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A 4 Aia k kS-J-- A, " NUMBER 205 The WMtlm fAU WAftMft . NEW BERN, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING QVEMBER 27.? 1912 THIRTY-FIRST YEAR ; ? 14 - Vho DEADS PAPER Oil : CLUB MOVEMENT Ykealdent of Woman's Club. Tells x of Benefits Women Receive From Membership. 4XUBS MEET LONG - FELTWANT ""ETentually Most Women With As- plrations for Usefulness ' ' . - Will be Members ..'.." ; At a meeting of the Current Events ' ' Oub held yesterday afternoon Mrs. , s J i SL Li Dill, Jr., president of the Woman's - , Club.of which the Current Events Club -gas part, read a paper on the club move "!''." - aseat in which the occasion of the estab . x Kditownt nf rlubs. the needs in the lives . f women that they fill the possibilities ' . . -flT.-.J .f.i i;Bj-iiaa.H in an illn minatinff . . ' msiiiii i She said: . J: - . J ' - ' The club movement as it is under ' v -stood today first took tangible shape Mahout 1866. This is a significant date ''jj osaoc it marked the settling down of -ah rnunh-v after the civil War. All f t Krtrings had combined to make ripe the Movement. - The earliest form of the woman's club mam the study club, and no influence i ' Ss-nsore far reaching, potent and help jful, and it has evolved into a useful V .adjunct to our every day civilization. The cnthusiasism which it inspires in 3t members, the general interest and commendation which it every where smnniinrfn. proves conclusively that there existed a great and growing want in the lives of women which was not : aact, which no existing agency could sseet, and that literary clubs were .adapted tosupply. Latent possibilties required development. Women in dif ferent positions in life, holding different ften opposing views on many subjects religious, political, reformatory needed in some way to have the old harsbrokn down and themselves brought i together in Joving'sympathy, and earn est co-operation. The woman's club has drawn to its : casks not only the born leader, the j courageous, progressive woman, but also the timid conservative, distinctly ' domestic woman, with a desire for intellectual development, not for self v Alone, but for home and children. The cljb is the training school for woman's broadening work. More and ' -. saore its advantages will be prized -fV muitil most women with aspirations , , lar,growth and usefulness will become ' r Jub members. It gives to women accustomed to the sound of their tmn voices courage to speak before , am audience, and the ability to express ' their thoughts in logical sequence. In the early days it was considered , anlady-like to speak in public, and the club members were so unaccustomed o 'seeing their names in print that most lj mf the year books were without names. ' . To show the high esteem in which i the women were held in the eighteenth jL ceiitury, a librarian of that day-4y'sel that women be excluded altogether from libraries, because "they are given " ' co reading frivolous romances," and their- presence "distracts from the ''''' xravity, seriousness and learning which ' ' is the library's greatest glory." , Frequently we hear sarcastic refer s .' - ces A ) the dangers from neglect of hone and farriily by club women. ' The :.' v -same objection might be raised against the church Scm women neglect their ' , "homes in 4 mistaken zeal that destroys ( . 'their" influence for good and the ia ; fluence of the cau?e which they espouse. ' It is like the story -of the little girl ho visited .1k r uncle's . chair factory wondered what he would ever t; Program at. wit athens We are going to giveyott one more Opportunity today to hearJWncle Jlsh' the, celetrated rube .comedian, aad trfcklfiddlefV.ofMttKWlhe "Josef, novelty eihging .aWbrettcJeV)- ; j3e who have heard-them re delighted,' Pictures' are as tcUpwsis '- . I "Theodore Roosevelt1- This picti-re aoves you a good idea of the "Bt.ll ' Moo3cs'' habits and customs, i-l v-i f vA Western Coquette" very a a using Western love story, , "A Moonshiner's- Heart'jOntf of Esataoy's Western Cowboy dramas, featuring Mr. G. M. Anderson. Every tody knows Anderson.: We want to remind you of Our" big offering Thanks jiving when we will show "The. Siege f rctersburg" the greatest war pic tare ever made containing 2000 feet a f.Ira, and taken on the very spot w j-re the fighting was done. 1 TjUtnee every day at 3:45. Show t r.'j.ht starts at 7:30.' do with the v hundreds of dozens of chairs. '"Don't you fret rMaria,",. he said" settin' down ain't ever going out of fashion." And home1 making, and the cars of children will never go out of fashion in clubdom. ; ;. ; . , A large proportion of the membership of the Woman's Club are noi as public spirited as they should be. but they compare favorably with men in that respect. The average man does : not cheerfully give up his holiday to serve on a jury, and the average house-wife is more anxious to secure a good ser vant than to have the Panama Canal finished. But every member counts for numbers, and their affirmative influence may be secured. Never before in the history of woman kind have women cared so much for other women. Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker put it conversely when she said: "To the con servative woman, federation brings the gradual breadth of mind; to the radical woman it bring8 knowledge of the in dividual point of view, the best lesson ever learned; to the lonely woman it brings friends and fellowship; to the unhappy woman, useful . work and for getfulness of .self; to the rich woman it has brought knowlegde of tthe obli gations entailed by her .possessions; to the poor it has brought uplift in multi tudes of cases." j The true club woman is learning that self-living is narrowing, degrading and far beneath the ideal life. : As soon as a club exists for itself alone, and for a good time only, it is on the down grade. In our youth we were told to "be good"; now we. urge "be good for something." Being a club woman means more than responding to the roll call. It means active participation in matters of vital interest and importance. What ever helps the individual benefits the homeland whatever benefits the home, must aid in the great betterment of all mankind. W all know what study clubs have done for New Bern. For a number of years the Woman's Club tried to have a literary department. The meetings were poorly attended .with very little interest shown. Three years ago the Canterbury Club was started. It be came so popular that it was soon full. The next year the Current Events Club was organized to meet the growing dcWnd, and this year the Shakespeare department was launched for the same reason. There, are almost enough names on the waiting list of the three sections of the literary department to form a foulth but my time U too much taken up to start anything new at this late day. That will be a good work for my suc cessors, today there are in inpw Bern seventy-two women in the pursuit of literary study, and their influence is already felt inthe community. We can never do without the ' literary clubs if they will remember in all their work, to quote Mrs. Decker again, "Dante is dead," This meant so clearly in her mind the necessity of linking culture and training with human needs. The regular meeting of the Current Events Club was held yesterday at the homev-of Mrs. Ernest Wood, No. J 18 Eden street. The topic, for discussion was "What study Uluos Are worth to North Larohna. bach member made a short tatk or read, paper on this subject and Mrs. Dill read the paper abijye presented. ..' . . RETAILING CHARGED Oscar Croom, Colored Shoemaker, . ,, Tn tha. Toil.' V ' Late yest erday afternoon Policemen Bryan and .McDaniel .'placed . Oscar Croom, colored,- under- arrts on a warrant ' charging him, with retailing spirituous liquors,' Tbe prisoner was carried to the City Hall and. arraigned beforo - Mayor McCarthy.!; ;,The pre-1 lniinary hearing ot .-. the ' .caseTvai set fwtody..at.t t mdant rWiUufei1' -to ' give bond in deferidanttreqiiirj&d ..to give bond in the sum ol . one hundred dollars .for his' 1 appearance, He 'secured V bail',' .in this amount and was released. : - :' The captrue .cf ; the; ' alleged whiskey dealer was ''the -result of several ..days' detective work cm the part of the officers Fori some .time' they have suspected that Croom; Was engaged in the sale of whiskey and set about to catch him in the act. ; Yesterday afternoon they saw that there was undue excitement around Croom's-shoe - shop on Broad street and decided that the time for action had arrived.- '. Walking into the shop they placed Croom under arrest and made a search for the whiskey. They were rewarded by finding several bottles of the liquor and this was taken alorsr as eviJence. MORTALITY IN: SENATE IS HIGH , No Fewer Than Thirty-Four Mem bers Have Died in the Last Twelve Years. The List Includes .Only Those Who Succumbed While In Harness, Washington, Nov. 26. The death rate among members of the United States Senate during the last 12 years i i ir..i k t n: has been little short of appalling. The passing away of Senator Rayner runs the death list up to 34 inHhat period, which shows that more that one-third of the total membership of the uppCr branch of Congress has passed away. These figures do not include the members wh died after retiring from the Senate, but only the men who succumbed while in harness. The pre sent membership of the Senate is 96. The death roll includes some of the strongest characters and most prominent statesmen of the present generation. Senator Rayner's death is the fifth, counting Vice-President Sherman, a- mong the members of the upper cham ber in the last eight months and during the present session of Congress. Sena tor Robert L, Taylor of Tennessee, died , last spring after a term Nof four years; Senator George S. Nixon, of Nevada, who was elected in 1905, was stricken down last summer, and only a month ago Senator William B. H burn, of Idaho, who had served since 1903, passed away after a few months of illness. The fatality among Maryland mem bers has also been striking. Senator Rayner is the third Marylander to die in harness during the last five years. Senator Arhtur Pue Gorman and Sena tor William Pinckney White, both of whom had served in the upper cham ber with him, yielded to the fearful strain and arduous labors which are now a part of the life of a Senator. In the last dozen years such power ful figures as Marcus A .Hanna, of Ohio; John W. Daniel, of Virginia; Redfield Proctor, of Vermonti Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia; William P. Frye, of Maine; John T. Morgan and Edmund W. Pcttus, of Alabama; George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts; CushmanK. Davis, of Minnesota, Matthew Stanley Quay, of Pennsyl vania, and J. P. Dolliver, of Iowa, have disappear. WANTS FOOTBALL GAME. At a meeting Monday night the New Bern football team decided to issue a challenge to every team in this section of the State in the amateur class and endeavor to. get one of them to come to New Bern for a game at .some time during the next week or two. Lyle Smith, captain of the local aggregation, stated yesterday' that in all probablity the game would be secured, ; 11 IMPROVING HOME. Charles L.- Ives is having a number of improvements made at - his residence on Johnson street.1 The. building is being enlarged and remodeled and when completed will" be one of the most attrac tive homes in the locality. . . 1 lit; FAIR GROUNDS 1 THANKSGIVING f m i 3:C0 Trot and Pace If! Free for all Trot and Pace . tit - J;5 Running Race, Free for all . - Motorcycle7 Race. s 1 ! BR GK SCARCE CHIT S TO 0 Hard to Get Either Variety of Buy ing Material and Prices Y Are Very High. BRICK ARE A DOLLAR HIGHER Difficulty of Getting Labor One of The Reasons of I The Advance. Is I One of the greatest problems that I i i . . i the local contractors and builders are facing just at this time is the scarcity and high prices of brick and cement This condition is accounted for by several causes, one of which is the scarcity of freight cars in which to transport the brick from the yards and the cement from the roanufactur ing plants. In November ,1910 , brick could be purchased at "about six dollars per thousand. A few months ago this price was increased fifty cents a thous and and recently another fifty cents has been added. They are now selling at the yards for seven dollars per thous and. There are several brick yards within a radius of twenty-five miles of New Bern and the greater majority of the brick used here are secured, at one or the other of these. The freight I rate is about eighty cents per thousand, making the cost delivered in New Bern about eight dollars per thousand- Then, too, the brick manufacturers say that they are handicapped in secur ing sufficient labor and this tends to make an increase in the price-of their product The price of cement has also increas ed, though, not so much in proportion as. brick and it is hard to secure prompt shipments of large quantities. This condition prevails not alone in New Bern but in a large number of towns in North Carolina. Particularly in the Western part of the State is it causing mcuh trouble. The demand for both these varieties of building material has beerr very large during the past few months and this has doubtless had something to do with the present condition. HOME MISSIONS NEEDED. The frequent appearance of news items bearing on white slavery shows how depraved a good-sized element in this country is. Home missions, which are to have a week's celebration in New Bern beginning next Sunday and which were emphasized by a week's celebra tion in other parts of the country two weeks ago are surely combating a great evil. There are few heathen countries which can produce a ' more hideous evils than exist right here in America? White slavery is a mere symptom of a badly diseased condition of public morals. LIGHTS IN SERVICE. A letter received yesterday by the Journal from Congressman J no. M Faison states that the lights on Core Sound to " Harbor Inlet were put in service on November 25 and the lights on the Inland Waterway Canal from Beaufort ,to Neuse river- will be put in service on ' December ' 7. The Trent river lights and buoys will follow at an early date'. ,:- . ' . "I 11 1 1 9 BIG QAIN FOR PROHIBITION An Analysis of the Result in West Virginia on Nov. 5. (Communicated) West Virginia, on Nov. 5th, showed herself the banuer State of the South by giving the tremendous majority of 84,700 for the amendment to the State constitution prohibiting the manufact ure and sale of intoxicants within the State. The liquor forces admit spend ing a million and a hulf dollars lo de feat it, and it in probable that they spent far more than that, while the people of the State had less than $40,000 for their fight. The following facts will explain the big majority in the face of the vast amount of money spent to continue thfopen saloons; 40 of the 55 counties are under local prohibition, and the contrast between these 40 dry counties and the 15 wet ones was loo marked to escape notice.. Three-fourths of the saloons of the State are owned by brewers from States west of- West Virginia, only one fourth being owned by West Virginians. The wettest county has more men in the State penitentiary yian the whole state of Maine (under prohibition for over 50 years) has in her State prison, and more men in her jail than pro hibition Kanasa has in her 105 county jails; while -moral conditions in these wet. sections are simply rotten. Possiblji . if the evil effects of the saloons could have been entirely loca lized, the people of the other counties might not have been so strenuous about getting State wide prohibition, but the whole State was taxed to pay the cost of the traffic in these wet counties, and the intelligent people of the State wisely decided to wipe the traffic out of the entire State, so far as State laws can do so. The voters showed further wisdom by electing a governor and a legisla ture in hearty accord with the move ment. It is reported that the entire dele gation to Congress will line up behind the Hobson amendment to the IJ. S. constitution now pending in Congress, which provides that the manufacture, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U. S. shall be pro hibited. GIVE SHOW FOR FUND Home Talent Performance To Help Raise Money For Monument. Wishing to do their part in the erec tion of the memorial to the De Graffen ried Colony, a number uf young peo ple are planning to put on a home talent minstrel show at the Masonic Theatre some time in the near future. Preparations for the event arc now being made and rehearsals arc being held . several times a week. Mrs. George Green has charge of these and will assist in all the work prcapratory to the1 performance which will be held at an early date. The monument fund was increased yesterday by several contributions. The movement has attracted much attention all over the State and a num ber of inquiries have been received re lative to it and a few donations have been made by persons living out of the city. There will be no abatement in the campaign until the required amount is secured. ARTICLES SOLICITED Committee Seeks Information to - Be Used In Magazine. i The undersigned committee was ap pointed at the last meeting of the Daugh ters of the Confederacy to gather side lights, personal, experiences, unrecorded stories and .anything that will throw light on New Bern, and surrounding country from 61-67, also adventures and achievements of New Bern men and women 'during .the .Civil. War., These articles are to be printed in the January number of Carolina and the Sou then) Cross, a publication, endorsed by the Uv D. C.and made the official, orgari of the" Gnildren Jof t th Confederacy; Letters or Other documents sent to any one of the committee will be pre served with -care and returned in good cndittoii.;)J;;-i-- Mr O.-'; H. Guion. :.- v .3-v.C;i Mrs. George 'Henderson, Sr., .! . v : r -.Mrs.., John. Dan.;;4k.'t?0r4v -Mrs. T. G Hyman,;.p: Miss Margaret Bryan,' l?c Miss Mabel Chadwkk,';W''-;' Miss Mary L.Tfendren. ':f-A ; . INSANE PROBABLY, ra Chief of Police W. H. Smith of Vance- boro arrived in the city yesterday iriSto James Blango, a colored man of that town whp is supposed to be mentally deranged. , Blango was placed in , the county jail for safe keeping until an examination of his mental condition can be made. ", 'y ' . , ' TO GET Lu Elks Vote to Extend Club Privileges to Seaboard Medical Society. OTHER ENTERTAINMENT ALSO Chairman Bradham of County Board of Hralth Will Give Re ception'at His Home. At a meeting last night of the Elks Club the members unanimously voted to extend to the members of the Sea board medical Society the privileges of the Club when their annual meeting is held here next month. Dr. N. M. Gibbs of this city is presi dent of this society and he states that there will be about two hundred visitors present to attend the meeting. The association is composed of some of the most prominent physicinas in North Carolina and Virginia and their visit to New Bern is expected to prove a matter of great interest and importance. The court houe will be utilized for the business meetings and each afternoon Illustrated lectures to which the public will be admitted will be given in Griffin auditorium. C D. Bradham, Chairman of the County Board of Health, will tender the association a reception at his home on Wednesday evening. The Chamber of Commerce will give a luncheon on the following evening and the Craven county Medical Society will also enter tain during their visit. Dr. Gibbs is now engaged in arrang ing the official program, which will In published as soon as it is completed. CONFERENCE OPENS TODAY. The seventy-sixth seession of the North Carolina Conference of the E. Church, South, will convene todav at Faycttevillc with Hishop Colling Denny, D. D. l.L. I)., of Richmond, Va., presiding. The number of lay mem-' bers in the conference is 80,109 and the clerical members 191. This will be the fifth time the conference has met ing Fayettevillc, the hist time being in 1901, when Bishop Hargrove pre sided. WORK ON BANK BUILDING. A force of carpenters will today be gin to arrange the interior of the Small wood building, corner of Pollock and Craven streets, preparatory to" its being occupied temporarily by the Citizens' Savings and Trust Company. The sew company will open their doors for ousiness about December 15 and will occupy the Small wood building until their new home on Middle street ha been constructed. MR. LAPSLEY TO PREACH. There will be Thanksgiving service at the Presbyterian church tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. The sermon will be preached by Rev. Tames Lftos- ley, father of Samuel Lapsley, one of the local cotton buyers. Rev. Mr. Lapsley is now of Harrisbure. this State, but formerly of Anniston, Ala. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend the service. ATTEMPT TO BURN CHURCH, Early last Sunday morning some un known person attempted to burn the Christian Science church which was recently erected at Kinston at a cost of about six thousand dollars. Av colored man passing by the building saw the glare of the fire and gave the alarm. One of the 'members- living , nearbv hurried' to the scene' and found ' a towel saturated' wit h.f kerosene had been placed rh the readers'- room and w,as" buring rapidly,,- v ' t JURY LOCKED UP. Lata, yesterday, afternoon the argu ment in the case of Arnold vs the. Elks Construction Company, et at was con cluded and the case was placed in the -hands of the jury, '" After being out for -some time they; announced that they-?V were unable to come ttf an agreement,;! , and were locked up for1 the night, " ' :?' i55x':i;v--'' NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. mm DOC TORS MM onIE ; v People's Banfc Thapksgiving, National Bank--First a mong ' t'he f'pi s, batiks ; of the city, m proportion. I -of Jlf J' surplus and undivided profits, to capital -,;.; . StOck. v - ' ; .- '. " . v William ; TAHill Letter to Santa S ' Claus. ' -Z' - -'-Vtitt Mrs. . B.t Allen Special bargains. -.V j ,1; S. Coplon & SonYour clothes .kre'.J'i ready for Thanksgiving. ''.:'-. '-V-vfvl'H;" : New Bern Banking and Trust :'Co.r: . Self-confidence.', '.'".' ' V , - jf ...
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