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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
MARKETS ARE CROWDED
WITH BRIGHT TOBACCO
DanvilIe Wrestling With Continuous
. Glut-Othor Bright Centers
Filled With Weed.
sUN.CURED SOLD IN RICHMOND
Better Grades Higher Than Last
Season, Common and Low Grades
Not as Higt-Eastcrn North Caro-
lima MartS Show Advances.

s The sun-curcd tobacco is beginning
to come into the Richmond warehouses
in much larger quantities, and all good
colory leaf that is delivered in good
condition and dry order is bringing
better prices than similar goods
brought last season at this date, but
the low grades are not selling quite
as we'll as last season.
- The offerings this week amounted
10 l76.00o pounds. There was a con-
siderable sprinkling OF primings, a
goodly proportion OF low grade leaf
and some goods that were In bad order.
and yet the average made for the week
was sci per 100 pounds Sun-cured
wrappers sold as high as $40 per 100
and from that down 10 $40.
There were no offerings of Hanover.
Charles City or Chesteriield County
Knights last week but warehouse men
have information that some of these
goods will be delivered here this week
and more perhaps next week. No dark
shipping goods have been offered yet.
The reports from all of the bright
markets OF Virginia and North Caro-
lima tell OF enormous breaks. gluttcd
markets and prices still climbing.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
STRUCK OIL IN KANAWHA
IinclnnnH Company Prospecting Senr
Nhnricston. w. Va. Strikes 500
Barrel Well of High Grade

CHARLESToN. W. Va, Oct. 25.-1n
me ClendenninE district of Kanawha
county the United Fuel and Gas Com
pany. subsidiary OF the Columbus
Gas and Electric Company. Of Cincina
matt. has struck IT rich
:. rms company has been prospec,,np
~ a comparatively new territory and
mere they have struck wei, that il
ooohsidered very rich. Within the nas,
i've months ;hirty-six wells have bern
50red by this company in the Glen
SHeednh!hE district, one Of which Is an
S ,t oarrel well that promises biz
unihEs; and has been named the Coz
high grade. stf'Ct!S
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
Hosiery Mil. in En., T.,n.,

.EHATTANDDGA, TENN. Ocr ~
TIE Read Hosiery Mills. recently u
corporated Al McMlnnville. Tenn. wiz
100000 capitaI stock. have boon or.
Read TO be the president. TIN. CO.,
pany VIII esta Dish hosiery manuf,r
.urins plant a, AcMinnyilie. eracting
g tory hr!cH building s0xl 20
and bleachtns and dye rooms. The
mills VII be Installed with machjncry
70 kI'e th+n q daily capacity OF 1000
doIer pairs. OF hose. ''NN'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
COAL M.NE GETS TO WORK
NusseIi County's Latent Fuel Gon,,,~
oct" Ready to Help Warm
Up Things.

J., LEBANON: VA, Oct. 25.-The Anna
,,a.h'hn Coal CORPORATION. OF Wiider
nhn peeh organized and has aconirej
SVo acres OF coal land in this com, "
when VIII be developed The machin.
tppy ana attachments. ready to be put
ity OF nifty tons "'! cdPeS-
IN The ec, company has elected the follow.
pi ~; o'''Sers: ID. l.. Rumsay, president:
WOLF secretary-treasurcr. The con-
pany was incorporated about six werE
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
Fail Figure. nj Lynchburr.

;LYNCHBuEG. VA. Oct. .25,-The leaf
tobacco offerings this weak amounted
TO $4,000 pounds.
While receipts were fair this week
they were not rs large as would have
been but for two days of rain The
rain, however. made a fine season for
handling tobacco, and much larger
sales are expected next week.
Lynchburg never had as strong a
market for tobacco as now, and prices
for both dark aud bright are higher
than ever known. MI grades of
briEhts are bringing remarkably high
prices, some bringing Sllo per 100
Dark tobacco. both air.cured and
smoked, is selling very high, Us seen
from the following quotations: i.urS
(common), SIS to sl9; Tugs tgood), SIS
TO s22; leaf tshorD. SIS to So: leaf
tgood), S25 TO $685. leaf (dapplcp. so
TO 337; leaf (wrappers). $50 10 $40
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
HYDRO-ELECTRiC PLANT
Building OH the watauEa In Boone
County to Furnish $40 Horse
power.

