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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10

GLOW are you betting on Smith
and Hoover?' asked the Bank
Clerk cf his friend the Soda Jerker.
Il aint bettin'", said the Soda
Jerker. ''If | were Il bettin' man
l wouldn't know how to place bet
in this campaign. pick up the
papers every day and see where
some big Democrat has bOlted to the
Republicans. | look over i'll an
other column in the same news
paper and see where some big
Republican has bOlted to the Demo-
crafts. The way they are mixing
things up this year, jumping back
and forth and this way and that
like corn in pepper, they've got
me completely added.
Il read the Republican party plat
form and it seems to me the Repub-
licans have stolen all the old time
n-JefferSonian state rights
stuff. | read the Democratic plat
form and it seems to me the Demo
Gratis have stolen the Republican
tariff.
81 read the news from out West
and see where the farmers i'll the
Republican farm belt states are Civ
ing Hoover hell and declaring they
will vote for Smith. Here i'll the
South the Democratic preachers are
giving Smith hell and halleujahing
for Hoover.
These preachers amuse me.
When 1 was Il little shaver going
to Sunday School l used to get pic
ture cards of the Gentle Nazarene
riding IL donkey. Even when he made
his triumphal entry into Jerusalem
and the folks were proclaiming him
King of the Jews, an ass was good
enough for Jesus But how times
have changed; to-day the short leg
ged followers of Jesus turn up their
noses ut riding jackasS and they
all want to ride a G. o. =. ele'
phant and the Anti Saloon League
is furnishing 'em ladder to get on
the elephants back. It's funny. I'll
say this is Il great year for boilers.
In fact, as 1 see it now, no mat
ter who Is elected, Smith or Hoover,
neither one will know what kind OF
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
MARKET SOUGHT
FOR CURRITUCK
BRIDGE BONDS

Negotiations for the sale OF
bonds for the proposed bridge
over Currituck Sound from
Point Harbor in Currituck to
Kitty Hawk in Dare were
opened this week between the
Currituck & Dare Bridge Corp.
OF this city and New York bond
buyers. according to w. q.
Gather. secretary of the bridge
company and Vice President
of the First & Citizens Ma
tioual Bank.
The offering cf bonds on the pro
proposed bridge has had to wait up
on the completion of traffic sur
vey by the Highway Engineering
Bureau. of Washington. ID. &. This
survey waS complet> vi and submitted
to the bridge company only last
week.
The bond market is weak right at
this time. but Il recovery Is expect
cd within few weeks, or i'll ample
time for the proceeds from the pro-
posed b2nd issue to he available for
Use this fall
1T is our desire" said Mr.. Galth-
or Yesterday. ito begin construction
ON the bridge early in October ana
have the bridge completed and open
to the public hy June |. 1929. LIE
compamy'S plans also contemplate
the construction Cf two miles OF
hard surface road from the bridge
terminus ut Kitty Hawk to the
ocean beach and Il beach develop
ment To consist of il 100 room hotel
dance pavilion. bath houses, board
walk. parking grounds and amuse-
ment e. uceSSiOnS.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10

ranSacked the house from ground
to attic without being able to dis
cOycr the source. The strange noises
began to he heard in June and for
days the BriceS said nothing about
it. They they began to tell the
neighbours and neighbours began
to come over nights and listen for
the falling objects and the agOniz-
ings of the ghostly woman. All
Church Island folk are stirred up
over the mystery.
The Brices live in Il little one
story frame house ofssome age, Fbut
sfIrpre has never been murder or
Il tragedy of any kind connected
with the house that anybody recalls.
Weights drop and the woman mOans
and gurgles in broad daylight as
well as at unreasonable hours of
the night. The BriceS insist they
are not scared. hut they are getting
fidgety. And all Church Island
wants somebody to discover and put
IN end to this ghost Church Island
folk don't like the idea of having Il
ghost around.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
WORLD NEEDS
new RELIGIOUS
REF0R NATION

