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THE ASHEVULE CITIZEN, THURSDAY MOBNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1920. ; THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN ' PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING THE CITIZEN COMPANY, ASHEVILLE. N. C J M. BURDETTH General Manager CHA8. K. ROBINfclON i Editor JOB U BAKER Managing Editor GRAY GORHAM , City Editor Entered at the postoffloe, Ashevllle. N. C, as eecond - class matter under act of March . 1171. TELEPHONES Business Office 89. Editorial Rooms , , - SUBSCRIPTION HATES (By Carrier in Anliertlic anil Sub"hfi) 'Daily and Sunday, 1 year, in advance $9.00 '. Dally and Bunday, 6 months, in advance.... 4.75 Dally and Sunday. S month. In advance.... 2.50 Dally and Sunday, 1 week. In advance 20 (By Mail In United Mate.) Dally and Sunday, 1 year. In advance $7.00 s Pally and Sunday, I months, In advance.... 2.00 Pally only, 1 year. In advance 5 00 Dally only, I month, in advance I SO Sunday only. 1 year, In advance 1.00 MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled io the use for rnpubllcatlan of all news dis patches credited to It or not otherwise cred ited In thle paper and alio the local news published herein. All right of republication of (pedal dispatches herein are also reserved. atep toward acknowledgement of the Soviets. Commerce, Lloyd George believes, will do more to cure the bolshevik! of their Insantlty than war. To that It may be said that the White Ruaalane never received much aid in their (truffle against Lenlne, and that If the allies are unable to give more assistance to Lcnine's adversaries, commerce may as well be tried as an antidote. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE The E. KAT2 SPECIAL, ADVERTISING AGENCT Jil East Twenty-sixth street, New Tork City, 24-S3S Harris Trust Building. Chicago. 111., and TU Waldhelm Bulldlag, Kansas City, Mo. Thursday, February 12, 192a , r ' - - Lincoln and Americanism. f Abraham Lincoln's anniversary Is appropriate time to launch in earnest a campaign of education not only to teach American ideals to aliens, but to revive among, Americans new love for renewed faltlp American principles. The campaign has been started , this week by the motion picture in dustry. The first film made, "The Land of Oppor tunfty," shows Lincoln breaking an engagement to deliver political speech In order to defend friendless boy accused of murder. That act of justice helps to explain why Lincoln became president In a great crisis. He did not discover netv. principles of Americanism, but his .. perception of the fundamental laws on which free government must rest to endure was ao clear and his statement of his convictions so convincing that he became the leader of the forces which saved the nation from division and disintegration untaught in the loglo' of the schools, Lincoln brought to public questions the unerring logic of Justice And common sense that his opponents . were unable to answer. Ills great intellect saw to the bottom of public questions; but, what was , more important, his sense of duty led him to espouse righteousness in government regardless ,of personal consequences. , Obedience to Jaw was the keynote 'of Lincoln pmiosopny or lire and government, not merely ' statute law but the laws of justice and fair play. Today .there are many who do not." under stand the supremacy of law, and they are not all aliens; there re more; who wilfully disregard law in their Impatience! for reforms that can only come through education. Too many disregard the law of the square deal in trade, or take the law into their own hands for the, punishment of crimi nals or those' merely suspected of crime. Lincoln saw this danger and warned his countrymen that ths republic would disappear, in mob rule unless every child learned the lesson of obedience to law, . The great Issue of Lincoln's day was. as he stated It, that, the nation could not exist half free and half slave. Today the question Is whether the nation can live half autocratic and hatf demo cratic. The autocracy of wealth has been averted; the autocracy of labor is threatened by radicals or Communists who would substitute either sovlet ism or nationalization of industry. And millions who take pride in their democracy are idle, ex travagant and indifferent to the rights of their neighbors and their own duties to the government whose protection they enjoy. - ' America needs a revival of Americanism, be ginning with those who know the lessons of Amerl- can freedom by letter but who longer ex- empllfy Its spirit. Mob vengeance, profiteering, corruption In politics, exploitation of the poor audi friendless, must be sad disillusionment to "the lm- migrants who come here expecting to find a people! living; up to the high teachings of AVushington. j Jefferson and Lincoln, Americans must first love' their own land more before they can expect aliens to venerate it. Those who resort to