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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

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started almost abreast of the
other states; but in public edu-
cation most of them had, and
maintain to this day, a long
lead.
Nevertheless that lead is being
overcome not as fast as it will
be during the next ten years, but
for all that, it is being steadily
overcome. We have a superin-
tendent of public instruction
gifted with energy. determina-
ton and-rarest of ala perfect
ly desperate courage, politically.
Brooks has boldly attacked the
problem of certifcation of teach
ers, and, regardless of the yells
of the incompetent and the tim
orous, has brought some sort Of
order out of chaos. He has like
wise put through a STANDARDIZED
ton of teachers salaries that
grows more amazing in retro
spect. Appearances indicate that
if he is given halfway decent
support he will yet raise the
teaching profession in this state
to a level comparable with the
trade of a brickmaSon, say, or a
plumber. Therefore, while the
North Carolina department Of
education is as yet far from be-
ing among the best-developed
in the Union, we do not believe
that many will surpass it in its
present rate of progress; so it is
only a question of maintaining
that rate.
After all, is not the matter for
greatest pride less the fact that
North Carolina eXcels, than the
fact that she excels in these par
ticulars? 1t would be a talking
point" if we had the strong
est department of banking, or
the best organized state police,
or the most active state board of
trade; but it seems to a great
err thing to excel in what may be
termed the modern humanities.
Public health, the case of the
underprivileged child, public
education these things apper-
tain to the production of men.
And the production of men is
far more to be desired than the
production Of wealth, as the
object of a states policy,
Greensboro News.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26
NOT OUR HAM

There appears on this page a
communication from a subscriber
Lwho calls our attention to the
fact that the Preacher Ham at
&oldsboro, is not the same re-
vivalist who conducted the big
tentrevival-at Roanoke Rapids
some1Sears ago. We had been
pfivf.tey informed of our errone.
odns-assunption in this connection
soIme daysago. To this extent
we agree that our contributor is
CORRECT, The accounts Of what
has happening 1t Goldsboro tai
lied so closely with events here
during and fails wing our Ham
revival that we jumped at con-
illusions q performance which a
newspaper should never be found
guilty Of doing.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26
THE TEXTILE STRIKE

After three months of idleness
induced by smooth tongued and
we'll paid organizers and agita-
tors, the mill workers in Concord
and Charlotte are going back to
their jobs, certainly a poorer and,
we trust, a wiser set of people
They tried to overcome an econ
omic fact, to do away with the
law of supply and demand, and
they have failed. 1t was newt
able from the start
Just as surely as the price of
textile goods is inexorably gov
erned by the operation of supply
and demand so surely is the price
of textile labor fixed. Neither
mill management nor mill labor
can fix the price of their products
and it is to be regretted that so
many of the textile workers had
to learn this in the dear school of
experience.
We venture to predict that it
will take smoother tongue than
common for the next labor agita-
tor to lure these people from
their jobs,
That the mill people of this
community have held their COM
nonsense and have accepted
wage cuts that were inevitable is
a matter of congratulation and
good fortune for themselves and
their families and the community
as a whole.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

AS to the rest of the communi-
cation = the true value to a COM
munity Of the type of evangelis-
tic services which both Hams
conduct, and our general and
chronic state Of personal unre-
generation, we will not attempt
a discussion. We have no idea
that we could ever get Brother
McDonald's mind to follow along
with ours and we are absolutely
sure that in the matter of Ham
revivals we shall never see eye
to eye with him. Argument on
either side seems useless.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26
Editorial Correspondence

