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Surry-Yadkin Annua! Masonic Picnic, Thursday, Aug. 4th, "Home Coming Week" at Elkin, N. C. ESTABLISHED 18 8 0 MOUNT AST, .NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JUNE CSrd. 1»21. Sl.RA PER YRAR IN ADVANCE NEW ENFORCEMENT CHIEP DECLARES LAW IS SUPREME PrtUbWM Co—lninr Ap P«*U I* Paopla ot Uaited St»>w CiiMfOw ot Ail Public Aftacid la laritod Washington, D. C.—Ill • preliml nary review of prohibition enforce ment. Roy A. Haynoa, the nrwly ap pointed prohibition eommlaaloner, yea tarda y pledgvl hlmaelf to do every thing possible to admin la Ut the law efficiently and effectively. Mr. Hayna* ■aid that it waa too soon for hiat to aay anything definite about tha pro gram to bo carried out, bat ba indicat ed that there would be a complete re organisation of the bureau, and that ao new prohibition agent* will ba ap pointed until Investigation haa pro ceeded further. Mr. Haynea gave every indication of Intending to carry forward tha work of the bureau with vigor and mncerity. His fundamental ia that the law* are on the statute book* and must ba obeyed. He la going to do hia part to aae that the laws bearing on prohibi tion are duly respected, and he asks the law-abiding public to cooperate with him. "It has been repeatedly suggested that I make a public statement of plat form or policy, aa tha newly appointed federal prohibition commissioner. It would be manifestly Impossible and Improper for me to ent« r Into a de tailed diacuaaion of the particular problems at this time, but I believe It la only right that I should grant tha request of the press for a message to the people of America, Indicating my genera) attitude toward these new re ■possibilities. The watchword of thia Administration ia 'Efficiency.' We ■*• pact to do everything possible to translate into fact that slogan In tha prohibition unit Whatever change aaay ba made in organisation or per aonnel Will be made wholly with the idea la view of greater efficiency, strict constitution*) provision am mcb immi for It. Laws have been enacted for Its enforcement. The law should ba en forced. The man or woman, or agency which condones its violation, or be comae a party to Its violation, or en couragee a sentiment of laxity In re Mlti to it* AnfoPMliiMt ia Kalnl'd# to create, consciously or nnconscious ly, a very serious condition. ' "Refsrdless of personal view, surely •very good citizen will regard aa im perative the enforcement of the eight eenth amendment and laws to which It ia fundamental. Certainly every law-abiding citizen will admit that as long as these laws constitute a part of the organic law of the land, they must be obeyed. The flrat year of na tional dry enforcement has been wag ed against almost insuperable difficul ties. Due credit should be given to former Commissioner Kramer, a man of sterling integrity, Arm convictions and splendid courage, and to his help era, for the progress made. They were the pioneers, and pioneers are always seriously handicapped. "At the very outset of my adminis tration of thia office I want to preach the gospel of the need of law enforce ment. If there was ever a time in the history of America when alt good cltl zena should unite on a program foi law enforcement, in the home, in the ecbool, in the church and in the press, it ia today. To *wink at' the breaking of one law and preach the observance •f another ia unpatriotic and un American. On that basis, I believe former so-called liberals will aa vigor ously aid in the enforcement of the dry laws as those who alwaya have been dry. Any other policy toward lew in genera] means chaos; means Bolshevism. "I am * newspaperman by profes sion. I have full knowledge of th< power of the press. I believe no sgencj has more power In tfte welding of pub lic sentiment, and few aa much power I appeal especially to the editorial ant news writers, to the cartoonist, to Um reporter, to the scenario writer, to th< playwrlter to lend every aid to law en foreement "The editorial, the cartoon, the newi story, the dim or the legitimate plaj which has In It the direct statement 