ACTIVE m FRANCE
dim—It ta iWiti the actual flpM
■In »ln tha pugmi of Dm «*k of
fKoMtmction la frmnr* But hi the
future this defeat ta to be rtndM by
apaalal anaaa»M»iita far the rappiy
of oAcial utatietica ta theee whe wiah
ta fellow tha atefa taken far tha raa
toration of tha coaatry. It la par
hapa tha greatee! awoumiwil to
othan to help bar, to kaew that aha
ia making tha Boat formidableafforte.
Hat* than an aomr atnking figuree
which will aerve ta reaeve tha Mae
that Franca ia driftinc- Thay www
obtained after a mat manrfeatation
of Mayors from tha mined towaa of
Uw north which took plaoa at tha 9®r
bonne ia Parti. Thay certainly ahow
that bath the rauntcipaltttee and tha
government art doing their beat and
that that heat ia producing conaidar
able reeulta.
ropuistioa
In November 1918 there were in the
department revetted by the war leee
than 2.000,000 inhabitants. Slowly at
first and then more quickly the former
inhabitants began to return. In No
tember last year the number had in
creased to over 3,500,000. By April of
this year the population was practical
ly 4,000.000. Today it is even larger.
The return of the people to the viilliag
ee and towns of the north, which had
been laid waste, is ia itself s clear in
dication of restored confidence. Ir. th#
early days of the armistice it was sim
ply impossible to And accomodation
but now, though much remains to be
done, the housing difficulty has ob
viously been largely solved.
About 160 devastated towns have
baas officially adapted by other French
towns. Here ia a welcome proof of
the interest that those people who are
not so greatly affected by the war sr.
to* and in the south make it their buai
nses to reetore other towns in the
north. But besides these 160 towns
■Mi h have been adopted, a much
larger number of villagea have been
similarly taken up by groups and in
stitutions which call thaauelves the
"marraines"—which translated means
the godmother*—of the villagea.
Altogether municipal life, which had
entirely disappeared, has been res tor
«d to over 1.000 eommunaa. This amaz
ing figure will give a clear idea of the
great progreas which has been effect
ed. The 6,500 schools which existed be
fere the war in these districts are now
replaced by 5,300. The conditions in
which some of them exist are a till
primitive. They have been temporarily
opened in wooden buildings or in
hastily repaired schools. France has
been particularly anxious that the edu
cation of the children should not un
duly suffer.
INBUM ror Mu-fovcr
Naturally then Has been and ia a
great demand for nan-power. This
••pact of the problem ia sometime*
overlooked, and it ia as well therefor*
to make it clear that, at great sacri
fice, Prance has supplied 150,000
workmen for the task of reconstruc
tion. The number in relation to the
whole of Prance and her industrial
■•ads ia enormous, and no sunrise
should be fait that two yaarn after
the war Prance has not yet regained
her old position of rebuilding. It ia
true that a certain proportion of these
workman were foreigners but the bulk
of them were supplied by Prance her
self.
The extent of ruined countryside is
not often realised. A hectar repre
sents about two and a half acres, and
no fewer thai 4,000,000 hectares which
were core red with harhed wire have
been swept clean, and. 1,700,000 ha<-e
been plowed.
A meter roughly correspond* to a
yard. Is it known that there were
2Hfi.000.000 cubic meters of trenches
to fill In? It ia not easy to sppreriats
what this means. At any eat* 140,•
000.000 cubic metem have hnen duly
filled in. while out of a0tt.c00.000
square meters of hsrhai wire wait
aver 200,000,000 have bee«i remove
To clear away the ruina. great neap*
ef broken buildings, mountabia of ma
iBrult There was
41.00 100 cubic meters of ruina to
about 11,000,000 are
In spite of
!Tkw> m .till mmt MM to p« u
order u4 it atart not ba fir|itli
that aaathar 800,080 Imm mi*
totally daetreyed.
It "in hard to fM maurul ui
competent bouae baihim aad It ta idle
to dfcwptee t ha fart that a greet deal
reauina to ha dona. Bat tho govern
ment, If tt rould not raeaoatruct all
theee haaaaa la a abort apace of tiaae,
at laoat act to work to enact provision
al houaee aad wooden bootha. Thirty
ot sheltering a numbor of faaillaa
have ham art up and about tha »aia
Other Kaaty shelters hava been run op
in which art now living nearly 1,000,
000 tanaata.
