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MOUHT AIRY. WORTH CAKOLOIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7th. 1920 W ADVANCE MILLIONS Or DOLLAK3 INVESTED IN WILD CAT OIL AND OTHER STOCKS Jaat H»w Mack Moty PmH* Of This State Han Tmmnd Raleigh, Sept. SO Many millions of dollar* have been inveated by North Carolina people in wild cat stuck com paniaa of all kind*, according to eati matea made by the insurance depart ment, which declare* that it haa no way of finding out what * mount of money baa been invested, am* really doea not know what lUci-aM the com panies art having In tha itate until the note of aoma purchaaer falla due and tha victim then *queala. For the ■Mat part the stock salesmen promise tha porehaaer of the stock or the lasaee of lands nothing other than a lone chance that oil will be found on theae Some of the company agent* vary frankly tell tha people "this is a gam Ma, pore and simple," bat also ex plains that tha orgaaixers of tha com pany have faith enough in the gamble to be willing to invest large sums of money in the proposition If oil is struck, all's wall and good. The inves tor will be made a rich man over night. One of the larger companiea is eafrying s motion picture outfit with Nor are the wild est schemes eon fined to the oil companies. Various mining companies, Most of them promising operations in the west, have been formed. Fertilizer cssyulw, promising big return* on the manu facture of fertilizer from flah, are be ing organized and are selling stock in various parte of the state. One of the employee of the insurance department recently risited a small town in the eastern part of the state and found that the people of this. coast town, whose Incomes and prosperity depend om fishing, found that the people ef that town had invested 146,000 la aa oil company. Asked if they had alao fallen for the fish fertilizer company, ha replied in the negative. Theae fish er people know that the fish buaincM is too uncertain. If the weather ia good one year there ia plenty of money. If the weather ia bad the next year folks have trouble making a liv lng. It ia one of the ironiea of fate that Andrew Joyner, chief of the propa gandists of the insurance department against the purchase of wild cat stock, ahould get in his mail thia won a let ter from an.old personal friend, which offers to let him in on the ground floor hi the purchase of stock in a sugar concern. The letter and acrimpanying literature tella of the wonderful poa sibilities of the Monte Carlo Sugar corporation, and offers the publicity agent of the insurance department eome of this stock at rock bottom prirt'j. In addition to having general knowl adge of the wildcat companies, Mr. Joyner has particular and concrete information about the sugar factory business from his service in the West Indies, where he waa connected with the consulsr service. Rusk News * Min Grace Cockerham, who ia at tending school at Elkin, (pent tba week end with her parent*, Mr. and Mr*. W. L. Cockerham. S. H. Go ugh, of Winston, waa a Ti*itor here Sunday. * Miss Florence Carter left Sunday for Winston-Salem, where the goes to enter a business college. Mr. and Mrs. Myron H. Davis, of Mount Airy, and their guest. Mrs. Mosby, of Fayetteville, spent San day st the home of J. A. Burch. Basil Wilmoth ud Grady Carder, of Fairview, were visitors here Fri day. E. J. Burch has purchased a nrt five-passenger Ford. Dr. Welbome and Lee Snow, of Elkin, were visitors here Sunday. Miss Alice Wallace left last week for Yadkinvilla, where she will attend school this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Cockerham, of Elkin, spent Sunday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Layne. Financial Leas Due To Co Ms It Is estimated that the average man lose* three days time each year from inability to work on account of a cold Much of this loss can be avoided by treating every cold as soon as the first symptoms of the disease appear. ChamUorlain's Cough Remedy has won a w!H» reputation and immense sals fcy Its cure of the diseaae. Try it. You are certain to he pleased with Its pleasant taste and the prompt relief which It affords. TOBACCO AT DANVILLE AVERAGES OVER $1*410 LittU Mor. TVaa Half Millioa PowmI* Sold This Y«ar—la 1MI It Awi|ri $3».M Danville, Oft. 2.—Flfim am tka ultf of leaf tobacco on the Danville market war* made public Jna aft/' noon by W Crew* Wooding preeid.-H of the Danvill* Tobacco aaaViation. The fact that tha market *u*p«n<i.-d at the requeat of tka farmera for thre day* and tba additional fact that planter! war* urged to withhold their tobacco arc factor* in the wide dia crepanry between tha aalea tbla month and that of September • Tear ago when tha market opened earlier. The offering* which conaiatad large ly of priming* indicating m bright, color crop amounted to 686,246 pound* ■old for $113,664.97, an average of 119.40. Sale* for September. 