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SEAGIRT, N. J., Aug. 23—Fol
lowing is the text of the address
of John W. Davis, Democratic pres
idential nominee, delivered at a mass
meeting here Friday of New Jersey
Democrats: \
This is my second appearance
at Sea Girt. You will not be
surprised if I find my memory
turning at this time to the cir
, cumstances of my earlier visit.
It happened on a hot July day.
twelve years ago. I was one of
a party of 200 or more who
tramped in the dust from the
station to the governor’s house
at Sea Girt. At our head
marched that grand old Roman,
Champ Clark, then the speaker
of the house of representatives.
Among tlie party 1 recall a Jer
sey man who was then my col
league in congress and who was
soon to take a seat in the sen
ate —the loved and lovable Billy
Hughes. We were calling on a
governor of New Jersey who
had just received the Democratic
nomination for the presidency.
Most of that company, includ
ing myself, had never made his
personal acquaintance. It was
our errand to assure him of our
hearty support and to place
ourselves at his service. The
impressions of that day were
summed up for me by one of
my colleagues as we tramped
back to the waiting train. Said
he: “When that man comes to
Washington there will be a
leader in the White House.’
I recall how quickly this lead
ership asserted itself when
Washington had been attained.
Congress met without delay and
the first act in the drama was
the scourging from the capitol
of the horde of lobbyists, hang
ers-on, seekers for privilege and
representatives of special inter
ests who had infested its cor
ridors. Then came in quick suc
cession under his energtic im
pulse the fairest tariff law since
the Civil war; the federal re
serve 'act for which the country
had waited half a century; the
federal trade commission, and
the Clayton act curbing monop
olies and establishirig the rights
of labor; and through this and
succeeding sessions the Demo
cratic party under his guidance
moved in solid phalanx, confi
dent in his leadership.
Tribute to Wilson
The great war broke. There
fell upon him burdens heavier
than any that his predecessors
had been called upon to bear.
For two years he struggled to
keep America from the mael
strom and then when the attack
upon her rights was made direct
ly he threw himself and his
country into the battle with a
fiery energy that amazed the
world. Men and money and
munitions came at his call, and
his clear voice rang out like a
trumpet across the world, giv
ing new meaning to the strug
gle and new life to those en
gaged in it.
When the war was ended he
gave to the making of peace the
last ounce of his remaining
strength. He endeavored to set
. up machinery not only to pre
vent future wars, but to mitigate
the evils which this war, the
last and greatest, had brought
, upon the world. He never look
ed upon the treaty of Versailles
as a complete and final settle
ment, but hoped that when time
had cooled men’s passions the
machinery he sought to create
would remove any element of in
justice or revenge the treaty
might contain and would give
the world a- stable and abiding
peace.
And then he fell, broken,
thwarted, his work unfinished
but his spirit unsubdued. They
called him an idealist, they pro
nounced him ahead of his times.
They forgot that they were but
echoing what the world has said
through all the centuries of
those who sought to lead it
Envy and hate and malice can
touch him now no more forever,
but the thoughts to which he
gave utterance and the ideals
- he proclaimed will live long aft
/ “er those who opposed them have
passed and been forgotten.
We stand at the threshold of
another presidential campaign,
and the American people are
called on once more to decide
whether they will leave their
destinies in charge of those who
are now in power or give them
over into other hands. Do they
want a change or do they not?
That is the question upon which
all popular elections turn. Un
der a parliamentary system like
that which obtains in Great
Britain or in France, the gov
ernment of the day puts to the
house of commons or the cham
ber of deputies the question of
confidence or no confidence. V e
do the same thing, except that
with us the question is put to
the people as a whole. Republic
ans must not be pained or sur
priced, therefore, if we ask them
to give account of what they
have done or left undone. They
must not blame us if we jog
the public memory concerning
things that'might ohterwise be
forgotten.
Startling Contrasts
To all such complaints we
can but reply in the language
of the Scriptures, “Beware ye
of the leaven of the Pharisees
which is hypocrisy. But there
is nothing covered up that shall
not be revealed, nothing hid,
that shall not become known.
Therefore. whatever ye have
spoken in darkness shall ne
heard in the light and that
which ye have spoken in the
ear in closets shall be pro
claimed upon the house tops."
When we paint against the
vivid background of the eight
years under Wilson, the his
tory that has been unrolled
since March 4, 1921, there are.
to sav the least, some startling
contrasts. In 1913 the lobby was
scourged from Washington: in
1921, like a flock of unclean
birds hastening to the feast, it
gathered from the four winds
and descended upon the city.
The little green house in “K”
street was set up for sinister
purposes but partly disclosed."
Its occupants and their friends
soon proved that they lacked
neither zeal nor appetite.
