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CHILD UBOR
CHILD'S
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BILL TO ESTABLISH BUREAU TO
LOOK ESPECIALLY AFTER
THE LITTLE ONES.
COMMERCE AND LABOR LAW
Under Direction of a Chief to be Ap
pointed by the President Will Not
Relieve State of Its Duty to the
Children.
Raleigh. The next session of Con
gress will probably see enacted a law
which has long been wanted by many
persons and organizations interested
in the condition f children, says P.
H. McGowan in a letter from Washing
ton, D. C.
The bill, which has just been formu
lated, has for its purpose the establish
ing of a bureau in the Department of
Commerce and Labor under the direc
tion of a chief, to be appointed by the
President with the advice and consent
of the Senate, the said bureau to inves
tigate and report upon all matters per
taining to the welfare of children and
child labor. It is especially charged
"with investigating the question of in
fant mortality, the birth rate, orphan
age, juvenile courts, desertion, danger
ous occupations, accidents and dis
eases of children, employment, legis
lation affecting children in the several
states and territories, and such other
facts as have a bearing upon the wel
fare of children. The results of such
investigation are to be published from
time to time.
The bill as drawn and recommended
for passage confines the operation of
the bureau primarily to the question of
investigation and of reporting the
same, the design and purpose being to
furnish information in this general
way from all parts of the country to
the respective states to enable them
to deal more intelligently and more
8ystematiclly and uniformly with the
subject. The bill is not designed to
encroach upon the rights or relieve
the states from the duty of dealing
with this subject, but to furnish infor
mation to enable them to deal more
successfully with it. It was the opin
Ion of the committee that the duty
devolves primarily upon the states to
legislate upon this important subject
and the states can more effectively
deal with it. But it seemed to the
committee that there was a duty upon
the part of the National government
to aid in geting information and data
Tvith the view of assisting in thi3 work,
and that the National government
could get such information and data
more effectively than the respective
states.
The bill treats of a subject which
Tias engaged the attention and the
widespread interest of the people
Next Meeting With Oak Grove Local.
The Wake County Farmers' Union
is to hold its next meeting with the
Oak Grove Local on the first of Sep
tember. The Oak Grove Local is
within a quarter of a mile of the coun
ty Home, six miles north of Raleigh.
The notice of the meeting has in it
the following: "It is earnestly re
quested that every Local Union in
-thercounty send a full, delegation. At
this meeting we expect to have a re
port from our cotton seed committee
with advice about selling. We will
have interesting reports from dele
gates who willlattend the State To
bacco Convention. The Oak Grove
Local will furnish free dinner for all
and will be aggrieved if you do not
come.
Has Located Line of New Road.
John R. McQueen, road supervisor,
located the line of the new road that
is to connect Southern Pines and
Raeford. Work is to begin a3 soon
.as is practical in cutting out the way
and making the preliminary roadbed.
A good deal of enthusiasm exists in
regard to the new road, and the name
of "Raeford Boulevard" has been of
fered for the end of it leading out of
Southern Pines, with the assurance
that it shall be the most conspicuous
road that enters the town.
L. J. Norris Was Remanded to Jail.
L. J. Norris was remanded to jail
without bail to await trial n the Sep
tember term of Wake Superior court
on the charge of the murder of J. B.
Bissett on the night cf August 12. The
hearing continued from 10 o'clock to
5:30, when Police Justice Walter Wat
eon, at the conclusion of argument
by counsel, declared that, since Nor
ris had offered no evidence to coun
teract the strong circumstantial evi
dence presented, he decided that there
was sufficient evidence to justify him
in holding the prisoner.
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PROBLEMS OF WAKE COUNTY
There Are Three Big Progressivs
Measures That Are to be Passed
on, Which Are Given Below.
