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 (
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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 $15,000,000
to tide the road construction work
over until next yeaf when^bonds will
be soid.
i The action of the commission was
by way of complying with legal terms
necessary for the borrowing of the
, money on short term notes for the
Highway Commission. State Treas
urer B. R. Lacy is in Washington n*
Igotiatin* (or the money.
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SHORT NOTES OF INT&r^
CAROLINIANS.
Wilmington. Thl
tion of the N n-uh ( "
| tion of Heal K<n:U(.
i held at Wri$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