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2) i61a Ti - P li ft t - ESTABLISHED 1876 LI NCO LNTO N ' N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 8, 1920. FIVE CENTS FEB COPY $2 per year ' v ..... - Mr. Peterson Tells How He Produced The Digest Cotton Yield Breaks. Lan And Thoroughly Har rows it Then Follows With Inten sive Cultivation of The Crop Every Eight or Ten Days Until Latter Part of August Uf ' Selected Seed. Immediately upon the announcement of the fact thnt Mr. William Peterson, : of Sampson County, had won the na - tional farm prfr.e ,.makin him the champion cotton grower of the world.! by producing "an average of 1,047.87 pounds of lint cntton npr acra nn fiva acres of land Cotton Facts wrote to him, asking for a statement of the ! methods he used in makin.r 2 pounds of cotton grow where but one had grown before. ... In order that other ' cotton farmers may benefit by the .example of Mr. Peterson and produce more cotton on the same amount of land, leaving the ether land and labor for food and feed crops, Cotton Fncts is" herewith pre senting briefly Mr. Peterson's state-' ' ment about ' his methods: 'Mv methods of raising cotton are as follows, the champion wru.es: "I break mv land from ten to twelve in ches deep and then thoroughly disk vd l'fiio" t. vV jvnerilly double , crcp with Irish potatoes or early corn between the cotton rows which are 5 to six feet apart. "We either broadcast 'or drill' stable manure then use about 1,000 pounds of fertilizer per acre, with a top-dress ing of 150 to 200 pounds of soda. We clutivate regularly every eight or ten days until the last of August. This " keeps the cotton green until heavy frost, giving it every opportunity to develop and mature. S "We carefully select the seed, known as 'Peterson's Improved,' from choice hills.' . . - MEMORIAL TO FORMER "' STUDENTS OF STATE COLLEGE The memorial committee of the general alumni association of State college met in Raleigh on the 22d , to consider the numerous forms of me morials which have been proposed as a lasting tribute to the 33 former students who gave their lives in the world war. After a careful survey and thorough-discussion of the va rious types proposed, the committee unanimously decided to undertake to : raise $30,000 and erect a tower and chimes on the college campus. The tower will probfibht. be about 90 feet high and will cost, in the neighborhood of $10,000 the clock $2,400, and the chimes $16,500. Un .fiSrseen expenses will doubtless run . JUwt up to $30,00.0. ' i The number of living "graduates i t 1,048. Eighty-two men are expected to graduate With the class of ' 1920. In all, no less than 6,000 have attend- ed the college. Among the graduates ". only a little more than one-half have made subscriptions and many" who have given expect to enlarge their subscriptions. Among the non-graduates there is still a large field to be gathered from. SENATE PASSES MEASURE TO CHECK SPECULATION. - , The Senate has passed the adminis tration measure" by which it is hoped a fhorlr anni-nltinn ami ! in,ir I tt the President for his approval. mill in the North Carolina pine terri-1 Fiance.-. It is a notice to I ranee and Under the bill discount rates at each'tory is cutting every foot of lumber England that the American govern cf the-twelve reserve banks with the! possible under existing conditions. ment and American people are stead "approval review and determination I "The new wholesalers' association 'fast) in their old determination that nf tho FpHpvni rsorvn hnanl mi ha has been nuoted n an vino- thnt tk the knife must be taken Irom the graudated or prop;vessive on the basis 1 of amount of advances and discount accommodations extanded by the Fed-jtrue and never was. Before the war. en-to understand that one of the fruits oral reserve bank to the borrowing ; the buyer fixed the price, and fixed it of victory would oe the driving of tho bank." i low, as you gentlemen well remem- detestable Turk from European soil. The bill was recommended by Gov-1 her. During the war the government I The American government now for enor Harding, of the Federal reserve ! fixed - and now the buyer is fixing it mally reiterates the propriety and board who thinks that "in this wayaPra'n one buyer bidding N againatj noccssity of full compliance with it would le.nsil.le to reduce excess-, another. J A few days a'o a man call- this demand of the Christian world, ive borrowing of member; banks and j1 "i me for some lumber. I . had to fail 'n the fulfillment of which induce them to boh) their own Targe 1 just sold the last fcof that particular would be a breach of faith with west borrowers in check without raising the i kind. "What did you got for it V he j ern civilization. " basic rate. The Federal reserve asked. The note points out that the conten- would then be providd with an ef- teld him and he declared that he tion that expulsion of the Turks fective method of denlinir with credit would have paid $10 a 1,000 feet might be resented by the Mohamme expsnsion more nesrly at the scource mortf for it. 