North Carolina Newspapers

Established in 188S. VOLUME XXXIV 33 YEARS TO FIND TUT S TOMB Toil and Patience Are the Price of; Success in Egypt. Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt, April 4.?While the world has been following with unbatcd interest and curosity the wonderful archaeological -discoveries in the Valley of the Kings, little thought has been given to the years of toil, research and patience given by archaeologists in these faroff ruins in order that these wonders of a vanished civilization may be made available to present generations. It is perhaps little understood that the recent unearthing of the tomb of King Tutankhamen by Howard Carter, the British excavator, represents a continuous effort of 3.1 years of research and excavation. Carter began digging on the site of Thebes, the ancient capital of Egypt, when he was eighteen and has never ceased his labors. He was never rich enough to conduct his own excavations, hut has invariably worked for others. Some of his most notable work was done under Theodore M. Davis, of Boston, who from 1007 to 1914 discovered six royal tombs and a wealth of rare and valuable antiquities. In more recent years Carter has been associated with Lord Carnarvon, who financed the excav. ing work of Tutankhamen's tomb. Carter has derived no pecuniary reward from his years of research. A friend has described him as "poor as a tomb mouse." American visitors at the newly-found tomb have remarked that the r.ow famous excavator wears the same suit of clothes, the same hat and shoes, daily, Sunday, and throughout, the year. Carter's devotion and labors in the cause of Egyptological science are typical of the example of all excavators British, American and French, in the ancient ruins of Egypt. These men may be described as modern hermits in this 5,000-year-old Valley of the Kings. They lead a one-sided and narrow existence. Cut off from all civilizing and uplifting influences, the score or more of them who comprise the foreign colonies of Luxor move within a narrow groove and seldom ever come in contact wHh one another. Excavating is almost a religion with them. The Valley of the Kings and the Theban hills, 450 miles up the Nile from Cario, are infested with wolves, jackals, wild cats, foxes, snakes, lizards, scorpions, vultures, beetles and vermin. The archaeologists live in unpretentious stone and mortar houses with nothing but the barest rough-hewn furniture and the most primitive household equipment. The house occupied bv the American exports was built through the gcnerousity of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, who was moved to pity by their privations ami exposure. The natives of the valley are pathetically poor and untutored. Food is scarce and expensive Water, where it exists at all has to be brought from afar in hand-buckets. The nights are cold, and fuel is difficult to ob tain. Many of the other needs of life also are lacking:. The heat of the valley is distressingly severe during the day, and the entire aera is plauged with flies and pernicious insects. The archaeologists have few social contacts. They live like recluses The whole west bank of the Nile in the neighborhood of ancient Thebes is a desolate, forbidding waste of mud. sand and rock. No flower or vegetable or blade of glass has reared its head above this barren terrain for 50 centuries. Only the most primitive roads exist. Houses are few and far between. In selecting this place for their eternal entombment the ancients chose with an eye to its solemnity, seclusion and silence. The only human beings that move among the sequestered ruins of what was once the most flourshing city in the world are lean and spectre-like Arabs jlrooo/ul in white rnKua The American visitor to the cavernous valley which holds the imperial dead of by-gone ages is overawed by the majesty and dignity of the-great, precipitous sandstone cliffs that stand sentinel on either side of the necropolis. He is reminded of the heights of the Grand Canyon of the * Colorado or of Yellowstone Falls when the noonday sun transforms them into a golden valley. By day nothing disturbs the deep repose of the place except the sound of the pick-axes and sho\ els of the crowds of native boys and men employed in combing the earth for its still hidden archaeological treasures. By night the stillness of the valley of death is broken only, by the hooting of owls and the cries of jackals and wild-cats. In the midst of the silence and solitude one feels himself standing upon