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MTABUSHED 1 8 80 MOUNT AST. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JUNE lit. 1M2. PER YRAR Df ADVANCE. TOBACCO GROWERS' MACHINE RUNNING SMOOTHLY Nm Frwa Barley Grower* in Kaatocky Eaoour.giog, 34 Important M««dn|i Plana «d , Raleigh. Max 27- —-Aeauranca that Om Tobacco Gr»wm Co-operative A» ^ociation ha* now developed all ita ■tepartmenU to the point where every phase of marketing ita hgndnda of million* of pounda will five aatisfac ■ ian to the 70,000 member* throughout tha belt, waa given by the heada of warehouse and leaf departments to the board of director* of the- aaaocia tion at it* monthly meeting held in Richmond, Va., laat weak. Richard R. Patterson, manager of the Leaf Department made clear the great advantage to be gained by the thousands of organised growers whose tobacco will be handled under a uni form system of grading and in large sad readily salable quantities. T. C. Watkins, director of ware house* for North Carolina, Virginic and South Carolina, emphasised the even distribution of marketing point* throughout the belt and the advantage to the tobacco farmers of building up ♦he home market*. With more than a thousand new members now joining the Association every week and a series of S4 import unt meetings planned from May 30th to June 3rd,'M. O. Wilson, secretary if the asaociation and director of Field Service, states that from pres ent sign* North Carolina and Sooth Carolina will follow the lead ?f Vir ginia in affecting an 80 per cent Mgn-up «f tobacco in the A*aociatk>n hefare the market* open. A golden torrent pouTed into the picket* of Kentucky Tobacco Grower* last week when ten million dollars in the form of 75,000 checak was paid throughout the entire barley belt to *0,000 grower* In Kentucky, Ohio and Indian*. rnrre thousand more tobacco grow e*s joined the hurley pool during thin xecond payment wlien the growers 'earned that third and final payment will aoon be made by office™ of the Burley Tobacco Grower's Association Not only will Kentucky tobacco arn>we»r gain higher prices than the unorganized fanners, who an Id on the open market hut according to the new* from Lexington headquarters of the hurley aaaociation, they will alao make this additional profit after completing their first payment on the -warehouses, which are to become the property of <10,000 tobacco growers. Aaron Sapiro, who ia the principal speaker at the graduating exerciaea of North Carolina State College this week will address the greatest maas meeting of the campaign at Waahing toa, Farmville. New Bern, Kinaton and Goldaboro. A dispatch from Shelbyville, Ken tucky, recently received at Raleigh headquarters of the Tobacco Growers' Association describes payment of the second advance to the organised farmers as follows: "Approximately (650,000 was distri buted here today among 2,500 tobacco growers of Shelby county who are members of the Burley Growers' •Co-operative Marketing Association. The payments were made at the big barley warehouse, where a force of twenty-five clerks wnt on duty before 1 o'clock this morning, and had com pleted the distribution of the IjMO <*Wka by 4 o'clock thia afternoon. From early morning until late thia evening the atreeta were thronged with the largeat crowd aen in Shelby - ville in many year* The fire bank a of the city did a ruahing huaineaa opening earlier and cloaing at a later Vour than uaual. For the accommodation of tha viait ora the King'* Daughter* aerved din ner* and lancheona in the park facing the coorthouae and alao at the barley warehouse. The American Legion feand of fifteen piece* played through out the day on the public aqua re. and *n the afternoon a haaeball game waa atagtd." Diapatchea from other eountiea of Kentucky described the gala day on which Kentucky farmer* celebrated tha commute aurceaa cf their organi sation for co cutratlw market*. Over 4,0O»i contract* have reached Italeigh heioquartara in racaot aad last week j »to the ENDORSE POTEAT OF WAKE FOREST Board of TnuteM Gin Urni moui Approval to PtnUmI Wake roiMt, May 28.—Unaquivo cal and unanimous endoriMint at the religious views of Prwidwt William Louis Poteat by the board of trustees, official reprmntatiTN of th* da nomination of unit fraternities, heretofore banned by tba collate, were the outstanding tvnu of Um second day of th* eighty-seventh com mencement of Wake Forest college today. Tba commencement exMciaaa will cloaa tomorrow morning. Official sanction of the views of Dr. Potest follows extended agitation of the question of evolution in the denominational press and on the floor , of the Southern Baptiat Convention t at its recent meeting in Jacksonville, The trustees took the position that so much criticism has been made of Dr. I Poteat as to demand some official action and the vote of hearty approval was the result. No