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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-08-27
TWOHOTELSClJT.
LOOSEFROM THE
VIM. FOOR CORP.
Lessees of Virginia Dare Hotel
Said To Have Rather Ex-
travagant Notions

Community hotels leased to
big hotel operating companies
are having hard shedding IN
some places and that fact Is
now generally known and IS
giving some concern to the
Elizabeth City Hotel Corpora
ton.
Within the past two weeks the
Carolina Beach, Hotel near VIII
mingtOn and the MorChead Villa AT
Morehead Bluffs have several rela-
ton with the William Foor concern
and put I'm their own management.
There il a rumOred split hetWelle
the William Foor people and the
Washington Duke Hotel in Dur
ham.
1t IL charged that the hotel operat-
Ing company has lot Of hiShfal'l-
tin notions about running hotels and
runs them on such an eXtravagant
scale that by the time the high
salaries are paid their resident man.
ayers, etc. there isn't anything left
fur the stockholders.
The Elliott Hotel in Suffolk suf-
fered u similar sad experience with
the United States Hotel Corpora
ton and has quietly severed relh-
tiOns with that concern. the stock
holders running the hotel them
selves. And they seem to he max
ing good job ot il. In fact. many
people In Suffolk do not know that
the change has been made.
The officers and directors of the
Elizabeth City Hotel Corporation.
who have made a contract with the
William FOOr Corporation to oper-
ate Elizabeth City's new Virginia
ltuEt l1oltl. HuNt p'NiA p"' wa
notice that they may expect similar
trouble if they turn the management
Of the hotel over TO the leasing cor
poration ana keep no check on the
management. Fully coSnizant OF
the troubles Of Carolina Beach
and Durham, President G. O. Rob
inson of the Elizabeth City
Hotel Corporation is understood to
have had several conferences with
the heads of the FO0r organization
and when the concern takes over the
Virginia Dare it will work with an
executive committee of the local
owners who will check any show of
extravaganza in management ut the
start.
The first years Of all biz hotels
seems to he bad years. Whether
: deSignedly or otherwise they are
often run on an eXtravagant scale
and lose money: the stockholders
are discouraged and sell their STOCK
at a fraction of its par value. Then
the faults Of management are cor
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-08-27

rrctcd ana the hotel proceeds to
make money. The officers and
direct Ms of the Elizabeth City Hotel
Corporation are determined to pro-
fit 10y the mi>iakCS Of ether towns.
The directors are conservative lot
of business men who have Il rcputa-
ton for making dividends for the
various enterprises with which they
are connected and they are not in
this hotel proposition to lose money
for themselves and the stockholders.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-08-27
WALTER HARRIS PLANS
TO CATH EN- YOUNGER

u. Walter Harris. Elizabeth CitF
sailor who has established mere III
Elizabeth City one of the biggest
mems clothing businesses III 'he
South. has added an exceptlonai
line of boys clothing tins Season
In choosing our boys line says
Mr.. Harris. Il have kept two thihSs
i'm mind: the mothers desire 10 puF
clothes that will wear well and the
boys desire for clothes that io' n
we'll. l think we can satisfy both the
mother and the boy and then reSer'e .
Il biz chunk of satisfaction for oao
WIN povs the bills. because our
clothes are priced right.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-08-27
CITY AUTO LICENSES

Elizabeth City automobile licenses
expire Aug. 81, 1926 and new iiceils-
es will have to he obtained for the
year beginning Sept. ], 1926. Inc
new licenses are ready and can re
obtained at the office Of the City
Clerk now bv those who would avoid
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-08-27

Mrs. Mamie Mcintyre. alleges
that J. c. Burleyson. keeper of the
Stanley County home, whipped her
last week, while she was an inmate
therein, and her complaint has been
found true by the County S'l"iin-
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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-08-27
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niSh glasses the same day. See Drs.
Hathaway. Hinton Bldg. adv
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
.UPHOLDS CHARLESTON

