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VOL. 17.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1919
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Domestic
The Alabama legislature took note
of the race rioting In Chicago and
Washington, and by resolution called
attention to the peace and amity ex
isting between the races in the South.
Pale postage stamps, which came
Into use along with meatless Tuesdays
and heatless Mondays, soon will go
Into the discard, because the bureau
of engraving now that It does not
have to engrave plates to make so
much money, will have opportunity to
devote some time to engraving post
age stamps. ' ;
World War Hero Sergeant Alvin
York announces that he and bis wife
will devote their lives to the educa
tion of young men and women in the
rural communities, and he Is going
on the lecture platform to gut the
money to found "York .University."
Congress is considering plans to
modify the war revenue act, and soft
drinks may eoon be purchased for 6
cents. -
The Nebraska legislature has r; 1
fled the woman suffrage amendment.
Alabama will issue $25,000,000 worth
of bonds for good roads.
Hunter Raine, who has already serv
ed a term In the pen for his banking
peculations, must serve from, one to
ten years more in prison.
The state department at Washing
ton is advised that Japanese compa
nies are trying to acquire properties
In the oil. fields of Mexico.
Fearing an let shortage in Atlanta,
Oa Mayor James L. Key, ha ordered
councilmanic and aldermanic Inves
tigation of the ice situation.
Wilson bas aeked congress not to
recess but to stay in session to con
alder the creation of a commission to
determine all questions of railways
workers'- wages. TJhe house has voted
to comply. '
Oscar Hammersteln, producer of
grand opera, died of complications at
his home in New York after an ill
ness of several days.
Following resolutions adopted in At
lanta, July 15, 16 and 17, to secure
an Increase in wages to meet the pre
ent high cost of living, the union shop
employees went on strike the first
day of August
One hundred thousand union ran-
way workmen are on strike in the CM
cago district The strike . Is chiefly
effective in the middle west and In
the southeast.
Five persons were killed by the ex-
lesion of one thousand pounds of
dynamite near- Landing, N. J. : The
explosion was in the Atlas Powder
company packing houee.
A contract has been awarded for
the construction ot battleship No. 64
to be named the Massachusetts, of
43,200 ton j displacement.
Several hours before authorities
were to remove them to the Athens
county home, seven children, ranging
In age from six weeks to ten years,
were found with their mother, Mrs,
Toney Stravisar, burned to death or
asphyxiated, In their home at Klmber-
ly, a small mining town, near Nelson
vllle, Ohio. The children Were tied
to their beds and coal oil had been
sprinkled over the room.
A roll call of a certain Solomon fam
ily In New York, it held In the Atlanta
federal prison, would result In seven
. brothers answering "Here!" All
seven have reported at the prison to
begin sentences of two years bach
tor using the malls to defraud, being
tried together In New York un.'.er
Joint charges, and will serve terms to
gether' the prison.
After nearly two' hours' debate end
- whilo the tempo. Voire in the charn-'
ber was hovering around the 100 mark,
the national house voted to repeal the
10 per cent war tax on soda water and
Ice cream.
Washington
' An attempt was made in the for
eign relations Committee to reduce th
sum payable to Colombia from $25,
- 000,000 to $15,000,000, but was defeat
, ed by 11 to I.
The century-old senate custom of
' considering treaties in secret session
'was broken when the long pending Co
lombian treaty was taken up. This de-
clsion was reached by unanimous con
: .sent ot the senate membership.
L; The special defensive treaty with
France, which Republican senators
'' bave declared President Wilson is
.holding from the senate In violation
of its own terms, .will, be submitted
for ratification. v.. ; '
The senate received a report from
President Wilson showing that 217
citizens of the United States have
been killed In Mexico since the re
gime of Porflrio Dial.
Government , control ' of telegraph
and telephone properties is at an end.
Orders for their return to private own
ers have been issued by Postmaster
General Burleson as required by a
resolution adopted by congress and
signed by the president. ,
The permit system devised by the
railroad administration and the grain
corporation for controlling the ship.
ment of this year's record grain crop
was put Into effect August 1.
The importance of dealing with the
high cost of living has almost usurped
the pre-eminence of the league ot na
tlons' fight in Washington officialdom,
It has gone forth from the white
house that fhe president realizes the
importance of dealing summarily with
the high cost of living and may even
use his war powers to end the situa
tion.
