North Carolina Newspapers

Slje jftotint lira firtoe " 1 *■■■■* "...■■■■ .ssm—b= ■ ■ ■"■■' " ———a—BJ=a—ea——acaMB1. ... ■ ■ sasareasa—c=-- it.■ .ixxsaxa^mmuaanaw,11m aacss. xn; 1 ,jh, 1 nzsammmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmmmam LSTABLISHKD > ft H n AtRY. NORTH • AROUNA. THUBSDAY. FKBRUARY 24th. 1921. $1.60 PER YEAR HI ADTAMCB. GERMAN VICTORY 19 STILL BELIEVED IN Educated CUmm Say Down fall Brought About by Revo lutionary Movement in G«r> Wiesbaden. <rerm any. itui the Military party in tiermany and nil it* •apporters have learned nothing by tfce war ia, of course, j fact whien »* wry bod y that ka> been watchinr (V >ntopraents In tivrmany ever ikir» tit* »rmlatiee la wall a war* of. Former offk*r» of the i>rmy t.nd nary, Prussian Junkers, university professsw and their atudenta and a rwitaln lection of the bourgeoisie he ion* to that large body of educated Germans who still malntala that their ccamtry waa not defeated by the Al lies, bat that the downfall ws* brought about by the revolutionary aovement working from the interior at Germany. The army fighting at the front waa >tabbed in the hack by the revolution among the civilian population, that ia the tale which haa bean deliberately and ayateoiatically spsssil ever >lsoe the srmistice waa signed, and it la largely the educated claaaea in Germany that support thin opinion. The German universities have alway* been veritable hotbed* for Pan-German and militaristic pro paganda. If any further evidence is required to prove the unchanged mental condi tion of these mllitariata, it is furniah •rf by a recent interview given by General von I.udendorff to the repre tentative of the "Correia da Manha," a Brazilian paper. The General is the present-day head of the German military party, and he is probably more popular and has more support •ra than lit any time since the armis-1 tiee. In his interview with the Bra zilian newspaper tn question, he again repeated the old fable of the German defeat being caused by the revolution General von Ludendt/rff also openly | declared that he and hia supporters would do all in their power to bring about a return of the HohansoUern opinion, owed all her former sueceaa and gn-stnsss to the llohenxollerna and on'js a return of a monarchist form o'1' government nnd especially his dynasty would give the German twople real freedom and happineaa. Whether aucb a changc would be pos sible in view of the present temper of the vaat majority of the German working classes wa* quite another question, and if attempted it would most likely result in civil war. A county of 65,000,000 Inhabitant* that haa for many decade* been ays-' U'matically developed into a military power par excellence whose whole institutions were made to serve mili tary ends, will require time for « complete change of the national thought. In Germany, as Jerome K. lerome remarked many yearn ago, all vou had to do war to get horn, the reat would be arranged by the police. In other word*, the real power and government wax in the hnnds of com paratively few and the governed had little or nothing to any in the affair* of their country Thia notwithstand ing the fact that the enfranchiaement of the people was on a very liberal scale, for the real power waa heWJ by I the Kaiser's ministers who were not t subject to parliamentary control. The vast majority of Germans were quite satisfied with this condition of things when the bombshell of 1914 burnt and the old system finally dia-j appeared In the melting pot." Nowj the people find themselves suddenly presented with enlarged opportunities to exercise control over the destinvi of their country Instead of a pater-! nal government making all the ar-1 nngrmrnts the individual citizen is now beginning to be imbued with a "enae of political responsibility. Time only will show whether the Neman people will make the most of their present political opportunities and whether by adhering to demo cratic theories they will do their share hi making the world safe fot H. mocracy {lot the reactionary mill tary party also knows that time Is working against their ideas, and that when Che great advantages of whole vale disarmament and the abolition of | > rum pulsory