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4 GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1921 GREENSBORO DAIf.Y NEWS U TELbUKAJt FablUfcrd Every Day In tke Year B7 Grernabora- Newa Company Pfe. n. JFFFRHSS Manager A. n. jnvxF.n. ...AwtMnm Mgr. BAH I K. GOIIIIK.Y F.dllor .. L. STOCKTON. .Ma luglng Kdltur Dally and Sundnr, VD.00 per yeari SOs per imki Daily Only. (T.M par yean ISe prr nrfk. Single Copy. Iallj. 6c Bandar, T. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1921. TUB WASHINGTON ONFKKENCB. Nov. 12 HuKhea submits general program for ten-year naval holiday anil limitation of armament. Nov. 14 Prance and Italy agree to nu together on questions coming be fore the conference. Nov. 15 rireat Britain and Japan it. cept American armament limitation proposals as a basis of discussion. Nov. 18 China prescrts ten princi ple. Nov. 17 The ether nations repre sented accept In principle China's pro posals that she he admitted to the fam ily of sovereign nations. Nov. 21 Brland promises that France will soon cut her military service to II months, and on his request that France he not left to defend llbertj alone, assurances of moral support are Ktven by the delosrate of the nations that fought with France In the war. A Joint declaration of policy toward China, based on territorial and admin istrative Integrity, economic opportun ity, and enforced "open door," and the abolition of "special rlirhts" Is agreed upon by all nations represented. November 25 The committee of nine agrees In principle to the abolition q1 extra-territorial rights In China. ' November 28 The nine powers sdopt a resolution for relinquishment of for eign poetofflce privileges In China. November 89 Resolutions are adapt ed loosing to abandonment of foreign courts In China. , Nov. nnJapsn makes formal re quest for a 10-10-7 ntivnl formula. Mughes and rialfonr tender good offices for settlement of Khsnlung question. December J Orent Britain. Japan and Frnnre airreo to retire from much of the leased territory of China. Dec. 5 Japan agrees to return to China administrative control of Shan tung, conditionally. Her. 7 Far enet committee adopts mtiirfni,i nrnvlrilno- for the neutral ity of China In case of war In whlchJ China la not a party. Insuring the ter ritorial Integrity of China, and pro viding for use of wireless station In China. . Dec. Chinese. dissatisfied over Shantung negotiations, -threaten to withdraw. Dec. 10. Text of the four-power alliance Is laid before the conference and made public. It Is an agreement to endure for ten years, nnd may be de nounced by any alrnntnry power on II months' notice, after that period. Dec. 12. Japan announce willing ness to withdraw postoff Ices from China January 1, 1029. Settlement Is reached of the controversy between America and Jitpan over Vap. Deo. 14 China risks of the powera In cnnforence thnt the Japanese 21 demanils treaty, and all treat los grant ing special spheres of Influenco In China, he abrogated. Deo. 14 Four-power trenty signed. Dec. 15 Agreement Is reached by the three powers on the 6-5-8 naval ratio, modifying the Hughes proposals by In crease of maximum tonnage of each power during and after the ten years' naval building hnlldny. Japan ac cepts tentatively offer of China to buy Klaow-Chow Tainan rnllrond for 53 million Herman gold murks. France claims the right to a naval strength equivalent to that of Japan. Deo. 22 France and Italy accept ' American proposals for, limitation of capital ship armament. Oroat Britain proposes abolition of submarine. PARACRAPHICS. treiLtv. to sunn ant tne AnK jamiios? It may he quiet revolt in India, but if is making noise enough in Lon don. High Point is up to its ears in a "home-building drive." Making suro of starting the new year right by starting right before it arrives. France, of course, has all faith In the excellent intentions of her Brit ish neighbors, but she means to keep submarine ace In the hole, all the same. A British ship has been seized by an American revenue cutter as an alleged rum-runner. The British may come to take prohibition serious. iyyt. J Apparently the secret service, by arresting the man in Warsaw in con nection with the Wall stroct explo sion got nothing but bum information and they didn't want it spelled that way. Mr. Wells, excusing his inability to interpret America, says: "Youi Civil war was fought before I was born." How dared we to fight a war before Mr. Wells arrived to tell the world about itl According to Mr. Tumulty's serial on "Wilson As I Know Him," the United States had in Mr. Tumulty one of the greatest Presidents and one of the most perspicacious politicians In its history. Certain Washington countenances that wear a look of deep bewilder ment these past few days got it from a sudden and surprising discovery that, for a dead one, the league of nations has an astoundingly lively and energetic stinger. Commissioner Cox told the people at the Swift Island bridge celebration that the state commission will build "in the near future," 400 miles of permanent road and 600 miles of soil type. The former means an expendi ture of not less than ten million do! lars, probably nearer 15 millions, and the latter from a million and a half to three millions. It looks like year's job for tho commission, wil, Its indicated expansions beyond