North Carolina Newspapers

ESTABLISHED 1 88 0 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER Uth, 1920. fl.60 PER YEAH IN ADVANCB. MISS ALICE ROBERTSON WILL SIT IN CONGRESS PariMrittc and Cafeteria Owner in Oklahoma Elected By 273 Majority. Muakogm. Okla No* S.-MIss Alice i ■obertson, farmer. cafeteria own'ir and the on'v congresswoman elect In tlii- United States, sat in her littli* restaurant here teR!*'h> i lanning the aienu for tomorrow's noonday meal. "I think I should celebrate mv own •lection tomorrow hv preparing some extra fruit salad and fried chicken." ahe said an she wrote out the bill of fare on her typewriter Then turned a train to politira. and "shook hands with many who came to congratulnte her on her victory over Congressman W. W. Halting*, who haa represented tb« second congressional district since 1914. "Mla» Alice,' "known ovsr the state as the moat plcturea(]ue character In Oklahoma, made the race for Congreaa despite the fact that she waa opposed to and worked actively against the woman suffrage amendment. "The men have thrust the vote on •a, now I'm going to see if they mean it," she said when she announced her candidacy for CongTess, "I guess they did," she continued, when the figures telling of her elec tion were brought to her. The story of Miss Robertson's life, which began In a little Indian mission, 10 miles from here (55 years ago is the ■tory of a sacrifice by a woman for *he betterment of tie Indian tribea here. Miaa Robertson's father came to the •Id Indian territory In 1840, when the my of "gold" was heard from Calif ornia and thousands of people nished to the far west. Rut hia mission was ■ot one of seeking wealth. "My fath-, w came here to be a good citizen for ' the new country," Miss Robertson ■aid. Miss Robertson's victory over Con gressman Hastings was by 273 votes, out of approximately 50,000 ballots c«st in the district. "Miss Alice's" campaign here was similar to President-elect Hardinf- s, but instead of being conducted on her *frrmt ■pnrch" It was conducted In her oafeteria. Whenever a man or woman came into her cafeteria to eat she sat down at the table and "talked it over." Miss Robertson a!so ran "ads" in the daily papers proclaiming the day's menu, giving ^wblical quotations, and advancing politcal arguments. The "ads" rivalled even the news columns for the interest they attracted. COX "AS PROUD AS WHEN FIGHT STARTED" Defeated Candidate in First Statement Says He "Would Not Yield a Step." Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 6.—Governor Oox, Democratic candidate for the ggeaidency, in his first statement sine* the election, tonight said that in spirit he was "as proud aa when the fight startedand that he would not re trace a step nor yield a single jot in principle." "For the first time in 10 years, the Republican party is in complete con trol of the legislative and executive branches of the national government, therefore policy as to statute and ad ministration ia with It. Its task is ao longer that of the critic but the aonstructor. It is my hope and firm belief that the Democracy of the na tion will not attempt political sabot aye. The country has seen quite en ough or that. "We are in the midst of an emer gency aiw! the nation's every resource •hould co-ordinate in behalf of the things that are helpful. So long as government exists, the principles of Thomas Jefferson will be the center about which human hopes will gather. Talk of a new party is absurd. One ■Bight aa well diacusa the destruction «f human emotions. "Aa essential aa It has been to the welfare of the county in the paat, the •reed of Democracy ia more needed *ow than ever before because recent eranta have made it distinctly the American party. "In spirit I am proud aa when the tight started. I would not retract a •tap nor yield a aingle Jot tn principle. It was a privilege to make the con tact for the right in the face of over whelming odda. There ia a distinct 4 iff stance between defeat and surren der. The flag of Democracy still fliea aa the symbol of things more endtrr to* than the paaaiona of resentment Ast eoase with the aftermath of war." PRICES OF SOFT COAL ARE ON THE DECLINE National Association Announc es Drop of 25 pmr Cent in Several Fields. Washington Nov. fl Soft coh' triors sr • on th« decline, a statement might from the VntionHl t'osl a*s<> •it ion said 1 hfy haw already d ro p •tod 15 per 1*4*1)1 in leveral fields, and .roductlon i* now running at mors ' in iy.OrtO.IHVl ton* a week, it said, ■riding that the "immediate soft cosl wants of the whole nation" hsve been met, and a surplus for storage against winter is being sccumutsted. With railroad rars available and a Mgh production assured, "prices In the r.iarkut will continue to drop," the utatement predicted. "Operators in n»>ft coal fields," the statement continued, "where unusual ly high prices fxiste-l, have within the 'nut 10 days been netting up fslr prac tice rommittees and. working in con junction with Attorney General Pal mer, have put under way a determined effort to eradicate abuses in the hand ling of roal. Coincident with this ef fort prices In these particular fields have already begun to fall." The association also gave out a stntement by its president, Colonel D. TJ. Wentz, denying 1 that the bitumin ous coal operators had sought to per suade Secretary Tumulty to influence coal priority orders to their advant age. Through officers of the associa tion, he said, the operators "kept Mr. Tumulty informed as to develop ments in the effort to overcome the serious coal shortage," adding "that is nil they sought to do and all that was done." PRESIDENT IN WHEEL CHAIR GREETS CROWDS Hundreds of League Adherents Gather on the White Home Lawn to do Him Honor. Washington Nov. 4.— President Wilson mail? his first public appear ance tonight in more than a year when he was lifted in his wheel chair to the east portico of the White House while hundreds of WnsWntrton Vague of nations adherents (fathered on the White House lawn do him honor. The crowd of men, womta., and children hearing state banner' .m l the national Tap, under the leadership of John F. Costello, Democratic national committeeman for the District of Columbia, assembled st Democratic national headquarters at S !' M., and marched to the Whit" House where the (rati" were open to the public, for the first time since the beginning of the war. As the President was lifted in his wheel chair up the step* from the in terior of the White House leading to the east portico, the crowd on the ter race below broke Into applause, and joined in the singing of "America." Mrs. Wilson and other members of the family stood about the President while the crowd sang. With nn over coat buttoned closely about him and a soft hat shading his face, the Presi dent sat silently watching the throng below. There was more cheering as the song ended. A soloist slmg "Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny" and the crowd picked up the chorus. The President's face relaxed and he turned his head to speak to Mrs. Wilson beside his chair. As the song ended amid cheerirg and a bouquet of flowers was la d upon t te balustrade before him, V.r. Wi'son raised his hat and held It aloft as at tendants rolled his chair l>ack toward the door. The crowd sent up cheers for the league and for tin President and Mrs. Wilson wsved a riflK greet - ing from the doorway as thP crowd sang "The Star Spangled Banner." Porto Ricans Vote. San Juan, Porto Rico Nov. 2.—Porto Rico with the greatest number of vot ers ever registered today held the first general election since the grant ing of American citizenship. A com missioner to Washington nabn «f the legislature and city commissioners of all the municipalities wsrs to he chosen. Nome is Depopulated. Seattle, Nov. 2.—Nome, Alaska, which during the gold rush of 1900 had a population estimated at 15,000 was left with bat 200 inhabitant* when the steamer Victoria, the last boat of the season for the state*, sail ed from there, according to passen gers who were here today. TTie Vic toria brought 523 passengers from Alaska, 860 of whom were from Nome. Many of thee* deciaMd they would not return. SUGGESTION OF BRYAN GIVEN NO COMMENT No Ona Expect* Pmidrnt Wil ton to Rotign Hi* Office Washington, Nov. 4. Nalther for tmlly nrtr informally would the Whit>; 11'.use comment today <in the radical .rgt'stioii of Wm. J. Bryan that Kr» ident Wilaon resign hia office ao that Senator Harding might more quirkly isKume hia dutiea aa Pruaident of the United State*. The Bryan auggeation rippled the political water* In Waahington, hut brought in no tide of acceptance. That the advice of the one-time secretary of atate and leader of the Democracy in three un*ucce**ful campaign* will he nonproductive a* to re*ult* i* a certainty. Col. Bryan in hi* breezy and entertaining way ha* added to the apice of after-election goaaip and a peculation, but apparently ha* made not a dent in the complacency of the preaent occupant of the White lloufe. In the firat place, the administra tion ha* not followed cloiely the *ug geationa of Mr. Bryan aince hia retire ment from the Wilson cabinet. In the aecond place, the President la understood to feel that he was elected to fill out a specified term and ao long a* he 1* mentally and phyiically capable of performing hi* duties there i* no likelihood of a Wilson resigna tion. Nevertheless, the abruptly express ed conclusion of Mr. Bryan that '.ha I'reaident ought to resign, turning hia offire over to the vice-preaident, who in turn would resign and give the rein* to Harding, after appointing the Republican nominee secretary of state for a day or so, startled politi cal Washington. Nobody expected Col. Bryan to go so far in following up hia previous declaration that the President