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CKOMY AILY ORB OI,. II. NO. 89 HICKORY, N.C. THURSDAY EVENING DEC 7, 1916 Price Two Cents NATION-WIDE Ctisfflbfl AGAINST LIQUOR URGED Prohibition and Temperance Leaders Gather in Washington to Boost Cause Bryan Opposes Centralization of Power in Interstate Commerce Commission. (Uv Associated Press.i WVisdiington, Dec. 7 Leaders of . nihibitkm and temperance organiza gathered here today for a sc of conferences to plan eooper ,,;K.n i;i a light for national prohi o. to bar liquor advertisements hhii the mails and to make the Dis ;r.it of Columbia dry. The leaders planned a conference .,ih President Vilson Saturday to his support for a federal prohi ! , ; ; . n amendment, but it was found jv.-.Mble- to obtain an engagement at that time. William Jennings Bryan appeared : ...lay before the joint congressien- .numttoe investigating transpor-. 1 1 i problems and opposed centra- .t-.iii nf nitivni1 in I'ftnnftctmn with , . , , , " ! lina conference to succeed the late aval suggestion for federal con- ; and the proposal to lessen tho'Jal,us u- Southgate as a member of .. ci" of state railroad commissions ! the conference board of education. ulcintf power in tree commission. the interstate NORTH CAROLINA MAY GET A illv Associated Press.) Washington. Dec. 7 Twenty f?sh a a'heris in as many states would j " !""Vi;K'a "J.n ?Kf h0U? ' a l"U which passed the; ;..."..- ' ' lay. Among the states ben- t ie Alabama, Florida, Louis-; . a. oiith or North Carolina and' ..y!a;iii or Virginia. r.V.U.S'I (illtLS DRESS ELL ! (By Associated Press.) j I'i:i,li.n, Dec. 7 Workwomen in, :...sivf furs are a common sight i he groat industrial centers ofj I'ffit Britain owing to the high rate; ' :' v.au''." now being paid, and the! :;v of Musquash, American gray! x and skunk furs have advanced; nviiibly. London- furriers are! HATCHERY i to be overwhelmed with orders Bulgarians repulsed an attack by the in,1.U;,,tri;1 centt fol tw"- British yesterday in the Struma sec . ;i't' ami forty guinea coals with i . . . .. . and stolen in proportion but!tor on the Macedonian front, it is ' a1' to the drain of workmen for j announced officially. Near the Cer ': ar-v purposes these orders arejna river positions taken on the pre to execute. 'vious day were recaptured from the ''!!"( and 'T?onnelli's big minstrel j Serbians. ""as arrived last nitrht. The na- " .If was held at noon today and a I concert was given. They will! I'ruuiMiamc ay, uic uuu iv- -'it Directors State Favor More Crops Morganton, Dec. 7 The board of directors of the State Hospital met here yesterday consisting of I. I. ''avis, chairman, J. R. Sawyer, A. E. Tate, A. A. Shuford, Charles P. Math 'son, K. P. Alspaugh, Ileriot dark en, L. N. Glenn and R. R. Clark. Dr. John MeCampbell made an ex haustive and detailed report of the institution. lAt present there are 1 -"lit patients in the hospital, an m ' "(-a-to over last year of 175. The r- '-overy of patients shows 30 13-100 j..-r cent for men and 21) 09-100 for women. The general health of the patients has been up to the average, invl there has been no serious epi-oV-mic. Two new buildings have been built in the lust year the receiving build ing for women, and the new colony for men. These two buildings add I'H) beds to the capacity of the hos pital. There are now being built two large dommitories with ample spare for 100 women. These addi tions bring the total capacity of the institution up to 1,450 beds. This tu'-ets the immediate needs, so far as femulo patients are concerned. iloom is badly needed for male pa tients, and an appropriation is to be asked of $75,000 by the legislature for the purpose of constructing a reception building for men, and also a dormitory building for the aged imd helpless class. Better fire protection is needed. A now refrigerating plant is badly needed. The annual per capita cost for main tenance has been $162.25. On ac count, of the high prices of supplies, it is estimated that thereshould be a per capita allowance of $181 for the coming year. The last legislature appropriated SCO.OOO for a new water supply, and this has been provided by installing a gravity line from Clear creek, nine niles away, and now the institution lias an excellent supply of water. FL OWE GIVEN SOUTHGATE'S PLACE (By Associated Press) Durham, N. C, Dec. 7 Prof. R. L. Flowers, secretary of Trinity College, today was named by the North Caro- The work of the conference today largely was confined to routine mat ters. The membership of R. R. Jones in the conference was discon tinued because of his failure to go to a charge to which he was assigned Inst year. A. K. Proctor of the West Oklahoma conference was the only minister today to be admitted into the conference by transfer. NO ACTION REPORTED T Associated Press.) London, Dec. 7. The war office an- nouncH today that there was nothing to report on the Franco-Belgian front. ATTACK BY SERBIANS (Bj' Associated Press) Berlin, - via Sayville, Dec. 7.- -The Teutonic troops yesterday entered Russian positions in Galicia. and ousted Russians irom other DOS1 tions. Hospital Training in For its Inmates The recommendations made by the superintendent, Dr. John McGamtpi- bell, were fcnanimously endorsed by the board. The employes petitioned the direc tors for an increase in wages on ac count of the high cost of living, and the board expressed the desire to make an increase, but did not feel warranted in doinc so until the legis lature makes the appropriatior for the sunnort of the institution, as at present there are no funds available for this purpose. TVip election of an assistant physi cian to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. E. M. Gayle was nostnoned. and the superinten dent was instructed to make investi gation with a view of getting a nrst plnsa trained man in nervous and mental diseases. The following resolution was un s1v ndonted: '"Resolved. That it is the sense of the board that additional employ ment, should be nrovided for the pa tients in the way of arts. craft3. man ual trainincr, -etc. With a view of gathering such information as may, be necessary to provide for this' work, the superintendent is in-, structed to make the necessary m 'vestipntficn, and twd members of the board are authorized to accom pany the superintendent ana assist, in investigation, lntormauon gamci- ered to be laid before the board for bii.Vi artinn as mav be deemed best, and the necessary expense of inves- ''TfuX, Xl&n"r- mously passed: That a dentist be employed for the hospital. The wards were visited by the directors, and the institution was found to be kept in an up-to-date, first-class- order in every respect, The institution in its efficient man- agement and upkeep is ranked as not only one of the best m the south, but in the nation at large, BRITISH N BULGARIANS REPULSE URGES SEPARATE DEPARTMENT N LABOR (By Associated Press) "Washington, Dec. 7. Expansion in the government's public employment service by creation of a separate bu reau of employment within the de partment of labor is the chief recom mendation of Secretary Wilson's an nual report made public today. The work, it is declared, has outgrown the facilities of the bureau of immigra tion, from, where it has been direct ed. Beginning: in a small wav ir. 1907 it now covers the country through the postoffice and other de partments. The assistance of the postoffice de partment, Secretary Wilson says has been particularly helpful. Some sixty thousand postoffices are distrib uting blanks which the seeker of a job may fill out and send through the mails free of postage. When applications of employers and employ es in the same neighborhood enter the same postoffice the postmaster brings them together without forwarding the applications. One feature of the employment work emphasized in the report is the department of labor's cooperation with state and city public employment work. The department's aim, it is declared, is to make the work "so ex tensive as to comprise the whole country geographically and to em brace all its industries, yet so in tensive as to discover every oppor tunity for work, however obscure, and to reach with a helping hand every wage earner needing employ ment or wanting better employment." The department's attitude towards strike breaking is set forth in con nection with its public employment policy m these words: "The department of labor should not make itself a medium for con veying information of demands for wage earners where labor dismites ire the cause of the demand. That there is already a sufficient sunblv of labor there is as true if it is unemployed on account of a dispute over terms as if it were unemployed from lack of employment opportuni ties from other causes." lExtension of the service is ure-ed to provide for the employment of the need. .Modern industrialism, it is declared, condemns to the scraD hean too many able-bodied and active-brain ed men, whose only defect is their having passed an arbitrary age lim it. The report relates at lene-th thP department's mediation efforts dur ing the year and argues for collective bargaining in matters of employment. '"Large employers are usually in corporated companies with manv stockholders of diversified industrial connections and with boards of di rectors having intercorporate affli- ations. An individual wasre worker is weak indeed as a bargain aeainst such employers. He must take what xhosi. offer or go without emnlov- ment, and going without employment means to the wage worker what bankruptcy means to the business man. except that it is immeasurably worse." j The department was created in the interest of the wage earner both organized and unorganized and its great guiding purpose, Secretary Wil son's rescription of its policy declare, es, is promotion of the welfare of the wage earners of the United States. '"In the execution of that purpose," the report says," rthe element of fairness to every interest is of equal importance, and the department, in fact, has made fairness between wage earner and wage earner, between wage earner and employer and be tween employer and! employer and be tween each and the public as a whole the supreme motive of its activities. The act of its creation is construed bv it not only as a law for promoting the welfare of the wage earners of the United States by improving their working conditions and advanc mg their opportunities for profitable employment, but as a command for doing it so in harmony with the wel fare of all industrial classes and all legitimate interests and by methods tending to foster industrial peace through progressively nearer reali zations of the highest ideals of in dustrial justice." I (By Associated Press) 1 Paso, uec. (-nowara uray, an American mining man at Parral, rhibuahua. was killed by villa ban - whgn they entered the No - vember 5, .cconims to a to a local mining and mill office today, A messenger who arrived from parra shortly after the telegram h was , v i41OT-Tv1 ed by order of Villa. The telegram said all other Americans were safe and tat American property was not molested. BANDITS MURDER AMERICAN A PARRAL ASSE RTS ARABIA MOTHER'S PLACE! 15 BRITISH IS HARDEST TRANSPORT TO FILL I I (By Associated; Press.) Washington, Dec. 7.: -Germany, in i the note made public by the state . . , L , . t I department today, contends xnac meIn any respectS) it was the best of British steamer Arabia punk in the the spiritual feasts up to this stage Mediterranean on November 2, was in of the meeting. - ,.. , c..,,. The subiect was: "Mothers and I ril III.V 1. 1 , I SI I 1 Mil 1 kj 111 t-j I IV, Y 1 W-L. the British government and was to be treated as an auxiliary under in ternational law, the note contends. The German government's attitude however, like that in the Marina case, is expressed to be one of readiness to make amends if it be shown that the submarine exceeded German promises to America. CARRIED NEW MEXICO BY SAFE MAJORITY (By Associated Press) Santa Fe., N. M.. Dec. 7. Presi dent Wilson's plurality in New Mexi co was 2,392, according to official fig ures announced today. STATE ORGANIZER State Organizer H. M. Roberts of the nights of Pythias will be here tonight to meet with local Pythians and a large attendance is expected. Mr. Roberts has entered in his new work with enthusiasm and reports received here indicate that he has been meeting with success. The lo cal lodge is expecting results from the meeting. TAFT LEAVES FOR CHAPEL HILL (Bty- Associated Press) Raleigh, Dec. 7. Former Presi dent William Howard Taft, who was a guest of honor at a luncheon ten dered him today at the Raleigh Cham ber of Commerce, leaves this after noon for Chapel Hill, where he wiJl deliver an address to the Newspaper Institute tonight. T NEARLY TWO MILLION (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 7. The final re port of the Democratic national com mittee on its campaign receipts and expenditures filed with the house to day shows total receipts of $1,808,348 and total disbursements of $1,684,590. In addition there are ascertained liabilities $97,005. Claims subject to audit, $99,470, and loans to be re paid $32,000. COTTON FUTURES' (Viv Associated Press) (New York, Dec. 7 Easier Liber- pool cables seemed to cnecK tne Duy ing movement in cotton at the open-J ing of the market here today and af ter the call active months sold 10 to ; 1.3 noints lower. Houses with Liv-' erpool connections were free sellers on the decline. The market closed steady. Open December 19.98 January 20.10 March 20.34 Close 19.83 19.90 20.15 May 20.55 July 20.58 October 18.52 '2037 20.40 18.39 HICKORY MARKETS HICKORY TONIGHT DEMOCRATS N J MARKETS j Cotton" 19.50to erect similar memorials at olher Wheat $1.80 CHICAGO WHEAT (By Associated Press.) ! Chicago. Dec. 7 Fresh strength developed in the wheat market to day. Opening prices, which ranged j from the same as yesterday's finish i to 1 1-4 higher with May at 1.81 1-4! . , g2 d Jul t L51 to 152 were followed by a further rise. ' . . !HlllllllmMIIHIIIMIIHnmttttt THE WEATHER tammmsmt For North Carolina: Partly cloudy toniarht and Friday. Probably rain in western portion, warmer tonight in central and extreme western por tions warmer Friday, moderate shifting winds east and southeast. The church was full to overflowing last night, and the great throng seemed eager to see, hear and learn. Peonle from the country were there, " Wives." The text was: "When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reap ers. And he said unto his father, my head, my head! And he said to a lad, carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, andthen died." This" text the preacher showed had three typical characters: 1. A typical boy. He wanted to be out in the field with the rjapers. 2. A typical father. He was too busy, and thought more oi his crop than of his son, and instead of caring for him, sent him to his mother, 3. A typical mother. When she saw her son was suffering, she quit her din ner and all her dometsic duties, took him on her knees and did all she could for him till death claimed her boy. Even then she appealed to God. The hardest place to fill in the home is the mother's place. Not the high-flyer, but the mother who does the cooking, the washing, the making and mending, nurses the children and waits on all the rest. Father only works from sun to sun, but mother's work is never done. The most important place in the home is the mother's place. The text used is: "As is mother, so daughter" Ezek. 16:44. It is also with the son. A monther moulds the character of the child. It may be good or it may be bad. Most great men gave the honor to their mother. Most christians were led to Christ by a praying, loving mother. The appeals Dr. Dew made to young ladies, wives and mothers were earnest, timely and convincing. And such stillness as hovered over the whole cone-resrationt, was even felt by all in the audience. Many in the congregation asked for prayer. The subject tonight will be "What will it cost lost men of Hickory not to be saved?" At 3 p. m. Saturday Mrs. Dew will finish her lecture to women and girls about Romanism. All should hear both subjects. CATAWBA TRUST CO. IS GIVEN CHARTER - (By Associated Press.) Raleigh, Dec. 7. A charter for the Catawba Trust Company of Hickory was issued today by the seeretaiy of state. The company, which nas a paid in capital of $25,000, will do a general banking business and trust business. The Elizabeth Mills Company of Charlotte, capitalized at $250,000 oi wmcn !fou,uuu has oeen paia :'n, also was chartered. This concern will manufacture cloth. IS TO BE READY The new directory of the Hickory Electric Company, being issued from the presses of the Clay Printing Com pany, will be delivered to Manager Jas. C. Shuford the middle of next week, and it will contain a large num ber of names. An advertising cam paign in the Record just before the new copy was given to the printers resulted in fine business and all the telephones available were placed. The directory is changed consider ably, and patrons will be notified through the Record each week of new subscribers, which should be written in on the blank spaces re served for the purpose. i MONUMENT TO VANDERBILT (By Associated Press) London, Dec. 7. To commemorate ! the memory of A. G. Vanderbilt, who ; was drowned by the sinking of the Lusitania and his association witfc English coaching for a number o years, members of the Coaching club propose to erect a granite column cn Holmwood Comomn nea-r Working, by the main road from London to Bright . on traversed by Mr. Vanderbilt's "Venture." The plan has been submit ted to the Dorking rural district council for approval. It is intended parts of the route. LABOR PARTY TO (By Associated Press.) London, Dec. 7 According to the Central News, the labor party has - , prided o accent the invitation to be represented in the new government. NEW R SOON JOIN BRITISH CABINET RUMANIAN ARIES HAVE ELUDED THEIR PURSUERS Indications Point to Escape of Most Men To wards Russian Border Last Engagements Fought to Insure Safe Retreat, Many Commentators Believe. LLOYD-GEORGE TO HAVE 301 HELP (By Associated Press.) London, Dec, 7 Potyticajl (circles were interested chiefly in the person nel of the new cabinet and the pros pects of the new premier (David Lloyd George in getting together a combination that will have a major ity in the house of commons. Few if any of the Liberal members of Mr. Asquith's cabinet are likely to accept membership in the new cabinet and a tew or tne unionist memoers are likely to stand aside. Indications are that his task will be made much simpler by the benev olent neutrality of former opponents. FOR HOLIDAY TRADE They are making liquor in the val leys these days, according to Mr. H. W. Jones, who has been on a number of raiding expeditions in the last few weeks. He said today that he had never known of so many blockaders, and some times the stills are not very far apart. It is be lieved that'the moonshiners are try ing to accumulate a supply for the holidays and it is expected that the towns in this section will be flooded a little later. NEW LONDON MILL The purchase of the Tucker and Carter Rope Company at New Lon don, Stanly county, by Mr. A. A. Shu ford, Jr., was announced today, and there is a prospect that the machin ery may be moved to Hickory or Granite Falls and operated by the Krew lowner. 'liie property was purchased at a receiver's sale some time ago, the papers being closed to day. Mr. Shuford is an unusually sue cessful textile man and it is hoped that he will add the plant to his in terests in this section. Although a comparatively small mill, the plant is in good condition and its output is rope and cord. SAVE COTTON SEED, (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 7. The United States bureau of plant industry to day advised cotton growers to make certain of their supply of cotton seed for spring planting. "All kinds of cotton seed are like ly to be scarce at planting time next spring," said the statement. The un precedented prices now being paid at the oil mills may cause many farm ers to cut down their reserve of seed or may cause them to sell all their seed in the hope of buying better seed. While it is always desirable to replce an inferior stock with a better one, it would be well to make sure of a good seed supply. ''Another danger to the seed sup ply lies in the possibility that grow ers who have quantities of good seed may think it easier to sell to the oil mills at once instead of hold ing for spring. This is especially likely to be the case of the long i staple variety." CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WANTED j FOR PCfOR IN HICKORY Contributions' to the Volunteers of America are needed badly, and if, Hickory is to support this organiza tion in a manner to enable it to do effective work, more persons will have to become interested. People who do not know what the Volun teers are doing can communicate with any of the . ministers, the Chamber of Commerce and other or ganizations. Money for the empty stocking fund is coming in slowly. Mr. Fred Ahemethv rt.iiml hutnv ..- from MorgSnton where he has spent several days on business. LOCKADERS BUSY HICKORY MAN YS VN SCARCITY (By Associated Fress.) Wjth Bucharest lost the Ruma nians are retiring all along the line in the province of Wfillachia fighting rear guard actions as they retreat. The main point of interest in what is left of this campaign is the fate of the Rumanian armies, and appar ently there has been no wholesale bagging on them, at least by von Mackensen's army. Petrograd's statement announc ing the evacuation of Bucharest and the retiring of the Rumanians wrho were holding off the Danube army from the capital was made so as to en able the Rumanians to escape before the entrance of the Teutonic troops into the capital. What measure of success has been attained in the operation has not de veloped. The ninth German army is pressing eastward at a rapid advance from Ploechti to Ruzti. A brief dispatch in which the fall of Bucharest was announced left in doubt the fate of the Rumanian arm ies resisting the advance of the Teu tonic armies, but today's German offi cial statement which reports the de feated Rumanians retreating on all fronts indicates most of them escap ed captured. Berlin says, however, that 9,000 men werecaptured yester day. It has been assumed in most en tente quarters that there was no last stand by the Rumanians before their capital and such news as had trickl ed through from German sources in- dicates that Bucharest was virtually deserted when the Teutonic forces en tered it. The city is said to have been found uninjured. Military commentators in entente capitals point to the probability that the actions just prior to the capture of Bucharest were fought merely to delay Field -Marshal von Mackensen's approach to the capital, and to en able the Rumanians to escape. 'German opinion is expressed to the effect that the Rumanians have de cidede to abandon all of Wallachia, the main portions of the Rumanian kingdom, and retire to Moldavia, their northeastern province, where their ' armies, cooperating with the Russians, are holding their own. The total capture of Rumanians by forces of the central powers are reported to have been 100,000 men. MANY FARMERS WANT LOANS AT ONCE (By Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 7 Official.! of the farm loan board announce 1 to day that more than 50,000 farmers have applied for mortgage ioans se gregating approximately $150,000, 000, or more than 17 times the amount of money which will be im mediately available for loans in the 12 farm loan bands. Most of the applications have come from the south and west. Although the location of the banks probably will not be announced be fore December 20, it was said today that almost immediately after organ ization the banks would find it neces sary to issue funds for virtually their entire capital stock to meet the de mands of borrowers. Intense rivalry has developed in several southern cities for banks. The chief competitors were said to be New Orleans, Montgomery, Jackson, Mass., Raleigh, N. C, and Columbia, S. C. TURKEY IS IMPRESSED WITH BERLIN POLICE (By Associated Press.) iBerlin, Dec. 7 Turkey has become so impressed with the efficiency of the Berlin police that it has sent to Berlin the director of the Constan tinople criminal department, Behaed din Bey, to study the methods in vogue here, so that on his return he may reorganize the police of Turkey s capital and principal cities, and In troduce German methods there. IBehaeddm Bey among other things plans to introduce in Turkev the Gei man equivalent of the Bertillon sys tem in vogue in America, and many of the German detective methods. There will also be published a bi weekly police newspaper for the "in tellectual enlightenment of Turkish police officials and the development of police methods." Miss Beatrice Cobb, editor of the Morcanton tCt-ari.'HorA ot-c,.J fkmni,), u i ' I ""vugu me tiL uuuay enroute to I Chapel Hill where she will attend th North Carolina Newspaper Instituted ii
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