the original plan of ten million a year "Tne disappointed farmer now read the account of his industrial ruin by the light of his burning cor Millions of laborers are frequenting the soup houses, the bread lines and the auction block as in the days of chattel slavery. Business has dis covered that it was crucified on the cross tf politics." It is the new Democratic chairman, Mr. Hull, who is putting out the rousements; and is an effectual reminder that this gladsome New Year we are all ex pecting the day after tomorrow is to be a campaign year, FAILURE IN AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK. No more terrific blow lias been dealt the reputation of a diplomatist j of modern times than the sudden col lapse of the Washington conference, coupled, as it is, with the bald as sertion that the collapse is due to the blundering of Mr. Hughes, It may be so, but wo shall certainly incline to give Mr. Hughes the benefit of the doubt until the conference has act ually adjourned without doing any thing worth while about areoplanes and submarines. But, after all, what was to have been expected? The Borah resolu tion demanded a conference between the United States, Great Britain and Japan to consider the limitation of naval armament, the author of the resolution unquestionably having in mind capital ships, the most expen sive of naval armament. It was Mr. Hutches' own Idea to extend the con ference to take in six other nations and to make it a sort of opposition league of nations. The matter of the capital ships was easily arranged, for everybody had too many of them anyhow, and everybody has come to be extremely skeptical of their value in modern warfare. But when Mr. Hughes began to run a second-class Geneva conference he got into trou ble, for he was not prepared to de liver the only thing that holds the league of nation together a mutual guarantee of security, - Even as mild and innocuous a guarantee as that afforded by the four-power treaty is encountering opposition that is likely to increase, rather than to diminish. The gravamen of the charge against Mr. Hughes, however, ap pears to be tactlessness. Regardless of the excellence of his intentions, he has contrived to inflame French opinion to the point where the French people actually believe that the United States and Great Britain are conspiring to grab the world, and shove France clear off it. This is an astounding charge. Mr. Hughes has succeeded so well in impressing is own countrymen with his integ rity and impartiality that it is fairly incredible that Europe should sus pect him of being a trickster. If that indeed the case, then Charles E. Hughes as a diplomatist is a com plete and lamentable failure; for that not a matter of policy, good or bad, but a question of temperament. Furthermore, there is no excuse for diplomatist who has so blundered in charr ing the French with undue touchiness. If they are abnormally touchy, it was the diplomatist's busi ness to know it, and to conduct the egotiations accordingly. It is perfectly true that Mr. Hughes is not particularly successful in his human encounters. His atti tude is too chillingly abstract to make him a popular man ; but at that it is no more so than Mr. Balfour's, and yet Mr. Balfour is a brilliantly suc cessful diplomatist. Mr. Hughes' per sonality may not fit him for a diplo matic career, but it is hardly cred- ble that that alone accounts for the failure of the conference. Much more likely is It that when the original program was extended to cover more than capital ships, and the capital ships oi the three great maritime powers, Mr. Hughes under took a task that no human being could have accomplished successfully. Where Wilson failed Hughes had small chance to succeed, from tho very beginning. Wilson, indeed, had the foresight to realise that the only way out was the Franco-Anglo-Amer ican defensive alliance, and the cour age to take that way. Ho was de feated in the senate, and that defeat settled all hopes of American suc cess at composing the quarrels of France and England. In short, the administration has essayed the impossible task of run ning with the hare and holding with the hounds of obtaining all the ben- efits that would attend vigorous and sincere support of the league of na tions without incurring any -of the responsibilities and dangers at tached to it. Naturally, it has failed It must continue to fail until such time as this country makes up its mind to face its duty and discharge it. UOE5 NORTH CAROLINA KILL HER GOVERNORS? Vance, Scales, Fowle, Russell, Carr, Aycock, Glenn, Kitchin, Craig, Bickett "the peculiar fatality of the office" of Governor of North Caro lina here arc suggestions that should be pondered. Do North Car olinians regularly kill their Gover nors? This is a list of names of men that were, most of them, physi cany rar above the average. Some were strong men in every sense, some of mediocre quality; but the rule of fatality has run regardless. Mr. Host finds the psychologists ready with testimony of the great 3train imposed by the possession of the pardoning power, which also im plies the necessity of considering the cases of many imprisoned and con Uemned mop, and the power of re fusing pardons. It is necessary fo the Governor of North Carolina to iouow nis conscience and commute