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CQUMEK ISSUED WEEKLY. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOLUME XXXXII Asheboro, North Carolina, Thursday, April 5, 1917 NUMBER II PRESIDENT URGES CONGRESS TO DECLARE STATE OF WAR EXISTS WITH GERMAN EMPIRE Vindication of Peace and Justice Against Autocratic Power President Wilson delivered to Con- cable. Hocause submarines are in t-fiV.t press his message on Monday night of outlaws when used as the German sub this week amid applause and enthusi- marines have been used against nier- a.m. During the deliery of his message news came ot the sinking ol an Ameri can steamer with seventeen Americans in the crew, by a German I'-hoat. The full text of the superb message i, i the President follows: 1 have called the Congress into ex traordinary session bocau.-e there are m rious. very serious, choices of po'iey to be made, and made immediate!), which it was neither right nor ion -stitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. On the ".id of February last 1 otlioi 4.1 ly . a : i i before you the extraordinary ::ni:i nil emcnt of the imperial German government that on and alter the first ii. . of February it was its purpose put aside all nstraints of law or : .irnanity and u.-e its submarines to s.:.k every vessel that sought to ap proach either the ports of tJreat 1 1 ci t -ain and Ireland or the western coasts ot Iviropo or any of the ports con I)..'.-; hv tlie eie-mies of ('oi'iiiany V. '.11.11 t M"dit be til Fh:.t had si. m 'J1 o! tne (,e, ilier in the st . ar. the s onew 'iat n salmK.ri wartav V'l . o! iv.-rnpt "nt raft in confo. mity with pi en g'T ! tnea given to t It .i - shot-Id iv be sunk pa.-s n nd that niiiy would be given to till i r vessel.- which it- s'.ibinarini s might soik tn iie.-tioy. when no resist -an was oll'erod or -eapi iittenipt.d and care taki n that their crews were given at least a fair chance to save their lives in their open boats. The precautions taken were meager and haphazard enough as was proved tn distressing instance after in.-tance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of re-1 stiaint was observed. The new nolicV has swept every re- I strict ion aside. Vessels of every kind, ; be in fact nothing less than war whatever their flag, their character, against the government and people of their cargo, their destination, their er- j thp United States; that it formally ac rand. have been ruthlessly sent to the, cept the status of belligerent which bottom without warning and without has thus been thrust upon it and that thought of help or mercy for those on , jt may take immediate steps not on'y board, the vessels of friendly neutrals to put the country in a more thorougn along with those of belligerents. Even state of defense, but also to exert all hospital ships and ships carrying re-, jts power and employ all its resources lief to the sorely bereaved and strick j to bring the government of the Ger en people of P.elgium, though the lat- . man empire to terms and end the war. ter were provided with safe conduct What this will involve is clear. It through the proscribed areas by the wj involve the utmost radical to German government itself ami were operation in counsel and action with distinguished by unmistakable marks . the governments now at war wnh Or of identity, have been sunk with the many, and, as incident to that, the x same reckless lack of compassion or ; tension to those governments of the of principle. most liberal financial credits, in oder 1 vwi mi u "' ,""" ' " I lieve that such things would in fact ( 1 wa? lor a little wnne unaoie 10 m- be done bv any government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane practices of civilized nations. Inter national law had its origin in the at tempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the seas, where no nation had right of do minion and where lav the free high ways of the world. By painful stage after stage has that law beeh built up with meager enough results, indeed, after all was accomplished that could be accomplished, but always with a clear view, at least, of what the heart and conscience of mankind demanded. This minimum of right the German government has swept aside under the plea of retaliation and necessity and because it had no weapons which it could use at sea except these which it is impossible to employ as it is em ploying them without throwing to the winds all scruples of humanity or of respect for the understandings that were supposed to underlie the inter course of the world. ... . 