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Evening journal., 1920-06-16
MARsHALLTON OuPs.

Mgs. Mackinson's Recruits dropped
one. on Saturday to Mgr. Ruth's New
port dollies by one run which was
not earned.
Wadding Groome leaning his car
cass against Buddie Peters benders
TO get his base as this was his only
chance. as Peters had .he old slug
gers at his mercy.
The game was a pitchers battle
with betting in Peters favor.
But the little break had TO go in
Newport's favor. giving a 10 0 vic
tory, but nevertheless they had 10
get il.
Mackinson has added great strength
TO his infield by placing Frank Peters
on third and old man Buck Jones at
his old berth at short.
Both men play a whirlwind game,
Evening journal., 1920-06-16
DISQUALIFIED MAN SWORN IN.

CRISFTELD. Md, Juno l6.-Despite
the fact that the retiring board Of
City Councilmen on Wednesday de-
clared William ~ Pierce, who was
the highest man on the Comcilmanic
ticket at the municipal election June
.2 ineligible, because his name does
not appear on the tax books. and ap-
pointed Benjamin =. Somers, a de
| feated candidate for reelection TO ll
/ the vacancy. Mr. Pierce was sworn II
as a Councilman yesterday.
Evening journal., 1920-06-16
ASPIRIN

Name "Bayer" on Genuine
Evening journal., 1920-06-16
REAL EsrATE-ToR RESI-.
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT.
House, 10 rooms. bath. two porches,
electric lights. heater, so per month.
House. suitable for Offices, o rooms,
hot water heat
bath, hot water heat; $50 per month.
Two rooms, use Of bath. $3.50 per
week: excellent location.
NJ. W. VAUGHN.
Phone 94S. 9l4 Orange Street.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
LARGER CAPACITY OF ROADS
Must Be Doubled to Meet Auqmentinu
Requirements of Transportation
Next Year.

We are confronted with the problem
Of increasing the capacity of our
highways This must be doubled to
meet the augmenting requirements of
the next year or two. Engineers are
wondering along what line this in
crease shall be provided. One sugges-
ton is to double the width of the
roads and increase first cost and main
tenance 100 per cent. The most reason
able one is to provide a road of suffi-
Client strength to carry vehicles of
100 per cent greater capacity for a
given width of road, as the first cost
of these strengthened roads would be
only 10 to 20 per cent greater per
mile than that of present inadequate
highways, says writer In an ex-
change. In view Of the fact that so
per cent increase In hauling capacity
gives reduction OF IS per cent In
transportation costs, the latter seems
the wlsest thing to do.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
REASONS FOR OWNING HOME
Advantages Are Many, Quite Apart
From the Economic One Declares
an Eastern Writer.

There are many upsetting clrcum-
stances IN the world, against which
house ownership is sort of insurance.
If l had not owned my home last fall,
and had by any chance been thrown
out by the old landlord, 1t would have
been very serious job to find what l
wanted in the present market. have
known men and women TO put in weeks
in the search Houses are often sold
over ones head. Estates have to be
settled. All kinds Of things happen.
Perhaps your small boy disturbs the
landlord, who in turn makes it dis
agreeable for you. Such possibilities
are put to rest by actual ownership.
II one has serious Illness In the
family, what an assurance it Is to
know that You cannot be disturbed;
that this is your castle.
For such reasons m these, quite
apart from the economic ones. believe
every man of settled habits should
own his own house, and that this La
as a good time as any to proceed TO
that happy realization Robert Lin
coin O'Brien in Boston Herald.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17

peaks, and alkall wastee between IT,,
Missouri river and the Pacific coast,
It was inaugurated early In 1860 In
order thnt the West might be kept
more closely In touch with the North
in view of the trouble brewing from
the slavery question, and though II
had nm existence of only sixteen
months, II made the East and West
only ten days apart Mt a time of crisis
The date of starting was to be
March 20, 1860 anc Forts Kearney,
Laramie, Bridger, Great Salt Lake
City, Camp Floyd, Carson City, the
Wnshoe Silver mines, Placerville and
Sacramento were TO he the points of
delivery of mail. In st. Joseph, Mo-,
eager and excited crowds gathered
IN the Streets TO see the first courier,
the wiry, twenty-year-old Johnnie Frey,
as he dashed away on his jet black
steed for the first lap Of the race of
flesh. blood and determination against
the desolate spaces of I'm unpeopled
country.
These riders were clad in buckskin
shirts, ordinary trousers, high boots
and soft SLOUGH hats, and were armed
with sheath knives, Colts revolvers
and Spencer carbines. The best time
they made across the trackless waste
was In carrying President Lincon's
inaugural speech to San Francisco
seven days and seventeen hours.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
TACNA AND AFRICA: STA
MESE TWINS OF
GEOGRAPHY

