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GASTONIA, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 26, 1920
SINGLE COPY S CERTS
NO. 284.
HARBOR AND WATER WAYS
Estimates Furnished by Major General Beach,
Chief of Army Engineers Are-Made Public -Mississippi
River Will Requre Sixteen Millions
WASHINGTON,
Nov. 26. Harbor
nd water works improvement and main
tenance will require appropriation of
478,207,665 for the fiscal year of 1921,
according to' estimates of Major General
Lansing H. Beach, chief of army en
gineeers, made public today. He recom
mended a rivers and harbors bill total of
457,206,715, supplemented by sundry
ivil items aggregating $10,982,950 for
continuing contracts and other items in
other money bills.
The recommendations will be incorpo
rated in the annual estimates submitted
o congress at its session December 6.
The Mississippi river, from its mouth
to Minneapolis, will require $16,190,000,
including provision for the Mississippi
river commission, the report said, Muscle
Shoals nitrate plant $10,000,000, New
Tori harbor and its adjacent waters $5,
00,b00, the" Ohio river $5,585,000. 1 Phil
adelphia and the Delaware river will re
quire $3,857,000 ; Norfolk, Newport News
and Hampton Roads $3,100,000; Galves
ton harbor and adjacent canals $2,950,
400; the Delaware and. Chesapeake in
land waterway, $2,500,000; Savannah
viver and harbor. $2,397,000'; the Mis
souri river, $2,115,000; Charleston bar-
tortl.900.000. and the Tennessee river,
Beeommendations for appropriations in
Jtbe various districts follow:
Norfolk district: Norfolk harbor, 40
foot channel, $1,000,000; maintenance,
$50,000; Thimble Shoals, $500,000; chan
nel to Newport News, $1,550,000 Appo
mattox river, $50,000; Pagan river, $25,
000; Nansemond river, $10,000; Onan
cock river, $15,000; inland waterway,
Norfolk to Beaufort, $50,000.
Wilmington, N. C, district: Maneto
Bay, $4,500; Pamlico and Tar rivers,
$8,500; Neuse river, $15,500; Beaufort,
45,600; waterway, Core sound to Beau
fort, $2,500; Beaufort inlet, $9,100;
Oape Pear river, at and below Wilming
ton, $695,500; Northeast river, $3,000;
Black river, $2,000..
HOPE U. S. WILL
AND LEAGUE OF
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. President
Wilson received today the appeal of the
.league of nations that he act as media
tor in the Armenian situation. The
message reached the white hoyse last
night from Geneva and was delivered to
the president this morning.
Mr. Wilson already has consented to
fix the boundary lines of Armenia, but
there was no information at the white
house as to his ideas on the subject of
mediation .
GENEVA, Nov. 26. The attitude j
among delegates of the assembly of the
league of nations towards the appeal of
the league to President Wilson to act as
mediator in the Armenian situation ap
pears to be one of hope without expecta
tion that the United, States will relieve
Europe and the league of an embarrass
ing question. -
Behind the admitted necessity of doing
'something for Armenia there, is a conflict
of European interests involved. Great
Britain, it is understood, would look with
great disfavor on intervention by any
power having rival interests. Action by
the United. States in Armenia,- it is held,
would involve no such complications.
In default of action by President Wil
. sum, general opinion here is that France
ia the country most likely to offer favor
able reply to the mediation appeal made
by the council of the league yesterday to
the various powers, at the same time the
message, to President Wilson was sent?
Acceptance by France, however, it ia un--derstood,
would be on condition of full
support by the other powers,
. The activities of the assembly have
: been transferred for the time being from
: -the Hall of the Reformation, where the
fall sessions of the body have been held,
to the headquarters of the secretariat.
Here the committees and sab-committees
were holding sessions throughout the day.
