jfcULWEE
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aUi^OlNa COMPLETED AT AN
APPROXIMATE COST OP
' A' i" J?250v000. :t: ?
f ft* ? ? ? ' i ' ' ' ? .* '?' . .y ^
ii * ?yivla. ? Tha *4?dioatl?n se'wilca. -ol
i fee "W?Uer E. Moor? dorrolntory fpr
; ] f iris, at Cullowhee Normal and Indus
trial School Which"
has Just boen' com pletea ifkn ajtprox
. ' 4?ate coBt of 4>50,000, Was held frl-i
dpy morning. May 30th, In the spacious
?deception hall of that building. A
meeting1 of the Western North Caro
lina Weekly1 Press Association and
; alec the Ititermpnt Education Council
'? .at Cullowhee on the same date brought
together an unusually large number of
educational and public leaders of the
state for the occasion.
President John B- Calfee of the
Ashevllie Normal, one of. the principal
speakers, paid tribute to, the' rapid
-growth and' Work ot Cullowhee and lta
, promising .' significance as an educa
tional institution in Western North
Carolina. He fchose^ for the subject
' | of hJnaddresa'SpIrltualForees in Edu
and thinking. His message was timely
and greatly appreciated by those pres
ent. BxrPresldent Madison ,ln a short
address then reviewed- the history ot
t -? the SchooUBhowlng the, early forces
? which contributed to- Its development
and the splendid services and untiring !
, ! efforts of Mr. Walter B. Moore in be-,
h?" ot the , institution. He recalled
the wotoc of Mr. Modre In getting a bill
> through the legislature aa early as
? 1893, - carrying an appropriation of|l,- 1
600 for the Cullowhee School. This
. fact was significant In that It marked
the first recognition of the School by
the state. "J
. /Mr. Moore himself, who. Is chairman
Of the Board of Trustees, was present,
and spoke In a modest way about the]
services he' had been able to render,
"? and eipreased'-the Ulealre" 'that the
building nanled in his honor might add
to the comfort of maby young ladles
yet to come to CnUoWh^e seeking bet
ter educational advantages. State Su- 1
Pflrintendent A. T. Allen, the conclud
ing speaker, ouflined In a convincing
manner a larger program of public
education and equality . of educational
1 ' opportunity for the .boys and girls ot
North Carolina; He showed some Of
the outstanding Inequalities now ex
isting bet Weoa town and country and
between adjacent districts in eduica
opportunities. He saggested
the policy of a jntylmum schaol t#rm|
eight moUths for the state, a county
wide system of taxation, better t min
ed teachers, and Improved serylce,' in I
transportation. - He concluded "hlal
speech by saying that North Carolina
should take the same attitude toward
' schools as toward roads; and that is,
the best only. shOuld suffice.
The Walter B. Moored ddrmltory.the
'pride of the Normal* la not only a
oredlt to Cullotafa butUo North Oalro
. llna, tor It .is estimated by some as
the finest best eqdipped* dormitory for
T Women in the state. It la a handsome
three story; fire proof brick bulldtpg,
with ninety rooms completely furnish
ed to take care of 180 girls; It la also I
equipped with a beautiful dining room
. and kitchen^; large reception halls and
' rfaadlng. rooms with elegant furnlttire. I
> It has steam' heat, electric lights,, the]
latest system of plumbing, and Is ]
' modern in every respect. The build
,-ing Itself, located on a lofty elavatloaJ
presents %/ stately appearance, and
from Its windows On every sMe^plft-.
tiiresque vi^ws ot ithq surrounding
mountains- can be ^had.,,'. . . \ I
: With the completion of Moore dor- ]
mltoryi1 * rap'-d growth of the Normal |
, lis assured. Every room was assigned
tor the Summer' School, which opened
June 3rd, and reservations are being
> made d4lly for the fall; quarter. H. T.
Hunter, the new preafdent. Is a ? man
of bread vision and strong personality.
Under his .efficient administration Cul-j
IctVhee is -making rapid strides and its
outlook for the future is bright
? ^ :
' improvements Per Cleveland Fair.
- Shelby. ? Work haa begun; on the
Cleveland court ty , (air grounds. The
"half mile race track is now being grad
ed and will be completed within- two
, or*thrfce . months ? the contractors iay. |
Dr. J. 8. Dorton,_ leitfretaty of tile, fait
. association, stAter^that he'haa-'lnqulr
? lea from owners ;ot - prominent race J
horses in North and South Carolina
about' entering their 'horses In the
' races this 'tall.
