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DAILY TEe Home Paper (j Today's News Tcdiy V()L. XXI. Na. 7tt SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N.'GJ" FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1919 SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS riVB CSNTS OH TKAIVfl NLY IDIOT WOULD TAXES VyiLL BE BIG BOOZE, AN OBIT.; A H HARD-DYING CRIMINAL 'A MAN MAY BE DOWN BUT HE'S NEVER OUT' ITIES WILL II PEACE; IE IN THE NEXT ASK PLAINTIFFS TO GUARANTEE.NO LOSS Once Temperance Ball Was Started Rolling It Couldn't Be . Stopped East Caroling Distillers Not First . in Business. Key to Salvation Array's Program Financing Contest With Sin, Po verty and Degradation Up to All Americans to Help. JANS ARE '0 AUTHOR si sue !SI 4 . " 7? ' . lift! CERTAIN Demmstratin in Front of American Ileadquarters vy it Hamburg ASSEMBLYMEN PROTEST Charge Wilson With Bad Faith Treaty, a Travesty.- Foreign Minister Says Terms Can't Be Fulfilled (Br the United Prees) Berne, May Mi. "Only an Idiot would sign such a peace," declared Herr Graff, majority socialist, ad dressing a session of the Prussian assembly, a Berlin dispatch reports. Assemblyman Herget charged Pres ident Wilson with bad faith, while Assemblyman Serbolm said the treaty was a travesty on Wilson's principles. Americans Hear Speeches. Basle, May 13. A crowd staged a demonstration against the peace terms in front of the Atlantic Hotel at Hamburg, headquarters ' of the American mission there, according to a dispatch from that city. Several orators protested against the "as sassination of the German people." An interpreter translated the speech-, es for the benefit of the .Americans. There was no violence. Says Can't Carry Out Terms. London, May 0U5. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Berlin re ports that Foreign Minister Brock yiorff-Rantzau following, a confer ence with other German delegates .', announced he would' not sigh the pace treaty w its present form be cause the. term couia not. ne iui ' filled. 1 4'vu;;i-f;ii; . is Threatened by y- Consompiive Yets (By the United Pressl ' New York, May 16. A situation seriously threatening the health . the Nation haB arisen as a result of the insistence on the. part of parents and frjend-s for the discharge of sol diers suffering from tuberculosis, ac cording to an announcement made today by the National Tuberculosis Association. Under a special order issued by the War Department the first of the year, parents or friends of a consump tTve soldier can obtain his discharge upon guaranteeing that he will con tinue to receive proper care and med ical supervision. According to Will iam H. Baldwin, treasurer of tha Na- -:; tional Tuberculosis Association, ' he order has been taken advantage 'A in a considerable number of - n stances, in wiucn, through misun derstanding, or because of mistaken kindness, discharges have : been ob tamed tor patients who should .avo . remained for treatment in the r tuberculosis hospitals. The War Department has iso ed an order, instructing the commiii ing officer at each of the arm tu berculosis hospitals to send as soon as a man is received to each soldier patient's next of kin a letter giving full details of the case. Eiffel Tower is a '.V. Soldier No Longer; , Has Been Demobilized Pans (By Mail). Eiffel Tower hasi been "demobilized." i With the outbreak of the war Eif fel Tower was closed to the-public. It was even in times of peace a wire less station and now it became the wireless center of France. It was militarized. Soldiers in .uniform manned the wireless plant, the ele vators, theN searchlight on top and civilian 8 were kept at a distance. Now the tower has returned to ci- r?Uife' '?; MAY BE WORSE LATER; 19 STILLS 48 HOURS. ' Sandersville. Ga., May 16. These are unhappy days for Georgia moon shiners. What is believed to be a world's record was made by revenue gents who captured and destroyed 19 illicit atills witfcin 48 hours. Progressives Demand That Republicans Revise Pol icy Fighting i to Keep ' Penrose and Warren Out of Berths , -f : (By the United Pr!ss) Washington, May 16. Taxes, well-informed atatesmon, will 1 say 6 a big issue in the 1920 campaign. This is one reason for the great I'ntercst displayed (in congressional circles in efforts of the Senate PrtK gressivos to prevent Senators Pen rose and Warren from heading the Finance and Appropriations com mittees respectively. The Finance