-THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT:
"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT.1
The Monroe Journ.
PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Twenty-Ninth Year. No. 49.
Monroe, N. C Tuesday, July 25, 1922.
$2.00 Per Year Cash
FARMERS OF UNION COUNTY
ARE WHIPPING THE WEEVIL
Everywhere They Are Holding
Him Down to the Minimum ,
Damage and Still Fighting !
STATE ENTOMOLOGIST j
IS HIGHLY PLEASED!
Says If the Fight Is Kept Up Like It
Has Been Going Until September,
County Will Make a Fair Crop
Union Farmers Have Been Found
ing the Weevil Like the Dickens All
the Season and Now Seem to Have
Him Well in Hand Fight, Fight,
Fight, Is Still the Slogan.
With the whole county in state of
first, second and third year infesta
tion by the boll weevil, the farmers of
Union county, with the grit and de
termination that have always animat
ed them in an emergency, are winning
the fight against the weevil.
The county was shocked last fall by
the piling up of evidence by The
Journal, not only that the weevil was
here, but that it meant temporary
ruin unless a tremendous fight of in
telligence and grit were put up
against it. It was shown over and
over that the experience of other sec
tions was that cotton could be made
in reasonable amounts in spite of the
weevil if the known methods of fight
ing the weevil were begun and car
ried through.
The farmers have been doing that
and today the State Entomologist as
sures them that so successful has
their fight been so far that by keep
ing it up till September a fair crop
will be made in this county.
Something Hopeful
..uj "Wh An vim kpn tallfiniri
about the boll weevil, doesn't every-1
body know all about it by this time? .
Why not pubiisn sometnrng nopeiui :
On the SUujeCtT
Well, here is your hopeful news:
The fizht has been carried on. The
farmers of Union county did not re-i"P
main asleep as they did in many sec-;
inn a nru u'nit till thov u'prp ruined,
And now there is every reason to be-!
li.vl. that in unite of the boll weevil i
f.ii. rmn will ho mnHn in thi countv.
T irtA nnnn linn nnrl nroront unnn nfiu 1
cent. Except for the repeated ham-!
mpHnir of The Journal, of the coun-
i- .ti.mnniitrntinn nirwnt. nf nfru'lil-
tural leaders and intelligent farmers Mr. Hughes, who was driving the
generally, the average man would i ca". and two other occupants escaped
have remained unimpressed with the i unhurt, but the car was badly dam
danger and today, instead of being "8.
able to say that there is hope, every-1 . The name of the man who was dnv
where we should have had tales of i n the ca" that struck Mr. Benton's
disaster.
Must Fight to the End
But the fight must be kept up. Ev-
ervwhere the alert farmers in the ,
county are picking up and burning
the fallen squares twice a week and '
some of them are doing it daily, j
About sixty per cent of the blooms of
a cotton stalk are normally thrown off, ,
euner ns uiooms or squares. inn
stnlk pnnnnt mntiire the number thut I
nrn first hrniiirht nut. hut nature, in
this rnsp. n in all others, ulavs safe,
It starts more than it expects to fin-1
ish as a matter of safety and to pro-,
vide L-uinst accident. Normally the
stalks shed onlv such ns from one i
cause or another, it cannot mature. 1
Now. when the weevil comes along i
enrlv ill the came mid rets its nnrl
of the squares, the stalk is going to !
subtract them from the number that ,
it has to throw oh" anvway. Thus, what
the u-i.pvil int in th.. ...nlv frnitinir
utmw nnnhla th vtnlU to t'il.( rnrp i
of more of the remaining blooms or
squares. If the weevil can be held ine, several oi tne r nits
down to the sixtv per cent, or some-; -wured off ( ulp were scratches and
thing I ke that, in the early Btage. I they were all scattered and came in
there will be no great reduction in the i a,s nian' innings. He shut down on
crop. But if he entrenches upon the 'hem in the pinches and frequently
reserve it is good night. These facts le't two men on bases, besides strik
seem to indicate that with our small j out 16 mi'n- A11 of, Albemarle's
fields, with labor enough to get over i ru"s came off errors and walks. Mon
them reirularlv to nick un the snuares. roe scored one run when Kil'ke
by planting early, and following other j
known methods of fight, a reasonable
-
crop can be counted on each year. It
is to be hoped that these indications
are true.
