MILI: flAZETFE
Weather:
Wanner
LocUl Cotton
17 Cents
VOL. XUII. NO. 71.
GASTON I A, N..C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 24, 1922.
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
(MSTON
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FATE OF BONUS BILL IN THE
SENATE IS PROBLEMATICAL;
SHARP CHANGES EXPECTED
Fairly Certain That Bill Will Slumber Quite a
xrri T.i .O-r .1 TL' 1""U 1! XXttll
7 Wmie LOngworin iiuhks iiaruuig vyiii
Sign House Measure- Senate Has Tariff and
Treaty Bills Still on Hand.
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 24. Passed
by tho House lato yesterday by a vote
of 3U3 to 70, tho soldiers' bonus bill
was made ready today for the Senate.
What would happen to it there was re
garded as problematical, but House pro
ponents proposed to use every effort to I
prevent it from being shelved, as wasj
too original bonus measure.
In the long debate which preceded
tho final vote in the Uouso, some speak
ers predicted that the Senate would kill
the bill, while others apparently were
hot over optimistic as to the chances
of its passago in its present form.
Whatever its ultunate fate, it appear
ed fairly certain that the bill would
rlumber for quite n while at tho other
end of the capitol, where already tho
calendar is congested with treaties and
annual supply bills with the pcrniaiteut
tariff bill yet to be reached,
: Thero were those who believed that
tho Senate, finance committee, to which
tho bill would be referred in the natur
al course, would make sharp chunges in
it, Some administration officers were
knowu to look to the .Senate to. pass a
measure providing means for iiuaneing
tho bonus, but tiny were not prepared
to predict whether the means would be
taxes or thwuno of foreign bonds.
President Harding has been repre
sented as looking with favor on the fi
nancing of the legislation with refund
ed foreign bonds provided they were in
hand before the bill was pa. sod. While
the measure wus in the niakine by the
Houko ways and means committee, the galleries been jammed as they were to
Executive.' according to some' members ' day from the time Speaker Gillett 's
of that committee, hiiggeste.l a delay of!
9t) days in tho belief that the treasury
would by then be in possession of some
of the British bond. There was some
discussion in the Uomie yesterday as to
whether tho J'resuhHit would approve I
the biil in its proscnt form, with neon-,
Diet in the opinions expressed . Kepre- j
sftitative Longworth, Republican, said;
that while., ho would not presume to i
speak tor the Executive, he had reason j
to believe that Mr. llardiug would sign j
tho House cieasuro if it reached him
without changs. On the other ham
Kepre: entativo Snyder, Kepublienn, who
said he had ta.kcd with 'Mr.
lust week, declared he would
Harding '
be "ex-!
cecdingly surprised '
signed it.
if the Executive
!
WASHINGTON. March 23. The
four billion dollars soldier's bonus bill
was passed tonight by the house by an
overwhelming majority. It now goes to .
the Senate where its fate is regarded as
uncertain. I
The vote was 3M to 70, or 61 more
than the two-thirds majority necessary
for Passage of the measure under tho;
parliamentary procedure selected by Ho-!
publican leaders for the express purpose,
of preventing the Democrats from offer-!
ing a motion to recommit. j
Tarty lines disappeared both in the;
general debate and on the final roll call,1
010 V-..,Kl;nt.o OO 11.ininirita nnA mm
.. S -4 m JI UU 1, UV . ' V v . .A .1 u..u
socialist supporting th- bill and 42 Re-j
publicans and 2S Democrats voting oa- j
gainst it.
Ready Cash For Some.
Aa passed by the house, the bonus
bill would provide for immediate
cash payments to veterans whose ad
justed service pay would not exceed
S0, and would give the other veter
ans the option of these four plans:
Adjusted service certificates, with
Dead Since Feb. 15 Comes
Back To Banquet In Spirit
Dr
. James M. Peebles, Los Angeles Scientist, Sends "From Be
yond" Message to Friends Is Exploring the Moon and
Journeying Among the Stars.
LOS ANGELE8. March 24. Dr. I the physical side the diet and excrcis
Jamcs Martin feeble, physician and tSto lengthen tho rears. It is a crime
scientist, dead siuco February. 15. not j f ,. d hundred years. "
a.,1. nttanilit.l In tha mint n hnnmin 4 '
reteorate nis centennial, but nas sent
back "from beyond" at least ono nies
scge, guests assembled to honor his
memory said last night.
Dr. Guy Bogart, -head of the Longer
Life League, stood beside nn empty
chair at the hamiet and announced that
Dr. "Peebles) "is with us, sitting in this
chair."
Later Dr. Bogart read a message lie
stated he bad received from Dr. Pee
bles since tho latter 's death, through
the lato Herman Kuehn, publisher of
Chicago. He explained that because
of Dr. Teeble 's short life ' beyond "
VA word to Guy (Dr. Bogart), aud
tha Longer Life League friends," the!
message said. "I knew in my inner
most vision that I would celebrate my
centennial bcyn,l tno gates but that
I would be with the Longer Life
League 'in the spirit' as well. It made
little differeee, to mo ou which side of
the gate I made. the celebration. Guy
reralls that I told him a couple of
years ago that I was anxious to explore
the moon and go journeying amoug the
itars. Well, I am getting my wishes
gratified. And the old rheumatism . is
a thing 'of the past.
"In. the service of loe you will find
yoitr nmw for living. It will make
jour Ufa fuil and overflowing.. Watch,
provisions authorizing loans by banks
in the first three years after next
October 1, and by the government ,
thereafter; the certificates to run
for 20 years and to hare a face value
at maturity of the amount of the
adjusted service credit at the rate
of $1 a day for domestic service
and $1.25 a day for foreign service,
increased by 2$ per cent plus inter
est at the rate of 4 1-2 per cent
compounded annually.
Vocational training aid after
January, 1923, at the rate of $1.75
a day, the total payments not. to ex
ceed, however, 140 per cent of the
adjusted service credit.
Home And Farm Plan.
Farm and homo aid under which vet
erans may purchase or improve farms or
homos would bo paid after July 1, 1923,
. Kuin equal to their adjusted service
credit increased by 25 per cent
Land settlement, under which lands
would bo reclaimed under tho supervi
sion of a special board and farm units
established for sale to tho veterans at a
prico fixed by the board less the amount
of tho adjusted service credit due the
purchasers.
In oniy two important particulars does
this measure differ from tho one passed
use two years ago and that w.s
shelved in the bona to iast July. Tho
original cash bonus option was eliminat
ed and the bank loan provision of tho
ijust.d service certificate title sub
stituted.
Not since the war days have the house j
nvel fell at 11 a. m. until the last vote
enveloped the capitol. And not in many
years havo such scenes been enacted on
tho flour where there frequently was an
uproar with alternate applause, laughter
and jeers.
Galleries Pro-Bonus,
Like tho house itself, the galleries
were pro-bonus and supporters of the bill
were frequently applauded despite the
infringement on the rules which this
entailed. But the greatest applause whs
not for a proponent but an opponent
the members and many of the spectators,
rising and tendering an
ovation to
"Uncle ,loe" Cannon as
the grizzled
holder of tho American record for length
of legislative service arosts late in tho
j day to deliver a two-minute speech m
which h declared that tho men who ser
ved in the world war owed that son-ice
to their country.
In all there was slightly more than
five hours of discussion with 75 of tho
4:15 members taking part in it. Tran-!
scripts of their remarks would fill about
two ordinary newspapers. Many of j
them were on their feet only a minute j
or two, or three, but
tho hotiso gavel
unanimous consent for all members to
extend their remarks in The Congreswion-
al Kecord during the next five days and
editions of that volume during that time
promise to bo exceedingly bulky.
ifirnnionta ntvnillat tha hill UtrA HlOrC
-I' h """ " Pi '-
frequent than those in its favor, due to j
the fact that many Democrats who an-1
1 flint thev would sunoort it
vigorously attacked somo of its provisions
and the Ways nnd Means Committee for
failure to provide means of financing the
bonus.
In the course of tho debate the meas
ure was referred to as a "gold brick,"
a "bogus" bill, a " hokuspokus " and a
"deformed and malf Mined creature."
"This one word more: I am glad 1
to add n:y testimony to the fact that !
there is 110 death. "
Dr. Peebles before his death told
friends he intended to attempt to com- (
municate with them, as ho had been t
deeply interested in various forma
Of t
psychic research.
The program included a speech by
Dr. George A. Morrison, who will be
102 ou Juno 4, next.
A memorial sendee for Dr, Peebles
was held last night at a Los Augeles
auditorium.
