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VOL CXIV. NO. 173.
SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY.
RALEIGH. N. C, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1921.
SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY.
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News and
STRONG SPEECH
BY POU AGAINST
ANTI-LYNCH BILL
Democrats Present Unbrok
en FronMn Opposition
xTo Measure
ITS INJUSTICE SHOWN
Deplores Prevalence of Mob
Law In South But Aiki
That Southern Men Be
Given Opportunity To
Work Out Promlem ; Hard
in? Not To Visit New Bern
News and Observer Bureau,
003 District National Bank Bldg.
By EDWARD E. MUTTON.
(By Special Lessvd Wire.)
Wskington, Dee, 19. The House
.liii afternoon vent at the so-called
"Dyer aati-lynrhlng bill, or rather
the aabititute far it prepared by
the Bepubliran majority of the House
judiciary committee, and it was evi
dent as, the debate moved along on
the subject uf -fhinrnle "by which the
bitl would be taken up that such ac
tion as would come would 'be parti
san action, for' ths Democrats pre
eentcd an unbroken front against the
bill's being considered, while the
Republicans supported the bill ex
eept in a very few eases, if the ques
tions asked Bepresentative Camp
bell, Republican, of Kansas, when he
advocated the justice of the measure
and its legality be considered as
showing a few publicans in oppo
sition. Bepresntntive Fess, Republican of
Ohio, was first up in support of the
rule. He argued that the bill was
constitutional, that it was not sec
tional, and told of a bottle lynch
ing In Ohio, holding that lynching
called for a specific law against it.
He wns followed by Representative
Byrnes, Democrat, of Snuth Carolina,
who denounced lynching, held that
the proposed lan would not be ef
fective, that it would not be consti
tutional, that it would arouse resent
ment even in tho.Nortliern btuti-s in
the prosecution of officers for crimes
they were not able to suppress.
Pou Makes Strong Appeal.
Representative E. W. Pou apoko in
strong opposition to the rule for the
consideration of the bill. His argu
asent pas vigorous and to the point,
pronounced by many who heart It to
bt the meet convincing -of those
la apposition to the measure. He
made inquiry for the reason of this
particular bill being brought in at
this time, that no one ia the om
mitte before whom It was takes up
pretended it would lessen the erimt
f lynching. Ho said that be had
heard only one frank statement of
the reason, and that this was that It
was in response to a demand in the
Bepublicaa platform and that i it
would be in payment of political duet
to the negroes. He declared that
only Southern men knew of the prob
lems to be dealt with in the South,
and that with Southern men there
is nothing higher than the protection
of the home, fiat in the Sooth so
little girl would dare to be alone a
a highway distant from the shadow
of her home, that a father would as
soon let his little girl walk into s
den. of wild snimals si to havs her
risk herself out on the road. He
told of, the horrors that came with
rape assaults, and as lie spoke against
the-enactment of a law that would
lend encouragement to rape attacks
there arose from the Democratic
side:
"Tell It to "em, Pen. Go to it.'
Beprestntotivo 1'ou spoke on. He
declared that in North Carolina and
the South the people were doing sll
that was possible to end the crime
of lynching. "God knows," he ex
claimed, addressing himself to the
Republicans, "we are as much op
posed to lynching and mob rule ss
you are." He declared that what is
aeeded la the Booth is for the
negroes themselves to put the great
seal of disapproval upon negro rap
ists, instead of concealing and pro
tecting them. Turning fof a moment
from telling of the deeds of beasts
who committed the unspeakable erirat
against white 'womanhood, ho spoke
ia the tondercst terms of the "black
ma-nmy" whom .Southern men loved,
that bo man of the North eould
appreciate the feelings of the South
era men towards them. "My old
black mammy," ha exclaimed, '"was
the on left to protect and care for
as when there were raids oa the
Sooth from - the Civil War." And
tbsa turning again to ths crime
which aroused Southern men, he de
clared of the negroes: "Would to
God I eould ehsngs the feeling of
the rsce towards ths black beasts
who commit the eri j of rap.'
later oa ha declared that the pav
sage of this bill would encourage
rapists, black or white, and would
bt taken by them as sn apology and
aa excuse for their crime, that no
greater eurse eould com thanMht
passage of such aa act Declaring
that be spoko not as a North Caro
linian or as a Southern man, bnt only
as aa America who urged that the
best thing to do with th proposed
law was to consign it to oblivion,
and leavs to ths Southern people in
th fear of God to work ut this
problem as beat they can. He de
plored lynching, bat hold that th
proposed lsw would aot end the,
but woald add to race trouble,
f ; Harding Can't Visit Stat;
President Harding will not bt able
to visit New Bern ia January to
attend th celebration of its 150th
anniversary by Saint John' Mamie
lodge. His secretary, George B.
Christian, today wrote to Frank
Hampton, secretary to Senator Sim
mons, who forwarded th Invitation
to Preside t Harding, saying ia part:
"I hart delayed making reply be
anos th President has beea hndev
peaUnjied Pag Two).