Tha rapair of roadi was a tnaw
dotia job of which had to ba urgently
undertaken. With regard to tho mora
importaat thoroughfares which ware
raaantial for tho preservation of cob
municationa batwaan tha various town
ships, over 50,000 kilometers (a kilo
meter is five-eights of a mile) had to
ba pat right. Some of than ware in
deplorable condition. They had been
abaolutaly plowed up by fire so that
no trace of them remained. They had
in short, to ba completely retraced aad
reconstructed. The prograaa is not ao
Rood as might ba wished, but tha ame
lioration of 18,000 kilometers in lesa
than two years represents, if one con
siders the matter, a jpgantic effort.
Between 2,000 and 3.000 kilometers of
roadways have been completely re
stored. Than over 1,000 hridgea hava
been put up.
Turkey Sign* Tnaty Am! U
Wow At Pmm
Strm, Prance, Aug. 10.—Turkey,
the last power to remain in a atata of
war with the entente, signed the trea
ty today and la now ofleially at peace.
Serbia and Hedjax alone of the nations
interested had refused to sign.
It waa a simple, somber ceremony
Premier Venizelos, although achieving
what is considered to hare been oae
of his life ambitions, affixed Ma sic
nature to the throe voluminous docu
ments—the treaty itself, aad Italo
Grsafc procotol. aad a proeotol on Aaia
aecnbsd by sows to ithsaas aad
work. The three Turkish delegatss
looked sway aa the premier passed
their seata, not ho win* to him as they
did to the other delegates.
Count Tamoslri, Polish minister to
Paris, who waa among those who sign
ed the throe documents, attracted aa
much attention aa the actual cere
mony, being the center of inquiring
>rroups as the delegates were signing
their names.
Premier Mlllerand opened the cere
mony with a few words. And, that,
asked the Turkish delegates to sign.
The business was concluded at 4:90, |
and the delegates hurried out through!
the soldier guard, which presented'
arms aa they filed past.
Villa Bandit. And Udv S«r
San Pedro. Coahulia, via Laredo
Junction, Max.—Francisco Villa march
ad into San Pedro on Monday night
between the lines of a populace which
greeted him with c hears at "Viva
Villa!" Behind him came hia band of'
faithful followers, which with their
leader surrendered to the Da la Huerta
Govenuaent under term* agreed upon
recently at Sabinaa.
Aa he drew up before the main plaza
of the Mexican town, a throng of 30001
gathered around him, the chieftain in
dicating that he waa about to apeak to
"I surrender," he said, "because
further fighting in Mexico means in
tervention by the United Statea. They
call me a bandit. They call me the
wont man in Mexico, but I would pre
serve our nationality by avoiding in
tervention."
There were nine hundred men in the
band which Villa lad into San Pedro,
all of whom later pitched camp cloae
by the little town after a 24-hour
march acreaa desert country without J
water for man or beaat *
Villa's entrance into San Pedro
marked the first time in 10 years of
revolution that the bandit leader has
naarrd a city without planning to con
quer it or being a hunted fugitive
/ A Dmm I
About forty young people gathered
at the home of Chief of Mice Harry
Lewellyn last Thursday evening and
enjoyed a delightful informal dance.
Mualc waa furnished by the Vliilnh,
the large
space for those who
preferi ad to enjay a chat oa the
| us lawn
county, R. H. DnwMnd, Jr., of Am
hmt county, tnd Special Win Of
ficer* R. H. Wilmtth and J. W. Pugh,
of Sehoolfield. Pittsylvania coonty,
jointly accused of the murcUr of Ho»m
Thorn**, of Pitrkk county, farmer
*nd alleged bootlegger. came to rather
a nudden conclusion this morning in
the Fidml court her* when Jodft
Henry 0. McDowell instructed the jury
to acquit the four defendant*.
Both tides had finiahed the taking
of evidence and praparationa were
made to argue the caae before the
jury. The large crowd of • pact*tor*
relaxed and trot ready to hoar what
had been predicted would be unusual
ly interesting argument* from the ar
ray of attorneys.
