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-. I CHARLOTTE BANK CLEARINGS . Pr Chamber of Ctiwfpwi. Weak of Deo. S ,..,.,IUH,tMJI TODAY 14 PAGES rrevkme work ....... ,4S,oe.S WW, llf .... f,0S,000.00 A CAROLINA HOME NEWSPAPER OF CONSTRUCTIVE IDEALS, CLEAN AND RELIABLE IN NEWS SERVICE, AND A PROMOTER OF SOUTHERN RESOURCES. CHARLOTTE, N.1 SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1920. ; mm MMi6nnc.a. mt SAYS THESE SI DAYS FOR IRK AND OPTIMISM Readjustment Important for Labor and Capital Alike. IRVING T. BUSH WRITES Unwise to Be Pessimistic, for Pessimism. Breeds Discourage ment, Father of Failure. (Editor's Note The period of business readjustment which haa now arrived la the time for opti mism, says Irving T. Bush, one of the broadest minds In American b mi nes. In this article written especial ly for The Obssrver. Bush Is foun der of the greet Bush Terminal titles company, in New York, which m ploys 10,000 men.y BT IRVING T. BCBU. When business is on the upswing, there Is no danger In being optimis tic. When businsss is on the down owing, it Is unwise to be peasimU IV.'. for pessimism breeds discour agement and loss pt courage is the father of failure. Restrained com mon sense Is good at all times. It is absolutely essential on trur down swing. This country has passed through five years of unexampled prosperity. . A prlod ot readjustment bos arriv ed and It Is best for everyone to face the fscts. There Is nothing to be gained by getting blue because business can not continue forever on the up swing. It never hss and It never will and if we look at the beat In terests of the country, we must be 'orced to the com I union that It is tlm- a hal was called. Onr Foreign Markets. A generation or so ago our busi ness affairs were local to this side of the Atlantic. Today they are In lernationsl and If we are to con tinue to endlessly boost the prices of everything that goes Into a man ufactured product, the time will soon be reached when other nations will undersell us In the markets of i he world. The preservation of our foreign markets is, if anything, more im portant to labor than It la to the. owners of Industry, and the impor tant fact to everyone, labor Included, is what the contents of the pay en velope will buy In tha way of coin lor and happiness. tt Is far better to keep the cost of comfort and happiness on a basis where it can be purchassd in this country for no mora than it can be bought abroad, Labor. Capital Will Lose, If we do not do this, other nations will undersell us tn foreign markets and both tile labor and capital of this country wilt loe that part of their Job which is represented by producing manufactured goods which sre sold by us to the people of other countries. During the wsr the World has laid its money on our counters and de nts nded our goods because we were the only producing nation in a po sition to supply their wants. This period hss ended and trade will re turn to its normal condition, which means that we must compete for foreign buslnesa While this period of readjustment Is going on, some people who have ben skating on thin ice may get their feet wet. We will not have a panic In the old acceptance of that term. The term "panic" In days gone by has been associated with an actual Inability to get a recognised circu lating medium. The Ignorant have besieged the banks for something they could not take home and count. That was because we had a poor banking system. Will Prerent a Jolt. With the federal reserve system in action the necessary circulating medium can be provided and the brakes can be applied with sufficient care to prevent everybody from being Jolted out of their seats. Our blessings have been recount ed so often that everybody should know them by heart, but when a man feels blue about the future of this country, it is wise to sit down and count them over again, recall the days before the war, when the people of the United 8tates owed Europe vast sums for money loaned to us for the purpose of developing our resources and when we sent hundreds of millions of dollars a year abroad to pay the Interest on this borrowed principal. Today that debt Is paid and We are the chief creditor nation of the world. From a money standpoint, we can look the world in the face. The essential thing for us to preserve Is that greatest asset of all the spirit of America. This country has not (Continued on Page Five) BOOK SUPPRESSED 20 YEARS; CONTENTS IN TOMORROW'S OBSERVER The third volume of Bis marck's Memoirs, suppressed by the Kaiser and frantically ruarded for 20 years and still unpublished, will be ,made public through The Sunday Observer tomorrow, in the form of a resume of the book by a prominent German who has read it. It, is a history making revelation. Don't miss it.' Readers, agents and news dealers should arrange today for all extra copies wanted. It Is the biggest single feature The Observer has published