North Carolina Newspapers

TERRIFIC CRISIS' AHEAD, DECLARES UNIVERSITY MAN; Home Life Han Fallen to f Pieces and Abolition of Marriage May Come Next, ^ Dr. H. C. Spence Declarer ADDRESSES SENIORS Speaker Voice* Strong Pleu for Neglected Youth, and Cites Perils Into Which L Feminism May Lead ^ Declaring that m tremendous re action had net In since the World War. menacing the very founda tions of our social structure. Dr. H. K. Spence, professor of relig ious education at Duke University, declared that the one hope of Am erica win through the rebuilding ? of the shattered home life of our j people, to the end that youth i might be better prepared to meet the problema ahead. In an address laat night at commencement exer claea at the Elisabeth City High School. Diplomas were presented to thp 36 graduates of the Class or '26 by Superintendent 8. L. Sheep and ?. F. Aydlett, chairman of the Board of School Trustees. As proof of the high class work being done In the schools here. Mr. Ayd lett offered the fact that out of some 500 high school graduates i In North Carolina who were de- I n|ed admittance to the 8tate's col leges last year, because of Insuf ficient preparation, not one came from Elisabeth City. "That rec- J ord speaks louder than words," he commented, adding that the school authorities were thinking of adding a twelfth grade to the present eleven. The Ilev. F. S. Low, pastor of the First Methodist Church, of- ; . fered the invocation which opened the evening's program. An Inter- . lude of musical entertainment watt ' afforded in a violin solo by Bobble Fearing, accompanied on the ! piano by Mlas Jeanne Houts. This was warmly applauded. J)r. Spenco was Introduced by ^?h n H. Hall, Jr., of the law firm Ehr-inghaus ? Hall, as "a big fllllng a big job In a big uni- : '?erslty." Tho speaker took as his topic "The Coming Crisis," deal Ing with present day problems j with an amatlng frankness, and Interpolating his more serious pe riods with flashes of kindly hu-| mor. Tnwlenck** That nre Owl now - "A few years ago, wc were llv- ( Ing in security," he began. "We were proud of ourselves, snd ex- 1 peeled to live and die In splendid Isolation. The World Wsr esme slong. and though wo waited too long to enter It. we did our part, at last. We did the impossible, and broke the Hindenburg line, f We won the war." When the war was over. Dr. Spence continued, thla country suffered a tremondous re-actlon. sinking back Into materialistic and low Idealn which are mani fested In certain tendencies thut are ominous. At lant we are fac- ; Ing a crisis, he declared. "The character of that crisis Is not yet determined," he went on. "K may be evolutionary, and . through gradual processes we may adjust ourselves to the new condi tions and remedy the evile: or It inay *be revolutionary, and shake our civilisation from center to cir cumference. Whatever Its nature, 1 there must be suspeme and un certainty until the proper results have been attained. These are the regeneration of the world, the rejuvenation of the church, and the transformation of our social ( ord>r." As the first factor Id the eriniu, J 9?. Spence cited the problem of neglected youth, declaring the Na jjon faced an appalling situation in that respect. He quoted sta tistics from a recent church sur vey to the pfTect that 24,000,000 Individuals under 20 yeara of age in the United States were without any sort of adequate religion* training; (hat 14.000,000 of these were in the Southland of the lat ter total, more thw 700.000 Were In North Carolina. "The thing put In the mind of the child is the thing that counts," he declared, adding that Oermany was changed Into a ftercely mili tant nation hy two generations of Ihe inculcation of false Ideals Into the minds of the children. Home l/lfo DMnleRrstlhK "There is not a single great evil In our social system for which youth Is responsible," he contin ued, "though there never was a time when youth had Irs* prot#-e tion, more temptatlona, and more conveniences for evil. Criminal conditions abound, and If our youth Is low in Idealism, the cause probably will be recognlted In a third condition; namely, the dis integrating home life of our land. "The stress and strain of Indus trial life, political and aoelal life, and even our complicated chutah life, tend to demorallie and under mine our homes. Our home life la nfcne. The ramlly altar haa fnll f mk to pieces. The home Is the Mtt of every joke, and our faith being broken 10 bira fltmnge tlWrtes of religion, new Ideals of science and