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The Home news., 1921-06-17
GOOD ROADS DAY.
 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
To Every Man and Boy In Woodruff County Who
 Wants Good Roads:

Wednesday, June 29, 1921, has been set apart as Good Roads Day and 'Your County Calls You" Close your stores, offices and business places and take a shovel, hoe, team or work tool such as you have and work that day, June 29, on the roads.
 Either report to your over seer or form community road gangs and work where you want to, but don't fail in this patriotic duty to your county. Your district is entirely out of funds and the collector will report the smallest collection in history.
 Don't be a stacker. Notify your overseer right now that you will be on hand, or begin to organize your road gang.
 County Overseer and
 E. M. Carl-Lee.
The Home news., 1921-06-17

Mrs. A. N. Middleton and baby Ralph, arrived Tuesday from Little Rock and are visit ing the formers sister, Mrs. w. T. Mccain and other rela- tives.
 For Sale: 120 acres of land described as follows l: East half of the southwest quarter and the southwest quarter of Section 23, town ship 8, Range 1, in Woodruff county. L. c. KURTZ, Own CT, N. Jefferson Ave-, Peoria, Illinois. Adv. 4-22-8tc.
The Home news., 1921-06-17
FREE SANITARY SERVICE

The citizens of the town of McCrory are requested to place all tin cans and rubbish in boxes and barrels outside their fence where it can be loaded on the truck - and hauled away from your prem ises free of charge on Tues day June 21, 1921.
 w. P. MUSGROVE,
 c. F. BEST,
 H. F. RIGGS, Adv 1tc. Sanitary Committee.
The Home news., 1921-06-17
NEGRO LOSES LIMB

Bob Bright, age about 40 years, a negro tenant on the billiard farm, accidentally shot himself with a shot gun while in a boat Thursday. The gun was lying in the boat and the load passed through his limb just below the knee. pr. Fraser accompanied the victim to Memphis where his limb was amputated.
The Home news., 1921-06-17
GENERAL DIRECTORY
Courts-Northern District

February and August.
 CHANCERY COURT-Second Mon- day in January, May and ~.t ember.
 COUNTY COURT-First Monday in January, April, July and October
 PROBATE COURT-Fourth Monday in January, April, July and October.
 Courts-Southern District
 CIRCUIT COURT-First Monday In March and September
 CHANCERY COURT-Third Monday in January, May and ~'ember.
 COUNTY COURT-Second Monday in January, April July and October.
 PROBATE COURT-First Monday following that of the Northern Dis
The Home news., 1921-06-17
District and Go. Officials

Circuit Judge. ......J. M. Jackson Pros.Atty. ........John E. Miller ChanceryJudge AL. Hutchins State Senator, ..........Ed Roddy Representative E. w. Clancy Sheriff and Col, w. N. Wilkes County Judge ----E. M. Carl-Lee County Clerk Roy Mitchell Circuit Clerk, ....Geo .Haralson Treasurer -----.----E. E. Blaylock Surveyor, Alex Bellis Assessor, .......... Chas. Jackson Sup't Schools -.-.J. T. Caughley
 McCrory City Officials
 Mayor --.-..---Dr. c. P. Harris Marshal, ,----Chas. Anderson Recorder -.-------V. B. Huff Treasurer, ....Geo. w. Barber
 Aldermen: R. A. Drewery, Geo. Raymond, HIP. Riggs,Jr., w. P. Musgrove and T. E. Dye.
 School Directors
 McCRORY SPECIAL-J. J. P. Taylor, Pres; c. c. Nc Crory, Sec. L. J. billiard, w. o. Scales, D. M. Huff and Walter w. Raney.
The Home news., 1921-06-17

Little Miss Mary Jane Dix on will leave Monday for a visit to friends in Stuttgart.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
Oil as a Peril of the Sea.

