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Then good-bye tomato ketchup Hal nigh Times. PARAGRAPHIC!. . ; Do ft early; do it now. : The weather: "December! j pleasant aa May.", Bat a Row by tha name of negro- Jihile doesn't smell as sweet Seeing how hot tha Turks hare ' nade it, no wonder Greece has ran flown. v Greece, says Yenisei ot, is mined; and for once a statesman tells the lain truth. ' A Christmas package mailed now HI be delivered promptly; bat, that assurance will not last long. v The Russians seem to fit 0. Henry's description of President Roosevelt : The Great Displeasure." ' Fortunately, Virginia has 364 days in which to forget the tragedy ef Thanksgiving day before it hap pens all over again. ,- His board of deacons has called en Rev. Oscar Haywood to tell what he meant by it; which, we predict, will loose a new flood of talk. One more reminder and we shall abaadon the subject you can still send that Thanksgiving check to the orphans, even if it is December. ' A Congress in which Robert M. laFollette held the balance of power miirht put on an interesting show, but not a profitable one to the party managers. . - General Allen, on the Rhine, has Urged his troops to "work for peace and harmony." Don't worry, general the boys aren't going to do anything that will spill the beer. ' The new administration plan for the relief of farmers has been per fected; wie",,v.VaUi,!,:'ePt elf ought to afford some much tieeded relief to the administration. All lit up with radium and in spired by monkey glands, won't the eld man of the future be a hummer, though? It isn't back to Methu- aelah; it's back to the whirling dervishes. - Another reason for extending bin fcll-J I1UUU1. I, Mil ml IllllUlink Should overthrow the Jefferson j Standard building, we don't want the top story to fall on some citi zen of rural Guilford. Travelers returning from the Charlotesville fray comment on the fine spirit exhibited by the Virginia itudent-body; and to have made such an impression on visitors is a greater thine for the university than winning any game. The disheartening part of it is that, with all his distinguished tecord in Congress, Mann will be re membered primarily for the most foolish thing he ever did the Mann act, which has made the govern ment a bill collector for blackmailers. John Wanamakcr is desperately '. ill, and' at last n-ports was losing S' ground steadily. Well, there's no j f chaffering with !oth: but we wi?h ! ;" the prim e of merchants might t" "lrive a bargain with the king of i terrors that would send him away satisfied. ' Thanksgiving was a glamorous ' day fn the football world, a stag gering, unbelievable, overwhelming reversal of the dope, a day for the establishment of tradition, from which to date history. Virginia Carolina? Piffle! Who pays any "attention to Virginia-Carolina? Wake Forest won a game! Former Ambassador Gerard tells the Jews not to worry about the K. ' K. K. But the Jews unfortunately know too much about invisible em pires; they have come in contact with the Black Hundreds before, and naturally cannot help worry ing about a new outbreak of ignor ance envenomed by fanaticism. HAVE THE RAILROADS REACH ED THEIR LIMIT? A curious phase of the proposed packers' merger was brought out by Mr. Gilbert la his article In Frl day's paper. That is the fact that high freight rates are seriously threatening the Chicago meat men's cpntrol of the market Independent peckers are able to compete with the "big companies for local trade, simply because they are free from the terrific freight rates on a long hank This opens 'the way for almost infinite speculation. Will the prob lem of the trusts be automatically solved by running freight rates up to the point at which the railroads can be operated profitably? Ob viously, not in some things. In the manufacture of steel, for example, such tremendous economies can be effected by concentration of plants that not even high freight rates will offset them.- But it is easily possible that if freight rates re main where they now are, centrali tatlon of certain industries will be rendered economically impossible, simply on account of the huge dis tances in this country. ' Which opens up the question as to whether or not the United States has reached the limit of develop men; or a civilization based ex clusively on rail transportation. No such civilisation as that of our' mid die est ever has bvi i.uil . befom In every other gwtt Ration the railways are adjuncts to a system of waterways that carries a large proportion of the heavy and bulky traffic. Our middle west depends absolutely on the railways, and there is plenty of evidence that the law of diminishing returns is be ginning to operate on the roads that serve the middle west. ; The heavier their business grows, the higher their deficits for several yea's past Yit freight rates have risen to the point at which any furtnrr increase wiH mean a diminution of traffic and a restriction of business. In other words, it is at least ar guable that the middle west can not increase much more in popu