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Gs* * * * y ASSOCIATED & i PRESS ® i DISPATCHES ® t $ $ $ $ @ * Apl VOLUME XXIII ' CONCORD DOLLAR SALE WEEK JUNE 22 TO 30 Hundreds of Bargains to Be Offered In Concord Merchants Are Determined to Make Dollar Sale Weeki One of Best Trade Events in History of City. SALE BEGINS ON FRIDAY MORNING And Will Continue Through Saturday, June 30th—Spe cial Sale Ads. Are Carried in This Paper. Tlint bargains will be offered by the hundreds in this city during Dollar Sale Week is indicated by reports coming in from merchants today-. Quite a large number of business houses in the city will co-operate in the trade eveut, and everything will be done to make the event a success from the viewpoint of the shop per. The first of the special ads. carrying some of the bargains frre appearing to day, and others.will appear from time to time. The merchants are carrying these advertisments for the purpose of showing before hand just what will be offered when the trade event begins Fri day. For that reason all prospective shoppers should read the ads. carefully so that they may be in position to know •just what they want when they visit the stores. The big trade event will begin on Friday of this week and continue through Saturday, .Tune 30th. Thus shoppers will be offered eight big dollar days, with seasonable goods offered. ' "We are expecting Dollar Sale Week to be oue of the biggest events in the trading history of Concord,” one mer chant stated this moruing. "We are not going to give any special prizes ns waf* done during Trade Week, but we are going to offer bargains by the hundreds, and we expect thousands of ajioppers In take advantage of these bargains.” ”1 am going to present some unusually fine goods at unusually low prices dur --Tag Drtltai-Sate-Week.” another business man stated. “During Trade Week many new customers were attracted to m.v store by the tine bargains offered, and I want to get them back during Dollar Sale Week so they will be con vinced that my store is a logical plate in which to -buy.” With the opening of the Stores Fri day morning the big event starts, and it will continue through the 30th. The bargains will be here in abundance. The wise shopper will be here for them. BA|*TIST WORLD CONGRESS To Meet In Stockholm. Sweden. From July 21 to 27. , (By the Associated Press. I New York. June 10.—The exodus of American Baptists to Stockholm, Swe-‘ den. as delegates to the Baptist World Congress, scheduled to convene in that city July 21-27, began in earnest today with the departure-'of several of the trans-Atlantic litters. A party of 50 or more promineut Bap tists sailed on the Pittsburg for Bremen. Among these were Dr. W. S. Abernethy. pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. Wash ington, and Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin. pas tor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church of New York. On the steamship Kungsholin, sailing direet to Gothenburg, a party of more titan 10() Baptists took passage, most of them being delegates from Swedish churches in the United States. Others in the party included Dr. James M. Ba ker, who has spent 28 years in India, •and Dr. Daniel G. Stevens, of Philadel phia, editor of the Baptist Publication Board, who is taking with him an ex tensive publication display which is to boa part of the exhibit at Stockholm. For the first time-in the history of the Baptist Church, an exhibit has been pre pared that will feature the entire mis sionary. educational, publication and be nevolent work carried on by the 11,000,- 000 Baptists of the world. After the adjournment of the World | Congress it is planned to send this ex- 1 hibit on a tour of the leading capital I cities of Europe, after which it will b£ I brought to- America for display at the | 1024 sessions of the Northern and South ern Baptist Conventions. A large party of Baptists from the Southern Baptist Convention is schedul ed to sail on the steamship Berengaria June 2fl, while the bigges£. party of all, from the Northern Baptists, will go on Juue 30 on the steamship America. Severe Earthquake Recorded Tuesday. Washington, June 10.