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VOL, 40 NO. 2.
- U . . TARDOROt N. C. WEDNES JUNE 23, 1820
STOnY OF A. E. F. IFJ
FRANCE IS TOLD BIT
PICTURE EXHIBIT
'American Artists Sent To War
Front, Complete Graphic'
Battle Pictures."
PflOIIIDIIIOiJ ISSUE
iscAusifJc oiscono
Democratic Leaders Are Pre-
pared to Face Hot Debate
On Convention Floor.
; San Francisco, June 23. Rumb
lings of discord over the prohibition
issue became hourly more ominous
as delegates arrived here in increas
ing numbers for the Democratic Na-
WONDERFUL EXHIBIT ON
hiQPi i.v at MiTriTMs tlonaI convention
aiic tivyv biiab vile bluiiii jmgUL
spend itself behind tho closed, doors
Washington, June . 23. The story 0f the platform committee has been
of the American Expeditionary Force virtually, abandoned by the leaders,
la mm iu yiviuica mi me wia uj. vuc ana mey are prepared to lace an
National Museum here m a 'perma- outbreak of debate on the floor of
nent exhibit just opened to the pub- the convention,
, lie. :'A ' 1 -'' "x -- :': . ? m Alreadv an overshadowing issue of
Drawn from life in paint, pen and pre-convehtion conferences, the biz
ink or ; .pencil by American artists question of a platform declaration
.commissioned, and sent to the front against the present bone-dry law al
for that purpose, the collection of most took the whole state to itself, as
nearly ,600 studies detailing almost the delegates heard of Postmaster-
every phase of life in. the army over--j General Burleson'fl.ahnouncement for
-seas is spread over the walls of Balf la modification of the Volstead act by
a dozen, greats well lighted rooms. vIt many wh0 regard " Mr. Burleson as
is a tale of stirring action which they the political spokesman for the White
disclose,1 House. : :v-,;,,i:;:t..;'n?:f
Among the scenes depicted " are The development is accepted as a
- ruined French villages made sacred warning of which way the -wind of
lorever to Amel-icans .because f administration influence would blow,
American blood freely given to tear Others refused to take that view, but
them from German hands There are nobody seemed to know-how far the
he. homely, ; appealing scenes from sentiments of President Wilson might
jehind the lines with happy-tro-luckv I be in accord with those of the Dost,
youngsters of Pershing's division in master-general,
VICTORy MEDAL WO,
1 10 THE PRESIDENT
billets mixing among the people of I
France, the very old and the very
young people.. Here and there are
grim reminders of the great tragedy
in groups of huddled dead In wreck-
ed enemy trenches over which the
tide of victory had poured, Again,
Jialf glimpsed through a downpour of
rain , a .trudging, sodden infantry
column is. moving on ward through a Lettel of pre8entation From
vm. inuu aa me arust saw u: or - . : -
an endless liri of WiWv OT,n tM. Secretary Baker, and Mr.
drairs forward the batteries to blast ' Wilson's Answer,
the road to triumph
At one point the artist caught andf The following is a copy of letter
held for, his fellow countrymen the from the secretary of war to Preai
breathless tensity of a forest out- dent Wilaoriy transmitting1 the first
post, peering through the leafy screen Victory Medal struck from the disc :
of his covert toward the. enemy lines, "My dear Mr.' President : Pursuant
his rifle (hugged close v with . finders to agreement among' European allies
clinched, Wbout the-trigger siflgte' Victory.,
other a slash" of light from a half, al; "substantially-uniform in design
opened door has painted ' on : the and having certain national variation
screen of night just a hint at a col- in the different countries, wag" adopt,
umn, tramping on toward battle, a ed for award to all military and na.
v. young face 0r.two in the line, weary, var personnel engaged in the- World
. dirty, but with jaws griin set with War, thus .giving to each participant
- purpose, '.Again it is a hospital .that a badge of his service and obviating
has gripped the artist imagination, a the necessity of exchanges o' medals
.twisted, writhing from under tumbled between the several countries.
blanket with agony in every line and "When we reached the stage of
over it the steady-eyed surgeon or having the medal struck, I. directed
the merciful figure of an army nurse, that the first piece .from the. dies
should be brought to me for trans
Mexican Election. Date Set.' mission tt you as commander of the
: Mexico ' City, : June 23. The call military ' "ces of the UT S., and I
for national eleetion fixes the date hereby transmit it.
