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I ? Yit'w in the great Welland ship eanal, whiWi is Hearing completion. ? Artillery practice with anti-aircraft gun at F?>rt Hancock for instruction of coast artillery and engineer reserve oflicers. 3. ? Syniholic group of the Loyal Order of Moose with portrait statue of Secretary of Labor Davis, the founder, unveiled during uational con vention at Mooseheart, 111. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Pope Urges Germany Be Treated With More Leniency for World's Sake. FRANCE BECOMING ISOLATED Allies Oppose Her Claims at Lausanne ? Probable Platform Material in President Harding's Western Speeches ? Rum-Bringing Foreign Ships May Be Seized. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 1 T CERTAIN officials of the gov-- J ernment have declared that ? 1 if foreign ships persist in the t ,, practice of bringing oeverage | " liquors into American ports un- i n der seal, the vessels will be f seized and the captains arrested. ? <? What dc you think would be the ? effect of this on our diplomatic * f relations with other nations? J POPE PIl'S XI has added himself to the number of those who seek to persuade France to let up on Ger many, taking the stand that justice, world peace and the interest of the creditors can best be served by a policy that will not exhaust the resources and Impair the productiveness of the debtor nation. Premier Poincare has been asserting that his policy was supported by the Vatican, but the pontiff, through the medium of a letter to Cardinal Gas parri, now refutes this claim and takes the same stand as that of the British government and Premier Mussolini of Italy? though the latter has t>een less insistent than Downing street. In his letter the pope suggests that the amount of German reparations be determined by impartial judges fur nished with adequate data and with means to control the reparations sums. He continues: "Likewise, if it is just that creditors should have guaranties proportional in importance to their credits and such as will assure collections from which vital interests depend, we leave it to such /reditors to consider whether it is necessary to maintain at all costs territorial occupation implying heavy sacrifices for both the occupied and occupying countries, or whether it is rather preferable to resort, even though more> gradually, trt more proper and less odious guaranties. "Once both parties accepted such peaceful terms and ended their bitter ness and territorial occupations, it would be possible to reach that sincere pacification and peace which is indis pensable for economic reconstruction and is ardently desired by all. "This pacification and reconstruction Is such a great blessing for all nations as to justify any grave sacrifice." Premier Theunis of Belgium, whose cabinet resigned on a local issue, has not been able to form a new ministry and the Franco-Iielgian solidarity on questions concerning Germany is grow ing weaker daily. In effect, Poincare is being isolated und ids position is becoming meifo and more difficult. The French budget is demoralized because in it immense sums are listed as recov erable from Germany, and the franc is falling in value. Maybe the economic experts who condemn the course of t)ie French in the Ruhr have the best of the argu ment, but it seems to gome of us that when they assert that the industrial demoralization of Germany means the ruin of Europe, if not of the entire world, they are overlooking what the economic ruin of Friuice means. The French simply must (V>tain. from Ger many the greater par\ of what they claim, and this grenteApart Germany has shown no intention! of paying un der any conditions. ( ONE cannot help thinking that at Lausanne also justice is n<jt be ing done to the French financially. The British and (J reeks there are turn ing against the French demand that the Turks pay their bonds <?n a gold franc basis, which is three times more valuable than the paper franc. The English call this "unreasonable," but the French reply that the pound ster ling is nearly normal, so the English bondholders will be paid almost on a gold basis. France is now willing to leave this matter out of the peace treaty with Turkey and to settle it later by negotiations. The Turks are insistent that the bonds be paid at the present rates of exchange and their delegates at Lausanue have been in structed to quit the conference if the allies do not yield. In order to test Russia's willingness to "come back into Europe," the allies decided to invite the soviet govern ment to sign the Turkish straits con vention when the treaty is completed. The representatives of England ami Turkey settled the controversy over the Mosul region by accepting the boundaries- of l'ritish intluence in Mesopotamia as agreed upon by Lord Cur/.on and Isinet Pasha. Any further disputes concerning Mosul which may rema'in unsettled nine months after the signing of the treaty will be re ferred to t he council of the league of Nations, though the Turks preferred that they should be submitted to the Hague tribunal. PRESIDENT HARDING has repeat edly disclaimed that his speeches on his trip through the West and to Alaska are designed as campaign mate rial, but it is probable that the gist of most of them will be found in the next Republican national platform. After his address on American membership in the world court, in which he sug gested divorcing the court from the League of Nations by making it prac tically self-perpetuating, he told the farmers of Kansas what the national government has done to rescue Amer ican agriculture from the depression that came with deflation in 1020. Inci dentally he shocked some wheat and operated a binder. In Kansas City he insisted on compulsory consolidation of the railway systems as a solution of transportation problems. Sunday's address at Colorado Springs was in the nature of a sermon, urging the Golden Rule as a panacea for the ills of the world. In Denver and Wyoming the President made two most important pronouncements. First he declared ab solutely for enforcement of the Vol stead act, by each and every state as well as by the federal government. He denounced the action of the "new nul lificationists" who have repealed or tried to repeal the prohibition enforce ment acts of various states, referring especially to New York and Governor Smith. Of this he said: "Instead of being an assertion of state rights, it is an abandonment of them; it is an abdication; it amounts to a confession by the state that it doesn't choose to govern itself, but prefers to turn the task, or a consider able part of it, over to the federal authority. There could be no more complete negation of state rights." And this was his warning to the "nullificationists" : "If the burden of enforcement shall continue to be in creasingly thrown upon the federal government, it will be necessary, at large expense, to create a federal po lice authority which in time will in evitably come to be regarded as an intrusion upon and interference with the right of local authority to manage local concerns. The possibilities of disaster in such a situation hardly need to he suggested." He said fur ther that they "will discover that they have perpetrated what is likely to prove one of the historic blunders in political management." From the car platform at Cheyenne the President declared himself opposed to "nationalization" of the coal min ing industry; stated that certain mine owners were as responsible \for par alyzing the industry last year as were the men who went on strike, said that the operators had been unable to pro-< duce fuel even when furnished protec tion. and announced that there "would never be any coal mined in free Amer-' ica under force of arms." He alluded to the already existing anxiety con- 1 i cerning next winter's supply of coal ' jf* - I ( . . / i and said that while the government w ?iul(J do all it could, the public must help as host It can. In rtnh Mr. [larding talked of the economies in government operation during his administration, and prom ised still further reductions. lie called attention to the fact that at the same time the cost of state and local gov ernments Is steadily increasing. In 1022 the state and local taxes were GO per cent of all taxes paid. ALTHOUGH government agents are seizing the sealed liquor stores on foreign vessels almost as fast as they come to American ports, the Wgh oflicials In Wasliington have not, at this writing, made up their minds to fake possession of the ships them selves and, after violation of the law is proved, sell them at auction and turn the proceeds into the treasury. Such a course was considered In a series of conferences, however, and If it Is not adopted it will he because of reluctance to bring on serious Inter national disputes and to give the ship ping lines a chance to determine in the courts whether they have the right to bring into American waters beverage liquors under seals of their government. If the government does decide to enforce the ship seizure provision of the law, ampl? notice will be given. Speaking at the graduation exer cises of the army war college. Secre tary of War Weeks announced his flat opposition to any plan for using the army for prohibition work. James Cousens, the new senator from Michigan, returning from a tour of Canada, prophesied that congress in its next session will amend the Volstead act to permit the sale of beer containing not more than 5 per cent alcohol. He was quoted as saying 5 per cent beer was not in toxicating and no sane person would maintain it was; and he characterized the prohibition law. "as federal ea thorities are now attempting to en force it,'.' as "ridiculous and Impossi ble of enforcement." EFFICACY of the Insulin treatment for diabetes, discovered by Dr. F. (J. Bantling of the University of To ronto, is further ^proved by the an nouncement that It has been used with great success on Robert Lansing, former secretary of state, and Miss Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Secre tary of State Hughes. The United States public health service has care fully investigated the treatment and now declares that insulin is to he re garded as one of the greatest discov eries of recent years. Doctor Bantling is to be granted an annuity of $7,500 by the Canadian government. THE labor party of Great Britain, | which many believe will be in con trol of the government before very long, not only has refused to have any connection with the Russian bolshev ists, hut last week, at its annual con ference, rejected the application of the communist party for affiliation by a vote of 2,880,000 to 3GG.000.% Frank Hodges declared it would be madness for those who believed in political democracy to allow an affiliation with those who declare political democracy is of no avail. Governor walton, the rather obstreperous executive of 'Okla homa, angered by the arrest on charges of drunkennes of two men carrying commissions as state officers, declared the rule of the sheriff of Okmulgee county to be "lawless," pro claimed martial law and sent six units of the National Guard to take charge of law enforcement there. In four other counties there have been whip pings and assaults, attributed to the Ku Ivlux Klan, and the governor threatens martial law In those regions unless these offenses cease. Walton says he is determined to suppress mob violence in Oklahoma. MORE regolar employment In coal mining regions and the stabiliz ing of production are expected to re sult from an order of the interstate commerce commission abolishing the "assigned car" rule under which the railroads have Insured a supply of coal for their own use during fuel sup ply stringencies and other periods of emergency. IMUK OEMS OF M KEIK JTATE FARMERS AND FARM WO MEN WIL GATHER AT STATE I . COLLEGE. JULY 31 FOB 3-DAY MEETING Program Consists of Discussions By Abls Speakers on Farm Financing and Business Problems. Raleigh. i * Farmers and farm women of North Carolina will assemble at the State Jollege of Agriculture and Engineer ng July 31 far a three-day meeting )t the twenty-first annual convention >f the Farmers and Farm Women. Addresses by Dr. J. Y. Joyner, pres cient of the Fanners, and Mrs. Lacy YfacArthur, of Cumberland county, president of the Farm Women, will 'eature the opening session. Aaron Sapire, cooperative marketing expert, s expected to be present for the n^eet ing and efforts are being made to have i large attendance of cooperative ?narketing association members. On the general program will be dii ;usions by able speakers on farm financing, business problems, commo dity marketing, home products maret ing, building for citizenship, diversl led farming, boll weevil control. The afternoon meeting will be devoted to sectional meetings and demonstra tions, while the evening program will be Interspersed with music, plays and ocial 'entertainments. "No effort is being spared," con tinued Dr. Joyner, "to make this con vention the most instructive, the most entertaining, the most largely attend ed, and the most represetnative con ference on agriculture ever held in North Carolina Every farmer his wife are cordially invited to at tend. A special invitation is extend ed to all members of the Tobacco ind the Cotton Growers' Associations. The associations are earnestly re quested to advertise this convention through their local and field workers, and aid in securing a large attend \nce.'' What farm women in North Caro lina are accomplishing will be the feature of the farm women's section of the convention. Bidders on 28 Projects Submitted* Low bidders on 28 projects submit ted to contractors by the State High way Commission brought 12S bids, with the aggregate total of what Chairman Frank Page calls "lowest, 1 not low," bids to $3,879.1**3.21 for the I seccnd largest letting in the history of rond building in the state. Many of the bids are regarded as excessive by the Chairman and sev eral will probably be rejected on that ! score. None have yet been let to con j tract. Mr. Page will sort them out I and determine which are to be let at j the figures submitted and which are to be rejected. Contracts will not be signed for several days to come. Only three major hard surfacing project? were included in the lot and one major bridge wMch will require many thousands of barrels of cement. The majority of the roads were for gravel or asphalted macadam. The cement market is still too congested to permit the addition of many major projects except where the demand Is acute. On the Wilson-Bynum-Farmville road very nearly 20 miles long, the Commission received the largest single bid that has ever been submit ted as a low figure the total for the roadway and bridges reaching $738, 0C0. The bid on the Elizabethtown bridge, aggregating $417,000 is the largest cost for a bridge of that type even submitted. Governor Grants Respites. Governor Morrison commuted to life imprisonment, death sentence im posed in Edecombe Superior court against Eugene and Sidney Gupton, convicted of murder in the first de gree, and granted respites to W. W. Campbell, of Asheville; Jerry Dalton, of Macon; and Bob Benson, of Iredell, each awaiting execution on the charge of murder. The commutation of the Guptons sentence to die on July 27 is upon recommendation of Judge Frank Dan iels who tried tliem vnd the jury who convicted. The respite of W. W. Campbell moved up his execution late from July 12 until October 12; Jerry Dalton from June 8 to Septem ber 20; and Bob Benson from June 6 to October 1. New Charters Issued. Charters w^re filed with the Sec retary of State for the following cor porations to do business ifc North Carolina. North State Realty and Auction Company, of Hirh Point, with $50 000 authorized capital and . $1,000 sub scribed by B? C. Albertson, W. H. Al- 1 bertson. and W. H. Davis, all of High Point. Kiser Auto Exchange. Inc., of Char lotte. with $100,000 authorized capital and $300 subscribed by H. B. K!?er and Charles Blackburn. " j Diphtheria Death Rate Doubles. Puialed by the alarming increas# in the number of cases of diphtheria and the mounting death . rate from that cause despite the constant activ ity of the department, State Health Offiver W. S. Rankin has addressed a letter to every physician in the State asking their co-operation in de termining the cause and in making treatment effective. From 1919 to 1922 the number of cases in the State has increased from 3,519 to 8,136 and the death rate has ?increased Xrom 242 to 508. Health authorities are unable to fathom the reason, although it has been consid ered from every angle. Dr. Rankin has determined to enlist the aid of the medical fraternity, and to ask the people of the State to observe special vigilance in treating the disease. For the past four years the num ber of cases has begun to swing sharply upward in August, increas ingly steady until December when it begins to decline. While the dis ease is prevalent at all seasons, it is practically dormant during May. Juno and July. Health officials are unable to explain the reason since it is not primarily a seasonal malady. Dr. George M. Cooper, assistant secretary of the State Board of Health and editor of the Bulletin, has assem bled all the data on the subject avail able in the vital statistics for the past four years, bpt frankly confesses that he is unable to arrive at any con clusion that gets anywhere in tha treatment of the disease. He is baf fled by its prevalence and increasing fatality. f Twenty-nine counties having whole time health departments were taken on one conjecture, and the death rate in those counties was worked out a 6.25 deaths per hundred cases while the rate in 71 counties not having whole time health officers was 9.39 deaths per hundred cases. The aver age for the entire State was 7.66 per hundred. Half the population in the State live in the 29 counties. Mortality percentages vary widely in the various counties. In a few of the counties, and with relatively small numbers of cases, the death rate has been as high as 72 per cent, while in other counties, with a large number of cases, the death rate has dropped as low as 1.5 per cent. Rut Dr. Cooper and Dr. Rankin frankly j declare they are unable to fathom it, j and are calling upon the medical mpn | of the State to come in and help solve the problem. One reason my lie in faulty diag nosis, some doctor3 believe, and the delay in administering: toxin anti toxin in the earlier stapes of the disease, when recovery could be as sured by treatment. The State dur ing the past year sent out thousands of treatments free of charge to doc ! tors everywhere, and it is supposed | that the treatment was generally used. The department! will institute an intensive campaign against the dis ? ease during the coming month in an J effort to stay its progress when I August and the upward swing sets in. ] Widespread igilance in detecting the | disease, and. in the use of the treat ment made available by the State lab oratory of Hygiene will be maintain ed. Dr. Rankin hopes that the malady ; will be checked before it reaches its i former high levels. Opening thef schools in August and : September hris been advanced by some doctors as the cause of the ! spread of the disease, but it has not j been definitely established that this i is the cause of the spread. I Break Record at License Bureau. Seventy thousand North Carolina motorists are wearing the new "King Tut" license plates and more than a million and a half dollars 'is credit 1 ed to the account of the State High way Commission at the close of bus iness Saturday, June 23, at the license department, and