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THE gastonia (N. C). daily gazette
,WEDN5DAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1922.
PAGE TWO
THE TH BABY IS
Chapel Hill. Wo are writi-n; directly m! DEATH RATE SHOWS
i Tar Baby and to others there.
IU llflT U1TCD f PlfU ' v""r J"'1"""'1'''"" attention t
111 nUl VlAltn AbAIN this matter We in greatly MWreci:.t,
j vour aid. We have "no iiariieitlar ?ii,,e
A BIG DECREASE !
COLORED CITIZENS THAZ
Charged With "Deliberate Vwant to
' t ion or (liiriicsr li harm Tnr Haley,
be
Theft of Material" by Kan-
a State College Student
Editorial Board Has Resign
ed. CHAPEL HILL, Kill. 20 Verily,
whtMi it rains it wurs. The Tar Hatiy is
in bad again. Kollowisi closely on Hit
het of the scathing t) -n u n-i.i t i on of:
f I'miilrit Chase, comes the charge tlmt
it is guilty of "iU'Hberate theft of ma-,
ferial" snl the resignation of its stu
dent editorial Itonnl. '
The .'orth Carolina tluijitor of Siifma
JV'lta Chi Journalistic Vratcnnfy is in j
receipt of fl letter from the chapter t I
the Kaiix.18 State Agrisultural College;
eoBrerning tin- "Brown Uuil. ' the lui -
morous j'tihlicjif ion if t.'int college, t-harg-
.-ing the "Tar Hul.j " villi the ilciiberate
theft of material from that magazine;
nnl asking tin- North Carolina Chapfer
of the fraternity to furnish it with in 1
formation camerning the relation he
twecB, the "Tar liaW.v" ami the I'niver
sity. ....
The fiigma Jelta (hi Fraternity is
writing the Chapter nt Kansas State Ann '
rultural College, stating the exact status
of the "dtsrejiutalilc juihliertt ion of this
ueijfhliorhood ., "
February 7, 1022.
. North Carolina Cha)ter,
, Sigma Delta Chi., I
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Gentlemen:
In the Tar Baby of Xnvcmlicr 21 (Vol.
!?; No. 10) Tte have found the marked
forty-nine pieces, totaling ierliai: three
pages, of material. which are identlenl
,,with a' like jiiuiiber of jiieres tnililinhed in
the Brown Bull, ifay I t, 1!21 . The ir
tieleii are identical "with one exception,
i Which we Jlieve tafe a typographical
mor. ', Tar Baby; did not give credit to
the Browit'Bull or.to any exchange.
If ' ,yoif 'can give us thin infor
mation we '' woiild - fjiiito appreciate
it. Perhaps you AvjJl wish to make mime
Investigation. Vvee4eel that vou tin-
game t'lin
iv i tli ii! i. n
M.iv v,
decern ry lenient.,
i' c:in 't let (! hi 1
At
W.
i if
ho lioiic for rtn enrv
Fraternal!.".
V. li. i;i..f'K !.':":
iH.'I Osage. .f:.iih:.ttan, K: ,
it 'hat. line t- light also "''
dent I i fi i-i.t i I. oar. I, I. .:! : 'e,
Cirny Jr.. of -ipn--t N
tic
lit
ill Ijf
t , THE All iLLXJjy KXAN :
V VSIHN'ITOX, Feb. 21.-The death' (1 the Assneiate.1 i'rew.) -
rate in the I'nited Kt.ite decreased to; SHAWXKK, 0KLA Feb. 21. The)
!..:oii p.r H;ii,tMiii population in l!l2(l,drtor of a m'wspKT oflice, where this
:'ro o l.H'H pi r iuufKHi in I'.HO, jiccord- morniriK ' paiier gtill was in the making, j
iii - to fn?-i" announced tMlay by the wan oieiied Htenlthily here lairt nihti
All ne gruiiis showed and a su foot m-gro enterel, "I'm
.1 iate l.ut the most pro. JookinK for the (Mitur,'" lie ieiid.
e.iv itA,ir.led in trie ' In the editor's dftiec, the negro laid a'
li.fui' in irtality ' tinder: slip of ' paper on a deiyk, aid: "We!
