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Tl f BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C. 1 Mrs. donrt,'!' V. Reinecke. anp ointod to succeed the Into J. C. Cannon as collector u liiicnwl revenue in the Chicago district, the first woman to hold sucli a position. 2 Security police of the Kulir, epe!ieil hy the French, marching into unoccupied Germany. Ku Khix Klan members li elding burial services i'or William ('. Martin of South Fakement, l'a. NEWS REVIEW 0 CURRENT EVEN Pacifist Organizations Under Fire as Unpatriotic and Foes of Preparedness. MR. WEEKS MAY TAKE A HAND Russians. Resenting Protests, Execute Vicar General Butchkavich Ger man Rail Workers to Be Expelled From Ruhr- Death of the Earl of Carnarvon. By EDWARD W. PICKARD o R ADICALS" cr -progres sives" in congress in the next session are likely to urge these changes in t.ix legislation: Restoration of the excess prof ts tax but w.tn a lower rate than formerly in the lower brackets but a heavier tax pi the higher brackets; imposition cf a retroactive tax on undis tributed earnings cf crrpora ticns; an increase m existing taxes on inheritances; a tax on gifts to prevent evasion of estate taxes, and abcbtion of the se crecy now requited by law in the case cf tax records and pro ceedings. How does such a program suit you ? 1 t t Wash:!.-:.. pn.pa.ani exceed ill gl Who iau-t have laid attack. T oil for the Women's Fence am t ; ,...i-t iieai w h o s iften ieVOli :an;.at ions liters in i n am a havt V 1 1 1 i s e ii leas and been declared ; hv persons be classed t hemselv es Ley are the s real patriots, pen to vigorous National I'min- Prevention of War and the International League for Freedom. General Fries. head of the chemical warfare service, recently -accused them of being unpa triotic and of advocating communism. To these charges the opga 11 i 7a i bns made viu'or.'iis reply, U fending them selves and their obje.-ts. At 1h:s writ in; be Si l'f ary of War Weeks is -a d to n g to enter the con t ro e".-y . :h Ids stand has not been iic. it is understood that lo tT.'l mad vvil: Gellt P I. n the cllsat ;, mat!. bv Fri Ui Wc ii ;c.M ia y the Amerii cn fen-o so: ift y. throiiu'li its Was'iin director. R. M. VI.::ne. issued :, Iv- :t.n let- 1er declaring that both the jiacitist or Ttinia! ions are working directly a!onjr lines laid down by soviet Russia to brin about tin'- "armed revolution." The chief complaint against the or ganizations is that they are working tooth and nail against till military pre paredness and seeking in every way to hamper the activities of the army and navy anil to the peace-time operations that keep the defenders of the coun try up to the mark. For instance, they tried to induce congress to throw out the appropriation for summer camps for the reserve corps, and, l'ailin,' In this, they now are sending broadcast articles al!opn; that the ritmps are de planed to arouse a mi I ii a rist i spirit and indirect !y to pn ( ne ;;'i .. id result i lice war. 1 h eon i ro versy secret ; i ry of ;l r d n I v .''o.li.el's to tints fa is perm I' is thai t ; . : 1 T in : army present to the prepa redness ---at mat ters. their Cl o; es-juu ESi'ITE tl.-e of State II r i-utf ,' Sc. re- a ry tnontl , t he 'ol.illlii tee have made ri I sv rneinhers of the Women f Russa, for Recopnition of another appeal, in President Hardin:: an a m pen M r. letter to Hil-hes. They decry the seer r .s apprehen sion of the spread of lioislievism in the I'nited Stares, and they disapree with his conviction that the Soviet pov em inent will not assume the oblipations of the czarist and Kerei sky pov et nnients. Tfie letter conclud s : "All that we ask is this: That air accredited commission from the Rus sian government be asked to sit with n American commission at a table in TS a friendly try ti tind lions aeee atmosphere a basis for 'table to I, and that they friendly rela countries. This is the new diploni; only way." cy it is tin It is not liU( v that the cause of these friend! moied tv ri of Russia lias been pro ent events in that land. In spile of the protests and appeals from other lands, and it may be be cause of them, the central executive committee in Moscow decided that the sentence of death against Mgr. Rutch kavieh. vicar general of the Roman Gatholic church in Russia, should be carried out. anil consequently the prel ate was executed bv a tiring squad. I The death sentence of Archbishop Zep- matters last week while In Augusta, link, however, w as commuted to im- j a.. where he was completing his va a prisonmeiit for ten years. The soviet ! tion. His attention was necessary to government openly and bitterly re- j the question of American participation sentod the efforts of Poland. England, the Foiled States and the pope to save these churchmen. England whs told hat "Kit-sia. an in lependent sovereign -tale, had the undeniable right of pass i:ir the se:,tence to conform with its o, n legislation on people who break :!.o l.r.v of the country." l'o'and was informed that her attempted ",nt orfer-eii.-e with Russian just ice" w a an tin friondix act. The Moscow government ' h: oiidi(ij; showed its extreme sensi tiveness to any infrngoniont on its -o ere: gn t . and some of its replies 'o the appeals were I'el a rk : i 1 I ' i.'ll- : 1 1 In 1 1 Russ out ia a a se U wee 1 bv loils pea suto . but it was the rUra:ii oU br .. ed,i - 1 1 1 1 : : - a-atits . Urine - ii ; re-s,. S;e, by I lie Mo-cow -o em 1 iiree W ere squad hundred and forty exec uted at Sohitou.ir :.MA. resistance to the French the Ruhr, which is actively oil by the pivennueiit at lie 'din. !iiii,r more and more disastrous Germans, whatever may i" e the for France. General Iu-uoip'v's ,s bee for th. results ultimatum to the German railroad workers, prmnisinu' expulsion if they did not return to work, has expired and it is expected the deportation of these men will beirin shortly. They number about 12c.,H, and, with their families, some :"H,tMM persons may be removed from the occupied repion. The railway men continue their cam paign of saboiape. one of their latest efforts beinp the sendinp of a dozen "wild" trains over a line. Germany is increasinp her wails of martyrdom i'ecause eleven employees of the Krupp plant at Essen were i kiiVd by French troops. There Is 1 every evidence that the workmen pU ivhat was cominp to them, for the ; poiliis a small detachment were sur j rounded b t Iausands of Germans and violently attacked when they entered the plant. According to the French inte'.lipenoe service, the Steel Helmets, a secret or ganization financed by the German na tionalists, is be'-oininp very active in ihe Ruhr and Is preparinp for armed measures apainst the French. A car load of weapons and ammunition., seized by the Belgians near Doersten, is said t have been intended for the Steel Helmet. 'Hie French are heavily reinforcinp their garrisons alonjj the eastern frontier of the occupied region j and huve a captive balloon at Dort- j mund from which the surrounding ter- j ritory is kept under dose observation. j 000,000 American people. The remedy has accepted the sugpes- J for suci, situations as have been cre the allies that the peace j ,ir(1 i.v the unconscionable mnnlnnlfi- TFRKE V lion of confei'enc' at Lausanne be resumed on j April lo, and there is good reason to! believe the differences will be ad justed and a treaty negotiated. Kemal Parha, being annoyed by increasing opposition on the part of the radicals in the national assembly, persuaded that body to vole for dissolution and ordered new elections immediately, if is practically certain he will have a -afe majority in the new assembly, if neee . -;: ry ,y adopting the electoral methods that have lcjco so familiar in Mexico. ne leader of the oppo sition was treacherously slain recently by an adherent of Kemal. but the lat ter promptly sent troops who brought the dead body of the assassin to An gora, thus quieting an impend ng row. PAIN'S liberal ministry, headed by j 1 Marquis de Alhucemas,. obtained : office under n riledfe tn reform the con- i stltution so as to give equality for all J religions T.nst wpek th Vntican is- sued an ultimatum warnlnji the cabinet that if Article XI of the constitution, at- v , establishing the church as the state i tered, all parish pr ! their parishioners p Kn!ii;:!i Catholic religion, were al-ie.