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'. Sews and Observer THE WEATIIER Partly eloady; thundershowen Thursday aad probably Friday LtUI chaag la tesspcratar. WATCU LABEL on. your paper, Ban4 venewsl fir days lefore expiration In order to avoid missing aincl copy. V0LCX1V. '0. 49. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 18, 1921. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS: Ttie 1 I- MAKES A MOCKERY OF EQUALITY SAYS MAXWELL OF WATTS Member of Former Tax Com mission In Vigorous State ment On Tobacco Order . Defends Ruling Now '' Overturned REBATE TO TOBACCO TRUST VIOLATES ALL , INTENT OF STATUTES American Tobacco Co. and Lig gett and Myers Co. Get Their Property On Books r.t 60 Per Cent of Value While Other Companies Voluntarily Submitted Book Values; Says General. Assembly Had No Intention of Authorizing Ketroactive Readjustment of Tax Value! and Watts Or der Ought 'To Be Rescinded; Watts Says It Is County Business A mockery of any pretense of equal treatment in tthe ndminl'stTaTlon of our tax lawn, nrii i- ' t. to bo rescinded," declares Cr;; "::' e n C im'missjoner Ar J. Maxwell m the action of Revenue Commissioner A. I). Watts in ordering na aggregate retroactive reduction ot 12,73:),40(1 in tlio assessment of the property owned, by Liggett . k Myers, nnd the American Tobacco Company in Durham. Mr. Maxwell's statement was the first expression that has coma from him aince .the administration of the revenue laws of the htate was taken by legisla tive action from the Tax Commission, of which he was a member, and placed in the hands of a Revenue Commis sioner, nnd A. D. Watts appointed by Governor Cameron Morrison to fill the office. The statement is printed in full on page foui. The Duke properties in Durham were assessed by the sqme standards which applied to the Reynolds interests in Winston -Salem, and other lesser tobacco interests throughout the State, Mr. Max well says, and from this the Dukes ex cepted. Their exceptions have won Jhc approval of tho. Revenue Commissioner, almost to tin dollar of the value placed by themselves on their own property, Stat Loses J1S.M0 Th State school fund loses tl(t,543.48 by tho transaction, and the Durham county general expense fund loses $28, 13.50. The tax on the disputed valua tion had bee a held in abeyance, and wsj not paid when the taxes were col leeted in Durham county last fall. Under tho commissioner's order, the tax will not be paid by the companies to which the reductions were given. The city taa rate in Durham for last year is not known here. Hook values were the standards used by the Tax Commission during tho re valuation period for determining the solas. . .o . tobacco-irjL wa rehouses. Book, value was taken as the original cost of tho leaf tobaecs bought on warehouse floors, plus storage aud rcdrying costs. The Reynolds company returned it property on this basis at approximately fifty million, dollars, and the same standard of values was applied to all tobacco companies in the State Dissatisfied with the values placed by the Tax Commission, the American and Liggett & Myers companies lodged pro tost, which was overruled by the com missiouers, and the assessment certified to Durham county for the levying of the tax rate for 1920. Further exception wal taksu to tthe values placed, and lat in April, a few day, before the Revenue Commissioner took over the duties of the Tax Commission,' formal exception was fifed by the two com psnies." No Law For It Mr. Maxwell is not disposed to crili . ..etas or discuss the. administration -of present tax laws by the Revenue Com missioner, but takes the disturbing of th work of the Tax Commission for laat year to be a "gratuitous impeach " ment of the 8tte Tax Commission in matter which had been fully heard and determined by it," and "without author ity or contemplation of law and ought to bo reversed. While approving thoroughly the action of the General Assembly in recogniz ing changed economic conditions, and providing for the adjustment of tai valuta to meet them, Mr. Maxwell takes th position that there was no intention on the part of tho General Assembly to provide for re-adjustment of values that were citaWished last year, ana approved by the General