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DOINGS IN THE TAR HEEL STATE NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA TOLD IN SHORT PARA GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE Dunn. —Cotton is beginning to open in the Dunn district. Open bolls were brought in by Ellis Goldstein and H. W. Jernigan, these being the first to report open cotton here. Greensboro. Crops in Guilford eeunty have been cut at least one third by the drougthl the greatest damage being done in - Gibsonville-Mc- I.eansrille section, in the eastern part of the county, where the drouth has been most severe. Kinston—Destruction by fire of 19 "barns" of tobacco was reported from the farm a few miles from here of Arthur Edwards, a well known planter. The report did not state the approxi mate loss, which was probably $5,000 or more. Madison. —Mrs. Nancy, Dodson. 80 years old, who Was seriously injured in an automobile wreck two weeks ago near town, succumbed to her injuries, her death occurring at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ogburn Landreth, of the Eden church community. Raleigh. The first carload of peaches of the season to ho shipped from the Sandhills to London was loaded at the Edward A. Manies or chard near West End. Arrangements were made for the shipment by Mr. Manies •before his death a week ago. Wallace. —The Duplin County fair to be held at Wallace August 18 to 22, is being well advertised. It is learned that the Tobacco Show will be a fea ture. Newton. —Garland McCoy, 21, Ire dell county, was drowned in the Ca tawba river at a point just below the Southern Power company's dam at Lookout Shoals. He was in swimming with a companion. Greensboro. —July saw the lowest recorded fire loss ever made in Greens boro, a total of $640 for buildings and contents damaged by fire. There was only one fire in which the loss was over $5. • Hickory.—Max Little, 9-year-old son of Charles Little, of Claremont, died at a local hospital as a result of an accident when the car driven by Giden Moser pinned him to a building on a main thoroughfare here. Gaston. —Despite the severe weather conditions, resulting from the prolong ed drouth, prospects are excellent here for a first-class field crop display at the big Gaston County Fair, October 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, Fred M. Allen, execu tive secretary, announced here. Southport.—Saturday, August 1, the Glynn Canning company here, was the first to start "cooking" and canning this season's crop of shrimp. While the shrimp season opened about the same time as last year the shrimp caught this season are proving much better than those of last year and the outlook is more promising. North Wilkpsboro.—The mid-sum mmer session of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, A. F. and A. M., will be held in North Wilkesboro beginning August 24. The convention will last four days and will be attended by sev eral hundred grand officers and dele pates from the various lodges over the State. Winston-Salem. Attorney Archie IClledge has returned from a business trip to Raleigh, and in consequence to his observations made at the state prison he has started a move among the Baracca-Philathea cjisses in the state to provide a moving pictdre ma chine for the prison whereby the pris oners confined there may reap enjoy ment and benefit from the showing of educational pictures. Statesville.—Road constitution on the various projects in Iredell county Is making fine progress. The base Is now complete on the hard surfaced road from Mooresville to the Catawba, river, a distance of seven and one-half miles and the entire section, according to- J. B. Roach, county engineer, will be completed within two weeks. Thomasville.— Wiley Spencer has just returned from a mbtor trip to Mount Airy and brings quiute a show along In his car, a rattlesnake having eleven rattles and a button, which, he says, he killed near the mountain town as the big snake was Jnst suiting across the road. The snake Is as large as a man's arm and much long«r. Salisbury.—T. E. Conrad, Jr.. of Til North Fulton street, son of Engineer T. E. Conrad, of the Ashevllle division of the Southern railway, received from Alexander Williams, secretary of the American Chemical society, a check for |I,OOO as first prise in an essay contest which, Included al Icolleges in the United States. Elizabeth City.—Sweet potatoes are moving briskly from Currituck county these days. Shipments to date have segregated 20 to 25 cars, according to Norfolk Southern officials, who predict still heavier consignments through the coming week. Klnrton/ —Kennelh F. Foscue. J. p., is on his fifth thousand of marriage*. He has piloted more couples into the stormy sea of matrimony than any other living person in North Carolina, probably In North America, possibly in the world. In "going onto 41 years" he has spliced mora than 4,009 nup tial knots. Charlotte.