North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME XXIII CONCORD N. C. SATURDAY. MARCH 17. 1923 o as. French WiU Germany Premier Foincare Saya That France Can Make Settle ment and Does Not Ask for Intervention Now. FIRST MOVE IS UP TO GERMANS German Minister Makes Re port on Reparations, but Does Not Ask U. S. to Make Pleas for Peace. Pari. March, IT I By the Associated PTeas). Premier Polmure will enter luiu M iroHisltton for negotiations with Ceruinny until the Merlin govern ment make It kumvn directly and of ficially lo Franco tluti she wants to ne gotiate, it whs declared today in French official circles. Any attempt! hy n third pojrer to Intervene or provoke discussion nf the terms ilinler which 11 settlement D)lfhl lie reached w ith 'Crrinuny. il was Kdlil, will lie regarded hy Fruucte 11s flu ili fl ienilly iVt. Did Not Ask IT. S. to Intervene. AVUshlugfon. Mar!h 17. State de partment officials bare lrecelvd a stiitement of Germany's position in re gard to reparations btlt they declined today that the. Information as deliver ed yesterday hy Dr. Huns Iloinrleh DleckhofT, eouni'lllor of the (ierman embassy, called fur no action hy the Washington government 'looking lo mediation or intervention hy it in the reparations dispute hciwiin llc.rmiiny and France. The infornmtion presented hy Dr. Dieckhoff was characterized as 11 statement of Germany's position with out any request for nation by the Cnited States. Officials said they would iimke no reply, nor would they enll il to the attention of the Freeh ! government. Two (irrnians Killed. Dnsneldnrf. March 17 (By the As sociated Pre). Two Germans wen shot and killed hy French sentinels during the night one at Reckling luinsen and the other at Kssen. MEDICAL SCHOOL IDEA IS NOT YKT ABANDONED I'niversity Intends to Keep on Work- Ltu l'.rtt End Ha-newrAtmvtf."' Chapel IIIll, Man Iil5. The Uiilvor sily intends to keep on wnrking for 11 four-year t'nivcrsity Medical school. Tills was made plain today when President Chase issued Hie following statement : "I have been asked, limes recently whelher the Legislature made a number nf the fact I ha I no apnroprln- Hon for Hie expansion of (he I'niver- sil.v medical scIiihi! means that the pro ject for 11 four-year I'niversity medical school has been abandoned. "I'nder the resolution of the Uni versity trustees, which I believe nronses 11 definite determination to see the. matter through, this is not the. case. The I'niversity is deeply in terested in the matter, and so, it seems clear, is the medical profession of the state. Plans for the expan sion of the school Into a four-year degree-granting school will, with the permission of the board, he. laid be fore the Legislature, and I believe that the sentiment of the hoard is clearly to keep 'at work on the idea until the school is established. "I think that the. discussions of the matter in the last few months have been of great value in bringing home to (he state the need for a lull four year medical SchOOl, and I am hopeful thai proper provision for such a Rchool may be made two years from now." CONDITION -OF REV. DANIEL TITTLE SERIOl S Aged Bishop Has Shown No Improve ment miring the rast ,'t Hours. (Br lb Associate Prau.t St. Louis, March 17. The. condition of the Kev. Daniel 8. Tuttle, who has been nnconHciono 24 hours a a re sult of a severe attack hy grippe and complicated diseases, wan nuchnngci today, attending physicians announced. Tlie aged prelate, who i presiding hlahpp of the Kplttcopal Churches in the Cnited State, was stricken more than n week ago, and hope for his re envery has been aliahdoneil. Priest's Thank Ollcring. New Orlean. Ia., Murrh, 17. An In teresting story which had its begin ning in one of the memorable sea trag edies of the World War will culmin ate here tomorrow In the rites attend ing the laying of the cornerstone for a new Catholic church. Six year ago Bevjl, K. Warelng, a .losephlle priest of New Orleans, on hi way home to Knghind to die was a passenger on the Ciiunrd liner Ijiconla, which was tor pedoed and sunk by a German subma rine February,.:!"