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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27
Not Colon, But Bud"

The Post-Dispatch last issue had
the wrong name in connection with
the Supreme court items, wherein it
was made to appear that Colon
OBrien" was fined $50 and costs for
gambling. The name should have
been Bud O'Brien.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27
Welch-Gibson.

Miss Dora M. Gibson, of Wat
son Heights, and Mr.. John WEIGH,
of Lumberton, Route 6, were
married in Robson county Jan.
10th. The couple will make their
home in Robson; their friends
wish them every happiness,
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27
COlored Teachers.

There will be a meeting of the
colored teachers of Richmond coun-
ty at the colored school at Rock
ingham on Saturday, January Goth,
at II o'clock.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27

Debators from the University 81
North Carolina defeated debators
from the University of Pennsylvania
Saturday night the subject being
the exclusion of immigration for two
years. This brings the Universitv's
record against Pennsylvania up e
six victories to one defeat.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27

A. C. Honecutt, of Albemarle,
has bought the Troy Montgomerian,
and assumed charge with last
weeks issue. Brock Hurley was
the former editor.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27
Town News.

Arthur Greene, who has been in the
hospital for some time, is expected home
this week.
We hope for more news from town
next time.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27

The annual meeting of the Shrin-
crs of North America will be held
at Des Moines, Iowa, June IA, 10
and 16.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27
Dogs Plentiful.
(Contributed.)

There are % dogs on New street
Everything must be plentiful ovel
there. If you want to go hunting
come around.
(Signed,) GREAT FALLS"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-01-27

Statistics show that married men
live seven years longer than bach
elors, on the average, and married
women five years longer than spin
fs3cs.s
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
WHAT is THE MATTER WITH FRANCE?

France, which country was supposed to have been bled
white in the recent world upheaval-
France. which country has suffered most from war and
which was supposed to want peace more than anything
else
France, it seems-this same Francis now playing
the role of the frebrand in the present conference of nations
which has for its object the reduction of armament for the
purpose of the better assuring the peace of the world.
America is surprised at France. 1t was supposed that
France would be one of the strongest hackers of the move
ment to advance the cause of peace.
France has everything to gain and nothing to lose. Arm
as she may, unless there is an agreement among nations to
limit armament France will soon be ou%tstripped.
The population of France is diminishing. The country
is suffering from race suicide, as Teddy Roosevelt would
call it. Under the circumstances therefore, what chance is
there for France if unlimited competition in armament is to
go on?
The United States. Great Britain, Japan-all show a
disposition to look at the matter in the right light. 1t re-
mains for France to throw the monkey wrench into the
machinery.
1t is France that would keep the world alame.
France. mortgaged as she is up TO more than sixty per
cent. of her natural wealth, would continue to sink untold
billions in war preparation when all the rest of the world is
sick and tired of such a waste and would get together to
bring about relief.
What has come over France, anyway? She says she is.
still afraid of Germany. But Germany is helpless at present
and once Germany gets on her feet again, if there is no world
agreement for limitation of armament she can soon overtake
France and then France will be as bad off as ever.
France is making a mistake. She is losing much of the
sympathy she gained, not only in this country but through
out the world. This sympathy and friendship. that she is
sacrificing is worth more to her than all the Warships and
submarines that she can build.
Here's hoping that France will wake up before it is too
late She cannot afford to stand out against the other great
powers and make a mess of the great disarmament move
ment that is now on.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
LEAGUE FRIENDS WILL BACK TREATY

