VOL. WYL : YAPK1NYILLE, YADKIN djj, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 1, >920 " " No. 25 i-lKT M. Warded Breais Loose Again The following was taken rom the Elizabeth City Herald ^nere Rev. Warden is now locatefl and has charge of a church: / Rev. C. M. Warden is sporting a pair of shoes made /nan 30 years ago. He declare/that he wore them on his wetping day when the wprds were said that made him and Mrs. Warden one and that both the shoes and dhe f little woman have been true to their obligation. Thoy have ser ved thefr purpose well and have helped to successfully combat the H. C. of L. and judging from general appearances are good for many more years of service. However the Rev. brother is not wil ing to say just wuich is like ly to wear out first, but thinks that will depend on the care tak en of them. Mr. Warden says the shoes were made of hog hide and the finest of kip tanned by the old process of tanning leather. That he helped skin the hog and calf and of course .values the shoes very highly. Haustonville Rt. 1 News Farmers are about done har vesting in this section. The wheat crop is better this time than in several seasons. Mr, and Mrs. Raymond Cleary •of Yadkinvilie visited Mrs. Cle ary’s mother Mrs. Annie Wilkins Sunday. Quite a large crowd attended , &he old folks singing atZion Sun day. # Mrs. Jonathan Trivette of Har mony spent the week end with tier son Mr. Alger Trivette. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Silas Rash a baby girl. Union Cross News Mr. Dot Vestal returned last week from Iowa and says after all, theres no place like home. Mr. Henry Shores and wife will entertain the young people at teeir home Saturday night. Ice cream will be served and all are invited. Some of our boys went up to Elkin Sunday to see the airplane. Mrs. Pufus Brown was very sick Sunday but is some better now. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Logan of the Twin-City' were pleasant visitors at the home of Mr. E. J. Vestal Sunday. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Adams has been ri£ht sick but is better. Mrs. Frank Wright is very low with that dreaded disease tuber chlosis and her friends entertain little hope of her recovery. Mr. and Mrs. G, W. Money of Winston-Salem spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Money. -te v Daniels is Principal Speaker. /“TyJosephus Oaniels, secretary of the r f fat' kead the list of speakers /A*P5«itionaI prominence, scheduled to address the opening banquet at the Battery Park Hotel, In Asheville, ol the 14th annual convention of the {North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' ^Association to be held on June 25 and fi. | President Arthur M. Dixon will pro tide, white past presidents will five femfnicsences. Cotton manufacturers With their friends and associates will * w,lcom'd_■ ' | Pays to Enforce th« Law. F Lisboa, O.—'When Constable George JtL Holland gets a paper to serve ho 'believes la sarvlng It A Judgment of |51 against the Erie railroad was hand* #d to Holland. He chained an en gine to the rails until settlement was made. Hoar the Erie has won suit against Holland’s bondsmen |or tying up the engines County Finances in Precarious Condition As the end of the tax year draws nearer ft becomes more apparent to county officers that some new method of financing the county pay-roll must be devised. Just what to do is another question and one which is worrying the county commissioners more than a little. The past year has been an ex ceeding hard one on the county j in the matter of keeping receiptsj up with disbursements. For the j past few years county expenses! have been a little more than re-j ceips but by expert management! both ends have been met and passed over to the,next tax col lecting period without any hard ships to anyone. The terrible rise in price of every commodity with new items being added by everincre asing laws has helped to put the county behind, while the consti utional limit in county taxation had been reached. The murder ! trial at the last term of court cost the county something like $3,000. which adds another burden. Two primaries and one electon this year will cost another large. Then there is the revaluation law to administer which costs this county more than $5,000. All told this county has had an expense during the past 12 months of $10,000 nore than an ordinary year. Some way to meet his Added burden is the chief worry of the county commissioners. More money must be had but the way to raise it with the least burden to the taxpayers is the bigger questions. Another thing being consider ed is the possible elimination of all expenses possible until this is passed over. Along this line it being suggested that offices which are unnecessary or of lit tle benefit should be eliminated for the present, and others, which can be administered as well for less money, should be placed at a minimum of ex pense. It is suggested in this connection that the office of Farm