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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-26
From Our Farm
Demonstration Agent
IF. G. Tsrbox. Jr.)

During the spring Halifa,
county did some good work il
organizing the County Cottol
Association. and was congratula
ted by the officers of the Stat,
Association. There were liberia
contributions made by some Of
the business men, all of these
however, being from the eastern
part of the county. Three or four
contributed a hundred dollars
each. Ever since the association
started its existence in our county
this section of the county has
taken an active interest, evidence
of which can always be seen by
the number of active workers at
all meetings. the western part of
the county has not shown such an
interest, and it is hoped that
when the next meeting is called
there will be a large delegation
from all parts of the county. At
the meeting on last Thursday,
September, 18th, there were only
forty present. This does not show
well for our county by any means.
Unless we wake up and attend
these meetings, Halifax County
will soon be far behind in the
association. Another meeting
will be called now before long,
and a large attendance is expect
ed. Certainly there are business
matters which can be dropped for
a day in orderto attend this meet.
ing. The Manufacturers are
taking US seriously, as is shown
by editorials appearing in various
papers and magazines. Certainly
we cannot afford to fall down in
this movement to organize. If we
do we shall always be laughed at
by those who are against this
to obtain fair prices
for our cotton.
Every farmer and business
man should be readingandstudy-
ing the plans and doings of the
Cotton Association and become
familiar with them. To be effec-
tive, theassociation must receive
the hearty support of every far
mer and business man. A cam
paign will be started next month
to enroll members in the Ameri-
can Cotton Association, and Hall
fax County should over enroll
her quota. A million members
from North Carolina should be
easy. South Carolina has about
700, 900 now, and surely we can
go them one better. A house to
house canvass will be made, and
the township chairmen will be
to wage a vigorous cam
paign for members. Watch the
papers and keep posted on every
thing pertaining to the Cotton
Association. Unless we back this
association, and give it our sup
port, not only by agreeing that it
is a good thing, but by actually
getting out and working. We
must do more than talk, an active
canvass of the county for men,
bers will be necessary. If you are
for it you will help us in the can
vass and in the meetings, if you
don't lend US your help, then you
are against us.
Cotton picked now while the
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
iSiT TO BE HARDEN?

IF MAMMALIAN HARDEN or any
1 man like him is appointed as the Ger
man ambassador to the United States we
may accept the revolution as an accom-
plished fact.
The Germany of 1914 did not appoint
ambassadors from the ranks of the un-
official class. A man passed through
various grades before becoming eligible
to the rank of minister, and ministers
were made ambassadors. Most of them
served for time in the foreign office
before going abroad.
Harden is the editor of little weekly
paper in which he has expressed himself
freely for years, or as freely as was pos
sible under a rigid state censorship. He
has probably been more widely read in
America than in Germany. Just now he
is calling on his fellow 'ountrymen to
accept the peace terms in good part and
to face the future. So far as appears he
would represent the Germany of today
without forgetting the Germany Of yes.
terday.
1t would be impossible to select more
skillful propagandist to state the German
case here. If that is what the Germans
want they are thinking of the right man
to do the job for them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
YOUR UNCLE IN THE MOVIES

E'OR the tireless idealism that animated
him in Europe. your Uncle Samuel, if
one may judge by much of the current
comment in the foreign press, must await
reward in heaven. And he will have to
wait with the same patience for the rich
compensation that ordinarily falls to
plunger in the moving picture business.
Millions were expended by the govern
ment after our entry into the war in the
production of motion pictures. Some of
the most expensive units in the military
organization were trained, equipped and
maintained in the field for the produc-
tion of elaborate films intended to show
the work of the army and the navy and
to give the country at large a vivid un-
derstandng Of the nature of our task in
Europe and the manner in which we were
going about it.
As a movie producer your trusting
Uncle was what the critics would call an
artistic success. Some Of his pictures
were splendid and many of them are of
great and permanent value. But all the
profits. it now appears, were garnered by
a few astute gentlemen who knew more
of the ways of filmdom than your Uncle
ever guessed.
Movie exploiters who had nothing in
vested got virtually all the receipts.
Through what members of Congress be-
lieve was colusion between minor fed
era officials and the professional picture
men, the war films made at government
expense were exhibited for the profit Of
a limited clique of profit hunters.
Naturally. sweeping investigation" is
promised at Washington. But the Won
der is that sweeping Investigations into
such war profiteering as has been re-
ported in the United States are organ
lied only after the damage has been done
and not before.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
A CABLE SUPER-TRUST

