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VOLUME XXIII
FINAL VISE Os
COMMENCEMENTHELD
ON MONDAY EVENING
Dr. William H. Frazer, of
Queens College, Charlotte,
Delivered Address on the
“Dynamics of Society.”
MISS JARRETT IS
LEADER 0? CLASS
Won Scholarship Medal and
Also Essay Medal—Medals
and Prizes Presented to
the Winners.
The final exercises of commencement
for the Concord High School 'was held
Monday night at Central School. Pre
sentation of certificates of gradmiticAji,
medals and prizes, the announcement of
the winners of the essay and scholar whip
prizes, and an address by l)r. William
H. Fraser, president of Queen's College,
were features of the closing exercises.
To Miss Frances Jarratt went the
honor of making the highest average
among the Seniors and in recognition of
her splendid work she was awarded the
scholarship medal, given each year by
Junior Order No. n 4l). Miss Jarratt also
had the’ distinction, of winding the J. F.
Cannon Essay Medal, given yearly to the
Senior writing the best essay. The essay
medal was presented to her by Mr. J. h.
Hartsell, a member of the school board
aud Dr. G. A. Martin presen fed to het
the scholarship medal. Miss Blanche
Armfield mude the second highest grade,
Prof. Webb stated.
M iss Mary Elizabeth Blackwelder j
won Ho- ltoss Essay modal. Riven yearly
to that Senior writing the second boot
essay. The medal was presenter! by l’rof.
Webb.
The declamation medal, won last Fri
day nigdit by Mr. Eugene Hitchie, was
presented to iiim by'Mr. Hitford Iflnck
welder. and Miss Mary Kldetihour. who
at the same time won the recitation prize,
was presented with it by Prof. Webb.
The class gift, a check for .$75.00, was
presented to the school by ’Mr. Fred
tioodman, class President. The money
will be spent for a platform curtain for
the new. High School building. In ac
cepting the gift Prof. Webb explained
tliut it is the largest gift ever made by a
Senior Class, aud mine from the largest
class i» the bistor.i otetW-school. -
-Mr. L. T. Hartsoll presented the cer
titimtes of graduation. In his short
talk Mr. Hartsell declared there are two
essentials for success. Tile tirst. he
said, is discipline, the second, vision.
"You have irail discipline for eleven
years in the school here," he added, "and
you must use that discipline .in your fu
ture work. The greatest thing any col
lege can give you is vision. If you get
the vision and apply to it the discipline
you hhve secured here, you can make a
success of any work you undertake." The
greatest thing any college can give, Mr.
Hartsell said, is a visiou of life work,
and lie advised the members of the grad
uating class to decide as soon as possi
ble on the life work they plan to take
up.
"Dynamics of Society," was the sub
ject of ail able and interesting address
by I)r. Fraser, who had spoken in Con
cord on former occasions and who is ev
er popular here, it is always a great
pleasure for him to talk to young people,
lie stated at tile beginning ,aud it is an
added pleasure to talk to young people
who are in pursuit of learning.
"Such people are not satisfied merely
to live," lie continued. "They want to
contribute something to civilisation. That
is tlie right spirit. You should strive to
be dynamics of society. The world needs
your dynamic force.
"We are living in an exacting and
demanding age. The very circumstances
call loudly for dynamic manhood and
womanhood. The world is running riot
with pleasure and fun. Diversion has
captured all the time of many who have
not been balanced well. There are a few
thii to make one a dynamic
in society, i
"I. Character. We can never do
more than'we are. Manhood aud woman
hood must fulfill every promise with gen
uine character. When the old King of
Israel lay dying, he summoned his suc
cessor to his bedside aud gave as his
parting command: "Be thou strong and
show thyself a man.” The tasks which
challenge today call in clear-cut demand
for such manhood aud womanhood.
