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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
$1,000 PURSES
FOR THE RACERS
Such Purses Never Before Offer
ed by Any Northeastern
N. G. Fair

Never before has any Eastern North
Carolina Fair offered 5000 worth of
purses for it's races. But that is the to-
tai of the purses of this years. District
Fair.
Excepting the first day, Tuesday, there
will be two harness races daily, and one
running race, making total of three
races for each of the last four days OF
the Fair. There will be but one race
on the opening day because of the big
Armistice Day celebration.
There will be no tiresome> waits be-
tween heats. The 500 Foot Slide for
Life. the Double Trapeze Cradle, the
daylight fireworks and other interesting
and amusing features will be staged be-
tween heats.
The track will be sprinkled daily. Ihe
pumping station is being installed, and
the water sprinkler will lay all dust
Horsemen say that this new departure
will make the track of the Albemarle
Agricultural Association, one of the best
and fastest in all the South.
The famous Jockey, Q. Z. AtweH
who is already here with the Mel
son runners, says there is no better traef
anywhere for running races, and that i
has, few equals @.asr ..s
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
NEXT GOVERNOR
WILL AT FAIR
Page, Gardner and Morrison =
All Three Candidates Coming

Three men are very much before the
public at the present time. They are
the three candidates for the Office of Gov
ernor. of North Carolina. All three will
visit the Albemarle District Fair, and
each will deliver an address. Hon. Rob
ert n. Page will speak on Wednesday,
November 18th, Hon. o. Max Gardner,
will speak on Thursday, November 18th,
and Hon. Cameron Morrison on Friday,
November 18th.
Fairs have been big factors in the
education of the people everywhere. Be
lieving that the people of the ten counties
embraced within the territory of the Dis
trict will welcome an opportunity to see
and hear these men who are candidates
for the Office of Governor of the great
commonwealth of North Carolina, and
feeling that the custom of making 9
spfaces Fair zRregraTsa. for men efa.eosl'
ton and leadership to discuss poEtica
and social issues is one that should be
kept up. the Albemarle Agricultural AS
sociation is bringing these three distin
guished sons of the State to Elizabeth
CITY for the District Fair.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
SPECIAL, DAY FOR
THE COLORED PEOPLE

It was a wise move on the part OF
the Directors of the Albemarle Agrlcul-
tural Association when they decided to
set apart a special day for the colored
citizens of the ten counties within the
territory covered by the District Far.
Comprising a large part of the popula-
ton of the several counties, it is only
lust that the men and women and child
rem of the colored race should be given
2 chance to enjoy the fair without re-
seryations or restrictions, just like the
white people So the Association has
added a day to this years fair, and
that day, Saturday, will belong to the
colored people.
Colored people are not barred from
attending the fair on any day, and white
people will not be excluded Saturday. But
on Saturday everything will be open to
the colored people, and they may go
where they please and do as they please
without any restrictions except those
which are imposed upon white. and color
ed alike, whenever and wherever crowds
assemble.
And the exhibits will be the same as
on the other days of the Fair, and every
attraction advertised will surely be stag
ed on Saturday.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07

Good resolutions are all right, provided
the resolutor resolutes as he resolves.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
DAYEEestlTFIRE.WQR
A REAL SENSATION

About those Daylight Fireworks! DID
Won ever see them? If not, no descrlp-
ton is going to do them justice. Ihose
who have witnessed such demonstrations
long for more. A widely travelled man
was talking with an officer of the Al
bamarle Agricultural Association the
other day. and, when told about the daS-
light fireworks to be shown at the Dls-
trict Fair. said, Il hope 1 can be mere
[ never weary of such an exh1oltlon' anu
7 have seen them many times.
They will be fired every afternoon
during fair week, and will delight all
DAYLIGHT fireworks have never oeel
shown in this part of Uncle Sans DO
minion. and they will create the same
interest and talk here that they always
have elsewhere.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
THE DISTRICT FAIR
By Ralph Pool

