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SECOND SECTION Pages 1 To 16 "', AUTOMOBILES' , THEATRES - - i -, . FWfcfc . - Tt-- . . -i J- ' f .Jv..... -..fiTi, V.. . . . .. i r s , .1 T - . n. . . 1. VOL. CIII. No. 383. WILMINGTON, NC,' SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 18; 1920.? PERSON CLAIMS TAMMANY 'WETS' i CONTROL SOLOHS nti-Saloon Leader In New York! Bitter In Attack On . Assembly,' , WHOLE ' NUMBER 30,147. Nw York, April 17. William H.'Ani ,erson, of the Anti-Saloon.' league, Vrges that the republican majority the general assembly la, under the ontrol of the liquor Interests, and that the wet bosses have r resorted to aCtice8 that abrogate certain funda mental rights of the citizenship.; ' He jas issued he following: defiant state-.'. The present assembly in which the jcpublicans outnumber the democrats -ore than three to one,? has allowed j Tammany beer advocate to become ,s de facto leader on prohibition, without disavowal ; It ; has allowed a Tammany former saloonkeeper to deny jree speech at a puDnc nearmg to a representative of a majority of ; the churches of the state.,; It has refused to investigate serious charge t pre ferred by the militant,' womanhood of the state organized to discharge '.-.their duty as citizens. It has. had greasy, sticky hysterics over the -lacerated feelings of a soldier member who. sought to capitalize hig record in bt talf of beer, "while at the same , time it was seemingly, incapable .of com prehending that this man's; magic beer advertisements constitute a- pubHo tcandal. It has proposed to Investigate the dry agency of the churches to dis credit it and block prohibition, , while at the same time It either has no .cur iosity about the activity of the Wets or else knows too wel. It has thrown out five socialist members on h' al leged ground that they were against the government and then threatened to throw the prohibition representative I of the churches into jail because he insists that the assembly itself shall ant defy that same government" and lallify the constitution which i Its cornerstone. .. 7- - , , Some Fine Mea', Thit is what we hivA at Alknv There are many lne men ?in the . as imbly who are not in sympathy with ill of this, but the de facto workine arrangement between Tammany and wet and straddling republicans. ind those controlled; by the ' Wet re uublican bosses has been in such good tunning oroer tnat the friends- of pro tibltion in its membership'.have been powerless to prevent a stampede -of ihe assembly whenever the Tammany issisiant leader gavethe signal.- Thi'e i th concern that has talked about anvnV,? ere will not be nl lf fnywh ho will have anyt wS c? f actiohi yi XI fm 3U beJor 1 will apologize h i n.th6 ruth about the bl-S." "o f ar h vh wet ""atlohs w?fch 0, far have been in control of ihevas aes,n th U question' ? the 1 J ir,VWant8 "Protect its dignity tjbody- let it :inffact, be a deliberative body and, exhibit some" digtilty. ::V:;-f:-'v- J-v , Beyond ;:; formal i general ; denialV for the ake of the i record,; that criticism of i. the public . acts of . public servants' and. defensive, tactics Against two for mer soldier 1 members-' -who -started something they could net finish, Justi fies Punishment," ; I shall ' make no effort of . any sort to prevent being thrown Into jail by 1 the assembly. ; I shall Interpose :no; technicalities. :in view, of the fact that .the assembly has i. ehown.r- on vthia question no -is-poeitlon to weigh evidence or heed facts, if a brief is : filed in my 1 behalf it win he filed after the assembly has gone Its - limit, with a r court which may be 4 expected to give judicial and dispassionate consideration to the merits of the case free from wet poli- tiOB. .