—Earth tremors were recorded from 5:52 p. m„ to 8:50 p. m. today on the Georgetown university \ seismograph the intensity reselling a maximum between Bill 1 and 8:14. The center of disturbance,' according to Fath er Tondorf. in charge of the observatory, appeared to be in Central or South Am erica. He said the tremors were ‘rather Severe.” In the case of musk, as it comes to the refiner, the odor is so pungent and unpleasant that those who have to examine the pods in which jt comes wear masks covering the nose Hnd mouth,; ? A Chinese gentleman always sends a pair of geese to the lady of his choice, and they' are looked upon • as the emblems of conjugal fidelity. The Concord t> aily Tribune • \ ' /«■ j •**»*#*******#♦ * * * ASA G. CANDLER * * MARRIED AGAIN * * * (By the Associated Dress). -K SK Atlanta. Ga„ June 20.—Asa G. Candler. Sr., wealthy capitalist and tk Si founder of the Coca-Cola Company, Si and Mrs. May Little Kagin. his Si SS stenographer, will be married here SS SS this morning, it became known a S( S£ few hours before the time set for Sf Si the ceremnuy. S^ SS It was announced that immediate- S£ SS ly after the wedding the couple SS Si will leave for Washington, I>. C., on SS S( a short trip. S( * * Atlanta, .Tune 20.—Asa G. Candler. I Sr., aged 72, capitalist, of Atlanta, and j founder of the Coca Cola Company, was i married here today to Mrs. May Little ; Btigiii. 35, a stenographer, with offices in the Candler building. Immediately after the ceremony tile bridal couple left | for Washington, D. C. The ceremony was performed in the chapel of the theological, department at Emory University bj’ the Rev. Ben Lacy, j Jr., pastor of Central Presbyterian I Church, of which the bride is a member. Members of the families of both the \ bride and groom were in attendance. I The bride, a handsome woman of the I brunette type, was becomingly attired in i a traveling costume. The couple 1 will ! make their home in Atlanta after July ! sth, it was announced. MORS OF HUNDREDS IN SAVANNAH SEEK NEGRO 2.000 or More Persons Demand Alleged Assailant of a White Woman. Savafikiah, Ga.. June 20.—With 2.000 persons before the county jail, where Walter Lee. negro, charged with crim inal attack upon a white woman is con fined. and with the number of excited persons increasing every moment, the riot call for tile city nnd county officers was sounded shortly before midnight. Shortly after midnight when the | armed forces about the jail hnd been very perceptibly increased the crowd was addressed by Solicior General Wal ter Hartridge. and by Sheriff Merritt W. Dixon, who declared it was his purpose to protect the prisoner nnd if any at tempt was made to storm the jail there would be bloodshed. Sheriff Dixon’s address did not quiet the crowd. While there was no rush toward the jail it was evident, that there was no intention of dispersing. Sheriff Dixon then gave am order which resulted in half a dozen streams of water being sent into the crowd by the city firemen. Instead of flinching from the water the crowd im mediately began throwing brick at the firemen. In the battle that ensued, a .brick from the dark knocked the sheriff’s pistol from his hand. At 12:20, when two shots had been heard within a block of the jail and Mayor Seobrooks arrival on tiie scene had failed to quiet the clamoring crowd, a call was sent out for military did find at 12:30 a detachment of machine gun men under Major A. Russell Moore, readied the jail and took position. The military company had been put on no tice by the first riot call and had as sembled at the armories, fill of which were within a short distnnee of fhc jail. When the maehinegun men rushed the crowd to push it back, one man on the front line showed resistance and lie was quickly taken in charge and sent, to the. police station. One man in the mob, Claude Parker, Jr., shot in abdomen apparently by some one in the erowd, was sent to a hospital at 12:45 where he died. Chief of Police Hendry was struck in the stomach with a brick but the ex tent of his injuries has not been de termined. Lieut. I. C. Hemly, Jr., of battery C, national guard,' was struck in the face with n brick at 1 o’clock and disabled. Police Lieutenant Sherwood, who fired the first two shots heard in the vicinity j of the jail, fired on some one who hail I hurled'a brick and struck him. He was j not seriously injured nnd is still on duty. 1 ‘ I At 1 :15 a. m„ the military unit un ! der Lieut. Col. J. H. Thompson, had pressed back the crowd two blocks from the jail on all sideß and seems to be in control of the situation. George Bart, son of a baker, has been shot in the arm and taken to a hospital. The man shot in the abdomen and tak en to a hospital died at la. in. His name is Parker. WOULD SELL BONDS ' TO BUILD STATION Southern Railway to Raise Money to Erect New Passenger Station In the City of Greensboro. <Rr the Associated Prmi Washington, June 20.