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VOL. XV. NUMBER 2.
FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION
SCOTLAND NECK, N. P., TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1922,
TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE
PREPAREDNESS
ADVOCATED B!
SEC. WE
Confederate
Reunion
Offic
EKS
Lexington.
June
20. Secre'-
to the
ally
Opened
(By Associated Preaa)
RICHMOND, VA., June 20.
m r 1 --v . .-. 1-1 -art irf
1iirv v, h ks. Sun-minded bv traditions of the
,railu:itinr Uass ot the Virginia Qld gouth veterans of the
Military Institute, hailed as , cmifederate armies officially
opened their annual reunion
here today. v
The convention was called to
order by General William B.
Freeman commander of the Vir
ginia Division, and General Ju
lian S. Carr, commander-in-chief
later took the chair. The session
was given over to speech making.
'..-nod siu'ii" the increasing num
her of military schools m the
country. The increase, he said,
,;-lllst he ;;a great satisfaction
to h i' believing in an adequate
military preparedness."
STENTS OF THE PEKING
5 CENTS PER COP?
Ill li CLOSE
CONTESTFORTHE
U. S.
SENATE
St. Paul, Minn., June 20.
With the outcome of the Major
Republican contests apparently.
determined, interest in the Min
nesota primary turned today to
the race Mrs,. Anna Dickey Ole
sen made for the Democratic
Senatorial nomination. -
Available reports showed her!
in a nip anil tuck contest with;
Thomas J. Meighan.
UNIVERSITY START ANTI IWATER POWER OF FALLS
STJAN MOVEMENT
CI
Amoy. China, June The
religious world of the Far East
is stirreii by an anti-Christian
movevwent which started early in
ilay among the students of Pek
ing University, and is now rapid
ly spreading among the students
private and
government
OF JORDAN TO BE
DEVELOPED
Jerusalem. June 20. Much of
the materialhat is to be used in
the work of developing the hy
draulic power of the falls of the
school inrougnout tne country.; Jordan, near the Sea of Galilee,
These young people term Chris-f will be acquired from German
t Sanity a superstition and harm- j firms. Their prices are said to
Mil t the people, taking awavl he one-half thosp- of British
reverence for ancestors and free- houses, and considerably- below
il.-.m of thought and action. ' j those of American. bidders.
The lieu-movement has fcegunj Tn3 lan includes the COnstruc
an energetic propaganda which) tion of a dam on the Jordan Riv.
m urn has brought Christian' r at the point where it issliea
leader, to the front, many ofj irQm the gea of Galilee a- la 0
wnoni look upon the movement storage reseryoir; irrigation ea-u-itli
grave misgivings, not know-) nal and the instaiiation of elec
ing what will be the outcome. 4
5 ' , ' trie venerating stations. Amen-
Others think it is simply the re , (an..Je, .Mh 0?ganizatUuis ....ra.
smt i;1 s.ra to---- rsaieTargely intSreslted in
idmotninf? .i rwl that 1-10 hnoti
Why Suffer
Losses From
HogChodera?
Amer
I si
icaia 'BuOdiiiiffs
CamtoDio China
truck
HBy Associated Press)
Peking, June 20. Three
American buildings in Canton
were struck by shells during
Sunday's bombardment of the
city by the gunboats of Sun Yat
Sen, who has been trying futilv
to recapture his stronghold.
Jacob Schurman, the Ameri
can minister, has asked Rear Ad
miral Strauss to rush protection
to Canton, and American. gun
boats are expected to proceed
there.
By
Shells
REPUBLICANS ATTACK
FORD'S OFFER FOB .
MUSCLE
SHOALS
SWEDEN TO
CIVE EDUCA
TIONAL ADVANTAGES
TO EVERY CHILD
.Stockholm, June 19. Sweden's
"Washington, June 20. Henry
Fords offer for Muscle Shoals
was attacked today in a report
to the House prepared by Repre
sentative Kearns, Republican,
and signed byyseveral other Re
publican members of the com
mittee The report declared dissatis
faction with the opinions already
presented by other members of
the committee, and announced
that the signers determined t.--
BABE RU
TH AGAIN
ON THE CAflPET
CHICAGO j !ILL., June 20.
Babe Ruth faces suspension or
fine as a result of his conduct in
the New York-Chicago , game
yesterday, when he was banish
ed from the game in the eighth!
.mning for disputing a decision.
President Johnson, -"of the
American League, said today
that the action he would take de
pended upon the report of Um
pire Dineen.
VERA CROZ CONSIDERS
SECEDING FROM MEXICO
9 -
'J Vity, June 19 A
In two sections around Scot
land Neck hog cholera is raging.