'for congressional elections at August
1 while a new president will be chos
en September 5.
Villa Lone Revolutionist Now.'
" Mexico City, June 23. Resolts re.
' ported in various parts of the coun
try have, been officially denied in a
foreign, office statement, which sajd
The President's Reply.
"My dear Mr.' Seeretary: I have
received the first ' of the : Victory
Medals struek off to commemorate
our military participation in . 'the
great war for civilization. The tech
nical relation of commander in chief
created by the Constitution does not
permit me to share in the glory of
the sacrifices and achievements made
FOREIGN
AFFECTS?FAR EAST
W WORK
Ml
SIOI
American Baptist Foreign
v Mission Society Submits
' AnnUal Report.'
CONSTRUCTION OF , ALL
KIND rises: RAPIDLY
.
23.-
JJuttaio, N. Y., June 23.-Unfav-orable
exchange rates in the'Far East
are likely to seriously hamper ex
tension of missionary work in' those
fields,' according t0 a report-of the
American Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society submitted at the thirteenth
annual session of the Northern Bap
tist convention here today, i The re
port declared - this condition ; aggra
vated the problems of increased costs
of .missionaries" living expenses, land,
buildings and f materials8 for equip
ment. Foreign! mission boards of va
rious denominations are-making a
joint study of the' subject,
Last , 'March ; the5 Baptist Foreign
Mission Society increased .the basic
home salary of married missionaries
$700 and that of single missionaries
$200, the report, stated. The annual
allowances for missionaries' children
were increased from $100 to $300
Increases for , missionaries ; abroad
were: Japan,' $400; India, $150 for
married missionaries, $100 for sin
gle workers; China, $125 for each
missionary family; CongV $200 for
missionary families and $100 single,
Ihe cost of construction Work 'in
China, Japan, Essan and Burma has
risen from 12 to 40 per ceht in the
last year, and land values are higher,
The vital relationship of the Lea
gue oi Nations to the foreign mis
sion enterprises was emphasized in
the report. Influence ; of Christian
missionaries is declared to have been
a," factor in India's decision, V.tp re
wind 1n.m1 T t-y, T. J .. I .. L
lujrai lu AjLibaiii uuwii$ war,
TODAVSNEWS
OF TARBORG
20 YEARS AGO
riEVV FIRE TRUGK
UL'La0Efl TODAY
WOBttrSTUDE
HTS
WIEET IN SWEDEN
World Stydent Prohibition As
sociation Is Aim of July
Student Gathering.
. i ; ii ai. 1: . t .ir;n
., . w.ia. we -T ,! "r in a purely military way by my fel
movementt Chihuahua,.the county iow countrymen arms, but it does
wm jjcacciui
GERMANY NOW IN MIDST OF f
FOOD COST DEMONSTRATION
'.Berlin, June 23. Several persons
are reported killed at Ulm, Wuert-
temburg, during the recent riotous i
demonstrations against- the high cost
of food. Similar demonstrations have
been reported in other parts of Ger
many. Many clashes have occurred
between the police and the demon-
strators. , , . ,
justify my treasuring this badge as
a symbol of their greatness in a great
cause.' Please, if a convenient oppor
tunity arises', express to the army my
pride in its achievements,' and the
appreciation- of Us confidence."
PERSONALS " ,
Dr. W J. Thigpen ia spending a
fev days in New York.
Mrs. Laura Creech , and Miss
Ruby Stanley is visitjng Mr. and Mrs.
V. II. Creech.
Miss Chase rBoren, of Greens
boro, Hs visiting Mrs. R. B. Josey.
