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ESTABLISHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY, MAY 22,1916.
PRIMARY ENTRIES CLOSED
COXTES-fevTHAN USUAL
A. M. SCALES DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE FOB THE SENATE.
EWE"J THE DEM& -»AT8 OF UfOX«
GVILKOBD COUN.
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entries for the Guilford county
primary closed Saturday evening,
and voters of the county now know
„ .o will be the canu.dates in the pri-mary
to be held Saturday, June 3.
In all cases where there is only one
person a candidate for a particular
nomination, the county board of elec-tlons
"ill declare him nominated.
This is the condition with regard to
all Republican candidates, so there
will be no Republican primary in the
county.
There are fewer contests than
usual among i.emocratic candidates.
The only places that voters *>... be
called in to settle, so far as i..e coun-iv
ticket is concerned, are those of
coroner and members of the lower
house of the general assembly. The
candidates for coroner are G. L.
Si.insbury. the present coroner, and
Dr. J. T. Rieves. For the house of
representatives three men must be
chosen from the following five: Car-ter
Dalton and Robert Brockett, of
High Point: \V. A. Bowman, of
oreene township: C. G. Wright, of
Greensboro, and R. W. H. Stone, who
lives near Greensboro. Messrs.
Bowman and Brockett were, in the
la?t legislature.
There will be two township con-tests.
T. C. Bray and H. S. Patter-son
are candidates for constable in
Morehead township. Mr. Patterson
is the present constable. In Oak
Ridge township three men must be
chosen from the four following as
Democratic candidates for justices
of the peace: D. L. Donnell. R. W.
Jones, Charles Case and William
ilrookbank.
The following, having no opposi-tion,
will be declared Democratic
candidates:
State senator—A. M. Scales.
Sheriff—D. B. Stafford.
?.eg;ster of Deeds—W. H. Rankln.
Treasurer—G. H. McKinney.
•Surveyor—J. R. Kdmunds.
'ounty commissioners—W. C. Bo-rn,
and W. C. Jones.
Democrats must choose from
among the following candidates for
Slate officers:
Governor—T. \\\ Blckett and E.
L. Daughtridge.
Secretary of state—j. Bryan
Crimes, James A. Ha
wood Clark.
''ommissiorer o
A. Grahaiii. S. l{.
M'-Kinnon.
Trewurer-B. R. Lacy and J.
Hans.
The announcement of Mr. A. M.
Scales that he would be a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
the state senate from Guilford coun-ty
was received with pleasure by his
friends. Tue fact that no other can-didate
has announced for this office
means that Mr. Scales automatically
becomes the nominee of the party
without the formality of being voted
for in the primary.
The leaders of the party feel that
the people of Guilford are to be con-gratulated
upon having a man of the
ability and experience of Mr. Scales
to represent them in the upper house
of the legislature. Mr. Scales not
inlv is familiar with local needs and
conditions, but is equipped to take a
leading part in handling the larger
and more important matters of state-wide
interest that may come before
the legislature. For years he has
been a student of taxation, one of the
most important questions affecting
the people of North Carolina, and
he is on record as favoring a more
just and equitable system of levying
and colecting the public revenues.
He also favors other reforms that are
advocated by many of the state's
.best men.
Mr. Scales is not without legisla-tive
experience. In 1894. soon after
he had entered upon his legal career,
he was elected to the senate by the
Dmocrats of Guilford county, though
most of the ticket went down in de-feat
that year before the fusion of
Republicans and Populists that swept
the state. He was one of the seven
lonesome Democrats in the senate
of 1895. He was a member of the
senate again in 1905. when the bill
changing the compensation of the
officers of Guilford county from the
fee to the salary basis was enacted.
This is a piece of legislation that has
saved the tax-payers of the county
many thousands of dollars. The
measure was introduced in the house
by Dr. J. R. Gordon and put through
the senate by Mr: Scales.
ITHE NORMAL COMMENCEMENT
OPENED SATURDAY WITH OLD
ENGLISH PAGEANT—VICE
PRESIDENT TOMORROW.
MtJGH PEACE GOSSIP HEARD
irtness and Hay-f
agriculture—w.
Slobbs and A. J.
S.
■nsurance commissioner—J. R,
'""is and (
Attorney
Ja3«s S. Mannini. x.
'"'■' Edmond Jones.
