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t Daily Gazette i i t..4 Ilii oas t oa County U $1,611. Popula-. tioa 31,343; total wealthy $82,575,749. t :; v,'; -, ASTONI 'X- good school and churches ' A food place to Ere. Pepu latoa 13471, Xtis p. c gain XZXBXS OFTHX ASSOCIATED PKZSS yOU XLI. NO. 244. GASTONIA, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 11, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CENT VERSION OF PRMENT'S SPEECH AT PARIS PUBLISHED A WEWL OASTON GOUNTY FAIR OPEN TUESDAY AT 3 P. M. - v . : With Fair Weather Promised For Week Indica ' Hons Are That Record - Breaking Crowds Will Visit Gastonia This Week - Activity at Fair A Grounds Today. 'Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock the rates of the Gaston County Fair will - awing open and the best and biggest fair "yA. held In the county will be under way. " - Today has been a day of what is gener ally called In the parlance of the day, feverish activity at the-fair grounds. To ' "begin with, everylwdy is trying to see Secretary Alien each, nil and every one it the same time, some concerning this, others about that find the most of them , about some little matter that is incon- sequential . Wagous, automobiles, trucks .nd 4ds from the country are bring ; ing in exhibits by the dflten shining -jed apples, sleek yellow pumpkins, corn, ' -wheat, canned fruit, pigs, ducks, geese, peaches canned and peaches preserved, wlnms. damson and goose, gentle, meek- yed jerseys, grunting hogs and squeal--,lng pigs, hens, roosters and accompany ing accessories. Exhibitors are as busy ,au can be arranging booths. Delega tions" from local mercantile establish--menta are decorating places to catch the ' ye of the visitor and prospective eus . tomer. Bevies of pretty girls and come- l ly matrons from the divers and sundry -women 'a organizations, clubs, guildB, so cieties, circles and triangles are putting - the finishing touches to booths and ex hibits in the women's building. Com- i annuity exhibits from the several mills .are coming in at a rapid rate and this feature will be unusually good. The Keystone Exposition shows are on the v ground and have spent the day getting their various outfits under canvas . There is the usual aggregation of catch-penny -contraptions, chance games, wheels of ' fortune, spider women, wild men from Borneo, the whip, the ferris wheel and all the. attendant attractions of a carni val. Vendors and concessionaires are on the , ground with their hot -dog stands al ii On fl j doing a rushing business. No body will lack for eats as long as the wieners hold out. ' Entries are coming in fast, Secretary - Allen said, and in order to insure as many ; us possible getting in the entry list will not bo closed until 6 o'clock Tuesday af- - ; ternoon. .'. 1 It's going to be a great fair, and the weather promises to be good . LARGE CROWD ATTENDS ED6AR LOVE - Om of Biggest Crowds That : Erer Attended Funeral Pay r - Last Tribute to Prominent . ;. Citizen. ' LDjbOLNTON, Oct. 10. The largest , crowd to ever attend a funeral in Lincoln v t county was present this afternoon at the last rites of Edgar Love, prominent Lin-,-. coin county cotton man, who was killed by a southbound train at a crossing near f , Charlotte Friday morning. -f.TThe Presbyterian church, in 'which the f, funeral sermon was preached, was crowd . 4 l capacity and many stood in the . : street outside waiting to join the proces- v aion as it started for the graveyard. ; Services in the church and at the grave v J were conducted by the Rev. W. 8. Wilson, pastor of Mr. Love's church, and by the . 3iev. W. A. Murray, of Shelby, a former ' : . pastor. ;' Following the church service the body . -was taken to Hellybrook cemetery, where interment was made. ; Mr, Love, who was one of Lincoln r county's most prominent and progressive eitixens, served a term as mayor. Also. - fee was chairman of the Lincoln county democratic committee at the time of his . death. v.: ;- RECIPROCITY DAY AT XINGS MOUNTAIN. ' '", ? A letter has been received . from Mrs. . Ii.4D. Coltrane, of Concord, president of . the Fourth District of the State Federa tion of Woman's Clubs, announcing that - Seciproeity Day -will be observed Friday, ' October- ' 22, at Kings Mountain. A splendid program has been carefully ar Tanged,Jincludinff some--of the state's most prominent speakers, and club pre miums will be discussed. Mrs. Coltrane - -arges that a large delegation attend from the Gastonia Woman's Club,, and those expecting to attend are requested to no tify Mrs. George W. Began immediately. The Kings Mountain federated club will - ' be hostess at a mid-day luncheon, and it Ss very important that those expecting to attend -send their names in promptly. COX SAYS LEAGUE OF NAHMS IS READY FOR JURY Declares That Harding Has Is sued Ultimatum and That American Electorate Tas Op portunity to Make Contribu tion to Civilized World- SPRINGFIELD, Ills., Oct. 11 The league of nations "case is about ready for the jury," Governor Cox, of Ohio, democratic presidential candidate, de