The Greensboro patriot [March 9, 1922]

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ESTABLISHED 1821.
GREENSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1922.
[SCHOOL TAX ELECTION TO
BE HELD APRIL 25TH
| VOTERS TO PASS ON COUNTY
HIT . PLAN—GIBSONVILLE' -
BOND ELECTION.
As forecast in The Patriot in the
issue of last Monday, the county
commissioners ordered an election
to decide the question of the coun-ty
unit plan of school taxation, tak-ing
action on the,matter Tuesday,
The election will be held on April
25th.
Thomas R. Foust, county .super-intendent
of schools, Tuesday pre-sented
to the commission the reso-lution
,i 'opted by the county board
of educ ion asking that'the election
lie calle I. The county board made
the request in view of many petitions
from va.ious sections 'and bodies or
the county askliig that the voters
he permitted' to pass upon the mat-ter.
The county unit plan proposes
that special school taxes in all the
districts be abolished and for them
he substituted a uniform tax of nor
more than 25 cents, 15 cents for
maintenance and 10 cents for
buildings. Receipts would be pool-ed
and the money spent for the
schools as their needs required
Greensboro «M High Point would
be e.xcepted from the provisions of
the plan.
Sentiment in favor of the propo-sition
is said to be strong. The
Guilford County Farm bureau has
endorsed it, as has the Parent-
Teacher council of the county, in
addition requests have come from
Monticello. Brown Summit, Mc-
Leansvllle, Summerfleld and Greene
township.
Last April the plan was defeated
by B2 votes and it is thought thai
with sentiment increasingly in favor
of the plan it will carry in the elec-tion
of next April 25. Many persons
who were against -the plan then are
for it now. it is stated at the office
of Superintendent Foust, as they
now understand the plan better.
Another election will also be held
on April 25, to be participated in by
the citizens of Gibsonville and to de-ckle
whether bonds totalling $75,000
shall be issued for the erection o:
new school buiDdlngs and for other
improvements. The election was or-dered
Tuesday by the county board
of commissioners.
Action on the part of the .com-missioners
in ordering the election
I at Gibsonville followed presentation
of a petition by several citizens of
Gibsonville In asking for the elec-
I tion.
Holding both elections on the
! same day will be a saving of money,
as one set of poll-holders can serve
for both. Of course It is -only thf
people of Gibsonville who will past
upon the question of the bond Issue
YOL. 101. NO. 20
HEWS OP THE NATION
Air Tank Deadly.
Kansas City. Mar. 8—Three men
were killed and nine injured when a
compressed air tank at the Kansas
CHy Railway company's bani ex-ploded
here yesterday.
Accused Of Killing Husband.
LeOaini, Fla., Mar. 8.—-Acting on
information wkteh. ..the authorities
Ur was furnished by the Ku Klu*
Klan, Mrs. Alice E. Shields was ar-rested
today at St." Cloud on sf war-rant
charting (,«, wltn tno mnrdei
of her husband, William A. Shields.
BIG MEETING OF POULTRY
PEOPLE HERE MARCH i«B
Arbuckle Case Perjury Echo.
San Francisco, March 8.—Mrs.
Minnie Neighbors, of Los Angeles,
and Mrs. Frances S. Bates, of Chi-cago,
who testded for she defense la
the trials of Roscoe C. (Fatty) Ar-buckle,
were Indicted on perjury
charges yesterday by the county
grand jury.
WlLL MEET TO FORM COUNT*
ASSOCIATION—WANT SHOW,
MBXT FALL. i
COOMTY COMMENCEMENT
"TO BE HELD APRIL M)
GRADUATING EXERCISES ftjiV
- SEVENTH GRADES—TWO '.'
• T GOOD CONTESTS •'.','.
Poultry breeders of the county
will meet in the farmers' room of
the courthouse next Tuesday night,
March 14, for the purpose of organ-ising
a poultry breeders' association.
A big attendance Is desired. The
intention is to start a big, strong or-ganisation
and "get on the map" In
the poultry world.
Every person in Guilford county
interested hi poultry work is urged
to he present. It will be well worth
while. The meeting will start
7:30 o'clock.
Sentence American Marines.
