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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
START ERECTING WAREHOUSE

The new community bonded ware
house was started this week and will
be ready for business by the "arly fall.
S. B. Parsons, local broker, is financ-
ing it.. J. p. Kramer is the architect.
BY the way the work has progressed
during the week it would seem that il
will be finished on schedule time, but
the drawback seems to be that the ship
ments of bricks are not coming in fast
enough. The warehouse is located on
the corner of Burgess and Water SITS.
and in a very convenient part of the
city. 1t is being built in such a way
that it can be made larger easily and
by the way things look now that is
likely. Besides the storage of cotton,
corn, soy beans and other farm crops
this warehouse will be used by jObbers
and wholesalers for the storage Of any
kind of merchandise that is shipped
here in carload lots to be broken up into
smaller quantities. All patrons of the
warehouse will be provided with full
! fire protection.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
GOVERNOR GETS
AN INSPIRATION
"Cam" Morrison Says North
Carolina Must and Shall
Have More Fish
BY w. o. SAUNDERS.
With Governor Morrison and Party on
Board N, C., r. C. S. S. Atlantic

6OdTu ~. ~. =. ". .. .. Htidhtic
Governor Morrison is learn
ing something about the fishing
industry in North Carolina and
constructive fish legislation is
going to have a powerful and
resourceful ally in the Governor
when he gets back from his
cruise over the North Carolina
Sounds with members of the
North Carolina Fisheries Com
mission this week.
beginning at Edenton Tuesday morn
ing Governor Morrison began to learn
about the decadence of what was once
one of the states greatest industries
and he is fired with determination to
back any legislation or any practical de-
mand for state appropriation to put
more fish and shell fish in North Caro-
lima waters. Governor Morrison is am
bilious to enlarge the scope and powers
of the State Fisheries Commission, to
establish state fish hatcheries for the
propagation of native varieties of fish,
to stock every stream and pond and
lake in North Carolina with edible fish.
Some important rules and regulations
may emanate from the State Fisheries
Commission following meeting of the
Board at Edenton Monday. The Com
missioners made an investigation of the
artificial propagation of shad at the ".
s. Govt. Fish Hatchery at Edenton and
the Commissioners are convinced that
this fish hatchery is serious menace
instead of help to the industry. 1t
is believed that the governments meth
ods are destroying millions of fish for
every thousand successfully propagated
by their labratory methods. I am 60
ing to tell about this next week.
With the closing of the inlets North
of Hatteras; with altogether too many
pound nets in the inland sounds and
with the natural spawning of shad on
the spawning grounds of Albemarle
Sound obstructed by government exper-
iments that are in effect hardly better
than vandalism, the shad hasn't much
more than a ghost of a show in North
Carolina inland waters to-day. Some
thing drastic must be done to save the
or in a few years there will
be nothing left to save and thousands
of families on the fishing banks of
North Carolina will have to seek an
other means of livelihood.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE
TO CONVICT CRANKS
Powerful Influences in This City Be-
lieVed To Secretly Back Them
in Crime

LLOYD Crank. sentenced to two years
on the roads in a case of prostitution
in the Recorders Court here on We'd
nesday March s, went scot free when a
Jury in the Superior Court here last
week acquitted him of the charge. His
brother Charlie Crank who drew two
years in the Recorders Court for pros
titution and the theft of an automobile
was convicted only on the charge of
theft in the Superior Court and SEN
fenced to one year in the penitentiary.
On The night of Sunday, March ., an
automobile was stolen from in front of
the McAdams revival tent on Parson-
age ST. Three days later Charlie and
LLOYD Crank. Otis Bland, Lee 'Overman
and two 1j-year-Old girls by the name
of Harris were found in a Negro cabin
near Elizabeth City. The car was found
ditched near Weeksville, nine miles
from town. Charlie Crank confessed
to the theft of the car. The two
Cranks were sentenced to two years on
the roads each and the girls held for
Samarcand Manor. the state reform in
stitution for wayward girls. But, as
is usually the case, the Cranks appealed
TO the higher court and with able coun-
sci laughed defiance in the face of the
State. F.. +. Aydlett and Martin Simp-
son represented the Harris girls; W.
L. COhoOn and p. W. MCMILLAN rep
resented the CrankS.
Solicitor. Ehringhaus boiled when the
Jury returned a verdict of not guilty IN
the case of Lloyd Crank. Among other
things Mr.. Ehringhaus said: Il know
that the most lecherous, venal intu-
ences in this community cluster about
that man and others.
II am willing to make affidavit" de-
clared Solicitor Ehringhaus in Superior
Court Saturday morning "that Lloyd
Crank came into my Office during the
Winder trial, and talked with me about
his efforts to get testimony to lmpugn
the character and good name of the
prosecuting witness in that trial; and
that he admitted that he knew nothing
against the character of that witness.
1 have evidence that he has been re-
ceiving money from Winder."
The difficulty in convicting the
Cranks is believed to lie in the fact
that they are the servitors in immOr-
ality of influential and wealthy men in
the community; and that when they get
in trouble they threaten to tell what
they know about their respectable pa
irons, compelling them to employ the
best lawyers for them and use their
influence with venal jurors.
The jurors in the Crank case were:
E. R. Norris, o. NJ. Wynn, J. L. Pen
dleton, U. d. DOzier, H. F. Thornton,
w. c. Godfrey, NJ NJ. Hurdle, A. l..
Phelps, G. A. Bright, L. 1. Berry, Ern-
est White and A. o. Smith.
Last weeks term of the Superior
Court in this city was called 'The
Crank Special" The Cranks crowd the
docket of every term of the Superior
Court in this county It would be in
teresting to know just who pays their
bills.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
OFFICER ANDERSONS y
MISTAKEN CLUE

