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VOL. 23. No. 31
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. C., TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1920
SIX PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS
British Admiralty Ran Own
BILL IN SENATE TO
REPEAL COUNTRY'S
WAR TIME STATUTES
COST OF LIVING
IS
UOty MERCHANTS
BLOODLESS REVOLT
PRACTICALLY; U. S.
CITIZENS ARE SAFE
BOTHERING
Part of War in Own Fashion
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And Wilson in Secret Speech to Officer of Fleet at Yorktown
in 1917 Declared Nothing Wat Ever So Systematically Done
as British Admiralty Was Then Doing It Daniels Throws
Hot One Into Sim Camp Took England Six Months to
Agree to Splendidly Successful Mine Barrage Proposal, as
Result of American "Advisor's" Monkeybusiness Ameri
can Pep and British Traditions Didn't Work Well Together.
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 11. Secre
tary of the Nary Daniels testi
fying before the Senate naval in
vestigating committee today said
President Wilson was dissatis
fied wtith Great Britain's man
agement of her navy from the
beginning of the war up to the
summer of 1917.
He said Wilson made a secret
speech to officers of the Atlantic
fleet while the fleet was at the se
cret rendezvous at Yorktown shortly
after America entered the war, say
irvg that every time a uggestion had
been made to the British Admiralty
by the United States it had received
a reply virtually amounting to, "That
it had never been done in that way,
and I felt like saying, 'Well, noth
ing was ever done so systematically
as nothing is being done now'."
Daniels declared it took six months
to get British approval of the North
Sea mine barege project. He said
that had Sims favorably urged the
proposal instead of airing his own
objects it would have been adopted
months earlier.
Battlefield Sparks
Picked Up at Random From the Hap
py Commingling of Memorial Day.
"I won't clap for it, but I'll fight
for it," said one of the old.; comrades
" 'in' "attendance sX the unveiling exercis
es Monday at Armenia, when the
Stars and Stripes were exhibited by
one of the speakers. Just prior to
that exhibition, the Stars and Bars
of the Confederacy were waved and
there was vociferous applause. Like
wise was there general applause when
the flag of the Nation was waved, but
the dauntless spirit of the sixties was
evidenced in the heart of the old gen
tleman, whose characteristic remark
was overheard by the reporter.
Chief Justice Walter Clark of State
Supreme Court, prominent and inter
ested visitor at the Memorial Day ex
ercises remembers Kinston for at least
two thrilling experiences in his life.
first when as a boy of seventeen
years of age, he commanded a detach
ment of Confederate juniors in defend
ing the left wing of General Hoke's
army on March 8, 1865, and the oth
er was on August 30, 1886, twenty
one years after, when Judge Clark
was riding the Superior Court cir
cuit and holding a term in ,fCinston.
The shock of the Charleston earth
quake was distinctly felt here and
created considerable consternation ac
cording to the venerable jurist.
Only ten survivors of the battles
commemorated by the marker at Ar
menia were present for the occasion,
Besides Judge Clark there was anoth
er of the junior regiment, comrade
1'owell of Warren County.
Over Battlefield With Judge Clark
An interested party, led by Judge
Clark, went over the battlefield in
which he participated in the thrilling
days of March, 1865. Judge Clark's
brigade was stationed behind breast
works, which are now near the bridge
across Southwest Creek at the church.
Judge Clark told most interestingly of
how the attack of the "Yankees" had
been anticipated and how the negroes
had thrown np the breastworks for
his troops the day before the fight
and after the Federal army came in
range and the shells were falling near
and on the Confederate breastworks, a
temporary bridge was thrown across
the creek. This bridge was probably
quarter of a mile dowa the creek
from where the present bridge stands,
and remained there probably less than
24 hours. Judge Clark related the
- story of his detachment having receiv
ed the newsW General Hoke's suc
cess, the fin&prt that reached him
being that hce had taken 5,000 pris
oners. The number finally dwindled
down to 1,500, but that was no mean
periormance. The work of Judge
Clark's detachment was to divide the
forces of the enemy and make possible
General Hoke's victory, ,
Ages of Justice
And Peace and Altruism Before Us,
Says Professor.
(Special to The Fre Press)
Chapel Hill, May 11. "Human evo
litfion viewed in retrospect and pros
pect justifies the most glorious hopes
for mankind, were the concluding
words of the series of three lectures
at the University of North Carolina
delivered by Dr. Edwin G. Conklin.
professor of biology at Princeton, un
der the John McNair foundation.