More than a thousand Americans
are threatened with a loss of millions
of dollars In investments by a r
agrarian law enacted liy the congress
of Sonora. Mexico, at the direct In
structlons of Governor Calles. Several
American companies have already filed
complaints with the slate department
and other complaints are In prepare
tlon.
General Pershing has started on his
"valedictory' 'tour of the occupied ter
ritory of Germany. He will first visit
the American troops remaining in oc
cupied area, and then the French and
British sones. He will next take an
automobile trip over the battle fields
of the western front.
The agreement for open sessions re
garded possibly as forecasting public
consideration of the peace treaty, the
Franco-American agreement and sun.
sequent treaties, followed unanimous
approval of the foreign relations com
mlttee of the Colombia convention call
ing for payment to that nation of
$25,000,000 as claims growing out of
the partition of Panama. Before ap
proving the treaty, however, the com
mittee struck out the original clause
expressing the "regret" ot the United
States to Colombia for action in the
canal proceedings.
After an all day wrangle the house
of representatives adopted a resolution.
reported out by the war investigating
committee, requesting Secretary Baker
to place on sale without delay surplus
food products held by the war depart
ment, and valued at $120,000,000.
America - Is bound by its debt to
France to ratify the treaty pledging
military aid to that nation in event
. . ,. ti
oi unprovoaea uermaa auui-, r.o.
dent Wilson told the senate, in sub
mitting the French-American defen
sive agreement for ratification.
Acting upen the advice of the Mex
ican go 'eminent, John West Thomp
son, an American ranchman llvin; near
Mexico City, bas paid the .630 pecos
ransom demanded by bandits tor the
release ot his 14-year-old son, tbe state
department baa been advised. The
Mexican authorities, it is stated, fear
ed the boy would bo murdered lefore
be could i rescued and advised pay
ing the money.
Foreign
General Denekine, the Russian com
mander has gained an important vic
tory over the Bolshevlkl and captur
ed the town of Kamishin on the Volga.
Five thousand Bolshevists, nine guns
and large quantities of materials were
taken.
Turks and Tartars are moving upon
the Armenians from three sides. They
have cut off the American relief sup
plies and, threaten all the remaining
Armenians with extermination unless
additional military protection is af
forded. Tbe police strike in London and the
English provinces called suddenly in
protest against pending legislation af
fecting police organization, bas gone
into effect and sixty-five thousand po
licemen and prison officials have re
sponded to the call.
By vote ot 245 to 41 the Polish par
liament ratified the German' treaty
and also the treaty for the protection
of minorities. -
President Carranza says that Mexi
co will hold open the door to nation
als ot all countries who can show they
possess wholesome Ideas of citizen
ship and will not prove a disturbing
element in the nation.
Serious : anti-Japanese Hots have
broken out in Shantung, and the prov
ince Is under martial law. ,':
French labor troubles are assuming
a serious aspect Dispatches from
Paris state that political and profes
sional elements are as much a disturb
ing cause in the labor world as the
fight between labor and capital.'
The first real session of the Inter
nationale Trades Union Congress open
ed at Amsterdam, Holland. Tbe state
ment that "the capitalistic systems ot
all countries were responsible tor the
wax' was vigorously protested)? the
American delegate, Tobin. .
A strike has been declared by the
Bulgarian transport and railway .work
ers,. - V. - -,
The Ministers
Sometime ago we announced that The Herald would at an early date
Open a department to be conducted each week by one ot the pastors of
the town. We have consulted with each of the pastors and, they each
have apprved the plan and have agreed to furnish copy when their
respective turns come. Desiring to be perfectly fair In determining
precedence In this department we wrote the names of the different
churches on strips of paper and drew them out of a hat like drawing a
Jury and have arranged their order Just as they were taken from the
hat. It may appear rather singular that the three younger ministers
of the town should come to the top ot the list, but that is Just the way
they came out ot the hat and the order Is determined as follows: Luth
eran, Rev. H. B. Schaeffer; Presbyterian, Rev. Fred J. May; M. E. South,
Rev. E L. Kirk; A. R. Presbyterian, Rev. O. L. Kerr; Baptist, Rev. W. .
R. Beach; Wesleyan Methodist. Rev. M. C. Connor; Grace Methodist,
Rev. B. A. Culp.
The space we set apart for this department is the best in the paper.
It is double column, front page, and six inches or more up o ten Inches
If needed. The articles should range around three hundred words, not
over four hundred. The ministers will take up their space in the order
named and write whatever they please. If they see fit to deal exclusive
ly with the interests of their respective congregations they are at liberty
to do so. Or they can deal with matters public or semi-public Just as
they see fit. What we want is to give the preachers an opportunity to say
something to all Herald readers and to give the readers of this paper an
opportunity to hear from the preachers of the town. We are hoping that
much good may come of this department of The Herald. It costs the
paper money but we are wilting to spend money for our constituents.
Pastors will please have the copy in the office by noon Saturday to appear
the next week.
REV. H. B. SCHAEFFER, PASTOR OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH,
Will occupy the space next week.
OXFORD ORPHANS TONIGHT.
Wednesday night, tonight. Is the
time for the Oxford Orphanage sing
ing class to entertain at the Method
ist church here. It Is hoped that there
will be a large attendance as this is a
most worthy cause and an interesting
program is always carried out by these
children. The epidemic of Influenza
took the class oft the road last year
and cut short their income by about
$13,000. This was a hard lick on the
Institution. No admission will be
Charged for the concert tonight but a
hat collection will be taken and every
body is expected t go prepared to
contribute. The Oxford Orphanage
Is the oldest In the state. It was
founded in 1872 by the late John
mu! ot time when his Idea was
considered as visionary only by lots
of people. While the Institution is
Uainnb (n manaeement it IS far from
exclusively Masonic in benefits. The
highest percentage of the children
ever In the institution from Masonic
homes is 20 per cent which is the
present ratio. The institution takes
Children from every stage, profes
sion or order and denomination and,
therefore, makes its benefits univer
sal. There are now 475 children In
the orphanage and only 95 of them
from Masonic homes. The state is
now appropriating $15,000 a year to
the institution. The placards adver
tising the class shows an array of as
bright faces as ever you saw 1 any
where. Hear them.
Atter the escapade of Leo. M.
Frank, the foul mureerer of Mary
Phagan In the National Pencil Factory
In Atlanta, Ga., a few years ago, the
pencil business was discontinued in
that building. The landlords made
every effort to rent the building to
some other person or company for
some purpose or another. But the
building stood vacant for a year and a
half and was finally torn down to the
ground and a new structure erected
which Is now occupied by a concern
manufacturing overalls and cheap
dresses. . What was the matter?
Simply that Southern chivalry would
not permit a decent white man ap
proaching such an unholy precinct to
do business over the Wood of one of
the fair maids of the South. South
ern white men hold their fair sex In
such high esteem 'that no Sort or
shade of countenance can be given
such deeds as the one that put this
great Southland In utter turmoil and
ended with the fiend at the lower end
of a rope...".
Miss Gertrude Hope, age 15 years,
died at a hospital In Charlotte and
was brought back here for burial In
Mountain Rest Cemetery Friday. She
waa taken violently ill about three
waalra nreTlniu tn her death and was
removed to the hospital tor treatment.
She lived with her brothers and sis
ters at the Dllllng Mill, while her
father, Lee Hope, lived at Bessemer
City. She leaves the following orom
.r. nd Bisters here: Will. George,
Louise .Ella, Mrs. Arthur Fite and
Mrs. Beattle Morrow.
" CARD OP THANKS.
1 ; wish to extend my heartfelt
thanks to the many neighbors and
Mnu fnr their Irlndnees during the
recent sickness and deatii ot my wife.
A. HIGH PATTKKSUH.
Department
URGrS PROMPT RATIFICATION
Says Adoption of Obligation But Par
tially Discharges Debt to France
That Nothing Can Pay In Full.-
Washington.- The special treaty
with France, promising immediate
American aid to that republic in re
pelling any unprovuked attack by Ger
many, was sent to the senate by Pres
ident Wilson.
In his message urging ratification,
the President declared the promise "a
temporary supplement" to the treaty
with Germany and the league ot na
tions covenant, designed to give
France protection in an emergency
"without awaiting the advice of the
league act" He pointed out that a
similar promise had been made by
Great Britain, and said that by the
obligation the United States but par
tially discharged a debt to France
which "nothing can pay" in full.
The senate, where the President's
failure to submit tho treaty sooner has
been under repeated lire from republi
can members, received the message
in open session and referred the
treaty without discussion to the for
eign relations committee.
SCORES OF INSTANCES
OF BRUTAL TREATMENT
New York. Scores of instances of
brutal treatment of American soldiers
In the prison .camps of France, de
scribed in some cases as amounting
to a system of torture, responsibility
tor which was placed by the witnesses
on high army officers, were related
before the congressional sub-committee
which is investigating the discip
linary systems of the A. E. F.
RESOLUTION MADE TO SMASH
CENTURY OLD SENATE CU8T0M
Washington. The century-old sen :
ate custom of considering treaties in
secret session will be broken when
the long-pending Colombian treaty lr
taken up. This decision was reached
by unanimous consent of the senatt
membership.
The agreement for open sessions
sgarded possibly as forecasting pub
lic consideration of the peace treaty
the Franco-American agreement and
subsequent treaties, followed unani
mous approval by the foreign rela
tions committee of tbe Colmobla con
vention calling for payment to that
nation of $25,000,000 as claims growing
out of the partition of Panama.
REAR ADMIRAL BLUE'S
SUCCESSOR 18 NAMED.
Washington. Rear Admiral Thomas
Washington, who now is commanding
a division of the Atlantic fleet and
who commanded the battleship Flor
ida with the British grand fleet dur
ing the war, was appointed by Secre
tary Daniels as chief ot ths- bureau of
navigation, to succeed Rear Admiral
Victor Blue, who recently was retlr1
because of til health-
PRESS ASSOCIATION MEETING
Editors of North Carolina Held the
Greatest Masting In Their History
at Wrightsville Beach.
Wilmington.. July . 31. The .first
day's session of the annual convention
of the North Carolina Press Assocla'
tion for 1919 was made memorable by
reason of the fact that In honor of
the annual assembling of the editors
the first concrete ship from a govern
ment owned shipyard was launched
here.
Another event which made the day
one of exceptional interest was the
presence bf the secretary of the Navy,
Hon. Josephus Daniels, who paid his
respects to his fellow brethren of the
press in an address at the Victoria
Theater, witnessed with them the
launching of the ship Cape Fear, spoke
to the two thousand operatives of the
Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation,
which is building 12 steel ships of
large tonnage here, lunched with the
editors and their wives at the mess
hall of the Carolina Shipbuilding Cor
poration, and left, returning to Wash
ington. The program of the Press Associa
tion was so badly disarranged by the
arrival an hour late of Secretary Dan
iels' train that contemplated sessions
at the Oceanic hotel were practically
abandoned save for the night session
and the day given over to the exer
cises incident to the ship launching
and the visit to the plant where the
steel ships are building.
There were, however, formal open
ing exercises at the Oceanic, the ad
dress of welcome being delivered by
Mayor P. Q. Moore, after the conven
tion was called to order by President
Z. W. Whitehead.
President Z. W. Whitehead deliver
ed the President's annual address at
the night session of the North Caro
lina Association following a cordial
welcome to the editors by Mayor Thos.
H. Wright, of Wrightsville Beach. A
cordial response In behalf of the news
paper men was made by Editor J. F.
Hurley, of Salisbury, and Editor J. J.
Farlss, of High Point. ;
Mr. H. R. Dwlre, editor ot the Winston-Salem
Sentinel, delivered the an
nual oration.
August 1. After a year of patient If
not watchful waiting. Editor J. A.
Sharpe of the Lumberton Robesonian,
came into his own and was elected
president of the North Carolina Press
Association, which had a busy day's
session. Mrs. Carolina Land, man
aging editor of the Albemarle News,
succeeded in making her point that
women have a place In newspaper
work so clear and definite that the
editors were ready at the conclusion
of her very Interesting talk to elect
Miss Beatrice Cobb, of Morganton, as
orator for next year's meeting.
flections of the report of the com
mittee on resolutions committing the
North Carolina Press Association to
endorsement of the peace treaty with
out reservations provoked the most
prolonged discussion of the conven
tion. The resolution was finally adopt
ed by a vote of 32 to 3 and was then
made unanimous.
Various matters of interest were)
discussed as the question ot exchanges,
the cash In advance plan of subscrip
tion, political advertising, etc. The
cash In advance plan for subscription,
it was almost unanimously agreed,
was the business-like way of hand
ling the question.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows:
President, J. A. Sharpe, Lumberton
Robesonian; first vice-president, R. T.
Wade. Morehead City Coaster; second
vice-president, J.' F .Hurley. Salisbury
Post ;thlrd vice-president, Parker An
derson. Wilmington Dispatch; secretary-treasurer,
John B. Sherrill, Con
cord Tribune; historian, M. L. Ship
man, French Broad Hustler; orator,
Miss Beatrice Sobb, Morganton News
Herald; poet, D. L. St. Clair, San
ford" Express; executive committee, W.
C. Hammer, F? .B. Jeffress. I. S. Lon
don, Santford Marltn and H. B. Varner..
This is the twenty-third consecu
tive year that Mr. Sherrill has held
the office of secretary-treasurer and
in that time he has missed but two
meetings. ,
Aug. 2. Tbe matter which next to
the endorsement of the League of Na
tions exercised the newspaper men
most was the proposition of a group
of representatives, headed by J. L.
Home, of Rocky Mount Telegram to
form three departments within the as
sociation, one for the dailies, one for
the weeklies and semi-weeklies and
one for the trade apers. ' ,
R. F. Beasley, commissioner of
public welfare, presented some re
marks on the task ot the press IK Re
construction. The association decided to hold s
midwinter meeting , in Greensboro
early In the coming, year. At 1:30
o'clock the Association adjourned.
GRAVE QUESTION
BEFORE CONGRESS
RAILROAD EMPLOYES DEMAND
RETIREMENT OF PRIVATE
CAPITAL FROM ROADS.
TRIPARTITE CONTROL INSTEAD
Centrally Rscognizsd as Most 8er!ous
and Far-reaching Proposition Ever
Presented to the Public.
Washington. Organized labor came
out with the unequivocal formal de
mand that private capital be retired
from the railroads.
A trf-partite control composed of
the public, the operating manage
ment and the employes is demanded
instead.
Addressed to the American public
and signed by the engineers, the fire
men, the conductors and the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, a formal
statement was Issued announcing this
proposal.
"It marks," says tbe statement, "the
step by which organized labor passes
from demands for wage increases to
demands that the system ot profits in
Industry be overhauled."
This sentence sums up in a few
words the proposal ot which there
have been hints and Indications, but
which is now laid before the country
for the first time. Everywhere In of
ficial Washington it is recognized as
the most serious and far-reaching
proposition the country will be called
on to face.
Characterizing the proposal as "la
bor's bill," It is put forth as a remedy
for the high cost ot living, because,
the railroads are the key Industry of
the nation. It demands the "genuine
co-operation and partnership based on
a real community interest and partici
pation in control." of which President
Wilton spoke to Congress, and which
the statement says has been ignored
by labor and the private owners of
the railroads.
INTENTIONS OF JAPAN ARE
SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Wshington. Japan's Intentions tn
the Chinese province of Shangtung,
where she is given control by the Ver
sailles treaty, soon are to be set forth
In a formal declaration from the Toklo
government, according to information
received in official circles here.
Although the exact nature of ths
declaration was not forecast, it waa
assumed Ujipuld follow the lines of
the reneited statements of Japanese
statesmen that the province eventually
Is to be leturned to China. In some
quarters iwaa believed Japan might
even set a date for the restoration and
acknowledge publicly the secret un
derstanding she Is said to have with
China on that subject
NO DEATHS RESULT FROM
EXPLOSION AT RARITAN.
B.ritin N. J. Six hundred soldiers
and civilians at the government ar
senal here fougnt desperately lor sev
eral hours amid bursting shrapnel
shells to prevent Are from reaching
a magattne of six inch high expto-
iva ahalls and a nearby mine of T. N.
T. The Are followed a series of four
explosions In a box car and ammuni
tion muazines. It was first reported
that a dozen men had been killed s'.d
a score or more injured seriously by
the explosions, but tne casualty un
hri hean reduced to two slightly in
jured, both civilian employes at ths
arsenal,
MACON SHOPMEN VOTE TO
RETURN TO WORK TODAY.
Macon, Ga. Three hundred Georgia
Southern ft Florida railroad shopmen,
who struck because of. a personal
grievance against the foreman of the
shop, voted to return to work, pend
ing an Immediate hearing of their
charges. These men have not as yet
taken a stand on the wage increase,
tor which 1,300 other shopmen In Ma-:
con have struck. V.
THE HINES PROPOSITION
OPPOSED BY RAILROAD MEN
Washington. B. M. . Jewell, acting
president of the railway division ot
the American Federation of Labor said
that -all railroad employees were op
posed to the proposal made to the
president by Director General Hlnes
that congress constitute a committee
to Tm questions of wage Increases
for the men. He said this process
would be too slow and because of the
rising cost iof living speedy relief was.
neccessary.