The careless casting OF oil into the
sea from oil burning and oil carrying
steamers is becoming a serious men
ace to the maritime and fishing in
dustries OF Great Britain and the
United States. In England the dan
ger to the fisheries from this source
has been pointed out by Sir ARTHUR
SEIPLEY, vice-chancellor Of Cambridge
University; and in New York the Bu-
reau OF Survey OF the Board OF Fire
Underwriters has recently published
a report on the fire hazard created
by the accumulation Of floating oil
on the piles OF piers and bulkheads
In this and other American harbors.
Costly fires arising In oil coated
structures along the water front have
occurred in Baltimore, Mobile and
Galveston on the Atlantic seaboard
and at Seattle on the Pacific.
Federal regulations established un-
der the authority of an act of Con-
sress forbid the discharge of fuel oil
into the waters OF the harbor OF New
York and mere self-interest on the
part of shipowners should prompt
them to exact greater care from the
men in charge OF their vessels to pre-
vent the negligent discharge Of oil
into the harbor; for the shipping
along the water front usually suffers
most OF all when a coniiagration re-
suits from the ignition of floating oil
or oil soaked piers and bulkheads.
or less Importance but by no means
wholly negligible Is the discomfort
caused to sea bathers by the presence
OF fuel oil in the waters OF the ocean.
Petitions have been presented to Con.
gress on the subject by the managers
OF bathing beaches on Long Island
and In New Jersey.
Most serious, on the other hand, is
the destruction OF ocean fisheries
which may result from the constan,
discharge into the Atlantic OF the
waste products OF the oil used for
fuel on SO many steamers. large and
small in place Of coal.
The food OF fishes consists chiefly
Of minute marine animals found near
the surface OF the water. The waste
oil thrown out upon the sea by
steamers has q destructive effect
upon theae orra niama ao that thev
lose their value as fish diet, and the
fishes are thus deprived Of their prin-
cipal means OF sustenance.
During the last three or four years
1t has been observed in England that
some factor detrimental to fish life
was at work in the.North Sea; and
Sir Arthur SHrPLEy. who 10 recog-
nized expert in marine zoology. has
The New York herald., 1921-09-12

the dispute settled for her own Sc
curity and the peace OF southern
Europe. More important to her. how
ever, is the fact that it will not be
settled by q coordination OF Jugo-
Slavia and Czecho-Slovakia. Such a
combination would bring about q
compact union OF the Slavs on the
east. peril which Italy always
feared and which she fought when
Russia was gathering in the Balkan
Serbs and stretching her hand out
for an outlet on the Adriatic. Tho
old controversy between Slav and
Latin thus remains. There could be
no more striking illustration than
this of the fact that the world war
left the old vital political problems
for Europe still to struggle with.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12

inents win DO made strictly BY me-"
fully understand" and my appoint
overlooking in so saying our insuiar
Magma Charta. which wisely prescribes
that his appointments shall be made
with the advice and consent Of the insu-
lar Senate.
We venture the statement that no
Governor Of a State would put his sig
nature to a letter like that, neither In
any State Of tho United States nor IN
any Of the Territories, only in Porto
Rico. For us islanders this Is a matter
Of ethics which, most unhappily, many
continentals fail to comprehend in the
development Of their colonial policy.
We also wish to make as emphatic
as possible the statement that we are
not affiliated with any Of the political
parties in the island: that our move
ment Of protest is nonpartisan and only
inspired in the desire Of success for a
policy which would defeat its own end
II carried too far. Finally. we arc en-
gagged in professions other than poll
tics: have no axes to grind one way
or the other, and would like to see in
tho island Of our birth peace ana good
will between all her Inhabitants, conti-
nentals and Pnsrtorriquefios.
GoNzALo O'NErLL.
JOSH J. RAMOS,
d. CoLLAzo.
NEW YORK, September 10.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
The River House.
From the Spectator.

From the Spectator.
From tower that seemed in sunset living
stone,
From shining tower and happy glowing
tree,
From russet roofs with the last glories
burned.
Out to the watermeads the lovers turned
And thin mists Matched along the lea
Where they were walking lone.
The mists from marshy hollows rose and
rolled,
The sun dipped down, the weir was
heard again;
And In the colder light the bell tower
frowned
Above the housetops In old apathy
drowned.
Sad swayed the oak and autumn's com.
ing then
His secret voice foretold.
But they are gone and crossed the
bridge. and far
They see the water boarding UP the
light.
They wrap themselves about with ear
nest love
And feel nor mist neither the suns re.
move,
Then pass into their cottage In delight
And thence the bleak night bar.
FOR love dare tarry By the loneliest Zen
Nor trembles though the mist rise evil
thence,
Nor listens to the water speaking clear
In exuitation at the ancient weir
Tho summers gone. the recompense--
Well may brave oaks quail then"
And / upon my solitary way
While the huge shadow fell, had my
love.
Tho lonely lands. the dim airs, muir.
mur strange
OF midnight bade me like the wildfre
range
BY dark town, ruin, DELPHI and grove
with the spirit of swift decay.
EDMUND BLuNpEE.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
For Those Out Of Work.
Free Employment Bureaus . Better
Remedy Than an Investigation.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: There
Is no need of q committee with high
salaried staf 10 study the unemploy-
ment situation In this city. Such COM
mittee would be n waste Of money.
There is nothing for II TO do or to
investigate. We know there are a great
many poor men and women out Of work.
They want employment.
What Is much needed is free employ
ment Offices where poor men and women
can register and state what they can
do. Let number OF places be opened
downtown. uptown and all over the
city. Two clerks at a moderate salary
in each Office; the city to run and ad-
vertise such places. No need of high
paid officials at all 10 sit in an office.
Poor men and women are being
fieeced in private agencies. paying from
SIS to $40 for a Job. II they have no
money then they can starve and die.
FREQ employment offices are much
needed all over. They are a long felt
want. JOHN HENRY SMIrH.
NEW YORK, September 10.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
The Futurity's Lasting Interest.