Cotton Market
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET
NEW YORK. March 24. Cotton fu
tures cloW weak.
May 17.71 ; July 17.21; Octolier 1G.S4;
December 16.73; January 16.65. -
TODAY'S COTTOSIMET
Cotton seed .5tc
Strict to good middling ..,,....,...17:
COMBINATION OF THREE
N.C. STATE EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS PROPOSED
University, State College and
Woman's College Would be
Combined Under Proposed
Plan Into "The University
' of North Carolina," Making
It Greatest in South Gov
ernor to Name Special Com
mittee to Consider Propos
al. RALEIGH, March 23 Consolida
tion of the State university, tho State
College of Agriculture and Engineering,
and the Woman's college at Greensboro
into one ' ' University of North Caro
lina" will be considered by a sjKHiial
committee to be appointed tomorrow by I
Governor Morris.m. composed of trustees
of each of the three institutions. !
The decision to submit the proposal
for the consolidation of the three insti- j
m nulla uus iiMuiiiiiiee,ii iixiay iv mo irov-
ernor after plans had been suggested to
educators and favorublo response had
been made.
The plan would involve no radical
changes in the existing system of or
ganization. The colleges, of course,
would not be moved from their present
locations, but they would be under one
general directing head, and special
courses would be divided among tho three
institutions, much in the same order as
at present.
The consolidation would make the
university the liiggest in tho south and
one of the foremost in the country. The
total enrollment would bo around five
thousand, and the governor and educa
tors who have commented on the scheme
are of the opinion that more effective
work would be made possible.
The ilan has not advanced beyond the
stage of a proposal, but it will receive
careful consideration by this special
committee from the three boards. The
committee will be asked to make a thor-
oueh investigation with tho idea of de-
,, u ' ".ZZr
either of the colleges would bo handi
capped, and tho many other matters that
must bo cnreful'.y looked into. It then
will report to the trustees as to the ad
visability of carrying out the proposal. .
The governor is submitting the plan as
chairman of the board of trustees of the
university, chairman of the board of trus
tees of State college and chairman of the
state board of education.
Tf fvnrlir!nHnn should be effected, a
vnunsr man or woman would not cut
State college or the Woman 'S college b. t
tho University of North Carolina an.
which of the three institutions he or slii
woud be assigned to would depend upon
the course of stu.lv desired. The con
solidation would make possible specializa
tlou in all branches of work now exist
ing in the three colleges.
COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS
FOR BIG GOAL STRIKE
General Policy Committee
Meets Behind Closed Door:
to Perfect Final Plans For
Big Strike.
(Bv The Associated Tress.)
CLKVKLAXD. O.. March 24 The
general policy committee of the United
Mine Workers of America met here to-
. . .
day to complete arrangements for put
ting into effect what international Pres
lent John L. Lewis declared will b
"the greatest strike in history." The
mpctiug was held behind closed doors,
but it was understood steps would be
taken to arrange and conduct the strike
without leadership from tho time it
starts April 1 .
Full powers to conduct the affairs of
tha union during the suspension of work
was vested in the policy committee by
tie miners in convention at Indiannpo
lis last month. The committee also has
tiie authority to negotiate ror a new
wage agreement between the miners and
operators.
One of the most important questions
expected to be decided by the committee
is whether dhtrirt unions shall be al
lowed to enter into separate agree
ments with the mine owners. At their
Indianapolis convention the miners vot
ed rgainst regional conferences.
The subject was expected to bring to
tho fore th" iong' standing factional
fight between President Lewis and
Frank Farrington, president of the II
Ihioismi ners. Farrington was said to
lie prepared to demand that regional
conferences lie permitted.
He is said
I to have many supporters.
I Minn owner vrhn livo her Yiirpftnil
iir,!K,s that Lewis and Farrington would
n,:u.h Krw,n0t . Thev claim that
,hl, f the coal trade- of t h e
creut 1.-ilceM iw :i ffei'tei! thi nntrr.
versy .
TEX RICKARD SAYS HE
CAN PROVE ALIBI.