Claiming that the new Charles
ton dance is as harmless as a
day-old chicken" the Champaign
News Gazette comments as fol-
lows:
Ever and anon someone arises
to take a lusty, two-fsted crack
at that popular dance known as
the Charleston. 1t is the fate
of all popular dances to be jeered
at by the highbrows. Can you
remember the furore the tango
caused?. And the shimmy? And
even the waltz? But these criti-
cisms of the Charleston seem a
little bit woozy. After all,
there's nothing wrong with the
dance. 1t isn't suggestive or
voluptuous-not in the least. 1t
calls for lot of muscular ex-
ertion, but outside of that it's as
harmless as day-old chicken.
Lay off the Charleston, you
critics. When this nation, by
accident, falls, for a dance that
happens to have no trace of the
suggestive in it-give thanks"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25

and what happened over there.
/ get no answer, they do not
want to talk about it; what l
found out about the. war, / got
from other sources. | have
found out that the things we so
willingly gave to be sent over to
them they never received. 1
know that the Y. M. C. A. re-
ceived millions of dollars from
the people and that the govern
ment transported their goods
free of charge to France, yet this
organization grated off the
soldiers over there charging them
more for these same goods than
they cost in America in the first
place. ! know that the sweaters
and other things that our women
folks knitted for them were
never sent to the front to the
men who needed them, but were
piled up in government ware
houses, and after the war sold
to Jews and other peddlers and
are now finally being sold back
to the people that made them in
the first place free of charge.
We never had an investigation of
that graft. Is it any wonder that
our young men haven't any re-,
spect for our Sunday school
teachers and other slick gentry
who were afraid that they might
be drafted to fight and so got in
to the Y. M. C. A. where they
were safe? Anyhow many of them
no doubt got rich. Those hypo-
critics are now respected, and the
soldiers are being blamed for
many things which they have
nothing to do with, such as our
crime wave, etc. Yes, we honor
the successful man, the man
who has the money, but it doesn't
seem. to make much difference
how he gets it.
H. SIMONSEN.
Continued next week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
WAR TROPHIES OUT OF
DATE
portland Oregonian.)

Ever and anon some proud city,
or perhaps it will be only ham,
let, announces that it has placed
in it's public square or before the
courthouse a genuine German
cannon, captured in the late war
Trophies of battle have always
been popular, and were borne
back ] by victorious armies in
earliest history. But possibly
they grow the least bit passe.
Europe has resolved to go to
war no more, and Europe without
an occasional war would certain
ly appear to presage the parlia
ment of man. Perhaps these cap
tured cannon are the last of their.
kind ever to be seized in such
fashion, or to awaken such men,
cries.
A cannon is a ponderous, pride
full thing. These German can
mons in our courthouse yards have
taken dreadful toll of manhood,
in the military arrogance of their
pride. From these mouths rush
ed metal projectiles, laden with
high explosive, and when the
pieces were we'll aimed at an I'M
seen target they made rags and
tatters of human bodies. To talk
of the gallantry of war is non
sense,
There is nothing gallant about
Staying an adversary miles away,
crouched In a cold and muddy
trench. There is nothing gallant
about cannon. And if a new code
bids us deny the necessity of war,
and settle our differences by ar
bitration, the day in which that
code is written is day of most
glorious victory.
The fact is that we have out
grown war, and are slow to ad-
NIT it. These trophies of a war
that must ever be memorable
for it's madness, the utter aban-
don of it's will to Stay, let us
trust they shall be the last of
their kind ever to wage or cele-
brate war. The attitude of the
future should regard them as
vain and dreadful curios.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
TAKE YOUR TIME

Really good bonds, securities
and other investments are not
forced upon the buying public.
If a man has something good to
sell he will wait till you have
time to make investigation.
That is a good thing to remem-
Der and keep uppermost in the
mind when the slick-tongued
stock and bond salesman comes
around. Banker Hogan at Ker-
rick, gave out some good advice
along this line in the last issue
of Hogan's Mirror. 1t reads as
follows:
Statistics show that every
year, people are fleeced out of
enough money to build city the
size of Pittsburgh, Penn. Over
S1,00O,00O,00O is the amount es-
timated that people lose every
year buying bogus and worthless
stocks, bonds and various secur-
tiles. A good rule to follow is
ask the bank before you buy this
stuff. When a fellow comes
around and has something to sell
you and wants you to take it at
once, just tell him you will let
him know next week and that
will give you time to think it
over and find out. If his stock
is worth while, he will be glad
to come back next week"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
SIN COUNTED OUT

This story is related by a per-
son connected with the White
House:
One Sunday after the president
had returned from church, where
he had gone alone, Mrs. Coolidge
inquired:
WAS the sermon good?"
Yes" he answered.
What was it about?"
Sin"
What did the minister say?'
He was against it,"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
IN THE SAME CLASS

An automobile is just as dan
gerous as an automatic pistol
when in the hands of a reckless
driver, and it can kill just as
quickly. We know that a jury
of Mcintosh men would not
acquit the reckless pistol user
who killed another-and we be-
lieve the time is fast approach
ing when they will mete out
heavy punishment to auto drivers
who STAY through reck1essness.-
Mcintosh Times.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25