—The Southern Railway asked the Interstate Commerce Commission today for authority to guar antee principal and interest of an issue of 30-year 5 per cent, gold bonds amount ing to $1,300,000, at par, of the Greens boro, N. C., passenger terminal The Southern proposes to pay annual sums as rental for the passenger terminal to cost approximately $1,300,000 to build, whjch will pay the interest on the bond issue, and in addition build up a sinking fund for the retirement of the securities. Neither camels nor elephants, can Jump. CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1923. NOUSTMOTEACT TO STOP TIL IBIP OF GIT IMM Vessel Left Boston Tuesday at Appointed Hour, and is Now Speeding Along With Everything Working Well. ABOUT 450 GUESTS ARE ON THE BOAT Which Could Easily Accom modate Ten Times That Many—Liner Greeted by Perfect Cruise Weather. (By the Associated Press.V Aboard the leviathan, by Wireless to the Associated Press). —Uncle Sa.m's big yachting party aboard the reconditioned Leviathan was bowling along at a 1!) knot ail hour clip at the first reading of the log early today as the nation’s big gest liner steamed her way on the trial trip to West ludian waters. _ The guests, said not to exceed 450, although the list lias not yet beeu com piled. loomed up as a slender group in the vast recesses of ( the vessel which will accommodate nearly ten times its pres ent passenger list. Albert I). Lasker, retiring chairman of the shipping board, and others officially connected with the cruise did not appear before their guests until the vessel was under way. Gossip among the passen gers had it they were in retirement be cause of fast flying rumors that an eleventh hour attempt would bo made to enjoin the trip. On emerging from the seclusion of their cabins the officials as sured their guests that they hnd not been disturbed by the last hour injunc tion tßlk. On a sea as smooth and unruffled as a small iuland lake the big ship is al most without vibration as she smashes through tne water, rfci sifloothl.i did -the' giant glide along that many of the pas sengers were unaware that she was un derway until half an hour or more after leaving the Boston harbor. The commissioners iu charge of tlie trip held a long session with members of the trial board last night and agreed up oh all details of the test program'; THE COTTON MARKET Was Rather Nervous and Unsettled.— Decline for All Montlis Except Aug „ust. , (By the Associated Press.) New York, June 20.—The cotton mar ket was rather nervous and unsettled again this morning. Liverpool cables were lower thau due and the weather map made a favorable impression but the stock market showed a better tone at the opening and it looked as if recent selling hnd left cotton in a firmer tech nical position. There was some selling by local traders and the South, but ear ly offerings were readily taken by cov ering and some trade buying was also reported. The market opened steady at a decline of 2 points to ait advance of 5 points on all months except August, which was 35 points higher. Cotton futures opened steady. July 28.52; Oct 24.10: Dec. 23.63; Jan. 23.43; March 23.42. PRESIDENT SELLS STOCK IN MARION NEWSPAPER Though He No Longer Controls Paper. the President Will StHl Be Associated- With It. , <Hy the Associated "Teas. I Washington, June 20.—President Harding lias disposed of his control of the stock of the Harding Publishing Co., publishers of the Marion Star, to i/ouis H. Brush and Roy I). Moore. The sale, however, did not constitute a complete severance of Mr. Harding’s con nection witli the newspaper, whose edi tor he was for many years. It was an nounced at the White Houset that he would retain some stock in the company and would continue to associate witli the Star in an editorial capncity. Purchasers of the controlling interest of the Star also have bought the Marion Tribune, another afternoon newspaper of the President's home, and for the pres ent will continue publication of the pa per. PRESIDENT HAS GIVEN PARDONS TO SEVERAL Pleas for Clemency for Violators of War Laws Get Consideration of the Presi dent. •By the Associated Press.) Washington, June 2ft.