ESTABLISHED It SO
MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY,
DOUCHTON TO RETAIN
SCAT
!
PnUi That Dr.
ia Not KatkWd
Eighth District
L. d lorhtMi J +TS&
North Carolina district, is |t«Mi •
clear tltis to hi* ml la Con|rm by
tfe Hnm elitism committee, which
Iwwd tha MM mm at Dr Ikr
Campbell, Republican, of Norwood.
ImMI county, who wm the opponent
of Congressman DmwMm at the hx
»1st Us a. Tht <s«islus that Dr. Camp
Ml wm not entitled la the Mat wm
raachrd by a unanimous vote of Re
publican* »rvd Democrats, and the
committee reports la favor of Con
rraaaaac Doughton will ba signed
<-ertainly bjr every mraibcr, the only
one la qwMttoa being ltpM«a|«thrr
John L. Cable, Republican, Ohio, who
stated that ha desired to look into tha
absentee rater law of North Carolina
before final action on Ms part. It bi
expected that ha will join In signing
tha report In favor of Mr. Doughton.
The flection of Congressman
Doughton wm to clearly shown to the
election* committee that Dr. Camp
ball'* claim* of ita being an illegal
election received no eonaidentlon. At
the first meeting of tha committee
following tha bMring held this morn
ing leM than an hoar wm given to
reviewing the testimony, and the de
cision favoring the seating of Con
gressman Do ugh ton wm reached.
Tha members of elections committee
Number S, which heard thr caM, in
clude* sis Republicans and three De
mocrats. The Republican member*
are: Representatives Luee, Mafia
chusetta, Nelson, Winconsin. Parkin*.
New Jersey, Cable, Ohio, Lawrence,
Missouri; Rrown, Tennessee. The
Democratic members are: Raprmenta
tive Clarfc; <jf Florida; Sanders, Tex
m, and Wilson, LouiMna. The fact
that the Republicans are two to one
Las against the Democrats and that
Dr. Campbell lost by a unanimous
vote against him ».ght to ba suffi-1
cient to convince even North Caro
lina Republicans that Congressman
truth is that Dr. Campbell has shied
around the law wherever possible, i
hM flouted it and had no justice In his
contest
Congressman DoughtAn w»» of
coum dilifhlfd at the action of the I
committee. "I am very much gratified
at the result," he said, "and I am very
thankful to my friend* who have aid
«d me in thii matter, and the rapport
that I have received in the fight. 1
have had to give much time to the
contest of Dr. Campbell, for while I
knew that my election waa an honest
one t have had to prepare for the
hearing and have had to go from place
to place in the district in following
the charges made. The unanimous
action of the committee shows that
its members found nothing in Dr.
Campbell's case. But I've had to
look out for my side of the question,
for it is Just like having the seed and
planting it. If you fail to cultivate
you will have no crop. I have had
to do the cultivating in the way of
preparing my case. No one could
have presented it in any better way
than Clyde Hoey. He had the facts
in hand and he made a fine impres
sion on the committee. When the
House has acted on the report I will
make a formal statement in the mat-;
ter. Just now all that I can say is!
that I am very much gratified."
"A Mental Suicide" Slayer
Called. Will Hui Friday
Chicago, Feb. 26.—Medical and
psychological experts, who for thirty
days have been witching the desper
ate efforts of Henry W. Church, slay
er of two automobile salesmen V>
cheat the gallows by starving him Self
to death, today declared he had suc
ceeded in committing mental suicide.
■According to Dr. Norman Co pel and
who has been directing the forcible |
feeding of Church, the physical crista I
in the youth's condition has passed i
and he will live—physically .
Other physicians, however, say that.
Church la already mentally dead. He
ia not insane, bat has reduced himself
te such a state of mental hypnosis <
that he will feel no pain when the
trap is sprang Friday.
