HARDING'S SHIP SUBSIDY
TIm Republican* Plan To Ghw
Away Million* Of Mltn
To TrwR InUrosts
Charlotte Ohwrvur.
Thar* I* nothing t * United State*
ha* been standing idore tn rw*d of
than a mcr-bant nu.rina that would
•tarry it* flag and it* trad* into all
fart* of th* world. Tha naad i* mpra
ptaaaing now than It was previous to
the World War, by conaequenee of
which nnsaiblltttee of expanding oar
ssmnsreial interest* were craated on
a larger acala than might hare baan
for. Prerieue to tha war, agi
polat whan aatkm by
wwmm .(.(taarad near but that*
i call for ihlpa *f aifothor nature
and tha merchant marina proposition
waa aida-trackad for tha coming of a
batter day. With tha ending of the
way, tha Government found on tta
hands an accumulation of ahlpa for
which It had no ass, and tha propor
tion waa originated with tha Eepubll
aan Administration of making those
for tha desired mer
Tha Idas was Ineor
I In tha shape of a subsidy hUL
that th* only way In which
— - ■■e>t — m a*M
mil* CTJuniry WUIQ pminOW ■ ID0T
sidy of some kind, and public senti
mant had boon growing hi that direc
tion. Bat It depended upon what
kind of a subsidy.
With detailed information of tha
aabeidy proposed by the President
than came a re rule ion of sentiment.
Ik la a aubeidy which ssams to throw
the door wide open to' graft and to
sraatioa of a claaa of preferential
Government pete. It la a little strange
that any Administration could oppose
a bonus to tha soldiers and at the
same time farce a ship bonus of tha
pVOpOMtl npon th* cona
The money that would V"
required for the soldier bonus la
a bagatelle compared to th* hand-out
that woaM be instituted under the
mas bflL Let as
of the facts pre
by Slchan
te be eure.
tta
National Committee, bat facta
which ft la for tha Republicans to re
fute. Tha facta have bean eopplied
by the Democratic membera of the
Hooae Committee on Merchant Ma
rine, and are therefor* of authority,
and this is what develope—
The Government's fleet built dur
htg the war and now in tha keeping
ef the United States Shipping Board,
seat the people $8,000,000,000 The
■hipping Board would be authorised
hy the paaaag* ef th* pending bin to
sail these rsaaela for $200,000,000—a
baa to the tax-payers of ti,#00,000,
Having purchased the ships, the
aw 9wncn would hsrs the oppor
tha disposition in tha
i of thaaa Democratic members,
t» capitalise them for something like
' ^roe value am) haae their freight
i on this higher valuation, so
tat the people woeid suffer first
from tha Shipping Board's i iilim—
deflation of $2*00,000,000 and after
wards hjr the Shipping Trust's reek
teas inflation of more billions. This
would ha an atftinil loaa and bur
den for the taxpayers to boar for tha
mgrandixement of special Interests.
Again, .tha bill eontemplataa tha
^mating at b on nasi aggregating
ITW,000,000 to the prirata concerns
hoy and oparste the ships and
Of 11*8,000,000 to thaaa
and individuals to
pay for the building of new and Um
of old vsaasls. That
•tat out, wmM to tanta
mount to, giving the ahlpa away and
then baa tuning iswsids totalling
'Banvwevs of the $128,000,000 pine
al at the diapoaal of the Shipping
t— Tk, i nl 1 i i —— «i - s — -
oj iTMiotni nirainf •
would to swahled to
Itam at aa Interest rata of two pel
• at and for aa long as It years. Tfe
edly collateral pledged for the i»
|d/m ml of ttoae leans would to tta
tha amount lent hj
fek
might to the equivalent of twe
of tha market value of tin
which H waa advanced.
11m D—iiyaUu rnsmhsw call at
to**«K« that while thfa
il corpo ratio na tha
psliOags of boimnlag the Govern
fanda at a rhte of ton par carr
a year tor a tarm of II yearn and uq
■ ef t
of the ahtp* upon which loon* are
mad* farmara who obtain money
from the Federal Farm I-and Bank"
can if«t rf. cnmmndationH only by.
paying intereat at tho rata of tlx par
eont a year for limited periods and
in eum* not exceeding M) per cant of
tha morhct~**lue of fartna they mort
urHgc aa aocurtty.
