********* * THE WEATHER * Shoicers and thunder- * ^ * CIRCLLAT10\ * " "tortus tonight. Cooler * (in| II KSTfgjfej (fl]^r?^t^fllfTrf|f V1 111 III HIWrfll II 1(11 PI C^l Tuesday * * ty cloudy and cooler. * * ******** ? ?*?*???? ? ? * tonight. Thursday fxirt- 2.2.i0 C.o/iies * * ********* VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1921. FOlll PAGES. NO. 121. France Moves To Normalcy But Future Is Still Obscure Kesult IJecent Elections Apparently a Stop in Direction of European Settlement lint Complete Tranquil ity Has Not Vet Come in Sight By FRANK H. SIMOND8 i Washington. May 21.?To under stand the present confusion In the French political situation and the ? uncertainty as to the cliaracter of the next cabinet and the name of the j new Premier, it Is necessary to, glance for a moment at the chaotic: condition which has resulted from the recent election. And. above all. I it Is necessary to appreciate the fact that under the continental bloc ?ys-| tern our own party methods are quite impossible. 1 Thus in the new Chamber of Dep uties with 58 4 members no one par-! tv has anything like a majority. The liloc National, which supported I'oin i*inml wpiit to defeat, will have something like 233 members. This, is the official opposition and it Is a iairly homogeneous body at the mo ment. In addition the Royalists or! Conservatives elected upwards of 20 ! members and these would doubtless vote with the Bloc National against any extreme radical government. Thus, at the outset, It would be fair to assume that the opposition could count upon approximately 253 votes, leaving 331 for the groups which to gether must make the new govern ment. But of these 331 only 190. name ly the Radicals and the Republican Socialists with 151 an^ 39 seats re spectively. could easily coalesce. The Radicals are led by Herriot, Just now most frequently spoken ql as the next Premier while to the other group belong both Brland and Paln leve, the former many times Prime Minister, the latter once and disas trously during the World War. In addition there arc the Social ists, lid by Blum, who count 102 seats but are pledged against taking office. This Socialist party. In com bination with the Radicals and the Republican Socialists, constituted the Bloc of the Left, which united suc cessfully to defeat Polneare but which have absolutely nothing In common In the way of an affirmative program. Finally, there arc 29 out and out Communists, also oppoennts of I'olncare but similarly opponents of any other conceivable government. Now if Herriot, for example, formed a government, he would cer tainly be opposed by both the Royal ists and the Bloc National; that Is. the whole of the possible opposition. He could count on 151 votes from his own Radical party, but he could not even hope to form a cabinet unless he were assured the support of the Socialists, who count 102 members. But this combination alone would be approximately of the same strength as the opposition. In point of fact, it would be helpless unless support ed bv the Republican Socialists: that is. the Brland-Palnlcve Bloc, with J9 votes. Such a combination would almost certainly be opposed by the Commun ists and thus a three party coinb n ation of Radicals, Socialists and Re publican Socialists, counting at most 292 members, would face a minority combine of Royalists. Communists and the Bloc National of practically the same strength, namely 292. Her riot in practice, then, could only form a cabinet which would have any chance of lasting as he was able to draw strength from the Bloc Nation al And at best his majority would be precarious In the extreme. llriand's situation, on the con trary. is quite different. On the sur face' he would seem to have only 39 sure votes: but. once Polneare had disappeared. It Is almost certain that a very large part of the Bloc a I would, on terms, agree to support a Brland Cabinet, seeing In Brland a much more satisfactory premier. Moreover, what 1* most lik?'ly to hnp pen Is that Herriot will form a Cab inet. perhaps last for a few weeks or ev? n months, and then give wa> to j Brsince Polneare Is going into re-, ,In-m.nt the disintegration of the B or Na lon.l Is almost Inevitably But to replace It one may expect at !in distant date some combination of ^Xa^eleme^u'whlch 'so-j min the Communists, nl from" being radical"-"in The^exUeme American sense_ rM|Rnatlon of MUTie??d]follow^M|?^> Mm tatt actions more ? Plymouth, England, May 21.?Sir , Eustace Klennes, governor of the j Leeward Islands, on a recent visit visit to England. told reporters that, I he was certain the nritish West Indian posesslon* would never be ceded to American for war debt. The sentiment of the people was I strongly against such a change of I flag and they were very loyal to (Creat Britain, the governor said. Sir Eustace said also that despite 1 the commercial loss occasioned by .the war and four successive years of | drought, the future outlook for the \ islands was excellent. I .1A PA X KX TKXII.4 I, A \VS TO < OVKIt SAfilf AL1KX I8LAXH Toklo, May 21.?To knit a Japa nese Saghulien more closely to the rest of the empire, the cabinet has decided to put Into force there scv leral laws which heretofore have not | applied to the northern posesslon. j These Include the conscription law, I which will make inhabitants of Bag halicn liable to service In the army. I .the nationality law and the census registration law, all calculated to | Insure the cohesion of the empire J land to increase the control of the i central glvernment. The southern half of Saghalicn. j which became a Japanese posesslon as a result of the Kusso-Japanesc j ? War, has made remarkable pro-, , gross in the development of adinin ; 1st rati ve organs and community life, according to Tbklo officials, and the ! time is considered ripe to administer | that territory an an integral part of the empire. Ill'SIVKSH DILL IUT .\TI,.\ \T.\ IS OPTIMISTIC Aflnntn, May 21.? Unfavorable wo?ib?r I* ro?pon*ir>if> fc.r some cf I In* sl*t' kt'tlltlK Of hUKillC'J In I ? i 't. ri.ig iht'lnesN Im reli ??fei l*i Ji-1 i-'nn .?*rrjtorn, n'thcu .!i tl.e dc ?11n * I.hh not boon urate. Tho oj> t?;:ilst!--? siftifitf??? of retail in?*i>'l. int* is cx< iiipllfi'*fl by tlin the nnnounce mont by Daniol Brothers, distribu tor* of men's furnishing*. that they will ??rect immediately a 12 fttory building lo bo orrupiod by tin in a rluKnvelyu Tho stnto is n?*urod of a bumper <-rop of peachen and apples. , ItKVIVAI. IN riUMJRKSH AT FltKKWIIJi ll.M'TIST Rev. J. C. Orlffin preached nn earne-u Hcrmon Tuesday night at lb" Freewill Baptist church. bin text being tak*n from the- thirty-flrsi verso of tho fortieth rhnpt'*r c?f the Hook of Ixalab. "But thejr that wait upon tho Lord shall renew their Mnnnth." "To my mind It was a great ser mon and worth whllo for every one i to hear." snld a laymen of another churrli who attended th* service. | Mr. Orlffin will preach tonight at eight o'clock and the public Is In vited to hoar him. HAMO AltTH LKH POH ALL i Tho Radio Magazine, given free with tho Sow York Sunday World. Is In demand with the radio public1 because of the many articles of In terest In each Issue. A partial list for next Sunday Is as follows: D? to-tlng Karthquakos by Uadlo Be fore Thep "Happen"; A I)X Reflex with Aodton Detector; Broadcasting without a carrier wave; An ampli fier that Gives Perfect Reception; Why Your Hecelver Tunes Broadly. To be sure of a copy order The Bun day World In advance. tdv "While Tile Advance is trying to create ami encourage sentiment III favor nf anm-vlnc Hyde and Tyrrell in Elza belli City's trade territory by melius of a road from Falrflfld to Columbia and fi rry service from Tvrrell Comity to Pasquotank, why permit your people In overlook the possibilities of establishing closer re lations with Pare County? This is a quest Ion asked a repre sentative of this newspaper by L,. W. Hooper of Stumpy l'oint, who was In the city this Week. Ills Idea is to build a road from Stumpy Point to Manns Harbor, with a spur leading oft from It to East l.ake. Manns Harbor is but 1? or .12 miles from Point