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BICKETT MAKES AN ML FOR EOT ——. 9 SUGGESTS TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA TO CUT HOLIQAY EXPENBEB. ' H " r . ' CHILDREN CRYING FOR BREAD "Let Every Man, Woman and Child, Make first Their Gift, Towards Re lief of Suffering." ~ • " Raleigh. * Governor Bickett has Issued a pro clamation urging all North Carolin ians to "cut their own Christmas ex penses to the bone and seek their hap piness in relieving the misery of mil lions" of children in Europe who are Buffering for lack of food and clothing. The proclamation follows: 'lf there Is one sound that goes straight to a man's heart and rouses all his energies, it is the criy of a child for help. Such cry comes to us from over the seas. There are mil lions of little children literally freez ing jm- lack of clothing and starving for laik of bread. "We have no right to be happy over here while God's little ones are dying by the thousands over there. There can be no Christmas In our hearts un less we show forth the spdrit of Christ. I urge our people to cut their own Christmas expenses to the bone and seek their happiness in relieving the tnisory of millions In other 1 anils. 1 "A great drive for the relief of these people, under the leadership of Henry A. Page, of Aberdeen, is now on. Let every man, woman and child In- the state make theVr first gift towards the relief ot these little ones and then ahout "Hurrah for Christmas." No Apology to Make. "I do not have in my heart anything that resembles an apology for throw ing out the lifeline to these men who "have fallen overboard," declares Gov ernor Bickett in drawing up a "confes sion of faith" with which he aocom . panies his-Chrlstmas series of pardons to men and women confined in the state prison, or in county penal Insti tutions. The Governor has crtosed what some of his critics have been pleased to call his "pardon mill," with not quite 600 paroles and pardons since his first on January 26, 1917. Me will consider no more applications for pardon. To Contest Doughton's Seat. Washington (Special).—Dr. J. Ike Campbell, of the Bth district, wired Representative Doughton, asking him where he would be the latter part of the week, that he wanted to serve no tice of a contest on him. * "Present plans to leave Washington for home in North Carolina; plans subject to change, emergency," Mr. Doughton wired. Mr. Doughton could not eay exactly where he would be at a certain time, for the house .was considering the tariff bill- The net result may be the giving away of about $20,000 of the people's money to the defeated candidate. Senators Will not Yield. Washington, (Special). Senators Simmons and Overman have received many telegramq from the state urging them to support the house proposition to place import duties on farm prod ucts. Most of the messages were sent by cotton seed oil people. The senators have their backs to the wall on this proposition, and will not yield. "9 shall not support any measure for a fake revision of the tariff," said Senator Simmons. Appointment of Postmasters. Washington, (Special).—Harvy A. Tilly has been madl postmaster at Cullasaja, Lorenty Z. Hobbs at Delco, and William D. McLauren, at Vander. Forerunners of Other Pardons* As a forerunner of a batch of Christ mas paroles and pardons. Governor Bickett has pardoned B. U. Newsom, of Forsyth county, sentenced to thirty years Imprisonment. Discontent With Primary. Discontent with the present state wide primary Is expected to be met by friends of the law with suggestions that It be strengthened rather than re pealed during the 1921 session of the general assembly next month. That a compromise is going to be effected when the fight is launched to wipe the law from the statute books 1s the be lief of a number of democratic leaders who are themselves disatisfled with the act but who are not Inclined to resurrect the old convention plan of nominating State officers. Seek Assessment Reduction. Through counsel the American To bacco company and Liggett Myers To bacco company appealed to the Corpo ration Commission for a reduction in the valuation put upon them In the recent apraslal In North Carolina. The American Tobacco company was ap praised at around $18,000,000 while Liggett-Myers had an assessment of around 928,000.000. Will Puller repre sented the American Tobacco com pany; Junius Parker, Llggett-Myers and Jones miler apepared tor bath tetatly. Interest In Census Figures. Washington, (Special).—The wiilt* and negro population figures for the state of North Carolina will be made public early In January, according to director of the Census Sam Rogers. Director Rogers said that these fig ures for the state 'Would be ready ear ly next month and that the same sta tistics for the cities and towns would follow shortly thereafter. There is considerable interest in these figures In North Carolina the di rector said. Many inquiries he' said had been received from the state ask ing when the white and colored popu lation figures would be given out but he has been unable up' to the present time, to give any reasonably certatt time for "making the figures public. Under the management of Director/ Rogers the pfogress of taking the cen sus of the United States is now slight ly over sixty days in advance of the time allotted for the work. With the thousands of employes employed In the census it can -he readily seen what a saving to the government the North Carolinian has made up to the pres ent time. Should the work continue with the same speed that it h*s in the ipast it is said that the Director of the Cen suu will save thegovemment nearly $200,000 in salaries of employers by the time the fiscal year has ended next June. ———— x Problem of Labor Shortage. Shortage of labor exists only In ag ricultural Industries, and the problem of supplying sufficient wxftkmen to man the farms .in. North Carolina Is one of the most perplexing that faces the people of the state, declares M. L. Shipman, Commissioner of Labor and Printing In his biennial report now in process of preparation for the regular session of the general assembly. Some means must be found for turn ing the tide of the working man and woman *way from the lnudstrial cen ters where there is an over supply of labor back to the farms where there Is still an acute Shortage, Mr. Ship man believes. Libraries Reach 97 Counties. Ninety-seven of the 100 counties tn the state were reached by the North Carolina Traveling Libraries during the past according to the report of Miss Mary B. Palmer, secretary and director of the Library Commis sion made to the annual meeting of the Commlsslop. Reviewing the year's work. Miss Palmer shows a very gratifying gain in the work of the Library Commis sion in the state during the past year, both In the traveling library system which Is designed to reach communi ties where thfre are but few books, and in the augmenting of the school libraries' and the establishment of new civic libraries, f Football Schedule for Btate. North Carolina State collage foot ball schedule announced is as follows: September 24, open at' Raleigh; Oc tober 1, Navy at Annanapolts; Octo ber 8, Penn State at State College, Pa., October 15. Richmond university at Raleigh, October 20 (fair week), Carolina at Raleigh; October 29, V. M. J. at Raleigh; November 6, David son at Charlotte; November 11 (Arm istice day), V. P. I. at Norfolk; No vember 19, Wake Forest at Raleigh; November 24, Maryland university at Washington. Increase In Tax Collections. The state has collected nearly a million dollars more In taxes for 1920 not Including the advolorem taxes on property, than was collected in 1919, according to figures compiled here. The amount of money collected from license and privilege taxes, from inheritances and Incomes for 1919 was $1,692,265.67. The adval orem tax on property last year was $850,661.91. This year the llcehee and privilege taxes have yielded $2,607,- 529.41 which is an increase of $915',- 263.84 over the taxes collected from all sources In 1919. No Action on Harris Case. Governor Bickett may leave the case of J. T. Harris, convicted of the murder of E. W. Monnish, of Tusca loosa, Alaibama, in the hands of the new governor. While this has not been intimated by the governor, who Is this week on duck hunt in the eaet 'ern part of the state, some of those who have been interested in the case have brought forward this suggestion. Hold Nurses Examinations. The State Board of Nurses' Examin ers met in Raleigh, when elenty car i-ldate nurses came up for examina tion. The board is oomposid ot Ave members, three graduate nurses, ap pointed by the State Nurses' associa tion, and two doctors, appointed by the State Medical Society. Miss Lcis Toomer, of Wilmington, Is president of the board, and Miss Essie Cain, of Salisbury, secretary and treasurer. The results of the examinations will probably be announced before Christ mas. To Gain Tvwo Congressmen. Washington,(Bpeclal). —North Cai* olina will gain two congressman and two additional eletoral votes In the electoral college under the plan of apportionment approved by the re publican caucuc acording to Director of tbs Census'-Sam Rogers, who pre pared the figures which are the basis of the new apportionment. The house, two years hence, wiU have 483 mem bers one member for each 218,179 peo ple as given by the 1M» cenoss fig urea. Other southern States will pi* twelve members. W; MAIB iir WrTry J PHI . * Mflr gig l —Unemployed men >n Vienna, wnere economic conditions are distressing. 2—Male and female students of University of Moscow In military drill, which Is compulsory. 3—Fairbnnks residence In Washington which has been bought by President Wilson. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Harding's Plan for Association of Nations Reaching Defi nite Form. MORE CABINET PREDICTIONS Dawes May Head Commission to Reor. ganlze Government Service—House Passes Farmers' Relief Tariff Bill Scandal In Coal Prices Uncovered. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. President-elect Harding's confer ences at Marlon with the "best minds," though by no means ended, seem al ready to have resulted In the crystal lizing of certain of his policies into definite form. Of course the two that arouse the greatest public interest are those relating to foreign affairs and the League of Nations, and to the plan, for reorganizing the nation's business and establishing It on a more econom ic basis. In discussing an association of na tions, there Is no evidence that Mr. Harding has converted to his own views such.irreconcllables as Senators Borah and Reed, or even Mr. Bryan, whose Invitation to Marion aroused the ribald laughter of the paragraph ers. But Mr. Harding seems to have brought his theories into form fit for presentation to the worjd. According to what is said to be authoritative! in formation, he believes the first ap proach to the formation of his "asso ciation of nations" should be to ob tain the s assent of the five leading na tions, tfte United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, bis theory being that, once these nations haxe Joined, the other nations .will fall int line. The basis of tills association is to be a world court to deal with Justi ciable questions. Mr. Harding holds that no associa tion of nations can succeed without • the indorsement of the leaders of pub lic thought, in America and elsewhere, and that these leaders must reach agreement In the essentials, leaving details to be settled later; that all governing features must be eliminated from the association, each nation re maining free to make its own de cisions; that the agreement must be specific enough to prevent the possi bility of an offensive and defensive military alliance of the five great powers, and the association of * na tions Itself must place all nations on an equal footing In the presentation of their views on matters of world policy. Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, the Chi cago banker, who is said *o be the leading probability for appointment as head of a commission to reorganize the government service, was one of the week's visitors In Marlon and talked with the president-elect espe cially on the reduction of governmen-' tal expenses and Its relation to taxa tion. After the interview General Dawes said: "I found that Senator Harding al« ready knew more than I did concern ing this, and that the effort to reor ganize the government upon an eco nomical basis Is one of the tasks to which he proposes to devote himself most energetically. From conversa tion with him it Is evident that he has tills great and needed reform, constant ly In his mind. Considering that here tofore no continued and firm effort has been made, this determination of the President-elect to make this re form one of his first efforts, means that it will be accomplished." Senator and Mrs. Harding are go ing to Florida next month to spend several weeks as tlie guests of Sena tor Frellnghuysen of New Jersey. Possibly before they start announce ment of the selections for the cabinet will be made. It is believed Mr. Harding's first choice for secretary of state now Is either Senator Knox or Charles Evans Hpghes, and that If Mr. Huges declines he will be appoint THE ALAMAKOE SLEANER, ORAHAM, N. 0. Ed chief justice of the Supreme court as Chief Justice White probably will retire within the year. Other selec tions held likely are George M. Reynolds of Chicago for secretary of the treasury, Henry Wallace of lowa for secretary of agriculture, former Senator Weeks for secretary of the navy, and Charles M. Schwab for sec retary of commerce. It is believed, also, thai Herbert Hoover Is certain to be In the cabinet. The appointment of Mr. Reynolds to the treusury posi tion, it is said, would be very grate ful to the business and financial men of the country, who have a high opin ion of his ability and broad-minded ness. The most important action by the house of representatives during the week was the passage of the farmers' relief bill, which Imposes a high emergency tariff on more than twenty agricultural pnxhicts, the decline In th£ price of which is attributed by the 'farmers in part to competition with Importations. The measure was passed by a vote of 198 to 86, party lines being broken. What the senate will do with it is problematical. The senate finance committee will take It up after the holidays, and it may be killed by a prolonged discussion. The commodities to which the new duties would be applied are wheat, flour, corn, beans, peanuts, potatoes, onions, rice* lemons, cottonseed and soya bean oils, cattle, sheep, lambs, mut ton and lamb, and wool and Its manu factures. Justice Stafford In Washington has taken under advisement the plans of the" "Big Jive" packing concerns for the disposal of their financial inter