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TOM1 MMEi Q QMS METTE Local Cotton 17 Cents GASTON I A, N. C TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 4, 1922. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS VOL. XLIII NO. 80. Weather: Fair UEGKLEIIBURG FARMERS VAriT ASSESSMEHTS PUT BACK Oil FORMER BASIS Fkvor Old Time Way of Val uing Real Estate at Half or Two Third of It Value ' Which Means Income Val- ue Not Marketable Value Many Speeches at Monday Meeting in Charlotte. (Charlotte News.) Mecklenburg farmers, who largely constitute the organization now making an iuquiry into taxes, are in favor of returning to the old hunt of land as sessment, namely, one-third of its mon ey value, or the basis uion which real estate wus assessed prior to the enact ment of the revaluation, At the April nmrs meeting of the in quiry followers held Monday in the chamber of -commerce, L. II. Robin on sought a test of sentiment on this question and was greeted by an over whelming show of hands in favor of the old system. He said he would pre sent the formal resolution at the May meeting petitioning the members of the Legislature from this county to allow Mecklenburg to return to the old basis. The second indication of sentiment on this issue came in the applause which E. M. Cole frequently drew from the audience as he, with blackboard and figures, sought to prove to the assem bly, that only by a return to that sys tem would the taxation now resting burdensomely upon the farmers be shifted to make the owners of personal property bear their part of the general load. Mr. Cole 'unresitatiiigly voiced his advocacy of the return. The crowd was with him. He declared that taxes now falling uikiu farmer.) and nil real es tate owners could be reduced by :'.0 to 40 per cent by several propositions which he had to' offer by way of rem dy. All of them were predicated upon a return to another system of assess ment, for farm proinrty and the varied licreentage of tax reduction which, he said, could be realized, was contingent upon imaginary rates which Mr. Cole fixed. Assessment Is Issue. Mr. Cole said that the rate of taxa tion amounts to nothing, that the crux of taxation problem lies in the assess ment, and he believed that the framers of the Constitution knew what they were talking about when they said that taxes ought to be levied upon the "money value" of all property. Ho aid that up to three years ago, the best thought in taxation was agTeed that "money value" meant, income, but three years ago it was suddenly a greed that this should be interpreted to mean "marketable value." He de clared that this bad been responsible for the shift or the tinmen over ine, necks of the farmers who "are being , made to carry more than their propor tionate share, of the load." Mr. Cole declared that taxes in this county have increased 111 per cent with in the past two years". It makes no (Continued on page three.) KU KLUX KLAN IS SMOOTH SYSTEM TO CHLOROFORM GOVERNMENTSAYS JUDGE If Permitted to Continue Will Overthrow the Government Declares Federal Judge Wilson, of Texas District Says It Is Form of Anarch ism. (Bvr The Associated Tress.) W E AT II KR FOR I, Texas. April 1. Kxproising opposition to everything that the Ku Klux Klnn stands for, "As far as I know," Federal Judge James ('. Wilson, of the northern district of Tex as, in un address before the Weather ford Chamber of Commerce last night, declared that Senator Culberson "did not miss it far" when he said that if permitted to continue the Klan would soon overthrow the Government". The Federal judge stated that it was noth ing more than a form of anarchism which opcruted by first getting as lnem lers the sheriffs, then the police, trial judges and preachers. "It is a smooth System of chloroforming the Government under the plea of 100 per cent Ameri canism.'' Giving two 'remedies for the success ful curbing of the organization, the judge stated that public sentiment would force it to earth. As another remedy, he said, to "mob the mob." This, he declared, could be done with out violation of the law for the con stitution gives the individual the right to protect his life and his property . from the attacks of another. Judge V.jlson asserted that he was strongly against the anti-Ka Klax Klan as he ' was -against the Klan. "All mobs are ; bad," he stated. Ia' conclusion the judge urged the arming of all jails with machine