Mrsr G. T. DeBerry is visiting
Londonderry, June 23 There was relatives at Palmyra.
no cessation today in the battle be-1 Aubrey Leggett seems to have
'tween the Unionist and National Fac- become a favorite as an umpire at
tions her. During the night the ri- Pinetops. , "
val factions erected additional barri- Miss Ruth Holland and Mr. -Ray
ccates fromi which they kept up a con- Mimocks of Fayetteville are visiting
LONDONDERRY FACTIONS ,
CONTINUE HEAVY FIRING
lnuous fire.
BRYAN SAYS NO ENEMY TO
PROHIBITION TO BE ELECTED
.Great Fells, Mont., June 23. Wil-
hum Jennings Bryan, in an address
here last night, declared that no can
didate" whj stood against the policy
prohibition sbould be nominated
; the San Francisco convention,
1 . ' f .
EA0il4B lN STREETS OF
S, LONDONDERRY, IRELAND
J Washing ?ne 23.-Dispatches
t,iv h rom Londonderry say
. .. iid wounded are lying
the streets -t
that city today.
.13 T NOTICE.
The book ;.mmi,tt"0't,,eb,5c
jbrary will canvass j
"ose who save books
j the library, will pieafi
dy by '10, o'clock.
t fontdibute
V ihave them
the Misses Minnie and Margaret Mc
Clure. " '' ' ; ' ' ." .,
Miss Margaret Spears, of Win
ston-Salem. arrived yesterday to
spend some time with' Miss Annie
Elizabeth Cobb. Miss Spears is- here
to attend the Holloway-Cobb wed.
ding, i, ' ' '
Miss Margaret Home is here to
spend some time with her aunt, Mrs.
R. M. Cosby. ' ' . - '
' -t-Miss Houle, of Selma, Ala., is on
a visit to her nephew, Rev. Bertram
Brown, and family.
Mrs. Brown - and children have
returned to their home in Richmond.
after a visit to Mrs. Ellen Brown'.
Messrs. G. A. Holderness, W. R.
Powell and Perry Jenkins have' re
turned from Morehead.
H. B. Wbitaker is back from a
trip west. '
Miss Mary Wooten has returned
from a visit to friends in Goldsboro.
Miss Emma Cobb has returned
from. Chapel Bill, where she attend,
ed a meeting of school luprviiors.
A world student prohibition asso
ciation is the aim of an international
student' prohibition conference to be
held in Sweden the last week of July.
The basis of this organization will be
the International Bureau of Ab
staining Students, which before the
war had 29,000 members, and of
which the student anti-alcohol organ
izations of Sweden, Norway, Den
mark, Switzerland, Germany and
Austria and the Intercollegiate Pro
hibition Association of America, ar
constituent members. , Bertil SJosb
rand, prominent leader of the Sveri
ges Studerande Ungdoms Helnkter.
hetsf orbund Swedish Students Tem
perance Movement, and Harry War
ner, of the Intercollegiate Prohibi
tion Association; have-recently bien
in conference in London upbli "thi3
matter. " '
The Sveriges Studerande Ungdoms
Helnkterhetsforbund has its national
conference the last week of July.
Duripg the first weekf August
the' International- Christian Student
conference is also to be held in Swe
den. " The world student prohibition
conference will be held in the three
days intervening. v
Mr. Warner.'who is visiting Europe
under auspices of the Intercollegiate
Prohibition Association, spent the
first half of May visiting the British
universities. He is now tounng the
universities of Belgium and Holland,
and will visit France, Switzerland.
and Czecho-Slovakia before going to
Sweden for the conference. '
IMPROVEMENT IN YARDMEN'S
STRIKE ON TWO BIG ROADS
A German.
'. A german was given last evening
in the rooms of the Edgecombe club.
The music was furnished by the "Big
Forir'i string band. Among those at
tending were:-
. Miss Lizzie Farrar1, Ivey McCabe.
Miss Anna Powell, Ben Brown!
Miss Anna Baker, Thos. Farrar. '
. Miss Arabella Nash, Joe Penning
ton. . '
Miss Lizzie Nash, Will Brown.
Miss Sarah Cheshire, Hyman Phil.
lips..
Miss Hester Lewis, Spencer Bass.
Miss Mary Howard, Rob Rawls. '
" Miss Sallie Lee, Will Clark.
Miss Mabel Rawls, Geo. Penning
ton.
Miss Lizzie Cotten, Will Howard.
Miss Mary Bridgers. Jp J. Green.
Miss Josephine Philips, Don Will
iams. v ' T
Hiss Dora Dawson, Frank Gatlin.
. Miss Mamie Dawson, Dossey Bat
tle. Miss Catherine Moore, C. White
head.' Miss Kate Taylor, Harvey Jenkins.
. Mrs. Harvey Lewis, H. Lewis.
Mrs. Frank Martin, J. F. Martin.
The stags were: Marshall Staton,
Jim Moore, Strudwick Nlsh, Claude
Walker. ' J
Chaperons : Mrs. Dr. B aker, Mrs.
Thrash, Mrs. Kate Blount, .
A Charming Marriaf.
Anent the marriage of Prof, H. P.
Brown to Mis? Ruth Clark, in Wil
son, on the 13th, the News of that
place says;. - " v-u
At "the residence of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Alvin Clark
on Lodge street, Miss Rith, their
charming and attractive (laughter,
was married :v w. nenry uocitery
Brown, of Tartar, principal of the
female scholol at that place, and a
young' man highly esteemed by all
who knew him. The bride is a hand,
some and popular young lady of Wil
son, counting her friends by her list
of acquaintances. v-y
Large Crowd Gathers in Front
pf City Hall toXoob Over
- Pet Fire Motor.
The new American : LaFrane . fire
truck, was unloaded and housed in
its new Tsrboro home this morning.
For some fi'me it was left in front of
the fire station, where a most inter.
ested orowd gathered to view and
give advice upon the jftay it should
be run worked, housed and kept. In
spite of the f set that the company
had a man on toe ground to demon
strate the big machine, the advice
handed out would lead strangers to
believe the .demonstrator was her to
be taught instesd of to teach.
The firemen were standing around
listening to the free advice, with
smiles of amusement ' upon their
faces. They soon grew tired of the
general chatter, thoughand gathered
around the company man and listen.
ed to the real article, of the workings
of the big motor.
Tomorrow morning A false alarm
will be given, and the first official
demonstration of the welcomed Addi
tion to the city fire department will
be given. ... " ; ' . . '
The shed for the machine is built
in such way that one might think it
was moulded to -fit. The eagle upon
the alarm bell reaches within half
inch of the Veiling of tha shed, and
there is just room on each side for
the firemen to take a hurry-up jump
to their places when the alarm is
sounded.
It ir almost a safe bet that every
fireman wilL be -on the job at the
first real alarm that is turned in for
the new truck, and places will be at
premium. ' All that can be said of
the- American LaFrane truck' tdk
Tarboro's , fife department is that it
is a "peach," and that it is needed;
so let the city keep it and forget the
rumors that it was to be sold to
some neighboring city.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
A LETTER FROM AN
OLD 'EDuECOIUIBEfT
Still Ardent Lover of Edse
combe, Though He Signs
A. "Old Virginian."
C. of C. Director Meet,
The Chamber of Commerce direc
8 o'clock.
tors will meet tonight at
iriinTir'li i:rt riV '
Looking Backward More 'Than Half a Century
Philadelphia," June 23. Improve
ment in the yardmen's strike situs.
tion is reported today by the'Penn
sylvania and Reading5 railroads.
AMATEUR WIRELESS j MEN
CALLED TO THEIR PLACES
Charleston, S. C, June 23. The
Charleston navy yard officials today
announced that all amateur wireless
operators were requested to be at
their stations tonight st 1 o'clock.
eastern time, to receive a radio mes
sage from Secretary of Agriculture
Meredith. . . '
NOTE HANDED HUNS.
Paris, June 23. The note to Ger
many, regarding disarmament, pre
pared by the council of ambassadors,
was banded to the German peace del
egation today. k
It was fifty-four years gone, when
first landed" in the hills of the Vir
ginia Blue Ridge' Mountains and be
held the dark, grim, silent fire.scar.
red and cracked walls ' of the Vir.
ginia Military Institute. Patched up
from the ruin wrought by the vandal
forces under Jluaer, the barracks
was to Oe te ome oi near inree
hundred bisyst -or? a period of four
years. Though badly crippled, the
M. I. again took up the discipline.
training and education of boys, which
it had so well begun in 1839, Though
well-nigh destroyed in its material
existence, on the battle field of New
Market, when sixteen of the cadets,
though boys in years from fifteen to
eighteen,' but whose souls were fired
by the inherited knightly manhood of.
the South, fought to the death, and
many were wounded, product of the
efforts of the V, M. I., in the pre
ceding years, arose its star jf des
tiny; which, as it rises and progresses
becomes stronger and brighter, never
to set. Fifty years is a great span
of life and how marvelously great
when you realize that in the fifty
years just .past more striking!, re
markable and iinthought-of things
have been brought into existence,
since the earliest recorded history of
mankind. Things that the wise and
learned men of the formy days said
that it was impossible to do, lack of
space will only allow me to com
pare, the great and most effective
force in the development of the
world, transportation; to mark the
forward strike, compare the boat of
the savage to the giant ocean steam,
er Leviathan, the carrylog cart to the
auto truck, the carriage of old days
to the Twentieth Century Limited,
the famous train between New -York
and Chicago; compare the old loaded
wagon to a train of cars a mile long,
drawn by a compound Mallet locomo
tive, an equipment that could haul
at one time the entire crops made on
the largest plantation in Edgecombe
county together with all the stock
and other things compare the avia
tor and his plane to the courier and
his mount. The yesrs of my youth
fell in the Reconstruction period, the.
darkest and blsckest page in the his
tory 0f the grand oldSouth; as "I;
the V. M. I. presented to me when I
stepped from a snail canal boat, on
which I had journeyed from Lynch
burg to Lexington, suffice it to say,
all was changed save the mountains
and the river, and as I looked upon
the river, I realized the life of Ten
nyson's Brook, "Men may come, and
men may go, but I go on forever."
I found . buildings and equipment
equal to any. The corps of cadets
was 600 strong, consisting of six
companies, an unusually fine Jooking
body of young men, and most excel
lently drilled. The corps was in
spected by General Pershing, com
manding all the armies of the United
States,- and then passed In review
before him. His words of commen
dation was all that could have been
expected.- I had the pleasure " of
meeting and talking with him; I
found him .much more democratic
than his reputed strict business hab
its apd rigid discipline 'Warranted. '
Just fifty years ago the graduaU
ing class consisting of fifty-two re-'
haeived their diplomas. - At' this time,
the semi-centennial of our gradua
tion day, there are 19 of the 62 liv
ing, at - the reunion there were 11
present,; eight could not attend; these
are scsttered from the Atlantic to the
Waverly, Va., June 21, 1920.
Editor Tarboro Southerner.
Dear .sir: Here comes "Old Vir.
ginian" again, with only few lines
to say how well I am pleased with the
Southerner which comes daily to hand
and seems-to be better and Setter
with every issue. I look forward to
its coming with delight. Surely that
was a splendid article in last week's
paper from, the Hon. J. L. Bridgers.
It was fine and has the, right kind of
ring and should be the sentiments of
every good old true Edgecomber, all
but the knockers, who are a hard lot.
We have them too and I expect will
find them all over the land. My advice
to them is to quit knocking. If they
cannot say a good word for the com
munity in which they live to shut up
or get out, and the quicker the better.
They are about as poor assets assny
town can have.
Now, Mr. Editor, that little town
"Pinetops" is surely getting on the
map. Why, just a few years ago I
was' there, they had a few houses and
and few stores, and a bank right up-
among the grand okl pipes, and now
it seems to be growing all the time,
If we judge from its correspondent,
which is surely interesting every
week. They have some fine people
there, and they are putting things
ahead. I have a -good friend there,
Mr. John H. Wiggins. He is a chip
off the old block and I'll bet dollars
to doughnuts he will do his part in
building up this new splendid little
town.
Dear old Tarboro better wake up
and get a move on her, or Pinetops
will be after annexing her.
Let the . good work go on. Old
Edgecombe has the men with brains,
the money and the finest land in the
Old North State, and rightly should
she be called the "garden spot," as
I have often spoken of her,
With my best wishes for its future
prosperity and happiness.
-XJ j, " J'Qld Virginian,'
BIGHTS FOR JEWS
INHlESTI
Jacob de Haas Proposes Three
Leading Principles in Social
Program of Zionists.
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF
, LAND ALSO INCLUDED
I'
E
imoir signs
Virginia-Carolina - Cooperative
Peanut Exchange Becomes
Stronger Each Week.
"Everybody is signing the con
tract" is the report that comes from
Southampton county, Va., where an
intensive campaign is being pushed
for members of the Cooperative Pea
nut Exchange of Virginia and North
Carolina. Already more than 500
growers in that county have, signed
the 7-year contract and the cam.
paign is hardly balf over
The progress of the campaign so
far clearly indicates that this largest
of the peanut-growing counties in
Virginia. and North Carolina is going
well above the minimum of 50 per
cent of the peanuts grown in 1919,
which,: is necessary in order to per
fect the organization. The signifi
cance' of .this statement can be more
fully appreciated when it is taken
into consideration that Southampton
I IA AAA aHAM kuMi a naanlita
l!:.VL .Trhan any other county in the two
London; June 23. Public owner
ship of land, a cooperative common
wealth, and equal rights for all were
advocated here today as the three
leading principles in the social pro-'
gram American Zionists desire in- ,
corporated in the project for a Jew- '
ish Homeland in Palestine, bv Jaroh
de Haas, executive secretary of the
Zionist organization 0f America.
Mr. de Haas arrived in Loijdon to-
day with U. S. Supreme Court Jus- '
tice Louis D. Brandeis, honorary
president of the Zionist Organization
of America; Judge. Julian W Mack,
president; Nathan Straus, Mrs. Mary
Fels, Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Capt.
Abraham Tulin, David Rosenbloom
and Louis Lipsky, organization ; sec-
retary. These are the advance guard
of the 39 delegates of American Zi-
onists to the World" Zionist confer,
ence, convening in London July 4.
"The first of the three principles
advocated," 'said Mr. de Haas, "is '
expressed in the phrase of the land
of Palestine shall be owned or con
trolled ofr the benefit of the people
of Palestine as a whole. The Zionists
of America have resolved that the
benefits which come through increas
ing land values will not go into the
pockets of land speculators, but wili '
always remain 'community values,'.
which will go into the public treasury-
v
"The second principle indicates the
Zionists of America are resolved to
encourage cooperative enterprise to
the largest extent possible, so that- '
cooperative commonwealth may be
gradually evolved, without, bowever,
crushing individual initiative. .There . ' .
is no simple formula. by , whkh the ;
c"doertfveY commonwealtE' can"" OT '
achieved it must be a development
through struggle and experimenta
tion. . :'
"The third principle is One with
which all Americans are familiar - ,
at least in theory though we may
fall short in actual practice. Where
as, we confine our program of equal
rights to the narrow field of poli.
tics, the Zionists of America would
apply it to all of Palestinian life
to politics and economics, to law and
industry, to man and woman, to
every sect and every creed." j
entered upon the threshold of work.
ing manhood, I was severely scortch
ed in the panic of 1873; too young
for a soldier's place in the war of
1861, too old for like place in war
of 1914. I had no opportunity to.
do and die; though a boy in recon
struction time, well do I remember
its hell; and now fast approaching
the end of life do I feel keenly the
jolt and shock of the great unrest
and- upheavsL the aftermath of the
world war. -May I Eve to see a set
tlement of.it all, that will make for
the progress and betterment of man
kind. Time does not permit me to
contract the view of Lcxicgton and '
boy companion, whom you have not
seen' in fifty years, whom you left
bright-eyed with th spirit of youth
and s face aglow with the vigor-of
young blood, and behold there stands
in his place a men upon whom time
and its' vicissitudes have set their
mark, the antipode of all that is
yOungr the sensation cannot be de.
scribed, it has to be felt. A few of
them I recognized by a peculiar per.
sonal trait, others I could not have
told from Moses. Mehefee of the
eleven had to leave us, so the- rol
call of the ten stood Anderson, Brid
gers, Bsrret, Carter, Patrick, Pur
cell, Queries, Randolph, Spiller and
Waring. The squad, of ten' was "a
most agreeable aad harmonious
whole; the many hows spent in remi
niscing and- discussing current events
are never to, be forgotten; There
were two preaeherv twov fanners,
two lawyers, -one- banker, " one city
manager, one historiographer cf the
J institute, and one resting upon- a
bountiful accumulation of the fruits
of his labor; al) vigorous and ready
to continue the battle of life to the
last tattoo and then render goodsc.
count I eaa not describe the satia
fsetion "and pleasure flowing from the
occasion. We all agreed to meet
again at 'the centennial of our grad
uation, but alas it will have to be a
meeting of spirits, but, so may It be.
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot.
And never brought to mindt
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days lang synt?"
John L. Bridgers.
states, One-sixth of the peanuts
grown in the two states are grown
in this one county, which how prom
ises to sign up growers representing
more than one-fifth of the crop.
The fine progress made so far in
the securing of signers to the con
tract for the enlarged peanut ex
change practically assures that the
organization will be perfected. Every
additional grower who signs means
one more chance for its success. Each
grower, as he signs, has ten good ad
ditional reasons for getting others to
sign-rrnamely, the-Un bucks i which
he plane down s the fin.t payment
on .his" share of common stock as an
organization fee. And these growers
sre doinjjthi's right along, as they
have come . to. know that it takes
money tpefeC thai organization,
and also- ha they csnnot be called
'on for another oavment on their
share of common stock until,1 he re.
quire, number of growers, has signed
tha contract. - . : ...
Attention Baptistst : -
Our beloved Dr. J. D. Hufham,
who was pastor of the Baptist church
here for four years, is Visiting in the
city, the guest of Bro. and Sister C,
J. Austin, and "as his custom is,"
will attend prayer services this eve
ning at the Baptist church at 8. He
is to speak, and a cordial invitation
is extended to all, to hear him.
J. E. Kirk, pastor.
ATTENDING CONVENTION.
Mrs. Job Cobb, Misses Nannie
Graham, Ora Lee Brown, Susie Woo
ten, Rosa Moye Mercer, Daisy Smith,
Harriet Marrow, Avis Fountain, Lou.
ise Denton and Margaret Bridgers,
and Mr., Frank "Andrews left-today
to attend the Sunday School conven
tion of the Presbyterian church which
meets at Montreat. y .
COMMUNIST PROCLAMATION
CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF ALL
COUNTRIES FIGHTING THEM
Washington, June 23. A proclam
ation which hss been issued by the
centrsl executive committee of the
communist 'ypsrty of America, copies
of which have been received uy tee
department of Justice, calls on all
transport workers to refuse to load
and transport any materials for Po
land, Jspsn or any- other - country
"fighting Soviet Russia-"
$35,000 FIRE AT CHAPEL HILL.
Chapel Hill., June 23. Fire early
this morning, which threatened to,
wipe out the business section 4 of
Chapel Hill, destroyed five stores' and
caused an estimated loss of $35,000,
partly insured. .
' Desperate work by the Chapel Hill
and Durham fire companies checked
the flames.
STRIKE RUMOR DENIED.
Cleveland, 'June 23. Rumors that
the railroad unions would call strike
this week affecting ell the unions is
denied today by the chiefs of the
four big brotherhoods?
URGES AWARD OF WAGES
Washington, June 23. President
Wilson today-sent a message to the.
railroad labor board at Chicago urg-;
ing it to make an immediate award
of the wage controversy. The text
of the note was not made public.
MAY SEND OBSERVER.
Washington, June 23.- The United
States may have an observer at the
interallied conference at Brussels on
July 2, it was stated today at the
state department. Final decision has
not been made, however. -
DISCUSS CAMPAIGN PLANS.
Washington, June 23. Senator
Harding today continued conference
with the Republican leaders, discuss
ing plans for the campaign and sub
jects to be dealt with in his accept
ance speech.