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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1921-
AMERICA FACING THE HEART
OF THE WORLD AT
THE ARMS PARLEY
(By David F. St. Clair.)
Wa.hington, Nov 14-Th. Wash
ington arms parley is in effect a con
tinuation of the Paris peace confer
ence Some of the men at its head
Were not at Paris, but it faces the
same old thorny problems. Chief
.u :n tV, muted States
among tnem, " . ,
break its traditional isolation and
join hands with the other nations m
conducting the affairs of the world.
That was one of the great pro
blems at Paris. President Wilson said
we entered the war with you nations;
we will now continue the partnership
and now lo and behold the United
States is forced by the necessity Oi
events to face this great problem
again.
Looking down from the gallery on
the opening session 01 me n.. f
. i.,0f Saturday, one beheld one
ivy uu - j
of the most remarkable scenes in his
tory. To some of the American spec
tators who looked only on the surface
of the scene, it exhilarated them with
pride of country. They saw their own
land apparently leading the other na- j
tions in an effort to readjust and com
pose the differences of race and satis
fy the ambitions of tte peoples. They
heard the clear, simple and direct pro-
j, .1 i America tVlflt
posal ot tne sponsor mi w.v-
u nt naval nowers should declare
a ten year holiday and scrap 1,878,
043 tons of war vessels. What audac
ity. What courage. Only America
could propose such a thing. What a
storm of American applause greeted
this proposal. The old eagle screamed
to the stars.
But to those who looked beneath the
surface of that remarkable scene-and
there were not a few present tney
read deep down in the heart of every
foreign delegate who now faced the
four proud American delegates,
among them the white haired senator
Lodge, the consciousness of this hum
iliating fact for America:
We have brought you face to faco
and elbow to elbow with us again
1.1. Q kin Vnn think it
across me iccu tow..,
is you who have done this but it is we
under the great stress of events. You
I lagard among the nations in making
peace what have you now to say ? You
deserted after Paris but destiny naa
hrniiffht vou ud with a round turn to
E face us aeain. This time we are nere
in your own house and if you flece j
lus again it win De wuie u-..
nt xu n . i r i
That is a spaae xransi.iu
some of the foreign delegates have
been heard to privately express among
themselves. If the conference should
fail many of them would express u
publicly after they got home.
Those spectators who looked be
neath the scene saw many ghosts
stalking aoss the green table m
f of the American delegates,
, them the grim ghost of bhan-
p LS.w from one of the
tune wmcu ureB
side rooms. As it mounted the tabl
it gave a look of defiance and snarled
at the ghost of the Monroe Doctrine
in the following words: "If I can no
stay in China you must clear out of
Latin-America.
Before the American delegates
then stalked a ghost arrayed m the
m c ,i.nlnr. In front of Senator
r . j VioitaH uncovered a deaths
head and levelled a long skeleton fin
der at him as it said:
"See. 1 am me - ' l
Frenchmen who fell on the battle
Md to save your . " " "
theirs. I am also the spirit of 40,000,
000 living Frenchmen whom you have
ieprived of a just security by prevent
ing your country irom ratuy.B .v
.efsailles treaty, Until what I stand
there can never oe
itor IS uinuc v-v -
peace on earth. All your country s em
otinoal optimism and passion for peace
will come to naught, if America .
Thus it is seen that the ghosts ol
the same great problems that the.sen
ate would not let Paris solve are now
here to torment the men who are
most responsible for them. America
has actually been placed by her pres
ent government in the position of try-
in,, to right a wrong so
ing to acknowledge that she has
committed. Every one knows there
never can be peace in r-urupe
there is peace between France and
Germany and without peace in Eu
rope there never can be peace in
America. Aristide Briand, the French
premier has come to the arms parley
to impress on the American people
. . . tt iic. no Ampnr.a
that great tact. n -
at this conference must find a way to
w "Hesavs it has now
secure ria"-w - -
come to this that America must secure
France to secure herself. By an alli
ance with France or by the league of
nations, But America has rejected
both these. , ,.
One of our most cherisnea tram
uUA nnlioies is the Monroe Doctrine
There is of course a good deal of dif
ference between the American idea of
a.. ,wrino and the American view
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. . . ; 'hitm KUt
of the Japanese poucy ... v -
Japan is vet to be convinced of this
difference. The arms parley may
convince her. Unless we have aban
doned that doctrine and a majority
of the senate do not .think so-pit
stands across our path in this arms
lMA at Paris.
