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PLYMOUTH, N. C. FRIDAY. JANUARY 20. 1911,
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THE TIETHAT BINDS
Two Methodist Bodies Agree
to Come Together.
CATpOGA CHURCHES JOIN
Two Members of The Committee on
Organic Union Participated in the
Dlscussio To. Concolidate and
Build One Great Church.
Chattanooga, Tenn., A long step
was taken here in the organic union
of Methodism in America when Cen
tenary Methodist Episcopal Church
South and the Methodist Episcopal
Church, (Northern branch) agreed to
consolidate and build one great cfcurch
and be cne people.
A meeting of interest to American
Methodism as a whole was held in
this city. Twenty-five representatives
of each branch of tWe Church discuss
ed the future of Methodism in a frank,
fraternal way. Members of these
two Churches, which separated in 1845
on aceount of political and ecclesias
tical differences, declared themselves
one in spirit and while recognizing
loyalty to their respective denomina
tions, every speaker showed himself
in favor of a reunion of the Metho
dist family in America. John A.
Patten and Bishop William M. An
drews, both members of the com
mission on organic union, participat
ed in the discussion. President John
P. Rice of the Chattanooga Univer
sity made a strong appeal for union.
COLORADO SENATOR PASSES.
Charles J. Hughes Died After an Ill
ness of Nearly a Year.
Denver, Colo. Charles James
Hughes, Jr., junior United States
Senator from Colorado, died at his
home here after an illness of nearly
a year.
Charles James Hughes, Jr., was
born in Kingston, Missouri, Febru
ary 16, 1853, his father being an at
torney and the family prominent in
' Missouri politics. He began the prac
' tice of the law in 1877, coming in
- that year to Colorado. Here he be
came one of the most noted mining
lawyers in the country.
He was indorsed in 1908 by the
Democrats for United States Senator
and elected to that office by the next
CHARLES J. HUGHE8.
United States Senator from Colorado.
Legislature. He married. Miss Lucy
Menefe of a Virginia family in Rich
mond, Mo., September 1, 1874.
Ticket Collectors Permanent System.
Washington The management of
the Southern Railway Company has
not had under consideration any
change of policy with regard to the
employment of ticket collectors on
its passenger trains. On the other
hand, the results that have been" ob
tained are such as fully to warrant
the continuation of the system.
Sold His Wife for $8.00.
Beverly, N .J. Some weeks ago
Cornelius Pace, of Beverly, decided
that he was tired of his wife and,
after some negotiations, sold the wo
man to Joseph Flowers for $8.00.
Mrs. Pace, apparently satisfied, De
came Flowers' housekeeper. Three
days later Pace became tired of be
ing his own cook and endeavored to
cancel the trade. He sent the
"woman back. Pace now proposes to
pay $40 toward a divorce, so his wife
might marry Flowers.
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Population Figures for Georgia.
Washington Georgia's municipali
ties showing a population in excess
of 5,000 made an average increase of
over 48 per cent, during the last ten
years. Statistics of the thirteenth
census indicate that they contribu
ted 39 per cent, of the State's total
increase in population of 392,790.
This leaves 61 per cent, as the jSart
of the increase contributed by the
rural districts.
The number of cities in 1900 hav
ing more ttan ' 5,000 was 13, while
1910 shows 23, an increase of 10.
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NECESSITIES TAKE . DROP.
Prices on Butter, Eggs, Poultry and
Cheese Come Tumbling Down In
Cold Storage For Years.
Chicago. Millions of pounds of
butter, eggs, cheese and poultry held
in cold storage warehouses here will
be thrown on the market before May
1 and a general tumbling of food
prices is expected at once, according
to commission merchants.
Numerous Chicago commission men
are said to be facing failyre as a re
sult of their efforts to maintain an
artificial price on the necessities of
life. The inability further Jo uphold
the price is said to be doue to a com
bination of circumstances, - chief of
which are the open winter, of 1911
and the banner crops of 1910.
Three commission men failed , in
the last week as a result, it is said, of
holding great quantities of butter,
which they purchased at a:i average
price of 31 cents a pound and now
are unable to market for more than
27 or 28 cents a pound.