—One of Presi dent Harding’s last official acts before his departure today for the West was to pass judgment on a number of pleas for clemency for persons imprisoned for violation of war laws. It was indicated that in several cases commutations were granted, but officials said no announcement would be made till later in tt)e day. Mrs. G. B. Lewis and son, Burnet, left last week for the eastern part of the state, where they will visit for some time. They made the trip as far as Raleigh in their car, Mr. Lewis accompanying them. Birthdays were kept even as far back as the time of Pharoah. a. 1' , , C. N. Fields President of the Local Democratic Victory Club C. X. Fields, recently appointed tax collector for the city, and for the past several years one of the most prominent Democratic workers, in Cabarrus Coun ty, has been appointed Pl,of dent, of tile Democvntie “Victory Club" which has beeu organized in this city and counffv. The appointment to head this import ant club was offered to Mr. Fields by Mr. Charlie McGee, representing the Demo cratic National Committee. Mr. MeGee was in 'Concord for several hours this morning, and while here offered tile ap pointment to Mr. Fields, who agreed to organize and head the local club. Mr. McGee declared while here that practically every city of 1.000 population in North Carolina, has been organized now and while a club has to have but 2ft members to be officially recognized by the national committee, in many cities in til is State clubs have secured several hundred members. Mr. McGee declared that the national committee expected to enroll 200.000 uctive workers in these lOCIUNTSOr STITT IN Mil. MEETING Morning Session Featured by Reports of Officers and An Address by Secretary of State Everett. (By the Aasoctmreil Press.) Statesville, X. C., June 20.—The sec ond session of the 21st annual conven tion of the North Carolina Merchants Association was called to order this moruing at !) :30 o’clock by President S. P. Burton, who led iu the singing o, "America.” The first thing on the program was the President’s annual report. He reviewed briefly the high spotfCin his administra tion. He recommended greater activity towards see tiring legislation beneficial to the merchants and other business men. In the event tbe neoiujSsWn finds tGov ernor Morrison's proposed line favorable. President Burton recommends the sup port of it by tiie Association. State Secretary J. Paul Leonard fol lowed with his annual report of the ac tivities of the Association, and the mer chants’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Re ports of other officers and committees were read and adopted by the convention. The convention was addressed by Sec retary of State Everett, and bv ("has. S. Xesbit, insurance counselor. SALISBURY BANK MAY BE REOPENED SHORTLY Seek to Save Deiiositors as Much as Possible.—Rockwell Bank to Lose About 15 Per Cent. Salisbury, June til.—Directors of the Peoples National Bank continue to work away trying to arrive at a satisfactory arrangement for the opening of the bank which was closed by them on the Bth. or at least to get the bank’s affairs in such condition as to save the depositors as much as possible. No statement has yet been made pub lic by the officers or by William Fogler, national bank examiner, who is still in charge of the bank. There is a probability that the Bank of Rockwell, which closed the day after the Salisbury bank closed, will open again soon. Meetings of stockholders and directors and depositors are being held and it is understood that a working scheme has been presented whereby the depositors will lose only 15 per cent, of their deposits. The stockholders will cover their stock dollar for dollar and with the use of the surplus, the $16,- 000 of paper considered bad and the SB,OOO which had been loaned to tiie Peoples Bank, will be taken care of and the Rockwell institution can open again for business. The Eskimos give the doctor his fee as soon as he comes. If the patient re covers he keeps it, otherwise he re turns it. Savannah Quiet Again Today After a Rather Stormy Night fßy the Associated Press. , Savannah, Hla.. June 20.