Secretary Hughes was wise m tackl-1
ing in the outset the path of least re
sistance, the limitation of naval arma
ments. An agreement on that line
promises to have smooth sailing. The
senate has already approved of limi-
, 1 .;ll -roHnrp
tation in navai arms, iv
taxation and the popular mind can
grasp it. It will lessen but it will hot
remove the danger of war. The secre
tary argued that if the great naval
powers could agree on the limitation
of naval arms they would find it less
difficult to agree on other proDiems.
p. Viviani. the former French
premier, one of the delegates to the
orma narlev is the chairman of the
league oi ni
roittee. He believes the conference
whether it suceeeds or fails, will make
it easier for America ultimately to
join the .eague. He believes that the
conference can not solve some of the
.question that will come before it
without the help ol tne league m .-
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tions. When inut is ivm
American people will be willing to
join the league. The 'conference in
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ihis judgment win oe a test or mc .
I ue of the league for the American peo-
pie. This is saio oy some unc w
privately the opinion of Mr. Wilson
who has refused to express himseii
publicly.
The result of the recent election has
greatly disturbed the Republicans.
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The people are oe(ruii"B v
President responsible for the fiasco in
congress. They are telling him that
he ought to take congress in hand but
it was for this taking congress in
Hnnlinp priticised
nu mi iiiat .it .... . - o
President Wilson. It is strange how
many things a party must do it will
criticise its opponents for doing. But
Harding w:ll find-a man s job in man
aging the Republican agricultural bloc
in the senate.
arranged, and Mr.. Wilson made his
first public utterance since he wa II
stricken with illness more than two
years ago. It was a simple expres-
"sion of thanks for the honor done I
him ,, I
, : Mr. Wilson s
The aemonsTrauon m
honor was a just tribute to one of thi II
great casualtiet of the war; to: a mau
who had given himself freeljt,- who nlHl
given practically his all, m hi.'eourfll
try's service. And it is a troth that T
will be recogniaed-T-will be . accepted
beyond cavil as time passes .wv .
whatever is accomplished in the way II
of an agreement among nations look. II
ing toward a permanent peace, wheth- II
er it comes as the result of the arma-
ment conference now in session or m I
some other way, and by whatever II
name it may be called, the world win I
be largely indebted to the efforts of I
Woodrow Wilson.
The idea of an agreement among II
nations to keep the peace was not II
orginal with him, of course; and the 1
r,ln he Drowsed was rejected Dy n
countrymen. But he so vitalirtd that
idea that it win not die; he so im
pressed it on "the world that it will
sooner or later become, we may be
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lieve, HVlIIft iwoJ. - r. -
jected utterly, seemingly buried be
yond hope of resurrection by the ver
dict of the voters at the polls, it
emerged with so much force and life
that the armament conference ' was
called in response to the sentiment it
created, and the prospect for an
agreement reducing the possibility oi
war was never brighter than it is to
JUST TRIBUTE TO MR. WILSON
Statesville Landmark.
It would be a narrow soul indeed
,who would grude former President
Wilson the honors paid him on Armis
tice Day in Washington. Everywhere
he appeared in the funeral procession
of the unknown soldier, says the As
sociated Press report, "he was greet-
ed with a nuttermg oi uum...v"
nH cheerine" until he left the lin.
Later at the former President's home
here was a formal demonstration in
his honor, which had been previously
DAYLIGHT. ROBBERY OF
CHARLESTON JEWELER
Charleston, S. C, Nov. 12.-A
white man, armed with a pistol, en
tared the store of a jeweler on Upper
King street today and forced the
clerk, who was alone at the time, to
open a safe, from which the bandit
took diamonds, and other jewelery
said to be valued at $2,000.
Washington, Nov . 15.-Predietion
of a world shortage of cotton next
summer was made in the Senate today
by Senator Smith , democrat, Soutn
Carolina, in a speech analyzing the
statistics oh cotton consumption for
October, made public by the census
bureau. Should the rate of consump
tion for the ensuing months equal or
exceed that of October, he said, there
'cot-
would not oe a ui v
ton in existence of next August 1. ,
Of course we need a more elastic
currency one that will stretch all the
way from one pay day to the next.
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TA UJIDMCD'C UNinN
GOV. MORRISON URGES
GIVING TO ORPHANS
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In hia aaareaa w uw outiu a-amid a
Union in Raleigh last week, Govenor
himself to a gcnjral
discussion of agriculture, advisin? the
farmers that he believed an outsider
had nc business tryin? tr a far
mer how to ruii his business.
President K. W. n. atone, wno in
troduced the executive, said it was t!.r
fore the- State Farmer's union and the.
delegates said the governor made a
"big hit" with his 15-minute address.
He touched on the class of docb ine
that they said they like1 and .tney
found a mass of points calling for
vigorous applause.
President Stone introduced the g v
amor in th moraine and Mr. Bailey
in the afternoon. Of the governor, he
said he had promise! much in the way
of reforming and progress when he
was a candidate for the office, and
these have or are Deing carrieu out.
He wished his excellency well his con
I offnvta fnr the advancement of
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the state.
After entending welcoming cour
tesies, Governor Morrison took up the
farmer's part in the upbuilding of
North Carolina.
"The whole state is proud of the
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reiauve pusitiuu w vfmvu
ers of North Carolina have pushed
th state in agriculture. It has be
come our proudest boast, and you
can quite appropriately reverse the
old order of things and urge the
nfhpr class erouDS to wake up and
help you raaKe tne state ncu aim
strong."
After ernrinor tho state's relative
III II I u vu --
position agriculturally among the
other states, he expressed confidence
that the farmers will carry it to a
comparative high position." "I am
not going to tell you how to do n,
but I am going to throw all the in-
Ik.. l lM nfllAA l.lltlill.l If111 f
nuence oi my , umvc whiihi
union and the agricultural depart
ment of the state and try to help
the farmers along lines biassed by
to go on until w have the
most intelligently diversified, com
pactly organized and prosperous
agricultural life in the world."
' No Controversial Matters.
TU- nuiuAwtiAti lilt i( Via Irnnwn he
would not discuss any controversial
or political matters.
"It has long been deemed bad
taste before Rotary clubs, Kiwanis
clubs, commercial bodies and sucn
like, to discuss controversial or
political questions, but for some
strange reason every fellow allow
oi tA nrlriVosa a convention of farm
ers seems to think he can make
himself as offensive as possible by
wading into the most delicate
questions about which the people
are divided. I think it is a bad cus
tom and ought to be stopped."
The governor besought -the sym
pathy and support of the organiza
tion in the development of the state
along all line. He reminded his
audience that although agriculture
is the first in importance, the state
cannot depend on this industry. He
urged tne squeicmng ui tne man
who radiates class hatred and
prejudice reminding its own welfare
by treading down any other industry.
Issues Annual Thanksgiving Day
Proclamation Call For Prayer
Ask That Those in Authority Be
Remembered in Prayer of People
Next Thursday.
Raleigh, Nov. 19. Governor Mor
rison issued his Thanksgiving procla
mation today, an unusual document
in that it lack the sterotyped pharas
eology of the customary proclamation
and contains a definite appeal to the
people for the observance of the day.
The governor asks that those "who
are strong and able" remember the
orphanages of the state, "and that
they contribute liberally through their
various religious agencies to augu
nient the capacity of these beautiful
and practical expressions of religion
made through the orphanages."
The prayer of the people for
strength, righteousness and wisdom
for all who are in authority, in the
state and nation, is asked.
The governor reminds that "as a
state the year is richly laden with
blessings for which we ouprht to ren
der thanks unto Him from whom
all blessings flow."
ALL SET FOR BIG DAY AT
HILL"
"THE
MOTHER OF TRIPLETS
IS CLAIMED BY DEATH
Mrs. T. S. Justice Leaves Six Children
All Under Six Years of Age.
Rutherfordton, Nov 11 Mrs.
Thomas S. Justice, who gave birth to
triplets, all girls, here in October
died Wednesday night at midnight I
from leakage of the heart, Brighjt's
disease and a complication of mala
dies. She was 26 years old and leaves
a husband and six children, all of
whom are under six years of ase. The
triplets of five week old; one child
is one year old, another three and the
oldest is five years of age. She was
married in August, 1915. Her husband
was drafted in 1917 when they had
only one child and he claimed no ex
emption from the draft. He was over
seas 10 months and was at the front
when the armistice was signued.
The dying mother's request was
that the triplets be never parted. The
father wants the triplets placed in a
good orphanage or in a home where
they can get a chance of an education
and have good Christian influence.
The triplets are all normal children,
average size and are doing well. The
mother's funeral was conducted at
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tne local cemetery xnuiauay aiLeiuuuu
at 1 o'clock. The good people of the
town and county have helped the dis
tressed father.
ROBESON PHYSICIANS .
DO NOT APPROVE BEER
WAR LORDS IN POWER IN JAPAN
Maxton, Nov. 16. Resolutions con
demning the use of beer and wines as
medicines were adopted at a recentt
meeting of the Robeson County Me
dical Society. The resolutions fol
low: "The members of the Robeson
County Medical Society do not look,
with favor upon the recent ruling,
providing that wine and beer be put
back on the market, under the pre
tense that they are esential as med
ical agents. We object $o having
anything to do with thfc distribu
tion oi tnese intoxicants.
"While wine has some medicinal
value, it is the unanimous opinion
of the members of this society that
there are other drugs, whiet will fill
the place, being more effective, ad
at the same time a great deal safer.
"We believe that prohibition has
been of such incalculable benefit to
tne country tnat we wuum uraiwic
to do anything that would mar, in
the least, the beneficent effect of tho
18th amendment. The soclity thinks
that this amendment is on of the
greatest blessings that has ever come
to, the American people."
Chapel Hill, Nov 16.A11 the foot
ball matches except the one with
Virginia are past. Now the Uni
versity is looking forward to the
Thanksgiving Day game with an
anticipation that is doubly keen be
cause the battle is to be waged on
the home grounds at Chapel Hill.
Not merely a fortunate two or three
hundred execursionists, but every
body in the University, faculty and
students, will see it.
It is regarded as a splendid omen
that Carolina has played its best
against teams outside the State. It
lost to N. V. state ana uea ubviummi,
but it walked over Maryland in
Cuimnm .mil fr Virginia Military
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TnaHtnte in Richmond. If this habit
M wallc.ilag OUd -etmMmien
force, Thanksgiving dusk will be
greeted here as the end of a per
fect day.
On the records of the season it
would seem that Carolina's chances
for victory are at least even, if not
hotter. )..:
A KNOCK-OUT FOR HARVEY
FARMERS FAVOR LOT OF
CHANGES
Batch of Resolution Passed At Clos
ing Session.
(By Brock Barkley in Charlotte Ob )
Raleigh, Nov. 17. The North
Carolina Farmers' union favors a
lot of changes in the existing orler
of things, economically and politi
cally, and in a batch of resolutions
passed at the closing session of the
fourteenth annual convention to
night the farmers ' desires are set,
forth.
The union favors:
Trade relations with Russia, ref ji
endum on war, Europe paying her
own war debt, the election of the
federal judiciary, the discontinuance
of cotton raising and the production
of foodstuffs instead.
The union advocates:
Government ownership of rail
roads; taxation of all stocks and
bonds.
The union demands:
A just tax system based on ability
to pay, that school books be furnish
ed by the state, the repeal of the
cotton bale tax.
The only thing the union opposed
in its thirteen resolutions is "the
American valuation basis of tariff."
The report had gone the rounds
that the farmers were going to
knock Governor Morrison's road
program and the bond issues, but
they did not give the slightest cOn-
side ration to this subject, endorsing
by their silence, in the opinion of
many, the executive's program.
The resolutions were significant
by reason of the fact that no
COULD SCRAP SHIPS WITHOUT
ANY ACTION OF CONGRESS
Washington, Nov. 18. Congress
would not be called upon to act on any
armament reduction program, in viaw
of the administration, unless the
agreement reached was put into the
form of a treaty. The warships to be
scrapped, administration officials de
clared, could be disposed of without
congressional action under the author
ity the navy has of declaring a vessel
!no longer useful and directing its dis
posal. So far as the questions of the far
east are concerned it was indicated
clearly that the administration be
lieved an international 'understanding
of policy would result rather than a
formal treaty.
The officials, holding these views ex
pressed entire readiness to lay before
Congress an agreement in which
either the senate or house should feel
they had a right to be consulted, but
declared that so far as the present
outlooked was concerned they could
see no occasion to raise a constitution
al question.
Matters of naval appropriation, it
was said, naturally would have to be
dealt with by Congr'w in order to
carry out the terms of any agreement,
but confidence was expressed that no
inflict would arise on that point. It
n nmli i. i. i . ... I ll.if S ..!.. inula II I'll
was cilipuaai&CM tuau 111 unc ivuiu 111 in
dict now whether the armament pro
Gram eventually would take the form
of a treaty or merely such an under
standing as would not require senate
ratification.
EIGHT PERSONS KILLED BY
A TORNQDO IN ARKANSAS
Mena, Ark, Nov. 18-j Eight persons
in the home of Robert E. Weems, near
Wickers, a small town 25 miles south
of here, were killed last night when a
tornado wrecked the house.
The dead are Mrs. Robert Weems,
her daughters, Mrs. Mattie Felta and
the Misess Ken-en, Bela and Verda
Weems; her son, Warner Weems, aged
23, and Halwey Felts, brother-in-law
of Mrs. Felts,. The body of Miss Ver
da Weems was found in a patch of
woods half a mile from the wrecked
house.
sition whatsoever was expressed to
wards state affairs, the farmers
being considered in line with exist
ing policies.
Their demand for the furnishing
of textbooks by the state mean they
want the state to go further in the
expenditure of money that would be
oppo- required.
STREET CONTRACTS
FOR HALF A MILLION
A crushing answer to Col. George
Harvey's latest London speech, the
one in which he said that the question
of the United States entering "en
tangling alliances" was an issue in the
last campaign, is given by Irving N.
Tompkins, of White Plains. Mr. Tomp
kins Says:
Ambassador Harvey in his latest
speech in Liverpool said: "Our first
President, President Washington, with
the acquiescence of famous contem
porary statemen of the young repub
lic, fixed the foreign policy of the
United States clearly and unequivo
cally when he adjured his countrymen
never, under any circumstances, to en
ter into a pf-wianer" alliance with any
I believe that every Democrat and
evary Republican of , intelligence
agrees that this doctrine is sound.
Mr. Harvey futher said that this
was reiterated in the last campaign
and confirmed by a majority of the
people.
An alliance with any foreign nation
,'was not an issue in the last presiden
tial campaign. The League of Na
tions was an issue.
The League of Nations is not an
alliance. The League of Nations is
as assembly of the representatives of
(ii 11 the nations who will enter to coun
sel together and to make recommen
dations for the welfare of mankind.
One of its objects is to do away
with alliances or entanglement.
George Washington wrote: "My
iirst wish is to see the whole world
in peace, and the inhabitants of it
as one band of brothers, striving who
should contirbute most to the hapiness
of mankind."
George Washington warned against
alliances or entanglement, but his
first wish was for a League or Bro
therhood of Nations. "
It is likely that the League of
Nations was less of an issue in the
last campaign than was generally sup
posed. A Democratic administrtion
had waged a great war, waged it fear
ilessly and waged it successfully. Mil
lions were made disatisfied for one
ronsnn nr another. All Herman svm-
pathizers and connections were of
course against the administration. The
Irish and in fact all hyphenates were
estranged because a party directing
the policies of a nation at war cannot
play politics and keep in with all
classes.
But to the extent that the League of
Nations was an issue, it was through
misunderstanding of it that it was
used as an argument against the Dem
ocratic candidate. The proof of this is
seen in the fact that the statemen of
the world are now assembled at Wash
ington to do the very thing that the
League of Nations is trying to do, is
doing to some extent, and could be
doine nerfectlv if the United States
had joined in. News and Observer.
Charlotte, Nov. 16. Contracts for
more than half a million dollars in
street and sewer improvements were
let yesterday at the morning meet
ing of the board of city commis
sioners. More than 14 miles of pav
ing is included in the awards, which
were obtained for the molt part by
Charlotte concern.
By far the largest contract award
ed was that given to Blythe Broth
ers, which include something over 14
miles of new streets. The cost is
estimated to be $525,000, dependent
upon the material to be uaed as to
whether it will be more or leas tnan
this amount. The figurest will not
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verv iar irum tma ma. i.uici,
was stated.
Dr Jeremiah W. Jenks Tells a Char
lotte Audience the Militaristic Spir
it is as Strong in Japan as in Ger
manyBitter Toward the United
States.
Chariot t j Observer, 16th.
The political ani economic situa
tion in the far east, particularly in
Japan and the attitude of the Japanese
toward the United States was the
theme of an address delivered by Dr.
Jeremiah W. Jenks, of New York city,
before a group of business men at
the chamber of commence last night.
Dr. Jenks has spent many years in
Japan and China and is thoroughly
familiar with the inside situation ex
isting in those countries. He is chair
man of the advisory board of the Al
exander Hamilton institute and came
to Charlotte on the invitation of the
Rotary club. He was a guest of the
Rotarians at luncheon yesterday.
More propaganda unfavorable to
the United States is launched in Ja
pan than in any other country in the
world, Mr. Jenks stated. "The Japan
ese press is shackled by the govern
ment and jingoists and yellow jour
nalists and bitter in their denuncia tion
of the United States," he S lid.
"The newspapers do not reflect the
opinions of the people, but express the
dictates of the government. And the
governmer ii strongly anti-American."
This attitude on the part of the Ja
panese government arise" from the
belief that tne united isiares is ex
ceeding its rights in interfering with
Ti.nr.ii!) -nlovio tn tivtoml its influenc
unpu pit.ii.1 w " - .v.. .
over China and other territory in the
Orient, according to Mr. Jenks. He
declared that Japanese officials see in
the stand America has taken for the
I nrntection of weaker nations from
vandalism of their stronger neigh
bors, a definite obstacle to Japan's ef
forts to gain political aggrandize
ment and territorial expansion at the
expense of other nationalities in the
far east.
"The militaristic spirit prevails . in
Janan as stronirlv todav as it did in
Asheville, Nov. 9. Fordney"s Creek
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NEGROES ELECTED TO
OFFICE IN THE NORTH
The idea of negroes being elected
to office does not appeal to southern
white people, and never will, but thera
is a great difference between the
south and the porth when it comes to
putting negroes in office. For in
stance the Charlotte Observer discus
sing this question says:
"A negro named John William
Smith was elected a member of the
board of aldermen in New York City
on the Democratic ticket. On tho
same day, in Philadelphia, a negro
named Amos Scott, running on the Re
publican ticket, i-TrVas elected a mag
istrate, and thereupon develops a con
trast in princlfle and character.
Scott, the negro tjfie Philadelphia Re
publicans put into a responsible office,
according to The Record, is "an ex-
saloon keeper and a man of no special
fitness," and "much comment was
made on his elevation." On the other
hand, the negro elected on the Demo
cratic ticket in New York as alderman,
"seems to be fitted by education and
experience for the job." He is a law
yer and has been in active practice for
20 years. He is an apostle of the new
idea oi pontics ior tne negro, as
manifested in his statement that col-
nAnntti Innvo awaVantui r.n the fact.
that politics is no longer a religion,
but a business. They are awake, he
says, to the fact that they should sup
port men and Issues, and not parties.
"The negroes of New York," he says,
"do not associate Southern Democracy
with Northern Democracy, nor 'Lily
White' Southern Republicanism withi
Northern Republicanism They realize
that intimate local questions like 5
cent fares, housing and rent legisla
tion, sanitary conditions and police
protection, concern them more than
National issues. Another contribut
ing factor was the attitude of the Na
tional Administration excluding the
negro from active participation in pol
itics in the South."
FOUR MEN IN AN AUTO
KILLED NEAR ROANOKE
Roanoke, Va., Nov. 12. Four per
sons were instantly killed this after
noon when a Norfolk and Western
passenger train struck an automobile
in which they were riding at a rail
road crossing near Vinton, three miles
east of her. The dead:
Arshie Wilkes, 33; Charles Wilkes,
37; John Wilkes 81; Don Dlckerson, 84
The men, who resided in a surbur -ban
district of this city, were return
ing from a hunting trip. The automo
bile was moving over the crossing
when the engine struck it, hurling the
machine into a box car on a siding
and crushing the occupants. The en
gineer said he did not see the automo
k bile, it was declared.
GOVERNOR DECLINES TO COM
MUTE SENTENCE OF GUIL
FORD NEGRO WIFE SLAYER
Governor Morrison Wednesday de
clined to interfere with the death
sentence pronounced upon Claude
Morehead, Guilford county negro,
sentenced to be electrocuted for the
murder of his wife, November 30,
1921.
Morehead beat and choked his wife j
to death, after they had spent a;
Sunday in drunken revelries in a
notorious negro settlement near
Greensboro called "Bull Pen."
Upon assurances of Hurbert O'Neal
of Vance county, serving a two-year
sentence for abandonment, that he
will support his wiie, ano upon -surances
from the wife that she
trusts her husband in his newly made
resolution, Governor Morrisoon parol
ed O'Neal for the balance of his
term .
At the same time he gave Col.
Albert Cox, attorney for Henry
Grub, assurance that while he now
declines to pardon Grubb, sentenced
in July, 1920, to eighteen months on
the Randolph county roads for manu
facturing whisfley, unless some rea
son appeared to the contraray, a
parole will be granted January 1.
This is conditioned upon the agree
ment of the family to tawe the pris
oner from the State and provide a
home for him.
Governor Morrison, giving last
week to petitions for commutation of vill6j S-
sentences Thursday took action in six Anderson,
cases.
A thirty days parole was granted W,
T. Brewer, convicted in Davidson
county in 1920 of mayhem and sen
tenced to ten years. The parole was
1 granted so that the prisoner could at- kave
tend a civil action involving a large
amount of money. A five thousand
dollar bond was required for his
keeping the parole.