Tacna and Africa! The words are
fast becoming us inseparable as the
Gold Dust Twins, the Dolly Sisters, or
Mutt and JEFF.
The regions form a territorial bone
of contention among Chile, Peru and
Bolivia. The province Of Tacna, com.
posed of the department Of Tacna and
africa, Is shown on maps made In Chile
as the northernm0st province of chat
country, and on maps made in Peru
as the southernmost province of Peru,
bordered on the north by the Rio
Sama and on the east by Bolivia.
It's broad uplands are rich in nitrate,
and on the Bay of africa, at the ter
minus of one railroad leading to La
Paz and the interior of Bolivia, and
of another running TO ports to the
south, the delightful city of africa IS
situated, giving the p0ssessor of the
territory a great advantage in South
American affairs from both political
and commercial standpoints. Here Is
ample reason why these two South
American republics want It, and why
Bolivia hopes that, In the adjustment,
she will have an outlet to the sea nc
corded her.
The trouble over this region arose
originally from the fact that, in the
days Of the early Spanish settlers, the
country was so vast that Il few hun
dred square miles more or less made
no difference in the affairs Of the col
ony, and when the coones organized
themselves into republics they still
were too busy with their internal prob
lens to bother about where their
boundaries began and where they end
ed. This condition was true not only
of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, but Of most
of the other South American republics,
as indicated by the numerous bound
airy questions which have been in dis
pute during the last decade.
So matters drifted until the middle
Of the nineteenth century, when guano
and nitrate We're discovered in this
formerly ignored region. The guano
alone was then hastily estimated as
worth S20,000000, not TO mention the
nitrate. What friends could be eX-
Dected to remain friendly with such |
1 mountain of dollars between them? |
Since that time the eru-Chile-Boliyia |
story has been one of controversies, |
reatles, counter-charges and plebi-
,cites never taken.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
STEEL AFFECTED BY FIRE
Figures Gathered by the United States
Bureau Of Standards Reveal Sta
bility OF Structure.

Some interesting figures relating to
the behavior of structural steel at the
high temperature of ordinary fires
have been given by the United States
bureau of standards. Naturally, the
Strength of steel at high temperatures
has very important bearing upon
the stability of a structure which may
be subjected to fire. Without any pro.
tectRe covering, steel columns fail
after only 10 or 10 minutes of expos
ure to temperatures such as are
reached in ordinary fires. Resistance
can be greatly increased by the use of
coverings Of brick, concrete, plaster,
tile, etc, to such an extent that col
umns so protected are unaffected after
several hours exposure to intense
heat, says the New York Evening
Post.
Tests have been made TO determine
the compression strength of specimens
of structural steel when heated In an
electric furnace to temperatures cor
responding to dull red heat Q.100 de-
grees FahrenheiD and loaded up to
10000 pounds per square inch. 1t was
found that structural steel loaded to
10000 pounds per square inch fails at
about 1,075 degrees Fahrenheit, and
under load of 10000 pounds per
square inch failure occurs at 925 de-
grees Fahrenheit. For practical con-
siderations, however, the limit of util-
ity may be regarded as reached at
temperatures Of about $50 degrees
Fahrenheit below those given above
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
NUMBER ALL ENGLISH ROADS
Properly Organized and Uniform sys.
tenn of Sign Posting to Be Used
In Great Britain.

The national road scheme will be
ready by the autumn.
The scheme consists Of the classifi-
cation of all main and secondary
roads in Great Britain, together with
properly organized and uniform sys-
TEN of sign posting. Roads will bear
distinctive numbers, so that the trav-
eler need only ascertain the official
number of the road, say, from Nor.
witch to Birmingham, to be able to
travel from one town. TO the other
without map.
The experiments conducted under in
structions of the ministry of transport
TO determine the most suitable mate.
rial for a uniform road dressing, have
been successful, and standard sur
face has been practically selected. For
the present this surface will be APP
piled only TO the arterial, and not to
the secondary, roads.
BY January / the new national road
scheme will be in readiness to be put
into immediate operation. DAILY Mail
London.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
Many City ManaQers.

United States now has about $50
city managers. The number is grow
Ing steadily, and city managership has
now established itself as profession.
One of these managers has adj
vanced step by step from the job of
directing a small city in Michigan to
taking charge of city matters in
Dubuque, Ia, at salary of $4,000 a
year. This is the only instance Of
three promotions thus far recorded,
but three city managers haye been adj
vanced at least once.
The highest salary the profession as
yet commands is $4,000, paid by Nor
folk, Va. Dayton and Akron, o.,
Grand Rapids. Mich, and Wheeling,
w. Va, are among the larger cities
now operating under city manager
charters.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
HOW ANTS CAN HINDER
AIRPLANES

Ants have assumed new role In
Afrca--that of enemies of aviation.
Reports from surveyors of the pro.
posed air route from RhodeSia to Cape
town say that ant hills have inter
fered seriously with the placing of
| aerOdromeS.
To understand this phenomenon one
must understand how ubiquitous is the
ant In South Africa, writes William
Morton Wheeler to the National Geo
graphic society. He continues:
ANTS are to be found everywhere.
from the arctic regions to the tropics,
froms timber line on the loftiest noun
tains TO the shifting sands Of the
dunes and Seashores, and from the
dampest forests to the driest deserts.
Not only do they outnumber in indi-
vlduals all other terrestrial animals
but their colonies even in very circum-
scrlbed localities often defy enumera-
ton.
"One subfamlly Of the ants, the
Doryinae, embracing the wonderful
driver ants of Africa and the egionary
ants of the American tropics, are high
ly carnivorous, but nevertheless sue
coed in forming immense colonies oft
en- of hundreds Of thousands of indi-
vidtlls This they accomplish by re-
linquishing the sedentary habits so
characteristic of the great majority of
ants. They keep moving In long files
through the jungles, capturing or kill
ing all the insects they encounter, and
even overrunnlng dwellings, and, In
their search for cockroaches and 9TH
err vermin, driving out the human In
'habitants.
From time to time these strange
ants bivouac for the night or for a
few days in some hole In the ground,
or under n tree, but soon continue
their predatory march. Evidently
they are able to remain carnivorous,
and at the same time to develop large
colonies, only because they are nomad-
lc and can thus draw their food sup
ply from large area.
Certain individuals, the 'repletes' of
the colony refrain from leaving the
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
Suffrage Amendment Certified.

Secretary Of State cambridge Colby
has certified to Colonel j. Bryan
Grimes, Secretary of State of NORTH
Carolina the ratification of the nine
teenth amendment by the required
three-fourths of the States of the
Union and has declared that the
amendment has become valid, to all
intents and purposes, as part of the
Constitution OF the Un-ed States"
The proclamation foaows in part:
To all whom these presents shall
come Greeting:
Know We. that the congress of the
United States at the flrst session.
Sixty-sixth Congress begun at Wash.
ington on the nineteenth day Of May.
n the year one thousand nine hun.
dred and nineteen, passed a resolu-
ton as follows, to-wit. Joint Resolu.
ton proposing an amendment to the
Constitution extending the right Of
suffrage to women.
And, further. that the States
whose legislatures have so ratified the
said proposed amendment, constitute
three-fourths of the whole number OF
States in the United States.
Now, therefore, be il known that
|, cambridge Colby, Secretary of
State of the United States, by virtue
and in pursuance of Section POS of
the Revised Statutes OF the United
States, do hereby certify that the
amendment aforesaid mas become
valid to all intents and purposes as a
part Of the Constitution of the United
States.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
FIGHT BEGINS ON
THE ABSENTEE LAW
JUDGE REFUSES TO GRANT AN
INJUNCTION BUT GRANTS A
HEARING TO PETITIONER
PLAINTIFF IS A CANDIDATE
The Suit for an Injunction was Based
on The Allegation that The Law
Is Unconstitutional
Raleigh.

The Republican party opened fire
on the absentee voters law when at
torneys representing j. j. jenkins, OF
Chatham, Republican candidate foor
State treasurer appeared before
Judge John II. Kerr, at Louisburg
and asked for an injunction against
the State Board of Elections and
against the State Auditor and the
State Treasurer to stop distribution
II ballots for these voters.
Judge Kerr declined to grant the in
junction but upon the complaint Of
the plaintiff made an order directing
the members of the Board of lections,
State Auditor, w. P Wood and State
Treasurer h, b. Lacy to appear be.
fore hi min Raleigh on Thursday,
September 16, and show cause why
the injunction should not be issued
jenkins. the plaintiff is candidate
for State Treasurer on THE Republ.
can ticket and it is in his capacity Us
the nominee of his party that he seeks
TO enjoin the Board of lections from
distributing absentee certificates and
votes in the State The complaint
against the auditor and treasurer Is
made in his private capacity of tax
payer and is for the purpose Of en-
joining the auditor from issuing war
rants and the treasurer from paying
the warrants--for the printing Of the
certificates, envelopes and ballots.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
Earthworms in Lawns.

Earthworms in lawns and gardens
can be poisoned with bichloride Of
mercury poison. Make stock solu-
ton by dissolvlng one ounce in two
gallons of water. To use, dilute two
quarts of the stock solution in 80 gal
Ions of water and in the evening
sprinkle this over about thousand
square feet of lawn. The ground
should be moist when this Is done. The
worms will come out during the night
and will never go back. Bichloride Of
mercury Corrosive snblimate) is
deadly poison and therefore must be
used carefully,
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
THE MAIL MAN: COURIER
OF CIVILIZATION

Did ii ever occur to YOU that your
city letter carrier, your village post
master or your rural route carrier has
a past?
He is the agent by which the long
arm of Uncle Sam taps your shoulder
one, two, maybe three times day, yet
he is so unobtrusive that you probably
do not know him half so well as most
other agents of your government, the
school teacher or the policeman, for
example.
But he not only Is an essential, but
a historic figure The history Of the
postal service and its employees eX-
tends to the days Of the Romans when
. the earliest known means of transmit
ting n message was by cSlrler. These
admirable organizers, the Romans,
marked by post" the place in the
road where the relay of one runner by
another was effected; thus they named
our system long before 1t was born.
The first letter post seems to have
existed in the Hanse towns in the
thirteenth century In order to facili-
tate relations between the merchants
of the various members Of the Han
seattle League.
The British post office had its be-
eli in fbn oil xrtn
our own colonial methods Of handling
mail were inherited from our British
forefathers. Long before the people
had any means Of exchanging either
personal or official letters, the king had
established a system of conveying his
personal messages and official d0cu-
ments by royal messengers. In the
reign Of King John that petulant mon
arch paid out large sum for postal
service and charged 1t to the house
hold and wardrobe accounts. Messen-
gers who were thus entrusted with
matters of state had to be above sus-
picion. They went the whole dis
lance and were paid according to the
length and danger Of their journeys.
In 1888 New England proposed to
the British sovereign that postoffice
system be established in the colonies,
as it was $50 useful and absolutely
necessary" His majesty paid no at
tention to the plea, but Richard Fair
banks, in the same year. set, up an
Office In Boston to receive letters from
ships. He undertook to deliver the
letters received and charged a penny
for each letter. He also received mail
for outgoing ships, but no one was
forced to send mail through his office.
A thrilling story of the devotion of
mail men to their duties Is that of the
pony express, the first rapid transit
mail line across the 1906 miles of
prairie, desert, snow-capped mountain
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17

nest and 'foraglng for food and be-
come converted into flagons by dis
tending the crop to such enormous d.
mansions that the abdomen looks like
transparent bead. In this condition
they hang by their claws from the roof
Of the nest chamber and thenceforth
spend all their lives receiving liquid
food from the tongues of the foraglng
ants, storing it in their crops and re-
gurgitating it to hungry individuals
when the liquid food supply outside
the nest becomes inadequate.
"This Is, of course, apt to be the
case periodically in dry regions, so
that we find the true honey ants only
in deserts like those of the southwest
ern states, northern Mexico, South AZ
RIGA and central Australia"
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
HOME -
TOWN ~ 9.!
HlELpSRJ
LIFE IN SMALL TOWN BEST
Has Many Advantages Compared to
the Hurry and BustIe inflicted
on City DWeIler.

/ do not think that where man
lives has anything to do with his pro-
gression, as progression is hereditary
and 1t Is not caused by environment,
writes correspondent of the Pitts
burgh Dispatch. The idea that boy
must go to the city to acquire fame
Is becoming a thing of the past, for
people Of this world are beginning to
realize that progression may mean
many things-among them progression
In filling the soil as well as progress
sion in politics.
The most progressive men In the
world are the men who go to make
up the little towns, for they are gen.
orally the steady, reliable, sensible fell
lows, who do not pine for the excite
ment and the glare Of life in big
city. Small town men are the rock
upon which this great country is most
securely built. They are the whole
some, true-blue scouts, who are big
'houSh W i've lhN siihpit, lillit toNh
life, and their quiet nerves hold our
country balanced. The city man IL a
bunch of nerves compared with the
man from the village. His days are
spent in lodging automobiles in the
streets, hurrying from place to place,
trying to beat the other fellow at max
Ing money, and after day of being
'on the jump" he goes to the theater
and does not get home until morning.
Then he sleeps five hours and is ready
10 90 through the same performance
again. Little Town Man goes to bed
1t 10 after an evening at the movie
md at 6 Is ready to get up and begin
MS day The country Jake" Is no
onger Il person to be laughed at, but
/ person to be envied, and many Of
'nr greatest so-called progressives are
,oing back to the 'simple-life."
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17
WARSAW: THE PARIS OF
POLAND

No other people, in all the worlds
history, has borne oppression so brave
ly and gloriously as the Poles. except
the Jews and Warsaw where the
Russians had to keep Il garrison of
100000 troops to overawe Il city Of
100000 people," is to Poland what
Paris Is TO France.
Indeed the vivacity, the gayety and
the quick wit of Warsaw'S people are
Il constant reminder of Paris; as well
as those deeper llkenesses which
spring from Warsaw's ascendancy in
the letters, the arts and the social
graceS.
All this, too, In a city where the
most grueSome tragedies have stalked.
As recently Us the years Of our own
Civil war the Russian army moved
down thousands of men and women
as they knelt in the snow, singing their
national anthem. Deportations are an
old story in Warsaw, every effort at
naturalization was followed by
slaughter, and hundreds marched the
long trail to Siberian exile.
But Poland's spirit meanwhile, be-
came synonym for the irdomtnble.
The success Of the classification of Po-
land has been described as the process
of keeping 12000,O00 Poles pinned to
Russia by hayonetS Politically non
existent, for even Poand's name was
eXpunged from all official Russian rec
ordS the pre-war Warsaw WED with
world capitals In science particularly
medicine. in manufacturing, in trade
and in literature,
Though Warsaw betrayed none of
the grimness characteristic of Russian
cities, reminders Of her by-gone glories
and tragedies We're TO be found even
before the World war restored her au-
tocracy.
In the Lazlenki gardens Is monu-
ment to John SObieSki, who stemmed
the advance Of the Turks in Europe.
figure as picturesque as Paderewski
who now sees his land barrier to boil
shevism'S westward spread. Ii was in
1853 that Turkish force had thrown
itself in crescent formation around vi !
emma. The encampment was no less
because it resembled n cir
Gus rather than siege, with its herds !
VI camels. and luxurious tents with |
baths and parrots within and foun-
tains without
Mighty events often hinge on slen-
der circumstances. Sobieski hesitated |
because Leopold, Austrla's emperor,
first declined to address him as
Your Majesty" But SobieSki's hest
atlon is said TO have vanished when
ne learned that the French ambaSSa-
Tor had written TO Louis NV, who
'ather hoped for the worst for Aus
ria, Don't trouble yourself, Sobieski
5 too fat 20 sit on Il horse and fight"
rhe fat man. rode his charger into
he thick of the fight, helping hew his
way To where the Turkish grand viz
en- stood and after the battle handed
me Of that dignitary's stirrupS to an
Tide with the command, take II TO
he queen and fell her that he TO whom
belonged is defeated and slain"