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Max Doanokke « Ieamm VOL. 34 PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1923. NO. 36 HARDING TALKS OF CITIZENSHIP "WE OFFERED MUCH AND WE ASKED TOO LITTLE," HE SAYS. MRS. MINOR MAKES REPORT Secretary Hughes Discusses the Functions of Patriotic Organiza tions. Washington.—With more than 2,000 delegates in attendance, the thirty second annual congress of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution con vened were. During the day addresses were de livered by President Harding, who phrased the organization for its whole some influence on American life, and by Mrs. George Haynard Minor, presi dent-general, Secretary Hughes was one of the speakers. Mrs. Minor declared that pacifists were attempting to ‘‘disarm America and kill parlotlsm In the hearts of her defenders.’’ Women of the nation, she asserted, should Join in a concert ed effort to fustrate attempts of dis loyal individuals and organizations to destroy American institutions. Declaring thae Americans must awaken to the danger confronting them, Mrs. Minor declared it was time "to tell all radical agitators that there is no room in this country for the reds.” The crusade against dis loyal doctrines could properly be launched in the schools, she contend ed, adding that more than 8,000 teach ers are disloyally discrediting the ideals of the American nation. During the course of her address Mrs. (Minor reported that during the past^year more than 12,000 women became Daughters of the American Revolution, bringing the total mem bership up to 135,172. The President was accompanied to the convention hall by Mrs. Harding, who was given an ovation by the dele gates as she entered the box. Review ing the history of the United States, the President declared the republic never had been remiss except in one porticular, that of citizenship. “I speak of it now,” he continued, “because I can rdjoice in your efforts to correct that remissness. We offer ed much and we asked too little. It is not right for anybody on earth to have the fortunes, the privileges, the favors and the opportunities of American citizenship without assuming every duty and every obligation thereof.” Mr. Harding urged that problems confronting the nation be approached with an open mind, and that pending their solution the American people “hold secure” to the principles which guided the fathers of the republic. Secretary Hughes, discussing the function of patriotic organizations, as serted that “against insidious propa ganda, as well as open assault, against all revolutionary efforts,” the Ameri can public stood united, “not to serve amy sclffeh interest but to protect the ■Jfesition from that quarter. No official alike; in denfese of liberty and order, which are inseparable; in defense of frep labor, which is the foundation of prosperity.” Order Mellon to Sign Pact. Washington.-The American debt funding commission authorized Secre tary Mellon to sign the war debt fund ing agreement with Finland. The agreement, already ratified by the parliament at Helsingfors ha3 yet to be accepted my Congress but mem bers of the commission expect no op fundamental interests of all citizens announcement was made as to the date for the signing. Harding to Call Governors Together. Washington.—Governors of the sev eral states are to be requested by President Harding to meet with him in Washington in May for a second discussion of means and methods of cb-operation between the^ federal and state governments in the enforcement of the prohibition laws. The conference , which has been planned by the President for several months, will be in the nature of a meeting to go over the results of the steps toward co-operation initiated at the first governors' conference held at the White House last fall. It had ^en expected that the governors veould be asked to meet with the Pres ident this month but the announce ment from the White House said that the legislative situation in several states made it advisable to postpone ihe conference until May. RAY MORGAN KILLED IN BATTLE WITH OFFICERS. Hendersonville.—Ray Morgan, of the Tuxedo section, was shot and killed by Tom Staton, a constable, and a night watchman, C. P. Huff, according to a statment of Sheriff Ballenger, of Henderson county. According to reports to the sher iff, Morgan in an intoxicated state, went to a family by the name of Lynch, ran them away from home, threatened to kill them, took some things from the house and set fire to it. Station was called to the scene, according to information reaching the sheriff, and arrested Morgan. The prisoner became violent in his attacks upon the officer, who shot him. Death resulted in a few min utes. TO MEET NEXT IN MEMPHIS DR. HARDING TELLS VETERANS LEE WAS GREATEST OF AMERICAN GENERALS. Father of President Called to Plat form and Presented With Con federate Flag. New Orleans.—General William B. Haldeman, of Louisvile, Ky., was elected coinander-in-chief of the Unit ed Confederate Veterans at the clos ing business session of the annual re union here and Memphis, Tenn., was selected as the 1924 reunion city. Three names were offered for the post of commander-in-chief when nominations were called for, those of General Haldeman, General William . A. Collier, of Memphis, and General E. W. Kirkpatrick, of McKinney, Texas. The name of General Collier was withdrawn before the voting be gan, leaving the field to the Kentuck ian and the Texan. General Halde man polled 771 and General Kirkpat rick 368 votes. Only Memphis and Dallas were In the contest for the next reunion and the Memphis speakers were reinforc ed with a petition more than 100 yards in length and bearing the signatures of thousands of Memphisans asking that the veterans come there. The document contained the names of 16,000 school children alone. It was a nip and tuck race between the two as the balloting progresed but Mem phis always kept a jump in the lead and when the roll call had been com pleted had polled 629 votes to 512 for Dallas. A number of the veterans had argu ed that the reunions, because of the age of the delegates, always should be held in a central city of the south in order that the journey might not be too hard on those residing in the more distant states. Dr. George Harding, of Marion, Ohio, father of President Harding, spoke to the veterans twice. He de clared he considered Robert E. Lee the greatest of American generals and Jefferson Davis one of the coun try's greatest statesmen. He said he felt very kindly toward the south in as much as his grandmother was a cousin of the mother of Jefferson Davis. After thanking the veterans for the manner in which he had ben re ceived he added: “I want to thank the southern people, too, for the kind ness with which they have treated my son. The south never had a bet ter friend than Warren G. Harding.” Dr. Harding was called to the plat form again later when a daughter of the Confederacy, bearing a huge silk Confederate flag announced that he had expresed a desire for one. The emplem, the “Stars and Bars" was presented to him and in expressing his thanks he told the veterans ht» knew they had stood by it and that “if I had been down here I suppose I, too, would have been loyal to it.” Women Seek World Peace. Mobile, Ala.—Calling upon Presi dent Harding to take the initiative in calling an International conference to consider world conditions, includ ing the tragic situation in the Near East, in order to bring peace and harmony to the world and asking the President to appoint Bishop James Cannon, Jr., as an official delegate from the' United States to the Interna tional Congress on Alcoholism, which meets in Copenhagen, August 20-25, of this year, the Woman’s Mission ary Council ofrfjhe Southern Metho dist Church, passed resolutions at the final sessions of its thirteenth annual convention. The council voted to name a new domintory costing $35,000, to be built at Brevard Institute, Brevard, N. C. MERCHANT MARINE TO BE MAINTAINED NOTICE SERVED FOLLOWING CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE. “IS TO BE A GOINS CONCERN" “Chief End to Be Sought is the Estab lishment and Maintennace” of Merchant Marine. Washington.—Notice was served on all concerned after a two-hour confer ee at the White House that the American merchant marine is to be maintained as a going concern, either under private-supervision or under a straight-out policy of government ownership an# government operation. The statement was made at the White House that President Harding and members of the shipping board who met with him to consider the shipping situation were unanimous in their opinion that “the chief end to be sought is the establishment and maintenance of' the American mer chant marine.” I “The statement from the confer ence,” said Chairman Lasker later, "mean* simply this: American and foreign shipping interests may be as sured that so far as this generation can see ahead there will be adequate American tonnage to carry any cargo offered to any sort of the world.” With the conviction that private opertion has not yet been relegated to the list of impossible things the conference determined upon one more attempt to turn over established routes to private ownership. As an initial step, the forty existing routes will be consolidated to Insure more economical and efficient operation, and then will be offered for sale as going concerns, practically at auction but with the stipulation that only “justifiable” bids will be considered. A condition of all sales will be that the vessels concerned be kept on their present routes. The consolidation is expected to re move one of the principal handicaps under which the board has labored in its dealings with government oper ators. An example was cited in the case of certain routes out of New York. An operator running ships to Amsterdam, it was pointed out, might have an outward cargo and the op portunity to pick up return freight at Rotterdam, but would be unable to avail himself because of the existence of a separate route from New York to Rotterdam. The consolidation will combine routes to adjacent foreign parts under a single head with the view of handling the same amount of business with less ships. "It must be understood,” he said, “the board does not Contemplate sell ing only the ‘cream ruotes’ and leav-' ing the government stuck with un productive lines. If sufficient routes are not purchased to insure success of private operation, the government will proceed to hold them all, elimi nate the agency system entirely, and embark upon a program of aggressive operation iself." New Schedules of Pay May 1st. Washington.—New schedules of pay for civilian employes at navy yards and other shore stations have been approved, Assistant Secretary Roose velt announced, to be operative from May 1 to the end of the calendar year. Coputed on the basis of pre vailing rates for similar work in the same locality, the new scales are ex pacted to effect a net increase in the navy’s payroll, although there will be some instances of reduction. A new wage board will be organiz ed in the fall. Mr. Roosevelt said, to recommend wage scales for 1924. It will operate under revised regula tions, one modification from the pres ent rules being the prohibition of the board considering any confidential data from private establishments. The department feels, Mr. Roosevelt explains, that the employes should be given opportunity to scrutinize all such data and to protest again con sideration of wages obtaining in any establishment which they do not con sider representtive. The present rates—which are uni form throughout the service—were established during the war emergency with the announced purpose of stabi llbing the ship building and ship re pair industries. It was found in prac tice, however, that pay for certain trades greatly exceeded that of oth ers requiring equal or even greater skill. ONE KILLED; NINE HURT WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO Spartanburg, S. C.—Mrs. Char les King, of Confers'.'. S. C., was instantly killed and nine ofhpr oc cupants ot a small automobile injured in varying degrees, when the automobile was struck at a railway crossing at Campton, S. C., ten miles northwest ot here, by Carolina special No. 28. The front wheels ot the automobile were caught in the tracks when the driver attempted to cross tire tracks and before they could be extricated the train had hit the rear of the car, virtually splitting in it two. The injured wore brought to a local hospital where they are under medical care. One is expected to die. —i————w ■ SECRETARY FOR CONTRACTS ENGLAND AND UNITED STATES MAY GET INTO CONTROVER SY OVER SMALL VESSELS. Prevents Purchaser From Using Ves sels to Violate United States Dry Laws. Washington. — Shipping complica tions of an extended character be tween the United States and Great Britain and her dominions are regard ed here as not improbable as a result of a controversy between the Wash ington and Ottowa governments over two small vessels on the. Great Lakes. The ships were purchased from the shipping board under contracts which stiputel that they should not be used In any manner which would violate the laws of the United States and for that reason they were refused regis try by the Canadian government. The particular language contained in the contracts and held objectionable by the Canadian government, apparently v^ith the backing of London, was dfcrfftiid by the department of justice to prevent any purchaser of shipping board vessels from using them as rum runners. The Canadian authorities notified Secretary Hughes that they could not admit ships to Canadian reg istry which were subject to domestic laws of the United States. An answer to the Canadian note, handed to Sir Auckland Geddes for transmission to the Ottawa govern ment, contains a defense of the lan guage employed by the shipping board and clearly states that the restrictions imposed upon operators of craft bought from the board, are legal and enforceable from the American point of view. Secretary Hughes' reply was bas ed on opinions obtained by him from the department of justice, from Secre tary Hoover of the commerce depart ment, and from other officials of the state department. It was said to rep resent the unaimous belief of the three departments in the right of the shipping board to fcontinue with the sale of vessels, either to American or foreign citizens, "• While officials at the Britsh embas sy