r3' ",d3iS THE WEATHER . .TP-Wi spot. . ft COTTON MAKS2T - ' ' ' ' ' tCT FB05T- TONIGHT. j- ' . VOC 40 NO; 113. ASSOCIATED PRESS TARBORO, N. C, SATURDAY, NOV;;W20 I ALL THE LOCAL NEWS price. 5 ccrrrs Ik: PLAN TO MAKE WILSON TITULAR HEADOFLEAGUE PRESIDENT'S PRESTIGE UNDIM , MED IN MANY EUROPEAN NA ' TIONS, WHICH MAKES HIS SE LECTION ADVISABLE OPPO SITION IS EXPECTED IN THE : UNITED STATES. . ;. . ' Washington, Nov. 13. Officials high In tW executive council of the 'League of Nations are seriously, con sidering offering President Wilton an eminent.post, possibly that of titular head of the organization, upon bis retirement from 'office, according to information that reached Washing ton from London. . Wnen asked about this report, Sec retary of Stajfe Colby' said he knew nothing about it,' and that anyway it 5 is a matter entirely for the . White House: Officials at the White House stated no word of the movement has ' as et reached the president. s The league as now organized, it ' was pointed out here, is without an official head, the nearest approach to such an officer being Sir Eric Drum mond, the secretary, who has offices in London, and who can hardlybe regarded as powerful figure in world jnffairs. ' ' As originator of the league, and as nn American pf pronounced interna . tional tendencies, many friends of that organization abroad seem to feel that President Wilson would be a particularly happy choice. Although the novo has not as yet assumed de? finfte shape, it is understood' to be under ?yay a sufficient distance to permit the ascension of trial balloons in Europe and in America. The orig- inators apparently expect the greatest opposition from America. " - . In many sections of Central and Southeastern Europe, particularly in t'h$ Balkan states, it Js stated, the president's prestige is hardly dimmed. His appointment to a high-'1 office, it Js indicated, might bo received with considerable satisfaction, there. JCOAL' EXPORT WOT v ' CAUSE OF PRICES Washington, Nov. 12. The foreign (demand for coal was an important iactor jn the high prices for domestic coal along the Atlantic seaboard, b'ut was only 'a minor f actor in the crea-tion-of high prices for the! whole country; tho Interstate! -Commerce Commission declared today in its re port to tbe senate. ' '- " ' ' SCHOOL CHILDREN OF LITTLE 1 TOWN CO OUT ON STRIKE , - jSeneva, Switzerland, .Nov. 13. The school children of the little Sa voy town of Bourg went on strike to day because the head-mistress of the municipal school, who recently is said to have become a bolshevist, delivered a loctute praising Nikolai Lenine, the Russian premier. , , . . v The children are supportedin the ' strike by their parents, who have de- manded the dismissal of ; the head mistress. In the meantime theyoung Wters are greatly enjoying their holi-. ilay and are hoping that the question iw3 not be settled too quickly. '' ' RESTRICT IMMIGRATION v. TO BLOOD RELATIVES s Washington, Nov. 13. Congress lat tiie coming session will be urged by tbe House Committee on Immigration to restrict admission of aliens to close Jblood relatives of naturalized citizens, Representative Johnson, chairman -of the committee, stated today. . , '. COTTON CONSUMPTION t: . , V LOWEST IN SIX YEARS . Washington, IJov. 13 Curtailment in cotton manufacturing is reflected in 'the' October cotton consumption statistics -announced -today, showing the amount of raw cotton used for manufacturing last month aa 399,837 bales,-being the smallest of.finy one month, in the past six years. Bytagton Pension Commissioner. Washington, Nov. 13-Prank D, Byingtou, of Maryland, has b sen ap pointed commissioner of pensions. i ' . .. . - .Misses . Minnie and Margaret Me ( C'uer and Miss Clarabell Fountain are" expected home this "afternoon from 'Peace Institute to spend the reek-end. " GERMftNYr WON'T ask ADMISSION Geneva, Nov.,13. Germany V '" " wiI not make formal application for admission Into the League of . Nations but would not ignore an invitation W become a mfember, said Dr. Herrmann Mueller, vice- president of the foreign affairs ' committee, in the German Reich- " stay, in a statement to the Jour nat da Geneva. - - " GEN. WRANGEL'S FORCES ARB IN DESPERATE STRAIT London, Nov. 13. Sebastopol is being evacuated and British author ities ftre requisitioning ships in Con stantinople to take the refugees from that city.Vsaya. a dispatch from Con stantinople to tho Exchange Telegraf , ' General Wrangel's situation in the northern Crimea is said to be des perate. ' E AT THE LIBRARY ' The following new books have been received; by the Edgecombe County Public Library and are available to the subscribers : ,' -The Top of the World, by Ethel M, Dell; Haryiet and the Piper, by Kath leen N6rris; No Defence, by Gilbert Parker; The Valley of. Silent Men, by James Oliver Curwood; The Blue Room, by Cosmo Hamilton; The Great Impe r3onation, by E. Philips Oppen heim; The White Moll, by Frank L. Packard;. The Rescue, by Joseph Con rad; The Kindred of tne Dust, by Peter B. Kyne; Steel Preferred, by Jleracnef Hafi; Oh, You'Tex by WiV liam McLeod Rainef The Night Horse. man, by Max Brand; In Chancery, by John Galeaworthy; This Side of Par adise, Paradise Bend, by William P. White; The peril's Paw, by E. Phil ips Oppenheim; The House of Lynch; by Leonard Merrick; The Age of In nocence, by Edith Whatton The Drums of Jeopardy, by Harold Mac Gratin; The Trumpeter Swan, - by Temple Bailey; ErsTcine Dale, by John Fox, Jn; The Enemies of Women, by Ibanez; The Thread of Flame, byj Basil King; Earth Bound, Poor Man Rock, by Bernard Sinclair ; -The Fool ish Matrons, by Don Byrne; A1 World to Maad, by Margaret Sherwoo? Head of the Lower School, by Doro thes Moore; The Book of Susan, by Lee Jilson Doddf West Wind Drift, by George B. McCutchin;' The Cap tives, by Hugh Walpole; Sweet Rock et, 1)y Mary Johnston; Bruceby Al bert Payson Terhune; Geste of Duke! Jocelyn, by Jeffrey Farnol; Moon Calf, by Floyd Dell;' Tbe Beauty and the Bolshevist, by Alice Duer Miller; An Old Chester Secret,. by Margaret Deland; The Poor Wise Man,' by Mary Roberts Rhinehart; What'e the World Coming to, iby Rupert Hughes; The Quirt, by B. M. Bower ; The Ten Foot Chain, by B. A. M. Shehan; Un easy Street by Arthur Somer Roche. . ' ' ' PRESIDENT WILSON TODAY APPOINTS SHIPPING BOARD Washington, Nov. 13. The Ship ping Board appointed by President Wilson today was: Rear Admiral Ben son, of Georgia,-democrat, chairman; Frederick I.. Thompson, of Alabama, democrat; Joseph N. Teal, of Oregon, democrat; John A. Donald, of New York, democrat; Chester P. Rowell, of California,'- republican; Guy - D. Goff, of Wisconsin, republican,' and Charles. Sutter, of Missouri, republi can. "U '' BATH TUBS AND BATHROOM ' FIXTURES ON LUXURY LIST ' The Hague, Nov. 13. Bath tubs and bathroom fixtures appear on the list ti "luxuries" which would be sub ject to 10 per cent luxury tax In Holland if a revenoe bill now before the Dutch parliament were passed. v -.- - ' ' - . Mr. C. P. .MeCluer, who has been in Raeford and FayetteviUe on busU ness. is expected home tfils evening BOOKS REG ED IfliElPCAlQT GETUIuilNGTl TRADE WITH LENINE CANNOT BE RECOGNIZED BY ' ' - UNCLE SAM. WOULD RISK . CAPTURE Wasliington, Nov. 13. The United States government will refuse to sanction the contract by which a syn dicate, headed by Washington D. Vflh derlip, of California, has agreed to furnish supplies valued at a billion dollars to the Soviet government in return for oil, gold," platinum, furs and ether articles of commerce, $ was stated officially here. Neither will it afd the syndicate to obtain possession or to operate the 400,000 square miles of oil and min eral lands in Siberia and Kamchatka, for which concession has been obtain ed from Lenine. " , In assuming this -'attitude the gov ernment is giving direct aid to Eng land and Japan, both of which are idoing their utmost to prevent Ameri. can capital froni obtaining a, foothold In either Russia or Siberia, ' By the . tri-parte agreement with France and Italy, Great Britain has already succeeded in excluding Amer ica from the Turkish Empire and all of Asia Minor. , " ' i '' The opposition of the State Depart ment to the Vanderlip contract is based upon two premises : " ' Fir3t: An embargo declared by this government and now n force against trading with - Soviet Russia, except under specific license. Second: The bejief that any trade attempted by Vinderlip will be sum marily stopped by British and French cruisers now blockading Soviet Rus sia thru Baltic and Black Sea ports and by Japanese cruisers in Pacific. PRINCE OF WALES APPEARS ' ' IN JHE ROLE OF A PPET London, Nov. 13. The latest role in which the Prince of Wales Jias. ap-. peared is that of a poet. "The follow ing seizes were written and recited by the Prince on the occasion of the ceremony on the warship Renown, at tending his first crossing of "the line" on his trip to Australia: , Apostrophe to Neptune. (By H.RH. The Princ$ of . Wales.) King Neptune, I ani proud, to-wear This honorable and handsome collar. Although from all reports, I hear There's still a great deal moreto r'- f oiler.. I'm glad to meet your charming wife and all the members of your court. From all I've seen.I'U bet my life That Amphitrite's quite a sport. I hear you're handing out some dope To teach expectant frightened lad Made up of ptlls and shaving soap.. Why, is not that just quite too bad. I hear your bears 'Say, what a noise. They're hungry to begin the baiting. I know I'm "for it", king.. So boys, Donft let me keep the party waiting. SPANISH MAIL STEAMER IN COLLISION AT SEA , Not York, Nov. 13. The Spanish mail steamer Montserrat, from Cadiz, with 379 passengers, arid the steamer San Marcus, from Galveston, collided today off Staten Island. , . 'Some of. the Montserrat's passen gers jumjed overboard, and one is knowq to have been rescued. NEED DOCTOR CERTIFICATE ro OBTAIN COAL IN BUFFALO Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 13 A doc tor's certificate ia required to obtain coal here today and with the ther mometer around twenty above sero thousands with empty coal bins are clamoring for fuel. (. , A marked shortage of natural'gas has intensified the! demand. - MARTIAL CRUELTY ' J; SHOWS BIG INCREASE Chicago, Nov. 13.SUtlstics show ing complaints of cruelty , to wives and children has increased 238 per cent since prohibition has been in force was given in the -annual report of the superintendent ef the Juvenile Protective Association, who eay the men who formerly drank heavily had undergone a reaction expressing it-' self in surliness ahd'abuse of family. No support charge however, have decreased. " " ' ' ' : .."' "r INSURGENTS MOVE OPPOSE EXEMPTION OF TOLLS THROUGH PANAMA " CANAL. ' BURTON - ROOT COMBINE Washington, Not. 13. A distinct insurgent movement, within th Re publican ranks 'agatnst the policies of President-elect; Harding t already under way, according to the beet In formation obtainable here. The first sign Was the statement by former senator, new representative elect, Theodore Button, of Ohio, that he will fight any attempt tc exempt American coastwise ships from pay ing tolls in passing thru the Panama canal.' . . g The Harding 4 administration la committed td 'the; passage of a bill carrying such an exemption 'in the interest of the American merchant marine. . . Burton, it is piiderstood, will re ceive the assistance of Elihu Rqo$, v.ffio combatted .exemption of tolls while he was in the senate. Inas much as it is generally believed that Root will also fight the proposed as sociation of nations, to which the President-elect i? pledged as opposed to the League of Nations, his act would put him in the position of mak ing a double assault on the new pres ident. ' ; ' ::?r These signs of lnsurgoncy so soon after the great victory of November 2 are not t all pleasing to the Re publican leaders. ' Burton and Root were both in tJ0 senate when President Wilson noti fied oofgress In 1912 that objection! raised by. Great Britain to the canal tolls exemption made it Imperative te have this section ef the canal act re pealed. ! Bot)h went to the president' assistance and led the fight In the upper house, - It Is well known here that Boot does .pot -look with sympathy upon Senator Harding's declaration! 