"2. In order to be dynamics of socie
ty, we must relate our lives to the pur
pose for which they were given. A great
statistician recently said that the great
majority of men and women are living
their lives, investing their talents, amass
ing their fortunes and hoarding their
fortunes, as if life had no origin or des
tiny. John says that Jesus, knowing
that He was come from God and went |
to God, girded himself with n towel and
began to wash the disciples’ feet. There
is an intimate relation existing between
the consciousness of who we are, whence
we came, where we go and what we do.
"3. In order to be dynamics of socie
ty, we must also realize that whatever
talent we possess was given for a pur
pose, and that it was not to W kept, but
-to be expressed in terms of service for
man.and God.
"4. In order to be dynamics of society
we must realise that there i> an individ- 1
ual task for everyone of us. When the
Master went into the Temple during its
construction, he laid the plan upon the
trestle board for each workman upon the
sacred edifice. There Ts a plan in which
you and I have a place, a definite individ
ual task assigned to every one of us.
"5. In order to be dynamics of so
ciety, we must be willing to allow our en
ergies to be expressed in hnmWe and ob
scure spheres and insignificant
The Concord Daily Tribune
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TO TEACH PERSONS WHO
ARE NOT IN SCHOOL NOYV
This Plan Being Followed In Many
Parts of the State.
• Hr Oir AnwrlitM ‘■nm.i
* Raleigh. June 5. —In iiue with its pro
gram to stress education among people
not in school in North Carolina in 1023-
1i)24, the Division of Vocational Educa
tion today nnnounokd more funds will he
provided for home economics instruction
and more teachers employed.
"Not only liave we been gratified in
the increased number of girls taking
home economics courses, but also ill the
changed altitude of those interested in
the program, which lias shown itself in
providing more adequate equipment and
assigning more suitable space for labo
ratories in tlie home economies depart
ment," said T. E. Browne, director of
vocational education for the state.
"When tlie state board launched its
program, there were only three schools
taking advantage of the opportunity to
profit from the vocational fund. Today,
there are seventy-one schools being aid
ed in the maintenance of home econo
mics with an enrollment of 2.500 girls.
"Practically all of the new school
buildings, instead of assigning some
dark, unattractive room ill the base
ment, are providing three and some
times four rooms for this very import
ant subject. The failure heretofore to
provide suitable quarters lias been large
ly attributable to the lack of a thorough
understanding of what a genuine course
in home economics imvolves.
"On careful thought any one will re
alize that .if there is any room in tile
building that should be light and attrac
tive, witli such furnishings ami equip
ment as to develop in the girl a love
and appreciation for the psthetic in life
it is the room where she is taught the
fundamentals of liomeinaking. Every
one appreciates the fact that tlie girl's
ideals concerning her home are going to
be largely based upon tlie rooms ill
which she is taught those which are pri
marily designed to make her a belter
homemaker and a more efficient house
beeper.
"In the futdre, we hope that tlie foods
and clothing laboratories will be made
tlie most attractive rooms in the school
building, because today, quite unlike the
past, the home kitchen, where in many
cases the housekeeper herself spends a
great portion of her time, should be one
of the most attractive rooms in the.
house."
Sir. Browne stated" flint while no one
doubted the value of this type of in
struction. the department . officials felt
they also slioult 1 teacli home economics
to groups of mothers and daughters not
in school.
“In a limited way." he said, "tlie
board has co-operated with school au
thorities in the maintenance of evening
classes for mature workers, in several of
our urban centers with remarkably grati
fying results. Some of our most pro
gressive school men have referred to
this work as one of the most popular
and effective phases of educational work
the.v have yet inaugurated.
“Believing in the immediate returns
on instruction for these particular
groups, tlie State Board of Vocational
Education in its plans for 1'123-10(124
is arranging to devote more of its funds
to evening anil part time instruction for
persons who are now out of school. Our
state supervisor. Miss Margaret M. Ed
wards, is vitally interested in this pro
grain.
