VOL. XXVI.
YADKINYILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 22,1920
OF ACCEPTANCE
! A NEW KEYNOTE
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Repubtican Nominee at Notifica
[ tion Ceremonies Discusses
Probiems Confronting .
! Nation.
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"HOLD HERITAGE AMERICAN
! NATIONALITY UNIMPAIRED"
Advocates Party Responsibitity as D<s
! tinguished From Dictatoriai and Au
tocratic Persona! Ru!e—!n Referring
to League of Nations,/Says We Do
Not Mean to Shun a Singie Responsi
Liiity of-This Repubiic to Wor!d
; ^ivitization—Favors Protective Tar
iff, Merchant Marine, a Smaii Army,
! Woman Suffrage and Nationai Bud
get
Marion, 0.—(Special.)—Warren G.
iBarding was ofBcially notified here of
pits nomination as the Republican can
didate for the presidency. His speech
jof acceptance is, in part, as follows:
! Chairman Lodge, members of NotlB
tation Committee, members of National
^Committee, ladies and gentlemen: The
poessage which you have formally con
veyed brings to me a realization of
Responsibility which is not underesti
mated. It is a supreme task to inter
pret the covenant of a great political
party, the activities of which are so
woven into the history of this repub
lic, and a very sacred and solemn
jnndertaking to utter the faith and as
pirations of the many millions who
ndhere to that party. The party plat
form has charted the way, yet, some
how, we have come to expect that in
terpretation which voices the faith of
nominees who must assume specific
msks.
i Let me be understood clearly from
fbe very beginning. I beiieve in party
Wonson&ip in government I believe
ta party government as distinguished
from personal government, individual,
dictatorial, autocratic or w'tat not.
No man is big enough to run this
great republic. There never has been
one. Such domination was never in
tended. Tranquility, stabiiity, depend
ability—all are assured in party spon
sorship, and we mean to renew the as
surances which were rended in the
cataclysmal war.
Our first committal is the restora
tion of representative popular govern
ment, under the constitution, through
the agency of the Republican party.
Our vision includes more than a chief
executive, we believe in a cabinet of
highest capacity, equal to the responsi
bilities which our system contem
plates, in whose councils the vice
president, second ofhcial of the repub
!ic, shall he ashed to participate. The
pame vision includes a cordial under
standing and co-ordinated activities
with a house of Congress, fresh from
the people^ voicing the convictions
whi^ members bring from direct con
tac^.^pi the electorate, and cordial
co-c, ^*tion along with the restored
%un^tions of the senate, fit to be the
greatest deliberative body of the
world.
international Relationship.
difficult. Chairman Lodge,
to make ourselves dear on the ques
tion of international relationship.
'<-)We Republicans of the senate, con
scious of our solemn oaths and mind
ful of our constitutional obligations,
when we saw the structure of a
world super-gc'*ermpent taking vig
tonary form, joined in a becoming
warning of our devotion to this re
public. if tbe torch of constimtiona!
hmo had not been dimmed, the delayed
peace of the world and the tragedy of
disappointment and Huro^-a misun
derstandlng of Amorim easily ntight
have been avoe*-d. The Hepuhlhan^
of the senate halted the hcr'er ttf in
dependent Atc'r'mn otn'uo!:-o and In
hue nee, whin, d w:ts proptwotitoex
change Tor an obscure and unequal
place in the merged government of the
world. Our party means to hold the
heritage of American nationality ua
impaired and unsurrendered.
The world will not misconstrue. We
do not mean to hold aloof. We do net
mean to shun a single responsibility
of this republic to world civilization.
There is no hate in the American
heart. We have no envy, no suspicion,
no aversion for any people in the
vorld. We hold to our rights, and
mean to defend, aye, we mean to sus
iain the rights of this nation and our
citizens alike, everywhere under the
shining sun. Yet there is the concord
of amity and sympathy and fraternity
in every resolution. There is a genu
ine aspiration in every American
breast for a tranquil friendship with
all the world.
One may readily sense the con
science of our America. I am sure
} I understand the purpose of the dom
i inant group of the senate. We were
not seeking to defeat a world aspira
tion, we were resolved to safeguard
I America. We were resolved then, even
i as we are today, and will be tomor
! row, to preserve this free and ince
pendent republic.
In the call of the conscience of
America is peace, peace that cioses the
gaping wound of worid war, and si
lences the impassioned voices of in
ternational envy and distrust. Heed
ing this cali and knowing as I do the
disposition of the Congress, I promise
you formal aDd effective peace so
quickly as a Republican Congress can
pass its declaration for a Republican
executive to sign.
