Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-09-02

tlilS was less than the estimated AVER
age cost Of one Of the ships, the board
agreed to accept the offer. Most of
the vessels have been lying idle In
the James river and 1t has been cost
ing the board almost $4,000 a month
to care for them. Twenty ships were
reserved to be sold at highest prices
and fifty others may be kept, for use
as pontoons for the building Of the
proposed bridge across the Hudson
river
The peace treaty with Germany has
been completed and last week was
shown to the members Of the senate
committee on foreign relations, and
also to other senator's. All who saw
II expressed their approval OF the
pact, and II was to be signed In Ber-
lin. II must now be ratified by the
senate and the reIehstag. The treaty
provides for the resumption Of dlplo-
matte and commercial relations be-
tween the two countries, awards the
United States the fruits Of victory
specified In the Versailles treaty, and
provides for the payment by Germany
of American war damage claims. A
similar treaty has been negotiated
with Austria and signed at Vienna.
Unless the Dublin correspondents
are wrong, another impasse In the
Irish peace negotiations has been
reached. De Valera, Dali Elreann
and the Irish republican council, after
long debate. have drawn up their re-
ply to Lloyd Georges offer and dis
patched II to London. Presumably its
contents will be made public before
this reaches the reader. 1t Is assert
ed now that the British offer has
been rejected and no counter.proposl-
ton made by the Irish, but that the
way is left open for further negotla-
ton. The Sim Fein leaders believe
the premier is not sincere when he
says Great Britain has made Its ultl-
mate offer; they think the truce will
not be broken by their rejection and
that Mr.. Lloyd George will make fur
ther concessions.
The Roman Catholic church inter-
vened In the Irish controversy last
week with message to De Valera
"from the highest authority" deliv-
cred by the lord bishop of Dromore.
The source of the message and Its
purport were not made public.
Federal officials have punctured a
SJ0,00O,0OO financial bubble, they as
sert. in the arrest Of Charles w.
French, partner of John W. Worth
ington. already In custody, and a num-
Der Of his associates In various parts
Of the country. These men, It Is
charged, were selling stock IN 20 |
companies, all organized by French,
and having total capitalization Of |
more than s21,OO0.OO0. The federal
agents have seized about S27,OO0,OO0
In suspicious paper" and are getting
confessions from several Of the gang.
Developments In the case are coming
daily.
or concrete interest in the South
and at least academic interest In the
rest Of the country is the decision of
Federal Judge Boyd In Greensboro,
N. c., holding unconstitutional the
federal law imposing tax of 10 per
cent on the profits derived from prod
ucts on which child labor Is en-
ployed. Regulation OF labor, Judge
Boyd ruled, is one Of the powers re-
talned by the states and not delegated
to the federal government. State
child labor laws are adequate to care
for the situation and provide a pen
atty, not tax, as is proposed by the
net OF congress, the decision said.
The attempt Of the federal govern
Inent 10 regulate labor within the
state is usurpation Of authority and
, violation Of the sovereign rights Of
the state, the Judge decided.
The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
'nny has again challenged the right
" the federal railway labor board to
iictate the roads policy In dealing
With its employees, and has renewed
he fight for the open shop. The
Pennsylvania. In an application filed
~ Samuel Rea. president denied the
egallty of the boards refusal to rec
'gnize a recent election OF representa-
Ives Of the railroads employees. The
,allots which selected them made no
for unions as such. and the
,oard ordered q new election. prescrib-
ng the form Of the ballots Agree
nents entered into subsequent to the
lrst election were declared void.
vas adopted In 1911, have proved a