Assembly. "If valuations finally determined upon by the State Tax Commission are to bo reviewed and revised retroactively - for the year "lSCOfor aome of these great industries which make large profiti in good timet or bad, it ought aim to be don f ci other like industries, and for th produeert of tobacco who before th eloee of. 120 were hauling their nnaradai tobacco out into the fields and dumping It', for fertilirer " beeause it would not pay the opens of grading and marketing. -Rabat on Taxes. Persistence and patiencs has won for th Durham Tobaec Companies favor able culmination of a rgb that began ' IS months ago. The old Tax Commit tion beard them at various times last vear aud denied them valuation on othe. : thin th accepted standard of book values applied to other tobacco com panies ia.th Stat. 8om .favorable adjustments were mad for them, Mr Maxwell tars, but refused tim and : again to revert it original valuation. "If - this last- action stands,' eon eludes lift UaxwelL they have at las! succeeded in setting ft re bet on their taxes for 1920 apon V basis of about SO per cent ei the value apon which ether tobaec companies t oraatarUy tub- 1 , 4Ceatlaaed n Pag Two.) E HIGH AUTHORITY Attorney General Says He Is 4 Final Arbiter On Valuations A, P. Watts, Commissioner of Revenue", i-4he final judge on assess uicnts of railroads and other corpora tions for taxation in , North -Carolina, according to an opinion furnished the Commissioner recently by Attorney General J. 8. Manning who held tint there is no appeal from the Commis sioner's finding to the Board tf Equali zation. The opinion of the Attorney General i brought into prominence by, the re duction of the valuation of the Ameri call Tobacco Company and the Ligtt Si Myers Company and .the proposed reduction io-ihe-VBnst-rnfl-of the" board, Southern and Atlantic Coast Line Railways. The tobacco compt,ntcs' had in total thirteen million dollars lopped from their valuation while the railroads art, asking a fifty one millioa dollar reduction. The ruling of the Attorney General as furnished Commissioner Watts in Juno when the Comnii inner was an- ieipating the xjilroad request. Commissioner Watts' letter to At omey General Manning at that time allows : "In considering the complaints of railroads for the assessment of their property, tho question has arisen as to hcthcr the assessment iixcd by the omuussioner or nevenue win ne nnai r whether it will be Buhject to nppcil and review by the State Board of qualization. This question arises upon a con- rnetion of the Act ratified March 8th, OA, transferring, thu powers and dutiei tho State Tax Commission to the State Department of Revenue, par ticularly Section 3. I hope that it can e lipid under the law that an appeal is provided for from an : .essmeut by me as from thoso mado by assessing of fleers in the teveral counties." Manning's Opinion. To this Attorney General Manning repuea : After a careful examination of the Revenue and Machinery Acts and tin act transferring the duties and powers f the Corporation Commission as Tax Commission to the Department of Com missioner of Rovcnne and creating the Board of Kqnalizntion, I have reached the conclusion that no appeal lits from your rulings as Commissioner of Revenue to the present State Board of equalization. It would bo an anomaly if r law to have an appeal Irom mi or cer to a board to wiiicn mat omecr was a constituent member. As torn missioner of Revenue, you arc member of the Stale Board of Equalization. 1 think, however, it is entirely proper for you, at your discretion, to convene the State Board of r.qualizatmn for th: purpose of seeking its advice if you -to desire it in passing upon matters which pertain" to values of property fjr taxation." Text of The Law. ' Chapter tH of the 1921 i'ublic Uws is the act transferring- the power and duties of th State Tax Commission to the State Department of Revenue, It provides that from and after May 1, 1921, all powers and duties im posed by any act of law, including Revenue and- Machinery Acts, enacted by the present session of the General Assembly, upon the State Tax C ommis sion, shall be transferred to- and im posed upon a department to be known as tho State Department 06 Bevenue, rested by this net, -to be administered appointed as provided in this net." After prescribing the method of ap pointment, and fixing the term of office at four years, from and after May 1, 1921, the act, in Section 3 provides The powers and duties now exer cised by the State Tax Commission as a state Board of Equalization, and the appellate authority exercised by th said State Tax Commtssion in determin ing appeals from valuations made by assessing onicers in the several counties of the State, shall, from and after the first day ot Mar, JiTJl, be held and exercised by the State Board of Equali zation Composed -of the Commissioner of Revenue, the chairman ef the Corpora tion Commission and the Attorney Gen eral, who shall bo ex officio 'members of and shall constitute the State Board of Equalization, to have and exercise the powers and duties now imposed by law upon the State Tax Commission as a State Board of Equalization and as a appellate court, to hear and determine appeal from valuations . of property by assessing officers in the several eouh ties. The said board shall meet upon call of the Commissioner of Bevenue at often at may be necessary to disv eharg th duties imposed by law npon the said board. May Appeal to Coarta. Only by th courts U ths opinion of the Attorney General it eorrect, can the judgment of the Commissioner of Bevenue be attacked. By certiorari or injunction, it it believed, action may be instituted to act aside the reduced valuatioat. : NEGRO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ASSAULT Centerville, Ala- Ahg. 17. In leu than four hours, after Clyde Thomas, negro, wat placed on trial here today oa n charge of murder in connection with the death of the daughter of farmer," he was fodnd guilty by a jury and Sentenced 19 death. If the sea tenee of the court is "carried out he will be hanged on Thursday, September IS. s ins is COil SSIONERS TO BATTLE FOR REPEAL OE TAX EXEMPTION ... Will Ask Legislature To Repeal Exemption On Property Up To $300 ADOPT RESOLUTION AT WASHINGTON CONVENTION Addresses By Dr. W. S. Rankin, of State Board of Health, and James P. Cook, Superia tendent of Jackson Training School, Among-Features of Second Day's Session By NELL BATTLE LEWIS (Staff Correspondent.) Washington, N. C, Aug. 1Z Speeches by Dr. W. 8. Rankin, secretary ot the State Board of Health, and James I. Cook, supe-riatendrnt of th- S tuewall Jackson TrainingHSchoul, anl thj arfop tion of a resolution to be present 'J to tho General Assembly petitioning the repeal of tax "exemption on iciwi.al property up to three hundred t!Uar were the chief points of interest la to ifayV session's or the state AsKia.?ion County Commissioners, now )n an iiual eonventitHj -here. Rankin Speaks A new basis of relation between the counties and State in public heaitH ork in North Carolina was described by Dr. Rankin. The new plan, according to Dr. Rankin, establishes n standard easure of efficiency of health officers based upon tho cost of service they ren- er. It'll a system which will relieve tho State from interference with the ounties in the, choice of county health fllccrs, and yet will give the State Board of Health a satisfactory stand-1 ard according to which subsidies Kay be paid to the counties. As described by Dr. Rankin, the new system is briefly thisThe cost of each item of service which it is possible for local TiealtU officer to perform has been decided upon in a conference of health officers. These items with their cost "have I wen set down in printed forms. At the end of each month the local officer sends in to the State board & record o. his work made out accordinj; to the determined standard. Bat this lnethod, Dr. Rankin said. It will be possible to compare the work vf officers in various sections and to tee concretely what results they are retting for the money expended. Dr. Rankia alsp stated that in future the subsidies paid by tho Stat to the counties will probably bo dependent upon this sys tem: That is, the State will pay a cer tain percent of the recorded cost of .he health officer s service. This system went into effect Julv 1st n twenty-tlireo counties in North Caro lina. The first results Will be recorded September 5th. North (aroiaa. nhere 0 jwr cent of all the county health work is -being done, it the first Stae to adopt this plan of paying its en -t -y health onicers on n basis of actual effi ciency, Dr. Kan km sail. Adoption of the reolution asking for rcpcnl of tax exemption was the mam piece o.L business ., transacted by the ontmissioners at their morning session today.- Tho resolution was offered by Commissioner Morgan, of Ferquimans, and was adopted with only one dissent ing vote. It was estimated by other speakers favoring the resolution that such a repeal would result is an in crease ot almost million dollars in Ptnta'l revenue. ' Tells of Training School. Superintendent James P. Cook, of the Stonewall Jackson Training School, gave the commissioners a sketch of the his tory and work of the institution and appealed to theai to follow the lead of Guilford county in building cottages at the school in order that the long wait ing list may be speedily accommodated You talk about bad boys, said Mr. Cook, "but I tell you that thore are no bad boys. The average man is more the product of environment than of heredity. Threo-fonrt! of the boTs at T!ieJ"acTson Training School are there because of bad ideas spread by the mov ing picture shows, and because there .' too little Bible teaching for children nowadays. Ninety-two per et ef the training school boys are restored-to. the State as splendid assets. Frank Page Detained. State Highway Commissioner "Frank Page was scheduled to deliver the fVa ture address at the morning session, but be was unavoidably detained in Ral eigh. Vf. A. McGirt, Highway Commis sioner for the Wilmington district. talked to the convention delegates, urg ing the importance of continued activ ity on the part of the countiet in build ing lateral roads, as ii at 0: their support of the present extensive pro gram of State highways. Tribute was paid by Mr. McGirt to Governor Morri son and the last General Assembly for promulgation of the good roads pro- : - (CoBtUaed SB Pag. Two.) Ashevillc Gas Rate Order , Is Made Public By Leal A leak from the Corporation Com mission, by a curious circumstance, put in the hands of Raleigh newspaper mea lasi night the gist of the order of the Corporation Commission to be handed down today increasing the gat rate of The Asheville Power and Light company from $1.60 per thousand cubic feet to $250 per thousand. , ' ' . In this decision the Commission or ders the eompany to make certain ad ditions and improvements to its pres ent facilities as are neeesaary to ren dering service that will conform to the standards ot the commission. These improvements the Commission requires 'to be completed by January 1 next at which time the new rat is te ge into effect : - ' V -: A typewritten statement wai put into the hands of a Baleigk aewtpape man STATE COMPLETES ITS 'TESTIMONY TILXCl Evidence For Prosecution Com pleted Before Noon Adjourn f ment of Court MOTHER OF DECEASED WOMAN CHIEF WITNESS Gives Detailed Story of Han penings On Night of Death of Bnrke County Commissioner, Now On Trial For His Life; Defense Begins Presentin, Its Evidence Morganton, Aug. 17. All tho Rtnte'n evidence in th Kincaid murder trial was in before the noon day adjourn ment and the defense began ill V-sti- mony immediately after enurt re-eon vened this afternoon. Th prosecution presented comparatively few witnesses, the testimony of the murdered woman's mother, Mrs. Brttio Dnvi. as she told the storv of events at the Kincaid home on the night of the tragedy, July 18th being relied upon chiefly, to. place the blame of Mrs. Kincaid s death. While the witness was telling th stnry Krncaid sat with bowed" head" and wept silentlv. It was with difficulty that Mrs. Davis, who is a well-dressed nice-looking old lady, composed herse'f and went -ahead wittrtcr answers. She wore a heavy veil, which, at the request of counsel, she threw back while on the stand. All morning the defeudant appeared to be in a nervous condition and was often moved to tears. Mrs. Davla' Testimony Mrs. lavis d'd not ttay in the court room, but remained downstairs unti called. She was on the stand over an our. Her testimony was in brief, as follows: Her daughter, Mrs. Iillie Kincaid had married the defendant, Sid"!1 Kincaid, about fifteen years ago and