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Thursday, August 23, 1923 pTTORIEY J «GARRETT TRIAL ~ |KES SENSATION i> Bonisant Tells the Maton t That Efforts Have taaidate H' m - . C AILS APHRO CH E 1 > HIM , t, Argument Followed, Soeeial Messenger Was ffo Bring the Man [nto fourty . , hll| |se. Ya.. Aug. 21 Press..-Kfforte have intini'flate him. Milton. I*. fctfß sa "- ... reiiinKunvealth s attor &-<V l, '„ lu ; t li.-re as today's session J for trial "f Robert ( . Garrett.. Mr. court yesterday he was ap- J y t 11. Garrett, who, he j l(> ( Jarrets on trial. one side and be- P w . | Mlll s<)t no things about the "t -•• ij \i. Smith, of the ' to Mr. Bpni ■■■ •' ' xv i, at Garrett had told him. nit ensued. - “I- "rond.len.ble talk in whirl. > i|o , tt ., s >lii.\vn it was decided !i,ti r ''Vnott brought into court and . iS what he told Mr. Honi l!t !'nd "what lie meant.” ' Ur'llHiisitit insisted that one of the. M j !r , ~ Mllt for Garrett "so that ' ' have la* opjiortunity to talk to before lie S ot "* , ' ourt ' S V Smith then asked it he was to un ' i .I,'it the Barrett trial had U .im'wi'f" tl," "*ulur oHWr. Jlu ~,,1111 ,-vul.l not be trusted to even i witue" from another county. iV livni of the iimseciition ‘promptly . loi that "it had." Further argu- v,:.' ended l.y Judge White who ,C,ml that arguments- on change of while court awaited the arrivil of Mr. <larrett. juiip. White told the attorneys he vt.oihi dc-ide «u procedure in the Boui smtJiarrett ineident at a conference with »< the mum recess. . J <’,' Talhit. of • Portsmouth, chief of , liar ,|. wa> dispatched for Mr. Gar- Seiious Charges Made. (ti Siberia ml t ourthotise, \ a., Aug. —1 ,gv the Associated Press ..—That* Cum lerlai'l ('aunty is "iiL revolt, and only n«t> to take up anus to be in open re bellion against the rest of the state; tbit sw members’ of the Larkin C. Garrett jury 'perjured themselves, to get on that jury ; that the.local officers of the court 'cannot be trusted' to even SOHMDS a witness; and that an apparent effort had boon made to intimidate acting ewmionwralth attorney in this trial were mm of the charges made today by attor ney Tor the prnsecution in continuing argument <*n ike motion for a change of venue iii the trial of li. O. Garrett, ac tusel of :'.ie murder of Rev. K. S. Pierce, a Baptist miuister. 4 The allegation concerning the alleged effort at intimidation created a furore (quailed only by that which followed thd" challenging of the jury in the >L. t'. barrett trial three weeks ago. Just wh'at form she aliened intimidation took had to' bon disclosed when court proceed ing.' haltsal for the noon recess, as Act ing Commonwealth Attorney Milton P. le»u:>ant. wlm brought the matter to the I attention of Judge I!. I>. White, at the '.’lo-Ding of jiurt. was prevented from 'tilting his charge, by objections of the • wfensv. , s tkiki; in charlotte e , MILL NOW IN EFFECT kttbrr cf Employes at llighlaml Park > till No.;; F ailed to Report For Work. ' Liirlotte, Aug. 21. —A strike called at i l' :ir k Mill No. 3 in North "• over alleged ill treatment of gn "'em into effect today. J. F.' ftett. local labor leader, and former ,1 ' llt,|u "T 'he State Federation of La ! 1" ! “Hieiids nt 11»«* company said " employes .-failed to return. The s itj ‘‘ Ul l'i">> about 32A workers, it was, L. ."nicf were on hand to prevent I ■•''orders. Several! score of per ffs l' n ' M ''d "ii what labor lead n tl,,' i , ' a> l M ‘ a ‘ , fu l picketing" du *p| u st:| rted without disorder. C ii.., Highland Park Company M. , st ,| k N ,. |W( Hi|| s ‘ c ; is the ;V n < lli,rl " ,?, ‘- ; "'e involved 1 ' - " "as auuouueeyl. Thfc *n to Accommodate Five Hundred h . Students. , Am- "i, fyffetub,.,. 1-. ,'~ • "Hege opens on gin to i, UU! r *“' '"uleuts will be fcd Tor t. U 1,1 hn-ee weeks from today, '! 11 111 " at ts four-story ttohdi in 1 ,U< l « H is being >adv f' 1 . hav, ‘ the build-; Pi *nicui ar pff„'r' ll!uut ,'. hy rhar <l:lte Jlfpiirt fv on °, u< ’ th" tir-~t two stories. k*'he iff,!./v '“hninistration offices f® be tat«*«l r ''*/ : ! !! space, the vil|iV UU i' Uith a " ° Ver ‘ I that H ' s not yulike sum,„ . 111l 11 n ‘» well above !*? T har jirnssi!,! ‘I’ 11 ' 1 *"*' t'egistration, v F 'he ,' '' "dnrittauce may wants, 1 d,l<e "I '-!•» or more ap- RV s<;-p -JV *. Hc.KSK w *■ Ft T^ KA L CEMETERY t, TVith in Airplane fnc '" { Twemv “ ’ lg *' ant tTdmund tk ' :ati at p' , ‘:: ,lll<1 Aero Squad killed 1»T U T'ort Bragg. C k Ul i aue necideut aoo c h ;“ b f r bun l od iu the fof(L| /ull militarv 1 <Ue th,s afte r* au PH , )r houoi > will be as- X tv v ri4? S- It,. p . ° f >ol diers from y? k mr* ""** a native of rvT 1 b . V Oh!"! 