Every friend of the League of Nations ought also to be
4 friend of the four Power treaty that has been drawn up by
the Washington conference on the limitation of armament.
The four-Power treaty for the guarantee of peace in the Pa
ciic proposes to do in a small way what the League of Ma
lions was organized to do in a big way. If we cannot have
The big way we will take what we can get, therefore the
work of the Washington conference is to be encouraged.
President Harding is right in saying that whether or not
the treaty includes the homeland of Japan is inconsequential,
fbe main thing is to reach an agreement regarding peace.
,nent guaranteeing the protection of every nation and as the
four-power treaty is a decided step in that direction it is to
be welcomed.
The only difference between the League of Nations adj
vocates and those who oppose the League of Nations but who
favor the four Power treaty, is that the friends of the League
of Nations would go the whole way toward bringing about
peace in the world, including all the nations, whereas those
who can see only as far as the four-POwer treaty would limit
the peace move to the Pacific only leaving the rest of the
world TO stir up as much turmoil as it chooses. Perhaps,
though. the real difference is to be found only in ones at
titude toward Woodrow Wilson. The Wilson haters will not
hermit the League of Nations TO be mentioned in their pres
ence, but find in the four-POwer treaty a move toward peace
that gives them a chance to square themselves with their
conscience.
There is every reason 10 rejoice at the adoption of the
four-Power treaty no matter how it may be Interpreted. 1t
is fine as far as it goes. Some minds are not great enough
10 grasp the full meaning of the League of Nations all at
once: and then some minds are so narrow that personal
hatred and jealousy very often obscure the finer and nObler
things in the world.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

/, es. Other girls SCI up little shops
and sold handwork or novelties.
Some serve tea. Shows and benefits
have been given.
How Girls Earn Money
All sorts of talents are being turn
ed TO account in the Girls' efforts to
ear their pledge money Alumnae
and undergraduates are driving au-
tomobiles. making and selling pre-
serves and doughnuts, painting
fences and furniture and giving pro-
grams of music and dancing.
Other girls have gone out collect
ing. The Plumbers Union and the
Carpenters Union of one city each
gave SIS to a fund, because they
were interested in helping an un-
drepaid line of work t attend to a
more suitable standard.
In all leir ventures in making
and collecting funds. the students
are getting practice in dealing with
people on business terms. They
learn something of the value of a
dollar. This work is a typical ex-
ample of how colleges are trying to
give practical experience to girls.
The modern gicls' college claims
to be a complete democracy, a small
state in itself. with student officers
and councils. student-run athletics
and dramatlcs, perhaps a commun-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27

and only a few harmless reptiles.
But one pestiferous creature is
omnipresent-a wicked looking red
crab. Some of these creatures at
tain a size of nine inches across the
back. They do not CONNIE themselves
to the shore sands, but range all
over the island, and always in
groups. Sometimes armies of them
march along. They even climb the
trees and feast on the succulent nipa
palms. As an offset to the crabs the
island, unlike practically every 9TH
or tropical land, is mosquitoes. This
boon it owes to its porous soil and
steep slopes. Even in the rainy sea-
son there is no standing water.
"A Vegetable Pariah.
For one of it's features Christ
mas Island may be said to be in
famous rather than famous. 1t is a
tree. believed not to exist elsewhere,
which is described by one Disguised
visitor to the island as emitting the
most disagreeable odor in the
world With a trunk as sturdy as
an oak and leaves as graceful as
those of an aspen, it gives to the eye
no indication of it's rue character.
But its scent permeates the air for
hundreds of feet in every direction;
and if one is unfortunate enough to
so much as touch its bark or leaves,
nothing short of repeated scrub
bings with strong carbolic soap will
make him again fit for human So
ciety.
Rich deposits of phosphate of
lime occur on Christmas Island, a
fact to which it owes such impor-
lance as it possesses in ~non-eelipse
years. A phosphate company regu-
larly takes shiploads of the mineral
from the island to Singapore where
it is marketed as fertilizer. More
than 1000 coolies, mostly Chinese,
are engaged in the mining opera
tons, and with the overseers, Sikh
police and company agents, consti-
tute the islands made-to-order pop
ulation. The island is a British pos
session, having been annexed in 1888
after the discovery of the rich fer
tilizer deposits.
christmas Island has been chosen
as the chief observation point for the
1922 eclipse of the sun because 1t is
not only in the belt CT totally hut the
sun will be obscured there at a time
when it is high in the heavens
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
Learn One New Thing Every Day
HRIsTMas ISLAND: WHERE HE sun MAY YIELD A SECRET.
BULLETINS BY THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Christmas Island, in the Indian
ocean, n of the several bits of land
that lonely voyagers have come upon
in the holiday season and have
named accordingly, may play an inn
portant part in the further checking
up of the Einstein theory, accord
ing to press reports from London.
The Royal Observatory at Greenwich
is planning to send to the tiny island
shortly after the first of the year an
expedition equipped with good-sized
telescopes to observe next Sepeem-
ber's total eclipse of the un. A
Dutch astronomical party may also
install its instruments there.
The island is the subject of the
following bulletin from the Wash
ington, d. c., headquarters of the
National Geographic Society:
Land of Trec-C Climbing Crabs.
Christmas Island has been de-
scribed by travellers as at once me
of the loneliest and loveliest spots
in the world. And its possession of
tree-climbing crabs and a super
scented tree gives it a right to be
classed as one of the queereSt.
Java, its nearest neighbor to the
north, is $50 miles away, the little
Cocos Islands lie more than 600
miles to the west, Australia is 1000
miles to the southeastward, while to
the south the waters of the Indian
ocean are unbroken by even the
smallest islands until the lands
around the South Pole are reached
at a distance of nearly 1000 miles.
The island, twelve miles long by nine
| miles broad, is in reality made up of
slopes and top of a huge mountain
peak. Soundings show that if the
waters of the ocean were drained
away a rough pyramid $4,000 feet
high would stand alone in a plain.
the present island forming the last
1000 feet of it's slopes.
1.-THE island is believed to be
unique in that it is probably the
only tropical island capable of sus-
tanning a population which had new
err been peopled until after its dis
covery by Europeans. Except where
! sheer rock walls occurr it is heavily
wooded from the waters edge to the
summit. Cocoanut and sage palms as
well as many other tropical trees
grow in profusion. Beneath them is
a tangle of tropical underground,
but in this jungle are no wild beasts
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
SHOULD. PROFESSORS EAT?

ity theatre with girl electricians and
costume designers and all the rest Of
the theatre staff Cne college has a
census bureau which registers girls
and their abilities ard in~clinations.
1t sees that no girl has too many
outside interests and it brings out
the bashful students who might be
swept along with the crowd through
out college.
The faculty members, too, in a
modern college, has to be more than
a learned reciuse. The demands OF
practical education bring teachers
into closer touch with the students.
Most of their time ia required. Yet
the instructors can rarely afford to
give themselves up wholly to their
college work.
Even if q professor manages to
live on the salary paid by the col
lege, he has to think of the future.
The Carnegie Pensions offer some
help. But they retire professors on
only a little more than so per cent of
Their pay. So the college teacher
must save something for old age.
Generally ne does it by adding out
side work 70 an already crowded
program. The salary fund cam
paigus are not going to eliminate
financial worry entirely from college
teaching, but they arc a step in the
direction OF that millennium.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
YOUTH
BY DIR. w. Z. BARTON

I gaze into each others eyes or hold
each others hands. and they under
stand.
All this seems to all the rest of the
world a very silly process. The rest
of the world smiles and makes merry
over it.
But it is a somewhat important
process.
1t is one stage in the return to
normally; and that return has to be
made over a new road.
1t is not simply a disease of
adolescence: 1t is a process by which
a life discovers itself in being dis
covered.
Emerson has a chapter some-
whede which. il you ever run across
1t, 10 worth reading, His remark
about those two young people of
whom we were speaking. is, that
thereafter they become good citi-
zous.
That is an achievement worth
while.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27