-ts would forbid i vote for the gov - eminent in the impending elections under penalty of eternal damnation. The cabinet sought to resign, but the king persuaded most of the members, including the premier, to retain office for the present. The national legisla ture will lie called and a general dec lion called, although the government fears this will result in a Fascist! revo lution. RESIDENT HARDING had to de- 1 vote considerable time to public in the international court of justice, and continual pressure was brought to bear on him in favor of American mem bership in the league of Nations. One of his visitors was Ir. Nicholas .Murray I lu tier, a supporter of the league. So improbable as to be ridiculous was the sti.ry circulated that the Pros ident and his advisers had dcided to make the open shop in indu-iry a na tional campaign i-site. t if course the report met infant denial. It i said G. G. Dawes had ad is.-d President Harding to make the open shop oju- of the main pianks of his platform for re elect ion. Mr. Gompers ran true to m with s v, as d h'lhiUt Stutelne! '. organized lal ! that r w ! to Uhl the llll'l lilni the a i lige aXel tigl T ii: ml ! a rna rv on. -p. .r; -;n in aeob.pist and the dicov- tomb of Kinp Titt Ankh- uvr of the Almii at l.uor. died Thursday in I'airo of pnetiirionia followitep an attack- of b' I po'isonitip caused bv the bite of all insect. Superstitious students of Egyptian mysticism believe his death was due to poison placed on some ob ject in thr roval tomb thirty centuries a'po to rc.enpe the dead pharaoh on any who mipht disturb his rest. The earl is succeeded by his son. who wan married last duly to Miss Katherine T. Wendell of New York. TF. J Ii FliGIi WILLIAM E. PKVKIt, the was elected the larpe plu emocratic nominee, mnvor of Ghioap". having rality of lOo.T-FS over Arthur '. Lueder, Riqmblican, and W. A. ('unnea. So cialist. The campaipn was lively but reasonable clean, for all the candidates were men of hiph character. Morton I . Hull. Republican, was elected con pressman to complete the term of the late .lames R. Mann (if Ghicu.ro. A TTR1F.FT1NG the jiresent Mi?:ir prices to "criminal manipulation" of the market, the Fanners" union has issued a statement from Washinpton advoeatinp a closer orpanization in the supar producinp industry. "Some of the hard-pressed and pmiped people of the cities," said the statement, '"are thinkinp that the farmer is sharinp in the proceeds of the robbery. Nothing could be far ther from the facts. All the sugar of the last season has long since been marketed and the supplies are in the hands of men who never grew an unCe of the commodity, ..There is BOmethins radically wrong wUh an e,.onomU. svstem that permits ,he calm fieecinf: uf more than 10o,- tors jS not far 1(l seek. .., , nossil,ie to so organize that w e will be able to refine our own supar and jnarket the finished product. We can stabilize the sugar market just as we have stabilized the cotton mar ket, the prune market and the raisin i market. We can do it by being our . ewn salesman and our own financier. ! "In the meantime the fanners de- mand the prosecution of the men re i sponsible for the recent raid on the i American pocketbook. They will not be satisfied with excuses and they i will not tolerate delays. They will i eusily identify the officials who may I be responsible for the escape of the malefactors and they will rememler i them at the polls in Jfisvember of next i year." T HERE is woe in store for the rum- - runners Of the Atlantic coast. If President Harding adopts the plan of certain administration officials. This is that a fleet of sub-chasers be sent out to rout the booze squadrons. h Man A Counlry FIRST INSTALLMENT. No document in actual Amer ican history conveys a mora powerful lesson of what citizen ship in this republic means, none delivers a more searching appeal to loyalty, than this fanciful re cital of the Man Without a Country. The unhappy creature whose living death it has graved upon the memory of mankind was but a figure born of a writ er's imagination. Yet, the ac count of his passionate outburst and of his dreadful expiation stirs the dullest soul, and will awaken emotion in the minds of readers of generations yet un born. There can be no more ar resting lesson for the disloyal or the heedless, no more inspiring appeal to the spirit of true Amer icanism, than this memorable work cf literary art and high souled patriotism. I suppose that very few casual readers of the New York Herald of August l.'Uh observed, in an obscure corner, among the "Deaths," the an nouncement : "NOLAN. Died, on hoard U. S. Cor vette Levant. Lat. 2 11" S., Long. VM W., on the 11th of May, Fhilip Nolan." I happened to observe it, because I was stranded at the old Mission house in Mackinac, waiting for a Lake Superior steamer which did not choose to come, and 1 was devouring, to the very stubble, all the current literature I could get hold of, even down to the deaths and marriages in the "Herald." My memory for names and people is good, and the reader will see, as he foes on. that I had reason enough to remember Philip Nolan. There are hundreds of readers who would have paused at that announcement, if the olhcer of the Levant who reported it had chosen to make it thus: "Died. May 11th, 'The Man without a Coun try.'" For it whs as "The Man with out a Country" that poor I'hiiip Nolan had generally been known by the otli cers who had him in charge durum some fifty years, as, indeed, by till the men who had sailed under them. I dare s;,y there is many a man who has taken wine with him once a fort nipht, in a three years' cruise, who iiever knew that his name was "No lan." or whether the poor wretch had any name at all. There can now be no possible harm in tcKin; this poor creature's story. Reason enough there has been till now, ever since Madison's administra tion went out in lblT, for very strict secrecy, the secrecy of honor itself, among the gentlemen of the navy who have had Nolan in successive charge. And certainly it speaks well for the es prit de corps of the profession and the personal honor of its members, that to the press this man's story has been wholly unknown, and, I think, to the country at large also. 1 have reasou to think, from some invtvligations I made in the naval archives when I was attached to the aure.au of construction, that every of ficial report relating to him was burned kvhf'ii Ross burned the public buildings it Washington. One of the Tm kor.-, ;r possibly one of tin- Watsons, had Nolan in clo-:!gv at the end of the war; md when, on rc.urning from his cruise, he reported at Washinpton to one of the Crownir-shields who was in the aavy department when he came home lie found that the department ig nored the whole business. Whether they really knew nothing about it, or whether it vvus a non mi ricordo, de termined on us a piece of policy, 1 do not know. Bat this I do know, that since 1817, and possibly -before, no aaval officer has mentioned Nolan in his report of o cruise. As I say, there is no need for se crecy any longer. And now the poor creature is dead, it seems to me worth while to tell a little of his story, by way of showing young Americans of today what it Is to be A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I'hiiip Nolan was as fine a young oflicer as there was in the "Legiiji of the West," a:; the western division of our army was then called. When Aaron i'.urr made his first dashing ex pedition down to New Orleans in lSOo, at Fort Massac, or somewhere above on the river, he nvet, as the devil ! would have it, this gay, dashing, bright young fellow, at some dinner party. I think. Rurr marked him, talked to him, walked with him, took lam a day or two's voyage in his tlatboat, and, in short, fascinated him. For the next year barrack life was very tame to I poor -Nolan, lie occasionally avaiieu of the permission the great man Jtad given him to write to him. Long, high worded, stilted letters the poor boy vrote and re-wrote and copied. But never a line did he have in reply from the gay deceiver. The other boys in the garrison sneered at him, because he sacrificed in this unrequited affec tion for a politician the time whic they devoted to Monongahela, sledge, and high-low-jack. Bourbon, euchre, WitKout and poker were still unknown. Rut one day Nolan had his revenge. This time I'.urr came down the river, not as an attorney s -eking a place for his office, but as a disguised conqueror. He had defeated I know not how many district attorneys; he had dined at 1 know not how many public dinners; he Ibgd been heralded in I know not how many Weekly Arguses; ami it was ru mored that he had an .army behind him and an empire before