Irom Mr. Broom
Mr. T. J. W . Broom said to The j
Journal yesterday: "State Entomol-
ogist Franklin Sherman was in the j
county Saturday visiting the iarmers that ended 5 to 4. Ihe game was a
who are going to dust their cotton hummer and was featured by "Babe
with calcium arsenate should it be- Ruth" Hasty hitting the ball over the
come necessary to uo so. He reports fence with two men on bases, which
that the farmers all along the line put Monroe ahead. This was the see
in the weevil infested territory are ond game that "Lefty" Wesnedge has
waging a relentless fight against the i taken from Gastonia, winning the first
weevil, and as a result of the unceas- one 10 to 3.
ing efforts of the farmers to destroy Fallow, the 19-yoir-old high school
all squares before the weevil emerges wonder from Batesburg, S. C., pitch-
from them, the damage from their
ravages is much less than he expect
ed to see at this season. Mr. Sherman
is of the opinion that if this fight is
kept up until September this section
will make a lair crop of cotton.
"Many farmers have reported to 1
us within the last few days that they
are finding fewer punctured squares
now than they did two weeks ago.
The farmers are picking the squares
and it goes to show that the method
is effective.
"Let us remember that there should
be no let up until September, and that
to be of v the greatest effect, the
squares should be picked every three
or four days."
Miss Pauline Dove of Darlington,
S. C-, is the guest of Miss Evelyn
Lockhart fjr a few days.
FIGHT ON AND WIN
By Franklin Sherman,
Stale Entomologist
If the farmer of Union county
will keep up the fight they are
now making against the bolt wee
Til till September, they will make
a fair crop of cotton, io far as the
weevil ravages are concerned. The
farmers in all the field of infection
have been waging a brave fight.
This fight has consisted in simply
destroying all the squares that fall
off before the weevil emerges
therefrom. This is the only prac
tical method this season and it is
proving effective. I have been
greatly pleased with the fight that
has been put up in I'nion county.
The result is goin to be less dam
age to the crop this season than I
thought possible. ..Fight on, pick
up and burn every fallen square,
and the weevil is fairly beaten this
year.
BIG AUTOMOBILE FALLS
OVER A HIGH PRECIPICE
Mr. W. F. Benton and Son, Hermon,
Occupants of the Car, Are
Badly Injured
Mr. W. F. Benton and his son, Her
mon, were severely hurt and narrowlv
escaped with their lives Saturday af
ternoon when the large Haynes car in
which they were riding was struck
by another automobile on a detour
near Abbeville, S. C, and knocked
down a fifteen-foot embankment.
Mr. W. F. Benton lives in Monroe
while his son's home is in Abbeville
Mr. Benton had gone to Abbeville to
attend the funeral of his son s moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Taggart. Mr. William
Hughes was driving the car Saturday
afternoon when it was struck by an-
other car that was passing on a nar
row , stretch of the detour and
knocked down the enbankment as
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"'"ft D,011 cm uir lureiieau aim suucr
fi severely from the loss of blood
1 MR" stitches were required to sew
the gash. He was brought to Mon-
e W ran c-unuay mgm ano. is con
fined to his bed here.
,. Mr. Hermon Benton had four or
I've ribs broken and is in a critical
condition at his home in Abbeville,
being unable to move or raise his
!tad. The extent of his injuries is un-
known but it is believed that he will
recover.
is unknown and it has not been ascer
tained whether there is blame attach
ed to any of the parties, but it ap
pears to be one of those unavoidable
accidents.
Mr. Benton is a good citizen and
his many fr;cnds here regret his un
fortunate accident.
ERRORS HELP ALBEMARLE
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dame
Was Featured With Fluke
I lays Second S:raight For Al
bcn.arle Culp Twirls Good
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Albemarle made it two straight
froln Monroe yesterday by beating
them 4 to 2 in a j ime featured with
errors Jind fluke phys. Culp, the new
Pjtcher Monroe secured recently,
pitched a good game an,, would have
won lf he had had even the average
support. Monroe made the only earn-
-d run of the game when English
pasted one over the center field fence
doubled, sacrificed to third, and came
home on a passed ball. Kress pitched
. -1 X All 1 rFM. .
a good game for Albemarle. There
were several new faces in both teams
lineup.
Monro. 1 R (? Alh A S 9
Culp and Lowe: Kress and Ritchie.
Beats Gastonia
Monroe took her second game from
Gastonia here Friday in a fast play
ed a no hit, no run game for Shelby
Saturday at Shelby against Monroe
and struck out eight men.
Shelby scored in the second inning.
Shelby had men on bases, nearly
every inning, but couldn t get the
needed hit to drive in the runs
Poole, Parks and Gurley led the hit
ting for Shelby with two hits each.
