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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1919
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
BY HOST OF BUGS
VISITORS CAME UNHERALDED,
AND REMAIN WITHOUT ANY
WELCOME OR INVITATION.
COMING VEILED IN MYSTERY
Witty Reporter Interviews an OldMt
Inhabitant Who Rtcalla Similar
Invasion Along About IS.
Raleigh.
Forty million hopping bags!
Raleigh, tha capital city, Invaded by
the groat greon hoat. The rlaltora
oama unheralded and remained with
out receiving an invitation to star.
Millions upon millions of them were
to bo seen along the white way of Fay
otterllle street, and a billion or two
turned Into McDowell tor a peep Into
the lighted windows of stores.
. Where the visitors came from was
not ascertained. Whither thejr were
bound was likewise a mystery. The
oldest citizen recalled that back in '18
then was a similar Tlsltatlon, while
another said it was a common thing
for these visitors to drop in on Rat
elgh to give it the once over.
Bill McDevitt, of Kinston, who Is an
authority on bugs, says these hopping
bugs are matured from the green
' clover worm, which has started such
havoc recently. They cam to Kins
ton last week and put things out of
business for a while. - Like some city
folks, they, seem to like the country
in their youth, but in their maturity
they hit for the towns.
Young Reserves Judgment.
Mr. P. W. Schenck was here from:
Oreensboro as special agent tor The
Olobe and Rutgers Fire Insurance
Company, and conferred with the
State Insurance Commiesioner rela
tive to violations of the North Care
Una Insurance laws by that company.
One of the special violations that
the company promises to explain Is the
nse of other than the Standard policy
prescribed by the state law. Commis
sioner Toung has reserved his Judg
ment in the case against the company
to allow time for officials from tha
home office of the company to appear
and present their case fully from their
viewpoint .
No Hitch In Webb Matter.
Washington (Special). Many North
Carolinians inquire about the status
of the federal Judgeship which Repre
sentative Webb te to have. (There is a
suspicion that a bitch somewhere ia
holding it up. But that is not true.
The President le ready to act when
the department of Justice completes
the preliminaries required by law.
The Webb nomination , is certain
unless something most unexpected
comes.
New State Epidemiologist
, Dr. F. M. Register, former physician
at the State Prison, reported to the
State Board of Health and immediate
ly began his new duties as State Dpi
' demlologlst Dr. Register succeeds
' . Dr. A. McR. Crouch, who resigned
august 1st to accept the position of
health officer in New Hanover.
For the last two years. Dr. Register
has been employed as whole-time
: health officer 4a Northampton county
under the triple arrangement between
the Rockefeller foundation, the state
and the county.
, Meeting of. Superintendent.
. The west central district of North
Carolina county superintendents of
edaeatlons comprising superintendents
of JO counties In the western part of
the state held a two day cession In
Charlotte last week. Following the
' address of welcome and response, sev
eral pertinent discussions on milters
' connected with education In Its vari
ous phases en the state were held.
- Requisition Honored.
Governor Blckett honored a requlsi
- ,"tlon from the governor of Virginia for
Jess Martin, Granted In Norfolk coun
ty, Virginia, on tha charge of stealing
an automobile. . ,
Talk en Fire Neglect
"We exercise too little oar In build
ing oat homes to make them less lia
ble to- burn and even - less to make
. ' -tfcAM uf inr nnraelvaa and family In
' case of Bra. , How many of us give anyJ
' attention to tpie or nave our mwr
. tects do sof '
' Thus did North Csrollna's insur
ance eommlss'oner and Are marshal,
, fame R. Toung. stress a eountrv-wlde
dereliction that entalli appallng toll
I j lives and property la as address be
fore the annual convention of firs mart
s of North America." ,
Salvation Army Pledges.
Facing the Immenee task of home
service reconstruction throughout
Florida, Georgia, North and South
Carolina, in the aftermath of the war,
as It strips for aotion to befriend the
poor through the coming winter, an
urgent appeal has been Issued by the
Salvation Army ttf&t pledges due Sep
tember first be met promptly.
"The Salvation Army kept faithfully
Its trust in the world war and stood
the acid test," declared Brigadier A.
W. Crawford, In charge of the Salva
tion Army work in the department of
the southeast, with offices in Atlanta,
In his appeal for payment of these
pledges.
"And I believe the people who sub
scribed to our Home Service Cam
paign Fund last spring will keep faith
with the Salvation Army," ha added.