mention is made in the resolu tion of the word "evolution," but the ' trustees state their approval of the beliefs of Dr. Poteat on what they regard as fundamental truths and enunciate those beliefs, on the basis of sn interview by a committee of the trustees headed by Dr. R. T. Vann. The text of the resolution was reaerv ! ed for first publication in the Biblical Recorded, organ of the denomination, but the specifications of belief art understood to include acceptance of God as the creator of all things, the ; deity and atonement of Christ and of the Bible as an inspired hook and as the source of final authority in mat ters of faith and practice. The res 1 tricting clause In regard to the Bible which prevents any interpretation of ■ the statement aa acceptance of the Bible aa a book of science Is the near est approach in the atatement to reference to Dr. Poteat'* views on evo lution. It is expected here that the official action of the hoard will do much to remove the doubu of tonr mcmhen* j of the denomination who have con-' founded Dr. Poteat'n view* with athe-' ism and will relieve the fear* of tho*<> who have felt there was danger of undue restriction of the teaching of Hcience a* taught in all recognized : college* and univenities. GOVERNOR TALKS ON ENFORCEMENT OF LAW No Room For Criminala la Tkia State, He Toll* Najroea Grec.isboro, May 26.—Urging the negro race in North Carolina to "A vigilant championahip of law and order," Governor Cameron Morriaon, * peaking at the commencement exer ciae* of the Agricultural and Techni cal College here thia afternoon, declar ed that the time ha* cone when the criminala of both racea muat realise that there ia no room for them in thi* State. "It is not enough for the colored man merely to submit to the law," said the Governor, "but he should revere and respect it, for through it is your strength and aafety at all time*. I appeal to you to fall in line with those in authority in this State to aid in driving out law violators.; No matter whether white or blac|i all must come to book in North Carolina and let the criminala know that thiaj is no place for them." indirectly answering the charge that he «aa antagonistic to the negro race, the Governor uid: "Thin Gov ernor of yours that some would have you believe hated you bitterly fought with all his might and obtained great er appropriations for the colored in stitutions in the State at the last ses sion of the General Assembly I made the fight for your college here and I tell you now that 1 dedicate myself anew to do whatever I can in making A. and T. the glory of your I race." A bridge has been designed to span the Hudson river at New York whiclf will be the most important gateway to the West. It# lower deck will ; carry 12 railroad tracks, ita upper ! deck roadway, two and a half time* aa wide aa Fifth Avenue, will take ] care of 17 streams of vehielea. There will still be room on the upper deck for four surface car lines and two sidewalks. Although the bridge will coat $130,000,000 it la believed it will I nay for itaalf by catting the coat of i bringing roods cioaa the Hudson from 1 tUI to A cents a ton. A hone, 61 Man old, is living at Catawtesa, Pennsylvania. He Is the property of a minister who has owned Kim for It yean. The hone la be lieved to he the oldeet la exist lam. FORD'S orm BEST MADE COMMITTEE Houm to Cat Report Not Week; Ford's Offor Not Just What Committor Wub WuK., May 2«.—A comprehensive plan for the development of all §•» ernment properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala., probably will be reports to Congr— by the House military caas mlttw next week. It was announced on pood authority after the committee had discussed proposals for the Muacle Shoals development In executive ses sion. Members of the committee declteed to comment publicly upon the plan under discussion, but it was learned the prevailing attitude of the mem bers was to provide for development of the nitrate fertilizer by watoi power and other activities for which the government's projects might be utilised in peace times as well as pro. viding for nitrates in the event ol war, Attention was directed to the differ ent proposals. Proposal of the Alabama Po-rei company, it was said, contemplated only the development of power. That made by Charles L. Parsons would estsblish a chemical industry. Th« offers of Henry Ford and Frederick Engstrum, it was explained, were the only two which contemplated the development of power nitrate and fer tilizer industries. Some objection wax made in the committee today it was understood to the Engstrum pro posal on the ground that it called foi a cost plus collection agreement, to which there was decided opposition. The Ford offer alone came nearest to complying with the committee's ideas. That offer has been considered para grsph by paragraph during the com mittee's executives deliberations and with the modifications the committee has voted is believed in some authori tative quarter* as the basis for the plan the committee will report to (ongress at an aarly date. < ommittee nxniMn wen- careful tw explain. however. that' the offer rould he accepted by any individual or intrrem, and was not restricted to any single interest. ' Expedition Start* to Salvage Gold of Lost Steamer London, May 22.