TWENTY YZAft ROAM
On .—tin Nm.
Tlwt UctaMf aaffeeeea da aet
kmr about mi* «mM ffll • booh.
TWr know enough to boUd 10-year
Tito tooat aaafal ptoaa of road to
the United fttetoe, maybe In tba
■ttM, la mm ef 1J00 faat naar
Sprtorfteld, IM. It baa ntm baan
aaad by tba pablir and mo wilt ba.
It coat |1M,000 to build, and alnca
It van finished, shoot a yaar ar°,
1100,000 baa baan (pant In deatroying
K. |
Tbta ia caltad tba Bataa experi
mental road, or tha Illinois sxperi
mant, and waa constructed by tha
division of highway* of tb« Illinois
dapartmant of public Work* and'
buildings. In ro-o pa ration with tba
Unitod States huraau of publir road*.
It la surfaced with *am fanaral
type* of pavements appliad in M
way*; aach 200 faat a d if fa rant kind
af materials or combination tba seven
general typea furthar raducibla to
Portland cement concrete, asphaltir
concrete and brick. Up to tha pres
ant, tha road has baan given an
amount of uaa (loadad trucks run
over it) rarafully aatimatod to ba
tha equivalent of tO-yaara normal uaa
af an average haavy-traffic road.
All aorta of surpriaaa for road en
gineers bava baan ravaalad.
Tha brick type, all of them, want
to smash first. No atyla of brick j
pavement baa stood up. Tha plain
brick outlasted the lug - shape. The'
concrete shows up hast. Numerous
sections have stood the pounding,j
which is what they would have got
in 20 years of ordinary use. Some
of the curiosities are these: rein
forced concrete ha* not stood up as
well as ^he plain. Without* excep-1
tion every section that ha* failed,
ba* failed first at the line of traffic j
on the edge of the rrtad. Elaborate I
impact theories have been disprove^.
Hitherto road surfaces have been
made thickeat in the center, narrow
ing to the edges. The Illinois experi-!
merit point* to a reversal of this
process, and a design that will now
be included in the experiment is of
(tonerata six inches thick in the cen
ter. jumping.to nine and a half inche*
two feet from the edges, with a rain- j
forcement bar along the line of traf- j
lie, outside. Tha thick cantor has
been one of tha convention* at road
building, tha Uaa being to
give the necMMty crown for drain
age. Then H probably occurred to
aome engineer that this waa mathe
matically logical, or logically mathe
matical, aince on a narrow road two
wheels, with their burdens, pau over
lbs middle put to every one that
Mini along the edge.
Ktre WMt«rti district engineers of
tfca North Carolina klfhwiy com
■1mion who last week wont to Illinois
to see this tost road sod have ths
numerous rssults explained by the
Illinois engineers found thst road
pad from sll over the c ^ptpr hare
'-been flocking there in a mors or leas
■toady stream. It thutltaeonaa every
body's test road. By means of tast
ing instruments of various sorts,
meticulous records kept ef ths build
ing prone seen, there are to be found
results that bear on every ordinary
problem of road construction. It ie
a post-graduate course for the road
engineer, such as is nowhere else to
bo found. Perhaps ft may be worth
Millions of dollsrs to North Carolina.
The most important fact elicited,
for North Carolinians, however, Is
that road structurs of similar type
to thoae being built by the North
Carolina highway commission an
"proved to have a life of SO yam.
