SENATOR OVERMAN’S
SERVICES REVIEWED
Mr. Creech Sums Up the Work ol
Carolina’s Junior Senator and Gives
Reasons Why _Ie Thinks the Sena
tor Should Be Re-Elected. Mr. Ov
erman Is Now the Third Oldest
Democrat in the Senate In Point oi
Service.
(By F. Hunter Creech.)
The campaign of 1916 brought tc
Johnston County some of the mosl
able speakers and campaigners in the
State, Two of those speakers were
Senator Lee S. Overman and Mr. A
L. Brooks, who are now contesting
for the Democratic nomination foi
United States Senator.
This writer had the honor of intro
ducing Mr. Brooks when he spoke in
-^.^Four Oaks, and he made one of the
finest speeches heard during the com
paign. He made a most favorable
impression upon this writer, not only
as a speaker but, as a fine, pleasing
gentleman.
Were Mr. Brooks running against
a less able and less worthy man than
Senator Overman he would certainly
receive a great deal of support that
he will not receive with the Senator
as an opponent.
Having seen a great deal of Senator
Overman, in action, for the past four
years, I feel that I know something
of his ability and something of his
record.
A man’s real history is not written
until he is dead. Not until the real
history of Senator Overman has been
written will people really begin to un
derstand and appreciate the great, in
trinsic value he has been to the State
and Nation, most especially for the
past three years.
When this Nation is no longer sim
mering in the International Trouble
Pot, and when a true history of
America’s part in the great World
War can be written, the name of Sen
ator Lee S. Overman will brighten its
pages and will shed a halo of glory
over the Old North State, which he
has so ably represented.
There are many reasons why Sen
ator Overman should be returned to
the Senate. Each reason is a story
within itself, if told in detail.
May I briefly state a few:
North Carolina cannot afford to
lose the prestige and position the
Senator has gained by his many years
of sincere, faithful and honest ser
vice.
in point oi service, lie is the third
ranking Democrat in the Senate—on
ly Senators Culberson and Simmons
outrank him by a few years.
If the next Senate should be Dem
ocratic, Senator Overman would be
the Chairman of the all-powerful Ap
propriations Committee; he would be
ranking majority member of the great
Judiciary Committee, and of the Rules
Committee as well.
This is a position of power and in
fluence that would come to North
Carolina that we could ill afford to
lose, and we could not hope to acquire
it again in years if we should replace
Senator Overman with a new man.
This Republican Congress has fail
ed to accomplish anything towards
the problems of reconstruction that
now face the country. We need our
men of legislative experience and
ability to settle these things.
If the South is to maintain her po
sition and safeguard her protection,
she must keep her men of influence
and ability in Congress until a read
justment has been brought about. If
we place new men in Congress who
do not have the advantage of several
years of service, and the prestige
that goes with it, we can depend up
on Republican politicians to again
saddle all the responsibilities of gov
ernment upon the South, and at the
same time restrict the benefits. Not
only that, we have an element in the
Democratic ranks to contend with
that is jealous of tjje position the
South holds within the party.
Mr. Seibold, a prominent corres
pondent, in a recent issue of the New
York World said, in effect, that the
people were tired of the influence of
the South in the Democratic party
and that, whatever else took place,
this power must be broken. It will
be broken unless we take advantage
of the positions gained by our tried
and true men. To give up Overman
at this time would be to give up one of
our mighty bulwarks.
The splendid work of Senator Over
man on the Judiciary Committee, for
the eight years the Democrats had
control, alone entitles him to the con
tinued support of the people.
As a member of the Committee on
Forest Reservations, he was a great
factor in securing large appropria
tions for the purchase of reservations
in North Carolina.
While Senator Overman was a mem
ber of the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds, more money was
speat for the purchase of sites and
the erection and remodeling of public
buildings in North Carolina than was
ever spent in the entire history of the
State, before or since, for similar
projects.
As a member of the Claims Com
mittee, he did wonderful work to
wards the securing of the payment of
War Claims in North Carolina that
had remained unpaid since the Civil
War.
wnue ne was a mcmuer oi tne Mil
itary Affairs Committee, his work
thereon merited the most favorable
comment.