Church's hunger strike began mere
than thirty day* ago. For two weeks <
1w has been forcibly fad. bet seems in
sensible to pins stuck te his flesh, or
ttmea we are not sen sers that ha Is <
butttkhw." Iks death watch said, "ft
would he easier to sit heaMs a eoepee."
TELEPHONE INVENTOR'S -
7STH BIRTHDAY
First Om
Washington, Mar. 4.—Ball, A. Gra
ham, r 1331 Cml an. KranMln-M.
Uit way hia nam* to listed In tha tele
phone directory of Washington |hree
w authaaic hint of the character of
Die aian who Invented the tiliptaw.
Telephone cum pan lea have two kinds
if vanltlea to contend with. One
daae of sBbecrthar* wiah special, 41a
Linctlve n umber*; ill Ws*hln*ten
•lone there are more than a thooaand
it the second rlaaa who seek exclu
oven ess or would avoid possible an
rtnyam-es by not having their nam re
In the directory at all. The latter
ire known aa "imitated telephone*.
The inventor of tha telephone tl
tiibiti neither vanity nor doc* ha
rven indict, apparently, upon that
»lmo«t universal preference that hie
name (Alexander Graham Bell)
•hould be printed in full.
The other day, with tha same sort
it modesty, he told a group of offi
rials of the II. 8. Patent Office;
"I rather think that you know more
kbout the telephone today than I do."
He then called attention to the more
than 8,000 patents relating to tele
phone* granted since be obtained the
original patent of March 17, 1876.
In connection with the observance
>f Dr. Bell's seventy-fifth birthday on
March 3, the National Geographic
Society quotas from a communication
in which Dr. Bell asserts that his in
vention of the telephone really began
aith his grandfather, Alexander Bell,
if Ixmdon, England, who died thr
/riLT our Chril War ended. Of hi*
rrsndfather, Dr. Bell writes:
"lie was an elocutionist and a cor
rector of defective utterance. He was
he first in the family to take up the
i!udy of the mt-chanium of speech with
the object of correcting defects of
ipeech by explaining to his pupils the
orrect positions of the vocal organs
it uttering the sounds that were de
fective."
Dr. Ball then recount* the boyish
xperiments he made with vocal ut
terance, Including an attempt to
■take a dog - talk. And on his
■eventy-flfth birthday, the inventor
(till is to be found in his laboratory
>ften working until 3 or 4 o'clock in
the morning, experimenting with the
lame keen, boyish uat. Continuing
n* boyhood reminiscence Dr. Bell
* I IKS • 5
"My father, Alexander Melville
Boll, of Edinburg, Scotland, wu also
in elocutionist and corrector of <!••
rective utterance
"I wu always mucti interested in
Tiy father's examinations of the
mouths of hia elocutionary pupils,
rhey differed in an extraordinary
(•free in siie and shape, and yet all
these variations seemed to be quite
»nsistent with perfect speech. I
:hen began to wonder whether there
was anything in the mouth of a doc
to prevent it from speaking. and com
menced to make experiments with an
ntelligent Skye terrier we possessed.
"By the application of suitable
loses of food material, the dog was
■oon taught to sit ap on his hind leg*
tod growl continuoualy while I mani
pulated his mouth, and stop growling
when 1 took my handa away. I took
nis muxxle in my hands and opened
ind closed the jaws a number of times
n succession. This resulted in the
production of the syllables 'ma-ma."
'ts., as in the caae of the talking
machine.
"The mouth proved to be too small
so enable me to manipulate individual
parts of the tongue, but upon pushing
ipward between the bones of the
ower jaw, near the throat, 1 found it
possible to completely close the
Musageway at the back of the mouth,
ind a xucression of pushes of this
:haracttr resulted in the syllables
ga ga ga-ga," etc.
