MB ^ V _ _ ^ J*??*???- ^ " . ' IwMtaMMMM* EVERYBODY FAVORS AUSTRA WK BALLOT AT PUBLIC HEARING JWbofc ? Sibtt6 Divide Time I il^ Oi^ooeete Who Include Miss Mary Header-. ? 84^ the tetter vice ^airman^of the' bljing before the senate and ijous; "5ir~f*? on election* in the hell of tte^ooae vesettday, bat it was Repre ii if V--? J. L. Gwaltney, of Taylors vffle, who stepped into, the center of ? ? tM stage and clinched, the arguments with a rousieg argument in support ?4 the Falls - Broughton, biH. _ Ail would have been over for a fa vorable report on the Australian bal toidf it had not been desired to ifon out ? rough spots and smpeth the wtete- Senator McNeill, of Ashe,-who' ha* hrtT*"**"* an Australian ballot hOt made a graceful speech in which ba said he had pledged*his constituen cy to do his part to. get such a law, aiAin compliance with that promise k I hiatal was in the bower- J I Senator "Broughton had explained Mpfrat, Hgpresentative FaHs had told ' jgTthe features to amend the ab- . I *U|ee voter act, and then Mr. Mur phy had pledged bis support of the HI "though he thought the polls should S^kept open untft sundown instead of i o'clock; as the bill provided. Mr. j&WRhtoo'had paid tribute to Mr. notable fight of two years agoT (^Proponents had been given 45 min wtes and the same has beep allotted I I to the opponents. The proponents - not 45 minutes bnt an hour, vghpf, jjvingston Johnson, the edi tdt-of the Mdwad Recorder, didn't get! tired. ' Nor the large number' Of ireeirn Who had come, to learn. No appeared to divide time.with tt?propoimate. fr^ke committee named to iron out the rough spots is imposed ?"-jfflWC?* ? ?'? ?' g-r"*;??*. ? ?.S ?? y nioflPfl OH UJv *J S6H3v0r w* it. nv ,^v-? I ? ^i.yar GwStn ; I down from the mountains a rousing 27^ Australian bsdhrt. '"fee did not discuss history, as Miss Hender Wpf had done when "she quoted from Qgjajjf Cleveland's advocacy of such w tew in 1889? He did not discuss SThtiir of the Australian ballot,as Sfawator Broughton had dono-m an ex -2E?of the .merits of the seeret I ballot system of voting/ He did not tefer to the absentee voter law,which ssresentative Faw had declared was ? bdbg abased and must be remecBed. ft was experience with tee Austra Han W** teat gave point to the jpgafl- o? the legislator from the ?ojlivitsiTTT .He had seen elections in* white half dozen demagogues and pol dns hung around tee polls, and, he herknew a? about how a sovereign K^tefer tad voted not once" vote but 101 wrihven 25 votes in an election. HftM did not spe* by the book, but of that I w%h his. own eyesW M n ballot has been introduced taw years ago in Atekarider comity. - B? had heard about the buying of IJrl ^ ptoawteania jwt Illinois. So ww the re^y^we^blot belteved^'Turiaing ? Henderson, he closed "It will avoid nwny family fusses, - Ti * *d M* Mwphy - *- Wiri Q on/j fftlf pADrCJ*1 f ? . " ^..;vA r >. i i. vnj ? i< i rf* > i-.-.- ?> l? nn??nHMii t ' * " ?-> The vcungest governor Texaa iver hVtH cow sits in the seat which ila J json has heW for two Tlie ycuthful Dan Moody ? ':????* January IS. '? - " .. J , " " ? Commissionefs Will Abolish LoaitSr && Cut Con it rqction Raleigh, Jan. 26.?Changing its tac tic& before the legislature considers making change itself* 5 highway commission has adopted the. new poHcy of not accepting loans f*m counties in anticipation of future bond issues. According to Charles Ross, as sistant-Attorney General to . the com-j mission, the "(m000 issue DUi. There has been recently cWund** able opposition to the comnusswns wholesale borrowing that has tailed" over $18,000,000 and objects* to tie policy was" expected -in - 92? legislatrffe. ... The reversal of policy means thai r,.i smaller than that of th^preawitSwne $12,000,000 of the" expected $30,000,000 will go toward the county loans, ing $13,000,000. for new construct** In addition to this there will probab iy be two surpluses Of -from $4,000, 0(tf) to $5,000,000 from the gksolm* taxes, after the bohd interest and sink ing fund have been cared fjjr M**? federal appropriation This make# a totai of abouM^MOOr qqo to be "spent on construction wllhln Jt> years: . ^ For the "past biennium the co.nmis sion spent S20.000.000 from the 1925 I bend issue, about ?18,000,000,000 bpr rowed from the counties, some $5,000, 000 in gas tax -surplus and $1,66^168 of federal funA making a total of. $44,600,000. Farntville Boy fgggf 1 Efcdtdfresidetiig University Club * v?R9?