» Matnaa, Imo, Oct. 7^-A dteaat
of ntifyN <•' tkt
• of nation* waa nnHii by
W Ihiitog in • ipeaefc here to
hr»U>a« u* Um problem of
and declaring
■Uyuiff out" of th*
at V«raalHen»
•aid Ha want ad no
of tha laa«aa with reeer
intiune to clarify American obliga
tions. bat that tha proper couna would
ba to rajact thoaa rowatf Hta alto
*1 da not want to clarify thaaa obh
Mtlii." ha Mid. "I want to ton my
back on than* it ia not interpretation
bmt rejection that 1 am *aakin«."
Tha Maator aiaa re-etated hia pro
gram of a world aaaaclattnn bawd on
princtpiea in harmony with tha eaa
I hia pladffr. to initiate
formation of rack a concert im
aftar hia
curious to know whether, if,
r.Hup« I might batter uy,
-I am elected. I intend to
the Imcm. It might be aufffci
ent in reply to aucgeet the futility of
which i* al
ia to be biased or thanked for
the raeult. the fact rimaina that the
of lto chief architect. The
inaietence that it must be
I without dottte* an T or rroaa
lac a't', the refua»l to adriae—thai ia
to counsel—with the senate, in ae
rnHann with the mandate of the con
stitution. is wholly responsible far
"My peaition ia that the propeeed
a deadly blow at our
integrity, and
to a dangerous
of action. The
platform rejects this peaition, to quote
the exact worda, 'aa utterly vain, if
net vicious.' The I>Mocmtic candi
date in hie apeech of acceptance baa
aaid, 'a definite plan haa been as Alae
aire. The league, of nationa ia in op
eration—Senator Harding, aa the Re
publican candidate for the presidency,
prapuaai in plain worda that we re
main out of it. Aa the Democratic
candidate, I favor going in. The iaeue
therefore, ia clear.
-1 understood the peaition of the
Democratic i-iwHifaU and ha under
stands mine, aa hia own worda jnat
now quo tad plainly show, notwith
standing the recent pretense that my
position H«a not been made riser. In
simple words, it is, that he favosa
going into the Paris league and I fa
vor staying out.
"We have been told that wa must
ratify the pra posed covenant in order
to become a member of the 1 sagas,
and that, if wa do not, wa ahall be
obliged to stand with hat ia hand and
■■a for admisaioa hereafter. Ha who
preeenta such a humilating picture is
singularly blind ta the facts. Because
we are independent, becauae we are
able to approach the solution of the
qaeations which continually threaten
the peace of Rnrope aa an unpreju
diced umpire rathsr than aa an in
terested party, the world will be glad
ta have us fa
point the way."
• Ptttefaoro, Oct. 6.—The first woman
■liilif la the history of North Caro
lina Med the nereaaary bond and teak
the oath of offlce ia Pitta born yester
4t*. She ia Miss Myrtle SUar and is
aew the regular high sheriff of Chat
mm City i
or Cm, of Ohio, cM his
w«l<rn rta|i*i|Ti trip h«r» tonight
hall at which thiMiah of f.w«
from Mi—oun ud Emm heard aad
rhwnd the league of nation* aad
oumt haul* ilantofdi of tha-Dian
critic presidential candidate.
In all 10 ipawkaa of today'* flaaia
of Ma "■wing" through tha want,
which began September 2. and has
travaraad every a lata waat of tha
river except three, tha
pra*iih*d by Goearnor Com,
tha Inah phaaa being emphaalxed ra
pactally tonight. He reiterated argu
menta that it waa a "pledge" to
Americana in tha «ar, a bond of honor
with the >11 tea and a modinai for mor
al aad material botlot mant for Amer
ica and the world. Hi* ipaach tonight
made a total of 1M for tha governor
duriac Ma awl*— trip, esciuaive of,
many minor greetings in the 22 I
via]ted, aad a total of 22S *p
aince hi* notification laat Aaguat.
Upon arriving home at Dayton.
Ohio, tomorrow evening to mt and
pre pan for «author trip into Ken
tucky and Tennessee late nest
the candidate will have traveled
average of SM nulea daily.
