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"VOLXLL NO. 246. pASTONIA, N. C, WEDNESDAY: AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 13, 1920 SINGLE COPY 5 CZMv CLEVELANDDDES HONOR TO UIILII o infliilr 1UW 1 t AM tFans'of Ohio City Prepare Round of Festivities For Members of Winning Ball Team - Tris Speaker Honored Above AIL CLEVELAND, O., Oct.l3-W'ith the fifth tity of the United States the .'. matter of Npopulation definitely assured f being the first city of the baseball tin i verse for at-least -'.12 months,. Cleve land today settled back to enjoyment of the world's championship baseball honors brought here by Jim Dunn's Indians, when they defeated the. Brooklyn J)odg- r 3 to 0 yesterday and eapturea me vjinnusl classic of the professional aia- .inond from the National League cham- 3 ifns by five games to two. ' ' v Cleveland, fortywo years a hanger-on jt professional baseball, but nowthe offi 'x ml home of the world series winners, Hurned its thoughts today to devising new - 'iways of showing appreciation of J the prowess of the athletes who finally made this eity the world's baseball capital, .v. Although several watches, medals, au rromobiles, loving cups and half .a dosen iloral wreaths of unusual size have been presented to the winning playera by apt preciative fans, Cleveland believes it has doneilttie for the, American Leaguers, it etting ready to let the" world know just how it feels about possessing a champion. hip ball club. " I '" - ir. :. The first of a aeries of eelebrtttiens will be held tonight and, according to plans, the wildnessof Cleveland throughout the past four days over its club will be .tame and dignified compared with the joy to lie displayed. 4 ' - fvor Fitemsrald has issued a procla mation calling on all good eitisens within J ' -walking or riding distance 0E wi me tropolis to be present tonight at Wade Park, and pay official homage and tribute to Tris Speaker and i tribe.-'- The ball players will be the guests of honor, the itbenry is expected to turn out by the -thousands, just a it has at the games, and all the high officials of the eity will be present to explain to the Indians in .detail just how . proud Cleveland is of them; ----- Ui-', . An official dinner for the players with the city officials as hosts and every one In the I blue- book as guests is another affair which probably will take place in ' s day or two. "1 Then there is the matter of presents for all the players and pos sibly a parade"; , In Cleveland baseball is a sport and ut a IrasesR, end the fans, tied up for nearly half a century, with clubs never -finishing higher than second, expect to T .crowd forty-two years of appreciation, joy, enthusiasm and celebration into the one -year of supremacy, which was as sured them by Stanley Coveleskie yester day. When the players go home, they probably will be" honored " further, for Sandusky. 0., already is arranging a big .REPUBLICAN VICTORY WAS WON IN 1918 WITH FIVE MILLION VOTERS AWAY SAYS OANIELS Secretary Daniels Declares That Attitude of Fighters For America is For a Covenant of Peace - Soldiers Will Vote as They Shot "Go-to-Hell" Whittlesey's Attitude is That of Soldier Vote. - DUNN, N; C Oct.v13 The repn tlican victory of 1918 was won "by false pretense" and when five million m m Mr int from boms In th arm or -nawy in war work, Secretary Daniels de v , dared in a campaign speech. "The bouse was won by the home . ote and the senate was won by pur- cbaM,'' be declared; adding: "The soldiers and sailors win rote a a they shot and not many of them can be persuaded to vote for any man wh : . favored bringing lasting dishonor on -v America by a separate peace with Cera any. ; They know they went to war to end war. .They know the way to end wa t is to jbin the league of nations . V , "The attitude of the fighters of America is for a covenant of peace, the attitude of the straddlers who never went to war or appreciated its holy passion is ; for scuttle and compromise. " Secretary Daniels said that this at- wvwtw v& tau iXjxiiKxm nu ncn vw V d by Colonel Charles W. Whittlesy, who .commanded the "Lost Battalion" and -" told the Germans to "Go to Hell" when asked to surrender his command. 