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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
WILL ASK CITY
AND COUNTY TO.
BUY HOSPITAL.

A committee from the board of
trustees of the Albemarle Hospital
will 60 before the County Commits
siOncrs Monday morning and be-
fore the City Council Monday
night, Nov. 4th to ask those bodies
to take over the Elizabeth City Hos
pital building and grounds.
The cost to the city and county
will be $4,000 TO be borne jointly
by the city and county, requiring an
appropriation Of only Sl2,50O each
equivalent to the cost of a half mile
of cement road or street paving for
each.
Opposition to the purchase of the
property is still SmOuldering becaus2
some of Elizabeth City'S wealthy
property owners think Dr.. John
Saliba, owner of the hospital prop
erty stands to get a higher price
for the property than they want
him to have. But to the average
citizen the fact remains that the
cost of the property TO the city and
county is only $4,000, to be divid-
cd between the two.
$4,000 of the cost of the property
will be borne by The Duke EndoW-
ment and the purchase of the prop
crty will put the Duke Endowment
and the Rosenwald Fund squarely
behind the hospital forever. Duke
and Rosenwald endowment of the
I hospital will mean much to the in
digent poor, both white and color
ed of the Albemarle counties, max
ing possible the disqualification OF
more and more charitable cases. 1t
means nothing to rich men who can
20 to Norfolk, Richmond or Baltl-
more for hospital treatment and pay
the price. That class don't want
the Hospital and don't care if Eliz-
abcth City and the whole Albemarle
region are hoSpitalleSS.
! Whether opponents of the pur-
chase of the hospital will appear be-
! fore the County Commissioners
Monday and the Board of Aldermen
! Monday night is yet to appear. Every
citizen interested in the hospital
should get squarely behind it at this
time. Those who oppose the prr-
chase certainly should come square
" out into the open and make
! themselves heard.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01

And farmers of Beaufort and ad-
Joining counties, under the leader
ship of Master Farmer Fred Latham
of Belhaven have gone determinedly
to work to revolutionize the agrl-
cultural life of their counties.
North Carolina farmers have fail
ed under a system of diverSificatlon
of plant crops. Most years are of
years for corn, cotton, tobacco, pea
nuts, potatoes. And when these
cash crop fails the farmer has
nothing else to fall back on. Cows,
pigs, poultry. sheep and small fruits
might supplement his income and
provide butter, eggs, meat and fruit
for his table. But in his lust after
big money that seldom materializeS
from big crops, the farmer has
neglected sure profits; there is a
dearth of live stock on Carolina
farms.
In tobacco warehouse in WASH
ington, N. c. the other day a farm
er sat on a load of tobacco weeping.
He had harvested, cured and sold
his crop He didn't get enough
money to pay his rent, his taxes and
his fertilizer bills. Not dollar left
for food, clio hing, medicine and the
common necessities of life. He had
staked all on tobacco. Things would
have been altogether different with
that farmer if he had had a few
COWS, some pigs, some poultry. But
no COWS mooed, no pigs squealed, no
hens cackled, no sheep bleated or
his Impoverished acres. Tobacco
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
TWO YEARS AND
SIX MONTHS FOR
BANKER TUCKER

Joseph l.. Tucker, fcrmer cashier
CT the Hcrtford Branch CT the de-
funct Carolina Banking q Trust
Co. entered plea Of guilty To the
charge Of cmbezzling more than
$4,000 of the banks funds and
took a sentence of three to five
years i'm the State Prison.
A three TO fI.G year sentence
means that if the prisoner is white
collar chap he will get only three
years; if he is bad niger or 4
loW-dOWn white he gets the five
wears. Tucker will get the minimum
ScntcnCc and will get two months OF
each year off for good behavior be-
sides, which means that he will eat
prison fare and sleep III a prison
cell for only two and a half years.
Young Tucker was given until
Jan. |, 1880 to straightcn up his af-
fairs before beginning to serve his
sentence. He will leave a wife and
four small children. His wife was
formerly Miss Jessie Mcmillan, a
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. T. S. Nc
Mullan of this city.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01