Mrs. Davis had made her home wMh them continuously since that time. Kin eaid had many business interests, among them a store at Chesterfield, .to which his wife attended regularly. Mrs. Kincaid was at the store all day oa the lstn or Jury, ryie came 10 in house for supper about sundown. The n:other and daughter had supper tu gether and then Mrs. Kincaid said she would go to the store to try to ge Sidney to come to supper. She went the second time, finally about tea o'clock or about that tim her son in law came. Ae wti his custom, he west around to the back of the bouse ard her daughter got up from the fro 11 porch, where they had been sitting, and went trough the hall to meet her bus band. Mrs. Dawis followed and as she went into her room, which is just off th hall and next to the back porch she heard Kincaid say id a loud tone "Damn it, Ullie, I wont take that from you. This was followed quickly b; what she described at a choking gurgl ing sound. Mrs. Davis hurried to the porch. Bh saw Kincaid with his hands nroilnl'th throat of his wife, who was staulmg against the wall. She test'ned that rh asked: ''Sidney, why are you chokin Lillief and that as she ilia so s pulled one of his hands from her daughter's neck. She felt soraethir.g warm and moist ened her own hands. Running to her room to get a, lamp, aha returned Mid them sinking fo the. floor to gether. Kincaid had said ta her some thing like: "Mrs, Davis, you don't un derttand," and when she said, "Lithe Sidnev has killed you." She under stiod her daughter's reply to be "no 1 hasn't,'' these in a choking thick voice She was dead within a few minutes, Lived With Kincaid On cross-examination, the witness told that she had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid tinea their marriage, that except Then he was drinking Kincaid was kind, to his wife, that he denic her nothing, Mrs. Kincaid having eVe-ry thing she wanted nnd' -free aws ! family, pnrsa Just- recently -.de improvements in the horn g if-inside sad out. Often Kin nd bis wife went on trips For several years he had not been drunk, but had been dr:nkm that night. Iter daughter had told her be was too drunk to crank his car. After the deplorable act, Kincaid had got down over his wife, Mrs Davis testified, and bad acrenmcd nr.d cried nt the top of h: voice, riri.i.ming: "Surely I haven't done this." He kissel his wife repcsted'.y snd took her body in his arms. Doctor First Witneas. Dr. J. D. Riddle was -ths- Ct&l ness bv the Stfit.i when court opened this morning. Mrs. Iiilie K inc. i id's death, he stated, wss due tb a st:;h in the neck. He was called to the Kin caid' home, he testified, on the night oM Joly 1Mb, about 10 0 clock. Mrs. Km v (Continued a Tage Eight.? last sight and L, V. Sutton, of tthe Carolina Power and 1-ight Company, affiliated with the Asbevilla Company saw to it that at least one Raleigh news paper man got th statement. He in turn ' protected other correspondents who are now out ef town. When the itatement fell into the hands ef a representative of the Newt and Observer, he started an investiga tion.. Members of the Corporation Commission and Chief Clerk S. O. Self denied ay authorship of the digest of tb commission's order. The order of the commission'i wa ttyped yesterday afternoon, it was discovered, and left on .the desk of Chief Clerk ft. O. Eel to be timed and made public today. How the order became public it yet altogether a wanystery. Invettlgatioa today will develop the fact ' . , KITCHIN URGES DEMOCRATS TO WAGE BITTER FIGHT ON REPUBLICAN TAX MEASURE MAMMOTH KANNAPOLIS OPENS WITHOUT DISORDER Seven Hundred Sixty Opera tives Return To Work In Great Towel Plant While Troops Stand Guard MILL TO'VM AS QUIET AS A JNE DAY IN THE GREAT SAHARA DESERT Edgar Wallace, Personal Bep resentative, of Samuel Com rers, Arrives On Scene and Gets Big Welcome From; Textile Workers -t WillFire His "First Verbal Volleys In Speeches Today, Desires To Conciliate'; Talks About World's Troubles; Sftuation at Concord Unchanged By JOHN A. LIVINGSTONE (Staff Correspondent.) Concord, Aug. 17. Svven hundred and sixty operatives went to work when the mammoth Cannon towel factory reopen ed at Kannapolis this morning, or one- third the -normal number employed when the mill runs at full capacity. They were not molested unless they stopped moving while within enr shot of the gates, where guardsmen of the Twin City National Guard walked their posts in a military manner and en forced, the walking ordin;ece with tern impartiality. Kannapolis, an unincorporated vil lage of six thousand people, has 1 chamber of commerce and in common with most North Carolina towns of that size liket to 'boast that it has the best folks in the world. They will admit that there are a few bums, but insist that they are the exception and not the rule. No Semblance of Disorder Whether it was tho military-or n,ntu ral Instincts of the people living in' the village, which is owned from center to circumference by the Cannons, there has not for the last two days been even the slightest semblance of disorder. It had the appearance yesterday and to day of being even more orderly than Raleigh. A scanty hundred men giith ercd at a corner eating house while the workmen marched through the gates to- work this murning. Aloiiia. tho street . . W fT-U . were a i"w scaiiereu groups. 1110 ioivn was aiiict as a June day in the desert of Sahara. From the top of a three story dormi tory a Browning automatic machine gun". in charge ef a sound of soldiers was Teady for instant duty. Major Fai son left no details jnconipWo fnr perfect enforcement of all military reg illations. Automobile after automobile loaded to the till with women rolled into the enclosure th nt surrounded the, forty acres of textile machinery verybody was in good spirits and most happv of all wns ('. A. Cannon, presi dent of the Cannon Manufacturing Company, who supervised the starting - Sltaation Unchanged The situation remained unchanged in Concord. Edgar Wallace, personal rei resentative of Samuel Gompers, arrived early this morning from Washington andlwas met it the station-by a-thou sand textile workers. They gave .him a rousing welcome, but he made no speech He will fire his first verbal volley to morrow afternoon in the graded school building here and later in the day at Kannapolis. He is a mild mannered man of oca dcrair habits, who talks of co-operation and dreams of building a new empire in America by eclaimyig waste Innd upon which to place unemployed people and thus aid in creating new markets for mill and factory. He thinks in terms of the nation snd regards the little trn-.ibie down here as nn. nf tim minor Rvnuitomi of the sick liness that has atakod the world. The world is sick, lie repeated over and over as he talked with newspaper men. Some thing is wrong, he added, us "he quoted Secretary of labor Davis figures show ing over five million idle people in An erica today. Gompen' -MerrTttk-s lie seavxl almost to repent of his efforts in Washington in behalf o,f a high tariff tn prevent dumping of for eign product. He has been lobbying n Washington for a high tariff1 during the past few years, but only is ae emergency measure, he titys, because (Centianed en Page Nine.) PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO VISIT ASHEWLLE . Afhtvlllc, Aug. 17. Following th receipt ef Information from a member ef President HardiniT oBela! fasnlly that the President contemplate spending a week or mr la AaacYllle before the dis armament conference convenes In Waihisrtoa November 11, srriage. menu have been snade t aprovla facilities for the President and members f his party.,. Members of the Country Clah ar arranging to permit the dm r the club, golf conn by the President aad his . party daring their stay here, la the vent k decides t cent. MILL AT MORRISON TO SPEAK AT CONCORD FRIDAY Announces He Will Go To Tex tile Strike District After Cor'crcnce Asheville, Aug. 17. Governor Morrison will addresa a mass meet ing on the laws of graded school Number 2 at Corkord Friday after, noon at J o'clock, according to an nouncement made this afternoon at th summer capitol. The Governor's address will be to the public and in reference to the Industrial situation (.rowing out of - the tcxtlfr-srrtlce. At " first T.ver-' nor MorrlKon thought his pretence woold not acrve to. relieve the ten ion, but due to obvious reaaona late today he decided to addresa the people of Cabarrus concerning the ' rights of every Individual In the state and to aid on this manner tn clarifying the Industrial situation In that county. Over long distance telephone yesterday th chief executive In formed James F. Barrett, president of the State Federation of Labor, that he would receive a delegation her today. This afternoon Mr. Barrett, F. Sloop, president of the Concord textile union; W. G. Wal ter, bus! new agent of the Kannapo. lia union and L. M. Barhardt, of . the. general executive council of th International Textile Union, were In conference with the Governor for about two hoars and a half. At the conclusion of this confer ence Governor Morrison made th statement that he had b.n very favorably impressed with the atti tude of each member of the commit-, tee and that their presentation to him waa in a apirlt to be commend ed. Members ot the delegation were exceedingly gratified over the re ception accorded them by the Gov. rnor and Issued a statement tell ing of their pleasure at the Govsr. aor'a decision to sddress th am meeting. J. F. Barrett issued a statement In which he.. landed the decision of the Governor and said that the Governor's address Would serve to clarify th entire situation and re lieve eospense at oncord and Kan napolis. Mr. Barrett expressed his confidence In the final outcome of the Governor's address and made known his feeling of thankfulness to Governor Morrison for the cour tesies and kindness shown the dele gation of union repreaentstives. Sheriff, Police Chief, Mill Own ers Tell How 'They Feel About Situation By JOHN A. LIVINGSTONE (Staff Correspondent.) Concord, Aug. 17. How Coucor people feel about the strike situation ('. A. Cannon, president of tho Can non Manufacturing tonipanv: I happy as a lark. We opened our mi at Kannapolis this morning with every de-i'SrlBioHt- in Aper-ation. W do not anticipate further .-trouble.. Tho. aitua tion 11 entirely satisfactory ." Carl Spears, sheriff of Cabarru County : "I was not consulted by the mill owners about bringing troops hero nnd did not knpw they had gone to see tho Governor until late Siindov nfte noon. However, 1 believe the presence of troops was necessary. I could not cope with the situntirin, as it hod got ten lnyond my control and so formed the Governor Chief's Statement. in C. A. Robinson, chief of police, cit of Concord: "I have done my fill duty. .When the Iicks Mills pene Tliurlny morning I wns on hand with my full forco of eight policemen. I had no authority to deputize men serve ns officers, but to the extent of my resources I employed special ofii cers. One of the special officers cursed in the presence of the crowd and wa quickiy ajid Jiioperly dismissed. Ia every case of violation of law coming to our attention, we made arrests The situation had speedily gotten worse until Saturday morning when it be canm very bfid. TKero were a doze arrests made-by our officers for assault and: (he situation was getting beyon Our control. J. h. Wonible, mayor of Concord "There is no question in my mind but t 111 t the placing of troops here wa Imperative to enforce taw and orde The situation has greatly improved and I look for no further trouble. Jlad the troops not been sent here there might have been bloodshed- " Jrhn Ij. Dean, organizer for the Te tile Workere of the World: ."We be iiev. that the proper wa to settle th strike is for representatives of tho em ployect and the employer! to get to gether at a conference table and iron out their differences." Oauld Have. T. It .Webb, secretary and treasurer of the Locke Mills: "We re-opened our mills because our em ployect were asking for bread. They were worse off than the ethcrt because they bad (Contused Page Mat.) DIGEST OF OPINION ON SHE in R Minority Leader 'Sends Mes sage To Colleagues at Na tional Capitol Denouncing Measure As 'Monstrous' HOUSE DEMOCRATS LINE UP SOLIDLY FOR FIGHT DURING A PARTY CAUCUS Adopt Resolution Declaring - Measure "Subversive of The) Principle That Should Gov ern Taxation For Thev Sup port of This Government," and Pledge Themselves To Vote Against Tax Revision Bill; Kitchin Presents Facts and Figures Showing Effort of RepubK:ins To Shift Bur den From Shoulders of Those Able To Pay To Shoulders of Those Least Able To Paj;.. Sounds Battle Cry for Demc crats " 'T" HOUSE DEMOCRATS PLEDGE THEMSELVES TO VOTE t?T OPPOSITION TO MEASURE Washington,. Aug. 17. Democratic members of the House, st a csacas tonight, pledged themselves to vet sgainat ths Republican tax revision bill, and adopted a resolution de claring that th measure wa 'sab. verily of ths principle that shenU govera taxation for ths support of this government." The decision was reached at the fourth meeting which had bee a held sine yesterdsy la an effort to chart a con me for the minority. Th cau cus also Instructed th Democratic members of th ways and mesas committee to offer a motion to re commit the hill 'mmedtately before the final vote, scheduled for I p. as. Saturday. News aud Observer Bureau, 603 District National Bunk Bldg. Py EDWARD E. BRITTON (By Special Leased Wire.) Washington, Aug. tT.Dcelaring that the Rcphlirun plan with their "mon strous scheme" in the new revenue bill, ia to make the tax burdens of the mil lionaires1 and multi-millionaires lighter and of the individuals and small and weak corporation heavier, Congressman Kitchin, the Democratic leader ia the House, today sent from his borne in Scotland Neck a ringing call to the.j Democrats of the South to ttand firm. and not to bo led into any endorsement of the Republican program. His was a call to arms in defense not tlone of Democratic principles, but in th de fense of the people tuninst-the Repub lican, purpose to eonstrucfe a revenue bill that would take care of the inters ests of profiteering cbrporalToni and" further distress the average people ef America. The Democrats of the House met ia caucus at 10 o'clock this morning, and, are again in caucus tonight for the adoption of a line of action. If they heed the wise advice of 1he man whom they 4iave. ehsen as their lender, they will resist to their uttermost the Re publican program. Congressman Kitchin sent his mes sage to the House Democrats by wire, addressed to Congressman Finis J. Gar rett, of Tennessee, acting floor lesder of the Democrats. In full his telegram reads: Text of Message ''I suggest that you see Reyburn arid have caucus called so that Democrats may line up against the tax program of the Republicans, especially against the repeal of th exceas profits tax aud sttbstitittiong a fiat Hft eii per cent tar ..- ". en all corporations, ami against the re- dTuction of the surtaxes ou alL big incomes.- I am confident that I have stud ied and analyzed" in detail more than any member of the ways and meant committee, Democrat or Republican, the income and excess profits taxes and the statistics contained in the reports of v'y the Commissioner of Internal Revenue since we first had an excess profits tax law. I am thoroughly convinced that if the Democrats join with the Republi cans in repealing the excess profits tax and substituting the Hat fifteen per cent corporation tax and in reducing high surtaxes ou incomes of the mil lionaires nd niulti millionaires, thus vindicating and justifying th Republi can program, it will prove to be a fatal mistake both for the Democrata and every indTVidual Democrstic member voting for it. "The prnpsed plan of repealing the eneess profits tax rind substituting The " fifteen perecent tax ha for its purpose and will result in relieving about two thousand of the big profiteering cor porations, making fifteen, twenty, tnorty, forty, and fifty percent, aad over, of at least five hundred million dolls-rs and pnting this amount on the small and weak corporations making not over eight or ten percent en In vested capital. . That is the purpose, and the result will be to make the bur- dens of these most able to bear them lighter, and the burdens of these least able to bear them heavier which la , viojative of every fundamental nrii)-'1 cipie of the Democratic party. An analysis of the statistics contained in the detailed' report at to eorpartioa in eonrt and excess profits taxet arrange j' ia classes according te the amount of . profits each made shown one hundred and eighty corporations making anau- -ally from five million dollar ap- te three hundred million dollars and ever. The steel corporation nude over five hundsed million dollars net profits la , 1913, and bad a net income of twe - (CeaUaaest en Pag TweJ . 1 -- " i i , i ? " 1.: