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LINCOLNTON, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 31. 192 J.
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FARM DEMONSTRATION
NOTES
(W. L. Smarr)
Dr. Charles Walter, of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture is expect
ed to arrive in the county January 31
to apply the tuberculin test to the
cows of some of the people of Reeps
ville. Miss Dorthy Yount, of Henry, the
girl of this county who has a national
reputation as a member of the Boys
and Girls Poultry Club, made an
average profit of sixty six dollars and
forty two cents ($66.42) per month on
her birds from January 1st 1920 to
January 1st 1921. Her record Will ap
pear in a later issue of this paper.
Mr. T. A. Warlick of Reepsville has
recently completed the erection of a
modern poultry house.
According to present indications, a
large acreage will be sown in clover
this spring. Manv farmers who have
never sown clover are seeking advise
on the growing of this crop. Of course
the "Old Red Top Clover" is the stand
by, yet (here are many who are gett
ing good results by adding from a
fourth to a third Alsike clover. It is
easier to get a stand of Alsike, and it
will make a better quality of hay, tho
not quite as much. Bulletins may be
secured upon application to the coun
these clovers.
There is probably a place for sweet
clover on your farm. If you are not
familar with this clover-investigate.
What about old bossy? Have you
a nice pasture for her? If not, inquire
about orchard grass, red top (Herd
r.r Rlne Crass. JaDan Clover, etc.,
for a grass mixture. Grasses may he
in thp snrincr with good results
The orchard should be wormed,
pruned, and sprayed. There is no work
that will pay you as great a profit as
the time and expense of the proper
care of your orchard. Ask those who
are pruning, worming, and spraying.
Plans for an All the Year Round
Harden. Bulletins giving instructions
for making hotbeds, time and verities
of vegetables to plant, fertilization
iiHivation. etc.. mav be had upon ap
plication. Every farmer should have
a hot bed and they are inexpensive.
200 PERSONS CONTROL 15 BILL
ION IN U. S.
American Families Own More
Than 1100.000.000 Each.
w York. N. Y.. Jan. 20. Fifty
families in the United States control
than Jl 00.000.000 each: 100 fam
ilies control more than $50,000,000 each
and 50 families control more than $10-
000.000 each.
John D. Rockfeller's estate is now
between $3,000,000,000 and Sb.uuu.uw
Two hundred persons in the United
States control $15,000,000,000.
These startling figures on the con
centration of wealth in the United
States were obtained from Henry H.
Klein, deputy commissioner of ac
counts of New York City, and a deep
student of economic affairs. He has
spent ten years collecting concrete
facts on the pyramiding of American
wealth.
Klein's attention was called to the
recent statement of George P. Hamp
ton, managing director of the ar
mers' National Council that thirty
three individuals own 2 per cent of the
entire American national wealth. He
estimates that 2 per cent at about $4,
837,000,000. FARMER WANTS TWO WIVES
A farmer residing near Denver has
written to Gov. O. H. Stroupe, urging
the chief executive of Colorado to permit-farmers
having two wives. His
letter follows:
"I am a farmer seven miles south of
Denver. You are a good state Gover
nor, and I offer you something to help
the farmers.
"Let city men have one while the
farmer two wives. You see, one could
help the other, and a farmer could
more surely raise boys to work the
farm and not need to hire at high
wages.
Then the farmers could sell crops
cheap and make money, and living in
cities would be cheaper, and many
young men would leave cities to be on
the farm and have two wives.
"You would be a greater man than
Lincoln if you can get the United
States to let all the farmers have two
wives. A farmer could ofter marry
two sisters, or good pals.
"GEORGE SMITH
BANK CASHIER IS TEIDVP
AND BANK ROBBED OF $2,000
Suwanee, Ga., Jan 27. Three un
masked men robbed the bank of Su
wanec here late yesterday of cash esti
mated at $2,000 and fled in an automo
.bile in which an accomplice waited.
The men entered the bank shortly be
fore the closing hour and when only
one customer and F. F. Dowis, cash
ier, were present. One of the men
asked for a blank note and wrote on
that while Dowis waited on the cus
tomer. As the latter left, one ban
dit presented the note to the cashier
and another pointed a pistol at him.
Dowis said. Dowis was bound and
tied to a chair and the bandits pro
reeded to rob his cash drawer but
made no attempt to enter the vault.