violence must ! be Imprisoned or deported, but radicalism will be overcome only by understanding its causes, by remedy for vvlls and education in, what American liberty means for Americans and the world. Churches as Havens From Plague. A letter from an Ashevllle clergyman whose conscience and sense of duty move him to hold services during the epidemic once more calls at tention to a question that has oausod wide differ ance In opinion. Not in a spirit of contr n ny, but as a semi-public institution whose function in comment on matters of Importance to the peo pie. the Citizen would call attention to whnt ap pears to It as the fallacy underlying the attitude in this matter of at .least four leaders of Ashevllle hurches. If Ashovlllo were under protracted bombard ment by a hostile army, all the ordinary mtloni of life would bo suspended, but It would be nec essary to distribute food to those who had none n such an emergency, would not the churches close heir doors? A business house has no life except when its doors arc open, but to say that religion and worship cease when the church closes la to deny the omnipresence of God; It Is to iv that the church Is the only place where tho Infinite fully reveals Himself to mankind. Many evidently accept that proposition, but Jesus Himself taught otherwise when ho spoke of the tlmo when men would realize that not on the mountain nor In the temple at Jerusalem would they land a substitute for worship In spirit and in truth. Those who feel impelled by conscience to wor ship In church at this time have the double re sponsibility of not only discharging their duty to their own sense of right, but their duty to their duty to their neighbors in what may be a matter of life or death. Trainman Lee Comes Back. Demands of 2,000,000 railroad workers for higher wages would be heavy enough load to place upon a well man. But tne airector-genersi ana the railroad chiefs have passed the buck savagely to a man convalescing from serious illness. The brotherhood of trainmen, through Presi dent Lee, Join In the argument raised by the shop men with strength augmented by their acceptance of no for answer last year. Last summer President Wilson asked the traln'men to postpone their re quests until government could set in motion ma chinery for lowering the cost of living. Mr. Leo now returns to the White House with the rather embarrassing reminder that the cost of living seems to be out of reach of man-made laws, but that wages can be raised by the administration be fore the roads go back to private contrpl. The brotherhood chief stated last summer with admirable clearness that rising wages do not check advancing living costs; he admitted that the ex istence of a violous circle of wages and prides was no geometrical fiction, but a painful reality. That reasoning still holds good. If some of railway men are receiving an Inequitable scale the govern ment has offered relief. A general increase would add enormously to the cost of operation which al ready causes 'predictions that the private owners will as one of their first acts after March 1 ask for higher transportation rates. And the public pays the bills. warrant my backing him up In the attitude he has taken. Bunday before last I 'conducted two services In Trinity Episcopal churoh, of which I am rector One service was attended by aix people who want ed to pray In the Sanctuary of Ood for some of their dear ones who were sick. The other service was attended by thirty-five people who gathered together in the House of Ood for the purpose of making Intercession to our Heavenly Father that He stay the spread or the plague; and to pray to Him for those who were sick and especially for some whom the good doctors had given up to "na ture" to do tho rest. Them critically 111 ones for whom their relatives and friends prayed so earn estly braving the criticism of many to do so in tho Hnllowed House of God. paused the crisis of their Illness and give hope of a complete recovery. In the face or this evident efficacy or nraver I could not close God's church to those who wanted the chance again to pray to Him as they did before, Ho in the face or much criticism of my disloyalty 10 me request- or tne health authorities to keep the church closed, two services were held last numiay in Trinity church. This was not done in defiance or any law nor to be "contrary" to arty request or the health or civic authorities, but to bear witness to the fact that God's House must noi oe looked Upon as a place or danger in tho time or neea or iJivine Power, rrom which people mus flee and cry "unclean," but a Haven of Hope where people can find the comfort thev seek when their aci or iaun transcends their attitude of fear. we look upon tho church of God not merely as an auditorium where neODle can smther when all goes well to sing hymns and hear prayers and sermons, and bo exhorted for 'contributions and subscriptions, but we look upon tho church