Attractions good beyond compare will be mere 1o the
District Fair this coming week-that is to say from lues
dav until Saturday-when there will be goody snare o
fun for folks everywhere The railroads otfer low"
rates upon these etraspeca dates your tVVer taxes
a snooze, and your gray nag snakes OH her Sioa y
feel forced to stay away while others each gala day.
Of all the Fairs we've had, good and others
somewhat bad is the Biggest and the Best SO come
enjoy it with the rest.e
The Government sends display which Will be mere on
every day OF agriculture and OF guns "hch po 1olu
- o,e- the F,7ns And too, military band and baseball
a1 so1der1aned The State will also have snare
IN exhibitions at Fair while every hopeful cano1oate
for Governor hopes crate OF races there VIII De t
best repete pep and speed and zest; some oranole
t to make Won CAV and fireworks by the light OF day
Balloon ascensions and good shows will be here I'LL tue
Great Fairs close Then should you desire 70 ouy
some merchandise that's not too high, remember ts
Bargain Week when prices DO downward seah D A0iN
on each redletter date prepared help celebrated
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
ELIZABETH CITY DAY

One of the big days at the Fair Will
be Wedne sday, Elizabeth City Day. All
of the business houses will close at
noon. and everybody will go out to the
fair grounds.
Show your community loyalty, by 1oi-
lowing the crowd Elizabeth Day at the
District Fair. You'll be lonesome II you
remain in town. Better join the multi
tude that will wend is way to the fair
ON that day
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07

events! Who does not recall the days
when he was a child, and went to the
county fair, and who would not gladly
live those days over again! what days
of eager anticipation before the great
event! What joy when the day finally
came. and. with few nickles in your
pocket you breathlessly made your way
to the fair grounds.
Every father and mother who has
not forgotten. and alas! there ars such
fathers and mothers, will surely have all
the children at the fair, and find their
greatest pleasure in watching the won
der and delight in the eyes of the little
ones.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
OF COURSE, LAST YEARS
FAIR WAS A FAILURE
And With the Whole Country Ravaged and De
rnoralized by Influenza Last Years Fair Was
No Standard by Which to Judge This
Fears Marvellous Achievement

Yes, we've heard it, heard it
thousand times. We know, and
everybody knows that last years
fair was not a conspicuous Sue
cess. What didn't suffer the same
fate last Fall. And whose memory
is so short as not to recall the rea- +
son. The influenza had, not only
this section but all the country IN.
it's grip. Business was paralyzed
for months. Whole townships
were stricken. The State Board
of Health closed cities, put re-
strietions on business houses and
in the interest of the public vel
fare, did all sorts Of autocratic
things with the approval of the
people.
At the eleventh hour, and when
every thing was ready for the
opening, the State Board or
Health sent word that the District
Fair must not be held till a later
date. No one found fault with
the decree, not even the men who
were behind the Fair, and who
knew the effect of a postponement
upon such an undertaking. And
when the District Fair was finally
held the influenza epidemic had
but slightly moderated, and most
of the people were fearful OF any
public gathering. and avoided
them.
Was it the fault of the Abe
marie Agricultural Association
! that last years fair was a d1saP-
pointment or Of any of its otfl-
GERS. No. No one man, no body
of men could have made a great
ksuceess of the 11nder-sueh ciHr-ss
Gums stances. ~ 49,. H.,
Is it just to point to last years
failure and to say that because it
was a failure, this years attempt
must also be? No. What If Ellz-
abeth City has never had real
fair, and there are those who
claim that? What has that to do
with the coming fair? There
| was time in the history Of every
great fair in the country when 1t
was but little better than a fiat
failure. Every successful fair be-
gan in such way, but finally trl'
umphed.
The District Fair is going to be
a great exposition this year. That
is true, no matter what has hap
pened in the past And it is going
on to larger and still large1
! things, until, with the great ter
ritory it covers it has grown into
Z an institution second in impor'
tance only to the state fair itself
n And it is going to take a g1an
e stride in that direction this year,
Don't deny yourself the chance
= to witness the great exhibits Un
n Gle Sam is going to send to th'
fair. or miss the other novel al'
educational features, becaus'
some one has said that the Dis
e trict Fair has never been much
r. If you do, yours will be loss, an'
: yours the regret when your neigh
il hnrs tell YOU about it after it i
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
Tbe 1Dalue of tbe Fair
BY LORENZO D. CASE
Secretary, The AIbemarIe Agricultural Association

~1HE time -honored institution known as the Fair
has survived through all the years because exper-
~ rience has demonstrated that 1t meets important
community needs and important community inter
In the first place. it affords the people annual holi
dav and much needed recreation Man was not made to
work. work. work. He have rest and play spels or
his efficiency is impaired Why do we hear SO much
about "Amercants?" Because, unlike foreign nations,
we hav learned how play and result have estaD
1shed record for nervous prosration and kindred ills
We need a in nervereaNing holidays and plea
sures. The average American plays too little
Then again any occasion important purpose
that gets people for
renewing OF acq11ainance for the creaooF the new
undertakings ympaties that follow from the 1nngng
and poor, high and low common footing There
cannot many Of such gatherings OF the people IN
denocray ills directly traceabe to the sus-
Dcon ealousies misunderstanding born OF ignorant
neutrality-suspicious. Of the lives and purposes Of Others
The annual important factor in the education
people In democracy the problem OF every reform
every social and political movement is primarily one OF
the education of the people. Permanent improvements
rule be secured without popular education:
Every makes provision for the enlightenment OF
the people political and social questions by having pres
ent men OF ability influence whose words in
spiraton and help all who hear them 1t IS Impossible
to overestate good that has been done in this drec
ton by the fairs of the country.
But ALL the fair the place where the farmer
learns manv Better than reading better
than instruction. the OBJECT leSSOn 'io
azed is easily understood and forgotten The grow
ing man. the who wishes increase his etf1c1ency
misses opportunities what has been accomplished
bv others in his own field of work Text books on agr1cu
re discussions Of methods of crop production, waltz
able as they are half effectively help the farmer
as concrete demonstrations of what his most stu neg
bors doing.
Prize products etc., not only inform the mind and
sharDen the Judgment but they stimulate emulation lie
is hopeless who something better done than ne
b1e do nd who
"Go thou and do kewse.' Few there who are not
moved to new by seeing something better tha
their best especially that something be ne1ghbor pro-
duct.
While designed CHIEFLY to stimulate interest IN ana
ea1+ the nobest of ca1ngs fairs the benefit OF
the whole community Exhibits and speeches arouse the
connection raises standards of quality and increases
the Quantity essential products What benefits the tar
er benefits the whole people, Hence there should be UNI
versa interest fairs and encouragement given to
their holding and improvement The OF the fa1r IN
any community should concern resident OF that com
munty.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07

Raleigh State Fair, and that letters are
coming almost daily congratulating the
AIbemarle Association on its good for
tune in securing this special attraction.
The exhibit is an education in itself.
and ii would take days to thoroughly
master all the lessons taught by it's pan
els, photographs, and models.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT

IT, District Fair will be open day anu
mglt The grounds will be brilliantly u
tumllated with electro lights The mlQ- a
Wa and great exhibition hall and tent
are sure to be thronged by multltudes
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-11-07
FASTEST HORSE IN
STATE AT THE FAlR

The latest information is that
there will be at least seventy-five hor-
in North Carolina, is coming for the DIS,
trict Fair. She is owned by Smith q
D.lo and will lower the record of the
local track.
III lillian r has a record of 2:01A on
q mile track, and 2:03A on a half mile
track.
The latest information is that there
will he will. be at least seventy five nor
cos at the District Fair, and provision
is being made for more stables.
a free ticket to the Elizabeth City
Fair with every yearly sunscr'puo"
THE INDEPENDENT next week. oee
particulars elsewhere in this newspaper
Evening journal., 1919-02-11
CALLS FOR WOMEN
WORKERS DECREASE
Eleven Million in Country
, For Whom Employment
Must Be Found
MANY STATES
SHOW DECREASE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Depart
ment OF Labor estimates that there are
II 100000 women in the United States
dependent on their own earnings for
support. and Of this number a large
percentage have others dependent upon
them
These women" said a statement OF
the department calling attention TO the
greatly decreasing demand for female
help. have been and must be kept per-
manently employed II serious suffer
ing does not result"
According to reports received by the
Federal employment service, requests
from employers for female help have
decreased as per cent. since the signing
OF the armistice, while reg strations
by women for employment have de-
creased only 70 per cent. During the
week ending November 2, 1918, 24.956
women registered with the service for
positions, and applications for female
help amounted to 56.O59 During the
week ending January s. 1919. 2i.G62
women applied. while the applications
for women workers decreased 10 2S.-
TAP.
Decreases in applications for women
workers occur In virtually every State
reporting a surplus Of labor. Penn
sylvanla, New Jersey. New York, Ohio.
Illinois and Michigan, where there was
a heavy demand for women for war
Evening journal., 1919-02-11