lation, or, rather, in traffic-produc ing business, until the railroads are supplemented by some system of transportation that can move the products of the middle west more economically than railroads. At first it seems to be a fantastic conception ; but even superficial study of the situation of the rail roads at present will convince the observer that although it may be far-fetched it is by no means un thinkable. The railroads are not making money, yet there is abun daat evidence to prove that their operating costs can not be reduced materially. More than that, there is evidence to prove that their op erating costs per ton-mile can not be reduced much. Volume of busi ness, in other words, does not serve to reduce the cost per unit Yet freights are already so high that it is not profitable to move certain products Xrom the middle west to the markets of the seaboard. Freights are so high that it is seri ously doubted that the great pack ing houses can continue to concen trate their business in antL around go; which means that freights are so high that it may soon be im possible for the average North Car olinian to eat western beef. The North Carolina product, although it is more expensive to raise, may be cheaper in the long run. Obviously, there are certain phases of this development that do not seem altogether undesirable; but it is a thing so vast, so porten tous, that eyery thoughtful man , must Sr P'WrtT wlth un" M'NEILL AND AVERY IN PRINT AGAIN. The books of John Charles Mc Neill and Isaac Krwin Avery are in print again. This is an an nouncement that contains more real news than the ordinary advertisement- of a publisher, for McNeill and very are not merely conspicu ous figures in our state literatures they come close to being our state literature. Other North Carolinians have written as well as they; but not in North Carolina, and but rarely about North Carolina. 0 Henry, for example, belongs to the tate by nativity, but as a literary artist his connection with North Carolina is so remote as to be practically non-existent. Benjamin Sledd, on the other hand., lives ir North Carolina, but his poems, when they are localized nt all, are localized in Virginia, his native state. Archihad Henderson lives in North Carolina, bur will any sane human being contend that a life of Rornard Shaw is North Carolina :ierature? We have histories, of nurse, biographies and other work" f scholarship; but in the field of reative literature, produced in N'orth Carolina, and colorj.1 by it Vorth Carolina setting, we have thr vork of Mclseill and Avary, an-' irecious little else. rtence the three slender volumes that these two lyric poets for Avery, although he wrote in prose, was as essentially a poet u Mc Neill ought as a matter of state iride, if for no other reason, to be n the bookshelves of eery North 'arolina home. The fact I'n.-it the j' ate allowed tuera to go out of pjint, after they 'had sold a couple of thousand volumes ach,vi an appalling commentary on th state's cultural level. But that com mentary is somewhat softened by the fact that there has recently arisen a demand for these books that has induced the publishers to get out new editions. Perhaps North Carolina is going to redeem herself yets Certainly we hope so. THE RIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX. The action of Governor Mor rison in declining to take part in the campaign to suppress the nightshirters ft ( armu is indorsed by Charity and Children, which thinks that -there is no danger that the sane'vtititenship of this state will be swept off its feet by the specious pretensions' of the Sim mons organisation. "Furthermore," continues our - Thomasville con temporary, "there is better way to deal with the Ku Klux than the drastic measures that are proposed in many states to suppress it The membership embraces many excel lent citizens who are neither cow ards or fools. We think they are misled, but we do not doubt either their honesty or their courage. They are going about law enforcement in the wrong way, but, they are sin cerely anxious to secure a thorough enforcement of the law. To brow beat and abuse them only, deepens their determination to ' stand by their organization. Governor Morri son knows whom he is dealing with. and he is pursuing ' the wise and proper course." - - io aouot tne governor Is pur suing the sensible course in refus ing to have anything , to do with movement to suppress the klan by law. That would be to adopt the tactics of the klan itself, which is attempting' to dictate, to the peo ple ef the state what they shall think. No such dictation is toler able in a free country; and if it is intolerable in a private organiza tion, it would be infinitely more so in the government Every Ameri can has a right to make a fantas tic' fool of himself if he likes, pro vided that he does not infringe upon the rights of others in doing so. The trouble with the Ku Klux is that they have endangered the rights of others in attempting, first, to substitute an "invisible empire" for the government of the United States, which is the guardian