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THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
AMERICA WILL M
PLACE ANY OBSTACLE
TO ARMS LIMITATION
The American Delegate to
Geneva Says This Coun
try Will Do All Possible
to Limit Armaments.
GIVES AMERICAN
ATTITUDE TODAY
Americans Will Not Be
Able to Participate in
Discussions, But Will
Not Stand in the Way.
Geneva. Mnv 24.W 3 ) —Assefting
that the United Stated wished to do
everything possible to promote the
movement for the limitation of arma
ments, Hugh Gibson, American dele
| gate, today told the preparatory com
mission on disarmanent that his dele
gation did not wish to Tsresent any ob
j staeles t<j*a discussion of disarmament
, problems which might have League of
Nations (aspects. i
Mr. Gibson said that the Americans
of couiw would not be able to
| tieipate in such-discussions, but would*
! not stand in their way.
His statement was made in the
course of a debate over the desira
; bility of exercising some sort of con
trol over the armaments of nations
participating in the conference, once
reductions have been agreed upon.
France was in favor of a regular form
of control, to which Italy, however,
interposed objections.
Viscount Cecil, the English dele
gate. expressed the opinion that any
dispute as to whether the disarma
ment accords were being olyally car
ried out normally would come under
the 11th article of the covenant of
the League of Nations. This article
provides that any dispute between
members of the League is a matter
which concerns all members, and may
be broug’iit to the attention of the
League council. This brought an ob
jection from one delegate, who re
marked that the discussions on the
covenant might eiubarass non-league
members. It was then that Mr.
Gibson presented the American atti
tude of not placing obstacles in the
way es anything that might help to
bring about arms limitations.
DR. OSCAR HAYWOOD
IN LEGISLATIVE RACE
Picturesque Preacher From Mount
Gilead. It Is Said, Has Fair Chance
to Win.
Raleigh, May 23.—Montgomery
county will send Rev. Dr. Oscar Hay
wood to Raleigh if Editor B. S. Hur
ley. of Troy, knows politics, and
when the picturesque preacher, who
is president of the North Carolina
Anti-Capital Punishment Association,
gets here he is expected to help out
the prison folks.
Dr. Haywood had no oposition
when the' last train came in and he
is expected to have none. Mr. Hurley
represented the county at the last
sitting and got enough. Dr. Haywood
is a big farmer of Mount Gilead and
he has hankered slightly for *his
place before. He has more than an
even change for election despite the
fact that the county ie close.
The Montgomerians declare that the
minister is no longer connected with
the Ku Klux Klan, for which he lec
tured quite a while. That is inter
esting only as it relates to a possible
religious war in the general assembly.
Dr. Haywobd has opposed all his life
any sort of ecclesiastical legislation
by state. He would hardly sit quietly
and allow the introduction and pas
sage of a measure fashioned after the
Poole bill in the late general as
sembly.
Postmasters Causing Trouble With
Auto License Tags.
Raleigh. May 24.— UP)— The State
department of revenue is having trou
bles all its own, in connection with
the automobile license rush, which
will actually begin on June Ist, for
but which preparations are already
underway;. North Carolina post
masters are the latest ones to un
wittingly create additional work for
the automobile license bureau.
The bureau has already begun mail
ing out the automobile license appli
cations, which are sent in by- the ap
plicant together with his check.
These are sent out in so-called open
envelopes—that is, the name on the
application appears at the opening,
eliminating the addressing of the en
velope.
Hundreds are being returned by the
post offices, where automobile- own
ers have changed their addresses. In
returning, the postmasters are, in
most instances, department says,
stamping the “returned to sender’’
directly over the card, thus spoiling
t'lie card, and making it necessary for
the department to make out a new
card —an’ arduous task, when these
ruined cards run into the hundreds.
Prizes in Canned Vegetables.
(By International News Service)
West Palm Beach, Fla., May 24. —
Boxes of candied pop-corn, circus
venders will tell you, always contain
a prize worth many times more than
the price of the package, but grocers
of West Palm Beach are going them
one better by putting prizes in can
ned vegetables.
