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v - ti x=ac NESDAY JANUARY 10, 1**3 2 CENTS PER COP/—$5. YEAR LEAkSVILLE NOi<IM CARO] » 1 y p i. WHI£ THAN » B^HEDDEB African Chief* Take'mFp«s«eS*ion of *« Vmbrefia Veryfiertouely, Ao cording to Reporf*. Some time ago, there was what the . news described tts unreSt fa the West ‘"Sy -^Irlcsn colony of Lagost telegrams ,,-?»^^l8pattdied betw*i£ttk«t country -.land Great Britain,, governors and deputjsgovernors \refe interviewed, and it was with difficulty that a native war was averted. The cause of all this commotio* was im umbrella I > Now, in our country, as we ail know, an umbrella Is looked upon as a harm less possession—but not so in West Africa. There, among most of the na tive tribes, the umbrella is regarded as an emblem of royalty, and its pos session is strictly confined to the chief or king of the tribe. Therefore the indignation was In tense on the part of one of these kings, when he found an inferior chief putting up an umbrella of his own. The king at once took a journey to Lagos, to lodge a formal complaint of the chiefs treasonable conduct with the British governor. An African king's umbrella is a very elaborate affair, and it often costs large suras of moneys Most of the umbrellas for Ashanti and the Gold coast are made’of gigantic size, some of them when open measuring ten feet across. The coverings of these umbrella^ are of colored silk—;fhe brighter the better, with very deep fringes. The largest umbrellas are. carried over the heads of chiefs, by bearers while other bearers steady the umbrella by cords attached to the uppermost phrts. One state umbrella had for Its apex a silver eagle standing on, two silver cannons, while another umbrella had a gold hen on the top, the lien being surrounded by numerous chickens, to represent the chief and his tribe. CHANGES IN “OLD FAITHFUL” Yellowstone's Famous Oeyser Has Slightly Lengthened the Period* Between Its Eruptions. Old Faithful, Yellowstone's most famous geyser, has slightly changed the period of Its eruptions. According to the observations of the park naturalist and the rangers, the geyser now spouts on an average every 84.6 minutes. Last year the av erage period was 60 mlnuteB. The alteration In Old faithful’s “tempo" does not Indicate #£ lesgMfc ner’s observations show the mighty fountain to be Increasing In volume. The change is believed to be due to an alteration In the subterranean tube of the geyser. For the last year or so Old Faithful has acquired a habit of occasionally throwing out small rocks. The pas sage of the rocks through the tube is v believed to , have enlarged Its dimen sions slightly, this In turn being re sponsible for the lengthened period be tween eruptions and the increased vol ume of water. A number of other Interesting changes, lending a constantly varying . interest to the mysterious manifesta tions of the park's performing natural wonders, also are reported by official observers. That Word “Corker." The American word “corker,” mean ing a person or thing of snpeiinHve quality, is only a slang use of a legiti mate English word. Corker, in Its original sense, meant a conclusive ar gument. It probably originated from the finality which a cork thrust into the mouth of a bottle stops all egress, or Ingress of material in it: > The relegation of the word ns used in America to the limbo of slang by the ‘dictionary writers has neither weakened the word nor limited Its use. The word “corker” is a perfectly good word. It expresses precisely a shade of meaning that needed to be expressed, and the chances are that It will be a word of good and regular standing long after the bones of the last living dictionary writers have thoroughly' bleached.—Milwaukee Sen tinel. LEADS IN HOME OWNERSHIP titWn, Canada la at All Nations In Vtoapbct Accor L ,%X*r*L Canada has a larger percentage of home owners in Its population than any other notion; according to recent ly c<ftn piled Hjttircs of the census de partment. **■ London, Ontario, lends among Cana dian cities with $0 per cent of Its in habitants owning their own homes. Hamilton and Cfilgary have 60 per cent home owners, Toronto 55 per cent, Halifax 51 per cent,- Vancouver 45 per cent, Edmonton 46 per cent, Winnipeg 44 per cent, Ottawa 40 per -cent, Montreal 5 per cent. Montreal, the largest city in Canada, pulls down the general average to 35 per cent for the ten cities. Taking into consideration the country dis tricts, It Is believjd by the census ex perts that nearly150 ger cent of the people of Canaiffa «wn their own homes. Canada <s a land of farm owners where the, tenant farmer Is al most unknown. The ten cities covered by the figures range In number of residences from 0,000 to )34,000. jOf 72 cities In the United States Wfth a population of 100,000 or mope, only two, Des Moines and Grand,Haplds, It Is declared, have a 50 per cent population of home own ers. -Des Moines tops the list with 51.1 per cent while Grand Rapids has only a shade fo#*. Recent government statistics ljaythe United States show that 45.6 per cent of the people of the United States own their own homes and 54.4 per cent live In rented quar ters. i GOT VERIFICATION FROM DAD 6mall Boy .Satisfied That Malachy Was Rioht About the Steering Gear of Bulldogs. An eminent college professor Is the father of a small boy who Is very ob servant and inquisitive, and Is the em ployer of a man who has much Irish frit and humor. One day Alfred, the small boy, was playing with a cat In the stable while Malachy ctecned tjie harness. “Say, Malachy,’’ the child asked, “why do cats always land on their feetr ' j “They steer tbtmsllves wid their, tall.” “Well, how do rabbits stem them 'f? They haven’t long tails, only '.a ifcub.’? “ ear*; that’s phwat they “How does a bulldog steer himself? He doesn’t have long ears or a long tall.’’ “Wld his bark." At this the boy looked doubtful. Presently he ran to his father’s study, nnd in a few minutes came back to the stable. “Malachy 1" “Yis?” “That's true what you told me about bulldogs. I asked papa, and he read something to mother out of a bopk about ’barks that steer against tile wind.’ ”—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Unexpected Candor. My most embarrassing moment oc curred one day last winter. I was at tending a church bazaar with a friend of whom I was very fond. All went well until we came to the pillow booth, where I made my horrible break. Quite confidentially I told her: “Now. some of those pillows aren’t so bad looking, and some of them are really quite good looking, but did you ever In your life see one in as poor taste as that?” M.v friend looked fit me queerly for a.moment and then said: “I’ll admit It Is In poor taste, but, then, you see, I am rather noted for my lack of taste, . and I made that.” I made a hasty exit, and have not since had the courage to face her, though she Insists on considering It a JOke.—Chicago Tribune. Effect of War Against Diteace. The effect of successful war against disease and death Is to make/life bet ter worth living. There Is no doubt that whole cities and even countries have lived at a low physical level of well-being. Settlers In malarial dis trict* of the United States are perti nent examples. For them life was a sad affair. Low death and sickness rates signify a more exuberant vitality, and more general enjoyment of-life. The possibilities In a nation which really enjoys life are limitless.—Pitts burgh Dispatch. •»* EXTRACT F^Olli THE 4 GOVERNORS MESSAGE this plan, then I urge you to evolvjte from your own councils a.plafr thrtjng.h whiotapsve can be relieved from the ,difficulties I have PieQ tionetl. The duty of finding a ‘rent ed v is yours, not ,-i^RU. I offey my lo not approve my recommenda tion, then T tyeg you to give;, the state a better one.^Q % f . q«te tonuneyce epu^t Aot foievfr languish. We must not forever re maln Vhginia territory commefrcial lr‘ ." ,1m ||; RHINE TROOPS OF * UNITED STATES ‘ ORDERED HOME French and Belgian Troops On Way to Ruhr for French Protection AMERICAN TROOPS DON’T WELCOME NEWS (By Associated Press! Washington. Jan. 10,—With-draw al of the American troops from the Rhine was ordered by the Presidena, who the state department said in announcing .the decision, deemed the time expedient, for the recall of the forces now at Coblenz. The Forces number about one thousand men and it indicated the withdraw al will be carried out os soon as major general Allen could make the necessary arrangements. No offical explanation of the order is forthcoming, but it is un derstood to have followed notifica tion frm France t.hat she intended to proceed With the occupation of Ruhr valley, despite the definite knowledge of the withdrawal oi American troops would be ordered if she did so. News Displease Soldiers Coblenz.— Withdrawal orders caused much excitement among American troops many of men being depressed at news which was transmitted them by the Associated Press Correspondent. BELGIUMS TROOP ON WAY TO RUHR DISTRICT (By Associated Press) Brussels. Jan. 10,—The first Belgian troops to be put in motion for cooperation with the French in occupying Ruhr, entrained for Air La Chapelle. They totalled eighteen hundred. BELGIUM JOINS FRANCE rjj ****** w l WL-RUHJL D ISTRICT ' (By Associated Ire as) Brussels. Jan. 10, —Premier Theunis formally announced to the chamber of debuties, the goverments determination to stand beside France in the occupation of Ruhr, saying he regretted the allies are moving without England and neither anger npr vengeance actuated Bel gium. a .—"■■■ —■ ■ ■ GREAT BR]TIAN WANTS ONLY FAIR BUSINESS SETTLEMENT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10,—Great Britain Wants a fair business set tlement *of her five billion dollars war debt to the United States, on such terms as will produce the least possible disturbance in the trade relations of the two countries, Stanley Baldwin, British chancllor of the exchequer, declared before a meeting of the British American debt fund' commissions. i 4. GAZETTE FORCE CRIPPLED WITH “FLU” Our J^unotype Operator, Martin McGilvary, is still confined to his room with the influenza, and al though he was able to sit up some today, is very weak and will not be able to’be out for a few days yet. Master Carlyle and Julian Barks dale, w^o are great help about the office after school,' each evening, are also sick, therefore the Editor, Mrs. Murray and Charles Mitchell are making a great effort to get out a paper. ’ Only those that no something of the work, can realize the difficulty we are up against, and we may not be able to get but a paper every day. BAPTIST PRAYMEETING There; prill be aspecial program at praypr ...meeting tonight, ^ at the First Baptist Church. Among Jthose having apart in theprogram Will be a song by Miss Gladys Osborne, Reading, Contracting the 4^urc^ habit, bjpMrs Beeker, also a reading by Mist Gwendolyn Hampton. agdasgerWjtr- Mi . .. ■ H*6 OF ‘GOOD OLD DAYS’ fllraat-Grandfather Enlighten* Flap, per a* to the Moaning of 8omO Tern* of .Long Ago. : *®e*o a poor not!" Jeered tha flap “Tn ’09 we should have called htra a -hammer,’ ” put la her great ’ather, unexpectedly. The flapper looked Interested. **Vfhat was ’59 for hip-pocket V asked *he. ; ** ‘Bingo,’ ” answered the old man promptly. “And home brow we should lfave called ‘blue-ruin’; *a gentleman Occasionally was ‘disguised.’’’ 0 "Go on,” cried the flapper, delighted. j “You, my dear”—he bowed to her— •♦would have been ‘smart as a carrot’ my day. Some of your contem poraries I’ve seen ‘slummocking’ about jfc their ‘dumpers,’ more like men than Women, but you are always—‘Jfm »” i“Nert you’ll be telling me you shim led In ’59!” v “No, we ‘hopped.’ Do you know ybat we meant by a ‘hummer’?” f “A good one,” guessed the flapper. fHow did you get excited?” A "We were In a *pucker,’ or we went fn a ‘bnrst,’ or there was a ‘plnther,’ ” laid her great-grandfather. Then he haded: “But there’s one word that your generation can’t parallel. What fid we mean by ‘mannersblt?’’’ “You have me, grandfather,” ad mitted the flapper. The old man opened a little, worn book on the table beside him and read: r ‘Mannersblt—a portion of a dish left by the guests, that the host may pot feel himself reproached.’ Those pare good old days—what?” said he. 4 -T— HIGH FOOD VALUE OF DATES ! ideal Diet Never Property Appreciated -j„. by the American Public, Is Physician’s Assertion. “The value of the date as a food Is pot half appreciated by the American imblle,” writes Dr. John Harvey Kel logg. “The date not only furnishes a Variety of sugar which Is readily as similated and which Is much more Wholesome than cane sugar, but It sup plies a fine quality of food iron. An jounce of dates, In fact, supplies one third more food Iron than an ordinary . beefsteak and Iron of much finer Quality. I > “The date Is equally superior as a I source of food lime and other food ; «alts, supplying seven times as much •ijlme ns does beef tenderloin. The date tlon of milk to constitute a complete diet. A pound of dates and a quart of milk afford nourishment not only suf ficient In quantity to supply the needs of the average person* but of the high est quality. “The American people are suffering from lime starvation, which Is result ing not only In a loss of stature, due to lack of bone development, but an al most universal decay of teeth. T"e free use of dates with milk as a part of the American breakfast would con duce greatly to Improvement of the national health and the lowering of the mortality rate.” The Mosquito Plant. The virtues of the species of basil (Ocymum vlrlde) known as the mos quito plant are attracting attention In England. An army officer has given a growing plant to the botanical gar dens at Kew. He obtained It In Ni geria, where, he says, It Ts known to drive mosquitoes from Its neighbor hood, and the natives use an infusion of Its leaves as a cure for malarial fevers. Its virtues are known In India also, as a border of it was planted round the Victoria garden In Bombay because the . workmen were pestered by mosquitoes and suffered from ma laria. As soon as the hedge was com pleted the mosquitoes left and there was no more malaria among the work men.—Exchange. . Figurea for Home Builder. Unless very much Interested in figures, the home builder, does not know how each dollar Is spent that he puts' Into the construction of his home. He knows In a general way that there are several general groups, but as he looks at the finished dwell ing he doe% not know what per cent of the cost went for masonry or car pentry or something else. Using the dollar for Illustrating the relative costs, tt is estimated that 36.1 cents go for masonry, 29.1 cents for car pentry, 8.7 cents for heating, 6.5 cents for electrical work, 6 cents for plumb ing, 3.5 cents for sheet metal work, 2.9 cents for roofing and 15 cents for hardware. DECIDE NO MORE BILLS AFFECTING THE REVENUE (By Associated Press) Washington. /Ian. 10, —House ways and means committee have decided that no bill affecting revenu es, would be reported this session except ihose of purely an emergency nature, or of direct assistance to the treasury in the adminsirtation of fiscal affairs. FORD MOTOR COMPANY ' TO HAVE ANOTHER PLANT (Bv Arsv.iated t ress) St. Paul Minn. Jan. 10,—Plans to establish a plant here for the man ufacture of automobiles and trac tors, was announced by the Ford motor Company. The Purchase of one hundred and sixty seven and a half acres of land, adjacent to the Goverment dam is completed, and application is to be made for powet rights. If these are granted a te* million dollar plant will be built employing fourteen to fifteen thousand men. If denied, a steam plant is to- be built on a smaller scale. I . ENGINEERS DECLARES DUST EXPLOSIONS PREVENTABLE (By Associated Press) | BUFFALO, Jan. 10,—Dus' ex- ( plosions cannot be of spontaneous origin and are preventable, David J. Price, engineer in charge of de velopment of agriculeure, informs the safety bureau of t.he chamber of commerce here. 'In thirteen recent dust explos ions in representative types of manufacturing plants, Mr. Price says, 155 lives have been lost and property worth $16,250,000 de stroyed. Grain elevators, feed mills, sugar refineries and starch factor ies were the scenes of the most ser ious disasters, but explosions also have occured in dust from powder ed milk, soap, fertilizer, cocoa, spice and cork. -Smoking and using open lights in plants where the air is fillled with dust particles are the most frequent causes of dust explosion, the bureau’s statistics show. HINTON OKLA. BANK IS ROBBED OF $10,000 (By Associated Press) ..Hinton. Okie.. Jan. 10,—Three bandits held up the first national bank of Hinton and locked three person's Tit a 'vault spat OrWiped in sutoipofafle. with -approximately, ten thousand dollars in. currency and bonds. WASHINGTON CONCEEDS WAR DEBT A PROBLEM (By Associated frets'? Washington. Jan. 10,—Prelimin ary negottiations with the British over the war debt to the United States, has convinced the adminis tration that no settlement of the problem can be made under the terms of the law as it now exists, a White House spokesman declared today. VAN SEVEARINGEN SECURES CONTROL OF THE C. AND O. (By Associated Press) Cleaveland. Jan. 10, —Control of the Chesapeak and Ohio by the Vansweringen, following the cbm merce commission announcement. START BEER CAMPAIGN (By Associated Press) Cincinnati. Jan. 19, —Modifica tion of the Volstead act to permit the manufacture of real beer, V. the goal of a nation wide drive to be launched Sunday was announced after a meeting of the executive board of the international brewery workers union and Samuel Gorn pers. PUBLISHERS CAN CONTROL ENTIRE PAPER PRODUCTION Washington. Jan. 10, —Publish ers are not prohibited by the Clay ton act, from contracting with news dealers to act exclusively as their wholsale distributing agents, the supreme court held in the trade commissions case against the curtis Publishing Company of Philadel phia. ■ ■ -_ i DAUGHERTHY GETS CLEAN BILL FROM COMMITTEE Washington. Jan. 10. —Attorney General Daugherty was given a clean bill of real by the house en tative Kellar. GOVERNOR PLEADS FOR STATE OWNED SHIPS AND PORTS Message declares time has come to Break Virginia Control of rates GOV. MORRISON SAYS > HIS PLAN SOUND (By Associated Press) Raleigh, N. C. Jan. 10,—Constitu tionaal amendments limiting North Carolina’s indetbtness and prote^ ing its sinking funds; the creation, of a ship and port commission, with $2,000,000 to establish state ports and to purchase afleet of ships; a $15,000,000 highway bond issue, and the additional of the depart ments of commerce and industry and of banking, are the principal recommendations of Governor Cam eron Morrison made in a biennial message to the General Assembly today. The chief executive also urged that adequate- funds be provided for the improvement of the state’s fish eries and to promote the health, educational, welfare and agricul tural experiment and extension programs of the several state de partment. The chief executive also urged that adequate funds be provided for the improvement of the state’s fisheries and to promote the health, Educational, w'elfare and agricltur al experiment and extension pro grams of the several state depart ments. In urging tire establishment of a state-owned shipping line corpora tion, the Governor declared that “our freight rates are nearly all based on the rates to the Virginia cities plues the rates from the Vir ginia cities to our towns.” He added that there are no basic freight points in North Carolina and that the state always would be discri minated against until water trans portation v}£.s eStdblis^lred- ed as to reduce rates. Give me, gentlemen, two millions of dollars to establish some North Carolina state owned terminal fac ilities, and to purchase a fleet ot ships; then give me the authority to operate them, and I promise yon to save the state more money ban nually than it costs the state gov ernment now, and to make it com mercially free and independent Governor Morrison asserted. I appeal to you to create the North Carolin Ship and Port Commission, with appropriate and aimple pow ers to acquire terminals by lease or acquire terminals by lease or purchase, and to acquire and oper ate a fleet of passenger and com merce-carrying ships. We should act without delay. The cheap ships can be had now, and it is important to act pronjptly. Let me appoint the commissions, jnd the Senate confirm them. I pro mise you a great Commission. Let the bonds ltfSue when tne commissioners say in writting to the Governor and the council of state that they are ready to pro ceed. If you think caution requires it, insert a provision that if the Com mission finds it cannot arrange the practical details in a way their jud gment approves, they may report there findings to the Govenor and council of state, and they may, if they think wise, suspend further action until the next meeting of your honorable body. They say, Give us the details. We are ready to place them before your committee when appointed, through practical men acquainted with the situation, the waters, the ships and freight rates. Water tranportation and good roads and truck transportation, competing with rail transportation will save this state more money be fore the first serial bond issue, ten years from their issue, than both the roads and ship company will cost the state, and in addition build ten cities in the eastern and Cape Pear Continued on pa&e four)
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