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IMPORTANT HEWS IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIB AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS _OF_THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The 8outl»- land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraph* Foreign— Workers in all the towns in Upper Silesia have struck in protest against the war between Russia and Poland. A crowd at Kattowitz attacked a detach ment of French cavalry, killing one trooper, whereupon the French open ed fire with machine guns and gre nades, killing nine and wounding twen ty-six. French troops clashed with the in habitants of the town of Kattowitz, an Important mining town of Upper Sile pia, eleven persons being killed and twenty-six wounded. Polish troops at tempted to break up a mass meeting yt Rybnik, about twenty-five miles Eouthwest of Kattowitz, and in the re sulting disorder one person was killed Uninterrupted rifle fire and hand grenade explosions are reported to be proceeding at Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, where serious fighting occurred be tween French troops and civilians who ptruck in protest against the Russo- Polish war and demanded disarmament of the occupational troops. The French officer commanding at the office of the inter-allied commission is said to be directing negotiations with the crowd and it is alleged held out the prospect of the soldiers' arms being surren dered. Reports of Polish military successes have reached Warsaw. The population is eagerly awaiting news from Minsk, where the Polish peace delegates are to negotiate with the representatives of the Russian Soviet government. The strike fever is said to be spread ing all over the island of Jamaica, which is due, according to economist, to the increased cost of living. The civil government, becoming scared, has called out the police to assist the military contingent. A successful counter offensive is reported to have ben launched on the Warsaw front under the leadership of the Polish commander-in-chief. The Russians are reported to be retreating at several points. In the fighting in the region of Rad zymin, a chaplain was killed while leading the attacking forces clad in his church habit and with a crucifix in his hand. Five Polish oficers also are reported to have been killed. Poland's army is rapidly following up the retreating enemy northeast and east of Warsaw, and further successes for the Poles are reported. The re capture of Sokolow, Drohiczyn and Biala, with thousands of prisoners and great amounts of war material, is re ported in an official communique. At Siedloe the Poles captured armed vol unteer Jewish detachments composed of local communists. To the northwest of Warsaw the Bolsheviki attacked Plock in a drive designed to carry them across the Vistula, where there is a pontoon bridge, but a Polish counter stroke broke the attack. In this operation the poles were aided by civilians who fought side by side with the infantry men. Another tragic chapter of the series of Arab risings against the British in Mesopotamia has been received at Bombay. The message says that Mr. Drigley, a political officer; Brandfield, commandant of the levies; Mr. Buch anan, an irrigation oficer, and two British non-commi-ssioned officers were killed at Shas Raba, Mesopotam ia, Washington— An immediate embargo on the move ment of coal to tidewater except upon a definite showing that the coal ar rival at piers would be unloaded into vesels with reasonable promptness has been agreed upon by the rail roads, it was announced in Washing ton by the American Railroad associa tion. The armored cruiser Pittsburg and a destroyer have been ordered to the Baltic sea to protect American inter ests thers, The vessels are now at Cherbourg. France, and it is announced at the navy department that they will proceed immediately for Russian wa ters. Use of New Orleans as the army transport shipping center of Panama and Porto Rico has been ordered dis continued by Secretary Baker. A dispatch from Helsingfors says that Finl-ind and Soviet Russia have concluded an armistice. Appointment of a commission to study tli" coal situation may be made very shortly by the attorney general. Cabled reports from Tokio that a plot to "hold" the party of American congressmen now visiting the far east when it arrived in Ilorea had been un earthed, were characterized by Kiusic Kimm, chairman of the Korean com mission. who is in Washington, as "an other groundless Japanese fabrica tion." "No sane or even insane Ko rean would dream of holding the Amer ican "ingressicnal party," Mr. Kimm ¥eciax-. A contribution from Secretary Dan iels started on its way around the world a unique collection bo:i which w:ll be sent to every Marine post and station on the map to raise funds for the erection of a memorial tablet in the Belleau wood cemetery, France, to o Mq-int-3 who lost their lives in that battle. The fund is being raised by the Belleaun Wood chapter, Amer ican Legion, composed of 30S women who enlisted in the Marine corps re serve during the war. The war department, in announcing the stts.e groups composing the army corps, as established in accordance with the provisions of the new army bill, designated the Fourth corps area to embrace the states of North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennes see, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisi ana, with headquarters at Fort Mc- Pherson, Ga. The American and French govern ments are in entire agreement as to the future of both Poland and Russia, Secretary Colby declares, in a for mal statement interpreting France's rejoinder to the American note to It aly. His statement accompanied the publication of the translation of the French note which was delivered to the state department on August 14 by Prince dii Beam,' the French charge. Press advices from Seoul, Korea, al lege Widespread Korean plots to hold the party of American congressmen at present visiting the Far East for the purpose of creating complications between Japan and America. The department of justice does not intend to make any effort to fix the price of coal, but it is determined, ac cording to officials in that department, to keep the price of coal within reason able bounds, and it is opined that the price is all out of reason. Active steps to limit the prices charged consumers for coal in vari ous parts of the country will be be gun shortly by the department of jus tice, it is said by officials Domestic — Regret over his opponent's announce ment that he probably will not make an address at the Ohio State Fair Aug ust 31, was expi*essed by Governor Cox at Columbus, Ohio, when inform ed. "I am very sorry Senator Harding is not going to speak." he said, "as I already have spent more than an hour preparing my speech which I hoped to deliver from the same plat form. I had expected to request that I be permitted to speak first, granting the courtesy to the senator of being permitted to answer me." Governor Cox recently pardoned three convicts from the Ohio peni tentiary at Columbus. He interviewed each personally before granting clem ency. Two convicts who also had pe titioned for pardons were sent back. Four more coal operators at Knox ville, Tenn., were held to the Decem ber federal grand jury by United States Commissioner Powers follow ing hearings on charges of making excess profits in coal deals in viola tion of the Lever law. Those bound over were A. M. Stewart of the Clear field Jellico Coal company, and T. P. Witherspoon, Emery B. Davis and G. G. Crowley of the Blue Diamond Sales company. Bond in each instance was fixed at SI,OOO. Mrs. Clara Jergenson, Racine, who has been asleep at the county asylum at Waukesha, Wis., for more than two years, has regained consciousness. Two bales of cotton have been sold in Telfair (Ga.) county. The price paid was 35 cents a pound. Indignant at their failure to get rec ognition in city and state patronage, prominent negroes of Baltimore, Md., have nominated W. Ashby Hawkins, a negro, for the United States senate l o oppose the Democratic and Republi can candidates. It will be necessary for 500 persons to sign the petition before his name can be placed on the ballot. Three unknown negro highwaymen entered the general merchandise store of I. Shinfield in Atlanta, Ga., at night and, with drawn guns, forced him to elevate his hands above his haad. Mrs. Shinfield appeared on the scene and. with an empty soda water bottle, knock ed one of the robbers out of the store. She seized an empty ten-pound lard can and threw it at another and the third fled for his life. The Western Union Telegraph com pany, in pursuance of a profit-sharing policy, announced more than a month ago, began, on August 16, paying to employees over the world nearly two million dollars. Arthur T. Walker, former clerk, is having quite a run on the front pages of the New York newspapers. Walker recently was left a fifty million dollar residuary estate. Edward B. Searles be ing his benefactor, and New York is unable to understand how it happens that a man with an income of around ten thousand dollars a day should con tinue to live in a two-room flat in Brooklyn and go to work every morn ing at nine o'clock. That, it appears, is what Walker does. A band of New York City river pi rates attempted to loot a North river pier where $500,000 worth of liquor was stored, and were driven off by a watchman in a pistol battle. Several of them, who jumped overboard from a launch in which they drew up to the pier, are thought by the police to have been drowned. A pitched battle between Asheville, N. C., officers and moonshiners, last ing for several mmutes, preceded the capture of the largest illicit still ever taken by county forces. The moonshin ers got away. No one was hurt. THE COURIER, FOREST CITY, N. 0. NATION GETS EQUAL SUFFRAGE States of .Washington and Ten nessee Ratify Constitutional Amendment. "VOTES FOR WOMEN IN 1920" Seventy Years of Struggle at Last Crowned With Victory—High Lights of the Movement and Some Immortal Names. Washington. The Uqited States gets equal suffrage. Washington and Tennessee have ratified the constitu tional amendment. This makes 36 states. The legislatures of the states of Washington and Delaware met in special session March 22 to pass upon the ratification of the woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution as passed by congress June 4, 1919: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." In general the situation as to the ratification of the amendment was as follows: Ratification necessary by legisla tures of three-fourths of the 4S states of the Union. Amendment ratified by 34 states, beginning with Wisconsin, June 10, 1019, and ending with West Virginia, March 10, 1920. Ratification