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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CCAROTTE. , N. O, THUREDAY E VEXING, FEBRUARY 21, 1921 5 DIXON LOST OUT CANSLER POURED, GALRAITH ON CENSORSHIP VIALS OF VITRIOLfOR jN teran Dramatist and ; Col- ed Hearing. , Tcb. 24. The dramatic r'mi pixon held the negative i'1' itMirv TVrrv. of Hender: '" 'r 'irook.' of Charlotte: Rev. I' Kiibcr. of Raleigh, and Col. i'u" ,. .... r.f IHizahpth Citv. in a Charlotte Attorney Made Meeting, at , Auditorium xuuai ojuuwui aim ruw xnursaay jNifftit Will be IS! erful Appel. Open to Public. Greensboro, Feb. 24. E. T. Cansler, Charlotte attorney, thrilled a packed courthouse Wednesday with one of the most powerful and brilliant appeals.. to a iurv ever heard in nuiifnH i Vji-iiic cm motion picture censor- hen, ne. mae the closing speech of l.rinff cm motion picture terisur- - nt. urt-AX afternoon and although the day iir K.-rl tVir rlramatisf Case f"- ... fir-Vit nfainst line. mnvn. Tt tl l i',"1 " IK' lost, however. "The issue riven a ui "" s ntivrs and 7 senators voted in PIT?' 1 v ,, ,,,! 1ft rnnAnto. V'1'' . .1 .i-iot-r vntod for Tlivnn anil 1 1 ' ' i r n vi . . wiping sort of a hearing hicli tbpi'c was much invective, sar 1 ... i,,,ivitions and incriminations Till-' injection of a great deal ot ' frolins:. "1G nouse cnamner .liin0" ' .;.,iu vocative. It is regarded as ,adc nt. iys. I'V. ' ... thnm ihat thp favnrnhle. rfi vii'tPl" " 1 l"vl" . . flio cfimmittpn rt ca n t ',,, - jur boins hurled in various di- 'f'1. ont :ii raoli other often. or- i.-i that tne vcicran urainausi " ... : j . . . i w p,v Mr. I'Hlt'lT IIIIAfU uj ,'rivn invretivp when lies referred to ' f t Hwt the opponent of cenor- l n Ivdt l"tt the ministry many years rr i to "i'itP productions for the stae. ? ii.nn.i-nii in Vii rnmp.hafV IJ . . ? . j . i i : i iifniton ai nis pruuuti intii in inutse . i 1. . - i . . i flip iluvs wncn ne leu me minis- ll,rro was no nrouun picture out was- a i riished. oroken. oleedlns: south th.it he loved a nd he. wanted to the repie or ine iortn aooui it. ell them not with sermons, out with he weapons of books and plays. Dixon as triTliic in nis rejuinuer iu me rcarhrr. Thr anti-cnisorites tore the copper rr . t . .....til.. .Li Tliftn flflt Vil l" - Ul'lMua. i. utii Kki auinvi nrrpd on the bill fashioned after Tvnmvlvania s censorship. Mo gave a jrjd opinion ot Pennsylvania .wun its qk in state crau, x naa sstevens ana Mitt Quay. He narrated nve major ln- iilents in the censorsnip ot pictures m hJt .Uito ami filed them with the com- ni'tcc. Alnons nit; Mupt'iiuuus pit-i-es if a.inity alleged ly mm was tnat oTTiittfe's censorship of a picture ivhicb referred prenatally to babies and ,aby clothes, cradles ana tne like, the erv convincing reason for this action Pirsr that children thought babies are rrouciit by storks and this teaches hm something else. Another act of hat hoard w as the elimination of two 3 U.. T . . 1 i t 1 X 1- 1 ;;n?S ullrifu i) ocsus viinsi, lei iiini that is without sin among you cast the rst stone, and neither do I condemn ihee, so and sin no more." That sug certfd social sin. He finished in a torrent of invective aainst the sacrilegious . feature "and at the stake, woman hanged, drawn and quartered, and the like. And when he sat down there was a demonstration emarkable for its volume. The sev oral interruptions were exciting. Once when he had Mr. Barber in hot colloquy a woman rose to back the Raleigh mm ister in his opinion of "Devil's! gar den," the demonstration was something torrential, the censorites . having it all ever the antis. Meekina brought this first yell when he said the Dixon speech was 36 years old. It was made, saad-Meekins, when Judge Henry G.; Connor introduced a Mil prohibiting obscene literature and pictures in the state. "So he is run ning true to the form of 36 years ago, neekings said. It was the sharpest inrusi or tnem all. Meekms scored acain when he said ne did not know anything about rob in? a bank, but his eicht-vear-old wugnter Knows it all. She has learn i it at the movies. Recently he went '0 see another daughter in Winston item and they went to the movies. The picture was a screen story of seduction iney eouicl not discuss the film. icciuna ueciarea tnat Aioses was socut as big a man as Tom Dixon and ne was a censor. Christ believed in the -nncpie because he recommended cut "s on me orrending hand and pluck -b out the offending eye. The two aansea a pair of shots on the sno theatre. Dixon asked him if he ould censor that. Meekins said not, nat there always is a way to tell what tne play will be. a svnnnstanf ha nlov Tnihave lived many years in New and never saw mh. a Mnt- won said. x ' "The trouble is that , you go in on iscs and don't get the booklet," Meek ms said in a roar. Vot.enV0r ash wished t0 defer the Wmr Jvw senators wno had conflicting dates to vote. Burgwyn. of in the argument of the Varner The city , auditorium was made ready early Thursday ,to "the '.last detail for i me aaaress tftere -at i? 8 .- o'clock of i if reaerick Galbraith,: Jr., '.former i coiunei in tne A. js. . and national commander - now of ;thei vwinamt)ton. rioiiai i n. Van f . ij V UtC men. I1C dSrt i,e.biU- And " was ao r- atP r Chairman Woodson of the sen iie m,,m.m,Ittce on education asked to 6 C0Unted against the bill. GERMANS UNDERELL AMERICANS IN PERU . dshington, Feb. .24. German manu .,m," are underselling, American mpetitors in Peru but their deliveries - .low and it will be sometime before ouanttn gPods ean attain their pre-war a4i ?e American commercial at d Lima today informed the de- '"i;tnirnt of commerce ensensus of opinion vsrr , ln, hor supremacy in the hard hM. but il 19 a question of 'ial at i me win come, -the commer- fian dlJ- ile added that Peruv- ith : 'jciieve inai. it wni De six years before Germany "UL'lln. VrW A hi ii '.ov i 'ate . iuwe inBv pn- IWi! puduc houses were, burned .uj, niirnt l0ns to two j( export hardware in large quanti TWENTY HOUSES BURNED.: The attorney sooke for ' two an'id hours, mingling wit,-with persuasive logic, denunciation and satire, moving the great audience to alternate tears and laughter as he showered upon the plaintiff in the suit his ; cavalcades of rebuke. In the course of his address. Mr. Cansler took occasion to make refer ence to the indignities, of the times and the tendencies of the modern woman. "If you will go to some of the coun try clubs in this part of the country," ne saia, "you will find half -naked wo men locked in the embrace of half- drunken men." He was extolling the virtues of the lower, classes and mak ing the point that not all the modesty and refinement and culture rests with the rich. . The first 43 minutes, of his address was devoted to a1 general review of wo manhood from Mother Eve down to the new woman. , This review was more or less a direct reply to T. C. Guth rie, also of Charlotte, , who, in his ad dress Tuesday -morning in behalf of the plaintiff stressed the point that ths charges agajnst Mrs. Varner are "bo very unnatural as to be wholly untrue. Mrs. varner sat throughout the day without showing any. outward signs cf unusual concern "over t the addresses of her husband's attorneys to the jury, in which her name 'was referred to 'innu merably. Mr." Cansler! : brought tear's to his client's - eyes : when he declared next to the -"tragedy" itself was whi Mr. Varner, upon being informed at Greensboro, August 11, 1920, by Fred O. Sink of the finding of Baxter Mc Rary, wealthy negro, under his homo on the night of August 9-10, 1920, de clared: "Would to God that you had brought the news .of her death." air. Cansler pleaded eloquently to the jurors to place themselves in Mr. Var ner s position before arriving at a ver dict, declaring that any man with one spark of self-respect would have acted as Air. Varner did after hearine of the alleged association' of his wife with a negro. "After -Waring what m did ,are 3'ou not surprised at the gentle con duct of Mr. Varner?" declared the speaker. Answering the critics of Mr. Varner for his failure to give his wife a hear ing before her departure for. Salt Lake City; Mr. Cansler heatedly ..asked: "How could he have stood up and looked into the face of the woman not 24 hours previously considered to be on a pedestal of virtue?" Mr. Cansler asserted that Mr. Guth rie had argued the case on ' the -assumption of her innocence. He said in reply to this, that if the case is to b2 considered in that light then it wouid be useless to proceed. He then en tered a vigorous plea to the jury to de cide the case strictly on the evidence brought out at the trial. The speaker declared, that if Mrs. Varner had. been' the wife of a poor man she would be found guilty, but because, she is. the wife of a rich man, some believe that she cannot be con victed.'. ''Human experience," stated Mr. Cansler, "has taught , mankind that virtue ; is,, not excjusivjelythe possession of the"', rich-.1';.-. Virtue rests just as deep in the 'heart of the poor peasant "who performs her chores as it does in the heart of .the rich." Mr. Guthrie in the morning had de clared that the affair was so unna tural, and to.' this-'Mr. Cansler said: "We admit that it is an unnatural story. We , admit that it . is unnatural that a white woman should seek out and fall in love with a negro man. But women do many unnatural things nowadays, and not only now but since the day Eve ate the forbidden apple." " At this point Mr. Cansler stated that throughout the 'trial, he had been par ticularly careful to give Mrs. Varner every point of doubt, realizing that she Is of the-same sex as his mother, wife and daughters. That he wa3 wholly unable to, understand how wo men, who had no particular business in the courtroom, could have stood by "feasting their - eyes upon so terrible a tragedy of ' a white woman wallow ing in slime with a negro man." Speaking of the ' "new" woman, Mr. Cansler declared that "if you go .to some of the country clubs you will find "half of the women naked, wrap ped in the embraces of half, drunken men. He denounced those wno are clamoring for a single standard of mor ality, declaring that they "are trying to bring the women down on the level with the opposite sex and' not trying to lift man up on the plane with wo man. He asserted that a-good woman is the fairest of God's creatures, but that a bad woman . is the lowest thing on earth. " Aerain speaking, of the : unnatural ness of the charge against Mrs. Var ner. he declared that there are nun dreds of cases on record similar to it Continuing. the said: "When France was bleeding at every pore the demi monde, were living in sensuality ' with Ameriean nesrro soldiers." "It was an unnatural - thing," : said the sneaker, "for a buxom and attrac tive woman like Mrs. Varner. to re fuse in rro with her husband to an at- trf.fiv summer resort." ' Thts state ment was in reference to Mr. Varner's trin tn Asheville in July. 1920, to at tend the North Carolina Press Associa tion, to which he (Mr. Varner) testi fied his wife declined to attend. - Continuing Mr. Cansler said. "Novr let me suggest a reason why she de sired to remain: Was it the . heat, the a Pullman car, or was it a cte 1 U American i iSl ..yS. I :' ! Rl s x X 1 111 k M hi S3 III CoLF. W, Galbraith. Legion. All plans for the address have' hen maiifi and : nmnnhora r Hornet's Nest Post 'n 0 of th. 1 1 1 -r , .... . . Ml viericaji region . expect . a record crowd.'- ' ..-- -'.v ' ! ' Colonel - Galbraith - arrived' in' Char-' lptte at "noon from "Asheville -and was met at the Southern station by Com mander A. J. Beall and .. other officers and members of the local post of the ; legion and by representattives of other organizations of the. city. He was taken to the Selwyn' Hotel to regis ter and "to-be a . guest at 1 o'clock before the ChaHotte Kiwanis Club. During the afternoon : Colonal Gal braith was to rest and recuperate from arduous duties 1 in .- connection with his present tour of the South and frequent public addresses. : He was to be taken on an ' automobile ride over the city late'1 in ' the ; '! afternoon and for a game of golf at the Coun try Club. He will also visit ; hospitals here in which former service men are patients. - ' j- At the city, auditorium Thursday night he will deliver -- his ' principal address here. . Prior to '.that hour he 1 1 will be guest of , honor at - a dinner t given ' at the Southern Manufacturers Clllh bv nfficflrs'.anitf tnpmhcri! nf the, i Legion post. .The dinner will; be alto-1 Kll gether informal. . - - I The general public has .been iilvited i to ' attend the meeting 'at- the : audi torium a nd- a - special invitation has ! been -extended 'to Members of the D. A. R., TJ.. D. C- Confederate veterans, Spanish-American war vet erans, Boy - Scouts, .Charlotte military company and; other' organizations to be present. . .- ... . . . ; - : The program will . open with the playing of the "Star-Spartgled "Banner," by the Shrine band. - The invocation will, be by Rev. W. - A. Jenkins, pastor i ot Trinity Methodist church. Major W. R. Robertson, .former commander of Hornet's Nest Post No.: 9, .will talk briefly. W.. S. Beam, of the Char lotte bar, member of : the legion, will present Major A. L. ' Bulwinkle, con gressman-el ect apd : former .artillery officer-in France. -. Major Bulwinkle will mtroduce Colonel . Galbraith. at Ballybuncen , as a -itiner of two oon- f.allylongford, County' Kerry. LcJJr th shooting of two con Jrie , i ..... , auy anrt (v- x. . bkcuhu later succumu the constables was killed m- i lu HIS Wound iPH5vlKI ARE REPULSED. ion il 1 lt: has received informa- inn AFfni ii a. i . i navp f, . . ' -"'-ct mat tne ijeorgia.ua 'HIS aP".al IB said to K onn.ettdMVd NOW U DEPUTY Former; Police OflScer is Successor-- to E. : S. Wil- liams.-v;.-:--v'. .': : " N- -; C. W. Russell formermember of the Charlotte - police ''.department;' -''-has been appointed deputy. United ''States mar shall for ..this district to ? All ' out the tm.eqcpwed;ter'f-ilfS.WiflIam8 who recently , resigned ; to " become ; - deputy clerk of the' federal" court. Mr Rtissell 'isf-expiiYtp'-.b'n his dutits . at 1 once.; , For.- seyerg.1 years he was a member of the city ' police 'force and slater served as . night desk' ser geant. : For the last y two "years. how ever; ' he - had been v conneetfed' ; with the SouthernRailway. systemVi ' ; Mr.WUliaiiis, ,whp,: liad;vbeen. deputy marshal for several i r years,, . resigned about a month" ago ; to? assume the of fice of deftuty-clerk "of the 'federal court, succeeding Campbell f B. Tetner, who has" returned" to the practice of law; " . ,. ;'1 -r Owing.: to.; the change ' of-, administra tions March 4, the appointment of Mr, Russell is not .looked upon -as .perma nent: . Democratic' ; appointments f are expected to hold good until : some time in Mayor or; June, however, it was coh sidered' ' : ' ' ':' .;'''.'V'.' . ".' - EXAGGERATION IS PROVED. Lynchburg, Va.,; Feb. 24: United States- Deputy - Collector J.- N. Wood, reported killed - Tuesday dn Fluvanna county- by ; a moonshiner:. proved the ASPIRIN - Name'Bayer'pn' Genuine Ised the bolshevik attack on Thr " . made 2,000 men . prisoners out nf Jo aia to oe consioerea ''on nf ngor and the strategic posi- DOC whVn'l! of Eciema-coBtraeted fari J??'i.boy-fou-'ht diee fr ten !h half dMe" PciliU. Both n'r0f. rTl.ble condition. Almoit a D. d n Trek- 14 took bottlei of This i ' ti " up tt" diseae." : V", """oaftcr testimony of a prominent 2ffeferi ri5-Di vWe have seen to many other. 'r!v ''tVed " marreloua lotion that """Wee rr ou ottle on onr perwnal WUJT, ' OOC, BOU L J JL tion)r Shin Diseaco L'ssett.Jora Dr Store, to ride m a gunman car or i u exaggeration of hb ireport Wednesday sire' to remain - and enter tain Baxter resting-tvo m0li. near Lyhchburg io a triirnrui man men jmib. i - - - - . - ..- Varner is guilty of illicit, relations with McRary. And I want to say that a man who would untruthf u ly connect a white, woman's name with that of a negro man Is the lowest down specimen that God ever ma,ae. The very idea of Dickerson making and fabricating such a story, is incen qeivable. If he did it he should be tar red and feathered and run out of North Carolina." . . . ' , . He then answered critics who he -said have denounced the Lexington people for spying on Mrs. Varner, with "this sentence: "How are you going; to check crime if the good citizens do not un dertake to run it down?" - , Mr. Cansler said the plaintiff had turned Its big guns on O. P: Dickerson, Jack Wilson and Robert Redwine, de claring that if what these men sayis true then "she is guilty." ' "Talk," continued ' Mr. ; Cansler, "about' the assassination of character what will i be the plight of ; those Lex ington witnesses be if this woman is found t not guil'ty?" , v v -.: . . SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS. ; , Lexington, Va., - Feb. -24. Wiiliajp Porter and Charles Wilkes were con victed1 by Jury in circuit -court here Wednesday of ' robbing the Bank of Glasgow, Va., last November of nearly $100,000 In . Liberty .bonds ' and securi ties. ' and sentenced to 20 years each 1 in th penitentiary. 111 Take ' Aspirin ' only ; as told in each package vof genuine.-Ba.yer Tablets of Aspirin. Then yeu will!-be 'following the directions and . dosage' worked out by . physicians .during :21.v 'r years, and nroved - - safe by - millions- - Take no chanceswith substitutes. - If you see L the- Bayer Cross on ' tablets,; you can take i them ' Without -f ear t or.- Colds, Headache, i. Neuralgia Rheumatism, Earche, Toothage,-: Lumbago and for Pain.- Handy : tin boxes of twelve tab lets cost few; cents. Druggists also sell larger " packages? 'Aspirin : isthe trade rr.ark of Bayer Manufacture of Mono aceticacidester of : Salicylicacid. Began Hm Tomm Arid Will Continue Friday and Through ata.i Two Big Groups of the Most Fashionable and Silks pi the Season Wir go on SaZe Marfeed Popula the Yard This Group At 36-inch Black Colored Taffetas . at. . . ; . . 36-inch Black Peau de Soie at..... 36-inch Navy Satin at. . . . . .... . . ... . .... 36-inch Colored Satin : 36-inch Colored Messalines": r ? ; at. ............ . ... . . Uf. . . r. . . . . i . . , 40-inch Black Crepe Meteors at 40-inch Navy Crepe Meteors at. ... : ... .............. ... . .". . 40-inch Crepe Meteors, evening shades at. 40-inch White Crepe Meteors fit e 40-inch Crepe de Chines,' street shades at. . . .". 36-inch Minuet Jersey Silks at 40-inch Florentine Satins at. ..... . .". . . ........... ... .... . 36-inch Two-toned Satins at. . ..... .............. . . . . . . 36-inch Foulards at ................................ . $14 $m This GroUp At 40-inch Colored Crepe de Chines at. i . i . 36- 33- inch Flesh and WTiite Sarins (j-J 45 it . . . . .... . . ... ' ., " ' " . A.""""- inch Natural Pongee - : (11 .45 it . . . . . . ... . . ... . . . ....... . D1 40-inch Colored Georgettes j . ' . it j - 36-inch White Sport Skirtirigs at .... . .... .. .. . ....... 36-inch Black Satin at....... m 36-inch Plaid Satins ; j:45 32-inch White Tub Silk at r . . ... ... . - "-.-' w , 36-inch Black and White Striped Satins at 36-inch Colored Pin Stripe Satins . at. . . ....... ... . . r. 36 inch Plaid Taffetas : . ".45 t.;. .. ........... .;. .... .... ......... vx 32-inch Striped Shirting Silks j-.45 ALL NEW SPRING SILKS 10 PER CENT OFF On Thursday we shall offer our entire stock of Spring Silks, with the exception of those men tioned elsewhere in this ad, at 10 per cent less than our regular prices. This includes Canton Crepes, R o s h a n a r a . - :'. ; " 1 Crepes, Chinchilla Sat ins, Pussiwillow Taffe tas, etc. Millinery of Distinction In a brilliant array of charming new modes. A profusion of the new col ors: Orange, Henna, Chinese, Blues and Greens, Browns, Navy, Grey and Red Models, daintily trimmed in wild flowers or wings and ' Ostrich ' for those who prefer the strictly tailor ed types. ' $15' $25 ni 1 1 Jo "ft. ftey (S . ALL NEW SPRING SILKS 10 PER CENT OFF ;- On Thursday we shall offer our entire stock of Spring Silks with the exception of those men tioned elsewhere in this ad, at 10 per cent less than our regular prices. This includes Canton Crepes, .R o s ha n a r a Crepeis, Chinchilla Sat- - , ..... ' . -- ' V - ins, Pussiwillow Taffe tas, etc. pmpar si 1 M. I IU. 'I IS II j w my I ... .. . . - ) j ; V v , -i-rA :, ,;.."; ;; .- '. - ; ':''' -v-' "'" ' ' '" ': :v:' ' '";..' ';'-s v' ""'.'.'. ' ;"; ..::::.:'' ' " ' ' '' ' ' " . : '.'..
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