Scintilla of KrMfMi
Judge" McDowell turned in" his rhsir
and, facing the jury, announced that
Vie had carefully gone over the evi
dence, had read the testimony of Lea*
ter Robertson, a young Patrick county
merchant, witness of the prosecution,
and occupant of the autoambile in
which Thowaa waa hauling the liquor
the night of the killing, and aaid that
the Commonwealth's case rested on a
scintilla of evidence coating from Rob
ertson. Ho pointed oat that Robertson
had testified that hs did not haw any
shot from the corn field, near the fill
ing, and where Thomaa'a body was
found.
Ua«derlarsd farther that a pervaal!
of the transcript relating to the tssti .
mony of Robertson brought oat the
fact that Robertson'* testimony was
to ths effect thst if Ttmaas, the dtad
man, had a pistol Robertson did not
After going over one or two other
factors connected with ths case, the
court Rtated that the other defendants
could no more be held as siding sad
shotting Pugh than members of the i
jury. Moreover, it wss painted out that,
in the event the caae had gone to ths,
jury and a verdict of guilty had baen |
returned, it would have been set aside
Turning to the foreman of the jury.
Judge McDowell handed him a alip of
paper. It was his instruction and road: I
"We. the jury, fiad the lefeadaats,:
by direction of the court, not guilty."
Attorney Dalt Dillard. engaged far,
the prosecution, arose and addroaaod -
the court. He made a motion that the
caae of Pugh should be submitted to
the jury on the grounda that notwith
standing the court's instructions, the
jury still had a right to paaa on ths
case.
IMnrfinU TmUIj
The defendants. testifying ia their
own behalf, gave substantially the
same testimony. They told of discover
ing the automobile at a bend in the
road a short distance from Marti ns
ville. on the Danville road, of the inci
dents leading up to the shoo tine, de
scribed the location and so on. Two of
the defendants. Woods and Wilmxth,
were recalled this morning and asked
about finding a holster, claimed to
have been left in the captured liquor
laden automobile. If there had been a
pistol holster in the car they would
have seen it, the witness testified.
Government officials were of the
opinion that "a great victory has been
won by the Government." and that
the laws must give the officers pro tec
tion when they an ordered out to en
force them.
Held To Be Felony
In this connection raae a ruling at
the court at the beginning of the trial.
The removal of untax-paid spirits or
aiding in the removal of such Is a fel
ony by Federal statute, K waa stated.
The common law rule Is that an oAeer i
felon who is committing a felony in
the oflren preeenct
Judge McDowell ruled that the oem
mon law rule apptiee to the Federal
statute creating ths statutory feleay
as well as of felony at any law, and
that, therefore, the officers in tMa
caae had a right to shoot a felon on
account of the tact that ha waa at the
Mmm of Mm ituHag engaged hi *e
moving untax-paid spirits, which ia a
Moay under the Federal statute.
" Lett mm whfahy
On the aigfct of July 14, Moaaa
in*. oaa af tha ofcm taattf jrtag that
ha waa aa tha road aad fM a ahot
Othar ahota wata flrad. Thaaiaa' badr
»aa faaad ia a cornflaid naar tha nti
tha day follawtac tha ahaaMac, which
octurrad hi tha daad of night. Tha of
Acara took tha ear aad ita nmtanta,
aad vara una war* of Thomas' daath.
1>a Thomaa caaa rnariadad tha
crMml trtala bafora thta tana of
court, othara having baan nw^aadad
until tha Pahraary tana.
PRICES OF SUGAR
CONTINUE DECLINE
Raw and Biftiid PwJmI Fall
Haavily—Uarast, Lack Of
Diw< and Fraa Offering
Charactariza Waak Markat
New York. M. Y.. Auk. 14-—ln>
■ad refined Hpr continues to decline.
For Mr veraI day* the decision of buy
ni ta hold off in anticipation of low
prices reduced activity in the raw
market, which was nominally quoted
at about 144k centa, with the refiner*
and brokers requiring 21, 22 and 23.
Then speculative stocks at refined be
Kan to be offered at about IV, but the
big refiners did not weaken until
Thursday, when Arbuckle Brothers re
daced their list price of fine granulat
ed from 21 to 17.10 centa per pound,
with raw sell ins on the basis of 18.10.
Other refiners are expected to fellow
suit.
Both futures and spot raws began
to decline early in the week, due, ac
cording to dealers, to lack of demand
for refined, free offering from all
parts of the world and a feeling of un
raat throughout the trade, the lack of
d-mand indicating that heavy early
■■—on purchases were not entirely
for immediate conaumation, and the
ed the Market.
Yesterday raws were 12 and futorsa
opened at declines from 26 to tf
points. Keflned could be bought around
17 and further wdsjtiona were expec
ted. Soma expected refined to go as
low aa 12 to 10. It is declared that re
filled waa held around 21. 22 and 28
until speculators could unload, though
during the time those prices prevail
ed, it is said, anyone cmild buy at pric
es from 1 to 3 points below thoee quot
ed. The situation is influenced by the
official Washington report that dur
ing the fiscal year 1920 sugar imports
exceeded exports by more than 6,000,
000,000 pounds, amounting to 7.587,
196.000 pounds. Sugar exports were
1,444.080.rt*6. an advance of mare than
100.000.000 pounds over 191W.
A Youth fur Sailor >
Jin Brannock, Hon of Fimun and
Mm W. H. Brannock, who ia a jolly
tar, spent a few days with hi* parents
ia this city leaving Sunday to return
to his ship.
During 1918 Jim served on merchant
ships in the submarine tone, since that
time he has spent considerable time in
and around Panama Canal and says
to live, clean, sanitary andantkqko
it is a delightful place to lt««. clean,
sanitary and beautiful
In the past 16 months he has made
22 trips on freight and passeager ves
sels including 1 trip to Chile. 1 to
Texas and Mexico, has visited Spain.
France and Italy oa the Mediterranean
coaat, and oa another trip stopped at
Rotterdam in Holland and visited
Antwerp in Belgium.
Jim is not yet 1* years old and has
visited all the states ia the onion ea
cept those in the northwest.
He expecta to remain in sea service
until next summer, then ha says he
intends to return to Mount Airy to
make Uua his home Jim says the sea
life ia fine if you are disponed to enjay
it. if not one could make himaalf
miserable thinking of thine* that are
oat at reach of the sailor. They have
musk and a toad library if aae ia dis
posed to read or listen to mask. If
yea want sport there are boxing giov
ea and other farms of athletic sports
to keep the muaclea ia good form.
He ia proud of Ms record and ex
pects to leave the service with paper*
that will permit Mai to retern with
goad rank should ha ever drain to re
turn to the era life. Ha cm i tea a pack
et full of foreign cocas gathered la
DAMAGE sum AND FIST
FIGHTS
Nw—■! laMMtm Add to hv
tHMt hm Fight m Tn i in
MMhrttU, Tmul, All*. 14^faa»ta«
Mki»
fighte. law MiU aa4
After tha mill
•iay »ll»my far tha
tton of tha Haaa■ B. Anthony
■teat ilMtod a civil nut far ■
acauut Mr* J aha B. Kaany, haa4 of
oaa of tha Taaaaaaaa raUfiaattaa laa
ruaa of wmm voter* far aajrtag that
Miaa r'hariotta Row*, of Now York,
araa a "notonoua woaan."
Tha hotel lohMaa ara fall of atoriaa
that monay has bam offmd to rnaai
bara to kaop thooi oat of town whor
tha vote ta tafcaa.
TIM controversy between Mia* Rowe
and Mrs. Kenny lUrUd in the nfln of
the Hermitage hotel, near the clerk's
daak. Mtaa Rowe aliens that >he over
heard Mr*. Kenny say to Mra. Lydia
W. Holme*, a l»uuiiana suffragist,
"Let ua move away from that notori
ous woman." tfiaa Rowe followed Mrs.
Kenny and demanded her naM and
rot it. Mrs Holmes will be railed aa a
witnesa by Miae Howe to support her
charge. Mrs. Kenny aays she dad not
say that Miae Rowe waa "notorious" in
a sense that involved character. There
is a question aa to whether she said
Miss Rowe waa a "notorious eiisn"
or a "notorious creature." Mrs. Kenny
'mm notified that she will ha
with papers. Prominent Ten
attorneys will represent Miae
This affair ia being diariiaasd in
every hotel lobby and honM here. Feel
rng against outsiders, especially men.
Is running high. Former Representat
ive in Congress John Weeley Gainea
ia very outspoken in hie opinion aa to
what should he done with msihsrs of
the Maryland special legislative coat
mittee sent to Tenaeasee to oppoee
suffrage. "It ia a shame." said ha,
"that this state should hare to be in
flicted with this controversy. We am
to tahe part hi this di
nt we ought to throw the
have come here from the
whialcy-soafced city of Baltiawre ia the
river. I am ready to say te George A.
