Newspapers / The commonwealth. / April 23, 1920, edition 1 / Page 1
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WEATHER BFP03T For North Carolina-Fair tonight and Saturday cooler fresh west winds. HE .- z a 7.7 L 3 3 4 05 i i ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 i AFTERNOON I DAILY "ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. ' ' i - o w P -2 co c; m .-r Is w rr . - X ... fe 13 v- nS tfGv'R O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, N, C. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1920. TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTS v o J o in o to w o a - PURT WILL PASS 01 ' ;fininTlT"llTinifii n i nnspoi - L I I III 1111 111 It 1 11IUH illil ; " r .. ; ii o i in i i I i I i i i I i in II i ii iifi m ill a i S II1IIU.I I I 1 II I 1 1 HUM HIUI1 IUI1 POOR PROPHETS THE AMER. HOTEL MEN SHDRTAG FARM E OF LftBDFt WILL BE ACUTE This Applies To The Stat es Ha vmr Referendu m Prov- lsions Never of will a Majority Bus men and college Stu. Men Live Hotels in asked to spend vacation Working on Farm S FECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE W1AY MEET JULY 1 Th, Session On ACTION OHIO RATIFY SUF. -ir 1 M w asniiitrioM. auhi supreme urt will begins -The' the consideration -whether 'the federal constitutional amendments must he submitted to lie voters for PETE TR1UL1S MERELY STOP THERE j SEC. MEREDITH SAID New York, April 23. 4 'Ten years from now everybody will be living- in hotels." j That is the prophecy of the I American Hotel Men's Associa- ; tion, which adds : j "It is merely a matter of evo lution' i feremlum. Provisions in the case 3oston, April 23. Peter Triv- Tlie higli- cost of living, bur involved the action of Ohio on oulidas a native Greek who won glars and inability to' obtain MARATHAN AC E ratification in staes having a re- ratit'ving the women suffrage. TT N COMMITTED U IE Washington, Aril 23. Rear Admiral Brittain the chief of staff of Admiral Wilson com manding the Atlantic fleet com manding the Atlantic fleet com mitted suicide off euba. UGUST MISSING Washington, April 23. The shortage of farm labor will be acute, Secretary Meredith said and lie is appealing to business men and college students to spent their vacations working on farms. Is To Take The Suffrage Question Action IT MAY BE TAKEN TO THE PEOPLE o TIBER SITUATION SINCE NIARCIf iSHA T 01 ( the American Marathon road race household help, hotel men believe Monday will run at the Olympic wil1 bring about the revolution games at Antwerp. I in home life If there ever was a more leaky prediction made it was done be fore recording prophecies ;were in type. They may be good hotel men. Indeed, most of them have prov en their abili'tv in that line. But as prophets? They couldn't, bat 1 014 in the Tall Grass League. Never will even a majority of mankind live in hotels. Never until man and woman have so changed that they ho longer care for a home of their own, a bit of yard for the kiddies to play Paris, April 23. "Blink" Mc Closkey the American pugulist has been missing since March 8'ch and friends fear foul play. GRAND JURY INDITES SALOON CABARET OP. Toledo, April 23. More than a score of cabaret operators and former owners of saloons were indicted by the Federal 'Grand jury for violation of the prohibi tion laws. A SERIOOS W ATAN AMONSDEN AND UZER ARR BURIAL OE 19 SOLD " IERS FROM OVER SEA Constantinople, April 23. Pasha the former Tur.kish Grand Vizier was arrested bv the En- feiite authorities and twelve him- afternoon j died nationalists are also report- tt-d arrested. Washington, April 23. The bodies of nineteen American sol diers brought back from overseas will be buried at Arlington this T RING SUGAR CHARGED LAURA WAYNE JAILED LEADER IN HOUSE BR. impossible to reproduce in a ho- itei. ficn T'TR Few persons now live irThotels. They live their only because they have no homes to line in- Other hotel dwellers don't "live" there They merely "stop" there. It is a handy stopping place en route I io or irom nome. Ana mat is ! the best that can be said about 1 it." WOMEN CONFESSORS TROUBLE ENG. CHURCH ARRIVED AT ANADIR ; pole. London, April 23. Whether- j - - the church should proyide women in- and that homey -mcphreleonessors-threat ens the Lambeth . conference of Clergy of Great Bri ; tain which;meets July first. New Orleans, April 23. The District Attorney fixed the affi davits charging three wholesalers and three retailers with profiteer inf in sugar . Cleveland, April 23. Laura; 'Wayne who is said by the police to be a leader of a gang of house breakers was jailed in default of bail. SWITCHMEN FORM A NEW ORGANIZATION HUNOREDS MADE HOMELESS BY BAB STORM CARRANZA TROOPS CLASH WITH RERELS SEAPLANES TO AS SIST FI5HE MAN ! Washington, April 23. Navy ; seaplanes are to be used to assist the Chesapeake Bay fishermen to Auga, Prieta. Sonora, April 23. spot schools of Menhaden. The Vanguard of the'Carranza j iroops was expected to attack.- COTTON MARKET. the Sonora troops had reached March I 40.65 Ok'tlos while seven thousand aI- May 38.25 kitional troops left Buena Vista July 34.83 for the North Grouping Sonora October 33.89 'troops meet. The attack contrn- December 33.28 lles- January 32.40 Washington, April t 23. The Formation of a new national or ganization of railroad men was J undertaken by representatives here of striking switchmen in Chicago and other cities, accord ing to R. J. Mitchell. Birmingham, , April 23. Hun dreds are homeless in the storm swept sections of Alabama and Mississippi. There is only a few j days food supply and many are without sufficient clothing wras reported by J. T. Brokman who j surveys the stricken district. POLICE TRYING TO FIND BON OF GIRL Toledo, Ohio, April 23 Police searching an abandoned well for the body of Anna Moffered who disappeared two years ago but found only a pile of bricks. Raleigh, N. C, April 23. Ac tion of the Democratic state con "r recently in adopting ;i lorm plank for ratification of the woman suffrage amend- ' , ment will be followed by a spec- Washington, Ap"' Chief ial session of the legislature about Forester GreeleyXAs of the July L seriousness of thev timber situa- Louisiana is the only state to tion and advocates the adoption have a session before North Caro of the French conservation sys- lina but Suffrage leaders say no tern. matter what action is taken in Louisiana it will have no effect on nie iignt lor rarmcation m North Carolina. If Louisiana were to act favor ably it would make the 3Gt!t state but on account of some un- certainty over the ratification in , Nome, Alask, April 23. Cap- Ohio legislature, because of a re tain Roald Amunsden discovered feredum involved, suffrage advo south pole arrived Anadir Be- cates are anxious to have 37 jhring sea enroute to the north states ratify the amendment. Opinion is divided here as In what action the North Carolina legislature will take. In view oi the fact that .both political or ganizations in the state have adopted platforms including planks favoring suffrage, many party leaders believe the amend ment will be ratified. Besides Governor Bickett, raanv Demo cratic party leaders in the state have come out for the amendment including Secretarv Daniels, Sen ator Simmons and Congressman Hoey. The legislature is over whelmingly Democratic. Opponents of suffrage believe the amendment will either be de feated in the legislature or by the voters of the state. They think the legislature will follow Sena tor Overman's idea and purpose a state constitutional amendment giving women the vote, thus put ting the suffrage question up to the voters, who, they believe, will LIEUT. C. F. BELL DROWNED IN COL. BIV. WAS Yuma, Arizona, April 23. C. F. Bell a United States avia tor was drowned in the Colorado river when his airplane hit a wire while he was trvhio- to fly C7 under a bridge. SEN. REED REJECTED AS DELEGATE Joplin, Missouri, April The Democratic state convention after an all night session reject ed United States Senator Reed as a distr.ict delegate to the San The Francisco convention. Tlie ses- ' Birmingham, Apsil 23. total dead results from the Tor-,sions was marked by wrangling r(1jf,fd it nado number two hundred and and filisbustering. ! 4 thirtv three. 1 STRIKERS APPEAL TO R. R. 15 MY CHAPLAINS MANAGERS TO ATTEND SCHOOL U. S. URGED TO BUY TIMBER LANDS I Washington, April 23. school for army chaplains will sion urged the ! Washington, April 23. Na A tional forest reservation commls- government to .New York, April 23. Striking railroad workers have appealed be opened at Camp Grant Illi- purchase additional lands in the direct to the railroad managers nois, the war department announ southern Appalachian and White to settle the strike and restora- ced. The first of class fifteen mountains to prevent timber tion to duty. begins May the 15th. shortage. WAR BOH ID) The nation is now entering on the risky process of deflation. Hie air is being gradually let out t' our highly expanded currency and at the same time some of the water is being squeezed out of se curities. The treasury savs the national debt was cut down by 7()6.0M).OOO during March. This looks good on paper, but ilte claim is misleading, since Un ele Sam is still running behind 15200,000,000 in nine months and having to replenish his stock ready money by getting tem porary loans on "certificates of indebtedness" at higher ,and high er rates of interest. The nation al debt is still close to 25 billions; but over nine billions of this is coming to us from other nations that we have advanced money to if Mre ever get it back. The federal reserve authorities after having inflated our money to .the limit, thus articifally boos ting all prices, are now walking up to the dange of the situation and are conjuring the public to quit the present "extravagant" and reckless buying" and begin to ecomoraise and save. But LOWs MOMEY I while many people have to scrimp ito make ends meet, the fact re- , mams mat tnere was never so i much profligacy and waste. Cus .toms receipts for March broke !all records, and the big items .were luxuries, such as diamonds- iNew York and other big cities j are living faster and more furi-J ouslythan ever. Money is being poured out like water, and most ;of it for frivplous things. Large numbers of peqple were made rich by the war and it is these I sleek profiteers who are setting the paee. ' Speculation is at its height, but though there is an abundance or money everywhere it is hard" to get hold of it for legtimate pur poses. The government has had to offer five and a quarter per cent on the new loan certificates which is the highest rate it has paid since the Civil war. And the government, by thus bidding up money, is forcing everybody else to pay higher interest. The Pennsylvania railroad, one of the strongest institutions In the world, is issuing new bonds at seven per -cent a rate, un dreamed of for many years. Less stable concerns of course will have to pay still more. Liberty bonds have felt the pressure and are selling at hew low records, ranging from '87 to 97- The pre vailing belief in inner circles is that Liberty bonds will go still lower and that those who want to buy for investment can best wait for a further drop. Silver continues to rise in prtee. The Orient is a sort of vacuum fn 'wTiiTi tract nnflntitifK of the white I metal are swallowed up. Our 'silver coinage in liable to be mel ted up by speculators and sold for bullion if-the situation grows any worse. A couple of months ago Brit ish exchange was at a very low ebb the pound sterling1' being worth only about $3.2. The conditions in that quarter are Im proving now, and the pound is again above the mark. But French francs,' Italian lire and most other foreign money is Tow er than ever. Foseign trade can't be placed on any solid baA- is so lonir.as mere is such ui wm ity and uncertainty-
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