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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
THE DAMNEDEST THING
II. S. WARD EVER SAW
Your Congressman Drifts Out on The
"Flood Tide of Republican Prosper
ity and Exclusive Americanism"

Hon. Hallet S. Ward, Congressman
from the First Congressional District
OF North Carolina doesn't think much
of these so called labor auctions by
which the unemployed in many cities
are put up at auction and sold to the
highest bidder. Under date of Oct. "a
Mr. Ward writes to this newspaper as
follows:
81 have been hearing and reading
and seeing pictures of these labor auc-
tions that seem to have commenced in
Boston, and have swept over the cities
in their flood tide of Republican pros
perity and exclusive Americanism. Last
night I saw in The Star, notice of one
of The things to be held at No. 225
Pennsylvania Avenue. I quit everything
and went and saw it out with my own
eyes. Immense crowd; numbers of
young men, many in uniform, standing
around in a hall; a preacher and an
auctioneer; talking. singing patriotic
songs, etc. Presently the man in charge
announced that he could not get a city
auctioneer on account of pressure
brought to bear by the city government.
The sale of labor has been regarded
as similar to the sale of the man. which
is unlawful, so he had fallen upon the
plan of selling the fellows bed by
number, with the responsibility to the
purchaser to take the fellow that
sleeps on it and to furnish the young
man labor at 80 cents an hour. So
fifty beds, Qitt1e iron cots) were sold
off to somebody representing some
charitable institutions. Tears were
seen in many eyes as the leader, g
splendid talker, commenced and two
policemen stepped to the front ant
stood in a few steps of him ant
watched him. Taking the whole thins
all up and down and through and round
it was the damnedest thing ever saw.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
BOARD O. HEALTH
ENGINEER HERE
Confers With Aldermen Prelim-
mary to Abolishing City's
Gravest Menace

H. E. Miller, engineer of the
Bureau of Sanitation Of the
State Board of Health arrived in
Elizabeth City yesterday to deal
with the unsanitary privy prob
lem in this city and its suburbs.
.ME,<-A -AIiIfeEa~svas~.@iI iIa..-.sApferenee
with the Board of Aldermen as
this newspaper went to press
Thursday afternoon and indica-
tions are that the Board Of Al
dermen will cooperate with the
State Board of Health in the So
luton of the city's gravest san
itary problem.
Engineer Miller had been in the city
only a few hours yesterday when he
was convinced that there is only one
practical solution to the problem here.
1t is probable that within the next three
or four years Elizabeth City will have
better sewerage facilities than it now
has. Therefore it would be econom-
ically unsound and otherwise inadvis-
able to compel the owners of ground
toilets to construct cement vaults or
pits or put in costly aseptic tanks. On
the other hand the ground pit type of
privy which is comparatively inexpens-
i've is not to be considered at all in
this section where the water supply is
so near the surface.
Engineer Miller recommends the box
and can type of privy to take the place
of the ground privies now generally IN
use where there is no sewerage. This
would require an inexpensive remodel
! ing of the toilets now in use. Good
people will have to sacrifice that much
cherished all-family affair consisting OF
a seat with three holes. one for ma,
one for pa and one for the baby. The
| box and can type of privy provides for
one seat opening only. The clty,s scaV-
enger carts remove the cans at stated
! intervals, leaving an empty can for the
| can taken away The box and vent pipe
for this type of privy will cost the
property owner perhaps $50. Ihe
cans will cost about $1.25 apiece and
would have to be purchased by the
city. The city would have to increase
it's present scavenger tax of 81 per an
mum on open toilets to defray the cost
of the cans and slight increase in the
cost of scavenger service.
! With the box and can type of privy
designed by and used under the direc-
tion of the State Board of Health
Elizabeth City's health will no longer
be imperilled by open toilets while
waiting upon the working out Of oul
sewerage extension probleme. The type
of priyies recommended by the State
Board of Health abates the fly nuisance
eliminates soil and water pollution anc
does away with lot of unsighthnes'
/ and bad odor.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
HOW R. R. STRIKE
WOULD AFFECT us
Elizabeth City Could Live Long
and Prosper Without Any
Railroad at All