They say that a farmer III thlS
county committed suicide and one
in Perquimans went crazy, both III
one week" said the Soda Jerker TO
the Bank Clerk.
The wonder is that more OF them
don't 90 crazy or destroy them
selves" said the Bank Clerk; farm
ing in Eastern North Carolina is in
sad plight"
And they tell me the farmers
themselves arc to blame for 1t, SAID
the Soda Jerker; right here in Pas
ouotank County you will find farm
after farm without a COW on IT,
most of our farmers don't raise
enough pork to feed themselves or
keep enough hens to supply eggs ~
their tables. They buy cabbageS
from Florida, apples from Virginia
hay from Kentucky, eggs from Call
fornia. butter from Wisconsin, pork
from Chicago and mules from Mis-
souri. No wonder they're broke.
But suppose they all raised pigs
and chickens and calves and lambs
and every farm sold eggs and cream
wouldn't they presently find them
selves overproducing these things
and being forced to sell their animal
products at starvation prices?" ask
cd the Bank Clerk.
1T is a knotty problem; every
thing is against the farmer. Farm
crs in Iowa make money on hogs
farmers in Kansas make money on
poultry and farmers in Wisconsin
make money on dairy cattle because
The South, along with many other
parts of the country, is shy OF pork
and poultry and cattle. But where
would they be if every farm produc-
ed pork and poultry and cattle?
Everything tends to upset the
agricultural balance. In the big
industrial centers where men anc
women used to work long hours ano
carry dinner pals filled with meal
and bread and potatoes, labor saw
/ ing machinery has lightened the
burdens of labor and shortened
working hours until to-day the aver
age workman requires no more fooc
than a white collar worker.
! And then there is the moderr
chemist to reckon with. Few people
think of the chemist in connection
with agriculture. But just see Wha
the chemist has done to cheaper
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
STATE IS EAGER
FOR A DISTRICT
PRISON FARM.

The State Board of Health and
the state Board Of Charities and
Public Welfare will mark time on
iail improvements i'm the counties
OF Currituck, Camden, PaSquo-
tank. PerquimanS and Chowan un-
ill the Legislature of 1881 if these
counties will ScriOuSly consider
coming together en- n district Jail
and piiS0n farm.
The prison laws of North Carolina
require jailS to not only Segrega c
male and female prisoners and white
and black prisoners, but to provide
separate quarters for youthful de-
linGuentS and separate quarters for
prisoners who are venereally dis
eascd. Not Jail in these five coun-
ties complies with the law and the
courts. the State Board of Health
and the State Department of Public
Welfare arc hot after improvements
that will run the counties into heavy
expenditures.
Recently The Independent renew
cd it's agitation for district jail
and prison farm. DR.. ChaS. OH
I aughinghouse, Secretary OF the
State Board of Health and Mrs
Kate Burr Johnson. Secretary OF
Public welfare sat up and took
notice. This week State Penal In
stitution Inspector l.. G.. Whitley
is making a survey of prison conal-
tions in all the counties with a view
70 Manning a district institution to
be provided by all the counties and
in which prisoners could be made
self sustaining by being required
to work.
An Act of the Legislature VIII be
rcouircd to lcgalizc the building OF
q district iail. but We will mark
time until the next meeting OF the
LEGISLATURE says Inspector Whitley
if q district Jail can be built. In
sDpctor Whitleys job now is to show
tho counties tina: one district jail
and a prison farm to serve all the
counties can be provided for less cost
than would be the cost OF remooel-
ng the iails in all the counties to
comply with the law. He Will alSo
undertake to show that prisoners
from a group of counties worked on
a prison farm could be made sell
sustaining instead of being a Dur
den upon the individual counties
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
|O?EE DOLLS MoneyAnCone
b THE RAGE WifeD Dead,J ,Jno'
| CHRISTMAS Lane Goes Mad

Icbn A. Lane, formerly pros
pcrous retired farmer OF her'ioru'
Pcruuimans County, aevou''
sost-spoken Quaker from "nose
Iips no profane word hao e'ei
ht-n heard before, was taken 10
the state Asylum for the lhSahc
last week a raying, cursins maniac
EIGHT or ten years ago, John Laile'
crown old gave up his farm heai
BcIvidere and removed to town. he
had worked hard all his hte' raised
- famiIv accumulated perhaps sl9'-
600 in cash. -
He wanted to put his money "
uork and was persuaded to put II III
the Growers Peanut Co. OF Hert'oro
He lost heavily in the Growers com
nanv First his home was solo iof
debt: then a few weeks ago MS "lle
diod. his children had grown up
ord loft him. Homeless, pennlleSS'
tho hard-earned savings OF HE
time wiped out, his dear wife oeau
alone and heart-broken, the OLD man
hrooded mon his troubles until lips
that had never been known TO uC'el
a profane word poured forth curses
mon peanuts. He had lost Ms
money on peanuts; he went 10 'ne
asvum raving about peanuts.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01

OTHERS may preach retrenchment,
but NJ. G. Morrisette & Co. Elizabeth
Citys main street furniture store
plans for more business. Morrl-
scttes greets the world with a brand
new store frCnt this week. For the
first time in the history OF the
business" says NJ. G M2rriSCttc, Il
am in position TO display my mcr-
ChandiSe to advantage. And what
wonderful lines they have To dis
play: General Electric RetrlgcratorS,
Hotpoint Electric Ranges, HooSler
Kitchen Cabinets. Berkley q Gay
living room furniture, Simmons beds
and bedding. Whittalls Anglo-Pcr-
sian Rugs and many other nation-
ally advertised line.
NJ. G.. Mo.risCttC was formerly il
the grocery business. He establish
ed one of the most successful groc-
cry businesses i'm Elizabeth Citv:
banked $4,000 out of it in 10 years.
In 1915 he saw the chain stores
coming. got out of the grocery buSl-
ness. went into furniture. He
bought half interest III the easy
going furniture business of j. NJ.
SilverthCrn on Water st. Silver
. thorn a. MOrriSette soon moved into
the Brown Building, corner of Main
and Water Sty. one of the first
things Mr.. MOrriScttC dd was to buy
and put a $3.50 suite of living room
/ furniture in one of his windows III
/ the absence of his PARTNER. When
! Mr.. Sllverthorn got back home and
saw what Mack MOrrlSCttC had dOnC
he nearly tainted. He told Mack
his ideas were too big Tor Elizabeth
/ City: was sure Mack would bank
rllpt the firm with his hightalutin
notions. Later Mr.. SilvCrthorn
closed out his interest to Mr Nor
risettc. Elizabeth City stores were
/ selling cheap (urnitU.c. Elizabeth
City people were furnishing bet
ter homes and going to Norfolk to
buy fine furniture. Elizabeth City
folks don't go to Norfolk for fur
niturC any more.
Mack MorriSctLC is 43 years old;
he is Cne of the most successful
merchants in Northeastern North
Carolina to-day. His show rooms
and warehouses occupy several acres
of floor space. He is no mere store
keeper sitting down waiting fol-
business; he is up and after it; il
he secs it going by he heads it of
The picture is from a snapshot
| photo.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01

had failed him and he faced lean
winter.
Fred Latham has enlisted the
best agricultural thought OF the
state to help him with the problem
of his farmer neighbours; he pro-
poses to somehow introduce poultry
or pigs or cattle On every farm in
his section. He plans divcrSl-
flcation of agriculture that will in
clude feed, food and fertility crops,
cash crops and animal production.
North Carolina farming is in a
bad way; the income of the average
North Carolina farm is $1,56O per
annum; the income OF the average
farm for the whole United States
is $1,000 per anMul; out in Iowa the
average income per farm IS S5OOO.
What has Iowa got that North
Carolina hasn't got? The answer,
according to DR.. Poe, is that the
Iowa farmer derives an income OF
$1.15 from his live stock against
every dollar of income from his
plants crops. In North Carolina,
the farm income from live stock
| is only 25 cents for every dollar of
| income from plant crops. With low
prices from plant crops, the North
Carolina farmer pays high prices
for meat, butter and lard produced
/ in other states. North Carolina
agriculture must be revolutionized;
there must be a readjustment or
worse disaster,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
PURITAN CAFE
TO BE FINEST
In The STATE

The Puritan Cafe, Elizabeth
City's newest eating place, to be
orcn next week, will be the fin
est and most mOdernly equipped
restaurant and quick lunch cOun-
ter in North Carolina, according
to the Manager Charles Gordon
who will proudly exhibit an in
vcstmcnt of more than $4,000 in
furniture and fixtures when the
Puritan is thrown open for inspcc-
ticn next Wednesday.
The restaurant will not open Tor
business until Thursday, Nov. 7th.
Wednesday will be inspection day;
fine coffee and home made pies and
pastries will be free to visitors and
every lady will be presented with an
American Beauty rose by the man
agcmCnt.
The Frigidaire equipment, ranges,
steam tables and service equipment
are the best money can buy. Hero
the blacksmith in ovcrallS will be
made to feel at home with mug of
coffee, while the more liniCky guest
will be served from silver coffee
pot in q palm screened booth. Tables
will be screened from view OF TIL:
street by pottcd palms. The own
crs, Norfolk reStauran.curS, have
, brought to Elizabeth City a Skiillu
chef and corps of highly trained
cocks and walters. The Manager
Charles Gordon, who comes to Ellz'
abcth City from GoldSboro, has hat
Is years experience in reStauran
management and catering.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
College Degrees Are
Useful, Sometimes

