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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11
VACATION TYPHOID

Typhoid fever is still a source
of concern to health officers in
the larger cities. 1t is fairly
certain that few cases of this
disease today develop within
city limits. Infection, in large
measure takes place in country
places and cases are brought in
to the cities either innocently or
for treatment. These facts are
clearly brought out in the inves-
LEGATIONS of the origin of
typhoid fever cases made by
municipal health authorities.
The number of cases Of typhoid
fever increases with the approach
of vacation season, therefore, af-
fords an opportunity for depart
ments Of health to attack typhoid
fever in advance. An intensive
campaign Of education can be
begun Ia the late spring to ac-
quaint city dwellers with the
dangers Of typhoid infection. and
to encourage those who are likely
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

N-EIlat
whose presence makes politics
foul.
Where the carrion is, there the
vultures are gathered together.
The ideals of the managers may
be ever so pure, but as certainly
as it is noised abroad that there
is a big slush- fund behind a can
didacy, that candidacy IS going
to attract from far and wide all
the obscene political birds who
are able to attach themselves to
it. The slush-funds this year
are the biggest in our history as
a nation; and it will follow as
surely as the night the day that
the number Of crooked workers
abroad will be the largest ever
known.
Anything that sets the politi-
cal banditry astir makes it more
difficult for the people to select
the right man to fill their highest
office. The expenditure of $685.
600, 900 in this campaign, so far
from giving US greater assurance
of selecting the best man for the
next President of the United
States, makes it all but impossi-
BILE for that result to be achieved.
1t would not alter the facts if in
all the United States not a single
vote should be bought or sold;
nevertheless, the faint of this
thing will spread through our
body polite. The very fact of
the expenditure of $25, 0OO,0OO
will be incontrovertible evidence
that the campaign is rotten to
the core.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11
A ROTTEN CAMPAIGN

Mr.. Lawrence estimates - he
insists conservatively-that all
parties combined will spend $25, :
. 000,0 900 on politics this year. Is it
worth it? To be sure, if it takes
$25, 900, 900 to get the right man
in the White house, the country
can better afford to spend that
amount than to suffer the wrong
man to be elected, But has the
expenditure of this gigantic sum
really bettered our chances Of
electing the right man? We take
the liberty of doubling it.
1t is the generally accepted
theory that little of this money
will be spent by methods which
the law forbids. There is not
likely to be any unusually wide
spread purchasing Of votes.
The electorate is being debauch-
ed, but in subtler ways than by
outright bribery ways subtler,
hense more difficult to combat
and more dangerous.
A fascinating quest for a
patient investigator might be the
determination of how much of
this money has been used for the
propagation of untruth- for the
publication Of lying advertise
ments for the distribution of
false information by letter, for
the suppression of unpleasant
facts. But waving that phase
of the matter, there is another
more direct and more evident way
in which the spending Of colossal
fortunes in political campaigns is
fastening an evil upon the coun-
try. A vast proportion of this
fund has gone to fatten the pur-
ses Of the groundlings, Of the
ward heelers, Of the workers"
whose efforts are for sale to the
highest bidder. The existence
IF such funds makes politics pro-
fitable for men who are In 1t for
dollars and cents the very type
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11
HIT HIM WITH EGGS

Now; big crock-quart of
water glass water plus fresh
eggs. This is a combination
guaranteed to make old man h. C.
!. frown next winter, according
! to A. G. Oliver, Poultry Club
Agent for North Carolina. He
says they are stopping him on
the street to ask how to store
a home supply of eggs, so he
wants every one to have these
directions that will insure a sup
ply of eggs, whenever needed at
about one-half the price they
will be next winter:
Use one quart of water glass
or sodium silicate which can be
had at any drug store tc 9quarts
of water that has been boiled
and cooled. This will be suffici-
ent to preserve Is dozen eggs.
Select 5 gallon crock and clean
it thoroughly, scald and allow to
dry. Heat q quantity of water
to boiling point and allow to cool
when cool measure out 9 quarts
OF water, rlace i IN tho "-o"k
and add l quart of water glass,
stirring the mixture thoroughly.
The eggs should then be placed
in the solution, being careful to
allow at least 2 inches of the
solution to cover the eggs. Place
the crock containing the preserv-
ed eggs, well covered, in a cool
dry place. Waxed paper tied
around the top of the crock will
prevent evaporation.
Careful attention should be
given to the condition of eggs
preserved. Those which float
when placed in the solution are
not fresh and cannot be kept.
They must be sound of shell and
clean, not washed to be made
clean, They should be tested,
which is easily done by enclosing
an electric light bulb or any
other lamp in a box, cutting a
small hole opposite the flame and
holding the eggs against this
hole. This will show very plain
ly any bad eggs, blood spots or
rings, and any cracked ones.
Everyone should see to it at
once that they have at least 30
dozen eggs preserved for winter
use"
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

la'ensili q its campaign Of sA, :
tary supervision over rural
areas. THERE'S room for more
cooperation between the cities
and the outlying country areas in
the further control of this rapidly
disappearing sanitary nuisance.
Charlotte Medical Journal.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11
Drs. West & Crank
DENTISTS
Roanoke Rapids, N. c.
Offices
End Floor Drug Store Building

