North Carolina Newspapers

1 1 h i ?I IN WAX a Year, lg Advance . "FOR OOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. , - Umgm Cvpy 9 Cv VOL. XXI, PLYMOUTH. N, C FRIDAY APRIL 7, 1911 NO. 42. . ' i ' ' 1 - . " , - ., , , , . , ., , - ... r A EFFORTOFRALEIGH CAMPAIGN FOR Y. M. C. A. BUILD ING ROUNDED UP WITH TOTAL OF $75,454. CONDITION OF STATE BANKS Very Nice Committee Assignments Given to North Carolina Represen tatives in Congress Flag With s History Soldiers' Rifle Contests. Raleigh. Raleigh's eight-day campai$i for a ' Y. M. C. A. building fund was round ed up with a grand total of $75,454, thus exceeding by $10,454 the orig inal $65,000 fund for which the cam paign started. The greatest enthu siasm characterized the final meet ing, at which a supper was served to the workers. There were 2,071 sub scriptions. Of these, the brigade of elder men secured 724, aggregating i $31,213 and the young men's bri gade secured 1,344 subscriptions, ag gregating $38,691. Quite a number of out-of-town t subscriptions were an nounced. There was an especially notable tel egram from Greensboro to the effect that 50 citizens of that city authoriz ed a pledge of.. $500 as that city's do nation, with the desire that it head an out-of-town f supplementary fund to provide for the state capital city a Y. M. C. A. yet more creditable to the state, whatever the fund raised In Raleigh would warrant, this to be an expression of appreciation for Ral eigh hospitality and a manifestation of tate pride in the state capital. The telegram proposed Gen. J. S. Carr as director of the campaign for the proposed supplementary fund. Condition of North Carolina Banks, i The summary of the condition of ! North Carolina state banks issued ;by the corporation commission, shows 'total resources $63,594,450 and an in crease of $170,510 in capital stock; ,$'182,205 in total resources and $114, :147 increase in total deposits during the past three months. The number of banks has increased during that time rom 350 to 353. The statement is based on reports of condition of banks March 7. The deposits at that time were: Time certificates of de posits, $7,004,013; deposits subject to check, $28,900,742; demand certifi cates on deposit, $3,014,222; savings deposits, $7,885,743. The total capital stock- is $9,200,757; surplus, $2,162, 742; undivided profits, $2,013,248. In - connection with 'the statement of re sources interesting features are: Loans and disccunts $44,887,159; overdrafts, $526,523; United States bonds. $10,900 and North Carolina bonds, $263,500; all other stocks, bonds and mortgages, $1,363,418; banking houses and furniture, $1, 827,555. - Participation of Schools in $100,000. There are being sent out from the state department of education the checks to the various counties par ticipating for their portion of the sec ond $100,000 state appropriation for providing.' the minimum four-months school terms of public schools. This year there was only $92,500 available on account of the $7,500 rural liL'ary annronriation having to come out of this fund every second year. Then, too, there were 65 of the coun ties in the state ask!ag and receiving aid from the fund. For this reason it became necessary to scale down considerably the amounts that were asked for, thereby failing in the ef fort to afford the four-months term after all. Poultry Building for State Fair. Ground has been broken for the new poultry building that is to be added to the state fair group before the next fair in October. This poul try building is to be 64x150 feet. It will have a concrete floor and all modern equipment for such a building with the most approved light and ven tilating arrangements. The very great quickening of interest in poul try raising hereabouts in recent "years and, indeed, in recent months, gives every indication that the poultry, di vision of the state fair will be one of the most popular features, an objec tive point of absorbing interest for all classes of people from both the cities and the country. Commutation Granted a Prisoner. Governor Kitchin granted a com mutation1 for L. A. Sprouse, Madison county, who is serving a 5-year sen tence in the penitentiary for barn burning. He has served over 2 years of the sentence. The barn was the property of the father of the prisoner and contained corn owned by the prosecuting witness. The governor explains that many citizens express doubt of the guilt of the prisoner, these and officers, including judge and solicitor, recommend pardon and the commutation is conditional on good behavior. NORTH STATE IS HONORED Representatives Given Nice Assign ments on House Committees'. Raleigh. North Carolina is probably bettei taken care of on the various com mittees than any other state In the Union. The following assignments for the state are given: Webb, judiciary and patents; Page, appropriations; Pou, chairman claims; Kitchin, ways and means; Small, riv ers and harbors, census; Goodwin charman civil service reform, public lands; Stedman, foreign affairs, elec tion of president, vice president and representatives in congress; Dough ton, banking and currency, agricul tural department expenditures; . Gud ger, public buildings and grounds, In dian affairs; Faison, merchant ma rine, navy department expenditures. The state has beengiven member ship on five of the most important committees of the house and two im portant chairmanships. The assignmnet of Representative Webb to the patent committee is a compliment as it was decided that owing to the fact that a thorough in vestigation should be made in the patent division of the government this committee should be made as strong as the judiciary. Soldiers' Coming Rifle Contests. For the target practice meets of teams representing the various com panies of the three regiments of the North Carolina national guard recent ly ordered by adjutant general R. L. Leinster at Raleigh, Goldsboro and Gastonia, where there are good rifle ranges, there are being arranged 6y the local companies very desirable prizes. - They will include $20 and $10 first and second prizes for the best team record and an individual record prize of $5. There may be also a number of special prizes. For in stance, Capt. Bulwinkle of the Gas tonia company writes General Lein ster that there will be a silver loving cup given there for the best individ ual record by an officer in pistol prac tice. The dates for these target contests are, Raleigh, April 18 to 20; Goldsboro, April 25 to 27 and Gas tonia, May 3 to 5. Declines to Serve on Commission. Col. A. H. Boyden. state senator from Rowan, who was tenederd by Governor Kitchin a place on the state building commission which is to have charge' .of the expenditure and the erection of the $250,000 administra tion building, has notified the gover nor that he cannot serve as a member of the commission. He believes that a member of the legislature should not serve on the commission. Historic Revolutionary Flag. At1 the close of the Revolutionary War, Micajah Bullock, : of Granville county, brought home the flag of his regiment, which had been carried through the battle of Guilford Court Housed as well . as in other actions. It remained in Granville county for more than a hundred years, but in 1909 the descendants of Mr. Bullock presented it to the Grand Lodge of Masons, and it has been " carefully treasured in the Masonic Temple at Raleigh ever since. As this is the only Revolutionary flag known to be in North Carolina, and as it was car ried at Guilford . Court House, the Society of Sons of . the Revolution obtained permission to have a draw ing made of it, the sketch being after wards sent to New York, with direc tions to make an exact reproduction. The new flag has just been received. It was 3ent to Greensboro andj-will be kept until the 4th of July, when it will be formally presented. This flag is very peculiar and inter esting in design, being a national flag with red and blue stripes, instead of red and white, as w now; and it has blue stars on a white field, instead of white stars on a blue field, as the present United States flag. It is nine feet long and four and one-third feet wide. Gen. Julian Carr's Gift to Y. M. C. A. Among the subscription announce ments at the Y. M. C. A. luncheon none was greeted with more enthu siastic applause than the g!ft of $500 from . General Julian S. Carr, which was announced by Mr. W. H. Pace, captain of Company C. Going to Political Science Meet. Governor Kitchin has commissioned a number of delegates from thi3 state for the American Academy of Political science that will be in session in Philadelphia May 7 and 8. They are W. E. Springer, Wilmington; J. V. Simms, Raleigh; W. E. Faison, Ral eigh; W. D. Pethel, Spencer; W. T. Parker, High Point. Ashley Home's Gift to Y. M. C. A. There is no citizen of North Caro lina who does not live in the city of Raleigh who is more deeply interest ed in its welfare, who ha3 more money invested in its enterprises and who has been a more consistent friend to everything good in Raleigh than Mr. Ashley Home, of Clayton. At the big meeting, one of the most inter esting things was the' announcement by Mr. Carey J. Hunter, whose lead-, ership in this Y. M. C. A. fight en titles him to the gratitude of the whole community, that Mr. Horr.e had pledged $500 for the buildiag, DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS NAMES COMMITTEES MEETING OF DEMOCRATS WAS NOTEWORTHY FOR ITS - HARMONY. CHANGES IN THE RULES Controlling Party Adopts a Program Of Proceedure for Extra Session. Washington. The Democratic cau cus was noteworthy for its harmony and the smoothness of its progress, and the Democratic members of "the new house of representatives adopt ed without change the committee as signments, the economy program and the new rules prepared for. the com ing session by the committees that have been working during the last month. Important changes In proceedure and a general reorganization of the house will result from the action of the Democrats. The power of nam ing committees was definitely taken from the Speaker by the rules and lodged in the house itself. Committee members are to be elected by the house, not only in the first Instance, but also in the filling of vacancies" A saving of $182,000 in the annual cxst of running congress is promised through the cutting out of superflu ous employees and inactive commit tees and through the abolishment of the time-honored "extra months' pay." Appointive places are all put into the hands of one committee, a special body to be known as the committee on organization. . The important changes in the rules under which the new congress will operate are: , The selection of committees by, the house. A provision to prevent filibustering under the rule giving authority to dis charge committees from considera tion of bills. A provision permitting amendments to appropriation bills whenever these amendments will result in retrench ment of national expenditures. Authority for bills to come up twice for passage under the unanimous con sent privilege. The rule to prevent filibustering on a motion to discharge a committee from custody of a bill is the result of a filibuster conducted in the last ses sion by Representative Mann of Illi nois. He had the postoffice reorgani zation bill placed on the calendar un der, this rule and demanded that it be read- completely, an operation that consumed several days. , The new rule provides that a bill shall be read only by its title and that its title shall not contain more than 100 words. It prohibits any member from having before the house at any one time more than two mo tions to discharge committees from the custody of bills. From the temper of the Democratic members after the caucus- there is lit tle prospect of a short session. Here is the program tor me ses sion, as contained in resolutions adopted by the caucus: Resolved, That the , . Democratic members of the various committees cf the house are directed not to re port to-the house during the first ses sion of the Sixty-second congress, un less hereafter directed by this caucus, any legislation except in reference to the following matters: 1. The election of United Sttaes senators by the people. 2. Legislation - relating to the pub licity of campaign contributions be fore and after elections. 3. The Canadian reciprocity agree ment, general tariff legislation and legislation affecting the revenue of the government. , , . 4. The reapportionment of the house of representatives to conform to the thirteenth decennial census. 5. Resolutions' of inquiry and reso lutions touching the action of the ex ecutive departments. 6. The admission of the territories of New Mexico and Arizona to. state hood. 7. Any deficiency bills that the exi gencies of the government may re quire to be considered at this time Race Riots in Delaware. Laurel, Del. The ill feeling which bas existed for some time between white and colored residents of Laurel culminated in a race riot, resulting in the death of a white boy, the serious injury cf two white men and minor injuries to a number of white and colored men, and damage to a num ber cf buildings. A mob of armed negroes swooped down upon a crowd of spectators in the main thorough fare of the town and fired a volley of bullets and buckshot into the crowd, killing cne and wounding many. , TWO NEW LEADERS OF CONGRESS CHAMP CLARK Congressman From Ninth' District of Missouri. When congress met in special ' session Tuesday, April 4, two new par ty leaders were found in the place of Speaker Joseph G. Cannon ami Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. They were Congressman ' and Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri and Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, who succeeded Aldrich as chairman of the finance com mittee. This position carries with it the leadership in the upper house. Penrose, a Republican, will undoubtedly endeavor to line up the con servative forces in the senate to oppose any radical .tariff provisions that the Democratic house may pass. There will be very interesting battles between the Democratic lower house and the Republican upper house, and the brunt of them will fall on Penrose and Clark. ENGLISH URGE PEACE PACT ARBITRATION MOVEMENT BE TWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA EULOGUIZED. Meeting to Celebrate Tercentenary of King James' Version of the Bible. London, 'England. At a great meet ing of churchmen and statesmen in Albert Hall to celebrate the tercente nary of the revision of the English translation of the Bible by . a commis s'on which completed the so-called King James version in 1611, Premier Asquith and Whitelaw Reid, the Amer ican ambassador, who were the prin cipal speakers, seized the opportunity to eulogize the arbitration movement. Suffragettes interfered with the pro ceedings, and when the prime minis ter began they unfurled banners bear ing the inscription: "Votes for wom en." The banners were torn up after a free fight. In his address Mr. As quith said: ' "The English Bible belongs not only tc the subjects of King George, but to the whole English-sjeaking world. One of the truths which has been slowly realized, and which now I be lieve is firmly rooted in the faith of Christian men nd women" on both sides of the Atlantic is that. wrar be tween English-speaking people would be not only a crime against civiliza tion, but an unforgivable breach of these few commandments .Which are enshrined in the New Testament, on which nations have been bred. "There surely could not be a more worthy, a more appropriate, a more splendid monument of this tercente nary year than it should, witness the sealing of a solemn pact between us, which would put an end once for. all to the hideous and unthinkable pos sibilities of fratricidal strife." WEEVIL FRIGHTENS ALABAMA Cotton Seed From Infected Districts Have Been Sent Into the State. Montgomery, Ala. So alarming has become the indiscriminate ship ment of cotton seed and cotton seed meal into Alabama from districts in fected with the boll weevil that State Commissioner of Agriculture R. F. Kolb has called a special meeting of the state hoard of horticulture to as semble in Montgomery to adopt dras tic measures for the enforcement ot the state laws on this subject. New Counterfeit $10 Note. Washington. A new counterfeit ten-doilar United States note, a' pho tographic prqduction of the Buffalo note, not very cleverly executed, was announced by the secret service. It is of the 1901 series, bearing the por traits of Lewis and Clark, the back of the note being reddish brown in stead of green. World Peace a Dream. Berlin, Germany. Discussing the proposed extension of international arbitration in the reichstag, Chancel lor Von Bethmann-Hollwegg classed universal arbitration and universal disarmament as ideals Impossible ot realization. "The nations, including Germany," said the chancellor, "have been talking disarmament since the first Hugue conference, but neither in Germany nor elsewhere has a practi cal plan been proposed. Any confer ence on this subjtct is bound to be fruitless." . - BOIES PENROSE. U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania. WAVE OF COLOR HYSTERIA i ' National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People Meeto in New York. Boston, Mass.-v-A survey of the work that is being done by the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People was given at the annual conference of the associa tion here' by Oswald Garrison Villard, a New York newspaper publisher, who is chairman of the executive commit tee of the association. Mr. Viiiard in the beginning, of his address stated that the association was organized because the 'situation of the negro in the : United States called for a strong militant organiza tion to defend his rights and forward his causes." Continuing trie speaker said: "There can be no doubt that a wave of color hysteria is sweeping over the country. The road of the aspiring colored man or woman becomes more and more difficult; he is abused for his low associations. Let him seek to rise above them, and what happens? Despite the fact that he has for years been told that if he acquires property and buys himself a house, all will be well with him and his family, , lr he deos so in a section of a city whether it be New York, Seattle, Baltimore or Richmond, in which he may as sure to' his children good associations, pure air and clean streets, he is as sailed as if his presence there, meant the bringing in of a taint worse than leprosy, and the laws are Invoked against him. "In Southern cities, the public libra ries are closed in the face of the col ored man who would make himself a useful, law-abiding and valuable citi zen. His wife may be ill and desire the -aid of Northern surgeons; if so she .must travel in a day coach, and berth, 'and by the son cf Abraham Lincoln even though it may cost her her life as it did in one case of which we know. "The Labor Unionists, some Social ists, even some Jews, who ought, in all conscience, to realize what oppres sion means and the wickedness of at tempts to hold down, a race, would withhold a helping hand to the color ed man and thereby mock the teach ings of Christianity. CHANGES IN POSTAL SERVICE Postmaster General Reorganizing the Railway Mail Service. Washington. Drastic action was taken by Postmaster General Hitch cock in effecting a reorganization of, the railway mail service. A round dozen of changes of the most. import ant offices in the service were made by Mr. Hitchcock as a result of a long and careful investigation and thorough consideration. While signing the necessary orders for the change, Mr. Hitchcock said:, "The investigation which was con ducted so long and so carefully indi cated clearly that the action which I have taken was absolutely necessary. Children Jump for Their Lives. Democcst, Ga. Four hundred chil dren, mostly in the primary grades, leaped from the windows of the Hili school building at Piedmont college, and were saved from death, when fir was discovered eating Its way through the structure. More than a score oi children were injured, but none fatal ly, owing to the short distance they jumped. When the alarm was sound ed the flames had gained such head way that panic- reigned, pupils and teachers alike piling headlong from the windows. . ,i O'CORMAH IS CHOSEN SENATOR IN NEW YOBK INSURGENT DEMOCRATS CAPITIS LATE AND VOTE FOR SU PREME COURT JUSTICE . VICTORY FOR TAMMANY HALL O'Gorman's Election Brings to 4 Close Protracted Struggle in New York. . ' O'GORMAN. WILL SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE POLICIES. ' --' He stands for immediate down- ward revision of the tariff; rec- iprocity with Canada, the par- ccels, post, fortification of the Panama canal, direct election of United States senators and the Federal" income tax. He fayors rigid economy in government expenditures . and - is opposed "to all special privileges and private monopoly; to the new- national- ism and to the "centralizing ten- dencies of the Republican party. . . J ' Albany, N. Y. Supreme Court Sub' tice Jame3 Aloysius O'Gorman (Dem.) of New York City, was elected United States senator by the legislature af ter the most protracted struggle ovei this position ever held in the Emplrt State. On the final ballot, the sixty-fourth he received 112 votes to 80 cast foi Chauncey M. Depew, whose term ex pired March 4.' . . At the close of a day of almost coa tinuous negotiations the Insurgenti capitulated and Justice O'Gorman wa elected. A few minutes before the ba. lot was cast Justice O'Gorman's rea ignation from the bench was filed at the office of the secretary of state as a constitutional provision would rve prohibited his election whil holding the office of justice of the s pixa:e court. Juuies A. O'Gorman has long bees one of the most prominent member! of Ta-iimany Hall. He has been ont , of the - foremost orators for thirtj years, having established hi3 reputa tion as a public speaker in its in terests,- when, at the ago of 21. hU eloquence was credited with havin saved a doubtful assembly distric'L Mr. O'Gorman was born on the low 4f er west side of New York City os May 5, 1860. He is the son of Thom as and Ellen O'Gorman, and marriec Anne M. Leslie in this city on Jaa uary 2, 1884. They have nine chil dren, seven daughters and two sons EARTHQUAKE IN ARKANSAS Buildings in Little Rock Were Shaker Perceptibly. Little Rock, Ark. Little Rock wai shaken by an earthquake. Mirrors were shaken from walls desks and chairs in offices rolle about and windows clattered. A near panic occurred in tho South western Telegraph and Telephcnt building. H. F. Alciator, section director tho weather bureau, whose offices are located on the tenth floor of tin Southern Trust building, reoprted coa siderable sway in that building. Tht union railroad station, built of Ten heavy concrete and stone, was rocke perceptibly. Pine Bluff, Dumas am Wilmar also reported a shaving expe rienced shocks. . ". Xo serious damage has so far beet reported. At Monticello practically everj house was affected by the shock Plastering was knocked from th walls of the county court house ant several people narrowly esccaped Ja jury from the falling mortar. Th high school was considerably damag ed, the plastering being torn fron the walls. In one residence the plas ter was stripped from the walls. At Fordyce windows in many busi ness houses were broken by th shock. Memphis, Tenn. The local weath er bureau reported two slight eartl tremors. The vibrations were verj slight. $300,LOO Birthday Gift. Chicago, 111 Dr. D. K. Pearson or Hinsdale, 111., will celebrate his 91a birthday April 14 by the distrlbutioi of $300,000 to schools and religion organizations. This will make hh total distributions of recent yean nearly five million dollars, most a which has been given to small col leges. The gilts are termed by Doc ter Pearson as "debts," . and in mos caseJ are fulfillment of his pledge to different bodies of certain sunu when they should have collected otl er stipulated amounts.