Committee stipulates the taxes for the people and the Ap propriations Committee spends them The .Progressives, are demanding that a more progressive policyof tax levying, and tax spending be adopted by the Republican party. Most Order Nitrate Shipped Before Is Wasington, May 16. Farmers who have ordered nitrate of soda from the Department of Agriculture must have their orders for shipmen reach Washington by June 1, it was announced today. All shipping or ders received after this date will bo canceled, according to the Depart' ment's Bureau of Markets, which states that it is necessary to con elude distribution of the nitrate of soda and close the arrangement with the War Department, through which the nitrate was secured. BASEBALL national. . - . New York, 6; Chicago, 2. Philadelphia, 0; Pittsburgh, 6. E'rooklyn, 0; Cincinnati, 10. BostonSt. Louis, old. American. Cleveland, 6 Washington, 3. , St. Louis, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 3; New York, 4. Chicago, 6; Boston, 6. . Page to Speak Queen Street Church Sunday Ex-Congressman Robert N. Page of Briscoe will deliver a, Centenary address at Queen Street Methodist Church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock He is one of the best known speak ers in the State. Mr. Page was scbe- duled to speak at the church last Sunday, and to make the Memorial Dav address on he. 10th, but was prevented from coming here death in his wife's family. London Air Raids Kill London, May 16. Final official reports issued by the London Fire Brigade show thfit 473 persons were killed outright and 1,105 injured, many, of whom died subsequently, during the 25 air-raids London suf fered w the war. ' . Victory Gardens in India Also, Appears (By -the United Press) Washington, May 16. Victory gar dens have carried their message to India, for today the National War Garden Commission received a let ter from Mrs. H. de Clifford of Plains View,' India, asking for gar den and canning books. NO SETTLEMENT OF IN SIGHT (By the United Press) Pittsburgh, May 16. Both sides are standing firm and there is no change in the Pittsburgh street car strike situation. Neither union car men nor receivers of the Pittsburgh Street Railways Company today made any move toward settlement y sn73 People (By the United Press) .Washington, May 10. Discontin uance of the liquor business in the United States; set for July 1, will mark the decision' in America of one of. the world's oldest issues . Use of aleoltr.'ic beverages prob ab'y antedates all recorded historv. And, although the first temperance society was not organised until 1789, advocacy of abstinence is little less i ancient than use of intsvicants. I Mahomed was among the original advocates of prohibition. Use of distilled liquors did not be- come prevalent' in Europe till toward the close of tlie seventeenth century. Inception of tho temperance move ment eamo 100 years Inter, but its development during nearly two cen turies was very slow. ' Liquors used in ancient times were fermented beverages. Discovery of the process of distil lation ; is attributed to the Chinese, who imparted the knowledge to the Arabs. ' Hard drinking m EnglAd came to be regarded as a grave naonal dan ger. In 1735 a London Aind jury held the traffic responsibly for a great crime wave, and Tegulwion, of the iiquor business by law s in stituted. Similar experimentsVvere in the meantime being made in Amer ica. .'.-.' The battle in the country agai use and abuse of liquor began in mild way as a protest' in pulp against drunkenness. A New Eng land society went so far as to bind its members not to get drunk except on the Fourth of July and general training days. Advocates of moderation gave way to those; who felt that only total abstinence was the remedy. Then the battle began. Eass Hampton, L. I., in 1851, for bade the sale of more than two drams of distilled liquor for immediate drinkirg. The constitution of Virginia, 1070, prohibited sales of Wines and ardent spirfta, except In Jamestown:""' In 1700, Quakers abolished the ha bit of drinking at funerals. The first congress of 1777 recom mended that laws be passed stopping the distilling of grain. Churches took a definite stand against the use of intoxicants. In rS9 the first temperance ciety was organized by 200 Coi cut farmers. The first recorded demanTor pro hibition was made by Joly Chalmers of Nassau. N. H., inTM. It at tracted little attenti eetmg Held Wilmington 1 to The Free Press) lgh, May 16.-The Extension vice is P anmne a meeunir oi . . . . . ' i ntv -agents for the southeastern part of the 'State to be held at Wil mington May 27, 28 and 29. O. F. McCrary and N. B. Stevens, district demonstration . aeents m charge of the work in Eastern North Carolina have prepared an interest ing program for the three-day ses sion. . : ANDREW B. LYNCH, Second- Lieutenant, 110th Infantry. Lieutenant Lynch was award ed the Distinguished Service Cross for unusual bravery In ac tion near Apremoat, France, September 29, 19ia Lieutenant Lynch while a sergeant on duty with a 37 Dim gun section of his company, was moving the sruns to a more advantageous position when he learned that j the officer In charge or tne party , .. J , 1 Kv i n anamv V patrol. Organizing a group of five men. Lieutenant Lynch im mefliutely attacked the Ger mans, killed 15 of them and lib erated the officer. Immediately afterward Lieutenant" Lynch took command of 75 men and launched a counter-attack on the enemy; driving him back for more than a kilometer. Lieu tenant Lynch Is married, his (wife living at 2Wfl Franklin street, Philadelphia, I'a. BUY WAB-SAVLNGS STAMPS. d cam jional b f c ulvio v g entsV s in M rifct I T3 m.4 MS . . 1 njpcci- jor pro- 1 Chalmers ; i. It at- I - , y - AgncuIturavI (Jecis JF6 L?Ol '( "ISHMAEL; HAKI BEY.' Turkish Official who drove 40,000 Armenians into the desert to perish, after having , filled his harems with the most beautiful girls to be found among jthrm. Now an Allied prisoner under double guard of Suaforth , Highlanders, (Copyright). in (By Fred R. Ferguson) Paris, May 16. Grave dangers are lurking beneath the surface of peace settlement,- in the opinion many persons close in touch with tilt general situation. . j is rests in' the fact that every- bodSJs too ready to fight. .Agnst' the tSory that Europe nation are too exhausted to furthcim is poilitad out that MRory shows ftiRicountries in the rust have nTsscpnro lOMIUN? OlULO GElRWilOS the Unitot Bfcpxs) York, May l(i!Wndustrial es in Amenra win wc mini- d if capital an 1 laborwt to- ther to eliminate the reds flk both sides. Mavor Hansen of Scnttm de clared in a statement here tod - ' a BULLETINS (Bv thr Uniied IVess) U-97 AT HALIFAX. Halifax, May 16. En route to the Great Lakes, the former Ger man submarine U-97 arrived here today escorted by the United States ship Bushnell. The Bushnell, relieved by the United States fihip Iroquois, propertied to New York. DANIELS HOME SATURDAY. Washington, May 16. The Mount Vernon, with Secretary Daniels aboard, advised the Na vy Department today that she would arrive at Hoboken " at 7:45 a. m. tomorrow. C-S BEING TOWED BACK TO ST. JOHN'S (By the United Preaa) St. John's, May 10. The navy di rigible C-5 was picked up, deflated and taken aboard the British steam er Clan Dauidson at a point 83 miles east of here today. The blimp, which broke away from its moorings late yestercay, is now being brought to this port. Only one officer was aboard the C-5 when she escaped. He leaped 25 feet to safety. FINNS ONLY A FEW MILES RED CAPITAL (By the United Press) Copenhagen, May 10. The Na tional Tidene reports it has learned from a reliable source that the Fin nish army under General Manner- heim has arrived at Rjdoostrow, only few miles from Petrograd. Bol- sheviki officials are reported to be fleeing from Petrograd to Moscow. Everybody Reaidy to 3 a n. itrurrtA n Hi ...... JT rssl jUndu Scatfl troift! Europe ight All Iver been more wrypkn at the end of a long strugglrllian after-an era of peace. At thend of the War Between the Sales, for instance, the United defied both France and Great in. ' - - From Belgium, in fact from every where, come criticisms of the peace treaty. One of -the hottest problems of all, the disposition of Fiume, is yet to bo settled. TniroTT nr iniLillL UL (By the United Press) Vinmia, May 10. A dispatch from Trieste reports that the Italian gov ernment . is planning to make that city a cotton center, establishing a cotton exchange there for Middle Europe. ' ' ' Money From Liberty Bonds Can Grow in W.