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Evening journal., 1919-02-11

bought Liberty Bonds and donated n
the Red Cross and sent our men to
light the Germans. And now they
want 10 take our sacred herb away
from us by making 10 a prison offenss
to use 1t. We have used II for Yeas,
and there Is no reason why we should
not be allowed TO keep on using t."
The osages who accompanied Abbott
to the capital to put their case before
he Senate are Mosanumpah and his
wife, Mekahpeotiahkah, Ewes Tallchief.
Simon Henderson and his wife and
child. Romeo Logan and wife and two
children. Fred Penn, Edgar Macarthur.
Edward Cox and John Mckinley. Most
OF chem a-e prosperous farmers At
home.
Evening journal., 1919-02-11
Indians Pleading for Peyo'e
Braves Say, '1i's PART of Our Religion"
IFS Booze, Says Congress

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. ii-Ls
the poor Indian, Is about 10 lose hi:
peyoie.
A congress which recently made
Sahara out OF The United States Is
threatening TO take away from the In
dams the sacred herb OF his religious
sacraments. The bill has passed the
House and Is In the Senate.
It's alleged that eating peyote has
somewhat the effect on Lo OF FIRE
water. It's also declared that the red
skins dls.il liquor from the peyOie
herb, which makes them dream OF war
pa Mt and tomahawks.
The Indians deny this and a dozen
Osages from Oklahoma haze come to
Washington 10 TtOteE &. Three Of
them b ought squaws and papooses and
in highly colored blankets and long
braided hair made Pennsylvania ave-
nue. picturesque.
The Usage delegation Is headed by
John Abbott, who with two or three OF
the younger braves, speaks English
perfectly, but "Howr' Is the only Eng
lish word the other old warriors know
We don't want any lntox eating H.
quor, but we want our peyote" says
Abbott.
"You white people have your
churches and your religions. You use
wine in your sacraments. We use pey-
Ote the same way
This bin was originated by a half
breed Sioux women who says peyote Is
bad for our health. She doesn't know
an-thlng about Il, because she never
used peyote. Every one OF US uses II,
and do we look as n Is has Injured
us?"
To tell the ruth, Abbott and his
Osages are a husky looking aggrega-
ton OF redskins, though some OF them
are little wrinkled from wear.
'We want Cong ess TO know that we
are American citizens. and we have the
rights OF American citizens" Abbot.
continued I'VE supported the war. We
Evening journal., 1919-02-11
TALES FROM RUSSIA
lFrom the New York Trlbune.l

From beyond the journalistic noun.
tains OF the moon. from the Tibet Of
politics and the Atlantis of diplomacy
from darkest and fur.hest and most un-
communicative Russia comes a faint
far legend OF chance. Gradual,
though reports OF travellers. pieced
together with lntuitlons. the world
learned that the sovets-the shop
unions-were taking over Industry
from the hands Of the bourgeolsle. The
world heard tales OF failure. The
world heard tales OF success. And pres-
emily The world heard no tales at all
But 1t knew that Industrial "democ-
racy' OF the widest kind was being
tes.ed In the laboratory OF Russian
commercial life. Perhaps Il was a lao-
oratory rather ill-equipped with organ
lied mechanism. but the Bolshevlsts
asked no other. Unlike the Menshe
vists-and this Is their chief differ
ence-they would not wait for Russia
10 pass through the evolut.ons OF
economic history. they were not con-
tent to build a laboratory flrst and
start the tests later. They would not
walt Tor Russian capitalism 10 lay the
golden egg before making the omelet
They would not even be content 10
Kill the goose and eat II. via the Men
shevists' conservative Socialist canal
OF nstionallzed Industry. They prefer
red to try the miracle OF the eggless
omelet. AT least. that was the legend
now brought by chance winds from
frozen Moscow.
And now another legend. As usual. n
Is weeks, perhaps months. after the ac-
eompllshed fact. Robert Minor. Ameri-
can Red" Remarks casually In a rath-
er extraordinary interview with LenIne
upon certain angles OF state OF affairs
whose whole existence is news 10 the
world. we have never heard OF the ac-
complishment; but. as ever with Rus
sia. now comes comment that takes our
knowiedge Of II for granted. And the
accomplishment sppears 10 be maxim
Tess than a complete reversal OF the
Evening journal., 1919-02-11

