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(Tljc JHcmnt ftrtos. ESTABLISHED 1S S 0 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MAY 2<th, 1921. 91.60 PCR YEAR IN ADVANCB. GERMANY PRESENTS ITS ACCEPTANCE OP ALLIED ULTIMATUM Unconditional Asaont of Gor man? to Domaadi Hu Boob Coattyod to Allioo—-Occu pation of tha Ruhr District Avwtod Pirli, frtritt.-Tln expected un aonditionsl ssnrnt of Germany to the whole of the n 11 ted demands wa» of flcially conveyed today and in consa the occupation of tha Ruhr district li definitely averted. Never tbelaas, Prance will remain upon her gnsrd and all measures necessary to —rbis strict fulfillment of ths new promise will bs rigorously taken. At each date, when execution falls due, the situation will be survsyad. It Is generally agreed that the method of auctions has Justified itself, and therefore most bs continued. Germany was abls to defy tbs Allies, it Is con tended, because the Allies were not in accord on the occupation of the Ruhr district This time the French policy has triumphed, snd in the facs of the French mobilisation snd the concen tration of the neceesary troops, Ger many has yielded. It Is remarkable that for the first time there are no reeervstione or re ticences in Germany's consent. It would he misleading to state that Prince la not extremely skeptical, and will not believe in the German sub mission until she has paid, dissrmed and punished the wsr criminals, *fhe lesson of the past month will not be lont; France will hold Grrmsny under a perpetual menace. Tha Allied demand, in brief, was payment by June 1, of the one billion gold marks due on May 1, trial of German officers snd soldiers sccused ad crimes during the war; complete disarmament of the military, naval and aerial arms of Germany's service, and ultimate payment of $33,750,000, •00 in reparations. The reparations obligations would be p.* id in Install - merits of approximately $4*5.000,0M par year, In addition t« 88 per o-Ttt of tke value of Germany's export*. John Wesley To Hi* Opponent* Some may *ay, I hsve mistaken the way myself, although I take upon me to teach other*. It ia probable, many will think thl», and it i* very po**ible, that I have. Bat I truat, wherelnao •ver I have been mistaken, my mind ia open to conviction. I sincerely desire M be better informed. I aay ao to God ■ad man. "What I know not, teach thou me." Are you persuaded you *ee more clearly than IT it ia not unlikely that yoo may. Then, treat me, a* you would desire to be treated yourself upon a, change of circumataneea. Point me a better way than I have yet known. Show mo It ia *o, by plain proof of Serlpture, and if I linger in the path I have been accustomed to tread, and therefore am unwilling to leave it, labour with me a little, take me by the hand, and lead me as I am able to bear. But be not displeased if I •■treat you, not to heat me down in erder to quicken my pace; I can go bat feebly and • lowly at best; then, I j should not be able to go at all. May I request of you, further, not to give mu hard names, in order to bring me iato the right way. Suppose I were ever so much in the wrong, I doubt this would not set me right Rather, it would make me run so much the farther from you, and so get more and More out of the way. Nay. perhaps, if you are angry, so ■kali I be too; and then there will be •Bull hope* of finding the truth. If eaee anger arise, as Homer expresses it. this smoke will so dim the eyes of say soul, that I shall be able to see nathing clearly., For God's sake, if it ha poaaible to avoid it, let us not pro ▼eke one another to wrath. Let us not MnAe in each other the Are of hell; asseh lea* Mow It into (lame. If we eoald discern truth by that dreadful Hgfct, would it not be loss rather than gain ? For, how far is love, even with many wrong opinions, to he preferred be/ore truth itaelf without love? The God of lore forbid that we should ever make the trial! May He prepare us for the knowledge of all truth, by Ailing our heart* with all Kia love, and with all joy and peace hi believing.—John Wesley in the Plvfaee at His Sermon* Ancient Pompeian* had both pri mary and general election*, similar to thaaa we have ia every town and city each spring. They were ia the midst at an exciting local election, it is Indicated, when Pompeii was destroy ed ia Tf A. D. ARMY AVIATORS TO MAKE ATTACK ON NAVAL CRAFT PnptrtdMU Policy of United States Hinges on Toats to Docido as to Superiority of Air Forcoa and Battoships Washington, D. C.