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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1922-07-21
SCOTLAND NECK
BOOSTER COLUMN
By CLEE VAUGHAN.


to the boosting Of Scotland
Neck, and all citizens Of the
town, or those interested in
Scotland Neck, living in
other towns, are not only at
liberty, but urged to use this
space to help boost Scotland
Neck. Everything in this
column from time> t. time,
not otherwise designated,
will be contributed Ly Mr..
Vaughan. However, it is
sincerely hoped that all good
and progressive citizens will
join and help to make SCOT
LAND NECK the moving
spirit of North Carolina.
Mrs. Fl. I. Clark says that she
received letter sometime ago
that was addressed to her at
Scotland Neck, which was mis-
sent to Edinburg, Scotland, and
the postmaster thexe put the no.
tation on it: "Try N. c."
Was Hon. Claude Kitchin right
Is Scotland Neck North Caro-
lima?
''You tell 'em,'' said Landon
Whitehead. ''I'n help you boost
Scotland Neck That's the
spirit. The boys of Scotland
Neck might as well get the habit
| for they will be the only oneS
left to boost it after we cold
boys have gone. If that boy
can boost as we'll as he can de
bate, he'll tell 'em,' all right.
"Haven't you gone home yet
a visitor was asked yesterday
What S the use to 60 home
| II have to come right back.
he said. s'for [ can't stay away
from Scotland Neck.
Sufficient unto the dav is tbs
evil thereof. If | get out o.
boosting material, I'll just be
gin on our gentlemanly boys an(
), lady-like girls and talk a year Q,
so.
One cf the livest firms in Eas
tern Carolina is in the unGertak
mo business in Scotland Neck
, but their other lines are res
ponsible for the splendid repu
tation they have as leadin'
: merchants. Scotland Neck ]:
such a good town to LIVE in tina
the demand for food, wearing az
parel and other lines of genera
2 merchandise, such as this liv
: and wide-awake firm handles
.exceeds the demand for buris
goods.
In the list Of distinguish
Scotland Neck men published
: few days ago, the name Of Chic
Justice Walter Clark was left on
Miss Lena Smith reminds u
: Another name left out that shoul
4 have been mentioned, and whic
Miss Lena did not call attentio
I to, is the name Of her brothe
| Col. Lii Smith. In fact, til
names were not given, but ho1
orary colonel was referred t.
which is our ex-townsman, M
J Albion Dunn, who was also ma,
Or Of the thriving town Of Greer
vile for long time. Col. Snnlt
was also an honorary colonel.
| BOOST SCOTLAND NEG
j EVERY DAY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1922-07-21
FOR COUNTY TREASURER

This is to inform the voters of
Halifax County that I am can
didate fer County Treasurer, and
that I earnestly solicit the sup
port Ct all voters, men and wom-
en-, who may participate in the
next Democratic Primary cleo
ton.
Respectfully,
Mrs. j. W. BOWERS,
7-21-1aW43t Iiittleton. N. c.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1922-07-21

BOOST SCOTLAND NECK
EVERY DAY.
, 1922-06-10
Takes Lusk BIZ Storm

sTTHE LARGEST and most enthusiastic audi
L ence ever gathered at a political meeting in
Niobrara county," is the way the Lusk Herald
speaks of the reception of Hon. John w. Hay at
Lusk. Continuing its report of the meeting the
Herald says:
"John W. Hayindulges in no platitudes, attempts
no~oratory, waves no flags, roasts no opponents
in fact, he shoots straight from the shoulder in
much the same manner as he would were he ad-
dressing the board of directors in one of his own
companies.
Briefly sketching his career since he came to
Wyoming in 1888 to serve the Union Pacific rail
road as a night telegraph operator, Mr.. Hay ad.
vanced to his recent activities in connection with
organizing the Joint Stock Land bank, and then
took up the issues of the coming campaign. 'I
want to say to you that the question before the
people of this state is taxes was one of his re
marks that called for applause. State govern
ment must be handled on business lines. We can
not stand still, but must either go ahead, or go back
. We must start at the top and come down-ex-
will put into the state government the same bust
ness efficiency L would put into any other business
. What you want is results = I intend to
visit every community in the state and know for my
self the needs of each community. #+s All 1 ask
is fair deal.s
"Fhere you have a few Of the crisp, quietly de-
1ivered, though powerful punches delivered by the
man who many people refer to as TWyoming's next
governor
"Mr. Hay occupied remarkably few minutes in de
Hvering his message. More than a few were heard
to express a desire that he return to Lusk they
wanted more of J. w. Hay. Mr.. Hays closing was
followed by applause that threatened to develop
into an encore"
, 1922-06-10