Great satisfaction with the
of his wsattii trip aad utmost eouA
pmmor. He i *"* *avmm*4 ** th*
of eiectim aa
the fight would be like "eoaathw." Ha
said ha woa utility tired, bat with
a few days' reet next
A rraiii B
Governor Cox. Arriving about five]
o'clock, he waa mat by a
Criticism of the league ia thia eel
munity by Irish sympathisers inepi
rd apparently an extended 'tatsaa
by the governor tonight. Reiterating
that he proposed to bring the Iriah
question to the attention of the league
if elei led Prsaident, the candidate re
peated that authority for such action
weuld bo had under article 11, and he
declared that upon attaining indepen
dence the Iriah people would bej
"thankful" for article 10 with ita pro-1
tection. The governor anrued against
external aggreoaion upon weak aa wall
as strong nations. The league, the
governor reiterated, would give the
Irish people a forum, now lacking, fori
bringing -hair causa-ta "the bar of!
public opinion of the world"
Article If ttrai Iriah
Under article 10, the governor Ae~
clared, Ireland "has the right to sepa
rate from Great Britain and eatabliah i
ita own government, and to that end
may wage such internal ■||iee«iiin|
aa it aoaau necessary to accomplis*
the reault. This ia a matter wholly
without the purview of the league.
Charges at a political conapiracy by
the "aenatorial oligarchy" to deceive
the people regarding the league were
repeated by Governor Cox. He aiao
continued attaeka upon Senator Hard
ing, hia Republican opponent, aa a "re
actionary."
Progressive government also waaI
championed farther by the governor
and he again urge* settlement of in
dustrial controversies by public opin
" 'Big buaineea' ia fighting rae." he
■aid. "because I favor the golden nsle
and not the bayonet to settle lndaa
trial conn uies Use."
The optional program far ex-service,
men'a compensation,-advocated by the
American legion, waa approved by
Governor Cos ia several spaechea to
day.
The largest crowd of hia canpsiga
greeted the governor here. The hag*
convention hall waa parked to over
flowing, crowds standing ia sialsa of
the baleosiy aa wail aa of the main
wrote Umnc Co*, "that I aaa to
night olU from Imim City Mi aa
count of a provioua mncMMrt. I
would Ilka to giaat you cm the ooca
•ion of your •-•iait."
Jlko At Parch Campaica
Deafening ch«*A greeted the irorar
nor'i jibe at tho oppoeition front
porch campaign
Tha apeaker, unable to atart hia ad
rlroaa until almoet 9 o'clock, triad trm
..uontly to chack appUuae.
Another roar of approval greet!d
tha governor'a • La tenant that if «l««t
ad. ha would praaant tha Irhk quaation
to tha league.
"And nothing would give mora
plaaaura." tha candidate addad, "than
to praaant tha caaa myaalf."
Einmm Working Ob As lirin.
mat T. Talk To DaaJ
Now York, Oct. 6.—Thomaa A. Kdi
aon la now at work on a delicate ap
paratus which ha haa deeigned to ef
fect india pa table communication ha-,
twaan thoaa whom death haa removed
from thia earth aad thoaa wha
yet lira.
It ia Mr. EdUM i hop* to complete,
the instrument within a f*w naentha,
and he himaelf realize* what a tre
mvndoua senaation it wnld crest*
should it prove to b* aucceaaful.
Announcement of Mr. Ediaon'a ex
perimant ia made by B. C. Forbaa in
an article in th* Amarican Magasine
of October, in which b* quota* th*
invention at length raa petting the ap
paratua. Mr. Ediaon. how»»ur, doe*
not diarloaa anything of :h« character
or phyaieal aapaet of Me now device.
"I am proceeding." Mr. Ediaor aaya
in the article, "on th* theory that, m
ed by thoaa la the next life moat be
extremely alight, aad that, therefore.
will be able ta a«*et matter. It tfcte
raaenning b* correct, tbea, if w» eaa
enroll* aa ineliiaawit a* iliHcitl at
to be agwtad or moved or manipala*
ed—whichever tana yon want to use
—by our peraonality aa it aurvtvaa ia
the next life, «uch aa inatramai,
"hen made available, ought to r««o»d
something.
Mr. Ediaon. commenting upaa the
maaa of material heing writtoa these
daya about spiritaaliam. aaya it ia "a
lot of unacientiflr nonaenae."
PUnt Trcn
Arbor Day this year filli on Fri
liigr, November 5, and it is to be hoped
that every school in the state will ob
serve it in some definite though not
neresaaniy elaborate way. Our annual
supply of timber ia rapidly declining,
while the demand from our wood-us
ing industries for lumber and wood ia
growing year by year.
