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VOL. XLI. NO. 224.
GASTONIA;. N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNQON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1920
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1MY DRAGNET CATCHES
YOUNG MEN OF CITY
JOHNSON'S PR06RESSrISM
IS PRAISED BY COX
lAREWETOABAIMl
'OUR CONSTITUTION?
Ia Municipal Court Friday
. Morning Young Men. Face
iuarges or violating: ny
Ordinance Acamst lmprop
Proposals From Auto
Drivers One Found Guilty
and Another Not.
' Moncipal court proceedings were en
livened this morning by the presence of
several defendants, young men of the city.
charged with violation of the recently en
' suited ordinance against the improper so
licitation of girl and young ladiea to go
riding in automobiles.
' The first ease was that of the State vs.
-Hersehel Gibbons, who on Wednesday
lv' night, it is alleged, at the Loray skating
-r mi uu&eu 10 inrwa youug amies 01 vuo
f loray section, Misses Pauline Padgett,
.Blanche Heath and Elsie Coxey, and later
Invited them to go to ride but were de
terred by the presence of the mother of
one of the girls and Special Officer Boscoe
Douglas. According to the evidence as
.brought out at the trial, Gibbons was at
the .skating rink with his brother, who
Anew Alias Padgett. Both were engaged
in conversation with her and the proposi
lion of riding came up. Gibbons went
outside, fouad Joe Orr and Otis Hope
with an sjutomobile and said to them
"There are some young ladies in there
who want to go to ride." "We'll. take
'em," was the reply. The men left the
rink In their machine and drove down
'. Franklin avenue. The girls told them not
. to stop, since Policeman Douglas" was
los behind. The evidence showed that
shs girls walked on down the street, and
went home, the car stopping ia the mean
time to let Gibbons out, who walked part
of the way home with the Padgett girl.
The young men testified that they knew
the young ladies and that there was no
uggestion of indecency or improper con
duct on their part. Gibbons said he had
known the Padgett girl a month or more.
Che said she has! not met him but knew
him through his brother.
Special Officer Douglas testified that
three ears stopped along the sidewalk on
this night in question within the space of
a block or two and asked the girls to ride,
and that they refused all the invitatona
Prosecutng Attorney Mason was assist
d by Messrs. A. G. Mangum and R. G.
Cherry in the prosecution of the case.
iJarpenter and Carpenter apeared for the
defendants.
Arguing the case before Judge Jones,
-Mr. J. G. Carpenter contended that the
ordinance as drawn, was calculated to
cause trouble to many an innocent person,
lie quoted the famous little poem, "If
body meet a body comin' through the
He is Highly Commended For
Mis frankness -Is No Hypo-
cnte (Candidate Mays Sen
. ators Supporting Harding.
', (By The Associated Press.)
8ACBAMENTO, Calif., Sept 17. In
an address here today opening his Call
fornia campaign, Governor Cox, of Ohio,
democratic presidential candidate, praised
Senator Hiram Johnson, republican, as an
exponent of progress! vism and again
flayed "big business" and republican
leaders suporting Senator Harding.
Although they differ fundamentally on
the league of nations, Governor Cox said
lie admired Senator Johnson for frank
ness and lack of ambiguity and hypocrisy,
'He and I do not agree on interna
tional policies," said Governor Cox to a
large theater audience at a noon meeting.
but I respect the man for his candor
' ' I have looked with admiration on the
fight which he has made throughout the
years against reaction. He fought it with
Roosevelt and he continued consistently
the contest which began in 1912, through
the primaries and the convention of 1920
just as Roosevelt would have done.
As an Ohioan I give to you the assur
ance that the observation made by a dis
tinguished citizen of our state to the
effect that Hiram Johnson was a black
guard and unfit to associate with decent
men is not the view of onr people.
Let me recall a parallel between the
campaigns of 1912 and 1920.
Eight years ago Colonel Roosevelt
charged that the nomination was made by
reactionary forces in defiance of the rank
and file as expressed in the primaries. In
1920, precisely the same thing was done
and Senator Johnson was humiliated the
same as Colonel Roosevelt.
I am unable to see by what process
of reasoning the political party which has
given to Boss Barnes, of New York, a
distinct status of leadership in this cam
paign can expect the progressive friends
of Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram John
son to give it support. Barnes was the
captain of the pirate ship.
Never were so many obligations to de
signing interests being assumed by the
party of reaction as in this campaign.
