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DAILY dJAZEl OASTONIA "f caste , , Coc&ly U 11,611. Popula-: , tloa 31,342; total wealth, ial,S73,749. food schools sad churches A toed place to Mrs. Popu lates 13,71, 123 J p. C gals XX1CBZS OF TEX ASSOCIATED PXXSS 3 Vpt. XU.V NO. 249. GASTONIA, N. Cf SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 16, 1920 SINGLE COPY B CENT GOVERNOR COX VOTERS TO IN NATIONAL LEGISLATION Democratic Candidate Advocates National Wo irienV Congress to Frame Program of Social I Legislation and Administration For Presenta-, tion to President and Congress - Much to be Done For Human Welfare and Social Prog- l ress. ; 'CLEVELAND, O, Oct 16. A na tional woman's congress to frame a pro gram of social legislation and edminis- tration for presentation to the president aad congress was advocated here today ' bj Governor Cox, democratic presidential candidate, in addressing an audience of women. ' '. The candidate's address preceded his political speech here and followed a scorning of campaigning in which ho spoke at Sandusky and Elyria en route hare from Detroit. Governor Cox will re Main here over Sunday and tour northern Yew York on Monday. --; Urging larger participation of women in national affairs and citing social legis lation enacted during his gubernatorial administraton, the governor told his women auditors, at a non-partisan meet Sag at a local hotel, that there was much . 4m be done for human welfare and social progress. Be also championed the league a nations as a measure to protect women end children from the horrors of war. V Front my experience in Ohio," said the governor, "you may know what to aspect when I am elected president. jXhere is much to be done for human wel ; Care and social progress. We must stamp eut disease, oppression aad ignorance and ' eliminate neglect. With women only at the threshold of political work in Amer ica, I cannot call upon you for congres sional action, but we can work in common purpose with common counsel, and it would seem to me perfectly proper and Sitting that a national meeting be called f representatives of every woman's or ganisation' in America to formulate a program for congress and the executive for social legislation and administra tion." Governor Cox pledged' his support to reforms contained in the San Francisco platform, including federal co-operation with the states for protecting infants and to remove illiteracy. In this connection tie urged establishment of a federal bu reau of Americanization to educate aliens. Regarding the bureau of education, Governor Cox said : "At present the federal bureau of ed- tuation is buried with a varied assort ment of national business in the depart ment of the interior. My opponent has spoken recently for a new department of public welfare under which to group eer tain social welfare activities. While I sun in hearty accord with the idea cf ton? cleaning our government depart ments, and sorting out the human from ' the technical problems, I feel that we should look forward to giving education . aad health equal consideration with labor, instead of lumping all social questions again in another grab-bag, ill-defined de- 'i partment." ' In the last congress, Governor Cox eharged, a "baby's bilL" providing for ' maternity and infant care "waited in ' wain while reactionary leaders spent their time 'scrapping' the league of na tions." , ' 'I am in favor of going into the aogue, no sau, uut wvuc w my jvui children from the terrible experiences of war, but to-enrich their lives by turning tour national resources from battleships , and armaments into schoolhouses, play grounds, work for health, child hygiene sad child, happiness. -. V MT UTQitlWl Ml. w OT TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS, WB ANITHEB OF GASTON COUNTY v You are respectfully urged to Register for the Election to be held on Not. 2nd- The coming election is a most important . REGISTER AT ONCE, DO NOT DELAY . The Registration Books close on Oct 23rd, you MUST Register on or before .Oct. 23rd. . Especial attention is called to the new precinct in Gastonia known as Gastonia No. 4. The territory which formerly be longed to Gastonia No. 1, West of South Streeet and West of t North York Street, in the city of Gastonia has been placed in the new precinct Gastonia No. 4. The territory West of the C & N.