Construction work on three of the
buildings! the' agricultural exhibit hall,
manufactured' building, and poultry
hall, has started and will be ruBhed to
completion^
i The link .between Kings Mountain
and Shelby ef the Charlotte. Ashevllle
. highway, which wil be completed" July
'?* X, runs directly by the fair grounds.
Two Klllea In Auti Accident.
Dnrhfun?? As a result of an Inforao
?Wle accident here Fred Thomas, prom
inent cltlsen of West Durham,' and
Ella' Garrard, three year old daughter
of C. E. Oarrard. are dead, while Clar
ence Sneed Is a patient In the hos
pital but i ? riot considered to be in a.
serious condition.; v -V.*.* ?
The -accident occurred a little more
than one mile north of the city limits
when Thomas, together with two other
men, were return<ng from a barbecue
near the city.
; 1 ? Seven hundred Italians on board the steamship Dante Allghlerl, dented admittance to the United States,
talking with friends on the pier at New York. 2? rMrs. D. A. McDougal, Mrs.Rmlly Bl'alr, Mrs. T. L. Brown and Mrs.
. Bannister, leaders of Democratic women, completing arrangements for the New York convention. 8?Ncw home of
Prtoce Erie of Denmark arid his bride at Arcadia, Cal., where they Jlave a chicken ranch. /
NEWS REVIEW OF
CUIREIIT EVENTS
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.
Congress Adjourns and the
' Country' t Eye* Turn to
G. 0. P. Convention.
By EDWARD W.' PICKARD
r** ONGRESS adjourned on Saturday,
and the country heaved on* great
sigh of relied Business, tvlildi had
been depressed,' begait to perk up ; and
stocks, rthlcU had been In something of
* slump, regained some of their lost
yaluea .The people pf the United
States turned with interest, unmixed
with excitement, toward Cleveland,
where the Republican party was gathr
*tlng fpr. the piirpdse of nominating
CaJvin Coolldge for President
In the closing days of tiie session,
several pieces of projected legislation
went by the boards. The McNary
Haugen .bill designed for thfe relief of
; the farmers was defeated la tlie house
by * Vote of 224 to 184, and modifica
tions of It were also rejected. The
twfia bloc did ttot wish ai?y of the
other fartp relief bills passed, and
then President Cboildge -told the con
gressional leaders that he would pot
approve of any measure thit included
price filing. That settled It for the
present, j
As for' Muscle Shoals,- that also went
. over until next session. The senate
htricnlture committee, reporting fa
vdrSbly the Norrls bill , providing gov
ernment control of power from the
site* denounced unsparingly the bill
':whlcfa would give the project to Henry
Ford and exposed the financial fal
lacies of the Detrolter's . offer. The
, report was written by Senator Norrls,
%bo took full advantage of the chance
to say. what he thought of the admin
istration. Pointing to Ford's denun
ciations Qf Secretary of War Weeks
and Indirectly of the administration
at -Hie time tlie Gorgas plant was sold,
the report said;
; "To appease* his anger a .vacillating
administration publicly annonnced that
the amount received for the plant
,Wjjuld Ire, credited .on the $5,000,000
Ford offered for Muscle Shoals If his
t>ld was accepted by congress. This
kindly favor, perhaps superinduced by
other considerations, so pleased Mr.
.'Ford that his anger at the admlnls
tratlon\waa not only turned Into love
and admiration, bnt he became so vio
lently friendly that he himself with
drew as a candidate for President and
announced his support of the execu
tive who made such liberal conces
sions."
Senators Seflln, Ladd. Smith, Har
-rison and Caraway submitted a mi
nority" report favoring tlie Ford bid,
bnt the best they could do was to ob
tain unanimous .consent to make
Muscle Shoals the flist order of busi
ness after the next session on Decem
ber 3.
Senator McCormlck's resolution pro
posing, the twentieth amendment to
?he Cotis'tltntlon by which congress Is
empowered to control the labor of
persons dntJef elghfeeh years of age
was passed by the senate, the vote be
ing 01 to 23. Tb? bouse approved of
the proposed amendment- laSt April,,
so it now goes to the states for.ratlfl
I cation.
Sixty bills for the modification .of
the Volstead act were left reppslng In
the room of the house Judiciary com
mittee, despite the efforts of their
sixty authors and of others who de
dsre that 2.75 per cent beer should
not be calletf Intoxicating. ? ' * ?
p RESIDENT COOUDGE took the
tax reduction bill and the Treasury
department's analysis thereof on a
week-end trip down the Potomac, and
when he returned to the White Honse
Monday he signed tlie' measure. At
the lame time he Issued a Statement
severely Crltldalng fhany fnatnres of
the bill and VrtsdglnR himself to do ail
he- ean- In ?he -n^frr session of -con-,
greas toward the passage of a tax b|ll |
"less political and more truly "eco- i
nomlc."
