I | Out •( accumulated rapital hive arisen all tbt iaeressee •f industry and applied K-ience. all the x>n»?ort# and ameli orations of the lommon lot. 1 it tlie »«»r«d mint depend for the proieM of reconstruct Lou la which ail have to soars. —JAMES J. HILL I- The Successful Farmer t Raises Bigger Crops and cuts down costs by investment in labor-saving machinery. Good prices for the farmers' crops en courage new investment, more production and greater prosperity. But the success of agriculture depends on the growth of railroads —the modern beasts of burden that haul the crops to the world's markets. The railroads —like the farms —increase their output and cut down unit costs by the constant investment of new capital. With fair prices for the work they do, the railroads are able to attract new capital for expanding their facilities. Rates high enough to yield a fair return will insure railroad growth, and prevent costly traffic congestion, which invariably results in poorer service at higher cost. \ National wealth can increase only as our railroads grow. £ - Poor railroad service is dear at any price. No growing country can long pay • • ; the price of inadequate transportation i facilities. ► clhb admlh " f nmt I c iMocUition vfSiailwatj i Those desiring information concerning the railroad situ ation may obtain literature by writing to The Associa tion of Railway Executives, 61 Broadway. New York. Offered Through This Paper j By carefully reading the adver- § tisements in this paper you can often save money on your purchases. The things you need may be offered ji st a little bit cheaper today than they will be at any other time. The new rug for the parlor, the new din ing room table, the new suit, the sack of flour, the pair of shoes or the new hat may be advertised today at a saving worth while. Don't lay this paper down until you have read every advertisement in its columns. Economi cal people do their buying through advertising and they are putting money in the bank by so doing. READ THESE ADS THE COURIER, FOREST CITY, N. C. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OP THIB AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS _OF_ THE SOUTH What la Taking Place In The South, land Will Be Pound In Brief Paragraphs Domestic— The most sensational robbery in the history of Girard, Ala., opposite Co lumbus, Ga., was pulled off in true western style. Four masked and arm ed highwaymen entered the Phoenix- Girard bank, held up the president, as sistant cashier and other officials at the point of pistols and proceeded to loot the institution, making their get away with currency aggregating about thirty thousand dollars. Officers of Columbus, Ga., Phoenix City and Gi rard are on the lookout for the rob bers. Harry New was found guilty of sec ond degree murder in Los Angeles for the murder of his fiancee, Freda Les ser, in Topango canyon, near that place, on the night of last July 4. Enforcement of nation-wide prohibi tion, which becomes the law of the land, begins at 12:01 a. m. on Jan uary 17, it was announced at New York City at the office of Col. Daniel L. Porter, of the United States in ternal revenue service. A call for one of the greatest inter national conferences of commercial and financial figures ever assembled, in an effort to find a remedy for the financial and commercial chaos in which the world has been left by the war has been issued in New York following a meeting of a coterie of nationally known financiers. Atlanta, Ga., stands twelfth in na tional bank clearings for the year 1919 with a total of $3,290,186,377. This is the announcement in the annual compilation of figures published in Bradstreet's Journal. Stories of terrible cruelty, unre dressed murders and devastation of properties were given the senate sub committee investigating the Mexican situation by men in close touch with conditions in Mexico. The subcom mittee is holding sessions in San An tonio, Texas. A six-year job faces the federal pro hibition agents in making the United States dry. At the end of that pe riod the revenue bureau figures that the United States will be as dry as i desert. The senate subcommittee now in San Antonio, Texas has received a report that a large shipment of am munition for the Carranza government has been received at Manzanillo, Mex ico. It seems to have been shipped ?n a Japanese vessel. Leading members of the New York Bar association, the trustees of the New York City Club and the trustees Df the Citizens' Union united in voic ing condemnation of the action of the state assembly in suspending its Eive Socialist members. Washington— The partial lifting of the blockade against Soviet Russia is described in a dispatch "as an exchange of goods on the basis of reciprocity between the Russian people and allied and neutral countries." The decision, it is stated, provides taht facilities will be afford ed the Russian co-operative organi zation to import clothing, medicines, agricultural machinery and other nec- essaries, in exchange for grain, flax and other goods of which Russia has a surplus. Definite plans for furnishing Poland with war materials and food