The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1926, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ao rep WOMAN FINDS [RAPID INCREASE IN THE ASSESSED “TERIA [N | VALUATION OF PROPERTY HAS KEPT PRISON CAMPS Only the rapid inerease in the as- 'tion more than one billion dollars. sessed ble property The 1919 figure represents the peak " 4 trom ex jin valustion, but the assessed value North Carolina's System of doon it by the Sef property did not vet below — the sued here [billion mark until 1925 when it wa Labor Recks Conviet With Brutalities together with : ul ampunt of and the bonded indebted- s show tate, BY GEORGE BRITT , N.C, March 22.--S: valua- [in the with the twentie f the enlightened state Levy Carolina there exis Total Asses in viet labor that reeks Nl Property Mills id inhumani startlin ‘ My isd 45 which stained his system is the chain gang s tem, whereby convic wken out in manacled groups to work on roads under the direction of camp super: | visor. its years the system has gone on nearly so, tolerated be- | ull extent of its abuses | But now 813,196.18 845,300.00 it is being light of publ haired woman, 101 The woman is Mrs. 1902 Johnson, state commission 1903 ities and public welfare, who has started a campaign of investigation ‘on that is beginning to} and denune fe state's conscience into al ned efulness AW ex and Whites [1908 Negroes and at least one white | 1909 man have been the victims of bru-j 1910 ro BT tality 4 oo amazing to believe. | her inv n has shown Camp} bosses shown no d tion. 662,300.00 ‘ollowing are some of the ¢ pe alee made by Mr ohnson's two =} 1918 gators, Roy E. Brown and 2 i Brown and contained in official re-| 117 ports: | In th ‘(atauil oad-building | tanly county a one is free time by Old Unele Bill e walk Dancing Noi. 1c supervisor, saw him, and he have been dalized that any convict in his camp) port days afte erry enough to d | Wo . he died. should feel He or e stat » men to hang Un ‘The report 1 also <s done about them un-| he assault charge grew May, and this is st out of events the story : A negro prisoner by the name of Henry Wooten, whtn he was first Drought to the Stanly county con- viet camp, went up to Supervisor Cranford, took off his cap and said “How do, captain.” Cranford replied, “Don't try that swee uff on me You've been ui in jail talking eat him. nhout me.” ¢ The next every mornin ave him a beat ing, every breaking the skin After two of this the said he was unable to walk or ¢ uw and infected » supervisor ran a log chain kle shackles and drag- the road behind Mrs. odhnson charges. Woo- could * tractor, te he | Young vigor to old folks “Eighteen mouths 1 Johnson, 595 Case Sk, St. Poul, Minn. bless- vigor it] One of Tanlac's greatest ings is the new life and brings to old folks. Every day men and women up in the seventies and eighties thank us for Tanlac’s wondrous benefits. 1 ' Observe the speedometer of any ‘“‘used” Willys-Knight, should yoursbe the rare good Taniac is a natural tonic, made 4 from roots, barks and. rare’ herbs fortune to find one avaiiable. Nine times armless to man or child. It cleans fi , the blood, stirs up the liver and out of ten, the mileage registered there is puts digestive organs in working or-| der. If your body is weak and run- down, if you lack ambition, can’t | eat or sleep, you'll be delighted with | Tanlac’s results. Take Tanlac Veg-| etable Pills for constipation,—Adv. | | { easily ¢wice that of any other used car you may meet with. The reason for this is the absolutely unique service afforded by the patented Knight sleeve-valve engine in which carbon trou- bles, valve grinding and all wearing and weakening factors common to the poppet- valve type of engine have been permanent- ly done away with. A MAN MAY BE DOWN, | The engine of a Willys-Knight is everlasting. BUT HE'S i It never wears out. Unlike any other mo- NEVER i tor-mechanism in existence it does not de- | OUT. OF “WEDGE” SHIRTS y w TAX RATE FROM EXCEEDING LIMIT valuation of ntt| 4 5 | Johnson, “I thin a | Bill heels, according to]that he let a whi go with alth inspector graded h Mr: nvestigators. And | out medical atte he end of | ca on a possible 100. the key remained, head! his sentence, forty days, after he had | es to Church down, for two our: When they; broken his wrist work: . He beat} ‘i curious pe took him down, he could not walk, of {him because he could not do heavy hac he cours }plowing. The man's arm is crooked | stick and struck his prisoners with | Cranford now is under indictment) today. Cranford also had a prisoner |it nervously as he passed down the rand assault, due to Mrs.| ducked in a creek. He beat a man un- | line talked to a man, one r investigation, and his | til he bled for sleeping in trous: | por got madder and madder. is coming up the last of this rulations, on a freezing |On hand he has held his po- nth, The murder indictments are | ; s that occurred in 1918, 0,000 Mm and more... Great 1X HO: WANT THE FINEST Lahr Motor Sales Co. THE BISM ARCK TRIBUN Forbidden Papers Bootlegged in Italy Mondane, Italo—French Frontie larch 22.—(#)—Rum runners of the ‘'anadian border and Atlantic coast have their counterpart here in bands of Frenchmen and Italians who carry into Italy copies of anti-fascist news printed abroad and forbi The Corriere hed in Paris, among U ootleg journals sands’ of these newspa- ng into Italy and pite the governmental gwainst them, Seattle Battling sition 15 years or more and is eon- sidered a good road builder. He at- |tends church and permits no swear- ing. When questioned about the |charges against him, he came near | weeping. All the blame cannot be placed on | Stanly county. Since the invéstiga incidentally, the county com- ioners have abolished the chain| gang here. In the Rocky Mount district chain . W. C. Gulley and a negro convict to last June, Thanks | tion, prompt acti Superior Court ive N. A, Sinclair, the two men H “week were given 20-year prise ences each, | _ iu Rockinghan county, 49 convicts wer | within C con wd ne of the steel loages on whe h was intended rf |for is. ‘This county, it should be re- Against Smallpox por is building new barracks since Mrs, Johnson began her agita- tion Seattle, March 22.—()—More than 1,500 persons were vaccinated for small pox free of charge by the city Ith department here Sunday. Dr. T. Hanley, city health comniis- sioner, unced that approximately 25,000 py had been vaccinated here the last month. Dr. Hanley said that no new cases or deaths had been reported in the last two days. Eighty-four cases of black amall pox had been reported ce January 21 and resulted in 20 ths. ore Inhuman” Flogging practiced in many camps, although it is not permitted in the state prison. One gang boss, a comparatively good and humane man, wrote to Mrs. > put a man on bread and water is a lot more in- human than to give him a nice little thrashing in a nice way.” One pun- ishment was to make a man “eat fish raw.” * ‘ During the last five months of 1925 eight prisoners were shot and five killed in attempting escape, The state luw permits judges at discretion to sentence all offenders drawing terms of five years or less to the county chain gangs. This ap- plies to the small misdemeanor cases as well as to felonies. One prosper- ous white farmer in Wake county, 60 tyears old. is making roads because a jug of whiskey was found in a pile of corn shucks near his barn. “The system is the real trouble,” decluares Mrs. Johnson. “Some of the camps are well con- ducted.’ Convicts sometimes prefer The best bird singers have sober colored _plumage. SNAPS In Used Soda Fountains Large Eastern Soda Foup- tain manufacturer has for sale a limited number of them to the distant’ penitentiary. aati = This in spite of the fact that usually bevel ergy beset rae they are locked’ up in the congested 6 to 12 f s Th cages without any recreation every jo 12 feet. These are night and from Saturday noon to Mon-| now in this territory and {day morning. are in fine condition. “But so long as the system per- mits the welfare of these prisoners to be dependent upon the whim of the |supervisors, virtually absolute and without humane oversight, it is wrong. | As Governor Bickett said to me, ‘the jonly thing to do with the system is to chop its head off. Meanwhile, we lare working to make individual con- jditions more tolerable. I do not be- \lieve the legislature today would jabolish the County system, but we | shail keep on working and hoping.” Buy on Fasy Payments Prices on these fountains Address Dist. 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