1 am not now thinking of the loss ol property involved, immense and seri ous as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women and children, engaged in pursuits which have always even in the darkest pe riods of modern history been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be. The pres ent German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. . 1 It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, Amer ican lives taken in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same wav. There has been no dis crimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide fr itself how it will meet it. The choice we mnke for ourselves must be made itVi a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a na tion. We must put excited feeling away. Our motives will not be re venge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human Tight, of which we are only a single champion. When I addressed the Congress on the 26th of February last, I thought that it would suffice to assert our neu tral rights with arms, our right to use the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our people safe against unlawful violence. But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracti- chant shipping, it is impossible to dr- I fond ships against their attacks as the j law of nations has assumed that mri- chantmen would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upon the high seas. It is common prudence in such circum stances, grim necessity indeed, to n- deavor to destroy them before thtyj have shown their own intention. Th' y j must be dealt with upon sight, if di :.:t with at all. " j The German government d ni :': r j right of neutrals to use arms at all ! within the areas of the sea which t j has prescribed, even in 'ho defense cf l ights which no Modern publicist hr-"! ever befor:1 quotionrd their :ih! to I defend. The intimation is ccnvi y l 1 that the armed guards which we have )) aced on our r.n feated as beyond subject to be deal would be. Arme.l tit i tr; rhan. ship: .he pale of with a.- eni-.ii" h at l.i s! and in the fuo in such c -if f.u h re s nr.. i the m t 1 ar without ritrc r t!, make, iimkiiig : n.-ap: not VV. the nail' of s:-bi:io!i ;nd sufff '!. mo.-t .-acred rights of eur m.tien ; r.d e.-ir pe.'pli to be ienored ie- vi.-btd. The wrone- ag;.in.-t which we nfe.v i.r ray ourselves are no common wrongs; they cut to the verv roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical cba-act?r of the st:p I am taking and of the gn.ve respon sibilities which it involves, but in un hesitating obedience to what I deem my Constitutional dutv, I advise that the Congress dec'are the recent course f .V,o Tmneriol Geimnn irnvemment t that our resources may so tar as pos- mm on' us. .ones iii.ij so idi us sibte be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and mobilization of an me material resources pi ine conn- try to supply the materials of war and j serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet in trie most econonmical and efficient wav possible. It will involve the immediate full equipment of the navy in all re spects, but particularly in supplying it with the best means of dealing with the enemy's submarines. It will involve the immediate addi tion to the armed force of the United States already provided for by law in case of war at least 500,000 men, wro should ,in my opinion, be chosen upon the principal of universal liability to service, and also the authorization of subsequent additional increments of equal force so soon as they may fee needed and can be handled in training. It will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to the government, sustained. I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained, by the present generation by well con ceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be nec essary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most re6ectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likelv to arise out of the inflation which would