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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
The CONVENTION.
Of AMERICAN
LEC|ONOPENS
TODAY
Governor, Former Secretary Daniels
And Head Of War Risk Insurance
Bureau To Speak

Hendersonville, Aug. 25-Veterans
OF the world war were arriving tonight
for the annual meeting Ut the North
Carolina American Legion, which will
be in session tomorrow and Saturday.
Among those arriving tonight were
Josephus Daniels, former Secrtarv of
the Navy, who will be one of the prin-
cipal speakers at the meeting, and
Mrs. Daniels
Governor Cameron Morrison, who is
spending the summer in Asheville, will
lbe another speaker tomorrow. Col.
Charles R. Forbes, newly appointed
director of the War Risk Bureau. will
speak Saturday morning. He left
Washington tonight to attend the
convention.
Hendersonville has made great prep
aration for the entertainment of the
veterans, and there will be many So
,cial features.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
Wooden Ships
Are Sold
(By U. s. Press)

Washington, Aug. 26.-The Ship
ping Board has sold 2O5 of the 2S5
wooden ships it owns at $2.100 each.
The selling price of these 205 ships
will amount to $43O,O00, and it is a
matter of record that the fleet Of 2S5
vessels, built during the war and at
highest cost levels, represents an in
vestment by the Government of ap-
phoximately $23O,O0O,OOO. It is re
ported that the maintenance and care
cost to The Government for these ships
last year amounted to ST. 100000. The
wooden ships were sold to private in
terests, and it is understood they
will salvage large number of the
vessels and make such use of the
others as will net a profit.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
The Banking
Situation
(By U. S. Press}

Washington, Aug. 26.-Further prog
ress toward the restoration Of a more
liquid condition of both member banks
and Federal Reserve Banks is indica-
ted by the reports of these banks for
the more recent weeks, says the Fed
eral Reserve Bulletin, which adds the
following to it's statement: In the
absence of major loan operations by
the Treasury, credit liquidation pro-
ceeded unchecked, the volume of
loans and discounts Of reporting mem
Der banks showing substantial reduc-
tions for the period under review.
Larger reductions are indicated in
the member bank holdings Of Govern
ment securities, chiefly of Treasury
certificates and the newly issued 3
wear Treasury notes, for which appar-
entlv there exists a good investment
demand. Reductions in these two
accounts between June Is and July
I3 aggregated over $1so,oOO,OO0 out
of total reduction of 1927 100000 in
investments and $379,OOO 900 in total
loans and investments Of the report
ing banks.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
WRITTEN TEXT VS. ORAL
LECTURES IN TEACHING
(By Associated Press.)

Paris, Aug. 26.-Whether children
learn better from written texts or
oral lectures, is a question under in
vestigation in the schools of Paris.
A technical committee Of the Leag-
ue Of Mental Hygiene has set to work
in a boys school to study theprocess-
es Of teaching and learning.
/ Pedagogical experts assert that
some persons brains receive deeper
impressions by the sense Of hearing
and others by the sense of sight. The
committee proposes to seek some
method of education that will take
advantage of these faculties and pos
sibl-, also, try to find some way to
develop the pupil s receptiveness.
Another question is the irability
Of developing either the hearing or
sight sense, when found particularly
keen in a pupil or whether it would
be better to develop the dormant fac
ulty. in an effort to attain a certain
standard of keeness in both sight and
hearing in all pupils so they might all
be taught by the same method.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
FEDERAL TROOPS
> ARE SENT TO
THE COAL
FIELDS
(By Associated Press)

Columbus, O., Aug. 26.-One hund-
red and fifty soldiers have left Colum-
bus Barracks for tne West Virginia
coal fields, where five thousand men
are marching to protest against mar
tial law there. Additional troops will
board train at Camp Sherman, reports
say.
Racine, w. Va, August 26.-The
of marchers broke camp early
and started for Madison. Rioting and
pillaging is unconfirmed
Madison, w. Va, Aug. 26.-The
Sheriff Of Boone County stated that
he had been asked ovr the telephone
by Charles Keeney, Leader of West
Virginia Union Miners, to tell the
marching miners to remain at Racine
until Kenney could reach their camp
by motor car. A messenger has been
sent to meet the strikers.
Washington, Aug. 26.-Positive as
sertion that no Federal troops are to
be sent to the coal fields until re-
port is submitted to the War Depart
ment by General Bandholtz, who has
been commissioned to investigate
conditions.
Washington, Aug. 26.-After receiv-
ing a report from General Bandholtz
conditions in Mingo coal
fields the War Department decided to
withhold Federal troops for the time
being.
Madison, w. Va, Aug. 26.-The
vanguard of marching miners, after
passing through Madison, were turn
d back b Charles F. Kenney and asso-
ciates following a conference with War
Department representatives.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
SAYS RESERVE BOARD
HAS CRUEL POLICY"
(By U. S. Press)

Washingtoni Aug. 26.-Attaoking
the credit policy pursued by the Fed
eral Reserve Board, j. S. WannamakerI
Of st. Matthews, S. c., president Of
the American Cotton Association, has
charged that this government agency
had been converted into can instru-
ment Of financial tyranny,' and had
resulted in widespread ruin amounting
to virtual bankruptcy Of the cotton
growing sections Of the country.
Appearing as witness before the
joint congressional commission which
is investigating the agricultural situa-
tioin, Mr.. Wannamaker said that "in
deliberately planning deflation on a
colossal and unreasonable scale, the
Federal Reserve Board had committed
a monumental crime. Mr.. Wannamak-
er said that Governor Harding was
largely responsible for the deflation,
and that anything Mr.. Harding may
say at this time "will not excuse or
palliate actions which resulted in
loss to agriculture and commerce com
bined of about $25, 900, 900 ,ooO.'
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
Deep Waterways
Report

Washington, Aug. 26.-The canaliza-
tion of the St. Lawrence River from
Montreal to Lake Ontario will cost
$252, ,72S.20O, according to a tentative
report made by the international Joint
Commission, after survey Of the
navigat. .on improvements and power
sites, as proposed in the Great Lakes
Atlantic Gecn waterway project, by
a corps of engineers appointed by the
United States and Canada
The entire proposed improvements
can be completed eight years after
work is oegun, provided the work on
all the projects is started simultan-
eously and the funds are provided as
fast as needed, according to the esti-
mates submitted by the engineers.
The annual cost Of operation, main
tenance and depreciation of the i'm
estimated at $2,562 900, Of which
amount $1,457 900 will be needed for
the upkeep Of the power plants.
The report shows that the potential
power which can be developed in the
river is approximately 100000 horse
power, and that it can be developed
along with the improvements of the
navigation projects. However, the
engineers point out that the stimuli
taneous development Of such a vast
quantity of power is not sound
economic procedure, market to
take this output is not in existence
at present, and that the sound method
is to improve the navigation at present
50 that the power development could
be completed as needed.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
FORMER GERMAN
MINISTER Of
FINANCE IS
KILLED
(By Associated Press.)

Berlin, August 26.-Mathias Erzber-
ger. former Vice-Premier and Minis
ter Of Finance was murdered today.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
GERMAN SH|PYARDS
ARE GROWING SILENT
IDLE. DESERTED DOCKS SAD
REMINDERS OF FORMER
GRADUATES
by Associated Press.)

who frequent the lobbies Of hotels in
Berlin can often be heard remarking
that Germany has won the war.
If they were to visit Kiel and other
German naval bases they would prob
ably get a decidedly different impress
sion. Nothing could be more complete
than the desolation which hovers over
Kiel harbor, formerly the pet war har-
Dor Of the German navy and probably
the best haven in all Europe.
The great shipyards which created
most of the craft for the German
navy are silent Rusty shseds mark
the scene of former activity. Idle,
deserted docks stand as sad reminders
Of days when Kiel was the point to
which all German eyes, and in fact all
the eyes of Europe were directed.
All machinery which the Allied
lIu1SS1OuS IcSdIuou DIS USEFUL lOr war
purposes has been dismantled. Float
ing dockss, cranes and other expensive
equipment have been moved away to
recompense Germany enemies for
the damage done by Admiral Won Tir-
pitt submarines.
In normal times, Kiel had $4,000
naval Officers, sailors and employees in
the harbor all the time. Now the ma
val personnel is less than 1000. The
city which formerly had population
of 25O,OOO has lost all Of it's great
government payroll and onefifth Of
it's population.
Fort Falkenstein and the other bat
teries which covered the Baltic en-
trance to the Kaiser William Canal
have been reduced to piles of crumb-
led concrete and twisted steel. Their
great guns have been sawed into bits
and pitched into scrap heaps.
; The naval academy is closed. An
empire without a navy has no use for
more naval officers. The attendance
at the university has dwindled. The
Icastle Of Prince Henry, overlooking
the naval harbor, has been taken over
by the workingmen for club, and
there are no warships in the magnifi-
cent waterway where the former En-
peror William used to review his navy
with pomp.
German navy lay, \afe behind torpedo
nets, during most Of the war. At
present there are only two antique
cruisers lying at the imperial naval
docks. There were so far out Of date
that the English and French didn It
think it was necessary to scrap them,
and hesitated to offer such craft to
anv of the nations which had helped
win the war.
Small commercial shipyards are
foperating and the commercial harbor
still has little business.
The iel Canal is still quite active.
Rut Kiel derives little benefit from
the busin ess passing through the canal
and cannot revive materially until
exchange conditions become such that
it can again buy timber from the
! Scandinavian countries and resume
it's Importance as a lumber depot for
Central Europe.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
little COMMERCE
IN BALTIC OWING To
EXCHANGE RATES
(Bv Associated Press.)