Mrs. B. A. Everingham, of Kenne
dy’s Dock, was surprised to find a
solid gold Wedding ring in a can oi
spinach 'when she was preparing it foi
the table.
ESTIMATE OF THE
POPULATION CITIES
OF 00,000 AND OYER
Estimates Based 7 on As
sumption of Annual In
i' crease Since 1920 Same
as Average at That Time
WINSTON^SAL*EM
STILL LARGEST
IPs /Estimated Population
Is Given as 71,800. —
Charlotte Is Next in the
State, With 54,600.
Washington, May 24.— UP) —Esti-
mates of the population of 220 cities
! having 30,000 or more inhabitants
were announced today by the depart
ment of commerce.
The estimates prepared by the cen
sus bureau and carrying figures up
to July Ist this year are based in
most cases upon the assumption that
file annual increase since 1020 has
been the same as the average between
1010 and 1020.
For cities in states which tdok a
state census in 102.1 the estimates are
based on the 1020 to 1025 average,
and annual increase. Estimates were
not given for twelve cities where the
last census showed a decrease in pop
ulation, nor in ten cities where ex
ceptional conditions of growth w*hich
would cause estimate* to be far from
correct are believed to prevail. Al
lowance is made for annexation and
detachments of territory.
The big four, the country’s only
cities having a million or more popu
lation. show no change in rank. New
York leads with 5,924.000 against 5,-
620.04 S in 1920.
Chicago passed the 3.000,000 mark
for the first time wit’h 3,048,000
against 2.701.705 in 1920.
Philadelphia, crossing the 2,000,000
mark retained third place, with 2.-
008,000 against 1.823,779.
Detroit continued fourth with 1,-
290,000 against 993,074.
The estimates for North Carolina
cities: Charlotte, 54,600 against 46.-
338; Durham, 43,800 against 42.258;
Greensboro, 48,7000 against 43.525;
Wilmington 37,700 against 33,372;
Winston-Salem, 71,800 against 48,-
395.
IVa -cvhcs
lion to a million class.
Estimates in this class were : Cleve
land, 960.000 against 756,841; St.
Louis 830.000 against 772,897; Bal- j
timore. 808,000 against 733.826; Bos
ton 878,000 against 748,060: Pitts
burgh 637,000 against 594,277 l
Los Angeles, not estimated, had
576.673 in 1920; San Francisco 567,-
676: Buffalo 544.000 against 506.775;
Washington 528.000 against 437,571;
and Wilwaukee 517,000 against 457,-
147.
HOP OFF ON FIRST
LEG OF LONG FLIGHT
Left' Staten Island Today For Char
leston, Beginning 6,<K)O Trip.
New York. May 24. — UP) —Bernar-
do Duggan, wealthy Argentine sports
man, and two companions hopped off
in a flying boat from Miller Field on
Staten Island at 7:04 a. m. Eastern
standard time, today, for Charleston,
S. C., on the first leg of a 6,100 mile
flight to-Buenos Aires.
Wanted Governor to Find Him a
Bride.
(By International News Service)
Baton Rouge, La., May 24.—This
thing of being Governor is no simple
job, as everyone knows, and many are
the requests for various kinds of ser
vices received, but now Governor Hen
ry L. Fuqua is about to find his of
fice turned into a matrimonial bureau.
John X. Kenny, of Bloomington,
111., wrote the Governor seeking his
aid in finding him "a nice, refined
Christian lady oy widow between the
ages of 16 and 40,” Kenny wants a
wife from Louisiana, his letter said,
because his grandfather and mother
were natives of this state.
Another reason Kenny gave for
wanting a Louisiana bride is because,
he said, “girls from the South are
better than the girls in the North,
East or West.
“I am an American, white, aged
30, and an ex-soldier of the world
war,” the .letter said, "I want some
one to settle down and marry and
help make a home. ’
With Our Advertisers.
The Parks-Belk Co. is receiving
new goods from New York every day.
Just now they are making a special
offering of printed and plain crepe
dresses §,t $9.75 and $9.90. Special
prices on a big lot of rugs—from $1.50
to $2.75.
New lingerie fabrics -in pretty
cheeks and stripes, 19 to 59 cents a
yard at J. C. Pgnney Co.’s.