This does not mean they can be
pmlehed up and kept usable for 90
years. It means that except where
sisidints oacur or anforasssn condi
tions develop, these roads will sup
port M years of traffic of suck
unit weights as they are mads to
support, and wiU ha food roads at
th« end ef that period. How much
loacer they sis food for does not
pot sppear. The stone base, as is
«sH snough known, is toad for a
thousand years, unless deliberately
destroyed, as so maeh of that of
Guilford county has been destroyed,
by not heaping a Savsr on H. The
sonerstad stone baas would laat a
tony time, * tentuiy or so maybe,
wiincui 1-nH'i ins,
Mr. Waldrop. of tin fifth district,
who was e< ths inspscting party, also
got a lesson in rial SSI |>sycholdgy,
froas the road between OprlngflsM
and Chisago, which hs eipects to
pat Into application as soon as hs
. * .iL,li
cm |M around to it It Is J oat a
•irtf along tho alMt of the read;
oss Hl^clrtop pq^|^ ofi
concrete. A Mt of aaphalt and Mad,
It la kaft fresh by the maintenance
gangs; and tha way It taift ovary
fallow Attainting on Ma own rida la
nothing abort of woniarftiL It takes
tha bigger part of tha strain oat of
night driving. All tha driver haa to
do la to waltb tha atripe, to know ha
la on. hia own aido, whan mooting a
car; ha la no longer undar tho nocoa
•itjr of chocking by eatimating tha
dlataaca from kia adga, thus aaaaaw
ing hia gaxa bark and forth batwaan
tha car in front and tha ilda of tha
road.
Lenoir To Enforco It* Curfow
Rigidly
Lenoir, Ort. 8.—Lenoir la ona of
tha towna that haa aat a determina
tion to care for the youth of tha
community, and especially where the
parents are tax in parental authority
In allowing their children to have
such hoars as they plaaae and ran
on the atreeta until lata houra in tha
night time. Hence tha curfew law
haa been Invoked, and Mayor V. D.
Guire haa act hia foot down flat and
solid, and givea out to the world
that the city ordinance. No. 27, of
the town of Lenoir will he strictly
enforced according to the letter and
apirit of tl law. Therefore, he has
rauaed the own to be posted to that
effect.
Commencing with the flrat night:
of the first day of- October the "ur
few rang, and the edict went into
effect, and it says: "Children under
the age of 16 years will not be al- '
lowed or the slrcui after 0 o'clork
st nighf. unlers accompanied by ,
Iheir parents. The courthouse bell
will ring at 9 o'clock each nipht. i
Children found or< the Ktreeta after |
that hour can be found by their
parents at the city lock-up, it
ranted." Xim "j
That's Lenoir's new move to keep
the kiddies at home, if their parents
will not look after the matter them
•elves.
NEGRO BURIES HIS MOTH
ER RETURNS TO
PENITENTIARY
Tru»t Imposed in Mom by Got
•rnof Of South Ctroliaa U
Not MUpltead
Colombia, Oct 6.—Arthur Mom,
i negro of Whitmire. vu allowed
by Governor Harvey to home
(torn the state penitentiary, where he
la cervine an IS year sentence, that
be Might bury hie mother. The
rrvsraor let the man have hia free
lom on the proeaiae that he «nM
return at 11 o'clock am thq moraine
of Wednesday, October 4, and
promptly at that hoar the negro
walked into the governor's office,
rod an hour later, after the govern
or had allowed the convict to go
into the baaement of the enpitol to
arrange some boaineaa affairs with
one of the state engineers whom he
bad known for sometime, the peni
tentiary office telephoned the gov
ernor's office to state that Moea had
turned up and was again safe in the
prieon yard.
The governor ftxed one condition
to the leave of a bee nee granted the
Whitmire convict, and that waa that
he telegraph the chief executive
•very day at 14 o'clock, advising
where he waa. Every morning
ihortly after 10 the governor receiv
ed hia telegram.
Moss is in lor IS years, and he has
■erved three. He face* 16 more. The
governor was hnpreeeed with the
negro's straight story and placed
confidence in him. The negro had
not seen his relatives staee he enter
ed the prison, and the chief executive
say* he eottld not turn a deaf ear
to the man's plea to he allowed to
bury .hia aged mother.
Barrett Farfoita Bowl in
tnlisl.TJ
Salisbury, Oct. 1.—J. B. Barrett,
former preeident of the State Federa
tion of Labor, forfeited his bond in
the sum of $100 in county coart by
failing to appear for trial thia morn
ing when the two cases against him
charging carrying a concealed weap
on and drmk and disorderly were
•alad.