The Futurity, won at Belmont
Park on Saturday by Bunting, sur
passes In interest all other racing
events among those who have to do
with the breeding Of thoroughbreds
in the United States and Canada.
II was planned primarily as stim-
ulus to the breeding industry.
The race, from its beginning in
the sos. carried it's own appeal. 1t
was able to survive even the
period of hostility to racing which
was manifest everywhere through
out the Union between 1908 and
1910. From the peak in 1890, when
the race was worth $4,000 to the
first AUGUST BELMONT, who ran first
and second with Potomac and
Masher, it reached its lowest ebb In
1913, when HARRY PAYNE WHITNEY's
Pennant received an award Of $15,-
060 for finishing first. The increase
since that year has been gradual,
w. ~. DALAoN . otCp Li5Atiy SuA IA
ing $35,6S0 last season.
With the passing OF the Coney
Island Jockey Club more than a
decade ago, the Futurity was be.
queathed to the Westchester Racing
Association, whose membership EN-.
Traced many Of those who had been
prominent in the councils OF the
Coney Island Jockey Club. The
breeding industry was revitalised
when it was learned that the West
chester management would preserve
the classic. BY a wise provision
special awards Of $500 and $3.50
we're added to the original breeders
prize for second and third horses
respectively at the finish. AS re-
suit there were 945 nominations for
this years event. The Futurity Of
1923, which closed last January, has
more than 1900 entries.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
Corn Is King This Year.

Anybody who wants to prove that
dehation soured the farmers and
caused them to curtail their crops
unnecessarily will have to look else
where than the Government report
on the corn crop for his statistical
proof. Last year the corn crop was
3,232, 10000 bushels, the largest har-
vest of that cereal on record. 1t was
not hard to understand the reason
for so large crop. In the spring of
1920, when the seed was going into
the ground, corn was selling at $3.50
a bushel. Who wouldn't put in a
few extra acres at that price?
But corn seed was drilled in to a
different tune in the spring of this
year. The market price had dropped
to S5 cents bushel. with prospects
Of even lower prices. The present
price of corn is around SO cents a
bushel.
These discouraging financial pros.
poets did not put the corn farmer in
q sulky mood. Instead of curtailing
production he increased it. The
number OF acres planted to corn was
108,901 900, an increase OF Al per
cent. over the 1920 acreage. De-
spite all the adverse factors of
weather. credit and falling markets
the crop will be, according to tho
Government forecast for September
/. 3,186, 900, 900 bushels. The decline
from the yield OF last year is so
small as to be negligible.
Wheat, with 80 per cent. of the 1920
acreage, and prospective harvest
of 754, 900 900 bushels, compared with
7S7,000,000 last year; oats, with an
acreage 31s per cent. larger than last
year, but a harvest reduced by ad-
verse weather conditions to 1,090,-
00O.0 bushels, compared with 1885,
000,00 last year; white potatoes and
sweets with larger acreage though
smaller yields, and all the other
crops, except tobacco. fax, rice and
cotton, with their planted area 80
per cent. or more Of the 1920 acre
age, leave small grounds for COM
plaint on any score.
When all the handicaps and risks
Of agriculture during the season
now drawing to an end are consid-
cred, the crop situation as whole
is eminently satisfactory. Corn is
king this year as usual, and in its
habit Of growing sturdily and COM
placently in spite of adverse condi-
tions, it is the symbol Of the nation
which devotes SO much soil and en-
ergy to its cultivation.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
Relief for the Farmers.
Cheaper Labor as q Substitute for
Government Loan.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: II ap-
pears that farmers are to go into debt
further, to the extent perhaps OF ST.
000, 100000. There are about 100000
farmers In the country and their main
expense, like other producers, Is for
labor. There are reported to be about
an equal number OF men unemployed. A
large percentage OF these can be EN-
ployed in forests. farms and home build
ing-rcnt lowering-if they will accept
wages that the public-the unemployed
in part--can afford.
II our farmers on the average employ
one man each all the year at $50 q
month. then by reducing this to $50 they
would save s2,16o. 10000. 900. II they
hired more men they would also employ
men out Of work. produce moro and
furnish more freight for railways and
ships In both directions. with the advan-
tages all around that should follow.
Real wages are of course not the
money wages but their purchasing
power. and increased production with
lower money wages should benefit all.
more than the opposite accompanied by
increased debts and increased credits.
The farmer has better machinery,
seeds, breeding stock, fertilizers. trans
on---sometimes--and knowledge Of
scientific farming than ever before.
Could not lower prices than ever before
be reasonably expected?
IL the credit system Of tho country
about to be strained without due reason?
This Is the viewpoint which should be
considered by farmers, labor, the pub
lie, Eugene Meyer. Jr.. Herbert Hoover
and Mr.. Mellon. Secretary Of the Treas
ury. FORESTER.
F'REnHoLp, ". j.. September 10.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12

Every anti-Tammany voter who Is
going to support CURRAN at the pri-
maries tomorrow for the Mayoralty
nomination can do some fine work
for this city to-day by making it his
special business to impress upon
other enrolled anti-Tammany voters
the very great Importance OF adding
their primary ballots to the count
for CURRAN.
No matter how sure anybody feels
CURRAN is of carrying the Republi-
can primaries and thus being nomi-
mated for Mayor. as important In
this campaign as his nomination is
1t that he should sweep the primaries
clean from one end Of the city OF
New York to the other.
The way to start of this campaign
to put HyLAN out of the City Hall
and take the municipal government
out of the clutches of MURPHY is to
carry the primaries for CURRAN with
rush. This will convince the doubt
full voter that the anti-Tammany
forces are solidly united, and the
doubtful voter knows that Tammany
is always defeated when the opposi-
tion to it is undivided. The doubtful
voter wants to know that a coali.
tion against Tammany is in earnest
and has on its fighting boots before
he jumps into the fray. When he
goes in with fusion 1t is all over but
the shouting.
If LA GUARpIA could be nominated
he could not win against HYLAN.
HASKELL could not win. BENNETT
could not. A primary ballot for any
one of those three candidates, there
fore, would be Of more use to Tam
many in its possible consequences
than 1t could be to LA GUABDIA or
HASKELL or BENNETT. But IL the
great majority of the anti-Tammany
primary votes go to CUHRAN to-mor-
row his overwhelming plurality for
the nomination will put the fear OF
Cop into the heart of the Murphy
outfit, and Tammany never yet de-
feated any fusion ticket that 1t was
afraid Of.
Let the Curran supporters. there
fore, get on the job this day Of piling
up great primary plurality with the
help OF their friends as we'll as of
themselves for CuRRAN, the only Hy-
Ian opponent who can be elected
Mayor OF New York.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
Porto Rico's Governor.
An Explanation from the Organizers
Of n Meeting in This City.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: We read
with great gusto your editorial article
in which you endeavored to defend Gov
ernor Reilly Of Porto Rico from the
charges which were the subject OF the
meeting organized by US as a committee
Of three members OF the Porto Rican
colony In New York and held last Sun
day. Though we are In perfect accord
with the article AZ to the fundamental
question discussed therein. namely. an
nexation VS.. independence. the motives
which the article apparently ascribcs
to us for calling the meeting are widely
at variance with the facts. and we re-
spcctfully beg tho hospitality Of your
columns in Justice to ourselves and the
truth In the island.
Our objection to the Hon. e. Mont
Reilly as Governor OF Porto Rico does
not spring from his policies. which would
be all right IL developed through suave.
conciliatory and diplomatic methods be-
coming a United States ofiicial In a
Latin American country, as Porto Rico
undoubtedly Ia, but from his line OF
thought. from his style--using literary
term--which, TO our minds. will bring
results inimicai to his purpose. We nj.
ready know OF proofs that such Is the
case, ss ne has aiienated many island
ers who otherwise favor at bottom his
governmental programme.
Precisely you quote In the article de-
Tending the new Governor the most un-
felicitous specimen OF that which we call
his style, as we believe 1t highly Inn
proper for q chief executive to address
the president OF the insular senate---no
matter who he may be. either pro-
American or indsssndent---with such au-
The New York herald., 1921-09-12