Shelby, 1, 9, 3; Monroe, 0, 0, 2.
Lowder and Lowe.
Card of Thanks
We wish to thank our many friends
for their kindness shown us during
the sickness and death of our daugh
ter, Ruby. May God's rishest bless
ings rest upon them all. Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Chaney and children.
If it wasn't for the payroll, business
would be a happy pastime.
LEGEND TELLS HOW GOOSE
CREEK TOWNSHIP GOI NAME
Pioneer Settler, the Story Goes, Had
Inusual Experience With Geese,
and Tradition Holds
TOOK FIRST AIRPLANE
VOYAGE KNOWN TO MAN
Goose Creek Has Manv Citizens That
Are of the Salt of the Earth, and
the Environments Are Conducive to
the Kea Manhood and Womanhood
That Comes From Goose Creek
Township.
The writer of this story recently
visited Goose Creek and didn't run
up against anything strong to drink
either. A visit to that historic sec
tion of the county will wipe away all
suspicion in which some are wont
to hold one of the best townships in
Union county.
It is true that there is some block
ading going on in Goose Creek, but
on the other hand a very large major
ity of the citizens of that section are
pcacable, law-abiding people and are
among the salt of the earth. That's
why Goose Creek has furnished so
many useful and able men. As was
brought out in the recent debate in
Monroe on which section of Goose
Creek has furnished the most great
men, there is every environment over
there that is conducive to real man
hood and womanhood. Goose Creek
Duck creek. Crooked creek, Clear
creek and every other kind of creek
with beautiful hills and fertile valleys
offer to the youth a glimpse of nature
that is excelled only by the mountains
of Western North Carolina, and to
the would-be blind-tiger a fine place
to hide from officers.
The climate and soil of Goose Creek
are especially adapted to the growth
of fruit, and the temptation to make
cider is great, especially since there
is no established market for fruit
in this section and therefore hun
dreds of bushels of fine apples must
go to waste. Some of the finest cann
ed and dried fruit to be had comes
from Goose Creek.
Why He Quit Drinking Liquor
A citizen of that section tells an
interesting story as to why he quit
drinking liquor. At one time he was
a heavy drinker and had considerable
dealings with a noted blind tiger, who
operated on Rocky River after Ln
ion county went dry, but before the
state prohibition law was passed. The
blockader built a flat and operated
it from one side of the river to the
other as an accommodation to his cus
tomers and he got rich and bold. Fin
ally, he built a fine residence from
money he had made in the illegal
manufacture and sale of liquor and
th.it put the man referred to above to
thinking that he had helped to build
that house at the expense of his own
health and the comforts of his family.
He reasoned that is an upright neigh
bor in poor circumstances should ask
him to help build him a house he would
'ell hun to build it himself, and he
then and there decided to quit drink
ing liqour and he has drunk none
since.
The First Airplane Voyage
But perhaps the most interesting
thing about Goose Creek township is
its name and the legend in connection
with how it secured the name. One of
the older citizens relates the legend
on this wise: Years ago large flocks
of wild geese played on the waters
of what is now Goose Creek and one
day a pioneer settler figured out a
tvay to secure them for his own bene
fit. He provided himself with a cord
and made a dive under the water
some distance from the geese. He
swam around under them tying their
legs together until they were all
bound and then tied the cord around
his waist, after which he poked his
head out of the water and said "boo!'
This frightened the geese and they
all arose at the same time carrying
the pioneer settler along with them
on the first airplane voyage ever
made by man.
The voyage was a long one, extend
ing from Goose Creek to South Amer
ica where the geese went for winter
quarters, and the man didn t know-
where he was to land but finally
happened to think that he had a knife
n his pocket, he took it out and cut
the cord and fell into a hollow tree.
He couldn't figure out how he was to
be extricated from such a predicament
until suddenly the top of the hollow
darkened and a big bear began back
ing down into the den. But fortunate
ly said pioneer citizen still had his
knife in nig hand and he seized a firm
hold upon the bear's tail and began
stabbing him with the knife, which
caused him to make for the top of
the hole carrying the man with him.
The Return Trip
And then the question arose as to
how he was to get back to Goose
Creek. However, after recovering his
equilibrium from the thrilling air
plane voyage he figured that the
geese would come back to Goose Creek
when the winter was over, since no
man, woman, animal or fowl once
tasting the goodness of that spot can
leave and stay away satisfied very
long at the time. His surmise was
correct and so about the time winter
was over he caught his flock of geese
on a pond one day and proceeded to
repeat his same stunt, with the result
that a second airplane trip was made,
this time back to Goose Creek. In
commemoration of that event he call
ed that historic stream Goose Creek
and the township was later named for
the water course.
Miss Kate Connie and Mr. Hsnrv
Ellis Copple are visiting ths r si.Ue.-,
Mrs. Samuel Long, in Heath Springs. J
! HENDERSON-SNYDER CO.
MOVE TO NEW BUILDING
i
The Event Furnishes a Teg Upon
I MBicn to Hang a Mighty I'retty
Business Story.
FIRM KIM S THREE BIRDS
I WITH BUT A SINGLE STONE
Has Twelve Thousand Feet of Floor
Space Right on Railroad Right of
Way Three tinsel v Associated
Enterprises That Have been Built
Upon Energy, Intelligence and
Character.
In years gone by, and to some ex
tent yet, when a man is engaged in
running a mill of any kind, a shop,
or a gin, he was saii to be engaged in
"public work." He was making a pri
vate business function in a public way.
The neighborhood was as much inter
ested in the efficiency of a business
of this kind as it was in the efficien
cy ofthe public school teacher or the
public official.
Today the public manifests its in
terest in all forms of business by say
ing either through laws or some other
form of regulation, to some extent,
how business shall be conducted. Mod
ern life is tying us all up so closely
together that all forms of private
business which are necessary and use
ful links in the long economic chain
of production and distribution, be
comes of interest to alL In one city
in North Carolina they still let a
railroad track remain on the front
street because it carries freight cars
to and from the side doors of the
wholesale houses. Sooner or later the
houses will have to follow the tracks
away from the central part of town,
but the people hesitate to force the
issue because of the usefulness of the
arrangement in cutting down draying
charges.
Tbete general principles are but
introductory to the story which The
Journal is carrying in this issue in
an advertisement of the Henderson-
Snyder Company, wholesale grocery
men. This is a story of a private busi
ness with a collateral interest to the
public such as The Journal is fond of
telling ot any private business which
goes to make up the economic life of
town and county. All such steps mean
better business and more business for
the firms and the community where
in they are located.
Fits Like a Glove
Thij concern has moved to its own
building, admirably located, and con
structed for the handling of goods.
The two floors of the building com
prises twelve thousand square feet
of space and freight cars are loaded
and unloaded at the rear door, while
the truck trade is accommodated at
the front door. Situated thus, next to
the railroad right of way, the whole
burden of draying charges is wiped
off the slate at a sweep. It will be
no longer necessary to transport goods
by the thousands of truck loads to
and from the station. By putting up
their own building on this side they
have killed two birds with one stone,
in fact, three. Office and warehouse
are under one roof, there is provision
for handling car load lots and thus
saving freight and buying cheaper
and there is the cutting out of the
draying charges.
A Fine Business Structure
Nearly twenty years ago Messrs.
D. 1!. Snyder and F. G. Henderson
began a small brokerage business
in .Monroe. They did not have any
money, which so many young men of
today think that they can't start with
out, but they had a driving energy,
love for work, and character. Busi
ness intelligence mixed with these at
tributes will sooner or later pile up
a success anywhere. Around this mod
est start has been crystalled the
pv.scnt three prosperous plants of the
Hi mlerson-Snyder Companv. the Hen
derson Roller Mill, and the Hender
son Motor Company. While this firm
was erecting its new building the
roller mill was being constructed,
equally well located just across the
street. On its opening day last week
oik1 hundred and sixty vehicles from
the country unloaded home made
wheat at the mill and carried back
Union county flour. Thf mill has a
capacity of two hundred and fifty
barrels a day, being atle to take care
of the local trade and also put its own
brands of high grade flour on the
market, made from western wheat.
A Working Personnel
Mr. J. E. Henderson, the fine old
citizen and splendid miller who came
to Monroe many years ago and start
ed a small mill and began to enthu
siastically preach to the farmers the
value of wheat growing, is still in
charge of the mill and is happy to
see so many of his dreams come true.
With him are his son W. A. Hender
son, and Fred Huntley, the latter
coming in some years ago with the
Snvder-Huntley Company, which be
gan a grain brokerage business, which
has since been merged into the mill
business.