less. worthless and practically dead
before 1t starts. II must be acted on
by the house in some way. As can
readily be understood, even by those
who view politics as some great de
testable disease, the house as a whole
couldn't pas Judgment on $4,000 bills.
If It devoted only 10 minutes to each
bin It would have to sit continuously
for almost four years in order to dis.
pose OF them.
Consequently all bills are dealt out
to different committees. which either
throw them in the w-astebasket and
forget them or doctor them up and
bring them ous on the floor of the
house. where they are disposed of
with neatness and celebrity.
Tho seven or 81 or SO members of a
committee know a good deal about the
bills which they bring out on the floor
of the house. and the 400 other mem
bers don't know much of anything
about them. So the 400 ignorant ones
usually and of necessity accept the
recommendations of tho few informed
ones. which would be n fine thing II
the informed ones were always right.
Unfortunately they are frequently
wrong. owing to tho act that they
are sometimes made up of or headed
by small bore politicians with unerr-
ing instincts for doing the wrong
thing. Tha is n of the unfortunate
features of the committee system.
But the house makes just as much
speed when It is wrong as when It is
right.
The house prides itself on fits celer-
tty. It has so much business to trans
act and so little time in which to
transact It that It cannot afford to
listen to animated windbags of the
sort that arc permitted to wheeze and
blow without restraint on the loo
of the senate. There are plenty of
animated wtndbags on HI floor of
the house; but when they wish to be-
come windy they must HE them to
the cloakrooms or to tho pages of the
Congregational Record or to their
homes-or secure an election to the
senate
One of the most flannel mouthed
Of orators in the senate was once a
representative He may rant and
rave for hours nowadays without let
or hindrance; but when he used to
try It In tho house he was given the
coarse and u~nmdstakabIe congressional
razz to such an extent that no was
seldom able to struggle to the sur
race-Kenneth L. Roberts.
, 1922-06-10

states present a typical crosssection of American
citizenship and American activities-congested cit
les, farreaching p~rairies, aliens, Americans, pro
ducers and consumers.
If there exists IN this country a widespread dis.
satisfaction with the Republican congress it would
be in evidence somewhere within these five states
among some of the classes and activities it would
undoubtedly voice itself at the polls in protest
against the present members of the house of repre-
sentattyes, who went before the electorate .iuSthese
states and asked for an endorsement of their rec
ord by n denomination II there is abroad in -.
land determination upon the part of the American
PUBIC, or upon even an appreciable fraction of
the public n determination to rebuke the present
administration it would make itself manifest in
the primaries in these states when members repre-
setting the Legislative branch of this administration
asked for denomination. What do the returns
show?
In Sonuth Dakota the three Republican. congress
meE who are now serving asked for denomination :
they obtained it. In Illinois 81 Republicans now in
ton; 10 received it In Indiana L. Republicans now
in the house of representatives asked for renomina-
ton and II received it In Pennsylvania % Re
publicans now Sin the house of Representatives
asked for denomination and - received IL. In Ore
gon three Republicans now in the. house of repre-.
sentatives asked for denomination and three receiv-
ed 1t All told, in these five states IS Republicans
who are serving in the house of representative
asked for denomination and 62 received il.
In view of this, there is hardly any further argu-
ment needed TO refute the Democratic claims that
the Republican primaries are indicating dissatis.
faction with the administration and that the trend
of public sentiment clearly forecasts a return to
power OF the Democratic party.
, 1922-06-10
Daisies


Silent as snow they drift across The
hills
And star the meadows with their
golden eyes:
Above their heads the wind rings
symphonies
And whispers to them tenderly and
fills
The air with fragrant fancies and dis
this
Faint affairs from the clover tops
then signs
And warming through the cornfielc
drops and dies.
But stnl the daisies wea their white
qurnfriIles.
Whence came they. did the fairies
scatter them
Upon the earth when twilight shad.
ows fell.
Did they float downward from the
heavenly bowers?
Yes, each frail blossom on its slender
stem
Is fashioned out of moonbeams, 30
they tell,
Pale moonbeans hat have been
transformed to flowers.
Elizabeth ScoIlard.
, 1922-06-10
The Committee System