Raleigh. There are three . pr$posi
tions before the people of Wake fcount
ty; first there is the Central High-j
way. This is to be built underj an
act of the Legislature incorporating;
such a highway from the ocean to
the Tennessee line. There is a falla
cious idea in the country that this is
to be an automobile road, the truth
is It is to be the finest wagon road
the state has ever had, no grade be
ing over 4 1-2 per cent. While auto
mobiles will travel it they will have
no monopoly, no rights other vehicles
will not have, and it is a fair esti
mate to say there, will be ten. wagons
and buggies traveling it to one auto
mobile. The second proposition is a bond
issue of three hundred thousand
'dollars for our public roads. It is a
source of mortification to every pro
gressive citizen of Wake that this,
the metropolitan county of the state,
that should set the pace in all work
for the development of the common
wealth is rapidly falling behind in
the matter of road building. With a
road tax of $60,000, which will prob
ably be augmented by some $20,000
more by the new assessment, we have
2,000 miles of public road to build
and maintain. We have already built
as much road as we can maintain
with our present income, our road
building has about reached its Jim
it, if we are to keep upr the road al
ready built.' With $17,000 deducted
from the road tax under the new as
sessment, we can pay the interest atid
establish a sinking fund to take care
of our bond issue, and still have $63,
000 to use in maintaining, our roads,
without increasing our tax one dol
lar. In other words, by withdrawing
$17,000 per annum from our, road tax
we can still have ,$63,000 for our road
fund and build $300,6tl0 "worth of roads
in the county. If there ever was a
case of " "eating '"bur cake and' still
having it," our people have that
chance now.
The third is the farm-life school.
Some one has summed it vp by say
ing if the farmers don't want it other
people needn't worry, but that is not
so, for if it is not established the
farmer and everybody else will .till
have to pay Wake's proportion of the
ten schools to" be established this year
and ten more next year, making it a
matter in which we are all interested.
Greensboro's Water Supply is Low.
' For the first time during the long
drought, the city officials are .appre
hensive as to the city's water supply.
Unless reins come again in a few
days local consumers may be able to
get only a limited amount of water.
At a special meeting of the city com
missioners an ordinance was passed
preventing the unnecessary use of
water in sprinkling lawns and for like
purposes and provided a fine of $f0
and a penalty of $5 for each offense.
For the last few days the supply
has been constantly lessening. Every
bit of available water from Horspen
and Reedy Fork creeks is being
brought to the city's reservoir. Even
without rain the. city might not suf
fer for a week or ten days, but if thi?
dry weather continues much longer
the supply will be" inadequate for
even the necessary purposes of tho
city. This is the first tim3 that
Greensboro has been threatened with
a water famine in years.
Bonding Co. Refuses to Make Good.
The bonding company that guaran
teed the honesty of L. V. Hart and
E. B. Hussey, cashier and assistant
cashier of the Bank of Tarboro, to
the amounts of $16,000 and $5,000
respectively has refused to make good
the shortage on the ground that it
is stipulated in the bond, before the
renewal of the bond becomes effect
ive, the directors must certify to the
company that the accounts of such
bonded officials are correct, and that
this they failed to do. Mr. Penning
ton told the representative of the
company who was here a few days
ago that he was asking for payment
of this year's defalcation; that since
January 1st the books showed that
$83,000 had been taken. That of this
amount some $16,000 had been taken
and not a scratch of a pen or pencil
to show that it had been received.
Make Raid in Richmond County.
An illicit distillery was captured
near Hoffman, near a large swamp,
by Sheriff M, L. Hinsen and deputies.
The still, which is of a 20-gallon ca
pacity, was just "a-biling" and the
juice "a-running" when the officers
appeared on the scene, causing the
operators to "run into the swamp.
They were followed and arrested by
Deputy C. C. Snores, proving to be
Lawrence Lathan, an old Confederate
soldier, and his little 10-year-old adop
ted son. The officers broke up the
still.
FAIR SIZE CROP '
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DECLINE IN COTTON CONDITION
"; CHECKED'XY FAVORABLE
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WEATHER.
DAMAGE FROM SHEDDING
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Cotton Is Beginning to Move
Freely to the Various
Markets.
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Memphis, Tenn. The Commercial
Appeal's . weekly cotton review sfys:
"The decline in the condition of the
cotton plant, which set in several
weeks ago, has been checked in the
two Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama,
or had ceased altogether by reason of
more favorable weather, rain having
fallen in the Carolinas and dry weath
er supervened in the two latter states,
and, without more rain, will now open
rapidly. A fair crop i3 assured, and a
large one seems a possibility, despite
the deterioration that has been suf
fered. Tn Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas
and Louisiana excessive rainfall con
tinued during the week, and some of
the reports take a very gloomy: view
of the outlook. The chief damage has
resulted from shedding of young forms
by reason of the rank growth of the
stalk, , and from boll weevils in the
southern part of this valley territory.