'ornoratfon commissioner—D
Bo/d and W. T. I.ee.
in'T'fT1' °f 'abor and Print-
Oe;iinKw 'S'"Pn'a" a,ul DavW p-
The iV-llowi,,, hay,Bg nQ
lMle been declared
T. McClenaghan.
general—T. H. Calvert,
A. Sinclair
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In a Hurry to Marry.
Danville. Va., May 20.—William
Gauldin. a farmer living near .Bach-elor
Hall. Pittsylvania county, lost
his wife ten days ago and yesterday-married
Miss Emma Gauldin. a dis-tant
cousin. The first Mrs. Gauldin
was found dead in the yard of their
home on May S. She was buried
the next day. It is alleged that no
examination of the body was made
or death certificate issued.
Two days after the burial Gauldin
got his marriage license to wed Miss
Gauldin.
Mr. John M. Dick, of San Antonio
Tex., who has been spending a few-weeks
here looking after business
matters, has gone to Asheville to
spend a few days with his daughter.
Mrs. W. F. Bell, before returning
home.
The old English pageant given at
the State Normal and Industrial Col-lege
Saturday afternoon as the open-ing
event of commencement was a
magnificent presentation of several
Shakesperean dramas depicting life
in England a few centuries ago. The
plays were given on the college cam-pus
and in Peabody park and were
witnessed by a large crowd. The
presentation of the various scenes
required approximately 1,200 actors,
composed of the Normal College stu-dents
and teachers and tne pupils of
the training school.
The dramas presented were "Rob-in
Hood," "A Midsummer Night's
Dream," "As You Like It," "St.
George and the Dragon" and "The
Hue and Cry After Cupid."
Tue annual sermon was preached
in tne college auditorium yesterday
morning at 11 o'clock by Rev. N. M.
Watson, D. D., of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Dr. Watson took his text from the
forty-sixth verse of the seventh chap-ter
of St. John, "Never man spake
like this man." and gave an analysis
of the mind, heart and will of Christ.
The sermon before the college Y.
W. C. A. was preached last evening
at 8 o'clock by Rev. W. T. D. Moss
of Chapel Hill, the services being
held in Peabody park.
This morning reunions of the lit-erary
societies were held, followed
by the annual meeting of the alum-nae
association. The class day exer-cises
wll be held on the campus this
evening at 6 o'clock.
The exercises of the graduating
class will take place tomorrow morn-ing
at 10.30 o'clock. The address
will be delivered by Hon. Thomas R.
Marshall, vice president of the United
States. The vice president will be
accompanied to Greensboro by Mrs
Marshall and will arrive tomorrow
morning at 7 o'clock.
KBBN DESIRE TO ASCERTAIN
I WHETHER SITUATION HAS
BEEN ALTERED.
Washington, May 20.—Washing-ton
is filled with peace gossip. Dip-lomatic
and official circles are dis-playing
more interest in peace talk
than at any time since the outbreak
ofvthe European war.
Sources of information which ordi-narily
are regarded as trustworthy
are besieged with requests, by tele-graph
and long-distance telephone,
from business men and others inter-ested
directly and indirectly in the
munitions trade. In every quarter a
keen desire is evident to ascertain
whether the situation as regards
peace has been altered in any way
by the passages in the recent Ger-man
note to the United States, which
were accepted as evidences of a
willingness on the part of the impe-rial
government to discuss peace
terms.
In this atmosphere the announce-ment
of President Wilson's accept-ance
of an invitation to deliver an
address before the League to En-force
World Peace next week was
received with the greatest interest.
The announcement was made at the
White House, and while no informa-tion
was procurable as to the sub-ject
matter to which the president
will devote his time, it was regard-ed
as highly probable that he would
deal with his attitude toward means
by which the preservation of peace
may be assured at the conclusion of
the European war.
Official speculation did not neglect
the Inference that, since the presi-
BULES AGAINST NEW
REGISTRATION IN COUNTY.
At a meeting of the county board
of elections Saturday it was an-nounced
that a communication had
been received from the state board
of elections ruling against the new
registration that had been ordered
for Guilford county. The state board
contends that there is no warrant
under the law for ordering a new
registration of voters.
