jhnrsdav, November 29, 1923 flit Os BRITISH SCHOGNERWASLEGftL Belief in Official Circles is % a t Seizure Will Not Be ,,.me Subject of Contro vcrsv With Great Britain. \ov. 27. —Complete con* v . \ vidcuoed in official circles r : seizure of the British rum ' ,:;i I i ,ako would not be a .subject r S y between thejiritish jospite the unusdfT circum* ' V; ~ i.ndiufr the Capture, s , . Treasury and Justice tTe ‘|! were equally interested : all appeared to regard the Il? *’ ' ; o sed incident so far as its iu " ,i aspects were concerned. t,f ! s \ officials said the Capture prob ! s within the classification ac- SI " ; ,i'li * celebrated Marshal! case in r ' ■ British government declined to oocause the owners of the Mar i', 1 . ~( to establish tlu* validity, of i» • - registry. , report of the charges * , ..I ;!S r;iiti>t the Tomako ami against '-Vi w- ntetested in her poreation :l ‘ ' !t;: • UH i - one weeks ago by the ■ , . ( ,f .Justice to the State De !' . T uhli a request that it be ~ v the attention of he British ~ | .•i*v<>ntatives. pK ., (IK \M Ob CONGRESS ' BEING OUTLINED NOW .. ~,,'rlit Are Trying to (ret Together y|,-st Important Questions. I o-.’j,;, _. r hi. Nov. 27. —Views of the House progressives, both as to K'"'l.,.',, iIU legislation in the 08th r ,."s i. ually are being crystallized. ,j~ . nibers of the republican-pro i;; up are in the midst of a se , . coiifiTenees to discuss their ,\t the same time republican ‘. t in. Senate, are holding infor ,ng> for a general exchange of ~f which tIICV lIOJIC Will COUIC r) .plans particularly with I , r .. lr to farm, railroad and other im •tertaiit Icgf-lation. ,|\N FROM MACON IS iiKLli IV PHILADELPHIA I, ( iwrged With Attempted Extortion l nder Threat cf Death. riiiiiulelphia. l*a.. Nov. 27. —A young ,i who save his name as Arthur It. and his address as Mueon, La., ianlci’ arrest here charged with at ., tnl extortion under threat of death, y . .1. Howard Fell, of tliis city, receiv *l i l.ater threatening her life and that r thiv. year old daughter unless she s-j.uro to a man who would call Twine with a note sent by the writ ,t the letter.- l’o>tai inspectors set a ■ -f,,., e.ii arrested Hampton when he call ed at the house with the note. (FUG PARDON APPEAL WILL BE HELD UP l mil Attorney General Daugherty Re turn, to Washington From Ohio. Waslringti n. Nov. 27. —President Cool . will await the return to Washing ; es Attorney General Daugherty who w . in Columbus. Ohio, before tak : . lion on appeal for a pardon for t'ha: 1. > I. Craig. Comptroller of New Y rk C ty. >«nteuced to GO days in jail for coMriup! of court.. ■ T! 1 >ej•arimeut hi!gton. Nov. 27. —Representative M Kenzi. l:;:s sent word from his home '•a I • '• - that In'* would oppose the ex •dri r> i,f additional government funds "n the Mti-oie Shoals. Ala., project, it v *;t> aaineu.eed at his office today he , tight tin* proposal of Chairman iIK ihit of tlie House appropriations com ; tt»• !o 1-1 place the (iorgas steam plant , 1 1 y -old to the Alabama Power Co.. a; - a .I*!<1 imiji.i iy step to the sale of the i 'l to Henry Ford. Maintenance »t‘ Automobiles Reduced by Impnived Highways, iigutn. N iv. 27. —Some of Ihe lu “>t iiaportaut ways in which highs have a demonstrable earning eu a; ', S( ret ary Wallace of Agriciil • 1-1;* • are ihe potential savings - 1 ' oporat i ui. maintenance, and «"'!x-iain»n of motor vehicles. Tt is I‘stimated the annual fuel bill motor vehicles amounts to $L- J i" ia , otiti aisi tin* annual tire bill " VmiMH, i The annual depreciation ‘ i:a> lj ‘ 1 ti.'nite:| on an estim.iled in f '8\707.500,000 in'motor ve ;t- figures are’ estimates, ' ;1! ' \\ a dace says they are a rea i years old. Dur ing his absence lip said lie had spent most of his time in Winnipeg and other Northwestern Canadian cities. Believe Banker Killed Hinu-elf. New Orleans, La.. Nov. 27.—Charles Straymoud. 35, vice president and cash ier of the Citizens Bank and Trust Com pany here, was found dead in the garage of his home—here today with a bullet wound through his head. A revolver was found beside his body. Police be lieve it was suicide. Css t of English Election. London. Nov. 27.—The cost to the country of the, forthcoming general elec tion, it is estimated, will be about 2.000.- POO pounds sterling, in addition to 1,200.