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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18
COL. MEEKINS
NOT TO QUIT Us
Saws He is Coming Back To
Betsy When His Job
Peters Out.

Col. Isaac NJ. Meckins flatly
denies persistent rumor that
he contcmplatcs giving up his
residence in Elizabeth City and
locating in New York City or
at the national capital. There
has been a lot Of talk about
Col. Mcckins quitting Ellz-
abcth City since he took a job
with the Alien Property Gus
todian division OF the govern
mcnt about two years ago.
Asked to affirm or deny the rumorS,
Col. McckinS. who was home last Sat
ur,lay. said: Tell the folks that l
am not going 10 give UP my residence
in Elizabeth City and that | expect
to be back here just as soon rs the
affairs of the Enemy Insurance Com
panics are wound up. That probably
will be about the first of next jan
uary."
Col. McckinS is Manager Of the
Enemy Insurance Companies of the
United States at present, with Of
ricrs in New York City. He went to
this office from the office Of the
Alien Property Custodian in WASH
ipgfon where he formerly served as
General Counsel and Manager.
When Che United States went to
war with Germany, the government
canriStirutcG. among ether things,
twenty ohc insurance companies op-
Grated by German and Austrian capt.
tal in this country. Col. Mcckins job
is looking after the business of these
twenty one insurance companies un-
til the government turns them back
to their original owners or makes
some permanent disposition of them.
It's Il nice fat job with il salary, en-
pcnscS and pcrquisites that enables
the Colonel to live as he likes to live.
But it is Il job that may come to an
end anytime within the next six mon
tbs or Il year.
Col. Nlrrkins will 60 TO Germany
this summer on an important mission
for the government in connection with
his office. lie expects to be accom-
panied by Mrs. Mcekins and Will DC
ABROAD for month or more
Many close friends of Col. Mecklns
have refused TO credit rumorS OF his
giving up his residence here. 1t is
generally known that he wants to be
Federal Judge 70" the Eastern Dis
trict of North Carolina and he would
hardly give UP his residence in North
Carolina while there is any prospect
of landing the judgcship.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18

You Must Have a Certificate of Title
to Your Car Next Fall-and
Stop at Grade Crossing

Reduction in the theft of cars will
be noticed when the new North Caro-
lila law. known as Certificate OF
Title bills goes into effect October
1st. This law. or others similar to
it were in operation in thirteen other
states at the time it was passed by
the North Carolina General Assembly.
In those states the theft of cars has
been reduced fifty per cent. and theft
insurance rates have been reduced.
The Carolina Motor Club expects
that we will have the same experience
in North Carolina. Eventually all
States will have such Il law and steal
ing of automobiles will be a thing of
the past.
The new law simply means that the
owner of every motor vehicle must
have a title to his vehicle. When the
vehicle. is reSold the title must be
changed ON the records at Raleigh.
This title must show statement OF all
liens and cncumbrances on the motor
vehicle.
Certificates. originals and transfers
will cost fifty cents each. One GER
tificatc will be good for the life OF
the car so long as it is owned by the
original holder of such certificate.
On and after January LIST. l?2f.
every person or firm dealing in used
motor vehicles must have Il license
from the Secretary of State.
The 1923 North Carolina General
Assembly passed another automobile
law requiring every person driving
any motor vehicle on a public high
way on approaching grade crossings
TO stop. look and listen before pass
ing thereover.
Whether we like it or not. 1t Is
now a law and must be o5eyed. 10
violate this law subjects one to Il line
Of ten dollars or Imprisonment not
more than ten days, or both.
This law goes into effect on anu
after the first day of July 1923.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18
FRED BRINGS FRIEND
JOHN ALONG TO VISIT
John Regan, Baltimore Contractor, Is
Here Looking EN- Over With
Fred Wineke

Fred 4. Wineke is i'm town again
this week, bringvs with him another
Baltimorean who has money TO in.
vest in anything that looks good to
him. John Regan, president of the
Regain COnstruc' on Co., of Baltimore.
is Mr.. Winekes guest here this week.
The two are old cronics and Mr..
Regan is here on n visit only, but
you can never tell what may come out
of a visit from a fellow like John.
The Regain Construction Co., has
recently built one of the largest
School buildings in Baltimore and
one of the largest reinforced con-
crete bridges in that city. They
have also done considerable govern
ment work in Texas, Florida and
other states. Mr.. Regan has been in
Elizabeth City only a few days and
says he likes the looks of the town.
Fred Wineke himself has recently
sold out all of his real estate hold
ings in Baltimore and they say he has
pile salted down ready for invest
ment in anything that will bring at.
tractive returns to Winekc. But he
says he hasn't got a mark for the
brides.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18
TO DEDICATE MOYOCK
HIGH SCHOOL MAY Is.
Col. Sam Ansell Will Make Dedica-
terry Address.