him. It was a L'reat iay his arrival to j r Nolan. Burr had not been at the fort an hour before he sent for biui. That evening lie asked Nolan to take him out in his skiff, to show him a cane brake or a cotlonwood tree, as lie said, really to seduce him; and by the time the sail was over, Nolan was enlisted body and soul. From that time, thouph he did not yet know it. he lived as "A Man without a Country."' What F.urr meant to do I know no more than you, dear reader. It is none of our business just now. Only, when the grand catastrophe came, ami Jef ferson and the House of Virginia of that day undertook to break on the wheel all the possible Clarences of the then House of York, by the great treason trial at Richmond, some of the lesser fry in that distant Mississippi valley, which was farther from us than I'uget Sound is today, introduced the like novelty on their provincial stupe, and. to while away the monotony of the summer at Fort Adams, got tip. for spectacles, a string of court-martials on the ollleers there. One and anoth er of the colonels and majors were tried, and, to fill out the list, little No "lun, against whom, heaven knows, there was evidence enough, that he was sick of the service, had been will ing to be false to it. and would have obeyed any order to march anywhitle i with :moiie who would follow him had the order only been signed, "l', command of His F.xc. A. Rurr." The courts dragged on. The big flies aped, right iy tor all I know. No'.un was proved guilty enough, as I say; yet you and I would never have hea d of hi::., read r. but thai, when th." president of the court asked him at the "I Wish I May Never Hear of the United States Again!" close, whether he wished to say any thing to show that he had always been faithful to the United States, he cried out. in a lit of frenzy : "D n the United States! I wisli I may never hear of the United States again !" I suppose he did not know how the words shocked old Colonel Morgan, who was holding the court. Half the officers who sat in it had served through the Revolution, and their lives, not to say their necks, had been risked for the very idea which he so cavalierly cursed in his madness. lie, on his part, had grown up in the West of those days, in the midst of "Spanish plot," "Orleans plot," and all the rest. His education, such as it was, had been perfected in commercial expedi tions to Vera Cruz, and I think he told mo his father once hired an English man to be a private tutor for a aginter on the plantation. He had sponrhalf his youth with an older brother, hunt ing horses in Texas; and, in a word, to him "United States" was scarcely a reality. Yet he had been fed by "Unit ed States" for all the years since he had been in the army. He had sworn on his faith as a Christian to be true to "United States." It was "United States" which gave him the uniform ho wore, and the sword by his side. Nay, my poor Nolan, it was only because "United States" had picked you out first as one of her own confidential ima of honor, that "A. Burr" cared foi you a straw more than for the flat bo.t men who sailed his ark for him. I do not excuse Nolan ; I only explain to tho reader why he damned his coun try, and wished he might never hear her name again. lie never did hear her name but once again. From that moment, Septem ber 23. 1S07, till the day he died. Max 11, 1863, he never heard her name again. For that half century and more ne was u man without a co mi try. Old Morgan, as I said, was terribly shocked. f Nolan had compared George Washington to Rom-diet Ar nold, or had cried, "God save King George," Morgan would not have felt worse. He called the court into bis private room, and returned in fiftewi minutes, with a face like a sheet, to say ; "i'risorier, hear the sentence of the court. The court decides, subject to the approval of the president, that you nevr hear the name of the United States again." N'olan laughed. But nobody else It'tiphed. op Morgan was too solemn mti the whole room was lin-hed dead as night for a minute. Even Nolai; lost his swagger in a mo ment. Then Morgan added: "Mr. Marshal, take the prisoner to Orleans eii a: I boat, and deliver him to ; :-'' na ei ommander t here."' i he t:::: ;sh:: I gave his orders, and the prisoner was taken out of court. "Mr. Marshal, '" continued obi Mor gan, "see that no one mentions the 1 'mie. States to the pri-otior. Mr. Marshal, make my respects to Lb-u-I'-nant Mitchell at Orleans, and re fjuest him to order that no one shall "0 mi..-, t,o United States to the pris '" i d-- he is on board ship. You will re, t ! 'I ill' e I hav, M : of the . e pi:: ire tain it 'hell! C ive your written orders from r on duty here this evening, ."t is adjourned without day." always supposed that Golonel bin, -elf took the proceedings oiirt to Washington City, ant) d them to Mr. Jefferson. Ger s that the president approved r'ain, that is, if I mav believe th-- tceii who say they hav seen his SI '!i:c lire. The plan then adopted was sub stantially tie- s:ime which was neces sarily followed ever after, perhaps it was -::''csted by the necessity of sending him ,y water from Fort Adams and Orleans. The secretary of the navy was- requested to put Nolan on board a government vessel bound on a long cruise, and to direct that he should he only so far confined there as to make it certain that he never saw or heard of the country. We had few long cruises then, and the navy wa - ,ry much out of favor; and as almost all of ibis strv is traditional. explained. 1 do not know cer h..t his (if-t cruise was. But mander to v.hoia In- was in perhaps it was Tingey or , V till d : w th idi I think it was one of :i:'i r men-we are ali old now regulated the etiquette .'lit' the precautions of the affair, and '! " oi -duig 'o his scheme they were carried our. I suppose, till Nolan died. When l ws -ec.nd otlicer of the In trepid some thirty years after. I saw 'la- oriL'inal paper of instructions. I have be. n sorry ever since that I did mu copy tin- whoi.- of it. It ran, how ev or. e.ia h it: this way : "Washington." (with the date, which mu-; nave been late in l-S'dT). "S:r You will 1'i'i-riv- ifrom Lieu tenant Neale the person of I'hiiip. No la:.. ::;! a - 1 i i 1 1 ! i em. nt in the United States army. "this pet-son on his trial by court martial expressed with an oath the wish that he might never hear of the United States again. "The court sentenced him to have his wish fulfilled. "For the present, the execution of the order is intrusted by the president of this department. "You will take the prisoner on board your ship, and keep him there with such precautions us shall prevent his escape. "You will provide him with such quarters, rations, and clothing as would be proper for an oflicer of his late rank, if he were a passenger on your vessel on the business of his gov ernment. "The gentlemen on board will make any arrangements agreeable to them selves regarding his society. He is to be exposed to no indignity of any kind nor is he ever unnecessarily to be re minded that lie is a prisoner. "But under no circumstances is he ever to hear of his country or to see any information regarding it; and you will especially caution all the officers under your command to take care that, in the various indulgences which may be granted, this rule, in which his pun ishment is involved, shall not be broken. "It is the intention of the govern ment that he shall never again see the country which he has disowned. Before the end of your cruise you will receive orders which will give effect to this intention. "Respectfully yours, "W. SOUTHARD, "for the Secretary of the Navy." (TO UK CONTINUED.) Whales. Whales are able to attain such enormous size because their bodies ar' supported by the water in which they live. A bird' is limited to the weight which, its wings can be:fr up in the air. A land aini:al, if it becomes too large, cannot hold its body off the ground or readily move about, and is doomed to certain destruction. But a whale lias to face none of these prolVems and can grow without restraint. Because whales live in a supporting medium their young are of enorTious size at birth, in some instances tee calf being almost half the length of its mother. I once took a 25-foot baby which weighed about eight tons from an 80-foot blue whale. Exchange. Stickin's. When a boy asks his mother If it is wrong to play marbles for keeps, it is a safe bet that he has come home with more than he started out with. t i t" 4
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