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The Weather Wilmington's Only Leased Wire Associated Press Newspaper Fair, somewhat warmer ' Friday Saturday, probably rain. , .. " tnge ot vrnter at Fayettevllle yes terday at S n. m., 2T.8 feet, falllns. . . VOL. CIII- No. 154. ILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING; FEBRUARY 4, 1921. OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. Y 1 raw ISiKS .: m'm " ' r' u . i - v i '. , , , . : " i ; , ; ..wa'-h-' '.Air t IF 11 SENATORS RECONSIDER SALARY RAISE, GRANTING A THOUSAND pyrgffin of Northampton De nounces Juvenile Court as Greatest Farce FOR EXTRA JUDGES provision Presented House for Supplying the Courts in Emergencies Mornlnjr Star Bureau, Ynrborou&h Hotel, Uj It. K. POWELL " ' . . - rUEK'iH, f oi. 3. ine senate spent; n.'or purt of its session today in Jfon-kVinsr and passing the bill ,T inrre::s. the salaries of judges of mvmo and superior court by $1,000. "liftinic the pay of the heads of; LX(: (i.-iiartmonts, other than consti lutimial ofiioors. from the present ' hui of ?4'"'" tlat- atld aHoW'ns Sum-, nr'ivrswins county to. abolish Its' uy welfare officer, to which bill . Ls "tacked sin amendment for the sane provision for Bladen county. ' tontrary to expectation, other coun ,ff riid not a tempt to get on the abolition li'l through the amendment rout Tin- lill as it passed the senate j j'low tlu.- county of Northampton, a! niial county with no cotton mills, to ,h!:.;h the oflice of county welfare eomnii.s'ioner without reservations or inurpri'tative amendments. Air Hurgwin resisteu an euvria iu " ....I on anieinuiiein-o wmvu wuum i - 1 x n,alvi' the measure more accepuiuie iu the state commissioner of welfare, and in Joins so found occasion 10 aeiiver slate departments created by the legis liitut who 'drunk with power," tried to reKulate the internal aitairs or tne . r-r ' it ..1-1- 1 1 1 t eounties.- tie was sil-k a-nu meu ui this kind of business, hie am not want the head of any state department to' try t" run the affairs of his county or ti.' toll him what he should t'o with nganl to any matter. Not Local UneKtion Piirg-win spoke following Jim De- laney. who did not consiier tne cm local in its nature. The Mecklsnburger calcd attention to the fact that the county welfare officers were part of a state system and that the abolition of iiu of these officers, would, op an. the way for breaking down'" the whole system. The welfare officer is required to see that the compulsory school at tendance law is enforced and the peo ple of the state have a right to; feel that whn they pay their money for sustaining the schools m JNortn Caro lina, the school children are attend in? tiie schools. . Mr. Burg-win prefaced his remarks with an expression of regard for Sen- tor Deianey, who opposed him, ' but dt-clartd that vhe represented 994 per cent of the sentiment in his county in asking that this office be abolished, heeanse i-it had never been worth a Penny to the county." He declared that as county attorney he had never teen railed upon to prosecute a single man in tiie county for failure -to send hi? children to school. The people do;vn there sent their children to school. He announced his Intention, however, of having passed another bill which would impose on the superin tendent of public instruction' the duty of enforcing the compulsory .sohool w. Seeking information about indigent children in Northhampton county, Senator Deianey interrupted with the question: Are there any poor ptonlc m your county?'' . . "Ain't nothine- but Door DeoDle down there," the Northhampton man replied, rtm. mbering the price of cotton. But he lli(i lint think- Vm stnu-ntv wolfa, ' """I .III. tl II L J I' I... " o'fiwr h,,d ever done anything for these people. i'1) you believe in the juvenile win?" the Charlotte man inquired a httle later rm Juvenile Court a Farce '"H. I had not intended to sav anything, about the juvenile court sys iut sine,, you ask about it, I will Ml "ti what I think of th liivfnile rourl. I tliink it s tlio hicrcrcHt farr 'hat hag over lifnn erpatert Yiv man Or Uursrwin renliel. Alter Vol in." Hnwn on amaniliTi,llt 'hic'il WOlllrl rive tiie. rrmm fan inn ,ri nt "'liihampUui eountv t.h riirht to "'ah- the office later on and with the 31,1 of the state siinerintpnrip.ntR of in- ''nietion ;incl welfare, appoint another nn ;i nd get assnranees frnm rnrspn- 'ativf. 