The Noyock school building will be
dedicated Friday, May 2Ilh, 1t II
o'clock. Colonel Samuel 7. AnScll,
formerly Of Currituck. and now prac-
ticing law in Washington, ID. C., will
deliver the address. 1t is expected
that the North Carolina State De
partmcnt of Education will be repre-
sentrd on the occasion.
Arrangements are being made for
suitable music. The ladies will pro-
vide lunches at Il nominal cost. the
proceeds of which will be applied on
purchase price of auditorium chairs
recently installed. Every effort Is
being made by the community to give
everybody Il good time.
The dedication of this building is
the result of undaunted effort on the
part of the county and local officials
to erect building which will meet
the needs of the community for the
next twenty years. plans have becen
effected for establishing Il junior
senior high school ut MOyock, Il
school so equipped that it will take
care of all high school students in
the northern end of Currittck coun-
ty. Last year an agricultural course
under the Smith Hughes Ast, was
established. This summer the neces-
sary equipment for modern home
economics course will be installed, and
a teacher employed for this depart
mcnt. Six high school teachers. in
Guiding the two vocational teachers
will be employed to begin work next
session. 1t is expected that the tota
enrolment. including elementary an(
high school pupils will reach POO At
the beginning of school next fall.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18
SPUDS WILL START
SOMETIME IN JUNE
The Crop in This Neck of the Woods
Dosen't Look Bad at All.

Irish potatoes are expected 10
start moving sometime in June. but
when nobody can say, for nobody
knows what the weather is going to
do. At any rate, shipments VIII De
ten days to two weeks later than last
year. the first carload in 1922 leav-
ing this city on June 1.
But nobody is worrying about SHIP
ments being late this season because
potatocs will be late in all other sec
tions. The same conditions that have
checked their growth have prevailed
everywhere else. By all precedentS,
however. the Elizabeth City section
should get its spuds on the market
abead of Virginia which is not ex-
pecting to do much shipping before
June 90.
Currituck County potatoes usuaii!
start moving several days ahead OF
nototoes from Pasquotank. Farmers
in Currituck often ship potatoes on
Nav -. and in some instances earlier
4 factor that will help toward
better prices is that farmers in this
section have decreased their acre
age about 40 per cent this year.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18

90 out 10 the show grounds and lay
Il line of hose TO Il hydrant 2ao yards
away To fill up the tank. Then the
hose would have TO he wound up,
brought back t0 headquarters. un-
wound. dried out and rolled up again.
"What'H you charge, asked the show
man.
Ever thoughtful of his beloved
fircmrn. Chief Flora said. Il went
charge YOU anything, but I'll apprc-
ciatc it if you'll honor the fircmcn-S
badges if any of them want to go to
the show" This was agreed upon.
but later one of the show men came
back in high duds""n. II cent give
your men all tha, liberty. but I'll give
YOU Il dozen passes for yourself" ."
This was too much for Jerome
Flora. TO hell with your passes.
he is quoted as saying. Fill The
tank yourself" And the show gave
no free diving act on Monday night as
advertised. And now the fircmcn are
hopeful of an opportunity TO take
their hose out Ia the show grounds
and save the show from fire. knobb,
Greek would be bone dry when they
got thru.
Tie representatives of the right"'
0uS are not the only ones To cX'
press disapproval of the carnival
Mrs. Anna Lewis. county welfare Of
ficcr. is fearful that she will have
her hands full during lis stay look
ing after truantS from school. Al
ready the show is attracting MANY
of the children vino are out Of Sgh0o
in the afternoon. More young girl,
in bobbcd hair and short skirts cal
be seen at the show than are to be
found in Sunday school.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18
ELIZABETH CITY GETS
THE HOTEL FEVER TOO
Kiwanians Enlist Other Civic Bodies In Move
ment That May Lead To A Half
Million Dollar Project