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. DE-
PARTMENT OF STATE. CERTIFI-
CATE OF DISSOLUTION. TO ALL
TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS
MAY C0ME-GREETING:
Whereas, Itappears to my satisfac-
ton, by duly authenticated record of
the proceedings for the voluntary dis
solution thereof by the unanimous con-
sent of all the stockholders, deposited
in my office, that the b. Nedder Com.
pany, Inc. Company, a corporation of
this State, whose principal Office is
situated at No. Street, in
the town of Rosemary. County of Hall
fax. State of North Carolina (B. Ned
der being the agent therein and in
charge thereof, upon whom process
may be served, has complied with the
requirements Of Chapter q, Revisal of
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

lyt, el,i,led Corporation, prelimin-
airy TO the issuing Of this Certificate Of
Dissolution:
Now, therefore, /, j. BRYAN GIRL
MES, Secetary of State of the State Of
North Carolina do hereby certify that
the said corporation did, on the 3 day Of
May 1920, file in my office II duly exc
cuted and attested &C nsent in writing
to the dissolution of said corporation,
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

to go to the country to be vacci-
mated against the disease. They
may be urged also to exercise a
wise choice in, their boarding
places. The unsanitary privy, the
shallow, infected well, the pre-
sence of many flies because of
lack of screens, and the consum-
ing of polluted milk and of other
foods, produced or handled under
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

insanltary conditions, constitute
the chief sources Of typhoid in
lection to the vacationist. Many
cases; some of them fatal can
undoubtedly be avoided if city
dwellers will keep the above
points in mind in relation to
their vacations. Much could also
be accomplished if the state de.
partment of health, in the spring
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

II 77FIN-7 & Z W.T. - ~ II !. NV
executed by oil tlt 4loeHi elders thereof
which said consent and the record Of
the proceedings aforesaid are now on
file in my said Office as prov ded by law.
In testimony WI ereof, have hereto
set ray hand and f'yed r.y official seal
az Raleish, this l. Dry Of May, A D.
1890.
j. Bry' crimes.
5-2S-it Sec a'y Of State.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

Politics is getting all the time
upon a higher and higher plane.
They say it will cost twenty-five
millions Of dollars to elect the
next President.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

No sympathy for the Morally
Stunted came out of. the Supreme
Courts opinion of the Prohibi-
ton Amendment.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

All cards of thanks, resolutions of re-
spect, etc, etc. will be charged for at
the rate of ten cents per line. Cash
must accompany article in all cases ex-
cept here customer has regular &C.
count No insertions made for less
than rs cents.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

We understand that President
Wilson has not yet definitely de-
cided upon whom the Demo-
Gratis will nominate.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

That man Hoover is still
furnishing food for thought-to
the old line politicians at least.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

What we want to know is will
nothing satisfy Dellinger and
McCelennagan that the people
have other preferences?
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

County politics is politics as
is politics and very satisfactory
we calls it, this time.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

All communications should be
addressed to the Herald Publishing Co.
Persons wishing return Of mss, must in
all cases enclose stamps.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

Well, the agony is over for al
/. most everybody except Gardner
and Morrison.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

The Wood boom shows evil
dence Of splintering.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

Entered as Second Glass Matter April
3, 1914, at the Post Office at Roanoke
Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of
March 8, 1879.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

And Wilson would like to be
dis-Lodged at that.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

How about the high cost of
politics.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

Why not call it a secondary?
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11

Are you ling?
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-06-11
Friday, June II, 1920

Can Hiram hire 'em?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14
For Bow Scouts

THE BOY SCOUTS YEAR BOOK.
Edited by Franklin X. Matthews. ID.
Appleton & Co.
Dedicated to the 100000 boys Of
scout age in the United States. this
book. handsomely printed and Illus
trated, published for the Boy Scouts
of America, is a veritable treasury Of
stories and articles that BOYS from 10
10 IS will find very interesting. Be-
sides the articles on handicraft, scout
craft campcraft and woodcraft. there
will be found some twenty-one testi-
nonials from men who have had and
still hold. nigh positions In the United
States and elsewhere Some Of these
personages who have shown an en-
thusiastic interest In the Boy Scout
movement are Woodrow Wilson. the
late Theodore Roosevelt. William Fl.
Taft Gen. John j. Pershing, Major
General Leonard Wood. Gov. Calvin
COOLIDGE Leopold de Belgiaue, Crown
Prince Of IRelgium his Holiness Pope
Benedict XIV. Gen. Sir Douglas Haig
and Edward Prince of Wales.
Among the contributors TO this vol
ume will be found Belvin w. Maynard.
1.-THE Flying Parson;" Admiral Robert
T.. Peary, Dan Beard. William T.
Hornaday and Joseph y. Ames.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14
Jimmy's Job

