Little Rock this .
month to have the United Confeder
ate veterans, declare for a uniform
memorial day. - - . '
Delegates from both camps of vet
erans here are preparing a resolution
that will bring the matter before the
convention, and the hope is express
ed that it will result in favorable
action.
In Georgia, Alabama, Florida and,
Mississippi, April 26 is Memorial day;
in North Carolina and South Carolina
it is May 10; in Tennessee, May 12;.
Louisiana, June 3, and Virginia, May
30.
White Slave Story.
Atlanta, Ga. A particularly . har
rowing, story of alleged white slave,
traffic is tcld here by Nellie Lewis, f
a pretty 17-year-old girl, who says,
her home is in Winston-Salem, N., C ,.x
The girl declarees thac she Las been j
carried from city to city for the past
several weeks; by H. M. Burt of South
Carolina and Cassie Cobb of Winston
Salem. She says, that the , coupla
have kept her in a state of bondage..
In the various cities she wag mad a
to lead a life of shame to suppotu
the man and wemaa, ,