A CHwa Coral tfrawpatgr Jor All gfa 3famtlg
NO. 4
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1919
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
COUNTY TAX ERROR
IT
QUICK ACTION 18 NECESSARY
TO PREVENT CURTAILMENT
OF SCHOOL TERMS.
INITIAL LEVY OF 32 CENTS
A Number of Counties Have Grievous
ly Miscalculated Amount of Levy
Required to Insure 8tate Aid.
Raleigh.
Information Is coming to the stale
department of education that In tbe
levying of the school tax In soma of
the counties a serious error Is being
committed that will either curtail the
school terms to throe or four months
or cause Immediate and radical read
justment of the school tax levy.
State Superintendent Brooks n call
ing on the county superintendents of
schools to investigate as to their
counties at once and see that there
are readjustments on proper basis
where the error that is. .canting the
trouble has been commlttedV
The state law provides a 32-cent tax
for schools and then enables the
counties to levy an additional county
tax up to 35 cents, whatever Is neces
sary to meet tbe requirements 4nd
assure the county's share so that tbe
state tax can be paid over in pre
scribed ratio. The reports to tbe
state department Indicate that num
bers of the counties have made the
mistake of only levying a county
school tax that will make the whole
school tax, state and county 35 cents,
lns'ead of the possible (7 cents.
North Carolina Casualty.
In the casualty list released, among
the casualties reported by the com
manding general of the American ex
peditionary forces occurs the name
of Private Wm. E. Baker, of Hamtl
to" N. C, died of disease.
Total number of casualties to date:
Killed in. action ............ 34,571
Died from wounds .......... 13,954
Died of disease v. 23,660
Died of accident and other
causes .................... : 6,292
Wounded In action (over 85
per cent returned) ...... .. 214,412
Missing in action (not Includ
ing prisoners released and
returned .................. 2
Total to date 291,891
Webb 8ure of Judgshlp.
Washington (Special) While tbe
report of the Inspector has not been
made public, Senator Overman has
been apprised that the Department of
Justice has completed Its Investigation
Into the competency and fitness .of
Judge Jamerf-jE. Boyd, Federal Judge
in the western district, and that as a
result of this Investigation there la
no longer anr doubt about the ap
pointment and confirmation of Rep
resentative B. Tates Webb.
Enrollment May Reach 1,200,
At a meeting of. the executive com
mittee of the' Board of Trustees of
the University of North Carolina, held
in the governor's office, President
Chase stated that 415 new students
had already presented certificates for
entrance this fall. He anticipates a
total enrollment of something more
than 1,200 at the opening on Septem
ber 30th.
Check for Inheritance Tax.
" A check for $26,334.84 Inheritance
tax has been received by the State
' of North Carolina from a non-resident
who held property in the form of cot
nnratlan stock In this state.; The
Corporation Commission got on the
trail of the big tax money when a
transfer of stock was asked for and
Mr. R. O. Self, noWs chief clerk of the
oommlaslon, dug up the coin for the
state..; ;-,:.:::'
American Legion Sunday.
' Sunday, November t, will be Amer
ican Legion Sunday, on which minis;
ters all over the country will be asked
to devote a part of their sermons to
i the work of this legion. - -, '.
Wnt Phone Rates to Stand.
The Corporation Commission ; set
Beptember 30 tor a bearing of the rep
resentatives of the Southern Bell Tel
ephone company on petition for a for
mal order to continue In forest rates
allowed by government, ':. under gov
ernment control. .'The hearing will
take place at 8 o'clock. '.-.-
Another bearing' Is to precede the
Southern Bell appointment s tor the
day- Tit 11 o'clock. Black 1 Mountain
people will sa here before the com
mission on the matter of telephone
and el f trie light rates.
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Epidemic of Typhoid.
Thirty-one cases of typhoid fevei
near, Denver, Lincoln county,. called
Dr. F. M. Register, epidemiologist,
there to take charge of the first, real
outbreak of typhoid fever reported
this, summer.
.The physlcian'a facts are meager,
but the reports show the stricken men
to be all In a close community 18
miles from drug store and poorly
fixed for treatment. The outbreak Is
traced to a spring In tbe vicinity. No
deaths have been reported, but It Is
very probable that some have oc
curred. ' .
Lincoln put on its vaccination cam
pafgn this year and 1,000 were Im
munlzed. But this was a very small
percentage of the population. Dr
Register will put on anew th -vaccination
campaign and see If the number
vaccinated - cannot be quadruplicated
In a sSort while. ''''.'.
Similarly, he hopes that other coun
ties, which constitute a small per
centage of the whole, will renew their
fight. Substantial results have been
gained In the reduction of the typhoid
death rate. This was to have been
Me banner year and the health de
partment hopes to make it so In the
face-of epidemic.
School of Fertilizers.
It Is claimed that 'the Southern Per.
tlltier Association is the first Indus
try in this country to send its entire
sales force to college tor the purpose
of special training in service to theii
customers. The North Carolina Agri
cultural and Engineering College at
Raleigh has been selected as one of
four agricultural Institutions of the
south to which fertiliser salesmen will
be sent for a week's short course. All
salesmen from Virginia and North Car
olina are to attend this school, and
hear lectures from the members ot
the staff of the agricultural college,
also addresses from visitors from oth
er agricultural colleges In the terri
tory.' Poor Pay and Slow Promotion.
Washington (Special) After fifteen
unbroken years quite a span where
fidelity to duty and loyalty to an In
dividual are Interwoven John W.
Brown has resigned as clerk to Sena
tor Lee 8. Overman.
. :; Effective October 1. Mr. Brown re
turns to his home In Salisbury as sec
retary to the Brown Realty and Insur
ance Company. Inadequate pay tot1
government clerks and a future where
promotion la uncertain arereasoni as
signed for his resignation . r
Better Pay for Postoffiee Clerks.
Washington (Special). A measure
of financial relief for postoffiee clerks
and postal employes throughout North
Carolina Is promised following the
visit to Washington of a committee'
representing the North Carolina Post
masters' Association. Senator Town
send, chairman of the senate postoffiee
committee, informed the Tar Heel del
egation that bia committee would
move to give salary Increases to the
lower paid employes.
May Retain Employment Servlee.
Commissioner of Labor Shlpman,
Just back from Baltimore where he at
tended the Sovereign Grand Lodge of
Odd Fellows, In Its 100th convention,
and Washington, where he conferred
with: the department af ' labor and
census bureau, says he Is assured that
his department of labor wll have tbe
advantages again this year of co
operation with the federal census bu
reau In the gathering of Industrial sta
tistics and that. In his capacity as
federal director In this state for the
employment service,' he will be able to
maintain the branch offices.
Paving War Risk Claims.
Washington ,( Special) North Car
ollna families are- being paid 824,322,
160 in war .-risk insurance, claims by
Uncle Sam. He la making restltu
tltutlon to those whose sons and hus
bands d"ed In the service of theli
country during the greatest war ot all
times.
There are" 2,734 Insurance claims
being paid In North Carolina through
the bureau of war risk Insurance tc
beneficiaries named at the time ap
plication for Insurance waa made by
soldiers, sailors and marines, now
dead. The average policy carried by
these 2,784 men was 88,740.
District Offices Organised. -
With the establishment of the dis
trict headquarters offices of the In
ternal Revenue Department at Wash
ington, Wilmington. and New Bern,
the organisation ot the ten districts In
the state has been completed and the
task of colecting the government'!
revenue systems Used. Supervisor A.
D Watts was In Raleigh . from these
three offices where be bad been tc
assist District Supervisors Rodman, ot
Washington;; Emerson, of Wilming
ton, and Woodier, of New Bern, to
complete their organisation.-
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Two Standards Of Life
' (By Rev, H. B. Schaeffer. Lutheran Pastor)
Outside of God life has no revelation, no standard, no inspiration, no future.
We are confined to the words God delivered to prophets and apostles for
the explanation and the. meaning of life. Just try to consider life and the
world without the knowledge and truth of the Bible.
There are set forth before men by God two standards for lite. The one
standard Is declared In the truth and character of Jesus, the other spread
abroad In the world through the fallen angel rebel, the devil. Of his own
free will man In the beginning (and continued to Bo so) chose the standards
of the devil. All men abide In the devil until through the power ot Ood they
freely choose to abide In Jesus. i
These are the only two standards for life. There Is no third one. . And
the two do not mix. Man cannot serve both God and mammon, He cannot
eat his apple and have It too. He cannot straddle the fence.