Those who are Sceptical as to the
benefits Of a college degree might
learn a lesson from DR.. r. B. Dranc
of Edenton. Senor Don Journals
alias Charles Miller walked into the
Bank of Edcnton this week ana
passed a check over the counter. II
was signed DR.. r. D. Drane' M. D.
But DR.. Drane, who has more
than one degree, always attacheS
D. D. to his name. Senor Don was
accordingly arrested, charged with
check forgery. He is held in jail IN
Edenton pending word from state
authorities. who, it is believed are
looking for him on similar charge
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
Edenton to Have
Midnight Movies

Sam Taylor, who owns the Taylor
Theater, Edenton, is going TO 90
something never done before in stald
old Edenton, when he puts on a
midnight show, Sunday, marking
the opening of talking pictures at
the Taylor. The performance will
begin at 1905 a. m. Monday, the
opersnx attraction being "Movietone
Follles of 1929"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
THE PLIGHT OF THE FARMER
oJbq BANK CLCQK A.o tbs SOOA JCPKER

farm products. Labor saving ma
chincry and improved fertilizers are
enabling the modern farmer TO pro-
ducc three or four times more on
given acreage than he produced III
or IS years ago. And the chemist
doubles or trebleS that. Cotton USED
to be cotton; now from the cotton
seed the chemist has produced cook
ing fats, salad oils, cattle feed and
numerous other by products. Corn
used to be corn, now the chemist
converts it into sugar and oil and
syrup. And he takes the corn stalk
and makes it up into artificial SILK
in competition with the farmers
cotton.
I'VE know that the air we breathe
contains carbon hydrogen, nitrogen
and oxygen. We know that the
foods we cat are composed prlncl-
pally of carbon and nitrogen. And
chemists are extracting carbon ana
nitrogen from the air. A farmer
plants vast acres in legumes to gath
er nitrogen in tiny noduleS on the
roots of his plants. A modern chem
ist erects a tall chimney puts coil
of wires in it, heats the wires white
hot with a current of electricity,
blows hot air thru it, breaks up the
oxypgen and hydrogen atoms, and
in the general Shake-up catches the
hydrogen unawarCS and produces IN
few seconds the identical product
| that it takes a farmer four TO SIX
months TO capture with his bean
plants. A chemist working on one
acre can extract more nitrogen from
the air than a farmer can extract
on thousands of acres of land in the
natural way. Everything is con-
spring against the farmer"
well, what's the farmer going to
do?" asked the Soda Jerker in pop
eyed amazement.
THE farmer can be the happiest
human on earth" said the Bank
Clerk, 'if he will study farming with
view to producing most of the
things he consumes. providing a liv-
ing for himself and his family and
selling the surplus. He may not
get rich at it, but he will be the
Lord of Creation that he ought to
be. We used to have that kind OF
farmers before our amazing indus
trial system transferred most of the
activities of the farm to the fac
tories"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
The Editor Declines
To Court Trouble

Martin Kellogg, prime mover IN
the Community Fair Of Sunbury and
w. o. Crl1np, cashier of the Farm
ers Bank of Sunbury, may think
they can put one over on w. O..
Saunders, but this editor is chary.
In spirit of fun the editor offer
ed prizes of yearly subscriptions to
The Independent for the best crop
of whiskcrs, the rankeSt pipe and
the LATEST husband to be exhibited
at the Sunbury Fair to-day. The
offer was accepted upon condition
that the editor come over, name the
prize winners and award the prizes.
Nothing doing.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
EAST CAROLINA FARMERS
MUST CHANGE METHODS
Readjustment or Disaster Fred Latham
Heads Movement to Revolutionize Farm
ing in Northeastern Counties

Corn cotton peanuts and tobacco have bankrupt the
farmers or Eastern Carolina facing the greatest
s in the history of agriculture; inevitable
farming in North Carolina is eVoutioneu
This was the picture gloom Dr. Clarence Poe before
Bclhaven Oct 24th
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
IIJBLE LOOMS FOR
AMDEN CO. OFFICERS
|s cf l6-year-old Norfolk, Va. Couple
so Heb Over Marriage of Their
"Rsbies" at South Mills, N. c.

