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PFTT COUNTY TO BE
REPRESENTED AT
E. G EXPOSITION
To Be Held in City of Kinston
April 7 -12?Each Day To Be
Feature Day.?Tuesday Will
Be Kawanis Day, Wednesday
Rotary, Thursday Queens' &
Friday School Day.
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Some of the initial steps of Pitt
county's part in the mammoth pa
geant to be put on at the Eastern
Carolina Exposition at Kinston April
7-12, were taken yesterday morning,
when several met in the Chamber of
Commerce rooms in Greenville.
Monday afternoon, April 7, there
will be a big- parade, in which various
organizations will participate. The
winner of first prize will be award
^ hundred dollars: second, sev
enty-five dollars; third, fifty dollars.
Monday night, Anna Case, who has
a national reputation, will sing.
Tuesday afternoon, Kiwanis clubs
will be in pamde and Tuesday night
a Tiwanis minstrel will be the cen
. ter of attraction.
> Wednesday- will be Rotary Club
day, with a parade in the afternoon
and special program for the night
All three dubs in Pitt county, accord
ing to an announcement by N. G.
Bartlett, secretary of the Eastern
Chamber, have already agreed to be
present 100 per cent strong.
Thursday will be Queens' day. This
will be featured with an afternoon
and- evening performance similar to
the exposition at Wilson last spring.
The management states that married
women will not be eligible. A fur
ther statement from headquarters in
dicates that between 35 and 40 will
be contestants.
Kinston, as did Wilson last season,
will havj her own contestants and the
outside territory theirs. Two $500
diamond rings will be awarded.
Friday will be* school day, fea
tured with a big parade in the aft
ernoon.
ni?rhfc ia the time for one of
the outstanding .events of the week?
the mammoth pageant, "Eastern Car
fi thelocal people in hef?-1
ing her in get suitable material. In
speaking of this on yesterday, 'Mr.'
Bartiett said: "Pitt county will hare
from 4& to 60 people'participating in
this bfg attraction." Thirteen coun
ties have already agreed to take part,
so it can be readily, aepp the scope it
will cover.
The prognAb for Saturday has not
yet. been announced, bat the manage
ment is busy trying to get something
worth while. "Every day a big day"
is what the Eastern Carolina Cham
ber of Commerce wants to realize for
this week.
Cervone's band, one of the leading
bands of the country, will give con
certs twice each day. This band
played for three years at the Michi
gan State Fair; three years at the
Kentucky State' Fair and also at
Richmond, Va.
All of the counties of Eastern Car
olina hating memberships ih the Eas
tern Chamber of Commerce will foe
privileged to have, free of all cost, a
booth in which to advertise their ad
vantages, which can be done pictorial
* fo and through literatures.
Among those who met to hear the
matter . resented by Mr. Bartlett and
Miss Jackson were: Mrs. J. L. Flem
ing, Mrs. J. M. Hihes, Mrs. S. Wil
liams, Miss Jane Moxley and H. L.
Smith of Greenville; Mrs. J. M. Hob
good of Farmville, and Mrs. G. H.
Pittman of Falkland.
? ' Oscar Underwood
First To Enter Hie
Georgia Primary,
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Atlanta, Feb. 13.?Hie first tandi^
date to formally enter the Georgia
democratic presidential preferential
primary is United States Senator Os
'car Underwood, of Alabama, whose
name was filed with the secretary of
& state today in a petition signed by
% mere than SM voters and aeepmpait
?; ted by the entrance fee of, $500. The
?prtemry yM taie place 'March 19
i^aad the time for filtog candidacies
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?McAdoo also are exoeetefi to be in
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AVAILABILITY AS
CANDIDATE LEFT
TO STATE LEADERS
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McAdoo Wants Conference To
Decide Great Issue At Once
Washington, Feb. 13.?William G.
McAdoo announced last night that he
would leave to the leaders of his
movement in each state the question
of whether his employment as coun
sel by the E. L. Dobeny oil company
had made him unavailable as a can
didate for the demoeratic presiden
tial nomination.