phllonophy. new-fan gled Ideas of quacka and ^faddtnts ? mil combine to render the relig ious situation precarious We bare niindi-ii.iimii i m i I Merchants Warned Against Fakers In Ad Game Merchants of this city have been approached In reccnt months by Hererai "fly by night" \ advertising promoters who are declared to hare approached them with the claim that their i advertising schemes had been I endorsed by the Merchants' Bu reau of the Chamber of Com merce. wheras subsequent In- | vest lgat Ion has disclosed that | they had had no such endorso ment. according to Secretary Job. of the Chamber. The latest of these offenders. , according to Mr. Job. was here last week with some sort of a map-making scheme, and signed up at leAat three members of i the Merchants' Bureau before ' leaving town. In each Inatance. he Is said to have claimed that : he had the sanction of the bu reau, whereas actually no such sanction had been given.. The bureau's check on adver tising Ic maintained solely as a I protection for the merchants. ! Mr. Job explains, and whenever an advertiser Is given the en dorsement of the buroau. he is j presented with written creden- ' tlals to that effect. In the event 1 that any merchant is doubtful , as to the authenticity of such , credentials. Mr. Job reminds | that he can readily settle the question by phoning the Cham-' ber of Commerce. OtJTLOOKS FOK CHOPS IS STILL UNCERTAIN Washington. June 4. ? The out look for the principal crops in still uncertain, due to the backward season, the Agriculture Depart ment said today in the June re port on farm conditions. It sees pro8|H>ctd for "an exceedingly strong market position for hogs for the next Ave months." MRS. CARTWRlGHT DEAR , Mm. Sarah F. Cartwrlght. wife of the late William Cartwrlght, died Thursday night at the home of her daughter. Mrs. R. H. Com mander, 626 West Main street. In her eighty-eighth year. Mrs. Cartwrlght Is survived by three daughters, Mrs. K. H. Com mander. and Mrs. Mary Raper of this city and Mrs. Mack Fletcher of City Route One, and hy one son, Walter Cartwrlght. City Route Five. The funeral will be conducted at tho hbme~Saturday morning al 10 o'clock by Dr. 8. H. Temple man. pastor of the First Haptlst Church, assisted by Rev. F. 8. Love, pastor of the First Metho dist Church, and burial will be made In Hollywood Cemetery. new thought, old thought ? and no thought at all. "We must deal wisely and sane ly with the negro problem, or we will have a holocaust, the like of which the world has never known. The negro needs Christian oo-op eratlon and help to work out his own salvation. We know him. and understand him, and whatever is done must be accomplished by the men and women of the Old South Dr. Spence reminded his audi ence that Americans were respons ible for the strangers within their gates, declaring that the Immi grants must be won over to Amer Icanlsation. and that the great majority of Americans must hold all militant minorities In line. "In discussing modern Ionian hood, the question Is not. 'What are we going to do about the New Woman?' but 'What Is the New Woman going to do about us?' " he commented. "Her com ing Into politics has brought new problems. If she brings her es sentlal good qualities Into It. she will be a power In transforming the land. If she descends Into cheap politics, then Ood save us!" Vice Made Hr*p*rtnhto Dr. Spence then related a con versation with a disciple of the New Womanhood. In which he quoted her as telling him that men either had to go to women's single standard of morals, or they would go to men's double stand ard. and make vice so popular It would become r%spectable. "They could do It. too," ho commented, "but when they did. we would have hell on earth." Declaring that the conventions were tottering. Dr. Spence predict ed that. If the crisis was met In the revolutionary way. in 20 years America would have the spectacle of a political party ad vocating the abolition of marriage and the rearjng of children by tho State. He cited the need of the hour was man power, to lead the people out of their present entan glements. and characterised com placency ss one of the greatest of the Nation's dangers. "I have come to you tonight lo beg you to continue your educa tlon," he closed, addressing him self specially to the graduates. "In order that you may be trained I properly to do your part In grapp- 1 ling with the trem^hdous problems of your time.