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Volume 11.
Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, September 25,1941.
Number 39.
PRESENT VIEW OF
VEW SEA TACTICS
TELLING ON HITLER
'American Naval Policy, With Aid
to Russia Thought to be Hav
ing Maarked Effect
ALLIES HAVE INITIATIVE
Lindbergh Speech Goes Sour
And Congress Begins to Shift
Disgust With That Speech, Position of Legion, and Roosevelt’s
Order to Shoot, All Combine to Decrease Oppcyxiion
to Roosevelt Policy
The United States News, close ob
server of domestic and foreign af
fairs, says that the naval supremacy
of the United States and Britain, act
ing together, is ber»g clearly demon
strated on the oceans of the world.
This important fact emerges after
the first few days of operations by
the United States Navy under orders
of President Roosevelt to shoot Ger
man and Italian submarines and sea
raiders on eight.
In the Atlantic, during those days,
the American patrols swept the seas
without encountering any opposition
from the. Germans. In the Pacific, the
main American fleet is at anchor at
Hawaii, without being challenged by
the naval forces of Japan.
*The fact of U. S.-British naval su
premacy is held to outweigh the cur
rent German successes in Russia,
ominous as these appear to be. To
meet the immediate situation in Rus
sia, Britain and the United states
are sending fighter planes to the
Russian front with all speed.
But the U. S.-British seizure of
complete control of the oceans is re
garded in high government circles as
a heavy blow to Hitler. In the Battle
of the Atlantic, held to be the most
vital of all. Hitler is declared to have
suffered a major defeat.
Holding the Initiative
Underlying the U. S.-British strat
egy is the fact that President Roose
velt and Prime Minister Churchill are
determined not to lose the initiative
which they seized at the time of their
meeting at sea in August.
The first action they took after
this conference was their joint dec
laration of peace aims. This action
caused Hitler and Mussilini to follow
with a idfeclaration of Axis aims.
Next, the Roosevelt - Churchill
strategy showed up in the squeeze
put on Japan through economic sanc
tions. A complete settlement of dif
ferences with Japan has not yet ma
terialized, but, for the present at
least, any Japanese plans for further
aggression have been> stopped. The
U. S.-Japanese war which Hitler has
been seeking has n^t occurred.
The third instance in which the
initiative was taken was in Presi
dent Roosevelt’s “'shoot on sight” or
der to the Navy. In official circles,
this order is believed to have taken
Hitler by surprise. Hitler, it. is be
lieved, when he embarked upon his
campaign of sinking American ships,
counted on disunity in the United
States to prevent any strong meas
ures on the part of this government.
Now, with Russia being forced to
give up strategic industrial areas to
the invading Germans, the American
and British governments are prepar
ing further moves in concert.
In the Atlantic
Secretary of the Navy Knox says
that the Navy now is protecting ships
all the way from this country to the
vicinity of Iceland. He says that con
voying is one method of protection
being used. Reports that the unusual
ly large number of ships assembled
in New York harbor are gathering
#or inclusion in a convoy are not de
nied. I
But both President Roosevelt and
Secretary Knox make it clear that
convoying is only one of the methods
of protection being used. From other
sources come hints of a new system
of patrols, which meets, the modern
threat of airplanes as well as sub
marines. In this new method of war
fare, bombers and observation planes
operate from key points and can con
centrate at danger spots as these de
velop. One advantage of this system
over convoying, it is said, is that fast
ships are safer when traveling alone
than when they have to cut their
speed down to that of the slowest
ship in a convoy.
Possibility that land planes of the
army also may be used in the Atlantic
patrol is suggested by Assistant Sec
retary of War John J. McCloy.
“Liand planes ,can opeirate from
our bases,” Mr. McCloy says, “and
the Navy people tell me that they
should be able to exert a decisive in
fluence on the ship sinkings in the
Atlantic immediately they set about
the job on an all-out basis. That ade
quate protection does afford safety
to ships is proved by the fact that
Canadian forces in the war have yet
to lose a single soldier in convoy.”
Plans are being discussed _ also to
have the bombing planes being fer
ried to Britain carry loads of bombs
when they go. Thus they could hunt
for submarines on the way over and,
if necessary, drop a few bombs.
Another plan now being discussed
is the arming of merchantment, as
President Wilson advocated in 1917.