Dr. Conklin, who is one of the best
known scholars in America on the
subject of evolution and heredity, said
that physically and intellectually
there have been no developments in
man for such a long time that prob
ably man had reached his highest
point of development in these re
spects. "There is no prospect that
the hand, the eye, or the brain of man
will ever be much more complex or
perfect than at present," he said. "'By
selective breeding the general level
may be improved, just as it has been
in domestic animals, but there are no
indications that future man will be
much more perfect in body or mind
than the most perfect individuals of
today.
Amalgamation!
"It is not probable that there will
be a higher animal than man," I)r
ionium continued. "All races are
now intermingling and interbreeding
and all signs point to the formation
of a single composite race within a
few thousand years. It is not likely
therefore that a superior human
Species will arise to supplant the
existing species."
In the evolution of human society
however. Dr. Conklin saw infinite pos-
siDiutics. "in social evolution a new
path of progress has been found, the
end of which no one can foresee. So
ciety has progressed from savagery
to barbarism and then to civilization,
and the end is not yet. At present so
cial evolution is proceeding at a rate
which is amazing if not alarming. The
greatest problems in human evotu-
tion today are social problems, how
to get effective specialization and co-
operation, not merely in government,
but in industry, in education, and in
the scientific conquest of nature."
Cooperation.
In discussing evolution and democ
racy Dr. Conklin said that the ideal
democracy toward which the world is
headed meant more cooperation than
in any other form of government. "It
means," he said, "not greater person
al freedom, but greater freedom of
state sand nations and humanity."
Dr. Conklin saw no conflict between
evolution and religion because evolu
tion neither affirms nor denies the
existence of God. "It merely traces
effects to causes and these to pre
existing causes, and never reaches the
first cause. Infinity lies back of ev
ery phenomenon, even the simplest
The . religion of evolution looks for
war dto unnumbered ages of human
progress, to ages of better social or
ganization and cooperation among in
dividuals and races and nations, to
ages of justice and peace and altru
ism."
Experience Here
Many Children Die Under Wheels of
Motor Trucks in U. S.
Raleigh, May 11. Discussing auto
mobile accidents as a cause of death
among its policy holders, the Metro
politan Statistical Bulletin for April
declares the death claims of this com
pany alone were 50 per cent, higl.e
in 1919 than were those for typhoid
fever and 60 per cent, above claims
for either suicide or homicide. The
records of this one company also show
that the death rate rises with the in
crease of automobiles, noticeably with
the increased use of auto trucks, since
claims for 178 fatal accidents in 1D1
increased to 1,332 in 1919. Statistic
for death claims in all companies in
the United States are not yet avail
able for last year, but for 1!US death
claims had increased to 7,625 from
a total of 183 in 1906. The industri
al insurance records of one company
for 1919 show that the largest num
ber of fatalities occurred among chil
dren, us over half the deaths were of
people under 15.
This high fatality, comments In
surance Commissioner Young, must
be coupled with the fact that they are
not often automobile passenger?, but
are most often killed by irresponsible
or reckless drivers while playing or
crossing streets. An important ele
ment in this mortality among childrei
is the auto truck, which looms large
all over the United States, and Com
missioner Young, who as State fire
marshal has supervision over pre
ventive measures from accidents and
fire, says he can only repeat what
was published from the Insurance De
partment last month, that the next
General Assembly must surely revise
and amend the automobile law regu
lating license and traffic so that it
may be made enforcibly effective
against irresponsibility and careless
ness everywhere. . .
Reorganize Post
American Legion Members Called
Attend Important Meeting.
The local post of the American
Legion will be reorganized at a
meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'
clock. George Skinner, vice-command
er temporarily in command, an noun
ced the meeting Tuesday. It will be
held in the law offices of Cowper,
Whitakcr & Allen. Every member is
asked to be present.
Is
Dollar Gasoline
Possibility
as Result of Mexican
Situation.
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 11. Government
experts fear gasoline will jump to 75
cents to ?1 a gallon if the Mexican
revolution interferes with exportation
of crude oil to the United States. This
country is buying 6,000,000 barrels of
Mexican oil monthly.
COTTON
BUM'. S. S.
January .
March
May
July i .
October .
December
Open.
34.73
33.78
40.30
38.05
35.85
34.80
Close.
34.10
33.50
40.15
37.93
35.55
34.63
BUT THRIFT STAMPS.
MAKES APPEAL TO SPEND
VACATIONS ON THE FARM
Washington, D. C. May 11. With
a shortage of farm labor threatening
to be as acute as in 1918, Secretary of
Agriculture Meredith has issued an
appeal to city men, college students
and others who can do so to spend
their vacations working on farms, par
ticularly as helpers in the harvest
fields.
Reports to the Department from
practically every State indicate that
the supply of hired farm labor is only
about 72 per cent, of normal, com
pared with 84 per cent, normal a year
ago. Secretary Meredith feels that
the situation must be relieved if food
production is to be brought to near
normal.
Special Coins to Commemor
ate 110th Anniversary of
Admission of Alabama and
Maine to Statehood Labor
Board Moves
(By the United Press)
Washington", May 11. Senator
Jones of Washington today introduced
a bill repealing the war time laws.
Special Half Dollars.
Washington, May 11. President
Wilson today signed the bill author
izing coinage of 50-cent pieces in com
memoration of the hundredth anni
versary of Maine and Alabama be
coming states. Alabama was admit
ted December 14, 1811), Maine March
15, 1820.
Removal of Labor Board.
Washington, May 11. The Rail
way Labor Board left for Chicago to
day to set up permanent headquarters.
It will reconvene May 17.
Presidential Nomination.
Washington, May 11. The Presi
dent today nominated Roy S. MacEl-
wee to be director of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Declares People Desire Ameri
canization of League Cove'
nant Has Had Square Deal
Platform Plank to Corn
mend Congress!
Page to Speak
Gubernatorial Candidate Will Come
Here May 2G.
Hon. Robert N. Page, candidate
for Governor, will speak at th-j
Courthouse here Wednesday, Mav
(!, at 2 p. m. Charies Ross, his man
ager, invites al! Lenoir countians to
hear Mr. Page, whether they arc
adherents or opponents of the aspir
ant, rhe candidate is a good speak-f
er. lie nas a number oi close per
sonal inencis here.
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 11. Gen. taonard
Wood favors a uniform federal pri
mary law and a uniform federal pri
mary day.
Wood is here fur a conference with
Senator Moses, his southern campaign
manager. He said he has had a squaw
de.nl.
He said the people are not interest
ed in the League of Nations but in the
hitch cost of living. The people, he
declared, want the treaty Americaniz
ed by reservations. He declared in
creased production and thrift to be
the remedies to reduce the II. C. I
No dangerous red unrest threatens the
country, he asserted. The Republi-
can platform will contain a blanket
plank approving the work of the Re
publican Congress towards the treaty,
he stud.
Gold Brick Bean
Is the
"Jack," Useless Vegetable of
the Tropics.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
'EACE IX EAST.
Washington, May 11. Adwres
to the Japanese embassy state
that Japan is making peace with
the bolsheviks in Siberia. This
may result in the withdrawal of
20,000 Jap troops from Siberia.
TURK GET TREATY.
Paris, May ll.-The Turkish
peace treaty was handed the Ot
toman delegates at 4 p. m. today.
The council of ministers ordered
the confederation of labor dis
solved. It said it is "inimical to
national defense." This action,
was a result of the present revo
lutionary strikes.
Population Figures
Substantial Increases for
and Luniberton.
Keidsville
THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON
FOR KILLING HIS STEPSON
Wilson, May 11. In Superior Court
here Golden Baker, white, was sen
tenced to 30 years in the penitenti
ary for the murder of his stepson,
James Baker, without expressed pro
vocation.
No Giance
Bonus Will Pass House But Can't Get
Entirely Through.
Washington, May 11. Chairman
Fordney of the House Ways and
Means Committee today declared the
revised soldier bonus bill will pass
the House next week.
The Senate's action is doubtful. Fin
al action on the bill is impossible be
fore the recess.
Trotsky at Front
Directs Red Forces Against Ukrain
ians and Poles.
(By the United Press)
London, May 11. A Moscow wire
less today said Leon Trotsky had gone
to the front and was directing the
reds against the Polish and Ukrain
ian offensive. ' .