declined to comment, there were indicaions that the Canadian govern ment would be equally firm in its de termination not to admit any ship to Canadian registry that had been bought from the shipping board under the present terms of contract. At the same time, it was learned that the whole subject is under consideration at the London foregn office and that a position similar to that of Canada may be announced soon by the British empire. Such a development in eeffct extend ing to all -the British dominions the prohibition already laid down by Can ada, would bar the shipping board from disposing of its surplus tonnage to any Britsh subjects, and if the ex ample were copied by other nations, might wipe out entirely the foreign market for American ships. That con tingency, however, American officials will not discuss in the present stage of the negotiaitnos. Tired of Trouble Slays Famuy. Seattle, Wash.—M. Efec. a second hand dealer, sot to death his wife and three young daughters, one an infant, because he was “tired of so much trouble at home," he said, when he walked into a police station here. Efec was locked up while the police men hurried to his home six blocks away and verified the report that he had shot his wife four times and each of the children two or three times. The bodies were scattered about a bedroom. Efec said he had used so many bullets because his victims did not die fast enough. - i f CHANGE IN NAVY ARE EXPECTED SWEEPING CHANGES WILL BE ORDERED BY DENBY UPON RETURN HOME. SEVERAL ALREADY ANNOUNCED Recommendations For Re-adjueting on Secretary Desk When He Reached Department. Washington.—Swpeeing change* in the high command of the American N'avy are expected from his visit with the fleet. Recommendations for the re-adjustment were on the secretary’s desk when he reached the depart ment, and he already had ben urged to expedite action. It is understood the suggseted changes include the following: Adimral Robert E. Coontz no wchief of naval operations, to command the combined fleets, succeeding Admiral Hillard P. Jones, who would go to the general board. Admiral E. W. Ebrell, commanding the battle fleet, to be chief of naval operations. Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, chief of the bureau of navigation, to command a foreign squadron, probab ly the Asiatic fleet. He would be suc ceeded by Captain Richard Leigh, now assistant chief of the bureau. Command of the battle fleet held for the present in abeyance with Rear Admiral S. S. Robinson, a mem ber of the general board, heading the list of officers recommended. Rear Admiral W. V. Pratt, also a member of the board, and one of the two advisers to the American arms conference delegation, to command the scouting fleet. Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay, chief of ordinance, to command a bat tleship division. Washington.—Secretary Denby and the party of Senators and Represen tatives who accompanied him on his trip to witness the fleet maneuvers in Panama Bay returned to Washington on the transport Henderson. The Henderson, which has called, at half dozen ports in southern waters since she took the party aboard here March 5, docked at the navy yard shortly after noon and was welcomed by a salute from the shore batteries. Expect Developments in &ugar Probe. Washington.—Developments in the near future in the department of jus tice investigation into the sugar price situation were indicated after cabinet meeting at which Acting Attorney General Seymour presented a report. The situation was discussed by President Harding and his advisers almost entirely from the legal stand point at the meeting, which lasted an hour and a half, inasmuch as the tariff commission had found itself un able to complete its preliminary re port dealing with the effect of the tariff on sugar prices. With respect to the tariff phase of the situation, however, the Presi dent was represented as absolutely convinced that the duties on sugar were in no wise responsible for the almost steady advances in the price of the commodity since early in Feb ruary. Acting Attorney General Seymour laid before Mr. Harding and the cabi net a complete summary of the result* to date of his department’s inquiry as ascertained from department re ports' and from conferences in New York v-ith United States District At torney Hayward. The nature of the department’s findings were withheld but it was indicated by a high admin istration official that developments might be expected whithiu a compar atively short time. Storm Hits Alabama. Cullman, Ala.—Three persons were injured, several residences and barns wer blown down ,and scores of live stock killed in a violent windstorm, which swept the Sincoe section. 15 miles portheast of Cullman, according to reports reaching here. 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