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UNFAIRNESS OF REPUBLI CAN APPOINTMENTS Nilwnhr Cwiwl Uadar Fir* fmr VUhHwg Civil S*tk« ^ Washington. Dm. II.—PIm mn balll hi the Jmli today under Foat •>>to« General Htjti un KMWt of the methods ua«d by Mm in appoint, tot pottouton under the MKirthx order of Freeldeet Harding, an order thai more and mom to bring recog atoad aa "imply a plan to get around the «M aarvtoa tow and fill the affioaa with Rapublicana under the hypocritical guiae of tha civil aervtce. Senator Dial, of South Caroltoa. ■tartad tha fire, accusing tha Paet office Department of "hypocrisy and caaM>uflag« to conducting examine ttoaa for poattoaatorahlpa." Hecharg ad that "carpat haggara hy tha who la aato" wara balng appointed poat toaitow to tha 8oath and citad mvotsI laatancaa. Ha rafarrad to a reeohi ttoa of tha American L4gioa com manding Mr. Hay* for helping ael dtora to poaiaiaatarahipa and said: "1 am certain the Legion *u not Informed when it puwd those reao hitions, narrating a cm* in which • Republican with a ratine of 73 waa appointed over a Democrat with a ratine it M, both being former ser rtc* man. Senator Fletcher, of Flor xk. told of evaalon of tho Civil Service law by tho Post Offico . De partment, by continuing to call for examinations till it (ot the man It wanted on the liat ao ho could be ap pointed. a humbug which ia being worked also for North Carolina. "That ia an evaalon of the law and we ought to refuae to confirm such appointees," *aid Senator King, of Utah. "The Poatoffke Department la blowing hpt and cold" said Senator Dial. "It give* the job* to aoldiers when it auita it, and when it doeant it give* them to someone elae." Thia matter if driven home by •trtatswrtete day aaid. "The members of the American Legion in North Carolina , and indeed in the whole country, need te look after their National offtcera eapecially here in Washington and de mand some real aervioe from them. It eeems to me that the official Legion repreaentativea in Washington are either asleep on their Job, or are dia poaed to do nothing to injare the Republican adminiatration. Every day the Poatoffiee Detriment and other departmenta are turning down service men who have made the high est grade In examinations and are ap pointing Republican local politicians who some times have very little real claim for the poaitiona, although now nod then they happen to get a fairly good man. Poatoffiee appointments are being made in North Carolina that outrage every principle of the merit system and all the Civil Service rules and regulationa. "A cm« that ha* Just coma to my attention it the rate of Clark ton, N. C.. in which John K. Clark, an ex service man, stood over twelve points higher than the man whom the Re publican Postofflce Department has just notified u» they are appointing. The grade of Clark, the ex-service man waa 85.85 and that of S. H. Rogers was 71.43. Rogers' name was submitted to the President for nomination and the President sent Rogers' name to the Senate. I have not heard what Mr. Roger*' political affiliation ia bat I sssume that he 1* a Republican. In thia case, Mr. Clark having every reaaon to aspect that the American Legion would stand by him, appealed to the American Legion and although the North Carolina offi oers of the Legion did all they eould for him, I think the Legion national official communicated rather perfunc torily with the department but beyond i that did nothing. Another caae waa that of Laurinburg, where a splendid ex-service man waa turned down In favor of a Republican. Another caae waa that of Princeton, where a fine ex-service man, C. 8. Holt, waa kicked aside, although he made the highest grade. "PraotteaHy every Congresaman froa^jftrth Carolina haa numbers of •iirjK^aaas la Ms district. The Ameffean Legion rsffwaHtativM bore to Washington and the National offi cer* of the organisation simply stand kg «»d soe their pegitimate preference Mi til. Carolina officers of the Ameri can Lag loo In the State and local poaU to know Just what la happening and that the National repreeentotive* of Um Lag loo seam not to ba try In c to bring thaaa matters to the niton tion of tha pwfclk. 1 faal vary aura that If tha national r.'praaantatIvaa of the Legion hara would try to arouse public sentiment and brine it to beer on President Harding and the administration, the administration would bo afraid not to ;.-rant tha Juat demand* of tha e«. rvii'f man for preference in thaaa appointmoata. I know that tha North Carolina officer* and porta in the American Legion will never five Wr o naant to what >rea> to ma to "V- an effort on tha part of the Legion V'id«'ix to make thai groat and bane fit-leni organisation mm ply an adjunct ind *ubaidiary to the Republican party aa waa dona in tha caaa of the organiaation of tha Grand Amy of tha Republic for many year* follow ing tha Civil War. Everybody knows that if • Democratic adtoiniatration war* to treat tha M-strviN men aa outrageously aa the Harding admin is tration now la treating them, tha na e4n«l officers of tha Legion would be denouncing it in thunder tones from eveyr platform and in every news P"P*r" Clark tun, referral to by Mr. Samp ton to in the iliitrict repreaeatod by Congresamaa Lyon and Mr. Lyon says that S. H. Ko(«n to a Republi cm, that til* eligible* for Clarktoi. »«ra (1) John B. Clark, ex-service man entitled to preference; (2) ti. W Hester, (3) S. H. Rogers. On Monday I Mr. Roger* was nominated for tue pout ion. Mr. Clark, flnt on the Itot, nerved more than two yearn in the navy and made many trip* across with ammunition and troop*. Mr. Rogers to • comparatively new-comrr to Clarktoa and aacared hto nomina tion by rnaaoni of the plan of sub mitting the eligible Itot Jo Republican National Committeeman Morehead Hy the county Republican committer. Thit to the humbling way In which the civil service law to practiced by the present Republican administration. In North Carolina there are many hither instances of tMa bunco game. A Trv* Baar Story And it to of the "Stranger Tfcan Fic tion" Sort New York HmM. The other day than came for re pairs to ma of Uia yards of the Todd Shipbuilder corporation In thia har bor, an ocean ■ team chip which had bean damaged in ooltiaion with an ice berg. A hundred ton* of ice craahed down upon the deck and stove in the bow of the vaaaal, hat fortunately, not below the water line. The collision occurred in a thick ftof, in consequence of which the apaed of the ship had bean greatly reduced, hot the ice berg could not be perceived by the officers on the bridge until a moment before they (truck. I.uckily for him, the lookout in the bow had juat bean called back to the bridge; 'otherwise he certainly would have been kilted bv the falling maaees of Ice. Thia, however, ia not the whole Htory of the collision. In the midat of the confuaion which followed, one of the ship's foremen, who had come on deck to cool off, waa observed ex citedly making his way on a full run toward the stem of the vessel, and those on the bridge perceived to their utter smasement that ha was being pursued by a polar heart At all events, the stoker believed that the bear was after him, and act ed accordingly. The animal evidently had been Involuntarily carried to aaa on the Iceberg, and had been thrown on to the dock by the force of the col lision. He was as much frightened as the fireman was. He speedily realised that the deck of a ship was a leas deairable berth even than all Iceberg, and quick as a wink ha *M over the side, swimming back towurd his icy shelter. The polar bear Waa off the ship and the stoker, breathed safely. , If a modem novelist, placing on* of his scenes on the deck of a trans atlantic steamer, where the hero and his sweetheart were watktag srmtta arm, should causa their converse; to ha tntonvpted by such a collision as s« have described, followed by the ap pearance at a polar bear In Mm mu£t of things ha would ha denounced b the critics as having taaaltod the bt talllgence of hie risdsaa. We rimMJI he told that he suppaaad the Im jiesafcie; yet, aa ear story show*, ha MM ha quite wttkte bounds. for the beauty e/ ear story is that M is tree. LARGEST AW SHIP IS PLACID IN SERVICE GtmI Airakip F«u|kl Mar Way Tkra«|li Gal* Far Chriilaaiag Cammia* Waahington, Dm. 21.—The (00>fMt army airahip ltuma f.ught her w*y for (N hours Mid i half a head wind from Langley field Vir ginia, to Washington today to be chrtatailed and put in comailaaltui of ficially by Mia* Funruaa Wainwnght, daughter of Um aaaiatant m retarv of war, who broke a bottle of liquid air on the groat aacai-rigid airship's prow. Tha (root dolphin-like craft of tbo air arrivad at Boiling field at noon and left at *:M, scurrying home with the wind behind bar in two houaa and Ui minutaa. A crowd of guests and officers of the two air services awaited tha arriv al of tba amy'* naw semi-rigid, the largest lighter-than-alr ship la thia country, at Boiling fiald from 8 o'clock impatiently ■ tamping their feet and trudging back aad forth In an affort to keep warn. Klighta of planes loft tba fiald from tlm« to time to search out tba gloat ahip, which waa continually reported by radio aa approaching from tba aouthoaat, bat did not appear Finally aha waa re ported aa over Alexandria, progreae >ng alowly againat a stiff head wind, with three of her motors frozen up. Suddenly, toward the aouthoaat, there appeared a great, dull-gray ahape acarcely diatinguiahahlo againat the elate colored aky. It waa the Koma—a maaaiva, fat dirigible mov ing a little toward the eaat, alowly and majeetically lifting her noae over the encircling hllla. Gradually bar bulk loomed up, and aha awung to ward the west, heading directly for the field, with her motors roaring deafeningly. Approaching quite low, ahe seemed to barely miaa the troaa and hangers as ahe pushed againat jto qrinAjai ttMNf wmMw IN center of thjfteld put her noae down and alowly aettled. A door la the "V" shaped keel, near the bow flaw open aad a great coll of rope dropped to the "handling crew" below. All handa took hold, and slowly the great craft came to earth. The wind sweeping from the north and weat swung the great ship back and forth aa the man strained at the rope, while atay wires with cablee attached ware dropped out of porta along the keel to other men who Hood by to steady the abip. Leveling off but under the keel of her propel ler* she settled on her "bumpers" and was launched. But ahe never staid atill a minute, swaying back and forth and carrying the maa clinging to the ropes with her. ' Fitting ceremoniea followed; the christening by Misa Walnwrigbt. who stood on a step-ladder tinder the groat curving bows aa she broke the bottle of liquid air, which flew into • bluish grey cloud of vapor aa the glaaa rashed The old enaign waa than re plated by a new one preaanted by the Italian! and hoiatad high on the a tern over her curioua boa-like rudder. Speaking for the Italian govern ment, where the ahip waa deaigned ind built, Ambaaaador Ricci expreaa -•il hia pleaaure that America ahould have bought the grJkt semi-rigid hip, and Secretary Weeks, in ac«ept ing it officially for the war depart ment, aaid the pleaaure and oppor tunity were rather hla, that the army should be ao fortunate in securing a craftamrn. Major J. Q. Thomell of hia staff of pilots and navigatora were alao thanked personally by Secretary Weeka for their successful trip, dea pite their handicap of an advera* wind and diaabled motora. After the chriatening the color pro testation took place. General Pat rick ordered the field cleared and the ship gaaaed and rebalanced for hor homeward flight Aa the motors were tuned up the handling craw saa cd up on the hauling cable and the big ahip roae alowly on an 4ven koel. Aa aoon aa ahc waa elaar of the field, the "lot go" signal waa given and the cable hauled up. She llowly forged ahead Into the wind, turning to the aouthaaat aa aha reached the rdge of the flald. At a height of a few hundred fast the engtaea were speeded up and, aaaiatad by the wind, alia began her homeward trip at a faat clip, disappearing over the kflla into the aaatk Twenty minutes after each train I oI Haa(W|i Grow* 4 first hand tvidanue to attpport lk»|M hy Iwmi WiltN, Democrat, Geor gia, that American soldlere bod bun Ranged without trial in FruM, Geor** H. Taylor. of Philadelphia, thin and frail and undar treatment, aa ha himself explained. for epllepey, dactarad ha had aaan II soldiers ' >n.f«l. or one Mora than tha nam bar officially I la tad by tha war depart ment aa executed In accordance with coartamartiai verdict*, approved hy General 1'i-rahmg, Taylor, confaaed aa to the number of victim*, testified at first hi- had seen three, and then under direct questioning increased hla figure* to four, jumping finally to It. All of theee, ha declared, war* pat te death hi aid around la-8ur-Tills la tha period froai April to Jane, 191V. la no laatance could the wititaaa aay he know whether any or all of tha It tad been triad hy a military court oI the svidsat physical •f tha witneae, Seaator Watson sag gee tad that army off leers ncludhtg Colonel Waiter Bethel, aa sistaat Judge advocate general, retire from tha room, explaining that Taylor was sabject to epileptic attacks and 'hat tha prsssace of officers might disturb him. But ths former soldier annonuced hi- wanted the officers to Testimony by Henry L. Scott. 