The Greensboro patriot [February 13, 1919]

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GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1919. *• VOL. 98. NO. 13
THIS <'|TV
CHANGES
FORjEW BUILDING
MAOK BEST SHOWING
' ANY CLAIMANT.
Feb. 10.—Tli ere
tonight that
contain authoriza-pcstofllce
building at
tt'ashinBion.
„ .rerv indication
.^forthcoming omnibus public
.glidings bill •
SSUo" Thb Prediction is made
SM a hearing to-day at which
teelboro delegation and Repre-
Sntative Stedman appeared before
5 house tmmm on public
Hidings and grounds and furnish-statistics
showing that the pres-et
'facilities of the federal buildings
„ G,een6boro are far behind the
»jly demands.
Uthough hearings on the omm-
„ public buildings bill had closed,
,,ai,man Frank Clark and mem-trs
of the committee granted a
-■jcciai hearing to
erting that the effl-force
has been crip-pled
' because of the lack of work
room and that the postofflce force
of 19G3 has been trefbled with no
expansion of floor space In the
Greensboro building.
fThat the poetoffloe receipts at
Greensboro have been doubled with-in
five years was the showing made
to-day by the Greensboro commit-tee,
headed by .Mayor Stafford. For
the fiscal year l»13, ,for instance,
the postofflce receipts were given as
approximately $100,000, while for
1918 the calendar year, they mount-ed
to $226,000.
Indicating the progressiveness of
Greensboro, the committee declared
that the county is building a half
million dollar court house and a
half million dollar hotel, and" that
since 1903, when the present fed-eral
building was re-modeled,
Greensboro has seen constructed
several cotton factories, the largest
denim mill 1n the world, automobile
industries, several large office build-,;,
c Greensboro'ings and various other establish-ation.
which was introduced by, ments in keeping with the growth of
ilajor Stedman. At the outset of,the city In 1903 the delegation
;... hearing Chairman Clark assert- ^said> thg postomce served 12.000 to
,h,. -principal reason that|15000 "people> whereas it now
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granted is the
members of the
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• Stafford, of
.: 1.-: . K. Stern-
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iumittee. each
■bowing that
• building is
• the transac-
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(Jircii-hmn M:iK<- Best Showing.
.y th» conclusion of
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serves 50,000 to 60,000.
letter From Judge Boyd.
Major Stedman presented figures
showing that the receipts of the
Greensboro postofTice has growii
from $64,000 in 1906 to more than
5225.000 in 191S. with no increase?
in the size of the building which
house-s the government"* activities.
Representative Stedman Hied witli
the committee a letter from Judge
James K. Boyd, saying that "it is
conceded that our present facilities
are totally inadequate, and I do not
the hearing 1 knew of any place more in need of a
of Massa- new federal building.'*
ARE GERMANS PREPARING
F0R_AH0THER WAR ?
IT 18 RELIAJBA.V REPORTED
THAT SHE HAS PLACED 18
DIVISIONS ON FRONT.
London, Feb. 10.—British news-papers
of all shades of opinion are
devoting serious attention to the at-titude
adopted by the German gov-ernment
toward the armistice con-ditions.
The Daily News Paris correspond-ent
sends a dispatch from "authori-tative
sources" on the subject, in
which he says his informant told
him that he had the best reason to
believe that Germany is not contin-uing
to demobilize.
vShe has now concentrated more
than 18 divisions under von Hinden-burg
on the western front," the cor-respondent
quotes his informant as
saying. "We also have the best rea-son
to believe that Germany is
keeping her troops under arms on
the pretext of economic necessity.
Some of the military authorities
think that Germany has sought
more material to give necessary
armament to 3.000,000 men. Ger-man
demobilization is a condition to
our demobilization and therefore
THE COOflTRY MEEDS AND
MUSTflAVE THE MONEY
THE VICTORY LOAN BOND ISSUE
MAY BE INCREASED TO TEN
* BILLIONS.
Washington, Feb. 10.—Secretary
Class to-day asked' Congress to in-crease
the. amount of liberty bonds
authorized but unissued to approx-imately
|10,000,fl00,000 and to give
him broad powers to determine the
interest rate and other terms of the
victory liberty loan, to be floated
late in April. He also sought per-mission
to issue not more than $10,-
000,000,00<> of treasury notes, ma-turing
within, five years, and asked
that the war finance corporation be
authorized for one year after the
declaration of peace to make com-mercial
loans on exports to facilitate
foreign trade.
