WORLD SUFFERS BECAUSE
SENATE FAILS TO
RATIFY
hubility of Europ* to Buy
Malta* Stagnant Market
Hara.
Washington, Nov. tl—Th* buaineea
4epreealon in thia country la eerioua,
•ad thoae familiar with condition*
•broad believe that tha failure of the
aerial* to ratify tha treaty and eatab
Hah peace with Germany ara reaponai
Ma for it. |)«mocrata who advocate
salification feel certain that had not
tha Republicans played politlca to win
a preaidentlal t lection, and fooled tha
people. confidence would have been re
etored, and the world put on tba way
la recovery.
Doubt, uncertainty and poverty
abroad are the thing* causing a panic.
Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, lead
er of the administration group In the
Aght for the league of natlona, aaya
that something muat be done for tha
aalief of the farmer* of the aoutK and
waat. To me, today, he gave hi* view*
•a exiating condition* and their rela
tione to the peace treaty.
The failure to ratify, he declared,
baa deatroyed confidence.
"Until we get peace eatabllahed we
ean't begin to reatore permanent rela
tione or bring about aatiafactory con
dition* with the reat of the world,"
•aid ha.
**Thi* bu«inea* depression may be
partly phychological, but the effect is
last the same as if there were real
aausea for a lack of confidence."
"The fact Is, at the present time
■arope finds it more and more diffl
ealt to pay for what sha buy* in the
Vnited State*. Even within the last
year there has been a notable fall in
the exchange of every country we ex
pert to. The franc i* not worth aa
Much aa it wa* twelve month* ago.
•or i* tha British pound, or the ex
change of the Scandinavian and other
eeuntrie* Thi* makes it difficult
«*r u* to export.
"The western farmer with bogs,
eattle. whest and corn to •ell," Mr.
Xttehcoek *aid, "i* threatened with
•a actual lo*s on hi* crop* and 1*
desperate. Com that cost 00 or OB
•ante to grow ia Railing for 60. The
•ame I* true of cattle and hog*
Similar conditiona," ha added, "ex
tat In the manufacturing diltriet* of
the east"
Mr. Hitchcock explained The
■uropesn nation* cannot pay cash for
the export* they would tak« from us.
"Biey cannot get raw material they
aeed from 'his country t > manufac
ture tha finished products of their
iactories and the bankers are afraid to
extend credits while condition* are
"Doabt has caused (tarnation. We
have the raw materials to sell but for
aign nation* cannot purchase them
without money or extensive credit.
Vnable to get the raw materials they
cannot pay in manufacture*.
Bankers have the money but they
will not extend credit while conditions
are unstable.
That is the situation that con
tents us," lfr. Hitchcock asserted.
""Dnt.il our place with other nations
is established and peace with Germany
Is proclaimed we cannot have settled
eenditions. Confidence has been
stricken by partisan politics. To win
aa election the opponents of the lea
gue of nations crippled the entire
world, already in desperate straita.
Business men of the nation are not
able to extend the credit needed to
■tart the wheels of indus^y.
"Great doubt has been created by
the two years delay in the senate. The
Best of the world wants to know when
Ike United States is going to make
peare with Germany, if at all; wheth
er or lint she is going in the league of
•ations; if the world is to have peace
•r war, and if this country is going to
atand alone or go with the other great
•ations. Doubt as to the answer to
these questions is at the root of the
troubles In the financial world.
"The matter has passed out of the
real of Idealism and Is now a vital
business proposition.
r"We have a great surplus to sell,
'while people in European countries
are starving Our .nine*, our farms
and our factories art stocked with the
things needed abroad but our would
ha customers cannot buy them.
"Something must be done to rellev»
present conditions In our own country
It la dangerous for the farmers of th«
west to have to keep their products 01
I practically give them away with Eu<
, tope hungry for food, and shiverlni
•or clothes. Grain and meat and cot
tan producers In the United Statei
have no market tor this -year's eropa.'
FI.ICS THREE MILES A MIN
UTE AND WINS RACE
Lieut. C. C. Mo»Uy, In Pulitzer
Contact, Average* 178 MiUs
An Hour.
