ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES M- VOLUME XXV More Active Candidates Wanted In Tribune-Times Subscription Campaip If You Get in the. Game Now You Can Win One of the Grand Capital Prizes Being Given. EVERYBODYTALKING BUT FEW DOING Ten Thousand Dollars in Automobiles and Cash Prizes Will Be Given to the Winners. 1 i Everybody is talking. And but few are doing. It is not talk that The Concord Tribune and Times want. It is eandadiates. And candidates are slow getting in. It really is puzzling to the manage ment. Why are so few contestants taking advantage of this great gift f giving campaign? Ten thousand dol lars in automobiles and cash prizes is offered. Winners will get more for their efforts in the next few weeks than the average family man makes in a year. Yes, considerably more. More active candidates are wanted —candidates who are real candidates, who will get in and “carry on”—can didates who are big enough that even Hurry will not scare them. Fighters 1 are wanted. What difference does it make to youfi a candidate, what John Jones is doing? Yon don't win that way. It is what you do yourself that wins for you. Winning is positive, not negative. It is the subscriptions that you turn in that will pile up ' your vote total. It takes headwork as well as foot work. It takes foresight as well as hindsight. It takes a “do” spirit. If you are in, go get ’em. If you have been considering going after the big prizes, go after them. Every one hates a coward. And, how about a quitter? Remember that votes are what win. Promises won’t get your there. Noise won't win for you. Just votes. One subscription in this big vote period gives you 10,000 votes. Ten subscriptions give you 100.000 votes. A 5-year subscription will give you 250,000 votes this first period.* Sub scriptions will wil for you. Only in this first period can you get the big gest votes. You win if you stick. You can’t lose. “Everybody Wins” is the slo gan. 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How to Enter To enter your name and share in this big distribution of awards, sim ply fill out the nomination blank ap pearing in this paper and'send or bring it to the election headquarters in room 209, Cabarrus Savings Bank building, at once. > You Can Get Votes Easily. Y’our friends will save all their coupons for you that appear in The Tribune and Times every day and they will also be glad to pay up their subscriptions or subscribe for you. Voted pile up mighty fast when you once let your friends know that you have become a candidate in the gift election. You’ll get them every where by just using a few moments of your spare time. Valuable Rewards. Think of the value in good hard cash represented in the mammoth list of gifts to be given away absolutely free—remember, too, these costly ■i prizes are to be distributed simply in exchange for votes. Four beautiful high powered cars, and thousands of dollars in cash awards is certainly substantial pay for odd moments of your spare ttlme in gathering votes. Will you be one of the winners? It's all up to you. The first thing to do is to rush your nomination coupon to the campaign office at once. That starts you with 5,000 free votes —puts you right in line for one of the biggest prizes. WUI You Get Your Share? If you wish your share in this gigantic gift distribution you should see to it that your nomination is in without further delay. Election headquarters in the Ca barrus Bank building are often from 0 a. m .to 0 p. m. each day to re ceive nominations and to answer in quiries. Be Bure that your nomina tion is in today without fail Phone 079. Some men are so absent-mlned that they are constanly forgetting them selves. It 1* better to show too mnch cour tesy than too little. The Concord Daily Tribune ♦ ; ************** * NO MORE ORIGINAL * * POETRY. * * * * The Tribune is nothing if not * accommodating, but in Jfuture * we shall be compelled to draw NS * the line at original poetry. We N$ * always want items of news, but * * we cannot get the consent of our * NS minds to inflict original poetry IK NS on our readers, please do not N$ NS ask us to violate this rule. $ Nt Nt ************** SOMETHING NEW IN EDUCATION The Platoon System to Be Adopt eel in Perquimans County. Hertford, N. C., St'pt. 10,—(AP) —Something new in education is to be in Perquimans county. It is new, at least, so far as Northeastern , North Carolina is concerned. It is known as the platoon system, and is designed to mnke it possible for a school to accomodate 25 per cent more pupils than nre now taken care of, under the present system. In addition, it. makes it lxweible to add to the curriculum music, art, phy sical education, and many branches of vocational education. All this is snid to be without additional cost, except for the initial outlay for equipment. Edgar Bundy, recently elected sup erintendent of schools, is making plans fqr introduction of the system, which he hopes to have in actual force by next year. Mr. Bundy comes < to this county from Wilmington, ' where he has been engaged in school t work. The platoon system is described as an arrangement whereby the el- I ementary school makes the fullest auditorium instead of being utilized 1 only for perfunctory opening excr- ! eises and occasional special events. 1 is ocepied throughout the school day. A physical instructor is busy all day i long, either on the playground or in the gymnasium. The children are di- ; vided into platoons and move from 1 room to room ns their study hours i change. Under this system, the child, in i addition to the three r's, is given jpstr notion In carpentry, mechanics, printing, and the fundamentals of elec trical egineering, as well as n variety of other practical' subjects. YOUTH SLAYS MAN FOR INJURY TO MOTHER SEVEN YEARS AGO Paranoiac, Just Out of Hospital. Sits Beside Victim’s Body and Waits lor the Police. New York, Sept. 10.-—ln revenge for a real or fancied injury to liis mother seven years ago, Stephen Kry- , novak, 24, shot and killed Adam Luka sik, 50, today on a busy street corner j in Stapleton, Staten Island. Dr. George Mord, medical examiner, said Krynovak was released about a week ago from the Manhattan Hos pital where he had been treated for a year and a half as a paranoiac. After the shooting Krynovak sat on a curbstone, near the body and waited for the police. “Yes, I killed him,” he told Captain Ernest Van Wagner, of the New Dorp station. He made a detailed confession, the police said, in which he asserted that Lukasik, a delicatessen merchant, had struck his mother on the head with a file seven years ago in an argument over a bill for a chicken. The youth said he had been planning the murder since his release from the hospital. THE COTON MARKET Showed Renewed Strength Owing to Reports of Drought Condition in Eastern Belts. New York, Bept. 10.—C4>)—The cot ton market showed renewed strength this morning owing to increasingly se rious complaints of drought conditions in the eastern belts, relatively firm Liverpool cables, and reports of a more active demand for cotton goods. Realizing and hedge selling was readi ly absorbed by covering, trade buying and rebuying by recent sellers, and prices were 35 to 42 points net higher at the end of the first hour, with De cember selling at 23.98 and January at 23.44. Private cables reported that some hedge selling had been absorbed by covering and trade buying in Liver pool. Cotton futures opened firm: Octo ber 23.48; December 23.80: Januarv 23.20; Murch 23.55; May 23.00. Paid All Expenses of Orchard With First Year’s Sales. Lincolnton, N. C„ Sept. 10.—)— Jack Lemon, of Lincolnton, Route 3, has paid all the expenses of his or chard with his first year's sale of fruit, J. G. Morrison, farm agent, re ports. Three years ago Mr. Lemon bought 200 young peach trees through n co operative order, the trees- costing him s2l per hundred, delivered. “He has kept his orchard well worked and fertilized,” says Mr. Morrison, “and each year I have gone out and demon strated how the trees should be prun ed. This is the first year that they have produced fruit in commercial quantities and Mr. Lemon had some of the finest Hale and Elbertas I ev er saw.” Mr. Morrison says that 40 bushels of peaches have been sold from the or chard at $1.75 per bushel, besides much fruit that has been canned and used at home. Shreveport Fire Makes 1200 Homeless * v 4 * *** '*■ jk v i Nearly .1200 persons were made homeless by a fire at Shreveport, La.,' which destroyed 200 dwellings and caused a property loss estimated from $750,000 to $1,000,00. The flames ate away a strip of the residential section 2000 feet long and 1000 feet wide. Six persons were injured fighting the fire. Here is one part of the devastated section. ARREST YOUTHSIO ROTTEN EGGED HOI Five Youths Who Threw Eggs at Home of Mrs. Myrtle Cook, Who Was Slain, Are Arrested. Vinton. la., Sept. 10. —(A s )—Five youths were arrested here last night charged with defacing a private resi dence. as the result of a confession alleged to have been made by Merlin Wartbough at the coroner's inquest in which he is quoted as saying these boys were members of the gang which rotten egged the home of Mrs. Myrtle Cook, W. C. T. I'. president, slain Monday night. Besides Wartbough. those arrested were Lewis Gilchrist, Pete Tritten, Geo. Thomas and Wal ter Long. Coroner C. L. Modlin said that the youths were not taken in connection with the slaying, but they were arrest ed in the hope that they might supply information which might lead to a clue. Warrants also were issued for .two other youths in connection with the egg throwing Incident. REGISTERED MAIL IS SEIZED BY BANDITS Driver of Mail Wagon Bound ami Gagged by Roblters Who Picked Out Only Valuable Pouches. Winona, Monn., Sept. 10.— (A s ) Five bandits held up a Winona mail wagon about 4:30 a. nt. today, tied the messenger’s hands and feet with wire, and gagged him, and then after selecting the four registered mail pouches out of between fifty and sixty bags, headed towards the Twin Cities in an automobile. The messenger, Henry Williams, was on his way from Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul depot to the post office. When about three blocks from the depot five men intercepted him, led him into an alley and warned hint against any outcry and told him to “take orders.” With Our Advertisers. Bob's Dry Cleaning Co. is always ready to clean your portieres or other hangings. Phone TS7. * Snappy styles in fall hats in the newest colors $4.50 to SO.OO at the Itichmond-Flowe Co. Throw that old straw hat away. Quality furniture and rugs at Bcll & Harris Furniture Co. Three floors overflowing with new ideas in house furnishings. First time today nt Warner Bros.’ Concord Theatre, "The Love Hour,” with Huntley Gordon, Louise Fazenda, Ruth Clifford and others. Added feature, “Wall Street Blues.” The Reid Motor Co. lias specially trained men with years of experience in servicing Ford cars. “The Country Store" will be given at the Concord Theatre today. Friday and Saturday, and S2OO in valuable prizes will be given away free. Benj. N. Duke Gives SIO,OOO to In stitutions. Durham. Sept. 9—Two gifts to as many institutions have been made by B. N. Duke, of Durham and New York, totaling SIO,OOO. One gift of $5,000 has been made to St. Mary’s College for Girls, of Kaleigh, and the other to the Old Ladies Home of Durham, in the same amount. The gift to the Raleigh education institution was mnde through W. A. Erwin, of Durham, because of the personal friendship existing between Mr. Duke and himself, it was stated. The gift to the Old Ladies Home makes the total amount of Mr. Duke's benevolences to that institu tion $15,000. Earl to Retain American Citizenship. London, Sept. 10. — (A 1 ) —Oliver) Henry Wallop, Sr., of Wyoming, who has announced that he will assume the title of Earle of Portsmouth . in succession to his eider brother, re cently deceased, may do so without foregoing his American citizenship, which he acquired by naturalization in 1904. Offensive Begun In Earnest. Paris, Sept. 10. — (A I ) —Le Mat'n says the French offensive against the Riffians in Morocco has begun in ear nest. After a preparatory bombard ment yesterday the troops attacked en masse along the entire front today. North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N. C„ THURSDAY, SEPT EMBER 10, 1925 ♦ ************«► * A GOOD SLOGAN *. *, Nt A slogan wiiieh everybody Nt, Nt should adopt is that of the Ht * Winston-Salem Journal, as fol- Nt | Nt lows: fit Nt "Down With Dust and T'p IK Nt With Schools.” Nt I NS * ************** SERVANTS’ SCHOOL BACKED BY CHICAGO SOCIETY WOMEN Will Teach Pupils Proper Technique lo Use in Answering Door Dell mid Other Duties. Chicago, Sept. 10.—Society women,: weary of employing maids who think a j cantaloupe or an avocado pear should be fried, are backing a school, flic only one of its kind in the United ; States, which will open October 15th. with a course running three montrs. i There is no matriculation or other fees. Classes will be held in a model , residence and the student maids will take turns at being “Mistress.” The' course includes instruction on how properly to answer the doorbell, how j to use the telephone, or waiting on j table and making up bedrooms. ■■! t The school is open to any girl of ! good character and is calculated ~tp | save 'employers the time, Worfy and r expense of teaching their own maids. Skilled cooks and maids long in serv-' ice will be employed as instructors and the largest class will assemble | on Thursday, generally accepted as | the maids’ “day off.” Just how cm-1 ployers will prevail upon the maids to attend school instead of going to the ! movies with their “regulars" is a problem yet to be solved. Mine-Rescue Contests. Springfield, 111.. Sept. 10.—During the three, days beginning today this city will be the scene of the fourth ! International First-Aid and Mine- j Rescue Contest, in which miners ad other various parts of the United States and Canada will compete. The | contests are held annually under the \ auspices of the U. S. Bureau of I Mines, with the co-operation of the i Bed Cross, the National Safety I Council ami other organizations,! with the objbet of furthering the work of training miners in first-aid and mine-rescue methods and conse quent advancement of the cause of safety among the million miners in America. Steamer Bowdoin Joins MacMillan I Party Again. Washington, Sept. 10.—(AN—After battling an 80-mile gale and rescuing the crew of small boats from the is-} land Taulk a British naval vessel, the I steamer Bowdoin of the MacMillan | Arctic expedition has joined the Peary at Codthaab, Greenland. Read of the love of four girls for a man in the thrilling golden setting of the Yukon. Winds OF Chance By REX BIiACH . In Generous Daily Instalments j Watch for the opening chapter in a few days. EVEN SPLIT SO fIR 'Mim ! . Eight Conferences of the Southern Church Have Voted With 4 For and 4 Against Unification. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 11.—(A s ) Os the eight annual conferences of the . Methodist Episcopal Church. South, | from which the vote on unification with the Methodist Episcopal Church have been received by Southern Meth j odist headquarters, four vote in favor I and four against. j The Cuban conference east a unani j mens vote for unification; Baltimore 1 138 for and 141 against; Illinois 17 j for and 28 against: Denver 23 for and | 2 against ; West Virginia (Hi for and j 187 against; Kentucky 98 for and 88 j against; Brazil 47 for (unanimous \ vote) aud Central Brazil unanimous I for. I All of the foreign conferences are j believed by Methodist leaders to be in J favor of the plan of union of the I churches, while Southerrt Methodist rbishops opposing unification have | Within their combined episcopal area j three-fourths of the approximately 10,- | 000 votes to be east, j HERNY LINCOLN JOHNSON DIES IN WASHINGTON Was Negro Republican National Committeeman From Georgia. Washington, Sept. 10.—(A 3 )—Henry Lincoln Johnson, negro republican na tional committeeman from Georgia,! died here early today from cerebral hemorrhage. He suffered a stroke . last Sunday and was removed to a I hospital. i Johnson, who was 56 years of age, ! was serving liis second term as na tional committeeman, and was prac ticing law here at the time of his j death. He attended the last repub | liean national convention aw a dele- I gate at large, and also had attended three previous national conventions of the party as delegate at large. By appointment of President Taft, Johnson served as recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia during his administration, and previously had practiced law in Atlanta. | Two Real Curiosities Seen ar a Sin- Igle Spot. Albemarle, Sept. 9 Two real curiosities centralized in the same I spot about 9 o'clock Monday morn ing on West Main Street. TTie Rev. (McLendon, noted colored preacher, blew in, clothed like one on an Arctic expedition. He wore two long overcoats, what had been in years past, a high silk hat and high top cowhide boots. The sight was refresh ing as the tropical sun blazed down upon a sweltering population. And just as the curious clerks in the neighboring stores and passers by. as well as bystanders, were pondering upon the uncanny sight, some of the young ladies cited the rear end of a Ford touring car carrying the fol . lowing “superscription”; “Danger- Detour!” Under that was inscribed in large red let ters: “ Wanted: A Wife For a Pet,” Seeing a man seated in the car a number of those not already some body’s pot, ventured to give the oc cupant the once over, but for some reason or other the fellow realized no results from his advertising. Pos sibly the goods did .not come up to the requirements. Baby Killed; Mother Hurt in Auto mobile Accident. Salisbury, Sept. 9.—A two and a half year old child of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Rutledge is dead, its mother is in a local hospital and oue or two others are slightly injured, as a re sult of an automobile accident late yesterday afternoon at Ephesus, Davie county, when two cars eollided. The Ratledge family occupied a lurge touring car. The other car, a small roadster, was drived by George Stelle, who escaped with only slight bruises. A 13-months-old baby in the Ratledge car escaped unhurt. Mrs. Ratiedge's condition is not regarded as serious. Some people are Ro mean that grudges are the only things they ever pay. Good things art often made worse Igy trying to make them better. PRESIDENT READ! TO TACKLE TASKS, 1 CONFRONTING HI. Rested by His Stay at i Swampscott, Chief Ex ecutive Ready to Plunge Into Work. COAL QUESTION BEING CONSIDERED Wants Plan to Distribute Coal If Present Strike Should Result in Any l Hardships. Aboard President Coolidge Special, on route to Washington. Sept. 10. — j (A>) —Well rested by his eleven week* stay at Swampscott. President Cool-1 idge was traveling back to Washing-! ton today ready to plunge into the tasks of his office immediately. The train is due in the capital late today, and tomorrow the President will open his office with a cabinet meeting. While no special problem caused j the termination of the summer .resi dence at White Court, Mr. Coolidge Is j anxious to take up several matters I personally with his advisers. He wants the government prepar- I ed to distribute coal if the suspension of activities in the anthracite field should result eventually in hardships to consumers. He wants to confer with Secretary Kellogg on the ap- 1 pointment of an ambassador to Tokyo to succeed the late Edgar Bancroft. Mr. Coolidge is going to follow through with Director Lord of the Budget, the final preparations of the budget estimate, a tentative schedule of which already has been approved by j him. These and other questions deal ing with the administration’s legisla- j five program for the next session of j Congress have been closely watched by ! the Executive during his residence on the north shore, but is now ready to act in some instances. Back at White House. Washington, Sept. 10. —President Coolidge returned to the White House today after a summer’s outing in New England. The President’s train reached Wash ington at 1:11) p. m., after an over night run from Salem, Mass., and found the capital sqoirmrng and mwl* terlng under the unbroken spell of summer. A liue of official motor cars was waiting at the Union Station to drive I the President and his wife immediate ly to the executive mansion. There Mr. Coolidge turned to the accumulation of national problems which is promising him a crowded full and winter, while the first lady in spected improvements effected by I painters, plasterers and interior dec orators during the eleven weeks the 1 White House has been tenautless. MAY ASK 20 PER CENT. CUT IN SURTAX RATE This Has About Been Decided Upon For Treasury Tax Reocmmenda tions. Washington, Sept. 10.—(A s ) —Thp Treasury’s tax recommendations to Congress are now expected to in clude a reduction in the surtax rates to a maximum of 20 per cent, repeal of the income tax publicity section, and a lowering if not an entire elimi nation of the tax on estates. Other minor changes will be sug gested, largely to close up loopholes in tile present law. Secretary Mellon, who returned to day from a vacation, declined to say how active a part the Treasury would j take in urging its recommendations on ! the House ways and means commit-1 tee when it meets next month. He I previously had indicated he would [ make no formal proposal that could be j labelled a “Mellon plan" and might j only advance verbal suggestions in re sponse to such questions as the com mittee might ask. "The Treasury holds to its often expressed belief that a majority of the tax payers fav or repeal of the publicity section. Offi ficlals say masses of letters of pro test have come in since September 1, when this year’s returns were ob tained for public inspection.” Discuss Racial Questions. Swartlimore, Pa.. Sept. 10.—A general conference of the Fellowship of Reconciliation was opened at Swarthmore College today to discuss ■ especially the Far Eastern situation. ■ The scheduled speakers include Bishop Logan H. Roots, of Hankow, China; Col. Lucius H. Holt of the ’ U S. Military Academy, and Fred erick Libby, representing the Nation al Council for the Prevention of War. Missing Airmen's Coats Are Found? Honolulu. Sept. 9.—What may be the first definite clue in the search ■ for the missing naval seaplane PN-9 1 number 1 appeared today when it reported that a Hawaiian found two aviator’s coats on Keaukahakena , Beach, Island of Hawaii, yesteruay. Fearing trouble the man left. the 1 coats lay undisturbed. The report is being investigated. The beach is ap -1 proximatel.v seven miles from Hilo, principal city of the island. Two New Aalr Mail Routes. Chicago. Sept. 10. —(A s )—Two ait mail routes in addition to the nine new routes already proposed, will be advertised for after the return tc ■ Washington Saturday of Irving Glov er, second assistant postmaster gen eral. They are Denver. Colorado, to i Cheyenne, Wyo., and Washington to Jacksonville, Fla. Spurns Millions llllsp 1 ,%' Margrctta Curry, this Oklahoma City girl of 11 years, spurned the millions of Edward Browning, New York millionaire, in order to stay with her mother. Browning offered to adopt her as a companion for his other adopted daughter, Dorothy Sunshine. Margretta has gone to Los Angeles in the hope of becoming a vaudeville star. CRIME CONDITIONS ARE STUDIED BY OFFICERS North Carolina Police Officers in Con vention at Greensboro. | Greensboro. Sept. 10.—OP)—Tltere j lation of tile new national crime com mission to the work of the policeman j was presented to the convention of the I North Carolina section of the Na tional Association of Policement in j session here today by H. C. McCown, J of Hagerstown, Md., secretary of the national body. His address was a j feature of the morning session. “Such men as Judge Gary, Chas. | E. Hughes, Newton D. Baker, for- I in or Attorney General Wicket-sham. I I and other big men have expressed themselves as willing and anxious to serve on the new national crime com mission to make an effort to help you policemen in your fight to reduce crime,’’ the speaker said. “No city nor community oil the far? «£ the. earih can progress ami become great unless that city or com munity observes enforced law and or der. Without that property is of | little value.” j The speaker highly praised North Carolina, its schools and roads, and j asserted that upon the shoulders of | the policemen there rested a grave re j sponsibility, that of maintaiging law and order. “Co-operation in nmy I business is the basis of success, and co-operation in police . work is the I ! only way to prevent crime. An in j terehange of thoughts, plane and ex-1 j perienees is the way to success, and j | t hat is what we are here for.” | The conference will continue through | Friday noon. This afternoon will be devoted to athletic sports, with baseball teams from the Greensboro and Durham forces playing at Cone park. A dress parade will be one of the outstanding features of Fri day’s program. I Veterans Seek Way to World Peace. | Rome, Sept. 10.—Both the Ameri can Legion in the United States and the Great War Veterans’ Association of Canada are represented by good I sized delegations at the annual eon- j gross of tile Interallied Federation of World War Veterans, who wasli.. .C j World War Veterans, which was op ened in Rome today. The federation, j generally known as “Fidac,” is eom i posed of the leading oi-ganizations of veterans of the countries allied in | the World War, and has grown into j a powerful grou. Its principal en ergies and influences have been direct ed toward laying the foundation ofj world peace and international under standing. One proposal which the conference will consider is to be submitted by one of the American delegates, and urges that in case of serious interna tional misunderstanding, representa i tives of the former soldiers of each country involved shall be sent to the other country to study and report j the point of view of the people in ! t'.ie nations affected. Negro Committed Suicide. i Greenville, N. Cl., Sept. 10.— UP) — Fancying that ho stood between a i jail sentence for breaking an agree | ment and the Ku Klux Klan for not breaking it, Sylvester Williams, ne gro of this county, committed sui- I eide. I The negro, it is alleged, signed up with the co-operative organization II some time ago for a period of five! ! years. Later lie moved to the plant-. j ation of a landlord not a member of i the co-operative organization. The negro is reported to have said i that, if he broke his agreement, lie would get a jail sentence, and if he failed to sell on the open floor as did ■ his landlord, the Ku Klux would interfere. Worried over the prob lem, he is alleged to have lost his mind. A1 Jennings, the one-time 'notori ous bandit, and later a preacher, lec turer and movie actor, is now engag ed in the mining business in Mexico. Every maritime authority in the world has been notified of-the demoli tion of a certain factory chimney at Northfleet, England. The huge ehim i ney was used in taking bearings by i pilots ascending the Thames and was marked on all charts. THE TRIBUNE PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY | NO. 218 GOVERNORSTOURGE PfIWR FOR RAIN I - ill BREAK DROUGHT Gov. Walker Says He Will | Issue Proclamation and i Gov. Peay Is Expected to *| Do the Same Thing. DRINKING-WATER THREATENED NOW Pastors in Several Cities | Urge G overnors to Plead j With People to Seek Di- j vine Aid In Crisis. Atlanta. Sept. 10. — (,/P) —Governorsjll of three Southern States were | ed to issue special proclamations to- Jj day urjrng church to, jj unite next Sunday in supplication forA| i Divine deliverance from the drought j that has damaged their crops and now 3 threatens to \vipe # out even their drink- * ing water. It was indicated at the offices sf:|| Governor Austin Peay, of Tennessee, ;|| that he would comply with a request j|| of the Baptist Pastors* Conference of .1 Chattanooga and that t he Chattanooga f Pastors’ Association to proclaim the ? day as one for pniyer for rain. Governor Clifford Walker, of Geor- J gia. stated that he would not only J urge that petitions be mojde church services, and at family altars | as requested by the Atlanta Evangel- >| ical Ministers Association, but he S made it the occasion to declare he is J a staunch believer in the efficacy of §p prayer. WANT STAMP ISSUED IN HONOR OF WILSON | Friends of the War President Urge Speedy Action. Washington, I). (\. Sept. 10. —A J stamp bearing the likeness of Presi? i dent Wilson will be issued by the jh post office department by the first of £ December if the plans of the friends J j and admirers of the World War Pres- J idenr. succeeed. Mrs. Kate Trenholm -|| Abrams, who has charge of this pro- 3| gram, has seen post office departmental officials and is pressing for early ac- tion. ! A President Harding stamp was is- | sued, and those behind the move for one in honor’of Mr. believe their program will be carried | out. ..Ml THE TRIBUNE OR TIMES f vTO THOSE GOING AWAY’. dj It is school time again ami hun- 3 I this paper carrying the news to them regularly. Os the money you'll spend for them none will he more wisely invest ed tl»an that which subscribes to .Hi The Tribune or Times. Gome in or Sg write today about tin- subscription for your hoy or girl. Veterans Seek Way to World Peace. W& Rome. Sept. 10.— Both the Anted* 9B ear. Legion in the United States ant t lie Great War Veterans association ,K|| of Canada arc represented by good- MBS sized delegations at tile annual gn-ss of tin- Inter-allied Federation of World War Veterans, who was open etl in Route today. The federation, generally known as "Fidac,”* is com posed of tin- leading organizations of veterans nftlie countries allied iti hHBj the World War, and lias grown into I9BK| a powerful group. Its principal'. energies and influences have been VBI directed toward laying the founds* Hon of world peace and international ■■ understanding. One proposal which the will consider is to be submitted by one of the American delegates. ai4.S| urges that in ease of serious inter* national misunderstanding. represew-JMSI tatives of the former .soldiers of country involved shall be sent to other country to study and the point of view of the people in nations affected. Water Hauled to Murpuy in Box Cars. Asheville, Sept.. !). —Word has reached here- that Murpliy is out water. The new reservoir, fed 'Xll from a largo spring, has been empty (iMM four weeks and the Valley River gone dry. 'Water is being hauled box ears from Andrews the county H scat, sixteen miles distant. of the school has been postponed definitely. SAT’S BEAR SAYS: Tartly cloudy tonight, Friday locilHh < thundershowers; gentle to southeast winds. jHH