They will continue their labors until
' Tuesday next, when the . assembly . will
. reconvene, hear the first report of the
committees and take up the resolution of
-1 Gorge Nicoll Barnes, 'of Great Britain,
asking the council to explain why it did
' not intervene to prevent the clash be
tween the Poles and Bussian bolshevik!
last, summer. j,t. ;h,';rt fxZ'Z". i ;
- Committee number six of the assembly
' tta finally settled upon the principle of
its report on disarmament, the French
viewpoint prevailing. The recommend-'
MENTS FOR 1921
COST $78,207,000
j river, $10,000; Great Pee Dee river, $15,-
000; Santee river, $10,000 ; Con gar ee
river, $10,000; waterway, Charleston and
Winyah bay, $26,500; Charleston harbor,
$1,900,000; Wappoo cut, $8,000.
Savannah district: Savannah harbor,
$1,162,000; Savannah river betw Au
gusta, $36,500; above Augusta, $ 1,198,
500; waterway, Beaufort, 8. C to St.
John's river, Florida, $85,600 Sapelo,
$6000; Darien, $6,000; Satilla riyer, $2,
500; St. Mary's river, Georgia and
Florida, $30,000; Altamaha river, $18,
000; Oconee river, $27,000; Ocmulgee
river, $41,000; Brunswick, $200,000. t
Jacksonville district: St. Johns river,
Jacksonville to ocean, $606,000; Jackson
ville to Palatka, $20,000; Palatka to
Lake Barney, $65,000; Oklawaha river,
$100,000; Indian river, $21,000; Miami,
$25,000; Key West, $113,500; Kissimee
river, $11,000; Caloosahatchee river, $9,
000; Sarasota bay, $67,000; Anclote
river, $5,500; Tampa Bay, 27 foot chan
nel, $585,000,.
Montgomery, Ala., district: Appalachi
cola bay, $17,000; Appalaehicola river,
$17,000; upper Chipola river, $8,000;
1::::
St. Andrews bay, $18,000; St. Andrews
bay, $86,360; Choctowhatchee river, 10,
800; Holmes river,' $4,000; Blackwater
river, $15,460; Pensacola, $67,530; Ala
bama river, $70,000 ; Coosa river, $40,000.
Mobile district: Mobile harbor, $423,
000; channel, . Mobile bay-Mississippi
sound, $15,000; Black Warrior, Warrior
and Tombigbee rivers, $80,000; Pasca
goula, $187,000; Gulfport and Ship
Island pass, $187,000; Biloxi, $10,000;
Wolf and Jordan rivers, $10,000; East
Pearl river, $10,000.
Florence, Ala., district: Nitrate
plants, Muscle Shoals, coffers Nos. 2 and
5, $300,000; dam and lock construction,
$4,700,000; power plant, turbines, gen
erators, and electrical apparatus, $5,000.
RELIEVE EUROPE
EMBARRASSMENT
lion will be that disarmament bo imposed
only with due regard for the security of
the different states.
While a sub-committee is drawing up
this report tho committee taking up the
question of an economic blockade as an
arm of the league against offending na
tions. ROBBINS LOWE IS ELECTED
CAPTAIN OF CAROLINA TEAM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 25.
Bobbins Lowe, of vWinston-Salem, half
back on the Carolina football team for
the past two years, was tonight elected
captain for next year. The meeting of
all men who played today was held
shortly after . the game and Lowe was
easily their choice. He has been the
outstanding backfield player for the past
two years, played 'first base on the base
ball team, is president of the Athletic
association and is conspicuous in many
activities on the Carolina campus.
MOTHERS TO BLAME.
Author Says Responsibility for Reckless
ness of Girls is Theirs.
Exchange.
Irving Batcheller, author of a half
dozen best sellers and considered an ex
pert on youth and its propensities, unbur
dened himself of a few trite thoughts
while in the city today and incidentally
put out some "old-fashioned advice."
"The modern girl runs with the world,
yes, but don't blame the willful, impu
dent, reckless girls," Mr. Batcheller
says.
"Spank the mothers. It is they who
are responsible for the almost total lack
of moral restraint which is .breaking down
society today. The new dances and the
new lack of parental control have brought
the girls of today to a dangerous pass.
The mothers of today are so conceited
that they say nothing" can happen to
their daughters and they are above
question.
NO FORMAL CHARGE -' '.