Frank Gregory, convicted of man
slaughter in Harnett county in 1919, at $3,00,000 and
and serving an eight years sentence, 120,000 spindles.
is paroled upon the recommendation
nf the iudtre and solocitor
SHORT ITEMS
Norfolk, Va Nov. 15. A Student
need not discontinue his studies even
when sentenced to serve a jail sen
tence, ruled Judge Groner, of the Uni
ted States district court, in sending
Charlie Lewis, 15 to the Gloucester
county jail for sixty dayes after a
hearing. Young Lewis was given a
sentence for stealing from the mails,
it being stipulated that he should be
permitted to attend high school daily
while serving sentence.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 16. A
solid carload of fine Scotch and rye
whiskey billed from Miami to Kansas
City as "fish" was seized by Sheriff
R. E. Merritt and Federal Prohibition
agents in the railroad yards here to
day. The discovery that the refri
gerator car contained the contraband
was made when the ice was being re
moved. The local chapter of the American
Red Cross has rendered effective
and commendable services as shown
by the records. This work has been
seriously handicapped for lack of
funds. A few hundred dollars is all
that is necessary to continue; a large
part of this goes to the fund to re
tain a county nurse and the balance
is expended in giving assistance to
disabled soldiers.
Charlotte, Nov. 17. Word E.
Wood, Arthur J. Draper, W. S. Lee,
of Charlotte. B. E: Geer, of Gresn-
C. B. B. Gossett of
S. C, have purchased
$1,500,000 rorth of the stock of the
Chadwick-Hoskins string of cotton
mills, from the Guaranty Trust Com
pany and the Liberty National Bank
of New York, institutions whicn
owned this part of the total
stock of the company, and at a
meeting of the directors held in
New York Wednesday, B. B. Gosse't
was elected president of the Chadwick-Hoskins
Company, captalized
owing a total of
THE SCHOOL HOUSE LOAN FUND
Raleigh, New 18. The five million
dollar loan building fund authorized
by the 1921 Legislature for the cons
truction of school houses will be used
by the counties, according to an an
nouncement by the State Board of
Education.
This money will be raised by the is
suance of serial bonds which will be
advertised January 1, 1022, and turned
over tai the counties for application to
school house construction provided for
by the act. The money will be repaid
in installments running over a period
of 20 years, with interest at not over
five per cent
It la the belief of State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction that the
majority of the fund will go to schools
in small towns and villages, and Will
be a great impetus to rural education
in North Carolina. . J
Jehka said. "The military authorities
and Japanese war lords are resort
ing to methods almost identical to
those practiced in Germany, with the
view of establishing Japan's preemin
ence among the nations of the wor"d.
"Taking advantage of the situat"on
created by the entrance of the entente
allies into the war against Germany
Japan deliberately set out to make
herself over into a great power at
the outset of the war. China had wish
eu to take advantage of the situ a
tion and drive the Germans out of
Shantung, but Japan ref jsed to let
her do. this, r-refering the honor her
self. She readily dislodged the Ger
man forces stationed there and pro
ceeded to replace them with her own
troops.
"Not content with this tour de force
Japan next occupied the line of the
Shantung railway and turned all for
eigners out of advantageous positions
and put Japanese In possession, in
19f 5 she forced China, under threat of
war, to submit to encroachments on
Chinese rights, to grant the Japanese
special privileges in Manchuria and
Mongolia and to acknowledge her au
thority in political matters.
"The United States and Great Bri
tain rightly notified Japan that they
would not recognise the privileges in
Shantung obtained by Japan fr .m
China through coercive measures. The
United States has not yet recognized
Japan's claims on the island of Yap.
"Japan has seized through force
and fraud priviliges in the east. The
whole question should be juogea ot
a basis of what is right and above-
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board. It is cenainiy pu. rigm.
cognize holdings obtained without the
consent of China, a nor. aggressive al-
"The whole eastern question hinges
on the attitude of Great Britain. Citi
zens of Great Britain who have spent
many years In China and Japan nd
familiar with the situation there
are thoroughly in sympathy with the
attitude of the United States on the
far east aueation . Naturally Great
Britain has felt herself under certain
obligations to the Japanese for the
part they played in the world war.
The proper thing for the allies to do is
to see that Japan is paid for her ser
vices during the war and ordered to
maintain a nolicv of "hands off" in re
gard to China and other eastern terri
tory. "If Chin were allowed to do so she
could straighten out her own affairs
satisfactorily within the next ten
or twenty years, if there were no In
terferences from outside sources. It
is hoped that an agreement to pro
tect, the normal rhrhts of China and
help her on her feet again will be
reached among the nations represent
ed at the conference now being held
in Washington. China can never re
gain her political and social stability
if the United States and Great Britain
permit Japan to exploit her.