A request that a conference 'of
such leaders?men and women?be
called in Chicago as soon as possible
is made by Mr. McAdoo in a letter
to David L. Rockwell of Ohio, his
campaign manager, in charge of . na
tional headquarters at Chicago. The
letter was made public here tonight
by Mr. McAdoo.
"I want this conference to consid
er and determine," the former treas
urer secretary wrote, "whether or not
the fact that an honorable profes
sional service rendered by me to a
client, but having no relation what
ever to the oil leases now. under , in
vestigation by the senate committee,
is prejudicial to my leadership in the
cause of progressive democracy."
"If they think I am unavailable,"
he added, "I shall gladly withdraw
and fight as a private in the ranks;
if they think I should lead I will do
so with all the power that is in me,
I will do anything that they think is
right and best for the service of the
party and the country."
The former secretary also asked
that there be invited to the confer
ence "representatives of progressive
outside the democratic party, repre
sentatives of labor, representatives of
the fanner and any other you think
advisable in order that we may get
as far as possible a true index o?
public opinion."
LACK OF PROPER
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Thousands of dollars are lost to the
counties at North Carolina annually,
because of faek of proper supervise
ion of the administration of their
poor funds," declares Roy M. Brown,
of the staff of the State Board of
Charities and Public Welfare.
In support of this statement Mr.
Brown cities the case of one eounty
where several persons who were re
ceiving financial aid from the coun
ty were discovered to be either dead
or moved elsewhere. But the mon
ey was being passed out just the
same. One man on the county's poor
list had been dead six months; an
other had been years; a third was
drawing a fair salary as a clerk in a
store. It was reported that a rieh
and influential man was collecting
the money for these persons, as well
as that for another who was a ten
ant on his land. ,. <
In another county where the super
vision of outdoor relief was recently
given to the superintendent. :of pub
lic welfare, this officer .had ^4he
names of 13 persons strode from the
county lists as he found they were
not entitled tp such aid. Among these,
one had bem dead five years; an
other had been dead one year; and
still another had lived for five years
in a town outside the county. ?
There is a growing disposition to'
give the supervision of the county
poor funds to the superintendent of
public welfare, according to Mr.
Brown. The 1919 law states that the
: county superintendent of public wel
! fare shall have under the control of
I the county commissioners, the care
i 1 nf noor. and shall
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administer the poor funds. Mr.
Brown suggests that vouchers for
amounts spent in outdoor poor re fief
in a county pass through the hands
of the local welfare officer and that
he be required to get receipts from
the people for whom the money is in
tended. In this way, Mr. Brown
thinks, much of the present waste
and leakage in administration of poor
ftmddr in this state may be checked. I
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NEWS OP N. C. COTTON
I ,? GROWERS' CO-OP ASSN.
I' v> * $?'- '* %
I Baleigh, Feb. 15.?Dr. B. W. Kil
irs' Exchange at the recent meeting
held at Washington, D. C. The ex
change is a federation of the l? state
sottoa co-operative associations.' The
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f onoMue dlfltfihllHAIt ' * "v* *TJ;
ica's first great Internationalist. This strjMBBMl destined to be
America's Westminster Abbey. Inserts are of B*&. Sylvester Beach,
of Princetcn, N. J., who. conducted Lhe-f^eeral slices at tha Cath
edral following the single services at < the WtfiOfr tofc#; whfcfe wars
conducted by Bishop Freen^ef^M^^^w.
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Arbor Day Exercises j
At School Auditorium
Friday P. M. Feb. 15th.
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The , program for Arbor Day ar
ranged bythe Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation and carried out on Friday aft
ernoon at the high school is as fol
lows:
Invocation?Rev. D. E. Hill, v
Scripture Reading ? Mr G. R.
Wheeler.
Some Lessons from the Trees?
Song?Anthem for Arbor Day:
(Tune?America.)
Joy for the sturdy trees!
Fanned by each lovely breeze,
Lovely they stand;
The song birds o'er them trill,
They shade each tinkling rill,
They' crowd, each swelling hill,
Lovely or grand.