"If arrogant political-mind-
ed Protestant Evangelical
clCrgymen continue to try to
order the political life of this
nation at the rate they are now
going it will soon be time to
call for another religious re-
formation" w. O. Saunders
told Hertiord RotarianS at
their luncheon in He:tlord
Tuesday.
Il hold no brief Cor thc Roman
Catholic Chnrcn." said the Eliz-
aheth City editor. hut | do contend
that there is not = charge brought
against the Remain Catholic Church
by the Protestant EvangelicalS that
could not be brought against any
religion. The history of Catholic
ism is the history of every great
world religion.
~
ignorance and fear and weakness
of floundering humans who are
eagerly persuaded to follow priest
craft that claims to have establish
ed communication with deity. As it
grows in numbers and in wealth its
priests uSurp more and more author
ity until they insist upon ordering
the temporal us well as the spirit
ual life of the people.
1T was necessary for Protest
ant Reformation to lick the Roman
Catholic Church Cf the Dark Ages
into decency aud it made Il good
lob Of il. But these same Protest
ant clericals to-day are endeavor-
in" with might and main tn uSurp
all human authority. IF ii Catholic
Bishop or Cardinal had injected
himself into the recent Democratic
national convention at Houston and
ATTEMPTED TO dictate its platform
aS did Bishop Cannon of the South
ern Methodist Church. there would
have been riot in Houston. And
if Catholic priests used their pull
pits to-day to tell their cOmmuni-
cantS how To vote as Protestant
ministers are doing. we would never
hear the end of it. | am not 50
afraid of Roman Catholic control OF
this country aS | am of finatical
Protestant evangelical priesthood
turned politicians. The Roman
Catht lie Church learned its lesson
and has been on pretty good be-
havinur for several centuries: but
humans run in circles and history
repeats itself: Protestant clerlcills
in the twentieth century are trying
70 do the very things for which
they SO bitterly condemn the Cath
Olic Church of other centuries. FRO
tcStantiSm will have to get its les
son; | think we shall need another
reformation" L."
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
Would Bride
PhsquotunkAt
St.

If Elizabeth Citizens want to
quarrel over, the location of the
| proposed State highway, bridge
ltoeaver Pasquotank River eye
project can wait until they get
thru quarrelling. And in the
meantime the money that is
now available for a handsome
structure may be spent else
where and Elizabeth City may
have to wait indefinitely to get
its much needed bridge over
the PaSquotank.
Such seems to he the attitude of
the State Highway Commission. In
terviewed for this newspaper this
week. Commissioner Frank Kugler
of the First District. deplored the
fact that Elizabeth Citizens were
ever at odds over the location of
any State highway project affecting
this city. The State has sought
the L. $. War Departments per-
mission TO build Il new bridge
across the PaSquOtank at BurgreSS
st. The Norfolk Southern Rail
Road and certain shipping interests
don't want 1t at Burgess st. Others
don't want il where it is now and
il would he indaviSable to attempt
TO build new bridge where the old
one is now. as the present bridge
would have to he removed before Il
new bridge could be built and we
would be without any bridge at all
for many months.
Commissioner Kugler. interview
ed for this newspaper says that the
Highway Commission does not in
SiSt upon locating the bridge mt
Burgess St; he says the Commits
sion would as gladly come in at
Elizabeth st. with the new bridge.
And he says that the Commission
would not insist upon the city im-
proving Elizabeth st. to give traffic
over the bridge an outlet to Poin-
dexter, Martin and Road Streets;
he says the improvement of Eliz-
abeth st. would follow in time and
need not be ii problem for immedi-
ate solution. Everybody interested
ought to write Chairman Frank
Page and Commissioner kugler and
assure them that there will be no
fight Oh Elizabeth st. as terminus
for the proposed bridge; what Eliz-
abeth City and Il vast travelling pub
lies wants is real bridge over the
Pasquotank at Elizabeth City. Moth
ing ut all will he done if these gen
tlemen feel that. their plans have
serious local opposition.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
Church VS. State Issue In North Caroline

Resent The Efforts of The Parsons to Control Both thu
and Spiritual Life of the State and Clash Between Poll
os and Clericals is Inmnent.A Signs Point Early
Of Hostes by the Politicians Who Have Remained
Humble ard Silent Under He ooverzed Pulpit Fire All Summer
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
CURRlTUCK HAS
HAUNTED HOUSE
TO WORRY IT

To the eight plaques OF Cur
rituck recently enumerated in
this newspaper is added. a
ninth-Currituck now has its
haunted house. Heavy objects
fall and the rloans. groanS and
gurgles of woman throwing
a fit are heard at unexpected
hours of the day and night in
the little home of George Bricc
and family near Waterllly, on
Church Island.
Brice. who says he never bellev-
ed in ghosts and who doesn't seem
to he at all frightened. say he has
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
INVITES TAX APPRAISERS
TO GO INTO HIS HOME
c. O. Robinson Challenges A Comparison 81
His Tax Listings With Those of Other
Prominent Citizens-But He'll Hardly
Find Second For His Motion

Here's great hot weather suggestion, advanced by c
Robinson Elizabeth Citys biggest payer 81 have bee
criticised because my household and kitchen furniture
tomobes my wes jewelry my wearing apparel and ote
personal property the books anything k
their tue WORTH" says Mr. Robinson g" perfectly willing
for the county to appoint appraisers go inside my home
fix their valuation my chatte just official ap
praers look the outside of my property and appase it
value would expect the appraisers to go thru everybod,
clse's home the way" 'sF 4
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
By w. D. SAUNDERS

r, ra he war in North Carolina from now until Nov
ali. : beginning look if it might settle down to a
,rcn prof uuincut Democratic leaders and laymen and
r PARSONS; shall church rule State in North Caro-
r shall Statesmen assert themselves and demand that
r. parsons stick to their pulp;S and keep their feet
4. ballet box; That is the question in the minds of
a,c leaders thruout the State and they arc going to
.h ,hs ,rIitical PRISONS before MANY weeks.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
This BIG DITCH
SAVES 40 MILES
COST 100000
Ard That's Why Beihaven
Feels JuD'lant Enough To
Give Everybody a Big
Feed .-

| Belhaven, the Pungo River
, metropolis of Beaufort County
is going to put on a celebration
and prepare big free oper
air feed in anticipation pf.thou.
sands of visitors on Thursday
August 30th. What is it all
about and why does .Belhaven
feel like calling everybody in
and spreading a feast?
1t is all over the completion of
one of the most stupendOuS and most
important inland waterway projects
undertaken on the Atlantic seabOard
in decadeS-a rs mile cut between
the Alligator and Pungo rivers
Shorting the Norfolk-Beaufort gov.
I lment inland waterway by ~
miles. putting Belhaven just ~
miles nearer Elizabeth City, Norfolk
by water The project has just been
completed and will he open to navi-
CATION Oh August 10Th.
This big inland waterway project
which enables ships to sail thru
Hyde County, cutting off 40 miles
that were formerly consumed in
sailing around Dare County. has
cost $3.000,0C0. 1t was begun Oh
August 20, 1922 with the dredging
of the upper end Of the Alligator
River. Il distance of four miles. In
Jan. 1923 Il mammoth dredge began
biting its way thru primitive
wilderness % miles long from the
head of the Alligator down to the
PungO, near Belhaven.
This dredge was powered with Il
750 II. =. Diesel engine and manned
by eighty men has worked "a hours
q day for more than five years, NOV
iny in that time eleven million cubic
yards of dirt.
The canal is supposed TO be 30
feet wide at the bottom and te have
a mean depth of 12 feet; but IL II
actually 40 yards wide and 16
feet depth. the extra width and
depth having been provided to take
care Of sluicinS.
The big dredge actually had to
dig in much deeper than 16 feet be-
cause this is Il sea level canal and
the land thru which the cut was
made was above sea- level. which
meant that the dredge had to excl
vate to depth of 30 feet to get a
16 #. depth at sea level. For eight
miles thru the wilderness the land
was eight feet above sea level. 1t
Is big job and IL great boon to
navigation. Yachtsmen going South
save 10 miles; its puts Belhaven on
the route of the great Atlantic intra-
coastal waterway; it puts Belhaven
40 miles nearer Elizabeth City by
water. The southern terminus OF
the big cut is only 20 minutes by
motor from Belhaven.
An so Belhaven is jubilant. Fred
Latham. Belhaven's Master Farm
er is chairman of the program COM
mittee: Congressman Lindsay War
rem is lending u hand. Assistant
Secretary of War VIM. +. Trubee
Davidson. Hon. ]. Hampton Moore
of Philadelphia. John Fl. Small, O..
Max Gardner and other nOtables
have been invited Rsn,ember the
date, August 90.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10

MOST girls who get their pictures
in the paper either get married, rob
a bark. or do something equally
sensational, but here is a young
lady who gets into the spotlight by
being a good home maker and farm
worker. This is Miss Mildred Ives,
II, daughter of Caleb w. Ives. of
the Corintil section of PasquOtank
County. Last year Mildred got a
scholarship at the State Short
Course i'm Raleigh because of her
success i'm CIuk Work, Home Dem.
onstration activities and community
Leadership. She was president last
wear of the All Club of Central
High School and was elected vice
president of the North Carolina 4-H
Clubs last week in Raleigh.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
THE BEST is CHEAPEST

Breakfast 4Oc: lunch. meat or fish
with two vegetables, dessert, oread'
butter and coffee 4jc; regular din
ner 75c. A room with private lava
tory S2.G0
The Virginia Dare Hotel
Elizabeth City. n. G. adVti
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10
Mrs. James c.. Fearing
Ignored Mull's Call

The call for Democratic leaders
of the First District to meet with
Chairman Null at Bay View We'd
nesday got no response from Mrs.
James G. Fearing. Democratic
State CommitteewOman Of Elizabeth
City. Mrs. Fearing was among the
missing; she has not yet declared
her stand for CT against the party S
nominee for the presidency
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10

You owe yourself thorough ana
careful examination of your eyes
by 4 qualified OptOmetrists. DR.
J. D. HATHAWAY, Optometrlst'
Carolina Bank Bldg. du''
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-08-10

