Gluk Dianas-be Drum VOL. 35 PLYMOUTH, N. C„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1923. NO. 6 EXPOSITION OPENS MONDAY, SEPT. 24 EVERY DAY OF MADE IN CARO. LINAS EXPOSITION TO HAVE SPECIAL EVENTS. RUNS 2 WEEKS-THRU UCT. 6 Great Musical Program and Largest Array of Carolina Products Ever Assembled.—Record Attendance Expected—The Program. Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 19.—Every day oi the Exposition a special, with events of importance to citizens oi both Carolines, the Made In Caro linas Exposition opens in Charlotte , next Monday, September 24, to run through October 6. The program of the Exposition, released for publica tion today by the directors, includes two weeks of special events planned for each day of the big show. Monday, September 24, is designat ed as opening day. The formal open ing of the Exposition is planned for noon of that day, after a luncheon tendered the directors of the Exposi tion company by Chamber of Com merce officials. Tuesday is Rotary Day, on which the Charlotte Rotary club will be host to Rotarians from North and South Carolina. Wednesday is one of th« biggest days of the whole show, being known as South Carolina Day. On Wednesday Governor Thomas G. Mc Leod, of South Carolina, will be the principal speaker, and delegations from many South Carolina cities are expected to visit the Exposition. Plans Sfre being made by the Chambers of Cbmmerce of Spartanburg, Greenville, Camden, Rock Hill, and several ether cities, to bring large delegations oi citizens here by automobile and spe cial trains, headed by brass bands and carrying banners and slogans to boost their home towns. Thursday, September 27, is Kiwanis Day, and on that date the Kiwanians of Charlotte will entertain their fellow club members from the two states. Friday is School Day and Woman’s Clubs Day. The Charlotte Woman's club and allied civic and patriotic or ganizations plan to entertain the var ious state presendents of civic and patriotic organizations at a luncheon at which there will be several disting uished speakers, afterward taking their guests to the Exposition in auto mobiles. Saturday, September 29, will be one of the biggest days of the entire Ex position. This will be Farmer’s Day and U. C. T. and T. P. A. Day, when the farmers and the tralveling men will meet in the big show building on Park avenue. The traveling men of Charlotte, 1200 strong, have made plans to entertain their brother knights of the grip from the two states on the last day of the first week of the show. 1 9^ The second week of the show starts off with Lions Day, when the Char lotte Lions club will entertain fellow members from the two states. The biggest day of the entire show prob ably will be Tuesday, October 2, known as North Carolina Day, when Gover nor Cameron Morrison will be the principal speaker. Goodfellows Day, arranged by the Charlotte Goodfellows club, 600 strong, will come on Wed nesday, October 3, followed by Mer chants Day on Thursday, Civitans Day on Friday and Industrial Day *on Saturday, October 6, the closing day of the show. The entire two weeks of the show will be given over largely to enter tainment with one of the finest musi cal programs ever attempted by an in dustrial exposition. The main fea ture of the musical program will be the apifi&rance here each day of Creator’s Great Band, with Guiseppe Creatore himself as conductor. Be • sides this big attraction there will be • many other varied musical offerings, Including the Scotch Quartet, the Goodfellows Octet and chorus, the big choir of all star singers, the Mendels shon Qjjartet and several individual stars from metropoliton musical stage. The exhibits placed in the big show incluffe everything made in the Caro . linas from peanut butter to print / -clothes and from canned goods to coat Changers. One of the most interesting exhibits placed on the 20,000 floor space already occupied by exhibitors is that of the Rosemary and Roanoke mills, of Roanoke Rapids, N. C., the largest manufacturers of damask clottu. in the world. GOV. OF SOUTH CAROLINA SEES DAWN OF NEW PERIOD. Columbia.—“I believe a new day has dawned for South Carolina.” Thus spake Governor McLeod in referring to the state publicity con ference held in Columbia. The chief executive said he believed the organization set up and the movement started would do more to draw the world’s attention and capital to South Carolina than any other movement in recent years. The conference created a council of 46 men, one from each county, and this council created a commis sion of seven, one from each con gressional district, to administer a fund of $100,000, which the organ ization will endeavor to raise. Dr. W. D. Melton, president of the uni versity of South Carolina, has been elected chairman of the commis sion. I CHANCELLOR SPEAKS PLAINLY STRESSEMAN ADMITS TACITLY THAT RUHR FIGHT IS NOW LOST. Speech Doesn’t Show Readiness to Quit Passive Resistance Uncon ditionally. i Berlin.—Chancellor Stresseman de clared ‘‘we are ready to give real guar antees in order to secure the freedom of the Ruhr.” He admitted a solution of the prob lem could not be obtained by passive resistance. Tacitly admitting that the Ruhr fight had been lost and there could be no prospect of the international re construction of Germany unti 1 the foreign conflict had been adjusted Chancellor Stresseman remarked to a gathering of editors: “(Jandor is preferable! to illusion, and Germahy desires to speak out plainly.” Informal contact with the occupying powers has revealed the gravity of the existing differences, which, he said, primarly involved the question of Ger man sovereignty and the restoration to Germany of complete administra tive freedom in the Ruhr. Th£ cancellor’s speech did not con tain a direct reference to readiness on the Parl °f Germany to call off pos slve .'resistance unconditionally, but presented a more precisee formula tion of the nature of the productive guarantees which Germany was pre pared to pledge for the security of the reparation creditors. These would comprise the hypothecation of private holdings in industry, commerce, fin ance and agriculture, in such a man ner as to insure their immediate fluidity as active loanable collateral. Such security, said the chancellor, would in every way be superior to the pledges prescribed in the Ver sailles treaty, which only enumerate governmental properties, none of which possesp productiveness equal ling that of private holdings which Germany proposes to hypothecate for the benefit of reparations. “Unless France is ben on annexa tion, Germany’s pledges,” he contend ed, “were of such a nature as to meet the conditions under which France once prepared to evacuate the irruf# ed areas.’’ A solution of the Ruhr dispute could not be achieved solely by continuance of passive resistance; nor could the question be settled by a polij^ of force, th echancellor said. Even Chancellor Cuno, stated Herr Stresemann, had never contended that negotiations could on.'/ be under taken after the evacuation of the Ruhr. The object of passive resist ance was only to free the Ruhr terri tory. “For us,” continued the chancellor, “the question of the sovereignty of the Rhineland and regaining the freedom of the Ruhr territory is decisive. For it we are prepared to give real guar antees.” Rum Runners Do Big Business. Hamilton, Bermuda. — Americans who buy liquor from bootleggers con tributed indirectly $157,204.80 to the government of Bermuda in the form of an export tax of $2.40 on each case shipped from the island, between April 1, 1922, and September 1, last. During this period rum runners have taken out of Bermuda more than 60,000 cases, as well r.s 41 bar rels of liquor, all of which has found a market in New York and vicinity. This is a total of more than 750,000 bottles which, at the average retail 'price of $8 a bottle, would mean a return of $6,000,000 on cargoes that were bought here for about $1,000,000. CONSUMPTION OF COTTON SHOWS 01 MILLS USED 30,000 MORE BALES IN AUGUST THAN IN JULY SAYS CENSUS. EXPORTS ON THE INCREASE Slight Increase in Spinning in the 8outh Shown in Federal Report. Washington.—Cotton consumed dur ing August totalled 491,^504 bales of lint and 47,988 bales of Haters, com pared with 461,675 of lint and 44,7-75 of linters in July this year and 526,380 of lint and 62,841 of linters in August last year, the Census Bureau announc ed. Cotton on hand August 31, In con suming establishments was 506,671 bales of lint and 106,036 of linters compared with 1,089,230 of lint and 117,558 of linters on August 31 last year [j Stocks on hand in public storage and at compresses were 1,179,204 bates of lint and 24,832 of linters compar ed with 933,689 bales of linters and 35,876 of linters on July 31 this year and 1.530,141 bales of lint and 30,098 of lintei’3 on August 31, last year. Cotton spindles acticve during Au gust were 33,708,667 as compared with 34237,887 in July this year and 32, 491,857 during August last year. Imports during August this year were 3.420 bales as compared with 6,356 during July and 14,678 during August last year. Exports during August 244,415 bales including 3.825 bales of linters com pared with 171,469 bales Including 3,661 of linters during July and with, 272,808 bales, including 4,490 of Hat ers during August last year. Statistics for cotton growing States follow: Consumed during August 329,162 bales compared with 308,181 in July this year and 338,588 in August last year. On hand, August 31 in consuming establishments 339,480 bales compared with 532,203 July 31 this year and 408,958 on August 31, last year. On hand August 31 in public stor age and at compresses 1,038,426 bales compared with 752,888 on July 31 this year and 1,277,332 August 31 last year. Cotton spindles active during Au gust numbered 