Demonstrator be abolish ed for the present, which would be a saving of $500 or more to j the tax payers. This office is! admitted to be as much of a lux ury as a necessity or a little more so. Another office that j costs the tax payers $300 each year is that of county quaran-' tine officer and another $300 for county health officer, both of which are at present vested in the same man. The last named or county yhysician is an old po sition and one which is to some extedt necessary and at times the other may be necessary, but in a small county like Yadkin there is mighty little to do. This quarnatine officer is created by a State law but the salary is not designated and it is being argu ed that a considerale saving could be made by merging the two into one and paying for the work actually done. The quar antine officer has only been cre ated for four years and we have not yet learned his duties but it is reported that reputable physi cians could be secured to exe cute both offices for less than half the amount now be ing paid. We have naught against the holders of these offices but the people of this county are tax ridden and tax burdened with more being added every day, and there must be a stopping place somewhere, and ii is thfe duty of officials to lessen the burden whenever possible. Cuts in other expense accounts are be ing contemplated and every one must contribute his part during the crisis. It is hoped that something can be done without the necessty of issuing more bonds at the pres ent high late of interest and a dull market. If anybody has any sugestions that may help the county commissioners solve the problem that confronts them they will welcome ihem as they are anxious to do whatever is best for all the people. The county commissioners are contributing their share by work ing at the old rale oi $2.00-per day and mileage while mem bers of the b^ard of education get $3.00, registers and judges of election, tax listers and so on get from $3.00 to $5.00 per day. The office of County Treasurer has already been abolished with a saving of more than $1,000 and the sheriff has been taken from the old system which now would bring him in commissions around $2,900 to a salary of $1, 800, a saving of about $1,100. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS SAVED War Unscrambling Almost Fin ished, Technical Committee Will Be Dissolved. __________ *> I FROM POWER TO CASTOR OIL Incidentally the Committee Adjusted^ the Great Kansas Rabbit Meat Claim Along With Some 200,. 000 Others. Washington.—After assisting in say ing the country several millions of dol lars through adjusting more than 24,- | 000 war contracts which were abrupt- | ly terminated by the armistice, the i technical advisory committee of the war claims board of the war depart ment is about to be dissolved, accord ing to Campbell Scott, who organized the committee under the direction of Benedict Crowell, assistant secretary of war and director of munitions. The committee, which was composed of ex- ! perts in practically every branch of j engineering and manufacturing, was organized to meet the critical situa tion which developed as soon as the war claims hoard attempted to settle the 30,000 contracts in existence at the close of the war. The greater number of these con tracts involved questions of a highly technical nature, and it was to settle these that the technical committee was organized. Many of the contracts in volved had been let on a basis of the war lasting four or five yea"rs more; tire great majority had been placed during the last six months of the con flict. An idea of the'r scope is ob tained when it is understood that there were more than 20,000 contractors who, in turn, had let su ^contracts to more than 200,00^ others. In fact, to have finished the war contracts for munitions and supplies of every con ceivable nature which were in exist- ! ence on Armistice day would have meant^ the tying up of practically 60 per cent of the manufacturing re- j sources of this country. An outstanding feature^ the great i work of the investigations Which were j completed by the technics committee-1 Is the fact, contrary to general belief, j more than 99 per cent of the contrae- | tors were found to be scrupulously honest in their dealings with Unel$ i Sam. “We found that the great majority | of the contractors,’*" said Chairman I Scott yesterday, “had Undertaken their j work with the prime idea of assisting their country in a time of peril. While I they did not forget that business 1^, business, many of them might h made much more money than ‘ contractors have $p th<^ court of claims, tysm the awards made to them. This shows the painstaking work done by the technical committee of the war claims board.” Claims Big and Little. Some of the claims adjusted were distinctly of an extraordinary nature. They ranged from the adjustment of the great power contracts in the Pitts burgh district, which involved 1,900, 000,000 horse power, to the re-arraDge ment of the rabbit meat..industry which had sprung up in Kansas. In cidentally, the castor oil contracts— j the oil to be used for Liberty motors— have come up before the technical committee. , The fact that the entire amount of more than $3,500,000,000 wOrtf- of war contracts was settled at 12 per cent of their total face value sb- ws that real Americanism pervades the industries of this country. “It is the biggest job of arbitration : the world has ever known,” is the \yay in which a prominent member of the administration characterised the work of “unscrambling the war.” . One of the most highly technical contracts, and one which required deep investigation, was that affecting the power sqpply of the Pittsburgh i district. This district, the chief prod ucts of which were munitions and steel of every kind, was practically tied up in government work during the last year of the war. Additions were built to plants, thousands of new em-1 ployCes were added, and as soon as the contracts were well under Way a serious power shortage developed. Only 40 per cent of the necessary pow er was available and the munitions .companies were forced to arrange their shops so that they could use the power in rotation. This cut down the possible output practically 60 per cent and the gov ernment immediately undertook to pro vide the additional power needed. Con tracts were made with three compa nies to supply 1,900,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric power, which at the ordinary New York rate' would be worth about $165,000,000. This meant an increase of 1,900.000 horse power, and the government agreed to assist in financing the construction of the new power plants. When the armistice came «;hese plants were not completed, and ther^ . a clause in the contracts where tty the government agreed to use pow er for r. certain length of time. In ad dition, the contracts bound the gov ernment to pay its proportion of the co*t of the p'ants on a basis of theiT value three years after the signing of peace. In settling these power con tracts all these factors had to be con* sidered. The technical committee solved the problems in a manner which was considered fair to all con cerned. Rabbit Meat Problem. In contrast to the, power contracts was the settlement of the rabbit-m|at claims. These arose from an excess of patriotism and were not covered by contracts. When food conservation was being advertised as generally nec essary, a public-spirited citizen of Hutchinson, Kan., received informa tion that the war department would be glad to obtain' a supply of rabbit meat for the mefn in training camps. History does not state just where the Hutchinson man obtained this infor mation, but he made all speed for this city and here obtained the financial backing he needed. Shortly afterward there began a wholesale slaughter of rabbits in the vicinity of Hutchinson, Kan.. Three carloads of ammunition arrived there and was distributed ’to all those who agreed to procure rabbits. A packing plant was erected, and there ensued a perfect deluge of rabbits, of all kinds, from the domesticated Belgian hares to the fleet-footed jackrabbits Of the western prairies. A ? soon as a carload of cold-stor age rabbit meat was ready it was shipped to a near-by training camp. - To the dismay of the rabbit man, the quartermaster refused to accept it, holding that “it was not an article of issue.” as government regulations have it. It then developed that the war de partment could not use the rabbit meat and the carload was shipped to this city. The markets here refused to* | absorb it. and in despair it was. ! shipped to England, the impression, being that tiie British were quite hun gry enough aj that time t® relish Kan sas rabbit. Howe-vhr, fate intervened, the ship was set on fire by shells from a German U-bbkt and the rabbit meat was entirely destroyed. When the war ended there were more than 30QS000 rabbit carcasses in storage. These “were finally sold as fertilizer to "the farmers in the vK 'djOity o| Hutchinson. The promot e of th^/rabbit iheat “war babj7’ app«<^ 'ed, Ho the war claims board and 1 technical committee passed^ on V ^ claim. A settlement resulted 9 hlcJ tiie claimant accepted as satis# "V despite the fact that it rejpsr T" •nly a small fraction, of $»r *L | claimed. . ; an An interesting claim . the technical committee* * • s^, ° log from the oaprcce* for castor oil which for motor ,**"•» feat*, **%£* > 17,500,000 WOMEN WILL CAST VOTE FOR PRESIDENT THIS YEAR REGARDLESS OF RATIFICATION Only 4,000,000 Voted in 1916. Women's Vote* Gave Election to the Democrats in 1916. What About 1920? How can a Democratic state refuse to help women to vote for President this year? asks former State Senator Frank P. Hobgood of Greensboro, N. C, ♦ In 1916 it was frequently said that it was the women voters of the west who re-elected Woodrow Wilson. At that time there were less than 4,000,000 women of voting age living in the states which had