VOLUME 41
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1922
NUMBER 53
STRIKING SHOPMEN
DRIFTING BACK
_ I
Wednesday Considered The
Turning Point In Strike;
Strike News of a Day
CHICAGO, July 5.—Striking rail- j
way shopmen who walked out in an
swer to the nation-wide call from the
headquarters of the six shop crafts
unions here last Saturday, were re
ported drifting back to work today
in groups of uncertain numbers.
Today was considered the turning
point in the strike of the 350,000
to 400,000 workers. Although re
sponding generally to the call last
Saturday, railroad officials insisted
that many of the defections were due
to the desire of the men to take a
holiday over the fourth of July.
Local union reports to the office
oi d. M. Jewell, head oi the shop
men, reiterated the union assertion
effective at all points reported.
Maintenance of way men, despite
the decision of that union’s executive
council here last night to postpone
strike action for the present, were al
so reported to be joining the walkout.
Such reports reached President
Jewell’s headquarters, and were con
firmed by newsdispatches.
Freight handlers, clerks and sta
tionary firemen and oilers joined the
deserting ranks of shopmen at va
rious points although fully as many
shops reported that men were re
turning to work today. The railroads
generally were advertising for new
men to take the strikers’ places,
and several railroads were complet
ing arrangements to handle their re
pairs at outside shops.
Sjome Disorder Reported
Small disorders appeared at sev
eral points, mostly in the south,
where numerous roads placed guards
over their bridges and other vulner
able points.
Conflicting reports came from the
Pennsylvania shops at Pittsburgh,
both sides claiming gains today.
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie and Balti
more and Ohio shops reported gains.
Double pickets were placed about the
shops and yards at New York city
and heavy picketing continued in
Chicago.
The Union Pacific, Chicago, Mil
waukee, and St. Paul, N. C., and St.
L., Georgia railroad and Burlington
and a dozen other roads issued fiats
setting a final date on which the
strikers must return to work or for
feit their seniority rights.
The first reported suspension of
service due to the strike, came from
the Chicago ana Northwestern which
announced annulment of several short
run trains in northern Illinois.
Michigan Central shops, however,
announced heavy returns to their
plants. Fifty per cent of the men
returned at Toledo, O., it was an
nounced and 350 out of 800 returned
at Jackson City, Michigan.
From Boanoke, Va., came the report
today that foremen of maintenance
of way labor and clerks were quitting
their jobs in sympathy with the
shopmen. Traffic was reported sus
pended north on the Norfolk and
Western, stopping coal shipments for
the Pennsylvania railway. At Hunt
ington, W. Va., the Chespeake and
Ohio shopmen were reported ‘‘all
out.”
Springfield Mo., reported the same
condition on the St. Louis and San
Francisco.—Associated Press.
BABY NIBBLES FIRECRACKER
DIES IN CONVULSIONS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 5.—A
Fourth of July fire cracker proved
fatal to William Kelly, two-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Kelly, who
died today as the result, according to
attending physicians, of munching a
“red devil” cap. The youngster was
stricken ill Monday, went into con
vulsions yesterday and died today.
Dangerous to Babies.
Skim milk, thickened with cocoanut
oil, to replace the butterfat of which
it has been robbed, is widely sold in
condensed form, according to reports.
This oil lacks the vitamir.es that the
original cream possessed and results
obtained from feeding it to growing
children and babies are described as
disastrous.—Dearborn Independent.
ASSOCIATION HONORS
TARHEEL EDUCATOR
Robert H. Wright, Vice-President
of National Educational
Association.
BOSTON, July 5.—This was coun
try school day in the program of the
National Education Association, with
the attention of the delegates direct
ed almost to the problems of rural
life and education. The representa
tive assembly which held its first
business session considered the re
port of the rural school committee,
of which John F. Simms, president
of the State Normal School, Sevens
Point, Wisconsin, is chairman and a
report of the committee on county
superintendents’ problems by Lee
L. Driver, director of the bureau of
rural education, Harrisburg, Pa.
Tonight the subject of rural
schools was again uppermost in ad
dresses. Geo. A. Works, of the New
i oi k state ^onege oi Agriculture,
urged that system of State support
be put on such a basis that the coun
try child may have school facilities
comparable with those of the city
child. The abolition of small dis
trict schools and th5 substitution of
a county system was recommended
by Agnes Sampson, superintendent
of Page County Schools, Iowa.
Pensions came in for discussion
by representative assembly and a
resolution was passed unanimously
calling for urgent action for the
teachers of every state to secure
pension systems where such systems
are not already established.
The committee on nominations an
nounced that William Owen, presi
dent of the Chicago Normal College,
was its choice for president for the
coming year.
Cornelius S. Adair, of Richmond,
Va., was nominated for treasurer.
Those named for vice-president in
cluded Robert H. Wright, president
of the Eastern Carolina Teachers’
Training School, Greenville, N. C.,
and John W. Abercrombie, state
superintendent of education, Mont
gomery, Ala.
J. W. Crabtree, of Washington, D.
C., continues as secretary.
U. S. MAILS MUST NOT
BE HINDERED ON WAY
Uncle Sam Says He Will Not Tolerate
Interference With Movements
Of His Letters and Parcels
WASHINGTON, July 5.—Under' no
circumstances will the government
tolerate any hindrance to the move
ment of the U. S. mails, it was said
here today after receipt of reports
that striking railway workers had in
terfered with n ail transportation in
different parts of the country.
There is a disposition on the part
of ihe administration, it was under
stood to deal with strikers or any
others who may interfere with the j
proper dispatch of the mails in the
most vigorous manner.
The Postoffice Department, it was :
said, would dispatch inspectors to all |
points where trouble might arise in
the transmission of the mails. The
inspectors will be required to make
an immediate investigation and
transmit reports at once to the sup
erintendent of the railway mail serv
ice here, who if he deems it advisable
will place the matter before the De
partment of Justice.
Delays in the mails were reported .
from Texas, Missouri and Louisiana, i
Good Thing He Didn’t Hear Mother
“Darn it,” said a little boy one day
when his father heard him. The fath
er said, “Oh son do not say that for
every time I hear you say such things
it just makes me have cold chills.” :
Boy (to father): “Well, it is a good !
thing you did not hear mother the '
other day, whe nthe old cow kicked ;
her, for if you had you would have !
froze to death.”—D. E. Allen, Raleigh,
in Pithy Paragraphs, News and Ob
server.
Would She Be Forgiven
An old negro mammy was telling
her small son a story before bedtime. 1
When she finished he looked at her
and said:
“Mammy, reckon Gawd’ll forgib yo’
fo’ tellin’ dem lies?”—Miss Minnie
Benton, Wilmington, in Morning Star
Pithy Paragraphs Column.
HOW MUCH STRIKES j
COST THE NATION?
i _
Curious Figures Based On
Department of Labor
Statistics
I _
WASHINGTON, July 6.—(Capi- j
! ‘ i
I tal News Service).—Statistics issued ;
j by the Department of Labor show j
I that strikes in this country average j
! more than 3.30t> per year. It is not !
' contended by the department that its J
| figures are accurate, since they de- j
J pend upon newspaper and trade pa- j
I per reports for the most part, but j
that they are under, rather than ov- j
erstatements.
It is impossible truthfully to esti- i
mate the average cost of a strike, j
since they vary so in duration, num- j
ber of workmen affected and eco- ,
! noimc loss through whatever indus- I
try is wholly or partially shut down. |
But if the most conservative possible
estimate be adopted, and it is consid
ered that the average strike affects
100 workmen, and that the average
strike lasts 10 days, the total arrived
at is 3,300,000 working days lost
per year. If the average cost to each
workmen is $5 per day and the aver- *
age loss to each industry does not
exceed three times the loss to the
workmen, then strikes cost this coun
try some $66,000,000 a year.
It is not believed that these fig
ures are anything but suggestive.
The average strike undoubtedly af
fects thousands rather than hun
dreds, and for many more than ten
days; few union laborers receive as
little as $5 a day, and, of course,
the industry affected suffers out of
all proportion to the workmen.
