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V 7. ' ' - t'HE COl M N WE A' i3 TUT mi VOlTxI1!- NUMBER 74. POUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 1921. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE RICES OF FOOD A PHASE OF DIS- 5c PER COPTi CREASED IN ftRMAM EMT AUGUST (By Associated Prest.) -RTashituton, Sept. 9. Increases in METHODS retail r'?-l"e? of food in August com- (By U. S. Press) "Washington. Sept. 9. A story car ried by the United News says that pared with July shows a four per cent j foreign diplomats and administration advaiue in Charleston! S. C. and j officials in Washington are watching Louisville. Kentucky, and five per cent j increa-e in Norfolk, Virginia. Alaskan Reindeer Washington, Sept. 9. As a conse quence of the establishment of the reindeer industry 'in Alaska" a few years aero the number of reindeer now scat tered through the territory is about 140,000 and their value between three ami four million dollars. PROHIBITION OFFICERS RAID GREEK SHIP, KING ALEXANDER SEVEN MEMBERS OF CREW WOUNDED, AND CHIEF OF RAIDING SQUAD LATER FOUND DEAD AGRICULTURAL UNDER AH' STOAT 0 (By Associated Press.) Pllim" IHlTIITnrP R New York, Sept. 9-Fol.owing .'3 fU H Utd H "BLEftTINB FOR IIP F OM WASHINGTON Washington, Sept. 9 According to Vice-President Calvin Coolidge "no; i power on earth can immediately res-! tore pre-war conditions. The only way to tii-:- .o 'V.a. is to pay back and work back." Mr. Coolidge says "that economie success will be found not in resisting but in obeying economic laws. "We can spend our efforts in bickerings and lose, or we can spend our efforts in industry and win." The sage from Massachusetts Geneva for a possible conflict or du plificatio;i of purpose between th league of nations, now 'meeting there, and the forthcoming Harding disarm anient conference. The disarmament commission, appointed by the league, has left to a vote of the league assen bly whetEer it will set a date now for ah international conference on arms or whether it will leav it open to be decided by the council at an oppor tune moment. Upon the outcome of this vote, it is believed Sere, will de pend whether the league goes ahead independently in the -matter of world armament limitation, or whether it will tacitly, at least, give the Wash ington conference its .pport. The II iNews story says that in the latter event it is believed the league would materially weaken its prestige. raid on the Greek steamship King Alexander, in which seven members of the crew were wounded, Franklin Fitzpatriek, chief narcotic officer, who led tfte prohibition forces in a pistol battle later was iounct dead with two bullet wounds in the heart in a near by ferry 4 house. Police say he com mitted suicide, but cause unknown. New York, Sept. 9. Seven members of the crew of the Greek steamship PROFITABLE CROP Bring Half a Million - Dollars To Farmers of Camdenand Currituck . Raleigh, N. C, Sept 9. "The most interesting farm development in mv part of the State has been the sweet potato farming in Currituck and Cam den counties,' ' said Herbert Peele, (By U. S. Press) Washington, Sept. 9 After telling TAX BILL what is the "trouble" with the agricul tural industry, Congressman Anderson Hsts four remedies. First, is a more equable ratio of prices between what j mittee. The measure, it is reported. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 9. A tax inves tigation commission will be created under' the new tax bill now being" drafted by the Senate Finance Corn- King Alexander were shot and wound- editor of Elizabeth City. Advance, ed by Federal prohibition agents in i pistol battle on the vessel at the Brooklyn dock, when fifty thousand dollars worth of liquor and seventy five thousand dollars worth of drugs were seized- The authorities say that the crew offered to sell liquor and " drugs for fourteen thousand. CONVICTIONS ODER WAR-TIME STATUTES (By J. E. Jones) Washington, Sept. 9. There are two hundred cases where Federal pris oners were convicted for violating war time statute. The greater part of 4" V OCA all SVnr 4" V r a vw onn Awa wwr as reasserts old truths that everybody i , . , . . . - - - j sentenced to cftom. ten tt- twenty years tor navmg obstructed tne arait, or other cases held eually grave. Since the beginning of the Harding Admin j istration an investigation of all these j eases has been in progress in - the office of the Attorney-General. Nat- i should know but which are not known broadly enough, in "saying that the Government can do little beside