A woman's trunk, which was found
behind the gas plant recently. has CIV
en- the police considerable trouble. The
trunk. it is said contained a quantity
of clothes and some letters belonging to
n female. Chief of Police Holmes wrote
TO the address which the letters fur
nished but has not yet received any
answer.
Upon failure of the owner to reply,
Officer Anderson, who found the trunk,
recalled seeing a. grave which had been
recently dug nearby. Nothing daunted
by a sign on the grave, and thinking
he would solve the mystery, he proceed
ed to dig it up. Officer Anderson will
hereafter believe in signs as he found
inst what the sign read, "Fido, our
darling dog"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
THE MOTORCYCLE "COP"
AND HIS SPEEDOMETER
Speedometer May Tell How Fast the
Policeman Is Going, But Not
the Other Fellow

A motorcycle policeman's speedom-
eter may accurately tell how fast the
motorcycle is going in pursuit of an au-
tomobile, but it does not necessarily
register the speed of the automobile
that is being pursued. Such was the
contention of w. o. Saunders in a case
on appeal in the Superior Court here
the other day, in which Saunders was
charged with driving his car at a speed
in excess of thirty miles an hour.
The County's Motorcycle Officer
Smith swore that his speedometer
showed Saunders to have taken speed
of Sc miles an hour on the Weeksvil'e
Road on the evening of Jan. 30, 1922.
Smith says he took the speed between
two points admittedly hardly more than
half mile apart. Saunders proved
that he was going slowly on the ap-
proach to this point and was going not
faster than II to 10 miles an hour a
half mile beyond the point in question.
Saunders was arrested at the end OF the
brick road and cOntended that Officer
Smith had to speed his own machine
up to SO miles an hour to oVertake him.
1t was proved that Smith was % to
100 feet in the rear of Saunders car
when the two passed the home of
Matthew Reed, just few hundred feet
from the end of the road.
Saunders conducted his own case and
told the jury to use their own common
sense and he would cheerfully accept
their verdict, whether guilty or not
guilty, The jury by its verdict ex-
pressed a popular belief in the infallibil-
ity of motorcycle policemen and their
,.nn1op,atarc
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
FIGURES ON THE
UPKEEP OF ROADS
Evidence Is That Pasquotank
Made No Mistake In Build
ing With Brick

Cement roads are pretty things and
i've luxury and the evidence is that
brick, with all of its Objectionable fea-
lures, is the best type of road for tax
payers to build. The American Lum-
herman, Chicago, which may be regard
ed as an unbiased authority, has been
publishing some facts and figures on
road upkeep recently that should be
of interest to Pasquotank County tax
payers. The figures go long way to
vindcate the Pasquotank Highway
Commissions partiality to brick roads.
Back in 1913 engineers laid part of
the main thorofare between Philadel-
phia and New York in 26 sections as
follows: seven of vitrifed brick; five of
cement concrete; six of bituminous con-
crete and eight of bituminous macadam.
The Bureau of Highways of the city of
Philadelphia has just made public its
findings as to the wearing qualities of
the various types of pavement of which
the highway was constructed.
According to the report the sections
paved with vitrified brick have cost the
least in annual repair and maintenance,
and the sections covered with different
varieties of cement concrete have cost
the most. The actual figures on up
keep cost per square yard per year are,
for vitrifed brick, eight-tenths of
cent and. for cement concrete, II cents.
Bituminous concrete types have cost II
cents square yard each year for main
tenance and bituminous macadam, seven
cents.
These figures, if stated on the basis
of a mile of 16foot roadway, would re-
suit in the following yearly up-keep
costs: cement concrete, S1,652.12, btu
minous concrete, $1,124.5S, bituminous
macadam, $693.70 and vitrified brick,
$76.9S.
A number of states. as for example,
Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and New
York are keeping accurate maintenance
records, separating the cost of the sur
face proper from the cost on ditching,
shoulders, bridges, etc.
In Illinois, for instance, brick and
concrete types are listed as follows in
the last report of the state highway
commission, the figures showing the av-
erage cost for one year of repairing
the surface. of a mile Of 1S-foot road
way:
Concrete, cement, S4224.
Brick, all types, $6.33.
In Ohio, the records are even more
complete, revealing the following main
tenance costs for one year and per
mile of all widths:
Brick, rigid types, S23.
Concrete, cement, S9S.
Gravel, rolled, 1913.
Concrete, bituminous, $345.
NIacadam, waterbOund, 1881.
Macadam. bituminous, $685..
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
EASTER TUESDAY WILL
BE A BIG DAY HERE

= A Bridge tournament and Mardi
Gras will be put on in this city the
Tuesday following Easter for the bene;
fiji of the Community Hospital ambu-
lance fund. The afternoon will be ex-
clusiyely for the ladies but the night
tournament will be for everybody.
There will be exhibition dancing and
refreshments will be sold. The COM
mittee intends to have this big time.
Tickets are to be sold at dollar a
couple.
The last day of Dress-Up Week,
April s, will be ambulance Tag Day.
All the money raised from these two
days will 60 toward the hospital am
bulance.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
A DESERVING PRIZE WINNER.

ReY. and Mrs. Charles Baine, of this
city, won the prize of bible offered
at the McAdams tent meeting Sunday
afternoon to the couple bringing the
largest number of their own children.
The Baine family was eleven strong
and Mr.. Baine stated that there was
one more somewhere that he was un-
able to round up at the time. But with
one shy he won in a walk away.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
EDITOR OFF FOR THE WEEK

It is seldom that the editor of THE
leaves his work for
more than a day at a time, but this
week he is out of touch and away from
the smell of printers ink for the whole
week, having left here Monday morn
ing to join Governor Morrison and par
ty on a trip over the Sounds.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
THIS LAW SHOULD BE ENFORCED

There is law in this state that
reads that all vehicles must have
light after nightfall, but bicycle rid
ers and horse drivers seem to ignore
it to a great extent in the city and vi
cinity. Most of the accidents that have
happened lately can be traced to the
lack of lights and the enforcement of
this law would help a lot to eliminate
the danger of night riding.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
MISTAKE IN PENDER'S AID.

Pender's butter will be Al cents in
stead of 43 which price is in their ad
on another page. This butter is the
best obtainable and by buying it you
save the price of fancy cartons.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
VISITING FROM OHIO.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Moore have
.r their guests Mr.. NIoore's mother,
'tr.. W. f. Moore, of Mt. Vernon, o..
lud his sister. Mrs. c. W. HOdell, of
DrTviue, Ohio.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31

THE INDEPENDENT does the bet.
ter class of job printing.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
CHEAP LENSES

There are no bargain days
nor substitutes for good eye
glasses. Cheaper materials
can be substituted for al
most anything except a cor
rectly fitted lenSe. Cheap"
lenses oftentimes cause trouble of
a more serious nature than the de-
fects they are supposed to correct.
Only people who have been trained
to recognize defects of vision and
to know how to make a proper
correction are capable of advising
on such an important subject as
lenses. Avoid trouble by consulting
reliable professional people and
taking their advice.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1922-03-31
DIR. 7. D. HATHAWAY

Optometrlst
Bradford Bldg. Elizabeth City, n. c.
Evening journal., 1922-03-02
HITCHCOCK SPRINGS SURPRISE.

NHE Republican party has never been against BIG Busl
ness in the Of wishing to Illustrate big opera
tons II has always accepted economic fact that
large operatons and centralized control spelt lower pro
ducon costs But the Republican party has never Stood
for combinations in restraint Of trade or combinations
effected for the purpose OF controlling Federal legislation
The sherman antitrust law passed in 1890 and 81 ned by
Harrison and the work accomplished by the Roosevelt
administration stand as witnesses to this assertion.
The Democratic party has long taunted the Republican
marty with fayorng policies which would put the little
fellow out of business grind the workngman into the
mre and reduce the to the saTe OF peasantry
The democrats have always claimed To be the friends OF
The small operator and the advocates Of democracy In IN
dustry.
It came as a surprise therefore, when in the debate IN
the bill authorizing agricultural associations, one Of the
LEADERS Of the Democratic party senator Hitchcock came
ont in advocacy OF large monopoly. MY Judgment Is
said he THAT the supply OF milk OF big city ought to
he monopozed just like the supp " and It's price
ought 10 be in some way controlled believe could
he controlled One Of the reasons why the cost OF
living is so great in city is the awful waste OF having
hundreds Of grocery doing what few should do
dozens Of milk men doing what few could do etc
The Republican party has long been blamed Tor hiSl
nrlces because It was charged that party co-opera
win monopoles II has sought to prevent monapolies
hut A has seen the value OF arge-scae operation. Now
hitchcock comes out absolute monopolies He goes
the Republicans one better.
Evening journal., 1922-03-02

piled by this pitiful attempt to carry
water on both shoulders. Its adop-
ton would mean depriving the men
who fought of considerable share
of the money they were being osten-
sibly paid apd handing 1t over to the
note shavers and money lenders. II
would put a premium not on patriot
ism but on financial cunning. 1t
would saddle a narmy of parasites
upon an army of fighting men.
II is not surprising that the COM
mittee went into secret session 10
adopt this measure. 1t is only sur
prlsing that II was willing to talk
about 1t after its adoption. No law
maker who cared a rap about the
soldiers would be known even as the
co-author of such a measure. 1t is
merely a frantic effort to get on both
sides Of the question-to mollify an
indignant public and at the same
time please the American Legion.
The plan will be favored neither
by the which is opposed tc
the bonus bill altogether-nor by the
soldiers, some OF whom favor 1t. Il
will, however, gain an immediate
and immense popularity with th'
loan sharks, and perhaps its authors
will be content with the support o.
those gentry.
Evening journal., 1922-03-02
ESTATES OF THE DEAD.

The following letters have been
granted by Register of Wills Isaac
r. Brown:
mentary-Pauline Hazelhorst
on the estate Of Frederick Hasel-
horst, of Wilmington hundred;
Grace NJ Geiszler on the estate of
George Riley of Wilmington hun
dred; George p. Elliott. of Christi
ana hundred on the estate of Annie
Briefly, of Wilmington hundredi
Wilmington Trust Co.. of Whining
ton hundred, on the estate of Mary
c. Hagerty of Christiana hundred;
Josephine S. Anderson. of Philadel-
phia, on the estate of George V. An
derson of Wilmington hundred.
stration-Thomas Clinton
Goslin on the estate OF Laura Jane
Mechener Goslin, Of Wilmington
hundred; Lawrence ]. Broman on
the estate of Paul c. Hennig. of
Wilmington hundred; William B.
Ashbrook on the estate of LILLIAN
McC. Ashbrook Of Wilmington hun
dred; Arthur w. McDermott on. the
estate of Catherine r. McDermott
of Wilmington hundred; Sophia A.
Higgins on the estate of Noah Hig-
gins of New Castle hundred; Harry
X. Fulton on the estate Of Catherine
A. Fulton of Wilmington hundred.
Evening journal., 1922-03-02
WOOD SAVES LIVES
OF MANY DOGS

MANILA, p. I.,-(Unitde Press)-
The Igorotes are going to quit eating
dogs.
Igorote chiefs, meeting recently
with Governor General Leonard
Wood. promised they would give up
the food that made them famous,
for the more hlgh-brow food Of
goats and sheep.
"The Philippines became too well
known, and disreputably so, when
they demonstrated their dog-eating
procllvities at the fairs in the United
States years, ago" Governor Wood
told thel chieftains. They gave the
world the impression that they were
the real type OF the Filipino"
The dog market at Baguio. in the
mountain provinces of North Luzon
island. Is one Of the show places of
the Philippines. Evdry Sunday
morning all the big and little Igo-
rotes gather from their hillside
homes and barter in dogs. The
leaner the dog. the better chow he
brings. The eater buys the leanest
dog, fattens him on rice for several
days-and then roasts him as he is.
you folks are beyond this prim-
tive. stone-age stuff" Governor
Wood said. "Citlzens of America
think Of the Irogotes when they
think of the Filipino. And we're
not"
Evening journal., 1922-03-02
A Bonus for Loan Sharks
CFrom the New York Tribune.).

Casting wildly about for some way
to save their faces with the country
and the American Legion at the same
time, members of the House Ways
and Means Committee have now
abandoned altogether the cash bonus
plan and have substituted a system
of certificates payable a some future
date. These are to be given only to
the men who demand cash. The
provisions for assistance in home
purchasing and vocational training
remain unchanged.
This idea evolved during a secret
session OF the committee. is far more
obnoxious than any OF the schemes
thus far suggested since the bonus
travesty was inaugurated.
II means putting a very large part
OF the bonus into the hands OF loan
sharks, who will discount the certih-
Gates when the men receiving them
need the money and become the
creditors Of the government for the
principal.
II the loan brokers of the country
had absolute control of Congress
they could not secure the passage OF
a measure better calculated to en-
rich them.
Were any further proof needed OF
the inslncerity of the Congressional
supporters OF the bonus bill it is sup
Evening journal., 1922-03-02
REAL DEFINITION or rnRIrr.

TO YOU really understand Just what thrift means?
~ Many Delaware folk do not Too many consider
the word synonym for boarding for stnginess II
means nothing Of the kind To practice thrift does not
mean that you must put paddock on your pocketbook
The Joplin MOI Globe hits the nail squarely on the
head when il says "If you buy city lot for $500
that really worth 800 more, and If you have the 500
available is plain that 1t wouldn't be thrift to refuse
to make the Investment It would be unthrifty not TO
make IT, And II you buy overcoa for $50 that VIII
you s25 $50 fall when you are going to have
to buy one, It would be unhrfty not to make the in
yesment"
Thrift means taking advantage Of money-makins op-
portunities But It also means reralnng from those use
less expenditures that keep your pockebook so thin you
cannot make investments when they are offered
one Of the best methods Of pracclng thrift is to keep
Your dollars everlastngy on the job When you invest
your money New Issue Treasury Savings Certificates
your money is yielding good rate OF Interest yet IN
case Of emergency for business reasons you are in
need of cash the certificates be redeemed at the
Treasury Department at their original cost plus interest
at the rate Of about 3Ik per cent per annum com
pounded semi-anually
The average citizen has for many years looked with
horror upon the extravaganza OF national Stale or
county governments but they never seemed to stop and
think that governments are only rejecting the spirits o'
the individuals that go to make them up. Whenever the
American people really begin to practice thrift In Their
everyday lives then they will insist having that sort
OF government As II Is today the Federal government
is really taking the lead in the practice OF thrift Presi-
dent Harding is insisting policy OF the srictest econ
omy in governmental Expenditures and he is being backed
M TO the limit by the Bureau Of the Budget and the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
Unfortunately, America still is looked upon as spend
thrift nation Many good citizens do not enjoy the repu
tatou being thrifty On the other hand tnere are o
course many who are steadily forging ahead. But the
bie majority continue 10 operate In hsnd-to-mouh
fashion spending today what they make today or per
hans what they expect to make tomorrow.
Thrift means getting ready for the inevitable rainy day
by saving money to and using IT, Don't hide your
savings; invest them The governments UNIFIED savings
system provides a safe and profitable way.
Evening journal., 1922-03-02
NOW KILL III

CITH COUNCIL has done well in deferrng final &C
~ ton the proposed ordinance which, II passed.
would impose city tax OF from s. to s25 on all horse
drawn or motordrven vehicles using the city streets
for commercial purposes
II 1t will follow the delay with action administering
deathbow to that unpopular pisce OF proposed egsla
ton it will give greater pleasure to the local bust
public.
Wilmington business men being taxed already to
The limit Of endurance They should be spared any fur
iher burden. How intensely they feel the Injustice Of
the commercial vehicle that proposed was indicated
clearly last night when Council, sitting as a committee
Of the whole, heard objections to the proposed ordin-
ance
There is misiakng the temper OF the business pub
lie in this matter and 1t will be well for the Council
men to take li into account WI / they shape their
final decisions.