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cnAKLO l r& NEWS ;WANtf ADS. BECAIJSE-" ' THEY; .'BRING' -RESULTS. PAGE EIGHT. if 17 WS' SUNDAY - - nrvTmivTkT JL -JElLJlr. AND EVENING CHRONICLE; PAGES TODAY Gt e;a t: x :Gval ! tt e :s o innue ew spa per 'J i I . CMAK1.0TTE NEWS THE EVENING CHRONICLE Establised, ARGHISTS MAY Arthur Caron One of the Vic tims Was Prominent Mem ber I. W. W. and Was to be Tried for, "Picketing" Rockefeller's Estate. Police Examine Number Well . Known Anarchists in an En deavor to Place Responsi bility for Outrage. .- : - . New York, July 4. With Arthur Ca ron, prominent I. W. W., dead, one of four victims of a terriffic explosion which wrecked one side of a six story double tenement at 1624-26 Lexington Avenue, : the police spent tonight closely questioning all surviving leaders of the recent "free speech" de monstrations here.' .: '-".; 7 Inspector Owen Egan of the bureau of combustibles, declares positively that the explosion was caused by a bomb. In addition to those killed out light, eight persons were seriously in jured and more than a score received minor wounds- It is regarded as noth ing short' of a miracle that scores escaped death, so violent ;was the ex plosion which tore out the tenement from the top floor down to the third. Caron was identified with the Fer ror. school of anarchists. This afternoon, Be rkman, noted an archist, long connected with Emma Goldman, was examined by Police In spector Schmittberger and Assistant District Attorney Duell. Following Berkman came "Sweet Marie" Ganz. It was "Sweet Marie" who endeavor ed to see John D. Rockefeller, : Jr., when excitement over the Colorado strige was at its height. She declared' she would "shoot Rockefeller down like a dog." , l Julius Solomon and Louise Berger were also questioned. , Louise Berger has been identified with the 1. W. W. agitations. -:xc-:--':j--r' These witnesses told- Duell that they had planned to go to Tarry town Monday where Caron. and thirteen oth ers were to be:, placed on trial as a result of charges against theni for "picketing' the estate of John D. Rock efeller. . : The police believe Caron was a vic tim of a bomb 'of his own naiiAng. They, believe he had this. omb in? his room and: possibly was working cni it when .it exploded. In view of-ihe contemplated trip to Tarrytown vhere the trial was to take place the theory was advanced that" a plan was on foot to blow up the. court house in ase of conviction, ' . .'-.., Two men were blown to atoms. Parts of their '. bodies are still missing. Ca ron's. body was intact rv hen touna dangling from a fire escape on the third floor. A part of one body was blown to theroof of a church adjoin ing the tenament. Charles Berg and Charles Hansen, Caron s roommates are believed dead. . tim was Mary Chavez who lived on Hansen is missing. ;The other vie the same floor. t . HIS COUNTRYMAN IS A BAD SAMARITAN. New York, July 4. Maybe some fellow countryman played a joke on Tomasz Perwak, a Russian Pole, who escaped , from Ellis - Island in a skiff on Monday night. Michale Hazea, a Hungarian, fled with him. ' . Perwak doe&. not read English. Af ter landing from the skiff at Bayonne, N. J.: Newark found a countryman, svhom he , evidently asked r for aid His countryman gave him a note and directed him to the Barge office. Yes terday the inspector of the Barge of fice was surprised to see a man step up and hand him a piece of paper, read: , ; it "I" ran away from Ellis Island. I am sorry and want to return there. My name is Tomasz Perwak, and I speak only Polish." . - - ( The inspector saw to it ' that Per wak reached the island all right It is not" known where Michale Hazea is E A NT AM RAISES PARTRIDGES. Georeetown. Del., July , 4. Thirty- five', young partridges are - the . result of an experiment which Mrs- ab drew Marvel tried by setting bantam kid in BLOWING .-UP-FLAT V hens on - bartridge eggs which were fnnnd nn the Marvel farm. The little partridges are running : around the yard and as soon as they are old enough , to take care of themselves will be turned out to help 'stock this part, of the county with the game birds. The experiment probably will result in Mrs. Marvel raising game birds for the State Game Commis sion and helping the Commission to re-stock lower -Delaware. , Congressman Confesses. . Washington. July' 4. Members of vhe House laughed yesterday, as leave )f absence was formally granted to Representative Joseph ;B.' .Thompson, of Oklahoma, "to prosecute his cam paign for the democratic "nomination for congresis:" ' It was the first time on record that a congressman had been so frankly literal in presenting a request for leave. "Important busi' ness" and "illness" are the stock ex cuses. '. .:, : . 