■In a letter to Chairman Kitchin,
of the house ways and means com-mittee,
Secretary Glass outlined the
broad policies which the treasury
hopes to follow in dealing with war
loans and other national financial
•subjects.
The secretary submitted a draft
of a bill which would carry out the
treasury's recommendations. Specif-
"nisbandment is impossible so long as. k-ally. this bill would accomplish
docs not continue to de-
:.,,:!-. observed thai "the show-1 Representative Stedman filed a
ai yen have made for the Greens-'letter from R. R. King, stating that
,oro building la the best that I have "the space allowed to the postofflce
any public ' proper is very cramped, inconveni-ent
and nothing like sufficient for
present needs."
Mr. King also said the business of
the court, like the postofTice, long
has outgrown the space allowed it,
and the entire federal building af-forded
not sufficient room for any of
the activities supposed to be carried
on therein.
H. R. Bush, representing the in-surance
business of Greensboro, in-schoo'.
s; and that the 1 formed the house committee that
>ne negro school has nbw increased this North Carolina city was the
■ ••iiools. center of the insurance business in
the South to-day.
"In 1903," said Mr. Bush, "when
the present federal building was re-
' modeled Greensboro had just com-jmenced
the organization of instfr-jance
companies, while to-day it la
nk deposits in 1903.'the recognized insurance center of
:''1.■'•76.000, in round', the South, having more insurance
srown to $7.380.-'companies 'with headquarters there
lijitires. itlian any other city in the South.
lacis mid Ftenrc*. "There are more fire insurance
":i '-■•-• showing the in. I companies in Greensboro than in
- of llreenshoro's business : any cit>' South of the sta,e of Penn"
■ !'■ 'en; .small postofTice
Germany
! mobilize.
"Allied military authorities con-
Isider the time has now arrived for
Germany (o give up her
strength—that she be brought to
such a condition that she cannot re-
■s'st later the conditions of peace
now beins, prepared. The allied
theory always has been that we
shall frame conditions which Ger-many
will have to accept, and that
there is nothing to discuss, except
as regards details.
.ear.! in suppori 0:"
■niMing project."
The Greensboro delegation pre-
•fflttd 10 the lious* committee a
irief showing aaa; fee postofflce
wilding rMWMM » it*", while
IIM! it '.Ml |M • *« needs of
,'ie (•■siuttr. it aovr absolutely
:iadequa:e to local demands. This
lief showed, for instance, that in
1903 there was one white school in
ireewboro and now that there are
Tlie brief further stated that the
>'.ate Normal College had five build-ags
in 190
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ai:.l eleven buildings
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'Vi.ii buildings in 1903.
■ now. and that the
'* constrn led included statistics
sealing four lotton mills and the
'•"-1"' denls.i mill in the world has
a en '•' in Greensboro in the
''••: thai Greensboro now
»»"■■ (•: - factories; five life
||: i)surance companies in
:1] > -•■!;■.• agencies; two flour
■ furniture manufacturing
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the following results:
Raise from $5,000,000,000 to
$10.000.OOO.'00-O "the authorization
tor the victory liberty loan, and per-mililary
mit the treasury to determine what
part of this sum shall be sold.
Permit the secretary of the treas-ury
to determine interest rates on
bonds maturing within 10 years, or
the next liberty loan, instead of lim-iting
the rate to 4 1-4 per cent, as
provided in the present law.
Permit the issue of not more than
$10,000,000,000 of interest-bearing.
GENERAL STRIKE CALLED
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
New York, Feb. 10.—Union heads
of basic building construction trades
to-day called a general strike,
which, beginning tomorrow, will af-fect
all contracts throughout the
country held by members of the
Building Trades Employers Associa-tion,
according to an announcement
here tonight by William J. Hutche-wn,
president of the United Broth-erhood
of Carpenters and Joiners
of America.
Mr. Hutheson said the strike or-der
affected masons, plasterers,
brick layers, hoisting engineers, ele-vator
contractors, soft stone cutters,
tile layers, marble #etters and car-penters.
The walkout of these work-men,
he added, will automatically
throw out of work an other work-men
employed on operations of
membeVs of the Employers' Associa-tion.
The number of men affected by
the order, he said, is about 250,000,
or one-fourth of all union building
trades workmen in the country.
Sympathetic strikes, he predicted,
will ultimately bring the number of
strikes to 300.000. .
Jl'RV SELECTED IX CASK
OF ALLEGED RIOTERS.
"For this reason. Germany is try- non-circulating notes having matur- I
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'head offices in Greensboro than
I there are in any of the cities of Chi-
: cago, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
1 qr any of the western cities, except
St. Paul and San Francisco."
I (Mr. Bush said that there were
; four fire and four life insurance
: companies with headquarters in
1 Greensboro and that their total re-a:
ceipts were now more than $8,000,-
ww office buildings and,000 a >'ear' compared with a busi-civic
improvements ne6S of only a few humired thou'
increased lloor space of sand dollars in 1903' when tl,e *"*•
• hniiding ien' postofflce was constructed.
Nation "presented figures Ninety-nine per cent of the business
■■■■ in the cotton mill vil- ot ,hese Insurance companies, he
* rib Greensboro the pop- said" came ***** the United
increased 460 per cent States maiI-federal
building! More Space Badly Needed.
"'••'.••I; that the number j Mayor Stafford and the Greens-
; in the cotton mills has boro delegation went minutely into
-'■' per cent, and the the physical aspect of the Greens-boro
postofTice situation. They told ,stance* of Germany's failure to com-the
house committee that both the p^' WItn ,lle armistice terms, not-federal
court and the postmaster ably in tlle handing over of artil-wero
cramped for space: that there 'er>, submarines and agriculture
machinerv.
ing to keep up her military strength
so that she can send a delegation to
the peace congress for a thorough
military discussion of the peace con-ditions
imposed. On this point the
French national socialist party and
its extreme wing is strongly opposed
to anything done to save Germany
from the consequences of defeat. In
th:s matter the French government
will be supported by the entire na-tion."
The correspondent says he had
been informed by a competent Brit-ish
authority that Marshal Foeh
"made a declaration of a somewhat
serious character at a meeting of
the supreme war. council."
"He feels." this authority is quot-ed
.a-s saying, "that the Germans are
beginning to forget that they are
beaten. They a/e apt to forget that
we are in a state of war. They have
been £low in handing over trans-port
and other things. They are
causing a great deal of difficulty.
"We are demobilizing fast; they
are not continuing to demobilize.
There is danger of Germany saying
'we do not care anything about your
league of nations, am- we have got
our troops.' unless a change takes
place we might be faced1 with a .?it-ua'tion
in which Germany, as re-gards
the number of men in the : corporation held abroad,
field, will have three men as against! A-, t'- reason for asking such
the allies two." 'wMe autll01,ty t0 determine terms ^ «" 0mn'b^ pubhc building,
"The question of demobilization I of the victory loan, Secretary Glass bm- has decided to Include in that
has been taken „, by the supreme j explained in his letter to Mr. Kitch- the
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S'edman pr,°P;Sal f°'" * M* fed-
Wftr council. All the technical advis- in that he could not determine th-s «■» buildinS at Greensboro.
era have certainly been in favor of far in advance what the terms ! ' This can be states on reliable au-taking
what* additional measures'should be in April. jthority. The showing made before
may be necessary to prevent any j -The victory loan could not be is-; ihe commfttee by l;<P' -'•-<
danger to the allies or their posi- sued successful^, now that hostili-tions
or any danger of their not be- tie6 have ceased, within the limita-ng
able to dictate what peace terms Iion imposed by existing laws." said
ities from one to five years; these
might be gojA with bonds of the vic-tory
liberty loan.
Authorize the issue of bonds and
notes payable at a premium.
Exempt war savings certificates
from income surtaxes.
Confer on the secretary of the
treasury authority to determine the
tax exemption in respect to future
Issues of bonds and notes, and to
enlarge tax exemption on existing
liberty bonds in the hands of sub-scribers
for new bonds and notes.
Reopen the privilege of convert-ing
4 per cent liberty bonds into
4 1-4; that this privilege expired
last November.
iCreate a 2 1-2 per cent cumula-tive
sinking fund for retirement of
the war debt.
Extend the authority of the war
finance corporation to permit it to
make loans in aid of American com-merce,
supplanting the aid given by
the treasury on direct loans to allied
governments, and in a measure re-lieving
the treasury of demands for
■such loans.
Permit the continuation of loans
to allies after the war.
Exempt from income taxes and
profits taxes all issues of liberty
bonds and bonds of the war finance
Winston-Salem, Feb. 12.—The
taking of evidence in the cases of
the Winston-Salem men. under in-dictment
on four counts on the
charge of-being at least partially
responsible for the riot in this city
November 17 last, will begin in Bar-ry
Superior court at Dobson tomor-row
morning. The last of the twelve
jurors not having been secured un-til
this afternoon. That the trials
will run into next week is conceded
now. ,
When the sheriff of Surry was in-structed
by Judge Long on Monday
to summons, nineteen men from
which It was then thoueht.a. Jury
LEGISLATIVE SDIMARY
FIRST HALF THE WEEK
wmr SESSION GONE AND ONLV
THE PRELIMINARIES BEING
LOOKED AFTER.
Raleigh, Feb. 10.—The legislative
committee on constitutional amend-ments
heard spirited argument to-night
on the Do ugh ton bill to amend
he constitution providing: for income
tax and a $2 maximum poll tax, and
then voted in executive session to re-port
the bill favorably, with an
amendment by Gray to permit mu-nicipalities
to levy a poll tax of not
over $2. The opposition to the in-come
tax amendment, oarticularly
that on incomes from property, wa»
led by J. W. Bailey and the prin-cipal
speeches in support of the bill
were by Corporation Commissioner
A. J. Maxwell and Representative R.
A. Doughton. Advocates of the meas-ure
stressed the view that property
cannot bear all the burden of taxa-tion
without the taxes becoming op-pressive
and excessive, and that, in
all fairness, if the salary ot the
clerk and other toilers are to be
taxed, the far larger net income.*
from property that does not repre-sent
toil at all should be taxed also.
It was brought out In the discus-sion
that the new revenue bill will
probably be introduced In the house
tomorrow, the copy being now ready
for the printers, and that the state
tax in this, which has heretofore
been 21 cents, has been cut to 11
cents.
The slate treasurer opened bid*
for refunding bonds to-day, found
only one bid "Tiled, and no sale was
made.
The minority party, or Butler six
months' school bill, went to the sen-ate
this afternoon through Senator
Fisher and was referred to the com-mittee
on education in readinasa for
thorough hearing ot Hi In i#d> in-summoned
was John Banner, a
warehouse man at iMt. Airy. Fail-ing
to show up for service on Tues-day,
Judge Long very promptly im-posed
a fine of $40 and instructed
the sheriff to have it collected with-out
delay. A deputy went to Mt.
Airy and notified the warehouseman
of the court's action. Banner wrote
out his personal check for this $40
and authorized the officer to tell
Judge Long that he regretted he
was too busy to attend court at this
time. After receiving the message
his honor imposed another fine. thi6
amount being $iito. The deputy
was again instructed to return to
Mt. Airy and Make collection. The
officer was expected to make his sec-ond
report late this" afternoon.
Those who know Judge-Long are in-clined
to believe that if Mr. Banner
fails to show up in court a much
more severe judgment will be enter-ed
against him.
could be secured, one ot the parties v«AV«d hr'Titl the pendrnix Jhfr j/y;~
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CHANCES FOR POSTOFFICE
AT GREENSBORO BRIGHTER.
Washington. Feb. 11.—The sub-committee
of the house public build-ing
committee, which is now fram-
"- dwellings 269 per cent.
'; "•'■•-hoio Dr:ef likewise
■,: 'he cotton mills in
i' nsboro expect to pay
:<;..000,000 in income tax-.was no space for the storage of led-
' w.u- revenue bill. leral court records; that there was a
they please."
I Mr. Glass.
•The correspondent in Paris of the; Mr. Glass expressed hope the op-
Daily Mail credits Marshal Foch as eralicn ot the laws of supply and de-naving
said to t-e supreme war mand regarding foodstuffs would
11 ' !l r "' I"" soon cause reduction in the cost of
living and warned against artificial
retardation of the process of falling
prices and credit contractions.
ditions to be laid down February 17.
' Stedman and the Greensboro dele-gation
was such that the sub-com-mittee
has decided to aprove the
project.
! It is practically certain also that
the omnibus measure will include
the appropriation for a new postof-flce
at Mt. Airy, which is in the
Greensboro congressional district.
With the development that
j Greensboro will be provided for i I
the bill, local interest now shifts ,o
the legislative situation. The ses-w
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■ claim that the city
iis present postofflce
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"As evidence of the German soir- T e terms suggested include ' the *">" is nearine an end a"d b°t'!1
Sen:
.: ;„, : tor postofflce boxes for it." the correspondent continued. JJnding 1£*5 tne ,hole of the a'« and house must work rap.dly if
"Marshal Foch mentioned an occa- TTmAn artniery- compulsory re- a Public *■*«■« f
b,» '3 ,t0 ,g0
sicn when he summoned a German JS of the German army to 25 ""-ugh. >«an> °f "■ ■^Jj-commission
to meet him anH ,w- aucu " l , uel"<* \ fear it will f>e caught in a legisla-failed
.,0' "ap"p*e■a'r a.tt ',■L• t«im1e andI AMS[°nS- "^ "fT g Id tire jam and fail 0, final approval in!ernal policing of the empire: and J
place indicated. It was only after OCCUpation by the allies of the Ruhr .»—• *"»«■
At the conclusion of the hearing,;^ Pressure °« Ma part that the distl.ict. which includes Essen. I However. Chairman Frank Cork
meeting eventually took place. , „Dusing an important debate on says he expects to get the bill
"According to Marshal Foch's es- these proposals the further sugges- through the house and hopes no
timate. the 0«rm»«. „ »- .,. ..... :„ viett-of Ger- trouble will ariee in the senate.
•liinvmg the growth
■ the mill villages of rent; and that the railway mail
•i;:> Manufacturing Com-1 clerks and internal revenue officers
1 'c Oak mills, the Rev- at Greensboro were conducting prae-
"l mills, and Pomona tically a pigeon-hole business on ac-ihe
Proximity Print cgunt of cramped facilities,
introduced in support
Representative Stedman said:
"I am confident that we are going
to get authorization for a new post-office
in the forthcoming bill. My
chief concern now is whether we
"'"ittee to-day a state- can get the omnibus bill through
:i R. I). Douglas, former both houses of Congress before
the federal building at March 4."
Knota < tipples Work,
'tive Stedman present-ihe
Germans are now cajl- tion was made that, in
able of placing an army of" 3.000.- manys"attitude;the""allies should Major atetoy^ **?**_?*•
000 in the field in tWo months. a,50 revert t0 the initial demand for turbed over ?*f^^™»£
time. " . .. .„.,„*,.„..»<, Ine for action and his feeling is-t> pi-
"It is desired to
the handing over of
make a renewal which was modified on account
of the war impossible under the con- Germany's plea of impossibility."
transports. Ing for aci
of cal of that of othrr members with
projects scheduled for luncheon.
the joint committee on- education
later in the week.
A bill by Senator DeLaney, of
Mecklenburg, would authorize the
commissioners of any North Caro-lina
county to co-operate with com-missioners
in adjacent counties of
adjoining states in road and bridge
constructions across state lines.
The senate passed the bill to pro-vide
$50 and $100 denominations in
state bond issues heretofore provid-ed
for but not issued, the purpose-being
to enable as many North Car-olinians
as possible to purchase
these bonds.
The house concurred in the sen-ate
amendment to allow local adver-tising
rates for legal advertising, to
newspapers must file sworn state-ments
of these local rates. The bill
is ordered enrolled for ratification.
The house refused to concur In a
senate amendment to the bill to re-quire
reports by county home keep-ers
that would add reports to tlin
sate board of charities on demand.
A conference committee was order-ed.
McNeill introduced a biii to re-quire
licenses for grain threshers
and have them report grain thresh-ed.
The house passed the bill amend-ing
the 1917 municipal finance bill
so towns of less than 5,000 popula-tion
can issue bonds to 12 1-2 per
cent instead of 10 per cent of prop-erty
value.
Both houses adjourned to 2
o'clock Tuesday afternoon so legis-latures
can attend tne cotton con-ference
during the forenoon Tues-day.
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TueSOay'M Session.
Raleigh, Feb. 11.—The new reve-nue
bill, as hammered into shape by
(he joint finance committee of the
legislature during the past three
weeks, was introduced in the house
this afternoon by Chairman Dough-ton,
of the house jommittee on
finance, and is regarded as the most
notable measure of the kind offered
in the legislature in years. It in-creases
the state tax for schools
from 20 cents to 32 cents on the
hundred dollars valuation and cuts
the regular state levy from 23 2-3
cents to 11 2-3 cents, however, fire
per cent of the 23 2-3 cents levy
heretofore has been set aside as a
state equalizing fund.
The tax rates on Inheritance are
not changed but these taxes are
placed more completely in the hands
of the state tax commission. The
only additional tax in that part ot
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