O. Is the size OF a si.liard table
the same in England as IL is here?
j. l.. w.
a. The playing area of the Eng
lish tabl is 6 feet by ION feet. The
standard size in America is 5 feet
by 10 feet. In many clubs. homes
and some public billiard rooms. ta-
bles Az feet by Q feet are used. In
America the game Of billiards is
played on a carom table. the table
with pockets being reserved for the
game of pool.
Q. Where does lightning come
from &C. McC.
A. The Weather by f. b. Dunn
says in part: I'm clear weather the
atmosphere is almost invariably
charged with positive electricity: in
cloudy or rainy weather the condi-
tions may change with the greatest
rapidity from positive to negative.
The electrical discharge may take
place between two clouds, or be-
tween a charged cloud and The
earth, in which case the path of
least resistance is taken between thyt
objects. The lightning is lumin-
ously heated air along the path OF
tie discharge.
Q. What does Ruskin say about
mioney?-E. A.
A. Ruskin says that money is not
d medium OF exchange, but is d
power over men. If this were not
true men wouldn't want money,
but would be willing to exchange
labor.
@. What is the difference between
pronouncing vowels in English and
French ?-B. @.
A. In English the lips close in
~rronouncing them. In French the
lips are kept in the same position
md the sound Is short.
Q. Just what is meant by inertia?
&C. II. Fl.
A. Inertia is that inherent quality
Of matter which makes it necessary
to have force to put it into motion.
@. How man sailors enlisted in the
Navy during the World War;.
y. P.
o. At the time we declared war,
there were 90. 900 men m the May.
100000 enlisted during h war ami
$4,000 saw service in the Navy
during the conflict.
@. Have we shipped n gold or
silver to Porto Rico within the past
two years?-H. i. i.
A. No gold has been sent TO Porto
Rico during this period. but in 1929
$4,000 was shipped in domestic
coins, and in the first 10 months
of 1921 $357.S50 in domestic coins.
Q. Please tell me of IL shrub ~
snail tree that will produce imme-
date effect in summer for a back
ground screen and will be quick
growing, be at least five or six feet
tall. evergreen if possible, and not
attractive to goats ami cattle as
food?-A. M. c.
A. The Department of A~griculturd
says that the mountain laurel comes
nearer to filling our requirements
than any other plant they know.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
BRINGING MATTERS TO q HEAD

City Attorney G%oldberger has acted with commendable
promptness in looking after the citys interest in the two
legal actions that have been taken against the municipality.
Two writs have been served on the city, one attempting to
prevent the redistricting of the city so as to make the division
OF wards more equitable, and the other tending to prevent
the city from granting one of the local industries permission
to lay a siding that is necessary for the expansion of the
company's business.
Without waiting for the writs TO be returnable the city
attorney has applied to the court for the dismissal of both.
The purpose is to bring both matters to a head promptly so
kaf the city may know what it is up against.
Every man is entitled to a hearing and the sooner he has
e better. 1t will be interesting to hear what an al
per disintercsted party, such as the state judiciary, has
ON these two projects. The city attorney is losing no
finding out
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
PUBLIC OPINION
ENTERTAINMENT IN
T0JVENVUIE

Editor Evening News:
The average person has hardly
any idea of the tremendous emount
Of work and worry that is ~entailed
with the breaking in of the juvenile
element for any sort of play. 1t
requires constant drilling and
coaching on the part of the INC at
the head of it and the hardest kind
of study on the part of those in the
cast. If the rendering of such play
proves a success, well and good; if
not-good night to use a common
phrase. 1T is by hard work only
that success can be achieved. This
vas proven beyond a doubt by the
presentation of the Christmas play,
entitled Love" at Masonic Hall on
Thursday evening.
The success of this play is pri-
marily due to the constant and per-
severing efforts of Mrs. Herbert AZ
Raynes, who for the past few weeks
has been extremely busy in making
the various characters understand
their parts to such an extent that
each individual actually felt the
part he or she represented, and the
combined action of all was such a
success as is seldom found in anna
ttlAA LIltdLtlEdlN. 1llt 3polbIilto dISD
were largely her own creation and
helped wonderfully to enhance the
beauty of the play.
Love" is a pretty little story,
pathetic in a way, but full of beau
tifuI bits of sentiment. The love IN
this play is not of the "spooning''
sort of love frequently found among
young folks in the rays of a silvery
moon-far from it. The love around
which this play circles is the uni
versal love that one is expecting to
find about this time of year partic-
ularly. 1t seemed to have been lost
somewhere amidst the strife of later
years; perhaps hearts had been
hardened owing to the existing tur-
moil and devastation of war-weary
countries. or the finer sense of those
participating in that horrible strug-
gle had been smothered to such ar
extent that they hesitated to foster
that feeling of love so vital to man
kind and TO the universe. Mother
Goose. Santa Claus, fairies and
what-not looked for the spirit OF
Love in Santa's woods, but could
not find Love.
1t remained for an American boy
(Noel Roberts) and girl (EleanoT
Pagnod) to rekindle that long-lost
but snoldering spark of love. They
found two Belgian waits and assist
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27

There comes a period in youth
when the young man orwoman IS
very likely to feel a sense of isola-
ton. The boy thinks himself a man
ard can find no n who shares h:a
opinion.
The girl thinks herself a woman
and is troubled because she still is
treated as q child. They grow sad
end solitary.
Then they meet each other.
And that is a great event.
Each one discovers that the other
also, is misunderstood.
My father does not understand
me: my mother does not understand
ine; the people with whom l asso-
ciate are all stupid and cannot APP
preciate my high ideals; my teachers
give me bad marks: nobody under
stands me but YOU"
They come to understand each
other so well that they cease to need
language. They can simply sit ami
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
BY DR.. II. I'll. BISHOP

There is no known universal
remedy for sleeplessness.
A healthy child never has insom-
MIA. His sleep may be disturbed
but that is due to errors of diet or
emotional auses.
Insomnia usually aris>s; from such
causes as worry, grief, overwork and
business cares. They should have
been dismissed at the bedroom door.
The mind carrying these matters to
bed turns each worry over and over
until exhaustion brings respite or
daylight comes.
Some say that If you relax and lie
passive you will thereby dismiss
restlessness and sleeplessness, but
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-27
HOW TO AVOID O M
COMMON SENSE WAYS TO KEEP WE'LL

lhat doesn't always WORK. 1t re-
quires a mental effort and may end
in increased wakefulness and dis
turbance.
A prolonged warm bath often
helps TO lure drowsineSS and sleep.
Sometimes reading an amusing
book or drinl. a glass of warm milk
will do the trick.
Counting 100 forward and back
ward, repeating the multiplication
table or saying some phrases an in
definite number of times are posi-
bilities that may be tried.
9 Some people have found that
words suggestive of sleep repeated
over and over in slow succession
will often invoke sleep.
ed them and eventually caused hap
piness to reign where gloom and
misery had been before.
But now to the performers: Helen
Chapman as Mistletoe and Hazel
Seller as Holly did nobly, while
Eunice Chapman certainly acted
her part of Mother Goose to per-
lection; Grace Hallowell was an ex-
cellent fairy godmother; Theodore
Itogers.rominded one of Charles
Dickens odd characters in high hat
and the necessary get up" of old
time quacks. Emeline Newman,
Anna Wilkins and Ruth Labarh as
Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and
Sleeping Beauty did exceedingly
well and carried their parts in fine
style.
1t remained for Myrtle Thayer as
Belgian girl and Eugene Laird as
Belgian boy to depict some of the
misery left over from the World
War. Both were the pictures of the
lowest degree of despair and DESC
lation and finely interpreted the
parts allotted To them. But oh YOU
Jack Frost! Here Harry Newman
proved he ) in his element and
MS he and the little fairies-with
Margaret Quimby as queen and
Mildred Langford, Olive Gunst and
the tiny Misses J~oline-daneed
about in jolly fashion they were
well received. Harry was one of
the hits of the evening. Edwin
Hughes as Boy Blue and Dorothy
Ogier as Bo-Peep did their part
nicely. The Spirit of Love as repre-
sented by Miss Louise Seller de-
erves special mention and her eff
forts were well received.
Last but not least, good old
fashioned Santa Claus; there isn't
a boy or girl alive today who is not
ware of his doings and whose pres
ence is always appreciated. Mr.. j.
Slayter ("Uncle Joe" as he is more
Familiarity known by the juvenile
actors) im-personated this celebrat-
ed individual to perfection. II
you'd look the world over you
couldn't find the equal of Uncle
joe" He was there in looks, gen
eral bearing and speech-eVen To
the distribution Of toys, etc. Be-
sides. it may be mentioned, Mr..
Slayter had no small part in the
general management and the
breaking in" of the raw element.
> All through the play were hits, as,
for instance. the singing of up
side Down" by the two testers
Holly and Mistletoe. which brought
down the house. All in all. it was
a fine effort and the result was
success" and each and every one
has surely earned a Merry Christ
mas. +. r, N.
Tottenville. Dec. 20. 1921.