1903 i 'a Sunday 1910 f SIDELIGHTS ON THE PRESI- DENT'S FOURTH: ? Spoke at Philadelphia in Inde- pendence Square and tapped the Liberty Bell with his fingers try- ing to find out "how it sounds." X Received' a telegram from young Woodrow Wilson Cohen, a baby born in Philadelphia this X morning and. named after him. ,: w. His lucky number, "13", went i'? back on him. The derailing of thirteen freight cars near Bowie, Md., delayed his return to Wash- X ington nearly an hour.. Greeted Mrs. George Allen Smith of Philadelphia, mother of X one of the nineteen heroes killed i'? at Vera Cruz and told her she should be proud that her son gave Sfc his life for his country. -jt Told the crowd in Indepen w dence Square which tried to w w.push closer to the speakers' stand that "patriotism doesnt consist in fighting for front seats." FRIENDLY 1 Special to The News. " Statesville, July 4. Fifteen hun dred or more people crowded into the Chautauqua , tent here tonight and heard Secretary Bryan's wonderful, ad dress on I'The Signs of the . Times." Mr. Bryan arrived from Salisbury at .8:30 o'clock on a special train accom panied by a- party of citizens who went to Salisbury to meet him and began his lecture, shortly after 9 o'clock, speaking for an hour, and leaving on the 10:20 train for Asheville. He was introduced by Mayor Caldwell, and was accorded a great ovation. Nowhere could Mr. . Bryan have spoken to a more appreciative audi ence than that which heard him hero tonight. , There were manj in the audience, who have stood by him since he came into the public eye. They ad mire' him as- Bryan the man,- and Bryan the great commoner and friend of the people. . .' '. Mr. Bryan . said there is no place where he feels more at-home "tk in North Carolin-, the state that helped him when he needed help in 1896. F says his pleasure in the cabinet is made greater because ne sits at the sam, table with Josephus Daniels. ITER CLME ID VICTIM Birmingham, Ala., July 4 Miss Ruth Nell -Hines, aged 14, and W. Reuben Ware, aged 21, Were drowned here Saturday r afternoon enjoying the Fourth with: "sane parties." Miss Hines could swim a little and practic ing, got beyond her depth. C. 3. Wood, a member ; of the party, tried to res cue her, - with' Miss Hines v grasping him in a' death grip he vas carried to the bottom.. Wood finally managed to release himself and rose to the sur face unconscious. He was rescued by his brother. Miss Hines stayed under; . Reuben Ware had taken his Sunday school class to Queentowns Lake to teach them to swim. In the - water, cramps in the stomach made tim help less and he was drowned While his Sunday school boys were struggling- to get him out of the water. Kermit Roosevelt And Bricle Arrive in London London, "July . 4. Today's reception bv Walter Hines Page the -.American ambassador was . attended by. a big crowd of -Americans and a sprinkling of British guests among whom was Viscount Bryce, former ariusn am bassador at' Washington.', Kermit. Roosevelt and his bride, who - arrived in London this after noon, attracted much attention. Oth ers present . were Senator Lodge, and Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr., . former ly. Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Mr: and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt are to be the guests of the American ambassador for a week ana aiterwara wiu turn to New, York. re- DiES AS HE IS TAKING PEN TO SIGN NAME TO WILL East Orange, N.' J., June 4. As he was about to sign his will early yest erday in his home, No- 63 Cambridge street, Patrick Brennan became un scious and died . soon. He was seventy years old. A short time before 2 o'clock Recorder : Franciss Nutt, was summoned to the Brennan home with the information that the dying man wished to make a -will. Thei lawyer wrote the document - of 300 words and.: was placing a pen in the hand of the dying man, when Brennan Ml back. , The recorder, is wondering whether the unsigned and unwill ing witnessed documents will obtain approval. ' 1 . : : t I : ." ' 1 : . mmlWM IN STATESVILLE BY bill MM T CHARLOTTE, N. CM SUNDAY HRESIDENT BACK NATION'S GfirlTAL ME IN IllGTIl EIJMDISSFE It I M M Train Delayed and Wilson's Lucky Number 13, Proved a Hoodoo for the First Time in His Experience'. Chief Executive Delivered Pa triotic Address at Philadel phia Celebrating 138th An niversary of Nation's Birth. Washington, July4. 