of the rights of us all; and, second, in af fording protection to every gang of thugs and gunmen in the country, The right of the Ku Klux to .exist is indisputable; but their righjt to maintain a 'system and wear re galia that enables bands. of crim inals to operate with impunity is altogether something else. The Ku Klux coming out ill the light of broad day, with their faces uncovered, would be a menace to no body, except to criminals. Without doubt the government has the right to compel them to come out in the open; for the practice of wearing masks and operating in the dark is dangerous to honest men. If the Ku Klux are not afraid of the evil doers whose activities they propose to suppress, why do they not work against them in the open? If they are afraid of the lawless, where is (heir courage? A COARSE INDIVIDUAL. Sir Arthur Quiller Couch says, "If we could rid ourselves of idola try and cant when we talked about Shakespeare we would admit that his wit usually is cheap, not sel-' dom exasneratine and at times merely disgusting." A hit, a palpable hit!" But Sir Arthur did not make it strong enough, lie need not stop with Shakespeare's wit. He might just as truthfully assert that Shake speare s plays as a whole are un- nice. He was a gross person, this English actor-manager, who would have been positively uncivil to a generation sicklied o'er with; the pale cast of thought or if not that, at least pseudo-thought. Prob ably Sir Arthur Quiller Couch him self might have been the victim of that wit; for it had small respect for dignitaries of questionable dig nity. And surely a wit that would exercise itself upon so nice a man as Arthur Quiller Couch is cheap, exasperating and disgusting- to Arthur Quiller Couch and his friends. . Yes, tfiere can be little doubt that Shakespeare, if he were alive to day, would he out of harmony with what we are constantly and some what stridently informed are our noblet concepts. We doubt that he would be constantly und consciously in search of the finer things of life; we greatly fear that, if he wert brought to life in America, he would spend much more time ir search of a reliable bootlegger. We are not certain whether the fun lamentalists or the thtosophists would divert him more; but we are sure that he would be diverted by both. The absurdities of Socialist." and Ku Klux would move his laugh ter. Hiram Johnson would enter tain, but would not impress him; and he would perhaps adopt the same attitude toward Judge Cray nd Eugene Debs. For Shakespeare was gifted with the greatest fund of common sense ever possessed by a member of the English-speaking J Ira was thoroughly, bour- 9 GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, geois, thoroughly at home with the common run- of mankind, the sanest man in the history of literature. No wonder the super-refined think him "cheap, exasperating and at times mewly disgusting." Their im potence rises from that fact that that it the.' way' in which they re- gard the human race. SOLICITOR BOWER. John C. Bower, retirihs; solicitor for this district, was honored by the Davidcon county bar the other day in the passage ef suitable reso lutions commending his record i as solicitcr of the 12th' Judicial dis trict On his own Initiative the presiding; officer of the court, Judge Hardingytdded his name to the list of signers of the resolutions. The honor was merited. Solici tor Bower has conducted the af fairs of his office with energy, hon esty and ability. 1 Doubtless he has made enemies in 'the course of his service that is to be expected by every active solicitor bat we think that he has made an' excellent im pression on the : vast majority of the eitiiens in the district, and for every enemy whom his vigorous prosecution may have embittered, he has made ten friends among law- abiding men. , Solicitor Bower retiree from office with a record that commands the respect of the people of bis district, and he has so conducted himself as to ears their good will.' He is to be congratulated. ' Thirteen senators and EC repre sentatives, are confabbing with La Follette in the formation of a "pro gressive bloc. What that may mean can be better understood when one reflects that's switch on the Part of four Republican senators, or nine Republican representatives would knock the majority into a cocked hat At last Battling Bob seems to be climbing into the heavy- weight class. Editor of the Daily News:' la It concern for tha rjrobable l dicament of our grandchllrea or vote's to be cast In a primary to be con ducted lit June, 1!4. that brings forth this solicitation? Should the votes of'' that year result in retard ing any progress that is to be in herited by these grandchildren they will have abundant cause for com plaint, W. H. TAYLOR LaOrange. , work or KTHOn AND HEL OUY." Edltcr of The Dally News: 1 wish to thank heartily the "Reader" who wrote "Of Method and Melody." published in Public Pulss of November IS. . Theea words are the expression of the Ideus of more than one of hla kind. Tes, we are 'deeply grateful for Miss De Krier's beautiful