1 11: 1 • B'iblicljer of u ofc buried •/' v ' ra ud Durham W c Tk,,i r Vo* Cjt ;_ AMNIAL f'AKM GiSNoLo One of the Factors of Onr Progressive* ness Is Agricultural Enlightenment. * " Raleigh. N. C., Aug. 21.—-There is one factor entering into the progressiveness of North Carolina that is not genencrally recognized by the public and- this fagtpr is agricultural enlightenment,, which is made possible by the nnnual farm census, according to Frank Parker, agricultural statistician of the Federal and state de partments of agriculture. V, In a specially prepared paper made public here today Air. Parker reviews the history of the annual farm census in North Carolina and outlines the pur poses and work of the census organiza tion. The. paper follows: "That North Carolina is making prog ress equal to that of any other state is generally recognized in view of the ad vances made iu manufacturing, road building, education, agriculture, etc. One phase of this that few know of its con cerning the means for agricultural en lightenment through the annual farm cen sus. • “In 11H8 the agricultural statistician for North Carolina, called the attention of B? \Y. Kilgore, director of extension work, to the fact that several Qther states were compiling annual farm cen suses to great advantage. Each of these states providing for farm censuses, but North Carolina had no such Law. Mr. Kilgore readily co-operated and a volun tary survey was secured from most of the counties in the state. In 15)1,1} this work was improved considerably. "The results gained showed that splen did improvement in both the number of farms listed and the completeness of the work that the legislature two years ago passed a law providing for a farm cen sus of the state. "This year an intensive effott lias been -made to get a complete list of the acreage of crops, number of pro luctive live stock, etc. That those efforts have not been in vain is evident in the pres ent sho'wiug reports from three-' fourths of the counties have sent in farm census books for each township in the 'county and that very few of tlie others have more than one township book miss ing “This has been achieved by appealing to the interest of the county officers and commissioners. There has long been u question of doubt as to government crop estimates on , the grounds that they are usually" erroneous. The farm census makes it possible to give the actual enu meration of farm acreages and num ber of livestock, thereby relieving" the question of doubt. "In last year's agricultural census re port there were maps showing compre hensively where crops were located, thus clearly outlining the sources of supplies A larger map showing what proportions of certain*counties Were cultivated also was prepared on information gained in making the census. This map indicated the counties having large and small di versifications. ~ , "A statistical summarization showed that over ti. 000.000 were cultivated in North Carolina. Os that area, according to the map and statistics, R7 per was planted in corn. 23 per cent* iu cot ton. a little less thau nine per cent, in wheat: something more than seven per ceul in tobacco and approximately rive per cent, in oats.j "Much other information also was available through the census; for in stance, it was shown that there were in the state 130.000 teunants working on 78,080 farms, while 114.000 farms had no tenants; that over I.o<X>,ooo acres were utilized for improved pastureland; that 650,000 tons of commercial fertiliz ers .were used; that approximately 407.- 000 head of work stock were iu service : that 65,060 acres were devoted to home gardens and that bearing fruit trees numbered about 7.OOOAMK). This yvear's results are now being com piled by the department of agriculture. They will include many new features, as the number of each class of productive* stock the number of acres in wooded land, the number of acres iu each class of hay crop etc. "Each year new uses anil advantages are being found for the farmers’ benefit and enlightenment. Every industry has advanced in economical knowledge con cerning its trends. Agriculture alone has neglected this subject. In fact, agri cultural economics is a relatively new institution in many of our highere places of learning. the isolation and peculiar circum stances that farmers have due to luck of contact with their follow men. there is a feeling of undue advantage being taken, which is oto often really true. The only way that this is going to be corrected is for the farmers to learn the true facts from an unbiased source. This is being offered them b|r the department of agri culture through the farm census." 81X ARRESTED CHARGED WITH MAKING STAMPS; Arrests Made After Raid cn Quarters of Consolidated Importing and Exporting Company. New York. Aug. 21 (By the Associated I’ress). — Federal secret service agents today raided the quarters of the Consol idated Importing and Exporting Com pany, and arrested five men and a woman on charges of counterfeiting revenue stamps, whiskey labels and prescription blanks. Besides samples of the stumps, labels and blanks, the agents reported that they confiscated several bills, 100 gallons of, aleofiol and several cases of whiskey. , MADE LONG." WEARY JOURNEY IN VAIN Two Belgian Women Unable to Joi|K Husbands, Who Are in This Country . Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 22. After having made a long weary journey acrows the Atlantic to join their husbands in this country, two Belgian women, sisterS. were keenly disapopiuted oh their ar rival here aboard the Belgian freighted Nervier, when they w'ere informed thhy could only land for a visit, because there y bad already immigrated from Belgium this month the number of persons which the national laws of the United States will allow to enter. The sisters had hop ed to make their future homes in tb|s; country witu their husbands. To Add 8,000 Spindle*. I Charlotte, Aug. 21.— Approximately B,OUO spindles and*looms for manufac ture of fine cotton goods will he added to thee Dixie Cotfctm 34i11a plant at Mooresville which w«6 recently pur chased by the Cascade Mills, Inc., also of Mooresville. it was learned here today at *the offices of Lockwood, Green and 1 - company, engineers, which will design i the plans. LATEST REPLY FROM Fiicf mm f _______ In It Premier Poincare Shows That France Has Not Changed in Regard to the Reparations. POINTS WAY TO RUHR SETTLEBENT Must Pay Reparations Be fore France Will Take Her Armies From Ruhr, the Note Says. Paris, Aug. 22 (By the Associated Press). —Germany can obtain evacuation of the Ruhr only by paying reparations, she can assure attenuation of the rivers of the occupation hy ceasing passive re sistance, and she can win no reduction in the amount she owes France unless the allied creditors of France see lit to give France credit for equal amounts on her war debts. These are the conclusions of Premier Poincare’s reply to Marquis Curzon’s reparamms note of recent date. The French government also expresses its be lief that the allies can agree on methods of bringing about the execution of the treaty by continuing courteous negotia tions. The British proposal a for a re-estimate of Germany's capacity for payment, and Lord Curgon’s suggestion that the ques tion of legality of fthe occupation of the* Ruhr be referred to The Hague are re jected, and the French position is reaf firmed as remaining unchanged. France holds that a settlement of the question of inter-allied war debts should wait upon final payment by Germany of 56,000,080,000 gold marks in reparations, comprised in the A and B bonds. The official opinion of the reply as set forth in the summary iu English, given out today at the foreign office, is that the note contains the elements of a prac tical solution of the reparations problem, but careful reading of the cotnunication shows that iu the opinion of M. Poincare the only practical solution is for Great Britain to accept the French thesis in ev ery detail. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? Millionaires Sleep in Bathtubs as Dcauille Season Nears End . Deauville, Aug.' 21.—The semaine here has lasted just a little longer than the favorable weather. A cola wind is blowing out of the Atlantic and waves are breaking so high that bathing is impossible. Steam Ls turned on in the Casino. 111 oruer to provide gambling for the crowds driven indoors, the broken baccarat bank was restored by the same Graeco-Armenian syndicate that lost a fortune last week. They have put up another 10,000,000 francs. At the same time Peggy Marsh open ed her dancing act at Ciros. Everybody seems comforted, including the Paris dressmakers, who depend on the weath er to send their clients into different eostunmes. In this closing week of the season sensations were multiplied. It was ex pected extraordinary people with fat pocketbooks would come from all over world to take part. But now many millionaires are sleeping in hotel bath tubs and on table tojKs. An internationally fatuous Madeline in her transparent maroon silk bathing suit was followed by a crowd that walk ed after her fascinated, even . into the water. Tll the gambling room at the Casino, money seemed to lose, .‘ill value. The sense of proportion was left behind. Men with eyes popping from their heads and cuffs impping from their sleeves toss bundles of banknotes back and forth. There is a millionaires’ table with- tt railing to hold spectators at a respectful distance and a placard an nouncing the ‘minimum bet is $100t). Among the crowd are successful opera singers, bourbon princes, bankers, prime ministers' wives, ambassadors. adver tising experts and Senators. There is the Maharajah of Ivnlilbn. who came to the races in blue silk pajamas and six ropes of pearls, thereby eclipsing the splendor of the Maharajah of Kapur thala. Side by side you see Coleman du Pont. Paul Port. Frank Jay Gould and Aga Khan, the Hindu “pope.” who spends most of his money on his racing stable. Tlire are four Russian "princes. ' who dance for a living and fascinate Ameri can women hopefully. Sudden enthusiasms flourish. An ap peal for funds to buy cigarettes for poilus in tlie Ruhr brought in millions of francs. HKIDSVILLE MAN HEADS, STATE JUNIOR ORDER I —8 ■ J. M. Sharpe Elected State Councilor. Succeeding P. S. Carlton, Whose Term Expired. Durham. Aug. 22.—J. M. Sharpe, of ReidsviHe. was elected State Councilor of the State Council. Junior Order of Unit ed. American Mechanics at the organiza tion’s 33rd annual convention. The new head of the order was Vice Councilor under the administration Os P. S Carlton, whose term ended at this con vention. R. M. Gantt, of Durham, was unanimously <4>os?n Vice Councilor when two other candidates withdrew. The fol lowing ojpeers were re-elected to thetr positions: S. F. Vance. KevnersviUe. sec retary : .John L. Nelson. Morganthn, as sistant secretary : and Rev. C. A. G. Thomas. Rocky Mount, chaplain. . Devil’s Grip Subsides, f New York. Aug. 21. TV peculiar 1 epidemic, thought to be 'the deyil s grip.” now prevalent m parts of extern Virginia, *hieh :Ust .month attacked 150 boys at the New York Catholic protec tory in the Bronl, has health 'authorities announced Udgy. Only five clases were reported last wefck and no new cases have since developed. The nqijy of tbff epidemic has not beep <k terwtoed. ' . .. . . -- r THE CONCORD TIMES HUNDRED ARE HUNTING FOR LILLIAN, KIDNAPED Peter McKenzie Again Plaees the Pram in Front of Store. But It’s Still Empty. New York, Aug. 21. —One hundred and Go New York* detectives, hundreds of taxi-eob drivers and thousands of interested citizens tonight had searched in vain for Lillian McKenzie, wiree 1 months old. kidnaped from her pram *in front of a West 18th street store Satur day. Not only was every available de- i teetivc pressed into service, but t>s ’ students from the school conducted by the department were assigned to the ■ search. Meanwhile the search spread across the Hudson where Sergeant Johnson of the Central New Jersey railroad police force reported seeing a woman carrying a baby in her arms get off a Newark ■ train at Jersey City and walk away with the infant late Sunday night. Johnson said that the lateness of the hour, and thp faet that the woman showed ijo ■ familarity with children and carried the' infant under her arms like a package combined to arouse his suspicious. No trace of the woman has been found. The New York police, who have fol lowed 100 useless trails, apparently pinned no great hope to the latest elue. All day the police were deluged with telephone calls from persons whose sympathies had been aroused at the dis-' tress of the baby’s mother, and who communicated with the police regarding what they deemed to be important clues. Peter SlcKenzie. the father, stuck by his telephone and asked newspapers to publish his number, hoping that over the wire might come a clue that would re , store his little daughter to Jhim. The. baby carriage today again was p’need in front of the. store where the kidnaping had occurred in the hope that the child might be restored. But the hope failed. WATCH AND WAIT. Meanwhile Leaders Will Try to Tie Up Presidential Nomination. David F. Rt.-Clair iu Charlotte News. Washington. Aug. 20.—The two great changes that have come over the face of politics since the death of Pressident Harding are now well detun'd. The Re publican factions are making a frantic effort to unite around President Cool idge and the Democrats have assumed an attitude nf watchful waiting. Senator Borah has chartered a course that it appears many of the progres sives are inclined to pursue. He tells the discontented farmers and stockmen of t\he Northwest, to "give Ceolidge a chance.” The people, he says, no longer attach importance to the names of parties. They want results and they do not. care who achieves the results. Cool idge is a new man who has done noth ing to divide the party and may be the very roan to unite it. if that be possible. Borah’s statement followed that of Senator Moses of New Hampshire who was threatening to come out for Hiram Johnson before the death of Harding, but lost uo tim in switching over to Coolidge. The attitude of Borah and othefs has had a marked effect on the course of Hiram Johnson. On the death of Hard ing Johnson is said to have felt that his bonds of obligation not be a candidate had been sundered’ and lie was free .to ease liis hat in the ring. But Johnson if a candidate, would have only one issue, his oposition to the World Court. Borah, is of like mind so far as concerns the court. Borah’s statement was an offer to Coo’idge to steer clear of the court so as to head off Johnson s candidacy and- Save Coolidge’s bacon in -the Northwest. The rally to* Coyliilge has effectively silenced Johnson so far. Borah’s statement has also had the effect of stilling the energies of Senator Brookhurt and Senators Shipsteail anil Magnus Johnson. They have bean made to hope for the movement at least that Coolidge-will find some satisfactoij solution of the wheat problem- Peauuts. Lemonade and Red and Yellow Balloons Soon. They’re coming to town—soon—the blaring bands, the white horses, the pink clad folks and the jungle actors. They're coming on special trains, with the first .—the flying squadron —due in the rail road yards shortly after dawn. Hardly will the “pull up” teams have started on their tasks of dragging cages, dens, wagons and tubleax cars from tlie trains, when the breakfast for the hun dreds -of people will be ready on the lot at Concord Wednesday, August 20tli. 111 no time at all the great tents will be raised against the sky and prepara tions for the mile-long street parade to leave the grounds at 11 a. 111. promptly, will be under way. Performances, opening with impres sive pageantry, will begin at 2 p. m., and the four rings, the air, the tract and steel arena will he tilled with the best that can be assembled in the world of the white tons. Door« to the men-, agerie will open one hour earlier to per mit of a leisurely visit to the combined zoos with the hundreds of arenic stars, trainers, clowns, strange and curious people, and Christy Brothers’ Famous Wild Animal Actors, to say nothing of the baby monkeys, baby lions, and the educated elephants and the score of ani mal vomics. There is every prospect that every show fan will find something especially to delight him when the cal liope hoots and toots on the 29th. NEW HARD SURFACE ROAD TO MOUNT HOLLY Road to Be Constructed This Fall, and Will Not Be Over tlie B-oqte of the Present Ope. Charlotte Observer. A new hard surface road between Mount Holly and Charlotte will be built by the highway commission it was an nounced yesterday. The present road has been in poor condition for some time, and the new one probably will be built this winter. The road will be of standard width.’ 18 feet, and will be about 10 miles in length. It will not be built op the route of the old one. Tlie contract for , its construction will be let some time this falL 1 Cruiser Seattle Goes Ashore. Seattle, Waj.h.. Aug. 21- —The cruiser Seattle, flagship of the United States battleship fieet, went ashore oil Marrows Stone Point. Puget Sound, in a dense j fog early today,' according to a radio J message received here. The cruieer was not bdieved to be in danger, atjd it was ' expected she would be ftoted at high ' tide today. ' LACK OF RAIN DUE TO BIG ICE FIELDS, SAYS BROOKS Meieorolgist Explains That Cold Air From North is Cause of Dry Atmos phere. Worcester. Mass., Aug. 21.—Drought, which has jeopardized crops all over the northwestern United States this sum: mer, is ascribed today to the presence of ice fields in the North Atlantic by Dr. Charles F. Brooks, instructor of me teorology at Clark University. He said: • "The air is drier this year than it has been for many years, caused by the great masses of ice and cold water off the At lantic seaboard, near Labrador, Hudson Bay and in the Great Lakes. “North winds have been more preva lent this year because of the large ice formations to the North of us. this giv ing us a colder climate. •“It is-a well known fact that the air nearer the equator contains more moist ure than that nearer the poles. Thus, when the cold currents of air from the North sweep southward, they are drier and replace air which originally contain ed more moisture. This very naturally results in drier atmosphere. “For a thunderstorm to form three things' are essential: abundant moisture, large masses of heated air in convection and great violence of convection. So we see that the first factor is missing in the average climate the country has been un dergoing this summer.” HAILS PROSPERITY AHEAD. Hotel Manager Says Visiting Merchants Expect Business Spurt. New York Times. No surer barometer of business con ditions throughout the country can be . found than in the big hotels of New York, were men of every line of in dustry are found at thjs time, accord ing to Arthur L. Lee, manager 01 the McAlpin and Martinique hotels. Mr. Lee. who had talks with many merchants during the ivast week, says, the coming Fall and Winter promise prosperous conditions all over the country. Buyers wfip^visited the market early in the Summer are returning to place larger Fall and Winter orders, he says, having misjudged their customers' buy ing power at home. Mr. Lee says many New York manufacturers were "bear ish” and influenced. the small town store-owner to buy lightly, even when lie came to market with the intention of flllittg his shelves with new goods. This attitude, Mr. Lee points out. is hurting their own business, and repeating the condition of a.few years ago when New York's pessimism spread over the coun try and brought about, or aided in the business depression. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE IN THE WHITE HOU§E — Mr. Coolidge is Spending First Dpy There Since He Became President Sdme Time Ago. Washington, Aug, 22. —President and Mrs. Coolidge are spending their first day as residents of the White House to day. Until their morning newspapers were read, few of tlie capital’s residents were aware that the President and the new first lady had moved from their quar ters at the New Willard Hotel where they had lived since Mr. Coolidge re turned to Washington to assume his duties as President. Girls and Candy. Monroe Enquirer. A number of fellows were sett in on Dowd’s benches ferninst his and Vann’s drug store other evening when the subject of candy came up. One young man stated that the candy business in Monroe is good—that a drug store nowa days' that didn’t average selling 011 to ward a thousand dollars’ worth a month was not getting its share in the sale of sweets. “Why,” said he, “I can re member the time not so long ago when your girl didn’t expect more than a pound box. Now ojje is considered a piker if he don't carry, her from three to five pounds at least, and on special oc casions a bix box or young trunkful of eight to ten pounds. Yes. sir, girls, too. nowaday have a habit of turning up their dear little noses if a ilollar-aud-a half-pound quality is not served.” “Well, I never gave a girl a box of candy in my life." stated a quiet young fellow who had been intently listening ill on the edifying conversation. “No. and maybe that’s the reason you ain’t got no wife,” chaffed a friend. “If a fellow spends all his money for candy, how can lie afford to marry?” was the query. The concensus of opinion was that the high cost of lovin’ is** liiakin’ a lot of old bachelors as well as old maids, hut another young man stated to his thinking chocolates were not near so good as pep’mints—his choice, *und de plored extravagance. And still another said tine candies were bad on digestive organs, and be sides rotted the girls’ teeth. The latter statement in regard to de caying molars reminded me of the old story, a classic, of my boyhood days:, “Mother,” queried Tommy, “is it any harm to say ‘Rotterdam’?” “Why, no son: that's a city in Hol land,” explained mamma. “Well then,” exclaimed the young hopeful, “sister has taken my candy, and I only hope It will ‘rotterdum’ teeth out!” Home Merchants Should Tell the People of Their Goods. Monroe Enquirer. A good road leads in two directions — from as well as to your town. The larg er the town tlie most it costs a merchant to transact business. He is enabled to eomi>ete with his smaller town brother because his sales are on a larger scale and turnover of goods more rapid. Monroe merchants, when the face road to the west is completed, will have big-town competition as it never has had before. Charlotte then will be on ly forty minutes distant—Monroe will be Tonly forty minutes away from Charlotte. Already some of our merchants report business from the larger town. Only re cently several ladies who came down to look us over purchased hats at almost half they had been paying. The styles, too. were all that could be desired. But if cur home mercluurts are not going to let the world kuow they can "de liver the goods "—why, business will go elsewhere. _ . Mr. Burks Withers, who spent the week-end here with Mrs. Withers at the home of her mother, Mrs. M. L. Brown, returned Monday night to his home in •Norfolk; Enough Hard Coal Held to Supply Nation Four Months TROUBLE NOW EXPECTED Anthracite Conference Ends Abruptly Over the New Wage Question —Walk- out September Ist* Atlantic City, Aug. 21. for a new wage contract in tlie anthra cite industry ended abruptly today, leav ing unrelieved the prospect of a suspen sion of hard coal mining September Ist.- '“Miners’ union officials, who walked out of the joint meetings, said tlie efforts toward a peaceable adjustment of the conflict on the part of the industry itself had terminated because the operators were unwilling to concede any hart of the demand for increased wages made by the men. The operators asserted that the breaking point was the unwill ingness of, the upiom to submit its de mands to the test of arbitration. Both sides, however, assented to the submis sion of a report on the situation to tiie United States coal commission, through James A. Gorman, secretary of the joint conference. Neither group looked for any preven tion of a . protracted industrial struggle in the anthracite region after Septem ber Ist by any other>means than govern ment intervention, though S. D. Warrin er, chairman of the operators’ policy committee, declared he “never lost hope for peace.” An Unimpressionable Secretary. The Conning Tower in N. Y. World. Sir: unimpressed is what I am every time I read of the loads and loads of lit ter that litter up our literary men’s desks. And unimpressed is what I was when I read your comment on President Coolidge’s desji. You say “lie has a secretary.” And pray tell, why shouldn’t you have a secretary? I am a secretary. I am an unusual secretary. And I know I’d love to work for a colyum conductor. I have a sneaky feeling any colyuiu conductor would ap preciate me. And why? Because I have a mania for speed. To illustrate: At 9 o’clock Monday morning you get a let - , ter from a shirt • manufacturer asking 'for your size. You read the letter and sigh. You lay the letter on top of the “litter.” Nonchalantly I pick up said , letter. I glance through it critically, ask a few well-directed questions, pick up the telephone, and at 10 o’clock you are wearing a size 14 1-2. 33-\nch < sleeve .length, pure linen shirt. I am available at once. LiEPSIBAH CLEMENTINA. I -Sfoj&pzibah—'for possibly that is how i ydh meant to spell it—we don’t want a secretary. She might have a mania for ' sjieed. such as you say you have, but, if her speed interfered with her control, as I yours does, she would be more trouble than she would be worth. Before your ' letter Went to the composing room, we had to make one eorrestion iu puuctua “ tion and one in spelling. How then, could ‘ you correct, proofs for us? How could you make up the column ? How would ■ you know which letters to throw away? 1 And you—or any other secretary—would ' argue. You’d say. “I think soJi ought to * print that,” or “That isn’t gooJl enough." Ami where would you go at 9:55 that morning, while we were trying ou the new linen shirt? y t New Freight Traffic Record Set By . Railroads This Year. * Washington. Aug. 21. —Railroads of ; the United States carried during the | first six months of this year .a greater amount of freight than during any cor responding period iu their history, ac ( cording to tabulations made by the : Bureau of Railway Economics based on reports filed by the carriers. , The traffic amounted to 225,435.008,- l 000 net ton miles, an increase of 7 per t cent, over the corresponding period of , 1920. which had marked the previous record. ; The average movement of freight cars during June was 28.3 miles a day. the | highest average for any June since 1917. Every increase of one mile in the aver age car movement, it is explained, is ■ equivalent to the addition of 100.000 ; freight cars. : NOT FREE ALL WAR PRISONERS AT PRESENT . President Coolidge Has Adopted “Reas onable Attitude in the Matter. Washington. Aug. 21. —President Cool idge told White House visitors today lie had decided to adopt a “reasonable” attitude in the matter of clemency for war law violators, but that he recogniz -1 ed that sohie of those still imprisoned ► were only receiving just punishment for the crimes for which they were convicted. "Washington anil Lincoln were the tal . lest Presidents, Cleveland and Taft the heaviest. A* horse will eat in a year- nine times its own weight, u cow nine times, an ox six times, and a sheep tix.times. I THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER $ | RANKS | ft as the biggest newspaper published between Washington aud Atlanta. * 'r and its news service ranks second to none. It-4s connected with all the \ principal news centers of the State, the National and the World, by X three leased wires of The Associated Press, and receives the full night g and day double trunk wire service of that greatest of all news gatLer- O ing Also it lias a corps of correspondents covering the news of the Carolina* by telegraph, telephone aud mail, .supplementing the j? work of its own staff and The Associated Press. It's market news aud i i <5 sports departments compare favorably with those of the big metropoli- ‘ i i • tan papers. In addition to furnishing all the news that is worth print j , ing. The Observer, daily and Sunday carries a variety of features second ij> ]l[ ond to none in the Carolinas. numerous special articles by famous writ- J !► ers. women s features, comics and pictures, and is the only paper in the ii| Carolinas that carries a section devoted to tb* interests of all Frater- IJI SUBSCRIPTION BY MAIT . } ; f 1 Mq. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. * X Q Daily and Sunday 75c $2.25 $4.50 SO.OO 5 | Daily without Sunday 05c $1.75 , $3.50 $7.00 < O X Sunday only *oc SI.OO $1.75 $3.00 X PAGE FIVE This is Gist of Survey Made Since Talk of the Anthra cite Strike Started Up Some Time Ago. DISTRIBUTION IS BIGGEST PROBLEM But Federal Aid in Distribut ing Supply on Hand Ex pected to Be Given if It is Necessary. Wasbingtlon, Aug. 2.|—-Sufficient stocks of hard coal are iu storage to sup ply normal requirements for more than four mouths, according to a survey made by a government department since the controversy between the anthracite miu ers and operators reached a stage where discontinuance of production seemed a possible outcome. With tlie danger of a critical shortage • averted by possession of this stock’, the opinion was expressed in government cir cles today that the problem to be faced in the event of a tieup in the coal fields would be oue of distribution. The assurance from the White House that the public nepd fear no fuel crisis was in terpreted as indicating that President Uoolidge was ready to throw the gov ernment aid in this direction in the event of an emergency. Steps almidy lqive been taken to analyze the situation with a view to set ting iqi any necessary government ayl to the reegular commercial distributing agencies. New York and , New England, com prising the most of the anthracite con suming territory of the country, will be accessible, the analysis shows, for de livedy By water, or substitute of sift grades which probably would come frMn the smokeless fields which shift "through Newport News, Ya.. and fromifHe Penn sylvania Fields through* ’Philadelphia. Hie aim of the government’ in each case would be to relieve.' the ruilroads as much as possible fyom any excess burdens , at the timi), when maximum facilities would f <be' ‘teijuiYed for niovemeut of crops. It was poiuted out hat in the event of absence of sufficient' eomuiercifel ships, tlie shipping board fleet would ji>e available for the movement of coal. The report on accumulated stocks plac ed tfic total at between 23,000,006 to 25,060,000 tons-* COAL WILL BE FURNISHED. COOLIDGE ASSURES PUBLIC Despite Failure of Operators and the Miners to Agree. Washington, Aug. 21.—-Failure'of the anthracite operators and miners t# reach an agreement at their Atluntlc City conference will not be permitted to inflict a fuel shortage 011 the consumer, it was declared tonight at the White ,House. While no indication of the ad ministration program wa« given, it was announced that President Coolidge wished to assure the public that normal requirements for fuel would be met. Officials who have followed the an thracite crisis closely expressed the opin ion tonight that the President would not intervent until the operators and miners had been given an opportunity to come forward with a proposal which might serve as a compromise upon which -negotiations could be resumed. Iu the absence of any such move, it was said, the President might confine himself to a publication of the findings of the com mission as to responsibility for the dead lock in the belief that public opinion might prove effective in bringing about an adjustment and ut the same time would uise available government agencies for accelerating the production and dis tribution of bituminous coal and of oil us an emergency substitute for anthra cite. SEEKING INJUNCTION AGAINST SAUNDERS Piggly Wiggly Corporation Wants to Prevent Him From Spending Money Received For Stock. * I Memphis, Teuu.. Aug. 22.—The Piggly Wiggly CorjK»ratiou today filed a bill ip the U. S. District Court here demanding of Clarence Saunders, former president of the corporation, personally and as head of the Piggly Wiggly investment com pany. an accounting of Class A stocks sold through the investment comiaiuy and seeking injunctions to restrain Saun ders from disposing of any money or ikites receivede from the sale of s<fl» stocks. i— ■ ■■■ ■ —p— Rev. L. A. Thomas and Miss Constance (.’line spent Tuesday afternoon in Char lotte with Yliss Ella Belle Shirey. They report her condition as being infproved. She is resting very comfortably today.
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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