It is better to be the free and
disinterested agent of interrationa)
justice and advancing civilization,
with the covenant of conscience, than
be shackled by a written compact
which surrenders our freedom of ac
tion and gives to a military alliance
the right to proclaim America's duty
to the world. No surrender of rights
to a world council or its military al
liance, no assumed mandatary how
ever appealing, ever shail summon the
sons of this republic to war. Their
supreme sacrifice shail only be asked
for America and its call of honor.
There is a sanctity in that right we
will not delegate.
Leaving America independent
Disposed as we are, the way is very
simpie. Let the failure attending as
sumption. obstinacy, impracticability
! and deiay be recognized, and iet us
find the big, practical, unseitish way
to do our pail, neither covetous be
cause of ambition nor hesitant through
fear, but ready to serve ourselves, hu
manity and God. With a senate ad
vising as the constitution contempiates,
I would hopefuiiy approach the nations
of Europe and of the earth, proposing
that understanding which makes us a
wiiiing participant in the consecra
tion of nations to a new reiationship,
to commit the morai forces of the
world, America included, to peace and
internationai justice, stili ieaving Am
erica free, independent and self-reliant,
but offering friendship to aii the worid.
< It is foily to close our eyes to out
standing facts. Humanity is restive,
t much of the worid is in revoiution,
! the agents of discord and destruction
^ have wrought their tragedy in pathetic
Russia, have iighted their torches
among other peopies, and hope to see
America as a part of the great Red
conflagration. Ours is the temple of
liberty under the law, and It is ours to
caH the Sons of Opportunity to its de
fense. America must not only save
herself, but ours must be the appealing
voice to sober the world.
It must be understood that toll alone
makes for accomplishment and ad
vancement, and righteous possession is
the reward of toil, and its incentive.
There is no progress except in the
stimulus of competition.
The chief trouble today is that the
world war wrought the destruction of
healthful competition, left our store
houses empty, and there is a minimum
production whet: our need is max
imum. Maximums, not minimums, is
the call of America. It isn't a new
story, because war never fails to ieave
-depleted storehouses and always im
pairs the efficiency of production. War
also establishes its higher standard?
for wages, and they abide. I wish the
Higher wage to abide, on one explicit
condition—that the wage-earner will
give full return for the wage received.
Production, More Production.
I want, somehow, to appeal to the
sons and daughters of the republic,
to every producer, to join hand and
brain in production, more production,
honest production, patriotic produc
tion, because patriotic production is
no less* a defense of our best civiliza
tion than that of armed force. Profi
teering is a cRltne c ^ u c.ssicu, un
der-production is a crime of^omission.
We must work odr most and best, else
the destructive reaction will come.
The menacing tendency of the pres
ent dnv is not chargeable wholly to
the unseated and fevered renditions
caused, by the war. The manifest
weakness in popular government iies
in thy tea'ptntion to appeal to grouped
' citizenship for po!it;ca! advantage,
i It wonid he the blindness of fo!!y '0
} ignore =)te activities in our own coun
try which are aitaed t(! destroy ocr
[ economic system. at)d to commit us to
the cotossn! tragedy win:!) has de
stroyed ad fre^loTo^and made Russia
Hr?p(Kent. This mtc.tment is not to bs
halted in throttled liberties. We must
not abridge the freedom of speech, the
freedom of press, or the freedom of
assembly, because there is no promise
in repression. These liberties are M
sacred as the freedom of religious &*
iief, as inviolable as the rights of life
and the pursuit of happiness. We do
hold to the right to crush sedition, to
stifle a menacing contempt for 'aw,
to stamp out a peril to the safety <f
the repubiic or its people, when emer
gency cails, because security and the
majesty of the law are the first es
sentials of liberty. He who threatens
destruction of the government by <* *' ce
or Haunts his contempt for lawful
authority, ceases to be a loya: citizen
and forfeits his rights to the freedom
of the republic.
No party is indifferent to the welfare
of the wag^-earner. To us his good
fortune-is of deepest concern, and we
seel: to make that good fortune per
manent. We do not oppose but ap
prove coHcctive bargaining, because
that is an outstanding right, but we
. are unaiterabiy insistent that its exer
i cise must not destroy the equally sa
! cred right of the individual, in his nec
! essary pursuit of Livelihood. Any
American has the right to quit his em
ployment, so has every American the
right to seek empioyment. The group
must not endanger-the individual, and
we must discourage groups preying
! upon one another, and none shali be
I ailowed to forget that the government's
! obligations are alike to aii the people.