While the wholesale prices of but
ter and eggs have dropped within the
last few s weeks, there has as yet been
no decline in the retail prices.
Some of the produce which now is
to be unloaded on a falling market
has been in warehouses for as long
as five years. By means of the cold
storage houses, commission men have
been able to maintain an artificial
price not only to "consumer, but to
the producer, it is said.
Thirty-two warehouses are said to
have forty-four million pounds of
butter, eggs and poultry.
The increased sale of oleomargarine
is given as an added cause of the
situation that the commission men
now find themselves facing. Thou
sands of consumers, unable to pay
the price at which butter has been
held, have become users of oleo
margarine, according to information
gathered here by dealers.
Butter is six cents a pound lower
wholesale than it was a year ago and
is selling to grocers at the lowest
figure in five years.
New York. Commission men in
New York announce the same con
ditions in the trade as outlined in
the Chicago dispatches. The whole
salers were emphatic in their state
ments that substantial reductions
would be made and they wanted the
news made public in order that the
consumer might demand correspond
ing cuts from his dealer.' In other
words, they feared that the retail
men, although buying from jobber at
chaper rates, would maintain their
prices to customers.
According to the jobbers, the finest
fresh eggs should sell here at
from 33 to 35 cents a. dozen as against
from 50 to 55 cents last week. The
finest grades of butter, they said,
should bring from 33 to 35 cents a
pound, as compared with 50 to 52
cents last week.
Kansas City. "There has been no
decrease in prices of meats or pro
visions so far as I know, and the
price of meat promises to increase
soon," said a leading packer, when
asked regarding a reported change in
food prices. He also said that none
of th.e packing companies had any
surplus of live stock and the prices
which were strong last week would
probably be higher during the coming
weeks.
Fined $1,750 For Selling Liquor.
Valdosta, Ga. John A. Mansor, a
wealthy fruit dealer here, plead guilty
to three counts of selling liquor, and
was fined a total of $1,750 with an
alternative of two years on the chain
gang. He paid the fine, which sets a
new record for heavy penalties for
liquor selling.
King George's Coronation.
London, The executive committee
having in charge the plans relative
to the coronation of King George met
and completed tentative arrange
ments which will if anything, be on
a more extensive plan than at the
time of King Edward's coronation.
The royal progress through the capi
tal after the ceremony, which was
postponed in Edward's time owing to
the King's delicate health, will take
place on June 23. It will be one of
the greatest celebrations ever held.
Great Battleship Launched.
Philadelphia. Amid the tooting of.
whistles, the ringing of bells and
the cheers of thousands of specta
tors the battleship . Arkansas, the
largest fighting ship ever constructed
in this country was launched from
the yard of the New York Shipbuild
ing Company at Camden, N. J. Miss
Mary Macon, daughter of Congress
man Robert B. Macon, of Arkansas,
was the sponsor and smashed a bot
tle of champagne against the great
prow of the ship as it slid away from
her.
BAD MANAGEMENT.
Brandeis Reason Why Rates
Should Not Advance.
HOW TO REDUCE THE EXPENSE-
Scientific Management Would Bring
Proper Results Would Save Three
Per Cent, of Aggregate Cost Steel
Rails Cost too Much.
Washington "We contend that
rates are ample but that, the expense
of operation is excessive; that wages
are pot too high, but that, as the
management is unscientific, labor,
material, equipment and plant fail to
give adequate results. We plead for
the introduction of scientific man
agement, under which the railroads
3hall get 100 cents for every dollar
expended."
In opening his argument for the
shippers of the Atlantic seaboard be
fore the interstate commerce com
mission, Louis D. Brandeis, cf
oston, thus presented the funda
mental reason, in his mind, why
freight rates should not be advanced
as proposed by the railways.
Co-operation also, in Mr. Barn
deis opinion, would secure reduc
tions in the cost of steel rails, in
the price of which, he believes, an
enormous saving could be made. He
suggested, however, that no effort
was being made by the railroads to
obtain a reduction in the price cf
steel rails because of the financial
connections of railroad officials with
the four great steel companies.
"The, economies which would re
sult if all the railroads in the United
States inrtoduced scientific manage
ment have been estimated at a mil
lion dollars a day," said Mr. Bran
deis. "This would result in reduc
ing the present operating cost of the
railroads an average of 20 per cent."
Mr. Brandeis concluded his argu
ment with the declaration that the
railroads of the country were con
fronted with the greatest opportun
ity of their existence to increase the
efficiency of their labor, equipment
and plants. If they should embrace
the opportunity they would make
for themselves and for the shipping
interests of the country and of the
world. If they should not the result
would be, in response to an irresist
able popular clamor and demand, the
government ownership of railroads of
the United States.
BEYRL E. CARROLL.
Governor of Iowa.
Des Moines, Iowa. In his message
to the legislature, Governor B. F.
Qarroll recommends consurrence
in the proposed income tax amend
ment to the federal constitution, an
arbitration board for labor disputes
and a non-partisan public utilities
commission.
Alabama Increases Governor's Salary.
Montgomery, Ala., By a vote of
23 to 9 the Senate passed the bill in
creasing the salary of the incoming
Governor to $7,500. It is understood
that Governor' Comer will sign the
measure.
By unanimous vote the House
adopted a resolution aimed to keep
Brooks Lawrence, the prohibition
agitator, out of the halls of the Gen
eral Assembly. It directs the Gov
ernor to take legal stepts to inforce
the resolution.
White Men Attack Negro Minstrels.
Benton, Ark. One negro man wa3
killed, and one negro man and two
negro women were injured in a race
riot here following a performance
by negro minstrels from New Or
leans. The performers en route to
their boarding house were attacked
by a party of 15 or 20 unidentified
white men. Mayor M. H. Holloman
has called on all law-abiding citizens
to assist in running down the perpe
trators of what he terms "a crime
that has disgraced the community.
REPRESENTATION FIXED.
Census-Committee Reports Favorably
, Bill Fixing Membership at 433
Measure to be Considered Soon.
Washington. The Crumpacker,
congressional reapportionment bill,
fixing the House membership at 433,
exclusive of Arizona and New Mexi
co, has been favorably reported to
the House by the census committee
on motion of Representative Bur
leigh of Maine. The bill will be
brought up in the House at the ear
liest opportunity.
The bill was amended in commit
tee so as to provide that the reap
portionment should not be made by
the Legislatures of the States, a pro
vision ,n?,ually made in the reappor-tionmfVg-'bills,
but;, omitted from this
one because of conflicting legislation
in several States covering the .mat
ter. V
The measure will provoke a lively
discussion when it comes up on the
floor of the House, for there are
many differing views as the the re
apportionment. The 433 was fixed
by the committee as the lowest num
ber which would avoid reducing the
numerical representation of States.
SENATOR NOT ENTITLED SEAT.
Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin Elect
ed by Questionable Methods.
Madison, Wis. "The nomination in
the primary and the election to the
United States Senate by the Legisla
ture of Isaac Stephenson are null
and vcid, on account of attempted
briberies and corrupt practice by
ISAAC STEPHENSON.
United States Senator from Wisconsin.
Calhoi;
nicliem as a Z118 campaign leaders,
agt-erlngvy Jrkers; and of violations
of xmched J of Wisconsin defining
and P-hcis. ?s offenses against the
elective franchise."
This is the gist of the findings of
a special senatorial investigating
committee in its report submitted to
Govenor Francis E. McGpvern. The
report is signed by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Thomas Morris and Senator
Spencer W. Marsh (Republicans)
and Senator Paul Hustings (Demo
crat.)! Early in the legislative session of
1909, resolutions were itnroduced in
both houses calling for an investiga
tion of the senatorial primary elec
tion. The resolutions were particu
larly pointed at United States Sena
tor Isaac Stephenson, who, according
to his own report, filed with the Sec
retary of State, expended $107,000
during the campaign.
Son Succeeds Father.
Charleston, W. Va. Gov. Glasscock
has appointed Davis Elkins to suc
ceed the late Senator Elkins, his
father.
He is the eldest son of the late
West Virginia statesman.
Mr. Elkins is now in Washingt6n
at the home of his mother.
Youngest Grandfather in World.
