gElje ilount JVirj) 55 e tog ESTABLISHED 1880 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDXy. DECEMBER 30th, 1920. $1.60 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. • DISASTROUS YEAR FOR GERMANY'S COMMERCE Revision Of Troty Nmmmtt For Rotara To Normal Eco nomic CoadMoa llamberg, Dm. N^-Q«Ml|r'i for eign trad* relations, which In 1919 rare mm pro mine of gradual and aubatantisl Improvement, ralfind dis aatarously during 1920, the Ham bung chamber of cosimerc* say* in It* an aual report. which ta to bo publlnhed tomorrow. Without revision of the Varaalllea treaty, tha chamber says, It will be lapoaaible for Germany to ar rive at bar normal economic and poli tical condition. "Than- are wine sign* of the begin ning'of a batter state of condition* in the apparent increased Inclination to work and tha daalrr for batter produc - tire result*." add* the raport. "There ia a further movement toward im provement of Carman economical con dition* in the overstocking of foreign market* with food and raw stuff*." Tha report advices against accept ance of foreign credit* by the German* "unices the stipulation* for paying back the loana are clearly prepared." It I* believed by the chambcr of 8,000 for Dock Hef ner. At a late hour tonight bond had act been arranged and the three will probably remain in Jail. At first Judge Shaw gave all the ?«me sentence, bat following an im passioned plea by Attorney Whitner to consider the youth of "Little Dock" the term waa cut in half for the young eat of the defendants. Dock is only 16. Fireman is Killed Answering Alarm Rocky Mount, Dee. 18.—Missing hi* foothold when he attempted to swing the big fire truck( as it was leaving the engine house in response to an alarm early this morning, Wiley May, well known young qtan of the city, member of Rocky Mount's volunteer fire department and a lieutenant in the A. E. F. during the war, fell un derneath the heavy machine, which passed over him, splintering his right leg and foot, lacerating his left leg from the knee to the thigh and crush ing in the lower part of his abdomen, which resulted in h!a death at a local hospital several hours later. The injured man was rushed in an ither fire true!: to a local hospital where his condition was regarded as most crttkal In response to a call made hy the hospital authorities, a a umber of youug men of the city vol unteered to give Hood to Mr. May, and a abort time after the accident a quart ef blood was transfused from the vrias ef J. W. Council into those of the fcjvrad man. After the trsnsfeetae able to draaa his that all efforts to save his Nfa finvtl futile The accident occurred about 4 eVM (Ms me riling as the depart •lam turned ia as tha i t of a ma blase at the Advice Tike Chamberlain's Tablets ae ymbn finished your aupper i eemj way. -...a-it. JMraJiii LEONARD THOMAS 5HOT TO DEATH BY A YOUTH _____ i Tragady Occurs la Liberty and Gaorga CurtU, 16, !• In Aih boro Jail. I.iherty, Dor. 21.— Laonard Thomas, aged 28 year*, la daad and Gsorge Curtis, aged tfl yrnrs, ta in Randolph county jail at Ashboro charged with murder, the tragedy occuring in front of tha home of W. A. St*ley in this town last night about 6:80 o'clock. A revolver waa the weapon used by the youthful slayer, the bullet unteringthe left temple of Thomas and inflicting a wound from which he died this morning about 8:30 o'clock in an auto mobile just a* it reached Julian en route to Greensboro, to which place he waa being taken to a hospital. Relative* of the dead young man state that jealousy waa the csuse of the shooting. The version of th« tragedy which they gave is that the young people were planning to re hearse last night for a Christmas en tertainment in the neighborhood and because s young Isdy had no one to accompany her to the church young Thomas volunteered to escort her to the church snd hack home after the rehrrsal. They state that when the couple arrived at Mr. Staley's home the Curtis youth appeared and inform ed the young lady that he was goipg to kill Thomas, who did not take the threat serioualy and so informed the young lady. Curtis, it is said, was in love with the young lady, but was not permitted by her family to go with her. Following his threat to kill Thomas, it is stated, Curtis followed him in a threatening attitude, where u|K>n the young lady remonstrated rvith him and he frightened her back into the house by flourishing his pistol in her direction. After she had antsrsd the I/O use, it Is contended that Curtia pointed his revolver at Thomas' bead a few hours sfterward. Shortely after the shooting young Curtis was arrested and taken by offi cers to Ashboro and lodged in jail. The funeral of young Thomas will be held tomorrow afternoon at 8:30 o'clock from his late home a short dls-! tame from the scene of the shooting. BRYAN, GERARD, REED MEET WITH HARDING Bryan Declare* Hi* Faith in President-Elect A* a Man Whom Whole World Can Trust Marion, 0., Dec. 17.