'l' I'Oth Northhampton and Bla-i ll ef.iintics that- arlitlnnal liills 'Hid ut through imposing the 5(..'),of enforcing the compulsory law on the couaty saperin "lo in thrse- two counties, the '"e without demands for a decision ff'' Hie bill. r er t'" r" no opposition to reconsld ; i"n of ihr- vote by which the senate (utefi 0,1. Wednesday the salary in- as" bill and Senator Taylor -made to ""C II ill lllliull Vi nnllnil H" fact lhar Xnrth PnrnHna wji "eninci practically every state cuu i"i;5"cimi or puduc servants. ( . u cost ;,er capita, in North Carq high as it is in "i me (jtner southern states. A""r in!,. "ale iia.,i .i... 1-1,1 i aumti J . -' "Ul oy a iH'Zi. vote on t iiUrwiTi il)ip.rtpd t-o nassaM nirl ri 'ifiiin. Ki,e itm t 3 jjjf . - - "ut jjiditci -LSI life, uiauii BUr(r.. . suspension of the rules, thirrt ''sidiiined that he wanted lifn j u "fierrea untu irriaay Privjdjn f'"n1'1 'Pare an amendment Ulan, , f"r an increase In Judges' 'rr.,,,, h bl," rfu'd not vote for in nam'r.,. f r'" salaries of all officials Vis rl" ""I- He finally withdrew "V t Kills "iror and the bill went 'ollowV; filial reading. The vote F0rp:,o,T Senators Voted oor n Jurswin of New Han erin p Mr"'- f'-enter, H. ll ,"rt riffln. Hami I'll) 1 1 - 1 Hamilton, Hart (a)t Mrrv 'amance, I.ong of Hall Kin.. . '" McCollrick. Mr-Rnn o-o lvrv Vt , 7;lf'nha'l, Nash. G'ates, Sams, Wr ,t'" 's- Swain, Taylor. Walker; 'inRt ,0r: Fon-total 27, ,er. li. r ' Bras"field, Bumgard- 'r; in of Northmpton,; Byrdi 11 "ntinued on Page Six) - UOGES Fate of Deering's rew is a Mystery IIATTERAS, Feb. S. Mystery mr round the fate of the crew of the schooner Can-oil A. Deerfngr, renting hlgrh on te MliOalM, where ah? -wan ; blown during; a Kalr off the Carolina ot. As the vessel is strfnped of airsoats and there Is no Hiprn of life aboard, it Is believed the men pnt out from the vessel in small row boats which capsized in the rough sen and nil were lost. I Tonigrht the schooner was stand In majestically on the reef with full sails set defying the elements, whfirh threaten to smash her bull and send her to sea a complete wreck. Kor three days the coast anard cutter Seminole stood by awaiting a favorable wind to nlng a tow line to the derelict, but today the cutter was forced to put back to her home port at "Wilmington because of boiler trouble. The coast guard cutter. Manning and the tux Rescue were summoned from Norfolk to take up the stand and tomorrow the two vessels will make n effort to draff the "five roaster" from the imprisoning; shoals. The stiff sale whteh has been sweplngj the coast for the last several days has shown signs of abatement and . seamen regard the chances good. GOOD ROADS IDEAS OF DOUGHTON APPEAR TO HAVE LEAD OVER REST Committees Seem Disposed to Give tiis Bill a Favor able Report WOMAN IS FOR IT Mrs. Martin Sloop of Avery County Out-Talks All the ' Men Talkers t. Morning Star Bureau, Yarborough. Hotel. By R. E. PURCKLL the Voad" bills 'so far f introduced in either branch of the general assembly began before a Joint committee this afternoon and at the conclusion of the first session it looked very much as if the committee will- report favorably the Doughton-Corinor bill. The good roads boosters, led by Heriot Clarkson, came near stamped ing the committee with praise for the so-called Clarkson bill. Commer cial representatives from many Caro lina towns- and prominent citizens from different parts of the state were here- to add their indorsement to a program that has the backing of Clarkson, Kirkpatrick, McGirt, Miss Hattie Berry and a host of others who have been conspicuous in its advocacy for the last year or two. J Mrs. Martin Sloop, an Avery county woman, out-talked all the men before the committee. She ' thought the Doughton-Connor bill about the finest draft possible for carrying a hard-surfaced program forward and she wanted the administration left to Commis sioner Frank1 Page, "who knows more about road building than everybody else in here," she said. Others who spoke included N. Buck ner. of - the Asheville board of trade; J. El wood Oox, of High Point; John Sprunt Hill, of Durham; D. F. Giles, of Marion; W..C. Newland, of Lenoir; ex Senator R. L. Burns, of Carthage; Leonard Tufts and the champions of five bills pending. R. O. Everett led for the proponents of his bHI, which differs with the Doughton-Connor bill in the mainten ance and administration feature. Mr. Doughton and" H. G. Connor, Jr., fol lowed with the formal presentation of their measure as the best thought of minds that have studied the road problem for the last two years, with a view of giving the state a workable law and a spendable appropriation. S. p. MacGuire offered the Republi can bill with a non-partisan appeal "for a bigger issue of bonds than the fifty millions in the Doughton-Connor meas ure. Behind, him came Peyton Mc Swain, of Shelby, with a bill which is not widely different from the Everett bill. The steering committee of the house has about agreed to let the Doughton Connor bill come to the floor with a favorable, report and stage . the big fleht. in the meantime, it became known here today , thiat Governor Mor rison has yielded on his maintenance plan and that he is nearer in accord with the road forces than he has been since, his . inauguration. . .It appears that the- Doughton-Connor bill will prevails with- minor ... amendments to meet the governor's objection. HEAD OF BUILDING TRADES - - - COUNCIL DECLARED GUILTY NEW TOiilK, Feb. 3. Robert P. Brln dell, president pf the Building Trades council, tonight was (found guilty -of the charge of extortion from builders by 'a jury in Justice McAvoy's court here. . Shortly after the verdict was an nounced Brindell was remanded to the Tombs prison, where he will remain until Tuesday when sentence .will be passed upon him. The maximum penalty- is 15 years imprisonment. Brindell, vwhb is 41 years old. and lives in the , Bronx, was indicted . on December 1. 