1 V ,t am noVfrightenea by Article X,' aid ; Colonel Whittleey,' Secretary Daniels continued. " T am 'not f. jd - f internationalism, the bogy of those 4" who oppose the league. We are already - International and there is no way to help it, even if we wanted te . Our onligations to the world are alreadv Ta nA annot avoid them. We may resist a postpones our complete '-engulf ment. It is better to go with the tide. " .. ' . Toe dose an alliance between the bat ters and the bet tea's. Onuna TVorld Herald.',. . V " ;.. . homecoming for Elmer Smith. ; From the time little Joe Sewell made his , wonderf uV V stop f of Konetchy's jrrounder. ending the series, and Tris Speaker climbed into the stands to kiss his , a-ray-hairod mother, . Cleveland has been in a furore. , The name of every player is on the lips of every fan, but standing out above all are Tris Speaker, Stanley Coveleskie, Elmer Smith, Bill Wanibszanss. Georee Burns, Walter Mails, Jim Bagby and Steve O'Neill, the men whose individual feat's brought the championship here. t Coveleskie pitched himself into the world's series hall of ftone by throwing back the Dodgers three successive times, and also equalled some of the greatest pitching feats in history. Only one man Christy Matnewson has surpassed the Clevelander's work, in the biggest games in history. Mathewsoa pitched three shut out victories back in 1905. Coveleskie pitched three games, allowed two runs, 15 hits, walked only two men and, what is. most : remarkable of all, threw . the sphere plateward for an average of only 87 times each game. In his 'first contest, which he won 3 to 1. be hurled the ball 85 times. His second game resulted in 86 throws to the catcher . and yesterday he filing the ball at the batters 90 times. Better records have been made during the regular sea son, but few, if aay, pitchers have equaled his record in the world's cham pionship games .where the strain on each player is multiplied tenfold over the stress of season games. Bill Dineen. Urban Faber, Jack Coombs, Babe Ad ams, and Joe wooa.are tne oniy omer hurlers to win . three ' games in one world's series. -. ?' Cleveland's superiority over the Na tional Leaguers was evident in the series, for4he! American LeaguejChampions out hit, outfleided, outplayed and outguessed th4r senior circuit rivals, rir- - Coming into the series with a pitching staff considered the best in either league and noted for its aces, Brooklyn went out with a battered group of hurlers, only two of whom Grimes and Smith were able to pitch winning ball. And Grimes and Smith both got their beltings. . With the bat, Cleveland hung up a team average of .244 to .200 for Brook lyn. Fielding figures give Brooklyn an advantage of .976 to .925. However, few will contend Cleveland's superior defense at critical moments. ' Iu iUratesy, Brooklyn repeatedly tried to ambush the Indians, but each time the tomahawk came back true to the mark and added another scalp to the string collected by the tribe.' L!RS.JOSrPHUSDAK!ELST0 SPEAK HERE OCTOBER 21 Wife of Secretary of Nary Will , Address ; Voters, Men and : Women, of County jn Gas tonia Next Thursday; Oct. Announcement is made today by Chair man John G. Carpenter, 'of the Demo cratic executive committee in Gaston county, that Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, will speak in Gastonia next Thursday. October 21, at the courthouse. The hour for the speaking has not been definitely decided upon, whether at 4 o'clock in the after noon or at a later hour invthe evening'. Definite information will be forthcoming, however, from Democratic headquarters. The women ef the county are particularly invited to hear Mrs. Daniels. v . DR. CHAS. M. ALEXANDER DEAD. BIRMINGHAM, England, Oct.. 13. Charles McCaUoa Alexander, an evangel ist known throughout the world, died suddenly at his home here today. . --, Charles M. Alexander was born Octo ber 24, 1867,. at Maryville, Tenn. He accompanied the Bev. B. A. Torrey on an evangelistic tour of the world front 1902 to 1908. Dr. Alexander made a second tour of the world with his' wife, formerly Miss Helen Cadebury, ' of Birmingham. in 1908 and 1907. He was the compiler of a volume of hymns, v The baseball bolsheviks , now are ap parently endeavoring to wreck the nation al pastime. Indianapolis Star. J.UTHERATI SYIIQD IS IH ,. . SESSIOIi AT UKCOLNTON Mat "'-.''