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VOL. 26.-No. 8. SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1923 SIX PAGES TODAY price two can can Dongerouo p mm. Be rJenaco to Ail Europe By E. D. MORELr M. P, y (Editor of "Foreign Affairs") rf (Copyright, 1923, by the United Press) ; London, April 14. -The conscription of Africa by France is one of those tremendous events which alter the destinies of nations.: ;The people who vote "hats off for France" at the at tempt of French, militarism to destroy Germany do not appear to have the faintest idea of the magnitude of the conception or its effects on the not distant future. French conscription, laws affect the .pick of the fighting races of Africa, both, in the north and northwest the mixture of Arab and Berber which conquered Spain, overran the Pyre- and the south of it for 800 years j the negro-Arab-Berber mix hire which held way from the Senegal to the Niger for 1,000 years and produced great .. preachers. i JTiirone. French militarism has, annexed the Belgian ;h jM-tii wit' tit under sret military agreement. ? We Wit, We-were told, for the tndo .wmWe etf Bekium. - In, all essen tial respects Belgium is now a French erovincc and under French pressure, Y' i ynUncA h voluntary serv ant; to ice fey conscription. France in Poland. French 'militarism is heavily sub sidizing Poland to maintain an army of &OO.O00 men, staffed1 by numer ous French officers, and winter French influence. The.bittle JMweme, po Licllv subservient to J1 nance, has .itnetir some 2.500.OOO soldiers uiwier arms. In these circumstances "security for France" seems somewhat super fluous! Miv Ramsay Mac Donald uttered the. moat pregnant sentence (i the recent debates an iBarliament when he said: "What abouit security for us?" , . it. m far less a matter today of ob- : taking "'security for Prance" than of obtaining security of 'France, includ ing the French . people, our people, ana the lUerman pcopioi aw'"s nr.1 Twrudpscence of a .Napoleonic mili tarism with resources in men "and raw material which Nape-toon . never dreamed of m .his. .wildest moments. To kow-tow. as the present conser- trjtjve government of .this country is now doing, to that "militarism, to wait with pozsled brew and folded' arms while an imperalist . program; on ths larfresb-possible scale develops oetore f" tnir eves, is the maddest of follies, . the irjost ruinous and disastrous of i v miscalculations. , m- . i ! . X. J t J without moving A finger to save her, "actually 10 oa accompiice'3 m ner aa- strucuon, is utterly, iataa . to peace and to our own security, 1911 and Today. In the years of . 1905-14 friendship to Framce demanded that we should work with the Dublkr men and forces and influences in France making for - 1 i: r . i . i - neaiiiiz ox xns ancient ieua, in stead of with the Delcasses, the JWemenceatts, . the . MiUerands, , tha Poincaras,' who were working for its perpetuation. So ill the year which saw the war close and the pa'bh open for a peace of reconstruction, friend snip to France rjuired that we should work with Woodrow Wi'Lson for such J peace, instead! c-f with ClemencMiu for a peace of revenge ', ' so today friendship for France necessitatM Plain and honest sipeech i and . firm ness of 'policy coupled with ptroof "national disinterestedness. The cabinet, yield ira? to the repre sentations of its titled members, one of whom at least, is never so happy as when cutting - -a dssh in "hijrh" l;nsian society; yieldimsr to the clamor, of the Rothermers and1 the Batnursts; vieldin to the blind ob stinacy of those to whom the cult of "ate is as the breath of life; yield ing to the Interest of the- British heavy metal indiustries, takes r the course which, fstailly, inevitably, leads fireach with franee over the body of uirectly to future irretrievably ".mutilated and bleeding Germany, rhe pity of k; the tragedy of at; the Wmdness of it! -: . in deplorinjr that policy we, who re accused of . bemjf enemies . : of '"nee, are her truest friends. FORMAL ORDER I Rouse Matter is Signed by Judge Thomas Calvert. Judge Calvert signed the formal 'ler m the Rouse injuction procced "Ks against the city iSaturday morn "jr in pursuance with the oonclirsdon . the hearing