No Strike Against Government.
We are so confident that much of the
present-day insufficiency and inefficien
cy of transportation are dne to the
withering hand of government opera
tion diat we emphasize anew our oppo
sition to government ownership, we
want to expedite the reparation and
make sure the mistake is not repeated,
A state of inadequate transporta
tion faciiities, mainly chargeabie to
the failure of governmental experi
ment; is iosing miliions to agricuiture.
it is hindering industry, it is menae
! ing the American people with a fuel
! shortage little less than a peril. It em
phasizes the present-day problem and j
; suggests that spirit of encouragement
} and assistance -which commits ail j
; America to relieve such an emergency.
] Gross expansion of currency and j
! credit have depreciated the dollar just
as expansion and Inflation have dis
: credited the coins of the world. We
] inflated in haste, we must deflate in
deliberation. We debased the dotiar
in reckless finance, we must restore in
honesty.
In all sincerity we promise the pre
vention of unreasonable prohts, we
challenge profiteering with all the mor
! al force and the legal powers of gov
ernment and people, but it Is fair, aye,
it is timely, to give reminder that law
Is not the so!e corrective of our eco
nomic ills.
Drive Against Extravagance.
! Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and sac
rifice If need be, for a nation-wide
drive against extravagance and lux
ury. to a recommittal to simplicity of
j living, to that prudent and normal plan
of life which is the health of the re
; public. ,
j New conditions, which attend amaz
! ing growth and extraordinary indus
I trial development, call for a new and
! forward-looking program. The Amerl
! can farmer had a hundred and twenty
; millions to feed in the home market,
and heard the cry of the world for
food and answered it, though he faced
an appailing task amid handicaps
never encountered before.
Contemplating the defenseiessness of
the individual farmer to meet the or
ganized buyers of his products and the
distributors of the things the farmer
buys, I hoidythat farmers should not
i only be permitted but encouraged to
, join in co-operative association to reap
the just measure of reward merited by
j their arduous to:!.
Our platform is an earnest pledge of
^ renewed concern for this most essen
tial and elemental industry dnd in
; both appreciation and interest we
piedge effective expression in iaw and
^ practice. We wiil hail that co-epera
. tion which again wiii make prohtabie
! and desirahie ^he ownership and op
i eration of comparatively small farms
; intensively cultivated, and which wii)
! facilitate the caring for the products
' of farm and orchard without the
j tameatable waste under present condi
} tions.
America would took with anxiety on
! the discouragement of farming ac
! tivity either through the government's
negiect or its paralysis by socialistic
practices. A Republican administra
tion will be committed to renewed re
gard for agriculture, and seek the
participation of fanners in curing the
ills justly complained of, and aim to
place the American farm where it
ought to be—highly ranked in Ameri
can activities and fuiiy sharing the
high*"-?! good fortunes of American
j life.
Ho singly associated with this
subject are the poiicies of irrigation
nr ' ?"*ciamation. so essentia! to agri
ru: iRu! expansion, and the continued
*)' veiopuuMH of the meat and wonder
ful T eat. It is our purpose to con
tinue and enlarge federal aid, not in
..pha) partiality, but for the good
of aii America. „
! &!ieve th& budget system will ei
feet a necessary, helpful reformation,
and reveal business methods to gov
ernment business.
I believe federal departments should
be made more business-like and send
back to productive effort thousands
of federal employees, who are either
duplicating work or not essential at
all.
I believe In the protective tariff
policy and know we will be calling for
its saving Americanism again.
1. believe In a great merchant ma
rine. 1 would have this republic the
leading maritime nation of the world.
I believe In a navy ample to pro- j
tect it, and able to assure us depend- ]
able defense.
1 believe In a small army, hut the
best In the world, with a mindfulness
for preparedness which wiH avoid the
unutterable cost of our previous neg
lect.
1 believe In cur eminence in trade
abroad, which .he government should
aid in expanding, both in revealing
markets and speeding cargoes.
1 betieve in establishing standards !
for immigration, which are concerned
with the future citizenship of the re
public, net with mere man power in in
dustry.
1 believe that every man who dons
he garb of American citizenship and
calks in the light cf America!) oppor
tunity, must become American in j
mart and soui.
1 believe in hoiding fast to every
forward step in unshackling child la
bor and elevating conditions of wom*
nn's employment.
1 believe the federal government
Khould stamp out lynching and re
move that stain from the fair name of
America.
1 helieve the federal government
should g$ve its effective aid in solving
the problem of ample and becoming
housing of its citizenship.
! believe this government should
name Its Liberty and Victory bonds
a!!It all that its patriotic citizens
paid in purchasing them.
Taxes Must Be Reduced.
1 hCece the fpx burdens imposed {
"! (be war emergency must be re- i
ic:-;) to the needs of peace, and in the
'crt-n! o.' equity in distribution of the
nrden. s
i !<t-tn"+ he negro citizens cf Amer
en shou'd be guaranteed the enjoy
ittent of ni! tiieirrig!)ts, that they have
-arnedii.efuii measure of citizetiship
e^ow-ct'.ii n ti i-ir sacrifices in biood
nthei.a'io. ids <-*' the repui)!ic have
!itit)<-() :ht tn io aii of freedom and op
ottunity, ati of sympathy and aid
!tmt t!:e A:nerican spirit of fail-ties
:nd justice comands.
! beiieve tiiere is an easy and ope?
path to righteous reiatiouship with
idexico. it has seemed to me that ou:
tntdeveioj'od, uncertain and intirtn
P'dicy !)as made us a cuipabie party to
the governmenta! misfortuues in that
and Our rotations ought to he both
iriendiy and sympathetic; we. wouid
ike to acclaim a stabie government
'here, and etfer a neighboriy band in
pointing the way to greater, progress
! beiieve m iaw enforcetnent. P
etected f mean to be a constitutional
president, and it is impossiide to
ignore the .onstitution, unthinhabie to
evade the 'aw, when our every com
mittai is to orderiy government.
The four miiiioti defenders ou iand
and sea were worthy of the best tradi
; tions of a peopie never war-iike in
peace and never pacifist in war. They
commanded our pride, they have cm
gratitude, which must have genuine ex
pression. If is not oniv a duty, it is a
p?-iviiege to see that toe sacriAces
made shai! be requitted, and that those
stiii suffering from casuaities and dis
abilities shad be ab ndahtiy aided and
restored to the highest caoabiiities of
citizenship and its enjoyment.
Advocates Woman Suffrage.
The womanhood of Amori-a. always
its glory, 'is inspiration add the potent,
uplifting rde:ni:ssoc:a.<andspir
iiuai tie' . -pment. is about to be. s.n
franchised. In so far as congress can
go^ the fact is already accomplished
By party, edict, by my recorded com.
by persona! conviction ! atn committed
io this, measure of justice. It is my
earnest hope, my' sincere desire tha:
the one needed state vote be quickh
recorded In the atiirmation of the rign*
4tf equai suffrage and that tne vote of
every citizen shall be cast aud counted
in ti:e approaching election.
And to the great number of noble
s'omen who have opposed in convic
tion this tremendous change in the
ancient relation of the sexes as ap
plied to gove ni.-ont, ! venture to plead
that they win accept the full respon
sibility of enlarged citizenship and give
to the best in the republic their suf
frage and support.
Ours is not oniy a fortunate people
but a very common-sensical people,
with vision high hut their feet on the
earth, with belief in themselves and
faith in God. Whether enemies threat
en from without or menaces arise
from within, there is some indefinable
voice saying, "Have confidence in the
republic I America wMi go oni"
Subscribe F^r The Ripple
GENERAL MASS
MEETING JGLY 24
And Public Speaking In
The Interest of Education
In YadkinviMe
A general mass meeting of the
citizens of Yadkinville and com
munity will be held a: the court
house Saturday night for the
purpose of considering a better
school. The school facilities of
Yadkinville are very poor and
the buildings inadequate. The
need of improvement is urgent
as manv have realized for some
time, but no definite, organized
effort has been made to improve
conditions with the result that
we ha^e been going backward
instead of forward for a number
of years.
Misses Hunt and Dixon who
have been here three weeks con
ducting a summer school for
teachers, seemg. our needs and
appreciating the possibilities
which we have, have taken con
siderable interest in bringing the
matter to the attention of our
people; with the result that the
community is becoming vitally
interested and a mass meeting
has been called for Saturday
night at 8 o'clock at the court
house, and it is earnestly hoped
and desired that all the people
living within four miles of the
court house, including women
and chidren, attend this meeting.
An orchestra will furnish spec
ial music tor the occasion.
Judge Gilbert T. Stephenson of
Winston, Hon. A. E. Holton oi
Winston andSupt. C. C. Wright
of Wilkes county will speak for
us. Some oi our local citizens
will speak in the interest of bet
ter schools.
No definite plan has been for
mulated but it has been suguest
eq that a district be laid out ex
tending four miles from the
court house in eveiy direction;
that bonds be issued and a
$i00,udd school plant be installed;
that a standard High School and
a Farm Life for the whole county
be established.
