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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT rcT \BLISHED 1899 MOOR AT AND PRESS CONSOLIDATED 1905 fil WORD DELIVERED i §1 GERMANY IH NEW NOTE > Further Transgressions Must Not Occur in Violation of Accepted Law. Washington, July 22.—The £ United States Government, be- j f f L the next step s in its general diplomatic policy ( will for a brief period await in dications from official quarters in j Berlin as to the reception of the c new note warning Germany that t the foss of American lives ( through further violation of neu- ( tral rights would be regarded as j ■'unfriendly." ( The note started on its way to ( Berlin last night and probably , vriil be delivered by Ambassador ( Gerard tomorrow. It will be , given out by the State Depart- j ment for publication in Satur day morning newspapers. I Everywhere in official quarters j it was pointed out today that this document speaks the final word , on how the United States Gov- ' eminent would regard further transgressions of its rights. The general trend of comment was , that the repetition of such a dis- \ asrer as befell the Lusitania | would mean the convening of Congress by President Wilson for j consideration of the action to be taken. Ia the event that the si tus quo is maintained, however, and there are indications through official or unofficial channels that German submarines in future | v. iii conform to the rules of in ternational law in saving the lives o: Americans on unresisting mer chant-men President Wilson will take up very soon the situation that has arisen with Great Eiit ain over interferences with American commerce by the Al lies. For several weeks anote has been practically completed al most ready to be sent to the -Bri ish Government, reiterating the protest against deviations from international law in the opera tions of the Order-in-Council against, commerce with Ger many- The note has not" been sent because President Wilson ha 3 been unwilling to give the impression in Berlin that thecon troversy between the United States and Germany in any way could be conditioned on the prog ress of the American Govern ment's negotiations with other belligerents. It became known today, however, that if there are indications that the new Ameri can note to Germany is received in a friendly spirit and there ap pears no intention further to vie late neutral rights on the high seis the new protest to Great Britain will be dispatched prob ably within the next fortnight Data is being gathered at the Stxte Department, but the new note probably will not deal tc any extent with specfic instances contending chiefly for the gen eral principles involved with re newed insistence on modifications ia the order-in-council to con firm with what the United States regards as the accepted rjles of international law. The recent filing of a legal caveat an nouncing that ordersxn-council and British municipal law do not s Ifect the rights of American cit z ins under international law was the first step in the policy which the United States is pur suing to obtain acquiescence in j its point of view. Interest centered for the most part today in cffi:ial and diplo matic quarters on the nature of the new note to Germany. Suf ficient of its contents had become generally known to cause wide spread comment on the appa rently determined position taken by the United States. No progress has been made in the investigation of the case of the British liner Ofduna, at which a German submarine is al leged to , have fired a torpedo without warning. N > evidence has been received to establish beyond doubt that the torpedo was fired, and until this is avail- ORATOR Irilliant United States Senator Has Accepted—Other Plans Being Made. Senator Lee S. Overman has iccepted the invitation to make he reunion speech to the old ioldiers this year. This will be rood news, not only to the old :oldiers, but to all the people of Catawba county. Senator Overman is one of the eading figures of the nation's :apital, the handsomest man in he senate and one of the mcst eloquent. Ke rode by the side »f Woodrow \Vilson in the in lugural parade, and on aU state >ccasions in Washington he is a :entral figure. He is always in nuch demand all over the cour ry, and the committee deserves lincere congratulations in secur ng him for this occasion. Senator Overman has always >een very popular in this county. 3e has made several political tpeeches, but. has never been lere on any other popular oc :asion. We can promise him one of the argest crowds, provided we have ;he usual reunion weather, he iver addressed, and he will have i good time meeting the most 3rogressive, most prosperous, )est dressed and best looking • iarmers and their women-flolks :hat he has ever seen in the state. Usually the reunion speeches lave been in the court house, the exceptions being Governor Locke 3raig's speech when the monu ment was unveiled and the year when Cam Morrison was the ora tor. As many hundreds who will not be able to get in the courthouse will like to see and T hear Senator Overman, we now suggest that a platform be pre pared for an out door speech this year. Highly interesting to many is the announcement that a bail I srame has beerr arranged between I Statesville and Morganton for reunion day, and this attraction will draw many who love the •national sport. These two teams liave developed into fine aggre gations and will give probably as *ood an exhibition as any other two teams in the state. The committee ha? ordered more fireworks for reunion even ing than Newton has seen in a long time—not since the big po litical rallies and celebrations of years ago. The display is prom ised to be an "illuminating" feature for a certainty. Efforts are being made to get i really creditable carnival to •x>me here and the committee in charge hopes that it will be suc cessful. Other plans are form ing to make reunion 1915 the biggest event of the kind the county has known, and a crowd is expected that will break ai! records. —Newton Enterprise. Watauga Democrat: Mr. ar.d Mrs. Douglas Taylor of Hickory, are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. Winkler, par ents of Mrs, Taylor. The lady is a graduate from the A. T. S., and there was never a more pop ular one who bore away a diplo ma from that? Institution. Her friends are delighted to see her back, even if her stay is to be short. Impure blood runs you down makes you an easy victim for disease. For pure blcod and sound digestion — Burdock Blood Bitters. At drug stores. Price SI.OO. able it .was said in official quar ters the cases probably would not be pressed. None of the American passengers were awake at the time the attack was made and the State Depart ment, it understood, is reluctant to act on what might be con strued as partisan testimony such as the statement of officers and crew of a British vessel. As yet no report has been asked from Ambassador Gerard at Ber ' Htf because a prima * facie case ! has not been established. BILL'S IN TROUBLE ' A (Denver News.) I've got a letter, parson, from my son away out West, „ An' my ol' heart is h«avy as an anvil in my breast. To think the boy whose future I had once so proudly planned Should wander from the path o' right an' come 'o sich an end! I told him when he left us, only three short years ago, He'd find himself a-plowin' in a mighty crooked row— He'd miss his father's counsel, an' his mother's prayers, too, But he said the farm was hateful, an' he guessed he'd have to go. I know thar's big temptation for a youngster in the West, But I believed our Billy had the courage to resist; An' when he left I warned him o' the ever-waiting snares, That lie like hidden sarpents in life's pathway everywheres. But Bill he promised to be keerful, an' allowed He'd build a reputation that'd make us mighty proud; But it seems as if my counsel sort o' faded from his mind, And now the boy's in trouble of the very wustest kind. His letters come so seldom that I somehow sort o' knew'd V • That Billy was a-trampin' on a mighty rocky road, But never once imagined he would bow my head in shame An' in the dust'd waller his ol' daddy's honored name. He writes from out in Denver, an' the story's mighty short, I just can't tell his mother, it'd break her poor ol' heart; An' so I reckoned, parson, you might break the news to ber— Bill's in the legislature; but he doesn't say what fur. / OUR PUBLIC FORUM~] IV— F. A. Vanderlip On The Business of Banking The farmers of this nation to come Into their own must study business. We must, as a class, understand ' > ') the fundamental principles that underlie every industry, 18* j * tß functions to society and ite relation to agriculture, tor there can be no intelligent co-operation without under standing. Mr. F. A. Vanderlip, president of the National City of New York, when asked, "What to a bank?" "The first and most familiar function of a bank is that of gathering up the idle money of a community, sp?,, small sums and large, and thus forming a pool or reser — voir upon which responsible persons may draw as they have temporarV Us»for money. It to evident that this makes large sums in the aggregate available for the employment of labor and the development of the community. But more is accomplished than the use of the money actually deposited in the banks, for by the use of drafts, checks and bank notes the efficiency of money is multiplied several times over. A very large business, for example one of the great beef packers, may use very little actual money; on one side of its bank account will be entered the checks and drafts it is daily receiving from everywhere in payment for meats, while on the other side will be entered the checks It draws in payment for cattle, etc., its only use of money being for small payments, to labor and otherwise. If there were but one bank in a community and everybody paid all bills by drawing checks on that bank, and everyone receiving a check Imme diately deposited it in the bank, the amount of money in the bank evidently would not change at all and the entire business of the community would be settled on the books of the bank. And the situation is but slightly changed when there are several banks, for they daily exchange among themselves all the checks they receive on each other, which practically offset themselves, r-lthough the small balances are paid in cash. This is called 'clearing' and in every large city there is a 'Clearing House' whore representatives of the banks meet daily to settle their accounts with each other. A bank is constantly receiving from its customers, particularly those that are shipping products to other localities, drafts and checks drawn on banks in other cities, .which it usually sends for deposit to a few correspondent banks in the central cities with which it maintains permanent accounts. In this way these scattered credits are consolidated and the bank draws upon these accounts in supplying customers with the means of making payments away from home. As each local ccmmunity sells and buys about the same amount abroad in the course of a year, these payments largely offset each other. It is evident that the banks are very intimately related te the trade and Industry of a country. The banker is a dealer in credit much more than a dealer in money, and of course his own credit must be above question. He exchanges his credit for the credits acquired by the customers, and lends credit for their accommodation, but he must conduct the business with such judgment that he can always meet his own obligations with cash on demand. This is the essential thing about bank credit, that it shall always be the same as cash." "OUR PUBLIC FORUAT V.-E. P. Ripley ——————j On Relations of Railroads and People a The industrial leaders of this nation are talking to the public face to face through the columns of this paper. The time was when if a corporation had anything to say I* to the people they sent a hired hand, whispered it through SI, a lawyer or employed a lobbyist to explain it to the legis |P lature, but the men who know and the men who do are g? now talking over the fence to the man who plows. When the leading business men of this nation get PB "back to the soil" with their problems, strife and dissen flll sion will disappear, for when men look into each other's |p|> faces and smile there is a better day coming. ==■ Mr. E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe Railroad, when asked to give his views In reference to relations existing between the railroad and the public said in part: "Frequently we hear statements to tho effect that these relations are improving, that the era of railroad baiting has passed and that public senti ment now favors treating the railroads fairly. As yet this change in public sentiment, if any such there be, is not effective in results. It is true that in the legislatures of the southwestern states during the past winter there were fewer unreasonable and unreasoning laws passed than usual, but a consideration of the hostile bills introduced shows that there is still reason for much disquiet even though they were defeated by more or less of a majority. Moreover, the idea that the railroads have been harshly treated does not seem to prevail in the offices of the State Railroad Commissions which seem to cherish a notion thai their business is not to act a3 an arbitrator between the railroads and the people, but which proceed on the theory that the railroads are able to take care of themselves and that their duty is to act as attorney for the people even though in so doing they deny justice to the railroads. It requires no argument to demonstrate that the railroads are entitled to justice equally with other c?tizens and taxpayers. That they have not received it and are not receiving it is perfectly susceptible of proof. That they have practically no recourse In the courts has also been determined. - . Al _ . , ~ The situation therefore is that the people, through their representatives, must elect whether the services of the railroads shall be adequately compen sated or not; and it requires no fortune teller or soothsayer to predict that in the long run the service will take the class that is paid for and no better. The natural competition between the railroads and the natural desire to perform first-class service has heretofore resulted in giving the public much more than it waß willing to pay for. Continuation of this will be impossible and no lawi, however drastic, can long accomplish the impossible." HICKORY, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1915 CATAWBA COUNTY. I Substantial Headway in Farm Life ' and Domestic Science Depts. The following letter from our Superintendent of Public Schools, Mr. George E. Long, was writ ten for the Educational Edition of the Raleigh News and Ob set ver, and shows the steady progress that is being made in Catawba County along the lines of educational development. We are glad to see the interest that was manifested in the first Coun ty Commencement, and we hope that next year there will be an even larger attendance, and that all the schools of the county will be represented in the parade, and interested in the exhibits. A more vital interest on the part of the good people of Catawba would result in a general educa tional uplift of the entire county. The most notable progress made during the year in educa tion in Catawba county was the establishment of a farm-life school at Startown and a depart ment of domestic science in the State high school there. The county built a dormitory and home for the agricultural teacher at a cost of $2,500 and acquired a tract of 21 acres for experi mental farming. The enroll ment of young farmers was 22 and there was a total of 46 stu dents in the sewing and cooking classes in the high school. Six new buildings were erect ed in rural districts. The pie vailing type of school houses now is the twc-and three-teacher kind—substantial wooden struc tures. Claremont during the year built a handsome brick building costing $5,000 and car ried a tax for a graded school. The shabby, one-teacher school bouse has disappeared from Ca tawba. Two districts have voted spec ial tax and a third will do so, making a total of 35 out of 76 white districts in the county, or about one-half. There fta*B been a decided increase in enrollment and daily attendance, and a larger increase in attendance of teachers at teachers' meetings than ever. More interest is mani fested throughout the county by parents, teachers and students. The educational tide is setting strongly. The first county commence ment held in April was a great eye-opener. Several thousand school children attended and the public was impressed as never before by the importance of schools. Incidentally the com mencement aroused vast pride on the part of the people m their educational investment. It was historicailv one of the greatest days in Catawba county. The county has now practical ly a rural library for every dis trict. There were 13 additions during the year. The progress of the schools has been smooth and with less friction than form erly and the prospect is bright for greater development. Illit eracy has been fought to a stand still and education here is keep ing pace with the marvelous de velopment in agriculture which is attracting the attention of the entire country. The county will spend $3,000 more this year than ever before on its schools and the total ex penditure will be around $55,000. GEO. E. LONG, Supt. Hickory. N. C. Benefited by Chamberlain's Lin iment. "Last winter I used Chamberlain's LinimeLt for rheumatic pains, stiffness and soreness of the knees, and can con scientiously say that I never used any thing that did me so much good."— Edward Craft. Elba, N. Y. For sale by Grimes Drug Co. & Lutz's Drug Co. LAND FOR SALE. 100 acre tract, 6 mile 3 from Morganton, on Lenoir and Mor ganton road. 16 acre 3of bottom land, balance upland with 75,000 feet saw timber. Anyone wish ing to buy. Address E. B. Hood, Morganton, N, C M Koute 2. LAWYER AND JUDGE HAVE AN ENCOUNTER Editor, Lawyer and Judge Meb ane and Lawyer Whitener Makes Things Lively. Newton, July 23.—As a sequel to a civil ease in Superior court here there was a rather sensa tional encounter between Clar ence L. Whitener, lawyer, of Hickory, and Charles H. Meb ane, lawyer, of Newton, editor of the Catawba County News and judge of the county court, when Whitener demanded of Mebane if a certain editorial in the News of today referred to him. Meb ane denied that it did, although Whitener was the attorney in the case, and considered that the ut tsrances could refer to none but him. The case was one in which Meb ane was defendant in a.suit of the Bank of Hamilton to recov er a small sum involved in a newspaper contract, and the tes timony was admittedly in the de fendant's favor. It was regard ed as really trivial and it is gen erally conceded that the defend ant should have won the case. Butxluring the trial Whitener, representing the plaintiffs, at tacked the defendant in an un usually vigorous manner, both in his examination and in his plea to the jury, the leading item of interest being the allegation that the defendant had made asser tions regarding a woman years ago and had been made to re tract same at the point of a gun. The defendant explained the af fair by saying that he, at that time a teacher, had been led to believe certain things were true, and that he found they were not and made satisfactory explana tion at the time; In his paper of today he said that it was some satisfaction to a party to such a suit to know that after being held up to 12 men as a liar and villian, the 12 men's verdict really made the attorney in the case a liar and a villain. This is what Whitener accosted him about, and he denied that he meant Whitener. A portion of the bar in the county criticises severely Whitener's methods of conducting a trial, but the latter declares he will have satisfac tion in the publication of affida vits showing that Mebane denied he meant Whitener as the ob ject of his editorial attack. The affair created a lot of interest and as usual there is sentiment for both parties to the contro versy. a . Orduna Again Sails With 195 Passengers New York, July 22.—With 195 passengers on board including eight Americans and 10,000 tons of general cargo, the Orduna of the Cunard Line, sailed today for Liverpool. There was no evi dence on the part of the passen gers or captain Thomas McComb Taylor, ber commander, that the thought of attack by a German submarine would again cccur and also there was no attempt to prevent friends of departing passengers from going on board before the steamship departed. The Orduna's cargo included 107 automobiles, 100 cases of au tomobile parts, 60 cases of aero planes and parts, 3,800 cases of cartridges, 986 cases of empty shells, 404 cases of infantrv equipment, 220 cases of fuses and 17 cases of revolvers. % Tired Aching Muscles Relieved Hard work, over-exertion, mean stiff, sore muscles. Sloan's Liniment lightly applied, a little quiet, and your soreness disappears like magic. Nothr ing ever helped like your Sloan's Lin iment. I can never thank you enough," writes one greatful user. Stops suffer ing, aches and pains. An excellent counter-irritant, better and cleaner than mustard. All Druggists, 25c. Get a bottle today. Penetrates without rub bing. ' Miss Francis Lentz has return ed from a trip to the Panama ex* position. New Series Vol. I, No. 19 TO ALLOW EXPRESS COMiES MORE Interstate Commerce Commis sion Finds Revenues of Concerns Inadequate. Washington, July 22.—The In terstate Commerce Commission decided today that the revenues of the princiDal express compan ies of the United States are in adequate and modified its form-- er orders to provide additional income. Present express rates are based on three factors: An allowance of 20 cents for collection and delivery of each shipment, which does not variate with weight or distance; a rail terminal allowance of 25 cents the 100 pounds which varies with the weight, but not the distance, and the rail transportation rat2i the 100 pounds which varies with the weight, the distance and the zene. In accordance with the petition of the companies, the commission modified its order so as to in crease the collection and delivery allowance five cents for each shipment and to reduce the rail terminal allowance at the rate of one-twentieth of one cent a pound. As the weight increases the five-cent increase is gradually reduced, so that on shipments of more than 100 pounds the read justment will not make any change. Substantially no com modity rates will be affected. With few exceptions any changed rates will be suDstantially lower than those prevailing when the commission established the zone system last year. By that means the express companies are expected to in crease their gross revenues about 3.86 per cent. The commission's report shows that the net oper ating revenues of the four big companies have decreased to a deficit of $1,132,811 in the year 1914-1915 and in the same period operating income decreased $2,- 449,863. **While the financial condition of certain of the petitioners is more favorable than that of oth ers," says the report, "it clearly appears that as a whole they are operating at a loss," Courting Death. There are two towns—in es pecial that we think of—in North Carolina connected by a fair au tomobile road that crosses the railroad no fewer than 15 times, at grade. On this road many au tomobiles race the trains—auto mobiles. even, with women and children in them. An engineer on this line said that just the other day he closed his eyes, when he expected to kill a car full of people at one of these crossings. The people, however, managed to escape. The engin eer goes along, watching these racing cars; now they flash across before him, yonder they dash to ward another crossing, and the engineer watches to see who will get there first, and whether they will both try the crossing at the same time. When they do, some thing has got to give. And i: will not be the locomotive. How would you like to be the engin eer? The above appeared in the Greensboro News a few days asro —before the tragedy at Hickory. It is hoped that the lives of the two children sacrificed at Hick ory will not have been lost in vain; that others may be warn ed by that awful tragedy to be more careful. Speaking of the strain on the nerves of the en gineer when He sees people tak ing chances at grade crossings, calls attention to the distress oi! Engineer Pitts, in charge of tb? engine that ran into the automo bile at Hickory. The big strong man, with tender heart, wept for the lives of the children his engine had killed. He was help less to save them, but the hor ror of that day will doubtless long be with him. Yes, the en gineman, to whom little thought is given except to blame him for I what he can't prevent, is often [more to be pitied than censured, '—Sftatesville Landmark*
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