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hi m i I ?f mm m ! LvERNOR MORRISON CONFERS I WITH CAM" SUPERVISORS ' CF SYSTEM. U MRS DISCUSSED - j Every Assistance and prCfT|;SCCl C- J 5 ,? ,n bv Those in Charge |Co-ePer3t 0 . I 0f prison Systems. Kaliegh. I x > .inference with fifteen c.i'iip Supervisors, Gov l ! Mi'-r - announced that he had I .!? pledge of every man crs in State camps f now regulations of f y Hoard, abolishing the r/ ' i >hc . !a rk cell, are carried |i:p ?'?? ? ? filth C*?v ?-ri:.?r Morrison and Super* ( nder.: C- 1>(m spoke to the |ne-vis .'''v ? xplafning the importance t ab-o'. : * observance of the new I, kl::,j inviting anyone of the men Core t!u:n hn<l <loul)ts al)0ut ^e Liability of the system to resign.' I nftet-n ilovernor .Morrison said, Lr? an individual pledge to use the dilic-'ine in seeing that the lotions art enforced. fir aJi!it:ei!. ilovernor Morrison urg I to make a thorough survey |th~:r camps. reporting to him at L.f any instance of cruelty to the C50>rs by guards under their di lution. | Governor Morrison declared that he fas assured that Superior court Lees in the State would co-operate tti the State prison in the matter I tiling indeterminate sentences, L: whether or not the sentences of B :h? prisoners in the State Prison 1; be changed to an indeterminate L<:5 :>y one stroke of the pen has Iq: ^t been determined. The Gov lr;r i? c-rtain that such commuta |o:s ran !>?> made in individual cases I: a commutation of the mass is a loposition that he has not yet deter l> 'o be within his authority. I Gov- t r Morrison reported that he Lad *':> supervisors men of a \igh be ar. 1 in whom he feels confident |) r-'.y in the institution erf the new p'~s ar d r-eulations. One of them L a former sheriff, and all of thewn lee *h,-. could be expected to should f rrJj-o:.-:: :i:ty. legroes Still Leaving the State. R-; r:> made to M. L. Shipman, bT.T.:ssion-r of Labor and Printing, raa^s.-'f the Federal Employment erviv- in various cities of the state. idicat-1 *h -.t large numbers of negro ibo>r*- continue to leave North Car ina f r Northern and Eastern staler., td-r Ir.re o? labor agents. TV. T. r:irk r. in charge of the Win on-Sal-tn bureau, writes Mr. Ship 2: that ap; roximately 1.800 to 2,003 errors have left that vicinity during ir ja.-t few months. Mr. Car'er said' the impression in bton-?al-m is "that a few labor !i::- have ben about this city, work 's 'ir.I-r (over, and paying th$ testation of the negroes to , ? n*. rs." He said tli'sre is of creical and profes >'onal K-car/.s at Winston-Salem, but r. labor is short. ^;r -xirnately 1 000 negroes have ft Chariot t- and vicinity within the *'> days. W. H. Vause, of the -irlott^ bureau, reported. The ne te? ar- bei.ng promised higher wag '? shorter working hours and better r-:? conditions by labor solicitors D~ the north, according to Mr. tee. H- said he had taken the up with city authorities who instructed officers to arrest all ?;D'C th? y find soliciting labor out de the Ptat,.. AsheviU*- appears to be the only ace ;vher- thf* labor situation has 11 teen affected by the migration of 6 negroes. jo'th Carolina's New Auto Tags. 1 North Carolina's new automobile ps have arrived and the numbers ^ *:11 be sold will reach 200,000. j Thf-r^ ar- fire carloads in the state's ar&ho;i.s" ready for the new mark- 1 ? '*M h begins in June. This will j ? arjou* ^ij.fton more than the state j M evt-r us.-d and that may not tag P the machines which will be in j r ^foro *b;-? year ends. I 'Th" lk?ihs:^ and other taxes grow out of r'j" automobile business f11 r,m b< y-?ad $6,000,000 this year, cording Secretary W. N. Everett, 'Impart ni^nt of state. The in ease of 'j. f?nts on gasoline and the j ^Ura' ^"wrh of the machine busi 5 *ill almost double last year's ?200 000 p Hundred Placed in Po?Uion?. handred persons were plawl Positions in Xorth Carolina by the ? and federal free employment ce during the week ending May ; ^tcordinn to the weekly report ' ^ Shipman, Commissioner of lbor and Printing. ? pf,rsnn3 placed, the Wil* fSton bureau led the State. Win- 1 F bab ni was second with 94. I r^- -gist rution. 613; requests for help, I' ref"rr'd 561; placed, 500. Skill-': lofoV'- un^:illv'd.- 296; clerical and; r - siotiai. 3">; domestic, 63. 1 Firs Losses During April. The fire loss in North Carolina dur? ing April aggregated $587,046, which was approximately $100,000 less than that of March, and a much better showing than in April, 1922, according to figures compiled by Insurance Com missioner Stacy W. Wade, announced. "There were 180 fires reported," Commissioner Wade's report stated, "the property involved totaling $2, 102,037 on which there was insurance of $1,3S0.02. Of the 180 fires, 118 were dwelling, valued at $601,525, in sured for $353,254, with a loss of $87, 677. Of >^he dwellings, 14 were rural homes, with a value of $44,200 insur ance of $10,404 and loss of $35,050. The entire rural loss was $150,175 and of this $100,000 came from one fire, a planing mill in Davidson county, with destruction of two and a half million feet of lumber. This loss added to a warehouse fire at Kinston, where 1, 500 bales of cotton wree burned and five dwellings, makes $330,000, leaving loss reached or exceeded $5,000, the the loss for the other 178 fires. "There were only 12 fires, where the los sreached or exceeded $5,000, the aggregate of these being $4,84,720 and the total loss of the other 168 was only $102,326. Among the larger towns, the loss was remarkably light, Charlotte leading with 24 fires and loss of $41,675, followed by Greensboro with three fires and a loss of $3,205. Raleigh with 13 fires had loss of $219; Winston-Salem IS fires, loss $1,420; Wilmington 14 fires, loss $219; Ashe ' ville, seven fires, loss $2,115; and Dur ham seven fires, loss $76. High Point leads the honor roll with no fire or no damage during the month, followed by Statesville, Tarboro, Sanford, Black Mountain, Mount Olive, Wake Forest, Kernersville, Belhaven, Huntersville, Randleman, Mount Holly and Bostic. "Shingle roofs and defective flues caused 67 fires; cause unknown, 30. Eight fires each resulted from over heated stoves and furnaces. Chief j among property destroyed: Dwellings, 1118; stores 14, warehouses and stor ages, 10; garages, 8.'' Little Danger of School Fire. North Carolina's forty million dol lar investment in modern school hous es during the past twenty years make such a disaster as befell the school commencement near Camden, S. C., almost impossible in this state, in the opinion of State Superintendent E. C. Brooks, who was discussing the trag edy that cost 75 lives in a thinly set I tied rural community. Special emphasis has been laid on fire prevention and fire escapes by the Department of Education and the De partment of Insurance. Insurance Commissioner Stacey W. Wade said that the school building at Clinton, a wooden structure with an auditorium on the second floor was the last of the old type to be modernized. Re cently $5,000 has been spent on the fire ! escapes. | Many buildings similar to that near ; Camden have been in use in the State, | but most of them have been torn down and modern structures built to replace them. The modern type of building now being recommended to rural com munities has only one floor, with the class rooms grouped around auditori um. A score or more such buildings j are now being erected in the State. More careful attention to the provi j sions against placing chairs in the j aisles in public assemblies would re I more the last danger of panic from | fire in the State, Dr.* Brooks and Dr. I Wade believe. i A. C. L. Excepts on Depot Order. Twenty-two exceptions to the Cor poration Commission order directing ; the erection of a union passenger | station by the Norfolk Southern and i tlje Atlantic Coast Line at Plymouth were argued before the commission by Murray O. Allen. The order was filed I April 11. The commission took the ex I ceptions under advisement, and will j act upon them within the next few weeks. Exceptions were based upon the statement that there is no necessity for the station, that there Is not land enough, that th.e location is inaccess ible, that the traveling public would continue to demand service at the present site of the passenger station, that the people of Plymouth don't want the station, that there is little interchange of passengers. That a union station will increase operating expenses beyond revenue derived, that the order deprives the A. C. L. of its property without due process of law, that the order is void and without effect because it is not supported by testimony to support its provisions, the latter set out in several legal sub-divisions of the general ex Agitation for adeauate passenger ter minal facilities for Plymouth has been going on for years. The old A. C. I ?. passenger station was burned down several months aeo and the commis sion, acting on petition from the citi zens of Plymouth, ordered the two railroads to build jointly. Rankin Praises McBrayer. Following the reading of a prepared statement in which he reviewed the history of the State Sanatorium and declared that Dr. L. B. McBrayer is the only man in the State who could have administered the institution so successfully, Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secre tary of the State Board of Health, told the legislative committee investigating the conduct of the Sanitorlum that Dr. Reuben McBrayer, and Lewis McBray er, sons of the Superinlendent, should no longer be continued in the service of the institution. CONDENSED NEWS FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Charlotte. ? Boh Holler of Newton, held under bond at Hickory, N. C., in connection with the death of Mrs. j Alice Odom, has skipped bond, accord ing to advices received here. Durham. ? Trinity college students have named their editors and busi ness managers' of publications for the next scholastic year. J. D. Secrest, j of Canton, was named as editor of I | The Chronidle, weekly newspaper, and D. T. House, Jr., of Parmele, as