BOONE. y. C.. Oct. cs.-The Boone
blowing Rock Light and Power Com
pany. recently Incorporated. has been
organi%cd and is proceeding to bust
nounces that 3t0-horsepower hydro
electric plant will be established on
Boone Fork branch of the WatauEa
River. re-cnforced concrete dam is
10 be built and concrete and steel
powerhouse also.
Three transmission lines are to be
built and piping put in The whole
vii! cost something like 500, 600 Work
is 10 be commenced on the dam at once
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
DARK. Sold ut Drake. Brnnch.

DRAM RKANCH, Y T., OCT. 25,-
The first offerings OF dark tobaccoS
on this market tor this season came
in this week, about $4,000 pounds In
all. These offerings consisted mostly
OF very common and medium grades,
and the prices ranged from So TO SIS
higher than at the opening sales Of
last year. Competition among the
buyers was strong, and there was an
upward tendency OF prices each day.
Heavier breaks are looked for next
week
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26

NORFOLK. VA, Oct 25.-Thc Nor
folk Sweet Potato Curing Corporation.
recently Incorporated with $4,000 cap
ital stock. Will erect plant here
which viii he installed with machinery
mat vii! give IL an annual capacity OF
10000 bushels Of potatoes
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26
Pctcrahnrg Murkct Very Active.

PETERSBURG, Va. Oct. 25.-The
nles of bright tobacco were large this
Mex. The market was very active
,Xl prices higher than last week. The
..Ierage on the weeks sales was around
SIS per 100 pounds. Best grades sold
for the following prices per 100 pounds:
$40, SIS, $50, SIS. sS7. SIS. 500. So. S95,
S9S. Sl00, sos, SllO. Sll4 and Sis.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-26

DANNIlLE VA, Oct. 2J.-lt looks as
iotaceo Slut, Evsry wHa u:t in "a, m
city was crowded all the week wi'h
the br!Eht lyaf and sun The wagons
continue 10 come in.
in the rush OF things II is i,npossbi lie
TO get the figures from the warehouses.
but the estimate is that al least 5000
and the aEcraE" price obtained was
far up in the mites, possibly ~ high
dency IS sti!l upward. there seeming
10 be no limit 10 the figures the buy
srs are willing TO place Upon good leaf
There is every indication of con
rinued heavy receipts all OF next week,
and really u begns 20 look rs II the
ibr sts ARE %5m.nE to haxf a., OF
nl"ck-d Snls. at south Boston.
,hs 9Th. h2 $500 oGt ;'n SO SO. on
extremely heavy for the pas, week.
blocking on Monday and staying 80
to5 ne res, Of ne week.
Eooc grade and the prices haze con-
t!nuec g r.sa each day. when the or
der u the tobacco vas good
sho*n dec'ded upwara ,endenoy,
@hlan ms orQH2%r ms average UP
COZ. H ',- ~
rangrg from :T5 u ,t00 per hundred,
ana q. q me companies seem anxious
10 ga hem
:, To amour, 0: sales .o- the week ia
about !.55g, o9g. wa.ch has sold a. an
aTsregs o. &jj.5y per hundred Tine
beng ne 'cra. se!"s for the season
to r-4r.y 100 900 POUNDS
H"=Ny sales ere expected next week
a. a. - 'ls planters seem anxious to
ELL - soon a. pos b!e.
Hirhcst Yet nj Gre~nviiIe
Si;f-i-NN Lille. -. c. Oct. 25.-There
tor ag.ces On lsaf ,o5atco ~ ,hl MAJ ma.
81 -! EooD and me hrights weru
biEh-- it.7 week tnaU ever before
ne i"ns IH'e amounted 20 l.T7 900
prHhGs "a.Gh brought an av--age
afpun9 ;si per hundred pounds som.
ally lno.c" lots and everything ma,
nar er'"- ard body brought ur!ces maj
.Ae - +tsT5 never bc!cr. dreamed o,
!..ce4pls Or. eEprcttG 10 b. equally a.
htaVy Z 'oi heavier ueH. week
niE t,c5n4e a, rocky Mount.
Sa!er % leaf tcbacep were some
itaEifr THIS H""k, h!ockins on Frl-
esy ana finishing 40 this morning
sale '1r 'ne week Amounted 10 anon,
100000 pounds winch soid ft>r H.
cate a5ou, ll7oooG5 pg.tds. wri mt' ~ a.
averaged about $500"
prices have advanced e,eadu,
throughout IN. w.ok. as rceHct.a' -
the Increased average, and Inc gtad.
@a ,9h"c.o being hardly as good 4,
are i3si disappearing and tho bu7E o.
!eaf and iEgs ABOUT so urr con, -,
iho!" oi IN" CROP mas been AOiG
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28
RECRUITING
OFFICE HERE
Enlistments For One and
Three Years in Regular
\ Army Now.