guns and men to man them, so that mot j- which attack jail to obtain possession i prisoners eould be thwarted. PREDICT LEGION AND A. T. OF L. WILL WORK TOGETHER (By The Associated Press.) OKLAHOMA 11 TY, OK.LA., April 3. I'reiliction that the American legion and the America Fcleration of Labor ' "srill -be found working hand in hand through all the years to come for the - benefit of all their members and the good f to conntTT" was made hers last rrght by Hanford MatfNeider,' national com mander of the Lesion. - WILURD CITES FIGURES REFUTING TESTIMOHY OF WILLIAM G. M'ADOO Shows That Railroads Moved - Only Two Per Cent More Traffic in 1918 Than in 1917 McAdoo Charges That Roads Had Broken Down in 1917. (By The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 4. Figures showing the railroads of the country moved only two per cent more traffic in 1918 than iu 1917 were cited by Duuiel Willard, president of the Balti more & Ohio Railroad Company, be fore the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee today to refute the recent testimony of William G. McAdoo, for mer director general of railroads, to the effect that the roads nad broken down in the latter year before being placed under Government control. Mr. Willard appeared at a resumption of the committee's investigation into the general railroad situation. Asserting he was unable to "find anything in the record to justify, the statement that the railroads in this country have ever broken down, either before, during or since Federal con trol," Mr. Willard declared the "se rious situation" which developed underi the war load in 1917 might rather bej. attributed to a "failure, if not a breakdown, of our system of railroad regulations as then in effect." Rapidly mounting operatiug expen ses in 1917, were proving a serious fi nancial problem for many of the roads, he said, because under the law they were unable to advance their rates without permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Commis sion, he asserted, did "not seem will ing (perhaps did not feel authorized un der the law), to deal with the matter with such promptness and liberality as the situation, in my opinion, demand ed." "Former Director General McAdoo has pointed with pride ami justifiably so," Mr. Willard continued, "to the record of accomplishments of the rail roads under his direction during 1918, but the figures show that the same rail roads that moved i'iO billion ton miles in 1917, moved only 440 billion ton miles in 1918, -or about two per cent more. I submit that a difference in accomplishment of only two per cent between the two periods is hardly suf ficient to indicate a breakdown in the one year and a satisfactory accomplish ment in the other. " Quoting from President Wilson's ad dress to Congress in January, 1918, in which he stated that the taking over of the roads was "not because of any dereliction or failure on their part, but only because there are some things which the Government can do and pri vate management cannot," Mr. Wil lard declared the former President clearly showed thereby that he did not feel the roads "had failed to do all that could be expected of them under the circumstances." The financial con dition of the carriers, resulting from the mounting costs of operation in the face of a "fixed basis of earnings," he added, "was one of the outstanding reasons why the Government took over their control . ' ' Despite the "congestion and confus ion" which naturally followed the country's entrance into the war, Mr. Willard said, the railroads showed un effective capacity for co-operation un der their executives. Railroad war board in 1917, solving many difficult transportation problems, he said, and handling a volume of traffic 1-7 bil lion ton miles greater than that han dled two years before. WILL SPEND MILLIONS IN TRANSMISSION LINE Carolina Power Co. To Prepare To Use Hydro-Elcctnc Power r rom Badm Plant. 1 KALEKill, April :i. The Carolina I'ower conipauy, of Jia'eigh, supplying Iower to 4U coiiiinunities anil 60 cotton mills in the central section of the state, will expend between three and one-halt and four million dollars in the extension of its tower lines from Sanford to liadin for the traa-mission of power purchased from the Tallnssee Tower company, ae cording to announcement today. The Carolina Tower company is a re eently organized subsidiary of the Caro lina Tower & Light company The new line, which will be of doubh circuit ,stecl tower construction, wib form a connecting link between the large hydroelectric plant of the Tallas see i'ower company and the transmiiot system of the Yadkin River Toner com pany, near hanford. Tower generated at Badin will be transmitted to fcan ford, thence northward to th. system of the Carolina Tower company and south ward to the systems of the Yadkin Hiver Tower company and the Palmetto Tow er t Light company. LANDIS HAS GREAT TIME ON VACATION (By The Assoclatea Tress ) CHICAGO, April 4. Kennesnv M Lundis, baseball commissioner. ' back in Chicago today from what hi- describ ed" as the- "best vacation I ever had. He has been making a tour of the spring training camps of the major lea gue clubs. . The eominissioner declared that hc had never enjoyed pleasure more during the hist few weeks which he ' I"' ing oranges ami star baseball players and accumulating a coat of tn prelimi nary to opening of the tan season 1" the north. ' "There g more enthusiasm than for baseball' Commissioner Landi de elared. . Belmont 'Public High School Building ' v.: t .f- - ' ;' ' Z. :J ' t - ;- '- f v vS: ' ' "' ; I. . - - ill!: f ' jnaa s" isnii i""iTi "r ' ' ' ' ' Completely Destroyed by Fire at Early Hour Today $50,000 in 1916 Loss Covered by Insurance. IBELMONT SCHOOL BUILDING , lb Beautiful Structure Erected in Origin of Fire Is Unknown East School Building's (By Mrs. Adelaide 8. Beard.) Tni-most terrible calamity that has ever befallen Ke'niont occurred early Tuesday uiorning when the beautiful high school linihling was horned to the ground. Kreeted at a cost of .."0,l(M five years ago it was one of the most modern and best equipped school build ings in the state, and was the object of pride nad love of all in the "0111 nuuity. Only the walls are now stand ing. T!u origin of the rire is unknown as there had been no fire in the building since last week on account of the mild weather, and no one can account for any possible cause of the conflagration. The alarm "as given bi' Miss Meal; Heard and Miss Armstrong who roomed in the end of the lead if rage next to the school building. 'Prof. II. C. .Sisk, who w.is at the sce:ie immediately after the alarm was given, states tha the llaiiics were breaking out the soull doors hut Here entirely confined to the south stairway, cwdently coming up from the basement. Nothing but the south end was burning, and it was the opinion of those first on the scene that the building would lie nved . Howev er, although all v.ln were there did ev erything possible til" tire rapidly grew worse. There was 110 adequate means of righting the fire here, tin- lielninnt apparatus consisting of only fire hose, and insufficient water pressure, the on ly thing that could be done was to save the teacherage and the Kirst T.aptist church. J The lire engines fi.im (.n-tonin were called upon and rendered splendid serv ice iu saving e'hef buildings but the fire hail gained such headway by that time that the building "as already gone when they arrivei). Thinking that (they eould prubab'y save the building iiud also owing to the hour, a few in;utc- before - o'clock, and the trouble getting enough men on the scene ipiifkiy, nothing was sav ed from the bailing. The teacherage, whhh is inneijlia'eiy couth f the scholl. was in iich danger of burning that all the fuliiliire and personal ef anc V Union Men Hail Offer As First Break In Ranks Of Operators General Polcie3 Committee Will Meet to Act on Report of In dependeit Producers to Grant Strikers Wage Demands If They Wjuld Return to Their Jobs. rtv T)t Associated Tress.) NEW YOIK. April I. S'rik- lead ers announi aere i.may uia. me .0. thr.n-itp mrifrs z- ii'Tal policies coin 1 mitti e wool meet in New ol'k t morrow to sevrral in. ct on the reported offer of f producers to grant pel de, the wt r'k ' wage demands iminrdiate- . , . 1 .. y 11 tiiev iviaial return 10 taeir .10ns. of these offers, hailed ly Acrcptnilc the unionlm n :u in." nrsi nrriK in the operators'" may rc-i:!t the ranks fit in the ntotiatioii of ? 'p irate con tracts aid the r -opening of the mines affected, ccording to district prei'tni!s of the Cited Mine Workers of Ain'rica internatiial Some If the forty delegates of tae three cli rict unions composing tiie poli cies eoimittee arrived here today. " J. Gold . president of district Xo. 9. at Shamiik . suitl that at least one an- i thracitcnine in the I'nited Prates is operating regardless r.f the frike. It is the tine of the Philadelphia 4 Read- , mg t o Company at Locust Gap. la-.; where ir three months thirty men have; been d ging frantically in search of a , miner, under anley Zuliski, who disa.