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- - -. . . . . - HE COMMfflWRA' ini 9 TXV. NUMBER 76. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION ALLEGE BOMB THROWERS HAI SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY, MAV 16, 1922. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE CONNECTED LE President Harding Uneasy About Coming Election 5 CENTS PER COP? TWO VA. GIRLS LABOR AQERS By WALLACE BASSFORD Ilarging the Capitol Grounds. Do (Special Correspondent) lyou remember in the distant Washington, D. C, May 16. 'past that appropriation was made The President who proudly rode ifor enlarging the Canit.ol Grounds? It has been on the books, and it stays there. There by Associated Press" May 16. Evidence toiii)tiiiir Hie oomu uiiuvio nd the slayers of two policemen 's bier three labor Willi v n". "tr- . ,CT . ,. , i kacLors is claimed by police anil j tau-s attorneys, A decision w expected today on the pleas ot atloinevs for two of the labor j.leis that their cases be as hiJ fr trial- !mto otfice m March last year jwith seven millions majority be hind him is now so uneasy as to i-hu result of the coming Novem ber elections that he and his Di lector of the Budget, General Dawes, juggle appropriation fig ures and boldly distort the facts ill their eiiorts to tool the peo ple into again voting for the party of special privilege. The President's claim to saving $1, 600,000,000 in the past year was taken up in the House the other day by Congressman Byrnes of Carolina and shot full of 16.- LARGE FIRES ARE NEW JERSE! Perth Amboy, May 16. The vhite lead department of the United Lead Company was des troyed by fire here today. The damage is estimated at half mil lion dollars. Fiavi.mne. Mav 16. Ten tanks of petroleum of the Tidewater Oil Company have been destroy ed by fire which started last niuht v lien lightning struck one f the tanks, ted at seven ihouscHul dollars The loss is estima hundred and fifty T HIE HANuB Washington, May 16 ?re being taken bv the merit Id forestall tendencies wards rising prices of bituminous coal at the mines it was dee! ar-! political game routn i . ai'oiina aui holes. Mr. Byrnes said: ''The President announced to the country that we will this year ! reduce our expenditures $1,600, (000,000 below the expenditure for the last fiscal year. Well, the expenditures for the last fis cal year which were authorized by a Republican Congress were the largest ever authorized in time of peace in the history of the country. If now, four years af- per the war, there was not a tre Iraendous reduction in expendi tures there would be little hope ifor the preservation of the gov ernment. "My regret is that the Presi dent in issuing this statement did not call attention to the fact it hut for the vear 1916. the last lyear prior to or entering the war jwhen we were engaged inmeas jures of preparedness, our expen ditures did not amount to more 'than $1,115,000,000, and that the 1 estimate he now makes as to ex-' Ipenditures this year is,$3,922;372-; !C3v;"or2",80?-,6Sl,326::-mi5re ths jvvas spent under the Democratic 'administration for the last fiscal ! i 1 1 year prior to tne war. "I regret that he did not call attention to the fact that while the Budget Bureau claims these bogus savings of $136,000,000, e.no fait ic that, tbp samp depart- 11 V- - J-- v - irmfc liovo tn rlnto pp.nrpfl from 111 V 11 L1' 11U I V I.V wi..- . v . . v , - w - the Congress deficiencies or sup- Steps plemental appropriations amount-govern-ling to $374,691,040.65. to- The Secretary ot the Treas ury does not keep up with tms He issued a Mint iBy id at ihc White House today Seeivtaiy Hoover has the mat te? i:i charge. statement that we are facing May 16. Penn- defieit. and then along comes General Dawes, who says that i we have saved a billion and a J half dollars. The President, if he has any commence m him at all, ought" to urge the Congress to declare a dividend to the tax- I payers of America, and we would jail be entitled to a share. I fav ; order the Bureau of the Budget. There was real work for the 'Director of the Budget to do, ibut the Bureau of the Budget has j never functioned