Since it was necessary to prepare
new poll books in Guilford county
tnis year, it is felt that the order for
the new registration has resulted in
some benefit, since the names of
many voters who were not register-ed
have been put on the book:
In an effort to guard against the
probability of a second primary to
any nomination, the board of elec-tions
Saturday adopted the follow-ing
rule:
"mat in all cases in tue Guilford
county primary, or primaries for any
of the townships, where there is
more tnan 6ne candidate to be nom-inated
for an omce oi the same name
such as county commissioners, mem-bers
of the lower house of the gen-eral
assembly and justices of the
peace, and in the primary more than
the number of candiaates to be nom-inated
receive a major.iy Ql the votes
cast, the number to be nominated
receiving the highest votes shall be
declared nominated; provided, that
If there be a tie between candidates
for any of the places, and the nomi-nation
of those receiving the votes
that cause the tie would give nomi-nations
to more candidates than are
to be nominated, then those having
received a vote higher than the
vote shall be declared
tie
2U*1! H° addre8S an or»nt»"on and (°>- each"pla"crro7wh?c°hnanaom- whfrch is devoted exclusively to a sin- in"""" ■« »-» ♦- ■-- -
BAPTIST WOMEN GAVE
JEWELS TO MISSIONS.
Asheville, May l9._To relieve
the Home and foreign Baptist mis-sion
boards of their quarter million
dollar debt, at the annual Southern
Baptist Convention early today, wo-men
in the audience tore jewels from
their fingers and breasts and stacked
them in a heap on the platfcrm. The
action was accompanied by greatest
enthusiasm, and followed a vote for
the convention to pledge $84,000 on
the debt. Special committees ap-pointed
from all states represented
worked today in conjunction with
the Woman's Missionary Union to
gather contributions.
gle-aim, he will u^e up his aim and
explain his attitude toward it. It
was recalled that the president t>re-vionsly
has spoken meaningfully of
the Mbject of world peace as It may
«r-M»-preparedness speaTrTortOny *
■n January and 4 coruary in the mid-dle
West, the president expressed the
hope that the end of the war would
see me establishment of an interna-tional
tribunal w*tcfa would prevent
future recourse to arms by the great
powers in the event of international
dispute. More recently, in a uiscus-sion
of his preparedness program
with members of an anti-militaristic
committee, headed by Rabbi Stephen
Wise, of New York, the president
said:
•nation is yet to be made the names
of those receiving the tie vote shall
be submitted to the voters of the
party in a second primary."
" state offices:
-'•'uteiian
nominated
I Governor—Max Gard-aadltor—
a*
'flie i P- Wood. •crir vi' at I "■""■ «
:,^!—tic candidates for con-
^Wh'ngton—H it.-.
Marti.— '.- >'°wman.
\*laver>'?''-'<. S. And -W.
-'lonroo—
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Coble.
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rr <■ !• McCnteton.
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declared
"locratio candidates
Peace:
C;BB::%V *;*«• ApPle. j. K.
Rock c ou-
,Green- J i , ,McLean-
J-■:>.„. '"^''--MiUowav
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Monroe—S. R. Troxler. J. L. Haw-kins.
C. R. Elmore
Center Grove—T. R. DiUard, W.
D. Clayton, N. M. Lee.
Gilrner—R. \V. Murray, R. E.
Sims, B. E. Jones, J. E. McKnight,
J. B. Minor, D. H. Collins. G. T.
Glascock, 'J. W. Landreth.
Morehead—C. D. Wilkins, John
L. Hooper, Paul C. Lindley, W. E.
Schenck. M. D. Stout, W. S. Lyon, E
F. Paschal, S. S. Mitchell.
Pentress—J. B. Watlington, J. A.
Allred, C. A. Shoffner.
Sumner—John T. Hodgin, M. D.
Pope. \V. M. Clark.
Bruce—J. B. Ogburn, C. H. Wil-son,
William Young.
Friendship—W. M. Hobbs, A. T.
Millls, S. A. Kirkman.
Jamestown—J. E. Poscue, C. L.
Jackson. John A. Suits.
Deep River—J. Lee Charles, J. J.
Smith. T. P. Farrington.
High Point—A. If. Idol, J. n. Sut-tenfield,
N. W. Beason, W. G. Brown,
A. J. Dodamead, E. A. Manner, J. C.
Welch. H. C. Kearns.
The convention decided at today's
session not to participate in the
world conference on faith, following
recommendation of a committee in-cluding
Oliver P. Gregory, of Balti-more.
Insistence of Baptists on
absolute separation of church and
state and the policy of opposition to
ind.viduality of various church bod-ies
'which tends against unity of
faith that is responsible for grievous
divisions among Christian peoples "
were the reasons given for refusing
to participate.
It was decided to hold the next
convention in New Orleans.
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Republican Candidates.