In a statement last night, Mr. Browne
announced extensive plans to promote
agricultural instruction among tlie farm
ers of the state and cited several in
stances in which this educational work
had brought immediate and definite re
sults.
duties. James Russell T,o\Ycli, in his
wonderful jsieiii. "Tlie Vision of Sir
Launfal,” tells of a knight who went
forth in Hie morning of his life with glis
tening mail anil upon buoyant charger to
seek and recover the Holy Grail. Into
different dimes lie went and sought for
yeari and years in vain. When health
was broken und hope was daunted, when
his mail was rusted and his steed was
faltering and unsteady, with bowed head
aud downcast eyes he rode hack toward
the old castle from which lie had gone,
and he found leper/ whom he had
slighted as he went forth. Now he dis
mounts, takes the only musty crust of
bread in his possession, breaks' it in two
and gives half to the begging le|ier. He
turns to the brook hard by. breaks the
ice over it and fills the battered cup
hanging by his side with water aud
presses this to the leper's lips. Then he
realizes that lie has found the Christ,
and that he was in possession all the
while of the Holy Grail. Henry Van
Dyke tells in tlie storv of 'The Other
w ise Man' something of the same moral.
We are finding in the things that we are
prone to overlook tlie great discoveries
and possessions that we seek.
“‘My day has all gone”—'twas a woman
who spoke,
And she turned her face to the sunset
glow.
“And I have been busy the whole day
long X
Yet for m.v work there is nothing to
show."
"No painting nor sculpture her hand had
wrought;
No laurel of fame her labor had xvon.
What was she doing In all the long day'
Witli nothing to show at tlie set of
sun?
Humbly nml quietly ail the long day
Had her sweet service for others been
' done: ’
Yet for the labors of heart and of hand
What could she show at set of sun?
Ah, she forgot that our Father in Heaven
Ever is watching the work that we do,
And records He keeps of all we forget
Then judges our work with judgment
that is true.
“For an Angel writes down in a volume
of gold
The beautiful deeds that all do below.
Tho’ nothing SHE had at set of sun
The angel Above had something to
show."
CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1923
WORK Os UK
LAUDED IN SPEECH
' B! THE PRESIDENT
Mr. 'Harding Says He Feels
That All Shriners Are Loy
al to the High Standards
6f This Country.
FRATERNITY SPIRIT
DOES MUCH GOOD
But the Spirit of Conspiracy,
Found in Some Organiza
tions, is Harmful for the
United States.
tßy the PreftN.)
Washington. June s.—Justice alone
entitles a fraternal organization to sur
vive and “secret fraternity is. one thing,
secret conspiracy another." President
Harding declared today in an address at
the lmi»erial Council session of tlie Mys
tic Shrine.
Speaking as a Noble of the order, the
President said he liked "the atmosphere
of fraternity," and wished that somehow
fraternity among nations could be
brought about, for with such an uplift
"cruel human warfare will never come
again."
"I like the highly purposed fraternity
because it is our assurance against men
acing organization." the President said.
"In the very naturalness of association
men band together for mischief to exert
misguided zeal, to vent unreasoning mal
ice. to undermine our institutions.
"This isn't fraternity, this is conspir
acy. This isn’t associated uplift, it is
organized destruction'. This is not i
brotherhood, it is the discord of disloy
alty ami a danger to the republic.
"But so long as 20,000,000 of Amer
icans are teaching loyalty to the flag, the
eherishment >of our inherited institutions
and due regard for constituted authority
and the move of liberty under the law,
we may be assured the future is secure."
Mr, Harding addressed the council as
a brother Sliriner after lie had reviewed
tlie annual Shrine parade from a stand
in front of the White House. In his op
ening remarks the President said :
"It is a great pleasure to participate
in this opening session of tlie Council.
It need not be said that 1 cordially join
in the words of welcome and hearty
greetings already uttered.