clared here today in an address launch ing his Illinois campaign. Senator Harding, bis republican op ponent, Governor Cox said, has given what appears to be an "ultimatum" against the league,and the American elec torate, the democratic nominee said, has an unequalled opportunity SI "making a contribution to the civillxed world . ' ' Following up his publication today of correspondence between President Wil son and former President Taft, in"whieh the latter appeared as the president's adviser iu the league drafting, Governor Cox quoted Mr. Taft to show that the former president has repudiated Senator Harding '8 plan for a new world asso ciation. The governor also reiterated charges that Chairman Hays, of the re publican national committee, was behind a "conspiracy of silence" to stifle the democratic campaign in the republican press and otherwise. Governor Cox. championing the league, gave concisely what he said were the four great causes of war and the four league "curatives. " "If anything were needed to clarify the present situation with respect to the league of nations," said the gov ernor, ' ' it has been amply provided in the last few dnyB. Senator Harding, in what would appear to be his ultimatum, compelled by threat of Senators Borah and Johnson, says that he is against the league without or with reservations. So far as lie in concerned the matter is dis posed of and to use his own words he turns his back on the' whole thing. He offers no alternative, but holds out the hope that a new association of nations may be formed. ' ' Now comes ex-President Taft 'a state ment in which he says that Senator Hard ing's aubbestion is impracticable, that the league si now functioning, has been in existence for eight months, and that the Test of the world cannot be exjected to undo a plan into which forty one na tions have entered. "I have found it an easy matter to present the basic principles of the league . It is based upon the primary objective of preventing war. Seduced to few words, the plan is this: The causes of war in the past have seen: ' ' First The seizing of territory by on nation from another by force. "Second The practice of secret treaties under which the local contro versy is apt to involve a dozen nations . ' ' Third The immense national arma ment. "Fourth The power of monarchs or their diplomats to precipitate war over night. The curative measures are these: "First Article 10 of the league is nothing except the eighth command ment, 'Thou shah not steal. ' "Second All treaties made between nations in the future must be filed as public documents with the league of na tions . ' Third A systematic process of disarmament is provided. ' ' Fourth Differences between nations xhich in the past led to war are to he submitted to discussion and arbitration for a period of not less than nine months. "The peoples of the world want pro-, tection against war. It cannot be given except by a concerted action on the part of the nations of the world. A method entered into now by forty-one nations kas been devised. No one has proposed a substitute. Even Senator Harding admits that, in his talk of a new associa tion of nations, he has not a single, con structive idea as to how it is to be done." Bern, V To Bev. and Mrs. G. P. Abernethy, on Saturday, October 9, 1920, a son. Sabecrfbe f or The Dally Gant. COX MAKES PUBLIC ' CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN TAFT AND WILSON Taft Made Numerous Sugges tions Which Were Follow ed in Drafting the League Lodge Severely Criticised. TEEBE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 10 Cable correspondence betwen President -Wilson and former President Taft in 1919, during drafting of the League of Nations covenant at Paris, was made puh lie here tonight by Governor Cox, of Ohio, democratic presidential candidate, to gether with a statement by the candidate criticising severely Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, and other league oppon ents. Mr. Taft, the correspondence detailed, sought and had cable communication with President Wlilson, submitting numerous suggestions for changes in the tentative league draft and advising the President regarding its presentation to the Senate. Governor Cox's statement, issued prior to his departure to make addresses to morrow at Springfield and East St. Louis, 111., and St. Louis, Missouri, said that he published the Taft-Wilson cor respondence a White House memoran dum because of "the equivocal posi tion ex-President Taft and other friends of the League now occupy in their sup port of the candidate of the league de s tract ionista . The correspondence, Gov. Cox said, was "initiated by him (Mr. Taft) as a result of his study' of tbe draft agreement", and quoted Mr. Taft 'a "own words when sincerity of mind and intelligence were not beclouded by the partisan prejudice of a political campaign . " The White House memorandum, con taining some of the cables exchanged by President Wilson and Mr. Taft stated, that in "every instance" the Prsident followed Mr. Taft's suggestions, and Governor