'That is the way it goes. ' dans of Asia and Africa is not sup than now practicable , -and without! "Labor is largely to blame for lum- ported by the facts, since thejsrar in unneccessary hardship to bahks ander conditions now. There does not the Near East was won largefy by the norrowers who, are conducting tneir"KC"' " "y Bcarcny oi moor, affairs within the bounds of modera tion."'":. , "The expansion of credit set in mo tion by the war must be checked," he said. "Credit must be brought under effective control and its flow be on-'o more regulated and governed with carefull regard to the economic wel fare of the countr" and the news of its producing industries.", ' , THE FORGOTTON MAN The Forgctton Man, 'in the Ameri can scheme of things, is one Who is delving away in patient industry, sup porting the family, paying his taxes. castinp- his'vote, supporting the school and church, reading his newspaper, I Ms .nomination the Presidency be and cheering for the politlcan of his: demanded under certain- conditions, admiration, but he is the only onai16 would feel it his duty to consider for whom there is no provision in the '4- He does not desire the nomina- great scramble and the big divide, He works, he votes, generally he prays---hut he tilways pnys yes,' and above all,, he payii. He does not want an oiTice, his name never gets into the newspapers except when he gets mar ried or dies. He keeps production! going on. He contributes to the strength of parties. He is flattered before election. . Ho is strongly tyr triotic. He is wr.nted. whenever .Tin his little circle there is 'work to be done or counsel to be given. He may grumble some occasionally tq his wife and family; but he does hot frequent the grocery or talk politics at ths tavern. , Consequently he "is forgotten is a commonplace man. trouble, ; AvritB nn aHmiratiiin Therefore he is forgotten. All the bur- dens fall on him. or hor. for it is time to remember that the Forerottcn Man is not seldom a woman. .William G. Summer. j - ; 1 The fact that President Wilsons name had not been withdrawn from the Georgia preperential primary a few.davs apo was ronBdred sitrnifi firnt. Now t!w fa-'t th:t th l'roH- I, i Fdmim"'t,onT ;L evenLs s-tm to fies'bl Te Viiot concerned pcr- Their Surprise are Reverse A correspondent writing" from Washington N. C, tells this unsual story: .... Authur Willis, a prominent farmer of Pitt county who lives near Pactolus, is in San Francisco to pay a surprise visit to his brother,Harry G. Willis, and the latter is here to pa a surprise visit to Arthur "Authur decided about a week ac that he would take a. trip to San Fran cisco to see Harf, whom he had lot seen in about six vears.. He deynec not to write his brother, but to take him by surprise. If -. 1 "If. was evidentlv about the ft same time that Harry made up hU -iind to come back home and see his relatives here. He also decided that it should ,J - e surprise visit and did not; write' of his. intentions, "Two brothers must have passed somewhere near Chicago. Harry has wired Arthur to come back to Pitt county, stating that he would wait for him here SEVERAL LINCOLN COUNTY FARMERS TALKING OF . GOING TO MONTGOMERY Several Lincoln farmers and other are talking about going to the meet ing of the American Cotton Associa tion, and this county may be repres ented, r-- - . -. Secretary W. R. Greene, of the Ala- baa Division, of America Cotton Asso ciation, has sent out a circular letter to a large number of neople in al lsee-. tions of the South urging the into at tend the Montgomery Conference. In order that the ful lmembershi pof the North Carolina Association may get the information contained i this let ter it is herewith reproduced: "The American Cotton Association will hold its annual convention in the city of Montgomery on April 13-16. 19&0, both inclusive, and we are very nnxlous that all parts of the country should be well represented on that oc casion, and as. a public spirited citizen of your State we are extending you a most cordial , invitation to be present and you are liberty to extend this invitation to as many of your fellow countrymen as you may desire. . "The American Cotton Association is composed of business and profes sional men, as well as farmers, and we are partitularly anxious that all al lied" interests be induced to attend this meeting, as the subjects discuss ed that that are nained below will no doubt be of as much interest to oth crs as to the farmers: Cotton acreage for 1920 . Food and feed acreage for 1920. Marketing cotton of 1919 in hold ers hands unsold. . Economic reforfa In baling by high density gin compression. The net weight contract in selling cotton by growers. . ' Southwide county campaign for cot ton warehouse construction. Improving present methods of stor ing, weighing and grading cotton. . I ;,Bes .method f pr gathering and dis- Publication of Cotton Journal for benefit of Association membership. Reports on State, County and Dis trict organizations and membership. Slogan for 1920: "One Million En rolled Members." ; T3UYERS NOW FIXING PRICE OF 'LUMBER Mr. D. O. Anderson, president of the North Carolina Pine Association ' talking to the National Wholesale I Lumher Dealers' A aarw-intmn i I Washinirton. Rt.ahnd that ovorn bput. manufacturers fix the price of lum- her ," raid Mr. Anderson. "That is nol but the men will not work. It ought to De a crime under existing condi. : like it or not, the Turk must be oust tiens for. an able-bodied man -to ba ed from Constantinople in the namo idle more than ona day in seven. The of humanity. As former Ambassador blackmail of labor idleness mav be to Turkey Moreenthnu has declared. said to be holding up production." 1 : it BRYAN ALSO WILLING BARK'S Hopes Country Won't Demand His Services But If It Does Of Course Hes Willing. : -' In a statement issued at Lincoln, Neb.. Wm. J. Bryan cavs that ahou'.d tion, but feels thtt he owes it to pro- greosive Democracy to go to the par - ty's national convention, "to help in opposing the reactionaries and friends of the saloon," he said in the state ment. - - v . "If the situation became such that my nomination was actually demand ed, as in time of war a soldier's life is demanded on the battlefield L would feci I should consider it," he said. J . nosucn snuauon wm l-,7! 