North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XXVI. YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1920 SHIPS BtHBED MOW BY "EBBS" Listening Devices in HuHs Tei! Channel Route into New York Harbor. New York.—The principle of "fol low the green line" used successfully by the management of New York's subway system in handling crowds at congested transfer -points, has been =adaptpd in a measure to insure safety to ships at sea around crowded har bors. Instead of a visible "green line," however, a device has been per fected whereby vessels seeking their way into harbor in thick weather can follow with safety a submerged and -energized wire. In the outer reaches of New York barber, where deep water meets ishoals, there begins a marine passage way known as Ambrose channel. This Channel leads^up through the Nar rows into the inner harbor and to the -docks, and in this channel the guiding -cable has been lq,id. Ships property -equipped to take advantage of its guiding powers can follow it through nny kind of weather with the same ^degree of assurance as ean the pas Wenger who seeks to make his way from Crand Central terminal to Times square. Guides by Sound Waves. The device consists of a cable 16 Miles long laid in the center of the channel. It is energized with an al ternating current from the shore. Ships to take advantage of it must be equipped with audiphones or listen ing devices attached to the huii. Ap proaching the channel, the sound waves emitted by the cable cap he heard for some distance, and the in creasing or decreasing strength of the sound enables the ship to steered until it is right over the source. It is then a simple matter to fol low its course through the dredged channel despite storm or fog, which would make the marking buoys invis ible or would tend to confuse the warning notes of automatic bell and whistle markers. Can Tel! Exact Location. This cable is but an additions! pro tection for shipping entering Ameri can ports. It supplements the radio compass installed and operated by the naval communications service now in successful use all albng the Atlantic coast. By the compass ships can as certain their exact position in any hiBd of weather. Another protec tion recently tried out by the navy department is a machine for deter mining, depth of water and proximity of other ships through the readings of sounds from the propellers reflected back from the bottom or near-by bodies. REVIVE TAHITI LORE Excavators Search Ruins for Ret ies of Ancient Worship. Templet Where Human Sacrifices Were Offered Destroyed by Mis sionaries C .Luries Ago. Papeete, Tahiti.—The anciqpt lore of Tahiti is to he resurrected and the ruins of the temples of the South Pa cific islanders, ordered destroyed a century ago by Christian mission aries, are to be uncovered by excava tion. Efforts to gather the relics of a for gotten worship are being vigorously prosecuted here. So completely were the wishes of the missionaries carried out that noth ing remains save traces of the founda tions of the great centra! temple of Marae at Atehum, on Tahiti island, Where human sacrifices were offered , to the bloodthirsty god of war, "Oro." Excavations are expected to bring to tight some interesting objects, which, it is hoped, wil! reveai the pur poses and uses of this ancient struc ture. Marae, while being the chief temple of Tahiti, was not the oldest or the mast important in the islands. The tempie at Opoa, traces of which still remain on the island of Raintea, was the sacred center of religion in the eastern PaciHc and not until a stone from this had been! incorporated in the structure did the Marae temple ^t Tahiti decease consecrated. It was at Marae that Captain Cook witnessed the ceremonibs of human sacrifices chronicled in his "Voyages." The natives while professing Chris tianity and manifesting it by most ac tive church attendance, have a deep fear of these places. Under no cir cumstances wili they approach these temples at night, nor venture near them by day without great trepida tion, believing that should they in any way offend the sleeping gods ven geance will come. Republican Woman Organize A 8!ub Since franchise has been ex tend to the ladies of the land they are becoming interested in poli tics and many of them feel h is their duty to take part in the af fairs of the state and nation. To this end the republican ladies of Yadkin ville have orginized them selves into a Republican Club and their object is to secure every lady in the county of vot ing age who is a republican or