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VOU XLIII. NO. 52.
GASTONIA. N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2. 1922.
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
UNIVERSITY DMETBALLjSOLDIERS' BONUS FLAN
TEAM WINS SOUTHERN
CHAMPIONSHIP IN ATLANTA
Defeated Mercer ; University
by Score of 40 to 26 Only
Team Entered From North
Carolina 23 Teams From
' Dixie in Tournament.
(By The AssoclatM Kress. J
.. ATLANTA. Co., Mrch 2. The Uni
versity of North Carolina, the only team
that represented the Tar Heel Stato in
the southern college basket bull tourna
ment thin year, holds the championship
of Dixie fls a result. of its victory over
'Mercer University in the finals here lust
night.
The Clil Hill team won its way
through fire hard buttles culminating
last night in its 40 to defeat of the
quintet from Macon. With the aggres
sive Mereerites holding second honors,
third place goes to Georgia Tech, which
downed Alabama 3.1 to 23 iu the play
off for that position. The speedy Mer
cer quintet 'which earlier in the tourna
ment had downed Kentucky State, cham
pion of 1921, was up .-against the machine-like
pdrccision of a team that
reached Its top form in the linul strug
gle after showing a line game through
out. Georgia University was the run
ner up in 1921, und while this year's
runner up downed last year's title hold
er, it was North Carolina that had elim
inated Georgia in this tournament.
The meet, which was held jointly by
the new Southern Intercollegiate Con
ference and the Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic Association, was participated
in by 23 representative Dixie teams from
eight States and drew large audiences,
especially" on the last two nights when
the huge auditorium was packed.
WOMAN MOONSHINER
" GETS THREE MONTHS
(By The Associated 1'resn.)
LONDON, K. Mar.h 2. Mrs. Mol
lie Turner, Kentucky's first woman
moonshiner in so far ns it is known, is
tinder sentence to serve three months in
jail Olid to to pay a fine ns a result of
toeig convicted-on that charge in circuit
court here. Cal Turner, the woman's
husband, under a similar sentence, be-
in convicted of nioonshiiiini: with his!
wife.
SIX BOOTLEGGERS NOT
IMPLICATED IN MURDER
(By The Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES, March 2.
The six men arrested Tuesday on
information furnished by Mrs. John
Rupp, their housekeeper, have no
connection with the murder of Wil
liam Desmond Taylor, motion pic
ture director, here, February 1, it
was announced today by Detective
Sergeant Herman Cline, in charge of
the investigation.
HOUSE COMMITTEE TO
VISIT MUSCLE SHOALS
WASHINGTON, Maivri 2. Mem
bers of the House Military Committee
who have been investigating Various pro
Hsals for private operation and lease of
the government's properties at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., decided today in an execu
tive session in favor of making an in
spection trip to Muscle Shoals.
Hitchcock Opposes.
" WASHINGTON, March 2. Senator
Hitchcock ranking democrat of the
Senate Foreign ltelutious Committee,
declared in an address to the senate to
day opening debate on the four power
Pacific treaty, that he could not sup
port it unless amendment or reservations
were adopted to meet his objections.
COTTON MILL RE-OPENS.
, (By The Associated Press.)
. PROVIDENCE, K. i., March 2.
One of the two cotton mills owned
by
the Hope Company in the village of Hope
reopened today under protection of the
police and deputy sheriffs, with about a
score of the 230 operatives reporting
for work. A picket line took up its
inarch before the gates in a hard snow
storm. A detachment of coast artillery
men was later sent to the mill for guard
duty.
PAWTUCKKT, R. 1.. March 2.
Three companies of national guard
eoast artillery, a machine gun detail and
a medical detachment which have been
on duty here because of the textile
Strike. Wero sent, to flip st:i(i armnrv nt
' I'rnvid.'tln Initnt- Altint- 'Mill nnlilinra I
are loft in the city.
Cotton Market
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET.
: NEW! YORK,' March 2. Cotton fu
tures Closed steady: March' 18.35;
May 1?. 07;' July 17.34; October 16.
C; December 10.65; Spots 18.70.
TODAY'S COTTOil MARKET
Cotton seed ...........
Strict t Good Middling
...51e
' WANTS MARKET.