The eaaes had previaosly been
continued twice. Judge Purr order
ed s capias si fs returnable in Rowan
aowity ooart on October 14. The
«asee against Barrett developed at
the tim# of hia viait here during the
lhopmen's strike.
INCERSOLLAT HIS
BROTHER'S dUVE
A half MBtery ago Unt h|n<
MO «M MM of Um moat (UHW MM
of UJa in—OJ, and m* of ttaa Ml
hated. H« *m famooa for hia ora
tory and great ability aa • pubUa
apaakar. and hated fciwn of hia
bold attacka on the bible in hia
public aditmaia, delivered, aa many
thought, for tho aolo yarpoaa of
makiar aidUy by tho rata recelpta
ha ehinH hr hia lactam It waa
hia ruatom to bold up to ridicule and
acorn many of tha wall known
charactera of tha biblo, and entertain
hia audiancaa by hia humoroua dia
ruaaiona of tho rharactara famoua to
all torera 6f the biblo. At tha
haifhth of Incoranll'a caraar, hia
brother diad. It developed that tha
infidala, had agraad that at tha death
of one tho other ahouid deliver tha
funeral addreaa.
Thla contract. mad* no doubt in
Jeat, waa faithfully carried out, for
tha younger brother, Kban C. Inrer
aoil, died before be had reached
middle are. The addreaa that Robert
delivered waa of auh a nature aa to
rive tha lie, aa church people *aw it,
to all that he had aaid in hia public
addrraaea about the bibla. It waa
for tbia reaaon that the addreaa waa
the aubjert of every preacher for a
time after it waa delivered. It ia
alao claaaed aa a rem of literature
That haa few equate in any lanruara.
Thinking that many will again
read thia famoun apeech with inter
eat we reproduce It below:
IngrrMtU'H Oration Dfll««r«4 at Hia
Brother'* f»rave
"My friends, I urn going to <k>
that which the dead oft promised ho
would do for nr. Thr loved and
loving brother. husband, father,
friend itied where manhood's morn
ing almost touches moon, and while
the shadows »till were fulling to
ward the west.
He had not Banned on life's high
way the^i'tow^that marks^the highest
uateg'Ms tumni wijir*. fell
Into that dreamless <l<-epthat kisses
down hi* eyelid* »• ill While yet In
love with life nnd raptured with the
world he passed to silence and to
duit.
Yet. after all, It may he beat, just
in the happiest, sunniest hour of all
the voyage, while Mirer wind* are
kissing every sail, to dash against
the unseen nxk, and in an in«tant
hear the billow* roar above a sunken
ship. For whether in nld-M or
among the breaker* of the farther
shore, a wreck at last nuit mark
the end of each and all. And every
life, no matWr if ita 'every ho or I*
rich with love and every moment
jeweled with a Joy, will, at ita close,
become • tragedy a* *ad and deep
%nd dork oo csn bo , wo eon of the
warp and woof of mystory and death.
Tola bravo and tender man in
0*017 atom of life waa oak and rock,
but m the suAbtae ho was vine and
ftowor. He woo the friend of all
hemic souls. Ha climbed the heights
and loft all superstitions far below,
while on hia fore hood foil the golden
dawning of the grander day. He
loved tiie beautiful, and waa with
color, form, and music touched to
tears. He sided with the weak, and
with a willing hand gave alms; with
loyal heart and with purest bonds
he fbithfully discharged all public
trusts. He was a worshipper of
liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A
thousand times I have hoard him
quote those words: "For Justice all
placoe are temples and all seasons
summer." He believed that hapoi
noas waa the only good, reason tbo
only torch, justice the only worship,
humanity the only religion, ond lore
the only prieot. Ho added to the
sum of human Joy; and wore every
one to whom he (Id some loving
service to bring o blossom to his
grave, he would sloop tonight be
neath a wilderness of flowers.
Life is a narrow vale between the
cold and barren peaks of two eterni
ties. We strive in vain to Jong be
yond the heights. We ery aloud,
and the only answer is the echo of
oar wailing cry. Fro* the voic sloes
Ilpe of the unreplyinf dead there
oomoe no word; bat fa the night of
death hope sees a star, aad listening
love can hoar the rootle at a wing.
