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mm Mo Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year vol. xx xn. BooNE7wATAU(Sl:6ijr7N. c Thursday "july u7 1921. . ' So 38 f J. ' 0 ft -1 NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS New Tariff Measure, Restoring High Protection, Is Ready for Congress. LONG DEBUTE IS EXPECTED President and Dawee Begin Work of Reducing Expenses House Accepts ; Borah Naval Holiday Amendment 1 -De Valera Declines Lloyd George's Invitation io I Conference. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. After four months of hard labor the ways and means committee of the house has completed the new perma nent tariff bill. It will be formally reported to the house probably be fore the end of the current week. Then will begin a debate that will seem like the good old times, for the measure drastically revises the tariff law under which we have been operat ing for eight years and restores the principle of high protection for Amer ican industry. Members of the com mittee estimate It will bring In a rev enue as high as $700,000,000 a year more than twice the amount pro duced by the Payne-Aldrich law. Of late years many Democrats have changed their attitude toward the tar iff to a considerable extent, admitting the truth of Hancock's dictum that It is a local Issue and favoring real protection for the Industries of cer tain parts of the country. But few If any of the minority members of the house can be expected to swallow whole this new bill without going on record as upholding In general the traditional policy of their party a tariff for revenue only. A long debate, therefore, may be expected. There are some Republicans, also, who are opposed to certain features of the measure and the closing eve Dings of the week were given up to caucuses of the Republicans to com pose their differences. In several re spects the committee yielded at the last. For Instance, It is left to the discretion of the President to Impose the duty on lumber pinned on one or more sides and tongued and grooved equal to the 25 per cent ad valorem Canadian duty. The committee also gave iu to the demand of the smaller oil producers and put a duty of 35 cents per barrel on crude petroleum and 25 cents per barrel on fuel oil. Among the more Important general features of the measure are the follow ing: American valuation of Imports Is provided for, the century old system of foreign valuation being abandoned. Broad powers are given the Presi dent to make reciprocal tariff relations with other countries. Duties much higher than in the for mer Payre-Aldrich tariff law are, Im posed upon chemicals and products of other Industries established during the war which ( are considered essential from a standpoint of national defense. Far-reaching powers are given to the tariff commission in restricting Imports of dyes for a three-year pe riod. Duties on automobiles are reduced, in compliance with the request of the manufacturers, who advanced the ar gument that such action would cause other nations to remove high duties on American cars. Protection on agricultural products about equal to that of the Payne-Al-drlch law Is given, rates In several Instances being less than In the emer gency tariff law now In effect. Duties on wool are on an entirely different basis from former laws, and it Is a matter of controversy whether the basic rate Is higher or lower than In the Payne-Aldrich law. Among the commodities on the free list are: Agricultural Implements, animals Imported for breeding pur poses, antimony ore, antitoxins and vaccines, bread, chromite, coal, cobalt, cocoa, coffee, copper ore, cotton, cork bark, Iron ore, leather, shoes, hides, wood duIp, platinum, radium, Bilk cocoons, news print paper, tapioca and tapioca flour, tea, tin ore, works of art, and most kinds of lumber. Despite the fact that the new tariff will produce a huge revenue, the need of reducing government expenditures la as Dressing as ever, and President Harding and Director of the Budget Dawes seem determined to bring about that result. They met last week with 'the cabinet and the heads of all the bureaus the first meeting of the kind ever held and had a heart to heart talk on means to meet the emergency. Mr. Harding quickly gave the floor to Mr. Dawes and that vigorous Chi ca'goan told the gathering In plain language what he planned to do and what the others must do to help him. Then. he. addedi ' "The permanent success of the bud get system depends upon certain basic principles, which at its inception must be so firmly established both as to concept and rules of action, that they never hereafter will be questioned. "The budget bureau must be Im partial, impersonal, and nonpolitlcal." In concluding, he ordered the bureau chiefs to their feet and, holding up his hand, recited the following pledge, ad dressed to the President: "These men, of whom I am one, realize the perplexity of your position, realize that the business of the