months. HORACE E. DODGE DIES AT PALM BEACH, FLA. Pslm Beach. Fla. Dee 10. Horace E. Dodge, millionaire au tomobile manufacturer, died at his winter home here tonight. Detroit. Dec. 10. The death of Horace B. Dodge at his winter borne In Palm Beach, Fla.. to night was unexpected by his ac quaintances and friends hers, who had not learned of Mr. Dodges serious Illness. His health had been impaired, however, sines an attack of lfffluenxa last win ter. He left here several weeks ago with Mr. Dodge, apparently In good health. Mr. Dodge had been tha sole head ot the Dodge Brothers au tomobile Interests sines the sud den death early this year of John Dodge, his elder brother. The brothers founded tha auto mobile business that bora their name here eight years ago, after engaging In the manufacture of automobile parts since the early days of the Industry, when they were associated with Henry Ford. CLUB MEMBERS PRIZE WINNERS Boys and Girls Take Many Prizes at State Poultry Show. Livestock Meeting Closes With Address by Dr. Tait But ler and Others. Sicial to The Observer. Salisbury. Dec. 10. The three-day meeting of the state livestock assof elation wound up here today' with a program which Included addresses by prominent mm of this and other dates, a sale of purebred Shropshire sheep and Poland-China hogs, and the awarding of prizes In the state poultry show. p. h. Miller, of Bellsbury. who has a larce herd of Herefords, told how he trows and markets them suc cesitfully. The value of the milking Shorthorn, which Is practically un known as yet In North Carolina, was explained by J. C. McNutt, of Am herst. Mass. R. W. Scott, member of the state board of agriculture and president of the sheep breeders' as soclaUon. discussed, ts.. conditions now facing the sheep breeders. Dr Tail Butler told how the south hss been raising champion beef cat tle but has failed to develop local markets, and said that breeders In the south have got to build an outlet at home for their cattle. He prophe ined a grea hcange In southern ag riculture, based on permanent pas tures and Uvestock. as well as upon cotton. Other speakers nloluded D. A. Spencer, of Washington. D. C..J. W. Cameron, Polkton. N. C. and Dr. Hartwell Robbina, of Washington. N. C. . Ur Tlobblns. who is In charge of tick eradication in North Caroline and Virginia, told how the presence of ticks in eastern North Carolina Is retarding the development of live stock, raising all over the state, and said that eastern North Carolina, once freed of ticks, would be a won derful market for purebred cattle raised in the western part of the state. The cattle breeders' associa tion passed a resolution endorsing the state-wids cattle tick eradication bill which was spproved by ho North Carolina state board of agriculture at Its last regulsr meeting. Crowds of Salisbury school chil dren from the first and second grades have visited the milk exhibit In the court house since the meeting opened Tuesday. The home demon stration agents. Misses BAwards, Wallace and Alexander, talked to the youngsters and gave them a list of balanced meals such as were on display at the tables. All of them promised t odrlnk more milk now that they understood how necessary to growth It is. The boys' and girls' poultry, clubs won out over the professionals in several classes at the poultry show, th large club exhibit from Catawba county, where J. W. Hendricks is farm agent, figuring heavily In the winnings. In the open classes boys and girls birds took the following prizes Buff Plymouth Rocks. Harry Arndt, Claremont, first on cock; Ger trude Barringer, Claremont, second on cock, first on hen, and fourth on pullet; Katie Pharr, 4onover, sec ond and fourth on cockerels, and first and second on pullets. Oliver Smith, a club boy of Con over, on his Andalusians, won first, second and third on hens, and first, second and third on pullets. In the Single Comb Brown Leg horns, open classes. Miss Vlnnle Lee McCombs, Catawba, took first, third and fourth on cocks; second, third fourth on hens; first, second and fourth on cockerels, and third and fourth on pullets. In Ka MfiArlnl rlnjutea for befit birds shown by club members Miss Pharr, of Conover, won $S on a Buff Plymouth Rock cockerel. For sec ond best bird Dorothy Yount. Henry, route No. 1, won with a 8. C. Rhode Island Red pullet. Third went to Gertrude Ban-rlnger, of Claremont, on a Buff Plymouth Rock pullet; fourth to Paul Wagner, Newton, on 8. C. White Leghorn cockerel, and fifth to Redfearn brothers. Peach land, on a White Orplnfft.m hen. Dr. B. F. Kaupp, secretary of the state poultry assoclaUon, was the greatest winner of the show, carry ing away a total of 66 ribbons, a divAi. fun fnr the moat nolnts in the American class, and a trophy cup for the most points mam oy uny ex hibitor. His birds from the experi ment station farm captured 89 firsts, 21 second prizes, 11 third prizes, three fourth prizes and one fifth