"The simple growl was an approx
mation of the vowel 'ah,' and this,
Followed by a gradual constriction
utd 'rounding' of the labial orifice
)y the hand, became converted into
she diphthong 'ow,' aa in the yord
how' (sh oo), and we soon obtained
lie final element by itself—an imper
fect *00." The dor's repertoire of
muids finally constated of the vowels
ah,' and 'oo," the diphthong 'ow/ and
;he syllables 'ma' and 'fa.' ■
"We then proceeded to manvfac
■ure words and sentoncea composed
if these elements, and the dog's final
inguistic accomplishment conaiatod
n the productioa of (he i ill an
Ow-oh-oo-gamama," which, by the
ixerciae of a little fam«taatfa«.
"SSMlUy paaaad muster for How are
IM, grandmama' ('Ow-ah-oo-ga
vfc:":' . • v.
The deg soon lw>n«4 that Ma
buainaaa in lifs waa to crowl srhile
my handa wrr* upon Ma nyuth, and
to (top (nwtlac the nwmt I took
than away, and «* both of aa h»rama
quit* expert M the prndtctlM of tW
famous aaatann, "How arc yo«,1
"The 4»f took quite a bread-end- !
butter interest in the aip«rli*«ii(
and of tan mad to stand up on Ma
hind lac* and try to My thin aentenre
by htmaelf, bat without manipulation
waa never able to do anything am
than crawl.
"Th» fame of th» do* aoon aprand
among my fathar'a frienda, and pao
ple cuaa from far and near to wttnaaa
Um performance. Thin la the only
foundation for the newnpaper stories
that I had once aurreeded in teaching
a dog to apeak."
THUNDERSTORMS ARE
VERY GREAT BENEFIT
Harvard Profoaaor Talk of the
Good TWy do—Naadlaaa
Fear at Li|klnbi|
Cambridge, Maes., March 2.—The
much mooted queetion aa to whether
lightning roda are efficient in warding
off destruction from lightning bolta
haa been anawerad by Prof. D. C.
Ward of Harvard University in the
affirmative aa a reautt of much study. '
Prof. Ward aaya that there la much
needless fear of lightning, explaining
that many bolt* of the celeatial dec-;
tricity are harmleaa and only atrong
enough to flaah from one cloud to an
other.
"A recent investigation into the
value of lightning roda in protecting
buildings in the United States leada
to the eoncluaion that the efficiency
of the lightning roda in presenting
lightning strokes ia about 90 per
cent." Prof. Ward atated.
"Hundreds of fires In houses and
»ther buildings are -tarted every year I
by lightninv. Nearly all of theae1
firea, and "a considerable lou of hu
man life, would certainly be prevented
If modern methoda of lightning pro
taction ware generally employed.
"Tbtmder atoms bring us aaar*>
that (a of benefit. To them we owe
much, in parts of the country—even
moat of our apring and summer rain
fall. Withoot thunder showers, our
great staple crops eaat of the Rocky
mountatna would never reach matur
ity. One good thunder shower over a
considerable area at a critical crop
stage ia worth hundreds of thousands
of dollars to American farmers.
"Our itock market* time and again
(how the favorable reaction of such
condition* upon the price* of cereal*
and alao of railroal and other atockaJ
Thunder shower* break sum nff
drought*; clearso the dusty air; re
pleniih failing stream* and brook*
and bring cool evening* and night*
after *ultry and oppressive day*.
"It i* of considerable Human and
economic importance that the larger
thunder storm* are not everywhere
equally severe. Tliey are not a we|L
united whole, but rather a aeries or
storm* loosely connected moving ■ as
a body.
"There I* much needle** fear of
lightning. Most thunder storms are '
harmless. Many lightning flashes'
art- too weak to cause death. Large |
"limbers of flashes are from cloud to I
cloud and do not affect our safety. Be J
tween 700 and 800 persona are struc^
hy lightning and killed each year in
the United State*, on the average,
and probably fully twice aa many are1
injured.
"There are certain facta in our re
lation to lightning which are well
establiahed: Isolated house* and
farm building* in the country are
more liable to be struck than city
buildings. Our modern city *ky-|
scraper* with their steal frame con-1
struction are in themselves excellent
lightning conductor*. In general, the
nearer we are to the *eat of electri
cal activity the greater the danger.
The riak of being struck by lightning
i* therefore greater on mountain* up
to a certain height than in valleys and.
on lowland*.
Tke PneaMania Month
March i* a typical pneumonia month
and usually inve* a high rate of
mortality for the diaeaaa. After a
long and hard winter, the system lose*
much of it* resistance and people
grow care lea*. When even' '""'d. •»
matter how slight, is given prompt
and intelligent attention, then is
much tea* danger of pneumonia. It
■hould be borne in mind thai pneu
monia ia a germ diaeaaa and breed* in
tfce threat Chamberlain's Congh
Bsnrty la aa expectorant and cleana
out the gem laaiwted mucus and not
only cere* a cold hut prevent* ita re
sulting in pneumonia. It la tleassnt
to take. Children take it wfllingly.
SOUTHERN ANNOUNCES
STATION FOR WINSTON
MMm to Co* $700,000
Without Mm 1 il> ml BMMk.
On Wliooior Pupirtj
Winston fUlt'm. Kuril l/—TMa fHjr
la to be provided wHh ■ modern and
hantMW onion piniiifir elation and
i. wiFI ba located MlWoV WfcaaWr
pmparty In Um eastern port of the
rtty, Official anno uncinot of tka
■tta choaan w»« made hat* today whan
Prwidnt llarrtaon and Vtea Fraal
4»nt Millar, at the Southern railway:
President trim, of tha Meothbownd,
and J. E. Willmighby. of tka Norfolk
and Vnlm, ha Id a conference wttji
members of tltk organisations and
rxplainad plana of tha structure,
which will anat, with grounds and de
velopments. at laaat $700,000. Praai
dent Harriann alao announcad that
tha railrttads would not aak tha cit»
to rota bond* to finance tha proposi
tion; that tha thraa railway* wow Id
«*urr tha money to construct tha
station and raaka the development
nacaaaary. A motion waa adopted by
tha representative fit lens praaant
asking tha railioada to procaad with
tha development of plana and con-,
structipn work aa early aa feasible.
According to the praaant plana aa
outlined, the station will front north
on an attractive parkway for which
imple property nil) be provided. Tha
structure itaelf will be of aoft red
tapeatry brick, with limestone trim
mings and rotamns. There will be
n «e pa rate colored entrance from
Wheeler street.
Immediately upon entering the sta
tion, one Will find adequate , new*
stand, cigar sltop and .similar shops,
before entering the commodious wait-,
in( room, the white waiting room be
ing adequate to seat nearly 300 peo
ple. The plans provide for the loca
tion of the ticket office and baggage
nffioes bet wen the two waiting rooms
'n such a way as to be convenient to ,
those using the station.
Then will ba a covered shed leading
from the station to tha tree kit. This
Will b« constructed ma Jag to tkaJ
latest ideas in railroad station de
velopment. A covered stairway wilt
lead down to the track level.
There will be approximately 5,000i
square feet in the waiting room space
devoted to the use of the white paa-1
aengers, and about 2,214 in the colored ;
section. There will be smoking and
ladies' retiring rooms.
wmitoii Station Site
. Cause of Complaint
^^taleigh, March 4.—Tbe Kite Mlrcte^P
by the railroad* for the Winston
Salem passenger station was the sob-1
ject of a stream of complaining tele
grams and petitions received at the
office of the state corporation com
mission today. The commiision i*
urged by the complaining citizens to j
prevent the railroads from building
the station on the site specified in itm
plans. /\
k Denial was made that the WinsUm- j
Salem chamber of commerce had ap-'
proved the location selected by the;
railroads. It had been indicate*1 that,
the commission's policy is to accept'
the opinion of the chamber of com- \
merce whenever possible. -i
1 The complainanta state that the pro-i
posed site is in the negro section of]
the city, not easily accessible to
travelers and far from the business
ttnter. /
il is probable that oral argument.
will be heard if opposition to the site!
seems dete mined and serious.'
Floating Grocery Store in
Washington
Wash. March S.—A floating grocery
•tore is the latest thing to visit this
city. It. arrived yesterday from I
Bellehaven and is now moored y> the;
jock at the foot of Washington Bridge
TV proprietor carries everything that
k first class grocery Handles aboard.
Kia ship. The store is fitted up on a!
boat, which is towed from place to j
place when daeired. Everything is
convenient and well arranged. When
tnisiness gets doll at one point all the \
owner has to do is to get up steam :
uid move to another. The proprietor
lays that buaineaa is very good here 1
to far, and he expect* to remain as
long a* things boom.
Chamber Iain's Ceagh
Nothing m Geed far a Ceagh or Cell
"Everyone who has used Chamber
wn. Pa. People who one* vac this
husband. Mr Erneat Shacklafcm. fett.1
<ah npinnr who M aboard Mi tin
craft "Qwat" last January A, la art
kubouwd. iaalatad habitation of W
paraona «h* cling to Um froaati
shores of Heath Oaaffta Island, call-)
«d the "Oiimgi la Um Antarrtta."
Hir CniMl'i My »aa (rnxfltt
(mm tho AnUfttr ta Montevideo
following Ma death and wlH bo ar
r«mpKni»d by Captain Frank Haaaay,
a wirahor of fthacklaton's aspadltiiin.
whoa tt atarta again on Its Journay in
to ikt Polar ragiona.
Lady ffharkleton'a Carillon to halt
nmaaal of tk body to England ia it
amiiwMnco wtth a lifelong wiah of tha»
explorer that ha ba lawl to raat amid
tho scenes whore hia Ufa work had
boon carried on. Only at tho outset
of hia laat voyage, ha told frWwda ho
wanted "to dio with hia booU on, liko j
an old sea-dog
South Gaorgia Iiland haa figured
ntvml times in Shacklaton'a career.'
Ha served tmdor Captain B. f. Scota
in 1901 whon the intrepid pioneer in- ]
to the Icelanda of tho Booth made a
daah from that island which reaulted
in diacovery of the aouth magnet ir
pole.
One hundred milaa long, with a
rocky, forbidding coast line ao indont
•■'I that ita width variea from 20 miles
to unly one half mile, moat of its
mountainous Interior ia covered with
ice and snow throughout tho year.
Huge Ice cliffs overhang its fjords and
bays and great icebergs breaking off;
from massive glaciers make it a dan-!
geroua haven for tho occasional
wandering whaling ships which touch
its shores.
The island was discovered in 1675
by Anthony LaRoche. Captain Cook,
in 1T78, took possession in the name of*
the British Empire. Until more than
100 years later, when It was visited
by a German expedition aboard the
Moeltke, H remained unexplored, hot
the presence of herds of saala and aaa
lions made it the occasional rendet
voua of whalers for the first *few
years of this century, until the ani
mals there became nearly extinct.
Ducks, pigeons and Arctic fowl etill
are numerous on Uu> inland.
It ni while drifting with the ice
past the settlement of Grytviken,
bound toward the midnight sun on a
voyage of exploration which was to
have covered 30,000 miles, that
Shark leton suddenly died. His com •
removed the body from the
t" to a Norwegian whaler bound
Montevideo and continued the ex
ition under the leadership of sub
mander Frank Wild.
headed in the direction of the
t Enderby land, a vague country
st south of South Georgia Island
ich was reported discovered 00
years ago, but which no one has been
able to locate since.
Shackleton's body has been placed
in a plain woodea coffin, made by the
whalers at Gryfciken, and hermetical
ly sealed with sine. It will be placed ]
in a rock piled caim, among the
mounds marking the graves of other
explorers and adventurers and whal
ers who lost their live* at the "Gate
way to the Antarctic.
A simple burial ceremony will be
held in the erode church at Grytviken,
with only Captain Hussey, of Shackle
ton's wotld of admirers, to see that
his wishes and the commands of Lady
Shackleton are carried out.