—What will pro bably rank aa the moat successful submarine treasure-seekinp expedition ever inaugurated is now <>n the point of leaving Portsmouth Dockyard to resume operations. This particular venture is managed by the Admiralty and the Treasury Jointly, and its busi ness is to recover the gold bullion which went to the bottom in the steamship Laurentic when she waa torpedoed in Lough Swilly during the war. Already some 4.000,000 or 5,000,000 pounds worth of gold has been salvag ed. There yet remains 2,000,000 more of it lying at the bottom of the aea, and the salvage ship Racer is going out in search of this "balance." Modern methods of submarine treasure-hunting are very different from those that used to be in vogue. It is no longer necessary to use hand pumps to furnish divers with air while they are below. From the ship's air compressing plant which keep* up 100-lh. pressure, the diver* are "fed." As the air goes to them it passes through the ordinary hand pumps and by the scale of these the attendants can tell whether the divers are being correctly supplied. While he is work inn under the watei the diver keep* in touch with thou* in the ship by mean* of a telephone, the cable of which ia also hi* lifeline. Nor doe* he have to do the lahorioui taik* which uaed to fall upon him. Wreckage ia lifted by a "irrab" dropped down from the ahip. In addition to air-compreaaing plant, a powerful alternating current i natal lation, an air chamber through which diver* pai* after a long dip. and variou* other apecial feature*, a sal vage *hip carrie* a well-fitted work shop. Candidate* Givrn Bat Little Time to Speak Lumberton, May 28.—Forty-odd candidataa apoke bar* tonight in lea* than aa many minutoa at the reception to all county candidataa given by the Goat* club. Their apeachaa were cet abort for them by the novel method ef a dump-cart, the cnsdWatea being precipitated headlong by the time they had told their name and the nume of the office they were running for. The dumping inttadad IT. A. Sinclair, candidate for Jedge, two candidate* for the legislature and one for the State Senate. BAILEY TALKS ON TENANT FARMERS Only Coro is to Ftod m Way for OwMTlKip of Lud Ml Which Thoy Work Chapel HUI, 1Uf 2S.—Joaiah W. Bailey, of lUMgh, format collactor of intamai revenue, addraaaad tba North Caroliaa Club of Um Univer alty laat niifht on "Farm Tenancy, Ita Origin, IU Causes and Ma Cora." In hia opinion, Mr. Bailey said the cure for the present deplorable con dition was aianply this: That there should be found aome way In which tenants of the "cropper" type could come into ownership of the land they work. He did not go into detail aa to just how this end ahould be achiev ed, but he reminded hia hearers that Denmark and New Zealand had found the way and had prospered exceeding ) ly in consoqoenee. "There are today 800,000 aouls in the grip of the system of farm ten ancy of the "cropper" type in North Carolina," said Mr. Bailey, "It is a disgrace to our civilisation. It is really the only serious problem we have. If we can settle this question of the fanners, youll not have any troub'e getting all the subsidx-* y >u need for good roads snd education . and all sorta of public improvements. "North Carolina rannot expect to go ahead faat until this condition is cured. Poverty with hope can not only be endured—it may even be the cause snd inspiration of noble achieve ment. Rut poverty without hope is utterly degrading, there is not om i good thing about it. And it is pov erty of the direst, most hopeless kind under which these 600,000 suffer. "Three hundred thousand of them move every year, and halt' of theae are white people. Men don't move without a cause. "If these were Europeans it would be bad—we ought to feel sorry for i them and wnnt to help them. If 1 they were Chinamen it would be terri I Me. But, God Almighty! these men are Anglo-Saxon, the samr blood aa . jruu i>r mt*. "Now and then [ hear name one nay how shift Irs* and dirty, and untrust worthy, these 'croppers' are, how it la , useless to try to do anything for | them. I say that to think of them as j undeserving our help is treachery— 1 treachery not only to the common wealth but to civilisation and decency. : Give them food—give them enough Hread to eat, and their children milk to drink, and out of their ranks will come lawyers and doctors and college presidents and legislators and nenat j ore, saints and sages. The stuff is | in them, and it will come out if only ' we give them a chance." In diacuaaing remedies, Mr. Bailey i said that the demand for labor in the j mill* of North Carolina was helping I to keep down the number of tenant fanners, but this could absorb only a part of them. Something more than that was needed, and that Something more was the conversion of the tenant into owner. ! "We are not going to be hopeless i about the solution of the problem," he concluded. "We are not going to give jip. A commonwealth in which hard working men cant maintain a reason able hope of getting ahead cant be said to be civiliied, and we are not going to let the present diagraceful condition continue. This new state of , ours, this new age, is going to see to I it that every man who works hard ' hall have Ma chance." In the course of his talk Mr. Bailey paid a most enthusiastic tribute to the University News Letter, issued by E. C. Branson, and the students under Kim. Of all publications he received, i he said, this was the one which he I felt the strongest impulse to preserve. Rockingham Growers to Build Warehouse Reidsville. May 26.—The committee of nine named at the meeting of citlsens here Wednesday morning to provide warehouse facilities for a re ceiving plant in Reidsville for the tobacco growers' cooperative associa tion, met and organised for work. The committee speedily got down to work and the rsaults of its first meeting werih The organisation of a stock company with an authorised capital of 1100,000 to buy land andi build and equip a receiving plant ia Reidsville. The name of the company is the Reidsville Cooperative Ware house Company. Shares of the par ratoe of $M each. The committee subscribed for UJOO worth of stock o« the spot in order to facilitate get ting a charter. L ft. IT—phi u ■ wm named a mmMn «f one to prepare the application for a charter and ssad It to Raleigh at case. DOCTOR SEES CHANGE IN MEDICAL PRACTICE Public Diaeatiaftod With Ser vice That Afani Only «t Car*, Not Prwwttoa 8t Louis, Mo., May X3.—That a transition from individual to organ ized nodical practice to spreading widely wa» aaaoitod here tonight bjr Dr. George E. de Schweinitz, preai dent of the American Medical aaaoeia tion, in hit presidential addreaa be fore the opening meeting of the an nual seaafon. That reform of the curriculum of the undergraduate medical school ie urgently needed, that rural districts are apparently being drained of doc tor*, and that the pabHe la diaaatia fled "with a aervice which ia devoted 1 only to the cat* of maladies and the ■ mending of injuriea," were other aa 1 sertioni in the addreaa. The apeaker, remarking that elin ! lea, health centers, and community 1 hospitals are developing to supply ! communities which are not in con | tact with hoapital and laboratory fa i eilities. and have , encountered some ; opposition, said, "It ia uaetess to dia < regard the fact, that in the worda of ' a thoughtful medical writer, a traa , sit ion from individual to organized practice has begun, and that the movement ipreads widely. The solu i tion of this problem, he continued, "must be undertaken with the protec tion of the rights of the general practioner as a paramount duty. But the general practitioner, proper | ly unwilling to submit to the abroga i tion of professional work, must also : not be unwilling, intelligently and in a spirit of co-operation, to recognize i the desires, the demands, if you ' i hoose, of the people among whom he ( lives to have at their disposal the same advantages which pertain to those who dwell in larger centers. "The public ia not satisfied with a i service which ia devoted only to the cure of maladies and the mending of Injuries, but in very much alive to the advantage* of the prevention of disease and the ' conservation of health: and; he, the prart inner should be equally alive to hi* oppor tunity to secure leadership in such movement*, a leadership which ia hi* to hold and to maintain, provided he approaches the problem in a spirit of co-operation and with a resolute 'will to win.' Dr. de Schweinitx said a recent in vestigation showed that properly conducted preventive medicine in creased the number of people apply ing to the co-operation practioner for treatment, and made his work simpler and more effective. He added that rural hospitals would draw young doctors to region* where they were needed. Dr. de Sehweiniti told of methods being devised to keep country doctor* in touch with medical developments. He mentioned particularly state uni versity extension courses for thia purpose. HOHENZOLLERN GIFT IS OPPOSED Workmen Point Out Sum Wil helm Has Already Received Berlin, May 22.—The Independent Socialist Party here continues to raise a atom of protests agaiist the Prus aian Oovimment'a allege 1 intention to ward the exiled Hohenzollerna "com pensatlon" to the extent of 200,000,000 numerous palaces, estates and other property they owned in Germany. At the protest meeting: held in the Berlin working claas districts last night, angry orators declared that the former Kaiaer, apart from much furniture, silver and linen, has al ready received 70,000,000 marks ac tual cash, but that owing to his cus tomary extravagance, which exile does not seem to have remedied, waa now in penurious condition. It was mentioned that Wilhelm Hohentollern had just written to Ma Berlin friends declaring that "it is wandalous that while profiteers squander money throughout Germany I and my family mast live in com parative want." Evan the majority of the Socialists who do not share the views of extramiata on the question have notified their intention of urging in the Raichstag that "taxation for the last three years most ha da ducted from any lump a urn of ooas pensation allotted to the Hohanaol leraa." Alexandra Dusaaa, Toussaint L'Ou vertare. Bane Ma ran, and many other Writers and achalars of Prance am of Heirs deaeaat.—X SHELL SHOCKED, FORGOT THE GIRL HE WAS TO WED War Vetera*. With Last Mm ory, IhrrM Oat Ha Ha4 Met But Ok* Lincoln, Nab., May 14.—The not- - ranee of aa attack of (hall itlit World War veteran, to forget mUhI| that ha ni pledged to Marry • 8km* City, la., girt. an4 to wad »apth»r | gM whoa he had Mat but oaea. Ilia waa at Deer Lodp Moot, a year ago. | Tha District Court bar*, at WOUa» soa'a requeet baa annulled tha Mm i tana marriage, laavmi him frm ta ' koap hi* former pledge. The Sioux City romance waa incubated after WU liamaon'a return from the war. Bath ha and the girt are Catholics, aad aa William ton had contracted aa un fortanate marriage in hla early youth and had bean legally freed, it waa, neceaaary to wait for a dispensation from Rome before tha ceremony could be performed. Meanwhile Williamaon went te> Montana, where be waa made aa Under Sheriff at Deer Lodge. While there he kept up a constant corres pondence with his fiancee, aad all of his spare time was put in building a house for their joint occupancy when all obstacles had been cleared away. Williamson developed into an expert in running down bootleggers and ia one of the raids was compelled, in hc If-defense, to kill a negro. Brooding over this brought a recur rence of hla old army trouble, the re sult of shall shock. Apparently tha attack came upon him suddenly. He had hut mailed a letter to hia sweet heart, in which he outlined the plans he had made for their early reunion, when memory left him. He met on the street a girl to whom he had been In troduced but a abort time before, aad proposed marriage. She accepted him. and he hurried her to a Justice I or in* reace. tin nrx-rration ™ I ijrain manifested when, just as the"* | Justice was about to sign tbe rarttfi \ rate, he reached over and tore it up. Then he turned his back on the rtrl, marched out of the room and promptly forgot all about her. He never lived with her. , These details were necessarily fur nished by friends of standing in Deer Lodge, to whom the girl he had wedd- » ed and promptly scorned turned for aid and explanation. The affair end ed his usefulness a* an officer in I Montana, and he came to Lincoln and entered the State University as a stn iVnt in mechanical engineering. He is doing this as a Federal Govern ment vocational pupil, and ia part of bix reward for the distinctive service that he performed in the war bat which left him open to attacks sack as the one that caused a sensation <■ Montana. Officials from Deer Lodge eorro t>orat«d Williamson's story in every detail. They said that he was a quiet and gentlemanly chap, and not at all inclined to the sensationalism that marked his marriage there. Tbe in structors at the State University gave testimony to his brilliance as a stu dent. Tbe court thereupon annulled the Montana marriage. The dispensation from Rome had meanwhile reached Williamson, and now that all legal obstacles an re moved, he is going over to Sioux City as soon as his intended fixes the date and marry her. President Refuses to Appaiat Judge Bynum Wash.. M»y 17—Judge W. B. By num, of Greensboro will not be namad Circuit Judge in the fourth district or to any other federal judgeship. This was made plain to Senator Overman today by Preaident Harding, whs IB formed the junior North Carslina senator that ha had definitely decided not to appoint sny man to the fedsml bench whe has reached the age «f sixty years. The information given at the White House is that Judge Bynum is new M years old and therfors not eligible far appointment as • federal judge, ac cording to the rulea laid down by Piertdsnt Harding. Isaac Meekins, of BHaabetk City, •earns the best chance the BapribN cans now have of Lssdtog a North Carolinian en the federal beech. Mr. Meekins la already a sandMts to
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