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VOLUME ■ XXVI
TARIFF MUST NOT
BE FORGOTTEN BY
FARM RELIEF MEN
As House Committee Con
siders Plan For Farm
Relief Tariff Question
Becomes Most Serious.
HAUGENADVISES
RELIEF SEEKERS
Says Plan That Does Not
Recognize Tariff Is Not
Worth Paper It Is Writ
ten on—Other Plans.
Washington, Mar<'h 10.—W s )—The
question of the tariff stood out today
as one of the fighting (mints which
may confront the House agriculture
committee in its efforts to agree upon
a measure to settlo the surplus crop
problem.
A draft of proposed legislation pre
pared by a middle western farm re
lief delegaton which has been sitting
with the committee contains no direct
mention of the tariff although Chair
man Haugen announced two weeks
ago that, a plan before the committee
was “not worth the paper it was writ
ten on” because of such an omission.
The Chairman advised the delega
tion to write into the bill provisions
empowering the President to raise
without limit the tariff on any agri
cultural commodity. He also suggest
ed that the price which the govern
ment would undertake to provide for
surplus to be fixed at the world priee
of n commodity plus the tariff and
other costs of importing it. .
The latter clause was put into the
first draft which the delegation fram
ed, but when the bill was completed
yesterday it was left out. As the
measure was framed the Federal Farm
Hoard to be created by the measure
would fix “a just and reasonable
twice.”
The only provision relating to im
portations is an embargo on corn
which the bill would put into effect for
a year after its enactment.
Chairman Haugen predicted today
that the committee would accept a
number of amendments if it decided to
report out the bill.
In its present form the measure
would Authorise appropriation of
. . §2iAoooi¥*> to atari a revolving fund
- — iam «***!*». Th«l sum
VfOtHd he paid back by equalisation
fees' collected on farm commodities
and handled by n Federal board.
HAMILTON JONES IS
TO HAVE OPPOSITION
For the Senate This Year.— Other
Items of Charlotte News.
Charlotte, March 15.—Hamilton
Jones, a member of the State Sen
ate from the twentieth senatorial
district composed of Mecklenburg and '
Cabarrus counties will have opposi
tion in the race this year from the 1
nomination despite the fact that re
cently indications were that the would '
be unopposed. D. B. Smith, local
lawyer, and for many years promi- ;
nent in domestic political circles in '
this section, hns announced that he
will enter the race for the nornina- ,
tion. Mr. Smith served for some
time as assistant district attorney :
and for four years was municipal
judge.
North Carolina is making progress ,
in reforming, its penal system, ac- ]
carding to Dr. Hastings H. Hart, of
New York, president of the National i
Prison Association, and an official of ,
the Russel Sage foundation, who was
here yesterday and today for a se- ,
ries of lectures on prison reform un- i
der auspices of the several clubs of i
St. Peters Episcopal Church. Policies
inaugurated in this state by Mrs. ]
Kate Burr Johnson, commissioner of i
welfare, were highly commended by ]
Dr. Hart, who said that North Caro
lina’s program now is attracting na
tional attention, Mecklenburg coun
f ty’s initiative in establishing a re- ,
| form home for delinquent women was
highly commended by Dr. Hart.
Two hundred women working in
groups today started a campaign to
raise the year's budget of the Y. W.
C. A. Preliminary reports late in
the day Indicated that the first day of
the campaign had met with an en- ,
oouraging response. The sum of $23,-
163.76 is the goal of the campaign
ers.
The city school board at an early
date will ask for bids on a six-room
school bhlldlng for the eleventh ward,
it was learned today. The building
will cost approximately $35,000 and
will alleviate crowded conditions in
the fourth ward school. The school
board plans to have the building
ready for use by the opening of the
next school term, it was said.
Woman Becomes Electrical Engineer
to See “Wheels.”
Ames, lowa, Mar. 16.—OP)—A de
sire toteow “what makes the wheels
of progress go around” prompted
Miss Marion Orchard, daughter of
W- R. Orchard, a Council Bluffs, ,
lowa, newspaper publisher, t<} take '
up the study of electrical engineering
at lowa State college here.
“I. elected my course in electrical
engineering,” he said, “because I
am a practical romancer. To il
lustrate: Whenever I would see a
train T wondered when it went, but
at the same time I wanted to know
‘how it got that way.’ ,
“Then there is another viewpoint.
I sincerely believe there Is a chance
for women in this field just as there
is in any other.”
The Concord Daily Tribune
. North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
Jce Game Vet |
T 1r B I
I
Edward Lalonde Is one of the oldest
professional hockey and lacrosse
players In competition today. He’s
playing, manager of the Saskatoon
Sheiks in the Western Hockey
League, one of the few pro hockey
circuits In existence at the present
lime. He's known as "Newsy”
iround the league and is one of tbs
.Same's most popular players..
LUTHERAN SCHOOLS
MAY BE COMBINED
Proposal .Made That New
berry College and Sum
merland ‘ College Be
Combined.
Columbia, 8. C., March 16.—CP)—A
proposal to combine Newberry Col
lege at Newberry and Summeriand
College near Batesburg and Lecsville
was submitted to a special session of
the South Carolina Lutheran Synod in
Columbia today.
The proposal was made in order
that the merger institutions might
meet the requirements for membership
in the Southern Association of Stand
ardized colleges.
The proposal is to operate plants
both nt Newberry and at Summeriand,
but to maintain nt Summeriand fresh
men and sophomore classes for young
.fEfflt*. maintain at Newbowjr
freshmen and sophomore classes for
young men. the junior and senior
classes at Newberry to be eo-eduea
tional.
MRS. OLDHAM IS DEAD
AS RESULT OF WRECK
Young Woman cf Albemarle Fatally
Injured Near Candor.—Another
Reported Injured.
Albemarle, March 16. —Mrs- Ber
detta Oldham, of this place, a young
married woman, died early last night
at Taly-Brunson hospital here as a
result of injuries received in an au
tomobile wreck which occurred near
Candor in Montgommery county late
yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Oldham
and her sister-in-law, Miss Lucile
Oldham, of Gold HiU, accompanied
by Carl Gilmore, of Biscoo, and an
other young mon whose name Miss
Oldham does not remember, were
returning' from Raleigh when the
'arge touring car whiah wao at the
time being driven by Mrs. Oldham,
turned over and rolled down an em
bankment.
Neither Mr. Gi’more or Miss Old
ham were seriously hurt, but the
other young man ip the car with
them suffered a broken jawbone, ac
cordingto a statement made by the
Gold Hill girl today. She says she
thinks he was taken to a Greensboro
or High Point hospital. Mrs. Old
ham died withodt regaining con
sciousness. Physicians believe that
her neck was broken.
28 Counts Against Federal Judge.
Washington, March 16.—CP)—
Twenty-eight counts on misdemeanor
charges against Federal Judge George
W. English, of the Eastern Illinois
district were submitted to the House
Judiciary Committee today by a sub
committee which last week recom
mended proceedings against the jurist,
port in executive session with sev-
The committee considered the re
eral members impressing belief tiint
the counts might be reduced by half
in the committee’s report to the
House. That report is expected to
be made this week, with the House
giving immediate attention to it.
Judge English is accused of; “high
crimes and misdemeanors” by the
special House committee which in
vestigated tbe case last summer, but
the judiciary sub-committee decided
there was insufficient evidence to pre
fer charges of crime.
The investigation was instituted
when Judge English was charged with
unwarranted and arbitrary use of his
office particularly with reference to
bankruptcy eases and with “other ir
regularities.”
l&nkrnpt Mills to Be gold March 27
Greensboro, March 14.—Date for
the sale on tbe auction Mock of the
four cotton mllla that compose the
bankrupt Mecklenburg Mills Com
pany has been set for Saturday
March 27, 8. S. Alderman, oi this
city, who as special master will sell
the properties, stated today upon in
qulry. No bid will be considered ac
cording to orders of Judge E. Yates
Webb, of the Western North Ctfro
lina Federal District Court under
$250,0000.
i ULTIMATUM SENT
TO CHINESE POWERS
BY OTHER NATIONS
Chinese Factions Advised
That Blockade of Port
of Tientsin Must Be
Ended at Once.
