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VOLUME XIL NO. 197
LEAK51V1LL“, NORTH CAROLINA • Hi R-'1>AY, SEI'fEMBER, 6, 1923
TWO CENTS PER
li
Of PBESIOEMTS"
uooMdge Un<JcI-U7rT7"i~Will come in
for Harsh Criticism, Whatever He
May Do—Arthur the Only One Who
Nearly Escaped It.
By EDWARD B. CLARK
Washington. — Washington — and
wl; ;i one writes the name of the city
he includes all the Inhabitants thereof,
politicians, nonpoliticians, otliee hold
ers and ail others—seemingly is re
solved that in the future it will not
harshly criticize the President of the
United Stales without definite knowl
edge that he has done something or
Intends to do something which should
be criticized.
Now when one writes Washington
In this sense, he might just as well
have written the United States, for
from every quarter of the country
have come newspapers which edito
rially declare that President Harding's
death wa . hastened by harsh words
from thi o who did not understand
his moth 's. Man always is going to
be good, hut he seldom entirely
accomplishes his purpose. In a
month, if tlie records of (he past- go
for anything, good resolutions will he
forgotten and if a rumor shall come,
no matter how slim it may he, that
President Coolidge Intends to do some
thing which a part of ids fellow coun
trymen do not approve, (lie floodgates
of fault finding and, mayhap; of abuse,
will swing open and the torrent will
come down upon the offender who
probably had no Intention of offend
ing.
Politics Is politics and party feeling
Is party feeling, and human nature is
human nature. They must be re
formed, regenerated in fact, before
any President of the United States,
Democrat or Republican, can hope to
escape that abuse which more than
eccaslonally amounts to vilification.
Trouble In Store for Coolidge.
As has been said many times within
the last few weeks, President Coolidge
Intends to carry out the Harding pol
icies. If he shall carry them out In
the spirit In which his predecessor In
tended to cany them out, he probably
Will be abused by those who abused the
dead President; and if he does not
carry them out strictly In letter, he
will be abused by those quick to dr
dare him a pledge breaker.
Every president who succeeded to
Office on the death of his predecessor
has had his troubles when It came to
the matter of satisfying men who he-'
lleved thoroughly In the policies of the
man who had gone. During his first
term as president. Theodore Roosevelt
hewed close to the McKinley policy
lines, but he did not altogether escape
calumny. When he was chosen by the
people as president and entered on a
term “on his own,” he met with more
criticism, perhaps, than most other
presidents, but It Was not because of
failure to carry out bis predecessor's
policies. He bad attended to that In
his first term.
There was one president years ago
who escaped harshness of criticism
and yet he was the one who everybody
believed at the time was most likely
to get it. Chester A. Arthur as vice
president was at outs personally and
factionally with his chief, President
James A. Garfield. Then came Gar
field’s assassination. The people were
bitter against Arthur, because at the
time Garfield was killed Arthur was
said to be engaged in an attempt to
circumvent some of his policies. |
How Arthur Avoided Abuse. „
Chester A. Arthur came into office
knowing what the.conditions were and
he went through Ills term without ex
citing the public feeling against him
In any way. He refused in almost
every instance to interfere with the
appointments to office made by his
predecessor and lie refrained from
making appointments and from en
gaging In policies of which the Garfield
partisans Could not: approve. ■
Roscoe Conkling, who had a bitter
quarrel witli Garfield and who had re
signed from the United States senate
In a fit of pique, was the closest polit
ical friend of Chester A. Arthur.
Everybody expected Arthur to heed
the requests of Conkling in the mat
ter of appointments to office; but so
far as could be determined Arthur
paid no heed to Conkling except in one
case ana in mis one vjonaung, u is >
■aid, insisted, saying he would ns1! \
nothing further. Arthur removed one j
of the most capable postmasters in the l
state of New York, a postmaster of r 1
large city, at Conkling’s request. Thi
senate refused to confirm the man
whom the president named to succeed
the removed postmaster, but later he
was given a recess appointment and a
long time afterward was confirmed.