"I like the atmosphere of frhteetiity.
f rejoice in the knowledge that I am ad
dressing a body where every heartbeat is
loyally American, where every impulse
is American, where every commitment
and consecration arc to tlie republic and
its free institutions."
SENATOR SIMMONS IS
HEARD AT TRINITY
Speaks for Class of 1873. Which is
Staging 50th Annual Reunion,
til) the Associate.! Press.)
Durham, June s.—Senator F. M.
Simmons, of New Bern, expressed the
sentiments of tlie class of 1873 staging
its 50th annual celebration during Trin
ity College commencement here today,
and J. I‘. Gibbous, of Hamlet, delivered
the principal talk at tlie alumni dinner.
Mrs. Zebulon Vance, of Black Moun
tain, was the principal speaker at the
alumnae dinner attended by 250 former
women students.
During the morning some 2,00 per
sons heard Bishop Dobbs, of Brazil, pic
ture ideals as the greatest thing in life
in delivering the commencement sermon.
SMITH SENTENCED TO
SERVE THREE YEARS
May Be Hired Out to Pay Part of the
SI.OOOO Costs in His Case.
IBj the Aneoclnted Plena.
Goldsboro, June s.—Dewey Smith, who
was found guilty of, manslaughter early
Sunday morning in connection with the
slaying fate with an axe, was given a
term of three years by Judge Horton
in Wayne County Criminal Court.
Judge Horton gave the county commis
sioners privilege to iiire Smith out to
pay tlie approximately SI,OOO costs in
the case. *
Smith's defense was that he killed
his father while temporarily insane.
Americans Lead in Helping Rhineland.
Berlin, June 4.—Americans rank
first among the people of the various
nations in the extent to which they
liave contributed toward tile relief of
the Rhineland and Ruhr populations, it
was revenled at a recent meeting of the
German Red Cross. Cash donations
alone included $25,000 received from
the American Red Cross; SB,OOO col
lected by the New York Staatz Zeitung;
$5,000 from residents <if St. Louis, and
$2,000 from the Central Relief Com
mittee in New York.
The Centrnl Relief eonimittee also
sent foodstuffs valued at approximately
$70,000.
Want to Continue Case of Higginbotham
(Br the Associated Press.*
Lake City, Fla., .Tune s.—Counsel for
tlie state and defense here today were ar
guing a motion by tlie defense for con
tinuance for 00 to (X) days in the trial
of Walter Higginbotham, convict whip
ping boss, charged with murder in con
nection with the death of Martin Tabert
of North Dakota. Tabert died while in
a convict camp operated by the Putnam
Lumber Company.
Want to Keep Royalists Down.
Paris, June 5 (By the Associated
Press).—Firm measures to suppress the
royalists’ frequent resortato force were
approved by the chamber ca deputies this
afternoon, designed to compel Premier
Poincare to come forth with a strong
statement promising vigorous action
against the royalist agitation.
New Wheat Disease Has Been s
' Lately Found in This State
Raleigh, June 5.—A wheat disease
new to North Carolina and to the
l nited States < lias recently appeared in ‘
some fields near Mbeolnton, according j
to findings of I)r. F. A. Wolf, plant
pathologist of the North Carolina Ex-1
peri men t Station. Specimens of tlie 1
disease'-were sent into Dr. Wo f by Gar-1
ren Morrison, county agent of Lincoln !
county, and because the disease, was j
new to this state. Ilr. Wolf sent them 1
to Washington whew tlie disease was
found to be the dreaded "Take All.";
"Take All” was first discovered in tlie
Cnited States in 1020 in a few places
in New York State. I,a ter it was
found in Washington and Oregon and I
these affected fields in North Carolina 1
is the third finding of the trouble in j
this country. Other specimens have
just been received from County .Agent
R. W. Graeber, of Iredell comity.
So serious in tlie disease that Dr. A. 1
<4. Robinson of the United States De
partment of Agriculture was sent to
Lincoln county to make a study of tlie
trouble. Accompanied by G. W. Fant.
extension plant disease worker. Garrcn
Morrison, county agent, and a number
of farmers, a trip wfts made over the
infested district where they found, in
the most heavily, infested areas, that
about one-fourth of the wheat crop was
destroyed. Dr. Won states that tlie
disease was easy to locate. The af
fected plans were dwarfed varying in
height from G to 1G inches while the
healthy plants were about four feet in
height. Many of the infected plants
were dying or had already perished at
tlie time of tlie trip. - Tlie lower joints.
