of tfc*
tfrttieg of - Pres.
Mr. Green Resigns ft Position
GMm ? tike Last Meeting of i
the State Unle?.
/ ii ?mm
To the Erecutive Comotitte ST. C.I
Farmers Union: 1
At the kat ""H .
State Union at Wineton-Satan I
faniaer-lectarer far the ninth taa?|
With miaffiYiage, and only tn> ler the
preee o/jStToSSTSlS
States praaidenfs dfckyal attitude
in tha greeteat of aS world etrngfi**
for human freedom, would itttaat
make It undesirable on hi* part to
eeire farther odious -publicity ? ,
that aeotidant amount of eAdal ?tt
nca wadd pnwil to male It
to gcoaoed with the legitime^
WLtKUve wort. 01 toe rogamzaunon
sf ita loyal members who ate keep
in* their local unions afire and aetrra
in community co-operation under
their own initiative and independent
?t the political activities of indmdual
State eflWtah. who have bailt far
themaahrea a political uroran over
which ther tin rami exceedingly elk'
thusiaatic and over which the rank
and file of the itwmftang membership
are profoundly and admirably indif
ferent.
When L entered into the Farmera
Union won in 19M my greataat feat
waa that aetmtiee of those who ware
V_ ? |, j ^ ^ T t ? _ ,l?g,f
by nature more interested n politi
cal qoeetfcae than- tb conatnctxra
co-opirativa efforts might ultimately
hare tha aBset ef hasten? ? *? 1
A- - f. ? ? A I . _ M X]
uri oiiiAMfrftuoii d t
tion. My affarta from ti
have been cooceatratod
i_ , , .,f,7 , JTf nJ'
17 mmpTu editor ox vtutv oexeosnre
personal organ of the president, known
u ihs "Farmers JtJnjon Bulletin,"
the eree of the secret service men as
posihly an undesirable publication to
be toranam ittod through the mafia.
Bat by far the saddest tragedy
that resulted from the political cau
cusing afc the Winston-Salem meet-,
fag was the sacrificing of Dr. Clarence
Poe, at the Progressive Farmer, by
piesectlng his re-election as a.aiem
ber of the executive committee, by a
margin of a few votes? a place which
Dr. Poe had never sought, but a po
sition in which he had renderad more
valuable services to the Farmers!
Union than all other officials la it.
That such a thing could have happen
ed ia a Farmers Union convention in
North Carolina seems strange and
almost unthinkable to the member
ship, but it was no surprise to those
who wars acquainted with the poli
tical methods that were at work.
In tendering thia my resignation aa
State organizer-leetam amy I ven
to make a awxtyr of aa official who
Mtks re-election by hoMing eat the
idea that an attack upon him la equrv.
alent to an attack upon the Farmers
Union, amy eerve an immediate pur
pose. aa it has done, but in tide age
0 i the dissemination 0 ? it telhgence by
itasni mail delivery, the effects of that
sort of campaigning esn not be very
far-reaching-.
Thia sewing, of "my official coenee
tion does not imply that I have soy
psrroaaT grievance whatever, or that
I have in any way lost faith in the
ultimate possibilities of rural organ
isation directed alonr practical lines,
or that my services, as f ar aa prac
tical, will not be avaHable to commu
nities interested m the rural Organix
f}?5i which should retsttrrnost of ita
Hs^oandatioa.^'tt
HP J. Z. GfiEEN. i
~ ^ ? ?#- AAi.1 4A4ft J
(Government to' Take S
Measures to pBt~0ver
-i Than 1,000,000 America
Britain,
* "w'l
WJf ' ,
MHUlBiMMlM
he variety of --vehicles and
s a nSum. Only one site
-is used on all the Heavier
and trailers, this size also be
ed on ftimilar vehicles by the
rmaster Corps, Signal Corps,
gineers. ,The same magneto is
i DisrespectfuHy trf ?-j
it Wilson and^Mob Gets
iu Officers (jt -overpowered
[ After ThreeMinutes Fray
in German He is Swung
toaLimb.;^
A dispatch sent out from Collina
ville, nC, under date of April 5th,
Kneeling with . bis , arms crossed
Robert P. Prager, who was lynched
by a mob last night at midnight for
alleged disloyal utterances, prayed in
German for three minutes before he
was strung up, it was learned today.
Prager was a coalmic^r and yes
terday at Maryville, 111., In an ad
dress to the miners on Sodahsmr' iir
said to iavt made remarks deroga
tory to President- Wilson. Miners
there became angry and. when they
threatened to do him bodily harm he
? Wr '-'4 '-TV'1
escaped to Collinavills^ hU home.
Some of tae miners, however, fol
lowed him, Collected a crowd, took
Prager from his home and led him
barefoot through the" street waving
an American flag.- t. .?* ov'
Thel pdlioe, fearing violence, took
Pragair from the crowd and placed
him in the city hall. Later a large
mob gathered in front of the ball and
demanded the man. Mayor J. H.
Siegel- counselled calmness, but the
police force of four was overpowered,
and; Prager was found in the base
ment of the hall hiding beneath a
piFe of tiling. He was dragged down
the street and beyond the city limits,
the cjpowd threatening to shoot if the
harass th.dtyth.z.p.
by which Prager had beea led was
prowp over a limb ??\a tree. Ha
German for tfcree minutes, 'Without!?
another Word h# was pulled into the
air ten feet and allowed to hang. The
taken out his first naturalization pa
?'v *' .
need
the
Wlnaton-Salem, N. (I, April
Dent put me in the dot of fanner*
who aay they want the- war to lest
mare i money, writes a termer te
State Headqtiarter?//H? uqri: J* "
"I'm ? farmer and it I* true that
farmers have made money since the
war began, but it is not trus that
all fannets want to r&aks money at
thpf tojrribl#' price of life a?d blood,
shed that this war is now coating the
United Ftntflii' Some folds accuse the
farmers of being wercome with pros
perity and that they are letting down
'tiwitV' OihenMwJ^^yf ^ a
triottc. \
; In answer to the charge of farmers
befay my.tri.tte, I wast to ?^-y?
?-?* thin* i can speak for a large num
ber of farmer*-that we are ae pa
triotic as any class of citizens is the
United States. In every war-fcu*
the French and Indian down through
'the Civil Ww-tte farmers ha**te
the end borne their nasi of the brant
However, I'm not going to dispute the
charge that up to the present the
farmers perhaM. have not done their
part toward Winning the present war.
And I admit that this delay is cost
ing us the blood of oar boj?~the
bleod of heroes. But the d<glsy of us
farmers is not due to earWt of pa
triotism. It * doB tp ett lad ef
JPar Trade Board haa gxwatoi
t forrtaw cotton - to Spain m
y miffident to load ffvera!
felfwek* t Tfcb actfoE *r?
^jgt&rsgfs
ies of certain commoditMi m
for jUckEe United Stat*