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MONDAY, NOV. 14, 1921.
Every Monday
DISARMAMENT AND CHRIS
. TIANITY.
i' Sine nations existed they "Jiave
always been at dagger drawing, and
one another clapper-clawing."
Nations ar made up Of eery va
rlety of people that. the Lord has per
mitted to Hve. All people ar selfish
and therefore quarrel and fight, so
all peope fight with one exception
and that is the coward. It has been
.said that God hates a coward. Un
gratified selfishness- makes people
restless, quarrelsome and combative,
they always iorget that.
""A good cause needs not be pa
troned by passion, but can sustain
itself upton a temperate dispute."
One of our wisest men who died full
f years and honors, from .his long
experience with mankind reached and
recorded this conclusion: "An aso
ciation af men who will not quarrel
with one another iB a thing which
never yet existed; from the great
est confederacy of nations, down to
a town meeting or a vestry." Will
the disarmament conference now sit
ting in convention at Washington
city .prove to be the solitary and
shining exception in the annals of
time?
From my more or less limited
knowledge experience of people,
I am constrained to state that it will
not. Two ' troubled arts at the thres-
l.afj ' "v ' ', one material
a i '.v . In h considera
tion . the conference two great
and ijrjgbty nations, Germany" and.
RosiJhave no pjaca nor Toice; this
Ii(jt ints the seed of bitterness ana
ARBUCKLE, CHARGED WITH
MANSUUGHTER, ON TRIAL
Gavin McNab Heads Comedian's Fight
San Francisco Anxious Over Outcome
Of Trial
hati that irill have to be reckoned
wjtfi the future. i .
i-ty delegatfs of the conference,
aubpo ed to ' represent the Christian
woTrfd, and rn)eide"nta1tr the," heathen
world., ' In the assembly there is not
a 'duly accredited man of God, no call
will be heard to barken to the lvhjg
principles' of Christianity ; whPe it
appears that Christianity has no place
or part in the proceedings, considera
tions and decisions to be made, yet it
will dominate the results. While it
is true that the wicked may and do
flourish like a bag green triiee, their
time is marked and they will be re
compensed according to their works.
1'know'if"'! well that It 'laniard for
a human being to comprehend and
realize that in his materia! 'ife, it Is
absolutely necessary and I vitnl that
he shdiild beieve and practice the
Christian principles. . " Germany, pro-
f easing Christianity,, first; neglected
and then discarded its principles, and
went about to divide and, regulate the
world cb it ought to be, and there
was "hell to pay," nd though the
years are passed we ye,t feel the
fire and smell the sulphur. Material
and sociological efforts unless based
upon and guided by tha principles of
Christianity can come to no good.
' The' delegates sent: to the confer
ence are there to represent and pro
tect' the interest of their respective
countries and not to carry the Chris
tiai spirit into the affairs -of the
wofld and promote the safety and
baaniness - of mankind. - If this is
B true why at the outset interject
the question of the adjustment of the
conflicting interest of the conferring
nations in the . Pacific territory?
jvijen ;'the first session is open and
ready for business should a delegate
arise and move that we adopt for our
rule of jguidance that each of us do
unlo the others as we wou'd have
thim do unto us. The reader, may
answer, I propose that we have a
road conference to consider and de-
via a remedy for the U..M. ROADd
and their prevention in the future.
November 14, .1321.'.
JOHN L. BRIDGERS.
Miss Mary Baker Sholar, of Nor
folk, has been the guest of her grand
mother, Mrs. N. V.'j. Terrell, for ' a
few days. - ' ' ' : '
j i Mri'W.'. M;. Person, attorney of
JuUburg, -is' her attending, court.!
San Francisco, Nov. 14. Roscoe
Fatty) )Arbuckle brought to trial
in the superior court for manslaugh
ter in charges growing out of the
death of Miss Virginia Rappe, a Los
Angeles motion picture actress, oc
cupied a prison cell here for 18 Jays
accused of the murder of the girl,
until Police Judge Sylvain J. Lazarus
reduced the charge to manslaughter
and allowed him his freedom on
55,000 bail.
Miss Rappe's death Sept. 9 from
a ruptured bladder was the outcome
of a drinking party she attended in
Arbuckle's suite at the Hotel St.
Francis the afternoon of Sept. 5. On
this occasion, according to testimony
In the police court hearing, Arbuckle
and Lowell Sherman, another mov
ing picture actor, were clothed in
dressing gowns and pajamas or
thletic underwear while Mrs. Bam-
binai De'mont, who swore to the
murder complaint against the come
dian, also donned pajamas during
the gayety.