LONDON. Nov, 26 .r-The' Irish offiee
in stating this noon that Arthur Grif
fith had been arrested in Dublin at two
'dock this morning, said - no formal
charge had yet been preferred against
him. He was taken away in a lorry to
destination not made public.' '
HARDING MAKES GOOD
IMPRESSION IN PANAMA
Question of Proposed Military
Force For Canal Zone En
gages Hit Attention Latter
Part of Visit Given Over to
Recreation.
ANCON, C. Z., Not. .26. Senator
Harding devoted today, the last day of
his short visit at the Pacific terminus of
the Panama canal, to recreation, for the
most part, although he had several addi
tional talks with cnal zone officials.
The president-elect rose early for a
game of golf and later took a motor boat
ride. Late this afternoon he will leave
by train for Cristobal, where on Sunday
he will go on beard his ship to return to
the United States, sailing for Norfolk.
His relurn to Cristobal will complete a
three day visit here, in which sightseeing
was combined with a practical study of
problems which will confront him after
he becomes chief executive of the United
States.
Not the least of these problems are
the relations the new administration will
maintain with the republic of Panama,
with the president of which he exchanged
assurances of good wll at the banquet
given in his honor by President Porras
last night.
The question of a proposed military
force for the canal zone also has en
engaged his active attention, and he will
be particularly interested in "plans of the
war department to increase that force to
a full division. Senator Harding today
had luncheon with Brigadier General
Kennedy, commander of troops in the
canal zone, and had a long talk with that
officer. During his motor ride he inspect
ed the forts off the' Pacific end of the
great waterway.
Senator Harding's address at last
night's banquet created a most favorable
impression, judging from comments heard
after it was completed.
"The cordiality of your greetings and
the fine spirit of your good wishes stir
me 'deeply," he said, facing President
Porras. "It is a fine thing for one re
public to be so reassured of the abiding
confidence and friends tp of a sister re
public. I am wholly conscious I am here
as a private citizen, though I am not per
mitted to forget, however much I may
wish it, that I am come to a great re
sponsibility at a not very distant day.
Is it for that you honor me as you do!
Believing that is the reason, I cannot be
lieve it unbecoming to accept, because
more cordial relations between peoples
and riveted ties of friendship among na
tions is the -call of the great heart of
human kind.
"Moreover, though bent on this hur
ried visit mainly for recreation, I would
be insensible tp the obligations of citi
zenship if I were indifferent to the great
sponsorship of my country. This is a
most attractive land, and I would be deaf
t the call of duty slh u public servant
in the sen&ie if 1 did not feeek a fuller
understanding of the developing obliga
tions of our civilization as reflected here,
and aim to add to the friendly under
standing which becomes our two repub
lics in their exceptional intimacy here.
' ' We are rather more than friendly
neighbors, quaffing the cup of most cor
dial association. We aro spiritual part
ners iu one of the gigantic advances of
the twentieth century transportation.
Your freedom and our genius and re
sources combined to link the oceans, and
the day will come when the commerce of
the world will staare its suroassinir
pageant here. One cannot escape the in
spirations and the impelling influences
of commerce and trade.
"In your own republic you are aspir
ing to enhance your trade. The supreme
problem is to further this essential trade,
hold it everlastingly righteous and not
forget the finer human accompaniments
which are essential to spiritual, as well
as material, upbuilding. It would be
folly to produce and exchange if we failed
to educate and uplift and exalt.
"You spoke of our America being
mirrored here in our canal xono activities.
I can well believe and trust that you
find in the zone a reflex of a righteous
America which believes in that liberty
for others which we demand for our
selves, and that you catch that spirit of
ample justice and fair dealing which in
dexes the best human relationship.
"I need not assure you anew of the
friendship of our United States for your
republic We are deeply interested in
the development of your good fortune.
More, we want our proven friendship for
you to add to the confidence of all Amer
ica, North, Central and South, in our peo
ple and our government. We crave
friendly relations, and we wish to pro
mote them and make them abiding. Ws
want a spirit of fraternal Americanism
which befits the American continent, not
in selfishness, not in rivalry of the old
world, but in a mutuality of interest and
helpfulness to one another."