be produc ed by vast loans. In carying out the measures by which these things are to be accomplished we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of interfering as little aa pos sible in our own preparation and in the equiment of our own military forces with the duty for it will be a very practical duty of supplying the na tions already at war with Germany with the materials which they can ob tain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field and we should help" them in every way to be effective there. I shall take the liberty of suggesting through the several executive depart sideration of your committees, mens-1 ures lor th aeeomn isnment ot ine , several objects I have mentioned. I hope it will be your pleasure to deal with them as havifimbern framed after very careful thought by the branch of the government upon which the re sponsibility of conducting the war and safeguarding the nation will most di rectly fall. While we do these things.these deep ly momentous things, let us be very clear and make very clear to all the (Continued on page eight.) CONCORD TOWNSHIP TO VOTE ON BOND ISSUE Citizens of Concord township came) Uenjamin K. Dixon, who is first lieu to Asheboro on Tuesday after the first tenant of Company K, is a native of Monday in March to present a petition Cleveland county, and now lives in to vote on an issue of $23,000 bonds Raleigh. He is a son of the late Dr. for the Carolina and Yadkin River B. F. Dixon, who was one of North Railroad Company, but the represen- j Carolina's most distinguished citizens, tative of the railroad had left here, a soldier, a scholar, a statesman and .Monday night, and the petition was a gentleman without a blemish. He not presented until Monday of th's was at one time president of Greens week. An order for the election was boro Female College, and was elected granted, to vote on the i.-sue of $25,-state auditor in 1P00, and held that 0U0 bonds to construct a railroad from position until his death, and was suc cinic point on its present line nvm Thotnasville to Denton, connecting near Gordontown ami to go through (.uncord township to Mount Gilcad or election, Put owing to his youth and for some other on the Norfolk-Southern, ' other reasons, he did not desire the "J;e hue to pass through Farmer or nomination. He inherits in a large ...thin half a mile of Farmer, and is'p'easurc the eminent abilities of his to in' completed on or In fore January distinguished father. His mother was I,rrj!J. i he election is to !. noiu .uay , I!) 17, with as reg- ei am j-idfct C. II. Hill and S. W. Kearns i i.ieuienaiu imxoii is now nrst lieu Pud. W. P. White, of Rainsi'iir, Dead tenant of Comnany K. and was in Snpi rinlendent ot 'Graded School for Asheborj the first of the week ar l . o ":ir;. ranging to secure recruits for tno i'lol. W. P. White d'il tit his home 'company. He was accompanied by :n Kamsour Tuesday evening follow- former Captain Coleman, who has ai ing a stroke of paralysis last week. ' rang .! to go to Arizona to engage m White sei u.-ual i n ;t Thursday .-.rbnol. I e. . hoi es for iieis, his cctidit.on seeming se; ions mi the beginning-. Mr. White has n .-upi rinti leient .f the I'.amsou.- iooI for the pa-t tm year.- i nd l.e i i, e:.tiy tn i,.v.-ii by the ntii'e com - He was o. n and re: to. I n :on::ilce loun'.v. I! I. White who' was ars cb ik of surei as the son of a n ;odicr ot . court id' Ai. -' .mice county. Mi. White joined t'.'.e Pi e bytera n iieh in early boyhood and was an dor in his church for sonic time. II lined the M. F. church after eomiii; to Kiimseur and remained a consist nt n, ember until his death. He maru d :,-, nn t. i autihter ol la'V. . I. Initio, of Alamance county, to this union five children were born, four of whom with their mother survive. Mr. While was fifty-two years of ag . Fu- r.eral service is to ne neui xouay in,0t evLtment, .1. . II v.- .. u D.,,... n..., v I Wie Ij. Cliuieu oi luiiiisvui, ifc-v. ti. C. Byrum conducting the service after which the body will be laid to rest in the local cemetery. Board of Education of Kandolph (ni ty Met Tuesday April 2nd t ; 'I'ho hoar.) of Pdueation of Rando'nh county met at the court house Monday .owned ty the Oriental Navigation April second, with Dr. C. H. Philips, ' Company, and sailed from New York Jas. T. Wood and T. W. Ingram pi-es- for Havre March 18, with a full cargo tnt. !of general supplies and foodstuffs, t'orly dollars was given to Shady valued at $300,000. She was in com Giovo school district to complete the mand of Capt. Walter O'Brien and car school building, recently erected. 