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THE CHATHAM RECORD ti A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance VOL. XXXIV. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, DECEMBER 6, 1911. NO. 17. THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion $1.00 One Square, two insertions JU50 One Square, one month $250 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. TRUST PROBLEM 1 ' i IS tufts TOPIC Message to Congress Devoted to This One Matter. IN DECISIONS ARE DEFENDED Dissolution Plans of Standard Oil and Tobacco Explained Federal In corporation and Commission Recommended. Washington. President Tart's annual message, which was read in both houses of congTess Tuesday, deals exclusively with the anti-trust statute. The message In part Is as follows: To the Senate and House of Represent atives: This mesage is the first of sev eral which I shall send to congress during the Interval between the opening of its regular session and Its adjournment for the Christmas holidays. The amount of information to be communicated as to the operations of the government, the number of important subjects calling for comment by the executive, and the trans mission to congress of exhaustive re ports by special commissions, make it Im possible to Include In one message of a reasonable length a discussion of the top ics that ought to be brought to the at tention of the national legislature at its llrst regular session. Decisions of Supreme Court. In May last the Supreme court handed own decisions in the suits in equity brought by the United States to enjoin the further maintenance of the Standard Oil trust and of the American Tobacco trust, and to secure their dissolution. The decisions are epoch-making and serve to advise the business world authoritatively cf the scope and operation of the anti trust law of 1SS0. The decisions do not depart In any substantial way from the previous decisions of the court In constru ing and applying this important statute, but they clarify those Important decisions bv further defining the already admitted exceptions to the literal construction of the act. By the decrees, they furnish a useful precedent as to the proper method of dealing with the capital and property of illegal trusts. These decisions sug gest the need and wisdom of additional or supplemental legislation to make it easier for the entire business community to square with the rule of action and legality thus finally established and to preserve the benefit, freedom and spur of reasonable competition without loss of real efficiency or progress. It has been said that the court, by in troducing into the construction of the statute common law distinctions, has emasculated it. This is obviously untrue. Bv its Judgment every contract and com binatlon In restraint of interstate trade made with the purpose, or necessary ef fect of controlling prices by stifling com petition, or of establishing in whole or in part a monopoly of such trade, is con demned by the statute. The most ex treme crltiics cannot instance a case that ought to be condemned under the statute which is not brought within its terms as thus construed. The sueestion is also made that the Su preme court by Its. decisions in the last two cases has committed to the court the undefined and unlimited discretion to de termine whether a case of restraint of trade is within the terms of the statute. This is wholly untrue. A reasonable re straint of trade at common law is well understood and is clearly defined. It does not rest in the discretion of the court. It must be limited to acomplish the purpose of a lawful main contract to which. In order that it shall be enforceable at all, it must be incidental. If It exceeds the needs of that contract It is void. Methods of Dissolution. In the Standard Oil case the Supreme and circuit courts found the combination to be a monopoly of the interstate busi ness of refining, transporting, and mar keting petroleum and its products, effect ed and maintained through thirty-seven different corporations, the stock of which was held by a New Jersey company. It In effect commanded the dissolution of this combination, directed the transfer and pro-rata distribution by the New Jer sey company of the stock held by It in the thirty-seven corporations to and among its stockholders, and the corpora tions and individual defendants were en Joined from conspiring or combining to restore such monopoly: and all agree ments betwen the subsidiary corporations tending to produce or bring about further violations of the act were enjoined. In the Tobacco case, the court found that the individual defendants, twenty nine In number, had been engaged in a successful effort to acquire complete do minion over the manufacture, sale, and distribution of tobacco in this country and abroad, and that this had been done by combinations made with a purpose and effect to stifle competition, control prices, and establish a monopoly, not only in the manufacture of tobacco, but also of tin-foil and licorice, used in its manufacture and of its products of ci gars, cigarettes and snuffs. The tobacco suit presentend a far more complicated and difficult case than the Standard Oil suit for a decree which would effectuate the will of the court and end the viola tion of the statute. There was here no single holding company as in the case of the Standard Oil trust. The main com pany was the American Tobacco com pany, a manufacturing, selling and hold ing company. The plan adopted to de stroy the combination and restore compe tition involved the redivislon of the capi tal and plants of the whole trust between some of the companies constituting the trust and new companies organized for the purposes of the decree and made par ties to it, and numbering, new and old, fourteen. . Purpose Not Confiscation. It Is not the purpose of the statute to confiscate the property and capital of the offending trusts. Methods of punishment by fine or imprisonment of the individual offenders, by fine of the corporation; or by forfeiture of its goods in transporta tion, are provided, but the proceeding in equity is a specific .remedy to stop the operation of the trust by injunction and prevent the future Use of the plant and capital in violation ' of the statute. 1 venture to say that not In the history of American-law has -a decree more ef fective for such a purpose been entered by a court than that against tne looacco trust. It hmt hn smauTned that the nresent pro-rata and common ownership in all these companies by former stocicnoiaers of the trust would insure a continuance of the same old single control of all the companies Into which the trust has by decree been disintegrated, vi'ms is er roneous and is based upon the assumed in- efflnacv and Innnnuouiness of judicial in junctions. The companies are enjoined .'. . . A 1 . ,v rrom co-operation or comDinauun; iuej have different managers, directors, pur chasing and sales agents. If all or any of the numerous stockholders, reaching Into the thousands, attempt to secure concerted action of the companies with a view to the control of the market, their number Is so large that such an attempt could not well be concealed and its prime movers and all its participants wouia oe at once subject to contempt proceedings and Imprisonment of a summary charac ter. The immediate result of the present situation will necessarily be activity by all the companies under different man agers and then competition must ionow, or there will be activity by one company and stagnation by another. Cry for Repeal of Law. But now that the anti-trust act is seen to be effective for the accomplishment of t its enactment, we are met by a cry ' from many different quarters for Its repeal, it is saia to De oDsirucuve of business progress, to be an attempt to roctnro lrt-f n nViinnA1 methods of de structive competition between small units, ' and to make impossible tnose useiui com binations of capital and the reduction of the cost of production that are essential to continued prosperity and normal growth. In the recent decisions the Supreme court makes clear that there is nothing in the statute which condemns combina tions of capital or mere, bigness of plant organized to secure economy in produc tion and a reduction of its cost. It is only when the purpose or necessary effect of the organization and maintenance of the combination or the aggregation of im mense size are the stifling of competition, actual and potential, and the enhancing of prices and establishing a monopoly, that the statute is violated. For Federal Incorporation. In a special message to congress on January 7. 1910. I ventured to point out the disturbance to business that would probably attend the dissolution of these offending trusts. I said: "But such an investigation and pos sible prosecution of corporations whose prosperity or destruction affects the comfort not only of stockholders but of millions of wage earners, employes, and associated tradesmen must neces sarily tend to dlsturt) the confidence of the business community, to dry up the now flowing sources of capital from its places of hoarding:, and produce a halt in our present prosperity that will cause suffering and strained circum stances among the innocent many for the fault of the guilty few. The ques tion which I wish In this message to bring clearly to the consideration and discussion of congress is whether, in nrd(r to avoid such a nosslble business