Under the belief that disturbed conditions
following the war make political victory
certain, methods are followed unblushing
ly and without concealment."
rye," etc., in an effort to show that the
ordinance while drawn, with teeth in it,
) to- protect innocent women and girls from
. indignity and insult, was indefinite and
vsgue in what constituted an invitation
to ride. He argued that the young men
in the case knew these young women and
that their actions were entirely proper
'. and conventional. While admitting that
' there was need for a restriction on the
growing immorality in Gaston ia, he felt
that these young men were unjustly ac-
' cused, and that, if convicted, their char
surter would be ' ' forever and a day ' ' be
emirchSd. He pleaded with the court to
save "these young lads" from such a
calamity as a judgment of guilty would
impose on them. He argued that the
fitats and the eity officials in their right
eous seal to break up this obnoxious prac
tice, tad overstepped themselves, that the
"mountain moved and out came a
mouse," or words to that effect, that
there was too much amoks for so little
a fixe, so to speafe, that ' ' things had corns
to a pretty pass when a young man could
not invito a young lady acquaintance to
SO to ride at 9:30 at night without be
coming enmeshed in the clutches of a law
witt teeth in h.
Attorney Mangum, appearing for the,
State ia rebuttal, opened his argument by
sarcastically reminding the defense that
Bobbie Burns, whom Mr. Carpenter had
quoted, was hardly qualified to pass as
competent authority on moral questions.
Mr. Mangum 's argument was that the in
tent and purpose and motive in asking the
gins to ride was wrong. He said that
this
CREDIT EXPANSION IS
AMPLE SAYS HOUSTON
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. Extension
of credit by the government does not seem
warranted by present conditions, Secre
tary Houston stated today, attributing
much of the popular clamor for more
credit to persons desiring to hold their
goods for higher prices.
The government could hardly aid in
withholding commodities from the mar
kets by extension of credit, the secretary
declared, without being a party to a con
spiracy in restraint of trade and making
more secure high price levels.
Credit expansion recently has been
ample, the secretary said, to provide for
the movement of crops and the general
tendency has been more towards expan
sion than restriction. The situation, he
added, is clearing gradually.
FIRST BALE NEW COTTON
SOLD HERE TODAY
To Mr. John C. Robinson, of route
three, belongs the distinction of aelling
the first bale of new cotton on the Gas-
tonia market. The bale weighed 519
pounds and was bought by Mr. W. T.
Rankin for the Mountain View Mills at
31 cents per pound. Immediately follow
ing Mr. Robinson, Mr. L. T. Morrow, of
route one, sold another bale at the same
price to the same buyer.
OREGON WOMAN
FASTED FORTY DAYS
(By The Associated Press.)
ROSEBURG. Ore- SeDt 17. M. JT
M. Lane, of Boseburg. vesterdav comnW.
proven oj ins xact xnax ine giris I cu iorry oay fast, during which time she
(By Th Associated Press.)
MARION, O., Sept. 17 Pronouncing
the league of nations covenant irrecon
cilable with the American constitution.
Senator Harding declared in a eonstitu
tion day address here that the time had
come for the United States to decide
whether it would preserve or abandon
the charter under which it achieved nationality.
'The constitution or the covenant.
that is the paramount issue," he said.
The two are irreconcilable. We can
not be governed from both Geneva and
Washington. We cannot follow our
present magistrate without forsaking the
rather of the country. "
'The nominee also criticised the ad
ministration's policy toward the smaller
nations of the western hemisphere, assert
ing that the executive had usurped con
gressional power to carry on an uncon
stitutional war with Haiti and Run
Domingo. He declared the recent utter
ances or f ranklin V. Roosevelt, the
democratic nominee for vice president,
had revealed officially for the first time
the American government's "rae" of
the two little republics.
The speech, delivered from the front
porch to delegations from several Ohio
counties, reviewed the circumstance
surrounding the making of the constitu
tion and outlined the candidate s concep
tion of the balanced powers of the ex
ecutive, legislative and judicial hnuih.
of the government. Only by preserving
that balance, he said, could the TTnit.
States fulfill its greatest destiny.
"We must strictly maintain and
scrupulously observe,' in letter and ;..
spirit, the mandates of the constitution
of the United States," he continued.
We are not doing so now. We are at
war, not alone technically, with Ger
many, but actually with the little, help
less republics of our own hemisphere. The
wars upon our neighbors to the south
were made and are still waged, though
never declared, through the usurpation by
the executive of powers not only ueveV
bestored upon him, but scrupulously with
held by the onatitution .