To the Editor: 1
; I just want to endorse the Olney cor
respondent 's suggestion for a city mar-
ket, for us country women to dispose of
our .surplus vegetables etc. There isl''"
none of us, but what like to earn our own
. pin money. By the time our husbands
and fathers, pay their tax, buy their fer
tiliier, Seeds, implements, and a new
mule once in a while there isn 't much for
frills nud furbelows, as the editor said,
don t need anything, but a vacant lot
and a shed, that is H they liavo .in the
eity of Washington, V. C. Not even a;
floor. I
tSpcak out vonntry sisters. Let ns ln'ari
from you all and I know the city fathers
will listen. - j
ONE OF J2t. -''.
MINUS CASH FEATURE
MAY BE WORKED OUT
Provide For Issuing Adjusted
Service Certificates Get
Money From Banks Face
Value of Certificate Equal
to Sum of Adjusted Service
Pay of Veteran.
(By The Associated Vress.)
WASHINGTON. March ; 2. 'i
Unanimous agreement to eliminate
the cash feature of the soldiers'
bonus except in the case of men
whose adjusted service pay would
not exceed $50 was reached today
by the special subcommittee of re
publican members of the House
Ways and Means Committee, to
which the whole bonus question was
referred on yesterday.
The hope that "th administra
tion will not continue to procrasti
nate very much longer and will ful
fill the promise made in the last na
tional election, and pass the veter
rans adjusted compensation bill
without further delay," is expressed
by Edwin S. Bettelheim, J r chair
man of the national legislative com
mittee of the veterans of (foreign
wars, in a letter to President Hard-
lag, inaue puuuc luuay.
Mr.
Bettelheim wrote the 'President
that he was just in receipt olj a report
showing that 12,000 of the 150,000 former !
servicc men in Cuyahoga Couty, Ohio,!
who anplied for tho adjusted comnensa-
tion voted by the State of Ohio were un-
employed
"If this is indicative of the condi-1 ""IU . "'V " ,n4? J r,'aiTv
Hon .lirtimr thrmiphnut lm ..mmtrv .' february 23 the total debt stood
the letter said, "it would mean that ap
proximately 2,000,000 of tho ex-service
men are out of employment. How many
of these are in destitute circumstances
would be hard to tell, but tho report
shows that a good many were unable to
pay their rents and were dependent up
on odd jobs and the good favor of others.
' ' This example from one of the larger
counties in your homo state is typical of
the condition of the former service men
throughout the country."
WASHINGTON, March 2. Major
ity members of the House Ways and
Means committee wee , hopeful today
that a final solution of the soldiers 'j
.
iionus proDicm naa been round in
pro.-osed plan to substitute for the cash I
feature of tho bill a provision for ad -
justed service certificates up on which
former service men could immediately
obtain fumU from tho banks. Formula-
... . .....
tion or tne plan aireaay nau ioen tu-;
dertaken today bv the special subcom-
mi t tee to which it was referred jester-
dav. and it was understood it was plan-
ned tn call in Secretary Mellon .'in,! i.os
sibly members of the Federal reserve
board and discussion of the whole pro
I'""111"
.
n...,.u,.iii,ii v.. T -..,cri..rti, nf nil n
member of the sulH'Oinniittec. to which I
tho majority members assigned the task
of working out the scheme after failing
to agree on any method for financing the
cash payments, said it probably would
be a week or more before this ,could be
completed, and it appeared it Would be
at least u mouth before the eoiynittoe
would be. ready to report any bill agreed
upon to the House. ,
Without changing the vocational train
inV. ftirm and home aid and land settle
ment features of the Fordaey bill, it is
contemplated under tho new plan, com
mittee members said, to issue
i , I 1
service certificates, which, bv the addi
tion of 40 per cent to the proposed ad
justed service pay plus interest on on
the total for twenty years at tho rate. of
4 1-2 per cent compounded annually,
would have a total face value of approxi
mately "'IS times the amount that
would be received under the cash feature.
An amount equal to i0 per cent of the
total of the adjusted service pay could
be borrowed from a bank immediately
on isnuance of the certificate, with provi
sion that if the sum thus obtained plus
interest was not repaid in threo years the
bank could maRe demand on the Federal
treasury for the amount due, the Gov
ernment thus to take over and carry the
loan.
EMPLOYED 56 YEARS AND
NEVER LATE TU WUK1S.
CLEVELAND, O.. Mar. 1. Edward !
Quilty. who worked in tHeveland rolling I
mills before steel was made in America,
before the Bessemer converter had been j
introduced and before the open hearth!
period, has just been pensioned by the
American Steel and Wire Company, j
tTiiitoil States Steel Corporation branch,'
j with the longest service record of any.
of the 4,700 employes pensioned tvy mo
steel corporation. His length of ser
vice includes 56 years, 4 months and 16.
iIhvs and in all that time he was not
once late to work, his record shows.
Mr. Quilty started to work when lie,
was 10 vears of age, rocking spikes for
the old Cleveland Rolling Mills Company,,
later absorbed by the American Steel
and Wire Company, which in turn was.
taken over by the United States Steel!
Corporation.
lie began working when iron rails'
were made by tho "puddling process. j
He Las seen the crowth of rolling mills,
from the days when they were operated
by band.
Mr. Quilty joins the list of pensioneo
Cleveland employees of the U. 8. Steel
corporation subsidiaries here, which num.
bereU 270 and received fb7,o40 in pen-
aecoroing to nur
the annual report of the L. 8.
Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund here.
Th total paid to all pensioned em
ployes throughout the country Tfor 1921
wan $947,879 to 3.677 retired employes,
bringing total disbursements for the ten
years of its existence to 6,S2S.460.
: thevTather
, .
North Carolina, rain this afternoon
and probably tonight; somewhat colder
tonight on the coast; Friday generally
fair and colder ia southeast portion.
TEXTILE .UNION HEADS TO
MAKE CAMPAIGNS FOR AID
FOR STRIKING OPERATIONS
Organizers Will Address Mass
Meetings Tonight in Phila
delphia and New York Ap
pealing For Funds Pro
longed Struggle Is Forecast.
'Bv The Associated Press.)
PltOVIDKNCK, H. I.. March 2.
In preparation for a prolonged struggle,
heads of the striking textile unions hero
are extending their campaign for relief
funds. William H. Derrick, an organ-
izer for the Amalgamted , Textile Work
ers, who is iu charge of tho strike in J
tho Puwtuxet valley, will address a mass
meeting tonight iu Philadelphia, ppeal
ing for funds. Russell Palmer, general
secretary, will make a similar address in
New York.
Now Hint the state board of mediation
and conciliation has failed to settle the
strike,, it is expected an attempt will be
made soon to reojien some of the many
plants which have been shut down for
nearly six weeks by the Btrike of more
than 15,000 workers in tho Pawtuxet
and Bluckstone valleys.
Por the present soldiers -are to be
maintained on guard in the mill villages
where trouble lias developed. Governor
San Souci announces.
.
""mldi iiMvutiata
..BY 90.O,000 IN FEBRUARY
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 2. An in -
rcase of mon' tMan 90,000,000 n the,1
public debt during February was an-1
nt $2;M78,667,7S9 as compared with
23,38H,544.2.1S on January :tl. The in
crease in the debt, was largely accounted
for, officials explained-, by the issuance of
approximately $(501,000,000 n treasury
notes during the month, while Govern
ment securities retired during February
approximated $511,000,000. However,
ollicials believed, that the continued
quarterly reduction in tho public debt
would go on during March when install
ments of income and profits taxes are
due.
Ordinary expenditures of the Govern
ment during February aggregated $1S2,-
000,000 as compared with $;(. 1,000,000
during tho same month last year, while
ordinary receipts for the month approxi-
" -1 ,UT " '""" . ,
0IJ0 - 000 February of 1!21.
ARMY POSTS ARE, THE
BAROMETERS OF SOCIETY
ivisniv'Tov r.,...i. o .
. ..,.,,. .
al life!
l'"8'" arc ' " miromwers or mo social hip
ot communities" near which they lie nud
inspection of more than two score west
ern posts shows that "the morale of of-
!"' and soldiers is improved steadily
colonel John T. Anton, elucf ot cliap-.
ltt1t,uWlmAw...,. vn.M...t ...1 .n.l.... n..
i . ' '. i
n,reiuruio v asiiiuirt on irom an mswciion
trip.
Clergy of the roiiimumt les aliout the
posts are co-oerating with the army
chaplains.
Colonel Axton
said,
of a
audi
spiritual
results unthoiight
f. I
years ago are being accomplished by such
united ministerial efforts.'
REP. DOUGHTON RETAINS j
HIS SEAT IN CONGRESS'
WASHINGTON, March 2. Ueprc-i
senfativc Doughton, Democrat, of the'
eighth North Carolina district, is entit-j
led to his seat in the House the elections
... . . . , , . .
, uiiiiiiiurr, I ii i-ni I K.ii 1IIK 1 no IIHIM ?l lum :
by T)r. J.
