•l NEGRO CONFESSES AND IMPLICATES > morning. The time consumed In crossing the continent was 18 hours 80 minntes heeling by mere than heart the goal set for the coast to coast dash. Planting of black walnut sa me morials to soldiers is recommended by the United Matts Department of Agriculture. It is pointed out that tha blaek walnut played n valiant part In '.he World War. The weed was need far penstocks and nlrpktna propellers and the nutshehs contributed carbon for sis masks, while the kernels worn need In many degrade* far tha boys In tho trenches. Demend for the weed for war purposes depleted the num ber of old trees, and this method la •eggsated for fmlng their places - • The United Me toe produces more copper then nil ether nations eemhln The permanent anew flsMa of Ah sake are lose than one per tint of Alaska's total area. MJKECHURCH FOLK D£N3f DOCTRINE IS , At Ml HARMFUl Morobor'Qf Church Of Cm • * Uj* Story I* PiIh nobo6y sat on red - HOT STOVE, Hk SAYS Arc Locpffulrwl French' , ^ Eccptoycd — *Jtl Mar 'DUlEubnm £t Hunter f AM Cum 4adl« Glowing > Coal* Ac* ,%r»ccl» Withoul * Harm. . It^waui't because *t any fault will tto flask or tha Ckurth at God thal eauaad William A. Erwin to tall lev anly-flva members of tba ekurvh U move, ace o, drug to W. E. Tffrntgv for many years a reap*clod rts.de,I of tba mill town, who was ons of tha men told by Mr. Erwin to mors. Mr. Erwin, according to Mr. Tnr bag>* while Uo deads dlffer scc of ai.ly fleajMM. thou **North Carohaa.'Bjfhll* «M*odsd In birth rate horatMo qfclr by Utah, which in 19U hhd a UjU of 81A. The rate for tho oatHra t lUrtratloa aroa of the country tho mu* fear Wat 14.4. Far the aamu fear the deal): rate far tho seme am 1 skua 18A. I • cd legally, and what I hue* poaaswsj .for yearn without hi it t% anybody.’ "If Ton’ll just edtc 9* report Y i favo ably 111 offer d> amendment U ' let you Veep your fbuer,** broke. It 1 Mr. Cooks with great' earnestness, be ■ M*. Town wad would net relent, am I Iff#* hla motion the Ml waa kilUd t The Templeton hill srlil he up fo • consideration Frida? afternoon. DUNN DEBATERS OPPOSESANFORD AND SMITHFIELD Apex, Jooesboro Amd Lilling too Pitted Against Each Other DUKE AND ANGIER TO BE CONTESTANTS Total Of 225 Schools Will Em face la Spaakiag Coo test To Hava Final Diacasalen At Chapel Hill I n April Ninety Counties I a The Contest. Chapel Iiin, Feb. 24.—Sanford sad 8n.thfield are tba tare school* in tkc triangle with Doan in the anneal high school triangular dehats eoa d acted by the literary societies and Bawi of Extension of tba Uahrer elty. Mr. E. R. Rankin, Secretary af tba Bureau, has jost given out the qsery far tbc debate. ^Xosolvod the pellev of tba closed shop sb*"M pro ▼aO In American iadostr. Apex, Jonesboro, •».» >tte towns s dual eamblSaft^Xyattadfia debate with Wilmington end Lam berton. A total af 126 schools Bm coanUas have enrolled In the onion and will debate in the first formed t tangles 1 hr winning team af web triangle will come bore in tba latte.' part of April to contest far Anal ta rn mney. . ’rP* f«hool that win* out finally in the debate is entitled to have Its came with tba name af tbc waning debater* Inscribed on the Ay cock •.emorial cap. If a school wins out twice in succession tba cap becemes it* nrontriv This is tec eighth year of the tri sragulsr debate. Bo far no school has wan out twice in meecsdon. and tbs bone's ia the gist hare nee te Pleasant Garden high school in 1911. Whwtoa.Belem high school la 1*14, WUsen high school la 1814. Grahaai - 1916, Waywmvfll. Wilson high I sehaol Daring ths wash that Urn Univer sity entertains ths high school visi tors a high school tennis tarnaaent sr.d track meet is also held here, un der the superrisioB of the Extension Bureau. Mr. Rankin states that the enrollment ia these contacts is expect ed to be larger than ever before. STAMPEDE TO LAND ROAD COMMISSION Army of Candidates Seeking Appointmeat on Adminis trative Unit (Keun sad Observer.) Political thought among the read bailding enthusiasts in the state, has turned with calm assurance that thi D^ghton^onnor-B^arte road bill Is feverish intent upo^a^^MflSKI tec HlRhWHy Commission provided for In the bUl. A half do sen slates have been worked out. each claiming the cloak of gubernatorial approval, which Is tee source af appointment Actually none of them has the ap proval. ear the consideration of Gov ernor Morrison. lie has thought but 111 tie about tec personnel of the eem mlsatea, and has nothing eh his mind except that it will be tee biggest com rhwio-. ever appointed ia tee State, and with the biggest men he can find te serve on it Te none has he given .issararee that be will appoint teem, bat te one or two, he Has given e» raranre that they will net be named nan* at* r»»w nmim 8‘x new n'.nbcn will ba appointed within a few day* after the final rati- j flcation of tho bill, which may come I tha first of next week Tho foa- ’ ■aamben which aow comprise the ■ cnramiwion will bo retained until the expiration of their tenon. Two re ■ out In Apr!) leaving a total of tint , rarn to be naaed by Governor Mor. ( rieon tbli year Oao additional mem ber will retire two years hence. Two of tin aow memben will V chosen from the minority aad tho re maining four from the majority par ty. Those district* already hsrint a member on tho rommissies at at pro* |e*t constituted, will not he affected I by the forthcoming appointments from Ooeernor Mor rieon. Comm is sinner Cnmeroi*. who Ueoo In what will ba tho Second district, a minority member, will net bo disturbed for two years to come. A legion of candidates U besieging the capitol and tha capitol seeking preference at the hand* of the Gov ernor. and almost anywhere, except In tho Governor’* older. It may be heard that Camarea Morrison s ha* promised a place tt this and that *► ptreat. Mr. Morrison declared yes | tenter that he had appointed nobody, had promised nobody, and wauld not Ipraariae anything, except that whoa >1 the rnnustnelen Is named. It wHt he 1 l mt of »*u hie enough to handle i Ihe job af spending l&O.OOO.OOO for ■ lb* people. i Cohoea Wash jah Waiter Oboon, of Wlanbeth City, r i* one of tho most rigorous applicants far tho job of representing the fire* Woman At Trial Of Varner Cue Targets For Candor's Tongas Iwwi "New" Warn, "Half Naked Wrapped la Embrace Of Half Oraakaa Mam" Mrs. Varner aat throughont tha dm without showing any outward dga< of oa usual concern aver tha addm •a af her husband's sttomsyw to di« j«ry, in which her to mnameiably. .Mr. Caoaiar branch) leara ta a.a client's eyas whea ha do ctored next vo tha "tragedy" lunli waa wacn Mr. Varner, upon being us iormad at urwrasbors August 11 lojto, by Knf o. bias af u>e oi Mnsr Jtchary, wealthy auuesoo uadai his heat oa the eight al Aug use v-lo, miw. declared: "Weald u God that you had brought news el her death." Weeds Wish hey Mr. Caaeter pioadad eloqaaatly U tha jurors to place taaaecJves in Mr, Varner's potmen before arriving al a verdict, declaring that any mar with oaa spat* ef seif rmpact weald have acton aa Mr. Varner did afiei aranng «*t tac alleged association af UK was wits a negro. "Altar bear ing «hst be dii are yen aat saupriaod at tav gentle coucuct af Mr. Var uer)" declared Use spsaber. Aftesriig tSa critics of Mr. Var ner lor bis tail arc te give bis wife s searing be lore bar departure fat ®eii Uto liny, sar. (Master heatedly Mtt&4e "now coaid he have stood op and se!-V«d into the face of tha womaa ■n «4 -hours Jsnrionaly considered [*• be on a pedestal of vtnaa " Mr. CaaMar aaaeited that Mr. Goth ric had signed tha ease an the aa eumpuos et bar innocence. Ha said *J> tr this, that if tea cam is to •a considered in tact light then It ueisid he urn-ess te pmceed. Ho then ^atoren a vigoreaa plea to the jury to oueidc the eam^UieUy aa the evi uence arougbl out at the trial. Abe sponsor declared that tf Mrs. varne, gad occu tha wife af a poo, man she would ha lowed gouty, bat oecaasa aha 1* the wife ef a riaa man, soma behave that she cannot ho con victod. “Human experience.’' stated Mr. Caaaler, "has taught that virtue is not eaciaaivsly the poe samiaa ef tha nch. Virtue mate just as deep in the heart af the pew peas ^ wao perforate bar chores as it does is the heart ef the rich." Mr. untili is in tha moruiag ted declared that the st££r tea aa nn uatorsi, ted to this Mr. Canaier raid: rw# ate* that it is u-tetetaral tery. Wahdmit that it is At this point Mr. _,] that throughout the trial hated boon particularly careful to giro Mrs. Var ner every point of doubt, realising that aha is of tha tarn* sex as his mo ther, wife and daughters. That ha was wholly unable to understand tew women, who had as particular busi ness in the courtroom, could hove stood by "feasting their eyas upon so terrible n tragedy of a white woman wallowing is slime with a negro Speaking of the "new" woman, Mr. Candor declared that "if yon go to some of the country elute you win find half of the women naked, wrapped in tte embrace i of hall drunken men." Be deaeuaced those { who are elamorlag for a single stand ard of morality, declaring that they are trying to bring the women down on tha level with the opposite sax and not trying to lift man ap on tte plane with woman. Hs assarted that a good wonts Is the fairest of God’s creatures, but that a bad woman it the >awest oa earth. Again speaking of tte' snnatural ness of the charge against Mrs. Var ner, he declared that there are hun dreds of eases on record similar to It. Contis aing Mr. Canal sr add, was bleeding at every pore the demi monde were living In sensuality with American negro soldiers." "It was aa unnatural thing," said ike speaker, "for a buxom aad attrae Jn woman Ilka Mrs. Varner to re fuse to go with ter husband to an at .raetWe summer resect." This state m.nt was in reference to Mr. Vai .let’s trip to Asheville in July, IStO -o attend the Nerth Carolina Prem association, to which he (Mr. Var ner) testified his wife declined to at tend. Continuing Hr. ctucnr gH, ‘How lot mm tugged • reason why the desired to tmih: Wat H the boat, the ride In a Tollman ear. at wti It a desire la remain and on tar - .sin Baxter McRary whila Varnar was away?" district. He has been la the city far met weeks past, aad bat sought rap port wiser ■ oner thoio was a sbaaea *f support being found. HU chaser, are regarded as slim ground tbe capi tal. H* is nnderrtoad to haeo earrt . d bis appeal ta tbs Govsmor, and it is commonly reported that Mr. Mor rison had promised Mm, hot this ths Governor dismisses as utterly without foundation. Wilmii’ffton and vicinity hat devel oped four possible candidate* thus far, with Urn Hold still open far any I contender. W. A. McOut, president of tbe deed Roads Association. U being promoted for .tbe job. Repre sentative Smith, ef Braasarlek wants it, aad claim* the suppert of many Democrat* for the place. He Is a Re publican. but nnamity U net the key sets among the minority down that way. Iredell Meant has been ta town far two daya looking far support far the job Rettcbln Oouaefl, ; a wall known oiUsoa of that section, la men tioned by bis friends far the place, but be baa not coma ta town la pram M* eiahan Me U set thinking much about It Chariot to Mao CsoAdotos The central section of the state h i net o* yet uprat over appointments i but marking Charlotte toward tbl ORGANIZED LABOR CONDEMNS USE OF THE INJUNCTION Wot Uw Dmlwk, uw OnuinUa.ANNMCa Partambipi la Uw » declaration issued OUTLINING I —lari af tioa of Labor (MU PUt f*ra> After AO Day Cute ployara Waraal That Steal* •Ha Mate Ba MaiataM. WuHington, Fob. 2*.—Enactment by Coagnaa of a law dadariag that itear argon laaHona an art co-part aonbipa and "abail ate te n troatad to law or hi aqaity" i, dcwandad*by orgaakod later la a liflarrllna of prlaciplea adapted tooight by rapm aantatiro* of National and iatarna Uoaal naioaa aBUatcd bk tte Ameri ca* Fadarattea ad Later. Tte dadamttea white war m prorod after aa aii day aoafonaea ten at Mill Hawaii Oinpii, praa Federation, j-trifi^ *J. tin af ateaaptten tram or tte'nplll ' •f lU tati-coabintUsAft md4 ^ M rail*4 C^^^tog tte BOO of tte iajane t**a an dor pratent lawa, tte dodara- •• tiaa aaaortod tent tte *,n*y 1 coaid dad I. TSS JSJ ' •» tte part af later te neogaiaa'w •hid# by tte teiwi ad ‘JniHia teeh aaah te pnkteit tte dtehif’ ' acta white tte wotean k^TSSE . M and louigMd right te 45 * - "Later nalkao fall, thTSten v an?^rmocf»t*c >ACttWn will tame AT# QOt UklDkiBK ||^i» th If U££ |# |(IV ■ i *, . B j M