4. Pjesident Wilson returned . to Washington at 4 : 12 o'clock this afternoon from the Fourth of July celebration at Philadelphia- His train was delayed near ly an hour' by the derailing of thirteen freight cars, eighteen fniles 4irom Washington. ' V Near Bowie, Md.. . the president's train was abrutly stopped by a signal of the flagman of the wrecked train crew. The train was then switched on another, track - and proceeded to Washington. This is the first time that "thir teen," the president's lucky number, proved a hoodoo to the chief execu tive Philadelphia, July 4. President Wil son's independence day address de livered here today to cheering thous ands was in part as follows: "We are assembled today to cele brate the 138th anniversary . of the birth of the United States. I sup pose we can more, vividly realize the circumstances of that birth standing on this historic spot than it would be possible to realize anywhere else. "Have you ever read the declara tion of independence? When you have heard it read have you attended to its sentences? The declaration of . in dependencee . is not a fourth of July oration. The declaration of independ ence, was a document preliminary to war. It involved a vital piece of bus iness, not a piece of rhetoric. And if you will get 'further,- down in the reading than its preliminary passages, you : wilJ see that iff is a very -specific body of JffecTaratibhs'' concerning the business . of the day not the. business of our day, for the matter with which it deals is past the business of revo lution, the business of 1776. The de claration of independence does not mean anything to us merely in its general statements unless we can ap pend to it a similarly specific body of particulars as to what we consider our liberty to consist of. ' "Liberty does ' not consist' in mere general declarations as to the rights of man. It consists in the translation 'of these declarations into definite action. Therefore standing here where the de claration was adopted, reading its bus iness like sentences, we ought to ask ourselves, what is there in it for us? There is nothing in it for us unless we can translate it into terms of our. own condition. "WTe must reduce it to. what the' law yers call a bill of particulars." It con tains a bill of particulars a bill of particulars of 1776 and if we are to revitalize it We are to fill it with a bill of particulars of 1914. . "Patriotism consists of some very practical things; practical in that they belong to every day life, in that they belong to no extraordinary dis tinction but to those things which are associated' with our every- day com monplace duty. There are some gen tlemen in Washington for example, who are showing themselves to be patriotic in a way that does not at tract very much attention. The mem bers of the house of representatives and the senate who stay in hot Wash ington to maintain a quorum of the houses an transact public business are performing an act of patriotism. I honor them for it, and r am mighty glad to stay there and stick by them until it is over. It is patriotic also to know what the facts are and "to face them with candor. I have heard a great many facts stated about the present business conditions in. this country, , for example, a great many allegations of facts- at any rate and it is strange that these facts as stated I do not tally with each . other. v "Now the truth always matches the truth, and when I find gentlemen in sisting that everything is going wrong when it : is demonstrable that most things are going right, I wonder what they are trying to do. "Are they trying to serve the coun try or are they trying to serve . sonic thing smaller than the .country? are they trying to put hope into the hearts of men who work and toil every day, or rather are they putting discourage ment and despair into these hearts? if they love - America and something is wrong it is their duty to put their hands to the task of setting it right, "I have had some experiences in the last 14 months which, have not been refreshing. It was universally admit ted that the bankings system of this country needed reorganization; We set the best minds we could find to the task of .discovering the best method of reorganization. We, met with hardly anything but resistance from the bank ers of this country, or at least from the majority of these who said anything. And yet, just so soon as that act was passed, on the very next day there was an universal ch"orus of applause from the' bankers of the United States. Now if it was wrong the day before it was passed, why was it rigit the day after it was passed? ' .;. 