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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-12-27

Henry Miller. Photo.
Secretary of State Frank b. Kellogg
talking to Prague. General CONNER
ciQl Representative C. T. CIGgett, OF
the telephone COMPANY in background.
Europe, for centuries on the other
side of the world from America, is
now Just across the way"-by tele
phone. Tie telephone first bridged
the gap across the Atlantic January
Z, 1927, when service was established
that time the telephones of many ma
tions have been made available to
users on this side of the ocean. Today
the 100000 telephones serving the
United States are available for inter-
communication with 100000 tele-
phone stations in many foreign coun-
tries.
Nations whose telephones may now
be interconnected with those of the
United States include Canada, Cuba,
Mexico, Great Britain, France, Ger
many. Spain, and Spanish Morocco,
Africa; Belgium, Holland, Switzer-
land, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Dan
zig, Hungary, Austria, and Czecho-
Slovakia.
In establishing the service between
the United States and foreign coun-
tries many notables have talked with
each other. Only recently with the
Inauguration OF telephone service be-
tween the United States and Spain,
President Coolidge exchanged felici-
tations with King Alfonso. Secretary
of State Kellogg has talked with the
representatives of many foreign coun-
tries and to American ministers in
Old World Capitals. Judge John Bar
ton Payne, chairman of the American
National Red Cross and chairman OF
the Board of Governors Of the League
of Red Cross Societies, talked with
Vice-President Bernard Bowler Of the
international Committee of the Red
Cross Society in Geneva on the open,
ing of the service to Switzerland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-12-27

through with it's work. The public
may be surprised to learn that the
Governor made such a report and then
kept it to himself but this whole
roads scandal has been marked by a
great deal of secrecy.
Tippett Insists
Facts Be Revealed
Lawyer Tippett, although his sug-
gestlons are not received by the Gov
ernor with any enthusiasm, keeps at
it and demands an open inquiry t.
the end that all the facts about til
Commissions operations be brought
out. He offers to assist without pay
and suggests that the charges he
makes can be substantiated by
thorough inquiry and that the thing
can be done without monetary cost.
To the man in the street it must ap-
pear that Mr.. Tippett is on the right
track as the taxpayers have a right
to know how their money was
handled Certainly if the facts are
not promptly brought out the Legis-
lature will be asked to act with ex-
rpedition. Possibly the Governor at
! this late day is trying to head off the
Legislature.
Somehow the Governors belated ac-
tivity not only fails to help him but
serves to increase public criticism.
The taxpayers cannot understand why
the Governor has been so slow. The
only possible explanation is that he
did not understand the situation or
that he was hypnotized by someone.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-12-27
GRANDMA
SERVED AS
CHAPERON
&c by D. J. Walshl

~ RANDMA KNAPP smoothed
4 the tawny bobbed head in her
~ lap.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-12-27
Auful Threat

A five-year-old girl was taken to a
jewelers., where her watch was to be
repaired.
at will be ready on Tuesday," said
thefassistant.
"a promise?" asked the little girl,
seriously.
81 promise" replied the man smiling.
But on reaching the door the child
turned round and said, gravely: "If
it is not mended then, shall sue you
for breach of promise. New York
Herald-Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-12-27
Keeping Balance in Life

Conditions demand that we live with
other people. and our problem is to
keep our mental, moral, and spiritual
balance while all kinds of influences
are brought to bear upon us. Our task
is similar to that of the old-time sea-
man who rugged his sails so that his
vessel would ride on an even keel.
Instead of being blown over by the
wind, the ship would make progress
on its course even lin a gale.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-12-27
iTu,sdy's Furious Tides

The remarkable tides in the Bay of
Fundy are caused by the natural OBJ
structions which make it difficult for
the sea to enter. The bores that pour
in and out in such furious fashion are
the. result of the sea forcing its wa.
ters through a very narrow channel.
The Bay OF Fundy has an average
breadth of 50 miles and a length of
$50 miles. The slides have at times
reached the height Of 60 feet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-12-27
TELEPHONE BRIEFS

Telephone users in Maryland, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and the District
Of Columbia made 26.660,750 out-of-
town calls during the first ten months
of 1928, which is an increase of about
8 per cent over the same period last
year, say officials of the company
The American Telephone and Tele
graph Company had 454,1Si stockhold-
ers October l. which was a gain OF
33,601 since the first Of the year
officials OF the company state
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
Hotel Guests
Resent Church Bell

