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Th?, Lenoir R IsSbiished lis! Co-.olid.ted Apra 1. 1919 LENOIR, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1920
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No. 29
EAST AND WEST SUFFER
FROM RAILROAD STRIKE
LENOIR POPTLATIGN SHOWS SUFFRAGE IS SUBJECT OF
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Railroads Seriously Tied Up by Un
authorized Strike of Employes;
President Gompers Says the
Strike Is a Mistake
An unauthorized strike of railroad
employes which started two weeks
ag oin the Chicago switching district
by the discharge of a yard conductor
has spread until it has affected over
25 railroads and has thrown out of
work hundreds of thousands of men.
Two "outlaw" organizations,
branded by the established brother
hoods as "rump" unions, had sprung
up to challenge the right of the la
bor heads to lead their men.
The brotherhood of railway train
men declared in a statement that the
railroads could not grant wage in
creases demanded by the strikers,
because the Cummins-Esch transpor
tation act prohibits increased com
pensation to employes without ap
proval of the railroad board to be
appointed by President Wilson. The
President appointed this board Mon
day and it is now making investiga
tions. Union men throughsaidshrdlupshr
Union railroad men throughout
the country were urged to report to
Chicago to serve as strike-breakers.
Many of the large cities of the
West and East are seriously menaced
by the almost complete tie-up of the
railroads by an unauthorized strike
of the railway men. New York is
perhaps suffering the most inconve
nience, and from all reports the city
is facing a real food and fuel famine
should the strike continue.
Attorney General Palmer has in
structed his offce to make every in
vestigation to see if the strike comes
under the head of being contrary to
law ,and if so prosecutions will fol
low. Independent of either the in
vestigation by the departmen tof jus
tice or the. creation of the labor
board, the government entered the
railroad strike Situation directly
Monday through orders sent by the
postoffic edepartment to its inspect
ors and railway mail officials through
out the country for prompt reports
on any obstruction or delay of the
malis.
While the strike in the west seems
to be on the wane, it is apparently
spreading in the eastern part of the
country. .
Union labor's co-operation in an
effort to break the unauthorized
strike of railroad workers was pledg
ed by representatives of the four big
brotherhoods in conference with the
representatives of the eastern roads.
A statement given out after the
meeting characterized the strike as a
"mob movement" and asserted it was
"bound to break."
In New York city the freight ser
vice on the railroads over which
come the bulk of the city's food and
fuel virtually was paralyzed and pas
senger service, already seriously cur
tailed, is still further crippled.
The first act of the Federal inter
vention cnme Monday when armed
United States troops went into Jer
sey City to unload stranded mail
trains, and department of justice
agents extended their investigations
into every corner of the New York
district. Mail train schedules were
generally disrupted, and motor
trucks were pressed into service for
postal first aid in all important sec
tions. Hundreds of thousands of commu
ters living New Jersey were unable
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"WEAR OVERALLS" CLUBS ON
THE INCREASE
The Birmingham, Ala., Overall
Club, with a membership of 3,000
pledged to fear overalls until cloth
ing prices come down, was formally
organized Monday night at a meeting
in the city courthouse. ' Earlier in
the day Birmingham newspapers de
clined to comply with the request of
a retail clothing committee to cease
publication of news items about over
all clubs. The merchants claimed
their business was being injured.
Friday, April 16, was set as the
day on which every member of the
club is to appear on the streets clad
in overalls and a solemn pledge was
taken that the denims would be worn
until the price of clothing "hits the
toboggan. '
Preachers in the town of boerun,
Ga announced that they will appear
in their pulpits Sunday dressed in
overalls.
, . Judge R. L. Tipton of Ashburn,
Ga., announced that he would wear
overalls when city court convened
Wednesday. Practically all of the
- lawyers of Ashburn belong to the
overall club.'
' ' The civil service commission of
Macon, Ga., has under advisement a
"request from police and firemen to
, permit them to wear overalls while
. on duty. ( .?
' Fifty Hickory citizens have signed
the roster of a "wear overalls" club
and it is announced that the mem
bers, some of them prominent in the
business world, will don the denims
as soon as the number reaches 150.
EXPLOSION OF MANHOLES DOES
SERIOUS DAMAGE
Explosion of eight manholes,
caused by the ignition of gasoline
which leaked Into the sewer system,
created a veritable panic in the heart
of the downtown district of Akron,
Ohio, last week and caused a fire
which destroyed the Linwood hotel.