By The Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, March 24. Opening
the defense of Tex Kickard, charged
with criminally assaulting 13-year-old
Sarah 8choenfeld, counsel for Kick
ard today told the jury that a perfect
alibi would be proved for November
12. 1921, the date of the alleged of
fense. Max Steur, chief defense counsel, al
so set forth that the two apartments
! oh West 47th street, mentioned in con
nection with the case, had been Tented
by Richard while be was arranging the
Deuirwey-Willard fight in
(store his liquors, because ho
Toledo to
saw prohi
bition ecnung
Rickard. Steur said, never had been
in the suites in his life, and had gone
to the apartment rouses themselves on
ly twice, to
ascertain from tho janitor
Irars were O. K.K
that his cell
ANCESTORS OWNED STATE
OF NEW JERSEY, EIGHTS
TO REGAIN 15,000 ACRES.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, of Atlantic;
City, a descendant of one of the thir-'
teen original proprietors ot the State of
new Jersey, has fonned a coiporation
to go to court with a claim lor 11,000
acres of land whfrh was given in a
grant by Queen Anne, of England, in
1693. Mrs. Clark has called a meet
ing of the descendants ot the thirteen
original ownen to push a campaign for
resuiuuon 01 iana auegea 10 nave Doea
sold without authority and clear title.
Z.
nnvo nilTimssnrn Tiir
HUla uUINurcmrH Tnr
"WiiwmuLii I ML.
GIRLS IN DEBATE i
i - . . .
triangular u.Dates will lake:. , i V r V. i, ,
Ui .T , , , to be selected by Mr. Jtess tor cxperi-
JTlace 1 tiroUgtlOUt the Mate mental purposes and tlu.se farmers who
Tonight League of Na-i wish tu avail themselves of this oppor
tions to Be Debated. ftunity are urged to sco Mr. (esa soon.
While no device or method has been
( HAPEL HILL, March 2.!. -- Boys found to entirely exterminate tho wee
will outnumber girls in the triangular de-1 vil, the Di-partment authorities have
bates of the High School Debating lnion demonstrated bevond a doubt, that the
i me liiufuc ot .auons, to De tiei.t in
-ou communities ot the State on Friday,1
March L'4. ;
Two hundred school have forwarded
the names of their debaters to the e
tral committee here, and nniiouncement
n.-is inaue louay ly 1'.. n. KaliK.il, M cie-
rl'ary, mat tliese records show
i total of
4t0 boys ami .U0 girls. Fifty schools
luive notyet filed the names of their ih-J
aters, but it thought that these late r,-
will make no material difference in
'" 'io '
Filu :i dioo!s will be represented by j
teams coioj.csed altogether of girls: Max- ,
ton, Roanoke Hanids. bwannonoa. JSimw '
Hill, Kobenlel, Arcadia, Cerro Gordo, ,
GibsonviJIe, (ilenwood, Drexel, Kllerhe,'
Kenly. Mt. Pleasant. Xehn and Harris-'!
burg. j
Forty-ene schools will be represented1
by teams composed altogether of boy: I
Albermarle, Wilmington, Winston Salem, '
Apex, Asheboro, Carthage, Farm School.
Falcon, Graham, (ilade Valley, Concord,,
Cary, Dell, Fairmont, Friendship, K.-i-ti
Spencer, Fruitland, Kings Mountain, M'.
Holly, High Point, Jamestown, Leak'- i
ville, Littleton, SuninierficM, Stem, Sand1
Hill, Sparta, Stovall. Stonewall, Stony
Point, Smithfield, Xorlina, I'nicy Creek.
Pittsboro, Rockwe'l, Yancey Institute,
Soul hmont, Vaneeboro, I'nionville, Tyro
and Wesley Cliapel.
Only once since the annual di baiitig
contests were inaugurated ten years ag
has the Aycock Memorial ('up been mi
by a girl's team. In UU.'i Misses I.all.i
Rookh Fleming and Ktlic! Gardner, rep-
resenting the Wilson High sriiool, won
the award of the trophy cup. In all;
other yea is tho trophy u; lat gone to;
teams composed cither of ihh !evs or i
a boy and a e'r' I
THOUSANDS ATTEMPT
RUN ON CHICAGO BANK.
