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The Morganton Herald Consolidated November 29, 1901.
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hL. XXXII.
MORGANTON, N. C, SEPTEMBER 7, 1916.
NO. 16.
tvENUE BILL
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WILSON'S
ACCEPTANCE.
Designed to Raise $205,000,-
U TT T 1 " A
Ann Annually rrom inneru-
lance Tax and Other Sources
L.iia tnrv Sections Ae-ainst
t:lu"1
lAllies Inserted.
hington Dispatch, 5th.
ke administration revenue bill, de-
ned to raise $205,000,000 annually
rm irVPTMTmfP3 JJTl war
Bill I U A V- ViX ""VJ. W A
litions and from increases in the
x :ne
ome tax; creating- a wrm commis-
establishing a protective tariff
dyestuffs; providing for protec-
of American firms from "dump
at the end of the war, and giv
the president authority to take
istic retaliatory steps against al
ii interference with American trade,
s passed late tonight by the sen
The vote was forty-two to six-
m;
n.
!:iiminating the usual formalities in
er to insure adjournment of con-
Us by Thursdy at the latest, the
senate rushed the measure, the
ii. . J j a: i
- on uie auxiiiiiiMrauuii legislative
tgram, immediately to conference.
the senate was in session until af-
raidnigbt. It practically had com-
ted the bill earlier but toward mid-
ht Senator Underwood moved to
ike out the section which would
ate a tariff commission and began
ast fight against this provision,
ich already had been agreed. v
v a vote of fifty-five to -five the
late rejected Senator Underwood's
tion, thus retaining the tariff com
sion section of the bill.
l motion by Senator' Penrose to
td the bill back to the finance corn-
tee with instructions that it report
measure to raise revenues by a pro-
rive tariff and with special pro
ions for industrial defense was re
ted by a vote of thirty-nine to
fentv-one. benator LaFollette was
I only Republican to vote no.
To increase government revenues
bill provides for doubling the nor
! tax and increasing the surtaxes
incomes; aninheritance tax; a net
tfit tax on manufacturers on mu-
ions of war; a license tax on stock I
corporations capitalized at more
n $99,000: excise taxes on beer, i
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Notification Ceremony Held Last
Saturday Some Quotations
From His Acceptance Speech.
, President Wilson last Saturday
formally opened his campaign for re
election with a speech accepting the
Democratic nomination in which he
characterized the Republican party
as "a practical and moral failure,"
defended his Mexican and European
policies, recited the legislative achieve
ments of his administration and de
clared for a "big America."
In his speech President Wilson was
unsparing in his criticism of the Re
publican party as a party of "masterly
inactivity and cunning resourceful
ness in standing pat to resist change,
and said that old leaders still select
its candidates, but he did not men
tion Charles E. Hughes, the Republi
can candidate, by name.
The President spoke from the veran
da of his summer home at Shadow
Lawn, Long Beach, N. J., to a crowd
which filled 8,000 chairs and over
flowed to the lawn.
Some quotatons from his speech
follow:
"No nation can any longer remain
neutral as against . any wflf ul dis
turbance of the peace of the world."
"The future is not a future to be
afraid of. It is, rather, a future to
stimulate and excite us to the dis
play of the best powers that are in
GRADED SCHOOL FACULTY
FOR THE COMING YEAR.
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tes and liquors and miscellaneous j TJ carrying out the platform of has thrown down the gauntlet.
mp taxes. The bill also creates a aa wcu s um
ited States tariff rmrmiissinTi nf iv I uvvn lur we aiSO are progressives.
rabers, whose salaries shall be $7,-
"The nation that violates (Ameri
ca's) essential rights must expect to
be checked and called to account by
direct challenge and resistance"
"I neither seek the favor nor fear
the displeasure of that small alien
element amongst us which puts loy
alty to any foreign power before loy
alty to the United States." '
"Some of the leaders of the (Mex
ican) revolution may often have been
mistaken and violent and selfish, but
the revolution itself was inevitable
and is right."
"The Republican party is just the I
party that cannot meet the new con
ditions of a new age. It does not
j know the way and it does not wish
jnew conditions."
School Will ODen Sentemher
18th Several New Teachers.
. The fourteenth year of the Morgan
ton Graded School begins September
18th and Superintendent Kerley is
busy getting things in readiness for
the opening. It is expected that the
school will be very crowded .and Mor
ganton people must realize very soon
that additional room must be provid
ed for the increasing number of chil-
uren wno attend scnooi eacn year.
The school now is in serious need of
more. room.
Parents who start their children to
school for the first time should see to.
it that they have been vaccinated
against small pox. It is a rule that all
school children must be vaccinated
before entering school.
The teaching force for the coming
year is as follows:
High School Miss Margaret Young,
Miss Mary Shuping, Miss Beulah Rob
inson.
Grammar School Miss May Wei
Ions, Mrs. W. R. Marbut, Miss Katie
Tate, Miss Annie Spainhour, Mrs. H.
O. Houk, Miss Lillie Morris.
Primary Department Miss Pearl
Holloway, Miss Grace Bunn, Miss
Janie Pearson, Mrs. Maude Anthony,
Mrs. Mary.Powe Starrett, Miss Cor
nelia Carter.
The new ones are: Miss Robert
son, who comes from Raleigh, Miss
Wellons, of Boliver, Tenn., and Miss
Grace Bunn, of Spring Hope.
BICKETT TO BE IN
MORGANTON THE 20TH
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2 ZEPPELINS BUILT TO
CROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN.
Nominee for Governor Will
Speak Here Soon Murphy
Has Appointment for 21st.
County Democratic Chairman C. F.
Kirksey has received a letter from
State Chairman Warren making an
appointment for Hon. T. W. Bickett,
of Louisburg, Democratic nominee for
Governor, to speak in Morganton on
Wednesday, September 20th. The
speaking will be at the court house at
one o'clock. 'The following day, the
21st, Hon. Walter Murphy, of Salis
bury, will also speak at the court
house on issues of the day. Both will
no doubt draw big crowds. Bickett's
ability as an orator is known here;
Murphy is also a fine speaker.
CONGRESS NEARING
ADJOURNMENT.
GREEK KING ABDICTATES.
Greece Will Likely Join the Al
lies Last of Balkan Nations
Now Ready to Enter the War
Crown Prince Named as Suc
cessor to King Constantine.
London Dispatch, 1st.
Official dispatches reaching London
which apparently have been fuch cen-jbuster on the COrrupt practices
sorea, nave oeen . tnat Greece has
abandoned her neutrality and thrown
her lot on the side of the Entente Al
lies. Whether Greece has already de-
A Few Final Bills Receiving At
tention Corrupt Practice Bill
Comes Up.
Washington Dispatch, 6th.
By a vote of 32 to 14 the senate to
day decided to take up Senator
Owens' corrupt practices bill greatly
curtailing campaign expenditures and
imposing heavy penalties for viola
tions.
Seven Republicans voted with Dem
ocrats to take up the bill and seven
Democrats voted against the motion
The vote to take it up today does not
necessarily forecast delay in ad
journing congress, as the senate had
nothing else before it, but administra
tion leaders said, that in their opin
ion, it could not reach a vote. Repub
lican leaders insisted that they would
never let it reach one.
It was also planned to adopt a con
current resolution fixing the time for
adjournment as soon as the revenue
conferees can indicate when they can
reach an agreement. Such a resolu
tion would check any attempted fili-
bill
1NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Double" Airships Constructed
to Ply Between Germany and
Chicago Dispatch, 6th..
Two "double" Zeppelins, unarmed'
and each with a carrying capacity of
60 tons have been built in Germany
to carry maily between Berlin and the
United States, according to statement
here by Morris Epstein, agent of the
German-American alliance, who re
turned from Europe yesterday.
Epstein said the Zeppelins had been
christened "Amerika" and "Deutsch-
land." He was permitted to view
them, he declared. Their engines are
powerfully equipped and they can
make the aerial voyage between Ber
lin and New York in 72 hours.
"They are so( constructed," said Ep
stein, "that they can rise higher than
any aeroplane and thus escape hostile
aviators. They also can descend to
the water arvl travel there under their
own power." -
Epstein said the postage charges
for this service had already, been ar
ranged and would be the regular in
ternational postage plus one mark or
25 cents for each letter.
GERMAN LOSSES 500,000.
We have in four years come veryjthe Nation of Nations to whom she
and would end debate.
The only important piece of work
standing in the way of adjournment,
which probably will occur tomorrow
or possibly even late tonight, was the
Conviction Now Prevails That
Long-Drawn- Out Struggle at
Verdun is Drawing toa Close
Allies Capture .3,000 Ger
mans. An Associated Press dispatch
from Verdun dated September 2nd
says in part:
Under the escort of General D. ,
commander of the citadel of Verdun
throughout the bombardment, the
correspondent of the Associated
Press made a circuit of the entire
town and surrounding fortifications
and heard the grim old hero sum up
just what had been done and how the
military balance sheet stands after
these many months of truggle.
It was the first time in several
months that any correspondent had
been admitted to Verdun, and it
gave the first opportunity to view
Brief Notes of Recent Happen
ings in North Carolina.
W. S. Lineberry, superintendent of
the Soldiers Home at Raleigh, has
resigned. '
Lenoir College, Hickory, reopened
yesterday, this being their twenty
sixth annual session.
Miss Grace McCubbins, of Salis
bury, graduate nurse, is to go to the
mission fields of Korea.
Asheville lost thousands of tourists
by the threatened strike. The tourist
season had just begun again after the
flood.
Seventy-nine of the 103 applicants
for law license before the State Su-
.
preme tourt passed the examination.
Work on the new dam at Kanuga
lake near Hendersonville is eoincr
right along. October 1 is the date
for completion.
Re. Dr. John L. Caldwell has re
signed as president of Queen's Col
lege, Charlotte. Rev. Dr. Bridges
will be in charge of the college temporarily.
In Caldwell county Superior court
this week Ed. Shell was acquitted of
the murder of Jim Helton at Granite.
Falls last May. The jury found that
Shell killed Helton in self-defense.
o 6 j ""ithe extent of the recent restruction.
senate differences on the administra- j - A, ,.,
It is reported Kiner Constantine
Viae a Vrlia -f cxA on1 Vi PvttTrj T3 -rrr
lne Republican party was nutU u j t-
. , y has been named as his successor
out of power because of failure. . . ,
: t ; ii7 1 x n i rm dt ' v r-rv inw rTin r
the power behind the throne. The
British Foreign Office says .it has no
confirmation of the King's abdica
tion. An Entente fleet of 23 warships
and seven transports is reported off
Piraeus, the p6rt of Athens. A dis
patch from Athens says it is prob
able that the Greek elections set for
October 8 will be postponed for a
fortnight.
tion emergency revenue bill, provid-
l a Year, desnitp. an pflFrvrt. mnrlp to
1 ' r - - j. i r 't -i - -
reasethemto $10,000; provides for;r a . ure anU mCral lailure;
reased tariff duties on dyestuffs to
rourage their manufacture . in this
ntry, and makes provision to safe-
pd against dumping of foreign-
Ide goods after the European war
o American markets.
Drastic amendments to this bill
iking the allied blacklisting of
fencan merchants, discrimination
inst American commerce, interfer-
:e with American mails and embar
ks on American trade, were incorpo-
ed in the bill to arm the president,
fH retaliatnrv woannnc TViioo
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endments have created consterna
i among diplomatic revenues of the
ed powers in Washington, who as-!
t that if finally enacted, as now
ras certain, they would constitute
pn-mtercourse act.
sions from this day's tour among all
ing for the raising of $205,00000 an-! fa officers anJ stratcgic
nually, the creation of a tariff com-lints waJ the absoute conviction ot
nomic principles.
eco-
MADERO DEAD.
Ither of Form
Mexico and Wealthy Land
Owner, Dies in New York.
- York Dispatch, 3rd.
rancisco Madero, father of the late
Mident Madero, of Mexico, and one
ne largest land and mine owners in
country, was found dead in bpd
home here today from heart
ease. He was 67 years old.
Madero fled to this city after
1 assassination of his two sons",
fncis-co, Jr., then President of
xlco, and Gustavo, who had been
fncial agent for the reolutionists.
fruaray 21, 1913, and Gustavo two
2 farnily estates, said to have
valued at $6,000,000. including
ie holflin rrc -P 1 1 j.1
-""so lituu in nuruiern
X!c"o. were confiscated by the Hu-
Government, but three weeks
Carranza Government in-
med Mr. Madprn hr Viio nrnnorw
Fid be rPKtnvori '
Jje body will be taken to Mexico
because it had served special inter
ests and not the country at large."
"Alike in ' the domestic field and
in the wide field of commerce of the
world, American business men and
life and industry have been set free
to move as they never moved before."
"The nations of the world must
unite in joint guarantee that what
ever is done to disturb the whole
world's life must first be tested in
the court of the whole world's opin
ion before it is attempted."