singing. We are grateful for all those who, less gifted by nature and training than she, nevertheless sing witn the spirit and the understanding and inake tha church music an indis pensable, vital part of the service. The superficial, unfeeling, mechanical presentation of the grand, noble hymns of God's poet-preachers Is eo disappointing sometimes as to make us slmost want lu weep, and certainly unfits us for proper reception oi the miulster's message to follow. To the "Header's'' words, "My dear singer, If you have any feeling for humanity. please cut out that unnatural attempt at voice." please let me add, "An'l if you have any conscience and any re ligion, show it In your church sing ing." It is vqiirs to create an at- mosphr-re of solemnity and holiness for the hour 1 worship. Happy ye, axid happy your hearers. If you are tru to the Kreat and sweet mission of worshipping with the voice in sacred song. ANOTHER ItEADER. Greensboro. "Tl'KKEY All PROHIBITIOHr." Editor of ttlie I'ally News: our edlteVlsl in this morning's paper entitled "Turkey and Prohibi tion" is InterestlnK. If true. Since whon has Christianity found ?t ex pedient to curry favor with IslamismT I dnulit that ntir foreign infusion boards will take seriously the argu ment thiit Christians have done well because thoy have taken a leaf from the Koran and inserted it In the Hiblo. Some of these hoards are ratlter wor ried over the spread of Mohamme danism In the frilled States with Its bloodthirsty Kfspel. Another thought on prohibition why should non-drinkers have been' allowed to vote on the question? For example, my friend B voted for pro hibition, but hiirvote did not deprive him of any privilege. It did take away from me something which ex perience taught me was beneficial. His vote was therefore equivalent to telling me that I was not competent to decide wh.:: was good for me 'Jesus said "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy riitlu cheek turn to him the other also." lion thai mean that I should allow my friend to settle my other rrolileipv. such as tne church I should attend, the books I should read, the clothes I should wear, etc? As an alternnthe proposition should not my friend give up somethina; at my dlsi-retion to compensate tor what I gave up at Ills discretion? Let's be fair about this matter, not for getting that, old ninn Golden Itulo la still the father of good rltiienshtn J.NQUlliKll. Greenshrrro, Nov. 27. 1922. "NO I.ADI ICS-MUST MI LK." Editor of the HhIIjl News:-- I have Just finished reading, with a great amount of interest, your illtorial captioned "No Ladles-First. lu." I notice from the quotation used, taken from Washington die Patches, that the lady suffragists no longer, demand honor by reason of their sex.. However I am glad to say that the quotation la not the expression of their sex. but the ex pression of a few suffragette' lead ers. In the closing sentence of the quotation, I -read thusly: "The women must and will fight." This Is the way they express their feeling towards the abbreviated term of office held by Mrs. Kelton In the capital city.. The quotation would have never been thought of had Mrs. Felton remained In Washington the length of a full term. . , Politics, as Intimated in your artl 'le, is war. Those w-ho enter are pre sumed to be nreDared for tha frav. If the quotation voiced the sentiment of ail the women, and all the women . PUBLIC PULSE were suftragstt snthaula'sts. then 1 think It would be more applicable to et u be known that they no longer demanded honor by reason of their sex. but not until then. There Is honor In politics as well a In Other games er professions. If there are honors to be bestowed, then the fairer sex should share them. They have received, thefn. I hope to never see thelssu In politics: "Men or Women." 1 ' No man aver had higher tetpect Or greater' esteem for .womanhooJ than the writer. I admire their stand for their rights, but, quoting from your editorial, "It they must and will fight they will win, If they fight .hard enough and Intelligently enough. But whenever they fight as women, to get things lu politics, they will. It would seem, be taking ou an unnecessary handicap In - s business heavily enough handicapped at least" - One et the prettiest thoughts I ever read was printed In your borrowed briefs from thsvChlo State Journal, to wit: "So live, girls, that It will never be up to you to tell the reporter In a voice choked with emotion that you plan to devote .the remainder of your life to forgetting.' Again expressing to you the Inter est with which I read your article. I am. Tours truly, THAD ABDRB. Wlnton, Nov. tl. . THR STRANCK CASH OF THtT REV. MR. Bl CK.NER AND THB MORAL THKREor. Editor of The Dally News: Of course you've read the story spread Ot late throughout the nation; The preacher whose too modern . views Brought "superannuation;" The Dally News has found excuse For editorial comment; Its readers, too, at least a few. Have had to give their minds vast. With what's be said, far as I've read. I've no Intent to qtfnrrel; ' '. I Just review the case for yeu So we eaa And the moral. Is the Rrst place, let's view the la a correct perspective; So when we're through none pooh-pooh Our moral aa defective. What Is. the charge that looms largo ' - Against the hapless preacher? Why, that he taught Just what he thought Of Ood, and man, His creature. It seams ho wrote a lengthy note, Or maybe twas a letter, wherein he said (you may have read) Qod would do some things better ThVn that the Book which some folks too As all Inspired and read IL The Sacred Word, so long revered. Is wont to give Him. credit For Instance this. Ho would dismiss s mytnoiogio writtna-. That Joshua did ever atav The sun to help his fighting. And also this, hs would Insist, Is lacking Inspiration. That 'twas God's will tha Jews should kill All women of a nation. He has his doubt, you can make out, iv mi ueiuge story. And cannot see why it should be Imputed to God's glory. He won't excuse a rank ahn No matter who aomailta na says the fact sis called God'a aci la no wise o'er acquits it. He will not try to Justify The murder of a nation. And so his name has gone to fame In "superannuation." But though he's fired. as he's retired I have no thought of quarrel; I only write to be polite And try to find the moral. MORAL. The man who aots too much on facts May lead you from salvation; It serves htm well to have to dwell Somewhat In Isolation 1 Re who, forsooth, talks too much troth Is dsngerous In the churches: So Bishop PH tints, he nps and shunts His parson In ths lurches! We live by faith, are only safe When we have stifled reason Who bids you think must be a crank And should be tried for treason! CHABLE8 U SNIDER. Denton. LET'S DEVELOP Ota MINERAL BESOliBt'KS. Editor of The Dally News: Now that the legfslature la soon to assemble, I beg leave to-call to their attention the great benefit to be de rived by our people from the develop ment of our mineral resources. There Is annuaHy consumed In this state about is million dollars worth of coal, all of which to brought here from elsewhere, except what is Dro- duced at the mine near Oulf. There sre known to be deposits mt coal at other places la North. Carolina and there is reason to believe wits proper efforts put forth we might mine here most of the coal we consume. Parties from Birmingham have recently pur chased the mine near Oulf and are preparing to Increase the output.to 1,000 tons per day. , There Is an annual, consumption of about 20 million dollars worth of gasoline and oil In the state all of which is produced out of the state. There are the best kinds of Indica tions of oil here, but no well has been driven to test the surface indications. We consume shout It million, dollars worth of cement each year here, all of which is Imported. There is no reason why cement should .not be produced In this state All the Iron used In this state. amounting to aeveral million dollars per year, 1 brought here from be yond our borders, except what Is produced at Cranberry. There are known to he several very valuable deposits In this state that have never been worked. Paving and fire brick should be mcrrufaotured here, tlreat potteries should be established to use our deposits of kaolin now shipped to r-asi ijiverpoot, o., and Trenton, N. J. Paint and paper plants might be built to coneume our berates. The ablest mining engineer I ever met In this state told me, after he had made an investigation for years in the Oolt) Hill district, that there was without a doubt, the greatest undeveloned precious metal territory In the world In that section. ' We have the most valuable denoatt of platinum ever discovered, but thus far no chemist has devised a prac tical method of extracting tha metal from the ore. There la a gold mine In this state showing In plain view more man a million, dollars worth of free milting ore. Our educational institutions should teach their students that in this field of Madeavor lies the greatest oppor tunity ror profitable employment and the beat possible service to their stats. The leglslsture should appoint a commission whose duty It should be to locate, survey and drill out our mineral r-sources In order that about 104 million dollars now leaving 1922 THE SCIENTISTS , i i Arouse CrOOD ) AAD V B MIGHT HAVS1 A PROBLEM ON OUR HANDS 'TO KNOW n- -j M.-. ' "I W IT WEREN'T FOR THE TIMEiA aSSISTANCE OF THE HASlV state each year may remain with us. Our capital lets would have a profit able Ileia lor Investment and our labor a means of lucrative employ ment Oreenaboro. ICTOR C. McADOO. DAUGHERTY PRACTICED FRAUD AND DECEIT ON EX-PRESIDENT, HE SAYS (Continued From Page Onei state Joint legislative committee on housing; - . "I. A wilful and deliberate refusal to prosecute the Violations of the anti-trust laws that were called to his attention, supported by testimony and evidence, by the United States sen ate committee on reconstruction and housing; 4. A wilful and deliberate refusal to enforce the statutes of the United States paaaed by Congress for the protection of life and limb ot cltl ssns engaged In travel; t. The dismissal from service In the department of Justice of a faith ful and efficient employe who had seen engaged In Investigating war fraud cases. 