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VOL. XLIII. NO. 184
GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, "AUGUST 3, 1922
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
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MAS,
I.m. CROOKS DESCRIBES
VALUE OF HIGH SCHOOL
TO FARMERS OF STATE
State Superintendent Of Edu
' cation Pleads For Better
Advantages.
CRIME AGAINST CHILDREN
Farmers and Farm Women
Having Great Convention ,
j In Raleigh. ,
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RALEIGH, Aug. 3. State Supt. E.
C, BrookB, headlining at the farmer '
and farm women convention, carried
the state high school to the uttermost
parts of tlit country and brought tne
farmers right to the schools. - ;
The state superintendent in talking
schools to farmers was not quite so mueii
off key as a distinguished state officer
was a day or bo ago in castigating be
fore farm contention a fw newspaper
boys. Mr. Brooks 'took the convention
through all the workings of the system
to Jts finished product, which he declared
as much deserves to be a harvest of
country boys anjc girls as does the most
populous center have license to turn
them out.
Of eourso he didn't talk that way.
But he began by showing how the Su
preme court in 1917 held tuat "the high
school Is a necessary part of our public
school system." 'I like to think that
it is not a separate institution but that
the public school of a community is a
unit beginning with the first grade and
ending with the last year in high school.
This is in harmony with the Supreme
court 's decision, and there ' should be
little break between the elementary
school and tho high school," said he.
Text Book Will Be Better
Speaking of what the high school
should do, following a tribute to the ex
panding horizon of the high school pupil,
and suggesting that a child is not edu
cated through the mere pumping of a
congeries of things into its intellectual
apparatus, Mr. Brooks said: " The text
book will be better and saner when there
is a largo community of minds working
on tho same problems. Literary socie
ties afford an oportunity for them to
continue, their intellectual development
after class room hours.!' .
He passed to the cucrieulum: "It is
necessary to add vocational fitness to in
tellectual and social fitness. I do not be
lieve the modern tendency to judge a
child by intelligence tests and measure
ments anil to ignore his defective social
growth and his possible skill by the use
of his hands, is a fair standard of mea
surement and sufficiently correct to war
rant school officials in accepting all such
tests and measurements as an absolute
guide In judging the1 mental standing of
the child. Many children are declared
to be-, backward; pr" abnormal or retarded
inrf uhfit (of. certain 'grade work, when
IhTbilgh tlie development of skill in doing
things they.firid a satisfying expression
and they may make larger contributions
to society than others who are rated high,
judged solely by our social intellectual
tests.' ' . .
SIMPLE RECIPE FOR
, MAKING OF A HERO
Picturesque French Canadian
Gives His Formula White
, .Whiskey Is One Of the)
Ingredients. 4
MONTREAL, Aug. 3. Pictures-
.que Hilare Ouerin of La Prairc,
whose praises are being sung along
the St. Lawrence for his daring lea
dership in the rescue of 470 pnssen
" gers of the Bapid Prince, which
went on the rocks in the Lower La
chine Rapids, today gave the follow
ing matter of fact receipe for the
- making of a hero: '
" Whiskey blanc, pea soup and
lots of real hard work."
It is to these three things, ho dc-
' dared particular the third that
the menv women and children on tho
stranded steamer, owed their safo
taking off. ' . ' . ,
It was a great risk," said Mon
sieur Hilaire ,"as the mayor is af
fectionately known. The bays were
brave. They risked their lives."
) The boys to which he yielded the
credit for the feat, were Joseph
. Cardinal, Joseph Bouvnin and'Dnn
ald Bouvain, all, like Monsieur Hi
laire, steeped with the lore of a
lifetime on the rapids.
Forty times the quartet drove
their lifeboat through a seething
whirlpool into which the current
swept at a 30 mile clip, and 40 times
they brought it out again, freight
ed with its precious cargo. Not
one slip a slip would have meant
leatb, as Charles Ross, one of an
earlier rescuing party, had proved
an hour before Monsieur Hilaire
came.
Ross, with a companion. Arm
strong, was swept away by the cur
rent when their boat crashed into
the side of the stranded steamer.
Armstrong was rescued farther down
the rapids, but Ross' body was ne
ver found. .
T4eJ?ap'tds Prince still rested on
the itKM today but thanks to Mon
sieur Milaire and the boys, tho pas
sengers are all off,
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THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and Friday; no
Change in temperatme.
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The above cut shows "Gastonia's newv half-million dollar high school building now under construction. The cut is
made from the architects' drawings. Messrs. White,' Streeter & Chamberlain, of Gastonia, are the architects and J. A.
Gardner of Charlotte, is the contractor. When completed this will be one of the most complete high school buildings in
the state.- It is 258 x 190 feet, three stories and basement. The exterior walls are of face brick with limestone trim
mings It will have a composition roof and composition and tile floors. The structure will be fireproof throughout. The
building will contain 17 class rooms, cafeteria and kitchen, domestic science departmentmanual training department,
bookkeeping,, stenography and banking departments, chemical and physical laboratories with lecture halls, biological
laboratory, -music department, printing department and study halls. The ground floor will contain a gymnasium, lockers
and shower baths and one of the best and most complete swimming pools in the state; On the first floor there is an a
uditorium seating 1,500 and a stage 30x70 feet with a flygallery. The building complete, exclusive of lot, is to cos
t $425,000. : The campus has recently been enlarged by the purchase of additional acreage and now covers practically t
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GASTON -COTTON CROP
; 90 PER CENT NORMAL
So Says State Department Of
Agriculture Figures For
the Contiguous Counties Are
Also Given.
( Special to The Gazette)
"RALEIGH, Aug. 3. "Cotton is hold
ing Its own in spite of the boll weevil
and bad June weather "reports the Co
operative Crop Reporting Service of the
Department of Agriculture.
"The latest condition of the crop in
Gaston "O.ounty is reported at90 per cenU
of a! fiflf roif with the state everaging
78 jk-r cent, or a crop of 849,000 bales,
thisbeijig" about 7 per cent of the south 's
forecasted production.
"Last ye;ir, the epttou conditions were
very poor. to legin with but the late sum
mer and fall were unusnully favorablej
with a large reduction in acerage. North
Carblina perhaps mafe her largest per
acre yield and that with reduced ferti
lized ' . . . "
"Thin year .the wet weather has clone
considerable damage to the eastern coun
ties, and the boll, weevil along tho south
border is destined to receive full recog
nition from now until October.
"This year's 13 per cent, in crease
in the state's cotton (1,601,000 acres)
brings the total area almost back to the
1920 largo crop. A month ago, we had
an average condition of the belt. North
Carolina ranks first as the largest user
per are of cotton fertilizers, 40(J lbs. and
of the percentage of the acerage fertiliz
'ed, 95 per cent, v
Cleveland cpunty X crop is given as
84 per cent, of normal, Lincoln as 104
per cent., Mecklenburg 83 per cent.
SOUTH GASTONIA MAKING
READY FOR BIG MEETING
Under the direction and personal su
pervision of Mr; Jonas Dixon, on whose'
property the large teuj; being used by
Evangelist A. A. Haggard will be lo
cated for the next three of four veeks,
the large lot on Soutn street between
Seventh and Eighth avenues from South
Marietta street-is being constructed. Mr.
Haggard, who for the' past six weeks
has conducted a most successful and far
reaching; evangefistic campaign in AVest
Gastonia, . comes to South Gastonia at
the solicitation and personal invitations
of practically the entire communities of
the Osceola, Seminole, Clara, Dunn and
Armstrong communities, including the
members of all denominational churches
as well as those with'no church affilia
tions. A committee of Baptist, Metho
dist and Presbyterian members will be
in charge of the business end of the cam
paign and Mr. Haggard desires it dis
tinctly understood that he preaches Christ
and not church, salvation and not de
nominational doctrines, his great con
cern being in the reclamation of ( lout
souls through the atoning blood of Jesus
Christ. Mr. Haggard came to Gastonia
after turning Gaffney and Cherokee
county upside down and inside out for
Christ and righteousness, with practic
ally the entire town and county, public
officials, bankers, preachers, laymen and
laywomen-of all walks of life, backing
him up with their moral and financial
siiport and commendation. The entire
city of Oastonia is extended a most eor
d'ml invitation to attend the meetings in
South Gastonia which begin Monday
night. A special invitation is extended
the Mayor, City Council, Chamber cf
Commerce and members of' all civic bo
dies to be present on the opening night.
MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES
rACEA FUEL SHORTAGE
LAXSIXG, Mich, Aug. 3. (By The
Associated Press )jrA 'number of indus
tries in Michigan face a fuel shortage
that may compel shutdowns within the
next few days,, according to the etatc
public utilities commission. ,
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LULL IN STRIKE SITUA TION WHILE
SHOPMEN AND EXECUTIVES AWAIT
WORD. FROM PRESIDENT HARDING
FOUR STILLS CAPTURED
IN PAST TWO WEEKS
All Were Operating Within
Three , Miles1 Of Crouse
Two Were In Gaston and
Two in Cleveland.
One of the most complete and up-to-date
' copper stills ever captured in Gas
ton county was brought to the court
house this .morning by Deputy Sheriff
H. Clay Kiser, of Cherry ville township
It was captured Wednesday evening by
Deputy Kiser and . Deputy Sheriff John
Boss, of Lincoln county, and was lo
cated within two and a half miles of
Crouse station. The operators had but
a short time before completed a run
and very little beer was. found. There
were no men in the neighborhood when
tho still was captured, but' tho officers
have a lino on the operators and expect
to make at least two arrests .within a
very short time.
This was the third still taken within
the past two weeks by these two of
ficers, who have been working in con
duction with a view to cleaning up the
Crouse, section. All four of the stills
were taken within two and a half miles
of Crouse station which is in Lincoln
county near the Gaston line. In no
ease were the operators arrested, but
the officers have some good clues which
they are now working on and as a result
of which they expect to make several
arrests.
One of the stills captured was a
brandy still and had been recently op
erated. Older citizens recall that the
Crouse section was formerly famous for
the quality of its brandy.
Speaking of these captures this morn
ing Deputy Kiser said, "We want to
clean our territory of all illicit distill
ing and it is our purpose to keep work
ing until we do. If our people, that
is the better element, realized what was
going on around them they would co
operate more with us and help us put
this clean-up campaign over."
WOMEN VOTING FOR
FIRST TIME TODAY
Chief Interest In Tennessee Primary
Centers In Democratic Senatorial and
Gubernatorial Races.
NASHVILLE, 'Tenn., Aug. 3.-f(By
The Associated Press) Women voted in
Tennessee elections for tho first time
today when damocrats went to the jolls
to nominate candidates for United States
senator representatives, governor and
and state offices, and republicans to no
minate for senator, governor and several
other offices. Chief interest centered in
the democratic senatorial and guberna
torial races, with all candidates claiming
victory. ' j
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar of Mem
phis, incumbent, was opposed by Captain
Ous T. Fitzhugh, also of Memphis and
Noith W. Cooper "blue law" advocate.
The senatorial campuign has been wag
in two big issuest the bonus aBd a labor
non-partisn questionnaire. McKellar fa
vors the bonus.
The race for the democratic gulerna
torfal nomination is a four tornored af
fair between former Cvernor Benton
McMillin. Austin Pc-ay, Clarkesville at
torney, Harvey )i. Hannah, of Nashville,
former sttc "adjutant general arid rail
road rOiimisbioner, and L. E. Gwynn, at
preaii a state senator.
Governor Alf Taylor, incumbent. Is un
opposed for the republican nomination.
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Doesn't Read Like
the Fairy Story Kind
NEW YORK, Aug. 3-Twelve
year old Helen Urban found a pack
age on which was the name of a wo
man stopipng at the Hotel Bell Claire.
She took the package there. The
woman opened it Carefully she count
ed $200 dollars in bills. Then she
handed Helen her reward for her
honesty. The reward was 25 cents.
CROWDERS CREEK FOLKS
TO HEAR ABOUT FAIR
Folks Of Thriving Section
Want To Hear More About
Big Gaston County Fair
Allen To Telf Them.
Ecsidents of the Crowders Creek sec
tion lying below the Pisgah communi
will hold a meeting Tuesday night at
the Ferguson school house for the main
purpose of hearing something about the
Big Gaston County Fair to be held
October 10th to 14th. The committee
in charge is composed of R. A. Jackson,
Giles Adams and Bsb Adams,
Among those from Gastonia asked to
be on the program are Jno. Frank Jack
son, a director and Executive Secretary
Fred M. Allen of tho Big Gaston County
Fair, County Agent Altman. Home De
monstration Agent Nell Pickens and
Chairman W. T. Rankin of the Farm
Relations Committee of the Gastonia
Chamber of Commerce.
The program will be brief and snappy
and it is expected that a large number
Tf men and women of that thriving
community, will bo out for the occasion.
ENTIRE TOWN IN
MOURNING FOR DR. BELL
SYDNEY, N. 6., Aug 3. The entire
town of Baddeck was in mourning to
day for the noted inventor of the tele
phone who died yesterday. In the thirty
five years in which Dr. Alexandet Gra
ham Bell had been coining here to spend
his summers he had been regarded by
the villagers as one of themselves. He
took an active interest in all local mat
ters. One of the village clergymen will
take charge of the simple ceremonies
at his funeral on Friday.
Although he was in failing health
throughout the summer ifml in spite of j
his 75 years Dr. Bell had continued his ;
experiments with nying bouts until Juiy
18. Another of his many activities which
occupied Dr. Bell latterly was his "here
ditarv studv of sheep."
of the He contributed considerably to,
the knowledge of the laws of heredity
through his work In that direction, car
ried on for over 25 years.
Messages of sympathy have been re-;
ceived from all parts of the world ana
indued telegrams from Preid?nt Hard
ing and Premier King of OiBada.
COTTON MARKET
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET !
NEW YORK. Aug. ; 3. Cotton fu
tures closed barely steady; Spots quiet,
35 Toints down.
July 21.05; October 21-.43; December;
21-50; January 21.41; March ?";!
May 21.20; Spots 21.70.. 1
rjtr h(AK
NO FORECAST OF WHERE
THE NEXT PEACE EFFORT
WILL HAVE ITS ORIGIN
Leaders On Both Sides In Rail
Strike Have Nothing Tor ;
; Publication. -' : .
THE LEADERS ARE SILENf
Rail Men Note the Invitation
Of Southern Railway To
Shop ; Men.
CHICAGO, Aug, 3. By The Asso
ciated Press) -There was a lull today in
peace maneuvers in tho railroad strike.
Rail men were reticent and there was no
forecast of w hero the next peace effort
would originate., .
Strike leaders turned their attention
towa.l Washington, where- President
Harding had a telegram sent by the shop
men last night after their meeting ac
scpting his peace proposals upon con
dition that the Union's interpretation
of the settlement suggestions be recog
nized. .Railroad executives also were
awaiting news from tho capitol, after
their acceptance of all the president's
proposals excepting that regarding res
toration of seniority rights to strikers.
Kiiil men noted tho invitation of the
Southern Railway to striking shop men
to negotiate for a settlement based upon
President Harding's plan, but made no
comment.
At Dallas, Texas, tho Texas division
headquarters of the Missouri, Kansas
and Topeka announced that union men
now on strike would bo employed only as
new men.
Violence was reported from six cities
in as many states during the night. Four
of tho disturbances assumed the propor
tions of riots, one resulting in the death
of one man.
Carl tiprod ley was killed during an
exchange of shots at Van Buren,' Ark.,
lx-tween guards hi the Missouri-Pacific
shops an,l men said to bo" strikers. . The
dead man's brother was wounded. '
At Jackson, Mich., several police and
striking shopmen were slightly, injured
when more than a thousand strike sym
pathizers, including many women and
children, . attacked non-union workers
with sticks, stones, eggs and otehr missies
as tho non-union men were leaving the
shops of the Michigan Central Railroad.
Eighty strike .sympathizers attacked
more than sixty workers in the Chicago
Grcatwestern shops at Dcs Moius, la.
One man was severely injure 1 aud a doz
en of the workers were missiug when po
lice stopped the fight.
In Lincoln, Neb., more than one hun
dren men, women and boys attacked the
homc'of a Bprlington route car foreman
with bricks and stones. A demonstration
in front of the home of another workei
also was broken up by'poliee.
Ft..' oil-union employes of the Mis
sou.i, Kansas and Texas were beaten
irh sticks and ropes and put oT p r. ia
at Irpton, Texas, . .
Drove Airplane Into
Tree To Save Lives
Of Mexican Women
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 3.(By The
Associated Press) In order to save
the lives of two peasent women with
babes in their arms, Colonel Rafael
O'Neil, an American, drove hit air
plane into a tree, demolishing it.
O'Neil, who it head instructor of the
federal aviation school, and Antonio
Rjveria, acting director of the school,
who was in the plane with O'Neil,
were injured.
REED HAS LEAD OF.
NEARLY 9,000 VOTES
Anti-Wilson Candidate In Mis
souri Primary Appears To
Have Lead Over Long
Rural Sections For Loitg.
8T. LOUIS. Aug, 3. (Bv The Asso
ciated Press) -With a lead of nearly
9,000 votes on tho face of unofficial re
turns from all'but 442 of the 3,843 pre
cincts in the state, supporters of United
States Senator James A. Reed, todiy
declared he defeated Breckenridge Long
for the emocratie senatorial nomination,
while Long expressed confidence that the
unheard from units would bring him suc
cess. .
The belief of Reed supporters" that lie
had won the contest apparently was
strengthened this morning when the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, an independent
newspaper which fought Reed's candi
dacy, appeared w-ith a two column pic
ture of tho' senator on the firse page
under caption "Wins Nomination."
The Globe-Democratic asserted Reed
apparently victorious by 4,00 to 6,00
votes, adding that the districts yet un
heard' from "are remote from populous
eenters and their votes small. "
Reed's lead of 25,000 yesterday morn
ing on the face of returnt from more
than half ten precincts of the state, but
included Kansas City and St. Louis was
whittled down steadily yesterday after
noon as returns from rural precincts dri
fted in.
As the unreported precincts are in the
rural districts, Long stated they would
be favorable to him.s i
ANT1 KU KLUX KLAN
WINS IN OKLAHOMA
FarmerUriibh Labor Element
Wins -Victory In Person Of
J. C. Walton For Guberna
torial ; Nomination.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla Aug. 3.
(By The' Associated Press--A smushing
victory for the farmer-labor element and
opponent of the Ku Klux Klan in Okla-I
noma was indicated today when unoffi
cial returns -from 1,783 precincts of 2,-
837 in the state gave J. C Walton, may
Or of Oklahoma City, a lead Of 21,000
votes over R. H. Wilson, state superin
tendent of the state board of education.
and reputed to have had the klan sup
port. The figures were: Walton 73,087,
Wilson, 52,234 and Thomas H. Owen, 42,
113. . Walton's margin increased on each
each tabulation and political observers
said they believed his plurality would
exceed 75,000. .
"It was a fight between the Ku Klux
Klan and other secret orders on ono side
an dthe Roman Catholic church and
union labor on the other" said the big
gest democrat newspaper of Oklahoma.
Walton was strenously opposed by this
newspaper. t
The Ku Klux Klan was openlyJn
jevted into the campaign sevchal days
before tho election by the circulation
of slates purported to have enamatod
from the klan, indorsing .Wilson and
blacklisting Walton.
The Catholic vote was consolidated
for Walton, it was claimed by members
of the church,, only after the klan made
religion a campaign issue. On tho other
hand, a publication regarded as the offi
cial organ of the state klan came out the
day before the primary with the declara
tion that the Ku Klux Klan as an organi
sation had not given its support to any
candidate. - ,
Walton announced his opposition to
the klan in strong terms, boon after he
entered the city hall in Oklahoma City
he organized a union among the police
force. , . j
nis indorsement by the farmer labor
reconstruction league with a platform of
the planks of the national non-partisn
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heavy vote from many rural districts.
MICHAEL & BIVENS
GET BIG CONTRACT
Michael & Biveus, local -electrical en
gineer, were recently awarded the con
tract for the installation of electrical
equipment in the Moore cotton mill at
Valinead, the WhiTiiel mill at Whitnel,
the Hudson mill at Hudson, and the
Lenoir mill at Lenoir. The owners of
these mills have decided to change their
motive ower from steam to electricity.
Arrangements have been made with the
Southern Tower Company to furnish
the current for the operation of the
mills under the new system.
The contract awarded to the local
company includes the wiring, tho in
stallation of all lights and motors in
the three mills. Work will be begun
immediatelv. The total amount of the
cost will be $16,000. -
A woman whrs aoes not play cards had
been invited through courtesy to an
"afternno.. on the north side. She
flutterf ... from bridge toble to bridge
table, chatting pleasantly with the play-
evs, until she came to one group where
two partners had just completer
game and serins. . ' ,. .
POWER RATE HEARING
IN PROGRESS AT SHELBY
IS LONG DRAWN OUT
Lawyers Are Arguing Power
Case Before the Court
At Shelby.
CASE IS HARD FOUGHT
Half Of Time Allotted Had
Been Consumed When
Court Adjourned.
SHELBY, Aug. 3, Half of the ten
hours allotted to each Bide for arguing
the Southern Power rato ease has been
consumed in the special term of court
being presided over by Judge Bryson,
and tonight the court held a night ses
sion with A. G. Mangum speaking for
the power company.
Upon the conclusion of C. W. Tillett's
argument this morning, John M. Bobin
son argued the law for the Southern
Power company with reference to dis
crimination, declaring that the lower
rates charged in fcouth Carolina could
not be regulated hy the North Carolina '
commission and that the only ' thing
the North Carolina Commission can do
is to si'o that there is no discrimination
in this state and that rates are reason
able. Ho further argued that because
South .Carolina consumers have lower
rates under old contracts is no evidence
of discrimination, over which North
North Carolina Commission or courts
have any jurisdiction. ,
Clyde Hoey Speaks
Clyde R. Hoey'sj masterful delivery
consumed two hours 'for the power Com
pany, in which he lauded Mr. Duke as ,
responsible for magnificent development,
in piedmont Carolina. . He demojistratad
that therefore only twenty-two mills In
North Carolina,' out of 282 consumers,
who are objecting to the rates fixed by
the commission, and of these twenty-two,
twelve are Cannon mills, five are John-,
son .mills, leaving only fivo other mills
in the entire state who are dissatisfied
with the rates fixed by the commission.
Mr. Hoey reviewed the entire evidence
and stoutly maintained that the power
company had no desire to avoid any of
its . contracts, and fought out in the
courts the proposition of being entitled
to manage its own business, free ,Irom .
the regulating jower of the stat, and
that it was onlyfter the supreme court
held that it was a publie , service cor
poration and therefore could not dis
criminate in its rates, but mhst furnish
all consumers of power ptthe same rate,
and that this automatically destroyed ita
contract and forced it?- to ask the eom
mission to fix rates; t .. , ?
I ; The commission ' heard this matte
from November 1920, until July, 192li
examiulng into every detail of the status
of property service rendered and money
invested, and heard all experts and fur
nished to cotton mills books of the South
ern Power company and gave them; full t
opportunity to controvert any evidenco '
offered, and that the mills did not offer a
single bit of evidence amPslid not deny
any evidence and that in vjew of this
the jury would not be justified in over
turning findings of tho commission when
no evidence was offered except contracts
which had already been considered by
the commission.
iSenator D. Z. Newton delved deeply
into the figures in arguing for the mills,
showing that eighty percent of power
generated in South Carolina is delivered
to consumers in this state; that the pow
er company had ten year contracts at
four tenths cents per K,. W. and that
under qrder of the commission the power
company gets one and one quarter cents
making a return of eighty-five ceents per
one hundred purely for transmission.
Figuring cost of transmission lines at
five million, the power company is mak
ing on its investment, less expense of
operating transmission lines, sixty per
cent, profit. - . i. '
OPERATIVES IN SILK MILLS :
WIN STRIKE VICTORY
'Bt The Associated jPxesa.)
v MANCHESTER," N. H., Aug. 3.
Settlement of the Strike at the New
Market Manufacturing Company's mills
the first break in the six months state
wide textile strike against a. wage cut
of 20 per cent and an increase from
448 to 54 hours was discussed with
interest today at meetings of the 25,000
operatives out of work.
The victory for the New Market strik
ers of whom there were 1,000 in re-
tainine the old rate of wages on a 50-
afW working basis, was hailed by many
as establishing the basis of settlement
of strikes elsewhere. To others, How
ever, the fact that it was announced
that the settlement applied only to the
silk department, which constitutes tho
principal part of the New Market plant,
discounted its effect on the cotton mill
situation, which iuvolves most of those
on strike.
Vice President Starr of the United
Textile Workers of America, said the
Exeter Manufacturing Company, operat
ing a small eotton plant, had intimated
it might offer similar terms but whether
any other mill owners would come for
ward with like compromises was prob
lematical. He said the New Market
settlement constituted a notable victory,
but be was not prepared to recommend
acceptance of the same ternti elsewhere.
He still felt, he said, that a 48 hour
week should eontiuue as tho basis of
employment.
COOPER SPENT DAY
BEFORE PRIMARY FASTING
(Br The Asociatea Press.)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aiif . 3. Ab
staining fia all food, Vab W.- Coo
per, reform candidate for tho demo
cratic nomination tut United fctal.s
ator, observed Wcducsilay, t!i d-.y '
a feeding the primary, a "a
injf and prayer, i