to aid in checking the westward spread of bol shevism are being considered by the United States and by allied govern ments, Secretary Baker said before the house ways and means committee, supplementing the declaration of Gen. Tasker H. Bliss that Poland was "the only bulwark against bolshevism." Establishment of a separate state, under the protectorate of the United States, for the segregation of the na tion's negro population, was advocated before the house judiciary committee by representatives of the negro race. Establishment by the United States Grain Corporation of $150,000,000 in credits would feed Europe until the next harvest without imposing any burden on taxpayers. That is what Herbert Hoover told the house -'ays and means committee. Early payment of the loans made could be counted upon, Hoover said. Decision to withdraw the American troops from Siberia upon the comple tion of the repatriation of the Czecho slovak forces next month hag been reached by the American government. Save Poultry Droppings. Save the poultry droppings. Con sidering high fertilizer prices, their monetary value is greater than ever before. No better place to apply the manure at this season of the year than on clover or glass sods or on the fall cover crops. No one is justified In burning straw' except to keep up an all-night smudge to protect the orchard and early or late vegetables. A list of fifteen admirals, headed by Admiral William S. Sims, was sub mitted to Secretary Daniels by Sen ator Hale of Maine, chairman of the senate naval subcommittee on inves tigation of navy decoration awards, with the request that the officers be •summoned to appear before the com | mittee. The coal strike settlement commis sion has begun actual work of consid ering and adjudicating claims of bitu minous miners for advanced wages and shorter working hours, the oper ators having agreed to abide by the decision of the commission whatever It may be. Foreign— Premier Georges Clemenceau went down to defeat at the hands of his countrymen in a caucus of the French senate and chamber of deputies to choose a candidate for the presidency of the republic. Clemenceau then an nounced his withdrawal and asked his supporters to cast their votes for the re-election of President Poincaire. In an official communication-issued in Paris, the supreme council approv ed of recommendations to relieve the population in the interior of Russia by giving them medicine, agricultural machinery and other commodities, of which the people are in sore need, in exchange for grain and flax. The supreme council, at Paris, has drafted a note to the Dutch govern ment asking for the extradition 6f the former German emperor. The note refers to article 227 of the treaty of Versailles and invites Hol land to join the allied powers in the accomplishment of this act. It is rumored in London that be fore peace with Germany is a week old the British public has been brought up sharply against the pos sibility of another war. The estimates of the Berlin papers of tfhe casualties in the rioting places the dead in excess of thirty and the wounded at one hundred. Quiet haa been restored. The German Social Democratic par tj' has issued an appeal to its mem bers not to allow themselves to be pro voked by Independent and Commun ist "wire pullers" to play an unscrupu lous game with human lives. Many persons were killed or wound ed in Berlin when the troops fired upon or bayonetted demonstrators who tried to rush the reichstag in Berlin in protest against the exploitation law. Crowds have paraded the streets of Berlin following an appeal from the radical Socialist organ for workmen to demonstrate in protest against the law. The demonstrators bore flags inscribed "We Demand an Unrestrict ed Workers' Council Bill." The street car service was partly suspended, the men being on strike. Ten dead were taken into the court of the reichstag building, and order was finally restor ed by the police. The so-called German exploitation law is an outgrowth of resolutions by the Social Democrats endorsing a sys temt of workers' and economic coun cils as the first step towards sociali zation. The Soviet system is strong ly condemned by the German Social Democrats. The Russian Bolsheviks have cap tured seventeen columns of Polish le gionnaires, sixteen guns and 20,000 ri fles in the Krasnoyarsk region. The Bolsheviks have also occupied the Ba lai station, fifty miles east of Kras noyarsk. London newspapers state that the only two countries in the world now at peace are United States and Ger many. In the supreme council at Paris, the United States ambassador raised the question whether the council in tended to maintain the percentage pre viously adopted for distribution among the allied and associated powers of the warship tonnage to be given up ber German. Receiving an answer i nthe affirmative, the United States ambassador stated that, in that case, the United States waived its claim to any part of this tonnage' Immediately after the peace proto col was signed the allied leaders hand ed a memorandum to the German dele gates, including the delivery of 5,000 locomotives, 150,000 cars. Germany's failure to evacuate all parts of Russia, the sinking of certain submarines which were to have been turned over to the allies, failure to deliver stolen works of art taken from Belgium and France, the delivery of agricultural ma chinery and exportation of certain aeronautical materials in contraven tion of the agreement with the aliles. A Korean national army has crossed the Siberian frontier into Korea and has captured En Chin from the Japan ese provisional government forces, ac cording to a cablegram received in Honolulu from Shanghai to the Kor ean Hawaiian association. Germany is now at peace with the allies. The treaty of Versailles, com pleted after months of labor last June, has been declared formally in effect, operative January 10, 1920. When Readjustment Comes. The economical production of feed and the utilizing of all roughage Is going to be necessity in fanning if it is to be profitable when readjust ment comes and prices go lower. Expect Plenty Seed Corn. Everybody is expecting that there will be plenty of good seed corn next spring. Being careless on that ex pectation has left more than one mai without seed at planting time. PRESIDENT GREETS MEN OF AMERICAS THE LEADING FINANCIERS OF 21 REPUBLICS GATHER FOR FINANCIAL CONFERENCE. 81BIIETT WELCOMES VISITORS Secretary Glass, President-General of the Conference Occupying the Chair at Opening Session. Washington.—Marked by the pres ence of the leading financiers and bus ness men of the twenty-one republics of the western hemisphere, the second Pan-American Financial Conference opened here for the consideration of international problems arising from the return of peace. President Wilson sent a message of greeting, declaring that Pan-Ameri ca sought no selfish purpose in assist ing world reconstruction and would regard it as a privilege to fulfill the obligations Imposed by the great ad vantages enjoyed by the people of these republics. Secretary Lansing brought out the same idea In address ing the delegates, when he said the Americas accepted the burdens thrust upon the new world by the war. Welcoming the visitors to the build ing of the Pan-American Union, John Barrett, director-general, spoke of the union's moral influence in preserving peace and building up commerce. Secretary Glass, president-general of the conference, occupied the chair at the opening session. BRYAN ANTI-PROFITEERING AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IDEA. .New York. —Profiteering and public ownership were declared by William Jennings Bryan to be two of the great Issues on which the coming presiden tial campaign should be fought. THOUSAND CASES OF FLU SAID TO BE IN HAVANA Havana. —Many cases of influenza have been reported in this city, but no authoritative statistics are avail able A newspaper report states that 1.000 cases have been found here, but this has not been corroborated. PROHIBITION AMENDMENT IS TO BE GIVEN ANOTHER TEST Washington. —Validity of the federal prohibition constitutional amendment is to be determined by the supreme court, which granted the ? state of Rhode Island permission to institute original proceedings to test It and en join tho enforcement in that state. HOLLAND IS REMINDED OF HER INTERNATIONAL DUTY Paris. —Holland is told in the allied note demanding the extradition of for mer Emn p ror William that she will fiot "fiffill her intern^ : onal duty" if she refuses to associate herself with the entente powers in chastising crime committed by Germans during the war. AMSRICAN RED CROSS WILL LEAVE SIBERIA VERY SOON Washington.—Orders providing for withdrawal of American Red Cross personnel from Siberia at the time American troops start homeward have been cabled it was announced to head quarters at Vladivostok of the com mission headed bv Lieut. Col. Rudolph B. Teusler, of Virginia. AUSTRIAN SCHOOL CHILDREN SUFFERING MUCH FOR FOOD Paris. Representatives of the American mission for the relief of children have just finished an exami nation of school children in Vienna and found, according to a dispatch re ceived by the Austrian delegation here that 97 per cent of them are suffering from lack of food. ARMY TRANSPORT POWHATAN IN NO IMMEDIATE DAN3ER New York. —The army transport Powhatan, in distress about 700 miles past of New York, reported by wire less to the army transport offices here although she was leaking and her boiler room flooded, shf> was in no immediate danger." The 500 passen gers were "calm and comfortable, the message said. When the sea be comes smoother, ihe passengers will be transferred to the White Star iner Cedric, which is standing by. VOLUNTEER NURSES FIGHTING TO CHECK SPREAD OF FLU Chicago —Chicago's health depart ment was swamped with appeals for nurses to combat the spread of In tluenza and pneumonia, of which more than 2.000 cases have been reported in the last 48 hours with 50 deaths. Health department officials declared the city needed *t least 10,000 nurses to handle the situation. Six hundred nurses, operating from Mght dispensaries, began a survey o1 the crity to aid in relief measure®. 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