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The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
All Out at Spencer


Salisbury, Aug. 4.-1,50O shop
men including every craft OF the
Southern Railroad at Spencer walked
out this morning, leaving only the
foreman and the master mechanics
to hold down the job. Spencer Is
the biggest repair shop on the South
ern Railroad.
Washington, Aug. speeding up
Of legislation with high cost OF liv-
ing and railroad employees wages
demands as new and pressing prob
lens, tonight appeared to. he a prob
able result from abandonment at
President Wilson's request OF con-
gressional recess plans. Leaders De-
gan revision Of their programs, both
personal and legislative, and the cp-
inion spread that efforts now would
be concentrated toward rushing
through important matters in the
hope of sine die -adjournmept ear
this fall Of both Houses to give
members a rest before the regular
scember session.
/ Consideration by the Senate of
treaties and enactment OF legisla-
ton, leaders hope, may be expedited
although for the next fortnight,
} waiting formulation of q solution
to the high cost Of living and rail-
road wage questions, three day re-
cess may solve the disappointment
OF House members denied the longer
adjournment.
Unpacking the trunks and obtain
ling of refunds on vacation tickets
occupied many House members who
laid away today with their vacation
clothes, all hope OF the midsummer
| acations. Many members, however,
are not in the city and may be re-
quired to return while few insist
that regardless OF the anulment of
the recess, they will leave for
other points.
Demands of Railroad Men.
Washington, Aug. 2.-Dissatis-
fed with President Wilson's pro-
posals to have Congress create a
special body to pass on their de
mands, or consider them in connec-
ton with high cost OF living prob
lem, the railway shopmen began
today to take an official strike
vote.
! The shopmen contend that the
railway wage board of the railroad
administration should pass on thei1
demands and failing favorable ac.
ton a strike of 100000 men is
threatened, labor officials said to.
day.
Continued on page Six)
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
WORKING OVER
COST OF LIVING

Washington, Aug. 2.-Senator
Cummings, chairman of the Senate
Interstate Commerce committee,
and other members of that body
believe the demands made by rail-
road employees for increased wages
to meet the high cost of living will
hasten action by Congress on leg
lation establishing a national pol
icy with respect to the railroads.
Both the Senate and the Mouse
committees have been working on
such legislation for some time and
presentation on a tentative bill this
month is expected.
Chairman Cummings and other
members of the commerce cmmft-
tee met Informally today to dis
cuss the railroad situation but no
decision was reached. 1t was said
that all of the enators were i'm
pressed with the gravity of the sit
|uation,
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
COUNSEL ANTI
SALOON LEAGUE
Wayne B. Wheeler Takes Issue
With Root, Guthrie and
Marburg, the
COUNSEL FOR BREWERS

Washington August 4.-Wayne 3.
Wheeler counsel for the Anti-Saloon
League of America took issue with
the opinion of El:hu Root, William
D. Guthrie and William Marbury,
Counsel for the United States brew
ers, who have declared that the war
time Enforcement measure is un-
constitutional. Mr.. Wheeler also de-
MED that the League forces intend
ed to stop their ant1-tobacco cfu-
sade.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
Allied Powers Taking Action on Food

London, Aug. 2.-Steps toward in
ternational collective purchasing Of
food stuffs to check profiteering and
speculation which are declared to be-
rife in all countries, were taken at a,
meeting of the Supreme Economic;
Council. The return to the system i'm
vogue during the war was proposed
blythe British. French and Italian
representatives. The proposal was
referred to a committee which will
coordinate the plan and present it
to the American government with an
invitation for it's cooperation.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
SHIPPING AND
STATION CLERKS
NOW JOIN THE SHOPMEN
AND THE RAILROAD EN-
PLOYEES IN ASKING FOR
EITHER HIGHER WAGES
OR DECREASED LIVING
EXPENSES. 100000 MEN
JOINED IN THE APPEAL.