in Ohio before United States Supreme court. Amendment defeated by six states: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. The situation in the remaining six states was as follows: Connecticut and Vermont had no regular sessions until 1921. Govs. Marcus H. Holcomb and P. W. Cle- Sewing Thirty-sixth Star on Ratification Banner. « ft;? i m ment had refused to call special ses sions. Florida and Tennessee could not vote in 1920 because of constitutional provision. The Louisiana legislature was sched uled to meet in May. The North Carolina legislature was to meet in special session in August. Gov. T. W. Bickett had declared his intention of asking for ratification. Washington ratified in March. Del aware refused in June: Louisiana in July. Calls for special sessions were refused by the governors of Connecti cut, Florida and Vermont. The Uni ted States Supreme court upheld the Ohio ratification, holding that the Uni ted States Constitution overrode state constitutions as to details of ratifica tion methods. Under this decision Tennessee called a special session to act on ratification. It is 70 years since the organized movement for woman suffrage was begun in the United States. In the first part ot the nineteenth century woman suffrage was spasmodically ad vocated in print and from the plat form. But it was not until 1848 that Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton cailed a woman suffrage con vention at Seneca Falls, N. Y., which launched a "declaration of senti ments" and passed a resolution de manding equal suffrage. These arc two immortal names in American history. Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) was born in Nan tucket, Mass., of Quaker parents. After teaching, she became an "ac knowledged minister" of the Friends. She married James Mott. who worked with his wife against slavery. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was born in Johnstown,, N. Y. She married in 1840 Henry B. Stanton, a journalist and anti-slavery speaker. From 18G9 to 1593 she was president of the National Woman's Suffrage as sociation. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) joined with Lucretia Mott and Eliza- INTERESTING BRIEFS Gathering nuts from the ground has been made easier by a Californian's Invention of a device for the purpose. In every wine-making department of France there are vineyards which have probably never been heard of out side the French borders, where wines are produced which are admirable for consumption in the districts where they are grown, though they are altogether unsufted for transit, either by land or water. beth Cady Stanton in organizing tin. woman suffrage movement. She be came in time the real leader of the movement; certainly she was its mili tant suffragist. Born in Adams, Mass., she came of Quaker stock, and earl\ devoted herself to "temperance" (the prohibition of those days) and to the abolition of slavery. For several years after the Civil war Miss Anthony endeavored to se cure an interpretation of the four teenth and fifteenth amendments which would allow women to vote. Finally, in 1572. at Rochester, N. Y., she tried to force an interpretation by voting at the polls. She was arrested and fined. She refused to pay the fine, but was not sent to jail. In 1575 Miss Anthony drafted the amendment to the Constitution which has now been ratified. In IS7S the amendment was introduced in the senate by Senator Sargent of Califor nia. It was defeated in 1881 and thereafter was not even debated in congress until 1914. During the years the constitution al amendment campaign was making no progress the women won many vic tories in the states. They received full suffrage in 15, presidential suf frage in 12 and partial suffrage in sev eral others. The National American Woman Suffrage association in 1912 opened headquarters in Washington and be gan an active campaign for the passage of the amendment. The National Woman's party, or ganized in 1010 by Alice Paul, estab lished Washington headquarters in 1913 and introduced the militant into the campaign. Alice Paul—the third Quakeress to immortalize herself —is the spectacu lar figure of the struggle. She is a practical politician and developed the deadliest card index on members of. congress that practical politics has ever seen. Pretty soon she was serv ing notice through the White House pickets that the president was the "man higher up." The arrest of near ly 500 of these pickets and the im position of jail sentences had no ef- feet. Incidentally Miss Paul herself served seven terms in jail. In 1869 were formed two national -ganizations: National Woman Suf frage association, with Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony leaders and head quarters in New York; American Woman Suffrage association, with Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone leaders and head quarters in Boston. The line of division between them was this: The former wished to concentrate on the passage of a con stitutional amendment; the latter was in favor of obtaining the suf frage through amendments to state constitutions. In IS9O the two organ izations were united under the name of National American Woman Suf fage Association, and work was pushed along both lines of endeavor. Mrs. Stanton was president until 1892. Miss Anthony served until 1900, resigning at the age of eighty. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was its head, 1900-1904. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, recently deceased and possibly best loved of all the leaders —a wom an of transcendent gifts and elo quence—was president until 1915. Mrs. Catt was then again chosen. Mrs. Frank Leslie left a large legacy to Mrs. Catt to be used in the work. The National association made ar rangements at the St. Louis conven tion of 3919 to dissolve its organiza tion and become the League of Wom en Voters. These arrangements be came effective at the Chicago conven tion in February last. So the League of Women Voters now holds sway over something like 27.000,000 po tential American women voters. Mrs. Catt, who is also the head of the International Woman Suffrage alli ance, which she founded in 1904, is honorary chairman; Mrs. Maud Wood Park is chairman; Mrs. Richard Ed wards of Indiaea, treasurer; Mrs. Solon Jacobs of Alabama, secretary, and there is a board of regional di rectors. The earliest fabric which deserves the name of lace was probably made in Egypt. Most of the "lace" men tioned in the early Bible was in reality a sort of embroidery, and not lace in the ordinary sense of the word. Gold is found in Sumatra, the Ccle bese and in Dutch Borneo in beach de posits, tertiary gravel beds and also in vein deposits. In 1914 58 concessions had been granted for prospecting and subservient working of gold and silver mines. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE BY A NARROW MARGIN OF TWO VOTES WOMAN SUFFRAGE IS DEFEATED IN SENATE REVENUE SILL IS PRESENTED Probability is That The State Wilt Never Again Levy Tax on Prop erty for its Own Use Raleich. National enfranchisement of wo men apparently was defeated in North Carolina so far as the coming election is concerned. Opponents of equal suffrage were successful in one of the most bitterly fought contests ever staged in the state senate. Their success was by the narrow margin of two votes, the count of 25 to 23, but it was sufficient to lay on the table a resolution to rati fy the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment. It postponed action until the next regular session in 1921. Senator James L. Hyatt, said "pos sibilities of a suffrage victory go glim mering again." He introduced the first suffrage measure in the North Carolina legislature 23 years a&o. Several senators recalled in their speeches how the Kyatt measure had been referred to the committee on in sane asylums, ofVhich the author of the bill was chairman. Aug. 18. —Reporting the revenue bill to the lower house, Governor R. A. Doughton, for the finance commit tee, made the startling announcement that there will be no state tax levied this year. Governor Doughton's remarks, in part, follow: "When the finance committees of this general assembly completed their draft of the revaluation act at the regular session in 1919, we found the pleasing situation that this act, of such far reaching importance, met the approval of every member of the finance committees of the house and of the senate, and met with a like unanimous approval on its reading in this body and in the senate. "After some two weeks of careful consideration by the sub-committees, and about 10 days by the full finance committees, and after having gotten the viewpoint of many members of the general assembly not members of the finance committee, we have suc ceeded in drafting another revenue bill, adopting and providing the valu ations made under the revaluation act, which met, with same unanimous approval. "For the first year in the history of the state, save one, there will be no tax levied upon property for the use of the state in the year 1920 and with the approval by the people of the in come tax amendment submitted by this general assembly, I anticipate that in all probability the state will never again levy a tax for its own. use upon the property of the state. Aug. 19. —The federal woman suff rage amendment was defeated by the North Carolina House of Representa tives at noon today oy a vote of 71 to 41. The senate having already voted to postpone consideration of the amend ment until the regular session of the legislature, which convenes next Jan uary, the action of the house today virtually ends the ratification fight in this state until that time. Vote upon the ratification resolu tion was forced by the anti-suffrage forces without debate from the op position members immediately follow ing a brief speech by Suffrage Floor Leader Everett, who arose to explain the refferendum vote referred to b> anti-suffrage leaders In the upper house, it having been stated that his constituents were opposed to ratifica tion. Thin referendum, he said, was illegal and did not 'represent the will of the majority of the voters. He urged ratification. By a vote of 3 to 1, the house de feated a substitifte to fhe original amendment offered by Representative McCoin, seeking to postpone action until the regular session net January. Fair Wage for Honest Work "In public and in private life, ex travagance is folly, and waste is crime, but fair wages for honest work is the essence of economy," declared Governor T .W. Bickett in a special message to the General Assembly, read in both houses, recommending an increase in salaries of State offi cers and employes. Governor Bickett recommended that the increases for constitutional officers should be made to begin December, 1920, as constitu tional officers can receive no increase vntil that time. Young Files Report Te annual report, required by law of the State Insurance Department, has just been filed by Insurance Com missioner James R. Young, Gov ernor Bickett. It covers the fiscal year, 1919 ending March 31st, and in dicates a ealthy growth in all lines of fire, life, casualty, health and in dustrial insurance. The increase in the number of licensed companies, Is briefest told by comparing revenues by the department up to April Ist. 1920. of $634,076.84 and April Ist, 1919 of 5642.2t4.05. Proceedings of The Legislative Removal of justice of the supremo court and. judges of the superior o; - t from the operation of the prim a r is authorized in a bill offered : Senate by Senator Burns, re!; them hereafter from the necjs waking a fight for nomination £ polls, and leaving their select i district and State party convent The Moore county senator's ure makes the second that has before the General Assembly a special session affecting the pri: ; both moving in the direction of rej ing it. Senator Brown, went e further, and declared in a bill for abolition of the primary in its em ty, and returning to the old con don system of selecting party 11 inees. The third day's work of the lower branch of the General Assembly found the committee bill submitting the stitutional amendments to the voter? this fall passefl and on its way to the Senate. There were seventy-eight votes cast for and twenty-four cast against on final roll call. . (Otherwise, the session was r:it tame. True, Crisp, of Dare, on - bills raising the salaries of ail State officers, some one else off. one to make Major W. A. Grah Commissioner of Agriculture, a 111 ber of the council of State, and i resentative Bryant introduced school bills but the burning quest —suffrage —continued to hold the 1 ter of the stage. Still another amendment to the c stitution was proposed in a new ! introduced by Representative W. Saunders intended to raise the pay somebody else—the legislators th« selves. Mr. Saunders and a num. of his colleagues believe that members ought to receive at least f hundred dollars per annum for th service to the State. Representative Herring, of Samp son, republican introduced into the the house a bill to repeal the absent voters law. His reasons, private!} l expressed, were that the emergency is over and that the law leaves the door open to fraud. Opinion prevails among legislator that Senator Joe Brown's bill for tin repeal of the state primary law wi.l pass. No adverse criticism of the bil has been heard by the correspondent While suffrage and anti leaders co tinued their respective maneuvers the ratification fight in the Legis! ture, .many members began to in: their attention to other problems General Assembly is sure to grapi« with before it leaves Raleigh. Chief in interest is the new p!. n brought forward for dealing with the measures aimed to abolish the St;;' wide primary. Democratic leaders nf the House said that a substitute 1>:11 would be offered for the Brown bill in the Senate and the Neal bill in t House submitting the question to the voters in November. Such a disposition of a matter th.it is concerning some of th* solons heav ily will, it is pointed out, serve th j purposes in the minds of the aboli tionists and at the same time absolve tl-o General Assembly of any possible reaction from the folks back horllp. Daniels Somewhat Resentful Coming home on wholly personal business with no thought of adding to what he had already said in behalf o. suffrage for women, and with no thought to bring suffrage pressure upon any member of the General As sembly, Secretary of the Navy Jo sephus Daniels, was shown a tele gram sent by W. H. Willamson, a R leigh cotton manufacturer, that called from him a sharp retort, and a re statement of his position on suffrage The Williamson telegram was di rected to the Tennessee rejectionh'ts declaring that "we are going to w: despite pressure from the White House, from Dayton, and from the United States Senate and the Secre tary of the Navy. If this crime is per petrated, let it not be laid at the door of either North Carolina or her daugh ter, Tenneessee." Secretary Daniels was keenly re sentful of the charge that he, the President, and "the next Presidfe.it Governor Cox," were endeavoring to perpetrate a "crime" in North Caro lina, and gave vigours expression to his resentment. The Lion and The Lamb The lamb and the lion that lay down together have nothing on the political harmony that obtains in Moore county. Mr. W. L. Beaslev. secretary of the State Board of Elections, preparing a list of the nominees of the two partip? in the State for the Legislature, re ceived from Moore county the an nouncement that George R. Ross if the Democratic and W. C. Jones the republican nominee "And they both live in the ssapm p house, Jones boarding with Ross." Tick Bill Unfavorably Reported The tick bill eradication law was killed in committee. It will be recom rrtended that the bill do not pass. Representative William H. Sawyer, of Wake has Introduced into the house a bill providing for a stat* board of accountancy. It was refer red to judicary committer No. 1. Representative Shepperd of Wake Introduced a bill to empower th« state corporation commission to 2* railroad fares between points irsid* at North Carolina.
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