'S. Allowing persons to remain It the employ of the department of Jus tics after It hsd been proved that such persona are guilty of having ao ceptad fees to represent those charged by the department of Justice with violations of the federal stat utes In cases upon which the said employes had been engaged. ' Flagraat. Bold Favoritism "T. The perversion of the legal pro cesses of the United States for the purpose of Instituting action for which there was no Justification at the time of its presentation -and demanding from the courts as against private Individuals processes of eourt sub ventre of those rights ot freedom of apsech. freedom of the press and peaceable assembly assured by the constitution and. laws of the United Ststes. "8. Flagrant and bold favoritism In the administration of Juatice, on behalf of corporations, companies and Individuals owned or controlled by or affiliated with the banking house of P. Morgan and company. ". The uss of fraud and deceit practiced upon former President Wil liam Howard Taft In order to obtain the release from a federal peniten tiary of C. W. Morse, under the pre text that Morse was 111; upon the failure of the said Morse" to pay to Daugherty's associate In the pardon proceedings an agreed fee, and after the said Daugherty becante attorney gekeral of the United States the prostitution of bis high office to pur poses of personal revenge by secur ing, an Indictment of the said Morse and other directors of a corporation and of attorneys Tor the corporation on a charge of violating federal laws and by failing to seek thiyindlctment of other directors of the said cor poration equally guilty with Morse, of he alleged effenss. If any, and by failing to seek the indictment of an other attorney equally guilty with attorneys Indicted, which other attorney is in the Smploy of the de partment of Justice. 10. The wilful diversion of public funds for an Illegal purpose through the employment of agents in the bu reau of Investigation of the depart ment of Justice to shsdow rnombers of the houss and senate who had rlticlsed his conduct qn the floor of Congress; '1. Tits pensersloa of the, processos of Justloe and the administration ol tae department of justice through the undue Influence exercised upon the attorney general by one Thomas B. Felder, former legal .associate of ths said Harry M. Daugherty la the Morse case and others. IaaWeaeed fey Corparatsa-s , It. Continuing submission to the Influence of corporations and Individ uals of great wealth and power in the admlnleM-ation of Justice and the deliberate conniving at the looting of one of the naval oil' reserves of the United states Of America oy rerus- ng, at the behest and demand of tne Standard Oil Comphny of California, o Institute suits to reooverTor the people of the United States title to ARE NOW WORKING ON A LIFE-FOR EVER SERUM bXTHA PEOPLE. lands illegally and fraudulently ob tained by the said, company: and the recommendations of the President and the securing of secret pardons for wealthy ' persons Immediately after their conviction of violations of the anti-trust laws and'of shock ing crimes against childhood inno cence, Involvfngxthe grossest moral turpitude. "13. The appointing to positions of great importance and large financial and moral responsibility of men who are untrustworthy, corrupt and dan gerous to the liberties of the people ot the United States, knowing at tho time of such Appointments that -they were men of such character. "14. Gross favoritism, deliberate re fusa to prosecute war grafters, fail ure and refusal tu recover moneys stolen from the tressury 'of the United States in connection with war frauds." , The Joaes Case. The reasons why Mr. Keller desir ed to have Chief Justice Taft and Mr. Wickersham testify were set forth in his bill of particulars. Ha cited the ease of William N. Jones, convicted In 1807 for alleged land frauds against the government In Oregon and subsequently pardoned by President Taft, He alleged that William J. Burns, now chief of the bureau of Investigation of' the de partment of Justice and then em ployed by the government, "got pos session in advance" of the prospec tive Jurors who were to. be called In the trial of Jones, and placed oppo site their names a notation as tq their so-called fitness from a pros ecuting standpoint. Through tljef Influence of a secret service agent associated as a de fendenat, he said, "Jones was In duced to accept -as Jurors men to whom otherwise he would have ob jected." Attorney General Wicker sham after Investigating the circum stances reported to Mr. Taft, as set rorth . in the Keller bill, that he could not "countenance the methods employed in the prosecution ot those eases by requiring an enforcement of the sentence Imposed in the Jones case." On receipt of the report by Mr. Wlckershrfm President Taft prompt ly pardoned Jones, the bill set forth. At the time of Burns' appointment by Mr. Daugherty, Mr. Keller as serted that Mr. Compere went to him and protested, called attention to the record in, the Jones case, and that Mr. Daugherty, In his presence, sent for the flies which were "produced and which contained the report of Attorney Oeneral Wickersham and the direction of President Taft for the Issuance of a pardon." In the "full knowledge ,of the facts," Mr. Keller stated that Mr. Daugeerty went ahead and made the Burns ap pointment. Mr. Keller said "It , wpuld require at least a month additional time for him to prepare full particulars in his case, and that most of this time would be taken up in examining documents st the department of Jus- tire to which he demanded he be given access. - "VaSt to Hold OsTJee." , Declaring he had evldenoe to prove that "Harry M. Daugherty is until to be attorney general of the United States," Mr. Keller said Mr. Daugherty's consistent refusal ' to prosecute offenders charged with vio lations of the anti-trust laws had become a "publio scandal." "Reverting to your extraordinary demand that I furnish names and ad dresses of wltnesse on whom I rely to support my charge.' Mr. Keller said, "I assume you doNiot thereby Intend to limit me to ths calling of witnesses who are named. However, apart from that consideration I re- speectfully and emphatically, pro test against being compelled to com ply with this demand and beg to ad vise you that I shall refuse to do so except In ths particulars In which I and my advisors regard it as safe for mo to obey."; Mr. Keller said he had no ob jection to furnishing the names of Chief Justice Tt" Mr. tlomeers, Mr. Wlukeraham and Mr. Oystsr, but that In general I do not proposs to have I the wltnsses subjected to ths sur- Tit's n velllance of the detective bureau of the department of Justloe, under the guidance of Mr. Burns or of Ma Burns' private agency, Ispecelally In view ot tho character of the charges made against the attorney general. Involving M. Burns. DesaaoWs Daeameata. Ha "called attention to complaints that were made on the floor of th house and senate by -members whs have assailed the attorney general that since their announced opposition to the attorney general they have Been shadowed by detectives and their offices broken Into and papers stolen." Mr. Keller made formal demand' for documents he said were In the possession of the depeartment of Justice and other government de partments and declared that If ths attorney general was railed upon before the committee he expected to be permitted to examine hint through his counsel. ' Mr. Keller declared that alnce Mr. Daugherty had assumed office more than 30 complaints of alleged anti trust law violations had been made In writing by the Federal Trade commission and prosecutions recom mended but that none bad been In itiated. The statemeent of Mr. Keller was sent to the Judiciary committee at Its request and it is expected that members will discuss It Informally tomorrfcw. A meeting already has' been called for December 4, to con sider the Daugherty charges. HARDING NOT WELL . PLEASED WITH ACT President Regrwts Changes Mad m anta Subsidy Bin by the . House. Washlngtqn, Dec. 1 Preesldent Harding was not entirely satlelied with the shipping bill as It was passed by th bouse. It was declared at ths White House today, but at this time will not make known his objections, as to do so, It is felt, would only confuse the Issuee which sre to be met when the measure Is taxen up in the senate. The executive. It was declared , had r to niore. never recommended anything uongress in which he had sincere interest, and he felt It to be' inconceivable that Congress would fall to give the needed aid to the American merchant marine when there was such an economlo loss In volved In the destruction of th great fleet built up during the war. -The executive was said to feel that there would be "no hard sledding for th bill except th rules of the up per house," and that It would be enacted Into law. 26 Million Pounds ef Weed Are Sold In South Carolina'. Florence. 0. CL, Dc 1 Bale of to baooo oa tha floors ot Independent to baeco warehouse throuarhont ,k. stat this year totaled ft.tUM! pound, aooordlng to figure compiled her today from reports mad by warehouse manager. The total money realised was $t,tl,(7 Tobacco delivered to tha a,.,u Carolina Tobaooo Growers' associa tion is not Included. The Lake city market 14 th. ..... with a total ot I.I2J.I0I noun. tor a total of Sl.m,!Mi, or an aver- s oi ti. a nunared pounds, and Mulllna was next with 7.09 61T pounds, whtoh bronchi a tot.i'-, '., flt.7M.0d. WU Uadeafeld Broogkt Back New Tork. Dee. 1 Wolf t fld, wko was arrested by depart ment of Justice agents In Warsaw because h. said he knew who was responslhl. or the Wall street ex plosion la UJ. but who " released, has been brought back to this country, it ,,,,., t0 to The exact time of hi. arrival. hoW a. was brought her, and hi. wher.T about, constitute a mystery .. th department ef Justice t. from eon- WHAT TO earned, .".,.
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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