It u very fitting, therefore, that the
youth of the land should be taught the
value of trees as an economic asset
as well as their value for shads sad
beauty.
If every school teacher ia Surry
county will plan for planting some
tree or shrut either on the school
grounds or some public place whan
the children can watch its growth, and
guard it from harm, and feel that it
is their tree or group of trsea it win
be a stop toward developing a future
generation that will conserve our for
est resources instead of wasting and
destroying them as we have done hi
the past. f\ I
/ V
Fight TIm White PU«ma
Mrs. A. McMamis has bean appoint-,
ed chairman for the sale of Red Cross,
Oil talmas seals in Mount Airy. His
public will be iatersatsd to kaew that
74 per coat of all salea may ha retain
ed far work in tWs community. Seaae
of the things undertake* by the Red
ia times of
aid to Lhaee
the families of
ia
I#
meat for t b
la tte
that will guard public health by
ing folke wall.
It may also ha of lateral (
public ta kaow that 64 eaaaa of
NORTH CAMUMA GOV TO
14TH PLACE
la 1910 N«cth Ciinilh. Hmd
2S3.72S Fmnm Ami is 1»00
2HN7 '
Washington. Oet. 7.—Aanouaan*
tha IW population of cuntteaatal
United Htetea 106.M».1<*. 8m U
Ruin, tha Tar Haai dlmm of tha
i-anaua, practteally naplna Ma b%
Job today aa noaa counter for Uaaia
Saa». Odds and ends rack aa atattattea
iu»sring m an u far taring and aincsl
tora arc yat to ba published, bat Mr.
Racon and hi* largo forco bars pot
tha population task bihlad tham.
la tha tsMa ihowtaf tha ralatira
population rank of all tha atetea
North Carolina utanda 14th. In Itll
North Carolina waa 16th and in 1M0
tha atate stead Hth.
Sitauitanaoualy with ita population
total tha caaaua bureau today pub*
liahad Ita cimw of fanaa by atatea
aad rountlaa. TMa (haw* a total of
farms in 1M0 compared with
6JA1.502 in 1*10 snd &.7S7.872 20
yaan ago.
North Carolina hat. , Mb bar bar
dora 2M.740 farma, aa ainat 25S.7SS
in 1910 aad 2244S7 in 1*00. Farm
itatiatiea for tha leading countiaa of
tha atate an canM below.
Director Ratdi any* tM total pepa
lm t ion figure of the United State* ia
iubj<et to correction before Ma re part
i* pmwm to Congrma but ha daw
not anticipate any material change.
There are a few aactiona claiming not
to hare been properly caaraaaad, bat
Mr. Rogan doaan't think tha pending
inveatigation will produce anything
worth while changing.
Regarding the total of 1M^M,1M
which tha director aaya may nam dia
by Mr. Kogera aaya:
Healthy Grewth Shewn
"Thia total ia compared with a total
in 1910 of 01.7tt£M aad ia 1*00 at
?S^MJS7& and ia an incraaaa iteee
1910 of 18,71034* or 1U par emit, aa
to 1*10 of 184^*77,0*1 or 21 par cm*.
preceding tha taking of the eaaaa* hi
to aa epidanic of iaftmnaa. aad to tha
raauaKiaa resulting from the world
"Tin reeolte of the cenana of pop
u fit ion in 1*C0 at ft rat glance may
seem aomewhat diaap pointing and
open to question poadiMy bat the rah
atantial accuracy of the enumeration
in January ia fully borne out by com
panion with estimate* baaed upon tha
probable exceaa of birtha over deat ha
throughout the decade and the exceaa
of immigration over emigration. From
all available date it may be roughly
eetimated that the annual exceaa of
birtha over deatha throughout the
United State* ia approximately one
per cent, rota rate compounded
would indicate an increase of approxi
mately 10.6 per cent (taring the de
cade. Thin the nearly 92 million per
sona present in the United Statea
in 1910 might be expected to incrraae
to about. 101.700,000 in 1920. In addi
tion, tbe exceaa of immigration over
emigration (taring the decade was ap
proximately 3.733,000. Since the bulk
of these foreign born persona came
to the country during the first four
years of the dacade, it nay be roughly
estimated that the increase due to ex
ceaa of birtha over deatha in their
familiee waa about 10 ner cent. Thua
the papulation of tbe coun'ry may ha
aaaumed to have augmetted by about
4.100.0WG during the decade through
exceaa immigration over emigratior..
