VOL. 35 PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1923. NO. 3 EVERY CITIZEN PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ISSUES PROCLAMATION CALLING FOR OBSERVANCE OF WEEK. BEGINNING NOVEMBER 18TH Hope of Self Government Depends Upon Knowledge of Votera, Says President. -— Washington.—President Coolidge is sued a proclamation calling for ob • 5ffrvapce of the week beginning No v^tber 18 as national education week. “Every American citizen,” the pres ident said, “is entitled to a liberal education. Without this, there s no guaranty for the permanence of free institutions, no hope of perpetuating self government. Despotism finds its chief support in ignorance. Knowl edge and freedom go hand in hand.’’ Education week is held each year under the joint auspices of the na tional education association, the Unit ed States bureau of education and the AniericajjjLegion co-operating with more than a hundred other national organizations, the purpose being to bring the people closer to their schools. i The president's proclamation fol J lows: J “From its earliest beginnings, Amer ica has been devoted to the cause of education. This country was founded on the ideal of ministering to the in dividual. It was realized that this must be done by the institutions of religion and government. In order that there might be a properly edu cated clergy and well trained civil ^magistrates, one of the first thoughts of the early settlers was to provide for a college of liberay culture, while for’the general diffusion of knowledge, primary schools were established. This course was taken as the neces sary requirement of enlightened so ciety. “Such a policy once adopted, has continued to grow' in extent. With i the adoption of the federal constitu- j tion and the establishment of free | governments in the states of the j union, there was additional reason 1 for broadening the opportunity for j education. Our country adopted the principle of self government by a free people. Those who were worthy of being free, were worthy of being edu cated. Those who had the duty and responsibility of government must necessarily have the education with which to discharge the obligations of citizenship. The sovereign had to be educated. The sovereign had become the people, schools and universities ■were provided by the various govern ments and founded and fostered by private charity, until their buildings dotted all the land. " “The willingness of the people to bear the burdens of maintaining these institutions and the patriotic devotion — of-an army of teachers, who, in many cases, might have earned larger in * comes in other pursuits, have made it possible to accomplish results with which we may well be gratified. But the task is not finished, it has only been begun. we nave oDservea me eviaenees or a broadening vision of a whole edu cational system. This has included a recognition th#t education must not end with the period of school attend ance, but must be given every encour agement thereafter. To this end the night schools of the cities, the moon light schools of the southern Appa lachian countries, the extension work of the colleges and universities, the provision for teaching technical, ag ricultural and mechanical arts, have marked out the path to a broader and more widely diffused national culture. To insure the permanence and con tinuing improvement of such an edu cational policy, there wust be the fullest public realization of its abso lute necessity. “In order that the people of the na tion may think on these things, it is desirable that there should be an an nual observance of educational week. "Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, president of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week bginning on the eighteenth of November, next, as national education week and urge its observance throughout the country. I recommend that the state and local authorities cooperate with the civic and religious bodies to secure its most general and helpful observance, for the purpose of more liberally support ing and more effectively improving the educational factilities of our country.” FOUR PERSONS KILLED IN AUTO COLLISION. Erie, Penn.—Four persons were killed and another probably fatally injured when an automobile was struck by a Nickel Plate train at the Forsythe, New York, crossing. The dead are: Virginia Garber, 14; Mrs. J. F. Bauman, 42, both of Erie ;and Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Serry, of Philadelphia. Edward Boltz, driver of the car, is in a local hos pital, not expected to recover. Boltz drove the automobile in front of a westbound passenger train, his view being obstructed by a string of freight cars on an ad joining track. All the persons in the automobile were cousins and were on their way to this city after spending the day in Buffalo. FIVE MILLION BALE RESERVE WORLD CONSUMPTION OF COT TON INCREASES AND YIELD IS SLUMPING. For the Year Ending July 31, Number ed 156,576,497 as Compared With 154,555,267 Previous Year. Washington.—World stocks of cot ton, Visible and in spinners hands oi July 31 the end of the cotton year were 5,359,000 bales as estimated bj the International Federation of Cottoi Spinners, the American agricultura commissioner at London reported b] cable. That quantity is 1,041,000 balei less than the estimate of the Depart ment of Commerce issued Septembe 10. World stocks in spinners’ handi on July 31, the federation estimated were 3,872,000 bales compared witl 4.287.000 bales a year previous, am stocks of American cotton in spin ners’ hands were estimated at 1,689 000 bales, compared wftjh^gO^OOO. World consumption, the federatioi estimated, increased 2,074,000 bale over the previous season while th Department of Commerce's estimat indicated an increased cfonsumptioi of only 903,000 balps. The federation’ estimate of world consumption is 20 585.000 bales, compared with 18,890 000 last year. The Department o Commerce's estimate was 20,950,00 bales, compared with 20,047,000 las year. Consumption of American col ton for the year and estimated by th federation was 12,286,000 bales com pared with 11,750.000 last year. Cotton spindles iu all countries fo the year ending July 31, numberei 156,576,497 as compared with 154,555 267 the previous year. Demand Extra Congress Meet. Washington.—Request was made o President Coolidge by a delegation o a dozen farmers and bankers fror the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Dis trict that a special session of Cor gress be called to enact legislation fo relief of wheat growers through r« vival of the United State Grain Coi portion. The delegation further asked that reduction in freight rates on whea and flour be made but said after thei conference that the President ha made no promise to them other tha that he would consider their request with his advisors. Dynamite Kills Three Convicts. Charlotte, N. C.—Three convict were killed and eight or ten other more or less seriously injured whe a "dud” charge of dynamite was e> ploded by a drill at the county cor vict camp located four miles nortl west of Cornelius. That the explc sion was not more serious was du to the fact , that the dump cart use to haul rocks from the quarry i which the accidental blast occurre was out of commission and a nun ber of the men had been set to wor at other points. American Finds Berlin Needs. Washington.—The perdiction wa made at the Treasury that German ultimately would have to be give outside financial help and that thi aid would take the form of an inte: governmeht consortium. Such ale however, cannot be given, it was d< dared, nntil Germany is somewha further on the road to what was de: cribed as political recovery. Reference was made by a Treasur spokesman to the method employed i the case of Austria and the sugge: tion offered that probably a financu dictator would have to be selecte and empowered to direct German go' ernment fiscal affairs while that n; tion is “convalescing” financially. It was asserted that only by mean of a financial dictatorship could Ge many’s finances be placed upon stable basis within a reasonable tiim DEAD LIST FROM STORM EIGHTEEN _ PROPERTY DAMAGE NOW IS ESTIMATED AT A MILLION DOLLARS. 12 TRAPPED IN ONE HOUSE — Were Congregated to Mourn Death of Woman When Cloudburst Swept House in Creek. 1 Omaha, Nebr.—The death list from veastern Iowa’s and eastern Nebras ka’s tornado and cloudburst was aug mented when 12-year-old Goldie Col lier died in a hospital ”at Council Bluffs from injuries she received when struck by flying debris. Seven teen others are known to have been killed, and more than a score injured. Property damage, it was said, would total more than $1,000,000. Twelve were killed at Louisville, Neb., when the house in which they were congregated to mourn the death of Mrs. Mary McCarver, was washed from its foundation into Mill creek, trapping all of the victims. The bod ies were recovered. At Council Bluffs five presons were killed by flying debris. Four of the [ dead were killed when they ran out . of their home into the front yard| , and were struck by a falling tree. . The fifth victim died in a hdfedtal. . Another deluge of rain and hail struck the city and lasted about an , hour. Cots and blankets for the homeless were obtained from the Red [ Cross and a schoolhouse is being used j as a relief center in the Iowa city. _ Approximately three square blocks were razed by the tronado in Council Bluffs. The house and all other build t ings of Mrs. G. G. Gilford, at Louis 5 ville, were swept away, leaving the ; site bare. Mrs. Gilford escaped injury* , Seventy blocks were inundated in [ Council Bluffs. A physician at Mar s quette, Neb., was killed near Grand Island, when his automobile skidded and turned over and Otto J. Duek, f a salesman of York, Neb., was drown ) ed when he stepped into a hole filled t with water. , League Assembly Adjournes, Geneva.—After a month’s Session ' during which the period of the Greco r Italian crisis had been passed through 1 to a final solution of the difficulty, . the fourth assembly of the league of nations adjourned in an atmosphere of j satisfaction among the delegates for j the achievements of the session and; f firm hope in greater accomplishments j f in the future. , It was made entirely clear by the j . speaker at the final session that the . hope of the future was pinned .large-1 P ly on collaboration by the r*Bnited . States, whenever it could be obtained, [ . with the constructive plans,-’.of ‘ the S league, even if the day never should! i come when America will be actually t found among the members. j Cotton Barely Holds Its Own. ! New York.—A detailed analysis of 3 cotton crop returns received under an average date of September 25 shpws that able weather during the greater part of the month^ftjptton in many 3 parts of the belt vfs -barely holding 3 is own, although there has been very ! little more 'than the normal amount _ of deterioration for this time of the . year. Over" 1,600 special corre^pbnd . ents of The Journal of Comnup^Miow . j place their average estimate •o'f'per 3 eentage condition at 49.5, a loss of j 7.3 per cent. This comparies with j 5.6.8 per cent last month. 70.4 per i c^‘,fftr1'in July’and a 10-year average of . 60.6 per cent. i The percentage condition on Oc tober 1. last year was 52.5 a decline of 7.5 per cent, while in September, 1921, there had been a drop of 10.4 3 to 44.7. The present condition figure, Ir however, is th# lowest, with the ex i ception of 1921, for September of any 3 year since 1901. It is, in fact, 24.2 ■- per cent under the high record year , 1914, and would seem to put an end !- to all expectations of raising anything t like a large crop. British Want Jack; Look at the Purse. y London.—The Central News learns 3 that arrangements have been mads i- in London to offer a purse of 65,000 1 pounds sterling for a match in London 1 about ^the end of January between . Jack Dempsey and the winner of the Carpentier-Beckett fight. The promoter of the scheme, it is s declared, offers to deposit 10,000 •- pounds sterling in a New York bank a as a gauartee, and also offers to pay the transportation of Dempsey. HOUSE OF DAVID AGAIN SEARCHED FOR KING. Benton Harbor, Mich.—State po lice, aidlsd by Berrien county depu ties, inyaded the House of David colony, here, in a fruitless search for Benjamin Purnell, missing head of the cult, wanted on a warrant charging him with a statutory crime. The raiding party consisted of more than 50 state police, deputy sheriffs and newspaper men. They reached the colony before daybreak, after throwing a cordon about the place and posting guards on all highways leading to it. They trooped through the halls and corridors of Shiloh house, the temple home of Purnell. They poked into basement and attic, seeking subterranean tunnels, seal ed rooms and secret passanges through which Purnell's accusers charge he fitted when officers of the law sought him. No trace of ihysterious passages or trap doors was discovered. There was little of the bizarre luxury reputed to exist in Shiloh house, and there was no sign of “King” Benjamin. IS IKE FIRST DIRECT AJTACK DECLARES LEASE TO.ATLANTIC COAST LINE WOULD BE PUB LIC CALAMITY. Seaboard's First Vice President Testi fies Such Control Would Stifle Competition By Areas. Washington.—Lease of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railroad to the Louisville and Nashjgfl$e apd the At lantic^Qoast Line railroads, pow be ing'1’'Considered, would be a “public, calamity of the first magnitude,” C. R. Capps, first vice president of the Sea board Air Line, testified before the in terstate commerce commssion. Such a^ontrol of the Clinchfield, he assert ed, would withdraw all effective com petition in transportation from import ant areas in Atlantic Coast Line and Southern railway territory. Mr. Capps’ argument was the first direct attack brought on the leasing proposal during the commission’s hearings. Seaboard Air Line counsel aiao called J. J. Campion, traffic man ager of the Clinchfield, _ who was questioned in an endeavor to show that his railroad was modern in line anS}. equipment, and fitted to handle heiivy traffic under its present inde pendent management. “We take the position that there Is no justification whatever for this lease from the standpoint of the public in terest in transportation,’’ Mr. Capps declared, “or for tke^protection of the owners of the Clinchrfi^i road, or to further any reasonable"or legitimate interest of either of She proposed lessees. t “We consider that every objective desired "by the Louisville & Nashville railroad with reference’ to the con nections proposed with its Kentucky territory can be adequately secured by such connection either without a lease or by a lease to the Louisville & Nashville, and other carriers in the southeast connecting with the Clinchfield, and competing^ with the Atlantic Coast Line.” Mr. Capps declared that his com pany’s chief objection was to the ex clusive participation in transportation to the southeast over the Clinchfield which the Atlantic Coast Line would gain under the lease. He cited ex isting arrangement in transportation, by which two or niore companies werg put on equal footing in the con trol of such a “bridge line” as he de clared the Clinchfield to lie, and advo cated some such plan for adoption in the case before the commission. S. Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard, put a memorandum into the record before the commission which declared that a close connec tion between the Clinchfield system and the Seaboard had existed during the early history of the Clinchfield. He had always felt it necessary, he said in detailing events in connection with the re-organization of the Sea board in 1911, that “these relations should be kept and extended.” Underwood Speaks at Lexington. Lexington.—-The south has stood long at the door of opportunity, but has failed to push open that door and enter, declared Senator Oscar Underwood in an address at the Dav idson county fair. Until the south forgets the cry of political expediency and asserts itself in political matters, it can have no reason to complain that it is not fairly represented in the government, said the sneaker. ESTIMATE FORTY DEAD IN KK ALL THE CARS BUT ONE PULL MAN FELL INTO SWOLLEN STREAM. TRAIN ON BURLINGTON LINE All Have Been Accounted Fop Bu1 About 40; Rescue Workers Help less in Storm. Casper, Wyo.—Between 40 and 5( persons perished in the wreck of Bur Ungton passenger train No. 30, it wa> estimated on reports received front private and official sources. Out o 32 Pullman passengers, 28 are knowi to be safe. A conservative estimate of the deat is believed to be 40, some person: maintaining that many others los their lives, while railroad author! ties say fewer were lost. The train, composed of a locomo tive, baggage, mail and express cars two day coaches and two Pullmans plunged through a bridge across Coa creek shortly after leaving here a' 8:35 o’clock. The train was made ui in Casper. All of the train excepl the rear Pullman dropped into th« creek, which was over its banks be cause of recent rains. Rescue workers, rendered helpless by rain and snow that fell intermit tently throughout the day and the ir resistible torrent that was surging through the normally dry creek, stood by unable to do anything. As the day wore on, newspaper met noticed that the cars were slowly set tling beneath the water. The knowr dead' consisted of iNicholas Schmetz of Douglas, Wyo., B.'E.f Casker, a bag gage utan. and an unidentified hobo OuttcCRthe 80 person s.believed to hav< beeS'.on' the traiti, about\40-tiJiv.e beei accounted for. ( The estimate' of tht loss of life is based on statment: rng.de by pasengers who passer through the day coaches prior to tht wrecl?. Thjse coaches are undei water and the death figure probablj will not be known for some time. Although the body of several vie tims are visible, an attempt to read them was out of the question as tht creek is 75 feet wide and extremel; swift. Everything possible was be ing done, railroad officials said, bu little could be done toward recover ing the bodies until the waters re ced£. t Railroad men declared their belie' that the accident could not have beer prevented. An hour before the train swinging around a slight curve oi schedule time, crashed through tht bridge spanning the small stream, i track wralker reported that he had In spected the structure and found ii safe. I Twelve Persons Killed By Cloudburst Louisville, Neb. — Eight persons were killed and thousands ot dolan worth of damage done when a cloud burst struct this city. The eight deat are members of the family of Mac! Carvern, in whose house they wen congregated when the dloudburs struck the city. Council Bluffs. Ia.—Four person! are known to have been killed, and i fifth is reported to have been killet in the tornado which struck this city uprooting trees, blowing down house! and sheds. Four of the dead wen killed when their home collapsed They are a woman and three children The rear of the Strand theater, or the bank of Indian creek, collapsed but no one, it was said, was injured Ward Acquitted of Murder. White Plains, N. Y.—Walter S Ward was acpitted of the charge o murdering Clarence Peters. As the jury foreman announced th< verdict a cheering throng of specta tors, mostly women, climbed ovei rows of benches and chairs to gras] the hand and kiss the face of thi wealthy banker's son. Ward, blushing, smiling and chew ing gum. tried in vain to fight hi: way through the milling crowd tha packed the courtroom and reach thi side of his wife who had fallen inti the arms of his brother, Ralph, whet she heard the jury’s verdict. Mrs Ward was in an ante room. Raipi burst in with the glad tidings am with a murmur she sank into his arms it was not merely a polite demor stration that greeted the verdict o I “not guilty.” It was an outburst o emotion. For 10 days the courtroor | has been packed and most of th I spectators each dav have been wom'« W. J. JACKSON & SON (Established 1895) Plymouth, N. C. UNDERTAKERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS A'Mt Arrange for Embalming 1