HOl'SI VOTES TO TAKE
Cr DYER ANTI-LYNCH
BILL AFTER HARD FIGHT
Washington, Doc lt-After a
bitter fight lb. Haas toalfV
rated to take aa the Dyer natU
lynching bHT aider a rata Halt
ing general defeat to tea bears.
Loaders, however, have agreed
that the msaaara will not b ar.
aeatod to a final eat before the
Christmas rscsas,
Tba rat was lie to 41 with
five member rating "fisosaf
and was reached only, after snare
than two hoars delay shioagh
a.aarasa calla deeaaaded by Rr
reaoaUtlva Garrett, af Teaasaase,
th Democrat! leader, wha di
rected the aaltla to th MIL
Twite1 " the' Vergaaat-at-arma was
seat sst with warranto to arrest
ahaenteas before ejaarams war
obtained. Tw haan were de
voted to the debate which eadrd
ja tba bill being gtrea right of
way la the Hoaaa.
Goaeral debate aa the meaaarv.
according so plana of loaders, wiU
b stretched aver tho dsy re
maining before the rscsas -which
probably will ' begia Tharsday.
Mara thaa ten hoars amy be de
rated a dltcassiBg the Hit's fee
taraa. Chairman Campbell r the
Riles caaiatittao aald te nerj.it
comprekeaslvo ceaaidevatlen of a
sjaostlea that cannot be side,
stepped.
PROMPT ACTION
IN HAZING CASE
Wake Forest Faculty Acts
Quickly In Expelling Those
Involved
Th faculty agree with m that
hazing ia a combination of cowardice
and brutality for which there is no
justification," declared Dr. William
Louie Potent, president of Wake For
est College, when asked yesterday for
a statement en the recent basing epi
sode at that institution. Dr. Po
test was, in Ralegh on business and
was accompanied by Prof. Brace
White, of the law school it the col
lege. Six students have been expelled
from tho college and a rigorous in
vestigation is being carried on in t he
hope of discoverng all men eo
with the basing last week. Discov
ery means expulsion and kaj meant
that all along.
Not more than three day passed
after th outrageous basing oa the
fourteenth before t atudctt senate
had secured information which Justi
fied tho faculty ia expelling lis men
for basing, ssid president Potent,
yesterday. "A full meeting of the
faculty ea the seventeenth acted
with absolute unanimity. Tho en
tire college community, students and
faculty alike, underatand that discov
ery means expulsion. Thers ia no
parleying, no discussion. All the fac
ulty requires is th knowledge that
a man has been guiity of basing,
and he is expelled at once. The
faculty sgrees with mo that basing
ia a combaation of cowardice and
brutality for which there ia no justi
eatioa. Accordingly, it goes to the
limit in the effort to ferret out the
few men who behind disguises bring
the good name of th college into
ill repute and supply th occasion
for a wholly fain inference that the
student body is composed of men like
themselves. The officers of th facul
ty and th Student Senate are pur
suing a rigorous investigation in the
hop of discovering nil tho men con
nected with the hazing of December
Mth."
Tho names of tba Wake Forest
students expelled from college Sat
urday on charges of hsxing during
ths fall term are: F. Morgan, J.
W. Parker, W. H. Cone, H. E. Do
Witt, E. P. Whito, T. B. Carra
way. '
J. W. CANNON DIES
AT HOME IN CONCORD
Pioneer and Leadetvln Tex
tile Manufacturing- Ia
Southern Statea
C Beard, Dee. Uj Jama W.
Cnaaon aa of th leodlag tax
tile maaufactrra at tba satire
Baath and father-in-law af David
H. Blair, Halted States Cemmla
atoaor af Internal Roe, died
shortly after I o'clock toaight
following an Ulaaaa af several
. weeks.
Faaornl services will b held
star Wednesday at o'clock.
Mr. Caauea waa barn ia Macaw
lonbarg coaaty 7 year at aal
cam to Csbarraa when 14 year
t ng. Ha waa a planter la th
textile ladaatry af the Booth
and at the time af ass death waa ,
president of tba Cannae Maaa.
faerarlag C, at Kaa Basel in, aa
af th largest terra! f acsarle la
th world. Ia addition he cea trail.
d oerersl cotton mills at Can.
card aad ethers at Sattshary',
Chiaa Crera, Albemarle, Meant
Pleasant aad Rockwell, N. C, aad
bad large textile UUraata la
Swath Careliaa, Georgia aad Ala.
H la aarrirod by bin widow
aad nine children i Joseph F,
lasses W, Jr K. T, sad C A.
Canaan, e flits aaaatyt Baaa, .
f York, S. C, Mrs. - kX H.
Blair, Washlagtoa, D. C, Mrs.
Jaliaa S. Can, Jr, Durham-, Mia
Charles Lambeth, f Hsrlatba,
aad Mrs. Charlea W. HUL af
Ho was s member af the Find
PraabyterUa charch bar aad !
for ' years bad baa aa active
alder la tba charch. . . . ,
Thaagh a aaaa of targe f.
fair, Mr. Caaaam lived simply.
Has Wtear hear were apeat
with hi fsmlly, at whom Ma
WU was th cantor. .- '
HOLDS PICKETING
OUTSIDE POLICE
. POWEROF STATE
Supreme Court Says Legis
lature Cant Prevent Court
Injunction
LEGISLATIVE POWER
SUBORDINATE ONE
Vlforoui Diaientinf Opinlona
Handed Down In Caae In
volvinf Conititutionality
of Aot of StaU of Ixi
tona; Chief Juitice Taft
Writes Majority Deciiion
Washington, Dee. 19. The states
in the eiercis of their police power
have no nuthority through legists
tivo action to prohibit tho courts
from enjoining picketing in labor dis
putes, the Supreme Court bare held
today ia a decision involving an set
of the State of Anions.
In the opinion upon which the
eonrt divided five and four it wss
held thst the lower eonrts erred in
refusing t consider an application
for an injunction which was (ought
to restrain certain method of pick
eting. Chief Justice Taft delivered
the opinion ef the court, Justices
Holmes, Pitney and Brandeis separ
ately atated dissenting views and
Justice Clarke joined in the opinion
announced by Justice Pitney.
Laglalatlre Power Not Sapressa
"The legislatiro power of a State
can only bo exerted in subordinstion
to the fundamental principles of
right and justice which tho guaranty
of due process in the fourteenth
amendment is intended to preserve,
declared the ChiefUustlce, "and that
a purely arbitrary or capricious exer
cise of that power whereby a wrong
ful aad highly injurious invasion of
propery rights, as here, is sanctioned J
and the owner stripped of all real
remedy is wholly at variance with
these principles."
The Chief Justice itsted thst Ille
gality of the mesns used in the pre
sent ease to drive away customers
waa 'without doubt aad fundamen
tal." '
. Aa Ualawfal Conspiracy
"This makes this plsn an unlawful
conspiracy," the decision continued,
"ths mesns used ar th libelous
aad abuaiv attack a th plaintiffs'
(employers) reputation, threat ef
suck attack oa wxjn Id-be. customers.
picketing and patrolling of the es
trone ot theif ' m of business
with the aoompalmat aad th
eessequent obstruction of free se
eea thereto, all with th parpose af
depriving the plaintiffs of their
business, to giro operation to a sta
tute whereby serious losses inflicted
by such unlawful mesns ar in ef
fect msde remedless .
The eonstitutioa was intended to
prevent experimentation with tho
fundsmsntai right of th indivi
dual."
Th Chief Jostle asserted that
holding th . Arixoaa law invalid
would aot necessitate holding roid
section twenty of th Clayton Act
relating to immunity of labor or-
jraniation from certain- law pro
hibiting combinations in restraint of
commerce. Tba construction put
upon th Arixona law by tj Ariiona
supreme eonrt make that law snd
th federal ststut as different "in
meaning as if they wer in wholly
different fangusge," he said.
troBf Dissenting Opiate ,
Th 8Ut court, however, ia the
(Continued oa Pag Two.)
RETURN TRUE BILLS
AGAINST J. LPEAKE
Twin City Man Held In Knox-
Tille Indicted On Three
Counts In Forsjth
Winston-Salem, Dee. 19. Th For
syth grand jury this afternoon re
turned true bill ia three cases
against J. I Peake, now la Jail at.
Knoxrill. Tna- and wanted her
a th ehsrgs of kiUing H. B. Ash-
bura her December 7. una indict
ment is for mbeislemen n for
forgery aad one for murder.
President J. T. Thompson, of the
Gate City Life Inrarnne company,
Greensboro, signed th embexxls-
ment warrant, in which it 1 ailorM
thst Peak did aot ana aettlement
with th company when bo left the
mploy of local branch two months
ago, whil tba warrant for forgery
signed by aa official of a local bank,
allege that Peak secured $295 from
hi bank by aigaiag th nsms of H.
B. Ash burn to tho check, it being
cashed at a bank where Peak main
tained aa aceount, bnt waa turned
down whea it reached th on m
which it wss drawn. A few days
later a 1400 eheck waa presented ta
th Peak bank for deposit, bat whea
carried to tba bank oa which it was
drawn, psymsat wss refused.
Bequisitioa papers will b aoturtd
t ae an th mbexxlement tad
forgery charge and sent to Eaox
rill. Ia th treat that th ri
f habeas corpus i dismissed at
Peake's second hearing ia tba murder
cbarg in Ksexvil!, next Baturdiy,
then th ether paper wiU ba served
asking for hit return to thi city
fr trtaL ,
Grand Jury 1st this renlng re
turned tra bill agaiast 3. I Peak,
charging him with nrarder at H.
B Ashbura her iMetmbcr 7, aad
a copy ef tsss was toaigbt for
warded la tho authoritie at euioi-
rill, Tenn, where th defeadsnt b
Mine held... Joseph TBomnaaa n
I. O. Browa, wha had been ia Jail
bar la eeaaeetioo with tba esse,
war each held ia thoaaaad AeHtr
bonds as witnesses. Tkosnpeo gave
bond aad was released. Brewa sx-
'ftcta to arrange bail toaight, r .
Special Session Adjourns 7
With Its Program Completed
Legialative Expedient of Turnins Forwarcl the Qock
Bring Forth a New Day
stitution for Valid Passage jot Municipal Finance Act
Complied With.
, .'
By a dock that ragistsrsd aa hour and a half put midnight of Tuesday,
December SO, aad with a total ai vis bIHs dtrly rstifled, tho Oeseral As
sembly of North Carolina ia special testioa adjourned sine lie. Ths im
memorial custom of turning forward
new legislative day was obtrrved at
when thf Jsa.flcuuea rcoJiil it waa 11:05.
The going wss calm. Most of ths business of both house hsd been
completed during the dsy, lacking only ths dual readings on the Municipal
Finance Act and the Matthews measure
for ths support of the public schools.- These detaila were completed withia
an hour after ths reconvening. Many of the members loft after adjourn
ment on Uts trains, snd today the capital city will havs seen the last
of the legrslstivs throng.
At ths concluding oesslot of the Goaeral Assembly, a eommissloa of
five members, three from the House aad two from ths Sensts suthorixed
by the Connor Besolutios to study the question of levying taxes to meet
the Constitutions! Requirement of six months school was appointed.
Speaker Orier named U. O. Connor, Jr., of Wilson; Thomss D. Wsrren, of
New Bern, and B. T. Weathermen, of Statesvill. lieutenant Governor
Cooper named W. C. Dowd, of Charlotte; D. F. Giles, of Marion.
Distinction comes to ths special session becsuse of the things It did
not do, rather thaa by reason of
legislation proposed mounted to imposing proportions, but in ths majority
of cases, it waa. mowed down by a persistent determination not to npeet
the existing statutes to say greater extent than was necessary.
State wide measures ratified before sdjournment included the following:
A- revised Municipal Finance Act
or a a7U0,UU0 deficit in State School Fund; aa act to rslidate taxes levied
by counties for the support of six month school term, and to fix rate
for 1921; an set modifying' taxes on bsnks, aad to giro "Corporation
Commission more control over State bsnks; an set to repeal cotton ware
house tar; an act requiring ill local and State bond Issues to bs regis
tered ia the office of the State Auditor; Aa act providing machinery for
the collection of automobile license tsxes.
Among the things tho General Assembly refused to do, art Included
the following: -
To pass ths Long Ejectment Bill; to repeal 8tate wide primary law;
to aboish or modify capital punishment; to repeal the penalty for non
payment of taxes; to enlarge appropriations to varioua State educational
and custodial institution!; to require Bevenue Commissioner to give pub
licity to hny proposed reductione of property assessments.
Aroximately half the flvt hundred bills that were offered in the
General Assembly had to do with the validating of local bond issues, the
nuthoritation of new bond issues, or the authorisation of bonds to take
care of the floating indebtedness in the vsrious counties and eltiM. N.
to those in number were sundry provisions for ths better protection of
game.
DOUGHTON FIGHTS HIS
LAST; BATTLE IN HOUSE
Fighting what waa probably hie
laat battle on the floor of the House
of Representatives, bringing to an
end bis long career in the legisla
tive annals of his Stats, Bepre
sentative B. A. Dougbton won out
yesterday morning whea the House
sustained, him by a rota of 43 to 40
sad remanded the Dunlap bill to re
peal th penalties oa taxes back to
the Finance Committee to die tber.
Every resource of th reteran
legislator's . experience was called
into aetioa whea Bepresentatir
Crisp, opposed to th measure, pro
posed to answer th ehsrge that lb
bill bad ' beea steam-rollered, and
morod to reconsider the vote, and
giro it supporter another ehancs
t it. Mr. Dougbton was more rig
orous in debate than any recent ses
sion has seen him. Th rot en Sat
urday wss 43 to 41.
After the storm had passed, and
tba waters were agaia calm, th
House wss done of fighting for the
present session st lesst. Three hours
of plodding work cleared toe eslen
dnr of every item of legislation,
ssro a few minor bills thst required
a third reading st, tho dswning of
the next legislative day. Hero and
there it killed a measurs, aad here
snd there a member found some
thing that seemed t eel for a
spell of oratory, but tho fight was
goa out of the body.
Tnbles When Ia Doubt
Among the things that ths House
laid cold on ths table were the
Crisp proposal to hav the polls dose
st 4 o'clock ia the afternoon on
election days; propossl to require
bonds of operators of automobile
bus lines; and a measure that orig
inated over ia the Senate by Sen
ator Blue permitting State Insti
tutions to do business with members
of their boards of directors who
bar something to tell thst th in
stitutions wsnt to buy.
Cowlee of Wilkes, Republican con
scientious objector to anything that
the majority proposes to do, eon-
eluded his career ia tho present ses-
sioa by a diatribe oa the einiquity
of pensioning on old negro women
who served four years ia a Con
federate hospital as a eurse, snd
whose husband was killed st Mall-
assa whil fighting beside hi mas-
ter. Mr. Cowles hss a "widow ot two
Confederate soldier' whom he wished
placed oa the pension roll, but
tho Hons would hsr non of it.
Whereupon he spok at aom length
about pensioning negroes.
Hease Names a aBby.
From that th Hous entered up-
(Continued ia Pago Two.)
Eighteen Opportunities
- For Christmas Service
With eighteen of the first forty opportunities tot Christmas service
offered by The New aad Oosorrer la conjunction with th Associated
Charities taken, th remaining are presented today.
Th eases represented in the list published this morning ar of rsry
lag degree of need. One Opportunity, not yet taken represent a family
eompoeed of a womaa and fire children, ths oldest of whom 1 ain aad
th youngest two years ld. Th father 1 serving term ia prison aad
ffort are being made tq secure hi pardon that h may provide aom
wit of support for hi dependent family. '
. Select th Opportunity you want from th list hsr published, call
Tba New aad Observer for th Identification aad address, then auk a
proanl visit to aseertaia the need of th indivdual r family. ' -Ths
remaining Opportunities follow:
i t Opportanlty No. I
Mothr and daughter, both old and
feebla. Daughter doe head work.
Taken by W. B. Wright
Opportaalty N. 4
' Widow with two obs, both work
nd rry smart
. dpaartanhy No. I . '
lather, mother aad three soss, (
years, $ year aad 1 yesr. Father
beea sick, only hi temporary work.
' Opportaalty Na. -Wldew
with six children, all wh
ar old eaouf h . work. Mother has
and -Requirement of Con
ths clock to hasten ths dawning ef a
:07 la th evening, aad aa hour later
to validate taxes levied by eou sties
its concrete enaetmsnts. Stats-wide
; a resolution authorising the bonding
LONG TURNS AGAINST
HIS PUBLICITY MEASURE
Leaving the Stubbs bill for a con
stitutional convention and the bill
providing publicity for all acts con
nected with the granting of refunds
and reductions by the Commissioner
of Bevenue alone on the calendar,
the Senate yesterday disposed of all
other stray snds of legislation snd
discovered and corrected an error in
a local blU whleh would hav chang
ed th general law covering tho issu
ance of Btat road bond.
Bill passed included th Munici
pal Finance bill, th bill ralldating
levies of taxes aud fp support af
school and Us bill psmittisg all
widow of Confederate veterans
married before 1880 to be placed up
on th pension rolls, while local self
government found expression in the
tabling of a bill permitting the State
Board of Education to create school
districts in certain esses.
, Only 32 Senator answered to their
names nt the afternoon session aad
no effort was mad to call op th
constitutions! convention, but Sens
tor Burgwyn, of Northampton, made
futile effort to call up the bill pre
scribing publicity for petition mad
to th Commissioner of Bevenue for
reduction and rebate.
Th Senator declared that be had
heard ef th bill whil in Gates
rille trying a lawsuit and that ths
peopls of his district wer heartily
iir favor of th measure and had
asked him to rapport it
"I voted' for the confirmation ot
the Commissioner of Bevenue on the
understanding that something would
bo done to prevent a reeurrenre"of
the rebate of last fall by whieh the
Ameriraa Tobacco Co. received
1110,000" be declared.
Notoriety and Distortion
However, Senstor Burgwyn de
sisted in hi effort to bar a record
rote taken on ths bill when Senator
Long, of Alamance, author of th
measurs, "declared thst if it were
called, up be would make a motion
to table. "Notoriety and distortion"
of his purpose ia introducing the
bill were tho reasons assigned by the
Senator for bis chaags of front on
the messort whieh was defeated in
committee by a rote ot nine to
seven. The Senator also stated thst
He had diseorered that tho bill wss
noorly drawn aad did aot apply pro-
ieely to .the situation.
Senator Delaney called th atten
tion ef the Senate to th tact that
a bill prerlously passed by both
house authorising road bonds in
Bailey township, Nash county bad
(Continued oa Pago Two.)
beea very sick, Girls, 12, 11, f aad
4 years boys, J3 aad IS year old.
Taken by Mrs. C. C. Crocker.
6paortaalty .No, T
Tory old lady aad oa son. Boa
works, lady baa beea sick. Deserv
ing. .. -' ';V - - - vC-
- Oaaaff aalty No. I '.
Tw old ladies, work la th miUt;
a gfirl t year ld. ,
. Taken by Mrs. Joba Hinsdal. 3 :
Opportaalty No. I -.Man,
'womaa aad fear ahildrta.
(Coatlnaed ea Fag Tir)
STATE TO RAISE
$351 TOWARD
F
Quota For North Carolina
In Million Dollar Memorial
, To Wilson
MRS. DANIELS CHAIRMAN
FOR STATE COMMITTEE
Orf anixation Ii To Be Com
pleted and G'a m p a i i n
Launched Week Begin
nin; Jan. 16th; Income
To Be Awarded As Nobel
Fund If Administered
In eommoa with the other states
of ths Union, North Carolina, during
the week beginning January lrl, 1922
will be asked to contribute it quote
of 135,000 toward the Woodrow Wll
son Foundation Fund, to be used
as a memorial to the Wsr President
snd ths perpetuation of the Wilson
idesls. The goat ef the foundation
executive - eommttte is one ' m llttofi
dollars. '
Mrs. Josephns Daniels has sccepted
ths ebsirmsnship of ths Stats com
mittee will be opened in Baleigh, and
and will shortly announes ths com
plete organisation for each county
la tho State. Offices for the Com
mittee will be opend in Baleigh, snd
ths work will be directed from the
city, with the assistance of many
prominent men snd wonfen who havs
pledged their co-operation.
A. W. McLean, originally desig
nated as ehairman for North Caro
Una finds thst he will be unable to
serve owing to the pressure of his
duties as a mem lie r of the War Fl
nane Corporation. He was in Bal
elgh recently to eonfer with friends
of Mr. Wilson here, and induced
Mrs. Dsnielt to undertsks the work
is the Stste. Details of the organ!
ration are in process of consummation
and will be announced before the
end of the month.
Mrs. Daniels Drafted
I have sccepted," declare Mrs.
Daniels, "only becsuse in vic.v of
the inability of Mr. McLean, who
hss beea named chairman, because
of his omeist duties to giro the mat
ter his persosal eerviee, a number
of th friend of Mr. Wllsoa felt
that I eould reader a service la pro
moting tho ideals whieh Mr. Wilson
illustrated in his career, psrtleulsrly
as commander-in-chief of th Army
and Navy in th World War, aad at
th Peace Conference.
"The duty comes to mo by the
eeleetire draft snd I sm sure that
hundred and thousands of North
Carolineana will be glad to co oper
at in this pstriotie and beautiful
idea. I shall be happy if every per
son in the State, of every political
party, who believes in the great
ideals of Woodrow Wilson will write
e and join in th campaign whleh
must be pressed immediately."
During the past week) Mrs. Daniels
visited Wilmington to confer with
Dr. James Sprunt, a great admirer
of Mr. Wilson, and other friends of
th ex President General Julian S.
Csrr, Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt, snd
many other prominent men snd
women throughout th State bsve
pledged their interest snd support
in the campaign to bo launched the
middle of January, and continued
one week. It is believed that the
goal will be easily attained.
Perpetuate Wilson Ideals.
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation
will be patterned somewhat after
the Nobel Foundation of Sweden,
Tho income from the foundation
fund will be awarded by a nation
ally constituted committee to the In
dividual or group that has rendered
within a epeeifled period either of
four ways:
Meritorious service to Democracy,
Meritorious service to Publie Wel
fare, Meritorious servie to Liberal
Thought, or
Meritorious service to Peace
Through Jttsties.
Tba National organization Is com
posed of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
chairman ; Hamilton Holt, executive
director; Edward & Morse, execu
tive director, and th following exe
cutive committee! Cleveland Ii.
Dodge, Mr. Cirri Chapman Catt:
Frank L Cobb, Stephen P. Duggan,
Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbc, Edwin F.
Gay, Mr. J. Borden Harrlman, Ed'
ward M. Hon, Frederick Lynch,
Henry Morgantkaa, Adolph 8. Ochs,
Francis L. Polk, Virginia Potter,
Caroline Bunts Bees, Mrs. Charles
E. 8imonon, Mrs. Charles U Tif
fany, Stephen 8. Wis, and Mrs. H.
Otto Wittpen.
TWO MEN KILLED IN
WRECK ON SOUTHERN
Anniston, Ala, Dee. 19. Two mea,
B.,W. Coleman, fireman, of Jackson,
Tenn- aad Coolidga Harper, mail
elerk, wer killed ia a wreck of
Southern Bailway train No. 71, Jack
sonville to Birmingham, and Kan
sas City, at Tarsus, clsht mile from
Anniston today. - Six wer injured,
three ( .them Mriously.