1t is beginning to look like
Elizabeth City is getting in
line to be the next enterprising
North Carolina town to build
a modern hotel. The kiwanis
Club started a hotel movement
here in a quiet way a few
weeks ago and they have now
enlisted the enthusiastic active
cooperation of Rotarians, the
Chamber of Commerce. the
Merchants Association and the
Womans Club.
And the several organizations have
their committees appointed and are
planning to spring something big next
Friday night at dinner to be served
by the WOmans Club in the Junior
Order Hall in the Kramer Building.
Very little has been said to date
about that dinner for next Friday
night, but it is going to be one Of the
best planned things ever pulled off
in Elizabeth City and it is very likely
that Elizabeth City will decide then
and there whether it wants modern
hotel and how much money it will I'M
dertake to put into it.
Elizabeth City has got to have
more hotel accommodations. The
town has one good hotel but it isn't
large enough. Good roads are being
built into Elizabeth City and it is only
question of few months or year
or so when Elizabeth City will have
to take care of large tourist trade
or get off the map. The develop
ment of the whole of Eastern North
Carolina as tourist and recreation
al centre depends upon what is done
within the next twelve months i'm the
matter of providing a first class and
ample hotel in Elizabeth City.
Friends of +. F. Aydlctt, owner of
the Southern Hotel property insist
that not even Mr.. Aydlett will stand
in the way of the promotion of big
hotel for Elizabeth City. 1t is point
ed out that the building of big hotels
in progressive North Carolina towns
helps rather than cripples the busi-
ness of other hotels. Greensboro is
notable example. The o. Henry
Guilford out of business, it was said.
The o. Henry is doing land office
business and the Guilford. former
ly the leading hotel in Greensboro
has had to doubc its capacity since
the o. Henry was built.
Progressive towns all over North
Carolina have gone i'm for pretentious
hotels without regrets. Seeing what
others have done, the town of Fay
ctteville got busy the other day and
in five days Fayetteville folks sub
scribcd $271 900 toward the building
of modern hotel in that town. Eliz-
abeth City can do anything Fayette-
vile can do. The folks who are folks
in Elizabeth City are going to talk
the thing over next Friday night and
start something il some one doesn't
cut a hole in the Kramer Building
roof and spill tank of ice water
into the building.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18
TEACHERS SUMMER SCHOOL
TO BEGIN HERE JUNE l8

The PaSquotank County Summer
Schools will begin here June Is, ac-
cor,Iing to VI. Z. Jennings, County
Superintendent of Public instruction.
Teachers from nine or ten counties
will attend the Summer Schools tins
year. The attendance last year was
:3.3S. but larger number is expected
this year.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18

For your eyes sake see DR.. j. u.
Hathaway. Optometrist, Bradford
BlGg, Eliz.tetk CITY. y. :. &C.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18

Good eyesight is inexpensive. See
DR.. J. D. Hathaway, Optometrist
Elizahctk City, \. G. ad7
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18

Don't neglect your eyes. See
Ha!hawav. uc l.n"w'c. Cd"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-05-18

retailers $3 a dozen. One favorable
aspect of the hosiery mill business is
that it brings a lot of foreign money
to the city. as very little of the
hosiery produced is sold in this state.
the bulk of it going to Northern and
Western states.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-03-05

Don Martin Rodriguez fue uno de los
principales autores de la revolucion de
la independence de Argentina. Este he
cho solo basta para que su posteridad
recordara con respeto su persona1idad.
La nacionalidad argentina vivio an
tes en- las esperanzas ingenuas y pa
trioticas de aquel reducido grupo de
hombres que EN- medic de la vida colo
nial soiiaron con una patria libre y
grande. Y esos mismos hombres hi
cieron' Ia Independence, "crearon"
la nacionalidad en- los campos de ha-
ITALIA con la punta de su espada y la
atianzaron con su accion de politiccs y
de hombres de gobierno con Ia punta
dc su pluma.
Cuando Sc contempla los sucesos a
traves de mas de un siglo de vida in-
dependence, la obra de. aquellos. varo-
nes de la prilnera hora, adquiers extra
ordinario relieve. Movidos por un san
to ideal, 10 abandonaron todo EN- no
menaje la patria. Sc lanzaron a los
campos de batalls, guerrear por ese
ideal. La abnegaci6n y Ell sacrificio
fueron la norma de su vida; alcanzar
la iibertad para su patria, su estrella
polar. Generation do paladines, SEN
tian arder en- sts venas Ia sangre ge-
nerosa de su raza. En- realidad dc
verdad, ameriCanos y espaholes ponfan
en- sus actos el mislno empefio genero-
so, la misma decision. Nj una linea
mas ALA fueron los unos de los otros,
en- punto al coraje nj a la abnegacion
de Ia conducta. Fran adversarios dig
nos. Por ESQ a traves de los amos, no
queda en- uno otro pueblo nj un solo,
resuuemor. For Ell contrario, la uni
dad de razs, de tradiciones, dc espi-
ritu religioso, ha consolidate el vincu-
10 originario.
Los atnericanos Y los espafioles que
rrearon iuntos en- 1906 v 1907. Don
Martin Rodriguez capitan de uno de
los cuerpes urbanos, contribuy6 con
eficacia al exito. En- sus Memories"
ha relatado con ingenua sencillez los
detalles de esa su primera actuacion
militar. Pero esas paginas adquieren
un interes superior cuando relata en-
elias ell procer los sucesos de los dias
de mayo de 1910, las reuniones secre-
tas para preparar la independence,
las deliberaciones en- su propia casa o
en- la Ge Rodriguez Pefia en- que Ell
''Comite revolucionario' Sc constitute
bajo la inspiration superior de dar una
patria a los argentinos. Cuando la
ominosa tirania de Rosas arrojo al des-
tierro a todos los argentinos que no
Sc inclinaron ante el despota, don Mar
tin Rodriguez, uno de los grandes que
rreros de su pals, Ell primer goberna-
dor de Buenos Aires, en- orden Y Ii
bertad, fue buscar en- la TERRA ami
que negaba Rosas a quienes no eran
sus servidores fieles. ALI dicto en-
GUS i1ltimos amos sug Memorials
don JOSS Rivera Indarte. Lease es-
ia brevisirna cr6nica sobre les successes
que prerararon Ia deposition del vi
rrey: "Ccmo las II del dia 20 de
mayo r.sndamos TN criado casa de
Saavedra para yer 81 habia venidc. En-
ese mismo momento entraba por la
puerta de Ia calle Luego que ss in
corpora nosotros SO le hizo presente
10 que nos habfa prometido hacia po
cos dias (aue Sc pondria al frente del
lnovinniento cuando 1Iegara Ia noticia
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-03-05

(Uontlnna en- Ia Pag. ID
Palisadian., 1923-08-31

The accident happened about 200
feet north of Hudson avenue. Ac-
cording to Zellman's story he was 60
ing north on Palisade avenue at a
moderate rate of speed. An auto
with binding headlights came toward
him and after it had passed he no.
ticed the form of a man directly in
Palisadian., 1923-08-31

front of his car, he swerved the ma
chine but could not avoid hitting him.
Mislinsky had three ribs broken,
collar bone broken and a possible
fracture of the skull. The driver of
the car that hit him is held under
$1,000 bail pending the result of the
injuries received by Mislinsky.
Palisadian., 1923-08-31
Man Seriously In
jured by Auto

Late Thursday night of last week
Carl Zellman of 313 Fourteenth
street, West New York, driving
large motor car on Palisade avenue,
ran into and seriously injured John
Mislinsky of 423 Twenty-sixth street,
Gutenberg.
Palisadian., 1923-08-31

The American Tobacco Company honored
Gil" cigarettes by choosing for their name
the address of its Home Office-111 Fifth
Avenue, New York.
The American public honored the judg-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-29
TO | v LONG

The average American now lives to the age of 56, COM
pared with IL back in 1870. But, by 1850, people will have a
life span of 70 years, predicts DR.. George Martin Kober Of
Georgetown University Medical School.
His prediction, of course, is based on q supposition that
people will increasingly live more %sensibly and correctly.
We hope SO. But Doc certainly is an optimist.
-Four hundred years ago the average length Of human life
was somewhere between is and 20 years. And it was only 25
year, as late as 1900. A gain of about five years in two CEN
turtles.
People live longest in New Zealand, averaging so years at
death. In India the average age of death is before %.
These average figures, however, are arrived at by add
The gain has been mostly in cutting down the death rate
among children, especially babies. This has raised the aver
age. 1t is doubtful whether there are any more people living
to " a ripe old age" than formerly. Or even as many, for that
matter.
The gain has been made largely in cradle years. As re-
CARDS individuals who reach maturity, they seem to die about
the same average age as in former generations.
AS far back as 1908, experts estimated that three million
Americans were constantly on the sicklist, and that AZ out
of every 100 of these illnesses were preventable cases.. SINH
lar situation today.
When people succumb to- preventable diseases, they gener-
ally are victims of their own carelessness. This carelessness
In many cases results from Understanding their personal
value in cold dollars and cents.
For instance, take a man with an income of $4,000 a year.
Now, $4,000 is 6 per cen. interest on an investment of $4,000.
1t the $3OOOa-year man had an auto or any other machine
worth $4,000 he would insure it against every possibility Of
disaster, and he would care for it as if it were a priceless pos
session. You can imagine q radio bug neglecting a $4,000
receiving station if he owned it.
On the other hand, the $300Oa-year man often neelects his
$4,000 body as if it were an old bit of junk.
Give your body a square deal. Treat it with the consid-
Grafton and care that its high value deserves.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-29
HtS
EMlftl@
WUNd
BY R B. HUNT
(NEA Service Writer)