"Thousands of dollars ' damage was
done to show windows and fixtures.
Census Figures Give 3,718, a Gain
of Only 354 Persons in 10 Years; '
Much Doubt Expressed as
to the Correctness
Lenoir News-Topic,
Lenoir, N. C.
Census Bureau announces Le
noir's population 3,718.
R. L. DOUGHTON.
Lenoir is wrought up over the an
nouncement of the census bureau
that the population has grown only
354 persons during the past ten
years. The announcement came yes
terday in the above telegram from
Congressman R. L. Doughton, and it
was the cause of much comment here
during the remainder of the day. The
population had been estimated at
anywhere from 4,500 to 6,000 and
the census figures came as a disap
pointment. The figures are seriously doubted
in many quarters. Some have said
that the increase given by the census
bureau would hardly represent the
number of house serected here dur
ing the past ten years. Another
cites the school children. The sec
ond month of the school for the year
1910 had 541 children enrouued. The
same month for the year 1919 shows
an enrollmen tof 760, or an increase
in nine years of 219. At the present
the school enrollment is 820, or 279
more than it was nine and a half
years ago. While the school district
covers a slightly larger territory than
the corporate limits of the town, it is
not believed that the number outside
the. corporate limits would make a
very great difference in the enroll
ment. Another fact mentioned in connec
tion with the new census is that the
manufacturing plants are employing!
a great many more men than they
were employing ten years ago. In
addition to this, the Steele cotton
mill has been erected and is giving
employment to an additional number
of people.
There is a movement on foot for a
police or individual census. This
matter will probably take some defi
nite form within the next few days.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION BY
CYCLONE IN UNION
Death and destruction and suffer
ing and want wefe strewn in the
wake of a cyclone, which tore furious
ly through the northern part of
Union county early Monday night,
sweeping aljnost everything in its ;
path before it. Three are known to I
be dead, with the possibility of other
deaths toeing reported. Eight others
are injured, some of them seriously,
and a score or more are homeless.
Hundreds of thousands of feet of
valuable timber were mangled in the
storm's fury. Schoolhouses and
churches were lifted froim their foun
dations and swept away, entire or
chards were demolished and hun
dreds of giant trees, torn up by the
roots, line, the countryside.
Robert L. Polk, 30, a farmer liv
ing near Ee"benezer, was killed and
several members of his family were
injured when the storm struck their
home and tore it into splinters.
Two small sons of Luther Wil
liams, a farmer living four miles
from Unionville Hilton, 6, and Au
brey, 5 were the other victims. The
two boys were killed as they slept,
when the storm took the roof from
their home and heavy timbers fell
across the bed. It required six strong
men to remove the timbers.
Entire famiiles fled their homes in ,
terror as the roaring instrument of
death and destruction swooped down
upon them without warning. Farm
dwellings, barns, corn cribs and oth
er outhouses were picked up and
swept away.
CLAUDE KITCHIN IS STRICKEN
WHILE MAKING SPEECH
Representative Claude Kitchin of
North Carolina was stricken with pa
ralysis last Friday while making a
speech in the House in opposition to
the peaoe resolution. He had been
indisnosed for several months and
had had a slight stroke of paralysis
in December.
A Washington dispatch says that
during his speech Friday Mr. Kitchin
seemed to lose his voice. Those
about him cried "Louder, louder!"
but In vain. Then friends near no
ticed that he could not pick up his
papers. But in spite of those unusual
things Mr. Kitchin proceeded until j
through, but his last few sentences
wer enot coherent. , , .
Mr. Kitchin was taken to his;
home. His face and left hand and i
leg are affected. Doctors say the
paralysis was caused by a blood clot
on the brain, and it is hoped that it
will have disappeared in ten days,
when it will be possible to tell more
accurately about Mr. Kitchin's re
covery. Latest reports" say his con
dition is improving.
MRS. DANIELS NAMED TO REP
RESENT U. S. AT MEETING
. . Mrs. JoseDhus Daniels, wife of the
secretary of the navy, has been ap-j
pointed by President Wilson as the!
official delegate to represent Ameri-
can women at the eighth congress of
the International woman Suffrage
Alliance in Geneva, Switzerland, in'
June. Thirty-one nations will he
represented.
J. C. Horton, Prominent Wataugan,
Dead at Sixty Years of Age;
Other Items- of News
from Boone
(By J. M. Downum)
A debate was given at the Train
ing School on Wednesday of the past
week on woman suffrage by four
young men, Messrs. Ralph Bingham
and Jordan Billings defending the
affirmative and Messrs. Jennings Mo
retz and Robert Castle the negative.
The young men had given consider
able thought to the subject and made
a good impression on their hearers.
Rev. S. M. Huggins, the new pas
tor for the Baptist churches of
Boone, Blowing Rock and Cove
Creek, was at chapel exercises of
the school on Friday and made a
good talk to the students on follow
ing Christ. Mr. Huggins preached
his first sermon as pastor of the
Boone church on Sunday at 11, the
morning sermon being especially ap
propriate, typifying, as he said, his
purpose in taking charge of the work,
the subject being "Service," and in
this taking Christ as a model.
Mr. J. C. Horton, who lived east
of Boone, died Saturday morning
and was buried on Monday of this
week. Mr. Horton was about 60
years of age and was, when in health,
one of Watauga's most valuable citi
zens, as well as most prominent men.
He held an important government
position for a considerable time, and
possibly no man in the county was
more popular than "Crit" Horton, as
he was familiarly known. Some
years ago he was stricken with paral
ysis and since that time his previous
ly manly form and brilliant mind
had been only a wreck of former
days. He seemed to continue to go
down gradually to the end, but even
in his weakened condition he kept up
his interest in public affairs until he
was compelled to take to his bed
som emonths before his death.
CONDITION OF WINTER WHEAT
IS MUCH IMPAIRED
A severe winter, the Hessian fly
and an unfavorable seeding period
caused a heavy decline in the condi
tion of winter wheat in the principal
producing States, A department of
afcricjllturef orecast last week placed
the crop at 587,617,000 bushels, com
pared with 731,636 bushels last year.
The acreage planted was not as great
as the year before, but a larger crop
than forecast was anticipated.
In the principal producing States
Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana
and Ohio the condition of the crop
on April 1 ranged from. 59 to 73 per
cent of a normal compared with a
ten-year average range of from 79
to 90. For the country as a whole
the condition was 75.6 per cent of
normal, compared with 99.8 last year
and 84.1 the average for the last ten
years. The decline from last Decem
ber was 9,5 ponits.
In the great central winter wheat
belt the crop condition is very low
and considerable abandoned acreage
will be shown, according to reports
reaching officials in Washington. The
percentag eof acreage abandoned
this year will be reported by the gov
ernment in May.
There were 38,770,000 acres sown
to winter wheat last fall, compared
with 42,301,000 acres in 1918 and
an average of 32,300,000 acres for
the past ten years.
LIEUT. J. C- GILMORE RE
CEIVES FRENCH MEDAL
Lieut. J. C. Gilmore of Chatta
nooga Saturday received through
the war department the croix de
guerre, with palm, a decoration
bestowed upon him by the French
government for gallantry in ac
tion, says a Chattanooga paper.
Lieut. Gilmroe went overseas
with the Thirtieth division but
was transferred to the Twenty
seventh division, which, with the
Thirtieth, comprised the Second
army corps of the American
army. He served with the 106th
infantry. After those two Amer
ican divisions had smashed the
center of the Hindenburg line, in
the fall of 1918, and were pursu
ing the Germans, Lieut. Gilmore,
in charge of a platoon, had his at
tention called to the disappear
ance of an enemy soldier under a
culvert. With a, few men he ap
proached the culvert and ordered
anyone underneath to appear and
surrender. A German major and
15 men surrendered promptly.
The enemy officer had in his pos
session important majs and pa
pers disclosing plans of the Ger
mans. It is for this exploit that
Lieut Gilmore has been decorat
ed by the French government.
Notice that a decoration had
been awarded him was received
some time, ago by Leiut. Gilmore,
who, in civilian life, is a salesman
for the National Biscuit Com .
pany, but the cross did not arrive
until Saturday.
Lieut. Gilmore is well known
here, he and Mrs. Gilmore having
spent some time here with Mrs.
GilmoreV mother, Mrs. J. M.
Hkkerson. Mrs. Gilmore was Miss
Gene Hickerson, and was a mem
ber of the" local school faculty at
the time of her imarriaere. Mrs.
Gilmore Is a niece of Mr. W. L.
Minish. , i '
Says He Will Make Another Race
the Eighth District His Oppo
nent Will Be Dr. J. I. Camp
bell of Norwood
H. E. C. Bryant, Washington cor
respondent of the Charlotte Obser
ver, says Representative Doughton
announced Monday that he would be
a candidate to succeed himself in the
November election.
Those who have kep tin close
touch with Mr. Doughton for the last
two years know that he would like to
retire from Congress, but friends
have, prevailed on him to make one
more fight for the party in the Eighth
district. He pulled off his coat and
rolled up his sleeves Monday, and
w ill go to work.
"I will be elected by an increased
majority," said he. "The Democrats
poll many Republican votes. I shall
will give me loyal support and I will
stand on the Democratic platform
adopted by the State convention last
week an dsupport the national ad
ministration. Our record for a dec
ade is fine and I am sure no Demo
crat will want to swa phorses now.
The Democrats will win in the Eighth
congressional district, the State and
nation. I have no doubt about
that."
Mr. Doughton is popular with his
people, he is a very industrious, ag
gressive Democrat and has made an
excellent congressman.
RAIL ADMINISTRATION WANTS
$420,727,341 TO WIND UP
Congress was asked formally last
week to appropriate $420,727,341 to
wind up the affairs of the railroad
administration. In requesting the
fund Walker D. Hines, railroad ad
ministrator, placed th eloss resulting
from the government's experience in
Federal control at $900,478,756. In
'addition the government has $966,-
U,363 owing it by the roads, the
money having been advanced for op
erating expenses and betterments.
Ultimately this fund will be repaid.
Mr. Hines explained that no allow
ance, had been marie in nis request to
cover any claim the roads might have
agajjnst the government for mainte
nance of the lines because the net
amount for this purpose could not
yet be estimated.
SM. interstate commerce commis
sion reports that railroad operating
revenues for February, the last
month of Federal control, fell $8,
051,000 below operating expenses,
and thereby increased the govern
ment'.; deficit in operation.
BODIES OF 87 AMERICAN SOL
DIERS RETURNED
Bodies of 87 Amesjcan soldiers,
who died in service on foreign soil,
reached New York last Thursday.
The bodies were those of enlisted
men, most of whom died during the
war at aviation and base camps in
Great Britain. They were brought
home by the government for delivery
to relatives and friends and for final
interment in cemeteries of their na
tive land. From the New York port
they will be shipped within a few
days to virtually every State in the
Union. Each body, encased in a
metal-lined, flag-draped casket, will
be accompanied by a soldier guard
made up as far as possible of men
who served in the same organization
as the deceased. These guard sof
honor will remain with the bodies
until the earth finally closes over the
former comrades. Then they will
return to the base in New York to
make the formal report that will of
ficially close the record of those who,
when thei rcountry called, responded
to the limit of their power.
DEMAND AND SUPPLY IN THE
OVERALL MARKET
So great has been the demand for
overalls that the supply has been de
pleted and reports today were that
dealers had marked up the ordinary
$2 variety to $6. This caused a
storm of protest and measures of re
prisal are being considered for this
new form of profiteering. News
item from Birmingham, Ala.
The next step, logically, is the fig-
leaf. Well," the weather will soon be
favorable; but we wonder if fore
handed, prudent and conscienceless
pronteers are not already beginning
to take options on all the fig trees.
Greensboro Daily News.
REPUBLICANS OF EIGHTH NOM
INATE DR. CAMPBELL
The Republicans of the eighth con
gressional district met in Statesville.
H. W. Wellborne of Ashe county pre
sided as chairman and George Kesler
of Concord was secretary. The
names placed before the convention
as candidates for Congress from this
district were H. M. Wellborne of
Ashe county, S. H. Williams of Con
cord, O. F. Pool of Taylorsvule, and
Dr, J. Ike Campbell of Norwood. On
the eleventh ballot Dr. J. Ike Camp
bell was nominated to make the race
against Congressman R. L. Doughton.
. A PORTABLE CHURCH
A portable church has been bought
and will be erected at Sunset Park,
Wilmington. It will remain in one
place awhile and then moved from
place, to place.
