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VOLUME 26. No, 51.
Monroe, N. C. Tuesday, Aug. lO, 1920
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Latest Happenings In and
Around Monroe.
There will be a called conference at
Fairnel church. Sunday. August 15th.
at three o'clock.
There will be a reunion and picnic
at Mr. Frank Craig's, lu Sandy Ridge
township, August II. The public la
cordially invited.
There will be children day exercise
at Smyrna Sunday. August 22nd. be
ginning at ten o'clock. Mr. W. B.
Love will deliver an address.
AH those interested are requested
to meet at the Preeson graveyard. In
Goose Creek township, Wednesday,
August 18. at 8 o'clock for the pur
pose of cleaning it off.
A protracted meeting will begin at
Roanoke Sunday August 15th at
eleven o'clock, a. m. The services
wilt be conducted by Rev. T. P. Lit
tle of Marshvllle.
Mr.' B. L. Manguni and son have
returned from a trip to Gaston coun
ty, where they visited relative. Mi.
Mangum say the crops are poor In
Gaston.
The old Union cemetery, in Goose
Creek township, will be cleaned off
next Friday. August 13 th. Friends
and descendants of those burled there
are requested to meet there at seven
o'clock, a. m.
Another link In the chain of Efird
Department Stores has been added.
This newest store will be located in
Statesvllle and will be opened soon
with Mr. W. C. Caveny of Rock Hill,
S. C. tit manager.
A protracted meeting will begin at
Corinth church next Sunday at eleven
o'clock. There will be two services,
and dinner on the ground. The Sat
urday afternoon service will be sus
pended. The Wlngate board of aldermen has
ordered the sale of $10.0U0 worth of
bonds to be used in the Installation of
the necessary eWctric slation to se
cure power from the Southern Power
Company's lines. This Is a progres
sive step for our young neighbor.
Federal officers are quoted as say
ing that more liquor Is being made in
this county than In any other In the
stale. Nearly forty rttiions from this
county will face a Federal Judge at
the next term of court, which con
venes in Charlotte In October.
Mr. G. M. Tucker has instituted
suit against a Nova Scotia, Canada,
..... . a vrxnnU nil.) ITMll H U 1 1 1 -
1 ages sustained in a lumber deal. So
I far as is known, this Is the first ac
Ition ever started in a Union county
fcourt orainst a nrm in a lureigu
Tiimeat.
Ex-Soldiers American Legion runs
excursion to Lakeview, Wdneday,
August 18. Swimming, boating, tun
ing, speech by Jim Lockhart, Icenior
lee band, and bail game between 30th
and 89lh division. Only $7.00 round
trip, and that Includes Legion dues,
dinner, and railroad fare.
Mr. G. B. Caldwell, chief of the
MnnriM fir rt,taxtmpnt. and the fol
lowing members are in Fayetteville
attending the annual tournament.
Messrs. George McCorkle, David
Hlnson, Jesse Helms. L. G. Helms.
U-narn HTC1I-H John SteWBrt. W.
R. Walsh, Gordon Stegall, Will Fun-H,h,..-b
onH r.rnrlv rinsler. The oth
er members of the company will take
their annual vacation allowed by. the
city elsewhere.
whan rlrmplv confined, army worms
will annihilate each other, according
to Mr. Geo. E. Flow. The other day
he placed 15 worms, which he secured
at Mr. Hall Wilson's infested fields.
In a bottle, and brought them to the
courthouse square. In a short time
,o,. hoiriii ttchtlnir The next morn
ing' when Mr. Flow looked at the bot-
I In nil wptv pnllA evrent one. having
been devoured by the lone worm dur
rhe the night.
Hob Scott, said to be one of the
oldest moonshiners In the county. Is
lu jail, the grand Jury at the last term
of court having returned a true hill
against him for keeping liquor In his
possession. Scott. It will be remem
bered, was recently liberated under a
$500 cash bond for his appearance at
the next term of Federal court to an
swer a chai se of illicit distilling. 1 So
far he has been unable to secure bond
for his release under the two state
charges.
Although France was the seat of
the major operations in the great
world war, a courageous band of
American troop, hardly noticed, and
Its praises unsung, was fighting
the Bolsheviks In Siberia, that strange
and mysterious country where the
weather Is often 45 degress below ge
ro, and where there are only three
hours of darkness In twenty-four a
part of the year. A Union county
boy, Mr. B. H. Trull, son of Mrs. Bes
sie Trull of Vance township, was a
member of one of these regiments In
Siberia. He returned home last week,
after serving an enlistment In the reg
ular army of lour years. Although in
no big battles. Mr. Trull participated
In many skirmishes against the Bol
sheviks, protecting Russian towns and
allied property. Assisting the Ameri
can army In Siberia were Japanese,
French and English troops. The wea
ther was so cold, said Mr. Trull, that
the soldiers were covered from head
to foot, only the eyes being exposed
to the biting cold. The Americana are
far better soldiers than the Japanese,
says Mr. Trull. He related about a 6
day hike taken by his regiment
ikramh mn and Ice that the Japs
admitted they couldn't have made. In
Russia, as in France, said Mr. Trull,
the American soldier was the popular
hero.
PIUCK TO ENDEAVOR TO
HAVE ROAD LAW AMENDED
Senator From This District Objects
to Autocratic Authority He Will
Fight for Suffrage,
Declaring that he was dissatisfied
with the road law, which waa passed
at the last session of the legislature.
Hon. J. N. Price, state senator from
this district, atated Saturday that he
would strive to have It modified at
the special session of the general as
sembly, which convened Tuesday. In
a statement to The Journal, he said:
"I favor a change la the road law
to the extent of making the township
the unit, especially so far as ma in
fluence is coueerned. Contractors
should also be prohibited from de
stroying growing cropa. and moving
shade tree and growing' hedges
around residences. Principles more
consistent with real democracy should
be applied in the administration of
the law than have been applied. There
has been too much autocracy for the
building of public highways. It is
not aa autocrat's Job, but the Job of
a working roan."
Mr. Price also announced that he
favored deaignating any bank the
county commissioners saw fit to se
lect aa county tax collector, thus rob
bing the sheriff of all authority ex
cept police power. For lu services,
the bank would receive about one
half of one per cent on the total
amount of taxes collected. "1 have
Intimated my stand on this question
before," said Mr. Price, "both in the
local press and in my public speeches.
I shall endeavor .to have this made
a law."
Beginning next Dveinher. the
sheriff will receive a salary of $3,000.
and an allowance of $1500 and $1200
lor two deputies. By the adoption
of his plans, .vir. Price believes the
sheriff could dispense with the ser
vices of one of the deputies uilowed
by the law. m
Relative to suffrage, Mr. Price snid:
"The man who is fighting woman
suffrage Is indirectly . lighting the
Democratic national ticket. I have
Ji:st us much right, speaking from a
party standpoint, to vote for John
Parker for Governor, as those mem-,
hers of the party have to oppose suf
frage. "Our party has declared In both
slate and national platforms for
woman suffrage, and the national
Democratic committee especially re
quested that this ratify the Susan B.
Anthony amendment.
"We all want Cox elected. His,
election way hinge on the women's
voe, as did Wilson's In 1916, and It
behooves us as Democrats to throw
no stumbling blocks In his way.
"Senator Simmons. State Chairman
7. D. Warren, National Committee-;
man A. W. McLean, and Josephus
Daniels, leaders of Democracy In this
state, being far-seeing men, and
knowing what is best for the party,
are advocating the adoption of the
amendment. Woodrow Wilson, W.l-j
liam J. Uiyan, and TheoJo. Roose
velt, thtee rf the greatest men of the
age, l.avc a!-o spoiten for Its adoption.
So why biiciild a tew of the Senators
aul l;p:rei."nitatlvei oppose sutrage
1:1 i!w U.'. oi the expressed ac.lce
oC U'l t J gnat men?
"fl.e tin..) had come, and we,
m't:ilT3 oi North Carolina leg-;
i!.l-.tirv, nvtbt shc-ilder the responsi
bility for tit J adoption or rejection of
this vital uiieni.meiit. U we are
hva :ar:y mc.i, we cannot conaist-
PilliV OppOsd it.
"Every ounce " i vy energy will b
use J to secur? t.e ratification of the
imiMiJmnt r.t th approaching speci
al HVj.von of the Ccm-ral Assembly."
ma
Chat'ibeiV Tale, "The l Ignitus
Chance", h ltsh for Picture.