01 inferential suggestion that the drj program ia easily violated, or shoul< be violated, that It Is a Joke—is no only harmful la the warping of seati against the esfowwwt of thii i to a disregard of law (■ genera] et the CT~U imr*pon*ihlee the (rwlilni of all law*. M! wish that we might have in Amrtat a revival of mw< for tka •anctlty and majeaty of tka law. I I wiah that It might ha pr*ack*d by tka pa rant* in tha homa aa wall a* bjr tka teacher In tka achool; by tka preacher In tka pulpit; tka writar and cartoon ; iatt through tha praai; tka actor on tka :>ta|«| by every good citisen and agency. No greater blessing can roma to America and tka world than thta. I want tka halp of ovary fond, loyal citisen. I pledge. God helping ma, every ounca of vigor and ability there ill in ma to thii and. With compar atively few official* to enforce tha Kighteenth Amendment, it cannot b* effectively dona without tha <-oop*ra tion of a patriotic and helpful citi'en ■hip. "My ambition ia to aaa tha dry law, as all law*, generally and properly en forced. We can readily bring about this aplendid reault and high aapira tion If we all dedicate ouraelvea to the patriotic program of believing, preaching, talking and practicing the goapel of law enforcement To thi* platform I shall devote all of my ener glee, and I believe that I Khali have the cooperation of all true, broad minded, patriotic American*, who put I love of country and regard for It* very foundation—law and order—in their proper relationship." Trap-Gun KilUd Danville Officer • Danville, Va., June 16.—A trap-gun, set o*ten*lbly to kill a burglar at about S o'clock on Tueaday morning claimed the life of Police Officer John P. Jones, who when tea ting the door of Irvin Price, negro a to re keeper, who operate* a (mail eatabliahment on North Main atreet, tn Danville, waa In direct aim of the weapon aa it dis charged. The policeman on duty per forming one of his sworn offices with t'atrolman A. C. Morgan with him' received tka coo toots of tka gun at a' range of three feat ia tka top of the left lung, which waa a hat tared, dfeathj reaulting frost a hemorrhage is 10 . . I Irvin Moo. who admit* kavteg set which wnwgfct tka work of deatk. waa takaa Into custody an kour after Joaea had been killed, being found at hla home near Waakington a treat. Tka autkoritiaa bolieved it beat to remove him to a distant point and In tka cus tody of officer* ke flaahed by the acaoa of the officer'* dtatk, bound north at a high rate of spaed at about 6 o'clock. Tha city coroner convened a Jury to hold an inquaat this morning. Tha sis men viewed the body of tha slain of ficer In an undertaking morgue and was adjourned to meet on Thursday morning at 11 o'clock wHen evidence will be heard. trice ii cnargea wun murder. lie 1* a negro aged about 36 jrcsn of «f*, with view* which are said to be Social istic. He admitted, when arrested, that he had net not only the (run which kill ed Jones. but sslo another guarding a rear entrance to hia store. Salient points in the facta surround I ing the tragedy are: —That Price complained about six 1 months ago of thieves entering hia | *tore and stealing hoods. 2—That he deviaed the gun for the purpose of getting the first man who 1 i-ntered the small frame door. 3—That the police, though told of | thefta and therefore with a special eye on the property, were not told of , the infernal engine of death, and 4—That the door to the store was not locked last night, but was even slightly ajar, ao that a slender push was sufficient to pull the string tied to the gun trigger, letting loose the lead into the body of whoever undertook the mission. Just why the door had been left un locked is not known. This Is A Gem Front Congres sional Record Congressman Tom Williams, Repub lican, of Illinois, waa discuasing civil | service in connection with the post ioffice department, when ha was inter rupted thus: Mr. Garrett, Democrat, of Tennes see: Has the postmaster general (Mr. Hay*) ever stood a civil service exam ' ination ? (Laughter.) Mr. Williams: No. And while I have the highest respect for the distin guished gentlemen who constitute the | cabinet of the president, yet, in my , op ninn, if they had been required to pass • civil strvtoe examination such i as these rural totter carriers and i fourth-class postmasters are required to pass, outside of Hughse and Hoov i sr. none of them wewld have hssn able to get in the eligible Nat (I —ghtor Hm PtmUwI U lip T» Hi* Eyoa la TrouW* Wuhiafton, June 14.