VOLUME 39 SM1THFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1020. Number 54. A GREAT WESTERN TRIP BY SHRINERS Given Free Supper at Williston, N. I). —Swarm of Pretty Girls Paint Shriners' Faces—Visited Glacier National Park—Saw Snow Five feet Deep—Other Things of Interest. (By Dr. R. J. Noble) ARTICLE II. When we reached WTilliston, North Dakota, we were told to go up town and stop at any cafe we wanted to; that we would be served supper free at any cafe; that our fez paid the bill. So we got off to get a good hot supper. No matter how good the sup per was on the diner, we wanted something else. When we “hit” the ground we were met by a whole swarm of pretty western girls with sticks of paint (Shriners paint) in their hands and paint on their cheeks, with the sticks of paint they began to put the paint on our faces. They would just run up to a man and be fore he had time to resist he was daubed with paint all over his face. They would catch the women in their arms and rub their painted cheeks against their faces. There was a jol ly western time of it for a few min utes. As soon as the men of our par ty could see what was going on they began to catch the girls in their arms and kiss them. Well, that did not suit the western girls, but they took it all in good part and such a time we did have. They then told us to go on to supper which we did without much persuasion, and let me tell you, we got a good supper. Fried chicken, ham, eggs, hot rolls and coffee and various other things too numerous to mention. Our band played some for them and about eleven o’clock we were back in our cars and on our way for Glacier National Park which we reached about twelve o’clock the next day just after lunch. We certainly had one good tir^e at Williston and we will never forget it. Those people were just as good to us as they could be, after the painting and more or less of us had been treat ed to that before. When we reached Glacier Park we were told that the afternoon would be spent at Two Medicine Lake which was about fifteen miles away. I wish I had descriptive powers sufficient to tell all about the beauties of the scenery on the way to and from the Lake. Our road was just as good as it could be and as winding, I thought, as any road could possibly be, but I found out that it was not by a great sight. The Lake was a beautiful sheet of water and the falls were grand. They were about two hundred feet high to the first rock, then several smaller falls. On this trip we saw a squad of road workers; at their camp we saw some baskets hung from a wire rope some twenty feet from the ground. When we asked what they were hung up there for, were told that the baskets contained the rations of the road force. That if left on the ground the bears would come and eat the rations. As it is against the law to kill a bear they (the road force) had to hang up their rations to keep them from the bears. We had a fine trip that after noon; the road was good, but then the roads ought to be good for rain falls only once in a great while. After a good supper we began to look at the hotel. It was, that is the inside studding was of logs, weather boarded, but the piazzas and other outside work was of logs. I will try to describe the inside first. The col umns were of great logs thirty inches in diameter and nearly of the same size all the way up, and all the same size. They were about thirty feet high and of such little difference in size that they looked to be the same size even at the top. I wanted to know the size, that is the diameter, of the logs so I counted the number of the flooring that it took to go from one side to the other of the posts There were fifteen flooring planks two inches wide. In the lobby of this ho tel were twenty four of these posts on top of them were two logs about twelve inches thick and four feet long cross ways to support the plate, which was two more large logs. All these logs had the bark om. The building was beautiful and I wish 1 could describe it fully. On our waji to Two Medicine Lake we saw any number of little gophers. When they heard us coming they would go for their holes and dash in without stop ping to look back. Our party kept or (Continued on page four) 750 DEFENDANTS IN CAMP PROCEEDINGS Government Brings Action to Take Over 120,451 Acres of Land—Heard Before Judge Connor’s Court—Com missions Named to Set Valuation On Property. Seven hundred and fifty defendants were named in a suit heard before United States Judge H. G. Connor, in federal court yesterday in condemna tion proceedings to acquire posses sion of 120,451 acres of land in Cum berland and Hoke counties for the site of Camp Bragg, the artillery training center of the United States army. Three commissions were named by the court to evaluate the land in ques tion. The vast acreage of land was pre empted by the government in 1918, when the war department determined to locate Camp Bragg in the sand hills 9 miles west of Fayetteville, on a site approximately eight miles wide and 25 miles long, extending northwest across the county line well into Hoke county. Immediate possession was taken of more than 8,000 acres bf land, under notice of condemnation procedure, and the remainder left to await the more*- deliberate processes of law. A commission composed of Dr. J. Vance McGougan, now senator-elect, Hon. John G. Shaw, and Peter McK. Williams, of Fayetteville, undertook the work of pui'chasing these 209 square miles of country for the fed eral government, and have succeed ed in buying outright a considerable section of country without the bother ment of litigation. Many landowners have demurred from the finding of this commission, and the sweeping condemnation proceedings were be gun in federal court yesterday. ¥hree commissions, two represent ing Hoke county, and a third from Cumberland county, were named yes terday to expedite the fixing of the proper values on the land, and arc called to hold their first meeting Au gust 9th, at a point to be agreed up on within the region over which they will have jurisdiction. They will pro ceed to fix a value upon the lands, re porting to the court what they con sider a fair price to both the govern ment and the owner. Both parties have the right of taking exception to the findings of the commission, in which case the court will pass upon it.—News and Observer, 16th. CRAVEN SHERIFF SUES A NORFOLK AUDITING FIRM _ * Claims Damage to Character Because Of Reports of Alleged Shortage In Accounts — Defeated in Primary Recently Held. New Bern, July 15.—R. B. Lane, sheriff of Craven county, who was de feated in the primary recently held, has started suits for damages in the amount, it is alleged, of one hundred thousand dollars against the auditing firm of W. P. Hilton, of Norfolk, Va. alleging injury to his chaiactei through an audit which that firm made and which showed that the sher iff was due the county several thous and dollars in taxes which he had col lected and which the audit showed had not been turned over to the county. Yesterday the board of commission ers called upon the surety company on the sheriff’s bond to make good an amount of some four thousand odd dollars. Notice of the suit against the auditors had been made public several days ago, but definite actior was taken today when W. A. Thayer, one of the Hilton auditors, came t< New Bern and had papers served up on him. Sheriff Lane contends that he does not owe the county a penny. The commissioners claim that he does and are demanding that the amount be made good instanter. The auditing firm says that they are correct ir their statement and are standing pal and it will be up to the court tc thresh the matter out. Lightning Plays Peculiar Pranks. Asheville. July 16.—Two persons were seriously hurt, one church steeple and a residence were struck more than 100 telephones were inca pacitated, electrical fuses throughoul the city were blown out and lightning played peculiar pranks during the twc electrical storms that visited the city this afternoon. COX LIKELY NOT TO DISCUSS DRY LAWS Democratic Nominee Indicates That Speech of Acceptance to Deal With Platform—Candidate to Leave for Washington Today—Confer W ith l’residtnt Wilson. Columbus, O., July 15.—Governor James M. Cox, Democratic presiden tial nominee, spent most of today at tending to executive duties at the Statehouse preparatory to his depart ure tomorrow for Washington where he will confer Sunday with President Wilson. Prior to leaving, late in the after noon, the Governor will receive eight leaders of the National Woman’s Par ty, who are to present arguments that ,he urge the Tennessee legisla ture to ratify immediately the Federal suffrage amendment in order that wo men may vote in November. Gover nor Cox indicated today tha| his speech of acceptance may be entirely silent on the prohibition question. When asked whether prohibition would have a place in it, the Gover nor stated that it was the custom to confine the speech to a discussion of the party platform. The platform is silent on prohibi tion. Returning delegates from the San Francisco convention and other par ty leaders with whom the presidential nominee has discussed campaign plans are said by Governor Cox to be strong ly in favor of establishing three headquarters: Eastern in New York, central at Chicago, and western at San Francisco. The Governor received a letter to day frotn Governor Cornwell, of West Virginia, in which the West Virginia executive assured him that that State is in the doubtful column and advised him to “take it out with the Repub licans.” The Governor’s curiosity to know who was the lone Pennsylvania dele gate who persisted in voting for him practically all through the San Fran cisco convention while almost the en tire delegation voted for Palmer, was satisfied today when V. R. Davis, of Lancaster, Pa., called and claimed credit for being the single Cox sup porter. LAUNCH NEW PARTY WITH NOMINATION OF ATTORNEY Nominee of Farmer-Labor Party An nounces Intention of Touring The Country—Vigorous Campaign is to Be Waged, He States. Chicago, 111., July 15.—Parley P. Christensen, nominee of the Farmer Labor party for president, will make a campaign tour of the country from coast to coast and from border to border, he announced today. Mr. Christensen said he intended to leave tonight for his home at Salt Lake City and that as soon as the National and campaign committees of the new party met and formulated plans that were now being considered, he would have further announcements. Until then, he said he thought the statement he had made at the commit tee of 48 meeting this morning cover ed the situation fully. Mr. Christensen told the commit tee of 48 that although he had favor ed Senator LaFollette as a candidate now that the Farmer-Labor party had drafted him he would be faithful to the working men who nominated him. SECOND GRADE TEACHERS GOING BACK TO SCHOOL New Salary Schedule Offers Incentive To Teachers to Improve Their Qualifications. Returning from Salt Lake City, where he attended the sessions of the National Educational Association, Dr. E. C. Brooks, superintendent of public instructions, finds that the new sal ary schedules for teachers of the State is already having its effect. Reports received in the office of the State superintendent are to the effect that all over the State second grade teachers are not making plans to teach this year, but instead are pre paring to attend school and better their preparation for teaching in or der that they may attain a higher classification. “The salary schedule is providing a new incentive to the teachers of the State,” said Dr. Brooks, “and many teachers who have hitherto made no COX PLEDGES SUP PORT FOR SUFFRRGE Assures Suffragists He Will Use His Influence To Have Tennessee Leg islature To Ratify Amendment.— Women Will Vote for Party That Aids Them in Fight. Columbus, O., July 16.—Members of the National Woman’s Party were as sured today by Governor Cox, I>emo eratic candidate for president, that he will do all in his power to bring about ratification of the Federal amendment by Tennessee. His promise was giv en to a deputation from the woman’s party headed by Miss Alice Paul, chairman, late this afternoon, prior to his departure tonight for Washing ton, where, with his running mate, Franklin D. Roosevelt, he will confer Sunday morning with President Wil son. The suffrage leaders had urged the Governor to use his influence in an effort to have the Tennessee legisla ture ratify the amendment and some of them intimated that unless he came staunchly to their aid, he might ex pect little or no support from the wo men voters in the November election. Mrs. Margaret Graham Jones, of Seattle, Washington, said “the wom en aie going to vote for the candidate who gives us the thirty-sixth state.” Other speakers voiced similar senti ments. To a suggestion by women speakers that the governor might ex pect their votes in November if he should be successful in efforts to ob tain ratification by Tennessee, Gover nor Cox urged them not to “preach the rospel that I should receive the vote • of the w uen because I helped to give them si Tinge”. He told them th - were th igs more vital “than rew; rding a nr n for a service which he had rendered in behalf of suffrage.” C vernor Cox suggested to the Wo rn n’s Party representatives that they appoint a committee to confer with him on a definite plan to be followed in handling the Tennessee situation. In giving his promise to help them, the governor said: “I give to you, without any reserva tion, the assurance that my time, my strength, and my influence will be dedicated to your cause, with a view to procuring a favorable result in Tennessee.” ROOSEVELT GIVEN ROUSING WELCOME BY NAVY MEN Vice-Presidential Nominee is Greeted By Officers, Men and Employes— Makes Brief Address to Enthusiastic Crowd—Presented With Gavel. Washington, July 16.—Amid the blaring of Navy bands and the cheer ing of employes of the department of which he is acting head, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic vice presiden tial nominee, was given a formal wel come back to Washington late today. Committees of employes of the Washington Navy Yard marched to the Navy Department, where they joined Navy and Marine officers, en listed men and civilian employes in extending the welcome. Mr. Roose velt made a brief address, in which he pledged continuation of his friend ship for the laboring man. On behalf of the Metal Trades Council of the Navy Yard, Paul Don ley, a machinist, presented the nomi nee with a gavel, made of teakwood, taken from the handrail of the presi dential yacht Mayflower and inlaid with silver. “If in the course of events you go to the high office to which you have been nominated, I hope you will use this tool to keep your colleagues in the Senate in good order,” said Mr. Donley. “I hope to use it for the first time on the 4th of March, next,” was Mr. Roosevelt’s reply. “It may be neces sary for me to go to one of my friends at the Navy yard and borrow one of those instruments known to workmen as a ‘heavy hammer,’ and if I ' am compelled to do so, I promise that by that means if by no other, we will get some quick action out of the United States Senate.” effort to improve themselves are go ing back to school. In addition to this the summer schools are crowded to the limit and it has beem necessary to call for three more schools to pro vide sufficient room for the teachers who are taking the summer courses. —News and Observer, 16th. DAWSON OPPOSED TO RATIFYING AMENDM’NT Leader of Legislature Gives Out His Views—State Doesn't V\’6nt Equal Suffrage and It Should Not He Forced in the Matter—It is Menace To the Home. Washington, July 15.— Suffrage stands a poor chance to pass at the special session of the legislature, ac cording to statements made here this week by a number of prominent North Carolina men. Perhaps the most sig nificant of these is a statement given out here today by John 1). Dawson, of Kinston, member of the house, and considered by many as the Democratic leader of that. body. Dawson does not follow the argu ment that the ratification of the An thony amendment is going to help the Democratic party in the presidential elections. He believes that practical ly all the states where women want the vote have already been given equal suffrage. “I think every public official ought to do his duty as he sees it when the time for action comes,” said Mr. Dawson, answering a question as to his position with reference to ratifica tion. “That is what I shall do, but I have no hesitancy in saying that at present I am unqualifiedly opposed to the amendment.” “In the first place,” he said, “I am unable to follow the argument that granting suffrage to the women who are opposed to it will in any way help the Democratic party with the women who already have the ballot. Most of the women who desire the ballpt have been given it by individual state action. They say it should al ways be given that way, if given at all. “The south is overwhelmingly against the movement, as has been demonstrated time and time again. A very large majority of the men and women of North Carolina are opposed to it in any form and except in a few of the cities, where the activities of a very small minority have been prominent, the state is practically solid against the adoption of the amendment. While it will likely pass the senate, it will be defeated in the house by a substantial majority. “The information I have received is that Tennessee will not ratify the amendment. The governor of Ver mont, though a Republican, has blast ed the hopes of the picketing wing of the suffrage forces and has clearly demonstrated that he will oppose any further invasion of state’s rights re gardless of the appeal of the Republi can bosses. “As to the matter of political ex pediency, 1 confess that I have been unable to see how the Democratic par ty can hope that the women generally will embrace its faith because it forc es suffrage upon the women who do not want it while those who desire it already have it—to say nothing of what might be considered the delicate question of subverting principle to expediency. A great principle, the very foundation stone of good citizen ship, is involved in this matter. From time immemorial we have been taught that the home is the base of gooc government and yet we are asked tc put the stamp of approval on some thing which many women, recognizing that to count politically, they musl practically abandon greater service This means the absolute destructior of our moral fabric.” Mr. Dawson saT.’ further: “I understand of course that this matter more vitally affects the womei and 1 am willing always for them ir the largest measure to mark out theii own destiny, but I cannot ignore the fact that in North Carolina they arc overwhelmingly opposed to this amendment. I have, I think, by ob servation, discovered that generally thought not always, of course, the wo men who favor it are those who have no home cares or those .who do no1 want home cares or those who if thej have such cares, are able to place them on the shoulders of others. ‘‘I do not believe that a legislature composed of me* of North Carolina will be a party to this threatened over turn of our system of government And I do not believe, now that the country really understands the ca lamity impending, that any othei state is going to ratify the amend ment. The more it is considered the more it is realized that it is a ques tion which affects each state in a lo •al sense, and therefore should be de EARTHQUAKES CAUSE EXCITEMENT IN CAL. L