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 11. The Census
ure.au today announced the popula
tion of Reidsville, N. C, to be 5,
333, an increase of 605, or 10.5 por
cent.
Lumberton, N. C, has 2,691, an in
crease of 4rU or 20.7 per cent.
Washington, May 11. Savage di
sciples of Voodoo worship in the
American tropics ascribe supernatur
al power to the jack bean. These
tribesmen plant a row of the . seed
around thoir rude gardens in the be
lief that the plunt will punish tres
passers. This custom was doubtless
brought, by negro slaves from Africa,
where the very similar sword or fe
tich bean is thus worshiped. But the
Bureau of Plant Industry, United
States Department of Agriculture,
fails to support this weird belief eon
coming the Ix-an. Nor do these scion
lists find much else to recommend tin
plant stranger from the West Indies
The jack bean, it appears from
;:liimlnnt experiments, is a prolific
plant, it is not unusual for the seeds
in their 14-inch pods of a jark-bean
plant to outweigh! its own herbage
and the herbage, if cut jcreen, fre
MUiently crops at the rate of 1C to 20
tons per acre. This wonderful pro
ductiveness makes the bean a favor
ite of the get-rich-quick gentry who
seek to introduce a new and marve
lous commercial plant. This popu
larity among unscrupulous promoters
accounts in part, at least, for the nu
merous aliases under which the jack
bean is known. "Pearson bean,''
"wonder bean," "Wataka bean," "Go
tani bean," "South American coffee
bean," etc., are only a few of the
names in which the jack bean has
been rechristened.
It has some value in the South as
a green-manure crop, and there is
evidence to show that it may be a
good silage crop when cut green.
Cattle do not relish the jack-bean
hay.
L. L. Oettinger President To
Have Credit Bureau Mem
bership to Be Increased in
Near Future Cooperation
Sought
HOMEWORKERS TO MEET
TUESDAY NIGHT AT 8.
The Home Workers will meet with
Miss Melissa Pollock Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock.
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The Kinston Merchant' Associa
tion was formally organized Monday
night with a membership of 30 of
the leading business firms of the
city.
L. L. Oettinger was elected presi
dent, CV H. Schaut vice-president
and Jliss .h-atc Pntchett secretary
and treasurer. It is the purpose of
the association to make it the strong
est business organization that has
ever been in existence in the city,
with the prime objective of promot
ing better business conditions for
the welfare of the public and the
merchants. The association will be
interested and active in all matters
pertaining to the .pubic good; and it
s hoped tto bring about a strong co
operation between merchants and cit
izens to advertise and advance the
interests of the city.
A credit bureau will be organized
for the 'benefit of the members, to
liecomc operative at an earlv date.
The following firms are now mem
bers: Adlcr Bros., E. A. Atlrey, Bar-
ett & Ilartrfield, B. W. Canady &
Son, Caccy 'Thompson Company,
Caswell Pharmacy, John G. Cox,
Ccpeland Bros., Farmers' Supply
Company, L. Harvey & Son Co., J.
llirshfield, J. E. Hood & Co., J. B
AHinard, Lenoir Drug Company, E,
B. Marston, H. H. McCoy Company,
W. Mew-borne & Co., Eli Nacham-
uon, New York Clothing Company,
Oettinger's Furniture Store, Olympia
Candy Kitchen, Sam Pearson, Harry
Pearson, Quinn & Miller, 11. Stad-
icni, A. J. Sutton & Sons, W. J
Schaut, J. W. Scott and Charlea A.
Waters.
It is hoped that this list will be
materially increased in the near fu
ture iby the addition of many other
firms.
Fooled Himself
Negro Thought He Was Blind in Both
Eyes, But Wasn't.
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 11. Among
blinded ex-service men there was a
curious case of a negro who seemed
to be blind in both eyes. Neither eye
ould perceive five fingers at any
distance. He had faint light percep
tion and there was hope for restora
tion of sight in one eye. He kept his
eyes shut.
The man was adjudged eligible for
retraining under the Federal Board
for Vocational Education and was
about to be assigned to the Mary
land Workshop for the Blind, when
another physician managed to per
suade the negro that he could sea.
The physician's report reads as fol
lows:
"He was suffering from psycho-
neurosis hysteria giving rise to mark
ed blepharospasm and photophobia
and amaurosis. All physical find
ings negative. Treatment by suggest
ion completely cured up all symptoms
and I discharged this man cured."
All of which high-sounding lang
uagc means In everyday talk, that
here was a man who thought himself
blind and thought so hard that he
made other people think so. When the
doctor made him think he saw, he
saw.
Quiet Both at Tampico and
Mexico City, Say Offic
ial Reports
WONT KILL CARRANZA
Revolutionists Have No Desire
for His Life American
Warships Keep Watch
While Wilson Summons
His Cabinet for Meeting
(By the United Press)
El Puso, May 11. Roports today
said the Mexican situation was quiet,
Th;' revolution has been practically
bloodless. '
The revolutionists do not dssira
the execution of Carranza.
Five hundred rebels are marching
on Piedras Niegras. The garrison is
expected to surrender without fighting.
Cabinet to Meet.
Washington, May 11. President
Wilson- today called a meeting of the
cabinet for 2 p. in.
All is Quiet.
Washington, May 11. The Navy
Department today received advices
from Capt. B. A. Long, commander
of the destroyers off Tampico, that
no Americans or other foreigners
were in denpor in the oil district.
Tampico is quiot. 1 .
George T. Summerlin, American
charge at Mexico City, reported ev
erything quiet there. Gonzales en
tered Mexico City Friday, Ofbregon
Saturday.
'
Soils; and Roads
Relation of One to Other Studied by
Federal Experts.
Talks on Typhoid
Health Officer to Vaccinate School
Children Wednesday.
FAMOUS PHILIPPINE TWINS REFUSE TO BE SEPARATED.
Lncia and Simplicia Godeno, little Filipinos who are joined like the Siamese
twins. Surgeons at the John Hopkins University say that they can be
separated 'without danger but they are perfectly happy the way they are
They are in Washington, D. C.-
Dr. D. C. Absher, head of the
Health Bureau, Monday spoke to the
students at the High School and
Tuesday to the Primary School pu
pils on typhoid fever, its causes and
preventive measures. He told espec
ially of the. fly's part in spreading
the disease.
Wednesday morning Dr. Absher
will be at the schools to vaccinate
all children whouo parents desire it.
Ho urges parents U have children
who have not been vaccinated with
in the past three years take the pre
ventive treatment now. None will be
vaccinated without their parents'
willingness.
TO PREACH AT
... SCHOOL IN COUNTRY.
Rev.. Bernard P. Smith wiH preach
at Lawson's School Sunday afternoon
at 3:80,
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 11. An investi
gation which promises to place at the
ispoaal of highway engineers im
portant information regarding the
relation of soils to highway durabll-
ty has been undertaken by the Bu
reau of Public Roads, United States
Department of Agriculture. This
work includes taking samples of soil
at spots in the sub-grade of a high
way where the road has begun to fail,
studying surrounding geological con
ditions to determine how moisture ar
rived in tho subgrade, thus destroy
ing its vulue, making laboratory tests
to determine the physical character
istics of soils, and obtaining a Scien
tific measure of the bearing value of
soils. In this investigation it is pro
posed to obtain as much cooperation
as possible from the various State
highway departments. The Bureau of
Soils 'is cooperating with the Bureau
of Public Roads in this work.
Preliminary investigation has been
started in Maryland on the Washington-Baltimore
road, and will be ex
tended beyond Baltimore and on other
roads in Maryland. Progress has
been made in' the matter of labora
tory tests, a number of samples of
subgrade material and other samples
already having been examined.
The Federal highway engineers
point out that soils differ widely In
their ability to support loads, particu
larly when they are wet. Just why this
is true and just what are the charac
teristics which make them different
is little understood at present. It is
in this field of investigation, of in
creasing importance of heavy traffic,
that the Federal investigators expect
to secure important information.
FIRE DESTROYS STORE
AT FALLING CREEK.
Fire shortly after , midnight de
stroyed the store of Joshua Dawson
at Falling Creek. The building and
a stock of goods valued at several
thousand dollars were destroyed The.
building was owned by Dr. James M.
Parrott of Kinston. The blaze may
have been of incendiary origin.-' " -
Lodge Chairman
Anti-Leaguer Will Open ' G. O.
Meeting Chicago. ,
(By the United Press)
Chicago, May 11. The Republican
National Committee today announc
ed the selection of Henry Cabot Lodge
be ; temporary chairman of the
coming convention. '
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