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THE WEATHER Fair Friday, preceded by , shewsr nsar the coast Sat Brasy fair. WATQI LAXEU a sser twuesl I Urs krfstv rstnitae mt amU erver mm ssttv YOU. CXI. NO. 135. , SIXTEEN PACES TODAY. RALEIGH, ; vr AY MORNINft MAY a sjaoa , SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS S'C . i at, imv. i ll VVJl V IH tftnunsn. .". umnnuw- w : . W "'nnSsaw' r . '' W . -ssnnwww ; 7 GLIMPSE INSIDE - DARKEST RUSSIA GIVEN BY MOR Fed Cross Commissioner De dares Bolshevik! Can't Hold Out Six Months ASSISTANCE NEEDED TO ? SET COUNTRY ON FEET Aid From Abroad Essential Tor Future of Great Country Ai Saw Material Lackinf and Transportation Facilities No - where To Be Found; Faints Dreary Fictnre of Despair Washington, D. C, May 13(By the Associated Press.) The Busaiaa Bol ahevikl government it "social ad venture beeomet ghastly failure, , cording to Colonel Edward W. Byan ' Bed Croat Commissioner for North . Buasia and th Baltic states. ' - Colonel By an it just back from . eurreptitious visit into Buasia with fas .Esthoniaa peace delegation and hit observations art contained ia a report received by the State Department. Bussia cannot hold out lis monthi, he Mid. without aid from abroad. '. "The country mutt either receive at aittaace from beyond the herders of Bossia." the report aaid, "or there will be chaos." Colonel Ryan .visited hospitals, schools, churches and theatrea and ob aerrcd intimately a community life, which he described at. to hopelet at to hare reduced even himself in the ten days spent amidst it, to de pair. ' The-government' wat "clearly hope' lets," ht aaid and all government offi- eir.la admitted th transportation problem would eventually result ia the overthrow of tht present regime on-- - , lets help earn from outside Raw Material Lacking. Kaw materials , and th accessary organization to provide adequate trsn port wat nowhere to be found, Col onel Ryan reported and the country it drifting rapidly toward a condition from which no on can see nay out come. . ' , -t -v Laekltitrw-tsMe aid, revolution it ei petted within six months., wis "trouble -t the wont kind must b faced," the report Mid, continu ing! .,';' - - "The general belief it that it will start with a gigantic program and tht beat that it hoped fof ia that the welter. middle class ; intelligentsia may ' emerge."';' Colonel Byaa't visit was accompani ed ia Petrograd by a representative of the Moscow foreign office. ' At no time, he taid was he permitted to make any independent investigation. He saw, ac cording to an explanation of Colonel Olds, what "hit guide . taw .lit to how him." - " Streets Were ndescribably Filthy. S Both Moscow and Petrograd were "indescribably filthy in appearance," Colonel By a a said. The streets, he - was informed, had not been cleaned for three years, and were at least ankle ' deep, in most pUftea kaee Jeep ia dirt. . Only part pt Moscow is supplied with water, few electric lightt were visi ble and there wat no coat and little wood with the result that "everybody wat cold." lie taid. Meat on tale wat mostly horse meat aad the whole pop--elation seemed absorbed ia the effort te obtain . food enough ; to sustain life. Ia a conversation with Symoskow, Minister of public, health, . Colonel - Byaa inquired whether there had been ay attempt to classify and register the poor. ', ' '-; "" "There are ao poor, Symoskow re plied. "In Bussia all are equal aad . in the tame class. Inhabitants of Moscow are ao poorly clad, that "one gett the impression that it ia regarded as disgrace to be clean or neatly attired." the report aaid. The average, man presents the appearance of a "bum." , Of two hospital visited, 75 per cent off the personnel of oae wat aaid to hare died ia the preceding three months; medical supplies being totally ltcking.t. . ' ' Schools apparently were in opera tion aad it wat stated that "in gen eral the children are being cared for next after the Bed Army." At the theatres, which have been taken vei1 by the etate and opened to the public without fee, Colonel Byan' etated he attended presentations of "The Bride of the Emperor," Chaloptn in "The Barber of Seville" and a ballet, "The Bleepinf, Princess. ; l ' Women, he taid, "presented tv doleful .... 