Happy Walk And Shades" enfc legislative processes. Everyone seems to expect the Government to get a job for them; to sell their merchan dise or their crops, and to make it easy to run their affairs at a profit. The ,.. . - , , , ... r ratification of the peace treaty with iailroafls are always bleating for help from Washington. Heaven knows they urally the greatest interest centers in the case of Eugene V. Debs and a per dan for him, and most of the other prisoners, is looked for following the Germany. It will be recalled that former Attorney- General Palmer rec ommended the pardon of Debs, and submitted a lengthy brief in support of his position. President Wilson re turned the recommendation, with two words written across it, simply stating that the pardon was refused. The p"1"- Harding Administration has had the known as the possessor of a great n0v,a flPr vomont sinae its " engineering mind " is to be in charge first days, but there has been no pre cipitate haste to make the pardon, have troubles enough, but it seems that the Government can do nothing more than pull them out of one hole! before they are stuck in another. Just at the presYST time the transpor- f ! tation carriers, insistently demand that they l.e paid something like $300,000,000 of the so-called "refund ing debt." The Railroad Administra tion savs that the Government owes i i.. ii ! j rr, j though it is regarded as certain witn Adoo, who was the original Railroad'. ' I lit C 1)11 U W bluw. Ailministrator, sasy that the railroads have not more than half that sum coming to them. Certain distinguish ed Seneators have argued long and elo quently to the effect that the rail roads have nothing coming from the i Government, and one or two of them declare that every cent refunded to Mexico City, Sept. 9. Disquieting tin railroads will be in the nature oflreports of "anarchistic" conditions in i a -nft. Reallv. thev put it stronger. the state of Yucatan continue to ar- (By J. E. Jones) Washington, Sept. 9. It is wonder fully eonforting to many of the poli ticians to figure out their multitudi nous receipts. lor what , , Milton called 4 ' Happy Walks and Shades. ' A few weeks ago we were told that all that was necessary to restore normal con ditions on the farm would be the pas sage of an act by Congress providing for farm financing. The bill was passed and it has helped, because cotton has advanced in price and some of the agricultural products are moving more regularly and steadily in the markets and exchanges. Other de tours that are intended to avoid the rough spots in the old highways . of business rnd commerce, will lead the country through the talkative process es of "conferences." One of these is expected to solve the problem of un- who was in Raleigh yesterday. 4 A half million dollars worth of sweet po tatoes ware shipped from the portions of the two counties lying along the banks of the lower Pasquotank. "The Currtuck and Camden sweets are not the sort of potatoes that we North Carolina people like the best. They are the dry potato. Northern people do not like the soft, very sweet juicy potato like for Instance the fam ous North Carolina yam. "The good prices ""are largely ac counted for by the fact that the po tatoes reach the market very early. The soil is light and the tubers ma ture quickly. They reach tfie market when there is a big demand and are eagerly taken at good prices. "The ?oja bean is anotner profit able crop in our section. Our farm ers made good money on this crop last y ear,-4tnd . will probably do well yea. 'Our truckers had hard luck thi year with their "Irish potatoes. They made no money on them. Last year they made big money on them. That is the hardship "about trucking. You make one -year and lose the next. Probably the remedy is in some form of cooperative marketing. "Thanks to our fishing industry and diversified farming the financial depression has not been felt so much in the Elizifbeth City section as in some parts of the State." the farmer sells and what he' buys, so that his dollar may have a fairer pro portionate purchasing power. This is largely dependent on the seeond, which U a general improvement in all indus try to increase the demand. Third, is a broader, more liberal credit ac commodation, that the farmer may car ry his load caused by high production costs and low selling price in 1920-21 will be "completed when congress re- convenes late this month. FAMOOS YACHT TURNED BACK TO IM The Washington Herald amenta editorially: "This is prr-tive ered it and The Herald V.