Republican Leader
Chooses To Ignore
A Shameful Record
JFails To Tell About Graft And
Corruption In Vet. Bureau
! Under Director Forbes.
Chairman William M. Butler of the
National Republican Committee has
issued a pamphlet explaining corrup
tion in the Veterans Bureau. Con
gressman Oldfield has replied to it
and the reply is a smashing one. It
is in substance as follows:
“Mr. Butler’s pamphlet is more re
markable for what it omits than for
anything it contains, for example,
he refers to investigation of the bu
reau, set up for rehabilitation and
care of World War veterans, now
known as the Veterans’ bureau, and
concludes with this remarkable mis
statement: ‘all of the practices and
■methods thus indicted were due to
Democratic mismanagement and were
persisted in by Democratic officials in
the face of repeated protests from
individual ex-service men as well as
organizations of ex-service men.’ Ac
cordingly, he said, when the Republi
can party came into power, it set out
immediately ‘to correct these faults.’
* “Chairman Butler neglects to men
tion that in March, 1919, a Demo
cratic Congress made an emergency
appropriation of 19,000,000 for the
relief of World War veterans, and
that in December, 1919, President
Wilson asked Congress, of which the
Republicans had come into control,
for and additional appropriation of
$35,000,000 for the veterans’ agencies,
t>ut that the Congress, through the
manipulations of G. • O. P. leaders,
delayed any action for 16 months,
and then finally appropriated only
$18,000,000.
“There were two investigations of
the service men’s agencies. The first
was of the War Risk Insurance Bu
reau. It revealed some inefficiency
and very inadequate hospital facil
ities, but there was no evidence of
dishonesty. The second investigation
was of the Veterans’ Bureau, of
which Col. Charles R. Forbes had.
been made director. Forbes was a
Harding appointee.
“This investigation was made by
a Senate committee after the Repub
lican House had refused to join in
the resolution for its conduct. This
investigation revealed the most
shameful record of dishonesty, cor
ruption, conspiracy and graft ever
perpetrated in a Government depart
ment. As a result of the disclosures,
Colonel Forbes was sent to the pen
itentiary.
Mr. Butler omits any reference to
these facts in his pamphlet, although
the Senate committee’s report said
of what had been going on in the
bureau, that it ‘resembles more the
work of buccaneers and the looting
and scuttling of a ship than the mere
neglect of trusted Government offi
cials.’
“Although seeking to leave the
thought with former soldiers that
the G. O. P. is their guardian angel,
Hr. Butler omits to mention that two
Republican Presidents, Harding- and
Coolidge, vetoed adjusted compensa
tion bills, intended to do some
measure of service to the World War
veterans, and that the bonus bill
finally was passed over President
Coolldge’s veto.”
Get Potatoes Out Of
Ground Before Frost
Danger Of Cold When Frost Is
Heavy—Should Be Stored
In A Dry Place.
Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 10.—The sweet
potato crop of North Carolina is ma
turing early this year and there is no
reason for delaying the harvest. The
potatoes should be out of the ground
before frost because when hurt by
cold, the potatoes will not keep under
any conditions.
“Killing the vines by frost does not
always affect the root crop under the
vines,” says Robert Schmidt, vege*
table specialist at State College, "yet
there is always danger of cold in
jury when the frosts are heavy. In
handling the potatoes, they should be
moved as little as possible and care
taken not to bruise them. Bruises
provide favorable conditions for rots
and when the bruises heal, they leave
unsightly blemishes on the potato.”
Mr. Schmidt recommends a stand
ard curing house as the best place for
curing and storing the crop. Tobacco
bams may be used but they have dis
advantages but even tobacco barns
are to be desired above -the earthen
banks.
Before “using .the. old storage house,
clean it out and disinfect the inside
thoroughly. When it has dried out
begin to store the potatoes. Curing
should start as soon as any potatoes
are brought into the house. The cur
ing temperature is about 85 degrees
and it will take two weeks to get* a
good cure. During all this time, the
bouse must be well ventilated and at
the end of the curing period, the tem
perature needs to be reduced to about
SO degrees and kept at that point all
the time the roots are in the hjppg
The potatoes need a dry atmosphere
to keep well, which makes ventilation
very important, states Mr. Schmidt
Another Jersey Mystery
First posed photograph of Mrs.
Margaret •’Lilliendahl, widow, of
slain aged physician husband, who
lone
diets.
In Memoriam
(To my friend, A. Carl Cox, Ex
Sheriff, Randolph County)
There is no subject worthy of more
profound and more serious reflection
than the grave. It is the most uni
versal in all the records and tradi
tions of humanity. It is a topic fa
miliar to all ages, peoples and climes.