While the employes of the Norfolk
Southern r. r. were not included in
the first call of the railroad brother
hoods for nationwide strike on Oct 30,
it is we'll enough to consider how Eliz-
abeth City would be affected if the
trains on the one railroad serving this
town should stop running by reason of
wallzeut of all its operatives.
,Fhe sitaatiun@liere -w06id not be so
alarming as it might appear at first
thought. Elizabeth City could exist in
definitely without the operation of a
railroad
When a nationwide railroad strike
threatens New York or any other large
city, that city must hasten to mobilize
all of its resources to avert a real dis
aster. New York does not produce its
own food and is utterly dependent upon
la vast outside territory for its milk,
butter, eggs, fish, poultry and meats. 1t
has to send to the Pacific coast for
much of its fish, to the far West for
its meats and much of its poultry and
even its milk must be hauled, in many
instances, hundreds of miles. But Eliz-
abeth City can draw all of its food from
its outlying farming country, including
its bread. Motor trucks COULD supply
this city with all of its meat, poultry,
egss and country produce; motor boats
already bring US all the fish we can
consume from the fishing grounds a few
miles to the South and East of us.
It might be a good thing indeed for
Elizabeth City to be shut off from the
outside world for a few months, so that
we might learn how easily we can get
along without canned Salmon from the
Pacific, canned beef from Chicago, and
sow-belly from Baltimore.
But, without railroad, Elizabeth
City would not be shut off from trans
portation. We have two steamboat
lines to Norfolk, one operating daily via
the Dismal Swamp Canal, the other
thrice a week via the Albemarle &
Chesapeake or government inland wat
erway. We have boats running from
Elizabeth City to many points in Cam
den, Currituck, Dare Tyrrel and Hyde
counties and we have a weekly steam
boat service between Elizabeth City
and Baltimore. We are only so miles
from Hampton Roads and while we
haven't as yet a hard surface road be-
tween Elizabeth City and Norfolk, Va,
we have motor trucks that can easily
negotiate such roads as we have. With
two trains daily for Norfolk, jitney
drivers still find it proitabel even now
to operate automobiles for passengers
between Elizabeth City and Norfolk.
| And that is why Elizabeth City re-
fuses to lose sleep over a threatened
railroad strike and why Elizabeth City
people go gaily about their affairs just
as if there were no railroads or rail
road brotherhoods to worry about.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
FOREST FIRES
RAGE UNCHECKED
Burning From Moyock to Vir.
ginia> Line and Spreading
Into Camden

a forest fire which started near Mo-
yock in Currituck- County several weeks
ago is now raging from Guinea Mill,
just below Moyock, to the Virginia line
seven miles away, and is spreading into
the Northern part of Camden county.
All efforts to combat the fire have been
of no avail and it will continue nm
checked until quenched by a heavy rain.
Just how the fire started is not
known. 1t probably started in many
places about the same time. Tt is GEN
orally believed to have had it's origin
on the Wolcott farm, just back of Mo-
yock' where a parcel of new land had
just been ditched and the underbrusb
cut and piled up preparatory to putting
the land in cultivation next spring.
The loss will .fun into hundreds of
thousands ofySi5 1ssars.ssli Phsnssandsss
acres of valuable timber have already
been destroyed and if the fire continues
IN Its spread thru Northern Camden if
may reach the Great Dismal Swamn
above South Mills and sweep away the
great Juniper forests owned by the
John l.. Roper Lumber Co. and the
Richmond Cedar Works.
The destructiveness of the fire is in
dIcated by the fact that the very land
itself has in many instances been
burned away to a depth of as much rs
two feet, the land being of a peaty ma
ture and highly combustible followinp
such long period of drought as we
have had this summer and fall.
The smoke from the big fire can be
seen distinctly from Elizabeth City, a
pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of fire
by night
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28