They left the cashier tied to the chair
and headed toward Buford, the auto
mobile leaving plain tracks in tho
snow which officers started to fol
low within a few minutes.
PUPPY ON CAKE OF ICE IN
HUDSON RESCUED BY A BOAT
New York, Jan. 27. A yelping pup
py on a cake of ice floating down the
Hudson river today halted the Fort
Lee ferry boat Edgewater in mid
stream while a rescue was effected.
After Capt James Brannigan ma
neuvered his craft alongside the cake,
First Mate Gerard Barry descended i
ladder hung over the rail. The ladder
broke, Barry plunged into the stream
and reappeared with the puppy in his
arms.
Hauled aboard Barrv descended into
the engine room with his new pct,!Margric Black, and her two adopted
Which Kb promptly named Icicle.
"DO IT NOW"
Manufacturers Record.
"Whatever thy hand findeth to do
do it with all thy might," is the doc
trine which needs to be preached to
day with all the emphasis in the na
tion's power. Because disaster has
overtaken many, because the nation's
buying power has been gTeatly de
creased by reason of the rapid deflat
ion in .products and in employment we
cannot afford to sit down and fold our
hands, for that would only mean
stagnation, and stagnation means
death. If your plant needs new equip
ment or extension, and the money is
available, DO IT NOW, and be ready
for the next wave of activity, which
will come as surely as the sun floods
the earth with brightness after the
clouds have disapneared. If your town
of county needs municipal buildings,
schools or enlarged water works or
sewage systems, if highwav works
and street construction need to be
done, then do your utmost to see that
these things are DONE NOW. Labor
is seeking employment, manufactured
products are available for all classe-,
of construction work and at prices
which, we believe, are below prices
that will prevail in the not-distant fu
ture. Whenever the tide of business
turns, as turn it will as surely as flood
follows ebb tide, prices will advance
and labor will once more be well em
ployed, at good wages. Today is the
accepted time for entering upon a
vigorous, aggressive campaign for all
highway and municipal construction
work, for putting manufacturing
plants into better physical shape and
equipping with needed machinery
rather than wait until the rush of new
work in the future makes all of these
things more difficult and costly.
ODD PANTHER FAD DRIVES MEN
MAD
Men From Maine to Argentina
Are
Appearing on the Scene
(By Gus Travis in Charlotte Observer)
In everv single hotel lobby there is
talk of some strange hobby which they
call the "Panther" craze. They say
it beats a thousand ways any kind of
sport that's known. The lovers of thi3
fad have grown until we hear the
whole darn town is trying to chase
the "Panther" down.
Now here's the tale that came to us
that started all this "Panther" fus. In
Providence township, so it seems, the
folks have nightly heard loud screams
and seen some wierd and gruesome
shape which they say is neither ape,
bear, hare, cow, sow, dog, hog, steer,
deer or any other kind of beast they've
ever seen here in the east. They
nightly don a hunting garment and
vainly try to catch the varmit. They
see his tracks and hear his cry, hut
say the varmit is so sly that finally
'ttUjyfrita' uff the1 ctat8e and cow back
to their hunting base.
Now every day it has appeared that
there is something very wierd about
this funny chasing stunt the neople
call the "Panther" hunt. The throngs
pile out of snow and church to join in
this mysterious search, and though
each time they always fail they go
back next night on its trail! Through
the woods thev slowlv stalk, and when
I they come back from their walk wc
aiways
a wholesale smile and
find thev walk in zigzag style!
Yes sir, folks, there's something
queer about this story that we hear!
There's something strange and very
odd out there on that rural sod! Half
the town set out today to find the
"Panther" so they say! People all
throughout the state are coming to
participate. Men from Georgia, South
Carolina, Iceland, England, France
and Chine, Argentina and Mexico and
New York state and Idaho are coming
down with queer expressions to join
these strange "Panther" sessions! And
what is odd, from facts we get they
haven't caught the "Panther ' yet!
They re certainly mixed up on the
name concerned in this wild "Panther"
game! If we should get down to brass
tacks and dish out several direct facts
we'd no doubt find that in this cas.i
the object of each "Panther'' chase is
really some "Blind"' Tiger's lair that
nestles in the bushes there!
So come on folks! Don't be outdone!
Go on home and get your gun! Call
it baboon, ape or rabbit but come on
get the "Panther" habit!
NEGRO HELD ON SUSPICION OF
HAVING COMMITTED ASSAULT
ON GROVES WOMEN CLEARED
Gastonia Gazette, 27. th.
Will Robinson, the negro held since
Monday by the local police department
on the suspicion that he was the per
petrator of the criminal assault early
Sunday morning on a woman of the
Groves section and also of severil
housebreakings in the Loray village
Saturday night, was released this
morning. Chief Orr ordered his re
lease on receipt of a letter from Chief
of Police S. M. Henry, of Cowpens, S.
C, who confirmed Robinson's story
that he spent Sunday and Sunday
night in Cowpens. Chief Henry ob
tained convicting evidence that Rob
inson was actually there at the time
he claimed, this of course establishing
an alibi that cleared him of all suspi
cion of being connected with the
crimes committed here,
The police department is still mak
ing every effort to apprehend the par
ty or parties who perpetrated tin)
crimes of Saturday and Sunday nights.
.
EDMUND RIG II AM CHARGED
WITH MUKIIKK BY UUKUN EK
Florence, S. C, Jan. 27. Edmund
D. Bigham, held in jail here since
shortly after members of his family
were found shot to death at Pamlico,
was formally charged with their mur-
der here tonight bv a coroner's Jury.
The verdict followed a forthnight'a
Investigation by county officials and a
hearing today at Pamplico to which
30 witnesses were summoned, include
ing Edmund Bighara's wife, and oldest
daughter Louise, aged 15.
Those whom Edmund Bigham Is
charged with having killed were his
mother. Mrs. M. M. Bigham: his
' brother, L. S. Bigham: his sister, Mrs.
children, three and six years old.
THE LEGISLATURE
N.
C. GOOD ROADS ASSOCIA
TION'S BILL PRESENTED
Raleigh, Jan. 27. The road bill
agreed upon by the North Carolina
Good Roads Association, but vary
ing a great deal from Governor Mor
rison's plan, started in the house
today.
The measure was introduced by
Representatives Rufe Doughton, of
Allegheny, and Tobe Connor, of Wil
son. One thousand copies of the bill
were ordered printed for distribu
tion.
State construction with federal aid
is specified in the Doughton-Connor
measure with state maintenance, and
the bill provides for the state to
"take over" approximately 5,000
miles of said-clay and gravel roads
for maintenance at once.
No ad valorem state tax is to be
levied under the nroposed law, but
the bonds are to be issued and sold
and the franchise, automobile and
gasoline taxes collected by the state
are to be used in paying the interest
on the bonds and for maintenance.
The basis for license tax on automo
biles and other motor vehicles is
upon horsepower and weight. A
gasoline tax of one cent per gallon
is proposed and provision made for
its collection by the state.
Construction of the roads is to b
started simultaneously in each of the
nine highway districts under the su
pervision of the state highway com
mission, which is to serve as at pres
ent. Each district will be allotted its
proportionate part of money for road
cqnstruction and maintenance in the
counties on the basis of population,
area and mileage.
In addition to the proposal to con
nect the county seat sites the bill
also defines certain "principal towns
and cities' that are to be connected
with hard-surfaced roads.
It is said at the capitol that the
Doughton-Connor bill is the re
vamped measure orglnal'.y drafted
by committees representing the North
Carolina Good Roads Assocla
tion and the Citizens Highwav as
sociation, of which Heriot Clarkson,
of Charlotte, was chairman.
The house, after an hour's debate
Thursday, passed the committee sub
stitute of the varser bill, after
amending it, allowing additional time
in the collection f taxes. The
amendment as submitted by Repre
sentative Brown, of Pitt county, ex
tends the time of collection of all
taxes to May 1, 1921, without the
payment of a penalty,
GOVERNOR MORRISON'S BOLD
NESS CHALLENGES A DM IRA-
TION. '
Raleigh, Jan 28. Indirectly stepping
into the widening breach between
youth and the old guard, Governor
Morrison today flung the progressive
banner farther than any other execu
tive in a generation has dared to do.
Lawmakers and politicians gener
ally hesitate to appraise the farreach
ing recommendations In the second
message of the governor to the
general assembly.
Never with more eloquence or con
viction has he called upon the hosts
of democracy from the stump than be
appealed to Carolina patriots today.
He asked the general assembly to
enact revolutionary legislation in or
der that he may, by the exercise of
power, run the office to which he was
elected.
He asked for the grant of authority
to make over the various boards ap
pointed to direct the affairs of this
state institutions, and he pointed the
lawmakers to sources of revenue great
enough to carry his program for
ward. Boldness Wins Admiration
With boldness that has won the ad
miration of republicans and democrats
he attacked an accepted form of in
come taxation, recommended that the
general assembley not consider tr
action of the state budget committee
as binding, and urged the establish
ment of two new branches of the state
government a department of taxa
tion and revenue and a department of
banking.
The following bills passed the re
quired reading in the house at Friday
morning's session:
Amending the charter of the town
ol Mt. Holly.
Amending the duties of auditor of
Cleveland county.
Prescribing the duties of auditor
of Cleveland County
Amending the law relating to pay
of officers of Catawba County.
There will be a nubile hearing on
road legislation before the committee
on roads and turnpikes February 3
McSwam of Cleveland Authorize
town of Shelby to issue school bonds.
Gaston of Gaston Amending the
cuarter oi in town of Belmont,
WoUz of Gaston Authorizing is -
BUBnce of school bonds in South Gas
i tonia district.
Woltz, of Gaston Issue school
bonds in Victory school district.
Woltz of Gaston Change district
and authorize sale of school bonds in
town of Belmont.
The house also passed the Tavlor
I, ill 1 Al - - It r ...
I cr.me or lynching
i urii v if 1 1 n ni inp nmnvo
to another
county of a prisoner held on a
charge of lunching without
. 1 c f "" ' e coun room.
I Two thousand copies of Governor
Morrison's inaugural address were
ordered printed for distribution,
Proposed legislation in the House
and Senate Thursday:
Long of Alamance To give free
' tutiton to every hoy and ghi in
North Carolina bv the university.
; A petition from the Kiwanis club,
of Gastonia, relative to the or-
thopacdic hospital.
A petition form 1,400 girls of
North Carolina college for women
asking that the legislature approve
recommendations for permanent im-
movement suggested hv the imi.
dent of the institution.
In the senate the Bowie bill abolish-
ing the office of county treasurer of
Ashe county "revoked the first party
clash of the year when Senator Robin
son thought he should be allowed to
fill out the term of office for which
he was elected before the ejection bill
became effective.
ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL WILL
NOT BE NEGLECTED
Raleigh. Jan. 28. Former Lieut.
Governor O. Max Gardner, of Shelby,
appearing before the joint appropria
tions committee of the general assem
bly tonight, made a vigorous and suc
cessful appeal for the Orthopaedic
hospital at Gastonla.
The committee will recommend the
passage of the Carpenter-Wo! tz bill
carrying $125,000 for lmorovement
and maintenance for the crippled
children's home. The budget com
mission omitted to provide for this In
stitution because ii expected private
philanthropy to sbjulder the burden.
Governor Gardner came here in be
half of the citizens of Gastonia and
the friends of the institution. He per
sonally appealed to members of the
committee and tonight went before
the joint meeting and presented the
case with characteristic eloquence.
MR. DUKE FAVORS
GOOD ROADS POLICY
Raleigh, Jan. 2t. Hearty endorse
ment of Governor Morrison s stand
on roads came last afternoon from
James Buchanan Duke, head of the
powerful Duke interests in North
Carolina, when newspapermen ap.
proached the state's senior captain
of hnance for some expressions on
state matters.
Mr. Duke's chief of staff, Zeb V
Taylor, of Charlotte, wouldn't let
the scribes draw the power magnate
into a controversy between the ligis
lature and the new governor, but no
more gracious economiums have been
placed upon Mr. Morrison since
the inaugural than came from him
"1 don t think it is necessary to
do more than build the main avenue
of travel right now.'' Mr. Duke SRid
to the reporters, who called on him
in his private car, "Doris, late to
day. 'The roads are all gone in
a little while and the wind blqw th
top soil off.
The state ought to build roads so
they will last 100 years, continued
Mr. Duke. "Tfcav ought tn build
them from six ,to eight inches thick
and cover with; asphalt. There is lesa
upkeep to be encountered on real
substantial roads and in the end they
will bay. It is better to build 100
miles right than to build 1,000 miles
wrong. m
"I think, said he, "the counties
ought to provide the maintenance
funds and that the administration
ought to be by the state. The coun
ties would function as treasury
watch dogs WWr ther should not be
anv waste of funds in operation.
Fifty millions of dollars, do not
amount to anythin in North (jaro
Una, Mr. Duke said, with a wave of
the hand. If the state goes to work
and spends the money properly, it
isn't the amount that matters.