Washington, August 4.-Four
Hundred and Fifty thousand of the
Railroad Shipping and station
clerks have joined with the railroad
workers, in demanding either an in
crease of wages, or reduced living
expenses. The demand was presented
to the railroad administration by
J. J. Forester, President of the
brotherhood.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
FIRE BUGS IN CHICAGO

Chicago, Aug. 2.-An incendiary
fire which the police declare was
started by negroes Saturday, swept
through the district bounded by
West 43d, West 45th, South Lincoln
streets, and South Hermitage ave-
nue., destroying 100 homes of Polish
and Lithuanian employees of the
stock yards, and causing a property
loss of more than 100000. Three
persons are missing and a score was
injured in the conf1agration.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
HAMPTON NOT A CANDIDATE

Washington, Aug. Prank A.
Hampton, private secretary to Sena-
tor F. M. Simmons, in a formal state
ment today withdraws his name as a
prospective candidate for lieutenant
governor Of North <CarOlina, - and in a
STRAIGHTFORWARD manner expresses a
conviction that the secretarial job to
the senior North Carolina senator's
offers a more varied opportunity for
service than the lieutenant governor
ship.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
CooPER's WAREHOUSE BURNED


Henderson, Aug. 3.-Cooper's Co
operative warehouse, one of the old
est tobacco sales rooms in the city,
was destroyed by fire shortly after 1
o'clock this afternoon in a blaze that
was both brilliantly spectacular and
at the same time of mysterious
origin. The rapidity with which the
flames spread was one of the re-
markable features of the fire. 1t had
hardly been discovered in an insig-
nificant blaze before it had spread
over the entire warehouse, and the
hopelessness of any effort to save the
structure was Immediately apparent.
The loss of The company will he
heavy. At o'clock, while the fire
was still burning briskly, D. Y. Coop
er, Jr., manager of the warehouse in
terest of the Coopers, stated that the
insurance would amount to approx
imately $4,000 or $4,000. When
it is estimated that the cost of rep1ac-
ing the building will crowd closely
upon $4,000, it may be seen that
| the damage will be very near $685.
900.
| AS soon as the embers cool, work
men will be put upon the scene t.
clear away the debris and prepare
for starting a new and more modern
and up-to-date warehouse. This was
the positive statement made by Mr
d. Y. Cooper, Jr., when asked as to
the intentions of the company se to
the future.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
STOCKS.

New York. (Wail Street) August
Stocks were unsettled at the
opening of the stock market today,
and there was heavy selling as re-
suit of the railroad strike, and the
drive against the high cost of liv-
ing. The loss was from one to three
oints in the Oils, Rails, shipping,
equipments and metals. Crucible
steel was also under pressure. Unit
ed States broke an average of two
points, but rallied sharply later with
he other leaders,
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
Coblenz will be Headquarters.

Coblenz, (By Courier to Paris)-
August 4.-Coblenz will become Am
erican headquarters for all the for
ces of the United States in Surope
when grand headquarters at Paris
are closed about August the 20th.
General Pershing made this announ-
cement today after tour of all
the battlefields on the western
front.
Antwerp will be the base port
Of the American contingent on the
Rhine indefinitely.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
Attorney Lawler Will Recover,

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 4-Dis-
trict Attorney Lawler whose housa
was destroyed by gasoline explosion
and both he and his wife seriously in
jured, will recover in the opinion of
their physicians. The perpetrators
of the crime are believed to be num-
Der of anarchist bomb throwe-s
whom the attorney prosecuted in the
middle west several years ago.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
Continued on page Six)
DIR. FEW AT LAKE JUNALUSKA

Durham, N. c., August 4.-Pres-
ident W. p. Few, is at
Lake Junaluska in attendance upon
everal important conferences of
the Sunday school board and the
board of education of the Southern
Nethodist church. He is a member
of the special commission appoint
ed to make a complete survey of the
needs of all educational institu-
tions of the church. He is also to
deliver an address before the Ep-
worth League conference. His work
will hold him at Juna1uska for
two weeks.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
Budapest Occupied by Roumanians

Budapest, Aug. 4.-Budapest was
occupied today by Roumanian troops
who have advanced from the river
Theise in spite Of the report made
to it's commander ny Lieut.-Col. Rou-
mali, the Italian representative OF
the Allies at Vienna, who notified
him that since the departure of Bella
Kun and change of government in
sympathy with the allies the Rou-
manians should not trouble the Hun
garians.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
LANSING THIS WEEK

Washington Aug. Publish hear
ings on the economic sections of the
Versailles treaty virtual ywere COM
pleted last week by the foreign rela-
tions committee, and this week Sec
retary Lansing probably will be ques-
toned by the committee regarding
the treaty's political features.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04

New York, August 4.-The Cot
on market opened steady, with
October, 34.O0; December, 34.15 !;
January, 34.OS; March, 34.04; and
May, 34.02.
The Cotton Market at Neon was
as follows:
January, 1884; May SS:52; Oct
cber .~sS.40; December, SS.S5.-
Spots Wilson market. smtddling basis
-32M cents.
The Cotton market closed at p.
m, as follows:
January, 82.43; March, S2.45;
May, $3.50: October. $3.50; and
December, 1888
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
Cigar Makers Walk Out.

Tampa, Fla, August, 4.-Over
1000 cigar makers walked out
advance their wages twenty-five per
cent.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
$50 Out at New Bern.

New Bern, Aug. 4.-The $50 shop
men employed in the shops of the
Norfolk-Southern Railroad here went
on strike today.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
WEATHER.!
Tonight.

Fair Tonight.
For North Carolina fair tonight.
In the central and west portion.
with moderate and variable winds.
The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-04
MARKETS
COTTON

(By the Associated Press, J
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Continued on page Six)
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THE DAILY TIMES, the
Advertising Medium
That Gets Direct Results
For Its Users.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

Fl Pair Gray Wooden Blank
cts; size 66xs0 inches: mohair
bound. This blanket Ia made of
wool and cotton com bined which
y; ::s;' ~ ss,:s';,s: s,,:s ! :sa;s:'A S4.95
Sale Price. pair. ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

refueling of vessels of the American
merchant marine, are under consid-
GRAFTON by the Shipping Board.
JohnA. Donald, acting chairman of
the board, declares that the lower
cost of fuel oil delivered on ship
as compared with coal. would serve
to give American shipping an en-
during economic advantage in COM
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

caucus action and Joined with the
Democratic and Socialist minoritles
In voting against adoption.
Action on the resolution probably.
Will be taken by the Senate early
next week.
The eleven Republicans who voted
negatively were"those who earlier in
the day had Joined with the minori-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

bate lasting nearly five hours. which
was preceded by Republican caucus
in whicfpit was made party meas
ure. resolution to ratify the fed
eral prohibition amendment was
adopted by. the assembly of the New
York legislature late yesterday. The
vote Was 81 to &c. Eleven Republi-
cans declined to be bound by the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

years ago for Seattle, his mother
expressed the hope that she would
live to see him return. Her wish has
been fulfilled. although she had to
live to be sc years of age to see aim.
He is her on his first visit since he
loft
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

SEES SON AFTER 40 YEARS
Berwick, Pa, Jan. 24.-When
Boyd left Berwick forty
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

from the cattle market. Prices for
beef are falling.
New York Legislature
To Ratify Dry Bill
Albany, N. Y, Jan. 24.-After a de-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

ties in an unsuccessful attempt to
pass bill to carry out Governor
Smiths recommendation for a refer
ehdum.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

peting with British and other for
eign owned ships. and help to offset
higher wages and construction costs
in the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
REEF PRICES TUMBLE

Buenos Aires, Jan. 24.-7As a result
of the strike of marine workers, the
packing houses have withdrawn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
ans to Establish
Oil Stations in All
American Ports

Washington, Jan. 24.-Plans for
|e establishment of oil stations in
American ports. to facilitate the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02
BREAK THE HEART OF THE
WORLD
(Kansas city PosO

