North Carolina Newspapers

.GACTOiriA' vl:.: coxrcu ZOYi CLNTS TODAY L r READ THE .WANT ADS ON PAGE 5 1 LAi- jt u ZZmZZZ. C7 TEX ACCC CLfclEP rzzz3:y" vcl. xli. r:o. C2. TONIA, N, CjFRIDAY AFTERNOON,- MARCH 12, 1020 SINGLE COPY 3 CZTlTtJ i :- 1. .1.1 HI rlanufacti!rers, Bankers,; Shippers and Freight Rate Experts Gather to Devise Plans For Ex :;. '. pansion Export Trads South Atlantic States; ' ' (Btr The Associated Press.)- ! GREENSBORO, : March 12. Manu ifaieturers, bankers, "shippers, freight rate xpert and foreign trade specialists of !North Carolina-, South Carolina, Georgia ' sand Florida, are gathered here for the - opening of the foreign trade conference "today, called to dense plans for the ex mansion of the export trade of the south -Atlantic atates through their porta "In general, and through Wilmington, Char- Zleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jack raonville in particular.. Thirty cities are represented by delegations here. Tentative plans for discussion "'- today . all for the adoption of measures to over--- ome proposed cancellation of the new ex port rates to south Atlantic ports, estab lished a few months ago by the railroad administration, which rates placed these ports on parity with New York and other eastern seaboard points. The spon -ors for the conference fear the big trunk railroad lines win make an effort to re- establish the old alleged discriminatory irates and the chief reason for calling to day's meeting was the desire to plan now tto defeat freight rate cancellation. V. .: "The conference will endeavor to get to- vetW on a plan to fight the proposed sale of the American merchant amnne, leaders iter making an effort to have, tne jsroremment retain control of the ships in tthe hands of the shipping board for. tea u .'years at least The formation of a south .Atlanta foreign trade association eom - posed of the chambers of commerce of 'the cities of the four states Is another -project that will receive attention toaay. .Development of trade with Latin-America? is one of the objects of the men nere. r There will be two sessions of the con ference today, ending with a, banquet to night. Governor Bickett, of North Caro .'lina, fienatof E. D.. Smith, of Booth Caro lina, Senator RTD. Smith, of South Caro '.South Atlantic Export Company,"' are camong the' speakers. . Members of tlie .Southern Traffic League and specialists in -freight rates and foreign commerce wll ' also address the conference. '' .ji Seqretary Meriedith Make Hio (By Associated Press.; " - 'NEW YORK, Marth 12-In terms of ' the advertising manager,' Secretary of -Agriculture Meredith, told the members of the Merchants' Association of New Tork -today of his ambition to increase ' the output of the departments chief pro: 2oct, service, v It was the first address - made' by Mr. Meredith since .his ap- poiatment and summarized the work done - fcy the men in" his department, while at the same" time'urglng the advisability of increasing rather than" cutting the ap- - propria tions' for carrying on the work. Paying tribute to the loyalty displayed by the employes in' the 'department, he deplored a tendency to discuss "waste," -"graft" aad "eof snaps. '. v " I think it la 'poor advertising to be .talking all -the time about the, waste, and about the grafters and solf snaps and all that ia Washingtoa.k I heard a lady say the other day that there were things they did not discuss in her fam- - Sy before .the. children astbey were too - young, to understand, and that she though it was all wrong for us in Amer- iea to be complaining aboat the govern ment, to be saying that this man and that department is inefficient, even dis- ' honest and so on, because it is poor ad- tertiaing. There may be some one stand- -iag around .who believes 'you mean it there may be some foreigner who is not .acquainted with our ways over here, and be hears yon and goes out and repeats ' your . statements to" others. Bow many of u simply. fall into the habit of com .. plaining and criticising f It is poor ad- . wsrtising. Don't do it. " : - The number of farm workers ia 1919, . 13,700)00, was contrasted to the num ber La 1870; 500.000, the secretary ad--. ding that in the five yean 1915 to 1919 ' the average production- of cereals per farm worker was 418 bushels. . "These figures are interesting," he . csid, "and particularly so in connection - with the high cost of living. . If there aire more men on the farm farming more . acres, each acre producing more per acre, and -each maa producing more per man, giving -each and every one ef us today . snore of the six leading eereals per capita than we have Lad before, it seems to me the farmer, is doing his part pretty : sreH." riri j tbs war tb:r ' ill) . ,ULi ii 3S3'.PLAH3"PE3:--" TIDE SEICUSTE.G!:EnS!:GT.CE FACES CC'JiiTY " WASHINGTON, March 12. The country is faced with a serious snortage of school teachers, ehiefly through fail ure to provide adequate salaries, accord ing to reports to the United States bu reau of education. 