"Jarian has a decided advantage ov-
000 in road bonds yesterday for the
purpose of building a highway down .
the Kuckesiegee and Tennessee river
from Bryson City to Chilhowee, Tenn.
thur Holmes, serving a five months
sentence for making liquor in David
son county, was declined.
W. E. Wooten, convicted at the May
erm of the larceny of an automobile
and sentenced to four years from Guil-
ford county, is paroled upon tne re- General Julian' S. Carr
commendation o the judge and solici- Douievar(j from Durham
tor. Hill should and will meet with gen-
A twenty year sentence for second era approval,
degree murder of Augustus Alexan
der Beaufort county, is reduced to The proclamation of peace with
fifteen years, both the judge and the Germany made hardly a ripple in
solicitor recommending clemency. The the swiftly moving current of events,
two years sentence of E. D. Corriher, A peace so loosely written and ne-
serving a two years sentence from gotiated could not be expected to
Rowan county, is paroled for the bal- create much of a commotion, how-
ance of his term.
Bessie Logan, of Guilford county,
serving a four years sentence, for lar
ceny of an automobile, must serve the
full term.
The proposal to erect an arch or
some other structure in honor of
over the
to Chapel
ever News and Observer.
JAPAN'S REPLY TO PROPOSAL
OF CHINA AWAITED
QUAIL AND GUINEAS
Washington, Nov. 17 The far
eastern negotiations await the reply
of Japan to China's declaration of
WILL EAT WEEVILS rights, and the American move foe
limitation of naval armaments is
The report seems to have gotten glowing up because of objections
current in Cleveland county that quail raised both by Japan and Great
will eat boll weevils and as a result Brattan. . (
the farmers of Cleveland county are Discussion of the far eastern
posting their lands against hunters, problems, which for the momeit
R. S. Clark who came from the boll are jn the foreground of the arms
Weevil section of Mississippi and lived conference, were acanced by the
with Mr. Lucius Randall in lower mg ninc today to the point of an
Cleveland, brought the statement that agreement that a general exchange!
while in Masissippi before the boll. 0f viewp on China's program should
weevil compelled him to seek greener precede any consideration of
partures, he killed a quail and found Spec"- points.
83 weevils in its craw. He says gui- Such a general presentation of
neas wil also eat boll wevils and views Japan was unprepared to
suggests that farriers stock their make, and the big nine adjourned
farms with guineas and post their until Saturday,
lands against hunters for quail in Meantime Japan made known
order that these birds might multi- formally her desire to modify the
u. a the farmers from ereat Ame.'ican Tilan of naval limitation
yiy onu i
da wife e to their crops so as to give her a "slightly
One farmer of Cleveland county greater relative s'rengtn, and in&
suggests that the quail should be in- opposition of the British to the aub
vestigated and if it is found that marine quota suggested by the
they do destroy the boll weevil as it united states gave evidence oi aacti
is reported they do, the special ses- determination as to attract the at
sion of the legislature which meets tent ion of the whole body of dele
December 6th should be asked to pass gntes ,
a law making it a misdemeanor to First Impetus Giving Way
hunt of kill quail at any season of The day's worn seemed to indi
the year. Shelby Star. cate that the first impetus of the
. conference waa riving way to
er other nations because of her geo- period of more deliberate discussion
graphical situation. But she must be whcn mleht preclude the possibility
made to realize that she can grow 0f outstanding developments for the
more rapidly through the development immediate future. Plans were
of her commerce and natural reaour- ma(ie, however , to tackle the third
ces than by creating a great military hje j0b 0f the conference, tha
machine for the purpoae of aeiaihg po- limitation 0f land armaments, early
litical power, next week at an open session at
'The argument that she must in- wnich Premier Briand will make a
vade China, Korea Siberia and other f,r- reaching declaration of the
eastern territories in order to provide views 0f France,
an outlet for the surplus of her grow- The big nine's session on fr
ing population is largely a smoke eagtern questions today was large-
screen behind which Japan hopes to iy given over to a discussion of the
conceal her real purpose, which is to method of procedure.
acquire political sWay over these
counties. There is sufficient terri- A writer enumerates five States
tory in her sparsely inhabited islands which do not regulate in any way the
and undeveloped crown lands to take hours in which women may work. But
I care of increase in population for he forgot about a sixth the married
many years to came. stated Burlington Newa,