That is what Wilson said we should
do If we fail to ratify the peace treaty
and inaugurate the League of Nations
1t was a great state paper, his mes
sage TO the senate. 1t will live long i'm
the history Of America. Passages in it
will be declaimed 10y school boys and
young orators side by side with Web
sters seventh of March speech and Lin
coins wonderful little address at Gettys-
burg; for it was more than a state pa.
per; it was an appeal to all that is fin
est and highest in American aspiration
as well as Il reasoned and careful eX.
PLANTATION of the great change that is
coming over the sentiment of the world
and of Americas part in fostering that
change.
To be sure, there are those who will
remain unconvinced by it, There are
some who would be unconvinced though
one rose from the dead.
But thank God, it is not necessary to
convince them. The great American
people is already convinced. and their
representatives can only bow to the
will of the people.
Frankly the president set forth the
obstacles in the way of making peace.
As the Post has said over and over
again, the American delegation had to
deal with almost insuperable difficult
ties; had to conciliate and compromise;
had to give and take. This the presi-
dent honestly and openly set forth and
began the work of Cancellation here even
as he had CARRIED it on over there.
Plainly he showed himself not unwill-
ing to placate the enemies of the league,
and. with a reasonableness that could
not be surpassed, to show them all that
was in his heart and mind, as well as
all that was in the difficult situation in
Paris.
Furthermore, as the Post has repeat
edly pointed out, he showed how neces'
sary is the league covenant to the treaty
of peace itself; how interviewer and in
tertwined they are.
For time the enemies of the league
insisted upon the separation of the
treaty from the covenant. We tried to
show them how utterly impossible such
a dissection would be, and the president
yesterday demonstrated that we We're
right.
Now we venture the prediction, and
are perfectly willing to stake jut rep
utation upon 1t, that the treaty and the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02
THE TRUE SUCCESS

pELOVED Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, in
IL his delightful little essay entitled Gel Dora
do" these concluding words:
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for
to travel hopefully is better thing than to ar
rive, and the true success is to labor"
In these disordered days. when so many
thousands of men are cutching at straws of
speculation to lift them out of the working
class into the Domain Of Doing Nothing, those
Stevensonian words of wondrous truth are as
a lamp unto the spirit, bugle-call Of optimism
We are inclined to believe that the best
thing that ever happened to Adam of the Eden
tale was "the curse of labor" which we have
been taught to believe was placed upon him be-
cause Of his transgressions When we think
clearly upon the incident, we find that the
Course" was a bessing-God's most glorious
joke. If we have anything for which to thank
the Creator-and we have many thngs-our
sincerest thanksgiving should be for the beneh-
cent benson of work. One is constrained to
opne that an eternal Eden of idleness such as
the garden party knew before the apple epi
sode would have turned out to be most unprofit
able and flat and stale.
Those of us who are given to know that the
true success is to labor and that to travel hope
fully is better thing than to arrive, cannot
but look upon idleness as a wasting disease and
upon the idle as victims of an anemic malady
that shrivels the soul.
Stevenson also wrote an essay called "An
Apology for Idlers," but his idlers were not
those who did no work. He himself, who pur-
sued Ell Dorado and travelled hopefully until
lis earth-flame burned to its socket, knew and
attained the true success.
And somehow, of all the many and marvel
Gus things he wrote, we have come to feel at last
that the dearest legacy he left to mankind is
that final sentence, quoted above, of his essay
on "El Dorado" Songs and sermons fields and
fountains, deeds and dreams inhere in every
syllable thereof.
1t is wellnigh-if indeed not qute-a suf-
ficient religion.
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sary to assure his advancement in his
struggle for power and pelf, Today
many senator's, congressman, COVER
nors and even judges listen to the
clamor of the mob of bolshevists while
the rights and interests Of the more
substantial citizenship of the country
are disregarded. The professional poll
ticians. who are of course the office
holders and therefore the actual gov
ernment of the nation. are driving the
United States toward radical social
ism, if not anarchy, at a headlong pace
because they lack the honest convic'
tions that should be possessed by
every citizen of a real democratic gov
ernment like ours.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02
TAN PR0FITEERING
(From The Manufacturer