Prick, the Maryland senator, juat wnat
I think should be done to him and oth
er men who have rome here to tall ua
what to do.
Old-tim« rs here would not be sur
priaed at any moment to hear of oot
hreaks of violence. The suit of Miss
Rowe, it is feared, will add fuel to the
flames already mounting high.
FOREMAN TELLS ABOUT
TROUBLE
Had
To HmMi
"For two yftn before I began tak
ing Tunlar my health waa so bad I
hat two or three hours from work
every dar, but since taking fire bot
tles of the medicine I am in as fine
health as I ever was in mjr life." said
C. H. Melton, construction 'oreman for
Ike Western Union Telegraph Co..
living at 3SM Tracy avenuo.
City. Mo.
"I had stomach trouble and I
indication for tprenty years,*' he cm
tinued, "Ftve years ago t got in suc»
had shape that everything I ate caus
ed me terrible suffering from gas aaj
at timee I could hardly breathe. I had
a stuffy feeling all the time and was
so constipated I had to keep falling
laxativea. My head ached sometimes
like it would simply hurst and I be
came so weak and run-down H looked
like I would have to give up my work
entirely.
"A friend of mine had tried Taalac
and recommended it so highly I decid
ed to take it. too. and believe me. I
found it to be a rati medicine la
three days time my appal*
improve sad my stomach
I kept on improvise rapidly and new I
eat anything 1
mora. 1 never felt better la my life
fcnd it la a real plsaeura to nrimmsad
Teniae.
Tan lac is sold in Mt. Airy h* L W.
Wool Drag Co, hi
POot Drug Ce, and la
Drug Co.
"T em sahjstt to
|jTw~ •-«* astrs
isITSTJS
wrltee Hit, C.
£
by tha
an* of i
■ California will
of tha
114 wtueh is ,
tnal Waif an
July 91.
la its
to npptf to
MptofWto >•*»■
at 114 par
• standard for .
| tuna of cmploymant for
. haalth and safety of tha
sad thay are vaatad by tha steta La(t
! tlaturc with tha powar to
, thaaa rrgulattona. and to inflict a |
i altjr for violation.
The mlw of i
every wit of
' ment, including fruit and ve
picUri, Iximiry. dry cleaning,
facturiac, cannery, printing,
| inc. bookbinding, lithographing, nil
liaery vorlim, w»itr»«m in ho tola
I and restaurants, and thoaa imployad
. in agricultural occupations and mer
cantile NtibliikMU. Certain can
I erai rnioa are laid down aa to beam
I mittod to "work sort than eight hoar*
in one day, or mora than nx days or
piojrod iu hours or laaa may be mm
ployed seven days in the week. Oae
day of rent in ama ia required. pre
ferably Sunday, hot the choice ia left
to the discratioa of tfce
There ia a
■ion far overtone. Up to 12 hoars ia
any oae day, tfcae aad a quarter ia al
lowed. Any hoar* ia eima of 12 ia the
the 24 (hall be at the rate of
>, who hare a wage i
ed oa a i
ia i
t receive a 112
minimum—the minimum after ai>
naontha. Wages paid on commission at
No person may employ a wofaaa ia
tny occupation at laaa than OH ceato
per hour, or minor at laaa thaa 2b
time of apprenticeship is provided
for. No employer may construe tipa
or gratuities as being part of the legal
Records must be kepc of all «a
nloyees for a period of oae year, alao
•he printed schedule of wages prepar
*d by the comniaaioe regarding wages
and hours and the conditions of sani
tation must be posted ia a conspicuous
place ia the workroom Violation of
aay of its proviaien will eeasttarte a
misdemeanor. The Industrial Welfare
KommiaaioB exemaea exclusive juris
diction over qaestiona arisuig as ta the
administration aad h>tu pi atoll— of
the
I
vie interested State Gee tore.
Hyde Pratt in a Geological
the water power rsoorvs of
County, so that statistical and com
prehensive data w<*M ha available far
Par the Last several weeks a field
party of the 8tate Geological and
Economic Survey with the direction of
Hydrnalfe Engineer Thorudyke Seville
at work
of Surryi
ts affbrdin* V» ta MM
within fWe miles of rail