JAPANESE REQUEST
A LARGER FLEET
Naval Experts Regard Plan
Wholly Unacceptable;
Situation Delicate
Washington, Nov. 30.—Japan’s pro
posal for a 70 pef cent fleet as nec
essary to her national security instead
of a 60 per cent fleet, has been form
ally presented to the United States,
and Great Britain.
Baron Admiral Kato, senior Japa
nese delegate, has communicated it
personally to Secretary Hughes and
Arthur J. Balfour. It is said in Japa
nese quarters to have th full sup
port of the Japanese cabinet and the
diplomatic advisory council in Tokio.
American and British naval experts,
standing together on Secretary
Hughes’ “5-5-3 plan” as the only one
fair to all powers, regarded the Jap
anese proposals as wholly unaccepta
ble. In the opinion of some of the
American delegates, the situation is
delicate, but not without’hope that the
Japanese ultimately will accept the
original plan.
The seriousness of the turn of af
fairs, in the opinion of the Ameri
cans, is that Japan in persisting in
her request for a “10-10-7” ration,
makes a stroke at the fundamental
idea on which Secretary Hughes’ pro
posal is based.
Japan’s proposal, it was disclosed,
was based not on a calculation of the
strength of the existing Americans,
British and Japanese fleets, but upon
her estimate of necessity for national
secqrity. It was pointed out among
the Americans and British that if
considerations of national security
were to be substituted for a continua
tion of fleets at reduced tonnage, but
in the same ratio as now exists, the
whole basis of the conference would
■be upset.
On the basis of national security, it
was said, neither the United States or
Great Britain would agree to the 60
per cent ratio which the Hughes’
plan would allow to Japan.
Secretary Hughes and his three
colleagues of the American delega
tion spent nearly three hours tonight
debating the situation. Heretofore,
the Japanese claim had been made on
ly informally in the subcommittee of
naval experts.
Baron Kato’e action swept away at
once the deliberations of the experts
considering the American limitation
plan. They have had to do only with
technical questions of tonnage esti
mates involved in the American pro
posal to limit fleets on the basis of
existing relative strength in capital
ships. Japan has now taken the mat
ter out ofthat field entirely.
British experts are in lull accord
with. the Americans that the “5-5-3"
proposal- is the only possible road to
an agreement that is fair to all pow
ers, particularly in view of the enor
mous disproportion of the sacrifices
in ships and money the United States
has offered to undertake.—Associat
ed Press.
SAYS MISS LENA CLARKE IS
NOT OF SOUND MIND
Former Florida State Health Officer
Testifies at Trial at Orlando
That She is “Abnormal.”
Orlando, Fla., Nov. 30.—The testi
mony of eight witnesses called by the
defense in the trial of Lena M. T.
Clarke, charged with the killing of F
A. Miltimore, in which the former
West Palm Beach postmistress was
described as “insane,” “abnormal,”
“peculiar,” and as “constitutional
psychopath,” was concluded before
Judge Andrews today and indications
were that it would be several days
before the case would be ready for the
jury.
Dr. Ralph Green, former state
health officer, one of the defense wit
nesses, testified that Miss Clarke “did
not know the difference between right
and wrong” at the time of the killing
of Miltimore in a hotel here and that
if she were Sent to an insane asylum
“she would remain there for the rest
of her life.”
Sunday Postage Stamp.
In Belgium a special Sunday post
age Stamp is occasionally used. It in
dicates that he letter bearing it is not
to be delivered on Sunday.’—-The Con
corji Times.
PRINCETON NEWS ITEMS.
Princeton, Dec. 1.—Miss Lelia Cur
rin from Dunn, is visiting Miss Alber
ta Boyett.
Wilton Toler left here Monday for
Detroit, Mich., where he will enter an
automobile mechanics school.
Miss Lissie Woodard has been spend
ing a few days «t home from Lum
ber Bridge, where she is teaching.
Edgar Boyett from Wake Forest
has been at home the last few days.
Harvey Wellons and Robt. Oliver,
from Buies’ Creek have been spending
few days at home.
Miss Katie Johnson from Smithfield
has been visiting Miss Ruth H. Tyler
this week.
The stork visited the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Woodard on Mon
«day the 28th and left them a little
girl. They had a house full of boys
but no girls.