The one oustandlng distinction between these standards Is selfishness and
unselfishness. Selfishness Is the basis of the devil's standard. In Jesus the
standard la unselfishness. In Jesus the world loses many attractions and
gains In attractiveness. The sordid pleasures of the World and the flesh, the
tempting offers of the devil, lose their charm and are despised. The passion
to thrive and grow and Indulge regardless of other men and the world is burnt
out The near-sighted glasses that enable men to see no farther than their
own Interests, their own family, tbelr own lusts, are exchanged for glasses
that enable the needs of men and the community to be seen and appreciated,
make God near and dear. - ,-
Men living by Jesus' standard of life see the world not as a field toy self
gain, but as a field for love and service. Instead of seeking to get as much
out of the World while there Is life, the desire Is to put as much (of joy, of
purity, of beauty) Into the world aa possible while there Is life.
Accounts In earthly banks grow as men save; accounts In the Bank of
Heaven grow as men give unselfishly.
"Lay not for yourselves treasures upon earth . . . . . but lay up for
yourselves treasures In heaven."
Next week Rev. Fred j. Hay, Presbyterian. -
LARGER- AND BETTER COUNTRY
SCHOOLS.
The popular cry, "Back to the
Farm," when traced r to Its origin
sounds much like the cry of "Wolf,"
in the fable.- It comes usually from
those comfortably domiciled in- the
city. It Is restful to the tired nerves
to sit In an armchair and read farm
literature and look at farm pictures.
There la no guess work or surmise
about people leaving the farm. There
are fewer people living on the farms
In tbe United States now than there
were ten years ago. Are, we drifting
toward the time when all the people
will live In towns and villages.
What put the notion into peoples
heads any way to leave the farm? Ask
any man who has left the farm and
he will stop after naming three rea
sons: First, to educate the children;
second to escape hard work; third, to
be where there Is more social life
The greatest cause why boys and
girls leave the farm Is, because they
1 get their high school training In the
town and village high schools. The
number of tuition pupils this year . In
Cleveland county is around 600. These
are the sons and daughters of farm
ers, not merely country boys and girls,
but the cream of the farming com
munity. ' When these have finished
their high school course they will go
back to the farm. A few of them will
perhaps, -two or three In ten. Their
high school life has given them a taste
of town life. They have become like
town boys and girls. Is It to our best
Interest to educate away from the
soil? If it Is then we are on the right
road. If It Is not, then our only
chance Is to build up big, strong coun
try schools. Our lowest aim sbould
be the three-teacher school. A school
where at least two or three grades of
the high school can be taught. We
have '1 8one-teacher schools In which
no high school work can be done. All
teachers recognise the failures ot the
one-teacher , school r and all try . to
dodge tbem. There are three of these
schools that have first grade teachers,
six of them have second grade teach
ers, and nine are unable to get teach
ers of any kind. Is that the best that
these children deserve? These people
pay taxes as we all have to do, and
yet they are getting the poorest kind
of school advantages. Who is to
blame for this condition.
We find it much harder to enforce
the compulsory school law In these
small schools than In the' larger
schools. For the simple reason that
there are not enough pupils to keep up
Interest, The law requires that pu
pils between the ages of eight and
fourteen attend for the entire terln
of school. In some of these schools
pupils are required to go to school to
girls who ought to be In school them
selves. J. T. IRVIN.
Asheville. Plans are about com
plete for the dedication and formal
opening ot tbe new 1300,000 Asheville
High -School.
Franklin ton. Ex-Sheriff. Henry
Crawford Kearney, one of Franklin
county's oldest and most esteemed eft
lsens, died at his home here.
Gaatonia. October 6 and 7 Is the
AmtM tnr tha annual meeting ot the
Seventh - District Medical society
which wlU be held to GastonUy ;
i winston-Salem. The leaf tobacco
sales on the local market thla week
aggregated 1.813,504 pounds. , It
brought en average ot 834.70 per hun
dred founds, . -
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. Washington. Tbe war department
Informed Representative Godwin that
It would be impossible to furnish air
craft for Dunn, Lumberton and other
towns that desire tbem for fairs and
other public gatherings.
Greenville. the friends of T. C.
Harding, ot this city, will be glad to
know that he has at last consented to
allow his name to be used in connec
tion with tbe office of lieutenant gov
ernor. . ..
. Monroe. Monroe is endeavoring to
organize a housing corporation to
supply the demand for houses now ex
isting. The plan Is to raise 850,000,
form ' business men to finance the op
erations. ."'".'.""' .
Wilmington. The magnificent 320.
000 pipe organ of the First Presbyte
rian church, presented to the institu
tion as a. peace, gift by Dr. James
Sprunt, was used for the first time.
Dr. Sprunt is a leading elder of the
church.