Though not believing in Woman
Suffrage—coming as a Federal
Amendment, but rather as a State
measure—his conduct as Chairman of
the Woman Suffrage Committee won
the hearts and thanks of many of the
leading suffragists in the country for
his uniform courtesy to them, as well
as the fairness which characterized
the conduct of his hearings.
It is hard to estimate the value of
the services of Senator Overman as
Chairman of the committee that in
vestigated the Bolsheviki situation.
How often, during this investigation,
was his statesmanship applauded and
eulogized. He went mercilessly to the
bottom of things and unflinchingly
traced anarchy to its very brooding
places. Yet, at the same time, with
the masterful touch of inspired vis
ion and profound influence were at
work to blacken and besmirch loyal
American citizens.
Senator Overman was largely re
sponsible for the passage of one of
the most important pieces of legisla
tion of recent years. That was the
Act extending and exploiting our
trade with foreign countries. The
South has been tremendously helped
by this in the increased price of cot
ton and other Southern commodities.
Certainly his most excellent work
on the Rules Committee needs no com
ment.
Who can forget the tremendous
amount of war legislation that he fos
tered and fought through the Senate.
How the hearts erf North Carolinians
swelled with pride when they read,
day after day, how Overman, of North
Carolina, had led another great ad
ministration measure to victory.
And the greatest single piece of
legislation during the entire war is
known as the Overman Bill. This will)
indeed, be a bright page in the his
tory of North Carolina when histori
ans transcribe their notes.
Overman was the man who had
charge of, and put through the Sen
ate, the great Clayton anti-trust law,
which -was designed for the purpose of
curbing those gigantic trusts and
monopolies that would kill and make
alive, crush the weak and fatten off
the labor of the poor,—sweetening
their sop with the sweat-drops of the
toiler.
.iiicxc iicxa utscu practically no meas
ure of importance before Congress
during Democratic Administration but
what Senator Overman has had a
prominent part in its consideration.
His statesmanship lent aid to such
vitally important measures as the
Federal Trade Commission Act, the
Ship Purchase Act, the Rural Credits
Act, the Federal Reserve Banking
Act, the Warehouse Bill, the Agri
cultural Extension Bill, and numerous
other measures whose benefits have
been so pronounced that details are
unnecessary.
It was Senator Overman who in
troduced in the Senate one of the first
bills providing for Federal aid to good
roads, in cooperation with the States.
He took a most conspicuous part in
the jmssage of legislation providing
for Vocational Education, thereby
opening up a new field of opportuniti
es to the boy or girl who is desirous
of exploring.
We cannot forget that it was Sen
ator Overman who introduced a Reso
lution in the Senate which resulted in
the Cuban Government withdrawing
its suit before the Supreme Court of
the United States for the collection of
forty odd million dollars of fraudulent
bonds which were issued by a carpet
bag legislature right after the Civil
War. Thus were the well-laid plans
of Marion Butler again thwarted.
We might continue to enumerate.
We might go into many of the things
HEARD IN THE DAY’S NEWS
Brief Pararaphgs About Men and
Other Matters of Interest.
There are 73 Mexican War pen
sioners still living in the United
States.
New Y’ork University has opened a
drive to raise $6,450,000 for its en
dowment fund.
Dunn is beginning to make prepa
rations for its biggest Fourth of
July celebration.
Strikes, lockouts, and labor disputes
in England during 1919 caused a loss
of 34,430,000 working days.
E. T. Meredith, Secretary of Agri
culutre, says: “The more we work,
the more there is; the more there is
the more to divide.”
Wilmington women have petitioned
the legislature which is to meet in
special session in July to ratify the
suffrage amendment.
Vermont suffragists are askingfor
a special session of the legislature for
the purpose of ratifying the Susan
B. Anmony suffrage amendment.
About 4,000 union clothing cutters
in New York who are now working
only 44 hours and getting $51 a week
are demanding an increase to $60 a
week.
While sitting on the bank of the
Catawba river near Fort Mill, S. C.,
Hezekiah J. Brawley fainted and fell
in the river and was drowned one day
last week.
Cam Morrison is beginning his
campaign for the Democratic nomina
tion for governor in dead earnest. He
is out on a tour of the State in which
he expects to make 48 speeches.
Mrs. Marie Anne Houde Gagnon has
been found guilty of murdering her
18-year old step-daughter at Quebec,
Canada, and sentenced to be hanged
October 1. The time of the hanging
is put off too late to ever be pulled off.
Attorney General Palmer beat Hoke
Smith for President in the Georgia
preferential primary. Thomas Wat
son received more votes than Smith.
The enemies of discontent did not get
in the lead in Georgia.
Representative Humphreys of Miss
issippi has proposed a constitutional
amendment that would limit Presi
dents to two terms only. That is al
ready fixed. The people have never
yet elected a man to a third term.
The overalls craze has had one ef
fect already. The New York depart
ment stores have already cut their
prices on clothing and have thus re
duced the cost of living to those who
will continue to buy regulation
clothes.
The Chaswick-Hoskins Mill Compa
ny of Charlotte, has recently increased
its capital stock from $1,800,000 to
$5,800,000. The company has a group
of six big cotton mills and is one of
the largest cotton manufacturing con
cerns in the South. The six mills
contain 119,576 spindles and 2,757
looms.
Joseph Caillaux, once the French
Prime minister, and regarded as one
of the brainest men in the French re
public, has been found guilty of
“commerce and correspondence with
the enemy” and has been sentenced to
prison for three years. He is denied
any political rights for ten years. He
was charged of the crime of treason
but was acquitted of the charge.
Max Gardner has been touring the
First Congressional District in the in
terest of his candidacy for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Governor. Like
Messrs. Page and Morrison he is meet
ing with great success. In fact all
the candidates are very much pleased
with the receptions they receive.
North Carolinians are very polite and
give encouragement to each candidate
who aspires to be Governor.
that he has accomplished, through
the various Government Departments,
that have yielded inestimable benefit
to North Carolina. The more the
people investigate the record of Sen
ator Overman, just the more will he
become embedded in their confidence.
The aspirations of good men for a
seat is the Senate of the United
States are worthy and laudable, and
under different circumstances should
be seriously considered. But this is
a time when North Carolina needs the
legislative ability, experience and
wisdom of Senator Overman.
It is the duty of North Carolinians
to return him to the Seaate for the
State’s sake, and not only for the
State, but for the sake of the Nation
which will need him sorely during the
trying period of reconstruction, which
we are yet to face.
New York, April 22, 1920.
PREACHER AND SINGER
HERE FOR REVIVAL
Dr. Poe of Durham and Mr. Wolslagel
of Asheville Arrived Yesterday—
First Regular Service in Revival at
Baptist Church Held Last Night—
Tonight Church Members’ Night
And Subject Will Be “A Revival”
With the arrival of Dr. E. D. Poe,
pastor of the Temple Baptist church
of Durham, and E. L. Wolslagel, bari
tone soloist and music director of
Asheville, the revival meeting at the
Baptist church for which preparatory
services were held last week began
with all earnestness and enthusiasm
last night. Despite the threatening
downpour of rain just at the hour for
the services to begin the crowd was
a large one and gave great encourage
ment to the preachers and singer.
Dr. Poe is recognized as one of the
best preachers and evangelists in the
state and will be heard by large con
gregations at each service. He is pas
tor of one of Durham’s largest church
es having taken charge in December
after a most successful pastorate in
Dothan, Ala.
Mr. Wolslagel is just from a splen
did evangelistic campaign conducted
under the auspices of all the churches
of Louisburg and which closed with a
great service Sunday night. He had
nearly 200 voices in his choirs in that
city and is expecting the co-operation
of all the musical talent of Smithfield
during the time of the special meet
ing here.^
The meeting while being held in the
Baptist church is to be for the benefit
of the entire community and Rev. H.
W. Baucom, pastor, has invited the
participation of people of every de
nomination. A warm welcome will be
extended to all.
Dr. Poe announced at the service
last night that he would preach on
“A Revival” r.t the service tonight
and gave a special invitation to all
the church members of the town to be
present. He said tonight would be
“Church Members’ Night.”
Funeral of Mrs. L. H. Lee.
Sunday afternoon at three o’clock
the funeral of Mrs. L. H. Lee was
preached at the Methodist church here
by Rev. A. S. Barnes, superintendent
of the Raleigh Orphanage, assisted by
Rev. S. A. Cotton, after which the re
mains were interred in the city cem
etery.