—Upon the r» sults of the bomblnir testa tbat • nquadmn of army aviator* will make nest month In an effort to establish the superiority of aircraft over bat-1 tleships in actual combat, rest* the chief hope for lifting the air divisions to a parity with those of the land and sea In shaping the future prepared ness policy of the United States. Army and nary circles are deeply stirred over the forthcoming duel be tween the air and „ floating forces, while congressional leaders, already engaged in thraahlng out polictea of national defense, are keeping In close touch with every detail. Final plans for the bombing teats will be worked out next Wednesday at a session of the Joint Army and Navy Board. If the army aviators succeed in demonstrating the superiority of air planes over seacraft, It will mean the revolutionising of the air services of both the army and the navy. On the other hand, if the tests fail to estab lish this supposed superiority, they will retard the development of air craft as a means of national defense and perhaps serve to keep It in s subordinate rank. With the reputation of their service at stake, a aquadron of 100 army aviat ion, under command of Rrig.-Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of the Air Service, will beirin operations' on June 21 off the Atlantic coast. In, msking the tests, the army aviators will fly more than 100 miles to sea in' planes of the land variety, which can-' not alight on water. The two branches of the service are vieing with each other in their pre parations for the testa. General I Mitchell, who issued the challenge to! moat aklltful aviators under his com-! mand. Many atmcult Handicap* will con front the army aviators and the ad vantage* *re «aid to lie chiefly with the navy force*. Search for "enemy craft" 100 mile* off shore mean* en countering po**ibl« delay with sub nequent dangers of running out of ifanoline. It al*o carrie* the army flier* out of thair natural sphere, which is operating over land. Gas bombs and the use of anti-air craft gun* by the navy will be banned, according to preaent plans. For these reasons, in *ome respects, the testa will fall short of approximating actual war conditions. It is not proposed to endanger the lives of the army fliers in this fashion, for the marksmanship of the crews who man the naval anti aircraft guns is well known. It ia agreed that the army planes shall not fly lower than 4000 feet, on the as sumption that they could easily be shot down at a lesser altitude. The testa with explosive bombs will he made against the captured German *hipa, which are to be destroyed ulti mately in any event. Another phase of j the teats will be the search for the old battleship Iowa, which will be op erated by wireless control, with scarcely any one aboard her. The navy plans later to use her as a target in practice with big guns. A third test involves the destruction of a German deatroyer by 260-pound bombs dropped from the air. The re-1 raaining German destroyers and three German submarines are being reserv ed for destruction by the gun* of the Atlantic fleet While army aviators are practicing daily at Langley Field, the air person nel of the navy ia getting things ready for the duels. The navy air fleet will be leas formidable in numbers than the army, but In skill and daring it will be ita equal. They will act de fensively on behalf of the fleet. After the destroyer teat is com pleted. the army and navy fliers will turn their attention to the cruiser Frankfurt and the battleahlp Ostfrics land, a 21,000-ton craft. These veaaels. If they are not sank by aircraft, will eventually be sent down by gunfire or depth charges. It is the teata Involving theae big ships that are of peculiar interest to the army and navy, for they are expected to determine the re sistance of modem warships against attack from the sky. iesEsai gFWca- o elyoiftyheyfl There will b« no effort to sink these veaaels in a single attack. On the con trary. .the teata will be prolonged, probably thruout Jaly. Snail bombs will be uaed first, and after each ex periment the ship will ha examined by expert*. The also of the bomb* will be gradually increaaed until tha amy will ba ualng 1800-pound projective. A faatura of tha work win ba taata of communication from aircraft to ahora •tation and from aircraft to aircraft, working through radio Interference. Whlla nary oAclala ara frankly doubtful of tha ability of tha army fllara to alnk big ahlpa. thay privately admit an element of uncertainty which glvea them aome uneaaineaa. flhould una of the biff b«mba alnk the Oat friaaland by dropping Into her funnal, or by hitting aom* other vulnerable «pot, aa tha navy men admit la poaal ble, It will ha admittedly difficult to convince laymen in Congreaa that modern battleahlpa ara aafa agalnat air attack. Even If the Oatfriealand la aunk, tha navy experta will not loae their faith in battleahlpa and they will point out that tha Oatfriealand had no authority to employ defenae agalnat the air craft. But in Congreaa. which la al ready worried about vaat appropla tiona for battleahlpa, the effect of auch a reault may be diaaatroua to a contin uance of the big ahip program. Capt. A. W. John ton, commander of the Atlantic fleet'a air force, who la acting chairman of the Joint Army and Navy Hoard that ia conducting the teata, aaid: "Theae bombing teata are merely a part of the day'a work in the routine of the navy. They will be of no value unleaa conducted along aclentiflc tinea. We muat know what effect the bomba will have and tha number of hfta which can be made by aircraft. It la