* 000 pounds, spent tliis, for tioa of the vote**. THE COUNTY OF CAMDEN V I One of the Most Interesting of the Col. Olds Series. , Raleigh, Nov, 2G. —The history of the county of Camden is one of the most in- j Neresting of the series being prepared by j Col. Fred A. Olds for the North Carolina ! Historical Commission on all of the 100 I counties of the State. It is J earned I from Col. Olds’ sketch of the county that J due to an error of\spelling in the bill creating it, Camden county’s real name is Campden. Col. Oldn history of the county follows in part: The county of Camden was created May 12th. 1777, by the General As sembly, which named it for Charles Pratt, Earl of Camden. xx x The act sets out that *by reason of the width of Pasquotank river and the difficulty of passing the same, especially in bois terious weather, it is extremely difficult (for the inhabitants who live on the north east side of the river to do public busi ness in Pasquotank county, so all that part of Pasquotank is established a coun ty by the name of Camden.’ Joseph Jones. Samuel Sawyer. Isaac Gregory. Demps'ey Burgess and Caleb Grandy were appointed commissioners to lay off •md appoint the place where the court house, prison, etc., should be built and to employ workmen to erect those build ing. A poll tax xof two shillings and eight pence, for three years, was levied by tlie General Assembly to pay for these bulidings. The (-oust house and jail were completed in 1780. The for mer yet stands and is a dwelling and hotel, or inn. think two men were BLOWN ALL TO PIECES C. W. Womack a.ml Ronny Gaffer. Vir ginia. Believed Killed By Dynamite. Danville. Nov. 26.—Since Nothing has been heard since Saturday night of (*. W. Womack and Ronny Gaffer. Halifax county men. it is generally assumed that both men were blown to atoms in the terrific explosion of a can of dynamite which shook buildings for five miles around. [The two men were alone at the time and it is understood that they had gone to a point on Dan river near Randolph for the purpose of dynamiting to obtain fish. The explosion took place at dusk' and resulted in many people of the neigh borhood hastening to the Scene of the explosion which was marked by a dust cloud iu the air. All they found was a large hole in the bank of the river. Care ful search failed to reveal a fragment of clothing or of the bodies and it was generally assumed that what remained of the two men fell into the river and thus disappeared. The two men hailed from Clover ami are understood to have been married. MANY SAVED IN DISASTER. Underground Supports of Coal Localiz ed Effects of the Big Explosion. Chicago. Nov. 2G.—Two men were killed today and 12 wore burned, two of them seriously, in an explosion in the Orient mine of the Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal company, near Ren ton. 111., according o advices to the coal company's officials here tonight. The mine} one of the largest in tin world. emp’oys more than 1.000 work-] men and 920 were reported to have been in the mine at the time of the explosion which was believed due to gases. Aline officials attributed the small casualty list to an elaborate system of "barrier pillars’ by which the mine was worked- The damage was said to have been small • and advices from Ihe mine said operations could be resumed almost im mediately. George 15. Harrington, president of the. operating company, attributed the comparatively small loss of life to the operating methods. GOVERNOR DISCUSSING SANATORIUM SIT UAT ION Held Conference During Day With Dr. T. M. \Y. Long and Senator Harrison. Raleigh N. ('.. Nov. 26. —Governor Cameron Aiorrison was in consultation early this afternoon with Dr. T. Al. IV. Long, chairman of the board of directors of State Sanatorium, and Senator Ed. Harrison, of Richmond County, a mem ber of the hoard, the conference being rel ative to the situation at tin* Sanatorium brought by the convict ion of Dr. L. B. Alcßrayer, superintendent, on a charge of trading with himself. Dr. Alcßrayer was removed from his position by Judge X. A. Sinclair, in Superior Court and Governor Morrison wrote Dr. Long that in his opinion the directors should take immediate action. BEFORE AND AFTER. “Before and after marriage there is quite A difference iu farewells, a different song., Courting, it takes an hour to say “Good night; And after marriage it is just “So long!” Northern New York hi Grip of Blizzard. Albany, N. Y., Nov. 26.—Northeast ern New York state is experiencing mid winter weather. A Sunday hliizzard left a blanket of snow over the upper Hud son and eastern Alohawk valleys. Albany. Troy and Schenectady had six to eight inches of snow. Electric car service was crippled and wire com munication delayed. In the eastern sleighting replaced .motor ing and snowdrifts hampered steam traffic. At a society wedding in Boston the other day the bride was attired in her grandmother's wedding gown and veil, and she wore also her great-grand mother's rose point fichu and a brooch which had been her great-great-grand mother’s. Her mother's white satin wed ding slippers completed her bridal costume, which thus represented five generations. -At Japanese weddings it is the cus tom to provide a small table on wliicn is placed a miniature plum tree, signifying the beauty of the bride, and a fir tree typifying the strength of the bridegroom. Box Supper at Litaker School. There will be a box supper at thefLita ker sckoojbouse on Friday evening at sev en o’clock, the proceeds to be used for the benefit of the school. —-Advertisement. Denmark was one of the first of she countries to factory in spectioa by woman. THE CONCORD TIMES DU ALBERT FAILS I TO FORM MINISTRY i Efforts Made Futile Because Reichstag Would Not Give Support—Many Forms of Government Are Suggested Berlin, Nov. 27 (By the Associated Press). —I>r. Heinrich F. Albert, who at President Ebert’s request has been en deavoring to form a ministry abandoned hi« efforts today because of his inability to find sufficient reichstag support for a cabinet under his chancellorship. President Ebert thereupon began ne gotiating with the leaders of the bour geois parties for the formation of a five party bloc, uninclusive of the socialist. Up to this afternoon none of the par ties had proposed a candidate for the chancellorship. An alternative suggestion which appar ently relegated 1 to rear for the time being at least in favor of the five party attempt, was an effort to form a bourgeois cabi net composed of representatives of the German nationalists centrists and Ger man peoples party. Such a cabinet would have to reckon with the opposition of so cialists and communists, and at the most with the neutrality of the democrats, while the centrist party made its collab oration subject to two conditons: first that the government must be along con stitutional lines: and seooud that th<- treaty of Versailles must be regarded as binding. _ Lack of agreement among the parties on these conditions seemed to be the sticking point. A candidate for the post of chancellor in such a bom-geos cabinet was Dr. Jarres, minister of the interior in the Strescmann cabinet. THREE AIEN ARE HELD IN FLORIDA PRISON Men Are Believed to Be Roy Ray and Hugh D’Autremont, Wanted for Rob bery. Bushnell, Fla.. Nov. 27.—Three men believed by the sheriff to he the D’Autre mont brothers. Roy. Ray and Hugh, wanted in connection with the holdup and roMiery of Southern-Pacific passen ger train No. 18 in the Siskiyou Alouu tains on the Gal/fornia-Oregon state line November 11th, last, are being held in county jail here, it became known to day. The holdup was staged at the mouth of Tunnel 18 just as the train was emerging. The engineer, fireman and one other railway employee riding in the engine, were shot and instantly killed. The mail ear was then blown open. A mail clerk, only occupant of the car, was killed by the explosion of dynamite. After rilling the eftr the bandits escaped. FIGHT ON KLA X STARTS WITH RENEWED INTEREST Both Houses of Oklahoma Legislature Now Have the .Matter Before Them, Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 27. —Re- buked by their leaders for alleged insin cerity. the consideration of anti-Ku Klux Klan measures, members of both houses of the state legislature went into session today to renew discussions of the pro posed legislation with its opponents hold ing the whip in hand. The controversy has been extended to the lower house, and it becomes increas ingly apparent that a prolonged and bit ter tight is in prospect before final action on any of the proposals for an act regu lating secret organizations in Oklahoma. THREE PERSONS HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE Prisoners Believed (o Be Connected With National Counterfeiting Organization. St. Paul. Nov. 27. —Federal secret service agents operating here believe three persons, one a woman under arrest, are connected with a national conterfeiting organization .which has grown up in con nection with activities of rum runners off Highlands, X. J„ and other Atlantic seaboard points. .Those held are .Joseph Brown, in jail in Minneapolis; Mrs. Alice Sweeney, of held in St. Louis. Mo.: ■and her husband. Homer Sweeney, al leged whiskey runner, arrested in Pe oria, Illinois. *= FATE OF 25 MEMBERS OF CREW NOT KNOWN Japanese Freighter in Trouble Off Wash ington Coast.—Some of Crew Safe. Seattle. Wash., Nov. 27. With ten men of a crew of 85 reported safe on the western shores of Alaska near Cor dova, the fate of the oilier 25 aboard the Japanese freight Skinkoku Marti is un known. The vessel’s wireless operator stopped sending yesterday at noon and a ninety mile an hour gale continued late into the night. Arrested For Flying Plane While Drunk. San Antonio. Tex.. NoA*. 20- —Th-> first arrest in San Antonia's history of operating an airplane while intoxicated was filed Sunday. Sergeant Lloyd Hefting, stationed~at Brooks Field was arrested by military police after a landing in which lie crashed into an oak tree iu a San Antonio residence section. Hefling was unhurt and wit nesses say a woman leaped from the plane and escaped before officers arrived. Hefling also was charged with transport ing liquor iu an airplane. Discuss Liquor Smuggling Question. Ottawa. Nov. 27. —Representatives of the United States began today their dis cussion of means to end liquor smuggling across the border. Vigorous opposition from the anti-prohibition forces in the Dominion is expected to proposals which the United States will submit at the in ternational conference, involving changes in legislation before, they could become effective. Bandits Get SB,OOO in Currency. Chicago, Nov. 27. —Bbndits who held up-the Hardware Scute Bank of Loving* ton, 111., today escaped with SB,OOO, in currency, the Illinois Banking Associa tion here was informed. A Chicago woman was made'a great grandmother ithree times in 'one day when baby sons arrived at the homes of two of her granddaughters and one grand- • sou. \ j A Symposium of Thanksgiving Wishes 4> - - -n, , n .. ,r n n n - r ■ ■— ■■ ' BY WILL ROGERS. I suppose 1 Ought to have a lot of tilings to be thankful for besides turkey with the wife and kids, but I ain’t satis fied. Os course I’m having a lot of fun mak ing two-reel comedies, but I hanker to show Vy Art'.and get tan letters from WILL ROGERS. flappers like they write to Valentino and Lew Cody and those other handsome dev ils. I ain't got such a bad tigger—that’s how I got by in. the Follies —but I wish I had the sex appeal to get into DeMille’s nightgown drummers. jThat’s what I'd like to be thankful for. BY BABE RUTH. One more home run to neat out Cy Williams? Well that would have been nice. Beat Harry Heilmann for batting hon ors? That would have been sweet. One more chance at the old pill in that BABE RUTH. DAVIDSON GRAND JURY INDICTS F. E. SIGMAN Former Register of Deeds Charged With Failure to Perforin His Duties. Lexington. Nov. 22-—The Davidson county grand jury late today returned an indictment, against F. E. Sigman. former register of deeds, charging him with failure to perform the duties of his office. The indictment is divided into 12 parts but some 20 or more tqiecific alle gations of mishandling of funds are made. In addition he is charged with failing to make entries of orders which the indictment says should have been made. The county commissioners recently brought suit against Sigman and his bondsmen for $5,000. the amount of bond required for this office. The de fendant has not yet made answer to the allegations in this action, which claims that approximately $0,500 was im properly handled. The major portion of the trouble arose over the reindexing of records in the register of deeds’ office, which cost the county over $14,000. which amount llic auditor who recently completed a checking of the county books considered an excessive amount. It is alleged that Sigman made but a number of vouchers to .1. B. Thorpe, who has the vontract for the index work, indorsed them himself and de posited the funds in banks or took cash. It is also alleged that the stubs in the voucher books and the vouchers tbemsolves in a number of instances failed to correspond, the vouchers being larger than hown on s and minutes. Mr, Sigman resigned the office of register of deeds on May 12 1922, to be come postmaster of Thomasville, which office he now holds. Prior to that time lie had also been county Republican chairman. He was elected to office in 11)20 by over 1.100 majority, perhaps the largest majority ever received by a candidate in this county. BANKS REFUSE EVEN TO QUOTE THE MARK For First Time Since Mark Started De cline This Action Has Been Taken. New York. Nov. 27. —-For the first time since it he • German mark started on its spectacular decline, New York banks today refused to even quote it nominal ly. Previously the banks which had discontinued regular dealings in German exchanges were willing to take the nom inal rate. Today, however, it was im possible to obtain from 'them the sem blance of a commercial quotation. VYocdrew Wilson Will Eat Refugee Ra tion. Washington). Nov. 2M\ —Ex-President Woodrow Wilson has signed a Golden Rule Day pledge-card, in which lie prom ises that he and his household will sit down on December 2 to a Sunday dinner of beaus, corn grits and sopp—typical orphan fare as served to the Refugees of the Near East Mr. Wilson’s card says: “I am in sympathy with the proposal for the international observance of the Golden Rule on December 2,. and I will arrange for suitable observance in my own household, providing a simple menu for at least one meal, approximating that which is used every day iu the or phanages of the Near East. The differ ence iu cost of this orphanage menu and the usual meal I will contribute for the purchase of food for tin 1 orphans of the Near East Reelief.” Other signers of the Golden Rule pledge in Washington this week include Secretary Hughes, Dr. Nansen, and a scare of cabinet members, senators ami congressmen. - Quite Likely. Howell —“My wife never keeps me waiting while she gets ready for cburclj.” Powell—“ She would if you went.” —New York Sup. world series eighth inning, with three men on base? Say, I’d have given my shirt for one more sock. But if I only had somebody, up here on this farm, to get out and chop all the wood that’s waiting for me—that’s what I would like to be thankful for. BY MARY BICKFORD. First, I should like to be thankful for leaving done isomething immortjal. ffor having left some lasting impression; not in a narrowly selfish or vainglorious sense but iu the assurance that some work of mine were accounted a worthy relic of our common human striving and an-hou or to my profession- Second, for naviifg freed myself of MARY PIdKFORD. i ; that fear, that timidity which is the ! weed strangling humanity; keeping many of us in old ruts, reluctant Jo assert land do the valid things for which we I might be temporarily misunderstood, | Until I have achieved them. I shall be thankful that’ i fetaiu'the. active , dis satisfaction which spurs one on to de sired accomplishments. ' BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAN Co-Editor with H. L. Menken of the Am erican .\fcereury. I’d be thankful if the taste o* the Am erican' public would improve up to the point where it would be possible to pro duce Rostand’s “The Last Night of Don Juan.’’ I’d he thankful if a traveling man ever came to New 1 ork and asked to see something besides a girlie show. I’d be thankful if Americans got over HUNGER STRIKERS ARE TO QUIT FASTING NOW Most of the Men Ceased Strike During Day Women Holding Out. Dublin. Nov. 23 (By the Associated Pros). —It is expected in government quarters that all the hunger strikers M ill cease their abstention from food by tonight. The men. prisoners in the Free State jprisqn and interment camp, ceased their strike tliis.miorning. A few women in the North Emeu interment camp are still hqjding out but it is said they were considering the question of abandoning their strike. Some of the men have been 40 days without food. Her Last Investment. Pomeroy. O. Nov. 27. —After investing her savings with ah undertaker, to make sure that! she would not be buried in the Potter's field. Mrs. Caroline Deeds. 75. and blind, today became an inmate of the county infirmary. Expecting to take up her residence in the infirmary, Mrs. Deeds, who lived alone for years in a cottage here, ac companied a friend to the undertaker's establishment yesterday and paid for a casket, steel vault, a burial dress and the cost of digging the grave. "Where shall 1 have this outfit de livered?” the undertaker asked. “Just keep it until it is called for.” Mrs. Deeds replied. “It is for myself. I want to make sure that I am not buried in the Potter's field when I die.” After her friend read the receipts again, Mrs. Deeds told the undertaker to "make a note” in liis books of the transaction- "so there will not be any misunderstanding in cast anything hap pens to you before I die,” and entered the infirmary saying she is at last con tent. BANDITS FORCE OFFICER TO GIVE THEM LIBERTY They Get ill Car and Make Officer Drive It to Border of the State. Joplin, Mo., Nov. 27. —A captured policeman was forced to drive to freedom four bandits who participated in a hold up of the Bank of Asbury, at Asbury, Mo., yesterday. The kidnapped officer Mas Clarence Allison, Joplin, Mo., who engaged the men single handed in a field near Crestline. Kans., only to be over powered and made an instrument in their escape. Several hours after the robbery Allison came upon the quartet on a road near Crestline and opened fire. The bandits abandoned their motor "cur and took to a field. Allison headed 'the automobile into the field, but it became mired, and he continued the pursuit afoot, cut off three of the bandits, and started march ing them toward the road. A gnu pressed against his back, and a command to "drop that gun” announced a rescue by the fourth bandit. Returning to their car with Allison the bandits found the machine stalled and commandeered a car belonging to J. A. Lucan and forced Alleirto drive it nearly to the Oklahoma line M’here he Mas released. The bandits got about $1,200. Forestry Conference Adjourns. New Orleans, Nov. 23.—Organization of tho Southern States Reclamation As sociation uas authorized at the closing session here yesterday of the Forestry Reclamation and Home Making Confer ence of the Southern Pine Association, Nevada anil Mississippi development boards and New Orleans Association of Commerce. Seaboard Wants to Issue Bonds. Washington, Nov. 23.—The Seaboard , Air Line Rajhvay ashed the Interstate] Commerce Commission today for author-1 ity to issue $1,003,000 jn consolidated! mortgage bonds. Most of the new is sue Mill he deposited uith the United States Treasury as Collateral for loans already made. USE PENIS'* COLUMNS—IT PATS i PAGE FIVE il ||fe X NATHAN the passion for expressing everything iu figures—s7 varieties, 1)9 44-100 per cent, pure, 100 per cent. American, etc. BY SENATOR MANGUSJOHNSON First, I should like to have the oppor tunity to be thankful for the complete absence of poverty, misery, hatred, heart ache and worry throughout the entire world. Second. I should like to be thankful for the existence of prosperity and happi ness among the farmers, workers and bus incss people of America. The knowledge that every person in (he world M'as en joying the full fruits of his efforts Mould make me very thankful indeed. And while tlie realization of these desires seems far away, yet 1 find it u’itliin' 'ipe today to raise my voice in thanks' that we are making progress towapd the con summation of these ideals. PHILIPPINES SHOULD 1 BE GIVEN FREEDOM ! ■ 1 As Soon as They Are Capable of Self Government. President Believes. Washington, Nov. 27.—President Cool idge’s position on Philippine independence is based ou the belief that*the United States should withdraw from the island as soon as if considers the jieople there capable of self government. To this end the President feels excellent progress is being made. f j The statement of the President’s posi tion was obtained today in connection with the arrival in the United States of [anew Philippine mission seeking' inde pendence for the islands. It conforms ; to that expressed a year ago by President i Harding to a mission headed by Manuel j Quezon. Mr. Coolidge believes the United States • should keep faith with a promise made in the Jones Act, pledging ultimate in dependence for the Philippines, and that while the time possibly lias not come for the execution of that promise, encourag ing steps have been made toward the goal. Pass Bill Over Beto. Manila. Nov. 27 (By flip Associated 'Press).—-The bill remitting penalties oil deflinqueiitf land taxpayers, vdoed \by Governor General Wood, was unanimous ly passed over the veto today by the state legislature. The new bill goes to Wash ington for President Coolidge’s consider ation. Will Support Wood. Washington, Nov. 27. —Indications at the White House and War Department today were that President Coolidge, act ing in agreement with Secretary Weeks, Mould uphold the action of Governor j General Wood of the Philippines, in ve toing the tax, bill which yesterday was passed over his veto. Farm Champions to Hold Session. Chicago. 111.. Nov.. 27.—Tin* second National Boys’ and Girls’ Club Con gress to be opened here Saturday in connection with the International Live stock Exposition, is expected to bring more than 1.200 winners of club work projects held in the various States dur ing the past year. The champion boys and girls mlio are * to make the trip have been chosen by State agricultural colleges largely from the rural districts where they were graded on excellence in work done in the . activities of the Dairy Calf clubs. Pig clubs. Home Making, Garden, Poultry, Sewing and other clubs. More than 000,000 boys and girls participated in the contests held last year, ami. according to announcement by the stock shou’ officials, produced stock and farm crops valued at $8,050.- 000. Tliis year the number of partici pants has exceeded the 700,(HK) mark. The work is being eueburaged by the United States Department of Agricul ture, and is considered one of the im portant phases of agricultural develop ment now under way. AH Small Fish Ik Mrs. Catfs Opinion. Dallas, Tex., Nov- 20.—Speaking be fore an audience of women here today on “world peace," Mrs. Carrie, Chap man Catt. of New York, woman suffrage leader, declared that in her opinion ueiher the Democratic or Republican pary has put forward a presidential candidate "half big enough to fill the job.” She added, however, that she was more interested in the “what” of the. coming national campaign than in the “who.” World peace, Mrs. Catt asserted, is being blocked by the attitude of the United States and she 4 added that Qje question of peace would loom large/in the campaign. * New Source of Sugar. According to the recent researches, can be produced by sunlight on aqueous carbon ,d#oxi