Mrs. Lee who formerly lived here
had been making her home with a
son who lives near Selma for some
time. It was her intention to return
here to live and about two weeks ago
she was in the city making arrange
ments for rooms, when she was taken
with a slight stroke of paralysis. She
was taken home, two other strokes
following which caused her death last
Saturday morning.
Mrs. Lee was a good woman always
ready to minister to those who were
sick or in need. She was a member of
the Methodist church here and was
a faithful member when this was her
home. She was married three times.
The first time she was married to Mr.
Barrow, to which union two sons, Jim
Barrow and Henry Barrow were born
both of whom survive. Her second
marriage was to a Mr. Price, and one
son, Mr. J. L. Price, with whom she
had recently made her home, was born
to this union. She was married the
last time to Mr. L. H. Lee who pre
ceded her to the grave several years
ago. One daughter, Miss Lucy Lee,
survives. The bereaved family have
the sympathy of friends, but they
mourn not as those without hope for
“Blessed are they who die in the
Lord.”
Preaching Appointments 1st Sunday.
Rev. J. L. Martin will preach at
Carter's Chapel church next Satur
day and Sunday at the usual time.
Rev. J. R. Everett will preach at
Princeton Baptist church the first
Sunday morning and night.
There will be preaching at Bethel
Baptist church four miles from Ken
ly the first Sunday in May at 3:30
o’clock.
Clock Dial Is a Shadow
A sickroom clock invented in Switz
erland has an electric lamp behind a
translucent dial, so that wThen an in
valid in bed presses a button the dial
throws the shadow of the hours and
b: nds magnified upon the ceiling.
ONE DAY’S NEWS AND COMMENT
Some of Happenings Of Interest Told
In Brief for Busy Readers.
Chauncey M. Depew, of New York,
says, at 86, that he “feels spry as a
youth of 56.”
Judge Nathan Goff of West Vir
ginia died Friday. He was 78 years
of age. He was formerly in the
United States Senate.
Fishermen are making good hauls
in the region of Kinston and good
large shad are selling at three and
three and a half dollars apiece.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has
accepted an invitation to speak in Wil
mington at an early date in the in
terest of the American Legion.
Five hundred striking railroad
switchmen in a mass meeting at
Cleveland, Ohio, Friday voted to go
to jail rather than go to work.
The Cary High School district in
Wake county will vote on a $25,000
bond issue for a vocational education
al building for the school on May 18.
City Commissioner E. R. Pace, head
of the department of streets and pub
lic works of Raleigh, died in that city
Saturday after several months of fail
ing health.
Gardner Tyler, grandson of Presi
dent Tyler, has been made secretary
of the Students Overall Club at Wil
liam and Mary College Club at Wil
liamsburg, Va.
Ten sugar dealers have been ar
rested in New Orleans for profiteering
in the sweet commodity. They are
reoorted to be making more profit
than the law allows.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, who has
been such a bitter opponent of the
League of Nations, has been rejected
by the Democrats of his State as a
delegate to the San Francisco Con
vention.
Dr. George B. Strayer, of Teachers’
College, Columbia University, has
made an educational survey of Greens
boro’s school needs and states that the
building program required for the
next five years will cost $2,025,000.
Of this amount $450,000 is needed for
the negro schools of the city.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
has withdrawn from the race for mi
nority leader of the Senate. This
leaves a clear field for Senator Un
derwood, of Alabama, who will prob
ably be selected for the position at
Washington today. Senator Hitchcock
will doubtless be the administration
leader should the treaty fight be
again taken up in the Senate.
Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio,
has become within the past few
weeks one of the leading Democratic
candidates for the presidential nom
ination. He is developing a strength
that is assuming formidable propor
tions. He is the second choice of a
large number of influential Democrats
and the present probability is that he
will be in the race at the finish.
Mrs. Josephine Buchanan, of Wake
county, has been granted a divorce
for the second time from the same
man. The couple were married in
1905 in Wilson. They were divorced
in Wilson county in 1913. They de
cided to try it again and were re
married in Henderson in July, 1916.
But they were unable to get along any
better and were again divorced as
stated above. The woman claims
that her husband would not support
her.
The school boards of New Hanover
county and the City of Wilmington
have decided to combine the schools
under one management. This means
that County Superintendent Catlett or
City Superintendent Blair is to lose
his position and may be both. It is
stated in the newspaper that the po
sition is to be offered to Supt. Oscar
Hamilton of Goldsboro. Teachers and
children in the Wilmington schools
are indignant over the practical re
moval of Supt. Blair.
The debaters in the final contest at
Chapel Hill Friday night were Arthur
Kale and Clifton Ervin, of the Ashe
ville High School, and Misses Eliza
beth Edwards and Blanche Hehly, of
the Goldsboro High School. The
Asheville boys were declared the vic
tors in the Sthte wide contest and
were given the Aycock memorial cup.
They also hold the record as the
jhamp:on high school debaters in the
State. In the first preliminary de
bates back in the high schools more
‘ban 800 boys and girls took part. In
-he first contests at Chapel Hill last
•veek there were 176 boys and girls
taking part. The contest was then
oarrowed down until only Goldsboro
and Asheville were in it with the re
sult that the Asheville boys were the
winners.
FARMERS COTTON
WAREHOUSE MEETING
H«re Saturday Well Attended—The
Manager Was Authorized to Con
tinue the Canvass for Stock Until
the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars Has Been Secured
“The county cotton convention held
here last Saturday was well attended,
considering the pretty day for plant
ing cotton,” says Mr. S. T. Liles, pres
ident of the Farmers Cotton Ware
house, Inc.
Mr. J. W. Stephenson reported what
took place at the National Convention
at Montgomery; the one biggest thing
and issue was “Build warehouses for
this year’s crop,” he said.
Mr. J. M. Workman, warehouse
specialist, had five different types of
model warehouses at the meeting and
discussed their relative merits for eco
nomical operation. The stockholders
decided to build the one-story brick
house.
Dr. B. W. Kilgore presented the
warehouse business from a safe in
vestment standpoint and said that it
was not only the biggest issue before
the South but that it was one of the
best investments any cotton farmer
or business man could make. He said
he panted to sec Johnston county
complete and have the first cotton
warehouse in operation in North Car
olina simply because it is the leading
agricultural county in the State,
though there are five other counties
now starting to build similar ware
houses.
The directors met just after the con
vention adjourned and authorized the
manager, Mr. A. M. Johnson, to con
tinue selling stock at $100.00 a share
until $150,000 has been subscribed.
Other matters were left to the build
ing committee which promises to have
at least five 1000-bale sections of the
warehouse completed by early fall.
A cotton classifier has already been
engaged and will be located at Smith
field at the warehouse, says Mr. John
son.
Young Man Didn’t Commit Suicide.
Mr. Neill H. Lucas, of Benson, was
in town Saturday and called in and
stated that our published report con
cerning his son’s killing himself a
short while ago was in the main er
roneous. He said that his son on the
night of the accident was in good
spirits and had no thought of killing
himself. Several young people were
at the Lucas home and were having
some music on the Edison. Soon af
ter about half past nine when all had
gone but three of the young men and
Wilbert Lucas, the unfortunate youth,
went to his room and was showing one
of the young men a pistol which he
had recently bought. The cartridges
were taken out and after they were
put back the boys were pranking with
each other. Young Lucas put the pis
tol behind him and the other boys
who were with him thought he was
slipping them out into his pocket. He
then took the pistol and put it in his
mouth and snapped it. Then making
some joking remark he put the pistol
back into his mouth and pulled the
trigger again. This time it fired and
the boy asked the boys to call. Not
moving fast enough he rushed to the
phone and took down the receiver and
fell over backwards and died in a few
minutes. He lived only two minutes
after his father, who was sleeping in
a near-by room, reached him. Mr.
Lucas and the young men who were
with his son thinft that he thought he
had taken all the balls out but some
how missed the count and thus killed
himself through his own mistake.
His father says that the boy had no
"cause for killing himself and appear
ed satisfied, that he had given the boy
a cotton patch and that he had a good
chance to make some money this year.
The boy was 17 years, seven months
and 28 days old and was an average
boy. On the afternoon of his death
he was to see some of the neighbors
who said that he was in good spirits.
From what we can learn he was not
the kind of boy that our informant re
ported him to be and we are very glad
to make this correction.
Preaching Appointments.
We are requested to announce that
Elder J. W. Lucas of the Duke sec
tion, will preach at St. Mary’s Grove
next Saturday and Sunday at the usu
al hour. He will also preach at Hope
well Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock.