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MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY »th. 1922.
11 .»• FBrt YEAR IN ADYANCS.
TO SUSPEND WORK
ON SHIPS AT ONCE
Capital Ships Cumlgitd to
Scrap Hm» by Ntml Tntty
WmM Mi W Pwlrijad
Uatil Pact Hai Bm Ratified
Washington, Pek. S.—PriparaUiry
la a soepenaion of work on tin
- A mm on capital skips la ha scrapped
ladtr the naval treaty, hnMni
Harding kaa aiM Imilaiy Denby
la provide him Immediately with fall
tafonaation u to Dm status of Dm
skips uadar construction.
Although tka President doee not
aspect la taka any affirmative (tap
toward tcrapping tka skipe unt^ all
tka pawara have rati/tod tka traatjr,
II la prubakla that tkora any ka a
aaapanaion of tka work on all af tka
prescribed vessels within a faw dayi
It waa laid at tka Wklta Houaa to
day that Mr. Harding axpoctad to
•rabmit tka naval agreement and tka
other treatiea of tka arms conference
to tka Senate within a vary few day*
after they wet* signed. Ha has not
decided whether to taka them to the
Capitol ta person.
Plana at tka Navy Department, so !
far as is known, are for suspension of j
conatruction work on thoae skips to
ka scrapped under tka naval limita
' tton treaty pending ratification of the
treaty. Contracts for the building of
the vessels would not be cancelled, it,
was indicated until the limitation pact
become effective. "j
Included in the skips under con
struction and not to be completed
under the treaty are the six 40,000-,
ton battleships and four of tke six >
battle cruisers. One ship of the West
Virginia class, now virtually complet
ed, also is to bo destroyed aa a fight
lag unit, although this will not be
done until the limitations treaty is
I la effect.'
Two of the six battle cruisers are
ta be converted Into airplane carriers,
a provision ta that effect having been
made in the treaty In the aeparate
item authorising the retention of not,
more than two vessels of 38,000 tons'
each for the purpose.
final decision has not been mad*
by the Navy Department aa yet aa to
which two of the three Weat Virginia
claaa bsttleships under conatruction
are to be retained. The original com
mittee agreement in the d I aroma ion be
tween the American, British and
Japanese delegations mentioned the
Colorado and Washington aa the ships
t» be retained by the United Statee,
aa the equivalent to the retention by
Japan of the Mutsu. It ssnwn mora
probable, however, that the Weat Vir
ginia will be retained and the Waah
ington scrapped, aa some naval ex
perts have figured that a saving of
more than half a million dollar*
would be made in the expense of com
pletion in that caae.
Conversion of the two selected bat
tle-cruisers into airplane carrier* pro
bably cannot be undertaken until the
treaty has been ratified so ths'. work
on all six of these vessels probably
will be at a standstill until the treaty
has been put through the Senate.
It has been indicated, however,
that the department might seek au
thority of Congreaa to transfer sums
*»w available for the completion o!
new battleahipa and battle cruiser*
to the construction of submarines and
auxiliary c^aft in the building pro
gram which are not affected by the
treaty. Among these are the ten
scout cruisers for which the depart
ment recently sought authority to in
creaae the cost due to the failure of
building materials to have dropped
in price to the extent anticipated
when the original estimates were sub
mitted.
Suspension of work on capital ships
rather thsn cancellation of contracts
it waa said today at the Navy Depart
ment, probably would increase the
cost of the government of the settle
ment of claims of contractor* when
the final' adjustment is made for the
breaking up of these vessels. This
increase would not be equal, however,
it was said to tha expenditures neces
sary if work is to be continued on the
ships during the time the treaty is
under consideration for ratification.
The rate of expenditure construction
now averagea about |5,000,0M •
month.