Mineola, N. Y . Nov. 2fl.- Flying at
■ speed of virtually three milea a min
ute, Lieut. C. C. Moalsy, piloting an
American mad* Verville Packard
army nlnno, won the first Pultlaer
trophy aeronautical raca Kara today
nguinst h field of 88 starter*. Ha
rovered the courae of »H»»h» ly mora
than 1.12 milaa In 44 minute*, 20 57
l<)0 seconds, an average speed of ap
proxlmately 17H milaa an hour.
Official* of the Aero Club of A mar
ten, which conducted the raca, flrat
having aitimatad the course aa 140
milaa In length, announced Immediate
ly r.ftaV the raca that Moalav'a aver
age apeed waa 188.4 tnilea an hour, •
new world'a record. However, a care
ful rescallng of the official map to
night ahowed that the lapa were
■lightly more than 82 milea in length,
inatead of 88, the average apaed on the
corrected length being cut down 10
milea an hour. It la expected that a
survey of the course will be made In
•Her that exact computation may he
established.
The preaent world'a aviation apeed
record la held by Sad! Lecolnte, win
ner of the recent Gordon Bennatt
trophy race In Franca, who averaged
1S7 milea an hour in a special contest
nt Villa Coublay, near Paria, 10 daya
nfter he won the international trophy.
In the Gordon Bennatt raca over a
course of 186.3 milea. Lecolnte aver
aged alightly more than 160 milea an
hour, although he had mad* 174 1-2
milea an hour In the trials.
Capt. H. E. Hartney, flying an
American army Thomaa-Morae mach
ine, came in aecond today, flying the
couraa In 47 mlnutaa and 8-100 se
conds. Albert Acosta, a civilian, won
third place with his Italian-made An
aaldo 8. V. A. machine. His time waa
81 mlnutaa, 87 62-100 seconda. This
was the only ona of the 11 foreign
made machine entered to flnlah among
the fit* 10. * -
It waa a great day for the army. In
addition to placing aeven of its man
among the first 10, the srmy won a
private fight from the navy when rep
resentative* of the enlisted man of
each engaged in a tfttle battle of fisti
cuffs before the grandstand. A sail
or was walking paat when ha acci
dentally knocked off the hat of a sol
dier on guard duty, the headgear fall
in a pool of water. Instantly the aol
dler gave battle and was getting much
the better of the performance when
the combatants were separated, Gen
eral Pershing laughed with glee as he
watched the performance, but Secre
tary Daniel* scowled * bit and aaid
nothing.
County Boos*
Some where in the shadowy hills
1 and hollows of Stokes county It ia
said there are men making mean
likker. They aay that tha likker
which these men make is so mean that
a drink of it will indue* you to hit
your mother-in-law, and that a de
t'uurh from it is worsa than the flu.
' Some one who evidently escaped, has
I furnished The Reporter with the for
mula of thfc diabolical concoction, to
The sugar or molasses is supposed
to temper down, but the compost
makes you rise; the ivy ro>t brings
'•in the stagger; tobacco bef'iddles tha
brain, and the lye furnishes the fire.
Can you conceive of a more hellish
b'cw? Can you imagine a digestion
that would withstand this corrosive T
What brain would not turn topsy
turvy what stomach would not heave
at the very thought of it?
Yet there are plenty of fellow* that
will guzzle it, swill ft, lie for it, steal
| for it. and almost die for it. After
waking it they walk lik* a sick roost
er and their breath smells like a
skunk. They, talk non-aense, repeat
<ng over and under, and wink tht
i watery eye at every fool **ntence. Ir
>ther word- they become idiota while
! th> brew burns, and invalids when it
! <-ools down.—Danbury Reporter.
How to Be Healthy.
If you would enjqy good health keeii
your bowels regular and your stomari
and liver in good working order Thli
ir easily done by taking Chamberlnip'i
Tableta. These tablets strengther
the stomach and regulate the liver aru
bowels. They are easy to take and
mild and gentle in effaet. They onl)
coat a quarter
wit:
Sugar or molasses
Stable manure ...