1920, and .placed? on trial January 11.4921. j 1 RULES COMMITTEE MEETING NEW YORK, .Feb. 3. The annual meetirrg of the ihtercollegiate football rules committee probably will be held in this city Saturday, March 5, accord ing to tentative arrangements an nounced here' today. Attendance, of all of the members of the committee is ex pected and several proposed changes or amendroentrtthe,playlnff rules wlllibf this amount.-it is.planned to raise be discussed." FORDNEY BILL MEAN ADDITION ' OF 2 BILLION DOLLARS! Consumers Would Have to Pay Millions On Meats, Flour and Sugar, Alone NO HELP TO FAM Tennessee Senator Denies That . Tariff Measure Would Aid Agriculture WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 Although de bate on the Fordney tariff bill dragged aimlessly on the senate floor today, real progress was made towards definite ac tion on the measure. Senator Mc Cumber, 'Republican, North Carolina, obtained agreement to take up the bill with its amendments for a second read fng and, outside of the chamber, lead ers of both sides reached a tentative understanding to fix a date for a final vote. The tentative program probably will be submitted to the senate tomorrow and consent asked for an agreement to vote on the bill February 15 or soon after. Senators tonight believed the path was clear for acceptance of the plan. Suggestions and counter-suggestions from each side came frequently during the day. All were based on political maneuvering and the leaders conferred about them in and out of the chamber while Senators Capper, Republican, Kansas; Fletcher, Democrat, Florida; McKellar, DemocratTennessee; and Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas, occu pied the attention of the few senators present with speeches. Mr. Robinson discussed provision for taking care of invalid veterans but the others spoke on tariff. Mr. McKellar during his speech had a brief colloquy with JSenator Ransdell, Democrat, Louisiana, for proof of his statements that a sugar trust existed. Before the subject was passed over, four or five senators went to Mr. Mc Kellar's aid, but Mr. Raqsdel declined to be convinced and concluded his end of the argument by saying he would "neither deny Or affirm the existence o - .. -rax tw Biuioiw-1 . ..The Tennessee senator challenged supporters of the bill to shoar how tit would aid the farmers, asserting that little of their products remained on the farms. He declared that the proposed tariff on sugar would mean only that congress was "legislating money into the pockets of the sugar trust" and estimated that on three necessities, meats, flour and susrar, the country would be "taxed between $1,500,000,000 and 52,000,000,000" in the ten months the law would be effective. "Senators have admitted here that this bill is going to help the specula tors and the profiteers more than any body else. The senator from Kansas knows it, too, yet I suppose he will vote for it. I want to' say that if he does, after the speech he has made, he will have to hold his nose." Senator McLean, Republican, Con necticut, interrupted to say that the intention was to save the agricultural industry. Mr. McKellar replied that the life would b& too short and suggested the date be made six months hence. Mr McLean replied that while it might cause an Increase in prices he felt the better course would be fcf the country to oav them now "rather than to await destruction of the farming business and they pay hgh prices permanently. Aa-e-Old Tariff Row The age-old battle over tariff fo protection or tariff for revenue only was in sight also, senator x letcner ac cused the Republicans of using the tariff bill to make protectionists out of nil of the farmers and "sew up their votes on every protective tariff matter in the future." He said Dig Dusiness, snp.ciallv the manufacturing establish ments, were desirous of high import rates and added .that by giving the formen a nrohibitorv rate on their nroducts. strength would be mustered Xor later revision of the Underwood act, now under consideration by the house ways and means committee. The senate will meet an hour earlier tomorrow, recessing tonight until 11 o'clock. ' PRESIDENT CALLS- SENATE ITi EXTRA SESSION MARCH 4 WASHINGTON, Feb.. 3. President Wilson, acting on the recently com municated request of President-elect Harding, today issued a proclamation calling a special session of the senate to convene March 4. ' Request that the special session be called was made to the President' sev eral days ago by Senator Underwood, of Alabama, minority leader of the sen who received the request of the president-elect through Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the majority ieaaer. The-session will, act on cabinet and other appointments by Mr Harding and probably will last only a short time. . VETERANS DON'T" WANT THE " . MEDALS COUNTY PROVIDED v Special to The Star) GREENVILLE, S. C, Feb. 3. Ahe veterans of the Wdrld w'ar'a'nxious for honors in the way of medals? Judging by Greenville county's experience they are not- Shortly af ter.nhecoHclusion of the war the county appropriated a substantial sum to have. 4,000 handsome 4dals made, it beinsr the plan to pre- sent oiie to each man who served in the war. ;: To date, jierK m,wuh ;r ry A, Dargan, who is charged with , the duty of Issuing the medals,; has been able to place only a few above 1,000 al though f the county's offer has been widely advertised. , . ': ! GREENVILLE COUNTY BUDGET v.:;v. :;V : (Special to The Starj ,' .- X GREENVILLE, S. C, Feb: 3. Total appropriations of $581,331 areasked for Greenville county for . the year 1921 In the- proposed county budget as com nleted'tbdav by'the supervising auditor. $515,3.31 by property levy tax. CLAIMS CHARLES G. DAWES HAS BULLY TIME SWEARING AT HOUSE COMMITTEE Denounces Investigations of Army as Partisan Attempt to Disgrace It m REAL "CUSS" WORDS Strides Up and Dorn the Room Defending Pershing and AH the Rest WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. A n o t h e r broadside was let loose by Charles G. Dawes today against the congressional methods of investigating the conduct of he war. Attacking what he characterized as a partisan attemnt to blacken the names of the whole American army because of the blunders of a-few, the former brigadier-general in charge of I supply procurement in France, de- 1 clared house committees could serve a most useful public service by turn ing the search light upon' the waste of millions of government dollars right under their nose. A group of women in the crowded committee room failed to prevent Mr. Dawes from swearing like a "buck" private. He strode around the com mittee room, hitting harder than he was hit, and swearing madly j every time he construed the questioning as a renectlon on any part or parcel' of' the fighting outfit of which he was, a part, Chairman. Johnson, r himself a former service man" at th front,', told . Mr. Dawes at. the end of the hearing ho wished there had been other witnesses as truthful, and as unafraid to speak out in meeting. J i v Had Very Good Time I'V 'i' Mr. Dawes made no attempt to con ceal the feeling that he was having a very good time. At times the room ' was in an uproar 01 merriment, and the echo , of oaths swept down the long eorrider of the big building, as he turned his wnathful language upon crities of the war who stayed, at home, Referring to numerous investigations by the bouse, Mr. Dawes said he thought the people were sick of them. Why, there j is no longer any" new lnaL?b4? ftltariift. Tf ,T wanV'.i..t would be no news in this. Don't for-,: get that it was an American-war, hot a Republican or a Democratic war, and the record of the glorious work of our army will live hundreds of years af ter your committee is dead and gone and forgotten." When the name of General Pershing was brought into the discussion Mr. Dawes could scarcely control his anger. Where Gen. Pershlns Was "There were hounds in this country," he declared, "who tried to spread the false news that Pershing was at a theater the night of the armistice. He was there 'like hell. He was at his office, starting the work of cancelling vast war contracts to save money. It will take. 25 or 50 years for Pershing 1 mention, and supported and strength to get his place in history, but let me I ened by GovernoT Glenn and Governor tell you the time will come when every I Kitchm and Governor Craig, and Gov doughboy overseas will be proud to i ernor Bickett and Governor Morrison, say he was one of Pershing's men. "You can try to give me all the hell you want I like it. You kick be cause I sold a lot of second-hand junk to the French government for $400, 000,000, instead of keeping 40,000 soldiers there to guard It, while we tried to peddle it. My conscience hurts me sometimes when I think we charged them too much." Hits War Department Mr. Dawes said he was a Republican, but was broad enough to give the war department