Cox's statement declared that "every suggestion of Mr. Taft was fol lowed literally." The correspondence indicated that Mr. Taft's suggestions dealt principally with protecting the Mon roe Doctrine, and dealing with American domestic questions, withdrawal from the League, unanimous league decifions and disarmament. The correspondence made public contained two cablegrams from the President to Mr. Taft and several from Mr. Taft to the executive, including one in which A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, joined. The White House memorandum quoted at length league amendments to show adoption of Mr. Taft's suggestions. The final cablegram from Mr. Taft sent to Secretary Tumulty and forward ed to the President, as given in published correspondence, was dated June L'. 1919, just before the President returned to present the treaty io t'c Senate. It rea I : "I would lik,. to sen) a n'tru mes sage and that is that the President argue to the league ami its necessity; the im possibility to secure peace without it, the dreadful unrest iu Enrol", the tiressure of our allies to ratify and secure at once, the need of the league with the United States to stabilize and to resist bolshevism, the necessity for renewal of negotiations if an important amend ment like striking out Article Ten is made, the absurdity of a congressional declaration of peace on one side, the giv ing up of all objects of the war in such a peace if Germany were to make a simi lar declaration. I hope sincerely he will not attack the Republican Senators. His appeal will be much more influential if he pleads his cause and does not attack the opposition . " TAFT AGREES. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 11. For mer President Taft, when shown the statement made public by Governor Cox at Springfield, 111., last night, said he recently bad given permission for the publication of correspondence between President Wilson and himself during the drafting of the league of nations eove nantl " He also declared he had repeated ly referred to the fact that the president had consulted with him when the league constitution was being drawn and that there was no element of secrecy about the substance of the communications ex changed. PASQUALE CONFESSES TO SMOTHERING C0UGHLIN CHILD HARRISBURG, Pa.. Oct 11. August Pasquale, "the Crank," has confessed to Major Lynn G. Adams, raperintendent of the Pennsylvania statr. police, that he stole Blakely Coughlin .itrm his home in Norriatown, Pa., and smothered the child under his coL He declares he buttoned the coat around the baby when he heard a noise a she was descending' the ladder, and that when he had gone some distance from the house he found the baby 'was dead. The Ideal is offering "The Lost City," "Who's Little Wife Are You," a Mack 8ennett comedy and "Squeaks and Squawks" Vita graph Comedy. CAROLINA ALUMNI ARE CALLED TO MEET Gaston County Alumni of Uni versity of North Carolina to Meet Tuesday Evening in Central School Auditorium. Alumni of the University of North Carolina in Gaston county are called to meet Tuesday evening in the graded school auditorium by President A. S.. Woltz. Tuesday, October 12th, is known as University Day. It is the an niversary of the founding of the uni versity. The meeting is called to discuss ways and means of meeting the strin gency in accomodations that faces t la University . The following is a letter from Prof. Frank P. Graham, of the University fac ulty, setting forth the purpose of the gathering: "The alumni of the University are confronted with the compelling facts of a congested, hampered, crippled Univer sity. The student body has more than doubled the material growth of the Uni versity. In 1919-20 the University reached the uttermost limit of its over taxed capacity. The crowding is reach ing now, in fact has reached the point of terrific over-strain; Telief is impera tive. "The students are miking the best of these intolerable conditions as good snort smen. They sleep four in a room, they eat at crowded tables in jammed dining rooms, and meet in crowded under teachered class rooms, wait their turn for a ' bath under showers in a gymnasium equipped for five hundred, and so on ad infinitum in the daily course of conges tion and strain. They endure these hard ships, these handicaps to study and de velopment as soldiers for a cause. Mean time they are looking to you and they feel they will not look in vain to fight ing men in a crusade for the youth of North Carolina. "As alumni of the University Ve shall not stand aside and consent to the fact that any boy in North Carolina shall have the door of higher education closed in his face by the state that pointed him (lie way. University Day is our jumping off place in the great offensive to open new doors of hope to the 26,000 boys and girls who are today in the public high schools of North Carolina. They are our cause. The unvoiced aspiration of youth is our fighting inspiration. "No University Day in the one hun dred and twenty-seven years of her his- . 1. . l ... . ... mrv nas ever ieen so critical with re sponsibility and opportunity as October 12, 1920. "The alumni program is to have a meeting of all the alumni associations on October 12 and again at Christmas time t discuss the present crisis and resolve and carry through a program of infor mation and action. The students here and the alumni everywhere have their ears to the ground to catch contagious power from your meeting in Gastonia on October 12. You will not, I am confi dent, breiik the chain of meetings in this fight for the youth of North Caroli. Our battle cry for October 12 is: Get the Facts; Get Busy. Turn loose the facts and the state will turn loose the buildings for her boys and girls who came expectantly at the crowded gates of congested colleges. Sincerely yours, FRANK P. GRAHAM. Chairman of the Committee on University Day Meetings. CHASE OF CONVICT PROVES FRUITLESS When Sheriff Carroll and the local po lice department were notified Saturday afternoon that a man wearing a convict 's suit had been seen in the southeastern suburbs of Gastonia, it was thought prob able that accident had thus put them on the trail of Jack Bridges, the white man who was sent to the State penitentiary about a year ago for fifteen years for making a murderous assault on Deputy Sheriff J. W. Cole. Bridges escaped from the State authorities at the State farm October 1st and so far no trace of him has been discovered. Though diligent search was made by police department officers and men from the sheriff's office the convict was not located. One report, given in by a man who claimed to have seen the convict, was to the effect that he wore a ehain on his leg. As no convict had been reported as Missing from the eounty chaingang the officers are at a loss to know who the escaped eonvict is. It is hardly prob ably, they say, that Bridges would have come this far in his convict's clothes. The man seen, it is conjectured, may have escaped from the chaingang of some neighboring eounty. It is also learned from the sheriff 's of fice that Will Bird, the negro sent up some moots ago from this eounty to serve a sentence of twenty-five years for kill ing another negro at the Southern pas senger station here, escaped about four months age' and is still at large. TEXT GIVES EXACT WORDING OF WHAT WILSON SAID TO BALKAN DELEGATES AT PARIS Official Version Quotes Wilson As Saying That "There Underlies These Transactions, the Ex pectation on he Part, For Example, of Rou mania and of Serbia That the United States Will Send Her Armies and Her Navies to See That They Are Observed" - President Denies Statement Attributed to Him by Senator Spencer. WASHINGTON, Oct 11. The White House made public today what wae described as an "official version" of President Wilson's address a)t the eighth plenary session of the Paris peace confer ence. The exact wording of this address directed to the representatives of Roumania. Serbia, and C lecho-Slovi kit, kaa been, the subject of a controversy between the president and Senator Spencer, republican, Missouri. The senator has declared in a poll tical speech that the (resident had prem ised Soumania and Serbia that "if any nation ever invaded their territory he would send the American army across the seas to defend their boundary lines." Mr. Wilson in a telegram to the sen ator on October .r, said that this state ment was "false." In reply, Senator Spencer called for the official record, say ing that the statement la which he had referred was in the "stenographic notes" of the eighth plenary session; in which the President "was reported to have said " : " You must not forget that it is force that is the final guaranty of the peace of th world. If the world is again troubled the United States will send to this side of the ocean their army and their fleet. ' ' The president's words as given in the official version follow: "How can a power like the United States, for example and I can speak for no other after signing this treaty, if it containS elements which they do not believe will be permanent, go three thou sand miles away cross the sea and re port to its people that it has made a settlement of the peace of the world? It cannot do so. And yet there underlies all of these transactions the expectation on the part, for example, of Roumania. of Czecho-Siovakiat and of Serbia, that if any covenants of this settlement are not observed, the United States will send her armies and her navies to see that they are observed." The official version of the full text of the president's address was furnished to the white house last week hy Fred A. Carlson, of Chicago, who was an official stenographer with the American peace delegation, and who wrote that he would "be glad to swear to the accuracy" of the transcript. Mr. Carlson's letter was dated Octo ber 6, and was addressed to Charles L. Swem. stenographer to the president. He explained that he had read Senator Spencer's reply to the president in the Chicago newspapers; that he had just gone over his notes and that he could find "no such statement" aa that attrib uted to Mr. Wilson by the senator. He added that it was barely possible that the quotation ' ' was from a translation into English of M. Mantoux's translation into French of the president's remarks, and as you know the translations some times mixed things up a bit." "I wish I were in a position to make public what the president said," wrote Mr. Carlson, "for I feel that the presi dent is sadly misquoted, but, of course, as the meeting was a secret one I can say nothing." Mr. Carlson's letter was made public by Secretary Tumulty with this com ment : "This letter speaks for itself." Senator Spencer in his reply to Presi dent Wilson's telegram of October 5 said the statement which be had attrib uted to the president "was made upon the floor of the senate on February 2, 1920, by Senator Reed, and so far as I have learned has never been denied nntil now. ' ' In bia speech of February 2, Senator Reed quoted from a copyrighted syndi cated article by Frank H. Simonds, which purported to give the text of the presi dent's address at the eighth plenary ses sion and which Senator Johnson, repub lican, California, caused to be inserted into the Congressional Record on Decem ber 4, 1919. Along with Mr. Carlson's transcript, the white house issued in parallel col umns "for comparison" the yersion of the 'president's speech as given in Mr. Simonds ' article as it appears in the Con gressional Record. In the opposite col umn from the official version of the presi dent's words as previously quoted ap pears the following: "How would the government of the United 8tates go before the congress and the people of the United States and pre tend that it had assisted in Insuring the peace of the world, if it believed that the settlements agreed upon here con tained unstable or dangerous alignments If the world should be troubled again, if the conditions which we all regard as- fundamental are challenged, the guaran ties which will be given you will pledge that the United States will send its amy and fleet across the ocean. Is it surpris ing, under such conditions, that it should desire to reach a solution of the varion problems which seem to it satisfac tory f" The text of President Wilson's ad dress is supplied to the white house by Mr. Carlson follows: ' ' Mr. President, I should be very sorry to see this meeting adjourn with perma nent impressions such as it is possible have been created by some of the re marks that our friends have made. I should be very sorry to have the impres sion lodge in your minds that the great powers desire to assume or play any arbi trary role in these great matters, or as sume, because of any pride of authority, to exercise an undue influence in these matters, and therefore I want to call your attention to one aspect of these questions which has not been dwelt upon. "We are trying to make a peaceful settlement, tnat is to say, to eliminate those elements of disturbance, so far as possible, which may interfere with the peace of" the world, and we are trying to make an equitable distribution of ter ritories according to the race, the ethno graphical character of the people inhab iting these territories. "And back of That lies the funda mentally important fact that when the decisions are made, the allied and asso ciated powers guaranteed to maintain. It is perfectly evident, upon a moment's reflection, that the chief burden of their maintenance will fall upon the greater powers. The chief burden of the war fell upon the greater powers, and if it had not been for their action, their military action, we would not be here to settle these questions. And, therefore, we most not close our eyes to the fact that in the- last analysis the military and naval strength of h& great powers will be the final guarantee of the peace of the world. "Tn those circumstances is it un reasonable and unjust that not as dicta tors but as friends the great powers shouFd say to their associates: 'We can not afford to guarantee territorial settle ments which we do not believe to be right, and we cannot agree to leave ele ments of disturbance unremoved, which we believe will disturb the peace of the world. ' "Take the rights of minorities. Noth ing, I venture to say, is more likely to disturb the peace of the world than the treatment which might in certain circun-v stances be meted out to minorities. And therefore if the great powers are to guar antee the peace of the world in any sens is it unjust that they should be satisfied that the proper and necessary guaran tees have been given f" State Rexall Vote. Figures for the State of North Caro lina in the Rexall Straw Vote up to Sat urday, October 9, were as follows: Cox, 11.152; Harding 6,041. King Alexander Better. (By The Associated Press.) LONDON, Oct. 11 A turn for the better in the condition of King Alexan der, of Greece, who has been ill as the result of having been bitten by a monkey was reported in a bulletin issued in Athens at 7 p. m. Sunday. The bul letin said the general state of the king's health seemed to show marked signa of improvement. . " ., Advertise is The Daily Gazette.