North Carolina Newspapers

A , HX 6AST0KIA GAZXTT& THURSDAY, OCTOBEB 30," 19XT. i v Gastonia Daily Gazette THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1919 JCANY SCHOOLS IN DEBATING CONTEST. More Than TLrce Hundred Enter Contes tants For Inter-Society Debate. Special to Tne i'ail.v iiae:te. CHAPLL HIIU.1., Ox. -' M..r. than o(0 liijjii i-.dund aie 'x ti l to take part this year iu the liitfli tliotd le bating union .f North nrulii.a conducted by the University of North ( arolina. The aubject will he. Resolved, that Hi Unjted States should adopt a policy of further material restriction of immigra lion," tad the final contest to decide ttie tate championship and the winner of the Ayeoek memorial cup will he held in Cbajel Hill early in April, ISl'O, Tiie high schools participating in tiie Rebate will be arranged in group of Athre, each school having an affirmative and a negative team. Those school" jwinning both sides of the debate will Bend their teams to Chapel Hill for the fiTHtl rounds. A bulletin containing out- j Jinej au.l arguments in botn smes oi u.c -Sfuery and references to further sources f information is leiug prepared by the university and will be sent to all schools. This is the eighth year of the debating union, which wa inaugurated by the lit erary societies of the university. In 1917 and 1918 more than oUU schools in the tat debated, and an average of SO.uoo persons has heard the debates each year. urbnt High school won last year and Wilson has won twice, though not cons.' eutively. A school winning twice conse cutively obtains permanent possession of the Ayeoek memorial cup, donated by former intercollegiate debaters of the university. X. W. Walker is chairman of the eommitee in charge and E. R. Rankin is secretary. Important Meeting. Kings Mountain Herald. A meeting is to be held at the school auditorium Tuesday night which every man in town interested in the moral wel fare of the community urged to attend. It is the purpose to organize a "Moral Welfare Leaegue" the purpose of. which will be to look after the moral welfare of the community, to breed and foster the most healthful moral atmosphere possible in the community. This meeting is the out-growth of three former meetings. Dur ing the recent revival at the Methodist ehureh Messrs. H. T. Fulton and Harry Falls negotiated with Mr. Jethro Almond to get his show out of town. They were backed by those present at a meeting at the Methodist church on a Sunday after noon. Subsequently a meeting was held at the school building and a committee appointed to solicit funds to re imburse these men for the money they paid to get the show away. CHIMNEY ROCK OWNERS TO SPEND MUCH MONEY. Cleveland Star. Announcement is made that the Chim ney Rock Company, owners of the famous rock and other land in that section, have Started developments which will call for an exiienditure of $25,000 during the winter and spring. One of the plans calls fqr the erection of 10, two and three-room cottages just under the big rock, the houses to have electric lights, hot and cold water in every room. Ar rangements will be made for meals to be erred those who live in the cottages from the big eafe which the company owns there. The parking space for autos will be increased from 80 to 250. THE OLD HOME PAPER. A Bit of Verse Clipped From An Ei . .change. Every little while there starts going the rounds of the exchanges a bit of verse an editorial, a humorous paragraph, the source of which nobody seems to know. "The Old Home Paper" is one of these, which it is safe to say every editor of a country paper will want to print, and every friend of the country paper wiTl want to read. The Daily (iazette is glad to pass it on. We got it from The Cuba Patriot, published in New York State, and here it is: It's printed old-fahi o: Bearing name of a sma .With an unfeigned ?iic queer, The postman. i:i s. ..rn. ouhtry town ; at its wrapper But I . a., ev. t.. Each item brings .ish Through the vita youth 's dens'i'-e :i It serves their kee.i to The death of ii..- gi:! I The growl h of a firm 1 The rise of a friend I The fall of a man I revered. As I read I drift To the davs w hen dre-.m'iy h;n k . to live KH- a j I I think aud I pore, till the it roar Grows faint and again I 'in a boy. ' Hare perfume of green country i.ywnys. Fair music of flowers and bees, And the quaint little ton:, with the streets . leading down To the creek and the low-bending trees. Around me the forms of my comrades, About us earth's glories unfurled, Kach heart undefiled, with the faith of a ' child. Looking forth to a place in the world. And the paper tells bow all have pros pered, I follow their lives as they flow, Applauding ca'h gain and regretting .each pain for the sake of the days long ago. iAbove all the huge city dailies ;-"With wonderons utterance wise, ThU acant page hath power to spread for nn lour A fairyland sweet to my eyes! Several machines have lieen invented in England to exercise and make supple the j - finger of persons other than musicians. 