military eenrice tiecome iMn- and more apparent, their chances of getting the people to sub scribe to their doctrine will grow less and less In the meantime, It ha* to U* rp mem be red that Germany haa gone through a tremendous change and that the great mass of her population I "till lacka political experience They remind one of captives that hare been set free and that do not know exactly what to da with their liberty. Then there it the praewit sad economical i ■rnd financial |>li«ri>i of the iountr\ which rauses many to Un>k hark Ut ihr good ul<1 times before I'll I, for fretting all thr while thai thrl p'f ■rot lamentable conditio!. wua l.roughi about hjf the. terrible mis j takes made by their former nilfra and overlooking thr irreat iorwn.d 'tldr they have undoubtedly medt >n obti ining a laivr mnnirr of fr«*e dom Improved .oaduw.ns all r iunH ntuy i iy much to str-i.gthen thr h».i.u» rf u niocrai y In (!• rmany a»N n. It •» ! n-nerally fait, w'll be for th<- benefit; n' ihr whole wori I Aunt Sarah Wycoff Not aa In nocent u Reported Hickory, Fab. 10. Persona who rv sided In thr vicinity of tha Wealie Wycoff murder in thr lower edge of Catawba county many yearn ago, were amazed by th< went stories a«nt out from Raleigh aa to "Aunt Sarah" Wycoff, allegod victim of clrcutnaUn tial evidence, receiving information several months before bar daath that Homebody else had confeaaed to tht crime for which Bob MeOorkla, MfTO, waa hanged in Alexander county. Those who do not care to read further may aat it down that "Aunt Sarah," iiowever well (he might have behaved during her long term in the State prison, waa no innocent and m'<d>st woman during the days that she reigned on a throne of immorality. T. A. Sherrlll, well known Hickory1 man, living within two milea of the Wycoff home, knew Wealie - Wycoff and his wife and Bob MrCorkle per " sonally and got all the new* !n court and out of it a» to the character of woman iihe waa Diacuasing her -ase Mr. Sherill said that if the offieeraj spurred on by public opinion an -hey | arc today, had made half the effort to1 dear the mystery in the Wyroff .-.lae.j probably a white n.an would have' t>oen hanged and "Aunt Sarah" still | would have gone to prison. The ne I gro on the scaffold muttered toine thing aliout others as guilty aa lie, but he did not give hi* white friend away. Ha noveT doffed itmOmr The case was tried twice, th> wind time in Affkandar county, because of feeling in Catawba in thr matter. McCoricIc was found guilty if murder and the Wycoff woman as an acces sory before the fact The chsln of circumstances waa conclusive. To begin with the court had a very had woman as one of the primi|>alv Her immorality was generally known and it was practiced' at the home of Vr husband, a good natured but worthless fellow, whose fore of character did not commend him to : 1vWv Some white man in (he community, whose name has been mentioned pri vately a thousand times. wa3 baheved to he at the bottom of the murtfcr ' He wanted Weslie Wvcoff out of the' May and hit unfaithful xpouix was a party to thr itJhapir»ey, 'he evideiui showed. that ended in hi* murder at hi* bam. where he had been lured. The correspondent* all get the fart" | xtrmght about Bob MeCorkle, Mr.' Sheibnll said, because that wa* such nn interesting detail that it appealed to them It wait a Met that MctV^kle carried a single-barreled muxile-loiiH^ inir shotgun with him everywhere he1* went and everybody in the couBtry knew it by; the sound. He alao carri •'d a pistol in his coat and when he removed his coat he left it close by, always placing it near him when he went awav for any distance. Mc Corklc was impudent but not regarded as mean. When his (fun went off on that fatal i night, a man sleeping in the neighboi -! hood was awakened and remarked to his wife, "That'* Bob McCorkle's ^ (run." By mean* of comparing paper wadding shot from the gun with! paper found in his shot pounch, the. anthoritles were able positively to1 connect Mc-Corkle with the case. He; rufused to make a confession on the i scaffold, but he admitted that ttome-' l>ody else was in it The alleged confession, to which ^ r.>ferenre has been made on one or more occaaions, was never made in the opinion of Mr Sherill. No names were given and no dat< and the muttering* of an old worn n who had cat'red much trouble in her neighbor hno.\ were seized upon to tell the world that an innocent person had been convicted nn Hmtmntanttal *vl denee. J. W. Blaekwelder. of Hickory to whom Warden Busbee wired when th old woman died, alao bore out Mr SherrW'a statement is to the facta in the ease Mr. Blaekwelder said He preferred to let the public forget the affair, bat be was astonished at the importance given the old woman with-, out any apparent investigation LIEUT. PEARSON SAFE AND SOUND AT TEXAS TOWN Aviator Lost Reached Sandar ion Just ti Hcpe Wat Aban doned. Sanderson, Tex , Feb 17. A guard uf mi Id la rn tnday kept inti-udera away from the hotel *Kit» l.ieut Alexan der Praraon had tba firat real raat aim* ha laft El I'axn laat Thuraday un a flight in an army airplane to San Antonio. With uniform in rag*. far* unshav an, worn oat from privation* auffarad in Texas' moat desolate waste landa, the 26-yaar old aviator rode into San deraon laat night on a horae borrowed from rancher* • ; Lea* than three hour*' flight frontj El Paao he made a forced landing at 1:20 p. m. laat Thuraday in Reagan1 Canon, aome 96 mile* from Sander ion, milaa away from wire communi cation and human habitation. Far three day* be wandered without food, taking water from ".be airplane radia tor to quench hi* thirst. On the fourth ilay he (truck the Rio Grande and Floated down the stream on an im l>rovi*ed raft until he «•* diacoverad ■>> ranchers who gave him food and * mount. Hi* arrival came a* the tixty.five army aviators who had •ombed Texas in search for him since, last Friday had almost given up hope. > Lieut. Pearson wa» on his way from Douglas, Ariz, to Florida to make an attempt at a trans-contin-, •ntal flight in 24 hour* on Welling ton'* birthday A *tn>ng north wind drove the iviator from hi* course and then bis i •ngine choked, stopped before he *ould choose a landing, and damaged the wings nn striking the ground. The trip back to civilisation was made part of the time thrti a terrific <andatorm. Awarded Big Damage* Kayetteville. Feb. 15.— Fifty thou-1 land dollars damages waa awarded hy. toon to Mn. Daisy Wataon Smith for) he alienation of her husband'* *ffee-l ions by Mr* Therex:i Werner of I Mlanta, Ga. Mr*. Werner* husband. J. L. Wer-I jer, residing in another state, was. nade a defendant in the suit. They gave Mrs. Smith 530,000 as ompenaation for her suffering and "or the alienation of the affection of) >er huihand and *20,000 punitive1 lam age*. Mr*. Werner formerly lued in Fay ■tteville, coming here frnm Pitts burgh. and her relations with J. 'fampton Smith. hu«l<and of the plain tiff, formed the f>aai* of the suit, vhich was foi $204,000. The hearing 1 egan Monday, and the •ase went t*> the jury shortly after vion today. The stim awarded Mr*. Smith is probably the largest amount •ver given its damage* by a jury in! his county. White Man Suing For Divorce From Negr«sa Danville, Va Feb. 16.—An action' rur divorcr was instituted in th« Cor-j aorntion court today by John Fulton 1 HMIs, a white man. against Lena ' Wells, a tiejjres*. The declara ion by Well* states that in [ Dctober, r#20, while he was on a "drunken spree" he was persuaded by ! Lena Slade, both being resident* of; Danville for many years, to go to; Philadelphia with her and he married.! They left Dnnrille together and were actually married at Philadelphia >ut Wells did not realise this, he itutes, until he had recovered from lis intoxicated condition. The de-1 'titration adds that he would y&X have, lone ho had he been able y> realise vhat he was doing. Finding out what iad hapjiened he prevailed upon his tfife noNJj^ accompany him back to Danville and he came alone. Since, :hen, he sets forth, the woman has threatened to-come to Danville and ive with him and he begs, on the truund of miscegenation to be releas ed from wedlock. It is the first rasa >f its kind ever recorded in the local1 ■nutts The Southern Furniture Market 1 •oriatkm will hold a faraiture elpoti-i lion at High Point June 20th through 1 Inly 2nd. An eleven story bui'ding >f concrete and steel, declared to be 'ire proof has bean