Montay night before n3 honor when by agreement the tus of the injunction Case was con tinued pending the outcome of a trial jury for damages alleged by Mr. ijwise to have been sustained by him. ifte ortter reserves all rights for both Mities m the body of the article, wched at the instance of counsel for. e city reads: "All rights for both Parties are reserved to move ami oib Jt for appointment of appraisers kndemnation as .is provided ', by , The order sets forth that the m&i jw involves question of great impor wnce and that the status is continued without prejudice to the interests of 'ther party. ASKS DATA Govi crnment Calls on Sugar Men for neir Records. rv By the Unfted Press.) . init April 14- The first def- T' 5 stfP in the gov?rrrmen;'s in ti110" of the ""Sir pvieeitua revealed today when mcm- rwL 01 the lNew Yor1 Sugar Kx-ctom-e received fr0TO he United fim'iJl,strifct attrncy's office a ii lettfr asking for submission of "records of their transactions in 1 to April A SUSar frm January onscription a mm 1 ' ' ' ' ra of i ce; i . J ay ruiers, warriors, ininiters, and FRANCE AND LITTLE ALLY WILL PROCEED HAKE GERMANY PAY Go Ahead With No Idea of Yielding to the British Wishes-Ruhr Wift Feel Invasion More Keenly From Now On (By the United Press.) 1 Paris, , April ' 14. Great Britain with its objjctidns to the Ruhr oc cupation i to be left outside the en tente a little while longer, while France and Belgium apply the screws to bring the. venture to a suc cessful amf -pTofttatrle conclusion. ; Thjs according to reports in we-11- iniormen crcles, is the evasion reach ed by Premiers Theuhis- and Pbin- care. ' : Prime -ministers of Franco and BeJtrium have . agreed that the time is not Tine, for healine the rupture in the entente, owing to Jungland's attrtutde. -;..::..-- The Ruhr venture must be Jnade productive. , The population of the newly occupied district will feel tha Allied hand more heavily from now on, it has ibecn officially, armoured. FIVE MEN WOUNDED IN FUTILE EFFORT TO ROB A PAY CAR Employes of Detroit Foun dry Company Repulse Gang Three Defenders and Two Attackers Shot in Gun Battle (By the ' United Press) .TW.rnit. A nnl 14. J-iive men were seriously woundedn a gun fight be tween employes of the Charlj 11. Bohn Foundry Company and bandits who failed .in an attempt to rob the company's pay rool car, .containing $12,000 today. William Bohn, employment man ager, was shot through the neck and seriously ; wounded. The othera wounded included two employes of the foundry and two unidentified bandits. . ; According to the police, the bandits drove up to.tho pay roll car and opened fire..' Members of -the pay roll car crew returned the tire, woundincr two bandits. The bandits then drove away. stateWs (Snecial to The Free Press.) Charlotte, April '14. Roy Humph rey was sentenced by the recorder here to serve two years ior sevcicij beating an eight-year-old , daughter. Jinmtvhrev. a truck driver, mfucted painful injuries on the child.. V Taken in Maryland. UaiHrnurp Anril 14. Ernest Sot- 91 larhn psranftrt from tne nuo- lie roads in the vicinity of Duke, N. C. last Vear, was arrested by detec it.his oitv. iSorreal was serving three and one-half years for manuiaciuruiK aiquiu. , - ", Church Subjects. The morning sermon subject ' at Gordon Street Christian Church Sun day will be, "The Hymn of the World Within." At evening the sub ject will be "The Searcher of Hearts." A mixed quartet will sing at the evening service. - USE OF COTTON March Shows Increased Consumptbn Southern Staple. (By the United Press) ' . . Washington. Anril Mutton con sumed during March exclusive" of lint el totalled 23,105 bles, com pared with 519.761 bales, in Match of 192A he Census Bureau toy ported. Linters - consumed durmg 'March Stalled B1.745 bales, compared with 48,648 in March of 1-' , , .:. REPUBLICAN CHIEFS SPLIT INTO NUMBER WITH AIDING GET OF CROUPS, STATED iVAY MAIL BANDIT And Democrats Seek Wil son's Leadership in the League . Matter Would Have Him Exert Influence With People of Country.' (By the United PreRS.) Washington April 14. With Re publican leaders split into five groups , on tine issue of America's participation in the European af fairs, a number of leading Democrats are considering