ests in the large stock yards and will give his decision immediately after the holidays. At the conclusion of the arguments he more than Intimat ed that unless the packing companies and the individual members of the Armour, Swift and Morris families can give proof within a few weeks that they are actually divesting them selves of their stock in the stock yards and terminal railroads he will adopt the government's plan and appoint a receiver for the securities. The senate committee that lias been Investigating the price of coal Inst week accidentally uncovered what looks like a sensational scandal. George H. Cushing, general manager of the American Wholesale Coal Deal ers' association, was being questioned as to those who took profits in the handling of coal. He mentioned the miners, the operators, the railroads, the wholesale defers, the retailers, 'and then added,' "and officials of the United States government who got Into the coal business." Mr. Cushing tried to stop there, but the committee was Insistent and drew from him the assertion that government officials, taking advantage of advance informa tion on the fuel stringencies obtained in their confidential positions, de clared themselves In on the coal-price boosting and "cleaned up" millions. He told the committee of one In stance in which government officials cleared a profit of $675,000 on the sale of 450,000 tons of coal. He stated that he was offered a share amounting to over SIOO,OOO to participate In the deal but declined. There were many other such Instances, be told the com mittee. He supplied the committee with the name of the ringleader, who Is said to be a dollar-a-year man. He added that railroad officials and labor leaders who had to do with the han dling of coal frequently managed to get a "rakeoff." The disgust with which the public reads this sort of thing Is heightened by the Information that graft prosecu tions probably cannot be Instituted because the coal bundled by the ring was not sold to the government. The senate committee planned to make public, after full Investigation, the names of all officials who have engager] In coal deals, and the contempt with which they will be regarded by their fellow citizens will be some punish ment. Later In the wc«fc correspondence from the National Coal association's files, seized by order of the commit tee, was read. It Included a letter sent out by Col. D. E. Wrentz, presi dent of the association, stating that the association, co-ope rating with rail road officials and the Interstate com \ ; merce commission, had prevented the appointment of a federal fuel admin istrator, but that It would not be able to prevent some sort of government control much longer unless the opera tors quit charging such extortionate prices. f D'Annunzlo's proclaimed state of war between his Plume government and Italy has become an established fact, for the Italian government has begun the siege of Flume and hostil ities have broken out. After a block ade had been Instituted, the poet was given a few hours to turn the city over to the Italian commander. He was as defiant as ever and military opera tions against him were begun by both land and sea, forces. D'Annunzlo for bade the population of Flume to leave the city and decreed that anyone speaking against him was liable to be shot. The government at Rome was still hopeful of bringing about the re tirement of D'Annunzlo from the dis puted city without much 'bloodshed. He Is said to have only about 6,000 troops. , "Peace In Ireland b 7 Christmas" could not be accomplished, and the week was marked by a great many murders, raids and bloody fights. In various parts* of the Island. On Thursday the British military forces occupied the Dublin city hall and mu nicipal offices, ousting the corporation officials, who have been active sup porters of tlie dall elreann or Irish parliament, and thus dislocating the entire business of the city. The seiz ure of the city buildings was a mili tary measure for the protection of the castle, which Is Out a few feet away. Despite the gloomy situation, the prospects were said to '"be fairly bright for early restoration of order. One sign of weakening on the part of the Sinn Pelners was the collapse of the railway strike against the carry ing of munitions or troops. This strike had been going on for seven months and the operating forces of the railways had been so depleted by dismissals that railway service was gradually approaching the vanishing point. Finally realizing that this was harming only Ireland, and that many towns and districts'were suffering tor food supplies, the men have returned to work, promising to carry anything. Another thing that may weaken tlie "republican" cause If It Is carried Into effect , Is a plan to ask the Irish people by a formal referendum, whether they are willing to carry the home-rule act Into operation Instead of accepting as final the Sinn Fein refusal. The proposition has been submitted to the prime minister. The hopae-rule act became a law last week, the house of lords having accepted all the amendments made to the bill by the commons. Several amendments made by the lords, including one cre ating senates for both the northern and southern parliaments, had been accepted by the commons. Constantlne, received by the Greek* with loud acclaim, la ngain estab lished oh hlo throne and la even plan ning a vlnlt to his army In Asia Minor, If the great powers permit. The dip lomatic representatives of the allies In Athens did not leave the country, but refrained from participation In the king's reception. Premier Lloyd George Is weakening a trifle and In the house of commons' opposed hasty action In altering the treaty of Sevres In favor of the Turks and against the Greeks. He advocated going warily with regard to the Greeks, as there might be explanations of their recent action. Trotzky was quoted re cently to the effect that the soviet gov ernment of Russia wan planning no further military operations und would turn all It* energy toward economic reconstruction, late dispatcher from Tlflls Indicate that the Itusslan Bol shevists are planning a campaign to wipe out the republic of Georgia. There are heavy concentrations of troops on the Georgian borders and In nearby ports of the Black sea, and a Bolshevist army that has been operat ing along the Armenian frontier Is moving toward Georgia. * ; The soviet government of Armenia has annulled all foreign loans, "espe cially the American loan," according to a dispatch from Constantinople. MASTER AND DOG SAVE 304 LIVES Partners in Work ot Mercy in the Great American Deserts. y , / ... IS VICTIM OF POISON Faithful Dog Refuse* to Orlnk From Polluted Spring, but Owner Doe« and Lose* Hl* LIYo—To Havo Monument. Los Angeles.—Lou West«ott Beck of 'asadena, Cat., and his Jog, Rufas, are dead, after being partners in a work of mercy for 13 year*. Beck laid down his life, a martyr to his work, dying as a result of drinking from a poisoned spring at the edge of the desert. Rtifas lingered for three years, watching for his partner, who, for the first time, had gone on the long, long trail without him. TTien he started out to find him. During the 13 years of their part nership. the man and the dog rescued 804 persons from death by thirst and qxhaustfon In the great American des erts—the Colorado, the Mojave and. worst of all. Death valley. Friends of the desert guide and his four-footed partny will erect a moouiftent to them in Brookslde park, Pasadena. Lost Fourteen Years Ago. It was 14 years ago that Beck, a Chicago man, prospecting in Death val ley, was lost In that inferno of shifting sand, maddening beat and deceptive mirages. With him was his dog. Rn faa, a strong, intelligent animal, a cross between a Siberian bloodhound and a St Bernard. There were no sign posts In the deserts in those days, nothing to guide the traveler to the water holes, nothing to warn against poisoned springs. Th* man and the dog were almost dead when they final ly crawled to a water hole, drank the brackish water and staggered on and finally out of the desert. Since that terrible experience, the man made rescue wc-rk in the desert his life task, and, with his faithful The Man Drank But the rog Refused. dog. saved hundreds. Bui fate finally overtook them when, again loet In the desert. Beck found a pols»« well. The man drank, but the dog rtfused. It was a terrible trip borne and when it was ended Lou Beck vent to bed, never to rise again. Th« dog, heart broken over the loss of his. master, drooped and drooped, until now he too la dead, but with a loan record of service behind him. "SNAKE BITE" CURE HIS FEE Doctor Takes Home Jug Unearthed by Man Who Thought Snake Had Bitten Him. Hornell, N. Y. —As the *itn of a sec tion crew at work on the ffrllroad near here were stretched out no the grass after their noon-day rn »al, one of them, Phllo Jennings. Jumped to his feet with a scream of pain, saying he had been bitten by a rattlesnake. In seeking some mud for tbe wound, one of the men lifted a ti»g flat stone ind found It covered a barrel. In tbe barrel was a Jug full of old time whisky, which a rVsltVnt (aid his father had burled there 00 years ago, and then forgotten It. The cork was pulled and the victim given first aid, successfully. When tin doctor came,- he said Jennlng* had been stung by a bumble bee. The doctor took home the Jug of wl Islry as his fee. » PRISON FOR WHIPPING BOY Parmer Pleads Effort to Break Lad of Fibbing—Gets Twenty Month*. Peoonlc, N. Y.—Thank you f» was all Samuel Sweezy, flfty-elght, a farm er, had to say when sentenced at Rlv erhead to not less than a year and eight months nor more than two yean and slx a months In King Sing and to .pay a SI,OOO fine for horsewhipping a boy. The boy, Benjamin Franklin Eubank, twelve, he had taken from as Institu tion to work on the Harm. 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