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AMERICANS ABC
Coam&mg More Fruit and
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the American people have-undergone
We -am?!!ons fruit, bwm green
iiiantalja^ mare poultry, more milk
ten bIihL eernj geum
Thaw*)tin* of meat .in which
there Ijtobm* an increase in domes
tic i iiiawHiliiin ia pork, and that in
Ftraa* compflad by ttw Bareia of
Home of ft. Dmted State.
Department of Agtseuitare, wmca re
veal tfcme^acts, taauw aa interesting
Not ?*>*??? year* ago the great
majorityof Americana were engaged
in hiwif ?imh lahay Their work
called ijceriaxgasaaelsof healthy food.
Now ailnga undkgrewing proportion
of fact#ry >ww*e* and other laborers
are msihius fHilwii. in ii work eaU
lar xm2?,e,ltiww*^ei
muscu-1
nerpail ia -Be longer the institution
which fesaceww. In the larger cities
and even Jn-smaB eemmumties the
cprick-hfcjRh counter with ham sand
wiches and vchasse mndwkhis as its
principal atapip, J* far more popular
with the average young mechanic
That is pavreeaen Why ve are
changing froitra nation of heavy eat
ers to a nation of moderate eaters.
Another is the general desire to avoid
fat. Soposudrhss been said, in print
and othiiulaa ahsut the physical dan
ger of overweight that even those
who care little about how th&y look
are deliberately a voicing the fatten
ing foods. And aft for the girls,?-veil,
it is hanfiy'weeumayy to point hot
that they cant keep those boyisE
figures and eat the old-fashioned
three square- meals a day.
LettMtr-th'eee kern of food whkh
has gained/meet in popularity. Be-'
consumption of lettuce was
by four, from 13,000 carloads in 1990
to over 53,000 carloads in 1990. And
that indicates another reason for the
change kt war eating habits. Lettuce
is one of pu-chsef sources of the
health-preserving vitamins, unheard
of by fha puhlte tec yeara ago, now
generally uaderataedrte be nuscntiel
to the health of everybody who does
not spend most of his or her time out
of doop^-.
o 11.. 1AM I
r or use sourer reason, ui xw wr
ate ntm tftwnitbtee times as much
celery, more than six times as many
cariosds -elf rests Thaee vegetables
stand high in the list of foods con
taining a frigbpercsstaga of vitamins.
And ire are eating about twice as
much grapefruit, cabbage, caufiflower, ,
tomatoeg and turnips as we did ten
years afe.
In 13^7 we consumed about 42 gat* ;
Ions ofltmflk per individual In 1S&
this bad increased to 66 fbttspst In (
ter ww4?mrtiini. by i, ^ftiisiis iuj i
bead aad our uaa nf 1jfcawr"Ti)i-ti' i ;
pouadsjfThat much oi&ftOTfeKBased
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Citizens of FarmviHe Town
Sft Successful Business
mtirnto Cope With Taxa
tion an* Other Problems
'We; the undersigned dtisens of
FanaviHe Township end Pitt County,
realising that there are major prob
lems of taxation to come up in the
next Legislature, which should be
solved to the beat interests of the. peo
ple*; the comity as a whole, and be
ttering that this can beet be done by
able mwtness men who have a know
ledge of, and a sympathetic interest
in the welfare of the farming and bus
iness interests of the county and state,
and we believe gtat of all times this
is the-time when the office should
seek the man; Therefore, we present
the name of a man who is . not seek
ling the office, who is already known
to the voters of the county, a man who
has Tusd* a phenonminal succeaaj-df?
bis own business and merchant and
.farmer*'a manwhe has been, a dose
student of county government for the
past ten years, and a man who is now
peculiarly interested in seducing
taxes on real estate, and who hes the
ability to present the issues clearly
and forcibly and the courage to stand
by his convictions.
We present the name of "John W.
Holmes for the House of Representa
tives for 1981..
Signed:
T. C. Turnage
Paul E. Jones
W. C. Askew
G. R. Wheeler
B. 0. Turnage
J. R. Davis
R. L. Davis
F. M. Davis
D. K Oglesby
J. Y: Monk
J.L Morgan- ?