prize. Local birds won their full share of prises. Dr. H. & Newman, new pres ident of tbe etate assoclaUon, being a heavy winner.' .' ROAD C 5 OF N. HOlltM Clarkson Will Draft Bill to Be Submitted to Legislature. AGREE ON ONE MEASURE Neuse Merchant on Trial, Charged With Receiving Goods Stolen From Cars. BY K. 0. ABKRNETHY. Raleigh. Dec. 10. Good roads advocates represenUng the Citizens Highway association, the North Carolina Oood Roads association and others Interested in a permanent system of hard surface highways for North Carolina, who have been in session here since Tuesday outlining a plant that will be submitted to the 1121 session of the legislature, today completed their work. Herlot Clarkson, chairman of the1 committee,- before leaving for his home in Charlotte tonight said that the principles to be incorporated into the proposed law were unani mously agreed upon by every mem ber of the committee representing both good roads organization! Instead of cluttering the legisla tive hopper In January with a score of good roads program only oar blTI will be presented outlining the legis lation sought by the advocates. This bill will be tentatively drafted by Mr. Clarkson, the features agreed upon this week lncorporsted, and submitted to the sub-committee wh ch will be finally passed upon by a Joint committee of both good roads associations at a meeting in Ral eigh prior to January 6 when the general assembly convenes. There will slso be a meeting of the North Carolina Good Roads as sociation and the Citizens Highways association when the joint commit tee of the senate and house takes under consideration the bill as sub mitted. A hearing will be arranged with the joint committee and the merits of the proposed act presented by prominent speakers and good roads' enthusiasts. Allen J. Hunnlcutt, well known merchant of Neuse, Wake county, who la on trial., la .. fartnral court charged with receiving stolen goods in connection with the wholesale larceny of interstate shipments and characterised as the "master mind" of a gang of thieves who bsvs sys tematically plundered freight cars, railroads depots and express ship ments, today on the witness stand admitted having received big amounta of merchandise, but told the jury that all his transactions were bona-flde purchases. Denial was made by Hunnlcutt that he knew the goods had been stolen. On cross examination Hunnlcutt ad mitted that tbe sales were usually made st night, however, and checks given by him for the merchandise were endorsed "for labor." This was done, he ssid. at the request of the seven men who made the sales In view of the damaging evidence presented by the men charged di rectly with the robberies Judge Con nor increased the merchant's bond from $7,000 to $10,000. The bond was made. The case will probably be given the Jurytomorrow. DR. A. F. JONES STRUCK BY TRAIN AND KILLED Cameron Physician's Car Hit by Fast Seaboard Train. Was Native of Surry. Special to The Observar. Sanford. Dec. 10. Dr. A. F. Jones of Cameron, is dead as a re sult of beng hit by northbound Seaboard Air Tine passenger train No. 4 this morning about 11 o'clock at the depot crossing at Cameron. This train does not stop at Cam eron. Dr. Jones' car was utterly de molished and he was badly broken up. He was brought to this place on the same train to be carried to the Central Carolina hospital, but when the train reached this place It was found that h's body was life less. The remains will be carried to 811oam early Saturday morning and the funeral services will be held Sunday. Dr. Jones, who was a native of Surry county, had only been prac ticing medicine In fameron for about six months, but hind made many warm friends who are deeply grieved over his unt'mely death. He served 21 months in the army, being everseas for 10 months. He was 29 years- old and received his techn'cal training at the Carolina Med'cal college at Charlotte and at Richmond, where that institution was moved. A year ago he married- Miss Opal Whltaker of 8 loam, who survives him. His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Jones of Ararat, two brothers. Squire and Monroe Jones of Ararat, and three ulsters. Mrs. William Creed, Mrs. Key of Ararat, and Mrs. Dunbar of Mt Airy, also survlveh'm. MEN INDICTED FOR MURDER ALLOWED BAIL--BY JUDGE Special t The Observer. Fayettevllle, Deo. 10. Jess Odom, Jointly Indicted with Jasper Odom and Luther Cameron tor the murder of Addison - Hodges, was liberated this afternoon on $4,000 bond as the result of habeas corpus proceedings brought before Judge C. C. Lyon, here. Cameron had already been ! freed, while attorneys for the three men declared that Jasper Odoms bond would be arranged later tonight or in the morning. Bond had been denied the men by Judge Lloyd Hor ton following their; arraignment at the November term of court- . COMPLETE FOUR IRISH COUNTIES UNDER MARTIAL LAW London. Deo. It By the As sociated Press.) Martial law has been proclaimed by Dublin Castle over the city and county of Cora, the olty and county of Limerick and the counUes of Tipper ary and Kerry. In an announcement mad to the house of commons today, Premier Lloyd George 'declared It was the Intention of the British government to put down the law lessness which for months has been prevalent In Ireland. Dublin city and the oeunty of Dublin, although they have bees the scenes of numerous affrays and of much vandalism, were not Included In the district which Is placed under martial law, but Lloyd George told the commons that If conditions should warrant It the Interdicted evrea would b extended. CARDERS MEET Three States Send Delegates to First Group Meeting. Spinners May Gather at Spart anburg Next Month; Question of Interest Discussed. Questions relating to their particular group and to the cottoa mill business as a whols, were dis cussed at a meeUng of the carders' division of the Southern Textile as sociation In the Belwyn hotel here yesterday, attended by nearly 200 members. Carders were present from North snd South Carolina and Georgia. The meet ng, declared to be a suc cess In every way. was the first of a series of cotton mill group meeting suggested by the directors or me textile aseoclation at a meeting here severs,! weeks ago. Mill men said following the meet ing that the next group to gather probably would be the spinners. This meeting In all likelihood will be held In Spartanburg sometime in January. From time to time members of the other divisions will meet These Include the weavers, power men, finishers and dyers Teeterday's meeting was purely a technical one. Tbe prime purpose was to suggest and consider new questions to be Incorpojedjflj anestlormatre-sd-6n T7Tled fertouted by the Southern Textile association In addition, questions relating to both picking and carding were dis cussed at some length. Marshall Dllllng. of Gastonla. chairman of the carders' division, presided yesterday. He was Intro duced by H. H. Boyd, general super intendent of the Chadwlck-Hosklns mill and president of the textile as. so elation. The forenoon session was devotee to an animated discussion of picking and carding. In the afternoon sev eral spoke on drawing. Borne of the mill men related their experiences. all of which came under one head: "The worst card room I ever had charge of." One of the features of the meeting was the cabaret luncheon. This wS enlivened by the appearance of a theatrical troupe from the P.edmont theater. Cabaret girls were there In numbers and everybody had a good time. SENATORS REMIND RESERVE BOARD NEED FOR BRANCH Washington. Dec. 10. Senators Simmons and Overman of North Carolina, and Smith and Dial of South Carolina, called on Gover nor Harding of the federal reserve board, today, relative to a request filed with the regional bank at Richmond more than a year ago asking the establ shment of a branch bank to serve the western part of North Carolina and South Carolina. Governor Harding, Sena tor Simmons said, agreed to call the attention of the bank at Rich mond to the proposal and Inti mated that he might add that the board would possibly act If the Richmond banjk delayed decision too long. Horace B. Dodge), automobile manufacturer, dies at his winter home at Palm Beach. Organisation of a $100,000,000 corporation to finance) foreign trade for the farmers' benefit Is proposed t riitaaam. There Is m .Immediate danger of adoption by Congress of the Tina ham resolution to probe Into aootb m Merrtlon returns. Accounts of the operations) of British military forces In Ireland are given the oommlnlon at Wash ington. Farmers' relief legislation occu pies most or tbe day tn the senate. Nearly 200 textile mill carders from the Carolina and Georgia holil meeting in Charlotte. Two cents a quart reduction In the price of milk Is agreed upon by Mecklenburg producers. A sales congress, under the aus pices of the National Association of Life Underwriters will be held In North Carolina soon, most likely In Charlotte.. ' The retail merchants' position In Ute ' present readjustment period Is presented, by Secretary Leonard of tho state association. Gaston Means loses his fight In. a Chicago court for the probate of an alleged second will of the late J. C. King. The three-day meeting of the N. C. livestock association at Salisbury Is conoludcd. Representatives of the yarious good roads organization of the state agree upon tbe provisions of tbe one roads bill to be presented to the legislature, to be drafted by Herlot Clarkson. TALK SHOP "What's the News?" MERCHANTS ARE BEARING THEIR PART DROSSES State Secretary Tells of Sacri fices of the Retailers. MANY SELLING AT LOSS J. Paul Lenoard Calls Attention to Other Classes Who Are Not Reducing Their Prices. "How are the merchants getting along? They're experiencing the business ordeal we predicted a year ago that they would experience sooner or later the disasters ot a fallen market and business stagna tion." This Is the reply of J. Paul Leon ard, of Statesvllle, secretary of the North Carolina Merchants associa tion, who was in Charlotte yesterday for a few hours, when asked to say something about the members of his organization. Mr. Leonard en larged on his idea in an interview, as follows: "The merchants are losing as much or more than they made on the rising market, and yet they continue to be the target of every fellow who knows more about run ning a mercantile business than the men who have made it their 11. e work. "Although your paper, along with all others. Is filled with advertise ments of merchants offering their goods at prices In many Instances leas than manufacturer's cost, you find some folks who are still howl ing about the high cost of living, claiming that prices have not come down, and" others, including some of the bankers, who say the mer chants are responsible for the stand still In business because they have not ollowed the market and re duced their prices. "I was in a store today where they offered sheets at 78 cents less than they cost, but there Was no scramble for them. Other goods were offered In proportion. The other day I was In a store which followed the market In its down ward trend, and I found much sea sonable goods selling below Invoice cost, and in some Instances neiow replacement value on today's mar today's mar- sr. for In- .inly season- I down. Suits ket. Heavy underwear, stance, which la certai able, had been marked pnarkeT $ l.W and suits which cost the merchant $l.f 0 were marked TS cents. But this merchant was not doing a land-office buslnesa. Whyf Because the public Is fed up on the propaganda that there will be fur ther declines In prices, which. In my opinion, is not based on .acts. If there is further decline in prices we will all become bankrupt. The fall in prices came suddenly, and In my opinion they have already reached the bottom. "If people want business condi tions to Improve, they will all have to do their share of buying. If there is such a thing aa a consumer's strike, it is time for It to be called off. Business will not revive until the hundred and five million people we have here in America buy their normal needs. The retailers are the distributors tor every line of Industry, beginning with the farm ing industry. So long as the farmer refuses to buy from the merchant, prices of farm products are going to stand where they are. So long as the laboring class re. uses to buy their normal needs, they cannot ex pect the mills to run full time and give them - employment. When goods are sold by the retailer he must replenish his stock by buying from the wholesaler or Jobber, who In turn must buy from the manu facturer, who in turn must buy from the producer of the raw ma terial. "Thus business all along the line Is stimulated. It Is supply and de mand which ultimately controls, and It is up to the public to cTeate the demand from retailer back to pro ducer. Once the wheel of commerce is started again, everybody will be busy and everybody will make a reasonable profit on his labor and Investment. Of course we muHt all take our share of losses to get back to a pre-war basis, and I believe the merchants are coming as near doing this as any one class. "People seem to forget that the merchant has a certain amount of overhead expenses that must be met, and which have not as yet been reduced. I was In two stores in one of our largest cities recently whose rent will be doubled next year. The leases of both were lim ited to this year, and when they went to the landlord for a renewal of their leases, they were told that they must pay double rent or get out. Another merchant In another town' tells me he must go out of business because the landlord wants an Increase of 200 per cent. One of the biggest growlers about pres ent conditions In another town, and a man who says the retailers are holding back business because they are not reducing prices, has notified all of the tenants In the number of business buildings he owns that they must pay Increased rents next year. The Inconsistency of these things gets my goat. The other day I had to renew my subscription to a certain dally paper, which has, dur nlg the past two or three years, in creased its subscription price from six to nine dollars. I had to renew at the advanced rate, and yet this newspaper has a number of writers who seem te take a delight in ha rassing the merchants about their alleged failure to reduce prices. Why don't they reduce the price of the paper. And advertising rates also continue to Increase, adding to the merchants expense. Why not ask others besides the merchants to take some of the losses." Mr. Leonard doesn't expect the present depressed conditions in business to last much longer if everybody will do their share to get things back to normal, he said, ad ding that he hasn't much faith In the efforts to, artificially bold up (Continued on Page Eleven.) Her Surrender j o i v . - w WbW M ? (. S ? W 4? is s r , vf -v ' tW h 1 -Vu!? V x Above Mrs. Clara 8. Hamon ; below, Jaks L. Hamon, slain Oklahoma millionaire, and his widow, Mrs. Jake L. Hamon. Clara Smith Hamon is expected to surrender and stand trial at Ard more, Okla., for the alleged shooting of Jake L. Hamon. . - III I If .1 II GASTON MEANS Declares Purported Second King Will a Forgery. Fight to Probate Alleged Last Will of Mrs. Maude King's Husband Is Lost Chicago, Dec. 10. The fight to probate an alleged second will of the late James C. King, millionaire lumberman, who died November 1, 1905. failed again today when Judge Jesse Baldwin in circuit court sus tained the decision of the probatt court that the purported last wll. Is a forgery. A wlil probated shortly after Mr. King's death, and now upheld, leaves the estate of between Is.OOU.OOO ana $$,000,000 to found a home for aged men. The latest 'tempt o esta llsh the validity of the alleged second will was made In the name of Mrs. Mary C. Melvin, sister of Mrs. Maude King, who was shot and killed at Concord, N. C. August 29, 1817. Gaston B. Means, of New York and Concord, Mra King's business manager, at whose home she .was visiting, was tried and acquitted on a charge of murdering her. Judge Baldwin, in his decision se verely criticises Means' association wlih the will case. "No fair con- federation of this case, he said, can Ignore the fact that Gaston 'B. Means is shown to be the controlling and dominating spirt in the attempt lo establish this will. Indeed, tho Conclusion Is irresistible that Mrs. King and Mrs. Milvln were singular ly under his influences and were largely dominated by his strong per sonality and inflexible will." Means c'.aimed to have found the second will In August, 1915, although It was not offered for probate until July 17, 1917, about five weeks be fore Mrs. King was killed, and near ly 12 years after Mr. King died. Testimony In the will case brought out, among oth.er things, that Means had worked tor capiaun nuy-cu " a German agent prior to America's j entrance into the war. ana tnat Means had a contract witn Mra King whereby- he was to obtain at least $1,000,000 If the alleged will was probated. Mra Maud A. King married the aged mil lonaire he was 7S at the time In 1901. Five days prior to that event he had made the will which was pro bated after his death. Shortly after his marriage he added a codicil leav ing $10,000. to his wife, while In an ante-nuptial agreement he gave her $100,000 additional. Prior to his death she also received stooks valued t $260,000 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EXPELS 45 FOR HAZING Gainesville. Fla.. Dec. 10. Forty five student-of the University of Florida were indefinitely suspended today as a result of. a faculty In vestigation of the shaving of heads of lower class men by members of the upper classea. Written pledges not to indulge In basing are requ red on matricula tion at the university and tha fac ulty decided that the amateur .bar bers had violated their pledges. MAILS SENATE DEBATE Is Expected 3m '1 1 4 - . ; - ' Stt IS LED BIT DIAL Most of Day Devoted to Far mers' Relief Legislation. Agreement Reached to Vote Today on Resolution to Re vive Finance Corporation. Washington, Dec. 10. Legislation to provide relief for farmers con fronted by falling prices occupied the greater part of the senate's time today and when adjournment was reached there was general agree ment that a vote would be taken tomorrow on the agriculture com mittee's resolution to revive the war finance corporation. The debate on the measure, led bv Senators Dial, democrat. South Carolina; Smith, democrat, Georgia, and Capper, republican, Kansas, brought forth no pronounced opposi tion to the legislation and tonight Senator Gronna. republican. North Dakota, expressed confidence that the measure would be adopted. Stimulation of agriculture through exports was declared by the speak ers to be one of tho principal rea sons for urging revival of the war finance corporat lion. Indirectly it would result in stabilising conditions generally, It was added. "There Is not a living market for farm products In the United States today," Senator Capper told the sen ate, adding that the closing of banks In North Dakota "indicates that ag riculture, our biggest business and the foundation of our wealth and prosperity, la close to demoralization and ruin." The banks were closed, he said, because they could not col lect from the farmers who were un able to pay because there was no market for their crops. We have gone about this thing of deflation all wrong." he contin ued. "The farmer haa been made the goat so often that it was thought he could be safely made the goat In this big deflation. He cannot carry It. He will not carry it. He has said so and is stating so today. "The farming buslnesa