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0. STANFORD AND *
YORK ARE RETURNED
Methodist Conference at Shelby
Adjourns to Meet in
Reidsville.
X e Western North Carolina
Conference of the M. E. Church,
EO uth, which was held this year
ct Shelby crroe to a close Mon
day and will meet next year in
Reidsville.
Rev. A. L. Stanford, pastor
of the First Methodist Church,;
V vas returned and so was Kev. B',
b. York, raster of the Hickory
CiVi'uit. This news will r* - i
ct iveil with pleasure by their
many friends and their congre
gations here. Rev. McSwain. for
the pa:t vear pastor of the West
Hickorv Church, has been suc
ceeded by Rev. L. F. Brothers.
From the reports of the vari
ous beards of the conference the
following statistics are gatfc-
preachers, 191; members,
09.471; additions—professions,
4 927; a d ditions —certificate,
4*4.35; removals, 6,178; increase
in membership over last year,
9 ISO; baptised infants, 2,880;
baptised adults, 2,826; number
of pastorial charges, 236; number
of parsonages, 119; number
churches, 832: number districts,
10: number district parsonages,
10; v iiue of parsonages, $461,990;
indebtedness of parsonages,
$22,651; value of churches, $2,-
indebtedness of church
es, 8159,491; value district par
sonages. $50,800; indebtedness
district
women's societies, 171; mem
ber?, 5.503; amount collected,
$33,073; number of Sunday
schools, 811; number of teachers
and officers, 5,924; number of
scholars, 81,732; number of
scholars joining church, 2,615;
number in cradle roll, 1,653;
number of Bible classes, 321;
number of training claasse3, 45;
numbar of home department
scholars, 1,471; foreign missions,
815.911,71: foreign misson
special, $11,750 30; home and
conference, $18,194.80; confer
ence specials, $831.40; church
extension, $8,502.87; church ex
tens'on special, SB7; education,
$9,900,57; American Bitly sc
ciety, 3402.98; Epworth league,
G2; members, 22,073.
Fuzzi.'ng Dispatches are Sent From
Mexice.
Washington, Nov. 15, Puzzl
ing but apparently significant
dispatches from Mexico received
today by the state department
left officials very much in doubt
as to what is going on in the
southern republic.
The first, a consular dispatch
from AsfuasCalientes, announced
that General Gutierrez, named by
the convention as provisional
president, yesterday demanded
General Carranza's retirement as
first chief of the constitutional
ists within 24 hours.
The second, from Consul Silli
man in Mexico City, said the
pOFsibiiities of a peaceful settle
ment of the differences between
Carranza and the Aguas Calien
convention were brighter today
than at any time since the breach
occured. General Blanco, com
manding the Carranzi forces in
Mexico City, Mr. Siiliman said,
advised him that an agreement
binding the leaders to ajust their
differences without futher hos
tilities were confidently expect
ed.
Advices from Aguas Calientes
sail Gutierrez had informed
Carranza that unless a definite
ansv/er to his demands were
forthcoming bv Sunday night a
general movement against him
would be ordered.
Negroes in Protest to American Peo-
Washington, Nov. 15.—Mem
bers of the delegation which
went to the White House last
week with a protest against race
segregation in government de
partments laid their case before
a mass meeting of negroes here
today. The meeting adopted a
formal protest to the American
People against "the pronounced
tendency in American law and
Public opinion to draw the color
line."
V»e make this appeal at this
ume, ' said the statement, "be-;
it has been ascertained by
Js from the highest authority in
j«e nat'on that it is the policy of
the federal government to draw
color line, to make what the
newspapers of the country de
nominate and denounce as \Jim
v^row government.' "
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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
WILSON REBUKES NEGROES
FOR THEIR IMPUDENCE
Monroe Trotter of Boston Ac
cased Cabinet Officers of
Feeling Against Race.
President Wilson severely re
buked a delegation of negroes
for catechising him in an offen
sive manner and for offering him
impudence.
The President's indignation
was directed particularly at W,
Monroe Trotter, a Boston negro,
publisher of the Guardian, who
in 1913 was sentenced to thirty
days for disturbing a meeting at
which Booker T.Washington was
speaking.
Trotter acted as spokesman
for a committee of the National
Independent Equal Rights Lea
gue, which caiied at the White
House to protest against race se
gregation in the Government de
partments.
When the committee said they
opposed the segregation order
because it was calculated to in
jure the colored employees and
deprive them of their rights, the
President said that he had inves
tigated the matter and found
that the sole purpose and object
of the oider was to avcid friction
between the races.
He added that he had great
feeling for the colored race; that
In admired the progress the race
had made and that he would do
nothing to inj are colored people.
The thing to be sought by neg
roes was complete independence
of white people, and he was
willing to do everything to assist
them to this end, he said.
Trotter and other members of
the committee contradicted the
President. They said that the
only cause for the segregation
order would be found in the race
antipathies of Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo, Postmaster-
General Burleson and Comptrol
ler of the Currency Williams.
These southerner?, they said, is
sued segregation orders because
tboir feeling against negroes-
Trotter said in nis address that
his committee did not come "as
wards looking for charity," but
as full-fledged American citizens,
vouchsafed equality of citizen
ship bv the Federal Constitution.
"Two years ago," said Trotter
"ymi were thought to be a sec
ond Abraham Lincoln."
The President tried to inter
rupt, asking that personalities be
left out of the discussion.
The President told Trotter
ithat he was an American citizen
' as fully as anybody else, but that
1 he (Trotter) was the only Ameri
' can citizen who had ever come
1 into the White House and ad
dressed the President in such a
tone and with a background of
passion.
The negro spokesman contin
ued to argue that he was merely
trying to show how colored peo
ple felt, and asserted that he and
others were now being branded
as traitors to their race because
they advised the colored people
"to support the ticket."
This mention of votes caused
Mr. Wilson to say that politics
must be left out, because it was
a form of biackmaii. He said he
would resent it as quickly from
one set of men as from another,
and that his auditors could vote
'as they pleased; it mattered lit
tle to him so long as he vyas 3ure
he was doing the right thing and
at the right time.
At no other time had people
who called upon him in the
White House offered him such
impudence. He told the com
mittee that any delegation which
might wish to see him in the fu
ture could not do so if Trotter
was a member.
The interview was scheduled
to last fifteen minutes, but it
continued for almost an hour
while Secretary Rpdfield and
other callers waited in ante
rooms.
As Trotter left the White
House he announced that the in
terview had been thoroughly
"disappointing" and that a mas 3
meeting would be called to pro
test against the segregation or
der.
A Night of Terror..
Few nights are more terrible than
that of a mother looking on her child
choking and gasping for breath during
an attack of croup, and nothing in the
house to relieve it. Many mothers
have passed nights of terror in this
situation. A little forethought will
enable you to avoii all this. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy i 3 a certain
cure for croup and has never been
known to fail. Keep it at hand. For
! sale by Lutz's Drug Store and Grim*s
! Drug Co* [adv't.]
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1914
Above all the catioQS we have been
blessed. Throughout the wide domain
of our country peace presides —in har
vest fields and in teeming cities. In
dustry protected and encouraged by
law is triumphant, and plently has
been decreed as the reward of labor.
The destiny of the Republic is un
folding in grander revelation, and bet
ter opportunities are opening to all her
citi2ens in this day of altruistic awaken
ing. For us God has ordained order,
and will ordain righteousness, that
from material progress there shall come
moral progress and a higher social
development.
America is more than ever the refuge
for the oppressed. She offers to the
worthy, stricken people of Europe
homes protected from the ravages of
war, where life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness are guranteed to all.
In the countries across the Atlantic
the destruction and suffering and sor
row of war are supreme. In Europe,
Asia and Africa fire and sword consti
tute the rule, and death and desolation
reign in the seats of the fairest civiliza
tions. As of old, in Rama Rachel
weeps for her children, and cannot be
comfoited.
Now, therefore, I, LOCKE CRAIG,
Governor of the State of North Caro
lina, in obedience to the custom es
tablished by our fathers, and in accord
ance with the proclamation of the
President of the united States, do pro
claim Thursday, the Twenty-sixih
Day of November, a day of Thanks
giving and Dedication.
I call upon all people to observe
this day. to assemble in their usu 1
places of worship, and in leverence to
give thanks to the Almighty for the
blessings vouchsafed to us, and to pray
that the power of faith and righteous
ness may be quickened in this land,
and that in all lands the r*i?n of the
Prince of Peace shall be restored.
I call the people to the realization
GOOD ATTENDANCE
Hickory Schools in Splendid Con
dition.
The graded schools of Hickory
are making a fine record in at
tendance. The school census
shows 794 white school subjects
under lo years of age. There
are enrolled in the graded schools
775 pupil 3 bttween the ages of
6 and 15 years, That is to say
that more than 95 per cent of the
children under 15 years of age
are enrolled in the graded
schools. Including those chil-'
dren who are attending private
schools, 93 par cent of the chil
dren in Hickory under 15 years
of age are in school. It would
be interesting to know how many
towns in the State can make as
good a showing.
During the month of October
more than 95 per cent of the
pupils enrolled were in actual
daily attendance. And so far
in November the record has been
even better.
Nor does the character of the
work done in the schools fall be
hind. In all the graiea special
emphasis is laid on writing,
spelling, grammer and arithme
tic. Most of the work is done
in the school room under the
direct supervision of the teacher.
Atter the recitation in each
subject there is a study period
in which the pupil prepares his
lesson for the next day. And as
a result of these methods the
work in all the important sub
jects is steadily improving,
It would be encouraging to
both teacher and pupils if pa
rents would visit the schools and
see just what is being done.
Organized Good-Will.
Who can prescribe the limits
of the usefulness of the farmer's
clubs? They mirror the new
time in which we live and out of
a iealous, suspicious. narrow,
selfish past there grows a new
order of neighborhood kindness,
courtesy and good will.
Wedding at Conover,
Conover, Nov. 13.—A pretty
home wedding took place here
Wednesday afternoon when Miss,
Eva L. Smith became the bride
of George L, Hewitt at the home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Knox Smith. Rev. W, D.
Biwhoff officiated,
TA. "proclamation bj tl)e (Governor
HUGE INCREASE N
WEALTH IS SHOWN
United States Worth 140 Bil
lion, Increase From Seven
Billion.
Washington, Nov. 13—Enor
mous growth of the United
States during the last half cen
tury was shown in a report by
the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce. Since 1850
the population has more than
quadrupled, being now more
than 100,000,000, the report says.
"In the same period," contin
ued the report, "foreign com
merce has grown from $318,000,-
000 to $4,259,000,000. and the
oer capita value of exports from
$16.96 to $23.27. National wealth
has increased from $7,000,000,-
000 in 1870 to approximately
$140,000,000,000; money in circu
lation from $279,000,000 to $3,-
419,000.000 and New York bank
clearings from approximately
$5,000,000,000 to over $98,000,-
000,000, while for the entire
country bank clearings have
grown from $52,000,000,000 in
1887, the earliest year for which
figures were available, to $174,-
000,000,000 in 1913.
"Evidences of improved social
conditions also are fonud. For
example, 19,000,000 children are
now enrolled in public schools
and about 200,000 students in
higher institutions of learning.
Total expenditures for education
now approximate $500,000,000 a
year, the result being a rapid in
crease in general intelligence and
a marked decrease in illiteracy.
Over 22,000 newspapers and pe
riodicals are disseminatingjinfor
mation among the people and the
report shows a steady growth in
the number of libraries. In 1850
depositors in savings banks were
215,000 in number; today the
number is 10,000,000 with depos
its, exclusive of those in other
savings institutions aggregating
$4,750,000,000 or more than 100
times as much as at the middle
of the last century.
"Increased activity on the
farms, in factories, and in the
great transportation industries
also have developed. The value
of farms and farm property in
creased from four billion dollars
in 1850 to 41,000,000 in 1910; the
value of manufacturers, from
one billion to over twenty billion
of their obligation as a &ate and as a
Nation, "To purify our principles, en
noble our national ambitions, to make
this people great and strong, not for
aggression and conqu-st, but for the
peace of the world, giving to us the
glorious prerogative a£ leading all n>
tious to juster laws, to mOre humane
policies, to sincerer friendship, to ra
tional constituted civil liberty, and to
universal Christian Brotherhood." to
exemplify the strength and beneficence
of a government based upon moral
power rather than military force, and to
send this message of God to the utter
most parts of the earth for the redemp
tion of men.
On this day let us remerpber our
poor and our unfortunate, for it is more
blessed to give than to receive.
And Ida further call upon all minis
ters and all good people that on SUN
DAY, THE TWENTY-NINTH, it
being the Sunday after Thanksgiving
Day, they contribute to the relief of
the million of innocent and industrious
people in other lands who are suffering
and dying* not for any wrong done by
them, but because their and
fields have been destroyed by armies,
and their defenders slain. This is the
obligation anl the exalted privilege of
our great and prosperous nation.
And in this holiday season and ap
proaching Christmas time let us, in
humility, make some sacrifice in an
swer to the far-sounding cry for help
in obedience to a sympathy as wide as
the world as deep as humanity.
Done in our City of Raleigh, on this
the twelfth day of November, in the
vear of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and fourteen, and in the one
hundred aud thirty-ninth year of our
American Independence.
Locke Craig
Governor.
By the Governor:
Jno. P. Kerr
■* Private Secretary.
FIRE AT GRANITE FALLS.
Residence of Dr. A. D. Abernethy
Burned.—Other News.
Granite Falls, Nov. 16.—The
home of Dr. A, D. Abernethy
was burned yesterday morning
between 5 and 6 o'clock. A lot
of the furniture was saved. The
home was insured for SISOO and
was one of the best residences
in the town.
Walter Jones, son of Dr. A. D.
Jones, died suddenly of hemor
hage of the lungs. The funeral
was conducted from the home by
Rev. J. J. L. Sherwood and the
remains were interred in the
Granite Falls cemetery. The
deceased was about 30 years of
age.
Mrs. C. T, Flowers was
lized about a week ago and is in
a serious condition. There is
some hope of her recovering as
she is slowly improving.
W. A. Warlick of Gilkie, S. C.,
is visiting his brother, D. H.
Warlick. We are glad to see
him out again after a long siege
of rheumatism.
Miss Jettie Miller, one of the
teachers in the school, was called
home on account of the illness
of her mother in Wilkesboro.
Warlick & Sherrill are putting
in a new and up-to-date dust
system in their table and picker
stick factory.
The public road between here
and Saw Miils is being changed
and a new and up-to-date road
being built which will be a great
improvement over the one now
in use.
and the number of miles of rail
way in operation from 9.o2Lin
3850 to 258,033 in 1912. In the
last quarter of a century the
number of passengers carried
has increased from 492,000,000 to
1,004,000,000 and the volume of
freight handled from 632,000,000
to 1,845,000.000 short tons. Near
ly 20.000,000,000 pieces of out
going mail matter are handled
annually by the Postoffise De
partment which disbursed in
this important public service last
year $262,000,000, or $2.70 per
capita."
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The more you scratch the worse it
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RURAL CENSUS FOR
NORTH CAROLINA
Movement for Community
Service Takes Hold on
People.
Over fifteen thousand people
it has been estimated, are active,
ly interested in the Community
Service observance set for De
cember 3rd, 4th, and sth. These
figures include only tho3e who
have been appointed over the
State to serve on regularly or
ganized committees, either for
the county or for the separate
communities. * These bodies are
compasep of the thinking men
and women of the communities,
those who are leaders for com
munity bettermsnt and for ad
vancement in all lines. Over
fortv-five counties have been or
ganized with committees, num
bering about fifty with five mem
bers to a committee. Others
have been organized but not re
ported.
But as strong as the organiza
tion is now, it is constantly
growing even more powerful.
When first organized the men
behind the movement, knowing
that they were about to begin a
pioneer work, were satisfied that
they should receive scant sup
port for the first year. Tney
were wrong. How wholly mis
taken is shown from the mass of
mail that is received daily at the
headquarters of the State Com
mitte in the State Departments
building. Here Secretary W. C.
Crosby has been literally swamp
ed for week 3, and now he is in
the midst of mailing out about
twelve thousand direct appeals
to the school teachers of the
State urging them to take a lead
in the work of community ser
vice, and set aside a day in No
vember for parents meeting at
the school house, at which time
plans may be made for the prop
er observance of "School and
Neighborhood Improvement
Day" which is Friday. December
4, in case there is no community
service committee in the neigh
borhood, In case there snould be;
this meeting will act in coopera
tion with that committee.
One of the chief benefits that
is going to come of the entire
observance will be the rural cen
sus which is to be taken showing
by fifty leading questions the
standing of the community, the
pulse of the people toward re
form in all directions, and pro
gress in general.
The manner of the taking of
the census has been outlined by
the general committee. The dis
trict committee shall divide up
its territory and one person shall
be assigned to take the census
for one nejghbohood or one part
of a neighborhood. The census
taker shall ask the head of each
household to answer "yes" or
"no" to each of the questions on
the census sheet. The census
taker* will then make a mark
after either the "yes" or *W
and total the whole number of
yeses and noes in another col
umn. When the census for the
district is completed all the re
ports are to be added together,
the totals added together and a
duplicate copy of the whole re
port sent to the county superin
tendent of schools.
The questions are as follows:
1, Do all your children be
tween six and sixteen attend
school ?
2 Is any boy or girl in your
family attending college?
3, Do any of your boys study
the school books on agriculture?
4. Do your boys and girls
study the health books?
6. Do you take a county pa
per.
7. Do you take a farm paper?
8. Do you eet the Agricultur
al Department bulletins?
9. Do you own your farm?
10. Do you belong to a farm
ers organization?
Does your wife belong to a wo
man's club?
12, Do you attend the farm
ers' institute?
13. Does your boy belong to a
corn club?
14. Does your girl belong to a
canning club?
15. Are you a church mem
ber?
16. Do the children attend
Sunday School?
17. Do you own any farm
machinery in cooperation with
your neighbors?
18. Do you cooperate with
your neighbors in buying fertili
zers, feed-stuffs, or other sup
plies?
19. Do you cooperate with
your neighbors in marketing
your crops?
20. Do you have a garden all
the year round'
21. Do you usually have milk
and butter all the year round?
1 22; Has the farm demonstra-
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ENGLAND MOURNS
HER SOLDIER HERO
Death of Lord Roberts Came
. Almost Without Warning
to Friends.
London, N >v. 15.--The death
of Field M irsl all Earl Roberts
which occured last evening at
the headquarters of the British
forces in France, was extremely
sudden. He was in his usual
good health when he left Eng
land Wednesday with his daugh
ter, Lady Aileen Roberts, and
his son-in-law, Major Lewin.
The party had a rough trip across
the channel but the aged general
felt no ill effects. He went
through with his program on the
continent and was about to re
turn home when his death oc
cured.
Earl Roberts had motored to
the British bases and camps, re
viewed the Indian troops and
confered with the leading offi
cers. At dinner time Friday
eveninar he complained of 4 a
slight chill. As he was subject
to trifling chest troubles he fal
lowed his usual course. As his
temperature increased, however,
medical men were called and
they pronounced his condition
critical. They relieved the gen
eral of his pain and he fell
asleep. His death occured dur
ing sleep.
The passing of the great war
rior has created profound grief
throughout the country. At all
churches and in the soldiers'
training camps touching referen
ces were made today to his
death and the "dead march"
was played,
Roberts received this
telegram from Field Marshall
Sir John French in the nama of
the army serving in France.
"Your grief is shared by us
who mourn the loss of a loved
chief. As he was called it seems
fitter to the ending of the life of
a great soldier that he should
have passed away in the midst
of the troops he loved so well
and within the sound of the
guns,'*
King George and Queen Mary
were greatly shocked by the
news of Lord Roberts' death.
Their majesties sent messages of
condolence to Lady Roberts and
her two daughters, Lady Aileen
Mary and Lady Ada Edwina
Stewart.
The question of a public fu
neral with services at St. Paul's
is under consideration, but it is
understood Lady Roberts desires
a private service.
tion acrents helped you this year?
23. Do you buy corn?
24. Do you buy meat?
25. Do you buy hay?
26. Do you raise corn to seli?
27. If you sell corn are you
able to get a fair price for it in
cash?
28. Have you purebred cattle?
29. Have you purebred bogs?
30. Have you purebred poul
try?
31. Do you sell any hogs, cat
tle, pork, or beef?
32. Is there competition be
tween the buyers of the farm
products you sell?
33. Do vou keep informed
concerning prices in more than
one market?
34. Have you helped your
local bank by depositing your
savings in it?
35. Has your bank ever help
ed you by lending you money?
36. Does the buyer solely de
termine the grade of your cotton,
tobacco, peanut, or other money
crop?
37. Do you use patent medi
cines?
38. Is your house screened?
39. DJ you sleep with your
windows open in winter?
40. Do you get R. F. D. Ser
vice?
41. Would you favor a reason
able tax for road improvement?
42. Is there a telephone in
the house?
43. Do you have to carry
water over 100 yards?
44. Is your home insured
against fire?
45. Do the bovs have Satur
day afternoons off for baseball
or other recreationf?
46. Is the house painted?
47. Are the outbuildings
white-washed?
48. Would you favor larger
schools with more children, more
teachers, better paid, larger and
better house and grounds?
49. Would you favor indus
trial, agricultural and some high
school subjects in your school?
50. Would you favor enlarg
ing the school district by consoli
dation with transportation where
necessary, and voting reasonatle
local tax to secure these results?
—News & Observer,
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