The socalled luxury tax" was re-
vised in haste to raise money quickly
during the war. With the war over
it falls far short Of its purpose in that
it taxes the public for necessities of
life by merely calling the article a
luxury" 1t adds to the cost of liv
ing of every family and strikes the
poor hardest of all as the extra tax
pennies they have to dig up eat heav-
lily into their income.
Everyday articles of use such as toi.
let supplies and drugs, ice cream and
candy, can hardly be called luxuries
and yet the tax on these and similar
articles adds materially to cost Of living
today.
The war is over and our tax prob
lens can now be faced in an intelli-
gent manner and arranged over
period of years instead of heaping un-
necessary loads on industry and the
public.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02
Tempest In Teapot Causes Second Babylon

was seized in 1898 by Germany and to
all intents and purposes was converted
into Il German dependency. The coun.
funct German estate transferred such
rights as Berlin had in Shantung to the
Mikado Of Tokyo. And straightway, to
borrow the melifluous vernacular of the
hustings, hell broke loose in Georgia"
1t matters not to the disaffected that
Shantung was German and not Chinese.
1t matters not that Shantung has been
German for more than two decades. 1t
matters not that neither Lodge nor
Knox protested its original seizure. 1t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02
Order in the court!

Last week in Kansas City we had strange
experience. We met dead man walking plac-
idly along Grand avenue, wearing the smile we
knew 50 well and we found live man per-
dead. The live dead man was-and
happily also is-a well-known newspaper writer
vho we had been informed more or less reliably,
died about year ago. He denied stoutly that he
was dead, and we had long visit with him and
came to believe that he was right and our ear
ler informant was mistaken AS to the dead
live man, we were referred to the graveyard
when we called to see him. and as his name and
the date of his death were carved on the stone
we felt inclined to consider him dead and
buried. These two incidents left US feeling that
both life and death are uncertain.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02

matters not that President Mckinley
and his secretary of state, John Hay.
acquiesced in its seizure. 1t matters not
that the treaty transferred German
rights instead Of Chinese rights. The
newly popularized word Shantung has
power to charm both man and beast.
1t must be kept in column one page one,
if the treaty fails and the whole world
goes hang.
The agitated irreconcilable forgets the
solemn promise exacted by the powers
from Japan to transfer Shantung to
China at the earliest possible date. They
demand the transfer instanter They
know an immediate transfer can be had
only by Japan's consent or by force OF
arms. They know that the presentation
Of an International demand for Japan's
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02
By GENE BYRNES

immediate evacuation Of Shantung is
not forthcoming They know the de
mand, If made, must be made by the
United States alone. They know its
presentment by America alone will in
all probability be tantamount to dec.
laration Of war. They know such a war.
If it should ensue, would drench once
more the world i'm blood.
But the word Shantung has seized the
fancy and subverted the reason of many
millions Of our people They like the
magic of the name and have by repeti-
ton made it as common as operations
for appendicitis.
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covenant will be ratified together aud
that the fight which has been shifted
to Article X will triumphantly be decid.
ed in favor of the American people and
their mastery statesman, Woodrow
Wilson.
Otherwise the war will have been
fought in vain, and those IS 900 of our
boys who lie buried in France will have
died in vain-unless out of this bitter
conflict somehow there shall arise at
least worldwide attempt ut 4 basis
of universal peace.
We shall then simply have got mixed
up in European commercial quarrel
and have brought victory to one side,
but have done no lasting good in the
world.
one can almost hear the ghostlv
voices of those $4,000 of our boys ad-
dressing us:
'To you, from falling hands, we throw
The torch; be yours to bear it high.
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppes blow
In Flanders field"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02
From Ada News

The babel of tongues that by all his
toric precedents must visit us each fort
night has broken forth anew and this
time it is keyed to the note Of Shan
tung. 1t is the first time the most of
our people ever heard of Shantung
and inasmuch as the name has a hard
hitting quality due to its second.syllable
Chinese accent. the country's irrecon-
cilables have seized upon it with avidity
and are making night hideous with its
oriental gutterals.
Shantung OF old belonged to China. 1t