WOMEN WONT HAVE
TO PAYROLL TAX
TUa U Vmw of Suffragists
Who Hava Mad* Study of
the Constitution.
Advocate* of woman *uffn*c who
have been ctudyiag the question of
whothsi' wo moo will be required to
gay poll tax when they become vot
er* my they will not have to pay and
that the aatu>' can he easily under
stood aimpiy by ranching the conati
tatiao. The argument of the suf
fragist* U somewhat as follows:
“Under tho constitution of 1M8
those wt* a pall tax required *0*00*
to axetod |2 and to bo applied to
education mad tbo support of ths
poo*. Tht poll tax was authorised to
•q levied, however, only ‘oo every
male Inhabitant of tho State over SI
mad under M yuan of ago.' There
was ao authority tc levy Tt on malm
under SI nor over SO, nor on female*
Of any agr. Thor* Is no authority
therefore given to any olTicor to col
lect poll tax on any oat except ‘male*
biiwwa 21 sad V',‘ constitution of
X. C Art. V Sec.. 1 and S. The
XIX Arntadmant when ratified will
not effect this matter of poll tax
which is purely a State regulation,
restricted by Iho State constitution.
“The provisions as to poll tax wart
hi tho eoastitatlon of 1808 in which
tier* it no requirement that it (hall
bo paid at'a pm equ latte t* to ting.
The erticle ia the constitution on
ia Alt. VI., (a different ar
ticle from the on* authorising the
troll Us) and In the amendment to
8m. 4, Art. VL, known aa tha Grand
father Clause, that* ia a previaion
that any one proposing ta vote luuxt
have paid on tha first of May ara
vioaety *hU poll tax for the previous
year, as prescribed by Art. VM Sec.
1 of the Constitution.* It will thus
bo s«ci> that prepayment af tha poll
tax is not required of every voter
but only “aa prescribed by Cana.
Art V.. Sec. r.“ Turning to that
article, it will be teen that what ia
prescribed I* that mala! between SI
aad SO, shall pay tha poll tax. There
it no authority ta collect poll tax from
any ona Ms# nor to require any on*
elm ta nay poll tax. Aa tc Suffrage
(Art. VI., Sac. 1 provide* simply that
male person* who are ettUert ar
naturalised and over tl (hall be en
titled to rot*. The word “male** ia
thi* section will ha stricken out by
the ratification of the XIX Aasend
moat**
A MILLION UNMARRIED WOMEN.
Washington Timas
Dr. Mmrray Leslie, eminent London
physician, earn 1,000.000 British
women arc doomed to remain un
married if they May in England.
This (e ens of tha grave results of
the war. A million unmarried
women in ona country is too many.
A decrease pf marriage means one
of taro things Im children or the
h-galivng of ilWgitimney
N«.ther of thcro results U desir
able. Uoe means the decadence of
a nation. The other mean* encour
agement of tmmortality.
Great Britain lost approximately a,
million men in the war. With thoae
am alive and married ta a million ■
women and the aormal birth rate
prevailing, there would bo an annual)
addition of X&O.OOO to tha British
population. i
roar yean would replace in num
ber* the war** toll of live*.
The preponderance of women over
mm mean* a great tide of emigra
tion.
Women fortunately have a higher
renaa of moral* than am and a
greater recognition of their duty ta
humanity.
They will not remain where im
mortality prevail* or >• likely to be
legalised.
Ther will go where they may mar
ry and bring up families in accord
ance with law and respectability.
England ha* a social and economic
problem on her hand* in her million
marriageable women that la more
ecnoua than many other war ques
tion* that are receiving a good deal
• more attention.
The Salvation Army Lusiei in
meny cltie* avved hundred* from
death daring the influensa epidemic
—went into the homes and cared for
the children, cleaned bourn, brought
I food and fuel wherever needed.
I lijt Hundred* of persons going
i '■* n n j*iinu> loft their home* on
ikt;lt.h: i diving time, rushed to the
i i . t> iuund Out they hod
1 u.; hour or morv for thoir
I c: ausr.
; .vv \iIki hud failed to set theTi
.a. -head and wanted to catch
| r.ikti. Ii.vi train., mined them by an
“it's the flirt time In the history of
Nf. \ nrk Uiut so many people got to
I'h - - ut'on in what you might call
! nVn.y ‘>f time,” grinned a gate
| kcriiev.
All the clocks In the ttatlon were
-.u Ee*toi-n standard time, and the
i ir.fi.rnul 'in bureau men were ox
plsimni; that Pennsylvania trains
or'gl islirg and terminating at East
Millstone. New Brunswick, Rahway,
Perth Amber and Point Pleasant, and
nil Rnpid Transit trains between
Hudson Terminal and Park Place.
Xnwurk, were running an hour In id I
vance of thair last week’a schedule*,
while all through trains wara run
nini- on Eastern standard Lima- The
IiOr.g island Railroad trains also
w.-rc an hour in advance.
