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? 1 " . . , . " . ' ' ' -1 $1X0 a Year, la Advance. . ' "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." ' mnia r i 'ht'i. VOL. XXIV. , PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1914. NO. 34 M m h m , t - , , , , m T,., - , j.. , I, i. ii . - - ..i. ii i SENATOR BACON PASSES TO BEYOND STATE AND NATION IN DEEP MOURNING FOR SENATOR BACON OF GEORGIA. GEORGIA PAYS HIM HONORS Passing of Senator Causes President Wilson to Lament and Moves : Colleagues Almost to Tears. , Passing of Georgian Hr Lamented by Wilson. Washington. When. President Wilson heard of Senator Bacon's death, he wrote the following statement: , "All who knew Senator Bacon will sincerely deplore his death. It deprives the senate of one of its oldest and most experienced member; a man who held, with something like reverence, to the traditions of the great body of which he was so long a part, and who sought, in all that he did, to maintain its standards . of statesmanship and service. The great state of Georgia will miss fr her distinguished son and , serv- ant. My own association with him had been, of the most cor- . dial, and, to me, helpful sort. I particularly profited by his expe- rience in foreign, affairs." Washington. Senator Bacon is dead. While Washington was wrapped In the white mantle of the first snow storm of the season, the soul of this great statesman and modest soldier, who had defended Georgia on the bat- AUGUSTUS 0. BACON tlefield and in the halls of congress, passed away. The end came at Garfield hospital with a suddenness that astounded his physicians, his intimate friends and the world of official Washington. At noon his condition was not thought alarming. Shortly afterwards he had a sinking spell, and at ten minutes after two he was gone. An infected clot of . blood, which reached the heart, caused his sudden death. President Wilson issued a statement expressing his deep regreL Vice Pres ident Marshal, members of the Geor gia delegation and intimate friends in the senate, hastened to the hospital to show their respect and to urge that all the marks of a great nation's honor be accepted by the bereaved rel atives. Following the official funeral, the body was taken to Georgia, accompanied- by an honorary escort, of sena tors and representatives, t The funeral was in Macon Thursday. Northeast in Grip of a Blizzard. New York. A snowstorm, said to rival in severity the famous blizzard of 18S8, raged to the accompaniment of zero weather in the upper Hudson valley, the Mohawk valley and the northern and western parts of New York state, tying up smaller railroad trolley lines and paralyzing communi cation generally. All mails were de layed. Four deaths were caused in New York City by the storm, and the total- fatalities due to the cold spell and stormy conditions numbered seventeen., y ' i - 5"V ?'' ' V II MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW Mrs. James Lees Laldlaw, wife of a New York banker, who in company with her husband has-Just started on the first conjugal crotfe-country "hike" In the history of the suffragist move ment in this country. Mrs. Laldlaw. Is the chairman of the suffragist move ment In Manhattan and has been an indefatigable worker for the cause, During her visit to the western coast she and her husband will attend the annual state convention of the "Suffa" at Reno, and will investigate the al leged attempted Intrigue of the antis with the saloon keepers and liquor dealers against the suffragist cause. EXPLAIN INCOME TAX LAW RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY IN COME TAX PAYERS OF COUNTRY. Treasury Officials Issue Booklet Clear Up Misunderstanding About Law. to Washington. After weeks of study of the complexities of the income tax law, treasury officials issued a 90-page booklet, christened it "Regulations No 33," and sent it forth-to collectors of Internal revenue in the expectation that it will clear up many of the mis understandings concerning , the law which have arisen throughout the country. It takes twenty-three pages of the book to set forth the law itself, but sixty pages are used in telling how the net income to be taxed is ascer tained by the taxpayer, when and where tax must be paid, what penal ties will be imposed for non-payment, what exemptions and deductions will be allowed. Many pages are devoted to an explanation of that part of the law imposing a 1 per cent, tax on the income of all corporations, which re places the old corporation tax. Although officials are cpnfident that this booklet will prove a guide to tax payers which' will settle many appar ently difficult problems, there will ,be other regulations in the future when new points are raised. The book does not contain a new set of regulations, but-is a compilation in compact form of the ones already issued, with expla nations of points never before dis cussed, Under the law, partnerships are not subject to the tax, but the regulations provide that annual profits from a partnership paid to members shall be included in their returns, and where such profits are undistributed and un paid they must be ascertained and in cluded in the individual's returns for taxation just the same. When persons taxable refuse to make the proper list or' return or makes false return, the regulaitnos provide that the proper collector of internal revenue shall, after, due no tice, make the return for such person and the tax shall be assessed on this return, with a 50 or 100 per cent, pen alty added. Returns must be verified by oaths or affirmation. Returns shall be sent by collectors to the commis sioner of internal revenue In Wash ington by registered mail. Taxes un paid after June 30 shall bring a pen alty of 5 per cent., ' Flirting Banned In Zion City. Zion City, 111. An ordinance for the "promotion of public morals and the regulation of the conduct of citizens" was enacted by the city council. The first section of the, ordinance makes it unlawful to do any act, suggest any conduct or say any word that is profane, vulgar or Immoral, or that has a tendency to .offend public de cency. The second section makes it un lawful for any person in a loud or boisterous tone to ask any other to accompany him or her, for aride or walk. URGES CHECK TO JAPANESE MENACE COMMISSIONER GENERAL WANTS EARLY ACTION ON ASIATIC IMMIGRATION. ARE SPREADING OVER U. S. Claim Japanese, Chinese and Hindus Threaten the Entire Nation. Washington. Despite a general un derstanding that; in' deference to the administration, Asiatic exclusion leg islation would not be agitated in eon grass pending diplomatic negotiations with 'Japan, Commissioner General 'Caminetti of the immigration bureau addressed a house committee urging early action "to check the menace of Asiatic immigration." "The Chinese and the Japanese,' said Commissioner Caminetti, "had be come so acclimated to the United States that Asiatic immigration Is a serious menace to the entire coun try. The danger is greatest, of course, on the Pacific coast, but it is general as well. "The Chinese have spread rapidly all over the country and now the Japan ese have become so acclimated that no part of the country is immune from the invasion. There can be no ques tion but that the Japanese are com ing in surreptitiously. The number of Japanese In the country has doa bled in the last five or six years. "New laws to prevent smuggling of immigrants are an urgent need. They should be passed at the present ses sion of congress. Japanese, Chinese and Hindus cross the border illegally I should like to see legislative action at the earliest possible moment on the question to check the menace to the Pacific coast and the whole country. "The people of California have wait ed patiently for the diplomatic settle' ment of the Japanese question and 1 believe they do not want to wait again for diplomatic negotiations on the Hindue problem. If you throw down the bars to the 330,000,000 Hindus, the southern United States as well as the Pacific coast will get its share of the immigrants." Predictions of "the fiercest revolu tion the world has ever known," if the British government approves the Hic- due exclusion policies of its colonies, were made before the house immigra tion committee by Dr. Sudhindra Bose, a professor the University of Iowa. during an argument in which he con tended that the Hindus were an Aryan people, entitled to naturalization in the United States. VICE ADMIRALS BILL PASSED Secretary of the Navy Daniels Pleased by the Action. Washington. Six vice admirals for the American navy would be authoriz ed under a bill passed by the senate, after an extended debate, in which senators told of how the commander of the battleship fleet in Mexican wa ters might have to take orders from ranking foreigner. The navy has been appealing for years for a revival of a higher grade than rear admiral. Secretary Daniels was highly pleased by the senate's action and expressed confidence that the measure would cer tainly pass the house promptly and be signed by the president. "The ablest, best and most resource ful officers will be chosen for the new grade," he added, "not necessarily the present seniors in rank. Under the terms of the senate bill four vice admirals on the active list of the line Would be appointed within one year after the measure becomes law, the other two to be named as soon as practicable. Another amendment adopted, sub mitted by Senator Bristow, would fix the retirement age of 65 years, instead of 62, as provided in the original bill, introduced by Senator Bryan of Flor ida. In urging this amendment, Sena tor Bristow declared that he had en deavored repeatedly to increase the general retirement age to 65 years, and that this bill presented an excel lent opportunity for congress to set a Drecedent. The age limit In other grades, he predicted, would be advanc ed before many years. - $2 '.250.000 Tax to Be Levied on John D. Cleveland. Ohio. Harry Weiss, in ternal revenue collector for northern Ohio, mailed to John D. Rockefeller at Tarrytown, Ky., tax blanks for the list ing of the oil king's income for fed eral taxation under the income tax Mr. Weiss said he would pro ceed to collect about $2,250,000 income tax from Mr. Rockefeller unless he pays the money to the revenue collec tor., "It hasn't been decided whether Rockefeller's legal home is Ohio or New York, so I've sent him blanks to be on the safe side." 