- evangelical iucneran Tennessee Synod . Holding - ' One Hundredth Session . Where it Was Organized in 1820 First Woman Dele . gate Enrolled - Reports dhow Splendid Progress. v (By Bey. A. E. Boliek.) LINCOLNTON, Oct. 13. The one hundredth annuaP convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod met in regular, session in the beautiful new. Immanuel Lutheran church here at 10:30 a. m. on Tuesday, October 12. The president, Rev. B. D. Wessinger, of Cher ry ville,'-ealled the meeting to order. - Boll call and report of committee on creden tials showed an unusually large number of ministers and, lay delegates present Among the lay delegates enrolled was Miss Sarah Minick, of Clifton Forge. Va- who enjoys the distinction of being the first woman ever enrolled as a dele Kate to Synod. "She represents Solomon 's church in the Virginia Conference. At 11 a. m. President Wessinger preached the opening sermon from. He brews 12:12. In his introductory re marks Mr. Wessinger said in parti 1 ' This being the one hundredth anniver sary meeting of our,ynod, many historic scenes and thoughts duster around us. We are on historic ground. Besides be- inir at the place where the synod was or ganized tine hundred years ago, the first Lutheran congregation in this community was organized one hundred and -thirty- three years ago and was known da the old Dutch church. The first pastor wa the Bev. John Arndt, whose great-great- grandson, Rev. J. M. Arndt, of Clare- mont. N. C is a delegate to ma conven tions The old Dutch church was in later years supplanted by what was called the old White church, which later gave piace to Immanuel church at a eost of $75,000, in which the present sessions of the synod are being held." At the close of President wessinger '8 sermon- the synodical communion was held, and synod then adjourned until 2 P. m. . At the afternoon business session tne nresident read his annual report which showed progress, in all lines of church work. The treasurer read His report, which was far in advance of any pre vious, .year as to. amount of. contributions. These reports went into the hands of tire proper committees. At 3 p. m. "Rever- ... i- i t 4:aA1.at.A1 Kit ence in tne ounciuary w uoc j nr Win. .1. Fink. D. D.. of New Mar ket, Va. At 7:30 p. m. "Christian Wor ship, IU Spirit atad Forms," was the subject of a splendid adrdess by Bev. W. D. Haltiwanger. of Hickory, N. C. Fololwing is today's program: 9 a. m. Business. 11 a. m. Sermon on Repentance, by Rev. C. R. W. Kegley. P m.- Business. -"What Constitutes a Work- p. m. ing Buinliiy School," by Rev. W. 1. Parr. r i. ni. Adjournment FARMERS PROTEST , AGAINST DEFLATION POLICK OF TREASURY DEPARTMENT Senators Overman and Harris Acting For Farmers Request Conference With President in Effort to Check Down ward Trend of Farm Pro ducts Say Farmers Will Lose Billions of Dollars. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 Repre sentatives of agricultural interests meet ing here to devise means of checking the downward trend of prices of farm pro ducts were hopeful today that President Wilson would give an audience during the day to a committee which planned x to protest to him against the currency de flation policy of the treasury depart ment. A request for a conference, with mem bers of the cabinet participating, was made of the president yesterday by Senators- Overman, of North Carolina, and Harris, of Georgia, acting in behalf of the farmers' organisations represented at the meeting. -J A delegation expected also to carry their appeal for a more liberal govern ment policy with respect to loans to the federal reserve board which is holding its regular fall conference here today with Governors of the various reserve banks. Agricultural representatives gathered here declare that farmers of the coun try will lose billions of dollars unless the slump in the price of their products is checked. A committee composed of representa tives of each agricultural organization attending the meeting is drafting a state ment to the public presenting the plight of the growers under present conditions. A. resolution has been prepared, and probably will be acted upon today de nouncing the activities of "night rid ers in cotton states. . Eehabilitation of the 'cotton market, according to those who drew np the resolution, is hindered rather than helped by the activities ef those responsible for the burning of -t-ton and cot ton gins and for threats of violence. 