-S. Stamps "Cuifityour Liberty bond coupons and Dim thrift and war-savings stamps,"Tras the advice given hold ers of ' iSewnd Liberty Loan bonds tr,day by Pk master W. D. LaRoque. Thursday thSsCJovernment began pay ing interest omthe 4 per cent, bonds of the second ukn and the 4 1-4 per cent, bonds intmwhich second loan bonds Were convod. "Liberty " bond terest coupons should be clipped pn&iptly," he said, "and promptly reinbtiedi Thrift less money is of no ttriefit to the individual or the commufety. Money should be pu to work wre it can earn the most in the safesiay just as the individual should be kAt busy. The Government, following Vic tory Loan, is now paying interwt to the people at the rate of neaffl: a billion dollars a year. "This is the money earned by f savings of the people invested in thi securities of the Government. These' earnings should be put to work, and there is no bettcV, safer place of em ployment for money than in the war savings stamps and thrift . stamps. Two semi-annual interest coupons clipped from $100 four, and a quarter per cent, bonds will more than buy a war-savintrs stamp, costing $4.16 in May. In January, 1924, this war;sav ings siamp will be worth $5." Engineering Courses for Disabled Soldiers Washington, May 10. One of the most popular, divisions of the educa tion made available to the disabled soldier by the Federal Board of Vocational Education "is that of en gineering, in the various branches of which thre are' new 178 students, thus giving refutation to a some what preyalent idea that the voca tional education available for disabl ed men is confined to manual trades, or necessarily must be in wage-earning occupations. CENTER Ccupon I By 1. T. Edwards) "A man may be down, but he's never out." . -lhats what the Salvarion Aimy thinks about it, and that ia the key to it) program of action. Such a program means that it w the friend of man and is not a quitter In the stern content ith sin and poverty and .degradation that today darkens the face of the earth. ' ...... ii. UllUa j,l Having won new friends by Uf millions because of its faithfulness and serviceableticss in behalLjCf tho Amerirtin Expeditionary Threes and the Allies In general Itjfomes homo to assume . larger bitMns and face the more insistentemands of the future. ' I This makes jToessary the accumu lation of JUffTonie Service Fund of 513,0OO,0Mr The drive for this fun takes nKke during the week May 19 the money will be used in tb iMXatl States onlv. W " inston Has Been Selected. Except for a small percentage . of the fund which will be devoted national work the money raised each community will be spent there, The Salvationists expect to spend more than a million dollars in the South for buildings and property, Almost every large city or city cen traiiy located will receive an ap- propriatiort for a permanent home for the Salvationists and large equipment , for the local corps workers. v " In making up their budget for thi purpose they have selected Kinston as a "strategic" city; and an item e $11,208.18 appears as the amoun proposed for a building in our city, Thus more is set aside for us than for Ashevillo, Durham, High Point: Gfoenphoro, New Born,. Wilmington or, in fact, most of the other North Carolina cities. This Is so while the quota for Kins ton and Lenoir County Is only ?:t,O0A a condition no ? doubt- reaultin" from tfiVf- fayorabl .geographical lo cation. New Methods Adopted. Tho Salvation Army's former methods of raising money are to be modified or entirely discarded. The tambourine is to pass as the main reliance of the Army in collecting pennies, nirkles and dimes on street cars, in saloons, in restaurants, of fice buildinirs and the like. - But the Army will still appeal for Christmas dinner money foT the poor, And "Santa Claua will still stand fce- side hie kettle at the street corner and jingle his bell.", , ; But the tambourine is too closely identified with the Salvation Army work to be nlloWed to pass entirely; and for that reason will be trained for use at both indoor and outdoor meetings conducted by the Army, :But the Salvationists are to have ; more certain and adequate meth od; hence the drive. He Sho' Was Tired. Tambourine soliciting has not been altogether satisfactory to the entiro public. For instance, not long ago ft travelling man . on a Southern Rail way smoker in speaking of things ha didn't like declared with some un wanted warmth that he especially ob jected to having a tambourine thrust under his nose upon various and sun dry occasions. - In fact the language that he used indicated that he sho' was tired. But now he along with other well wishers of human kind if such he be will be given an opportunity to relieve the Salvationists of the nec essity of this method of collection on streets. Workers will be re ed for other and more important And a great good will result COTTON. quotations Friday Open. Were: 2:40. 