1919, amounted to over three and a half million pound* which brought a ail lion and a half dollar* tha avenge then being 139.90. Price* are (bow ing atronger tendenciea especially on good tobacco. The average on tha opening day waa fit per hundred. Baltimore Mfra. Predict $3 to $8 Drop In Spring Prices Baltimore, Hi—Stabilisation of prices, an added impetus to the cloth ins industry, and • reduction of from S3 to$6 in the cost of a suit for spring —these are the three outstanding ef fects which Baltimore clothing manu facturers see in the announcement of spring prices by the American Woolen company. Price stabilisation they regard the most important by far. As to the re ductions, while a drop of about 25 per cent, had been anticipated there was difference of opinion at to whether such a cut would have been desirable. In the opinion of Philip Kshn, of Philip Kahn t Co., and others It would not. Surprise was general among the manufacturers as to what they eon to ptrtks!tr numbers. Jacob 8. Goldsmith, of the Moan mental Custom Tailoring Co. and president of the Baltimore Tsilors-to the-Trade Association said: "I am particularly glad to see the announcement of the spring prices because I believe it will have the ef fect of stabilizing the industry. I had looked for s reduction of 25 per cent, but I feel that the Hst as announced will make the people realize that clothing manufacturers have not been profiteering as the public has been led to believe by Government utterancea. "With the prices quoted I believe that business will go shead and that orders will be placed. The new cloth prices with reductions in trimmings should make a reduction in the cost of a suit of clothes of from $3 to $6. "I believe the American Woolen Co. has made a sincere effort to fix the lowest price consistent with operating expenses in order to stimulste busi ness and keep theiT mills running to (jive employment to their operatives." Philip Khan, of Philip Kahn A Co. commented: "I am glad that the re ductions were made, but I am also pleased that they were not more dras tic. The cuts as made will have the ef fect of stimulating business without disorgsnizing it. To my mind, the new list moans both stabilization and stimulation1. "It marks s definite turning of the corner to better conditions. I expert I orders to pick up, with medium priced merchandise good sellers." There were a few factors in the market, however, who did not take so optomistic a view of the situation. They believed that further reductions were necesssry to properly stimulste the industry and declared a further drop of from 15 to 20 per cent, more would accomplish the purpose. Cut In Price Of Cotton Good* | Manchester, N. H.—Following the increasing wave of reduction In prices that appears to be spreading all thru the United States, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company ha* an nounced a r'*op of 83 1-8 par rent in the price of manufactured cotton roods. This reduction is greater even than the 20 per cent reduction announced a short time ago by the American Woolen Company, or that of 81 per cent on motor cars by Henry Ford. The reaa6n given for the reduction on cotton goods ia that the market la un settled and many orders have keen canceled which unleaa taken In time might result In a condition airallar to that which cloaed the company's wool en department WARN INC 19 GIVIN Of THE SCARCITY Of mt hi Big Tm. New York, Oct., X.—Report* mad> public km tnlftit by amployment •(MitlM of both the Salvation army and Knights of Cotombus indicated that job* aoon will ba scarce in cities. Rqualization of labor sopply and de mand during the laat weak waa re ported by the llee employment office* in thia city conducted by the Salvation army. For the A rat time in two yean, aa many men were found Making work aa there were jo be available A feature of the week, a statement by the army said, waa a falling off hi demand far unskilled worker*. Pre viously, there had been a greater call for thia elaaa of labor than for "white collar" worker*. The record aaid it waa altogether poaaible that the near fotnre would aee a return of the con dition where there an more men than joba. William J. McGinley, supreme sec retary of the Knights of Columbus, after a three months' surrey of Knights of Columbus employment bureaus, warned young men from agricultural districts to keep away from the cities. "Men are flocking to New York, Chicago, Boston and other large cities looking for employment," said Secre tary McGinley, "and hundreds of them are triad to accept menial positions in hotels where at least their meals are assured. "The present fall in prices of cer tain commodities is being accompanied by a fall in wage* for certain kinds of labor. Productions has had a decid ed drop in many big industries and the supply of help, especially of the semi-skilled kind, greatly exceeds the demand." CAR PLUNGES THROUGH CAFE hwMI Farmr KSM In P«ea liar Automobile Accid—t Statesville, Oft. 2.