T t 1 1 i i l:.
i. v-ainjoieu, nejmonean, re-
ported today.
JEFFRIES MAY TURN
TO PREACHING GOSPEL.
LOS ANGELES, Maefi 2. James J.
Jeffries, former heavyweight champion
puglilist of the world, may become an
evangelist if nothing happens to pre
vent it, according to a story The Los
Angeles Examiner published today.
Jeffries now a farmer at Burbank,
near here, has Im-coiho interested in the
religious affairs through a visit from A.
r . Suttere, a friend of the former pug
ilist ' father, who was a minister of the
gospel, according to the newspaper.
Mr. Suttere is said to be writing a book,
iiud'if it meets with the desired recep- (
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tineent. matteru reneh reiilijt i.m Jef.
tingent matters reach realization. Jef
fries may begin a career as an evangel
fst, according to the story,
1
"FLYING PARSON" WHO
HURRIES BACK TO PULPIT
AFTER WINNING RACES.
W& 1
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MARRIED MOTHER-IN-LAW;
DIVORCE SUITS FOLLOW
" MATSVILLE, Ky., March 2.
Two diorce suits are pending in the
Mason county court here because Carl
Kellum, 23 years old, and his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Addie Gallagher, 45, ran
off together, according to the petitions
filed by Mrs. I ma Gallagher Kellum,
18, against her husband, and John
Gallagher, 55, against his wife.
Mrs. Kellum says she was married
two years ago and was very happy
on her husband's farm, four miles
from here. A short time ago, 'she la
leges, her mother, who lived at home
on an adjoining farm, ran off with
Kellum and never returned.
Gallagher's petition unfolds the
same story.
Kellum and Mrs. Gallagher are
living together in this county now,
the petitions charge.
NEAR EAST ACTIVITIES
Factors That Have Made For The Suc
te.'a Of The Gaston Campaign Gas-
tonia and Carton County Have Been
One Big Gaston.
To tho Editor of The Gazette:
Activities of the Gaston campaign for
the relief of Kl.'l starviuir orphans of the
j Near East, will eomo.to a close. Friday
aiicrnoon, wuen returns ana authentic
! reports win reveal the fact, that in ad-
j dmoii to providing for the number al-
i lotted. Greater (iaston has most gemr-
,' ously and heartily adopte.l IS I of these
Homeless, helpless, starving children, of
unfortunate Christian parents, in H
stricken laud, or 4S more than the Gas
ton quota.
No one factor or person lia.i been re
sponsible for this hearty and spontane
ous response to this needy and worthy
cause.
As so splendidly stated by you eli
torially iu Wednesday's paper, "tho
genuineness of the appeal nn.l the dis
tressing need of these hopless thousands
and tho cry of starving babies and chil
dren" hsve paved the way direct to Gas
ton hearts.
Organization along rommon sene
Jims can only be based on the fact that
in order to give, the people must be
given the opportunity. Consequently
Gaston ministers, school principals,
school teachers, Sunday school teachers.
nurses. COIIimiinitv workerq cH, m mill
superintendents, and individuals in priv-j
nte life have been powerful factors in
putting old Gaston over the top in u
great and good cause. -
The entire magnificent response j
nia,,t' "I' of Pwio'.v the most represuita
live onenng ever made in tins or other '; '"i"""'. .mi". -n iinwai opera
countries. The toiler in factory and;'''"1'4 :m '"onfined to the aviation me
eld, tlu. student in the school room, the .'"''''"'ics and radio scIukiIs, naval hospi
. -vant in the home, the minister, luwver ,!l1' llis,ri'' headquarters and guard
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... .. L I tlU n I 1,1 I'H
mcilllS. .' "(iiul Iiiim nr.,ui..r,..l )1,.,
I in the eflort to provide for these 1S1
I "little ones" whom Jesus .said. "Suffer
I to Come l.'ivto Me."
:'.i "
;t" ,n's N'lendid campaign ne
rucior nas ente
rod
i- Ua
more largely into its
success than tlu
istonia Uailv Gazette.
i-With it columns open
laily for the lo- j
! cal news of the
campaign, the splendid
spirit of co-operation with the chair-
men, on the part of editor, pulilhhois !
and employees, and with some of the hot j
editorials, giving to the public concise,
and intelligently connected facts of the!
great need, it has been my pleasure to )
i Ti... t.. i i .' r..- :
"'". ' i ii- iiit ijitii ;i iiiHIl I or ,
frt ll'iuton a.iiii.. 4 1.
sufferers ;
" ' -
0f ,"ear East.
