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******** * THE WEATHER * Fair tonight and Sat - * urday. Colder tonight * and on the coast Satur * day. Xorthwest winds. VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, Washington Develops j A Bad Case Of Nerves Atmosphere at National Capital So Tense That Innocent Telegram from President to McLean Regarded as Im portant Enough to Demand Immediate Explanation fly DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, By Th? Ad.tnc*) Washington, March 6. ? So-tense has tne atmosphere here become since the Teapot Dome disclosures were made and so sensitive are officials and public men generally about the reck less way in which doubtful imputation is being given to acts which ordinarily would be regarded as routine that Washington is developing a bad case of nerves. The revelation that President Coolidge had sent a telegram to Palm Beach to Edward B. Mc Lean, publisher of the Washing ton Post, agreeing to consult him about the appointments^ commissioner for the District of Columbia, was regarded as of such importance as to require an immediate statement of ex planation by the President. Mr. McLean's telegram* from friends in Washington keeping him posted about tho activities of the committee before which he was to t ? iify he re been made the subjeet of considerable discussion, though when analyzed there isn't a bit of information which Mr. McLean wouldn't have been able to get him self if he had been in Washington from the reporters of his own news paper. Just at the moment the investiga tion is drifting along aimlessly, tne prosecutors hoping that they will stumble on something which will uncover a sensation. " The testimony of Mr. McLean is. of course, await ed with intense interest as he. will be asked no doubt all about his rela tions with Government officials and wTTat he knew about the negotiation of the oil leases by the Doheny and Sinclair Interests, but nobody ex pects him to reveal that he was a principal tn that affair. As an in-, formant, the committee expert** much from him, for he enjoyed the confidence of the highest officials. Meanwhile it begins to look as if the Teapot Dome inquiry will be ov ershadowed by the Veterans' Bureau inquiry and that the real political dynamite for the coming campaign will come out of the latter. Indeed, the renewal of the drive against At torney General Daughert.v is attrib uted to the report that the Veterans' Bureau scandal has already involved some men who were so close to the Attorney General as to excite public curiosity concerning Mr. Daughertv's knowledge or lack of knowledge nf their doings. Is a man responsible for what his friends do? Public of ficials know that on the fringe c? the Government are many who trade on their friendships. Discussion of a successor to At torney General Daugherty has been going on in administration quarters on the assumption that the retire ^ ment of Mr. Daugherty before long is Inevitable. The mention of the name of Judge William Kenyon, who resigned as United States Sena tor from Iowa to accept an appoint ment from President Harding to the Federal bench, has In It Interesting possiHilitles. It Is doubtful, however, whether Judge Kenyon would ac cept. He left the Senate largely be cause he wanted to escape from the political melee. He was then leader of the farm bloc, in fact he was Its mainspring. There was talk of Ken yon for President on the Republican ticket In 1920 and gossip has it that many of the Republican leaders would not be averse to the nomina tion of Kenyon if anything developed to disqualify Mr. Coolldge. Judge Kenyon has the confidence of West ern Republicanism whose air Is so vi tal to the decision of the next presi dential contest. Indeed, a ticket composed of Coolldge for President and Kenyon for Vice President would be a distinct advantage to the Coolldge campaign. Acceptance of the portfolio of Attorney General might bring such confidence throughout the country In the ad ministration of the Department of Justice as to warrant the Coolldge supporters in urging Judge Kenyon to leave the bench, take the Attor ney Generalship and win the Vice Presidential nomination. Mr. Ken you was an assistant Atotrney Gen eral in the Taft administration and made a splendid record in prosecut ing the trusts. Judge Kenyon did not partlcfpat ? in the selection of Mr. Itrookhart, as Republican Senator from Iowa, but he was not displeased by tin choice. He Is by no means unsym pathetic with the Rrookheart atti tude, something which the conserva tives of the East would have to swallow If they drafted Kenyon. DEBARKED LAWYER TELLS ON THE REST Raleigh, March 7. ? With chargea being reported agalnat several law yer* the Wake Connty bar will meet thla afterncmn to connlrier mean* or bringing to JiiMlce membera practic ing unethically, while one member Already barred aaya he will tell all he knonra to Judge Grady. Hood Bank Opens And Business Good First Day, Thursday, Wa? Good One, And Friday Even Better The new Hood System Industrial I Dank had good business on its open : ins day and indications of still bet ter business on its second day, ac cording to Ourney P. Hood, promo ter and organizer of the bank, when seen shortly before noon Friday. I "Quite a number of application* i for loans were received and passed 'on Thursday," said Mr. Hood, and j even more are coming in to-day, ac cording to present indications. I The Hood System Industrial Bank, j like the Morris Plan banks, does not receive money on deposit; but makes loans payable in weekly or monthly installments. r At the Hood System Industrial Dank loans may be obtained in amounts ranging from $15 upward, and paymenta.may be made at the ? rate of 50 cents or more a week, depending on th? amount of the 1 Ofk n . "Character rather than property is the basis of loans made by the new bank," says Mr. Hood, "and no young man who has a reputation for honesty and for dependability In i meeting his financial obligations need feel any hesitancy in approach ing the Hood bank for a loan, wheth j er he has any property or not." Aside from the service which it offers to wage earners and workers ; on salary, the new bank is expected to be a most convenient institution to furniture stores, to music stores, to concerns selling automobiles, or j to any firm doing business on an installment basis, as the Hood bank will discount the paper of these houses. "Nothing has grown in the last generation." says Mr. Hood, "like the installment business, and vet, without an industrial bank, Eliza beth City has been without a bank ing agency designed to serve busl jnesses of this sort." The Hood bank Is also expected to take rank along with the build ing and loan associations as a mean5' of encouraging thrift among wage earners and salaried workers, as. in addition to making loans, the bank will sell securities such as the farm mortgages of the Southern Trust Company and the bonds of the Vir ginia-Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank on the weekly or monthly In stallment plan. Gurney P. Hood, founder of the Hood System Industrial Bank and originator of the Hood System of loans payable on the weekly and monthly Installment plan, which Is now used by many commercial banks in this and other states, came to Elizabeth City from Tarboro to take the position of vice president and cashier of the Carolina Banking & Trust Company when it opened its doors for business about three years ago. It was last autumn that he became convinced that he should de vote his full time to the Hood Loan System and In October he resigned as cashier of the Carolina Banking Se Trust Company with that end In view. As a result, the Hood Loan Sys tem has been Introduced In manv commercial banks In North Carol Inn and Virginia and ftllzahoth Cltv ha.i In oj ration Its first industrial' bank. Mr. Hood has also received many letters inquiring as to the possibil ity of his undertaking the promotion of Hood System industrial banks in other towns In North Carolina. W. T. M\ON DEAD Winfall. March. 7.? Wm. T. Nixon died Monday morning of pneumonia and was buried Wednesday after noon In the family burvlng ground He leaves his widow and four chil dren. T. W. Nixon, Sue, Mary, and Alma, and several grandchildren. TWENTY AUTOMOBILES ANO TRUCKS BUKISED Klnston. March 7. ? Fire costing $20,000 destroyed the Overland ga rage here last night* burning about twenty automobiles and trucks. Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Pendleton. Miss Mattle Banks. Frances Pendle |ton. and Hazel Pendleton motored to Norfolk Thursday. Charge! The above is an exclusive photo of the only women colonels In the U. S. Army. They are. left to right. Colonel Maxine Brown and Colonel. Elsie Janis. Both titles were earned for the entertaining and recruiting work of the two beautiful woolen. Photo taken In New York. KING HUSSEIN ACCEPTS OFFEK OF CALIPHATE (By Th? Auociatrd Preia) Washington, March 7 ? King Hus sein of the Hedjaz has accepted the offer of the caliphate from the Moslems of Mespotamia, Tranjor (lania. and the Hedjaz. who have proclaimed him caliph. The Transjordania states that it is expected that the other Arab Mos lem countries will follow their lead in selecting him as the head of the Islamic world. ORCHESTRA LEADER JUMPS TO HIS DEATH N^w York March 7 ? DY\ Carlos Dp Mandel. composer and orchestra leader, today fell or jumped to his death from the roof of a 15 story apartment building. AGKD NKXiltO I)KAI> Winfall. March 7. ? Old "Uncle" Oeorge Hall, colored, died Wednes day. following a stroke of paralysis Monday. He was highly respected in the community. One Graduate In Four Uses College Training The Other Three Go in Bn*ine?s utiri Promptly Forget All But Disciplinary I^smhw or OonrncH in Some Way Linked Willi Vocational Training ny ltOIIKHT T. HMAI.I, Copyright. I'll*, toy Tha Adtiinct -jTciT tuim tnuivu i. V/'?ih-k? uuu university presidents are not un mindful of the shafts of fierce criti cism which have been hurled at the under graduates of both sexes 're cently. but they are very generally agreed that what are referred to to day as "collegiate" eccentricities are but a passing phase of youth which will correct itself. The recent at tempt to attribute immorality and unsavory conditions in the East Side dance halls of New York to the col lego spirit, turned loose in a lower stratum of society, ulmost broke the camel's back of tolerance in the uni versities. but even that has been al lowed to go by without serious com ment from the university heads. A far greater problem than a few youthful excesses, a few smart and sophisticated college sayings. Is en gaging the attention of the college faculties jind the older alnmni of the country's institutions of learning. They are endeavoring to find out what become* of the college man af ter graduation and why. Thcv are wondering !f something is wrong with the college courses as they have hei n followed for generations and why it is that so few college men ac tually apply In after-life the studies to which they devote so much time In their college years. There \n In progress today an ex change of views between college heads on this subject and there Is no doubt that It Is attracting the most serious attention of the coun try's higher educators. "fob hunting" by the college graduate Is one of the humiliating aspects of t*ie nitunttcn. 1'resldent Angell of Yale has called the atten tion of his fellow educators to this subject and bluntly has said that no one r.imlllar with the process of Job hunting by seniors and young grad uates. can feel entire satisfaction with the methods often employed at present, nor with certain of the re sults achieved. A Greek letter fraternity recently made a poll of its members who had been graduated from 2* different In stitutions. Out of 400 names can vassed. It was found that 25 grad uates had become teachers. 24 were lawyers, 19 were physicians. 18 en gineers, nine were editors or pub ushers, throe were chemists, and more than 300 wore cnKaKod in buj iness. It was figured on thia basis that only one graduate hi four from the university intends or la permitted in after-life to make line of the things ho learna in hia college years in the sens** that those who follow the pro feaalona do. Three-fourtha of all the ooUfgo graduates. It can be estimated, go in to business pursuits, casting aside their degreea in letters and not em ploying in any direct manner the academic or cultural couraea they followed in school. Some of the educators apparently are becoming convinced thai It must become the function of the univers ity not to teach a man alone how he should live but how to make .1 ! living. The United States la a commercial nation. The percentage of persons engaged in literary and scientific pursuits Is not so great as In most of the European countries. There fore the student trained along utlll tatian lines is leaving hia more lit erary fellow far behind In achieve ments outside the college walls, or at least in the first and principal achievement of making a living. Colleges, it is admitted, are being forced to consider new courses or the extension of present courses i dealing with what may be called the I commercial side of life. President Angell believes that a great deal can be done bv assisting , the student in choosing his course; and estimating hia own fitness for different life occupations. Moat stu dents upon entering college have th?-' vaguest sort of notion a a to what their future la to be, and they drift, aJBHK without any particular pur-] pose in mind other than the advan tage of a "higher education." Kducators who have discussed thin j subject with the writer naturally re-, sent the over-commercialization of the colleges. They also resent the J notion that the university shall de vote Itself to teaching a man solely ! along the lines of becoming a finan cial success. Yet they all seem to agree that vocational and technical1 lines must be stressed to a larger extent than ever before. BURTON DOES NOT WANT THE NAVY JOB Washington. March 7 ? Represen tative Theodore Burton of Ohio, mentioned as a possible successor to Edwin Denby as Secretary of the Navy, has informed administration officials that he prefers to continue as a member of the House rather than accept the cabinet position. DARE COUNTY HAS COMMENCEMENTS Avon and Manteo Are Cen ters This Year for These Very Interesting (jroup Commencements. Mantoo, March 7.- ? Due to th-1 .lis tance between the localities of Dare Couuty no events in the history of the county have drawn the people together at definite centers as much bo as the county commencements. All arrangements are now com plete for a commencement at Avon on April 4. and for one at Manteo on April 11. For some months the people at Avon have been planning for the entertainment of this event, and there is an eagerness and en thusiasm in both the school and community that are evidences of. the comillg success of the commence I ment. This group takes in the South Itodanthe, Salvo, Iluxton. Avon.! Frisco and Hatteras schools. The speaker of the day for the Manteo group will be Dr. J. Henry I Highsmith. of the State Department 'of Education. The speaker for the ? Avon group will be announced later. 'The schools meeting in Manteo will be Duck. Kitty Hawk No. 2 and No. ! 3, Kill Devil Hill, Colington. Nans I Head. East Lake, Mashoes, Manns I Harbor. Stumpy Point, Wanchese, j North Itodanthe. In both group meetings a lively spirit of rivalry will be developed j in contests that deal with exhibits I of general school work, athletic fea | tares, declamations, dramatizations. I story telling, silent reading, school choruses, and a parade that will be | made up of a float for each school. DAUGHERTY BACK IN WASHINGTON AGAIN Washington. March 7- ? Daugherty 1 woul<l make no statement hero to day upon his arrival from Florida I but went direct from the station to a cabinet meeting and when he | emerged later he said he "could hardly answer the question as to whether the situation in Washington ins It respected him had changed since bis departure for Florida." JUNIOR CHOIR ADDS TO LENTEN SERVICES The first Lenten service in Christ Church for 1924 was held Thursday afternoon at five o'clock with a good congregation attending. Compli ments without number and praises unstinted were vcricod on every hand by the congregation regarding the looks and efficiency of the 1924 Junior Choir. They sang splendid ly, giving the services an added at traction and an added helpfulness. The 1921 Junior Choir consists of j the following boys and girls: Ward 1 Thompson. Crucifor, Millie Mellck, Hlucher Ehrlnghaus. Clara Thump j son, Earl Dean, Elizabeth Creecy, Elizabeth Job, Flora Johnson. Fran ces Pendleton, Helen Gaither, Helen Smith. Inez Simpson, lola Hathaway. Isabel Jennette, Jack Tasker, Jane Ellse Hastings. Julia Skinner. Mal tha Outlaw. Phyllis McMullan, Ruth Harris, Susanne Melfck, Travis Tur ner. and Vivian Turner. The Junior Choir will sing at each of the five o'clock services Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. NEWTON BAKER OUT AGAINST FORD OFFER Washington, March 7~--When con sideration by the House of the Mus cle Shoals matter was resumed to day. Representative Hull, who Is lending the flght against the Ford offer, nuul?' public a letter from for mer Secretary of War Baker which declared "It would be a calamity to have this great public asset, come into privs*^ hands upon any terms now possible to b" grew red." NOTED FRENCH CHEF COMING NEXT WEEK The noted French chef, Aldc'rfc W. tUfiftde.nl. of Hollywood. California, will be in Elizabeth City all next week and his lectures and demon strations will be of genuine Interest to Elizabeth City housewiv< s. These demonstrations will be giv en In the D" w high school cafeteria at 2:30 every afternoon next week. There will t>e room for all who will attend and the demonstrations will be instructive and interesting. Monsieur Mendeau will decorate a cake while hotal!:s snd afte rwards he will serve the cake. He will show how to prrpnre meals quickly so that busy women may ftr.d time for a lit tle fun outside the kitchen. Manatter Stalllnes of the Gas Com pany Is bringing the French chef here and 1n a large display sdver flsement on Saturday he will tell more about this interesting visit. TOLD McLEAN HE NEED NOT WORRY Daugherty Sent Publisher |{?'u*suri?g Messages, Tes tifies Kriitoriul Writer on McLean's Newspaper. Washington. March 7. ? The oil committee today was told that At torney General Daugherty sent a re assuring message to McLean on the day the publisher was summoned here to testify. Ira Bennett, editorial writer on McLean's paper, the Washington Post, testified that such a message was conveyed in a telegram he sent to McLean after- a* con f erence wUM ? Daugherty. The message as placed before the committee Included such phrases as "All that is possible to be done Trill be done by us," and "You know what to depend on." Bennett then declared that similar assurance had been conveyed through him to McLean on January 29 In the famous "principal" message. Ben nett said the principal referred to in that message was not Coolidge, as some Democratic Senators- had guessed, but Senator?Curtls. Curtis told him the publisher would not be disturbed and that "it would be all" right" he said. Opposition in Both Branches of Congress Washington. Mmreh 7 ? Inimi><llatP action on the proposal for a reduc tion of 25 per cent on all personal income taxt-s was threatened today when opposition to the plan devel oped In both branches ,of Congress. PAID UP POLICIES PART OF BONUS PLAN Washington. March 7. ? Paid up insurance policies were decided up on as a provision of the soldier bon us bill by the Horse committee to day. A motion to Include as an al ternate the option of full \cash pay ment is pending. VIRGINIA LAWMAKERS IN WILD DISORDER Richmond. March 7. ? Wild dlsor jder reigned In the Virginia house of I representatives yesterday when Del : egate Bcrachen of Richmond charged j that lobbyists were In the galleries to intimidate the legislators on Im portant legislation. The house ad journed to prevent another disturb ' a nee. OFFICIALS DENY RECENT CHARGES ItcprrKciiliitivrn l.nniilcy of Kentucky and /ihliunn of Maryland Drclarc They Ar?-n*t Gnillv. Washington. March 7. ? Represen tatives Langley of Kentucky and Zihlman of Maryland, both Republl enns. today denied that they never had improperly exorcised their offi cial Influence and received money for doing so. Their denials followed the publi cations of their names in connection with the charges by a recent Chi cago grand jury that two members of Congress had misused their offi ces. Lsngley on the floor today de manded an investigation of the charges and was cheered when he conHud< d his appeal for a "squaro deal." ANOTIIFIt IWMHIHTK II Kit K Another Congressional candidate. Dr. John D. Mugs of Williampton, found it necessary to come to Flizn beth City on buslm-sn this w?-ek ? though not cm political business, h" told an Advance roporter. The distinguished visitor of Fri day was Dr. .John D. Plugs. Wll liamston banker, who with N. O. Jackson of Jamesvilie and J. K. flmithwlck of Jamesvllle reglsterei it the Southern Thursday night and ?ft Friday morning. .Dr. Hlggs is a. man of pleasing ?resence and genial personality. A riend who passed the news that Dr. 'Jlgfjs was In the cltv to an Advance ?eporter said that the visitor wns a in" looking man. and the reporter potted him first time he saw him In i crowd. Told how he had been singled out jy the reporter, Dr. ftlggs said: "We don't have any hut fine look ng men In my county." ? OTTON MARKET New Yor>. March 7 ? Spot cotton cloned qunet today, declining 90 l??lntH. Middling 2S.15, Futures closed at tho following levels: March 2 7 : R ft : May 28.14; July 27.60; October 25.1 2 ; December 24. SO; January 24.48. New Flower Trnck The Ryan Floral Company. Inc., has purchased a handsome new de livery truck which Is enabling this new and progressive firm to give better service to Its Elisabeth CUjr trade. - >
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