(hv The Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, March 24 - A special de
tail of 2,') police, armed ith ritl s, was
called upo'i today to control thousand
of persons who be. ieged 1h Northwest
ern Trust & Savings Haik to withdraw!
their deposits fol'owing f;.ls- minor
that the condition of the institution
wnsu nstable. J
Several women were crushed in the i
scramble to enter the bank. Their in !
juries and the fear of hundred of oth
er depositors Were the outgrowth of J
f-ilse rumors concern inc the bulk's li-.
nanci.M strength. Bank official.! were j
nayil'g out money ns t'jsl as the de I
positors could lie served and other bank- '
were said to lie ready to supply all the '
cash needed. ;
John F. Sinuiski, presidii't of the
bank, announced an offer of reward '
of .j,0(i0 for the identity of the ierson
resiiousiblc for the falm rumors.
The bank Mas ds dared by bunk ex
amiiicrs as the btrongest bank iu Chi- 1
cago in iroportion to its size. The,
'ast statement shotted esoortes approx- !
imately of 20,(U)0,niMJ and i!emsits of '
iN.tH'tO.OHO. I
The Federal reserve bank of tthieh'
the Northwestern is a member sent
7.H,00( in an armored car to the be '
. ieged l.aiik 1 he Continental, and I
Commercial National Bank sent I,0(lO-1
EXPORTS IN FEB8UA2Y
TOTALLED 338,440 BALES 1
WASHINGTON, Mar h 24.--Ameri-j
ean exports of raw cotton including;
linters during February were j
bales valued at il,113,fi!IO, comjared I
with 4?:i,4L'6 bales, valmnl t 142,040,
llj, expurted in February a year ago. J
Kxports of raw cotton for the eight j
months eudlng FTbruarywore 4.521,072 1
bales, valued at .ISS,3122-i omparel
with 3,741.010 bates . valued at 4491,-'
349.810, for eight orth -rcdiiig
FebrnaT 1 yt-ar ag
T
! .
HERE'S HOPING THEY PAY
SOME HEED TO THIS
WASHINGTON, March 24. Ex
peditous handling of newspapers is
urged on Postal employes in a state
ment by John H. Bartlett, new first
assistant postmaster general, publish
ed ttday in the Postal Bulletin.
"Despite repeated instructions for
the prompt handling of daily news
papers," the statement asserts,
"many compliant are made of delay
in receipt of this class of mail.
"This condition is irritating to
subscribers and inexcusable ftom a
service standpoint. Unless received
promptly a newspaper has little or no
news value, and the postal service
reaps the criticism of delay.
"Postmasters are therefore urged
to see that all daily newspapers,
both outgoing and incoming, are
handled immediately upon receipt in
their offices, to the end that we may
have a satisfied public and an ap
pieciative press."
TO HELP GASTON FARMERS
FIGHT THE BOLL WEEVIL
j Manager Cess, of Southern
! Cotton Oil Company, to In-
troduce Dusting Machine in
County This Summer Cal
cium Arsenate to Be Spray
ed on Growing Cotton Ten
Experimental Farms to Be
Selected.
Through
Kln.v He km,
tiie
th.
1o'-ji 1 representative J
Southern Cotton
UU
ebyl
j t'ompnnv I'" announced a plan whereby
I 11 nope i m-ip uic couon growers in1
1 their liht against the boll weevil. -
! Machines to luat the growing plant with
j calcium arsenate have been perfected ami
I MalllK' r J' wi" m,vo i"M of tll0SO,
i machines for use in (iastou county this -
ner. llnrty acres per dav can he,
red by one of the machines. It is.
pulled by one mulo and covers threoj
i ,.,.!.. t i;..... T,. f,.,. nr..
; application of alcium Arsenate, prop
erly applie
,.m,, k i,,,,,.
ennmd, to nllow the. Cotfoni
ui Lrti.i. I in iimniiT in:
. . . .
I'lant t,j develop a full set of bolls.
There are those who believe that th"
measures of control as recommended and
iloinon-drated by the Depiirtmnt of Agri
culture, ure tin lust that have been
proposed. As an expression of confi-1
deuce in the practicability of these
methods of weevil control, the Atlantic'
Coa-t Line liailrond, Geo. H. MeFaddenJ
& J',10.. Sxivanunh. Ga.. 8. M. Bully
,, . - . in:
n. Savannah, (ui.. cotton factors, (.iti-,
, , . , 1
111. Sl.itiflnipii llniilr Hn V tin ;lh n Till
Barrett Cotton Company, Augustn.l
i.ompany, vikuki" . l
with Tho Southern.
