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GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY. JANUARY 29,1017. VOL. 96-NO. 0
ii, COIE mm PROTEST
;;XlT.i:SSKS DISAPPROVAL OF
iJ'KORTS TO RELAY OHOH'K
OF COURT HOVftE SITK.
U'
\l -.t meeting of the directors of
- chamber of Commerce Friday
.rnoob Mr. Julius W. Cone voiced
iisapproval of many people here
•..;..•■rn'.ne the methods employed in
!,.; ;.::'.fi the selection of A site for
new court house and also the
....:-. adopted for building: the O.
Henry hotel. As both these projects
rere handled by bureaus of the
''lumber of Commerce, 'Mr. Cine
•.. •-. • i eatiquarters vita his cciv-
, :.: and :';'"' the directors wherein
.... ! niKuy other .people believed
i: -ii,,- li.iil been made.
Mr. Cone said the idea of .setting
,i r::;. n'.an'ner to come '.o Creens-
1) . to aid in the selection of a court
'i ,-•• site looked like a scheme to,
|.;i matters while public senti-
,]• .-• vrt.i being worked up in favor
ii." 'iime particular location, lie was
.;- i.f the opinion that the plan
4i! >pted for buildinR ;TIC new hotel
i? JO! the best plan available.
Mr. Cone was heard with interest
• :•.. -puke as -follows:
••Just a few words that I consider
.",■: :.e uood of this chamber: First-
.-. 1 tuink we should direct our ei-
(om on the broadest and highest
ji'..-:ie. By this 1 mean when a pub-
.;• proposition arises, we should con-lider
strictly the good of the com-munity,
and then act accordingly,
.egardless of the benefits to any in-lividual
or group of individuals.
There is now a nvatter of great Im-portance
to the citizens of Gullford
•ounty, Ureenslioro. High Point, and
til oilier towns of the county, before
■ ii? county commissioners. They in
urn announced the manner in which
i hey were going to handle ii and it
•va- the correct way, out as develop-ments
have since come about, they
have been harassed by first one group
-mil then another, so that it is im-possible
for them to give the subject
she unbiased consideration that ii
leserves.
"Personally, I believe thai to lo-
•aie the court house on either North
Blm or Market street, not more than
an blocks from its present location.
vi'.l be a great mistake. Much bet-
■r Tii have it where it is and spend
■ few thousand dollars improving it.
inu maybe in 25 or 50 years the
■niiancement in value will prove tlie
visdom of tiiis course. If this course
s pursued, no one can be provoked
+l The present time. I do not think
lluch of the city planner idea. It
ooks like a good scheme to delay
natters while public sentiment is be-n^
worked up in favor of particular
-it'-> for the court house.
"One other matter that I want to
mention, as T think you snould TcnoTv
he tacts as they are, in so far as I
• as personally concerned. Last year
I was appointed on the hotel com-mittee.
From time to time different
impositions were put before this
ominittee, none of which appealed
n us as being feasible, or which we
vere willing to place before the pub-ic.
11 seemed as though we were
!n uned io failure. It was then that
i tuiil the committee that J thought
iferhaps 1 i Diild get my brother to
nake a proposition that would mee<
*'itii our approval, and which we
ottid recommend to the public,
"Finally tilIR proposition was pre-tented,
and met with the approval of
he committee-—the lot on the cor-i'-
r of Washington and Greene
'■'••'•is. 125 feet on Greene, 113 feet
•n Washington, with a 15-foot alley
in •.!!(- two back sides. A hotel rom-
I'liiiy was to be organized vitli $50.-
'*0s> capital stock, to be raised among
II- citizens of Greensboro, my broth-
•r in take $5,000 of same, and to un-derwrite
$75,000 7 per cent prefer-
■ed stock and $125,000 6 per cent
irst mortgage bonds at par. no coni-nission
of any kind to be paid any-
>ne, and he was to sell the company
hi- lot for $30,000. Being an in-vested
parly, as soot) as this prop-
•sition was made, I resigned from
committee. Now, contrast this
proposition with the one finally ac-epted—$
85,000 second mortgage
lonrls. which I firmly believe are to
!in«i lodgment with the sub-contrac-nrs
who furnish the materials and
"■ork on the building. You all know
»'lvat this means to the common
•'ockholders. The community at
arge should consider South Greens-ioro
as part of our city. Some day,
and perhaps soon, there will be bot-
*er traffic facilities linking the two
SIMPLE LIFBJiUDYOCATED
l'IRF. FOOD KXPERT I.ECTIRRS
, OX WHAT TO KAT AND HOW-TO
LIVE LOXG.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Who perhaps
knows more about foods and their
relation to the human system than
any other living person, delivered a
very interesting and instructive lec-ture
at tihe State Normal and Indus-trial
College Saturday morning. He
preached the gospel Of simple and
economic living, saying herein lay
the promise of health and longevity.