enfranchised women. Now there are 17,500,000. Even if the Federal Suffrage Amend ment to the jJnited States Constitution is not passed by 36 states, all these women can rote for President because they have gained either complete suf frage or presidential suffrage, or, in the case of Arkansas and Texas, full pri-1 mary suffrage. If one looks on the suf frage ratification map, he will see that except for two little states, Vermont and Connecticut, all the states of the north, northeast, northwest and south west have already ratified. The only states standing out against ratification are those of the southeast. It is the men of the f ex pense, in spite of summer heat, in spite of everything, eigfiat, states* had called special sessions. Before the end of 1919 five nyCre Wad called .spe cial- sessions and ratified. tTanv.ary, 1920, was ushece/ i in by wctificatiton in two states th&t held regular sessions. Another stapa New Jersey* took, ad vantage of jr 3 regular session Wrati fy lp ^febrYjry. j l9 t5ot>a “legislature‘year.’ Yayy Ter; states hre in regular sesslor ^ls y*' ;ar. So 'the main hope for \ .ation caipe right hack to the spe session. Six 'governors In id called special sessions daring the brief, month of February. Three more called special sessions in March. Of the three legislatures called In March, Delaware’s is stil? in session, having; not yet taken final action on ratifica tion. Thirty-five states acted between June 5, 1919, and March 22, 1920. Not one of the eighteen preceding* amendments to the Federal Constitu tion has made such a time record in view of the number of ratification* needed in each case. A federal amend ment today needs three times as many ratifications as were needed to ratify the twelfth, for instance, which has held the speed record up to now. Not one of the preceding amend ments has commanded such huge ma jorities in state legislatures as has he nineteenth. GERTRUDE WEIL. MISS GERTRUDE WEIL, President N. C. Equal Suffrage League! WOMAN SUFFRAGE STRENGTHENS WHITE VOTE j White Population Shows Greater Increase Than Black. “When the men of North OsroliMi make the excuse of keeping the voter from white women of the sooth, be cause Whey fear the negro women’ll vote,” says Dr. Delia Carroll Dixon of Raleigh, N. &, “do they think what they are doing? “Here is some arithmetic for theaa: “In the fifteen; states south of the Mason and Dixcei line are; 10,661,826 wjhite /women 4,354,089 wegrotwomen 6,307,857 | more white than negro women. 10.661,0 2S?white women 8,643,f >40 total negro popnlation 2,018,286 more white women than total • negro population. “Tf lese fifteen states are: Maryland*. Vir-gj ,nia, North Carolina, South Caro* li«a , Georgia, Florida. Mississippi, Ala*^ ban ia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas^ Lor jisiana, Texas, Missouri, West Ylr*i gJ lia. “In four southern states, Texas, Tttfef * essee, Virginia and Kentucky, thq t lumber of white ' mien exceeds ' whole colored population. In AltaharnA, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, 1 and Louisiana, woman suffrage would tremendously increase the preponder ance of white votes; in Mississippi, and South Carolina, where tfne colored pop ulation exceeds the 'Vaite, equal suf frage would double tb e intelligent elec torate, since in both these states there are educational qualifications limiting the franchise to t/ lose who an read, “Equal suffrage in southern states would: “1. Increase' vastly th$ white rote. “2.. Raise th e educational and moral standard of ?ae electorate. “Not only would woman suffrage give white control in the^ states a more permanent footing %han now, . *but whitr. supremacy will Continue to I grow, sd6c*e the increase of white popu lation ‘is more rapid than the increase of ooILred popnlation,” ^ L oil these ’motors could use, -‘and when it was decided to produce'Lib erty motors by the tens of thousands the government set out procuring an, adequate supply of this lubricant. AH the castor oil beans in the world would 1 not have made a sufficient quantity of ! ail, even if the allied airplanes had [ not needed their supply. The/grfvern 1 meat tent out scouts all over the South to induce the fanners to plfrPi ? castor oil beans, and u}drt than SpOO JT agriculturists put in Crops. 5 I Probably the greatest castor oil s ] acreage ia the world was planted in ® | the southern states oeri vu/ tne seed being supplied by the dw n&rtment of agriculture. Farmer# . flowed up other crops to put in castor , dll beans, and the government scouts j did everything possible to insure a tre mendous supply of castor oil. In some cases men were even exempted from military service to grow the beans, be cause the need was so vital. However, there followed a sad awak ening. The bean vines grev.* luxuri antly but there was less than one bean pod per plant, and there was practi- _ rally no crop. Investigation showed that while the seed had been success fully imported, the small insect which