LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17,1919
ARKANSAS UPRISING A NEGRO
SCHEME FOR "EASY MONEY"
E. M. Allen of a committee au
thorized by the city of Helena, Ark.,
and Got. Brougfc to inyestigate the
recent riots in that section, has is
sued the following statement:
; "The present trouble with, the ne
groes in Phillips county is not a race
'riot It is a deliberately planned in
surrection of the negroes against the
"whites directed by an organization
"known as the TrogressiTe Farmers,
" and Household Union of America,'
established for- the purpose of band
ing negroes together for the killing
of white people. This' union was
started by Robert L. Hill, a negro, 26
.years of age, of Winchester, Ark.,
who saw in it an opportunity of mak
ing easy money. He had been a
farmer all his life, but lately had
been posing as a private , detective
'doing work in this and all foreign
countries.'
"Hill started his first union work
in April of this year," Mr. Allen said.
"He told the negroes it was necessary
for all members of the union to arm
themselves in preparation for the day
when they should be called upon to
attack their white oppressors.
"Negro men were charged $1.50
entranc efees and negro women 60
cents," Mr. Allen said in his statement.
"Another form of extortion was to
sell shares of (10 each to all the
xegroes in a proposed building to be
erected by the union at Winchester,"
the statement savs. "Hill Would find
out what nestoes Possessed thrift
stamps and Liberty bonds and would
issue a certificate stating that so
nianv shares had been purchased at
$10 per share and all negroes buying
shares in the amount or sou or more
were told that their names would be
engraved in the building. In other
words, he had so planned his cam
paign that any negro possessing from
60 cents to loo was given an oppor
tunity to invest in something con-
npited with the union.
"An6ther scheme used by Hill to
obtain money was to appoint leading
upcrroea in each lodire as a 'private
and foreign detective,' furnishing
them lars-e nickel-elated stars and
nair of nickel-nlated handcuffs, for
-which thev naid him $50 each.
"His meetinir at Winchester in Au
gust was attended and addressed by
white men. He simply played upon
Vio io-nnrance and sunerstition OI
i-ace of children most of whom
-nuld neither read nor write.
"I have cross-examined and talked
to at least 100 prisoners at Elaine,
They belong to different lodges in
that section. The stories they tell
are almost identical as to the" prem
ises and representations male by
Hill. He eten told them that prob-
ablv some of the nesrroes would be
called UDon to die before 'equal
Tights' would be assured, but they
must look upon themselves as cru
saders and die if necessary to secure
the freedom of the other members of
their race.
"All lodge meetings were required
to maintain an armed "outer guard
of six sentinels. Hill's usual expres
sion was 'Get your racks filled for tn
day to come.
"As far as oppression is concerned,
many of the negroes involved own
mules, horses, cattle and automobiles
and clear money every year on their
crops after expenses are paid."
RED CROSS NURSE DESCRIBES
HORRORS OF TYPHUS
In a letter from Omsk, Siberia,
Miss Charlotte Boardman Rogers of
New York city, who was on the west
ern front when the Kolchak armies
recently evacuated 'a number" of
cities, writes a pitiable story of the
American Red Cross. ' Under date of
July 20 she writes, according to the
Tokio correspondent of the Associ
ated Frees:
"I have spent twenty-four hours in
helL Our train Was stalled at the
railroad station at Petrupavlovsk, far
western Siberia, and somewhere to
the west of us the Red armies were
coming on. To the right of us, left
of us, rear of us, were typhus fever
trains, - box cars, passenger cars,
twenty-jfive, thirty, even thirty-five
cars to a train, and all loaded with
men from the front and from the
evacuated hospitals, with hundreds
thousands of patients dying of the
dread disease. No nurses waited on
them, no doctors administered medi
cines to stimulate the action of their
weakened hearts. They lay bn rough
board shelves erected - around the
sides and ends of the ears, or on the
floor, where even cattlemen would
have placed straw if animals Were to
be carried. No sanitary conveniences
were supplied; the patients' clothes
were stained with filth and blood;
their feet caked with mud and ma
nure; their bodies alive with little
gray typhus lice the plague of Si
beria. Cheek bones protruded
through their yellow skin ,eyes sunk
en into their sockets, hands like birds
clows stretched out with cups for wa
ter, they lay all day in the swelter
ing heat.
"We tried to look away, but all
day long we heard them moan or call
for their sanitary attendants.