—While Rev. J. E. Hoyle, visiting Baptist minister of Wlngate, was engaged- In preaching to the con gregation of St. John's Baptist church here, a thief was engaged in stealing the automobile In which the minister rode to church. The auto mobile belonged to Jos. Foster, whose guest Mr. Hoyle was. The incident caused quite a bit .of excitement at the close of the service when the theft was discovered. Rocky Mount. —Several thousand farmers from over the section are ex pected to attend the annual field day and basket picnic which will be held at the upper coastal plains experiment, located near this city on Cokey road, Thursday, August 6. , Gastonia. —Fire destroyed the HfA na meat market in West Gastonia, the loss being estimated at between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO. The building, owned by Mack Bradley, was burned out inside. Elkin.—Plans for the annual Surry- Yadkin Masonic picnic at Elkin are be ing rapidly Matured, and one of the largest crowds ever seen in Elkin is expected to be here fo rthis event next Thursday, August 6. Washington.—The postoffice depart ment has advised Senator Simmons that effective October 1, Newton will be given city delivery instead of its present village service. Duke. —Daniel J. McLeod, aged 62, well known Harnett county farmer, who made his 'home near Kipling, was shot and instantly killed by Roray Matthews, 45, with whom McLeod had some trouble over land. Spencer.—Ephriam Boles, colored, aged 70 years, met death under the wheels of a yard engine near the Spencer transfer sheds, while on his way to his home In East^Spencer. Hickory.—A large rattlesnake, be tween 4 1-2 and 5 feet long, caused considerable stir in a local hardware store when it made its escape while being transferred from the box it was shipped in to another to be used in a display window. Charlotte. —Mrs. J. H. Frye, execu tive secretary of the Charlotte Chap ter, American Red Cross, left for Zeb ulon, near Raleigh, to aid in relief work among families suffering from the effects of a recent hail storm. Two thousand families suffered losses from the storm. Wilmington.—During the 12 months ending June 30 there has been expend ed through the office of Maj. Oscar O. Kuentz, United States district engi neer, $391,586.46 for the Improvement and maintenance of the channel of the Cape Fear river between Wilmington and the sea, according to the annual report of Major Kuentz recently for warded to the war department in Washington. Hendersonville.—Prohibition Officer V. E. Grant is under a SI,OOO bond in connection with the death of Adam Ballenger, 20 years of age, white, kill ed in a running fight. Ballenger fired five shots at officers in a car, jumped out of his machine when a bullet punc tured the gas tank, dashed into the woods and was fatally wounded. North Wllkesboro. —The mid-sum mer session of the Masonic Grand Lodge of North Carolina will be held in North Wllkesboro beginning August 24. The convention will last four days and will be attended by several hundred grand officers and delegates from the various lodges over the state. Local Masons are making preparations to entertain the visiting brethren and to make their stay in 'the Key to the Bl,ue Ridge City" pleasant. Wilmington.—Col. A. L. McCaskill, United States collector of customs, has named Porter Huffham, of Delco, to supervise the field operations of all federal prohibition deputies who will operate in the state under the regime ofjGeneral Andrews. North Wllkesboro. —A representa tive of Benton and Benton, architects of Wilson, was in the city in the inter est of the magnificent new tourist and commercial hotel that will be built In North Wllkesboro in the near future. The board of directors have met and accepted Mr. Benton's plans for the proposed structure, which will cost In excess of $166,000, Barium. Springs.—A n "unusual drought has prevailed here for the month of July this year, the season being over 15 inches less than normal in rainfall. But despite the dry weath er prevailing at this time the orphan age ia forunate in having an abundant supply of fresh 'vegetables from its truck (arm. Almost every week some thing different Is available from this source. Lenoir.—The Star Furniture com pany will refbuild their plant, which was completely destroyed by Are more than three weeks ago. A crew of men sre at work on the grounds, cleaning up and getting ready for work on the new building. It will be located on the same site as the burned buildings, and will be a two story building with a floor space of from 45,000 to 50,000 square feet. Rockingham.