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VOL. CXII; NO. 1 73.
TEN PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH. N. G, MONDAY, MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1920.
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STRONG MEN WILL
urFUoL KLPEAL OF
' PRIMARY SYSTEM
Washington Hears Movement
May Be Launched to Return
to conventions
REPRESENTATIVE NEAL
PICKED TO SPONSOR IT
.Representative Grier, Candi
date for Speaker Counted
Last Summer as Opponent
of Primary Along With Got.
rnor " Safe " Doughton
Coaper Friendly to It
The New and Observer Bureau,
- 003 District National Bank Bldg.
By K. B: POWELL.
(By Special Leased Wire.)
Washington, Dee. 19. Any more
meat ia the coming aessioa of the Gen
. oral Assembly to repeal the State wide
. primary will draw to Baleigh strong
an en in the Democratic party who; are
opposed to the threatened return of
the convention system for naming ean
didates for State offices. -
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This much can be gathered among
members of the delegation in Congress
as well as from other .prominent politi
hie
cians who, are temporarily resident in
,- Washington. Visitors here from the
State for the past few weeks have been
aa much concerned with this proposal
as with the problem of redisricting
the State and they express the belief
that it will be attempted.
It ia no eorrct that in the agitation
' for repeal of the primary at the special
essiou last August the friends of the
primary were afraid that - Governor
Bickett was going to ask the legislature
to wipe the law off the books, Legis
Jative lenders close to the governor
said then that but for the hasty intro
duction of a Senate bill eubmiting the
4uatter to a referendum, Governor
Bickett would have inelnded seme sort
f recommendation in hi message.
, ' - Ncal to Sponsor Bill
The approach of the session finds
the friends and enemies of the primary
both guessing on the position Governor
elect Morrison will take when tho fight
sets started. Both sides express con
i rldence that lie will line up with them.
The repeal ef the primary waa not an
' Issue la cither tho primary contests
' last' summer or the election last fall
,'. and oaa gars is as good as another
f , as to where Mr. Morrison standi on this
proportion. W. W. Nel, of McDowll,
Who l as close to Buna tor eumnions
and A. W, McLean as any mas) in the
Stats' outside the sat ote CoL Watts
and, James A. Hnrtnose, is going to
sponsor the bill which will seek to do
avray with the present system of pick
ing candidates, it is stated.
f Representative Harry P. Grier, of Ira
Hell, and Governor "Bufe" Dough ton,
both close political friends of Senator
Bimmons, were counted favorable to
repeal Inst full when the subject man
aged to get sandwiched between suf
frage and revaluation. Mr. Grier la
generally conceded the speakership in
the coming session and his attitude on
the question of a repeal would carry
great weight.
There will be anti-primary Senators
en hand although the general senti
ment among State i politicians is that
the Lieutenant Governor-elect, Senator
W. B. Cooper, will be friendly to the
primary. If be should go througlLwith
his campaign forth governorship, it is
bcliced here that Senator- Cooper
v. would rather take chances with the -pri-
mary than with a convention. --J
Strong Sapport ' For Primary.
Orgaaixed labor and the women vot-
- arc practically all of the first and a
'.-large majority of the second, will be
lined up against the) repeal. Presi
dent W. F. Moody .of the State Federa
tion, served notice last summer that
organized labor would bitterly rsausl
''any movement to repeal the present"
law. . .
The women have, 'just learned the
"intricate details" of Toting by partici
pation, in 'the general election except,
ia some cases, where they took part
before in special contests-like the Bal
eigh school election. They understand
they vote the- same way in primaries
V to pick the Democratic -uonfTniees and,
agaiaTit is no secret, they "stood by
the party" io tn reeenit election on
the assurane that they could weed -a,
wide row in the next gubernatorial pri
mary. ' ' :v- . "
The presence ia Washington of Governor-elect
Morrison, whL is spending
a week with Assistant Secretary ef the
Treasury McLean, Senator Cooper, Col.
John D. Laagston, Judge Frank Winston-
and other - State leaders has
focussed attention ca the primary, It
has undoubtedly beea discussed inform
ally several timet during the past week.
What will happen to It remain to be
seen. t, Y. .!