Bolshevist policy OF syndicating in
dustry. Instead, Russia mas national
lied Industry. That was the PROPOSE
OF the Menshevists, and 80 the Social
lists OF the minority who had not 10 n
ed the Soviet government over the IS
sue OF intervention are now lining ur
with the repentant sovlets upon the
old-llne Socialist proposition OF "let the
nation own the trusts"
"Len'ne could not afford TO ten the
whole truth about the entrance or The
non-Bolsheviki into the government
for he must maintain the intransigeni
front" says Mr. Minor. The main fact
in The new situation Is that the sO-call-
ed naturalization OF Russian Industry
has put insurgent industry back into
The hands OF the business class. who
disguise their activities by giving or
ders under the magic title ofpeoples'
commissaries.
Perhaps this looks like a counterpart;
in industry OF the putt ng OF the army
back In iron discipline with a forced
draft OF old time bourgeois Officers In
command. But Mr.. Minor mentions no
such compulslon OF the business men
as Is said 10 dom nate The officers. Rs-
iher: "The business types ride In fine
automobiles as before. live In fine man
slons. and are again managing the Old
industries. with more authority than
ever before. Now they are peoples
missaries'-servants OF the prols-
tariat-and the iron discipline OF the
army under red flags has been develop
ed In order to protect them against al
annoyance"
Len,ne. according 70 Mr.. Minor. still
talks OF industrial unlonism." Mr..
Minor flnds no more industr al union
ism here In there highly centralized
institutions" than In the United States
Post ONCE But he might find in this
thing that arouses- the opposition OF
anarchlst-syndicalist who have hlth-
erto supported 'Lenine enthus,a ,astically.
and IN such matters as army discipline
and a readiness 10 pay debts. a new and
strange spirit In Bolshevism.
Evening journal., 1919-02-11

sessment system had stood. eight hun
dreds out Of eleven In the county would
have paid more In taxes than they have
paid under the new system The figures
show that Brandywine and Chrlstlana
hundreds. where big estates are located.
paid the greater portion OF the increase.
and yet the big taxpayers In those hun
dreds have not protested The figures
fnITotsss
Evening journal., 1919-02-11

work previous to November 1. all show
heavy decreases In demand for female
help. in these same States there is
also a noticeable decrease in reglstra-
tions for places by women. other
States. where the labor surplus is
growing and where there is not cor
responding decrease In calls for wo-
men workers. are those In sections
where women are largely engaged in
domestic, clerical and agricultural
work.
Evening journal., 1919-02-11
HOW THE COUNTY
TAX LAW WORKS

Members OF the New Castle County
Boad OF Assessment have prepared ng-
ures setting out how the new county
assessment system has operated In dol
lars and cents. Il having been figured
out how much tax each hundred In the
county Is paying under the present as
sessment system at the new county tax
rate and how much each hundred would
nave been compelled 10 pay under the
old assessment system and on the old
tax rate In order 10 make up the
amount which the Levy Court found
necessary to expend this year.
The figures show that had the ex-
penses been The same and the old as
Evening journal., 1919-02-11

EASILAkE W. C. 7. q. MEETING.
The Eastlake w. c T. U. meets at the
home OF Mrs. Wyatt. No. SOS West Thlr-
ty-nrst street this afternoon.
Evening journal., 1919-02-11

The call for economy IN every wall
u life Is answered by the Want Ads
Evening journal., 1919-02-11

To make that spare room earn some
thlnG-advertise II In the WANTS.
Adv.