One OF h nos popular ~recreations
in the house of representatives is in.
Producing bills. Congressman indulge
in this harmless amusement all day
long sometimes the congressman write
their own bills. but moro often their
secretaries or their photographers OF
their friends write them. When the
bills arc written the congressman take
them over to the floor of the house
and drop them in a basket. Later
they are printed. so that they look
far more important and official than
they really are.
Only a few years ago there were
more than $4,000 bills introduced in
the house of representatives during
a single congress-. Such bills include
almost everything except recipes for
making rum. They remove the
charge Of desertion from a military
record of Ozro FIIrtermouse. grant a
pension to Clairvoya d, Ectoplasrn,
authorize the secretary of war to
grant two condemned brass cannon
to the city OF Onicavflle. provide for
h survey Of Gocber River and Lizard
Creek and their tributaries in Georgia,
prevent prize fighting on vessels using
wharfage facilities in tho District OF
Columbia, enable the secretary of ag-
ricuIture to conduct experiments and
determine the ~practicability of making
paper out of cornstaiks. grant an in
crease Of pension to all persons who
have lost the 81 of ono eye in sam
ping bootleg liquor in the interests
of prohibition enforcement, provide
for the b-roadcasting of speeches in
congress by radio. pay Jonas McNutt
for the loss of a horse. declare the
selling, exchanging or giving away
of any pistol. bowie knife, dirk or dirk
knife. blackjack. dagger. sword cane.
siung shot, brass Oh other metal
knuciie in the District of Columbia
n misdemeanor. a~S~~ an act ex-
tending an act entitled an - amend
ing an Gct entitled an &c. to estab-
lish a navy yard somewhere in North
pakota, and what not.
Though tho average bill is meaning
, 1922-06-10
Relief from Whuto

I is that Senator Watson's address
L before the Indiana state convention is tho key
note of the congressional campaign now in its first
stages. 1t Will be so accepted and the fight will
be waged along the lines laid down by this doughty
Republican warrior.
1t is quite natural that Senator Watson would
pick up the charge oft repeated by the Democrats,
that the Republican congress had done nothing
since it came into power a little over a year ago.
And in delivering his answer a characteristic re-
ply was to be expected. Upon the point Senator
Watson said:
"There was SO much TO do when we took charge
that it appears as if no great things have beer
done, but, in the light of the evidence that can be
adduced and in view of the results of the laws thus
far enacted, who viii rise to repeat, except for rank
partisan purposes, that this is a donothing con
gress?
"Who will charge that we have been remiss in the
discharge of our obligations to the people, who will
dare assert that we have failed to fulfill our prom
ises to the people and TO redeem the pledges made
in the last campaign?
even if this charge were true, it is better to do
nothing than always to dc wrong. 1t is better TO
, 1922-06-10
The Trend Satisfactory

give. STATES have held primary elections al
Il which candidates for congress have been ncmi
mated by all parties These states are in the order
in which they have held primaries, South Dakota
Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Oregon. This
list comprises industrial states and those which
are strictly agricultural states. It embraces a typi
cal Eastern state, a Pacific coast state and three
middle west states. It embraces states which con.
tain Chicago and Philadelphia, the second and
third largest cities in the United States. Pennsyl-
vania, Indiana and Illinois have within their Dor
ders an overwhelming percentage of the coal min
ing industry and the steel and iron industry of the
United States These three states have within
their boundaries tens of thousands of railroad en-
ployes, and the largest railroad centers and shops
in the United States are located in these states.
The industries in these three states are gigantic
and varied Every leading industry in the country
is represented by large factories in one or all of
these three states.
Illinois is the largest agricultural state in the
union Indiana stands well toward the top of the
list in agricultural products. Pennsylvania has
within its borders some of the richest agricultural
sections in America South Dakota is strictly an
agricultural state that has come from the bottom
to one of the leading agricultural commonwealth
in the union Oregon's agricultural, fruit and tim
Der productions rank well toward the top. The
mercantile and banking interests in these five
states are tremendous.
in brief, in these five states there exist all of
tn various classificiations of industry and business
that exist anywhere in this country. These five
, 1922-06-10
The Dancers

Far nom tho turmoil and the dust of
trade
From the daily siavcries. the dancers
spin:
Dear. jeweled ladies. are you not afraid
OF al those pailid faces looking In?
Some night the rhythm of the dance
may crack
The lights may vanish and tho music
halt,
And all these revelries may falter
back
Like echoes dying in a hollow vault.
Then darkness viii rush over you and
cry
With voices fun of agony and death:
The halt. the lame. the blind will
stumble by
And you will feel the anger in their
breath;
There will be torches and a trail of
fire
And free hearts singing of a new
desire.
-Joseph Freeman.
, 1922-06-10

sit still than to move only to destroy. 1t Is better
to have ones fingers paralyzeed than TO use strong
ones to write checks with no funds to pay, sign
warrants with no cash to meet them, and issue
bonds with no method provided for their redemp-
ton. Better, altogether better, Republican watch.
full Indifference than a debt-incurring, deficit
creating, bond-issuing, surplus-scattering, factory
closing, industry paralyzing, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
socialupheaying, cataclysmpro5ucing, Democratic
administration
"They boldly assert that we have not given relief
to the country. Relief from what, pray? Mani
testify from the results of two Democratic admin.
istrations, for there is nothing else to be relieved
from. My friends, we did not produce all of this
w~reckage. We are not responsible for all this
waste. We did not incur these debts. We have not
piled up this mountain of obligations, and these
gentlemen who are responsible for all this riotous
orgy of extravaganza and all this ~upsetting of in
dustry and unsettling of financial conditions, now
stand up to jeer us because in IA months we have
not overcome all the evil they produced in eight
years.
ut is as IL n mob marched through a tovn and
dynamited and ravaged and p~lundered and destroy
ed and then when law and order lad been restored
, 1922-06-10
The Bride Book

Little snowy Bride Book,
Upon your leaves are spread
The names of loving friends that came
To see the lad and lassie wed,
So the story opens
A stirring tale of life
That shifts the scene from girrhood
days
To that Of mate and tender wife.
Far as hist'ry reaches
Such chronicles have been
With light and shadow, bliss and woe,
AL woven wen and surely in.
Little dainty Bride Book.
Guard close your moving zen,
let its lines a record be
OF joy to heal the doubts of men.
Keep the roses blooming
Within the maiden's cheek,
oh. stay the smiles upon her ZIP
To. happiness and vision speak.
Let no paltry chapter
Impair the finished whole,
Oh. lead this twain through testing
years
To earnest nying's perfect goal
-Maude De Verse Newton
, 1922-06-10

Understanding Scissors Come here
this minute and be measured for an
envelope chemise."
Make II a pink one said Jenny
And so they did.
First they measured Jenny from
UNDER her arms to a little below the
place where her knees should have
been but weren't This was the dis
lance from 1 to 3 in A. Then they
measured her all around her body. DR.
rectiy under arms. and cut a piece one
and one-hah times as long. II you
can do fractions ycz can work out the
exact number Of inches for your doll.
and II you can't do fractions you can
guess at IT. which is just as jolly.
This gave Betty a piece OF cloth like
A--~hich she doubled.
Ne7, she sewed this up at the side
and hemmed the top and bottom. Do
you know how to make a hem? First
, 1922-06-10

liked him for being outspoken. But
II we would not come into the league
we were ready to cooperate with
Britain for peace and a better under.
standing. What Ambassador Harvey
did in these early months was to pre-.
pare h way for tho Washington con.
ference. and an understanding of
what he did in relation to that great
objective of the President will make II
easier to e how his other -uccesses
followed. In n word, he cured the Brit
ish Of their disappointment over the
league and led them, through quite
another channel. to that cooperation
with America which has served the
purposes of both better than the
league eve could have done. Through
that cooperation all those vexing
questions which the Spectator. In n
recent comment on Ambassador Hair
vey's SUCCESSES. Ifkened to the con-
tents of a Bluebeard's closet, have
boon brought out into the clarifying
air Inc disposed of.
TT is a gratifying record IN which
the country, the administration and
the ambassador a take equal pride.
What the London Times in f~elicitating
Mr.. Harvey calls a 'tsolid reality has
been achieved. That reality. It de-
ciared was an understanding between
the two English-speaking peoples. It
Isn't a league. to be sure. nor even
an association. and persons American
or British who stand ont for names
for things may not be wholly salts
fled. But It is h reality that counts
and for his share in bringing 1t about
in so short a time, and under many
difficulties of which both countries
furnished a share. Ambassador Har.
vey well merits the many congratn-
iations he Is receiving on both sides
Of the Atlantic"
, 1922-06-10

and an honest effort was being made by the prop
erty holders to gather up the fragments and to be-
gin the reconstruction of their destroyed and ruin
ed property, the members of the mob should stand
by and jeer at them and scott at them and inter
fere with them because they were not able in a few
days to build up all that the mob had thus rio
tously ruined.
Anybody can throw a monkey wrench into a ma
chine that works with frictionless precision and so
damage it that it will take a skillful mechanic n
long time tn repair it, and even tyros in govern
ment, in an incredibly short space of time, can
create more difficulties and stir up more strifes
and cause more troubles than wise men can over.
come in many years.
"Fellow citizens, We have not yet accomplished
all that we set out to do. We have not cured all the
ills and evils of eight years of Democratic misrule,
but certainly we have taken long strides in the
right direction, and a%ssuredly if the Republican
party cannot ~readjust matters, what hope is there
in turning to the organization that caused all this
disaster in the beginning?
at is either the Republican party with its eau.
ttcss and constructive way of proceeding or the
Democratic party over again with all that means
OF incompetency and inefficiency and misrule.,
, 1922-06-10
Harvey's First Year

TT is a remarkable record that at
tho close OF the first year of Am.
bassndor Gecrge Harvey's service In
London. an occasion TINT has received
unusual notice from the British press
an official of tho foreign office was
able to declare, ~As between Great
Britain and tho United States the
slate is clean" notes the Kansas CITY
Star.
That tho slate is clean means that
Ambassador Harvey has successfully
accompanied a most difficult and del.
icate task IN n remarkably short time.
When Ire went to London the dfplo,
matte relations between America and
Britain were not happy. They were
worse than II there had been any
great single outstanding controversy.
for they were In that condition that
results from a long succession of
what has been called pin pricks. The
United States had not Joined the
league of nations. There were open
questions regarding mandates and
there was the Anglo-Japanese ALI
ance. These and many other qucs.
tons involving the war settlements
to which the United States was not
n party had left our relations with
the British uncertain, unsatisfactory
and a little touchy.
This lowering diplomatic horizon
Is clear today. Ambassador Harvey,
although new to diplomacy and tax
ing with him to Great Britain a repu-
tation for somewhat trucu1ent poIit-
ical controversy. has succeeded In
the most delicate OF arts and the n
most opposed to that in which his
had heretofore been disclosed.
His public ~utterances in England.
though frank. have been admirably
calculated TO win a hearing. He told
h British they must not hope Amer
lea would come into the league, and
once the British understood that they
, 1922-06-10

Ford to ride. when most OF the neigh
bors' boys and girls went to school
In ltmousines with padding nine
inches thick" That is the way, future
biographies viii read. IL something
isn't lone.
Perhaps it would be a good idea,
once a baby learns to walk, and de-
lights in the ~newfound accomplish
ment. to encourage him in 1t until
1t becomes a habit. Otherwise It may
be necessary to revise Shakespeare's
Seven Ages OF Man" so that mel
ancholy jacques more melancholy
than ever-will say in Arden wood:
Then the schoolboy,
With his chauffeur, and saIlow, In
door face,
Longing like a price, in limousine
to school.
Arthur H FoIwen.
, 1922-06-10

was to go, being careful to work this
through only one thickness Of the
cloth. Real buttonboles are too hard
for little girls 10 make for play work.
SO Betty simply cut slits and then.
after turning in tho edges h tiniest
bit, went owe and over them with
stitches. as shown I'm d.
Then n sewed tho buttons on. but
toned the -ab n slipped II On Jenny
so she could N. assure the distance over
Tho shoulders for the ribbon shoulder
bands. When these were sewed In
place and tho ohemise gathered with
a sassy pink ribbon. Jenny again fefE
Iiko n barloon-one that was ready
to explode with toyi And she was all
ready for h puddle fun we are all go
Ing to have next Tuesday.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Trails. "A Diving
Log