Bill Giving Millions More To Ex-Service Men Gets Approval Wonld Provide 100.900.000 Extra Per Year For Needs, lloosc Committee like* Measure. Washtnpton.—The 1924 World war veterans act would be radically amended and $100,090,000 more would be devoted every year to vet erana’ compensation under the Johnson bill approved by the house veterans’ committee. The measure combines rrcom mendatlons of the American Leg ion, Disabled American Veterans. Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the veterans bureau. It would deny the comptroller general power to re verse a decision of the director of the veterans bureau ana would pro vide that proper consideration la given "to lay evidence and other evidence not of a medical naturt' In adjudicating veterans’ cases. A section considered of prime j importance provides that every man's disability which existed to Hi per cent degree prior to January 1, 1925, should lie presumed to be acquired in service. This would ef fect approximately 84,000 cases, at a cost of $76,000,000 to the govern ment. Insurance Act Helped. For persons suffering the loss o' a foot or hand, the bill would pro vide $25 a month additional com pensation. a clause which would cause a $1,500,000 expenditure tile first year of its operation. Veterans insurance policies would be made incontestlble Other pro visions would safeguard the inter ests of mentally incompenent vet erans; assure recreation for hosplt allzed veterans; liberalize insur ance and compensation rules; re peal time limits for filing evidence and claims; and insure proper bur lal of veterans of all wars. A flag to drape the casket ot every veteran of all wars would fee specifically provided for, an item which would cost the government' approximately $40,000 the first yej.r for flags to be presented to the ne:;t of kin. 25 PERSONS LEAVE V. S. FOR EACH 100 ENTERING Washlngton.-Twenty-flve per sons leave the United States to re side permanently elsewhere for every 100 who enter as immigrants. Tlie annual report of the secretary of labor says that from 1900 to 19.1J 4,000.000 residents aliens left the United States with the stated In tent of living In another countrv. During the same period, 12,000,000 immigrant aliens were admitted to the country. Resident aliens, however, are not the only ones who take a final loo* at the statue of Liberty. In the last 12 years more than 435,000 native *’orn and 62,000 naturalized citizens left the United States to take up permanent or at least extended resi dence abroad. FOUNDERS #WEE K / ,gi9 i — /Jn Outstanding Value Event... FOOD SALE The World’s Largest Selling High Grade Coffee SO'CLOCK COFFEE 4 »*• $1-00 CAMPBELL'S BEANS 4 ® 29c sugar — as-— 10 u' 23c Bag IONA_Desert Halves. Ripened by Glorious Sunshine PEACHES —No-2* <*■ California Nature Flavored Prunes SUNSWEET PRUNES 2 ft. 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One of the most encouraging as-i pects of the situation which now exists In North Carolina Is the; bringing forward of true, tried and seasoned business men and citizen: as candidates for the next session of the general assembly. Tire people of North Carolina ore deeply concerned over conditions which surround them. They know that a solution must be reached If the state is to go forward or if an abiding prosperity Is to be enjoyed by its citizenship. They likewise know that the solution of these problems must come through the' legislature with a program of tax relief and thoughtul consideration j of conditions wihch arc calling for; attention. With this realization upon their hearts and minds, the people of the state are searching out thoroughly! capable men, men who are business! community and civic leaders, to re-| present them In the next general: assembly, me neapable of thinking through the foggy conditions and of putting their practical experi ence and success in private business to the task oi shaping and guiding the intricate matters, largely finan cial, facing Hit: government of their commonwealth. The people of North Carolina, it Is already shown by the trend of thought and early announcement, are not going to trust the solution of the problems now lacing the state to young lawyers, without ex perience and looking for their first publicity, old line politicians, who think only In terms of swapping votes, or has beens who have noth ing else to do but go to the general assembly after 1t becomes too warm to sit around the stove and yet too cold to staTt fishing. The young lawyers, the politic ians and the oldboys who have nothing else to do can never think tltrough North Carolina’s problems, and at least the people of the state are awakening to that fact. If tin present period of depression does nothing else, It must be given credit for that awckenlng and for a deter mination on the part of the citizen ship to send capable men to Ra leigh to pass their laws and super vise the expenditure of public funds. The mention of a few' names al ready brought Into the legislative race will suffice to show the vigor of the people In bringing forward | business leaders. At Greensboro E B. Jeffreys, co-publisher of the Dally News and former mayor, has ! been put In the legislative race by ! his friends. At Gastonia Gregg Cherry, prominent lawyer and former state commander of the American Legion, Is to make the race. At Shelby Lee B, Weathers, publisher of the Cleveland Star suc cessful business leader and former president of the State Press asso ciation, Is being urged to run. i In Nash county the three able legislators who were members of the last general assembly are expected to be In the race again. On the Edgecombe side of the city R. E. Davis, prominent business and civic leader, is being talked as a candi date although he has ns yet made no formal announcement of candi dacy. The mere mention of these names, and learers as being brought forward similarly in virtually ev ery county of the state, shows that the people arc giving more thought 1 than ever before to the personnel of the general assembly and that they are determined that men thorough ly capable of solving the outstand ng problems will constitute the as sembly which gathers in Raleigh about a year hence. Tills arousal of public interest, this house cleaning in the iegisla i ture, so to speak, is the most hepe j ful sign now In the horizon In North Carolina. The silver lining which must exist even for the dark cloud which may new' be overhang ing at least some sections of the state begins to show itself as an awakened electorate shakes off it? lethargy and begins to pick the men whom it wants to do its legislating rather than to wait in contentment to vote for any two-by-four who ■nay decide that he wants a trip tc .taleigh. 4 Raise $17,000,000 In Chicago Drive Chicago, Feb. 25.~~The municipal cash register had sung to the tune of almost $17,000,000 today at the close of the second days sale of ta.-: anticipation warrants m a “Save t.ni City” drive. Proceeds from the sale w ill be used to finance the govern • incuts of the. city until tax receipt-: delayed by reassessment proceed ings, begin to come in next July. The 25 committee assigned to in dustrial groups Into which the city was divided have swung into active work and the dally subscriptions arc expected to mount considerably oe • ginning tomorrow, Phillip R. Clarice banker and chairman of the cam oaign said tonight. The civic qu ta of $71 090. M needed to operate the 1 arious mun. cipal and county government untl; July was apportioned among the 25 groups, chief of which was the bank group with $25,000,000 to raise. I'll? banks already have raised $8,000,000 Minister Declares That Churches Are Responsible In War Evanston, 111.—The responsi bility of keeping America out of war was placed on the churches by Dr. John Lathrop, pastor of the Church of the Savior, Brooklyn, N. V.. in presiding at a section of the third national study conference on the churches and world peace, spon sored by the federal council of the Churches of Christ in America. “If America should ever become involved in war, contrary to the Kellogg peace pact, such war would be evidence of failure of the churches and an unanswerable in dictment against them,” he de clared at a round table discussion on “the church, the Kellogg pact and peace policies.” The ideals of the Kellogg pact coincide with the Christian ideal of peace, and if the churches function tn society as they claim to do, hete Is a moral obligation laid up'm them, he said. “The churches,” he added, “must lead the people in the study of all possible instruments which will en able America to live up to her oo ligations under the pact. And when enlightened intelligence approves these instruments, tine churches must provide the motive powe *h