—No time has been lost by the connty commissioners of Rich mond county towards the fulfilling Its part of agreement with the state high way commission. The county sold $300,004 in bonds to Braun Bos worth A Co., of Toledo, to bear interest at rate of 4 3-4 per cent, with a premium of $3,333. , Salisbury^—Several hundred repres entative dtixens from piedmont North Carolina gathered in the courthouse here to give expression to their sym pathies and hopes In regard to th« ex tension of the Piedmont and Northers lnterurban railroad. I—Fish Fans' club of Chicago, political organization, the raiding of which by dry agents promises to bring on a finish fight against methods of the prohibition officials. 2—Miss Dorothy Schurman, daughter of the ambassa dor to Berlin, who is assisting her mother as hostess of the embassy In Berlin. 3—Funeral cortege of Cardinal Begin in Quebec, headed by Cardinal Hayes of New Tork. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Sudden Death of W. J. Bryan Shocks the Coun try—His Burial in Arlington. By EDWARD W. PICKARD tl/ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, one of the most notable figures in American public life, has passed oil to another world, and his body now lies in Arlington National cemetery— a consistent disciple of peace surround ed by the tombs of those who died in the armed service of their country. But he belongs there, for he was not a "pacificist" in the objectionable sense of the term, and when the nation went to war with Spain he held a commis sion as colonel and raised a regiment in Nebraska. The sudden death of Mr. Bryan In Dayton, Tenti., where he had Just won a temporary battle against the theory of evolution, came as a shock to the country, and indeed to the world, for lie was known In all lands. He died while he slept, of apoplexy aggravated by indigestion. He was sixty-five years old. After the holding of me morial services in Dayton the body was transported in a special train to Wash ington. There, in the New York Ave nue Presbyterian church, the funeral rites were celebrated on Friday, and the casket on an artillery caisson and escorted by a military detail, was tak en to Arlington wliere the War depart ment officials had selected for,-the burial a fine site near the Admiral Dewey tomb. It was in this most beautiful cemetery in the world that Mr. Bryan had expressed his desire to be Interred. It would be presumptuous to under take to characterize Bryan. There can be hut few Amerlcnns who have not formed their own opinion 'of his character arid his work. He had a de voted following of hundreds of thou sands ; a host of persons knew him personally and loved him; and every one was familiar with his life record and his views on all manner of topics. Thrice nominated by the Democratic party for the Presidency, he virtually controlled that party for years, and though he lost that control In 1920 he was still the leader of a powerful fac tion. Outside of politics his Influence on the life of the people was Immense —an emotional rather than an Intellec tual influence. From President Cool- Idge's telegram of condolence to Mrs. Bryan may well be quoted these phrases: "Mr. Bryan has been a prominent figure In public affairs for a third of a century. He has been a leader In the advocacy of many moral reforms and was representative of the effort for purity In our political life. He was endowed with the great gift of elo quence. "The sincerity of his motives was beyond dispute. He was three times chosen the head of a great political pnrty and held the exalted office of secretary of state. His career Is an other example of what American op portunity affords to those who have the will Industriously to apply them selves. "It would he difficult to find among his contemporaries any one wijh so Urge a circle of friends and acquaint ances who l.ad so generously bestowed t*.pon him their esteem and confidence." By direction of the President. See ri-tary of State Kellogg announced Mr. Boon's death, and tlie flag was dis played at half staff on all public build ings In Washington on the day of the funeral. DEATH took another eminent Amer ican last week—Edgar A. Ban croft. our ambassador to Japan. He had been ill for several weeks and died at Karulzawa, a health resort. Throughout Japan the mourning for Mr. Bancroft was general and sincere, for he had endeared himself to the Japanese jrople and was held in the highest esteem by the officials there. Our own State department feels his loss deeply, as do his many friends and admirers In rb« United State*. Mr. Bancroft, who was born In Qaieaburg. THK AI,AMAXCKOI.KAN"KIi.j|.'AH VM. V «' 111., In 1837, liad achieved distinction as an attorney, a business man, a rail road official and a civic leader, and was appointed to the Japanese post last August. He went to Toklo in Novem ber and already had done much to smooth out the difficulties between the fnited States and Japan arising from the immigrant exclusion law. ' | '■HOUGH compelled to postpone his A reorganization of prohibition