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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1922-03-10
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Having qualified as administrator
OF the estate Of A. F. Hancock, deceas
ed, late Of Halifax County. NORTH:
Carolina this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate OF
said deceased to exhibit the to the IN
dersigned at Roanoke Rapids, n. e.,
on or before the Third day of March
1923, OF this notice will be pleaded in
lar Of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment
to the undersigned at Roanoke Rapids
n. c.
This 3rd day of March 1922.
w. s. HANCOCK, Administra.o,
Of A. z. Hancock, deceased 3-1O-4tlav
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PERSONAL ITEMS
LOCAL AND
SOCIETY NEWS.

NJ y Harrell left this morning for
,hoskic on business
>,esSrs. A. P. and J. \. Kitchin
,r,,ve to Tarboro yesterday on business.
Mr.. Bill Ruffin, Of Hobgood, was
business visitor here yesterday.
\Jcssrs. Brunette and Johnny Moore
a.. Hobgood were in town today.
Mrs. William Joyner, of Ralelgh, ar
.;vn1 Yesterday for a visit to her par
o,,+s Hon and Mrs w. w. Kitchin.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Butts, OF
Dawson were in Scotland Neck yes
terday shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Travis Jr., ar
rived yesterday to visit Mrs. Trav1s
narents. Hon. and Mrs. w. w. Kitchin
Mrs. G.. D. Brown was taken TIC
Tarboro to enter the hospital there
for treatment, yesterday.
t
Mrs. c. T. Lawrence and baby LET
this morning for Petersburg, Va, &
visit her mother, Mrs. r. B. Shaw.
Mr.. Major Lewis died in Rocky
Mount, in hospital, Wednesday ant
WAS buried yesterday.
Mr.. B. L. Johnson, of Oak City
spent yesterday here visiting her sis
ter. Mrs. G. c. Weeks.
Miss Claude Knight returned last
night from Williamson, where she ha
been for sometime on professional
business.
/
Mr.. Sam Moore, Of New York, VII
has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ
Cherry, left this morning for hi
home.
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666

will break Cold, Fever and Grippe
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1922-03-10

666 is \ prescription for Colds, Fever
nd LaGrippe. It's the most speedy
emedy we know.
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By j. Fl. lApp1ewhite.

By J. Fl. 4AppIewhite.
Temperature, highest, II on 9th.
Temperature, lowest, 33 on End,
Highest average 81 Al.
Lowest average 43 IT.
Rainfall 3.97
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1922-03-10

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neuralgia, rheumatism
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1922-03-10

FARMERS PLEASE TAKE NOR:
It is IMPORTANT, that We know
how many X. P Guano Sewers you will
need by the 10th of the month. as we
do not want to order more than we
will nee1 to supply you.
JOSEY HARDWARE co.
3-10-4t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and Pubs Simkins was setting on
Mary Weaknesses frunt steps and so
was Mary Watkins, being the reason
wy me and Pubs was. and we was
tawking about different subjecks sutch
o. everybody having a equal chance
to be president exsept gerls, and Mary
Watkins sed, Well a man could SCOT
me without being president but he'd
certeny half to be ambitious, that's one
thing Id certeny insist on.
Me saying, Well I'm ambitious all
rite, do you know wat I'm going to be
wen I grow up, I'm going to be tite
rope walker and hundreds of people
will come thousands of miles to see me
Aw, watts that, that's nuthing, G,
tawk about ambitious, do you know
wat I'm going to be Pubs sed. I'm GO
ing to be a flag pole painter, and
everybody down in the street will point
up at me and Ill be way up there on
top of the flag pole hanging on with
one hand and one knee and painting
with the other, he sed.
Well, its all rite to be a tite rope
wawker and a flag pole painter, but
they're both too dangerous to be am
bilious, Mary watkins sed, and sed,
That's rite, I'm going to change my
ambition, I'm going to a captin in the
navy like Sam Crosses unlxle and all
the sailers will haff to salute me and
everything.
o, that will be nice, Mary Watkins
sed, and Pubs sed, Well wait till you
heer now I've changed my ambition.
I'm going to be the man that starts all
the elevators in a big office bilding
like Reddy Merfys un4xle, Ill jest stand
there in my-uniform full of brass but
tins and the elevators cant start unless
I snap my fingers no matter how
meny people are in them wishing
they'd go.
o, how PERFECTLY lovely, o Pubs,
that's the best of all. Mary Watkins
sed. Me thinking, Darn that guy, he's
always spelling everything,
WITCH he is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22

based come from Soviet publications
themselves which are quoted literally.
Even under q trade agreement our
exports to Russia could not have been
large in the past and cannot become
large in the near future" says the re-
port. Similarly. nothing our govern
ment could do would increase in any
important degree private investment
in that country. Great as is Russia's
need of foreign goods and foreign
capital. its internal conditions and the
policy Of its rulers are such as almost
to preclude the possibility of obtain
ing the one or the other"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
Observation-Disclosures

Q. What is Elmo Lincoln's real name?
A. The real name of this motion picture
actor is Otto Elmo LinkenheIt.
Q. If man comes to this country, mar
ries an American girl, rears a family but
dies before he gets his final naturalization
papers. are his widow and children foreign
ers? s. *.
A. His wife took his nationality when
she married him. She may resume her
American citizenship IF residing in the
United States at the termination of the
marital relation, by continuing to reside
therein" The children are American by
virtue Of having been born in the United
States
Q. In applying luminous paint to clock
and watch dials, / find that one can not
tell time by them during the day. How can
this be remedied? L A. g.
A 1t is necessary to use black .dials on
clocks and watches where luminous paint
is employed
Q. When did France lose Canada? S. J.
A France lost Canada with the final
battle of tho Heights OF Abraham In 1850.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
LABOR BoARD's FAILURE.

1t is estimated that the railroad
strike has cost the workers $40, 000.-
900 in wages lost. 1t has cost the
public great deal more in interrupt
ed industry, delays in shipments, in
to normal business. Nevertheless, the
strike may be productive of great
deal of good in the end.
For it has been made more than
ever evident that measures must be
taken to prevent these costly disturb
ances. Commerce cannot afford 1t.
1t represents a high expense to the
strikers. 1t promotes unrest and an
ger and the development of grudges
that are slow to heal. The institution
OF the railroad labor board does not
appear to serve fully the purposes of
smoothing over differences and ad-
justing pay. But it is probably a
foundation upon which a practical and
worthy mediation board can be built.
The voting in the labor board has
been by classes. There should be
some way by which class feeling
and class sympathies can be eliminat-
ed and judgments reacheds entirely
upon the merits of the cases.
Permitting representatives of op-
posing attorneys to sit on the jury
would not be thought of in any legal
controversy, yet that practically is
what is done on the railroad labor
board. The error made in the law
constituting the board now is appar-
ent. Representation by the workers
and the railroads should be eliminated
and the board should be composed of
impartial and disinterested persons.
There would be nothing in such a
change to prevent both contestants
from having their day in court.
In addition to this change in its
makeup TIE board, If it is to be of
service, must be clothed with power
to enforce its DEGREES. To these sug-
gested changes no fair minded man
can object.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22

According to the United States de-
partment of agriculture, the Hessian
fly does an average annual damage
of $50,000,0OO to the winter wheat
crop in this country. Injury amount
ing to twice that amount, 1t is said,
has occurred in a single year. Prac-
tically all of the experiment stations
which have studied the habits of the
Hession fly have arrived at the same
conclusions regarding him In order
to hurt the crop. the adult fly. emery
ing in late August and September
must find the leaves of the young
wheat plant upon which it can lay its
eggs. Thus the experiment stations
have determined approximately the
dates in each state when the flies will
be gone, and il seeding is delayed I'M
til that time, most of the damage will
be avoided. Incidentally it might be
remarked that wheat sown so late as
to avoid the fly might fail to come
up until the following spring. We
once knew a man who. for one reason
and another, delayed sowing his
wheat until, IN December. there
came big snow. whereupon he re-
marked that things do not always go
according to calculations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22

bright, snappy column at night. I
fancy 1 shall never again couple a long
motor trip with the obligation to sus-
tain a daily column while / am doing
it. Mind you. am not blaming any
body; / asked for it. / would have
begged for it. But know more now
As 1 have hitherto indicated and as
every motorist knows, one tooling a
motorc8r across the country hears
nothing and sees nothing. All day long
he is hurrying to get into the hotel
before the dining room closes for the
night. His eye is on the road ahead
and his mind is on the differential and
the leaking tire in front. He is think
ton. When he gets in he Is in much
the same frame of mind as the pub
licist who wrote the roadside advcr-
Using for a well-known tire house.
Every traveller is familiar with this
advertising. 1t is displayed in the form
of a large open book, the pages OF
which bear certain legends. 1t is in
teresting advertising for travellers. I
fancy every sign is read by a passerby.
But it must have been an awful strain
on the publicist.
Anyhow. that's the way felt when
L came into the hotel tonight. had
driven the Blue Swallow 1876 miles.
All I<had to do was eat a belated din
-ner and write column. 1t is true
Adelaide had relieved me at the wheel
her share of the time. But a man
works harder when his wife is driving
than when he is driving himself. Per
contra, watching her husband drive Il
car is one of the heaviest crosses a
woman is called upon to bear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
JUST FOLKS
ALL THAT SHE ASKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

ALL THAT SHE ASKS
All that she asks is a kindly word,
And bit Of your patience, too;
biAs Of the praise which once she heard
When your love was fresh and new,
A fond caress when you come at night,
And her eyes will CLEAN with the old de-
light.
1t Is man who fashions a woman's life,
Shapes it, happy or sad,
And We learn of the husband from the wife,
Know him for good or bad,
For her face is an open book which gives
The world the tale OF the life she lives.
Day by day in the house. she stays,
Keeping the home for him;
With the work to do and the babes to raise
While the charm of her youth grows dim,
But all that she asks from the man is this /:
A kindly word and the evening kiss.
Oh. you snarIing and churlish men,
Sudden and quick to rage.
Changing the home TO a tiger den,
Is this a good wife's wager
Why not give her the Joys OF life
And make her happy to be your wifef
Il isn't the money you make or spend,
Or the great deeds you may do.
On which the charms Of her life depend.
Her happiness lies with you.
And all she asks thru the years Is this:
Your aly thought and your eTening
(cors night, 1922. by Edgar A. Guest.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22

Il is related by the Iron Trade Re
view that in Cleveland a few days
ago a Judge of the court OF common
pleas to whom was submitted a ia
Dor case promptly passed it along
to a referee to hear the evidence and
recommend a decision. The referee
reported that an injunction should be
issued to restrain the strikers and
their sympathizers from committing
illegal acts. This was a few days prior
10 the primary election. The judge
was a candidate for denomination. In
postponing action on the referees re-
port, he is reported to have said in
the presence of counsel: You may
think 1 am a coward but I am not go
ing TO handle labor case just before
this primary" The judge was renomi-
mated. A few days after the primary
election two workmen in one railroad
shop in a suburb of Cleveland were
shot to death while on their way
home The slayer was reported to be
a striker or sympathizer. All of this
merely goes to show that politics fire.
quently enters INTO labor disputes and
also into the administration of Justice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
CONGRESS AND THE BONUS.

The apparent determination of con-
gress TO pass the bonus bill without
making provision for funds to meet
its requirements indicates plainly
that the members have their eyes di-
fected-toward the ballot boxes. They
plan to pass the bill because they
fear the soldier vote. They will re-
fuse to make provision for the pay
ment of the bonus, by the only avail
able means-a sales taX-because
they fear the farmer vote.
Does congress think 1t can deceive
the people into the belief that they
can escape payment, merely because
no additional taxes are levied? Ev-
cry cent of money spent by congress
comes directly from the pockets of the
people. And on top of the taxes al
ready in existence the senate has just
passed a tariff bill which, If it become
law, will cost the American people
billions of dollars. Every cent of duty
on imported goods is added to the SELL
ing price and the grab does not stop
there.
1t is pointed out by the New York
Herald that: Congress does not diff
down into its own pocket ror the
pay its bills II congress did have to
dig down into It's own pocket to find
the money for the soldier bonus the
soldiers would never see a cent.
Nothing short OF a jimmy could get a
cent out OF congress. But checking
out your money is easy; checking out
your money in billions of dollars, for
something on the side. Is a thrilling
business for congress.
Checking out your money, how
ever. for legitimate purposes; check
ing out your money for the necessi-
ties of the government; checking out
your money for the maintenance of
law and order and for uphoIding
Americas position among the nations
of the world is strictly all right IL done
conscientiously and with inteIIiEence.
But checking out your money for
personal political advantage; check
ing out your money with eyes fixed on
the ballot box, writes a congress down
as unfit for its job"
The secretary OF the treasury has
told congress the government has no
money for payment OF the bonus. The
secretary must refinance six billion
five hundred millions Of dollars fall
ing due within the next fifteen
months. He will be compelled to Dor
row this six billion five hundred mil
lions of dollars. And yet, in this stu
alton, with a war debt of twenty
three billions of dollars, congress now
proposes TO add five billions of dol
lars more to this debt on which inter-
est must be paid, and all for the pur-
pose of insuring the reelection of its
members.
If the people want adjusted COM
pensation for the soldiers. and no
doubt many of them do. they are also
willing to pay for it. But they are un-
likely to approve an attempt by con-
gress to pull the Eeol over their eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22

spurted from the slash, spotting Nam
cy's white frock, even staining her
furious fingers.
Sight of 1t turned her white, sick.
faint-she would have sunk to the
floor but for his compelling hold. He
felt her breast heave. saw tears gather
and fall, heard Granny cry out i'll
alarm-then the world went black for
BILE toward the davenport and fall
rather than sit down. But the black
ness Hghtened at Nancy's cry: "LauryI
II hurt you-but hurt myself
worse" as she stanched the red flow
with her soft handkerchief over which
she pressed her softer lips.
Copyright, 1922. by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
HEART and HOME PROBLEMS
Written for The State journal
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am a girl
Of sixteen and have been going with n
boy two years my senior for six
months. About two weeks>ago I had
date with him and he did not show
up. started to go to the park and
saw him talking to another girl.
This made me awfully angry and he
has never been to my house since.
When 1 see him on the street he tries
to speak, Would you advise noe to
speak?
He gets drunk about every Satur-
day night and doesn't go home until
four or five in the morning. I have
lot of chances to go with a lot OF
boy friends, but it seems as If I can't
get any one I like except this one boy.
Would you advise me to go back
with him If he asks for forgiveness?
He gave me up for another girl and
to go with me. Would you advise
me to as 1 like him very much?
BLUE EYES.
It Is stupid to walk right into trou-
BILE, as you would if you went with the
boy again. In the first place it should
be enough that he gets drunk every
Saturday night. You haven't any idea
the suffering such a habit as that
Besides the boy did not care enough
for you to keep his engagement be-
fore, and without a doubt he would
treat you the same way again II you
were to forgive him. Speak to him
If you want to. but refuse to take him
back now that his new girl has turned
him down.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
fourteen years old and am considered
good looking. I have gone to several
lawn parties this summer with a GER
tain boy and there have been several
other boys who asked to take me
home. What should I tell these boys,
or what should have told them?f
II you go to a party with your sis
ter or brother and boy asks to take
you home. what should you say? Also
after reaching home, what should you
say? Should 1 say 1 enjoyed being
with him and ask him to come again
Please tell me what I should say
when a boy has machine trouble?
BOBBY.
You should have told the boys that
some one took you to the party and
so you would go home with the same
one. But you should have thanked
them for asking you.
If you go to a party with your sister
or brother, you should return the
same way. In case you have gone
with your sister, the boy might want
to take both of you home. You should
merely thank the boy for taking you
home and ask him to come to see you
sometime.
whep a boy has machine trouble it
Is best to say little. Sympathetic 81
lence is more pleasing than chatter. 2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22

It is the fashion to speak of the
opening of the Russian market as a
practical remdy for the depression of
industry now prevailing not only in
the United States but in the leading
western European countries. The
needs of the vast Russian population,
deprived for years of their customary
imports. are pictured as representing
an enormous demand for goods. The
trouble is that need does not consti-
tute effective demand. Except on
credit people can import goods only
If they have something with which to
pay for them. Russia has almost no
such means OF payment. The inter-
nal conditions OF Russia and the poll
icy OF the Soviet government are such
that for the time being American bust
ness could gain very little by dealings
with that country, it is declared in a
study of Russian conditions by the
commerce and marine commission of
the American Bankers association.
The facts on which these findings are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22

II some day the farmers were to
take it into their heads TO strike the
country surely would be in a bad way.
They enjoy no eight hour day. they
get no extra pay for overtime and
there are no rules and regulations
pertaining to the conditions under
which they labor, yet they plod along
from year to year. and when they
have grievances they attempt to right
thc-l at the ballot box and generally
succeed. This is course that is open
TO every class of American citizens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22

opium habit spread rapidly. being
firmly esta blished in China by 1900.
In the early part of the last century
American and British sailing ships
found 1t as profitable to smuggle
opium into the poorly guarded Chi
nese ports as 1t was to take slaves
away from the African coast In
1880 the United States and China
agreed by treaty to abolish the traffic
both into China and into the United
States; and since then the American
consuls in China have been kept busy
unfolding our part of the agreement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
Dorothy Dix Tails
The Unwanted Wifc-2.
Ri DOROTHY DIX
70 1ziShess Paid wsnAn '


Therefore, the woman who sticks
to the man who wants to be rid OF
here merely beats herself to pieces
against a stone wall of indifference
that she can not break down. And
she keeps her own heart bruised and
bleeding, and her own soul torn with
a longing for the love and tenderness
that the man has no longer to, give
her.
1t is far better for her to go away
and forget, than it is to stay and be
continually tortured with memories.
After all, love is only a 1nall part OF
life, and a woman can win, at least
contentment by filling her days with
new interests, and some absorbing oc-
cupation.
Sometimes, however. a man thinks
that he has ceased to love his wife.
and is tired of her, when he has only
a temporary reaction against the mo-
nouony of domesticity. This very
often happens when a man has mar
ried when he was very young.
He had no boy time, no play time.
He passed from the thralldom of his
parents to that of a wife. He was
never free, and so there almost always
comes a period when he is mad for
the things he has missed. He yearns
for liberty. He wants to STAY around
with pretty girls. And he comes to
long TO be rid of her, becuse she
stands between him and the things he
wants to do.
In such q case the wife's only
chance of holding her husband is to
let him go. If she has the intelligence
and courage to make a dignified exit
from the scene where her presence is
no longer desired, the chances are
that, sooner or later, a wise and
chastened husband will be at her feet.
entreating her to return to him.
The man will find that years of
matrimony have untitled him for be
ing rounder. even as the domesti-
Gated animal is untitled to return TO
the Jungle. He may, at times. hear
the call of the wild. but the neck that
has once worn the yoke henceforth
finds its habitat in the warm stable
with the full feed trough instead of
on the wide free plains.
The man, also, ascertains that the
best clubs, and the most expensive
hotels, to say nothing of cheap board
ing houses. offer but poor substitute
for the comforts of home, and so he
begins to miss the wife he thought
he did not want and to get a new
angle on her virtues. Above all, lit
tie experience with the women to
whom a, man is merely a source OF
graft, and the temperature OF whose
affection for him is in direct ratio
with the amount they can make him
spend. will make him realize, If any
thing can, the value of the love that
was lavished upon him and that asked
nothing in return.
So I bid the unwanted wife remem-
Der that the best way to make a man
desire anything is to put II out of his
reach If absence doesn't help her
cause, nothing else will.
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