of uoa as an Hallowed sanctuary which bears wit neen to HIS Divine power and to His rovelatlon of Fatherhood and Love through Jesus Christ. To close the church, having such a conception of its purpose in tne community, would to niv absolute conviction, be substituting the fear of germs for tne raitn or God. People do not ciowd tho church when nraver is me oniy attraction, we are orterlne no attrac tions at Trinity church but the chance to pray in the House ot God. Tho good doctors therefore need not be uneasy ebout "the danger from the crowd." which gathers for thlrtv minutes twice a week in the church, Whv should thev "neater" theso few people who want to pray In God's Houso when they let alone the hundreds who gather hourly for overy working hour in the dav for every day in the week, In places bent on the busi ness or me world WILLIS fi. CI.ATtk-. Ashevllle, February 11. Savoyard's Views "OCT FOR THE STUFF." THE SCISSORS ROUTE BAD NOISES. -f- A Call .That Should Be Heard. The campaign, now definitely begun by the advisory board of the Mission hospital to replace the frame structure which forms a part of the institution, should meet with hearty response from the citizens of Ashevllle. The present fire-trap has too long been tolerated by a community which prides itself on Its progresslveness. A disastrous Are there would leave behind it regrets that would outlast any structure that may be raised In at tempted expiation of" the neglect which caused death and sorrow to Individuals and brought shame to the city. ' , , I The committee will ask for at least $150,000 to make and provide adequate accommodations for those who cannot afford the luxury of private rooms when they are forced by sickness to seek hospital treatment'. The many drives for one cause or an other have brought about some reaction against public subscriptions, but it is a matter so vital to the entire community all should receive this re quest for funds as an opportunity to take part in worthy enterprise. This Is essentially a com munity campaign, and .we feel confident that Ashevllle will enter into it with real ' community j plrit. ' ! (Philadelphia Record) The newspapers these days are full of a number of things that are calculated to make an old-fashioned person propound the old-fashioned query: "Whither are we drifting?" These things have to do with the simple matter of the public moral sense. wun a particular reference to the present attitude toward matrimony, an institution once regarded with considerable respect. Not long ago many people who still cherish the oia-ume reverence ror the solemnity or the mar riage contract were shocked when certain fash ionable folk arranged and carried out with much pomp and expense the wedding of two pet mon keys. Only the other day a convention of cattle men wjio, perhaps, are not expected to display better taste than the idle rich used as a feature of their meeting at Montgomery, Ala., the housing of a prize short-horn bull In the bridal suite of the leading hotel of that city. But more alarming even than those two instances are a couple or dis gusting cases now enjoying more newspaper pub licity and much less popular condemnation than they deserve. , f Breaking in upon the public interest in the first of these strange cases which has already Had too much notice comes a dispatch from Chicago announcing that a man of middle age and large wealth, having caught his young wife in a com promising relation with an ex-service man who had been her sweetheart before the war, promptly de cided to "give up his" wife to her hero lover." So instructed nis lawyer to begin divorce proceed ings, and the gallant lover as promptly announced that he would marry the girl. Lovely! But even this Isn't to be compared for a moment with that other remarkable romance, which deatls with the mother love" of the legal wife of an erring aviator for that husband's Enalish ina mnrata whn ac companied by the inevitable baby, has JUst arrived in this country and Is about to be married to the brother of the man who wronged her. All the characters In this tawdry drama would resent the use of the word "wronged" above The legal wife of the aviat she herself was wronged In any way. She has been pleased to say that she knows her husband's- char acter perfectly and that "it is above reproach." One thing is certain, however an.i ,h. i,., .v.- institution of matrimony, once pretty generally held in- reverence, has been wronged; and. further, it Is certain that the public sense of decency has been wronged. The people should be spared the details of all such seamy "romances." Wo had the Itinerant and vagrant "riepubllc of Ireland" with us a few nights ago, and its "President" and Senator Kecd made addresses. The name of the President of the United States was not mentioned and that acoounts for the absence of hisses that always greet his name when ut tered In such pow-wow. ,. DeValera. the Irish president, frankly stated he was arter money, that the sum re-, quired or the American people was 110,000,000, and that the national capital was expected to raise $100,000 and bestow it on the mendicant "re public." Report has it that one-fourth of the sum levied on Washington city nua Deen raised and paid in. There is not the slightest doubt that the ten millions will be raised and more if there be a second call. Do you not know one is born every second? Years ago my old friend Jim Aleck Stovall. of Chicken Bristle. Barren County, Ky., imparted knowledge to me in this passage from the oration he was then delivering himself of: '"Wal, you know a old woman will go to hell atter a hen nes'." That Quota tion will give you some Idea of how far Jim Reed will go to make a stump speecn, or ratner the etumn speech for he has but one, and It reminds of an episode pulled oft in the American congress during the era of southern reconstruction. Old Ben Butler for his brains was the real leader of the republican side, Thad Stevens having died, and the small men. the Jim Reeds ot that day, resented his promi nence. One day for some reason old Ben felt called upon to tell the house that the execution of Mrs. Surratt was an , ineradicable , national disgrace. John A. Bingham had appeared be fore the military commission and pro secuted Mrs. Surratt in the drum-head court martial, and he Instantly re sented and denied old Butler s state ment. There was a fierce debate be tween them, which Mr. Evarte read n his speech defending Andy Johnson n the impeachment proceedings. Bingham said Butler lived in a bottle and was fed on a spoon and Butler insisted mat uingnam nad nangea an innocent woman. By and by Bingham for the third time got the floor and began his old bloody shirt speech it was a wicked and causeless rebel lion, fomented by traitors who haunt ed this chamber when treason stalked abroad in the land" he had got that rar when old ' uuiier roared: "Mr. Speaker, I always did love to hear Bingham make that speech." The house roared and the proceedings abruptly closed. Douses Burp Down - and FURNITURE BURNS UP Hope soars high when life is full of joy, but when a fire burns down a home where insurance was neglected, it take all the hope out of a man. Be on the safe tide get in touch with our insurance de partment and let them explain our policies. P. C. BLACKMAN, Mgr. Insurance Department i Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000 Member Federal Reserve System THE SANCITITY OF THE STRIKE. And doubtless there be folks who love to hear Jim Reed make "that speech." While he did not mention President Wilson's name the other night he employed innuendo to sneer at him ond contrast him unfavorably with the fugl-Irlsh "president," who is out for the stuff to the tune of ten millions. Report has it that the meet ing rose to him and cheered immense ly on three different occasions. I don't doubt it. It is "authoritatively" announced that a part of the mandlcant fund is to be devoted to the support of an Irish army that is to lick England. The Fenians had such an army when Gen. Grant was President. It was to gain liberty for Ireland at the point of the bayonet, and thereby hangs a tale. In a New York bar-room about 1889 an Irishman was boasting of the re sources of his country and the means at ruuid with which to win victory in battle and achieve Independence. He said: "Old Oiriand has a big army and we drill every night and Old Oir iand will rise. Old Oiriand has can non and muskets, and. bayonets, and all the powder and shot we need to fight. Old Oiriand will rise!" He had got that far in his oration when a downright American exclaim ed: "Then why the thunder don't you rise?" Thereupon he made the mournful explanation. "The dommed police won't let us!" That "army" cost the Irish servant girls of New York half a million which they gave to the Fenian cause, and the Sinn Fein cause is no more solvent than the Fenian layout. I O. HENRY makes the heroine in his story, "Strictly Business," say: "It's kind of hobby of mine to want to cravenette myself for plenty of wet days in the future." She was wise. A Sayings Account is excellent protection against the storms that are bound to come. v American National Bank Charter Member Federal Reserve System National Bank Protection for Savings and 4 Compound Interest J Daily Reminder IX THE DAY'S NEWS. (New York Times.) If any one were to proclaim that warfare is "the highest and most civilized form of protest against wrong" and that the country which is not prepared to assert its will bv armed fnrra u a mni. i.. to "dependence, servility, and docility." it would I on the southern states by the victors not take long to place him, both morally and geo-I suppose British statesmen had then I It la not bv twistinsr the British lion's tall on the part of American statesmen like Jim Reed that the Irish problem will be solved. Suppose when our south was beaten In the war and the horrible