! Ivy root
Tobacco
: Concentrated lye .
2 tin boxes
. .SO lbs
1 bushel
.10 feet
5 hands
AMERICA ABOUT READY
TO RECOGNIZE MEXICO
Few Point* Remain to be Clear
ed up Before Recognition
Can Be Granted
Washington, Nov. ZB^~ Secretary
Colby is expected to make known he
for* his departure for South America
Sunday or Monday the nature of his
reply to the recent latter of R V
l'es<|U#ira. confidential agent here of
■ the provisional government of Mexico,
netting forth the claims of that gov
eminent to recognition by the United
i States.
Rocent informal conferoncea be
1 twe.n atate department officials and
Mr. Pesqueria arc understood to have
rleuri-d the way for auch an an
nouncement. It was believed the
Mexican agent had full knowledge of
the poaltion the American govern
ment would take when he left today
on a hurried trip to Mexico City.
Mr. Peaquelra's letter was made
public by the state department with
comments by Mr. Colby, which said
, that a few pointa remained to be clear
ed up before recognition could be
granted. While officials decline to
I discuss the substance of the reply
now being drafted, It is believed to
contain specific reference to the mat
ters In dispute between the two coun
tries. snd a statement of what the
United State* will consider as a sat
i isfactory solution by Mexico of some
I if her problems.
| It was said that no attempt would
)>a made to dictate to Mexico what she
• mutt do to attain the status necessary
for recognition, but It will be made
clear that the United States will be
unable to accord recognition until cer
tain tangible guarantee* are given by
Mexico of her willingness and ability
to protect American Uvea and legiti
mate interests in Mexico.
Among things Mexico will be ex*
pected to do, It la known, will he In
terpretation of article 17 of the con
stitution of Queretaro by some official
pronouncement. This U within the
purview of Congress or of the Mexi
can* Supreme court, before which
many suits brought on behalf of
American companies have been pend
ing for six months to three years.
The Late Election Cost the
State $180,000
Raleigh, Nov. 28.—Exact fig-urea a*
to how much it cost* to *tage the
quadrennial election In North Caro
lina for national state and county offi
cial* la not and will not he included
in any state record under the present
reading* of the statute books, but
fairly conservative estimate* baaed cn
the expenditure* of the *tate board ef
ctiort* | see the out'ay at •om*
what more than ft50,000.
Upon the counties fall the heaviest
end of the burden. . In addition to
.printing half the tickets that are dis
tributed to the precincts election day,
their* ia the taak of hiring and paying
registrar*, poll holders, election
judge* and finally the county tabula
t'nn. The coat of these things fcaa
advanced along with the price of
everything else, and the wave of price
cutting had not gained Its present
headway when the election waa h.ld.
Printing the twenty-five million
hallota that were used in the atate
in the selection of a |.resident, a gov
rnor and Stafr officers, members of
' tiie gene al aasemhly, county and
township officera ia in itaelf the least
of the burden* of holding an election.
| It take* t wo carloads of paper, four or
! five barrels of ink, some typesetters,
I a battery of commercial presses, and
upward* of $!>0,000, in the currency
of the republic.
Panamn Defenses Are Inspect*
ed By Harding
Ancon, C inal Zone, Nov. 26.—Prob
lems connected with the defense of
the Panama canal were studied by
; Senator Harding today during a de
tailed inspection of the fortifications
at the Pacific terminus of the water
way and in conference with army and
navy officer* in charge of the xone
forces. He spent several hour* mak
• ing r round of the defenses in cotn
! pany with Brig. Oen. Charles W. Ken
, nedy and Rear Admiral Marbury John
j ston, at whom he a*ked many ques
, tion* on the capabilities and needs of
the establishment.
The operation of the big guns was
demonstrated to the President-elect,
and many problems of strategic pol
icy were laid before him.
Accompanying Senator Harding
were Senator Fredrick Hale, member
of the senate naval committee, and
Senator Joseph 8. Frellinghuysen,
chairman of the coast defense com
mittee, his guests on the ftp..