. the l'.'-'i rate -"bilniz iiiilud folks who U on de riijlit aide won-'
i :,, t ,;i i- I with !.'l.f'H:s di rt if you will print this in you pilcr.j
.i vl ;..' nt .'tiiont i c has an oriiaiiinshiin which believes
t . l a- ruiiii a-1 in doin' rignt. But Mah, 1 can't tell you;
, I .-. r iiM'd from my name." - (
And as he finished njienking ho rolled1
MRS. SEXTON"
LIVED 1H DREAD
OF THE FUTURE
t,
; resiKied, making fi i I,
; publicat'ioa t ( 'n j ill i :.s :iu
i I n i versify .
I In an eiKtoiial in a rv .' i-m.c ii,.-
Tar Heel, th- snident-' -.-iii-we. '.!
! neuspaji I'l'- Te r It:. I a a ,;:.
' denineil i,i Iu'e-t; t. :,!:-. I' ed.', a::: '
' follow ,s ii; , r: : j
lt Is aiii".'.,. inci'ii-i''' i- a: a 1 1 1 :
yzine iH-g.aaiu in the I. !.- : ery r. a i
success that lirst a'temhil i' iiiul.l -.'n,:
so low as the pre enf p 1 1 1 I ; 1 ion . ('".a
j Distent ly, it is in-iste.i in prititii!; tiie
' filthy, consistently ii has coupled it name
with dishonest taetlidds of certain Mien
connected with it, runs slent !y it I, as liee.i
low anil rotten and of i lies! ioiia iile lean
"e.-ty. Much of its tna''i!al l.as been
boldly copied t iom o'h r nu (.'n.ii s .
Men coniitcteil w ith the ear. iial ion ;,;ivr
: left a trail of bad clicks all or, i Surra
! Carolina . The phiee-uf riiiti:i h:u.
been ihnnged Hevcal tinns, nucu at !':) t
i la-eiiuse the corporation was uiarkedlv
j .slow ill the pnyineiit of bills. Slock in
1 1 he corporation has. been sold at me tia;;s
j of Cniversity alniimi who Mere not : ware
Jthat the magazine ivli in no manner an
organ of the I'nvier.sity . Many of ihese
i miadeeik. the corportition places al t'v
I iloor of one of its former ofiiu rs v. Im is
j now Hought b the Ian for I no I click.
1 paused by ti ; tn and certain ot'ier ciinies'
of which he. is K"'".v lie this in it iiiav,
'a Juan or a corporation is known by .lie
' company it keeps .
"The I'nivcrsity i determined I ia!
I none shall judge it by the "Tar Ha by.
The word that there in no relationship
I should be sent to nil North Carolina.
The HtockholderH of the corporation.
fij . .. .t t i.:.-t. i:
: ZZ ,-.-r( 'ii """I the Htat-e. Mhmild feel th- 8ame rcpii'-
. yoo hay comimre with, tltt- above men- ' . ,. ., ,,, .. ,
f lnl .u. Tt..'.-nh .Tk. ! ' "C'ciatltig the wealth ot thc.r ,
lianiex with :uch u paper. They s louhl
I icall for a tn lenient from the corporal ion .
Belief here i.s tlmt it is. on the verge
I ,fe
i t'
'IV
in U
aye
i rate
a' rat
', int
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,f ti'e
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e groi.p di en
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in a I! .-.
largely to t!
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.;v. The '
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ilcniS tad' I
re.asa.l frma
M!:0)'.in,: : m
an flit pI a. r
:. for w hi.- .
