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VOL. 40 NO. 475 IT M ROAD "TO STABILITY RESERVE ' BOARD PREDICTS : ' BETTER TRADE CON- ' "l r' 4 DITIONS. ' ' FINDS. FINANCES STRONG Washington, Oct. 2. Excel lent crop yields are providing sustained' buying power, banking conditions : have decidedly im- proved, prices of many commod ities are seeking more normal lii. levels, a notable change for the " better has taken place in the ef ficiency, of labor, and business conditions, are now definitely on the load. to stability. - These ore outstanding points in a review of general financial conditions throughout the United States by the Federal Reserve Board for Septem ber. ' ' ' ; "After an apparent slowing down in midsummer the price reduction movement has been resumed and the past month has seen substantial cuts in well known automobile- makes .-- textile of various classes, shoes and . leather goods, and in other wholesale prices,1' : says the report. "Reduc tions have occurred in a variety of . staples, including wheat. "Changes in prices have tended to ...make business men and bankers cau- , tious. Accordingly, as has often been observed in the past during periods of business adjustment, business is , now being done upon a shorter term ' credit basis 'than is normal.)'. ' "Excellent ,crop yields have - re- suited in sustaining buying power, while improved ifiovement on the railways has given assurance of a steadier, earlier marketing than had been believed possible. Banking con ditions in several districts (have de cidedly improved and from some it is reported that business enterprises are working into position to finance themselves to a greater degree by "re- ducing inventories and by exercising more scrutiny over credits' The crop moving process has gone ahead on the whole smoothly, And t.hp Tlpfllf lf tho AamanA fnv fnnAa has practically passed without seri ous inconvenience. On September 25 the reserve ration for the Federal Reserve system as a whole stood at 43.2 per cent, as compared with 43.2 per cent -"on August 27. Speculation has been at a relatively low level and there has been a grtitifying diversion of banking funds to productive in dustry. "There is indication that business conditions we now definitely on the road toward stability of as great and confirmed 'a nature as the disturbed position of the world at large will permit." - A UUI J UIH IVILLI HVU . TUESDAY NEXT A mass meeting will be held in the court house on Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock at which the business men of Edgecombe, the professional men and farmers will discuss and perfect plans for the -erection of a cotton warehouse in Tarboro, the same to be built by government spec ifications, so-Hhat the cotton growers may 'get advances from tm banks upon their cotton without having to sacrifice it. . The warehouse system has receiv ed the hearty support and commenda tion by the big men of the south as being the only real solution to 'the cotton situation. , . - It is asserted that Tarboro will never become a nroner -cotton cen tre until a cotton storage warehouse is established here. The farmers showed their earnest ness in subscribing over three thou sand dollars in a few minutes at the meeting of the executive committee on Thursday last, and! if is now up t-Q the merchants, and others to sup port the proposition. WANTED Good boy to carry paper. Good proposition for the right bo jr. Can carry them after school. Apply The Southerner. - ALL THE LOCAL NEWS RALEIGH WOMEN RESCUE THE MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS SEVEN HUNDRED WOMEN REG ISTERED TO PASS SPECIAL TAX UPON WHICH THE LIFE OF CITY SCHOOLS DEPENDED; STILL FOUND IN ARY LAUNDRY. PENITENT! (By LLEWXAM.)V v Rajeigh, Oct. 2. The women oi Raleigh are, - to a considerable ex tent; casting their first votes' today, The occasion is a special municipal school tax proposition on the favor able determination of which ailmost the life, of the city public . schools depends. I Over .700 women register ed for this election and the jofy today is to get them to the. polls, because the- votes, of all who de not cast their ballots will be counted against- the tax proposition, a majority of the registered being required. ( Sd members, of the Raleigh Worn en's Club and of .various other, or ganizations, "and a number of per sonal workers,"are today goingjright after the delinquents who do not ap pear at the polls at a reasonable hour. It makes fellow thinjfpf the old days of the "ward heelers" hauling voters for the candidates for mayor and aldermen. , The outlook is that the means em ployed, while hot entirely needful with most of the women, have made the success of the object of the elec tion safe.'" , v The activity is regarded as coming in all right for the general election, as it is breaking the ice for the cast ing of ballots by the women, and the task of getting many