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VOL. POIL NO 1 36. TWELVE PACES TODAY,
RALEIGH, N.C.. MONDAY MORNING; MAY 16. 192 U
TWELVE PAGES TODAY.
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Observer
ews
PRESENT WEEK TO
.' WITNESS THE END
OF JOHNSON FIGHT
Senator Pat Harrison Will In
sist On Publication Of Com
mittee Record
DAVE BLAIR CANT GO
OVER HIS PREDECESSOR
Strict Regulations Of Treasury
Department Would Prevent
Xeview By Him Of father Jn
Law's Claims Unless New
Facts Gould Be Shown;
Negroes To Continue Fight
The News and Observer Bureau,
603 District National Bank Bldg.
Br EDWARD K. BRITTON.
(By Special Leased Wire.)
- Washington, May 15. That the stir
ring drama of Johnson versus Blair,
which some are so unkind as to term a
serio-comic performance, will have ita
closing presentation some day this week,
possibly the first part of the week, is
tha general understanding, as it is
that Dave .Blair" will be confirmed as
Commissioner of Internal Bevenue.
The only interest that now attaches
to the finale is : First, what will be the
closing anathema of Senator Johnson ;
second, what will be the size of the
vote in the Senate, for it appears now a
certainty that the finance committee of
the Senate which has been hearing the
matter on reference at the urgency of
Senator Johnson will stand 13 for
Blair with three against him, with the
full eommittee voting. Senators LaFol-
lette, Republican, Boed and Walsh, of
Massachusetts, Democrats, are tne tnree
rhose votes in committee will be for an
unfavorable report
That the revenue laws themselves give
a knock out-to the insistence of Senator
Johnson . that with Dave Blair as com
miasioner he would be able to reopen
the ease in which his father-in-law and
others of the members of tha family of
J. W. Cannon, wealthy eottoa manufac
turer of Concord, have had contentions
with the income and excess profits taxes
section of the Internal Bevtnue Bu
reau, has been pointed out by one who
has atudied the law, cndyWho has had
tho decisions touching tne ease called
to tha attention of the Senate finance
committee.
Cannot Review Decision.
" la Section 30 of Chapter, 4 of the
Internal Be venue laws, 1920, it is set
out that all claims against the govern
neat, or claims of tha governneliCaT
u ciauna again me aovorn-i
claims of ths government;" airf
aeeounte whatawr in which the United
States are consented cither as debtors'
or e realtors, shall bo settled and ad
judicated in the department of ths
Treasury, the special matter affecting
ths Cannon claims being eovered by de
cisions made under Section 238; it hav
ing been stated by the Treasury ex
ports at the investigation that the claims
of Mr.-Cannon and his family, includ
ing those of Mrs. Dave H. Blair, have
been settled.
Excerpts from that section, with nota
tions citing caseajdeeided and the opin
ions of the attorney general sustaining
ths view set out. are in these words:
"Ths rule that a final decision npon a
knowledge of all the facts mads by sn
officer used to decide on claims against
the government is not liable to be re
opened and reviewed by his successor
in office unless the decision is fonnded
on mistakes in matters of fact arising
from errors in calculation, or in the
absence of material testimony after
wards discovered and produced, is well
established. Attorney General Laney
said fos a final decision, upon a knowl
edge of all the facts,' made by an officer
authorised to decide on claims against
ths government, is liable to be opened
and reviewed by his successor in office,
every change in the officer will produee
a new hearing of the claim, and the ac
counts of the government will always
remain open and unsettled. When an
account has ones been adjusted by the
accounting officers, il csnnot be reopened
unless relief is afforded by special act,"
Want Record Made Pabllc
That the public should see the offi
cial record of the hearings, so ss to
know both of the charges of Senator
Johnson and the defense of Mr. Blair
is the feeling both in and out of Con
gress ct a large number, for the mat
ter affects one who is to be a public
official. In making the attempt to se
cure open executive sessions of the
Senate that there might bo publicity
in regard to the confirmation of nomi
nees of the President, as stated by me
yesterday, Senator Pat Harrison, of
Mississippi, in urging the passage or a
measure to seenre this introduced by
him, turning to Senstor Johnson in the
course of his remarks, brought the Blair
matter forward by saying:
"Why should the public not know
about these charges against this
nominee! The Senator from California
is opposing the confirmation of a man
named for high office by the President,
but his protests are heard in executive
session of the eommittee and the
Senate. I contend that the public is
entitled to know the truth in cases of
this sort involving public officials."