It is evident, however, that bright
weather would vastly reduce present
estimate's of damage.'
"In Oklahoma and Texas a period of
extreme heat, accompanied by a burn
ing sun and hot winds, caused a quick
setback to cotton, which had but late
ly taken on fresh growth from rain.
The plant was being forced to an ear
ly maturity, but rains toward the close
of the week put an end to the condi
tion and hold out promise of better re
turns next week.- As most -correspondents
state, there is yet time to derive
benefit from the rains.
"Cotton is moving very freely to
market where any pickin gis being
done."
PROHIBITION FIGHT IN MAINE
People Are to Pass on the Question
September 11.
Portland, Maine. The voters of
Maine, September 11, will cast their
ballots to determine" whether or not
the policy of constitutional prohibi
tion of the liquor traffic which has
prevailed for more than a quarter of
a century shall be retained. ,,
For weeks past the state has been
flooded with literature sent.; out by
both the proponents and opponents of
the move to take prohibitioif out of tire
constitution.
Constitutional prohibition, in which
Maine was a pioneer, was first adopt
ed in 1884. For seventeen years the
prohibitory laws remained undisturbed
of serious attack. In 1901 a bill for re
submission of the subject was before
the legislature, but only 37 votes could
be mustered in its favor. In 1907 a
similar resolve was barely defeated.
, In the state campaign last year re
submisssion was one of the chief is
sues, the Democrats taking a stand in
favor of giving the voters another
chance to pass upon the question and
the Republicans standing pat on pro
hibition, which had been the party's
policy for fifty years. The election
nt a rAmooratin trovernor and a Dem-
' ocratic legislature settled the question
of resubmisssion.
MADERO FOR PRESIDENT
Conqueror of Diaz Named for Presi
dent of Mexico.
Mexico City. Francisco I. Madero
was formally nominated for the presi
dency by delegates representing 1,500
cluBs, in national convention of the
Progressive party. No name but that
of Madero was suggested for the pres.
idency. The Catholics agreed in con
vention to support Madero.
The Revolutionists, organized by
Jorge Vera Estanolone of the Diaz
cabinet have announced their inten
tion of naming afcandidate, the chief
going so far as t declare he' will ask
congress to postpone the elections on
account of the unsettled conditions
Reciprocity Interests Canada.
Ottawa, Ontario. Reports coming in
from all parts of Canada show the
intensity of the election 'struggle,"' and
they reflect also the position and the
progress of the various elements on
the main issue reciprocity between
Canada and theP United r States. Al
though the campaign comes while har
vesting is at its height, conventions
and political meetings are drawing
audiences unparalleled in size. A
greater number of vote3 will be polled
than ever in Canada.
LIFE'S DISAPPOINTMENTS
. rAn HA'. LETTER FROril yJ
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(Copyright. 1311.) ;
COTTON WORTH 13 CENTS
According to Southern Statesmen a
Fund Will Be Available to
Hold Cotton.
I Washington. "Hold cotton tor 13
cents," is the advice to be formally
given to farmers' organizations by a
committee consisting of Senator Wil
liams of Mississippi and Owen of Ok
lahoma and Representative Burleson
of Texas, representing a conference of
senators and representatives from sev
en cotton-growing states. A comnift
tee will urge the state banking asso
ciations to co-operate against "the
bearish movement of the speculators."
Among the participants were sena
tors Williams and Owen, Representa
tives Underwood and Heflin of Ala
bama, Brantley and Hughes of Geor
gia, Burleson and Beall of Texas, Gar
rett of Tennessee, Humphreys of Mis
sissippi and Small of North Carolina.
A number of them are large cotton
planters.
The committee issued a statement,
which read:
"It seemed to be the opinion of all
that there was a preconcerted effort
being made, principally through the
instrumentality of the speculative ele
ment of the New York cotton ex
change, to break down the price of
cotton.
"It was the opinion of all that the
present statistical condition of cotton
did not justify the lowness of present
quotation!, and that the estimate of
bales was unjustified by any facts up
on which a prediction could be sanely
based, and that, moreover, even if a
15,000,000-bale crop was in sight, the
world's supply probably would fall
short.of the world's demands for cot
ton to the extent of more than 1,000,
000 bales because of the exhaustion
of present visible supply of carried
over spot cotton.
British Mobs Abuse Jews.
Newport, England. Rioting occur
red at Bargoed, on the Giamorgean
border. A dozen English and Jewish
shops were wrecked and looted.
Troops were called to the assistance
of the police and dispersed the wreck
ers. No further rioting has occurred
in the Monmouthshire valley towns,
but the threatening attitude of the
mobs at Tredegar and Rhymney ne
cessitates the continued presence there
of soldiers. Matty; Jewish families are
leaving the country.
New York Larger Than London.
New York. That New York can
already fairly claim to be the largest
city in the world is shown by a com
parison of the census-just completed
in London, with the health depart
ment's estimate of New York's num
bers. The population of the adminis
trative county and city of London is
4,522,628, as compared with 4,9S8,383,
the population of the administrative
boroughs of New York City.
Planters Pool Tobacco Crop.
Greensboro, N. C. Representatives
of 60,000 farmers of the bright tobac
co belt of Virginia and North Carolina,
allied with the Farmers' Educational
and Co operative union, in executive
session here, entered into an agree
ment to pool the 1911 tobacco crop
utr.il a price of not lesss than 15 cent3
per pound is obtained in any section,
Oklahoma Mob Burns Negro.
PQrcell, Okla. -While 3,000 men,
women and children stood ty. shout
ing their approval, Peter Carter, a
negro, who had previously been cap
tured by three members of his own
race, and identified as the. man who
had attacked - Mrs. Minnie Spragglns,
wife of a farmer, was burned to death
on a brush-pile in th emain street of
Pureel!. Two deputy sheriffs who at
tempted to rescue the negro from the
crowd were overpowered and locked in
lie courthouse.
CONGRESS HAS ADJOURNED
EXODUS OF MEMBERS BEGAN IM
MEDIATELY AFTER CONGRESS
HAD ADJOURNED.
Number of Important Measures, Includ
'Ing Cotton Bill, Were Held
Over.
Washington. The first session' of
the Sixty-second congress ended, and
Immediately the exodus of members
began. President Taft joined with
several hundred tired legislators In
the hegira, and official Washington
was comparatively deserted. Every
outgoing train bore senators and rep-
resentatives on their homeward jour
ney after being together 121 days and
setting the liveliest pace of . any leg
islative session In years.
The adjournment was featureless,
despite the strenuous activity that had
gone before. The president vetoed the
cotton tariff revision bill, just as he
had vetoed its two predecessors, the
wool and free list bills. The veto went
only to the house, in accordance with
custom, and there its reception was
marked by Democratic laughter and
Republican applause.
Democratic Leader-Underwood, amid
a demonstration, formally thanked the
few Republican members who voted
with Democrats to .pass the revision
tariff bills. Democrats ran across the
aisles to shake hands with the Repub
lican Insurgents. The cheering and
pounding of desks on the Democratic
side was protracted. As soon as he
could be heard, Mr. Underwood an
nounced as the Democrats did not
have the two-thirds majority neces
sary to pass the bill over the pres
ident's veto, he would merely move
the printing of the veto and accompa
nying papers and their reference to
the ways and means committee, of
which he was chairman. The house
agreed to this fixed course. With the
committee the matter will rest until
the whole subject of tariff revision
legislation is renewed at the regular
session, which will convene Decem
ber 4.
President Taft scent half an hour
at the capitol, making it a social af
fair, as well as a business one. Occu
pying the presidential room, In the
rear of the senate chamber, he was
given an enthusiastic ovation by sena
tors of all shades of political complex
ion, as well as by representative's who
drifted over from the house to meet
him.
Champ Clark, speaker of the house
of representatives, in a review of the
work of the first session of the Sixty
second congress, declared the Demo
cratic party set a good example for
Democrats everywhere, and that the
party had redeemed every promise it
made in the campaign of 1910, when
the Democrats wrested control from
the Republicans.
Republican Leader Mann of the
house in a statement issued giving
the minority view of the work of the
extra session of the Democratic house
declared that the net result was to
strengthen the president and weaken
the Democracy and that the Demo
crats "trying to put the president in
a hole" in tariff revision legislation
had been "hoist by their own petard."
Reciprocal Fight Stirs Canada.