—Ed. Rmth, • fanner living four mile* east of Stat esville. was killed and h(a wife seri ously Injured in a peculiar automobile accident last night. The fatal accident occurred at the Ant* Bellum cafe, near the station. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver were eating supper when a big automobile, owned and driven by John E. Ijine. suddenly broke through the glaas front of the cafe, making a wreck of everything it hit until it stopped in the rear of the building. Mr. Beaver waa hit in the hack and crushed against the counter, while Mrs. Beaver received a number of bmises and lacerations. Both wen. taken to the tang sanatorium, but Mr. Beaver expired soon after reaching the hospital. Mrs. Beaver, it is thought, will recover. Mr. Beaver was 70 vears of age. This distressing tragedy occurred : in a peculiar way. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. .Slane accompanied their son, O. W. Slane. to the station, the young man drivirfe the car. Upon the arrival of he train, on which the young man was leaving, Mr. and Mrs. Slane got into the car. which had been parked in front of the cafe. Mr. Slane started •he enirine. not knowing that his son had left the car in k>w (Tear, and the big machine leaped forward across the sidewalk and plunged through the <rlas* front artirflfc>ss the dining room before Mr. Slane could stop It. Neither Mr. Slane or his wife was injured. Raleigh Women Carry Tax Election By 52 Majority Raleigh, Oct., 2.—Against ■ heavy registration and unbroken precedent* Raleigh women today carried the Scott tax election by a majority of 62 against the registration books filled with hostile registrants. To beat the tax it was necessary only to remain at home. A boot 200 votes were cast against the tax in a registration of 2,fifi6. The tax polled 1.390. The defeat of the tax in the third ward, thickest political division of the city, was complete. It made an impressive showing against the tax, but In other orecincu brisk voting overcame the most Bourbon . borough. The best showing was made In the first division of th« second ward, which registered 218 women. Of the women 181 voted. The men brought the total to SIS. Until an hour before sundown the tax was beaten. The women in ma chine* rallied their own and voted them strongly for the tax. RENT PROFITEERS ARE RAVENOUS IN CAPITAL Hart Im Ordmrmd Tm Git OX Of TUr Hon*. Washington. Oct. 1.—li;rmnU-; tive Andrew J. Montague, of Virginia, formerly »i»»«ni*r of the OM Daatn lon, today appealed to the district rant commission to prevent his eviction from an apartment he haa occupied for aeveral yean. The Virginia lepra aentotive ia one of the many hundred tenanta in Waahington who are now engaged in legal battle* with alleged profiteering landlord*. It waa estimated today that approx imately 2,000 families had been order ed to more today, either because of their failure to agree to pay much higher ranta or to puirhaae the homes or apartments whirh they hav* been renting. The Washington situation is badly complicated because the lower courts hare declared unconstitutional the Ball rest law, enacted to pravent profiteering in rents. An appeal ia now pending before the United States •Supreme court, but meanwhile the rent commission, duly appointed by the President, ia functioning and ad vising tenanta to "lit tight." Representative Montague asks the rent commission to name a fair rental for his apartment. He asserts that about a month ago he received an il legal notice to vacate on October 1. This the representative declines to do. The action of Representative Mon tague follow* a recent statement by Representative Julius Kahn. of Cali fornia, one of the Republican leaders of the house, that rent profiteering ia so outrageous in Washington that he will auggeat to Congress to convene in some other city until the landlord* "are brought to theiT senses." Most of the cases so far decided by the rent commission, only to be appealed to the courts, were decided in favor of the tenants. Sou Of Mr. S. D. Poplh Lom Tbmr Lttm fat Silo Carter's Weekly. The distressing new* of the Hidden and unusnal death of Sam and Noah Poplin, *on* of S. D. Poplin, who was formerly a resident of Edwards town ship, this county, bat who has been living near Belair, Md., for nine months, which occurred last Sunday morning about 10 o'clock on their father's farm, will be learned with regret by friends,of the bereaved fam ily throughout the county. A phone message from Ronda yes terday gave this paper the following information about the tragedy. On Saturday, Sept 25, while a party was engaged in filling a large stone silo on Mr. Poplin's farm, his son Noah, aged about 7 years allowed his shoe to fall into the silo. The silo had been ft lied to the second section on Satur day. Sunday moming an attempt was made to obtain the shoe, and Noah wanted to go into the silo, and stat ed that he was unafraid. His brother, Sam, aged 15 years, and another man secured a rope and tied it around his waist and let him down. Later they saw the little fellow fall, and Sam thought he was scared or had fainted, so he went down to him as quickly as possible and both died almost instant ly. A third party went into the silo to rescue the boys and after he was brought to air it was a difficult matter to revive him. < The »ilo wan a large atone one and its fimt section had been filled. It had a partition running from the ground to the top. The hoys went down in the aide where ensilage had not heen placed. Asphyxiating gas overcame them and their lives were taken away before anything could be done to *av* them. The bodies of the Poplin boys ar rived at Ronda Wednesday and were accompanied by their father, and brother*, Messrs Lotan and Quince Poplin, and Mr.Falix Gambill. The funeral was conducted at Macedonia church by Rev. W. J. Bryant, of Yad kin county, in the presence of a large congregation. Interment waa made In the church cemetery. / Dobaon News W. C. Reld h»a returned from • business trip to Baltimore. Mrs. Rallie La key. of Durham, form erly of Dobaon, 1a visiting friends and relative* hare. Mis* Fannie Folger has returned from Graham, where she has been visiting her mother. Mrs. Ada Folger. C. H. McComiek ha* returned to Baltimore and W. G. Booker to the eastern part ef the state after Halt ing Mr*. Roaa Booker. CHALLENGES PARK EH ON ■EVALUATION RECORDS SfMkmr Of H«r. h IMt WW Act Was hmJ Dwm «• StoteMrt. R*Ut>T« T. Qph^ v«<» »y lUf-k^ Oxford, Oct. 2.—D. G. Brummitt. •p«lur of th« house in the lemalatura of 1*19, takes a harp iaaue with state menta attributed to John J. Parker, Republican candidate for governor, in a speech at Dmnbury September 28, in regard to the record of the revaluation act in the legislature of laat year, fir ing out the following interview on the ■ubjeet: "My attention haa juat been called to the following statement by John J. Parker, Republican candidate for gov ernor, in a speech delivered by him at Danbury September 28. I am inform ed by a number of Republican mem ben of the legislature, who are reli able gentlemen, that they voted against the act (revaluation) in 1919 and demanded an aye and no vote, bat were denied by the majority the right of placing themselves on record againat the act. "A candidate for governor of North Carolina ought to know whereof ha ft peaks before • peaking-. And U he speaks in reek let* disregard of the truth or falsity of the statements he makes, he is equally reprehensible. "If any member of the house of rep resentatives, be he Democrat or Re publican, voted against the revalua tion act at the seseioB of 1919, he did not say 'no' loud enough to be heard at the speaker's desk. I knAw that two or three Republican members now say they voted against the measure. If se, their voting in the negative waa not heard by me, nor do I believe it was heard by any one elae. "Mr. Parker says they not only voted against It, but wanted to go on1 record and the Democrats wouldn't let them. According te oar constitu tion and legislative pfutedure m reeord of the 'ayes' and *n««rTSn any act save an act providing for the levying of ■ tax, or an act pledging the financial credit of the state, is not taken unless it is specifically demanded. The re valuation act did not require a roll call and would not receive one except on demand. The Journal of the house always carries the record of such a demand, and it shows that no such demand was made. I say positively that no member called for the 'ayes' and 'noes' and any statement U> the contrary is abaolutely untrue. Can't Prevent Roll Call "As a matter of fact, the Democrats could not have prevented a roll call vote .? they had wanted to and Mr. Parker knows that. He knows that the constitution of the state requires a roll call vote whenever demanded by one-fifth of the members present; he knows that his party had more than one-fifth o? the membership of the house of 1919, and that his party could have required and obtained a record vote on this measure as well as on every other bill that came before it. And besides, if the demand had ever been made, every Democrat in the house would have risen to his feet to sustain the call. In view of these facts it is difficult to find proper words to characterise such a statement as that to which Mr. Parker has given circu lation. ' There ia another subject that came befo.e that general assembly upon which rt is possible that Mr. Paricer can ret some of the 'reliable' members of his party to throw light. On March 1. the house adopted a resolution in dorsing the original draft of the lea gue of nations containing article X. and in the identical form in which it was fast reported. "This instrument had been publish ed in all the newspapers about Febru ary IS; it was debated on the floor; the resolution was read twice by the clerk at my direction, and on roll call only four of the Republican members present voted against it. Among those who voted for it were Williams, of Cabarrus, minority leader, and Brown low, of Jackson, now candidate for secretary of state. "Will Mr. Parker be kiiu enough to give us the names of those 'reliable gentlemen' who rave him his Informa tion 7 Am! will he tell us why hit Re publican brethem voted for the league of nations in March, 1919 T Was that to put the Democrats in a hole' as I.inney said about their voting for r*» va'uation ? "1 believe that I jM name km «f the Republican members who did not tell Mr. Parker that they had voted against revaluation and had Mad to get a record vwte. At least I shall ■ -I of 191* Ant na leas of | leaa of Um play for party than had heaa the Wr had juet ftaiahed a great public ■pirit waa at ifcajonty party, it the Democrat, to prapara legislstiea. THa party did not hraitata and we n when we found ftepob'icaM with ua. For V yaara we M ~n looking for soma act float tW R«publican party that would rtaaaaa • 'tin H» mna against the paafla af this >tata; for una indication that it h%d brought forth fruit* mat* for repentance In each campaign Ma vnnmar leaden had been '-rxing as not to to back to those days wha under other leadership it had black ened every page of our history " had touched. They begged for a chani a •how that they had capacity, patriae um and character. That chanc* with the presentation of program for tchoola, far the welfare, public health aad honest tax ation, and many of M left Raleigh ta March, 1919, believing that la Hat measure they had met the test. Bat the result only (hows that the Ethiop ian cannot change his color or the leo pard his spots. "I am reminded of what King Jamaa II said of his ton-in-law. Prince George, of Denmark, hosbaad of tka ladv who wu afterwards Queen Anna. After enduring the prince aa loaf as ha could, James said: 1 hare triad Prince Georgs drank sad I have triad him sober, and drunk or lobar thaw isnt anything to him.' "We have triad the Republican par ty when it was admittedly a negro party, and wa triad it this time whea it claimed to be white inside and oat, and black or whits it cant be trusted." President Working As Hard A* . Ever It waa • year ifo Tuesday of M «wk that Praaident Wilson iiilmaal a sick and broken man to the Capital from his trans-continental trip in H* Interests sf the unreserved ratifica tion of the Versailles peace t realty. He walked from his train to an ante mobile, but fire days later waa strick en by the first sttack of thrombosis and did not lesve his bed for mote than three months. It was not until seven months later that he was abls te take a motor drive, nays a special to •he New York World which eontinuaa: During this first two months of Ma <Hness the President hovered between life and death at times, but gradually he began to show improvement. In midsummer it was announced that the President had gained 29 pounds in weight since February and that his robust condition presaged greater activity on his part, but tSa hope has not been realised. While ha weighs more than 175 pounds and ap nears to those who see him on hia daily motor trips to be physically fit, he still exerts himself vary little, aa ing a platform with four steps to em ter his automobile with assistance. Those most familiar with the Preai dent's illness regard his recovery aa -emarkable under all the circumstaaa es and are not disappointed or sur prised that he is not more active now. While he moves about sparingly, with the assistance of a cane, and re ceives his visitor* usually while I* his wheeled chair, he gets through aa much or more work than ever. He keeps his correspondents huay with the enormous correspondent* which is one of the penalties of heiaff President, signs his name hundred* of times daily to commissions, nomi nations and pardons, reads a rfigeal of all the newspapers, and when ha has anything of importance to commit to paper, such as his recent utteraaaa on the Jones shipping Mil, be ft out himself in shorthand. His < sions are reading, mostly d»'ectira «*nWes and other light stuff, and tk* merles produced in the Whits Houaa. hut he probably gets mors enjoynMa* out of the book he is writing that anything else. Just now he is deep in polities. aad •he writing he is supposed to be m raged on is presumed to be in relattaai to the league of nations, preparatory to his issuing a series of letters aad statements with a bearing on tha campaign. Grip Crip usually starts Just the s«me aa a cold with a watery discharge froas the nose. Ton are much mors like*? t» contract the grin when you bsra a roM. For that reason when grip Is nwe valeat you should go to bed as an^n aa you feel that roa ars tahtnr a Ml «-d star In bed until fally imu issf» w>«lrh should not W, *>•« If yoa^tdC ^hsmher'aln'a Cough ih« In bed now Is '
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