20.30 27.95 26.45 were May ,. 29.00 July Q7.75. October , tXl Local receipts to 3 o'clock about 20 or 5 bales, prices ranging from 27.52 ! downward. . ASKS POPE TO HELP SAVE GERMAN FOLK (By the United Press) ' Rome, May 16. Cardinal Hart !nn, according to a dispatch from Cologne, has sent a formal request to Pope Benedict to save the Ger man people from threatening ruin. 1 Futiis ft Want County Protected in Event Road-Building Cost Advances A SUIT IS UNFORTUNATE L - And Bound to Be Public Detriment, Says Attorney For Commissioners La Grande Men Assured Fair Treatment . ' Mr. John G. Dawson of the local ' firm of Dawson, Manning & Wal lace, retained by the Highway Com mission in connection with the re straining order issued a few days ago to hold up work on Lenoir County's proposed $2,000,000 road- buildinj program, a hearing on whith will be held here next We inesJuy by Judge Frank Daniels of OoMr- boro, when asked by The Free Press for hia views regarding thj action gave out the following: It is a thing of great regret to thd people of the county that a num ber of LaGrange citizens artf oppos ing the legality of the proposed bond issue, and it will undoubtedly prove to be an unfortunate public detri- ' ment. I have no word of censure for those who have instituted the suit, or for those who are counseling such action, for it is1 a right; which -they are entitled to pursue in that way if they desire, though I am very confident they will aoon regret their courso, whatever may be the result of the litigation. My position w"ith reforence to LaGrange having a man on the Highway Commission is well-known ; throughout the county, and with many othofs, X was "dipapr "" pointed "at -the eSult, i-iuti JinC,, prepared" ' to believe that Moseley -. Hall Township will suffer on account of the failure to elect a LaGrange man to the commission, as I am firm ly of the belief that the commission. as constituted now will give Mose- ley Hall Township its proper and just recognition in road construction and, for that reason, it is plain, I feel, that the people of LaGrange. rhoulJ cooperate With the others of the county in this proposed magnifi cent public improvement. County Stands to Lose. '.'My firm has been requested to represent the Highway Commission in this litigation, and has agreed to do so. I do not feel that it is right that the operation should be retard ed now as it will unquestionably re sult in great public loss. In the first place, Government aid to the extent of nearly $250,000 apparently could soon be obtained. The Board of County GomnVissnonars and the Highway Commission were recently given satisfactory assurance of this ' by the State Highway Commission, The delay of litigation, m all prob ability, will either make it impos sible to obtain any governmental aid at all for the present, or will very appreciably decrease the amount, aa the counties first putting themselves in position to comply with the law are the counties which will fare best, and Lenoir was in the forefront in preparing for any substantial aid. But there is another and very seri ous objection, financially speaking, to the course of the LaGrange citi zens who have instituted this suit I am told by those in position to know that now is an opportune time for the making of contracts for hard- urface road building. Never in the istory of the Nation has the subiect so' claimed the public attention and North Carolina, vith other tates, will in very short time do much of that ; character of work. Many contractors with forces, now idle on ' account of suspension of activitiea n road building during the war ara rapidly making engagements, and the delay incident to this litigation will nause Lenoir County to pay a' much. igher price for the construction for the good reason that with all the contractors holding sufficient con tracts, very naturally, as a business proposition, thefr figures will bet higher in any contract to be made with Lenoir. Furthermore, eo fa vorable is the Government to this character of work that the Railroad Administration is giving a 10 per cent, dacrease in all freight rates for the proposed road building ma terial, and should this be withdrawn. (Continued on page sue)
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