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. The ,. I '
h art -I. .:u
l''l r
liiaop'i. approxi-
Hantinarfbn Woman Could Feel j
Herself Getting Weaker Day
by Day and Nothing Seemed
to Reach Her Trouble.
e -li.-.t
se. fr
ali-.iit
fur tiin his big white eyes toward the door and
:,.-,sl
j,er
The note which Jie
members of the Kit
f i
nips was
ed rates
r. and
t nliercii-
li-e ten year
r loii.'HHi; for
oti.n!Hi, arid
nephritis, !!
a aec-idenls of
I to 71.
in increase in
were can-
, leased from
, and pucrper
i organic di
p'rtict ieallv no
of 1 H..J.
ti jide a hasty exit,
left read: "To th.
K lux Klan : ' :
" (Ireetiiifjn :
" We wish to thank you for yotir eourt-'.
on- for helping to "top dishonest and i tit-'
iiioniTT pnict ices in this section of tlle
town. We will appreciate any future'
steps that you may tke to completely!
wipe out these practices.
(.Signed)
"The Colored Secret Haying Society of
South Town." j
The note is .--aid to, relate to the al
leged whipping of two ngro youths
irattirday night. It was printed.
1
Chini
Health Now Completely Re-;
stored Sne Pours 'Out Her
Gratitude to Tanlac in. Re-1
niarkable Statement.
"It was : imply reiiinrkiible the wny
Tanlac n stored me to health 3 year ago
iind the effects hove been, lasting, foo, :
uh I haven't had a return pfLjniy of irly
old' trotiblex uliiee, " caid I Mrs. J. A.'
Sexion, 221 1 ' Kig!itlt Ave., Huntington, !
W. Ya. ,
"My health had been steadily failing!
for more than five years as n result of i
stomach and liver 'troubles. I just liy- '
ed in dread all flie time ot what was go-
ti To Ford Ovms!
. Don't let your Ford go to th6 bad. Keep
it in good order. Let us look - ft oyer. We '
. guarantee satisfaction and our !p).ices are
low. Notice that blattering in your Ford?
' Let us change the; transmission .band and
prevent rear-end trouble.' '.- !
Notice Our Low Prices :
Changing Transmission Band .
With Starter' .
Grinding Valves . :
Re'pairing Rear-End ........
Tightening Connecting Rods . .
Overhauling Motor
.$ 2.00
. 2.50
. 2.25
2.75
v 1.75
10.00
McADENVILLli MATTERS
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in
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W e;.
Wat!
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A.
ia -;;mdere , '
,- A FH .N VI !.! .! :.
- and Mi - ' ' a
Saturday 'l.t
eeri'.irui:! b ' '.
The Mailv
(ia.ette.)
I' b
2n. Mr. Floyd
rvelt wa-re lliiir
e ii retnon'v be
W right. Ksq.
si Cussi" i 'ook
loir tn li'iniioll. lot I irinlil vef fhM I w:iu
feels that if it can be protected. ,u.lI1r w,,ker dav bv dav.
fram its friends it can t;tke car,, of its "Tanliie cerfainl'v .raved a wonderful
eiuiiies-Chicago Daily News. i blessing to me. ft brought me health
land strength and-for the past year I
hnvcli't .Jjaowii what it was to have a
touch of indigestion or a- bilioiia iittack.
I'm truly eifthusinstie, about, Tailing and
there is nothing toogond for me to say
about it . "
Tanlac is sold in Gastonia by J. II.
Kennedy ltrui; Co., and by leading drug
gists everywhere.
The capture of Will Hays may prove
the biggest mail robbery the movies havH
yet staged. tit; I'aul Pioneer-Press.
Give us a trial and be convinced.
Yours for Better Service "
Night arid Day Garage
902 North Marietta Street
Phone 894-X
You see, we must teach Haiti a lesson.!
What does she mean by being so small
find Inlpless.' Zanesville Times-Record-'
cr.
night by He v. Mr.
doobtedry wilL 'sa-nre aeudhig you
-peal
fra 11 '
Mr.
Mount
. in t re! - a I
laa I rie.l S- 'nr.!
n-e
. .Iibn Tai'iierjuid fnmilv, of Char-i-i!ed
rt I:l1ivi here Sunday.