TWO SISTER UNIVERSITIES
ARRANGE FOOTBALL GAMES
Two.TearSeriei Between Vir-
finia
and West' Virginia
to Begin in 1921 '
V Morgaatewn, W. , Vs., Dee. 19. The
Inauguration of oae of the most inter
esting athletio alliances r possible be
tween universities was annouaced her
today when it was given -out that the
' Virginia and .West Virginia bad entere
Into a Ur O-year agreement xor rannu
: . - I. full of 1922-
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. ' 5 To Increase Exports. J '
. rnnA.l,.Mii. . Dee. 19. The Danish
Agricultural .Delegation which ha just.
returned irosa America
opinion thst there will be an Increase
in the expoit of Danish butter,. seed
and potatoes to America.
TEACHER HAS NARROW
ESCAPES WHILE ABROAD
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Miss Helen M. Davidson, of Pitts
burgh, Pa., waa the first white women
to travel through Assuit, Africa, after
the Egyptian ' uprising. After six
months of Y. M. C. A. work in Con
stantinople and nine months of teach
ing'in the American college there, Miss
Davidson toured the Holy Land and
Egypt- Bhe returned several days ago
from the old country.
Farmer Relief Measures at Top
of Legislative Program;
Abandon Recess
Washington, Dec. 19. By abandon
ing the usual Christmas-Xow Yesr re
cess for the first time in years, Con
gressional leaders plan to put through
a heavy progranLthis weeit and pre
sent several pieces of lojislation to
the nation as holiday gifts.
Farmer relief measures hold the lead
ing plates on the program, which con
templates final adoption of tho reso
lution to revive the War Finsnee. Cor
poration, passage by the House bciore
Christmas of the emergency tariff biU
relating to agricultural products and
action,. on several ; other important
measure. - ...
- The Huus -will - ad joorn- ; Thursday
ever Christmas- until the following
Monday, wstle the Soaate, wlth'iU hoU
day .program still uncertain, appeared
to lean, toward a partial cessation by
means ef three-day recesses until after
New Year's Day. '
The War Finance resolution, adopted
yesterday-by the House, 'will go back
to the Senate tomorrow, either for im
mediate acceptance of the House
amendment efiminnting suggestions to
the Federal Reserve Board for farm
loans or for a , brief conference. The
resolution is expected to 'go to Presi
dent Wilson early in the week, with
speculationvaried as to the outcome ia
case of aa executive veto.
The House plans to take op the emer
gency tariff bill Tuesday or Wednes
day, with the sundry civil and many
other appropriation bills to follow.,
Senate leaders are prepared for a
tilt early this week -en the motion of
Senator LaFollette, Republican, of Wis
consin, to reconsider passage of the
Poindexter anti-strike bill. A motion
by Senator Poindexter, Bepublirau, of
Washington, f table the LnFollctte
motion, a move barring debate under
tie ' Senate reules," is in prospect.
Emergency immigration - legislation
passed ast week by the House- is to
be taken np Tuesday by the Senate
immigration committee, which is ex
pected to arrange for hearings after
the boljdoys. .
Another House bill, that proposing
repeal of general war laws, will be be
fore the' Senate judiciary committee to-
. L 'J. ,!- i.
morrow xur raiuai ciioii. lag commit
tee will hold. Hearings Tuesday on a
bill by Senator Frances, Bcpublican,
of Maryland, for relief of persons con
victed of violating the espionage laws.
Important information -regarding na
tional finances, including taxation
bond liquidations and tariff, is expected
from Secretary Houston, of the Treas
ury Department, Thursday, when he
appears-before the Senate finance-committee
, to discuss the House bill for
adjustment of compensation for former
("Service men.. , . r. f
Benewal of. inquiry into - coal and
housing conditions is planned sooa by
the' reconstruction committee, headed
by Senator Calder, Republican, of New
fork; Several- important -witnesses arc
being sought forVtestimony , regrding
cool prices. - " -
Further testimonyv regarding -cable
landings in the. United States aad cable
condition abroad ia which this nation
is interested is to be taken, duriag the
week by the Interstate Cotntneree sub
committee-ia charge of Senator Kel
logg, Bepubliean, of Minnesota. ' " ;
PKESBNT CANDELABRA TO ' ;
. TBB V. 8. NAVAL ACADEMT.