"The work this fall and winter will
be four-fold. : The full quota of sol
diers who went to war will be back.
Thousands will need Jobs and the
helping hand of the Salvation Army.
; "The Salvation Army stood by them
to the last on the battle line It will
not desert them now."
Farmer Enter Pretest
Washington (Special). North Car
olina farmers are worked up over the
efforts to reduce the cost of living by
hitting the tiller of the soil. They are
writing to their congressmen to see
that they are not made the goats. Sen
ators Simmons and Overman have re
ceived a number of protests.
On the other hand builders and
manufacturers are urging that some
thing be done to reduce the cost of
materials so that they can continue
in business. The cost of lumber has
advanced to such an extent that it
will be Impossible for one to build a
house.
A letter from a clothing man pro
tested that it would not be right to
make It Illegal to exact more than 33
per cent on clothing. He has heard
a report that the limit would be fixed
at that figure. :' '
Most of the North Carolinians who
write do not want the price fixed on
foodstuffs.
William J. Bryan was here. Once
more he denied the story that he is
to be a candidate for the senate from
North Carolina.
"1 am not from North Carolina," he
said. "I .have a summer home there,
and a winter home in Florida. I live
in Nebraska,"
State May Take Charge.
When Governor Blckett, who has
been rummaging about in Old Joe
Smith's kingdom, Frisco, Yellowstone
park, Reno and the Great Divide, gets
back to North Carolina, he is going
to be advised to invite Buck and Ben
Duke, particularly Buck, down to
North Carolina to find out if those
gentlemen wish to run their street
cars any more.
Whetner tne governor has any such
thnmrht In his head and it Is said by
men not hostile to his politics that he
has it IS going to oe put were uj
Democrats weary of what goes on in
Charlotte and Winston-Salem. The
governor has . spoken his mind too
many times on capital and labor to
guarantee silence much longer.
Then, Blcketfs counselors say, the
governor will suggest that if Mr.
Duke's- policy is to go hack to me
diaeval times, the state will undertake
in run tha lines and will recognise the
right of union men to organise.
North Carolina Oversubeerlbee.
Matthew Hale, president of the
quasi-public South Atlantic Maritime
corporation and general chairman of
the sister company, the South Atlantic
la on a tour of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida In the interests of the Utter
organisation now being formed by the
business men of the south Atlantic
states for the purpose of stimulating
trade with Latin America.
The export company,- like its sister
corporation, the South Atlantic Marl
time corporation, is a quasi-public
company controlled by directors rep
resenting both the stockholders and
the four south Atlantic states.
v At the offices of Mr. Hale it was
announced that North Carolina had
oversubscribed her share of the or
ganisation fund. Thelty of Wilming.
ton alone had. oversubscribed her al
lotment by 800 per cent. The organi
sation committees in the three other
states were reported as actively
rounding up the bankers and other
business melt.
Other New Rnlerorlsse.
One new Raleigh company and one
for Mount Airy Bled Incorporation pa
pers with the Secretary ot State.
innumtnt Facilities Company,
Raleigh; social clubs; authorised cap
ital $10,00, subscribed $4,600; dura
tion. SO years; Fred C. Jones, William
H. Wynne, H. H. Nowell, all of Ral
eigh, Incorporators. ; , .
W. 8. Wolfe pro Company, Mount
Airy; authorised capital $26,000, mb
scrlbed'$.00;' ! W.,S. Wolfe, F. G.
Wolfe, both V: Mount Airy; W. M.
Taylor. ' WInaton-Salem, Incorporators.
He Cross Of Qirist The World's Greatest
Need
(By Rev. W. R. Beach, Baptist Paetor.)
"When I survey the wondrous Cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
I count my richest gain but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride.".
Humanity's unrest is but an expression of the longings for something
to satisfy the deepest needs of life. No other source can supply these needs
like the bleeding love of the Crucified One. In response to the question,
"What is the greatest need of the world today ?" sent out to eight hundred
men representing every walk of life and all business vocations, answers
were received as follows: "Christ and Him Crucified," "The Cross," "The
Atonement," etc.
There ia no other force that will prove effeotive in meeting man's needa,
and as never before the doors of nations and the hearts of individuals are
wide open for the message of life. Never in the world's history wsre the
fields so white to the harvest. Our chief aim should be that the knowledge
of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the deep, and like the
great Apostle to the Gentiles we should say, "God forbid that I should glory
save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" Let us lift it high that all
the peoples of earth may see and know.
"In the Cross of Christ I glory.
Towering o'er the wrecks of time, .
All the light of sacred story
Gathers round its head sublime."
THE DAILT GAZETTE.
The Daily Gasette of Gastonia is
now upon its second week of exist
ence. It made its first appearance
September first. The paper has been
elected a member of the Associated
Press, the greatest news-gathering
agency in the world, and is making a
fine appearance. The publication is
ably manned. The owners, Messrs.
J. W. and E. D. Atkins, have assumed
the role of business managers and
have secured the services of Hugh
A. Query as editor and Mrs. Zoe Kin
eaid Brockman as editor of the wom
an's page. 'Both these are experi
enced and efficient in their respective
departments. But being manned ia
not all. They have an advertising
clientile that vouches safe the finan
cial end of the business. Gastonia
business men know the value of news
paper advertising and are keeping the
Daily "full up." Long Live The Daily
Gazette. .
THE PIEDMONT HERALD.
The Piedmont HeraM is a nsw
weekly which has just appeared at
Troy, Montgomery county, N. C. It
is a seven column, eight page sheet
edited and owned by Mr. A. Solder.
This paper succeeds the Troy Mont
gomerian which went out of business
last fall after Editor Deaton died of
influenza.
MRS. GEO. W. CORNWELL DEAD.
Mrs. Geo. ,W. Cornwall passed away
last Thursday night after a week of
unconsciousness from a stroke of
paralysis. The remains were taken
to the First Baptist Church Saturday
at 11 o'clock where the funeral was
preached by Rev. A. H. Sims, a former
pastor. The preliminaries at the
church were conducted by the pres
ent pastor, Rev. W. R. Beach. Al
though it was a very busy hour of a
busy day the spacious church audito
rium was filled which attested the
popularity and esteem in which the
departed was held. Mrs. Cornwall
was the first Baptist ever to settle in
what is now the town of Kings Moun
tain and was a charter member of
the First Baptist church of which she
remained a consistent member until
death.- For more than a half century
this Godly woman had walked in the
straight and narrow way. She was a
constant church and Sunday school
worker and was secretary of the first
Woman's Missionary Society of the
church she loved so well.
Frances Lucinda Smith Cornwall
was born in Dallas August 19, 1845,
making her a little more than 74
years of age. She Joined Long Creek
Baptiat Church when only a child.
Soon after her marriage to Mr. Geo.
W. Comwell in 1874 she and her hus
band moved to Kings Mountain where
they lived ever afterward. To the
union were born seven children, three,
of whom survive with the husband.
The surviving children are: Mr. C. T.
Cornwoll, Mrs. Emma Cornwell Aus
tell and Mrs. J. B. Youngblood.
After the funeral the body was
taken to Mountain Rest cemetery
where it was laid to rest The floral
offerings were most beautiful and pro
fuse.: '.
CHARLOTTE CAR STRIKE
SUPPOSED TO BE SETTLED
Charlotte Charlotte's street car
strike Is ended.
President Z. V. Taylor, acting for the
Southern Public Utilities Company,
and a committee of five men, acting
tor the street car employes, will sign
a contract that puts the strikers back
to work on the cars. The contract Is
pnutically the same as that signed by
the Greenville strikers.
ENDS STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS
Employes Protected By a Prevision
In Bill That Wages Shall bs Fixed
By Government Agencies.
Washington. The senate received
and discussed for ssveral hours a bill
outlining a permanent railroad policy
as evolved by a bi-partisan Interstate
commerce subcommittee.
Paramount among the features of
the new measure which will be known
as the Cummins bill Senator Cum
mins, republican, Iowa, having acted
as chairman of tha sub-committee,
are provisions for termination ot gov
ernment control of the railroads their
return to private ownership snd opera
tion under ilgld federal control and
consolidation into regional systems,
and prohibition of strikes and lockouts
of employees. The measure contains
aone ot the fundamentals ot the Plumb
plan.
Chairman Cummins, in presenting
the bill, explained its provisions at
length. He, with Senators Robinson,
Arkansas, and Pomerene, Ohio, Demo
cratic members of the drafting sub
committee, laid special stress on the
proposal to penalise strtkee and look
outs, declaring the plan, although
novel, was necessary to protect the
public. The employes, the three sen
ators explained, are protected under
the bill by a provision that their wages
shall be fixed by government agencies.
The tendency of opinion seems to
be infavor of the billA or, at least the
principle underlying it.
AMERICAN AVIATOR FIRED
ON BY MEXICAN SNIPERS.
Laredo, Texas. Fired upon from
the Mexico side ot the Rio Grande.
Captain David W. McNabb. United
States aviation corpa, was slightly
wounded while on aerial patrol duty
along the international boundary
northwest of here.
With Lieutenant von de B. Johnson,
Captain McNabb was flying slowly up
the river close to the water when sud
denly a group ot Mexicans fired a vol
ley of shots at the airplane, wounding
McNabb near the ear. Several shots
pierced the plane's wings.
Colonel Beaumont B. Buck, comman
der of the Laredo dlstriot with head
quarters at Fort Mcintosh here, said
all that is known of the attack is that
the firing wae from a point where an
outpost of Mexican federal soldiers
was known to be located, and no dovbt
(elt that they are the offenders.
FIGURES ON THE FUEL
OUTPUT FOR 191S GIVEN.
Washington.--The country's coal bi
tuminous and anthracite output
amounted to 678,211.904 net tons val
ued at $1,828,423,196 In 118 the geo
logical survey announces In a compil
ation Just issued. The number of em
ployees to produce this coal numbered
782,4'6, and the average Dumber of
days worked were 258. -
$92,500,000 OF GERMAN
GOLD FOR NEW YORK
. Brussels. (After the conclusion of
the armletice at Spa it was decided
that Germany, before being revictual
ated must deposit with the .National
Bank of Brussels as guarantee. J70,
000,000 marks (normally $92,800,000).
Part of the gold was placed at the
disposal 'of the Bank of England and
banks in New York. , ...
It Is now being taken from Han
sels to London, whence it will be con
veyed to New York in consignments.
PRESIDENT AT OES MOINES
Mr. Wilson Heard by Vast Throngs at
. Every Speaking Point Along Self-
Imposed 10,000 Mile Journey.
Des Moines, Iowa. The Versailles
treaty with its league of nations cov
enant was explained here by Presi
dent Wilson as a purely Amreican
document extending democracy over
the world and shifting foreign rela
tions from a basis of force and war
to one of arbitration and peace.
Making his second address of the
day, the President spoke in Des
Moines coliseum, said to seat 7,500.
Every chair was taken and many
were standing. Earlier in the day
he had spoken at Kansas City, Mo.,
more than 300 miles away. ,
Describing the world as desper
ately In need of the settled condition
of peace, the President said the
United States, the last nation which
the world expected to have to wait
upon, was delaying the coming of
that peace.
The treaty, he said, not only
would establish peace but it would
end forever the rule of a few men
over the destinies of the many.
Citing what happened in Europe
with the rise of bolshevism, Mr. Wil
son said the move of radicalism and
disorder was spreading.
"Do you honestly think that none
of that poison has got into the veins
of this free people?" he asked.
"Men look you calmly in the face
in America and tell you they are for
that sort of revolution.
"So long as the question of what
kind of peace the world was to have
and what guarantees were to be be
hind it remained open, the poison
would continue to spread.
"How long shall we be kept wait
ing for the answer whether the world
will trust us or despise us?" he con
tinued." .
The President said he had not been
able to work out the solution of rail
way problems until he knew when a
peace basis came. The conference of
labor and capital in Washington next
month, he continued, also would have
its deliberations affected by the an
swer to the treaty question. Labor
"all over the world is waiting," he
asserted, "to see whether the United
States accepted the treaty's provision
for an international labor organiza
tion." The United States, said the Presi
dent, could not participate in the
world labor conference to be held in
Washington soon under the t.eaty un
less the treaty was accepted by this
country. Such a condition would be
"inconceivable," he added, and would
lead to the greatest "mortification."
"The world is waiting," said the
President, "to see not whether we
will take part, but whether we will
take the lead."
The fathers of the republic, Mr.
Wilson said, intended to set up a
standard to which the world could
come for liberty. From all nations, he
continued, men had come by millions.
Opponents of the league, the Presi
dent asserted, were saying, "yes, we
made n great promise to the world,
but it'll cost too much to redeem it."
If by deliberate choice the United
States became a rival and antagonist
of her neighbors instead -of .'.'their
friends, said the President, then it
would reap the same reward as a busi
ness man who proceeded on that ba
sis. If the United States tried to get
all it could selfishly, he continued,
then' the world would see that it got
nothing at all.
Just as American soldiers restored
the morale of the fighting peoples of
the allies, said the President, so the
United States could now restore the
peace morale of the world.
"Are you going to institute a move
against France and England and Ja
pan to get Shantung back for China?"
asked the President.
On the contrary, he added, estab
lishment of the league would be a
power to which China could appeal
for future justice.
Mr. Wilson also discussed Article
10 of the league covenant. Pan-Germanism
and similar -plans would be
"torn up by the roots."
: Of the ultimate outcome of the
treaty he had no doubt.
"The only thing that can be accom
plished," he said, "is delay. The ulti
mate outcome will be the triumphant
acceptance of the treaty and the
league."
The Monroe doctrine provision, he
said, had been objected to as vague,
because it referred to "such regional
understandings as the Monroe doc
trine." .
"This language was written," the
President said, "in perfect innocence,
and was "Intended' to give right of
way to the Monroe doctrine in the
western hemisphere." "
"The language was put in," he con
tinued, "because the other delegates
thought It unwise to make specific
reference to a policy of one country
without' leaving - the way open for
other nations to develop similar poli
cies In their own localities.
STRONG SVIRIT OF
E
SENATOR SIMMONS SAYS THAT
MUTUAL CONCESSIONS MUST
INEVITABLY BE MADE.
TO SECURE RATIFICATION
Substitute Resolutions Drafted and
Discussed at Length In Private
' Cloakroom Conferences.
Washington. Marked indications of
a compromise in the senate contro
versy over reservations to the league
of nations covenant came from both
democratic and republican sources af
ter Republican Leader txxige bad an
nounced that the peace treaty would
be reported to the ssnste and proba
bly taken up tor consideration next
week.
Probably the most Important de
velopment of the day was a state
ment to the senate by Senator Sim
mons, of North Carolina, prominent
in administration leadership, declar
ing "some concessions in the way ot
reservations will have to be made to
secure its ratification." Although "ut
terly" opposing some of the Lodge
reservations, Senator Simmons said
he was suggesting a compromise on
"conservative reservations ot an in
terpretative character."
Republican senators continued ef
forts to compromise differences over
a reservation to Article 10 ot the
league covenant. Senators McCum
ber, North Dakota, Kellog, Minnesota,
and Lenroot, of Wisconsin were said
to have drafted substitute reserva
tions which were discussed privately
in lengthy cloakroom conferences.
PRO-GERMANISM IS AGAIN
RAISING ITS HEAD HERE.
Sioux Falls, S. D. Declaring that
pro-Germanism again had lifted its
head in this country, President Wil
son declared in an address here "that
every element of chaos" was hoping
there would be "no steadying hand"
placed on the world's effairs.
"I want to tell ou," said the Presi
dent, "that within the last two weeks
the pro-German element in the United
States again has lifted its head."
Declaring the peace treaty provis
ion for an international labor confer
ence would give labor a new bill of
rights, the President declared the
treaty was a "laboring man's treaty"
in the sense that it was a treaty
drawn up for the benefit ot the com
mon people.
The political settlements them
selves, said the President, were made
for the peoples concerned. He assert
ed tnat tne document iai aown ror
ever the principle that no territory
ever should be governed except as
the people who lived there wanted It
governed.;
8TRIKE OF (00,000 RAIL
MEN AGAIN THREATENED.
Detroit, Mich. Definite action by
the end of this week on the threatened .
strike is expected of the convention
of the United Brotherhood ot Mainte
nance of Railway Employes and Rail
way Shop Laborers, which opened It
session here with more than 2,000 del
egates from the United States, Cana
da and Panama canal lone present.
The membership has already voted
power to the executive committee to
call a contingent strike of the 600,000
unleBS wage demands and working
agreements asked of the railway ad
ministration of the United States and
the Canadian government are granted.
W. VIRGINIA PLANS TO
END ARMED MOB MOVES,
Charleston, W. Va. Vigorous meas
ures are to be taken by the state ot
West Virginia to prevent a recurrence
of the events of the past tew days
when armed men marched across tha
country threatening to violently In
vade a neighboring county.
SMALL PACKERS SAY THAT
THEY ARE NOT IN DANGER,
Washington. Independent packers
of the country can protect themselves
from the "big five" packing companies
without the aid ot the Kenyan and
Kendrick bills, the senate agricultural
committee was told by John J. Fella,
representing the Independent concerns
"We .are able to take car of our
selves," said Felin. "Leave as alone,
We've had our troubles during the last
two ear with U license system sad
wa dot 't want any mora of it,"