making a request to former President Wilson to assume the leadership of the League of Na tions fight. He would not be expecteJ to make speeches but to write letters and statements and letit be known that he was rallying all the friends of the league. The movement ha3 received im petus through the making public of a letter from Wilson to 'Representa tive, Rouse of Kentucky, chairman- of the Democratic , congressional, cam paign comimattee. In the letter Wil son show&d himself firmly opposed to piecemeal or conditional entrance of the Unted States into ths league. . , Eleven Per Cent Raise in Wages for Employes of Big Packing Houses Announced (By the United Press.) . Chicago, April 14j -Improved conditions in the packing industry were given as the reason today for an 11 per cent, increase in wages to more than 200,000 workers, to go into effect Monday. Unlike ad vances during the wartime peak of wage increases screed tiuon by . managements of companies and the unions,-this raise is not based on living costs but the proposition that the industry could better sustain a larger pay envelope. Roads Sentences Imposed on "Prisoners in Superior Court; 12 Months for Two STierman Ccf:b, convicted of for gery in . Superior tourt, was given eight months on the ;roads. Aaron Will Kouse, convicted on tvo counts, were fciven 12 monfhs each. W.- Ci. Urarrt, wlt'.te, cinarged wwa driving tm aatomob -le whiles intDxi cated, was acquitted. It was said that the evidence of intoxication was not very S'trong. Grant f igurad fig ured in a collision on Heritage Street at the corner of Caswell some days ago. . . Archie Daw-ton, colored .'Chauffeur, was foisnd guilty of speeding and fined $35 and the costs. His ;ase was appealed from Recorder's Court, where, he. was assessed $25 and the costs. Ida Boone, white, was . found guilty cf driving a car wnile intox icated.' Sentence was not pronounc ed. She was on trial on a charge cf prostitution at press time. Both cases were appeals from the Record er's Court. . j-ry- COULDN'T SELL Agent of Out-of-Town Store Barred by 1'eculiar Ordinance. Miss Royal, representinir Edmundij 4 Marx, Norfolk ready-to-wear shop, who carried an advertisem&nit in f ri day's Free Press that she would have a special showing of late models in suits, coats, diresses and so on at the Tull Hotel Saturday, found upon ar rival , that a city ordinance enacted on April 2nd, requiring the hotel to take out n annual license at a fee of $100, stood in the way, and accord ingly sihe had to return to Goldsboro w.thout havinsr ner foods on display. The ordinance, it seems, was passed at the" test regular montMy ''rneetiing of council at the instance of the Mer- chaMs' Association, and was; only called to the attention of Manager Forrest Smitn of the Tull Hotel Sat urday imorning.by the secretary of the association. The'-ordinance reqirnres a lireftse and provides a penalty of $50.00 for each and every showing of goods from a sample room in cithe hotel or boartfing ,houe, where reril sales are made, but doe not prohibit dis- nlav for the benefit or nrerohants and sales to them. . OWN LOOK-OUT Motorist Who Narrowly i ; Escaped Open Draw Was Informed. Or"' Frank B. McCallum, a' Veteri narian, today told of a narrow escape from probable death 't the "iron Biridire.'' across Neuse River a mile below here, when he stopped his au tomobile on the brink of an open draw a night or two ago. ' 'McOsllum said there was no warning . signal. The night was dark. He had driven onto the 'bridge and was within a few yards of the 'draw, opened for a boat, when the was hailed by a man from thp hank of the river. The car was stopped, and MeCallum and a com panion looked out irom tne icrmers runabout to see a nearly pit ?h Msck abytj two or- thrce teot Irom tne front wheels. ' The veterinarian said h was makTnsr slow speed1 or wuia have bren unable to escape the plunge into the nv?r cnannei, oeep the ptant, wun me vuai.