1 . .. , ." The department of state is constant- ly called upon to back up industrial en-1 MORNING, JULY 5 4. v E FOURTH President, Cabinet Members fnd Congressmen Nearly All Left the City and Sunday umet Keigned. Young Joseph Tumulty Pre sented President Wilson With Huge Firecracker Fill ed With 6um Drops, With, a Licorice Fuse. " Washington, July 4. Sunday quiet reigned in the capital today with the president, cabinet members, and most congressional leaders gone from the city and a "sane Fourth" rigidly en forced. ! i - The president left ' early in' the morning to go to Philadelphia to speak at the Independc ce Day cele bration there "nd d:d not return un til .late in the afternoon. : ' Vice .'President Marshall went to a picnic outside the city where he, saii he could shoot off some fire crackers without police ; interference. Secretary of State Bryan was speech-making in North Carolina, sec retary of the Navy Daniels at Char lotte ville, Va., Jefferson's old home; Sneaker Cark at Farmville and Cha?.e City, Va., and Democratic Leader Un derwood at Brooklyn. Fireworks - tonight on the grounds about 'Washington's monument ? was the finale of the "capitol's commun ity celebration." From . the , south por tico of the white house, President Wilson and members of his family and a select party of friends viewed the pyrotechnics. President Wilson re ceived a" giant firecracker, with a long trailing fuse. It was the gift of little Joseph Tumulty, the eight-year-old son of the secretary to the president. It wasn't a regular firecracker how ever.": It ,was filled with : gumdrops instead Qfpowder : and 1 its fuse was nothfeg but, traU .jpfticky: licorice- It sat upon the president's desk all day.-.-, " . . 'h .'.;'-,':.;.?. .'- V:'v "Don't eat too many of them." the youngster had. scrawled on the "fire cracker, referring to. the gumdrops, because my mamma says they will make you sick if you do." , . The white house today was the only public building .' in 1 Washington ? which uiu uoi ny a .nag. it isnt; customary to display , the flag at the white house when the president is absent everi if it is a holiday. There was no fireworks display; at the white house tonight, although in Roosevelt's term, the Roosevelts were permitted to burn their fingers and scorch their eyebrows to . their hearts' content, f" - : ,' Jury Disagreed. . :" ' Albany," N. Y.,'' July 4. Reporting "disagreement" for. the . secono time the jury trying Malcolm Gifford, Jr.; son of a :wealthy . Hudson manufac turer on the charge of" murdering Frank J. Clute, a chauffeur, was dis-: missed by the court before dark to night. The ; men ; had deliberated 24 hours. ., . . terprises of the United States in for eign countries; and it at . one time went so far in that direction that all its diplomacy was designated as: 'Dollar diplomacy.' It was for support ing every man 'who ' wanted to earn anything anywhere if he was an Ainer ican.. There is no . man more -interested than I am in carrying the enterprises of the United States all over the world. I was interested jn it long before I was suspected of being a politician. But there is a limit to that, which has- laid upon , us more than any other nation in the world. We set up this nation ana we proposeto set itup cn the rights of man. We said independence is not merely for us but for everybody to whom we can find ' the means of ex tending it. ' : ' - "I am willing 'to get anything for an American Ithat money car. buy .except the rights of other men. 1 will not help any man buy a power he should not ex crcise over his fellow being. "You know what a big question there is in Mexico. Eighty-five per cent; o the Mexican people have never ; beei I allowed to have a: look-in. in regard tt their government; and the rights which have been exercised by the other fii teen per cent. Do you suppose, that cir cumstance is not 4 sometimes ih my thought?, I know that the Americau people have a heart that will beat just as strong for those millions in Mexico as it will beat for any other millions anywhere else in the world, and when tb ey ' once know what is at "stake in Mexico they will know, what ought to be done in Mexico."; "You hear a great deal about the property loss in Mexico, and I deplore it with all my heart. Upon the conclu sion of the present disturbed condition in Mexico undoubtedly those who have lost, properties ought to be compensate ed. Man's individual rights .have: met with many- deplorable -circumstances, but back of it all istthe struggle of the people and while we think of the one in the foreground let us. not forget the other in . the background. I would .be ashamed of this flag if it ever did any thing outside - ot -America that- we would notv permit;, it i to do s inside of America.' We stand forthe mass of the men, women and children, who make up the vitality of every nation "TrtK CHARLOTTE NEWS 1 . .. . ... 1 TS.