l-cr,CS legal when issued by Justice OF the Peace
, b, determined in sensational action against S. B.
rr,r of Deeds Of Camden County and Justice of the
= - ncrr Of south Mills, Camden County, if the parents
H., in,,c Dunning of Norfolk net reconced to the
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01

The whole nervous system OF the
human body is affected by eye
strain Let us correct your eyes.
DIR, JD. HATHAWAY, OptometriS'
C-U' C-I;,,o pa,t- Bldg adv.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01
Second Bond Issue of $127 900 on Virginia Dare Hotel
Wealthy Directors on Note for $4,000 Propose To
Translate Note Into Bonds-May Result in Pool 10
Buy in Hotel Under the Hammer

proposed bond issue Of S27OOO OH Ihe VIZ
gna Dare pretenous community hotel to be ohed
the hotel at an early dae
NAV presag freezing out OF
the
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01

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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-11-01

The largest producer OF wine anu
olive oil is Italy.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-05-09

President Hoover's address to the Associated Press the
first of the week was a challenge to the people of the United
States that they we'll may heed. The president called attention
to the fact that the number of crimes committed in this
country far exceeded that in any other civilized nation. He
brought to our attention the fact that life and property were
increasingly unsafe in all parts of our land. 1t is not alone
in refusal to obey the prohibition law that the prevalence of
crime is notable but in every field of criminal activity.
The whole argument revolved around this point. If
he citizen abrogates to himself the right to say what law he
will obey and what law he will refuse to obey, then we have
a virtual breakdown of the protection of the state for the
Individual. The theory is d destructive of all law. For where
we feel the right to disobey one law, other men reserve the
right to break other laws.
The gangs of the cities, fortified with the great profits
they have secured from the illicit liquor trade supported
by good citizens Of the city. have become contemptuous Of
the authority of the state. The crimes of murder and robbery
and blackmail have become commonplace and we'll armed
and we'll organized gangs have set up a criminal state that
the police forces are timid about encountering. The whole
situation is a development of the theory that the good
citizen, if he sees fit, can nulify the federal constitution, the
federal law and the state law.
The appeal af the president is timely. We are heading
for a serious situation. The forces of crime have taken to
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-05-09

AS a tribute to her mother, Miss Anna Jarvis, a native
of West Virginia but now of Philadelphia, resolved to set
aside a day in May of each year as a memorial to her. On that
day she selected a white flower and wore lifting emblem
she thought, of the love and devotion between mother and
child. When her friends learned about it she told them she
was going to observe the same day each year. They too be-
came interested and asked her to arrange a service in which
their entire community might have a part. While planning
this memorial meeting to her own mother the thought came
to her: Why not make it a national celebration in CONNIE
moration of the debt owed to mothers-a tribute Of deter
ence and respect not only to absent mothers but to all
mothers and the homeo
Thus out of Miss Jarvis own personal sorrow came the
idea of Mothers Day. The first observance was in PhIade[
phia. The day soon became recognized by other cities in the
state of Pennsylvania and elsewhere. In 1877 Governor
Colquitt Of Texas inaugurated the custom of pardoning a
number of prisoners on Mothers Day. In 1913 it was made
a state flag day by the Nebraska legislature.
In 1914 Miss Jarvis called on a member of the House
of Representation and requested him to introduce a resolu-
ton providing for a day to be known and observed as
Mothers Day. In May of the same year a resolution passed
the United States House Of Representatives and the Senate
commencing Mothers Day for observance by the House and
Senate, by the President Of the United States and his
Cabinet, and by other heads of Government departments
pursuant to which President Wilson issued a proclamation,
setting aside the second Sunday in May as a national day
Since then the observance of Mothers Day has spread
to all parts of Europe, to Japan, China, Africa, Palestine and
other countries.
Churches of every denomination hold special services
on the second Sunday in May. Many business houses and
organizations observe the Saturday preceding the second
Sunday in May. Schools celebrate on Friday.
The Mothers Day international Association was or
gained by Miss Jarvis for the purpose of furthcring the
observance of Mothers Day in all countries. In the United
States ex-President Taft is an honorary national officer of
the association, and the governor of each state is an honora-
ry vice president-The Mentor Magazine.