4n fa- vor of scrapping the Wihcn league, Root's advice has always been for the league, although he supported eome of the Lodge reservations. The fact that he is out of aympa- thy with the president-elect on the treaty question as well aa on the Pan ama tolls repeal, makes. It pre,ctjfls,ljy certain that he will not be considered for a position in the cabinet. n WE Princeton, Nov. 13. The vanguard of more than fifty thousand specta tors over-ran Princeton for the an nual. Princeton-Yale football classic. The line-up shows that Captain Callahan will play right guard for Yale aiid thus not face his brother, who will play center for Princeton. The Yale football .team will re enter the Palmer Memorial Stadium here this .afternoon for the first time in four years for a game with the Princeton eleven. Since the last eon test In the Tigers' gridiron amphi theater back in 1916, the world war and the seasonal shift to New Haven ihave prevented the big-annual battle which is the closing classic of tbe Trinceton football schedule. k As a result of this unusual break in the series between the two famous football rivals the struggle today has taken on greatly increased Interest and Tigertown is aflame with color and excitement on the eve of the game, which means the success or failure of the gridiron season from a Princeton football standpoint. ' The village hotele are filled beyond all normal capacity while the university dormitories are quartering many, ef the alumni jwho would hesitate to state how many year have s la peed since they were graduated. ' . ' The greater portion of the forty odd ' thousand spectators who $1H witness the game, however, came to :J the cne of battle during the fore noon. WITNESS PBIWCETO 6fl Delegates from all sections of the United States gathered la New Orl eans' today for the annual aadonal convention of tbe Amateur Atiilette Union. - . JAPANESE GRE : OWEUSIOI! IN ACCORD WITH TBI tTKITED STATJC3 BXCKPT Afl TO METHOD. NOT EMBODY IN TREATY TeUovNev. llvNewsiMkpere kar repeH that JU Jsmumm ssm! Aa el- n govemsaente kave rea Ai agreeweait, h krtacipaL rolatire te the eaeliisloa el Japs nee ta borers from tbe United SUtee, However, tbefe U eUeegreeenesU recarding the aetkd to be eeapley U, ft U tMte4. Japan, It Is nuderstoed, regarJa tbe provUions, if embodied to a treaty, to be humiliating and wU form aa undesirable precedent. HOMOR run L Warsaw, Nov, 15.. All Warsaw to day turned out for tbe funeral of Sergeant Sophie Poukopwlci, a mem ber of Poland's Women's Battalion, who was called here "the heroine of Plock. ' . She died from wounds In flicted with a Russian sword and the Nahajka" or Cossack's whip which she received at ,Plock during the drive against Warsaw. As a final tri bute the American nurses who, att tended her In the' hospital and the entire personnel of -the American Red Cross In Warsaw went to her funeral. All Warsaw knew her story and there were many moist eyes that gat ed at the plain white painted pine boar l coffin 'containing the girl-eol dier as it was borne thru Che streets on the shoulders of her fighting com rades, all girls from the Women BakaUon. ' Sofgoant-tppbU was vetersn of Poland's great war, which in minds of most Poles began when the world war ended. She ws 22 yean of age and wsb one of the original members of the Women's Battalion which was formed late in 1918 for tbe purpose of defending Lemberg - Against the Ukrainians. She was wounded three times, first at Lemberg, afsJs at Vil ns and Isst while leading her com pany against the Russians at Plock. She typified the spirit of Poland today. There are 600 Hke her In the Women's Battalion. Officers' In the army from Piisudakl down admit that the mere existence of this battalion exercised s wonderful effect upon the popular Imagination, upon re cruiting and even upon the soldiers In the recent heavy fighting. GEORGE SILJCZR, AGED to V MADE LINCOLN'S CLOTHES Ayr, Scotland, Nov. l3.