1 TJ appearance everywnere. voiori amm declared that he saw ne attractive look ing women during the entire course of kis stay. , Even Water la Scarce. la Petrograd everything made of wood waa being sacrificed to -produce fuel, including wooden houses.. There wat no water and people were obliged Ho go down and draw it up in pails from the river." There wat so aoap aad ao Jiflhting. ' . "The state of transport facilities," CoU Byan said, "goes far toward telling the story of the whole breakdown of Russian "The disintegration of society is glar ingly apparent to the easuai observer. Inhabitants are evidently without hope and go about with a vacant stare. Public morality may scarcely be taid to exist." Colonel Byan taid he twice visited Tschicberin. Minister of Foreign Af fairs, who "spoke feelingly of the dif-, Acuities of transport and wanted to dis cuss politics." The American replied .Continue on Pars Two.) SOCIALISTS NOMINATE DEBS FOR PRESIDENCY Federal ' Convict ITamed For - Fifth Time To Head The Na " tional Ticket Cew fork. May 13The Kationtl convention of the Socialist party today acclaimed Eugene V. Debbs, federal convict No. 2.253 In the Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary, its candidate for the fifth time for President of the United States, A 21 minute ovation followed Debs' formal nomination aa "Lincoln of the Wabash.' Seymour Btedman, ef Chicago, tea era! counsel of the party, waa nominal ed for vice president by uaaaimout vote on a second ballot. The Srst vote for was iuq agKuist o xur mrm. auiiv Richards O'Hsre, ef Kaneae City, sew serving a sentence In Jefferson Ulty, Mo prison, for violation, of the Espion age act. Ia nominating Debt the Socialist party of Ameriea aignilea its determination not te recede one inch from our revolu tionary program,". Morris Hillquit, of New iork, leader of the "eoaservative" forces declared. "Socialism in the United Btates has not changed and does not intend to change," he aaid. ' Another ovatloa greeted thit declaration. iiBlpoUtical queetion," but a question of the headed by Hillquit, will leave for Wash ington, where tomorrow it has an ap pointment with Attorney General Pal mer to plead amaesty for all "political prisoners" throughout the country. Saturday the same committed ..lias an appointment with Secretary Tumulty at the white House to present a memorial on amnesty for delivery to President Wilson. On Monday, Secretary of War Baker ia to receive the committee to hear a plea for amaesty for "eonteien- war for failure to obey the draft laws. Today the convention adopted ' the Hillquit platform virtually aa submitted several days ago, voting by decisive ma jorities to wags the Socialist campaign thia year along "touservativt" political lines. PRESiDEIITWARNS N Wilson Tells Legislators of In creasing Tendency To Run - Executive Affairs v; Washington, May 13 President Wil son pointedly informed Congress today that in. hit opinion the tegitlaUv branch f the government was showing- aa la-ereaaina- tendency to Interfere unduly with the exercise of executive functions. Takine aa a vehicle lor His aantoniuon a ahsrply phrased veto of the annual legisiatTe, vxrcuiiTsi bu kuwhu f cropriatioa bill, the Prsident declared that one of the riders of the big supply mature would muixle the executive of' tiicala with a "censorship" regulated by the congressional joint committee oa printing. Immediately the- Presidents position both on the general principle involved and the epecifie case cited wat chal lenged by Bepublican leader of the Senate and House. Senator Smooth, BeDublican. of Utah, chairman of the Joint committee, delared in a formal statement that the President apparently had been "deliberately misinformed" about ths appropriation bill ,aud Be- prenentative Good,' Bepublican, Iowa, chairman ef the House appropriation! committee, told the House that "there must be soma mistake somewhere. Tatar Coarse Uncertain Weather repassage of the bill ua- rhaagd will be attmpted, or whether the feature objected to be the President wil be eliminated had not ben decided tonight. The measure earned $104, 000,000 for salaries and miscellaneous expenses of many government depart ments, and it must be approved in some form by the end o' June or tbess fuadt ill lapse. Th President also cited several other meaturt enacted or proposed ia the present Congress to support hi charge that there had been "an invasion of the province ef the exeutive, calculated CONGRESS IN VETO to rjsult in unwarranted interference S- , th processes of good government," said that torn of these maeure he bad permitted te becom law, at (tem porary expedients, but that he felt the time had come to call a halt before "destructive" precedents had been es tablished. - f Th section of the appropriatioa bill which led to the veto would prohibit the printing or mimeographing flCny government publication exeept by auth ority of the joist committee. ' Such provision aaid the President would give to the committee "power to determine what information shall be given to the people of the country by the executive department." Already Bave Centre! . Both Senator Smooth and Kepressnta tiv Good, hrwever, asserted that the committee already had been given con trol over government publications by aa act which the Prsident signed oa arch 11, 199, and that the purpose of the present itpviaion waa to extend that power aomeritoriout ; periodicals could be continued. A row betwen th joint committee aad Boger W. Baboon, formerly connected with th Committee on PubUo Infor mation, wat blamed for ths President's action by -Senator Smooth, who said ia hia statement that Babaoa -apparently had "made, use of the Prsicent or hia adviser ia carrying out hi threat and termination : to end tht) censorship which without the last foundation, he bat charged-against the joint commit tee" . - ,-. . "l am in entire sympathy with the efforts of the Congress aad the depart ments to effect economics in printing and in the use of paper and supplies, but I . do not believe that tueh a prom visioa as this should become law," the President said in hit veto message. "If we are to have efficient snd . JContlaaetl aa fage TwsX JS' BAPTISTS CALLOP'?mOR L Seven Thousand at Convention; Say It's No Longer Ques T - tion of Politics LAW OF LAND SHOULD s. BE ENFORCED STRICTLY Three Million Baptists In South Placed On Xecord As. Favor ing Tfrj Nation Now and For . ever; President Wilson Zx presses Se&ret Over Inability To Attend Meetina; , Washington, May 13. Taking tlfa pet ition that prohibition "it no longer a KU LNUI tl VI 111. nuvv rvii. r.Hw ia law,", th a Southern Baptist conrea tlon today called upon both the Demo' eratie and Bepublican parties to declare openly for the enforcement of the eigh teenth amendment and to nominate no one fo rtha Presidency who it not com mitted to thit policy, By a standing ballot, the 7,000 mes tengers enrolled at the convention unan imously adopted the resolutions offered by Dr. A. J. Barton, of Alexandria, Va which recited that it it the will of the representatives of 3,000,000 white Bap tists that prohibition at the law of the land thall be strongly maintained. Beyret aa to hia inability to attend the convention was expressed by Presi dent Wilson in a letter in which be aaid that "it it of special aignifleaace and timeliness that a great Christina convention should bs held in Wash ington because the nation now facet aothing less' than the question whether it ia to help the Chriatian people ia other parts of the world to realize their idealt of juttiee aad orderly, peace. Disease Kdacatlotial Prebleasa Questions of education and the ex- panaioa of foreign missions were dis cussed at ths morning session , today Dr. . 3. Dillard, of Birmingham, Ala, spoke of the aeed for Christian education among the stadenta of the Booth and Dr. Jim E. White, of Anderson, B. C deeseribed the illiteracy prevalent in the South"; which, he declared, h was the duty of the Baptists to remedy. Dr. A, P. Bobertson ,of the Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky, discussed the problems of theological training for ministers.- . . Work accomplished by the foreign mission board, for the year wat reported by Dr. J. F. Love, of Biehmond, Va- secretary of the board, who told of the gratifying results obtained by Baptists in foreign Holds aad called upon the convention to redouble its ettortt to in crease the forest of the denomination among the nations of the world Beportt of the 7S,W0,WU campaign commission and the Baptists Interna tional press were taken up in the after noon. During th? week's drivs isst fall for the Baptist fund, pledges totalling $92,63023 were obtained fit. IB. Scar borough,, of t ort Worth, Texas, general director of ..the commission told .the convention. . Of thit turn, 112,238,827, has been received in cash. . Expenses of the campaign were 1849132, or lesa than one per cent of the amount pledged. The pledges'are to be redeemed within Ave yean, Newspapers at a mesns of spreading ths goapal was emphasised by