Oxford, N. c. S-lS-21.
Mr.. J. T. Stainback,
Editor, R. R. Hearld:-
In your issue of Aug. 9Th you
have a reprint of an editorial
from the Greensboro Daily News,
anent the Ham Revival in Colds
boro N. C. You also have a state
ment of your own on the same
page to the effect that Mr.. Ham
has not changed in his methods
and tactics since he preached I'M
der his tent in Roanoke Rapids.
Now YOU are somewhat in err
ror as to the identity of the Rev.
Mr.. Ham who conducted the
Goldsboro Revival, however
good? your intentions may be,
the facts of the case are that from
July 18th. 1921 to July oath. 1921
Inclusive, our Rev. John w. Ham
of Atlanta, Ga. (the same iden-
teal Ham who preached the Cos
pei of a cruclfied and risen Saw.
ior, under his tent in Roanoke
Rapids, July 1916 was preach
ing the same gospel to from
1000 to 1000 people every night,
in our Tabernacle in this city of
Oxford, N. C. The other Rev.
Mr.. Ham was preaching to the
people of Goldsboro on these
same dates. 1t is universally
agreed among the thinking pup
lie of Oxford and Granville
Co. that our Ham Meeting was
the greatest and best that this
community has ever experienced
and that more good has been ac-
omplished than in any other like
movement here. There is no
bitterness nor strife here, every
pastor in Oxford except one was
opposed to this meeting before it
started, but every one of them
was fully converted in four days
In regard to methods and tao
tics" let me quote, There are
ten blind tigers operating in OK
ford now, | can step out into this
street throw stone and hit two
of them, they are run by respect
able business men, any officer
with one eye and half sense could
see these things if he were on
the job. *'*There is a reguler or
ganization of the gambling fra
ternaty in Oxford, they are OPP
Grating every night in one of the
principal business blocks, on the
principal street of the city, but
your officers are blind as a bat
and cannot see. *** There is a
blockade still out here just be-
yond the city limmits, many of
you know exactly where it is but
your officers cannot locate it.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26
State Agencies That Rank
With The Best

Or. hart, OF the RuSSell Gage
Foundation, tells Commissioner
of Public Welfare Johnson that
for North Carolina to fail in her
public welfare work would be a
national calamity, on account of
the influence we have had on the
development of such work in
other states It is tremendous
compliment, an amazing compli-
ment. The most difficult and
perplexing social service work IN
the world has admittedly been
social service in the country; but
North Carolina, Il per cent rural
if she cannot be said to have
solved the problem, has attacked
it with such vigor and such initial
success as to inspire and encour-
age all the other rural states,
No wonder Mrs. Johnson trea-
sures DR.. Harris remark and
passes it on to the state.
Always bearing in mind the
wide diversity that exists be-
tween the problems, as well as
the resources, of rural and urban
states, and the impossibility of
comparing the agencies of a pre-
dominantly urban state with one
predominantIy rural, North Caro-
linians may nevertheless take
pride in having two state agencies
that are the best of their class in
the Union. We refer to the state
board of health and the depart
ment of public welfare. 1t does
not follow that North Carolinians
are better served in those re-
for in such a state as
New York, for example, the
work done by various municipal
boards quite overshadows that
done by the state agencies. But
down here we must necessarily
depend upon the state, for we
have no cities comparable with
those of the urban states. And
we may certainly take pride in
the fact that, In our class, our
agencies are unquestionably the
best.
Furthermore, we have another
department that is rapidly fight
ing its way to the front. That
is the state department of edu.
cation. 1t still has a long way
to go before it can be classed as
among the best in the Union,
even among the rural states,
first, because other states have
been engaged in the development
of public education for genera
tons, whereas both public health
and public welfare are compar-
atively recent developments of
governmental polity; and, second,
because education is, and has
always been, expensive, and
North Cardinals wealth is of re-
cent acquisition. In public
health and public welfare we
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

A Special Educational Edition
of the Herald is to be issued on
September 9th through the joint
efforts of the school faculty and
the Herald staff. If we can make
the Educational Edition come up
to the standard that. educational
work has reached in this
community, we do not hesitate to
say that the Edition will be dis
tinctly worth while.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

Mr.. Mondell calls Congressman
Kitchin "a clustered invalid at
Scotland Neck. We predict
that when he gets back to Wash
ington Mondell will see little of
the invalid and less of the cIois-
ter in Mr.. Kitchin's reply than
he anticipates.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

Twelve Maine men pay $4,000. 90
for seven barrels of water news
paper item. This price approaches
the popular quotation on the
commodity in a place decidedly
unlike the Maine climate.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

When perplexed statesman or
public thinker doesn't for the
life of him know what is the ac-
tual cause of the present depres-
sion, what a boon the Federal
Reserve Board is.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

If Col. Watts gets away with
his rebate of 1927, 100000 to the
Tobacco Trusts and the Wattsian
hide as well, he'll be a strategist
of the first rank.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

With the repeal of the law
against home brewing there
will! probably be few with the
heart to continue the pastime.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

Postmaster General Hays is
DESTROYS of honest criticism of
the Postoffice Department. Boy,
page Mr.. Burleson, he has abso-
lutely cornered the market.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

1t seems to this writer that
these quotations have a very
familiar sound, but there is no
bitterness nor strife here. The
methods and tactics" used by
Bro. Ham are bearing much fruit
in Roanoke Rapids today, if you
care to trouble yourself to that
extent you can trace the preasent
law enforcement movement in
your city, back to the Ham meet
ing without a single break.
furthermore the influences for
good that were let loose in that
tent meeting has not been con-
fined to Roanoke Rapids alone
but has spread out into a num-
Der OF neighboring states.
The unregenerated man is al
ways blind, but to the initiated
it is very easy to understand why
you were so quick to grab the
Greensboro editorial and swallow
it hook, line, sinker and all. 1t
may interest y0u-to know that
on Sunday night Aug. 9TH. Col.
Langston a prominent lawyer of
Goldsboro stood befor 1000 Ok
fordites in our Tabernacal and
told US a very different story
than the greensboro editorial
would have us believe, he told
us what tie Son OF God has done
for him and that he was typical
of Goldsboro after the Ham Re-
vival, he witnessed for Jesus the
Christ for fourty five minnits,
with his heart full of love to-
wards God and his fellow man.
We of Oxford prefer to believe
this decipIe of our Lord, rather
than the news paper story. Our
Brother John w. Ham has moth
ing but love in his heart for every
individual in Roanoke Rapids, he
is not only a big man but he is
also a mighty man of God.
We hope that you will give
this COMMUNICATION as much prom
inence as you did the Greensboro
editorial.
Thanking you and wishing the
Heard success,
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

All cards of thanks, resolutions of re-
spact ETC., etc, will be charged for at
the rate of ten cents per line. cash
must accompany article in all cases ex-
cept where customer has regular &C
count No insertions made for less
than rs cents.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

1t looks like this Disarmament
Conference has been called too
late to avert the battle between
Josephus and Cam.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26
Friday, August 26, 1921

The Textile Workers Union has
now struck out.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

Soviet hunger after the flesh
pots of capitalism is growing ir-
resistible.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

Congress is about to take a
months rest. From what?
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

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?, 1921-08-26
EDITOR
TELEPHONE $40

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?, 1921-08-26

Letter Q Of French Origin.
The tame of the letter . comes
from the French queue" meaning u
tail. as The letter Is q with tail
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

We do not know exactly what
Y Brother Cooper, of the
d Progress, uses, but judg-
l6g from the cat and rat story
which appears elsewhere in this
issue and is sponsored by him, its
effect is something tremendous.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26

The Russian Red is evidently
not guaranteed not to fade.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-08-26
The Story ofthe Bank Book

In your bank book is written the story Of your
success in life.
1t is to your bank book you turn when oppor-
tunity comes and upon the balance it shows de-
ponds In great measure your ability to grasp
your chance.
On rainy days when the storms Of adversely
gather and break against you bringing financial
Stress, it is your bank book that, walking by
your side brings you through in safety
Again sickness may come and your earning Ca
pacity is limited or eliminated Your bank book
comes to your rescue providing for your comfort
and yielding Of its resources it brings you back
to health.
Then finally when lfe's shadows grow dim and
the twilight Of declining years settles upon you,
your bank book brings to you the comfort and
the cheer that makes your last days, days Of In
dependence, happiness and enjoyment.
Why not begin now to cultivate the friendship
Of your bank book? You will erepaid thous-
and fold in the years to come. Well be glad
to show you how easily it can be done.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
Health of Wilson
Is Much Better
On Eve of Birthday

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-For-
mer President Wilson's 65th births
day tomorrow will find the war;
time executive in better physical
condition than at any time during
the past few months:
His Improvement in that period
has been considerable. Now he
goes motoring daily. takes other cx-
ercise and does much reading and
writing.
His mail is large. Friendly let
tiers, indorsing him; letters discuss
ing the developments of the arms
conference particularly as they re-
late to his position on the Versailles
treaty and League of Nations come
constantly to his desk. but he was
described today by an intimate
friend as taking no part in that
matter"
Meantime, efforts are under way
for a movement to reaffirm the pc.
sition of America as taken by Mr..
Wilson. Some of his friends would
have a new declaration of1faith in
the United States, based on Wilson's
ism, undertaken.
The former president plans no
particular observance of his bitrh-
daV
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
CANCER WAS FATAL
To $4,000 IN 1920

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Deaths
area of the United States in 1920
totaled approximately $4,000, accord
ing to a report today by the census
bureau, which on basis of proper
tional population, estimated the to-
tai of deaths for the entire country
at $4,000, or an increase of 5000
from the estimate for 1919.
The upward trend of the cancer
death rate, the report said, is ac-
curately shown by the increase of
1914 per 100000 population in the
registration area in 1920, from a rate
of SO.5 per 100000 in 1919. Using an
"adjusted'' rate for state and Sec
tional comparisons of cancer NOR
tally, calculated on an allowance
for differences in average age and
sex distribution of the populations.
the report concludes that 'the north
ern states have a comparatively
high, and the southern states a com.
paratively low cancer mortality" Z.
b Among states in the registration
area, Massachusetts showed the
highest "adjusted' rate, SO per 100,-
900, while the rate of 45.9 for South
Carolina was the lowest.
Race comparisons for various Sec
tions under the adjusted rates, the
report said, show the white and ne
gro races to be equally susceptible
to the disease, with both apparently
less susceptible in the south than in.
tha north
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
A. B. C.. PUZZLE WINNERS NAMED
BY JUDGES OF BIG CONTEST;
FIFTEEN CHECKS ARE MAILED
SYNTHETIC COLD
REPORTS DOUBTED

NEW YORK, Dec 28.-Wall street
was undisturbed today over persist
ent reports that a German scientist
has succeeded in making synthetic
gold. Certain chemists also were
skeptic. Quite number of other
people recalled their copy book max
i'm, "All is not gold that glitters,"
and intimated disbelief in dispatches
which limited that the age-old quest
of alchemiSts had reached It's goal.
IF the Germans wait for synthetic
gold to make PREPARATION payments
they will probably need a longer
moratorium than they now seek"
said DR.. Horace G.. Byers, head of
the chemistry department of Cooper
union. Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale,
was quoted as saying in London that
if the synthetic gold process were
true, Germany might make a farce
of the reparation payments by using
synthetic gold.
"Of course" DR.. Byers added, at
wout' oe a brave or an ignorant
scientist who would pronounce the
synthesis Of gold impossible. There
is, however, no creditable evidence
that chemists are today any nearer
the realization of the dream of the
alchemlStS than they were IN the
days when the German kings were
duped by the knights of the black
art.
Even were the speedy solution OF
the transmutation of metals prom
Used, it is probable the practical prob
lem would be as distant from solu-
ture, which everyone knows is possi-
ble."
Both DIR. Byers and DR.. Harrison
e. Howe, editor of the Journal of
Industrial and Engineering Chemis-
try, differed from Prof. Fisher, who
has gone to Germany to investigate
the reported synthetic gold achieve
ment, in statements attributed to
Prof. Fisher that synthetic gold
might be worthless.
eff one should succeed in what
seems now to be very improbable
performance, the product would be
far from2worthless as Prof. Fisher is
reported as fearing" said DR.. Howe.
For all that we know, it might be
more valuable. Moisant, of Paris,
demonstrated it was possible to make
diamonds, but the small ones that he
did make were more costly than the
genuine gems"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
Debt on York's q
Farm Is Lifted as
Christmas Present

