t>AGE TWO
NEWS OF WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
Outstanding Happening* of Week; i
Gathered from Everywhere Con- |
dented for the Busy Reader
Atlanta, Ga-. Jan. 2JL.r?AV. L-!
Richardson. traveling evangel i:4i. j
who claims to have devoted 27 of his;
*58 years ol" life to arranging for thcl
washing away the sins of his follow-j
ei*s, has neglected to wash hhnse'f.
according: to Judge Hollcway in police
court yesterday. Arraigned for
idling* and loitering, the traveler \va>
sentenced to two days in jail with a
bath each day after which Richardson
i? to appear before his honor for
further disposition.
Birmingham. Ala.. Jan. 22.?The!
Birmingham Sunday \Yv. s and;
Age-Herald today said that the
nask ot the Ku Klux Klan will he I
universally discarded February 22. \
"this action will be taken, the news-!
na nor sa v? folio _vv in'> a m.e e f i 11 c n 1
Montgomery, Ala., las! week be-j
twcen Dr. Hiram W. Evans. ol Ar.-j
ianta, imperial wizard of the otdei't
and High slate officials of the Ala i
barr.a realm". The newspaper says J
hat the announcement was made atj
the Montgomery meeting by lames
Hsdale, grand dragon of the klan in
Alabama, and that Dr. Evans officially
sanctioned the plan.
Washington. Ian. 21.?The presidential
race is on in Washington.
The Hearst papers are out this week
for Secretary Mellon and the
> cripps-H owayd newspapers came
out yesterday for Herbert Hoover.'
The latter string of twenty-six newscapers.
which are published in leading
cities throughout the country.'
announced that Governor Smith was
second choice. The Scvipps^Hp\vard
papers :jindependent politically.
The Washing!or. Herald and other
Hears! ne\\> par-ei'S have been hoosthg
V irevv Mellon for several days,
it was nrin<umced ivcently that Mel'on
was for Hoover, but he dehied
'.his utiequivocaSiy. declaring that he
vas taking he* part in presidential]
rohtics. it viis then that Hearst
-topped in with his boom.
New York. dan. 21 ---George \\.\
"ioet.hals. < 'eitVer of continents, who I
iivraliy mowd mountains to bring]
: a set nr. hop less dream?-the'
Panama ?&na?-?died at the ago P'i
70 his hi Uidrty, niter a
i.iiness Mr.-. (loetbals and t\v6
- -. \sith ; ho fatuous engineer
. end. They announced that all
expressed wish. burial would le
/, :u West I \dnt. where General Gooth;1k'vva.'
: rain-; tV for his career-and
for time he acted as instructor
:n itstrondmy and civil engiheeiv
Although the Goethals history
s a Urnc; list of signal achievements
h feat with which his name is mb$*j
asrooiait'd was the construction
of the Panama canal, the great
engineering .project which separated
rhe American continents, after previous
ajtiempts dining the preceding
* half century had failed.
Illinois has received an unwarranted
affront from the United
States senate in its refusal to recognise
pol. Frank If; 'Smith as one of |
its senators. Governor Len Small*
declared Friday in a formal state-j
meht ih which he served notice he'
TOvwxt* i vcujiiiiziif tne senate ae-i
lion. Coupled with the declaration J
of Colonel Smith to resign, the governor's
statement Was interpreted as
neaping that Illinois would function
with one United States senator for
:iif next six years unless other developments
intervened. It was understood
that General Carlstrom, at- :
tomey general of Illinois, was ready i
to assert pub.icly that Col. Smith
still was senator-elect from Illinois
despite senate action; that his credentials
were good for six years and
thai there was no vacancy subject
either to election or temprorary apeither
to election or temporary apsembly
went on record with joint
resolution holding that Col. Smith
was entitled to his seat.
Washington, Jan. 22.?Recent
'wart talks'' of United States naval
officers, coupled with their demands
for a larger navy, prompted a
statement by Chairman Borah of the
senate foreign relations committee
today that such activity was "sheer;
madness." Calling attention to tie.
recent advocacy by Admiral C as. I
F. Huges, chief of naval operations.
for virtually a billion dollar navy |
building program, and the declaration
yesterday of Rear Admiral C.
P. Plunkett, commandant, of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, that the United
States faced an early and Vine-!
vitable war" with its commercial
competitors, tne Idaho senator called
upon taxpayers to make themselves
heard "'before this mad policy becomes
fixed." Secretary Wjlbur had1
no comment to make today on the
Plunkett stat.ment, nor would he indicate
that he would have anyth ngi
to say later. Senator Borah describ-j
ed such declarations as those of
Hughes and Plur.kett as "mischiev-|
ous to the last degree." "If any-'
thing could possibly bring war be-'
tween two great nations," he.declar-!
ed, "it is these enlarged naval pro- i
grams in connection with declara-;
tions from the navies of the respect
ive countries that war is inevitable.
This was the insane policy which obtained
between Germany and Great
Britain from 1900 to 1914 and
which was one of the great contr buting
causes to the World war." (
THIS WEEK
Sk? ;
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
BUSINESS AND PROSPERITY
ON TAKING ADVICE
MEMORIAE TO COLUMBUS
EDUCATION CAN END CRIME
s-uiotiiry Hoover sum marines the
hist \ ear us regards wages and employment
thus:
"There waS Jittie unemployment
except during a moderate recession
I near the end of the year and the
fate of real wages remained higher
! than anywhere e!st in the world, or
j than in ally other time in the world's
history. The high prospect of the
year did not represent merely an
upward swing in the business cycle,
but. was the result of that general
and Permanent progress which has
inui'Keu tne nation s business."