. While Senator Harrison will not ob
tain open executive sessions, there is a
possibility that the committee hearings
on the Blair ease may 'be made public
by resolution of the eommittee.
Negroes Coatlnse Fight.
The negroes having obtained the ap
pointment of a negro as a special assist
ant in the Department of Justice, At
torney General Daugherty saying that
this assistant would have to do with
eases havingto do' with negroes, are
now making a fight to secure the ap
pointment ' of a negro as Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia.
Ths position is now held by a white
man but negro organizations are calling
for ths appointment of a negro. The
Central Northwest Citizens' Association,
a negro association, at a meeting held
Friday night endorsed for that position
John IL Paynter, prominent in colored
civic associations here. And they sra
still after the appointment of negroes
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That Halted The World's Greatest War
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Museum of Military relies, is the dining
armistice commission and the German officials signed the armistice on Novem
ber 11, 1918. In the background will be noticed the dome which covers the tomb
of Napoleon.
DEVEREUX WEALTH
HAS TAKEN WINGS
Investigation Into Mysterious
Death Turns To Disposition
Of Judge's Money
Tulsa, Okla May: 14. Ths investiga
tion of tho Judge John Deveredx death
mystery today veered to an inquiry as
to what became of the 'judge's, wealth,
for la the wast twa saoatna he Is known
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to bavt bad considerable moneynclud-
ing ths missing tea-thousani dollar
note. . , - s - - -. i-
8. C 8tockard, of Wilmington, N. C,
personal represents tiv o( Mrs. Samuel
T. Ashe, sister of Judge Devereux, wired
todsy that hs would reach Tulsa Mon
day to direct tha search for ths last
w'tB of Judge Devereux and in other
ways look after Mrs. Ashe's interests.
While the discovery of five persons
who say that Judge Devereux told them
he injured himself by a fall from bis
bed, will clear the two women, Mrs.
Jens James and Goldie Gordon, of the
murder charge, other charges "are facing
ths women, one being that of appropri
ating 11,200 from the Judge during the
ten days that they nursed mm, on
the grounds of expenses and salary,
Another charge, that of violating the
State clinic law, is also to bs invoked
sgainst the Gordon woman, it .being
learned that she married twice while
still under medical examination. It
became known, today that the James
woman will reeciTe 6,000 in settlement
of her claim to have been the common
law wife of an Indian in Texas named
Jones. .
CONCERN IN TWIN CITY
CHARTERS OCEAN LINER
Winston Salem, May 15. After nego
tiations involving ' considerable inter
national diplomacy, Poind exter-Monta-aue-White
Company, a well known real
estate and ' investment corporation of
Winston-Salem has secured - frv. the
naval department of the Turkish or
Ottoman Government at Constanti
nople charter for the Steamship "GUI
Djemal," a fast passenger express liner
of 19,000 ton's displacement, now
anchored in the port' of New York.
Stories appearing in the New York
Commercial, and -other metropolitan
newspapers,, to the i effect that a Winston-Salem
concern ' henl secured a
charter to one of the fastest steamships
in the trans-Atlantic service were veri
fied at the 'office 'of "Poindcxtcr-Monta-gue-White
Company. . Officers ' of the
company said the vessel will make her
initial voyage under, the. new charter
on May 23, when she is scheduled to
clear the port of New. York with, pas
sengers and cargo for Constantinople
and porta in the Black Sea.