7. Conditions are be coming slightly .better.' however, the ports state, in some sections, com pa; with those of last October when the Na tional Education Association , conduct an inquiry into the situation. Based on returns from state schoolof ficials, the reports show that on FeorJary 13, last, there were 18,27 schools cllsed because Qf lack of teachers, and 4X900 being taught by teachers characte as V below standard, but taken on tern arily in the emergency."' Greater short ages are shown to ; exist in - Sonthera states.';;1'";--,,--7:" - Salaries paid teachers in 1918, statistics show, were on an average of $606. for elementary teachers and $1,031 for. those teaching, in high schools. ' .y. :.:-:" ' ., In 190 state, county, city and private normal schools, representing 60 per . cent of ihe total normal schools in the coun try; there were 11,503 fewer students en rolled November 1, 1919, than . during the pre-war period.' :' v.V-?7 A. O. -Neal' ef the bureau's division of rural education, said today there Is an increasing withdrawal of men teachers from the profession, the per rentage of male teachers in 1918 being only 1 per cent or one in every six. , ; Reports from southern states show the following shortages: .. -J ' ' ; Virginia 2,000 Georgia .1,500: and North Carolina 700. : ' V . The number of substitute or ... "sub standard " teachers employed ia those states reporting included Virginia 3.500: Georgia 3,000; and South Carolina 1,000. Maiden Speech planted acreage" " 33,000,000 "acres, he said, and their yield by 635,000,000 bush els, adding "than this was response to the departmenjjji request. . ?-i; ' Secretary Mdredith urged the necessity, of expenditures! for fighting erop pests, "Take the cotton boll weevil'. he said. "You know the fight there has been on this pest for years and years. We have been spending money and. yon - have paid some of it in taxes to fight the insect, It has been discouraging work, but the experts of the department did not give up, and now the tide has turn ed.. They poison the weevil's drinking water. His drink is the dew ea the cot ton" leaves in early morning r So they poison the dew and that ia the end of the boll weevil.; . "Last year this method was tested oat on an abandoned farm, where the farmer had saidJI give it up and had -moved. JThe department . divided ' the field into three strips; the nnpoisoned strip on one side produced 48. pounds of cotton, the other strip on the other side produced 60 pounds of cotton; , the strip, down the middle, where the drinking water was poisoned, produced 480 pound of cotton. What does . this mean vto America f What does it mean to you that this de partment should be equipped to do these thingsf" ;v- ' . SID SOX LEAVE FOB WACO. . CHICAGO) March 12 The Chicago American League baseball team - will leave for Waco, Texas, for spring train-i ing. Manager William Gleason and 35 members of the White Sol including Ed die Cicotte, the veteran: pitcher, who has been holding out for a better contract, will make up the party.- Cicotte an nounced yesterday he was ready, to' sign a contract if an amica&le agreement can be reached" and said he" would ac company the team south regardless of whether he had signed . " . Eddie Collins, second baseman,.wiH not accompany the team tonight. He is in Philadelphia and has asked permission to remain there a week, after which he wCl leave to meet the team in' Dallas next week for the opening game' of the spring series. " ' ' . - The White Sox will be the last majdf league team t go into traininj.- , 7i i.!Assr.:EETi::3Tc::iT to immzm There will be a massmeeting to night at 8 o'clock in tne county courthouse, called by the several committees from the library, to discuss the proposition of a pub f or. the cityof Gas-: lie library tonia. . It is proposed - at this meeting to have ia number of short, . - snappy talks by those interest ed. It is also planned that there will . be oa exhibition . proposed plans and specifications of a pro posed building; It is earnestly de- -sired that all "who have . the In terests of a library Jor the city t heart be present ia fullforce. -.The mCIEj will not lasting and it p semises to be interesting. 1 nimi'Mc l UVilil'uil UGUERM Makes tlloffuent Plea Before ' Rotarjl Club - For Modern Publid Library For Gastonia 1 ,:;t New Members Received ? ;": . wi; Interesting Program Car ried Out at Semi - Monthly -V Luncheon Wednesday. n interesting feature of the regular. semi-monthly ,' meeting . of the Gastonia Rotary Pub held at the Armington hotel Wednesday was an address by Mr. Stone wall 3, Durham, who was present as a guest of the clufc, on " Gastonia 's Need of a Larger Public Library.," Mr. Durham, always -eloquent- and convinc ing in hia presentation of any matter on which he speaks, was exceedingly happy and earnest in his plea for: larger li brary facilities for the city." He stress ed the point that things material are of worth only as they are directed by the power' of knowledge .'.A well equipped public library furnishes the means where by the citizenship may obtain the knowl edge, the possession of which will give them not only enlarged capacities . for handling the problems of life , but will bring to them rare joys in the intellectual and spiritual realm as well Mr- pur- hard V talk was heard with intense in. terest by. the. club- members and .their guests and no doubt will prove' quite ef fective in stimulating local interest in the campaign now on looking .to the es tablishment . of . an . up-to-date ', public library.v,,-- 'wy Following Mr. Durham's address the club went on record unanimously as en dorsing the movement now on foot look ing to the "early- establishment of a modern public library in Gastonia. : Other" guests of the- ehab were Prof. Robert I. Durham, president, of South ern .Female Seminary,' at JJuena Vista, Va. ; Mr. Baxter Durham; of Raleigh; Mr. Wright T . Dixon and Mr . Albert Milmow, of Gastonia. .J'--;. 'I Wednesday's program was in charge of W." L. Balthis, W. P. Grkr and G. B. Cocker and was lively ad interesting throughout.-,. Six new, members,. chosen at the previous meeting, were present and were welcomed into the fold. They were J. L. Beat, P. B.'Falls, Rolaad 8v ton, J. White Ware, Hugh E. White an W. . J, Alexander. - A sextette hy new members, accompanied- by Cocker at the'piano, was an entertal feature of the program.'; ;j ..';. : Three'new memberswere elested a; lows : Wr TV Warren, haberdasher Elmer Spehcer, lumbet and I Georg 8mith, roller toront i 'r . Bhort talks' -? were made as follows " Whai Rotary Is,'f by J. W. "Atkins; "The Glad Hand,' by P. W. Garland; "Let'4 Go to 3reenville," by J. H. Separk." : - John L. Beal was appointed chairman of the committee on boy's work for the coming year, and it is very likely that the. club will devote considerable attention during 1920 to this feature of Botary'i program.; . . -; " .. , -; In the "absence of iVesidont A. G. Myers, thr meetiirg" was preside! ever by 3. fl. Separk ' - - ' BRITANNIA AND JANIS : " v r BOTH IN COTJBT : Before Magistrate Ww Meek 'Adams yesterday afternoon Mies! Britannia and Janie 8mith, r palmists, were arraigned for resisting arrest. - They were- bound over to court uhder a' $25 bond each. The Misses Smith, with their mother have lived ia tents for sometime eut side the city limits on the Gaatonia-Lowell road and' were found Wednesday 'evening by Deputy Sheriif J. W. Cole, pjolieemaa A. B. Hord, and O. F. Adderholdt, per forming their work ia the city without license and placed under arrest, but not without a lively ' encounter. In - the municipal court a fine of $35 and the cost was' placed on each. At this time both the city and county license were applied for and granted,1 '-. a e y :.:et.:c..:i lec:::i favchs ' OS FCH SCLCIERS Goes on Record as Unanimous ly In Favor of Some Sort of , Bonus For ExSoIdiers Warm Discussion Precipitat ed on rloor of rosu - At the most largely attended snd most enthusiastic meeting of the Legion held since its organisation, Gaston Post, No, 2.1, American Legion unaaimouBly went on record last night as endorsing tne "ac tion of the national legislative commit tee of the American Legion favoring a bonus of $50 per month for service for all ex-soldiers, sailors and marines. The post also-adopted a resolution, urging Representative Hoey and the North Caro lina Senators in Congress to push to a thorough finish . the proposed investiga tion of the recent outrages at the military hospital at Oteen. ' " i '' y-i) " The latter resolution and the subse quent'' discussion that followed precipi tated one of the warmest debates on. th the floor of the post. Mayor Cherry op posed the resolution on the ground that the American, Legion hal no business in terfering in the affairs of the hospital, that the reported incidents at r Oteen were more or less products of distorted newspaper report and that the incident of the "cockroaches and mice" in the food served the 'sick soldiers was prob ably the only , instance of . mistreatment and that even if this were true, it was nothing more than an exaggerated inci dent He was answered in rather caus tic' terms by several members of; the post who had been inmates of the hospi tal and who '.cited to him other more flagrant violations of discipline and com mon decency,- vis ' The ease of guards striking convalecent soldiers over . the head with guns, the reported account of tubereular soldiers being forced to walk j up and down steep hills 400 or 500 feet high to attend formations, of X soldiers threatened with hemorrhage : , from the 1 lungs, forced to stand at attention until ; they dropped and of the most recent: ease of a soldier who was discharged from ' the hospital practically barefooted, in the 1 most inclement weather. . ' 1 - f It was pointed out to Mr. Cherry that such a resolution denouncing these out rages and calling for an investigation was' wholly within the sphere of . the American "Legion, since . a number - of Legion members had been inmates of the hospital snd since--members of the Le gion had been sent there for the purpose ot investigating conditions and had been I iwe'eijtrance to the grounds ot ' the r MS - CVUIBD V MIC IICUAIO ir. ; Choyry . took occasion to digress from the subject under discussion to attack ' the policy of The Gazette toward the Oteen affair and army conditions in general as reported by ex-service men and reflected in tne editorial columns ot tne news paper. . It was his opinion, he said, that such sentiments came from poor Soldiers or those who were sore, or had ' some grievance against the army. After 'a spirited debate in whieh several speeches were made in reply to Mr. Cherry the resolution was unanimously endorsed. It was decided at last night's meet ing that the Legion bold a feed or ban quet on. May 10 in ' connection with Memorial Day exercises in the county and that the Confederate veterans be invited as guests of the post 'N Post ' Commander Stephen B. - Dolley took occasion to congratulate the', post oa the increasing number of members of the post and to urge upon" all pros- ecessity of enrolling more - y-r ujf . ,.. i,s.,jN-. !1 SGI! SITE W YQ SFiEETiuCiiASEO Whole Citwfclock on York v Stret purchased by City . ScL sct Coard For Proposed tiigH dcbool site. . special committee appointed ' by the Gastonia city school board at its last meeting" to investigate and purchase a aite'for Gastonia 's proposed new half million dollar, high school building an nounces the. purchase" of a whole city block oa Tork. street for this purpose. The site purchased lies between York and Lee streets and 7th and 8th avenues in the southern section of the city and is ad micaby adapted for school purposes. The lot is 460x375- feet. -It was purchased from Messrs.; W, N. Davis and L. E. Dixon and represents an outlay of $20, OOO. This property will ; give . ample grround for playground purposes. The special session" of the legislature which meets July 1 will be asked to pass a special act authorizing an election oa the proposition of issuing $550,000 in bonds for the construction of the high sehool building and additions to the col ored school building. ; - TENNIS CHAMPION : r -- J UNABLE TO PLAT. NEW TOEBT. March 12. ' Miss Mane Wagner, six times holder of the woman's national indoor tennis title, will be unsM to eompete ia the national rtampionsMp wurawiK! wnica meets sere next Mon day because of aa injury to her knee. Mrs. George. W. Wightman, the title hold er, is mow on the Pacific eoasL and w'Tl aot defend her title, it was said today. COAL fJIIS FACE ARREST CHARGED WITH : VIOLATION LEVER ACT Result of Indictment Returned by Special Grand Jury No Names Made Public - Bonds Fixed r at $10,000 and $5,000. (By The Associated Press.) - INDIANAPOLIS. March 12. . One hundred and twenty five coal operators or miners of Indiana, Illinois, Qhio, and Western Pennsylvania today are facing ar rest as the result of an indictment return ed yesterday afternoon by a special grand jury here charging them with conspiracy in violation of the Lever fuel eontrol act and the federal criminal code. ; : No names of those indicted have been made public and their identities will not be known until capiases are served on them. However, it is known" that more than half of the number are operators and that many of the alleged violations of the federal statutes ante-date the strike of bituminous miners, which brougnt a- bout the investigation by the grand Jury, The grand jury bas been in session almost eontinuiusly since December 17, 1919, and, it is said, examined more than 300 wit nesses.-."". ... - - .':'-:.; Bond for those indicted was fixed by United States District Judge A.: B. An- derson'at 10,000 in some cases and $5, O00 in others. - Penalty on conviction of the charges, either of violation of the Le ver law or that part of the criminal eode under-which the indictment was brought i. conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States provides for a line of not more than $10,000 impris onment for not more than two years, or both, - ' . v- Federal officials said . today ; that ca piases would be served on those indicted as soon as they could be prepared. No arrests, however, were expected before next week, - .v; vv ' -"' MINERS AND 0PEBATOSS ,;i RESUME SESSIONS NEW YORK, March ltw The sub committee of miners and operators ap pointed to negotiate- the new wage agree ment for the anthracite miners resumed their deliberations in executive : session here today. ; " , ' - '. 't':-'i:' Uope that the award of President Wil son s bituminous eoal commission would be available as a basis of settlement in TUXES U? CUDGELS " i:i FAVoa of fra::ge (By The Associated Press.) 4. LONDON, March 12 President WU- 's charge of ' imperialism " agajst France, contained in his letter to Sen ator Hitchcock, hsjoye4 the Morning Tost to take up the JftlJn:'f0,r.0t France i' The jnewspaper cites Mr7 w3 son's present criticisms and his appeal to Italians over the head of Premier - Or lando last summer as showing that ''un der the impulse of his lofty ideals the American President is almost 'as impa tient of the constitutional governments of modern European democracies as he is impatient of hia own senate. '.'Mr. Wilson's slight to France," the newspaper continues, "is particularly disturbing when one remembers the mov ing passages in which he recorded Amer ica 's appreciation Of what France suf fered in the cause of human freedom. Americans and Englishmen will under stand the amasement of France that the same voiee which described , he as the sentinel of liberty should now accuse her of being saddled with the same kind of chauvinistic government ' to overthrow which she sacrificed,, a million of her sons.1' y .v;- Contending there are many indications of the spirit of aggression and. revenge rising in Germany and dismissing 'the league of' nations' as' being almost as effective a .barrier against German ag gression as . the international postal union," the newspaper says; "The American nation, a chivalrourr comrade in arms and an old friend, will realize that France in Mr. Wilson's admirable phrase formed the dividing lure between democracy and tyranny, cannot afford to take risks." ;W .... UraZoe Klncaid Brockman, society editor ef. The PaUy Gazette, is ill at her home oa Bouti- street. WILL HAKE EFFORT TO r COMPOSE THE DiFfEOElCES the hard eoal field ' has virtally ' been abandoned, and John P. White, miners, representative, refused to sign , the re port. Officials of the mine workers union declared that, this disagreement will bar any consideration being given the award to the soft coat workers. ' ' . Both mine workers snd operators have agreed to proceed with the negotiations ' affecting the anthracite field as rapidly as possible in order to prevent a sus pension of work in the Pennsylvania hard eoal fields when the present working agree ment of the union expires. - " 1(0 TELUriG WHAT VILL -" HAPPEN IN TREATY HGIIT. (By The Associated Press.) .. -WA8IIINGT0N March 12 Nobody-" eould tell today what was likely, to hap- -pen in the treaty fight.. ' . 8o many cross-currents have appeared in the negotiations ' for ' an ' aceeptabla compromise on article. 10 that even sea atsjeaders are at a loss to understand where the pact is drifting, Bepubli ean leaders ' consented . yesterday' -Xa changes in the wording of the disputed reservation, hoping' to unite their scat tered forces, but were not entirely suc cessful. . . ' ; .. Meanwhile, democratic advocates of an agreement undertook to work for ' the substitute, claiming 30 votes 'for it, but Senator Hitchcock neutralized their ef forts to some extent by rallying his fol lowers to support-; President - Wilson's stand against qualifying the clause. Wita the uncertainty existing on both sides, it remained to be seen whether the republican . or democratic mild reserra tionists would introduce the substitute, or if it would be submitted to the senate) at all.- . :V--"'",;:f V A vote on article 10 is not expected be- fore Baturday.. .;.'- s- , I i (By The Associated Press.); - WASHINGTON, March 12, Aa- ef-. fort to compose the differences between the majority and minority of the bitu-" minous coal strike coffiission will k be made by; Preaiont Wilson, it was sai! today s,t the white house. . - . fc t . Officials said that nth he majorKr nor minority rerrY ffoud be made pub lic if there was a crobabilitv of brinar- inj (he mernber of the commission to an agreement on their prlncipaJ dlrferences" - the amount of the wage advance and the hours' of work. - 1 John P. 'White's minority repors en the bituminous eoal strike settlement was submitted today to President Wilson. Meantime, the president-was studying the majority report, completed yester day, r : . - -. - Mr. White, the miners', representative en the commission, refused to discuss his recommendations, but it was under stood that he had held for an increase In wages of approximately 85 per cent and for a seven hour day. - The majority, Henry M. Robinson, representing the pub lie, and Rembrandt Peale, the opera tors' representative,' recommended a wsge but mice vl spproximateiy za per .cent, of work. .,- . . - - John L.. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, who hnrrW here last night from New York, where He has been attending . the anthracite ' wage conference, conferred today wita Ifr. White and William Greea, secmary of the miners' union, familiarizing htm-, self with the facts. He still declined make any statement, but it was exnaetrxl that the. full executive 'committee of the : miners would be summoned to consider the future action of the workers, fiecretarr said the maJoritv and Mr. White were not far apart oa fhe matter of wages and he wss """' l ' ttvf,'f f erencee could be f conference s. Hi f tO TVC- ' tions ; ' rr "-"'"-, ; ' of t' '