' NaVr York, pee.19--Aj,i,ver cande
labra, a gift to Commodore Perry from
tk - business - men of -Shanghai and
Hongkong, China, afterhis.fanion voy
age to the Orient,' in 1853 and 1854,
has just beea presented ( to the United
States Navad Academy' at Annapolis
by Penjy Tiffany of New York, grand
son of - the commodore. The ' 'cande
labra, which, has beea in -the family's
possession - sine i Commodore ' Perry's
, . , ,a-a - l... if. f,: iv
lone naval career.
The gift was made by ih merchant
of the Chinese cities ia appreciation of
the American navsl ' officers' visit ta
their country and hi effort to promote
friendship between the United mates
and' the Far East. . The candelabra is
aa elaborate affair .consisting or -17
branches with a spread of S8 inches.
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CONGRESSTORUSH
VORK DURING WEEK
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ECU
REPUBLIC
SEUDS.IN HERE
TO STUDY HEALTH
European Nation Comes
North Carolina to Learn
' of Dr. Rankin
to
NORTH CAROLINA LEADS
WORLD IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Only Stat in Union Where Ru
ral Health Work Will Be
Studied By Distinguished
Commission Mow in America;
Spend .Three Days Here
Studying; state's Work
Six members of the Czecho-Slovak
ministry of health, all of them bearing
names thst are as familiar in their
awn country as are the names of Amer
ican cabinet officers Jn America, cam
to Sakigh yesterday from their far
off republic . to study North Carolina's
achievements ia public health work
and to take their knowledge back to
their owa country 'and put it to work
for their own 14,000,000 people.
Three days were set apart by the
visiting commission to study health
work in the State before they return
to Europe. A day ia Pitt eounty ex
amining the organization of eounty
health work, another a) Edgecombe and
another here in Baleigh with Dr. Baakiu
and the heads of depart meats that work
under him. Today they will observe a
dental elinie for school children, and
at noon go away to New York and
Europe.
North Carolina was recommended to
the commission as the State where pub
lie health work had reached its most
advanced state, and where they could
learn more in a brief time than any
where else. No other State will be vis
ited by them, exceptNew York, where
some study will be ma9e of municipal
sanitation. The head of the commis
sion declared that he had found enough,
that North Carolina, under Dr. Baakin,
ia allowing the way to the world.
Bring An Interpreter.
But one of the six members of the
commission speak English, and he in
turn interpreted the words of Dr.
Rankin to the other members. The
interpreter-member wss Dr. Karel
Driml, of Prague, which used-to be in
Bohemia before the war. Other members
were Dr. Antonin Kolinsky general
director of administration aad finance
in tho ministry of pubUct health Dr,
Vladimir Basika, chief of tho sanitary
department; Dr. Bohumil Vaeek, gea
era 1 health director; Dr. Ivan fialek.
member of too Csecko-Slovak paras
meat, and Dr. Vladimir Petrik, inspec
tor general ia Bratislava.
Taking North "Carolina's work depart
ment by department, tho commission
worked for twelve hours yesterday and
last night. First with Dr. Bankin they
took up the general organization of
his" departments and then ia turn th
dctsil procedure that is carried on ia
the State. Particularly were they ia-
serested in the work of Dr. George' B.
Cooper smong the school children,
which has brought some scattered criti
cism in the medical profession ia th
State.
Every member of the commission
made extended notes in an unfamiliarJ
language, discussed the thing that they
aaw and heard- in that aam tongue.
English was a closed book to them,
and the words that fell so gracefully
from their own lip were equally relied
to Americas ear that heard the:
Often they directed their interpreter
member, to .tell . Dr. Baakin - that it
"was good," aad he told him.
Take Homo Maay Seeaa,
Aside from health work, which is their
chief interest, they have found North
Carolina a land that appeals to them,
and their bag nr bulging with thing
that tliey-.are taking home to plant in
their own soil to see if they will grow,
Tar Heel idea and Tar Heel crops
may grow np together in this new re
public and keep each other company.
They have cotton and peanuts, and
corn and tobacco aad sueb. tbinga.
The member of th commission are
distinguished looking eitiseu. All of
them are university graduates, and irom
institutions that were centuries ehi
when North Carolina was still a wilder
ness peopled by Indians. Dr. Driml is
a graduate of the University of Prague,
which ia nearly a thousaad years old. -
Dr. Bankin was chuckling yesterday
afternoon over a little incident of the
moraine- session with tho commission
when Dr. J. F. Doeherty was tolling
the Cseeh about couaty organizations.