This Is supposed to be the only case
in which President Arthur ran countei
to the general Garfield policies, eithei
in appointments to office or in any
thing else. Itoscoe Conkling had a
personal grievance, it Is said, againsi
the postmasier who was removed, and
allowed liis personal feeling to rule in
the matter, but 11: ruled In nothing
else.
Haphness of criticism of the preei
dent seems for the present to havi
passed from the field of the country’!
activities. It will come back year bj
year.
e>: nr.TARY of y. m. c. a.
MAKES ANNUAL REPORT
A nodal meeting of the Directors
railed test Friday night to con
' 'or !be election of three new mem
nerr of the board to till out the
terms of throe members who had re
ign;;!, also to consider the program
"or the coming year and review the
work of the past 12 months.
(ieo. VY. Chatham, W. P. Baston,
and IV. -T. Baughn were elected to
:.he hoard aiTd the following stand-.
,ig eommitties were appointed to
push the program for the next year.
Membership committee:
G. W. Chatham, Chm„ J. W.
Kraut z, R. L. Lovell, \V. P. Bar
ton, A. E. Fair, Vance Todd, J
T. Campbell, Frank Jarrett, J.
V. Orrell, M. Toler, J. F. Meis
ainer.
Billiard and Bowling Com.
Howard Sheffield, chm; Cyril
• ‘u.lgins, C. W. Mangam, Thom
as Smith, John Stovall.
Boys Work Com:
J. V,\ Last, Chm.; Rev. C. Vt.
Rowling, O. L. Slayton, V. L.
Marsh, Prof 3. H. Johnson.
.71 iigious and Educational:
P. H. Cwynn, Chm.; Rev. W. J.
Gordon, R. D. Shumate, W. J.
Baughn, Leonard Austin.
Physical:
Luther II. Hodges, Chb.; Thom
as Patterson, Thomas Whichard,’
H. I. Slaydon, O. T. Chambers,
Dr. J. B. Ray.
Social anff Eentertainment:
W. U. Weaver, Crm.; Prof. O.
A. Kircheis, S. O. Bondurant, J.
C. Farrell, W. T. Royster, W.
J. Baughn, J. 0. Thomas.
House Committee:
J. G. Farrell, Chm.; L. S. Neal,
M. W. Hayden
Finance Com;
L W. Clark, Chm.; P. T. Haiz
lip, J. E. Holmes.
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The Secretary’s report for the
year was read and we are giving it
to the public, as we feel sure you
be interested:
During tftc-fpSSfr twelve months
there were 13 board meetings with
206 attendance; 196 committee meet
ings -with 3,032 attendance; .23,980
■were in attendance and took part in
ail physical activities, divided as fol
lows: 2G1 gynT classes with 5,286 at
tendance; 9 hikes, 135 attendance;
11 basketball games, 2,30U attend
ance; 117 volley ball games with 1,
195 attendance; 38 baseball games
with 3,400 attendance; 3,100 game
bowled; 53 football games and prac
tice periods; 11,500 attendance to
pla;> ground and out-door meets; 17r
445 baths taken; 6 educ-itiovt :i lit -
■turcs were shown with 2,125 atten
dance; 2 educational lectures, 246 at
tic; dance; 18 practical talks in
schools, 8,900 attendance; 240 libr
ary books used; 4 health talks, 4!>
attendance; 13 club meetings, 150
atU idance; 00,200 tin cans and 12,
100 pounds of glass were collected
in the community by 248 boys and
glr. under 14 years of age, which
c; paid for by the Y. M. C. A.
jn rivilege tickets at 5 cents for
ve y 2 dozen cans, and 5 cents for
ret / 10 pounds of glass.
1 .124 games of pocket billiards
V e5 1 played; 6 lyeeuin entertain
» with 990 attendance; 163 mov
nc picture shows with 50,003 atten
,'v- e; 9 socials for men and women
wit' 1,582 attendance; 10 minisver
_il icetings with 80 atendance; 103
Eil s classes taugh by secretaries,
.>0 attendance; 10 boys meetings
162 atendance; 18 religious meet
ing 4,055 attendance. The year
-do -d with 716 members paid up.
I, (ring the year, a fall time boys
wo; : r"eretary has been added to
the force of employed officers. In a
two days’ campaign 85,200 was sub
scribed for a swimming pool by 400
peo.ie.
1 »re has been • a number of im
poi .;nt changes made in the build
in anti we are looking forward
wi: the hope that the next year
wii: show a great improvement. We
v. .. v to thank the public for tfc.- fine
coo oration they have given the *Y’
the post‘.year and want to promi'
yor as secretaries, directors, and
cor. nitteement to do our level best
J o • it on an all-around progi-am dur
ing the next 12 months. In the near
fut .re v/e hops to begin p.,:>V. nine
c-.v monthly program in advance.
•vrT we* invite constructive criticism
fro i anyone who has the welfare of
- h'e Association and the community
at heart.
tj'VE gazette in every home
Night Plane for Coast-to-Coast Mail
I
Mechanic* at Curtis- ... 1* X., tuning Up the new “nighthawk” aero
murine plain.-, especially n. d by P. (X. Zimmerman for 24-liour flights in
the. eoust-to-cnast air n::':! service in which it will soon make its bow. To
make emergent y landing safe it has a low speed of only 44 miles per hour and
it is equipped with two powerful searchlights, one on either wing, as shown in
photograph, it also has small •‘riding” lights to prevent collisions and elec
trically illuminated instruments.
GATVEHEU F1C73 !
Turk: i \ nre i n; '. UIden to
(lance in ; ulilic.
AIoiiiU' i ;<;to utlliinry l;eti..\> are j
unkno\ i: in < . h'%
Ceylon bit- :il'.» sys hi-en the chi;
locality i'cr iishShg.'
yit. K..iAlaska!, is the larger
active v<:-!> . : ihe wDrill.
Then e -a ao ir king in north
ern Italy. >*.% it is very 'prevalent in
Naples. |
AMERICAN PHILATELIC SOCIETY
HOLDS CONVENTION CUT HAS
NO EXHIBITION
COULD MAKE FINE DISPLAY
Uncle Sam Now Has Started a collec
tion in the National Museum Add!
tion, but It Doesn’t Convain Many
Great Rarities.
By EDWARD B. CLARK
'VVashington.--The American Philatel
ic -soricty has -just b^SS-twiding ita
thirty-eighth annual convention In
Washington anu the sessions were at*
tended by several hundred stamp col
lectors from all sections of the United
States and Canada. They brought
their wives and children with them
afid when not busy with the affairs of
tile convention the visitors enjoyed the
sights of the national capital and sur
rounding country.
il was to be regretted that the con
vention was not attended by an exhi
bit:, a, :'T !..e members would be able j
to i; ... soiue of the most- complete <
coll actions and the rarest specimens in
existence. However, many scarce j
stamps were brought bv them for sale |
or exchange, and an auction was bold |
one evening and a bourse, for swap- |
ping, on another evening.
Uncle Sam's Collection.
Nat many Americans know that in
the brick museum addition on South
B street Uncle Sam bus started a
sta: •» collection, and in addition to his
numerous trials and worries he is
see' ing diversion as a stamp, collector.
The collection is a very creditable one
though it does not boast of file great 1
rarities that John Hull's Uritish mu
seum contains. Rut John once had a
loyal son known as Tapling, who be
gan to collect stamps-in the early
sixties and got the rare stamps when
few were after, them. When lie died
he i id the best tiling possible with Ilia
celebrated collection and donated it to
the public.
C ir museum collection is .appropri
ate5',’ mounted in vertical frames that,
are slid into a cabinet aiid can be
easily drawn out for inspection.
While man is a hereditary hunter
and the collecting instinct comes to
us from prehistoric man countless
generations ago, hunting and collect
ing take many forms in modern life.
While picture and curio collecting re
quires a full purse, the stamp mania
is open to the man Of wealth or the
boy who has nothing to spend.
The few rarities of the first magnl- »
tube are all located and well known
and when an addition Is discovered it j
is thoroughly investigated as to en-j
graving, color, quality of paper, water- j
mark, perforation, post-mark, and its
complete history is delved Into. Now
and then a trunk or package Is brought
to light in Philadelphia, St. Louis or
some other city where soriie method
ic:!! writer has carefully preserved his
(Orlt'Nj H Hi lit* 01 tin inti uays »uu
some great “find” of early American
stamps is produced. They have a
ready sale at high figures, ns they were
stored away before the days of col
lectors away back In the period be
tween 1840 nrnd 1800, but their history
must be above question.
Our Early Local Stamps.
Prior to 1847, however, and before
Uncle Sam had embarked in the busi
ness of stamp seller in 1847, but long
after John Bull had proved the yen
The state of South Australia Is four
times as big as France,
Xearly '-’,000 women in the United
States are practicing dentistry.
Since IsiKS the coal miner in this
country has worked on an average of
IPO y a
• ■ ; ,i . " o «t i,k) js p,,jng
o'a . »'.■* y ar in hydro
it.iiive actresses
in .!;:!•: :a of great abil
ity, the tradition that men shall play
feminine roles still persists.
New Slats Charters.
Secretary of State W. N, Everett has
granted charters to the following cor
porations:
Paul T. Oxford, incorporated, with
tuthorized capital of $5,000, all of
which has been subscribed by Paul
P. Oxford, James S. Howell and
George S. Reynolds, of Asheville, and
Jlliott T. Williams, of Nashville,
fenn.
Plywood Glue company, Goldsboro,
with authorized capital of $100,000, ot
which $2,000 has been subscribed by
A. II. Edgerton, J. L. Borden, H. Well,
of Goldsboro, and N. M. Lawrence, ot
Smitlifield.
The Ford, Ballentine corporation,
Durham, with authorized capital of
$50*000, of which $300 has been sub
scribed by W. S. Ford. C. M. Ballen
tine and A. P. Dol'rr, ot Durham.
Plymouth Wholesale company, Ply
mouth, with authorized capital. ot
$100,000, of which $5,000 has been
subscribed by Clyde McCallum, Eliza
Winslow, of Hertford, and C. E.
Ayres, W. R. Hampton, A. L. Alex
ander, W. B. Cox and A. L. Owens, Sr..
rC Plymouth.
Concrete Sales Company, incorpar
atecl, Asheville, with authorized capi
tal stock of $100,000, of which $2,500
has boon subscribed by J. E. Thayer.
r\ C. Hank and R. F. Moody, of Ashe
Hiio.
Jordan Publit.hii'.g company, Bur
'."»i:T*cn, with ■'authorized capital of
0.! no. which h s ben subscribed
r.vd'a E. Jordan. Irene Pearl Jordan
Wiriarn H, Jordan, of Burlington, and
Durham Herald company, of Dur
■JfP W T TTI T 1' I <”TT -w
m re n success; r«jcr*: i—(WTin.-aa
postmasters of this country prepared
Mini used at the different offices a
stump for general use. The localities
wore very limited and those of Balti
more, New York City, St. Louis, New
Haven and Providence were most com
mon. Providence and Baltimore Is
sued two denominations, 5 and 10
cents, while St. Louis issued stamps of
5, to and 20 cents’ value.
The postmasters of Annapolis. Alex
andria, Koscawen, N. H.; Brattleboro,
Locdeport. Millhiiry. Mass., and Tus
eumhia, Ala., also issued these stamps
in values of 5 cents, hut their use was
tery limited and the stamps are great
rarities. Only one or two of these
latter stamps ai'e known to exist, but
it i; reasonable to believ^that stamps
of Annapolis, Alexandria and Balti
more may he tucked away In old cor
respondence in this vicinity. Only six
of the. Baltlm re 10-cent stamps are
known to exist, one having been lately
discovered in a collection in Italy, and
at the celebrated Ferrari sale in Paris
last year one of these stumps sold for
$6,000.
The Boscawen stamp, of which only,
one copy Is known to exist, was
bought last year for about $12,000 and
the Loekport for $$,500. !
It Is obvious that the New York and
St. Louis stamps were used in the
greatest quantities and are consequent
ly within hailing distance of the pock
ets of some of the advanced collectors,
the New Yorks selling for about $50
and the 5 and 10 cent St. Louis selling
for about $200.
Ingenious.
Private Blimp was a modest and
sensitive man. who dresuled a rebuff.
He had fallen desperately In love
with the e,rattiest' girl within a mile
of the ramp, hut hesitated proposing
fi.r fear she would turn him down. M
his*, when IjS- could stand the suspense
r.o longer. he was struck by an Inspi
ration. Hastily seizing a pen, he
wrote Iter an anonymous letter asking
her to marrv him.—American Legioa
Weekly.
PROSPECTS FOR HIGH
SCHOOL FOOTBALL THIS
YEAR ARE EXCELLENT
The high school football squad is
to start practice in the r.ear future.
1 In fact, present pit.r:* me to start
' early training and light practice
I next week. Mateiia! a. the High is
i abundant, with several letter men
back again. Captain Barksdale says
that he sees no rason, unless it be
lack of experience, “why the local
Highs should not mop up in the
state this year.
The township is exceedingly for
tunate in securing as a High school
coach Mr. E. W. (Moose) Tenney,
who was a varsity man at Carolina
in two sports—Baseball and football.
He was a part o fthat famous “Fet
zer aggregation” that so easily took
he South Atlantic football chan,
pionship last year. Besides that, he
lias had right much experience in
basketball. On the whole, he is one
of the best coaches in the state, and
with him at the helm, Leaksville can
be'assured ~of a well-rounded, hard
fighting, fast and clean-playing
team that any school should be proud
to claim. . ■ I
Sir. G. L. Renner, “the South’s
premier decorater,” and manager of
the Realart Decorating Company, is
town to decorate the town for the
Fair. Mr. Renner is not going to
t aint the town red” but he is go
ing to decorate it red, white, blue
tnd every other collor known. Not
only that, but he is going to do some
if the snappiest arranging of the
aforementioned colors that has ever
been seen in "tins community. If the
decorations are a forerunner of the
Fair, believer us it will be SOME
Fair.
A big tent meeting is going on in
Draper on Lake street, near Mc
Neeley’s store. There has been a
’arge atienctSnce each night. Good
nusic, good singing. Evereybody is
cordially invited. These services are
conducted "by Bishop K. D. Parks, and
Bishop S. U. Davis,
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FORD AND GOVERNMENT RE
OPEN MUSCLE SHOALS BIDS
Washington, Sept. 9 Negotia
ions were resumed between the gov
ernment and Henry Ford on the lat
er’s offer to acquire the Muscle
^hoals power plants And nitrate
iropertiesT Ford, his son Edsel, and
>ne of his engineers conferred with
Secretary Weeks and later with Pre
ident Coolidge.
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HOTEL DESTROYED BUT
ALL GUESTS ARE SAVED
N arragansette Pier, R. I. OP)—The
mperial hotel near here was des
royed by fire and forty guests es
caped scantil clad. The loss was half
a million dollars.
-n-——
PEN KILLED, FIFTEEN HURT
IN BERLIN TRAIN COLLISSION
Berlin, Sept 6. 04>)—Ten person;
•cere killed and fifteen injured in
collision between the Berlin, Ams
•ream, and Dresden, Amsterdam ex
re?. 5 trains near Hanover.
NEW ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC
CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE
(By Associated Press)
Peking, Sept. 3—About forty for
signers were "killed when the earth
quake in uap&n destroyed the fam
ous Fujiya hotel and wiped out the
adjacent village of Miyanoshita, ac
coruing to a Reuters dispatch from
Osaka. There was a volcanic evnr
tion at Kowakidani in the same re
gion.
Ivvaki, Sept. 3.—(By the Radio
Corporation to the Associated Press)
—The Japanese home office took
its first stdtJff lown'u'aftempffng tc
clear up the confusion and specula
tion regarding the actual number et
dead and the “number in the earth
quake and fire in Toldo, when it an
nounced that 30,000 were dead; 100,
000 injured and 360,oOO were home
less.
Poking,—The police of Chiba re
.,ori a new island off the Izu pen
insi.la, while they the Island ol
Oshima is invisible and it is feared
to have gone dOturtl'^iLA Its ten thous*
and or more inhabitants. There still
is no news from the Bonin islands
and catastrophic changes there are
feared.
THE GAZETTE IN EYEBT HOMY
THEN they nabbed
Bttmonn De Valera, leadet of tb*
Irish republicans, making his speech
at Ennis In County Clare Just a few
minutes before the Free State troop*
swooped down and took him prisoner,
when he was charged with murder
and arson.
JBARS RADIO IN SALOONS
taw Says Proprietors Can't Sail Soar
and Hold Concerts at 8am# Tima.
Public houses in England—the nm>
▼lying representatives there of the
saloon—hare been forbidden to Install ,
radio sets and regale their customers
with concerts and beer simultaneous
ly. The information came to Washing
ton for use of American manufac
turers of radio apparatus, whose mar
ket Is to be thus circumscribed.
Radio sets In public bouses, ac
cording to the reports, turn them into
a different type of entertainment
places than the liquor-sailing license
allows the owner to maintain. H*
must either get a special license, tbs
decision ran, ar quit soiling latest
cants.
Athens, Sept. 6 <A>). .The Greek
leet has received orders to retire to
he gulf of volo to avoid contact with
he Italian fleet, was learned on
*ood authority.
Paris, Sept. 6 M>)—Brazil and Ur
uguay are said to have instructed
heir delegates at Geneva to make
common cause with Italy and with
draw from the League of Nations
if she does, assert* a Milan dispatch
to Lrawtls.
London—A central news dispatch
.'rom Rome says' that reports are
•urrent there that Italian forces
lave occupied 'the islands of Mer
era, Fano and Mathrakki.
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Osaka—All the money in the faphk
if Japan vaults was saved from des
ruction in the fire which followed
the earthquake and tidal wave. Re
capitulation of the earthquake and
ire showed Yokohama at its center,
-xtending north and sout about 100
miles, and 140 miles east and west.
This area included 33 counties; 8
large cities inhabited by 7,uuu,uuu
people who were caught in the dis
aster. It is estimated that 70 percent
,{ the cities and towns in the sfcrick
n area were destroyed. Yokohama,
•wording to reports received here,
was totally destroyed and only ab
ut one-fourth of Tokio remains.
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Berlin, September, 5 <**)—Ger
many has arrive dat the end of the
ether so fa ras her futher ability
8 finance the passive resistance is
unent impression in banking circles
,vhi h expect Germany in the c -rse
of the next few days wil ltahc the
niliative in proposing official dis
•usions be begun with France and
Belgium.
Milwaukee, September 6 1 j
Turning aside for a moment i.om )
the sun set trail 1,000 Civil War e • 1
erans formed in regular marching }■
if the days of ‘61 and swung into
line with feeble stride in annual
iarade of the Grand Army of the re- «
mbiic. Nine divisions made a col*
an four miles long.
New York, September 5 0W—Two |
official messages received at the f
apanese consulate general estima* |
ted the casualties in Tokio and * t- J
ity at \ 160,000 with 1,000,000 home* 1
ass.
. PRINCE AS MOUNTAINEER .. i
V illon, Eng., Sept. 6 W>—The
’rince Consort of Holland achie*» ]
•d the distinction recently of
the first member of a royal fami
i -limb Scafell Pike, the higi
point in England, 8,120 feet
ea level. It is said he in*eM*
persuade King George and the
if Wales to make the journey.