-- T:i.i 'CI- 1 w THE EVENING CHRONICLE f tonsonoatea way s, ian x I IPRES! BE ELECTED II EXIGO TODAY Election Will Prove, a Farce as Only a Few Ballots Will be Cast Believed That Las curain Wiil be Named. Huerta Will Probably Retire at Once' and Become Com mander-in-Chief- of the Army or Perhaps Seek a More Congenial Clime. (By John E. Nevin, United Press Staff Correspondent.) ? Washington, July 4. Tomorrow's election in Mexico at least in that part - of Mexico controlled by Huerta may solve the entire situation south of the( Rio Grande. The election will prove a farce. Only a few ballots will be cast. Already ; it is 'believed cer tain that the majority will be recorded in favoivof Pedro Lascurain. Advices received by the Huertista jepresenta- tives here tonight say that he. is far in the lead over the other two can didates, General . Garcia Pennia and Refugio Velascez. 'The same informa tion has reached the Constitutionalist junta : here.v Huerta is not. a candi date. He insists that he is backing none of the trio. Yet, should Las curain win it Would mean1 that the man whom the constitutionalists have all along insisted was the actual pres ident of Mexico had been elected at an election 'that. at least would be as legal as any held in Mexico since the days of Porfirio Diaz. ' , Lascurain was minister of ; foreign affairs under Madero. Under the Mex ican constitution he should have suc ceeded the president when Madero and his vice president were slain. ' He resigned to the congress that 'Huerta dominated.- The constitutionalists have insisted Uhtftaesignaiioja was illegal. Lascurain was suggested to: the 'mediators as a likely candidate for provisional president. He was re jected' by the-'Huertista commission ers and by the American7 representa tives "under a suggestion from this city, following a conference between Secretary 'Bryan and the representa tives of the constitutionalists. But al most ' immediately afterward Huerta announced that he fhad reappointed him minister - of ' foreign affairs. So far as f known here he has never qualified. - - According, to the plan reported. agreed on' m Mexico, so far as the in formation here is concerned, so soon as Lascurain is elected provisional president Huerta will assume his old job of commander in chief of ' the army.1- Then Lascurian, as president, will assign Huerta to a mission abroad the gossip here says in France and the dictator, can depart via Puerto Mexico with bands playing, colors waving and all of the usual ac companiment .. that has. marked the leave takings of Mexican tyrants who were not stood up against a wall and shot. With Huerta out of the way it would be, a very easy': proposition, to agree on terms of peace for Mexico. Las curain -was a loyal Maderista but his friends calied him a cowa'rd. following Madero's death because he refused to insist upon his right to the presidency and resigned at the request of Huer ta.".. '" ;..-':' .".";,' , ; . Yet if he were to be elevated to Chapultapec' right now it is hard to see how the constitutionalists, whose battle slogan is the restoration of constitutional rule in Mexico, could re ject his claims. And he is not iron man . enough to stand .in the way of any out and out constitutionalist who might aspire to legal election as con stitutional president. Minister Naon, representative of the mediators,-was at the Argentine lega tion tonight. He admitted that he had knowledge of the-significance of tomorrow's election. But he refused to comment on it. Neither would the American, commissioners, Justice Las mar and Frederick W. Lehmann.. ' Naon held a conference , with' the representatives of the" junta tonight. The conference was' surrounded with j the usual mystery . and as ' usual the ! very fact that : it was held was voffi- cially : denied." It was learned, how ever, that Naon was told that the chances of -Carranza and Villa "bury ing the hatchet" as the reslt of the conferences now in progress were very good. It was also stated that an an swer' wilL probably be received . from Carranza jearly next week setting forth his. views on the advisability of un official parleys between represeita tives of both factions in. an effort to agree on a provisional government. . None of the junta, representatives would forecast : a guess onthe Car ranza. attitude. ..The members are divided in their opinion. Some think Carranza ' will yield. - Others say he cannot. It-is known that. Consul Sim man, President Wilson's personal rep resentative, now enroute to confer with Carranza will emphasise the po sition of the administration. He will very . frankly tell Carranza that the United ; SJtates insists on Mm meeting the federals : half ' way now that the federals have agreed to accept an out and out constitutionalist ; to head the provisional government.- - , . It was admitted that Silliman had THE WEATHER. Wasfaingtcn, July 4. Virginia," -? , North ' 'Carolina: , Locaf showers ?"; -X' Sunday and ; probably Monday. i'? Light ' to moderate 1 soutlieast winds: ;-: .: - ; w South Carolina Georsia: Local -? thundershowers Sunday and prob- w.'ably Monday. -Iight to moderate variable windsjv, ' -v; r ako been instructed to make it very plain to Carranza, should the unex pected - happen and it be necessary to take Mexico City by force of arms there must be no massacre.' Es pecially must Hurta's life be baved should he decide to stay there to the end. ' . ; : ' '!--v. v -'...-. : :" . . Justice Lamar, Frederick Lehman, Minister Naon and Secretary ; Bryan are" to confer at the White "House on "Monday. By that time it will be ap parent what the result of tomorrow' election is and it will possible to agree on a - plan of future action. New York, July 4. Police of Free port tonight - unearthed ' a witness who turned them right about face from the lines they have been fol lowing since Tuesday in their search for the women who "poked a revolver through the window of Dr. Edwin Carman's- consultation room and kill ed Mrs. Louist. Bailey... Sidney Schloss, a young tailor's ap prentice' is the witness. ; Schloss was riding a bicycle along the road about eight o'clock Tuesday evening when he heard an explosion. He dismissed it as a " premature celebration of the 'fourth.?.,'. :As .ha' turned, into. .Groye street, he,- swears he saw a; woman of medium biuld, . run from th direc tioh'sof i'Dri.' Carman's house.- ahd.;leai into a large , touring t car, the engine of which; was running. The. woman put on high speed, according to Schloss and drove down . the street past the Carman house. Schloss- who told his story , tonight for the first time said the woman carried a large, handbag, . or email satchel. She threw this into the tonneau of the car before leaping in to the , front' seat. - . DRANK CARBOLIC MISTAKE, DIED IN 15 MUTES Special tp.-T.he, News.. . ... . . . Winston-Salem, July 4. News is received here of the, death of Dr. C. L. Cock of Clingman, WilkeM - county, which occurred Wednesday within ' fif teen minutes; after he had drank car bolic .-acid. . through .mistake, . thinking it was cider he was drinking. About dark he went into his office and pick ed up a' bottle .from' the table which he thought contained cider but which contained carbolic acid .and as soon as he took a swallow-of it discovered his mistake and hurried to a dwelling nearby and jtelling Uhe family there what he had done,, called for sweet milk saying that "perhaps ihat would counteract the effects of the poison but death . followed .in fifteen, minutes. t Doctor. Cook, was91-years old - and not vithstanding his; - advanced age was strong and healthy,; and continued in active , practice up ' to his death! During the war between the states he practiced medicine - in- Yadkin- county and in ,1873 -moyed. Jto, Lincoln,. Neb., where he "did. a large practice. Eight years ago' he returned id North t Caro lina settling at Clingman,' where . he practiced medicine. He had 'been a member of the masonic, order for more than sixty years. :. : :.- FIVE CROPS ON SAME T : , - LAND, HIS OBJ ECT. '", Warsaw, ,N. C July 4.: Charles Johnson, a merchant : here, plans to grow five ' crops-on a plot of a quarter of an acre this year. In September it had been planted in onions. As- soon as this crop had obtained . a good growth he transplanted cabbage plants between the rows of onions. The first crop is being harvested, and he has nlanted beans along these rows. Both FflEEPORT POLICE UNEARTH CLU E TO BAlLEYMUflDER A the cabbage .and bean crops will beiand this , pious - belief ; was shared by harvested in plenty .of time for at least two ' more crops to be grown. s. Villa Won Victory. ; ' Torreon, .Coahuila, Mexico, July '4. Villa - won a sweeping victory ioday; at the conference between delegates here to adjust the differences between him and Gneral V'enustiano Carranza. In return for the concessions; the Carranzistas asked Villa's' delegates to recognize Carranza as "first chief" of the . cons titutionalists; - This was granted and Carranza then announced that, Villa would . hereafter be , commander-in-chief of the constitutionalist army; of the north.- ; : ICC . Udliy LK, OUaQay DC. TABLET TO DANIEL Governor Craig Present and Helped Citizens of Rowan Celebrate the Birthday of the Nation. Dr. Archibald Henderson, . ot University of Worth Caro lina, Delivered Principal' Ad dress on Daniel Boone and 'Wilderness Trail. Special to The News. , : Salisbury, July 4 Salisbury has en joyed ' a "safe and sane Fourth" to day and has taKen part in a program or, rather three distinct programs that made the day memorable. At 50 o'clock members of patriotic orders marched up Main streat to tba new county court house where "O.J Glciy" was unfur -d ;to th t breeze. The flag was pri.s.-r.ted to t".? county by the patriotic orders represented by the Junior 1 Order- United Ameri can Mechanics, Daughters of Liberty and Patriotic Sons of America. Toere . were . recitations and exercises , by, children, and the presentation speech was ; made by . Mr. Z. P. Smith, past state councilor of the Juniors. The flag was accepted on the part of the county commissioners by Judge Theo F. Kluttz of the county court. Music for this and the other exercises of the day was furnished by tha Salis bury band.-. . - , The, ceremony preceding the unveil ,ing of the Boone tablet was held in the - Colonial theater, : - The . program was rich in that it carried the names of people noted not, only in the state but in the nation... The address of welcome was by Mayor Walter H. Woodson, who was especially felicitous in his remarks. Mrs.,, William N. Reynolds of Winston Salem, . regent of the D. A. R., introduced- by -Mrs.- E. - C- Gregory, and Mrs. Lindsay - Patterson of - Winston Saleni; introduced 'by Mrs. Edwin Overman, were hoth "heard with -pleas-- -ure by a sympathetic audience. ; Each referred to the great-work of the L-cal chapter of the D. A. R. and the event celebrated by the exercises of the day. . - r . f - . -Dr. L. H. Clement introduced Gov ernor Locke Craig. The governor got in . the . good graces of the ladiS; at once by. declaring mere man unequal to talk against the women. He stated that the women were coming to the front, ' in' fact had arrived, and that the men had about arrived at the rean Ke-plead' guilty to knowing very little v about Daniel Boone, but knew he would know it alt, before he left Sal- . isbury. today.. His main remarks, were on the equality of men. , Mrs. John Van Landinghani of Char lotte introduced the principal speaker of the day, Dr. Archibald Henderson of the University- of North Carolina, whose address was . on "Daniel Boone i and the Wilderness Trail." V i BOONE UNVEILED ; IT SALISBURY In that epic movement of American r : expansion, -which found its true - in auguration in pioneer advance and its true romance in border struggle, eaid Dr. Henderson, "the colony o North Carolina assumed . a truly national role. Two such men as Richard-Henderson' and Daniel Boone Henderson the colonizer and law-giver, Boone, the explorer and Indian fighter, flowering' at a single instant out of the life of -North Carolina ' endowed her with a distinction : of national eminence as a great creative force in westward ex pansion. Kentucky and the we3t would be sorely empoverished, shorn of the greater measure of the incom parable .romance and wonder of her origin and rude beginnings, if bereft of North Carolina's epochal, contribu- tion : - the exploring . instinct; of ' Chris topher, the pioneering genius of Dan iel Boone, - the r colonizing, sp:ri; of Richard Henderson and the expansion ist ideals of others of their time. They ' were the crest and foremost fringe of that mobile wave which welled up from the fountain "source of American liberty, . the ancient colony of. North Carolina, swept irresistibly through the '. high-swung gateway' of the Cum-. berland and held this fair region w:th-.v in the circle of its protecting wail un til Kentucky had -: weathered the -storms of border warfare and was swept . triumphantly. Into . a union of free and independent states. ' ' ' "The supreme hero of the pioneer wesL,' the 'Father, , of Kentucky' a3 he - has been piously " denominated . by her children', Is tme' whose- name is a household--word in North Carolina- Daniel Boone. In: history he, has play ed the high role of the exemplar of the leadership of , the great westward movement of the eighteenth century. . Boone has-been celebrated as an in strument of Providence, ordained by God, Himself, to settle the wilderness,' Boone himself In his: last years. At the hands of , countless biographers Boone' lias" taken 'on the character of a Jundamentally , unsocial and primi tive figure. As pictured by the literary, biographer, , as imaged through the . genius of James , Fenimore : Cooper,' Daniel Boone .is as . unreal - as an In dian; from the pages of a romance of Chateaubriand, perpetually " fleeing from civilization in response to the lure of .the forest, and the irresistible call of the wjld. . ; ; . , ; -"As one born within a few miles of the localities where Daniel Boone lived for- almost a quarter of u century, (Continued on : Page Two.) , I . I t .. I. r i' X i- 1 ,1 " -i
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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