Dr. Wiley doesn't think much of
the complaint of the high cost of
living, saying it is due principally to
ignorance and the disposition to fol-low
fashion. Dr. Wiley said on this
point:
"There is no high cost of living in
my house. The housewife is respon-sible
for the high cost of living, be-cause
she buys food for one figure
when s-he can get much better for
less. The causes of the high cost of
living are two, ignorance of food val-ues
and fashion. I had a farmer
neighbor who went to the Village to
get a breakfast food -which cost him
many times what it would have cost
him to have taken his own wheat or
corn and had it ground at 10 cents
a bushel, whole, without the flour
being whitened, an'd he would have
had the best breakfast food in the
market. I told him that, but he look-ed
at me in a quizzical manner then
Which f didn't understand until later
when I was married, and said, 'If I
tried to live like you live .my wife
wouldn't stand for it. Our neighbors
would make fun of us." "
There is an evil of fashion, said
Dr. 'Wiley, and ignorance is the other
curse. Tiie teachers can spread the
gospel among the students in the
public schools and through them
reach the house.vtye*, ' f said, quick-er
than the message can get around
any other way and ignorance will be
routed out. "You are spending
your money for foods not as nutriti-ous
as you can get for much smaller
sums." he declared, lie asked the
teachers to help in the education for
pure, wholesome food.
Dr. Wiley declared that bread is
the best, cheapest, most easily ac-quired
food for the human. Add
milk and one has a balanced diet.
Or possibly a vegetable or two might
be added. "If I were permitted to
go into the family of a working man
—where a man earns less and knows
least about how to buy—I could re-arrange
the family's diet to provide
them with more nourishment and at
•he same time double the man's sal-aiy—
and without adding one cent to
his pay. All this could be accom-plished
by a Wholesome diet of
cheaper foods."
LOOKS TOWARD GIEERSBORO
CITY 18 OFFKRKP OPPORTUNITY
TO SECURE CAROLINA AND
YADKIN RAILROAD.
Greensboro has been offered an-other
railroad conditionally. Mr.
Bird S. Coler. of New York, presi-dent
of the Carolina and Yadkin
railroad, which extends from High
Point to High Rock, by way of
Thomasville and Denton. proposes to
build the line from High Point to
this city, provided the people of
Morehead and Gilnier townships will
vote bonds or take stock in the en-terprise
to the amount of $200,000.
It is realized that anollher rail-road
is one of Greensboro's greatest
needs, ami there has been a feeling
here for several years that $he Caro-lina
and Yadkin road should be ex-tended
to this city. About four years
ago Mr. Coler made a proposition to
extend his road to Greensboro, but
at that time an agitation was on for
another proposed road and the mat-ter
was not given the serious atten-tion
it perhaps deserved.
When Mr. Coler made 'his former
proposition to build his line into
Greensbo.ro he offered to come for
$100,000. just half the amount ask-ed
now, but the larger sum is justi-fied,
it is said, by the greatly increas-ed
cost of labor, construction and
everything that enters into the build-ing
of a railroad.
The Carolina and Yadkin road
would give Greensboro direct con-nection
with the Winston-Salem
Southbound road, wliidh connects
With the Norfolk and Western in
Winston-Salem and the Atlantic
Coast Line in Wadesboro. This is
an advantage that would be appre-ciated
by local shippers.
THE CORTRACT ROT ALLOKD
ENGLISH GOVERNMENT WILL
NOT PERMIT BRITISH FIRM
TO M.VKE SHELLS.
PROTESTS AGAI.VKT
MEXIOO'S CONSTITUTION.
DEFENDS NAVY RIGHTS
IX PACIFIC OIL LAND.
Washington, Jan. 26.—Ed. J. Jus-tice,
a quiet but dogged North Caro-lina
lawyer, has outwitted many
multimillionaires of the Pacific
states by holding tight for the navy
oil lands that the navy is entitled to.
All sorts of schemes have been tried
to make the Tar Heel attorney quit
or sidestep, but nothing has swerved
him.
The very determined and formid-able
Senator Phelan, of California,
has not been able to budge Mr. Jus-tice
in his stand that certain claims
amounting to many, many millions
<f dollars are fraudulent, and should
not be recognized by the govern-ment.