-W.Ry beyond the trestle south of the city limits, which was formerly in Gastonia No. 1, has also been placed in. this new precinct. , An out-and-out New Registration has been ordered for this new precinctr'and ALL WOMEN AND MEN WHO LIVE IN THIS NEW PRECINCT - KNOWN AS GASTONIA NO. 4, f.tUST REGISTER FOR THIS ELEC TION. The wotmg place for this new precinct, is at the COUHTHOUSE - Mr. E. C Denny, the Registrar, will be at ' C ' , f.rf,'-. K,,,, f4kI.f.r. f , ' f t i . - W Sk.U4j liwlii URGES VOf, EN TAKE LARGER PART frage to the women of America in this year when the greatest of all issues is before the people would have been little short of a calamity. Theirs was the greater suffering in war, and theirs the greater understanding of the lesson of the war. If we are to be deprived of world peace as a result of the action of our own country under leadership of a partisan of America may express their will I have no doubt of the result" COLBY CHARGES REPUBLICAN PARTY WITH INJECTION OF MOM STRIFES CHICAGO. Oct. 16. Speaking at a luncheon at the Iroquois Club here today Secretary of State Colby charged the re publican party with "the methodical effort to play upon the susceptibilities of every racial group in America" and characterised it as "one of the most sinister features ' ' of the republican cam paign. He accused the republicans of transporting to America and injecting into purely domestic issues factional strifes and prejudices of Europe and of taking advantage of these susceptibilities in immigrants before they have had time to learn America and become American. Mentioning the Germans by way of illustration, Mr. Colby declared that any general organized support from the Ger man element in America w an expression of either disappointment or resentment at the course of the United States in the war. "There is not a journal published in German, " the speaker charged, "or a newspaper that during the war enjoyed prominence as pro-German in its leanings that is not supporting Harding and the republican ticket today. There is not a German suspect or a German sympathizer who was the "subject of prudent atten tion on the part of the United States au thorities during the war who is not sup porting the republican ticket ; and there is only one reason for this support; they hate the president who pulled the mask nside from Prussian arrogance. They hate the party under whose direction and leadership the victorious war was fought in which America contributed the de cisive bolws that crushed and humbled German hostility fJTfree institutions." What he said of the German element, Secretary Colby explained, applied to every other racial group in America that thinks more of gratifying its racial an tipathies than it does of serving Amer ica. "America is not interested pri marily in the rivalries between the Al banians and the Jugo-Slavs, or in their contentions over a boundary," the speaker continued. "The lawless occupation of Fiume by an excitable lyricist whom his govern ment refuses to avow and will not disci pline is not in its essence an American question. ' ' The democratic party is not seeking the support of any of these racial groups among our population on the basis of their prejudices or susceptibilities as aliens. It welcomes into our body politic, and into our social family the well mean ing immigrants of all races and all climes, but the hand of fellowship that it holds out to them is the hand of Ameri can fellowship and if will extend no other greeting. MAJOR BULWHaKLE MAKES CANVASS OF MECKLENBURG Congressional Candidate Spends First Three Days in .Catawba County and Last Three of Present Week in Mecklenburg County. Major A. L. Bulwinkle, Democratic candidate for Congress from the Ninth district returns tonight from Mecklen burg county where he has spent the past three days in the interests of the cam paign. An account of a speech he delivered at Davidson Thursday is from The Char lotte Observer: Speaking before a large audieucc com posed of townspeople and students of Davidson eollege. Major A. L. Bul winkle, democratic candidate for Con gress in the ninth district, and T. A. Adams, democratic candidate for presi dential elector, delivered able addresses in the chapel of the college here Thurs day. Dr. J. M. MeConnell-presided .over the meeting and introduced the speak ers. Music was provided during the evening by the Davidson college bond. Mr. Adams, the first speaker, reviewed briefly the democratic accomplishments in state and nation, mentioning the fed eral reserve bank system and the league of nations, which, he said, is the Monroe Doctrine Applied to the world. This Monroe doctrine has been respected by all nations and not one drop of blood has been expended in defending it, Mr. Adams said. He said that the league of nations appeals especially to the new wo men voters because it is the only means that has ever been suggested that is ex pected to prevent war sacrifices. Major Bulwinkle also spoke on the league of nations. He said that Marion Butler claims that he has never seen one of the returned soldiers who favors the league, saying in reply that Br. Butler probably did not take the trouble to in form himself that the 30th division, at its recent meeting in Asheville, unani mously endorsed the league of nations, adding that republicans of the caliber of Taft and Boot favored it. Two letters written to North Carolina negroes, of which Major Bulwinkle had photographic copies, were read as a meaqs of showing to what extent the republicans