— With hi* plan for an association of nation* aitaom ing more definite form, President fleet Harding took into hi* confidence today three conapicaou* Democrat*, Wlliam Jennings Bryan, James W. Gerard, and James A. Reed, and ukcd their advice and their aid in fa*hion ing a program behind which the na tons can nnlte. # All three came as invited guests of the President-elect, and their consul tations with him were surrounded "wth an air of warm cordiality. After ward Mr. Bryan, talcing the lead in | expressing gratifcaton at the day's de velopment*, declared his faith In Mr. Harding a* an honest and conscien tious public servant whom the wnoir people would trust. The former secretary of state al*« announced that he had found himself in agreement with the President elect on "fundamentals." Mr. Gerard, a former American am bassador to Germany and during the •*t campaign actively connected with the Democratic national committee, joined Mr. Bryan in expressing satis faction at the scope of the association of nations conferences. Senator Reed reserved Judgment of the outline of an association laid before him by the I'reddent-elect, but declared himself delighted that one so irreconcilably opposed to the Versailles covenant and 1 to foreign entanglements generally | should have been invited to Mr. Hard ing's council table. None of them would discuss in detail the subjects tooehed on in their talks with the President-elect, hot it became known that something mere than a scattered collection of suggestion* was offered for their sera tiny. Chamberlain'* Coagh Remedy. New la the time te lay in a rappty of Chamberlain'* Cough Remedy. It is ilmsrt mv to ha needed baton the j winter ia ever. Ton will look a goo* wt.rie before yon find a bettertemedy or one that la I It meets wttfc fever aeerr Buy K new and he prepared. JACKSONVILLE MAN IS GIVEN A COAT OP TA* Objected to Um of tfco Word "Huo" and Later Wu Treat ad Rough. Ja< kaonvllle, Fla., Dec. 19.- -John D. Biachoff, a real relate dealer of thia ntjr, aecurely hound and fagged and iuviTfd with ■ roat of tar and faath Ml, was dumpxi from an automobile Mt X 40 o'clock tonight on on* of Jackaonville'* huaiest downtown utreet intcrnertiona. A do pedestrians; then they come together. The automobile, faster and heavier, sustains the least damage. When an engine on wheels hits any thing the result is obliged to he dam Hging, often disastrous. The bureau offers suggestions to cut down the number of automobile acci dents and fatalities. One of the chief of these suggestions i* the "demon stration of great skill in driving a ma chine before granting « drivers' licen se." That sounds queei here. Here a person is not expected to demonstrate any skill at all to get a license for the simple reason that there is no licens ing of driver*. He may know no more about driving an automobile than a mere knowledge of starting and stop ping it and liow to make a turn, and he is allowed to drive an automobile. Before he drives a car, somebody shows him how to drive one, and the burden of the instruction is how not to hurt the car. People will continue to be killed by automobile* until drivers are licensed. There is nothing else to it. So many people drive them who are not driv er*. They may have very tender hearts nnd dislike exceedingly to mash peo ple against hard pavements, but un less they know how to keep from mashing them they will keep on mash ing them. Good intentions are a poor substitute for skill. Then, there are people who don't seem to care wheth er they mash people against pave ments or not. A refusal to allow them to mash more than one person would stop that aort of brutality. Automobiles can go fast. They are built to go fast. Often It Is necessary that they go fast, but not In the crowds. The driver who thinks that because he has bought a fast vehicle or because h« is operating on* for somebody who has one, he moat go fast, ought to be jerked out of the dri ver's seat. He is not • safe citisen, and revocation of licerae la the only way to Jerk him out. It's either license or kill. Licenae means car* and without car* any auto mobile Is a potential killer. Warning*, regulations, persuasive methods and campaigns against speeders, will do no good until drivers are licensed and unlicensed. That is the only way to tame an automobile driver. "Than shalt net MR" ^fias Ella 8h*Hon and Barry in m-n hotn of this to'vnship were giM Ijr married T.untHv Uae. Urd. G. W. Hiatt Justice of the peaoe officiat ing. The marriage toek piece at Mr. . THREE BUND STUDENTS AT STATE UNIVERSITY Thoy an Taking Full Acade mic Court* and Maka Un usually Good Cradoa. Chapel Hill. Dm. 18.