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THE NEWS-RECORD, . MARSHALL, NORTH CAROLINA. EDUCATION BOARD APPORTIONS FUND FOR EXTENSION OF SCHOOL TERM TO SIX MONTHS TEN COUNTIES NEED NO HELP. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doing .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 to six months! The counties named above already had school terms of a longer period of time than six 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 is one of the most progressive steps that has been taken by North Carolina in her history, as it puts in reach o 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 wao 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 twenty-three anl three-tenths days, or one month and three and one-third days more than the minimum school term ever heretofore -provided in thia 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 on 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 165 are males and 280 ' 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 95.5. "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 followr Fleetwood W. Dunlap, Wadesboro Matt H. Allen, Goldsboro; J. E. Swain, Ashe vllle; W. Eif Vaughan, Washington; W. P; Stacy, Wilming ton. NThese gentlemen take the place of the following, who retire from the loard: W. J. Newberry, Magnolia; W. V. Siler Sitr City; TV M. Hughes, C. Q. Rose, Fayeteville, C. C. Cranford, Award Contract to Lorado Taft. The State Historical Society has awarded to Lorado Taft, the distin guished artist of Chicago, the contract for "the O.-Henry memorial that Is to be presented to the state by the soci ety at Its next annual meting in the falL It is to be a tablet with bas re lief of 'Sidney Porter and will be Bet' op in the new state building. Mr. Taft has also been selected as the artist for the marble bust of the late Judge William P. Bynum, " who !" member of the state supreme vuurt to be presented by. the family. North Carolina Crop In Epitome. The department of agriculture is sued on epitome of the North Caroline crop for 1914 and places the products at $241,533,870. . Corn leads all with the grand totat of 55,282,000 bushels which bring up a total of $65,000,000 with the forage thrown in. Cotton plays a, good see ond with 800,000 bales valued at $50,' 000,000. ' The yield of corn an acre is 20 bu3hels and cotton 315 pounds) to the acre. Tobacco is third with $31,000,000 with 570 pounds to the acre. The poundage is estimated at 167,000,000. ' The value of pasturage la 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 $1,933,000; 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 wool $100,000. The poultry and eggs items are no 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. btate 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 ol the state asking their atendance upon statewide meeting to be held in Chapel Hill on the dates of March 17, 18 and 19. The letter addressed to tho 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. Anticipating the development of this meeting into one of jne state- 1 ! f , wme sigmncance ana or 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 conectlon with county road work. Lectures and dis cussions on the sundry troubles ol the road engineer as well as 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 the 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 Mount, 617,284; Reidsville, 342,522; Greens boro, 33,87; Greenville, 310,166; BuTlington, 363,741; Mount Airy, 301, 626; Durham, 300,478; Louisburg, 264,261; Warrenton, 321,433; Apex, 176,033; Walnut Cove, 126,536; Stone ville, 148,923; Creedmoor, 136,877; Pilot' Mountain, 85,076; Statesville, 78,459; Wendell, 67,804; Smithfiela, 62,325; Fuquay Springs, 45,445; Madi son, 42,646; Youngsville, 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: - . - The Rowan Baptist Association, Winston-Salem, . chartered . without capital stock. Uncle Sam Asks For Special Rate. The corporation commission heard recently a petition from the United States government for a special rate to be put in force for the freight de livery of crushed rock at Elizabeth town, on the upper Cape Fear River to be used in the installation of lock and dams with, which to, improve the navigability of the Cape Fear from Wilmington to Fqyetteville. The peti tion came through Major Stickle, Uni ted States engineer at Wilmington. S. G. Ridley was here to present the case. Report on Knitting Mills. . The data given out by Comissionet Shipman is as follows:, . ; , "Sixty-one knitting mills are re ported for 1913, and fifty-one of thes show a capital stock of $3,944,235. The approximate amount of raw material used by . forty-onec mllla is 14,731419 pounds. . The estimated value, of year ly output by forty-three mills is $6, 811,690. The number of spindles In' use in these mills is given as 60,861;, knitting. machines, 8,287; sewing ma chines, 753; cards. 