POSSES SEARCHING FOR
NEGROES WHO KILLED MAN
Charlotte, May 15.-Bespits the fact
that large posses of ci(izeJUvare scour
ing Mecklenburg and 1 adjoining-counties,
ths two negro men who at a late
hour last night shot and killed George
L. Keller, white grocer, on East Elev
enth street, tave . not - been : captured.
Keller was on' his way home when
killed. . - - -
The negroes took his money, which
represented ths day's sales. They were
described by. a .negro watchman at a
plant several blocks away as being very
black, one fat, the other slender. The
watchman did not know anything had
happened. A few minutes atsr the
shooting Chief of Police. Orr had a
larg number of bis force' and .blood
hounds on thetrail and Dhonrl and
wired all towns in this section. Robbery
was assigned as the cause for the deedJ
Keller was shot from 'a hedge around
Fidelity mill, falling from his wason
desd. Three shots were-nred. The de
ceased was 48 and leaves a wife sal two
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"Les Invabdes,'' that famous Parisisn
ear in which the Allied aad Entente
G. Herbert Smith Found As
phyxiated In Bath Room At
Home, FoHowing Trip
Wilmington, May, J5 The funeral of
O. Herbert 'Smith, one of Wilmington's
most promjnen and widely known citi
zens, who aa fonad dead from asphy
xiation la tho bath room of his bomel
iters yesterday,, was held this afternoon
at 5 o'clock from St. James Episcopal
church, interment being in Oakdale
cemetery.
Mr. Smith returned borne yesterday
from a business trip to Bichmoad, and
went to his residence. About 11 o'clock
Mrs. Smith was attracted by gas fumes
from ths bath room, and on investigit
tion she found the deceased lying on
ths floor. A physician was immediately
notified, but life was extinct at the
time tho body was found, it was stated.
Friends stated there was every indica
tion that Mr. Smith was preparing to
take a bath, either upon his arrival
home . yesterday morning or later in
the day, and that he was overcome by
gas escaping from a water heater. The
coroner declared circumstances pointed
to accidental death from- asphyxiation.
The deceased was the only son of
George A. and Bozella Wiggins Smith,
of Halifax county, and was born in
Scotland Neck. He wan 64 years old
on the day of his death and had pre
viously planned a birthday celebration
at home with his wife and a number of
invited friends. He was a graduate of
the University of Virginia, and follow
ing his graduation entered business
here with the late W. H. McBary, who
was a prominent commission merchant.
He later formed a partnership with
William Gilchrist under the firm name
of Smith and 'Gilchrist and continued
thia business association, which was
later known aa the Acmo Manufactur
ing Company.
He had recently retired from the firm
to establish the Cape Fear Packing
Company, of which he was president
and principal owner. The deceased
was a public-spirited citizen, and was
deeply interested in all things pertain
ing to the welfare and expansion of
ths city of Wilmington. He was also
identified with numerous local enter
prises. He was also an esteemed mem
ber of the Knights of Pythias, having
long been prominent in its affairs.
Mr. Smith is survived by his widow,
who wss formerly Miss Carrie Wright
Strange, daughter of the late Col.
Bobert Strange, and two daughters,
Mrs. W. L. Griffith nd Mrs. Dana B.
VanDusen, of Omaha, Nob., and one
son, G. Herbert Smith, Jr., of this city.
Edgecombe Woman Dies
Rocky Mount, May 15. Funoral scr-1
vices for Mrs. J. L. Calhoun, who died
at a local hospital late Thursday night
after having suffered for soma time
from a complication of disesses, were
held from the home of the deceased in
Edgecombe county yesterday afternoon.
The deceased, who was 43 years of age,
is survived. by her bereaved husband;
one son, Jesse; and three daughters,
Helene, Lillian and Mabel. Other im
mediate members of ths family who
survive include her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Brake, of Edgecombe county;
three brothers, B. C. Brake of this city,
T. W. Brake of Rowland, and J. B.
Brake of Edgecombe-eonnty; and five
sisters, Mrs. W. B. Harper of Florenee,
8. C, and Mesdamrs M. H. Bichraond,
J. M Peareo and J. F. Pitt and Miss
Fannie Brake, all of Edgecombe county.
HANDSOME GIFT -OF LAND
. FOB WEAVERVILLE COLLEGE
AahevlUe. May 15 The Lake Juanita
property, abutting the Weavervillc Col
lege property, nine miles from Ashe
ville, wss . yesterday morning turned
over t6 tha eollee-e trustees aa a sift to
ths institution by Mrs. Louise Moore,
widow of the lato Charles B. Moore, of
AsheviUc, Ths. property . Js. valued, Jt I
PROMINENT MAN IN
WILMINGTON DIES
SUH SPOTS CAUSE
OF
Interruptions To Communica
tion Expected To Pass Away
Within 48 Hours
NAVAL OBSERVATORY
GETS LINE ON TROUBLE
Present Spot Estimated To Be
Some 94,000 Miles Long
and 21,000 Miles Wide; Pre.
valence At This Time Most
Unnsaal; Visible To Naked
Eye With Aid Of Glass
Washington, May 15. Interruptloa
of telegraphic communication by elec
trical interferences, if dus to the
preaenes of spots on ths saa as set
forth in the Brashear theory, will pass
away within 48 hours in the belief sf
officials at the naval observatory here.
Tho present spot or group of sp.rts
on the face of the sun, estimated by
naval observatory officials as 94,000
miles long and 21,000 miles wide, was
nearest the earth last night, and
today through rotation of tho sun was
moving away from the solsr merij'jin.
Naval observatory officials said tday
that, leaving out of consideration the
decreasing effect of the spots ou elec
trical currents on the earth through the
usual breaking up of the spots, the
regular rotation of the sun on its axis
would within a few days carry the
spots so far from the earth as to make
their influence negligible.
The theory that the Aurora Borealis,
or Northern Ughts, which sends "earth
currents'' through telegraph wir.-e, in
terrupting communication, results from
sun spots advanced by Dr. John A.
Brashear, late Pittsburgh astronomer.
The theory has never been definitely
accepted but the fact that spots on, the
sun usually are accompanied by elec
trical disturbances has resulted in al
most go serai acceptance of ths theory.
Tho spots now present on the face
of the sun, which were visible to tho
naked eye to, -y with the use of smoked
glass, were ant-photographed at the
Naval observatory last Monday when
the rotation, of ths sua brought that
side of ths solar body with la view. The
spots at that time, according to Dr. G
ti. meters, an omciai or tne ODservaxory,
who, photographed them, were about
one and a half to two days old. Tha
following day ths photographs showed
tfc spots to bo awe agitated, tas gase-
ona vapors of which they arc eonrpoaed
reaemblimr a cyclonic storm, sn the
earth, Dr. Peters said, Yesterday's
photograph, takes about neon, showed
tha spots to be near ths solar meridian.
Naval- observatory officials said that
presence of such a largs group of spots
at this time waa most unusual, inasmuen
as ths prevalence of ths spots mo vis
in an eleven year eyele and the apex
of prevalence occurred about four
years ago.
COMPLETE TIE-UP OF
TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENTS
The News and ' Observer was well
nigh cut off from the balanee of the
world for tho greater part of Saturday
night as all telegraph lines re ed to
function after 10 o clock and before
that time there had been continual in
terruptions. The "earth currents''
silenced the instruments completely.
Telephone service was not interfered
with as they are worked on what are
known as "metallic circuits, wnien
means in the language of the layman
that two wires are'' used instead of
relying on the ground for a conductor.
However, this is not practical)! on a
long telegraph circuit and it is neees
sarv to around tho telegranh wires.
Wire service was again interrupted
last night after ten o'clock in the News
and Observer office by the earth cur
rents. " The first trouble was noted
Friday night when o "slow" wire de
layed the transmission of messages
but this waa supposed to have been
due to the electrical storm. However,
this was probably due to same cause.
When the "earth currents" strike tho
telegraph lines, there is nothing for the
operators to do except to wait lor tne
wires to become uv again. '
MAN WANTED IN SWAIN
SURRENDERS TO SHERIFF
Aaheville, May 15 J. E. "Babe Bur
nett, wanted for the alleged killing of
Prohibition Officer J. Holland Rose,
which occurred following a prohibition
raid ncsr the Burnett home in Swain
count v. November 25, 1920, early this
morning surrendered to the sheriff of
Swain county and was plsced in jail at
Brvson City to await trial on the
eharge of murder at the July trial of
Superior court there.
GENERAL ELECTION BELD
THROUGHOUT ITALY SUNDAY.
Bomo. May 15. General elections
were held throughout Italy today. Mem
bers of Parliament were chosen, but so
far aa related to the whole country no
definite results were known this even
ing. In Borne the constitutionalists
claimed a great triumph. Houses were
beflagged and demonstrations were held
in different quarters to eolebrate the
victory.
BUSINESS PROBLEMS
What are the needs that demand
instant attention to insure ths
greatest efficiency in the office, mill,
store or factory! Are salesmen,
skilled workers, accountants or
stenographers wanted! Are you ia
need of additional capital or ef
ficient executive heads! Tha Wants
roach workers in every line of
human endeavor and supply the men,
women and means that are most
needed in every line of legitimate
bunness.
Ths Wants ars ths pulss of tho
business world, closely allied to both
tho supply and demand.
Phone 127 Our Want Ad Maa
will gladly call for yea? ad.
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INTERRU
TIN
ALL TELEGRAPHING
What The Y. M. C.
Defined By
"What ths Y. M. C. A. Means," was
aa editorial written by A. P. Johasoa,
editor and ownsr of ths Grand Bapids
News on ths evs of launching a cam
paign identical to ths campaign launch
ed ia Baleigh today to liquidate ths
$43,000 debt outstanding against the
Baleigh Y. M. C. A. Ths editorial fol
lows :
Ths Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation is asking the people of Grand
Bapids to give 167,350 to maintain it
during ths snsuing year unless we
stop to eoasider the nses to which this
money will be put it may appear to be
a largo sum. But if it will bring the
right kind of dividends it is aa in
significant amount for this community
to raise.
If ws ever needed the Y. M. C. A,
ws need it today. The earth has been
swept by 'new impulses sines ths out
break of the European wat. We look
across ths ocean aad see populous
tauatrjea groping for ths light. We
see them striving often for something
they only vaguely comprehend. They
doa't know where they're going, to use
a popular expression, but they're on
their way. Passions long pent up havs
beea let loose. War invariably breeds
crime. Men cannot go on killing one
another for years oa years without be
coming less observing of the dictates
of conscience, without forgetting the
homely virtues, without becoming ob
livious to the principles of justice and
right.
The world is still in turmoil. We
feel the after-effects of war in this
country, although not to the extent
that the Europeans do. We have been
literally weltering in . material pros
perity. Men who never before earned
more than a mere subsistence for them
selves and their families have been
paid high wages. Boys barely out of
school have had jobs that paid them
as high as (10 a day. The sudden
change from the older days of
parsimony and careful living to keep
T
Billion and Half Dollars Ad
vanced For Staple Actually
Shipped To Europe
The News and Observer Bureau,
603 District National Bank Bldg.
By EDWARD E. BRITTON.
Washington, May 15 Within ths past
few days ths War, Finance Corporation
announced hat it had the final in
stallment of its sdvsnes of approxl
matsly $8,000,000 msds last year to as
sist in financing the export of cotton
to Czocho Slovakia by two American
export firms, six banking institutions
in New York snd one in Boston partici
pating in the finishing.