-cs vi Til' 0 MEN CHARGED Arrested at New York. To Be Arraigned ' in G e o r g l a Latter ; Tart Month -r In Custody 2 . Hours After Action Jury (Bv th United Press.) Atlanta, April 14. Dominick Did ato ami A"be tSilverstein, a,rreted at New York late yesterday on charges of having aided Gerald Chapman, million aonar man oanuit, to es cape from 'St. Mary's Hospital at Athens April 4, will be placed on trial at Athens April 23, it Was an nounced today at the Department of nounced today at the Department of J usrjces local neaxJquarU'is. The two men were taken into cus today within two hours after indict ments had been returned against tham by the federal grand jury at Athens, L. J. Bailey, head of the Federal Bu reau of Investigation, said. According to Bailey Didaito and Bilverstein are the 'wo suspicious strangers seen in the vicinity of the hospital a few days before Chapman escaped. With the return of tiha in dictments Chapman's captured is bo :lieved to have been brought much nearer. Federal , authorities believe he is being hidden by confederates at Athens, ' and expect his arrest mo mentarily. (By the United Press) MUST AVEftT CAR SHORTAGE. Washington, April 14. -An ur gent appeal to American industry to cooperate With the railroads in obtaining maximum efficiency with curtailed transportation facilities was ' made bv , Secretary of Com merce Hoover today in a letter to state and national trade associa tions. Any strangulation in the movement of commodities through car shortages will affect price lev els in most definite fashion. Hoover warned..' : , HELPLESS IN SUGAR MATTER. Washington, April U.i-The gov ernment is helpless to prevent the sugar gouge which is costing the American people a huge sum every day. 'Government oli'icials have evidence of the operations of sugar gam birrs. They have a conspiracy law. They cannot bring the gam blers under the law. ihis is the exact situation, while sugar prices continue to climb. The "trouble i that the existing law doesn't deem to cover such operations as the evi dence in hands cf government of ficials shows is being carried on. There is no doubt in officials' minds of the guilt of certain individuals. But they cannot find what they call a "point of departure" in the law from1 which to bring about a prosecution that will stick. GRAIN CONDITIONS SERIOUS. Chicago, April 14. Grain prices today moved to new high levels on the Chicago Board of Trade for the 1923 crop. Heavy buying fol lowed statements of serious . crop conditions and forecasts of curtail ed yields of wheat throughout the country, "Conditions in- both of the Southwest and Northwest war rant a feeling of alarm," aald B. W.'Snow, foremost of the private experts as well as one of the most conservative. , ANOTHER COHORT OE DE VALERA SEIZED IN C10NIIEL SECTION Austin; Stack Free State Seems to Have Escaped. Big Extremist Plot Dis covered London (By the United Prm) Dublin, April 14. Austin Stack, cohort of De Valera, was captured by Free State forces in the Tipperary hills today, a dispatch from Clorrmel stated. De Valera, fugitive leader of the irregulars, apparently has escap ed tne dragnet, a Teiiauie dispatch from donmel stated. Plot to Wresk Destruction. "London,' . April 14. An Irish ex tremist plot to destroy London pow er stations, own prison gatos ami destroy waterworks' and subways was uncovered in documents seized during a big Scotland Yard raid last evening, the News states. Lives of officials were threatened and one. Unnamed cabinet member was marked for death, it is said. The plot was discovered from documents taken during a search of numerous houses in a section populated by known Irish extremists. Two men were arrested. . ' . ' " escape slender, . The man operating the tVaw told1 McCailum, the .latter t tid, that he hai been inform (by a superior that lights were not nec.led and the cpen draw was motorists own "look-out. , MeUalium n-il i.c explanation was not satisfartvry. THIRTY-ONE TO BE TAKEN IN CUSTODY MOREHOUSE PARISH As Soon as State's Attorney Gets There WUh Indict ments Action Follows Conference of Justice Au thorities (By the United Press) i New Orleans, April 14. The arrest of 31 ctMzens in Morehouse Parish on information sworn out by Attorney-General A. V. Coco is expected as soon as District iAttorncy David I. Garrett of that parish trets back to Bastrop and places the warrents in the hands of deputies. The data were placed1 in the hands of Garrett last night, Who immediately took a train ..for Bastrop following a con ference with Attorney-General