others to reg ister for the state and general elec- tion in November will be greatly ac celerated The discovery of "the construction of a whiskey still in the state peni tentiary laundry department by Supt. Collie cut short the objective of the old prisoner ;who has been in the pen twenjxeajse rial for the construction of the still in the prison and had the stuff com ing ,when the odor gave the convict shiner" away. ' - . '-. Everybody 'round here is wonder ing vhen the consumer will, if ever, find priee3 reducing with the retailer since the newspaper accounts have so freely announced, mueh price cutting among wholesalers and manufactur ers. Nothing has dropped yet here abouts, except a dull thud. KENTUCKY ALSO WILL BE "IN DEMOCRATIC COLUMN L'ouisville, Oct. 2.-Speaking here today, Franklin D. Roosevelt, .demo cratic nominee for Vice pesident, ex pressed his belief that Kentucky, as well as West Virginia, would be found in the democratic column this November. ' He bases his belief on the recep tions accorded him throughout the state yesterday. ' . VETERANS .GET 3 MEALS A Mr. W. E. Barrett, an old Con federate Veteran and an inmate of the Confederate Soldiers Home at Raleign, was in the city this morn ing with the purpose of correcting the statement that the. old Confed erate Veterans received only two meals a day.: ; , " From the first of March, he says, until the end of November, the vet erans receive three meals a day. Breakfast is served at seven, dinner at'12.30, and supper at 6.30. - During the three winter months the veterans themselves voted to ehange the meal hours. Breakfast being served atJ5 and dinner about 3 o'clock, it being then too dark for supper, many of the old soldiers be ing in bed as soon as it gets dark. - Mr. Garrett states that all of the 140 old soldiers in the home are am ply provided with food; in fact, they have some to throw out. Superintendent Melton resigned about a month ago and a new super intendent, Mr. T. A. Wiggs, of Ra leigh, has been elected and took charge of the home yesterday. DA GDMPARE THIS YEAR WITH YEAttOF 1889 It has been frequently mentioned that this year' resembles the summer of 1889"insofar as temperature and rainfall is concerned. I Through, the courtesy of Mr, E. V. Zoeller, we are enabled to dissipate this idea by the following compara tive statement. It will also be noticed that the rea son for the rapid crop growth this year is that, August and September were not and comparatively , dry months, and for this reason the com parison with 1889 is broken. Mean tem- Nor. Rain- Nor perature. mal. fall.- mal. fall. 3.78 5.39 10.50 7.78 5.88 5.43 4.75 ' 3.24 June 4889 74.2 76.0 3.78 4.25 June 1920 July 1889 July 1920 Aug. 1889 Aug. 1920 Sep. 1889 Sep. 1920 76.7 77.9 - 78.3 74.1 78.5 68.9 75.7q 78.7 6.35 77.4 6.73 71.5 3.47 TENOR MEETS ENTHUSIASTIC - " WELCOME. ' Allen McQuhae struck the high chords of popular favor when he sang himself into the hearts of his audi ence last night until they absolutely refused to vacate their seats at the end of a long program until he had sung one more encore. As was stated in these columns, re peated from various newspapers over the country, Mr. McQuhae has met with instant recognition, some even going to the extent of calling him a second John McCormack. However, that may be we leave it to greater musical critics, but we feel justified in saying that he is the greatest sing er that lias graced the boards of the Opera House. .'. There have been oth ers better known to Tarboro audi ences, which may account for many vacant seats, but we venture to as sert that no lyric tenor has ever come here who aroused with his first of f eringso spontaneous a response as was accorded Mr. McQuhae. Ilia voice is one that catches the sensibilities with its magnetism and sweetness, while bis heavier tones are as the peels of a great organ, full of harmony and power. His range -is wonderful -and there is that articu late catch to his Intonation that is most attractive. After singing a long program of fifteen selections, then meeting the united demand for more by several encores, of most varied range, Mr. McQuhae finished his evening offer ing wkh the dramatic tenor aria from the Italian opera Palliaci, which iff itself was a tremendous effort, butb following the numerous selections, showed the. remarkable capacity of this great singer. The Irish are always known to be the pteasantest voiced people in the world, and Mr. McQuhae lived last night up to the national reputation of his people. ; Not a person in his audience but must have thoroughly enjoyed his of ferings, for they1 were clear and un derstandable in every woTd and sung with perfect control in rxange and technique. Some of his selections were simple Irish ballads "while in others the passions of a great heart throbbed through the tones of his voice. From almost a basso he car- rihaJ tii- I Al 1- 11. . . reu ins unicii uiruugn me preax of strong emotion to the higher ten der soprano notes' of love's soft dream. . : : Mr. Douglas, accompanist for Mr. McQuhae, played with much feeling and splendid interpretation. He is a master of the piano, and a most sympathetic accompanist. His part of the program was a distinct success. It was splendid, magnificently per formed, ' naturally offered and the only regret is that Tarboro,' every man, woman- and child, had not' availed themselves of the opportun ity of hearing a voice that is certain ! to attain the highest ranks in the musical world. LIGHT FROST, i There was a light frost last night in exposed places, though same did no damage. The lowest temperature last night was 40 degrees. TARBORO, N, C, SATURDAY, OCT. 2, 1920 FOREIGN DEBTS SEEN AS MENACE SECURITIES FLOATED HERE AT UNPRECEDENTED INTEREST. ' "BAD BUSINESS- RISKS" Washington, Oct. 2. In view of the vast i flood of , European government securities .now being floated' in America and the un precedented' rate! of interest of fered, treasury officials said that the American public should think twice before investing in them as opposed to the great choice of investments presented by home enterprises. . T ' The American representative at the Brussels financial conference, it Was admitted, spoke with authority when he bluntly told thej internation al financiers that under present con ditions America regarded Europe as "a bad business risk." ; Treasury officials revealed that ap proximately two billion dollars owed to American' business men is com pletedy tied up In various foreign countries because of the 'low rate of exchange. After receiving payment in depreciated foreign currency Am erican exporters, it was; pointed out, are obliged to leave the 'funds in for eign banks or invest in fpreignjsecur- ities unless they are willing to lose more than half the money in the ex change. BY JON SKOLP Washington, Sept, 3Q.-How many persons discovered America before Christopher Columbus?! The latest addition to the line of claimants is Jon Skolp, a Norwegin explorer. Sof us Larsen, a Danish scientist who has recently, made a re port founded on researches of arch- .' . ,,. .'. Jm'-'vfJ .. .': , ives of the middle ages, has complet ed a work which he says proves that Skolp the Norwegian, "rediscovered America" in 1476, 16 years alhead of Columbus and 20 years before John Cabot reached the Strait of Hudson ..Larsen uses the term "rediscover ed" considering that the original dis coverer was Leiv JEricksson the Nors man, in the year 1000. Larson's re searches develop, he says, that about 1475 the King of Portugal sent a message to the King of Denmark and Norway, Christian I, requesting him to fit out an expedition and, attempt to find a sea passage to Asia in reality a northwest passage. An old document to that effect was found in the Danish state-archives. The ex pedition was headed by the Norwe gian-German privateer-captain Did- rik Pining and piloted by the Norwe gian pilot Jon Skolp, to whom credit is given for lhaving reached as far as Labrador and found part of the ac tual entrance to the northwest pass age. '. :. , ''::'' In an old . Spanish geographical work on America, first published in 1552 by Francesco Lopez de Gomara, a priest of Sevilla, it is mentioned that Labrador was reached for the first time by Norwegian sailors, pil oted by John Scolvus (Jon Skolp). This information was first made pub lic by the Nowegian professor of history, Gustav Storm, in 886. But at that time' this part of the history of the discoveries was still in its in fancy, and isolated as it was then, the information naturally had to be used with great caution. -Later n new material was found pointing in the same direction. One of the sources was a famous globe, dating from 1537 and made by the Dutch physi cian and mathematician, Gemma Fri sius, who points outhat North Am erica was reached in 1476 by Johan nes Scolvus. Johannes Scolvus is a, name un- known in Norwegian history. Dr. Larsen connects it with the Norwe gian surname. Skolp, whida means a man from the shores or fishing places of northern Norway. His deed be came famous in his own times, but on account of various conditions not traceable now, it was veiled in ob scurity and forgotten. - The account of his voyage undoubtedly-has been of significance to other expeditions, N6rwegian as well as English and Portuguese. . AMERICA REFOUND LEON TROTSKY WOUNDED IN PETROGRAD CONFLICT THE SOUTHERNER'S (By Rev. BERTRAM E. BROWN) Let no man say when he is tempt ed, I am tempted of God. St. James, 1 :13. , Temptation to sin comes from three sburces, expressed in the theological terms as the "world, the flesh and the devil." . These three heads cover all possible temptation to which we are subjected. ' Thus there is a Trinity of evil just as there is a Trinity of God, and each of these evil sources corres ponds to one of the persons of the Trinity of God. Thus, God the Fa ther who made the world, has set against Him the world so full of evil now. And God the Son, who took our flesh upon Him, is confront ed "with -the evil nature of man's fleshly being. And God the Holy Spirit, is confronted by the devil, the chief of evil spirits. 