Th injured are; 8. T. Watkins,
engineer, Atlanta, probably fatally
Injured Olia Cartright, Marin
guard, TallapooH, Oa.; E. Smith,
aewsboy, Birminshsm. seriously In
jured; W. 8. McLaughlin, flagman,
Will Mile, aegro passenger, aad an
anineatinea want maa. '
Th engine tender and two coaches
wr toraed ever into a ditch, the
wreck being attributed to spreading
rails, .Engineer Watkins, who was
raaaing the train, is a trdalaed
minister, preaching at time Whea off
hi run, H is known a th "Pre
br-EBgUtb. , .. . .;, ;
OUNDATION FUND
FRANCE DECIDES
TO ACCEPT PLAN
FOR SMALL NAVY
UNITY NEEDED IN
-CHINESE AFFAIRS
Delegation In Washington
Will Continue To Repre
sent The Country
Wsshington, Dec. ID. (By the As
soeisted Press.) Declaring they still
"represent China in truth," despite
the resignation of the Peking cabi
net, the Chinese delegation in n
statement today declared that unices
the Zl demands enforced by Japan
on China in 1915 "are cancelled, the
principles adopted by the Washington
conference amount to nothing more
than scraps ot paper.''
The dflegntioa members said that
Dr. W. W. Yen, minister of foreign
affairs, had consented to remain as
acting premier. Dr. Yen was edu
cated .in .the United States having
been graduated at the University of
Virginia, snd served for a time as
second secretary to ths Chines Le
gation here.
Need Central Goreraaseat.
The statement issued by ths dele
gstion said ia part : "In reply to
inquiries concerning recent news
from. Chins, it hss been said by
members, of the Chinese delegation
that the proceeding!" at the Washing
ton conference have emphasized the
desire throughout China to unify the
Country. It- is the belief that the
unification of the -country Ii the line
qua non for an independent nation.
Without a strong central govern
ment supported by the various strong
parties in the country it is impos
sible to svsil ourselves of sll the
advantages to be deBived from the
principle sdopted st ths Wsshington
conference. y
"General Chsng Tsao-Lln In Man
churia naturally eonaider bit resig
nation mostly likely to be effected by
ths decisions of the Wsshington con
ference. The Japanese delegation
has delsyed snd postponed the de
liberations with regard to China and
they are determinedly holding on to
the privileges in Shsntung. It is
this feeling that the Interests of
Manchuria might be bartered away
since th Japanese refuse to scrap the
21 demsnds effecting to ' future of
those province It must bereealled
taat the 21 demand wer presented
with aa ultimatum,, but aiae they
affect the territorial aad administrat
is autonomy of th Chines govsra
ment, anlesarthe 21 demsnds art can'
eelled the principles adopted by the
Washington conference amount to
nothing more than scraps of paper
Try To Unite Country.
"In nn earnest attempt to get the
co-operation of nil the lenders in
China General Chang Tsso-Lin de
sires to units all the forces of the
eountry. There is a rery strong like
lihood thst the other leaders, espe
cially General Wu-Pei-Fu, who is
popular and powerful In Central
Chins, wiU rally to. ths call sf pa
triotiam.
"History ia in ths mskisg and we
do not know the final results but of
this ws do know, thst sll ths men
in Chinn, both high snd low, nro
thinking about unification seriously.
A few men of the cabinet mght
bt changed snd the president might
retire but his retirement it only an
indication of the general desire to
sacrifice personal glory for national
unity nnd welfare.
"Tho Chinese delegation at the
Washington conference has the eon
tinned support of tho people and so
whatever happens ia Chins, they will
represent China in truth.
BtilANDAND GEoTGE
TALK ON REPARATIONS
English and French Premiers
Discuss Germany's Inabil
itj To Paj
London, Dec 19. (By the Asso
cisted Press.) Darid Lloyd George,
the British Prime Minister, snd Aris-
tide Brisnd, the Trench Premier, to
day had n eonfereneo lattmg several
hours ia ths official residence of Mr.
Lloyd George, and coneersntien ws
concerned almost exclusively with
German reparations and Germanya
plea that she will be unable to pay
in full the January and February in
stallmentsv
No official information Is obtain
able as yet as to the attitude of
Franc nnd Great . Britain toward
Germany's pies. An official com
munique issued after the conference
asserted th eonrersstion wss oa
general economic questions. Those
qsestions were given over to Freneh
and British experts who will submit
a report on them tomorrow. As far
ss caa be seen nt present there ia no
prospect that a meeting of the su
preme council -will follow th in
formal conversations between the
premiers, but possibly one outcome
will be ,an economi eonfereneo oa
the stabilisation of European sx-
ebanges to which Germaa and Bus-
tiaa representatives presumably
would ba Invited: The belief ia ex
pressed (bat Dr. Walter Bsthtnoa.
tht Germaa financial expert, may be
called ia si th loa f th preseat
conversations.
M. Brisnd declared today that hb
eonrersstion with Mr. Lloyd George
had been extremely cordial. Th eon
rersation will eontinoe in full detail
tomorrow between tba tw premier.
Pledge Sappart T Catoa Mea.
Albany, N. Y, Dec 19.-lBanelal
and moral support was pledged the
jsioa paper maker of th Intef-
latioaal Paper Company wh bar
eea aa atrik : for th last sight
month, by representatives tf anions
lfliliatod with 4b ppt Busing ia
dustry hr today,
Takes Steps To Reconcflr
Views .On Naval; Ratio -Problem
With Those
of Other Powers
CONCILIATORY VIEWS
1 LONG STEP TOWARD '
FINAL SETTLEMENT'
Menace To Secretary
Hughes Indicating Ac
ceptance of American Pro
posals Sequel To Con
ference Between Ambas
sador George Harrey and
Premier Briand In Lon
don; Expected That
French Delegation WiU
Inaiit On Increasing; Sub
marine Strength and For
Replacement of Present
Obiolete Battleships With"
New Ones
Wsshington, Dee. 10. (By the As
sociated Press.) -Franc has takea
ateps to reconcile her views ea til
naval ratio problem with those of
the other powers, but her precis
attitude now the erueial issus (
ths srms negotiations remain in
doubt.
Unofficial advices from abroad tot
day Indicated that Premier Briand ,
had decided to accept tba American
proposal for a French capital (hip
fleet of 175,000 ton in. pine of th
mm ton plan drawn by th Freneh
delegate.
Secretary Hughes, ae ehairmaa (
the arm conference, also received
from the French premier a eommuai.
estion const ri d st tho Btat Depart- .
ment ss meaning that th Freneh
group had beea directed to eed
to th American program. '
Different View By rreaeh.
But the French delegates them,
selvee did not so eonstru a long
messsgs of Inst motions rceired from,
the premier during th day. The
described it as advising them to go
as far toward moating th American
views a they eould without aaerifie
of Frsneh National Interests. It wss
said not to embody a specific decis
ion aor tomake refereae to say
tpeclfl toanag pis.
With th negotiations la that situa
tion, Mr. Hughes tnd Albert Hsr
rant, head of th Freneh delegation,
held a long conference late thi aftor
noon tnd parted without making any
announcement. It waa said only that
ths conversations wer proceeding
and thst there wss a mutual xp
tation of ultimate agreement.
In other quarters also ther was
apparent a distinct not of optimism,
despit th day's mystifylne sueees..
sion of developments. Among Amor
icon omcisis an almost unanimous
belief prevailed, that Franca araatu.
ally would take the American Agar
for her capital ship sllotmsnt, even
though the insisted on a ineraasa
ot tubmarins tonnes sa aa effort.
For the moment the negotiations are
concerned solely wltle capital ship
and to many delegates a five power '
agreement on that subject doe not
seem far away.
Lang Step Toward Settlement
It is pointed out by the Americans
that sven an effort by th French "
to sdopt a conciliatory attitude Up ward
ths views of the United Stste
may bs regarded as a long stop to
ward a settlement. Th American
position sll along has beea that ra
tios should bo sdjusted oa tha basis
of existing strength, wbils ths J50
000 ton propoaal of tho Frcnek tiT"
frankly predicted on th entirely
different principle of national needs.
So if th French premier baa don
nothing more than spprov th "
American "status quo' principle h
hss contributed a great deal, ia tba
riew of American officials, toward'
final agreement.
The messags received by Seer-
tary Hughes wss a sequel to last
night't conference between M. Bri
snd and American Ambassador Ear
rsy st London, whieh press report
say resulted in the Premier'
eeptanc of th American plan. To
day there wer signs that, th situs.
tion might dcrelop further oompli- ,
cstions because of the direct method
of negotiation adopted t by Mr.
Hughes, hut the eprpehensiona of th
French delegate appeared to b .
quieted when it was explained at th .
StaU Department that th Secretary
bad acter ia his capacity aa chair,
maa ef the eonfereneo nnd had aV -
dressed M. Brisnd in his capacity SS
hssd of the Freneh delegation.
Fsced By Delicate Position.
Ths delicacy of th position ia :
whieh th Freneh delegates found :
themselves waa further increased by
announcement of th result ot th,
London eonfereneo ia pre dis-
patches which reached Washington ..
ahead ot th Premier's messsgs af
instructions. In ths flurry at dele- ,
gatioa headquarters, soms af th
lesser French official talked ot th :
possibility of a cabinet crisis - ia ,
Franc should it prov tru that M. ,
Brisnd hsd uddenly thrown ever
th 150,000 ton plan for which hi
representative her wer atoatiy
eoatoading. .
Member of th delegation wtuld '
aot go Into details regarding th
message they subsequently received
from their premier, but tber wr
indication that they had hot found
it dittsstefuL It waa declared to
b rather la th attar af conaael
aad adrle thaa a maadate, and waa
said to loav th real decision to -tbos
wh are na th ' ground ia
Washiagtoa. - : ' :
- Wsnt Man Sabmarlaaa .
Ther were many indication t&at ' -
(Continued on Pag Two).