--Of more than t 400 students who will leave early Mxt week fur their homes to upend the Ctiristmaa holiday*, none has more reason to feel satisfied with his or her work for the past term than the three blind sophomores, B. B. Wot sham, of Relthbend Va. Sam Cathay, of Buncombe county, and W. M. Hollo man, of Hertford county. These men entered the university last year and made exceptionally good grades in oi branches of their work ear teems likely to be c |uallad or even excelled by their aophoirore work. All of th* work which thoae young men do, and 'hey are caking the reg ular academic work which ia required of all students, s worked out In their heada. Even the complex work in mathematics and physics is worked :n this manner. The problems in mathematics and '.he theoretical work of physics are r«ad to them by a fel low student and they seem to grasp i he work almost instantly. Not only do they take interest in the scholastic ->d« of college lif'i, out each of the tnree is greatly interested in all branches of sport. Neither of them ha* l>een blind all his life and they are. therefore familivr with baseball, bas ketball and football. They are always on the sldelinas when Carolina meets ar enemy on the diamond or the gnu iron and cach play Is explained to them aa it is made. They atate that rhey can visualile the name by this method much aa a crowd sees a world reries gsme on tha bulletin board in front of a newspaper office. These three yoang men graduatad from the State School far the Blind "n Wl ■!> hi <11 IIIMI at tkmt una entered tW* Institution. •I 'atliry and Worahatn plan to prac tice law In Asheville, and both Be taking the A B , I.l> B. courae^ Hollo man is taking the straight A. B course and intends to teach. Every student is betting that they will gra duate with the c'ass of *2S and that they will all be near the top of the i lass in honors It would be hard to find three more pipular men on the campus than these. Even the stars of the varsitv tesms have to make way for these rrten. The genuine pluck which these ru-n have shown, their interest in all college atndente «nd their invariable cheerfulness and good naturedneaa have' endeared them to the student body and given them a position in the esteem of the college town which few students have ever enjoyed. New Bern People Getting Sore Over Meat Prices New Bern, Dec. 28.—With dressed pork selling an low af IS centa a pound and dressed beef being offered with no takers as 11 Vents a pound, wholesale, and both being retailed in the butcher shops of N>-w Bern at prices between 30 and 40 cents a pound, a profit of more than 200 per cent, it has been suggested that thia city fall in line with a number of others and appoint a "fair price" committee who will is sue, daily, a bulletin of prices. The butcher shops of New Bern are said to be charging more now for their meat than they were during the war, and making from 20 to 60 per c*nt greater profit. Other citiesffimve beon up against the same thing, and a num ber of them have taken prompt action against what was termed at Asheville recently as "high handed and lic-ns.-d robbery." New Bern citixens who s*e in'.-jrest ed in the welfare of the community have suggested that the matter be taken up and given attention and an effort made to cut down the Uffk prices being demanded of the consum ers of meats. ■Jance At Commercial Club A dance waa bald at the Commercial club rooms Christmas evening lasting until midnight. Music waa furnished by Plena's orchestra of Wtaatea-8al—. About forty-five young couples enjoyed the junff Among tfce chape roues were Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Prsther, Mr and Mn. %. M. Lewis. Mr. and Mn. P. A. Oeorga, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Mm, Mr. and Mrs. John Sabotta, and rueetc Mr. and Mrs. X. B. Wrigfct, of Wtaatoa Sal«B. and Mr and Mrs. CnfWM Pa* URGES AN AGREEMENT TO REDUCE ARMAMENTS Daniel* Think* Amoricn Should Make Thi* Mot* If It Do** Not Join Washington, Dr< 27 -Th* United States, if it doea not enter the Infui of nation*, should initial* a moviisat looking to an International confer ence for the reduction of armament*. Secretary Daniel*, of the navy, said tonight. If an agreement U not reached by all nation* for inch a pro gram, the (ecretary added, "th* Unit ed Statei should have a navy second to none." The question of dioarmament alao was diacuaaed in the senate today, Senator Johnson, Republican, Califor nia, declaring that a disarmament agreement by the nation* who consti tuted the five allied and aaaociated powers in the world war would eonati tut* "the on* great atep that could h* taken toward the promotion of peac* and the prevention of all future war*." Secretary Daniels in his statement tonight declared that his naval esti mates recently submitted to Congress -ailed only for minor vessel* and u pressed approval of the general board's building program onty in th« *v*at that the United States does not enter the league of nations or become a party to an international agreement to limit armament*.' The naval secretary advocated leg islator aimilar to that in the 1918 naval appropriation bill, which author ized Prsident Wilson to appoint a commission of uine members to rep resent the United States at an inter national armament conference. "If we do not want th* league of nation," said Mr. Daniels, "we ought to ha\e a conference purely on the subject of reduction of armaments Every nition that na* joined th* league has promised thi* and all th*v need now ia to g*t na in. Unl*** there u juuaa. web untmnt Um United State* should hav* a navy second to none. Thi* i* the reason that I hav* advocated the sinking of the German fleet in midocean as an object leaaon to all the world that is unhealthy to build great armaments for purpos ** of conquest. ONSLOW FARMERS CATCH A WHALE HIGH AND DRY The "Sea Rover" Came Out of Onslow Bay Into A' Little Creek And Got "Stranded" Kinston, Dec. 2(5.—No ancient mari ner returning from fabled sea* and enchanted isles ever told a stranger tale than this of how Onslow county farmers caught a whale almost as high and dry as the cows in their meadows and colts in their paddocks. An old timer of the coast related the story here today, not recalling the exact date nor "allowing" it to be of recant occurence; but there are plenty of pitchfork artists now living who help ed to harpoon the helpless whale that went a-calling 'pon Onslow raxor backs. A little bit of a creek makes up from Onslow bay. It has a channel deeper than most of the riven in thia section, thanks to the swiftness of the the current which races in and out with high tide and heavy rams. The whale, a "craft" 40 feet long, wander ed into the creek when the tide was high. It loitered in a bit of a slough until the tide went out. The water barely covered its back when It occur red to the whale to "take soundings." The animal discovered that it was purpose of defrauding his customers, itself only "waist deep" in the water, if a whale's waist is definite. The luckless suckling in its distress splashed about and beat the water with its tail, throwing a few tons oet every mirute or two until in the course of time its prison was only a mud pud dle. The farmers and neighborhood negroes gathered about the side of the creek a few feet away and watched ita struggle. It occurred to some en terprising spirit among than to capi talise the calf's mlafertWM. Ptney woods hogs ssssiahlad close My and watched the proceedings, appearing to wonder what strange thing it was that had come into their domain. The men finished off the sliming "big fish" and cut up the carcass abase It lay. The blubber was carefully pre served. The hog* fared Ana with the reaaina. For mm day la its history Onslow waa hi the whale eft hwteeaa SOLDIERS BONUS WOULD REQUIRE |2,300,000,000 Thi* U SacrtUrjr Houston'* E* tiowU Bm^ Ob Tfco BM Pum i panic 1 ay I figures showing the cost of carrying I oat aay ana of tha flv* opttaaal pro 'visions of the bonna bill pr**id*d a*1 former aervioa man choaa a single plan. The figures for tha variou* plana rang* from $1,342,000,000 for the ad justed pay provision to M-AM.000.Mt for the inaurance provision. The raaxi mum poasible cost of tha vocational training aid and the farm an-l homo cVwlopment plana were placed •t 9L oXO.OOO.OOO each while tha secretary Haid the fifth provision, a plan far land aattlament, held so many Jiietr taintie* that it waa impoaaibia jo aati mata the poaaible expenditure. Submission of the estimate total coat made an apparent impraaaion up on members of the committee, which in considering the bonua bill