The two eatiaaatea taken together
would indicate therefore a p.obable
population of 106.800,000 or oaly a
small fraction of one per cant more
than the total abown by the returns
at -he 14th cenaua.
On the 1st Monday in November,
Ittt*. at >12:00 o'clock, in front of the
jail, the Board of County Commiaaton
■n> will offer for aale to the highest
Mdder, ail rapper and metal stills and
say other artielea they may aae At to
iffer for sale.
Oct. 4th. 1M0. Henry Wolfe.
!0-»-e. Clerk to Beard.
THIEVES MAKE A MCM *
HAUL IN MHO
Tht liffi vavlt door mi blown
opM by nitroglycerine and npon tka
bank floor was found. this morn inc. a
larva caka of *aa» that kad kaaa uaad
to Mai In tka (inparattnn far tha
blaat. Tha window* war* ikattuad
of Main and Haary Mraata. Indica
tions art that tka thwvaa workad far
twm hour* and made aa many aa torn*
blaata. Tka flm UMtaf away tka
raait door tkwgfc wfciek tka entry
waa mada to tka *aiaty bos cheat
lars in likarty loan bond*, war *a»la<*
of all kinda by radWidaal
Tha thieves i—uisi tha
from the wail of the vsult, which they
battered to piacea, aaanriny 117,900 in
Raleigh. Ot. P.—Commenting on
the seizure of 1.286 liquor diatilleriea
and mora than 4,000 gaUlona of moon
shine whiaky by revenue ofleera in
North Carolina during the paat six
months. Collector of Internal Reveona
J. W. Bailey saya:
"Thia record demonstrates three
facta: Pint, the prohibition agents
have bean doing their duty. There are
only forty of them. They could net
Wave been active in politic* and at the
name time have made thia record.
"Second, the extent of liquor mak
ing in North Carolina ia alarming. If
forty men could find and cleat toy 1,286
diatillenea and arreet 8S7 men in six
montha, what might one hundred man
have done. Illicit distilling ia in real
ing in North Carolina.
Third, the operations of the Feder
al government in thia work in North
Carolina are not a tax on the govern-1
raent. On the other hand the aix
montha opera bona have yielded the
government a large sum of money net.
The state can deviae a plan whereby
it can da the work neceeaary to de
stroy the illicit traffle without coat to
the taxpayers. Ail that is necessary
ia heavy fines
tiary or road
Dr. Mia Dim Carroll And
Charlotte, Oct. 7.—O. Max Gardner
and Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll spoke
here tonight ia the auditorium and
hold up the league of natfena aa the
rare of farther wan.
Dr. Dixon Carroll
pnough to dsclan in
ner that the D—iii ia>» at
Carolina lost the
of the
suffrage in the laet
Mr. Gardner threw a 1
feet at
by declaring that hi an parted at \
competitive
erate all the nations from dread of *n
tcrnaUonal strife, from its infinite
horror*, agonica, and miseriea?"
Asserting that sentiment in tk*
United State* far a league of natioaft
to prevent war is increasing. Ban
tary Baker, said that Henry Cat at
Lodge, United States Senator freak
Massachusetts, had shifted Ma paat
tion fro at support of the international
ideal of the League to Enforce Peaea
to leadership of the opposition ca»
paign against President Wilsoat
' sagos of Nations Secretary Baksa
pointed out that on two pnblle OMB*
siona Mr Lodge had affirmed his at>
legiance to such s plan, first m 1I1C
and again in ltlt. and then had ee»
mined the Republican rarty to am
compromising opposition.
By the attack on Article X of tkm
Covenant, Secretary Raker us«rta4
other great provisions of the Leagw
affecting Labar and international re
gulation have been ignored and ob
scured. The practicability tf Art id*
XI. selflm lb* wheels of the Law
to motion on threat of war, be said,
has bean proved to the eaae of tk*
Aland Ihlanda Artie)* XTI the Sea.
rotary defended for its prevention *4
surprise wars by virtae of Ha pro**,
sion for three months of waiting M>
I< ■ tog an award of iiMlnilw tn
Article Xin b* acetototed tb* tab
11*1—Mil of an tolaniaHnnnl rsart fto