six days for Hie old green-and-white plates to run. All j records have been broken in the rush of the forehanded. Applications for new licenses are coming at the rat? of ten thousand a day, and the department expects that by the end of the week that up wards. of 150,000 licenses will hava been issued and $2,500,000 placed in i the treasury for the improvement of roads. The old numbers have passed i into history at the 188,000 mark and no more of them will be sold. Last year and the year before the 1 collection of the license fee encoun tered the greatest reluctance on the part of the motoring public to part with money. Secretary of State W. N." Everett sees in the rush this year an indication of a greatly improved financial situation, and more wide spread prosperity. The alactrity with which people pay up is taken as a good barometer. , More than 100 extra clerks are wording ten hours a day tovkeep up , with the rush ,and the mail that goes out every day reaches a total of five tons. Highway Commission Passes Order. The State Highway Commission meeting with Governor Morrison passed a formal resolution asking the Council of State to borrow $15,000,000 to tide the road construction work over until next yeaf when^bonds will be soid. i The action of the commission was by way of complying with legal terms necessary for the borrowing of the , money on short term notes for the Highway Commission. State Treas urer B. R. Lacy is in Washington n* Igotiatin* (or the money. :ir I r(, *2>,V 'I... '?It I . i . -r tj e comranstS THE OU) MM a SHORT NOTES OF INT&r^ CAROLINIANS. Wilmington. Thl tion of the N n-uh ( " | tion of Heal K<n:U(. i held at Wri$ht*?:iie Vi;> IB, 16, and 17. \\ ,? V uE ston-Salem, Is pre*/;.. , ciation. Goldsboro. ? A pledged horn in th.. < for $30,000 to K i tion of Way !i< | community bu.Min. Greensboro n. . . r,f teria count in ;;k :;i>i k..J. ice, accoFling * (J t ?... , ... a decree has |>. ? all persons s?-!iin ? ? * ... ?J> must d? liv. r . _ , ^ with Caciliti" . , ..r, ., j* Chapel Hill T Z I Weevil," th< 1':.: ,. v "1 1 comic magaziiK lication next ?.< ; circulation o! <<'?> ?; .t the business man r f .v | ! (Jreensboro. I i, - , complete for the j.'! ! the Southern Rai U;<y j ciation, to he h rf. .. , Henry hotel on July li j*. | About 200 aKiint> f-??? 6 I Southern's territory. v:i | meeting. | Asheville. -- I >ecS!or. j reached by the director* of t: Baker Packine Company to their new $2r>ojif?tr plant in ^ ii was announceri h^-re T:-\ wjts also considering ( location. All kinds of n>a: j handled. StateBville.? Tht- Woman? vJ ary Union of th- Bap*:?! clJ completing arrangements :? here August 14 In annua! on Mies J>aura LazenSy. Sta-?rj returned from Sal'M'iry. r\ meeting of the ox-cutiw - was held to arrange the y: Selma.? At last. n:>r w ' ' M ! of patient waitinr Senna are goincr m a j near future a n >?.? ;;n: r. | the Southern ami ?;> I Lino roads have air.*. .<< - i and are now n'j ; work of erecting sa:> I New Bern | and forehead thai j Stftl'hes were MMa;:' >?> ! Smith of this. < :ty whf i in which she u;h r: I on into a sev?'n-n?<*'r i on Veuse River brid^ j Ooldsboro.- V*i N Fa* .*? i tary of State, an >! 0 A f , velor-ment Agent far tl Coast Line Railway. ?*:!! to make th? principal a the annual in* ins a:..' the Ooldshoro Cha.T.^r of which will be h-M within i Greenville.? Thes IV> farmer, aged L1?. who r? farm of R. L. Moore a f,;n town, was drowned ?!::> In Tar river. \Vh:!>' in --h* was suddenly taken and although he n?>i! reached him too IateaQfe4rt before any assistant cm'-'' Pittsboro. - Walter Harr this place, was' drowned 1 while swimming with a ; here. He attempted c; the canal a half mile ?""1 er riant, hut just before opposite hank sank. H> ' were helpless to water was drained fnw ' the body rescued wlr" fort was made to ?in the failed. Ooldshoro.? A cor.x:'^ appointed from th* loci! C! Commerce to assist V - prominent Junior, in S'-5 1 bring to Goldsbnm thr 1 0 Orphanage recent*}' pn? Xorth Carolina. Salisbury.- Dave W1 merchant of Salisbury. ^ tort, Germany, accord inf1 adrlces received her? ?r had been in poor time and had gone to 0 boyhood home, for treats Greensboro. - Corned exercises were held at byterian church here tl well Memorial huildlnf td. It is a Sunday st named after one of tbe PJ lfgious life in .North W Henderson. -AcfordW Anthonv, who is countf and who has made the f5* tlon into the math* ^'1 conducted here, so fir * learned, anndur.ces ^ J of negroes froni fh;'-- ('o3*5 (lustrial centers of & East has amount^ tr 225. Greensboro. torfa count in milk n*1' ice. according to tbe^ a decree has h?'en fcs" all persons selling "'" j boro must de.'iv.r k J ped with fa cii ',ir ' fc?. Lumberton l>uckfirf Will Fred 7. ?Wr have been in iaiJ ^ weeks charged *'ith ^ Hubbard 7,<uvrey. Pembroke on May -l<' J give bail in the '^jf Recorder W. H
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