Ga., in conjunctien
Cotton Oil Company and tho Virginia
Carolina tlieinical Company, who iuitia
ted the undertaking, have jointly Rlil)
tcri'oed to a fund to be used in carrying
nit such demonstrations on cotton farms.
In accordance with the arranged
program, it is proposed to conduct dem
onstrations at approximately forty-two
points adjacent to the mill and factory
ooints of the Southern Cotton Oil Com-
pany and the Virginia-Carolina Chemical
Com puny in the States of North (Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
In all, demonstrations will be carried
out en something like Ihree hundred
farms in the Cotton Belt. At each of
these locations six or eight Jarms win
be selected on which Calcium Arsenate' uy an 0,i,is Thursday's gathering was
ducting operations will be conducted and oll'0f t10 greatest meetings in the inter-j
specific directions given the grower iu',. meetings in the interest of tho Le-'
.,,... r.l 1., Hi- nr.'ti.'i r.ition of the hind.' ..;,, .,. i..,i,i ; e,.iio r. in (ttinm.. I
f. rtili.ation, planting, cultivating inc
crop and th. application of Calcium Ar
senate, each step taken to bo in line:
with the 1 roved ispeneiiee ot the IHua
Laboratory of the Cnited States
partua nt of Agriculiure.
De-
THE WEATHER
North Carolina, fair and warmer to
night; Saturday increasing cloudiness.
Expedition To Patagonia To
Capture Prehistoric Creature!
. . .,. n . !
Buenos Aires Zoological Experts Set Out to or Capture,
Pleimnsurus. Meatherium.
Monster Is Named.
UCKNOS AIHKS, Mai.di 2".
The elalwuat. iirraugeineiiti for t'.ie
captnr' or destruetioii of the An
lo 'uroiiist ic creaturi1 reortcd to
l.riv. U-eii s'tii in an Aiiliiin lake
Irne bi-i 11 male by the ixelition
v.hich left tonight (Thursday 1 tor
I'atagonia under the aus dies of the
I'.ieiios Aires zoological garden.
The memlM-r of the party are
all "eil armed, earning e'ephaut
ri:l. s and la-oeS. A ii'iantity of
1 plosive is a!-o leir.g taken, with
l.ii-h to mine the lake and thus
sc:;ro out tho monster l-e it pies
iiis.ui 1 -.is, glyptodon or megatheri
um, as variously reported.
The zoo 's tiixiilcrn.isf is taking
aloi.g embalming materials for use
in case the beast is killed. A11
tit'uer item of the outfit is it gaso
line motor with which to prolyl
the boat to be constructed on the
shores of the lake. The expe-li-tiou
will procied by mil to Neu
qucn, tln'uce by ramioui to Bari
loch and from there oa hordes in
to the ternary of Cbubcf. where
the lake is situated ud miles from
n s.-ttletuvt ealied "18 de Oetu
Ue." 1'rof. OueLf, director of the roo,
Care of Disabled Veterans and
"Americanism" Are Two Big
Jobs of The American Legion
These Two Together With Drive For Members
Constitute Legion's Program in North Caro
lina, According to Outlines at District Rally-
Here Cole K. Burgess Furnishes Keynote
Speech of Meeting With Powerful Plea For
Wounded and Scathing Denunciation of Anti
American Propaganda.
"As long as 40,000 former ser
vice men in America languish in
hospitals, 10,000 of whom are in
sane and dying of tuberculosis, neg
lected by an ungrateful nation; as
long as Eugene V. Debs walks free
and unrestrained in America; as
long as Grover C. Bergdoll flaunts
his insolence in the faces of Ameri
can war mothers, and as long as the
railroads, mines and ship owners get
their millions in subsidies from a
grateful nation while thousands of
disabled veterans are dying for the
lack of treatment, the war is not
over, and it is the job of the Ameri
can legion to make this country
realize it,' ' declared Cale K. Burgess
in the keynote speech of a great
American legion rally, held hero
Thursday.
Audience Is Thrilled.
Mr. TtnnrPBQ la f n.lintnnl: f tiv'
American legion, and his speech, coming,
nt the conclusion of a banauet served bv'
i nt the conclusion of a banquet served by'
the Uaston county war mothers anu
woman's ouxiliiiry to WO servieo men of
the county and visitors from the ninth
congressional district, fired his audienco
with a thrill they havo not experienced
since the davH of 1917-18.