Dr. Driml was in the Auitriaa navy dur
ing th war aad waa stationed at Pola.
Dr. Doehertr van oa a Canadian ship,
aad waa stationed in J Adriatic Thau
shins had a set to one morning. Yester
day waa th first time that they had
met face to face Sad both laughed at
the battle in tno arwuc
REPORTED DE VALERA
IS ON WAY TO FRANCE
. London. Dee. 19. The London Time
correspondent at Cherbourg asserts that
ubobs sv riivra, ; iwu.. . ;v
Irish Bepublie," is aboard the. Aqui
tanla, due hero tomorrow afternoon. ,
Boston. 'Dee. . M. Harry Bolan,
secretary to Eaaaena Do Valera, said
her tonight that the report that D
Valera was on board th Aquitania, due
at Cherbourg, tomorrow was "a joke."
"I left aim la Ke - Xerx last nigbtr
he added, "aad he expects to - resume
his speaking tour in this eoantrysome
tim this week. . '
' Mr. . Bol-ad, who accompanied M-s.
Murief Maefiwisey and Mis Mary M.
UaeSwiaey widow aad sister, respec
tively, of ta late Lord Mayor of Cork,
aid that so far as he knew Do Valera
wa "ia the United State toalgHH and
that ia th speaking trip be was to start
soon ho intended visiting tho Paci
coast. : r. ...
More Opportunities Of fered
NowFor Christmas Service
With the original list of Opportunities for Christmas service virtually ex
hausted, The News and Observer herewith presents an additional number.
Through the stereotyped form of the opportunities, one may read the tragedy
of old age in want, of homes wrecked by whiskey, thriftlcssness, and the viola
tion of the law, leaving the innocent to suffer for the real life-giving things of
food andjClothiug as well as the jpul nourishing, intangible necessities of sympa
thy and kindness.
These opportunities axe selected from the great number of eases which the
Baleigh Associated Charities has under its care. Some of the families are slowly
but surely building themselves back to self-support, others t4 waiting quietly
for the cad and the final shifting of the burden, v
Her they are. Bead them carefully. Select the opportunity or the op
portunities that you can best provide for this Christmas. . Then telephone The
News sad Observer for address and identification.
The Opportunities, including these accepted yesterday, follow.
OPPORTUNITY NO. X.
Taken by Mrs. Bobert W. Wynne,
Hillaboro street.
OPPOBTUNITY.NO. 7.
Widow, with one son. Bon works.
Very deserving. . ,
OPPORTUNITY NO. I.
Taken by a friend.
OPPORTUNITY NO. IS.
Old lady and one son. Both work.
Woman does house work.
OPPORTUNITY NO 11. "
Tsken by Mr. Leo. D. Hesrtt, 114 N.
Wilmington street - " '
OPPORTUNITY NO. 1J.
Old lady widow, lives alone. Works
in mill.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 14.
Two old ladies living alone. Both
beea sick, work when able.
OPPORTUNITY NOT IS.
' Very deserving and hard working
family composed of father, mother
and four children. All work.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 18.
Taken by Mrs. H. B. Satterfield, 919
W. Lenoir street.
OPPORTUNITY NO. IS.
Taken by B. B. B. Class of Baptist
Tabernacle.
OPPORTUNITY NO. M.
Taken by Mr. Leo. D. Heartt, 114 N.
Wilmington street.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 24.
Old mae-r-Petldiee-boolis-ind works
all he can. Deserving.
OPPORTUNITY NO. IS.
Couple, husband blind, wife feeble
minded. Bpth very industrious snd
work. ,
OPPORTUNITY NO. 2.
Widow with five children, all work
that are old enough. Childrens' ages
boy, 14, 12, girls 3, 6 and 8 years.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 17.
Old lady lives alone, does house
work. Very poor.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 28.
Old lady and two feeble , minded
children, boy and girl. All unable to
work. Very deserving.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 2.
Old lady, very feebleiwo'rks when
able. Lives alone.
OPPORTUNITY NO. .
Old lady lives alone. Works when
able.
OPPORTUNITY NO. XX.
Very deserving aad hard working
famiy of-- anaaheiy father and . lis
children. One 1'ttl girl very ill with
pneumonia.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 12.