*' Dr. Spence la a native of this section, having been born and f M red In the South Mills roinmun t?y. In opening his address last nltht. he declared that his earliest and happiest recollection* cen tered largely about Elisabeth' CUy. COUNCIL BEGINS | PAVING PETITION JOB OVER AGAINl Extra Tank Necessitated hy| Refusal of Bond Attorney I to' Approve Documents, I As Written Originally MEKE TECHNICALITY I Property Owners Under stood It All Higlit, at First, And No Material CJiaitge j Has Been Made Since Having to do over ttKaln wlint j Iht v did once before. memln>n of I the City Council will go out Sat- i urday to begin procuring signa- I tures on the street paving peti tions necessary to legalize the ponding Issue of $306,000 in bonds j for street improvements here. The \ petitions had already been signed by the requisite number of prop erty owners, but Chester D. Mass- I llch. New York bond attorney who passed on the proposed Issue, held ' that they were not worded defin itely enough, and prepared new ones which he said would meet the requirements of bond buyers. In effect, the new petitions are exactly like the old, members of the Council explain, and no prop erty owner will be obligated in any wise to any greater . degree than he had been given to under stand, wiien the first petitions were circulated. The ro-algning is merely a step to comply with a technicality that might otherwise block the sale of the bonds, and thus wreck the street Improve ment program. Each property owner on I streets slated for Improvement will pay one-fourth of the cost In volved. exclusive of street inter sections. In this way. the prop erty owners will pay approximate ly 40 per cent of the total cost, and the taxpayers of the city as a whole will pay 60 per cent. This procedure is Identical with that ! almost universally adopted when the cost of paving la split in such a way that those directly benefit ed pay a proportionately heavier part of the cost than the taxpayers as a whole. It Is necossary that the petitions be signed and ready by Monday, June 14, It is pointed out. since the aale of the bonds Is scheduled for that date. BRIAND -REGIME VERY UNSTABLE Itn, W Tut A(iiin) I'arlR, Judo 4. ? The situation of the Brland government In high ly unstable. It may fall at any minute on almoat any alight pre text. or It may. by luck and sk 111 ful maneuvering last out the mopth, which would carry It through the present legislative sension and thus Inaure It n contin uation over the summer recess. The trouble la that the Brland government has no majority. A few daya ago It waa aupportcd on one laaue by the Right, on anoth er by the I*eft, and on atlll an other by the Center. On financial queatlona. It aeema to be aeeklng conaervatlve support. The left wing of the radical party ia openly hoatlle and wanta to overthrow the government and return former Premier Herrlot to power. The governments aim ap parently la to gain time by post ponlng all Important debates. In cluding discussion of the financial altuatlon and ratification of the Franco-debt agreement. That there Is almoat general hoatlllty to thla agreement there la not much doubt. Waahlngton dispatches Intimate that the American Government would like to aee the agreement ratified, before the aummer receaa. 80 far aa can be Judged now If the Brland government, yielding to theae hints, should try to obtain ratification thla month. It would be overturned on the Issue. PLAY "ALL A MlHTAKK" HAH BERN POHTPONKD The play. "All a Mistake." which was to have been given to night at flouth Mills by the senior B. Y. P. V., boys and girls of Be rea Church has been postponed un til further notice on account of an automobile accident to one of the members of the cast. AWHITWT AKHKNTKD .Spring Oreen. Wis.. June 4. ? j Frank Lloyd Wright, noted archi tect. who has bsrred his estranged wife. Miriam Noel Wright, from his villa, Tallesin. near here, waa arreated today on a peace warrant IsHued by his wife He was re leaaed nhortly afterward on ad vice of N. 8. Roardman. district at torney of low? County. KILLM TWO ANO MKLP Ijftnadale. Pa. June 4.? Robert Norton Hill shot and killed his son, Paul, wounded his wife, Lil lian seriously then kitted himself today. After shooting his son he crushed the youth's skill with a hammer. Police learned of the tragedy through a note addr?ased to ?hem bv Hill. if BAILEY OFFERS , UNIQUE VHffljS (ioiilpiidx (iliallfrige y f Teach r r* in Srrond-; V an! WiiKii'l Now* Taking exception to the pulil catlon of news cnirernlug I 4* challenge of the votes of Iw6 fe | Inlne school d achera In the Si ; ond Ward, C. K. Bailey, rand Ida ? for the office of promrutlne * K tornoy of Pasquotank County, li fers the folio win;*, written staf mrnt of hi* aide of the matter. ? Mr. Ilallev ask"d that kla ptalf raent bo published exactly aa writ ten. or not at all. ty Mi" od, "concealment" and all. pressed the opinion that the that he had challenged two was not news, and shouldn't h ft been published as such, latlmatli that ItH publication was actunt< by a desire to do harm to his cat* 1 dldacy. Here In Mr. flailey's statemeatt i "Much has boon na id In The Ad vance under datea of Juno 2d and 3rd in regard* to my chal* ' lending two votos in the Second Ward by The Advance Mr. J. H. . l-eltoy. and Mr. J. IV Walafon. All have quoted me as doing ?nd say- 1 Ing certain things which I desire to straighten out and to present , the facta as they are. "I did challenge the votoa of two school teachers and I did It with 110 consealment whstsoevcr. ' I personally challenged the votoa. ( signed my name and gave the rea-' son for challenging the same. N only exercised a right that ev? rvlj vote In this county and state has.fl In challenging these votes I did It 1 on the grounds of non-residents; of the county. It Is a known fact' that the teachers In the Elizabeth > City High School remain here fori nine months and that th" law only j requires one to remain in a coun- ' ty six months before he or she la i eligible to vote. Even though one I remains in a county six months he or she is not eligible to vote un less they declare It their resident. For example, while I was at col lege In Wake County I lived thore nine months In a year but I did not call that my home therefore 1 was not eligible tu vote In Wake County. So in thffi ease, I aa sun\ed that theae teachers did not: call. this there resident and chal lenged their votes. I did not for once think that any one was try ing to commit fraud, but that Mr. I<e!loy"a sister, who carried these two young ladles to the poll to register, and the two young ladles themselves did not know that they had to call this county their home regardless of the length of time Thpy Trrnatn?Hi In It. I aasumed that they did not call this their home as as I was Informed that they would not be here for the election even though school did not end until two day before the election and that they expected to vote an absentee vote. After 1 was informed Tuesday night, by the third party which The Ad vance referred to. that the two la dies did claim this there resident I told this third party that 1 would withdraw the cliallenges. I did not withdraw them Tuesday night as I had other engagements which made it Impossible for me to see the registrar, and Wednesday both the registrar and I were out of town. When I returned Wed nesday night 1 read The Advance and was very much aupprlsed at your article headed "Politics Tsk Ing On Elements Of Life At The Last Minute." In ray opinion thl* article was written to prejudice the voters of Pasquotank County and especially the ladles voters against me. It was only a couple of weekn ago that your Associate Editor, Mr Italph Pool told me that I was hostile to thla paper . and that thla paper would have to Continued on page 4 What Is "Iks? lt l? a rhlckon. If It had not b???ii for chicken*, then th?- famous old Jokr about why they croak the road could never hare been Inrmted. How do you know It In * chicken? lUrmiftf then* la a touch of the old farm back homo In you, and In every one of u*. Juat a?t rafflly an you rec ognized thr chlckrn, you will rocoKnli" thr humor at III rlr Payn-a J IN TOWN WKKKI.Y. whlrh will ap pear In Th- Advancc on 8af urday and every Haturday thereaftrr. The JIMTOWN WKtKI.Y (a a hick nrwapaper, It win latuir alar You will laugh over it. You will about over It You will RlKftfe Ilk' a maiden after her frit kin* If you don't. It iryonr du ty to hutnanlty to M r?tir head In a bucket of W^ter three ilmea. and pull It out twice. BILL DOLLAR HAS1 WORD TO SAY ON ANTI-BOOSTERS Bill Points Out Thai Hi** Satanic Ma jot y Was a Knocker of l'ara<li?c ami So Fell Down and Out LOYALTY NEEDED Thwe Who Oan't and Won'l Buy at Home .Might Ah Well Move to 1 i Another Town Rill Dotlar has boon working for 1 the people of this city for over four weeks. During that period of ,hi* existence he has called oil j | many citizens. He ha* seen com- [ imerclal life as It really Is for h? J I has been In many different kind* of establishments where men who believe In Elizabeth City, and Its wonderful future, do business. i Many citizens have used him to purchase a dollar's worth of Roods from their own merchants and he. 