"So long as the power of recogni
tion rests with me the Government
of the United States will refuse to
extend the hand of welcome to any
one who obtains power in a sister
republic by treachery and violence."
"I do not doubt that the people of
the United States will wish the Dem
ocratic party to continue in control
of the government. They are not in
the habit of rejecting those who
have actually served them for those
' "L. 1 ' i i i i
i v.nu are maKing aououui ana con
jectural promises of service."
- "The future, the immediate fu
ture, will brin us squarely face to
face with many great and exacting
problems which' will search us
through and through whether we be
able and ready to play the part in
the world that we mean to play. It
will not bring us into their presence
slowly, gently, with ceremonious in
troduction, but suddenly and at once,
the moment the war in Europe is
over." .
'"ate tor Governor, is to speak in
fury next Monday, 11th. He will
"cwion on tne I3tn.
Death of Miss Zettie Parks.
On last Thursday afternoon Miss
Zettie Parks, daughter of Mr. S. M.
Parks, died at the home of her broth
er Mr. Charlie Parks, the victim of
tuberculosis, of which she had been
afflicted for several years. She was
26 years of age and is survived by her
father, three brothers, Messrs. Char
lie and Collett Parks, of Morganton,
and Mr. Elgie Parks, of Hickory, and
one sister, Mrs. A. L. Mull, of Chicago.
Several years ago she spent some time
at Montrose but the dread disease was
not conquered.
The funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon from the home where
she died, conducted by Rev. E. E. Wil
liamson in the absence from town of
Rev. J. R. Williams, the deceased's
pastor. Interment was made at the
cemetery.
Great sympathy is expressed for
the father whom the death of his
daughter has so sadly bereaved. A
splendid young woman, strong in her
faith, a consecrated member of the
Baptist church has gone to her rest.
President Signs Child Labor Bill.
President Wilson Friday signed
the Keating child labor bill, recently
passed by Congress. The Jaw will
become effective September 1, 1917.
In signing the bill the President
said: "I want to say with what real
emotion I sign this bill, because I
know how long the struggle has been
to ' secure legislation of this sort and
what it is going to mean to the health
and to the vigor of the country, and
also to the happiness of those whom
it affects. It . is with genuine pride
that-1 play my part in completing
this legislation. I congratulate the
country abd felicitate myself."
300 Grocery Clerks Have Gone
on Strike. ,
New York Dispatch, 6th.
Three thousand grocery clerks went
on strike in this city, Jersey City,
Newark, and outlying towns today.
Leaders of their union, the Retail
Clerks International Protective as
sociation, claim that the strikers will
be -augumented to 6,000 within 24
hours.
The strike was voted last night af
ter owners of chains of stores refused
the demands fir shorter hours, a min
imum salary of $15 per week, and one
per cent of the store receipts.
Death of Mrs. Berry.
Correspondence of Hickory Record.
Mrs. Mary Bowman Berry of Icard
township, Burke county, passed
peacefully to rest Thursday evening
in her 74th year. She was a con-
sitent member of the Methodist
church and was buried at Mount
Harmony Friday afternoon, Rev. Mr.
Wilson conducted the services. She
was born in Caldwell county August
21, 1842, and died August 31st, 1916,
being 74 years and 10 days old. She
was happily married to John Berry
on September 26, 1867, who, with the
following children, &urvive: W. L.
Berry, of Asheville, C. L. Berry, of
Marion, E. T., H. C. and R. F. Berry,
of Connelly Springs, and Mrs. W. C.
Burns, of Hickory.
It can be truthfully said, a loving
wife, an affectionate mother, and a
true christian friend has left us. She
will be mourned by every one whose
privilege it was to know her, as was
attested at Mount Harmony, when
a large congregation came to pay
their last tribute of love to this good
woman.
It was the writer's blessed privi
lege to know her intimately, and fre
quently conversed with her when she
came to visit her only daughter in
Hickory. She always had a kind
word for everyone and to know her
was to love her; a motherly christian
woman. Her children and most of
her grandchildren were at her bed
side when the end came. To the
aged husband and children we ten
der our heartfelt sympathy. May
God bless you all, for the training of
your christian mother.
those on the ground that the fight for
Verdun is over.
The German losses in the fruitless
effort to take Verdun now are known
to reach a half million men, while
the French losses in successfully
holding the town are less than half
that number.