cannot ex ist unless jred t and market con ditions are remedied soon." i CONSTANTINE FEELS LIKE AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT Lucerne, Swltserland, Deo. 10. (By the Associated Press.) In a message to the American 060010, which he gave out here today. former King (tonstanttne of Oreeoe soys be feels like an American presi dent as he has been elected by a vote of his people. The message was dictated by many requests and contains tbe following : "In returning to my country and re-asocndlng the Greek throne, which I was forced by the entente and the Intrigues of a political party to abandon for three lone and trying years, I feel more than ever aa the President of tho t'nited States must feel. I, too, have been elected by vote of the people to. Use bigto otice I am about to All and which I formerly occupied by tbe single con stitutional right of heredity." L J WtNa. I r i 'nV- 11 BETS LITTLE T FOR HIS PLANS Punishment for South NoY Likely to Become Effective. NORTH IS AGAINST HIM Little Man, Filled With Hatred, and Finds but Little Sym pathy in Congress. . j BT II. K. C. BRYANT. Washington, Dec. 10. A canvas ot the situation here indicates that there is no immediate danger of tha i: adoption of the Tinkham resolution to look into the election returns of . ; the south with a view to reducing" , ; representation in Congress because ot the burring of the negro. Tink ham haa some supporters In tha :, proposition but they are few and far between. v . The attitude of southern congress- men is one of defiance. "The may cut Mlsslsxlppi's membership in the ' house to. one." said Representative Humphrey today, "but the one left will be white." - "The atmosphere of Massachu setts," said Representative Clyde R. Hoey, of the ninth district, "seems to generate south-hating republicans. However, it is refreshing to know that many New Kng antlers .and western republieans do not share the -. . views of men like Tinkham. and others of that stripe." " :t Mr. Hoey said that the basis for the Tinkham measure does not ap- . ply to North Carolina, where the ., vote In the last election compare favorably with that of any other , '. state In the union. ' t , .. H looks now as If Tinkham would not succeed In his plan to strike the south. "The first day of the new session .j, witnesses the Introduction of a bill ' , to reduce the representation of the south because the negro Is not per- -mltted to vute." said Mr. Hoey. "This time the measure is cham v ploned by Representative Tinkham. of Massachusetts. His name Is against him. It suggests the type 4l. of man who would be ambitious to tinker with so vital s matter aa saff- ' rage in the south, and willing te punish our people because they are determined to preserve their pollti cal civilisation aiid, socla,l fabric, re-. gardless of 11 taaIairror of all the tinkers from anywhere. From State of. Lodge. , Tinkham halls from the state of Lodge, of force bill fame. Only last night I was talking with one of tho republican leaders in Congress from New England and he said that prac tically all the thinking people in the north freely admit !n private conver sation that the fifteenth, amendment was a serious mistake, a crime of tbe reconstruction period, and that they sympathize with the south in hand ling the problems growing out of the adoption of tho negro suffrage amendment. His idea 18 that Con free will not attempt to interfere with the south in the settlement of her peculiar problems." The North Carolina vote, Mr. Hoey. said refutes any suggestion of over representation. "In the state farther south th vote was fmall due more to the fact that there wis no appreciable ' opposition to the democratic nomlr ness than to any other cause," ha explained. Thli 1 an added reason ; why all democrats ought lo vote la the election regardless of the op- position party. "The advocates of reduction, how aver, forget that representation m , Congress Is now and his always been , based on population, and not on voting strength. 'and upon this basis , , there is no Justification for any re- ? ductlon in any southern states, but , some of them will make gains, not ably North Carolina; The little mat- ; ter of the practice of a ce.itury hag ' not persuasive force with a repub llcan of the Tinkham type when he Is seeking some method of venting ,-, his spleen against the south and achlving a little cheap notoriety, while he struts his brief period on . the stage. ' , . "In order to punlHh the south in this way it would be necessary to abandon the method heretofore ob talnlng In providing for representa tion and there la no occasion for an. change. ' "I do not believe the conservative republicans will countenance such a movement." I American Legion on Job. 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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Dec. 11, 1920, edition 1
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