248; making use of 5,145 1-2 horsepower. - : - 10 JAPANESE MEfJAGE 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 con gress 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 .5 Unitod 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 dou 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 sioa 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 I believe they do not want to wait again for diDlomatic 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 Hir due exclusion policies of its colonies, were made before the house immigra tion committee by Dr. Sudhlndra 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 authoris 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 a 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 tho 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. t - 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 Dill presented an excel-' lent opportunity for congress to set a precedent ' 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 law. 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.". 1 Helpless Steamers Driven Ashore. ' Norfolk, Va, Battling blindly against the. fury of a northeast gale, in a blinding snowstorm, two steam ers went ashore a few miles from the Virginia Capes. One qt them is the British steamer Katherine Park and the other Is an unknown tramp. The Katherine Park stranded off Smith Isl and, a few miles from Capo Charles. The unknown vessel struck the beach near the Cape Henry. Life Saving Sta tion, almost in the same spot, where tho naval collier Sterling went ashore several years ego.; , URGES CHECK WHAT'S TO BE LOS AHtlS TIMES , - SEISMIC SHOCKS IN NORTtl 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 ois- 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 parts 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 x 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 structlon of fragile 6bjects 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. weite coming from Boston. , '' The steamer in which the negroes expected to seek the gold coast was the old Curityba, of the Munson'line, which 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 eevefl hundred negroes from various parts, of Oklahoma are gather ed here, ' the headquarters of Chief Sam's African colony. News that Sam could not be found in New York cre ated consternation among the - colo nists. Last week they were told to report at Galveston, Texas, on Feb ruary 15 and prepare to sail Mobs , Attaek Jap Parliament. Tokio, Japan The Japanese house of parliament was attacked by a mob. It was driven Mck 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 resolutions were 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 firm. . Caught In Tower of Windmill. -Harmony, Maine. Confined in a tower of a windmill while the whirl ing sails cut off his only means of egress, Edwin Pike, a farmer, was de prived of food and water or 'three days and nights. - Several types of wind mills having failed to give him satisfaction, lie decided to make his own. He nmsnea trie mm ana enter ed the crank chamber between two of the sails to oil the machinery, when the wind arose and set the mill in action, making it impossible for him to leave. .. ' PONE WITH "'EM? WILSON OPPOSES NEW LAW LITERACY TEST. OPPOSED BY PRESIDENT WILSON ATTI TUDE NOT VOLUNTEERED. His Views Communicated to the Sen ate Committee on Immigration Who Solicited Them. Washington. President Wilson's op position to the literacy test as a re strictive measure on immigration has been communicated to the senate com mittee on immigration, which has be fore it the Burnett bill as passed by the house. The president's attitude was not volunteered, but solicited by direction of "the committee which au thorized its chairman. Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina to confer with the chief executive. Senator Smith has discussed the matter with the president several times, and made a report to his col leagues. He had another conference at the white house, and he will dis cuss it at a meeting of the immigra tion committee. The senator would not talk about his visit to the white house, but emphasized his own deter mination to steer carefully the bark of immigration legislation as launched by the house. ; RAINE'S SHORTAGE $788,804 Bond Fixed at $250,000, and Man Is . Sent to Cell In Jail. Memphis, Tenn. "I am guilty. want to go to Jail." This was the re ply of C. Hunter Raine, president of the Mercantile bank, which closed its doors, when he was arraigned "on a bench warrant charging embezzlement, growing out of Ralne's alleged defalca tion of $788,804 of the bank's funds. Over his protest that he didn't want to make bond, Criminal Judge Palmer fixed the amount of the security at $250,000, but Mr. Raine went directly to a cell in the county, jail. The hear ing lasted only a few minutes. J. L. Hutton, state superintendent of banks, took charge of the Mercantile bank's affairs as receiver. An inves tigation of the present resources of the bank was immediately "begun. . Bible in English for Hebrews. New York.