as Congress in ! tended it should. The Bureau 'submitted estimates for an ! amount larger than the appro priations for the current. year 7 3 Philadelphia, a.' wont i the p,j)U to nominate candidates jthe Committee on Appropriations lor Ciovtriior, Lieutenant Gover-no one appeared to defend his i;0r. S .f10t;lrv ,.f Tnprnol Af. Lcimatw Tb dirftc.t.or content- " Cnited State Senators, icd himself with these baseless ntaT-ves to fairs III!.;. i ote win Longress and is bv the State Le.irisla- polled. gC ;T)J Sties1 L tors claims of savings. It is nothing but bunk--polit;cal bunk. (An7 plause.J " i Mr. Byrnes then went on to show some of the specific in I stances where the President and i General Dawes had made claims lot saving claims so easily dis proved that the President ap- pears in a .childlike and ridicu lous attitude before the country, iif we assume that he was so easily (misled by Dawes' political smoke- I T- J ..4- . j screen, Mr. tsyrnes saiu m uull. J "He says that $7V500 was sav- Ma.v lfi Ln-nrlrm ilnc-iori Ant of An annroTiriation for eomplaining as loudly! the widow of Senator Proctor, professional disrnitv will: of Vermont. Away back in 1903 ; f hard times. They de-Kvhen Senator Proctor died this fewer, people seek med-j money was appropriated for his dv!e nowadays than ever;widow. She declined to accept , nd that they complain jit, and the good lady has Ions jl "'idly of iho. foos oha rwd Lflo fpnnp n Tipr reward. It re- sP""'ulktK. On ihn nHim unnn bonks to her : we citizens report that j credit, but nobody else could sret specialists have been it, and General Dawes says nc at their highest saved, it this vear. Who was "Jiun a t'e their Permit ; jtal f; "and UK tore, it is saved out of the cur rent appropriations this year. 1 wish my friend from Kentucky, Ben Johnson, were here, because ;a iii -i i . it wouia ormg oacK memories of the past to him. The trouble with Ihis statement is that it goes throughout the country and some people are misled by it. They are misled into believing that there is a saving of $112,000, 000, now increased to $135,000, 000, when there is not any sav ing, and, as a matter of fact, it is only a saving on paper. It is nothing but a political saving; it will never relieve the taxpayer. ' ' Then there is the Panama Canal. Why, my friends, he has a saving in here of $19,674 in the j original appropriation for dig ging a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, appropria ted when the proposition was first urged for digging a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He says it is saved be cause it was not spent this year. ( Ifow could it be spent? In j what way could he dig a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean for $10,000? The money could be spent for no other inir pose. For years it has been on the books, and if it is on the books, then he has saved it this year. "Then we have censorship for foreign mails in the Panama Lanal Zone, where we have sav-' ed $53,205 this vear. Evidentlv kfi has ... not heard- that the, jespia&s, age act is no more, and we could not spend it. .Because it was not spent and could not be spent, the Director of the Budget says he saved $53,000. And the worst oi it all is he seems to have in duced the President to believe it, and he has given circulation to these absurd claims of savings. "Why, Ave are. going to save $19,000,000 in the Treasury De partment in the Supervising Ar chitect's' office. On what? On public buildings. tw,v in 1913 we passed a puonc uuiunng Din, and because they can not get anybody to take the contracts for some buildings for the amount of money then appropria ted, on account of the increased cost, it remains on the books. Therefore we have saved $10, 000,000 because we can not get anybody to take the contract until we enact legislation in creasing the limit of cost. "Now, as to the Department of State. There is an ' alleged saving of a little over a million i dollars. The largest single item in $750,000 payment to Columbia under the treaty of 1909. In other words, back in 1909, $750, 000 was appropriated. Colombia refused to accept. Director Dawes says it is saved