"Our trip from Omsk to the ex
treme front and back again at a time
when the Siberian government armies
were falling back before the Reds has
revealed in all its pitifulness the tre
mendous need of Russian hospitals,
Sanitary towns and dressing stations
for every kind of supply.
"Although the American Red Cross
has been sending train after train to
western Siberia, so vast is the need
that many more trains are necessary
to meet even the most primal neces
sities. Yet those of us who have seen
the immediate improvement in hos
pitals and sanitary trains whre Amer
ican PaH (TVaoq ftiinnlipft havp. rnmA In
are immensely encouraged, knowing
that every pound of absorbent cot
ton, every ounce of drugs, every yard
of sraure, can be used in western Si
beria to save a life."
ALL RUSSIA CALLED TO ARMS
A dispach from Helsingfors say the
soviet government of Russia has or
dered the entire population of that
country to train immediately for mil
itary service, according to a dispatch
from ' Moscow. All peasants, it is
said, have been instructed to' engage
in -military training "exdept for the
time they are farming.
Joe Boyer won' the world series
autohomile sweepstakes race, 250
miles, at the Cincinnati speedway,
with an average time of 101.69 miles
an hour.
NEW MOTORCYCLE RECORD
A new world's record for the 100
mile motorcycle race was made at
New York by Albert Burns of Los
Angeles, who did the' distance in
1:07 5-7. A world's record for 50
miles was made by Bay Wishaar of
Bridgeport, Conn., in 32 :57 2-5.
A plan for a union of colored cooks
which will ask affiliation with the
State Federation of Labor has been
started in Asheville nd a wage in
crease which will probably reach 100
per cent will be asked.
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WAKE FOREST MAN WINS THE
FIRST LAP
Crossing the continent, 2,701
65 seconds actual flying time,
Lieut Belvin W. Maynard of Wake
Forest, N. C, last Friday took first
honors by a few hours in the first
lap of the double trans-continental
airplane reliability race by landing
at San Francisco, while Lieut E. C.
Kiel completed the eastbound trip,
followed 20 seconds later by Maj.
Carl Spatz, who reached New York
first but made an erroneous landing.
Lieut. Maynard, the tenth to start
from Mineola, N. Y., Wednesday of
'last week, required, allowing for dif
ference in time, 57 minutes and 11
seconds more than three days for the
trip without flying between sunset
and sunrise and after losing several
hours at Cheyenne on account of ra
diator trouble. In addition, he was
required to rest a half hour at each
control station.
Lieut Maynard, "the flying par
son," will return to the ministry as
soon as he is mustered out of the
army, his wife says. The daring
flier is only 27 years old, having been
horn in North Carolina in 1892. He
attended Wake Forest College. He
has been flying only a year and a
half, mostly in France, where he was
a test pilot, trying out de Haviland
Liberty-motored planes after they
had been assembled. He was noted
for the untiring energy he put into
his duties and on one occasion he
tested 22 planes in a single morning.
He holds a "looping" record, having
completed 360 consecutive loops in
AO minutes without losinjr altitude.
A dispatch from Mineola Monday
says that according, to the record in
Capf Smith's log book he has beaten
Lieut. Maynard 'in the trans-continental
'face. Capt 'Smith's figures
fchdw that he flew from San Francisco
to Mineola in 24 hours 30 minutes
flying time, as against Lieut May
Hard's 24 hours 59 minutes and 48 Vt
seconds from Mineola to San Fran
Cant Smith's claim to be vic
tor will have to be officially verified
Before a decision is made.
WILSON CANNOT LEAVE BED
FOR INDEFINITE PERIOD
Hope that President Wilson might
regain his normal health and resume
fully the duties of his office have been
swept away by his physicians, who
announce that it will be impossible
for him to leave his bed "for an ex
tended period."
The announcement, made after I
consultation between Rear Admiral
flravson and the three other physi
cians aiding in the case, said there
had been no interruption oi tne rresi-
Hont.'a Blow lmnrovement but em-
nhasized that he still had a long road
to travel before he reached complete
recovery, rne pnysicians announce
ment was not taken to mean mat mr
Wilson would be orohibited from sit-
fine un in bed. and it was considered
pnHrelv oossible that he might be
permitted to sign a few important
bills and orders each day as his prog
ress continues. All of the physicians
have been in close touch with the pa
tient's condition for more than i
week and thev were said to be unan
mous in their agreement that an ex
tended rest from the worries oi tne
presidency is necessary.
Announcement that President Wil
son cannot leave his bed for an ex
tended period brought home to om
cials the possible effect of the Presi
dent's illness on public affairs and re
newed discussion as to what expe
dient, m io-ht. he adonted should the
press of the execuitve business reacn
a noint demanaintr more avwnuun
th nhe could give it
The disposition on all sides seems
tn he to refrain from raising me
question of the President's disability
to act under the constitution, but of
ficials are known to have considered
it a a one of the Dossibilities of the
situation. The constitution provides
that in case, of the President's disa-
blity the vice-president shall act as
chief executive, out yiere, is no prec
edent for such a transfer of author
ity, and official oDintoii is divided as
to how it might be brought about
should the necessity arise.
Who ould declare a residents
disability is known to present some
thing of a puzzle to the legal advisers
of the government. The constitution
is silent on the point and in the ab
sence of an exact precedent a num
ber of divergent opinions have been
advanced informally.
LARGE ENROLLMENT AT THE
NORTH CAROLINA A. AND E.
The enrollment Of the North Caro
lina State College at the present time
exceeds that up to Christmas of last
-year bv 63. The entire number
which have entered the regular
courses at State College' this year to
date is 927. The 1918-19 session
was the lareest in the previous his
tory of .the college, with a total en
rollment of 1.020 'in the winter
courses. The indications are that
, this number will be reached,, if not
exceeded, by the end of the present
fall term.. As a whole, this is the
most prosperous year of the college.
; Thre seems to have been an educa
tional awakening ' throughout the
country, and technical education is
CENSUS DATA NOT TO BE USED
IN SECURING TAXES
"That the -facts and figures .gath
ered by the enumerators, supervisors
nit unpelal intent of the fourteenth
Mecennial census will have absolutely
nothing to do witn valuation of prop
erty for taxation purposes is a point
I desire to emphasize with all possible
vigor," safd Director of the Census
Sam L. Rogers in speaking of the
forthcoming 1920 enumeration.
"9me difficulty has been experi
enced hv the ; past," continued Mr,
Rosrers. "in sretting absolutely accu
rate values of land and other prop
erty because of a certain amount, of
confusion over this noint. Many peo
ple were erroneously inclined to con
nect the census .with taxation. We
hope to avoid any such confusion this
time." . . t
' The nroner tabulated figures of the
census Are tiVen out nowhere Jut
in -Washington, and then only upon
the express authority of the director
Of the census bureau. .
Actual work by the enumerators in
the various census "districts will be
gin Jan. 2, 1920.
"The national -wotaan's .party has
started a drive to obtain ratification
of the suffrage constitutional amend
ment in order to allow women an
over the United to vote in November,
We have sixty head of mujes
and horses for sale or ex
change. We also have a complete
stock of
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The Cost of Crime Li ISO J was:
Cost of crime in Greater New York $35,000,000
Cot of crim; in New York State
-elsewhere . . . . 42,0O3,(O
Cost of crime to all other states . 697,000,000
Cost of crinvs to federal government, 80,000,000
Criminal losses fcy fires . . 100,000,000
Custom Housto frauds . . . 60,000,000
Wage of 130.0T prisoner! in state
prison 28,000,000
Wages of 150.COO in jiiJ 0 . 33,000,000
$1,075,000,000
T)w Cost of Crime Today is:'
Nearly two billion dollars a year.
The Cost of Crime in Human Misery ia
Annually :
64 hanged or electrocuted. 62 lynched.
28,760 murders, 17,000 suicides, 100,000 di
vorces. W&7 Brings Wave of Crime: ,
Jcvenile delinquency in Cincinnati increased
21.
It increased 54 in Chicago.
It increased 20 in New York.
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GOD
Christian Education is the Cure for Crime
THE BIBLE:
of wisdom.
The fear of God is the beginning
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HUMANITY :.
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BACK LENOIR
MARTIN LUTHJ3R: Therefore, I beg of you all,
in the nams of Go-1 and our neglected youth, not to
think of this subject lightly, as do many who do not
see what the Prince of this world intends. For the
right instruction of youth is i matter in which Chrfet
and all the world arc concerned.
WOODROW WILSON: Education yields its
best fruits whin mixed with religion.
renins: Spent for Lenoir Save Dollars
in Courts mi Prisons
Lrcolr provides Christian pastors that teach the
fear of Qd an-i thfi love of man.
1 Lenoir provides Christian teachers that train the
children to walk in the paths of righteousness.
Lenoir provides Christian
labor in their communities to
neighbor's welfare.
leaders that live and
God's honor and their
Centennial Endowment Campaign
Oct. 19. 300,000. For Oct. 31.
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