First of all came oil. At the
head of the buccaneers ns they
marched along, rode the secre
tary of the interior. Within
ninety days after he took office
the naval oil reserves had been
transferred to to his gentle
guardianship and the dealing
began. The policy of conserva
tion, for which Presidents
Roosevelt and Wilson had
fought so valiantly, was thrown
to the winds and wi.-.i-a less
than twelve months, in secret
and withou* p ' '■ ws mng of
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
MOBILE. —Alabama’s first, issue
of $1,000,000 bonds for development
of port of Mobile are sold At pre
ium of $28,000 to Merchants Bank
of Mobile, Steiner Brothers, of Bir
mingham, and Caldwell & Co., of
Nashville, Tenn.
BIRMINGHAM? John George
Bass is appointed postmaster here
to succeed Rufus B. Smyer, who
held office nine years.
TUSCALOOSA.—Rev. Frank Lock,
widely known negro preacher, is se
riously injured by M. & O. passenger
train while crossing track in auto
mobile at Kaul.
DECATUR.— While driving in
auto to Hartselle to attend church,
Miss Lois Anders, of Albany, and
Edgar pane, of Hartselle, are fired
upon from ambush by parties un
known. Both are painfully but not
seriously wounded.
MONTGOMERY.—Assessed v a 1 u e
of property for taxation in Alabama
will pass billion mark this year for
first time in state’s history.
any sort, all the oil reserves
upon which the navy depended
passed into private hands. Thus
of 26,000,000 barrels of oil
which the Teapot Dome was es
timated to contain, only about
1.600,000 barrels will become
the property of the' govern
ment. In case of emergency or
threatened danger the country
will have only the doubtful
privilege of buying back from
the interested parties, at. their
own prices, the oil which once
it owned.
Disabled Veterans Victims
And after oil, the veterans, for
whose care in one form or an
other the enromous total of $450,-
000,000 was provided to be spent,
a sum half as much again as the
budget of either the war depart
ment or the navy and thirty
times the carrying cost of the de
partment of state. Here was a
, rare field for enterprise. A year
and a half after congress had ap
propriated $33,000,000 for build
ing purposes only 200 hospital
beds had been added to the bu
reau’s equipment and those in a
hospital purchased ready-made;
but a friend of Director Forbes
meantime had paid $17,000 for a
hospital site and sold it to the
government on the same day for
$105,000; and SIOO,OOO had been
paid to an architect who design
ed a building so poor that it was
never built.“"We may be pardoned
for asking whether it was com
mon sense to sell at 20 cents > n
the dollax - sheets for which
wounded men were waiting;
while at the very time others
were being bought to take their
place at five times that price?
The enforcement of the prohi
bition law gave an opportunity
for action of which the denizens
of the little green house were
quick to avail themselves. Trade
was brisk and profits were easy
in this particular line, if but one
half of the stories told by George
Remus, king of the bootleggers,
and others are to be believed.
What is the answer when we
talk of these things? It con
sists, in the first place, of be
moaning the fact that such un
pleasant topics should be forced
on polite ears. Why not forget
about them? Why not say as
little about them as possible?
Why not pretend that they were
simple indiscretions which should
be overlooked when there are ,
signs of repentance?
Those who speak in this fash
ion assume a degree of indiffer
ence or a lack of interest on the
part of the people which would
be itself a reflection upon pop
ular government If it be true
that public interest in these
things has waned, is it not a
public duty to see that it is re
vived before the day of judg
ment comes?
Holds Party Responsible
Then we are told with some
complacency that there is no
further need for public concern
because those under suspicion
have been indicted and there is
nothing left to do but wait for
the day, still far in the future,
when they will be tried. We are
invited to believe that there is
no difference between these men
and a. janitor who has been
caught at night taking change
from the cash drawer. Those,
at whose door these charges
were laid were not mere under
lings. They were responsible
officers of a great political par
ty, put by it in places of high
power. They were but one re
moved from the head of that
party himself. What they did
or failed to do can not justly be
omitted when the record of that
party is reviewed. Diligence in
enforcing the law against the
guilty is fortunately not an un
common virtue in our public life.
To be vigilant in preventing
fraud upon the government and
in assisting its exposure is a
virtue higher still.
In so far as the property of
the government and the re
sources of the nation have been
bartered away, we are told with
equal assurance that an effort
will be made to recover them by
suit. But where is the respon
sibility to lie for the fact that
our undisputed title to our naval
oil reserves has been exchanged
for a contested lawsuit to re
cover them? The policy in
volved in this transfer, and the
acts themselves, as we know by
his own declaration, had the ex
press sanction of the then pres
ident of the United States. Isj
his party not to be held political
ly responsible t(\ the American
people for their loss?
We Democrats are making
and will make no campaign of
personalities, nor shall I speak
with disrespect of any occupant
ot the presidential chair, wheth
er living or dead. I am glad to
believe that that high office has
never been unworthily held. We
have, however, the president’s
own authority for the statement
that ’The only practical way to
secure responsible political ac
tion is by the formation of par
ties.’ We agree and assert fur
ther that the only way to secure
good government is to hold po
litical parties responsible. I
think I detect in some quarters
a hope that without change of
name or much of personnel a re
organization of a certain politi
cal concern can be effected, tak
ing over any discoverable assets
and repudiating all unpleasant
liabilities. My experience as a
lawyer has taught me that cred
itors are rarely satisfied with
this convenient method of can
celling their claims. The Amer
ican people can hardly be ex
pected to accept it.
Points Flaws in Tariff
If the fact is that the public
resources have been squandered,
is it ary answer to say that a
budget system has been in
stalled? If unfit and corrupt men
hate been put in and k°pl m
HUNTSVILLE.—Jesse Black is
arrested here on charge of passing
Mexican paper money for “real”
United States money.
UNIVERSITY. University of
Alabama geological collection made
by Dr. Eugene Smith will be shown
nf Southern Exposition in New York
next January.
HEFLIN.—Judge S. W. Tate, of
Anniston, presiding over circuit
court here, tells grand jury to re
turh true bills against “men higher
up’’ who are furnishing material for
whisky making.
MONTGOMERY. — Nearly as many
miles of road will be. built in Ala
bama in 12 months ending June 30.
1925, as were built in seven years
preceding, according to John A,
Rogers, chairman state highway
commission.
GADSDEN. —Gadsden claims old
est active traveling salesman in
United States. He is William J.
Bohon, 82, Kentuckian and Confed
erate veteran.
GADSDEN. Alabama company
Striking Points in Address
Os the Democratic Nominee
‘Envy and hate and malice can touch him (Woodrow Wilson)
now no more forever, but the thoughts to which he gave utterance
and the ideals he proclaimed will live long after those who op
posed them have passed and been forgotten.’’
* * *
“I think 1 detect in some quarters a hope that without change
of name or much of personnel, a reorganization of a certain politi
cal concern can be effected, taking over any discoverable assets
and repudiating all unpleasant liabilities. My experience as a
lawyer has taught me that creditors are rarely satisfied with this
convenient method of cancelling their claims. The American peo
ple can hardly be expected to accept it.”
* * * *
“Republicans must not be pained or surprised, therefore, if wa
ask them to give account of what they have done nr left undone.
They must not blame us if we jog the public memory concerning
things that might otherwise be forgotten.”
* * * *
“In view of the record of the past three years, they (the Re
publicans) pray, not without reason, for a government of com
mon sense. We stand for one of common honesty.
“What is honesty in government? Honesty in the handling of
public funds and the public property, of course But it is some
thing more. It is candor and fair dealing and impartiality and
the transaction of the public business in the open, in broad day
light, withost disguise or pretense, or evasion. It is the playing
of no favorites, whether in making public contracts or in writing
public laws.”
* * •. *
“If the fact is that the. public resources have been squandered,
is in any answer to say that a budget system has been installed?
If unfit and corrupt men have been put in and kept in office and
left to their own devices, is it a sufficient defense that the ad
minstration was not actually desirous of dishonesty? If the
wounded vetaran has been defrauded of the care that was his
due, is there any comfort to him in the fact that congress made
lavish appropriations?”
• * * *
‘‘The enforcement of the prohibition law gave an opportunity
for action of which the denizens of the little green house were
quick to avail themselves. Trade was brisk and profits were eas>’
in this particular line if but one-half the stories told by George
Remus, king of the bootleggers, and others, are to be believed.”
* ❖ * *
“They (the Republicans) outwardly deplore special privilege,
except in the sacred guise of a protective tariff. We oppose it in
this and every other form.
“They believe, or profess to believe, that agriculture should be
on an economic basis with other industries. They have no plans
to this end but the appointment of a committee to investigate, and
advise that the farmer provide himself with leaders not interested
in politics. We think that the first step to economic equality is
to deprive others of their unjust advantage.
“They are content to conduct the foreign affairs of the U. S.
through private citizens,'unofficially observing. We think America
is great enough to speak in her own name.
“They propose now, after nearly four years ot absolute in
action, to enroll the United States as a member of the court of
international justice. We promise to do so as soon as pawer is
in our hands.”
office and left to their own de
vices, ia it a sufficient defense
that the administration was not
actually desirous of dishonesty?
If the wounded veteran has been
Jeirauded of the care that was
his due, is there any congfort
to him in the fact that congress
made lavish appropriations?
The tariff afforded an opening
to the hosts of privilege for an
asjault less direct but far more
devastating to the public pocket
bc.'b. We are told that America
in 1921 was threatened from
abroad by an “impending
avalanche of suddenly cheapen
ed merchandise" from which it
was narrowly saved by the bena
ficient action of the Fordney-
McCumber tariff. In view of the
bitter struggle that the exhaust
ed peoples of Europe have had
since the war in rebuilding
enough of their shattered com
merce to provide their daily
bread, is there not something
grotesque in picturing them as
:eady to ever-run the markets
of the world?
Let me give you two or thre“
illustrations of what a high pro
tecticnist means whe nhe talks
of a commercial avalanche: Un
der a Democratic tariff sewing
machines, necessary in every
home, were on the free list and
we were importing scarcely one
per cent of the value pf our do
mestic production. This was an
avalanche, however, not to be
tamely borne, and a duty of 33
1-3 per cent was imposed to
check it. Os aluminum kitchen
ware, now in such universal use,
we were importing less than two
per cent o? the amount which we
consumed. Such an avalanche,
accordingly was permanently
barred by taxing the domestic
consumer three times the exist
ii g rate. In rubber footwear our
imports were too small to be
] worth reporting, but the duty
; nevertheless was raised 150 per
cent. In manufactures of wool
our imports were less than six
j per cent of the domestic produc
tion. so the rates of duty were
increased by SO per cent.
Truly a Republican protection*
ist's avalanche is a fearful thing
to witness, even from afar .
Isolation Policy Scored
In the realm of foreign affairs
the contrast between the txist
and present is more striking
still.
There was a day when Amer
ica sat in the councils of the na
tions, occupying at their table
the seat of honor and of dignity
that was her right. There was
a day when she made covenants
and engagements in her own
name and was not content to be
merely the beneficiary of the ef
fort and good will of others. To
day apparently she has no other
program than to “encourage
American citizens and resources
to assist in restoring Europe
with the sympathetic support'
but nothing more—“of our gov
ernment.” It is a far cry to
this from the declaration of
Theodore Roosevelt that “if we
are to be a really great people
we must strive in good faith to
play a great part in the world.”
As an American I am gratified
by the fact that American citi
:'”ns have had their share in
awards contract for construction of
three-mile spur track from Gadsden
to Etowah for $45,000. Iron ore will
be handled direct from minfes to fur
naces.
GADSDEN. —James Stacy Linder
man, twenty-one, dies of injuries re
ceived when thrown out of auto.
MON T G OMER Y. —Alabama pa y a
$1,731,723 to her Confederate vet
erans for fiscal year ending Septem
ber 30, 1924. This exceeds that of
last year by almost $600,000.
DECATUR. —At request of state
agricultural department, Judge
Thomas W. Wert tests 92 laying
hens as recommended by Professor
A. H. Gardner, of Auburn. He also
tests 34 hens known as "loafers.’’ In
seven days 92 laying hens laid 302
eggs and 34 loafers laid 34.
SHEFFIELD.—“Shorty” McAffer
ty, of Sheffield, makes record ot
three consecutive automobile smash
es within as many blocks, and es
capes uninjured, although car he is
driving i.< smashed considerably .
Bl RMINGHAM. —Annual meeting
economic difficulties of Europs|
Every man of good will must
hope that the Dawes report
points the way to better days not
only for our neighbors across
the seas but for ourselves at
home. But I do not understand
upon what theory it can be
claimed as a triumph for an ad
ministration which expressly
and publicly disclaimed in ad
vance all responsibility, direct or
indirect, for the action of those
concerned; nor can I fail to re
member the long and dreary
years since the war during
which the appeal of Europe for
nothing more than our counsel
fell upon deaf ears. What might
we not have done had we but
dared to do! If even the request
made by President Wilson to
congress in 1919 for the appoint
ment of an official representa
tive of America on the repara
tion commission had been com
plied with, the last five years
would have presented a different
picture and the world would
have been so much nearer to its
goal.
Little Glory in Treaties
T cannot treat as either “re
markable or constructive" ac
complishments our separate trea
ties of peace with the vanquish
ed and powerless governments
of Germany, Austria, and Hun
gary, who upon our demand,
could do nothing else than give
us all the advantages of the
treaties of Versailles, St. Ger
maine and Trianon, with none of
their duties or responsibilities.
Even less of glory would seem
to attach to the treaty of I-aus
anne, which on our part we
meekly accepted at the hands of
Turkey, or to the ratification by
the senate of a. treaty negotiated
by a Democratic secretary of
state in execution of a long-de
layed act of justice toward the
Republic of Colombia.
At some time in ths future we
are promised “covenants for out
lawing aggressive war by any
practical means.” Surely the
maker of this suggestion had
overlooked the fact that under
the secretaryship o. Mr. Bryan
we negotiated and put in force
exactly snen covenants with
not less than thirty nations,
making—so far as treaties and
covenants m-iy do —aggressive
war between them and our
selves no longer po.-'.'ible.
There is no great merit in of
fering to repeat waat already
has been done. But war, when
it comes, does not wait on ad
jectives, and there is no instance
in recorded history when any
civilized nation has admitted
that it was engaged in war for
any purpose but self-defense
The only way finally to banish
war from the world is to set up
some permanent plan of confer
ence, consultation and adjust
ment to take its plate as arbite;
among the nations.
Some of thr. pouts in which
the Republican and the Demo
eratie parties differ are already
lear. They will become plainer
still as this campaign proceed-.
For instance, we know now that
some Republicans hold that if
a political party has placed
and kept eon up: men in office
its responsibi’ity is over when
a prosecution is begun. We in
sist the: unless pol'-ica! panics
are held to polita.-ai respensibil-
of negro Masonic grand lodge of Ala
bama. is held here, and $600,000 tem
ple is dedicated.
BESSEMER.—Reuben S. Posey,, of
Bessemer, is drowned in Alabama
river near Montgomery while swim
ming.
RAGLAND.—PIant of National Ce
ment company here is destroyed by
fire of unknown origin, at loss of
$750,000. Plant will be rebuilt as
soon 'as possible.
CAMP M’CLELLAN. Water
mains between Camp McClellan and
Anniston are sold by government to
Union Water company, subsidiary
of Alabama Water company, of Bir
mingham.
BIRMINGHAM.—J. B. Fancher,
proprietor of Fancher Building com
pany, is dead from effect of being
shot by Louis Gavan, negro, few
clays ago.
FLORENCE. Tom Barsdale
and Porter Puckett, charged with
criminal assault and murder in con
nection with attack upon 11-year-old
Franklin county girl, are placed in
I ity, party government will be
come a farce and a failure.
’. H<»w Parties Differ
They think that when the
present resources have been
squandered and bartered away a
lawsuit to recover them “if 11-
legally acquired" Is sufficient
amends. We would rather keep
the public domain than sue for
its recovery.
They outwardly deplore spe
cial privilege, except in the sa
cred guise of a protective tariff.
We oppose it in this and every
other form.
They believe that the Fordney-
McCumber act is beyond re
proach. Wo say it is an out
rageous imposition on the con
| stinting public.
They believe, or profess to be
lieve, that exhausted Europe
waits to overwhelm us with an
avalanche of merchandise. We
are at a loss to know how Eu
rope is to pay its debts or buy
our produce if some one does not
take its goods.
They believe, or profess, to be
lieve, that agriculture should be
on economic basis with other in
dustries. They have no plans to
this end, but the appointment ot
a committee to investigate, and
advice that the farmer provide
himself with leaders not inter
ested in politics. We think that
the first step to economic equal
ity is to deprive others of their
unjust advantages. ■
They are content to conduct
the foreign affairs of the United
States through private citizens,
unofficially observing. We think
America is great enough to
speak in her own name.
They propose now, after near
ly four years of absolute inac
tion, to enroll the United States
as a member of the court of in
ternational justice. We promise
to do so as soon as power is in
our hands.
G. O. P. House Divided
They present a party made up
of a. president facing in one di
rection, a congress in another
and the rank and file scattered
in between. We have a harmo
nious army, officers and pri
vates, marching to a common
end.
In view of the record of the
last three years they pray, not
without reason, for a govern
ment of common sense. We
stand for one of common hon
esty.
What is honesty in govern
ment? Honesty in the handling
of the public funds and the pub
lic property, of course. But it
is something more. It is can- .
dor and fair dealing and impar
tiality and the transaction of
the public business in the open,
in broad daylight without dis
guise or pretense or evasion. It
is the playing ot no favorites,
whether in making public con
tracts or in writing public laws.
It is the treating of all classes
and all sections of the country
on a? equal basis. It is the
avoidance of secrecy and whis
pering and sharp practice in the
management of public affairs.
Men love darkness rather than
light only when their deeds are
evil. Whether in Washington or
out of it, we will have no invis
ible advisers in our party coun
cils. no alliance with any of
those who work in secret for se
cret ends. *
One Woman Killed,
Three Hurt as Car
Plunges Into Ditch
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 3.—Mrs.
j F. A. Smith, of Water Valley, was
• fatally injured and three other worn-
■ en were seriously hurt when an au
| tomobile early Friday night went
I over a twenty-foot embankment 15
{ miles north of here.
Os the injured Mrs. J. B. Cowan,
] of Durant, may die. Her hips were
I fractured and it was believed she
was suffering from internal injuries.