"Of this fact there can be no que,
tion . Thin iq admitted, even boasted of,
me ueuiocrutic cnuri ... f...
president, between who, if elected.
ino persweney itself, would
single life.
True, we know little of the conduct
of these wars of 'occupation' and the
imposition of laws upon our helpless
neighbors. The censorship is not less
strict than it was during the secret con
ferences and conspiracies in Paris. Prac
tically all we know now is that thous
ands of native Haytians have been kill
ed by Americans and that many of our
own gallant men ' have sacrificed their
lives at the behest , of an executive de
partment in order to establish Jaws
drafted by an assistant secretary of -..
navy, to secure a vote in the league ;nd
cuaunue at the point of the bayonet
U"UUUJ uomination which at this
"cm requires the presence of
than 3,000 of our
foreign soil. "
ffllLU.',! J. FLYKN SAYS HE
IS POSITIVE BOMB CAUSED
EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK
Explosion Occurred in a Hon.
Drawn Covered Waon at a
it?. 'A. A,mot Opposite
unuea states Assay Office
Property Damage Will Run
tnio minions or uollars.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept 17. William T
v.ce
d, mid
but a
presence
armer men
:i
mo
no "ess
on '.hat
CLARA TEACHERS ASSIST
COMMUNITY WORKERS
Misses Garrison. Edwards. Phinn
Armstrong, comprising the faenltvnf h.
rn ...... r -
vmra graaea school. Prof. Joe S. Wray
..-. v. w. A .Hough and G. R
Gillespie held a meeting in the Central
Flynn, chief of the bureau of investira
tion, department of justice, declared this
afternoon he was positive a bomb
caused the explosion in Wall Street yes
terday which took a toll of 34 lives, in
jured about 200 persons and caused oron.
erty damage running into millions.
The explosion, according to the official
investigators, "apparently occurred in a
horse-drawn, covered wagon at a point
nlmo'-t opposite an entrance to the United
States assay office."
The investigators found that the wagon
had a red running gear and that there
were no markings on the harness other
tiiiin to show it was for one horse. I
The small pieces of window weights
with which the infernal machine had been
loaded had been "fused by an intense
neat, indicating they had been cut into
siugs Dy a high powered gass burner.
The financial district was crowded with
BiK"eers lnl8 morning surveying the
scene of yesterday's mysterious explos-
ion. foiice lines were established fnr
distance of two blocks north, east, south
and west, the market police aiding
maintaining order.
The stock market opened rromntlv nt
10 O'clock with nn mitu-ur.l cinJ
excitement and few traces of yestr-
aay s disaster aside from the windows
which were covered with canvas in
place of the huge glass pane shattered
oy yesterday's explosion.
A large majority of the active mem
bers of the exchange were present when
me opening gong sounded and business
proceeded -in normal fashion with a fair
degree of activity. At the United States
sub-treasury ami assay office, which were
directly in the line of the explosion, the
day's routine was taken up without a
Intel, although extra guar.N were on
duty as n Dreeaiitionrirv nr...
The banking house of .1 . (. Morgan &
Co., which suffered most in the blast,
also was heavily guarded by regular po
lice and a score of private detectives.
All the windows on the main floor of the
building which were blown in by the con
cussion were covered with canvas. The
interior of the building continued to nhow
the extent of yesterday's disaster.
Several of the Morgan partners were
early on hand, but had nothing to add
to their brief statements of yesterday
nor would they vouchsafe any theory as
to the cause or motive of the explosion.
The majority of the d..ri,...i v i ....
---- ill so
appeared for work .
There were an unusually large atten
dance of prospective customers at the n1
tiers nt ImJirn I 1
.ou.ug uruKt-ruge nouses, ami
firms with out-of-town wire connections
reported buying, orders . All indications
pointed to an active dav in the stock
market.
The banks opened as usual, but their
messengers and runners, who usually Car
ry large amounts of valuable securities
were escorted by guards as a precaution
ary measure against the crowds in the
district.
A piece of metal presumably from a
NO PEACE IN EUROPE
UNTIL FEAR OF WAR
IS REMOVED SAYS BAKER
'By The Associated Press.)
WATERLOO, Iowa, Sept. 17 There
will be no peace in Europe until the bur
den of armament is lifted and the fear of
war destroyed. Secretary Baker, declared
here today in a Speech devoted whollv to
discussion of the treaty of Versailles and
the league of nations covenant.
inauenging a statement from Sena
tor Harding's speech accepting the re
publican presidential nomination that the
league was "so utterly impotent to pre
vent wars that it has not even been
tried," Secretary Baker declared the
leagues operation "has already saved
one war. though Senator Harding did not
know it. " He recited the submission to
the league council by Sweden and Kin
land of the Aland island dispute.
unaer the old order," Mr. Raker
said, "Finland would instantly have oc
cupied the Aland Islands with her mili
tary forces; Sweden would have mobil
used her fleet. But the league in opera
tion nas already prevented one war "
The secretary also took issue with what
he described as Senator Harding's as
sertion that some such international court
as the Hague tribunal with "teeth" in
it was the sole agency necessary for the
preservation of world peace.
"All of which sounds very simple,"
Mr. Baker continued, "but whose teeth
is the senator going to put in the Hague
tribunal! His eriticism of the covenant
of the league of nations is that it may
require the use of the armed forces of
the United States. Now our armed
forces are our teeth; the sanction of the
court is the force it can use to put its
decrees and judgments into ODeration-
if the Hague tribunal is to have teeth, I
it is to nave force and the only kind of
rorce which operates among nations is
armed force.
l t tir
we get nowhere by changing the
name of the thing; we get nowhere by
using the word 'teeth' when we mean
soldiers. ' It is clear that such a court
as Henator Harding must have had in
mind would be far more of a super
state than has yet been proposed by any
body while the only kiud of a court that
has the least chance of being organized
witn the consent of the other nations nt
the world is a court whifh
. ......... vii n v nu
legal questions and leave the concilia
tion of political controversies among the
states to the friendly offices of such a
body as the council of the league."
AMERICAN LEGION TO
FIGHT HIGH PRICES
(By The Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Sept 17. The Am
Legion has announced formation of plan
to mobilize its forces throuirhmt fk
country for a war against the high cost f
living.
In every community where there ia a
post, the legion contemplates organisias;
retail dealers into SnassociAtion, prospec
tive merchant members of which, it i
said, already have pledged discounts ap
proximating five per cent from current
selling prices of all commodities to the
2,000,000 members of the legion and their
families.
Details of the program, which legion
officials say has been approved by hvgv
retailers in various cities, were made pub
lic by G. Robert Baines, business manamr
ofthe American Legion Weekly. If sanc
tioned by the national executive commit
tee, it will be submitted to the second ac
tional convention of the organization is
Cleveland this month.
All the large retailers whom wo hava
approached pronounce the plan sound,'
Mr. Baines said. "In eah city where
the legion has a post one or mora ntan
in every line of bflsinsss will be selects.
for membership in the American Legion
Stores Association. In the list will be
grocers, clothing and department stores.
automobile dealers, hotel keepers ante
dealers in many lines. ' No profits will
accrue to the legion or the association,
which would be incorporated and cos
trolled by the directing heads of the
legion. ' '
bomb, and an iron slug weighing about
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ATTORNEY - GENERAL PALME
VISITS NEW YORK TODAY
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17-Attornew
General Palmer was in New York city
today, but officials at the department of
justice did not indicate whether he would
take any direct part in federal inquiries
into the Wall street explosion yesterday
with investigation of which several gov
ernment departments are concerned. Mr.
Palmer, it was said, left yesterday by
way of New York for his home ia
Stroudsburg, Pa.
Investigation was begun immediately
by secret service operatives of the
treasury, department bt justice agents,
inspectors of the postofflce department
and department of agriculture experts.
Extra precautions were taken also to
guard government prorty here, partic
ularly the treasury building, as a result
of reports from New York that the ex
plosion was the result of a bomb plot;- '
Assistant Attorney General Francis p.
Garvau, who has had direct charge of the
government's anti-rndical campaign; left
for New Vork today in connection with
the explosion investigation, having been
unable to get away rtom his offic
tcrday .
ICQ
TAFT WIRES CONGRATULATIONS
TO SENATOR WADSWORTH
avoided the mother of one of them, and
also Officer Douglas. He said that if the
invitation to ride and nothing more were
; aineere and of innocent motive, these
' things wouhjUnot have Happened. He
cited the fact thajt the young man had
. sever been formally introduced to the girl
to whom he talked, and did not know the
v Jndire Jones in a lAnirttiv tai.i..iit of
v , . mvii . u .
..i - i : m j.v .
- wie onciUBiun vt wio argument rendered
a verdict of not guilty, holding that the
. ordinance as drawn did not convict the
young man who knew the girl, that the
; j ladies consented to ride, hut were deterred
k . . v . m . m -
. . aj u presence ox we omeer and other
circumstances. Hs took occasion to stajte
; that there was need, very much need, of
some sort of ordinance, of this kind to
protect innocent women from indignity
and insult on toe streets of Gastonia.
The next ease was that of the State vs.
' K. H. Long, who was found-guilty of a
similar offense. H was given a 'fine of
$50 and costs. Notice of appeal was
given and bond fixed af $200. It was
charged ia the court that these same three
partook of no nourishment except a.littln
orange and lemon juice and water. Mrs.
iane ma oeen suffering with chronlo
sxomacn trouble for many years and wo.
advised to fast. She lost 25 Donnd in
weigni in tnax time, but never was con-
nneo to ner bed. Her first food w. .
smau amount of soup.
spoke to them. Mr. Long admitted thot
me ma taued to soma otw ,i
that street that night.
The cases and their bearing brought
uui. crunueu courtroom, ifractically all
- j uw cut ware in
attendance eagerly avid to hear tha A.
tans or tne hearing, and to find out how
and in what manner, the peripatetic am
bulations of certain aatomobiles eonM
xound out it develops that the Lorav
management has gone after these nin.
riders with gloves off, and that they are
ucwrauaeo mj Dreas up a practice vhih
is tending to demoralixe their community
ua o insult innocent women employes
an community workers. Both Mr, n
GUOJgeu Ul uio WMlr MMlfc UHSSB HUHO TOrCe I 1aa J VT XT . , ,
ladies were accosted by Mr. Long, but this Z!A,d j- Hayf? dfk.r6. that P til
i denied on the stand. The girls also Zw , , 77 M D0m6 to(Hrt
testified that they did not klow who t."d4ftt f"ced t.
- iwuwui vv put, sv stop to it.
school building Thursday afternoon an! pound, we Tfound Z 'VI G Tl
"jrlT?0?! k f' the uty aslant treasurer, on the roof of
ouperintenuent presided me suD-treasury building this morning.
-w.. luo leacners to put forth ire Uftief Kenlon and Chief Brooby
their best efforts in the organizing of a of the bureau of combustibles, conferred
" mime economics classes I Hl city nail
for the working girls and classes for il
literates and near illiterates
The teachers will be community work
- t . "
ers in tne largest sense and the best in
terests of the Clara-Dunn-Armstrong com
mumties will thus be in competent hands
ine pastors will most heartilv co oner
me wun me teacners in making it the
banner school in Gastonia .
Miss McConnell, of Anderson. S. ('
: i mi a ...
arnveu inursoay to take eharge of the
domestic science department of the com
munity work. From the only mill of this
group in operation this morning the
names of ten young ladies were secured
as students.
YANKEES AND CHICAGO
IN BATTLE ROYAL TODAY
(By The Associated Press.)
C-mUAUU, Sept. 17 With New
i or temporarily displaced as leader of
the American League pennant race, the
xankees and Chicago- today renewed
weir battle for supremacy. Yesterday's
contest, won by the White Sox. 8 to 3.
along with the victory of Cleveland over
Washington, put New York tlTrce points
behind Cleveland while Chicago trails
ine Yankees by ten points .
"Babe" Ruth, seeking his 50th home
run of the season, was forced to wait
another day, making only two singles!
yesterday in five tunes at bat.
Today was the fourteenth anniversary
ox tne nrst appearance of Eddie Collins.
- - r . - '
micpgo second baseman, on a major
league diamond : .
city nau this momma with fo.
tr t "
iiyian. They presented reports on what
mey oeueved to be the cause of the ex
plosion. The mayor indicated he would
make these publie later.
NEW YORK, ept. 17-The financil
centers of America's big cities frnm
coast to coast are armed camps todav.
with police and private sentries nt
to guard against repetition of the
terious explosion that rocked Wall 8tit
yesterday.
From Washington. Chica pk;u
delohiiL Rnitn,, r.,.
, wuuh, uaitimore, aa
tnm ....... 1- ., .
ouum as tne uulf of Mexico and
west to the Golden Gate, authorities ,n.
nounced hear patrols of plain clothes
men and police reserves in their" big bus
iness districts, and federal agents work
ed with state. and city officials to run
down reports of widasnren.l
plots.
hirty-one persons are dea.l n,i -
tl. onr. ... ...
injured from the explosion yes
terday, declared b the noli .
probablyr caused by an infernal machine
. ynria or clock work in the
"recuse, ana announced hv tw.
trinurowoni, or picric acid, was used
in the bomb, if there was one, have sent
detectives ind ,i . . . .
---- ucparmieni or justice men
st l -i w . til 1 a- k .
tr"? Pointing to bomb
jnuis anu radical activities.
me scene of
Kino : j ... . o
" vpcu on. while th tiir
change and allied organizations prepared
to resume business at the usual hour
this morning.
Several New York detectives and secret
HAD GIVEN WARNING
OF BOMB OUTRAGES
(By The Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. Warnings that
radicals planned a renewal of bombing
outrages were sent recently to all eastern
clients of the William J. Burns detective
agency, according to a statement today by
Mr. Burns, who said he was convinced
that today's explosion in the financial dis
trict was a premeditated attack and was
not accidental.
A machine has been invented that
makes a paper barrel every 20 seconds
from a roll of paper six inches wide,
which is split, gummed and automatical
ly formed.
(Continued on page 8,
SECOND PRIMARY
IN GEORGIA OCTOBER 16
(By The Associated Press)
ATLANTA, Sept. 17. Georgia demo
crats will participate in a second primary
October 6 to decide the contest between
former United States Senator Hardwick
and Clifford Walker, former state attor
ney general, for the nomination for gov
ernor.
The run-off primary was ordered after
the sub-committee of the democratic state
executive committee yesterday threw out
senator nardwiek's protest that illegal
voing occurred in Decatur county. This
left neither Walker nor Hardwick with a
majority.
(By The Associated Press,)
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. In wiring con
gratulations to Senator James W. Wads
, worth, Jr., today, William Howard Taft
declared that the "overwhelming vote"
which named him republican candidate in
New York to succeed himself in the senate
gave gratifying evidence that the enfran
chisement of women held no prospect of
a party or faction based on sex alone."
The telegram added:
"The newly made voters are looking
forward progressively to real issues sad
are not to be fooled by appeals to par
sonal prejudice because of any issue fully
decided in which all acquiesce."
Injured in Auto Accident.
J. r . West, of Spartanburg, 8. C.,
sustained the fracture of five ribs and
numerous painful flesh wounds Tuesday
afternoon in an automobile collision on
West Franklin avenue near the Loray
Mill. He was taken to the Gaston San
itorium where his wounds were dressed
and where he is getting along as well as
could be expected. West was driving a
Ford. According to bystanders who
picked him up and carried him to the
hospital he was under the influence of
whiskey and to this fact is attributed
the accident. He got on the wrong side
of the road and collided with a Lcary
truck. ;
FRENCH INDO-CHINA HAS
17,000,000 PEOPLE
(By The Associated Press.)
French Indo-China has a population of
about 1 7,000,000. The territory tributary
to Saigon is almost entirely agricultural,
being one of the great rice regions of the
world. The minerals are coal, lignite,
wolfram, tin and sine.
In the other possesions, including
Madagascar, French Equatorial Africa,
French Somaliland and French West
Africa, which is the largest of the colo
nies, commerce has almost doubled since
1914, the survey says. French West
Africa, comprised of Senegal, Haut-Sene-gal-Niger,
French Guinea, the Ivory
Coast, Dahomey, the military territnrv f
the Niger and Mauretania, covers approx
imately 1,840,000 square miles. The gen
eral budget amounts to about 25.000.00O.
000 francs annually. The agricultural re
sources are most important The produc
tion oi cotton is growing, while jutei
agava and sisal are cultivated extensively.
Rubber is the most important product in
the forest resources. Cattle raising has
increased. The mineral wealth is great.
The commerce of this possession increased
500 per cent since the French administra
tion was created in 1895.
The French colonies in America, con
sisting of Guiana, Martinique, Guade
loupe and St. Pierre and Miquelon are
principally noted for their lumber prod
ucts, sugarj rum, cocoa and eodlsh. Ag
riculture takes' an important role in the
smaller provinces, especially in New Cata
tonia, said tS be one of the richest coun
tries in the world.
New repeating mechanism for i Pono
graph records automatically sets f
needle back to any desired point t i
record or will continue to '
many tiroes as wished' v