Managua, Nicaragua, March 8.—
Twenty-six American marines who' „
were found guilty of engaging in a',Z"
fight with the city police December . th
l
ere
i
may be la a county-few person,
8, in which three policemet were j"' **°" ** Unle88 ****** Is
Hits* were sentenced today. Twenty ™ t0 m*ke tt *eneral k»owledge,
of the men were given terms of eight 2" the poMly 8how 8cr™ better
years Imprisonment each, three or* ° anyth,n8 «»»Mor that purpose,
ten years each, and three of twelve
years each.
ffhe county schools commence-ment
will be held here on Saturday,
A«rtl 22, in Greensboro, according
to| announcement of Thomas R.
Fojist, county superintendent of
sdioals. .."**■*&<■-•../, :.,
Plans for the commencement ex-ercises
are still not definite, being
<«n the making, and will he rounded
out somewhat at a meeting of the
teachers of the county to be heM In
the assembly room of the courthouse
at next Saturday morning.
| Graduating exercises, for the sev-
It is particularly desireM that the ienth grades, wlll.be simple in nature
fancy breeders of the coun y attend DBt 'mpress|ve. An address by some
the meeting. It is intended to put prominent person, not yet selected,
on a One poultry show this fall. That
is the way attention is secured. No
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
'- Warns Against Ginger. '
'Salisbury. March 8.—Prohibition
Director R. A. Kohlosa's office is
sending a warning to all druggist?
in the state in regand to the sale of
Jamlca ginger, the sale of which Is
prohibited bya, state law except
that prescribed by a physician.
will be a part of the exercises, o'
course. Diplomas will be presented
to a large composite class,
matter how many line Chickens' <•»..
-Tng commencement exercises will
be held In the morning and will not
Vote For Road Bonds.
t Richmond, Va., March 8.—The
Exhibitors at poultry shows profit.
financially by them. They are ex-cellent
for sales purposes.
There are many flocks of fine birds
In the county, Farm Agent Garrett
senate of Virginia yesterday after '8ay8, * 8°°d chk:ken8 " snywhere
a light lasting several hours, passed ln tte 8tate' * ,8 ""^rising how
the bfH providing for an issue of the I m**l pe0p,e ha¥e ■»«*«»•»■ taelr
bonds of 812,000.000 for road build-•Ub8 *n* g0t real «h,«ken8- **■*
Ing. *jtn*t °*n be depended upon to lay
| eggs, fine fowls. There is no reason
Knocks Ford's Offer. ! W*y a g<M>d pouitTy "delation can
Washington, March 8.—Chairman
Kahn of the house military cora-nct
be formed
staged.
and a godd show
ralttes today told W. B. Mayo, chief
of engineers for Henry Ford, that v.
would require years to thresh out
existing legal entanglements and it
Of course tlie show is not the
only reason for the formation of the
asHteuiionT" The ESSSRS Yrom or=
ganisation will be many, like organi-zation
for any other purpose. It wiH
Detroit manufacturer's proposed
contract for purchase and lease of
the nitrate and power projects at
Muscle Shoals.
there.
WINSTON NAMED FOR
G. O. P. CONVENTION
Raleigh. Mar. 9.—In session here
yesterday the state executive com-mittee
of the Republican party call-ed
a Republican state convention to
be held in Winston-Salem on Wedi-nesday,
April 12.
It is understood that at that con-vention
William G. Bramham, of
Durham, will succeed C. A. Rey-nolds,
at Winston-Salem, as state
chairman. John Motley MoreheaC,
of Charlotte, refused to' comment
upon reports that he will resign as
national commibteeman of his party.
It was rumored that John J. Parker,
of Monroe, might get the post of
national committeeman, but some o"
-Mr. Morehead's friend declared-the
latter would remain at the head of
the political pie dispensation count-er.
was doubtful even then that the gov- TT?B f°r any otI,er DUrP°8e- « wiH
ernment would be able to accept the ,ag the breeders together. They
will find what each other has. They
can exchange ideas, gain very use-ful
information and in many ways
improve their flocks. There should
be a great deal of pleasure as well
as profit in the organization.
Officers will be elected and a com
pact, working organization assured
at the meeting Tuesday night. Don't
forget to come out. The more .peo-ple
who belong to It the better I?
will be. Come and bring your
neighbor, is the invitation extended.
Progress On Bonos.
Washington, March 8.—The com-promise
soldiers' bonus bill, carrying
a bank provision in place of the cash
intallment payment plan originally
proposed .and once approved; by the
house. Anally was agreed to today
by Republican members of the ways
and means committee.
Too Inquisitive.
New York, March 8.—Seeking
data for his book "The Hereafter,"
Thomas W. WeggieluY, of Brooklyn.
a 28- year-old chemist, swallowed
£Sb*t ha thought was just enough
anesthetic to take him to death's
portals. It killed him. '
run over into the afternoon. There
will be no field Bay exercises, thai
hi, no athletic contests.
Two of the most interesting fea-tures
In connection with the com-mencement
will be a declamation
contest and- a recitation contest, one
for the boys, the other for the girls.
As narrowed down, three boys will
compete and three girls.
The plan for these contests in-volves
a series of elimination- con-tests.
These will be held in each of
the 18 townships -of the county, r
first elimination with one boy and
one girl from each school. If each
school desires to compete. That
will leave one boy and one girl from
each township. Those contests will
commencement.
On April -21, the day before the
commencement exercises, these 36
boys and girls will meet here for
the dual contests, and the three best
in declamation and the three best
in recitation will be selected. They
will be the ones to compete on com-mencement
day.
It has nof yet been decided
whether the exercises will be hek"
in the Grand theater or at the North
Carolina College fof Women. That
matter will be decided later.
As stated, the program will be
thoroughly discussed at the meeting
of the teachers here next Saturday
Saw Negro From Mob.
Asbevllle, Mar. 8.—Bat for- the
Intervention of the parents of the
intended victim, a yonng negro by
tho name of Lloyd, accused of at-tempted
assault' on a 18 year-old
school girl, would have been speedi-ly
executed by a mob at Hayesvllle,
Clay county, according to dispatches
from Murphy.
Shot From Ambush.
Lumbertpn, (Mar. 8.—Jesse ana
Dock Oxendine, Indians, were
brought to iRobeeon county jail fol-lowing
the murder Saturday night of
Victor Bullard, Indian, near here.
Bullsrd was shot from ambush.
Jailed With Baby.
Kjnston, Mar. 8.—The two-year-old
child' of Mrs. Gladys Hutson, r
young Woman of good appearance,
shared quarters with the woman a"
the county jail here yesterdtty. She
was arrested here tor non-payment
of a hoard bill.
Judges Income Tax Exempt.
Raleigh, Mar. 8.—Superrior and
Supreme court judges of North Caro-lina
cannot be required to pay state
Income taxes on their -alaries. the
Supreme court held, in an opinion
handed down today. The court's
opinion was in the case sent up by
Judge Ben F. Long, of Sta!eavi!l<
in which the jurist asked for a de-cision
on Commissioner of Revenue
Watts' ruling that all judiciary mem-
Eggs 18 Cents.
Hickory, March 8.—For the first
time in several years eggs were re-ported-
at 18 cents, wholesale, on thi-.
market yesterday. Hickory is one
of the large egg shipping centers o:
the south.
COMMITTEE INQUIRES
? INTO COONTY
MSCONTgNTKlV TAXP,
MEETING, PREPARE
TKW TO MKT7T AG
About 80 residents of' Guilford
county, most of them farmers or
farm owners, but several living la
Greensboro, mat at tho county
courthouse Tuesday morning, be,
ginning at 1.1 o'clock, organizing to
Inquire into tho financial affairs of
tho county government, named a
committee of seven men to do the
inquiring and report back to a meet-ing
to be held *t the courthouse on
Saturday, April. 1, beginning' at 1
p. m.
Resolutions were passed condemn-ing
the state textbook commission
for recommending the adoption- ol
many new textbooks for the schools
of the state, calling for the abolish-ment
of useless offices, and a return
to local self-government.
Talks were made referring to what
the speakers called extravagence in
county and state government, pro-testing
at the "steadily increasing" .
tax levies and idem and id g economy.
The meeting was practically unanl-mous
for Investigation Into the
scheme of county spending and for
fl,**,n* ways to make the county's
money do the most good.
Claim Too Much Waste.
Most of the speakers disclaimed
any desire to Injure the progress of
the county as to schools or any oth-er
way, but at the same time declar-ed
that they think there is too much
money-spent tor the results obtain-ed.
The inquiry committee of seven-will
go to the county commissioners
and the other officers of the county
for figures on expenditures and re-ceipts.
.Thus armed, .they will come
CHILD, EVIDENTLY STARVING TO
DEATH, LOCATED IN GREMBM
PEOPLE URGED TO AID IN
FIGHT ON LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Mount Airy, Mar. 8.—A report
»n prohibition and law enforcement,
rendered to the Mount "Airy district
conference of the.Western North
Carolina Methodist fbonferonce on
March l declares that every day finds'
the work of stamping out the UtfnW
traffic growing. That North Caro^
Una is as wet as it is is a disgrace
It is asserted, and the people are
urged to line up quickly behind the
Anti-Saloon league.
^ia,
Did you ever hear of a child starv-ing
to death.? Yes. you say, but
<:**M Ismor Cases. - that was in Russia or Armenia. Weil,
Washington. March 8.—The ehiM how about Greensboro, the capital
labor cases, three In TqWrnnr;laf --—-•-- i .,
brought from North Carolina, t.\2*2??JTFmS -UTS?
«2 theconst,tnt.on.„ty of that law. ^TLVL^dZZ' Z'-
were reached for oral argument In <.orriin. ,„ ,* . . "arT,n»' **
the Supreme court late today.' °K£V< , **,?ment 0f one "*•
' officially Inquired) Into the case, was.
Sands May Be Suicide. I**'8 f"? v
br,Khtfaced youngster.
Hartford. Conn., March 8.-The Z £ns-W '7 TT. °' "*
Connecticut state police are re ,n ,h 1 f H! ^ m"S ** "^
Sands, missing secretary of William j»ti„„ , , °aoys con
D Tavlor' ,w„ «, 7 . Will.am ditlon was alarming aacil on the fol-
D. Taylor, slain film director. ,ow,n* day-Tuesday-the welfare
CANVASS TO RAISE FUNDS SS-T* *^,""0™1* ,D
FOR COMMUNITY CHEST The youngster's body bore paln-
JZZZ. Z°»Te **»"••-**«»■" ™* aPParsnt evidence of lack of
tJfaomLn^S PW ^f^ °* G™"b™-* Practicing pryslclans.
wiu bTSSL. T' w,hlcih sut0<! th8t hau'th* ^1W will be dlvMed among nine welfare thus for a few days longSer"de>at•h"
organizations, the, Y.rM, C. A., the would ,probably have resnHed. Gull- ~- «» ™- v~n»™ m*m n8-
w^A L ^ the-Travel- ford county officials don't want to!ure when **■ »7 * P*tHot reporter
ors Aid^he Bby Scouts, The OTeens- see a child starve to death and re- were terri"y thin, and the body
boro Cartp and PtolrgrouaH aa-oei- medHal measures'were taken ! **» otherwise' grea'tly emaciated
attony District Nurses- and Relief On Tuesday afternoon Mason W iBnt the ""'• P""^1* •« hnmanRy
association. Red Cross, Salvation Gant, judge of Juvenile court M- ***& appeallngly Into the eyes of
Arm?. Honrrt of Pnhlio w«it..» T«. ...... ._ --'".,.v> •" .w. _.,._- • .....
ter making Inquiry Into the matter
the Judge of ths jnvsolie court -a»-
Judged that tho baby was being neg-lected
and awartfed H into «ha ens-today
of Mrs. Sterne.
Mrs. Sterne then placed the little
boy in the hands of the receiving
homo of tho North Carolina CbJfct-ren's
Home society, in this oity.
Reports received by a representative
of The Patriot today indicate tha*
the child, by careful nursing, can
ultimately be restored to health, bu
it is evident the* the little fellow has
had a narrow escape from early
mortality.
Dr W. M. Jones, county health of-ficer,
who saw the child, gave It as
his opinion that the child was suf-fering
from "Inanition." Another
person who investigated the case
said that the little boy was "a plumb-skeleton."
at hrsaMt that the pa-rentage
of the child Is obscure..
Officials aay they do not believe
the mother guilty of criminal . in-tent,
but that the condition of the
infant was due to ignorance as to
the proper feeding of a child. .
The legs of the pathetic little ug-
Guaitd Negro At Trial.
Raleigh, [March 8.—As a precau-tion
against mob violence, a mili-tary
guard of ten men under the
command of Lieutenant Connor Ay-cock,
escorted Will WhltneM, one-armed
negro to Onelow county t.tday
where he will be immediately placed
on trial charged with assault with a
deadly weapon on a merchant.
4 .
. Safe Crackers Roln Store.
| Rocky Mount. March 8.—Damage
OTceading •tS.OOO resulted from a
dynamite blast set off by safecrack-ers
at a store on tho outskirts of
this city Tuesday. The bu lid Ing Wat
#wckeU. There to no definite eta*
to the yeggmen.
Army, Board of Public Welfare De- quired into the matter. The mother lbe welfare officer, seemingly trying
partment and North Carolina Child, about 25" years old, was glyen th. to ,ay' "» »»t to. |ive, too. Cant
ren s Home. opportunity to attend tee kfPrnr >r°u 'elp n»e?"
enfJTr , ! I 11be *85" before JndBe °»* b« ™ "ot tjk- Mrs. Sterne says that she certainly
000 set as a goal hasten rals^. advantage of that opportunity. Ar-,«111.
SELECT T. C. HICKS
FOR COUNTY HOME
T. C. Hicks, of Pleasant Garden
w,is choten by the county commis-sioners
at their mee.-i,/ Tuesday t(
bccon.e -up.'.ilntende.ii of •he conn
.y home, to fill the v-. -ancy aasuejC
^y t.is vf-siKnation of S J. Sc'iti.
•'be -.'onrn.ssloners b6.:'eve that ii
ifr II.CK they have a ?ood man.
There were 38 applicants for the
place and they had papers of en-dorsement
signed by their friends.
Mo&t>4>t them are married. One of
them said that he had 13 children.
Those who applied are;
I. I. Caviness, J. C. Ross, J. B.
Parker, B. L. Buslck, W. H. Gray,
Gray Tyson, W. Nr Kinney, iN. A.
Murray, J. E. Lucas, J. S. SwaimT
Maston Britt, C. A. Seymore, J. M.
Snider, J. T. Walker, S. B. Jeffrey,
C. E. King, Claude Jones, B. A.
Pentecost. A. S. Harwood, C. C. Blay-loek.
O. H. Pardoe, A, L. Hudson,
Pfhkney Delaaay, A. Mitchell, W. H.
Lineberry, A. B. McFarland, Floyd
L. Montgomery, J. S. Bnrwell, R. N.
Ayres, G. C. Oakley, T. C. Hicks,
George R. Pence, H. C. Johnston, J.
A. Lester, W. R. Straughn, J. R.
Ledhetter, Lever Kr Worthing and
J. 'J. Gillls.
Once the doughboy gets his bonus,
he can spend' his life digging up tax-es
to help pay for it.—Toronto Star.
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--■K -• .--->-'" —«»«•«»«, >ucj win come
"back at,* report to the neat -meet-ing,
which is expected to proceed
with some plan tb try to remedy the
conditions of which they complain.
■Ibe inquiry committee is sompos-ed
of the following men:
Chairman, John W. King, Greens-boro;
C. F. Neeley, Pleasant Gar-den;
H. W. Lambeth, Brown Sum-mit;
T. J. Penn, Greensboro; S. E.
Coltrane, Guilford College; Monroo-
Christmon, Washington Township;
and W. H. Dunbar, Oak Ridge.
The committee, which might be
called the first weapon of the pro-testing
taxpayers, was named by Mr.
King, who served as chairman of the
meeting, «he meeting deciding that
he should also serve as chairman of
the committee.
Soon Organised.
Organisation was quickly accom-plished
once the farmers got settled
slows in tha mala courtroom. R.
W. H. Stone, president of the North
Carolina Fanners' union, was pres-ent,
as was C. E. Weatberly. presi-dent
of tha Guilford county braacnv
of the union. They statsj* tho ob-ject
Of tho meeting, w&tefe was cal-led
by Mr. Weatherly.-Uie petttlou
for tha call being signed by others
as being to And out If there is not
some way to reduce tha expenses of
tmrernnient, and so reduce taxes.
As stated, Mr. King was chosen
chairman of the meeting add J. D.
Frazier, 6t Guilford College, secre-tary.
Mr. Frazier asked to be ex-cused,
"old men for council and
younf men for wsr" he remioiled
the crowd, but it was insisted »ha«
he aetve.
Mr. Stone made what might be
called the chief speech of the meet-ing.
He was not "rabid" or denun-ciatory.
He had It clear that the ob-ject
pi the meeting was not to "get"
anybody, that the- taxpayers are
simply, calmly, without fuss or fury,
trying to see-whether some of the
money is not spent extravagantly',
for useless offices.
There were a number of speeches,
along the same line, some of them
more complaining than Mr. Stone's.
After the grievances of -rue meeting
bad been somewhat aired, the In-quiry
committee was named and Its
duties laid down...
From that the'meoting .progressed
to a resolution, a triple affair, of-fered
by C. F. Neeley, condemning
the state textbook commission for
recommending" new textbooks, ask.
log for ths abolishment 67 the "nsss
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