To date it has advanced (1,600,000,
for cotton actually exported of an
advance of 12,000,000 it had approved
for the exportation of cotton to for
eign warehouse ports, ths purpose to
assist in maintaining adequate stocks
near the point of consumption, and
thereby facilitate business, the cotton
going to Liverpool, Havre, Trieste,
Genoa, Venice and Bremen,
A now application for an advance or
$1,000,000 for cotton for foreign ex
portation has just been approved as
has another application for an advance
of $1,000,000 to finance the exportation
of eotton from American interior points
and American potts, under contracts
calling for shipments from October to
December inclusive. It haa just iasued
a circular outlining the requirements
of the corporation in connection with
applications for advances to American
exporters and Anfericaa bankers to as
sist the American producer. Copies of
(Coatlaaed oa Pago Two.)
SUPPLYING MONEY
0 EXPORT COTTON
Wilson Like Lincoln in His
Fondness for Funny Stories
By JOSEPHUS DANIELS
Former Secretary of the Navy, 191J-1121
The American ability to laugh when
things get desperate is as good proof
aa any of the American s fitness to
survive.
Most people think -t Wood row Wil
son as a stern man, a man df unbend
ing gravity, a man whose very smile
is serious. They don't know hira as
we do who lived with him through the
years of anxiety anl burden which
were his. Sometimes as I look back
oa them I wonder that he did not give
way under the strs'.n long before
armistice day came.
Through the nenrly three years
of apprehension which preceded our
entrance into the war, the years of
neutrality and negotiation, the years
of trying to deal honorably with a
truculent government, the years of
divided sentiment at home, the draft
upon energy and nervous vitality had
been great.
When we actually entered the war
it. was in a measure relief, but a re
lief from one sort of pressure merely
to face another, which, as days went
by, grew heavier.
Calm and Lnharrled. .
We who were with him in those days
can testify to how splendidly he bore
ths weight of responsibility. He met
each emergency with calm, unhurried
mind. Ho gave to each problem dclib
erate thought. He acted with decision
and promptitude "hen the facts were
before him. He maintained a fine sense
of proportion as to relative values of
things, and he wasted little oa trifles
or matters of routine and red tape.
Hs thought and planned and directed
oa a big-scale map America's possibil
ities for service. Always one relt
his tremendous faith in America. The
inspiration of it waa magnificent.
Bnvwers M a sanity about this
A. Means Is
Michigan Editor
within ths sparss income has upset
all rules. Ths quick prosperity has
gone to many people's heads. With
pockets full of jingling coin they have
sought new ways to spend their money.
The social order has been upset.
War always ia followed by periods
of looseness. Ia order to raise the
sinews of war we overturn the usual
methoda of living. We virtually .turn
a democracy into aa absolute monarchy,
giving our President powers that
kaiser might hare envied ia ths old
days. The revolutioa gees all the way
oown, through all the orders in the so
cial scale. It affects the families and
the individuals. While the soldier is
held in the strictest discipline, the
soldiers behind the lines, who pro
vide the food and the arms, are freed
of almost all restraint.
This la one of the results of wsr
upon which humanity does not calcu
late as it should. But it always has
beea the ease and it always will be
when men let their passions get the
better of them and seek to decide ar
guraents with the sword and the gun,
with the airplane and the deadly gas.
During tho war we found that the
young people bad to be given new
means of recreation. The very strag
gle wss so intense that nerves would
have burst if ws hsd not . provided
some forms of recreation in which we
eould indulge and forget the scenes
on the battlefields. Often it seemed
we were almost sacrilegious as we die
ported ourselves while cur sons and
brothers were dying for us in France.
But human nature is such that it must
be able to balance the horrible with
the frivolous. We hsd to take our
minds off the horrors of trench life
or wo should - have-besoms, inaane eon
tcmplating them.
We all know that often the desire to
forget led us to extremes, to the doing
of deeds that were entirely sway be
(Coattaaosl oa Pago Two.)
BILLS THIS WEEK
Congress Expects To Dispose
or Tariff Measure and Bud
get System Bill
Washington, May 15. Final action on
two important pieces of domestic legis
latlon, the emergency tariff and budget
system bills, and possible disposal of a
measure international la scope, the
Knox peacs reeolutios n the goal set
for Congress this wesk by JeaderS,
Agresmeat on 'ths tariff and budget
billa, both of which are ia conference,
waa regarded aa assured by the end of
the week, but progress in ths House
with the peace measure waa somewhat
in doubt. Republican leaders, however.
said it was probable that, Germany hav
ing accepted the Allied reparations
terms, the Senate peace plan would be
taken up in a few days. Sentiment
has developed in' the House against the
Knox plan for repeal of the war resolu
tions ana lor substitution of s mere
declaration of peace.
Phases of the reparations question
promise to come up in the Sonata this
woek through discussion of the resolu
tions of Senstor La Follette, Bepublican
Wisconsin, to condemn and inquire into
President Harding's designation of per
sonal representatives on the Allied
councils. Senator La Toilette has in
preparation an address on his resolu
tions but the extent of these is in doubt,
Republican Senators are aid to view
Harding's action with disfavor but were
reported today to be increasingly dis
inclined to "break" with the White
House by open criticism of the adminis
tration policy.
Naval IBII Ia Bouss
Ths half billion dollar naval ap
propriation bill' has right of -wsr this
(Continued oa Psge T. --.)
seriousness. Ha looked at his respon
sibilities seriously, but not too serious
ly. He knew . that unless the tension
on human mind and nerve is relieved
they cannot do their work efficiently,
snd they may snap.
Entertainment, fun, laughter have
their essential places in life; ' they
are needed most by those who have
the most serious tasks to do. Men
who are absorbed for hours and days
at a time in such problems of life and
death as concerned the President are
saved from collapse by the power to
escape through jest or play. The mil
who can not avail himself of this
avenue of escape wili rot be long for
the duties he should perform.
Lincoln not only rested his own
mind, but refreshed the minds of his
cabinet by. interpolating into the anx
ious days of Civil War occasional
readings from Artemus Ward, or hum
orous stories which he had gathered
here or there in his wide field of human
contacts.
Liked Funny Stories.
Wood row Wilson kept his body in
trim by regular exercise and not in
frequent visits to his golf links. His
brilliant mind relaxed itself by yield
ing to its keen sppreeiatiun for a
humorous story either the telling or
the hearing of it. I do not think there
was ever a cabinet meeting when h
did not illustrate his views with a
story. Sometimes from his own ex
periences; sometimes from incidents
which had happened overseas. It was
not always a funny story, but it often
wss.
I remember when we were getting
letters threatening M'. sorts of dire
things if we went to war with Ger
many, snd ths newspapers were full
of rumors of spies snd plots and
treachery snd treason, ths President
.' .(Continued. a Pags Fir. ,
FINAL ACTION
BAPTIST PASTOR
BRINGS MESSAGE
OF REVIVED HOPE
Dr. Rushbrooke, Commissioner
To Europe Speaks At South
ern BaptistMeeting :
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN 1
NEARLY ALL COUNTRIES
Perieoution Of Baptists Keport-
d In Rumania Until Tew
Weeks Ago; Dr. George W,
Trnett OaUs Tor Completion
Of 175,000,000 Campaign
and Then For Bigger Ons
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 15. Cloth',
ing, food, building material, live stock,
seed snd cash contributed by ths Bap
tists of America havs saved many Uvea,
revived hops and courage, and opened
the doors of missionary opportunity in
practically all ths countries of middle
snd eastern Europe, which suffered most
from ths World Wsr, Dr. J. H. Bush
brooke, Baptist commissioner far Eu
rope, told a mass meeting of Southern
Baptists this afternoon. . '
After making five tours of ths conti
nent within ths psst twelve months. Dr.
Bushbrooks brought a message of ap
preciation from, ths psoplss aided, and
outlined a new program of relief and
missionary effort InstiUted jointly by
the Baptist foreign mission boards, of
all countries at ths London conference
last July.