HERE is newcomer to Elizabeth City.
DR.. Combs is TyrreII County boy, the
SON of Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Combs, of
Columbia. He graduated at the Jeffer-
son Medical College in Philadelphia in
1918 and was for 8 months in the
Pennsylvania Hospital in that city, ae-
quiring every experience of a general
practitioner. All the time he had his
eye on Elizabeth City and located in
Columbia pending an effort TO organ
ize hospital here last year. He was
to have beens one of six young physi-
clans to start hospital here, but that
deal fell thru and Dir. Combs moved to
New Bern, where he acquired an inter-
est in hospital there. Then came the
organization of the Pasquotank Muni-
cipaI Hospital and DR.. Combs decided
to cast his lot here, anyhow. He likes
Elizabeth City. And being enterprising
and full of pep he should make good
here without much difHeulty.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
cuRRITUcK MAN DIRECTOR
SAVINGS BANK & TRUST CO

]. T. Guard, of Coinjock, was elect
ed director of the Savings Bank &
Trust CO., of this city, at meeting
of the Board of Directors of that bank
Tuesday of this week. Mr.. Guard is
a prominent merchant in Currituck
County and was for many years POST
master at Coinjock. He is well known
thruout this city and section
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
ELIZABETH CITY SMALL BOYS
ARE PLAYING OUT OF LUCK

Elizabeth City small boys are playing
out of luck these days. The Natest vic
tim of nearly fatal accident is Earl
Dean. 11-year-old son of Mrs. Catherine
Greenleaf Dean of this city. Young
Dean fell 80 feet from the top of
pecan tree on the courthouse GROUNDS
Tuesday afternoon. His fall was
checked somewhat by his striking lower
limbs of the tree before hitting the
ground. He is expected to recover
without broken bones, but has suffered
much pain from internal shock.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
FIRST PAS0UOTANK HOSPITAL
CASE A COMPLETE SUCCESS

Moody Haskett, the first patient to
enter the Pasquotank Hospital in this
city upon it's opening a few weeks ago
left the hospital this week after sue
cessful operation for appendicitis The
operation was performed by DR.. John
Saliba. who has national reputation
among medical men for his skill and
methods in such cases.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
To MUite Harding

Acting upon the suggestion of
THE INDEPENDENT the Eliza
beth City Chamber of Commerce will
extend an invitation to President
Harding to call at Elizabeth City
on the occasion of his proposed trip
to Duck Island, where he is expected
to shoot wild fowl this winter.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
SAY THE INDEPENDENT HAS
GIVENFARMERSRI FRIGHT CUE
Community Leaders Heartily Commend Indepen-
dents Appeal to Farmers to Convert Their
Pork Into Hams, Bacon and Lard

This newspaper may have
started something worth while
last. week when it sounded
warning to the farmers of Pas
quotank and adjoining counties
that they stand to- sell their
dressed pork at a loss this fall
and their only salvation lies in
adopting the sound practice. of
converting more of their pork
into hams, Bacon and lard.
{ Many bankers, business men and
farmers have expressed themselves as
heartily indorsingz the suggestions made
by this newspaper. THERE'S no likeli-
hood of local capital being interested
in packing plant for several years
yet, but it is possible for every farmer
to be his own packer. One will not find
thriftier farmers anywhere in the Unit
ed States than in Pennsylvania and
there, Secretary Job of the Chamber
of Commerce tells us, when they have
MT a smokehouse they smoke their meat
in a piano box. r. G. Job, Secretary
/ of the Elizabeth City Chamber of Com
nleree; w. G. Gather, vice-president
and cashier of the First & Citizens
National Bank; Gurney p. Hood, vice
president and cashier Of the Carolina
Banking & Trust CO., and G. w. Falls,
Farm Demonstration Agent for Pasquo-
tank County, have communicated their
views and suggestions along the same
line, to this newspaper. Their letters
follow. Every one is worth reading
well:
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
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Address

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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28

Renew your subscription to The
INDEPENDENT. Do not let it get
away from you.
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OBEY THAT IMPULSE AND
FILL IN THIS HANDY BLANK
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Send me The Independent for one
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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
TO SAVE A/TRIP