will go in their efforts to se cure control of the government. One of the letters was from the re publican national chairman, Will Hays, to a prominent North Carolina negro, nsking him to get on the stump and speak in the interest of the republican party, asking him about suitable dates and places for speaking. Another letter from Thomas W. Mill er, in charge of republican affairs in the eastern district, with headquarters in New York, to a prominent eastern North Caro lina negro, an ex-state senator, and ex postmastir in the republican administra tions was read, along with the answer of this negro that he was assisting in the campaign and predicting republican vic tories. THEATERS ARE BEGINNING TO FEEL DECLINE IN PRICES NEW YORK, Oct. 16 The National economy wave that has started prices oa the downward trend in many industries, how has struck the theatre, and the "8. R. O. " sign, ' a fixture in most theaters since the armistice has been relegated to the heap of unused ' ' props, ' ' along with the scenery and stage effects of a growing list of failures, theatrical producers said today. "The end of the unprecedented boom in the theatre appears to have set in," said Sam H. Harris, president of the Producing Managers' Association. Of 44 attractions now playing in the first class theaters here, 16, it was learn1 ed today, have been compelled to re sort to eut rate ticket agencies in an ef fort to dispose of seats, while the number of failures is reported to be consider ably in excess of those last year. Conditions on the road were declared to be even worse, ,28 road shows having closed during the last week. An official of the Actors' Equity As sociation, the actors' union, estimated that 3,000 actors or about 60 per cent of the city 's entire roll of Thespians were "at liberty," and one producer es timated the producers losses in recent weeks at $1,200,000. Closer spending on the part of the pub lic, together with increased railroad rates whieh make the transportation of road companies more expensive, were giv en as the principal cause of the theatri cal slump. JUNIORS TO PRESENT BIBLE AND FLAG The local council of the Junor Order, U. A. M, will present a Bible and a flag to the East Gastonia graded school with appropriate exercises which are to be held in the school auditorium Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. AH members of the order are requested to be present and the public . is , cordial invited. " "Mis Pearl' Boyd, of the Baalo school f aeultyspent several days this week with Ifrsraul G. CfiHll st the Istter's .tome oa ulh C" ..I street. Th2e TODAY MARKS FAIR HELD IN TENN. LUTHERAN SYNOD CONCLUDES WORK TODAY One Hundredth Annual Con vention Has Been a Busy One Orphanage ( to be Es tablished at Lithia Springs. Gif t of D. E. Rhyne. (By Rev. A. E. Boliek.) Special to The Gazette. LINCOLNTON, Oct. 16. A short business session of the Tennessee Synod of the Lutheran Church in session here was held Thursday night for the comple tion of the election of officers which re sulted as follows: Recording secretary. Rev. H. "B. Bchaffer, of Kings Mountain ; statistical secretary, Rev. . H. Kohn, of Mount Holly. Dr. Deaton was elected I resident at a former session. Devotional services were conducted Friday morning by Rev. B. B. Sigmon. of Lexington. The minutes of the pre vious meeting were read and adopted. The report of the committee on union of the synods in North Carolina was taken up. After a lengthy discussion the action of last year was rescinded and the report of the joint commission was adopted without change. At 11 a. m. Rev. R. M. Carpenter, of Chapin, 8. C, retiring secretary, preached the ordination sermon, using as a text the words found -in Psalms 100:1. namely: "Serve the Lord with glad ness, ' ' after which Candidate B. G. Wes singer, of Peleon, S. C, was solemnly ordained to the office of the holy minis try by the officers of synod. At 2 p. m. devotions were conducted by Rev. G. A. Stoudem'ire. of Gilbert, 8. C. Rev. W. P. Cline, of White Rock, S. ('., superintendent of the Lohman Home for the Feeble Minded, presented the cause and needs of that institution. Rev. C. L. Miller, of Greenville, S. C, and Rev. S. L. Keller, of the Indiana 8yno3, were received as advisory mem bers of 8yncf. A large amount of routine business is till to be disposed of and will probably require all of Saturday. A committee was appointed to receive from Mr. D. E. Rhyne the Lithia Springs property which he donated for the pur pose o"? establishing an orphan's home for the Lutheran church in the State of North Carolina. The hospitality of Immanuel Lutheran congregation and her friends has been unbounded. They have opened their homes to the synod and its visitors. It was the pleasure and good fortune of your correspondent to fall into the splen did home of Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Cost ner who proved to be the most congenial nnd hospitable of