Rev. George F. Hill. rector OF
Christ Episcopal Church is said to
have declared that he nearly lost
his religion in the ten months OF
noise and confusion incident to the
construction OF the Virginia Dare
Hotel just across the street from
Christ Church rectory. Now the
tables have turned and guests OF
the Virginia Dare Hotel are losing
their religion every Sunday morn
ing when awakened from their slum-
bers by the dinging and the dong
ing of Christ Church bell just across
the street from the hotel.
Travelling men who stop over IN
Elizabeth City on Saturday night
insist that they do so to avoid the
street noises of Norfolk. They Sun
day in Elizabeth City to recover on
Sunday morning much sleep lost
during the week. And about the
time the sleeping is good on Sunday
morning, a stalwart colored man at
taches himself to bell rope IN
Christ Church belfry and makes
sleep in the Virginia Dare impoS-
sible.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
When Police Almost
Broke Up A Party

CONSERVATION seized upon the
guests of a party in home on East
Cedar Street the other night
when, in response 10 a loud rap on
the front door. the young hostess
epened the door and was corfronted
by policemen. The young hostess
fell back aghast; many OF her
guests left hurriedly. too surprised
to do anything else, and because
they had read about night club raids
and feared for their good names and
regulations. Many bolted for the
back door: others hid under the
tables and chairs until 1t vas all
over.
The police departed empty hand
ed. leaving an angry and bewildered
crowd of young 1t is. thought
that irate neighbors called the police
because the young people were dis
turbing their sleep. limiting that a
wild party was in progress.
It is nothing unusual for police
headquarters to get telephone calls
from old fashioned folk whose sleep
is disturbed and whose ideas OF de-
corum are outraged by the mirthful
reyelries of young people who carry
on their parties into late hours.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05

THE sole survivor Of the, two COM
panies of soldiers from Pasquotank
who fought with the armies of Lee
in the War Between the States is
j. A. Matthews of Elizabeth City.
No HooveriSm for this sturdy vet
eran who has walked uprightly all
his days and carries his four score
and five years briskly about the
streets of Elizabeth City to-day. Il
cast my first vote in 1864 for zeb
Vance for Governor of North Caro-
lina," says Mr.. Mathews. and 1
have voted the Democratic ticket
ever since. I am still Democrat
and expect to vote the Democratic
ticket in November" Mr.. Mathews
is a Baptist and a consistent Prohi-
bitionist. He worked and voted for
Prohibition in the first municipal
in this city in which Prohibition was
an issue and has voted Prohibition
ever since. The photo of this well
known and beloved citizen was made
especially for this newspaper by
Zoelier Studios.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
ADDIE JOHNSON
TO SPEAK HERE

Miss Addie Johnson, the girl
orator of Virginia, whose campaign
speeches are stirring the voters OF
Tidewater Virginia will come to
Elizabeth City to make one speech be
fore the November election, as soon
as a suitable date can be arranged.
Miss johnson is an attractive
young woman of eighteen years, Is
possessed of a god-given gift OF
oratory, has good platform pres
ence and talks straight and convin-
oingly, declaring herself vigorously
in favor of Tammanyism in prefer
ence to Sinclairism and Cannonism
and preferring a Democrat candi-
date who talks wet to Republican
administration that is all wet. This
newspaper predicts that Miss john
son will get a great reception in
Elizabeth City and make hit with
her audience.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05

president is an honest and deter
mined effort at law enforcement
and I have more faith in the in
tegrity and ability of Governor
Smith in this respect than in Mr..
Herbert Hoover. We know where
Governor Smith stands on the ques-
ton, but I defy any one to tells us
where Hoover stands. Hoover'S only
commitment on the subject has been
his declaration that he is opposed TO
a repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment which is the safest statement
he could make, because. no preSl-
dent can repeal the eighteenth
amendment. But where does Mr..
Hoover stand on the VolStead Act
and what is his Interpretation of the
Eighteenth Amendment Nobody
knows"
Both Governor Trinkle and Sen
Continued OH Page Fonr)
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
South Carolina In
A Terrible Plight

