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.
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North Carolina Counties t'slng
Caution In Picking Their New
Caw Makers.
Rocky Mount Telegram.
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<u
will compel America to employ
them.
"Compulsory arbitration treaties
with Lattn-America, the world
court, the league of nations, mili
tary and naval establishments an !
their budgets, thus become matter:
of immediate moral concern to the
churches.”
Craft Child Dies Of
Double Pneumonia
Four Year Old Son Of Mr. And
Mrs. J. W. Craft Buried At
St. Paul Church.
(Special to The Star.)
John Wesley Craft, Jr, son of Mr
ahd Mrs. John W. Craft, R-l, Cher
ryville was born October 15, 1.92E
and died January 27, 1930. He
leaves to mourn their loss, one sis
ter, Elizabeth, and one brother
William and a host of relatives anc
friends.
Not being so robust he could no
combat double pneumonia follow
ing tonsllitis and' abscessed mast
nolds.
The flower girls and pallbearer:
were his cousins.
Mrs. 13. F. Morris of Ggstonl;
sang “Safe in the Amis of Jesus.”
John Wesley was dedicated t<
God by baptism when a baby an;
had always loved to go to church.
Funeral services were conductec
from St, Paul church by - the pas
tor, Rev. T. V. Crouse, assisted hi
his uncle, Rev. J. E. B. Houser, o.
Waxhaw’ and Interment was In the
nearby cemetery, w’here Ills little
grave was hid beneath lovely flow
ers.
I
HE LEAVES STATE;
Peculiar Appeal To Him Exerted
By Washington And I.ee, Wake
Forest Head Explains.
Wake Forest.—Dr. Francis P i
Gaines, who has resigned os pro
fessor of Wake Forest college to
accept the presidency of Washing
ton and Lee university, in a chapel
address to the student body and
faculty told his reasons for accepi
Ing the call.
He said that the Washington and
Lee call has peculiar appeal to
him, most of all because of the
‘traditions and history of an Insti
tution endowed by Washington and
administered by Lee. ’ Other at
tractions he listed were that the
Virginia school is Christian in
committal, but controlled neither by
a church, or the state, and that ht:
was reared in Virginia.
Discussing Wake Forest - Dr.
Gaines deplored what he said wan
the policy of the Baptist denomina
tton to "restrain Wake Forest un
til all other institutions had been
made secure.” Dr. Gaines paid high
tribute to the faculty and student
body of Wake Forest and said he
would devote his; full energy to the
current campaign for funds.
He said that it was his judgment
that if Wake Forest and MeredLo
Baptist girls’ school in Raleigh, had
been co-ordinated under one ad
ministration with one library, one
expenditure for laboratory and one
general overhead, the Nortli Caro
lina Baptists ‘might have had one
of the greatest of southern colleges.
KENTUCKY SENATE PASSES
BILL ACCEPTING OFFER
OF COLEMAN DuPONT
Frankfort, Ky—The Kentucky
senate passed the bill previously'
approved by the house accepting T.
Coleman duPont’s offer to purchase
the site of Cumberland Falls and1
present it to the state for a park
The senate vote on the falls was
31 to 16, with ra ty lines split, rh 1
house had the duPont bill ami
though a veto by Governor Flem L
Sampson who favors the Insuil
plan of a power development and a
park, is expected, tire duPont ad
vocates plea to override the veto.
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