. The Republicans who have filed
notice of their candiuacy Wiui tne
board of elections and the offices to
which they aspire are:
State senate—J. G. Frazier.
House of representatives—W. P.
Ragan, S. E. Coltrane and C. D.
Cobb.
Sheriff—R. L. Dixon.
Register of deeds—E. S. Wilson.
Treasurer—J. S. Worth.
Coroner—Dr. J. J. Hilton.
Surveyor—J. S. TrogJon.
County commissioners—R
Schooldeld and E. E. Spencer.
Looking to Baptist Union.
Minneapolis, Minn., May 19—The
Northern Baptist Convention today
empowered a commission to sit as a
court of equity for the adjudication
of all differences between affiliated
societies and thus bring about more
effective co-operation between Bap-tist
organizations of the Unite!
States. This action was construed by
many leading Baptists as a move-ment
which ultimately will dissolve
into a union of the Northern Baptist
Convention and the Southern Bap-tist
Convention.
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Another New Mill For Leaksvllle.
The Marshall Field Company has
just obtained an option on one hun-dred
acres of land in Leaksville for
the purpose of establishing a, large
knitting mill thereon. This means
that several hundred homes "must
be built for mill employes, for there
is not an empty home in the city.
As to the size of the plant, the
company has not made any definite
announcement, but it has been hint-ed
that within five years it will reach
the proportions of a million dollar
plant.
"Now, let us suppose that we have
formed a family of nations, and that
family of nations «ay: 'Ti-e world
i" not gcing to have any more wars
of this sort without at least going
through certain processes to show
whether there is. anything in its case
or not.' If you say 'we shall not have
any war.' you have got to havp the
force to make that 'shail' bite, and
the rest of the world, if America
takes part in this thing, will have
the right to expect from her that
she contribute her element of force
to the general understanding. Sure-ly
that is not a miliu-ristic ideal.
That is a very practical ideal."
Despite the clarity of the presi-dent's
earlier commitments to the
idea of world peace through the joint
exercise of force among the nations,
■t is realized in official circles that
especial significance would attach to
the reiteration of his views at this
time. Not only has the idea of
peace been put prominently to the
fore by the utterances of the Ger-man
government, but indications
that it is under serious considera-tion
by the allies have been seen by
some authorities in President Poin-care's
recent speech and the inter-view
given out by Premier Asquith
of England.
The president is known to have
given careful study to these utter-ances,
together with the editorial
and other publis/ieu comment of per-sons
in the United States based upon
them.
Close friends of the president de-clare
he is anxious to do anything
within his power to bring about
peace, but is mindful of the limita-tions
which restrict thj action of
neutral nations in this connection.
HIGH PODfT REVELING
.-J*£ MO SCHOOL FIGHT.
There is a big school row on in
High Point, and as is usually the
case when the people of a commun-i
.v get worked up over their schools
there is no lack of excitement and
feeling, it seems that the trouble
has been brewing for some time and
the storm broke a few days ago
when the city commissioners post-poned
the election of teachers and
reduced the salary of the school su-perintendent.
The superintendent—Mr. Thon.-
well Haynes—is not without strong
and influential friends who were
quick to resent- what they believed 'o
be an attempt to get rid of him in
an underhanded manner. Friday
and Saturday a committee of 16 men
canvassed High Point with a pet'-
tion asking the commissioners to re-store
the salary of the superintend-ent
and re-elect Mr. Haynes. It is
understood that the petition, whirl,
was signed by hundreds of school
patrons, will be presented to the
commissioners at a special meeting
to be held tomorrow night.
For the time being the school row
seems to have overshadowed the
Brockett-Daiton oniest for the
Democratic nomination for the legis-lature,
but the High Pointers may be
expected to catch their second wind
in the political fight before the pri-mary
is held.
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80O Cavalrymen Withdrawn.
Columbus, N. M., May 19.—Eight
hundred American cavalrymen ar-rived
at the expeditionary base here
today, riding from Mexico through a
blinding dust storm.. Thi. troops, the
first to be withdrawn since the dis-patch
of the expedition nine weeks
ago, went into camp on the military
reservation.
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Governor May Pardon Stripling.
Atlanta, Ga., May 20.—The Geor-gia
state prison board today sub-mitted
a report to Governor Harris
on the plea for a pardon for Charles
Edgar Stripling, former police chief
of Danville, Va., with chairman of
the board, R. E. Davison. favoring
the executive granting the pardon
an. the two other members oppos-ing.