HIGH PRICES IN CUBA
DOUBLE THOSE HERE
Erm Sugar, Produced Thar*
In Immanaa Quantities, Sail*
For 24 Cant*
Havana, Oct. 28.American women,
disturbed by iht mounting rout of llv
iitl, oufht to com* to Cuba. Tht trip
would mako them satisfied with con
ditions at home.
Kroadly speaking, price* in Havana
are ju*t about double the high intrk
in top notch American cities. On*
cause, according to dealer*, la the 'in
precedent port congestion, apparently
with little hope of early rlcarlnr, aid
which ha* resulted In the ruin of hun
dred* of ton* of necessary product*.
Whatever the cause, the island Is go
ing through a period of high oat, )e*
critied by pa|ier* here as mora burden
/v.me than that found elsewhere on 1he
tut* of tl e earth
Even here wher* it ia pr-Juced in
sufficient bulk to supply ailllion* ei*e
where, sugar retails on the Havana
market around 24 cents per pound.
Grapefruit, going to waate a few mllaa
from town, *clls at New York quota
tions. Financial depression, the de
mand for ready and available caah,
and the moratorium, under which
banks limit withdrawals to 10 per
cent, have failed to atart price reduc
tions in the hope of unloading luxuriea
to meet weekly pay rolls. Until the
moratorium ends December 1, hotels
will not permit patrons to sign bar and
cafe checks, a time honored custom
here. Cash is needed and a man paya
when he eat*.
Conditions In Havana are of little
concern to the wealthy element from
the states that will be coming here
soon by the thousands for the winter
and racing seasons. But for folkt of
ordinary mean*, with two weeku for
recreation, a big bank roll is needed.
About the lowcat hotel rate la $7 a day
for room and bath. And this Is not at
the beat places, for there rates are
much kicker, and along toward the
middle af November the 97 will
fetch 116
Americans living in Havana pour
out a tale of woe to frienns from the
statea. The women seem to lie hit the
hardest Price tags in store* selling
men's wear show that a go >1 pair of
men's low shoes costa aa high aa <28.
The rainy season is not ende'l, and 18
for a cotton umbrella is a "bargain."
Flannel trousers are there for $2fi and
silk shirts for $80.
A lot of odds and ends that a man
needs cost more than twice the mark
at home. The correspondent saw a
Panama hat valued at $450 and the
dealer declared that sugar men pay ft
without blinking.
Cigaretts aelling for 20 cent* a
package at home cost 60 here, and for
a $2 bo* of American candy they ask
$7. Two cent American papers, three
days old, cost 12 cents. You may get
a reasonably fair suit of clothe* out of
stock for $100. In most cases women's
shirtwaists, it was explained, cost
three times the home figure. The only
exception in the upward trend iis the
straw hat, the cost of which is about
on the American scale.
The only paper money in circulation
here is American. The bills are so
worn and utterly filthy that a man
parts with them rather gladly.
Jap Government Buying
Tobacco at Danville, Va.
Danville, Va. Nov. 24.—The Japan
ese government ia represented on the
Danville tobacco market at the pre
sent time by three agents who are
buying bright leaf in larger quanti
ties than ever before. It is said that
tha barring of opium on the oriental
empire is causing a more decided
trend each year to the mora widely
known narcotic, and the Japanese are
buying hundreds of hogsheads of to
bacco on the southern markat. Ob
servers on the market say they are
shrewd in determining tha quality of
tobacco. Tobacco is grown in Japan,
but it ia so fine in texture and of so
little weight that the heavier bodied
grades grown in this section are In
demand now to mix with the home
grown variety.
To Lay off 1,000 Employe* and
Reduce Other's Wages
Saltville. Va. Nov. 26.—The Mathie
aon Alkali works, incorporated, here
today announced that, effective De
cember 1, 60 per cent, of ita 2,000 em
ployes will be cut off. The wages of
the remaining employee will be re
duced 20 per cent, the company stated.
The fact that "business conditions
have curtailed tha company's salsa"
was given as a reason for the reduc
tions
CURFEW IS THE SIGNAL
FOR RAIDING IN DUBLIN
The Daylight Hours Put
Quietly But at Night it ia An
other Story.
