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ONLY ONE BETTER MAN Thar U only one better m than Um ma who get behind and puiket, and that u the bm who pU ahead and pulla. COME TO LENOIR Lenoir is beautiful city, witi lovely homea, good schools and churches, all modern conve niences and unsurpassed scen ery. A good place to live. Coat up on higher ground. r 1 viin The Lenoir Topic, Established 1875 i-j j 11 1.1. VoL XLVI The Unoir News! Established 1893 c"","Uu1 AP'a . 19 LENOIR, N. C. TUESDAY, NOV. 9, 1920 Price, Fire Cent the Copy NO. 12 HARDING OUTLINES POLICIESJE FAVORS Declares for Less Government in Business and More Busi ness in Government. AVOULD READJUST TARIFF Turns to reconstruction Plan for Association of Nations, He .Says In Signed Article. Less Government in business and more business in Government is the slogan sounded by President-elect "Warren G. Harding in a signed ar ticle appearing in the current issue of The World's Work. In his dis cussion, Senator Harding tells of the need for a closer understanding be tween business and Government and relates the economic benefits which lie thinks will follow such coopera tion. "We have had too much Govern ment in business," he writes. "I jnean by this that on the one hand we have allowed our Government to -engage too much in enterprises which it has bungled and which American business can do better, safer and cheaper, and on the other hand too much ineffective tinkering with our economic structure. "As to this latter, I do not mean that Government should let business alone in the sense that it would al low practices which are inconsistent with American standards of honor and fair play. On the contrary I would urge that the regulation of business, when regulation becomes necessary, should be. ndt less but more effective than it has ever been. Nothing could be more deplorable, however, than substituting, as we have substituted, quantity of laws for quality of laws, as if the thick ness of our statute books were a measure of wise legislation. Business Not Privilege Seeking. "American business is not a sel fish privilege-seeking monster. The agitator who so describes it, and the statesman who treats it with abuse and suspicion, forget that American business is the daily labor of the -whole people, and theclothes upon their backs and three meals a day. -i "Tiy mnt mrr-rmsiness iirtnn a sound foundation we need, I believe, the policy I have suggested and here set forth: "We must repeal and wipe out a mass of executive orders and laws which, failing to serve effectively to prevent profiteering and unfair prac tices, serve only to leave American business drifting and afraid. "We must readjust our tariff, and this time with especial regard for the new economic menances to our American agriculture as well as to our American factories. We must readjust our internal taxation to re move the burdens it imposes upon the will to create and produce, -wheather that will is the will of the big corporation or of the individual. "We must give Government co operation to business, we must pro tect American business at home and we must aid and protect it abroad by the upbuilding of our merchant ma rine and a restoration of our self respecting measure 0 f American pro tection to her citizens wherever they may go upon righteous errands. "We must build our economic life into new strength so that abroad we will be known not as a nation strut ting under plumage of fine words, but as one that knits friendly and peaceful relations by the shuttle of Honorable deeds. We must do if, so that at home our economic life yields opportunity to every man; not to have that which he has' not earned, whether he be capitalist o rthe most humble laborer, but to have a share in prosperity based upon the meas ure of his own merit Turns to Association of Nations. "If we are the hope of the world -we shall find the courage and wis dom to fill the measure of the re quisition made upon us. With the deep desire that all Americans feel, I, with them, turn my face toward reconstrution the plan for an asso ciation of nations. We desire one that will knit friendships and pre vent wars. "The task of putting our own af fairs in order is not a dramatic a field labors as some may be, but it 3s one which leads toward the sta bility of example to other troubled nations of the earth rather than to ward the Questionable boon of un invited preaching. Putting more Am erican business methods into the Government of the United States -would save our resources, stop the drain upon the savings of our famil ies, give us a pride in doing