Plant them by stream and way,
Plant where the children play
And toilers rest;
In every verdant vale,
On every sunny swale,
Whether to grow o;r fail?
God knoweth hest.
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Select the strong, the fair, i
-Plant them with earnest care? <
f. _ No toil is vain.
Plant in a fitting place, ?
Let in some sweeter grace,
Where, like some lovely face,
Change may prove gain. >_
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God will his blessings send?
! All things on Him depend,
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Efe&t ,s^^i9K^>roup of Fifth
Gn^e niiiiimnM|rr> '
Recitation?jjfc~-~f'orest Pleaders"
?Group* of FoikS Grade Children.
Planting of tjjjft "Wilson Oak"?Se -
^ ofjjthe Tree?Fourth and
^BaShington, Feb. 13. ? Hudson
scientist and inventor, be
lfcj$es tea and coffee to be intoxicants
within the meaning of the Voistead
Act and threatens to bring about suit
to close cafe* in which these bever
ages are served unless enforcement
authorities do something about it.
He told the Free Thinkers Society
at a banquet here last night that he
would ask firtt the -Federal authori
ties to take action against teas and
coffees. "Should they fail to do so i
will bring action such as I have a
right to do against a saloon that au
thorities had not raided and closed,"
said Mr. .Maxim, "I have consulted
many of the most eminent legal au
thorities in the country and I speak
their authority when I tell you that
if all manner ofalcoholic liquors
were served at this dinner that the
provisions of the Eighteenth Amend
ment would not be violated and dis
represented more than they have
been violated by the serving of this
cr<ffee," he declared.
"THF. CRUSADER"
?WITH A SAUI
BE4.IEF irt TKS.
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I TAKES ALL BLAtll /
For TRANSACTIONS
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TeHs Court His Brother, Lieut.
Governor W. B. Cooper Knew
Nothing of Deals and Denies
.There Was Any, Conspiracy.
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Wttfcii&tfch, .Feb.; 1$.?Thomas , E.
Cooper, president of 'the defunct
Commercial National Bank, on trial
with his brother, Lieutenant Gpver
? fnor Wy B,: Cobpe^ on charges of con- ?
spiracv in connection with the fail
ure Of the bank, today took upon him
self all .resppwjjnjity foritnuaprtipns v
which the government Alleges were
fraudulent. Testifying as the first
defense witness, he declared that Ms
brother, who was chairman of the
board of -directors of the bank,' had
no knowledge of the transactions.
Mr. Cooper denied in his testimony
that he ano his brother had conspired
ass chawred in the indict
merit on which they are being tried
in United States District court. He
asserted that he had never attempted
to defraud the bank, misapply its
funds or make false entries withfn
Sent tb (lecfeive. U * "
The younger Cooper took the wit
ness stand, late yesterday and was
expected to ha. on the stand most of
the day. Lieutenant Governor Coop
er was to follow on the stand.
Cooper today reiterated his belief
that the bank was solvent prior to
the time it was closed and that if
given time it could have been saved.
He. was bitter in. his reference ib
the Richmond Federal Reserve Batik,
which, he charged, "oppressed" , the
Wilmington bank and "was doing ev
erything to break us." These re
marks were made by ' the ' witness
while attorneys were arguing over
his statement that the Federal Re
serve Bank was ^pressing" us unmer
cifully. District Attorney Tucker ob
jected to the statement and Judge,
Coipior ruled that Cooper should
it his statement to the word "press
^ ^id ruierl* *1^ <>^er ^
$250,000 were put up to cover depos
its made with 'the bank by Federal,
state dhd county governments arid
that Tie now was being sued for col
ection of these bonds. He, said he
was "amply solvent" at the time he .
:etumed here from Raleigh to be
come president of the local bank arid
estimated his assets at that time at
5275,000 and his liabilities as $125,
000.
TOBACCO CROP 1923
365 MILLION POUNDS
The 1923 tobacco crop of North
Carolina totaled approximately 305,
000,000 pounds, according to the Td
bacco Sales report issued hy Frank j
Parker, agricultural statistician. Qf
this the auction warehouses have sold
approximately 291,000,000 pounds at
an average of $21.25 per hundied
weight, the report says. The Co-op
erative Marketing association has
-probably received deliveries to ap
proximately 50,000,000 pounds. The
sales report for January, just re
leased by the Department of Agricul
ture, shows a total of 28,377,478 I
pounds of producers' sales reported <
by 83 warehouses, averaging $19.80 '
per hundredweight. These same '
warehouses had a total of season's *
producers' sales of 258452,130 pounds 1
while the closed warehouses sold 32,
234,284 pounds of farmers' tobacco at
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A. W. C. trLiEiti tliUD
GIVE GOOD CONCERT 1
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,Goodly Number Attended In Spit? of '
Inclement Weather J
The sudden zero-like weather made
the home fire most tempting up last
Friday evening and probably bept *
large jiumber from the concert pre
sented by the A. C. C. Glee jPlyb in
the school auditorium under the aus
5?ice3 of the Parent-Teachers Associa
tion.
The entertaining program given bl
the college group consisted of piano
fend vocal solos, quartet selections,
readings and a very laughable one
act play, "The Kleptomaniac."
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CIRCLE MEETING
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Miss Gertie Smith, was hostess to j
the Young Peoples' Circle of the
' Christian churiS; at the hen* of MrfH
0. Pox on .Kettday evening. - , \
Miss Pannie Mdye proved an effi
cient leader, bribing out many In
teresting things In connection witfc
her subject, "The Gospel Applied^ at
Home" with selections read by Mite
Mary Barrett and Mrs. Q. E. Fox.} '
^ A short social period follow^the
WqpDBOW WILSON. |
THE UNANIMOUS SENATE, j
DID FORD TALK TOO SOON?
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? Woodrow Wilson's body rtsts in the
erypt of the great Episcopal Cathed
ral at Ml. St Albrans in the north
west section of Washington.
Woodrow Wilson's realyfu/ieral, thje
tribute paid to the spirif t$at is not
dead, spreads actually over the whole
world, and his was "a public funeraL"
in the. real sense of the word, '?3
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The moment they are dead, men be
gin to settle into the pkice that his
tory reserves for them. :Tpday with
radio, telegraph, newspapers, history
works rapidly. Its judgments are as
erroneous as in the past, probably,
but they, are more quickly rendered.
It is to be remembered that Mr.
Wilson's public services were not war
time services only. Before the war
was thought of he had been at wont
on public problems. The Federal re
serve .bank, that carried this couhtry
through the financial strain of war,
was part of his work.
The land credits for farmers, free
ing the farmer froeo "respectable us
ury. in many directions, .had his in
tense Care and" devotion." St many di
rections he worked for the pubCc wel
fare, efficiently, before the devastat
ing war broke upon the world
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You come to the end of a book,
read the word finis and know all that
the book has to" say.. It is not so with
the life, of an active man. His U^t
day comes,-yet for him you cannqt
write finis, not after * year, or the
next; perhaps not fof a thousand
Hand mom inatenal power an any j
President CooLidge will observe that
the Senate is in "no doubt as to public
opinion on the oil scandal. Somie
Senators would lose no sleep over
such a ' little tiling as selling- the
navy's oil supply to private individ
uals,. or paying a little cash (nclt
checks) to public officials, if the thinp
could be put over quietly.
But the country is awake, and nqt
one Senator voted against I
resolution calling on the President to
cancel the oil leases. ? I
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One wise mah last week said,
"Ford talked just sixty days too soon.
If he had kept quiet, this oil affair |
would have given him the Presidency?'
Perhaps he'd rather have Musclle f
Shoals. His chances are good foil
that now. Any plans that' official
gentlemen may have had for turning
that over to Insiders on a "Teapdt
basis" will be kept quiet for a while,
at least.
Secretary Denby, of the Navy, says:
"I would do it-all over ^gain to
morrow." .
Of cguvsc that docs not mean that
the Secretary approves all the flnarj- J;
cial trimmings that went with the I
deal, the Government bonds handed
over, checks that were given and not
cashed, the valise full of cash handed
to a member of the Cabinet of the 1
United States.
Some >of that, undoubtedly, Mr.
Oenby would change.
What is more Important, however,
than Secretary DenbyV opinion, is
ffhat Congress and the people will doj.
They will see that it is not "donf ,
ill over again;"
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1 Bok Prize Winner
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Most Brilliant Social Affair off
at Da is Hotel Ix)vt3y
for the Occasion.
QnC of. the Most elaborate event,
of the social life here dtfring the
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husbands of the members andMtow
Annie Perkins, president of the Mag
the banquet table was exquisite in -
valentine decorations. Silver vases
containing red and white
and red candles in silver can&faihra
were used. A large bi rth<Ar^Bfc
with five gleaming ped candles' con
fessing the age of the dub without M;
revealing that of the members racde dK
a beautiful centerpiece. The Valtsa- W>
tine motif was carried out in other
table decorations, ref reshmeois and _ "1
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At D:00 o'clock the merry partj?^'
tereil the banquet rooYn, places were vfi
found and the invocation given by ;i?
Mr. A. G. Monk. Mrs. J. Loyd Hor
ton, president of the club, then gave
the guests a most cordial welcome,
which was responded to by Mr.vJ? L
Morgan in a very apt way. Judge J. vi
Loyd Ilorton acted as toastmaster&ad ?*
carried out his role in an enyifUte
manner.'
After the first course Mrs. J. I. f
Morgan gave a sparkling toast to
Miss Annie Perkins, one of the hon- 1
or guests, to which Miss Perlcihs ;';
made a bright and witty response. I
Mayor M. V. Horton followed with
a thrilling oration on "Wives." Hew
ever- a few of his statements were
affcervra as to their we
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sponges Were greatly enjoyed. ^
1 The thirdwKirse'was followed by
a timely talk on "Valentine Day* fry
Mrs. J. W. Lovelace, who gave its in- *
t? resting history and traditions. Mr. I"
G. M. Holden followed the ice coarse
with a toast abounding in hffmo^and
raillery t<} all the jolly bancpaeteers.
Ah orchestra played throughout the V>4
evening and there were a number-of V;1
mprry songs.
EVENING SERVICES' IN J
EPISCOPAL- CHURCH. - 1
A large number of communicant# f t
and friends of Emmanuel ciiurcb en- 1*1
joyed a service and sermon on. Wed- / /
i&stiay evening last by Rdv. J. .
Heyes who has recently resigned
wort in Hyde county to come to Urn R/
field. ? / I 'I
A beautiful interpretation of 1
twenty-third Psalm was given by# I
Heyes in a forcible and impre/i I
manner. Special music rendere** i
the choir included ap antheny |
soprano and ton^r solos sung $>. fJ ?<? j
R. A. Bynum and.Mr. J. L. a . j
Mr. Heyes returned to HydeV?< / I
Thursday moming. He expectsf j?
bring his family and make his perm*
nent residence here the first of nod "7*1
month?March. I b.Mt
WOMAN'S AUXILIARY. 'f/ ) l
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The Woman's Auxiliary of the E| i ?
?pal church met Monday aftertl I /'I
with Mrs. E. C. Boa man for a regj ||l
? There was a large number prw i M l
md several plans for dsvolopftJ J
were discussed and amoral newy
and detailed report the onitw
Council which recently convened mrv/
New Bern was given by; M^b. W. r
Askew, one of the oflWa delegate* .
The Cook Book to be published sooi
yy this body wr? discussed, an?
recipes were collected. This hand! >JJ
and useful little book with teats I ?
recipes from practically every hon/ ?nf>
keeper in Fannrflle will be op J I L/*.
very soonwwS^wfll prose exceedIf" I I
valuable to its users for it wiM;MKl&r
only contain recipes but is full J / I \
verttsing matter from local/ f I 1,
which will aid the thrifty hoxJ { / \
in purchasing supplies for \
ad^urncti. The next