VOLUME-XIX
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JANUARY Ifi. 1914.
NUMBER- 3
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UNITED STATES SHY OF FIELD
GUNS AND ALSO OF
AMM^ITION.
ARE NOT READY FOR WAR
General Wood Paints Doleful Picture
of Army to Congressional
Committees.
"Wasliington.—Explaining that his
judgmont was not influenced by the
Mexican situation, Major General
Wood, chief of staff of the army, has
advised committees of congress that
they should appropriate $3,000,000 for
field guns and ammunition for the
regular army, and 13,000,000 for the
militia.
‘if you sent cur troops into war as
they are now, without gxins or ammu
nition, it would be absolute slaugh-
tor,” the general told the house mili
tary committee. “If called into the
field suddenly, we should have to go
with a small allowance of ammunition,
and we should have neither guns nor
ammunition enough for our field artil
lery forces.”
tUneral Wood, in a written state-
mcMit, said:
"We neither have guns nor ammuni-
ti(;n sufficient to give any general com-
riianding an army in the field any as
surance of success If attacked by an
army of equal size which is supplied
with Its proper quota of field artil
lery.
“It is my belief that no modern war-
hetween first class powers will last
for one year, and unless private manii-
faotJirers are encouraged to manufac
ture ammunition for our guns, after
war is declared, thej' will not be in a
condition to do so until after the war
is finished.
“Tlie war department believes after
extended study that, in cases of war
with a first class power, an army of
GOO.OOO men will be needed to give
tliis country any chance of success
against invasion, and that this force
will be needed at once.”
The general suggested that the
United States regular mobile army
should be organized into three infan
try and two cavalry divisions with
an aggregate war strength of about
75.000, requiring 54 batteries, or 216
guns.
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GAMBLING WILL BE CUT OUT
' AT NORTH AND SOUTH CARO
LINA FAIRS.
MEETING HELD AT CHARLOTTE
Of the Secretaries of Fairs indicate
This.—Questionable Shows As Well
As Gambling Devices Must Be Pro
hibited.—Behalf Social Service.
SOME IMKE lAX ilES POWERS REACH WKENI
FORM TO BE USED AND REGULA- UNITED STATES MUST ASSUME
TIONS TO BE FOLLOWED
ARE SENT OUT.
CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS
IN MEXICO.
! Every Citizen Who Has Income of Free Hand for the United States So
$3,000 or More Liable for . Long as Lives and Property for
the Tax. ■, Foreigners Are Guarded.
75 LABORERS MEET DEATH
Flatboat on Which They Were Being
Transported Was Wrecked.
Winnipeg, Manitoba.—Dashed to
death on the rocks in the Fraser riv
er, British Columbia, or swept to their
doom by the swift current, was the
fate of 75 laborers employed by the
Grand Trunk Pacific railroad, accord
ing to Angele Pugliese, one of 25 who
managed to escape when the flatboat
in which they were being transport
ed across the river was wrecked on
a rock.
Pugliese reached Winnipeg and
says the 25 who escaped were all
injured. The tragedy occurred in Brit
ish (’olumbia, west of Fort George.
Puglie.se says a change in location
of the work necessitated crossing the
Fraser river. The 100 laborers put
away from shore in a frail craft, which
became unmanageable. It was dashed
to pieces on a rock.
W’ashington.—The form to be used
and regulations to be followed by in
dividuals in making returns of in
come subject to the new federal in
come tax were sent out by the treas
ury department. Every citizen of the
United States, whether residing at
home or abroad, every person re
siding in the United States and -.'v-
ery non-resident alien who has in
come from United States investm«*its
of $3,000 or more, must make return.
For the past year, 1913, specific ex
emptions will be $2,500 or $3,333.33 in
the case of a married person, and in
future years $3,000 and $4,000. Where
the tax has been withheld m part of
the income on the source, or where
part of the income comes as dividends
upon stock of a corporation, taxable
under the corporation tax section of
the law, the regulations set forth that
such income shall be deducted from
the individual’s total net income when
computing the amount of which he is
taxable.
The law imposes a tax of 1 per cent,
and provides that individuals who have
an income between $20,000 and $50,000
shall pay an additional tax of 1 per
cent, on such amount; on all between
$50,000 and $75,000, 2 per cent.; $75,000
to $100,000, 3 per cent.; $100,000 to
$250,000, 4 per cent.; $250,000 to $500,-
000, 5 per cent, and all over $500,000,
6 per cent.