Young woman and two very small
Children. Husband serving sentence o
road.
OPPORTUNITY NOvII.
- Very old eouple. Deserving.
Black Man, Who Fired Into
Crowd of WhittBoys, Makes
Spectacular Escape
Fincastle, Va, Dec 19. A posse of
Fineastls citizens, headed by Deputy
Sheriff Shelby Caldwell, toflay and to
night were searching with, bloodhounds
for Edmund Thompson, 60, a negro,
who last night made a spectacular
escape when a mob here tried to take
him from the depnty sheriff after that
officer had arrested tho negro on a
charge of having fired into a crowd of
whit boy on a Fineastle street , last
night and mortally wounded one, of
them and seriously injured three others.
Soon 'after the'' shooting, which au
thorities say occurred last night about
8:30 o'clock and wss provoked when
on of the white boys threw a fire
cracker at Thompson' feet, the negro
wa arrested at th home of hi father,
Charles Thompson, three-quarters of a
mile north of town by Deputy Sheriff
Caldwell and Turner McDowell, clerk of
the court. The four wounded boye Im
mediately were taken tor-a Boanoke
hospital, snd Peek Austin 17, died soon
after arrival there. Tho - ether boys,
all of whom are expected to recover,
from their wounds, ar James Bayne,
13; Boy Young, It, aad Roy Lee, 17.
Wfafl-attempting to 'take their pris
oner to Boanoke, th deputy sheriff and
Mr. McDowell were intercepted on the
road near Amsterdam, 13 miles from
here, and forced by a mob of s hun
dred men to return here. When the
ob reached Fineastle, according to the
authorities, a dispute between 'the!
deputy sheriff and member of the mob
srose over whether th prisoner should
be lynched or placed in tho eounty Jail.
Suddenly, ar. unidentified man, said to
have worn an army overcoat, elbowed
hi way through the crowd, rushed np
to th automobile. Containing U pris
oner and eiclaimedr ' -
"It yoa'r going to lynch -htm, do it
bow," and fired a revolver at th negro's
head...-. . . . .-. . -. - .
- Confusion followed, some of th mem
ber of th mob taking refuge in nearby
building and Thompson, with a cry,
"Oh my God!" jumped from th auto
mobile and fled. About twenty hots
were fired t him, but tho negro soon
disappeared ia tho darkness. This hap
pened shortly before mldbigKt. Blood
hounds -ia Boaaok were seat for and
the maa-huat began early this morning.
Thompson wa trailed by th dogs to4
his father' cabin, but a thorough search
ef the Milding" failed to bring forth
the, fugitive. ..-'-'7,-. -,-. .'
Feeling among eitiseas, which s St
feve heat Isst night, appeared to have
quieted, down today - aad no trouble
betweem'th races i anticipated, .
POSSE CONTINUES
SEARCH FOR NEGRO
OPPORTUNITY NO. tl.
Old couple and one little girl 11
years old. Deserving. . .
OPPORTUNITY NO. U.
Widow and three small children.
Oirls 11 snd 7 years, boy 2 years.
Very deserving.
OPPORTUNITY NO. J.
Old lady cripple. Works all can.
Very deserving.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 7.
Family of throe. Mother, a widow,
very old, quilts and sews. Daughter
snd small baby. Husband left.
OPPORTUNITY NO. SS.
Old lady Ind little grand d.'inghter.
Old lady quilt. Little girl 5 years old.
o OPPORTUNITY NO. 3.
Very deserving family composed of
mother father anil to girls, 11 snd 14
years. Father Aid snd very feeble,
works around house. Mother works in
mill.
OPPORTUNITY N. 4.
Family of 4, mother father, little
baby and little girl 3 years old. Mother
end father both been sick. Father
orking, but gets very small salary,
OPPORTUNITY NO. 41. ,
Old lady. Widow works all can. De
serving. OPPORTUNITY NO. 42. '
Old lady lives alone. Very feeble;
quilts.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 41.
Little boy with Tubercular hip. Very
v'ught and deserving.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 44.
Old lady lives slone. Takes in
washing snd does work by the day.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 45.
Middle aged lady, lives alone. Works.
Husband left.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 4(.
Very old eouple. Both too feeble to
work, live with daughter who ia very
poor also.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 47.
Old lady livea with neiee. Deserv
ing. r ,
t OPPORTUNITY NO. 48.
' Old lady, blind daughter, aged 24
years aad widowed daughter aad two
children, boy 8 and girl 6 years.
- , OPPORTUNITY NO. 4.
Very
poor family Hvlng near Cary,
N. C, composed of mother, father ana
six children.- -Box could - bo otafteoV
Girls 10 and 4 years old. Boys 8, 7
5 and 2 yearn. Father- has serious
Start trouble and in very bad health
Mother works in mill and has to walk
two miles to work.
OPPORTUNITY NO. SS.
Old couple, husband Mind. Wife
works ia mill. Very poor.
T
SPECTACULAR f IRE
Loss Estimated at Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars Occurs
at Washington
Washington, N. C, Dee. 19-Oue of
the most spectacular fires Washington
has ever seen occurred this afternoon
when, half of - thcv-Femliee Chemical
Company' fertilizer planm was de
stroyed, resulting' in damage which hi
estimated, at close to two hundred thou
sand dollars. A brick fire will saved'
the entire plant from destruction. Hpon
tnneoua combustion is given as the
cause of the fire.
The fertilizer plant, whieh is built
-of wood, wss a mass of names a few
minutes after the Ore wss discovered
A column of heavy 'bhiek smoke rose.
straight into the air to a height of ever
a thousand feet and wss seen at points
20 miles. away. Th Washington lire
department feught desperately to save
the building but could not check the
fires headway. In order to cave part
of tho pier which extended out into the
Pamlico river the firemen waded in the
water almost up to their necks. They
succeeded in preventing all of the pier
from bnatiing.
EFFORT AT RESURRECTION
MADE BY'GEORGIA WOMAN
Ashburn, Gs., Dec. 19. What eounty
tuthoritles say was aa attempt at
resurrection, wa revested here today,
whea the body of Rev. Bobert Rouse,
who died three j-ears ago, was found
besido his grave. Authorities hsvt
beea unable to tlx responsibility for
th disinterment. ,
Mrs; Boise preached in the aourt
house here s week ago, the sheriff says
tt whieh time, ha says, she said she
still expected her husband to "rise from
the . grave In answer to her prayers. ,
The sheriff say that olT November
26, he presented Mrs. Rous from dis
interring the body ex her husband. Bh
had bought more -than $100 worth of
clothing in preparation .for the resur
rection, y. .-'.' , . -
ABOLISH LUXURY TAXES
. ' IN DOMINION OF CANADA
' Ottawa, Canada. Dee. 19. All taxes
on luxuries 'in Canada, excepting l
eohpli liquors, confectionery nad play,
ing card have .. been, abolished by the
Dominion government through an order
in council, A was announced to
day. ... ' ' . " .' :
Prevalent unesjiployment In ih In
dustrie directly And indirectly affect
ed -by the -taxes waa aaid to have been
responsible for the- government's as
tlon. Th order become effectiv to-:
atorrow. . . . l'".
DAMAGES FACTORY
CONSERVATION EXPERT
WINS MEDAL ABROAD
Mf i J-
Mrs. Bernire Carter Davis, whd, as
director of the canning unit of the
American Committee for Belief in De
vastated France, taught American run
nin'g to the French s a measure for
food conservation, was awarded medals
for her splemli work in that country.
Khe is now lusjj wor'.hg for tho suc
cess of tho committee's drive for a
fund of 25fl00.
TO THEGALLERIES
Judge Francis D. Winston
. Thinks President-Elect Is
Headed Wrong Way
The News snd Observer Bureau --
U District National Bank Bldg.
By R. E. POWELL
(By Special Leosed Wise)
Washington, Dee. 18. If ,l'ruiilent
elect Harding chooses to joUow the
Keeds and Hryans in the Democratic
party he" will be "lost in an impene
trablo maze of bewilderment'' accord
ing to Judge Francis D. Winston, of
Windsor, who is in Washington attend
ing to some professional businesa and
surveying tho National political out
look at the same time. -
"I made a tour of the Capitol corri
dors yesterday" Judgo Winston said
this afternoon, "nd I find only a smell
degree of comfort among our Re-
?,ubliean friends over the Marina eon
erenee between Mr. Harding, ex-
Secretary Bryan and the others who
have been, summoned . User.
"I am of th opinion that If ifr
Bryan had given a much attention to
a real effort at settling the interna
tionuJ affairs while he was Secretary
of State instead of running away
from them when the first emergency
arose aa be seems to be giving now
we would probably never have been in
Tho present chaotic state.
Real Problem For Solution.
"Assuming always that Mr. Brysn
knows what he is talking about,' he
said, "if Mr. Harding follows his ad
vice or that of Mr. Beed he will be lost
in an impenetrable ranr.e of bewilder
ment. The Democratic party never got
anywhere following Mr. Bryan and I
do not believe the Bepubliean party
will. The President-elect is limply
trying 'to play to the galleries and ss
soon as the grand stand edge wears off
the. real facts confronting!) Amerl
ean people will dawn upon him.
"This Is a serious sithstion snd one
that cannot be solved by pyrotechnics,
camouflage and gushipg methods. The.
American people in addition to their
own burdens, have whether they will
ic or not the burden of ' tha 'world
in large measure- upon their hands.
Either the ' Republican party must
adopt the treaty in substantially the
same farm President Wilson sunt it
to the Senate or the disorders of the
world will continue and we cannot even
contemplate the result. America is
in the world, of the world and for the
world and destined to b the leading
force in twentieth centnry .. develop
ments.. The Bepubliean idea of isola
tion of bunk it must givs way tothe
Democratic idea of cosmopolitanism.
What- of the ' future -of the Demo
cracy I'' the Judge eras asked.
Need Something Beside Tsrlff.
"Thlfuture of the Democratic party
depends upon how the leaders in bot(i
bouses of Congress eo operate with the
Bepubliean in an honest endeavor to
reduce expenses by paring appropri
ation wherever possible by eurtsiling
our enormous naval and army establish
ment and by forcing the Republicans to
rceoorn ire that the real happiness of
its millions depends mora upon adjust
ing our refations with the balance of
tho world Jthan upon y tariff ' bills
aimed mainly at favoring a particular
port of the .country. '
HK lynching is Kansss," the Judge
raid semi-humorously, "seemed to
have a potent influence' upon our Be
publican friends' in' Congress and they
decided the Tinkham resolution was
unwise. At say rate, the folk ia Knn
sa are-about oa-a" par with, th folk
in North Carolina, Georgia or Texas
when it comes to dealing with a local
situation."
Indicating his approval of tha plsa
to elect the two additional Congress
men which-the State Is scheduled to
receive from the state at larg. Judge
Winston, in moons to an inquiry as
no aa available man said:
-Judg Eicaeea -Himself. '- ' "
"Such a question ' rem'nds -me of the
way wt used to select candidates in
Bortie a 'long tme ago. One man la
particular who ittended the Democratic
eaueo.se when he wa asked to sug
uses wofs no waa aea iu u
a eahdjdnte would invariably say.
xensin' uiyiolf, J .think Bud. Woods
Id make s good ru.' f t-. :i
gest
Excusin
would make s good
"Ho." said th Judge1, ."Excusing my
self. I think either John Lsngston or
John Dawson would piake a good Con-,
greasman-at-large." ' , , ." . '
, The, ttateamaa from Bertie to, one of
tho'. most welcome visitor froni Hie
8tate to oceaiionally-drop in oa the
(Coatinaed a Pag Two)
HARD
PLAYING
EARTHQUAKE RAZES :
TOWNS AND CAUSES
HEAVY DEATH LIST
Friday's Shocks Spread De
struction Along Argentine
Slope of the Andes -
BELATED EpioRTS TELL - r
OF HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE
Nearly Two Hundred Victims
Accounted for So Its, With
Many More Believed to Be
Buried in Bains of Buildings ;
Belief Trains Senjroito De.
vastated District J.
Buenos Aires, Dee." 19. Earthquake'
shocks, which on Friday afternoon de
stroyed several town along the Argen
tine' slope ef the Ande Mountains,
were the most severe experienced in
this country since 1S61, whea half of
the city of Mendoxa was laid in ruins.
Reports from the area where the shock
was heaviest indicate great lots of life
and property, upwnrds.of 150 bodies
having been already taken from th
wrecks of buildings.
At Tresportena more than I K) per
ished and at Costa de Araujo 30 moro
worn killed. It is feared that more
yictims still are buried nndcr the ruins
in each town. Only a few houses re
main at Tresportenas, La Valle aad La
Central, and they are in a badly dam
aged condition. No estimate of the
number of persons injured has yet
been made.
8hocka Ceattwa.
Minor shocks continue throughout
the district, one particularly strong
trsmor being felt yestenwy'sfterSoon
at 3:.I0 o'clock in the towns of San
Martin and Rivadavia. The people are
reported aa being panic stricken. The
city of Mendoxa was shaken, but did
not sbffer any extensive damage.
la the town of Costa de Araujo th
fteismie convulsion opened great crT
ices, out of which, hot water is spout
ing. The water from one of . these
reached a height of alient 13 feet and
formed a pool, in which two persons "
were drowned. A Bed Cross ambulance
has resched the villsge aad set to work .
to rescue any sufferer who (till msy
lie alive in the ruins. "7V'
" " ' Death Totafmigh. .
More than 40,000 persons inhabit lit
tle villages along the eastern Andean
slope, and, as reports continue to add
to the long -list of casualties, appre
hension ia felt that the final figure
will be very high. Beacuc parties have
been sent from Mendosa, but details
from . the . seeno. air the disaster. - artf
meager, as telephone and telegraph
wire are badly disorganized.
Verge Oa Catastrophe.
Th latest report from Mendosa,
coming in tonight, said that the shock
at Tresportena hsd assumed the pro
portions of a catastrophe. Three re-
lief trains have been rushed to th '
town, from which 30 dead aad as many
dying have been brought out. At Costa
de Araujo, which was virtually isolated,
another shock of the most violent char
actcr occurred at 8 o'clock this mora ,
ing. The, death list was increased by
those reports to 81 so far counted ia
Costa de Arsujo, with 80 seriously in
jured. At I Valle terrible scenes were wit
nessed. Thj relief work waa most dim- -eult,
owing to th condition of th
roads, which had been brokea up and
eovcred with water. The .church at La "
Valle was laid in ruins and the muni-1
eipal building's walls were cracked and'
the structure was likely to fall at any
moment. .
'. Record Shocks. -
The seismograph at the M,endoza Ia- -stitute
recorded three shocks 'on Friday,
the first beginning at 3 p. m. It waa a
sudden' and Violent one, without' th
slight . movements . usually .preceding.
This lasted fifteen seconds, h second .
movement lasted five . seconds and th -'
third tea, seconds. The vibrations, with,
lesser shocks, continued for thirty mis
utes afterward.
VIOLENT SHOCKS RECORDED
' BY JAPANESE OBSERVERS
Tokio, Dec. 19. The most violent
earthquake that has occurred since. -seismographie
observation commenced j
in Japan, took place Thursday evening
at 9:11 o'clock. The vibration lasted,
two hours and were so severe that th "
Instruments were unable to give per- !
feet record. It is helieved that the eon
vulsion took place under the Paeifio ''
ocean or in the Gobi desert. Central
Asia.
-ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE TO ' ! ,
OPPOSE PALMER RULING
Washington, Dee. 19. The Anti-Sa- 2
loon League will ask Attorney General
I aimer to reconsider his ruling . that i
the ese of eider in the horn by its4
manufacturer, even after it ha become '
intoxicating by fermentation. Unlawful, '
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of '
tho league, announced today. Neither
the letter nor th implied purpose off
th prohibition act justified such a ml.
ing, Mr. Wheeler asserted. Th attar- ;
rey general' ruling, h aaserteu, would ; -aot
affect the 38 States which hare laws
prohibiting the making of elder which
become intoxicating but in th other .,
tea States it will make enforcement
more difficult if it is upheld by th ; '
court.'
"Th ruling mad encourages aad in-
create th use of intoxicating eider,"
Mr. Wheeler asserted." - - -'.';-' -A)
CONSTANTINE ARRIVES
AT GREEK CAPITAL
Athens! Dee. 19. (Bv Th Associated V
Press.) Constsntin of : Greece re-f
moved from the throne by action of the ,
(llied power la 1917, aad eslled back .
by the reeeat plebiacit to resum his .
former status, arrived in Athena todsy.
He came into the city by train aad wa-.. .
received at the Palae de la Concorde
by Queen Mother Olga, the regent, and
Princess Anaithasia, wifo of , Priae ,
Chritophr.