Thus far, the "inexperienced"
lawyer from Tar lleeldom has not
been Moored by the big attorneys of
the oil Interests of the West. He is
holding his own against all comers.
Many a private conversation here
between Pacific coast people inter-ested
in oil lands is about Mr. Jus-tice.
"A little fellow by {he name of
Justice, who was sent out to Cali-fornia
to keep him from running
against a North Carolina senator, has
pied the whole game by hanging on-to
this proposition that the navy ij
entitled <x. that oil," said a Western-er
to a Washington man who has
asked him about the situation as it
relates to the oil lands.
There was a contemptuous ring in
the fellow's voice but Mr. Justice is
the one man who has held the whole
crowd back. He is just beginning to
fight.
localities together, and why not have
a broad healthy city instead of a
long, narrow one?"
Mexico City. Jan. 26.—Secretary
of State Lansing has sent to General
Carranza through Charles n. Parker.
American charge d'affaires here, a
communication in regard to certain
provisions which i! has been propos-ed
to include in the new Mexican
constitution. The communication
calls attention to the article vesting
the executive with power to appro-priate
property without judicial re-course,
and also the article provid-ing
that civil commercial companies
cannot own properties of a greater
area than is necessary to accomplish
the purpose for which they are form-ed
and placing the power to deter-mine
what area is necessary in the
hands of the executive.
The communication says that if
the latter provision were made retro-active
it might be connscatory as no
provision is made for compensation.
Attention is called to the article
providing that there is no exemption
from taxation. If this were given a
retroactive effect, says Secretary
Lansing's communication it would
impair contracts of many foreign
corporations now operating- under
agreements providing periods of ex-emption
by the federal or state gov-ernments.
Regarding article 33, dealing with
the expulsion of obnoxious foreign-ers,
objection is made because the
proposed article permits the execu-tive
to expel any one. without re-course
to appeal, whose presence is
deemed inadvisable by him.
The letter states that this is not in
accord with the usual practice of na-tions
that can be clearly shown.
Mr. Parker also has sent to Gen-eral
Carranza a statement from Sec-retary
Lansing protesting against
the proposed article in the new con-stitution
which stipulates that spe-cial
concessions must be obtained by
exploiters of oil lands and allows
companies now owning such lands
one year in which to secure new con-cessions
in order to protect the
rights they already have acquired.
The statement says this article ap-parently
means virtual nationliza-tion
of Mexican oil lands and that it
might prove connscatory of foreign-owned
property.
London. Jan. 26.—The British
government has refused permission
to the Hadfield's, Limited, to pro-ceed
with work on the contract for
shells for the American navy "so
long as the exigencies of war con-tinue.''
The Announcement is made In the
form r.f an official notice by Dr.
Christopher Addison, the minister of
munitions, in which attention is call-ed
to the fact'that the entire steel
output is under his control.
Navy Department Embarrassed.
Washington, Jan. 26.—Announce-ment
of England's refusal to allow
Hadfiolds limited to accept the
American contract awarded to them
for six'een and fourteen inch armor-piercing
projectiles fell like a bomb-shell
I" the navy department.
"I c n take no action until I have
the oticii;! announcement." said
Secref>r\ of the Navy Daniels.
"Ami then rn have to think a lit-tle,"
he added.
The -navy department is greatly
embarrassed by the action of the
English government, Mr. Daniels ad-mitted.
The award of the contract
had already been signed, but the
actual signing of the contract itself
had not yet been consumated.
Neither had Hadfiields filed the re-quired
fifteen, per rent bond, to be
forfeited in case of failure to de-liver.
Two courses were open to him.
Secretary Daniels declared. One was
to advertise for new bids, which
would be certain to bring out the
same bids recently submitted by
Amer'nn manufacturers and declar-ed
by he secretary of the navy too
+iigh-and Vni.r:«, o'l* The other »o
hurry the proposed projectile plant
to completion and make the shells
independently.
It was estimated that the latter
course would be pursued.
"We now have a greater shell re-serve
than ever." said the secretary,
"but we wanted an even greater
supply. There is no great hurry for
these shells, although, of course, we
would 'like to have them as soon as
possible. It would be thirty-nine
months—three years and three
months—before the American navy
will have a battleship that can use
sixteen-inch shells. Our own projec-tile
factory probably will be finished
within a year and a half."
The government plant can be put
in operation and actually carry out
the contract awarded to Had fields
before the shells are needed, it was
pointed out. Secretary Daniels is
known to be averse to awarding the
contract to any American firm which
was refused to Hadfields.
When the original English bid was
made Secretary Daniels had a dis-tinct
understanding with the Shef-field
firm that there would be no ob-jection
to their -filling the contract
by the English government, if it
were awarded to them. No proposal
now put forward by Hadfields to de-liver
the shells after the war would
now be considered.
"Such a proposition could not be
accepted by this government," the
secretary said.
"How do we know when the war
is going to end."
Before coming to any definite de-cision
as to his course of action,
Mr. Daniels will ask the advice of
President Wilson on the subject.
ORDER FOR RECALL OF TROOPS
IX A WEEK, IT IS EXPECTED.
EXPEDITIOX WILL BE BACK
OX AMERICAN SOIL.
Washington. Jan. 27.—Withdraw-al
of the American military expedi-tion
in Mexico was ordered by the
war department today, and by the
end of another week the entire com-mand,
after ten months on Mexican
soil, probably will have recrossed
into the United States.
The order went to General Funs-ton,
in command at the border, and
left to his discretion the exact date
of starting the northward movement
and the details of carrying it out.
Under his direction the expedition
has been concentrated for the long
march. Officials here understand
that some advance units already
have started north, and believe that
within forty-eight hours the whole
column will be in motion.
At the border the regulars will re-lieve
a considerable portion, if not
all, of the national guardsmen re-maining
on duty there. Already
about 25.000 of the state troops in
the border patrol have been ordered
home and their movement probably
will be underway by the time Per-shing's
men arrive <-.n American soil.
Although officials have been silent
on the subject of Mexico since fail-ure
of the joint commission negotia-tions,
developments outwardly have
coupled the troop withdrawal with
Carranza's refusal to accept the At-lantic
City protocol and have plainly
forecast an intention to let the first
chief settle for himself hereafter the
many problems endangering the ten-ure
of the de facto government.
Patrol to Protect Border.
A patrol considered adequate to
protect the border will be maintain-ed
rigidly, however, and notice has
Ibeen served on (arran«a 'hat the
United States will not i.esSraic to
use its armed forces again, if neces-sary,
to protect American territory
and American rights. That Persh-ing's
command, sent into Mexico last
March to dispense the bandits who
raided Columbus, will be regrouped
at Mie border and put into a condi-tion
of preparedness for a recurrence
of raiding, is not doubted bare; and
in that connection army officers are
observing with keen interest the
preparations being made by Villa
and his followers and allies to debate
the territory thai Pershing will evac-uate.
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All the recent moves In the situa-tion,
however, and all those in con-templation,
were kept secret. The
war department, the state depart-ment
and the White House rigidly
preserved silence about Mexico.
REPORTED STATE WILL
REWARI> <JUARDSMEX.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
FAVORS SCALES BILL.
All
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North Carolina Items Are Re-tained.
Washington. Jan. 26.—All North
Carolina items are retained in the
rivers and .harbors bill passed by the
house. Representative Smith spent
most of today speaking in behalf of
the bill.
The bill elves North Carolina pro-ject*
a totet «K >l,718,a7g.
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Wilmington, Jan. 26.—The bill in-troduced
in the general assembly by
Senator Scales, of Greensboro, to
provide a home for delinquent wo-men
was indorsed today by the Wo-
Bum's Missionary Society of North
Carolina Methodist Conference now
in session at Grace Methodist church.
This course was recommended by
the president, Mrs. R. B. John, In
her annual report to the convention.
A committee was named to draft
suitable resolutions and forward to
Mr. Scales.
Miss Allison, deaconess, of Hills-boro.
who has charge of the mission
work in the cotton mills in that ter-ritory,
made a lengthy and interest-ing
address on the progress she is
making in the work. She told, of
the difficult combat with ignorance
and explained the method she used
to overcome this great obstacle.
Camp Stewart. El Paso. Taxas.
Jan. 26.—The report is out here that
the guardsmen are to be paid by the
state $5 per month for all the time
they have been in the service. The
men are very eager for it. All of
them have made sacrifices for the
service and need money badly.
The 'brigade test today was in the
nature of an attack against an equal
force, the Kentucky brigade acting
as an invading Mexican army at-tacking
El Paso. The North Caro-lina
troops under command of Col.
Gardner made a fine showing. They
captured one whole regiment of
"Mexicans." The report of the um-pire's
will be announced tomorrow.
The information has been received
here that the first regiment will go
to home stations to be mustered out.
This is very pleasing to the men as
they are opposed to going to Camp
Glenn.
Fire destroyed the house of First
Lieutenant Holder, company U. third
regiment, last night. Lieutenant
Holder was on guard when the fire
broke out and was not able to rescue
anything. The loss is about three
hundred dollars. Capt. Clark's
house nearby was saved with diffi-culty.
The fire started from an oil
stove which the lieutenant had left
burning in his house.
0. K.'S THEJEYEIUE BILL
PAGE AND IHH'GHTUX GIVE NO-TICE
THEY WILL XOT BE
BOUND BY CAUCUS.
Washington. Jan. 26.—-Democrat-ic
members of the house in caucus
tonight approved by a vote of 113
to 13 the'administration revenue bill
framed to meet the prospective
treasury deficit next year.
A small group led by Representa-tive
Galloway, of Texas, attacking
preparedness expenditures, and Rep-resentative
Caldwell, of New York,
denouncing the excess profits tax
features, made a fight against the
bill that kept tiie caucus in session
until nearly midnight. At the finish
the following members gave notice
that they would not be bound by Uie
caucus action:
Dies, Texas; Page. North Caro-lina:
Bailey, Pennsylvania: Cald-well,
New York; Burnett, nlllnmii
Doughton, North Carolina; Stephen".
Mississippi; Sherwood. Ohio: Tay-lor.
Arkansas; Thompson. Oklaho-ma,
and Thomas. Kentucky.
Chairman Kltehln, of the wajs
and means committee, submitted the
bill with the explanation that while
he had opposed the military and n:>-
val expenditures which made addi-tional
revenue necessary. Congress
was obliged to provide the money ir.
had authorized to be spent and that
unless it was done now an extra ses-sion
would have to be held.
The measure is designed to raisti
about $248,000,000 to meet extraor-dinary
military and naval expendi-tures
by excess profits tax and an In-creased
inheritance tax and to pro-vide
$100,000,000 more to cover the
purchase of the Danish West Indie .
expenditures on the Alaskan rail-road,
the proposed government ni -
rate plant, etc.
The excess profits measure would
impose a tax of 8 per cent of the
amount by which the net income of
every corporation and partnership
exceeds the sum of $5,000 and S per
cent of the actual capital Invested.
Income derived from the business ->f
life, health and accident insurance
combined in one policy issued on the '
weekly premium payment plan, and
from agriculture or pcrsjnu: services
would be exempted.
In addition the bill would IncretM
the amount of three per cent certifi-cates
of indebtedness which the
treasury may issue from $2D0.000.-
000 to $300,000,000 to tide the
treasury over until tills year's in-come
tax returns come in.
TAFT HAS WORDS OF
PRAISE FOR WILSON.
Kills 20 BiR Porkers.
Tarboro, Jan. 26.—Mr. B. O.
Weeks, of Edgecombe county, is
some raiser of pork, but does not
make it a specialty. Recently he
killed twenty porkers ranging in age
from six to 11 month*. These weigh-ed
4,043 pounds when taken from
the gallows.
Bangor, Maine, Jan. 26.—Speak-ing
at the annual convocation of
Bangor Theological Seminary in
Bangor tonight on the "League to
Enforce Peace," ex-President W. II.
Taft endorsed President Wilsons
peace message in these words:
"I can not close without referring
to the eloquent and noble address or
President Wilson to the senate on
Monday last. We who favor a league
rejoice sincerely that the president
has so strongly expressed his convic-tion
of the high duty of the United
States to help organize the world's
power to suppress national lawless-ness
and enforce due procedure 1 >r
the peaceful settlement of interna-tional
difficulties. His speech is :in
epoch in the history of our foreign
policy. Hi.-- advocacy of our partici-pation
in the world league is a mo.it
powerful aid to its .formation. It ...-
■area the attention and interest of
the American people who must ulti-mately
judge of the wisdom of t; »
policy before we enter upon it. It
will stimulate discussion of our
world responsibility or the burdens
we should assume in meeting It."
Predict Snow Fall For February li.
Newton, Jan. 2b.—Col. George .11,
Yoder, nearly 90 years old and ajflse
in the ways of the moon and the
stars and things, says that through,
long observance he has found a full
moon when a crawfish is ruler "f
the zodiac a certain percursor of MI-clement
weather, tlie praatpltatlon
taking the form of sleet or snow dur-ing
the winter season. In December
this conjunction of Diana and the in-land
lobster brought snow, says the
colonel; and February 6 the two will
hold sway again. As that is Tuesda>■
of February court in Catawba coun-ty,
all citizens here are betting the:-
money on what the coloned says.
since K sever falls to rain, sleet or
in<y# *urtng February court.
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