The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-09-18

| their I00C. IN TWO addresses the pres
ident asserted that the connection be-
tween acceptance of the peace treaty
and ameliOration of living conditions
was a direct one, and that the world
was looking to America to take the
lead in restoring the world to a sound
economic basis.
Cardinal MERCER of Belgium arrived
| in New York City bringing the thanks
of Belgium to the American people for
| their support and sympathy during
| the war.
Domestic
Key West presents an appearance
of grim disaster, as she is but slowly
emerging from the severest and most
! prolonged storm in the history of the
city. The damage was increased by a
constant deluge of rain accompanying
the storm. Shipping suffered awful
ly, the entire water fronts being a
mass of interlocked fishing vessels,
yachts and small crafts.
Countless thousands of Americans,
flushed with the pride of victory paid
tribute in New York City in what was
probably that city's most impressive
military spectacle, to the nations
leader, Gen. John J. Pershing, COM
mander-in-chief of the American ex-
peditionary force, and to the far
famed first division.
Nine survivors of a crew of thirty
six men aboard the Ward line steamer
Corydon, which foundered off the Flor
ida coast during a hurricane; were
toll fn Miami Flo NV fichin0
schooner Island Home. They had
been adrift on an upturned lifeboat
without food and water for two days.
Congressional investigation of war
expenditures now being conducted by
house committees cost about ten thou
sand dollars a month.
Mob violence, chiefly in the form
of window smashing, occurred in the
scattered sections of Boston within
a few hours after the union members
Of the police force went on strike.
The worst disturbance was in the
South Boston district; but inspection
Of the stores indicated that only
few articles had been stolen from the
show windows.
After the American Cotton AssO
citation at the closing session in New
Orleans had agreed unanimously upon
a scale of temporary minimum prices
from SO cents for September to 40
cents for May, an uproar over res
Olution for the Endorsement Of Presi-
dent Wilson's tour of the league of
nations and for urging the senate to
ratify Immediately the peace treaty
ensued in which the proposal to set
aside the two-thirds rule which would
allow a vote was defeated IS to Al.
Delegates to the convention of the
National Association of Retail Cloth
iers in Chicago predicted a reduction
in the price of clothing soon.
Sunday burials in the Mobile, Ala,
city cemetery were made unlawful
when the city adopted an ordinance
against them. The ordinance~went in
to effect Immediately. The measure
was taken up by the commission fol-
lowing petition by grave diggers, I'M
dertakers and ministers. A fine of not
more than 500 is provided in the
new ordinance.
Five strikers were killed and fifteen
wounded in a battle between 1000 for
mer employees of the Standard Steel
Gar company anu the ponce at Ham
mond, Ind.
A militia machine gun company and
force of deputy sheriffs guard the
Knox county, Tennessee, Jail. This is
a precaution against possible attack
upon the jail, in an effort to release
some one or more of the fifty men
now in custody on charges growing
out of the attack on the Jail and the
consequent rioting recently, when un-
successful efforts were made to secure
Mays, a negro charged with the muir.
der of white woman.
Clubs organized among negroes in
the South by the department Of agri-
culture and the state colleges are re-
sulting in cleaner premises, wells and
spring houses and better repaired
houses and cabins a review of the |
work issued by the department says. |
The negro club women have organized |
1T cooperative poultry breeding as
sociations and fifty cooperative egg
circles are the means by which they
obtain a better price for their prod
ucLs.
Two men and boy were killed |
in turbulent riots growing out of the |
police strike in Boston. There were |
numerous injuries of a minor nature |
to members of mobs, police officers
and state guardsmen. The most Sc |
rious disturbances were in the vicin- |
ity of Scollay square and South Bos- |
ton