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Imperial Valley press., 1928-06-14
short SHR|FT MADE
Of PLANK APPROVING
N'NARY-HAUCEN BILL
WET PLANK PROPOSED BY
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
ALSO GOES DOWN TO DEFEAT
BY CARL D. GRoAT
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)

CONVENTION HALL, Kansas City, Mo, June
1.-THE Republican National Convention today
made short shrift of the farm revolt and then adopt
3D. viva voce the reguar platform widh its Hoover
'ardine farm plank.
By a vote of ST to 267, the convention killed
substitute minority farm plank which, without nam
inc the McNaryHaugen bill, endorsed that measure
and its equalization fee.
The convention voted down in last minute
ourst a wet plank offered by President Nicholas
Murray Butler of Columbia University and then
rushed off to lunch.
Tonight, nominations will be made and under
the present plan, Herbert Hoover will be made the
Republican presidential choice on t1e first ballot.
The days session saw a tremendous outburst OF
enthusiasm. President Coolidge was acclaimed for
his veto of the McNary Haugen bill. Herbert Hoover
was wildly chocred.
The farmer men, thanking both sides of the
great hall, burst into four to five minute demon
stration for their farm aid project.
A chorus in the gallery spurrcd farmer friends on
and the tide sWeed for few minutes.
Farm leaders gave plain warnings to the party
that disaster might be its share in November if it fail
ed to heed the pleas and warnings Of the tilers of
the soil.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-06-14

of individuals, of class, or interest,
or of section.
The plight of agriculture today
is not solely the concern of the
farmer and his family. # is fraught
With peril to every class Of our
people, in the cities as on the farms.
Its causes, therefore. must be faced
with candor and dealt with by
means suited to q great national
emergency.
We favor the prompt enactment
OF the McNary-TIaugen bill and its
administration by those in sympathy
with its objects.
AS further means Of equali2ing
the condition of all classes and all
sections of our common country,
the Republican party favors the inn
mediate undertaking of Il great nat
ional, constructive program to i'm
prove and develop the 1900 miles of
cur incompatible Waterways, pro-
vide flood control and irrigation,
cheaper the costs Of transportation
and thus place all interests and see
tions on an equal footing in gaining
entry to the markets OF the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-06-14
MINORITY PLATFORM OFFERED
CONVENTION BY LA TOILETTE

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, jane Ii
A minority platform for the Re
publican party, sponsored by Sen
ator LaFollette of Wisconsin, was
offered the convention here today.
1t came out strongly for prompt
enactment of the McNary Haugen
bill and its administration by those
in sympathy with its objects.
Further it favored federal opera
ton of Muscle Shoals, Boulder dam
and other strategic power points;
condemned the 20 year naval build
ing program; denounced the leas-
ing of the naval oil reserves; de
clarcd against use of iniunctions
against labor; and favored ''liber-
alization of the Nolstead act along
the lines proposed by popular re
fercndumS in several states.
Portions of the platform follows:
We here declare renewed al
lcgiance to the original principles
of our party and our purpose to
raise again the standard OF equality
and to defend it against lis enemies
by opposing privilege in all its
forms, whether it hc the privilege
Imperial Valley press., 1928-06-14
Ry CARL D. GROAT
ted Press STAFF Correspondent

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
CONNENTION HALL, Kansas
city, Mo, Jane II. The fourth
session of the Republican national
convention opened here today set 10
rominate Herbert Hoover before adj
iourning tonight.
Before that action could he nm.
dertaken however, the convention
had TO dispose Of the "tarmcrs
battle -
Ba,kcrs Of the McNary- y-IIaugon
bin, with its equalization fee, de
fcatcd in the platform committee,
brought their fight TO the couNen-
tion.
Though doomed to further defeat
they were set for a last ditch strng-
gle on the floor.
Herbert Hoover probably viii be
nominated before the convention
adiourus tonight. Leaders said this
forenoon that Chairman Moses
would make every effort to clear
up business rapi.nY
They hoped the farm fight and
the nomination speeches for the
various candidates could he diSpos-
ed Of during the day, leaving the
way clear for balloting tonight.
Chairman Moses told the United
Press on his arrival at 9:35 a. m,
that he anticipated the. balloting
for the presidential nomination
would be tonight.
If, as planned, the Hoover nomi.
nation is made tonight ON the first
ballot, then the nomination of n
vice president can be undertaken to-
morrow.
1t was two minutes before 10 o :
clock when Chairman Moses ordered
delegates to find their seats. There
was throng pouring III belatedlN
and they FASTENED to their places
upon Moses warming.
Prayer was offered by Rabbi Her
man NJ. Cohen of Kansas City,
while the audience stood, with bow
ed heads
Senator Moses took cognzancc of
the fact that today is Flag Day,
saying that it could nowhere be
more fittingly observed than in the
Republican convention. Then he
called for the star Spanglcd Ban
ncr. AS the audience rose, two