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CAROLINA FIGURES
3SJO NECESSITY TO PROLONG AN
ARGUMENT OVER FIGURES
IN THAT STATE. '
JUDGE PELL CONTEMPTUOUS
Long Drawn Out Speeches Before Cor
poration Commission in Matter of
Southern Power Company.
Raleigh.
Seven hours of speech-making be-
rfore the corporation commission left
the Southern Power company just one
:5ialf the way through argument and
the responding mills qnly one-seventh
-of the oral journeying to final submis
sion of their protests.
W, S. O' B. Robinson made a brilliant
lour hour ofTensivs for hi3 client,; and
.Judge W. P. Bynuui, of Greensboro,
countered with threa "hours of oratory
that kept everyone listening. The real
feature of the day's sitting was fur
mished by Judge George Pell.
It happened ju3t before the court
-adjourned for lunch. Much had been
said about the tax valuations of
-Southern Power property in South
Carolina, Judge Crawford Biggs,
-pounding on its remarkable variance
-with the reproduction and cash value
-figures filed by the petitioner.
"Now we are not going to be hum
'tragged by these South Carolina fig
nres," Judge Pell said. "This commis
sion, since revaluation went' into ef
fect, entertains something of a con--tempt
for South Carolina figures any--way,
and I don't see the necessity for
-prolonging the argument about what
'South Carolina has or hasn't done.
'Is Parent Liable for Damage?
The liability of a parent for damage
done by a minor child driving an au
tomobile is an issue that should prop
erly be determined by a jury, declares
the supreme court in an opinion hand
ed down reversing the action of Judge
Finley in an order of non-suit entered
In the case of Tyree vs. Tudor, com
ing up in Forsyth. The opinion is
-written by Chief Justice Walter Clark.
According to the. prologue to the
-opinion, the Tudor boy, with the con
sent of his father, took an automobile
"belonging to the elder Tudor, and car
ried the Tyree girl to a dance at the
)ountry elub in Winston-Ski em. Re
turning after milnight, and driving
it a speed of 60 miles an' hour, the
car collided with another, and was
"hurled for some distance off the road.
The young woman was killed almost
'instantly. Chief Justice Clark holds
-that the issue of damages should be
-settled by a jury. ?
$33,000,000 for Education,-
The Christian Education Movement
of the Southern Methodist, which is
asking this year for $33,000,000 for
schools, colleges and universities of
the South, cannot fail to succeed de
clared the Rev. W, W. Peele, pastor
-of the Edenton Street church. When
the people of the church catch a vi--sion
of the needs of the .Christian
schools and colleges, and God calls
the money will come in, said Mr.
Peele. The apportionment in the edu
cational movement for the North Car
olina Methodist Conference is $1,322,
;700. - Charlotte Gets S. S. Convention.
Charlotte gets the next annual
-North Carolina Sunday- School con
vention, it was decided at session
hereand the dates were fixed for
lApril 11. 12 and 13, 1922. (
Prominent speakers appeared at
the session, among them Dr. William
A. Brown, of Chicago, who talked
about "Some Secrets of Sunday
School Success."
President Gilbert T. Stephenson, of
Winston-Salem, followed Mr. Brown
with his annual address to the con
v vention.
'To Investigate Hazing Affair.
Judge Connor, in Wake" county su
perior court, asked the grand jury to
?make a vigorous investigation into the
hazing episode at the North Carolina
-State College of Agriculture and Engi
neering here several weeks ago.
hat Will the State do?
Washington, (Special). An impor
tt&nt question here now is:
"Will North Carolina unite on a
rinan and hold the position that Judge
Pritchard had or will they divide
- 'forces and lose all hope of success?
Three men are urged for the plac
former Judge William P. Bynum, of
'-Greensboro; J. J. Britt, of Asheville,
Tm IS n rr.nnrT of Wilsnn M
The promise is that Virginia will
-get the job. A very determined fight
-will be put up for It by Virginia "as--Bisted
by Delaware.
cOormitory at Junaluska.
A large dormitory, containing about
40 rooms, will be erected at Lake Jun-
aluska, the convention and conference
.. gathering ground of, the Southern
Methodists, by J. B. Ivey, of Charlotte,
- along with numbers of other improve-
- jnents and enlargements, according to
- announcement made in The Asheville
i CJltlzen. The item follows:
"A great season is expected at Lake
junaluska this summer py the South
ern Assembly, according to informa-
-tion recently received by way of
XT7ynesviIIer
Some Foolish Talk Derided.
. In normal times, there would be ab
solutely no trouble in disposing of the
state bonds, declared . Governor Cam
eron Morrison on the eve of his de
parture for New York city -and other
financial centers where he ahdf Treas
urer Lacy will seek placement of a
part of the ""bonds authorized by the
legislature. North Carolina's credit is
in fine shape, the Governor declared.
In fact, it is one of the few states in
the union which has liquid assets of
sufficient amount to practically wipe
out the state debt. The state has a
bonded debt of . about eleven million
dollars.
Over against this liability, the state
owns railroad property which, it is
estimated, will bring at least that
amount. It owns the controlling stock
in the road from Charlotte to Golds
boro and from Goldsboro to Morehead
City. Conservative business men be
lieve that the state's stock in these
two roads would easily bring a suffi
cient amount to wipe out the state
debt. Consequently, any talk about
the credit of the state being in a pre
carious condition is foolish and ab
surd, in the opinion of the governor.
No other Southern state has such as
sets to offset its bonded debt, and few
other states in the union can make !
such a showing..
Farmer-Labor Conference.
Washington, (Special). Farm and
labor officials of North Carolina will
figure prominently in the farmer-labor
conference called to meet here April
14-16, by. the People's Reconstruction
league.
H. W. H. Stone, of Greensboro, pres
ident of the North Carolina Farmers'
union; Dr. J. M. Templeton, of Cary,
vice president and W. L. Bagwell, of
Raleigh, secretary-treasurer, will rep
resent their organization at the con
ference. The State Federation of Labor is
also expected to send representatives.
W. F. Moody, of; Raleigh, president of
the. federation, will probably attend.
Negroes are Fighting Linney.
Washington, (Special). J. J. Far-
ris, postmaster of High Point, said be
fore leaving for home that he intend
ed to resign his position with the gov
ernment not later than July 1.
Negroes in North Carolina have sig
nified their intention of filing charges
against Frank Linney who is to be
the next district attorney for Western
North Carolina.
Record Sales of Tobacco.
The North Carolina tobacco crop
made another record step with its
March sales made by the 114 ware
hbuses' that operated on 31 markets.
The total sales reported were 21,528,
883 pounds, averaging $14.17 and
about 85,000 pounds not reported.
The season's crop sold amounts to
cover 430,000,000 pounds, averaging
about 21 cents. This surpasses the
government's estimate by almost fifty
million pounds and is ten million
pounds more than was expected even
a month ago. .. " .
Young People'sConference.
Religious thinkers and leaders of
national reputation will be among the
speakers at the conference of the
Presbyterian Young People's league
which will be held at Peace institute,
Raleigh, May 31 to June 7." ;
Dr. Charles R. Erdman, president of
tiie Princton Theological seminary,
heads the list of prominent speakers.
New Sanitary Engineer.
The state board of health announc
ed the appointment of George F. Cat
lett, of Wilmington, as assistant sani
tary engineer.
Kitchin Is Minority Leader.
Washington, (Special). The ex
pected happened when at the caucus
of the democrats of the house, Con
gressman Claude Kitchin, of Scotland
Neck, was made the democratic
choice for speaker, and was again
chosen for a place on the Ways and
Means committee, being the ranking
democratic member, and by virtue of
this becoming the cinority boor
loader. '
Requisition for Equipment.
Requisition papers sfor equipment
for the Hornets Nest infantry com
pany of Charlotte have been sent to
Washington by Major Gordan Smith,
of the regular army, according to
word received by Captain MelvinH
Caldwell.
Money Saved byExchange.
During the last year a farmers' ex
change in Beaufort County, N. C,
saved its members and the farmers
in the community between $75,00(1
and $100,000. ,
A great growth in co-operative mar
ketlng and purchasing has been one or
the outstanding results of extension
work In the South. County agents,
assisted by marketing -specialists,
through marketing demonstrations
and by Instruction and advice have
aided local and county associations
of farmers.
Fatalities Caused by Fire.
Nearly 300 people in North Carolina
met death last year by fire, the total
being barely below the record for the
previous year. In 1920 there were 18
lives lost in conflagrations, while 279
died from other burns. " The total was
297. For 1919 there were 24 lives lost
in conflagrations and 276 from other
burns. The total was 301, just four
more than for the last year.
The majority of the deaths from
burns were children, resulting: from
accidental catching fire.
1 Rene Viviani, special envoy from France, reviewing the cavalry' of" the Twenty-seventh division In
Central park, New York. 2 Ruined interior of St. Paul's church, the oldest in Washington, which was de
stroyed by fire. 3 Types of the British miners who are on strike and In whose support the transport and
rail workers have quit work.
NEWS REVIEW OF
Harding's International Policy
Seems to Please All the
Republican Groups.
OUR RIGHTS SAFEGUARDED
Modified Knox Peace Resolution In
troduced Democrats Fight Emer
gency Tariff Bill Colombian
Treaty Before the Senate
Efforts to Stop Great
British Strike.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
President . Harding, in his program
for international relations as set forth
in his message to congress, has ac
complished - the remarkable feat of
satisfying all factions in his party, if
the expressions of leaders in Washing
ton are to be . taken as representing
the opinions of the people. The fore-Cast-
of this' program, . made a week
ago, was not far, astray. It contains,
however, a plan for the acceptance of
such terms of the Versailles treaty as
confirm America's rights and inter
ests; in other words, the ratification
of the treaty' with such reservations
and modifications as will completely
cut out the League of Nations cove
nant and secure "our absolute free
dom" from entanglement ln purely
European affairs. Just how the cove
nant, so closely interwoven into the
fabric of the treaty, can be eliminated,
is not yet apparent. s In Washington
it is said a delegation might be sent
to Europe, or a conference of the al
lies called in our national capital. It
is also suggested that it may be nec
essary to draw up a new treaty or
treaties,, to be signed by the United
States, the allies and Germany.
Any negotiations to this end, how
ever, are to await reconsideration by
the, allies of their award of the Island
of Yap to Japan and their formal ac
knowledgment of America's rights in
the disposition of all the territories
taken away from the central powers.
At first France replied to Secretary
Hughes note on Yap by a suggestion
that the question be settled by the
United States and Japan, and it is
believed Great . Britain will propose
the same course, offering its good of
fices in behalf of the American claims..
Japan wants the controversy to be in
cluded . in the general negotiations to
settle all matters at issue between
this country and Japan. Neither of
these suggestions is acceptable to the
administration, and neither will be
considered. Mr. Hughes' position Is
that the Yap affair concerns the al
lies jointly and must be settled by
them jointly .in negotiations with the
United States.
As was foreseen, the President said
he favored the adoption of the Knox
resolution ending the state of war, but
with modifications. Accordingly it
was introduced., in the senate at once
with changes to suit, and plans were
made to push it through as soon as
the Colombian treaty is disposed of.
As it stands, the resolution carefully
reserves all American rights acquired
by the war, the armistice and the Ver
sailles treaty, but there is no pro
vision for the negotiation of a separ
ate peace treaty with Germany. The
instrument also declares the state of
war with Austria ended, but no one
here thinks much about Austria these
days, except in pity for its starving
poor. -
Early comment In France on thp
President's message Indicated that" the
French were trying to find it satis
factory. They expected the flat re
jection of the league covenant, and
many or them are not wildlv nthn-
siastic over the league, anyhow. They
are elated by the expressed determina
tion that America shall stand with the
allies in holding Germany responsible
for-the war nnd in compelling her to
mace reparation to the extent of her
ability. They still hope that Ameri
ca will speciflcalijr promise aid to
CURRENT EVE
France In case of German aggression
or of Germany's failure to pay. The
British are so occupied . with their
great strike that they have not had
much to. say about the . message up
to the time of writing.
An interesting bit of comment
comes from Buenos Aires, where a
leading paper sees only self-interest
In the future international policy of
the United States.
"The egoistic Independent national
ism which is proclaimed as the law of
international activity by the United
States is dominant in Mr. Harding's
words? the newspaper declares
"Americanism and Monroeism, no
tions clear and concrete, which have
had their rise arid fall since 1824, re
appear with more vigor than ever in
the directing thought of the United
States." .. -
Concerning domestic matters, which
he declared, of prime importance, Mr.
Harding said nothing unexpected, ex
pressing what leaders of his -party
called "sound Republican doctrines."
He especially urged speedy relief for
the ex-service men and the passage
of an emergency tariff bill.
The latter is already before con
gress, the ways and means committee
of the house having reported out a
combination measure including the
farmers' tariff bill which Mr. Wilson
vetoed, an anti-dumping bill and a
new provision for the regulation of
foreign exchange. The Democrats of
the house speedily organized their op
position to the measure under their
leader. Representative Kitchin of
North Carolina. Mr. Kitchin charged
that the bill is not in the interest of
the farmers of the country, "but is
really for the purpose of swelling, the
already swollen fortunes of the trusts
and speculators." He declared that
it gives "to the packers' trust, the
sugar trust and the woolen trust the
right and privilege to take from the
American people the enormous sum of
over $775,000,000; increasing to that
extent the present high cost of Jiv
ing." -
Allusion is made above to the Col
ombian treaty. This was the first
thing the senate tackled, and a fight
developed at once. The pact is the
old one giving to Colombia $25,000,000
for the loss of Panama and the Canal
Zone. It has always been bitterly op
posed as a virtual repudiation of the
acts of Theodore Roosevelt when he
was President, but now it has been
modified by the omission of any ex
pression of the government's regret
for the part played by the United
States in connection with the separa
tion of Panama from Colombia. Pres
ident Harding has told the senate he
hopes it will ratify the treaty, and It
probably will do so. . Senator Lodge
led the debate In favor of the pact,
and revealed one of the strong rea
sons for its adoption the existence
of rich oil fields in Colombia which
Americans wish to develop.
Senator Kellogg of Minnesota said
the ratification of the treaty would be
a pusillanimous act, ana on tne
strength of a telegram and letters
from Colonel Roosevelt, written in
1917, he declared it would make the
United States liable to international
blackmail running Into hundreds of
millions of dollars. The telegram
said:
"I know, of course, that you are
against this infamous Colombian
treaty, but I wish you would point
out that it makes precedent for some
successor of Wilson to pay at least as
large a sum apiece ' to Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, Haiti and Santo Domingo
for what has been done to them re
cently, and also to Chile for our In:
solent and Improper treatment of her
in connection with the Alsop claim."
President Harding has approved a
new list of brigadier generals to be
raised to major generals, and Clarence
R. Edwards, whom President Wilson
omitted from his list and who com
manded the New England National
Guard division in France, comes first
of all. Among the others are Generals
Haan, Bell, Allen and Menoher, A
number of colonels are recommended
for promotion to brigadiers.
Germany will refuse to accept the
indemnity figures of the. allies when
they are presented on May 1, accord
ing to -Dr. Julius Ruppel, chief of the
German financial delegation In Paris.
He says the time allowed is altogether
too short for .estimating the total
liabilities for reparations, and that the
German experts have been forced to
rely on written statements that are
neither accurate nor adequate. A
Paris journal asserts that the sum to
be demanded by the allies will be be
tween 30 and 38 billions of dollars,
and that when Germany refuses to
accept the figures two classes of
French reserves will be called to the
colors and the Ruhr basin occupied.
In that region are the most Important
industrial plants and the largest coal
mines of western Germany.
AH attempts to reach a basis for
peace negotiations having failed the
transport and rail workers of Great
Britain were called out on strike Fri
day night In support of the third
element of the . triple alliance, the
miners. It is not certain at this writ
ing how general will be the response
to the order to quit Work. The Lon
don Daily. Mail had advices from sev
eral big rail centers to the effect that
there was little strike enthusiasm and
that there would be no complete stop
page of traffic. The railway men were
especially reluctant to join in the
strike and their leader, J. H. Thomas,
has been -opposed tp.itall along. -But,
the miners insisted that the . compact
of the triple alliance be lived up to
and the rail workers were forced to
yield. Up to the last the government
continued to hope for peace, and on
Thursday night another conference
gave hope of reopening the negotia
tions. The miners then seemed to be
changing their attitude somewhat.
Of the two main demands of the
miners, one the national" pooling of
profits, has. been declared utterly Im
practicable by the government. The
other, the regulation of wages on a
national basis, was accepted by Lloyd
George and his colleagues. But the
miners Insisted on all or nothing. Ac
cording to a manifesto issued by their
federation, the miners are asked to
allow their methods of national nego
tiation to be destroyed and to accept
a reduction In wages which would
bring them down In many, districts to
far less than their pre-war standard
of living.
An Important step toward the re
vival of industry in America Was made
last week when the United States
steel corporation announced a new
price list showing lower prices for
steel. The cut ranges from $1.50 to
$9 a ton, and the price of tin plate
also was reduced $15 a ton. The de
creases are confined to certain prod
ucts and, according to builders and
architects, are not In themselves suf
ficient to revive the building Industry ;
but the cut does remove uncertainty
and establish a general stabilized price
level for steel and experts In the trade
say it should stimulate industry. The
first concrete result -was the announce
ment by the International Harvester
company of a straight 10 per cent re
duction on its products in which steel
is the principal raw product used.
Secretary of Labor Davis In an ad
dress in Chicago made his first public
statement of his attitude toward la
bor and capital. He called for a fair
deal for capital, a decent living wage
for labor, larger profits for farmers
through lower rail-shipping rates, and
the settlement of all Industrial dis
putes through conferences between
employees. He warned labor that If
It is to take a share in the policies of
the nation It also must share the na
tional responsibilities, declaring It was
up to labor to see that transportation
conditions were such that the farmer
could make a fair profit.
The federal railway labor board has
Issued an order that clears up the
transportation situation, or should do
so speedily. Briefly, it terminates the
national working agreements on July
1 ; meanwhile conferences between the
carriers and the workers are ordered,
to settle the controversies over work
ing rules as far as possible ;' on July
1, the board will promulgate" "just and
reasonable" rules for classes of em.
ployees regarding whom rules have not
been reached vDy agreement Both
sides are urged to act as aulcklv ns
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