UNITED STATES
GIVES SUPPORT j
Was One of Natives Sing-!
ing the Ultimatum.— J
Naval Crafts Ready to!
Go to Work.
Peking, March 16.—(P)—The Unit
ed States and other powers today de
livered an uitlmatum to Chinese fac
tions demanding that blockade of the
port of Tientsin be ended nnd hll
impediments to harbor nnd river traf
fice bo removed by Thursday noon.
The ultimatum, signed by signa
'tories of the protocol of 1001 was
handed to the commander of the forts
at Taku and Chinese vessles outside
of Tientsin. The United States,
Great Britain, Japan and Italy have
a dozen or more uaval crafts in these
waters.
The protocol of 1001, made stipu
lation conceruing the disarmament of
forts nt the mouth of the Pei River
on which Tientsin is located and also
guarantees an open way to the sea.
The blockade has been preventing
access to Peking frem the sea, and
recently resulted in Chinese troops
firing upon two Japanese destroyers.
The action of the powers was made
known to the Chinese foreign office in
the following memorandum forward
ed by the Doyen of the diplomatic
corps.
“In order to maintain the general
treaty right to international com
merce and particularly the rglit to
free access from the capital to the
sea provided in the protocol of 1901,
the powers concerned demand:
“1. Hostilities in the Channel
from the Taku back to Tientsin must
be discontinued.
“2. Mines and other obstructions
must be removed.
“3. Navigation signals must be
restored and not further molested.
“4. Combatant vessels must re
main outside the bar and refrain from
interference with foreign Bhips.
“5. Searchers for foreign vessels
except by customs authorities must b"
discontinued.
“If satisfactory assurances on
these points are not received by noon
on Thursday, March 18th, the naval
authorities of the foreign powers will
proceed to take such measures as they
find necessary for the purpose of re
moving such obstructions.”
Russian Ship With Munitions Seized
Tientsin. March 10.— UP) —The
Russian ship Oleg with a barge and j
a cargo of munitions was seized to- I
day at Taku by Feng Tien warships
of Marshal Chang Tso Lin, Manchu
rian war lord. The war ships had
been blockading the port for severnl
days to prevent supplies reaching the
Kuominchun national peoples army
sffMiorting the Peking government.
MRS. STEPHENS HEADS
MISSIONARY COUNCIL !
Columbia. Missouri, Woman Presi
dent of Methodist Women’s Coun
cil.
Raleigh. March IG.— (A*) —Mrs. F.
F. Stephens, of Columbia, Mo., and
Airs.' J. W. Perry, of Nashville.
Tenn., were reelected respectively
president -and vice president of the
Women’s Missionary Council of the
Afethodist Episcopal Church. South,
here today. The business session
was suspended at noon for the Bible
lecture by Prof. J. B. Matthews, of
Scar’ritt College. Balloting for the
remaining officers was to come be
fore the council this afternoon.
During the morning the assign
ments for the coming year of more
than 100 field workers were read by
the president. These included mis
sion workers in most of the southern
states.
Erect Statue to Discoverer of Ether
as an Anesthetic.
Atlanta, Ga., March 16 — UP) —
Bruises led Dr. Crawford W. Long
to the National Hall of Fame. '
His statute will be unveiled in
Washington March 30, on the eighty
fourth anniversary of his discovery
of the value of ether as an anesthet
ic.
Inhalation of ether for its ex
hilerating effects and the subsequent
discovery of bruises of other pain
ful wounds oh his person which "he
had no recollection of receiving, led
him to the conclusion that ether was
valuable as an anesthetic.
Governor Walker and a delegation
of Georgians will accompany the
statue to Washington for the cere
mony.
Fishing By Telephone.