YOUNG. DAUGHTER OF MR. AND
-MRS. LEE B.
WEATHERS
DEAD
SHELBY. Nov. 25. Mary Wiseman,
25. Mary WS
the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee B. Weathers, the former, editor
of the Cleveland Star, died this morning
at 5 o'clock. Diphtheria was the cause
of the' child's death. The Juneral will
be held from the home of the thud's
parents, Friday' afternoon at 3 o'clock. ,
REED URGED UNION OF AMERICAN
RED ELEMENTS
EXPORTS SHOW IKCEEASE;
IMPORTS DECREASE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. Exports
during Oeiober increased by nearly
$150,000,000' while imports decreased
approximately $1,000,000, foreign trade
figures made public today by the de
partment of commerce show. Exports
were valued at $752,000,000 'against
$605,OQO,000 in September, while im
ports were valued at $362,000,000.
The excess of exports over imports in
October, amounting to $390,000,000, is
the largest in any one month of the
present year.
For the ten months ending with Octo
ber exports were $6,832,000,000 compar
ed with $6,499,0000,000 in the same pe
riod last .year, and imports were $4,
720,000,000 or $1,621,000,000 more than
during the same period last year. Thus
the trade balance in favor of the Unit
ed States for the first ten months of
this year is $2,112,000,000, compared
with a balance for the same period the
year before of $3,400,000,600
Imports o gold during October were
the largest in three years, amounting to
$117,000,000 as compared with $39,000,
000 in September and $5,000,000 in Oc
tober last year. For the ten months
period gold imports amounted to $316,
000,000 against $61,000,000 in the same
period of 1919. Gold exports in Octo
ber were $26,000,000 against $44,000,
000 in October last year and for the ten
months ended with October exports of
gold amounted to $285,000,000 against
$270,000,000 for the same period last
year.
Trade in silver remains relatively
small, the statement said. Imports for
the ten months ended with October were
$78,000,000 against $73,000,000 last
year, and exports were $104,000)0 as
compare! with $189,000,000 for the
corresponding period last year.
FOUNDER OF SINN FEINERS
ARRESTED IN DUBLIN
DUBLIN, Nov. 26. Arthur Grif
fith, founder of the Sinn Fein organiza
tion, Professor John Mac Neill, Sinn
Fein member of parliament for London
derry city, and the National University
of Ireland, together with a number of
others, including Prof. MacNeill's son,
were arrested today by the auxiliary po
lice. A statementissued from Dublin castle,
the seat of government, with regard to
the Griffith arrest read:
"Arthur Griffith was arrested at his
residence in 8t. Lawrence road at 2 a.
m. A large quantity of literature was
taken from 'his house. No arms were
found. He was in bed at the time, and
was taken away in a motor lorry. He
made no statement . His arrest was ef
fected without trouble."
Among those arrested this morning
were Joseph McBride and E. J. Dug
gan, Sinn Fein members of parliament
respectively for the 'west division of
County Mayo, and the South division of
Dublin.
In the absence in America of Eamonn
d( Valera, president of tho Irish repub
lic,'' Arthur Griffith has been probably the
most active spokesman in Ireland for the
sause of Irish freedom. Last night in
an interview he charged the policy of
reprisals in Ireland was determined upon
hy England more than a year ago .
inaugurated last March with the assassi
nation of Lord Mayor MacCurtain, of
Cork.
Everybody in Ireland deplored the
bloodshed, Mr. Griffith said, "but Eng
land started it, and she could get it
stopped in twenty-four hours if she o
wished." He disclaimed any responsi
bility for the operations of the "murder
gang,',' the existence of which was
charged by Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief
secretary for Ireland, in a recent speech.
The real "murder gang" was in Dublin
Castle, Mr. Griffith reclared.
VETERAN NEWSPAPER MAN
PASSES IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Nov. 26. Edward C.
Bruffey, veteran newspaper reporter;
and one of the most picturesque figures
in southern journalism, for the last 40
years, died at his home here early today
after a lengthy illness. He was sixty
six years old and had worked on The
Atlanta Constitution 42 years prior to
his retirement six years ago. Mr. Bruf
fey, who was a native of Virginia, is
survived by his widow.
PARIS, Nov. 26. Premier Leygues
and Premier Lloyd George met last night
in London, their greetings being particu
larly cordial, says a telegram from the
Havas corespondent , in tat city. He
adds that this was looked upon as a good
omen for the coming conference between
the two statesmen. Formal conversations
between them will begin this afternoon,
and Count Sforxa, Italian foreign minis
ter, who. will arrive tomorrow,' will take
part immediately upon reaching the Brit
ish capital. '
T0FURTHERCAUSE0FS0VIETISE1
Before Communist International Held Recently
at Which Lenine and Trotsky Were Present
Radical Magrpine Writer Proposed Scheme
to Unite Amcjcan Negroes With Radicals of :
All Nations-Says Negroes in South Are Ready
to Revolt. i iV
WOULD CREATE TWO
NEW DEPARTMENTS
WASHINGTONN, Nov. 26. Aboli
tion of tne department of interior, cre
ation of two two departments one to be
known as the department of public
works, and the other as the department
of public welfare and general reorgan
ization of other governmental depart
ments is proposed in a bill prepared by
Senator McCormick, republican, Illinois,
for introduction at the coming session of
eongress.
Senator McCormick is now en route to
Europe and. the principal provisions of
his bill were outlined in a statement is
sued today from his office. The state
ment said that the Illinois senator after
completing the measure discussed the
proposed change with Mr. Harding
"who expressed great interest in the
bill."
The proposed department of public
works, under the bill, would include all
important engineering and building ser
vices of the government. The depart
ment of public welfare as outlined in
the bill would include various welfare
agencies of the government, such as the
woman's bureau, now in the department
of labor, the pension bureau, now in the
department of the interior, the public
health service, the bureau of war risk in
surance, and the vocational training
board .
The department of commerce would be
enlarged so as to increase its usefulness
to business.
The McCormick measure also would
abolish the board of mediation and con
ciliation and transfer its functions to
the department of labor and discontinue
the council of national defense.
POLICE KEEP GUARD
OVER UNION CLUB
NEW YORK, Nov. 26. Throughout
last night a police guard of ten patrol
men and a sergeant kept watch over the
premises of the Union Club at Fifth ave
nue and 51st street, which yesterday was
the scene of a riot when Irish sympathiz
ers objected to a British flag displayed
by the club as a holiday decoration.
There was no resumption of violence.
1'olice authorities today expressed the
opinion that the outbreak which occurred
at the end of i: high requiem mass for
Terrence Mai-Swiuey, former lord mayor
of Cork, at St. Patrick's cathedral,
across the sirret from the club, was of
spontaneous origin.
HUNDREDS OF S. C. TEACHERS
GATHER IN SPARTANBURG
(Continued on page 2.)
SPARTANBURG, S. Cv Nov. 26.
Hundreds of teachers are here from every
section of the state for the 43d annual
meeting of the South Carolina State
Teachers' Association, the opening ses
sion of which was held last night. To
day is being devoted to departmental
meetings, and at noon there will be re
unions and receptions to the alumni of
various colleges. This afternoon the
teachers will in a body visit Cedar Spring
Institute, the state school for the deaf
and blind, four miles from the city. The
annual election of officers will take place
tomorrow.
MONKEY WAS WITNESS.
Veriet of Guilty Followed Animal's Dis
play of Rage.
A monkey was brought into the court
at Constantinople in connection with the
murder of the manager of the Asker
mann circus, which had been giving per
formances for a season in the Turkish
capital.
A married couple named Starr, who
were members of the cireus troupe, were
suspected of the crime and arrested, but
no evidence coutd be discovered against
them. The judge thereupon resorted to
a reconstruction of the crime. The cir
cus manager had been murdered at a
moment when he was feeding an Indian
monkey named Scamp. Starr and his
wife were conducted to the cage.