governments foisted Boxing in Colleges. University of North Carolina students ate re ceiving Instruction In the ancient and once honora ble art of boxing. This is a good move. As splendid a sport and as excellent a discipline for mind and muscle should not be abandoned to the professionals. Boxing, no Ipss than speaking, maketh a ready man; and the chances are that the student who excels in the "manly art of self-defense will find that his tonatie is readier in forensic contests. The gentle 1 Lloyd George on Russia. IVergil sings of men who were skilful boxers; in Premier Lloyd George does not fear bolshevik J the list of mighty men at Troy Pollux Is recorded as Invasion of the near cast or of Poland and western 'a man "good with his fists." Europe; st least he finds reasons that discount such ! If the art is generally revived in educational fears. Lenlne cannot organise an army large institutions, perhaps casualties in those places enough for such enterprises. tays the prime minis- where hazing survives will increase to such an extent that sophomores will be permanently restrained from their favorite pastime. ter, although he admits that the campaign of the anti-bolsheviki has made dismal failure. That failure was due to fundamental causes, says Lloyd George, although the causes are not stated. But an underlying reason for Kolchak'sto the coal commission's application of the 14 per breakdown must be that many more than the re-1 cent, wage increase to that field. In other fields .ported ten per cent, of tho Russians are supporting the operators have raised 'such a row over the the soviet government. If bnMipviFin is able to increase that a sub-committee has been appointed keep In the field an army of more than 1.000. 000 'to consider the advisability or passing the raise on men under the existing conditions of dlsorderJto the consumer. It appears that Doc Garfield bolshevlsm has a hold on Russia that is not yet 'was not far wrong in predicting that the etrike B.i,niuiiij. iu mis i-russian philosophy is pro claimed by none other than Samuel Gompers in de fense f the most destructive form of industrial warfare, the strike. It may be freely granted that, like war, the etrike has been a practical necessity in the development of modern institutions, and that It has had, on the whole, a not dishonorable history Law and the equitable administration or 'law h'ave ever lagged in the rear or advancing huntan life. The so-called industrial revolution created conditions, not coveted by any statute, in which tho laborer was too often uprivea 01 nis just htinre in tho product of industry and was sometimes condemned to starvation o"r body and or soul. Organized labor arose to correct this wrong, and Its declsh-e weapon was the strike. If the rule against which the strike has so long been a Justifiable weapon were permanent and im mutable, then the belligerency of Mr. Gompers would be Justified. But it is not immutable. In point of fact, the strongest instincts of modern life are directing themselves to the fashioning of a new: an, an X" . J. 1 - . , . . . . m..v. . c. . n jl is pretyseiy asainsi inese efforts that Mr. Gompers hurls his Martian thun ders. There have been two industrial conferences at Washington which have struggled valiantly to find a means by which conflicts between employers and employed may be peaceably and equitably settled. in tne nrsi conierenco two or the three component groups were souaiy Denind the demands or Mr. ; Gompers and his associates. Yet he tried to swerve 1 " the conference from its true function and make it ! , arbitrate the steel strike one of the most flagrant-i Th6 WinStOh-Salem CO. MaV ij .at-iii.i. u ci w . a .lie IliniVl J VI Ul ficllllKt?U IU.-. bor.- which was already virtually lost. Falling in I this exploit, Mr. Gompers made certain vaguely: pHrased demands; and, when the employers' group' Insisted on definitions of the terms to which they j were to hold themselves responsible, Mr. Gompers j seceded from the conference with a threat of war fare, i The second conference, more wisely constituted made speeches in parliament against the United States like those Jim Reea and his fellow-demagogues now make in the American congress? What would have resulted? Why, the south would be ruled by the bayonet today as she was all the decade 1865-1875. ' Reed knows this. But what does he care for Ireland? All the use he has for that people Is to give him theme for a silly stump speech. President Andy Johnson always suspected a man who pretended to be stronger for him than he was for himself. It was a sample of homely wisdom worthy Ben Franklin or Abe Lincoln. And if Ire land were worldly wise she would ex press her contempt for our American demagogues who pretend to love Ire land more than Ireland loves herself. Washington. February 9. EXPECT PETITIONS FROM OTHER fillS COMPANIES Be Granted the Increase i Sought. jr ' Enrico MalHtesta. anarchist mem ber of the Italian