Get a Jantzen Swimming Suit, “the
suit that changed bathing to swim
ming.” For sale by R'.tchie Hardware
Co. /
Women Win Victory.
Pensacola, Fla., May 24. UP)
Women of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States won a sweeping
victory in the general assembly here
today when the church court by a
vote that was almost unanimous,
greatly broadened opportunities for
participation by women in church af
fairs.
P. M. Lafferty ie confined to his
home on North Union street by ill
ness. -His condition today is report
ed as greatly improved.
CONCORD, N. C., CONDAY.MA V 24, T§2s
llnfe- . .. iff;. •
Seventeen persons were severely injured when a pssenger tram on the Chicago & North Western Railroad
plowed into the rear end of a freight train at Wilmette. 111. Most of the injured were of the crews of the trains.
MINISTERS DECLINE TO
TAKE DEFINITE STAND
Charlotte Association Does Not Act
On Anti-Evolution Campaign.
Charlotte. May 24.— UP) —The Min
isterial Association of Charlotte call-1
ed a special session today, and de-t
dined to take definite stand regard-j
iug the anti-evolution campaign being
conducted in North Carolina by “out-*
side organizations.”
The meeting was called to
‘the advisability of recommending any
action by the'city commission on tliej
request of Dr. T. T. Martin, field sec
retary of the Anti-Evolution League
of America, for permission to use the
city auditorium for holding an “athe
ist-fundamentalist” debate.
The commission has already declined
to allow use of the auditorium for the
debate. Dr. Martin declares the
debate will be held somewhere in (he
city May 31st.
The Ministerial Association’s views
were declared in a resolution adopted
after prolonged debate, which holds
that the Association properly should
nof r |'| a ume the responsibility of ad
vpxicati<fa-vor Abernerby regarding
tyie »witt s the auditorium. Confi
{ one vti in the competency
ft’ a st-t 5 i n allowing use of the
iambpjj-'! S? jp cF . ,
■srj c-,25 ntm was in closed ses
barring even repr«J
Qjentatives of the press.
A resolution tending to endorse the
stand of the city commission in de
clining to allow the debate at the au
ditorium was voted down.
FEWER DEATHS BUT MORE
PERSONS INJURED BY AUTOS
Florida Replaces North Carolina at
the Head of Killed and Injured Col
umns.
UP) —A decrease of two deaths and
an increase of 53 persons injured in
accidents during the past week as.
compared with the preceding seven
days was shown in a survey of traffic’
conditions in eleven Southern states
conducted by the Associated Press.
The totals gave 37 persons killed and
278 injured last week; and 39 killed
and 225 injured the week previous.
Florida replaced North Carolina at
the head of the killed and injured col
umn with eight persons dead and 45
injured. The Tar Heel State tied her
in the list of fatalities, but had only
eight injured.
Georgia was in the lead position
in the number of persons injured
with 51.
Alabama and Mississippi had only
one fatality each, while South Caro
lina and Virginia ranked next with
two each. Arkansas reported only 33
persons injured.
PLANS HEARING FOR
CHARLOTTE “CHILD BRIDE”
Mrs. Nellie Freeman Held for Slay
ing Her Husband Saturday Night.
Charlotte, May 24. — (,/P) —Alternat-
ing between grief and satisfaction,.
Mrs. Nellie Freeman, “child bride”, i
was today in jail and Coroner Frank J
Hovis was preparing to ask for a
preliminary hearing for the woman,
charged with the slaying of her hus
band, Alton Freeman, Saturday night.
Mrs. Freeman told officer* she
slashed her- husband’s throat with a
razor when he told her he was desert
ing her. He died within a few min
utes. The slaying oceurrred at the
home of Freeman’s parents, where the
couple lived. .
|
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
RADITCH IS FRUSTRATED
Young Nationalist Arrested Just as
He Was About to Throw a Bomb.
Belgrade. Jugo-Slavia, May 24 — UP)
■ —An attempt to assassinate Stefan
Raditeh, Croat peasant party leader
and minister of education, was frus
trated at Starapnzova today. A young
nationalist, Slavko Milch, was arrest
ed just as he was about to throw a
bomb at the minister during a meet
ing at Raditeh.
Will Investigate Boyles Charges.
Mobile, Ala., May 24.—UP)—Fed
eral Judge Robert P. Ervin today in
structed the grand jury to investi
gate charges of violating the federal
law by District Attorney Aubrey
Boyles.
The court appointed Joseph John,
special prosecutor, to investigate the
charges against Boyles.
John was dismissed last week by
the department of justice ns assist
ant district attorney.
~ Boyles’ second appointment was re
jected by the Senate Friday.
SEVENTEEN INJURED
AIR SURVEY OF CROP
CONDITIONS IN STATE
A Systematic Air Survey Planned by
Department of Agriculture.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, May 24. —A systematic
photographic air of crop con
ditions in North Carolina is being
planned by the state department of
agriculture and the necessary ma
chinery in Washington has been set
in motion to secure the assignment
of a photographic plane from Lang
ley Field for the use of the state ag
ricultural department here, it was an
nounced today.
It is planned to make the first sur
vey about June 15th and to follow
with two more esimilar purveys on
July 15th and August 15th over tl|e
same territory, thus obtaining a pho
tographic record of crop growth in
the various agricultural sections of
the state during these periods. Five
air photographs, that later will be
worked into a mosaic-composite pho
tographic map. will be taken at 25
different points within an area ap
proximately 300 miles.
The route of the survey will ex
tend through approximately twenty
counties in the heart of the state’s
’agricultural section, so that the pho
tographic record will show as wide
,n variety of crops as possible. The
centers of the cotton, tobnceo. peanut,
corn, oats and trucking centers will
be traversed. The photographic plane
will start from Langely Field, and
entering North Carolina over Gates
county, the series of photograps will
be started, taken with one of the
large airplane cameras used by the
war department, which is equipped
with a telephoto lense.
From Gates county the route will
extend south-eastward through Hert
ford, Bertie and a corner of Halifax
counties, on into Edgecombe, Wilsou,,
Johnson and Cumberland counties,
down to Fort Bragg. Then the re
turn circuit will be started back
through Cumberland and Hoke coun
ties, and over Harnett, Lee, a cor
ner of Chatham county, and on over
Wake, Franklin, Vance, Warren, a
corner of Halifax county and across
Northampton. From Northampton
county the plane will cross back into
Virginia and land at Langley Field.
The entire circuit and survey will
require less than a day’s time and a
photographic record, the most accu
rate that can be obtained, will have
been made that would have taken
weeks to obtain without the aid of
an airplane.
The manner in which these - pho
tographs are taken is both simple, yet
complicated, according to Frank
Parker, sta4e statisticians of the de
partment of agriculture, under whose
direction the survey is to be made.
Mr. Parker made an experimental
survey last year, which proved so
successful that it is to be taken on a
larger scale this year.
The big eariiera, which holds a roll
of film containing 125 negatives, fits
into the floor of the cockpit of the
plane. There is a large range finder
on the camera that shows the opera
tor all that is within range of the
camera lense, and in the same size as
it will appear on the negative. When
a mosaic picture of the terrain below
is detsired, a number of exposures are
made in quick succession, so that the
pictures will overlap slightly, when
these arc developed and trimmed, a
large picture several feet across each
way in area, results, -and from pic
tures of this sort the necessary data
ns to crops are obtained.
Since the camera has a tela-photo
lense, details are recorded, even at a
heights of two or three thousand feet,
that cannot be seen with the naked
eye. From looking at one of these
large composite photographic maps,
it is possible to distinguish corn from
cotton and tobacco from truck, as each
has its own characteristics when
viewed from the air. Poorly fer
tilized “spots” are easily located and
grass allowed to grow between rows
where the cultivation has been poorly
done, shows up plainly.
The department of agriculture ex
pects these surveys to prove of re
markable value in studying condi
tions of crops and in finding reme
dies for these .conditions, where un
favorable.
Government Captures Blueflelds,
Managua, Nicaragua, May 24.— UP)
—The city of Blueflelds which has
been held by the revolutionists, was
captured this looming without fight-
I ing, the government announces. This
is regarded here as the end of the
' revolutionary movement.
INVESTIGATION OF CHAIN
GANG SYSTEM IN ALABAMA
The. Most Sensational Developments
Come to Light.
(By International News Service)
Birmingham. Ala., May 24.—0 n
the heels of one of the most sensation
al developments in the whole convict
leasing investigation by the grand ju
ry. rumors were current here that
Cecil Houston, pictured as the “k:ll
er” at the Flat Top convict mines,
has confessed to his alleged part in
the death of James Knox.
Solicitor dim Davis announced
that Houston, the life-term trusty,
will be ’ State’s witness in the forth
coming trial of Charles R. Davis, for
mer warden who is charged with first
degree murder n connection with the
death of Knox.
While the Solicitor refused to add
to this statement, reports immediate
ly became current that Houston had
confessed. Sucli a confession was
made by Homer Anderson, negro hos
pital steward at Flat Top. who now
admits that he pumped poison into
Knox’s body to simulate suicide after
Knox had died from alleged abuse.
Houston, a check-runner, or under
ground “straw-boss” of a convict gang,
is alleged to have flogged Knox for
his refusal to work. He is also
charged with participation in the sub
sequent ddcking of Knox in a laun
dry vat, where he died.
The week beginning June 14 has
been set for the trials of Chief War
den Davis and five others charged
with first degree murder in connec
tion with atrocities at the mine.
W. A. Bates, former deputy ward
en at Flat Top, will be the first of
the six men under indictment to face
a jury. He is charged with having
clubbed to death Frank Harper, a rfe
gro convict. Bates is at liberty under
$25,000 bond.
Warden Davis is scheduled )to go on
trial immediately after Bates’ trial is
concluded.- The warden is charged
with the death of Knox. He is also
under bond of $25,000.
Cecil Houston, a “straw-boss” un
der Warden Davis, and Elbert Lewis,
H. Joe Payne and Homer Anderson,
trusties, will go on trial after a jury
dee : des Bates’ fate. They are charg
ed with having had part in the death
of Knox.
The State’s case against the six de
fendants is yet incomplete, Solicitor
Davis said.
THE COTTON MARKET
Appeared to Be But Very Little Buy
ing Power After the Covering Late
Last Week.
New York. May 24.— UP) —A more
favorable view of Southern weather
conditions seemed responsible for ari
opening decline of 4 to G pqints in
the cotton market today.
Offerings were light, but there ap
peared to be very little buying power
after the covering late last week, and
prices soon showed net losses of 6 to
11 points, July selling off to 18.26
and December to 17.42 before the end
of the first hour.
Owing to a continuation of the hol
idays, there were no cables from Liv
erpool to influence sentiment here
but some of the Saturday’s buyers
seemed to be reselling on the better
weather news, ;
Cotftm futures opened steady: Ju
ly 18.33; October 17.56; December
17.45; January 17.35; March 17.46.
Bootleggers Must Not Furnish the
Names of Customers.
Washington, May 24.—UP)—Boot
leggers and their customers cannot
be prosecuted under the prohibition
enforcement act for failing to furnish
the government a permanent record
of all illegal sales including the names
of customers, the Supreme Court de
clared today in a case, from Pennsyl
vania. .
j Krim Sends Letter to French.
Paris, May 24. — UP) —It is officially
{confirmed that M. Parent, member of
the French medical mission in the
Riff, bore a letter front Abd-el-Krim
to the French resident-general, Jules
Stegg, upon his return to Fez today.
The letter will be considered at a
council of ministers tomorrow.
Decides Against National Cash Regis
ter Company.
New York May 24. C4»)—The
National Cash Register Co. infrmged
! in 44 points on patents owned by the
Remington Cash Register Co., and
will have to pay the latter company
damages for losses sustained, ’.t
decided today by Judge Marton of the
i circuit court of appeals.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
ORDER INTENDED
IT PRESENT Tr--
. CALIFORNIA ONLY
Assistant Secretary An
drews Makes Statement
■ Regarding State Officials
j Acting as Federal Agents
WAS BOMBARDED
BY, CRITICISMS
He Defended the Order as
Entirely Constitutional.
May Be Revoked at Any
Time, He Says.
Washington,. May 24.—OP)—Bom
barded by criticism from both wets
and dry*, Assistant Secretary An
drews today assured the country he
had no intention of authorizing state
and local officials generally through
out the country tq act as prohibition
agents. ~v
The government prohibition chief
reiterated that President Coolidge’s
executive order making possible the
performance of such a function by
state, county and city officials, was
intended for the present at least for
California only.
He defended the Presidential order,
however, as entirely constitutional, but
conceded that it involved some as
pects which might be “very danger
ous.”
The Federal commission to be giv
en the local officials, he added, would
be issued with the understanding that
they are revocable at any tftne.
General Andrews expressed “sur
prise" at the reception given the or
der which has been assailed by the
wets as an invasion of states rights,
and criticised by some drys as resting
on doubtful constitutional basis.
“Giving authority to a man over
whom you have not got 100 cent,
control is % very dangerous,” he said,
“and I will De very loath to do it. The
Executive order was asked for merely
to meet the situation in California
where some deputy sheriffs have vol
unteered to police rural precincts in
co-operation with the Federal forces.
I have no intention, and had none, of
extending this plan throughout the
country.
“However, I think the order is
perfectly legal and constitutionally
sound.”
ROCKINGHAM WOMAN
FATALLY SHOOTS SELF
Mrs. Anna Thomas Lea Had Suffered
Breakdown W hile in United States
Employ.
Rockingham, May 23. —This com
munity was shocked this morning by
the death of Mrs. Anna Thomas Lea,
which occurred at fl :30, following
self-inflicted wounds sustained two
hours earlier. Mrs. Lea had been in
poor health for some weeks, having
suffered -a nervous breakdown in
"Washington where she was in gov
ernment employ. She came home
two months ago and spent a month in
the Hamlet Hospital in the hope of
rebuilding her nervous 'condition.
Last night she attended a Chautauqua
play with some friends, and at break
fast with her father this morning gave
no indication of the impending act.
She did the small chores in the home
this morning before and
showed her solicitude for her father’s
comfort by asking if she might pre
pare his bath. Immediately after
breakfast she went into one of ttoe
rear bedrooms, and at once there rang
out two pistol shots in rapid succes
sion. She was found with a bullet
in her temple, and her life blood fast
ebbing -ajvay-
The funeral will be held Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock from the resi
dence.
Mrs. Lea. who was 33 yfears old,
was t’he widow of Major Robert Em
mett Lea, who died at Camp Pike
several years apo.
Photographers Meeting in Charlotte.
Charlotte, May 24.— UP) —Hearing
of recommendations and reports of
officers occupied the morning session
today of the Tar Heel Photographic
Society, members of which were gath
ered here from all parts of the state.
Ben V. Matthews, of Winston-Sal
env, presided.
A dinner dance was on the program
for tomght. J. H. Brakshill, of
Knoxville. Tenn., president of the
Photographers’ Association of Amer
ica. was to preside at this affair.
Farm Relief Discussed Again.
Washington, May 24. UP) —Farm
relief, shelved in the House last Fri
day by defeat of the Haugen price
stabilization bill, was discussed for
awhile on the floor today with Repre
sentative Fulmer, democrat, j of South
Carolina, predicting that the agricul
tural committee, of whieh he is, a
member, again will report out the
Haugen measure.
“There are 15 members of the com
mittee behind that bill,” lie said, “and
but three favorable to the Tincher bill
apd two backing the Aswell bfiU.”
Refuses to Pass on Question.
Washington, May 24. — UP) —Hold-
ing it has no jurisdiction, the Supreme
Court today refused to pass on a test
case involving the right of property
owners in the capital to enforce an
agreement barriqg negroes from own
ing houses in certain residential sec
tions.
The consumption of ice cream in
the United States has increased j
from 1.04 gallons a year per person |
in 1910 to 2.8 gallons in 1925. '
COP c NCEINT IT
%ms PLEISENT
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The Program Opened With
j Class Day Exercises at
Mont Amoena Seminary
at 6 p. m. Saturday. /
I SERMON HEARD
BY BIG CROWD
»
Dr. Bell Preached to Con
gregation That Packed
Church—The Class Play
Will Be Given Tonight.
BY \V. M, SHERRILL
1 Mt. Pleasant. May 24.—The eom-
I mencement program for Mont Amoena
J Seminary and Mt. Pleasant Collegiate.
Institute, the two Lutheran schools
is in full swing today with
scores of fqnner students and friends
of the two institutions present.
The program began Saturday eve
ning when members of the senior
class at the seminary held their efasa
day exercises. The exercise
a large crowd and proved one of the
most interesting in the history of the
school.
Yesterday the Ifirst feature of the
joint program was held when. I)r.
K. Bell, of the Theological Hefninary
at Columbia, S. C., preached the bac
calaureate sermon. Many were un
able to get into*the Lutheran Chureh
; where Dr. Bell delivered his sermon,
the congregation being the largest
perhaps, in the history of the schools.
The streets of this town are crowd
ed with visitors today, and there is a
holiday spirit The auto
has done as much as any other fac
tor, to increase attendance at the
commencement exercises, for whereas
it formerly took all day to drive in
with the horse and buggy, the town is
only a short distance from all of the
outlying districts now that motor has
taken its place with other necessities
on the farm.
The people here are stin talking
about the vety able address, delivered
last night by Rev. Oscar Blaekwel
der, one of the most successful grad
uates of the institute. Mr. Blackwel
der spoke before the Luther League
of the Seminary and the Y. M. C. A.
of the institute, giving the young wom
en and young men a masterful ad
dress on some of the essentials in life.
Mr. is often called to
Mt. Pleasant at commencement time
for by all former students and patrons
of tHe school he is held in peculiarly
high esteem.
The program this morning attract
ed an audience that packed the audi
torium. the occasion being the annual
declaimers’ contest for a gold medal.
The contest this year brought out silt
speakers of unusual ability and their
subjects were heard with keen inter*
est, V'. H, Lipe, whose snbject was
“How the La Rue Stakes Were Lost,”
was awarded the medal aud honorable
mention was won by H. H. slqop,
who spoke on “The Unknown Itider.”
Judges for the contest were I>r. C.
K. Bell, L. E. Blaekwelder and Rev.
W. €- Lyerly. Other speakers in ad
dition to the winners were: E. B.
Bolick on “The Ruins of Time,” W.
E. Hendrix, on “True Nobility.” A.
H. Johnson, Jr., on “Burgoyne’s Sur
render.” and H. C. McAllister •on
“Lest We Forget.”
While the institute is noted for the
thoroughness with which it conducts
its ‘work its most enviable reputation
perhaps," has been attained through
the excellence of the .who
have gone out from it. The unusual
training the students receive was- re
flected in the fine manner in which
the young men spoke th : s morning.
Many alumni of the school gather
ed at noon for their annual meeting,
being served dinner as the guests of
the school.
The crowd was looking forward
with interest to the address to be de
livered to the alumni this afternoon at
3:30 O. P. Trexler, of the class
of 'ls. ... j
Tonight the annual play will be
given and tomorrow many features
are offered. The literary address will
be delivered at 10:30 by Dr. Charles ,
H. Smith, president of Roanoke Col
lege and in the afternoon the annual
contest in debate will be held. The
students of the seminary will give
their musical recital tomorrow eve
ning in the chapel of the school.
The program will be concluded with
the graduating exercises Wednesday
morning.
The baecalaureate sermon was de
livered at 11 o’clock Suqtfay morning
by the Rev. Charles K. Bell., D. D.,
professor of Piactical Theology at the
Lutheran Theological Seminary, Co
lumb’a. S. C. * ,
'•Dr. Bell took his text from Sf.
Luke 5:3, “And He entered into one
of the boats which was Simon’s, and
asked Rim to put put a Jittle from the
land. And He kat down and taught
the multitude from the boat.”
In his discourse I)r. Bell stressed
the thought that man is honored by
a request from God. The opportunity
for active service is one which permits
a man to definitely align himself with
God. or to remain on the side that is
against Him.
The request that came to Simon
was for a favor —God asking a favor
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THE WEATHER
Generally fair and somewhat warm
jer tonight and Tuesday. Gentle to
(moderate variable winds.
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