7 ' The department of justice has given as-. . . ' -" " gaston county's Agricultural LOCAL BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSE THURSDAY FOR FAIR Gastonia business houses generully will dose tomorrow at 1 p. m. for the day in order that all their employes may have an opportunity to attend the Gas ton County ' Fair. Chairman John B. Rankin of the mercantile affairs depart ment of the Chamber of Commerce se cured the agreement from the business men to close, the following being a list of those signing the agreement to close: Torrence-Morris Co. Robinson Shoe Co. Pearson k Adams Barber She McNeely Co. ' J. Lean Adams Drug Store. Scholti, the Florist Standard Hardware Co. J. H. Kennedy ft Co., drugs. Michael & Bivens. Gastonia Mill Supply Co. Star Grocery Co. Columbia Tailoring Co. Gastonia Plumbing & Heating Cu ' Torrence Drug Co. Kirby-Warren Co. " McLean Bros. The Globe. Beamguard-Hovis Shoe Co. H. P. Stowe Co. Efird Co. Spencer-Atkins Book Co. Gastonia Furniture Co. Tanenhaus Brothers. Saunders Tailoring Co. S. W. Gardner Music Co. Kendrick-Biddle Co. A. J. Kirby ft Co. Rankin-Chandler Co. A. S. Karesh. P. P. Leventis ft Co. M. Bchultz. Broadway Shoe Store. Askins. Gastonia Hardware Co. Walters Barber Shop. Hope Mercantile Co. Winget Jewelry Co. H. Schneider. Harper's Drug Store. I Matthews-Belk Co. H. M. VanSleen. Young Men's Shop, Harry-Baber Co. Craig ft Wilson. Poole's Grocery. B. Silverstein ft Son. Piggly-Wiggly. Spurrier & Co. E. Frohman. , Harry Millei- Moss' Barber Shop. Howell-Armstrong Shoe Co. Sweetland Candy Co. Sherman Brothers. I). & L. Lebovitz. Rankin-Armstrong Co. McLellan 5 and 10 Cent Store. Albion Grocery Co. All the drug stores and soft drink and candy places will reopen at 6 p, m. THOUSANDS OF GEORGIA NEGROES COMING' HOME MACOtf, Ga., Oct. 13. Thousands of Georgia negroes who migrated to the north and east soon after the outbreak of the war, lured by high wages offered in industrial plants, are returning to Georgia and hundreds of others unable to make the homeward trek because of lack of funds, are sending appeals to their former employers for tickets on which to travel back to Dixie. Stories appearing in the newspapers of this city, from a number of counties in central and south Georgia chronicle the return of many families and appeals from even larger numbers for funds with which to return to their native homes. Virtually all of those who return and those who are writing for funds state that they have been thrown out of em ployment and now find themselves faced with the prospect of a hard winter in a strange land. " . Returning negroes all tell the same story. The high wages received counted for little with them as they wf s more than offset by the high eost of living in the industrial centers to which they went. Pracically all of them return to their old homes penniless, glad to , have eaved enough from their high wages to pur chase the precious pasteboards which" meant transportation back to the land of cotton, tweet potatoes, free quarters and free firewood. suranee that an investigation will be made immediately to ascertain whether federal laws have been violated, and if they have, officials said today federal prosecution of "night .riders" and others responsible for depredations in the cotton belt will be ordered. ? ; . FOR SALE: Nice farm hack with . springs, new bed, two seats. See W. C. Abernathy ticket office, Fair ground or E. L. Wilson, phone 344-J. . . . ... . . 