Others injured were Mrs. L. L.
Fulmer and Mrs. Frank McClain,
both of Water Valley. Mr. Cowan,
driver of the car, received only
minor bruises.
Seeing an approaching automobile,
Mr. Cowan went to the side of the
i .ad to permit it to pass. Because
of loose gravel the car went off the
road and rolled down the embank
ment turning over completely twice.
Passing travelers rescued the in
-Ijured and brought them to Jackson
■ where Mrs. Smith died. The driver
■ of the ear which passed Mr. Cowan
at the time of the accident did not
stop.
Mrs. Smith was 32 years old and
the wife of Water Valley broker.
The ' ar was en route to Wliter Val
i ley from Jackson.
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Lauderdale county jail for safe-keep
ing following threats of violence at
Russellville.
MONTGOMERY State Demo
cratic executive committee will meet
here August 28 to formulate plans
for campaign for general election.
GADSDEN. After striking their
small roadster with his touring cai
and painfully injuring Mrs. Mary
Putman and Dowdy Brannon, un
known negro picks them up and
rushes them to hospital, offering to
pay all expenses. He is so polite
he is allowed to get away without
giving his name.
MOBILE. Percy H. Kearns, at
torney and one of number of defend
ants convicted in liquor conspiracy,
is found guilty in federal court of
bribing federal officer.
SEfcMA. —Cahaba river bridge is
condemned as unsafe by probate of
fice of Dallas county.
GADSDEN. While cleaning out
deep well near here, Holly Stancil,
farmer, is overcome with gas and
dies.
FORT MORGAN??.!. W. Moore
and party of sportsmen from Selma,
land 1,800-pound devil fish near here
after hard fight.
SOUTH CAROLINA
COLUMBIA.—U. S. Senator E. D.
Smith speaks at Abbeville, Green
ville and other cities in state in in
terest of Cotton Co-operative asso
ciation.
COLUMBIA. —Lower rates of tax
ation on timber and state bureau
of forestry are sought by South Car
olina Forest Conservation society, in
annual gathering here, presided over
by James Henry Rice, of Wiggins.
ANDERSON.—Grover Reeder, 24,
negro, is arrested for attacking
young woman as she slept on sleep
ing porch at Pendleton. Woman
identifies him.
GAFFNEY.—R??J?W. Moss, for
mer member of legislature, an
nounces candidacy for house, just
as lists of candidates close.
GAFFNEY.—J. C. Jenkins drives i
into rear of truck driven by L. P.
Clary, and both bones in one of
Clary's legs are broken.
GREENVILLE??CoIored farmers
of county held annual rally, with
Professor H. E. Daniels, of colored
A. & M. college, Orangeburg, as chilf
speaker.
CLINTON. —James Adams and an
other white man, of Nashville,
Tenn., try to sell car at ridiculously
low price, and auto dealer, suspect
ing theft, has man arrested. Car
was stolen from Greeneville, Tenn., it
developed.
CLINTON.—Bank of Charleston
buys at $98.63 bonds of town of Clin
ton lo amount of SIOO,OOO, for sewer
and water extensions.
MARION. Henry M. Jayroe, ot
Marion, is killed, and Mrs. E. Carl
Sheppard, also of Marion, is pain
fully injured in collision of cars on
Gallivant’s Ferry road.
ABBEVILLE. Lights in every
church in city burn out same Sun
day night and no services are held.
Lights m neighboring buildings
burn properly.
GREENVILLE. City health de
partment orders all dogs inoculated
against rabies, or be shot.
GREENVILLE???^Work Is start
ed on new John C. Calhoun hotel
here.
ABBEVILLE. Employes of Ab
beville Cottton mills are given holi
day with pay.
GREENWOOD. —' John W. Hill,
textile worker, dies while at work
at machine in Grendal mill.
GREENVILLE.—GreenviIIe peo
p e are interested in race for con
gress at Ithaca, N. Y., of Dr. Charles
Love Durham, former Greenville
man, now professor in Cornell uni
versity.
COLUMBIA. —Rev. Charles Jag
gers. colored missionary to his race,
famed throughout many states for
public charities, dies at age of 93,
being kept from work only fgw
weeks.
FLORENCE.—Atlantic Coast Line
plans to build 200 phosphate cars.
GREENVILLE??RoyaI G. Wat
kins, 53, dies in Hanford, Cal., and
is brought to home here for burial.
GREEN VIL LE. —Engineers begin
surveys at Caesar’s Head, mountain
resort near here, with view to de
veloping hydro-electric plant and
building homes.
CLINTON.—“Aunt Sis” Neigh
bors, an invalid since girlhood, now
64, takes first automobile ride to
Clinton, when she sees for first time
building larger than her home. She.
has never ridden on train and never
used telephone
ANDERSON.—Farm Agent S. M.
Byars and unknown man enter con
test to see who can stay under
water longest. Unknown man comes
up gurgling and goes down again,
about to drown, but is rescued by
Byars.
LAURENS.— E. E. Pitt.s well
known Greenville man, is injured
when run down by auto driven by
negro. Thigh is dislocated.
Anderson.—R. E. Ligon, of state
highway commission, announces
hearing on question of freeing
bridges over Savannah river of tolls
ANDERSON. John Etheridge
and Hoyt Culpepper, two young
white man of Anderson, race with
train to crossing. As their car
strikes rail tire bursts. They are
thrown many feet, car falling on
i them, but escape with bad bruises
and cuts.
NORTH CAROLINA
RALEIGH.—Joint resolution of
fered in house and senate invitas
166,000 former citizens and relatives
of 111,000 natives of other states liv
ing in North Carolina to visit this
state on Old Home Dav," second
Thursday of October, 1925, and see
progress made in recent years.
RALEIGH.—BiII authorizing ao
propriation of $20,000 for North
Carolina exhibit at Southern exposi
tion at New' York City next Janu
ary is passed by senate and sent to
house.
R A L E I G H.—General assembly
completes work for which it was
called into special session by Gover
nor Morrison. House finally passes
senate port commission bill, carry
ing provision for referendum at gen
eral election in November on pro
posal to issue $8,500,000 in bonds for
establishment of port terminals and,
if needed, of ship I’nes; senate pass
es house bill authorizing referendum
in November on new amendment to
constitution which would correct er
ror in present amendment and allow
state highway commission to use for
retirement of bonds all funds re
ceived from automobile license and
gasoline taxes.
RALEIGH.- -Senate bill authoriz
ing inquiry into advisability of star
instituting action for recovery of
Cspe and Yadkin Valiev rad-
read, baso fraudu
lently dismembered by Southern and.
Atlantic Coast Line after sale num
ber of years ago to Coast Line, is
passed by house anJ becomes law.
RALEIGI I. —Previously approved
by house, constitutional amendment,
increasing pay of members of legis
lature to S6OO for regular sessions
and S2OO for extra sessions, is passed
by senate and becomes, law, subject
to approval of electorate vote in No
vember.
RALEIGH.—Carr bill providing
for change of slate Democratic pri
mary election date from first Satur
day in June to first Tuesday in
June is reported favorably by house
elections committee.
RAL EI G IL—Two carloads of
North Carolina peaches, shipped by
Roger A. Derby, of Jackson Springs,
and Edward A. Manice, of Pine
hurst, have been received at Lon
don and sold for double price ob
tainable in New York, says cable
gram forwarded by federal depart
ment of agriculture, at Washington,
lo state division of markets. This is
first such shipment from state.
RALEIGH —Esfablisnment of high
schools for illiterates in state prisons
and on state prison farms is urged
as prison reform measure in letter
from James L. Joy, of Scotland Neck,
to Representative Matthews, of Char
lotte, leader in demand for inquiry
into conduct of prisons.
RALEIGH.—EiII euthorizing state
highway commission to increase sal
ary of Chairman Page to not more
than $15,000 per year is enacted by
legislature.
RALEIGH. —■ Bill to amend state
child labor law to prohibit employ
ment of child '.meter 14 years of age
in factory in state is tabled by sen
ate after vigorous debate on motion
of Senator Long, its author, when
undesirable amendments had been
tacked on to it.
RALEIGH.-?House bill authoriz
ing appointment of commission to in
vestigate an’* make survey of needs
of state penal institutions is passed
by senate and formally enacted.
Commission is .required to report to
regular session of legislature in Jan
uary.
HICKORY.—WaIter Fox, of West
Hickory, refuses to cease loud sing
ing and profane shouting before
home of James B. Atkins after pro
test by Atkins, who shoots Fox. At
kins is held in jail and Fox is in hos
pital suffering from wound over
heart.
GASTONIA. Frank Whitesides
boasts of 6-aet’e field of corn where
visitors find stalks average about 4
to stalk. Many stalks have 7
ears. Seven ears from one stalk
measure 4 feet, 3 inches, when laid
lengthwise.
HICKORY—E. L. Darnell is hurt,
perhaps seriously- when car driven
by his father, C. C. Darnell, and car
driven by Bru ,-e Craven, attorney, of |
Trinity, meet in collision.
DALLAS. About 4.000 members
of Lutheran church from neighbor-]
ing North and South Carolina coun-l
ties attend second annual picnic of!
Lutheran brotherhood. Principal ad-1
dress is delivered by Rev. J. A. I
Morehead, D. D„ L. ij. D., executive]
director of national Lutheran conn?
cil.