Washington.—Frequent conferences
between ambassadors and ministers
here are tending to unite them on a
line of conduct regarding Mexico,^
which, while conforming to the plans
of the United States, involves an un
derstanding as to obligations the
American government will be expect
ed to assume as the result of non-in
terference by foreign powers.
This common understanding has not
taken the form of direct pressure, but
the state department is kept informed
through the medium of individual rep
resentatives of the expectations of the
European powers. Generally these re
late to the protection of financial in
terests which citizens and subjects of
the powers have in Mexico. No inten
tion to bring in the political side of
the question is indicated.
More than one diplomatic represent
ative here has informed the depart
ment that his own government was
interested in preventing financial loss
to its citizens, and beyond that did
not care what the United States did in
Mexico so long as it was informed in
time to take precautions for the pro
tection of the lives of its citizens.
TO MAKE FIGHT ON PELLAGRA
Man Who Arrested Czolgosz Dead.
Kansas City.—John McCauley, who
arrested Leon F. Czolgosz, after the
latter had shot President McKinley at
Buffalo, N. Y., died here. At the time
of the assassination McCauley was a
police sergeant in charge of eleven
patrolmen who were to assist secret
service men in guarding the president.
Until recently he had been connected
with the Kansas City police depart
ment.
American Athletes Break Records.
San Francisco, Cal.—According to
cables. Power of the Boston Athletic
association and Templeton of the San
Francisco Olympic club, members of
the All-American track team, broke
records in the meet at W^elllngton,
New Zealand. Power established a
r.'ew Zealand 880-yard record with 1
minute 58 seconds, a^fth better than
the record made bj^Burke *ln 1905.
Templeton broke the New Zealand
and Australian pole vault record, lead
ing 11 feet and 2 inches, which dis
places the former mark of 11 feet.
24 Men Doomed to Pen.
Chicago.- -Sentences of twenty-four
of the labor union officials convicted
In Indianapolis of conspiracy to trans
port dynamite were crinfirmed by the
United States circuit ourt of appeals
of the sevenith district Six of the
.thirty who ap>epaled were granted new
trials. Counsel for the twenty-four
.within thlrtj^ days will petition the
court of appeals for a rehearing on
new legal pioints. If that is denied
they will taWe the case to the federal
Supreme cuur:.
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Secretary McAdoo Asks for a Pellagra
Hospital for the South.
Washington. — Secretary McAdoo
asked congress to appropriate $47,000
for a pelalgra hospital eEI some South
ern point.
Secretary McAdoo in his letter to the
speaker pointed out that pellagra has
imposed great financial burdens on
cocjmunities in which it prevails and
that while investigations of pellagra
have been systematically carried on
at the marine hospital at Savannah for
several years, and important bacteri-
ologic and epidemiologic studies are
being carried on from that station,
that institution has no facilities for
the conduct of metabolic and physico
chemical studies. The latter studies
are necessary at this time, according
to the public health service, because
of the suspicion of the association of
the disease with diet and metabolism.
Secretary McAdoo added:
“A number of food products are un
der suspicion, thus implicating several
Important industries, and it becomes
! important from both sanitary and eco
nomic standpoints to determine once
i and for all what bearing, if any, foods
I have on the continuance of the dis
ease. These studies necesasrlly will
be of a highly technical nature, r^tjuir-
Ing special facilities to guard against
the possibility of error creeping In
during the experiment.
Assert Thaw Is Not Dangerous.
Concord, N. H.—Tlie release on bail
of Harry K. Thaw' would not menace
imblic safety, two of his custodians de
clared at a public hearing before the
commission appointed by the federal
court to pass upon Thaw’s mental con
dition and its relation to his libera
tion under bonds. Holman A. Drew',
sheriff of Coos county, and Clark D.
Stevens of the local police force, who
have had Thaw in charge since Sep
tember, favored his admission to bail.
Thaw and his mother were present
v.'ith counsel.
Millionairei; <o Build Club.
Brunswick, Ga.—The purchase by
Edwin Gould and associates of Lath
am Hammock, and the filing of a peti
tion for charter in the Glynn superior
j court for tlie incorporation of the
' “Latham Hammock Club,” probably
I means that Glynn county is soon to
have another club composed of mil
lionaires, similar in many ways to the
famous Jekyl Island Club, which has
been known for many pears as tl>
richest organization of the kind in
country, being composed of rr-
Tnillionaires.