—Preatdent Kirdlai ia op to hia eyea in trouble. Buainaaa la bad. He haa no foreign policy. Tka patrunag* throng U camp ln| o« hia koala. There la bat one thin* that makea hint aatlla. and that la a chew of Senator Hlaamon'a ana rend tobacco. Every time ho aooa tho North Carolina aenator ha aaka for a bit of H. .■Unator Wlllla, tha Republican aona tor from Ohio, la making war on Hart mi nomlnooa. Ha la on tho »«rj brink of tho inaurgant ramp. Tho President nominated Chariaa H. Nant, for collector of Internal revenue for tho 10th diatrict of Ohio, and Wlllla, who had recommended hia cam paign manager. Sherman Lett, cava notioo that he would oppoaa confirma tion. Today, to repreaentativea of tha praaa, the Proaidont gave no tie* that irovonunont work era who oppoee the adminlatration'a reorganit ation plan will be diamiaaed from the aervice That ia a high-handed proposition, and will bring mora trouble. In other wnrda. tho Pre*ld*nf would gag the government employe. That ia the way nia remark* were interpreted. General Sawyer ia one cauae of up rtalngt in the executive d<-partmenta Negro office aeekera ia another Many persona who have kept an aya open and an ear to the ground here 'jelieve that the proteat againat th« program to make a negro a register of the treasury and the aub-roaa ridi cule heaped upon General Sawyer, the President's phyaician, who la promot ing the movement for a "department of public welfare" riled Mr. Harding. It has been an open secret for weeks that whenever General Sawyer ap pear* in one of the executive bureaus to gather thunder for hia campaign all the bureaucrata laugh and anicker over hia questions. In a letter to member* of tha houae. General Sawyer urged quick action on the bill providing a new department, which he aaya will be the "premier ex Ixation ha M cation of work aad < -In order and diaconnected affair* may be plac ed under centralised directorship at the eariieat poaaible moment," aaid he to member* of Congress "you will con fer a great favor by expediting con aide ration of the bill whenever oppor tunity presents." Naturally old time hurra u<*rata, tome of them grey in the government service, and tied hard and faat to their jobs by civil aervicc regulation*, do not aee the confuaion and diaorder re ported by Gen. Sawyer. The veiled critici^pi of the busy general haa caua ed a breach between htmaelf and the The first outbreak from government employes came March SI, when a ma jority of the young women working in the office of the remitter of the treasury sent in a petition to congress men appealing to them to "use their influence to prevent the appointment of a neirro to the office of register of the treasury.t "Prompt action in im perative," the employee aaierted. It wax explained that the petition did not "come from any political faction, nor was it instigated by southern preju dice." "Northerner*, southerners, eastern era. westerners. Democrats and Re nublicans alike." the appeal said, "have aet their signature hereto." A thousand men ard women are em ployed in the office of the register of the treasury," 607 of whom signed the petition. This action on the part of "white women employee" started foment among government employes that haa been spreading and becoming more active all the time. It angered many prominent Republican leaders, for it stirred up the race issue in an embar rassing sort of way. President Hard ing had given Chariee Cottrell, a laad irg negro politician of Toledo, and a lieutenant of Attorney General Daugherty, to understand that he would be appointed register of the treasury, a position held by negroea in ether Republican administrations. The Prealdent Is trying to make good that promise but his task is difficult