Mr. D. B. Snyder is in charge of the
Henderson-Snyder Company, and last
January two fine fellows. Julian Grif
fin and Alex Scales, were taken into
the firm. The former takes care of
the local trade and the latter is on
the road. The Henderson Motor Com
pany, which distributes all the Ford
cars it can get and has been doing a
great deal to develop the use of trac
tors in the county, is under the su
pervision of Mr. F. G. Henderson.
All these gentlemen are stockholders
of some or all of the three companies,
and if they were not running str.ct'.y
competitive businesses they would
probably be accused of having inter
locking d.rectorates. Every one is an
active worker and there are no over-1
head members of the firm to hold
THE DIE-HARD EASTERNERS
PREVENTING
LOCAL SITUATION GOOD
The local men who walked out
Saturday, July 1st, twenty-eight of
them, and also twenty-to main
tenance men who quit a little later,
making fifty in all. are standing
pat, but are doing it in an orderly
and peaceable manner. ..There has
been no trouble at all in Monroe,
the men who are on a strike all be
ing level-headed men who realize
that law and order must be main
tained. ..The special agents em
ployed by the Seaboard to keep
watch over the railroad property
have also conducted themselves in
a gentlemanly manner and their
attitude has been such as to merit
the confidence and respect of the
striken.
BE ON HAND AT FAIR
MEETING TO-NIGHT
General Committee Will Make Its Re
port and Organization Will Like
Iv Be Perfected For Fair in Nov.
Everybody who is interested in a
fair for Union county this fall is in
vited to meet in the room of the
Chamber of Commerce at 8 o'clock
this evening.
The general committee appointed
last week, as told about in the last
issue of The Journal, will make its
report to-night. It will recommend
two things. One is that a fair asso
ciation be organized immediately un
der the general State statute, with no
less than one hundred members,
though an association can be or
ganized with a membership of ten or
more. The other recommendation win
be that a fair be held on November
I. 2. and 3. presumably in the grounds
and buildings of Lake Tonnawanda.
Mr. J. C. M. ann, chairman of the
general committee, will make a full
report of the committee's work, and
it is expected that an organization
will be perfected tonight by an elec
tion of the number of officials pro
vided for in the statute.
That is a short but sweet story. It
means that if the public shows any
interest we can have a fine fair this
fall. It also means that some of the
public is already greatly interested,
m fact, enough to put the fair over.
But the promoters need every indi
vidual who is willing to do his part.
An enthusiastic meeting should be
held tonight.
OCCUPATION FOR THE
SMALL SCHOOL CHILDREN
Mr. Gordon Finds That They Are
Very Useful in Picking Up Punc
tured Squares
The boll weevil may not do a great
deal of damage in this county, but
he has certainly set people to think
ing and talking about him. In fact,
he is the most talked of being in this
section. Anywhere and everywhere
one goes the boll weevil is the tonic
of discussion. He may be unpopular
but he is certainly in the limelight,
and Mr. A. K. Gordon c.f Jackson
township says he is a friendly sort
of bug. He says he has caught a num
ber fitting in cotton blooms waiting
for the square to get larg? enough
to attack. Mr. Gordon believe. that
the most effective way of fighting
the weevil is to pick up the squares
that have been punctured and have
fallen off. This, he says, :nay W done
by children too small to do hard work.
His children use book satchels to put
;h: squares in and they got Hbout a
g tllon to the acre on an average. He
f; ys ull the fields in his section are
ir.fested, but that they are not do
ing any great amount of damage,
since a certain per cent of the squares
must fall off anyway that the stalks
cannot support and mature all the
squares that form.
Mr. Gordon says he intends to grow
cotton in spite of the weevil, but that
he will not plant as large acreage.
Last year he cultivated fifteen acres
and this year he anticipated the rav
ages of the weevil and cut his acreage
to eight acres, whilo next year he will
plant on'y five, but it is his intention
to fertilize it heavy and work it fast
and late, picking up the punctured
squares ana fighting Mr. B. Weevil to
a fare-you-well.
Mr. Parker Will Lecture Next Sunday
Mr. J. J. Parker was called to New
York Friday on important business
and therefore could not deliver his
lecture to the Men's Bible classes of
the Methodist and Episcopal churches
Sunday morning as had been announc
ed. However, he has consented to
make the bcture on "Idealism" next
Sunday morn'ng at 10 o'clock in the
Men's Bible clas3 room of Central
Methodist church and all members of
both the Methodist and Episcopal
classes are urgently requested to be
present.
down office chairs and draw salaries.
Every one is a public spirited citizen
and throws his Part into anything of
public' weal that comes along. All are
old enough to "use discretion" as Jeff
says, but none too old to be enthusi
astic in their work. Their ideas of
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nuik lie iiiunu sum 111 mc saying ui i
uunan urunn, wno ouen complains
h.-t h? days are too short for him1
to get everything done that he wants j
to do. They are working out a well
earned success for themselves and for j
the community in which they do bus
iness, and Monroe wants just as many
mors such as can be found.
END OF STRIKE
If Seniority Rights Were Restor
ed There Would Be No Diffi
culty About Agreeing
THAT IS PRESENT CLAIM
OF THE LABOR LEADERS
Official Spokesmen Declare That the
Eastern Financiers Wish the Strike
To (io On Because They Wish To
Destroy Unions Meantime Presi
dent Harding Continues to Ponder
While His Advisers Ply Him With
Plans.
"What's the news about the strike?"
So far as an onlooker can see there is
no news. The situation stands as it
has been. Spokesmen for the rail
road executives say that the strike is
broken, that either the strikers are
returning to work or they are hiring
new men a plenty. Meanwhile they
continue to take off more trains, pre
sumably so that the new men will not
have much to do.
From the standpoint of the shopmen
the strike continues successful and
the men are ready to go back to
work when the roads agree to with
draw their orders that all strikers
shall lose the r seniority rights. They
assert that a group of eastern finan
ciers are dominating the railroad ex
ecutives and preventing them from
agreeing to this. Y'esterday the Un
ion leaders declared:
"The government now admits that
the railroad strike is a grave public
issue; the public knew it two weeks
ago," was a statement issued by the
central strike committee.
"It is only the die-hard group of
eastern executives who deny it. They
deny it because they want the strike
to go on. They are using this crisis
in a vain attempt to install the open
shop.
"If the government wants to relieve
the transportation crisis it will settle
the strike. And the way to settle the
strike is to persuade General W. W.
Atterbury and his 'hard-boiled' Wall
street clique to cease holding up the
nation's business by their private re
fusal to allow seniority rights to the
workers. It is inconceivable that a
half dozen men can impose their sel
fish w.ll upon the welfare of a hun
dred m Jlion." - --
Mr. Harding Inactive Jt
The coal strike is also where it
was. Mr. Harding has done nothing
since requesting the governors of the
States to call out their malitia to see
that workers are unmolested.
Some administration advisers who
favor a drastic move by the govern
ment are known to hold the view
that President Harding should de
mand that the railroad executives
make every effort to restore inter
state commerce, especially to the ex
tent of abandoning their stand on the
seniority issue said to be the crux
of the whole strike question where
upon the disputants would be expect
ed to come together on the matter of
a fair living wage for railroad em
ployees, conceded to be the remaining
important issue.
If the railroad executives refused,
iv was declared, the President, satis
fied he has full authority and a duty
delegated him by the constitution to
maintain inlet state commerce and
the mail service, could proceed to
operate the railroads.
Authority Ample
While the Esch - Cummings act
would be invoked for the purpose as
far as that would supply, it was said,
the President's main reliance would
be the duty "entrusted to the chief
executive under the constitution.
The President, it is understood, has
been assured by his advisors, that his
authority for decisive action, with
out recourse to Congress, is without
question. Two courses would be open
to him in order physically to operate
the railroads, it was said. First, he
could request the strikers to return
to work under the government opera
tion at the old wage scale with se
niority right restored. If this failed,
then federal troops could be called
upon to assure operation of the trains.
The first course, the President is
understood to believe, would be ac
ceptable to the strikers, who would
see in it the capitulation of the rail
road executives and a victory won
for labor. The chief contention of
the s;r kers. it was said, has de
veloped i::to a fight for seniority,
with the wags dispute becoming sub
ordinate. There is little disposition in gov
er:;n;ent circk's to consider meeting
the emergency i.y actually puttng the
lines un ier go.jrnment operation.
Home Comin ( Duy at Old Zion Camp
Ground
Next Sunday will be observed as
"Home Coming Day" at Zion Metho
dist church in Goose Creek township.
It will be an all day affair with picnic
dinner. Mr. W. B. Love and others
will sneak. Zion church is located at
the old Zion campmeeting ground.
Zion was one of the greatest gather
ing places in the old days. Many fond
recollections cluster about it. Rev. Mr.
Huggins, the pastor, says that the
church is very desirous that every old
member and especially old people who
used to go to Zion, make an effort
to be present on the occasion. It is
desired to give them a day of wel
come and enjoyment on the old spot
which has played so important a part
in the life of the past.