(rH'arc'l I avalanche of hard coal early last Ja iary. Kno-dlie of uispensf 11 order thisv violation of be-ame general when i Mr. Gcflen, before the wage negotiation JeorumiiT, asked the joint consent of j minersiand operators to continue the resemfrorx while the strike is tn pro ! res. t J. Richards. risi'h'nt of thef eoinpafy- hii vdiieli controls the mine, sticr I lira wmlJ make the uuiiesmry 8'"n;e j 5 rAr RORjiL SECTIONS OF 1916 Completely Burned Up Loss rully Covered by InsurilSIMIh Ml H KilSS K T to Serve Remainder of Ter irTJ fects of the teachers u:i Fortunately however this was uninjur ed. Trof. V. T. Hall, in discussing the fire Tuesday stated that the buialing was adequately covered by insurance and that it would be rebuilt at once. The school board is meeting this morn ing at M o'clock when seme definite ar rangcnieiits will be completed as ic the continuance of school. While there are only five wort week of sehnul for this term it is expected that only an inter mission of one day will take place he fore the schoo's will reopen in tempo rary quarters. It is thought that probably tin high school will hold its sessions iu the Nun day school room of the Tivsbylennn church nod the primary and grammar grades double up at the Hat school by holding only part of the day schedules. However, definite announcement abo.i! his will be given after the board meet sr. . V- Woman's Club had just com phi payno nt on the new piano a! the ( .. 1 I school ami 1 oought o. , .1 1 hundred tine reference books for of whic'i v.ero burred, children 'a hooks were ; the best thing that can ad also recent Iv lollars worth of the library, all Many of the l-o burned, but be arranged as to the opening of ool will be dour. I he children will have to do the best they inn on their limited supply of books and equipment. The building was er.eted in IPIti dar ing the term of Ml. II. A. IJucia as superintendent. It contained Hi or Is large class-rooms, including a c 1 1 1 ; "1 t domestic arts equipment, indoor d.i -rooms, handsome auditorium, itc. It was built oil a high k 1 1 1 1 of ground i n mediately adjoining the onqurtv of lie First Kaptist church. tmir tin siirailce policies w re c.i 1 ried ei building anil contents, two end $.,'MI0 on luildiii'.' ami I'lirin 1 11 ; 1 for H,lHio oil tie' building a'l I $.i.",oimi en building and fur.il: ui new building will be .aaie diat- v e this suniiiier. 1 11 the f,r, (tie ; lor A .id merit with his -upi i According to Mr. i working a shaft vvi'h rett, whin tiie walls lapsed. Barrett ..aid buried binea'.h tne t which the opening bn Nine hundrd ton- 1 been removed from tie lapse in the effort to . n . iits. : ', .1. o'eki n.an iinmi ! M Ue Si.aft s j 1.-1 i t hit ei- of coal one b.stiuct 1 ai w it a o,. : anthracite havi scene of the co uncover ZnliskiV ;,.dy, , .Mr. tioldcu goes on, he sa --limited. if the , shipment or" coal work removed in tin re-ue venrk would con of a'u'it L'H tons a dav. ;, according to Mr 1 luein'c r of the union ' tinue at the rate The first ste; (i'llden. who is : committee which rafting the national i.ation legislative program, will be the ii'roduction in Congress of a biii pro viding for appointment of a froverniiieiit ' fact -finding " committee. This body, he Slid, would be charged with making a thorough investigation f mine deve lopment, alh'ged a"te. profits, working onditions, wa.Sc and markets. e are confidnt," ".aid Mr. Golden, "that the revelations of such a committee would cause the public to demand that control of the industry be taken from private interests and pla-ed under Gov ernment supervision. "One of the plank in the p'atform of the unions, when the time arrives for : legislation toward thc!lM for regulatory nationalization would control of all mines, that the Government development of new- This wnnld nnan ould forbid the fields until the present fields) are worked out. It would halt the existing condi tion of overdevelopment, bring prod iic- tion to balance demand, and eliminate th execs Libor cot erjajed. in thr c.