Dr. L. L, uwaltaey, .of Birmingham, Ait., wno made the annual report of the Southern Baptist presa association ureetinga aad best wishes were con veyed to the convention in a. telegram from the Negro Baptists of Virginia, la session nt Staunton. Msny Meetings Held Inspirational meetings oa ' foreign missions were held at the convention hut, and in various churches of the eity tonight. Representative missions r ies from the front recounted the work of the Baptists in the four quarters of toe globe. Suggestion to move the National head quarters' of the Woman's Missionary Union from Baltimore to Nashville, was made at 'the . opening of the thirty second annual session of the organisa tion by Mrs. James J. Jackson, of Little Bock, Ark. Objection was made, how ever to moving at present in view of th. high eost of rentals. , A committee waa appointed to study the problems attending the moving of the headquarters aad to report to the Union at ita next meeting. Mrt. W. C. James, of Biehmond, Va, president of the Union, presented her annual report and declared the past year to have beta the greatest ia ths history of the Union. Election of officert waa postponed until tomorrow. RICHMOND VIRGINIAN IS ' P.URCHASEDJY. JOURNAL Biehmond, V, May 13. Th Bieh mond Virginian, .oficiel orcan of the Prohibitionists, hat told out to the Biehmond Evening Journal and will be combined with that paper May 15.. Of ficial announcement of the deal - will be made tomorrow morning by the Vir ginian maragement. Coincident with the transfer of the property the Journal will .begin-iaug a Sunday morning paper. The Virginian hat been in ex istence a little more than' ten years, having been organized early In 1910 to aid - the fight to make Virginia dry. It started out as a six day afternoon paper, changing to the moraine: field a year later. The Bev. Dr. James Can non, now Bishop Cannon .served a Us president ror several years with Bev. Sidney Petcrt, now Viriicls prohib ition . commissioner, in charge. of the business office most of that time. The week day issue of the paper will-be PARTIES TO STAND aYS GEORGIA NOT BY PROHIBITION) OPPOSING VILSON HARRIS Sets Wisconsin Republican Sen- ator Right When Attacks Administration FACTIONAL FIGHTS AT- v 1 HOME GIVEN THE BLAME Lenroot Charged Cracker Statt Repudiated Administration la Recent Primaries; After AH Daj Debate Republicans Reach Decision T Vote On Resolution Saturday ? The News and Observer Bureau 603 District National Bank Bldg. By B. X. POWELL. (By Special Leased Wire.) Washington, May 13 Aa effort to dis credit the administration today by Sen ator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, furnished Senator Harris of Georgia, the first op portunity to explain on the Door the conditions in the Cracker State which contributed to a plurality of votes for the candidates opposing Attorney Gen eral Palmer in the recent preferential primaries. Lenroot, speaking for the peace reso lution of Senator Knox, threw out the suggestion in hit speech that the vote in Georgia was "two to ens against the President's position, the opposition vote being divided between those who were against the treaty in any form and those who were for the treaty only with reservations.'' "The Georgia situation wat more oil a local factional agat ma a it was a treatr fight." interposed Senator Harris. Two third ef the people of Georgia are not only for the treaty but they are friends of the administration and when the opportunity presents Itself they will prove it" . senator jjenroot asaea tjeaator Harris if Tom Watson did not take the position before the people of Georgia that be waa against the treaty ia any form. Mr. Watson takes a position against tbe ilemoeratie party and against tne treaty on all occasions replied tht junior Georgia Benator. The support- era of my colleague, the senior Senator front Georgia,. Mr, Smith, are just aa good administration -aaesv as supporters or Mr. Palmer, t waf snore of a local fight than it -waa treaty fight aad I think I knew conditions ia Georgia. Does the Benator think that with the inn made by tht Senator from Georgia, Mr. Smith, against the treaty exeept with reservations, tbe vote he received wat an endorsement of the administra tion or the treaty without reservationst" Lenroot questioned Harris. I make the statement that the sup porters of Senator Smith in Georgia are just as good Democrats and just ns good 'administration men' at the