The instant the animal, which had pre
viously shown much affection towards
them, saw the couple, H broke into a fu
rious, rage, throwing itself against the
bars of its eage in its attempt to attack
the Starrs. At a subsequent sitting of
the court, the monkey was led in and had
hardly, caught sight of the Starrs wen
it again flew into a paroxysm of terror.
The spectacle produced a great impres
sion on the court, and, notwithstanding
their emphatic denials, Starr and his wife
were judged guilty. . .
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. Union of ,
the American negroes with the radical el
ements of all nations to further the
cause of sovietism was urged before the
Moscow meeting of the communist inter-;
nationale, at which both Lenine and
Trotzky spoke, by the late American
radical magazine writer John Reed, ac
cording to the text of his speech reeeiv-
ed here in official dispatches from, Rus
sia. '
Describing the position of he negro s
in the United States, especially in the
southern states, as "terrible" Beed da- ."
elared the negro offers a two-fold op
portunity to the spread of communism '
in this country, first, a strong race and '
social movement and, second, a strong
proletariat movement . Race conscious
ness has steadily increased among the t
negroes, he said, "a certain section ' of
whom are now carrying on a propaganda ..
in favor of armed revolt against the -whites
and socialistic ideas are rapidly
developing among the blacks employed
in industrial establishment. " ' '
White and negro Jabor in both the
northern and southern parts of the coun
try must be joined in common labor un
ions, Reed proposed as the quickest way
to destroy race prejudice and develop
class solidarity. Until recently negroes
' ' were not admitted to membership in .
the majority of unions whkh comprise
what is known as the American Federa
tion of Labor," he said;
"The communists must not, however,
stand aloof from the negro-movement
for social and political equality,, which ia
developing so rapidly at the present
time among the negro masses," Beed
told the meeting. "Communists asua
avail themselves of thin movement in or
der io prove the emptiness of bourgeois
equality and the necessity for. a social
revolution, not only to liberate all la
borers from slavery but also as being the
only effective means- of liberating the
oppressed negro people. " ; 1
Describing the status of the negro in
America, Reed asserted that despite the
constitutional right to the ballot in the
southern states negroes were killed ; if
they dared to exercise this right and
that the use of separate schools, hotels
and theatres existed in all parts of the
country. . ,-
"This separation of the negro from
the white is called the 'Jim Crow' sys
tem, and the clergy of the ' southern
churches teach thai thore is also a heaven
where the 'Jim Crow' system is in oper
ation," Reed declared.
Organization of the foreign labor in
the . United States for revolt and the
co-ordination of radicalism in North and
South America into a single movement
was advocated at the same meeting by
Louis Fraina, secretary of the commun
ist party of. America, according to the
dispatches . . ; " " 4 . ,
"The American Federation of Labor
and the reactionary socialist ' party try
to institute pan -American organisation,"
Fraina is quoted as saying, ."but these !
last cannot be made to serve reactionary
aims. The communist movement in the
United States in particular, and the
communist internatonale in" general,
must intervene actively in the movement
in Latin-America. "
CHOOSING WESTERN TEAM
TO MEET OHIO STATU
(By The Associated Press.)
PASADENA, CALIFS Not. 28.
Choice of a western eleven to meet tke
champion Ohio State University aggre
gation in the annual esat-west footer.."'
game here New Year's day was tie
principal work of today's meeting cf
the football committee of the Tourna
ment of Boses Association, under whose
auspices the games are played.
The University . of. California, eham
pion of the Pacific coast conference,
the favorite of football enthusiasts r
for the selection. -'...;
O'DONNELL STILL UNCONSCIOUS.
(By The Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., Nov. ZZ .
Eddie O 'DonnelL automobile rs ; '
driverinjuredatfthe-.Los irr '
speedway yesterday," was etUl o
scious early t today O 'Donncll 's
mobile crashed into the one driven
Gaston Chevrolet, near the end ef
race. Chevrolet, national cKpn ; I
tomebile driver for 1920, was I""
was Lyall Jolls, mechanician f r
Donnell. John Bresnahan, C"
mechanician, escaped with f "
ries. 'rrv:. .
..One thing is eertai
to have any in- -,,
country, we'll i
"solo-, a" 1: T.--