expects to be one to join this club. It is not a Yadkinville club but a county club. They expect tjo visit the homes o f many ladies of the county to en roll them as members. - The first meeting of this club was held Saturday afternoon at which various committees were appointed. Another meeting was held Tuesday afternoon when a j president and secretary was el.! ected. Mrs. A, Holton Jr., was elected president and Miss Mary Harding Secretary. Miss Hard ing is to serve until someone can be selected in her place who can u$e a typewriter. Later vice pre sidents will be elected ane it is planned to elect one from each township of the county and these vice presidents are to be presi dent of the township members will be members of the county club. . A nice suite, of rooms over the bank of Yadkin has been fitted up for their headquarters and af ter a short time some lady will be found there every d'ty and acy lady of the county visiting in Yadkinville who believes in the principles of their party are invited to visit their headquar ters. Yadkin Democrats *-HoM Convention Yadkin county democrats met in a mass convention in the con. rt house Monday, nominate# a iu 11 county ticket including a la dy for Register of Deeds and lis tened to an impassioned address by C oL Sanford Martin. The first business transacted by the convention was the elec tiou of Atty. R. C. Puryear as tempory chairman and Mr. J, W. Shore as secretary. The matter of t he nomination candidates was then taken up and a ful; county ticket made up, including Mrs. Tu&tie Pass, wiie of Mr, Grady Pass for Register of Deeds. Others nominated were as fol lows: For Represenative L. F. Amburn, Boonville, for Sheriff T. J. Phillips of Baltimore, coro ner Dr. W. G. Leak of East Bend, purveyor M. G. Myers of Yad kinville, Route 2, and for county commissioners J. W. Shore of Boonville, S. G. Allen of Hamp ton ville and C. E. Hartman of Forbush township. It is a signa honor for Mrs. Pass that she is the first woman to be nomsnated for a politic^ office in Yadkin county. After the busineis of the con vention was disposed of Mr. San ford Martin was asked to address the convention. Mr. Martin is an ahle speaker and he discussed the issues Of the day with much satisfaction. His hearers frequ ently interrupted him with ap plause and a rising vote of than ks was extended to him when he finished. Commissioners Appoint New Farm Demonstrator — Yadkin county Commissioner in session here Monday received request from diiferent sections of the countj' to re-establish the office of Farm Demonstration Agent, as they had received on the last meeting day, and arter much consideration they decided to do so. The former order ab oiished the office to take effect Oct. 1 and this time not having arrived the county will not be out a demonstrator at all. In re establishing t h e office, howeves, new applicants were made for appointment as farm demonstrator and a sew fight was on, which was won by Mr. Lawrence Hudspeth, a young ex service man and son of Mr. W. L Hudspeth of Hamptonviile. Mr. Hudspeth had the reccomdation of many leading farmers of the county of bofh parties and a del egation appeared before the com missioners in a body and asked fot his appointment. Mr. Hud speth w i H succeed Mr. M. W. Mackie oh Oct. 1. Mr. Hudspeth is a very bright young man from a good family and was raised on a farm. He has been a successful school tea cher for some years, after he had graduated at Mars Hil! College, At t h is College Mr. Hudspeth had the record of being the cha mpion mathematician of the sch ooi and he graduated with hon ors. When the war broke out he was calle)ttp the colors and left Yadkinville on Oct. 10, 1917 for Camp Jackson. He wus trans fered overseas on July 30, 1918 when he was promoted to First Sargent and was in actual service until the armistice was signet), being in some of the biggest bat tles of the war. He was returned to the United States on June 27, 1919. He received an honorable dis charge from th^ army and retur ned to this county and engaged in farming, While in camp at Columbia, he was married to Miss Hattie Brandon, one of the most popular and highly educat ed school teachers of the county and a daughter of Mr. John Bra ndon, one of the most prosperous farmers of the county. He will move his family to Yadkinville and devote his entire time t o work, which he plans to take up in earnest, and his friends wish him success. This is an instance in which the county commissioners had an opportunity of rewarding an ex service man. He is said to be well qualified for the position. A Complete Plantation For Sale 150 acres sandy loam, clay sub* soil all under wire fence, nearly one million feet of pine and oak timber, four horse farm under cultivation and especially adapt for tobacco, cotton anJ corn, one eightr oom dwelling, two temant houses, good barn, good new to bacco barn, telephone, daily mail and on a gravel road. Owner leaving on account of age A wonderful opportunity and a close price if sold soon. If interested wire, phone, or write immediately. J L. Knight, Carthage, N Car. ' ".. ^ ^ ^ Two Matadors Homed. Barc^tona.