1 a ability that such a situation will arise. .... ..i y li.i.u luiii of companionship of-his family and UUhat he now desired 'to look forward to a few wears of uninterrupted han - - 1 piness a homo" where he could devote js time to literary work. He added tnat ne naa lost interest m public questions, but preferred to aid young n .carry on tne people j cause." rye. nave great issues DCiore us, Main, and vllllno' xvnrk fnr thnan he said,1 who are ii a t - - -"""ycouiu oe mnuc xur any inciiiuer uaiiK willing to put the welfare of based either on the amount of re- the public above their 'own ease and comfort and risk all in the protection oi the common people from ve as with a heart m i r v ,-, tude for the loyalty and coinniencn which my friends have manifested." J OPENING BASEBALL GAME IN LINCOLNTON To Be held Next Tuesday at Hoke FieljJ Fats and the Leans All Stars Called at 3:30 The Line Up Features, FYee to the Public. Manager Tilson of the local fans association, is busy this week aigning up players lor the 1,90 season, and will pull off the first game of the season next Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 at the lloke field. It is hoped to get out the largest crowd of the season for the opening game. A spe cial feature of the game is that it is open to all free. This is expected to get the grandstand and bleachers filled to overflowing. The line up for the opening game as given out by the manager is as follows: Fats J. B. Johnston, captain: R. S. Abernethy, Dr. W. S. Wilson, J. T. Perkins, M. A. Putnam, B. P. Cost ner, H. C. Cashion, P. M, Keever, O. A. Costner, John Wentz, W. H. Childs, M. H. Hoyle, J. A. Suttle, J, W. Mul len. This bunch is requested to wear tight fitting uniforms. '.The Leans J. L. Thompson. Cant.. J. E. Kale, Edgar Love, J. L. Line bergetf R. J. Mauser, Clyde Mullen, Pr, Wise, W. W. Crowell, Ed Heavner, Robert Hinson, Rev. J. A. Snow, Jno. Mtf.ium. Drayton Wolfe. These to wear full loose fitting uniforms. , The first nine, named of each team above are the regulars who have signed up, or a contract is in negotia tion. The others are to try for ft pjace on the teams, and will perhaps be giv en a trial during the game should any of the players be put out of the game by the umpires. The losing team is to pav for all balls swatted away on home runs, and all balls bursted by heavy shipping. There will perhaps be some refresh ments of bottled drinks if you have the necessary nickle.' Umpires fjr the game thus far se cured are Mrs. M. H. Kuhn and Mrs. J. L. Lineberger, negotiations are now underway for other umpires, to assist in the game. Heavy padding is beinc Disced around each base to avoid injury oW me piayers. ine niayer who stops every ball coming his way gets a sea son ticket, this also applies to each swatter who gets a homer.. If the game is not finished by sundown the playing will be postponed until next Easter. . . ,-.. It's free next TuPsday afternoon. AH players - expected to be tin the grounds by 3 o'clock Tuesday. Fans and fanettes may start going to me game at lz:noon PEACE RESOLUTION UP ON, THURSDAY. Washington, Aprt! 4. The fight in Congress over fSrmal termination of the war will be renewed .this week. With the failure of the senate to rat ify the pace--trpatyi- the hottse-will vote on a resblunon, put forward - by Republicans, declaring the war ended. There were indications today.' how ever, that this might result-in further development in connection with thj treaty, possibly its resubmission to tho senate by the President as the admin- THE TURK MUST GO The first diplomatic note to bear the signature of the new Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colliy, is a docu- mentr which will have the hearty ap protal of every American, regard- leSS of hlS 'political 'or religious alle- hand of the Turkish butcher. During the war the world was glv- am or monammedans. But whether the Mohammedans of the Ffir "East ui t . L . m :n-j i. , If the Turk is permitted to keen con trol of the police and judicial systems the Greeks, Syrians Armenians and Jews clrnnot call their souls their own. -There isn't a sino-la M . justice in Turkey where the WnVJL cannot be bribed. . The police tniewes and t-tboats. The American note also suggest the" justice and desirability of setting ,P Armerie as an independent state, embracing es. much territory as the A""'leIuan novernmont can control, fwse two acts expulsion of the v Turk and setting up of the state of Armenia will be but partial repara won ior tne generations of poltroon ;lalesmanship in Europe which has r-ei'iiiitted the Turk to persecute and slaughter subject races at will. WOULD STOP SPECULATIVE" BORROWING A KH1 flaalfrnart tn Bfiui 1 . borrowing from Federal reserve banks was passed Wednesday by the House and sent to the Senate. It is in tne rorm or an amendment to- the Federal reserve act and u.ider it each control oi rediscount rates and the oM, .oi-,.,t:L v... it. 17, " k j ' -t ..o-t u-i,:,,, j nm-,iA. tended that legislation was needed to ,.v,..i- .knnrnni j;..A,,.t; a general expansion of credits. ' The billwoald also fix a standard , 0f tne amount of rediscount which ' u v i . i i i. serves or on the amount of captial and surplus. A graduated scale of redis count rates on rediscounts above a certain amount would also be provid ;irr'-- missed a bridge and turtle ' V '.1 ' CEMETERY KEEPER HAS SEEN DEAD MAN WALK Visitor From the Grave Strolls . Around Among the Tombs . . In Broad Day. ' - Kinston, Special to The Daily News. April 6. The cemetery keener at X. which is a town of 8.000 or 10.000' nomilation in North Carolina.) population in North Carolina,! and not in the immediate vicinity, has had his job a number of years. He is a safe and sane and sober man, not given to any vice. He is a little past middle age' He lives, he thinks, as nearly as he should as possible. . ; - H goes about nis auties unairaia and when the night wind sways the trees and the boughs "sough the thought of spooks and spirits never u:I:j D.. u . l'?"'