this year. If it was a saying this year, it has been a saving every year for the past 12 years, and we have saved $9,000,000 out of this $750 000 fund. ; "District of Columbia. Now, this statement of General Dawes would be a joke book if it were not serious in its effort to mis lead the public. There is a sav ing ot $100,000 for what? War j. r emergency improvements, uuu i hundred thousand dollars was appropriated for the District of .Columbia to repair streets around the Army, and Navvy buildings constructed during the war. The Treasury could not pay out a dollar of it after the end of the ar It was not spent during fVio wot nn Aw t.bft Democratic itions of i jib, . v y ill . administration : snend a dollar mains on the books, genera' Dawes says he has saved it this Bj Associated Press j Charjottesville Va., May Misses ; Mary Moon and India Sargent, of Scottsville were kill ed last' night when the automo bile in; Which thev were rirh'no t urned j'i turtle and plunged into a canal: American Legion To Stage Big Minstrel Around Last of May PLACED Oil TRIAL The American n big minstrel : stage Legion Petrokrad Again Ill Operation k' -1 r.- v, StoclihTm, May 16. The Pet i ogradt-iuint is jonce more in op eration and is turning out five and 10fruble gold coins and sil ver coins- of -various denomina tions filbm Men kopeks to one ru ble, sayf Stockholm's Tidningen. It is stated that one gold ruble is worth .,000,00a paper rubles. . FOR ALLEGED ER IDRD (By Associated Press) Columbia, S. C, May 16. F. M. Jerrards, Ira Harrison and Glenn Treece were placed on trial here today charged with killing J. C. Arnette, proprietor of a filling station. The alleged crime took place last Tuesday. Tfl V RIIRPRISFfl I u. s. will m$ wiU around the 'last of this month and the ner. - Y f ormance will be under the direc tion of "Deep C" Green, who di rected the Legion performance given last December. A two hour comedy perfor mance will be offered and in tho minstrel first part whieh will run an hour and teem with new i local jokes and song hits, four female ends and four male ends (in blackface will be seen alono: with twelve excellent soloists. The second half of the show will consist of one of the funniest blackface plays ever written. ' Mrs. Black's Pink Tea," in which ten of the most talented ladies in the city will shine as blackface commediennes. Sev eral acts of vadev will also, be ottered. Kehec - vwill Thursday, v . 'in. start The-;?oins are being minted from "e goldand silver treas ures reentry ;taken by the So viet authorities from Russian churchfe.--' PARTICIPATE fBv Associated Presi oreisn 3 BI&PSELECTED fix ) l0T ODD R HP I J Press) 1 I ister Schanzer, of Italy, learning today that the United States would not join the proposed com mission on Russian affairs at The Hague exTressed great surprise especially at the rapidity with which the decision was LEAGUE OF NATIONS REFUSE n u PRO which mav on further have irreat influence ! discussion at Genoa. Associated Hot Springs, May 16. Dele fates to the Tiirintpeiitli nnaclrcn- nial conference of the Methodist ! American Episcopal Church south today be gan balloting to elect five new bishopsv. Three names, Doctors Franklin N. Parker, of Atlanta; Sam I. Hay, of Houston; and J L. Dickey, of Griffin, Ga., stood out prominently for offices. Premier Lloyd George does not feel, it was indicated today, that America's refusal to partici pate on commission at The Hague on Russian affairs is final as do cument indicates tliere is yreat: interest in Russia's ! economic reconstruction and the 'reply is regarded as one formiiu? i basis for further discussion (relieve, May 16. The Coun cil of The League of Nations has refused to take up the Russian problem and referred to the taken iGenoa Conference the Norwegian governments request for imme diate .inquiry by the league into -the. freneral-fJtAifiiion in. . Russia and the effect, of the famine on he economic reconstruction of Europe. WEATHER REPORT For North Carolina : Showers tonight and Wednesday cooler on northeast coast tonight fresh easterly winds- COTTON MARKET 4- u MAI" 21.23 JULY 20.47 OCTOBER 20.43 DECEMBER 20.44 JANUARY 20.27 MARCH 20.22 D YESTERDAY'S MARKET MAY 20.95 JULY 20.40 OCTOBER 20.38 DECEMBER 20.38 JANUARY 20.21 MARCH 20.19 G BREAK IN THE LEVEE AT HAMBURG 3Uf!taincd 't3r; Ki'iticVi calorifics nnd om' have been depleted. - trving to get it? ((Laughter), "There -is $100,000 saved in en- (By Associated Press.) Baton Rouire, La., May 16. A break of twro hundred and fif tv feet in the levee at Hamburg I on the bajou de Glaise occurred i today. Unless eiiorts are sue trader' and that she should not i it coll JiQ nuTTi Trr rl 1 1 r 1 1 1 n ) c cessful to close-the break por- L , j 'ireeiy uui suuum uuv wnuuui 'hindrance or restriction the pro ductions of other nations. Avoyelles, St. Landry, they didn't land St. Martin parishes will b of it. and it re-, tiooclci. America's Welfare Dependant pon Europe's Rehabitation - - --it "America must freely accept payment for any international credits she may grant in inter national goods and services. "The question which America l as now to decide is whether sue will remain a world banker and will become a world trader, or will endeavor to confine her American banking and trading activities and Social ;io the limits' of her own boundary iies. If America seeks to reverse her policy of recent years, she would be unable to sell as much as she sold prior to the war and foreign buying of American manufactured goods would en tirely disappear. "Nor would there by any exr pansion in the American home de mand to make good the loss of the foreign demand. With the loss of their foreign markets, American cotton planters and packers would be able to buv 'less, not more, food or manufac tured goods. With the loss of the foreign demand for their products and with a diminished demand from the cotton states, American farmers would be compelled to - buy fewer manu factured goods and to use thi railways less freely and the con traction in home demand for American manufactured goods would plunge the industrial and banking districts of America in to great poverty. "As soon as America makes it Philadelphia, May 13.: Amer ca's welfare is dependent upon the rehabilitation of Europe, and without extension of credit from the United States, Europe's res toration to a sound economic basis will be impossible, Sir George Paish, British economist, declared in a paper read for him tonight before the icademv of Political Science. j "Never has a nation been fac jed by a graver responsibility," !Sir George wrote. "If America 'accepts the responsibility the i world will move forward under American leadership to a state of iwell-being never hitherto at tained. If, however, America re fuses responsibility, then every nation including America . will 'f-ink into unprecedented pover t.y. j Summing up factors which he 'said were essential in the restora tion of the world's economic bal- I r j. - j ance, Jbir ueorge coniinueu: "It is essential for America to maintain her position as i world banker which she assumed during the war. "It is equally essential that America should now definitely assume the function of i world clear that she is willing to accept : "America must grant addi- ! repayment of hercredits, togeth- didional credit to Europe for re- !er with interest on fKem in goods, (Laughter.) construction purposes on the se-produce and services, the credit dd be saved euritv of German reparations :situation will at once improve. Members of Congress. Who vear when there could not have i not get theirs? hepn a dollar of it paid out of The only way it could .1 ! I - 1 P J.T. , . . -P 4-1. ho T'-pasnrv on anv voucner. was wnen some memoer oi von- pius uii iiuaidint- wj. me r wi,n a;a he it.'from? Uresis died. Did he kill them?;.onte nations to the limit of her 'eed by investox-s 'Legislative. You do cot And vet he claims that he saved surplus supplies oi produce anu oanKera au uv r- that amount. I said it was a goods which otherwise she wouic ,gooa oouu s En- 'Credits to Europe must be fman- rather than by and know it. but he says that he', sav ed $25,000 out of the salaries of joke book. (Laughter.) ibe unable to sell. IbilLs.' i-.--:--:is-'.'.
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