erected for this purpose and each floor has a floor: • pace of 2#,600 square feet the building will be mady for occupancy April 1st and it is believed that *>v the tme the show open* Ip Tune the building will be filled with un pin of furniture manufactured in the •outh. NEW TARIFF WOULD HIT THE PEOPLE HARD Smtor Harris Figure* it Would Coat Each Family $82 Year Wtahlnittan, PVh II. -Startling fi gures nn the rout to the American consiimci resulting from the Ford ney so-ciilled i-mrrrmfy tariff hill, if it shall hfNomr a law, are contain ed in a tabulation made public to day in a statement by .Senator William J. Harris, of Georgia. The figures on which Senator Har ris' statement la baaed were furnished by a treasury department expert, and are reliable. The figures show that if the Ford ney bill becomes a law, it wilt mean a direct tax for the tan month* it to intended Is be operative of 11.!• per week upon the necessities of life for a family of six members. The coat per family for the ten months of the law's life will be $49 88. Using his home state, Georgia, for example. Senator Harris gave out the following illuminative statement of how the law will operate. "The provisions of the pending Fordney bill are little known to the general public, so far as turning the rates into actual money and adding these'sums to the consumer. The Georgia farmer has little chance for assistance in the proposed measure, nnd peanuts is the only product in our itate affected to any extent. In the rase of cotton seed oil, the raw pry riure has passed from the hands of the r irmer, and the life of the propose.! tariff is only ten months, which does not (rive full time for the next crop. "There is no protection for cotton rh grown in the South, because a great volume is exported The var ious products of the Western farm it get. large rates under thie bill "Interesting figures can be pre sented on the estimated cost to the I'n.mly household by adding to many articles which comprise the Jaily meal, figures have been compiled by * high the weakly ludget for a family of six members, for certain articles men tioned in the Fordney bin. It neems in increase of more than one dollar per week for a family. "It is estimated that then- are more than 560,000 families in G*y - iria, as the 1910 census showed 558, !H4 families. This shows a weekly increase in the cost nf these foods F64H.A00. and for ten• months, which is the peripd putjh'sed for the emer gency tariff, it meant, a total of l27.9H2.rtOO to the families of Geor-! - i "It is true that no one can accu rately estimate the selling price of »n article in advance of the placing if a tariff rat«, but it it reasonable U> assume that the increase will he, #t leant thi aimunl nf the duty as it [ is to propose other argument*. "The sweepings rates proposed in I his hill are higher than any in the i history of the county. In my judg-1 ment the Southern fanner was of fered just enough U> secure his sym pathy, hut not enough to do him any jrood "A careful perusal of the figures' which I have presented does not make the Fordney bill an attractive mea sure for the farmers and the buying i public of Georgia. "If the bill is to become a law,' then I want to see the very few ar-, tlcles touching Georgia amply pro tected, such as peanut*, peanut oil und cotton seed oil, and I am giving these items my support in the fram ing of the bill." Bringing the case home to North Carolina, the figures show that that, state will pay an added weekly tax to what they are already paying of $5X0,000 per week Figuring forty three weeks in the ten months the law would be in force, the total North Carolina would have to pay would be! J24,940,000. This estimate is based i in the assumption that there are ap , proximately 500,000 families in North Carolina North Carolina's population ia| ine-forty-fourth that of the United States. Hence the whole reentry trill pay forty-four-times what North Carolina pays, or a total of $1,097,860 is a direct result of the Fordney law.) And the tax la on life's necessities 1 snd it in addition to taxes the con-1 turners are already paying, and or which they have long been complain ing for relief. Senator Harris is a pretty