HSUS NOTE
Will Be Sent to Entente
Thursday—Nature of the
Note Has Not Been Given
Out Yet.
Berlin. June 5 (By the Associated
Press).—Germany's new reparations
note will be delivered to the entente cap
itals on Thursday afternoon.
Tlie government i 8 not disclosing the
nature of its contents, but is is under
stood the note will specify a prescribed
number of annuities and will suggest
that Germany's capacity for payment be
left to an international committee of ex
perts for .fixation. -r
ROMANCE COMES TO
END AT TWIN CITY
Man Arrested on Charge of Violating
Hotel Law; Father Gets Girl.
Winston-Salem. June 4.—The rom
ance of Frank E. Thayer, who is said
to be from New York or Los Angeles,
and Mary Elizabeth Young, daughter
of l/ovick Young, of Marietta, Georgia,
came to and end here last Sun
day when Thayer was placed under in
fest charged with violating the state
hotel laws. Not being able to give bond
in $1,500, lie was committed to jail to
await hearing in municipal court Mon
day morning. The girl, who is said to
be 18 years old and very pretty, is now
ill the custody of her father, who ar
rived in the city this morning. It is
stated that no charges will be lodged
against her.
When Mary Young disappeared from
Mia rietta about ten days ago, it was
thought at first that she was the victim
of foul play. She and her father, it is
said, will be witnesses in tlie hearing of
Thayer.
TRACES TENNESSEE BACK
NEARLY 50.000 YEARS
Indian Mounds Indicate Civilization
Dates That Far.
Nashville. Tenn.. June 4.- —Some-
where between 25,000 and 10.000 years,
or even longer, may be the age of
civilization in Middle Tennessee, ac
cording to statements made here today
by W. E. Myer, archeologist, who has
bpen delegated by the Smithsonian In
stitution to explore ancient Indian
mounds on the Harpeth River near
"Nashville.
The investigation has been going on
for about six weeks, and there has been
found remains of an ancient campfire,
in the ashes of which are broken animal
bones, fragments of pottery and arrow
heads. Over the remains of tlie camp
fire was found a well-defined layer of
pleistocene blue clay.
New Prison System Working Splendidly.
Raleigh, June 4.—Tlie new prison
system under which the whip and dark
cell were banished as forms of prison
discipline is working splendidly, George
Ross Pou, superintendent of the North
Carolina state prison, declared today fol
lowing a return from an inspection trip
covering the prison camps which are
a part of the state system.
The physical qomlition of these camps.
Mr. I’oii stated, js “up to their usual
high standard.” and while the reports
of sanitary inpection and rating by the
late board of health is not yet available.
Mr. Pou today asserted his belief that
the average score of ihe camps under
his control will be higher than the av
erage score of hotels and cases in the
state.
Senator Long Will Not B« Candidate.
(By the Associated Press.)
Raleigh, June s.—Senator W. L.
Loug, of Roanoke Rapids, in a statement
to The Raleigh Times today, announced
that he will not be a candidate to suc
ceed Representative Claude Kitchin, who
died recently, in Congress.
One veteran worker in a large lace
factory in Nottingham has a record of
having made more than 1,000,000 pairs
of lace curtains during hi£ forty-five
years of service.
. including the leaf sheathes, were dark
ior entirely blackened and enveloped by
I a layer of delicate brown threads,
j These threads are formed by the casual
fungus and in them are inbedded the
black fruit bodies of tlie fungus. Tlie
roots were blackened and more or less
decayed.