15,858,075 compared with 15,871,805 in July this year and 15,609,596 in August last year. I Suggests Inquiry Into Coal Trade. Washington. — President Coolidge j has suggested^ to the federal trade commission that investigation be made of possible unfair practices in coal trade which would tend to increase prices, it was- stated by a White House spokesman. Coal often passes through a number of hands before reaching the consumer and the President thinks that some of these duplicate handlings could be eliminated as unnecessary. As alleged profiteering iji anthracite is viewed by the executive is largely a local J question, he feels it would be difficult for the federal,, government to reach into the several states and undertake to say how individuals should conduct the'ir business, and such ■ conditions could be better handled by the mu- ■ nicipal and state officials. The auth ority of the federal trade commission over unfair practices is believed to be a pratial remedy, however, and it was added that the coal commission is working along the same lines. Army and Navy Not Dry Agents. Washington. — President Coolidge has no idea at this time of asking Congress for authority to use the arm- I ed forces of the nation in enforcing j prohibition laws, it was stated official ly at the White House. The executive does not belive it would be wise to use the army and navy in such police work. He regards it as conceivable that a time might j come when it would be iesirable to use naval craft to prevent smuggling, but such use of war vessels should be resorted to with a great deal of hesita ' tion. Enforcement of police regulations should not be^put on the army and navy, the President believes, but should be shouldered by the regularly consttiuted state and federal authori ties. It wras pointed out that it is only rarely that a state calls on its national guard to perform police func tions and that it should be seldom that the federal government used its j armed forces for such work. BODIES OF 70,000 COUNTED IN TOKIO. Washington.—The dead counted by Japanese authorities up to Sep tember 7 mtiSbered 47,000 in Tokio and 23,000 in Yokohama, the for eign office in Tokio reported to the Japanese embassy here. The message said 150 foreigner^ •had been killed “so far as has been ascertained.” About 316,000 houses, or 71 per cent of all, were destroyed In To ldo, while 70.000 of the 85,000 hous ed in Yokohama met a similar fate. Police of Tokio, according to the message, estimated 1,356,000 per sons homeless there, constituting 67 per cent of the total population, '■■in SIXTY THOUSAND CREMATED NOW BELIEVE ONE-FOURTH OF YOKOHAMA POPULATION DEAD. Foreign Minister Declares Untrue Report Japanese Capital Be Re moved From Tokio. Washington.—The bodies of 60,000 dead had been cremated by the auth orities in Tokio up to midnight Sap tember 8, the Japanese minister of foreign afTairs said in a telegram re ceived here at the Japanese embassy. The number of bodies still unrecover ed is probably very great, it was add ed. The casualties in Yokohama were estimated at 110,000, or one-quarter of the entire population, and many more dead were said to be unaccounted for in outlying districts. An official investigation, it was said, shows that Yokohama, of 3,000 for eign residents, 100 were killed, in cluding 50 British and 20 Americans. Consul Dickover at Kobe, transmit ted a dispatch from Ambassador Woods at Tokio, dated September 7, saying the following Americans were those “known to be killed.’’ * 4ifiv -and- - Mrs. Amrine and efeild; Paul R. Cannon; Mrs. Albert Mandel and sdn, and Paul E. Jenks. In an undated dispatch from Kobe, Consul Dickover said that Mrs. L. H. Jenks, previously reported kill ed, was safe in Kobe. Consul Dickover said he had re ceived from Tokio definite informa tion that Helen Cameron and Mrs. Spencer Gilbert, both of Virginia, are safe. The foreign minister declared to be untrue reports that the capital was to be removed from Tokio, although he said many of the industrial, com mercial and publishing houses plan to remove temporarily to the Oasaka and Kobe districts. Exchange Reports Near-Stampede. New York.—Improved business con ditions and an estimate from Wash ington, placing this year's probable cotton crop at only 10,750,000 bales, have caused a condition which amounts almost to a stampede among cotton users both here and abroad, the New York Cotton Exchange an nounced. The demand in futures has been so great, the statement said, that the facilities of the exchange have boen taxed to the utmost and clerks have been working nights in an unsuccess ful endeavor to keep the books up to date. Six weeks ago cotton for- October delivery sold at 20 3-4 cents on the New York Cotton Exchange, it closed at 28. This advance is equal to more than $35 a bale, and is equivalent to an increased return to the cotton plant ers in the south of about $400,000,000. Divorces Increasing Rapidly. Washington.—Divorces are increas ing more rapidly in the southern states than are marriages, according to statistics based upon information gathered by the census bureau and made public by the department of commerce. Several of the far west ern states show decreases, Navada be ing an exception. In that state more divorces were granted last year than the number of marriages. The martial bonds that were shat tered in North .Carolina last year al most doubled the record for 1916, al though there were fewer than 1,000 more marriages in 1922. North Carolina: 22,191 marriages and 1,317 divorces in 1922 compared with 21,337 marriages and 668 divor ces in 1916. Fines Woman $2 For Smoking New York.—Jean Albright, a miss of 18, paid a $2 fine, for puffing a cig arette on a part of a Staten Island ferryboat, where smoking is prohibit ed. She was said to be the firr.t woman ever proaecuted in this city tg\r emnlrimr GANT USE NAVY TO ENFORCE DRY LAWS THIS IS RULING DECLARED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL DAUGHERTY. — “NO NATIONAL EMERGENCY'’ Delivers Opinion to Coolidge; Says Navy Use Would Require Congres sional Act. ' Washington.—The navy cannot le gally be used the enforcing prohibi tion, Attorney General Daugherty rul ed. ’ In adddition, he declared, there is no national emergency in the situ ation calling for the employment of warships to make the Ary laws effec tive. ‘ • Delivering to President Coolidge the formal opinion, asked last spring by the late President Harding, the attorney general held that the naval establishment could be used as an enforcement agency only by special authorization from Congress or in an emergency which made civil pro cesses impotent. Two' questions were submitted orig inally by President Harding—wheth er the executive had power to use the naval forces in enforcing prohibi tion in the absence of an emergency and, if this was unlawful, whether an emergency existed authorizing their use. Both questions were an swered in the negative by Mr. Daugh erty, who cited several laws and su preme court decisions as precedents. “I am of the opinion,” he said “that you have no authority to use the na val forces in the enforcement of the national prohibition act when no emergency exists.” Declaring there was no emergency Justifying a call upon tb*- oavjfc»*fce opinion said: “There can be no emergency auth orizing the President to call out the naval forces to enforce the civil and commercial laws until the courts and the civil departments of the govern ment are no longer able to enforce them. “While there have been numerous violations of the national prohibition : act, both on land and within our ter ritorial waters, there have been no i unlawful obstructions of the functions of the courts or restraint of their processes, or of the coast guard, the division of the customs, ;the prohibi tion unit, nor of the marshals and their deputies of the department of t justice. All the departments of the , government are functioning and mak- j ing a steady advance against lawless j elements. "In the general the prohibition act j is being enforced. There are stub born. exceptions in congested local!- 1 ! ties tin s^rne of which local support has not been rendered.' There are places where public opinion is un friendly and the enforcement of this law is difficult. But I cannot believe that such isolated cases constitute a national emergency within the mean ing of the “Act of Congress." "I am, therefore, of the opinion that there are no unlawful obstruc- | tions, combinations or assemblages or persons, or rebellion against the government of the United States in the* enforcement of the prohibition statutes, such as render it impracti cable to continue to enforce these laws by the ordinary course of execu tive and judicial proceedings.” League’s Work Upheld by China. Geneva.—China came out strongly In support of the league of nations. Tchengloh, minister to France, in an address before the assembly, declar ed the league had given ample proof of its ability to secure the peace of the world and to help the triumph of justice. This had been accomplished, he de clared, because the basis of the league was recognition of the equality of peoples without distinction of race, color, or religion. Art Treasures of Japan Destroyed. Tokio.—In addition to the remen- | dous loss of life and property in the recent earthquake. Japan is mourning the destruction of art treasures, valu- | | ed at hundreds of millions of yen. The Okura Museum, housing an in valuable collection of fine arts, was one of the first Tokio buildings to go. Other museums met the same ' fate. j But the museum losses were small compared to those of private families j whose priceless relics, retained for j many generations, were destroyd. W. J. JACKSON & SON (Established 1*95) Plymouth, N. C. UNDERTAKERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR*