VOLUME XL NO. 233
LEAKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1923
TWO CENTS PER COPY
REPUBLIC HAS NOT
SurriClLl^ l f'uKCE
\U SUSTAIN ImEM
Berlin is IHostering Counter
Move Which May Prove
effective
(liy Associated Press)
Paris, October 25.—Rhineland re
public today seemed as far away
as ever for the Separatists. Altho i
fiiere making fresh conquests they!
appear t.. have insufficient forces to
hold ' hem. Loyalists in presence com
plete ap. thy, of the general public
appear f.s retaining control without
difficulty.
The movement now apparently is
confronted’ By opposition independent
of the republic .engineered by bur
gomaster Adenauer of Cologne and
fostered by Berlin which seeks to
divert Separatists coup in its favor.
This according to Berlin dispatches,
was Chancellor Stresemanns real
reason for visiting Hagen. The Le
Journals Berlin correspondent say;
a republic be proclaimed within 24
hours.
COMMUNISTS REPORTED
AS RUSHING TO BERLIN
(By Associated Press)
Londoh, October, 25.—A central
news dispatch from Berlin says
lar;;e bands of Communists are
marching on to the German capital.
Police rushed to intercept them.
GREEK REVOLUTION FAILS
(By Associated Press)
Athens, October 25.—Government
troops have occupied Corinth and a
complete failure of the revolution is
assured according to advices from
Peloponnesus.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Williams spent
Wednesday in Greensboro.
Mrs. B. Frank Mebane has return*
ed home from Blowing Rock.
Mrs. Jim FrTce will entertain the
Thimble Club Friday afternoon at
3:30 oclock.
Mrs. W. G. McCollum entertain
ed 40 of her lady friends Wednesday
afternoon at a sewing party.
While the guests sewed Mrs.
Beeker recited, “The Tired Girl,,
Master Hill McCollum recited “See
ing Things at Night” by Eugene
Fields, and Bob McCollum recited
“Going to bed by Candle Light” by
Robt. Louis Stevenson. The hostess
served chicken salad, pineapple and
tomato sandwiches, hot biscuit and
buter, coffee pickles and mints.
Mrs. J. G. Farrell had as her sup- j
per guest Tuesday evening, Mr and ]
Mrs. Frank Flinn and Mrs. Flinn’s
sister Mrs. Taylor of Winston Salem.
Mrs. E. V. Hobbs entertained at
supper Tuesday evening Prof, and !
Mrs. Weatherly and Miss Black.
—
Rev. J. M. Everett pastor of the ]
Spray Baptist church will preach on
the doctrine of Election next Sun
day at 11 a. m. In the evening his
subject will be "Bearing the Cross”
Mr. Everett has made a special
study of the doctrine of Election and
he will have something of interest
to say on the subject.
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Williams ware
In Greensboro yesterday.
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Mr. J. H. Allen of Retdsville was
elected County Superintendent of
schools at a meeting of the county
Board of Education Tuesday to suc
ceed Prof. L. N. Hickerson, although
Mr. Hickerson had been heartily en
dorsed by a great number of the
county’s school teachers.
CANADA EXPORTS
MORE CREAM
(By Associated Press)
Ottawa, Ont., October 25.—Heavy
increase in the exportation of dairy
products, particularly jcream, from
Canada to the UTiited States is
shown by figures prepared by the
i Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
In July* 1923 Canada according to
the report shipped to the United
«■ ates 437,679 gallons of fresh cream
■lied at $695,046 as compared with
339.620 gallons in June and 246,986
gallons in July of the preceding
year.
otPARATlSTS MAK.L
GUUL> SHOWING IN
MANY luWNS
Republic Proclaimed In Num
ber of Rhineland Cities
Reports State
■■ 1 ■
(By Associated Press)
Coblenz, October 25.—The Rhine 1
land republic was proclaimed today
at the former headquarters of the |
American forces at Andernach, ten j
miles northeast of here. Proclaimed
also at Archweiller as well us at
Soden, Birel and Gaistenheim.
Clashes occurred today between
armed civilians and Separatists ir.
Crefeld, follow (ng the foisting of
the republican flag over Rathaus, I
which the Separatists took yester-1
day, according fo reports received]
here. The Separatists claim to be
400 strong in Crefeld. Belgian offi
cers estimate the number at 1700.
