GREENVILLE IS THE
HEART OF EASTERN
yORTH CAROLINA. IT HAS
A POPULATION OF FOUR
THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED
iND ONE. AND IS SUR
ROUNDED BY THE BEST
FAR.YING COUNTRY.
INDUSTRIES OF ALL
KINDS ARE INVITED TO
LOCATE HERE FOR WE
HAVE EVERYTHING TO
OFFER IN THE WAY OF
LABOR, CAPITAL AND
TRIBUTARY FACILITIES.
WE HAVE AN UP-TO-DATE
JOB AND NEWSPAPER
PLANT.
1
U ytifH
vgrlcuiturc Is tbe jlodt reefnli the Most HealthfaL the Most Noble Employment of M«n.—George Wiishln§rton-
WE HAVE A OIXOULl-
TION OF TWELVE HUN
DRED AMONG THE BEST
PEOPLE IN TBE EASTERN
PART OF NORTH CARO
LINA AND INVITE THOSE
WIJO WISH TO GET BET
TER ACQUAINTED WITH
THESE GOOD PEOPLE IN
i BUSINESS WAY TO TAKE
I FEW INCHES SPACE AND
TELL THEM WHAT YOU
HAVE TO BRING TO THEIR
ATTENTION.
OUR ADVERTISING
^ATES ARE LOW AND CAN
BE HAD UPON APPLICA
TION.
VOLIME XXXIVi
(JKEKWILLE, X. FUIDAY AFTK1{\0«>\ H I V 17, li»H.
M >iiu;h
A Palace For Paupers
Or Hospital For Helpers
Which Shall it fie, One Both or
Neilber, Is What Or. laughing-
house Asks
Of
III an Addrt'os Kcforc 'I'hiit Itotly at a
Sp*‘cial ll«‘ld Yoslenlay,
in Wlik-li ll(> cit(‘s a H<>tt«‘r
i’laii fur earring for I'aiiiier
Tlu' following is tli«‘ atldrt'ss in part
(IfliviTt'd yeslfnlay by Dr. Chas. O'H.
LaugliinKluiuse to the Board of Coiu-
inissioiurs of I’itt County.
ilonoraliU- Board of Coniniis.K’oiiiTS of
I’itt County:
Vour County Iloni“ at pr-.-lout i<o
yo’.ir iiouic supiTiiiti ndi-M says, is |
<ariiig for tiftein inmates. Tlirof of
tlii Kc arc wliito nu>:i two of wiioiu |
'/.vnn and liii liard Canipboll wero |
praclic ally t)orn tluTi' ovi r r.rty yoars
ago. 'I'lU'y have l)Cfn County I'liargi'S
evi r sincu. '1‘lif otlier is a paralytic
ironi apoplfXi'v, and is about .'n years
of f?a»'. Vou liavc six white women.
oni‘ of whom, Kmily Campbell, wa-5
liofM in III' institution, one l.ucy
Warren was admitted wlien a w/e
bit of a child, one an epileptic; wi\i.
■'nhtlully belongs in the Stale Kpi'i-
tie Asylum. Three of these wonfn
arc AH'll and .-^troni:, but old. Not
one of these people can read or
write and not one of them or their
pcopl<‘ have ever bef n m -re coiufor-
tatile than they are today.
'I'be averape, age of the white p 'o-
ple is years. You also navo six
negro women one a deaf mute, that
l)elongs riplitfully to the State. One
blind that belongs to the State, one
Feeble minded, one a Paralytic, Two
are there because of age. This takes
the lifteen, all are igorant, a majority
of these have spent so many years
there that they will prefer remaining
where they are. Moving them into
the new home will appeal to tl;e
emotionalism of a few—who are
guided by sentament rather than
reason, but it wil not add to
the happiness of those whom you
are trying to help. Be that as it may,
you are about to construct a County
Home, Before doing so lets see what
it will cost.
Your County home last year so
your home superintendent says cost
you $300 a month for its maiti a nance
which is tj per cent interest on !ftjO,000.
Surely your new home, your .f4o,0(»o
plant, with its steam heat, electric
lights, sewrage, hot and cold water,
coal to burn instead of w'ood, with its
laundry, its refectory, its infirmary,
its tuberculosis ward, its pest house,
its worii .Bhop. its places for amuse
ment and ref-rention, and its sun par-
Isrs, all of which, by the way will re
main practically empty, will cost you
in maintainance not less than $600.
per month or $7,200 a year or the in
terest on $120,000.
Your home as you have planned it
will cost complete furnished and
ready for occupancy not less than
40.000. Let's sura it up. You are
spending $40,000 the interest on which
is 2,40(1 a year, add to this .*7,200 a
year for maintainnece and you have $*>
eoo add to this the $tI2.50 a month or
$7.ji*.0<i per year the amount that you
are paying your superinteiuU nt of
health: who does nothing but care for
your Convicts and conty home. He is
doing nothing in the way of I’reven-
tives medicine, nothing to aid the deve
lopment of your school children, on
whom jpou are Fftnding thousanls
to educi.te, nothing to prevent t
I
phiod fever, malaria, hookworm dis
ease nothing to teach midwives. His
duty Is to look after your county
churges therefore, hl.s salary should be
charged to your County Himie. The
salary is $7ri0.iio per year. Add this
to the $!i,tiOu already acounK’d for
you get the modest amount of $I04.'j0
whi< h you will have to pay annualy
to maintain your county home. If
you would put in State institutions
those of your paupers that rightfully
belong there, you would not have
over ten paupers to opi'n up your new
institution with. 'Pen paupers at the
average age of iH.l years,— who can
not read or write, some of whom aro
idiots, half of the number are para-
lized, and for their maintanance
you are about to give consent to :i
plan the lost of which is $10,4.MJ :i
y<ar, more than .il.tHiOa year a piece
It is worth something to be a pauper
h<re in ‘'Clood old I'itt." Is it not?
Well 1 would answer iny (juestion by
saying no, for even though you will
be spending $10,450 a year, or more
than .fl,fnMi a piece on your paupers,
you are giving them nothing but new
surroundings.
'oti have, when you open this
place, a l)eautiful construct.d black
smith simp without a forge anvil or
haninii r. Why do I say this? 1 sav
il b'-c.iu.-^e you cannot get a superin
tendent who 1 an give what your plant,
ibniands, wiilimit spending too mmh
mom y III Ueep his job, unless you'"
plai e is a hollow inoi kery. We will
need traiiud nurses. Vou can't afford
them. Vou will need many ihtngs
you <annot afford. Yuor number of
l-aiipers is too sni ill. ai.'* as’ th ' years
go by you will lind it growing smal
ler, Christianity, socli<'ology, educa
tion, business intelligence in the
management of public affairs, and
putting brains before sentiment
in the solution of public charity is
charging the world. We have out
grown the old county home plan, just
as surely as we have out grown the
inefficient and old fashioned plan of
keeping up the puldic roads. To hav^
the things you are building for, will
be as impractical and no more pro
fitable than an electric car line runn-
in passenger cars from Pactolus to
Black .Tack every fifteen minutes.
Let's reason this proposition out,
let's tear it to pieces, let's study it
part tiy part, and put it together
again. You have had the sentimental
side put up to you by those who
with heart's bleeding with sympathy
are anxious to do something for our
paupers. I myself have the same desire
you have the same desire, the public
at large has the same desire, there is
nobody who would put anything in the
way of their betterment, their com
fort or happiness. 1 contend how
ever, that your present plan in or
der to bring about what y<ui aspire
to must be changed. In building
your county home you are building
for the future. 1 predict and with un
deniable grotinds that your county
home will be closed in less than ten
years. The world is changing, edu
cation. telegraph, telephone, niachin-
01 y, labor saving schemes, busines
organization, public economics and
community, and state cooperation
makes this a different wc>rld from
.\Tsterday. Your fathers and mine
came to town in carts, today you
come in Cadallacks. 1 was taught
at home by a private teacher, the
best that could be had, children of
farther'^ tenants have better scoho'
facilities than I had.
Griniesland today has better publit'
schools than Kaleigh had twenty
years ago. What does it mean? It
means that our people an- growing in
I intelligence, it means that they have
more time. 'I'he country man's mail
' conies to his door today and without
i expense to him. He can phone for
what 111' wants and parcel post lays
I :i in liis lap. Comng event.s ^ast theii
j shadows before them, you will no-
I lice by studying each individual in
your (ounty home that not one of
I hem ei ri' ad or write. lake your
I>oor house list for the past fifty
years and you will find that not one
tenth of one per cent of the n had a;!y
education whatever. The man or wo-
n-aii with even the rudiments of an
etlucation has not applied to your
home for admittance in the past. If
education has kept thejii out in the
past, Vhy won't it do it in the future?