Your eyes should be at
tended to the first thing,
then while you are shopping
the glasses can be made, and
delivered to you before you
leave for home. After long
experience I find a try-or
after the glasses are made a
necessity. I make the ex~
animation and glasses the
same day.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
THE ELIZABETH CITY
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Elizabeth City, n. c., Oct. 25, 1921.
Editor, The Independent,
can not help commending you on
the timely article appearing in your pa
per last week, How Farmers May
Keep Out Of the SGlutted Dressed Pork
Market
If our local farmers viii analyze this
article they will find the solution of
dispoging of their porkers to good adj
Since coming to Elizabeth City, / miss
the home cured hams, bacon, sausage,
scrapple lard, etc, which could be pro-
cured from almost any farmer in the
vicinity of my home, bethlehem, Pa)
They kill and cure their meat and dis
pose of the most of the products local
". The farmer and the consumer are
both benefited in this way.
Almost every farmer in Pennsylvania
has his smoke house, which is not al
ways an elaborate structure by any
means; in fact, I have seen meats
smoked in a piano box
I hope the local farmer will take the
advice of The Independent and try the
home curing method if only on a small
scale. I feel sure a ready market is
here for his products and should a sur
plus accumulate the larger cities are
always looking for home cured meats.
Yours for Progress,
RICHARD G. JOB,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
Secretary.
FIRST & CITIZENS NATL BANK

t1RSI d CITIZENS NATL BANK
Elizabeth City, N. G.
Editor, The Independent:
I have found unusual interest in read
ing thei article in your last issue rela-
tive to the pork situation, as 1 believe
this is matter of the greatest impor-
tance, at this time, to our community.
In my opinion a packing plant in Eliz-
abeth City would be the best solution
Of this problem, as it would assure,
ready and permanent market for such
products. Until the world recovers from
this period of depression it is not likely
that capital could be found for such an
undertaking. 1 sincerely hope, however,
that this can become a reality in the
next few years.
In the meantime, 1 believe our Pas
quotank farmers can benefit to large
extent by following the lead in their
Perquimans and Gates brethren. There
is market the year round for good
ham and bacon, but all of that seen on
the market here is brought in by Per-
quimans county farmers. understand
from them that the profit for the farm
er is much larger where the meat is
cured and sold, rather than by putting
the pork on the market during the fall
when, as you say, the market is so
likely to be glutted.
1 have in mind one Perquimans Coun-
ty farmer who purchased a farm some
years ago for about $1O,OOO.OO. He has
never made payment during the fall
of the year, but on the other hand gen.
orally meets his note either in Febru-
(Concluded on Page 10.)
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28

THE INDEPENDENT does the bet
ter class of job printing.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-10-28
DR.. J. D. HATHAWAY

Optometr1st
Bradford Bldg. Elizabeth City. N. G.
New Britain herald., 1921-11-12
TO PLEAD INSANITY
This VIII be Defense Sent Tn Nv
Henri Landru, the So-callcd Modern
Blucbcard of France.

Versailles Nov 12,-(By the Asso-
clated Press AN attempt to ectab-
lish that Henri Landru, alleged blue
beard is insane will be made at his
trial here, This decision was reached
after conference between Landru
and has lawyers last night at which,
they said they found him in a state
of high tension.
1T is my head that it at stake. so
l will direct my own case" they quot
ed him as eXClaiming. He was under
the delusiOn they said that he was
the most famous man on earth, and
that the eyes of the world were fixed
upon him.
NJ. Dutrcil of counsel for the de-
fense told the correspondent this
morning that in view of his condition
Landru would be allowed to say what
ever he pleased, but that his lawyers
would seek to have him declared in
sane.
New Britain herald., 1921-11-12
MARSHAL F0CH IS
HON0RED AT YALE
Gets Degree of Doctor of
Laws - Given Mill
tary Escort.