Last Saturday night on the Central
Highway about one and a half miles
east of town a large automobile was
burned completely, leaving only the
two front wheels. There was only
one man with the car, it was reported
and he was so intoxicated that he did
not seem to know what was happen
ing.
Miss Sarah Blackman from the
Huckleberry section is visiting friends
in town this week.
Mr. Zack Radford has bought a
home and has moved his family to
town in order that his two daughters
might attend High school. The best
citizens of the town are always glad
to see law abiding and desirable men
move into our town.
Prof. J. I. Lee is acting superin
tendent of the High school in the ab
sence of Miss Blanche Penny, who is
at the bedside of her sister, Miss
Mary, now in Richmond, Va. hospital.
Miss Mary was a boarding student
here until taken seriously ill about
two weeks ago. We regret very much
to learn that her condition is so ser
ious, and trust that she may recover.
We are pleased to see Miss Gladys
Gurley out again after having been
confined at her home with a severe
spell of tonsil trouble.
Mrs. Mattie Mason has accepted a
position with Edgerton Brothers,
where she will be pleased to have her
friends call and investigate one of
the best talking machines made.
Miss Wooten announces that she
now has 28 students in the music de
partment of. the High school. Also
she has instituted an honor roll and
beginning with next month she de
sires to publish the names of those
who secure stars enough to win a
place on this roll.
Mrs. R. L. Frazier from Raleigh is
visiting Mrs. E. B. Wrike this week.
Misses Mildred and Maud Boyett,
of Glendale, were the'guests of Miss
Sadie Boyett last week end.
Misses Elma and Sadie Revell from
Kenly were visitors in town Saturday.
Miss Pearl Toler was the guest of
Misses Maud and Dixie Pittman Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elley Rose of Grab
town section spent Monday with Mr.
N. B. Lynch.
Mr. Hendersen Stallings is very
s,ck at his h >me her6 He has been
v;rj feeble E nd scarcely a’ lc to walk
about for several months, lie is 74
rears old.
STOCK SWINDLER DIES ON
PIS WAY FOR SENTENCE
Laporte, of ‘Cheating Cheaters,’ Col
lapses on Trolley—Brokers Lose
Thousands to This Gang.
George H. Laporte, of 311 Clifton
place, Brooklyn N. Y died yesterday
while on Lis way to the Criminal
Courts F-ilding, Manhattan, where tte
an.l fomteen of! er members of 'he
“cheating cheaters” band of fake oil
stock salesmen were to be sentenced
by Judge Otr > A. Rosalsky. Lap ;v.
collapsed on a Gates avenue trolley
car and died a few moments later
after being carried into a drug store
at Lexington and Franklin avenues,
Brooklyn. *
On being informed of the deafh
Judge Rosalsky deferred sentence on
the fourteen others. The salesmen
were trapped by Detectives August
Mayer and Grover Brown, who opened
a decoy brokerage office at 502 Fifth
avenue and did business purchasing
fake oil stock and worthless notes.
Wall street stock brokers were swindl
ed out of thousands of dollars by the
same band.—N. Y. Herald.
FINANCIAL BUDGET
FOR THE FIRST TIME
Will lie Transmitted When
Congress Convenes Monday
—May Save Money
Washington, Nov. 30.—Folks whose
pocketbooks are still touched for taxes
and whose minds have been engrossed
recently with many thousands of print
ed words about disarmament, the
troubles of China and far eastern
problems, may find a bit of comfort
today in the domestic fact that on
next Monday Congress, for the fii*Bt
time in its history will receive a fi
nancial budget.
This budget, prepared by “Hell and
Maria" Dawes and transmitted by
President Harding, presumably will
cut several hundred millions off the
tax bills of the average American,
Prior to the passage of the budget
bill the secretary of the treasury, year
alter year, has sent to Congress each
December “estimates” of appropria
tions. He has followed the regular
request with “deficiency estimates”
as occasion arose.
As a rule, the secretary of the
treasury has sent in all these esti
mates just as they came to him from
the various executive departments and
agencies of the federal government.
The estimates, with accompanying
tables, explanations and pleas for
money, have occupied in recent years
as many as a thousand printed pages.
The secretary of the treasury has
had neither the authority nor.the in
clination to cull these estimates. In
the language of the layman, he has
“let the estimates ride” knowing full
well in advance that they would be
cut down unmercifully by senate and
house appropriations committees, par
ticularly by the later committee, in
which all appropriations originate.