-.. .. - -. ; v;-:-.,-.v, . s 't..;. . "WHl Wot- Back" Down I shall - not do a single thing to make It easy for the -assembly or help it save Its-face. I will not back' down 1 s will not': be siiehced. -. I - shall Co, nothing to shield, f rom responsi bility any individual member of . the assembly, or the speaker who1 Is the master of the assembly; as hown .by he socialists proceeding, unless he has ; bargained away his control of it on the liquor question' in consideration of K votes to carry through his soplal jst -ouster program. . ' K If beer In its attempts t& come back can force' the, assembly of the state Cf 'New Xprk, sworn to uphold the con stitution of ,the United States, to defy the laws of the United States in an effort to nullify that cdhstitution. it is time to know it. ' If, as a sample of its intended ruthlessness if It ever again gets into the saddle, beer can compel the assembly f the empire state to throw open the jails for' "political prisoners" as something jiew In Amer ican' llfe,f for . the offense of Insisting that the federal enforcement act is the supreme law of the land until repealed or modified by congress, or, invalidated by, the courts, and that nullification of federal law by state lawmakers ii sUn-nullification, then the sooner the people find out the truth the better.' and I am willing to be the first vic tim in -order to waken them. Prom jail I will be able to get printed! the essential facts which have been largely suppressed by many, of the newspapers.' It.U how up tr the assembly either to: , (1) Put me in jail; or (2, Frankly admit that there is no ground for eo doing and .disavow, the denial ef free speech; or,.(?) Stand seJf-convicted be fore the public f having lent If self o a discreditable effort to silence 'and ( HOW STRIKE OF YARD EMPLOTES HAS TIED UP TRANSPORTATION , - ty- ,, -, u ,. ' m ,,, - -. i . ; Baft-' ' " ' '-TirrrTTrTrrrrnr-T iiiiirnnmniniiiii in' i " ' " '"""""iniii.ini i TjTtTrr-uBn.nyTm.n.jnn i.nnr- ( -ii,ih,i.w,ihhii,im mv - Wvv , .... ' v i 0 ,; ' "A section of irallroad yards, at Cot,' -l ft - ' "0-- V?'?;V?M 1 liawood, near Cleveland, showing ri I Al 'Ylirttm ' engpev wires drawn, lined , I t&Kti tfugM " -.degre0 movement of freight and ' vV ' I passenger Strains; .necessitatingr I r ' V I s , - ",Wt?S ASt r bargoes on all kinds of.freigW -i '- . ,''sm;ss'Mffii iix -" , f any me wiiiTunaiumK wi, many ps- sects, and containing much water, so w e augar, and a little nitrogenous mat teJ.- i : i Collect mmA Star. ' ', : .- r "Many ants, are 8" Inordinately cf this . food 'that they hot only acqt ire an intimate acquaintance with the t fab its of the adult plant-lice and s pale insects, but actually collect and store their '.eggs in the. nests during wl toter ifi order that .they majr during the J en suing spring ' distribute he hatching young over the roots or rollaate ol? the plants.' ";v." -"i v: f-:i'i- O ; "Certain individuals, the repIteB. of the colony, refrain", from leavtiVg the nest and foraging, for food and became converted into flagons : by -distend lng the crop to such enormous dlmenaf ons tnat ,the abdomen !, looks Hike "a trans parent "bead. ' In this condition hey hang "by their claws from the iroojf of the nest chamber and- thencef rth spend all their lives ) receiving'? llf juid TO 0 LIUCH BETMG -1 ON BASEBALL GAMES F0RG00D 0FSP0R1 Every Effort Will Be Made To, ; v ' : Curb Tendency . This '" : : - : ' ' ,v Season, v- ' . Chicago,;. April.; ; 17. Gambling- -on baseball, games . will be . curtailed this season, according - to. .officials : of . the Chicago National, league baseball-club, . food from the? tohgues";ot the fomj;ing ' -ijo have started a movement ; against 1 sensrer trains. ... The picture indi- cr.tes how .transportation in ;the Cleveland .district has haen hit." The; msureent strike of railroad v I Dortant railroad centers of -the i- -i The section .of the. vard shown is ; yardmen' and switchmen, in the inv I country hay paralyzed to a great i small part of one of the big yards. i Intimidate , the representative', of ,. one side of a 'question, or vital -Importance co the entire public which Is before it 1 am' sending &. copy of this to ' every member- "And the assembly ought' to be able .to' understand' that, the public will realize ; that any6; action condemn ing the anti-saloon league-without in vestigation "wlllbe -dishonest ."as; Veil as cowardly. -' '.' .. '.' PENNSYLVANIA FARMER ; TELLS THE REASON WHY Turning Fton 'Z Into J Cemetery; : : Which He Hppe? Fill? v ; Washington, April 17r-In returning his agricultural statistics schedule J to the' census bureau, :. a-- Pennsylvania farmer, eliminated, facts-, about crops aitogether'i';nu I ry." b y, . the V bureau brought out this-explanationtV Ct--"' " ''The population 'af and: ahoutmy farm has. a tendency to relieve the own er from the .labor of .'gathering his own crops.;ThlH aitru'istlij tmpuise' Is so; pre dominant that-" 1 have v refrained -'from' planting anything for thev paslf twenty yearsv :. AnT just"-now;- turning- aotit 40 acres Into a cemetery a'hd hope to fill it soon." K T 1 s AYIATION HINDERED BY ANTS III AFRICA Lowly Worker X Assumes New Role In Its Relationship To Man. ' . 1 , Washington, :.p.C.,-' April 17. "Ants have assumed a new roie -In Africa that of enemies, of aviation. Reports from surveyors .of . the. proposed. ;air route "from -RhodesiaTto ' Capetown say that ant hills have' interfered seriously with the placing" of aerodromes. ; i - To understand this phenomenon Vone must understand. how ubiquitous is the ant in South Africa, says a bulletin of the - National: -Geographical society which quotes .from a communication to the Society by William Morton. Wheeler as' fellows.; '. :'.''--' y -;f:.';.". i' "Ants " are Jpi be J'fouhd Vevery where, from: the" arctlq regions to the treplcp, from 1 timberline on the loftiest moun. forests .to the .driest deserts V. If ot only dp; they, outnumber . in . individuals all other s terrestrial r. animals, '.but their colonies even: in .very circumscribed lo calities, often defy' enumeration.. , ; , " ----- : - - ; : i ' . v .CamlvoroiwAiit,.!; ; t .5 "One subfamily of the ants, the Dory Hnae, embracing the ' wonderful driver ants of Africa and the legionary anta of the' American- tropics,".; are highly 'car-nlvorousT- but'eyerthelBSB. succeed in forming ;,Jnrae5rkse" colonies, :- often of hundreds, Vof .Vthousa.nds 'of .Individuals, this : thejrf accomplish l by v relinquishing the ; sedentary.J.lvabits so ; characteristic of the great: :majo,rity of ants..? . They keep, moving ; in long-files; through , th. jungles, capturing jor , killing all the in sects they .;en.co.unten-.nd even , overrun ning dwellings, and,, in their search for cockroaches- and pther-.', vermin, driving eut ' the human inhabitants. iProm time to tjlme' these strange ants bivouac for, the night or .- for . a 'few, days in some hole in the 'rgrqunc or , under? a tree,' but soon continue.' their predatory march. ; Evidently they, are able to re main carnivorous, .andat .thasame time to' develop large , coloniesj: only .because they.- are- -.'nomadic and can! Lthus i draw their food supply l rom' a ia'rge area, i' . rr"One of the earliest'. departures from an,;exclusiyely; animal. I diet", is" seep among the "ants 'which V attend ' piant- Uce, scale' Insects, :and Is, -of. .course, ants, storing it in , their crops, anl regurgItatingItrtorhungry Individ! uala when the liquid-; food supply outj side the nest" becomes inadequate. ; Tht s Is, of course, apt to . be the case s periodic cally In dry regions, so that we ftn4 thie true honey-anfs '.only . in 'deserts 'like those of 7 the southwestern ota tes, Nprthern. Mexico, South " Africa, v'aad. Central Australia.'; " ' V AMERICAN RYE WHISKEY : STARTLES CANADIAKS WTiiskies Are, Known To Dealers ' -:. : As "Snake Bite." v v i r - Oreenook, ' Scotland " : ' April ". Vl. American t-ye whiskey now being Im ported', into' thisj country i is i said , to be of the "shock variety byj the' chief constable here, who has" filed . a : re-.' port on the . subject,? i ;: V v fi The effect . of ;,prewar whiskey, he says .' even - when' It had- not - ben bonded ; for three .years - before being sold .at retail, were nothing in char acter to th'ose - of some; of- the present day -whiskies." which; only recently made their appearance ?hereV 1 "Whatever, rhe'Ir. composition. Is,Ttae officer declares, "their , effects are ter rible. They :not. only. poison, but mad den, and leave persons, nervous and de pressed after lntpxlcating. effects have passed away. : .' ' 1 ' f " , ; "These whiskies are.known to deal ers as .'snake bite.r " ' " V ;;: ; 'f :. 'i S;:SP. GOING iONEl,;BETTER:v,!'; ';':t ' - When - Tilly's' 'little ' brother ;" read what her; fiance! hatf . ' written In her birthday book he surreptitiously add ed a little on -his own, r aftd this was how-.iit- read;.'.. -w.;-' f v . ? ', ?' f VOh what so- rareas -adf y. In June!" : A Chlneyma wid -wlekers! t . ...t 1 the practice. It l claimed, that, num erous - bets ' are made on , the strength of who the opposing pitchers -.are . to be. , This. year Manager i Fred Mitchell' declared T he- will not announce.-, his : pitcher until - the time his batting order is handed to the umpire, Just be fore the game. 5 , . i ' :-..'-' ' l- '-, Manager Mitchell,' whose home is :in ' , Boston, declared he know ot numer ous instances in. which .the . wagers were placed "after A the pitchers ; Ixad . been selected. He said he also knows of a" certain; hotel waiter , who was paid $5 alday by a gambler for ob taining from the visiting manager the ; name of thepltcher who-waa to per- . form for the visiting club that-, day. ' ' "Most of the betting is done in the pool rooms downtown," . said Mr. . Mlt- t chell, "and I believe if . the proprietors of these places ' do not know who Is going to' pitch they will not , be so keen to accept' wagers. By withholding the name of. the pitcher, -I- believe imuch ot the' gambling will- stop. - , v'j . t-i . "if we desire to keep the spojrt;pure.' gambling must- be eradicated.; t The Chifcago club f Is to- do all - J t possibly ' can to stop- it. President 'William Veeck : always has -taken steps to keep it out of the ball park In Chicago, and 1 am going to tfttempt ' to keep - the . men in- the1 pool rooms : from bettlhg by giving out the pitcher at the' last nidment' " ' '' r ' - -v -'' -r :: ' "Gambling ''Is-not to' creep-Into the game and ruin It 'for the future fa'ns and players if lcari help It." Mitchell continued, "and; if there is' theMets suspicion' of it- on'tmy team an Investi gation will 4be made' and1 the; man or men ; who ; are apprehended : will not stay' a minute."'; v ';' ,-' ' ';- talnrohehiftlnsandS;. altered In ana Beasnores, ana rrora .tne aampest i its . cnemicat -co constitution by ' passing through the digestive tract of the in- Many are ' already a old f before they are through their teens; but: to travel dellberitelythrough-' one's. :-age;; Is . to J get' the- heart '"out" of"ar liberafceducaj-tloriL:- "'-- -Ri' ili. Stevenson, ;.'-: . ; ' ;:; the new terjior, ' ;-r Father: ' Aren't you golhg' to ' wear the nice , fed .tie your aunt gave ypu fbr 'Christmas? i"1.' '" ' ,1 ' ' .' 1 r : ...3o.bby;,No!;: ,: V . . .:. . ', , -.Father: ..Whateyer Will .she. think of , . - ., ' . : - ..... you? rv,. , ... : .' .Bobby: Wely if you mut know I'm net agoing" to have all I the . bey, callih g me 'Bolshy', for the sake of any woman.- - IMlaBW"MHiSaaIZ!IIiIiiM 'v'v-'vr:-;'t- . : ---. ' -:.;,;:- ::x,-':s-:?..:v. ,- ' ! ..-'.wi:;.r. s. o'.r ""', r'-.---v::;. "-f -'t..'' ii.'fv&v ''-'?" ' :.-v.jw. ..:;".,'-' v -':;'':. ". 1 .... Ct-'-.,'''.';'!';'1 l-.T' t...:"-:Z - A i ' s S- " ? 1 j -; "v 'V'?'l!.;si -. f:,'V. ; ,:; j..,. .-vV j, ,."' .!;,. .T-j'-st-ir. ,t -''-er. : HasMetruth of thissteme -bor facilitiesher large docks and storag points, withlher: mills, 'andctbnes, shipyards, banks and Hotels, the continued: growth and prosperity of fWil-, ; mingtonaTits;worisassa . . Theeyes of f oxlook aretiirned toward the east' The tide of prosperity, ' : v. i -i , : 1 i -xi- . Jl j. 1 J i Till': ." T ?" 1 t .. n -"-.'.' J-j-; -J 1 V -tji-.- tl -1 -iir !Ji '.- 4i 4-U v'-P. 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