—Matador Correa, who had previous! y been wounded w^ile Hgbting a bull, struck a bone wit&h(s sword and fe<! ot< the an'mal's home. Re wac tossed and rece!ved d deep j awtmd. Matadar Are^uipew a!ae-waa ! %omed severely, TahacM !s Higher Eastern Markets Average $1 69 More Than Last Year's Price Up To Present The Crop For North Carolina Shows An Increase of Thirteen Per Cent.— Other Interesting Figures. The prices paid for tobacco on the eastern Carolina market the past mqnth were $1.60 per hun-; dted higher than during the same I period last year, according to the j repon just issued by State Agri cultural Statician Parker. There was a considerable falling off in sales however, the amount of tobacco sold the past month b^ing 9,h25,000, against 7,290,000 for the satne ttme last year. Mr. Parker writes as follows: "The three North Carolina nounties having open tobacco markets during July are located on the northern enge of the South Carolina tobacco belt, an# the development of the bright leaf is making rapid growth in these southern counties. While the three counties ?how an aver age decease in the tobacco area of about 6 per cent, the entire section extending from Monroe down through Columbus, shows a remarkable increase in the crop. The state's tobacco acreage showed an increase of t3 6 per cent over ^ hast year's 523,389 acres. 78,221 acaes of this area are located in the sectiou around these markets. The condition ci the state's ctopj 88 per cent, is 81 per cent better tnan iasi month and 12 percent better than at this time last year, and forecasts a total pro uction of over 400,* 000,000 pounds. Last year the sates amounted to 323,371,2J2 pounds, at a total value of $161, 038,878. The total producers sales for July last year were 6, 645,451 pounds. North Carolina has 86,300 acres more than Ken tucky, the next largest tobacco state, though the yields of our bright leaf are smaller than of the type growD there. Reports of inj ary to crop from disease, excessive rains, drought etc., come from sections, but the general prospects are very en couraging for a good tobacco CiCp. CnlEF OF SLACKERS Charles y. Phillips, who was con victed la 1*17 of conspiracy to defeat the operation of the draft laws, and who la now, according to latest re ports, the chl& of a soviet of draft evaders who have taken thels thha skins down latt 'lexicon " s farmer Ambassador Raps Administration -* Ggdensburg, N. Y., Sep. 2— President Wilson was described as an "autocrat of secretive me thods and unknown purposes * and his administration charact erized as "a reign of autocracy and incompetency" in a bpeech before a republican meeting here tonight by Henry Lane Witson of Indianopolis, formerly Amer ican ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Wilson said that the Dem ocratic national convention at San Francisco indorsed the Wil son administration but rebelled "at the dictation of the French Lick political syndite" and nom* inated Govenot Cox. "For the moment this nomination was be lieved to be the signal for the throwing off of the shackles ot Wilsonism" continued the speak er, "but this belief was soon dis sipated, for the standard bearer of th3 Democratic party made his pilgrimage to Canossa and standing bareheaded in the pre sence of the autocrat of America made his submission, received the autocratic blessing and the autocratic kiss of peace and went on his way to make America safe for democracy. The reign of violent prejudice of private feud, of pretty injustice and autocratic procedure initiat ed by secret conclave was inau gurated. Mis (PresidenMVilson's) cabineut became a mere cipher and his councils were directed by pfetty men ot uuknown origin intrigue took the place of states manship and by the advice #nd counsil of as unwholesome a group of court lavorites, politi ical sateiies and adventures as the world has ever known, the country was hurried fiom one astonishing innovation into ano other from one danger to a wor sa. The American people have been asked to join in an advent urous experiment in internation alism and in the exploitations of new doctrines foreign t o the spirit of our institutions and in imical to our highest and best interest. "To this has been added what might be appropriately described as shirttail diplomacy / a phrase which aims to describe the state of mind that induces us to a ji up in the middle of the night and see what out neighbors are dping and if they are doing it, to te!l themjiof to do it, and if they aren't doing it to tell them to do it." President s Poor Diplomacy This "restless and opaque-vis ioned diplomacy," the speaker said; "led^to the extension of A merica sovereignly over Hayti and Santo Domingo, to the over throw of one Mexican president and the autocratic investiture of another and has cost us the frie ndship of Italy, the bitter criti cisms of Aance the cold distrust of Great Britain, and the repro achaful complaints of China." "Too much false altruism and not enough plain, everyday com mon serse," wa? tpe of ih^e* speekes's characterizations aftha Wilson admin stration. And then toos it it must not be forgotteh that he "kept ns out of war" the former amba sador coatinued. **That is to say be kept Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood out of the war. Then he took us into the war unready unprepared undressed before the eyes of the world at an added cost of 35,Mt) 9(M,0M, Recording to the testi mony giV^u b f^re the United States senate." President Wilson, the speaker said, "appointed four nobodies } and himself as delegates to the peace conference and then with a retinue of ethnologists, etymol ogists, psychologists, geograph ists, secretaries, valets, hotel cooks, and fiddlers, sailed across the ocean with oriental pump and ceremony to make the world ^ safe for domocracy." The speaker reviewed what he called the "untimely fate" of four of Mr. Wilsons 14 points at the hand of the peace conference declaring that Japan obtained the appaoval of the conference ta "the great robbery of Sh&n tung." Attacks the League Mr. Wilson criticised the cov enant of the league of nations a long the iines upon which it was attacked in the senate. Whether Cox or Hat ding be elected Pres ident, Mr. Wilson said, it would not be possible to secure the ap proval of this covenant by the United States senate^ and that the league of nattons4s "a fail ure and a by-word and a bisstng among the nations of the earth.'* Mr. Harding, the speaker said, had declared that if elected Pres ! ident, he would immediately set out to accomplish peace with Germany. * This, Mr. Wilson said, could be accomplished by resolution of Congress without ^ treaty with Germany and after ward "we jean call together the nations of the world for the cre ation of au association of inde pendent nations which may be come the instrumentality of ac complishing the peace of .the world without threateuing the sovereignty of the nations." - - _ Former Seavice Man Saves Life of A Chiid Danville, Va., Aug. 27—The stor^ of a heroic deed reached here today from Milton, N. C., this involving the saving of the hie of Dorothy Beasely, 3 yeat oid child, at great personal risk by force: Firs Lieut. EB. Foote, of the aviation service during the war. Yesterday evening the child ' fell down a 65 foot weilaud Lieu tenant Foote, hearing the screams from bystanders, went to the spot. The child could be heard splashing and screaming below* Foote removed hir e * andshoes and encircliug an iron pipe thru which water was pumped sld down the distance, fen f^et of water was in the well *nd the child had .sunk. He dorc^d his - way down and grasped it bring ing it unconscions to the surface. Then he took off his suspenders and maxing an improved rope bound the unconscious child to him and climbed 65 feet up the pole, reaching the top exhausted. Bystanders thought the child dead, but Foote did not lose time and laying out thech Id, restored to the well known methods of resuscitation as taught him in military service. After a pro longed period the breath of life came and went normally and color agpin came to the palid cheeks. ^ .. 2 Shoe Hee!s So!'d Go!d, 2 Coraet Bones Costty ! Geneva.—A y ung woman a?- a 2 rested near Geneva while trying 2 # suspiciously to steal across the * % frontier ipto i'ran<-e '-ns fyui^d 2 # aftev Shrewd search to have^r^ e 2 eat "Clones" of gotd and piatinum 2 # covered with cloth, and shoe # 2 hee^s of solid gold under .white 2 # vamito. Phe was trying to ^ 2 anmggle hulMon 'nto Fra ice.