Spencer, N. C. Mr. V. H. Bryson
of Spencer, it is believed, holds the
record as the youngest grandfather
in the world, his age being 33. He
was married when 14 years of age,
his wife being only thirteen and one
half. His oldest son was married at
the age of 17 and who at the age of
18 years presented to the elder Bry
son a grandson, the grandfather be
ing less than 33 years of age. Early
marriage appears to run in the fam
ily. To Probe Naval Hoodoo.
Washington Officers of the chief
engineer's office of the Navy De
partment are preparing to make an
investigation of the unprecedented
series of accidents which have oc
curred to naval vessels the past
week, crippling four vessels. The
battleship fleet lost two, the South
Carolina and the Michigan; the
eq auo soi Bq uoapBnbs jasmao
Washington, while the gunboat Du
buque, ordered to duty in Caribbean
waters, is also to be laid up.
N. C. GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The Tar Heel representatives in the
legislature are meeting the demands
made upon them in a complete and
satisfactory manner.
Representative Dillard of Cherokee
introduced in the House a bill for the
protection of inland fisheries and
game in the State that, if enacted,
will place this work in the hands of a
game commission of three members,
to be appointed by the Governor, tak
ing the place of the State Audubon
Society. It is understood that the
Audubon Society officials will not op
pose it. The commissioners are to be
paid $4 a day while actually in ses
sion and they are given enlarged
powers governing fishing and hunt
ing.
Petitions were presented by Rep
resentative Grier of Mecklenburg
from the ministers of Charlotte
against the desecration of the Sab
bath and in regard to the sale of
liquor by clubs.
Bills Passed Final Reading.
Regulate service of summons, re
quiring sheriff to leave copy in all
cases.
Joint resolution inviting Logan W.
Eage to address Legislature on roads
January 26.
Senate bills passed final readings in
the House:
Senate resolution endorsing New
Orleans as the site for the Panama
exposition ratified.
Same New Bills.
Reinhardt of Lincoln: Prescribing
punishment for making false state
ments to obtain credit.
Ewart also introduced a bill to re
duce sleeping car berths in this
State to $1.25 for lower and $1 for
upper.
Battle of Wake offered a bill to
authorize the State Fair Association
to own property to the value of $150,'
000 instead of $50,000 as now limited.
An investigation of the affairs of
Mattamuskeet Railway, in which the
State owns much stock for convict
labor, is provided in a joint resolu
tion by Ewart.
The House committee on roads and
turnpikes has decided to report fav
orably the bill to establish the Le-noif-Blowing
Rock turnpinke with .the
use of State convict labor, the State
to receive stock in the road.
A bill just introduced in the Senate
by Hawkins of Warren would limit
fidelity and surety companies so that
they cannot assume risks of more
than ten per cent of their capital and
surplus.
Armstrong of Montgomery: Auth
orizing the clerk of the superior court
to pay out sums of money to indigent
children; also providing for filing a
bond or deposit to secure costs and
fees in reference cases.
The committee on propositions and
grievances reported without preju
dice the bill to conserve the cattle
supply of the State, recommending
that it be referred to the committee
on judiciary, which was done.
A favorable report was made on the
bill requesting the State's Represen
tatives and Senators in Congress to
vote for New Orleans as the logical
place for holding the World's Fair,
but Senator Gralfam objected to the
word "logical" in the bill and offered
a substitute, which passed its read
ings and was ordered engrossed and
sent to the House.
The committee on propositions and
grievances reported favorably on the
House bill prohibiting the sale of
near-beer, beerine or other drinks
containing alchohol, in Macon county,
tagging on an amendment providing
that the bill should not interfere
with the sale of soda fountain drinks.
Senator Bassett's motion to postpone
action was lost and during the lengthy
discussion a number of Senators took
occasion to express their views on
prohibition in no uncertain terms.
The feeling seemed to prevail that a
State-wide anti-near-beer bill covering
this matter would soon come up.
After a spirited discussion of Sena
tor Barham's bill relative to the speed
of automobiles and penalty for viola
tion It was re-referred to the commit
tee on propositions and . grievances.
His bill provides a change so as to
leave the speed limit to be determined
by beards of aldermen in cities and
towns and giving justices of the peace
jurisdiction in dealing with vialators.
Strope of Gaston: Resolution from
ministers of Gaston urging State-wide
legislation against near-beer.