Chamberiain'e Cough Remedy Aids
V Nature
Medicines that aid nature aM al
ways most effectual. Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy acts sn this plan. It
aOays tha cough, relieves the lungs,
aids expectoration, opens ths sscrs
tions and aids nature in restoring the
system to a healthy condition. Thou
sands have Uettfled to its good mM
ties. Try H when you have a cough
or raid. ~
CREW OF VESSEL
PRAY THREE DAYS
Pr»y«r» AmwnmI J«at hi Um
Nick ml Tlati Wmmb Voted
New ToHl, Fik. 4.4—Tit* atmry ef
tkiw daya of prayer tn a raging in,
and of pngrm uammj to tha nidi
of ttiM to mti them fmi i watrry
inn, m told by two w»m and il«
mm of tit* crew of the Nova Scotian
whnonrr. Donald L. Cook, who if
rlrtd today on Unkm from Mexico,
whm they had bom landrd by the
Britiah a teenier Saa Eduardo.
Tha battered, jvater-logged balk
of th* Cook want down lata than two
hoar* after U)n had hoan takan off,
tha reacned mariner* declared.
The woa*an, Mrr. -.t Oner, wtfe
of the aUpper, and Mrs. Bennett
Peeler, wife of the cook, were unani
mously voted "boodooa" by the crew,
and Captain Oner declared they
would be returned to their home* in
N'>va Scotia and never would ha taken
to aea a rain.
The achooner aaOed from Lunen
berg, N. 8., early In December, and
waa coaatiag down toward Jamaica
with a cargo of I amber when ehe was
•truck on Decedkbcr 14 by a terrific
•term.
Her aaila and bar maat were carried
•way, the cabin wrecked, and the
vpaael'i hold filled with water. The
food supply waa rained ao that all
went fodleaa for three day* before
they were picked up by the 8an
Eduardo.
Mr*. Oxner waa authority for the
■tatement that the crew prayed for
three daya for auccor. Just aa they
were at the point of abandoning hipe,
their prayere were ana we red by the
tppearancc of the San Eduardo, aha
laid.
WELL DRESSED "PARSON"
IS FLASHING CHECKS
Trave la in Flimr and Get*
Money from Banlta
Greensboro, Feb. 8.—Police through
out thia Motion are on the watch for
i check-flaahing "parson" riding
about in a ear that ia not his, • slick
Individual who marehea up to banks
and presents paper, "for revival eer
vices" and gats the money.
Any way, be got it at Morven from
the bank there, with a chock made out
to "Rev. Thomas H. Harris," a 9*0
document, signed by "L. E. Paschal,
treasurer, St John Baptist church
fund." In the lower left hand corner,
juat for pretense of receipt were the
words, "For revival services, Jan.
10-17, 1922." The chock wss drawn on
a bank at Darlington, S. C., and it
looked natural, looked like money and
the "miniater" got it and rattled away
in his flivver.
When the chock was returned from
the South Carolina bank, with the in
formation that that bank'a officials
knew no Rev. Thomas H. Harris, no
L. E. Paschal and that there ia no
St. John'a Baptist church fund on
deposit there, the Morven bank men
knew that they had entertained a
wolf in sheep'a clothing. The South
Carolina bank gave the further in
formation that they had been troubl
ed by aimilar checks.
The Morven authorities sent word
to the Greensboro chief of police to
look out for the "parson." He ia
dressed aa much like • reverend aa
any reverend and has the proper sober
ministerial manner, it is aaid, with
Just a dash of the pep of the modem
revivalist.
Greensboro, Jan. SO.—Being sum
moned to police court aa defendants
was a new experience for some of the
richest and socially prominent per
son* in Greensboro today, bat many
of them found themselves there taxed
with the costs of the action.
They forgot to mind the city man
ager when he issued a warning that
every person must keep the enow
cleared frota the sidewalk in front of
his property. They were used to soch
warnings. Every time it haa saowud
before the "wsrnli^r" appeared in the
newt papers.