'MRS. JOHN S. WILLIAMS I ' , " " '' - 'One of the most attractive women brought to Washington by the Wilson administration is Mrs. John Skelton Williams, wife of the new comptroller of the currency. SEISMIC SHOCKS IN NORTH EARTH TREMORS FELT IN NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA AND OTHER STATES. Movement Was From Northwest to Southeast, Converging to a Point in the Atlantic. New York. An earthquake lasting from fifteen to thirty seconds and dis turbing particularly what are geolog ically known as the Devonian and Silurian sections of the northeastern parts of the United States, took place. It was especially severe in the cen tral and northern parts of New York state. Virtually all of New York state, including this city, felt the shock, and New England generally, lower eastern Canada and part3 of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania were shaken. Tremors were recorded as far south as Washington and as far west as St. Louis. At Albany the shock was severe enough to shake pictures from the walls of the capitol, and at Bing- hampton a laborer was killed by the caving in a trench in which he was working. At Fort Plain the heavy doors of a bank vault shook under the influence of the quake and from oth er parts of the state the falling of chimneys, swaying of houses and de struction of fragile objects was re ported. BLACKS FOR AFRICAN UTOPIA Scores of Negroes Ready to Sail for Dark Continent. New York. A ship load of negroes,' mostly farmers and their wives from Oklahoma, waited here for Alfred C. Sam to lead .them to a negro Utopia on the gold coast of Africa. The negro farmers were induced to come here, they said, by Sam, who had been collecting colonizers from Oklahoma, Texas and Mississippi. More negroes were expected from Galveston and the west, and it was said that eighty-six were coming from Boston. The steamer in which the negroes xDected to seek the gold coast was the old Curityba, of the Munson line, hich formerly plied between New York and Cuba. An officer of the Munson line said that Curityba was sold a short time ago to the Akim Trading company of this city, in which Sam is supposed to be interested. Weleetka. Okla. Between five hun dred and seven hundred negroes from various parts of Oklahoma are gather ed here, the headquarters ef Chief Sam's African colony. Mobs Attack Jap Parliament. Tokio, Japan The Japanese house parliament was attacked by a mob. was driven back, by the police only after the 'entrance gates had been broken down and scores of people injured. The rioting followed a "big mass meeting at which resolution! ere passed to impeach the cabinet for its attitude in connection with the graft charges against naval officers. several of whom are accused of re ceiving commissions for influencing the allotment of admiralty contracts in favor of a German firmv EDUCATION BOARD APPORTIONS Fill FOR EXTENSION OF SCHOOL TERM TO SIX MONTHS. TEN COUNTIES NEED NO HELP. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Capitol. Raleigh. Apportionment was made by the state board of education recently of the fund provided by her last regular session of the general assembly for the equalizing of the terms of the pub lic schools of North Carolina. The total fund amounted to $401,015.72, and was distributed among ninety counties of the state which needed as sistance in extending their school terms tc six months. The counties named above already had school terms ,of a longer period of time than sis months, and consequently needed no money from the state treasury, these being Buncombe, Durham, Edegcombe, Forsyth, Halifax, Haywood, Mecklen burg, Nash, New Hanover and Wilson. State officials declare that this 13 one of the most progressive steps that has been taken by North Carolina in her history, as it puts in reach ot every child in, the state the opportun ity of attending school at least six months during each year. The law making possible the six months school term was passed by the general assem bly of 1913, and was enacted in the face of a deficit which grew large when the fund was set aside, but was enacted by men who knew all the while they were legislating in favor of the children of the commonwealth and for those who would soon be the future generation. The action of the state board of edu ction was taken under the provision of Chapter 33, Public Laws of 1913. The apportionment was . the first to be made under the new law creating the equalizing school fund, and will provide this year from the state and county funds, exclusive of all funds raised by local district taxation, a minimum school term in every school district in the state of one hundred and three and three-tenths days, or five months and nearly one week. This is wenty-three anl jthree-tenths days, or one month and three and one-third days more than the minimum school term ever heretofore provided in this state. The law provides that it shall be a misdemeanor, imposing a fine and imprisonment, for any school official to use or to permit to be used, any part of the equalizing fund apportion ed to any district, for any other pur pose than the payment of the teachers salaries for the designated period. All of the counties of the state which have heretofore had only a four months, or an eighty-day school term, the number of which last year amount ed to fifty-seven, will not have a school term of twenty-three and three tenths days longer in every district this year. All the other counties, ex cept the ten which did not need it, will have their school terms length ened to a minimum of one hundred and three and three-tenths. This will give every county of the state a con siderably longer term in every district of the county than it has ever had be fore. Report err Silk Mills. . ".The silk mills reporting show the employment of 26,500 spindles, 472 looms, 1,410 horsepower The approx imate amount of raw material used in 270,000 pounds; estimated value of the yearly output, $375,000. The' total number of employes reported Is 445. .Of these 185 are males and 2S0 fe males. The estimated number depend ent on these mills and on the 445 em ployes for a livelihood is 500. The per cent of employes who read and write is given as 93.5. "The mills report steam and elec tric power." Craig Appoints New A. & M. Trustees Effective April 1, Governor Craig Issued commissions recently to a num ber of new members of the board of trustees of the North" Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. They follow: Fleetwood W. Duolap, Wadesboro Matt II. Allen, Goldsboro; J. E. Swain, Asheville ; W. L. Vaughan, Washington; W. P. Stacy, Wilming ton. These gentlemen take the place of the following, who retire from the board: W. J. Newberry, Magnolia; W. D. Siler Sitr City; C. M. Hughes, C, G. Rose, Fayeteville, C. C. Cranford. North Carolina Crop in Epitome. The department of agriculture is sued an epitome of the North Carolina crop fcr 1914 and places tho products at $241,533,670. Corn leads all with the grand total of 55,282,000 bushels which bring up a total of $65,000,000 with the forage thrown in. Cotton plays a good sec ond with 800,000 bales valued gt $50, 000,000. The yield of corn an: acre Is 20 bushels and cotton 315 pounds to the acre. Tobacco Is third with $31,000,000 with 670 pounds to the acre. The poundage is estimated at 167,000,000. - The value of pastorage Is placed at $30,000,000 . and cotton seed comes fifth with $10,000,000. Wheat stands sixth with 7,078,000 bushels, worth $8,500,000. The average is 11.7 to the the bushel. Hay ranks seventh with its 1.31 tons to the acre, 320,000 tons or $6,914,00 and peanuts are placed eighth with $6,000,000. ',. ' Rye yields 10.3 an. , acre, 474,000 bushels and $474,000. Buckwheat with 10 bushels an acre, 174,00 bushels and $474,000 duplicates rye. Irish potatoes are listed at 80 bushels an acre, 2,400, 000 bushels and $1,938,000; sweet po tatoes 10 bushels to the acre, 8,000,000 bushels and $4,880,000 for the crop. Rice was scant, 25 bushels to the acre, 7,000 bushels and $9,000 in money. Peas are estimated at $1,500,000 for the crop of soja beans at $100,000; grass and other seeds and green for age at $2,000,000, garden vegetables at $2,500,000, apples at $2,044,670; peaches, pears and grapes at $1,500,. 000, truck $2,500,000, dairy $2,000,000 poultry and eggs $9,000,000 and wo $100,000. The poultry and eggs items are not divided and are therefore not listed in the order of single products. It is presumed that they are about evenly matched. " Invitations to Good Roads Meeting. State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt is mailing a letter to the road engi neers, road superintendents and chairman of the board of county com missioners in the various counties of the state asking their atendance .upon a statewide meeting to be held in Chapel Hill on the dates of . March 17K 18 and 19. The letter addressed to th good road promoters of the counties expresses as the purpose of the gath ering that of threshing out the road problems confronting the engineers and superintendents:. 1 Anticipating -tlies development of this meeting into one or tne state wide significance and of annual oc currence,, the state geologist hopes that the institute may become a clear ing house for solving the various road problems that arise In coneciion with county road work. Lectures ' and dis cussions on the sundry troubles or the road engineer as WeU W the road superintendent- will be given during' the three days' session of the institute. So enthusiastic is Doctor Pratt as to the value that will be derived from this institute that he suggests that the road commission of each county authorize its engineer and superinten dent to attend. Tobacco Marketing Falling Off. While the earlier months of tha present tobacco season showed record-breaking marketing of leaf tobac-' co, there was a mraked falling off in sales on all the markets of the state during January compared with Janu ary last year and with the earlier months of the present season. The sales of January amounted to only 9, 833,476 pounds, compared with 12,438, 857 pounds for January of last year. Prices are still high and it is estima ted that the bulk of the present crop is already marketed. : Winston-Salem led with 1,080,184 pounds' and Oxford has second place with 895,925 pounds.- Other markets are: Henderson, 858,571; Wilson, 781,- 271; Roxboro, 644,289; Rocky Moun'.A 617,284; Reidsville, 342,522; 0reeiia' boro, 33,87; Greenville, 310,166;. Burlington, 363,741; Mount Airy, 301 - , 626; Durham, 300,478; - Louisburg, ) 264,261; Warrenton, 321,433; Apex, J 176,033; Walnut Cove,-126,536; Stone-, ville, 14S.923; Creedmoor, 136,877; , Pilot Mountain, 85,076; Statesville, , 78,459; Wendell, 67,804; Smithfiela, 62,325; Fuquay Springs, 43,445; Madi- son, 42,646; oungsville, 42,646; Kin ston, 30,510. New North Carolina Enterprises .. The following charters for new cor- porations were issued by the Secre-: tary of State: I The Rowan Baptist Association,! Winston-Salem, chartered without capital stock. Uncle Sam Asks For Special Rate. The corporation commission h; recently a petition from thJi States government for a special rat,t. to be put in force for the freight de;f livery of crushed rock at ElizabetnJ town, on the upper Cape Fear RiveM to be used in the installation of locks and dams with "which to improve thf navigability of the Cape Fear fron Wilmington to Fayette ville. The peti, tion came through Major Stickle, Uni, ted States engineer at Wilmington. Sj G. Ridley was here to present thi , case. . ! ( h