V Who would have imagined that
:while the treasury officials were still
discussing the issue of a two-cent
piece, the nickel would have solved
the . problem toy ' dropping to that
value? -.Boston Transcript
Will Erect Two or Three-Story
Building on the Bernhardt Lot,
Corner South Main Street
and Harper Avenue
Another big building automobile
sales, service station and garage is
assured Lenoir in the purchase of the
Bernhardt corner proporey on South
Main street and Harper avenue by
Andrew S. Nelson, Caldwell county
dealer for the Overland and Willys
Knight automobiles.
No plans for the new building have
been drawn, but Mr. Nelson gives as
surance that the building will be in
keeping with the aggressive spirit
tha tis now dominant in Lenoir. Pre
liminary plans are for a two-story
building, but these may be changed
to one of three stories, Mr. Nelson
says. The first or street floor will
house the sales rooms, with entrances
from both Main street and Harper
avenue. The garage will also be lo
cated on this floor. If the third story
is added this space will be given
over to a painting, finishing and up
holstering department.
The property is ideally located for
this line of business. It is one of the
most valuable business sites avail
able in the city, giving a frontage of
nearly 100 feet on Main street and
about 150 feet on Harper avenue.
With the erection of this new
building the Overland and Yillys
Knight automobile swill have a home
and service station second to none in
western North Carolina. Another
six-cylinder automobile agency and
a truck agency will be taken on and
sold in connection with the above
cars, Mr. Nelson says. The garage
and service station will be equipped
with the idea of serving the partic
ular cars an dtrucks sold from this
establishment.
Mr. Nelson is out of the city this
week on business in connection with
the plans for the new building. Soon
he will be able to make a definite an
nouncement as to the size and plans
for the structure. It will be forty
to sixty days, he says, before he will
be able to get all plans ready and
construction work to going.
MR. DOUGHTON FAVORS GOOD
ROAD ACROSS MOUNTAINS
According to a Washington corre
spondent Representative Doughton is
interested in putting a good road
across the mountains from North
Wilkesboro to Marion, Smith county,
Virginia. He says that a link of 60
miles there would connect the north
and south or west and south and save
many miles and hours to automobiles
and other fast-moving vehicles. It!
would give the people of parts of
West Virginia, Virginia and North
Carolina outlets to the rest of the
world that would b eworth thousands
of dollars annually. It would greatly
help the country west of Roanoke and
the country east of Asheville.
Mr. Doughton has figured out that
it would connect up roads totaling
1,000 miles in such a way as to make
that route most attractive to all tour
ists. Thp wav nronosed would Dass
through Grayson county, Virginia,
and cross the Iron and Blue Kidge
mountains. It would open up a beau
tiful mountain section.
Some of the. 60 miies in mind are
already for use and it would require
about 40 or 45 more.
HICKORY MAN BUYS INTO LE
NOIR ELECTRIC COMPANY
Mr. Walter T. Carpenter of Hick
ory has bought a part of the interest
of Mr. N. S. Dasher in the Lenoir
Electric Company and will assume
management of the company May 1,
succeeding Mr. Floyd Blackwell, who
has resigned to enter the service of
Mr. Rufus L. Gwyn, automobile deal
er. Mr. Carpenter is now superin
tendent of the Hickory telephone
company.
Mr. Carpenter, says the Hickory
Record, served more than a year in
France in charge of a light and
power station for the American
army, several years with the Pacific
Bell company and is a thoroughly
equipped telephone man. Better
than this, he is a splendid young fel
low and his many friends in Hickory
regret to see him leave.
INCREASE AUTHORIZED IN THE
STOCK OF CREAMERY
Announcement has been made in
Hickory by W. J. Shuford, president
and manager of the Catawba Cream
ery Company, that the stockholders
had authorized an increase in the
capital stock to $300,000, of which
$200,000 shall be common and $100,
000 preferred, and $25,000 shall be
issued at once. It is also planned to
move the creamery from ita present
site to a point on the railroad so as
to have track facilities. The plans
also contemplate a packing plant for
this section, the creamery already be
ing in the meat business on a small
scale.
FILE SUIT TO ANNUL MARY
PICKFORD'S DIVORCE
A suit to set aside the decree of
divorce granted to ' Mary Pickf ord,
now Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, will be
filed this week .toy the attorney gen
eral of Nevada, who has been inves
tigating the circumstances under
which the decree was granted.
We, the people, are now paying
those large donations to institutions
which Mr. Rockefeller advanced for
us in December and for which he got
th ecredit. Gasoline 32c per gallon.