1. We live in a world that sub jects us to constant temptation. We are surrounded by stupid men who tax our patience, by malicious ien who tempt us to hatred, by f ortunati men who tempt us to envy. We live in a world of matter that hides from us the spirit world, we live in a world of pain and trouble that tempts us to doubt the love of God. .. 2. We have within our own flesh an ever present tempter. If we lived in a world that was perfect, still our own nature would tempt us to sin. If we .carried our sinful flesh to hea ven with us, we would still be tempt ed there by our inward enemy. Pride, discontent, lust, laziness, selfishness, gluttony, hatred of good, love of wrong, all these things come from our own hearts. .. We sometimes try to- lay, them to the people and the conditions that surround us, but un der any conditions, In any company, we would still be tempted so. 3. And besides the world of temp tation ground us, and the sinful na ture within us, we have Satan, an evil spirit, present everywhere, tire less, persistent, wise and powerful, Who always watches his chance with us to lure us into bin. So it Is plain that man by himself has no chance to-- etscape. He is bound to be bad. If he takes pride in the fact that he is not as bad as some other people, that very pride is itself a sin. There is but one way by which he can by any possible chance be right eous, and that is by getting grace from God through , Jesus Christ. Jesus came into the same world we live In, yet dived free from its taints; He took the same flesh that we have, yet resisted its power; He met the same Satan we meet, and overcame him. The only way to resist tempta tion is Jesus' way. Fill your life with the Holy Spirit whom Christ sends in His name, and the world, flesh, and devil -ire powerlef s to hurt you. LOCAL AGENCY HAS ECLIPSED THE FIELD The Umstead Insurance Agency eclipsed the entire field of the Jef ferson Standard Life Insurance Com pany for the month of September, writing $1,522,C00 out of a total new business of $5,265,000 for North Car olina, according to Mr. Julian Price, president of the company, who at tended the barbecue given by the local agency at the fair ground yes terday. ' ' ;:: Messrs. Brooks, Gold and Latham, officers .of the company, spoke of the great work done, by the Tarboro branch and also the financial strength and benefit to the various localities in which the company did business by keeping money invested locally. Mr. J. W. Umstead, head of the local agency, spoke appreciatively of the coming together of so many of the. friends of the company, and th.iiked the policy-holders for their loyal support of the local agency. Miss Sadie Thompson, of Lumber ton, is visiting Miss Marion Wilson. Born on September 30 to Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Taylor, son who has been named Warren Watson Taylor. SATURDAY SERMON ASSOCIATED PRESS STRIKE MOVEMENTS SPREAD ING IN MANY RUSSIAN C1TIPS MOBS KILLING COMMISSI . ERS IN A DEMONSTRATION FOR PEACE. " Copenhagen, Oct. 2 Reports are coming in that strike movements are rapidly spreading throughout Russia resulting in disturbances in various places under the control of the Bol shevik Soviets. Street confliots in Petrograd have been reported in which several Soviet commissioners have been killed by the mob, and also the wounding of Leon Trotsky has been reported. The Petrograd people are said to have demanded an immediate peace with the rest of the world. SENATOR HARDING'S PLEA FOR RURAL SCHOOLS Marion, Oct. 2. A plea for bet tering the conditions of the farmer and for improvement of the rural schools was made by Senator Hard ing in a front-porch address today at a republican rally. The speaker also urged the neces city for educating farm adults in current events and declared that ag ricultural, production was really of greater interest to city dwellers than to the farmers themselves. WEALTHY WOMAN ARRESTED TODAY FOR LARGE THEFTS New York, Oct. 2. Mrs. Angelina Salomone, wife of a wealthy Brook lyn truckman, and her four children, were arrested today in connection with the wholesale theft of merchan dise consigned for shipment to Eu rope. ". The police stated they found thirty thousand dollars worth of goods that the woman and children stole after loaded trucks had. been, placed In th stable at night. NATIONAL DEBT REDUCED BY ONE-QUARTER BILLION Washington, Oct. 2. The national gross debt of the United States was reduced more-than two hundred and thirty-seven, million dollars during September, the treasury department announced today. . J TOBACCO GROWERS DISCUSS SITUATION Raleigh, Oct. 2. The, tobacco