JIMMY QUIGG. OFFICE BOY BY
Harold s. Latham. The Macmillan
Company.
Harold s. Latham's new story for
boys runs parallel to events of the
day. In Under Orders" and in Marty
Lends a Hand" he gave 10 young read
ers stories OF wartime America. Now
we have Jimmy Quigg, Office Boy"
tale centring around a book publishing
house. with backbone of plot derived
from the present day operations Of the
reds"
IL was a happy moment for Jimmy
Quigg when he had to go Job hunting
in order to support his mother. and
like most boys who start out for work
he made up his mind to take anything
that meant a regular envelope on pay
day. The .unwashed. rain dlrtied win
dows OF the Bennington Publishing
Company attracted his attention and
led him to enter. But when he told the
kindly Mr. owens how he'd like to keep
his windows washed and books busted
off that gentleman Just said, "Youll
do" and that ended It. Jimmy got the
job, but Us an office boy and not as
porter.
Well, anyway. red ink slipped into the
liquid soap container in the Mushroom
was mighty funny until the president
washed his hands with what seemed
like liquid soap. The Office Boys
League was a great organization until
the members began to strike for more
wages: then IL came TO fun stop
But all these Incidents are secondary
20 the time when Fred. another office
boy at the company is reported miss
ing, along with $4,000 Of the firms
money. Immediately a hunt ~ started
by Jimmy Quigg. who believed from
the start that Fred was innocent II
goes on and on, and It would certainly
spoil the story to tell more.
Mr.. Latham has been associated
with boys for a number OF years and
was one himself lie is familiar with
their traits, habits. ambitions, fun and,
above. all. their hankering for adyen-
ture. The book proves 1t.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14

TN the last half century the child
has come into his own. His elders
= have finally realized that he has
tastes, emotions. a logic and a psy-
chology that are distinctively his and
as different as can be from those of
the grownups-so different that only
people Of rare sympathy and magma
ton can think back into the child's
point of view.
This effort to explore the chlld's life
and discover what he actually likes
and what he does not has also
wrought a revolution in chIldren's
literature. The amazing thing that par
ents, teachers and librarians learned
was that children rarely found so
called juveniles. with their carefully
pointed morals and heroic examples,
half as entertaining as books which
were not written for them at all. Take
glance at the immortal juveniles.
beginning with Robinson Crusoe"
and coming down through Scott and
Dickens to Treasure Island the
jungle books, Captains Courageous,
"Huckleberry Finn" and "Penrod."
Not one Of these was written primarily
for boys and girls. But each Of them
possesses an element which makes an
undying appeal to children; swift ac-
ton, with plenty of romance and a
certain idealistic truth. There Is moth
ing about which children are more
discriminating and exacting than that
a story should ring true.
Herbert Hungerford. the editor of
the Boys Magazine, the leading spirit
in the Square Fellows Republic and
perhaps as closely in touch with boy
life as any one in America, says:
THE votes of our boys cast In en-
rolling as members of the Cquare Eel
lows Republic indicate that the old
types of books for boys are by no
means as popular as real, thrilling
books written for people Of ali ages
For instance, Booth Harrington and
next him. Zane Grey. have been voted
the most popular modern authors by
our boys"
Joseph Hergesheimer is one of those
rare people who can recreate his own
childhood, and it is his belief that a
child's taste is far less fallible than
its parents. II was as a child" he
says, "sick a great deal of the time
both sick and timid-and If it had not
been for the enormous amount of read
ing I was able to find / am certain
that I should never have survived the
long drawn inhibited time. My own
impression Is that children's minds are
more mature than 1t is generally sup
posed, and a great many books held
to be beyond their comprehension are
far nearer the mark than the senti-
mental slush they are fed. Personally,
I like romantic pages. l never cared
particularly for fairy stories. but pre-
fer adventures which, because of the
familiarity of the characters. have a
double reality for me.
THE important thing. of course, par
ticularly with children, is truth.
do not believe in the good OF stories
where injustice and wrongs are mirac-
ulously and easily upset in an optimis-
tic ending. Children to whom / have
spoken have a curiously double atti-
tude toward their reading. In the
first place they readily reflect such
things as are forced on them by their
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14

Animal stories are usually popular
in the degree that they idealize the
beasts of the field and the fowls of the
air and endow them with human quail
ties and characteristics. The eighteen
stories of beast and bird and insect
and reptile told by f. ST. Mars in THE
Way of the Wild" while not altogether
free from this human tendency to dis
count the mystery Of these little
brothers of st. Francis. are much SUI
perior to the ordinary sentimentalized
tales of field and forest. They are
built first of all, on the sound founda-
ton of accurate objective observation,
a soundness of fact concerning life in
field and Jungle generally regarded as
unessential by nature writer's. To us
an ounce of accurate observation and
a regard for recorded phenomena are
worth a pound of imaginary insight
into the minds OF these creatures
whom we know. at best so little. It is
In the relation of facts that the true
romance OF the observer is told, as is
attested by the writings OF John Bur-
roughs. as a notable example among
respectable others.
Running through the stories Of Mr.
st. Mars Is a consciousness of the
fundamental law OF the field and
forest. the survival OF the fittest. II
YOU think that the life of these crea-
lures Is an amiable and placid one,
read "Gulo, the Indomitable." the tale
OF wolverine, "a beast with brains
that only man. and no beast, ought to
be trusted with" or read "Ratel,
v. c." the story OF the little honey
badger with a courage surprising the
courage of any other beast on earth.
Or read Mine Points OF the Law" the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14
What Kind Of Books Do Children Like to Read?
Stories Of Animals

tale of hedge hog and rats and rab-
bits and house cat. But by the time
you have read these you will have
been convinced that you have come
across a book of nature stories Of the
better sort, written by man who Is
content with a slight amount Of f1ctive
guessing because of the wealth Of evil
dence of observation that he presents.
They lead the reader to fuller If less
roseate realization of the great world
just beyond clear communication, a
world great deal ruthless and in
comprehensive, but filed with amaz-
ing phenomena.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14
Harrington and Hergesheimer

elders. and parrotlike praise the stories
selected by an Indifferent parental sen
timentality; in the second place, quite
from this they have astonishingly ac-
curate and entertaining tests of their
own. This is beautifully proven by
the number of things lately written by
children, am sure. not so exceptional
as they seem. The thing to do Is to
discourage parents, whe are practically
always wrong. and uphold the taste of
children, nearly always right"
Booth Harrington himself, who In
Penrod unintentionally created one of
Americas greatest Juveniles. is singu-
larly hazy In his impressions of chill
dren's books. I'm up a stump on
them" he wrote to friend, probably
because my experience as a young
reader was singular. After the infant
books read to me I think my first
reading was Uncle Toms Cabin
when l was then Don Quixote,'
'Ivanhoe,' and when / was and 8
Guizot's History of France all of
Dickens, Tom Sawyer various
Waverley novels. Indiscriminate read
ing, including Beadle's Dime and
Beadle's Half-Dime Library (Which l
liked about as well as / did Guizot)
followed-and ! have hazy recollec-
ton of the two Tom Brown books, of
st. Nicholas serials and of three or
four Oliver books, Jules Verne Mark
Twain's books, all of his there we're
Shakespeare, Thackeray, James, Dau-
Diet, HowelIs, Miss Murfee, 'Beulah,' a
mixed up lot; and the books for young
sters scattered through left no i'm
preston Except these just mentioned)
If L read any others. l read the new
was 10, 1 think, until / was about
as. when I couldn't any more Now,
haven't the slightest idea what sort
of books are published for boys to-
day"
The list is a mixed lot but 1t is
remarkable for another reason. With
one or two exceptions he escaped the
dull thinly story coated sermons on
all the virtues which used to be pre-
scented to children by fond parents and
aunts and uncles as nice books for
| Titles boys to read.
And so. as those who are interested
their boys and girls stories which will
really hold their interest and teach
them to love good books instead OF
what their elders think they ought to
have, there has been a gradual revolu-
ton in the type of juveniles. Writers
no longer write down to children. In
deed, it ought to be said that they
write up, for their public is very ex-
acting. They have discovered that
| there is no type more fascinating or
more difficult to create.
Authors of distinction such as
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Josephine
Damask Bacon and Selma Lagerloff
| Sweden's most eminent author, have
been attracted to the practically new
| field. The standard is now not will
the story point a moral, but 1t is SO
attractively and artistically done, SO
interestingly written that it will APP
peal to people of all ages. All those
who have had occasion to look at the
beautifully written and presented juve-
niles which publishers are now offer
ing cannot doubt that children's books
as we'll as children themselves have
come into theig own.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14

Izola Forester author of THE Dan
gerous Inheritance" (Houghton. Milf
linz, broke into the writing world at
the tender age of fourteen. At fifteen
she was regularly supplying maya
zines with her fiction. One suspicious
editor believing that possibly a more
finished hand was producing her
stories, told her one was needed at
once and asked if she would write It
then and there on his typewriter.
Without the least hesitation she sat
down and wrote "A Question of Senti-
ment." and had the satisfaction of
having IL accepted