..
j This Rtati ment is made at this
1 rs ,T
e-ine.i I n t iirnm t w... I.. (l.n :....! 4..!...
"iiii.uiiii n, i iiv 1111,11 i.iiiii-
latino of returns which will appear inj
Saturday's Gazette, together with state-j
mcnts from tho city and county chair
men.
Yours trnlv,
GEO. K. GILLESPIE.
County Caairinan
PROPOSE REORGANIZATION
OF THE NAVAL RESERVE
(Itv The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. March 2. Complete
re-oigaiiif.amm oi Tne naval reserve is i
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piiipu:wii in ;t tcuiaiMe oui prepared iiv
the Navy Department and forwarded to
m,.ii f .i, ,,..,i ,...,..., ;...;
' ' . ' I
retary IVnby for comment before i
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it is presented to Congress. Include. 1 in.1
the proposed act is the provision for aj
J merchant marine reserve section and for
'certain merchant ships to fly a reserve!
emblem.
I The bill would abolish oil existing
naval or marine corps reserve and estab
lish a naval reserve as a a component
! part" of tho navy, consisting of three
j casses, the fleet reserve, the merchant
i marine naval reserve and the volunteer
! naval reserve. A separate section-, pro
j vides for reorganization of the present
! marine corps reserve in fonforiiuty withj,vj; ,.Vlr ;, wriod of eight to ten weeks.
I the new plan. It would have two classes
corresponding to the fleet reserve snd
the volunteer reserve, of the nav.il estab-
i lishment.
j All present memliers of the various
j classes of nav.-vl reservists, both .officers
ami men, and the naval militia would be
brought into the new .system, ollieers not
to be aliove the rank of lieutenant com
mander except for "a small jierccn
sge" in the rank of commander or cap
tain "for the recruiting, organization,
administration, training, inspection and
mobilization of the naval reserve." En
listments in the reserve would be for
four year whilf officers would hold their
commissions "Muring the pleasure of the
President." i-
FOUND MOTHER LOST
SINCE CHILDHOOD.
' (By The Associated Press.)
BRUNSWICK, Ga., March 2. Sp
arated from his mother since he was a
child, Tlien he claims he was kidiiapiMMi
William B. Buukley.-of Savannah, Ga.,
lias located his mother, Mrs. Mary Bunk
ley McLrod, in Brunswick. and will
bring his family here end live.
Hunkley, who lias been going under
the name of Buklen, claims that he was
able to find his mother hero through a
negro "fortune teller, '.'-
GREAT LAKES STATION
MAY BE ABANDONED IN
BIG EXPENSE SLASH
Famous Naval Training Station May Be
Discontinued As Part Of Disarma-
ment Proceedings Thousands Of
Sailors Have Been Trained There -Westerners
Make Better Sailors Than
I Easterners.
; till HAT LAKES ILLS., March
! The mi, Idle west may loe its only bi
, naval establishment, the Naval Truiuin
i station here, as a result of the siiccessfiil
cuin luMon oi" the disarmament confef
! eiiee at Washingtuii. I
i Wrei-kir have nearly i-miiphU'd tie
uehirueuoii or tlie vast wartime cams
thiouj;li which neary 100,000 bmbrdp
Kcaii-icii passed during 1917 and 191
and now, as a resut of the contemplated
reduction iu naval forces, the porimuieiil
station may be abandoned and training
coneenl rated on the Atlantic and Paci
fic eoast.
Naval ollieers here expect the appro
priation for tlie fiscal year startinir July
1 to be considerably under the $100,000'
provided for the present year and prob-j
ably only enough to provide men toi
guard the $."i,oi.o,0(io worth of govern-j
incut property at the station. To guard;
the immense plant and provido ollieers i
tor the tw.i naval school here, one turn
nig out aviation mechanics and the other
ramo operators, would require about 700
ollieers ;md men and an estimated ap
propriation of between $200,000 and
$ 25O.00O.
Total abandonment of Great Lakes is
opposed by the ollieers here because the
middle west furnishes a large part of
the nation's naval forces and tho ninth
district headquarters hero has more res
ervists under its control than any other
district in the country. More ineu were
trained at Great Lakes during the war
than at all other training camp eoni
biueil. After the armistice 76,000 ex
seamen in the ninth district alone were
enlisted in the reserve forte out of a to
tal of 2dO,oijo reservists for the entire
country.
Stilt water states do not produce as
good saitors for modern lighting ships
as t ho prarie states of the middle west,1
ollieers here say. There is no place on
a tiiodirn $40,l)iMl,0im battleship for tho!
old fashioned suit ater seaman, and tho i
picturesque tar of the past has given
way to highly skilled mechanics whosi.!
training in middle west factories
"laeliine shops and foutidries fit them for
""' specialized Horvieo of an electric
j driven and oisTnted floating fort,
' The original Great Lakes naval train-
'"g s'otion cost .".000,Oiio. Millions
,u(,r Vv,r' "1"'" during the war on the
niandnnt ,f the .,,; "J uf
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commandant. He is to be replaced about
April I , by Captain Waldo Kvaus, at
present naval governor at Guam.
"LIVE-AT-HOME" CAMPAIGN
IS STARTED THIS WEEK .
John Paul Lucas, of Charlotte, in Ral
eigh to Conduct Publicity Campaign
For Governor Morrison's Hog, Hom
iny, Cow and Poultry Program.
11ALEIGH, March 2 A definite start
is being made this week in the work of
pulling over Governor Cameron Morri
son's "Live at Home" campaign, John
I'nul Lucas, of Charlotte, who has been
secured to organize and direct the cam-
'paigii. has opened an office in tho State
Annex, and the pieliminary
'
woili is already under way. The work
in pro peel is nut new to Mr. Lucas, who
had active direction of the Food Pro
duction and Conservation Cirmpiiivjn in
North Carolina during the war, first
with the State Food Commission, and
I later with the I'nited States Food Ad
ministration, and who is "loaned" to
(the state for this partciilar work by !..'
I Southern Public Cliiities Company for
I which he is advertising
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Ourng th
campaign emphasis will be
i., , ,,( upon t h
plodiictiOn of food sni
j pies for the
market. Out upon the prorlii'
! tion by
every family
sulliiient to
of food and
supply its
feed
own
sui'iilie-i
supplie-
......i.lUI
csi.i iiiisi
ment.
More and better gardens,
more poultry, one or more cows foi
each family, and siiflicient hogs to fur- i
nish an a'l year snpp'y of pork will I
be advocated. The new movement'
has tlu wholeheart-"'! backing not only of;
the Department of Agriculture, and the i
State College of Agriculture and En- ,
tineerine. bet :lso of the Department of I
Education, the State Hoard of Health j
and ii'her agencies of the :tate govern j
ment .
The er.mrain whiih is being inangu
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iiu i. 1. 1 ire i ii n ii -.I,. i . ..w.ni. ... ..
pi,,, org-mizatinn to be built up will reach
into every
the state.
township of every county in
DR.
HUBERT WORK TO
SUCCEED W. H. HAYS
WASH I MiTOX, Mnnh 2. Ir. Hu ;
i.... t',...L ,.,..t nai.f'.nt i.fif- '.
IKTI U Iff & . 1" 11 i ji i .-l unnnniiM i -
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master g-:ieral, will succeed Will ll.;aie im reason oi agnation oi tne fiic- ,
Hays, as head of the Postoffice IV- ' tion. j
partmeiit, it was learned definitely to- !
day at the White House.
Dr. Work, whose home is in Pueblo,:
Colo., will take over the postoffice port-j
folio Saturday uhen the resignation ''of j
Mr. Hays becomes effect ive. The liom -j
ination of Dr. Work is expected to be!
s-nt to the Senate fhortly. '
COLDER TONIGHT.
WASHINGTON, March 2. Temper
atures ill be lower tonight in Tennes
see and the east Gulf and South Atlan
tic States, the Weather Bureau an
nounce'! this mornjng.
A disturbance of moderate intensity
was rcpoted this morning over southern
Geogi.i.
Indications are for mostly fair weath
er tonight in states east of the Missis
sippi except that rain is probable in the
south Atlantic States. '.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CALENDAR.
Thursday, March 2.
4:00 p. m. Board of Directors.
7:30 p. m. Pythian Band.
Friday, March 3.
7:30 p. m. Chamber of
merce Gleen Club.
Com-
HIGH SCHOOL DEBATERS
ARE STUDYING THE LEAGUE
. -T-i r-y . ....
more I han Thousand High
School Students Represent -
in Z50 North rum n. H;.k
7 . . " .
a i -.vv i uruig wcr inc
jjx Question.
CHAPKL HILL, N. C March
ino poiiucai paradox ot tho past a
..-..Kue. ,,r n n a ,eaue is causing
many uleeph'Mi nights and the con-
sumption of much midnight oil in over a
1.0UU homes in North Car.''!ia, accord -
nig to figures compiled and data sent I
out by L'. K. nankin, secretary of the'
extension department of tho university.:
The high school triangular debutes wid ;
decide, this issue again. Over a thousand
contestants have entered and over i!"0 j
schools are to engage in the annual dc- i
bate. It is estimated thut approxi
mately 2,000 high school students will
participate in the debates locally, many
of tho entrants being eliminated before
the final speakers are chosen.
The elimination debates will be held
on March -1 in the respective schoo's.
The successful entrants the schools
that win both sides of the question from
competing schools will come to the
university on April (5 and 7 for the finals.
On the night of April 7, tho two surviv
ing teams, will settle the matter of the
State's debuting honors here. One
team will come from the western part of
the State and one from the eastern, ns
lia.s bvn the custom in the past. It
will be the tenth nnnual triaugular de
bate.
Hundreds upon 'hundreds of tho de
bating pamphlets have been sent out up.
on request by the university extension
department. Guilford County leads the
rest of the Stato in the number of
schools entered, eleven coming from that
educational center. Gaston and Bun
combe come second with eight schools
each: Light counties are not represent
ed: Ashe, Graham, Hoke, Mitchell,
Jones, Stokes, Tyrell und Watauga.
The Question.
Statement of the question of debate
is as follows: " Kesolvod, That the
United States should enter the League
of Nations." Coder the affirmative
brief are itemized the following argu
mentative issues:
1. Th
league of nations will prevent
f ut u rc
wars.
2. It will lead to economic benefits of
disarmament and industrial peace.
.1. The league of nations' will prove
to bo in harmony with American ideals. '
4. The league as now constituted will)
prove a useful organ of international
justice and comity. '
.1. America, as the world 's great-
est democracy owes it to herself n..,1 h.
the world
to become a member and n
lender in tho league of nations.
The negative side presents the follow
ing issues: !
I. The league or nations will involve
us in European wars.
2. Th
e league of nations will infringe
our sovereignty.
3. It will disturb our Pan-American
relations.
4. The league of nations is not in har
mony with American ideals and stands
in the way of results it seeks to accom
plish. 5. America should live her own life
and. keep clear of entanglements.
Each issues contains niirnmerous niinnr
subhead developing the point. Out-'
slunding amour; the variou references in'
. "
,'fhe pamphlet are two speeches made bv '
the Inst two presidents. LTnder the af
firmative references is ,i srtoivli bv !
W
"'"""" ii'iii. neiivcrcii in t -on
U . ii': . .. .1 . ... . p
in the Coliseum, September, 1919, while 1
under the division' of the negative side
is incorporated an address by President '
Harding, delivered to the House of Con-
gress. April 12, 1921. A text of the cov-:
enaiit of the league of nations, adopted
by the plenary session of the Peace Con
ferenee. Paris, April 2. 191S. i3 al.o in
cluded in the very interesting and ex
cellently edited debating pamphlet.
THINKS ALL MIDDIES I
SHOUT n nr e.ointtiTrn
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. March 1 . Rear Ad
n:..l l't.... 4.. I I 1. . II X- . , tt
jinifi , iinwii nun I lie i-iouso ,avai 1 om-
.mittee today that nil of the ."41 mem-1
bers of the first cla.-s to be graduated ;
in .Tune ought to receive their commis- i
sions ns officers. i
In advocatinir this action the admiral'
declared a spei dv dtvision should iv-
ni,,de I
ctrfjunty nmong tho inhUhiiimon as to
their future nnd th fYV't mi ihoir nifr- -
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. 1 1 . . A , All (
Deaths
IIUFFSTETLER.
( E. S. Huffstetler, a well-known' resi
dent of the New Hope section of the
county, died at I o'clock this morning
following an illness of a year or more
from dropsy, aged 66. Funeral servi
ces were held at 3 o'clock this afternoon
at New 'Hope Presbyterian church, of
which he had been a member practically
all of his life. Interment was in the
ew Jiope cemetery. Mr. HnlTstetler S ,
wife died several years ago. He leaves
a number of children and a wide eon-j
nectiou, together with a host of friends
to mourn his death. 1
Messrs. sims id inline
1IN POWERFUL SPEECHES
ATCOUNTYS.S. CONVENTION
Mr. Honline Is One of Best
Speakers Ever Heard in Gas
tonia -Speaks on Place of
Education in Religion Mr.
Sims, General Superintend
ent, Has Been Heard Here
. Before Weather Militates
Against Attendance.
I Maxtrrful and inspiring addresses by
i Prof. M. A. Hoiiline. of the International
! 8l""lav Scnod Association .and Mr. D.
" K""" Dup.nutcnuenr. or tne
.North Cam
Carolina Sunday School Associa
tion, featured the sessions of the Gaston
County Sunday School Convention at
the First Associate' Reformed Presbv-
terian Church yesterday. Both shakers
1 held the closo attention of the audio nco
i 0f Sunday School workers and
powerful appeals in behalf of
;
! ' 7
made
bettet
( 0 fr-'
- m
e
Hi '
v MR. D. W, SIMS
GeneraK Superintendent of ths North
Carolina Sunday - School Association,
Who Is One of the Speakers BBefort
the County Sunday School Conven
tion . r '
teaching and training of the young peo
ple. Tho Gaston County Convention opened
yesterday nt 3:30 o'clock. Sessions will
be held today and tomorrow at 3:30 p.'
m. and nt 7:0 p. m. Jdr. Sims and Prof,
Honlino will again bo among the speak
ers. The convention will close with two
sessions tomorrow, the Itrl at the same
hours.
The record of Mlsn Georgia Copelund,
the County secretary indicates that 12
Sunday Schools were represented at the
I openO!? sessions niul- that,' among thoe
present were (5 preachers, 8 Sunday
! School
i Schiwl
suptrintendeiits and ti Sunday;
teachers. , ,
.Mr i'"' address, on "Tho Weak
,in'1 in tho Sunday School" was one of
the most interesting addresses beard tv
'!'C wo,rk,; of the citjr in some time. He
" T1' that, training of the young peo-
pie in t"o teens' was; uiest- important
job for the Sunday School. The chil
dren from birth to thirteen, find ato tht t
"lulls are receiving' ix great deal more
consideration iu our religious education--"
al program, both a to material for in ;
striu-.t ion ami equipment for work. Tho
Children's IHvision and the Adult Divi-t
sion he called the strong links in the
Sunday School, while tho Tennage, or
Young Peopo's Division including pupils,
from l;; to 20 years, is the weak ink. HeV
gave facts and figures to show the weak-1-ness
of the link and also tho importance';
of making it as strong if not strongetv
than the other two. v
If is on this weak link that the devil
generally makes his uttack, said ; the'
speaker, and this is tho place where the
average Sunday School gives the least
help. .Statistics he iwd showed that 71 ,
per cent n nil criminal commit ted their ,
first crime during this .period. Eiirhtv
tour ner cent or a I riiiivcrmnni iuiin
during the same period. Ninety-one per
cent of the decisions for life are made
before the boy or girl are 20 years of
age, and 1)7 per cent of nil missionaries
make their division during that period..
The children's Division is guided by
others: the adult by reason. The vouna
i people are not guided by either. They,
ere pnide.il by the gang. The average boy
'in his teens pays more attention to tho
j opinion of the pang thau lie? docs to his
I father and mother. You might as well
quit trying to drive them. He is as shy
of parental authority as he was shy of
gir' a, few years beforo. . ,
If a boy is net. in Sunday School
! there are general'y three reasons. Ia .
tho first pl.i-V, samo woman is trying to
teadi that class of boys from 1 3 to 20.
I am not criticising women who ar
teachers for when it gets down to techni
cal teaching women are apt to do it
Iftter thnn men. But that isn't all a
boy needs. He needs comradeship and
hadcrahip. The second' reason, there is
liable to be an over-pions man teaching
that class. By over-pious, I mean too
much piety on Sunday as compareel with
what he has the rest of the week. A boy
of that ago can look through you and
tell how pious you are better than any
grown pTson. Be natural. yTbe third
reason for not attending the elass is
that some man or woman is lecturing
the ''class. Tho average boy in his teen
age will have a conversation class insidt
or a conversational class on 1ho outside
and the one in the outside will not be a.
Bible Class.
: Mr. Sim Stated that if he were u
preacher he woud take as his text : Luke
2:52, ''Ami Jesus increased in wislom
and stature and in favor with God ami
Man." Jesus tlevelotxil four ways, and
if you think you can develop one si'V.
two side or three soles or a boy or f r
and build a great charoctur you are i ,
takeii. You have got to save th- v
boy uu 1 thtj. whole girl. .The
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