The daily times., 1921-12-03
TO Bill
TO ABOLISH THE
ELECTRIC CHAIR
co TO VOTE
State Department of Insurance
Warns Public to Beware of
Polish Bonds; The State
Department Has Issued a
Directory of School Officials
of North Carolina.
tBy Max Abernethp.)

Wy 1DGI y.
Raleigh, Dec 3.-First arrivals for
the special session of the 1921 Legis-
lature WHICH convenes here Tuesday.
December sixth, give publicity to the
story that one of the first bills will
be proposal to lay the ground work
for the abolisilment of capital pun
ishment in North Carolina
That the bill will be introduced at
The special session is an assured fact,
if these first arrivals know what they
are talkin. about, and they say they
do. 1t is learned from an authorita
tive source that the bill is now in
the making will be ready when the
session opens next week so that there
will be no delay in getting it before
the proper committee for considera-
tion.
While the name of the member
who Will sponsor the bill has not
been made known at this time it will
reach the newspapers soon. There is
some reason to believe that the bill
will be introduced in both houses of
the Legislature simultaneously The
society for consolidating opposition
to capital punishment, organized in
this State several years ago but
which never increased its member
ship to any great extent, is expected
to lend the influence of it's member
ship to the proposed change in the
criminal code OF the State.
The Legislature itself, of course.
cannot do away with capital punish
ment. 1t can only be changed by a
popular vote of all the people. And
the Legislature may authorize the
submission of an amendment which
will change the State constitution,
substituting life Imprisonment for
capital punishment, if it SO desires.
This is what the abolitionists hope
to have the special session do.
Some legislators who are opposed
to amending the constitution are pre-
pairing to combat the argument of the
Iabolitionists and have called upon
! the legislative reference librarian.
Henry NJ London. to compile data
regarding States which have rejected
| a proposal to change that part of
the constitution relating to capital
punishment This data Will be avail
able when the legislators reach the
capital
1 If iC learned which
Ibid away with capital punishment
Ihave since gone back to it. Tennessee
was one of these the record showing
that crime including lynchings in
creased under the change.
/ Warnings are now being sent out
by the State department of insurance
to beware of noticeable efforts to sell
securities of the town of Warsaw
Poland. and other Polish municipal
;ities, and also bonds of the Republic
of Poland This literature" has been
Iseen by the insurance department of
tficials in Wilmington, Greensboro an6
lMorgantown and in Raleigh.
These Warsaw bonds, 10,00O-marl
denominations, are offered for $19. 81
ash THE people offering the bonds,
the department says, very frankl!
State that it is a gamble but the!
|produce signed statements from Pc
lIish consu1-gen erals, etc, declarin:
that the bonds are good and will b.
redeemed at par and are trying t.
make everybody believe that tn
Polish mark, formerly worth abou
I2O cents, will eventually go to pa
and thus make the holders very veal
thy. They figure it out that the in
vestor will make $119 for every dol
lar invested.
FL Investors should not lose sigh
I | of the fact that at present rates o
e exchange the value of the mark is
/ low that 10000 of them are wort
l only $2.S5, instead of $19.s5 an
l there is not the slightest probabilit
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