A Negro came to town, parked
his Ford on a side street near the
river went into town to do some
shopping. came back in an hour and
his Ford was gone. He notified the
police. an investigation was made.
The Ford was found in IS feet OF
water where the Negro had parked
il.
This is one of the tales brought
back from South Carolina this week
by E. M. Howard. author OF the
Howard Building & Loan Associa-
ton plan. The rivers of South Caro-
lima rise just that fast. says Mr..
Howard. Mr. Howard had business
in Columbia and Florence. S. c. 1t
took him a week to get out; state
highways under water, rail ROAD
bridges and roadbeds washed out'
vast areas inundated by flood
waters; crops destroyed, live stock
and poultry drowned out: farmers
ruined. Such is a graphic descrip-
tion of conditions in South Carolina
as described by one who has just
returned from there.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
new BUILDING.
LOAN ASSO. GETS
A GOOD START.

Elizabeth City's new building
and loan association, the Howard
Plan Building e. Loan Association
gets down to business this week
under the direction of its local Oh
ficers and directors. f. M. Howard
author and promoter OF the
Howard Plan having completed
his contract with the local group.
The new association gets under
way with more than 100 sharehold-
ers and it's officers and directors
express confidence in the future
of the organization. I'VE expect to
aid many to save a little, build
homes, acquire a measure of indie
pendence and become better and
happier citizens" says w. A. Worth,
one of the founders and directors.
The officers of The Howard Plan
Building g. Loan Association are L.
c. Conger, president; Ernest L.
Sawyer, vice president; A. H. Worth
secretary: VIM. Edward Griffin,
treasurer. The association has TAX
en- permanent offices on the mezza-
nine floor of the Virginia Dare
Arcade.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
WOULD SAVE 40
MILES OF ROAD

Residents of Tyrrell and Wash
ington counties who have business
in Edenton. Elizabeth City or other
points on Route "a avail themselves
of an all highway route via Chowan
River Bridge by going from Ply
mouth to Windsor and Windsor to
Edenton. a distance of more than
so miles. They could reach Cho-
wan River bridge by the construc-
ton of a new short route of ap-
proximately ten miles between Ply
mouth and Edenhouse Point on
Route "a. a saving of 40 miles.
The Pasquotank Highway Com
mission joined with the Chambers
of Commerce and road commissions
of Tyrrell, Washington, Chowan and
Perqtimans counties this week in a
petition to the State Highwsy Com
mission to make a survey to deter
mine the course anu approximate
cost of a direct road from Plymouth
to Edenhouse.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
MAY HAVE TO.
BORROW MONEY.
TOPAYPASTORS
Rursl Churches in Elizabeth
City District Are Broke
Bishop Mouzon Deeply
Concerned

Politics did not enter into the
deliberations of Methodist minis
ters and lay leaders OF the Eliz-
abeth City district called together
in Elizabeth City Monday morn
ing by Bishop Edwin d. Mouzon.
The Bishop was less concerned
about the Smith trend in the dis
trict than about the financial dis
tress of the churches.
One got the impression from the
conference here Monday th"t the
rural churches are broke and will
have to borrow money from banks
to meet their. obligations before the
annual conference, which is now
only few weeks of.
Pastor after pastor reported that
his congregation was in arrears on
his salary, in arrears on their assess
ments for benevolences and in ar
rears on their pledges to the church
fund for the relief Of super annual
ed ministers. -.,-
Bishop Mouzon deplored the fast
that in tight times one of the first
economies practiced by the people
Is in the matter of their contribu-
tions to the church. They cut of
the preacher first and the doctor
next, whereas they ought to pay
the preacher and the doctor first"
said the Bishop.
The assertion of laymen here and
there that the political activities
of the preachers are responsible for
the unusual financial plight of the
rural churches, is stoutly denied
by Rev. F. s. Love, pastor of First
Methodist Church of: Elizabeth City
"The people just haven't got the
money says Mr.. Love; they are not
only backward in paying their
chtl'ch dues, but behind in their
grocery bills and other store ac-
counts"
This newspaper has reliable tcsti-
mony from several rural districts
to the effect that many ardent
Democrats have withdrawn finan-
cial support from their churches
since their pastors went into poll
tics. Anyway. the rural churches
are hard up this year and Bishop
Mouzon is worried. He urged the
ministers and laymen here Monday
to get busy and get the money by
Conference, even if they had to re-
sort to the expediency of borrowing
from the banks.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
AND STILL WE ARE PAGANS
eJhe BANK CLERK Aso T4e SOOA JGekeR