Mease of Haywood: For the relief
of free negroes who were Confederate
soldiers.
Carr of Durham: Regulate fees of
officers in counties which have no
auditors.
Caviness of Wilkes: Provide free
school books for indigent school chil
dren.
' Favors Income Tax.
The Senate committee on constitu
tional amendments decides to report
favorably the joint resolution to
ratify the amendment to the Federal
constitution for an income tax.
THE LAW MAN!
Alabama Governor's Message
to The General Assembly.
VIRTUE MUST BE BORN IN MEN:
Says Prohibition is Failure in Ala
bama Favors Strong Local Option
Law Wants Excise Commission
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Rotten Beverages Ruin.
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Montgomery, Ala. In his inaugural
address, Governor Emett O'Neal pro
nounced Alabama's drastic prohibi-'
tion laws an invasion of individual .
rights and constitutional guarantees
and declared the attempt to insert a
prohVbtion clause in the State consti
tution the offspring of intolerance and
bigotry. He proclaimed prohibition at
failure in Alabama and recommended
a general local option law.
He advocated a divorce between
liquor interests and politics to be ao
complished by the creating of an ex
cise commission vested with the pow
er to control the liquor traffic. H
declared that virtue could not be leg
islated into men's lives and that the,
solution of the problem was the prop
er regulation of the liquor traffic
mainly along the lines of prohibiting
the sale of anything except pure
liquors: ' ' j
Referring to the prohibticn law
enacted in 1907 and 1909, he said:
"I have reserved a review of those
statutes for my regular .message, but
it may not be improper, to state that
certain provisions of those laws, more
radical, extreme and arbitrary than
any before enacted in the Southern
States, created public alarm and pro
voked general apprehension by their
invasion of individual-rights and constitutional-guarantees."
He characterized the prohibtioa
amendment as both unwise and un
necessary and the offspring of that
fatal union of intolerance and bigotry
which has filled the pages of history
with the darkest chapters of human
folly and tyranny."
"We, who are commissioned to
execute and make the laws for fhef
people of Alabama," he said, "tow
not children, but vgrown-up men. We
are not idealists or theorists seeking
some impossible LTtopia. Wei
are practical men of affair
acquainted with the world and some
experience of its condition. We take
poor, weak human nature as it t la,
for we know that the millenlum has
not yet arrived. We advocate tem
perance. We uphold the highest
standard of Christian character. We
need the healing voice of Christian
charity, but we know that we cannot
legislate virtue into men's lives. Wi
recognize that in all liquor, legislatioi
there must be two policies. We must
aim either at the abolition or the
regulation of the traffic.
"In my opinion prohibtion should
be the established policy of the State
with a general local option law to
take effect at the next general elec
tions. The people want no more elec
tions than are necessary to ascertain
the public will. Such elections dis
turb the public peace and renew- the
evils of bitter agitation and political
turmoil. Local option means the
right of the unit affected to control
the liquor traffic."
In recommending an excise com
mission he said: ,
"In my mind nearly all the evils
of modern intemperance have come
from drinking cheap, debased and
adulterated articles of alcoholic bev
erages. We should, therefore, by
proper provisions, limit the sale of
those distilled and fermented bever
ages which are recognized by leading
chemists and experts as least inju
rious to the public health.
Letter That Was Delayed.
New York Uncle Sam set a new
record in rapid postal servjee when
at Yonkers a letter was delivered
sent from Geneva, N. Y on April 29,
1838. Yonkers is 335 miles from Ge
neva. It took the letter 72 years to
travel the distance an average of five!
miles a year. '
Both the sender of the letter and
the man to whom it was addressed
are dead, the latter 40 years age
Mrs. Walter Paddock, of the old Pad
dock family, of Yonkers, received it
Colored People Dying Rapidly.
New York When the death statis
tics of the Health Department for
1910 are tabulated in the near future
San Juan Hill, inhabited principally
by negroes, will show the highest
death rate for any one section of the
city, it was learned. According to
department figures 300 negro chil
dren out of every 1,000 born do not
live. The average death rate among
negroes of all ages, as compared with
whites in this city, is just douhlg.
They live so crawded.