\ ..^'V ? S5?.5W& ? ?? ???- . Chapel Hill, Jan. 25.?At the first m^of^he Htt^w^a^ ^tlr^teSuo serve the organi ?*on during >the winter .sorter: ?BgPI&iLewis, of Farniville, presi | dent; Clifton C^tok^^ ? ' ^^ ^ lE!*^ -'.^ I Mr. Ed Stallmgs,. of Wflsoo, violin ist, accompanied by Mrs. Eugene Ba vin, will be presented in a concert Fri day night, January 2?th, at 7:80. They will be assisted by the Choral club of tpe mask department 1'he proceeds from this concert wHI go toward the purchase of a piano-for Perkins lipid Mr. -Stallings is a master Of 'the] tfoliiC In his > hands the violin laughs,' weeps and sobs and sings. Hell thrill you the incmient he: torches how-to liant technique he plays divinbly the. classic gems and the fine old tunes "df .. . . .. .,,! .j kDLO s and lo e , the simple, home , ??%s> - wiouK^ai^ ''?? l-^Md King Cole _ '-SP- Stuffi Ch?ral' ClldBBil--^: ;? ? . -#" 2~(a) Souvenir De Wieniawski.......:.!.^. _ Haesche^ (b) Tone Poem .._ 2 _ s. Keis4| (c) Humoresque e... k .. : !>von* 8?Sweet Miss Mary...-.:............ L ... # ;_.;^eidiinger > *?"':rs ?/*r ? Choral Club ? P#(a) $ Liebesfreud .._ -I ..u :. .J^^QEreisl|| |Bb) Indian Lament...? 21 -.2 . 2 Kreisler K ,(c) Old JRefrain ..2..??il. Kreisler ,5?Oh, Hush Thee, My Baby.. Sullivan Choral Club 6?(a) ' Thais :._.... 12 v r Massenet (b) Mazurka ? _ JSfc^Wieniawski . i. ? -(c) Hungarian Dance -~- q*mWj?iB '* ??^- ^ aJ " ??'*?"'??"'" ' r>i't ? --? diiced his bills in the house yLter^ tr|tfp commission, hp 1 he would have a state/fisheries com missioner, appointed by the governor . ite would make the commissioner ht the local health boards do all tb? J Along wih the tfatch of new bills " that were: dropped into the house hop per came,one from. "Representative * Eolge^itffte#, for the.better .en- -I #OlS0Wtamt- '-hf the prohibition law Which would make a prison sentence of from bix months to two years man datory lor'jfrM&tho manufacture, heS or trjmapert intoxicating liquors. f:| use? possession of liquor. ? "J I I y. V-' - M A TRIBUTE TO TREES | I Earth , li^P^H^II^'hf. her Maker. Where they are, beauty dwells; where I Why are not, the land is ugly, though 1 ift./be rich, for its richness is but i ifeasvifctiaaty and; its gaudy rairoenfc i is but cheap imitation of forest finery; ? ing title to them, .Thfey are the raajrts, JI the sail of. all tfia sea^Jthesy are tlie 'i I timbers that ^bridge many forbidding s&eams; they-bear the lore* of the i I world's intelligence; they hold the rails that carry the tsaffic of the con-. M tihents; they aire. th^ caaWed and poi;'? ished. furnishings of the home;sthey i Trees are nature's source pf food?' their fruits, and 'huts gave sustenance 1 I to the first tribes of men, and are the fl s^eetestf .wt most nourishing of 11 I girth's products. TTe^heraid-the spring" with gtori- ?' ous banners .of leaf and-bloom; they cfethe the, autumn ifl garments o#.gqkl ' and royal purple; barfed to winteA I coid, they are the'harp of -the' winds, and they wisper the music of the in-? finite. ? -X . rrr,. . According to k morning paper wom en are now buying.dresses on the in- " stalment system. We seem to Have sfeen some of them wearing the first 1 instalment. - ; I J."---- -V *"??": ' I ,g 1 WASH AMfftOMIKiV $ 0 . i II '.ME' wv This youth, A W Greg,?, 27 years .old, directs the governments case against Henry Ford Company stockholders, in Its suit to collect $36,000,1)00 taxes. He is opposed by t"- for,Tier presidential candi dates, Jbaries Evans Hughes' and John .f: Daws, for the defense V ../w ? ~ w? / ^ "ffort Being Pot Fourth in the Teaching of Better Music g| jo (^Children ; ??. ? The Music Memory Contest in #je ifth^sixth and, seventh, grades creat hg an unusdal anfohrit of interest. At j, recent test , the papers turned in showed that the- majority of the pu pils Aire able recognize the selec dpnsi although some have difficulty n rememberingthe compos^ and iontest. WF* Mrs." J. W. Joyner will hokl | digr. ;rict contest in FarmviJle. in Aprfl. Pupils who have won out in the town jchools sf the Fifteenth district, com posed trf'the following counties: Ber tie, Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Pitt. Tyr jll antk. Washington, will meet'here for an elimination contest and one of these contestants will he sent to the state, contest which will be held in Lincolnton abput the middle of April. Prizes wfll be given in the local school to the pupils who are selected from each grade to compete in the district contest. Prizes will also be given, to the pu pils who, have the best scrap books. AlKthoe^who are interested in the development of "More and Better Mu sic in Our Homes and Schools" and who have picture* of musicians, arti cles on the numbers selected, or who can give any help to the contestants, please do so, as it will give pleasure to you and benefit, the boys and girls in the contest. . ? " - The selections studied last week wtert VKavk! Hark! the Lark," from Shakespeare's "Cymbeiine," by Schu bert. the world's greatest song writ er, and "The Brock," by Dolores. Very little is Juiowtt about Dolores. The. poem was written by Tennyson. Next week the selections' will be Soldiers' Chorus," from Farnit, by Gounod,, which was reviewed last week, and - "Amaryllis," Air Txroife XIII, an old French Sance By Henry Ghys. " "Amaryllis" is a rare example of the old French Rondo, a dance ^form which developed from the custom of singing rounds, hence a ' form in wgich the original dance melody re turns agaiit and again. Jt was writ ten before the' time of Louis XII, and; was played at the -wedding of Margaret of Lorraine and the Due de -Joyenstf in 1581. ThefVery air of court life with its powdered wigs and elaborate gowns-is breathed into the music, its quick accepted rhythm almost .pictures the 1 dance at some court function. [ mgJ * - ? , , . ., ?tSSWEHS Quito" of nch of Dexttr TeXaSj ^ 2r'"^g^ FranJk^&orris, fundamentalist 'Bufc^ ? Uke preacbfer of Tort* Worth* tonight stepped from his third court room a free man. . He wa^aojuitted by a jury m Trav is county district edurt of murdenn;: Dexter E. Chipps, lumberman. Fort Worth, whom he killed in h ?. church office on the afternoon of last July 17. A jury 'composed of farmers, laboi - era, ^ forinir sWriff,'eJwks and mer chants said that Norris shot Chlpp i to save his own life wheii *he tetter*, came to the jailor's private study to protest against attacks Norris had. made on^Mayor H. C. Meacham, of Fort Worth, and other friends of dlipps. f-j. ' ?-X. I There were tears of joy and tears of another kind from other.eyes when the simple verdict of"oot guilty" was read into-loudness by S. A. Pb'lqulst, court clerk. . - r ?' The" tears of joy were those of Nor ris and his wife. As soon as the ver dict rang out, Norris stood at his seat. There was A-wan smite omhw lips, but he showed no emotion untd his attorney, Marvin Simpson, shook his hand. He embraced Simpson ted "* *-*" ~ . 176pt. . - The otber tears were m the eyes of a small, brown eyed boy who has sat throughout the ttail on the side of the ; state.' ite te DexterKChipps,#hose , fa??r Morris killed.1. The *>* Mn .and Mrs. Alex By I num, Mr. andMzA E-C. B^n^n. Addie Bynum with Mrs. B. .8. Sheiv 1 1 Wav^ Holston with Miss I Dr. &nd v * '. ? ?rv q 3i)g?. Mr. ft;