"The expenditure of $25,000,00)
on Western North Carolina roads
Mr. Duke said to the press represen
tatives, "would make this section of
the state the summer playground for
all the South, a part of the West
and a part of the North. He praise.
the taxation policy of the state and
bespoke for it great things during
the Morrison regime.'
LEGISLATOR AND PAY
Representative Hicks has put in a
bill to increase the pay of members
of the Legislature from $4 to $8
day. There is horse-sense back o
that movement. The $4-a-day legisls.
tar is more of a patriot than states
man. He is serving his State for the
honor there is m It. Certainly he
not commercializing on the occupa
tion.. it takes the closest sort of liv
ing existing, we might better say
to come out even at the end of the leg
islative term, and as a matter of fact,
is costs some legislators more than
they get. A set salary of eight dol
lars a day might prove of attraction
to talent and serve to draw a larger
sprinkling of higher ouality men to
Raleigh. Indifferent pay is conducive
to indifferent service, while on the
contrar". better pay is an appeal to
better service. An eight-dollar Leg
islature would cost the State more
than a four-dollar Legislature, but it
might prove worth more in the char
acter of the work it would perform for
the State. Anyway, good or bad, a
legislator ought to be worth more
than $4 a day to the State. Char
lotte Observer.
UNDERTAKEROFFICE PRODUCED
SMILES
Chicago, Jan. 22. Checking up to
day on liquor they seized at the under
taking parlors of Jackson and Harris,
prohibition enforcement agent listed
nearly 100 gallons of various kinds
of linuor. Smiles instead of tears were
I nrt t4ia faoan nf vt attars in tho linHor.
'tab
of prohibition agents arrived suddenly
In a purple casket, lined with light
gray satin, three dozen quarts of high
Scotch whiskey resposed; more whis
key was found In a body basket While
the casket cupboards lining the rear
room of the establishment were load
ed with cases of whiskey, the agents
said.
Sam Harris, one of the partners,
was arrested.
CONVENTION FOR LAW EN.
FORCEMENT.
The Board of Trustees of the Anti-
Saloon League has called a Conven
tion for Law Enforcement to meet in
Greensboro, North Carolina, February
second and third. Officers and citi
zens who believe in the slogan "Blind
Tigers Must Go
are urged to attend
this convention and take part in its
I discussions.' The purpose of this con
vention is to kindle in the minds of
true and patriotic citizens a reverence
for the law, to generate throughout
the state a spirit of law-enforcement
that will not tolerate the lawless liau-
, or traffic and bring about full co-op
eration between citizens and officers
in the enforcement of law.
THE ORTHOPAEDIC HOS
PITAL AT GASTONIA
Speaking of the North Carolina Or
thopaedic Hospital at Gastonia, a
State Institution with nine Trustees,
appointed by the Governor of the
State, the Governor himself being thel
Ex-Omcio Chairman of said Board of
Trustees, R. B. Babington, who is one
of the Trustees and President of the
Institution, today gave out the follow
ing information relative to the Ortho
paedic Hospital.
"Yes, we were disappointed beyond
expression that no provision at all was
recommended by the fluaget commis
sion, in Its report to the General As
sembly, for the completion and main
tenance of this State Institution. We
had every reasonable to believe that
the State would take care of its own
creation, to some extent, at least, not
however to the detriment of any oth
er worthy Institution.
"The cornerstone was law, ana tne
Institution was accepted by the Gov
ernor May 8th, 1920, in the presence
of four to six thousand people amid
the most auspicious surroundings.
Those present said the Governor made
the best and most touching speech of
his life. With his eyes moist with
tears, the Governor stooped down and
picked up a crippled club footed boy
five venrs old. (there were twelve
crippled and croqked children nestled
at his feet) held him in nis arms una
said, "It Is worth more than all the
money in the world to be able to make
such as he able to run and jump and
plav as other boys. North Carolina
nrnnnses to see that an tnese uniur-
tunatc children are cared for and that
their crooked, twisted bodies and
limbs are made straight because they
are wards of the State and the State
should- give them an eoual opportuni
ty along with the healthy children of
the State without handicap. Seven
ty years ago there was not a humane
Institution in the State, we main
tained courthouses, jails and poor
houses, but nothing for God and hum
anitv."
"Oh You ask me about Mr. seoiys
HosDital at Asheville. It will be al
right when it is built. I understand
it has not even been started yet. I
mean that no work on It has not been
begun, up to this date. I am glad
that Mr. Seely is going to build an Or
thopaedic Hospital. It will be a great
blessing to numanuy, anu it. is so gen
erous and biiy for him to do so out of
his own pocket, even if he can afford
it. Not many Seelys in Norm Caro
lina. I wrote and told him that I
honored him for his humane impulses,
and would aid and assist in any way
that I could, should I ever have the
honor to serve. Mr. Seely replied at
followg :
"Mr. R. B. Babingtor., Pres.,
North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital,
Gastonia. N. C.
Dear Sir;
I have just received your letter
and the newspaper clipping regarding
the work you are doing there.
I did not hear of your work until
after 1 had gotton started with the
plans to build the hospital here.
Of course, I could hardly change my
plans now, and 1 don t believe. that will
be necessary, for there are some two
hundred thousand crippled children In
the United States under fourteen
years of age, according to the the cen
sus, and there must be in the neigh
borhood of three or four thousand in
this State alone.
I have already made plans to take
care of children from Tennessee and
other States in this section, and as I
intend to operate It entirely at my
own expense, and build out of my own
pocket, I am sure you will not feel
tnat l am going to connict with your
work in any way whatsoever. (
I am very much suprised that you
haven't the funds, for I had supposed
that everything was assured. I hope
however, at some future time to have
a visit with you, and we surely will
try to co-operate with you in any way
we can after we are both in operation
Very respectfully yours,
F. L. Seely,
President.
The Seely Hospital at Grove Park,
when built, will have 25 to 50 beds,
and as stated, will take enre of chil
dren from Tennessee and other States
in this section." With the large num
ber of crippled children in all States,
North Carolina won't be able to get
many in there. The North Carolina
Orthopaedic Hospital, with 50 to 60
beds and a Clinic in connection, to be
held one day each week for "outside
patients who live within 50 miles of
the Institution who can be brought
every week, of every two weeks, as
tne case may reauire, lor re-adjust
ment of casts and braces, will give us
a capacity of over one hundred little
patients per day. We have this pro
position ngured to a fine analvs
is and if the State and the people want
it worked out quickly we guarantee
that experts will do the work to the
entire satisfaction of everv right
thinking person who has a heart for
humanity that are helpless and neg
lected.
"In one or two years, if we are giv
en a respectable chance, we will be
putting 50 to 100 absolutely worthless,
neglected children of today on their
feet so that they will be of service to
mandkind and the State, earning their
own bread and becoming tax payers.
"We need $100,000.00 to complete
the plans and $37,000.00 for running
expenses, per year. I feel sure the
General Assembly will not turn these
poor criDpled children down. What
do vou think about it? Write to your
representative what you and your Wo
man's Clubs, the Rotary, the Kiwanis
Club, and Chamber of Commerce and
all oilier good people want, and it will
be done for the saving of the crippled
childien of Sound Minds, of the State
and Nation.
"The Institution Is one of the best
of like character in li.e United States,
of latest design, and convenience, fire
proof. ituated on a beautiful groves
well wito-ed and wi'.h nr. elevaf'on of
ever 1 'v'0 feet It is !wo miles east
of Ghs'onia on a beauMful drivo. and
is so planned for aditional wards to be
added at a vary nominal cost to toe
State, because the Administration
building and apparatus will already
have been provided.
" The State accepted and has con
tributer $40,000.00 to date. Nine
thousand people have given $45,000.00.
We have economically spent this $85,
000.00 and have a plant deeded to the
State worth today $125,000.00. Wo
need, and must, have, $100,000.00 to
complete the buiiuings under construc
tion and $37,000.00 per year for
maintenance, and we are asking the
great rich State of North Carolina to
do this just thing for her "Tiny
Tims," if you, who reads this, get busy
and help. The State provides for her
blind, deaf, and dumb children, God
bless them. Had you thought there
are more crippled children in North
Carolina than there are of either blind
or deaf children? I am told this is a
fact.
We hav e three to five thousand
crippled children in North Carolina
under 16 years old. Do you know of
a place in North Carolina where one
of them can get treatment and school
ing while convalescing? The answer
is No. There is no such place. Why
not? No one has ever taken it upon
themselves to provide such an Insti
tution. Lot's do it. It costs money.
They are worth it. The childhood of
North Carolina is the hope of the
Church and the State, If our boys
and girls are not given the opportuni
ties of higher education snd equr.l pri
vileges with children of other States,
North Carolina will remain near the
foot of the list in matters of humane
advantages to its youth.