When Miss Rappe retired from the
room, while the festivities were in
progress, according to the testimony,
Arbuckle followed her and about an
hour later, two of the women, Mrs.
Delraont and Zeh Prevost, found her
in distress in an adjoining room, the
door of which was opened by Ar
buckle in response to their knocks.
? "J am dyingi He hurt me," cried
Miss' Rappe, according to testimony
of Miss Prevost and Alice Blake
who said the girl was lying on a bed
fully clothed but tearing at her gar-
ascnts ::s'she moaned and tossed. Ar
bucks told her to "shut up" or he
would throw her out of tl:e window,"
their said, and used ice in an at
tempt to "restore her fully to con.
Bciousness.
Miss Rappe was taken to another
room- in the hotel and next day re
moved to a hospital where she ret
mainc J unti' her death. Hospital
nurses testified at the inquest that
she accused Arbuckle of having in
jqred her, but this testimony was
not introduced at the police court
hearing. .
Nothing was shown at the prelimi
nary hearing, according to Judge
Lazarus, to connect Arbuckle with
the charge of murder, which was
brought under the California statute
providing that a like taken in rape or
attempted rape is murder. Judge
Lazarus declared, however, that Ar
buckle's conduct warranted holding
him for manslaughter, as he might
have committed battery.
; A grand jury indictment fir man
slaughter also was returned against
Arbuckle, although District Attorney
Matthew A. Brady chose to try rbe
defendant on the police court hold
ing. The coronor's jury charged
hira with manslaughter.
Arbuckle's arrest later by prohibi
tion officials on a charge Of illegal
possession of liquor was another in
cident in the case resulting from an
.... :
'investigation which , the prohibition
authorities laid- before the federal
grand jury. The liquor at the party
was brought from Canada by a boot
AKTIC
E DAY AT
S
HINGTOM
jpraE
Washington, Nov. 1. Amistic
Day was a splendid day yet I said
and grny day. The thongs that lined
Pennsylvania avenue witnessed what
was, perhaos, the most impressive pa
rade ever held in Washington.
Former President Wilson received
applause all along the line, and as
he lifted his high sik hat, it could be
seen that his hair had turned con
siderably grayer. The inertia in of
ficial cire'es in Washington for the
past few months has caused much re
flection on the part of the people,
and they speculate over the mistakes
and the successes of the former Pres
ident.
Senator Lee S. Overman, who is
ocrsidtrcld o'rie of the most difsr
tinguished looking men in the Sen
ate was in the first line of Senators
as they marched in the parade up the
Avenue. This first line of .Senators
was distinguished men. In this line
were Oscar Underwood, and Henry
Cabot Lodge, two of America's "big
four" at the conference. ' V
Last night the heavens were lit
with a most wonderful electrical dis
play. From the ground between the
Capitol and the Congressional Li
brary, huge shafts of light, red, white
and blue, pierced the sky. The dome
of the Capitol could be seen si! over
the city. Washington monument, a
shaft uf'555 feet of shining light,
with high-powered searchlights shin
ing frjm the small windows at the
top, stood like a weird spectre star
ing down upon an excited city. The
arch of jewels flashed and sparkled
and dazzled the eyes, while the Pan-
Amcrk'sn building, .wherein the con
ference sessions are being held, ..was
a palace of reflected beauty.
GREAT BRITAIN AND
JAPAN WILL
ACCEPT
Washington, Nov. 14. That' Great
Britain will accept in principle of
the American proposal for limita
tion of the naval armament seems to
be definitely settled. The acceptance
by Japan of the same proposal is
practically assured from a forecast
as from the statements by .Baron
Kato.
A Great Movement.
;tor Promere ne, Duuiwcrat, of
Ohio, .s tiuuved as having said in the
Senate that the American limitation
proposals were the greatest one step
that has been taken toward disarma
ment, v ,.f
To Continue BoIMinfj "W
Secretary of the Navy Denby made
the statement today that the con
struction program, that was now
progressing slowly on account f re'
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FACTS ABOUT THE
MUNC
PAL Mil
PLANT
Whn the Municipal Milk Plant
first went into operation an article
appeared in The Southerner stating
that a write-up in a popular maga
zine ailing attention to the above
plant had "placed Tarboro on the
map." That was a good start, but
we believe if the author of that write
up cou'd be informed as to the pres
ent condition of the milk delivery in
OVER FIVE THOUSAND AT
MACK MEETINGS SUNDAY
" " '
The Big Tent Near School Practicaly Fill-
ed at Sunday Nights Service; Twenty
Two Prayer Meetings For Tuesday
"FOR MEN ONLY" BANQUET THURS
When Cyclone Mack's big 9,000
Tarboio the readers of that publica- PBC1 ni went up nere, Tarboro,
. , ,., . . , in a Riant chorus of voices, asked:
tion would reverse their views and ,. . , , . ...... ...