full credit for its work in getting more men to the front than France and Great Britain put there in the same period. Then he jumped upon the department and denounced it for Its refusal to permit promotion of men in the ranks for privates and ser geants who had the grit of generals. , The rule by which men, eager to go overseas but kept at home, were re quired to ' wear silver stripes was characterized as one of the most dis graceful acts of the war. The award of distinguished service medals came in for a fierce attack. It broke more hearts, Mr. Dawes said, than' anything 'else,' because thousands of men entitled to the medals were passed by. Mr. Dawes said it was all right for congress to go ahead 'and try to find and' punish men' who made mistakes in the stress of . war, .hut told the commit tee it would get nowhere and that the public was not concerned with those mistakes now. 'Armistice Day Deaths . "And. they .are . trying to say that Pershing permitted ,the sacrifice of thousands of lives oh Armistice day. It's the most damnable lie ever uttered. And it's all right to sit back here, viewing .from a partisan standpoint the work overseas, when If you people so free to "condemn had been there you might have done just as we did or worse. Liquidation? Why,, hell, men, we liquidated .everything. There wasn't any willful destruction of property In France, as this committee has tried to dhow. The junk - we couldn't ' sell ; was given away it was cheaper than burn ing or burying it. They pinned one of thpse medals on me, but it had a damned sight better gone to some poor devil in the ranks who better&Seserved it." ' $':;;: . Judge W. ,B. Parker, who had much to do with the liquidation; Job y in France, and who was described, by Mr; Daw.es, as "a hard-boiled. gg' as van army trader, will heard tomorrow by-thVcommitteev' .T;';';J, .'j-l:. .-.';; :,'.. : 0y.":;y ; - CONTRACTOR BADLY :.HURT i; ' (Special to The Star), , v":-;.' 1 GREENSBORO, Feb. 3. John' G.': In gram, contractor and builder, '. slipped and .fell from the roof of .Latham's apartment - house : on East Sycamore street about 8 o'clock this morning and was probably fatally injured' His, skull was broken4 in the fall. Theodore In gram, -his oldest boy. who was working with him,, stated that his father vwas working from a scaffold and' his foot slipped on the ics 4 . ? - JOSEPHUS DANIELS URGES - UNIFICATION OF EDUCATION In Address Before Joint Session of Legislature He Advocates Placing All State Schools in Hands of t One Board of Trustees Would Put Other Institutions Under One Control Approves of Morrison Morning Star Bureau, Ynrborough Hotel, By It. K. POWELL ; RALEIGH, Feb. 3. Advocating uni- J Carolina. . We have lost motion, lack fication of the educational policy of,ing-to the governor, "the state owes the state and backing the program of j sponsibility. Governor Morrison with but few ex- "Governor Morrison, he said, turn ceptions, Josephus Daniels, secretary Ing to the governor, the state owes of the navy; addressed joint session i you a great debt for your vision in of the general assembly at noon today. ; the magnificent inaugural address you The navy chief, soon to return to made and your recent message to the Raleigh as a private citizen, suggested 1 general assembly. No, part of it means to the law-makers the creation of one more to effective government than to board of trustees for all the educa- give responsibility to the chief mag tional institutions of the state to be . istrate of the commonwealth, called the "University of North Caro- ' "For a score of years I have believed, Una." He made an appeal for the i and mv service in Washinerton has , short ballot and asked the general as- bouiuiy to give tne governor tne power ; to pick a cabinet and to make his ap- ! pointees responsible to the executive. ' Mr. Daniels touched upon taxation and roads but briefly, devoting the major portion of his talk to broadening , the executives authority and power f,"a , ' in e ,ex?ans lon 9"1 tne educa ; , "V Lfte' a - ming ne aa- . 17 rv r O t Ctrl l-r ft-m n3Mn. 4. A. 1 1 i 7" B lu uie . iaw" i wiV 7 a which belongs to the President in his 2 v eemnf y W" u" eat office for the federal government tireiy extemporaneous one. He ar- .j,., . j. , . , . rived unexpectedly from Washington I f ?d belnffS in mSt c"wealths to this morning and when his presence j the governors chosen by the people, became known, a joint resolution was I m Should Have Cabinet started in the senate by Senator Wat-' Thf JE?vernorK,0 f, N7 Carolina J3 ter Woodson, of Charlotte, and in the ' entitled to a cabinet of his own choos house by Representative Edgar Pharr, ing' which will share his views and of Mecklenbudg. The secretary came be responsible -to him so as to secure to the capitol with the legislative the ullest co-operation