Slayer of Automobile Salesman
Hanged While » Un- .
conscious State
^Chicago, March 3.—Strapped to a
chair and .-arried to the gallows in thv
<ame comatose state in which be has
laid for weeks, Harvey Church, slayer
of two automobile salesmen paid the
penalty for his crime at 8:54 o'clock
this afternoon. He retained his ap
parently unconscious mein to the end.
Last raiaute attempts by his attorneys
to save him failed when Judge* Scan
Ion and David refuaed to intercede
For the coademned man.
The trap Ml at 3:64 o'clock, just
four minutes after nooH action in his j j
twhalf had been completed. Church'sj;
bead dropped on his cheat as ha
carried to the gallows and a dapaty jI
sheriff had to raise his head to adjaat
the nooee. Sheriff Peters asked the
the
»d man had aay statesai at to
ihatr
that haa MM to aid the cooat^r. ha*
he tariff Ml. tt baa
Republican party Ik
Newberry CM*, (hr
people that the
Lhr surtaxes have been lifted from the
people able to hear them from the
war profiteer*, and added to the fear
ileaa already carried by the average
-itixen. If tpMin about the
is correctly gauged then th»
publican party by Ita year of
'haa been weighed in the balin aad
round wanting.**
And aa to tiie Democratic outlook a
(notation from an article in the
Washington Evening Star of this
iftemoon la given It read*.
"Old tinier* In politics aay they
nave never seen the Democrats bt a
none hopeful mood than now, while
-ralixinr that hope la a prime aaaet
>f the minority always. Bat the De
mocratic political leaders declare*
'hey are convinced that this time their
tapes Deems to preoent more nk
■tantial threads in ita woof and warp
ihan some time hitherto." And the
>ame paper nays as to the Republi
cans: /
"The Republican* count heavily up
hi the sixe of their present majority
n the Houne aa a mean* of saving
trace, holding that it will take a
andslide to wipe it oat. Bat they
mow that landslides have happened
ind apprehend that the country is
n a very restleae state at present, •
premonitory symptom of poaaihle
The framers have been hard hit in
particular. The first yatir of the
Harding administration has been dis
astrous to them, ha* riven them
irreatly decreased values in all lhre
itock and farm products at various
period* during the year, and on the
First of January this year all litre
itock and cattle, all farm producta
except cotton, Irish potatoes and hay,
which were slightly higher, were sell
in* on the farm* of the country at
lower price* than those on the first
:>f January, fp21, ju*t before the Wil
ton administration went out of pow
er. And the prices during the first
fear of the Harding administration
were lower than those of the 1916
1920 Wilson period by big figure*.
This is no gue** work, bat the figaqpa
sre taken from the weather, crops
snd markets publications of the De
partment of Agriculture, the Repub
lican administration having been in
rharge for a year and the humbug
tariff bill being in operation.
Lady Doctor* and Lawyers
(From New* York Port)
Out of every .nineteen physician*
ind every forty-four lawyer* in this
rity one is a woman. While there is
* compact group of women clergy.
Bnt it is myre important to observe
tiow rapidly certain skilled and semi
tltilled groups in th» 700.000 women
rainfully employed are increasing at
.he expense in part of menial groups
—the servants and waitresses. In
1920 there were more than twice as
nany women stenographers as in
1010, hat the number of servants and
vaitresses dropped from 123,867 to
•4,658.
The loss of the housewife is the
rain of business; but it is superficial
new that there is a loss even to
louse wives. It became dear during
he war that women were being coat
wiled to give a more educated atten
ion to household questions. When a
>erfect jewel was waiting in every
information office" It was unneces
ary for Mrs. Dash to know that sock
i science as home economics existed,
tut when she had to pay $15 a week
>r do the work herself, whs* the
iervant demanded the unheard of
>i Ullages, and when even pay and
irivilege did not always suffice. Mis.
)ash took thought of relative villa
A point of adjustment may hi thae
• reached Society shoald lean to