tapportert of Mr. Palmer. - The fight ia Georgia wat a factional political fight with the national committeemen and six dele- Cat to the national convention at stake not a fight against tbe administra tion." . - "I have a letter from GeortTia." con tinued Harris, "written by one of tbe loading of the State, ia which he says that all the people of. his town voted for Senator Smith but that every man there who voted for Senator Smith ia a friend of the administration, a friend of mine and a frined ef the Democratic party." The -Georgia situation it less perplex ing to Tar Heels who are more or less familiar with Tom Watson than it it' to Lenroot, from Wisconsin. It is also comprehensible to the Southern Dem ocrats who have watched Senator Smith in action tince Wood row Wilton became President. There is an old story that President Wilson was once a struggling lawyer ia Atlanta when Hoke Smith hod a big practice Wilson had to quit the law business and to to teaching. Several years later Mr. Wilson cam nere at tbe en let magistrate of the natioa aad Senator Smith vti ml. . O .1 J ouumcrn oenaior. BEPUBLICANS DECIDE TO VOTE O.f RESOLUTION 8ATUBDAY Washington. D. C Mav 1.1 Tt.. Senate agreed today to vote at 4:00 o eioet next Saturday on the Bepub lican peace resolution. The arrangement followed an im portant revision of the measure by the Bepublican leadership in .striking out ths clause requesting tbe Presi dent to negotiate a separate ' pesee treaty with Germany in order to "es tablish friendly relations aad com mercial intercourse." . x Adoption of the resolution is con ceded by Democratic opponents with a veto by President Wilson regarded aa equally certain. House Bepubli cans aaid today that the Senate. reso lution probably would be tent to con ference, for ' adjustment with that passed . by the House. Some leaders, however, were taid te favor immediate acceptance of the Knox resolution by the House. ' i, It proposes to repeal war declara tions with both Germaay and Austria while the House measure dealt with Germany alone and differed radically also -in other respects. - , . General indisposition or (Senators to discuss the resolution led to today's agreement for final action Saturday in .which party leaders concurred. Few more speeches are planned and tbe resolution wat laid aside after ad dresses in i its support by - Senators Kellogg of Minnesota, and Lenroot, of Wisconsin, Bepublican members ef the "Mild Beservstioa" group ia the treaty fioiit. , Both- Senators crrticixed Presi dent Wilson, charging him with delsy Ing peace by his position' on ths treaty and predicting Bepubliean suc cess in the November campaign if the SECRETARY NEVER SIGNED CABLE TO Secretary of Navy Declares His Name Forged To Copy Pre sented By Admiral ,s DANIELS GIVES ORIGINAL TO SENATE COMMITTEE ITECOMMI nsidred . Admiral Consumed ... Cargo Ships More Important Than Troop Ships; This Caused Department flinch Anxiety" Secretary Says; Submarines Attacked Conroy Ships Washington, May 13 Secretary Daa iels told th Senate Navy Investigating committee today that he haiLnot signed a cablegram bearing what purported to be his signature which was among those read te the committee by Bear Admiral Sim's when the iavestigatloa. began. Tbe original of the me age, Mr. Dsniels said, 'did not show kis signature aad he added that hi aana had been forged to the copy presented by Admiral Sims. Mr. Daniels declared Admiral Sims, ia his statement had stressed the words "signed. Daniela" ia commenting on the message, aad had said that Its purport had made hint feel like "jumping over board." The cablegram concluded with the sentence: Iu regard to convoys, I eeatider that American vessel having armed guard are safer when tailing independently." Present Origins! Cablegram. The original of the cable waa found at the British embassy, through which it was transmitted aad waa signed A. T. Carter, by direction ef the Chief of Naval O Derations.'' Mr. Daniels told the committee, presenting photostatic copies of the original dis pa tc. Somewhere somebody was guilty of signing my name to an official document which th original, here produced, shows J I never signed," aaid Mr, Daniels, "or of altering a dispatch by erasing the real signature and substituting -Daniels." I knew that if my name appeared oa such a telegram - it would be because somebody bad forged any aam to it." ' Much, of Secretary Daniels' testimony today was