THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. CHARLOTTE, N. C; FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 24, 1921.
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CURZON ATTACKS
LEAGUE NATIONS
Many Existing Difficulties
Due to Wrong Turning at
Peace Conference.
London, June 24. (By the Associa
ted Press) An unexpected attack on
the covenant of the League of Nations
was made in the House of Lords
Thursday night by Lord Curzon, secre
tary of state for foreign affairs. He
declared that many existing interna
tional difficulties were due to the Allies
having taken the wrong turning in the
making of peace, and he' uttered :i
strong appeal for the utmost American
co-operation with the Allies.
The foreign secretary's speech wi3
made in the course of a general dis
cussion on mandates, in which he ad
mitted that parliament was entitled to
more information, but he said this was
a subject involved, in obscurity. The
language of the covenant was suc'i
that not even a trained lawyer knevf
what it meant.
He announced that if, as he expected,
the League of Nations decided to post
pone its discussion of mandates in de
ference to the wishes of the United
States and 'suggested entering into
communication with the Washington
government concerning them, the Brit
ish governmentw illingly would agree.
MISTAKE IN POLICY.
Lord Curzon was inclined to think
there was ; a mistake in policy, when
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treme desire to get the League of Na
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They rushed almost with precipitation,
he said, to discuss questions which it
now was seen would better have bem
solved by being postponed. He coui
not help holding the opinion that if,
instead of taking up the better regular
tion of the , world, they had, at the.
close of the war. endeavored to secure
the peace of the world as it then was.
"we should have been much further
advanced in the conditions of peace
than we now are." ,
Lord Curzon entered mtp a long ex
planation of the British view, showing
there had been no discourtesy on the
part of the British government, but
circumstances beyond its control had
prevented the submission of mandates
to the Washington government in the
manner the latter required. -EXPECTS
POSTPONEMENT.
Regarding the present position, he
believed there would be further post
ponement of the discussion on man
dates. Expressing the government
extreme pleasure .over the renewed
American interest in European affairs,
the foreign secretary said the more
co-operation in the manner best suit-J
to America's own feeling was granteJ,
the better it would be lor the worlds
PtLord Curzon deavd there whs
force of reason in President Hardinss
view that America waj entitled to be
consulted before the mandates could
be entirely settled, anl he beueied
that the league was :kciv to reply
that, holding the same view it wo -J
decide to postpone consideration of the
mandates and trust thr.i the other
governments concerned wcm-I f-J.ter
into communication vriw th- American
government in the interval before tre
meeting of the assembly in September.
SUGAR SHIPMENTS BEHIND.
Honolulu, T. H.. June 24. Sugai
shipments from Hawaii were approxi
mately 100,000 tons behind schedule at
the end of May, according to the offi
cial figures compiled by sugar actors
Up to May there had been a total ot
211 925 tons of the 1921 crops sent to
the' mainland. By the end of April
last year there had been 206,036 tons
shipped out of the islands. It is esti
mated that the total crop of the islands
this year will be 485,700 tons.
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in the South Was Only
1.9 Per Cent.
Washington, June 24. The racial
composition of the population of the
United States in 1920 as announced
Thursday night by the Census Bureau,
shows the country to contain 94,822,431
wnue persons, 10,463,013- negroes, -4-,-959
Indians, 111,025 Japanese, 61,686
Chinese and 9,485 others- The Japanese
race exceeded by far the rate of growth
In the 'last ten years of all other
classes.
Unofficial estimates of the increase in
the number of Japanese in the United
States, particularly on the Pacific coast,
were bore out in the official tabula
tion, which revealed a rate of expan
sion of 53.9 per cent during the de
cade of 1910-20. California absorbed
30,596 of the total growth ' of 38,868
Japanese in this period. January 1,
1920 there were 71,952 Japanese in Cal
ifornia. The remainder of the increase
was distributed largely in the states of
Washington, where 17,388 make their
home; Oregon, 4,151, and Utah, Colorado
and New York, with between two and
three thousand each.
The white population showed only a
16 per cent expansion for the decade
and the negro 6.5 per cent. Both the
Indian and Chinese groups dwindled
8.6 per cent and 13.8 per cent, respec
tively. The growth in the white popu
lation was considerably less than the
rate for the previous decade, which was
22.3 per cent. This decline, the state
ment said, was due principally to the
marked reduction in immigration dur
ing the World war. An estimate based
on the excess of births over deaths
and on the excess of immigration over
emigration showed a difference by only
a small fraction of one per cent from
the total white enumerated.
GAIN MANY WHITES
The greatest numercial increase in
the white population was shown in the
east, northcentral division, embracing
the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin where the in
crease was 3,011,363. In the South At
lantic and East and South Central por
tions, the whites showed a combined
increase of 3,586,107.
The rate of increase in the negro pop
ulation, which was not perceptibly af
fected by immigration or emigration,
was the lowest on record, according to
the statement.
Evidence of the migration of the ne
gro to the North and West was found
in figures showing .nearly three-fourths
of the increase in the negro population,
or 4z,4is ot tne 635,350 gain, in these
sections. A growth of only 162,832, or
about one-fourth, was reported for the
South, despite that 85 per cent of the
total negro race is still below the Mason-
Dixon line. The percentage increase
of the negroes in the West was 55.1; in
the North 43.3 per cent and in the South
1 1.9 per cent.
MICHIGAN TOPS LIST
Michigan, with 60,082 negroes, leads
all states in percentage of increase with
251 ner cent. Illinois and Ohin with
i increase of 67.1 per cent, showed furth
er evidence ot the Northward movement
of negroes. Pennsylvania's negro pop
ulation growin ior tne period of 46-7
per cent, its black rac.R now PTeppdinc
in number those of Maryland and Ken-
lucKy.
Decrease in the Indian race in the
ten-years' period was Drobablv due in
part ,it was said, to the enumeration,
as Indians, in 1910 and as whites in
1920 of persons havine onlv slie-ht trarps
of Indian blood.
George leads with the largest negro
population, numbering l 20 fi afis nt He-
states have more than 100,000 negro
inhabitants are:
Mississippi, 935,184; Alamaba, 900,652;
South Carolina, 864,719; North Carolina
763,407; Texas, 471,723; Louisana, 700.
257; Virginia, 690,017; Arkansas, 472,
220; Tennessee, 451,758; Florida, 29,487;
Pennsylvania. 284.494! Ma
479; New York, 198,433; Ohio, 186,183;
Illinois, x2,54; Missouri, 178,241; Okla
homa, 149,407; and District of Columbia,
109,966.
RED CROSS VERY
ACTIVE JN PEACE
Its Aim is Co-operation
With Other Agencies in
Public Health Work.
Milwaukee, Wis., June 24. Public
health work, in the aid and co-ordination
of existing public health' agenci-M
is the major peace time activity, of. the
American Red Cross, George R. Bedhi
ger, of New. York, director health serv
ice department, American Red " Cross,
told the delegates to the national con
ference of social work, here today.
"The program of the Red Cross
health service - consists ; mainly . of . a
broad statesmanlike plan of public
health education and information, un
der which the Red Cross is. perform
ing certain joint services for the pub
lic health agencies of the city of New
York, which it would be difficult for
any one agency to do so well for it-,
self alone," Mr. Bedinger added.
"Among these common services, of
fered without charge by the healrh
service of the Red Cross is a bureau of
public health information through
which any interested person can se
cure up-to-date information in regavd
to all phases of public health activity.
"To strengthen and support existing
public health agencies is not only the
aim, but also the achievement of the
New York county chapter, Americaa
Red Cross is one of co-operation; no
health activities are undertaken alone;
no health service is provided without
securing the co-operation of some other
organizations, much of this service be
ing undertaken at the special request
of other health agencies. To supple
ment and not supplant the public and
private health activities of the city is
the motto of this new Red Cross service."
REQUEST DISARMAMENT.
Honolulu, T. H., June 24. Central
Union church, Honolulu, whose mem
bers are drawn from the Presbyterian,
Congregational and Methodist denomi
nations, and which rears its spire in
the heart of this heavily fortified and
garrisoned outpost of the republic, r3
cently approved by unanimous vote the
action of the United States Senate in
requesting President Harding to call an
international disarmament conference.
The motion was put by the minister
of the church, Rev .A. W. Palmer, and
it passed without a dissenting voice.
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mining machinery, will be one of the
unique features of the National Exposi
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arranged for by the American Mining
Congress in connection with its 24th
annual convention to be held in Chi
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the American Mining Congress at its
exposition witn the help or the united
States government and through the
construction of this model mine, hopes
to hf? able tn brine nhnnt a. bettor- un
derstanding on the part of the public
or tne various cost ractors entering
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same time to give to the mine opera
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COTTON GENERALLY
WELL CULTIVATED
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Washington, June 24. Cotton is gen
erally well cultivated, with little or no
complaint of grassy fields, but its gen
eral condition continues unsatisfactory,
the national weather and crop bulletin
declared Thursday. Ttemperainrea av
eraged above normal durinsr the week
throughout most of . the belt, but rain
fall was of a very, local character.
The Eastern . portion of the cotton
area had some good rains, the bulletin
said, but in others the1-falls were light
and insufficient to relieve the drought.
Cotton made rapid growth in Texas.
Louisiana and Arkansas, while the ad
vance was mostly good in Oklahoma, al
though the cruop was considerably later
than the average. Progress was re
ported only poor to fair in Alabama
and Mississippi and there was a slight
improvement in Georgia and North Car
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"Weevil activity was rather widespread
during the week, the reports showed,
with damage increasing. in .Georgia and
Texas. They also were reported in
southeastern Tennessee.
RELIEF WAS CONSIDERED
Washington, June 24. Methods of
affording relief to the cotten growers
of the South were considered at a meet
ing Thursday of Senators from the
Southern states with Secretaries Wal
lace and Hoover. ' "
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