en forcement machinery, Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury Andrews is carry ing on the government's enforcement campaign most vigorously. Just now he Is devoting especial attention to stopping leaks along the Canadian bor der and in the South, particularly In Florida, for be Is determined to*check the entry of Illegal liquor into the country. It is the plan of the federal authorities to build up a working patrol of prohibition forces at the borders to co-operate with agents working In the interior so that any shipments that slip through may be traced to their destination. In this way the prohibi- chiefs hope v to obtain evidence for wholesale arrests and prosecutions against organized bands violating the Volstead act. Considerable excitement, which was more than local, was caused by the raiding by dry agents of the Fish Fans* club, a political organization In Chi cago, and the seizure of liquof found in members' lockers. There was prom ise that the club would lead in a fight against the present methods of the prohibition otflclals. At Swampscott the information was given out that President Coolldge takes the position that the federal government, while specializing In national enforcement, holds Itself In readiness to step in wherever local enforcement lapses, and he assumes that In such cases as the Chicago raid there were special rea sons for the action of the federal agents. DKLOII'M'S debt coin mixtion, con *-* slutini; of Former Premier Theunls, Baron Cartler de Marchienne, ambassa dor to the United States; Kmll Fran qul and Fellclan Cattier, In expected In Washington on August 4, and a meet ing of the American debt funding com mission has been called for August 6. All the members of the latter body ex cept Congressman Crisp will be pres ent and It ls believed the negotiations with the Belgians will not require more than ten days. Meanwhile the Belgian newspapers are saying mighty mean things about the United States for claiming the war debt, asserting the late President Wil son promised the Brussels government that Germany should defray all of Belgium's foreign indebtedness. The papers accuse Americn of imperialism and of an ambition to exploit Furope, citing the large American colony and the American newspapers in Paris. French delegates are now in Lon don negotiating an agreement on the French debt to »reat Britain. Until their business Is settled the make-up of France's mission to Washington will not be formally announced. It Is un derstood, however, that It will be headed by Henrf' Bergener and will In clude M. Franklin-Bouillon and Joseph Simon, and that It will come over In September. M. Calllaux, finance min ister, will follow later. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, chairman ** of ttfe fact finding commission created during the coal mine strike of 1(123, ha* visited Swampscott several times to discuss with Mr. Coolldge the danger of another strike this summer. Mr. Hammond holds that the right of consumers to a continuous supply of fuel Is param/otint to the right* of operator* and miner*, and that a* a last resort the government would be Justified in assuming control of the mines. "The President's position, as I In terpret It.*' Mr. Hammond said, "la that It would be premature to assume that the dispute is not going to be settled. He ha* advocated repeatedly a policy of the minimum amouut of government Interference with indnatrlal affair*. The public should grant with patience every opportunity to the parties at In terest to aettle the controversy them •elves. "If by any chance, however, occ*. slon should arise for President Cool idge to exert his Influence, I believe be could rally public support as have few other Presidents. He will find all political* parties united behind him." Premier Baldwin has had personal charge of the efforts to avert th« threatened strike of the British coal ■ miners, but at.this writing his succes* is problematical. A mine strike In England would be backed by the Brit ish transport workers and by the min ers' organizations of the continent and of the United States. An economic crisis in Kurope would result. tpNERCKTIC action by the French *- J forces In Morocco resulted in tha retreat of the Kifflans from the center of the Ouerga river line northward to the foot of the Atlas mountains. But Abd-el-Krlm's troops stood fast at both ends of the valley and their leader was reported to be preparing for an of fensive against Ouezzan, in the west. His activities north of Taza were re garded as a diversion Intended to re duce the French reserves in the west sector where a successful drive would take him to the rich Charhand plains and also would separate the French and the Spanish. Marshal Lyautey has turned over to General Naulln all mili tary and political responsibility in the zone of operations, and the