It is the belief in well informed
quarters that the Germans will grad
ually let go of Verdun, and before
winter will try to shorten their lines
along the whole western front by a
steady retrograde movement. Many
officers say that Rumania's entrance
into the war will precipitate the
withdrawal and an early German col
lapse.
The Cleveland Star announces
that, effective November 1st, its sub
scription price will be raised fromSl
to $1.50 on account of the enormous
increase in the cost of print paper.
Mrs. C. M. Gallimore, CO years,
member of a prominent family, com
mitted suicide at her home in Bre
vard Monday afternoon. Despon
dency over the death of a grandchild
is believed to be the cause.
John A. Wiggs, chief of police of
Wilson, is on trial in Superior court
at Wilson before Judge Oliver II. Al
len today, on a charge of killing Philip
Worth, an Alamance county negro.
Wiggs has been out under a $1,000
bond.
Just an hour before their execu
tion was scheduled to take place in
the State prison at Raleigh, Hardy
Wiggins and Merrit Miller were re
prieved for eight weeks on pleas of
their attorneys for time to take their
cases before the Supreme court.
At Andrews, Cherokee county, Sat
urday afternoon, Edward Mason was
killed and Henry Martin severly in
jured. They were employes of the
Carolina Wood Products Company
and were caught in the machinery
while trying to start an engine.
The North Carolina Senators and
Congressmen in Washington are
anxious to get home to take part in
the campaign. Senator Simmons will
take an active part in the manage
ment of the campaign, and after a
rest Sentor Overman will go on the
stump.
Opening of School for Deaf.
The North Carolina School for
the Deaf begins the fall term today.
The teachers arrived the first of the
week and the children came in yester
day. . .
Mrs. Floyd Moss arrived in Mor
ganton Tuesday from Dr. 'Long's hos
pital, Statesville, where she under
went an operation, and will spend
some time with relatives here.
Fertilizer and Farm Rally at
Drexel.
On the third Saturday night in Sep
tember, the 16th, the farmers in reach
of the Drexel schoolhouse have decided
to come together to discuss the matter
of how to best handle the fall seeding
of their crops. It is earnestly desired
that every farmer in the entire neigh
borhood will come out prepared to dis
cuss his troubles with fertilizer and
crops.
The Farm Demonstrator has also
agreed to come and discuss the best
methods of using commercial fertil
izer on the farm. He will give the re
sults of many experiments with, fer
tilizers on the experiment farms of
of North Carolina.
This is the time for you to decide
which will be the best fertilizer to use
on your fall crops and the best ways
of planting. Everybody come out.
Ford Plant Made More Than a
Million a Week
According to its annual statement,
Work has begun on dredging the
canal of Tar river to a depth of six
feet from Grimesland to Greenville.
A few years ago the rier was
dreadged from Washington to Green
ville. Representative Small secured
$30,000 of the "Pork Barrel" fund for
this purpose.
The State Association of County
Commissioners, in session at Ashe
ville last week, elected W. C. Boren
of Guilford county president, A. M.
McDonald of Mecklenburg vice pres
ident and W. C. Johnson of Bun
combe secretary and treasurer. Wil
son was selected as the next place of
meeting. t a
The Brookford bridge near Hick
ory was in use Tuesday and the
Horseford bridge between Hickory
and Lenoir will be completed by next
wek, says the Record. The opening
of these two important bridges will
i give the farmers a convenient access
to Hickory that they have not had
since the flood.
A young man enlisted in Company
L of the Second Infantry, under the
the Ford Motor Company made a. name of James I. Rowve. but whose
prom oi oy4,ie in me nscai year ( real name was Robert Hollman was
ending July 31, or more than $1,000,- kill Tuesday night by the "shuttle
000 a week. If the company had sold train" at Camp Glenn. He was walk
46 more cars, its profits would havejng: down the track in the direction of
passed tne $tu,uuu,uuu marie., as lt.Morehead Citv. farina a r?r,vr
" ' o " ' 4 1 e iaui
was, it manufactured more than 509,
000 automobiles, and did a gross busi
ness of $206,867,347.47. Of the 49,
870 employes of the Ford Company
throughout the world, 74 per cent
shared in the prolts.
with his head bent down. The shuttle
train backing in at a lively clip struck
hira and he fell at Jhe side of the
track, one arm and his head across
the rail. One car and half of another
passed over him.
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