§b t Iftount ^ira %tw ESTABLISHED 18 8 0 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MARCH :lrd. 1921 91.60 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. POSTMASTERS WILL BE NAMED BY MIL HARDING UNDER THE OLD PLAN U Said tkat Ha Will Return to Patronage Syatam Washington. Fab. 84.—Apparently ( •liable information from St. Austin • we that President-elect Harding In •nda aoun after he takes. office to | •holla' civil wrviff examinations In appointing postmasters means that Jw iiutronac itruggle in North f'arollns and ;«ll other states will he 'ihu mora desperate than ever. Applied locally. such action hy Pre ■ ident Hardin* trill negative offhand ••early 100 nominations by President (Wil*on of postmaster in North Cam 'ina. Theae will include nomination!; coder the civil service and tha execu ♦Its order* of President Wilson Waahlnirton heard today thai Pre • ident-aleit Hardmir believes in the merit system of appointment hut doe* not believe thin system calia for a •yitetn of percentage figures hy the rivil aervice commission. He ia re ' ported aa beinir unwilling that Demo rrats, aim ply because they have' pass ■d an examination^ ahall hold on In-1 ieflnitely to postmasterehip during a Republican adminiatration. Thia ia' merely a reflex of statements mad. hy Mr Harding during the campaign wherein he affirmed hia belief in. "government by parties.'' In North Carolina, for inatance.j •here nre hundreda of postmasters Holding on under rivil aervice cxami nations. Poaaihly hecauae the Demo -rata in the atate outnumber the Re poblirana it ia also true that moat of the nominations aent in hy President1 Wilson ia the past few months were «f Democrats. When President Wilson came intf office only fourth class offices were! inder the civil service. Eventually | he broadened this by executive order! v> mclade third, second and even first J •lass offices and their has always. Seen friction over diatrlbutlng such choice plums through a percentage 'able The exaeative order of Mr. Wilaon a only an executive order. It ia not Mr. Hardin* takes office Postmaa-' 'rrahipa then would go back on the patronage baste, under such regula tions as Mr. Ilardlnr and hia post master general may decide are necee ary to observe to a degree the merit -vstem. _ It haa baan known here that somr of tho political politician! of the Re publican party have hwn urging Mr. Hardin* to reactnd the Wilaon order* They proceeded on the argument that "to the victor belongs the spoil*," and •hey iiaw no reason why Drtnwrntic postmaster* hy the thousand should j ••ontlnue under this Administration 1 There will he various ways to (ret rid ■>f these postmasters They may he i t-moved on "charges," nsked io resign or fail to receive reappointment as •heir commissions expire It is understood here that President Hardin? thinks fourth class post offices shoold he protected by civil •ervice but the more important office* should he filled without reference to s technical examination. One of the ( complainti under the Wilaon order has been that at some of the larifc j offices men not fitted temperament ally and not locally popular and de sirablc have been appointed simply because of their paper rating's. On the other hand Democrats who occasionally met with Republican ap (•ointments in their home towns have rebelled against an order that denied a Democratic community a Democrat H- postmaster 1 h" tnhles are now tufned .and if the present program aroe* through an old fashioned p*t-| ronage system will be substituted during the next four years The local consequences of thi* are apparent. Such a policy will set aside automatically civil service er imjnations thai have been held und| kill at one blow several thousands isistoffice nominations pending in the senate. The senate all alonf^ (his se««ion has refused to confirm such1 Wilson nominations, but now the in dication* are the slate will be wiped; entirely cJean by the new Pre*ident a-d new tiystem of appointment* sub-1 stituted. This adds to the "plums" in North Carolina and should also result in a mad scramble for patron age as the new* I* disseminated among the Republican faithful Thera are 12,000,000 Negroes in the IFnlted State*. They conatltute! ■ no-seventh of the working force of the ronntry Franca plan* to make over army, material Into civilian clothing to rfnd, work for 1.000.000 unemployed. MRS. J. P. MOORE WANTS TO BE MATOR SALIS BURY Will Enter Democratic Pri mary in April | Waata P*o pic to Run the Town Salisbury. Keh. 2A. -tlaliabury ha. ■ woman aapirant for mayor. Mr«. Jama* P. Monro announces t'at oh* will enter the Democratic prmaric* in April und *e*k the niim.nu'ion for ekitf eiKlthri of the city. Mr*. Moor* ha* finally and definitely de ■ id*d on thia after havinr bean urged