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mentioned
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1 ,,lir,ll,lK central theme of
every
sp.iaker, and there were many of them,!
was, first, care for the disabled veternns
in an,l cut of hospitals, and Amerieaniza-j
I
Eugene Debs, Bergdoll, Victor Berger,'
the I. W. W., tho Soviets, the Milwaukee1
teuton movement, and George Harvev.i
"the arch-enemy of Woodrow Wilson, '
were scathingly denouncod by every
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11 11 wnKu'ar fact, and one
com-
uiented on, that among this largo gather-;
ing of service men, not once was tho mat-:
ter of a bonus for themselves mentioned.
All the talk was for the sick and wound
ed soldiers and for a better understand, thing from the "Old Gray Mare" on
ing by the people of what the American, down. Tho spirit of the army was thor
Igiun stands for. oughly in evidence and tho Legion's
"The American legion is destined to' ideals Were uppermost. Presiding was
become the greatest organization in Commander of Gaston. Post, No. 2.'l,
America," said Stato Chaplain Viekers. Danieron If. Williams. Throughout tha
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'and will become tho backbone of all,
-iiiiui Acaiiinni on llll t:jllbljlL'U.. lli will,
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seo that in futuro years
America goes,
rii'ht "
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viniuiuviia ai vkchi 1
Charles A. Sloane, editor of The Qtecn
, w,g.u vi,v .),ivii iu J.UU, H49 UU Ui. 111' UJSli SIJrilftCIB IIIA.
the State, deelare.i that in the Oteen hos-! he: told of th" awful tragedies being en
pital thero wero 1,000 men fighting al acted at the hospital.' ".There are na
; grim bnttle with the great whito plague,;
: but, even as they fought the Huns on tho;
other side, they are meeting death with
a smile. A word and a mossage from the
outside cheers them wonderfully !
State Commander Tom Bird and the
executive committee of the Legion, to
gether with a number of visitors from
Charlotte, Hickory, Newton and Shelby,
met here in the district rally, and as one
result the legion post hero has received
1 a lug boost. Nearly 100 members were
added
IIH HOl ,
ill be felt throughout tho entire Ninth!
i- tpil.r 1
Beginning at
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30 the day's activities
I,,. i.jn M-illi an nviwinf t I'll inrnmtttAA mi.pt
inc- whi'n tho American Lesions "Sor-:
i.-.i o n.l rf.mtuttifiiti.in 11:111 ' Tt'ftfl ill ft
caused. Under this plan an exhaustivej
questionnaire is being prepared for form-
er service men to answer and file with !
Legion headquarters. The information;
ontained therein gives all the necessary!
data concerning the former service man's!
1
Glyptodon or Whatever tne
who organized the expeilition, has
directed that, if it fails to find the
animal after six weeks' search the
party shall proceed to other parts
of Patagonia. He said to the cor
respondent :
"I am laughed at, but I am con
vinced that some large, strange ani
mals exist in Patagonia. When.
Theodore Kooscvelt visited Argen
tina he was presented with a frag
ment of hide picked up in Patago
nia ith long hair still attached to
it. The hide was a half inch thick
and curiously reinforced beneath
the surface with tiuy rods of bone.
It must hare belonged to some ani
mal recently alive. What was it!
Mrs. Clark Howell Dead.
(By The Associated Tress.)
ATLANTA, Ga.. March 24. Fun-
eral services for Mrs. Clark Howell, I
wife of the editor and general- manager
of 'The Atlanta Constitution, and a
member of one of Georgia 's most prom
inent f smiles, who died last night, vcro
set for lato today with interment to
follow at Westvievr cemetery here.,
compensation elaiais. state of health, war
risk insurance, etc. Tho questionnaire Js
.re pa red nt National headquarters
ami in beins sent out through State ad
jutants and through them to every post
in the country. There are 50 or more
question in the list and the information
thus secured will give an accurate line o
the status of every former service man
in the nation. ,
Present at tho afternoon sessiqa wer
Messrs. Victor Khaw, head of the Char
lotte pot, Joe Murphy, of Hickory and
' if i WKJV
gentlemen gavo a short account Of wliat
tho Legion was doing in their respective
towns. The Shelby post has the finest
club rooms in the State, it is said. Tho
Hickory post is tho owner of a swimming
pool which is going to furnish finances
to liuihl a permanent home for the legion
in that city. The Charlotte post has
l'1"" "n foot tO build 8 73,000 homft
" ' 1 ' l" lu""' mrougn uu
i1- nn'1 L- Commander Shaw announce
that on May 20 the Uhailotto post with
National Commander1- JIanford MacNi
der ns special truest would pull off tho
biggest May 201 h celebration ever held
in the State. Commander Shaw an
uounced that the staging of boxing bout,
wrestling mutches and other forms of en-
curiug attendance at his post. Others
who nnidn nhort Hiehpa wpro W. , H.
Charles' and T. L. Alexander, of Cliar
lotto, Pat MeBrayer, of helbv, J. W. V
piess. of Marion and representative of
nn'u I'uoi. lio. w. unit
Wilkes, of Charlotte, representing tha
Woman's Auxilinry, spoke a few words
pledging the support of tho Auxiliary.
i l was at i.ue uanquct, at o:ou wut-ii
230 servieo men of tho county gathered
that the real spirit of the day was mani-
fest. The Wrar Mothers and Woman's
Ti . .1. i. L -1. e.ln l
Auxiliary had prepared s feed of ham,
pickles, potatoes, eggs, rolls, coffee, ice
cream and cake (with seconds), Todd's
band wa there and they played every
evening there; were selections from th
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ivinams Uliiii ft, Aiiuiup. MIM3J,
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Williams and Thompson, and their usual
' stix k of ,' funny tuph "3 brought down
lyy jwjiiii. j . ' t i . i I '
Mr,. Clias. i SJoaue.'iof tho Oteori
thousand of these boys at Oteen whd '
will never leave, there except iii a coffin.
Last month 17 died. They aro fightinjt
a wonderful battle for life against tuber .
culosis, and they are so lonely and for
gotten." ' ' . .--,:
"pay after day," he said, "they aro
lying flat on their backs with no hope,
110 future save that oftmoeting death,
nnd they are facing tho grim white inon- .
ster even as they fai-ed it in the trenches
and on Xo Man's Land in France."
.e made a touching plea for the 'sick
end wounded. Mr. Sloane himself wan.
a patient nt the hospital, but has recov
ered and is now editor of The Echo, tho
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Rev. T. O. vickora, of Henderson,
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"'aio v-napiam, was 1110. next spcaner
ana no ineau lor lite meats 01 me Ainon
l'an M.r"n,
' This organization is des
tined to become tho greatest power in
eountry," he said. "Itsob is ta
s taat Amer-ca keeps straight. Thera
agencies at work in the Ian that
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besinirx-h ideals of Amerieaaisin
the Legion's duty to WO "that i
is kept right."
America
Mr. Vickers denounced tho , skulking
characters who hid behind the uniform
to cover violations of the law. "Just
because a mail wore tho khaki," ho said,
"there is no reason why ho should gain
immunity for his wrong doing, and I
here and now denounce snih a man as &
dastardly coward."
It remained, however, for Cale K.
Burgess to electrify the crowd.
previous to Us speech tho audience
i-a.i bxa growing testiess. Men ero
leaving and the women were busily re
moving plates, Bmokes were eing
passed around and solicitors were pass
ing among the tables collecting Legion
dues for the local post. Many in the
audience were preparing to leave when
Burgee was introduced. Burgess ha
done more for. the Legion than any ma rt
iu North Carolina, lie haa been adju- .
tant since its organization. IIo b 1
young lawyer of Italoigh.
Before ho had been speaking flva
minutes he had his audienco and seldom
lmve they ever heard such a speech on
Americanism and the neglect of dis
abled soldiers. . Beginning . with tha
manner in which the American fighting
man marched away to war, the plaudits
and huzzas hurled his way, the acclaim
with which the heroes werw greeted and
ihe similar outburst of hero-worshitf
when the first contingents Tcturuod, Bur
gess traced the growing neglect . an I
shameful treatment the government ba
aecorded its veterans. He cited case af
ter case of gross neglect. f'Many of
them," he declared.'. 'aro being arol
for in criminal and charitable institn-
tions, whit' our rich and -powerful gov
eminent Vt-'wi ; miiioas ia subside 1 '
on the chipp-n? tru-r, tU? railrca is, t'.-
njiS,.L.d t'.. Z crii' r w tnr..
Wia.tbe tUi t t g'sleHr;: f