The President said that In Its ad- |
mlnlstratlve features the bill repre- |
?eats generally an Improvement over
existing law; that It will provide snffl |
dent revenue for the fiscal year 1925,
and probably thereafter If unforeseen
expenses do not arise; that the retro
active tax cut of 25 per cent Is ex
pected by the people, and should be
promptly given, and that It Is desirable
to have a definite determination of the
taxes as applying to 1024 Incomes
while the Income Is still being re-'
cetved. For these reasons he gave It
his approval.
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SO' FAR as the Republican national
committee could do So, everything
was- fixed up- f^r the Cleveland' con
vention. Frank W. Mondell, ' former
congressman from Wyoming, was se
lected as permanent chairman and
Charted B. Warren, ambassador to
Mexico, was chofceh to bib chairman of
the resolutions committee which builds
the platform. Mr. Coolidge picked on
Marion ??roy Burton, president of the
University of Michigan, to present bis
name to the convention, and Dqctor
Burton accepted the grateful task. He;
'told the press that he would speak not1
as a partisan but as a citizen and a
friend and admirer of Mr. Coolidge,'
. Fred Upham of Chicago announced1
thatthe would resign from the post- of
treasurer of the party, and' his elec
tion as - national committeeman &>m
Illinois was assured. Chairman Adkifis
and Secretary Lockwood of the na
tional committee also will retire Boy'
O. West of Chlcagowlll succeed tiie
latter. He has betin long prominent
In politics and is even more silent than
the President. V ,? ,
Naturally most of the pre- conven
tion ' discussion was concerning the
vice presidential nomination. There
developed a strong demand that Frank
O. Lowden be given the -honor, fend;
Mr. "Coolidge let It be known that the
Illlnolsan would be "very acceptable"
as his running mate. >/
Np arrangements were announced
for placing Senator Hiram Johnson In
nomination for the Presidency, and the
LaFollette headquarters in Washing
ton said the Wisconsin senator's name
wduldjiot be presented to the conven
tion. His 'little' blotfc of delegates
probably will vote for him t<J the
;end. ; , '
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TURNING ..now to the .Democrats,
one rea4q. with Interest the state
ment by .FfankHnD. Roosevelt, man
ager for Gov. A1 s5inlth, that tlie New
York delegation as a whole will make
no effort to have a dry plank lnsefted
In the platform, nor will the New
York Democratic' organization sanc
tion such an attempt.
Senator Ralston seefnlngiy put him
self out of the running by requesting
the Indiana state convention to send
an unlnstru^Ad delegation, to (New
York.
It is probable that Senator Thomas
Walsh of Montana, will be permanent
chairman of the Democratic conven
tion. George Brennan of Illinois Is
for him, asserting' that "aside from
geographical reasons, the distinguished
record made by Senator Walsh In dis
closing to the country scandals with
out parallel In the history of the na
tion, should make his 'selection In
evitable." Senator Pat Harrison of
Mississippi has been selected as tem
porary chairman and the keynote
sounder.
IN SOME respects the report .if the
senate oil committee, prepared by
Senator Walsh and submitted Thurs
day, was surprisingly mikl. It charged
flagrant disregard of the law In the
Sinclair and Doheny leases, which
were declared to be "indefensibly
wasteful" and based on a policy which
congress-alone had authority to deter
mine. Former Secretary Fall's secret
negotiation of the leases was described
as In disregard of the statutes, and his
acceptance of *100,000 from Doheny
Was called "In the last degree- repre- )
htnslble." The executive order by
which President Harding transferred
the oil reserves from the Navy to the !
Interior department was held In the
report to have been illegal.
_ On the other hand, the report exon- 1
prated former Secretary of the N#vy |
Denby and Assistant Secretary Roose
velt of any part whatever in the nego- j
tiatlons leading to the leases, and de- I
clared that the committee t. und no'
fscts of Importance In support of the ,
rumor that public officials had specn j
? *
lated In Doheny and , Sinclair oil
stocks. Furthermore, it said "the evi
dence failed to establish the existence"
of any conspiracy between oil oper
ates and others at the Republican
national convention In 1820 for ex
ploitation of public resources.