Over and *lw»« th**t direct honuaea
from tha Federal Trraaury. tha bene
ficiariaa wotild receive indirect aub
, aidiaa. Thay would ba axampt from
•II Federal taxes provided tha
amount which would ba otharwtoa
, payabla aa taxe* to Inveated or
maraly aat aaida tnveatment to
now ahipa. No auch generoaity if
t roggeated to raapact to tha fantm
| or amall boainaaa man or wago
j worker* of tha country. Only tha
rich ara to have now richaa. Verily,
, "unto everyone that hath a hall ba
gtvea, *nd ha ahall hava abundance."
Thara to nothing In tha bill that
I promises cheaper ocoan freight rataa
or that provide* for regulation of
tha chargee or boatoaaa of thaaa ra
ceivere of publto funda. Thai* to,
however, every raaaon to baltora that
tha bill totaiuto tha repeal of oarUto
•actiona of tha Federal anti-trust acta
to order that railroade may operata
ahipa and tha ahlpping in te root* may
combine to enlarge and conaolidata
their praaant monopoly.
Finally, tha bill givea tha Shipping
Board autocratic powara, tha nature
I and extant of which are typified by
I tha provisiona freeing it from the
obligation to maka report* of its
, acta or expenditure* to any officer
, or branch of the Government or to
aeek annual appropriation* or au
| thorisationa from Congraaa aa other
I Department* and Bureau* ara com
pelled to do.
It to with acknowledged hope of
paaaing a bill of thi* aort that Presi
dent Harding haa called an extra
aaaaion of Congreaa. Tha public,
having been placed in pom—Ion of
tha salient point* of tha bill, may
understand why the extra aaaaion to
de*ttood to fail to its special miaaton,
or why, not having failed, it would
have eetabliahed legislation in pro
fiteering that would forever dam tha
to Aa elect tone of 1M4.
B lockuUn Are Hard
Hit la Western N. C.
Ashevllle, Not. 14.—Federal offi
cial! yesterday Mind tWt the
session of United State* District
court now drawing to a ctoee baa
"broken the backbone" of illicit
whiskey manufacturing and selling
' in western North Carolina. Follow
ing a concerted drive by prohibition
' officers, deputy marshals and sber
lfr. forces the past s{x months
about BOO defendants were arrested.
Judge E. Yates Webb dispoesd of
ISO cases during this term of which
nine were sentenced to federal pris
on; M to Jail terms and finaa aggre
gating $9,225 imposed. Only one de
fendant was acquitted.
During the court session it ds
veloped that the "Cat's Head" section
of Henderson county, had yielded
nine stills within an area of about
two square miles. This was pro
nounced the worst hot hod of distill
ing In the section. Five men were
convicted from this section, one being
sent to prison and four to Jail. One
woman waa convicted of selling a i
still and was fined (600.
Large Incubator Ordered For
Pit
Greenville, Nov. M.—While several
places have been talking of enlarg
ing in the poultry business, it re
mained for Greenville and Pitt coun
ty to actually take the initial step in
a Mg way, as far as eastern North
Carolina Is tamarind.
Orders was placed today with one
of the big manufacturing eoaspaniee
for a mammoth tnca hater. Two
thousand four hundred eggs can ha
hatched at one setthv with this
The large Incubator wdl he operat
ed on a rnatom baah, and so conduct
ed as to permit say one to hhf
their am Car such space aa they,
might want, deliver to the aisags
meat, return on the day of hatching,
pay their hatching fas pad take
their ehfc&s bona. In this way
auny all la animated to graw
late the poultry baainaaa, aa they
will not naceeaarOy have to have
large capital to begin with.
The Pitt County Chamber of Com
merce has hasa working on this
matter Car some weeks and now Umt
; It has heeoate aa sinsapHahmsul la
i aoi* than giaUfytm to the pro
J. F. NEWELL EXPLAINS
LATE ELECTION RESULTS
People Of Country Simply
Ditfuitod With Um Old
Guard, He Styi
rharlotta, No*. 26.—"What Is Um
piplaoation of the citrous voting in
the Ut" election*" Mid JUke f. New
•'II, mt-mber of the Charlotte bar and
prominent Republican. "That's aaay!
There are many anglea in tha answer,
but thay an all aaay.
"Nationally, tha Rispublica-ia wars
dlaguated with what has boeoma
known aa tha old goard—that ia, the
remnant of tha Taft element In ths
party. Unfortunately, tha Harding
adminlatration has permitted tha
idaa to obtain that it was controlled
by that sum old slaunt Now.
whan thera ara fWe Tafl man la Um
■epabliean party in tha Unitad
Statas, thara ara nlnoty five antl
Tafts. And tha old irnard never
laarna anythinr. It tot a drubbing
in Itlt On acooont of tha problems
arising from tha war, ths Boose
▼•It followers triad to forgive the old
guard. Tha old guard began again
to foal that It existed and raled by
dhrine right. So, ths Republicans
Just gars It another beating. It is
really cruelty to animals, but tha old
guard had as well understand, once
for all, that It will ha beaten ovary
time the people in the Republican
party have a chance to beat K.