New Haven, Nov Il. Marshal
Ferdlnand FoCh OF France today
came to this city, the birthplace of
that war SCARED regiment the 1929
infantry to receive from the fellows of
Yale the honorary degree of doctor
Of laws, and then as the youngest son
Of his newly acquired Alma Mater, to
witness one of the great sporting
battles of the football field, that be 70
tween Yale and Princeton, AS an
event in university life, Marshal
Foch's visit became historic and as an
incident Of football day it oversha-
dowed all those which have preceded
it. Every road, rail and highway to-
day led to this city and the throng
which came in to see the distinguish
ed visitors was numbered by the tens
of thousands
Marshal Foch and his party arrived
from Washington at o'clock, his
train' having been met at the state
line by party representing the State
of Connecticut, the city and, the uni
versty Three companies of the
169th infantry, and Troop A cavalry
were the guard of honor at the rail
road station here and military escorts
were given as Marshal Foch aighted
from the train which had been drawn
up abreast of a marquee erected near
the station platform. Here Governor
Everett j, Lake extended to the mar
shal a welcome in behalf of the state,
Acting Mayor Murphy gave one in be
half of the municipality, and a rep
resentatiVe of Yale welcomed him to
the time hOnored institution. An es-
Cort was then formed by the cavalry
and the marshal and his party in
automobiles proceeded over pre- ar
ranged route to Woodbridge hall, the
executive office of Yale university,
where he was welcomed by President
James Rowland Angel and the mem
bers of the corporation.
New Britain herald., 1921-11-12
PRESIDENT SAYS
ALL WANT PEACE
Tells Delegates America
Asks Nothing She Will
Not Do Herself.


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New Britain herald., 1921-11-12
No Search Warrants Without
Evidence Of Late Sales
CHIEF ISSUES STATEMENT
Police Must Have Information That
Sales Have Been Made Within
Month Of Date Mentioned on War
rant.

Chief William J. Rawlings said to-
Cutor Joseph G. Woods practically
halts the work of the "strong arm
squad" insofar as the searching of
houses where evidence has not been
secured of sales made within a month
of the date on the warrant. The
strong ARA squad" has heretofore
worked along the lines of seizing stills
, regardless of whether or not there
was any evidence that the owner was
engaged in the sale of the Illicit whs-
key.
In all instances these seizures have
been on warrants issued tor search.
In cases where the stills were found.
the owners were placed under arrest
In several instances Of late, the al
legged owner when hailed into the To-
cal police court, entered a plea of not
guilty, with the result that the Fed
eral authorities We're called into the
case.
The Federal Law.
That it will be a difficult matter
to prove sales of "stiuod liquor. is
admitted by the police. Chief Rawl-
ings said today that the ruling prac-
tically puts a check on the work of
the local police, for without war
rants it will be impossible for the
strong arm squad to function as has
been the case in the past" The chief
said that the assistant prosecutor
bases his action on the strict inter-
probation of the Federal law.
Chief Rawlings has decided to keep
the STRONG arm squad" at work,
despite the fact that the local saloons
or places which were SO conducted in
the past, continue to obey the keep
closed edict issued several weeks
ago.
New Britain herald., 1921-11-12
NEWSPAPERMAN DIES
Lewis O. Williams Had Been ASsoCiat-
I'd With Putnam Patriot for ~
Ncars-SOld cut in 1919.

Putnam Conn. Nov. 12.-Lewis O.
Williams, 50. Tor A. years connected
with the Putnam Patriot died today
after a long period OF in health. lie
helped to get out the first issue of
the paper in 1872, was part owner
after 1885 and sold his interest in
1919. lie had heen president Of
the state editorial association and a
member Of the suburban press asso-
citation of Massachusetts. He is sur
vived by a sister. Mrs. o. d. Ryther
of Rye. N. Y.
New Britain herald., 1921-11-12
LIQUOR IS CONDEMNED
One Quart of Iootch and 81 Gallons
of Wine VIII be Destroyed by Order
of Court.

Because the defense put in no
claim for the return of liquor. seized
condemnation proceedings resulted in
the confsCation of 80 gallons of wine,
one quart of gin and one quart Of
whiskey in the case of Raphael and
Anna Napolitano this morning. The
stuff was seized in the Roma restau-
rant last week. Both the accused
were discharged when their cases
were heard in police court.
, \ quart of wine pint of cider and
two cases Of beer was condemned in
the case OF Philip l}ardcck, also dis
charged in police court but who fail
ed to put in 4 claim for the return
of the stuff.