devoted to Admiral Rims' criticisms ' of the deptrtmeat's troop eoavey methods. The Admiral, Mr. Daniels' aaid, persisted ia - regarding cargo skips a more vital to the allied cause tkan troop ships aad took the at titude that th former should be pro tected, if necessary, at the most of transports. This attitude caused th de partment "much anxiety," he added aad finally resulted in a '"blunt" admonition that the protection of troop ahlpt was the navy's first mission. Mr. Daniels told th committee he did not know that Admiral Sims held tueh a view until the office testified recently before a court of inquiry, or h would have recalled the officer from London. Bufeaasrlaes Attack Canvas. . ; Admiral Sims'attempts te discredit tbe reports that the first Americas eoa- voy was attacked by submarines were in line with his atteanpt te "throw donbt upon th entire conduct of the first eon voy," the witness ascerted.. Beportt of' Admiral o leaves and the French general tnnT left no doubt that there were submarines ia the vicinity and that the convoy waa attacked, he eat . The Secretary took exception to Ad miral Sims' "attempts to give the BriuaU most of the credit for carrying American troops overseas aad protecting them en route." He declared that nearly SO per cent of Pershing's soldiers were carried m American ships and that more than 80 per eent of the protecting forces were furnished by the 'United States Navy. No Disciplinary Meaanrea. Secretary Daniela was told today ef persistent rumors in Wsshiagton thtt disciplinary measures had been ordered against Admiral Sims effective at soon aa the Senate inrettigstioa ended. He denied that he had issued any such orders and aaid: Just aow I am presenting a ease be fore a Senate committee. I have Lad ao time to consider such a thing and have ao further comment to offer re garding it. - I will, not evea form aa opinion antil all the evidence ia in."' - Withdrew Destroyer Escort. Mr. Dsniels charged that Admiral Sims withdrew the destroyer escort from ths first convoy at soon at it arrived abroad, leaving the transports without proteetioa for the return voyage. Ad miral Cleaves, ia charge of the ecavoy system, doubted the authenticity of Ad miral Bima order directing the de stroyer force to proceed to Queenstown and made aa iavestigatioa both through the American Embassy aad the .Navy Department. Admiral Sims, he aaid, finally waa instructed to protect the ships when they left France. ' Beferring to Admiral Simt testimony that the first troop cos toy teat over in June, 1917, was not attacked by tub. marines aad that there wasa't any tub marine within 300 miles of the place where the . attacks were ssid te have occurred, the naval secretary preset... d messages from Admiral 8ims giving -e- eoonts of such attacks. Tbe first of these message waa dated June 30, 1917, and taid:' ', - "' ' -.. '.Slats Verses Sims. ""First group attacked by submarine. longtitude 25, degrees 30, before arriving at first rendezvous. Second group ate tacked longtitude' 8.' Strongly believe that enemy obtained information re garding movement; of destroyers and also movements of troop convoys by intercepting and deciphering dispatches teat me ia naval attache code.' On the next day' Joljrts-117.' Mr. Daniels said, "Admiral 8ima aeat thit cablegram: . v, ' It i practically, eertaia thtt the SIMS ON CONVOYS LAST 8TB0NCJI9LD OP CARRAN'ZA GOVERNMENT WILL BCRRENDEK TODAY. Brownsville, Texas. May 11-Mata. meres, ths last atraafcM mt ta "Csrranss gsvernmeat a lea a - the Texas-Mtxlcaa herder, will be snr. rendered to the revelnUenleta by ai as. tomorrow. This waa formally aansnaced tonight fallowing a aerie ef conference between Gen. K Reyes, revelatloaary representative aad General Rafael Celaaga, Carraa. sa eemnuwder ef Matamorea. FOR HE'S CREEK Alumni Return On "Home Com ing" Day With Enthusiasm For Their Alma Mater , By BEN DIXON MacNEILL. (Staff Correspondent.) , Buie's Creek, May 13-Bread cast upon th utters with unstinting haad through three decades of patient la bor, returned multiplied many fold today when hundreds of alumni of Buie'a Creek Aesdemy returned to their alma mater bringing with them gifts that in the aggregnt fulfill th dreama of th founder Bev. J. A. Campbell, whea he begia work ia a one-room school house la the midst of a wilderaess in 18S7. It , was Alumni Day at the annual commence ment. Aa auditorium, with a completely equipped gymnasium in the basement, a 32-room dormitory, a library build ing, a completely equipped infirmary and aa endowed rooming house for girl ttudentt unable to pay for their lodging and tuition, costing altogether more than $125,000 were announced aa assured at the alumni banquet, ia the midst of great enthusiasm. Profes sor Campbell, but recently home from a hospital where he underwent long treatment for injury sustained in an automobile accident, called it ths greatest day of his life., snd Mrt. Campbell, who hat struggled wtyh him through the long yean, wat amilingly ana niientiy happy. An Amaaing Development. Betrospect brought back to the older alumni an amaaing picture of develop ment. They stood in the midst of well laid 'Out school grounds, with hand some buildings, with more than - 800 students, and thought back 30 years to th day whea th school was honied ia a little ,: en -room building of rough -planks, -" where - Professor Campbell, then yeaaf ' man, with red hair and a vision, taught hia 1 pupils. Th country roundabout wat a wilderness ef plnet, with only her and there a cabin in the midst of small -clearing. The old timer of Buie's Creek marveled winch at ths outcome of thingt in which they had a part ia the beginning. "What made it happen 1" Professor Campbell was asked. 1 For a moment he wat takes aback. without words for answer. Mrs. Campbell earae up at the moment, nnd he looked at her. She must have been part of the reason. Together they attacked the problem of educat ing a neighborhood where more thaa 85 per eent of the white ' voters were n table to read their ballots; where there was the dead weight of indiff erence te education, ao incentive but the need of aervice. He preached te them oa Sundays aad through the week he taught them. , He had left college at the end of hia second year, and did not return until 3 years later whea be graduated with his two sons. from Wake Forest, The red headed teacher-minister gav everything. He became a shep herd to his neighborhood, seeing al ways n decade ahead of them, plan, ning for their needs. His school grew, the encircling forests .began to melt away and farms to spring up. The people grew prosperous, and of their prosperity they helped the. man who had set their feet in tbe road to new dav. Boarding pupils began to come in from the outer edges of the circle of Campbell' influence, aad were cared for in tbe home of tht neighborhood. Th Circle Widens. The cirele widened. Pupils came from farther away. Fire burned away the original building, and in its place grew the present big central brick structure. Then .ths Treat dormitory. more homes until there ia now village of 500 inhabitants clustered about the the school. Students came last year f romr-80 counties, from four states and two foreign countries. Now there wil) be the new equipment brought borne by the alumni today. Dr. Campbell feels that his ehool ia standing oa tbe threshold of new . and greater thingt for the younger people of the State. , . "We have kept it democratic" Dr, Camnbell ssid. "We have kept it with in reach of the great mass of people of tbe State who have never been able to pay for the frill that go wittt educa tion. We hav tried to give them good solid instruction, weejing at th for- frontHhe religioni feature of training, aad withxthe expense ef it kept down to-th lowest possibls figure Look ever these --" ! "These" were scores of registration cards signed by visiting alumni with a Dlacs for their address and vocation Among them wer names of successful farmers, bankers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, many .women wno put , down "housewives," teachers aad preachers. The number of ministers wat unusual. Most of them had later taken training at Wake Forest college. "Most of tbe Baptist preacher ia th Stat are men who were trained here in their youth," he declared.-- '' r - -,'. Imposing Array of People, -" Certainly the alumni were an rmp'os- ins army of people. Their automobiles, many of them of expensiva make, were parked together' and covered more thaa aa acre of ground. The little town I was HANDSOME GIFTS OBREGON OFFERS TO LET CARRANZA fil Former President Surrounded For Three Davs Bv Rehelt Instate of Puebla CANNOT HOLD OUT IN FIGHT MUCH LONGER - , Reports Indicate That Scrota tionists Bottling Into Firmer Position With federal Activ ity In Xtstrioted Areas In North ; Several ' Generals Seadj To Surrender ) . El Paso, Tex, May 13. President Car rants, of Mexico, ia surrounded aad ia desperate straits at Bineonada, near Ksperania station, in the State ef Puebla, according to a telegram from General Alvaro Obregon, received to night by Roberto Pesqueira, financial agent for the Revolutionists here. f Instructions have bees given te allow Carraaaa to leave tbe country ia stfety, General Obregon't message aaid. "Carraaxa has not been made pris oner," the telegram which wat dated today, read. "He hat been aurrouuded for the last three dsys, having fonght at Bineontdt, near Esperanto, station aad I think h cannot ttand much longer. "Orders have been sent t th offi cers directing the attaek that they notify Uarranza that he eaa go eat of the danger ttne in order that hia life may bs tpared, offering him a guard te tseort him to Vera Crux, that he may leave the country and be free te go wherever he wishes. "Colonel Crotco, noted for hit crimi nal proceedings hat beta captured at sea by on of our navtl units, together with Gen. Jose Murfuis. ' "As to the shooting of prisoners to which yoa refer, I can tssur you that it it only newtpaper talk as we do aot yet know the catualties en the enemy tide, ' " . 1 (Signed) "A. OBBEGOK." SSTVbVMUillBlD risasa IN POSITION, REPORTS BAT ' Washington, May 13. Beportt from American and Mexican sources ia Mex ico appeared tonight to indicate that th Bavolutioalat Were settling into firmer position.' notwithstaadlng th naeertainty that still surrounds the fate of Carranta aad reports ef Fed eral activity la restricted area ia the North. .. Announcement was made by the Bev. olutionary agents that General Manuel Dieguei was a prisoner at Geadala lara. eanltal of Jalisco, and that Gsn eral Heraandex, Mender, . aad Gsrxs, garrison commanders in that State, had placed themselves aad their for ce st tb erdera of the Bevolutionary government, v The adhesion of tht Federal forces In -Jalisco aad th arrest of General Dieguea were reported by General Obregon to Adolfo de la Huerta, the proviaioaal head of the revolution in Sonora, who eommunicatsd the in. formstion to the Mexican ngentt here. Obregon't report added that Dieguea wat being held tubjeet to Ln Huerta'a instructions. Greater significance , Waa . attached by Bevolutionary agents to the capture of Dieguea aad. to the breaking of Federal resistance ia Jalisco than to the entry of Manuel Pslaex and Ara ulfo Gomet into Tampicoreported in official dispatches.' The Revolutionists have professed confidence that Palaez, de facto ruler of tbe -oil region, would co-operate ful ly with the successors of the Carranx government. They re-affirmed today that he would not take advantage of his position in Tampico to oppose the work of consolidation, but the opera-tioi-i ef Dieguea and th ' failure of other Federal officers in the state of Jalisco to joia ia the movement have caused rebel leaders tome anxiety. With, Jalisco, in line, they aaid, there remained no break ia tbe revolution ised line 'along the west ' coast that controls accet to the important port at Hanxanillo. The element being watched carefully by Americaa officials as well as by the revolutionary representatives develop ment of Federal strength jsortnesst of Monterey, aesr the Americaa border. - .. ' ' -. . UNDERWOOD STILL LEADS OPPONENTS BY MAJORITY Birmingham, Ala., May 13,Complet, official return from 53 to 87 counties late tonight girt Senator Oscar W. Ua' derwood a lead of 3,133 over the com bined votet of hit opponents in th pri mary race for nomination te th .long ' term Senatorship. The totals are : Underwood, drat choice, 1,503 second: Musgrove, 38JK57 first, 3,433 second Weakley, 4,143 first, 9,993 second. Unofficial returnt compiled i by tne Birmingham Age-Herald give. Under wood a lead of t.ooo votes ln ua l counties which have aot yet reported. BOABD OF PICTURE CENSORS " FOR CITT Or GREENSBORO. Greensboro, May 13. A special board be created next Monday, aa the result of a petition brought before ths mayo? to rtgulate amusemeatt ia the city will , and commissioners by a' representative body of citizens yesterday, for whom. Mr. J. Norman Wills was" spokesmaa. Tbe petition has already been approved by Mayor Stafford and Commissioner of Public Safety Donount. Theh pro posed ordinsnce would crests a board with mem ben chosen from the various organisations of the city, and' having WED discontinued. , 1 Contlaaed Pag ). 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