Secretary Knox, however, points out
that one drawback to such a plan is
the fact that there are not now suf
ficient guns for this purpose. To leg
alize the arming of American merch
ant ships, the Neutrality Act would
have to be moidified.
Meanwhile, the Navy announces
measures of another kind to make
sure of a bridge of ships between this
country and Britain. A new govern
ment corporation, Ships, Inc., is being
formed for mass production of vessels
of revolutionary design, called “sea
otters." These ships, intended for
transfer under the lend-lease pro
gram, can be completed in two months
MORE ON PAGE FOUR
Two things have influenced the op
ponents of the Roosevelt fpreign pol
icy so that keen observers in Wash
ington see the decrease of power of
the anti-Roosevelt members of Con
gress, both in the senate and house,
and many think that the isolationists
will soon begin to climb on the band
wagon. These two influences are the
last speech of Charles A. Lindbergh,
in which he said that Churchill,
Roosevelt and the Jews were the
great war mongers, and the resolu
tion of American leaders sustaining
the President’s position. Arthur
Krock, the well known Washington
correspondent of the New York
Times, thinks that the opposition in
congress is about to break up. The
reasons for the shift that has occurred
and is about to occur, he says, are
not hard tx) find, and then continues
as follows:
When the President ordered the
Navy to shoot at sight obstructionists
to our war-bound commerce in any
waters he might deem essential to
national defense, a condition sup
planted a theory. The foreign jwlicy
debate became to a very great de
gree thunder in the index. Represen
tative Dirksen of Illinois, who voted
against the reneal of the arms em
bargo, the lease-lend bill and the se
lective service law, expressed the view
of many when he suddenly said to a
cheering House;
“The President has announced a
policy of patrolling and clearing the
waters which are deemed necessary
to our defense and for the mainten
ance of freedom of the seas. That
policy is now known to all the world.
To disavow or oppose that policy now
could only weaken the _ President’s
position, impair our pr.estige and im
peril the nation.”
Great Change Over House
He was challenged next day by
Representative Thill of Wisconsin,
who declared he and others would not
surrender the right and what they
conceived to be the duty of cotitinued
policy opposition. But from the re
ception of his remarks it was evident
that a great change has come over
the House. Things were not as they
had been.
The resolutions adopted by the
American Legion, which long has ar
gued against another war adventure
abroad, are another factor in the
shift. Among members of Congress
the Legion, because of its local activi
ties and the size of its roster, is one
of the most influential organizations
in the United States. Its endorsement
of proposed measures or policies at
tracts a large following at once, and
its Milwaukee resolutins were care
fully noted by all the members of
Congress.
The bad news from the Russian
campaign had a similar effect. Ger
man successes against the Soviet
i-poved further into the zone of real
ism the situation in which this coun
try finds itself. Many who had been
hopeful that Hitler would meet his
doom on the steppes and in the
marshes of Russia, and were the more
determined to try to keep this country
from war involvement because they
believed events would destroy the ar
gument of necessity and inevitability,
saw their hope vanishing and with it
their expedient reasoning.
A very important element in break
ing up the solidarity of the Con
gressional group was Charles A.
Lindbregh’s Des Moines speech. No
one has yet ventured to defend it or
its utterer, a most significant symp
tom in Congress. Members returning
from the Midwest reported a vigor
ous revolt against the speech, which
naturally progressed into opposition
to the policy on which it was based.
A Washington correspondent for
Northwestern newspapers canvassed
forty representatives, recently from
home, and found some of the strong
est opponents of the President’s pol-
MORE ON PAGE THREE
Human Interest
HITLER MUST BE DESTROYED-
WEEK’S EVENTS
IN DEFENSE WORK
President Asks For Six Billion;
New Tax Bill; New Kind of
Ship, Sea Otter
The President asked Congress for
six billion dollars more for materials.
Lend-Lease Administrator Stetinus
was given power to approve aid re
quests; this with other changes is
expected to cut from 30 to 15 days the
period between receipt of a request
and actual authorization for assis
tance.
Mr. Roosevelt told Confess that
of the original seven billion ap
propriated six months ago, all but
$720,000,000 is “now moving througn
the sucessive stages of allocatioii,
obligation, proiduction and delivery.”
He said $246,400,000 in materials and
$78,170,000 in services has been given
the anti-Axis nations.
The Defense Supplies Corporation,
an RFC subsidary, contracted with
Amtorg Trading Corporation, a U. S.