They never had bean jacked op in
court about 4L Bat C. P. Painter,
the city manager, aaid that the
snow moat go and policemen went
around and took aoaae namea. Rich
Haled Into Court
MAIL ORDEK HOUSE
HAS SEEN BEST DAY
Arm
into TUr Own;
buck Loet $10,000,000
Raleigh, Feb. 2.—Mail order I
la the Mat and waet ara finding
they Ml ao longer compete wtth
town merchants and aa a raaaK tha
"country merchant Km recaptured a
((•at autaa of farmer trad* 1* Mm laat
1 year." aajra tha Daily News Record, of
Now Yofk City, which haa Just re
ceived opinlona on tha mall order busl
neaa In general from all (actions of
tTie country.
From tha resume made public by
tha New York retailer's daily paper
it ia indicated that North Carolina
farmers and farmers in other statea
of the south are doing their trading
| at home advantageously, the mer
I chants having Just recently sought to
divert the steady stream of money
which in yean pdfct went to mail order
honaaa ia the eaat and went. The
News Record's opinions .emphasise
.the fact that the mail order houses
have seen their best days, this being
| xeen in the announcement from big
departasent stores that have done
away with their mail order depart
ment*.
{ Using th* 16 million dollar loas sus
tained In 1M1 by Sears, Roebuck and
Company, probably the largest mail
. «rder house in this country, as a basis
the New York publication queried
business men and retailers ia all sec
tion* of the country and from the
response* gives the following reasons
for the decline in all mail order busi
nesses.
"Various causes are aacribed in the
decreaaed business of the big mail
I order houses in Chicago. The most
general opinion is that it was due
mainly to the lowered buying power
|Of tha farmer. The inability of keep
ing up with a declining market with
a bulky and expensive catalog*). sup
posed to last for months is generally
admitted, and the advantagee of the
small town merchant in such s market
i* pointed oat
• ••V WUH»I/ MIV1VIMHIV, IV w <ir\ l«(
«d, h»« recaptured a great man of
fanner trade in the last year of ex
changing his goods for farm products,
by extending credits and by advertis
ing that his prices are lower than
those shown in any mail order catalog.
This next year is seen as one of great
opportunity for the small retailer. He
may hold the farmer and make far
ther inroads in catalog business or he
msy loss much or little of what he
has gained.
"The influence of the automobile
toward easier and quicker transporta
tion is admitted by many business
men interviewed to have hurt the mail
order bualneas. It is much more de
sirable to motor to the nearest town
and purchase over the counter, that
the catalog is doomed to a speedy
death, some declare. They believe
the best days of the mail order houses
are in the past"
A Log Rat Trap
Mr. Brownlow Traywtck of New
Salem township has perhaps had
more tales told about him than any
body in the county. Whatever else may
! he ssid shout Brownlow, he is no fool.
! For some time he has been troubled
with rats about his barn. He tried
' poisoning and that wouldn't work, for
they were wise old fellftw*. Finally
i he originated a plan of his own. He
I went into the woods and sawed a
hollow log about eight fset long and
| nailed s plank over one end, leaving
'■ the other open. He plscsd the log hi
his barn and piled fodder upon It and |
! waited a few days for the rats to
lesm that it was an excellent place
in which to hide. Then hs went back
to the bam and moved his fodder
and raised cans in general. The rata
at once took refuge In the hollow
log. Brownlow then closed in upon
them and stopped up the end of the
log that had been left open and ths
rata were at his mercy. He took Ms
log full of rats to an open field and
killed twenty-five, from grand-father
to grandson.