Lieutenant Colonel S. S. Ross, U.
S. A., recruiting officer in charge of
the district Of North and South Da-
kota, is in the city today arranging
for the opening Of a recruiting office
for the regular army in Grand Forks.
All volunteer enlistments were dis
continued last September, but pur-
a to an act Of congress recruiting
for the regular army will be renewed
and stations will be established
throughout the United States.
n or three years duration. Men
with previous military service can be
accepted for the one-year enlistment.
Others can be enlisted for the three
year period; however, the men who
enlist for three years a apply for
discharge at the end OF the first year,
and If they. can qualify under certain
requirements not yet named they may
secure a discharge.
1t will be the policy of the war de-
partment, according to Lieutenant
Colonel Ross, to have all three-year
enlistment men put in part of their
service overseas. The strength of the
regular army has not yet been fixed
by congress, and, according to the
lieutenant colonel. the regulars are to
be entirely re~organized, and men en-
listing soon will have a fine oppor-
tunity for advancement
The new recruiting office will prob
ably be located in the Northwestern
building. at the corner of Fourth
street and DeMers avenue-the same
building in which the old office was
situated. Lieutenant Colonel Ross
expects to place two or three recruit
ing officers here, as the activity may
warrant.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28

NOT SERIOUS
Epidemic is Well Under
Control in Inkster is
Last Report. d.

The influenza situation in Inkster
n the near vicinity is much improv-
ed. according to DIR. Lemery, the
physician in charge at Inkster. and
the epidemic is subsiding rapidly.
Only four new cases were reported to-
day, Dr.. Lemery said this morning,
and Of the sixty-five cases existing
many patients are recovering rapid
ly. The epidemic is we'll under con-
troll and SO far no deaths have oe-
Cured either in the town or in the
country. 1t is understood, he said to-
day, hat a few cases We're reported
from Walsh county, where the cpl
demic seems TO have again taken
hold, but there too, the situation is
net serious.
Urgent Need For Nurse.
The present spread OF influenza
does not seem to be appearing in such
dangerous aspects as was the case
formerly, DE-. Lemery said. and physi-
clans near 1nkster are able to cope
with it. Medical assistance is sufficient
to meet the demand and except in
one case there are enough nurses. DR..
Lemery said this morning hat there
was urgent need for one more nurse
in Inkster.
According to DR.. ]. E. Hethering-
ton. county health officer, in a state
ment made last night, twenty-five of
the SiXty-fiVe cases are claSsed as
pneumonia cases, and Il great num-
Der of the less serious cases are now
at the convalescent stage. Five people
in Grand Forks are at present report-
ed Ill with influenza. and so far one
death has resulted, but city health of
ficials advise that there is no cause
fer alarm. The situation is we'll UNI
der control, and with ordinary pre-
caution on the part of individuals
there is no need for the disease to
begin its spread again. No other
places in Grand Forks county report
any outbreak of the epidemic, DR..
Hetherington said TO-DAY.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28
COMMITTEE TO
AID MEETING
Plans For Elevator, Drive
Taken Up at CONNER
cial Club Today.

Plans for the mass meeting to be
held at the city hall Sunday afternoon
to organize efforts OF Grand Forks
citizens for securing the proposed
state-owned terminal elevator for
Grand Forks were made at a meeting
held this afternoon at the Grand
Forks Commercial club.
Committees of the Commercial club
and the Grand Forks Merchants asso-
citation, both of which are co-operat-
ing to make the meeting Sunday a
success, were represented at the
meeting:
1T is greatly desired that there be
a large representation of citizens at
the meeting Sunday, as it is felt that
an organized effort must be made if
the elevator is secured for Grand
Forks.
Labor organizations. including the
railway men. are taking an active
part in the campaign, and it is felt
that if it is successful it will be
largely due to their efforts.
The meeting will open promptly at
$3.50 o'clock. The name of the tenn
porary chairman will be announced
later.
1t is expected that the plans for the
affair will be perfected at the session
which is being held this afternoon.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28
WHEAT ACREAGE
WILL Be LARGE
Demand For Dururn Seed
Above Supply of Local
Dealers.

That there will be "a big acreage of
wheat in the valley this year is the
prediction of seed men in Grand
Forks today, when asked about the
prospects for the coming grain crops.
wheat will be planted on every spare
acre and at the present time there is
more of a demand for seed durum
than the local dealers will be able to
meet. With the government a
anteed price for 1919 wheat, every
farmer expects to plant as heavy in
wheat this year as land conditions
Will permit, and on account OF the
large yield of durum to the acre, there
is an unusually large demand for the
macaroni wheat seed.
In speaking of the prospective
wheat crop. O.. J. Barnes believes hat
1t will be safe to say that the wheat
acreage for bluestem and MARQUIS will
show an increase of from 10 to is
per cent over last years crop, and
that the proportion of durum wheat
would average from % to 80 per
cent higher compared to last year.
which was formerly used for barley
would be sowed in wheat this spring.
The general impression existing
among dealers seems to be that this
will be n poor ear for a barley crop.
With prospects for the barley con-
sumption on purely a feed basis, a
high price is not anticipated. and con-
sequently a small acreage will result.
Late spring blowing will Undoubtedly
be used for barley but it is not expect
ed that farmers will plant much
more than they can use for feed.
Flax is Promising.
Inc flax crops has every prospect
of being most popular this year, and
local dealers predict that there will
be a considerable increase over last
years acreage With the option mar
ket on October flax already placed,
Farmers are given an opportunity to
hedge on the prospective flax crop.
Options on October flax are placed
at 1927 and predictions are that the
November market will not vary from
two to six cents more or less. The
potato acreage will decrease from 10
TO 20 per cent on Minnesota Point is
the surmise, as it is very probable
that wheat will replace the usual po-
tato crop. Grass seeds are much in
demand, and prospects are good for
the alfalfa crop. Red clover seed is
scarce and high in price. but dealers
suggest that alfalfa. makes a very
profitable substitute.
The problem of furnishing sufficient
durum to supply the demand is fac
ing the seed dealer just now, and A..
G. Sorlic offers a solution to the prob
lem by suggesting that the farmers
plant more bluestem, Marquis, fife
and velvet chaff. There is plenty Of
this seed on the market. he said. and
If the Red River Valley wishes to re-
tain its reputation of being the
Bread Basket" it will have to stick
to the production of the famous No.
! hard wheat. The demand for dur
UNI this year is due to the large yield
per acre., and the fact that the guar
anteed price, so far as is known, per-
tains to the macaroni wheat as we'll
as the other grades. 21
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28
Of. the majority which. he says,