". I'asour. F. 1-. Kirbv. C. 0. Hum
i.i! .II. M. Jrtnufolt., all of IVdmoiit.
Suednv Ifrc with ivlfitives ;iip
Subscribe To The Gastonia Dailv Gazette.
- . : '" . V
that
Mi. C. K. Tate
. land Sninlav to
is going on there
lored to
the' new
prejuiratnry
tioned issue of Tar Baby. The articles
in Brown Hull, nc inartra with the mim-
ber of the page ujion which they will
' lv. ,.,l I,. T..J 1., l.
. ,..,,.. ..,,. ,1,.,, .1
. JVe aaoiiM like to have the names of i" T"1 ' 1 , .
the staff Of the Tar Baby 4f November I ihf Zh0J "''! " f:,l,:"
24,1921. We should nUa like to have ! of filUl ",to f",'"r,' .
information a to Tar Baby's connection ! "That is the best course. Let the
ftt the Uniersity, and the relations of the j whole structure of it be destroyed thai
North Carolina Chapter with the Tarl" "'', better, and cleaner thing may be
Baby, Any other information or n- j" retired out of its ruins that may not on'y
-'. .'plnnatio.it .with which you can furnish us I nu organ of the l iiiversiiy but a
will be very gratefully received. j credit to the great name of Carolina .
, Brown Bull holds the copyright certif- j This seems to be th ntini-iil of the
iente of the Brown Bull of May 1.1, 1921, students as a unit am!- of the village.
(the issae in question.) The action of Tar P.ahy sales here are deplorably
Tar Baby is without donbt infringement j small. In fact, The Virginia I.Vcl, the
of copyright. The action of the Inral i humorous publication of Virginia l ui
organization will depend $ large ex-! versify, has many more sales here than
tent upon the regpon::e received from I does The Tar Babv .
t.i the bai'
Company
Iin;r of the Southern Power
big tiwer ilfliit .
GYPSY CHIEF TAKES
BATH AFTER 40 DAYS
(liy The AiMoclnted Press.')
XKWAIIK. . .1., Feb. 21. t Fonr
t 'en g'pv failii"', who make their,
hniies in. the Belleville district, near
lu re, are tuakvi'.' hnlalay to'dav, for their
; -h'e-r'. Hen jMoyt, has taken a bath and
i hat'gid his liiieu.
Thir is the lirst time the ceremony has
occurred in nt leas' forty days, for the,
din f un f irbid'hai bv the traditional
laws of his tribe to touch his body with,
water. yhae. or e'-n change his clothing,
l"i!il that lime has elapsed after the
d nth of his wife, his is the day. and
the chief's follower, are giving evidence
of .apl'ini'-:s.
MADHOUSE OF CRUELTY AND DESPAIR"
v AMERICAN OFFICER CALLS ARMENIA
Captain Paxton Hibben Tells
Touciiing Story of Homeless,
Starving People Succored by
Near East Rejjef,
, ' Emaciated little girls With
; (inched , r and unreal faces, their
!' clotblnr a mere piece of torn sack-
ing: held together with thorns for
ptns. paraded listlessly along the
j aids ofthe train with uplifted,
j scrawny Jirms and cupped hands,
i rhtnlngr a scarcely audible prayer
: l for food. Their great dark eyes
.looked out from under tumbled
hair, uncombed tor months, per
' haps years, seeing neither the train
; nor us. God knows what they saw,
. those fathoinless eyes ot a girlhood
i that had never been God knows
,l what they had seen,, in the years of
wandering from place to place, un
. 'protected, unloved, uncared fori"
I. Thus Captain Paxton Hibben de
; scribes the Journey of the TTnited
' States "rmy officers who aecom
. panted Major General James G.
.: Harbord into Armenia, In an article,
"Salvaging a People." In Holland's
j fasraxlne. Dallas, Texas. Captain
Hibben is a well-known writer and
i war correspondent, author of Con
', stantlne 1. and the Greek People,
1 who was with the Historical Pec--:
tlon. General Staff, A. E. F., during
i the war.