When the writer waa a boy on the
farm an old-time log barn stood la
the lot near the crib. There was a
hollow log in that barn and many
times have I seen Mg rata ran Into
that log and make their escape/Par
haps Brownlow has had a similar
experience which suggested to htm ths
lliadMlllj of making a wholesale
j killing through ths Ms of a hollow
log that coold he i—wind and carri
ed bits an open flsU where the rata
of tasking a get-away.
ir,; d '-f , -'Afajfrn
SIX MONTHS IN JAIL
BUT HE WONT SQUEAL
Rmggmd MowUiMif ia Priaoi
UqMT Mi LMMl
"I didnl mi ta*w the ■till wm
In there until om day my wife Muri
me about the noiae down tha branch,"
dwelaree Krvln Hardin, »bwl <3 years
old, who haa completed the Itrp part
allowing • atlll to be o para tod on Kla
land. »le waa convicted by tha federal
aourt sitting at Salisbury, and wm
aant to tha Iradall jail to Mf-ra kla
sentence, says tha Stateavilto Sentinel
Hla home ia in WilkM county near
tha fork* of tha Hunting ereek, Hum
mo r» townahip
Frienda of tha old man My that ha
la serving tha aantonca rather than
"sqoeel" on hia f rienda whom ha knew
were operating the still, bat when •
newapaper man Mked him about that
he toughed heartily, and said, "Let's
let that paaa."
' Mr. Hardin ia typical of tha Bnuby
mountain foothill native. He ia
stocky, muscular m a wrMtler, and
hM a wildcat glMm in hia eyaa. He
Iim iron grey hair, gkmay m a Nor
man, and a face M clear of hardened
tinea as a Salvation army leader.
"You didnt even knov tha *tU<
waa there until it bad been tha .a
several days?" he wm aaked.
"Not a vd," the old man said,
"One day I came in fro* the fields
and the old woman aaked me what
that noise down the branch wm
about. I told her I didnt know« but
I'd go down and see. When I went
I found out what wm being dona. Tha
still had been there about three or
four days," be Mid.
"Did you know the me iT"
"I aint atolling that," he replied.
"Ware they your boys?" he wm
"I ain't stalling that either," he
Mid.
Iron
with the still?"
"Well, the officers found it on ay
land, it waa within a few hundred
yards of my home, and they found
some whiskey-making stuff at sty
barn. They concluded that I most
be the guilty one, arrested me, and
hers I am in Jail.""
The old man did not know how old
St waa, hot remembered how old he
fu when he waa married, and how
'ong it had been since he was married;
<o placing the two together, it waa
found that he was about 62 years old.
"1 cant read a word or write a
word," he explained. "That's why I
don't know exactly how old I am. We
have a record, which is kept by my
daughter, in the family Bible at home.
"There were n« such things as
schools when I was .growing up," he
said using words almost as well
chosen ft» the ones the writer Has
chosen for him. "I never saw inside
a school house, never learned a single
one of the letters of the alphabet, and
never learned to write a word."
This old man has not laid down hia
life for a friend but he certainly has
laid out six months of it for a group
of friends, those who know him say.
"Yes, we know it is a violation of
the law to make whiskey," he said,
"but you know a fellow gets in the
habit of doing a thing and he doesnt
like to be pestered about it. I'm
through with this business of making
whiskey, though," he , declared, "and
when I get out of this I'm going home
to the old woman, and we axe going
to dig a living out of that little farm,
and we are going to be happy, and the
next time we hear 'noises down the
branch' we are going to send the dogs
after than, and If they dont move.
Uncle Sam has a pack that will make
them skeedaddle."
Old Lsadw Bullets as big as
Hazelnuts
Burlington, Feb. 1.—White flowing
on his farm recently, C. W. -Keck,
whose farm coven a portion of the
Alamance battleground, plowed op
several old leaden bullets, ranging in
siae frpm a large pea to a full siaed
hazelnut. The bullets ate battered
and disfigured to mmj extort, indi
cating that they were used during the
battle that took place betwyew the
British soldiers and the regulators.
One of the balla bean stark* ef hav
ing penetrated a human body. Three
of the bullets ban been pot en dis
play in tbe windew ef the loeal
look upon than an mUad of the
battle of Alaasaaee daring tbe his
torical days sf lbs imMts.
.TOWI WATSON IS STORMY
PETREL AT THE CAPITA!