was largely responsible for the Democratic disaster and that Governor Cox completed the struc ture. In connection with this radical sug gestion of Col. Bryar there is just i fied speculation here a* to what might have happened had Governor Co* won the election. In one of his speeches in the cloa 'irig days of fTio rampitfnnovernoV Cox intimated that with the succea* of the Democratic ticket and vindica-j ti'.n of the league of nations President Wilson might be content to retire U> private life prior to the end of his term of office. Officially this intimation was not confirmed in administration circles here, but th>-re has been, however, o feeling in well informed ipiarters that because of the state of the President's health he would have considered re tirement in the event of Democratic victory. The supposition was that tho Pre sident, content in the election of a Democratic successor and advocate of the covenant, possibly would have rel ished an opportunity to lay down the burdens of office to the vice-president who could have provided for the early acceptance of executive re sponsibility by Governor Cot It is most unlikely, on tne other hand, that the President should now retire because of the selection of a Republican successor and the tin sought advice of Col. Bryan. The Pre-' sident said to be fully capable of dia-1 charging the duties of hia office. Whatever may be his physical limita tions and the weariness of body suf fered snce his nervous 1 reakdown. President Wilson is underst-K-d to be lieve that it is not encunu-mt upon h'm to quit o-.tice because of a politi cal reverse. Such a course, no doubt, would be misconstrued. The possibili ties are that if critics of the President did not see in such a course evidencea of pique they would, at least, claim j that the President was taking • step which he should have taken previous-, ly. and would so inventory his action. There is every basis for the belief; that President will serve until March 4, 1921, rounding out the term for! which he was elected. Colonel Bryan's gratuitous advice created something of. a political sensation here to-day, but it* reception was not cordial in Democratic circles. It is doubted that even partisan Republicans of the More' pronounced type will go so far as to contend that the President should take the revolutionary step of resign ing in favor of Vice-President Mar shall, with the tacit understanding that Bainbridge Colby should resign as secretary of state and be succeeded by Senator Warren G. Harding, who in turn would succeed to the presi dency with the prearranged resigna tion of President Marshall. Such a suggestion furnished a lively topic for conversation ia clubs and on street corner* In Waahiagton, bat no one I. reality expect. to r~d about 'h# r^icniiHon of th* in "ft favour* ittw®!*®**!' 'itfTKirrrm or 'ffMt Hnv, >"»r *:;* * **rf* **vpf*4*tir >or ♦»Ht Hrvan lugffritbii would (•■• ti<«i with h - i«nro*nl. *• h*-r f«»rtn« ■ r informal from the Mimifiiimiwi Tobacco Bankruptcy. I.mf vt*nr North Carolina produced MO millinn pounds of tohacc > and sold the rrop hi an average of 58.(1 cents a pound. This year the crop In sight la esti mated at 882 million pounds. The country over, the crop of 1920 runs ahead of last year's rrop by 90 million pounds, and 72 millions of this increase is in North Carolina alone. The average price paid for our to bacco in Auiruxt In the 27 active warehouse** of 11 market centers was 24.42 cents, or lens than half the price of last year. Our farmers are appalled. It ia a traffic calamity for the entire State. It looks like bankruptcy, and it is bai kruptcy in 19 of our counties— the bin tobacco counties where many of the tobacco fnrmers have all or most of their egg's In this one basket. The buyers explnm the drop in prices in North Carolina by calling attention to overproduction, to the slackened demand for export types, and to the low grade of the leaf on tHe warehouse floors of the State. It is reported to be light and thin as n rule, and much of it spotted; It la l.-fident in body, texture, color, and flavor, they say—due for the most part to the wholesale damange of the August rains. However, our farmers know or have chance to know, that the tobacco carry-over by the big manufacturers and dealers was Sfi million pound. or April 1 than on even date of la c year; that the chewing, smoking, snuff, nnd export types carried over were 7(1 million less, hurley 5 million jKiunds less; dark fired types 40 mil lion pound* less: bright yellow leal i'rown in Vlrcmin, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oeorgia 19 mil lion po'.mds lens They were 2f> millinn pound* nh<-ml in cigar types, grown mr>inly in the North.Kast and Middle West, but behind in almost every other kind of loose leaf stock. Ttw W WWW "fill writ—rwmec Merit' crops of cigar tobacco arc this year estimated as being a little ahead of ;he crop* of 1919. but the markets in t.hc«e states opened with an advance .if '10 per cent over Inst year, says t'-e Wall Street Journni. On the other hand, the bottom has dropped out of the market for the low-grade hurley and the dark -fired types of Kentucky, although the new crop is 28 million pounds short of last year's total, due, says the Wall oviTtv t/wui mil, w urn* iirvuinu• of large storks by speculators who now find themselves without ready markets." The Kentucky growera are in a state of mind that approaches > civil war frenzy, and no wonder. Our export of domestic tobaccos in ; 1919 amounted to 76fl million pounds j in round numbers. The quantity ex ported was three times tnat of 1917, hut the value was more than five times as great. During the same per iod exported cigarettes jumped from 7 to 16 billion in number and the value rose from 7 to 38 million dollars. Moreover, the total value of ex ported leaf rose from 181 million dol lars during the first seven months of last year to 149 million dollars during the same period. The quantity was less—burley more than half, but the value was greater by 18 million dol lars; exported cigarettes jumped from 8 to 10 billions in number, and from 17 to 24 million dollars in value, in round numbers; while cigars, cheroots, plug, smoking an^d all other kinds of export ed tobacco were less in quantity but greater in value by six and a half million dollars. Larger export prices' for fewer pounds of exported tobacco is the showing for the first seven months of this year. These are some of the facts which doubtless lead the Wall Street Jour nal to say: "Sales are running from 20 to 25 per cent ahead of last year and with the increase Jn business there is every reason to believe that' profits will be maintained. The skies may be clear for the manufacturers and dealers, but they are dark as night for tobacco grow ers in North Carolina and Kentucky, where more than half the total crop of this country Is grown, j Explaining the mystery of tobacco prices is like explaining the way of chain lightning in the sky—or per haps better, the w»T of a serpent on the rocks, to use a phrase of Solo mon's.—University News Letter. If it la a Billions Attack. Take three *f Chamberlain's Tab lets and'a qmitk reee*ery to certain. THE LIQUOR SITUATION IN NORTH CAROLINA Hloekadar* Multiply in Cl«*«r im*> and in Number*. Raletirh Nov K When the state •rohiMttonist* were here yesterday igita'ing upon the Ij>••».<• situation • ml petitioning the ireneral assembly to make the s'ate law* conform to the federal; urging the senator* and re presentatives In Congress to permit no weakening of the Volstead act, and finally choosing the Rev. R. L. Davit for superintendent of the Antl-Saloori Vague airain, the drv visitors did not iritimata what a Joh Is ahead of them. By unlveraal agreement tha liquor situation has reached It* worst. The ' -deral agencies are swamped inti the hlockaders ars out-pleading the forces sent against them. Thar* Is no com plaint that the Internal revenue offl res are derelict In their dutlas, The hlockaders have multiplied both In cleverness and In numbers too rapidly for control. In seven months this year the raid ing forces captured 1,2KB stills, ar rested HrtO men and colleetd fines and taxes amounting in round numbers to $Ab0,000. In addition they put enough prisoner* in Atlanta to run the total up to MX) years, half the age of Me thuilah. There was a wide destruc tion of illicit still property and all in all the raiders made a most imposing sorties Rut while this wss going on, two hlockaders were springing up where only one grew before and the federal government can't handle them Moreover, the state is going to have more of this to do than ever. The Washington government has heard about all the knocks that it can ab sorb. It hH* been hearing that It was taking all the state's rights away from the states and here is one that the Washington fplks are willing to restore. They would like to turn over to the states the control of the booze business. The state isn't so anxious to assume its prerogative. Meanwhile the federal authorities cannot keep un with the hlockaders and the states liave not struck a stride that gets them anywhere. The vastness of the traffic is attri butable to the prices paid for liquor. Tender the modem system of distilling liquor Is quickly made and sold at enormnus prices. It can be disposed f easily at ?24 a gallon wholesale and MO a quart retail. Under the present processes the distillers need not stay !<•; ir at one place and they move back with their easily conveyed machinery make a run, sell out and go to anotherv site. This makes detection difficult.1 And a class of makers and sellers that the officer* never met before has A _ * iLI. V- i »T»U_ a of blockaders in something new Oftentimes these fellow* came from families of prominence. The lure of money has rautrht them. The condi tion! In the state are much worse than they have been since state or national prohibition went into effect. The anti-saloon league people have not struck upon their plans next win ter, but they will ask the legislature to make ample provision for policing the state. The federal government has shown how to get the money, to make the system under which the na tion prosecutes the blockaders pay. It has not been equal to the Job of con trolling the outlaws, but it has fur nished a suggestion. It is the purpose of the league to present a bill which will give the state a prohibition commissioner with a working force which will arouse the public conscience. The blockaders have the situation so well in hand that the system of espionage hereto fore used by them is impotent The dry folks are desperately up aft Inst it The loague will meet during the les sions of the general assembly and the date most probable is February 2 and 3. By having the convention during a legislative year it is hoped to get the legislature to attend in a body. None* By virtue of authority vested in the undersigned by an order of the cleric »f the Superior Court of Surry county , in special proceeding, Dan Johnson and others vs. Howard Furgerson, I i will sell at public auction to the high- i est bidder the following described tract of land bounded on the west and < north by the landa of Jasper Key, ( in the east by the lands of John Pat terson and on the south by the land of James Gunter, containing* 72 1-2 acres < nf land, more or less, lying in Eldora township on Bull Run creek, on Satur- i day, the 4th of December 1920 at 1 o'clock P. If on said premises, ft being 1 the old John Johnson horns place near * Union chureh. Terms of siale: 1-8 cash, 1-3 in IS months, and l-> in 2 years on appear- 1 sd security. Bale made for partition among the heir*. Sol Jeh—ew, Commissin^r. ELECTION TROUBLE IN JACKSON GETS SERIOUS Canvass>ng Board Adjourn* mm Account of Tkmtonini At titude of Republicans. Axheville, Nov. #.»-Th* RepubHcaa* nt Juckaon county, who Thursday and Kriday refused to allow th* county -anvassing board to count tha vot* •wing to tha cloaenasa of tba *l*ctl*n, crowded into Sylva again today ia -ven tariror number*, according to re ports reach ing her* and the bourd «H igaln forced to adjourn. Thia ad journment was taken until next Tuaa lay. A prominent citizen from Sylva ' here today stated that the situation i ugly and that th* first call to (>«▼ •rnur Bickett on Thursday for truopa >ent by soma person who got mush p*cited may turn out to b* a real rail »nd it may be necaaaary to aend troops From Aahevilla or Waynesvtll* whan the hoard meeta again on Tuaaday. Tha trouble started Thursday whan Walter Haynes, Aahevilla attorney, appearing in behalf of tha Jackson Democrats, protested Iha vote In th* Markers Creek precinct. Th* board met, started the roll call and llaynaa entered his objection, atating the** wan a contest in that precinct, which Is heavily Republican. Geogre W. Sst ton. Republican attorney, answered Haynes, and ia said to have caused tha crowd of Republicans to becoaa greatly excited. The board adjouraad when a demonstration was started a ad llavnes was forced to leave the tows and catch a train several miles up th* track. Yesterday th* hoard met again, but ♦he Republicans were back in Increas ed numbers and owing to the attitud* 'if the crowd the chairman adjoumad again until today. When the hoard met this morning the crowd had grown still larger and the adjourn ment to Tuesday was taken. While apparently there has bean little drinking, it is reported from Sylva that the general belief there la the men are armed. The majority o/ •hem are from Markers Creek. J. M. Mason is chairman of the hoard and Is a Democrat. He I* said to be oa* of the most prominent nu-n in th* I'ount?, ranmf from DilUHom. Ha took the matter up with flovcmw Rickatt and the chief executive told him not to hesitate to call for aid tf h* needed it. This Man Already Had Nerve. Kinston, N. C. Nov. 3.—An old hit •>{ fiction became true here recently when a sufferer from a supposed not roun disease applied to a physician for treatment. There was an account Kgainst the patient on the doctnrls Sooks. The doctor prescribed 50 cents worth of medicine for the sufferert nerves and 25 cents worth for his ay petite. "Now. doc, I'd like a loan ta iret the prescriptions filled." said tha man. The phyaician requested that the prescription be handed back a moment. He marked out the item which was intended to improve the pa tient's nerves. Upon second thought tie had concluded the man "had nerva »nough," he said. MOUNT AIRY TESTIMONY. Home Proof, Here, There and Everywhere. 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Price 60s, at all JoalSM. l>o*% limply aak for a kidney nardy gat Joan's Kidney Pilla—the sams tM Mr. Jacobs had. FsaUr-Mlfhani Oa« Ifrs, Buffalo, N. Y