"Why did he bring that oig thing
easily believe that Tarboro has been ' thert, aren.t but 4700 men women
hup:w.-jly ,-lft at the post" in the mul children, including colored,
SOME FLASHES FROM TWO
SERMONS YESTERDAY.
lie.
Universal salvation is a universal
dueed appropriation, would 'not be
stopped unless an international
agreement was reached, or the cessa
tion of this program was directed by
Congress. s. . y
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MAYOR'S COURT.
I William Cooper, drunk and dis
orderly and indecent exposure;' 30
days oh road.' .
W. C. Roebuck, violating-traffic
law, $2.85. ' : ' .
W. T. Roberts,
without light, $1.00.
riding .bicycle
W. O. Council, violating traffic law,
85. - -
) Henry Johnson, violating traffic
law, $2.85; - -
Is
race of progression. Any enterpris
ing dairyman would consider i: n
"cinch" to be awarded the contract
to furnish milk and cream, to the
exclusion of all other dealers to a
town of the population that Tarboro
has, and he would undoubtedly feel
that it not only behooved him to in
here
stall a telephone but to place a com
VISCOUNT
GREY 15
NATURALIST OF
TRENOUN
THE O. K. SOCIETY.
leg ring: which operated on a large
scale, officials said.
.Gavin .McNab, ; a prominent San
Francisco attorney, is chief of coun
sel for. Arbuckle. He was retained
by- motion picture interests to han
dle the defense.
Mr. Henry Staton, of New; York,
is visiting relatives here today.
Mr. Harry Wayatt left yesterday
for. Raleigh on. Business. '
Major George I , Patterson, of
Clinton, N. C, was in town yester
day on business.
At its regular meetings Thursday
the O. K. Society of the Tarboro
High School carried out the follow
ing program:
Prayer, Willie Harrel.
Debate: Resolved, That the
United States Should Annx Cuba
Affirmative, George Griffin and
Ernest Price; negative, Robert Tay
lor and Julian Hyman.
Short Story, "How the Bear Lost
His Trail," Earl West. -
. Declamation, Hack Denson.
The judges decided in favor of the
affirmative and voted George Griffin
to be the best speaker.
ROBERT TAYLOR Reporter.
MARKET REPORTS.
Wheat: : ' Open.
Dec. a 1X8 2-3
May -!:..ii,13 i-4
Corn: . Open.
Dec. ,v. .467-8
Oats: v Open.
Dec. ' .82 2-3
May .87 2-3
Close.
1.05 5-8
1.09 2-3
Close.
.46 1-4
.52 1-4
: Close.
.32 1-4
.37 3-8
Berwick-on-Twesd, Eng., Oct. 17
(By Staff Correspondent of the As
sociated Press). Viscount Grey of
Fall6do. formerly Sir Edward' Grey.
war-time "secretary of the foreign ofr
fice, who was temporary British Am
bassador in the United! States in
1919, nd who has just recently re
entered the political arena, is a na
turahst as we.l as a statesman. In
an address before the Berwickshire
Naturalist Association he gave an
account of his personal observation
of the wild fowl which he has reared
at Fal'odon for the last 37 years,
He raid that the Carolina of
North American wood ducks were
monogamous and domestic life was
highly developed among them.
Lord Grey was unable to confirm
the. statement that wild geese paired
for life and that, on the death of
one, th survivor took no other mate,
but he called to mind a remarkable
case .if the kind with a pair of red
crested prochard ducks. .
The drake kept with his mate un
til she had to be killed after, meet
ing wfth an injury. It was expected
that he would then mate with an
other female of the same kind 'but
he ignored her and after two or
three weeks restlessness he flew off
and was not seen again.