It has completely wiped outgone j educate system today faces I
herdOf thirty-four head and w reorganization- the nnmL nt i
v Jr V V-l.
which is to place full educational
advantages within close reach of
,.vtv -nat the state of Vera Ornz
"tell the people the real ' V-ivOde from, the republic of Mex
about Muscle Shoals and i'ico has been made in the Wis,
called Ford offer."
of defeating it is to ignore
mean
(.onditions provoking vthe or
z;inization of such a movement
arc said by Christian leaders to
be the rapid progress of Chris
tianitr in China, taken together
with much talk and advertising
of the recent World's Christian
Student (
conferene
in this country. The students
are declared to be unconscious
tools in the hands of leaders who
are seeking favorable conditions
for the breaking up of organiz
ed soeietv and the working of
tommunistic ideas.
The leaders of this anti-Christian
movement are Dr. Tsai Yan
pe i. Chancellor of the Peking
National University; "VYang
Chaoming. Secretary to Dr. Sun
)at-sen, and Chen Tu-siu, who
is a Socialist. Sub-organizations
will no doubt spring up. A Free
hove Society has already been
formed among the students of
Amoy University.
Considering the possibility of
the - project.
. The contract has been award
ed to Pinhas Rutenberg, a Rus-
m another adjoining herd. This
second herd was inspected this
morning an dall the hogs were
found infected. It is only a
matter of a few days until they
will be dead. Why not make ar
rangements to have your herd
inoculated immediately.? The.
hog cholera serum is a preventi
tive and not a cure and if your
hogs are attended to before they
become sick, you need not have
any worry about cholera.
Dr. F. D. Owen of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture is in
Scotland Neck for a few days to
assist wjth. the.hag-jnhx4fS5- worJ
every child in the land irrespec
tive ot the child's social stand
ing in the community.
- Under the new plan all of
Sweden s public schools, frofn
the elementary grades to the uni
versities, will be co-educational.
;At present only the elementary
'schools and the universities re
ceive, both sexes. The Swedish
Hehool Commission purposes to
lopen the "realskola" and the
ft gymnasium" to girls as well as
s.- An important chansre will
ie thaeliminariv5r tf Se ver a sun
R. R. Workers
AreQrganizing
1 ivv
ana now is tne . time to nave tnis iPt :ls mnnicnvv on,r 1
WOrk done. . j poTltTntl'nr I'n.tnrlnol ov,rlT
Hog cholera inoculation is not
an experiment but it is an abso-
sian engineer, by the British gov- ute preventative and it is the
ernment. Mr. Rutenberg is now
in the United States seeking fi
nancial support for the project.
The work will involve an expen
diture of -10,000,000 and the em-
:ference and other Payment of 8,000 men The
es f a like nature held Russian contractor also ;will un-
(lcrraKe to araw eiectnc powej.
from the Auja River to light the
ancient city of Jaffa and the
communities of Tel Aviv, Ram
leh and detach Tikweh. He is
allowed two years in which to
raise the capital and start operations.
latm-e ot that state by certain
radical groups which claim that
they are not adequately or justly
represented in the national con
gress. A resolution demanding seces
s"on has been 'presented to the
legislature, demanding that in
the forthcoming efections a num
ber oi; radicals be permitted Lt
stand for the national chamber
of deputies despite a federal rul
ing that they are ineigible be
cause of a number of technical
reasons. It is not believed that
the resolution will pass.4
on a smaller group of subjects,!
logically related to the occupa
tion or profession which most in
terests them. Students wTill be
permitted to start specializing
heisrht ot tolly to allow your
hogs tot go without this treat
ment. This treatment is given
without cost to the grower for
aaviwa vj. agntunuiai ; Ay tne wnoie eaucationat woric
agent and any veterinarian that;0f the country, with the excep
the government might send downs iion of a few private schools be
here and the only cost that will taken over by the state. Tuition
accrue will be the cost of the ! f ees w;i? he practically elimina-
;erum and virus that is used in ; ted ancj students will not be en-
(By Maxwell Gorman)
Raleigh, June 20. If plans ma
terialize as hoped for by the pro
moters, there will be an organ
ization of railroad workers
(most of whom are not directh
affiliated with the Federation of
Labor of which Mr. Gompers is
the head) effected . in North
Carolina very soon, the begi-'
nings of which are on tap as!
According to some information GIRLS BEGIN WEEK OF
uanura out m iiaieigli today, thel
aim is to launch a state eonven-i
iion through a meeting of rep-
j C '1 1
1 tscuiu uves 01 rail worKers in
Raleigh this week, the convention
It in now proposed that virtual- ;r.7i r . : . J. Ui. 1JC
1 i j 1 1 t leering, a state organization
FACTORY AND OFFICE
CAMPUS LIFE AT VASSAR
the herd. This cost will be .from
SCOTLAND TO DEVELOP
ITS WATER POWER
cumbered bv the study of non-
aout torty cents ior sucKimg nsepntial kitbippts. TTip pstima-
pigs to about a dollar and forty! ted cost of the row system will
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Jim0 zrt
political purposes.", lories and off. - . .
chieflvr for
That is to say, not as a separate
party, but to act concertedly so
as to makers strcVgth felt with
in the political party it affiliates
with.
cents for the largest hogs in the
county.
Make your
arrangements to
be about $1,000,000 a year more
than a, present.
It is proposed 'also to establish
have this work done thru tne ag-, a scnool, new to the Swedish
ricultural agent at Scotland j system of education, to be known
Neck.
London, June 19. Scotland is
fn anti-foreign movement result-; waking up to the tact that its
i lakes and waterfalls may be made
nir. the local Consular bodies
have taken up the matter with
the Commissioner of Foreign Af
fairs who, however, pronounces
himself unable to give 'any1 prom
ime (if protection in case of pro
tection in ease of persecution.
Already in a few places minor
outbreaks of a hostile nature
against mission work have been
reorted, in spite of tfre claim by
C. E. LITTLEJOHN,
WEATHER REPORT
For North Carolina: Cloudy,
with local showers tonight or
"Wednesday. No change in tem
perature. Gentle variable winds.
t -
FRENCH PEOPLE READ
AMERICAN LITERATURE
as lyceum wnicn m seven
' ears will take n puiil dvectlv!
Agricultural Agent, the elementary school to
matriculation for the universities.
Among the languages offered
under the new plan will be Latin
and Greek and three modern lan
guages in addition to Swe.i'sh,
namely, English, French and
German.
to serve other purposes than
providing scenic attraction for ')
tourists. As proof of this the
Grampaian Electricity Bill"
has been given a second reading
in the House of Commons.
The company is empowered to
pnllect and use the waters of
15 lochs and 99 small lakes, riv
ers and streams, over an area of
MAP
OF EUROPE
CONSTANT PUZZLE
MANY FORGERIES OF
EGYPTIAN
ANTIQUES
Paris, June 19. The American
library in Paris, with 30,000
American voltimes on its shelves
and its tables covered with
American magazines and news
papers, draws 33 percent of its
reading room attendance from
French people. It is rapidly be
today began a week of campns
life as guests of Vassar, the old
est women's college.
Lantern fetes by the laie,
basket ball games, hoop lolling,
and a "Pageant of Woman's
Opportunity" will give colleg
iate color to this first gathering,
of representative industrial and
academic workers.
The occasion for this meeting
of working .girls and students is
the annual convention of the
National League of Girls' Clubs,
a federation of societies whose
members, number 100,000.
Henry; Noble MacCracken,
president of Vassar, in his a2
dress of welcome said:
"The democracy of the currP
culum is the unique achievement
of the American college. W2
leaders of the mnvpmptit that the! 4.17 smiare miles.
i'uipose is to be nothing more
than passive resistance.
The waters proposed to be
. 4. ! 1 : . ,1 -c?v n rA -!- Vin nana.
WORKERS
PERFECT SEMI-
Belgrade, Jugoslavia, June 19. j London, June 20. "The manti-
The map of Europe was so facture of antiquities is carried
badly cut up by the peacemakers! forward on such an extensive
at Paris that it is still a constant scale,, in Egypt, particularly at
puzzle to many people, especial-j Cairo that it now has a place in
lv Americans. The geography of reports on" the industries of the
ble of generating 56,000 horse-! the new Baltic republics and the; country,' says Protessor Flmd-
nnwpr tn sufmlv electricity in! countries m the alkans and Wear; ers- retre, the tamous Egyptian
the counties of Perth, Kinross and; East seems to be particularly ob- archaeologist in an interview in 'and professional men. It ,
Forfar and districts in four oth- scare. European postal authori- the Daily Wiromcie. ceives dozens of requests a week
er counties. The capital is plac-jties tmd that Americans oitenj ine iorgenes 01 Egyptian an- for information about America.