Our schools and our literature is
forever praising the successful
man or in other words the selfish
man instead of teaching that the
millionaire must necessarily be a
robber of mankind; we enthrone
him as a man to be patterned af-
ter, that is where our co-opera-
tion falls down, because we can
not cooperate and be selfish at
the same time.
Selfishness causes war, like
wise it causes industrial slavery.
The common people have to pay
for wars, likewise they are the
class that must necessarily be
robbed before any other group of
men can be made successful. The
soldier is slave of capital, in
the same way man who pro-
duces and yet is unable to buy is
a slave of capital, and it is all
caused by selfshness. Selfish
ness is really a crime.
Going back to the war, and
Judging at the cause of it from
what followed after we had won
the victory, | doubt it was really
intended as a war to end wars,
there. is nothing to show that the
ideals for which our boys fought
have ever been attempted to be
fulfilled previous to our entry
into the war. American capital
lists had loaned billions of dollars
to England and France taking as
collateral those countries secur-
tiles for South American loans.
Unless the allies won the war,
those securities would not have
been worth anything, because
Germany would have taken po-
session of those South American
countries, and it was only when it
became apparent that the Allies
could not win the war without
the. active help of the United
States that we finally entered,
and the United States govern
ment spent forty billion dollars
and sacrificed the youth of our
land in order that about ten bill
lion dollars in loans made by big
capital might be secured safe.
The farmer and the laboring man
had to pay into the treasury of
the United States those forty
billion dollars, and they did it
willingly by buying liberty bonds
and allowing themselves to be
taxed because the common people
of America as a whole are not
selfish and they were. led to be-
lieve that they were contributing
towards a great cause of human
ity and peace on earth, only to
find out later that it was not the
idea at all in the minds of the
men that run this nation and
others. What actually happened,
was that big business grated off
the government during the war
and enriched themselves by
grabbing the money that the far
mer and other laboring classes
paid in.
l had three boys and a daugh-
ter serving in the late war, and
they all enlisted, the govern
ment didn't have to spend any
money drafting them, yet now
when | ask them about the war
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
MORE IMPORTATION.

Townships should publish a fin
ancial statement. 1t need not
be elaborate, and the expense
would be a bagatelle. But it
ought to be complete enough to
show what is done with the
money, what was paid to the
town officers for their services,
what for miscellaneous expense,
and how much on each road job
in the township. Such a report
should effectively silence criti-
cism, and bring a clearer under
standing of township revenues,
their needs and their uses.-Mor-
ris Tribune.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
Opinions of Others
A FARMERS OPINIONS

Nowadays nearly everybody is
trying to help the farmer. /
have read a great deal about how
the farmer could better the con-
ditions under which he has been
working the past few years.
There are many different opin-
ions as to how the farmers should
be helped, some believe that
there should be a higher tariff
on all farm produce which is,
shipped into this country, and
others believe that there should
be no tariff at all on anything.
Personally, l believe that free
trade is the right suggestion,
however, do not think that even
with close organization that the
farmers would have the power
to put this through, because in
dustry, the working class, and
capital would surely be against it.
A demand for an equal tariff
on farm produce as is protecting
industry, | believe, would be a
justified demand and one that
can be put through. If this is
accomplished it seems to me that
, we can get along without any
government protection, especially
| if we can make loans at reason
able prices, namely $50. Quite
bit has been accomplished along
this line, but more could and
ought to be done in the matter of
cheaper loans because it is not
right that the farmer who works
all the way from IA to Is hours
a day should not have enough to
meet his obligations with.
Under present conditions the
farmer is worse off than any
other class of people, a great
number have not been able to pay
their taxes and interest the past
few years, and must therefore
go with the uncomfortable
thought in their minds that they
can be driven away from their
farms, and lose what man, wife
and children have worked hard
to gather.
l realize that the parents have
no right to keep the children at
home to help them, unless the
children wish to do so. l be-
lieve the child-labor talk we hear
nowadays, does not help towards
bringing the parents and children
together. Work makes the man
and unless a child learns to work
when he is young he won't have
much interest in work when he
grows up. A good education
without the desire to work is not
worth much.
Another thing that | resent is
the opinion held by some that the
farmer is living too high. l have
lived among farmers all my life
land am sure that mo- other class
lives as cheaply as the farmer
does. and it is only by a compari-
son with other classes that these
things can be judged, We should
not compare present standards of
living on the farm with what
they used to be but with the
standards that other classes en-
joy. If you say a man should be
satisfied with what his father
had, then he in turn should have
been satisfied with what his
father had. Following that line
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
of reasoning man would revert
back instead of forward.