hosts. We can truly say our lot was cast in pleasant places. The one hundredth annual convention of the Tennessee Synod will long linger in the minds of those who attended it. COTTON GOODS PRICES LOWER THAN EVER KNOWN IN HISTORY OF TRADE NEW YORK, Oct. 16 Following commodities, the cotton goods markets for the last week have registered de clines running far beyond anything ever the trend of lower prices on the other known in the history of the trade. As low as 10 cents was accepted for 38 1-2 inch 64x608 that sold as high as 26 cents in April. Today a new price of 20 cents is an nounced on Fruit of the Loom bleached muslins, which is 20 cents a yard down from the high price in agents' hands during this year. Hope 4-4 muslins were out to 17 1-2 cents a yard, the top price having been 34 cents, early in the year. It is now expected that the large print ers of percales and prints will abandon the policy of protection on their goods, and a wide open market is predicted when new prices are finally decided on, which may not be until later this month. One line of denims at 32 1-2 cents, down from 47 1-2 cents, is not expected to mark the low point as other manufac turers are yet to be heard from. Trading has been very light in Un ished and unfinished cloths and nrueh curtailment of production has occurred in cloth and yarn mills, as well as in knt underwear mills. Jobbers have done little, but reports from retail cen ters still show a fairly steady business at prices relatively much higher than those prevailing in mill agency circles. Cotton yarn markets have continued dull and weak with prices at the lowest points-yet reached this year. Mrs. Graeme Boss aad son, Graeme. Jr., of Joplin, Mo, who have been the guests for the past week of Mrs. John Klrby at her home in Chesterplaee, leave today for Clar' ?, tney will t-e:il a w?-i ":;r; f.l. zli tefar re- CLOSE OF MOST HISTORY OF Fine Weather, Big Crowds, Good Exhibits and Neighborly Spirit of Co-operation Featured t 1920 Gaston County Fair Just Closed - Some Like to Look at Cows and Hogs and Fancy Work, Others Prefer the Roulette Wheel and the Sideshow - Lease on Present Site Expires This Year. SOUTHERN FOOTBALL TEAMS IN ACTI0:i TODAY ATLANTA, Oct. 16. Three inter sectional contests and the meeting be tween Vanderbilt and Georgia, Tech at Nashville held the attention of Southern football followers today for most of the other Dixie elevens were still engaged against weaker opponents. The three southern teams that jour neyed northward for games were Wash ington & Lee, scheduled to play Prince ton, North Carolina State against Penn State and Virginia Polytechnic Institute against Rutgers. Odds apaepred to lie with the northern elevens, although the powerful defensive game of the Generals was expected to make th Princton backs extend themselves. The Carolina team faced the Pennsylvania eleven after two hard games, having defeated the Navy but losing to Georgetown University of Washington. Virginia Tech's team has not thus far made the record of the other strong Virginia teams and Rutgers ruled the favorite. Three games were played yesterday which gave somewhat of a line on other southern teams. The strong Angara eleven downed Clemson 21 to 0, taking advantage of a fumble for one touch-, down, a blocked punt for another and achieving the third after a well executed forward pass. Louisiana State played a scoreless tie against Texas A. A M. and Newberry College defeated Wofford Col li ge 9 to 7. The Vanderbilt-Georgia Tech game was the first scheduled this season be tween two of the "aces" of southern football and chief interest centered today iu that contes. Both elevens have shown .up in splendid form in their early games. Tech, facing stiffer opposition each week, piled up 44 'to 0 against Wake Forest, "5 to 0 against Oglethorpe, and 66 to 0 against Davidson. Vanny beat Birming ham Southern 54 to 0, and downed the strong University of Tennessee team 20 to 0. Other games hcheiiuled for day in clude: At Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama vs. University of Mississippi. At New Orleans, Tulane vs. Rice In stitute. At Lynchburg, V. M. I. vs. The Cita del. At Starkville. Miss., Mississippi A. & M. vs. Mississippi College. At Chattanooga, Chattanooga Univer sity vs. University of Tennessee. At Charlotte, Wake Forest vs. David som At Greenville, 8. C, University of Georgia vs. Furman. At Atlanta, Oglethorpe vs. University of the South. At Birmingham, Birmingham Southern vs. Southern Military College. At Jefferson City, Emory and Henry vs. Carson -Newman School. At Macon, Merver vs. Howard. At Ashland. Vs., Randolph-Macon vs. Union Theological Seminary. At Maryville, Tenn., Maryville vs. Roanoke. At Wililamsburg, Vs., William and Mary vs. Lynchburg. At Gainesville, Fla., University of Florida vs. Rollins. At Pineville, La., Louisiana College vs. Lpuisiana Normal. At Richmond. Richmond College vs. Hampden Sidney. At Mobile, Spring Hill vs. Marion. HU PREPARES FOR INDUSTRIAL STRUGGLE Miners Are Active and Some Have Already Stopped Work Public is Fearfully Anxious. (By The Associated Press.) LONDON. Oct 16. Preparations for the great industrial struggle precipitated by the decision of the British coal minora to cease work went grimly forward to day. e The machinery established by the gov ernment to eope with the crisis was work ing smoothly at full speed. The miners, for their part, were equally active. Some of them, notably In Derbyshire and Not tingh&m shire, already had ceased work st the end of their shift. . ';; : ; Meanwhile the public was waiting anx iously, even fearfully, for the real begin ning of the battle wh-e cutcoiren3r.o coudl fore--.