—Deserted streets, dark and silent, guarded over by I the keen eyes of the law early today stood out in marked contrast over the stormy scene of u few hofirs before when a mob of more than 2,000 persons assem bled before the jail where Walter la>c, a negro* charged with criminal assault upon a whittj woman, is being held. • A checkup of the number of wounded got underway as soon as possible. Sev eral persons were in the hospital in a more or less serious condition. Oscar 0. Parker. Jr., was the ouly person killed so far as is known, l’urker was shot in the stomach in the onrush of the mob and died a short time later in a hospital. George Bart, a baker's son, is suffering seriously from a wound received in the firing. Chief of Police Hendry is suffering from bruises as a result of having been struck' iu the stomach with a brick. The mob formed shortly before mid night when word spread throughout the city that Lee was being held in the city jail- Sheriff Merrit W. Dixon, tried to disperse the fathering but failed. clubs before the nexi Presidential elec tion. "These 200.000 or more active members give promise of becoming a vi tal factor iu the next Presidential elec tion." Mr. McGee stated. | Mr. Fields has already starred the work of securing the members for the local club. The first 20 men who sign j up will permit the local dub to be offi cially recognized, and Mr. Fields expects Ito enroll many in addition to the origi { mil 20. Persons who desire to become nf- J filiated with the club should communi cate with Mr. Fields at once. I The President /of the Concord Victory Club is one of the mast popular young 'men in the county. He now holds a po -1 sition with the Riehmond-Flowe Com ' pany, and has a wide acquaintance both jin this city and throughout this county. His work for the Democratic party has ; been both conspicuous and successful, and he was offered the Presidency of the local dub in recognition of his faithful -and successful dork for his party. B. Y. P. U, HAD GREAT YEAR, RECORDS SHOW Now 1,180 in State, and Gain in Membership in the Year Has Been Un precedented. <By the A««oe!a1e<l Pread.i High Point. June 20.—The nast year has been the most successful in the his tory of the North Carolina Baptist Young Peoples* Union, said reports made at the 14th annual convention of the organization here today. The reports showed there are now 1.- 180 unions in the state and the gain in membership was declared to be unprec edented. Today’s session of the conven tion which was formally welcomed to High Point last night was devoted to committee reports, discussion of the P». Y. P. 4'. \ problem** (HtoWsso* by J. M. Dockery, of Durham, and Edgar H. Haim, of Goldsboro. Conference of the Senior College, Juu ior anil Intermediate departments of the Union this afternoon were to be follow ed by an hour of meditation conducted by Dr. J. S. Hardaway, of Thomasville. More thau 1.400 delegates are attend ing the convention which will continue through Thursday. RAILWAY WORKERS GET WAGE INCREASE Approximately 2.200 Employes of Bos ton and Albany Railroad Affected. (By tl»c AasoclateA Pre*».) Chicago, June 20.—The brotherhood of railway 4 and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees, has negotiated a wage increase for its members with the Boston & Albany Rail road, ranging from 1 cent to 3 cents an hour, it was announced today. Approxi mately 2,200 employees of the road are affected, aud the increase which will be effective July 1 will involve an aggregate wage advance of SIIB,OOO, it was an nounced. SENATOR SIMMONS SELLS PAM OF VIRGINIA FARM Virginia Manor Sold to Gypsy Smith.— Senator to Live In Hotel. (Hy the &N«M>cfsife«l Free*. Washington, June 20.—Senator, Sim mons, of North Carolina, announced to day the sale of his country home. Vir ginia Manor, about 15 miles from Wash ington to Gypsy Smith, the evangelist. The senator said lie had found the dis tance too great to be covered twice daily during sessions of Congress and lie had decided to return to living in a hotel while hero. With the Manor house the Senator sold one-half of the farm sur rounding it. retaining sixty acres situat ed in the boulevard to Baltimore as a real estate investment. Some people have faith in odd num bers Usually number one- He then ordered out firemen who turned the water on the mob and six streams were used. Bricks were thrown at the firemen. The chief of police was struck and the sheriff’s revolver was knocked from his hand. Meanwhile when the menace continued to grow t roops were called out by Mayor Seabrooks. A detachment of machine gunners under the command of Major A. Bussell Moore reached the jail and took possession. A Rection of the mob began to close in and firing ensued. . It is belived that U was then Barker received his fatal wound. Lieut. I. C. Helmly, Jr., of battery G. national guard, was struck in the face with a brick hurled by the mob. May Establish Military Rule at Savannah Atlanta, June 20.