V7r Weather Fair 1 A Local Cottcn 22 Cents 1U VOL. XLIII. NO. 184 GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, "AUGUST 3, 1922 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS rz a-:tr? ONA 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. , i . . . t : ; -'. 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, r. THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday; no Change in temperatme. Gastonia's. New Half-Million - ;: 1 ' ' 1" .4 I ci 1 J Vii ""J rnr" rr-t r, rr A I r-': l 5fcJt,-t'" i'-,,nviii.r f J - . X'At U V 1 K. ...,4 - ' -jcisaof.- wif iiim ,! hiiimi rsuvmc .1 mmfftf &r& w !'...lf HiPtiV ' ? L- .'. '...--" . . .. ,.. . ,r- 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 wo blocks. ' "'''.''.' 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. , to " it. r - 1 hti OP - " .' 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. Dollar High School Building - n vt r- . S" V . . . . ' - -U 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 ue p.a..Ks vi . i "-""u Tf. !5U:., : ., T hn win emu ci 1 ii " -.. r.--- 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