recently proclaimed his belief that
the fatal agent Is oil discharged from
oil burning steamers. On his last
voyage home from the United States
he noticed that even SO well built a
vessel as the mighty Olympic could
not help leaking q little oil occasion
ally, and . very little oil can do ar
incredible amount OF damage TO the
dlminutiye aquatic animals upon
which fishes feed. "Whatever boat
carries OIL" he says, ''or uses oil aa
fuel Is from time to time or all
the time amounting the face OF the
waters"
Confirmation OF th;s view Is found
In the fatal effects oe oil on seabirds
observed last winter at various coast
stations in Great Britain, where gull
lemots, cormorants and seagulls were
cast ashore dead with their feathers
clogged with oil.
The remedy for the danger to the
ocean fisheries which these warnings
reveal would seem to be tolerably OBJ
vious. The practice Of permitting oil
to get into the sea should simply be
stopped. The leakage of tankers can
doubtless be prevented by sufficiently
careful construction, and oil burning
steamers can be built which will
consume all of their oil instead of
wastefully pouring some OF it into
the sea. These precautions may in
volve dificulty and expense. but it is
worth a good deal Of trouble to save
the great fisheries of the Atlantic
Ocean from destruction or serious
diminution in productiveness. The
substitution of oil for coal as a fuel
for ocean steamers must not be al
lowed to destroy or lessen one Of the
great food supplies OF the world.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
AT ATLANTIC CITY HOTELS.

Special Despatch to THE NEW yonK HunAIp.
ATLANTIC CRY, N. j.. Sept. 1f.--Mrs.
D. Emerson Mcvickar OF New York has
arrived at the Ritx-Carlton.
Dennis-Mr. and Mrs. Il. c. Strefiier.
Mr.. 70. G. Strefiier. Mr.. H. M. Streffier.
Mr.. II. d. Williams. who came together,
and the Misses Rose and Marion Kelly.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mrs. Jesse
Fuller. Jr., who was accompanied by
Miss Catherine Fuller: Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Pierson, Miss Stella NJ Wage
man. Mr.. F. s. Young, Jr., Richmond
Hill. and Miss Hulda Johnson.
Traymore-Mrs. Caleb r. Hanmill,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Rennie, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kilbourne Gordon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy Moore. Mr.. Douglas s. Bright and
Miss Frances Kinnan.
Ambassador-Mrs. Bennett J. King,
Mr.. Robert Gair. Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. e.
Palmer Burnhan. Mr.. and Mrs. I. Oscar
Meyer. Mr.. and Mrs. II. r. Ratcliffe
and Miss Bessie Ratclifre.
Rear Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN, U. S.
n. (retired). IL at the Marlborough
Blenheim.
The New York herald., 1921-09-12
How Long Can We Stand Il?

The German indemnity trade men
ace is showing some astounding de-
velopments in a situation where
excessive American production and
handling costs make it impossible
fer our goods to sell in markets which
naturally belong to us.
Example No. 1: A New York ex.
porter found he could no longer bid
low enough with American products
to hold his business in San Juan,
Porto Rico, although he had the bene-
fit of no tariff duties into Porto Rico
on his American goods, while other
countries must pay the Porto Rico
tariff. So he bought the goods in
Germany, shipped them from Ham
burg, paid the freight from Hamburg,
paid the Porto Rico duty and got
into San Juan with his German goods
at low enough price to hold his
business-to Germany's gain.
Example No. 2: A New York ex-
porter could make at this port for
shipment to Santiago, Cuba. a price
on certain article to beat slightly
the German price at Hamburg Of q
similar article seeking export mar
kets. But an ocean freight rate all
the way from Hamburg to Santiago,
Cuba, could be negotiated so much
lower than the freight rate for the
shorter distance from New York to
Santiago that the New York exporter
to hold his Santiago business was
compelled to buy in Germany and de-
liver from Hamburg to his Santiago
customers. He kept his business, but
the United States lost it.
Example No. 8: A New York
broker, unable to deliver certain
luality OF newsprint paper in Port
land, Oregon, because Of the shipping
costs from our Atlantic seaboard to
our Pacific seaboard through the
Panama Canal, discovered that he
could buy the paper in Germany and
ship it all the way to Portland, Ore
gon, through the Panama Canal for
less than half the freight charge
from the American Atlantic port to
the American Pacific port. So he
filed the order with the German
product bought and delivered from
Hamburg. And not the least inter
esting feature Of this incident is the
fact that the same steamship com
pany did the carrying for him from
Germany to Oregon through the Pan
anna Canal for less than one-half
what it wanted for doing the carry
ing for him from our Atlantic sea-
board to our Pacific seaboard.
The German indemnity is being
paid. but on such basis how long
can we stand it? How long can the
Allies, who are getting the indemnity
but also getting the trade loss that
we are getting. stand It?