to do mi by a irood many of the lead ing cltisen* of the city. In a very plain talk to a Poat re porter Mm Moore Raid that ahe would be a candidate and that ahe .mulct not be a candidate for re-elec lion, offerinit for one term only. Mr* Muore i* outapokfcn in her pnaitiona, a* thone who know her are well nwnrt'. She la no hedger or trimmer nnd believe* what *he believe* and stands for what *he atanda for. "I want the people to run the town" she *aui "I am tired of one man rule nnd believe that the mayor should be an in*trument of the peo pie and not in any aenaa of the word * dictator. I am for Juat and «"iual ■ nfori i'W—t of the law* and believe that the law* of the rity *hould be erforced or wiped off the bonk* " Mr*. Moore waa naked what she meant by the people running the tuwn. She replied that ahe waa in favor of the people Ratting what they minted, not what «omr one else 'bought they wanted; in favor of the taxpayer* being treated a* master*, not servant*. No favor* to any one," Mr*. Moor* continued. "I have," *he said, "no favorite*, no favor* for friend*, and no punishment for fo«*. I want jus tice and equity in every walk of life." Asked if *h« was a candidate for mayor subject to the Democratic nomination, Mr*. Moor* spoke mo it Msuringly. She stated emphatically that she was a Democrat; that h*r first vote waa an scratched and for Damocrata, and bar nomination will Ml nubjact to the Democratic pri Mrs. Moor* gave the newspaper man to understand that she has tome well defined Ideas about civic matters, about muncipal affairs and that she would put thaae into prac tice as an official of the city. lust what ahe means by this ia re flected fh the few brief statement* which ahe made nnd ia quoted above. Scottish Rite Maiont Will Erect i Temple New Hero At an approximate •out of *225.000 the Scottish Rite Va «ons in thix district will erect in New Hem within the next .few m<. Whr a Scottish rile cathedral, th» fourth 'n Nurlh Carolina ard ore «f the most imposing and beautiful of the four. Plan* have been completed and trsil be placed before the thirty-second degree constituency at tin regular fnll reunion for recommenda ion . «uggejttion» and approval. If the assembled Mawnt> vote fa vorably the beautiful building will he -tarted in a short time thereafter on I he Mancock-Johnson street ••orner. It will oei-upy the entire lot. -.1 >orb ing the present Masonic temple and moving picture theatre. The nf-sent temple will be swept into the si heme r>f beaut if icat ion. and will receive thorough renovation and impeove ment It will join hands ton the scheme to make the cathedral one of the finest Masonic structures ill the state The Egyptian scheme of at hited ture will Ik- followed in deta I With a base of granite. which i'. .mumt of the dampness of thi* elimnte is the ohly practical foundation, tl-c catlied r-il will rise in a color of l'glit buff. Over the entrance 'he emblem of the decree will lie in arra>, while the steps, guarded In large Egyptian sphnx, will lead up from the edge o* the sidewalk The entrance will be built inU> a liO-foot pylon, which will stand out in relief against the front of the building. The present entrance to the theatre will l>e con verted into a handsome lobby The Sphere of Women They talk about a woman's sphere. As though it has a limit; There's not a place in Earth or Heev en. There's not a task to mankind given. There's not a Messing or a woe. Xbere'a not a whispered "Tea" or "No." There's not a life, or death, or birth. That has a feather's weight of werth, Without a woman In K. AMERICAN BOYS AS TONISH GERMANS Party of IS Pkjr No Attention j to Dignified Official* Who Gatborod for Welcome. Berlin, Trb. 24.—Formality »ml cerammt) received a rnimher of rather 1 rough Julta during a tour of Germany IJuat completed by fifteen American [ f irmer hoys, who r«m* to thla coun I try with a ship load of milch mm, | given to Germany hy farmer* in the I United State*. The young men have rytumixi to Berlin after a trip of all teen day* to many of the principal cities of the country, during which I hey *aw Germany and her people and enjoyed themselves In their own way The Americana are nativea of Indiana, Kanaaa and Texan and they brought to thla courttry the unconventional at moaphere of their prairies Recaption committee* which gather- ' ed at itationa expecting to welcome a frock-coated, silk hatted delega tinn, were aatoniahed to w th« breety Americana awarm off their special c jt, and ignoring dignified burgomaster* and official*, extendi their handa in greeting to farmers shouting: "You fellow* work; your hand* arc, calloused." -*■ In aome place* there waa outspoken astonishment at the unconventional manner of the Am •ricana and their disregard of the feeling* of high offi-. ciuf^hul W E. Schmidt, repmtnta-1 tive of the German Red Cn>*a, who accompanied the Americana, waa al | way* at hand to explain matters. The only unpleasant incident oc curred at Bochum, where the Ameri cana were criticised for speaking En gliah. wny noil i you speak uermanT' ■ man asked them. "You »r» in Ger many »nd not America." "We apufek what we want to," came the quick rejoinder from a Kansan and the matter waa abruptly dropped. No German* were permitted t» onter the American's car, altho ufUrr the flmt few day* all fear of an tagonism vanished. "Germany and the United State* are still technically at war," a Ger man official aasigned to the party ■aid. "and we didn't knew bow thing* would go, but there waa no occaaion for fear." The Americana, after be ing given their first light of Gar many, declared they flkrd the country, but Peter Andreas. of Elbring, Kax., summed up the s«ntimert» of the party by faying "There i» too much misery here. Ther are too many rieh und too many poor But then, it seem* the people mu*t )>e one or the other K*n*a* suits me " The German Red Cross does not, '>lnn to Ink. «.'her American purlieu j on tour* of the country. Herr Schmidt said today "Oor't you like Americana," lie wax jtsked "Yea, but we haven't enough money,"! he replied "The American Dairy Cattle Company, which forwarded the milch cows to Germany, asked u* to d« this so that the hoys could report on condition* on their return. We Would he glad to guide other parties rImimI the country. hut it "cannot Se done " Sign* of Spring. When the evenin' shadows gather, \n' you hear the whipporwill. < illin' for the Easter weather Way acroa* the pasture hill— Hear 'im wailin' in the evenin' Or the dewy, rosy morn; it's i sign to start ycr plowin' An.' the plantin' of yer com When you hear the bull-frog singin' Like his voice should be canned An' the litrhtnin' bug goes wingin' I'p an' down the ipeadow land. In the dewy mist of evenin' It's a sign the winter's gone; Time to start the spring-time plowin'. An' the plantin' of the corn. Then it's great to prune yer grizzled I Whiskers with the nl' sheep-shears Cau.se the winter time hrf* mizzled Out. and with three rousin' cheers You go spoonin' with the flowers When you ought to drive the plow;; Or lie drvamin' in the clover When you ought to milk the cow. Applications for marriage license in Nebraska must rest in' the office of ' the county judge fifteen days before being granted and guardian* or par ent* must he notified by registered! letter according to the terms of a hill i submitted in the state senate. Huntington. Utah, the Jail ha* been; turn"-4 into a public library WILSON TO RIDE WITH HARDING K» Ha* Bmw Usual Custom Rati ring Praaidant Will Go / to Capital With Succomor. Washington, F*b, 24.—President Wilson will follow the long establish xl custom of riding to the capitol with tha mourning president on March I under plans of the congrsaaional In ■ ugural committee, approved by the President, it waa announced at the White House. Whether Mr. Wilson will attend I he inaugural reremonies has not tx>en msdr known, but he win not accompany Mr. Harding back to the White House, going direct from the rapitill to his new home on S street. F«ur tmops of cavalry, numbering l.Kl officer* and men will escort the President and President-elect to the tapital and then will accompany Mr. Harding to the White House • Then plans of the congressional .immittrc as they became known to 'lay. provide f.or the opening of the jay's program with a visit of the ■oitrmittec to- the president-elect at the new Willard Hotel. After this visit the entir^ party will enter auto mobiles and will drive to the White Houae. where they will be joined by President and Mrs. Harding. From the White House the proccs lion will move over Pennsylvania tvenue to tha capitol. There the President and probably Mr. Harding will enter the Preaident's room where Mr. Wilson will sign the bills passed n the closing hours of congress. I( After the new vice-president hat-" inken the oath in the Senate chamber ■nd has delivered his inaugural ad lrss, the guests will proceed to the iteps at the east front of the capitol, where Mr. Harding will be sworn in. ,\s soon as he finishes his inaugural iddress the new president will ' de part for the White house. Five hundred marines in full drvuf. jmform will be on duty at the capitol ind will form s lane thru which the ruests will pass in ascending the espi al step*. Mr Hm«mc will take the Mtijl i standSB Met aqoare which ha* b«m •r*cted on the grounds. This stand will accommodate only the President elect Chief Justice Whit*, members of he congressional committee and • 'ew other*. Other guests will stand luring the ceremonies. Besides the marines and cavalry >00 regulars from Camp Meade, Md., will be brought to Washington on ;he morning of March 4 'for guard luty'! along Pennsylvania ' avenue, rheir chief task will b<- to keep back he crowds which arc expected to throng the thomfare. ____ Mrs. Cooli4ge Tell* What She i Will Wear March 4 » Seated in the $32-a month Cool, dtfe home in Massachusetts. the wife >f the next Vice-President told v hat I kwelry .she would wear at the inau guration Mareh I. •>«.** a Host/in cor-,1 ■enpondent. "Only my entrapment rinjr and my wedding rinit." i "I shall use h little powder on my M lose, hut no rouge, toilet water or perfume I'm not particularly kt*n[ >n make-up at all. "My hair; how shall I wear my I lair? The way I always wear It,I cou know; just a few quirks and a|' lairpin." | Then came the question of shoes, ror Mrs. Coolidge has a pretty foot, 'ir.e fi-H, with a conspicuous high nstep. "I have a pair of navy blue oxfords M match my inauguration unwn of ' ■>avy blue, broche crepe, and, of •ourse, silk st/>cking$ to match," Mrs. * ""oolidge s«id after searching her Ttmd a little while for the proper hing to wear with* the gown Herman* Undersell Americans , in Peru Washington. Feb '24. German manufacturer*. are underselling \merican competitors in Peru, but | iheir deliveries arc slow and it will some time l>efore Germany (foods 'an attain their pre-war quality, the i American commercial attache at1' Lima today informed the department I >f commerce II The consensus of opinion is that,' Germany will regain her supremacy ! in the hardware market, but it is a question of when that time will come, the commercial attache said. He 1i idded that Peruvian merchants he-1 < liere that it will be six months to two rear# before Germany can export hardware in lanre quantities. A N«w Voter Speak* Out I Kor the^paat few iluyn 1 find my wlf wondering what the w«nun «>t«n> tn going to du in the coming ' rlectjon. It may be all right f«>r our luaband* father* and big brother. m nominate our national and atate U'krti for ua, but t do believe we ■hould take a little more interest In :he city government of our bom* *iwn. Shall we remain at home, luietly out of It all, until the rwmtna Ion* are made by a few of our /ur'i ind then go and vote for the one* hruat upon u«, thereby caualng our >wn husbands to loos*. respect for >ur right to citim nshiji ar il continue ■a say, "Women should never have Ulame. With the ballot and number* of food men to vote wttb ua we ran get what we want. In order that we may have better tchoola, we muat elect official* who will favor at leaat two women on our ichool hoard. Women have always done moat of he teaching in home and achool, .herefore they are better qualified to: •Ian for .iur achola and select teach ■ra than men. There arc *o many letala to l>e considered in training >ur boy a and girl* that buay men do lot take time to consider or think ibout. Other towns and dtiea hare I 'ound for several years that women > >ave served to great advantnge and1 >rofit in thia capacity. I Another very important thing to vnaider is the sanitary work of oar own for the next year. I am sure, rou will agree with me that we need|l i capable woman to bead Uus work t have been told that it we get a worn- J in to superintend this work we ! vould have to elect her commissioner. I f we can get one no rther way we < MM elect tar. flfce might prove • I ahaable helper in running town af- ] aim, for women can usually make ke few nickeia and dimes tkey i landle do a great deal of baying. And t o one woman on the board might t lelp our efficient men get more work t lone for the same amont of mmsy I han we have gotten heretofore. I <: There are many other suggestions % o be made buf I hope to hear from t ithers I for one believe at thia time i re need a good mayor and a good t apablo board of town officials re-1 ranlles* of who their grandfather* or|{ athers were, officials whom we can a rust to give uh the very best govern f ncnt possible Now. please, you men. t I" not accuse me of seeking office be t ause I am writing this I can assure I ■on I have all the Jobs I want, heart' . ind hands full of w.irk, I enjoy; am Minting nothinjr more, hut haw r vritten purely from »n unselfish, notive to help stir up a deeper und \ nore enthusiai tic sentiment for the > ►est in town government. A. new voter. r S. Jses Newspaper Ad to Explain Her Marriage J Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 17.— Mr* > ^nna R. Banton Turner, a resident of itadison Height*, a suburb of Lynch-,i >urg, whose husband died two months v (fn and who has since married, has rented something of a stir here by a lewspaper card in which she under- > akt's to ward off criticism of hei I arty marriage, declaring that ,-ihe re tards 1ier marriage « compliment to s ier late husband. Mrs. Turner'says: "l feel ihat I lave discharged all duties towxrd my \ ormer hushand that a faithful wife ould do and being entirely unprotect 'l with great responsibilities resting ipon me, I hope you will not b» too t uirsh in your judgement, but vccuse ( ne for accepting protection of a I tronger arm in these the mos: peri- * ous times the world has ever -«een r ind consider it « compliment to the I nemory of my former beloved hus iand." t t A boy six years of are was recently t hipped by express from Ranger 1 Texas, to Bend, Oregon. A tag on us coat bore the following informa 1 ion: "Leonard Adcock, Ranger. J Texas, destination, Mwin Berly, < lend Oregon." . I In the last ten yean wage* of men lired on farms have more than loubled In the last twonty years t hey have more than tripled and last 1 rear they were more than four times f dgher than la 187* :OLBY REGARDS INCIDENT CLOSED 'roaspt Actio* by Japan in Re gard to Vladivoatak Affair Approved by tka U. S. . Washington, K«b. 23.—The inrt lent of the fatal ahooting by a Japan M Mntry of Lieut. W. H. Langdon, in American naval officer at Vladi 'iiatok laat month, waa regarded by iffiriala today a* definitely «loa«d, xenpt for the matter of raparattona. i» a raault of action of the Japan '»<• government in puniahing thoaa ■•■•pon' 11 tor the tracertv and Ha enewad enpremuon* of reirret aa con •eyed in Ita reply to rerani American iotee. Thin virw «u exprvaaed by Secre ary Colby who. in commenting upon ho Japanese reply aa tranamitted at he inatan< p of the Aertrican i-mbaa y at Tokio to the atate department '••«terday. declared the action of the upannae authorities . had been irnmpt and mncere and undoubted^ rill be received with appreciation in hia country. The American government waa tn ormed that following a tboro court nartial inveetigation of the ahnotinr >f l,ieut.l.angdon, the Japaneaa com imnding officer at Vladivoatok hail wen removed from active duty and lento ted and that Wiur other officer* inder hia command had been puniah d becauae of improper order*, under rhich the acntry waa working. Tka entry waa held blameleae for tka hooting, but waa sentenced to Sf> lay« impriaonment for deception of lia teatimony regarding the. circom tancea of the tragedy -iatlield Killed Felts and Threatened Sifoot Majror Williamson, W. Va., Feb. 23 — lsaa< Irewer today told the Jury trying IP ten in connection with the death of Libert C. Felta, private detective, laat lay 19, at Mate wan. that Sid Out laid told Brewer be would art May r C. a iMlMWMt te t— wtth a ullet" if the latter "rnaaaed atmmmf iatfield's buaiaeas. When the battle started, Brewer raa in Chambers' hardware store, at be doorway of which Mayor Twter lan and Albert C. felta. leader of be evicting party, were (hot and Died. Brewer wai one of thoae in icted by a grand jury in connection rith the street fight thai resulted in he death of seven private detective* nd three citizens in the little mining >wn The witness testified thai he met 'id Hatfield. Matewan police chief nd bow a co-defendant, shortly be nrc the fight Baldwin-Kelts opera ives had been conducting evictions uring the daj. Brewer said he met latfield by appointment and thm he. Irewer. was armed with two nistoN Brewer told the jury that when he let Hatfield the latter remarked: "Testerman is trying to carry ,-ater on both shoulders." further lating that Hatfield adt'ed '.liat if he tressed around" in CatfuH's buai ess he would be if he wouldn't ut him in two with a bullet." Brewer saw Hatfield In the hard rare store. Kelts, Testerman and C. r. Cunningham, a private detective tood in the doorway The witness testified that Hatfield upped his hands to Brewer's ear and whispered "Let's kill every ne of them." A moment later Brewer said he tepped hack from the doorway, and latfield fired "Who did he shoot?" state's coun el asked "Albert Kelts," was the reply. "What did Felts do when the shot as fired?" "He fell." "I was pushed forward after the irst shot 1 heard fired," the witness nntinued, "and then 1 was shot hy unningham. I attempted to draw ly pistol after being wounded. I as shot again in the hands as * got ly pistol out." Hi* flret wound. Irewer said, was in the right breast Brewer said he did not know who ired the shot that caused Mayor Tes rman's death. He declared, how ver, that he heard another shot from ehind him after Felt* fall. Brewer testified that he fell after eing wounded in the hand but aaw id Hatfield and several other*, tn jjding some of th* defendants, pas* uough the si ore An Ideal Remedy far Conatipatien It would be hard to find a better emedy for constipation than Cham erlain'a Tablets. For the beat er ect they should he taken immediately fter vjpptr They are easy U take ml mttf rnd gentle in effect