He who sleeps bote, whoa dying, mis
taking the approach of death for the
return of health, whispered with hie
latest breath: 'I am bettor now."
Let as believe, in spite of doabts
aad dogmas, and tears and fean.
that theee dear words are true of all
the eountleos dead.
Aad now to you who have boon
choeen, from asanas the many Ma
he loved, to do the Last sad office for
the dead, we give Us sacred dust.
Speech cannot ssatoin our love.
There waa, there K no greater,
stronger, manlier man."
Auto TkWfeo Active
In Winston Waiehoaioo
Winston-Salem, Sept t7.—There
appear* to be on organised band of
thieves steeling small oars from the
tobacco warehouses in this city. Five
machine* have disappeared within
the last few days, tern having been
stolen this morning. In every te
sta nee bat one the can were owned
hy formers who had brought tobacco
to the local market.
AUTO AND ARSON
GANG WOKEN UP
Hmd Ma* Htmmmi DoJ
l*r» By Prfwrily Imw
Raleigh. Oat 7.—Penitentiary
wntnwM tar W. 0. MrWk and 1.1
M| Aaaia nri ni<l«t«tl
. We vnVpC*vQ
In Vintf luperior court of MruAif
Inauranee roqppsnlea through Illegal
diapoaitlon jut %utomcbl)ea, Mark
tha final breaking op of an auto and
araon rang that har* baan ingand
for over two year* In tha (haft of i
-urn and their destruction by fira,
and in tha burning of bulldingi, ac
enrding to Inauranee fommiaainnpr
Stacy W Wade.
Sfvt*i men nrraatwf M r uirh Invea
tlirationa, three of yrhnm now have
received aentenrea, put a !>l»rk "pot
on tha roonty of Vance aa the place
of greateat fire riak In the atata,
Mr. Wade aaid. The theft of a atore
of automnbilaa and their deatruction,
and the burning of at laaat two valu
able piece* of buainaaa property
were proved againat tha fang, of
whom Padrirk la alleged to be tha
leader.
Padrirk waa nenteiM-ed by Judge
J. I.loyd Horton to cenra from five
to eight yeara in the atate priaon,
while I,ewi» waa aentenced to from
IH month* to three yeara. Four
other* had previoualy received *en
tencea.
According to investigstion* of the
Insurance department, <-onducted by
H. E. Kennedy and J. K. Scott, de
partment -in»p*ctor*, Padrick and hi*
lieutenant! hail made thouaanda of
d>llar* through the theft of car*
and the collection of inaurance after
'hey had been destroyed. After a
theft the car would he aold to an
Hocomplica of Padrick, Padrick huld
ing a mortgage. trot the lota pay
m«»nt riirkla In llut t i>kiim n/><i
unci ftopp< •<«<•(! purrhmiH, would
he burned. On another occasion. the
inventiirntor* proved, Padrick invited
a friend to go for a ride with him.
On the trip the car nuddenly caught
fire, and the friend teftiftad to the
fire. The inaurance department
alleged and introduced evidence tend
ing to prove that a deliberate abort
circuiting of wirea caused the fire.
Padrick and hia crowd worked
successfully for more than two year*,
lnaurance report* denoted extraordin
ary heavy losses on automobiles in
sured in that section of the state,
but investigators failed to reveal the
' cause. Insurance collecting tricks
were tried once too often, however.
The last one was an attempt to
ban two buildings la Henderson own
ad by Padrick and fatly insured.
While the fire department was an
swering an alarm from one building
the second one on the other end of
the town was burned. The flr» com
pany saved the first building, and an
investigation produced a ball of
towels which had been soaked In
kerosene. One towel bore the las
print of the Raleigh hotel and an
other contained Padrick's laundry
marie, which a Henderson laundry
verified. Investigators also found
that Padrick had a short while pre
viously stopped at the Raleigh hotel.