-'vvea is more oft S (By Associated Press) vfVyiof the seh'ooner yacht America which, And-fourth a new' credit svstem to &. ? Am? iasi yyage at TX J! ' i 1 J YUCATAN THEATENEO WITH ANARCHISM of this movement. It is pointed out that in the public service we have an excess of legal minds, bankers' minds, the labor mind and the farmer mind. So the "engineering mind" Is m rath-1 er a distinctive class,. Just what Mr. Hoover and the industrial confer ence intend to do is not entirely clear; but Hoover is regarded as a sort of rive here and further sanguinary clashes 'tflJTween radicals and conser vatives are feared. A second committee of Yucatan 1 . . . .1 ViA.n n OVTD1Ont ll ATIPQ 1 ,n I ( L . it II v' tucic aiL --vpv id-UK v - -r-, ' t ..without much discomfort. For that he will "set results." The. country has been demanding all sorts of things from Washington, and to do DISCOUNTING STATISTICS (By TJ. S. Press) Washington, Sept. 9. "The unem- i ploymeut is not as great as stat istics make it out," according to Mark Sullivan, a learned writer of Washington. Mr Sullivan says: "The Department of Labor figures say 5,-700,000-men are out of work. But a good deal of what the statisticians see as unemployment is really in the shape farmers' sons who went into the factories during the war and are now being absorbed again by the farms this and other reasons, "careful persons who tenieer statistics with personal obser- important than any other remedy for permanent betterment of farm condi tions and is adequately provided for in the McFadden-Kehyon bill. Next toj it, is marketing credit. This is temporarily cared for by the War Finance Corporation, but ultimately an be best provided by agricultural organizations. A beginning has al ready been: made in this field by the fruit growers--? the West; the com bination of State associations of cot ton growers in a single selling agency; by the Farm Bureau Federation's grain market association and by other! like bodies which will gradually be I i J" - " t r operation. Ultimately these will cover the four great products gain, cotton, livestock, fruits." The Herald says that the present outlook foi agriculture is much im proved. Cotton has recovered amaz ingly in price. Other products wW follow. This continent is the world's great food reservoir and will remain so until Russian recovery. The peo ple of th9 world must eat to live and must in some way, finance a living foodration. Without Russia, food ra tions will be low. Until stability comes there and in all Europe, finan cing will be difficult. But it seems that necessity is becoming the mother of peace, and with peace, world recov ery will be rapid. English waters, opened the way to the long international competition for the cup that now bears her name, .will begin r.t this oort tomorrow. WEATHEB RBPOBT For North Carolina: Generall fair tonight and Saturday. No change in temperature. Gentle variable winds. THE TROUBLE WITH AGRICULTURE vation and iudffment sav that the ac- the politicians full credit they have unemDlovmeilt nearfir 3000,000. "But whatever the figure," eontin- worked their "dingdest" to provide a cure for every one of the national ailments (By U. S. Press)' Washington, Sept. 9. Representative Her final cruise will take th America to Annapolis, Md., there to re turn to the custody of the Navv De partment after nearly half a century . of private ownership. The trip will extend" over 2 days, in which the fam ous schooner yacht will call at various coastal ports, the yacht cTuTjs of which for the most part have participated in the arrangements for her transfer. It will not be the proud yachting queen of the seas, sails full of wind that will run down the coast. Be cause of the necessity of passing un der several bridges her maets will ' be lashed to the deck and sails stowed in lockers. A sub-chaser will take America in. tow. The yacht, her bottom cleaned" and caulked after being laid up 20 yeara in local waters and otherwise mado ship-shape again, will leave Lawley's shipyard at 9 A. M., tomorrow for tb waterfront here from which departure will be taken in the afternoon for Marblehead. The . itinerary thence follows: Septembere 11, at Manchester, Mass. September 12, passes through Capo Cod canal and calls' at Monument Beach and Marion:" 13. at New Bedford !l4. at Fall River YncTit Club, Tiver ton; R. I.; 15, at Providence; 16, a Newport ; 17, New London: 18 New Haven; 19, Stamford; L'O. Indian Har bor; 21. Oyster Bay; 22, Larchmont or New Rochelle; New York Y. C, at 23rd Street, 24, Gravesend Bay, with call at Battery; 25, Newark; 26, Tren ton; 27, Philadelphia; 2S, Wilmington, 29, Baltimore; 30, Annapolis. At Annapolis, the America will be formally given over to the govern- . ment. Secretary Denby wlio accepted, the schooner yacht some time airo is expected to be there In person. The transfer will be made by Charles H. W. Foster, a yachtsman of this city, who has owned her for four years. . His Most of- the remedies have Andprson. of Minnesota, chairman of , ., . , j offer to give her to the Navy Depart- the Joint Congressional Committee of ! ' ues Mr. Sullivan, "the expected phen- j Agricultural inquiry says that the omenon of post-war unemployment is failed to eure, but usually they have . . F'inu iai - - upon and must be looked in the face. I. ,,. ff . 4- dm1 A .railing on journalists, has arrived here to present been soothing to the spots where r . ped readn nav(J ua circle. Give theja memorial to President Obregon ask-.tnere wa3 the greatest pain. We do "perpendicular drop" in prices, the in export demand, espec ially for meat products and cotton, than this because, vou know there ire men in the Senate who see red 'v ' time one says a good word for the railroads. However, the plan re volving around railroad aid "seems to .i ' iiast lT-ii'ir in n fire le. iiive tut- a memorial iu rrcsmcuL w ux cruu o.o. ThPrP was ine aicaiest iiaiu.. , . . , , n- i ; ! " pleasant social anu pouncai 1C3Ulls i furnisues the first cause for the busi- railroads . 500,000,000, we are told, jing that guarantoes be given and that j not know just who Gavin MeNabb of. n'wor thP worlds dis-1 . - ! ! ,v " j - fioTM-s'sinTi nf thp ponntrv. utner reasons advanced by him are: The marked decline in domestic consump tion; the increase in freight rates; and enforced liquidation .- through withdrawal of credits. More than any other commodities, he finds that farm commodities were forced on the mar ket. He points out that other indus tries meet periods of depression by re ducing outputy Mills, factories, and ment free and cleawas made condi tional on his acceptance of $1. and the railroads will employ a million I federal forces he augmented imme- "n;ore men hi doctoring up their . brok- j diately in order to prevent a situation t ii iiown roads and equipment. In- j which is described as serious from be- iile of the circle are pictured indus- j coming more threatening. U'u! establishments burning -coal, i . . i n San Francisco, may De, dux ne saia chBXg s&ldier wasj- absorbed by the mouthful when he declared that laad of the Weat f ar as the politician js the only animal known j concerned) he dis. fo nature wno can.p appeared and was no problem. Now BULGARIAN GOVER MENT Halting steel, and accelerating the Mhole industrial world. Thus as the tirele rolls round and round the whole slack of industrial unemployment is ; tee of protection is a good revolver made to scheme everybody in tho ' and an ability to use it Members of the committee were ' t!ie ground at the same time. " If the free &nd quoted in the newspapers here as say- .there is a care all that has not beeujf must" substitute economic ountry will soon b working, with tho j.1 4. .4- n 1 n P nnariiVi-tr Til-OVQlIu A. J a r-r Ck ff 7l PQP Tin! 1 - ' ing mat a vniuai m auau; .-. i suggesceu ouno - r intelligence " in Yucatan and that the only guaran-; ticians with ears to the ground it j should be captured, bottled and label eel. REQUIRES HEALTH . CERTIFICATE FUR MARRIAGE . I Misses MaybeUe Barnhill and Cal- The editors of three conservative "osult that the haberdashers will newspapers in Meridaf, the state cap asain sell silk shirts, stocks and bondsjital. have been the object of many at- v5ll boom, and full dinner pails will.tacs by the Socialists.' So serious j lie Mat Boberson, of' Robersonville, j take the place of ordinary lunch! have been the threats that the news- are visiting at the home of Mr. J. W baskets paper offices are under constant guard. Madry. COTTON MARKET OCTOBER : 19.56 DECEMBER 19.84 JANUARY 19.60 MARCH I960 MAY 19.17 y v j (By Associated Press.) Sofia, Sept. 8 The draft of a pub- shops run on part time or close down, j lie health law, placed before parlia regulating supply to meet demand, jment 4 by the Bulgarian government, The farmers cannot do this. When requires that all persons desiring to their lands are seeded, the rest is be-(marry shall produce, a doctor's certi- vnnd their controL ; ficate- snowing meur v -1 . h 1 II " -? 'I' r . i i'! 1 '1 - I . ' - H "t v.-
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