1 mva aaa j? C 1. Z A 1 4-1- CJiUtci t-2 i"i ! Iirtiiif i ."ici o t a s r. o r tt r1 1 rx"vn - A t 1-1 1 1 M i 1
cominyr the chief connectins- link
between the literary interests of ; recognize no royal rdad to learn
France and the United States ' inJ?- T remains for us to break
and during the two years of its vth one more barrier of tha
existence it has greatly stimula-' academic tradition the barrier
ted French interest in things ! that separates those reared in
American. I he atmosphere of college from
S At the beginning of 1922 the!lllose m tne great industrial
library funds amounted to 674,- eart ot America.
000 francs, and it is intended toj y means or just sucn organ-
izations the National League or
existing facilities. A branch iniirls' Clubs lt; will be possible
the Latin quarter is planned, 1 suggest that college lie in Amer
and others are contemplated. j ica is not exclusive, but mcln
The library is used by French' sive- Vassar 's aim to. share
Ministers and many of 'the best-! with ycu in these days a taste of
known French literary, scientific -the best that is m college spirit.
ana we pia you welcome to youi
own feast. It was an ancient
re
ed at 4,500,000.
confuse Serbia with Siberia, Ru-
POLITICAL
OR
TV. omr thp beautiful lakes' mania with Armenia, Jugoslavia
1. 1IUL UUJ v " 1 1 - .
nvtr; tai s ot vaieaonia, sicm , vhji vjAccuu-wiuvoma, uuivmu
and wild" should be used to get ' with Budapest, Bulgaria
K 'wliPftifl of industry spinning, Havana, ana so on
with
custom that every guest brought
tiquities are often so well exeeut-; Rapontlv a French architect ask- his food with him to the castle
ed, he states, that even the most j ecj f or ai available information j of tne bost ; so you bring to our
experienced collectors are de- about skyscrapers, atid; several j college campus the joyous spirit
ceived hy them. Large sums of literary men came' for help in-1-0 living well together that you
money have been paid, for alti- f writing biographies of Henry have achieved in your club or-
manv in Scotland regard almost j "People in the United States ( cles that were considered gen-Ford and Secretary Hughes.
- I ... . , t t t -1 I 1 a 1 :
nPrilitrious desecration. And! show that most lamenta Die iacK time Treasures dut nave now umr
' that opinion is shared by not a' of knowledge of this part of the pronounced spurious orof doubt-s
i . .,,1 rtPmis-U-r.T-lH " a: prominent American' ful oricin. So strong is the sus-j
ft !l I 1 II T I fl Il ! tomed to visit Scotland annually.! diplomat in the Balkans said re- picion -concerning the authenti- j
U lu I U I I II 111 But the promoters declare cently to the correspondent. Not city of scarabs and various .
lill ILn I I LI 11 i' tbrv reservation of the nat-' two persons in 10 can locate the brenze and gold ornaments and
f ural beauties of Scotland is ex-, Balkan countries accurately, other articles alleged to - have .
nresslv provided for by the And I am Wry to say our own been found m Egypt that many ,
! fprmnf the bill And they add government officials often show, collectors are afraid to risk buy-
ives nf ttq c-u -i , i , t, olonf . fiietvoefiiTir ignorance. Not long msr thejn, and m an excess or
l7Y ilroad unions met here ri call y-d riven wheels oi industry' ago the American consular chief caution often turn down anti-
to perfect a semi-political Pre heard in the land, and divi- in Belgrade received an ottvcial quities that are tt0f Se;
tin a state I lenartment. urne. Thus tne iorgenes nae
infv, V 11 "men win gainer aenas oegm xo come m, acai r ,
"format -. ! J . . , e .. L :i i.i 4.i Aio. r.f wViirTi TAad ".Tnfl'n 1'h-o'pIv mined the market for
rv.j reiraraino' tne rec- tiv nejeerat.ion win ue sucu- mc bicji - -r- .
0r4sof vnuVu?? rec desecratlon Slovakia." LEsryotian historical treasuries.
resen-
caudidates for office.
COTTON MARKET
TODAY'S MAKKET
JULY 22.81
OCTOBER -22.81
DECEMBER 22.61
JANUARY 22.49
MARCH 22.35
YESTERDAY'S MARKET
JULY . - 22.76
OCTOBER 22.70
DECEMBER 22.49
JANUARY :.. 22.34
MARCH 22.22
ifHTiifltinna
! "That is all there is in college
j spirit, and we know that yoi
i have' learned its lesson so that il
j will be easy for you to" extend
i the. same" spirit , to the group
! from all these cities here today.
' Our students and officers who
! will live with you here this week
1 will, I know, learn much from
you. Out of subcontracts wc
1 shall build better colleges.
ijriris irom luawrtunuin-';
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York arQ
attending the convention. ,
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