unneceaaary to dro;» 2000 pound homba on a deatroyer to alnk her if 2f>Q-pound bomba will do the work Juat aa well." I North Carolina Orthopaedic Hospital The North Carolina Orthopaedic hospital will he opened In Gastonia about June 15th. The management de sires to ret in tourh with all deformed or crippled children of the State who are mentally Bound, for the purpoaa of hdfitaggiem, and making it poa »(Ma HI Ami to go to school and to become mod and uaafnl cftitana. It la especially anxious to reach the poor and orphaned childfOT, thoae who hare no one to care for and train them, and only thoae under 14 yeara of are are to be admitted in thia hospital. If you know of an unfortunate child either crippled or deformed in your neighborhood write to the president of this hospital, if child is poor and needy that is all the tnon- reason you should Interest yourself in giving the child this opportunity to lie helped. Write R. R. Rabbington. Gastonia, N. C. they are anxious to get several hundred applicationa in the next few weeka. Give them a chance for innocent sport. Give them a chance for fun Retter a playground plot than a court And a jail when the harm is done. Give them a chance—if you stint them now. Tomorrow you'll have to pay A larger hill for a darker ill, So give them a chance to play.— The Community League News. General Pershing Chief of Staff Washington, D. C.—Selection of Gen. John J. Jershing to be Chief of Stuff of the army was announced yes terday by the Secretary of War. As Chief of Staff, Secretary Weeks said. General Pershing will direct training of the regular army and or ganized reserves, which he will com mand in the event of active field op erations before his retirement. He will retain the duties recently assigned to him as chief of the war staff now be ing organized. Genertl Pershing will assume his new duties on July 1, succeeding Ma} Gen. Peyton C. March. His assistant will be Maj.-Gen. James G. Harbord, who was General Pershing's principal staff assistant in Franee before ha assumed command of the service of supply. General Harbord, as assistant chief of staff, will take over all of the ad ministrative details heretofore handl ed by the chief of staff, Mr. Weeks an nounced, leaving General Pershing free to direct the organisation and training of the Army of the United States as a whole, including the na tional guard and the organised re serve* In time of war the plan contem plates that General Pershing would immediately assume command of the entire army and General Harbord au tomatically become chief of staff, la this way General Pershing will peas to the head of the field staff, already in process of organisation, and Oen eral Harbord would take charge of the War Department general staff. THE ELKIN FURNITURE CO. DESTROYED BY FIRE Lom U Placed •19100,000 With 921,000 luuriBC* — Over 100 Pooplo Thrown Out of Work Ktkin, May 1».—A diaaatruua Art occurred bar* last night, which totally demolished the plant af tba Elkln furniture company on# of tha noit important manufacturing enterprises of the town. A •mall blaia under the engine-room was dlacovered by tha nlfht watchman about 10:80 o'clock hut owinir to tha fact that tba watar main had not been extended that far the fireman wara powerleaa to fight tha flamaa. In addition to tha building and equipment, a quantity of furnl tura ready for ahipaiaat and a gnat amount of lumber on the yard* wara conaumad by tha flamaa. Nothing waa aaved except the books and Important papers of tha office and aoma mirror*, theae being recovered at a terrible riak of Ufa Tha plant waa located In aaat Elkln, about thrae fourths of a mile from the center of tha town. The plant was running on foil time, em ploying about 100 men, to many of whom the loaa of a job Just now la a aerioua matter. The loss to the com pany is estimated at $100,000 with 121,000 insurance. The officers of the company are W. 8. Gough, president, A. G. Click, vice- president, R. L. Hub bard, secretary and treasurer and gen eral manager. Other stockholders are H. K. Gray. M. A. Biggs, ■. 0. Click, Cooper and others. The company manufactured bed-room suites and odd pieces of furniture, making regu lar ahipments to more than half the states of the union. A Community lea Plant Some Western communities In which Icc is strictly a manufactured product are Interesting themselves publicly in the subject of ice manu facture. There is a type of small dis trict or city which justifies the estab lishment of one local ice plant, bat doas not contain room for two. says The Scientific American. The operator of the one ice manufactory enjoys the nature of a monopoly. Of course, ice can be shipped in, but ice la a very tnilky and heavy commodity, and Ita free flow between communities, In commerce, is never apt to be very great. , Many oomiji unities have protested and complained a great deal about ice prices. One community, Lindsay, in California, has acted. A local plant was on\the market, and last spring the local Chamber of Commerce got an option on it, organized the Lindsay