latter ha* established his headquarters In Fez. The reorganized Lafayette esca drllle of American aviators who have offered their services to the sultan of Morocco was expected to fly from France to Morocco early this week. USSOLINI'S government In Italy has promulgated a new law which provides |Q effect that when a hostile newspaper Is not subdued by repeated seizures of editions, the director shall receive two summonses, after which the publisher Is no longer recognized, which means the paper Is suppressed. This has happened In the case of the I'opalo, and the directors of several other great Journals have received the first summons. The Corrlere della Serra has arranged to continue publi cation abroad when it receives Its sec ond summons. I-ast week George Keldes, correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, was expelled from Italy be cause his dispatches did not please th« government. IT IS rumored in Washington that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon will retire from the cabinet next spring, by which time he hopes a tax revision bill, embodying most of his Ideas will have been passed. He believes, also, that, satisfactory progress will have been made toward the funding of the debts owed the United States by for eign nations and that the time will be favorable for his retirement. Mr. Mellon's private secretary, however, declared there was no foundation for the report. The inaln points of the treasury's tax program are set forth quite detlnlteiy in n letter written by Undersecretary of the Treasury Winston In response to an Invitation to a meeting of the lowa tax clubs. It carries the Infer ence that the treasury will not be con tent merely with a reduction In federal estate tax rates, but will Insist on their complete repeal. Without qualification the treasury says that the maximum surtax should be cut from 40 per cent to at least 'JO pet cent and that the combined surtax and normal tax ahould not be more than 25 per cent. "It should be possible from a rev enue standpoint to have a maximum normal and surtax combined of 25 per cent," Mr. Winston's letter said. "The treasury thinks, therefore, that 20 per cent Is the highest surtax rate which should be In the law. "An income tax on corporation* graduated on the amount of Income has no logical basis. The theory of a graduated Income tax is that It la re lated to the capacity of the taxpayer to pay. A man with $11)0,000 can spare a larger proportion of bis Income than a man with SIO,OOO. "Thl* reasoning baa no relation whatsoever to corporation*. A large corporation having a large income may be owned by a great number of small stockholders who cannot afford to have tbelr dividends rut down; whereas an other corporation having a moderate income may be owned entirely by one max who can well afford to pay a larger proportion of hla Income to the government" Treasury officials, it was learned, have evidences of widespread support of the treasury surtax and estate tax program by Southern Democrats. What Can the Scientist Do? He Can Only Say: "Well, There Is Evolution" By VERNON KELLOGG, National Research CounciL EVOLUTION is an accepted reality among biologists. These men, thousands of them, trained in a technique which enable* them to study penetratingly the phenomena of life, and devoted to a , disinterested search for truth, find these "phenomena consonant with the conception of evolution. As the examination of these phenomena extends and grows in precision, the evidence for evolution cumulates both as to quantity and quality. The more we know about living things the more nearly absolute becomes our conviction of the reality of evolution. Whether we want to believe in-evolution or not, we simply have to. The world seems eager to hear from the technical men of science what they can learn and tell of the cause and cures of disease, the han~ dling of electricity and radioactivity, the analysis and synthesis of chemi cal'compounds, the biological basis of plant and animal breeding and of agriculture and forestry and fisheries, of heredity and variation, of en vironmental influence, of glands and hormones, of calories and vitammes. And the world accepts gladly and confidently what the scientific men tell it about these things. But when the scientific, man finds and declares the reality of evolu tion by using the same methods by which he finds out these other things, and by finding tha same kind of proofs on which his declarations regard ing these things are based, then the world, or a certain part of it, cries: "No, we do not want evolution; we will not have it." What can the sci entific man do in these circumstances? He can only say: "Well, there is evolution.