busi ness manager. Salisbury. ? There are visible signs and evidences of the exodus of ne groes from the South to the North a? the Southern railway passenger station here almost night, and more especially on Saturday and Sunday nights. Lenoir. ? The Southern Manufactur ing Company's new 3,000 spindle yarn mill begins operation this week, ac cording to D. H. Warlick, secretary and treasurer. This mill was organ ized last fall with J. D. Elliott, of Hickory, president; A. M. Kistler, of Morganton, vice president. Hickory? Two hundred delegates to the twenty-first triennial general syn od of the Reformed church in the United States, arriving here on the Pennsylvania special, encountered a ! shower of rain with their shower of i welcome on the part of Hickory peo ple generally. Durham.? Captain R. L. Bishop, sec- , retary of the Hill and Dale Golf Club ( in this city, is in possession of a reg ulation golf ball found by a local fish dealer in the stomach of a searoll mackerel fish. The fish weighed four pounds. Shelby.? Final organization of the j local National Guard unit was made, there now being 77 enlisted men and ? two officers in the outfit. Peyton Mc Swain, former representative .to the legislature from Cleveland county and local attorney, is captain and H. M. Austell, deputy .sheriff, is first lieu tenant. New Bern? A temporary check was put on the activities of two Connecti cut labor agents in Onslow county when on warrants sworn out by J. C. Gay, logging foreman in a camp near Jacksonville, a white man and a negro were held for soliciting labor without a North Carolina license. Monroe.? A cyclone passed over sections of Goose - Creek township, dipping here and there, tearing down timber and small grain and damaging two tendant houses on the farm of the Griffin boys, sons of the late EL ; J. Griffin, and blowing Jonah Simp son's barn from its pillars. Greensboro. ? Agitation has started here for a new hard surface road to High Point, one that would be a bee line highway to the Furniture city. , If plans go throug hthe line would i help to remove the congestion on the High Point - Greensboro boulevard, upon which traffic is now very heavy, especially Sundays, and is believed to contribute to many accidents upon the road. Lexington. ? When he went to" open his office the other morning Sheriff Talbert found pinned on the door a note written with pencil and a scraw ly hand that gave the information that the writer had stolen an automo- ; bile, and told where the car was abandoned. The sheriff telephoned ! the chief of police at Charlotte, where ! the note said the car was, and in j about a half hour the stolen property i had been recovered. ; Albermarle. ? Prof. J. H. Mclver re i ceived a telegram from the chairman of the board of education of Columbus I county announcing that he had been elected Superintendent of Public | Schools of Columbus County. Prof. Mclver has * been superintendent of ! schools in Stanly county for some time. ;? Red Springs.-? Flora Macdonald Col lege learned with nrofound re&ret of the death of Rev. Dr. James A. Mac- j donald, former editor of the Toronto j Globe, who died May 14 in Toronto, i Dr. Macdonald was a trustee at large j and a devoted friend of the institu- j ! tion and was instrumental in making possible the name which the institu tion now bears Elizabeth City. ? The Avalon Hosi- | ery Mills on Lawrence street, this city, I are to reopen in the next two weeks, with room for tt)0 employes and a ca pacity of 500 dozen pairs of hose a day. The mills have been idle for nearly three years. Asheville. ? Tracy A. Vincent, busi iess manager of the Oteen Echo, and North Carolina Legionnaire, and one of the most active men in the North Carolina department of the American Legion, died at Oteen hospital after an illness of seven weeks^ Washington? Only a freak of cir cumstances prevented the gayety of the Shrine Ceremonial from being blighted by a terrible catastrophe when two spans of the great bridge across the Pamlico river collapsed be neath the weight of three thousand spectators and sagged to within two feet of the water. Southern Pines? O. L. Aufder Heide of West New York, N. Y., has pur chased the Princess theater here and has announced that the old structure will be dismantled. He proposes that a new and modern theater building be erected in ita stead. NIGHT OF DECISION By A. W. PEACH (?, 1923, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.; liTV/TY DEAR girl, I can't have that old man hanging around the place," he said, his lips a little white. "He's goad for nothing! I didn't sup pose you dreamed of taking him with us to the farm when we were mar ried !" Delia Clayton's brown eyes wert wide with astonishment as she faced her fiance. "Whyr Harvey, you know how gqpd he was to father and mothef while they were living. His money gave mother the things that kept her alive for years." "I can't help that," he relied. "The point is ? I don't want hiw to take care of ? "But he's so pleasant and so little trouble, and it won't be for many years, you know!" "I know this: If you want him so much, stay here and keep him !" He turned on his heel. "That is my last word on the matter!" "But, my dear ? " Delia saw the door close behind him. She sank back into the chair stricken. She had never seen Harvey during the months he had wooed her in such a mood. In the hallway the "old man," her uncle, trapped qn his way to his bed room, had been forced to listen. With fumbling hands stood in the dark nessn the peace of years of quiet living with Delia shattered by the words he had heard. He worked his way down the hall and upstairs slowly to his room, where he sank on the edge of his bed, staring with unseeing eyes at the wall beyond him. Slowly he came to an under standing ? he was In the way ; no young man taking his bride to a new home wanted an old man around who was too feeble to take hold and work. "But I'm In the way," he muttered, "I'm in the way." He looked helplessly around the twi light-filled room. What could he do? A faint, throaty whistle sounded through the dusk, coming from the station three miles down the road from the village. The old man stood up suddenly with clenched hands, a 'solemn decision rising in his throbhlhg heart. He would go ? yes, he would go. With trembling hands but with his worn frame steadied by his great re solve to leave the valley of his youth and manhood, leave Delia free to claim her happiness, he drew from the closet a battered traveling bag. Into it he put his few treasured belongings, use less things, most of them, a picture of his wife in her youth, little remem brances of a little lad of his who never grew up, odds and ends of clothes. Then he stole to the door. On the stand i* the hall he left the note he had written that she might not worry. She would not find the note there till morning, and by that time he ' On the knoll back of the station he suddenly saw the train. "Why, I didn't hear it!" he muttered, wonder ing why. "I may miss it !" He started to run, but fell. Picking himself up, he tried to hurry, but Wis >pgs seemed weighted. He drew nfcar the platform, trying to shout, but the great express, which really stopped there Just for water, pulled out and left him. He sagged against the plat form, the night dizzy about him. "Great Scott ! Uncle Ned, what are you doing here?" a cheery voice de manded. He stirred. He always liked that voice. He knew It belonged to Ted Thornton, whom Delia had greatly liked, but whom she had finally de cided against. Ted drew him up. "What* s the trouble?" It seemed good to hear that friendly ^t?ice; and the old man told him all, adding, "I can do lots of things yet, Ted ; you know, clean up 'round a place, take care of the hen?? " "Of course you can. Say, you and dad were old pals. You come to my house; you can have his old room; and I'll give you your keep for help ing me 'round the place. I need some body bad!" The old man straightened up, but before he could speak a carriage whirled up to the station and a girl jumped out, a girl whose attitude showed she was frantic. She caught a sight of Ted. "Oh, Ted?" Then she saw the sag ging figure by the platform and, lumping down, she threw her arms around his neck. "Oh, Uncle Ned, how could you! You left the front door open and I found? why, I was so frightened! You know how I love The old ma* explained haltingly, but she broke in, "I know-I know but even Ted can't have you. Iw*nt you ! And Harvey Sloane can take his farm and ? and eat it ! "That so, Dell?" Ted said quickly. "Then, perhaps, I can come to see you ^Sh^ laughed a queer little happy "augh- "Ted, I have missed you, hon est?and drive us home, and? and ??That I will," he agreed, finishing her sentence in this way in his own mind : "And some day we'll all drive | to my home together ! Looking to Future Business. Actress ? What will your charges be to arrange a divorce for me? Lawyer? Madam, if I have the as surance that you'll let me handle all your future divorces I shall make It very reasonable. (Conducted by National Council of the Boy Scouts of America.) BOY SCOUTS AID POLICE . What has been termed "One of the most dramatic phases of eo-operation between the scout and the public in the whole history of scouting," has become an everyday reality, and more than 20,000 boy scouts of Greater New York now have opportunity to become official guardians of public safety, 'the new plan of co-operation is called "ISoy Scout Safety Service" and has been inaugurated by the safety com mission of the New York police depart ment and the Boy Scouts of America. The duty of the scouts will be to lend direct aid to the police officers in the protection of life and in carrying out the city's safety program. Before be ing enrolled a scout must pledge him self to work faithfully in promoting the objects of' the service. He will then be officially designated as a boy scout safety ald'e and will be entitled to wear a button bearing the words to that effect. At the public schools the sscout troops will form special safety patrols and will have definite beats in all streets In the neighborhood of the school. The scouts will see that the children are safely escorted across the etreet at dismissal time and started on their way home. The scouts will also supervise playground activities during recesses. They will act as aides to the school nurse when need arises, and be prepared to render first aid in emer gencies. Another duty will be to cor rect. wherever possible, all unsafe con | ditions; removing dangerous broken i glass, boards with nails protruding, banana skins, etc., will come under this work. All accidents, hazards, such as dangling wires, unguarded manholes, bad holes In the pavement, open eel* 1 larways, and loose overhanging ob jects are to be reported to the property i owners or police. i The boy scout safety service has I the firm backing of th<* deputy com ' missloner of safety, the police com ! missloner, the superintendent of edu ! cation and the boy scout organization. SCOUTS HONOR SOLDIER DEAD Scouts of Orange cpunty, Cal., on tide of memorial drive which they'are planting with trees and shrubs .ire memory of the men who gave their liver in the World war. Thousands of poppies planted last winter are now making their appearance. Each week a group of boys work on the site un der the direction of the county for ester. Already more than 300 scouts have participated. So that the me morial may still be beautiful in cen turies to come, many small oaks have been planted. BOY SCOUTS' TREE CENSUS Gloverville, N. Y., boy scouts gave a demonstration of the way boy scouts can combine fun and thought for others, when on a recent tour of the j city they noted all trees with danger I ous limbs and reported their findings | to the highway department officials. SCOUTS' POLICY: "GOOD TURN" ? The aeout policy of dofhg a good turn daily and an Insurance policy were appropriately linked together when Troop 25, Tampa, Fla., discov ered a valuable Insurance record which had been dropped from a passing auto and promptly returned the document | to the owner. "PARLOR SCOUT" NOT IN IT Boy scouts and "the parlor pioneer" don't pair off at &1L You can see that by {he following: | On Mother's range I learned to cook; I hate to breathe the outside air It makes my tonsils sore; I passed my Scout-pace round a chair Three hundred times or more. I am a busy feller! I grot my swimming from a book? My -tracking in the c?llar! I am a husky parlor Scout/ reg'iar guy, you bet! :-:.jt when it rains, I don't go ou&r \ou see? I might get wet -Frontier Scout. c\r After EVERV Meal give your diges tion a "kick" vvitb WRIGLEY'S. Sound teeth, a good appetite and proper digestion mean MUCH to your health. WRIGLEY'S Is a helper In all this work ? a pleasant, beneficial pick-me-up. Good toth&last drop lifter all, the only way to know that Maxwell House Coffee is'Good to the Last Drop" is to taste it. The first taste fore- jjj casts an empty cup. MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE Cane Beetle Destroying Sugar-Cane. One of the most destructive of all injects to th?- fanner in Australia is the cane beetle, which is still playing havoc on the stgar-cane farms. Recently, at Norham, in xVorth Queensland, a sugar-cane farmer gave a contract to a man to catch beetles at 18 cents a quart, and the beetle catcher made ?9 in- three days. An other man caught 1,647 quarts of bee tles in 25 days. The high prices paid in order to de stroy these beetles give us an Idea of the amount of destruction wrought by the hordes of these insects. WOMEN HEED SWUMP-ROOT Thousands of women have lpdney and bladder trouble and never suspect it. Women's complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy con dition, they may cause the other organs to become diseased. Pain in the back, headache, loss of am bition, nervousness, are often timet symp toms of kidney trouble. I Don't delay starting treatment. Dr, I Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a physician's pie scription, obtained at any drug store, may be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. Get a medium or large size bottle im mediately from any drug store. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper. ? Advertisement. Occasionally. All four of the members of a quartet are unalterably convinced that the other three cannot sing, and some times they are right about It. ? Kansas City Star. 5Room House < 538 Yoa em bay mU tbm complmtm homo dboci from tho mtmnrn facturgr mrnd ammo four profit ? on tho kambor, milhmork, kardwmro mrnd labor. windows, doors, woodwork, glass, paints, hardware, nails, lath and roofing. Complete drawings and instructions. Many styles to chooee from. Satisfaction or money back. Houses, Cottages, Bungalows Highest grade lumber for all Interior wood work. siding and outside finish. Send today for money-saving Aladdin Catalog No. 2882. THE ALADDIN CO., R&SIX ? . AIm M3b ami Offica* at WUita, lUrtk Canhn Patbi 0ng?3 T? W. N. U.. CHARLOTTE, NO. 22-1923.
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