The speaker, who has been especially
charged with ths distribution of relief
funds contributed by ths Baptist organ
izations of the worlcjf-said that 1m .ths
bestowal of relief no religious or racial
differences were regarded. Hs expressed
the opinion it would bs necessary to
continue relief work on ths eoatinsnt
three years. ,.
u i : 1 - 1:1 1 v . a .
iit..uu, iiuvny uum oven granioo. in
a majority of ths countries of Europe,
Dr. Bushbrooks said, but ia Bumanla
the persecution of Baptists hss eoatia
ued until within ths last few weeks,
their meeting houses having beea dosed
and the congregations forbidden to as
semble there. He said recent manifes
toes had been issued by ths government
granting the majority of ths conces
sions for which Baptists have ssked.
Dr. George W. Trnett, of Dallas, who
Was a representative of ths forslsa
missionary board at ths London confer
ence, supplemented Dr. Bushbrooks's
report, snd called1 npsa ths Baptists ts
complete their $78,000,000 campaign dar
ing ths next three years and the
launch another flva-viiar nrnvr.m A
$200,000,000.
No business wss transacted Sunday,
the afternoon mass meeting being tho
only general assembly. Visiting min
isters occupied the local pulpits.
An evsngolistie program, further con
sideration of foreign missions, reports
of ths committees on social service aad
resolutions, new seminaries and nai
versities, and destitute churches, art to
be considered tomorrow. Women's and
laymen's work will occupy ths sight
program. ,
HALF HOUR OF SHOOTING
EXTENT OF HOSTILITIES
Reports from Mingo Region
Indicates That Everything
Is Quiet Again ,
Williamson, W. Vs., May 15, A half
hour of shooting at Merrimac, W. Vs.,
was ths extent of hostilities In West
Virginia-Kentucky border battle to
night, according to Captain J. B.
Brockus, of ths Stats polios, who Te-
tnrned from the sone of operations
shortly before midnight. After exam
ining reiiorta from the Mingo region.
the captain said that at that hour the
situation was quiet. . -
Captain Brockus and a squad of State
troopers left Williamson for Merri.
maa sarly tonight when it was reported
that shooting from Kentucky moun
tains opposite that village had boea
rc'iunicii. Before they reached Merri
mac, however, they were advised ths
unug had ceased and returned to this
city. .
sheriff E. C. Pinson said his reports
indicated that the shots from ths Ken
tucky hill-, hnd been snswered by rifle
men in the West Virginia side. While
tun Wist Virginia troopers returned to
headquarters here, six deputy sheriffs
continued their trip into ths mountains
in an effort to capture ths attackers
who fired into Merrimac'.
FIVE PERSONS HELD ON
CHARGES OF FLOGGING
Jacksonville. Fla.. Mav 15. Fivs well
known citizens of South Jacksonvills,
including Dr. P. . Watts, prominsnt
physician, were at liberty tonight on
bail of $1,000 each and deputies hold
warrants for the arrest of sixteen other
persons ss a result of the flogging of
i . Chambers, telegraph operator
employed by the Florida Bast Coast
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA
DENOUNCED FOR BOOKLET
Atlanta, May 15. Publication of ths
booklet, "The Negro in Georgia," by
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, charging 135
cases of mistreatment of negroes, was
assailed in three statements published
here today by prominent men of the
Btste. Advices received from Mseoa
were to the effect that a mass meeting
hnd been called for next Sunday to take
steps toward impeaching the Governor.
J. Gordon Jones, mayor of Cordelo, Oa.,
was announced as one of ths speakers.
The replies were n the xorm 01 pub-
tic statements issued by Samuel L.
Olive, president of tns Stats Senate and
r.i,king State official next to th Gov-(-norland
by Judge E. B. Searcy, of
thf Flint circuit Superior court, and sa
( Itiress at McDonough by Thomas W.
Haidwick, former ' United fctite Sons