H..W. Turnage
J. M. Hobgood
J no. T. Thorne
R. E. eBlcher
T. M. Dail
W. G. polston
J. A. Mewbom
L. W. Godwin
J. H. Harris >?;.
R. A. Gardner
J. A. Mercer
Hardy JohnsonV
H. F. Owens
W. L. Goodwyn
M. E. Smith
W. J. Turnage
G. W. Jefferson
& L Jefferson
A. C. Gay
Dr. E. B. Beasley
C. M. Smith
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I BOYS AND GIBLS -
Joan Davis, the 5 year old daughter
of the Secretary of Labor, prayed
for curls so ottm that her mcther
took her to a beauty shop for a per
? 15-mofltlfnrid 'babf
of Albany, N. Y., was thought dead
for several i$inut$ after Ian operd-i
Son, but was&rtagbfcfco* to lflSk*
restoratives and has fully recovered.
Rhoda Epstein of Washing&n en
teral the hfsrli ic&u ft* .#?# see ibf - >
p*M
in grammar ffwi
Sonia Henje, 17-year ol< skating
marvel
women's*t4#i?
ore skating foe the fourth time in a
recent ^intcrnftfeouft) A touiABMiit iil
from S.atHiHo^ft-taf rarSnother
in Scotland
ii j Pssfri aiainj
nereage, such w cox*m or ^ or
^ cultivated, that whilik;^e invent.
WijM . ? '-' StFJ ''mi
?lwX'B wWfc
Be Sure To Attend The Mass Meeting Tuesday Night
TWO THOUSAND
MASSAC8EMY
After Slaying Entire Pop*
nlace of Sriiali Town, the
Bandits Loot' All Build
ing and Flee to tlte'West-.
ent Mountains : %j?;>:
Shanghi, March 19.?Bandits and
Communits, said delayed Chinese re
ports received here today, attacked
and captured Fuan, a town near
Kianfb, central Kiangsi province, ?
masiacreing all the Fuan officials
and 2,000 men, women and children,
early this month*
After slaying the populace, con
tinued the reports, the bandits looted
the town, carrying their plunder into
the mountains of western Kiangsi. -
The outrage was reported by the
magistrate of Kiangfu. He said the
people of Fuan were paralyzed with
fear and were afraid further to op
pose the bandits, who were depicted
as subjecting Kiangsi province to a
merciless deluge of robberies and
wholesale killings.
The magistrate appealed, to the
Nationalist government at Nanking
formiJjtary assistance^
RiHg govej^unert offices, organs, and
other administrative bureaus in Peip
ing? fonder capital of China,* were
tahen-ovetrtpday by the local authori
ties who said they were acting (Under
ordera^pf Yen Hsi-Shan^so-ialled
"model gUvernetf'^}3he?a^fcr<JVince.
' ThPiuetion injplied" a very definite
widening of the branch between the
adrainkteagons of-FUsted** Chiang
Nanking, in central and
t?y"Yek
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CAB. TURNS YUjtTJ4?
ONWETPAVEMENT
?.'' 7 - *ti ' ???r.:$ ????:?
Mr; and Mrs. J. R. Newton Mad a
injury
.Monday t^venin# ,.wbe? their ' Tord
W&on^^yay, ? 2 1-2 milee. on this
Mr.-itrtd*^Wrkowton were return
ing cjo-thelate afternoon from Wilson
PbV? <h?y lu^^yMiladrtWc^elattves.
The. web pavement is flamed fgr the
accidont- winch occurred whei Mr.
Nekton attempted to get out of the
way an approaching car . just aftei
pa&eirig'a iarge truck." His ear alfcded
tried to regain B*
peptic**!** light handside cf the
re*?LFtt4?M? injuries were sustained
; byhoth^ciupants. ;
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CARL GOERCH, NOTED WRITER, FROM THE
ORIGINAL WASHINGTCR3 TO ADDRESS
tnZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY ON
jSglEMENACEOF CHAIN STORES
"" . ' "
. The public is invited to attend a Mass Meeting
to be held in the Citiy Hall, Farmville, Tuesday
night, March 25th, at 7:45 o'clock and see and hear
Carl Goerch, from the original Washington in his
famous talk on "The Menace of Chain Stores."
You have probably read some of Mr. Goerch's
funny stories in the papers, but you'll enjoy his
talk on the Chain Store Menace better than any of
his writings.
Everybody invited to atend this meeting, , es
pecially the mothers, fathers and business-men of
Farmville and the,surrounding community.
DEPUTY SHERIFF
f COMMUS SDICfflE
W. B. Vandiford of Pitt
ConntyHadBeen Despon
dent for Several Weeks
Greenville, March 17?W. B. Van
diford, Pitt conty deputy sheriff,
committed suicide late yesterday af
ternoon by firing a bullet below his
heart. Temporary insanity was de
scribed as the reason for the^pct. He
was about 45 years of age and'one
of die best known officers in the
community.
I-' '? ? -i ' "v
That suicide was contemplated-was
indicated by a nofe found in a pocket
of the dead man. Vandiford, it was*
said by close friends had been de
spondent for several weeks and this'
is believed to have produced tempor
ary insanity, leading to his rash act.
He was found sitting in his auto
mobile, gripping the steering wheel,
as if he had attemptedto turn the
car around after firing the bullet
into hit body. The finger of the right
hand gripped the gas lever, and a
cigarette was in the left habdl- t
one lighter, his mother, Mrs. An-1
nie Vandiford and one brother, Jim
Gweffle.
fnngnu services were conoucucu
by Rev." Lee Sadler, pastor of the.
Eighth Street' Christian church, and
Rev. W3B. Marshburn* of Dicker
sonvilte.; Interment was made' in the
tax^ forying grouu^||y^|;1
GARDEN CLUB TO MEET MON.
, The Garden Club wM-fcoet'Monday
afternoon at 8:30 with Mrs. J. M.
"raSpuas
Two-Story Brick in Busi
ness District Suffers Con
siderable Damage
I , v ^ ' ?
The Monk building, a two-story
structure, located at the corner of
Main and Wilson streets, in the
heart of the Farmville business dis
trict was gutted by fire early Tues
day morning entailing loss estimated
at approxiamtely $5,000. The building
was the property of J. Y. Monk and
was occupied by the White Baiber
Shop, The Carolina Cafe, and Baker's
?ke Shop and Club rooms.
' The fire is believed to have origin
ated in the barber shop, and despite
the fact that the flames had gained
considerable headway when the alarm
was sounded, the Farmville fire de
partment had the situation under con
trol within fifty minutes.
x Goods in an adjoining building oc
cupied by J. H. Harris, wens also
damaged. -?^6iridShings in the ielub
rooms in the upstairs of the Monk
building were badly damage! by' ttv
smoke and water.
' " 'jI ?? A'Vm' .?
CARL GOERCH SHOULD
ta*raip,. He shenld have been here
Tuesday morning. The al&ip giving
$e Main Street signrf>Oied a iargn
number of men and women out at the
usual m Hit afiliBlnj, S:00, pebpk
really interested in the-business sec
sraiarssaKS'K
the firemen, as those worthy gentle
nien^o-.'ten believe.
dress, tock advantagBMcrf ocaasion
HOOVER WANTS
REPORT, SOUTH
* 'I
Requests the Department of '
Justice to Look Into Sen- ,
ate Cogwrittee's Request ,
for Investigation; He Says
ConditionsBetter
-J*: ; .
Washington," March 18?President
Hoover hairasked the department of I
justice Lto consider the report of'the
senate committee on federal patron
age in the south, which .condemned |<
conditions thhere, and requested an
investigation. * 1
"As a matter of fact," President ]
Hoover said, "the report refers to in
cident, and conditions which have al=~ j
ready been cleaned up by the action
I'took pn the 26th of March last "
A system, has been established un
der instructions to the various. Je- ;
partments of the government, Mr. '
Hoover, continued, by which "these
reprehensible practices have^beenab- (
solutely stopped and the system of
purchase and sale of appointments,
so far as it existed has been ended.
All federal officials known to have
engaged in such practices MV. Hoover v
said, have either resigned or been ref
moved.
The President said the Department -j
of Justice already had taken un-.iev '
investigation charges, pertaiqingto
other than patronage matters that the
committee had made against two fed
eral officials. !
In the Senate as soon as the patf
nonage question has been 'haised by
Blease, Senator Fess, Republican, (
Ohio, referred to the recent report on *
patronage jm the south and said it ]
dealt entirely with conditions existing 1
before the Hoover adminietratioh took 1
office.
-i i W a.1
The Ohioan feu ? inw wmien ?
sometime ago by the President or- 1
dering a new control of natronage in
the south. '
He does not approve but condemns' 1
any sale of patronage in- the south,1' 1
Fesssaid. 1
Blease asserted that the Republican
party in South Carolina "stands for
graft and corruption and dishonest
government and dishonorable disposif
fcion of patronage."
I- Asserting^that the government was '
"a stench in the hostnls'odf everv.de
cent man. in the state," Bfea? added
that ^everyone who had participated
in the purchase or sale of j^ibjde off ;
flees should be put in the peniten-.