Copenhagen. Aug. 26.-There is com
tic owing to the dispuriity in exchange
rates Danish dairy products, hams,
bacons and other foodstuffs which
formerly went to Germany can no
longer find a market there because
e unfavorable exchange.
Germans going from Warnemunde
to Copenhagen find that their crisp
thousand mark notes shrink to 73
crows and prices are so high in crowns
that it is impossible for German mer-
chants TO buy Danish butter and
cheese for the German market. Con-
sequentv the Danes must depend for
a market on countries which also
have high exchange. Recently they
have tried butter and cheese shipments
to the United States.
The Danish market is g1utted with
foreign manufa ctured goods whic h
have been assembled in the hope of
invading the Russian market. Shop
windows are filled with American
goodJ California timed fruits and
hpon IL Ill
Tally prominently displayed. Bana-
mas are abundant in the markets and
dealers are hawking them everywhere
about the streets, in striking contrast
to the German citirs, where bananas
are seldom seen.
Shops of all sorts in Copenhagen
have much larger and more varied
stocks than can be found in the large
herman cities, where the government
import regulations have kept out lux
unes which could not be smuggled il
through the occupied area.
DANISH business men are making des
perate efforts to establish satisfa ctOry
business men are making desperate
efforts TO establish satisfactory bust
ness relations with the government O.
SOVIET Russia in the hope of relieving
The depression which has followed tn,
drop in prices, but so far the Russian
business has not been satisfactory
The Great Northern Telegraph
company, which owns the direct cab
les which formerly operated betweel
Petrograd and Caenhagen, is nego
uatlng with the Soviet government
LOT resumption of direct telegraph
COMMUNICATION between Petrograd an
Danish cities and has effected a pre-
lIhInarT agreement which will prob
ably be signed before winter.
' tH' baltlc IS still alive VII
"'hes, especially in the Gulf of Fin
land and the cables have been mucl
managed by years of disuse, it is no
''Neiy that they can be repaired befor
'e'fograd is frozen up this winter.
Efforts have been made to locat
~ these mines but shipping is still
very hazardous on the routes lead
"s TO Petrograd and the vessel
""ieh recently entered that port wer
projected by small craft which pro
''e0ed ahead Of them cautiously an
'NloFed all obstacles.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26

Dublin, August Addressing the
opening Of the Dali Eireann, DeValera
declared that the reply to Lloyd George
sums up Southern Ireland s position
on the Irish settlement, which is, and
must remain unchanged. DeValera
was reelected with the members of his
cabinet and loans Of five hundred
thousand pounds were sanctioned IL
Ireland and twenty million dollars in
America.
London, Aug. 26.-The British cabi-
net met and considered DeValera s
reply and answer will probably be
drawn today.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
CREEKKING|S|LL
IN TOWN THAT
SWEPT BY
FIRE
(By Associated Press.)

London, Aug. R-The city of Esk-
ishehr, in Asia Minor, recently captur-
d by the Greeks, where King Constan-
tine is believed to be confined by i'll
ness, is being swept by fire, dispatches
say.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
BRITISH OFFER IS.
UNANIMOUSLY
REjECTEDBY
THE IRISH
Proposes That Question Be Negotiated
Further On Principal of Govern
ment By Consent.

London, August 26.-Eamon Deva-
lera, IN reply to Lloyd George, SAYS
that the British peace proposals were
laid before the Dali Eireann, which
rejects them unanimously, but is will
ing to negotiate on the principle Of
government by consent Of governed
The letter proposes that Britain and
Ireland appoint representatives with
.plenary powers to negotiate details
on this principle.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
4R BANKS ARE
INVOLVED IN
SW|NDLING
SCHEMES
CR1 Associated Press.)

Chicago. H., Aug. 26.-Forty eight
,n1-;no institutions in the Middle
vast would have collapsed had all
+be operations Of the arch swindlers
Ian carried to a successful conclusion,
,n+borities say. appropos of arrest
.n7 charges made against French and
1obn Worthington, alleged heads of
+ba sswindleing trust.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
TURKISH Mk1fFUsE To
LOOK UPON UNVEILED
TURKISH WOMEN
(By Associated Pressl

(bV Associated PreSS1
Angora, Aug 25.-Turkish men
still refuse to look upon unveiled
Turkish women when passing them in
the streets or on the roads, despite the
attempt Of the later to adopt the
preachments Of Halide Hanff11fn and
other workers for the freedom of
woman in Asia Minor.
According to our customs. 1t il i'm
polite to flirt in public or address or
look on the face Of our women. and /
can t break the custom,' explained
Turkish officer with the -correspon-
dent
In the Nationalist capital of An
CORA Halide Hanum Mufide Ferid
Hanum, the author and wife Of the
former Minister Of Finance, and many
other women who came out. from
Constantinople to support the Nation
alist movement, 60 about the streets
or ride horseback with their wells
turned back and folded into a hand
some head-dress modelled after the
Russian style
But outside of Angora, despite the
example set by American women of
charity organizations, or Of the exam
pie of Greek and Armenian women,
most of the Turkish women strictly
maintain the old custom.
This apples not only to women of
the households but also to the many
women seen working in the fields or
! along the roads, deriving OK carts oI
donkeys laden with army supplies, OF
wheat being exported to Russia
The custom Of yelling has long been
modified to the extent that the face
may be shown freely to the men OF
the Village or Of the party with whom
the women may be working or travel
ling, but so soon as a stranger, wheth
er Turk or European approaches, the
veil is drawn. If the stranger is
Turk he looks straight ahead, as if the
women were not present. If the Eu
, ropean or American turns his head tc
catch a glimpse of the women, they
hurriedly pull the veil closer, so only
the eyes can be seen. The older the
woman, the closer the veil is drawn
AS the pretty gauze or thin cloths
Of pre-war days, white, blue, black
or brown, cannot be had, the wells
are often Of coarse white cotton, and
in the case Of the working women
the cloth may be a stiff neavy cotton
which serves as a sun bonnet. Some
times the headpiece drops to the
waist or further and can scarcely be
distinguished from the loose, flowing g
garments so chara of the
Orient. j. + the wearer be very poor,
the veil and other garments may be
but crazy quilt thing Of patches of
all colors and thicknesses, pathetical-
ly mended and Drowned by sun and
weather.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-08-26
WEATHER REPORT

For North Carolina: General fair
tonight and Saturday, except probabl
showers on the Northeast coast.
tie change In temperature 50
strong northeast and eastssxx
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-09
SHELTERS GET
y COURT RELIEF
Seven.Cent Gas Rate for
City and Zinc Indus
tries Enforced
,ONTRACT ENDS 1891
Oil Company Loses It's Fight
for Collecting 15-Cent
Rental

s.,.t,I 20 The World.
'PRARTLESVILLE, Nov. S.-Bar-
,Asviile business men are greatly
s,couraged at tho report received
Sron, Newark, N j. today announce
1,g that Federal Judge Lynch had
,.sned a permanent injunction
acoinst ,ho Indian territory Illumi-
.rs,ing oil company, which controls
Ifo0o0O acres of Oklahoma land,
sompelling the company TO furnish
Nc ritv of Bartlesville and the Ma
l so,al Zinz company fuel and gas
II, the rate Of 7 cents a thousand
,oblc feet under th. rerms of the
contract expiring In 1881. The de-
,snAant company had shut off the
C,nnlv upon refusal of the plaintiff
corpany to pay a i5-cent rate de-
handed Of them, the defendant
company alleging that the contract
FOR tho 7-cent rate expired several
years ago.
While officials of the smelters
Vill not admit that their legal vic
,ory will cause an Immediate re-
mnptlon OF the smelters, local
business men cling to the belief that
such will be the case in the not
far distant future and regard the
court decision as one highly fa-
yorable for the interests of Bartles-
vile as whole.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-09
TO HARNESS UP CYCLONES

PONCA CITY. Nov Sra \
Terrill. early day oklahoma lcEisln.
tor and recently reported from
Winnipeg as perfcCtinE a machine
10 control rainfall and cyclones in
particular. is living ON "a farm near
AyHnt in tho eastern OsagN Re-
Gently he and son have been AS
eisting In the harvesting of corn
crops I'm this locality
Tcrrill was "a member of the
first legislature IN 1890 and intro
duced tho bill tha- provided the
original criminal code for okla
homa territory. a portion ot which
Is still the state law. 10 is undcr-
stood that tho town 0t Torlton lu
pawnco county was named for him.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-09
SPECIAL OFFICER TO WANN
Moodhounds on Trail of Bandits
Who Break Into Store.

SPECIAL 70 Th0 Nofld.
BARTLESVILI.E, Nov. S.-Much
excitement was created at Wann,
close 10 the northeastern boundary
Of Washington county, today wnen
John Creed, special state officer.
appeared on the scene with mis-
finger print apparatus and a pair
OF bloodhounds. Creed's action fol-
lowed the report that the w. j.
Taylor store at Wann had been
broken into Sunday night by two
men who were frightened away by
the appearance OF the town mar
shal, who fired at them as they fled
IN motor car, leaving a huge pile
Of loot behind them.
The office OF the Orandoff garage
vas also broken into during the
'fisht and the hinges OF the office
'tafe battered in an attempt 10
open It, A five-passenger Dodge
car, believed TO be the one used by
the robbers. was found two miles
south Of Wann today.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-09
DEATH TO THE PRAIRIE DOG
Poisoned Oats tho I'cdcrnl Autidotc
tu Farmers Enemy.

pONCA CITY. Nov. S.-Thc time
OF year has arrived for fighting
prairio dogs and oNtcnsivc cant
paign8 arc bciuC outlined through
cut this section OF the state. In thC
western Os1go and in the OtOo
Indian country I'm particular, there
are many dog villaEca. and In tho
former an effort Va now being made
To destroy tho little animals. So far
rs known no campaign has yet been
startcd IN tho ptoc. whore Bpmo ot
tho most extensive villages in tho
southwest are located.
The drive I'm the western Usage
Va against n total OF 10 villages
mich are said To range IN siye all
the way from five Co forty acrcs
Poisoned oates aro placed in the
village and dropped iuto tho holes
and at this season Of tho year after
graas dries. tho dogH eat grecdlly OF
tho grain. This BE- the method out.
lined hy the federal government In
its war ou Who dogs.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-09
Got Only Tive Dollars.

OKLAHOMA CITY--An eXami-
nation of the seven pouches of mail
taken from the postal car of the
train robbed near Edmond several
weeks ago shows that the robbers
got only one So bill as q reward for
their nights work. according to the
statement of c. p. johnson, chief
postoffice inspector. Many thou
sands of dollars in checks, drafts
and non-negotiable paper were left
by the robbers when they ripped
open the sacks about seven miles
southeast of here.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-09

MOUNTAIN VIEW -- II @ b er I
Poolaw, aged 10. full blood kiowa.
died at Iawton Sunday night from
injuries received In an automobile
accident fe whours before near
Fort Sill lie IS said TO have lost
control Of his car on a dangerous
curve, and the machine turned over
three times Poolaw was mem
Der OF the kiova Indian police.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-09
Crngin Plans to Hare
Fire Christmas Trees
in His City Christmas

Special to The world
PONCA CITY. Nov S--Through
n suggestion ny the chamber of
commerce to Mayor Harry Cragin,
Ponca CITY IS TO hayc lyc mum
icipal Christmas trees This year
all to remain In tho center "
Grand avenue. the principal bust
nees street, for a period W ! DAYS
covering both Christmas and New
Year day. Tho plan IT, to put a
large Christmas tree along each
traffic post for a distance cf five
blocks, each tree 20 be Oprppopri-
atcly decorated with holiday
effects and electrically lighted.