—Governor Hard wick today signed an order authorizing Adjutant General Lewis Pape, to estab lish military rule at Savannah, where a mob threatehed the jail early today to capture a negro held bn a charge of at tacking a white woman, in the event the situation demanded such action. PRESIDENT OFF TOO ' HI LONG DESIRED JOURNEY TD AUSIfI 'First Stop of the Presidential Party Will Be at St. Louis Where the Chief Executive Will Make an Address. SEVERAL SPEECHES WILL BE DELIVERED In This Country Before the ; President Sets Sail j for Alaska—Seventy Persons Are in Presidential Party. (By the Alisucial.d Press.) Washington. June 20.—President Hard ing was on the way today toward realiz ing one of the hopes he lias held' ever since lie entered the White House nearly two and one-half years ago. The Chief Executive has looked for ward practically ever since March 4, 1021. to the time when he could leuve the capitol long enough to visit vast ter- I ritory of Alaska and there study at first hand the problems which he feels are still lacking the solution that will make for proper development of tiie territory. That came today with the departure from Washington of a special train car rying President Harding, Mrs. Harding, and a party of seventy with Alaska as their ultimate destination. Two years ago this summer Mr. Hard ing was too busily engaged in making his administration into running order to think of making a trip to Alaska, al though even then he was convinced there was a problem, or rather a series of problems there that required solution. Last summer he went so far as to con sider nreliminary plans for such a trip but Congress continued in session through the summer-months and he fin ally decided to postpone the visit till this, ypnr. - t ■ - » ’Thi first scheduled stop of the Presi dent's special is at St. Louis late to morrow with the first of the President’s formal addresses there tomorrow night. 50.000 NEGROES HAVE LEFT SOUTH CAROLINA They Have Abandoned 9.234 One-horse Farms. 14.727 Acres of Cottton and Much Corn. Clemson College. June 19. —A survey conducted by the extension service of Clemson College shows that 50,00 ne groes have left 41 counties of ' Sunt h Carolina since November 1. with no re ports available from the other five coun ties. it was announced hero today. Other statistics gathered in the survey were: One horse farms abandoned, 9.234 in 22 counties; cotton abandoned since Mari'll 31. 14.727 acres in 14 counties; corn abandoned 4,600 acres in nine coun ties ; present cotton condition poor in 26 counties; medium in ten; present corn condition poor in nine counties; medium in 21. Tiie average number of negro emi gamts for the 41 counties, reported was 1,217 per county; the average number of farms bandoned was 423 county, and the average cotton acreage abandoned was 1.051 acres per county. McCormick reported the largest exo dus of negroes, with an estimate of 3,600, and other large estimates were: Newber ry 3.500; Orangeburg 3.500; Aiken 2,- 900; Bamberg 2.500 Greenwood 2,440; Cherokee 2,200: Laurens 2,000 and Cal houn 2.000. The survey was conducted by Dr. W. W. Long of the extension service through the county agents working under him. and in tlie counties without agents, through influential citizens. The in formation was obtained from estimates made by farmers, bankers, merchants and other community leaders. THE NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION To Meet at Blowing Rock Tonight.— Adjourn Friday Night. Blowing Rock, N., C„ rune 20.—A1l preparations have been made here for the meeting of the North Carolina Press Association which opens here tonight and will cnotiuue through Saturday. Many important matters are scheduled for con sideration hy the editors and publishers and speeches will be made on subjects of unusual interest. The convention will be called to order tomorrow night by President J. B. Sher rill. of Concord, and the opening session will be taken up by welcoming speeches and responses and nn address by Miss H. M. Berry, Secretary of the North Car olina Good Roads Association. Every phase of newspaper work will be discussed during the convention it is stated, and editors and publishers will relate their views on problems which face newspapers today. Among those who speak, in addition to tiie newspaper editors and publishers, are Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt, President of tiie State Fair Assoeiation. M. L. Shipman. Commis sioner of the Department of Labor and Printing and also historian of the Press Association, and Dr. Henry Louis Smith of Washington and Lee University. Dr. Smith will address the Association on (Jie Lee Memorial School of Journalism which it is proposed to establish, with the 'aid of Southern publishers, at the University «s a memorial to General Robert E. Lee. ****•-+-* ® TODAY’S ® . NEWS ® TODAY ®m®@ ® © $ NO. 146. BELIEVE CRISIS AT MOUNT ETNA PASSED ■SOMETIME IN NIGHT Mountain is Still Sending Out 'Lava, But the Situa tion Now Gives Rise to Hope That Worst is Passed CRATER’S MOUTH IS NOW BIGGER Caused by Terrible Convul sions, s*hich Sent Shower of Hot Ashes and All Surrounding Land. Gatania, .Tune 20 (By the Associated Press).—Some of the latest reports from the countryside stricken by Mount. Etna’s eruption give rise to the hope that the fury of the mountain may have passed its crisis of greatest intensity. However, the situation is generally re garded here as being practically unchang ed. with the mighty stream of lava bear ing slowly but inevitably upon Lingua Glossa. During the nighty the mouth of the critter was enlarged by a renewal of the terrible convulsions, and its tops slipping into the seething interior, were hurled to the skies, tumbling down the sides of the mountain with tremendous clatter. The quantity of ashes emitted by the crater is more abundant than ever. It resembles gray face powder, covering ev erything, penetrating everywhere, and burning the entire landscape under a powdery blanket. Indeed, the whole reg ion has taken on a note of mourning and sadness, which together with the oppres sive liejat gives the country the aspect of dead laud. Thousands of homeless refugees are al ready being eared for by the Bed Cross. POINTS Ol’T WAY TO TBRMINATE LABOR TROUBLES Employers Should Cultivate the Good Will of Tlieir Employees. (By the Associated Press.) St. Louis, June 21).—1f employers would spend half x as much time cultivat ing the friendship, respect and good will of labor as they do fighting labor organ izations there would not be a labor prob lem, Shermaii Rogers, of New York, to day told the delegates to the fourteenth annual convention of Rotary Internation al here. “We waste too much time talkiug about the labor agitator,” the speaker said. “He can only be recognized as. the logical friend of the worker where the management has refused to extend its friendship. "I was in the Seattle shipyards work ing as a helper in 1017 when Charles M. Schwab made his tour of the Amer ican shipbuilding institutions. We’d heard he was a labor hater. “The first instant the great steel man looked us over it was apparent to every man in the buiich that Mr. Schwab real ly liked him. He stepped on that plat form Charles M. Schwab, autocrat, mil lionaire magnate. He stepped off that platform. .>i* minutes later friend Char les. In that short 30 minutes he had de stroyed the hatred that agitators had been building for 15 years. “The world is built on ideals. Labor wants to be square. If labor follows the wrong leader it is not because they want to misunderstand but because the right leader has been asleep at the switch and hasn’t given the men a chance to understand him. “There are three sides to every ques tion—your side, the other fellow’s side aud the right side. I don’t believe there ever was a question in either modern or ancient history where either side to the dispute was 100 per cent, right. "Ninety-five per cent, of men. whether they wear broadcloth or overalls, want to play the game square. Lack of con tact means lack of understanding. "The employer Ims spent a lot of time selling his honesty, his fairness and per sonality to the banker, the wholesaler, the retailer and the public. How much has lie spent trying to sell that same person ality, honesty and fairness to his work men? Solving a labor trouble is not a mysterious affair. It is simply a propo sition of using common horse sense.” With Our Advertisers. The Concord Furniture Company is showing a complete line of Reed and Fi bre furniture. See new ad. today. Don’t overlook the Dollar Day bar gains offered by Musette, Ine. See ad. for particulars. Specialty Hat Shop is offering bargains in single aud dub-l-mesh hair nets and trimmed and nutriinmed hats for Dollar Days. \V. A. Overcash, clothier, will make big reductions for Dollar Days. See new ad. today. Do you want a beautiful complexion? -See Cline’s Pharmacy for toilet prepara tions of all kinds. Pepsodent and Pebecco Tooth Paste at special prices at Gibson Drug Store. An endorsed returned check is an un disputed receipt for a bill paid. Vse this service as offered by the Citizens Bank and Trust Company. The average length of human life in the lttth century was only 18 to 20 years.