From these discoveries a chain of
evidence was entwined about the
man that led to his arrest and around
a dozen others who had been
accomplices.
Mr. Wade said the state has not
before experienced such bold work
on an organised scale. Padrick was
■apposed to be well situated in Hen
derson, and was worth considerable
money. Hia evasion of arrest over
a period of two years indicate Us
shrewdness in carrying oat his
schemes.
Danville Tobacco A—tlowocw
Soil 1,460^*4 Pounds
Danville, Va. Oct. 7.—Officii fi
gures on the opening week of the
sale of tobacco in the auction booses
published today revealed a ^record
both in prices and fat the qtAntity
sold. *•
TV figure* of the Danville Tobac
co association reveal that 1<460,M4
pounds of leaf was sold for $479,
600.81, the average being fSl.U per
hundred. The available records fail
to discloe* a first week similar to
this in stse.
Figures of tits receipts of tohaeeo
in the two receiving plant* of the
Co-operative Marketing association
' are not available. It is reported
However that they were heavy and
t.tat most of the tobacco has besa
sold.
WOMAN, AGED ST,.
APPOINTED TO SENATE I
Wmm
Atlanta. 0*. dct
from CwriU ufdaj
lion of bolng the ftnt at
to obtain appointmeat to Iko United|
f utoo miti when Ufa. W. H. Fel
to*, of Carters vine, Go., loag know*
ao tho "frond old woman of Georgia," |
wm appointed by Gov. Thorns*
Hardwick aa senator to succeed tho
Iota Thomas B. Wataon until tho'
November elections when ■ eticees
aor will bo choaon at tho polla. Mrs.
Felton ia *7 years of ago and Km
boon prominent in atate politics for
nearly holf a century.
Mrs. Felton boa accepted the office
and in eapreaaing her gratitude for
the honor stated that it waa going
to thrill the nation when the news
ia conveyed from the lakaa to the
gulf that a woman haa been choaon
to become a member of the United
States senate.
"England borrowed an American
born woman," aaid Mra. Felton, "to
accept a seat in tho Britiah parlia
ment. but noble old Goorgia experi
enced no need to borrow, and she
alone of the 48 atates in the United
States had a governor with courage
to say so, and to confirm the saying
by an executive proclamation."
Before terdering the appointment
to Mra. Felton, Governor Hardwick
through mutual friends offered the
office to Mrs. Thomaa E. Wataon,
widow of Senator Wataon, who. the
governor said, declined it because pf
ill health.
In a statement today Mra. Felton
ciid: "It was eminently fitting that
this position should have been ten
dered to the widow of the late Sena
tor Wataon."
"For mjMll." said Mrs. Krlton in
i. .^rmimrtTvUon UT CWnor tfjt
wick. "I wlih to thank you. express
ly and emphatically, in the name of
thousand* of Georgia women—
wives, mother*. trrandm«th«-nt and
irreat-grandmother* who arc en
thusiastic Georgians and who repre
sent the state in varied tinea of noble
philanthropy and endeavors."
Mr*. Fqlton waa bom in D<-Kalb
rounty, Georgia, June 10, 1835. She
wax the oldest child of Charles and
Eleanor (Swift) Lattiraer. She waa
married October 11, 1863, to Dr. W.
H. Felton, who died in 1909. Fire
children were born to thla union, but
»aly of than, Dr. Howard E. Fel
ton, survives.
Tha now United Statea senator waa
ona of tha two Georgia woman on
tha executive committee at tha Co
lumbian exposition in 18M. S1m ha»
alwaya taken an active and lively lb.
terest in civic affairs. In the inter
est of temperance »he toured Georgia
In 1986-87.
Mrs. Felton kai been one of the
principal exponenta of woman .suf
frage in tha south. She la an active
member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, a member of
the Colonial Dainea of America, and
one of the earliest members of the
Atlanta Woman's club.
She was summoned in the spring
of 1M1 to St Augustine, Florida, for
a conference with the then President
elect, Warren G. Harding. Believing
her to be one of the outatending re
preeentative southern women prompt
ed Mr. Harding to choae her for this i
mission.