!, 1017. lie escaped in a lifeboat and made a vow to flod that If his life were snared he would erect a memorial church in this cjty to the Allied soldier and sailors. Camp Fire Girls Anniversary. New York. March 17 - The eleventh anniversary of the Camp Fire Girls is lo lie celebrated throughout (he conn - try today with anniversary exercises frid special meeting at which efforts will lie made to double the membership of the organisation. It was eleven year ago lialay thai the Camp Fire (llrls came Into existence. Since that lime a total of 700.000 girl have been enrolled in the membership. The or- Itiou has U-d lo seventeen Wait Until Makes Offer SKRIOI s VYKECK X IN RlHR VALLEY. Berlin .! . . , 17 iHy Ihe Ami fin led 1'im i . A refMNl fnaii Rriefendieliu. Rhine town near Liilsbnro. s:.y that forty oldler were killoi mill many injured when u French j. trulu cult hi ed Willi n freight. The Imput was mi violent Hun seu-rnl of the cwtche weie :, .. ..,. n ( 01 NTY W1DK PLAN OK ORGANIZATION STARTKD rruiiklin County Kind in Stale to Move IMR New I egislallve rt. ill Ihe AMoetatett I'reea , Italeigh. X. ('.. March Hi. Franklin is Hie lirs: county in 1 he .stale to move, under the new school code iassi"d lo. the last general assembly, to establish a county-". Idc plan of ontanhuitiuii of schools, according to reports made In lr. I"., i' Brooks, slate silM-ciuteml-enl of public Instruct (on. In order lo conform uftb Hie re. iplirepiciit of the Jaw. the Isuird of e I ucatlon of Franklin has called a meeting in LnntburE. April Hi. all school 1 omiiiiltccincn and trustees. At I this meeting, the comity-wide plan of organization will he discussed and formula tel. No eloetion will be call ed or any change made in any dis trict until after, the organization con ference. Ir. Brooks lulled iittonttoh lo Sic llon 73-0 of Hie new school code, which covers county-wide organiKiitlon. "The county board of education shall create no new districts nor shall il divide or abolish 11 district, nor shall Il consolidate districts or parts'of dls trlcts, except In accordance with a eniini v-whlo plan of organization as follows.' lends the section. "1. Tile county hoard of education shall present a diagrnm or map of the county showing the present loca tion of each district, the posllion of each. Hie location of roads, streams and oilier natural barrier, Hie none Iter of children In each district, the size and condition of each school build ing in each district. The county liourd of education ahull then prepare a county-wide plan, for the organization of nil the schools in Hie county. This atSMi iK" ti to' Be 'nndde ninl lmw iTIst'ricts or purls of 'districts are proposiHl to be consolidated so us lo work out a more advantageous system lor Hie entire county. "i Before adopting the coinily-wiilc plan, Hie county board of education shall call a meeting of all the school committeemen and Hie boards of trus tees and lay the proposed 1H1111 before, them lor their advice and suggestions. After receiving Hie advice of commit teemen mid trustees, the county board of education, shall have authority to adopt a county-wide plan of organiza tion, and no districts or parts of any district, including non-local tax. local tux. special charter districts, hereafter referred to In this article shall lie consolidated or the boundary Hues changed. unless the consolidation or change of boundary lines in ac cordance, with the country-wide plan of organization: Provided. Hint id the event the county board of education deems It wise to modify or change the adopted plan, the board shall notify the committeemen and Interested pa trons and give them a hearing if they desire to he heard before any changes shall be made. "It. The county board of education shall have authority to execute Hu entire plan or any part of same, but the count v lioaril of education shall have no authority lo creal a deb! for Hie execution of any liurt of the pro posed plan unless authorised by law, and if the amount necessary lo put in to operation all or any part of said plan shall be greater than the amount that may be reasonably expected from the operation and equipment fund for this purpose, the amount shall Ik' 'guaranteed by the districts affected by the execution of the plan, or if the districts do not guarantee the funds the county board of education shall lay the proposed plan liefore the coun ty commissioners, together with the estimated amount necessary to put the same into operation, and if the. amount necessary to curry out all or any part of the proposed plan shall lie approv er! by the county i-ommlsslnnors, the oounty lion nl of education shall then have Ihe authority to organize the dis tricts in accordance Willi the county wide nlnn. s "When the proposed county-wide plan Is adopted the county board shall notify the committeemen and boards of trustees 1 as to what part of the board proposes to carry out first and in what order the other parts of the phpi will lie Considered and the pref erence shall be given to those district in which the need are greatest if the funds for providing the equipment ure made available. "fl. In trie event that any child or' children of any district or any part of a district are without adequate school advantages, amf these advant age may Is- improved by transferring ' said child or children to a scuooi or school n adjoining districts, the 1 county board shall bate, authority to make spell a transfer. But this shall not empower the county board of ! ucatlon to abolish or divide 11 ditrlct unless uch act hall he In harmony with the county-wide plan or organl otlon. The .temporary transfer of such child or children may he made until such lime as the cnunly-wbje plan wlll'provide more advantageously I for them.' kwavuns sttrr bi Pnrf t . I. fWer Ike r f lite Wevklv UeetbM Fn4ai Tin- tegular nwi-tiiic of the Klr.nni Hah fr ' n.iird at ibe Y. II. C. A. Frltbiy evening a featured by an ad ilmx hy I'rof '. K. Brr. Htujirriii ici.lri,' uf 1 lie JitrkMiu Training . II- I . ml n piano hiIu by little Ml A.i. 1 .11. ! ..il dnnahier of Major and Mm. W A. Toll. o matter). .. inirl:in-' mme up II Hie i.iimii,-- m-ioii of I lie rlnh Bull rail show. .1 Hint the utleulac is keeplnr nv well In the AtfeiiUlM-e amiLiigu put on by ibe Kin. 01- In ieraational. and ltiterc.-t hi Ibe mm ;ialrn 1- to be growing Mr Geirgr Klu'fz. of this city, nns 11 giiev ofNhe Club al the mi'et- lUg. The In Ik by Prof. Boger was a plea 'or the upNirt of the ieople of Pan on! for the stale's lastituilon which engaged in rociaiaihia the Isiys ol this sX'Ucratiiln. The speaker did not ilve his own opinions al-oni the Tmln ug SchiMil. bill gave Hie e.prcsMions of vlsilors who had gone through Hie A -' boels in various sis ttons of the conn ry. and Iheir comimrlsou of our in stitution w"iib Ihe others. The results amnnpliheil by laeksoii Tialniiig s In ml, .;,i, tin Mr Soger, I uoiidcrful. when il Is re iiieuilici cil what kind of Isiys are sent o il. and the large number Dial arc -hanged into us. Tul and I ruslworl hy itisens. Kven with Ihe ior start unit tliey nave in lite annul ltity pei ent. of Ihe hos who leave Hie i 11st 1 tntkin are real good citizens, another twenty-live 1ST cent, are fairly good. lifteen per cent, more are found on the border line, while only about ten Mr cent, fail to make any improve ment. These averages have been com piled over a numlier of years. The attendance prize, given by Maj Foil, was drawn by Jay I.. Cannon. The program at the meeting of Hu Club on next Friday will be in elutrgi if Team No. H, Charles A. Camion, cap lain. I'MVKRKITY TO CONTINUE TO W0KK KOK MKUICAL SCHOOL I're.-idit Chase Makes Statement in Whlrh This Is Made Plain. Chaiiel Hill. .March Hi. Ihe I luver- sitv inlends to keep on working for 1 four-year I'niversity medical school. I'his was made plain today when Pres ident (lhase issued the following state ment : "1 have been asked a number of limes recently whether the fact that the legislature made no appropriation for the expansion nf the I'niversity Medical School means that the proj- ect for a Tom-year' I'niversity Me.li- cfll School has been abandoned. i TW'fiiciVrrMrni r ffle -,. 