here, reprieve there; pardon one refuse another; and conscience must be aided by the highest intelligence or which the head of the state is ca pable. Governor Morrison refused clemency some months ago in a con spicuous case. He was fortified by a peculiarly intimate knowledgo of the psychology of a strong, numerous, influential group of his fellow citi zens that North Carolina with which Mr. Morrison is in spiritual kinship. Nothing conceivable could have strengthened the Governor more with the hell, hanging and calomel element his folks, found in every community, leaders in every commu nity, men of character and sub stance he could not have been on firmer ground. Yet the refusal of mercy in this case put Mr. Morrison to bed ; and he is no weakling. The exercise of the pardoning and re fusing power appeals to and stimu lates Governor Morrison f he would not wish to be relieved of it. Nev ertheless it wears on him. The power of absolute life and death over the men and women around them was formerly possessed and regularly exercised by kings and queens, and overlords of various de grees; and they may have thriven on it. But at least half their policy was defensive. They themselves lived and moved and had their being in an atmosphere of danger; and the man executed on suspicion today might otherwise tomorrow have contrived the assassination of the king himself. It may be that there are other conditions inherent in the office of Governor of North Carolina that ex act more than the people ought to demand. To reach this office, it is necessary for a citizen to have gone many years through the hard mill of politics. North Carolina people sel dom will accept a rich man for Gov ernor ; and unless he inherited a for tune the future Governor must make a living while he is displacing other men in the political elimination con tests through which the- mansion is eventually reached, North Carolina does not pay its Governor enough to warrant a good man seeking the office for the material reward; it is true that the Governor Is usually a lawyer, and the lawyer with the pres tige of having held this office is. as sured of a highly remunerative prac tice, provided only he has left a good working state of health. The honor is confined to one term of four years, and few Governors may look to further political honors. Indeed, the rule has been that they have not lived to havo the opportunity of win ning them. Is it a fair contract the people have been making with their chief execu tives, or do the people require far too much for what they give? THE NATURE OF THE FILLING COUNTS. From an Associated Press account of a "gift-exchange party" in New York we cull the following lines: "scrupulous, ones who received playr ing cards traded them with whist lov ers who had received books they did not have time to read." Here is a noble opportunity for exhibition of the Tar Heel capacity for moral indignation as vast as any in the world. Whist players who have no time to read books 1 It is a tempting theme for thunderous de nunciation. Especially does it lend itself to exploitation in this state, perhaps the worst book market in the union. A great many North Carolin ians will wax wondrously indignant over the very idea. We confess, were we called upon to choose between a woman who spent every sparo moment playing whist and one who spent hers reading, we should unhesitatingly choose the roader. But at that we might be wrong. So much depends upon what she reads. It takes considerably more intelligence to play a good game of whist than to follow the works of. for instance, Harold Bell Wright; ana as Detween a wiust-ncnd and Weight fiend there is no comparison intellectually. Furthermore, there is nothing nasty in whist; while within the past two months there has been a wild rush upon the Greensboro book stores for a recent novel that stinks to high heaven and most of the pur chasers were women. Incidentally some of the very women who swallow ed this perfumed filth avidly, profess to be scandalized by such Bincere and honest books as "Brass" and "Erik Dorn." Heading maketh -a lull man or woman but so doesThe stock in trade of the bootlegger. Whist fills no body; but it is not always desirable to bo full. THE GORGAS MEMORIAL. The Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine is to be a monument to the memory of Major General William C. Gorgas. It will be built in Panama, with a field work extension in connection with the University of Alabama, for the training of sanitary engineers, health officers and public health nurses. Jhe Panama government has given building, about which others will be grouped. Organization is now being made for creation of an endowment fund, to support the work of the in stitute, which will consist in part in research into the causes. o tropical diseases. This memorial will appeal espe cially to people of the south. Dr. Uorgas was a native of Mobile, an alumnus of Sowanee, and his father General Josiah Gorgas, was chief of ordnance of the Confederate army, later headmaster and vice-chancellor of the University of the South an president of the University of Ala bama. It was in fighting yellow fever in Texas, at the risk of his life, that the young assistant surgeon of the United States army won fame as tha head of his profession in this field. In the cleansing of Cuba Gorgas again wrote his name im perishably in history; again in the transformation of the canal zone; finally as surgeon general, directing the medical service in the first unit to serve overseas and organizing the camp, and hospital facilities of the expeditionary force. The south is partly in the tropical disease region, nd partly contiguous to it, and the practical results of this memorial will be of immense value to these states, whose people ought to build great monument to Gorgas In grateful recognition ' of what has been done for them by This miracle- working genius, who made possible the safe existence of white civiliza tion in the tropics. General Julian S. Carr has been appointed active chairman for North Carolina of the Gorgas Memorial in stitute, and with characteristic vigor has set about the organization of the state division. Also as commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans General Carr has issued a proclamation calling upon veterans, sons and daughters, as individuals and through-their various organized entities to. aid in the publicity and to subscribe. The quota of the south ern statoa in this perpetual endow ment is 12,000,000. As already indicated, the me morial is to be international in scope. "No monumental enterprise could take more splendid form. It would be a splendid thing If such an endow ment were created by one of our multimillionaires to perpetuate the memory of some member of his fam ily, having no personal claim to fame, having conferred no service upon hu manity. It is all the more fitting that it should be built by the peo ple, in memory of a man immortal ized by his own work; and that in this institute, building upon his foundations, the seed of his planting should continue to grow while man lives in the earth a livine monu ment in which Gorgas himself should live forever. ' PVBLIC PULSE A LETTEIl TO Mil. COX. Editor of The Dally News: Publication by The Dally News of the Inclosed letter will be appreciated. itanaicman. E. P. HAYES. (Inclosure) Randleman, N. C, Dec. 29, 1921. Elwood Cox, Esq., High Point, N. C. Dear Sir: Assuming that the news Item, ap earing In the Greensboro News of the 28th, was authorised by you, the people of Randleman and vicinity are In no mood to surrender their rights, according to the rules of justice and fair play, without a fight. We cannot, for the life of us, un derstand why we have been handed the proposition that the paper of the 28th would Indicate. We have been resting more or less satisfied that our case was so securely founded on Justice, and avlng already been granted by the aiaie mgnway commission, that we could not and would not be denied Are the transient and commercial in terests situated on tlie route for the tourists from other states (who, of course, pay no taxes in our state) to be most considered? Respectfully submitted, K. P. HAYKS, Mayor. KKNEHT TALLBY, Secretary. SHEARS AND PASTE Deba la Set Free. Eugene V. Debs, the loading social ist of thlj country, and several times candidate for president on that tlckot, warned out or tne federal prison at At lama on ennstmaa day a free man. by grace of President Harding, and returned to his home In Chicago. Debs waa sentenced to 10 years in prison by federal court In May, 1918 and he gan his term In April, 1919. President Harding at the same time oommuted other sentences which were Imposed tor varloua war-time offences, but the statement was made that he extended mercy to no one who had- been guilty of sabotage or other kinds of foroeful resistance to law. Tho acts of clem ency were not pardons, but commute tions, and therefore did. not carry a reatoratlon to full cltisenship. Debs Is an old man. a charming and benevolent old man. who perhaps would not himself hurt a worm. To hts credit la the fact that he loves his kind and would make any personal saorlSoe which lie deemed beneficial to mankind. His fault Is that he can not see that men cannot be ready at once for a revolutionary aoheme which a dreamer, a philosopher or a statesman, aa the case may be, deems good. Not being able to sea this faot he looks with contempt upon present conditions ujid methods and will dofy and outrage the sentiments of other good people who cannot see as he does. Thus Mr. Debs, not believing In war. and looking forward to univer sal peace, could not understand that since war waa in the world It must be met and handled aa war. His idea was that universal peace must be hastened, not by defeating Germany but by re fusing to fight. Hence he tried to obstruct the draft, not because he loved Germany, but because he could not be lieve that war was Justifiable. He acts very much like the ardent temper ance man who would not take a spoon fill of liquor if It were the only thing In the world that would save his life. Debs Is of the stuff of which martyrs are made. When a man suffers for cause and It afterwards succeeds and demonstrates its wisdom, we call- him a martyr. If It falls or is found to be useless we call him a crank. The President has done well, we be lleve, In liberating this old man. If be is dangerous ha would not have been less so In prison, and now that the war Is over and men feel sate we can well afford to be kind to an old man of this type. Monroe Journal. Debs At Al. President Harding commuted tho sentence of Eugene V. Deba and 23 other persona serving terms In pris on for violation of the espionage law hindering the government in the prosecution of the war with Germany. Debs was under a sentence of ten years and had served less than three. The sentences of the 24 were com muted to end on Christmas day. The commutation m4nns that whll)e the prisoners were given liberty they were not restored to the rights of citizen ship, as would have been the case un der an outright pardon. Lack of clt Isenshtp, however will mean little to these people If they are unrepentant If they feel they were wrong and pro uose to become wood nitissns. citixen ship rights can be attained by good conduct. There will be two opinions as to the action of the President. There is quite a strong; sentiment that, the war being to the rear of us and the war laws repealed, that all violators of war regulations should be releas ed from prison. There la on the oth er hand quite- a strong sentiment against clemency for these people unlexs they show some evidence of having repented their course. The president makes It uloar that he con siders that they were justly convict ed and punished, but for reasons which seem to him good lie la willing to shorten their prison terms and give them another clrance. That is an act of mercy, highly commendable It the recipient proves himself worthy, But not a few people are under the im pression that those who deaerted the country In its hour of trial and aided and abetted the enemy by doing what they could to hinder the government In the prosecution of the war, have not repented and would do the same thing again If-opportunlty offers. Especially la wis believed to be true of the Deba type. Under the privilege of free speech not a few of these peo ple did their beat to Incite opposition to the war and to the draft act, and If any of them have ever admitted that they were wrong in that course the fact has not been made public In fact It will not be surprising if, In stead of ahowing gratitude to Mr. Harding for the mercy shown them they go on railing against the gov ernment for having interfered with them; and they will certainly hold it unjust that they live not been restor ed to the full r ghts of cltisenship when they were t eleased from prison. The commutatli a waa made on the recommendation tit the Attorney Gen eral, who made careful Investigation of each case. Beveral were released on condition that they return at one to their native country. One hundred and ninety-seven oases were considered but only 24 persons were released, which Is evidence that there la no pur pose to give eeneral amnesty, as has been urged. Statesvllle Dally. NORTH CAROLINA FIRST . AMONG THE STATES IN TOBACCO CROP VALUE (Continued From Page One.) $18,829.(100. South Carolina produced 60,000,000 pounds, which sold for IS, 544,000 or 11 cents a pound. Next to Kentucky and North Carolina the yield In thousands for the follow ing states showed as runners-up: Virginia, 91,000,000 pounds; Tennes see, 78,760,000; Wisconsin, 81,000,000; Pennsylvania, (1,000,000; South Caro Una 60,000,000 and Ohio, ; 28,000,000 pounds. For the entire country the tobacco survey of the department of agricul ture furnishes the following figures: Total production, 1,117,082.000 pounds; acres In cultivation, 1,478.000; average prlco per pound, 16.6 cents; total value of country's tobacco crop, $207,570,000 avrage value of yield per acre, $140.92. - Progress Against Tabereulosta. Other interesting government figures issued here today concern deaths from tuberculosis throughout the country. These figures, just compiled for the year 1920. reveal that "the trend of the tuberculoais death rate is down ward." This trend Is found In North Caro lina as well as in many other states in the registration area of the bureau of tho census. Not all states furnish such statistics, but judging from re turns from the registration area the census bureau estimates that the total number of deaths from tuberculosis In the United States for 1920 was 122,000, while for 1919 it was estimated at 132,000., In North Carolina in 1920 it is shown that 8,004 pemons died of tuberculosis and of the number 1.491 were white and 1,513 negroes. Tuberculosis vic tims In 1919 numbered 3,110 against 3,475 In 1918. In North Carolina there has been gradual Improvement iince 1916. The rate of deaths from tuberculosis In each 100,000 of population In 1916 was 147.1 persons. In 1917 the rate drop ped to 137 per 100,000 of population and the decrease has been -gradual un til in 150 deaths numbered 131.8 per UOO.OOO population. Out of every 1.000 Tar Heels, therefore practically 999 are now esoaplng tuberculosis. It must also be recalled that many tuber culosis victims from other states go to North Carolina because of her cli mate In ,the western part of the state and thls po doubt gives Increase to the number of deaths occurring within the Btate. CLOSING OF AN ITALIAN BANK CAUSES BIG STIR Bank of the Banca Italian at Been to Snapeade Payment, But Govern meat Will Help Creditors. (St AancUtad Prm.1 Rome, Dec 29. The dosing of the doors of the Bank of the Banca Hal lana Dl Sconto today created consld eral of a stir In Italian financial circles. The suspension of payments followed an announcement by the gov ernment of a modified moratorium per mitting the withholding of payments by certain corporations. The bank la one of the largest In Italy. It Includes In Its holdings shares in the Ansaldo and Ilva groups, which are among the great Italian in dustrial concerns. The suspension of payments did not cause any runs on other institutions, the depositors of which remained calm. The Stefan! agency, says that the Italian government has taken steps to guarantee the creditors of the bank against losses and eventually to place the bank in a more favorable position, There were no efforta made until the eleventh hour to save the institution from closing its doors by a consortium of other banks. The sums required was two hundred million lire, but all the banks did not meet the response for aid and the Banca Itallana Dl Sconto closed Its doors, LONDON IIEAHS THAT STEP TAKEN TO BKSTORK THE BANK London, Deo. 29. A dispatch from Rome to the Central News says a syndicate of banks there has collected 180.000,000 lire to restore the Banca Itallana Dl Boonto. The dispatch adds that El I'oca announces that an agree ment has been 'reached with the cur rent creditors of the bank. MR. BALLIETT SAYS NEW YORK REPORT INCORRECT He Did Not Hut Greensboro Was Head quarters Kb KIiii Klan Nor Did He Make other Statements. Carl J. Balllett has asked the Dally News to correct certain- misstatements which he saya appeared In the inter view with him published In the New York Times. December 57, and reprint-, ed in the Daily News, December 28. Mr. BaUlett aald he thought ha was talking to a reporter of tho World, and knowing the. World's Interest In the Ku Klu Klan, he mentioned the fact of Bruce Craven's repudiation of the klan aa published several months ago In the Daily News, which, he told the reporter, was the first authoritative repudiation mode by an official of the organisation. He did not, he says, state that Greensboro was the headquarters of the klan for this part of the coun try: nor did he discuss the klan In such detail as waa reported. Ha confined his remarks, he says, to the bare fact of the Craven statement. The main part of his interview with the New York reporter, Mr. Baltlett saya. was concerning North Carolina's rond buildlnn: program and its wide eureauing effect. SAPIRO ROUSES TOBACCO PRODUCERS AT KINSTOX Answers Criticism of Co-Operatlve Plan and t'rges Farmera to Plant. Raps gome nf Wnrehopsemen. (Blcl4l 14 Dill Neva. I Kinston, Dec. 29. Nearly 1,000 Le noir county farmers crowded here to day to hear Aaron Hapiro of Califor nia discuss the co-operative tobacco marketing plan. They applauded him for two hours, while he told of the progress of co-operative marketing. Dr. J. Y. Joyner presented Mr. Saplro. Dr. Joyner said the fight for co-operative marketing had reached the lust stage, that of slander, and refuted the rumor that he himself had not signed tne contract. "You growers," Mr. Saplro aald In opening, . "are struggling under tho worst marketing system In the world. and any change would be an Improve ment. Nothing could be as rotten as the present auction system of selling tobacco." , After taking up one by one the criticisms of co-operative marketing and answering them In a stralshtfor- ward way that aroused Ms audience to applause, Saplro turned to Wilson and Kinston warehousemen who are now fighting the movement. "We are going to receive tobacco in Wilson and Kinston on trucks If necessary and carry It to our own receiving stations. The day of Wilson as a 60.000,000 to bacco market la gone." She will go gradually down, down because the warehcusemen have allowed their sel fish interests to dominate them, salu Saplro. Judge Bingham, of Kentucky, a native of North Carolina, had said that if the warehousemen of Wilson, "did not give the growers a chance he would build a. warehouse in Kinston for them." he declared. napiro reaa to tne growers from a cupping Blckett's vision of "a little rural paradise In North Carolina" and offered the growers a chance either to realise that through co-operative marketing or to continue living "In bondage." Referring to the burley growera- association of Kentucky, Saplro said it was now In better shape than any association had ever been In Its first year, and that he was at torney for 48 co-operative associations. Following the meeting many more growers signed up five-year contracts. EX-GOVERNOR BICKETT IS LAID TO FINAL REST IN THE SOIL HE LOVED she, rose In the service to confess her faith and repeated the apostle's creed. Vast Husk Aa Hundreds Weep. From thchurch the funeral train moved to Loulsburg. Perhaps 600 au tomobiles followed. When the home town was reached even the street signs Indicating the proper direction to drive were wrapped in black. The body was borne again and finally to the open. There was a moving back and a vast hush, for hundreds were now weeping. The woman who had walked 25 years with the dead gov ernor walked again with her brother and her son, and looked again and the last time. Again that-smile, that pink sweet pea last plucked by him and that bunch of roses held In his left arm, and the lid closed down oi Thomas Walter Bickett. It was trag edy that tore hearts to tatters, but the woman bore herself with amazing seir-control. The choir singing In the open kept the musio going until the friends and neighbors of their former townsman covered the son with the soil that he loved, and then the subdued people, without a word, turned and left for their homes. That crowd had many and variously motivated men. Former Governor Bickett last night would have address ed the North Carolina society in Flor ence, S. C. and his lifelong friend, Dr. K. W. Bikes, of Coker college, would have gone with him. Dr. Sikes came today to take his place among the mourners. An old negro, unknown, came all the way from Aberdeen and followed the funeral car to Loulsburg. The governor a year ago had pardoned the old fellow's son and the father was hero to pay his perfect tribute to the power that had pardoned and redeem ed his son. In the throng few noticed him; he attracted nobody's attention, but nobody esteemed Governor Bickett more a friend. But tho Infinite pathoa of Mrs. Bickett. standing by the casket with her hand reBtlng on It as if unable to let It go, will stand out above all the tragic circumstances of the day. TWO TRESPASSERS DRAW SENTENCES TO STREETS Negro Woman tirta M Days For l.ar- ceny Several Drff-ndaata Tried By Jnage Collins. Sam Bills and Marion Hosklns, con victed of trespass, each drew a sen tence of 80 days on the city streets. and Willie May Jones, negro woman. was given a sentence of 60 days for larceny by Judge D. H. Collins in Muni cipal court yesterday morning. Ida Bishop, negro woman, charged with larceny, was held for Superior court under bond of $200. John McAuley was fined $25 for an assault. F. M. Hlnes was fined $10 and Lula Readen was fined $5 for sim ilar offenses. James Gaston paid a fine of $10 for an assault with a deadly weapon. Nannie Lynch, negro woman, who Is alleged to have used a knife on another' woman, was fined $10. Roy E. Herndon paid the costs for dis orderly conduct. Franklin Pate and J. F. Wadklns were each fined $10vfor'a trafflo vio lation, s GEORGIA NEGRO IS GIVEN A RF.SPITF1 JUST IN TIME Macon, Ga., Dec. 29. Judge Beverly D. Evans, of the Unletd States district court, has granted an appeal In the case of Joe Bonner, negro, sentenced to hang tomorrow at Gray, Ga. The case will be carried to the United States supreme court. Bonner was convicted of the mur der of A. S. Jones, a wealthy recluse of Jones oounty, near here, the crime occurring mora than a year ago. Jones was called to his door by a signal, said to have been known only by certain negroes, and as hffopened the door his head was split open with an axe. Bonner was brought to the Jail In this city for safe keeping, but was returned to Jones county November 28, to await execution, after the fight in his behalf had been carried through the courts of Georgia without suc cess. ARMSTRONG'S Hl'IT CASK IS ,'CAll.FIII FOR BY A NEGRO Macon, Ga., Deo. 29. The missing suit case of F. P. Armstrong, for which the police have been hunting for three days; was taken from the parcel room of the terminal station this morn lug. the police announced tonight. A negro presented the j:heck for the suit case. The police were never able to locate tha check following Arm strong's mysterious death on Christ mas night, and It was only by chance that "they ascertained that the suit case changed hands hero today. Insurance policies and other papers were contained In the suit case. Helel For Superior Court. James Richardson, negro, was yes terday held for Superior court by Squire J. K. Caffcy on the complaint of James Houston, negro, who alleges that Richardson broke into his home near Colfax Tuesday night. The present army of France is made up of 691.000 whites, 17.60(1 natives of north Africa and lio.uoo natives of other colonies anil fui-uiKiiei's. RAILROADS WILL SOON INSURE ALL EMPLOYES Urlaware and Hudson Take Out Group Life and I'ermnnent Disability. Men Name Beneficiaries. New York, Dec. 29. Many railroads of the country soon roay Insure their employes It was Indicated tonight after the Delaware anil Hudson oom- pnny announced It had taken out group life and permanent disability Insurance for every one who has been on its pay Tolls six months or more. Large Insurance underwriters said that other railroads were negotiating for similar protection for their em ployes. Each Delaware and Hudson employ of two years' standing waa Insured for $500 and those in the service for six. months, but less than two years, for 1 $260, the company to pay tha entire cost, and the men to select their own - beneficiaries. ' At death the insurance will be paid in a lump sum, and to permanently or totally disabled workers, in monthly installments. A plan by which tha workers banded in claea groups could increase the amount to a maximum of $5,000 each, the company to pay part of the additional premium and the men the remainder, was also announced. Ia addition the company said It had ar ranged for the workers to take ut "at exceedingly low rates" insurance against accidents not covered by the workmen's compensation laws, loss of work through sickness, and also un- employment. No medical examination la to be re quired. Employes leaving the service lor any reason can exchange their certificates without medical examina tion for policies of the same amounts, paying the regular rates for their ages at the time of substitution. Groups of employes, consisting ot not less than three-fourths of those In any one class, ' who desire Insurance . above $500, must apply for it before March 81 next. For each additional $1,000 the insured employe must pay 60 cents a month, the company the pre mium In excess ot this amount. Sickness Insurance and accident In surance are to be borne entirely by the policyholder applying for it the insur ance to be paid benenelarles for six montha at $15 a week, the sickness premium being $1.26 a month and acci dent Insurance at 24 cents a month. "The company," said the announce ment, "will undertake directly to In sure employes against unemployment resulting from dismissal for any cause, providing payment of $15 a week for six weeks, or for so much of that time as a discharged employe may be una ble to find employment, conditioned upon each employe having subscribed for and contributed toward the cost of at least two or three forms of Insur ance provided under the group plan, "This provision for unemployment Insurance Is prompted by the desire of the company to provide continued em ployment under conditions as favorable as possible to promote greater ease In conditions of employment by freeing the employe from anxiety, and to 'se cure and maintain the most highly successful operation, of the' property which Is obtainable only through Inter ested co-operatlon." WARM OPPOSITION TO H TARIFF ON CRUDE OIL Mid-Continent Producer Beg For It, While Consumers FlKht Increaae. Seek ft a Barrel Duty, - Washington, Dec. 29. Varying duties on crude oil were proposed before the senate finance committee today by spokesmen for mld-cominent produc ers and all duties 'were opposed by American producers operating In Mex ico and representatives of various classes of oil consume) s in this coun try. Renewing the fight for a tariff levy, which was lost In tho house by an overwhelming vote. Senator Iiarreld, Republican, Oklahoma, said he was satisfied with the original rates pro posed by the ways and means com mittee, 85 cents a barrel on crude and 25 cents a barrel on fuel. Senator Cur tis, of Kansas, a Republican membor of the finance ooirirnittee, had Intro duced an amendment to the tariff bill proposing these duties. A duty of $1 a barrel was urged by Harry -H. Smith, of Tulsu, Okla., sec retary of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas association, who aid this would ertuallse the difference iu the costs of production In Mexico and ill tho mld-coutincnt fields. W. H. Gray, of Tulsa, representing the National As sociation of Independent Oil producers, suggested no speciflo rates, but urged that the President bo empowered to assess a duty equivalent to . the com bined Import and export levies Impos ed by Mexico, Columbia and Vcuzuela, from which tho chief A-nicrlcan Imports come. Spokesmen for the domestic pro ducers said, and some members of the committee agreed, that tha mid-continent industry was in bad condition at this time. Mr. Smith said that 200, 000 small wells could not continue in operation at present prices and that a tariff ought to be enacted both as a protection and as a conservation measure. Opponents of a duty on oil said tariff protection was not necessary and would serve only to increase the price to consumers. They laid particular stress upon what they said would be the effect on the farmera, the mer chant marine, the navy, the consumers of manufactured gas, railroads and industries using oil for fuel and upon the users ot automobiles, trucks and tractors. It also was argued by the opponents that higher priced oil would Increase tha cost of and retard road building and building operations over the country and that since the government aided In constructing the roads it would have to pay part of the duty. This also was true, they said, with respect to oil used by the navy. , EDDIE BRIETZ GOES TO CHARLOTTE NEWS STAFF Well Known Newspaper Man Becomes Sports Editor and Will Have Hand In Reportorlnl Work, - (Special U Pali Nm.) N Charlotte, Dec. 29. Edwin Brelts, well-known North Carolina newspa per man, whose home was originally Winston-Salem, but who for the past fw months has been the representa tive of the Vnlted Press at Its . New Orleans district offices, has accepted the position of sporta editor on the Charlotte News and entered upon hit new duties today, Mr. Hrietx will handle roportorial work in connection with the manage ment of the sporting page of the Char lolta News. ..'...) ,, MR. WHITE ARRIVES. Forest Avenue Buptlat Minister and Fmuily In Ike City. Rev. Ft. K. White, Forest Avenue Baptist church's new pastor," arrived " In the city last night and will begin active work In his new Held next Sun day. Mr. White was accompanied here by his wife and two children. They Wiil make their home In the church parson age on Highland avenue. i Mr, White comes from Nashville, this state, whore he hay held the pastor ate of the Nashville Baptist churoh for some time. He is well known In the state, having graduated at Wake For est before entering the seminary to prepare himself for tho ministry, s. Weekly tot ten Hlntlstlea. Liverpool, Dec. 29. Weekly cotton statistics: Total forwarded to mills. 24.040 bales, of which 17.000 were American. Stock 991. olio hales. Amer ican 5FB.060. 'Imports 85,000 hales, American do. 000. Exports 1,000 bales, no Amsrlnan.
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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