Asheville. The completion of the
five mile timber and lumber flume by
the R. X. Noyes Lumber company on
Curtin's creek makes 40,000 acres ot
virgin timber land available to the
markets.-
Wilmington. William P. Emerson
wss installed as chief collector of the
Wilmington division tor the collection
of internal revenue In this district,
which comprises nine counties with
this city as headquarters.
Taylorsvllle. O. F. Pool sustained
the loss of his barn at All Healing
Springs, two horses, three cows, 60
bushels of wheat, a quantity of fod
der, a buggy! a number ot farm Imple
ments by flr.
Lumberton. Whether one or sev
eral cotton storage . warehouses will
be established in Robeson under (he
law as provided by the last legislature
will be determined within the next tew
days. .'
Rocky Mount O. A. Snipes, for
seven years postmaster of the local
office, has resigned. The. act upon
Mr. Snipes' part was occasioned by
decline in health and the increasingly
arduous duties. 'V- '
Greensboro. Vice President Thos.
R, Marshall will-speak In-Greensboro
early Tn November, It "is announced
by M. R. Vickers, of Durham, pro
vided tentative plans which are now
being developed may be carried to
fruition. -
Wilmington. A general strike of
skilled workmen went Into. effect at
the plant of the Carolina Shipbuild
ing Corporation when over 1,000 men
quit work as a protest against alleged
discrimination In favor ot negroes. .
' Selma. Plana and arrangements
are being made by several of the
manufacturing enterprises In Selma
to come to the state fair In October
and be represented- la the parade with
floats. The chamber of commerce,
the merchants' association, and the
school will be well represented.
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Hickory, Although - heavy rains
have . fallen along the Catawba river
from Marlon down to the lower, end
ot Catawba county, this section has
been missed; with one slight (excep
tion, for the past six weeks, and every
thing la drying no. - ; " I
DEVELOPMENTS IN
TIE GREAT STRIKE
DEFINITION OF STRIKE IS8UE
AS TO RIGHT OF EMPLOYES
TO BE HEARD.
CONDEMN FOREIGN AGITATOR
Apparent Deadlock by Lack of
Violence Apparently Prevailing
x in Chief 8teel Centers.
Washington. The chief develop
ments ot events in the great steel
strike are as follows:
Definition of tbe strike Issue as the
right of employes "to be beard, to or
ganise and to have some voice in de
termining conditions under which they
labor" made by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, before tbe senate labor
committee in Washington.
Announcement that John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., principal owner of the
Colorado Fuel A Iron company, will
take no part In the strike of 6,000
workers at the Pueblo plant.
Claim by union officials that work
ers In the Youngstown district, at s
meeting held to vote on the question
of returning to work, had decided
against such a move.
Condemnation of "foreign agita
tors" and commendation of Sheriff
William Haddock, of Allegheny coun
ty by a coroner's Jury In Pittsburgh
which returned a verdict of "death
from gunshot wonnds Inflicted by
persons unknown while an attack
was. being made on deputy sheriffs
during a riot" in the case of a woman
organiser and striker
Apparent deadlock, marked by lack
of violence apparently prevailing In
the chief steel centers.
DENIES WIL80N MEDDLED
IN FIUME CONTROVERSY.
Rome. The . Stefan agency, the
semi-official Italian news agency, de
nies that President Wilson has de
manded the, expulsion of Gabriele d'
Annunxio from Fiume, or threatened
an economic blockade of Italy.
. The news agency add that Presi
dent Wilson sent two dispatches, ons
of them reaching the American dele
gation In Paris, and tbe other arriv
ing In Rome. Both of them were with
out menace, according to the news
agency and expressed tbe most cor
dial sentiments towards Italy.
NAVY DEPARTMENT PLANNING
TRANS-PACIFIC AIR FLIGHT.
Washington. Tentative plans now
under consideration at the navy de
partment call for a seaplane flight
from San Diego, Cal., to the Philip
pine Islands sometime tills winter oi
In the early spring. Stops will be
made at Hawaii, Wake Island and
Guam under present plans. :
The total distance to be covered In
the flight will be more than 7,000
miles or twice tbe distance covered by
tbe NC-4 In flying across tha Atlantic.
TWENTY MILLION FOR
MEDICAL EDUCATION HERE.
New York A gift of 320.000,000
from John D. Rockefeller for the im
provement of medical education in
the United States was announced by
the general education board.
The official announcement ot tha
gift says- that the income of the 320,
000,000 is to be currently used and
tbe entire principal Is to be distribut
ed within 50 years.
BRITISH' RAILWAY STRIKE
TAKES ON SERIOUS ASPECT.
London. The Associated Press
learns authoritatively that the gov
ernment takes the view that the rail
road strike must be fought with
every facility at Its command, even
to the employment ot ariqed forces 11
necessary. The war office announced
that It would be necessary to suspend
demobilization of the army and can
cel all leaves of . absence forthwith.
PRESIDENT WILSON CANCELS
BALANCE OF 8PKAKING TOUR8
Wichita, Kan. President Wllsot
cancelled the remainder of his tout
under orders from Admiral Cary T
Grayson, the president's . phjsiclan
and will return to Washington dlrec
from Wichita.
Although it wss said, there wai
nothing critical about , the president'i
condition. Dr. Grayson, his. physician
declared a nervous reaction affectlni
the digestive organs made snspenites
of his trip Imperative, t
. ' y .
STRIKE AND TREATY
PARAMOUNT ISSUES
EFFORT8 TO BRING ABOUT IN
TERVENTION BY PRESIDENT
WILSON MAY BE MADE.
BRINGING MATTERS TO HEAD
The Side of Capital In the Contro
versy Will be Heard by Commit
tee Through Chairman Gary.'
Washington. The German peace
treaty and the steel strike remain
the engrossing affairs of Congress.
Prospects ot a vote on the amend
ments to the treaty, proposed by Sen
ator Full, republican, of New Mexico,
and providing for elimination ot vir
tually all American representation on
international commissions together
with President Wilson's return to
the capital, la expected to bring to
a boad tbe vital issues in the treaty
contest.
Industrial unrest emphasized by the
steel strike will shnre attention in the
senate with the peaco treaty. Hear
ings in tbe labor committee's inves
tigation of the steel strike will be re
sumed, when Chairman Gary, of the
United States Steel corporation, is to
give capital's side of the controversy.
Later the committee pains to hear
Secretary William 58. Foster, of the
strike committee and other witnesses
and It would not surprise many ob
servers it efforts to bring about In
tervention by President Wilson would
be made.
Whether President Wilson will cnn.
tinue the fight avainst all reserva
tions, "mild" or "strong" Interpreta
tive or definite, or will make known
a' disposition to accept ratification of
the treaty with some sort of reserva
tions, may be decided this week. It is
believed in both democratic and re
publican quarters.
PESSIMISM IN WASHINGTON
OVER UNREST CONTINUES.
Washington. There Is pessimism
here over tlfe Industrial unrest It
Is feared that a world-wide panic may
come If the treaty is not ratified
Senator Oscar W. Underwood, who
Is a very level-headed man, and a
statesman, thinks that the business
people of the country favor the league
of nations. He believes that It is ab
solutely necessary at this time to sta
bilize the world. In a conversation
he said that if we expect to sell our
products to foreign countries,, and
maintain our export trade credits
must be extended. He explained that
the government had extended about
all the credit It can afford to at this
time, and that American business
men and concerns must take It up
now. But before this can be done ot
will be done the war must be declar
ed off.
FAMOUS HOWITZER MILL
HAS BEEN NATIONALIZED.
Vienna. The famous Skoda arms
and ammunition works, near Pllsen.
have been nationalised, according to
messages reaching here. A national
council has been named to conduct
the works composed ot six Csechs and
three Frenchmen.
The last previous advices regard
ing the Skoda works were that theii
purchase was being negotiated for by
an American syndicate. A Geneva
dispatch on August 81, however, said
there waa a bitch in the negotiations
because of a difference on the ques
tion of the price to be paid,
The Skoda works produced the
famous Austrian howitzers, one of
tbe most effective heavy artillery
weapons used by the central powers
BRIEF REST WILL PUT THE
PRESIDENT IN FINE 8HAPK.
Washington. President Wilson will
be all right In a. few days. He waa
threatened with serious illness, but
Dr. Cary T. Grayson has brought htm
around K'l right. A brief rest will put
him In fine shape.
POINDEXTER 8AYS WILSON 18
GREATEST MENACE TO WORLD
New York President W'l'on whs
characterized as "the world's great
est menace" In an address by United
States Senator Miles Polndexter at a
mass meeting of Queens county Ra '
publicans In Long Island City. The
meeting was held to celebrate the .
65th anniversary of the founding oi
the Republican party.
The senator from Washington salt
the president was 'the greatest pro
Qennan in the country." '