. '""." "T. JV" one,- ne says, unu vnerc in iiuluuiu iui ki Jn K.,t OIova what Ma s. him to do but believe what his eves plainly beheld on three separate oc-, - . . -These are the facts set down for what they are worth: A month ago, I1 toward the middle of a bright day, the ' keeper of the cemetery weeded a lot It j. rWr. annnv riav -Traffic naSaoH on two important roads bounding the' cemetery., The birds sang.. All around weresigns of life and spring. It was , a ghost to walk. The-keeper weeded awav contentedly: Of a sudden there . appeared a figure on a lot one or two lots removed from that on which he plied his hoe. The keeper looked to lots with the cemetery remilat.inna. Hp I stood spellbound when he recognized the "person". It was a man he had , buried in recent years. He had known him for years before his death. Ho was positive as to his interment. His stride was the same as in life, his at tire similiar. He ha dthe attitude of a tnan "killing time," ambling about the lot as though exercising . The cemetery keeper was not fright ened. Had it been night, or misty day he would not have beleived his own eyes. He had never taken any stock in ghosts. He watched the un canny figure return to the vicinity of its grave and vanish. The keeper re-1 turned repeatedly. . Two or three days later he saw the apparition aeam. This time it walked to an adjoining lot It stopped and seemed to read the in scription on a head stone ... It causally sauntered back to the foot of its own grave and disappeared. A third time pronterin(r in bituminous coal "which within a week the keeper saw it. Never may arise in ur district under the was he frightened. Invariably it was Lever act" 1 r i in broad daylight and invariably the! Mr. Palmei.-telegram was prepar figure appeared I similiar to a quick.hv-1 ed after rsenje bituminous coal opera mg being, in the flesh. But no word; tors had statrd publicly that the new could express his astonishment; 1 vvage scaie wveed on mder the term(l Now the cemetery keeper of X knows 0f the award "by the coal strike settle in his own mind that there are ghosts. l nient commission would result in an His friends are puzzling over what increase of from 60 cents to $1.25 a phenomenon he could have witnessed, : ton on coal f ?redulo"a amJon.?. th,em- for Pointing ot that the total increase these are interesting additional fact!i i,j v .j . Ihe cemetery keeper is hot an lmagiv ....... juuwa.mue oi .ir Baid that if tais entire count were Pill tu?5 "ndhls th?)rl.ev "adled b operators U the price appeared for his benefit or even was , centsa ton awar-ef his presence. He felt when) "If however, the operators absorb he looked upon it that it was uncanny the 14 per cent, increase which be even though it looked the same an fiFA,.t;. ;n n...k.. j .u. when he addressed it familiarly on Attorney General, "there will be left the streets in the years gone by; And , only !f9V,Ouo,000 to be passed on to the some time, possibly years having . consumer. In this event the increase elapsed since the burial, the keeper in the price of coal at the mine should nad seldom thought of the man in re- amount to 20 cents a ton. cent months. Indeed, their acquaint-1 "I understood that an exaggerated anceship, it is understood, was never estimate of the demand for export intimate. vThe keeper wir, not name ! coal is affecting the market price, the man . His family would be wor- demand having been estimated at as ried. and skeptics would naturally dis-'much as 100,000,000 tons. But I am credit the keeper. . advised that our port facilities are Ana now the keeper is waiting to see 'only adequate for the export of 30, the apparition again. He has been un- 000,000 per annum that is to say, able to glimpse it since the 3rd visits-! only 6 per cent, of our total produc Ln"u t i?S occurred to h'm that he tion. This should not be made an ex-snc-uld, if he sees it again, address the cuse for rasing the price for normal gnostand ask why it strolls areund-consumption. It is proble that nor ln broad daylight and if it is distur-' mat conditions will be shortly restor bed, and if so what he may do to help. cd and fair prices will follow. In the it. 1 he keepers friends say he is in- meantime please receive and consid- capame oi an hallucination. - NEWELL GETS HIS REWARD WinsTon-Salem Journal. When the Honorahle Jake Mowoll . .. , vwnc llCWBtl railed to say a word deg: nt.ry to the raorenead steam roller in the Greens-' ooro convention the whole State was surprised. When the Republican Stale . convention passed into history and it! was found ..that the Honorable Jake nad not even so, much as got a smell at tne pie counter via Chicago the ! mystery of his silence deepened. tv. iinow aJ, " c!eaf as the noonday.' i no Honorable Jake was not looking , toward f hioann f .. . 