At the lirand Central, where the
New York Central and the New
York. New Haven and Hartford re
tained the Easton time and hud not
moved suburban schedules ahead an
hour, there was the name crowd of
•arly birds who had to wait an hour
to ca'ch trains because they had got
up sr.d gone to the station on day
light raving time.
Ocean steamships will sail from
“SAVING” AN HOUR,
THEY LOSEAN HOUR
Tic-.e Fliaa Both Way* for Rail
way Pauen|crt; Confusion
Id Now Jar»*y.
New York World.
"Hoy," shouted an rwilul man.
niahiny into the Pennsylvania Station
at 9:44 1-8 o'clock yoatrrdsy morn
lug, "can I rank* that 9:50
for Atlantic City?"
Then ho looked op at th* big clock,
and hi* jaw dropped It registered
S:C9 1-2. A large and bon-d crowd
of New Yorker* grinned.
“Thii it one of the time- when th.
tail doe* not wag the dor.*' raid u
Pittsburgher, wko was waiting for hi.<
train and was enjoying the jnitn on
the Manbattanitae who had c a wnd
day-light saving details In their own
paper*. “New York C ty can m*V«.
time for Itaelf* but not for the whole
countiy."
Xaw York und the suhu'bs set
their rloeks ahead an hour when they
weat to bed Saturday night, but a
large number of pereons evidently
did not read the newspaper stories
that the New York Central. Lacka
wanna, New York, New Haven i
Hartford and Pennsylvania raiheads
hnd retained Eastern etandmxd time
for aN through trains. The result
r— =
TO-DAY-NOW-ENJOY
FLORIDA FRUIT
THE FLAVOR IS DIFFERENT
(^EXQUISITE* IS THE WORD)
4' S W* f
__:_
I best fiaiia^
I yoxa ever saw !
' I ’HAT’S what everybody’* say
1 big about Clean Easy Naptho
leine Wash Soap. You’ll say it too,
once you try it Just think—only
ten minutes boiling and the aver
age wash is clean and ready.
You can bet your life women
everywhere are enthusiastic. They
never realized that washing could
be done so simply and easily until
they tried Clean Easy.
Here's all that’s necessary—Soak
your clothes over night. Buy a
cake of Clean Easy and shave half
of it into 4V4 gallons of water. Let
it dissolve. Boil for ten minutes
and stir with a stick. Rinse and
biua—and the whole job is.finished!
Every garment is clean and fresh.
Can you imagine what a won
derful help this soap is? Every
day you put off buying Clean Easy
is a day of unnecessary hard work.
Buy it now I You win save your
self hours of miserable drudgery,
and will be happy and bright on
washdays as well aa holidays. Ask
your grocer.
i
»
t Therm it n't another
P aoap in tha world like
k Chan Baty. If you don't
I gat tha genuine, you can’t
? gat a aubmtitute that wiB
P do tha work. Aak for
| Clean Baay.
d'r'M LfeaRj /-,*
If lean-easy jl
i\/rc < ■
I
Ni w York on daylight sav.ng tin*.
Confusion over daylight saving
»«' cxpci-ii-nced m Newark raster
•lay. a:-il more <• cxpectvd today.
The populace generally attempted to
ohsartc the daylight saving decree
piofUiravtl hy (hi- Mayor In answer
tu Governor Edwsrd’r appeal, bat
some of tho churches held their ser
vice* according to standard time.
Some of th* public clocks were ad
vanced. ami other* war* not.
Greater confusion is expected to
day. when sonar business will be
transacted according to standard
time and sore* according to daylight
saving. The coarts will conform to
<landsi J time units* the New Jersdy
Legislature |s**e« a Daylight Saving
Law. A bill is now pending In the
legislature The Senate is expected
to vole on it tonight.
SURRENDERS 14 YEARS
AFTER KILLING A MAN
Tewaesecan Premised Wife on Death
Bed Ha W:ull Coma Raak mad
Yestciday Ha Dad Sa.
Athens, Tun., April 12.—After
I I yearn, during which time ha haa
bit-n living in Security somewhere
under an assumed nsma. Richard
Dcrltk today astonished Sheriff law
sen. of this county, by walking Into
the jail und sunenriering for trial
on charges of haring murdered Hugh
Duggan near Englewood.
The killing took place It years ago
this month unit almost, had been for
gotten. Few persons cmn be found
now who cun ull any of tha detail*
Derick was indicted at the time bat
be escaped arrest, left tha commun
ity. later aant for his family and un
der another name has lived and pros
pered.
He told tbs ahcrilf that two weeks
ago he promised his wife, who was on
her death bed and has since died, that
he would bring the children back to
Athene and give them their right
name. In carrying out that promise,
hr said, he could do nothing hat sur
render Vo the authorities, face a trial
and accept his fate.
Circuit court will open bars tomor
row morning and the Derick cam will
be advanced an the docket so it can
be heard this week.
Did yoo knew that tha 8alvation
Army maintain* a "Kissing Friends’
Bureau." which searches for missing
Screens In any part of tha world!
iver 1.000 missing persons are lo
cated by the Bureau every year.
Out of the great moss of human
derelicts—women who have come
from homes of culture and luxury—
flrti who have drifted with tba tide
or lack of a job, or llttla youngsters
who have been born and reared in
terdldnes* and sorrow derelicts who
have fallen so low that even the un
derworld scorns thswi, the Salvation
Army has rescued thousand* In the
United Stats*. Furthermore, more
than eighty-flv* percent of the res
cues have proven permanent.
COOPER of New Hanover
. For LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Not nee 1884 has the Demo
cratic Party honored the Cape
Fear Section of North Carolina by
naming one of its citizens as a
State Officer.
It is, therefore, with feelings
akin to confidence that his friends
indulge the hope that when the
hosts of Democracy shall have
spoken at the polls, in our State
primary June b- that the candi
date for Lieut. Governor of the
Party, which has proven its fit
ness to govern North Carolina, the
Party whose history in State and
„ Nation is one of achievement, may
he 'V. B. Cooper, of New Hanover.
^ When W. B. Cooper came to
Wilmington as a boy, from the
farm, opportunities were far less
abundant than now for ^oung
men.. He began to work for wages
of one dollar a day, mastering step
rw k CinAaa in urii Via
tion Constitutional Amendment,
which he pressed to final passage.
He introduced, in the Senate of
1919, the State Farmers Ware
house Bill, and pressed it to pas
sage.
Mr. Cooper was appointed as
a member of the Board of Trus
tees of the A. & M. College, bv
Governor Glenn, and, having fill
ed the position with honor to the
State and to himself, . was ■ re-ap
pointed by Governor Craig.
Mr. Cooper is a member of the
Methodist Church. He has from
time to time, occupied most of the
offices in his Church open to lay
men, and is now a member of the
North Carolina Conference Sun- . j
day School Board, and, for several
years has been a member of the 1
Executive Committee of the North i
Carolina Sunday School Associa
1 inn l Js* tAtao a /4sl#krrnf A fn nnrl at'.
was employed;- saving even from
his meager earnings; he was finally
enabled to establish and success
fully conduct a large mercantile
business, and to become one of
the leading merchants of Wilming
ton. In recognition of his demon
strated capacity he was elected
president of the Produce Ex
change, (now the Chamber of
Commerce), and later he served
two terms as president of the
Wilmington Merchants Associa
tion. He became widely known in
business circles throughout North
and South Carolina. In 1908 he
organized and became the 'first
president of the American Na
tional Bank of Wilmington, which
institution met with signal suc
cess until 1914 when it was con
solidated with the Atlantic Trust
& Banking Company, which met
with great success.
In politics Mr. Cooper has al
ways been a Democrat. Begin
ning with service as an alderman
of the City of Wilmington, during
_LL _!_ l _ _ .1.1
tended the General Conference of
his Church in Oklahoma City in
1914.
He is a Mason, and for years has j 9
been president of the Masonic
Temple Corporation in Wilming
ton.
In 1893 Mr. Cooper was mar
ried to Miss Ada Gore, a daugh
ter of Mr. D. L. Gore, one of Wil
mington's leading and most sub
stantial business men. They have !
three sons, two of whom answer
ed their Country’s cHl in the
World War one as an officer in
the Marine Corps, and the. other
in the Navy. The third son is a
student in the State University.
During the war, Mr. Cooper
brought his business experience
to the assistance of many patri
otic endeavors.
In many respects extraordinary
conditions growing out of war
_:1 TL. _• _
i uc luiuib so uiivui tcmi)
but it is apparent that problems of
no mean proportion face our peo
ple. It would seem that this is pe
culiarly a time when men of tried
and demonstrated experience and
ability should be called to high and |
important offices. It is only
proper that the voters should know (
of the qualifications of those who
seek their suffrage.
Mr. Cooper's friends, in pro- j
senting his name to the Democracy
of North Carolina, for Lieutenant
Governor, believe that they pre
sent a man who, if chosen, pos
seses the qualifications required
for this high office, and one who
will labor unceasingly in the inter'
est of the people and sustain the
high traditions of the Democratic
Party.
T. W. CLAWSON, (Signed).
Wilmington, N. C.
i
TTIMUil DC.I IIC TV CICV-t.Ct.4
Mayor Pro Tem., he was later ap
pointed by Governor Kitchen as
a member of the Board of Audit
and Finance of the city, in each of
which offices he served with abil
ity and fidelity. In 1915 he was
elected Senator from the Tenth
District, composed of New Han
over and Brunswick counties, and
took a prominent part in the im
portant legislation of that session.
Yielding to the established rule
which accorded the Senatorship
to Brunswick for the following
term, he was again elected Sena
tor in 1919. He had the honor in
the 1919 session, of introducing
Senate Bill No. 1, providing for
ratification by the General As
sembly of the National Prohibi