the world is pagan to-day, is 1t not
reasonable to look for the cause OF
its paganism in paganistlc the
ology? Everything changes except
theology; ecclesiasticiSm in the
twentieth century offers the en-
lightened mind of modern man the
same crude spiritual fare that salts
fled a lot of emi-barbarian5 in the
first century of our era.
Our preachers still pose as magl-
clans or miracle workers who can
change black goats into white sheep
and allocate celestia. mansions TO
human misfit5 who are incapable
of appreciating a decent shelter in
the here and now. They have trail
ficked in mysticism and played up
on human emotions, to the neglect
of ethical culture end the principles
of right living. And what is worse
thew Fave made religion such an
expensive luxury that the average
church member maJ be pardoned
for thinking he has fulfilled all OF
his obligations to god and man
when he has responded to the mC4-
titudinous demands for money MADE
l,opn him by his pastor and the Varl-
GUS church boards.
And now they tell us that after
all of the billions they have collected
and expended in the business OF
making the world better, we are
still a lot Of pagans. I consider IL
O rather damaging indictment OF
ecclesiasticism, coming from the
mouth of an eminent ecclesiastic.
We'll" said the Soda jerker' do
YOU think you would like to live IN a
world that is not Christian?"
That's the only kind OF world l
have ever lived in," said the Bank
Clerk.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05

Did you hear Bishop Mouzon
at First Methodist Church last
Sunday?" inquired the Soda Jerker
of the Bank Clerk.
81 did" replied the Bank Clerk.
And what did you think OF him?
, II think he's a great preacher and
I enjoyed his sermon; he is an able
exponent Of Christianity; but as a
booster for organized religion the
Bishop is a flop. In his sermon
Sunday morning he said that the
world had gone back to paganlSm
and that America is ruled by the
same forces to-day that ruled pagan
Rome and brought that mighty
empire to fall.
Now If I we're the bishop OF a
Christian church I wouldn't make
8 public statement OF that kind be-
cause it's a mighty poor advertise
ment for the church. This is sup
posed to be Christian land; we
have more than a billion dollars IN
vested in church property. we en-
ploy more than 100000 salarieo
preachers and our church organlSa-
tions are composed of more than a
million Sunday School teachers and
officials. Now for a bishop TO say
that after eighteen hundred years OF
Christianity and such an investment
in its enterprises, the world has
turned back to paganiSm. sounds ike
a flat admission that organized rell-
gion is a failure. The Bishop
renders a very poor account OF
Christian stewardship, to say the
least"
ITO what do you attribute tne
fatlue?" asked the Soda Jerker.
II attribute it largely to the fact
that organized religion has not kept
in step with human progress, II
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05

A crowd estimated at $500 to 5000
attended an all day rally at Hickory
Ground Wednesday and listened to
speeches from IL o'clock in the
morning until after S o'clock In the
afternoon. And there was never a
time when the audience around the
grand stand numbered much less
than 1000. ....
Miss Addie johnson, the girl
orator, Congressman JOS. T. Deal
Senator Claude A. Swanson ana
former Governor Lee Trinkle were
the speakers. with final word from
w. O. Saunders, editor OF The lnde-
pendent. ,.. ..-
Virginia Democrats are not on the
defensive, they are not pussy foot
ing. they are not apologizing; they
don't Just fire a broadside at the
Republican. enemy; they lay down a
barrage and shell the woods until
their isn't a shred Of respectaoility
or promise left In the Republican
party. Those few North Carolina
campaigners who still have soap
suds under. their feet should go over
into Virginia and see how those
descendants of Washington and JEFF
ferson and Lee and Davis resent the
Republican under-cover campaign
to seduce their women, make votes
for Hoover and betray the South
into the hands Of its ancient enemy
One of the greatest speeches that
the editor of this newspaper has
heard or read in the present cam
paign was made at Hickory Ground
wednesday by ex-governor Trinkle
PRESBYTERIAN and a consistent cham
pion of the cause of prohibition.
The greatest blunder that the pro-
hibitionists have made in ssll the
history ssof u prefiibitiors declared
Governor Trirkle, was their injec-
ton of the prohibition issue into
national politics this year by at
tempting to force first one party
and then the other to write a prohi-
bition plank into It's platform.
Prohibition is not a party issue
and can not be sustained by one
political party alone, but by the
temperance forces of all parties, all
denominations and all creeos unit
ing in nonpartisan crusade to put
down the bootIegger, the moonshiner
and the whole, motley raft of more
than two million law-breakers who
have sprung up as a result OF the
profits in Illicit liquor under Pro-
hibition. ......
"All that we can expect of any
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
Prohibition in the
Town of Mr.. Gardner