14 c 2 FAIR IS FEATURED BY and :mmti wm Gates Opened Tuesday For Largest Opening Day Crowd in History' of Fair - Livestock tum nguvuHurttj EtxniDiis jre Dig feature Community Displays From Mills Are Note worthy - Free Airplane Flights Daily-Crowds Are Very Orderly - Thursday is School Chil dren's Day. ' ' ,V. The Big Gaston' County Fair was opened to the publfc Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and by 8 o'clock Tuesday night the biggest crowd that ever attend ed on the opening duy was on- 'the grounds. Fair directors and officials are enthusiastic over the auspicious opening. witn rair weather promised for the week. record-breaking crowds will be in at tendance every day. Probably the most outstanding feature of this year's fair is $he abundance of livestock exhibits, the mill "community exhibits and the corn, exhibit from the First National Bank of Cherryrille. The latter exhibit alone is well worth the price of admission to the fair. The Sun nyslde Community Fair exhibit is also one of the star exhibits on the ground. The exhibits from the several mill com munities of this section is also one of the most educational displays seen at the fair. Among the mills having these ex hibits are the Osceola, Trenton, Moro webb, Flint, Arlington, Gray. Parkdale. jttanJo. Bmyre, Monarch, Clara, Dunn, Armstrong ana Loray. These exhibits were prepared and arranged by the com munity workers from these mills, includ ing Misses Hoffman, Murray, Kirkpat rick, Potts, Pickens, Mesdames Lanier, Rankin, Dixon and Gribble. Misses Otey, Taylor and Whitealdes. The booths are attractively decorated with products from the mill and with the handiwork of the women of the home. Many pf the booths show the process of yartmanufajtture from the raw eottonlnto the finished fine yarn. In the Ranlo exhlbiiJs a cup and saucer belonging to Mrs. Orover Dilling that is i50 years old, haying been brought over from England by Mrs. Dil ling ' ancestors." Fancy work,' sewing, canned and preserved fruit, garden prod ucts, paintings, etc., from the homes of the operatives are outstanding features of these booths. These community mill booths occupy nearly all the eastern side of the wom en's building. The western side is occu pied by the several booths of the Wom an's Club of Gastonia. All these booths nro very attractive. Among the more notable are the physical education booth, depicting graphically a playground for Gastonia 's city- school children with fase ball and basketball fields, tennis courts, swings, swimming pool, etc. ; the work that will be done by the N. C. Ortho paedic Hospital in curing anil restoring crippled children; the Red Cross booth, the public health booth in charge of Miss Ward, and the doll booth. The bitter booth lends itself so easily to pretty j decorative effect that it is easily one of the most beautiful. Other exhibits in the Woman's build ing include the farm women's exhibit of kitchen and dairy products. Row on row of pickles, preserves, peaches, cherries, figs, apples, berires, etc., etc., not to speak of pies, cakes, custards and the like, rise in serried ranks to delight the eye of the epicure. County Agent C, Lee Gowan has an attractively aranged display of his ac tivities and of the advantages that come from a liberal use of the farm demon stration agent's endeavors. ; Commercial firms of Gastonia are also represented here. Ia the farm and field crops building, the . Sunnyside Community Fair exhibit attracts the attention of visitors instantly as one enters the building. The Sunnyside community has' been the cham pion prise-winning community for sev eral years by reason of the excellence of Its fair exhibit' "This year their exhibit is even bettor than usual This exhibit contains specimens of every conceivable farm product of this section of North Carolina The Cherryville community corn ex hibit is .the banner exhibit in this build ing. Under the. direction of Mr. M. L. Mtyiney, of the First National Bank of Cherryville, there have been gathered some 225 separate exhibits, each contain ing nine ears of corn. The exhibit fills one side of the building, in ear by is a table showing the results of corn test plats conducted near Cherryville on near by farms the past summer. The exhibit of corn raised in the Cherryville com munity is one that might well inspire all Gaston county farmers. It is also a trib ute to the enterprise and sagaeity of the officials of the First National Bank ef Cherryville.: - f -Other exhibitions in this building are the collective farm exhibits front over Gaston county and an 'aiutomobile display which is attracting attention. ' The latter exhibit consists of the chassis of a Dort automobile with all the gears, dutch, differential, crank shaft and In fact all the internal mechanism of the ear en closed n glass "and Eghted by small bulbs on the inside. The whole things im ' run by a motor and the prospective aata owner can ''see how the -thing maa"" wlthout'teaflng it all to Diecea; Tho Gastonia Bulck Company , has pat o this exhibits . ; One of tie most interesting features af the Fair, especially to the farmers, is the excellent tfoetor display. "? The Fordaov AUis-Chalmers and Cleveland tractor poo pie are putting on daily exhibitions of what can be accomplished by the use of fbese machines. , ' . ' The (aaibit of horses, cowa, hogav sheep, and other livestock is generaRv considered by the directors as being the best that has ever been shown at a fair in Gaston county. . , . Notwithstanding the stellar attraction of the exhibits named above, the midwajr with its noise and merrymaking, it ran-r eous-voiced, stertorious spielers, its eoav ' fettl and balloons and rubber balls, con tinues to attract the pleasure-seekem . The Keystone Exhibition shows have tha midway concessions and in 'justica tm them it may be said that so far th offleiaJgjof the Fair have found kothiar in theirahows to condemn or to bar em account of indecency and immorality. All the usual sideshow eatertainmenta and attractions are there, Including tae whip, , the ferris-wheel, and merry-go- ' round,, the plantation show, and the for tune tellers.- Then there are menagerie containing one-eared . and three-footed rabbits, a four-legged rooster, a four horned goat, a six-legged sheep, a threo f ooted man and a f ur-coSted ; rooster. Gentleman Joe, the elastic, man who earn stretch himself Into nothing, Cleo, th beautiful, Prime. Coxgo, the Filipino, torture dancer, Jolly Dolly, weighing 685 pounds avoirdupoia, the Great Golden. the mysterious magin, the submarina girls who eat, smoke and sew.;, under water, and Kowena (is it human or ia it beast f) are all there toharm and ys-' tify and to separate the cob from the suspicious." ' , .' ' Added to the midway attractions are the freet airplane flights given every aft ernoon by Lieut. Shealy. Tightrope exhibitions are also given cn the band-, stand at 4 and 10 p. m. every day. The orderliness of the crowd Tuesday night was the occasion of favorable com ment from all who attended. Oflkera of the city have the situation Well in hand and there is little drunkenness and mw. dyism. Despite the terrible congestion of automobiles within the grounds , th traffic officials have evolved a verr aatis. factory ararngement for parking and in gress ana egress is very easy, j , , TJken all together, Secretary ADea and" other officials of the Fair are very optimistic over the results of the first day and look forward to a week that will furnish entertainment and amuse- ment to thousands of visitors. A NEWSPAPER.IS SUCH A TH! . Atlantic city, Oct 13. "if 1 were making the laws ef this country I would make it s cause of divorce if the -wife didn't read the newspapers.' ? . Thus spoke Judge Horse Stem, of Philadelphia, today, in an address ' "Suffrage and the Woman.' before the Council of Jewish Women, who are hold, ing their first gathering of the year here. "It's such a wonderful thing,',' co tinned Judge Stern, "to have the aew served np to yea every morning at th breakfast table, aews gathered froas all over the world, and it would seem t me criminal indifference to neglect knowing the serious things going on In the world." B AK jRUPTCY AND RTJIN FACE -FARMER UNLESS THERE IS REMEDY TO PRICE SITUATION WASHINGTON, Oct 13," General bankruptcy and ruin are inevitable" un less some immediate remedy ia found t ' relieve th present price situation as it affects the farmer, says a report sub mitted to the agricultural conference here today by a general committee ap-" pointed to study the situation. The re port was adopted by the conference with out a dissenting .vote. ' ANOTHER GIN BURNED. PINE BLUFF, Art, Oct IX Th ; Bennitt Cotton Company's gin, 10 miles east of here," was burned early .today. The loss was estimated at S25.000, - . The Ideal Theater offers today xr;. liam Russell la "Twins' of f..?T-: rmt" mnA If lift anA Jfff in V
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