'with his numerous brothers, can keep this circle complete as Ions as they are permitted to remain I In Elizabeth City. Like a chain that is only as strong as Its weak est link so a community is only a* strong as its purchasing power, i Money made in Elizabeth City, should not be spent for buying goods away from Elizabeth City that can be purchased here. It weakens the chain. There are stores of every char acter In Elisabeth City with goods of different grades and prices and I If the citizens were as assiduous I In looking through the stores for i what they want as they are In .atudylng the printed ifiatter from [kome other city to make their se lections, they would find anything Ithey wanted ut the price they [?rant to pay. "If you live In Elizabeth City." |*ald 1)111. "for goodness Makes lie i loyal to It. If this city furnisher i you food and shelter and the en oyment you crave, speak well of t. stand by It and stand by the l*toings that It trying to do. In t pinch, an ounce of loyalty Is worth a ton of clever knocking. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage pack your trunk, and when you are on the , outside, knock to your heart's con ! tent. Rut as long as you are a part of Elizabeth City, be a real man. do not condemn It." "Satan was a good citizen of I'aradlae until be began lo "let (ieorge do It." and then because , "(leorge* did not do It the way Sat ;an felt It should be done, he began i to knock his home community. They got tired of him In Paradise and sent him to the place where lie now flndn himself. "History often repeats," con cluded Hill. (Copyright HMM!. F. W. Motarl) Woman Put In Jail As Result Of Raid On Downtown Hotel Arrcated Thursday night In a room In a downtown hotel, In company with n married woman who formerly lived at Manteo, but la aald now to b" a realdent of Kaat fjikp. A. N. Holmes, alao of Eaat !?ake, waa held under $200 hond after a hearing In recorder'* court Friday morning to await Trial Juatlce Sawyer'* Judgment Ih the caae. Judge Sawyer promised to render It at 4 o'clock In the af ternoon. The woman waa sentenced to : 80 daya on the roada, the term to be suspended conditional upofc good behavior and payment of her ahara of the court coata. She w?n unable to ralae the necenMary mon ey, and waa placed In Jail. Tha two were taken Into cua tody by Offlcera Houghton and Harrta. The policemen testified they wer% on a bed together, and that both had been at the hotel t for about two week*, occupying ' m|?Mc rooma. The defendants denied all sllegatlona of Impro priety, claiming they were merely sitting on the bed chatting caaual ly when ?4hc olTlcera came In. It la understood that the woman In tho case separated from her imsband ahout six monlha ago. At the hearing, ahe waa accompanied by a amall child. Just what wouUf be don" about her, alnce ah# waa unable to pay hef court roata, waa problematical after she had been aent to Jail Friday. I IIIMHOr TO ("MA HI/OTTK Charlotte. June 4. Biahop K d win Mouson. hlahop of Carolina of the Mathodlat Kplaropal Church. South, will eatabllah hla perma nent reatdence here about Septem ber- 1. cotton mahkkt New York. Jane 2. ? Cotton i future* opened today at the fol lowing levels July IJ.42. Oct 17.52, Jan 17Sfl, Mar. 17. 56 New York. June 4 ?Spot cot ton cloned quiet, middling 15.25, a decline of 5 polnta. Futures r toeing bid: July 15.16. Oct. 17.14. Dec 17.45, Jan. 17.45. Mar. 17.52 Hawaii's Marbles Champion ?Mk L - ??'?."w I Francis Kan. 14. Is (ho marble* champr-a r-. Hawaii and In tra veling alone all the way lo Allan Mr City to take part In the na tional tournament conducted by t he ScrippB-Howurd newspapers. It isn't ao bad, though; he carries a n open letter from the Honolulu Rotary Club, aud when In- lit opa a t any town all lie has to do In pre sent it to the local llotary Club a nd ho gets looked after. r our Persons Dead In Fire At Hamlet Hamlet. June 4. ? B. IV Baker, ujiod 219, BemU Joyner. 19 and Lewis C. Kugleka. <3. aro dead, and It. <3. Kelly, 22 |* seriously burned an the result of fire of un determined origin which destroyed the Baker boarding houao early today. The hoiiHo, a hirge frame struc ture, wan old and liullt of pltio lumber ho that the flamea made rapid hradwtry: ? I'Hb hour made i! difficult to get help hut the fire company responded Immediately to the alarm. Haker'n family with the excep tion of one small son wax away at the lime. He mudc several trip# Into the building rescuing hi* son and a young woman hoarder he fore ho was overcome. Hamlet, N. C., June 4. Pour person* are known to have per ished when Are swept a rooming bonne here early today. Among the victims whose charred hodlci were taken from thr* rnitis wsh II. I). Maker, mansger of the rooming house. The ruins were being searched for other bodies. The known dead are Maker, c man named Kelly who Ik a mechanic, a railwiy clerk named Kaglexka. and an un identified man. Ten persons are believed to have been In the houae but the check wan hampered l>y the death of liaker who probably wan the only person knowing the entire roster of gucnta. The orluili of the fire In undetermined. Vir tually the entire building wan in flames when the ahum war. ni v?t and snveral others bad narrow escaped. SOMEBODY IS DlIK FOR AN AVIM I JOI.T Rlr Walter Hotel. Italelgh June 4. With the dawn of the pri mary election day but a few hour* away, commander* of both camp* In the Renstorlal content are claiming overwhelming victory and predicting aucces* with the utmont MUraMH. Hut an the Mongolian friend of Chester (iump would say: "It In written that two men cannot win the name prlxe and that dried prune* rare ly turn out to be golden apple*." Ro nomebody Is due for a Jolt tomorrow, of the rude awakening variety, a la Flivver without nhock absorbers when It get* off the pavement. The Overman advo cates nay Reynolds will be the dis appointed one. while the "Our Hob" backern are already nympa tnltlna with Ov< rmnn Moth fa> tlonn Innlst that their rlalmn to vie lory are baaed upon the mos? tan Klhle manifestation* from all over the Mat#-? and rhere In much of worth In the claim* of both aide*. ? FV. THMOnOHF KAATIIK K <11 H IMT ( III IK II HI* l>.\Y T,he flev. Theodore Part rick, rector of Grace Church. Plymouth, will preach at Christ Church Hun day. Mr. Partrlck in one of the moat popular of the mlnlaters of the dlo cane, and Is also editor of the Mis sion Herald, the diocesan paper. Mr Partrlck haa many friends1 In the city who will ha glad to i learn of his hetng here flund*y Hotel Board Busy On Building p!ans Member* of the dlrertoiatv of j the IClixa belli City Hotel Corpora ; lion, comprlalni; the manage moot of t lio new 100 l oom hostelry (o ho i- roc ted hero tlila year hi a coat of moro tliun $425.000. aro face to face with what they reaard a* the hlggeat alngle t.thk (hey have I yet undertaken In connection with I II. That tank In the aelcctlon of plana for I In* erection of the hotel. Having Mii't at 2 o'clock Thura da| actum on n i iho jlrxloti i worked nteadlly until nearly mld i night , atopplng only about an hour ? for auppcr, considering archltecta' auggeat Ion for the new hotel. In jail, nine archi(ecta_ were on hand, and a thoimnnd and one prohli ma and puzzlca Imhhed up In the j co ii rue of the conference. The ar 'chllecta repreaented fir ma In three atntea. One rcprcaentatlve came from I'ortamouth; three from New i York; one from Fayottevllfe; one 'from Oreenaboro; one from Rich mond; one from Norfolk; and one whoae llrm ha* offlcea In Norfolk and Wllaon. Kach architect wuh allowed :i0 minute* In which to ! present hla planu. In the main, (he architects did I not prenent drawing* or aketchea. hut confined thcmanlvea to verbal Htat'-nu'iita of their vlewa an to the besi type '?r construction of the new hotel. Kach wan careful that the othera have the leant poaalhle Information on the plana he nub milted. The hotel dlrectora will he guided partially in their decision nk to the deni K n rif the new hotel, mem hera of the hoard atated, by the idea a of the operating com pany. Hence, no executive action wan taken at the meeting, and none la In immediate proapect. Lippmaii I'aye Tribute To Wake Forwl (iollrgp Wake Korea I. June 4. ? Tribute wan paid to Wake Korea! College Thursday by Walter l.ippman, edi tor of the New York World, aa a "place where long laborloua un rewarded and often dangerous aearch for truth la at III honored." The occasion waa the annual com* tit -'cement exercl^ea. He added that the democratic principle of government la not aecure In the preaent day world. He cited Ruro pea n dlctatorahlpa aa an example. AWARDS ANNOUNCED Warhlnatori. Jun?- 4 The Oer man- American mixed claim* com mlaaion today announced lO.'l awarda totalling $010.000, and bringing the grand total awarded to IU8.000.000 The largeat award waa $275, OfiO to the Orien tal Navigation Company of New York. HOMK AKTK.lt OKKHATION Mr*, J. Marshall Tool han re turned to h?r home on Baat Church atraet after having under gone an operation for appendlcltla at the tillzahath City Hoapltal. and la gelling along nic?ly. It waa an nounced today. NCM.%fF.ft Mf'HOOl, IM PltJi Ml'HT KK4JIKTKII SATVItDAY All Orantmar School puplla who wlah to take aubjecta thla aummer ?re aaVed to rcglater at the Gram mar School at 9; 30 Saturday morning. DOUBT WISDOM ABROGATING TWO THIRDS RULE NOW McAdoo Follower** 9 (f? PoHnibility and Danger of Nomination of A1 Smith for Presidency in Move WET COMBINE FEARED Crowing Strength of Ene mies Vols trad Act m Ijirge Citien Known to be Democratic a Factor II) KOIIKIIT T. SMALL Washington. June 4. Hmuo of tin* mor# conservative of the Mc Ailoo follower* In the Democratic* party art- beginning to think thet thin 1* the wrong tnuo to udvocet? the abolition of the two-thlrda rule lu the Democratic National Convention. Heretofore McAdoo men on the Democratic National Committee ? and the McAdoo com mittee-women an well ? bnve pleaded moat earneatly (or ehanKe to majority rule, belieViftC that to be the truest expression o# democracy after all. Hut at the present time, with the growlaft wet agitation In some of the most populous and powerful itnldfe* there In a well defined fear thtt'l change to the majority rule ID 1 028 might result In the nomfclfc tion of Governor Al Smith, Of New York for President of ' rate t'nited States. A strong campaign for a change of the two-thirds rule was Mm by the McAdoo followers In J9l|. A number of them have falle^'ftt* to linn this year for such a change and have lent their support tofM movement which at last aeedia be well under way. A word -jlf warning haa gone out to thei? Kd Adoo advocates to think well'W* fore they proceed further. TbO Mr Adoo faction believes Itcould have named Its man in 19 24 MHa majority rule had prevailed **iii that time. They are not aO Oft tain as to the situation In UH. The odd pert of thla whole ?* uatlon la that as McAdoo apd Smith lioea are being draw*, of|#e more both men insist tbey aye. n*t In the running. They pimM<l+ know ndthlns and to care to what la going on In a nation*! ! political aenso. Nevertheleig Smith and McAdoo forcea art dw tain to claah over the proposed nn rogation of th.o two-thirds rule which has governed nomlngtlOw In Democratic national con*f|l tions for more than 100 yeni%t t ; ? The positions of 1924 are likely to be completely reversed. Al thai I time the Smith followora were prt ; pared to bl?<* any definite action I looking to the establlshment'tfT-J majority rule, auch as obtains 14 the Republican party. Toddy some of the stancheat Smith men, like Norman Mack of New Ypft and (leorge tlrennan. of IlllflOty ar?- advocating the majority rtll* This In Itself Js enough to aM? the McAdoo people suspicion*, and they are. The next Democratic ronvnilr Hon will conslBt as usual of I Off ! delegates. Under the majority rule only 650 votes would be nae essary to a choice. The Snlfl (people claim to be able to I nearly 600 votes at this tlad. I Their principal strength, they ley. i would lie In Connecticut^ Dtljr I ware. IIIIiioIh. Maryland. Mr? ^ chusetts, Michigan. Minn* New Jorsey. Naw York. Ohio. mont, Pennsylvania. Rhode land and Wisconsin, with scatter ing votes from all the remalhlnk states. "Favorite Bous" might reduce the Smith estimate to a very con siderable extent . but with the a? i Jorlty rule prevailing It la belftvM : t he favorite sons booms would col I lapse much more quickly that iM been the rase under the two tfclMa system The Smith people 0#0 counting upon the Maryland Vdte for Instsnce. but It appenra cerUtt at this time that Maryland 0*00 again will offer Oovernor WtchlO as her Prealdentlal candidate. Furthermore Maryland haa hit* hope* of nominating her go v ends', If Former Senator Dnvld WaUh snrreeda thlafall In defeating Sen aim William M. Butlar. chalraan of the Republican National Cea mlttee and close polRlcal friend el President Coolldge. he. too. would he a favorite son, and Masaeentt sets would stand behind Ma (OV a long, hard, spell. The Democrats have any nfattr hers of '"sons" who might, ma* by any Increase In wet sentlaMt the next two yeara may bring, ba^ the Al Smith advocates Insist ftiete man entitled to flrat cell on tMe sentiment and any votea It ??* carry with It. In sny event the situation dt It sises up today la sufficiently alarming to the McAdoo foreee te rause them to hack-pedal diligent ly on their 1114 position. w ? Bomb Explodes At American Legation Montevideo, Uruguay. Juu 4. ? A bomb wee exploded it IM door ol the America* LogatlM to day. Home damage wee raated but *o one w?? Injured. . KIHT nesote. S?l