A THOUGH the Paris conference has
IAthus far lodged the problem of dis
posing of the German transatlantic
cables, there are strong indications that
a world monopoly dominated by large
British interests, with which the smaller
French ones will coincide, is in process Of
formation.
In significant article printed else
where in the EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
today, Clinton w. Gilbert outlines the
possibility of America being made vir-
tually voiceless by one Of the strongest
combinations ever formed. British con-
troll of wireless communication is also
forecast
With such advantages the power to in
fluence public opinion will be exceedingly
large. American independence in the
matter is seriously hedged. New COM
panes must come to terms with the
combine" Even the establishment of
any halfway station in the Azores must
involve consent by the French and Eng
lish companies in control there.
Adjustment of the problem in way
enabling the United States to keep open
and unrestricted transcendently import
ant means of communication calls for the
employment of both wit and vigor. At
present general freezng-ou process
seems in sight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

tain in Philadelphia's generous musical
largess. The selections played combine
respect for talents of the great composers
with feeling for the public's predilec-
tions for rousing melodies and popular
airs.
City habitaton even in torrid Philadel-
phia has its compensations. The average
al fresco crowds nowadays will inform
the stranger to the scene how widespread
the popular appreciation is, while the ad-
mirable program will show him how much
agreeable art he has been missing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

to have sought once again to betray
civilization.
If such treaty were actually formu-
lated and agreed upon, the league of
nations and the men who inspired it have
already done an incalculable service to
mankind. The masses in Japan, who
could know nothing Of such intrigues di-
rected by their diplomatists, will benefit
Russia has been spared fate harder than
any that may be conceived even as a con-
sequence of the Lenine dictatorship, and
the German people have at least fight
ing chance for peace and liberty
This is the work of the Paris "vision-
aries,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
SUMMER MUSIC IN PROPULSION

THESE are ideal summer days in which
= to disprove the fallacy that Phiadel-
phia's musical activities cease when the
theatres, concert halls and opera houses
become "dark." Last night, for instance,
it was possible to hear excellent programs
at either Strawberry Mansion, the City
Hall Plaza or at Weccacoe Park, Sixth
and Catharine streets.
The regular schedule includes four con-
certs every weekday throughout the sum-
mer, a matinee and an evening bill in
Esirmount Park, Municipal Band per-
formanee at some city square and Silas
Hummel's Philadelphia band entertain
ment on the Plaza All this is a hearten-
ing display of good art and of considera-
tion for the popular taste for intelligent
diversion.
Inyidious comparisons between this
fifty and cities in Europe as dispensers of
free music no longer hold. Small charges
rre usually fixed abroad for both seats
ia p418ram. No such annoyances oh
4 'I. "'| u
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
A CHANCE FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING

HOPE for the continuance of daylight
- saving next year is not dead while
the President withholds his signature
from the foolish rider to the agricultural
bill.
The present prohibition muddle is
partly the result of hasty presidential
Endorsement of an amendment to the food
stimulation bill. Reckless riders abound
in congressional legislation. If the one
attached to the bill now before Mr..
Wilson can be supported by any really in
telligent argument in its favor it has not
yet been revealed.
The President is said to have an "open
mind on the subject. When occupation
takes place, may it be such as will inspire
him to make daylight saving permanent
the most inexpensive, the least onerous
and one of the most effective of public
economies
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Member of the Associated Press
Phil,delphi,, Saturday. July IL. 1919
NO MORE MORBID FILMS