Biography of Great Evangelist.
Winona Lake, Ind.—While Rev.
Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist,
was resting here recently, after a
strenuous campaign in Johnstown,
Pa., he received word that the new
biography, “The Spectacular Career
of Rev. Billy Sunday,” was off the
press. It Is the work of T. T. Prank-
enberg and the evangelist says it is
! & trc.liral a'jicust c. liis 1 fe.
Took a Long Farm Journey.
“John A. Dwight of New York, who
used to be the Republican whip of the
house, Is descended from the noted
Dwight family who owned the biggest
farm In the west some thirty years
ago,” remarked F. A. Henry of New
York, at the Raleigh. “The Dwight
farm took up a whole county. Stanley
Huntley once told me that on one of
his trips through the west he got off
at a station and observed a large
crowd of persons weeping and bidding
tearful good-by to a distinguished look
ing man who was about to board his
train. When the man got aboard and
the train started, Huntley, with na
tural curiosity, I suppose, approached
the stranger and casually observed:
" ‘I presume you are going on a long
voyage, perhaps across the ooean.’
*“No,* replied the man; 1 am Just
going to the other side of my farm.’
“That was the Dwight farm."—
Waohinston Post
Charlotte.—That the fairs of this
state and South Carolina are going to
completely eliminate gambling and
questionable, shows on the grounds of
the fail's was indicated here recently
at a meeting of the secretaries of
these fairs.
A committee consisting of A. W.
McAalister, of Greensboro; W. C.
Dowd, of Charlotte, and .i. E. Clark, of
Charlotte, representing J. M. Brought
on, Jr., of Raleigh, went before the
fair secretaries and presented the
matter in behalf of the North Caro
lina Conference for Social Service.
The committee was cordially received
by the secretaries.
A number of the secretaries have
already aliminated all objectionable
games and shows, doing it not only in
response to public sentiment and on
moral grounds, but tney assured the
committee that the financial returns
were better.
The committee presented the fol
lowing resolution in part: “The state
and county fairs of North Carolina are
playing an important part in the in
dustrial development of the state and
possess educational possibilities of
great value. In addition to their in
dustrial and educational value they
have a great recreational value. With
these worthy things as an objective
they are entitled to the encourage
ment and support of all the people
young and old. church-going people,
school/ cliildren, school teachers, in
fact everybody. This being true, itjs
not-Tight, "neither is it wise to aWri^t
to the. midways of our fairs features
which are a ground of conscientious
objection to a very considerable pro
portion of our people and whose in
fluence upon the children and youth
attending them is unwholesome and
injurious.
“Thesa. objectionable features are
not needed to make the fairs attrac
tive. The fairs can furnish abundant
recreation and diversion and such as
will fully satisfy the public demand
for such things without admitting
those things that are immoral in their
suggestion and tendencies and those
things whose influence is unwhole
some and hurtful. The time w'as
when these things may have been
popular, but that time has passed.
The public has changed. Sentiment
has changed. The popular fair now is
the clean fair."
Uncanny ''Telautomatlcs.’*
A young American, John Hays Ham
mond, Jr., has recently been doing
things down on the east coast of
Massachusetts that would have been
his death-warrant in the days of the
Salem witches. From a hill-top over
looking Gloucester harbor he was di
recting daily, by means of invisible
waves, the maneuvering of a sinlster-
looking craft of high speed which may
soon develop into a very formidable
instrument for coast defence. Mark
you, no one is on board; the boat per
forms all of its amazing evolutions
guided by a curious combination of
vibrations having their source in an
apparatus at Mr. Hammond’s hand,
far up the bluCC! This sounds uncan
ny doesn’t it? But it is one of the
developments of a new branch of
knowledge, the science of telautomat-
ics, or the management from afar of
mechanical operations. Telautomatics
is going to do a large variety of aston
ishing things for us before long, and
all of. us should know something
about this new wizardry.—St. Nicholas
Magazine.
Not Coker-Nuts.
A Mr. Donaldson, who owned a
sugar refinery in Queensland, went
to England one year and bought some
machinery for his business. He took
the machine to pieces, and took It
home In parts, carefully packed. In
tending to put them together on the
spot.
An Australian custom house official
gave him a lot of trouble on his ar
rival, examining every part, and argu
ing aboht the amount to be paid. At
last they came to an agreement about
all but one box, which contained the
metal nuts used in bolting the parts of
the machinery together. About what
was to be charged for these the ofll-
cial had no doubt at all.
“Now as to these,” he said, "the
duty will be twopence a pound^” Mr.
Donaldson protested that this was too
high. “Not a bit of it,” was the con
fident reply; “the schedule says dis
tinctly that ‘all nuts except coker-
nuts’ are to pay twopence a pound.
These aren’t coker-nuts, so twopence
a pound you’ll hcivo to p^y!”
13,333,014 BiES .
GOnON OI^ICEO
CENSUS BUftEAU .REPORT OF GIN-
IViNG PRIOR TO JANUARY
FIRST, 1914.
COMPARISONS BY STATES
Compares with 12,907,405 Bales, Which
Were Ginned in the Year
of 1912.
W'^ashington.—The eighth cotton gin
ning report of the census bureau for
the season announces that 13,333,074
bales of cotton, counting round as
half bales, of the growth of 1913 had
been ginned prior to January 1, to
which date during the past seven years
the ginning averaged 93.4 per cent, of
entire crop. Last year to Januiiry 1,
there had been ginned 12,907,405 bales
or 95.7 per cent, of the entire crop.
14,317,002 bales, or 92.1 per cent., in
1911, and 12,465,298 bales, or 95.3 per
cent., in 1908.
G innings prior to January 1 by
states with comparisons for last year
and other big crop years, follow:
States. Year. Ginuings.
Alabama 1913 1,467,943
1912 1,288,£27
1911 1,618,510
1908 1,302,-33S
Arkansas 1913 933,389
191s 732,118
1911 786,329
1908 910,423
Florida 1913 65,269
1912 56,042
1911 86,421
190S 6(?,855
Georgia 1913 2,276,477
1913 1,756,834
1911 2,623,917
1908 1,930,783
Louisiana . . . .1913 1,143,967
1912 366,402
1911 352,503
1908 453,210
Mississippi . . .1913 759,664
1912 857,189
1911 1,047,299
1908 1,522,160
North Carolina. .1913 759,664
1912 857,189
1911 975,223
1908 647,505
Oklahoma . . . .1913 804,457
1912 947,452
1911 900,409
1908 525,610
South Carolina .1913 1,342,988
1912 1,173,216
1911 1,508,753
1908 1,176,220
Tennessee . . . .1913 354,549
1912 248,502
1911 381,281
Texas .... .1913 3,668,080
1912 4,461,746
1911 3,926,059.
Other states . .1913 107,105
1912 82,257
1911 € 110,298
1908 67,777
The ginnings of sea island cotton,
prior to January 1, by states, follow:
Years. Florida. Georgia. So. C^
1913 . . . .25.166 41,768 7,3^
1912 . . . .21.085 39.54S- 'B,629
1911 . . . .38,091 63,099 4,798
ANTI-TRUST LAWS DRAFTED
Sweeping Reforms Proposed in Bills
Drawn Up.
W'ashington.—A general outline of
the tentative draft of anti-trust legis
lation prepared by majority members
of the house committee on the judi
ciary for aotion by the full committee,
subject to a conference with Presi
dent, W'ilson. has become known here.
While members of the wmmittee
talked with the president some weeks
ago the proposed bills so far have not
the administration stamp, and they
will be discussed 'at a conference be
tween the president and the commit
tee immediately following the presi
dent’s return.
The bills, drafted after conference
between Chairman Clayton, Represen
tative Carlin of Virginia, chairman of
the trust sub-committee, and Repre
sentatives Ployd of Arkansas, McCoy
of New Jersey and others, cover these
three main points:
1. Interlocking directorates.
2. Trade relations and prices.
3. Injjinction proceedings and dam
age suits by individuals.
Trappers Making Money.
Twenty thousand moles in Essex,'
England, have been killed in the last
three years, by John Merchant and his.
son, Harry, with an ingenious new
trap. During the trapping season^
which has just begun they hope as the'
result of increased contracts with:
farmers and landowners nearly to dott-
ble this figure. Their agreements ex
tend over five years, payments beins
at the rate of 2d and acre for the first
year and l^d an acre for the subset
qnent years. Up to this season they^
had had about 10,000 acres to woHl.
Now they are malring arrangement»tto>^
double their hunting ground. Mi]^
skins sell at about SI) a i.wi;Irod.