22 y<srs-old. of Kwnen, Ohio, that he had Men two wMitii (hot down in cold blood by a "Major Opley," com mander of the third battalion, 116th infantry, brought • quick and aharp denial from Major Hiram L. Opie. at hi* home in Staunton, Va., who waa in charge of that organisation and who annonuced ha would b« glad to go befora the committee. Reott waa posi tive ia tha asaartion that ha aaw both killed, at different timea, that tha tat shootiwg ef a ealdier was \ witnessed hy aeversl hundred Men and that ha alone aaw tha second. In making sweeping denial of the charge, Major Opio, at Staunton, de clared in a statement that Scott; "writes himself down as a skulker by his own testimony," that he belonged to another outfit and never should hava' been in the fighting line with tha third battalion. Although ha did not know of his own knowledge of any executions without trials, Robert A. Harriaon, of Wilmington. N. C-. told the committee he "had witnessed two lynching*," one conducted by "Hard Boiled" Smith. The soldier, ha said, was put to death for refusing to sweep s stockade with a tooth brush, that the hiring, as hs remembered, took plaqp on December 24, 1918, at 7:30 o'clock in the evening, and that hs saw the lynching from a distance of 800 yards. The other man waa strung from a tree by officers and men, for a crime against a wqpian. In an effort to clear up what he regarded aa the confusion in Taylor's testimony, Chairman Ban da gee sug gested that Colonel Bethel question the witneas concerning the 18 execu tions he claimed to have seen with his own eyes. Early in the hearing Colonel Bethel filed with the commit tee the official war department list r.1 U executions, with places and dat««, omitting only the names out of consideration for the families of the dead. The department list showed that two soldiers wet* hanged after trial at Is-8ur-Til!s, and it was the officer's contention that Taylor was present, with other men and officer*. | Taylor's testimony waa regarded in the nature of a confirmation of Co lonel Bethel's conclusions in this respect, as he did know the name of one of the two soldiers executed at1 that place. Locomotive Fireman Perform*. Heroic Aet New York, Dec. M.r—Jerry Drl» • oil, a locomotive firemen on State* Inland, waa congratulated aa a hero today. While hia train traveled at 28 mile* an hour, he jumped (rem the engine Into a creek end caved the life of William Alexander, a achool bey, who had been ■ truck by the *n*in« *nd thrown into fifteen feet of water. 11m bey died later, however, hi • hos pital. The train had gene ahead almoet a mile before the i nfineer miaaed Dria aolt adn whan he (topped and hacked up, he aaw the fir ma an lifting at the >d(* of the creek, heldta* the hey, who we* on—rim tram a fttctni of the *knll. Nnm who saw the reecue Mid DriMeO dived ttm the** beftoe he fend th* bey, wto *aak H I 'MAJtSE HENRY' WATTE* SON IS MAO HU Loyalty to Ilk* South Om of Us* Moat Outotoadfcf Pm tutoa «f Life i L**4*r to Jacksonville K!a, Deo. a*.—Col. Henry Witunon. known to Dm American people h tho but surviv ing member of tfco oM aehool of Journalism and to Ma friends u "Mara* Henry." died early today at a hotol ton. Death fan peacefully, (ha vanar abla editor being conacious almoat to the rnd and ronvaraing during hia laat half hour with hia wife, ton and .laughter. ('«). Wattaraon ca»a to Jactoon villa aavaral weak* ago la accotdaaea will hia annual cualom of t pending tho winter la Florida, uaually at fort Myera. Soon aftar ha arrived hare, ha waa taken ill, but for tho paat faw daya aa improveaseat la hia conditio* teemed noticeable. Ha contracted a •light ooId Ttseeday and while aaatod in a chair yaaterday morning toon aftar breakfaat, to raftered aa acuta bronchial attack and waa orderod to hia had to Us physician. Hia condi tion grew worse during the day and night and the and came at (ill o'clock thia morning. The immediate cauae of hia death, hia physic taa said, waa heart failure superinduced by congee tlon of the lungs. Thus "Harts Honry" paaaed to "that beautiful shore" where ha laat October wrote Ilia romradea of the ' 'on federal* army to was sure "the Bonnie Blue flag waa flying at the 'ore and tho bands will to playing 'Dixie' on parade and the pretty girls will be diatnbuting 'tho Chattanooga Rebel' (the newspaper published by Mm during the War betwaati the States) to groups of ragged, rod aooad a a gala wto have not forgotten tht rebel yell." The body of Cot Watteraon will ra th* sprint, whan It will be taken to Loatarilte for burial la the family plot at Cava Hill* Cemetery, where Kit father and mother rut. hi* too. Henry Watteraon, Jr., annonuced. Mr. Watterion uid hia mother waa very frail and that beeauae of her condition, a* a result of the death of her hue band, he demed it inadviaable Tor her to leave Florida during the winur. Henry Watteraon waa one of the hut of the old time pononal journal iata. More than half a cantury hia 'Jitoriala, with their brilliant, origin al and phrase-making compoaition, attracted wide attention They ware commented on and copied by the preaa of the nation. Beaidea hia newer in molding public opinion thru hia editorial! Watteraon a influence la credited with having ahaped the platform of Uye Democratic party in mora than one presidential compaign. Abraham Lincoln waa aaid to be the greatest paaalon of Watteraon'a life. Hia lecture on "Lincoln" wa* delivered in hundreda of citiea and It waa hia pride to tell of calling on Lincoln the morning of hia inaugura tion and of atanding beaide him at the ceremony. "Let no Southern man point hia ':nger at me," Mr. Watteraon aaid, "because 1 cannonise Lincoln, for he waa the one friend we had at court when friends were moat in need." When Watteraon founded the Jour nal he made a plea for harmony in the South. Thoroly reconatructed him self, he urged all to follow hia courye In complete aubmlaaion to the Federal government. Mr. Watteraon alwaya advocated • "Tariff for Revenue Only," a phraae which he coined, and which finally aa adopted by the Democratic party. He waa an ardent friend of Graver Cleveland during the latter'a firat administration as preaident. bat opposed Cleveland's third nomination. Of his career Mr. Watteraon re like many the South, a wo-tkirds of tlM bucinsss. After to take an editorial pasltkin ea Ik* eM LoaterilU Journal, Um War ef George 0. Prentice 8U mpiIm later Walter N. Hsldeman, wtH own fd Um Courier, Joined with ma ta orabmin* the Juuiul and Pourtar Incidentally thl« led to the »nrrk«s» of Um old Louisville Democrat, this publication losing Its Identity entimly. That's aboat alt." Foflk Salted Wilk r.Marri— el Virlow mmd SwHry Gift* The New York World an the day Marshal Foch wan schedule! to Mil frr FlUIUM Hid: If the water-line of Um 11 ■Willi Part* doe* not (how, and Mm la "down by tha head," there la jtubak ly no cause mora to blasse than Mar shal Koch. The big veasel which Is taking Um gueet of tha Amirtcaa Lo tion back to France will look like a gift shop whan Um Marshal and kia belongings, contained M MMBfef trunks, goto on board. Beaides tha Marshal's sttirs and thirty hpin conferred oa him by the uairersitiee and oollagaa ef AM country and Canada, he will hare: Theodore, the wildcat preasatod to him by the State of Wyoming. A staffed glunecock Um smbiaas at France. Two automobilM, if hs mm to te <-«pt them, will be Mat to Ma to fnic*. Ten dolls. severs! of thsm walking manikin*, riven to htm for Ms Krand-daughter. Six swords probably worth more than 910,000. Several are made of told and atudded with diaatonda. A trunk full of hooka rrsaeatod to him by mayor*, high ranking amy officers and other admirer*. Several prayer booka are i* this collection. A trunk full of letters, written by French people living in America, and children of achools where tlm Mar thai was unable to visit. A kw chain, with ths key of every * . ..J Ua—W.l ' - a» a Canes, fountain pens, gold pencils and thousand* of invitationa to visit place*. Several hundred photographa of himself taken in various cities. Several hundred feet of movie films donsted by large moving picture concerns. Two new uniforms. On* is the fall dress regalia of the Crow Indians. The Marshal is Chief Charging Thunder of this tribe. Another uni form of the Sioux Indians. Hs is chief Napoleon of this tribe. Includ ed spth his Indian uniform are bows nnd arrows, trinkets and expensive blankets made by Indiana Several medala. including ths American Legion badge About fifty medals by fsAous artists, represent ing the Marshsl's visit to certain cities. Several hundred certificates repre senting his honorary membership In clubs snd aocietiea And besides holding sll long dis tance records in obtsining degress, • he Marshal take* back to Francs the undying friendship of mors than 100,000.000 people n s BIG COMPANIES TO CO-OPERATE AU the large tobacco companies have asuurrd the Barley Grower* Marketing Association of their oo npcration, while 1>6 out of ISO ware housemen in Kentucky have joined1 In the movement, according to • letter from R. W. Bingman. a native of North Carolina, who led the fight tot co-operative marketinir in Kentucky Writing to Dr. 3. Y. Joyner, chair man of the Tri-State Organiaation Committee for the Tobacco Grower* Co-Operative A Mod at ion, Mr. Blng man uya: "We have had very great In the aign-up campaign, and have over 68,000 aignert and wall < tO par cent of the barley crap. "ft may be tntareatlng to yon to know that we have direct aaaurnncea from all the large tobacco com pan tea that they ate going to co-aperata with aa. In addition, 1M oat of 1M1 In Ken tacky have joined In tfce i ment and practically 1 petty over to tha aaa agr lament to fl* the price by i tion lator On financial mantoart all mt*» and wa have no doubt we ahaB be ready to the praaaat crop, i tion h «otog to
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