dauger. something cannot be done by which these business combinations may be offered a means, without great flnan iai a t afurhgnrA of fhftn cine the char acter, organisation and extent of their business into one within tne lines oi tha law nier federal control and su pervision, securing compliance with the anti-trust statute. "Generally, in the industrial combi nations called "Trusts." tne principal hnsinoM is tha sale of (roods in many states and in foreign markets; in other words, the interstate and foreign busi ness far exceeds the business done In any one state. This fact will Justify the federal government In granting a federal charter to such a combination to make and sell in interstate and for-1b-t commerce the nroducts of useful manufacture under such limitations as will secure a compliance with the anti trust law. It is possible so to frame a ctatnto that while it offers protec tion to a federal company against harmful, vexatious and unnecessary invasion by the states, it shall subject it to reasonable taxation and control by the states with respect to its pure "Corporations organized under this act should be proniDitea irom acquir ino- anr? Violdine- stock in other corpora tiima (oYfent fnr anecial reasons, upon approval by the proper federal author ity); thus avoiding the creation under national auspices of the noiaing com pany with- subordinate corporations in iirorint states, which has been such an effective agency in the creation of the great trusts and monopolies. "If the prohibition of the anti-trust variations in restraint of trade is to be effectively enforced. it Is essential that the national govern ment shall provide for tne creation oi .tinn9i onrnnntinns to carry on a legitimate business throughout th United States. The connicting laws oi the different states or the Union wltr manmt in f nroi am corporations make It dIHcult. if not Impossible, for on corporation to comply with their re quirements so as to carry on buslnesi in a number or airrerent sxaxes. Federal Commission Proposed. I do not set forth in detail the term and sections of a statute which mighl supply the constructive legislation permit, tu. orii ntritner the formation of combina tlons of capital into federal corporations. They should be suDject to rigia ruies u to their organization and procedure, In cluding effective publicity, and to th closest supervision as to the Issue ol on i hnndi hv an executive bureav or commission in the department oi commerce and labor, to which in times ol doubt they might well submit their pro posed plans for future business. It musl be distinctly understood tnat incorpora . undA. n fcrlfrnl law could not ex empt the company thus formed and its Incorporators and managers rrpm prose ,,nr, unriAr the anti-trust law for sub cnont Moral conduct, but the publlcitj of its procedure and the opportunity foi onnaiiitatinn aa to the lesrltimat purpose of its transactions would ofTei it as great security against successful prosecutions for violations of the law - othII ha nrnrtlcal or wise. ' I recommend that the federal charters thus to be granted shall be voluntary, ai least until experience justifies mandatory .,iir, tvi benefit to be derived from the operation of great businesses under the protection oi sucn a cnanei ttiii attract all who are anxious to keel within th lines of the law. Other large combinations that fail to take advantagt of the federal incorporation win noi nav a right to complain if their failure li ascribed to unwillingness to submli their transactions to the careful scrutiny, competent supervision and publicity at tendant upon the enjoyment of such a charter. EWS OF THE WEEK iTOMIZ NEPI ED FORM rHE LATEST HAPPENINGS OF IM PORTANCE TERSELY TOLD. EVENTS THROUGHOUT WORLD News of Greatest Interest From AH Parts of the World Related in Paragraphs. Did as He Was Told. A young Irishman from a remote part of Ireland .recently secured a berth as barman at a hotel in Man chester. The first morning at 6 o'clock young Murphy was instructed to light the lamps outside. This he proceeded to do very businesslike, but half an hour later could not be found. Inquiries were made, and eventually Murphy was seen about 7:3o lighting a lamp near Middleton. haying lit all the lamps on the Roch dale road for about four, miles. 'Idea. Southern. Gov. C. B. Colquitt of Texas, chair man of the recent cotton conference, which met in New Orleans, to devise means for upholding the price of cpt ton, has suggested that cotton farm ers throughout the South meet in county mass meetings December 16 to perfect plans looking to the reduc tion of acreage planted in cotton in 1912. Governor Colquitt has asked the governors of all cotton-growing states to arrange at once for the meeetings. An appeal to congress to pass a na tional prohibition act was the feature of the concluding session' of the North Carolina conference of the Methodist church, South, at Kinston, N. C. The memorial points out that only 10 per cent, of the papers of the state now carry whiskey advertisements. Dele- sates were urged to use their influ ence to persuade editors to refuse such advertisements, event to the ex tent of boycotting papers where ap peals failed. Two hundred thousand dollars will be raised by the United Sons of Con federate Veterans to erect monuments to the memory of Southern soldiers and to the memory of Southern wom en who were active in the cause of the South durinar the Civil war. Plans to secure money were discussed by the executive council of the organiza tion, in session at Memphis, Tenn. A majority of the members appeared to favor the inauguration of a campaign asking voluntary contributions in ev ery camp of the organization. When a white streak flashed by the iudges' stand at Savannah, Ga., at the finish of the seventh Vanderbllt Cup race, the American automobile world hailed Ralph K. Muiford, driver of a Lozier oar as a new champion. . Not only had Muiford lowered all previous Vanderbilt records, he also had sur passed the performance of Harvey Herrick. in covering 202 miles at an average of 74.63 miles an hour. De Palma. in a Mercdes, was second The New Orleans Times-Democrat presents its corerspondents' final re ports -en the cotton crop of 1911. The concensus of opinion indicates the following results: Alabama 1,500,000, Arkansas and Missouri 950,000, Flor ida and Georgia 2,650,000, Louisiana 375.000, Mississippi 1,150,000, Oklaho ma 900,000, North Carolina and Virl ginia 1,000,000, South Carolina, 1,500, 000. Tennessee and Kentucky 450, 000. Texas and California 4,300,000, total 14,835,000. This forecast relates to actual growth, exclusive of linters -epacks and similar additions. Pretty Gertrude Gibson Patterson, accused of the murder of her hus band, Charles A. Patterson, whom she shot to death while the couple were walking together in a suburb of Den ver, on September 25, was declared not guilty by a jury in the district court. Alton B. Parker, who was tha Dem ocratic presidential nominee in 1904, disputed statements made by Whar ton Barker, the Philadelphia banker, in so far as to apply Mr, Sarker's i- timation that the financial interests ever had intended to support Parker against Roosevelt. Mr. Parker's at tention was called to that part of Mr. Barker's testimony, in which Barker said an eminent financier, now dead, told him the money-powers, had de cided to defeat Parker. ; Darius Wilson, publisher of . The Masonic World, and known through out the country through his adver tisements offering to organize Ma sonic lodges and initiate members. pleaded nolo contendere in the Fed eral court in Boston to a charge of usins: the mails in a scheme to de fraud. The charge had to do with Wilson's offer of initiation "sent through the mail. Wilson signed an agreement not to attempt hereifter to organize Masonic lodges. Four boys were found guilty of murder in the first degree and sen tenced to life imprisonment by a jury for the murder of a truck farm er on the outskirts of the city- of Chicago a month ago. None of the four on whom the jury visited the death penalty is of age. The boys slew and robbed Fred W. Gruelzow in spite of his supplication for life, because he had a wife and baby to The case of a negro, living in Chil- licothe, Mo., who turned white, is to be reported to the National Medical society with the hope that something may be learned of the peculiar skin disease which baffled physicians for several years. The negro, who is dead aere. was Dudley Payne, coal black ind typicaly African in feature. The change came gradualy. At the time of his death Payne's face and the up per part of his body were white as those of any Caucasian. Ninetene new members were added to the college of cardinals, the gov erning body of the Roman Catholic church. A surprise came in the cere monies when it was made known that the pope had. created a cardinal "in pectore" that is, "in his breast" the identity of the one so honored not beine revealed. Of these 19 three are Americans John M. Farley, archbish op of New York; William O'Connell, archbishop of Boston, and Diomede Falconio, apostolic delegate to Wash ington. America now has four mem bers of the college, that, practicaly unchanged in personnel, will doubt less name the succesor to the pres ent pontiff. 10 LEONARD IS HELD BY THE CHARGED BY THE CORONER WITH THE KILLING OF CHARLES EVERHART. COUSIN OF ALLEGED VICTIM Robbery is the Apparent Motive For "the Crime According to Witnesses Examined The Evidence 13 Very Strong Against the Man. Raleigh. A special from Thomas ville states that after fifteen minutes deliberation the coroner's jury called to investigate the mysterious killing of Charles Lee Everhart returned a verdict placing his death at the door of Bob Leonard, his cousin. Leonard is held without bail on the charge of murder. , Under the hanging clouds and mists of rain the hearse bearing the remains of Charles Lee Everhart, who was murdered two miles south of town ago and brought here here for the night was driven quietly through the street to Midway church between here and Winston-Salem, where the burial took place. Mrs. Everhart, the lonely widow, accompanied the remains to the burial. Hundreds of spectators came in to view the body after it had hfien shrouded and placed m the coi- fin. Owing to the cold weather and the undisturbed situation of the body ns it lav in the thicket it was wen preserved and was easily recognized. It appears to Coroner J. w. rea- cock that the right man in the per son of Robert Leonard has been se cured, and hardly any doubt exists in his mind as to his guilt, according to the evidence which has already come to the jury of inquest. Their minds are practically a unit, as to the guilt of the suspected man. Bob Leonard is ,26 years old, nas a wiie and two children, the youngest a boy 2 years old. Money played a conspicuous pan in the evidence. is here aiding the coroner. HAS STARTED THE OLD CRY fhe Only Way is to Get Farmers to Farming and Quite Depending on Cotton Alone. Fame of LI Hung Chang. There are far too many famous men nowadays, and it is not easy to re member exactly who is who. They were discussing the Chinese situation in the bar and the man who had vis ited China began to give his views "Do you remember LI Hung Chang?" he began. "I knew him well." To which the sporting-looking gentleman in the corner answered. "What? Re member him? I saw him last night Best music hall juggler I've seen for's long time." London Chronicle. General. UDton Sinclair, author and Social ist, will get his divorce from his wife, Meta F. Sinclair, if the court ap proves the recommendation made by Referee W. S. Keiley. With the rec ommendation for an interlocutory de cree went the referee's report of the testimony, containing interesting de tails of life at Arden, the summer camp of the Sinclair colony, while Harrv Kemp, the Kansas poet and co resDondent in the case, was a dwell er there with other literary people. The ugly smirch of suspected brib ery was trailed across the train of James B. McNamara for the alleged murder of Charles Haggerty, one of twenty-one victims of the Los Ange les Times disaster. A pleased prose cution and a dumbfounded defense took stock of the day's work of Sam u el Brown, chief investigator of the state, who arrested three men and stacked District Atorney Freder icks' desk with bank notes taken from the arrested men's pockets in Fredericks' presence. What is announced to be the larg est sale of jewels on record opened ii Paris. France, when the literally price less collection of Abdul Hamid, ex Biiitan of Turkey, came under the hammer. Although only a small frac tion of the treasures displayed was disposed of, they reached a total of 8;i0 000. The best price paid was for a necklace composed of three rows of 154 pearls and Clasp formed of three rows of brilliants, which hrmieht $184,000. ' An official Iowa trademark was reg istered with the secretary of state. m the future Iowa products will be stamped with a design of a hawk's head within a cog wneei, ana tne wnrda "Made in Iowa." The Democratic national committee has decided not to open headquarters in r.hioaeo until after January 8 "Alaska is an empire in the mak ing, and all it needs is a chance to develop," said the Rev. Peter T. Rnwe. Episcopal bishop of Alaska, ne fore 500 persons at a "develop Alas ka' dinner of the chamber of com- Seattle. Wash. The supreme court of New York has granted a decree of separation and $15,000 a year alimony to jars. Lilly Middleton, wife of John A. Mid dleton, vice president of the Lehigh vaiip-ir railroad. The formal order dissolving the Bath Tub Trust" has just been sign ai hv .Tudrre Rose of Baltimore. Washington. The United States is keeping ready at Manila an expeditionary force of from 500 to 2,500 soldiers for immedi ate dispatch to China to protect for eigners and to keep open the rail way communication between Pekin and the sea. This, it was declared by the state department, is not to be considered an intervention force in favor of either the rebels or the imperialists, but is merely this coun try's part in complying, together with the other powers signatory to the Boxer protocol, with the provisions of that document. "This session of congress will be largely given over to tariff bills," said Rperesentative Underwood, majority leader of the house, "f we can con tinue as we began last session, I think there will be no doubt as to the verdict of the people at the polls. All the Democratic members are pre pared to make concessions in the in terest of harmony. They expect to have passed through the house tariff revision, which the Democratic party believes the counrty wants. Wharton Barker, a retired banker of Philadelphia, sprang asensation on the senate committee on inter state commerce, when he alleged that a New York financier told him in 1904 that the financial interests would support Theodore Roosevelt for president, because Roosevelt had "made a bargain" with them them "on the railroad question." Mr. Barker's statement came in the midst of a vigorous attack on the "money trust." Colonel Roosevelt declared Mr. Barber's statement to be a "pipe dream' The annual report of Royal S. Ca bell, commissioner of internal reve nue, makes several startling declara tions. All records were . broken in the past fiscal year in the production of alcoholic liquors. The smoking oi opium is a widespread vice in this country, and opium joints exist in ev ery city of considerable size. The, double system ol taxing oieomarga rine is corrupting grocers, and gross frauds are being perpetrated on the vmtter-hnviner public. The internal revenue receipts last year were 322, 526,299, the greaest in the history of the government. , Determined to end the practice of "shanghaiing"" men and the enforce ment of a system wnica virtually amounts to peonage aboard vessels, esDecially on the "oyster fleet m Chesapeake bay. Secretary Nagel has ordered a fast boat to go after, tne oi- fenders and police those waters. It is known that men have been drugged at manv norts along the Chesapeake, kidnaped and taken aboard the oys ter boats against their Wills. Their filthy quarters, improper food and long hours of labor, orten under me club of an overseer, nave amen men to suicide, murder and mutiny. Raleigh. It has been noticed that the conference of Southern Govern ors has started the old cry to cut the cotton acreage. This effort has been made years ago when cotton was down low in price, but it availed lit tle, for every other man will, imagine that there is going to be a reduction in the acreage and he will plant all he can to get in on the better prices and the result is the usual over-acreage. The only way to reduce the cotton acreage is to get the farmers to farm ing and to quit depending on cotton alone. Good rotative farming not mere growing "supplies," but growing other crops besides cotton for sale, growing feed and feeding toeeves and hogs; in short, farming instead of merely planting cotton. No agree ment among the all-cotton planters to reduce the acreage .will ever amount to anything. Years ago when cotton was down to its lowest point a certan state commissioner of agri culture was urging in all his publica tions that the acreage should be re duced. He had a farm in the coun try, and one day I rode out with him to his farm in the early spring, and to my surprise, found the whole place plowed for cotton. "Why," said I, "I thought that you were advocating a reduction of the acreage?" "Yes," said he, "I think there will be a large rdnntirm in the acreage, and I want to be in "on it." And men all over the nntton Belt were just as Insincere in their efforts. They wanted the other man to reduce and give them a chance to make money. j STILL IN DOUBT T PELLAGRA THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPART MENT IS AS MUCH PUZZLED AS EVER. MANY CASES IN THE SOUTH The Investigation Shows That the At tacks of the Disease in This County Are Much More Severe Than They Are In Italy. A Bronze Statue of Ruffin. A bronze statue of Chief Justice Ruffin in a year will be a notable addi tion to the monuments In Kaieign. it will be nlaced either in the routnda of the new building being erected for the state, or in the Capitol Square. That was the decision of the commit tee in charge of the matter, at a session with Chief Justice ciars, the chairman at his home. At the last meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association a committee was ap- nointed to take Into consideration whether there should be made a bust or a statue of Chief Justice Ruffin and it was decided a lifesize or heroic bronze statue should be made. The People Want Belt Line. The manufacturers oi iign foini are much pleased with the idea of the Southern Railway Company having un der advisement the building of a belt line around that part of the city where the industries are the thickest, it is said that the line will branch, off somewhere near the new Pickett Cot ton Mills ( in the western part of the city and thence through the more (Ki-iw iMiNt tao.tnrv district. On ac count of the large amount of freight handled here the main tracks of the southern through the city are at times greatly congested by the much shift ing of the freight cars ana tne Duua ing of this belt line would greatly re- relieve the situation. Interest In Eradication of Seetle. Mecklenburg farmers are manifest ing a keen interest in the eradication of the pine bark beetle that is do ing so much damage to the forests in certain parts of the county. And in this effort, the bureau of entomolo gy of the Department of Agriculture is heartily co-operating. The ravages of the little insect, almost unnoticed until two years ago, have been mark ed in those townships whre bodies of pine forests are plentiful. As was so clearly shown at the pine beetle nonference held in Charlotte the in sect is very insignificant in size but enormously large in its destructive ef forts. Suggests Brass Band Contest. That there be a big brass band con test in Raleigh next spring is a sug gestion made by Adjutant-General R T, Leinster. General Leinster says that next May there will be a hundred military officers here at the officers school and that it may be possible to order the bands of the three North Carolina Regiments to be present. He suggests that the citizens offer prizes and have' other brass bands here, :so as to have a big contest, which would attract many people. This 'is a matter which the Chamber of Commerce should take In hand. Have Elected Now Officers. The new board of directors of the Granville County Agricultural Asso ciation, elected at the recent meeting nf the stockholders, held their first meeting a few days ago. The following officers were elected: President, ts. M. Caldwell; vice-presidents, E.' T. White and E. C. Harris; treasurer, W. T. Yancev: secretary J. F. Webb; executive committee, S. W. Parker, R a. Rovster. .J T. Cozart, R. T. Gregory and W. B. Ballou. It was decided to leave the selection ot as assistant secretary to the committee. Union Depot Hearing at Wilson. Mr. W. T. Lee of the State Corpora tion Commission presided over the union depot hearing here. C. C. Dan iels represented the citizens and Col W. B. Rodman general solicitor, W. R Hudson general superintendent, B. L. Buff traffic manager, the Norfolk & Southern, and W. H. Newell, genera superintendent, C. L. Porter district superintendent and George B. Elliott general counsel, the Atlantic Coast Line. M;ny citizens appeared asking for the union depot. No decision wil be reached for several weeks. Patterson Memorial Cup Awarded. For the surprising excellence or nis recently published book "The Life and Works of Bernard Shaw," as compar ed with the literary effort of other North Carolinians during the past year the Patterson memorial cup was awarded to Dr. Archibald Henderson of the chair of mathematics. Univer sity of North Carolina, at the annual meetine of the North Carolina Liter ary and Historical Association. The presentation was by United btates Senator Lee S. Overman, who paid high tribute to Mrs. J. Lindsay Pat terson of Winston-Salem, by whom the Patterson memorial cup is awarded each year to the North Carolinian doing the best literary work for the year. Largest Amount by One Church. West Market Street Methodist Epis- coDal church. South. Greensboro, rais ed last year $20,523.34 for all pur poses, which is probably the largest amount raised by any single church in the state not to have under way anything special in the way of build ings. The finance committee of tne church has been reasonably success ful this year m getting the members to give weekly, instead of spasmodi cally, and this has done great things .for the work. Washington. After many months of investigation of pellagra in the South ern States, the scientists of the public health and marine hospital service are in as much doubt as ever as to the cause of the scourge. Meanwhile the Ataaaa aonma tn ha enintner nnd it has I UlOGfcO K V. 1J u ,,v. O - fbeen reported that nearly every physi cian in South Carolina has from five to fifteen cases in his private practice. Assistant Surgeon General John D. Long says, it has been demostrated that cures can be effected even up to the fifth attack, but that there is little hope when the patient has reached te stage of insanity . Pellagra has been found to be a seasonal disease and it is thought that the greatly varying temperatures of South Carolina may be partly responsible for its preval ence there. The' investigators have found that the greatest number cf. cases develop during the spring and autumn months when there are sudden and marked changes in the weather. Comparison of pellagra in the Unit ed States with pellagra is common, has proved that the attack is much more severe in this country. Chil dren, it has been found, respond to treatment much more satisfactory than do adults, and show the greatest percentage of recoveries. When tne disease reaches the point of producing insanity, a suicidal tendency develops and nearly all pellagra victims choose drowning. Cottonseed oil, Indian corn, certain classes of vegetables and a recently discovered gnat, are among the sup posed causes, but the disease still is a , mystery to the scientists. , Free, Use of Panama Canal. Washington A plea for the free use' by all nations of the completed Panama canal is made by John Bar rett, director general of the Pan American Union, in a statement pub lished in the official bulletin of the Pan-American Union. Mr. Barrett has made a study of the canal situation in its relation to all republics in North and South America. He urges ' that Consress make the canal ree to all commerce. In case such a plan is not favored, he urges a minimum toll rate, not to exceed 50 or 75 cents a net ton, for foreign trade and free passage for all American ships engaged in coast wise trade. Have Battle With Bandits. Bellingham, Wash. Two bandits. Walter Foote and Fred James, forti fied behind a breastworks c logs on the banks of the Skagit river, near Sedro Wooley. for three hours stood off a Dosse of 200 citizens.' More than a thousand shoU were , fired and forty dynamite bombs were thrown against the logs before the highwaymen stir- rendered. Foote was found to have Beven bullets in his body and died after having been taken to a hopsital.. James was uninjured and was lodged in the Skaf it county jail. The men had held up a saloon, robbed the safe, "cover ed" the town marshal with revolvers, taken away his weapons and valuables and then fled. Four members of the posse were wounded in the battle that' followed. Must Answer To Serious Charge. Rowland Lovelace, a young white man, 18 years old, was taken from Raleigh to Shelby, Cleveland county, to answer the charge of seduction un der promise of marriage. He had dis appeared from Cleveland and was lo cated in the employ of the Lattimore Lumber Company, near Raleigh. Dep uty Sheriff R. M. Gadney came from Shelby to carry Lovelace back. Started- Fifteen Year Sentenced. Charles Noell was brought to Ral eigh from Lexington to enter upon his lK-vear sentence to the penitentiary as the principal in the sensational white slave" case there, in which ho and his wife were convicted in sensational trials that stirred the en tire state. They enticed two young girls from Davidson county to Char lotte. Mrs. Noell is to serve 5 years for her part in this crime against so ciety. She has an infant son just a week old, so that she cannot be brought to the state prison yet Loomina Ud Large On the Map. Fuauay Springs is looming up large on the map. It has long been famous for the health-giving.. qualities of its water, healthfulness of Its climate, the high character of its population, both in the town and in the surrounding country, and in latter years has grown to be the biggest tobacco market of its size in the world. During ttie present season it has sold large quan- ties of tobacco, and the prices realized at thatv market have been as high as any other market in the state of North Carolina. Woman Killed By Robber. Chioago. Miss Edith Hocmanwas shot and killed here by robbers who, disomunting from an automobile, at tempted to hold up the young woman and her ' escort. The escort showed resistance and one of the robbers opened lire upon him. The bullets struck Miss Hoffman, however, and ' she was Instantly killed. The assail ants then escaped in their automobile. Escaped Murderer Recaptured. Auugsta, Ga. T. B. Walker, the ne gro convicted of the murder of Capt. E. S. Hallinshead in Wilkes county, and who escaped at Barnett station while being taken to Washington for execution the following day, was cap tured in Glasscock county and is he inf brought to. Augusta. Walker was captured the day a,?ter the murder by Deputy Sheriff Calaway and taken away from him by a mob in the town of Washington. The negro escaped or the .mob, but was later recaptur ed and again escaped. Want to Help the Victims. New York. The proposal that the $190,000 fund'(. subscribed by labor unions to aid In the defense of the Mc Namara brothers be turned over to the relatives of victims o The Los Angeles Times disaster was endorsed at a meeting of the Central Labor Union of Brooklyn. The McNamara brothers were severely arraigned and the sympathy and support of the Brooklyn unions was promised to President Gompers of the National Federation.