?!$%&:> ' ]
|t Referrind^tBfjbbi attitude 'hf1
ident Hoover and'Walter E. BroWtf,
worS wTk^w^em.''^ ^ * {
i~?": mtij uSnj |
,r,j? TYTa Si ?. jBWj ?i !l?-5i'"?
? VAVVH^hHMVII^ vf ^Mk?
?? 1, >;cV,. ?. . j ? I
fending himself against cnarges of
briberybrdfce down and wept in testi
fying hoWn&val officers appealed to
his patriotism to get him to bii on an
oil storage contract, and he was tem
porarily excused from the stand.
lite 73-year-old' defendant broke
down as he reached a point in sis
testimony which concerned his son.
Edward L. Dohiriy,. Jr? who was kill
ed by his secretaryabout a year ago.
Dohnby said Rear Admiral J. K;
Ro'oiscn urged himr to . bid for the
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, oil storage con
tract because of the menace that a
cm isin power might be to the United
States in Pacific waters:
Doimey added that Robinson's
graphic picture ofWhatmight happen
as the result of an attack by the pow
er referred to "nearly made me cry.'*
"Did 'Robisoh use thd neroe of ycur
son in lihs ?i.zguhtents-?'* asked Hoga*^
. "Yea", replied Doheny in a crn-ked
voice.
Asked to tell what' was said the
oil main-1! tjrsr to sob: He. left the
stand for a few minutes but continued
his testimony in a firm voice when ho
returned.
For a brief timein the long series
of criminal cil cases, -the gevernmenc
today got ttfere a Jury the :'act that
the award of the ?3ks Hflj naval oil
reserve 4o a DohenyCompany had
been termed by coarte in crvil cases
as a fraud on the port of Edward L.
Dohney, on trial for bribery, and Al
bert B. Fall, fdrmer secretary of the
Interior.
Dnnnav liimool/ niun?H fVid> (tmr fftr
admission of the testimony in his
bribery trial , by reciting under a
gruelling cross-examination by Owen
J. Roberts, special government prose
cutor, bow he accepted security for
what the government charges was a
(100,000 bribe to Fall.
The witness said-th&t fo 1924, after
the first criminiff* iinifctments had
been quashed, Fall sent him shares in
bis cattle company for security for
what he- termed the loan.
; "He could do it then," he explained,
'without being accused of trying to
cover1 up as nothing in this ease was
pending.*
"The civil cases were pending and
you kifew it didn't you?" Roberts shot
jack. | * .1"' * ?
' "Yes", replied the witness.
"Didn't you refuse to testify on the
pounds, that it would incriminate
you," asked the prosecutor.
" Doheny wouldn't give a direct
rwer and thoT court directed that 'ie
Jo so.'
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BUNK IN EDUCATION
? ? ? i ? ?
Forward-looking educators are
no re and more coming to look upon
much that is taught in schools and
colleges tpfoy *8 useless rubbish?
jo me thing that intelligent laymen
lave suspected for quite a while, i
In a recent article, Edward Wilber
Berry, dean of the college of arts and <
sciences of John Hopkins, handles
he subject without gloves. He saya:
1"What-the ordinary curriculm to
lay represents is simply the ae--:l
cumulated debris of the'past three or
four - hundred yean of hit or miss
instruction. Some of it is plainly
superfluous and some of it should
lis missed immediately as the merest
lubdi&vand flapdoodle ? inherited
rubbish.
... He refers to the average college
itudent as "the product of a staffing
madiire?crammed with facts- of a
more or lees unrelated and useless
lature."
Dean Berry, never went tci^ijsHkge
limself, but of coarse in the Uxilver-"
?ity of Hard Knocks included eighi
Fears hs manager of the Passaic
Daily News. Although connected r
rnth Jbhn Hopkins as an instructor '
for 24 year*, he has no degree. Speak
ing of the A. B., he says that when
he undergraduate has scored his
joints ("he i*: branded with an A. B.,
and is ! put on the market as a pure'
product. It is a mere label?a stand
ard bonded- label on a. bootleg bottle."
??m*?;$
MOVING ?ICTURBTO BE SHOWN
RfcEB OF CHARGE AT WHITE'S
THEATRE !N GREENVILLE.
Members of the Mystic Shrine of
Greenville * locality have arranged to.-.%
show that heart gripping drama, "An
Egual Chance," a Metro-Goldwyn
Mayer i production, which in addition^
to b&ng. Wghly entertaining, gives a |
graphic (exposition of that great and.