'Hod a crew of ."!. A French patro! it ,.,l..l tUnt ,,1.,.. ,-,m ni niek-pil mi HI of the crew. The balance l.'olt at Oak Grove, New Hope town- hi ip, plans to he submitted later. posed to nave perisneti. nm azicc i n-imam writ- 111.1111 uwhiik "o." arise when the air ol America is piav The hoard decided that it was ur.n 'c-; was armed, and carried guard of 12 , u bow and arrow and fell out and the C( evPrVtime, will never be found '-sary for the public good to make tw. enlisted men of the navy under com- shooting was done in anger and with lacking. Let some foreign foe start districts out of the Cray's ChapM d:s- niand of Lieutenant William F. Gres-1 the intention ot killing, but after hear- sonlPthing real uglv, so we c-.n get p.,t;t;,,w ivivlno I.,., n ,nt in vi- ham. All of the marine iruard are mg all the evidence Judge Justice held m,i .,u,, i.nt n Mit .mi.l - h mode (oiesllllg division Ot Same. j n was docided to move the school building from the present site, one ha f m,0 further south, add two rooms to; the house and continue to employ tw.l teachers, A petition was presented asking for association m?t in special session Mon a consolidation of a district composed ,ay afternoon, April 2nd. Mr. Hugh ol territory in Chatham and Kandolph paVk, chairman of the committee be rounties, same was deferred in order inr absent, the meeting was called to for the superintendents of both conn-, order by D. M. Sharpe. The purpose ties to make investigation. 0f the meeting was to outline p-r.ns for A petition was presented asking for the asscciation's work durir.g the sum local tax election in Seagrove district. mer. At a meeting of the committee Owing to irregularities in petition an jast September a special committee election was not recommended. Iwas appointed to arrange for the em- A netition asking for consolidation 1 nlovment of a field worker for full ol the lower Why Not and western end of New Center districts. This was not granted because of certain territory left out, which should nave been in- eluded. However, both the requests from Richland township were left op en for Investigation. As there will be no county com- mencement this year, superintendent Bulla is mailing certificates to all pu pils in the county who have complet ed the seventh grade work. Mrs. Roddy Fields, of Cimax, Dead Mrs. Mary Fields, wife of Roddy rieids, um k ner nome near un V.lr f U. .a hor nnflrli- tion had not seemed any worse than it had been for some. She was mar ried about forty years ago. To this union seven children were born, all of whom with their father survive. They are: C. R. Fields, W. H. Fields, Mrs. W. A. Hackett, Mrs. Floyd Allred, Mrs. Cary Kirkman, Mrs. J. F. Brown and Mrs. E. C. Young and 31 grand chil dren. Deceased was sixty-three years of age. Funeral was held at Taber nacle church Monday, Rev. T. M. John son conducting the service, assisted by Rec. C. F. Sherrill, of Pleasant Garden. Both Troy Teams Were Successful The annual high school debate was held Friday night by representatives from the high schools of Biscue and At' Biscoe, the Biscoe affirmative and 'I rov necative was unneid dv r red , Ma,..u ..rwl fl,,.U U'rltrlil, MliClll Delihi Deaton and Robert Hayes, re-1 sportively. At Troy, the Troy nffirma- tive and liiscoe negative were upheld bv Charlie Reynolds and Hertie Allen: Kelly Maness and Clement Monroe, re- spectivcly. I The question debated was "Resolved, I That thp Federal government should , own and operate the railways." At both places, large crowds of people heard the debates. Trov won the bate both at home and at Biscoe. I LIEUT. DIXON WANTS RE- CRl ITS FOR COMPAN Y K reeded by Col. W. P. Wood. Upon his fathers death young Dixon was ap- pointed to fill the Position until the . mo u.jw oi t'lato nixon, who was known thro::thout. .he State as a soldier, scholar and gentleman .mil who died soon after the Civil war. tr.e nnu-t.e" ot law and ixoeets t iny. whin he went form in otlicial connection with the s". ri. I-. n these and National Guard of that state. I.ieu oveiy v., To enter- i.n;:iu inxn has not vet bc n eh ct d captain, but it is stated he will be the' captain, and secoml lieutenant ;:vei - ett Litek will be first lieutenant, . Tho.-c buys of Company K w hom we ; have consulted all testify to the manly oh: !'i : gentlemanly and sohlieny iiea.'ing :.nu high character an integ rity ot Lieuti'iiant Dixon, and they ex press the desire to retain him as their captain. First Sergeant Hal Walker will no doubt be advanced to the grade of second lieutenant. Sergeant Walker untamed -evit al recruits this week in this county. Their nami M. ; Pugh, ll. F. Mclvmsev. T. L. Lowder- mi k. h. .1. L'rown. am eman. an, C. L. Grimes. 'Snero. Sergeant Walker served three years in the navy and made a line record and j stoo(Jigh when he completed his term Ano'ner American Vessel Sunk Simultaneously with the appearance of P..dent Wilson before Congress on nFl'lay, came news of the sinking 1 1 of Wi ''tmerican ship Aztec by a Ger ' I man 4 i lot. in m off the const of Krnnce, iDxaaSSjloaeini off the const of Krnnce, ' near .HTtsl. on April 1. The Aztec was are listed as missing, and are sup- accounted for. Executive Committee of the County unaay rcnooi .ssociauun ;urci 'rn; Central Executive Cemmilteo of the Randolph county Su:cay school this spring. This commiUee reported favorably and the present secratary is to take up the field work at an er.rly date It was decided that in the Uwnship convention this year more institute work should be done, anc wnerever nossiblo that two day conventions be held. The county president and sec- retary were named as a special com mittee to consult with Mr. J. Writer I. on c State secretary upon a definite course to be carried through all tfce townships. It was moved and ea.'ried that an effort be made to raise fund for the 1 p - , f ,teTeoptfcon to b. used I "Uv lac COunvy. The library rommittie reoorU-fi that twentv-two additional books l:ai been purchased -nd placed in the ham's of the librarian, rnese doom r.re now available for distribution as listed in the catalogs sent out some time ago. Upon motion of L. F. Ross t'..C Meet ing adjourned with prayer by J. W. Welborn. Coast Artillery Corps Called Out Mr. Herndon Mollitt, an Asheboro Boy, a Member The coast artillery corps of Char lotte and Raleigh was called out yes terday. Work of equipping th two organizations began at once and they will doubtless be assigned U,'(t inte rior guard duty. Mr. Herndon Mollitt an Asheboro boy, who lives in Char- lotte is a member of the Charlotte i"'i'"".v. ' I Auto 1 Mr. J. H. Mason Again Has Accident in Davidson t.ouniy J. H. Mason, traveling representa- tive of the News and Observer of Ral eigh, was painfully injured Tuesday afternoon, when the eight roadster he was driving turned turtle throwing him with force to the hard paving of the highway just beyond the David- , son county line. A number of bruise s de-land cuts were sustained about the Ihead, but no bones were broken. RANDOLPH SUPERIOR CO CRT Randolph superior court convened Monday of this week with Honorable M. H. Justice, of Rutherfordton, pre siding. The following persons compose the grana jury Jt. b- ' ' X t?' ; R; 1V.ml1V,over the at'tion of Congress, just as h. C. Hinshaw W. M. Wood, C VV. sembled in extra session, with respect pal'.ACB,C0X uF" ,?5:J ' ZMto our future f0-ign relations. Uouth, A. S. Myers, John M. Chrisco. Th h.,,.n r ,... t V3 hBOw,;iii SiuU '1MaAer'JV- M - l airish, W. M. Allen, D A. Chrisco, A. L. Hammonds, G. W. Berry, and i George Langlv. Petit jurors as follows: ' ler. J. M. Hendricks. M mP!ei m ' .!"'(,'.W'V J; H. j tain our equilibrium w hen the "nation Khlcr, C. M. I.rown 1. 1.. Rush, J. B. a I anthem" is played by bands in the Hammond, G C Moore Isaac Phil-! streets or parks and by orchestra-, in lips I.. 1-. Mollitt. J. A. Mckmzie. V theatres and that we shou'.l veil and I!u;'l:ow- Curtis. Stant.m. throw up our hats whenever an I King, VV. (.. tox. Cleveland Williams. I w erever the strains of "Dixie" greet n. 'I".lls,jf"',l's :"s lollows: Noah King-, our ears. We're that "provisional" 1. V. Bingham. J. K. Craven. W. I. doneherno. l.o.nn. m. A. .Morgan. 1. Ilughes, Madison Hammond. J. K. Leach. Mar- tin Williams. K. II. Hill. II. A. Line- nerry. ( ini K Hammond.-. (. . (.. hazier, inoi. i.i u. mm. tn tile touth It nas heeome mole of it Judge Ju.-tice delivered on- of the "national antiiem" to the gnat rn; -clearest and ablest charges hi aid by joritv of people than "America" or a Randolph jury in many y.ars. So- the "Star Spangled Tianner' oh lorg Iicitor (,'li ment is prosectit ng the may it wave. That's the nii"c-t criminal docket with his ::ir.i vigor i "we uni" actttallv feel. an. I when" we an. I ability. i feel th::t wav we linf r..i- iitv; .: The ol most importane. u red was that of State vs. Alfred Stuff j charged with murder of his twelve j year old brother lioyd Stutts the (ith j of January la.-l in ijichl.iiiii tou nshi;.. I There w as no eye w itn-.-s to the killing v.h;ch the ilefemhinl claims wa done accidentally, while he was ,ge-j T, Mold Was Not P.ioken V, ting up in a chair to put it in a rac-J A State without large cil'rs. Nort'i over the door, v hen the chair slipp- Carolina people are more "provir.. i ed and the gun t-.red inflicting a al" than those of most States with wound which produced death within' their "mixed" population with its a lew hour.-. The ueceased was' large percentage of foreign born and brought to tne A.-heboro hospital I tite children of foreign-born pan nts where Drs. J. F. Miller and Dr. As- m-mv nf tl,n. o-,.v, ... ! bury performed an operation, but the shot ha o perl orated his bowels that no noeint i,,e e.inl.l .iv.. Mm n,. li! I ler testitieil that ihn wonml :k nntl..,i. : ' made as Dr. Johnson said bv enteringl tne sine, out entered below and a lit- tie to one side of the navel and Wie load went upward as if fired by the gun near the floor. Dr. Asbury ami Miss Daily, a nurse in the hospital, both testified that the deceased said before his death in a dying declaration that the shooting was done by and in the way the de fendant swore it was, Roxanna Pat- terson a colored woman, who lives in; sight ot the Mutts home, testified she and of which we are more than jeal went to the house on hearing the gun ous. tire and that the deceased made ai KSSe quarn videre" to be and not similar statement to her as to how .to seem. Some of us mav not be as the shooting was done theatrical as we might be and as some The father of the defendant made a otners are in "rfisplavin" our patriotic similar statement. Others testified fWiino-s. hut when it eomrs to !om- that the deceased made dying decia- rations that the deceased and the de - me eviiieuce was oi s,ucii a cumin ung to ,nva,ie the United States bv any nature that it was insufficient to cor.-, fo,.eiKn ,0Pi for instance, and see what vict and then a verdict ot not guilty , happens. It was an invaded land that was entered. I created the greatest of all lighting Another case of some local import- so,iers and there is ample material ance was the case ot State vs. John to moUl fmih n.cnlits of the same Cranford for the larceny of baking t of Confederate soldiers if ore.--powders. Cranford was acquitted. demands. The case of State vs. J. M. Yow for ( Vacancies in Corporation Commission resisting officer wr.s disposed of upon The geiectjon 0f a new chairman ami payment ol costs. a new chief clerk to the State Cor- State vs. John Cranford for larceny, 1 oration Commission is on3 of the not guilty. Adjudged to be fr.vo.011s probabilities of the near future, and mu iciou.. and not warranted by .u ha8 been UIulerstood for some time VPw'"'"-g?od,JamUht pl',8ecu torithat Chairman Travis might resign to h. G. Morris taxed with the costs. Iaccept a more lucrative position and State vs. Ransom Steed, illicit dis- ith hope of retaming him an un tillery, not guilty. 'successful effort was made to increase State vs. Nunnery King for illicit, the sa, of the chairman, but the distillery continued. The case against . l ig)atul4 failed to do itchiefly be same defendant for assault, not guil-cauge other officials were ready to "de- ty'c l r, 11 . ii- t j- mand a raise" if any increases were State vs. B. H. Moore for illicit dis-lmade tilling, sentenced to 12 months on chairtnan Travi8 ig worth more roSid8.-,of n0, h1e ""wVrt money to the Stat than he is receiv anrf japo and costs of forfeited bond, , nd his retirement would be lit- paio, me roau sem.fm.-e ui ue irii-cn out. State vs. Sango Robbins for larceny, not guilty. State vs. Lilly York, polluting wa ter of spring, not guilty. State vs. Madison Hammond, as sault, guilty fined $5.00 and costs. State vs. Tom Hatwood, wife beat ing, 40 days on roads. State vs. Elsie Hoover, assault, guilty, to leave Asheboro. State vs. Walter Walker, assault, 40 days on roads. The magistrate's judgment taxing A. L. Delk with costs was reversed. Marshal Pender, not guilty of lar ceny. Lary Matthews pleaded guilty of stealing eggs, judgment suspended on payment of costs. State vs. R. O. Parks, incest, not guilty- James Osborne, the stranger who was found lying on the railroad tracks just west of Charlotte on Saturday last, terribly injured, died from his iniuries in a Charlotte hosuital. Os- borne was a mill operative, but the authorities have been unable to locate ih ". u,ii) " "'""i"' jury rendered a verdict that Osborne came to his death from "tive blows on the head with a blunt instrument in the hands of persons unknown to the jury." Lawrence J. Harvell. aged twentv- thvee years, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harvell, died at the home of his parents, on Virginia Avenue, in High Point on Tuesday. The deceased was 1 a most popular youngman His fun- oral took place on W ednesday, the in- ferment home in Oakwood Cemeterv LLEWXAMS LETTER FROM THE STATE CAPITAL (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, April 3. This is the week we "Americans" are supposed to find out just where we are at and there is much anxiety and some uneasiness "war MnK" in North Carolina has moen mistaken for a lack of patriotic spirit and a superfluity of "criti- eism appeared recently in news J. A. Mi -! papers. Some "adopted citizens" ex K. Seawel'.' Dress surnrisn .. t.. u,...i It is a true bill, but v.hv be sui prised and is anbody asii'imed if so of what? '"Dixie " i. V.o stn - I good enough for us and wo cheer it b Ctlllsi 'applaud the song we ad know ant love "lor home and nativ-- land:' Yes sir! Why. a considcrah! percent age in any crowd don't k. 'w what "America'' is when the ban 1 p'ays it! Ain't it the truth? Put w ail kr.ow tind love "Divie." - l mosi.liei.o of h,mf. iir.."-i...... vn.rv. ! , language is not spoken in Cue famii v circle unless visitors are i rost ni. who lint fhn l.-r,n u h' f,,.- thinks the average North Carolinian is different in patriotism of the right sort and real thing doesn't know his subject. The men and women of to day are as true Americans of a light ing breed as were their forefathers of Mecklenburg and Halit'ar who blaz ed the path of Revolutionary thought and action that secured for us the in dependence we won under their leac- ership und now enjoy und appreciat onstrating them to more useful effect jtlle Tar Hoe people who do not t,e ghort of a cttlamity. It would bad- ly cripple the corporation commission. And now another misfortune for the commission bobs up in the probable loss of the services of its chief clerk, A. J. Maxwell, who has been there so long that he knows more than a new man can learn in several terms, Mr. Maxwell is a candidate for the posi tion of secretary to the U. S. .Tariff Commission and ia said to have excel lent chances of landing the job. Ho is going to Washington again this week to see members of the commis sion to whom he has been recommend ed by Senators Simmons and Over man and others. Some day North Carolina will be able to assemble a majority in the leg islature with sense enough to devise means of keeping our most compeit officials at home instead of furnish ing them to other States and to Uncle Sam, because of better inducements. The Elongated Cognomen After a conference in the governor's office the representatives of the wverai "schools of thought" agreed to use the full and elongated title of "North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering" and bury the hatch et. So now let us have peace. It was a silly quarrel to start with. l ire at Goldsboro The plant of the Griffin Man, ,.,.,. hiring Company at Goldsboro was damaged to the extent of nlmm . 000 on Monday. The tire occurnd when the city was packed with visit ors, and during the excitement several persons were badly inji ed So, , , from Camp Royster rendered rlul ble aid to tne local depaament .1 .. 1 m 111 ill ejr tinguishing the flames.