' , ; ' People Lack ETerything
j' . "These desperate, destitute people
who haVe so land to cultivate no
; food to eat and no clothes to wear,
v and have teen iithat condition for
five years, now,", he calls the more
. than half a . million Armenian
. refugees wandering from place to
place seeking food and shelter that
. does not exist. "Under the old
Tsarist system, the peasants plowed
with a charred atfck plow, drawn
fcy three to six span of oxen. Now
the oxen are dead they were killed
tor food lonR- afro. There are no
honest-to-poodness plows, no culti
vators, 'no reapers, no hinders."
Nothinsr Is left in this country of
misfortune. Captain Hibben de
clares. "Not a pair of shoes: not
even a broken pane of window
frlass nothing but the flotsam and
the jetsam of war and destruction."
. Captain Hibben describes the ar
rival of the American Near V.tH
Relief workers at Erlvan. the capi
tal of the unhappy Armenian Re
publie,,wlth Its war-srutted r'ailwav
elation crowded with hundreds of
, homeless refugees.
Hundreds of Homeless
"All about, on the fr round, close
to the walls for shelter from winds,
Under freight cara, in the meager
covering of dusty hedges, -In the
open everywhere little groups lay
on the dry earth, hundreds and
hundreds, almost all women, with a
few children. Near them pitiful
bundles of rags that constituted the
I whole of their worldly possessions:
three stones and a bit of rusted tin
made the stove upon which what
cooking there was to do little
,. enough -was done. Thev lived
Where they lay at ntght without
nener or pnvacy or anything they
could call their own. Sometimes.
seemingly for no reason, a little
. rroUD would sack un the handful
of rags that served as cover to
''.v;:;.;.l)
tr
Tor-
oii i.
poln' -
"Ta -
thr.t .
are i a ;
lvinu i i
die,! .'i::
g-Ofii n-.i
cart e,:i
stieets a
and pie!:
hel l t pi
Rut it Ir.
Not It ing
'r:y atmight, without shelter or privacy."
:.-c.i -rc bcinf: fed by tlusi' Americans." '
."c-t.iirr Paxton Hibben'"
vte lly l-Tien'ient upon
ositv of the people of
f tales.
tiie
the
gener-CisrteJ
u-.
as
.1
: i-' i i n
'lli-i
i w -i i I
: was.
fleep tinder, and move off. They
eiimoea on rreignt cars and went
vomewhere else, onlv to find things
the eame or worse. Acaln they
settled down In abject, patient. In
curious misery, to Await God
knows what! 0
Alonr the road fmrw the tat!Ti
, to the town more grour of refnrees
were ramned. In. annxlllno- nilunr
i n rient cr tne roia
a
reat. barren field, where huge holes
ej Been dug and ft lied in again.
like."
ur:iiat:s Oilost ( "iKs'.iaas
Tou have to io:neniler always."
Captain liiliden as. "thai Armenia
Was an organized nation and the
Armenians a conscious people .a
thousand years before there was a
single organized nation In Europe,
save 'Greece and Itome. For
twelve hundred of their twenty-five
hundred years of existence as a
people, they were independent and
self-governing. They were a (Chris
tian people In the year "3 A. r. The
Armenian klncdonj was the first
state In the world to adnnt Chris
tianity as the national church in
the year 301. Ther Invented their
own alphabet such as It Is at the
same time. They have a literature
older than the English or the
French or the German or the Spsn
Ish.i and ages older than the Sla
vonic literature. They have an art
and an architecture and a music of
their own. Thev were bankers and
traders and artisans when the in
habitants of the British Isles were
painted blue, and the people of
France and Germany went about
clothed In skins"
!! Near I-'ast Uolief Work
v j
a i "There are thirty-three Near East
-v'nel.ef ( n-pbariares. large and small,
'."in Urivau-r-iuui, about 7.000 kiddies
ajiluif the Americans are looking
alter. .Through the Near East He
lief, ovir fifty millions of dollars
have pone Tm help the Armenians In
the pnst three years. Over five
hundred Am. rieati women and men
are woikiaf; in t tie Near East, un
ci, t nisi; ely but effectively, to keep
A strange and alien people from
starvation and detrnctiortj One
hundred ten thousand little chil
dren arc being fed by the Ameri
cans: sixty-three liospi'als are kept
running, with 6.rei2 heds, always
full. And when an arpeal la made
to the great heart of the American
people to keep this work going
the morTi-y Is always there.
