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ESTA^S|» 1821 GREENSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 25, 1917. VOL. 96—NO. 8
SOME REMARKABLE CRAUS
■OMMTIOXS AT THE FARMS UN-
,IT I'OK PRISONERS, EX-
<(>\VUT«AY8.
Raleigh- J«n- 23-—T,,e joint com"
„, ttee on penal institutions. Senator
Turner, presiding, heard this after-noon
a remarkable series of charges
and comments en the conditions at
-he Ftatc farm, and arraignment of
• , management of the convicts
,•,,.••,,, |iy Roy Traywick. of Union
■o«n:y. presented through Represen-
-.live Ueasley, of Union. It was a
manuscript of 35 pages and was to
jaeral effect that the convict
< are unfit for human habita-i'aal
tlie white prisoners are
. ,,. to use a water pail in common
,■ ■ i negroes, cat in the same room.
lisai Ihe supervisors and guards'
,,. cruel and that the whole atraos-
..•,. of iho place hardens the con-v
;- .iiui intensifies their hatred of
iety. making them worse than
v. ,,i.i iliey were sent to the farm.
Traywick is a young white .nan.
, . , bet-ante involved with others in
*onie insurance high financing in
j-■■; m county, and received a peni-
.. . i.i-.v sentence. Forgery was
imr.ns the charges involved in the
conviction and sentence. He was
^:rdi>L-«!iI by Governor Craig just be-fore
Christmas, and lias not, accord-
:::. ID Mr. Beasley, who believes in
:i::n -trongly, yet secured employ-
:•. but seems to be making a
4: rung effort to take a renewed hold
in life.
Chairman Turner, Senator Jones.
Senator Brenizer, Senator Ilolder-
,u•.-« and others commented ou the
:■•presentation of the conditions and
lii agreed that investigation should
>■• made. Senator Rrenzier took the
view that there is need in this state
for adopting prison reforms that
iave been successful in many other
-rates, including paroles, probation
indeterminate sentences and pay-men;
of part of the earnings of pris-oners
to convicts' families. He moved
ihat a special committee be appoint-ed
to investigate and report. This
.\as seconded by Cray, of Forsyth,
nd (he following committee was ap-pointed:
Senators Brenizer and
■'. itiderness. Representatives Crier,
Oasley and Uenfrow. of Mecklen-inrp.
Courts Investigations.
Superintendent J. S. Mann, of the
prison, was not at the committee
.netting, being in Hyde county for a
•la> or two. The prison management
ia> urged on the legislature the ne-
•essity for permanent and more ade-luate
stockades for the farm and the
■esult of the investigation is awaited
-vitli interest, the cliarge being that
'he farm, being so remote from the
i:.ral prison and without the pres-ence
of the superintendent except at
afervals,these sub-officials in charge
•nay not maintain the standards
'here that human prison manage-ment
would require.
Chairman B. L. Varner. of the
•ate prison board, is here and says
•• fullest investigation is courted.
OVERMAN AMENDMENT
STIHS UP HOT DEBATE.
:;i:vr-:xiK RETURNS
SHOW AN INCREASE.
Iiington, Jan. 24. — The
'••ml nf whiskey consumed by the
■ a people in 1916 apparently
"'•■;'•'!• than in any previous
,: "' - 1909, according to tax re-
'urns 10 Use treasury, department
. -ompiled today and the amount of
-venue rollei :ed by the government
'■'■ whiskey, beer and cigarettes dur-
!" the year was the greatest on re-cord.
'•'■ ■ '■'■ returns show that the tend-mwnrd
prohibition lias not low-
'■ government's revenue from
"j-key. officials belfeve that a por-
'" "f tlm increase—nearly $24,-
•'"»> more than in 1915—is at-
!' bntable to the fact that the gov-
■" nient is at present collecting tax-s
"'1 all the Whiskey produced in
'■'■ country, whereas, because of ex-ensive
frauds, such was not the case
i !"u years ago.
Consumption of cigarettes in 1916
eaclied the highest mark ever re-corded.
The tremendous increase,
'tore than forty per cent over 1915,
* attributed to two main causes: In-
' reased prosperity of the country
■ "'1 growth of the cigarette habit
iniong women. Many millions of
'igarettea made for feminine users
vftre produced in this country- and
mported during (lie past year,
'hereas a few years ago production
«nd importation* of such cigarette*
were negligible by campsrisoa.
Washington, Jan. 24.—Senator
Overman stirred up a hot debate in
the senate this afternoon by offering
an amendment to the legislative bill
which would authorize the presi-dent,
with the aid of the bureau of
efficiency, to make sweeping and rad-ical
changes in .the various executive
departments.
The amendment would authorize
the president in the recess of Con-gress
to take steps with the aid of
the bureau to consolidate or abolish
any offices of the government where-by
duplications in government work
can be done away with.
, The amendment would confer on
the president absolute authority to
overhaul any department and do
away with any unnecessary bureau
or division or set of employes. Sen-ator
Overman estimated that $30,-
000,000 could be saved if the amend-ment
were adopted. Under it the
president could first act and then re-port
what he had done to Congress
afterward.
Senator Jones, of Washington, de-clared
that under it the president
without consulting Congress could
disrupt any department of the gov-ernment.
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, a
member of the appropriation com-mittee,
urged the adoption of the
amendment. He admitted it was
radical and far-reaching.
"if the tide of expenditures is ever
stayed it must be done on a compre-hensive
scale." said Senator Robin-son.
"The expenditures have now
readied $200,000,000 a year. Some
power must be given to some au-thority
to act. Otherwise nothing
will he accomplished."
"This amendment," said Senator
Gallinger, "would give power to the
president to disrupt every depart-ment
and then report to Congress."
He.thotrght authority should be
given for an investigation by the
president and the bureau of effici-ency,
with a report to Congress at
the opening of the next session.
Senator Robinson suggested that
under this procedure no economy
would be accomplished because Con-gress
would talk and do nothing and
political pressure would be brought
to bear to prevent it from doing any-thing.
FIRST N. C. REGIMENT
JOYFUL OVER ORDERS.
Camp Stewart, El Paso, Tex., Jan.
24.—News that'the first regiment is
to go with the first troops sent home
under the new orders was received
here last night and the boys of the
first celebrated joyfully. Headed
by their band they paraded Pennsyl-vania
avenue while, their less fortu-nate
brothers guyed them good na-turedly
from the side lines.
Official orders have not yet ar-rived
but it is expected that the first
will be moving within a week.
Major Morris, first regiment medi-cal
corps, has been ordered to report
to the division surgeon for duty as
director of the ambulance company
corps.
Charles K. Coley, company M,
third regiment, Durham, and Corpo-ral
Billie C. Stacey, company G,
same regiment, Reidsville, were to-day
promoted t'o sergeants.
Lieutenant George L. PHtman, ad-jutant
first battalion, second regi-ment,
today received his discharge
from the service because of physical
disability. He expects to leave to-morrow
for his home in Goldsboro.
Seigeant Archie Nedman, com-pany
M, second regiment, left- last
night for liis home at Clinton in re-sponse
to a telegram announcing the
sudden death of his father there yes-terday
morning.
Capt. Dallas Zollicoffer, company
M. first regiment, returned to camp
today from forty days leave spent at
High Point.
Child, Claying With Matches, Burns
to Death.
Fayeteville, Jan. 22.—The two-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. €. F.
Wren, of the Aapin mill village, was
fatally burned yesterday afternoon
and died last night, as a result of
playing with matches. The little fel-low,
alone In the room of the house
was striking the matches which he
had taken from the mantel hy stand-ing
on a chair, -when his clothing
caught 'fire.
Before help could reach* him he
was so badly burned that death fol-lowed
in a few", hours.. He
•nlJ 99.B. fit U§ parents.
THE GOVERNMENT BEST EGG
PUTS UP MONEY WITH WHICH
FEDERAL. FARM LOAN SYS-TEM
IS STARTED.
Washington, Jan. 23—As explain-ed
'before in these articles, the oper-ations
of the farm loan act divided
into two main classes—a money as-sembling
agency and a money lend-ing
agency. "The government puts
the first nest egg into the farm loan
plan by buying the original capital
stock of the twelve federal land
'banks ;if necessary. When this has
been' lbaned and farm mortgages
taken fn return for the money loan-ed
bhe| federal land banks may issue
bonds against these mortgages.
These bonds will be among the
most attractive securities ever of-fered
to American investors. As ex-plained
before, farmers are permit-ted
to borrow only up to 50 per cent
of the value of their land. This
means that every dollar's worth o*
bonds issued represents $2 worth of
land as security. The fact that each
federal land bank guarantees the
bonds of all the other banks also
puts behind tihesc bonds as security
the $9,000,000 original capital stock
of the bank.- and their required sur-plus
earnings, plus the required an-nual
deduction of the mortgage loan.
