THE GASTON I A N. C.) DAILY GAZETTE
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1922
lACfc TWO
IUDGE1 Of UiE EE1YS
fO fRD?.l EELQOffl
(By 1L. AdUia Smitli Berd.)
The first edition f the " Clarion, "
the high school paper, was out last
week and was iite rreditabks paper.
It it a larger sheet than was printed
last year and he first issue contained
quite bit of Rood reading matter. It
reflect the high school Spirit and (Rirea
the public an idea of what l going
at school, and Rives the merchant an
opportunity to (ret their advertising
before the people t the town. II
addition to this it Rives the students
splendid experience in putting their
study English to h practical use by
writing articles for the paper. . The
subscription price to the "Clarion"
this year is GO rents and the poblie is
asked to co-operate in making the paper
a XurrtM by fcubscribing to it.
Belmont Shriners Attend Charlotte
Meet.
A larjre number of Belmont Shriners,
some of them accompanied by their
ladies' attended the Shrine ceremonial
in Charlotte Friday. Among them were
Mr. and Mrs. "W. A. Iion. Dr. and
Mr. J. M. Pressley, Mr. end Mrs.
C. n. Sloan, Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Kale, Mr. and Mrs. IV. T. lTall. Miss
Melva Gullick, Msesrs. C. r. Line-
berger, " wtowe, v. jj. wumgaru
ner, W. D. Crawford, Joe W. Brown,
T. A. Banna, and Dr. II. W. Jordan
and Mr. Frank West.
Tarantula Found In Bananas at
Hove'a.
Quite a little excitement was created
Ihore Friday by the finding of a live
tarantula at the G. w. How Com
pany's) store. It liad rnuie in a luiiicb
of bananas and had fallen down on a
shelf directly under, whew the bunch
was banging. Mr. It, C . wwart, en
moving a paper, found it in the corner
where it bad bbhlett ktid killo)! it . It
, has been on exhibition in the window
.of the store and attracted quite a little
(attention, as it is the first "varmint"
(f is kind that has ever been extuDitea
'kere;
Kev, J. E. Thompson returned Fri
:day night from Burlington where he
'nttended the funer.-il of his sifter, Mrs.
: Pauline J. Holt, who passed away t
her home in Greensboro Wednesday.
The funeral was held in Burlington
Thursday, conducted by l!ev. W. It.
North. Mrs. lloit was Mr. Tliomp
son's eldest sister and was in her 77th
year., .
Mrs. T. O. Crowell, who has been
real sick for the past, several days was
some bettor Saturday.
Dr. II. W. Jordan had as spend-thc-day
guests Friday, Mr. and Mrs. .1 .
O. 'Taylor, Mitw May KichHrcKon and
Miss Geneva Southall, of Mt. Cogau,
8. Ci. Mrs. Taylor is a sinter of Dr.
Jordan. -
Mr. tFjlliIiichards went to Kaunapo
lis (Saturday to see his daughter, Mrs.
T. B. McCombs, who is ;uitJ sick,
Little Mirs aKtlierine Armstrong,!
who has been real sick for the pant
week with acute bronchitis and who'
was ' threatened With 'pneumonia, is !
much "better. .''-.
Mr. W. A. Duke went to Wanl.y
Saturday to be with his sou,, Air.
Ernest Duke, who is sick with flu.
Every member of ; his family is ' down
with -it and Mrs. Duke 1ms been in
.Stanley with then for several days.
Mioses Kunice MeOoe , and Lsura
Price are spending the week-end at
their homes in Caarsste.
Mr. J. B. Gaston is the prize tur
nip raiser of the community. He has
some enormous turnip, any- suinUr of
them weighing six and seven pounds
each. , '
Dr. II. W. Jordan and Mr. If. D.
Gaston were dinner hosts Saturday eve
ning," narmgn their guests Mavor V.
D. Orawfocrd and Mr, J. A. Gulli.k,
SHEtBY MAN COES WITH
ALBKMAfiLE NEWS-HEJIALD
ALBEMAftLP, Dec. 10 K. A. Huh
ser, if Jhelby, an experienced newspaper
reporter, has accepted a position with
The -Wanly Xews Hera Id, of this place,
and will ft'smiie the duties lof this posi
tion at once, Mr. Houser Come to The
News-Herald as no inexperienced man in
his line. He was with The Clet eland
.Star for a little over a year, after which
he took a position with The Greensboro
Daily News, which position he held as
reporter for two years. During this fall
Mr. Houser h;is beou attending the law
school at the Htate .university with the
ien to taking the supreme eourt exahd
nation for. his Liw license in February.
'J'ho lure f the newspaper work how
ever, was too strong, with the result that
lie abandoned hw (aw course to takfl a
position 'with the local paper here. Mr.
Htiilscr ix ii wry promising young wan,
hi'ingn son of Dr. and Mrs. K. A. .Hou-scr.-of
Shelby. '
PiEDMT SOUTH TO BE .
GREAT INCUSTRIAL CENTER
So Declares Georgia Tech En
gineer -Eaatern Slope -of
Blue; Ridge Mountains Scene
of Greatest Development.
A good hunter k'ts his oonmdenee lie
his guide. .
ATLANTA, 0n Doc. the great
est in:iuul';i'turing and iKdustrial section
of the United Htatcs will eventually be
in the. Piedmont region ou the eastern
yoe of t lie Hlnde Ridge mountains,
partly in Virginia;. North and ISouth Car
olina and . 'Alabama, but mostly in the
state of Georgia ite-df. This prediction
was made today by X. V. Pratt, perhaps
the Mouth's foremost engineer, nnd one
of the leading engineers of America, who
is also Vhhirman of Hhe executive COm-
aittee of tle Board of Trustees of the
Ueorgi.-t fSchool of Technology and for
mer actihg president of the institution.
Jtist as the old South was the greatest
!igii oltural section of America in its
day, s will the New Bouth, in tlie opin
ion of Mr.. Pratt, become the country's
foremort industinl and manufacturing
center. Aecordisg to Mr. I'ratt the
amount f time require for this gigantic
dream to materialize depends on the pro
grens of ti-elniic.nl nnd engineering edu
cation in the Houlh to fit men for the
task of harnessing the vast wafer power
of the Blue Kidj'e to the wheels of South
ern industry. '
"Georgia Tech, and similar institu
tion at technical learning, are the great
est hope of the new industrial Bouth,''
declared 'Mr. I'ratt, '.and apon their
expansion depeids. the development jf
Southern industry to realize the ponsibili
tien with svhicfi nature has endowed this
region." -
- Three reasons were given by Mr. Pratt
for his prediction. First, he declared
that the white population of the Kouth
was 1 lie purest Anglo Jsaxan 'stock" and
hnt the fact made for unity of effort
and pnrpose. , rieeond, he pointed out
that the routH, -in the streams of Its
Blue Kidge mountains, has the largest
ttlevotopid warer ' power in America,
and that, third, the Piedmont aeetio was
at the very door of cotton fields, thus re
ducing transportation costs in textile
manufacturing. , .
"Ia New England," declared Mr.
Pratt,' "orders in industrial plants have
to lie posted in 7 diffeernt - languages,
and only 2- pMveut of the population
comes from native ancestry on both sides.
In the South over RS percent of the wbito
population comes from native born au-
reHtry on both sides, uuJ this fact lessens
hihor difliculties in the SoulTi and innkes
for a unified industrial 'life.ahMs giving
us a decided advantage over our com
petitors ia the North.
"Furthermore the ..water powerju the
Blue Kidge, vast and Undeveloped, will,
lessen our manufacturing costs, for the
cost of tire some jKwer developed from
water. Georgia has the greatest water
power of all the Southern States and that
will 4ive this state tho greatest part gt
tho manufacturing.
"Another point in our favor'is that
we nre in the very middle of the cotton
fields, thus reducing, transportation costs
and giving us the advantage in textile
manufacturing. All grades of cotton
goods cut be manufactured. here under
ASTORIA win rebuild ; ; ;
. LARGER O LETTER
Oregon City Suffers , Loss of
Twelve Million Dollars
V -From Fire City Is Without
Banking Facilities.
; ASTORIA, Ore., Pet. -fiy the As
sociated Press) Astoria today surveyed
its losses from the 12,000,000 tire Which
yesterday razed 24 blocks f the eity's
business section and set ou foot meas
ure t relieve tlie 2i00 persons Made
homeless by the conflagration. '
With , the heart tf the eity hall is
smouldering ruins, plans for rebuilding
.were nebulous, but it was the general
sentirueut that re-const ruction on a lar
ger and more substantial scale would
start as soou as the more immediate re-'
lief needs were supplied.
' Hundreds of telegram offering money
and supplies were received ond the be.
aiodera textile methods, and already ws
do in ah u fact u re 62 per cent of all the
cotton manufactured in the United
Ptates, and the remaintne 38 ier cent ef
tho cotton industry is coming to the
f outh in geometric progreasion.
"These figures speak well of the recent
progress of the outh in textile tuanufac
taring, for id 1WM) we only wianufaetur
ed 14 percent f the cotton gools made
ia the I'uited rotates." ;
. . Mr. I'ratt is an engineer of national
reputation, a 'graduate of Washington
and l.ee University, and the discoverer ef
the famous I'ratt process in tire wann-faet-nfe
of sulpharic acid. '. .
.. , . r
lief committee" announced lurgei amouits
of staple foods and qimutrties of-cloth"
ing wTre needed at.onee. Word from
Portkind, was that a ' special carrying
supplies would be aent from there today.
Summarized, the-situation was as fol
lows? ' ' ' '
The city without banking facilities
-No food obtainable except from a
centra! distributing Htation established
by a swiftly orgnnisted committee of 50.
, Last night beds wero prodded for all
and hot meals were 'served at several
stations. : , ;
-dlundreds of hemi's have been thrown
open to thise- made destitute aud orders
were given to epnim.-tBder.. all ef the
city's food suppltes.' ,
lighting facilities were partly, re
stared l:mt night. , but throughout tlie
darkened district a heavy guard of sol
diers hnd special j policemen . prevented
looting, V
"FLU". CLOSES SCHOOLS ' .
AT HICKORY FIVE DAYS
HICKOKY, lien. JQ, Hickory public! '
sebpols, closed fiva days last week on'iie
count of intlueuza, ,wiil reopen tomorrciw,
thereby avoiding three weeks or morn pf
etra work' ut' the end f the spring
term. Three teachers WTre lll with the
disease and about 150 children were out
when it was..dceided to close Hie sehetJs
for a few daye.J"', Everything elice re
mained opened naN-nsnal, however, and
onlyan acnrlemie interest was,, taken in
tbe situation byhe populace. Cfty phy
sician llunsuc-ker , after consulting tiio
mayor, nch-ised Huperintendeut . Carver
that it would be liest to reopen tomor
row, and this 'was reported improved
here today. : All the rases were of a mild
nature. V" ' - '
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