-al ir"irf. - i f 5 'it I Was Erected at Cost of M NEW HIGH SCHOOLS nnTATr II II fir nnnnini r UIIIIL MlilUL. I UUUIULL )epartment of Education Ap propriates $54,000 Amon .ounnes 10 uei 1 nese Schools Are Clay, Ashe. Av-1 ery and Dare. ' j KAI.KJUI. Ap,il ;;. ... Klirtv Uirce! new high .schools in as many counties are! today announced by the department of j e'lucahon winch haturday appropriated through the stale board if..l,s.)0 for tin purpose ot establishing four year stand urd high schools in the rur il disticts. 1 The new schools will lc requireil to 1 run full H months and when they are set i to work they will make with the ii conn- lies already maintaining them- standard high while's "is which tire situate iu the I rural districts of these counties. ; These high sc leiols of standard grade mii.-tt inanitaiii their eight months ' term, but they luu-t d) more. They are required In have as many as three teach ers devoting their whole lime tn high school instruction and an average atten ounce in tiie high school department of not less than t.' pupils. Resides (ties, thete are certain minimum requirements fur libiarv and science equipment. I'ntil thb cie.inlies hav high s.-uoid districts. h tal humbug, on the hill.' into the 1111! re cut provision on'v l'i been able to maintain this r standard grades for rural some lit" hese that iniinor the "little red m hoolhouse has bei n legislated forever Ntnriiing erstwhile and with much of sentiment for thi" was I'lil'ed the social center, iiouncement i"- almost a whole ,t against the iuiiosihle oro' it li t'" litlle 1 I'olay sale 1. ( 1 'nut willed on page, slx." LABOR IWIONS STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE NEW ENGLAND STRIKE SITUATION Not Only Is There A Struggle Between Striking Operatives and Empleyes But B.'.'ween Unions As To Which Shrall Control Situation. LAW I,' Tlli.J ( il e of a stm ed mills over a U: tV.M 11 c union-, fo Toe (I where lis. a imiitan i:ci: MASS., April 4. ia.v was the .scene Hot only between cotton and worst d their Mrikiiig operative. 1:', hut of a contest be-i- n'iie and radical labor ' ke colli rol. Teg Tnion, organized 111 ; V w 1. 1. gland, had In-, one .M tor oviiipglit through the a lagir -, in obtaining from ing of si risers yesterday m .t.-t icadcrshii, and repudia t of the I'nited Textile no ri-a. The latter ergani i bv Cresident Thomas F. lei is in personal 1 hartfe of here, le !d iM ground and ii announced that it would ' res uitiio.it regard to the action of a turns 11 ceptam . l tioll of C Workers ,,f ,-.,tio i. lead M, M il on, v i's ;icii;ir. Mr. Me M.b et lol it,- f opj osit ii n. fight cntrol. of l'i .Vi'e c ranging to 1 A. all added factor in the . the American Fell ration i," rativi was said to le ar ii'i r the .strike area. ). U. C. and the C. T. V. re on the picket lines against Moth tic a H.crents w tie mid oH-n'ng hour today, the rivalry r. suiting in in r -ased picketing strength. Tiiey found the s,tuaC;.-,n much the same as in recent dav.. with 'hr;e mil's closed by tie- strke, .111 .flier shut down le cause of d i'r. --n n. twi open .ny to 'he extent that loose end were being clearei up v-;!h the few loyal workers available and three plant pcrating with staffs ; ie.u! :' per cent of normal. The Oae B g I'ni :i will Orgauie it' strike in a way new tj New Kngland. ai-roriling to 1 g'-re. In a statement he recited the history of the movement le i'inniug at inr.itg. its origin, on com munity :i:ies, by which it fl'eks a mer ix rsliip icpn s. iitative of nil labor ele ments witioiit distinction, and nuid this would be followed out mith a view to ;i big denion-ratiou in which the whole citv would join- fueh a general strike was not immediately contemplate.), he explained, tut would be tried if other means; failed. Legere, an actor, who maid lie left a Xew Von: stage to assume leadership at Lawrence when he beard of the wage cut and prospects of a utrifco here, ssertcd that thi old line of labor organizations repide.Mv the United Textile Work it ii. an A, "f L. orjanizatiou, had j beea o jf?rovTB, MERCHANT MARINE BlLL;COUfJTY TAX RATE IS GOMES UP FOR HEARING LOVERED FROM 99 TO 89 BEFORECONGRESSTODAY CENTS ON THE HUNDRED Republican Leaders Are Con- j fid en t the House Will Act s m f sr m j on rvieasure oerore Close oi ! Present Session Doubtfu'i As to Senate. i (By The AsaoclalM I'ress.) j WAMIINUTON, April 4. Joint i Congressional hearings on the Admin- I I istratiou s merchant marine, loll were j begun today with Itepublican lenders confident the Hon- would be ablo to j act on the measure before the close of 1 the present session but generallv doulit i fill ;is to whether the Senate would find time to dispose of it until after Con I gross reconvene in IVcember. Sitting in joint sessions the Senate I Commerce Committee and the House ( Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com ! inittee plan first to hear the testimony I of shipping board officials, with ( hair I man l.asker as the initial witness, mid I then to aseeitain the views of both pro ponents and opponents of the legisla tion. Members of both committees were generally of the opinion the hear ings would continue for a month or more. Trepured by Shipping Hoard officials, with the approval of President Hard ing, identical bills proposing Govern ment aid for the I'nited States Mer- haut Marine are lending before both ommittee. They wero introduced si inultaueouslv bv Chairman Jones of he Senate committee, and Chairman I Creeiie, of the House committee, iinnie- liately after the Cresident on Februa y addressing a joint session of the Senate and House, urged adoption of a 'far sighted" merchant marine policy. Contrary to the usual custom of Hen- ate and House committees holding seii- iratc hearings, those to which the ad ministration bill was referred, decided. ' in an effort to speed up action on the I measure, to join iu the holding of puli- lie hearings. At their conclusion it 1 was indicated today by chairmen of the committees, conferences will bo held be lt ween members of the two groups to I reconcile differences of opinion so that the bill will come up for consideration t 111 both houses in practically the same I form . .Mr. I.usker had announced that in his opening statement to the committee he would declare the Shipping Hoard I believe Hint nny free competition with jthc privately owned shipping of the the 1 world, through successful government 'operation, is an impossibility. Oovern ' Hu nt oeratioil of ships, in the opinion of the shipping board head, is nut only ! a costly failure, but is driving private owners off the tens without accomplish ing anything' itself. AVIATION OFFICER SHOT TO DEATH IN FORT SILL. Lieut. Col Paul M Beck, Command ant of Post Field, Shot by Jean P. Day Who Saw Officer Struggling With His Wife in Their Home. (By Tho Associated Tress.) OKLAHOMA CITV, Okla., April 4. l.ient Col. Caul M. Heck, command ant of Tost Field of the aviation sec tion of Tort Sill, was shot to death I here early today in the fachionable res idence of Jean T, Day, widely known oil operator. May is held at his horn." I iu custody of n deputy sheriff peudiii, I an invest igation . I According to a r.atemrut issued by i . W. hick, Day returned to his honsn after escorting home a number of j guests which his wife earlier had en tertained at curd", Hnd found Mrs. 'Day struggling in the arms of tie- army 'ofliier. Hick, who is an intiiu.it" a' ipiiiutance of the family, said Iay tin thnii.i'l the statement. 1, 11 at. Col. Beck had long been a close friend of the Days. He came luie yesterday by airplane from Tort Ml', to be one of the guests at the card party last night, according to Dick, and wan left alone with Mrs. Day when her husband saw their friends home iu his automobile. l"lm Day's le'iirn home, Dick said, the former ered through a porch win (low and saw his wife fighting to break the aviator's hold on her. He rushed up stairs and obtained his revolver. Dick asserted, and returned to the room, where the couple were still Strug gling. Beck made a Dav, continued motion as if to strike Die, and Day struck him over the head the gun exploding. with the revolver. Bock fell- to the Moor and was dead Infore jioliee arriv ed. Mrs. Day this morning was in a state bordering on nervous collapse and would make no statement concerning the af fair. S. C. Woman Suicides. (By The Associated I'reaO GUKKXWOOII, K C. April 4. The! body of Mrs. F. 8. Kskew. wife of aj railroad employee and mother of foui children, was found in a fish pond at her) home mar here today. A coroner s j jury rendered a verdict that death waj due to suicide. Bill Wil Pass. (By The Associated Vress.) WASHINGTON. April - . Prediction thai the navy appropriation bill provid ing for an enlisted personnel of 67,000 would pa-s the House without change was made today by Chairman Madden, of the House Appropriations Commit-t-e, after a conference whk-h be and Representative Kelley, of Michigan, ehaimiaa of the sub-coinmitte in charge 1 of the naval measure, bad with l'resi dent Ilarding. TODAY'S COTTM MARKET Cotton seed Strict ta f)od miidlLt: ...Sic .17 County Commissioners a nd Board of Education Find That Tax Rate For Next Year Can Be Lowered Ten Cents Comes Off Schoolt and Roads. Through joint action of the coun ty board of commissioners and county board of education taken Monday at the regular meeting of the tw bodies, the tax rate for liaston county was lowered ten I cents, the rate being reduced from j !H to y.l cents. This reduction in I the rate was made possible, it us j understood, by a decrease in the building program for next year and also the lessened cot of rond main tenance. It is generally known that the past year or two has wit nessed an unusually large amount of school building in the eounty. The program for the coming year does not call for any great ex penditure of money for new build ings. Hence, it wus the opinion of the board that ft smaller budget could be authorized. Owing to tho fact, also, that the State has tak en over some 40-odd miles of high way in the county for construction mid maintenance, tho cost of road upkeep is materially lessened as far as the county tax rate is con cerned. Owing to the use of im proved road machinery, tractors, etc., the cost of working the roads has been materially lessened. It was in recognition of these facts that the boards came to the decis ion to reduce the tax rate. Tho new rate will go into effect on tho IHL'L valuations, listing of which will begin May 1. lloth boards were emphatic in their statcmcutj that the reduction in the tax rate meant no retrenchment either in schools or roads. The present tax rate is apportioned as follows: liouds, 21 cents; roud maintenance, U; county purposes, 7 cents; schools. 57 cents, making a total of Pit cents. It is proposed to re duce the school tax to 50 cents ami the road tax to 11 cents. HENRY WATTERSON'S BODY IS INTERNED IN VAULT AT LOUISVILLE KY., HOME Many Citizens Pay Tribute to ' Memory of Great Journal-" i,t Vault in Which He lil Buried Will Resist Corrosion For Thousand Years. I.OUI8VII.I.K, KV., April 1. Honor to Henry Wutterson, dean of America's' journalists, and veteran editor of Tho Louisville Courier Journal, who died In Jacksonville, na lecember ZZ, was; rendereil at his fnneral serviees here to day. The body arrived last night. was met by a 'committee of citizens and,, taken to a mortuary chapel where it rest, e l, banked high with floral offerings) from persons and organizations in many parts of the I'nited States, until tiiuo for the funeral ceremony at the First Christian Church. The Hey. Dr. K. L. Powell, the jinstnr was on the program for the principal ad-: dress, assisted bv the Vcrv Ilev. R. L. 're:io', dean of Clirist Church Cathe dral, and the Kev. Dr. Reuhelt, pastor Of the Christian Church at Jefferstown, the. suburban home of Mr. Wnttenwn. A hymn "Abide With Me" and an anthem by the choir "Gcd Shall Wipe Away All Tears," ccuiipleted the program. Scats to the right mnd left of the pul pit had been reserved for the activo and honorary pallliearers. The first number ed men who long had been associated prol'esMionally with Mr. Watterson. . They included Judge Robert W. Bingham, publisher of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times, and Arthur Krock, editor of The Times. Names of widely known persons were on the list of hon orary pal'liearers. They were among others : Governor Kdwin 1'. Morrow; Lieuten ant Governor S. Thurston Ballard; Geo. Harvey, American ambassador to Great Britain; Senators A. O. Stanley and Richard I'. Kmc-d ; Congressman' Joseph O. Cannon; Colonel K. M. House, New York and Texas; Charles Decring. Chi cago; Hubert M. Thompson, and Mark Sullivan, Washington; (lark Howell, Atlanta; George Bailev, Houston. Te.; Frank I. Cobb, K. S. Martin. E. P. Mitchell. A.lolph S. Oehs, Frank A. Mun v, and Herliert Bayari Swofje, alt New . York newspaper men. A vault in Cave Hill eemetery, de signed to resist orroion for a thousand years, had been designed to rereive Mr. Wat terson's body. At the bead of tho grave bad iecn ere-ded a simple granite shaft chosen by Mr. Wgtttrsou several " months before hi death. It bore no lu- ' script ion otlur than Mr.' Wiittorsou'a name and that of his widow. ' THE IVEAIHER. hoitft Caioiina, fair tonight a1 j' ably Weducsaayv no chanje ia t : ture, .. . '.a.