For instance, if the District of Co
lumbia required $12,000,000 to meet
its actual and irreducible needs for
the next fiscal year the district au
thorities would estimate for $14,000,
000 or $16,000,000 in the hope of get
ting many of the extra things they
wanted, but knowing full well their
estimates would be slashed. If the
navy department felt it was obliged
to have so many hundred millions for
running expenses the department
put all that in and also included num
erous requests for things it would like
to have but really didn’t expect to
get. And so it went throughout all the
governmental agencies.
Under the budget system all this is
changed. Budget Director Dawes,
who is always resharpening a pruning
knife, is now going over all the esti
mates. His estimate of the actual re
quirements of the government for the
next fiscal year will be transmitted to
Congress through President Harding
on the opening day of the session.
Director Dawes presumably will in
clude no item of prospective expense
which he cannot consistently defend
before the committees of Congress.
Appropriations of the sum which
General Dawes may require range
from $3,000,000,000 to four billion dol
lars. It is generally believed the es
timated government expenses for the
next year will not exceed the latter
named sum, nor can they fall below
$3,000,000,000. In these days when
the country no longer talks of mere
millions—as Speaker Thomas B. Reed
did when he referred to this as a
100,000,000 dollar country—fiscal prog
nosticators seem to think they have
come reasonably close to the mark if
they guess appropriations within a
few hundred millions.
Considering war debts and the or
dinary current expenditures of the
government for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1923, it is reasonable to as
sume that the final estimates of Di
rector Dawes will be nearly $3,750,
000,000.
The machinery at Capitol hill has
been set for the new budget plan
which the President and General
Dawes will submit next Monday.
There is now one budget committee,
known as the house committee on ap
propriations, instead of a dozen ap
propriating committees handling esti
mates from as many departments.
The central appropriations committee
has named subcommittees, but in the
end the budget and the appropriations
must pass the scrutiny of this big
“board of directors of the United
States.”
. (Continued ®n page 4)
I
! MR. A. W. SWAIN
ADDRESSES CITIZENS
Canvass Cooperative Mark
eting Cotton and Tobacco
Begins Next Week
Monday night despite the inclement
weather, a big crowd of representa
tive business men and farmers gath
ered at the Opera house at the call of
the Chamber of Commerce, to hear
Mr. A. W. Swain, secretary and
treasurer of the State Cotton and To
l bacco Cooperative Marketing Associa
! tions. Mr. T. S. Ragsdale, president
of the chamber of commerce introduc
ed the speaker of the evening who
had come to Johnston county to dis
cuss a matter of vital importance to
farmers, merchants, bankers, tobacco
nists, and in fact every one interested
in the progress of the county.
Mr. Swain’s speech was plain and
thoughtful. He showed that he was
master of his subject which had to do
with cooperative marketing of cotton
and tobacco. He gave a full report
on what had been accomplished in
North Carolina, and stated that the
organization committe had reached its
goal, that it was now up to the busi
ness men and farmer to put it across.
He called attention to the clause in
the contract which says that if one
hundred or more members of the asso
ciation petition the association to es
tablish a receiving station, the asso
ciation must consider i t, and the
greater number making the petition,
the greater probability of getting the
station. The point was also brought
out, that through the association there
will be no advantage to a farmer to
haul his tobacco to a distant market.
Speaking of the work which has al
ready been accomplished in North
Carolina, Mr. Swain said that over 50
per cent of the cotton growers and
over 65 per cent of the tobacco grow
ers have already signed up. Th'e asso
ciations will be organized in accord
ance with plans laid down in the con
tract, between the first and fifteenth
of January 1922 in time to handle
next year’s crops.
Mr. Swain brought a challenge to
the people of Johnston county when
he stated that if business men, ware
housemen, and farmers in this county
were interested in having our tobacco
facilities, including warehouses, re
drying plants, and storage houses, uti
lized by the association in making
it possible for the member growers
to deliver their tobacco to the most
convenient point with advantages eq
ual to those to be secured anywhere,
that it is up to every farmer, tenant,
merchant, banker, and those interest
ed in the tobacco facilities, to get
busy, and instead of getting a major
ity to get one hundred per cent to
sign up in this section. He told all
present frankly that where a farmer
would not for any reason agree to
join the tobacco association, it would
be a personal favor to him to advise
him to stop growing tobacco.
After Mr. Swain had finished his
speech which was received with en
thusiasm a free discussion took place
and the meeting was formed into a
temporary organization with Mr. T.
S. Ragsdale, chairman, and Mr. S. J.
Kirby, secretary. A vote was taken
on the tobacco proposition and every
business man present pledged the sup
port of influence and effort to get as
many members as possible.
After the meeting was over, the
warehousemen got together and for
mulated plans which were presented
at an adjourned meeting Tuesday
night. They arranged for a statement
to be prepared by the chamber of
commerce endorsing the association
which is to be published in the local
papers.
A steering committee was appoint
ed to secure canvassers with automo
biles and to map out routes prelimi
nary to the canvass of the county
which will begin sometime next week.
This work is voluntary and a number
of farmers have agreed to assist. The
plans presented to the meeting were
unanimously received.
To-night another meeting will be
held at the Opera House for further
consideration of the work in hand.
The Expert.
Doc—“You cough easier this morn
ing.”
Very Patient—“I ought to I’ve
been practising all night.”—Virginia
Reel.
PROVIDENCE NEWS
Mr. Johnnie Stephenson, Misses
Rosa Sasser and Bailey of Raleigh,
spent Sunday night in this section.
Mr. Tommie Perry of near Smith
field passed through here last Sunday.
We all had a fine time at Pleasant
Grove last Sunday where a good large
crowd attended the singing.
The Angier people will sing at High
tower school house next Sunday. Ev
erybody come help sing.
Mr. Kenneth Barbour of near
Clayton passed through this section
last Sunday en route to Angier.
Mr. Irwin Lee went to Clayton last
Friday on business.
Mr. Long Honeycutt wrent to Angier
Monday on business.
Mr. Herbert Stephenson of near
Willow Springs spent Sunday after
noon in this section.
Mr. A. Johnson made a business
trip to Smithfield one day last week.
Mr. Rom Lambert and son, . Jeff,
were near Angier surveying land last
Saturday.
Mr. Hallie Stephenson of Rich
Square spent last week end in this
section with his father, Mr. B. M.
Stephenson.
Mr. Emett Faireloth of Raleigh,
spent last week end in this section
with friends.
Mr. and Mis. Rufus M. Johnson,
spent Shinday near Four Oaks.
Messrs Bob and Bernice Fish, of
near Willow Springs spent a snort
while in this section Saturday night.
Mr. Clarence Lee made a business
trip to Clayton last Saturlay.
ra-v '). McGea-- .> i f Oakland
spent part of last week in this section
looking after the work on Providence
Presbyterian church.
Mr. Willis Weeks of the Wildwood
section was in this section one day
last week on business.
The weather is somewhat inclined
to be cold and rainy of late but we
all know it is almost winter time and
can’t expect anything but some cold
weather.
Mr. Hobert Honeycutt, of Angier
high schoal spent last week end in this
section with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. E. Honeycutt.
Mr. Walter Dixon, of Buie’s Creek
Academy spent last week end in our
vicinity with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. Dixon.
Mrs. C. P. Harris who has been
spending some time with her daugh
ter, Mrs. C. S. Rogers has returned to
her home in Kennebec.
Pleasant Grove school children and
teachers invite everybody who will to
come to the school house every Fri
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. We al
ways have a very nice program and
we are trying to work for a debate
every Friday afiern or-. We are glad
for any stranger to come to see how
our school is getting on.
Messrs L. T. and Worth Ogburn
were in. Smithfield Monday morning
on business.
Mr. Claro P. Styles of Clinton pass
ed through this section last Saturday
on his way to Raleigh.
Messrs Romulous and Jefferson
Lambert spent Monday near Garner
surveying land.
Mrs. Archie Johnson spent last
week end in the Spilona section with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Las
siter.
Mr. John Coats was down in the
Benson Grove section one day last
week.
Mr. D. C. Lee made a business trip
to Clayton Tuesday.
Messrs John L. Johnson and G . I.
Smith, of Clayton were in this sec
tion Tuesday on business.
Mr. W. J. Honeycutt, of near Mc
Cullers was in this section Tuesday.
Mr. Victor Ogburn who has been
spending a few days in our community
with friends and relatives has return
ed to his work in Richmond, Va.