Community Ice Company, sold stock to some three hundred local people, and took over the plant. .The first season's record of this company is illuminatinir. It is in the center of a district where retail ice prices, platform basis, have been up around (1 a hundred. At Vialia, ice was 80 cents at retail, at Exeter 90 centa, at Portersville and Lemon Cove, fl. At Lindsay, the community com pany sold ice st 60 cents a hundred. The plant manufactured 1,000 tona of ice the past summer. Granting con sumers would otherwise have paid 86 or 90 centa, the company saved them something like 17,600. At this rate, the replscement value of the plant be ing $20,000 to (26,000, the plant would pay for itself in less than four years. The plant has a capacity of 1,000 tons a year, and storage spare for 100 tons. The low prices have stimulated demand, and the coming year the capacity will be increased to 2,000 tons, which the management says can be easily sold. Storage room for 1,000 tons will be pat in. Farmers on trad ing visits to Lindsay are good custom ers. The past season, the Lindsay com; munjty plant manufactured ice and put it on the platform for about $3.80 a ton. Retailing ice, however, it figur ed it must sell for SO cents the cwt. in order to break even. An ice plant requires considerable initial investment. The competition ot private enterprise in local ice manu facture is not keen, and retail price* naturally art high. The community ice plant seems an obvious remedy for the situation, under tome circum stances. A life-sized statue of "Devil Arise" Hatfield, carved in Carrara marble and portraying "Ante" standing bare headed looking out over the maintains of hit native state, will be ejected on the site of hit late home bjr relatives and friends A French aviatreea was the first woman to fly across the Andes. She recently made the flight from Men dosa, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, Utter From Japu By IUt. i. W. Frank. With yoar permission, Mr. Editor. 1 will use your paper u a medium for r»uhini oar friends In Mount Airy We wish them to know that w» (till cherish In oar memory the pleasor* of having their fellowship while living among them, and of thalr affection which we feel still abide*. Our year of worship with the con gregation of the Central Methodist church, where we were privileged to hear preaching and sinking in our native tongue, was a most helpful ex perience. Nevertheless, we had goodly fellowship with other communions; and our denominational loyalty mast not be misunderstood for see*nrlan hiirotry. The fact that the Central Methodist churrh and Ita Bonday school are paying oar salary and de voutly praying for us is very comfort inir and helpful to oe in oar reflections and activities. In moments of medi tation and eestacy we deltrht to think of our friends as communing with as by way of the throne of Ood while fervently praying for as. God's chil dren have been using the wireless telephone for nges. How blessed are they whose unceasing petitions and supplications reach the sympathetic ears of a loving Heavenly Father! And how poor and unwitting are those who have been taught about the true Ood. and yet are not on speaking term* with him through unceasing prayer! Mr. Editor, when you once suggest ed to me that the missionaries should, or might, have feelings or visions of rapture not common to others, I may not have seemed to corroborate your surmise as vou expected, inasmuch I ss I have always felt that misslon sries, in common with all Christian, workers, should think of themselves1 as unprofitable servants after they have done their utmost. However, I; have repeatedlv stated my conviction j that missionaries are the happiest | people I know. Furthermore, recent' experience leads me to agree with you | 'bat we are entitled to special ecstac Jaa. not .because o» superior goodness, hut possibly as a gracious compensa tion for deprivations. If our depriva- j tions have their remuneration then, we may not be making such great; sacrifices as otir friends sometimes1 __ I Mr*. Frank contracted influent* I shout the middle of February. Before recovering from that she took *ome-1 thing like inflammatory rheumatism caused by poisoning from aeptic ton-' *11*. While thi* wa* at It* wor*t *he! took pneumonia In her left *ide,| though not of a very malignant form 1 Though confined to her bed for two month*, with fever much of the time, *he did not fail to eat a (ingle meal. We are thirteen hour*' ride by boat from our nearest American friend*, and thirty-three hour*' ride by boat from the neareat white doctor. But Mr*. Demaree and Mil* Bennett came t by turns to *tay with her and to pre scribe suitable diet. A Rood trained nurse was sent from Kobe, and two Japanese doctors proved to be effici ent. After *he was able to leave her bed we all came to Kobe that she might be under the care of T)r. Barker and to have a change. She la now waQ except her tonsils which she mav have taken out when we pass through here in July en route to our summer home. We are enjoying our stay in thi* city with a population one hundred times as great a* that of Mount Airy. Kobe. Japan. April 29. 1921. J. W. Frank Light For Blind An appeal ia about to be launched in America for $2,000,000 to broaden the work of the "Lighthouses" aa the institutions are called where blind people are instructed so aa to enable! them to become self supporting. Thi* work is in the hands of a committee,: of which President Harding is honor-! ary chairman. Of tha total blind popu lation of 57,272 in America, 7,976 are earning their own living. An interesting point brought to! light by this committee in the way of! statistics is the fact that of 29,242 cases investigated 1990 of that num ber wen born blind and of theae 709 were offspring* of parents who mat ried flrat cousins. Contributions may be forwarded to Lewis L Clarice, Treasurer. Committee for Lighthouse for tha Blind. Ill East B9th 8t. New York City. Card of Thanks We desire to thank our friend* and neighbors for tha many acta of Mad neaa and esproaaioaa of sympathy daring tha Maiae and death of oar wife aad ■other. J. H. FV.ii.r aad ehildrsa. WOOL PRODUCERS SEEK LAWS AID Truth-b»-Fabric Act to Bo Urg ed im Coofreu to Protect tka Farmer* From Mamfacter ors of Shoddy and Its Pro ducts Washington, D. C.—Mora than s tariff measure Is needsd Is effort ths woel growers of Amrrtn adequate pro tac tion, In the opinion of ths wool pf« ducers themselves. What they regard with mora concern than ' '>«jr do cooi petition is the development of the shoddy industry. Arthur Csppsr, Ssa stor fmm Kansas, and Hurtaa L. i ranch, Haprsssntstivs from Idsto. havs rsintroducod in Congrsas tka meaaure known in Congress aa tka truth-ln-fabric bill, compelling textile manufacturers to label their "all wool" cloth with Its content virfta wool and of shoddy so that ths pcr chaser may know when hs Is buying shoddy, reworked rags, snd not boy it under the impression that he Is get ting wool. The wool-growing business is fat a very hsd condition. The psssage of this bill, it is contended, would help the producer snd protect the coniusa er. Because of the greet accumulations of wool, msny western growers have been sacrificing their sheep to such sa extent that it is said that it will take yesrs to get the industry back to nor mal, even if helpful legislstion is sn acted. More than 70 per cent of the wool clipped of 1920 is still unsold, and there is practically no markst for the wool of 1021. J. B. Wilson, secretsry of the Wyo ming Wool Growers Association, is authority for the statement that than is a general demand for the passage of the truth-in-fabric bill, and that the shoddy manufacturers cannot ward It off much longer. Some of the wool-growing organisations in ths western states have been manufsctur ing cloth and blankets from their own woo), snd havs found that there is a ready market for them ss soon ss it M knows that they are really made of virgin wool and contain no shoddy. Wyoming was the first state to pass a truth-in-fabric bill. It is now in ef fect, snd is said to have the approval of the psople of the stats. Hearings were held on the truth-hi fnbric bill in the taut session of Con greaa, when representatives of the consumers, aa well aa of the wool irrowera, appeared before the commit tee to urge the enactment of that or nome aimilar measure. ' War Criminal* To B« T^ed la Germany London, En*.—The German govara ment ia losing no time in taking ate pa to meet demand Number 4, In tha allied ultimantum, delivered to Dr. Fredrick Sthamer, the German Km baaaador, on May 6. Thia clauae calla on Germany to carry out without re aerve or delay, the trial of war crimi nals. Preliminary trials are to bo taken on May 28, at Leipaic. Sir Ernest Pollock, the Solicitor General, accompanied by Sir Ellla Hume-Williams K. C. is tearing for Germany on May 20 for the triala of the British caaea against alleged Ger man war criminals. A party of Brit tah witneaaea ia going with the Sol it itor-General, who will be able to fhr# oral teatimony before the German High Court. The Allies have selected 45 caaea for trial, as a teat of the bona fides of the German government in this mat ter; of these the Britiah eases coate ft rat. The prosecution will be conduct ed by German law officers, bat Britiah legal repreaentativea have a right to attend the trials to satisfy themselveo that they are being carried out prop erty. Dougherty To Hava Now $8,000 Automobilo Washington, May 19.—Hie Repub licana preach economy bat forget it when money ia needed for their biff man. Attorney General Dougherty ia to hare a brand new $8,000 automobile. It ia provided for in the second de ficiency hill, reported yesterday, which permit* exchange of the old ear aad appropriatea I6.S67 to apply on anoth er. Attorney General Palmer's raqaaat last year for W.000 for a new ear waa turned 4mm. Chief Clark Charlee E. Stewart re queotod the appropriation, which was ilaocribad aa hah* "for the yrrl— of the attorae) geaeral la oriM|( for oM ear mw hi naa"
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