The send'11)? of marines to drtve
claimants from Teapot Dome after the
Sinclair leas<! had teen signed was de
nounced "as a perfectly outrageous
use of the armed forces of the United
States," resorted to "to avoid a Ju
dicial Inquiry Into the validity of 'the
Sinclair lease." .
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HARRY DAUQHERTY refused last
week to testify before the senate
committee that lias been Investigating
him, so Chairman Brookhart?-wbo has '
?Just been renominated by tlie Repub
licans of Iowa ? drew up a partial re
' port, and the future course of the In-'
,qulry will 'depend on the Supreme court
- decision as .to the committee's, powers,
r In a letter read' by his attorney, Mr.
,'Daugherty expressed his resentment
against what he considered tlie unfair
' actions- of ? the committee, and added:
"At this point I take occasion to con
1 tradlct and deny any , inference, , sur
iqlsQ br sufcplcloh that I profited In any
Illegal, cotrrupt or unethical way, di
rectly, or fpoirectly, by reason of any
activities of political associates or
friends at any time'; or that my. con
duct; either official, or personal, was
?directly or indirectly Influenced at any
time, In any way, by venal and ??cor
rupt1' motives."
\ ~
PREMIER POINCARE of , France
has resigned, and President Mil
lerapd has invited Edouard Harriot,
leader of thq radicals, to form a new
ministry. But Mlllerand himself 'has,
up to the time of writing, retused
stubbornly to comply with; tb6, de
mands of his opponents and get 6ut of
office, and the members of the leit are
riot willing to form a government under
Mlllerand's presidency. Paul Palnleve
is the man the left bloc wants for pres
ident and as a step toward that hfe
was elected president of the chamber
of d^utles.
Opposition parties In Germany hav
ing been unable to get together for the
formation of a government. President
Bbert reappointed Chancellor Marx
and his cabinet, despite the howls of
the Communists and Nationalists. Mart
told the relchstag that the Dawes re
port was "Germany's last chance of sal
vation" and that the government was
prepared to receive the report as an
unalterable and indivisible whole.
WHAT was at first reported tc* be
a serious attempt at a revolution
In Rumania turned out to be a peaceful
demonstration by 10,000 peasants, led
by General Averescu, who marched'
into Bucharest and presented a protest
against the government of Premier
Bratlano, and then quietly dispersed.
The opposition to Bratlano Is growing
so strong that his resignation is pre
dicted.
Albanln, however, realU has a revt>
lutlon, led by Rezed Sehalja. The
rebels are reported to have captured
Scutari and Skodra, ^nd there was a
rumor that they had tajcen Tirana, the
capital. The fighting Is fierce. In re
sponse to the request of the American
minister, Vl.cg.Jjlmlral Andrews,, com
manding American naval forces In Eu
ropean waters, was Instructed to hold
a warship In readiness to proceed to
Durazzo.
Chancellor seipki. of Austria
was seriously wounded by a young
Communist, and thereupon the Hun
garian police announced that this at
tack was part of a vast plot for the
assassination of King George of Eng
land. President Mlllerand of France,
Chancellor Mar* of Germany and other
national leaders. The plot was dis
covered when the Hungarian police
arrested a man named Zetaron. -mem
ber of a secret anaiyhlst death society
with headquarters in Lobben, Austria,
fo/ an attempt to kill.Regent Horthy.
r\l'R world encircling army avls
V-' tors, after a pleasant stop in
Japan, flew last wee? 500 miles over
the China sea to Shanghai, where they
were given a great Welcome. They
planned to start for Amoy on Satur
day.
FIRE LOSSES FOB
MONTH- OF ML
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REPORTS 8HOW8 BIG DECREASE
AS COMPARED WtTH 8AMJ5
MONTH WAST YE^R
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'Raleigh.
The <flre losses , in ,th?v stats
it North Carolina for the month
ft April 1924 waa $664,386 or a (le
:rcase o! *25,000 ap compared with th?
Ore losaea tor April 1923, according to
the official report compiled by Insur
ance CpuimiBBioner Stacy \Vade an<^
made public. The losses in the nation
as a whole were given as 131,815,900,
or a decrease of more than $600,000
as compared >rith April 1923 losses.
The report also showed that thej-e^
were 211 fires during April 1923, but
the loss during the former month was
less than during the latter. Property
at risk In the 1924 fires wfas valued at
$2, 102, 037 while the Insurance on the
property at risk during 1924 was giv
en as $1,684,207 and 1923, $1,380,029.
Classified into buldinga audi con
tents the 1924 April report shows:
Buildings, value $1,426,855; insurance,
$816,787; and loss, $38X1, 386. Cofitents,
value $1,352,165; insurance, $871,420;
and less $176,499,. ' v.
The report shows that the rural and
suburban Are loss was $^9,695 for a
total of 33 fires of which 19 were
dwellings with a Iobs of $26,000, while
there were 120 dwelling fires In the
cities in the cities with a loss of $28,
309.
Of the total April 1924 loss, 16 fires
each with a minimum loss . of $5,000
and totaling $278,258, which leaves
195 fires, according to the report.
Principal losses were given as fol
lows: Asheville, warehouse, $97,700;
Wilmington, business bUHdlng $26,
?784 ; Peachland, hotel aild business
block, ,$32,0p0; Candler,^ roller mill
$18,000; High Point, veneer plant,
$16,600; Chapel Hiil university kitch
en and dining hall, $11,960.
Causae of fires were given as fol
lows: shingle roofs ' and defective
flues, 62; oilstoves 12; ov%r hot stoVefl
eight; Incubator lamps ' seven. >
Property damaged was classed afe
follows: dwellings 139; Garages 10-;
stores nine; and five each ware,
houses, factories and huslness build
to*'- - '
McDowell Nrst County 8ystam.
McDowell county ^becomes the first
county In North Carolina to adopt the
State Department of Education plan
for county-'wide consolidation ot
'schools, wiping out district and town
ship Jlpes, and merging even Its sped
-ally chartered: schools Into a, compre
hensive county system, according to
announcement made at the Depart
ment by Superintendent A. T. Allen.
Under 'the plans worked out after ?
survey of the. county the fifty-three
schools now in the county will be re
duced to sixteen, four ot' whtth. .will
have standard high schools. Marlon
and Old Fort? both ot which have op
erated their' schools under special
charters for years, have agreed! to sur
render their charter and come Into the
county-wide Bystem, with their proper
ties reverting to the counties.
State Fifth In Developed Power.
North Carolina stands titth among
the leading states In amount of water
power now utllzed according to
the U. S. Geological Survey which has
Just recently brought up to date its
records of developed water power in
the United States.
Information to this effect has Just
been received by the local office of
the survey. The five states leading
the nation In developed, water power
?are New York, California, Washington
Maine and North Carolina In the
order named. New York leads with
1,642,983 horsepower developed. North
Catolina has a total of 453,100 horse
power; Calfornla has 1,451,830 horse
power; Washington, 480,366 and Maine
473,188.
The water powers In the country
are now utilised by a total of 3,200 wat
er plants of 100 horse power or more
with a total capacity of installed water
wheels of 9.086,958 horsepower which
l8^*n increase of 1,160 horsepower pr
16 percent over the total of the previ
ous estimate In 1921, when the Instal
led waterpower was 7,926,968.
the installed water power Is used by
Of the present total 81 per cent of
public utility companies .and 19 per
cent In manufacturing, plants. Cor
responding percentages In 1921 were
78 and 22, respectively, indicating a
trend toward an increased production
of hydro-electric power In the public
utility plant' for distribution to indus
try.
Since the compilation of records in
1921, North ' Carolina has displaced
Montana, which then ranked fifth In
developed water power.
North Carolina An Exporting State.
North Carolina stands second amonit
the States of the union In exports of
tobaoco. fifth in exports of cotton
and fourteenth In all exports, ac
cording to figures for the first
quarter of 1924 Just released by the
Department of Commerce. Her leaf
tobacco exports valued at $7,394,000,
were exceeded by those of Virginia,
and her cotton shipments by Texas,
Louisiana. Georgia and Arkansas.
The value of North Carolina's total
sxports in the three months was 111,
112.000
Watch Child's Bowels
"California Fig Syrup" is
Children's Harmless .
Laxative*
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Children love the pleasant taste of ?/.
."California Fig Syrup" ana gladly .-j
take It even when bilious, .feverish, ' '
slckf or constipated. No other, laxa
tive regulates the tender lUtle bowels
po nicely. . It sweetens the stomach
and. starts the liver' and bowels with
out cramping or overacting. Contains
no narcotics or, soothing drags.
Tell your druggist you want only ? y
the genuine "California Fig Syrup" ;<?>
which has directions for tiablee and ?{'.
children of all. ages printed on bottle. A ,
Mother I Ton must say "Callfprnla"
or you may get. an Imitation flg syrup
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him personally^ hut my wife and
daughter te?l ' me; he drives a?y ca*
very well.? feostori Transcript.
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mamma. I don't think that I am half
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