' "It was as if he had gone off on an
endless search to find .the mate he
had lost,' remarked Lord Grey.
petent person to attend to orders and
incidentally complaints that might be
'received where non-delivery had
been .r.ade to a customer of his. The
carriers do not de;iberately overlook
itheir milk and cream customers, but
they are not infallable and certain it
is they are not imbued with George
Washington of cherry tree fame pro
clivities. : Certain it is they do not
return to the milk plant and report
that "they have overlooked several
patrons," and the only possible way
the manager of said milk plant can
know that these men in his employ
have Keen remiss in their duty is by
answering these telephone calls,
If his duties are so strenuously
arduous that he cannot find time to
do so, sureiy it is up to the authori
ties in charge to place someone there
that tan do so or close down the
plant.
Competition has always been good
for business but in this case the pa
trons are denied the relief that might
ensue from the law of competition, as
the ordinance reads, "Thou shalt
not." There is a law in this State
that discourages a trust, and there is
of a course a distinction between the
muncipal milk plant of Tarboro and
a milk trust,, but it would require the
eye of an eagle to discernit. Pasteur
ized milk is the only safe and sane
way f distributing it, but we wonder
if the few germs that were swallow
ed by the housewifes in drinking un
pasteurized milk in days so long past
they have now become almost ancient
history, were as detrimental to their
physical being as the constant irrita
tions that only too frequently happen
when the manager of the milk p'ant
remains so indifferent to the tele
phone summons. Next please.
A PATRON.
I'.iv old tent bellowed out the an
swer last night. Stripped, as it is, to
a ,capacity of 6,000, it held last night
close to 5,000 people. At the aftr
noon service it held almost as many.
Including his sermon at Conetoe yes
terday morning, Mack's Sunday audi
ences totaled more than 10,000.
To the 5,000 last night, the evange
list preached a thrilling sermon. It
was thrilling in the same way that
a fat iady is pleasingy plump. If you
prefer to cail excess avoirdupois bjr
the shorter word, then he preached
a hair-raising sevmon. It was the kind
of a sermon that stops the wafting
of saccharine nothings through
vacuums, causes modishly dressed
women to wait until the congregation
treks out to note what other people
are wearing and glues small boys to
their seats.
In short, the Palmetto whirlwind
was in form last night. His subject.
was ine nour is uone- rine noijr
for a preaching of the gospel that
calls a spade a spade and relegates
the platitudinous pu'pit performance
to the religion bone yard.' His affer'-
noon sermon on "Twentieth Century
Religion"- was a baptism of gospel
shrapnel, too.
Increase in Prayer Meeting.
There was 'announcement by Miss
Palmer at the beginning of the serv
ice last' night that there would b?
more than 22 prayer meetings held
in town Tuesday morning. Beginning
also tomorrow at noon Mack himself
will hold a noon day preyer meeting
in the Mayor's office up town.
Thursday night there will be a
"For Men Only" banquet at the
Kiwanis hotel. The tariq on this
supper will be 50 cents per man and
tickets can be had at the tent. Fri
day night there will be a banquet
for women only and announcement
will be' made of this tomorrow.
Jesys said, "Sit ye here," and
that's what nine-tenths of the church
members are doing; just benoh
warmers.
Three-fourths of the preaching
doesn't excite one emotion for good
or bring one shadow of condemnation.
You are in the church to fight for
Jsesus Christ and if you are not do
ing that you are a curse.
If we preachers don't call people
back to the new birth and vita! godli
ness, you can write Ichabod on the
door posts and turn your churches
into third-rate amusement bureaus.
Some people say a revival is tem
porary. So is a bath, but a felloW
peeds one every spring.
ie people say, too: "You rub me
itheVrongrtyay." Well, turn around
old torn cat, and I'll rub you tha
fright way.
Some people never hear God's
voice until they hear it through a
coffin.
The dance brings vice and virtue
into too c'ose contact anS virtui.1
loses.
The devil is not worrvins over tha
preaeh?r who puts more rhetoric
than Chriltianity into his sermons.
EDGECOMBE SUPERIOR COURT,
Superior Court of Edgecombe be-
ban this morning, Judge Oliver H
Allen presiding.
This is a two weeks term for the
trial of civil cases only. The docket
is a heavy one and will probably con
sunie the entire term.
RECEIVERS FOR PEANUTS.
Cotton:
Saturday. Today. ,
.Close,
16.09
Jan. .
March
May .
July 15.70
Dec .....j 16U5
.V
...-16.05
Open. .Close,
16.25 4 ;i9'.40
16.2$ ;16.26
15.90 15.90
: 16.30. 16.551
NOTICE
The exchange at Suffolk has ap
pointed Mr. Arthur Bass, of Tar
boro, ss its agent to receive peanuts
for the exchange. ' '
t 7. .