'i'lie law prohibits the sale of
laudnum, cocaine and morphine.
I’ubilc Sentiment is so strong
against it that no druggist or
doctor with character will dare break
this law. The observance of the law
will eleniinate your drug fiends. Pro
hibition has come to stay. Liquor is
gradually getting further a.vay. i-Iven
Virginia is going dry. The damage
done by alcohol is being t:iitKht daily
III all our schools. Every c.iild is
1‘arning it, for ;iV.ication is ul-
sory now, children oi this day and
generation know that positions oC
trust are not given to men who drink,
they are taught the damage it does
to body, mind, character, morals an 1
souls, and tliis teaching is sliowin;:
itself ill a public sentiment that is
discountenancing drunkenness. The nl
cidioli;' rooms in your County Home
will be vacant for eilucatlon is going
to greatly diniiiiish this ehiss. S\-
philis, coninionly known as I’ox tiu'.
disease that kills the nuiiiliiiess iu a
man, that drives him to hoplessnes,:.
that one grciit horror to the studeni
of charily the one disease that makes
more paupers than any other six dis
ease, because it is contagious and puts
pro.'tutes on the pauper list. This drea
thing is curable now, «s three or four
injections of l->licks I'liitl cures it as
promptly as titiiniin* cures malari:i
and in so doing makes spare rooms in
your county home. County Homes in
past . had to take care of foundling
childn 11 and orphans, of the deaf and
dumb, the blind, the feeble minded, thi'
tubercolous, the epileptic, tlie insane
•North Carolina has adopted facilities
in the way of orphan asylums and
reformatories to make it a crime 'o
permit ciiildren being reared in a
(ounty home. She has asylums for
the blind, deaf, dumb, epleptic, an<:
feeble minded and insane. She has a
sanitorium for tuherculucis that is as
good :is the best in the world and each
legislature is adding to them from year
to year making them more adequate
'i'hey can, and will, in fact they ar>
caring now for this class of your
paniiers better than you can even
hope to do, if you had money to burn.
Tliis county home question though
sorrowful thotigh stimulating s\Tn-
pathy and sentiment has got two
sides. Like al Icharity it can be
handled well only hy reason. It is
all right to let sentiment and sym
pathy prompt, but let reason and
judgement tiecide. This is a matter of
business, let’s handle it in a business
\.i.y 1 suggest that we go away
that we get out in the world and S' c
what other people are doing. I.e*'s
go to Virginia lu're you will liiid a
state with more county homes than
any other state in the South. Count.-
homes that are constructed in a mo
dern manner. Virginia says that the
old county home plan is a failure.
You can see that it is a failure, civili
zation is changing the world medical
and surgical progress with education is
lessoning pauperism to such an ex
tent that Virginia realizes that the
only econonical and efficient way to
solve the county home problem *s
to have district alms houses. We
will come to that; we are progress
ing fas not to come to it; co
operation systemitzed public ser
vice, modern methods, e( niioniy an 1
c(mnn<m sense will drive us to it. She
too lias state institutions for thedaet',
dumb, blind, epc’tiptic fi eble minded
and insane that relieved li^r poor
houses to su< h an extent that her la=st
General Assembly mad(“ an effort io
abolish the county almshouses aiil
create instead district almshouse.-!,
one for each congressional distriei.
This idea is spreadinp through ihr-
whole South. It is planned that these
district homes for the ageil and iiitirni
should be located on a farm, with a
hospital and trained nurses for the
sick, comforts, amusements and plea
sures for the aged, institional care
and work shops for its whisky and
drug fiends, correct appartnients and
attendants for the idiots and feeb'e
minded, a tuberculer hospital for the
consumptive and above all an edu
cated compentent traind superinten
dent with a trained foice of helpers.
Your responsibilty gentlemen is a
very serious one, so serious that 1 am
coming to you to help yini to solve
this problem. No matter how it all
turns out; 1 for one shall feel that
you have done your duty as best it
can be done wi'h the lights before
you. I am not here to criticise but to
hei'fi. and if 1 have .said anything that
appears as a harsh criticism I lieg
tinit you will not construe it that
way.