-fleorge Silkf r, who Els Just died here at the age of 102, claimed that as a tailor in America he made clothes fer Ab raham Lincoln. Bilker also fought in the American Civil War on tho side of the north and later saw service In tbe Franeo-Prueeian war, ALLIED FLEETS AID IN EVACUATION OF CRIMEA Paris, Nov. 13. Russian Soviet forces won the control of the Pere kop isthmus leading to the Crimea peninsula and the allied fleets are preparing to aid in the evacuation of certain districts, according to dis patches received by the French for eign office. FROST TONIGHT AGAIN PREDICTED BY BUREAU ' Washington, Nov. 13. Frost and freetlng temperatures along tbe South Atlantic coast and tbe Calf states, except southern Florida, Is predicted by tho weather bursas. In a forecast for tonight and Sunday. Temperatures eentaae below nor mal throout the eastern half of the country. ; HARPING IS MAROONED BY SEVERE WEATHER Point Isabel, Kev. li-EfUff the fishing frotads by a fold aerthen wind and virtually marooned on the land side by Impassable reads. Treat- daatHsJsot Sard! today reaataa at for em SOLDIER BRIGGS MAY GREAT PSteWI THE SOUTHERNER'S "fay REV. B. E. BROWN.) Tbe WhaU World Lletb in Wicked- ' ness. I John, 5 1 19. ' I preached a sermon in my church last Sunday on the prevalence of im morality, drunkenness and gambling In Tarboro and all the rest of the country, That sermon labored under the usual disadvantage of such ser mons, that la that it was preached to a few good ladles and fewer goed' gentlemen, who did not need it, while those to whom it might have applied were not there. I have heard various comments on it since, one being that there Is on use for preachers to preach about these things anyway, because thy do not know anything about it except from hearsay, and they had best stick to what thew know something sbout. Besides, peo ple are not going to be dictated to from the pulpit about how they shall live, and getting after them for their looseness Is more likely to make them worse than better. Well, I daresay there Is a powerful lot of truth In both thess criticisms, but still I can not help thinking that if the morals of the town eoem about to go to the devil somebody certainly ought to ssy something about It, 1. Immorality : There are two ways of looking at rumors about this sub- ect j One is that If you hear a little, there must be ten times more of It going on that you never hear; and the other view Is that rumor always makes things out ten times worse than they really are. But whichever view la right, (here must be an awful amount "of shameless immorality ev erywhere, and around this town and community. The stories about "the bestial abandon and wantoness in con nection with various dances of late beat anything I ever heard of. They ought to be stopped as a matter of ordinary public welfare. 2. Gumbllng; In times of stress and change there, is always an increase in the vice of gambling, because in such times man craves more exciting pleasure than the simple and normal joys of homellfe, hospitality, church- work, gardening, bunting, reading, fishlnr, eating, sleeping, voting, work ing and the like. Simple pleasures become too tame, and the fiercer pleasure of tbe gaming table are all that can satisfy the jaded nerves of many people. But only the simple and normal Joys of life can really please the heart for any length of time, because fiercer pleasure leaves the soul thirsty, like highly seasoned food. I hear every day tales about boys losing their father's money at cards, and little town eports being cleaned out by big town sports with marked eards, and white men playing; eraps on tbe pavement to the admira tion of a crowd of negroes. Things like this If kept up, especially In a little town, Is sirre to bring on trag edies of one kind or another that will break Innocent hearts. 