NOTICE.
Pursuant to an order of the Su
perior Court of Yadkin County,
made on the 8th day of -Tuiy,
1920, in an action entitled T, S.
A^hiev et al, EX PARTE, we will
seii to the highest bidder at oub
liu auction on the premises in
Knobs Township, Yadkin County
on
MONDAY, AUGUST 9th 1920,
at or near the hour of 2 o'clock
p. m. the following described real
estate: Adjoining the lands cf
Moses Chapel and others, begin
ning on a black oak in William
Barber line, north 20 chs. to rod
oak m Groce line, Most o chs. 2-^
links to a'.stake Gloss cornet
North ( Mrs. to a stake, A est h-'
chs. b4 links to a red or black oak.
South 22 degrees West A' chs. 5b
iiu'Rs to.a post oak, East lo chs.
85 links to oak, North 4 chs. 5b
links to hickory, East .7 chs. 25
links to the beginning, containing
containing 110 14 acres moie or
less. Terms of sale: one Third
cash, balance on a credit of six
months with bond and approved
security for deferred payment.
This land will he sub divided
and sold in smalt tracts and then
as a whole.
This July 8th, 1920.
8. W. VESTAJU
J.W. FRAZIER,
Commissioneis.
—Farm Wanted—Wanted, to
hear from owner of farm or good
land for sale, Send price and de
scription. Fali delivery. L.
Jones, Box 55i, Olney, 111.
D L. Reavis Dies cf Injury
Win$t6n-Sa!pm, July 15.—D.
L. Reavis, a member of fire
company No. 1, died at 9:30
from injuries received in an acci
dent to the truck Ym North Lib
erty street last night at 11:45
o'clock. Mr. Reavis and two
other members of the company
were thrown violently to the
pavemant as the truck skidded
in passing an automobile that
was meeting the firemen. The
truck was responding to an al
arm which proved to be false.
Mr. Reavis suffered severe lac
erations in the groins and inter
nal injuries which caused his
death. Two other men,
thrown from the truck are in
the Hospital with minor injur
ies. The deceased fireman was
27 years old and was a native of
Yadkin county. He is survived
by his wife and two small chil
dren.
Mr. Reavis died in the hospit
al in Winston Wednesday morn
ing from hts injuries.
Mr. Reavis was a son of Mrs.
U. A. Martin of near Yadkinville
and a splendid young man. He
married Miss Shermer, daughter
of Mr. Jess Shermer and his wife
and two children survive him,
together with his mother, sever
al brothers aad sisters and many
warm friends in both Yadkin
couriy and Winston Salem.
The accidentis greahv deplor
ed, more especially b cause the
alarm was a false one Three
young boys have been arrested
with causing the death of Mr.
Reavis by turning in a false fire
alarm.
EnonNews
A large number of people at
tended a lawn party at Hoo's
store Saturday eight. Ail re
ported a fine time m spite of
rain,
Mr. A. E. Conrad and family,
audMt. Bob Douthit ana family
of Petet's Fla., have arrived here
to spend the summer. They
drove through the country in an
ncto,
There is quite a lot of sickness
around in the community, a
number of people having chills
; and malaria.
Missess Elenore Tesh. Evelyn
Conrad, and Annie McSwain of
Winston-Salem, who have been
visiting Miss Ida Mae Eiger,
have returned to their homes.
i he Baptist cnurch here has
been finished so it can be used;
ad the outside work is done. A
campaign is now on to raise
money to finish it. Everyone
should respond liberally and
complete this much needed
building,
One of the most charming and
; certainly one of most enjoyable
parlies of the season w as given
last Wednesday night, when Mr.
and Mrs. P. L. Kiger entertained
a number of young people in a
! surprise party in honor of their
!sou John's twentieth hir.hday. A
number of games both eld and
new were indulged in, after
which a delicious ice cream
I course was served. Among the
! out of town guests were Misses
! Annie McSwain, E'enor Tesh,
! Evelyn Conrad of Winston-Sal
em, Messrs. Perry Douthit oi Pe
*ers. Fla., Clyde Kirk and Mar
vin Martin oi East Bend.
Owing to the inclement
weather the Forbush Township
5. 3. Convention postponed
until a more favorable time.
There wil be a lawn party at
Enon church Saturday night,
July 31st. Everyone come and
have a good time. The pro
ceeds will go to the building
fund of the church.
Mr. t. T. Matthews and bride,
who have been visiting relatives
here, have returned to their
home in Chicago.