Big Warehouse of Granite Fall
Mfg. Co. Is Well Under Way;
Liberty Shirt Mills Turning
'Em Out Every Day
Granite Falls is busy. New build
ings are under way and manufactur
ing plants are going at full tilt. The
newest enterprise, the Liberty Shirt
Mills, is turning out dozens of shirt
every day. There are other evidences
of hustle on every hand.
The big warehouse and cotton
storage building of the Granite Falls
Manufacturing Company has taken
shape and an army of workmen is
busily engaged on the wood work
and walls. This big warehouse was
planned along the most modern lines
and meets in every way the plans and
requirements of the insurance regu
lations. The building is divided into
five different sections, and a fireproof
wall runs between each section. The
inside measurement of each section
is as follows: Section 1, 60x90 feet;
section 2, 60x112 feet; sections 3,
4 and 5 are 40x144 feet each, giv
ing a total floor space of 29,760
square feet on the main floor. The
basement contains 11,560 square
feet. A siding runs along the entire
length of the building on one side
and a wide platform for unloading
and loading cotton, level with the
main floor and with the floors of
freight cars on the siding, will con
nect the cars and building.
The entire building will be built
of brick and concrete, with each sec
tion fireproof and independent of the
other.
The building is being erected by
the owners under the management
and supervision of Mr. Blackwelder,
a member of the firm of the Gran
ite Falls Manufacturing! Company.
The plans were for the completion of
the building by June 1, Mr. Black
welder says. However, it will toe
later in the month before it is com
pleted and ready for use, he says.
One of the hustling enterprises at
Granite Falls, and one in which
much pride is taken, is the Liberty
Shirt Mills. This is one of the new
est enterprises in the county and is
the first shirt manufacturing plant to
be located in this section. Silk shirts,
other drss shirts and work shirts are
being turned out at the rat11 of about
75 dozen every day. The company
has 25 machines in operation.
Mr. D. C. Hickman, secretary and
treasurer, is in charge of the plant
and directs the sales end. Until tha
present month the output has beea
sold in North and South Carolina, he
says, but beginning with this week
representatives have been sent into
Alabama and Florida. There ha
been no trouble to find a ready sale
for the entire output, Mr. Hickman
says, and with the increasing capac
ity of the plant plans have been made
to cover a larger territory.
Granite Falls postoffice is located
in permanent quarters now. The
building recently vacated by Moore
& Hoke has been fitted up and the
postoffice fixtures have been installed.
For several months the postoffice was
located in the rear of the Bank of
Granite building.
Mr. C. S. Starnes, manager of the
Granite. Falls drug store, is planning
many improvements in the near fu
ture. Already a large fountain ha
come in and will be put up within
another few weeks.
The friends of Mrs. W. Z. Veasey
will be pleased to learn that she. is
rapidly recovering from an operation
for appendicitis, which took place at
Hickory last week.
U. S. IS TO PROSECUTE PROFIT
EERS IN THIS STATE
Special Agent Handy of the de
partment of justice, stationed at
Raleigh, whose is to supervise the
activities against profiteering and
combinations to fix prices through
out the State, announces that cases
are pending which will bring the
workings of the government along
this line nearer home. There are a
number of indictments pending in
some of the leading North Carolina
cities, the cases to come up before
the spring sessions of Federal courts.
Laws are still on th estatute books
against hoarding, profiteering and
the use of food grains for the manu
facture of beverages. In many
States heavy fines have been impos
ed, ranging from $100 to $2,500,
while prison sentences have been im
posed in many instances. The law
applies not only to profiteering in
foodstuffs, but in wearing apparel
also, according to a dispatch from
Raleigh. .
TREATY DEFEAT WAS BOUGHT,
SAYS PALMER
"Three-quarters of a million do!
lars killed the treaty of peace and .
the league of nations covenant,'
charged Attorney General A. Mitch
ell Palmer at Macon, Ga., in his ad
dress in behalf of his own candidacy
for the presidential nomination in
Georgia. 'i ,
"With the majority vote pur
chased in Michigan," he continued, ' '
"Senator Lodge organized the for-,
eign relations committee and refused
to report the treaty. If the Demo
crats had carried Michigan if the
Republican party had - epent, say, '
only a couple of hundred thousand
dollars the Democrats would have
organized the Senate and the foreign :
relations committee would have re- .
ported the treaty and it would have
been passed. It took months of
struggle to .get these Democrats to
desert the party." , . , , '
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