But, it is pointed out at the Capi
tol if it were true that only $66,000,
000 were wasted by strikes every
year, that $66,000,000 spent in proper
channels on arbitration would un
doubtedly stop most if not all the
strikes!
It might be an economic measure
to spend a part of it for accurate
statistics of strike costs to the coun
try; a little education on what it
really costs to stop work might
make people less willing to indulge
in, or cause, strikes.
CONCORD VOTES BONDS
FOR BETTER SCHOOLS
CONCORD, July 5.—The voters of
Concord pledged their faith to the
children of the city today by voting
$225,000 for bigger and better
schools. The special bond election
carried by a large majority, more
than 1,000 of the 1,577 registered
voters casting their ballots for the
bonds. The school board plans to
use the money in changing the pres
ent high school building into a gram
mar school building, the erection of
a $25,000 school for the colored chil
dren, the enlargement of grammar
school No. 2, and the erection of a
high school building, to cost in the
neighborhood of $150,000. The elec
tion was one of the most bitterly
contested of its kind in the history
of the city. Many of the votes were
cast by women.—News and Observer.
Rolling Courts in Florida.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 4.—
Florida’s first “rolling courts” got in
to action today on Atlantic boulevard
between Jacksonville and the Beaches
Justices of the peace and their
baliffs in the districts traversed the
boulevard in touring cars and were
constantly on patrol and dozens of
deputies on motorcycles and in auto
mobiles were ready to pounce upon
any driver who endangered traffic.
Upon making an arrest the deputy
and his prisoner will proceed until
they meet one of the “rolling courts.”
The “court” will stop, give a pre
liminary hearing and fix bond for the
appearance of the defendant in Crim
inal Court. Failure to make cash
bond on the spot will result in the
taking of the prisoner to Pablo,
where he will be held in the city jail.
The historic shop in London, which
shipped the tea to Boston that later
was thrown into the harbor by the
famous tea party, has restored the
sign that hung over the shop in 1650.
—Dearborn Independent.
DIG UP $400,000
BURIED UNDER TREE
Part of $2,000,000 Loot Of
Many Robberies Found
On Long Island
SILVER LAKE, Long Island, N. Y.,
July 4.—Detectives dug up $400,000 in
security under a tree near here to
day.
Part of the recovered loot was
stolen in the $2,000,000 mail truck
robbery in New York last October.
Other recovered securities were stol
en in postoffice and mail robberies in
various parts of the United States
during the past year.
The securities dug up today are,
in addition to the $100,000 recovered
from the apartment of Edward Bryce
on Monday.
Three men are under arrest, and
the police believe they engineered
most of the postal hold-ups of the
past VA months. 1 hey are Dutch
Anderson, who says his name is
Charles P. Heins; Edward Bryce and
Charles Lambert. All are good dress
ers, and are familiar with various
parts of the world.
The trio were captured through
the work of G. T. MCarthy, of the
American Railway Express office in
Buffalo. He trailed them back and
forth across the continent until three
weeks ago. Then he made their ac
quaintance, and since that, has been
going auto riding with them and vis
ited road houses. Finally he gained
their confidence by telling them of
his Western exploints, and they be
gan planning a hold-up job together.
They also told him, the police say,
of some of the robberies they had
committed. Finally McCarthy told
them he had a standing market for
stolen securities, and they offered to
turn ovgr to him some of the securi
ties they had.
Sunday tney produced 51^4,uuu in se
curities. He was unable to get this
amount of monay and believed their
suspicions were arising He called
other detectives, and the three were
arrested Monday. Their apartments
were searched, and $100,000 found in
Bryce’s trunk. McCarthy had learned
of the hiding place under the tree
here, and he and the other detectives
iaine out today and dug up the
treasure.—Washington Post.
TWO NEW BOOKS ISSUED
BY UNIVERSITY FACULTY
CHAPEL HILL, July 4.—Two new
and interesting books by University
of North Carolina professors have
just come from the press. “Literature
and Life,” is the name of a new au
thoritative book by Dr. Greenlaw,
head of the English department of
the University and “Public Education
in the South” is by Dr. Edward W.
Knight, professor of education.
“Literature and Life” has received
considerable very favorable praise
from numerous critics, and is consid
ered one of Dr. Greenlaw’s best books.
It has been issued in its first edition
in 25,000 copies, which is very un
usual, most books by North Caro
linians usually coming in editions of
L.000 volumes.
“Public Education in the South” is
iedicated to “Edward Kidder Graham,
gentleman, scholar, friend, inspiring
teacher of youth, brilliant leader of
■nen, exponent and interpreter of the
south’s best traditions.” Dr. Knight,
in his preface, says his book is “a
study of actual educational progress
in the south rather than of education
al theories, and the selection between
education and economic, social, polit
ical, and religious influences is given
emphasis.”
John I)., Jr., Gives $200,000
NEW YORK, July 2.—John D.
Rockefeller, jr., has given $200,000 to
:.he American academy in Rome, to 1
ae held as a permanent endowment, j
William Rutherford Mead, its presi- J
lent, announced today.
The income is to be available for ,
any of the academy’s current needs, j
Mr. Rockefeller, however, has agreed j
that the whole or any portion of the j
pritiuj al of the gift may be devoted
:o the corporate purposes of the acad
jmy in the judgment of the trustees. [
One-quarter of the wage-earners
)f the United States are women.
‘AIMS IN AMERICAN
EDUCATION” THEME
Subject of Address Before National
Education Ass’n. Education
Must Train Citizens
Boston, July 5.—The blessings of
democracy will flow only “insofar as
it represents the rule of an intelligeit
and cultured people,” Secretary
Hughes declared in a paper in the
“Aims in American Education” read
here tonight before the National Edu
cation association.
“The American ideal,” :he secre
tary said, “and it must be maintained
if we are to mitigate lisappointment
and unrest, is the ideal of equal edu
cational opportunity, not merely for
the purpose of enabling on° to know
how to earn a living, and to fit into
an economic status more or less fixed,
hut of giving play to talenc and aspi
ration and to the development f men
lai ana spiritual powers.
The increased demand for educa
tional opportunities and the extraor
dinary efforts to supply new facilities,
particularly for higher education,
were encouraging, Mr. Hughes said,
but he added that there was apparent
“much confusion with respect to the
standards and aims” of education. Vo
cational training—the teaching of the
means to earn a livelihood, ho said,
would be taken care of, but he added:
“Democracy cannot live on bread
alone. It is not enough that one shall
be able to earn a living, or a good liv
ing. This is the foundation, but not
the structure. What is needed is to
have life more abundantly.
“Life is not a pastime and democ
racy is not a holiday excursion. It
needs men trained to think.
“The sentimentalists must not be
allowed to ruin us by dissipating *he
energy that should be harnessed for
our varied needs.”
Mr. Hughes held that too much had
been done in colleges to encourage
“intellectual vagrancy” so that a “col
lege education, outside of technical
schools, may mean little or nothing.”
“We have given too scant attention
to the demands of training for citizen
ship,” he said.— Associated Press.
HAD THE COURAGE TO
CUT HER OWN SALARY
_ j
Canadian Woman Legislator Thinks
Economy Should Begin at Home
And Acts On Her Opinion
OTTAWA, Ont., July 2.— Miss
Agnes MacPhail, the only woman
member of the Canadian Parliament,
has returned to Minister of Finance
Fielding $1500 of the $4000 paid her
as “sessional indemnity,” or salary
as parliamentarian.
“I can use the money,” Miss Mac
Phaill explained in a letter to the
Minister. “Anybody can use $4000.
But I object to the increase of the
indemnity from $2500 to $4000 at a
time when our men were overseas and
the cry was economy. There is no use
preaching economy unless we give the
people a lead in economy.”—Philadel
phia Record.
Prohibition in Sing Sing.
OSSINGING, N. Y., July 4.—Sing
Sing attendants announced today
that Bernard Conway, erstwhile
burglar, has just been put in soli
tary confinement, accused of sur
reptitiously making “hooch'’ in the
prison.
Attaches say Conway made
“moonshine” rum by extracting al
cohol from potatoes and mixing it
with sugar and other ingredients
readily obtained inside the prison
walls. Conway and another pris
oner imbibed too freely of the “home
brew” and became inebriated. This, |
according to attendants, is what be
trayed Conway.
Warden Lewis E. Lawes, who has J
always kept a careful watch to pre
vent the smuggling of drugs or
liquors into the prison, has been un
usually successful in keeping the
prison bone-dry. Back in 1873,
when Gaylord B. Hubbell was war
den, convicts were caught making
liquor by using potato mash. The
still was found in a tunnel leading
from the prison to the quarry and
confiscated.—Philadelphia Record.
Knowledge is power. It is about
forty-horse sense power.
PRES. HARDING AT
MARION ON FOURTH
Address Crowd Observance
Of Marion Centennial;
Gen. Pershing Speaks
MARION, Ohio, July 4.—With an
emphatic declaration that the consti
tution and laws sponsored by the
majority must be enforced, President
Harding, addressing his “friend and
neighbors” who assembled at the fair
grounds here today to celebrate his
home coming, declared that “menaces
do arise” which must be suppressed
by the government pending their ef
facement by public opinion.
Coupled with this assertion was the
prediction that “America will go on”
and that the “fundamentals of the re
public and all its liberties will be
preserved.”
During his address the ^resident
touched on prohibition, discussed the
right of “a free America” not only to
labor without any others leave, “but
to bargain collectively,” reviewed
the history of Marion, which is cele
brating its one hundredth birthday
anniversary, and told a number of in
cidents of his earlier life. He spoke
from a grand stand filled with “home
folks” and visitors from surrounding
territory. Massed in front of him
was a huge crowd. It was estimated
that there were at least 26,000 per
sons in the entire throng. The weath
er was unusually cool.
On their arrival at the fair grounds
the President and Mrs. Harding were
given an ovation, while frequently
during his address the excutive was
interrupted by applause.
General Pershing, who also deliver
ed an address, was loudly applauded
when he advocated “fearless” use of
“the strong arm of the law in con
munities which “openly sympathized
with ruthless murder of inoffensive
people in the exercise of the right to
earn a iiveunoon.
President Harding joined in the
hand clapping which followed this
state.i ent.
The President mentioned the 18th
amendment in connection with his ad
vocacy cf strict law enforcement. De
claring that “majorities, restrained
to the protection of minorities,” ever
must rule. He added.
“The 18th amendment denies to a
minority a fancied sense of personal
liberty, but the amendment is the will
cf America and must be sustained by
the government and public opinion,
else contempt for the law will under
mine our very foundations.”
Departing frequently from the pre
pared text of his speech, Mr. Hard
ing, with a smile, told how he, a
green village youth, once rode into
Marion from the nearby town of Cale
donia, his former home, on a “stub
born mule.” At another juncture he
remarked that “back in 1895” he drop
ped into “express office” to “see some
of the fellows’” there about a civic
celebration.
“Some of you may think it’s a fine
thing to be president,” Mr. Harding
remarked. “Keep on thinking it—
you will find the situation very dif
ferent when you wake up.”
On the program for “informal re
marks,” Charles G. Dawes, former di
rector of the budget bureau, spoke
briefly, concluding with the observa
tion that the President “has a strong
cabinet but the cabinet has a stronger
Harding."
Brief speeches were made by Comp
troller of the Currency Crissinger,
George B. Christian, secretary to the
President and Brigadier General Saw
yer, the President’s physician. All
are residents of Marion.
Shortly before noon today the Pres
ident strolled down to the Marion
Star building from the home of his
father, Dr. G. T. Harding. Climbing
the stairs to his father’s office on the
second floor, the President made a
longhand draft of his address. Across
the hall was the room which he occu
pied for years as editor of the Star—
his old desk still in its customary
place.
Before leaving the building the
President went into every depart
ment, greeting each employe by name
as he shook hands.
The President and Mrs. Harding
spent the evening quietly at Dr. Har
ding’s home with members of the
family and a few friends who dropped
in to call.