in the face of • protest signed by mors than half of thoee who would have to wotX under the ayro. This haa been rankling In the minds of Pruldewt tlardtng and Mr. Daugherty. Chaaiberlaia's Cafe and DUtHmm Reasedy Every family should keep thie pre paration at hand daring th« hot of the summer montha. It is almost sure to | LETTER PROM JAPAN In • reeent letts Kobe mi4 dated April 9 I wrote about being temporarily to that grant city DM hundred, timee aa Largo aa Mo Airy. In spite of tha dltion of I1U1 the sx porta and Im port* of Kobe for tka year IMI ■mounted to one billion six hundred forty-six million five hundred riitr four thousand eighty-seven pan, 01 about half aa auuiy dollars. In that cosmopolitan port there ara man) natlonalltlaa, and we haar a babel ol tonguaa. Crowed a tract can go c baa ing after each other on doable traclu all dap long, and many are ruahina about in automobiles or rikieha, whil« muntleaa numbers are making theli wap on foot. Railway traina paaa tc and fro through tha cltp at frequent Intervals dap and night. And two.elec tric lines do a rushing business carry ing paasengers between Kobe and Osaka, eighteen milea apart. Osaka haa a population of a million and a half, and la the leading commercial city of the Far Eaat. Steamboats from foreign and domestic porta are always to be found In .the harbor of Kobe. It ia a change for those who ara aituated in remote places as we are to have a short stay in a place tike Kobe where we hear sermona, songs and conversation in the English language. I am registered at tha United 3 La tea Consulate at Kobe, though living quite a distance away. And every time I ex ecute a paper requiring an oath I must appear in person before a United States consul or vice-consul of em haasador. provided it is something per taining to the United Statea. My buai neaa during my recent viait to the Conaulate waa Dating my U. S. income tax. The payment of the tax eras made by draft on New York district to the Collector of Internal Revenue, Balti more. Md., U. 8. A. We muat liat all income In the U. 8. and here in Japan. Uncle Sam allows us credit for income tax paid to the Japan sas government, which frees moat of the miseionariae from paying to tha U. 8. t tahed to na free of rent, la as Income. Being in America last year, I had no credit for tax paid to the Japanese government. Inasmuch as wo have an exemption of only two hun dred forty yen, or one hundred twenty dollar*. But it Is fair to state that tha Mi salon bears this heavy burden for as. We should all be willing to pay our taxes when we consider what great benefit and protection we derive from governments. I am now sailing on the Inland Sec, about which I will tell you in my next letter. On board (iunzan Maru. May 8. 1921. J. W. FRANK. Daniel Boom And The Wilder ncu Road After the Revolutionary war he moved on further into the wilderness. Later he went to Maysville, where he opened a tavern and store. Still later, when he moved to Point Pleasant, in western Virginia, he was selected to the Virginia Assembly for the third time, having previously been a mem ber from Boonesborouirh and from Mayes ville. In 17M, when the Kentucky Legis lature proposed to improve the Wil derness Road for wagon travel, Boone wrote to Governor Shelby: Sir, sftes my beat Respta to youi Excellency and famyly, I wish to in form you that I have sum intention of undertaking this New Rode that is to be cat through the Wilderness, and 1 think my Self intitled to the ofer of the Business as I first Marked oat thai Rode in March 1775 and Never ree'd anything for my trubel and Sepose 1 am no Statesman I am a Woodsman and think My Self as Capable of Marking and Catting that Rode aj any other man. Sir if you think with Me I would thank you to wright ma a line by the post the first oportuneaty and he Will Lodge K at Mr. Join Milers on hinkston fork aa I wish to know Where and When it is to be Laat (let) So that I may attend at the tim< I am Deer Sir your very omble ser vant. Daniel Boone. But the contract waa given tc others, to Boone's greet disappoint ment.