1 NEWS AND NOTES tRy M. I. RALEIGH, Oct. -29. Dr. H. O. Line Wrger, of this city, a native of Gastonia, ii expected to return to Raleigh today from Washington where he obtained from the War Department promise that dental .ii. ! i; I 'ipiii'ii: and M.ppl:c of '. tepa:t!.'.-i.t Needed a I I be - !! to ! e r!ii i ar..;jria l: ti,.a-a. H .-p.tal reath reduced prirrf. !' ei.tiy an effort a .! : :r ! o' t;iiii the upplies. which "ere I by the expeditionary force;' of the army, an d the announcement was made that Xiw sale W ould be made at reduced prices, the stllii.g I'ffic)" to determine the value. Dr. LiuelwriJrr vnt l Washington at the instance of Mr. fl, fl. Hai..r.t..n. presi dent of tlie ii7:'al- Tie supplies of the department are stored at jpartanbirg. .S '.. an 1 can le se. uied at any time. It is very likely that l'r. Linebergrr will, in the near fu ture, go to Spartanburg and inspect tLe dental eipiipmeNt needed by the hospital bet'oie buying, Regarding Freight Rates. De. hiring that the North 'arolina Cor- i-;i t i in I oiiiinission did not en-operate' ii; their fight for the reduction of freight rates in the State, Tl e trafli. commiltee !' the Raleigh ' aiiil.er f 'oinmeri'? T jesdav made- a t ersonul appeid to siir )e"S and ivcci'. e: ..f frcitfr.t tj - - a I a statement it isue regarding the t'reith rate fight. The statement made by the t rafti. n m mittee traces the freight rate right from l'.ilti. when the matter was first brought to the attention of t lie Corporation Com mission, to the present time. The matter was brought to the Corporntioii Commis sion 's attention various times, the state rnei.t reads, "between HMi! and l!tl during the major portion of which time the Director General of Railroads had no authority over our State rates, still the Corporation Commission did not act. ' Charging that the Corporation Com mission did not co-operate with the Cham ber of Commerce of the State in their fight for a reduction of freight rates, the traffic committee's statement declares that the Commission "took no formal steps whatsoever as they are required to do by law. Section 111 In North Caro lina Revisal, 1!0."." And the committe further charges the Corporation Commission with delaying the fight on several occasions, notably in July, 191 (, when the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce "filed a ccniplaint with the Corporation Commission covering 11 pages setting forth in detail our protest, even citing the law to the Corporation Commission a law passed by the legis lature of this State demanding them tn ai t, but tiiey still declined to do so ami the only reason advanced was 'the time was inopportune.' " ' losing its statement the committee points out that a tentative decision has been won, obtaining the reduction of 4 per ton in rates between North and South Carolina points, and urges shippers and j receivers of freight in the State to at I tend a meeting in Raleigh Friday at which time an organization "that will be competent to protect the full interest of the State of North arolina as to transportation problems. ' ' The statement in full follows: Branding the proposed coal strike "an unholy conspiracy to freeze the people to death,'' Governor Bickett has wired The New York American that it is the patri- otic duty of every true American to line j up behind the president and urge him to I put forth all the legal, moral, civil and . military power of the nation to stamp it out. The governor's de laration is in answer to a telegram from the New York paper which wired him under date of October 2i as follows: I "The threatened strike of the coal I miners in the bituminous fields called for ' November first, apparently is about to precipitate a great national calamity. President Wilson says that means will be found to deal with the situation. The i strike has been ordered. What ought to be done? What can be done? What workable program do you suggest to meet this impending alami'y .' Will you Government Should Handle Army Social Work Through a Single Agency By RAYMOND B. FOSDICK, Training Camp Commission Social work in f??SSmmb should be handled I 'f"' 1 single nonsectarian I n 1 It seems to me -v rr wuia invunes pernaps uiree poiijis: ine eiiiiimauuu of sectarian auspices; reduction in the number of agen cies employed, and the transfer to the government itself of much of the activity hitherto left to private initiative. After eight months with the troops in France I am convinced that the average woman worker attached 1 Qqfo-'-tfftg - to a hut is worth four or five men workers. Certainly her effect on the morale and spirit of the troops is extraordinary. An "Honest to God American Girl," as the soldiers call her, can do more to keep the men cheerful and create an atmosphere of home thf.n any other factor; and the work of our women in France Y. M. C. A. girls, Salva tion Army girl?, Tied Cross girls, and the representatives of other agen cies has been in no small degree responsible for the unflagging devotion and inexhaustible pati'iice with which our troops carried forward their high enterprise. Our men have been glad to receive what the societies had for them :n the shape of service or supplies', and thev have not cared two straws vh'ther it r.nie froi.i Pr.t ;ant, Catholic or Jewish hands. Our Loys fought at Ch.MKiu Thierry AA in i'ie Argoiiiie as Americans. They did not fght fVcstants, Catholics or Jews. As. a matter of fa -t there is no reason for sectarianism. The leligioue .r-is of ti a-r.y u ".-l: -ly coined to the chaplains. FROM STATE CAPITAL ABERXETHY) please telegraph The New York Ameri can your answer ! ' ' The governor replied Tuesday as fol lows: "In reply to yiir telegram lieg to say that the president has given assurance that means will be found for operating the mines. 1 assume the president knows fiactiy what he is 'talking about, and it t..c i ."if-iot ie .;u" if every true Ameri : i ci : . iine r; behind ti e rei d. .it a i ! u v i.ii t i put fortii ail the le gal, in iSvil and military power of th Xatioi: to stnrnp Oiit this unholy con spl.y to r'reefc the pcopjf to death." Staf headquai tis of the American Lcjfi h l Hupl arrangements fir ti e fi;st ?be c, ii.e-iti.-n, to be ! il l in this it v on Thuisday of this week. Col. Albert C'ox and Sidney W, Minor a t! on the program for addresses. At this first State convention the per ti ..uient State constitution and by-laws will be adopted, officers will be elected, North Carolina's delegates to the Xa ti uial convention at Minneapolis will be iiamed, and many issues of vital interest fortaer service men will be considered determined. At present titeie are 40 local posts of :ne l.egi. u in the State and plans are being made at State headquarters t ) en tertain a full delegation from each post. Three conditional pardons were grant ed by Governor Bickett Tuesday as fol lows: Tank Cook, of Cabarrus county, sentenced to one year on the roads for elopement : Klbert Jones, of Haywood comity, sentenced to one year on the mads for setting out fire on the lands of A. K. Ward, and J. M. Brooks, of Hay wood county, sentenced to one year on the roads for larceny. The North Carolina Negro State Fair was opened Tuesday afternoon by the president, James E. Shepherd, of Dur ham, In his speech President Shepherd called attention to the opportunity offer ed by the fair to show the handiwork of the negro along mechanical, agricultural. artistic and literary lines, the exhibits be ing good proof, he said, that the negro is not a shirker. Praising the negro for his loyalty, he declared that in the present crisis which America is facing the combined wisdom fof both races is needed. The negro, he said, has always been a loyal citizen, loy al to flag and country; he has never sought to organize or prevent others from working, never applied the torch or br ken machinery and imperiled lives to prevent laborers from eking out an ex istence. He said the negro does not eon done crime and the criminal class must be put down. The speaker pleaded for a saner and better un.'erstandiiig between the races, for equal justice, accniitmodo tions and safety. As to soii.il equality the negro does not ask or desire it. Graham Divorce Suit. Major W. A. Graham, North Carolina i oinmissinncr of Agriculture, has filed an answer to the suit of his wife, Mrs. Sal lie Clark Graham, charging abandonment and asking for an alimony allowance of l"io monthly, denying the charge and praying that the judgment be dismissed with his payment of the costs as the ali norty, he pleads, is not in proportion to his income. According to Major Graham's state nient filed bv his lawvers in answer to the suit, on October 2m, 1914, a date pri or to the marriage, at the earnest solicita tion of the plaintiff a marriage contract was signed in which the defendant a greed to pay the plaintiff the sum of $4, 000 and in consideration thereof she a greed to relinquish any right she might have to dower in the defendant's estate. These payments were made to the plaint iff, it is alleged, from time to time until February fi, l!Ms, the bond being paid in full. While be was ill at Black Mountain, in July. 1 1 1 the defendant states, the plaintiff seemingly changed in her man ner and began to show a dislike to his children, especially toward his son on whom he relied in matters having to do with his property and the management of his farm in Lincoln county. The dislike the army in any future emcrfrencv by the government itself through a agency. that the lesson of the war in social toward his son by the plaintiff became ao marked that on several occasions he was ' ordered from the houue by his wife who threatened to call the poll-e, the state- i nient charges. . j When his son cni::e t his hone in Raleigh on the evening of June 1919, . the defendant states, tiif plsiiriff le.anie : to enraged when the son caiu to the house for supper that she violently a busel him and ordered b::n to leave iu stiintly. thieateiiing t.) prosecute him if he .lid lo.t .y so. Tiie plaintiff. Major (irahain state, started to telephone for a policeman and usked her Bister to go for a lawyer the had consulted. The law yer lid n t e.i;ne-:uid Jlie I laiotiff beam ing in . -e t:."n,ed. a -cused the son in sul ii.g J er by shaking l.i" fi in her face. T is v r.s denied and the plaintiff, ac-.- rdin ; t Ma.ji r Jrihan: 'i tatenient, turned and said t) him: V-u ;ire an old gray-headed liar. J- jnebo.iy ought to knock you down and I wculd do it but for your gray head." In order that she might have time to quiet down, the defendant states that he went to a hotel for the night intending to return the next .l..y, rv.phig that her anger would be s.ibsi led. Hi wrote her a note saying that be would not be home for dinner but would be there about 5 ; ' l"i k in the af'eri!'.'ii. To his. amaze ment he found l is snit'-ase pa. ked on the front porch ami the door locked from the inside s i that be could not gain an entrance with his latch key, when lie ar rived at his heme. He was refused an interview with his wife. ( The answer state t'lat the defendant has a salary of if.;, ."no yearly ami a 7'0-a.-re farm valued at noiut flS.iion, but which has nut been productive since the litlti flood and the defendant has had to spend large sums of money resuscitating his farming lands. He states that he has a. large family with two daughters to sup port. Stating that the plaintiff has receiv ed the $4,000 agreed on in the marriage contract, the defendant points out that she owns a farm in Halifax from which she realizes the proceeds from 4,000 pounds of lint cotton annually, and a residence in Raleigh valued at about $10,000. PRACTICE, NOT THEORY, WILL BE EMPHASIZED. Students Who Study Soils in the Short Course at the State College Will Learn By Doing. WKHT RALKK5II, Oa. -!. Practi cal work in soil study will be one of the fea'ures of the sixteen weeks short course in agricuture which began at the htate College of Agriculture yesterday, October 2 " The fields near the College afford an excellent opportunity for studying the formation of the soil, and for noting the work done by weathering agencies and the resistance of certain rocks to these agencies. This affords the student a means of studying the fundamental causes of soil variations. In addition to the practical work in the field, the laboratory has been well equipped so the student will have an op portunity to see the physical and chemi cal relationship of different soils. Some up-to-date apparatus, which was reeeitly installed, will be used in this short course work. According to Dean ('. B. Williams of the College of AgricuJture, a combina tion of this field and laboratory study will demonstrate the underlying principles of good soil management. Added to this, will be the closely related study of farm drainage and farm fertilizers. Different fertilizer materials will be compared. The effective use of the mr.'erials will also be given prominence by well arranged labora tory exercises. To drain land all the instruments used w!.i ; sl.oii. I by '. u short course men, and practical demonstrations given In terracing and tiling land. It is realized that the soil is the basis of all wealth, is why considerable emphasis is given to this soil study during the duration of the course. Prince Felix was born at Schwarzau September 2. 1H9.(. I'nlikp his brothers. Sixtus and Xavier, who served in the Bel gian army, be entered the Austrian serv ice, although he declared at the begin ning of hostilities he would refuse to fight against the French. Owing to I'rinee Keliz's war service there was some ostilitv to his marriage to (irand Duc h ess Charlotte, but the latter declared it was a love rnati h, and that she wool. I wed no other. The people of Luxembourg sub- 'i:ei:tly ,'i-o;:esee. III this view, Joy to All Around Her. A cheerful, uneomid.iiiiiii woman Is the most wonderful human being on earth. In truth she makes lift- foi herself and those around her "one grand, su ft t song." Whether sh- is rich or poor, old or young, educated or uneducated, makes absolutely no difference. The example she sets und the hope she brings to others are what count, und everyone of us can, with protit, imitate her. Exchange. Will You Spend 50c On Rat-Snap to Save $100. One 50e. pkg. cap kill 50 rats. The average rat will rob you of $10 a year in feed, chicks and property destruction. RAT-SXAP is deadly to rats. Cremates after killing;. Leaves no smell. Cornea in cakes. Rats will pass np meat, grain, cheese to feast on BAT-SNAP. Three sizes, 2.o"e, 50c, $1.00. Sold and guaran teed by: Standard Hardware Co., J. H. Ken nedy & Co., Gastonia; Mt. Holly Hard ware & Furniture Co., Mt. Holly; J. E. Lewis Co., Dallas; W. H. & D. P. Stowe, Belmont. Our Lemon Ice Cream Sodas Are Fine. SWEETLAND FINEST OF Worn Mew . Suits At Extraordinary Price Reductions POIRET TWILLS VELOURS SERGES SILVERTONES TRICOTINES ETC. YouVe Never Seen Such Bar gains as These YOU PROBABLY NEVER WILL AGAIN Values to $30.00. Sale Price $22.95 Values to $35.00. Sale price $24.95 Values to $40.00. Sale price $29.50 Values to $65.00. Sale price $49.50 Values to $75.00. Sale price $59.50 Values to $100.00. Sale price $75.00 Come Select Your Winter Suit Today A Nice Assortment of Suits to Choose From Also the Largest Assortment of Ladies', Misses and Childrens Coats in Gastonia, at Efirds prices, always less. IfinFs 209-211 W. Main Avenue, (iciSwCnia, N. C. ems , V EfirdPs Fall: