North Carolina Newspapers

C . ..... :-rr-- v.l;y v -t -if AND NEWS. VOL. 91 ASHBORO, N. WEDNESpAY, JANUARY 14, 1914 NO. 26 v. - HWWl'Ptiflt'll"T'T 1 J 1 y -- - - - - " - . .-- .-. """" " , f RANDkBfilAN - -m WII50N PROSPERITY I 7 ' j Things That Are Happening Under This Democratic "Good Times." CONDENSED NWS Short Items of Yesterday's News Easy to SeaB , Bicmond Va., will probably get one of the reserve banks. The Bulletin has never been a member of the "calamity howl ers" a term used largely by Democrats), for really we want to see the country prosperous, no matter whether the rule fbe Republican ois Dmocratic. But facts point out that the tarilf bill there has beennsidearble uhrest' and uneasiness in busi ness circles and the following are some newspaper clippings hat we cannot overlook. Does this look like a prosper ous country? Qnlli T7Q m 1tA TV vk ova mrxtf well-nigh 100,000 men out of m ployment in Indiana alone. Seattle, Wash. Five thou sand men are out of employment here and homeless. The f city is renting old buildings to house them and appeal has been made to the secretary of war for pr mission to use blankets belong ing to the national guard in help ing to relieve distress. Chicago John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federa tion of Labor, estimates that there are 100,000 men out of em ployment in Chicago Pofessor Henderson, chairman of the city commission on employment, says about 70,000 are men who have been let out on accout of curtail ment of work. Bloemington, 111. So many tramps are passing through the city that they are providing means of sleeping for them has become a problem which he city council is sriously considering. Some are beink sent to the work house, but that is ovrcrowded. Lois Angeles, Cal, Thousands of people are on the verge of starvation in Los Angeles. Thou sands are out of work, walking the streets, or else struggling olnnrr -Frvvm Vioyi tvirtiiVi rm tTi UiViig -L X Ulll XACAXAV U vll 111" sufficient wages. Salem, Ore. The mienfploy ment problem is so acute in Ore gon that Governor West is con sidering a city of tents for hous ing the jobless, and rk at grub bing! stumps and clearing land, under the direction of th state militia, but ther is no provision to teed the men while they are at work. , New ork City More than 500 men are now in the bread line waiting until after midnight nightly in order to gt a sup of coffee and a sandwich. A dozen charitable institutions are crowd ed to thir limit, Bridgeport,1 Conn. President E. P. Bullard, head of one of the largest boring machine manu factories in th ecountry, is autho rity forthe statement that 1,500 men are walking the streets of Bridgeport without employment. Philadelphia The pay roll of the Baldwin Locomotive works now covers about 12,000 men, as compared with 18,000 of last June. These are not all .given full time, and there is business ahead to last only till the end of January. Worcester, Mass. More than a thousand men recently employ ed in the, steel and iron industry are outlf Schneetady, N. , Three thousand mployes of the General Electric company have been laid off till spring. Columbus, Ohio Twenty-five hundred are idle in railroad and car shop works alone. Altoona, Pa. The Pennsylva nia railroad company has laid off 500 employes here. Bay City, MicH Several mines in the southern part of the state whose products were used by the Steel Corporations, have closed down? because he Steel company under the new tariff can buy cheaper in Europe. As a result many needy miners are out of jobs. T Pottsville, Pa. Ten thousand men of the ehigh Coal and Navi gation Co., in the Panther Creek valley have been laid off. lLogansport, nd. The Penn sylvania rajlroa4 company has laid off indefinitely 435 men, and f ploughed 100 more. Rochester, N. Y. The East man Kodak company and a big shoe company have laid off near ly a thousand men. Kalamazoo, Mich. A thou- and men idle; works closed down. , j Wilmington, Del, Railroad car shop forces have been re duced hlty per cent. Johnston, Pa. Stel plant here are running on sixty per cent ot usual force. Harrisurg, Pa. Steel plants Ir, is said that vesselswill pass through the Panama caiial with in t)0 days. f FURNITURE SHOW FORMALLY OPENS N. C. BOY CHAMPION h- Mid winter Exposition at High Point Starts Off Well Other News High Point, Jan. 12. George Gould and his party arrived on No. 37 this morning from New York. These gentlemen were met at the trin by their teams factions. During 1913 there vihe 9,000 hon icides in the United States and pnly 88 legal executions. hunting lodge east of the city. They will reniain here for some time, j The Midwinter Furniture Ex position opened here today. Nearly a score of buyers were here at the opening. There have been several more reservations booked at the Elwood hotel. The city council met in a reg ular session Saturday. There n : l i t 'was ouuic uiBcussuuii uui hu ac- nile Court. It isagdod idea, tlon in Tefdt - Purchasing a yet it is a pity that sis nS nre auto truck to cost &hout ewrv .v $o)UU. e stiy - v!f Alderman R. B. Terry, who ThrVeather'W this will be a cold wlek, with ILTT L":"f but it was not acted upon by the A Democrat will soon be nam ed for bank examiner in North Carlina to succeed th present inct mbent. I Record of North Carolina Boy Has Not Been -Equalled by Otrersf the wave extending as far south as x ionaa. Tie passenger anct A freight station of the Southern , Railway at forth Vilksboro wa destroy ed by fire. I F ibruary 10 a primafy will be helc at Baltimore for the selec tion of a postmaster. fThe can didates and Congressman Gud ger have agreed to abide the re sult if T le Winston-Salem jfapers re port that 2,685 cases vfera tried in t ie municipal courf in that city in 1913 and the finis collect ed jmounted to $25,47).37. The cases increased 500 over 1912 At a public receptiofi Satur day President Wilsonf received and shook. hands with more than 2.00 J visitors at Pass Christian, Mis;;., where he is spending his vaei tion. ' ' I One of the prizes the success ful contestant in?ihe boys' corn club wins, is a free trip to Wash ington. The press Idfepatches m pvmg an account of the visit this past year say:7 J "The most successful of the young prize-winning agricultur ists chat arrived today ;ras Wal ker Lee Dunson of Alexander City Ala., who, on his acre, rais ed 232LbnsheIs of ebrfl. This breaks the record hel for the past three years by Jer?y Moore, of South Carolina, th 228 bushels.' ... ' . I young Mr. Dunseally the champion boy corn gfeoifer of the soutn : au tne ooys; vnat corn South? AH the boysthtt com pete for prizes lit the3ys' Corn Club have their corn ineasured by he same rules aa$? regula tions. Measured according to these rules, Charles rarker, of Hertford county,NorthVGaroIina, year 1911, made 21 bush els of corn on ,on acre of land. By the sme lilies in 1910 Jerry Moore, oifisjuth Car olina, made 228.7: "bushels. Again by the same rul in 1912 Walter Lee Dunson, dfsAlabama, mado 232 bushels onjhis acre. Hence the press dispatches are The champion T le New York Nev Haven and Hartford railroad I reached an jigreement with th Depart merit of Justice on Saturday and f fiifguit i or dissomdohWili M in stituted. The company is to be reoi ?anized. I council today. Quite a number of High Point ers were at the train tonight to see President Wilson's train come in. The Recorder's court was oc cupied this forenoon with the trial of Troy Fitzgerald and a man by the name of Roberts. These men were tried under sev eral charges, store breaking, rob bery, etc. They had broken into a store on other places and had stolen goods. The men have gured in court here before. Fitzgerald was sentnced to 20 months and Roberts to 24 months on the county roads and bound over to court in two other cases. 1 The fire department answered a call from box 16 Saturday night to the Hunter house, on English street. After a prompt display of the apparatus the boys confined the flames to the upper part of the house, thereby sav ing the lower part of the house. The house is owned by Cary J. Hunter, of Raleigh, and was oc- oiipti jme'iueiit oiieiboii, ox ne Southern Railway company, is here today on business in connee T ie Salisbury Watchman pub iishos the names of thirty-five men and women living In Rowan ICou ity who have reached the age oi eigmy years pna over. Eight of these are ninety and ovei. the oldest being tiinety-six two ninety-five and on mnety foui. i TRICHINOSIS FOUND v NEAR THOMASVILLE Several Cases Have Developed Which One Death Has Already. Resulted Thomasville, Jan. 12.- -Six or eight cases of trichinosis, from which one death has already re sulted have been discovered near here Of the other cases one is on the road to recovery, one is in a critical condition and the rest while they are quite sick, are not considered in immediate dan ger. The physicians in attendance think that they have traced all the cases to one hog, killed be fore Christmas. They consider it probable that some of the meat was only heated though, instead of being thoroughly cooked, before being eaten as thorough cooking is believed to nvariably kill the trachinae that causes the disease. A3 trichinosis has hitherto been unknown around here the question has been raised as to how the hog became infected, ind the only solution so far offer ed is that it was through some .craps of western meat that had been thrown into the garbage fed to the hog. That part of the western; meat eaten by the pa tients now suffering from the disease was thoroughly cooked md no harmful effects followed antil after the hog was killed. The . symptoms of tricinosis would lead one to believe that ,he patient was suffering from a sross between grip and typhoid fever. The muscular ache char acteristic of grip is accompanied by abdominal pain swelling of the ankles respiratory troubles in error, rne cnammon bov "JSflXZ 7 'corn wer of the wfible South, Commerce street and ,,jj k v ,v.kw u,ui ' produced, is not Jerry?Hoore nor Walker Lee Dunson, but Charles J. Parker. And please note he is from North Caroa Jerry Un(j otner distressing symptoms. Moore was ine wamwam peculiarly horrible thing corn gathering bouu m ibout the ailment however is the corn gathering timejpll. At ract that medical science is al this time young Parfeeron the most if not quite, powerless be championship and sttfl holds it. -oreit The best that the doctor aitncugn young uppnson has given him a close calt f The regulations rnjire that the measuring be doftelJy:4jshi terested witnesses of hd kinship. When Charles PliBeht in his report, the numjlaf vfcush- u0 it eis was so large wjo jn jEnftrge LOW TARIFF Brings Millions Bushels of Corn to This Country. New York, Jan. 12. Nearly 300,000 bushels of Argenine corn were unloaded in this port and millions more from the South American republic are un der contract. The importations are the direct result of the re moval of the duty on the staple under the recent tariff act. More than 1,000,000 bushels have been received.'in the United States since the tariff went.into effect, the first from Argentine ever brought here, and already the competition with American corn has forced a decline in cash values. The 13 ships are either en route here or loading with corn from the Argentine and one American manufacuring con cern which use corn in the man ufacture of syrups and kindred products under contract for delivery. WANT BIG DAMAGES Former Asheboro Boy Being Sued for $25,000 Dama ges in Libel Suit. $10,000,000 TO MEN OF FORD MOTOR CO. Employes Will Share Profits Annually Under Plan De vised by Ford. Thomas J. Betts is a native son of Asheboro, son of J. M. Betts had. had a good deal of newspaper experience and re cently settled down over at Leaksvilleo "make good" on the Weekly Courier. This Tom is doing. 'He is-issuing a splendid halthy paper, full of life (advertising-) and hews. It appears that recently Tom took an ad from a certain gen tleman who wanted to "shoot it into" Hon. A. L. Brooks and a few others, and to which the honorable Brooks took excep ceptions and would now seek to recover damages from Tom and the gentlemen who dubbed him to the extent of $25,000. However, since the article was one signed and marked, it will be a hard matter to re lieve Tom of his coin, but the gentleman who inserted the ad vertisement will have the bill to foot if there be any. Of the suit against Tom the Greensboro Daily News of Fri day morning says: Yesterday A. L. Brooks through his attorneys took preliminary Detroit, Mich., Jan. 6. The Ford Motor company announced today that beginning with Mon- 'steps toward bringing suit for T.ie advent of 1814 finds Nor;h Carolina with jllc- State banks with a combined capital of 311,018,000, compared with 875 banks" last year wih S9,984 000 capital a gain of 40 per cent. ihe banking resources now a mount to $91,000,000, Icompared with $83,500,000 last ear. Vv.ith the attendancj likely to be t etween six and seven hun- irec, the Worth Carolma GraiM Lod e of Masons will dbnvene in HaUigh on next Tuesday, Janu ary 18 in its one hundred and twenty-seventh annual session. The forthcoming session will be full of interest to Mas 3ns all over the State , ss rat:ers of very great importance! aro to be broi ght up and discused. tion with the foreign car prob lems. Mr, Shelton was heard to say that never in the history of the road was his company using so many loreign cars. .an do is to alleviate some of the suffering and trust to nature to throw off the parasites. If the patient is strong enough to do 'his he survives, otherwise ne loesn't, and that is all there is So day next its officials will put in operation a "profit sharing plan by which $10,000,000 represent ing approximately one-half the profits of the company, will be distributed annually among its employees. By the terms of the scheme, which originated with Henry Ford, it was announced no em ployee over the age of 22 will be paid lsss than $5 a day. Even .loor sweepers will receive that amount. The lowest wage paid now is $2.34 a day. The work ing hours are to be reduced from nine to eight. Secretary Couzens, discussing the announcement, which was received with joy by the em ployees of . the great plant, said that the proposed plan is the re sult of the beRef of Henry Ford chat there has been too -great .a livision between capital and la- HIT HARD. The Labor Union Officials Con victed Lose Out. Twenty-four of the union la bor officials convicted at Indian apolis for the dynamite con spiracy have been denied new trials and must serve their time. Six of them were granted new trials. This hits the officials pretty hard, as they were cer tain of being finally cleared. But the evidence was that they were in the dynamite game; Or tie Mannigal or whether the fiend's name was, that they were in the dynamite game gave them away and the McNamara brothers were the king bees. They must take their medicine. FTFTY-ONR STORIES. oy preconcerned arrange- i if- i -m nr - mems, iur. k,. cj. ivxarun, w T t:ij: : w-M it . : . - . charge of the Boys' Com Aucsl "u"uls 111 """" por and that looor has not been nu.u v. cm. nr-T to be Built. sharing to the extent that it wi" vviuu ytuiiv an jai I ih UU11 L 1X1 l"(ew iuib. siy mu m. r ;j i. j i lina, T. Frank Parker and T. J. be the tallest building in the r J? .1" W. fcroome, of the North Caro- world, 894 feet high covering " " T increa ir Hna Department of Agriculture, over a block-51 stories high. JSJX emDlovf the T. E. Browne, district farm dem- it will cost twelve million and a fnv will sh?re m what the onstiation agent, and E. N.Clark half of dollars. ?a?LW "2iS e - - j Tr i If I C UCUC'C XV W All lllXXZL Id 11 V 1111- T ie State Board of Education has apportioned $250,000 to the schcols of the various counties n pursuance to the legislation of 1913 to provides for six morths' terms, the ioney be ing :aised by a five ceits levy on all property. The suih was ap port.oned upon a per lap'tal ba sis f school populaion. The grei test amount to any county, $7,537 went to Mecklenburg and the smallest $480 to.Dfire. land and industrial agent of the Atlantic Coast ; Lane Railroad, met at the home of Mr. Parker, remeasured hisi land, gathered up ail the scrap corn on the Our State Department issued SJrll, : n a . pioyees. LS11!." (ZZZ rj The company has organized a ailiau iciuiuuiB vyj Aiw I flnlnmVQl Honarlmonf wTiiVVi a s a vT ,a oqc c uo t.. i. 4.1 iJwill Keep in touch with the em 5? L"-" rZJEZc: .ine uep.er raeui. ."l"!:0 pioyees and the manner of their SSEwi w 5 SSS " imPrOVerne"L in Uie cuu- living. Any who are found us- disinterested witnesses. ing their extra money in a way considered to be improper for They went a step farther. THAW IS NOT NOW INSANE LTil m wac foton 6 liviiig wc cuumiiitcuao Samples of the corn was taken to the laboratory of the A. and M. C'ollege and dried to 12.22 per cent of moisture, the mois ture content of the crib dry corn. I hfnpfiririfs nnrlpr t.ViA rlan. Such is Report of Commission Th latest revolution in Appointed by Federal Judge the matter of rewards for work- HTan n ers ever. known m the industrial $25,000 against T. J. Betts and D. F. King, of Rock ingham county for allged li bel. It is reported that similar suits have been instituted against these parties by Senator A. D. Ivie and C. O. McMichael, and that they are asking dam ages in the sum of $10,000 each. Attorneys Brooks, Ivie and McMichael recently represented B. F. Mebane in a case in Rock ingham court with the Leaks-ville-Spray institute, with which it is said Mr. King was or had been in some way connected. Mr. Betts is publisher of he Weekly Courier. An article pub- in the paper signed by Mr. King ana neaaea ueaicaiea to Would-be Character Robbers," is the cause of the libel suits. It is alleged by Mr. Brooks that the defendant to the libel suit contrived and maliciously in tended to injure his good name and credit and to bring hi into public ridicule, scandal and in- famy njy composing and publish ing in the Courier "a false, san dalous, malicious and defamato ry libel concerning him." The article was printed as a paid advertisement, and charg ed the attorneys with "false hood, slander, villihcation, mis representation, robbery and in uendo" and that they "attempt ed one of the, blackest crimes in the history of Rockingham county," when, it is charged, they "seemingly colluded togeth er deliberately, premediatedly and with malicious intent for the prposeo" of robbing Mr.. King of his good name and character. ANOTHER "PIE" JOB ..s Tiere seems to beta general disposition to contest? tho seats held by some of the j Congress men from this State this year. In t ie Third, where Mr. Faison will be a candidate to succeed imself, Judge Guion and ex- Con pressman Small,! of New Ber i and Hon. E. M. "Coonce, of Ons .ow, have announced their eandidacles. Mr, E. Preston of Charlotte has announced his candidacy in the Ninfh pistnct aga nst Congrssmah Webb. Anc there is likely td be candi date s in the Seventh igainst Mr Pag 3. In the Sixth, Mr. J. A. Bro wn will run agaiftst Repre seniative Godwin. j Taken From Civil Service As sistant Postmasters. Washington, Jan. 12. Exemp- j tion of all assistant postmasters from the Civil 'service and an ap propriation of $200,000 for exr periments in Government own ership of railway mail cars were two proposals that attracted much attention when the annual postoffice appropriation bill was submitted to the House today. The bill carries $305,247,757, Jjast year the total was $283,- 441,171, j A minority report by Repre sentative Madden, of llinois, and Stevenson, of Minnesota, Re publicans, attacked the propsal to take the 2,400 assistant post masters out of the Civil Service as a "vicious" move for political purposes. TTonrlall TViqw wnillH not I WOritl 195.87 bushels. This test was be a public menace if released on !fe FordMotor Company gives not applied to any of-the other bail, according to the report oi " otciu. . n ouaww,. Uv, Wrv,ioaiTi nrrnintwi hv rH0 employed at tne r.rancn 16.82 per cent of his corn. This Federal Judge Aldrich to inquire and assembling plants all over rv,, ,a ur r00 a ao, hf tv,txt0 TiAntaiiHr cne worm ana aaaiuonai men I'rr.-Hio mnofiiro nf V,j TV a rannrt 99V9 that thP PCWTl- I Wll UC K1VC11 ClllFtUyiilCllb UW other boys' corn was the same mission finds Thaw is not afflict- ng January, or a total of 25, oo fKf nf Portia iw fc,-Q Qa- A mv, -.r io mPTitflT di- w0 employes before Jf ebruary 1. Jerrv Moore had only 190.23 seases from which, he was suff- Henry Ford believes tliat his bushels instead of 228.75; Dun- ering when he slew Stanford company is big enough to make son had only 192.98 bushels in- White. a .be.?inniiig m a sweeping dis- steaa of 232. Because this extra The finding was announced to- cribution of earnings, despite oc woe annlipH fn him Hmihf riov Whilo thp rnmmissioner the opinion of many economists less explainh why Charles Par- say they have reached a definite that no one company can adopt ker never has been accorded and positive opinion as to the the profit sharing plan on ac- Vo l,nnnr on inst.lv rn iim nf Lrasnnf mAnfnl rnndltlOTl of COUnt OI tne Keen COmpeUtlOn. beinj; the champion boy corn Thaw and his probable state of While Henry Ford talked ormwpr nt th Smith. m nH at. thA tlTYlP OT Tne nomi- uiau hud m vi iiiiik a Parker grew his com at a cide,' they refrain from expres- crowd of men fought outside for cost of 24 cents a bushel, ! Jerry sing this opinion in view of their employment at the employment TVIm of a nnat rvf A1? conto Tlnv. nofvnnf nna tVrm- tha rnillt. Tint UeDaflineni Ul Hie OIK P1H11U At According to figures compiled by the Siler City Grit there were shipped from that point from Nov. 8th to Dec. 27th 1913, just 13,611 rabbits. And this was but one place of several in Chat ham county where this traffic in rabbit meat was carried on. here are running on sixty per cent of usual force. I Harrisburg, Pa.-4-Ten thou sand are idle here, j Grand Rapids, Mi$h. About a thousand men ar idle here, Fine Court House. Wake county has let the con tract for a $300,000 court house. Sad Statistics of Suicide There were 13,106 suicides in the United States in the year just closed. The men who took their lives outnumbered the wo men 2 to 1. Thirty-four were physicians. I I xnuii vw - 1 . . .i 1 son at a cost of 20 cents. When to embarass any subsequent hti- is a daily occurrence, a squad cost is taken into consideration gation where the broad question of police guarded the entrance Dunson will perhaps take the of insanity might be involved. anu one oi me uwu uuuuwu championship over Parker by a "Upon the question of menace on a chair was swinging a long small margin. But let every or danger through the granting scantling m a sime-circle to keep North Carolina boy know that of bail, we may, however, be per- the entrance clear. when growing the greatest num- mitted and probably are com- mere, saia jit. rora, poim pelled," concludes the report, "to mg toward me struggling mass record our nnoding tnat wnai- ui uumnuuy uuuuuc ip uuc vi ever may have been the mental the reasons we have adopted condition of Harry K. Thaw at plan. We want to gie work to the time of the homicide, he more men ana so we nave re now is not suffering from any duced the working day from mental diseases alleged by the 9 hours to two shifts to eight prosecujtion at the time of the hours and three shifts. namelv namc-depressive insani- "The commonest laborer who trials or subsequently thereto, sweeps me noor wuw receive ity, paranoia, manic-depressive his $5 a day. We believe-in i j i-t l,i OC AAA ?-Mvn nrnonatVMia tv narjinmji. nfmnLia. nraecux. inaniUK io.uui; uxvok, vw or delusive insanity. and contented rather than fol- , "Tn nnr minmn. it is reason- low the plans oi maKing a iew ahw nrAhablp that Harrv Ken- slave drivers in our establish- r . - y - i , ... . .n. . rlall Thaw's lihertv under bail ment multimillionaires. waii Id not he danirerous or a I me women win noi saare m mpriftpp to the public safety. the distribution, not being con sidered the economic factor tnat mm Subscribe to The Bulletin. 'men workers are, but they will $7,500 Salary and Nothing to Do. Ex-Governor Glenn has taken the public into his confidence long enough to say that the President offered him choice of two positions on the Inters state Commerce Commission or on the Boudry Commission. He refused the plaeeon the In terstate Commerce Commission. He has the other job under con sideration and will announce his decision this week. Like the Dutch magistrate who announc ed that he would withhold judg ment for two weeks but would finally decide in favor of the plaintiff, Governor Glenn is con sidering but of course has made up his mind to take the job. Why shouldn't he? The place carries a salary of $7,500 with practically nothing to do Stat- esville Landmark. ber of bushels on an acre alone is considered, one of their own number is the champion boy corn grower of the world. Radium Didn't Work Dr. Frederick C. Busch, of Buffalo died from a cancer last week, and while $125,000 worth of radium was used in his treat ment, it didn't cure him. So those who have cancer and sigh because hey haven't the price of radium may console themsel ves by knowing that this rare substance is not a specific, as has been loudly proclaimed. Everything. Big Profits in Parcel Post.. . The Postoff ice Department es timates that the parcel post has added $36,000,000 to the postal receipts during the year. The profit is estimated at $41,000,- 000. Tne railroads nave to car ry the stuff without extra pay, and are finding fault. Their in come from the express compan ies has fallen off. Subscribe to The Bulletin. get substantial wage boosts instead. The Ford Motor Company is capitalized at $2,000,000. The financial statement oi tne com pany September 80, 1912, show ed assets of $20,815,785.63 and surplus of $14,745,095.57. One year later, September 30, 1913, it showed assets of $35 033,919. 86 and surplus of $28,124,173.68. A J -Si .- II - 4 - 't-':' -