chamber of deputies who has been arrested tor delivering an inflammatory speech in favor of a proletariat revolution, has had a tern Destuous career. He was an Italian count, but, shortly after reaching his majority renounced nis tiue ana estates in order to devote himself to the propaganda of anarchism. He was an ally of Bakunln. the founder of modern anarchism, and has since conducted various anarchistic news papers. In 1878 he assisted in or ganizing a revolution in Italy, for which he was deported. He later re turned to Italy and- was accused of being implicated in the assassination of King Humbert, but of this there was no proof. He was obliged to flee the country, however, and resided for a time in England". In all he has more than ten years In the prisons of various countries in which he has preached the doctrine of anarchy. TODAYS ANNIVERSARIES. 1554 Lady Jane Grey, one ot the most pathetic figures in English history, executed In the Tower of London. Born In 1537. 1791 Peter Cooper, the founder of Cooper Union, born in New York city. Died there, April 4, 1888. , 1847 Seventy-two lives lost in the wreck- ot the Weft India mail steamer Tweed off the coast of Yucatan. 1870 Brlgham Young approved the bill granting suffrage to tne wo men of Utah. 1882 Alexandre Mouton, Acadian governor of Louisiana died near Lafayette, Pa. Born on Bayou Carencro, La., November 19, 1804. 18SS-Prtnce of Wales (Edward VII) attended the consecration of a church erected at Cannes in memory of the duke of Albany. 1895 The Lord Mayor of Dublin peti tioned parliament to release the Irish dynamite prisoners. 1919 Connecticut legislature repeat ed the federal prohibition amendment. HJCKORr MAN IN PLOT TO nSSflULTKEEPEB OF JAIL Sailors Planned to Escape From Richmond Jail, Po lice Declare. -to." (Special to The 'Citizen.) RICHMOND. Va.. Feb. U.Kelljf Vance and Herman Winkler, sailors from Pikesville, Ky., and Hickory. N. C. respectively, held here for be ing absent without leave front their station at Portsmouth, Va., ware in police court today on the technical charge of destroying property In city Jail. It waa testified that they re moved two pieces of piping from a hath room on their tier for the pur pose of assaulting keeper A. J. John- ston and breaking jail when he locked them up for the night. The case went over until tomorrow. Several other prisoners testified that Vance and Winkler urged them to Join in thn scheme but they refused to do so. Their understanding was' that there was to be a rush for liberty after Johnston had been felled. Johnston who was warned by them, said that he found the piping wrapped in cloth near the cell of the two sailnm Vann. and Winkler were expecting to be sent back to their station today. Each enlisted four months aao and wr soon to be sent to the Pacific coast. TODAY'S EVENTS. Kentucky coal mine operators refuse to agree has brought its proposals to a focus, reeommendfng a B.mem oi rcg1"1131 ourus or inquiry ana a na- f Ashevllle Citizen Bureau, 402 Merchants' Bank Build ina. , (By JULE B. WARREN.) RALEIGH. Feb. 11. While the understood. tJoyd George has never believed that Lonine's . govenmcnt could be crushed by force, and the peace negotiations now undertaken by Poland and soviet Russia remove the chief reason for allied Intervention. If Lenlne makes peace with the Polea and recognizes the border states, Lloyd George apparently has bopes that sovletism will take pn tbe form of constitutional government Sucb a government must, be says, be established before the western world will recognize bolshevik rule, which is reassuring to those who understand recent trad overtures with ' Russia as the first settlement would result In higher coal prices. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. REV. SIR. CLARK STATES HIS POSITION. Editor ot The Citizen: Fince reading the Rev.' Ervin's article in the Citizen last week, and since hearing many com ments on it comments both "pro and con," I have felt guilty. Not guilty of violating any law of man or God about the opening of the church, but guilty of letting Brother Ervin stand before the public alone whea my own convictions and practice fully tiona.1 board of adjustment. It Is proposed to estab llsh machinery for ascertainlnr ail nerttnent facts and for a leral settlement of disputes in the llehtl nosslble effect of the decision of the of those facts. Certain details of the program are I petition of the Winston-Salem Gas of questionable value; and, whatever plan mav be i company's ease on other gas com- adopted. it wHl necessarily be modified In the light j. panics in the state is not holding up or actual experience. Hut in its spirit ana m its main outlines the project is thoroughly in harmony with our othfh- Judicial Institutions. It is a delibe rate and powerful effort to bring modern industrial conditions within tho scope of law. In resisting It. Mr. Gompers strikes precisely the attitude of. the,nMr future should