WASHINGTON-If all farmers
emulated the example of Clyde Tav-
enner, former congressman from
Rock Island, ILL.,, overproduction and
losing prices DON would be over.
There would be no production at all.
Tavenner, following his career in
congress, decided to turn farmer.
He bought 1880 acres of wheat land
in eastern Colorado and took UP life
in the great open spaces.
The first year he accepted a loss
philosophically, as part of the price
of getting under way. But a year
ago he did count on a profit. Alas,
vain hope!
THE more acres I had in, the
more l lost" he says. 1T cost all
my work and trouble and SO in hard
cash for each acre 1 had in wheat.
lone evening as l was milking,
and figuring how to meet the inter-
est on my notes, l got a telegram
from Manuel Quezon, asking me to
take a job in Washington with the
Philippine Press Bureau. Did l take
It? l don't know whether that COW
ever got MIXED. / quit right there
to hop a train east and I haven't
been back since!"
Rear Admiral Cary Grayson,
physician to ex-President Wilson,
never forgets the speed laws. The
story of a Virginia fellow-medico al
ways keeps his foot from clamping
too hard on tia accelerator.
This doctor,1 says Grayson, "had
an emergency call and was run in
for speeding. Explaining to the
Judge, he said that under the cir
cumstances he had thought he
might hit it up a bit.
"I can't fine you for thinking,
but I'll have t fine you for speed
ing the magistrate decided with a
show of sarcasm.
when he had deposited his fine,
the doctor turned to the judge and
said:
"'Since you can't fine me for
thinking, 1 think you're a damn
fool!"
President Coolidge's directness
and crispness are proving in striking
contrast to the rounded phrases of
President Harding.
Possibly it was his desire for self
effacement that caused President
Harding to refrain from telling what
II did" He always said, 1.-THE
president thinks" or 1.-THE admins
tration believes"
Coolidge, however, speaks in the
first person. II think" 81 expect"
II will" He shoulders the load per-
sonally. If there is any modification,
it goes no further than an occasional
"We'-the collective administration
heads.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-08-29
THE REFEREE
(By Albert Applet

Gasoline
Twenty tank cars of gasoline of
fered at 16 cents a gallon by a single
filling station in South Dakota,
smashed the gasoline market in that
state and started p~rice-cuttina in
nearly every part of the nation.
This teaches us more about The
alive than a dozen economists could
get into as many textbooks
1t also teaches that everything Is
extremely susceptible to des -ruct!on
A small AK speedily cuts dow1 a tree
that has taken generations to grow.
A lone match can cause a big fire.
Heinie
Herring, commercial attlche for
Uncle Sam in Berlin, reports that
out OF avery 100 members OF .abLr
rricns in Germany only four were
unemployed and only Is working
part July 1. 1t takes Il couple
of months to compile such statistics
accurately. The situation may have
changed since July 1, but lot much.
1t seems 'tasonable that these fig
ures also will hold true for German
workers not o. gained in unions. AS
long as 81 out Ct every 100 Germans
are working 1ull time, the German
lidl tlOi 40 CAiNOhA t6lh5
George Horace Lorimer, editor of
the Saturday Evening Post, is pack
from abroad and considers it decid-
edly improbable that Germany will
collapse.
Radio
Three and a half million radio re-
ceiving sets are now in use in our
country, according TO a trade esti-
mate. This invention has come into
popularity faster than anything in
history. We are quicker to take a
chance on trying out the new and
improved than people were in for
mer generations.
Incidentally, there now are $4,000
licensed amateur transmitting sta
tions. From these and their sue
cessors will come inventions that
eventually will make radio receiving
sets as compact and portable as
watches, placing the users in in
slant touch with the far Of
the earth. Radio, remember, is not
yet out of the cradle.
Light
The Wall Street Journal discovers