"In North Carolina, tha Republican*
xtruclc. The Taft element was in
charge, bat they were never very
handy at getting oat votes on elec
tion day. The Roosereltiani just
left them to their fate—and there
were not enough of them to eonduet
a respectable funeral.
"The Republicans in North Carolina
have not been pleased with either
management or their nanagers for
the past four years. They atruek
and refueed to attend the state con
vention In Winston this year, and
then struck again on election day.
They are tired of the old guard in
North Carolina because It la tha old
guard. They are tired and diaguated
with the calibre of a great majority
of thoee appointed to offtee In North
cause they are tired and hsaanaa the
old guard MkM tlM> tired.
"TV Republican party, in both
■tate and nation, will rid itself of
the old guard, or the people w(P rid
thtnwlm of the Republican party.
By thia. I do net mean that the Re
publican party will hare to enbrut
the radicalism of the west, but I do
maan that the party will get rid of
the staffed prophet* who have coun
selled the course that hat driven the
party dangerously Bear to the rocka.
"Now don't imagine that I think
the real Republicans are going to
the Democratic party. Rather, De
mocrats are coming out of that party,
if they ran find a place to go. Tor
jnstance. the Democrats of the south
are 'dry' as a powder house (at least
in profession); the north is aa 'wet'
as the Atlantic. The north will shape
the policy, write the platform and
name the candidate in the next De
mocrats convention. All three will
be wet It will get mony votes. Bat
how wijl the dry sooth look at HT
Or will she reach her uanal state of
normalcy and shot her eyes and vote
anyway? Beaidee the wet and dry
issue, there are many other things
in the Democratic party In the north
that can never be vary popular with
Democrats in the south.
"The troth ie. neither one of the
parties stands any too well with the
people Just now. The present leaders
of the Republican party are not
trusted by the people, and the pres
ent leaders of the Democratic party
are not trusted by one another. The
m -i,..I, >L-||,| at, n ...a *V_—
nepuoncan* siruCK inroufnoui im
country, except in Pennsylvania and
California (where they had something
to vote for); and the Democrats, Just
straggling around, slasblsd upon
victory, except hi Pennsylvania and
California. And that vMety may
he more of a liability than aa aaast."
-W«n, that's DIM ttea I hoat tlM
tnk mt tha i luaatwg." lufM tha
•pood fWnd u tha mw** wkioad
hjr • Mcoad Utter.
"Tm," ropbod tha friond wtth him,
"WW* k t wy gTMt who# I lone
•hot wkM—hot not often. Lot mo
got oat oo I con walk homo. My Ufa
tnooroneo it not paid op."
Nnrlywed: "Tn towd my wtfo
in your favor for >60,000." Wtfo:
"Oh, Jack, foa win kill imrmH try
tot to pay Um »malum« Bow
5U ywr, T* Dim
la CUctri« Chair
York, a C., Nov. 18—-Willi.n c i
.M, win die I. the
electric. chair on DKtiabn 29 for the
■laying of Newton Taylor, aged 14,1
anl— *>». higher court* or tb. gey.'
wnor interfere. Date for hla -nrm
tion ••• Mwd lata today ^
J. C. Paorifoy in court of general
after • Jury aarllar bad
found hia rollty of mnrd.,. I
A motion for a naw trial waa mr.
RMK
Farfaa want on trial yeatordny
morning In tha flnrt of four ehargoe
of the fatal wounding on September
T*?*T* •' family af
7?" * T*rV" * Clover Both
•idea rlo^d their caae thla morning
•ml at 1.M o'clock thla afternoon
tha raaa waa given to tha hirv at
•t had reached a verdict and three
■'""too UUr the »erdict waa an
■ F*ri" " tim* da*ng tha trial
^ °* •Botfcw Ha!
V* Twd,ct Condemning bin 1
to death la the electric chair atofcnl
An W alW the rwdlct w.
***®' Former Oov. Cola L.
•nd Thomaa McOow, eounael for
m.i * motion for a now
,nd H waa overruled.
#*n,d F,r<w ^1
toro the bench and pronounced aen-1
5^°*, SUndin* eract and holding
hi» MnA .louch hat in hia hand.
( *n~J,or 11 niinntea atood before
while aentence waa ^
Tmi .tood in the eyaa of nuny of
the acorea of ■pectaton whan Judge
Peunfoy ronclwtod. Fartoa. bownvor.
•tood dry-eyed. Several of hia child
fen, who have been by hia aide
throughout the trial, were ranged
■round him when he waa aentenced
and accompanied him to tha door of
tti^°Unt^U Wh*" *
Pending removal to tha oaal
tentiary in Colombia.
Sentencing of Pariaa
°f the mot notable caaea of -r ,Tl
of . ehildr2r"^a„Si^*X
little cotton mill rlllace of Clowe
j. JX
of Fmri— quarreled. There
»•*» ■avoral quarrel. and finally the
adult member* pf the families
Involved although never breaching
tk« point of violence.
finally on Septembw • IHtl. John
Farm, eon of William told hU father
that a member of the Taylor family
^ .truck him with a .tone. ThU
porting to Pariaa' own .tory OB
lLT1 *tand' *° provoked the
•Merly man that he eouH not atond
the quarrel* any longer, and getting
™ **■ he itarted (booting nam.
bera of the Taylor family.. He aald
^inTJ,Si<,id n°t1.know wh-t hn.
Six member* of tha Taylor
family were wounded when the
"" *>■'• Norton.
LWn and Fred Taylor and Claode
Johnson, their grown couain, died.
Caatioae Mu
"And you an 96 yanra old!" aha
exclaimed. "How wonderful I Ton
look ao well. How hava you aumaged
to do it?"
"My method Is rery aim pie. 11
nerer let any of ay friends know |
when I am not feeling well; com
quently TVe never had to take any of |
the things they would hare imh
mended if they had known I waa all-1
In*."—The Continent (Chicago).
OF LOCAL INTEREST
Poop I* We Kmw, Aad
' i Will Profit By H«*rbtf
This'la • purely local event. It I
took place in Mount Airy. Not In |
To« are aaked to billiw a i
word; To conftrm a oMsei
ment. Any article that la
W. L. Steele, prop, of J
Otk St., says: "1 have fiend Dean's |
PUlo to be a s
Occasionally I base o
ring pohi hi the small of my hack
and my kidneys donl act properly.
Whan I feel tMa may, I always get a
boo ot Doan*a Kidney Pills f**m the
Weot prog Store (now Jul tat
ridge thug Stale) aad they aooal
bring relief. I think Den's an a
I
Tfc* ItafciuIiatMa Of (fardi*,
W*w York Wodd.
Oni TiMMdajr. November «, ltSO, the
7Xw!ro<K>n ^ * P,0r*llty •*
H»rdJnf and hi. Republican «o
^ C^'fk for the conduct
JMJ.
Ob Tveaday, November T. ' l»22
rhl^k. to 'toP P*ym~t •» the'
Both morally mm! politically rep,.
■Iiatiun of tha Hardm* Adrnmu/tr.
t|on- tha light of tha —
IT—«. «.**««£ JZfZZ
Into power two yaara ago, tha n.
•I reveraal of political eenttr- nt utM
tha country haa evarJmow*.
JSL*5M* * >•7 b» tha (Uty.
^•Mh Con™ 1. practic.lly wip.
, 0**t» It to now » queatiof,
whether there will ha any Ratmhlir.n
"•Jortty in the 8lxty^l^th Con
Rraaa.
H«nry Cabot Uxfce, the Republic
leader of tha Senate, c*ta throo,h
' than tftOO vote*. Ha ran
more than 40.000 behind tha Repu™
candidate for Governer hi a
f.*?* J* *hifh hi* '•-•toetlon had
"totally been conceded by tha De
mocrata. I
At„ th*i time, Mr. Mondell
the Republican leader of tha Hooae
w -«•
sLi^itb * 7r*°n*1 P^PotarltTbut
8«nJth • popularity does not acmnnt I
fcr OW d.f«, «. ^TJST
•"•or tha remarkable inereaae ta the
f~™ °' »—«»* Repreaenta
,** Jf Cwm from thto Stete. I
In New Jeraey, Mr Hardin*', per
">»*1 frtond. S«mtor Frelfngtaiyaen
"V "'-heta-d by Co.. e3w.£ '
<JdJ^' L^"Pdi"r*
fhT rT.^Ti i * D,mow»t- That
the Preaident'i own Stete managed
?,*rt • "•publican Senator waa due j
^-0rr*nl1^ UbOT'" oppo^J
y -* v"**"***' who triad to out
Hardin, during the railroad .trike
^Tha aame Influence that defeated
T^yV"- ,h* owwratira Democrat.