I Jlr. Fant was unable to locate tlie
I source of infection. The farmers were
| of tlie opinion that the disease had been
l on their places last year and since the
; seed had been grown on tlie local farms
for several years it seems that tile dis
ease was not brought in with the seed,
j Dr. Wolf states that it will live for
i sometime in infested soil and on the
| stubble or straw.
j “Take All" is one of the most seridus
diseases of wheat known to science and.
as its name indicates, takes nearly all
the wheat that it attaeks. It had been
| watched for several years in foreign
countries to prevent its coming in'to this
country. It was found first in Aus
tralia and later in France. England,
Italy, Germany and Japan. It may
have come to this country in grass seed
as it lives on those grass plants similar
to wheat.
The farmers in Lincoln county are
very much concerned over the trouble
and Dr. Wolf would like for every
farmer finding a disease of this kind in
liis wheat fields to send him a specimen.
It is important that tlie extent of the
troub'e he known so that proper control
measures may be worked out. Speci
mens should be sent to I)r. F. A. Wolk.
Plant Pathologist, College Station, Ra
leigh.
FRENCH SEAIEN WANT
i DAILY II RATIONS
i
Some Threaten to Go on
Strike if Their Wine is
Taken From Them While
i in American Waters.
Paris. Juno 5 (By the Associated
Press). —The threat of stokers and fire
men on French steamers to strike unless
assured they will receive their usual
daily allowance of wine when in New York
harbor has raised an issue that prohi
bition will be made tlie subject of diplo
matic negotiation with Washington.
Meanwhile steamship officials inti
mate that, the LaFuyette sailing from
.Havre on Saturday and other French
ships will be supplied witli tlieir usual
stores of beverage liquors.
The ministers of the merchant marine
and commerce, which have been study
inf closely tlie liquor ruling of the I'nited
States Supreme Court, make the point
that French vessels are French terri
tory and therefore subject to French
law. French views have been incor
porated in the note that will be turned
over to Premier Poincare for transmis
sion to Washington. * It is understood
the communication will insist that the
French seamen retain their titles to two
litres of wine dally.
LUCY GASTON’S POETRY
WINS GIRLS FROM FAGS
Four-Line Verse in Yellow Chalk Con
verts High School Smokers.
, Chicago. June 3—A dash of vivid
yellow, four lines of poetry, aud Lucy
Page Gaston. f<*» of cigarettes, have
blown the smoke away out at Hyde
Park High School. It was loss than
two weeks ago that Miss Gaston, head
of the National Anti-Cigarette League,
turned poet and made herself resjH>n
sible for tlie following anti-nicotine
quatrain:
Since cigarettes seem less provoking
Cnto the ones who do the smoking
Oh. won't some power please compel ’em
To smell themselves as other smefi ’em !
Miss Mildrd Moore. Spanish eaeher
at Hyde Park High School, copied the
lines on the blackboard in room 247.
She chose bright yellow chalk because,
as Miss Gaston advised, ‘.‘color pliychol
ogist.s declared that orange yellow acts
as it mental stimulant, especially on the
imagination.”
; The boys and girls in room 247 let
the yellow verse work on their imagina
tions and they kept their olfactory
nerves on tlie job. The rest was easy.
Friday M iss Moore’s class celebrated a
100 per cent, victory over the Fag and
beat every other room in tlie school in
their ‘.‘clean life campaign," sponsored
Iby Miss" Gaston.
I
Administration Cost Lowest in tlie
Union.
Asheville, .Tune 4, —“Administration
costs of North Carolina are lower than
in any other state in the Union," Gov
ernor Morrison declared in an address
to tlie graduating class of the Biltmore
Hospital, in the All-Souls parish house
tonight. He was heard by a large au
dience.
“Os every dollar provided for taxes
in North Carolina,” continued tlie gover
nor, "only three eeuts are used for ad
ministration costs aud 1)7 cents are used
for discharging the duties of the state
to its people, with every possible effort
being made to care for the broken and
feeble.”
Catholic Church Burnet).
IB) th, Ailnrlllt.il Fr...
Charlton, Mass.. June s.—St. Josephs
Church, the only Catholic edifice in town,
and the Charlton Grammar School, an
adjacent building, were destroyed by fire
late last night. Firemen said tlie origin
of the fire was mysterious.
Arrest 100 Communists.
Tokio, June 5 (By the Associated
Press). —More than 100 prominent com
munists and socialists were arrested to
day, the police charging they were in
a plot to organize a communist state.
20,000 Shr.V»' iW " 5 . (trade
On Pennsylvania Avenue
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* *
* CROP CONDITION *
* IS VERY' BAD *
* *
(By the Associated Press)
* Washington. June s.—" Cotton is *
* showing deterioration in Eastern *
* sections, with considerable replant- *
* ing necessary, and the growth has *
* been delayed by rains and cool &
* weather over large areas." the De- *
* partment of Agriculture today said *
* in its semi-monthly crop review. *
* YVeevils are at work in Southern *
* Texas, it added. *
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THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at an Advance of From
!) to 25 Points.
(By tlie- Associated Press.)
New York. June s.—Tlie cotton mar
ket opened steady at an advance of !)
to 2.» points. Liveiqiool. futures Were
not quite up to expectations, but a con
tinued good spot demand was reported in
tlie English market and there was cover
ing by recent sellers, owing to less fav
orable yveather reports from tlie South.
Cotton futures opened steady: July
20.12; October 23.12: December 22.88;
January 22.58; March 22.53.
PAROLE GRANTED "BI D”
LIPPARD IS REVOKED
Action Taken by Governor Morrison
Follow ing Arrest of I.ippard in Liquor
Charge.
Raleigh, June 5, —Governor Morrison
last night revoked tlie parole of "Bud”
Lippard. Catawba county, who was ar
rested last week charged with violating
the prohibition law. Lippard will have
to serve about four months of a six
months sentence for violating tlie liquor
laws.
Gastonia Methodists Raise S7<!.(K)O to
Apply on tlie Debt.
Gastonia. June 4. —Yesterday was a
red letter day in the history of Main
Street Methodist church of Gastouia.
In the short space of three to four
hours 30 teams of two cacti, or 00 men.
made a canvass of the membership of
the church and secured $76,000 in cash
and bankable notes to be applied on tlie
debt of SIIO,OOO. The campaign; which
started at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon,
comes to a (dose at 8 o’clock Wednesday
evening and at that time it is believed
that the entire amount will have been
secured.
Tliis amount was secured from just
about half the congregation. Because of
the visit to the city of western
Shriners and the further fact that
many people were out of tlie/city at
tending commencements aud for other
reasons, tlie canvassers actually saw
only about one-half of the member
ship. The campaign is being continued
through- Wednesday, the final report lo
be made at prayer meeting Wednesday
night.
Four Tons ILauled Mile for Nickel by
Southern.
Ga., June 5, —Five cents for
handling one ton of freight four miles,
or four tons one mile, was tlie average
received by the Southern Railway Sys
tem during 1022.
Figures, which have just been compil
ed. covering tlie operations of the South
ern for the year, show that 51,327,645
tons were handled, an average distance
of 176.52 miles.
The average amount received by the
Southern for hauling a ton of freight
this distance was $2.24, making tlie re
ceipts for carrying one ton of freight
one mile 1.26 cents —equivalent to carry
ing one ton four miles, or four tous one
mile for a nickel.
These figures cover tile receipts from
every class of freight from sand to silk
shirts and for all distances, from local
hauls of a few miles to transcontinental
shipments and exoorts and imports.
"Bud” I.ippard Again Caught in Liquor
Raid.
Hickory. June 3.-—“ Bud” Lippard
was aj-rested at his home in Catawba
county early today after a raid by
Sheriff George F. Host, who announced
lie seized ten gallons of liquor and took
into custody two Iredell county men
who he said liatf a gallon each. lip
pard is already under suspended sen
tence of two years on conviction of sell
ing liquor and has violated the prohibi
tion law for several years, officers said.
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Stage One of the Greatest
Spectacles Ever Seen in
the Streets of the National
Capital.
PRESIDENT VIEWS
GREAT PARADE
Long Line of Marchers Pre
sented Riot of 'Color.—All
Kinds of Musical Instru
ments Heard.
(By tbv ANMoetnted PreH.
Washington, June s.—Pennsylvania
Avenue, the scene of many historic png
enats. probably never presented a more
colorful picture than it did today as 20.-
000 Nobles of the Mystic Shrine inarch*
<*d over its two miles of •burning sands”
from the capital to Washington Circle.
As the procession moved through "the
(harden of Allah.” reproduced in front
of the White House, it was reviewed by
the President. Noble" Warren G. Hard
ing. and Imperial Potentate George S.
McCandless and his divan.
This parade, one of the four planned
for the 41hh annual convention of the
Shriners, which got underway today, was
designed as the big spectacle of the gath
ering of the Nobles, and it proved all of
that. The long line of marchers present
ed a riot of color that for vividness and
contract scarcely could have been sur
passed. Only a little less picturesque
was the setting with a canopy of red,
yellow and green streamers—the Shrine
colors—overhead and the national colors
blended with these in the decorations of
buildings along the route.
Kuril of the scores of temples in the
line had its drill team and with the
broad the Avenue cleared of
all traffic there was ample room for the
execution of even the most complicated
of formations. But with as many bands
as there were temples, the march was es
sentially one of music. Each band ap
parently sought to outdo its nearest
neighbors with the result that the roll
ing of drums, blaring of bass horns and
shrilling of piccolos' drowned out most
of the applause of the thousands who ov
erflowed the 150,000 "circus'* seats
crowding the sidewalks, and filled win
dows and other vantage ]>oints along the
line of march.
Contributing to the vast volume of inis
ic was almost every conceivable kind of
movable musical instrument from the
pipes of Bagdad to the modern circus
caißojK* -tin- totter tontributed *byvttrtr
Wichita, Kansas, temple.
A broiling sun heat down on the
marchers and spectators alike, and there
were a number of heat prostrations.
Some of the Shriners were forced out of
line long before "The Garden of Allah”
was reached, and the intense heat, more
typical of August than June, made it
exceedingly uncomfortable for everyone.
SOUTHERN WORKERS
WANT MORE WAGES
Want Time ami a Half Pay for Over
time and Sunday Work, Also.
(By the Associated Preift.)
Chicago, June s.—Negotiations have
been started by the federated shop crafts
representing about 54,000 employees of
the Southern Railway system. Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul, and the Chi
cago and Northwestern for an increase
in wages and return of time and a half
pay for overtime, and Sunday work,/
John Scott, secretary of the Railway
Employees Department of the American
Federation of Labor, announced today.
Union representatives are seeking a
return of wages in effect before the
board's cut which caused the federated
shop craft strike last year, Mr. Scott
said, although settlements reached so
far have been at a 3 cents an hour rate,
bringing the men's wages to 73 cents
an hour, three ceuts above the labor
board's rate.
War Breaks Out in Jacksonville Church
Jacksonville, Fla., June 4.—Police
were called to the Eastern Hellenic
Orthodox Church here Sunday after
noou to quell what they described as a
free-for-all tight, resulting, it was said,
from the over-zealouxnexx of the fol
lowers of the two candidates for presi
dent, Gus Felon and John Demos.
The latest circular saw is a disc of pa
per which, driven at high speed* cuts
through a plank of wood as easily as a
steel blade.