"Issue sufficient bonds to do this big
thing, as well as to build good roads
to ride over with ease and speed and
to save cost of wear and tear to ve
hicles and teams.
"Write Governor Morrison. He has
the vision."
OFFICER BLUE DIES
OF WOUNDS
His Assailant, T. R. Clayton, Will
Probably Die.
Fayetteville, Special to The Ob
server, Jan. 28. Deputy Sheriff M
N. Blue was shot and killed by
Thomas R. Clayton, of New York
formerly a soldier at Camp Bragg
Clayton was perhaps fatally wound
ed by blue, and Deputy W. O
Patrick was shot through the
thigh, here early this afternoon
when the officers attempted to ar
rest the ex-soldler on a warrant
sworn out by A. A. Lindsey. into
whose house Clavton forced himself
at the point of a pistol last night.
lhe tragedy arose from Claytons
attentions to Lindsey s daughter.
The warrant, charging assault with
a deadly weapon, was sworn out this
morning by Lindsey. who pomteJ
out tne former soldier to the of
ficevs just as Clayton was leaving
nig daughter at the corner ot Bur
gess and Old streets.
While Deputy Blue was reading
the warrant, Clayton drew an auto
matic pistol from his coat pocket
and started shooting.
Blue fell, shot twice through the
stomach, but raised himself on his
elbow and shot Clayton through th
lung after the desperate man had
wounded Deputy Patrick.
The latter officers life was prob
ably saved by Blue's courageous ac
tion. All three men were carried to
the Cumberland General hospital,
nearby, where Blue died this after
noon at 2:30 o'clock. Clayton is se
riously wounded and it is thought
that he may die.
Lindsey declared today that he
had received a threatening letter
from Clayton after putting a stop
to correspondence between the man
and his daughter. The ex-soldier
Wednesday night returned to Fay
etteville from New York where he
has been working as a lineman since
his discharge from the army. He
went to Lindsey's house on Hay-
mount last night and on being re
fused entrance by the girl's father
drew a pistol and threatened Lind
sey's life.
Clayton was stationed at Camp
Bragg for about a year after tht
return of his regiment from over
seas. He had a bad record here.
Blue and Patrick are the fourth
officers from Sheriff McGeachy's of
fice to be shot down in the discharge
of their duty within the past eight
months. Deputies W. J. Moore and
H. C. Butler having been killed by
the negro George Hobbs, in May.
Mr. Blue leaves a wife and an eight
year old son.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS NOT
MAKING PERSONAL FIGHT
Washington, Jan. 27. A har
monous dinner party of democrats
here today gave the lie to report that
Cox, McAdoo and Bryan forces are
getting ready for a eat fight. The
leaders have pledged harmony and
started out to take advantage of
every republican mistake with a view
of reversing the odds of the last
election.
All the forces that figured in the
heated three-cornered fight at the
San Francisco convention were rep
resented at a luncheon given in
honor of James M. Cox, by Attorney
General Palmer today. While the
affair had none of the proportions
of a Jackson day dinner, which was
omited this year, it cleared the at
mosphere considerably and instilled
among those who attended the idea
that concord rather than factional
contests will place the party nearer
to success m ia24.
Present were members of the cab
met, a group of senators, and
National Chairman George White
Secretary Colby was there, Senator
Pat Harrison, chairman of the demo
cratic speakers bureau: Angus W.
McLean, assistant secretary of the
treasury, and one of the early steer
ers of the McAdoo boom: Oscar W
Underwood, minority leader of the
senate; Senator Pomerene, Owen
King, and Simmons, and others.
Fair weather in the Carolinas fol
lows the snow and sleet storm that
held sway Wednesday, day and night,
and Thursday morning.
CONDENSED NEWS
Marion, Ohio Jan. 26. Two bandits
early this mominc entered the office
of the county treasurer here, knocked
Treasurer Harry Forrey unconscious
and made off with $14,000 which he
had taken out of the vault for change
during the day.
Chapel Hill. Jan. 26. Greetings
and congratulation on his 96th
birthday were sent to Dr. A. B.
Hawkins, of Raleigh, the oldest liv
ing graduate of the University of
North Carolina, by President Harry
Woodburn Chase and bv the student
body. 'May I take the iiberty on the
behalf of the university of sending
yuur nearly congratulations on this
96 anniversary of your birth,"
wrote Dr. Chase: "In you, our oldest
alumnus, the university has a pecul
iar pride, and she wishes you many
happy years to come."
Washington. Jan. ?7 Antino
Treasurer Allen announced todav
that a total of $13,883,819,826.36 2-'!
in cash and securities was found in the
treasury an a result of the count nec
essitated by the resignation of John
nurne as treasurer.
This total is about $10,000,000,001
greater than usual and is accounted
for by approximately that amount
of notes desposited by foreign gov
ernment for war loans.
Annual agricultural
tion bill passes the house with a to
tal of about $33,500,000.
Champ Clark wants to know whv
republican members of Congress
give Dr. Campbell financial aid in
his contest against Congressman
Doughton, when thev will thm.
selves decide the outcome of the
case.
Washington, Jan. 27. The Fordnev
emergency tariff bill was theoretically
uciure i,ne senate touay but was dis
cussed only in a speech by Senator
Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina,
and in a brief debate on sugar items.
Speeches were so far afield at one time
that Senator McCumber, Republican,
North Dakota, declared the senators
discussed "everything from negroes to
battleships" and asked why the tariff
should not be taken up.
Hendersonville, Jan. 28. Hender
sonville and Henderson county was
wrestling beneath 18 inches of snow
last night. The snow continued fall
ing until yesterday about noon. This
ja the heaviest snowfall that even the
"oldest inhabitant" can remember.
Traffic is at a standstill and there is
no business at all. The snow began
falling Tuesday night and continued
at intervals until yesterday. It has
not begun to melt yet.
A. C. Albright, of Roanoke, Va., a
"dissatisfied stockholder," is the man
who started the federal probe into
the Wizard Automobile company
which has bought six officers and dir
ectors of the company into court
charged with using the mails to de
fraud. This was the sworn testimony
of H. B. Farrington, one of the postal
inspectors who worked up the gov
ernment's case, during the second
day of the hearing before United
States Commissioner J. W. Cobb
in narlotte Friday.
A woman about 50 vean old, ap
parently Mrs. J. M, Williams, is
found dead in a Charlotte hotel.
WANTS TO FIGHT JOE LYNCH
New Orleans, La., Jan. 27. On his
return home from England todav,
where he defeated Jimmy Wilder, the
English champoin. Pete Herman de
clared the only fight he was interested
in now was a return match with Jou
Yynch, who took the bantam cham
pionship from him just before he sail
ed for England.
OPERATOR WHO FLASHED NEWS
OF MAINE DISASTER IS DEAD
Fort Myers, Fla., Jan. 24. George
K. Shultz, who is a cable operator in
charge of the station at Punta Rassa,
this state received and transmitted to
the overland wires to Washington the
first news of the sinking of the battle
ship Maine in Havana harbor Febru
ary 15, 1898, died today at his home
here at the age of 80 years.
SUMNERS HAS PLAN TO
STOP THE CRIME WAVE
Washington. Jan. 15 n.th
tv for persons convicted of committ
ing crimes by the use of weapons was
proposed today by Representative
Sumners. of Texas no . ,v,o
chMkinS the Present day crimes wave.
mr. oumners, for aiany years
prosecuting attorney and former
president of the District and County
Attorneys' association of Texas, sai 1
action was necessary to make human
life more secure.
"When the offense
" vv.ii,,CU TT I '
fire arms used on the person," he said
in his statement, "it should be possible
to inflict the death penalty."
LIVING COST REDUCED
BUT STILL VERY HIGH
New York. Jan. 15.
living decreased 5.6 per cent in the
four months for last July to Novem
ber, and the decline was brought about
by drops in the average prices of a
numDer oi important food and cloth
ing articles so great as to offset con
current increases in many other items,
the national industrial conference
board reported today.
inis four months' decrease, how
ever, left the cost of living higher
than in July, 1914, immediately be
fore the war, by the following percen
tages:
Clothimr 128. fuel and light 100.
food 93, sundries 92, and shelter 66.
BODIES OF TWO WYATT BOYS
NOT RECOVERED.
Asheville, Jan. 24. All efforts o
locate the bodies of the two small
Wyatt boys, drowned ia the French
river near Marshall last Friday, have
proven fruitless. The boys, aged 7
and 9 had cut the rope on a small
boat tied to the short and drifted into
the current, when the boat capsized
and they were drowned.