Pkry Gi«r|l« 3«—>or ia Aa
Anti- mm Aajrtliiaf Khjontj
j May Ph»mi
j Waahlnrton. Fab. I.—If rrvry body
la agreed on a queation then
•nator Tom Wataon will oppoaa tt
That la tha conaenaoa of opinion
mong national legislator* who hart
watched thla fiery Owtilaii during
nearly • raar of tumultuous contort,
with Indication* that ha will continue
'« keep tha Upper House la an upvoa*
•hruout tha fWe year* ha attll haa to
aatia. ,
Senator Watson waa elected a mm
H»r of Congre* in ISM on tkc wan
i of Populist sentiment, earring on*
term. In IMC ha waa nominated
| for tha vkre-peeeMency by tha St
t^oii Popullat convention, which en
<ior*ed Bryaa for tha preaidentia!
nomination.
| TV Georgia legislator haa arouaad
variooa Catholic organteatiooa to pr»
[teat against hia aanata naatmhi)
land to demand that ha ha aaaaatad
Wataon iirritad Senator Moaaa and
other* to cobm outside tha aanati
hamber to aattla diffaraacaa. B<
haa elaahad verbally with Seaatoi
Penroae and than ueed many haral
word* against Panroaa ia a long
harangue. Wataon supported Willlan
J. Simmons, head of tha Ku Khu
Klan, in tha imperial wixard'a taati
mony before the hooae rulea commit
tea. Hia aanaatioaal chargaa oi
wholaaala haa (far* in tha American
Exp-ditionary Forcee arooaad th«
country and led to aa official hrveati
ration.
Whenever Wataon fata up to apeak
on tha floor of the aanata aomething
i* aura to happen. He haa found that
tnaaa speechea get* hia name Hi tha
nrwapapera, and he dialikaa thia not
I at all.
In 1910 Wataon publiahad a book,
"The Roman Catholic Hierarchy,"
i which got him into a let of troabie
*nd cauaed hia indictment in
Tfr iliftapi ttt t""v"* •»)•»
other aubetltuted on which he waa
•ried. The firat jury diaagreed and
tha aecond acqul'ted him. Wataon
tjven renewed hia anti-Catholic cam
• aiiTi. which haa incraaaed in bitter
ness. necenuy me national war
Council protested a train**, hii use of
(the senate office building aa head
quartan for Ms anti-Catholic cam
paign and aent a letter to aenatora
t -manding that hia mt ha forfeited.
Wateon's pttt ambition aeema to
| he that of an anti. Ha doaa not con
fide himself to personalitiee, and woe
betide the unfortunate man croaaing
hia path. He will threaten a fiat
fight, a duel or elae a speech.
Hia election to the aanata followed
a three-cornered fiirht tn hia own
state for the Democratic nomination
in which he stood aa the anti-Wilaon
I anti-League of Nations and anti-war
measures candidate. He freely ad
mits and is proud of the fact that hii
publications oposed the draft law,
the espionage act and other war
measures. "Thruout the period of
I America's participation in the war
! these publications railed at the gov
ernment, attacked the army and the
i draft law and ever since hare *mt
, tempted to make ft appear that thi*
'government did wrong in entering
' the war.
' Met outside the aenate chamber,
Senator Wataon la personally a
r harming man. He has an engaging
mild manner. Even when he riaea
to hia feet to begin a speech there la
no suggestion of the uproar that he
nrobably will raise before he ia thro.
He begins hia speech In a wall
modulated voice and then work# op
nearly to the, point of frensy when
some one doubts the wisdom of hia
opinions. '
Murderers Will Die by
Lethal Gu in Nevada
Carson City, New., Jan. 90.—Hugie
Sing and E. Z. John will be the first
pair to die by lethal gas, the
means of execution in
lowing their conviction
The sentence waa proiianatsd at
Hawthorne, New., by Judge I. J.