growers today are holding meeting in every tobacco growing county in the state to organize associations to cope with the demoralized condition of the tobacco market, and urge slow marketing and "n reduction of acre age next year. Danville, Oct. 2 The Virginia To bacco Growers 'Association met today to discuss the feasibility of organiz ing a tobacco manufacturing concern with the membership holding stock. BARON AVEZZANA TO BE TRANSFERRED Washington, Oct. 2. Baron Avez- 0 zana, the Italian ambassador to the United States, is to be transferred to another post, it was announced today. The successor was not indicated. GOV. COX FINAL LAP ,ON WESTERN TRIP Kansas City, Oct. 2. Governor Cox entered his final lap in his long western trip when he re-entered Mis souri today, where he makes several speeches before returning to Ohio tonight. Additional Locals. : v Rev. C. C. Corhett, of Cincinnati, Ohios the guest of Dr. and. Mrs. G. E. Weeks. There will be a lecture in Ihe court house tomorrow at 3 o'clock. Subject, "Bolsheviki's Soviet." 1 Mr. Orren Hyman,' who has been visiting his aunt, Miss Sarah Hyman, left today for Princeton, N. J. Mrs. Paul Cantwell has returned to her home in Wilmington after a visit to Mrs. Henry Bryan. Mr. Wilson, of Cape Charles, Va., is on a visit to his son, Mr. Claude Wilson, v i - Mr. G. A. Holderncss, jr., has re turned to Annapolis after several weeks' furlough. if 4 PRICE: 5 CENTS l TOO OF "S VIOLET TRUMBULL LYON IN divorce suit by v.v HUSBAND. STUDIED MI KIP in r.rDMiv -w VaUAXlTA 1 Chicago, Oct. 2. -Mrs. Violet Trumbull Lyon, noted Chicago artist, was too friendly with the German Kaiser's son, according to William Henry Lyon, her bus- I I 1 .., wno sued tor a divorce. H. C. Lyon, father of William w Lyon, was star witness for hia son.' To him Mrs. Lyon had confessed her friendship for the royal prinre. "My daughter in law told me." he said, "that when she was in Germany in 1903 and 1904, she was on Very friendly terms "with the Kaiser and all of his family, and tihat she often played before the royal family. She admitted-that she was especially fond of one of the Kaiser's sons, I don't know which one, and that he was a 'prince of a fellow'." Mrs. Lyon denied undue friendship for the German prince, but admitted she had been a favorite in the royal household. "One of my music masters in Eu rope told me, that I had the smallest hands of any of the great players," she said, holding up her hands. Mrs. Lyon, who at present is a music teacher in Minneapolis, studied piano in Germany under Theodore Leschetitsky, and Carl HofTmeister. The former, now dead, was at one time teacher of Paderewski. Mr.Iyon charged that his wife de serted him in 1918, after telling him Germany was right and America was wrong in the world war. BASEBALL PROBE TO GO BACK OVER TEN YEAr,. Chicago, Oct 2. The regular grand jury, which had been i; vc ti- gating the world series scard.. ' to day ended its session, but v. . j imme diately made into a : racial grand jury and will invest gate the reports of dishonesty in baseball covering a period of the last ten years. SENATOR CRANE DIED AT HOME IN DALTON Dulton, Mass., Oct. 2.-Former United States Senator Murry Crane died at his home here today of sleep ing sickness. He had been in ill health for a number of weeks. SEEK ANARCHIST L ST. PLOT New York, Oct. 2. Search for a Russian architect implicated in the Wall street bomb explosion, will result-in his arrest within a few days, it was learned from & reliable source.' This man, it is said, was a partner of the man who drove the wagon which carried the bomb to Wall street The police have a good description of him and definite information that he was connected with the crime. The authorities have learned that this mm, a member of a Russian an archistic organization, is the one who deposited in the mail at Broadway and Cedar street on the morning of the explosion the "American Anarch ists' Fighters" posters. That was be tween 11.30 and 11.68 o'clock. He then went down to Wall street to see whether his partner was car rying out his part of the plot Just as he reached the corner of Wall and Broad, the explosion took place. . This is the man, the police say, who rushed up to Supt Clark, who . Is in charge of. the construction work on the corner and declared, "That was my horse that was killed." He stayed around the vicinity look ing at the bodies of the dead in order to learn whether his partner had beeji a victim until the soldiers drove him away with the other onlookers. MISSISSIPPI FIRST STATE .' TO SHOW DECREASE Washington, Oct 2. -Mississippi is the first state to show a decrease in population in the 1920 census. Its population is l,789,la2, announced today, f-.nd shows a decrease of 7,932. The decrease is believed to be due to the exodus of negroes to the north. V, m FOND KKAISER S in - . J
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