the brink of two worlds, with eyes gazing into a vista ? of the unknown. | Stepping in the heart of these ' mountains are Tutankhamen and his royal kinsfolk. Some of the tombs go down 150 feet and extend back a distance of three city blocks. The ancients believed these were the portals to heaven aad everlasting life. )it Uh A Non-Partisan Family Newspaper. BOONE. I SHRINERS' MEET WIl.L DAZZLE CAPITA] Washington, April 2.?Miss Lib erty, long marooned atop the dorn of the Capitol, has been licensed t step down for the week of June A and join in the greatest gambol thi city has seen. All previous capitol festivities in eluding inaugural frolics, will b< ! overshadowed by the brilliance tha will attend the sessions of the In< perial Council of the Arabic Ordei Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. With President Harding, himsel a Shriner. joining in their gayetiesj with public grounds and parks throw 1 open as enrrya sites, with the arm; authorized to provide tents and cots the stage is nil set to welcome an< entertain a record-breaking crowd. Congre?* Acts. Congress itself took time to au thorize use of public grounds an? army equipment and it appropr:a ted $50,000 for th expense of addi tional police for Sbrniers' week. "Conservative estimates of vli< number of visitors are "not less thai 500,000." Which mean the popub? t.ion of the District of Columbia is t<i be doubled. Reservations in the 00 W.-.-hin ton hotels already have been e. hausted. Provision is being r.iad< in thi Southern Railway yards a1 Alexandria, Va., for housing 50,0b' in Pullman cars. Minor Pullma eitie- will be established in the yard of the B. and O. and the Pennsy vania. HOME-COMING WEEK Stinting as a purely Sriner celebration, with "Washington, tin Nation's Shrine," as a rallying cry the movement to make June I th; begining of a gala week has booken through its original fraternal bounds and now is convinced as ?i "National Ilome-Coming Week" with the whole Nation invited to join and see the sights. Among these will be a pageant presenting historic stages in Washington's development as a world capitol. This will be in charge of Brig Gen. Amos Fries. But the great, grand, glo iously glittering climax will be th? spec of the States on the evening of June (, iui v? intu i ciiu.>yivuiiiH uvciiut from the eapitol to the treasury will be made a one-mile long dancing floor. Divided into 48 spaces, one foi each state, with 48 bands playing the same tunes simultaneously, directed by electric batons, 200,00C dancers will be able to trip. Such are only a few of the high spots. Such minor events as a concert by 5,000 musicians, the singing of patriotic airs by a chorus of 5,001 "the Congress of the Seas" a marine spectacle showing the development oi shipping from Noah's Ark through ChimHH Columbus' caravel: and Mississippi packets to the hydro plane & super-submarine, are merelj incidents. A DISUNITED CHURCH If the church in America were real iy united as a body, we could have al most anything we wished in the was of reform. But the fact, which ii disagreeable but undeniable, remains that we are disunited as Christian dis eiples and the power we might hav< with Congress, and with legislature: and otner public bodies is lacking be cause we do not speak with one voice In the average town or city, whih the church locally may be respected it is not regarded with any rightcou: fear. We may as well look ourselve, in the face?those of us who call our selves Christian and church men--am confess that we are more secretarial than we are Christian, mure ritulaisti than religious. A disunited ( Mure! can not have much power with j United States. The church in America today i ! divided by sectarianism, theology, dc tlnitions of Jesus, inspiration, evoin tion and church methods. There is only vne common denomi nator?Prayer. It seems to he ahou the only thing in which all Christian agree, and over which they do no dispute. If that is so, how will th church get together on the commo meeting ground??Charles M. She! uon unnsiian neraia. American visitors to the chasms o death get a fleeting sense of etern: ty and immortality as they enter th innermost recess of the tombs an look upon the wan and pathetic feai ure$ of a Pharaoh just as he was lai away 3,000 years ago. A nioder electric light throws its rays upo the emaciated face, and gives the b< holder a thrill of awe and trepid* tion. Day after day, throughout tt years, the silent, patient archaeoh gists pursue their lonely calling fin< ing here a broken statue of a so1 ereign, there t"he tomb of a hig priest, here the shattered skeleton < a human, there the crumbled figui of a goddess, and everywhere sma I tokens of a civilization that gave tl world its rudiments of culture, a and humanity. itotl Devoted to the Best interests of B< WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CA GOV. MORRISON NAMES MAY L BUNDLE DAY" May 1st has been declared 'Bun die day" in North Carolina, and th< ? people of the Tarheel State are askec ? to send all their cast-off winter cloth 5 ing to the Near East Relief, in a proc tarnation issued Monday by Cover "' nor Cameron Morrison. Dr. E. C. Brooks, State Superin t tenden of Public Instruction, isStatt i! "hnirman this year for the clothing campaign of this great humanitarian organization. 5io.-t <.< -i-.ties of the State have completed their financial < umpaigns to feed the unfortunates' .ii the oldest Christian nation in the world, and the people art now asked Ljfor clothes they are casting off. Dr. Brooks points out 'hat every ? j complete suit of warm ciothing in . j which there is still some wear, will [I save a human life. Straw hats and l! cotton goods or summer clothing , cannot m? used. Last winter, in I spite of the generosity of American people, many froze to death or suffered from acute pneumonia and . rheumatism. Clothing should be sent to the local Near East Relief chairman, on to the Near East Relief Clothing Ware. house in Raleigh. Parcel post ship, ments in sacks is preferred, but , clothing can be shipped by freight . if most convenient to the shipper. I Governor Morrison's proclamation reads: "Whereas, it has been established that the suffering of the Armenians and other Cristian peoples of the . Near East is from reasons beyond I their control, and that they are unable to rehabilitate themselves for i this same reason; and "Whereas, it is reported by relir able Americans that, aside from the i old clothing which American send.? them, these people have nothing but I burlap bags and flour sacks to keep , out the cold of winter, their climate ; V'?ng similar tc that of our N\w . England States; and r "Whereas, unless sufficient clothing is sent from America this summer, many thousands will freeze t? death next winter; and "Whereas, the North Carolina Di . vision, Near East Relief, has sel . 150,000 pounds of warm, usable, 7 cast-off clothing, which, it is est) mated, will save 30,000 humans from death by freezing next winter, as it: goal: "Therefore, 1, Cameron * Morrison | Governor of North Carolina, do here j by declare May 1, 1023, "Bandit j Day," and request the people of oui I State to gather all of their discardec j winter clothing and either turn ii ' over to their Near East Relief count} 3 j chairman or other agency which i: . collecting clothing for the Near Ea&; j Relief, or send it to the Near Eas t Relief Clothing Warehouse in Ral c leigh, where it will be sent with at h possible dispatch to the suffering u peoples across the seas." HIGHEST DWELLING IN U S . 0> 3' MOUNT RAINIER. For the purpose of providing shel - tre for mountaineers who may b? overtaken by storms, the Unitet - States government recently construct t ed a novel stone dwelling at an alti ? ruae 01 iu,uuu ieet. on the south sid* t of Ml. Rainier, Rainier National Park e The location of the shelter is on n sand and pumice-stone ridge at th 1- base of Gibralter, a famous land mark in the park. The spot is know; - as Camp Muir, named after a famou <t explorer who ascended the mountai: i- in 1888, and chose this place for e camp, because it is practically th d only spot on the mountain shelters t- from heavy wnids. d The shelter is built of stone gatr ti ered on the site, and the style of a: n chitecture resembles that of India J- dwellings of the Southwest. Cor i- structed by the National Park Servic at a cost of $2,500, the buildin te houses comfortably 25 persons, an >- is equipped with steel bunks, spring i- and mattresses, two stretchers for us in the event of accident on the inour :h tain, emergency food rations, firs >f aid kits, stoves, and fuel oiL Th re shelter lies on the main route to th ill summit of the mountain. Last yet ie 3,000 persons climbed as high i rt Camp Muir, and 418 climbed to th summit of the mountain. in J&ei ?ob?. and Watauga County, "thr Lead-. ROLINA. THURSDAY APRIL 12. 19 I PRESIDENT HARDING PLANS TO ! BECOME A GENTLEMAN FARMER WHEN HE RETIRES. ^ Purchase* Farm In Ohio Where Boy- 1 i j hood Days Were Spent. .! i . j Marion, Ohio, April 5.?When he *; . i leaves the White House. President I j Harding1 plans to return to the scenes ( 1 . j of his cariy childhood to become a i . j g#nt!eman farmer and spend much of c j his time writing. s This was announced here today by ; r the President's close home town friends. following his purchase yes- j e ten. iy of the farm in North Bloom- v field township. Morrow county, where n be was horn. The purchase consists * of 205 1-2 acres and was made by ' r French Crow, Marion postmaster and p intimate friends of the President. n Th orignial Harding farm where p the President was born, consists of 18 1 -2 acres, and is far away from c any milroad. *t is about a twenty: 0 mi: Irive from Marion. The land is j c de- 'id as rolling, with corn the jo :m i:?al crop. Too house in which u cutive was bom, is still stand- c i . though in a bad state of decay, g A- esent it i being ed as a stor- r " for farm ntachiucry. When c l'j r ?r Mardnig plans to restore it ': lis jvc known to his friends. ^ ! idem Harding !iu. told cl? e i fr ds that he ex;" rts to visit the ^ f. ' 1 *i .Tu'y. and possibly sooner, t" pi. : .ipi ivemctils. Friends say that , f co. lplated improvements include a m- 'em bungalow and a golf course. Th-- farm was purchased from liar-' rv K. Gridcson, who has owned it for \ several years and whose wife i: a ! v second cousin of the President. It T immediately adjoins the quiet little ;> Village of Blooming Grove, a town of n about 200 persons, where the presi- I dent obtained his first schooling. The 11 village of Blooming Grove was laid out and founded by Simon E. Hard- L ipg. a great uncle of Warren G. a Harding fi President Harding lived on the b farm until he was 7 years old, when ** his family moved to Caledonia in Ma- li rion county, about ten miles northeast o of this city. \ His first, impressions and recollec- n tiens were obtained on the old farm, ii ft was there that he played about his w ! daddy's barnyard as a chubby faced little fellow. He first experience L the joys of the "old swim in' hole" on the farm in a little creek that cut through the 1H5 1-2 acre tract. The President's father. Or. George i T. Harding, Sr., who is a practicing C physician here today told of the pros- o 1 ident's earliest ambition. He wanted s< to be a fisherman. The desire came w from frequent fishing trips with his tl i daddy in the creek running through d the home farm. Intimate friends say the president never has become a a 1 ] good fisherman, although he plays n at the sport at times. h Announcement of the president's d purchase developed the fact today t that I>r. George T. Harding, Sr., of h Columbus, recently purchased the e ' birthplace farm of his mother, who was a Dickerson. The old Dickeivon farm, three miles south of Blooming h Grove, consists of *.'9 acres. t , t I AM C. BOWIE I SOUT FOR f SPEAKER'S PLACE ! L Raleigh, April 5. ?Representative I i! ' Tam C. -Bowie, biulder of the lost province roads, is not going to run f tor governor, for the upper seat or r , the lower in Congress; but he is out v 1 for the speakership of the lower s house in the North Carolina assembly c at the 1025 session. 1 Thus will stop all the speculating 1 on what Mr. Bov. ie means to do. The Ashe county man whose opponents r thus far are said to be Edgar W. ^ Pharr, of Mecklenburg. Rober M. 1 * Cox, of Forsyth, and perhaps W. W. ii Neal, of McDowell, through the west- t ? erner leans to the lieutenant gov- ^ ernorship, now know whom they? i must heat. Pharr may have thought 1 - ; iiis victim is to be Cox; but Pharr t i must beat Bowie now. Cox doubtless - regarded Pharr the troublesome man, - hut he will fnid Bowie the man most 1 i in his path. For the Ashe man al w ttyst ciiiui irouuie wnen nu \ - sets out. j l' i Mr. Bowie isn't here to say aye - j or no, but one of his best friends rc j heard him declare himself and that 1 s I settles it. The west frets the speak- \ rt ership this time without dispute. 1 a | The east will do the electing, though, e j In the contest every man has the d | same record on the lost province ; roads. All speakership candidates i- voted for it and any of them who - would have opposed it could have n defeated it by organized effort. The i- speakership next time will be highe ly important to the railroads. The j ? special session may not be called d and the effort to repeal the railroad ^ j act will be stayed. Nobody could do e j more to block that enterprise than i-1 Speaker Bowie. t-1 He i< Mountain King. ie The Ashe man' who is redeeming le the lost provinces has redeemed likeir wise a lost Democratic province in is Ashe. He served as speaker for the le unexpired term of 1915 and was a candidate in 1917, but he was beaten t!t0?? r of Northwestern Carolina." 23 SIC RAILROADS INTERESTED IN 'LOST PROVINCE" SYSTEM Raleigh, N*. April 3.-?At least' 'our large railroads systems are in- j crested in the construction or leasng if the "lost provinces railroad," j lutherized by the 1923 North Camilla general assembly, Representative T, C. b'owie, Ashe, stated today in ar?-j lout ? ng definitely that the supreme oert will be asked to pas on the contit ution&l&y of the act withni the icxt several months. Foift- routes a^e now under consid1 ration and each of these probably nil be ordered surveyed at the fir^t neef.ng of the commission appointed .. 4-V.. I ?; i ,1T _ e ' f ' cur i?uiiuitik 01 tnc rauo;i !. he said. The conference is ex f <-d to be held May 1. Several e ; :i - will be required for the comAv ,n of the surveys. A route is to be selected by the ; omir.ission before any of the $10,00,0 U authorized by the assembly is xp< uut d. Mr. Bowie expressed the : pi/. that only ".000.000 will he : se : n building a road wh'c.h will jo the "lost provinc ha* . A.she an i WaUv vu ..it:h tin.est of the state and also operate in oh junction with through coa'j ir line runmj g to 11 o ocean j ^ e of the 11 i ih..-1 -II routes. it dted, wouid connect with the 1 rn Railway at point in 'ennessee. One of these would run roni Klkin by Sparta to West -ieff r- 3 or ; tl then into Tennessee. The wout ' operate from North ^'ilksboro via Boone to '1 ennessee. i bib the third would run from North Vilksboro to West Jefferson into 'enn see. West Jefferson, Sparta ?id other town are on the fourth nute. which would connect with the < .oni. ille and Nasheville, at Nor- ] >n, Va. 1 In addition to the Southern and the \ i>"ii>v:u ana Aasnvuie,, the Norfolk < n<l Western and the Carolina Clinch- i ield and Ohio are the railroads said r y Mr. Bowie to be interested in the i lost provinces" project. Re-est&b- t shments of a through connection ver the dismembered Cape Fear and < adkin railroad which ran from Wil- t lington to Mount Airy may play an * npovt&nt part in the new route, it t as stf.le.i. ^ ORD CARNARVON DIES, t FULFILLING DEATH LEGEND c OF ANCIENT EGYPT. t Cairo, April 5.?The Karl of \ arnarvon died peacefully at 11 : 'clock this morning. He was con- t nous almost to the end. His death as due to blood poisoning through t he bite of an insect with the late) <. evelponient of pneumonia. < The death of the Earl of Cant- t rvon comes soon alter the cul- \ lination ? the exploit that brought \ \r& chiefly 1m!? nuuln: no:ice- the iscovery of the rich tomb of Pharaoh , '.nnkhanic: in the vailcy of the < ling of Egypt bv the archaeological j xpeditjo: which he headed. While Qh press of the world was * tiii devote.u' no small amount of ts spa to the notable contribuions ol" the world's art and his- J 01 y which Lord Carnarvon and his i oilow explorers had uncovered, came j he news that he had been suddenly tricken down and was lying seriously . SI in Curie from the bite of an insect. By the public at large the misortune which the earl had met was egarded as a lamentable incident of fhat might -appen in a tropical clime uch as that of Egypt. But to the redulous students of Egyptian mysicism the news comes as a surprise. Even before Lord Carnarvon was stricken with blood poisoning antounced as due to an insect bite, that lad dealt him the noisonous micht lave touched some poisoned mystic ncantations on any who dared disturb he sleep of a Pharaoh. After he vas stricken, the old legends spread tnd hundreds were to be found, not jefore superstitious, who were ready o believe that the old Egyptian curse lad faleen on the rich and famous Englishman. There were some who even questioned whether it was an insect that lad dealt him the poinonous stroke, [t was suggested that he might have touched some poisond object in th.> tomb itself set thirty centuries ago to revenge the dead King on any who might disturb his rest. Marie Corelli, the rioted writer, recently made such a suggestion. in the 1916 election. The desperately close country prevented his making a fight in 1921 because he did nt know in 1920 whether he would be elected or not. He has no longer any fear. Indeed, Republicans say he will be the mountain king for decades. And the speakership is the first thing that he goes after. And while he is engaged in winning that the Ashe leader expects nothing in the courts or anywhere else to interfere with the construction of the roads. Of nothnig is he more satisfied than of the cohensive power of this road legislation. at Published Weekly NUMBER 24 79 MILLIONAIRES COMMIT SUICIDE IN YEAR OF 1922 12,000 Persons End Life With Own Hands In Year of 1922. New York, March .*11-?Seventynine millionaires were among the 12.000 persons who committed suicide in it was reported yesterday by Dr. Harry M. Warren, presi. l . . r - i- - u-jui ui c;i? .->avp-a-L.jie L.cague. Unethird of those who killed themselves women, the oldest, was a greatgreat, grandmother. 100 years old,and the youngest a child of five. In New York City 8-J0 persons killed them Ives, ar.d an increasing number th \v themselves in front, of pubway tn v and jumped from high building Some parts of the country reported v. wes of suicide-. and ore girls' suic'.tlc clu'b ' as <!i-cocercd. Those v.h > took their ?la.bout the same n- mher as it: th? 'r.-'d-ng gear-inclr:.: 'd .v'-akj.y il\ uromi t and highly ? du< i e< i -ons. Th. re were 'S college students. 50 coiiege prnf?. or vo l srhool teaeh!>. _lt? preach* r.- and lee.cr.-. of re. work, 5^ j ' and lawyer, .> i physicians. i'ti ]>r? ients and ad of as bus an erns, and ; number of bank pre: Merits, one of > . bom tried ten time.- to die before succeeding. X*. COOK SURRENDERS TO FEDERAL AUTHORITIES \rtic Explorer Gives $25,000 Charged With Fraudulent Use Of Mails In Oil Promotion hurt Worth, Tex.. April 4. -The uirrender of Dr. Fredrick A. Cook, \ ,.i; -.1 s?n? vA(m?iri UIIU Ull |)I (iflHIlCr, lO * ederal authorities yes torday, >rought to 21 the number of oil men vho either have beentaken into custolyor surrendered ar.d have been araigned before United States Comnissioner George Parker, on federal ndictmcnts charging fradulent use of he mail. Dr. Cook said that he was in the >mackover oil field when he heard of he result of the Federal investigation ind that he hurried to Forth Worth o make the $25,000 bond on which he vas releasd. lie is president and >ole trustee of the Petroleum Producers* Association. With Dr. Cook 'aim A. R. Klkman, who was released >n 5,000 bond. Six arrests remain to be made, vhich would accaount for the total ;umber of indictments returned by he Federal grand jury. Oil men placed under arrest in adlition to Dr. Cook and Ekman, yest rday, were (V 1. Ray. released on $25,000 bond; II. E. Robertson, $20,>00 bond; Fred K. Smith, $5,000 ond. and L. A. Makercher, $5,000 iond. The amount of bond made by the >il men arrested so tar is. $_i>b.OOO. Jf the 20 arrested all but one, Bernard Hatfield, have made bond. rOMBSTONE ERECTED TO WARN SPEEDING AUTOISTS Reading, Pa., March 21.?A tombstone, erected n?.ur Hughes Hill on the Pottsville Pike, near Hamburg is it grim reminder to reckless automobilists of the dangers of careless driving on the highway. The stone has the word "Dangerous" at the top and a skull and cross bones appear with the words "fourteen miles to the nearest hospital." The warning was the idea of Edward Eisenbrown of Reading. His purpose, he said, was to give warning to drivers of a dangerous curve at the point where the tombstone was erected. HE COUNTRY CHURCH (Charlotte Observer) When the country church comes up for discussion the people- are accustomed to receive it with thoughts of "decadence." In an article on one of 1 hf historic cbnrc.h<-< i- thi* rw>v* of the State, recently, the author said that Ichabod was written over its doors. And yet great influences continue to be born of these country churches. At one of the lectent laymen's meetings in Raleigh, Mr. Morelock gave some figures which Doctor Branson, in The University News Leter, says are wo rhtthe consideration of all. The best estimate has it that 10 per cent of our laymen are engaged in some active service in the Church. Twenty-five per cent are contributing members; and 40 per cent go to church. What a field for the enlistment of crusaders in a cause! The News Letter subbmits that the figures for the country church are still more arresting. Ninety per cent oi the mission ies come from the country; 80 per cent of the preachers hail from the same source; 75 per cent of the Sunday school workers started there; and 85 per cent of all business leaders started in the woods. "Could we fully appreciate the significance of these statements," suggests The News Letter, "the entire church would be changed in its attitude towards the church of the open country." We should say, hats off to the country church!