some thing well, rather than saying some thing well. 1 see sometnmg 01 true . trl AflTijrm in ti nt nurDose. "Because of it I have suggested that America undertake certain tasks of cleaning house and of building ad ministrative government upon a bus iness basis. We must do this to meet the ever-increasinsr size of the administrative load. Unless" we do it the unparaleled prodigal wastes of these last eight years, lor wmcn we all have to pay as consumers or as tax payers, will go on.. "Therefore the national budget -nlan. nassed already by a Republi can Congress and vetoed, we must put into force. . "We must put our postal service nnnn Mi new basis. .. -esn m so dor Xruo 10a lsnut m less iobs,being done, but ire must so TO PHOTOGRAPH ElARS FROM HUGE DIRIGIBLE , IV , A C7 ) v;fv As m Professor David Todd. . Amer ica's greatest astronomer, will en deavor to prove that life exists 00 the planet Mars by ascending as nigh as possible in a glgantio dirigible and taking photographs. By making a great ascent ot. per haps, many miles, two purposes will have been accomplished, ris ing out of the small particles of dust on the surface of the earth that are such a hindrance in photography and also by getting that nuch nearer the planet whlCD will be closer to the earth in 1922 or 1924 than at any time for the next (00 years. RED CROSS HAS CHILDRENS COLONY Getting 780 Children In Touch With Parents Seven hundred and eighty mem bers 0 fthe Petrograd childrens col ony, wards of the American Red Prfiao frf mnra t lion fiim uaava ova w uou - a. va 1 w v v.i visit il in v j ccai k) aic now at PortKeivisto, near Wilborg, 1? inland about sixty miles from Pet rograd and the homes they left three years ago, according to cable advic es to National Headquarters of the Red Cross. The. Yomei Maru, the vessel char tered by the American Red Cross to return these children to Vladiv ostok, a journey that took them more than three fourths of the way ar ound the globe, has just reached Its destination. The children's colony. still under the care of the American Red Cross, has been debarked and will remain at Port Keivisto until their parents are located. Three. monts supply of food, clothing and medicines remain to provide for ev ery comfort until the widely scat tered families are located. During the three years of uncer tainty in Russia, parents of these children have left Petrograd, many of them settling in European coun tries. In the work of locating these. families, the American Red Cross is receiving cooperation of American consuls in many cities, continental newspapers have printed the list of names of members of the colony and the league of Red Cross Societies and the International Red Cross are using their machinery to inform the parents of the children's whereab outs and welfare. FOURTH RED CROSS ROLL CALL NOV. 11 TO 25. The Fourth Red Cross Roll Call will start drive on November 11, 19 20. Armistic Day, and will continue thru the 25th. The following have been appointed as officers in this cam paign : Frank Grist, Chairman Fourth Red Cross R oll Call, Wm. F. Scholl, Chairman Supplies and Publicity Camimittee, H. W. Courtney, Chair man Men's Division. Miss May Puett, Chairman Woman's Division. Miss Jennie Dysart, Chairman Indus trial Division. Mr. J, E, Shell, Roll Call Cashier. Mr. J. T. Prichett, Speaker's Division. Dr. A. G. Dula, Colored Division. There will be a call rrfeeting of all these officers at 1:30 Tuesday, Nov ember 9th. All are requested to be present and help to put Lenoir "over the top." The meeting will be in the Club Rooms. reward efficency and value among our public service employes that we may continue to. have their loyalty because we have given decent pay and the expectation of promotion when promotion is earned. "We must conduct a careful scru tiny of our great executive depart ments to plan so that the tfaniliar labors shall not be duplicated and so that similiar functions shall be grouped and not scattered. "We must sro to men who know. for advice jn administrative improv ments; we must have to aid us more men trained in agriculture, more technical men, more men who know business and the practices of com merce and trade." , . CALLS OBSERVANCE OF ARMISTICE DAY Governor's Proclamation Set ting Aside November 1) As Holiday "And especially let us all pray that the God of peace and justice may so over-rule the deliberations and de cisions of the Government of the Un ited States that our high objective shall not be defeated and our dead shall not have died in vain," conclud es Governor Bickett in his procla mation calling the people, of the state to observance of Armistic Day next Thursday. The proclomation is as follows: "On the eleventh day of Novem ber, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the most gigantic war the world has known was brought to a righteous conclusion by the timely intervent'on of American arms and American statesmanship. The deep laid schem es of sinister autocracy .were com pletely baffled, and the worshipers of "blood and iron" were beaten to the dust. "In the rememberance of this mighty deliverance the General As sembly of North Carolina has de creed that Armistic Day shall be a legal holiday throughout our gener ations. "Therefore, I Thomas Walter Bickett, Governor of North Carolina, in obediance to the mandate of the General Assembly, do hereby pro claim and set apart Thursday, Nov ember 11th, 1920, asa legal holiday. "On that day let our people desist from their usual employment, and join in celebrating the world's re demption from the- grip of fire and sword. And especially let us all pray that the God of peace and justice may so over-rule the. deliberations and the decisions of the Government of the United States that our high objective shall not be defeated, and our dead shal lnot have died in vain." 4 OF 'WILFUL TWELVE' REMAIN IN THE SENATE Only one member of the "little group of wilful men," denounced by President Wilson on the night of his inauguration for a second term be cause of their opposition to his arm ed ship 'bill, was; a $stindf8ate for re election to tb state on Tuesday This was Senator Albert B. Cum mins of Iowa, who, in spite of early reports indicating that his chances of his election were poor, managed to come through with a handsome majority. ,Of the original group, twelve in number, hve were Democrats ana seven Republicans. Four of the Democrats are either dead or not mmbers of the Senate now. Of the seven Republicans five, including Cummins, are still in the Senate, but one of them will retire with the end of the present Congress, March 4, 1921. The other Democrat of the group who remains in the Senate, Kirby of Arkansas, was defeated for renomination this year and will re tire next March. Of the. republicans. La Folit'e of souri and Lane of Oregon are dead. Vardaman of Mississippi was defeat ed for renomination prior to the present Congress. O.Gorman of New York retired from the Senate. Ot the Rpublicans, La Folltte of Wisconsin is still serving the term, which began on the day President Wilson issued his denunciatory state ment. Kenyon'of Iowa and Norris of Nebraska wi-re re-elc'.el to the Senate after the President denoun ced them, and are still serving in that body. W.f.s of California re tired voluntarily and Clapp of Min nesota was defeated for renomina tion. Gronna of North Dakota will retire in March, having been defeat ed for re-election. On inauguration' night, 1917, President Wilson issued a statement concerning the filibuster engineer La Follettc, which blocked action in Ihe Senate on the armed sh:.' r-s:lu-tion. The President said in his state ment that more than 500 of the 531 members of Congress were ready and anxious to act on the measure, that th House had already acted and that the Senate was ready to act. "A little group of wilful men, re- resenting no opinion but their own," he said, "have rendered the United States helpless and contemptible." "When the men who had partici pated in the filibuster had been counted it was found that there was an even dozen of them, and they be came known throughout the count ry as "the willful twelve." JAILOR IN JAIL DEFEATS MAN WHO SENT HIM THERE Probably the most -unusual out come of Tuesday's election in Ken tucky was the victory of Fess Whit aker, jailor of 'Wnitesburg, over Stephen Combs Jr., in the race for county Judge. ;Whi taker had been sentenced to his own Jail for a term of six" months by Judge Combs on the charge of attacking county of ficers, including the "sheriff. After being placed in the Jail of which he was the legal keeper, Whit aker escaped, was recaptured and again sentenced for jail breaking. Following one of the most exciting campaigns known to the mountains or Kentucky, Whitakef, thougn m Jail, won over Judge Combs by more than a thousand majodity. ' Gover nor Morrow three times refused to pardon Whitaker. DOUGHTON LEAD IS NOTCONCEDED Dr. Campbell, Republican Op ponent, Can't See 2,000. "How do they get that way'.'" Is a slang interpretation of what Dr. J. I. Campbell, of Norwood, republi can candidate for Congress in the eighth North Carolina district,is ask ing with reference to the published statements that his opponent, "Far mer Bob Doughton, of Laurel Springs, Alleghany county, carried the district in the election Tuesday by a majority of 2,000 votes. Dr. Campbell, who was in the city yesterday, stated that he is not ex actly contesting the election, nor is he claiming that he is elected over Congressman Doughton, but he does contend that he is unable to see this majority for his opponent and until he gets the complete official returns, he will not concede his election. With figures supposed to be of ficial from seven of the counties in the eighth, Dr. Campbell states that he finde a majority for his opponent of only 783 votes, while the other two counties, on which he has receiv ed only meager returns, he consid ers close, with the possibility that the majority might fall on either side, although, not by a large num ber. Dr. Campbell states that the sup posedly official figures that he has re ceived give him majorities in five counties, aggregating 2,289 votes in cluding his home county, Stamey, with 443 majority, Cabarrus 798, Al exai. ier 561 Wautauga 767 and Caldwell 120, while the other two counties heard from, Iredell, with a majority for Congressman Doughton of 2,105, and Rowan, with 1,367 lead for Doughton, give a total of 3,472, Of a lead for his opponent of only 783 votes. No official vote of the election in Ashe had been received by Dr Campbell yesterday, who predicted that it was close, although he ex pected to carry it by 400 or 500; nor from Alleghany, Mr. Doughton's home county. Dr. Campbell was of the. belief that Mr. Doughton had carried his home county, but said he has learned that his majority in his home precinct was less this year, with the additional vote"" of the "vvomen: Large majorities were given him in imost of tne counties he tarried than he had countd upon, D-. Camp bell said, basing on this his belief that he has good votes, if not ma jorities, in Ashe and Alleghany, the. which he believes, will at least cut two counties he has not heard from, his opponent's majority to less than 1,000 votes in the district. Irregularities in at least two of the townships in his home county are charged to the election officials by Dr. Campbell. In Big Lick town ship, in Stanley, he claims that the officials dilly-dallied to such an ex tent that over 200 republicans, prop erly registered, did not vote, many of them having been at the polls ready to cast their ballot for some time before sundown, but procrasti nation of the officials prevented them from voting. Only about 25 democrats who were registered failed to cast their votes, Dr. Campbell said. Something like the same thing transpired in Furr township in the same county, Dr. Campbell said, ar ound 300 republicans, properly reg istered, having failed to vote be cause of the diatory tactics of the election officials. Only around 12 democrats registered failed to vote in this township, the doctor said. While making no claims, Dr. Campbell said that he must have ad ditional evidence before he concedes Congressman Doughton's election and even if he has to do that later, he. claims that he is morally certain the majority will fall far short of the claimed 2,000. Dt. Campbell is. a native of the Mint Hill section of Mecklenburg county. He is the son of J. Lei! Campbell, of this county, who was one of the five candidates for county commissioner on the republican county ticket. Charlotte Observer PLAN HARDING-OBREGON MEETING ON BORDER Tentative plans looking to a meet ing between the President-elect 01 Mexico and the United States, start ed at Brownsvile by our representa tive citizens, were approved byY. M. Xazquezi Mexican Consul, who said tha tf ollowing their request he would invite Alvaro Obregon to visit Mat amoras while Senator Harding is spending a vacation at Point Isabel. The Consul expressed the belief that General Obregon would accept the invitation unless the trip would interfere with his inauguration on Dec. 1. Matamoras Is the Mexican town opposite Brownsville and Point Isa bel is a .Texas cost town twenty-five miles southeast of Brownsville. AVERY REPUBLICAN BY OVER 2,000 MAJORITY Avery county vote comp!te gives Bulwinkle 417, Newell 2,457; Hard ing 3,106, Cox 397; Morrison 404, Parker 2,497: Overman 404, Holt 2.- 496; Brooks 405, Mrs. Sharps 2,- 498; creamer 403, Kodgers z,497; balance state ticket democrats 404, amendments tax, for 1,395; against 15; requirements for voting, xor, 884, against, . 15. GASTONIA TRAGEDY - REMAINSUNSOLVED No Arrests as Result of Killing of Young Man and Wound ing of Woman After a night and day of inves tigation and search, officers were ap parently nowhere near a solution of the mysterious tragedy enacted three miles from G-astonia Sunday night. when John Ford, a young man of Lincolnton, was shot to death and Miss Ezzie Beatty, of Gastonia, was probably fatally wounded, while on an automobile ride with Ransom Kil- lian, of Lincolnton, and Miss Effie Grice, of Gastonia. No arrests have been made. Officers returned tonight from Blacksburg, S. C, where they went to day to investigate a report that two negroes had been arrested there on suspicion of implication in the crime. The report proved unfound ed. Both negroes declare they are in nocent. Excitement, which has been high has greatly subsided and interest cen tered in the account of the alleged holdup and killing as given by young Killian, at the coroner's in quest. He said that while the four were riding out toward Bessemer City, they stopped and Ford and Miss Grice got out of the car and walked out of sight, while the witness and Miss Beatty remained in the auto mobile. After a few minutes a negro appeared from the woods, held him up at the point of a pistol and robbed him of, a few dollars, firing his revolver three times, one of the bullets striking the young woman. About the same time other shots were heard in the direction Ford and the other girl had gone and a second negro approached and said he had shot the other man "down yonder." HARL SUDDRETH OF HATBURN TRIED LAST SATURDAY Bush, Justice of the Peace, for car rying concealed weapon, and was bound over to court. Mr nad Mrs. J. D. Moore and fam ily of North Wilkesboro spent the wank ttnA Vipra viaifintr i-olntivpd Mr.' W. E. Miller was taken to Charlotte yesterday for treatment. y Miss Margaret Teague spent the week end with Miss Louise and Cath erine Cline at Hickory. Mr. F. C. Hanks left Sunday for Baltimore to take treatment for as thama. Jaimes B. Coman, claim agent of the Panama Railroad and Sseamship line of Christobal, Panama Canal Zone, is here visiting his sister, Mrs. Gwyn Lenoir, and also Roy Moore. Mr. Coman lived here at one time, c and his old friends will be glad to see him again. ALL LOCAL STORES CLOSE ONTHURSDAY Make a Holiday of November 11th, Armistic Day No Special Progrom Planned Merchants of Lenoir will close their places of business on Thurs day in honor of the signing of the armistice agreement between the en tente and the central powers two years ago. No special program or plan of observence is planned, how ever, Governor Bickett has proclaim ed it a holiday. The following is the agreement signed by the. local stores: Governor Bickett having declar Day) a legal holiday, we the. under signed, merchants and business imen of the City of Lenoir, do hereby ag ree to close our places of business on that day. Lenoir Hdw. Co., First Nat'l Bank, Bank of Lenoir, Courtney's Dept. Store, The Court ney Clothing Co., Laxtn & Hagan, Lenoir Book Co., A. A. Blackweld er, Thomas Phonograph Co., J. H. Dingelholf, Bernhardt & Scagle Co., E. D. Pulliam, Peoples Supply Co., W. H. Dingier, J. W. Cloer & Son, K. A. Link, The Leader, E. A. Ab ernethy, Clay & Lenoir, Hoffman & Son, Hollifield & Son, Lenoir Gro. Co.. T. C. Robbins. W. S. Miller & Son, W. F. Wakefield, W. R. Stine, Efird's Dept. Store. PLANS FOR WORLD EXPOSITION IN 1926 MADE IN PHILADELPHIA Steps have been taken at a meet ing of about 100 prominent citizens in Philadelnhia for the holding here in 1926 of a great international ex-j nosition to mark the 150th anniver-' sary ofvthe signing of the Declara tion of Independence. Major J. Hampton Moore was re quested to appoint a committee of 400 to prejare a plan of procedure and to report to the General Com imittee before Dec. 1. The- Mayor was also asked to urge the City coun cil to prepare plans for the celebra tion and appropriate $50,000. There is now in Congress a bill providing financial assistance for the proposed expositnion. REV. GYPSEY SMITH JR. AT GASTONIA Rev. Gypsey Smith, Jr. Is hold ing a meeting in Gastonia this week, and will continue it next week. Quite a number of neonle are goincr down from here to attend his serv ices. f ' : LENOIR BOY NOW IS INHONOLULA Carl Pearson Writes Interest ingly From- Land of Sunshine Tells of Hawiian Territory The following letter has been re ceived from Carl O. Parsons, U. S. Army Dept. Schofield Barracks, Hon olula Mawaiian Territory, undes date of October 25th, 1920: Scholfield Barracks. Post Hospital, Med. Dept., Honolula Hawiian Territory, 25th, October, 1920. ..Just a few lines from an old Le noir boy Over here in the South sea isles, namely the Hawaiian Islands which are situated soime two thous and miles from the mainland U. S. A. I am stationed here with the Un cle's forces, the U. S. Army, and here is the greatest climate in the world, the land of sunshine and flow ers, the land where summer never dies. As this a tropical climate there is no change in the seasons of the year1 although I admit that at this time of the year you can tell a little change in the temperature, bat very little, here in mid winter is the most delightful season of the entire year, flowers bloom the year round, there is very little rainfall and it is very seldom that it rains as it does fa the old tar heel state. The princi pal crops of the islands are bananas, mangos, sugar, and the forfamed Ha waiian pineapples which are known throughout the world as the finest that grow, this season was the re cord for pineapples, up to and includ ing Sept. 1st, there had been pack ed and shipped over twelve million cases, to say nothing of the other eats made from pineapples. Honolula is a moost beautiful city and has visitors from all parts of the world, here are to be seen the most beautiful parks and public buildings in any land, these the Hawaiian fa ands are under the direct government of the U. S. A. as the gov't annexed them in '98. There are nine of them but as one great writer called them a string of pearls, and I must say 'tis a wonderful little country. The U. S. Navy has spent millions on what is called the greatest naval Dase 1,1 "'"""re worm, 11 is nere mat rean ator ine naval Base is situ ated and the inital cost of thn great base was twenty-five million dollars. The army has over ten thousand sol diers and the number is steadily in creasing and the papers state that there are to be over twenty-five thous and men stationed here in the array in the near future. Here at this post where I aim stationed the army is spending millions on building what is to be the largest military post in the rT n r - . 1 . entire u. o. Army. 1 his is a wonder- IU1 y men ior me nie 01 a soldier, for here men can soldier the entire year, and in the States it is different. In the States there are On ly about four months i the year that you can train a soldier, as climatic conditions make it impossible to sol dier there as they do here. I will now try to tell you a little about the natives over here, the real Hawaiians, they are very industrious and honest, and truthful and have faith in the American people, if one tells you he will do something for you then you can rest assured that if he lives that duty of his will be full filled t othe letter, education over here has played the most wonderful part in Ha- wan s great development which she has gone through in the last twenty years, or to make it exact since the U. S. gov't annexed the islands. Un le Sam has done wonderful things for the people over here but the greatest achievment to our credit is that the U. S. has educated the natives in good schools and is pushing education more and imore each year. Honolula has good schools and here in the city ist located the University of Hawaiia and it is a great insttution. Before I bring this letter to a close I must write to you of the volcanic history of the islands, here where I am stationed was once a great volca no and the mountains that are seen form here are all old craters, but here on Big Island which is named Oahu, there, are no active volcanoes, but over on the big island, the island of Hawaii is located the most active vol cano in the world, it is the famous Kileau volcano and it is active the year 'round. This volcano is two hudred miles from Honolula, on the brink of this famous house of ever lasting fire, as it is called by many, is located a big hotel to accommodate the visitors who come from all parts of the world. Well I hODe tW. T havp rnk tjilran ud too much of vour valuable tim with this letter, and that you will find a few spare moments to read it. That 13 if it does not find its way to the waste basket first. I With all best wishes to you, Sincerily, Carl O. Parson NEWS TO OFFICIALS Washington, Nov. 4. Department of justice officials confessed to, be at a loss concerning the meaning the telegram from Indianapolis. Dan W. Sims, special assistant to the at torney general in charge of the In dianapolis coal cases, resigned ; re cently when he was instructed not to use a second time evidence against the coal miners which was the basis of orevious cases against them. Mt. Palmer stated at that time he and Mr. Simms had agreed not to use this evidence and that the agreement was made before Judge Anderson.
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