coun try 1b prostrate, that Its working men are out of employment, that we are faced with Inexorable necessity of re ducing expenditures, and we propose, just as we did four years ago to win the war, to try to do it. And that's all we can da" President Harding, anxious to have the controversy over the "naval holi day" plan ended, wrote to Congress man Mondell a letter saying that he was "vastly more concerned with the attitude of the congress on this ques tion than I am as to the form of ex pressing that attitude." When this let ter was read to the house, Mr. Mondell and all the others who had wanted the disarmament proposal to Include land forces gave in and agreed to accept the Borah amendment to the naval appropriation bill That Is, all but four gave lu The only negative votes were cost by Representatives Moore, Indi ana, Republican; and Campbell, Penn sylvania ;' Carew, New York, and O' Brien, New Jersey, all Democrats, Representative Llnherger, California, Republican, voted present. Republican members of the house and senate conference committee on the resolution to declav the state of war with Germany ended reached a compromise carrying the house dec Juration of a state of peace instead of the senate repeal of the war reso lution, and the senate provisions pro tectlng American interests, with nn additional section giving still further protection to the United States. Sim ilar sections end the state of war with Austria-Hungary. So that squabble is settled. Notwithstanding the impassioned protests of many congressmen and the earnest arguments of many physicians, the house Inst week passed the so- called Willis-Campbell bill designed tc forestall the execution of a regulation providing for the prescription of beer and light wines as medicine held by former Attorney General Palmer to be within the law. The vote wus 250 o 03. The measure is now in the nnnds of the senate, and Senatoi iroussard of Louisiana already has delivered a red-hot speech against It. Of the appointment of former Pres ident Taft to be chief Justice of the Supreme court of the United States there is little to be said that has not already been said In anticipation. Mr. Taft's fitness for the high position Is unquestioned and the selection will meet with practically unanimous ap proval. The railway labor board Isstiod two ordprs of Importance Inst week. The first extended to all big railways the wage cut which went into effect on July 1. The second abolished time-and-a-hnlf pay for all work over an eight-hour diiy, and, with the exception of this change, extended Indefinitely the operation of the national agree ments which were to have terminated last Friday. The overtime order it not final, however. It was hoped that the railroads and employees would Boon reach agreements relutlng. to rules and working conditions. Rail union leaders to the number of more than a thousand met In Chicago to decide whether the employees should accept the wage cut and to try to avert a tie-up in the country's trana portation facilities. . In the Chicago district It appeared the efforts of Judge Landis as arbi trator would result iu the endlug of the controversy that has tied up all building operations for a long time. The carpenters were the lust to yield. There was rejoicing In England at the news that the great strike of Brit ish coal miners had been ended and that the men would return to the pits on July 4. The government grants a subsidy of ten million pounds to avert the hardships of the next three months due to wage reductions. By the terms of the settlement a new wage basis will come Into effect for the next eighteen months whereby the miners receive 20 per cent above the pre-war scale of wages, with an ad ditional share of prolits, which will be reguluted by the creutlon of a na tional board and district boards. The strike thus ended lasted 04 days and is considered the most Injurious Eng land ever suffered, because It crippled to many industries and affected all classes of the population. Lloyd George's effort to arrive at a fj-ieudly solutionpl the Irish trouble 6yTnvItlng TJe Valera an J an asaocl ate to confer in London with him aid with Sir James Craig, premier of Ul ster, appears to have failed at have all other attempts to settle the row. Craig agreed to the conference, but D Valera has balked. At first the Irish "president" wrote to Lloyd George temporizing letter, and. invited Cralc to meet him in Dublin for' an exchange of views. Craig declined, ' and De Valera wrote him : "Mr. Lloyd George's proposal, because, of Its im plications, la impossible of acceptance In Its present form. Irish political differences should be adjusted and can, I believe, be adjusted on Irish soil. It is obvious that iu negotiating peace with Great Britain tj)e Irish del egatlon ought not to be divided, but should act ns a unit on some common principle." , A London newspaper says the au thorities have discovered and frus trated a plot to murder the, British cabinet ministers. It says the police are seeking three men sent & Lon don to do the assassinating. They are a French medical student, an Irish man from the western part of the United States and a Spaniard. The same paper declares the forces of th Royal Irish constabulary are to be quadrupled at once. Rather unexpectedly, King Constan tly refused to defer his projected offensive against the Turkish Nation alists and permit the allies to try to mediate, it , was believed he knew the Turks were getting ready to at tack with Bolshevist aid and deter mined to strike first. The British ex erted extreme pressure on the Greeks, and up to the time of wi lling the only lighting has been a rather bloody con flict while the Greeks were withdraw ing from Ismld. Thursday's new? dis patches indicated that Conslantine hud good grounds for his apprehension. The allied troops in Constantinople were called Into action to forestall a vast uprising planned by the Turks and the Bolshevikl, which was to be accompanied by the destruction of pub lic buildings. The Bolshevik head quarters were raided, qunutlilei of weapons seized and several thread ers arrested. In the death roll of the week ap pear two notnble names. Charles J. Bonaparte, eminent citizen of Balti more and cabinet member during the Roosevelt administration, died at Ills country home. He was n grandnephew of the great Napoleon. Lady Ran dolph Churchill, who was Jennie Jerome of New York, pussed ihvuy ns the result of Injuries received las' .May. Probably no other American woman has had so great nn Influence on British public affairs. She famous as a writer and a wit RAILROADS TO GET ADDITIONAL ADVANCES TO BE MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT WITHIN SIX MONTHS. EVEN UP WAR-TIME CONTROL Every Claim and Counter Claim Be tween the Treasury and Railroads it Involved In Negotiations. Washington. Treasury Secretary Mellon announced that, under a pro visional refunding arrangement mid with the railroad executives, the car riers would receive approximately $500,000,000 in additional advances from the Federal government within the next six months. Mr. Mellon said the negotiatloni with the railroad executives- probably would be completed within two days and that the advances contemplated would give to the railroads in cash sums of money equivalent to those 1 vhich the government spent in cap-! ital betterments during the period ol war-time control. The government will receive for the advances six. per I cent security evidencing the indebt-' edness of the particular railroads hlch receive the advances. All of the claims and counter-claims between the individual railroads and the government arising out of main tenance expenditures daring the con trol period are involved in the negoti ations. Mr. Mellon indicated that additional appropriations would be sought from congress to make the advances, al though the treasury will be able to meet a pbrtion of the requirements out of funds now available or by vir tue of the authority to borrow already given in various laws. Saved by Secretary Roorv-lt. Washington. Orders r two . tionths ago calling Jfor a progrijti ol I 1.000.000 I DREADFUL WEAPON OF DESTRUCTION NEW GUN MAY BE PERFECTED HURLING FIVE-TON PROJEC TILE 300 MILES. INVENTED BY AN ENGLISHMAN At the Recent Demonstration of the Weapon a Velocity of Sixty Miles :J"a Minute Was Developed. New York Scientists and inventor? discussed the remarkable qualities ol a new gun, which Dr. Miller Reese Hutchinson, former chief engineer for Thomas A. Edison, claims may be de veloped to hurl a projectile of five tons from 200 to 300 miles. Its velocity, he declared, ranges from one to five miles a second. The noise it made at a de monstration sounded much Hke the clickof a cash register though only a miniature weapon, with an eight-inch barrel, was used. Its projectile may be stopped in a sheet of steel with the precision of a trolley car. The gun Is the invention of John Temple, an Englishman, who develop ed the idea In this country. The demonstration gun used by Dr. Hutchinson had a velocity of one mile a second. He declared the high pow er rifles now in vogue obtain their velocity through the use of small pro jectiles, long barrels and about three times as much powder as is used In the new weapon. The principle of burriing powder, which does not permit waste before the projectile even starts to move, has been applied in the gun, Dr. Hutchinson explained. The elmi- nation of a loud report was obtained by confinement of expanding gas. Reld's Condition Serious. Fitzgerald, Ga. - Engineer W. T. Reid, who was shot by a union picket stationed along the tracks of tho At lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail road, near the railroad shops, is in a serious condition. V. T. Whittle and Werner Duren, strikers, are in Jail charged with rioting, rigid economy Tn the naval service have already resulted In a saving ol several hundred thousand dollar?. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, , an' nounced. makes p xsk r13pj..-i COMMENCEMENT. Quite a large number of form er graduates and former stu dents of the School attended the Commencement on the 5th and 6th, aud the School is always glad to welcome its friends back. The closing exercises" were of a very high order. On Tuesday evening came the annual play by the Seniors given for the bonefit of the Loan Fund. It was an ex cellent play and all the parts were well given. More than one hundred dollars were realized for this important fund. The main day of the occasion was Wednesday and the expec tations were high in regard to the coining of the Governor, and it can be well-imagined how keen was the disappointment when a message .was received stating that at the last moment it was found impossible for him to come. However, he sent a worthy rep resentative in the person of Hon. R. N. Hackett, of Wilkesboro. Keen as was the disappointment at the disappointment at the Gov ernor's not coming it was realiz ed soon alter Mr. Hackett began speaking that he was, indeed, a worthy representative, so much so that even tho Governor need not feel bad to have it said thot even lie could not have expelled Mr. Hackett's speech, which was one of the very best, most effec tive and fullest of true worth ev er delivered in 11. e school. The class day exercises were of a very simple nature but one of the highest class ever deliver ed here. Alter prayer by Rev. E. D. Poe, of Durham, the vast au dience sang enthusiastically 'The North Carolina Hills' in honor of Capt. Lovill, who had ioiu.vsted it. Before the address and fol lowing the address came an in strumental duetle by Misses Hunt and Pennington, of the class. Then came the valedictory by James Eubert Holshouser, which was of very choice lan guage, expressing thought of a very high order. President Dougherty announ ced that the second summer school would begin on Tuesday, July 12, and that the Pall term would open August S3. Diplomas were delivered to one of the lar gest classes ever graduated here, Tho class song TL.ji li VLL JBHXU. JLUSJS urns a model Kusband HER NICE new husband1. STEPPED OUT of the hoiiRo. WHISTLING LIKE a bird. WHICH ALARMED young wifo. ESPECIALLY WHEN. CHE FOUND sho'd plclted THE WRONG packago. AND INSTEAD of oatmeal. HAD GIVEN him bird see 1. BUT DON'T think from thU. THAT EVERY guy. YOU HEAR whistling. HAS NECESSARILY. BEEN ROBBING the canary. OTHER THINGS inspire. THE ALMOST human jnnlo. TO BLOW through h'3 Hps. AND MAKE shrill nolsos. A RAISE, for example. t OR A day off when. A DOUBLE header is on. CIGARETTES FIFTH SUNDAY MEETIN6 PR06RAM Following is the program for the fifth Sunday meeting to be held with Shulls Mills Churcb, July 30-31, 192T. Saturday 9:30-9:45Devot i o n a 1, A. J. Green. 9:45-10-Organizations. 10-10: 15 -Doctrine: The New Testament our authority ia re ligion F. M. Huggins. 10:1 5-11 :45-How to enlist our membership as to 1. Attendance, E. J. Farthing. . 2. Bible Study, Clyde Green 3. Financial Support I G Greer ll:45-12:30--Our Mission Work Dwight Edraisten, Smith Haga man. 2 2:15- Devotional, Ed Hodges 2:15-2:30-Individual Responsi bility to God, F. M. Huggins. ' 2:30-3:15-The preparation, o f the Suiday School lesson as to 1. The Teacher, Roy Dotson. 2. The pupil, D D Dougherty. ":15-4-The relation of teaching toourehurejilife, Wade Byers, W. Y. Perry. Night 8-8:15--Devotional, H C Garland 8:15-8:3.1 -Doctrine, The New Testament Church, FM Huggins 8:30-9:30-The necessity for our churches to fulfill the aggregate of their ci.mpoign pledges in con tributions, J. T. C. Wright, W. S. tf'arthhg. Sunday 9:30 .-Devotional, D M Wheeler. 10- 11- bunday School in charge of the lend peopln. 11- 12- Sermon, R. C. Eggcvs. 1:30 Devotional Ed Robbins l:4r- Doctrine: The significance of Baptism, I M. Huggins. 2:1X1 -Tr lining children in Sun day School, Annie Winkler. 2:ir-2::0--Wiiat our schools are doing for our youn g people re ligiously, Miss Gladys Brown. 2:30--Gathering up the loose ends in our church work , E. S. Coffey. All church and Sunday School workers are invited to at tend and take part. I. G. dreer A.J. Greene S. C. Eggers N: T. Byers W. S. Farthing Committee. was sung and the exercises clos ed with the benediction by Rev. G. C. Brinkman, of Boone. J. M. DOWNUM. OR AN everyday thlnif. LIKE A good dn. CN ONE of those smokea. THAT SATISFY. WHICH CHRTAINLY are. 4 THE REAL !)lrd?el. FOR MAKING men. TRILL THEIR pipes for Joy. SO LADIES, if hubby. GOES AWAY whistling. YCU NEEDN'T worry. ALL'S SWELL. WHEM you ay tha CKfti terfiel.ls "satisfy," you'ra whistling. You know the in stant you light one that tha tobaccos in it ar of prime se lection, be th Turkish and Do mestic. And the blend well, you never tasted such smooth ness and full-flavored body! No wonder tho "satisfy-Mcnd" ia kept secret. It can't bo copied. Did yctt know about thm Chfttrfitld package of 10? Liggett tc Mvr is Tobacco Co.'
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