RALEIGH.—CoupIes with chil- :
dren will be given discount of $5 per j
month when renting apartments in '
building now being constructed by
Rt. Rev. J. B. Cheshire, bishop of
Protestant Episcopal diocese of
North Carolina. Parents will be giv
en preference as tenants.
WILMINGTON??Assets of 240 1
building and loan associations of
stat’e total $57,000,000, a gain of
13,000,000 in past twelve months, ac
cording to report submitted by L. W.
Moore, of Wilmington, representing
state association, at recent Cleve
land, Ohio, convention of National
Building and Loan association’s
league.
RALEIGH. —Will Hampton, of
Cherokee county, convicted in Chero
kee county of violatng prohibition
laws, is paroled by Governor Morri
son. *•
WINSTON-SALEM.—Body of Fred
Smith, who, with companion named
Curtis, was drowned July 8 in Dan
river near Walnut Cove is recovered
at Pine Hall, ten miles distant, by
seining party, according to report to
undertaker.
WINSTON-SALEM? Don Huff
man, 21, is drowned in Yellowjacket
lake, near North Wilkesboro.
LENOIR. Davenport college
trustees decide to add fourth year
courses.
ALBEMARLE. Republicans of
Stanley county enter full ticket for
county offices.
CHARLOTTE. —Starving to death,
too proud to beg, Gabriel Durant,
aged man, is rescued from swamp
near here, where he had lived on
berries and roots for three weeks,
and is taken to hospital.
/NEWTON.— Physicians take 91
stitches in body of John Ballard aft
er he and Jim Hewitt, both widely
known as strong men, engage in
knife battle at reunion.
RALEIGH. Relief from “road
hogs" is sought by bill offered in
senate which provides penalties for
refusing to share roads with’ others
desiring to pass.
SALISBURY. Fourth annual
meeting of North Carolina. Guern
sey Breeders’ association will be held
at Bachelors’ Retreat, on farm of T.
D. Brown, near here, August 28.
Program includes number of ad-
I dresses by widely known stockmen.
CHARLOTTE. - ?? Charlottes Cot
ton Exchange, ‘organized June 30,
with authorized capital of SIOO,OOO,
opens offices in new Johnston build
ing. J. H. Cutter is president.
CHARLOTTE. American Jersey
Cattle association decides to estab
lish permanent headquarters at
Charlotte, according to announce
ment by Charles Oliver, of Newark,
N. J., southeas’ter field manager, |
who says Jacksonville. Atlanta and
Birmingham were considered as lo
cations.
MAXTON. ??% less Lochlier is
brought to hospital, probably fatal-:
ly injured, his small child also may I
die and his wife is dangerous hurt :
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when car, alleged to have been driv
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ASHEVILLE. Catawba river In
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SALISBURY. Dangerously
shocked by touching high-voltage
electric wire, J. F. Goodman, elec
trician, manages to throw large
switch as he rails unconscious. Act
throws patrons in darkness and com
pany officials, investigating, find
Goodman.
ASHEVILLE. Four men are
he’d in Buncombe county jail with
out bond on charges of assault with
intent to murder, all believed to ’
be companions of Kenneth F. Moss
in poker game shortly before Moss
was found swinging from tree near
Woodfin. Mess may die. Those held
are George R. Downey, Floyd Banks,
Harry Taylor and Millard Randall.
Downey reported discovery of Moss’
plight.
GREE.N’SBORO. —Thomas Donnell
Whittington, 78, dies at. rural horns
after long period of ill health.
HIGH POINT. G.’R. Miller suf
fers severe injuries when horse runs
away after becoming frightened at
street car.
MORGANTON. Mrs. W.
B.ooks, 65, widow of Professor W.
M. Brooks, of Chatham county, dies
after extended illness. Body is taken
to >enver, Lincoln county, for
burial.
FAYETTEVILLE. Building per
mits issued during two-week period,
ending August 9, total $300,709.
FAYETTEVILiZe?— sheriff Mc-
Geachy investigates drowning of.
Love Howell, aged 6, in Black river.
Holland Edge, companion, is said
t > have thrown child into water. i
ASHEVILLE?— S~ C. Flemmons,
merchant, of Hot Springs, is shot,
and severely wounded when officer
is said to have fired into automobile
believed to be used by rum runner.
Flemmons will be paralyzed for life,
physicians say. George Brown, Hot
Spiings officer, is held, charged with
attack.
RALEIGH. Substantial decline
occurred in general crop conditions |
in state during July and first half
of August, according to report of
co-operative crop reporting service.!
RALEIGH. —Farm labor shortage
again develops after short period of
equal supply and demand, according
to state-federal employment service.
Supply and demand for skilled labor
in towns are about cqqal.
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