good' uuthority Before entering the mb ste he was a member of the federal trade commission, and prior to that' was director of the census. Hm fl-, trures employed by himself and the treasury department expert ought tot he fairly reilahlr * ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION LAW Statomant That Secretary of the Treasury Has Nothing to Do With it U Incorrect, Say* Anti-Saloon League CoummI tyw York. N. Y —"The published statement that the Secretary of the Treasury ha* nothing to do with en forcement of the prohibition law b not correct," said Wayne B. Wheeler,! general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League of America, who in in New. York I Manufacture. sale and distribution of all intoxicating liquor* for non i beverage purposes an under fe«i:!a tlona promulgated by the • u11• rceaMnt! department, he said. Seettaal, Para graph 7, of the Volstead act prapkfesrj "The term 'regulation' (hall mean any regulation prescribed by the com missioner with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury for carry ing out the provisions of this act, and | the commissioner is authorised to make such regulations." "There are more than 40,060,000 gallon* of distilled spirits in bonded! warehouses," continued Mr. Wheeler "that can be withdrawn under regnla tions dictated by the Secretary of the Treasury. It is at this point where we hsve had the most trouble in the enforcement of the law. The regnla- j tions have not been as strict as theyi should be, and. for this reason, large quantities of li<|Uor hsve been with dfaw n. presumably for non-beveragv 0*c It is manifest therefore, that' the enforcement of the law can be grestly crippled by weak regulation.' "It is not st sll certain that the en forcement department will be trans ferred to the Justice Department. All1 of the arguments pro and con for this, were considered when the bill was originally psssed, snd it wan decided | that the proper place for the admin- f istration of the Isw wss in the Rev enue Department. The control of the making and distribution of liquors for non-beverage use and the colloctioa of ttle taxes on suefc ttqonr* win liec rsssarity have to continue in the In ternal Revenue Department. The col lection of the prohibitive tax on out-. lawed liquor is one of the most effec-, live means for suppressing the illegal business. This necessarily is admin istered by the Internal Revenue Divi sion If it should be transferred to the Justice Department it will simply mean thst the government will have to sustain two law-enforcement divi sions instead of one. The best way to get a better enforcement of th« law i* to enact a measure to provide for the nummarv removal of federal agents, inspectors and officers who fail to Ho their duty to enforce the brw.T I Economic Effects of Prohibi tion Indianapolis, Indiana —Crime in Indiana showed a substantial decrease under prohibition in the year which ended September 30, 1920, according : to a report on prison and jail sen-, tences Issued by Amos W Bntler \ secretary of the Board of State Chari ties. The report says the number committed to these institutions dur-1 in* the year was 718 and the numher arrested was 17,182. The report shows that the total number commit ted to the reformatory, state prison xnd woman's prison during- the year was, with one exception, the lowest in 1 five years. The average daily popu lation of the institutions war. the lowest in ten years. For 1916. commitment# were 89fi. j daily average population, 2667, sus pended sentences, 244. and paroles,. 872. For the last year commitments numbered 718. average daily popnla-i tion, 1663, susupenued sentence*, 186 mid paroles, 666 Persons placed in I jail in 1910 numbered 38.478, of whom 14,820 were convicted and served' sentences. In 1918 arrests totaled! 40,075. with 12,660 convictions, in cluding 2322 seat to the penal farm.1 I.ast year the arrests totaled 17.1M convictions 3276 with 998 going to the ( farm A petition it being circulated in' Burlington calling the citisens to i meet Feb. 24th to organise a law and order league The purpose of the arganitation is to orvate a pab'Icj sentiment against the violation of law. hoping in this way to check, in), their own -nmmunity the wave of prime and lawlessness that is sweep ing the country with its ibmnrs'ltlnr results ' Chinese egg* art telling in Minnea polis at S3 cent* per doaen. Half a million arrived without on* ear W ing broken in transit CABINET MEMBERS ABE TO TAKE CHA1BS HOME Souvanir Will Caet Ur About 1100—Duitli Civ** Farewell Recaption Washington, Feb. 16.