Dublin, Nov., 24.- Dublin, long ae
muti.med to tragedy, Ui nettled back
with two day* of outward calm, which
ins, however, an Indefinable and un
healthy quality cloaking much beti *
ne scenes, and there ia activity In
| Iwth ramp*.
W)nl» the daylight hours pau al
| moat without incident, the curfew haa
'come to be the Hignal for the crown
! force* to commence unceremonioua
raiding of all aorta of prem' , wo«
"/.ure of any waated documents and
: rroat of aua'pected persons. The**
arrests are becoming almoit indls
criminata, but in many raaea the de
tention end* after an examination at
headquarter* which ahowa abaance of,
connection with the Republican move
ment.
A a no class of residence*, even the
fir*t-claaa hotel*, ia exempt fromI
the*# *earchei, there haa been a
marked diminution of cross-chanel
traffic, and nn almoit total reaaation1
of tourlat arrlvala.
Reports from various parts of tha
country today recount a widaapread
leisure of bicycles, which tha author!-1
ties at Dublin caatle interpreted aa a
move on the part of the actlvlata to
counter the motor licensing restric
tions.
Franco's War Dead To Rost
In Permanent Cemeteries
Paris, Oct. 22.—France's 1,000,000
war-dead ara soon to be tranaferred
to permanent military remeteriea or
re-Interred In private buryinggrounda,
at the option of relativea.
It may be many montha before tha
work ia even well under way bat the
start in to be made soan, under au
thority of lawa paased at the last ses
sion of psrliament and now made af
fectlva by decrees.
A separata monument, at a design
not yet adopted, will be put at the
head of each grave and the car* of tha
military grounds will devolve upon
the government in perpetuity.
Sanitation and lack of transporta
tion has delayed the assembling of the
bodies, but it hss been decided that by
careful planning the work may now
be done without danger to health or
to industry.
Illinois Gives Mr. Harding
A Plurality Of 890,085
Chicago, 111., Nov. 26.—Complete,,
but unofficial election figures for Illi
nois, available today for the first time,
place the plurality for President-elect
Harding in this state at 890.085 and
show that the Republican preaidential
ticket was given a larger proportion
ate percentage of the women's vote
| than was accorded Governor Cox.
Senator Harding and Governor Cool
idge received 71.6 per cent of the vote
cast by men in the state and 74.6 per
cent of the women's ballots. Total,
figures for President: Harding 1,424,
480; Co* 634,896.
The Size of a Cent.
The Standard Oil Company an
nounce* a reduction of one cant a gal
lon in gasoline. ^ cent doesn't look
like very much moqey but the saving
■ r North Carolina from that reduc
tion amounts up so big that in tha
course of a year it is a fortune. At
least one hundred and twenty-five
thousand cars are running in this 1
state. If those cars us« a gallon of
gasoline a day one cent reduction in 1
a gallon means twelve hundred and
fifty dollars in a day, and that rum
up to more than four hundred thou
sand dollars in a year. An illustra
tion like this shows us that it Is the 1
little things that make tha big ones. 1
Few men that drive cars give much
consderation to the cent that is saved
on a gallon of gasolina. Yet that
cent if gathered up with all the rest
would build a hundred miles of mighty ,
good roads, and in some sections oft
the state would build five hundred
miles of that sand-clay type that la'
giving such excellent service. A rent
on a gallon of gasoline would do a lot
of things if it was applied in the right
direction.—Raleigh News and Obser-'
ver.
Iain's Cough Remedy.
"Last winter whjn my children were
sick trith colds and were coughing a
?ofl deal I gave them Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy" writes Mr*. C. M.
Bullock. Gorhara, N. Y. 'It relieviid
then at once and under this treatment
all symptoms at the cold gradually
disappeared. My axpariem» with this
medicine warrants my recommending
lit to others."
Favor* Mora Pay For State
Superintendent
Aaheville, No*. 2d.--Tto>ry •■fto
lion for the "back to the fan*" Bin
ment, executed tonight by Dr. 'reofye
A. Works, rural education profeeeer,
»f Cornell university, Ithaca, N. T.,
marked the close of the annual Nt
renllon of the North Carolina t«Mh-,
»r»' assembly, a three-day event (feat
tn-ought Hid registered delegate* ta
Ashevill*.
The last session wiui held In the arty
auditorium and waa railed to order by
the retiring president, 8. B. Under
wood, at 8 o'clock^ jvho directly after
the meeting turned the r<-lna of to*
»»*emhly over to the newly elactod
li'—r*. K. ii. l^atham.
Dr. T'nrk'a address followed a pee
gram of exercise and an appeal mad*
by John Carr, Jr., who represented toe
student body of the University erf
North Carolina. He pictured crow4M
condition* In the schools of the «tato
and pleaded with the teacher* aad
citizens of North Carolina to hdf
minimize the** condition* *o far a*
possible.
Mr. Carr appeared !?> the role srf
"the generation of th* future " appeal
ing for adequate facilities today, **
that h* will not b« handicapped ki
training for the position "a* th* iead
er of tomorrow."
In hi* explosion of the *3>ack to Aa
farm" movement Dr. Work* declared
that the movement of men from A*
rural communities to th* citle* was
only natural, from hi* viewpoint.
"Machinery i* rapidly dispiaetoc
man power on th* farm*," he pointed
out, "and it i* only natural that Ufe
displaced manpower should be ooratag
to the cities tr. help manufacture this
manpower saving machinery."
Indorsement of government plaaa
For an appropriation of |100,000,0M
to be used In fighting illiteracy by to
ititating a general school upbuildiag
program in the United States, and *■
pressly going on record as favoring a
■alary of $8,000 per annum for Ik*
North Carolina state school superto
:end*nt, the assembly this sftemota
:lo**d its 1920 boain*** *e**ion to
lUhaeilla.
South Carolina Democrat*
Won by Majority of 60,297
Columbia, .S. C. Not. 24.—The Deaa
sratic majority in the election of Me
'emlwr 2 in South Carolina waa M,
197, according to the state board fit
canvassers which met today and 4a
■tared the reealt
The Democratic elector* receifW
12,MS vote*. Two *eta of RapuhM
-an elector* received 2,61(1 vote* wMU
Socialist rote* were cant.
Die* at 93 Year*.
Blkin Tribune.—Mr. Henry Shore**
kged 91 year*, died Saturday at Mi
borne .our miles southeast of Jonaa
wille. All of hi* lif* va« spent k
Lhi* community, and in hi* death the
rhurch ha* io*t a loyal member, aad
the community *n upright citizen aad
?ood friend* and neighbor. The f»
era I wa* held Sunday at Fall Creek
church and the remain* interred i>
the church cemetery. He i* iurvind
by three son*, three daughter*, M
grandchildren and several great
rrand children.
M'Swiney'a Widow end Sister
To Visit Asherille
Ashevilie, Nor. 29.—Madame Mar
garet MacSwiney, sister of the lata
ord mayor of Cork, received s eable
rram from her brother, Peter Maa
?winey today stating that the widow
>f Terence J. MacSwiney will visit
\sheville upon her arrival in Amfri
•a. The cable reads:
"Minnie (MacSwiney'* sitter),
Huriel (MacSwiney'* widow, left
rhursda.v to visit you with new*."
Madame Manraret MacSwiney is a
lister at the college of St. Genevieve
>f the Pine*, this city.
rhree More North Dakota
Banks Cloae Their Door*
Bismark. N. D., Nov. 82—Three
nore bank* were added today to the
itring of North Dakota financial instt
utions that have closed their door* ia
he past six days, due to depletion of
heir reserve*, which official* say t*
tue to failure of farmer* to meet
lotee held by the bank*.
Farmers State bank of BelfMd; the
'tat* bank of Kill Deer and the Se
curity State bank at Colombo* eloeed
;oday making nine sine* the first of
last week.
O. E. Lofthos, state bank examiner,
declared that crop failure* or short
L-rops, together with depre .itf-n hi
lands, and wheat holding by 'armeoi
for higher pries* are responsible far
the closure*, a* farmer* hare no (*ak
to moot their obligate*** at tfce Writ