"For the Idaliom that was roused
in these in everv land whnpe people
went forth to fiirht frr what they
believed 6 be riicht and true, is
there still. The formalists at Ver
sailles foreot It: they dealt nft In
human realities, but In the artiflcal
Impalpable theories nf boundaries,
governments, spheres of Influence,
secret agreements and zones of ex
ploitation. .
"But an Arce-iran erlrl sitting on
the mud sidewalk of Erlvan. With a
dead woman's head In her lap, dis
covered in a moment what those
pitiful old men at Versailles will
never know that the world Is a
hnmar place and its people are all
kin." . '
Ontaln Hihhen appeals for the
-I
sn S
Si
Ttat now Alt la ehanveA the
American officer writes. 'With all 1 eontinuation cf the work of merer
of their proud tradition the Ar-1 being don bv the Near Eat Ttelief.
roenlans. victims of - an- Incredible throueb subscription to Cleveland
tlatnrv nt neeseetitlnn liv' hA TI fir..! era t-finrer nt that Arpanl-
VVhere they were new. monnda off Turks a nd beirTet K. iV itii Miinn 1 Madiann Avenue. New
rUi ms.rke4 then; where, they art1 Cbrstltn nations fit the worlfl, are' Toric - -
BIG CLEARANCE SALE
At H. .P. STOWE GO'S.
"...
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY and MONDAY
Four Days Only-Commencing Thursday, February 23rd
RUGS
One-third off on all Rugs in our
stock for these four days orily. Now
is the time to buy one for Spring.
TWENTY PER CENT OFF ON
Dress Goods, Silks, Ginghams, Cre
tones, Draperies and Linens.,
20 to 50 per cent off on all Blank
ets, Comforts, Quilts, Sheets and
Pillow Cases.
SUITS AT A BIG SACRIFICE
Ladies Winter (Suitst just ONE
HALF PRICE for these Four Days.
Ladies Spring Suits at a reduc
tion of 0 per cent.
12 Ladies' Dresses, good styles
silks and Cretonnes, at one-half
price.
, One-half price on heavy Sweat
ers. One-half price on Middy Suits.
r
I
BIG BARGAIN COUNTER
'One big counter of Ginghams and
Outings and Percales worth
. twice the special price of
10 cents
GINGHAMS AT 12 l-2c Yard
2,000 Yards of Good Ginghams,
all size checksand plaids, values
25 cents, for Four Days only at
12 1-2 cents
, DRESS GOODS
1,000 Yards Silk 'Crepe de Chine,
Georgettes and .Velours, values
up to $2.50, to go in this Big; Four
Day Sale at only x ' r
a
98 cents V :
One-lot of Dress Goods, Silks, Pop
lins, etc., values up to $1.50, for
these four days only, at
48 cents
SHOES!
SHOES! SHOES!
- . ', ' . :
No old junk. . All new and up-to-date shoes. Best makes. For four
days only we are "offering 20 per cent off on all new Spring Shoes and 33
1-3 per cent off on all Winter Shoes. 4
BEAMGUARD-HOVISSHOE COMPANY
v (Downstairs)
MILLINERY! ( MILLINERY!
All Winter4Hats going during these four days at one-half price. New
Spring line just arrived. v Ten per Cent off on these for the four days. -It.
will pay you to visit our Millinery Department.
MISSREID (Upstairs)
-L P. ST
.r.r.'iuV
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COMPANY j
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