Coco. harores or conspiracy, murder, as sault with deadly weapons, kidnap ping and other alleged offenses were filed against members of the masked mob wbich terrorized the narish and murdered two men last year. Cant. J. W. Skinwith. exalted cv- clops of tihe Morehouse I'arish klan, and Dr. B. M. MoKoin. former mayor of Mer Rouge, were among those named m the indictments. farm Labor Shortage is 50 Per Cent Before Time for Planting, Experts Declare ' (By the United Press.) Chicago. April 14v A farm la bor shurtuge of mre than 50 per cent, extats throughout the West- ern States, employment experts to day declared., The shortage will grow if present conditions do not improve as spring planting begins, and farmers in seme sections will be unable to put in normal crops, Charles J. Boyd, general superin tendent of the Illino:s Free Em ployment Service, said. Wages of ?lt$ a month with board and room thrown in fail to secure - more than half the men needed to refill the nation's bread basket. Sex Irregularity Worst cf Vices, Say Students; Dean of Women Fully Vindicated ' (B the United Press.) Austin, Texas, April 13.' The dean of women -is vindicated. Nay, more, she is vindicated by her chief antago nists, the students themselves. The practices which students con sider most reprehensible are exactly those Which the deans of women ob ject to most strenuously, This fact is shown bjr a tabulation of state ments covering a period of three years, collected by 3r. A. iP. Brogan, adjunct professor ' of philosophy at the University of Texas. For three years Dr. Brogan ha had his elemen tary class in theses list the vices they consider the worst. (His results are obtained from fhe opinions of 242 men and 292 women. Similar tatm lationis taken at th3 universities of Kansas, Wisconsin, and Chicago show strikingly similar results. Botih men and women agree that sex irregularty is the worst of vices. Following this, women list these practices as imost to be ayoided: Stealing, lying, drinking, gambling, vulgar talk. Sabbath breakhn?, swear ing, gossip, selfishness, idleness, snob bJshneis, extravagance, smokinjr and dancing. Men follow almost , the same order except that they think gambling worse than drinking and gossip not so bad as do the persons to whom most of it is attributed. WILL BE NEUTRAL America at Next Lausanne Confer ence as "Observer. (By the United Press.) Washington. April ,14. cAmerica'i position at the forthcoming Lausanne Near Jwist peace conference w ii! he exactly what it was at the former conference that of a friendly ob server, it was stated today in high official quarters. Kienari wsniurn Chid, Rear Admiral Mark Bristol and Jo.seph urew, trie ooservers who will represent this government, were the American observers at the prev ious conference. ; ; r : ' Dry Law Didn't Kill Barley Crop in United States; Lot is Used for Near Beer Now (By the United Press.) Wa'shirtrton, April 1.1. iProhibition dd not deal a death-blow to barley growfnjf, contrary to h ..belief, the ir,parnien't of Agriculture foaia to day. When pre-prohibftion beer weirt under the ban, post-pronJioxton Deer, the one-half of one per rservt. bever ebs. took its nlace as a barley con sumer, the Apartment stated. Before prohibition the breweries consumed approximatelv 31) per cent. of the barley crop., This was the highest trails of barley, for which a premium was paid. The market ftT fancy barley has been maintained by malt and near-b-ser j,equirenKnt.s. Export demani for fancy 'barley al so nai iwre.iscJ one to the eiimins- t'mi i f Kir ;i a a barley prod'.ic-cr, the r ' -' l s! Governor Seemo to Hove Complete Confidence in CommiGcion on Ghippino; ,..-,''''' V i 'ii 'i ii - i '''.-' i (Special Capital Correspondence) " t ' Raleigh, April 14. Governor Morrison's renewed enthusi asm over the ship ownership and operation which he proposed for the State at the late session of the General Assembly, is in terpreted to mean that his excellency has faith in the forth coming report of his commission investigating the question, and that when the special tession convenes the body of the whole will ratify the report. '.;-'::;- ,,A' ' CONTRACT FOR NEW PASSENGER STATION HAS BEEN SIGNED Work Will Start in Few Days, Says Builder More Than 600 Feet of Sheds. Building Larger Than That at Goldsboro Robert L. BlaloJc, local builder, to- day stated that the cotitracrt ihad been signed for construoUon of the Kins ton union passenger sta'tlon. Work will be started on the building with- in a week, it is possible. It is to be completed by September 15, - The Plans call for nearly C50 feet of sheds leading from the station to the tracks of the Norfolk Southern and subsidiaries and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. " . The buildinjr. 114 feet in length will be sligntly larger than the sta tion at (roUfaboro, Mr, BlalocJc esti metwli. The waiting room- for whites will be at the end farthest from the business district. In th renr of the u'ldwg will bo quarters for train- mm and telegraFneis, etc. The bag case rooms will be at the end near est the business section. In the front will be a news stand. 'Before the building will be driveways and park ed areas.. The , principal material will be brk-k, "the type of which has not been selected. The structure will be trimmed with sandstone. , A shedl aloiiiirsidai the Norfolk Southern tracks will iba 240 feet in tenjrth. That by the Atlantic . Coast Line tracks will be 208 feet. A shed connecting these lateria! approaches, at the rear of the station, will be approximately 200 feet long. USER CLAIMS RICH AMERICAN GIRL FOB HIS BRIDE AT LAST McCormick Gave Written Consent Wedding in Secret at British Registry Office Honeymooning in Scotland (By tha United Press) XWM IVII, 1. 'l -1 . " . . . . , . ried Thursday in Lewisiham registry . . .. n . r .- . 1 . ' l : oil ice, Maxniuie Mcwrmic-Kf v"h-ki-heiress, and Max Oser, Swiss riVJina master, are believed to be in- Scot land on their honeymoon. The daxighter or Harom t. ana fpller M(Tyormick became of age, 18, this week;, and was thus free to marry the man of her choice, the mn more than twice Wi. atm mkn un,rr-V,t hnr tti Ttip when she was a little girl and with whom, according vo nerseu, tne mas oeun in love ever since. . , AAn-xw.U . " ..... - - . - - - - - ' - - - - Uniited States, gave Jris permission for the marriage in a letter. , Capture Wild Turkey in City. by A lonjr flight, fluttered down in the tMcLewean Street section here KivHirflnv- (IrvLn Ounn. alaut 13 vears chase. Tho bird, a igobblcr of noble it i i . . . ik. proponions, was pursuiti iiiniun iuc strwts to the reidience of Eev. Ijpc White. Baptist minister, some blocks from where it originally alighted. There, after a brief flight across a part of a block,- the gobbler was henrmed in am! captured. Young Gunn wrestled whh and suodued the turkey, which was so heavy that the boy could carry it only a short dis tance. The frienghtemd bird arous ed the neighborhood with its cries. It was the first wild turkey to be seen within the corporate limits here wnc9 Kinston was a hamlet." TIDAL WAVE . . ..'-"-. ':,'"'.'"'' j In Hawaiian Islands Does Practically No Damage. (By the United Pre'ss) Vancouver, B. ., April 14. An earthquake shock was recorded on the seismograph at Gonzales Observa tory todav. It was estimated to hive been 2,900 miiles distant. . It is be lieved the quake may fc.ive been in the Pacific and have caused tidal wave reported from Jlonolulu. No Damage From Tidal Wave. Honolulu, April '14j Reports from Various islands in the llawiiinn group today showed that pr-acrx-aHy no damaee was done by a tidal wave which was gronercl throughout the islands yesterday afternaon. The Kinston speech In Which tha governor promised to turn the joke on the irreverent is the most .direct reference which has been . made to the issue since it was lost in the Cen ral Assembly.' The renewed faith of the executive is full of ominous mean ings for the opposition. It will list among Mr. Wilson's "wi'.ful" large section of the iLegislaturc, which will demand evidence coming irom one as rising from too dead. , . . Two statesmen from the same county have been here this week. One is poweifully fomi of toe governor, the other is not. The one, Senator Giles, led in the opposition; the other, Representative Neal, had no oppor-. tunity to say what he think of an enterprise in communistic endeavor such as the Ship bill authorized., There is no way to tell what Senator Giles would do if ha had a favorable report from a Commission, a body of men whom Governor Morrison chose with great fairness. But the fact that the commission has just started to work is not overlooked. If that body shou d not recommend the tboats or the terminals it is hardly probable that the governor would press his is sue before an assembly already hos tile, , . : .