-" Until Just Yesterday Man Had Only Three or Four Ways to Preserve Food By JAMES H. COLLINS, in Comprest Air Magazine. TTntil jußt yesterday, hardly one hundred years ago, man had only three or four ways to preserve food, and the present generation turns up its nose at most at them. There was salting. Think of the present gen eration tolerating salt pork I And there were pickling, smoking, crude drying, preserving in sugar or fat. Canning, cold storage and dehydra tion are the modern methods, and all three of them include aif power somewhere. Dehydration is the newest and perhaps the most promising. Mat originally dried some perishable foods in the sun. Then he dried them by artificial heat in various kinds of kilns. They kept pretty well, but had a cooked flavor because the heat was too high or the drying too fast. Jsow, new processes of dehydration are being worked out by which gentle heat, in vacuum, extracts moisture from fresh foods without break* ing down their cellular structure; or liquid foods are converted into diy powder by spraying them into heated air with compressed air. By gently drying fresh food in vacuum it is possible to turn a bushel of potatoes into ten or twelve pounds of chips, or a bushel of spinach into one pound of shavings. Soak them in water, and they "come back" absolutely fresh if dehydration has been skillfully done. It Was Not the Purpose or Intent of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law — By JUSTIC# STONE, United States Supreme Court Decision. It was not the purpose or the intent of the Sherman anti-trust law to inhibit the intelligent conduct of business operations, nor do we con ceive that its purpose was to suppress such influence as might affect the operations of interstate commerce through the application to them of the individual intelligence of those engaged in commerce, enlightened by accurate information as to the essential elements of the economics of a trade or business, however gathered or disseminated. . . . Trade as sociations or combinations of persona or corporations which openly and fairly gather and disseminate information as to the cost of their product, the volume of production, the actual price which the product has brought in past transactions, stocks of merchandise on hand, approximate cost of transportation from the principal point of shipment to the points of con sumption, as did these defendants, and who, as they did, meet and discuss such information and statistics, without, however, reaching or attempting to reach any agreement or any concerted action with respect to prices or production or restraining competition, do not thereby engage in un lawful restraint of commerce. Our, Delegation to Pan-American Road Congress at Buenos Aires By H. n. RICE, Chairman United States Delegation. The road congress at Buenos Aires next October, called by the Argen tine government, had its inception at the last Pan-American conference at Santiago. The delegation of seven members, appointed by President Coolidge to represent the United States, is but one of a large number of similar groups, representing every nation in the Pan-American union. We feel that our mission is important on account of this country's long and costly experience. Those who have been connected with the good roads movement in the United States have learned many lessons which should be of the greatest value to any other nation in the earlier stages of highway development. If we can help our sister nations of the South to avoid the needless waste of time and millions of dollars before high way construction had become systematized as it is now in this country, we feel that our return trip to South America will be productive of as good results as the delegates from the Latin American countries were kind enough to say resulted from their visit to the United States last year. "Sex-Complex" Not the Master Key That Unlocks Every Riddle of Life By VIOLA PARADISE, in Forum. A few years ago, wher the shadow of Freud came west to Amerie* and the parlor analyst eclipsed the parlor socialist, it might hare been expected to pass on presently or be blotted out by a newer, darker disk— * repressionist patter, perhaps, or—why not?—a compressionist school. But no. Even today, let some ingenue venture, "I had the queerest dream —" and all at omce we see a crowd, a host of parlor analysts. The oblig ing interpreters listen—though this is hardly necessary—loolT wise, a*id at the end exclaim in an "I-know-eomething-about-you" tone, "Ahi»! That means sex I You have a sex-complex!" No, the theory of the "sex-complex" is not ths master key which un locks every riddle of life. A few of the minor riddles, perhsps, and even a major riddle or two. And it must not be forgotten that a key turns two ways. In any case, "sex-complex" is too ambitious a title for the service it performs. "Sex-simplex" better suits the unalloyed, one-dimensional, homogeneous and constant interpretation.
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