Harbor In Currituck, and ferry service would seem easily practicable between these points, especially as It might bo easily possible to arrange a schedule that would also serve Man teo and Nacs Head. The State has now built a Rood dirt road to the Point In Currituck County and many people believe that a resort on Currituck Hench near the Point would Me In popularity with Nacs Head and would In Itself Justi fy the establishment of a bus line from here to the beach. With his famllv at Nucs Head, the Elizabeth City business man must leave hero HI "l:30 o'clock In the afternoon to arrive at Nans Head In lime for sup per In order to cot back to Eliza beth City the next day lie must leave Nacs Head at about fi o'clock In the morninc and does not cot In until to ward 11 o'clock, thus loslnc practi cally half a business day each way i n route. To spend Sunday at Nags Head he must leave Elizabeth City at R o'clock Sunday morning, arrlr Inc onlv In time for dinner, and must leave lii the late afternoon which la the best part of the day on the beach. In other words, to spend a whole day at the beach he must inpend a whole day on tbfi boat, counting a day In terms of work bourn. 1 With a resort at Currituck neach, : t he KlIzabet li City business man i con ill leave here any afternoon or 'evenlnc after the close of business, I motor to the beach in about two ! hours, and return the next morning. U)ii Saturday evening after the close ?of business lie could motor to the 1 beach and spend nil day Sunday, re turning Monday morning and reach inc town at the beclnnlng of the business day. Now If a ferry service could be es tablished between Point Harbor in Currituck and Nacs Head, this ser vice would make it possible to lop err a full hour each way from the time now required to reach Nags Head, and, IT tills ferry could be op erated on a sl\ or seven round trips a day schedule, by adding an hour to the time required to co lo the beach the Elizabeth City business man could co lo Nacs Head. Mr. Hooper's suggestion would, lr carried out, enable a bus line from Elizabeth City to Point Hnrbor in Currllnck to serve still an even larg er number of people. Something like 1 2(Ml people live on the Dare Coun ty mainland In the communities of Stuinpy Point. Manns Harbor and East Ijike. to say nothing of those who live ulonc the banks and could come in thill' own boats to the ter minal of the bus line at the beach for a trip to Elizabeth City. Inhabitants of Dare County prob- < ably send more money lo mall order houses per capita than those of any ; other county In the Stale. If these llnre Conntv people could cet to Elizabeth City In something like three hours a ml return the same day, a lan e proportion of the' money that ll.ej si nd I" in. il order houses no?f> would be rpont In Elizabeth CWy. That Dare County folk have money to spend, especially at the cml of tho Ihnd flshlnc season. Is Indicated by a report tlint an Insurance acent placed *"(1.000 In llf? Insurance In til, ! homes of Stumpy Point on one trip recently. ) Tnlk of establishment of a bus line from Elizabeth City lo Point Harbor has revived Interest- In the ? proposal Ill-Hated some years ago for op. utnc up a direct road from Elis abeth Cily to Colnjock which would eliminate the Currituck Courthouse elbow and shorten the distance to Colnjock about 12 miles. NOKIMS Itll.L SHOWS STRENGTH IN VOTE Waahlngton, May 21?The motion to report the Ford bid providing for the Icaalng of Muncle Shoala *u lout by the voir of 10 to 6 today In the Senate agriculture commutes. The atrenKlh of the Norrla bill waa ahown when lla advocatea oppoaed Immediately cloning the hearlnga and defeated auch a motion by 10 to ?. COTTON MARRBT New York, May 21.?Spot cotton cloaed ateady today with an advance of 62 polnta. Middling 32.50 Future* cloned at the following levela: May .12 13. July 29.37. October 25.tt. De cember 25.25, January 24.?7. New York, May 21?Cottbn fa turea openeil thin morning at th?; following level*: May tl.70; July ) 29.15; October 25.?5; ~~ 24 58; January 14.10.