Of the majority, which. he says,
sometimes is sown in an assumed
power to. dispense with all laws which
run counter to the popular opinion Of
the hour. Sometimes it appears In
corrupt, tainted, partial admintstra-
tion of existing laws. TYRANNY
SELDOM. ASSUMES A MORE obi
JURIES AND EXECUTIVES ARE
ALIKE THE TOOLS OF A FACTION
OR A MOB"
The theory that the majority is
ALWAYS right. is as. failacious as the
%favorite claim Immediately after an
election: The best man WINS, 49,
That doctrine cQnquers. and that
candidate wins. who haYe.Jthe best
campaign machinery..to to. support them
in, the effort to CONVINCE a majority
that they are right. AS =, the fitness Of
didate, It is not the voters. but the
future that passes judgment.
Methods of Demagogy.
Or. as Lecky, also in his "Democra-
cy and Liberty" says:
"A large number of votes will be
won by persistent appeals to class
CAPABILITIES. The demagogue will try
to persuade the voter that by follow
S"o k0A AAO VI QOlISy cfSly
member of his class will obtain some
advantage. He will encourage all his
utopias. He will hold out hopes that
by breaking contracts, or shifting tax
alton and the power of taxing. or en-
larging the paternal functions Of
government. something Of the proper
ty Of one class may be transferred to
another.
He will also appeal persistently,
and often successfully, to class Sjeal-
ousies and antipathies. Envy covet-
ousness, prejudice, will become great
forces in political propagandism.
Every ,redressed, grievance will be, re-
vived; every imagined grievance will
be encouraged ITO set the many
against thesfew becomes the chief-ob-
ject of the electioneering agent"
In commonwealth where the laws
are enacted by the majority, It is
very often asserted that such laws
60 tpso. are right for <the tradatsbnal
reason that the majority think SO.
This truism has become fundamental
and acts regulating on the minds OF
the individuals who make up a peo-
pie.
The obvious presumption is that
the opposition must needs be wrong.
Easter to Follow the Crowd. =
Asa matter OF fact, it happens that
the minority. the opposition, is right
as soften as Is the majority. The lat
ter without scepticism or searching
inquiry follow certain leaders who as
often as not are demagogues. The
explanation is that it is always much
easier to follow than to lead-much
easier to walk in tracks formed by
other men than to make new tracks.
To-belong to q majority requires
Very little moral courage: to assent to
everything done in the name of the
majority Is not synonymous with. dis
playing Independent thinking or
trained intelligence.
On the other hand. members Of the
opposing minority must have the zeal
which conviction inspires; the cour-
age which causes questfons ana in.
vestigation: the unsellshness that
looks beneath the surface OF things.
and the. Independence Of. sou ana
mind which e b n Indispensable
world. s
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28
DEATH TAKES
]. M'WlLLlAMS
-
Apoplexy Fatal to Well
Known Met Gamma Farm
er Thursday Night.

J. c. Mewilliams. aged So, pioneer
resident of McCanna. died Of apo
plexy at 9 o'clock Thursday night at
his home in McCanna. following a
brief illness.
Funeral services will probably be
held next Monday morning at the
Larimore Catholic church. Interment
will be in the Lartmore cemetery.
Mr.. McWilliams was a member of
the Grand Forks lodge, b. p. o. E.,
and of the knights of Columbus
Deceased is survived by four SIS
ters-Mrs. w. Pr Britton, 403 North
Third street, Grand Forks: Mrs.
Katherine sheehan. McCanna; Mrs,
Esther Aubrey, Minneapolis. and Mrs.
Frances Purcell, Trenton, N land
one brother, George E. McWilliams
OF Cando, N. D.. His wife died some
eight years ago, and he had no chill
dren. 4
Mr.. McWilliams had resided near
McCanna for the last 38 years, and
was one Of the most prominent farm
.ers OF the district He was also I'M
terested in various business enter,
prises in the town Of McCanna.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28
PENSION Law :.
NEEDS CHANGES
Discussed at Meeting Of
Public Welfare Associa-
ton Thursday Night.

Changes desired in the present
Mothers Pension law were outlined
at a meeting of the Grand Forks Pub
lie Welfare association held Thursday
night in the small council chamber
Of the city hall.
Among those are provision for as
sistance to women with incapacitated
husbands, the placing of greater dis
erection in the hands of the judges
charged with the administration of
the law, greater supervision over its
administration and more efficient pro-
vision for the keeping together of the
family group
Speakers included Mrs. Scott Rex.
city overseer of the poor; Prof. j. NJ.
Gillette OF the state university and
Joseph Poupore.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28
: (By G. S. s~trandvold.,

1t has become a, creed that the ma
jority is always on the right side of an
issue. and it is thus implied that. the
minority invariably is wrong. Time
and again the might and majesty Of
the majority have. been asserted
through arguments which. consistent
~ understood, really are intended to
support the theory that anyone who
opposes such a view, is a scoundrel.
We have it on no less authority
than that of A. c.. Townley who. ac-
cording to the printed report Of his
speeches, has declared as follows:
After the. majority have. spoken.
after the majority, have made "a law,
or when the men placed III a position
OF authority by the majority have
made a law, whether in my mind that
law is right or wrong. as an Ameri-
can citizen my first duty is to obey
that law" 3D.
The statement is succinct and
would have been far more correct
than it is if it had included a refer
ence to the natural rights of every
citizen to wish bad laws changed.
Obedience Is Necessary.
Continuing, Mr.. Townley said:
Conditions sometimes may be very
unsatisfactory and we may live in
misery and a because the majorj-
ty have agreed to conditions or laws
that are not working right: and we
there is only one thing. that is worse
than that. that can happen to an
American citizen and it is this, that
he be SO low down in the scale of life
that he will refuse to abide by the
will of a majority of his fellow citi-
zens." a. ~ -.
i Again Mr.. Townley. spoke the truth
in a modified form. For there is
no unwritten law in any democratic
country which restrainsr the minority
from attempting to repeal laws which
are bad. ~e@ NJ @"ss.r- s.5 ~
The Right to Self. Protection.
One who is greater than even Mr..
Townley, John Stuart Mill, in his
Essay on Liberty" finds >oc~casiorsfo
discuss the principles Of the majority
versus those of the minority, and in
this connection he has the following
to say:
Society can and does execute it's
own mandates: n if it issues wrong
mandates instead of right, or any
mandates at all in things with which
it ought not to NEEDLE. it practises a
social tyranny more formidable than
many kinds of political oppression,
since, though not usually upheld by
such extreme penalties, it leaves few
er means of escape. penetrating much
more deeply into the details Of life,
and enslaving the soul itself.
Protection, therefore. against the
tyranny of the magistrate is not
enough: THERE NEEDS PRorEC-
TON ALSO AGAINST THE TYRAN-
NY OF THE PREVAILING OPIN-
ION AND FEELING"
In countries where sdemocracy,
more or less undiluted, exists, such a
protection is afforded by the intelli-
gent concession that the minority has
rights not inferior to those Of the
majority.
Lecky Saw the danger.
Lecky. whose monumental. work
on Democracy and Liberty. contin-
ues to fascinate students Of history
and political econpmy, also has some
very apt remarks about the tyranny
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-28
BOTTINEAU ATTY. HERE
\. Benson Stops Over on Way Home
From Victory Loan Meeting mt
Fargo,

A. Benson. prominent attorney Of
Bottineau and a. graduate of the uni
versity, is in the city on business to-
day.
Mr.. Benson is returning to his home
after attending the meeting of all
county chairmen of the state for the
victory Loan at Fargo. He is Victory
Loan chairman for Bottineau county
and reports that the meeting at Far
go was an enthusiastic and we'll at
tended one.
1t is better to spoil the rod than
poll the child.