3. Drinking: I saw seven drunken men la one day during rair week. which- would have a small number In the good r' ' days, but was seven too many for this day and time. And be sides these seven full men, I saw sev eral dozen empty bottles in a certain place. Whiskey never did have any claim on the appetite of healthy and normal men. It Is of necessity a per ferted and acquired taste. But at least in past times It was clean, cheap. and respectable. Why on earth any man should want to drink It now, since' it has become disreputable, ex pensive beyond the pocket of honest men with families to support, and In its manufacture nasty beyond de scription. In the name of common sense, why should a man pay twenty dollars for a bottle of anrectifled spir its, aede tn hag pens and cow stables by negro criminals, stirred with sticks picked ap out of the muck, handled by Klhy eirelese hands, bottles la un washed vessels, mingled With sweat and saliva of the Indifferent makers. and bought la the dark from convicts wftis reeking elothee and toddea SATURDAY SERMON SBGCEED 'JTATS'tr RALEIGH'S TORNEY, PROSECUTING AT CLEAN CUT AND FpFjULAR, WILL FILL COUXC TOR'S OFFICE ACCEPTABLY. MARSHAL BELLAMY'S MEN ALREADY RESIGNING. (By LLEWZAM.) , Raleigh, Nov. 18-Ralelgh did net flare any trumpet or stage any apeo- tacolar klckupa or other akin-deep ' manifestations in "observance" of Armistice Dsy (and some comment Is made that we dldnSt), but there- was no city or community of lika proportions that did, more to make comfortable and hearten the train loads of thousands and thousands of the boys in uniform when they stop ped In Raleigh enroute to embarka tion camps. No other city contrib uted more enthusiastically in many other ways while rendering real help to win the war while it was In prog ress. Raleigh has always borne a close relationship to "the still wat ers," ir. that our feelings run deep for any good cause' that enlists oar , support The fantastic appeals te Raleigh with little force, as has been demonstrated on innumerable occas ions. But when it comes to real ac tion the state capital can always be counted In among the first to arrive, Josiak William's Successor. It having been alleged In the pub lic prints that Mr. J. W. Bailey will probably resign the job of collector for this state in the revenue service . (although Josiah's intimates say ho has done a great deal more practice as a' lawyer than he has work for Uncle Sam In engineering tho job fce holds), the name of Willis G. Briggs, present prosecuting attorney In tbe Raleigh municipal court and former ly postmaster of Raleigh, is being mentioned here today as Bailey's) probable successor. Willie Is a for mer newspaper man, but had sense enough, to quit, the game JefoTe-ha' starved to death. He la one of the cleverest and most popular gentle men In Raleigh, with a clean personal and political record, and has been a Republican from principle since the dsy he cast his first vote. Eastern U. 3. MarskeUUp. U. S. Marshal George Bellamy may not suspend activities quite so read ily or exceptionally, It Is reported here, but his chief deputy here, for mer police chief Stall, has already signed up with Wake eounty'e now sheriff, effective January 1. Clande Dockery, now practicing law at Troy, Montgomery county, was marshal on- der the laet Republican national ad- ministration. But It is not Jmowa j whether he will offer for the place J again. Tbe general trend of com- i ment here among the political wise acres is that the Democratic party leaders at Washington will eneooraga the present Democratic federal office holders In the state to not stand up on the order of their going, bat to go out at once. Some of them can hang on for a considerable period, If they insist, and some of them are apt to Insist. ','v T SEIZED; 111. LDIJDOIJ Lendoa, Nov. 12. -Celestel C, P. Maloae, M. P wae arrested at Leyton, following the eeleasw ef important papore at hie . Malottev who was recently alec. 4 te Iks Homo of Ceiiene as s liberal, aaaennced, npea kie re tarn free a visit to Bessie, that be bad betes a Cotaamaalet. He Is now leading the aievessent tm. Eaelaad la fare of BUkvUaa. MaUae, at . anniversary .eej ebratiea ef tbe Russian revelation described Prswsiar Lloyd George, WUsien.Cbnr.kia and Earl Car son, secretary. state fer for eign affaire, as tbe "eenrvy )sge-U ef tbe capitalists, aad said tm save blsed.bsd It weald be better to ee "a few lamp posts and alti.' : . Louis Bran dais, associate Justice ef the Supremo Court of the United COWS LEADED State .today btr upon Us Ccti I hM saaner evttaje. fifth, ym. V Si i - i - - - E. 0

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