—"On the Trail of the Pioneer*,' John T. Paris Refined Sugar Below t Cowt Figure New York, Jan* 16.—Refined segai Wsct below the t-eeet level today hi Ike first the* In Mere thee tn yean when the Federal 8egar ReAntag «aa peay qeeted fine giiahlii at Lit « I SHAVER SUES PEACOCK FOR S2S.000 DAMAGES Lnte|tsi, /m 11.—Attorney* foi H. S. who >M serioual1 wounded ky a shot M by Dr. i. W. Peacock on April II, when Chief oi Pollc* J. B. Taylor waa killed a* the atroata at Thomeayill*. bar* filed ■ •ult afiliui th* physician for itoiagi ■mounting to tthflM. It waa ale* learned lam on good authority thai attomay* for Chief of Police Taytor'n widow, now residing with relatlvaa ta Winston 8alem, hare also instituted proceedings In Forsyth county s gainst Peacock to recover dinafM for the death of the chief. It la be (lev ad fV-' th* amount aak*d for will be consider ably larger than Silver's Ifirt. I The complaint filed her* stataa that on April 1«. 1921 while the plaintiff waa In a ator* In th* rtty of Tbomas villa, wher* h* had a right, he wai wrongly, unlawfully and willfully and {feloniously aaaaulted and injured by th* defendant with a deadly weapon; that Chief of Police Taylor came in th* (tor* (Pearre's store) and waa bleeding profitably about th* head and | f»c*, appealing to b* in great agony any crying °ut in pain and anguish; that the plaintiff not knowing what waa the difficulty or how and in what manner Mr. Taylor had been injured, i but realizing that the injured man waa ! in great distress and that immediate ! medical attention waa nereaaary, to | gethrr with aom* other peraon* took ! Hold of Chief Taylor for the purpoae | of getting him out of the atore to mow phyalciana office in order that he might get m*d!ca! attention. Th* plaintiff waa holding and aaaiatlng the injured man wit hoot any knowledge of th* approach or th* pr*a*nc* of th* defendant, who suddenly and with out notice shot the plaintiff, the ballet entering the plaintiff's body Just below the front and lower part of tb* breast bona, s*»*rtng one of th* plaintiffs inteatinea and puncturing a Urge ln taatln*, paaaing through gall bladder and lir*r and doing other injariee. The By reason of the injuries and ha miliatkHi And louts find dtBUtfii sus tainad th* plaintiff aaks that he recover of the defendant aa actual damage $10,000 by reason of the wrongful, unlawful, willful, malicious and felonious aaaault and $18,000 pun itive da ma gee Death Claims Famous Aged Indian Chief Pierre, S. D., June 7.—In the recent death of Chief Iron Lightening, «t hi* home near Thunder Butte, in the northweatern part of the Cheyenne Indian reeervation, the country loat probably the greatest of the few re maining famous Indian character* who figured in the early history of Dakota territory. Iron Lightening waa one of the sub chiefs, who, under Sitting Bull, par ticipated in the memorable battle of the Little *Big Horn, June 25, 1876, when Cuater and his band of 261 men were annihilated. He ia said to be the laxt of the chiefs who were in control of the Sioux nation at that time. He was 76 years old at the time of his death, and for years made hia home in the vicinity of Thunder Butte station. Unusually tell and well proportion ed, even for an Indian, and possessing a voice which commanded attention and obedience, although it knew no word of English, Iron Ligntening waa a natural leader of men. In the early part of thia century, following the Ute Indian uprising, when the Utes had been rounded up and sent to the Chey enne reaervation, it waa Iron Lighten ing who went among them urging them to forget their grevience with ; the whites and settle down to peaceful llvea. , He waa the last Indian, so far as is known, to have continued to live with two wive* after the order prohibiting polygamy and further polygamoua marriage among the Indians was i made. Iron Lightening waa called to i the Thunder Butte station whan this order waa received, and told he mutt choose between the two women wtth whom he waa living. , "If the commissioner haa lived with one woman," the chief replied in In dian, "ha will know how lmpoeelbte it | it for Iron Lightening to separate himself from tern. Iron Lightening ilangha." Thia speech woo tor him hU oaaa, and the two wivee wart retains*. They lived together to harmoay, mm data* GERMAN SUBMARINE IS TO BE TARGET Tkm Gafw WuiUpt mmd om ktiiMUv r.w» wn Ala* B« T«r|*U Waahlngton. JgiM 19.—-The forimar German submarine U-l17. tnmari mr to the United Slates MT]f after Ik* armistice, «n anchored In SO fethoaea at water N miles snat of Ctyt Cteilaa Va., today la tmai the targe* far nearly M bomb-earrytng tlrylaaaa Tuesday The aerial attack a* tW format U-lx>at will ka th«* trat of ft series of e« pertinents nrnductod Jatnt Ijr by th» srtny and nary to proilfa ''-tu regarding the ability of aircraft I to bomb naval vessels and to dater mhw the resulting damage to tha vaa aal. Similar toata will ba conducted later againat a German destroyer, cruiser and tha radio-controlled Aaaer Ican battleship Iowa. Tha navy will send 24 planes of va rlaua typea againat the U-l 17 and tha 'army will uae 23 bombing planaa In ; eh* teat. Nearly 200 bomba wfll ba dropped on tha submersible unless th» , »mmI la sunk before tha conclusion of [the experiment. I Tha naval tran*port Hraderaon will leave hern Monday morning with a lanre party of army and navy oftcera, cabinet member*, congressmen and new* pa per men. Secretary Denbjr haa announced that pre** rrpresentativea wilt be riven the widest latitude la •observing the reaulta of the attack on the U-l 17, and In riving fatca to tha public. The reaulta of inch toata, In volving data of the utmoat importance !to tha natlon'i defaaae system. hava u*ually been kapt aecret In tha paat. Should the U-l 17 »urvive the deluge of bomba. It will become tha target, with two other German submarines, far tha guna of a divialon of daatroy era of the Atlantic fleet Wadnaaday. Tha U-lll, which waa to hava been uaad in the deatroyar target practice, tank Saturday near Cape Henry whila being towed to tha firing point. Tha U-117 waa baflt at Klal during crutalng radius of 14,000 mflaa with a surface apaad of 14.7 knota an hoar. She haa four torpedo tubea and waa equipped to carry 42 mlnaa. After W Years We Again Make Dollar* Washington, Jane 19.—Coinage of ilhw dollar* haa been resumed by the mint after a lap** of aeven year* and the work of replacing the two hundrod and seventy-nine million atandard sil ver dollar* taken from the treasury during the war to sell to Great Britain hai been begun. Since late in March treaaury offi cial* aaid tonight, approximately JO, 000,000 silver dollar* have been coined. In the name period rorrrsponding amount* of silver certificates were is sued and federal reserve note*, and treasury certificates securing them, retired. This process, officials taid, would continue for the next five years until the treasury's reserve of silver dollars is back to its pre-war basic. The mint, officials explained, ceased coining ailrer dollar* in 1914 when the supply of metal purchased under the coinage act waa exhausted. Further authority to make the dollars waa not forthcoming unti' 1910 when Congress pasaed the Pittman act to enable the sale of melted dollar* to England for the relief of silver famine in India. Unusual Sentence For Juvmib Law Breakers Spartanburg, S. C., June IS.—Re corder Burnett, in the city police court today, sentenced four youthful offend er* to be whipped by their parents and to refrain from going to the movies untile they reach the age of 21. The boys staged a robbery of a local store, posting guards and wearing masks hi real bandit style. They said they got the idea from a seme they had wit nessed in a moving picture show. Tampa, Fla., June 11.—Three small boys oonvieted in Juvenile court here today of having entered • hardware i store, were sentenced by Judge Petto way to save enough money to hoy a 1 pocket knife for each boy ia the local cMMren** home. The court I that the knives should he I from the stars the culprits "Chamberlain's _ seed by ay huahand and myself off and oa fee the past Ave years. When my husband geee away from home he always tons • bottle of Dm dug 1
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