Corporation owned by Russia, for the
purchase of $100,000,000 of manga
nese; chromite, asbestos and platinum.
The supplies agency arranged tc pay
Amtorg half of the amount in ad
vance so Russia could us the money
to buy war materials here. Treasury
Secretary Morgenthau similar] v ad
vanced the Soviet Union $10,000,000
on future gold deliveries to the
United States.
Navy Protecting Ships
Navy Secretary Knox told the
American Legion convention the
Navy is using all methods, includiag
convoys, to protect vessels of all
flags carrying aid to Britain. He sa;'l
the Navy has orders to capture or de
stroy, by every means at their dis
posal, Axis-controlled submarines or
surface raiders in the waters between
the U. S. and Iceland.
Neutrality Act Interpretation
The State Department announced
that as a result, of an interpretation
by the Attorney General that the
“United Kingdom’’ is only England,
Wales and North Ireland, American
ships may henceforth' carry supplies
and passengers to parts of the British
Empire not designated by the Presi
dent to be in combat areas. Under
this interpretation American ships
are still barred from going to France,
Poland, India, and the United King
dom, Australia, Canady, New_ Zealand
and the Union of South Africa.
Navy Expansion Progress
The Navv reported it has contract
ed for 2,831 ships, including 332
fighting vessels — every ship _ is
authorized .under the seven billion
dollar program to create “the great
est array of fighting ships under one
flag the world has ever seen,” 32
battleships, 18 aircraft carriers, 91
cruisers, 364 destroyers and 186
submarines, a total fighting fleet of
691 ships.
The Navy announced development
of a 1,900-ton cargo vessel, the Sea-
Otter, so “light in weight, simple in
construction, relatively cheap in both
original cost and upkeep . . (it) will
challenge the "submarine and provide
a new bridge to, the free nations of
the world.” The vessel is so small it
can be built in inland yards in two
months. It will carry an anti-aircraft
oattery, be manned- by only a few
MORE ON POGE THREE —-
McNEILL’S ODE TO
OLD NINETY-SEVEN
Retirement of Mailman Dun
lap of Washington and Char
lotte Recalls Old Wreck
FRENCH BOYS CROSS OVER
No one in whom the spirit of ad
venture lives can fail to be stirred
by the story of the five French lads,
none of them more than 19 years old,
who braved the dangers of the Eng
lish Channel in two small canoes to
join the Free French forces in Brit
ain. For two nights and a day they
battled the tides, and those who know
the choppy seas of that waterway
will appreciate what that means. In
daytime they dared not hoist their
tiny sails for fear of being seen from
Germ.an patrol planes, but paddled
stoutly on.. Near land one craft struck
a rock and sank, but the three boys
in it swam safely to shore. In these
five youths you have the true spirit
of France. Two centuries ago it car
ried the indomitable Champlain by
lake and river into the heart of the
Canadian wilderness and gave the
French an oversea empire. In the last
war it drove back the Germans from
the Marne and held them at Verdun.
That spirit is not dead. It is only
benumbed by great misfortune and
held cajitive by the might of for
eign arms and the treachery of self-
seeking- politicians.
WAS NOT AVAILABLE
A 26-year-o.ld Atlanta negro
laborer, William B. Crawford,
was wanted by Uncle Sam the
past week to serve his hitch in the
army, and was so notified by At
lanta Draft Board No. 7, at
Peachtree and Baker streets.
Saturday, 0. C. Puckett, draft
board chairman, received a let
ter from the prospective rookie
stating that he cannot go to the
army now because “I have been
detained a little bit.” Then he ex
plained that he is now serving
a three-to-five-year sentence at
the Ben Hill camp, so is “unavail
able.” Crawford’s two-page fing
erprint record shows that he has
frequently known the inside of
Georgia prison camps during the
past 10 -y^ars and that he began
his present service last February
for burglary.
By H. E. C. (Red Buck) BRYANT
The Washington Post of September
23rd printed the following story:
“He was comin’ down the grade doin’
90 miles, an hour,
“He was foun/i in the wreck with his
hand upon the throttle . . . ”‘
Jennings J. Dunlap, 61, of 2023
North Capitol street, will board the
Crescent Limited at Union station at
6:50 p. m. today, bound for Charlotte,
N. C., and the end of his career as a
railway mail clerk.
A high point of that career was
on September 28, 1902, when Dunlap
crawled alive from the battered mail
car of “Old 97” while Joe Brodie, the
engineer, lay scalded to death in the
steam.
During 41 years on the run, Dun
lap has rolled up a total mileage of
57,000 miles, with the experience of
the Old 97 still the lingering road
mark.
Seven of the crew of 18 sm-vived the
famous wreck between Lynchburg and
Danville when the racing train failed
to make a curve and plunged 100
feet.
At the time, Dunlap was resting on
a mailbag after having finished his
work. The cushioning f)robably saved
his life, he believes.
He remembers “a furious uproar,
upheaval, grinding, smashing, falling,
and I crawled out of the wreckage
alive, but dazed.”
He said yesterday he has no plans
for his retirement. His son, W. J.
Dunlap, works in the Washington
city postoffice.
There was romance in the life of
“Old 97.” One of the most fascinat
ing poems written by the late John
Charles McNeill told of the flght of
that Southern mail train. Every
town had its stories of its wonder
ful speed, and extraordinary mission.
Unusual persons were nicknamed
“Ninety-Seven.” I recall that in Char
lotte, a large, powerful and danger
ous colored woman appeared in Re
corder's court under that name. She
was about as formidable in her field
as the mail carrier was in its.
McNeill’s stirring verses ran:
OLD NINETY-SEVEN
“When the rails converge to the sta
tion yard.
She stands one moment, breathing
hard.
“And then, with a snort and a clang
of steel,
She settles her strength to the stub
born wheel.
“And out, through the tracks that
lead astray,
Cautiously, slowly she picks her way,
“And gathers her muscles and guards
her nerve.
When she swings her nose to the
westward curve,
“And takes the grade, which slopes
to the sky.
With a bound of speed and a con
quering cry.
“The hazy horizon is all she sees,
MORE on ?AGE FOUR
GIRL KILLS BOY
Nine-year-old Henry Antolini of
Los Angeles died of gunshot wounds
Saturday because he wanted to look
at some “funny books” which Bar
bara Ortega, 9, didn’t want him to
see. H,'n>'ii4,apl four small boy com
panions called on Barbara Friday and
asked permission to look at the books
they knew she had. “Get out,” Bar
bara said. “My daddy has got two
guns and if you don’t get out. I’ll
shoot.” The fourth grade schoolgirl
went to a closet and returned with
a double-barreled shotgun. She point
ed it at Henry, standing nearest.
There was an explosion, the force of
the blast throwing the weapon from
Barbara’s hands. Henry fell, the oth
er boys ran.'After awhile police came
to the Ortega home. “I didn’t think
It was loaded,” Barbara whimpered.
“I just wanted to scare him.” Some
time after the shooting Barbara’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Orte
ga, returned from work in a cannery
at Redwood City. The father told offi
cers he had used the gun on a dove
hunting trip Saturday and thought he
had unloaded it.
Bailey Offers Substitute for
Words of an Ancient Roman
(AN EDITORIAL)
When Josiah William Bailey
was young Will Bailey, editor of
the Biblical Recorder, and the
darling of the “Baptist Hosts” of
North Carolina, Dr. J. D. Huff
man, Baptist sage, looked at him
one day and said: “Bailey, you
smart thing.”
Young Bailey was smart, but
he was more, he was solid. And
on the solidity of primary char
acter he has built the structure
of a great and powerful person
ality. In his speech before the
Young Democrats at Winston-
Salem last Saturday he was at
his best. No wavering, no equiv
ocation, no aimless peddling
around the great question of the
day for Americans. The whole
speech was devoted to the one
question of our position in rela
tion to the war that has engulfed
mankind through no action of
ours. And that position was de
fined by a paraphrase of the An
cient Cato who always closed his
speeches with the words, “Car
thage must be destroyed.” If
the multiplied number of speak
ers who are now talking to the
American people were to follow
Mr. Bailey’s modern version >of
Cato’s words and close their
speeches with “Hitler must be
destroyed” the American atmos
phere would be cleared and the
country would come out of its
lethargy.
Senator Bailey reviewed, step
by step, the developments of the
American position and showed
that the administration’s policy
has been the result of develop
ments over which we have had no
control. And on the subject of
aid to Russia he said, “When I see
a Russian shooting a mad dog
I raise no question as to his cul
ture or his politics. I wish him
to kill the mad dog and I am glad
to give him the gun.” The Sen
ator, in giving a history of the
developments which have lead us
to our present position, empha
sized the fact that our whole
course has been one of defense
and reluctance to enter the war
if that could be averted. The
logical sequences through which
we have gone, and which bring
us to our present position—“Hit
ler must be destroyed“ — are
thus set forth by Senator Bailey :
“Two years ago, at the in
stance of the President, the Con
gress was setting about to define
the position of our country in
view of the war in Europe. We
did not then consider that it was
a world-war. We determined
upon a position of absolute neu
trality. We demanded that such
munitions of war as should be
bought here for account of na
tions at war should be paid for
in cash, that title be vested here
in the purchasers, and we should
assume no risk of delivery; that
MORE ON PAGE TWO
EARTHQUAKE AND
SAM JONES NOTED
IN AUDREY DIARY
The Earth Shook in 1886 and
Sam Shook Charlotte in 1888;
Captain Puts Them Down
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE
NEW MEDICAL BOARD
In order to distribute the work, for
which there is no con'ipcnsabioii, the
Mecklenburg Medical Society^ has
recommended a new set of physicians
for the examining work of the draft
boards. ^
The new medical board approved by
the society consists of Dr. Robert
McKay, Dr. R. Z. Query, Jr., Dr.
Elias Faison, Dr. Paul Sanger, and
Dr. W. Z. Bradford. Alternates are
Dr. S. E. Fleming, Dr. Stokes Mun-
roe, Jr., Dr. Angus McDonald, Dr. J.
C. Montgomery, and Dr. Thomas W.
Baker.
The retiring board consists of Dr.
Andrew H. Blair, Dr. Luther W.
Kelly, Dr. Harry Winkler, Dr. H. L.
Newton, and Dr. Preston White.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce
has arranged to supply clerical help
for each of the boards to assist in the
work on'days when examinations are
conducted.
HITLER AND LINDBERGH
A debate on ^^merican for
eign policy was started in the
House -the other day by Repres
entative Luther Patrick of Ala
bama, who waved a copy of Adolf
Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and said
that “it sounds just like Charles
A. Lindbergh.” Reading excerpts
from the iDook, he continued:
“Now Lindbergh even tracks him
(Hitler) so closely that he says
, we are being pulled into the war
by the seat of the pants by Pres
ident Roosev,elt and the Jews.
Lindbergh has turned sour on the
United States. Any barber is his
his equal and any justice ’of the
peace his superior in the matter
of international relations.”
STILL SAVING COUNTRY
In the summer and fall of 1936
American voters were urged every
morning in the columns of a New
York newspaper to “‘save the Amer
ican way of life” by electing Alfred
M. Landon as President. The writer
of the appeals was Mrs. Preston Dav
ie, militant Republican and foe of the
New Deal. Mrs. Davie has now turn
ed her energies from the battle of
political parties to the problem of
national defense. Last week she was
appointed vice president of the Amer
ican Women’s Voluntary Services and
director of activities in the New York
area. The organization, founded last
year and modeled after British wo
men’s defense organizations, is de
voted to training women in first aid,
air-raid precautions, motor trans
port, canteen work and similar tasks.
An independent organization, it has
113 units in twenty-seven states,
Alaska and the Philippines, and a to
tal membership of 88,000. Mrs.
Davie’s chief interest at present is
the recruiting and training of volun
teers for the aircraft warning service
now being, organized by the Army
Air Corps. Women who have finished
the course successfully will take part
next month in the East Coast ma
neuvers.
What happens when a glamorous
heiress engaged to a man almost as
rich as herself decides that she can
marry without love? You’ll find the
answer in Maysie Greig’s absorbing
new serial, “Pathway to Paradise.”
Don’t miss the first installment in
the 'American Weekly with Sunday’s
Washington Times-Herald, now on
sale.
PREPARING FOR SOLDIERS
While Charlotte is not in the area
over which the armies will fight in
the coming maneuvers, it is within
the recreation area for the soldiers
while off duty. And being the largest
city in reach, Charlotte is expected
to be crowded with soldiers. Efforts
are being made to prepare for them,
especially on week-ends. There will
be a great demand for lodgings of all
kinds. The Ministerial Association is
prepared to see that as many church
es as possible will be open as recrea
tion centers.
The committee appointed Rev. Mr.
Boyce and Rev. Thomas E. Morton
to write letters to Charlotte churches
urging that they co-operate in mak
ing their facilities available to_ sol
diers and their relatives and friends
during the war games,
J. E. Burnside, chairman of the
Mecklenburg Defense Council, who
attended the meeting, told the minis
ters the -population of Charlotte may
be doubled on week ends, and that
the city’s only hope of caring ade
quately for such a large influx of vis
itors is through the use of all exist
ing facilities, both public and private.
TEACHERS MEETING
Dr. Will Durant, author of “The
Story of Philosophy” and other im
portant books, will be the headline
speaker when the Ninth District, of
the North Carolina Teachers Asso
ciation meets here Friday. His sub
ject will be “The World Revolution.”
Friday night he will speak at David
son College on the influence of ideas.
The association’s annual meeting
will be attended by a large number
of teachers from the district. Other
speakers will include Baxter Durham,
secretary of the teachers and state
employes retirement system. Dr. Don
ald DuShane, secretary to the Com
mission for Defense of Democracy
Through Education, Dr. _ William
Betz, specialist in mathematics, from
Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Frank P. Gra
ham, president of the University of
North Carolina, and Dr. W. S. Taylor,
dean of the college of education at
the University of Kentucky.
MANY FLIERS TO BE HERE
A city of tents is rising near the
Charlotte airport in preparation for
the maneuvers.
The tents will accommodate the 170
enlisted men due to arrive here on
October 5 and the 241 men, also of
the 20th Pursuit Group, scheduled to
arrive November 5. The 17 officers
who vill arrive with the first con
tingent of men and the 85 pilots due
in on November 5 will be put up in
the bachelors’ quarters.
The first glimpse Charlotte will get
of the air maneuvers will come on
October 3 when approximately 80
pilots and pursuit planes of the 20th
Pursuit Group will land at the air
base for an overnight stop. They will
be on their way from the Louisiana
maneuvers to interceptor maneuvers
on the east coast. Two days later, the
170 men and 17 officers of the ground
force of the 20th Pursuit Group will
arrive and move into the tent city,
where they will stay until the com
pletion of the Carolina maneuvers.
The next action at the air base
will come on October 19 when Gen
eral W. H. Frank, commanding offi
cer of the Third Air Force Combat
command, whose permanent base is
Tampa, Fla., will move his headquar
ters to the local air base. He will op
erate from the Charlotte base from
October 20 to 26 during the maneuv
ers of his command over the Caro-
linas area.
PROPOSED COMFORT STATION
Sometime before underground trol
leys run under Charlotte there will
to be some underground comfort sta
tions if proposed plans are carried
out. Architect Willard G. Rogers has
presented to the council a drawing
showing how such a station might
be constructed under North Tryon
between Trade and Fifth. The council
received, the matter as information
and sometime something may come
of it. Such places become more and
more necessary as the city grows.*
THIS IS DOG WEEK
Mother and father and son and
daughter and the cook have had their
days and weeks, and now the dog un
der the wagon is having his week.
It is national dog week and is being
observed by the Mecklenburg Humane
Society. “A home for every dog” is
one of the slogans. Why not a dog
for every home.
NYA DIRECTOR
Edwin R. Poole, former principal
of the Mocksville high school, has
been appointed area educational sup
ervisor for boys’ work in connection
with NYA training projects and has
just moved to Charlotte to take over
his new duties.
'The appointment was made from
the office of the North Carolina de
partment of Public Instruction in co
operation with the NYA, and Mr.
Poole’s duties will cover 20 counties
in th6 Charlotte area. His office will
be in the law building.
Mr. Poole stated that this phase of
vocational education is being carried
on under the direction of the State
Board of Vocational Education, De
fense Program 5, .and is designed to
give NRA -workers training for na
tional defense.
LIQUOR TAKEN AT HOTEL
Thirty gallons of liquor—240 pints
in four steamer trunks—and all of it
described as high grade bottled in
bond beverage, were captured by city
police in a before-day raid at the
Barringer hotel.
The police said no one was in the
room when they seized the contra
band but that several very handsome
pieces of luggage were included in
the haul. At the hotel it was explain
ed that the room in which the liquor
was found had been occupied by a
man registering from Atlanta whose
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By H. E. C. (RED BUCK) BRYANT
TENTH INSTALLMENT
The year 1885 was veiy much like
others, with a late sprin.g, and little
early progress on the farm.
Captain Ardrey spent January and
Februai'y in Raleigh, attending the
sessions of the legislature.
The Carolina Academy school ex
hibition, conducted by tlie teacher,
Miss Maggie White, was held at night,
and not so good. “The audience large,”
said the diary, “but not as pleasant,
and not as profitable as a daylight
one.’”
The 20th of May celebration in Char
lotte that year was “a failure—every
body too busy.”
The District Conference was' quite
a success, with all of the preachers
present, among those preaching were:
Rev. Mr. Hoyle, who preached a “feel
ing sermon,” Rev. L. E. Stacy, “a fine
sermon,” and Rev. Mr. Rol^ey, “a grand
sermon.” ^
The community was greatly “grati
fied.”
“I have never heard finer preaching
in all my life,” Captain Ardery wrote.
Fodder and other roughness that
season was scarce, and Captain Ardrey
gave liberally of his supply to others.
By August crops were fine, “cotton
and corn never better,” but by the
24th, with hot dry weather prevailing,
they were in a bad way.
Ups and Downs of the Crop
“As warm weather as I ever felt,”
the diary reads. “The thennometer
98. Extremely dry and for the past
ten days I have never seen crops fail
so fast; cotton looks like it would die.”
On the 31st, after rains that started
on the 8th: “Fine seasons. Corn crop
fine. Cotton pretty good.” Septem
ber 15 “Cotton extremely light.”
Always pi'Ogressive, Captain Ard-
t'oy was among the first farm(^r:s m the
county to try a sulky plow.
“Our sulky plow does fine work,” he
said November 20. “It is the best plow
I ever saw. We are plowing in wheat
and oats with it.”
Eighteen hundred and eighty-fiVe
\vent out in the Ardrey neighborhood
with a succession of turkey dinners,
One man who enjoyed them still lives,
Mr. Harvey McGinn. Bird and rabbit
hunting were indulged in.
“Clear and warm,” the Captain de
clared. “The quietest Christmas I
have ever seen. There is no money in
the country; times are extremely dull.”
’M'oney Makes the Mare Go
The old saying that “money makes
the mare go” might also be applied
to farming communities. Short crops,
low prices, and lack of money makes
farmers dull fellows.
“The weather is fine,” Captain Ard
rey wrote January 1, 1886, “and the
neighborhood remarkably quiet; I have
not seen it more so.”
This note was made January 10th
and 11th: “As cold days as we ever
had in this country. Snow, ice and
cold southwest wind. The water free
zes in our room at night. Our quar-
tei'ly meeting a failure. The preachers
there but only two or three persons
out. Four degrees below zero by Sig
nal statioTl in Charlotte. Said to b^
the coldest since the cold Saturday in
1835.”
January 20: “At two oclock had a
thunder shower, lightning and big
rain, with snow on the ground.”
Old man weather was just as un
certain then as now.
January 29: “I went to Pineville to
settle my debts. I just about cleared
expenses last year. Did not make any
thing. Times hard and everybody
complaining’. More failures than we
have had since the war. The farmers
all behind.”
Febraary 12: “I bought ten sacks of
flour at §2.50, one barrel of molaasses
at 33 cents a gallon, and a half box of
.tobacco, 33 cents a pound. Bought five
pigs from Mr. Dave Hyatt. Sold two
bales of cotton at 7 1-4 cents per
pound.
Granulated Sugar Comes In
“Mr. Will Roller of Kentucky, at
Pineville with a drove of mules; I
bought one' for $112.50. Sold Mr.
Bryant the Prince and guinea heifers
for $33. Bought a barrel of granulated
sugar for 7 1-2 cents.”
April 30: “Big hail storm. The most
hail I ever saw. I was in Pineville,
and it lay two or three inches oir the-
ground.”
August 31: “The Charleston earth
quake. Houses shook and everybody
was badly alarmed. Such has never
been felt here before. I was in Char
lotte at Brother Robert Miller’s and
his brick house shook like a cradle.”
October 21: “Mr. Bell and I went to
Charlotte to hear Governor Vance. He
made a fine speech and had a largo
crowd.”
The last days of 1886 and the first
ones of 1887 were bad for farmers.
Religion Crowds Out Blisineps
Feb. 1, 1887, Captain Ardrey t
“Everybody gloomy, and compl.'
of hard times. They never havt
as hard times before, and they
see how they are going to ge^
but everybody has something
and all are enjoying good'
lou cannot realize money on
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