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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
PREDICT GOOD PRICES
FOR IRISH POTATOES
New York and Philadelphia Confident
Growers Will Get Good
Returns

Prospects for lively market and
good prices for early North Carolina
Irish potatoes is the opinion of lead
ing wholesale produce dealers on the
Philadelphia and New York markets.
The editor of this paper visited both
markets last week. The potato mar
ket is always a guess and usually one
man predicts one thing and the next
man predicts something else. One will
be optimistic and the other will be
as pessimistic as a sick clown. But
there is a wholesome, firm and general
opinion on the big eastern markets
this spring that North Carolina spuds
are going to sell high.
Heavy rains in Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina have played havoc with
what already looked like a short crop.
There has been big reduction in acre
age all along the line and potatoes
everywhere south seem to be late. The
first Florida potatoes reached the
Philadelphia market last week. They
were sorry little things, about the size
of walnuts and they sold for $12 a
barrel.
Commission men everywhere express
delight with the Saunders bill provid-
ing for standard packages, state brands
and standard grades for North Caro-
lima produce. They believe it will have
a wholesome effect on the market and
go a long way toward improving the
demand for North Carolina produce.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
NEED REFRIGERATOR
CAR FOR MAY PEAS
Eastern Markets Demand Refrigera-
tor Car Service to Get Most
Money For Growers

Eastern North Carolina truckers who
grow early peas for the Philadelphia
and New York market will never make
the most of their product until they
demand and use refrigerator cars in
shipping their peas to market. This
statement comes from several eastern
wholesale produce dealers interviewed
by the editor of this newspaper this
week
The refrigerator car is no longer
novelty and is by no means the luxury
some assume it to be. Refrigerator
cars are available for truckers any
where who have car load lots to ship.
Northeastern North Carolina shippers
ship hundreds of cars Of early peas in
May. To handle this immense crop a
special service without refrigeration is
not desireable in handling the delicate
peas. Down in Florida they even use
refrigerator cars for shipping their
cabbages to market and cabbages are
by no means as perishable as peas.
North Carolina truckers should ask
Tor d refrigerator car service this sea-
son, The only way to get it is to ask
for it,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
400. employees
T0BELAID OFF
Dare Lumber Co. to Shut
Down for 80 or so Days
Waiting on Markets

Like a bolt out of the blue comes
the announcement this week that the
Dare Lumber Co. will on May 1 sus-
pend operations for period of 80 or
60 days. throwing about 400 persons
out of employment for that time The
company employs about 200 workers
in its mills at Elizabeth City and about
as many more in it's logging woods in
Dare county
George F. Montgomery, president of
the Dare Lumber Co. tells this news
paper that the shut down will be for
80 or 60 days only and is made neces-
sary because the mill is running at a
loss, unable at the present time to
find market for it's product at price
commensurate with the cost of pro-
duction.
Mr.. Montgomery points out that in
the next so days the Dare Lumber Co.
expects to have it's pulp-wood plant
at Buffalo City in operation and that
with the opening of this important in
dustry the logging costs of the COM
pany will be reduced SIS per 1000 feet
the same logging force and equipment
being used for both the pulp mill at
beth City.
In meantime several hundred labor
ers will be out of employment for a
season and they have cause to wonder
whether present wages will be MAIN
tained when they are invited back to
work? So many southern saw mills
have closed down within the past few
months and the tendency is, when
labor gets hungry for employment
again, to resume operations under a
lower wage scale.
Mr.. Montgomery has given out the
following statement Of the Company's
POSITION
1.-The lumber people have been up
against a brick wall for the past sew
eral months, and the first of this month
marked the passing Of very unsatis
! factory and discouraging conditions in
the lumber trade. Prices are weak
and the mill man is barely breaking
even today, therefore a continuance
of our operations is to lose money on
every foot of lumber that we manufac
ture
Owing to these conditions, we find
it necessary for US to cease operations
for 80 to so days until conditions
change, during which period we will
devote our entire attention and ener-
gies to the completion of a large pulp
wood plant that we are constructing
in Buffalo City, Dare County, and it
is our intention to resume operations
in not less than thirty days or more
than sixty days from May 1st, simul-
taneously with the starting up of our
Pulp Wood Mill
"The least informed pesrons as to the
lumber business can appreciate that to
manufacture lumber at the present
time, using up valuable stumpage,
which we can only sell at a loss, is
! nothing less than depicting your capi-
| tai STOCK so to speak"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
BIG VICTORY PARADE
HERE EASTER MONDAY
Returned Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Will March Here For
First Time

The Victory Loan parade to be held
in Elizabeth City on Easter Monday
promises to be the most elaborate
parade ever given here. To create
more interest in it, a beautiful silver
cup is to be given to the best decora-
ted car in the parade and it is safe
to say that everyone will decorate their
car on this day for this would only be
a small way to show tnat your patriot
ism to your country is just as great
now that victory has been won, as it
was when our boys were fighting back
the Germans with every breath in their
body.
This parade, which will be under
the supervision of Frank Kramer, will
have in it the boys of the army who
have returned home, the boys of the
navy, as well as the sailors and mar
ines stationed at the naval hospital.
All the men who have seen service
are urged to send in. their name to
Mr. Kramer and it is the wish of the
parade committee that those ex-service
men living in this section will be in
town on the morning of April 21st and
take a part in this great Victory Cele-
bration.
While no official action has been
taken, it is expected the Chamber of
Commerce will request the various
merchants to close their stores dur
ing the hour of the parade. Every
effort is being made to have the CO.
operation of the entire city in this
spectacle and large crowd Of visf-
tors are expected here on that day.
All in all, Easter Monday promises to
be very gala day for Elizabeth City
and the Victory Loan.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY
FOR ELIZABETH CITY
Organized Here This Week-The Kind
Of Army That Makes the World
Safe for Democracy

Frank M. Harper of the Bureau of
Education at Washington, D. c., who
was Superintendent of Schools at
Raleigh for eleven years. is in the city
for the purpose Of organizing in the
public schools a company of the United
States School Garden Army. United
States School Commissioner Claxton
has for a number of years advocated
the teaching of gardening in the public
schools for it's educational value. The
European war has emphasized also the
economic value of theegarden.
The plan lays stress on home garden
ing under teacher supervision, the gar
den to be kept at work twelve months
in the year. The mild climate of East
ern North Carolina is most favorable
to the winter garden, since as many
as nineteen vegetables can be grown
in the open here during the winter
months.
Miss H. M. Harvey, teacher in the
city schools, will be in charge of the
work, provision having been made by
the School Trustees Tuesday after
noon by which Miss Harvey will re-
ceive the cooperation of the Bureau
eff Education at Washington.
All children from nine to eighteen
are eligible and will receive an at
tractive bronze badge and a service
flag from the government as soon as
the garden is ready for planting. Last
year 100000 boys and girls were en-
rolled, and raised $15,OOO,OOO worth of
food. This year an effort is being made
to enroll 100000.
Mr. Hoover has pledged to Europe
this year 2O,OOO,O0O tons Of food, and
the government is appealing to the
school children of America to help
through the home garden, increase the
nations food supply.
Aside from it's economic value, gar
dening has a high educational value
Teach the boys and girls to do things
as we'll as to think things" says Sec
retary Franklin K. Lane. Gardening
is nature study of a high order and
tends to develop the initiative ir
children. Besides, the growing OF
plants and flowers has moral and
spiritual value. The child that cult
Yates a garden for a year, gains first
hand knowledge, and becomes more OF
less familiar with the elements of those
sciences that he will study later.
To add interest to the work it is
suggested that a garden fair be held
during the summer. and that prizes
| be offered for meritorious work in the
garden. Certain public spirited ladies
will be requested to serve on commit
tees to aid in this exhibit and also to
help in marketing vegetables raised
by the children in excess of family
needs.
At the High School, the Domestic
Science equipment can be utilized dur
ing the summer in canning surplus
vegetables raised at home.
School credit for gardening at home
is recommended and the Bureau OF
! Education has worked out a plan by
which the teacher can grade the work
of the young gardener monthly.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11

his spirit is greater than he that taketh
city.
Get a job and freeze to it like a
mud turtle. Don't turn it loose till
it thunders, and don't turn loose then.
Respect and honor virtue wherever
you see it, especially in your own
womankind. The standard of civili-
zation of any race is determined by
the way it treats it women folks. You
want to build up a sentiment such that
the Negro who degrades the woman
he has sworn to honor and protect can
not enter the door of the home of a
decent Negro in your town.
'Live in a spirit of neighborliness
with your white friends and keep on
good terms with them. Your worst
enemy in this world, though he him
self may not know it, is the man who
would cause you to have hard feelings
against the white people among whom
you live. Such a man is your worst
enemy and mine. You believe in me
and I'll believe in you. Let's not live
in an atmosphere of suspicion and dis
trust
Governor Beckett was the guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs A. B. Houtz while in the
city. He went from Elizabeth City
Tuesday to attend a conference of the
executive committee of the League to
Enforce Peace. at the City Club in
New York City.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
CHAMP CLARK SPEAKS
in ELIZABETH CITY
Proved Rather Disappointing to a
Rather Disappointing
Audience

Hon. Champ Clark, for years
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives and who says he was "lied out of
the presidency of the United States in
1912, disappointed disappointing
audience in Elizabeth City Wednesday
night.
Speaker Clark did not begin to meas
ure up to the big men who have been
Elizabeth City's guests from time to
time, nor was the audience <of the size
The number of empty seats in the
house must have seemed a cold recep-
ton to this eminent politician who is
something of a cold proposition him
self. But he got even with the empty
seats; his lecture was as empty of
ideas as the seats were empty of
hearers.
Speaker Clark said he didn't think
we would have another big war any
time soon because the big war making
nations couldn't stand another such
financial strain. He believed the peace
terms now being worked out at Paris
will be all right when they are
worked out. Anything President Will
son does will be all right anyway, be-
cause the President has more informa-
ton than the rest of us and knows
better what to do. He did not add
mitted to get more information than
DR.. Wilson wants us to have.
Speaker Clark did not touch the jap
anese question, the Mexican problem
or the issues between Capital and
Labor. Such things didn't bother him
and he never. once intimated that such
a thing as a Bolshevik is abroad in
the land. He said that Russia would
eventually work out a workable re-
publican form of government, but that
she couldn't be expected to do it in
year. He recalled the century of re-
vo1ution and counter revolution in
France before the present stable re-
public was established and he remind
ed his audience that the United States
were a good many years in getting to-
gether after they had declared their
independence of Great Britain.
Speaker Clark believes that the mer-
chant marine we built up in this war
should be used in pushing our foreign
trade and that we should fly the flag
of our merchant marine in every port
of the world, pushing our goods into
these same ports. He says that South
America is our best foreign trade pros
pect and that to cement our relations
with South Americans we should get
busy at once. He thought Spanish, the
language Of South America, should be
taught in our public schools.
Speaker Clark said America should
put water on it's arid lands and take
water off it's overf1owed lands and pro-
vide farms for it's returning soldiers.
He seemed to think that all the sold
iers were ready to be farmers and he
seemed to be equally sure that the
unemployment problem in this coun-
try would soon be such that a soldier
would take anything that looked like
a chance to make living, tho he didn't
say that in so many words.
Speaker Clark spoke here under the
auspices of Hon. G. r. Pugh who likes
to personally bring important men to
Elizabeth City and, incidentally, bring
home a little bacon" along with them.
Speaker Clark's real name is James
Beauchamp Clark.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
AYDLETT BOOM FOR
GOVERNOR LAUNCHED
Negro Audience Told he Will Be
States Chief Executive
Ere Long

The Aydlett gubernatorial boom
which has been trying to boom between
booms of Mr.. Aydlett for the presi-
dency of the Baptist State convention,
finally got a launching in Elizabeth
City Monday night. Rev. Geo. L. White,
nastor of Mt, Lebanon A. M. E. Zion
Church gave it a voice at the Negro
Tercentenial celebration at his church
Monday evening. Mr.. Aydlett was to
introduce Governor Beckett to the au-
dience of 1900 Negroes, Rev. White
introduced Mr.. Aydlett and took ad-
vantage of the Introduction to proclaim
that the man about to introduce a gov
ernor would be one of the next govern
ors of the Old North State. There was
lively applause, but it didn't last long
Mr.. Aydlett sat in the pulpit and smiI-
ed his best smile. He seemed thoroly
pleased True, the colored folk have
MT so many votes; but then a boom
has got to be launched somehow and
even a. tiny seed sown in fertile soil
may take root and acquire a growth
of considerable dimensions.
1t is no secret that Mr.. Aydlett wants
to be governor. He will also be a
candidate for Congress if he sees an
opening. His desires have been whis-
pered around the state for a long time
and an effort was made to start a boom
for him in Raleigh a. few months ago,
at the time he gave a canvas back duck
dinner to the judges of the Supreme
Court and about 80 other jurists of
state wide influence. In meantime Mr..
Aydlett is still hoping to be elected
President of the Baptist State Con-
ventiOn ANYHOW
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
ELIZABETH CITY NOW
HAS A CURFEW LAW
But Kids Who Work After $3.50 p. M.
Will Not be Bothered-Savases
Couldn't Beat That

The Board of Aldermen of Elizabeth
CItE have adopted Curfew Law, ef-
iectlEe since Tuesday night of this
week The Curfew is rung at $3.50
oclock every night and at that time
d" children under Is years of age must
'e OH the streets, unless accompanied
" parents, guardians or other grown
ups with whom the child lives. The
20" makes benevolent exception in the
Sose OF children under Is years old who
"ofk after $50 at night. Children who
''ork can stay out. This would seem
~ indicate that the Aldermen had no
thought of protecting the child by a
0'le" law, but simply desired a law
=" set rid Of children on the streets.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
WHO WILL SUCCEED GIBBS
AS FISH COMMISSIONER? +?

The sudden death of Henry L. Gibbs,
State Fish Commissioner, creates a
vacancy in that office and there is
much speculation as to who will be
his successor. The Office pays salary
of $1,800 year and expenses and the
commissioner is appointed by the Fish
cries Commission Board, of which E.
Chambers Smith, of Raleigh, is chair
man. Other members of the Board are
A. V. Cobb, Windsor, N. c.; S. P. Han
cock, Beaufort, N. c.; E. H. Freeman,
Wilmington, N. c., and T. F. Winslow,
Hertford, N. c. Former commissioner
J. H. Leroy, of this city, is looked up
on as the logical successor of Mr..
Gibbs.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
NO PRIMARY ELECTION
HERE THIS SPRING
Free For All Race Gives The Politi-
clans a Chance to Make
Deals

There will be no primary election
of candidates for municipal officers
this spring. This fact has been deter
municipal election to be- held Tuesday,
May 13 will be a genuine free for all.
The voters will be confused by multi
plicity of candidates with conflicting
claims and the machine politicians ex-
pect to slip in their tried and true
servitors in the midst of the confusion.
Candidates are coming out thick and
fast.
The primary was abandoned because
the Mack Sawyer machine could not
get candidates out in time for a pri-
mary The old crowd feels that it is
beaten and has a hard time getting
out candidates. By eliminating the
primary they have more time to work
up ticket and to make deals with in
dependent candidates who can be per-
suaded that they need the Mack Saw
yer support.
Following are the polling places,
registrars and pollholders for the COM
ing city election:
First Ward-Godfrey's Store, H. G.
Godfrey, M. w. Berry, P. S. Shipp.
Second Ward-Williams Store, Charlie
Williams, L. B. Thornton, J. G. Num-
den.
Third Ward-Whitehurs Store, H. F.
Whitehurst, G. G. Fearing, J. H
Burgess.
Fourth ward-City Market, Kenyon
Bailey, D. W. Harris, Jr., w. G. Pool
The registration books open Satur-
day, April 26th at a. M, and close
Saturday, May 3rd at p. m. Every
body must register. Some are under
the impression that previous registra-
ton for a county primary makes them
eligible to vote in the coming election
but this is not true. The safe way is
to register without fail between April
26th and May 3rd.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
TO HOLD SPEECHFEST
AT CAMDEN COURTHOUSE

]. w. Nyegaard, county farm agent
of Camden county, is stirring up inter-
est in his new field. He has arranged
a big meeting to be held at Camden
court house Saturday at $3.50 P. M.
There will be short, snappy speeches
by Hon. D. W. Ti1litt, Hon. w. l.. Hat
stead, Miss Marcie Albertson, Grover
w. Falls, P. S. Vann, John Ferebee and
Mr.. Nyegaard. Mr.. Nyegaard's subject
will be ''How I Can Help the Farmers
Of Camden County, Mr.. Tillitt will
act as chairman of the meeting. The
public is invited.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
MAKING HEADWAY WITH
FIRST PULP WOOD PLANT
F |. Dupont de Nernours Co. Will Use North Caro-
lima Scrub Pine In Paper Making At Hope
well Va. Plant

The pulp-wood plant of the
nare Lumber Co., now in course
If construction at Buffalo City,
Dare County, will be completed
and ready for operation about
lime 1. 1919, according to Presi-
dent George F. Montgomery of
thp Dare Lumber Co., who was
in Elizabeth City this week.
The pulp wood plant at Buffalo
citv 40 miles south of Elizabeth City
is the first plant of its kind to have
hoon started in eastern North Carolina
and marks the beginning of the utili-
zation of millions of acres of eastern
North Carolina loblolly and scrub pine
IN the manufacture of paper.
The Dare Lumber Company, has al
.oady contracted for it's full output
of n1lD-wood to the E. I. Dupont De-
Nemours Powder Co. The Dupont
oomnanv is converting it's big exlosive
n1ant at Hopewe1l, Va, into a paper
mill and will be in position to use all
rho nu1p-wood eastern North Carolina
can supply.
The capacity of the plant at Buffalo
rtv will be 400 cords of pulp-wood
NOR diem. The plant will be operated
br a big 900 H. P. turbo generator.
both CITY last week and sent to But
This generator was unloaded at Eliza
fa1o CITY on one of the Dare Lumber
Co. barges. 1t will not only furnish
mower for the pulp-wood mill, but will
furnish electric light and power for
the village of Buffalo City.
The Dare Lumber Co. owns 165, 500
acrps of timber land, a tract of more
than 25O square miles. in Dare county
between the Alligator river, Pamlico
and Croatan sounds. From this i'm
rnanse tract the Dare Lumber Co. gets
IFS logs for it's big saw mill in Eliza
beth City. It's logging operations have
hitherto been more or less unsatisfac-
tory because so much of their timber
in Dare county is unsuited to the
manufacture of lumber and timber.
There has been more Or less waste
on this account. The pulp-wood plant
will utilize all Of this waste and Mr..
Montgomery makes the statement that
it viii curtail the. cost of logging for
the Dare Lumber Co. approximately
s. per thousand feet of manufactured
lumber. That saving will represent a
net profit of SIS per 1000 to the com
pany. Its saw mill capacity is 100000
day.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
THE MIRROR TELLS YOU

whether your glasses are mech
anically fitted; whether the
lenses are of the correct size;
whether your eyes are in the
center of both lenses Or whether
your eye lashes just miss them;
whether the nose or ear pieces,
or bows, are comfortable. If
your mirror tells you that your
glasses are not just right, better
have HATHAWAY look them
over. 1t not only takes a skill
ed OptOmetrist to fit the eyes, it
takes an expert mechanic to fit
and adjust the glasses to your
face. HATHAWAY service COM
bines perfected Optometry with
expert mechanics.
DIR. ]. D. HATHAWAY
Optometrist
Phone e99 Bradford Bldg.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
NEGRO ELkS AT MT. LEBANON

Of f"oiden Leaf Lodge No. 142, I. B. o. E.
Na,.ne me World, the most progressive
its sto fraternity in the city, will hold
i;I .1tnhual Thanksgiving and Memoir
Zior services at Mt. Lebanon A M. E.
n .. ~ Church, Sunday, April 13, 1919
ot W. Brown, Grand Travelling Deputy
Snsd;es World will deliver the address.
Di.,,l4iHy prepared music will be fur
cbG,,'u by the Elks' quartette and
r T Us under the direction of James
lewis. The public is invited.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11
Short and to the Point,

If you cannot digest fruit, do not
blame the fruit, blame your stomach.
If YOU cannot digest what I write, do
not blame the writing, blame your
brain. Los Angeles Times.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-04-11

FOR SALE:-I have for sale 500 acres
of we'll timbered land in Perquimans
county. VIII show to any interested
For bargain see, P. H. SMALL,
Hertford, N. c.. cA11-2t.