'. Mr. N. B. Dawson; Jr., is the agent
at Conetoe. .
Those wishing information as 'to
the delivery and shipment, of their
peanuts can see these gentlemen.
Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Stewart and
George W.'HollDway spent the week-
ThosT persons who kidlyloaned
cups, saucers and knives to the Par
ish Aid Society for the Kiwanis sup- 4 with Mrs. Hugh: Cobb.1 They re-
per, which taye not been returned turned to Durjjam ths morning ac
please notify Mrs. S. S. Nash. Seven companied by Mrs. Holloway, Who
cups and aaucers. W.d band, six sib I o"' been visiting her , mother, Mrs.
vex knives and odd pieces of cbinaj Cobb, for tha past two' weeks.
Monday Night for Colored People.
Tonight the tent is turned over to
the colored people and the colored
folks will do everything but the
preaching Mack is going to preach
to them. They will have their own
music and do things their own way.
A noted negro singer from Bennetts
ville, Mack's home town, is here and
no restriction of shouting,
will 'hist the hymns. There will be
The tent is entirely comfortable
now with the ten stoves, five burning
on either side. The services will con
tinue through the week as usual, at
2:30 in the afternoon and at 7:30 at
night One night, it is not certain
which night, Mack is going to tell
the story of his own conversion.
"I have not come here to preac4i
to you people of a ded Jew in the
tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, but
a living, reigning Christ they couldn't
sweep in the dirt; a Christ that sits
at the right hand of God tonight;
that can save to the uttermost, from
whence he will come to judge the
living i.nd the dead.
'We shou'd realize that the hour
is come and the crisis is here. I be
lieve that you are in a crisis here in
Tarboro and such as you have never
seen-in all your lives. Ibelieve that
God will manifest himself; to this
town and the crowd wil be swept into
the kingdom. If right and decency
and truth triumph, there will be such
d God sent, heayen born regeneration
time "as you have never seen before,
but if hell and the devil triumph this
will be a good town tomove out of.
"God pity the bunch that looks on
the church as an end instead f the
means to an end. The churches are
not dropped down on the corners to
entertain people; they are not mu
tual congratulation societies and so
cial endeavors, God Almighty never
intended His church to be a third
rate 'amusement bureau. You are not
in the church to keep a little space
seventeen inches square warm; you
are in the church to battle for Jesus
Christ and if you are not doing that
. you are a sum instead of a blessing.
, The dance of the twentieth cen
tury is an expression of degeneration
in society. One trouble with the
world is that there are too many
church members and not enough
Christians.
Mack Examined by Conference.
"Eleven years ago I went to Ab
beville, S. C, and applied for admis
sion into the Methodist conference
and the first question they asked me
in the examination what was the dif
ference between dogma and- doc
trine? That question raised me clear
out and I passed the buck and took
the count. I don't suppose there has 1
ever been a fellow in the history o
the world that missed it as far as I '
did, but after much manipulating and .'
wire pulling they condescended M
suffer my presence on a hard scram
bled circuit. The presiding elder on
my departure for my new field told (
me it was the toughest proposition in (
the conference and that thev had'
never been able to handle the situa
tion. When I arrived there I found
it was not a preacher they wanted;
an undertaker they needed. Of all
the cold storage, frosty, frigid, polar
bear, embalming fluid, black hearse,
graveyard propositions I have ever
seen or expect to seel found it there.
"My first service was a funeral
sermon and I told some beautiful,
little pathetic stories and we all put
on the sob stuff and shed some comV
ouacrozodile tears and the next mem.
ing they ran down the road to th
presiding elder telling him they had
at last found the preacher that they
had been looking for. Remember,
there was not a single, solitary hu
man being in that church that pro- .
fessed religion and no one ever r
thought of accusing tjhemW having
it. All that week I was loading my
gun and ' preparing for the coming
conflict and On Sunday I turned loose
on that bunch and they began to
duck und the feathers began to fly.
"There , was one old . bell-wether
that believed strictly in the minnrit.
ml and, the preached had to walk
and Ulk like he said, talk and com
when he said come and sro whan hd
said go. They called him Cousin;
Samuel and he sure was czar, king
and dictator in that community.
When I opened up in hirh kear I ran
see Cousin Samuel now. He wiggled1
and twisted and squirmed '.ik he had
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