1. : , . : 1 toward Washington; He was willing to let Mr, Morehead persuade the Others nto line with promises of Fed eral patronage provided Mr. More- W2r dJLhim n ior Congress m the Ninth n;tr;,.t s . . - . rewarq. out And, thus it comes about that Hon-!power uPon the ",art women gen orable Jake Newell, of Chnrlntt i. erally steps will be taken to end such the Republican candidate for Congress it' aoW He will run as of citizenshiD from thn. Morehead made his appeal in the ' 'ona' convention Wm. Jennings Bry race against Mr. Hocy . And if the an 8aid: "I. would like to se Ne- miiui wants a Uongressman to re- present as snecial ) -,;n u. elected. We hardly believe the people of the Ninth are are capable of mak- mg such a blunder . , "Say,. Frank, you knew I vit in the army, didn't you?" res, i did, Ueorge.' "WelL do vou know wo ho Aw-,' meat, to eat?" "Hew did you know it was horse meatT" ..iiiir.ii , ':: . . yren, one nay wnen we were all 1 "ua Brresiea ana arranged on eating at the table, someone said "al terms with the woman arrested. 'Whoa' and a piece of that meat he mjus''ce and falsity of our ju stopped right in 'the middle of my dicisry in this resnect can be realized throat." Boy's Life for February, j when we find women convicted always Good, absent-minded Doctor Wi)-! or 8 crime and the man going free uer was greatly dependent upon his Wilder stnt up an announcement after he had entered the pulpit with a footnote intpnHo,! in iw. n.;...i M.auuvtii wne. une morning Mrs. The Woman's Missionary Society" ha read aloud, "will meet Wedncs - sharp. Your necktie is crooked- please straighten toward the right." ' ' ., ."" 1 with Mississippi and Delaware ootn turning thumbs down on the suffrage amendment, the suffragists have a ignant realization that the mere man who wrote, "There's many r " viAi me cup and the lin''iln tne control of old knew una k. . ; . "r. i t j miKing about. Needing one more state, the suffral ""peiuny to Vermont and ..... in v,mnn. uoernor Bickett, in B latter state, ha proinispd to 1 1 limn Vine i"r ' ' " Tiri... 11. ..... ML VERNON ITEMS Dear Editor allow me space in your valuable paper for few dots:. The farmers are waiting patiently for the rainy weather to eeese so they can get in the fields again and get busy. ' '. -, Mr. M. T. Leathetman ' our Treas ure spent Easter ;tl his father, Mr. F. J. Leatherman. v Mr- n- "ouserj visuea air. v. L. Houser Saturday 9nd buaday. Mrs. Trine Raiav of Sallshirrv. spent Easter wit "her father Mr. D. W. Leatherman. ' .hi. vicoija uuu oiiu ...aiiiiijr viajiru ( Mr. R. .. Wesson Siinnav.... ! i?'VlmVn,M. -M1M I Mr. E. D. Reinhardtt visited Miss -"Tir"'., '.:"' IT u- i. a i v " ,Ml- .Are! y0J"S' motortd to were bit thin, but the dauntless ones, Chn.e ndtt "fp" outfit mole uited for Palm Beach h b" ,to.C.lo"e- than F fth avenue in the early and Mr. Julius Sal Visited; MlSS Clida ' nncortjiin Hv r,t ini- ni, .ln Houser Saturdaifnd Sunday. I . , . T n t "a . Mr. J. G. Leattierniaii spenl : .r- J.-.V- J-eatJierniaii spent taster at. 'd ft0"e..i't fJ.: T ,.. I ., r, L 0.. 1 ; :fu i. A wX. .u"uo' C"""'K; wiin mr. uuviu vyiiiiB, . Cr-- ieatnerman is up on nig i Jb- He wa" ouf Martin s new , vai'iu.Krounu osiuraay nigm looKii.g for his gray OnoosSUm. Vavl? Wallaw Wesson and Mr. "irht 'it 2 T t ij ,ncy Gantt SundaY n cht . . . JPped would make a auierman ujlday night. I Mr. J. F. Le;rtherman and family snent Sunday tight at Mr.. T, E. Houser's j Mr. J., E. Saine visited Mr. Burgin "Ull Sunday evening Rev. Mr. De'd Wesson, delivered g" j , f "i , vnor master -.11- 4 . 1 , T T-. . ""uay T 6:4. A very lwge crowd attended services, the members of Mt. Vernon, should not forft to contribute liberal to Rev. Mr. Wesson I will ring off. . tS.Two News Readers. IS AFTER COAL PROFITEERS Attorne" General Palmer Says .Con sumer Should Not Have To Pay More Than 29 to 40 Cents More For Soft Coal. 3?- '.v. ".'' ' Attorney-'Gtneral Palmer has in- ; structed Fedeial district attorneys to proximately 3000,000.000, Mr Palmer ler comnlaii. s of Drofiteerini? whir-h may arise in your district under the Lever act.' ' 111 HiailT lUCUIltlCB 1 1 U III Al bama to central Texas mav prove Cotton in many localities from Ala- complete failure if good tested seed is not used, according to a warning by tho department of agriculture, Tests in different localities show that much of the seed this year has less thn 50 per cent. - germination, where as rood planting seed should approximate '75; per cent. Farmers ere advised to test their seed in advance bv the "rag doll" seed test. 13 I .. , , A SINGLE MORAL STANDARD The single moral standard condemns a fallen woman but visits no stigma upon the man equally as guilty. rriiu uiu ucquisiLion oi political an injustice. If immorality is wrong D"n. me" ana women gui.ty should be I Addressing the Nebraska constitu. uruHKI write into ner constitution the single standard of moralitv. Nn u. rogation of sm, no licencing of vice, tne Penalties for immorality enforced j impartially against both sexes. How dare w no longer discriminate acain- .st women and rive to an immoral man ie respectability that we deny to her?", v - , The same thought is abroad in the land . A new York Judse has insisted . tnat m future immoral cases men . i i. . .j i , wnen DOln are parties in crime. r:- " iui, mi unts even iutner. A 1bw na been massed which confers upon a cm'd born, out of wedlock the name of the father, and make th cnild the lepal heir of the father as "we" as 'he mother. Such legislation 08 this Lnd sucn 'aw enforcement as I Jll(ige Wedhams in New York, refered 1 to in the above paragraph, will go a ,onK ways toward correcting the double standard now m common ac ceptance. I - I Hh Republican party machine is old hands, who have no fondness for Herbert Hoover and not the slightest disposition in the world to give the nomination to the Food 1 adminstrator. What chance of the Pperidency Mrfl. Hoover nun, if any, wen a-glimmennir wbon I nil klmr. nf mnat nf Kia liinna ' NEW YORKER HAD TO BE SEEN. Dressed in Easter Finery, They De fled Elements A Constrast In '"Florida.--; An Associated Press dispatch from New York tells how determined crazy men and women were to show their Easter finery Sunday. It says: . "Cold, drizzling rain, and skies that threatened snow failed today to pre vent New York's annual Easter pa rade in Fifth avenue. . Gorgeous bonnets and wonderful w ana wonaenm creations, examples of the French and American modistes' art, were seen, kr.volu 4ofvW th. n.ili,f. t thL TZ.dty!Si'. ?u!f !8-of 5e fnrtl, T .T ., C?'Z&JTrr "pLTk u nu db Bnmireu. . It remains for a widely known Probably never before has mere preacher in this state. to teU a good "JS ? fl EL g" m !" cTtenderstory. And it mav here be said that for sartorial honors. Not only were i,.. t , , . v" " - me young men resplendent, they were Iati kav waia "gaudy , according to quotations .by New York clothiers, the very latest styles in 'business' suits come to $100 wniie evening clothes costs at least $200. "The avenue saw suits of many KhemeT lnt6n8Illed the color "JJ1 women, for the most part, r.".fnP'e1Cel,Ylth t?"! i i . .". . ' - " r - i spring suits and almost all carried " i i . i . . . in if.iiriuiii littE) ueeu tit'L'iaillieu wy lllc E.M ,Umireil88 Knd.Para?Qls;1 whole people as "The First Citizen of SSw! J ti -,l Chu!,ch 'nstead Belgium," and whose pet name there L tS V tB!l Sfl '5l y yl,nK and old is "The Best Be- cnL tl I presentcd flast ot loved," spent several years of his life M&&!t?i&&.rW' ate, with re: es of worship. The "hurrkane' decks of the Fifth avenue buses were crowd ed by the less fortunate, who, never theless, turn out each year to-see the parade." In contrast to the above, read a dis patch of the same date of what was geing on in Tampa, Fla.: - "More . than 500 Tampans, some wearing overalls or calico and some old clothes, gathered at the court house cquare this morning, listened to speeches, signed a lengthy petition and, marching to the city hall, pre sented it to the mayor. , "The petition, which appeals for commissions to limit the profit not only to retailers but also the manu facturers, which later) it plainly charges with profiteering and pledges the signers to abstain from buying ex cept denims, calicos and ginghams Will also be presented to Senator Fletcher and Trammell and Governor Catts. "The city firemen have abandoned their tailored uniforms tnd appeared this morning in overalls." USES OF NEWSPAPERS. borne of you fellows who rather doubt the wisdom' of raising your subscription rates to anmethi what thay should be. read this from nr.. -.- .-..l, .. . , . . . . - airs. o. uHoen, in tne ues Moines Register. Leave it to the women. We could not keep house without newsoaoers. . ; Clean fish, chickens and meat on a newspaper. Empty the camet aweener nn nno Use one on the tray when cleaning the table to catch the crumbs. On sweeping days dampen papers, tear into bits and sprinkle over the floor to catch the dust and brighten the floor covering. - J--ay several thicknesses of paper under the carpets and large rugs. Printers' ink is a moth nreventivo -on.l the papers also save much wear on the carpet as well as shutting" out the cold. When ironinguse a handful nf course "salt on a folded paper on which ui puiisn irons. A folded newsnaner make a ctnnA tnesi protector in severe weather. -L-- .r r r Nothing else is as good for polish- ing the range. 4.1 - Use a bit of pacer for clenninn- greasy dishes before washing as well as for rubbing the black from the outt side of cooking nans and -kettles. ? Keep one in the trav of a Iran tn-j to save cleaning every day. opreaa tnem on the kitchen floor when it is newly scrubbed. Before doing all these thin and more we read them. I almost forgot to mention that part of this useful ness. '..' -..''.. ...,,.' , . ; Then when thev have done all thi' good service they do duty again by be ing iwiBieo tigntiy ana used to kindle the fire. Ex. . COAL OPERATORS AND MINERS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY. An indicment chanrinc in violation of the Lever fuel control act and the federal criminal code, naming 125 coal-operators and miners as aeienaants, nas been returned in the Federal court" "at Indianapolft. Ind., by " special grand jury which had been mvestisratinir thn mil in dustry since December 17 191SL More than half of the defendants are operators, it is said. Bond was fixed by United States P'tfct Judge A. B. Anderson at $10, 000 in some of the cases and at $5,000 in others. The defendants will be ar raigned on May 4. ten overt acts are charged agains 'V. i ot.i. ,c f "J" "'"ment, wnieb that Y.nto-MJZZZ! have no connection with the strike of bituminous miners but occurred prk' to tne signing of the armistice. ine indictment was brought under sections four and nine of the 'Lever act and section 27 of the criminal code tt nrl ihn vnna 1 i i . . i ind one .to;.U,ni T. L"!!! tne price of necesr es by restricting distribution, limiting manufacture and by other means, and by roi'spir-Vig- commit offense against tho United SUtes v defined in tho crimi ' w tUVIJttllVL" nal coae. ine penalty on conviction is a fine not exceeding $10,000, im prisonment for not more than t,n fyears, or both fine and imprisonment. THE BURR IN THE CRAW . (From The Statesville Sentinel. ) Hoover says he would accept the Republican nomination if called and if that party will accept his liberal and independent views. Tk.'. i. rtib." '. those progressive and liberal views wouia tickle the throat of trie G. O. P. like a eockleburr being foraed down a canary birds' throat. ! It cn i r e did. j T i..'!' ... . . . t.- -, WHAT'S IX A NAME? Right Much When You Know the Facts in the Case. Fred A. Olds, in The Orphan's Friend. There is a postoffice in North Car olina named worry and if you were to guess a year's space the odds are you could not give the ; reason of the name. .. It was the desire of the postmisteress (you must always call her "postmast er") to have it named Cherry r leld, il.i i 4.u- department said. She made other 1DTC.t.inn, u..f infnrmPA tut suggestions, other places already bore those names. Finally she asked if 'Worry' wouid do and deDartment said ves X you are P 0 that oice o name had" g ven her a jne.inoite oi a name naa given ner d 01 worry, hence the suggestion. ... - . . . poor story-tellers. said he: "In one of our piedmont counties a preacher s wife presented him with a LUor about 45 barrels left there girl baby, who was promptly named when war-time prohibition became Elvira. A few days later he met a1 effective. The value of the whiskey man wno uvea in me country near Dy,ia ana me latter saia mere nas just ar- at his' house a miglity fine girl bab,, The preachw tended hi Lite v iihii riHiiieo ner. in nis innmrv the reply was: "The same as yVs North Carolinian says, that Mr. Hoover, "of the United sites," who ; T).,l:. 1 1 l: I u.. latives. How many people in North Carolina tcday know that "dog oil" was jnade here during the War Between the States? In a newspaper of 1863 it is duly set out that it was selling at $15 a gallon and was good as neat foot oil; that the average dog would produce a gallon. Dog 3kins wera used for Bhoes and gloves and were worth 3S each. It was queerly stat ed in the paper that North Carolina could spare 500,000 dogs, and at the same time get a big revenue. ' People who ride cn the railway be tween Greensboro and Danville may be interested in knowing that the last on this link was laid May 23,1864, and trains were put on. It was primarily a military railway and its construc tion was due to a suggestion, or re commendation, earnestly made by General Robert E. Lee, the command ing general of the Confederate arm v. He said there was only one North and South line, this being the Wilmington and Weldon, over near the coast at One point, and that it was necessary to have another route further west, to be used if the W. & W. was cut and also to relieve the strain. Once the Federal raiders did cut the W. & W. between Goldsboro and Yk'ilmington, burned a station or two and some cars, etc. -V" - - -. In, 1918- ttte writer pBid a visit to Hot Springs, in MadisOTr cotmty, w see the cantp in which the German sailors had taken from the big pas senger ships were . interned. v These Germans were in barracks surrounded by barbed wire. Tho ranking one of them .was Hans Buser, the comman der of the biggest vessel afloat, the Vaterland, now the Leviatham. Hj had four captains under him on this monster ship. The Germans ot driftwood from the French .- Broad river, which ran, swift and deep by th flank of the camp, and were also given waste timber and with these things. stoves and tin cans they built a toy , villam. whioh w. . J. fnt. 1 village which was a wonder for clever ness. 1 he writer had fondly hoped it would stand, for many a year, as a aueer souvenir of the war, but alas! Uncle Sam sold the barrack buildings and all the toy village and now the latter has been torn down and des- :.e"n . " ..oox nave uet:? P.u"l, . . Could a roof have been put i ij v if r mi. hii hi lii i rpHfrvi' ir. Tn.a place would have been a mecca fo: . , ... , sight-seers. When ; these Germann were sent to the Atlanta penitentiary they actually wanted pay for the to houses! NORTH CAROLINA NEGRO HOLI);5 POWER IN MONROVIA. .... " Liberia is truly a hermit republic, writes Alan Bourchier Lethbridge,''nr.mt .;..,.. i A. author and traveler in the London Daily Jelegraph The country, he adds, has no roads, no railways, no telegraphs, no steamboats on her riv - W pract,CRl e!(Ploltat'on f her wealth. . ' .Lodgings in Monrovia the capital, virtually do not exist with the cop- Tt ::,"Xh,?im,"C,' virl tion bv tho mayor. This man is an enter prising negro of North Carolina who besides attending to the duties of the mayoralty and conducting his hotel operates an ice plant and an ice cream parlor which formerly were German property. From these latter his profits are said to be gigantic. He also has "something to do with the Postoffice" and is a police court mag trate. "In fact,' says Mr. Lcthbridge "this remarkable man( started from nothing, has made himself a Rocke feller of Liberia," " ; In Monrovia, says the traveler there are no horses, motor, rickshaws or other or other wheel, vehicles; no street : liBntine. no drinking water and not I mf-ouently food supplies for the European colony run out and strict rationing is enforced until the sh'p arrives. Unless the 23 members of Congress appear at parliament houses properly attired in a black frock coat, patent leather shoes, white waist coat and i hat. the, are liable to a fine .of $5 The thermometer sometimes registers 110 in the shade. CATHOLIC MEMBERSH11 CREASE IN 1919. IX- The official Catholic directory for 1920 announces aiyncredse of 186,224 around $50,000 each; which is five per in the membership of tl.e church last, cent of a million dollars of productive year bringing tne total meimrsmp in thfe United States and Its possessions up to 27,650,204 . The number of archliishots was in creased from 14 to 16, according to the directory, but the number of bishops was decreased by deaths. . There was an increase of 1,079 sem inarians. New parishes totaled 148, una two new orphan asylums were established. ... The secular clergy now nimiler 15, 889, on increase of 337 while nriests f r-l;"-inn orders number 21 r 19, an M , SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS Warficld Lvnn. 11 vears old .' was instantly killed in Durhum Saturday by an automobile. . Wilmington increases population by 7,024. Census statistics givo Port City 33,372, which is a gain of 29.0 per cent. .. .j A prisoner carrying whiskey in hia hip pocket is in the same category an the outlaw caught with a burglar's kit .according to a ruling by Justice Carvis in the Brooklyn Federal court. He held that it is justiiialilj for an officer to use as evidence in a Federal case liquor found in the pock et of a person who has been .arrested. The tri-State conference of orphan age interests in the Carclinas and Georgia will be held at the Methodist orphanage in Raleigh April 20-2'J. According to a dispatch from Grantsville, Md., thieves have entered a distillery warehouse there for tho sixteenth time and stolen alt the liq- estimated at ?30,0U0 to $40,000 : Restoration of tho State . depart ment's diplomatic room, scene of many important international events, has been ordered by Bainbridge Colby, the new secretary of State. Demand for office space during the war neces sitated conversion of the room into three offices equipped with desk book cases and filing cabinets. By the new secretary's order the wartime partitions will be removed, the room decorated and again be used for for mal diplomatic events such as . the exchange of treaty ratifications. So fur as reported in our State, the census figures do not reveal an unu sual crowth of urban population. Outside of Gastonia which more than doubled its population in ten years, the increase in the smaller towns ap pears to be no more than normal. The facta seem to show that the folks aro moving from country to town but the census figures indicate that the move ment isn't so great as we had been led to believe. With a few exceptions the towns do not show unusual rowth. Statcsville Landmark. Washington, April (5. Representa tive Charles M. Stedman, of the Greensboro district, today announced 'again for Congress, and was filing his iiiuv ne' naa nnuiiy aecinea -to run papers with the state election board. Charlotte, April 6. One-half inter est in a building fronting 27 feet on East Trade street, and about 75 feet from the center of Independence square, known as "Cornwall!' head quarters", at auction at the court house sold for $46,000. The purchaser was E. T. Cansler, Sr., local attorney. The riece of property was made fa mous because Cornwallis mpde ( his headmiarters in a building occuihing that site when he was in Cahrlo! e m 1780 In chiirgcr&t me-British rni . ;n thir.; section. . r .V- THE FATAL WEAKNESS OF GERMANY. Columbia State. So much has been said and written of "German efficiency" that many ob Eervers of the present state of panic and distress in Germany nre at a loss to understand the situation. Thty have, evidently, counted unon ZZ, 1 TiJ PeoPle' eater Tesistinfr and resilunt Power. . Hut, instead, the .revulutimi tnat overturned the military ro?im". lellowed by the revolt fur a time up set the Ebert reunbliean regime, are cucceeded by conditions that indicate a very serious collapse of tho German peopk What has Wonie of the ovcrnrais- f nrt -rtirni,, inn" , . derful". efficiecy in oconmics and in dustry, marvelous m'astcry o! tcch nimie and method ? The simplest, perhaps the lies I, an swer is that these things that for merly, in the heyday of Gernifin pow er and arrogance, amazed ami dazzled , ether peoples, were a sort of 'mirage, an illusion. They didn't exist.-- At. least, they were, in very large -part,' tne creatures o! our careful!-, truiiieil ; nlEn;Wc saw ln t10 ; m f .; I manv ,vhat w h i , , s10ij see ' j Germany today confronted 1iy the i perils of Bolshevism. Either tho IZi l.- ni.u,;.t .. i. ouVaffeeteTbv the poin o U 8hcvi it.gecma abh that tl t G? be savPed. by their Ion : riiucuuoimi iraining, truni the curse of accepting the Soviet state or run ning into communism. ,Their educa tion, ner.rly 100 per cent of liturney, while it could not save them from wreckage, may at least rescue them from utter degradation and ruin. Russia was an easy victim to tho doctrines of Bolshevism, because only Soma 20 per cent, perhaps loss, know how to read. On tho other hand, should Germany turn to Sovietism, she would fare infinitely worce than Russia, because i80 per cent of thn Russians are pcarapts, and tho coun try can support itself. The very small proportion of peasants in Germdnyj Wkw 20 per cent it is said, would soon result in starvation. The peoplu cannot support themselves. . This condition is the fatal weakness of Germany.-. She .must defend her self from Sovietism, or be ruined ir redeemably. And, if she has not the strength for this defense, the other powers must, in their own defense, go to the rescuo of the. Germans. CAROLINA MILLIONAIRES We had 949 men in North Carolina in 1917 with net incomes of $10,000 or more. The gross incomes of these iu pa vers - -in tne main would run property. It takes one's breath to think of it. There are 70 people in tho state with net incomes of $50,000 a year and over not gross but net incomes, mind you. These taxpayers are millionaires and multi-millionaries many times over,- However, the official definition of a millionaire in a person with a net in come of $100,000 or more. On this basis, we had 24 millionaires in North Carolina in 1917. and only three south ern states had mii- Lnuimnn, Okla homa, and Texas in the order named. tiu. ..( :,. . ... 1 dollar lor a hair I'm-:--
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