- t'-'t 1 '-' '' ' r ' 1 1 i s t '. - SUCCESSFUL! ORGANIZATION Tonight at midnight the Big .Gastemv' County Fair will come to a close after the most successful week since the er-V-gauisation of a fair association la Gas ton eounty. The weather has been ftaev' : notwithstanding the dust and excessive , be.it at times. No disorders or aecidemta have hapepned to mar the pleasure of th thousands who have attended. Traffic to and from the fair grounds has been weaw aei fully well handled by the police, and , ,' special duty officers.' Congestion around . r the entrance to the fair grounds has : ' V' been bad at times, but this could hardly V have been avoided under the conditieas of entrance and exit that prevalL ' . TO Thursday was probably the banner day ( at tne fair. Figures show that no leas than 14,000 people clicked through the turnstiles on that day. Hundreds ' school children from Lincoln and Gastow v , counties passed into the grounds. Friday if was the day set apart for the children Jr York and Cleveland counties aad they eame by the hundreds. v Many people have many opinions ahows tne most outstanding features of the fair. T&e farmers aad business saeav think that the display of livestock, eorm shows, farm and agricultural exhibits were the features of the fair. The aver age cattle grower and dairyman who vie itexPlhe fair could not get away frosw the barns aad stalls to see anything elsev The women naturally thought that the exhibits prepared and shown by those ef their sex were the premier shows to be seen. The Woman's building was eon tinually crowded with admirers ef fancy 'work, sewing, specimens of canning and preserving. The display of fancy work, in the opinion of those who know, has seldom been excelled. . , " ,. ' On the other hand, there are those who say that the midway and its attractions are all there is to any fair. It is trne that he midway throng was greater than, that of any other attraction. It all de pends on the taste of the individual. Some go to the fair to be amused and ea ertained and they get what they want from the midway, the chance games aad the fake sideshows. Others go to view the progress made in industrial and agri cultural lines by their friends and neigh bors. Some there are who opine that there could be no fair without good dis plays of horses, cows, hoes and chicken. corn, cotton, canned goods and farm products. On the other hand the friv olously inclined stoutly maintain that the fair is somewhat of a miniature Mardi Cras for the people of this county and section and that all they want lb a chance and a place to spend their money, have their fortunes told and play the wheel. However it mar be. there has rxvn . combination of all the above elements in the Gaston eountv fair just closed, aad everybody eame away happy and satis- fled. This vear marks the exuiration of th lease on the present grounds, and fair directors must look elsewhere for quar ters for the 1921 exposition. SOUTHERN RAILWAY OFFICERS PROMOTED Special to The Daily Gasetet. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 16. R. L Avery, superintendent of the Norfolk division of the Southern Ran way, has been promoted to superintendent of the Danville, division, with headquarters at Greensboro, N. C, succeeding A. D. Shel ton. who has been promoted to the posi tion of general superintendent of the northern district. Mr. D. B. Nolea, trainmaster on the Danville division, has been promoted to succeed Mr. Avery a superintendent of the Norfolk division. LEATHERNECK SHOWS HOW UNCLE SAM'S B0TS CAN EAT (By The Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Oct. 16. The title of champion waffle eater of the world today was claimed by Private Paul Francis Jones,; of the United States marine cerpa. He established this .claim last night by eating twenty -six and one-half of these corrugated pastry and in SO minutes flat, la a contest with a rep re- . -sentstive of tbji srmy st the Grand Ceav tral Palace. ; A large, mouth watering audience wit- ' ; nessed the feat, for wiich Private Jcres rehearsed in the afternoon by eatirf a porterhouse stem "smothered ia or.' J .,- - f , .- V 3' " 'ft "
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