Winnipeg, Man. An interesting fea
ture of the Dominion election cam
paign was a vigorous denunciation of
the Laurier government by Joseph
Martin, M. " P., for London, England,
former attorney general of Mauitoba,
and ex-premier of British Columbia.
Martin is strong for reciprocity. "Rec
iprocity will undoubtedly mean more
money for Canada, and more money
for Canadians, and would be, a good
thing for Canada in this respect," said
Martin.
AIRMAN MOOD
FINISHES FLIGHT
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AVIATOR COMPLETES 1,265-MILE
TRIP IN 12 DAYS, AN UPPRE-' "-.
CEDENTED FLIGHT
HE SOARS OVER NEW YORK
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Atwood by Flying From Si. Louis t&
New York Breaks All Long
Distance Records
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SUMMARY OF ATWOOD'S ST.
LOUIS-NEW YORK FLIGHT
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Distance covered in hir line
1,265 miles. ',
Total distance, including de-
tours around New York alnd oth-
er places, 1,365 miles. j
Started from St. Louisf8:05 a.
m., August 14. " : -
Finished at Governor's Island
2:30 p. m., August 25. f: '
Flying time for entire trip, 28
hours 31 minutes.
Number of flights en route, 20.
Average distance of each flight,
63 1-4 miles.
Beats previous world's record
by 101 miles, not crediting him
with the extra 100 miles, which
he claims for detours. i
Final trip began at Nyack, N.
Y., 25 miles north of Forty-Second
street, New York, at 1:53 p. m.;
finished at Governor's Island at
2:38 p. m. , ''
Flying time for final trip, 46
minutes. '
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New York. Sailing sereiifely over
New York's myriad water craft, Harry
N. Atwood, the Boston aviatpr, arriv
ed here in his aeroplane, the first man r
in history to travel 1,265 miles in a.
heavier-than-air machine.
Atwood's safe landing on Governor's
Island after flying down fron) Nyask,
N. Y.f above the Hudson river through
a fog which made him only dhnly vis
ible to the million eyes that , watched
him, was a notable incident in the an
nals of aeronautics. He not orily broke
the world's record, covering 1,265
miles in an air line.
Atwood's flight is comparable only.
to that made by fast trains- for he
covered the distance in an actual fly.
ing time of 28 hours and 31 minutes.
Atwood's final lap in his long Jour
ney was a glide of 25 miles from .
Nyack, N. Y., where he had stopped
overnight. He landed, dapper and
smiling, hatless and hungry, in the
arms of a handful of United States
army officers and men, who, hailed
him as America's greatest aviator.
Atwood said that he may retire per
manently from aviation, and his pro
jected coast flight may never be made.
Of his reward for his flight, h$ said:
"Many imagine that I am making a
huge sum out of this trip. I am not.
The only sum that is actually coming
to me is the $10,000 already paid, of
fered by Victor J. Evans of Washing
ton. Out of this I must pay a forfeit
of $4,000 to my financial backers for
failing to stop at all the twenty cities
scheduled on the route." " j
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VETERANS DIE IN WRECK
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40 Killed and 80 Injured in Wrfcck on
Lehigh Valley Railway.
Manchester, N. Y. Speeding east
ward behind time, Lehigh Vall3y pas
senger train No. 4 ran into a spread
rail on a trestle near here ani two
day coaches from the rear section of
the train plunged downward 4Q feet,
striking the east embankment like a
pair of projectiles. In the awful plunge
and crasn at lease xorty persons were-
killed and more than eighty injured.
The injuries of several are so serious
that it is feared they will die'. "'
The wreck was the worst In the
history of the Lehigh Valley line in
his state and one of the most disas
trous ever recorded on the system.
Crowded with passengers, many of
whom were war veterans and excur
sionists from the G. AR. encampment.
at Rochester, the train was made up
of fourteen cars and drawn by two big
mogul engines.
Birmingham to Have Saloons.
Birmingham, Ala. Voters of jTeffen
on county declared for the open sa
loon and rejected the plan to establish
a dispensary in this city. The "wet"
majority is estimated at something
over 1,000 'votes. The county beats
gave the dispensary a small majority,
but this lead was .soon killed hea
otes in the citv wards were counted.
Under the Sruitfc; Jlafior VlA'w'- EirAiing-
am will have sal- ttie eontttplled
by an excise eomt?3'lon to be. ap
pointed by thft-g-f jmfitiS I 4 l-