Mr. R. Lambert has recently pur
chased a Ford truck.
We hope to have Providence church
completed in a few weeks. Come along
and see how it looks.
“BIG MACK.”
Angier, R. 1., November 29, 1921.
New Church Being Moved.
Mr. R. H. Alford informs us that
the new Presbyterian church, Neill’s
Chapel, is being moved to the baseball
grounds near the old Davis mill place.
The work of tearing down the church
began yesterday morning. This
move will put the church about two
miles further towards Princeton and
it will be on the Central highway.
HON. W. J. BRYAN
IN FAYETTEYILLE
Hopeful For Conference—
Commends Daniels For
Liquor Decree in*Navy
Fayetteville, Nov. 30.—William J.
Bryan today told a Fayetteville aud
ience that he had high hopes that the
arms conference at Washington would
succeed in ridding the world of “The
Devil’s yoke,” typified in his mind by
the burden of war armament. Speak
ing to an outdoor crowd at the ground
breaking exercises in connection with
the beginning of work, on a Y. M. C. A.
building here, America’s great apostle
of peace voiced with emphasis and
evident satisfaction his approval of
Mr. Hughes’ program.
“When Mr. Harding spoke,” he said*
“he was very eloquent, but he was not
definite. When Mr. Hughes spoke he
was definite and the conference gasp
ed; the whole world gasped; the whole
world gasped at the boldness of his
proposal. But I have high hopes that
that program will succeed.
Mr. Bryan had been speaking in a
semi-religious vein, as befitted his
subject, scarcely lifting his voice, un
til he referred to the emblem of the
yoke, one of the holiest of emblems,
the price which every creature paid to
live. Every man wears the devil’s
yoke or Christ’s yoke, he declared.
“Nations have worn the devil’s yoke
and for generations the world has
been wearing the devil’s yoke,” he said
and this brought him to the subject of
war and peace, and he lashed out into
his old time, eloquence and his aud
ience stood hushed as he compared the
two minutes silence at the burial of
America’s unknown soldier, the most
impressive moment he had ever ex
perienced, to the ten years silence
that would prevail in the shipyards of
the world when not a hammer would
strike a rivet to build a ship of war,
leading he believed to the day when
all nations would wear the* yoke of
Christ, which “is easy,” and His bur
den, which “is light.”
At one point in h's speech having
referred indirectly to the temperance
movement, Mr. Bryan declared sud
denly: “You have a great man here in
North Carolina, one of the greatest in
the country, in my opinion, Josephus
Daniels. And one of the finest things
that has been done in this country,
I think, was when Mr. Daniels struck
liquor out of the Navy.”
And then he told how that famous
order came to be issued. A gentle
man came to Secretary Daniels to
plead for a young officer who had
been discharged from the service for
drunkness. The officer was his ne
phew, whom he had reared, a tee-to
taller, until he entered the Naval
Academy. “You would disgrace him
because a habit which he formed in
his country’s service has become his
master,” accused the Secretary’s visi
tor. That incident decided Mr. Dan
iels.
The ground breaking exercises oc
curred promptly at noon, John R.
Tolar, president of the board of di
rectors of the local Young Men’s
Christian association, turning the first
shovel of earth. Charles G. Rose was
in charge of the exercises which clos
ed with the singing of the long metre
doxology.
Mr. Tolar made a brief and appro
priate address in which he announced
that the building to be erected would
nqt only be a haven for the young
men of Fayetteville but that a portion
of it would be reserved always for the
soldiers of Camp Bragg, the National
Council of the Y. M. C. A. having
made an appropriation almost equal
ling the local subscription for that ex
press purpose.
Immediately following the speak
ing, Mr. Bryan was the guest of the
directors of the Y. M. C. A. at a lun
cheon at the Myrtle Hill teahouse.
During the afternoon he visited his old
friend, Major E. J. Hale, to whom he
referred with much affection in his
address. During the morning hours,
he was the guest of General A. J.
Bowley at Camp Bragg, displaying
much interest in Ge'r.rra! Bowley’
plans for the development of the camp
and for co-operation between the city
and camp, which he declared could be
of great benefit to each other. Mr.
Bryan found much pleasure in visit
ing the model stock farm at the camp.
He was a politician by practice, he
i said, but a farmer inwardly.—News
and Observer.