-i-The first translation of the Bible from the, original Hebrew, the completion of which was celebrat ed here, marks the beginning of other translations into English, which speak ers declare was the Intention of the committee' In. charge of the work. Dr. Solomon Schochtar, president of the Jewish Theological seminary, said it is very important that Jews begin -in the Very near future the work of translating a -commentary, in which, he state, Christian scholarship preced ed them.' - -- , . . ' Banker Kills Himself. - , Hazlehurst, Ga. G. F. Armstrong, cashier of the Farmers' state bank, which closed its doors January 81, shot himself through the head, and died shortly afterward. , Investigation of the bank's affairs disclosed a short age of approximately $12,000 and a warrant was issued charging Arm strong with responsibility for the dis appearance of this sum. He was giv en until three o'clock to make good the shortage and shot himself Just before officers called to serve the war rant. ' - ' Convicts to Receive Wages. v Austin, - Texas. An experiment in the payment of state convicts for their labor and the abolishment .of shackles and guards in the control of prisoners was determined upon by Governor Col quitt and T. S. Sikes, road commission er of Smith county, Texas. Fifty con- kyicts will be put to work unguarded on the roads of Smith county this spring, and the state will pay them $1$ a month, half of which will go to the penitentiary and half , to the pris oners individually. The experiment will be broadened if successful. EXPLIIilGIIICOOE LAW COMPLEXITIES RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY IN COME . TAX . PAYERS OF . ; COUNTRY. SEND GUIDE T0 COLLECTORS Treasury Officials Issue Booklet to Clear Up Misunderstanding ' Washington. After weeks of study of the complexities of the Income tax law, treasury officials issued a 90-page booklet, christened it "Regulations Not.. 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 confident 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 tho 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- . eluded in the individual's returns for taxation jusi me 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 CO 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- i . i . i a , ! i m uigiuu uy lusmieieu uau. luies un paid after June 30 shall bring a pen-' alty of 5 per cent, after ten days no tice and demand by the proper col lector, and interest at the rate of 1 per cent, a month from the date doe- COMMISSION WANTS POWER Board Must Have Authority 'to Deal- WitlvTrusta. . . " Washington. -While senators of the interstate commerce committee were conferring with President Wilson on. the anti-trust legislative program, Pro gressive party leaders in and out of congress were explaining their views on the handling of the trust problem, to house committees. The conference at the white house,. arranged at tSe request of Senator" Newlands, chairman of the interstate commerce committee, centered - npon improvement of the interstate trade commission bill as drafted by the Ju diciary sub-committee of the house Interest was added to the meeting by assurances of co-operation with the Democrats by Republican members of" the committee, i Senators Oliver and . Lippttt participated In the discussion,, having been urged by Chairman New- lands to draft amendments to trade commission bill which would act as a ity concerning corporations innocent, of any violations of law. The. committee plans to complete Its-' revision Of the bill soon. Provisions to (insure investigation by the propos ed trade commission by duo process of law will be added to the bill, thus to prevent any possibility of appeal from decrees on account of the con stitutional Infringements. Flirting Banned In Zlon City. Zion City, 111. An ordinance for the "promotion of public morals and the-, was enacted by the city council. The first section of the ordinance makes unlawful to do any act, suggest . - any conduct or say any word s 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. - v $5,000,000 Increase In Postal Measure.. Washington. Nearly : five million . dollars has been added to the total of the postoffice appropriation bill as it passed the house when the senate-. committee completed its work on the measure. ; It carries $31,00,000, the largest amount ever appropriated for postal purposes. Maximum salaries tor rural mail carriers would be increas ed under the bill to $1,200, the total increase for' this purpoM amounting ; to $4,350,000. An increase of $1,000, 000 was added to meet the demaci- cf the parcel post.
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