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VOLUME X. NO. 23. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECft, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 11 20 TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTS
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SPARROWS EAT
SIX ill!) OF WHEAT
TEXAS COTTON CROP
WORST IN YEARS
IBID
KUBB
TRIBESME!
ED
BRITISH
ERA
I Big Rains That Washed Six Started To Rob
Seven
Hundred Thousand
Were Killed
Utah
English
In
Sparrows
the Lands are the
.'. Cause
I
QUARTER POUND KILLED 240 BIRDS
o-
Seven hundred thousand En--lih
sparrows, each eating six
.piarts of wheat a year, would
mean a feed bill of more than
$1:5 1,000. Therefore, the killing
f 700,000 English sparrows
means that amount of money
aved for the farmers concerned.
And nearly 700,000 sparrows
were killed in a State-wide cam
paign in which 783 Utah farm
ers joined forces to get rid of
the pests during the winter
months.
CLOTHING STORE TO
SELL MENS SUITS
24 DAYS AT COST
Fixed Up
Grave
FROST AND COLD 5 BLOWN TO PIECES
ERUIY IS 45 BILLION
out Eleven Billion Dollars U. S.
Before The World
War
1H
I(S
Money
WORTH HALF BUT PRESSES BUSY
State Fair Price
Audit The
- Books
Will
ort- worth, May .President Bombay, May 7. Mashuds,
Lydia of the farmers union esti- tribesmen on the Abysinnian bor-
mated the lexas cotton crop in der, who during the frontier; :
the worst condition in its history campaign, repeatedly desecrated ' T Mr I rjmiirn IIIJ'
as a result of rains which caused graves in which British soldiers1 J f LLnbuLU -t
.wy t.uowxxt i.i-mo o,x naa Deen ounea nave just oeen
late frost and cola weather. tfniP-ht. ssvprA lessnn that will
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make them very chary of med
dling with the dead in future. .
A trap set for them. A grave
; was fixed up which was made to
I appear that it contained the j To Encourage Youths
corpse 01 a British oiiicer. It
contained something much more
i ARMY AVIATORS
E TRY-OUT TODAY
INt Slit uffLL
BOYS UNDERStXTEEH
FOR
HAV
County
vampaign,
pounds of
JIlOS'
0
ents helped in the
which used 5,243 ;
KANSAS STORE
Minelo, N. Y. May 7. More deadly ;( in the shape of gun-cot-than
two scores of the army re- ton an other explosives,
serve aviators from twelve eas-' Six Iashds started to open
tern colleges, engaged in prilim- the opposed grave. Five of
; nr:i,ii u them were blown to pieces. The
poisoned Mit. In; Topeka, May 7. A Kansas old i sixth had just enough life left In
t eases the bait was made of established clothing store adver- TntpronlWiP Ka w Qf him when discovered to tell what
wheat, poisoned with strychnine tised they would see all mens tprrinnn happened.
in accordance with a recipe sent suits for twenty four days with-
ut by the Biological Survey Gut profit to the store. State
ut the United States Depart- fair price commissioner will audit
mont of Agriculture. It was the books.
put up in one-purter-pound paper , -
has in the county agents office. ..
Full instructions were printed: on - PU D (1 U IT nCDflCITC
the bn? for flu. use of the noison. unnUIlIL ULrUul I U
Have Named Size
of Boys
LOUISVILLE DERDY HAS
DIG CROWDS ARRI.
FRENCH SOLDIERS WILL
PARADE AMER. DEC. DAY
FOR THE DIAMOND
Cincinnati, May 7. To encou
rage playing baseball by Ameri
can youths the joint rules com
mittee of the Nationl and Ameri
can leagues has designated spe
cial size boys for the diamond
and a special sized boys ball for
boys under sixteen years of age
TO SOPPLY HORLO
Kaeh "co'operator receiving: the
la it agreed to report on the re
sults. Usuallv the sparrows
were enticed for a few days by! TJ , , -.T ,
, ' Belgrade, May 7. Chrome de
tuning uupoi.soneu umi m piace
not frequented by other birds
and also inaccessible to the poul
try of the farm. Then a few
rains of poisoned wheat were
put out each day. The dead
sparrows were gathered up, eoun-j
ti'il. and cither burned or buried !
?vcry few days to prevent the
sparrow population from becom
ing suspicious. The number of
pnrrovs counted by each farm-i-
was reported to the committee
men or the county agent ?jr the
'H1 of the season's work. ;
-.1
posits sufficient to meet the
worlds demands have been dis
covered in Serbia, the American
Advisory committee to the Jugo
slavia government has announced.
Washington, May 7. French
Soldiers wul parade at the larg-
Louisville, May 7. Enormous er American cemeteries in Fran-
erbwds reaching Louisville for ce on decoration day the French
forty sixth renewal of Kentucky embassy has announced.
Derby at churchill downs tomor
row.
CARRANZA HAS FLED
THE LATEST DEPORT
NAT. DANKS TO GIVE -CONDITION
MAY 4TH.
53 MILLION MARK IS
PASSED RY N. DAPTI5TS
Washington. Mav 7. The
comptroller of the currency icall- nounceo
New York. Mav 7. Northern;
j baptists fund of the new world
! movement passed fifty million'
dollars mark headquarters an-
5200.000 FIRE IN ..
JOHNSON CITY TENN.
Johnson City Tenn., May 7.
An: estimated loss of two nuncf
ied thousand dollars resulted
from a fire undetermined origin
which destroyed valuable ma
chinery flooring! in the Whiting
Lumber company's plant.
ed for the condition of the Na
tional banks at the close of busi-
PLANS FUND FOR
RETIRED MINISTERS
El Paso, May 7. The mobili
zation of troocs which is believ
ed to be intended for an attack liess on Ma' fourth-
As many as 240 dead sparrows on Mexico City, continued at
were gathered up as the result, of Jaurez as Authentic information
'I single package of .poisoned regarding the numerous reports
"'heat. It is believed that where that President Carranza has fled
'a iv was used in placing the poi- was awaited.
S(uc(l bail an average of 75 spar-!
rows weiv killed with each of j COTTON MARKET,
several eounties, 50,000 to!00,000 May 40.10
sparrows were destroyed.
EDWARR PLAIT ON
FED. RESERVE BOARD
CITY COUNCIL TO
APPEAR IN OVERALLS
I
; Chicago, May 7.
Adamokski instructed
council committee who is investi- here
gating the high costs to appear
St. Louis, May 7. Plans for
a campaign to create a perma
nent fund for the support of su
perannuated ministers was con
sidered by the General council
Chairman 0f southern Methodist church
the city conferences and board of finance;
o v
,.nile the war was in progress
Germany failed to levy taxes to
pay any considerable part of the
cost of military operations. Bond
I issues were floated from time ro
time, but the cost of the war was
to be saddled on the entente na
tions and their associates. Ow
ing to a misapprehension as t
the victors, Germany's condition
now- is worse, possibly, than ft
would have been had there been
an attempt to levy taxes for trie
Mipport of the war. Had the
latter been attempted, the col
lapse might have come sooner
and there would have been less
of a bill to pay.
The sole reliance of the govern
ment now appears to be in print
ing press money. On March 37,
the Imperial Bank had a note cir
culation of 45.000,000,000 marks.
About one-half of this enormous
sum has been issued in the last
year. Instead of making an ef
fort to get on a sound financial
basis, an undertaking colossal ar
best, the presses are kept busy
turning out flat money, promises
to pay that probably will never
be redeemed.
To a German a mark may still
be a mark, but the more the gov
ernent turns out the less is a
ark worth, guaged by its ex
change value. The Germans
themselves will be the losers thru
their immense volume of curren
cy. Their obligations to other
nations cannot be paid in thai
kind of money, and that will
make the situation at home all the
worse. Not all the punishment
the Germans are suffering be
cause of their crimes are inflict
ed by their enemies.
Washington, May 7. Edward at first meeting in overalls
I July t 38.03 j Piatt a Republican . representa-1
I October : : 35.87 five from New York was, selecT-i Every man
With svunmer coming along December 35.03, ed by President Wilson for mem- gest himself and tells the truth-
Hie eost o Hiving surejy will be- January , 36.58 bership on the federal reserve and then lie generally has afirst
-hi to decline.' Grass is cheap. March 33.88 board. .elass row on his hands.
j Yes, the fires of hell may be
- , bright, but these ot earth are
occasionally for- scorching. Wars will continue
to rage as long as
CARRANZA
GO
E TO
VERA CRDZ A RUMOR
Washington, May 7. The
state department has no confir-
greed, hate mation of the rumor that Presi-
and jealuos exist in the human dent Carranza has gone to Vera
race. KJrux.
u.
Washington, May 7. i IJSuecial)
tleelarution . against reeogni
l"" of the Soviet. Jovernnient in
''""sia. signed by more than 1000
''ioiiiio- citizens, headed '.by Ijv-
Abbott, has been submitted
u President Wilson. The pr
uy is fathered by the National
r,v'i- Federation. The jdeclara
1',M follows:
We believe lhal recognition
',! s viel. Knssia would be a re
,u,li;"i"n oi; all that our national
has represent orl for a bunoT
''",! ''nd fifty years, and of all
h" N'iritnal ideals for which mo
'iviiixation has striven for
riiousand years.
'A nn'mg to destroy the bul
warks of morality' and social or
der, the Soviets disfranchised the
elergv, made marriage a mere
j civil contract which may be bro
jken by either party and attemp
ted to interdict the teaching of
j religion. Its system and fran
chise, destroy representative gov
j eminent, which, since the MagiiH
Chart a. the world has come to re
gard as the first essential politi
leal factor of the modern state,
i Its program breaks every law
jof economies and in practice des
troys production.
"The fundamental principle
jand purpose of the Bolshevist
! propaganda abroad is world re
j volution, whether that propagan
da is carried on by official Soviet
DMZ
R
representatives, by political par- ernments is most stable,- as ;n
!ties which belons to their Com-; America, everv element of dis-
! munist International, or by m
j dependent organizations that sup
jport Sovietism' beeause of its
! temporary ability to maintain Irs
! power. Bolshevism by all of its
decrees, publications and acknow
ledged acts has demonstrated that
it is a destructive movement, tie
pending for its success in Russia
,ut)oii terriorism and a minoritv
.dictatorship, and in foreign couji
iti-ies upon support and 'sympathy
j obtained through propaganda.
Zinoviev himself, while President
of the Petrograd Soviet, declar
ed that the very existence of the
, Soviet regime is a menace to all
other governments. Where gov-
; loyalty, disorder and discontent
;is stimulated by this propaganda.
Where government is unstable,
as in Germany. revolutionists
are subsidized and aided, and an
early Soviet , revolution is confi
dently reckoned upon. Even if
"only -temporarily successful, such
an overturn, which might become
an upheaval, in all Central Eu
rope, would be a world calamity.
Civilization must face and meet
this deadly challenge. Conees
jsions of any kind whatever can
only encourage the enemy.
"With the recognition of the
! Soviet regime, the presence of an
j ambassador and consular again s
enjoying immunities (each a en
ter of intrigue), the propaganda
of the Leniue-Trotzky reginv
against civilization, already work
ing through so many radical and
pseudo-liberal organizations, ami
recently augmented by an end"
less stream of inspired press
stories from Moscow ami Petro
grad. would be further ramified
ami dangerouslv en tended. It is
'their declared intention first to
(Undermine and then to gam con
itrol of the organized labor mov
ement in the intensive! promotion
of labor unrest, the stimulation
of 'strikes of protest' 'into gen
eral political strikes, and then
I into revolutionary mass action
I for the conquest of the state.
.tmssnsi
Thus we have in our own coun
itry waging deadly and under
ground warfare against us a.o
enemy more dangerous and with
; objects infinitely more far-reaching
and inimical than was Imepr
Ui German with her host of agents
ami spies.
"We, therefore, believe that
the people of the United States,
lading through their Government
at Washington, should now, once
!and for all. declare that they can
;not consent to admit tinto tUe
family or in any other way coun
tenance this 'government of vio
lence and terror.
t; There must be no Vompromrse
between . American democracy
jaid -Russian Bolshevism.1