Despite her advanced age. Mrs.
Felton is exceptionally active. She
has a lug* political following in
the state and took an active and
positive Stand > for Governor Hard
wick during his recent campaign for
re-election.
Former Deputy Sheriff U ,
iptwcid to State Prison
Asheviila, Sept tl.—Wahe* *r>ok»,
a«e4 41, special deputy eberiff em
ployed by the Biltasore estate, was
found guilty last night by a Jury in
superior court of escond degree mur
der for killing Laurence West, and
Rnsory Lonee, July 18, IMC. Re waa
sentenced by Judge George H. Brown
today to serve 40 years at hard labor
in the state penitentiary.
Brooks appealed from the sentence
and Judge Brawn find bond at $40,
000. Tito defendant drew a torn of
SO yeaia for kilting Lance and 10
years for slaying Weat. Brooks
■howed no signs of emotion as sea
tence waa peased upon hiss. He ap
peered calm. Just aa he has been
throughout the eOtire trial, which
waa one of the hardest fought la
court here in recent years.
• "1
•4,000,000 POUNDS OT
TOBACCO BOUGHT
■»«.rd,4, H U 9aM
LMkwtN, Key.. Oct. tnr
■tilhon >!■* tawtey likw
«n mM lau May by tha tabf
Tnh^ir11 HtMBaM' Pi< MML
• uotkv uiwwiri v«rv|wnm*«
tiatloa to the &. J. RernoVfe Mm
I
eo Mditiiy, The total mmomaH of
awnay hiTohfd in tha uk «mU
not ba known until tha artaal trana
far at the l»af waa inula, officiate of
tha aaaoeiatkm laid
The (ala waa announced by Itmm
C. Stone, preaidant of tha aaaoeia
tlon. who Hid that a part of tha
loaf waa bain* purrhaaad for export
The transaction rapraaaotad tha
larraat aala of buricy tobacco to a
ulnffla manufacturer in tha history of
the Induatry, association officials da
clarod.
Tha «ale today practically rleaaad
oat the utocka in tha hand* of the
rmwtn' co-operative organisation,
official* said.
Father Drown* Hi* Throe
Little Tot* And Then
Kill* Himself
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 9.—The
bodies of a father and hia three
children lay side by aid* in an under
taking establishment her* today,
victims of a tragedy laat night. The
children, Ethelyn, ft; Grace, 2. and
Russell. six month*, were drowned
in a bath tub at their home by the
father, William E. Wheeler, who
thos 'r»r4 m let into hia brain.
Deapnndenry because of inability to
obtain employment waa responsible
for the crime. mIIm said. Mr*.
Whcwltr <11 am warm! tuuy^ mft^r
she nad returned home from cborrK
A note protruding fmm beneath the
bathroom door told of the art of her
husband and gave instructions as to
the disposition of hia body and the
furniture in the houae. It read in
part:
"Dear Milly: "It had to come at
laat I ran see no other way oat.
Pay up every bill. That'* what I
did it for. I'm taking the kiddie*
with me so you and no one else can
*ay that I left them a burden on yon.
If 1 were to hang on longer it woold
be the same old story."
Mr*. Wheeler ewooned after the
bathroom doer waa b re ken dew* fcy
a hoarder. She told police that Mr
huaband appeared to be ia eKeelleat
spirits when ah* left for efeareh.
The children were found claaped
in each other** anna *a th* butt—
of th* tab, which waa half filled
with water. Th* father hone ever
th* edge of the tab, still rlstchhf
the pistol from which he fired the
fatal shot.
SIDNA EDWARDS AND
FRIEL ALLEN FREED
Were Two Of Tho Six Mm
Convicted For Famous Htlla
villa Shooting
Richmond. Va., Oct. 7.—Sidna Ed
wards and Priel Allen, two of six
men convicted of shooting up th*
courthouse at Hillaville in Hit,
were given conditional pardons her*
SyGovemor E. L. Trtnkle.