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 2S.-
Sergeant Alvin C. York, greatest
nero of the World war, is happy to-
day. He owns his 4107acre Fentress
county farm and gets a clear title
to it this week. Enough money to
guarantee payment Of the final
5000 note was contributed by
friends and admirers as a Christ
mas present The note is on the
way here for collection.
In the deed to York's farm. pre-
scented him IN appreciation of his
war record, is recited his performs
ance in the Argonne scrap when'
single-handed, he killed twenty-five
Germans and captured 1872, among
them several high German officers.
Also, the deed sets forth citations he
received, accompanying medals and
decorations bestowed upon him in
recognition of his feat of arms.
Tributes of Marshal Foch and
General Pershing are also inscribed
on the deed. ~.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
7 90 Poor TO Marry
They Wed II, Death

PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 2S.-ThomaS
Brands, Is, and Matilda Rist, his, II
year-old sweetheart, died of strych-
nine poisoning early Tuesday.
They didn't nave money enough to
marry in life, so they decided to
wed throug!. death, the boy explain
cd TO police just before mis- last con-
vulsion seized him.
Thomas and Matilda had been
sweethearts for more SIAN year.
They were desperately lin love with.
each other. Friends called it "calf
love-" but Thomas and Matilda took
it more seriously than life itself.
Thomas worked in mill and Ma
tilda in worsted factory. But be-
tween them they didn't earn enough
money to marry and fix up home
of their own.
A few days ago the girl told the
boy something that made him realize
they would have to get married. Still
marriage was impossible unless-they
asked their parents. for aid. and
they didn't want to do that: Friday
night they decided that, denied mar
| ried happiness in life, they would
| seek it through death. If they died
together, they reasoned, their souls
would go out together and find each
other in eternity.
So tn and girl went to a drug
! store to get strychnine. Thomas
told the clerk he wanted it to kill
a old sick dog. In this way he
obtained four tablets
Then~came Christmas eve, so they
deferred their wedding day. not
y. ing to spo.. the holiday for their
folks.
Last night they met at the girls
home for their strange nuptials.
They sat in the parlor. Mrs. John
Rist, Matilda's mother, was Il the
EeXt room.
1--WE sat alone for a long time, .
Thomas told Police Captain Turner
shortly before the end. 1--WE talked
about lots of things. I had the poi
son tablets in my pocket.
Finally everything was quiet and
we decided it was time. Matte went
and got a glass of water. She said
she would take it first. So she put
two of the tablets in the glass and
| drank it.
THAT was about midnight.
Pretty soon Matte had convul
sion and, then I drank my strych
rine. A doctor came and then, ! be
gan to feel dizzy"
While DIR. Abram Macklin was
working on the girl, young Brands
staggered into the room. He stooi
watching and insisted on getting intc
the ambulance saying he expected
his last agonies would start soon
At the hospital he talked freely.
The girl died in the. early morn
ing. The boy followed her just 2
few minutes later.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
Murder Of Macon Man
Remains a Mystery

MACON, Ga, Dec. 2S.-The MUIR
der of Andrew L. Alligood, motor
man-conductor of an Ocmulgee car
near Ocmulgee park Saturday after
noon, is still a mystery. 1t was
first thought that Alligood was at
tackled and killed by robbers, but
county authorities are working on
a new theory for the reason that no
money is believed to have been taken
from the person of the dead man.
It is believed that Alligood was
killed by a party or parties who had
a personal grudge against him and
picked out the lonely spot near DC
mulgee park to murder him. He
was found about sixty feet from the
one-man car he operated with four
bullet holes in his body, and his
skull crushed in several places. The
police and county authorities will
continue their investigation in an
effort to run down the guilty party
or parties.