.&OBZSONIAB, tUHBZBTOIf, KOETH CAJtOLESA THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 1921.
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I17,ll TTl Amma I initiate the program of the confer
Will 1116 illllS VUIl" lence, men who will demand an im-
O' A PI,,,.,? possibility. If the conference succeeds
rerence dc t uiani .
and the whole world i&praying that
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Washington Has Gotten the Definite I nient of the American people will
imJL;n Tfc.t the Arras Umita- compel success.
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xui tii iiiiju vbbiuii gruws 111:1c uiai.
the men who will really have the
destiny of the conference- in their
tion Conference Will be Nothing
More Than a Sham and a Pretense.
. Rt David F. St-Clair.
Washington. Ausr. 23 -The ap-i hands are working to render it
pointment of Senator Lodge as one of 'failure. All the army and navy peo-
the American delegates to the arms ' pie wnen noi opemy are secreuy
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limitation conference to meet here on
November II and his speech in the
Senate after the appointment declar-!
ing that he favored only general ais-
urmamonf haa civpn Washington the!
definite impression that the conference remove the cause of war and re-
fighting it. They argue that the fail
ure of the movement is the only way
to quiet the agitation for disarma
ment. They contend that disarma
ment if it could be secured would not
will be nothing more than a sham
and a pretense.
General disarmament would mean
the military disarmament of a nation
like France. It is certain that France
will never consent to disarm and that
it would not be safe for her to do so
while her present relations with Ger
many exist, France has been invited keep his party together and drift.
armament would instantly result
from friction.
Two months ago Rep. E. W. Pou
in an interview given out in this cor
respondence said that President Hard
ing had no foreign policy, that he
not only did not know what to do
but did not want to do anything but
to the conference and has accepted
She will be asked to disarm and will
of course refuse arid by that loop hole
the world's big munition makers will
be saved from scrapping their factor
ies. That is the interpretation that some
of those most deeply interested 'n the
results of the conference give" to the
Lodge appointment and his speech.
It is believed that Senators Knox
and Underwood, opponents! of dis
armament, will also be appointed on
the delegation. That prospfect with
the actual appointment of Lodge has
redoubled the efforts of the women
of the country to have one of their
sex appointed. Without "a woman on
the American delegation they contend
the conference is already doomed to
failure.
The friendg of Senator Borah of
Idaho are asking whv.Jie has nqt been
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and inspiration of the whole move
ment. It was his brilliant battla fox
his naval disarmament Amendment to
the naval appropriation bill that fi
nally forced an unwilling Senate to
accept the amendment and a reluct
ant President to call the conference,
yet the crusader' Borah is ignored
and Lodge, an opponent of the only
sort of disarmament that is held to
be practical at this stage, is chosen.
No Use for Borah.
But Harding' has no more use for
Borah as a delegate to this conference
than he had for the Borah amend
ment. He did all that he as President
possibly could do to kill that amend
ment. He sent for Senator Poindexter,
chairman of the naval appropriation
committee, and asked him to plunge
the knife up to the hilt in the Borah
amendment. It must not be allowed to
pass. Mind you, this amendment had
no other object than0 the disarming
of the great navies of Great 'Britain,
the United States and Japan. But
the President said that it wag in
opportune at this time and we do not
want it.
But Borah had created a ferment
of interest throughout the country.
Women by tens of thousands had
rushed to the telegraph offices with
messages to their Senators,. The long
distance telephone wires as far away
as Denver, Colo., Augusta, Me., Jask
sonville, Fla., and Huston, Texas,
were singing with voices of mothers
who had lost sons in the war in
France. The Democratic Senators'
soon' began to fall over one another to
follow Borah's lead and when enough
Republican Senators had joined in
the grand march to pass the amend
ment, the President gave out the
statement that he had all along been
working for the noble purpose that
has animated the soul of the Idaho
Senator.
But instead of calling a conference
for naval disarmament or the limita
tion of naval .disarmament, he calls
a conference for 'general disarma
ment with Pacific problems thrown
in and invited France and Italy, who
have no Pacific problems and China,
who has no Navy, to the conference.
The Borah plan, aimed at specific,
practical results, has been perverted
to give the President credit of the
movement and to defeat it with im
possible demands.
Harding's Incapacity as Leader.
The friends of the real limitation
of armament point to the President's
perversion of Senator Borah's move
as a striking illustration of Mr.
Harding's incapacity as a leader. He
not only shows no initiative but
frownj upon the one great clearpracti
calfgjWtion that he is forced by
Puyr Entiment to take hold of. Then
to nTGfce it unworkable he loads it
down with side issues and appoints
men on the delegation , that must
RESULTS TELL"
There Can Be. No Doubt About the
Results in Ltfmberton.
Results tell the tale,
All doubt is removed,
The testimony of a Lumberton
citizen '
Can be easily investigated
What better proof can be had ?
B. N. Brigman, 600 First St, Lum
berton, says: "Some years ago I got
down with my back and kidneys. My
back ached all the time and I felt
bo tired out I could hardly go. I think
over work caused this trouble. When
I tried to bend over, sharp knife-like
pains would shoot through me and I
could hardly straighten. Mornings I
felt all tired out and was lame and
sort. My kidneys didn't act property
and the secretions .contained a brick-dust-like
sediment" and were painful
in passage. Finally I got Doan's
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Nothing has occurred since that time
to change Mr. Pou's opinion of the
President.- But if the conference is a
failure, will it not give a death blow
to the Harding administration ? Well,
of course it should and it probably
will, but if it is a failure the men who
will have made it so will say that the
President was not in favor of it to
begin with and that he called it to
demonstrate its failure. Either that or
the failure will be put on some one
else's shoulders.
'The real friends of disarmament
have begun to bestir themselves to
haye the conference sessions open to
the public. The decision on that issue
they believe will be a test of the suc
cess or failure of the conference.
There is an overwhelming majority
of the American oeonle in favor of
the reduction cf armament but only
in open session can they bring; their
influence to bear.
Tribute to Kitchen.
It was a fine tribute the Democrats
in (he House paid last week to tht ir
absent leader, Claude Kitchen, in
adopting his report on the tax bill.
Mr. Kitchen as minority leader has
not been on the floor of the House
since it met last April and his absence
has been a great loss to his party.
Mr. Kitchen wrote the minority re
port on the tax bill propped up in
his bed at Scotland Neck, where he
is now resting and trying to recover
his health.
In all discussions of the tariff the
Democrats have their opponents at
every turn except voting. It is the
opinion of the Republicans, even, that
no one has so . coarsened, cheapened
and deteriorate) the character of dis
cussion in the House as one Joseph
W. Fordney, the present chairman of
the ways means committee.
Mr. Fordney is as vulgar as he is
ignorant. He uses the language of the
fish market in debate but under the
guise of cheap humor. The other day
while he was engaged in holding the
Democrats up to scorn for their al
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using the rilroads during the, war, he
was cornered from the Democratic
side with the query: "Did you not
vote to put the railrods into the hands
of the government then under the
Democrats?" and his reply throws a
flood of light on the present low moral
status of the political party that is
now conducting the government at
Washington. "Yes", he retorted, "I
voted to put the tWilson administra
tion in a hole, and we did it."
It was a bad break and instantly
he saw it mirrored in the faces of
some of his party colleagues, and then
he sought to turn it off aa a joke.
But this old political reprobate and
ignoramus had under pressure blurted
out the underlying motive of his
party's action in dealing with the
Democrats. As the New York World
has pointed out, Mr. Fordney and his
party have now put the country and
the Republican themselves in the
hole he claims to have bored for the
Democrats.
Major Charles M. Stedman, the
solitary Confederate soldier in the
House and now eighty, 4eft here on
Saturday to deliver one of the hap
piest speeches of his life, a beautiful
tribute to the immortal heroism of
the North Carolina soldiers in the
war between the States, at Durham
on Tuesday. In that speech the major
has repeated a story that will never
grow old as long as there is a State
of North Carolina with the kind of
red blooded, strong hearted men and
women who now inhabit it;
The Impossible Accomplished.
North Carolina tobacco growers
haye accomplished the "impossible."
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With a total of 395,000,000 pounds,
cf the farmers' sales of tobacco re
ported to March 1st and 'enough in
evidence to make 420,000,000 pounds
as having been produced in North j
Carolina last year, averaging 2 1-2 :
cents per pound, the State has ac,
compiished wnat Kentucky tobacco
men said was "impossible."
The February tobacco sales in
North Carolina show a total of 67,-
59,216,289 pounds wore producers 'sales.
The average price was $18.60 as com
pared with $31.43 a year ago. The
leading markets were respectively,
.Winston-Salem 11097,624 at $19.7;
Wilson 10,193,469 at 19.48; Greenville
5,965,749 at $18.15; and Rocky Mount
695-,986 at $18.50. There were thir
teen times as much sold as in Febru
ary a year ago.
North Carolina has grown in tobac
co as follows: In 1915 it grew 198,
400,000 pounds, averaging 11 cents;
in 1916 176,000,000 pound, at 20 cents;
1917, 244 000,000 pounds at 31 cents;
1918, 3104000,000, pounds, at 85 cents;
1919, 325,248000 pounds, at 51 cents;
1920, 420,000,000 pounds at 21.51
cents.
The increase dY the last crop was
about 14 per cent, in acreage, 30 per
cent, in production and a decrease of
57 per cent, in averageprice per pound
as compared with the previous crop.
This gives North Carolina first rank
in it9 tobacco total value of the Unit
ed States or any country of the
world. Concord Times.
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