the Winston com duelist who stands for tbe right to kill his man, ofipany's petition be granted. Members the "patriot" who will not abate one Jot or his0( t,e commission have not intimated country's "sovereignty" in order to fulfill the desire j the nature of the decision which may the decision of tho corporation com mission on this particular petition, it is recognized by the commission that other gas companies in the state will in all probability file petitions in the that all municipal utilities are cramped for money even on the pres ent revenues, and that u is impos sible for them to borrow money from financial institutions on which to make needed improvements. The point involved in the Winston case, and the one that will be Involved In other cases ot gas companies Is whether or not the granting of the Increase shall carry with it th con dition that the company make needed Improvements within a given length of time after the increase is grant ed. That has been tho point Involved In the case of some of the street car companies. And In some instances after the Increase was granted the companies failed to' live up to their part of the understanding about the improvements. At least" that Is the allegation of citizens in some ot these cities. Representatives of the public who have been before tne commission in all cases where increases in rates charged by public utilities, have fought these.Increases.aa a matter ot course. But they have, also indicated a willingness to pay a re&aonable rate for gas, street car fares and electric current If they can be assured that they will get the service- One hundred and eleventh anniver sary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln club of Grand Rapids, Mich., is to have Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois as a speaker at its annual banquet tonight Senator Harding of Ohio, Senator Frellnghuysen of New Jersey, and Mrs. Medlll McCormick of Chleaao. are to be speakers at the Lincoln club banquet at Porland, Me., tonight. The fifty-first and "very last annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association" will be called to order In Chicago today by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the na tional president ONE YEAR AGO TODAY IN THE WAR. Allies agreed on terms of new arm istice. Bolshevik! resumed the offensive in Northern Russia. v of all true patriots since. Washington that "thi plague of mankind may be abolished from the earth." What Mr. Gompers is standing for is what he has too often stood for In the past, namely, the privilege of his single class against the rights of the Ameri can people. BOILED DOWN. All of the Lodge resolutions- and arguments boiled down for the busy reader: Swat WUaon. - Louisville Courier-Journal. , ' , be banded down any time now. but those who have followed the action of the commission in cases of like nature, believe that the company made a showing that will justify the granting of the increase asked for. The history or the petitions for In creases in the fares of street railway companies in the' state was that Just as soon as one company had broken the ice by getting an increase the others followed. Theme wbo have . atsdied the publio utility question say KISSEL "Every Inch a Car. Phone 136. , Fireproof Storage . Trouble-proof Service Coston Motor Co. 65-67 BOtmore Ave. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Department of Slate. CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION To All to Whom These Presents May Whereas, It appears to my satis faction, by duly authenticated record of the proceedings for the voluntary dissolution thereof by the unanimous consent of all the stockholders depos ited in my office that the Ashevllle Bootery Co., a corporation ef this stats whose principal office is situated in the city of Ashevilie. County of Bun combe, State or North Carolina (Jack L. .Bloomberg being the agent there-. In and In charge thereof, upon whonr process may be served), has complied with the requirements of Chapter 21. Revlsal of 190S, entitled "Corpora tions", preliminary to the issuing of this Certificate of Dissolution: Now. Therefore, L J. BRYAN GRIMES. Secretary of the Bute of North Carolina, do hereby certify thai the aaid corporation did, on the 29th day of January, 120, file In nr office a duly executed and attested consent In writing to the dissolution of said corporation, executed by alt tbe stockholders thereof, which said consent and the record of tbe proceed ings aforesaid are now on file in my said office as provided by law.- In Testimony Thereof. I have here tofore set my hand -and affixed my official seal at Raleigh, this the 23th day of January. A. D. 120. , . J. BRYAN GRIMES. : -.:- Secretary of Stat ' v . - . : ' . a-l2--t ' I
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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Feb. 12, 1920, edition 1
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