Aix La Chappelle, October 25.—
The police attacked Regierung Pal
ace the only remaining building in
the Separatists hands today. Five
policemen and two Separatists were
killed.
CO-OPS TESTING LAW
IN STATE OF VIRGINIA
Danville, Va., October 24.—Offi
cials of the Tobacco Growers Co
operative Marketing association mov
ed yesterday in South Boston to put
to a test the new Virginia ware
houses and which requires them,
among other things, to put the true
name of the owner of the tobacco
put on the floors. The test cases in
volved the right of inspectors of the
association to examine tickets of to
bacco. Nine warrants were sworn
out by the only four of them were
tried yesterday, fines being impos
ed in every case.
Two'of the warrants were issued
against the Reeves Warehouse cor
poration it being alleged that to
bacco had been set out in the name
of Chappelle and Murray without
giving the initials of these men. A
fine of $60 was assessed against
the warehouse owners. Another fine
of $50 was imposed on the owners
on the charge that they had denied
H. C. Lacy, an inspector for the as
sociation, the privilege of examining
the tckets.
Two warrants were issued against
the Motley Warehouse company os
the charge that a pile of tobacco wtls
put on the floor in the name of L. C.
M. Elam when in realityhistobacco
belonged to J. S. Watson. Another
pile was marked George Cox when
it was charged the leaf belonged to
the warehouse company. Fines were
imposed in this case, but appeals
were taken in every instance.
The Sputh Boston warehousemen
have agreed to allow inspectors to
have full rein on the auction floors
until the Halifax Circuit court has
rendered a decision.
THANKSGIVING DINNERS WILL
BE SERVED 378,000,000 MILES
FROM SPOT ONE YEAR AGO
New York, October 25.—Accord
ing to Garrett P. Serviss all of us
are going to eat our Thanksgiving
dinner millions of miles away from
where we were last year. We may go
back to the old home on Thanks
giving day, but although the old
home is on the same spot on the
earth, we will eat our turkeys 378,
000,000 miles from the place in the
universe where we ate the turkey
the year before. In fact, in one year
we are carried thru space a greater
distance than we would have to go
in circling the earth 15,000 times at
the equator, where it is largest.
This is caused by the sun moving
thru space in a northerly direction
and dragging the earth and all the
planets along with it This astrono
mical fact is most graphically illus
trated by comparing the sun’s way
to the central column of a spiral
•fairway and the earth’s travel to
the hand rail of the stair. Since
primiive man appeared on earth. thb
globe of ours has traveled over nine
trillion four hundred and fifty mil
lion miles, Mr. Serviss in the' Mentoi
or November says.
“Hollywood” at the Colonial The
atre Leaksville, Friday admission 10
and 20 cents. All other big attract
ions shown at this popular play
house for regular program prices,
why pay more, (advertisement).
Walton Refuses
Out On Deir
House
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{tiy Associm-eu
Oklahoma City, octobev
£iaiitb cnaige in the bill ox inipeacn
meiu against tjsrternor VV aiton voteo
loaay *tar :<?« ftoilse ol tlie leg
islature. it relates to calling inaruai
law in iuisa. tiepresentacive calia
nan was forcibly ejectea when lie at
ttici.ea the Kina, aecuving grant!
Uiagull JcWett Wao uictatiiig tile leg
islation.
Oklahoma City, October 25.—With
seven counts against him in the im
peachment oill being perfected by
the lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature, Governor, J. C. Walton
tonight continued his relusal to rec
ognize tile authority of a senate re
solution to suspend hint, ana awaits
hearing in the senate Supreme court
to detei mine wneiner he or Lieuten
ant Governor id. L. frapp is the
legally empowered chief executive
oi the state.
At that time the court will rule
on an application to make permanent
its writ <d prohibition whch re
strains Governor Walton from inter
fering with the duties of Lieutenant
Governor iVl. E. Trapp as acting gov
ernor.
The house adjourned shortly be
fore t> p. m‘ concluding a day that
had been replete with feverish pre
parations for; the ^impending trial
j. the chief executive.
Seeks Counter-Order
Attorney General eGorge Short
late today went before the state Su
preme court in an effort to block
an injunction which would keep Lt
Governor M. E. Trapp from assum
ing the duities of the chief execu
tive under authority of a resolution
passed by the state legislation to
suspend Governor Walton during his
impeachment trial.
Later the court granted the attor-1
ney general permission to file appli
cation for the writ and set the hear
ing for 1:30 tomorrow.
Governor J. C. Walton in a state
ment issued late today “to the peo
nle of the visible government’” de
clared that “a conspiracy for the ex
: less purpose of preferring impeach
. »ent barges against me’ existed be
lore the convening of the present
extraordinary session of the state
legislature and that whatever the
future may hold for me personally
I shall die as I have lived, fighting
for orderly, constiutional govern
ment, honestly and fearlessly admin
istered.
Says Klan Has Money
The governor said information had
reached him that the invisible em
pire had large sums of money on i
hand-to be used to pay the ex
penses of members in their first at
tempt to meet unlawfully on the 26th
day of September being disbursed
by Mr. McBee present speaker which
money was reported to have come
from the Ku Klux Klan.
The executive’s statement attack
ed senate chamber proceedings and
the “steam roller process" and de
clared “I cannot and will not believe
that in this enlightened and Christian
„ge a two-thirds majority of them
(members of the state senate) will
so far forget their duties to their
oonstiutents’ and o their God and
their oaths as members of this high
court that they will refuse to con
sider or be bound by the truth,
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PRANCE ALSO LACKS COOKS
(By Associated Press)
Paris, October — »t is not true
as many foreigners seem to believe,
that domestic servants are plentiful
in France. Here is an advertisement
found recently in a French news
paper which proves that the servant
problem is very real over there.
“Wanted, cook for family of two.
Wages $25.00 a month. Husband will
do the washing, wife will clean the
rooms.”
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LLOYD GEORGE DINES WITH
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
(By Associated Press)
Washington, October 25.—David
Lloyd George "relish wrrfir* ■ Pre
mier today came t • n an<i
lunched with Pre ■ i • >•„ idge. He
planned to call on Woodrow Wilson, j
Fo Get
land of Both
s of Legislature
NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY
IN PHILADELPHIA MOST
WORTHILY ENGAGED
(.Philadelphia Evening Bulletin)
North Carolinians in Philadelphia
and vicinity, said to number about
five hun3Teu~are junior ,ne auspice'
of their association and ihe leader
ship of Mr. Jacob 8. Allen, then
president paying homage to one of
their Revolutionary heroes today un
der unique circumstances. A pil
grimage is being made to Kulpsville
in Montgomery County and services
will be held in the little Mennordte
church, to the honor of General Frai |
cis Nash, whose body lies in iU-j
ourying ground hard by his grave
marked and honored by generations
of Pennsylvanians for 145 years, and
for many years distinguished by a
stately monument erected by a peo
ple who were neither of his kith or
kin. Only a few months ago Mr. Al
len accompanied by Colonel Bennc
han Cameron of Stagville, North
Carolina a grand-nephew of General
Nash sought out his grave and con
ceived the thought that it would be
a fitting honor for the Sons and
Daughters of North Carolina to ren
der their ancestral hero by this pil- '
grimjtge.
(Jolonel f rauds’ ixasn or me First
North Carolina Continentals, com
missioned Brigadier General in the
Spring of 1777 marched his brigade
finally numbering 6000 men through
Virginia, Maryland and Pennsyl
vania to the succor of Washington
in that critical period of the patriot
cause just preceding the winter of
1777-78. With his Brigade of North
Carolinians, he was at Brandywine,
and again on October 4th he was
at Germantown, where his command
suffered severely and Nash himself
was struck by a cannon ball in the
thigh. He was carried off the battle
ground anl lingered for four or five
days during which Wasnington sent
his surgeons in anxious solicitude
for his recovery. Ilis body was taken
to Kulpsville and there in the bury
ing ground of the Mennonites was
given a hero's grave. Some years af
terward the father of the late Gov
ernor Pennypacker led a patriotic
movement for the recognition ot this
early hero from the Southland and
raised the money in Germantown
and Norristown for the erection ot ■
the monument.
A brother of General Nash became ;
Governor of North Carolina anti a j
nephew,, a son of the Governor serv
ed long in high places of her .iudici-'
ary system. It is said that at the
close of the Revolutionary War
Washington, visiting in North Caro
lina took the future Judge Nash on
his knee and told him that he should
be proud of his tieroie uncle, whose
body lay under Northern sod.
The North Carolina Society of Pu.
organized but four years ago for 2
years under the Presidency of Mr.
Gordon Cilley and now under that of
Mr. Alien is taking a particular in
terest in promoting the perfection
of the North Carolina Bay in the j
Cloister of the Colonies at Valley i
Forge.
WORK WEEK OBSERVED
IN BULGARIAN SCHOOLS
(By Associated Press)
Sofia, October ^').--The autumn
work week in all the public schools
of Bulgaria was observed recently
and another week will be similarly
devoted in the spring. The boys and
girls went to school as usual, but in
stead "of studying employed the
school hours in performing useful
tasks. The 4firls knitted stockings
and made night clothing for the
children in the orphanages while the
boys cleaned up the school properties
applying paint where needed, digging
up the school yards and repairing
the pavement in front of the build
ings.
This work is a part of the labor
legislation by conscription, put into
the statute boo': under the late pre
mier, Stambouli-ky. It constitutes
the one reform of the previous re
gime that the Tsankoff administra
tion has retained.
EDITORIAL
HIGH TAXnS Alsu it VLi< Al.ibM
Why is it that high taxi', stv.in to
be an inevitable re tin tit radical
rule.’ When North Dakota Look u
plunge into state socialism, the lax.
es immediately went up a.so sbu.i
the state was groaning under a tu .
rate it had lie ter known beloiv.
Last year a “overran oi Ui.imwo
was elected who proim .1 ' tux'
things for tiie poor people.
Now the nevis comes that Oi.lah.r
jua will have the highest riiJE'.
in its history, -i l-~ mni ■ and tit,.,
will not be enough to k. ep the iu;e
oij a cash basis.
Th# radicals hate had plenty o:’
opportunity to demonstrate what
they could do in the line .of govern
ment.
The experience thus far is that
when radicals get into power, tin
eople get it in Die ’neck.
GOVKRNUICNI OH.RATIONS
KAIL
Anchorage, Alaska, A. sociuvc..
Press dispatch, September lid: "Or
der received from Secretary ot th
Interior Work direct that the pump
he pulled in tile Chieuioutt turd nail.•
north of here and that this develop
ment where the navy spent $1,000.
000 be ’ h :• .• • .-e | tie,
ordei. . .
Eska coal mine near the (. •ucahmo
At each of these nones a in,cie,v
town was built by the government
At the Eska mine are steam beau
dormitories. Col. James C. Siee •
head of the Alaska railroad and
the Alaska road commission, iias r<
ceived from Washington a messag
asking how long it would take t
unscramble these two departments.
This, after a vain effort of the
government to successfully operate
coal mines. The coal is there. There
is demand for coal but’ it seems no!
enough to pay expenses.
Coal is an article like any other
subject to laws of supply and de
mand.
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POPULAR SENSE AN it J! i t :
It is a remarkable fact that the
masses of the people have a sen.-.e
of justice and fair play that docs no,
enter into politics always.
Public service commission.-, a,
supposed to make fares on the bask,
of cost of operation and capita!
vested in public utilities.
Here is a case where the people
are voluntarily making up « detiei. j
in fares:
Street car riders of Akron, Oh.
have begun to heed the appeal of th
Northern Ohio Traction a id high!.
Co., for a six cent fare. Several
weeks ago tile company advertised |
that service war costing 5.’, cents
rider, while the cotnpanv was hoi
up to a 5 cent fare under terms o
its franchise and asked pat runs to
drop an additional cent in the far
box. For a time the appeal I,rough'
little response. Of late however '-he
company reports that a daily aver:
of about 21,000 pennies is being, de
posited.
NATION A f TAXATION POLICY
Collier’s Weekly has presented tor
discussion the national taxation pedi
cy proposed by a notable business
leader and summarized below:
1 Taxes should be planned primar
ily for their social effect.
2 Every person should bo encour
aged to earn and invest as much
money as possible during hi- TMV
time.
3 Large fortunes should be broken
up at death.
4 Abolish income surtaxes. They
discourage productive effort.
5 If we do this, tax-exempt secur
ities will hrtve no special value for
tax-dodging. This would make un
necessary the amendment providing
against tax exemption.
6 Put a graduated tax on all gift
and inheritances, to be computed or
the amount received by each bene
ficiary.
7 Exempt small gifts and legacies
tax lightly up to $250,000; legacies
of $10,000,000 might pay as heavily
as 50. per cent.
$ to prevent sudden depreciation
in values, legatees of large sums
should be given 10 to 15 years in
which to pay the tax.
l NDLRWOOD OPENS
CAMPAIGN IN TEXAS
STATING HIS VIEWS
Says Go'i eminent Policy Has
Losi. 1 his Nation World
Leadership •
(By Associat. d Pi'cfs)
Dallas, Oftol.vr 25.-— United States
senator Oscar \Y. Underwood in an
address here today at the Texas
state fair, declared America has sur
r. Ildeit-.r hel leieleldiip in the world
a ; nr. . luring her elf in partisian
I- >litie- aod a plan duty lies ahead
“lo return to piiacipl.,> ^aiding Am
erica in the err it war. to have and
-rmivi , di tii.de •. ivvrnmertal policy
in Jhiiupe “ i' .derwood opened his
c.finiiai-’ ti f..r fteiuoi i atir Presiden
tial nomination late yesterday at
Nneonia he asserted Versailles peace
I.:.! .’■•!n't 1; America all we
h. iiod for "■ - erniuerit still stood
• r hi-'-h idea! championed during
' E?"SUS BUREAU GIVES
OUT COTTON REPORT
! iiv 'rs x-iated Press)
V.’:. I,inn!'-’i. October 25.—Cotton
-••I:,.-i i•: j■ 11 to October 18th totalled
I including 173,994
.> • , hull' tiales, 8,745
■ >!(■- woriran-Egyptian, and 260
1 ). .f island the census bureau
• n ".re.!, today. Virginia ginnings
!.ui ; >h Carolina 503.717.
' TNrRS KISS"HANDS
. i riA'i i T HEM IN
■jot-ii AURANT
fiiy .-.eSvvlaU-u Press)
MO;i.i, October . there are not
re..air in live world Where
: aaiLi km to the waitresses' hand
eiaie tie proceeds ty order his din
,.er. Cat there is such a public res*
aurant in litis city, and it. is prob
a.. vile Vtnij cite of its kind in the
>. oriu.
lilts restaurant, called the “Rus
ki Cestui ant,” ,. .kept, waited on
uli cu.rt-.vU i r ivy i,us stall women
^ the .rnv'v.iity. some ui whom used
., t: •. ,• '. ,.!iat at 1 ’etrograd under
to empire, lit which princes, gener
..is. diplomats and sayants regarded
. %V;t -honor to be admitted.
i'.n ... is the ends ol’ the earth
. y Bolshevik persecution, these par
caiar ”jirinzessen, comtesseri, se
. .'he i.'iiy'iisi.h aitessen”—as Svengali
ail ,)iei in • t rilby”—settled down
. l:.r business of their wrecked
:a ihis. iitU.' corner almost be
•i,i;i tile shadow of the beautiful
piesiri i.i :'..ae of the “C'zar Lib
. a,..;" Alexander II.
I, i. . discontenting to
iii'eiMiin eye to see a tall Russian
uiiu seel us lii have seen better days
i lr.iiM-inr ! ,ie wlui the waitress
0111.. .. take the order* salute ma
,n. nes hand Willi his lips in the
, . mann. r of a Courtier, then re
liis seal und address himself
b the Iprti.-.aic business'-of ordering
is meal.
.'. ...i the food served in the open
if under tile trees in ine summer—
..aggie is, enough of an approach to
: nicricai; ideas of what is good to
it -that Ain'ei icans. and Englishmen
it s. y no living of other “Europeans”
re am i !v !el patrons of the
1., k i\ l.
'i he price..' ..re * Ko.ig. above the
average to make the place rather
exclusive and .he waitresses are
'roiiouiict-d, by Americans at least,
■ utb; entirely satisfactory.
tVOM.lt lit».OR HENRI FABRE
t'By. Associated Press)
Wo York, October 25,—Admirers
f Henri Fubre, the Provencal nat
raiist, have revived a campaign
. t/u tcd in 191.4 but interrupted by
' he world war, to celebrate the hun
redth anniversary of his birth and
i i met a monument to him at his
owe.-..village of Serignan, France.
II is proposed to remove Fabre’s
sites ftoni the country churchyard
• ltd lay them at rest in his own
“Htirmas" the garden celebrated in
his writings as the setting for the
greater part of his wonderful studies
in the it;sect world. There the monU
i" I. he placed also, under the
perpetual rare of the government
>f the republic, which has taken
ver his old home of Fabre’s as a
■rational museum and entomological
aboratory.
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