Shelby. Cleveland County, is the
home of o. Max Gardner. Shelby
is a church going town, prohibi-
ton town. Mr.. Gardner there holds
forth to one of the largest Baptist
mems bible classes in the State and
Clyde 11oey holds forth to one of the
largest Methodist mems bible class
es. And the Shelby jail held 6s
prisoners last night, mostly drunks;
80 drunks were arraigned IN the
Recorders Court in Shelby Mon
day morning And they tell us the
Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead Act must not be disturbed.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05
AN OMMISSION

The feature article. my Last
Hope for Freedom Has Flown
appearing on the first page OF
IN. second section Of this news
paper is from the pen Of W. o.
saunders and Is from the October
number Of The American Maya
zine. The authors name and
credit to The American Maga-
zine were omitted in the absence
Of the editor at the time OF the
making up and printing OF the
section of the paper In which the
article appears.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-10-05

ns.Ve WOThcu pICtby hhiu OH
my life, earned Some leisure and
I'm going to have a good time
now" said Capt. J. A. Harris, OF
Elizabeth City, N. c. and Winter
Park, Fla, to his good wife a few
years ago. "Now my idea of a
good time may not be your idea
of a good time. so we'll just divide
up what we've got and I'll have
my good time in my own way and
you can have yours in your way"
81 like always to be running
ground" says Capt. Harris, but
Mrs. Harris feels better satisfied
at home; but even when a woman
prefers to stay home, she ought to
be so provided for that she doesn't
fell tied down and can get out and
90 if she ever feels like 1t. So for
five months in the year Capt. Harris
has his fling-mostly in Elizabeth
City. The other seven months he
sticks around home like dutiful
husband. His idea of good time Is
leisure to mix with folks and be a
good friend and a good neighbour.
And he is a good mixer, a good
friend and a good neighbour, for
life never soured him. He has al
ways found it good. .. o.
If you we're to meet this srnallish,
comfortably upholstered and ruddy
old gentleman on the streets or OBJ
serve him in action any place, you
would rcver guess that he is II years
old. For there is no apparent fati-
que in him and he is getting a big
ger kick out of life to-day than most
men half his years.
Capt. Harris was born In Eliz-
abeth City in August 1851 and re-
moved to Perquimans with his par
ents when IS years old. In 1879 he
went to Florida where land could
be had for the taking and took up
a homestead of 160 acres at Ocoee,
in Orange County.
He engaged in citrus fruit grow
ing, trucking and dairying, made a
comic table living and acquitted
more land. But the freezes of 1884
1895 made fruit growing so unpro-
titable and diScouraging that he left
the farm and settled in Winter
Park. the county seat town.
He had already won the recogni-
ton and respect of almost every
body in his county by his industry,
energy, ready wit and cordial good
nature. He early became an import
at citizen in Winter Park, was
for several years County Supt. of
Reads and Bridges and served
several terms as Chairman of the
City Council.
And then the great boom swept
Florida in 1925-26 and. having been
among those foresighted Floridian5
who had accumulated considerable
real estate. Mr.. Harris began to cash
in. Lands that had cost him $40
an acre netted him as high as Sl,5Oo
to $4,000 an acre. And hc vas too
shrewd to let high pressure real
estate salesnen persuade him to
reinvest in more Florida dirt at
boom prices: he just salted the cash
away and had his cash when the big
boom collapsed.
Mr.. Harris is devoting his life now
to the jolly business of being socl-
able with his fellow man. dividing
his time between Elizabeth City and
Winter Park and travelling else
where when the notion strikes him.
His wife was Miss Martha Blanch-
ard. of Woodville, Perquimans Coun-
ty. They we're married in 1884, five
wears after he had established him
self In Florida and had made sure
he could support a wife.