It presents its mysteries with equal
force to the savage in the cave, and
the scholar in the cloister. As it
gathered to its barren bosom the first
man who trod the virgin earth, so
shall it fold upon its breast of clay,
the man or woman whose death shall
mark the extinction of the race, the
exodus of time. It is unaffected by
history or geography. It knows no
zones, no latitudes. It is indifferent
alike to snow and sun and rain. Men
may differ in culture, creed and na
tionality. They may reside in the dis
tant islands of Polynesia in painted
savagery and ignorance primeval, on
the steppes of Asia, recalling in their
nomadic lives the state of man when
history first reveals him, or in man
sions surrounded by every luxury
that wealth can give. Nay, twenty
centuries with world transforming
wars, with the annihilation of govern
ment and peoples, the destruction of
continent making boundaries, the dis
appearance of immemorial languages
and customs, may separate the ages
in which they lived, they are identical
in the dust.
In the abysses of the tomb, human
ity’s multiplying myriads pour. The
dark battalions crowd the highways of
the century and gather every mortal
for the march on which retreat is
never sounded. Fugitives may wan
der from the fated path and the
dreaded company, and seed remotest
deserts, crags jnost perilous, dimmest
wildernesses, wildest plains, but never
do they pass beyond the trumphet
call of that perpetual advance.
Loiterers may pause amid the en
chantments by the way, the fountains,
jewels, flowers, feasts, yea, pause
and for one rapturous moment dream
that life shall riot on forever, but
they must join that doomed and hur
rying throng. The summons rings
throughout all seasons, the lull of
spring, the summer’s hush, the stir
of autumn and the winter’s tumult
It echoes through the shadow-pillared
aisles of night, the vaulting dawn, the
sinking day. It penetrates the silences
of mine and cave; of peak and cliff,
the clamor of the market-place; its
sharp, swift notes like javelins of
melody, pierce the storm. The bugles
of the sepulcher resound from sea to
sea, from mart to mart, from nation
unto nation, and the obedient millions
tombward turn, back rolls the quaver
ing cry, “Dying, dying, dying”.
This is the reward that awaits all
human achievements. No brilliancy
of mind, no craftiness of hand, no
beauty of character, no power of
wealth and no nobility of soul, can
escape this final decree that God has
written against the joys of life. The
brilliant mind that burns its impress
upon the world must smoulder into
ashes, the crafty hand that touches
with the magic wand of genius, must
palsied be. The noble soul that lives
to set the stars of hope in life’s dark
night, sooner or later, must take that
lonely pilgrimage to the mysterious
“Isle of Somewhere”. This is the
Divine will; yet, how strange this ex
istence is. How unfathomable this
transition from sunshine to shadow;
from joy to sorrow, from time to
eternity. The toueh of time is fatal.
What the scythe does not reap in its
continuous swing, is garnered up by
the flight of years. Little flowers of
love from the cradle, youth-buds of
joy from the fire-side, the sunshine of
home, with father apd mother and all
the gems of love must be blighted by
the frost of time and death.
But we bow in humble submission
to God’s plan and lean upon the faith
that He planted in the human soul.
If His will leaves our hearts in sorrow
at the loss of friends, companions and
loved ones, we may be comforted with
the thoughts that the influence of
their lives has left a beautiful im
press upon our own. We would follow,
but we can only walk with them to
the threshold of eternity; \hey must
take up the journey from there alone,
while we return with saddened hearts
to desolate homes, and in profound
silence gather up the sunbeams that
have scattered and weave them into
wreathes of golden memory.
On September 13th, 1927, Brother
passed into the great un
LoWn. His life was full of activity,
efulness, honor and distinction, and
s death has brought sorrow and
Samuel W. Coltrane
Dies In Missouri
End Came September 25th—
Short Sketch Of His Life
Given By Mr. Welborn.
We are indebted to Mr. R. W. Wel
born, of Lawrence, Kansas, Route 7,
for the following information relative
to the life and death of Samuel
Walker Coltrane: '
Samuel Walker Coltrane was bom
Feb. 8, 1879, near High Point, N. C.,
and died Sept. 25th, 1927. His parents
died when he was small, after which
he lived with his sister, Mrs. C. M.
Fuller, at Farmer, N. C.; then with an
uncle, J. R. Coltrane, Randleman, N.
C. He attended the Old Trinity Col
lege, Trinity, N. C. At the age of 21
years he came West. In 1915 he went
from Kansas City, Mo., to Collinwood,
Tenn., taking charge of a demonstra
tion farm for the Tennessee Valley
Iron and Railroad Company.
There he was married to Miss
Myrtle Burns on Nov. 39th, Thanks
giving Day, 1916. To this union were
bom three children, all of whom are
living.
He returned to Kansas City, Mo.,
in the fall of 1917, where he worked
until May 17, of this year. He moved
his family to the R. E. Hale farm at
Pomona in Feb., 1927. He has been
at home since giving up his work for
the Ford Motor Company on account
of his health, in May.
He was a devoted husband and
father, a friend tq the friendless, a
clean, sweet spirited conscientious
man. He believed in right at all
times and justice to all. He is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Myrtle A.
Coltrane and three children, Daniel
William, David Orville and Mary
Frances; two brother, D. W. Col
trane, Heasener, Okla.; and J. A.
Coltrane, Guilford* College, N. C.;
two sisters, one of Wilmington, N. C.,
and one of Baltimore, Md.; and a
host of relatives and friends in North
Carolina and many friends wherever
he was known.
Prefers Second Husband
When James Rolling came back
from the war to his home in Los
Angeles, California, one day last week
he found that he was supposed to be
dead. The War Department had no
tified Mrs. Rolling that her husband
was killed in action in France. Think
ing she was a widow, Mrs. Rolling
married again. Mrs. Rolling took her
problem to her lawyer who advised
the only way out was to obtain an
nullment of her second marriage. This
Mrs. Rolling has agreed to do, but
she says she prefers her second hus
band to the first and wants to re
marry him as soon as the matter can
be arranged.
Asheboro Loses Game To
Greensboro By One Point
The Asheboro high school football
eleven journeyed to Greensboro and
took on the Greensboro high school
reserves in Greensboro Friday after
noon, and the lone margin of one
point only separated them from a tie.
Asheboro scored a goal in the third
period of play, but failed to kick goal,
netting only 6 points. Rushing in
some of the first string eleven in the
last quarter, the Greensboro boys
were able to put the ball across the
goal line.' The dropkick sent the pig
skin between the goal posts and
Greensboro reserves had the game 7
to 6. The Asheboro team put up a
good- battle, the back-field at all times
making good gains through the
Greensboro line. This line, however,
held at critical moments to stave off
defeat.
American automobiles are the most
popular in the Free City of Danzig.
to greater work, for which a splendid
faith in God made him emminently
fitted. His record is one of duty well
performed. He fought a good fight,
he kept the faith. Henceforth is laid
up for him a crown of righteousness.
We may well honor his .memory and
ever hold in sacred remembrance a
life so full of unselfish service.
“Out of the strain of the doing,
Into the peace of the done;
Out of the thirst of pursuing,
Into the rapture of won”.
—D. M. WEATHERLY.
Nurse Advises
WEAK, RUN-DOWN
To Take Cardui
ld haVe frequently recommended
to others, for it is a splendid
iedicine «nn I am glad to give peo
la the benefit of my experience.
"I have been a nurse tor several
mts have often came in conr
ict with patients who were run
>wn and weak. Often I have told
ifferers of Cardhi, and the way L
and advised them to give it
dSnPSmSErfie
Mule Kills Automobile
(Moore County News)
It has been said that the worm will
turn. And it usually happens that he
will turn at the roost unexpected time
and occasion. Observe how the worm,
this time a mule, turned and wreaked
vengence, as recounted in the fol
lowing dispatch in* the Greensboro
News:
Ramseur, Oct. 1.—On Friday night
while Wake Kinney was driving to
the county fair with a number of
friends he met a negro man who was
riding a mule. The negro man
reined the mule out of the way of
the automobile, but the mule turned
immediately in the way of the car,
killing it instantly. The negro man
was thrown with great force to the
ground but his injuries are not
supposed to be serious.
This is not only an example of
the worm turning, but it is also an
example of what is called poetic jus
tice. Slowly but surely the rein of
the mule upon the highway has been
curtailed. But a few years ago this
faithful animal as the chief means
of transportation on the highways,
had them all to himself. He was the
bully of the town as he walked the
highways up and down. Then came
the automobiles, at which he was
wont to shy and then fly from them.
His fear instinct was more deeply
founded than we know. Most people
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attributed it to his stubbornness. But
the mule knew better. He sensed not
only the present, but the future,
danger. His instincts were right for
! now he has been almost entirely I
driven frpm the roads. He scarcely
I dare turn a cotton row on the high
; way where once he reigned supreme.
! Hence it is no wonder that this Ram- j
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seur mule turned with venom upon
his tormentor and destroyer. When
he turned into the way of that car,
faced it and annihilated it, there
must have been in his mind all the
burden of suffering and torment
which these nefarious devices have
inflicted upon the whole mule tribe.
When the worm turned he turned
| with an instinct and an impulse to
! avenge all of his kind. If there had
been before him at the moment a
whole fleet of automobiles we have no
doubt that he would have killed them
all just as he did this lone contrap
tion of Mr. Wake Kinney’s.
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