Robert W. Chambers' popular nov-
produced on the screen 83 a Para-
1 i , . . ,.1.1.,.. n .1 will ha
::i!onni ai iviaii yi-mir, u,a .....
jthe feature attraction at the Strand
1 Theater Wednesday, conraa isagei
i and Anna Q. Nllaon have the leading
I roles.
j "The Fighting Chance" is the story
or a scion or an aristocratic om jew
York family. Stephen Siward, who
has inherited a taste for strong drink.
His weakness bids fair to conquer
him, until he meets Sylvia Landis at
a fashionable week-end party in the
country. She is engaged to marry
Stephen's chief enemy, Qunrrier, who
has already done young Siward much
harm in a social and business way.
But, seizing the "fighting chance" of
winning Sylvia ana overcoming nis
falling for alcohol at the same time,
Stephen engages In a dramatic battle
and flnallv conies out successful. ,
"The Fighting Chance" has the
high societv background for which
Mr. Chambers Is famous. Dorothy
Davenport, Bertram Grassby. and
Maude Wayne are included In the
cast. Charles Maigne directed the
picture.
TEXAS SAYS BOLL WEEVIL ,
WAS HERE THREE YEA Its AGO
Mr. Wtklt t'Ulimi to Have Seen
Tlieni Around MaralivtUe in March,
1917.
To the Editor of The Journal:
I see that you folks are "scared over
the boll weevil. It is already in Un
ion county; at least It was there three
years ago last March. 1 saw some in
Charlotte, and near Marshville. I al
so saw hundreds of old bolls that had
been injured by them There was
some sign of them i nalmost every
cotton patch.
You do not seem to believe that
the weevil ha struck your county.
In recent Issue of your paper, I read
that squares which had been bored
had been picked up in the fields. The
damage was done by boll worm, or
"sharp shooter," which you have had
all the time.
The weevil stings the squares, or
boll, and If you will examine those
that have fallen to the ground you
will find a small white worm in some
of them. My brother. Mr. Joe Wat
kins of Indian Trail, tells me that
some kind of disease has caused his
cotton bolls to turn pink, shrink up
and gradually rot on one side. They
have been stung by the weevil. If" It's
wet weather, all of the boll will rot
if It has been stung in more than one
place.
It looks like your county demon
strator could have located weevils be
fore now. His failure to do so re
minds me of the yankee coming south
to see why more cotton to the acre
waa not produced. In his investiga
tions, he ?aw that some stalks had
both red and white blooms on them,
so he came to Ihe conclusion that the
small acreage production was due to
the planting of mixed cotton!
The boll weevil looks a little like
a pine bug, but not near so large. It
has a bill, they say, that looks like an
elephant snout, but it's so small that
I can't vouch tor this. You no doubt
rWve Ihein in your county. William
WiMkiits, Wlnnsboro, Texas, Aug. 3,
1920.
TOM WATSOJf INJECTS PEP
ITO GEORGIA CAMPAIGN
Social Mens of Mai-slivllU'.
Marshville, August 9. Mrs. Annie
Marsh Bailey has been spending some
lime in Monroe with relatives.
Miss Mabel Hearon of Bishopvllle,
S. C. Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. Hearon.
Miss Elizabeth Boyd is in Chapel
Hill attending summer school.
Mr, and Mrs. Earnest Barrett and
children of MoCall , S. C. spent last
week with Mrs. E. H. Moore.
Miss Edna Burns of Charlotte Is
spending her vacation with her pa
rents here.
Miss Lata Caudle of Wadesboro is
visiting relat iveas
visiting relatives and friends here.
Rev. and Mrs. C. E. White aa
nounce the birth of a son on Saturday
the 7th.
Miss Hazel Burch of Washington, prosecuting attorney of Leo Frank
D. C. and Miss Hallie Burch of Jack- much like Whitman In New York and
sonvllle Florida were the guests last the Becker case. Allied with the
Clark Howell faction In Georgia; In
the absence of publication of com
plete platform to date presumably the
"administration" candidate in local
politics.
John R. or "Bunk" Cooper Macon
a'tnrney. Unsuccessful so far in pol
Ex-PHiliot b Running for the United
States Senate on an Anti-W ilaon
Pint form.
By THEODORE TILLER, in the
Greensboro News.
Down in Georgia they raise water
melons, peaches, cotton, certain other
crops and politics. As a by-product
of the latter, periodically they raise
something which Sherman referred to
In terse description of war. Hence
the story.
There are at leasthree states in
this union with politics beyond the
understanding of less turbulent com
monwealths, lo-wit: Indiana. Georgia,
Tennessee. In Indiana young men
take either to poetry, prose or politics.
Nothing is thought of the choice. In
Tennessee there are so many factions,
and so many brands of politics, that
Col. Robert M. Gates, who has been
writing about it for years, occasional
ly becomes confused and wiwags des
perately for assistance. No outsider
fathoms Tennessee.
But in Georgia politics ii peren
nial, slam-bang, out-in-the-open, tor
rid, almost pestilential, sizzling, dan
gerous, effervescent, continuous with
out Intermission Just as mixed up
all similes and metaphors of descrip
tion. And so we come to Tom Watson,
Hoke Smith, HugU Dorsey and
"Bunk" Cooper.
And also to former Senator Thomas
W. Hard wick. John Holder and Cliff
Walker.
And to the administration and anti
administration line-up in a Democrat
ic state.
Before celling Into the Watsonlan
tirades against Wilson, which possibly
furnish the keynote of this political
let one consider the dramatis per
sonal on the Georgia stage. Harch
music, professor!
Tom Watson Former Populist
candidate for President; firebug of
Georgia politics; an "anti" regarding
the things that he; one who stages a
comeback occasionally; possibly the
most feared man In the politics of ihe
state; vitriolic rnmmenator; a histo
rian who wrote such books as the
"Life of Napoleon" and the "History
of France," brilliant but regarded as
erratic by his critics; pen dipped in
gall always; tongue as sharp as a
serpent's; former member of Con
gress, and alleged author of .the
que-y. "Mr, Speaker, where am I at?"
Hoke: Smith Servlne out his Sec
ond term as senator. Member Cleve
land's cabinet. Powerful figure In
Georgia politics for years, particular
ly since he defeated "Little Joe"
Brown for governor 14 years ago.
Administration supporter, except that
he favored Lodge reservations to
peace treaty after failure to obtain
adoption of his own reservations.
Governor Hugh Dorsey Rode to
the governor's chair on his fame as
Attention, Soldiers I
Join the American Legion, and take
in the big excursion and picnic to
Lakewood. Special cars; Icemorlee
band; speech by Jim Lockhart; Base
ball game, 30th vs. 89th division.
No Ce fur Alarm.''
Traveling Maa "Some tornado
that was, we had around here last
night Do any damage to your barn?"
Phlegamtic Farmer "Dutino.
Hain't found the durn thing yet."
American Legion Weekly.
Ei-6oldlers American Legion run
excursion to Lakeview, Wednesday,
August 18. Swimming, boating. Ash
ing, speech by Jim Lockhart. Icemor
lee band, and ball game between 30th
and 89th division. Only $7.00 round
trip, and that Include Legion dues,
dinner, and railroad fare.
x.eek of Mrs. Wheeler Sturdivant.
Mrs .Wade Bivens and daughter
Mary Davis have .been visiting rela
tives in Charlotte for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harrell spent
the v.eek-end In Charlotte with relatives.
Mrs. W. O. Harrell and son Max itics, but cheerfully trying. Probably
are visl'lng relatives in Waxhaw. a bad fourth In the pending senatorial
Messr.i. Tom Harrell of Atlanta and iraee.
so;i Ralph Harrell; Joe Harrell of j Thomas W. Hardwick Former
Memphis, Tenn.; Miss Jean Rarrell of .United States senator. Defeated two
Atlant and Mr. and Mrs. Plumnierjye.trs ago primarily because of Wilson
Stewart and children attended the opposition. Now running for governor
funeral or Mis1 Sallie Harrell last. on nn antt-Wllson platform and has
week. (the administration forces badly scar-
,Mr. J. Arthur Strawn of Washing-led.
Ion spent last week here w ith his j John Holder Speaker or the
parents Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Strawn. ; House of Representative. Has held
Miss Palsy Edwards has returned :iti:it office longer than anybod ccit
home after spending the summer in .the late Senator A. S. Clay, who b: !;
Greenville, S. C. Miss Ewards ex-1 into politics in . the Georgia !"ns!,
peeta to enter Brevard Institute in -campaigning largely on local issues
the fall. for governor.
Miss May and Master Billie Harrell Clifford Walker Now Attorney
are spending several days with the ; General of the Mate. Good handshak
Stewart children, at their summer '.r. Local Issues candidate, but
home near Charlotte. ilaiubaating Hardwick because he was
Miss Hallie Moore of Charlotte Is j attorney In Washington for Martens,
spending her vacation here. jtlie. self-styled Soviet ambassador to
Mr. Mryon Green arrived Sundaytie United States, who is now fighting
to spend a few days with his parents dcporatlon proceedings.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Green. I Watson's campaign for the senate
Mrs. L; E. Huggins entertained h r.iainly on an anti-Wilson platform.
Thursday morn, from 9:30 to 11 jsn far as the Democratic party is con
o'lcock at a kitchen shorner for Miss .rnied. Watson says he has largely
Bessie Mae Hallman who will be mar-! purified it, by pointing out its errors,
rled on the 25 of August to Mr. Royjsu he hns returned to the purified
Marsh. The down pour of rain was, household. Ir one doubts that Tom
nbsolutely disregarded by the invited Watson Is antl-Wllson, and antl a lot
guests who gathered togeuier tneir, of other things, let him read rapidly
own particular drops fn the way of a few of the things he says about the
kitchen necessities and met at the President at the same time asking
appointed time to give the charming
bride-to-be a hearty shower of anoth
er kind from that sent by the weather
man. Each guest was requested to
write recipes and some good advice.
These were bound in hand painted
conera and presented to the bride-to-be.
Miss Lil Kirk Huggins, daughter
of the hostess and Miss Jean Williams
two year old daughter of Rev, and
Mra. C. B. Williams, then entered
dressed as maids and presented Miss
Hallman with a quantity of useful
gifts. Salad, hot rolls and tea were
served. '
Miss Bessie Mae Hallman was the
Inspiration of another charming parly
Saturday afternoon when Miss Mary
Marsh entertained at a miscellaneous
shower for her. , The lovely howe
was lavishly decorated with the sea
son' brightest flower, and table
were arranged in .three rooms for
progressive heart. At the conclusion
of the games the guests were Invited
on a fishing trip In the reception hall.
Miss Hallman was the luckiest fisher-
for the Democratic nomination for
senator from the empire state of the
south. Dipping his pen Into ink as
bluer as quinine, this brilliant yet
vlndicltive, quarrelsome and rough
spoken Georgian refers to the Presl
"The mental dementia of Woodrow
Wilson shows Itself nowhere more un
mistakably than In his rage for des
potic power, and a craze for keeping!
us technically at war.when every sane
American wants peace and know he
could get It were It not for Wilson's
mulish obstinacy.
"Even now the egomaniac Wilson
is stealthily aiding Poland In every
possible way.
"If President Wilson can choose
1.600 professors, professoreeses. ex
perts, expertesses, historians, histo
rianese. astronomers, astronomeress
es, eluding George Creel and Mrs.
Creel, why It stands to reason that j
President Cox will find some r"efeet
tn Wilson's amatuerlsh wo-v will,
leave u to be pone a year or so
for t- purpose of making lovely
man and fished up a large box of lov- snehew, concerning heaven, and
ly and usenil gifts. Fruli salad was j other league of San Domingo, Lib
then served. Mrs. J. S. Harrell. eria, Hedjazi and hell.
(This with reference to the Presi
dent's trip to France.)
'without any authority whatso
ever. President Wilson loaned to Eu
ropean kings and European govern
ments nine thousand million dollars
of your money. I oppose this un
constitutional policy.
"The work has got to be done In
senate and to a lesser extent In the
house. . You have seen what a few
senators, could do in repulsing Wood
row Wilson's traitorous attacts upon
the fundamental principles of our
government. I mention such intrepid
senator as Reed, of Missouri. Shields,
of Tennesse, Borah, of Idaho, John
eon, of California."
(The above referring to the "one
"which is too deeply entrenched at
man autocracy') of the President,
the White House for any President to
ever dislodge It."
Aud again, quoting Mr. Watson,
since he is the storm petrol of the
Georgia contest:
"The Infamous doing of the de
partment of Justice, under Mitchell
Palmer, the present incompetent and
trya.inical attorney general, have
crowded the Jails of this country with
citizens, males and females, and even
little children, nnder the alien act,
who were arrested without warrant,
released without compensation or
banished to Russia."
Mr. Watson Is but "warming up In
these paragraphs. There are about
three columns of his platform, in small
type, his discussions ranging from
denunciation of the Catholic church
and the peace treaty to "such petty
tryants as Wilson and Burleson" and
fckip across space to the league of
nations as It relates to the "Arabs of
the Red Sea."
During the war the postoffice de
partment prohibited the circulation of
Tom Watson's magazine because of
its strictures on the selective service
act, the espionage law, foreign loans
and oilier war politics of this govern
ment. Now Mr. Watson is contribut
ing eilitor to a weekly newspaper in
Georgia such views as those contained
in his senatorial platform as repeat
edly exploited. The weekly circulates
through the mail.-!.
Senatorial candidate Watson, in his
embracing opposition to things in
general, includes:
Compulsory military training in
time of peace; (he espionage law from
beginning to end; the league of na
tions "root and branch, with or with
out reservations"; foreign land-grabbers;
foreign bankrupt governments
unloading their debts; a supreme for.
elgncouncil 'ordering -your aoua -to
Syria, or to Turkey, or to German
Africa to fight for the booty which
France lusts for as her spoils of war,
etc.; and conscription of Americans
for service In foreign lands; appropri
ations for publishing government
papers and magazines; profiteering;
and all other things which Mr. Wat
son considers all out of tune with the
times and his own dieas of how a
government should be run.
Now Mr. Watson and Senator Hoke
Smith are about to meet in Joint de
bate in Georgia, the former on his
platform of unqualified disapproval
of the Wilson administration, the
latter supporting the administration's
record as written during the six years
it was in control of the White House
and both branches of Congress, and
deviating only as to unqualified en
dorsement of the peace treaty.
'This story would not be worth
while except, for the fact that Tom
Watson, former populist leader,
"came bick'" in the recent president
ial preference primaries in Georgia. V
In the popular vote he Carried the
stale over Senator' Hoke Smith and
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
in the contast for delegates to tfie
San Francisco convention. Attorney
General Palmer had an uncomforta
ble lead over the "county unit" rule,
but not in the popular vole, and so
was declared entitled to the Georgia
delegation at San Francisco.
They have always said in Georgia
that Watson, the ex-populist, had 15
to 20 thousand votes he could depend
upon for any cause h-j advocated. In
the presidential primaries, however,
WatEon polled more than 50,000 and
gave both the strict adminlstrat'nn
Democrats and the middle-of-the-roaders,
a bad scare.
After the presidential primaries
Watson began to "feel his oats" once
more and now he has splurged by Bel
ling Into the senatorial primary race
against the veteran Hoke Smith and
his ears! while protege. Governor Dor
sey. Watson supported Dorsey for
governor. Now all his vocabulary Is
v-sml against him. As to that, there
are a dozen men in Georgia once sup
ported by Watson who later felt the
Hting of hla vocabulary. Former Sen
ator Hardwick on the other hand,
once roundly abused by Watson, is
now speaking from the same platform
with him the two raising their
voices In protest again "Wilsonlsni"
and all the administration implies to
the air.
Verily,, it Is a strange mlxup, polit
ical brethern of states where men take
their lickings on hum-drum Issues
and remain always of the same colors.
The Georgia primary will be held
September 8, If there la such a thing
as political seismograph located in
Washington or elsewhere It should
show most violent vibrations from
this time forward.
With the "Ole Marster" (Hoke
Smith;) the dynamic Tom Watson;
the cyclonic Tom Hardwick, and other
candidate of local repute but nation
ally less renown on the Georgia husl
lihgs, there should be neither resf nor
certainty down In the empire tate
of the south, where they raise water
melons, peaches, cotton, certain other
tu-ops, politics and what Sherman
called war.
LATEST HAPPENINGS
News Events of the Daj in
the State and Nation.
The North Carolina state federa
tion of labor Is holding Its fourteenth
annual convention lu Charlotte this
week.
The Tennessee Legislature meets
today at noon in extraordinary ses
sion to consider ratification of th
suffrage amendment.
Governor Cox begins his traveling
campaiga next Thursday at Camp
Perry, O., and will follow this addrm
with ten other speaking engagement
throughout Ohio, Indiana, Pa. and
New York. Early In September the
Governor will proceed with his trip
west and south.
Ex-Governor Locke Craig In ft
statement issued yesterday comes out
strong for woman suffrage. It is
eventual, he believes, and asks, "Why
vainly contend againBt the inevitable?
Let us settle this agitation and this
contention and turn our attention to
other vital issues."
Income tax suits against F. W. and
R. C. Vanderbilt have been filed 10
New York City by the United State
District Court. The complaint assert
ed that the returns of both defendant
since 1915 were Incorrect. It was
charged that F. W. Vanderbilt owe
the government $S2,096, and that R.
C. Vanderbilt owed $34,085.
Sunday eroding, Simon Blount, ft
colored pti.ioner in the Martin county
convict camp, committed suicide by
hanging i.n isflf in a sheet which he
tied to one of the Joists in the bunk
house. Two hours before he attempt
ed the hui.u' thing and while in Jail
had tried to take his life a number of
times.
To discover the effect of tobacco
smoking upon the mental processes
Professor M. V. O'Shea or the Depart
ment of Education at the University
of Wisconsin Is conducting expert
liieuts with smokers and non-smokers
in the university student body. At
present eighteen men who smoke and
eighteen non-smokers are submitting
themselves to tests three hours every
day.
For the third lime in the history
of the country a three million corn
crop has been forecasted by the de
partment of agriculture on the ball
or conditions August 1. Inasmuch ft
August is the critical month for the
crops In the great corn belt of the
middle west,-tt-1s iltieertain whether
the pronilhe or a Crop almost equal
to the enormous ones of 1912 and
1917 will be fulfilled.
On the eve of what promises to be
In many respects, the most spectacu
lar session of the North Carolina gen
eral assembly in recent years, sup
porters of the Susan B. Anthony
Amendment express the belief that
ratification Is doomed in the house,
but that It may pass in the senate.
The suffrage question will be secon
dary to the revaluation act, the Gov
ernor's message dealing almost entire
ly with the latter,
A new conterfeiting "industry'
ha followed In the wake of prohibi
tion. Chief Moran of the Treasury
Secret Service says: "This Industry
Is the counterfeiting of the strip label
revenue stamp that goes over the
corks or that used to go over th
corksor whisky bottled In bond.
Those engaged In the manufacture Of
whisky are prepared to use thesfl
stamps." Three gangs have already
loe"ti arrested for making the stamps!
Eryon Hensb'y, was shot and died
almost Instantly: Eugene, his son,
died in an Asheville hospital; and his
daughter, Mrs. Prudence Hanks, Is In
a dying condition following a deadly
combat that Is said to hive been wag
ed In Yancey county near Burnsville
last Sunday afternoon. Carl and
Henry Banks charged with homicide
hive not yet ben arrested, though.
The deadly affray between families
living next door is said to have been
started by a quarrel between children
of the Banks and Hensley and taken
up by their e'deta.
In his accept ancs speech. Franklin
D. Roosevlt Dinicrritic candidate for
vice president, spoke squarely in
favor of the League 'of Nations, a
did his running mate, Governor Cox.
Mr. Roosevelt Insists that the United
States Is being offered a seat at the
table or the family of nations "to the
end that the smaller peoples may be
truly safe to work out their own des
tinies.;' Mr. Roosevelt also advocate
the reorganization of that part, of the
government machinery which .ha
become antiquated and to shape It in
keeping with present day requlre
t.ients; a general betterment of our
ritixeiit-hip along with the extension
of teaching over 5,000,000 illiterate
above ten yean of age, and a fram
ing of the imn-'rratlou laws so as to
exclude the p'sysically and morally
unfit.
Ex-Pn'ldiars American Legion run
excursion to Lakeview, Wednesday,
August 18. Snilmming, boating, fish
ing, speech by Jim Lockhart. Icemor
lee band, and ball game. between JOth
and 89th division. Only $7.00 round
trip, and that Includes Legion dues,
dinner, and railroad fare.
The host of the Boll Weevil mor
ed northward, and before them ft
voice was heard saying: "Diversitfy,
diversitfy, diversify." And those that
heard and heeded were saved, and
those that did not heed the vole
were loet.
Willy put some chewing gum
Upon the teacher's chair; .
Though this was several years ago.
She still is sitting there. .
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