THE capitalization of morbid tastes by
l the theatrical box Office is effectively
rebuked in the ban against the further
showing in this state of the moving pic
ture, "The End of the Road" The original
purpose of the film. sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Health Department, was
laudable. 1t was educational in character
as is a medical clinic, and just as emphat-
ically unsuited to exploitation before
mixed audiences.
The commercial purpose evidenced in
presenting the picture in a theatre open
to the general public is of the type that
would, if permitted, make a show out Of
the morgue. No one can deny that a
morgue is indispensable, but no right
thinking person will affirm that it should
be used to stuff showman's pockets.
The Governor has cleared up the whole
situation by forbidding any picture of
any sort to be displayed publicly without
the approval of the State Board of Cen
sors. The line between pathology and
entertainment is thus clearly drawn and
an end is promptly put to the hypocritical
practice of catering to morbidity under
the thin mask of "instructing" the public.
The sensational line nobody under
sixteen admitted" is as crude a bait to
gullibility as it was when similar
methods were employed by the dead
beats who promoted the famous Royal
Nonesuch" in "Huckleberry Finn" The
whole game was transparent, and it is a
source of deep satisfaction that it has
been played here for the last time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Crothers on Adams

Education in Pursuit of Henry Adams"
is the subtle manner in which Samuel NJ.
Crothers renames the Henry Adams
biography. HE points out his own short
comings," says Mr.. Crothers, with the
suppressed glee which characterizes the critic
who detects flaw in much praised work
of art. But never for a moment does he
take the blame for the imperfection of his
education. He is the clay and he will nut
the whole responsibility on his maker or
makers. He is a very critical piece of clay
and very much dissatisfied with his shape.
The influences which have made him what
he is have made a poor job of it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz


/. Tampico is a Gulf port on the east coast !.
of Mexico, a short distance below the
Tropic of Cancer.
Q. Sir Humphry Davy, a celebrated English
chemist, invented the miners safety !,
lamp.
8. Stephen Decatur, the American naval /,
hero, was killed in a duel with Janes;
Barron in Bladensburg, Md. in 1920.
4. Silas Deane was an American states Il
man and diplomatist, who served I'M
France as a secret agent in 1776. he
was recalled by Congress for having
made unauthorized promises to French
officers to join the American service.
Z. The character of Malvolio. the pom :,
nous steward occurs in Shakespeare's
comedy, Twelfth Night.p
q. Silkworms feed on the leaves Of the
mulberry tree. 70
7. Poplin gets its name from the French
word "popeline," in allusion to the
town of Ayignon, the fourteenth cen =,
tury seat of the Papacy, where the
fabric was made.
8. Vicksburg is the largest city In Missu-
sippi.
q. The treaty Of Paris, In 1893, closed,
the French and Indian War.
10. Charles Kingsley wrote 1.-THE water.
Babies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Troubles In Missouri

Philadelphia publishing house has re-
celv"d the following letter. 1t was written
from Mammoth, Mo-, on July 1st:
G%ntlcmen; am trying to get Hog Sheep
and Goat law. TO wake them UP I want to snysss
me county and as l have neve" spoke in public
put very little | feel weak in speaking on this
subject, subject: J VII give you general idea OF my
ON this subject and I will buy 1t from you [
i've IN ozark CO, Mo. 1t Is mountain coun-
try has lots Of timber and acorns the hogs
eats the acorns but about three years out Of
-FOUR the hogs eats acorns and die from worms
IN the acorns. the farms on the creek overflow
and wash the fence down and the hogs get into
the field and eat the crop up and some people
XII me hogs In the field We can keep the hogs
up and have better hogs and more and better
crops make more money better time and more
pork II we could get Hog. Sheep and Goat
law We could take the fence we have around
our crop and put 1t around a pastor and can put
three strans of barbed wire around our crops
10 keep cattle and horses out. We keep sheep
and goats on pastor the account of wolves
Now II we have hog law could get along
much better.
Now you have a general idea of my country,
now make speach in favor OF Hog, Sheen
and Goat law just as you would II you was here
before larg crowd Of these farmers and
will pay you we'll
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
The paragrapher Contemplates
His Week End at the Shore

His Weekend at the Shore
THE world down there is blazing white and
i blue.
Basking upon the beach, with mind swept
clean.
I'll watch the rollers crumbe shining
green
Where shallow sandy bottom gimmers
through.
The sun shall season me. I will pursue
Entire Quiescence. and a wind that's keen
Shall scour my shabby soul. Then, made
serene.
I'll ask forgiveness for the sins l do.
I will not heed the most luxuriant pun.
I'll doze and dream, my mind | will not
strafe;
Nor annotate my Urchin, infant son,
To use for copy in this Dish of Chat.
I shall not think single thought, not one,
Nor put the ocean in a paragraph.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
Architect WIndrlm's Big Job-Hos-
tlllty Of State Bankers to John
SHELTON Williams-Wash.
ineton Gossip
Washington, July IL.

DHILADELPHIANS who are connecting
the name of John r. Windrim with the
mayoralty situation do not know apparently
that Mr.. Windrim feels he has bigger fish
to fry" If there is one thing an architect
delights TO do, it is to build bigger and
grander than others have done. John L.
Wiudrim seems to have this opportunity
right now and he is going to seize 1t. The
old Lippincott property across from the
Union League has been taken over by the
Fidelity Trust Company and President John
II. Gest has been going over the plans with
Mr. Windrim. The job will be n big one, the
cost Of the building mounting as high, per
haps, as $4,000. 900 or SIC, ,000, 900. Here
then, indeed, will be a work worth while.
And from what we hear in Washington,
where the Windrims are well known, John
4. intends to make this his monument.
Years ago the Windrims had their archi-
Philadelphia, in the vicinity of the Girard
National Bank. James II. Windrim was
then the head Of the concern. subsequently
about the time John Wanamaker came to
Washington as postmaster general James
II. Windrim also came as supervising archi-
tect. John T. Windrim kept up the work in
Philadelphia, but saw enough of Washing
ton and the big things that are done here
to make him n broad gauge American. IT
Philadelphia does not get the architect for
mayor. it is likely to get from him a mighty
structure that will ornament the city for all
time to come.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

The French sense of fitness persists.
Enghien les -Bains, where the Bulgarian
peace commissioners are to be quartered. Is
famed for its gambling establishment. What
an ideal place for representatives Of the
most notorious of "plunger" nations! ,.s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Il Man That Has Time to Be
Kind
THE blessing of blessings for him

THE blessing of blessings for him
l. That has always time to be kind,
A blessing running before,
A blessing trottin' behind;
An angel caring his house
To drive away every sorrow
Good luck at his heels today.
Good luck on his path tomorrow.
A place for him up in Heav'n,
And st. Peter there at the gate
With the kindly welcome word
And himself not bid to wait:
For I'm thinking the saint will say,
Come in here out of the wind,
It's not so often I see
A man that has time to be kind"
W NJ. Let's.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
THE CHAFFlNG DISH

thoughts, when an embittered pilgrim leaned
over and whispered to us, whats going to
become of the women who marry men to re-
form them?"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Song of the Open Road

song OF the Open Road
As was walking Wynnewood way
felt touch of pallor:
! asked motorist, Now pray
How far is it to Bala?'
He never offered me a lift,
Nor gave friendly smile;
But pausing just his gears to shift
He quoth, "Oh, bout a mile"
So on I limped and on I blimped,
The road seemed long to me,
And when / got there, I had shrimped
Not just one mile, but three.
o better for that guy, by heck,
Who told the fib to me,
With a milestone hanged about his neck
And cast into the sea.
DOVE DULCET.
''Why,' writes correspondent, "don't
you write a poem about our great Irish
president De Lavera?'
Principally, we suppose, because that
doesn't happen to be his name.
OF course it makes all the difference
whether Professor De Valera is president or
only president" SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Pace Jestinq PLATE!

President Wilson's 1t does not NIL the
address cannot fail to bill 1t Is an emo
make a profound I'm tional, ideallstlc ma
preston on the mind rangue. not specinc
and purpose of the reply. From begin
American people Mr.. ming TO END the
Wilson has never reader Will meet
heen more felcitous nothing but disap-
in any of his public p intment' - Ne"
utterances. New York SUM-
York World.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

Another contract for the "biggest" war
ship has just been let by the Navy Depart
ment. And the next contract will be for a
bigger one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

The public" laments
Why Not Republican the New York Tribune
WherefOress in its criticism of the
generalizing tone of
the Presidents Senate speech on the league,
has the right to know the why's and where
fores " Right. But why should perfectly
sound Republican explanations of the pact be
SO discounted? Mr.. Taft has revealed its
meaning with boundless energy and the keen
est acumen. Has it become necessary for
Mr.. Wilson's opponents to wait for him to
expound fact before they will credit it?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Sounds Logical

Without questioning
Sounds Logical Detective Lieutenan mt
Emmanuel's judg-
ment or the veracity Of his assertion that all
the Reds have left Philadelphia, one might
venture to suggest another theory. The Reds
may still be here. Who knows that they
haven't just turned pale?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

The fact that seventeen stolen automo-
biles have been recovered by the police in
three days is evidence that at last an earnest
effort is being made to discourage the thieves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

Most of the senatorial comment on the
Presidents speech was about something else.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

Bronze victory buttons, worn BY VET
Grams of the war, will soon be as common !,
the United States as Legion of Honor rosettes
are in France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

The Legislature has removed the size
limit on captured trout. There never has
been any limit on the size of the trout that
got away,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

The Presidents taste for vaudeville
must be Unsuitable. He spent Thursday eve
ming witnessing it in Washington theatre,
despite having been to Congress on the self
same afternoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
1t Would, Indeed!

You have observed, of
1t Would, Indeed! course, that the poll
ticians who are for
ever warning us against entangling alliances
seldom or never apply their favorite rule in
their own careers. II they did this would be
a happier country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
Edward Ahelns
Obsolete Drama

Edward Abeles, the
Obsolete Drama comedian W d ie d
yesterday. was noted
for his performance in "Brewster's Mil
lions" play concerned with the difficulty
of spending a million dollars in given short
time. The problem of the piece is now quite
as dead as the star.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

Now il Lodge would only 60 on the golf
links with the President he might learn how
not to foozle his drive.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

Peru's revolutionists
Revolutions In are evidently tired Of
Triplicate a one ringed circus.
With the republic di.
vided into three states, according to their
latest plan, there is every possibility of
a big show.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
10 Your Birth Registered?

The reporting of birth may seem
trivial and apparently uniTnportant event
to the uninformed and indifferent father
and mother, but when at a later period of
life 1t Is required to prove the identity of a
person, his age or his parentage. legal
birth certificate is Of extreme value
WILMER KRUSEN, NJ d.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

The third attempt to launch the steam
ship Sea Girt will be made in Camden next
week. Here's hoping that three times will
mean opt--in the Delaware.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

The battle of Chateau -Thierry was
nothing to that which is beginning in Wash
ington.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

Near beer is what some men are re-
GREETING they are not
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

The packers might make still more money
il they could only utilize the squeal as by
product.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12

Wonder where Colonel House has evapo-
rated to. and what is he brewing In that
fireless cooker mind of his?
If he stays abroad much longer, we shall
have to call him Colonel Maison.