—TV* sscrv Ury of tkc navy and Mr». Joaephu Daniel* gave a farewell notpdon I* night in honor of the North Caro Una society of Washington. Sevura hundred Tar Heels now raiding in the national capital thronged the targe home of .Secretary and Mr* Daniel* in Wyoming avenue and u prmrd regret that their hoeta wen *oon to leave the official and social life ul Washington. Previou* to the reception sad the dance which followed Mr. mi Mr* Daniels entertained the martim ef the North Carolina delegation is Congress at dinner. Mr. and Mrs Angus W. McLean were also goNti at the dinner party. Last night Secretary Daniels was the guest at a dinner given by th* member* of the house committee on naval affair*, with whom he has bean thrown in official contact for eight The final group photograph of Pre ■ident Wilson and his cabinet was taken at the White House this after noon and In this Mr. Daniels also figured. It ha* been several year* *lnce the Wilaon cabinet assembled for a full group picture, but on the virtual eve of the wind-up of the Wilson administration the President and hi* official family puaad for th* photogrspher. Most member* of the cabinet are planning to take home with them the chairs in which they have aat during the Wilaon ad niniatration. The *ou venir at Washington service will cost racH member approximately 9100, as the superintendent of public buildings and grounds ascertained that H will rost $100 to replace the 10 chairs of the present cabinet. When the chairs were bought they cost around 946, but the price has do Republicans Ara Still N»itk| In The South H. E. C. Bryant. Washington cores ponrient of the Ohariotte Observer says North Carolinian* are beginning to »it up and take M-rious notice of th< movements on foot among the Re publicans tn cmharas* or belittle the «outh Representative Tinkham of Ma«u husetts had a plan to reduce the representation in Congress because jf the loss of the negro vote. Tfcis wax not taken seriously in face of the apparent fart that G. 0. P. lead •nt ure trying to eliminate the negro wherever it can be done without uusing too much of a row Next came Representative Simeon [). Fes*, chairman of the Reptihlicar fongressional committee, with Ma barrel of gold, U' finanre Southern ran tents Now it I* proposed to rig ap some sort of an amendment to the repor tionment bill through which North Carolina and other states entitled to enlarged memberships in the House will be held to their preaent quota, while Vermont, Maine and other Re publican State* are saved from loalpg representation. It is an old-time New England trick, and it may work out Senator Sutherland, of Went Virginia chairman of the committee which lias the reapportionment bill under consideration, and he rs said to favor the proposition. Southern congTea* men fear delay for they think the preaent Congress^ better than the »ext one will hew. "It look* ai if- thr Republican* were bent on mistreating the South if they can fin^ a way to do it," said Senator Overman. "There never was » more monstrous proposition than ihc one prevented by the RepaMkw* ■oagressions I committee in advancing money to promote a contest ita mo tiers must sit in judgment on. What ire we coming to in this coantry, with uich things as tiiat going on?" The plan to deprive North Cans iua of her extra member of tk>' House based on the promt census fl [ures is unfair," said Repieei iitattvi Rrinson "W»'are-entitled to e lever nembars, <nd the extra one emnnot be :aken away from in ereept hy nnMtf •al hook and crook." The Progressive Fanner suggest • hat "to all these drives for Res! r»Ks fnnda. tuberculosis hospital*. <nK *tien Army support rharitlea, etr ill of which are worthy, thais shoall te one mora a<Mad. Ii sraaaa tear* la* wrtant thaa all eth*1 I'limkhliil, a trie* far a milk ram and a* aa^le Supply <J milk for awry hull "