Oslo, Norway, Mar. 16.—Apparatus
somewhat in the nature of a tele
' phone has been adopted by tho
'herring fishermen nt Stavanger to
locate shoals of fish. A microphone
is attached to a sunken wire and it
is stated that the movement of the
shoal is audiible through » telephone
receiver in the boat.
Negro Electrocuted.
Huntsville, Texas, March 12.—CP)
—WilUa , Vatican, 23, negro, was
electrocuted at 12:58 • o’clock this
morning at the state prison here for
an attack u])on a white girl at San
Antonio, Texas,
I
CONCORD, N, C., TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1926
BRAZIL AND ITALY.
CAUSE ANXIETY AT
LEAGUE GATHERING
Rumors of All Kinds Are
Heard in Lobbies of the 1
League of Nations Pal
ace During the Day.
I BRAZIL’S SIDE IS
TAKEN BY ITALY
[ltalians Insist That Ger-|
many Take More Gener- j
ous Attitude Since She
Is New Member.
’ Geneva, Alaroh 16.—CP)—Disqui*
ing rumors spread through the ht-i
bies of the league of nations palace Ip
day that Italy was promoting Brazil j
from the wings of her insistence upoti j
receiving a permanent seat in the!
league council at the same time gs l
Germany.
It was reported that either Premier
Musaolini would make a statement or
a speech in Rome demanding that
Germany cease attempting to thwart
another power obtaining n permanent
sent at the same time she was accord
ed one, or that one of the Italian rep
resentatives here tomorrow night read
a statement inspired by Mussolini.
Italy’s interests wore described as
demanding the continued amity of
Brazil.
May' Adjourn Assembly.
Geneva, Alarch 16.—CP)—Premier
Briand, of France, made the categor
ical statement this afternoon that
Germany, Great Britain and .France
nre now absolutely united on, all ques
tions concerning the controversy over I
reorganization of the league council,
but he added that if new difficulties
began to surge on the horizon, the
only thing left to do was to adjourn
the assembly to September.
M. Briand in speaking of new dif
ficulties was alluding both to the de
mand of Brazil for a permanent seat
and to Roumania’s demand for clear
cut assurnees that she would be
elected to a non-permanent council
seat in September.
Night School Attended By North
Iredell Fanners.
Harmony, March 15.—North Ire
dell farmers nre “going to school”
again and making a scientific stud;
or agricultural problems under the
direction of Prof. W. V. Fielder, in
struetor in agriculture in the Har- j
mony High nnd Farm Life sehoo’. I
A group of from 20 to 00 farmers j
meet nt the school building here two
nights each w*eek and are school !
bays together again, but they lack j
the mischief that perhaps character-!
ized their conduct in days gone by
when they attended the old “day!
schools.” Farmers from adjoining i
sections of Yadkin, Davie, AVilkes,
and other counties have been invited
“to school.”
Several meetings have' already
been held and a schedule for the next
four weeks of work has been an
nounced by Mr. Fielder.
X-Rays in tlw Home.
London, March 16.—A new X
ray apparatus, mounted on a fast
motor-car, hns been designed, and is
proving a great value in cases where
it is undesirable to remove patients
to the hospital for examination. The
X-ray car can be rushed to any part
of the country at a moment’s notice.
When it arrives at the patient’s
home the apparatus is carried -into
the sick-room and connected with j
the ear by electric wires. Tho opera
tor then gives the driver instructions
as to starting and running the al
ternator. When the radiograph lias
been taken it is developed in a dark
room on the car, and handed to the
physician in charge of the case.
Overhaul Links Preparing For
Women’s Golf Tourney.
Charlotte, N. C.. March 16—OP)
—The links of the Charlotte Country
dub are undergoing a general over
hauling in preparation for the South
ern Women’s Championsnip Golf
tournament opening May 26.
New greens are being built with
additional hazards.
All of the South’s lending feminine
go’fers are expected, including the
three former champions, Mrs. Elaine
Reinehardt, of Chicago, Mrs. David
Gaut, of Memphis, and Mrs- Dozier
Lowndes of Atlanta.
With Our Advertisers.
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that you get the yellow checkered bag.
Rend ad. of Cash Feed Store.
Investment experience at your com
mand at the Citizens Bank and
Trust Company. Read, new ad. to
day.
Hot Water Is an economy, at any
time. Rend the ad. of Concord &
Kannapolis Gas Company and find
how you can secure this economy.
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i Lieut F O’D Hunter, operation*
i officer at Selfridge flying field
I Michigan has had another narrow
i -scape leaping to the Ice of Lake St
Clair In a parachute when his plane
caught fire 500 feet in the air Thle
photo was taken lust after he land
ed Lieut Hunter once cracked a
vertebra in a smashup. and a yeu>
•.go had to leap •« * parachute whe»
ms plane gave way 2000 feel above
iht- ground.
CONDITION OF COL
COOLIDGE IS SAME
Aged Father of President
Passed Restful Night
and Is Able to Take
Some Nourishment.
Plymouth, Vs., March 16 —(/P)—
The condition of Col. John U. Oool
idge was little changed today. An
early morning report from the sick
room said that the father of the Presi
dent had passed a restful night and
was able to take a little nourishment
His physician planned to visit the
patient during the forenoon. In the
meantime Deputy Sheriff MaiAulay,
tiie Colonel’s bodyguard, was author
ized to issue the brief statement.
While news from the Comidge home
continued to be favorable, a large
i force of men started out from Wood
| stock early today to open up the suow
j bound road leading from Plymouth to
, White River Junction, to automobile
j traffic. A stretch of 19 miles is al
j ready passable for ears, and work was
! concentrated on the seven mile trip
j from Bridgewater Corners to this
I hamlet. Three tractors and two .snow
i plows were used in the work.
Last Strength During Day.
Plymouth, Vt.. March 16.—OP)—
Col. John C. Coolidge, whose condi
tion has shown some improvement dur
ing the last few days, lost strength
slightly today,. This was the sub
stance of a bulletin issued about 12 :30
o’clock today by his physician.
The bulletin said :
“Col. Coolidge remains about the
same us yesterday, greeting several of
his neighbors this morning, but he
appears slightly weaker and more
qu : et than yesterday mornng. His
heart condition remains fairly good.
“He is very comfortable and there
are no new developments to cause
alarm,”
j BONE DRY PLURALITY
IN NEWSPAPER ROLL
Bat Modifiers and Repealers To
gether Have a Majority. ,
Asheville. March 15.—Last min
ute dry votes gave a plurality of
nine in favor of retention and strict
enforcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Vo’stead act.
Monday when the referendum con
ducted by the Asheville Times do«cd.
Votes favoring repeal of the Eigh
teent)h Amendment combined with
those for light wines and beer, how
ever, had a plurality of 107 over the
prohibitionists when the last ballot
\oas counted-
The final tptal9 follows:
For keeping the prohibition amend
ment as it now stands with strict
enforcement, 505.
For modification of the prohibition
law so as to allow the sale of light
wine and beer, 490.
For repea’ of the prohibition
amendment 201.
Total 1.202.
in Need.
The local ftapter of King's Daugh
ters has beene asked to secure furni
ture and clothing for a colored fam
ily made destitute by a fire which de
stroyed its home.
Everything in the home was burn
ed and members of the family need old
furniture and clothing.
Institute For Merchants
Moves With Speed And
Success Under Expert
J. W. Griest Speaks at Sessions and Is Heard With
! Unusual Interest and Benefit.—Record Crowd j»*
Night Session.
The merchants institute is moving
forward with speed and success.
J. IV. Driest, of Chicago, general
manager of The Retail Merchants
Institute, nnd leader at the sessions
of the institute here, kept things on
the go during the opening sessions
Monday, his fine manner of talking
and hi* pleasing personality resulting
in an overflow audience at the session
Monday night.
Mr. Driest addressed another large
crowd at tile luncheon meeting at the
Y today nt noon, speaking at that
time oil advertising.
Those attending the address on
"The Winning Salesman” Monday
night at tile Y. M. C. A. came away
from thp meeting with a broader vi
sion of salesmanship than they ever
had before. Mr. Driest, the man in
charge of the institute program, stat
ed that good salesmanship mennt
leadership; the winning salesman was
the individual who could influence
others to think ns he thought; the
real salesman was the person that
created the want for the articles he
was selling or the desire for the in
formation to be sold. He stated
further that the successful profession
al man was a salesman. A good min
ister or leader in community activi
ties were always good salesmen ; they
persuaded the people to think and
act as they desired them to do. The
■—l-.-» ""-me
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady Today at Decline of 1
Point to an Advance of 1 Point.
New York, March 16.— UP) —The
cotton market opened steady today at
a decline of 1 point to an advance of
1 point. Selling developed on pros
pects for warmer weather in the
southwest and the indifferent showing
of Liverpool which cased prices off to
18 65 for May and 17.52 for October,
or nbout 4 to 6 points net lower. Of
ferings were light, however, and there
was enough demand from shorts of
the trade to cause rallies of 3 or 4
points from the lowest, and held the
market steady at the end of the first
hour.
Private cables said some trade call
ing had been supplied by hedge sell
ing in Liverpool nnd -that the Man
chester cloth market was featureless
except for moderate cloth demand
from India.
Cotton futures opened steady. May
18.70; July 18.26; Oct. 17.57; Dec.
17.24; Jan. 17.21.
Flivvers Freed to Open ’Em Up on
This Highway.
San Antonio, Texas, March 16.
There is one paved highway in Texas |
on which there is no speed limit.
Such sings as “Flivvers, do your
best!” and, “Boys, let the girls
drive,” erected by a San Antonio au
to repair shop, greet the motorist at
intervals for 35 miles.
The road is not a State highway,
but a private one. built by San An
tonio sportsmen. It lends to Medina
Lake, a hunting and ’fishing resort,
in the hills west of here. A charge is
made against every car as it enters :
and leaves the vicinity of the lake.
Declare That the Newspapers Which
Poison News Poison Themselves
Chicago, March 16.— UP) —A news
paper "can no more afford to poison
its news than a dairyman can afford
to put prussic acid in his milk,” Har- j
per Leech and John C. Carroll say in
their new book on the newspaper,
“What’s the News?” just published.
“The newspaper which poisons its
product poisons itself. Suppression of
important or pertinent fncts in the \
interest of popularity, class, gang. |
clique or self-interest is the equivn-j
lent of a death warrant if persisted
in. Os this the toll of dead news
papers is sufficient testimony.”
All phases of the newspaper's rela-1
tion to the myriad activities of mod- 1
ern life are touched on in the book, 1
which describes, news as “accelerated
literature” and the newspaper as an
institution “which is writing litera
ture as the clock ticks.”
The authors are members of the
staff of the Chicago Tribune. Leech
is known as a writer on economic
topics under the psedonym of "Seru- j
tator,” while Carroll also is an in-1
struetor in the Medill School of
Journalism at Northwestern Univer
sity. |
The writers declare that newspa
per men long have had a triple classi
fication of news based on the themes
of money, love and religion. “To be
more specific slid probably more en
lighteneing, news interest as disclosed
by the world in review as it tumbles
day or night upon the copy desk from
wires, cables, hot from the reporter’s
typewriter or cooler from the mails,
seems to be summed up thus:
“Life and death, desire for amuse
ment, curiosity, ambition and cupid
ity, wealth' and poverty, religious
hope, generosity and stinginess, hon
esty and dishonesty, heroism nnd
fear.”
While crime is called “the most in
teresting of all news themes—judged
by circulation gains and popular in
terest.” the authors assert that “as the
cost of publishing has increased and
the volume of crime has increased the
proportion of all crime that wins a
: office girl or the stenogt innt
had really attained success practiced
; the art of selling. The individual
i with whom the customers first Come
i in contact and who really represent
ed the institution that employed them
i should understand the art of selling
: because they were the first employees
of the firm to make the impression
as to the kind of service the institu
tion was rendering the public. He
i emphasized that the first impression
! was the one that remained in the
: | mind of the customer and that the
first impression should always be
i favorable.
Some of the merchants were sur
prised to learn that Mr. driest had
been in their store and cheeked up on
the strength and weakness of the
salespeople. One of the important
steps on making the sale, specified
the speaker, was found to be lacking
; in some of the place* of business in
1 Concord. One of these was the ap
proach of the sales person to the cus
tomer. The importance of a wel
■ eome greeting in the way of “a good
morning,” cr “how do you do?” was
I emphasized by the speaker. He stat
ed that customers in places of buei
ness were in a sense guests of that
place of business and should be treat
ed with the utmost courtesy. Many
! sales and much business are lost be
(Continued on Page Five
PROHIBITION BUREAU
BILL IS APPROVED
Bill Gets Approval of House Ways and
Means Committee.
Washington, March 10.—OP)—The
administration bill to create a bureau
of prohibition in the Treasury De
partment was approved today by the
House ways and means committee.
The measure also would provide
for a bureau of customs and a com
missioner of prohibition, and a com
missioner of customs would bo ap
pointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury at salaries of SB,OOO a year.
Assistant Secretary Andrews in
charge of prohibition enforcement
proposed this realignment of the pro
hibition enforcement machinery At
present the prohibition personnel is
under the Internal Revenue Borenu.
Women Enrollment at Duke Has
Doubled flight Times.
Durham. N. C, March 16.- -t/P,
Duke University, recently endowed
for $80,000,000 by the late Janies B.
Duke, has doubled its enrollment of
women eight times.
Tho earliest record of women at
Duke, then Trinity College, was in
1878 when the. Slisses Peris, Mary
and Theresa Giles were enrolled.
This year there are 333 women stu
dents, this number being twenty-five
percent of the total enrollment.
■For more than a decade after
graduation of the Giles sisters,
there were no women in the classes
of Trinity.
All foreigners visiting Greece are
to be taxed ten dollars, for which
they will receive tickets entitling
; them to admission to historical
places.
place in the news has waned until it
is less than one-half of one per cent,
in the larger dailies.”
“The most sensational newspapers
are less sensational than their read
ers. Strive as they may to tickle
Demos, the mechanical and economic
limitations on newspaper space are
such that they constitute one of the
least sensational forms of letters.
Per thousand ems of type or pounds
of paper, they run less to crime and
tragedy than most of the great clas
sics.
"The idea that the suppression of
I crime news would lessen crime ig
! nores the fact that newspapers are by
1 no means the only methods for the
dissemination of information. They
have never superseded the gossip and
the grape-vine telegraph.”
1 Likewise the authors find that com
paratively little of available sex news
is printed, although citing the subject
as one of wide interest,
j “Sex will disappear from the news
• when newspapers are written and
read by Robots. Men and women
and their problems as such always
I have been the theme of accelerated
literature as of nearly all other sorts.
“But just as in crime, the very
abundance of sex news in time forces
a process of selection, until a very
minute fraction of sex news ever gets
into the newspapers and that is us
ually selected because it carries with
it some unusual feature or appeal—
exactly as the sex of great literature
is always something vastly more than
sex.”
The relation of advertising to news
papers is commented upon. “It has
become conventional to say that a
newspaper lives on its byproduct, ad
vertising.” The authors deny this,
saying:
“It probably is true today that the
great majority of newspaper adver
tisers are as dependent on the news
papers as they are on the railroads,
the post office, or the telephone for
their continued existence and func
tioning." c
THE TRIBUNE'i
PRINTS 11
TODAY’S NEWS TOBAIM
NO 61
FIGHT FOR CHAPHMII
WILL CONTINUE FOil
NEXT THREE WEEKS
?or Bandit Ready I
*ry Other Means to |
Save Client Scheduled to
Die Soon.
set to dTeln %
ELECTRIC CHAIR J
April 6th Is Date Set For
Electrocution of the Man
Who Has Three Times
Been Saved From Deatlt
Hartfort, Conn., March 16. — jj
Three weeks from today Gerald Chag^jJ
• man is scheduled to pay the death pen- i
alty for the murder of a New Britain '
i policeman.
• Yesterday the Supreme Court d«- j
: nied petition asking review of his ease, i
I which was carried from the Connectl-'l
: cut Supreme Court.
i The third reprieve granted the ban- ;
• dit by Governor John Trumbull ex- j
pires April 0, and at 12.01 o’clock that
■ morning Chapman is slated to stgMt j
1 upon the floor of the execution chain* M
'• bor in the death house, and the ward- ||
en stepping on a plunger will set in J
motion the mechanism which will end |
: the man's life.
Chapman and his attorneys say they a
are not disheartened. Frederick A. "t
Groehl, senior counsel said, “I think ;3
we have some other remedy,” and Jos
eph M. Freedman, assistant counsel, ■. ;
said "The fight is not yet over,” while 1
Chapman who received the news emo- St
ticniessly remarked "As Chapman IJp
did not expect anything else.'but as
man I had hopes of a different ver-la
diet.”
As each new effort failed the field
of possible moves to stay execution |
until the robber has completed his 25- .J*
year sentence he was serving when he ?
escaped from Atlanta penitentiary J
and killed the policeman narrowed. ,
Os two considered Attorney Groehl
lias eliminated as useless an appeal
to the board of pardons for clemency. 1
ECONOMY IS DECLARED - -
PROSPERITY’S KEYNOTE |
Noted Banker Advises North Carolina |
to Profit by Florida Mistakes. U
Charlotte, Mareli 15.—Dr. Uwiijj
E. Pierson, prominent New
banker and vice president of the «
Chamber of Commerce of tne tjnited 1
State*, and D. A. Skinner, secretary 'M
of file United States Chamber of 1
Commerce, were principal speaker*, a
tonight at a local business and pro- j
fessional men at the Charlotte Cham-* .J
fessional men’s meeting at the Char- *
lotte Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Pierson and Mr. Skinner *r*
making a tour of southern citiesMn
which they are investigate business 3
conditions generally.
Economy. Mr. Pierson said, is tho i;
keynote of prosperity and must bo ]
observed ns suc’li in the development 3
of North Carolina. As the booto in \i
Florida spends its force that st&te ‘j
affords valuable material for close
study as the boom gets underway in ’
this state, he said. By careful study- 3
ing the situation North Carolina can
avoid many of the mistakes made in
Florida and escape the handicaps un
der which Florida business men lab* |
ored.
The greatest lesson to be learned 1
is that business must be operated on
a sound basis, and in the nucleus of
an unheard of era of prosperity in
this state pioneers of her boom must
realize that recklessness and extrav* |§
aganee are disastrous," Mr. Pierson
declared.
Reforesting millions of acres of
land in the South would be of untold
value to this section, Mr. Pierson <j
’ said, pointing out that this part of
| the eountry is admirably adapted to
' the rapid growth of trees and has
‘ the added advantage of being in close
proximity of the great lumber market ,
j centers of the country.
5 Wool From Wood. |
London, March 16.—Experiments jjj
■ fraught with great possibilities for M
. the textile trade have lately been
. carried out by leading firms in Lan- |
, "ashire and Yorkshire. They concern J
. the production by artificial means of
I a new wool fibre, arrangements for
manufacturing which on a large
scale have already been made.
Known at present as “sniafll," the i
! new synthetic wool is the invention
L of an Italian. In appearance it k i
downy, silk-like substance, and it la
! said to have the textile strength of ‘j
real wool. The basic substance is
1 wood.
j While it is unlikely to replace
• real wool, “sniafil” is expected to in- ;
• fluenoe the pYoduction of the cheaper i
< grades of clothing, the price of which .
8 will probably be substantially re- 1
T duced.
SAT'S BEAR SAYSs
s
Fair tonight with heavy frost tfii
weather remains clear; WedneadafJ
fair. Moderate west wind*.