Just indulgi’ me a moment more
lor the expression of or more thought.
Can we spend this money for a countv
li'inie and spend in aildiiioii money for
u health otlicer for his whole time, a
I l alth oflieer who e-.ni inspect scho.il
hildreii and put tluiii in iiosition to
make men and woiii' ii physically
strong, a health oflieer who can teacli
^;iP.itation in all the public schools, a
health oiricer that will constantly so\v
Sl id that will go to make a country
without pau(nrs. If we can't have
both, which liad we liest give up,’
I'liink of this gentlemen, think of tlio
ehildren of tlie men and women who
are paying for the care of the pauper.
■\ successtul fanner makes the state
ment that no cattle over M years ot
age can be profitably raised for less
ilian because the time and
food required to brind a calf to ma
turely is worib that much. No enter-
jii'ising man can afford to invest his
interest in a calf for less than that
amount. Now you will agree that *t
takes more time an<l more costly
-tirroundings are required to develop
ehildren than to develop cattle. It s
loiiservative to say that the actual
I (ist of raising an infant to adult age
is $4,000. Vou could not hire it done
for that amount. Add to this, one
(hild's share in ilie public schools
and .vou have another thousand dol
lars making $.'i,ihmi to raise an infant
buy or girl to a grown man or wtunaii.
Would you train a crippled colt? No.
well, are you going to train crippled
ehildren? If your <'olt was worth
S.'iiMi you would have his delormit.v
corrected if possible, 'j iiat is what
medical inspection of schoid children
means. There is an adage that
■•there are thos. wiio give and strive
and do without ami those who get and
spend.” if you can't care for both of
Pill county citizenship in the name
t'f Ciod don't necli'ci the children.
Don't strive and neglect the hope
fiohe future in order to lionize and
cuddle the hoiilessness ami shiftle-
ness and failures of th,' i>ast. Neglect
of the children in thi' public schools
(> fthe past made the wrecks that are
tilling county homes today.
Due more thought please indulge
nil' and I am done. Of the 40,01111 peo
ple in your county there is never a
minute hut that some one is writhing
in pain, wrestling with the pangs and
rvivages of disease. There is never a
week but that some death takes place
that could be avoided by proper medi
cal and surgical treatment. There s
enough money spent in ra.'road fares
by ih.' citizens of Pilt 1'ounty taking
some loved ones to liospitals away
from home, to maintain a count.’ lii's-
pital. Can you huilii and maini;;iri
a conty home and also hiii'’ it'.J
maintain a I’ounty hospital? if you
can, will you build both? If you can't
which is the more iniportaiit. a coun'y
home for six useless negro women
and nine white jiaupi-rs who will di''
ill a few \ears or an adequate county
hospital to prevent future paupers’’
Which do the people need most, whicli
do thy want most, which i,s the most
economii al. which will do most good,
whirl! is most < hrist like, w hich i.s
most human.
A hospital will go a loim way to
ward niainlaining itself. It can also
maintain your pauin rs. It will com-
for prolong and save the life of mori
p.'ople in a iMontli than your county
home will care for in a y'ar. Let’.-;
compare the two County home, everv
thing going out nothing coming in. .v
I'lninty bosiiiial a irood d<'al going out
blit a good deal cmiiing in. County
liDine caring for a few who are wait
ing to die, Ciiunty hospital earing
for many, giving life, comfort, and
healih. County home admitting only
the paiipor. County hospital admitt
ing the pauper and those that tare fo.'
and maintain the pauper. County
home says on it.s door, noihing bur
paupers admitted here. Abandon
hope come in it you are a pauper, si'
still, do nothing just hurry up and
die. C(«inly hospital says come into
me all ye that are siel;. pauper fis
Well as plulocrat. i will t'ive yo'i
all that can be L’iv. n to restore you t 1
health.
Oentleineii wliiih will you sriv.- )~
will y iti give biitlr,’
10 PURCHASE TH[
11
10 ESCAPE FOR
E
Squire Grafiaree Makes Iwo At-
lempts in Ten Bays
m iflCK
Neuro Carrie', a Katl lic|Mitali«u ,\iul
i'< Iteinu' Held for The Iturglarj
01 Se>eral I’laees Near tirinu";-
aiiil Klvewhere,
Squire Craffaree. the negro that has
f(ir some time carried a bad reputa
lion through this section of Kastern
Carolina, and who is now eontiind
in the count jail, seems determine 1
to keep his word as to ri tnaining in
the It cal institution f(U' criminals,
Si'Veral Weeks ago il will be re-
nielllbered Craftaree made his eseap '
with several other negro [irisomrs
from the jail but lat. r was arrested
ill Suffolk, \'a., ami brought back here
and once more placed behind the bar-.
At that time the negro remark, d
that the ottiei'rs would not be aide
to kelp him within the prison walls,
and last week Sheriff Dudley dis-
ciivered that the cell iloor in wliiih
Cr:iffaree was contined had been fore d
open. He was taken out and place 1
ill another thought to be more secure,
and this morning a gentleman livitir;
probably a hundred yards from the
jail informed the sheriff that he we..:
awakened last night by a noise that
sounded like some one was tearing
down the jail building, and upon in
vestigation the sheriff discovered that
CraTaree had succeeded almost in
making his escape for the second
Plans as to .^lew County Home
iSPIIiil s¥ IS BffEltO
(ireeinille Citizen* K\pre*» a \\)!l-
iu!Mies>. to Ihiiiale ’I he (irtniiid for
Count) Home and llo'pital
( ombliiiie. Much < otiillielit
It was learned today tluit :n tiie
event ihat the County comnii:-siouers
cluinged their plans as to building
the new County flonie on the site re
cently purihased for that purpose,
that there was ;i r> ady buyer that was
willing to take the properly off their
hands at the rtgures they payed for
it. which no doubt would he <iuite an
iniluceiiieiit to the Commissi(Miers at
this pariicuhir lime,
l! was funliernuire rumored tl'.at
tile ;iarty that liought the hKI County
llonn- sill' wheti it was otlered tor
sail' at public aui lion some months
iiL'o i'grees to ttirii it ov.t to ‘he
(niinty al same ticures it wa> soM
tor wh<'U he purelias*-d same,
dll tup of all tliis. should III- '.'ouiu\'
I'omiijissiop.i rs abolish ih* ithM ol tlu'
new t'luinty Honie, and instead, a
citunlv home ami hos)iital eiiiiilr.ned.
.uUi-> ihe glad news that sonic
i.;r> eiiville eilizi l.ave ottered to
doiU:.‘ to the I'ounty < aV'cll'tt c
siie for sill'll ;;n instittition.
Tins is ne\ss that very proTMb;>
w ill he well reci ived by n.any of th
citi/.eiis of the ctuinty as it seems a
majority are in favor of abo'iishincr
Mie idea of the building of the new-
County Honii- al stn h as subnr.tti'd
to the commissioners in the rec-'it
plans
time. I'urihiT investigation ri'Vea’.e 1
that lie iiad placed a small block of
woo.' against the tombination locK
o!' ihe cell door that pr- v. !ited its
closing all the wa>. though it could
not have bieii deieeteii hy imc when
closing and Unking thi- door. H*'
hail jerked the door backward an I
forward w ith sui h force that a com-
liin;iti(>n on tbe runners above the
door had been sprung, and he l;a 1
lieeii able to opi. n the door atimit fou."
or tiv.' ini lies, and ii was at this
(losilion whin diseover.il I'V Sheriff
jiiidli y this morning.
t\illiani I’itl, a negro trusty, that
has li.en allowed to work around tllfl
courthouse sinee he was sentenced
to the jail for a ]ii riod of several
months, is tliouL-ht to be instigated in
ill Ciraffar.e’.^ last attempt to inaka
his eseap. . as several bolts that couM
not have been taken off except from
I 111' (Utside had been removed, an I
I’iit being the onl\ (uie that cmild bi^
giiiliv of this ai ' was a.sraiil loi keil
np. <
(5raffari.e haiis from Lenoir county
near Kinston, and is charged wita
th'‘ burglary of several places in ami
around tlriniesland. Since his ar
rest the first time he has cost Pitt,
county in the neighborhood of 0110
huii'lri'd dollars, making repairs 10
the jail,
WiUi all his threats that h>‘ will not;
stay ill jail. Sheriff Dudley stated
this morning that he was going fo put
into force every posible means for
the keeping of the desperado until
the m xt term of criminal court dis
poses of him.