in every state committee from his editorial rooms activity. ' and went to the hall of the house In! company with Governor Morrison. Both were given ovations. Public Health First "The first thing that concerns a peo- '. pie is its health," the secretary said. ' "We have come to a day when men ; live longer than they lived in other fenerations. I rememher nf heine- as. tounded 20 veara am nnnn a -uioit tn' Eden ton, where there are buried a l&rger number of distinguished men . tnan in any other private burial ground I have ever seen in the world. Pri- vate ground! I wa,s amazed that most oi tnem, died under 40, men of dis- tipction in state and nation The med ical fraternity, surgeons, physicians and health officers, have made men able to work more days, so that basical ly the greatest service you can render 10 JNonn uaronna is to protect the -yru-ean-de-j this if you give that co-operation to Dr. Rankin and the health board that shall make North Carolina the fore most state, in the union. "We must not forget that allied to health and essential to health are high standards of living, straightness and purity of life. I have watched with great interest and with pride in my state the performance of the service for social betterment rendered under the direction of Roland Beasley. I commend it to your favorable consider- ation. In Dast vearswe hav lfe-erd behind In the matter of educating the children of our commonwealth, but in recent vears under 'the leadershin beeinninsr with Avcock and Mcl'ver. carried on by Joyner and Brooks and others, all of whom I would like to we have taken a long forward step in the education of our people from the primary schools to the university. Mnst Unify Education "I do not suppose for a minute it is necessary for me to speak to you about continued liberality toward all our educational establishments and strengthening our educational policy, but gentlemen, what we need is to unify our educational policy and to bring all the institutions under one control and one management and one responsibility, and I beg leave to sug gest that this general assembly could serve the interests of every institution in this state and all education if it were to establish a board of trustees or directors, a small body, that should unite the university, the colleges here 1 J in Raleigh and Greensboro and Green ville and every state institution of learning under their management, and when so united to -call it the Univer sity of North . Carolina.' This would be following policies which have suc ceeded admirably in other progressive commonwealths. "The care of-our indigent classes is on all our hearts and I believe the hour has come when this can be better directed by a unified control than by several boards, and I beg to suggest TESTIMONY CONFLICTS IN GUARDSMAN'S CASE Say Soldier Was in Barracks During Lynching HAMILTON. Ala., Feb. 3. Sergeant Robert L Lancaster, accused of being a member of the mob which removed William Baird, striking miner, from the Walker county jail and killed him on January 13, had his day in the Marion county court, house here today. It was a day of thrills f or . the spectators, because the defense pro ceeded to contradict the testimony of Leslie West, taxicab driver, to. the ef fect that Lancaster was a member of the death party, and to establish by Ben D. Searcy, guardian of the bar racks during the hours the lynching is said to have occurred, that Lancaster was inhis bunk at the time. Br other witnesses the -defense .ob- ' tained testimony that Lancaster was in charge of a patrol the night preceding the lynching until midnight, and that i he and other members of the patrol walked to the barracks - This testimony was considered- of great Importance from the fact that Leslie West, the only witness offered ' byHhe state as one who saw the kil ling, - testified that he picked up. the hunch of soldiers at the drug store at Townley before midnight, took tnem to the barracks where they prepared for the trip to the jail," and then - took them to Jasper and to the jail. - The state completed submission of its testimony at 1:30 this afternoon and curt recessed until 2:30 in order - that the defense, might prepara its oaa. to you the consideration of one board i that will control every asylum and dleemosvnarv institution in North strengthened belief into a conviction, that the governor of North Carolina ought to be the governor of North Carolina, just as the general assembly ought to be the law-maker of North Carolina. What have we today in this commonwealth? we have lost motion everywhere because we clothe the. gov- ernor wlth hf&n sounding titles a.ld names and . deny him the necessary power or administration Every man in North Carolina in ine state nouse wno administers tne laws you make, every man who con- trols the railroads and telegraphs and publfc service corporations and banks, is the laav, and every state department ought to be responsible under the law to the governor and all his appoint- ments should be confirmed hv thf. ungt. Wo shnnlH have roannnaihlo i government which should mean that 1 you put your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. In that connection ; we must be careful how we select them, We should preserve and strengthen our state primary law. "I was greatly pleased with the sug gestion by Governor Bickett for a short ballot. If. I had my way, we should elect no. state , officers in North Caro lina except the governor and the auditor, andI would give the auditor tHetrwerJbr"he"TroTnp droller, ' so that no warrant for money should be paid out of the treasury except upon the ap proval of the comptroller under the laws of the state. I would give the governor authority to, name his syz retary of . state, the state , treasurer, and every otheri office in the state ad ministration. We know, gentlemen. that we have been extremely fortunate in the men We have elected to office to hold these important positions. They have administered their duties with care and honesty and fidelity, Out you wil1 never have the best uniform and j responsible governmetn until North : Carolina is governored by a fesponsi- t ble administration, with a cabinet chosen by the governor and confirmed by the senate. ' State Should Use Powers We have today great problems and very difficult problems. The war com pelled the federal government to do many things it had never done before. War measures were essential and the state, after the time being, followed the federal government's lead; but, gentlemen, the time has come when the sovereign power of a state over its railroads must, be exercised, and when our own railroad commissiontrs may control the ' traffic of public service corporations and name their rates and schedules. 7 Jv ' "You have a great problem, a prob lem that has been simplified by you, however, by reason of an amendment to the .constitution, so that hereafter by the income tax, the best tax. the justest tax.1 ever; levied, the great burden of state government will De borne by those most able to bear it. If there is no income there is no tax. If there is income, you will levy fair and just taxation upon it, no matter from whom it is derived, and I hape to live to. see the day when neither in Washington nor Raleigh, nor anywhere else, will bonds be issued by any authority that do not carry taxation with them. The bane of our govern ment is that with the issue of so many government and state bonds, many people buy these bonds and escape (Continued on Page Two) HOLD A TOWN AT BAY WHILE LOOTING BANK Robbers Get . $25,000 From Pinellas Bank,, Largo, Fla. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 3. Grilling of, Ira Money, 17-year-old youth who was foupjd in the vault of 'the Pinellas county bank at Largo this morning after a band of safe breakers had terrorized the village and robbed the bank of $25,000, in cash and securi ties, stood tonight as the sole new de velopment In the robbery. More completed reports emanating from the scene. of; the robbery indicate that.it was committed by- a band of six meii, who . practically held the city at bay while; the bank was being robbed. A man was stationed at each cor ner of the bank block, it is reported, and. persons who ventured to the street were frightened back into their homes by displays, of pistol 'markmanship. ine nome ot J.; S.AlcMuiien. casnier. i was kept under a, flood of searchlights while the. robbery- was being commit ted,- according -to big .wife, who added that both were awake' but afraid to leave '.the heuse.tv under . .the glare of tne ngnts- . - DENNIS HOOKS CONVICTED SOPERTON; ,Ga., Feb. 3. Dennis , Hooks was 'found igullty, of the charge of murder,' ' the ;.- jury ' recommending mercy, in I.Treutlen - superior ' court to night, in connection with the deaths of T. IC Luraley. Sr.. and T.' K. Lumley. Jrv - Hooks ;wa ' sentenced to a life ALLIES HAVE ERRED 1(1 NOT DEFINITELY FIXING AMOUNT OF INDEMNITY . . Americans Vigorously Condemn the Assessment on the German Exports IS TAX ON THRIFT Such An Indeterminate Tax Penalizes Worker, Whether '.. Man or Nation By MARK SULLIVAN (Copyright, 1921, by .The Star) WASHINGTON. Feb. 3 Enough tlraa has now passed since the announce- ment of the German reparation terms to make possible, a careful appraisal of their effect both In general and e pecially on our own financial and po- litical affairs. When this subject was under con- sideration by the peace . conference, four American business men served on the commission that had the sub ject in charge, and a few other Ameri cans also participated less formally in the discussions. Incidentally, the first meeting of the commission on re parations occurred exactly two years ago, on February 3, 1919. . , The average judgment of the Amer-' lean officials at that time, as to how much Germany could, pay, did not dif fer materially from the amount that is now assessed. A few thought Ger many might be able to pay as much as 25,000,000,000 dollars. One of tho most cautious named a figure as low as 15,000,000,000 dollars. Since that time, however, these Americans, In the light of further information and reflection. tended On the Whole to redUCQ heir estimate of Germany's capacity to pay. But the thing which these American experts never contemplated is the 12 per cent assessment on whatever Germany's exports may turn out to be over a period of 42 years, and it is this part, of the recent set- tlement which the Americans most vigorously: condemn. It robs the settlement of exactly tle mer it which -it was hoped settlement would have. . Instead; of making th reparations a deflniteiyj&xedV amouot, it leaves certainly a third, and perhaps a half of it, indefinite. From an eco nomic point of view, this sort of thing is a device of the cevil. If a malign Intelligence should devote it-' self to making economic mischief, it could invent no better device than an indeterminate tax. It was exactly this sort of thing which kept Ireland back ward for generations. It is this that keeps the renting-farmer everywhere 1 down. If the . subject of such a tax. be it a man or a nation, works hard ana is innity, ne is penalized. I Germany May Be Able j As to that part of the settlement, i which is a fixed sum, the judgment here varies with the individual, but on the whole is rather dubious. The most optimistic go no farther than to say it is just possible that Germany can pay. ' For several months practically all our leaders have been of tne opinion that the fixing of the Germany repara tions would be the first and indispens able step toward stable economic con ditions and better business. That the announcement has not been followed by such a lift in business, and by such a feeling of reassurance as should have been the case considering the im portance of It, is interpreted as a sign oi defect in the settlement- it was. of course, not the mer naming of the figure that was ocpected to be a step in the direction of better busi ness, but the feeling of confidence and reassurance which should come with the elimination of an element of j uncertainty. What was expected and j vv nat ought to have come was a feel- ing on the part of the world that this uncertain factor wan cut of the way nno that things could r.ow go forward on solid ground. That this expecta tion is not fulfilled is r.ow clear. The settlement is not of such a character as to make the world feel with strong confidence that the term? are reason able arid' therefore can and will be lived up to. There was a degree of stabilization of exchanges which came in anticipation of the avent. lhat de gree of stabilization ha.j not yet slip ped backward, but there has not come that lift which was expected and would have come with-such a settlement as would have satisfied the judgment of the world, as to both its justice and its practicability. . i . Politically, the Democrats genially apprehend the worst. The Republicans frankly fear the worst. Those Re publican leaders who have any enlight enment at all, know that economto stability in America, is inseparably bound up with economic and political stability in Europe. Since tey made the people a promise of normalcy, they have come to realize that by a policy of isolation they have put !t out of their power to influence the chief factor upon which ou" own re turn to normalcy is dependent Since the election; there is an amusing re versal of the attitude of the two par ties. Before the election, when any thing went wrbng in Europe',, the Re publicans blamed it on the Democratic League of Nations and piously called on the country to thank the Republi cans for. keeping us out of it. Now, when anything goes wrong, the Demo crats self-righteously lay the. blame on Republican failure . to Jojn the league and thus be in a position to cast the influence1 of America on the side of what is just and whoiesome. TO LAY CABLES NORFOLK, Va., FeD. 2. The British steamship Stephen will leave here' to morrow for Key West to establish telephone communication between that point and "Havana.' "Three cables -aro to be laid by the '.International Tele phone and Telegraph company an? the American : Telephone ' and Telegraph company under a permit Issued by the government. ' - ; v The cables will be five miles apart, and will be in operation, according to officials In five weeks, the - total cds being two million dollars. ' II m m i U ' 4: if v. 1 1 i ( nil" I,' t i -
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