That is a situation for American
business men to keep in their minds,
thus avoiding damaging. doubtful
hesitation Business and prosperity
in this country have climbed to a
permanently higher plane, barring
todftshhess, will stay there.
.fohn !? Rockefeller, eighty-eight
years old, immediately changes his
" stance" at golf, when tdUl hy &
professional that he stood too close
to the ball. That change lengthened
his drive by twenty yards.
Mr. Rockefeller has said that his
success in the beginning was due to
patience and economy.
It may have been due also to hi?
ability to listen to others and take
advice. That is a thing that many
young men who would like to be
Rockefellers have not learned to do.
Christopher Columbus' memory is
to be honored by building a magnificent
lighthouse costing ?1,000.000
What is left 1 Columbus'
body will lie under the lighthouse on
a reservation given by the government
of San Domingo.
Columbus would be puzzled by
one feature of his memorial, namely,
lights shooting up into the air to
guide fliers. He would think angels
were expected. Architects arc invited
to compete in this enterprise,
which should stir tin- imagination.
I 'I'hn It.., .. I
j trrnu'Iy able lawyer <>f San Francisco;
leaver, $40,000 to two clients to j
1 make up for McNab's bad allvice j
about investments,
j It is fortunate for the heirs of )
i certaii gentlemen in and out oi l
! Wall Street thpt such requests are!
| not ? ustotnary of compulsory. If]
Wall Street gentlemen had to make!
good losses caused by had advice oh j
investments, there would not be]
much left for legal heirs.
| The department of commerce says
I that in 250 principal cities of the
| United States every human being
j pays an average of $4.09 a year for
police protection. Add the cost of
courts, prisons, district attorneys,
etc., you find that crane costs many
hundreds of millions a year. Add
the "gct-rich-quiek crimes** and it
runs to billions.
Unfortunately what Lloyd George
says of war is true also of crime,
only education can end it. And this
earth is many centuries from being
really educated.
'.*g-7s '
The London Gazette published in
Advertently an admiralty announcement
of extra pay for officers in
charge of aircraft carried by submarines.
Tliat Britain has submarines';
equipped with folding aircraft,)
ready, if necessary, to carry destruction
to the enemy's harbors, is
a secret no longer.
That secret interests this country.
We don't expect war from Britain,
but what the British can build others
can build.
The United States employment
service predicts good times and
plenty of work for 1928.
The old bugaboo of a bad election
year seems to have vanished.
The ranks of millionaire Americans
are thinner, only 29,897 in
Got the Convention
Jesse H. Jones, financier an<l publisher
of the Houston Chronicle, lc<!
the fipfht thai brought the Democratic
convention to his city.
THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?E
against 10,518 in 1923. The
ultra rich. howuver. are increasingTwo
hundred and twenty-eight
Americans had income.- of ?1,000.000
r move lasr year, only 207 in
1023.
Quite a tVw have incomes above
? >,000.000 a year. The government
doc> not give their names.
Vo'in^ people may be interested
in a definition of true love printed
by Frank S. Hoag on the front page
of the Pueblo Star Tour rial. "Love
is that which a girl has who jiroes
with a man \vho doesn't own a
motor car. But maybe her idea is
companionate man iajre."
The United States senate late
Thursday afternoon declared vacant
the seat to which the people of
Illinois elected Frank L. Smith. By
a vote of 61 to 23?more than twothird.
majority ? his credentials
were declared to be tained with
"fraud and corruption." and it was
declared that ho ?*?-** ?i
- ? .... , ? > V VMMW.CU
a seat. Before finally barring its
doers against the former chairman
of the Illinois commerce commission
on account ot contributions to an
to and expenditures in his primary
campaign in 3 026. the senate voted,
"><> to 27 against giving him the
oath of office. This was the second
time this session that the oath had
been denied and by excltiding Smith
without first permitting him to take
the oath, the senate established a
precedent m a Case unique in its
more than a century of history.
Only the staunches members of the
Republican and old guard stuck to
Smith's cause Jto the finish. They
were joined by two Democrats, one
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i from the South, the fiery Blease of
South Carolina, and one from the
| Northwest, Steek, of Iowa. Curtis,
of Kansas, the Republican leader,
and Jones of Washington, the majority
"whip," were among the 21
Republicans who jojned forces with
39 Democrats and the one FarmerLabor
ite, Shipstead, of Minnesota,
in excluding the Illinois Republican
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Washington, Jan. 22.?The de-?
pmtr.ient of commerce announces J
that the death rate last year :nj
North Carolina was 1,209 per 100.' 00
population as compared with
1.1 oS in J 925. The increase in |
192 i accounted fo*- by increases!
in thv death rates from influenza,;
vnonrnonia, diseases of the heart,
whu'-msr cough, cancer and autonioi'i'
accidents. Death- from auto
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accidents increased from 1> to 16
per 100,000, influenza from 30 to
57, pneumonia from 86 to 01, diseases
of the heart from 127 to 135,
whooping cough from 5 to 10, and
cancer from 4? to 40 per 100.000
population. A decrease in 1 026 was
shown in the death rate from diphtheria,
the rale being 9 per 100,000
population as compared with 11 for
the previous year.
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