Governor Harris announced
that he would give the natter earn-est
study immediately and will an-nounce
his decision in the matter as
soon as possible.
It is the belief here that the gov-ernor
will pardon Stripling, having
promised the prisoner's little daugh-ter
some time ago that he would do
so as soon as possible. The pardon
board, heretofore, has been unani-mous
against granting a pardon, ♦his
being the first break in their ranks
- Appointed Delegates.—Governor
Craig has appointed Dr. L. L. Hobbs.
president emeritus of Guilford Col-lege,
and Rev. Dr. S. B. Turrentine,
president of Greensboro College for
Women, delegates from this state to
a meeting of the League to Enforce
Peace to be held in Washington soon
"Ti iitfA-'-'-'- - ■'*-**'■*•*»•<• -
VOL. 9S-HO. 41
PRESIDENT IM CHAKLOm
GREETED BY IMMENSE CROW»
OF PEOPLE—«PEAKS OF
WORLD PEACE.
The celebration in Charlotte Sat-urday
of the one hundred and forty-first
anniversary of the Mecklenbur*
declaration of independence was
made memorable by the presence ot
the president of the United States,
who made a patriotic address that
was heard by as many people as
could get within sound of his voios
The celebration was attended by
probably the largest crowd that ever
assembled in Nortli Carolina, the
number present being estimated at
Speaking on world peace, Presi-dent
Wilson declared that "it is an
interesting circumstance that the
process of the war stand still," and
that "these hot things that are in
contact with each other do not make
much progress against each other."
He added that "wnen you can not
overcome, you must take counsel "
The president plainly spoke guard-edly
when mentioning peace in Eu-rope,
but most of hi. hearer, .aw a
Plain suggestion in his words. He
Intimate/3 p,ain»y '*"" not much pro-gress
was being made, and that the
objects being sought by the Euro-pean
nations could be achieved bet-ter
through peaceful mean..
The president's words on peace
were given significance by his hear-er,
in view of the recent discussion
of the possibility of ending the Eu-ropean
war. He said that "here In
America we have tried to set the ex-ample
of bringing all the world to-gether
upon terms of liberty and co-operation
and peace, and in that
great experience that we have been
going through America has been
sort of prophetic sample of
kind."
"I would like." declared the pre.-
dent, -HO think that the .plrit of
thta occasion could be expressed if
Zrln**^ ont*J,T~ »«•»« some
sacred emblem of counsel and of
peace, of accommodation and right-eous
judgment, before the nations of
e world and reminding them of
hat passage 0f Scripture. "After the
»lnd after the earthquake, after
the fire, the still small voice of hu-manity.'
"
The president sketched brief! v his
idea of what will follow the Euro-pean
war. He said that "what you
see taking place on the other side of
the water is the tremendous—I had
about said final-process by which
a contest of elements may in God's
process be turned into a co-ordina-tion
and co-operation of elements."
The president spoKe of the need
of untainted Americanism," and
declared that the European war is a
competition of national standards, of
policies-political systems. "Europe
has grappled in war." he said, "as
we have grappled in peace to see
.at is going to be done with these
things when fhey come into hot con-tact
with one another."
Charlotte was ablaze with Ameri-can
flags and packed with people for
the first occasion on which a Derao-cratic
p Went had gpoken
Military bands were scattered
'.rough the town and played mar-tial
music constantly. The peoole
cheered from every housetop and
window along the route taken -y
him in his rides about the city He
w^s introduced at the open air meet-ing
by Governor Craig.
Before speaking the president re-viewed
a long military and indus-trial
preparedness" parade, and af-terwards
he was tl,„ guest of honor
at a large lunch and went by auto-mobile
to Davidson College 20
miles away, where he once was a
•indent. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Wilson, Secretary Daniels. Sec-retary
Tumulty. Dr. Cary T. Gray-son,
his naval aide. Senator Over-man
and Representative Webb.
The special train bearing the pres-ident
and his party, running as sec-ond
section of No. 37. passed through
Greensboro en route to Charlotte
about 7.30 o'clock Saturday morn-ing,
but did not stop here, much to
the disappointment of 1.000 or more
people who had gathered at the sta-tion.
Two Bandits Hiing.-d.
Brownsville, Tex., May 19.—Jose
Buenrostro and Melquiades Chapa,
Mexicans convicted of the murder of
A. L. Austin and his son. Charles, in
the Mexican raids last fall, were
hanged in the Cameron county jail
today.