4 versil.v Trustees, which I believe es: presses a ileliiule ileteruiiiial Urn to sec liu matter through, this is not the case. 1 no 1 ntversity is ueepiy tater ested in the matter, and so, il seems clear, is the medical profession of the state. Plans for the expansion of the school into a four-year degree-graut-ing school will, with the permission or the Hoard, be laid before the next leg islature, and I believe that the senti ment of the Hoard is clearly to keep at work on the idea until the school Is established. "1 think that the discussions of the matter in the last few months have been of great value In bringing home to the Stale the need for a full four year medical school, and I am hope ful that proper provision for such a school may he made two years from now." THE COTTON MARKET Further Near Month Liquidation, Vnd First Prices Were 14 Points Lower to 7 Points Higher. (Hy the Auoeiuled IrrMM.I New York. March 17. There was further near month liquidation In the cotton market at the opening today, and tirsl prices' were 14 points lower to 7 points higher. May sold off to :j.0.h,"i on the call, and October to 80.60, but there was considerable buying at these figures eucntrraged by bullish Soul hern spot advices, and prospects for unsettled weather in the south west. Prices steadied up In conse quence. May advancing to ai.ua ana October to lii.7( during the eurly trad ing, or within two or three points of yesterday's dosing quotations. Cotton futures opened steady. March :.71 bid: May 30.85; July 30.1.1; Oct. 20.70; Dec. 26.15. HUNTERS VILLI! WILL OUT A NKW FACTORY New England Capital Plans Erection of Large Cotton Mill There. Charlotte, March 16.-Another cot ton mill, employing several hundred operatives. Is practica ly aasurea tor Huntersville. The mill will be one of a chain financed by New England capital and will be a lurge as the Anchor mill. An overall manufac turing company, with offices In cnar lotte and Hickory, is planning vo erect a plant in Huntersville. A dele gation of Huntersville citizen go to Hickory soon to present the offer of the town. - Last Sunday School Institute to Be Hold Next Sunday. Sunday school worker of the coun ty have been for some time pursuing a policy to hold an institute for eacli township. Final plans .have Just iH-en completed for holding the last ones. The tour party will go to Pine Bluff in No. 10 'township tomorrow afternoon at 3:110; to Mt. Pleasant to morrow evening at 7:3i: next Sunday at Shiloh .Methodist Church In No. 8 at 3 p.m., and to llroWn Mill Church In No. 2 at 7:30 p. in. The work will be reported to the State Associa tion at the end of March and this work, along with other things done In the county during the past Sunday tchool year, promise to give Cabarras u rating inning the Mrst eouutles in the sUtU' iu Sunday school service. In Manufacture of Durban. X C. Mmrfa 17 M1mu ri rauied arm aasi X. u. I'aiollasi - otal la Ibe laaaaws nire mt hewing anal Manking iolrm mimI aanrf In Itr.l. 1 Ii hi; lo ..iBrbil 1 'oi urn 1 urn r- lieil bere e frtsa lb. Bureau of Hie Census In lahlngtt. The dcinrtmenl nciimvit that acr f C'Hnmerre an ling in .. 1 .. if the Census the mad.- 10 ibe Bureau; mine 01 pi tun; engagril iniiiuirily of cbewliig. and snnfT niuuiL.tnl , . 1 with and S17."kAil.lW uf 4 per real, ft il 'i to P.r.'l ami in il.' l.n of I r iiiii. for the lo lPJl." rends value of prral uliisiry. chewing to the value of .llsTlNM ill 1!H!I rat v.-ttr in-rbal. Hi the reHsH. I "In addition to tie nets of the classified) i ami r-m iking nijiino llH.Trix.n.ai.lii ltd '4 SPECIAL COMMISSION I I! A 1.4 - THIS STATE Committee piolntiid by South Caro lina lgislulure. aialtis Report In Thai Hody. 1 ll (hi- Arlnl. il I'rraa.l Columbia. S. March IT -Careful stud;, of Hie present , la t of South Cm oliiia tails to revenl iinv disposiion on the part nf the slilte to oppress or harriiss iiidiislrlal ei'i'iHirations, says a Mimmittee named py Covernor Tims. (I. .Milcod. with the approval of the state legislature in its report on in dust ria I condition i)i the stale, made public here today. Ihe committee was appointed to sfttdy condition in (ieorghi. Alabama. Ninth Carolina and S0111I1 Carolina, witl it view to ascer taining whether or not reMirted charg es that South Carolina was inimical to manufacturing industries were true. The menilHM's of Hi uiiiiittcc visii- ed Ihe lour stales aid say they found thai direct lax rate$ in Alalia ma ami (Jeorgia were slightly loner than III South Carolina, and that neither has an income lax. They lonnd that the taxes paid in North Carol inn by cor IMiration and properly with Ihe ex ception of the inenmv tax was not ma terially lower than in South Carolina. The report deals .extensively with conditions in North Carolina. says that the investigatiis round cotton mills In Ihe state owned in smaller units, and to a very large extent by the people of the community in which the, mill is situated The report calls 'attention to the to bacco and furniture Industries of North Carolina, and nlso 4 Ihe difference ill population. ii 3Phe- fact- inm lw)iaiaii--'rcrhry-! to Hie attention oi ine cominii tec. says the report "that the stale of North Carolina hears a wide reputa tion for proRressivene. This slate has attracted capital to Hie slate and given impetus to its manufacturing de velopment. Chief among the factors contributing to North Carolina's repu tation for progressivenens limy he mentioned In its modern slate revenue system: its ambitious road program: and its recent large contributions to education." BRYAN DISCUSSES THE ARREST OF BAYLINS0N Says Raylinson's Hcture Should Show 'Moral Degredation" of Wet Lead ers. Miami, Kla.. March 17 Win. J. Bryan, referring to the arrest of Ab raham Eaylinson. secretaty of Inde pendent Artists in New York for the exhibition of the painting "Father, for gave them for they know not what they do." depicting Mr Bryan spill ing wine which Christ had ju changed from Water, while Andrew .1. Volstead, author of the Federal Pro hibition act. and Win. H. Anderson. New York superintendent of Ihe an1i saloon league, look on. says many Christians oppose prohibition. "They are holiest, lut in my Judg ment mistaken." he said. "If any of them slid oppose prohibition, the ex hibitlon of the picture oiighl to be enough lo convince them of the moral degredation of those who are leading in the. wet propaganda." S. C. KRESGE IS BEING SI ED POOR DIVORCE All Papers hi Case Have Been Sup- pressed, and the Complaint Ls Not Known. I By the AnKocmti-ii "vr..i Detroit. March 17. S. S. Kresge. proprietor of the National chain of stores bearing his name, has been sued for divorce by Mrs. Anna Harvey Kresge, it was learned today. All pa pers in the case have been suppressed and the ground upon which the di vorce is asked has not been made pub lic. Mrs. Kresge. who before her marri age in 1807, was Anna Harvey, of Memphis. Tenn.. is said to be In New York. Mr. and Mrs. Kresge have ."i children. Weather Forecast for Next Week. 'My the Aoeiaeii FrM.i Washington, March 17. The weath er outlook for the. week beginning Monday : v Mouth Atlantic States: Rain nt the beginning of the k and: again about Thursday or Friday ; otherwise mostly fair. Much colder Monday and Tuesday, probably frost to north Florida Monday or Tuesday night ; rising temperature thereafter. With Our Atlvertlser. The Hth Anniversary Sale of Concord Furniture Co. Is still on. the Kv erything jtui in price from 2R to no per cent. See the new ad. of thf Citizens Blink Bank and Trust Company today. Five ake of Fairy soap for 30 cent, and one free at Clines I'hur- mocv. See the new machine blow hub - V , ' , ' le.s Ter.- ie,K,ne,l. while the siiniaama the Baanfacnsrel ,.,.., .-Tjfit ,.. SOB lohnii-u and I. ...... .. , to aumo . iwi.l V, i . .. " . k ttfl ''lllkl III IUIQ "-. ..'.J - ' B.T -,' 1 ' "' 1 ' earners 1 iudovi I 001 ing llt'1 tran Hi in 1 1 1 4 mi ini-r.uM I "1 .. . .... n " irs u i .iiiiu.t ii v iin 'hies. Tobacco State Has Highest Standing 1..1 -i !.'. :i in pill IH.iIIkI a sulviialiarr tn.-ini- by VinaUiMi- uieul- i-UtMiintsI in other uxlii'trb -INiaaliwIlt cigar and ligaretle fmior- iaa. "Missouri rnk"N tlrsl in thin Imlus tty with Noli 1. CuroHna sr.-uud in elih- of put in. 1- In P.rjl "In Kepteinl-r. ibe uiontli of max- lluuiu euililovmclit. . .... I etllii- Ik.: ! 111 1!U!I uiid was sin le i. .e. in The statlslles fir l'.r.'l are prelimi nary. It was asserted, and are suhje 1 lo change and inrrectlon following a rurtber exauiii.atiou of Hie original re Isirts. KOI THKKN ROLLING STOCK T1 BR Bl lLT IN SOI TH Prarlirally All of (17,06,00 Kor New Kiiiipmeiit will lie Spent in Soulh ern Sl.iles. tnr Ibr Aaanrlalra rrran-l Atlanta. Ua.. March I". The South ern Kiiilway System aiininiiicial to day thai nearty all of Ihe new cars ami locomotives costing more than S17.IHSi.IMIi) recently iirdcrcd by Hiein will l.e luiifi at points on the South ern" lines, i'lfty freight and Kixteen passenger locomotives ; five ..dining cars; .i.OiO Imx ears; I'.Mi.i Ii lUH'l- hot- torn coal cars; J.IKHI gondola cnal and "iH stock ears are Included. The liM'Oiuotives are lo be built at Hichmond. Va.. hy the American Lo comotive Co.. Lust box ears and 1,:ii;."i coal cars al Memphis, at St. bonis by the American Car & foundry Co.. LMMKI coal cars al Lenoir City, romi., by the l.enoir Cur Works; ."7u box cars at Ml. Vol nun. 111., by 'the Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. Co.; ami L'lKl stock cats al An nlsloii. Ala., by Ihe Kill Car vV Foundry Co. WRESTLER BEING HKI.i) BY ASHEV1LE POLICE Is (iiarged With Inducing Young Girl to Leave Home and tloin Him. Illy flic iiHnoclnteil I'ri'ss. i Ashoville, March 17. Tony (iardinl, wrestler who has appeared in bonis here and elsewhere, is being held in jail In this city on charges preferred by Vance L. Guest. Uardini came here to lie promoted by finest. The latter had a wnrnanl for (lardini is sued, claiming the wrestler had sent money--NM iwT't beuN4-i years of .age and induced her to Join him al 'ijboiuusville. A deputy sheriff brought (iardilii and Ihe girj back from Tliomnsville. RT. REV. MAl'RICE 1". Bl'RKE DIES AT HOME Was 7fi Years (ii Age, and Catholic liishop in t. S. in Oldest 'oiid of Service. Illy the AMHocliiled PreSH.i St. Joseph, Mo., March 17. The lit. Rev. Maurice K. Burke, bishop of the St. Joseph diocese, and the oldest Wo man Catholic bishop in the Cnited States in point of service, died at his home here early today. He was 7(1 years of age and hud been ill failing health for three years. The last live months the diocese has been administered by a coadjutor bish op, the Kt. Kev. Francis Uilflllan, for merly of St. Louis, who has the right og sin cession. CNITED STATES SENDS ITS REPLY TO ALLIES In Regard lo Payment of Cast of Am erican Army of Occupation on the Rhine. Ill' Ho' Annoclnteil Prraa. Washington. March 17. The Amer ican reply to the allied suggestions for repayment of the $2ot),000.0tHI spent h the Culled Slates in maintaining Ms troop on Ihe Rhine was forwarded today to Pari. It. was understood lo decline the suggest ion that the value of seized Herman ships be deducted from the troop bill, but not to consu Itute lt Hat reduction of the allied I Viln tia I REV J. M. L. LYERLV IS DEAD IN WINSTON-SALEM Was in Pi eminent for Number of Years Activities of Reformed Church in Slate. (Special tit Tlir Tribune.) Salisbury. March IT. Rev. J. M. L. Lyerly. D. !.. well known Reformed Church minister, died at his home in Winston-Salem thi's morning. He was about tKJ years old, and was a native of Rowan County. He had served a number of Reformed churches in this section, He was prealdeul of Clare tii. mi College for a number of years. Bandits Active in Washington State. my the AaeoeleleA lt-eM.i Tncoma, Wash., March 17 Sheriff Tom Desmond rushed two automobile I loads of deputy sheriffs to South Prairie, 20 miles from here, today when he received Information that a train had been robbed there. ,A me sage from the Northern Pacific opera tor at Buckley said a bandit gang was shooting up than section of the coun ty. I.eiiinc, Premier of Russia, Continues to Regain Health. Mosow, March 16 Nokilae Leu trie, bolshevik nreinie.r who. wins stricken several days ago with apoplexy, cop i tlnues-Id show Improvement, accord ing to the otneini nniieini issueii m- day. I was noted in the general hcaltli and speech and iu the use oA the patient's right arm. ills tempera I ure was iH.i cent grade lubout OS Fahrenheit) - I'm 11 jand Ms pulee 84. ' CALLS FOR SUPPORT IK FIGHT AGAINST EASY DIVORCE W Hishop William T. Manning Says This Nation Has Al most Reached Condition ol I '.' al it (l Free Love. I APPEAL IS MADE TO ALL PERSONS Says in Country There is One Divorce for Every 8 Mar riages. Made Appeal in Ienten Service. HIT i hf AMnorlmrri I'rrta.i ,' Yorg. March IT. falling iipni ligiinis organialioiis laiholic. In ni a lid .lew is. 1 1 - o unite for le ml ion ugniiist iilsy divori. T. Mm lining, of Ihe Kpiscouil Ii, M'sierdny declared Hull the Ne' nil i Prole i ..Hi i Win. 'linn sisleni of monogamous marriage is rapidly U'ing uluiiidonod in the t uiliil States anil that the nation has almost reach condition oi legalized lice love. iiis i serinon Hegard "To : togetho .marks were on The I'll to Marriage How women for a thin1 pari sent anil ami of a Lenten Crisis With Ihe Home. ' men to live and then with legal sanction on trivia! and frivolous ground to sejiarale and form new al-llam-cs as they please." he said, "is in principle to abolish marriage anil lo adopi n system of legalized free love. This is ihe ssleni which we have ii"v almost reached." lie then cited divorce statistics of scleral stales, adding that "the pro portion of tlivorees to marriages is appalling. In our country as a whole there is now one divorce for every S marriages, and in some of our states there is one divorce for ewerv two or three marriages." The influence of religion against di rorce and remarriage is weakened, he said, by varying standards of differ ent churches, "and even of different ministers of the same church." GRAND .IIRY ACTION DOES NOT END MATTER Slate of Louisiana to Proceed With Prosecution in Morehouse Parish "Outrages" Says Attorney General. New Orleans. March HI. "It is the. present intention of the state of Louis iana lo lile bills of information and proceed with the prosecution of those against whom it has evidence in the Morehouse Parish Kn Klux Klan out rages." was the announcement of At torney General A. V, Coco on his ar rival here today from Haatmp. where he went on March ."i and presented to the grand jury the testimonies ob tained at the open hearing here, in January concerning masked band ne-, livilies in that parish. The jury re ported yesterday to Jndge Fred M. Odom that the evidence was not suf ficient to f i ml indictments against any particular individuals. "We. are naturally disappointed lie cause I believed and was confident that the slate had made out good eases" the attorney general declared. "But this action by the grand Jury does not end the matter by any menus." Mr, C ico said he. would issue no further statement until after a con ference here probably next Tuesilsy with his assistant and Stale Senator II. R. Warren, of Shreveport, special counsel of the slut" in the case., to determine their future course. Governor John M. Parker, when reached by telephone at Baton Rouge, dei lined in have, anything to say con cerning the reporl of the grand jury. Fall liiier Mill Operatives Demand . 15 Per Cent Increase. Boston. March 16. The movement for a wage advance to textile opera tives iii NeRngland of whom there a re K.TMTogaTneTeTl- strength today: with formal demand by the Kail River textile council for an increase of 15 per cent. That center of lifi.DOO workers, employed in 111 cotton mills, now stands doubly committed to a wag" raise demand, the Cnited Texti'e Workers of America having asked a 29 per cent increase there some weeks ago. Although indications have been that, other mill centers would allow lh issue of more pay to be bought out throiteb a strike :n Fall River, which both textile council and the United Textile Workers leaders have authority lo declare, word came from Lawrence that Ihe United Texti'e Workers membership there was ready to Hup up with Foil River for an ultimatum of a wage advance or strike. Lawrence employs some 32, 000 persons on woolens. Worsteds and cottons. Income Tax Figures for Ihe Two Car olinas. Washington. March 10 The North Carolina income tax returns are: For 1022. 18,058,890, and for XfittS, US.32 1.400. These figures show a slight falling off for the collections this year. The money taken In now is for the first period of the rtlondar ye.ars 1022. 1 The South Carolina figure are: $477.73'.! nnd lOpSJHS. One of the. most extraordinary plans known as the "traveling plant." which ha a root formed of knits, hy which 11 annually advances about an Inch front the place where it was first rooted. WESTERN CAROLINA nor uniM Traffic Over Railroads Be- tween Greensboro and .Mt. Airy and North Wilkesboro Has Been Resumed. STREAMS ARE ' FALLING RAPIDLY It is Believed Conditions Will Approach Normalcy Dur ing Day. Trains Were Stopped Friday. I Br Hi- tnwrllin rrrn.) I reeualioro, .March 17. -Water iu the streams swollen b the hard rains d Thursday and Friday is rapidly re endiug today and traffic has i ri sinned over the railroad running to Mt. Airy ami North Wilkesboro, it was iliiiioum-cd al Ihe office of Ihe Atlan tic & Yadkin Itailroad here this morn ing. Traffic, demoralized by flooded streams and threatened washouts yes terdny, is exiiectiHl to Is. back to nor mal hy tonight. At North Wilkesboro and Klkin Ihe water was reported to be fulling at the latter place the fall was four feet at N o clock and conditions were Said to be generally improved. Al (ler inantown wheiv the Town Form branch of the Lit n Itivcr yesterday stopped operation over the Mt. Airy end of the Atlantic & Yadkin, the river was back in its banks, and trains resumed their regular schedules, In this immediate section there was a general improvement in rloml con ditions as most of the streams were falling rapidly and were beginning to return to their banks. Klkin. March 10. Indications late tonight are thai Kl kin will probably experience a lugger flood than the memorable one of 1010, when the bus iness section of the town was inundat ed by water and rail and telephone conimnnication was cut off for several days. The Yadkin river has risen over U'll feet almve the regular water mark and lis .rjaiJtta .vu x acjocji lmuaa- At rate estimated nt about 30 inches an hour. Reports from further up the river indicate that it: will continue ris ing for a number of hours. Oldest in habitants say that the rain since last night has been the heaviest ever ex perienced here, water having descend ed iu shiH'ts since yesterday. Thai the business section of Klkin will be Hooded is almost a certainty. Workmen have been busy all after noon removing everything possible from the Chatham Manufacturing com pany's mill. The mill. It is believed, Will be flooded before morning. The railroad station which is near water mark and which was flooded in 1010, will be one of the first buildings to be inundated. The railroad, which follows the bed of the river for several miles, is, ac cording to reports, unsafe, water hav ing undermined the tracks in a num ber of places. A big washout at Bock Quarry. 10 miles from here, is re ported. No one lliinks it possible for I ruins to run tomorrow. The business section will suffer more, than anything else here, since the resilient ial section is on comparatively high ground. Klkin creek, which di vides the town, got out of its banks early in the afternoon. The creek is also still rising. Reports from up the river indicate that higher water may lie expeet'd since rain, which has been falling in ccssanily since yesterday, has been very heavy. People here whir are fi ni ;nr with Ihe river believe thbi it will continue rising until late tomor row with the rain which has already fallen, and It is still raining hard hero and further up Ihe river. North Wilkesboro Flood Situation Is Improved. North WUkcshoi'o. Alanh 17 i-'Iqo'I conditions looked much better here at midnight than had been the case ear lier in the night. The Yadlifli river, apparently, had v stopped rising short ly after 11 o'clock and rain has ceased. No damage has been don.' with the exception of water nuderinitnr.g tin railroad tracks, causing them to ng' slightly In some places, railroad ofll cinis (stated at midnight that unless reports indicate the road to lie in worse shape than it is near her" an at tempt will be made to get the train, leaving here early In the morning! lo Wlnston-Siileni todax. Pickfcrds, Jack and Lottie. Face the Courts? Iis Angeles, March 10. Jack Pick ford, motion picture actor, and his sister. Mrs. Alan Forrest, known on the. screen a Lottie Plckford, will be isumiuoned before a federal grand jury as a result of a series of raids last night which disclosed what seem ed to be evidence of a coastwise con spiracy to violate the Volstead aid. It was stated tonight hy H. H. Donley, federal prohibition agent. Tclbert May Get No Salary . (By the Auoclaled Pre.; WaBriugtou, March 17. The recess appointment given by President Hard ing lifter adojnrnnienl of Congress to Joseph W. Tolhcrt to be 1'nitod State Marshal for the western Sbnth Caro lina district will not carry a salary for Mr. Tolhcrt under a ruling, of the. De part ment of Justice unless Mr. Tol bert's nomination snoual be confirmed 1 by the next Senate.