Besides this, the security constantly
increases proportionately by reason
of the constantly increasing capital
contributed by the farm loan asso-ciation.
So the investment end of the farm
loan act is fully as important as the
money-lending end, because it cre-ates
for the benefit of small and
large investors a security backed by
pooled first mortgages on farm
lands, the proceeds being used to
increase the productive power and
enhance the value of these mortgage
lands.
Since the rate of interest to the
farmer depends upon the rate of in-terest
at which these bonds will sell,
Congress went the limit to make
these bonds attractive so they would
sell at a low Interest rate. The bonds
are exempt from all form of taxa-tion.
The governmnt will not even
collect any income tax upon them.
No state or municipality may tax
them for any purpose. In order to
make these bonds appeal to investors
of all classes they are issued in de-nominations
of from $25 to $1,000.
In order to protect them against
counterfeiting they are issued by the
United States government bureau of
engraving and printing and are pro-tected
from counterfeiters by the
whole force of the United States sec-ret
service.
Heretofore it lias heen practically
impossible tfor the small investor .to
buy^real estate securities. A man or
woman who wanted to buy $100
worth of farm securities was not
able to find a farm mortgage of just
that size. In addition, the investor
would not buy such a mortgage with-out
inspecting the security. Tilie cost
and the 'bother were barriers which
made it. almost impossible for the
small investor to get first mortgage
securities. Hereafter it will be pos-sible
for any investor who Wants to
buy farm securities from $25 up
merely to apply for a federal farm
loan bond of the denominations de-sired.
The investor will know that
this bond represents $2 worth of
land appraised tinder government
supervision and that the bond was
issued under «overnment regulation.
Rate of interest at which these
bonds will be issued has not yet
been determined by the federal farm
loan board. It is safe to predict that
in the beginning it will not he less
than 4 nor more than 5 per cent. So
the benefits of the farm loan act are
not limited to (farmers who need the
use of cheaper capital, hut they in-clude
also those persons who liave
money to invest and are seeking a
long time, readily marketable secur-ity
of undoubted value.
VILLA-ZAPATA CQMBIHATIQH
REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS SAID
TO HAVE FORMED AN
ALLIANCE.
Shoes Are $3S a Pair in Gallcia.
Kinston, Jan. 23.—There is a big
difference in the price of leather in
the U. S. A. and Galicia. Ben. Sny-der,
a local cobbler, yesterday mail-ed
to relatives in the wartorn prov-ince
three pairs, not of his bfn
making, worth ,$13 in all. The same
shoes in Galicia would cost $35 a
pair, .Snyder said. Prices of other
things are proportionately high.
Snyder sent the shoes to relatives.
The postage -was only M cents on
the whole WWJBJW.
Washington. Jan. 23.—Troop
movements preliminary to with-draw^
of the American expedition
from Mexico are being carried out at
the southern extremity of the Amer-ican
line under war department or-ders,
and as soon as they are com-plete,
the main body of the expedi-tion
probably will start north.
For th* first time officials admit-ted.
today that the withdrawal of
outposts from El Valle and other
points about Colonia Dublan had
more than a local significance, and
was lieiug carried out on orders from
Washington. They made no an-nouncement
as to the probable time
when tte general northern move-ment
would begin, and would not
even adi»it that withdrawal of Persh-iag's
trtftps after 10 months in Mexi-co
was it hand. Officials are inter-ested,
but apparently little concern-ed
over growing evidences that a de-termined
struggle for possession of
the territory evacuated by Pershing
may bciUb progress soon between
Carrania troops and revolutionists.
-. Villa and Zapata.
TddayV official dispatches said
that Villa and Zapata, the two most
conspicuous revolutionary leaders,
had allied themselves for operations
against the de facto armies, and that
8,000 men l)ad been concentrated
near Chihuahua for a Villa cam-paign
in the north. Since Carranza
declined to accept the Atlantic City-protocol
officials here have indicated
that such problems as the one devel-oping
about Chihuahua not only
would be left to the /first chief for
settlement, but that he would be held
responsible by the United States
government for their settlement in
such a nay as to protect American
tnterei*?^
Meantime, raising of the embargo
on arms to Mexico and the dispatch
of Ambassador Fletcher to Mexico
City remain in abeyance, possibly be-cause
of two developments construed
in some quarters as a renewal of
practices of the Carranza govern-ment
against which the United
States repeatedly has protested. Of-ficials
are surprised and perplexed
over the drastic measures taken by
the first chief against two banks
whose metallic reserve recently was
seized, and by what some contend is
a revival of prosecution of the Ro-man
Catholic clergy.
Information reaching the British
embassy today from an offi ial of
the Bank of London and Mexico and
the National Bank of Mexico was
that the bullion and specie taken
from the banks was a loan only in
the sense that it was forced. From
the Bank of London and Mexico, the
amount taken was valued at four
million dollars. The National Bank's
quota was 6,000,000 pesos. Remain-ing
in the vaults of the first are 16.-
000,000 pesos and the institutions
officers fear that this may also be
removed. Agents of the de facto
government are in possession of the
building and the keys to the vault.
Seizures Make Problem.
•The problem presented by the
seizures has been called to the at
tention of the state department
again by representatives of the
stockholders, who are for the most
part British and French. If repr/
sentations are made by the Ameri-can
state department they probably
will be based on the assumption that
the interests of American stockhold-ers
may be injured.
The fate of the two priests arrest-ed
in Mexico charged with conspir-acy
remained unknown here late to-day.
The state department already
has made earnest representations in
their behalf. Both at the state de-partment
and at the White House
many telegrams and letters were re-ceived
today appealing to the Amer-ican
government to exercise every
power to prevent their conviction
and execution, one being from Car-dinal
Gibbons.
'-'■ Juki's.
Say Torpedoes Boat Received No
Warning.
iNewiport News. Va., Jan. 23.—
American muleteers who escaped
death when the British steamer Rus-sian
was torpedoed several weeks
ago stated on their arrival here to-day
that the ship was torpedoed
without warning. Twenty of these
men arived here today from Boston
to which place they came from Eng-land:
Most of them said that they
would sign on another cattle boat.
COMMITTEE GETS
READY FOR ACTION.
Washington, Jan. 23.—Plans for
the legislative program the president
hopes to have Congress pass before
March 4, were made by the steer-ing
committee of the senate today.
Senator Kern, chairman of the com-mittee,
appointed sub-committees to
see what progress has already been
made on important bills and report
again to the committee tomorrow
morning. At that time decision will
be reached on the holding of a cau-cus,
and a tentative plan for work
mapped out. The steering commit-tee
is exerting every effort to carry
out the wishes of the president that
the senate speed up business.
One of the sub-committees named
today was designated to see Chair-man
Adamson, of the house commit-tee
on interstate and foreign com-merce,
and ascertain what time the
railroad legislation in the house will
be finished and before the senate.
The president is anxious that the
railroad program be adopted. An-other
sub-committee was asked to
see .Senator Newlands, of the senate
interstate commerce committee, and
find out what progress has been
made on the Webb bill. The presi-dent
has told members of the com-mittee
he thinks this legislation,
Jield over, ifrom the long session,
should be made a law before Con-gress
adjourns, so ' exporters can
make their arrangements to oper-ate
under it.
Senator Kern said he
some definite program
worked out tomorrow,
lieved a caucus will be
week.
The Webb bill has already passed"
the house and now is before the sen-ate
committee for its consideration.
The house, however, so amended the
bill, before passage, as to prevent the
exemptions from the Sherman act
taking effect if there is restraint up-on
the export trade of the United
States. As such language nullifies
the whole purpose of the legislation,
and would, in fact, leave the situa-tion
as it is at present, some think
this language should be eliminated.
It was intimated today that the
president plans to spend three or
four hours a day, three or four days
a week at the capitol to speed up
the administration's legislative pro-gram
and will keep this procedure
up as long as he deems it necessary.
Secretary Tumulty and one or two
other members of the executive staff
will accompany him there daily.
NAVAL ENCOUNTER HORTH SEA
GERMAN DESTROYER SUNK AND
OTHER TORPEDO CRAFT
SCATTERED.
felt sure
might be
It is be-held
this
CHANGES IN OFFICERS OF
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY.
President Charles B. Hole, of the
North Carolina Public Service Com-pany,
announces a number Of
changes in the officers of the com-pany
and in their duties, effective at
once.
R. J. Hole, of Salisbury, becomes
general man'ager of all divisions, and
the change requires his removal to
Greensboro. The new orders show a
closer knit organization. The changes
effect Greensboro, High Point, Salis-bury,
Spencer and Concord, in all of
which towns the company has hold-ings
and run street railways.
The announcement of the presi-dent
was made as follows:
"On and after this date the fol-lowing
changes in the organization
of the North Carolina Public Service
Company becomes effective:
"E. C. Deal, vice pi^sident, be-comes
also consulting engineer in
charge of engineering and new.con-struction
work, reporting direct to
the president.
1 "R. J. Hole becomes general man-ager
in charge of operations in all di-visions,
reporting direct to the pres-ident.
Local manager in Salisbury,
commercial agent and all superin-tendents
in High Point and Greens-boro
will report direct to the general
manager.
"J. H. Robertson' becomes local
manager of the Salisbury, Spencer
and Concord division.
"Harold Andrews becomes assis-tant
to the president, besides contin-uing
Ms present duties as power en-gineer."
Cargo of Gold.
Baltimore, Jan. 23.—It was re-ported
in local shipping circles to-day
that three steamers which left
Baltimore recently presumably with
coal, also took out several million
dollars in gold eagles and hsftf eagles
for Germany, to be transferred at
•ea to the reMsra sweeping the
*>*a AjjMUft
London. Jan. 23.—In an engage-ment
between British light naval
forces and German torpedo boat de-stroyers
in the North Sea last ni«lrt
a German destroyer was sunk and
the other torpedo craft scattered, it
was officially announced today. The
sinking of a British torpedo boat de-stroyer
in another engagement with
German torpedo boat destroyers in
the vicinity of Schouwen Bank last
night, with the loss of three officers
and.44 of the crew, also was an-nounced.
,
The official announcement says:
"Last night, while our light foroes
were patrolling the North Sea not
far from the Dutch coast, they met
a division of enemy torpedo boat de-stroyers.
A short engagement took
place, during which one of the enemy
torpedo boat destroyers was sunk
and the rest scattered, having suffer-ed
considerable punishment. Dark-ness
prevented the full results at the
action from being observed.
"During last niglit there was also
a short, sharp engagement between,
enemy torpedo destroyers and our
own destroyers in the vicinity ©t
Schouwen Bank. During this en-gagement
one of our torpedo boat
destroyers was struck by a torpedo,
the explosion killing three officers
and 44 of the crew. She subsequent-ly
was sunk by our own ships. Rel-atives
of the victims have been In-formed.
Our ships suffered no other
casualties."
Attempted to Leave Zcebrugge.
London, Jan. 23.—Reports from
Ymuiden received by Reuters Tele-graph
Company via Amsterdam say
that German torpedo boats last night
attempted to leave Zeebrugge to
avoid the ice, which was very thick.
They were immediately attacked by
a large-British jquadron, ...The *B»__'.
tion opened at short range, and early
in the fight the bridge of the Ger-man
destroyer, V-69, was swept
away by a direct hit, the commander
and two officers being killed.
The V-69 fired one torpedo end
was then hit by another British
shell, which knocked the funnel flat
on the deck. Still another shell put
a hole in the forepart of the vessel.
Her gums appear not to have been
damaged.
The crew of the V-69 numbered
about sixty. It would appear from
the statements of the men that seven
other German vessels were sunk.
The V-69-belonged to the home fleet.
According to a Reuter dispatch
from Ymuiden it was officially stated
that four men were killed aboard the
V-69, including the commander,
Lieutenant Boehra, and the comman-der
of the flotilla. Captain Schultz.
German officers refuse informa-tion
about the engagement, the
scene of action 'or the strength of
the flotilla.
Two Reported Sunk.
London, Jan. 23.—According to a
Hague report to the Exchange Tele-graph
Company two German ships
were sunk and three others badly
damaged in the North Sea fight.
ZEBULON WEAVER suit:
OF OBTAINING HIS SEAT.
Washington. Jan. 23.—Represen-tative-
elect Zebulon Weaver, from
the tenth district, arrived in Wash-ington
today from Ashevllle to take
a look over the ground and to pre-pare
to fight the charges made
against him in the house by Repre-sentative
Britt, who challenges the
right of Mr. Weaver to a seat T»
Congress. Mr. Weaver had notice
served on him January 16, and vn
allowed thirty days in which to make
reply. While here he will arrangn
for counsel to represent him and
make other preparations for the
case.
"I expect to show to Congress,
without doubt," said Mr. Weaver,
"that in this contest a majority of
the votes actually was returned 'ac
me. He contests this election on the
unmarked ballot, but that was de-termined
in a case before the Su-preme
court, which decided the bal-lots
were legal and ought to have
been counted." ■
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Woman 110 Years Old Dead.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 23.—'Mrs.
Hessian Hollin. 110 years old, said to
have been the oldest woman In the
state, died yesterday; la PstasU
county.
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