Walah after their slayiag af Wong
Lee ia a recent Tong war. -
The men will die Coring Mm laat
week of April.- The gas will he la
titat week aad unknown
to the occupants. They will ha pro
nounced dead aad the State ia satiafl
ed that Jaatfce la r^aplets.
at
la k Sa fa to Taack Ik*
»
Lyman Abbott tn the
H»»# Ik >nyli of the i
to pru »ida thru tkair
rnlitag of tin
twwtiM of the public «et oolaT
Ha»e they tha -lght to open to
with rellgiooe wiriliai
Mnging and paading of thi
T
Have they tha HfM to teaah to
of tha Mbto?
courtof tha state of Waah
ington has derided that aoder tha mm
atKution of that (tato tha paogl
pooaaaa no ona af thaaa righto. flu
•chool authorities cannot «m aa
amine atixianto to Bible study carrto
'* out of ichool and give them ol
ami nation.
What ia tha BMaf
It is a condition if tha htotory. to
Im and tha literaitor* of an aneiaa
people to whom, mora than to «*
athar ancient paopk wo ara IndeMa
for k>om of tha fnaduaental ilnmiwt
in our modern civilisation.
It ia a collection of tha htotory pea
bably tha flnrt attempt to htotory t
put constitutional limits on tha |
of aa abaolute monarch; to
a national popular ■■■—hl|
toe repraaentatives of tha ptoto pas
pla; to provide popular. If not unives
sal, aoffrage; to guard tha slat
against -tha danger of a laadad alia
tocracy; to make tha priesthood aha*
lotoly dependent on the paopla fa
their subsistence; to provide popoto
| educatkm for the psaaant claaa; I
| create a quasi-federate union of into
j pqpdent states united to ona nations
organization. To tha anciet,t Hebrew!
we are largely indebted for tha geiw
of our political institutions.
Thort) la not in any literature, a*
cient or modern, a better epitome ot
, moral rights and moral duties
i the Tea CwBj>ntoala and to
|tow tha Mount. To tha Ha
There to not in any literature I
clearer expression of religioua N*
erence for a God of Character aa fc
tingutohed from a God of power thai
the 183rd Psalm. To the Hebmn
we are largely indebted for our w
liftk>us ideals.
There to not hi any literature i
life more worthy of our following 01
a character mors worthy of our rerer
ent admiration than Jeaua of Mas'
areth. Pagan, Jew. and Chrtotiaa
unite in tribute* to him.
There to no one collection of Bay
llsh literature which furnishes tin
pupil so many Illustrations of |Kin
and elevated English as the Kin|
' James Version of the Bible, now
to which references are so frequ—r
in all literature since the seventeen!!
century.
The hooka ot this unique coltectioa
were written in different epochs b]
authors of different intellectual abO
ity and of widely different temper*
mentor from the moralist to the my*
tic, but all of them inspired by rail
g-ious spirit—that to, a spirit of jus
tice, mercy, reverswA and humility
For this reason the collection . It
rightly claaaed as religious liter*tan
Why should the state forbid lb
youth'from becoming acquainted witl
this ancient literature in the onlj
school* which the majority of Hi
youth will erer attend, the school
established, supported and contvoM
by the state? An overwhelm!*!
majority of the state* encourage M
larger liberty. The few who deay M
aay to their teachers, you may taad
the Vedic hymns but not the Hebcv*
the Greek myth* bat not the Hebre*
stories, the Pimetba of Rochefow
cauld but not the Pimeilia of Sob*
on, the law* of Jua^inlaa bat not tbi
law* of Moae*. the fable* of A*ao|
I but not the parable* of Jeaua. Why)
Because the few ecc le*laitic* are an
willing that the Ribt* should h<
taught aa other colleettaaa of litem
ture are taaght and a few reiiftaM
enthusiasts fear that their dtiUM
will b* contaminated hg th* poblh
reading in the *ebool* of the BmI
which wa* an Iwaplratte* to Gaofp