££& n Pr°*r~*'
ooTeridfe in Indiana. No .oooer waa
^•nominated for tha Senate than
"T'" •bandonad .very liberal!
Principle that ha had er*r advocated
wAH«niLth*^u*of °W Goard
1 Tha ahift wa, f^al.
. ™. "khigan, a Democrat Senator
'tacted for tha flret time in
T»°,ty ^ *• i-nc of New
ET71—• '* "• »• HaHtat who
to (are Newberry whan
considering the quea
ttaa of declaring hia aaat vacant. It
*" Mr Hardin,, according to com
■r*t"rt- Secretary
Huchaa to write hto extraordinary
S lM^hi N#wbe"T. •«"» tha rotera
!»i7l_ l * "°W ,JtPr»««d their
Md P®»tlcal corruption.
S,^r, ^b i. the1
Steteof Senator NoW. ha, elactod a I
L^mocratic Ooremor for the aecondi
tta. .inc. 1876. Delaware and
Maryland nave electee ueraocraiic
Senators to succeed Republicans, and |
In Minnesota, Kellog, the Harding!
rhampion, has apparently lost to a
radical running on an independent
'JcM.
In NebnAa, when Hitchcock, the
Democratic minority leader of the
Senate, was defeated, ha was beaten
by an anti-Administration Republican
who wiB affiliate with the loft wtec
of the party, and the Democrata elect
ed a Governor. If Fnudar should poll
through hi North Dakota ho woold ho
a Republican only la nan, like La
"ollette.
There an no bright spots for the
President la any of the roturaa- The
country as a a hols is against the
Uriff, H to against Daaghortyiam, H
Is agaiast a liadirtm Admiaistra
t{on aad it is agaiast the normalcy
that masks political bourbonlsaa and
reaction. It has agaia turned Ms
face toward political Hhoraliaas la
The D—Berate an cslohtaUng the
election as a Desaocratic yjetwry, but
It «nU ho for busts scmrato to
Jisrribi H as a RspaMtcaa dofoat.
There has bees no vote of eosflton
la the Democratic Party. The coun
try has merely used H aa a weapon
to poalsh the Wi|iiililli»as for their
sins and mtsdaManoT*. Whether the
<sstan from the election wfQ do
p^nd wholly aa their sayaulti to
eroho a psiigrasi that dsoerroo pah
Ik laiMwi.
>
minjitration and tha Harding
ilaa, bat rt doae not fit know «
Writ of Dm Mississippi, radio
Is no longer • poailbility; it la •
and tha unrest of tkii Ea*t mm
longer ba dismissed a* • flgN
alarmlat imagination.
Tha country It ready Cor • Daw
and there wllf ba mo pt>!:ttaal m
|ty until It baa afratn dlaeorei
facilities mdtt ba pnrlfct 1t»
library moat contain at laaat Ml
standard library niwa ootalda aff
reference work*. Than arc otfcar
requirements which It (a omtaMV
to mention. .
We are vary abort on library
ties. There are at ptaaant la tka
M|k aebool library ooiy 276 Tohaaa
outaide of reference work*. Thia h
araly more than a toIoh par
pupil. Oar library faclTHiaa tm
therefore not paaa tnaportion. H»
former superintendent, Mr. BfP%
realising thla condition, aakad far a
-.-LwtallLail I,. *±0 LaaL* M«am
conxnimxion 01 hooks, ■bdj ww
retalrad bat eery few o* tfeoaa clw
aebool library |iuipsasa. Any all
book on any subject wont count. Aa
effort la being made to *acure fuafe
Wfth which to porchaaa na*M
hooka. Wa would be glad to imIw
contributions of dealrable book* ala*.
Tha Hat of needed boks la too leaf
to pabllah. Any atandard no4m
fiction, any of tha atandard aotlwea
In aeta, or parta of aets. standee!
poena, biography, modern worka aa
the different phaaea of science. Sup
plementary worka on bfartory, poHtfaa
clrica, economies ate. win ba eery mm
ful and very* gladly received by tha
committee in charge or at the high
school building.
Work On* Day la Y«r Far
Orphans
The North Carolina Orphan
nation inaugurated the plan
yean ago of aakin? each
to contribute the
_ . day'» work daring the year
to the aapport of the orphan* of the
■tate. t
We have mora than f) met itat tone
in the rtate and mors than 7.600 or
The contributions ao far' hare only
bean liberal enough to piorMi for
•boot one third of thoee who Mel