OF reasoning man would revert
back instead Of forward.
County agents, cost accounting
and bookkeeping, etc., may help
some, still believe that there is
no value received which will COM
pare with what is spent to keep
these things going, neither am |
much of believer in cooperative
marketing. In the past forty
years | have been member and
shareholder in a good many of
them, and as a general rule |
have lost money in all of them
and have lost faith in that sys-
tenn. Then what shall we do to
help ourselves? First of all
let us find out why we are sit
uated as we are. There are many
different opinions regarding this
matter, some think that the war
caused our hard times, possibly
that the former Kaiser is directly
responsible. However that may
be-, | doubt that the Kaiser was
more than fgurehead in the
late war and was no more re-
sponsible than you or |. Take
the profits out of war and there
will be no war. Find the group
of men that made profit out of
it, and you will have located
those who most likely were re-
sponsible. The Dearborn indie
pendent has had published some
interesting books on this subject,
books which | believe most any
one may profit by reading.
Ford of course does not like
the Jews, especially the inter-
national Jewish bankers who he
believes had considerable to do
with the late war, and as he
shows were the group that made
a profit out of it. | wish more
of us who are farming would read
what Ford has to say about our
difficulties. He is making it
his business to give the correct
information. The Jew, especially
the international Jew, has no love
of any country, he is out to ex-
plot wherever the opportunity
presents itself. | believe that it
behooves we farmers not to place
ourselves in the hands of this
group and that we frown on all
of their attempts to manage our
business. :
Another thing that l believe
we should interest ourselves more
in is the political end. Most of
the campaign promises made by
inspiring politicians are seldom
fulfilled once we elect them to
office. In fact, as a general rule
they work against our interests,
| do not know how best to rem
edy this situation, but as the
government is running practical
ly everything but the details of
business, and as capital controls
the most of our government Of
ficials, it is up to us to be more
careful along those lines, or we
will gradually work ourselves in
to a state of slavery, somewhat
as the European peasants once
did. One thing is certain and
that is, that until we realize just
who is exploiting us we can not
very we'll help ourselves.
We are living in a capitalistic
nation which of course must be a
selfish nation. Selfshness of the
individual is what | think is
causing a lot of trouble. We
honor the successful man too
much, that is the man who has
the money. And a man cannot
have money unless he is selfish.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25

Vicious intolerance is a big evil
of the day. And it seems to find
expression not only in religion
and politics, but in many other
channels of life. 1t is ; very
likely that such conditions, are
creating the growing disregard
for the nobler things of life
Mile Laos County Times.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25

The editor who has not made
friends and then lost them by
writing things that did not agree
with the preconceived ideas of
those friends, has either not
written we'll or not been read
Exchange.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
JOSH BILLINGS

An idle man is always a bizzy
one-he spends all his time hunt
ing for nothing to do.
Thare are but phew people in
this world who make more
trouble than a bizzy phool.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-05-15
ADVERTISING FAKERs

It is remarkably strange how business firms
and professional people continue to fall for fake
advertising schemes that come along at frequent
intervals. The business people of Key West and
every other community should be warned against
investing their good money in questionable adver-
Using propositions that are usually falsely colored
misrepresented and rarely ever bring any substan-
tial returns. The promoters of the fly-by-night
schemes represent one class of leeches that should
be banned by every community.
Even local business men who never advertise
in their home newspaper the publication that boosts
the community day in and day out, and frequently
at loss, as is the case with The Citizen at this
time, seem prone to fall for these spasmodic ven
lures, and get about as much service for their
money as if they had taken just so much cash and
thrown it away.
These leeches do not grant their customers 80,
60 or go days in which to pay their accounts They
exact payment in advance and with the money in
their pockets, they clear out to be seen no more.
The business people get returns for money
invested in these fake advertising schemes; they
send money out of town that ought to be spent at
home; and they encourage these leeches in
farious line of rascality that is robbing the bust
ness interests of the state of immense amount
of money every day of every year.
It is indeed surprising how many advertisers
including public utilities, fall for these sucker adj
vertising schemes and ignore the local newspaper
that has done perhaps than any other agency
in the interest of this community
When business people think of advertising
they should remember their home newspaper. 1t
deserves and needs the patronage that is due it.
No newspaper can successfully carry on without
the whole-hearted cooperation and patronage of
the business people of the town, and The Citizen is
no exception to this rule
May not The Citizen kindly suggest that the
local Chamber of Commerce appoint committee
prepare in some way to protect the business peo
pie here from loss in questionable advertising
propositions? Business people would then not con-
slider any transient advertising schemes that had
not first received the approval of the Chamber
of Commerce. This is being done almost every
where, and the plan is saving the people whole
lot of money