- .. ' What P.1h for Rolnns. Barring this great issue it has been difficult to determine what else could Justify the extraordinary assembly of the 'Legislature, : Ad valorem tax, the Bowie railroad, the discovery of some capital boheheads ih legislation, all furnish speculative stuff, 'but the Bowie roads are so thoroughly safe guarded by interstate conwneree sup ervision that unless there should 'be great danger of an orgy of money spending, the law can wart for reg ular session.: The road is furnishing some political fears. It is dreaded by many leaders,, feared particularly be cause the Republicans have a nega tive record. And the Kinston speech, promising confusion for enemies, lin gers wjth the observers who Wonder "why-' the definite offer' to turn the Joke on the blasphemers who have destroyed solemnly conceived plan to save a commonwealth. Corpora Won Commissioner . George P. Pell, duly sensible of the knocks which the commission has received , for allowing sundry banks to explode in the public's face, observes over and over that the latest failure could not have been pulled off for the very good reason that it could not have been in position to do business had tha law as it is now writ jeen in force when the Farmers & Merch ants' of Fairmont was organized. . .. The Commercial National of Wil mington, which went down with the federal folks on top of it, some months ago, carried, with Its Samp sontan strength, threa state banks. Judge Pell isn't inadvertent to this circumstance. He doesn't forget, nor does ho suffer the public to do so, that no state bank failure in many years has had such ramifications as th.'s. The Fairmont .institution, ho says, should never have (been allowed to open had the commission been giv- . en" discretion at the time. Dudding a Dud? Up at State Public Welfare head quarters, where there is a reasonable beliel m poetic justice, tnere is no disposition to add the voice of reform , to the raucous noise of E. E. Dudding, chairman of the Prisoners' Relief .So ciety. The ; Welfare (Department backed the . recent bill designed .to outlaw "Black jAggie,J1 the leathern lash used occasionally on prisoners, Mr. Pou, who aKseverates himself both anti-capital and anti-corpm-al punish ment in sentiment and practice, fought the bill and helped to beat it. He also was listed as favoring sup pression of newspaper details on exe cutions; but the Department of Pub lic Welfare desires to clean up local ly.l It does not thing the obtrusion of Dudding will help. Mr. Pou puts Dudding In the Ana nias club, the organization which, eventually gets the outside prison reformers all. Fishermen Have Chance to Correct Whatever Bothers Them; Their Mood bprovei Hundreds of persons dwelling along the banks of Neuse JUver in Lenoir County today rejoiced over the state ment by J, A. Nelson, of More-head City, state fish corrnntssioner, that he would rjcorhmend lsuspension un til May 1 of laws prohibiting fishing in the straama iuring the secrand quarter of the year, Ca,ptain,Nelson al'o suggests that the ffehennwn seek any permanent modiiftVation th'sy may desire befoire the next sesnion of tho commiLsion-,; at. MorcJicad City in July. When the "law chut down on" local fishermen a short time- ag3 a howl ensued that threatened the local DoHtical equilibrium Owners of ntfs besieged the Court-house here, and lecal authorities were unable to put them straight. The state -fisnsrirs men visiting the county recently h-ivo been handiing the situation ta'.t fu'ly. ' Captain Nelson's promised recommendation is Jx'.Kcv-shI to 'have rosu'-T'l from a d-( riot to huvi tne law too dr;i"t i force I ,f a suuliicn. Aci-JMn., 1,vvevcr, has clt. cl'vf ,'rf. the laws in future sen -vt, e'.'.'iL'r as tboy sf i!; ) rr imvi fu'd, mu.-?t be co!n; Ko'.i w;,'i f the lcttetv
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