Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-04-14

enjoying their period of leisure and
making plans for extensive fishing and
camping trips. In Kansas the industrial
court ordered that the present wage
agreement be continued for thirty
days, and the Southwestern Coal
Operators association agreed to this.
The operators declare that the ultl-
mate goal Of the union miners Is the
naturalization Of the coal industry,
and of course they oppose this, though
they are not able to confute the asser
tion. that the industry Is, as Secretary
Hoover says, one of the worst function
ing Industries In the country. 1t Is
always in chaotic condition. as re-
CARDS both production and dlstrlbu-
ton. When President Lewis went be-
fore the house committee to present
the case of the strikers. he said the
miners could see no permanent s0lu
ton Of their difficulties without ma
tlonallzatlon of the coal mines. But
questions brought out that while he
would favor the establishment OF
governing board to bring about
sterilization Of the industry, control
ling the production, distribution and
price Of coal, he would oppose the
creation Of a tribunal with power to
fix wages. Naturally he did not get
far with such one-slded proposition.
ONE THOUSAND AND SIXTY
~ FOUR bodies, last Of Americas
dead to be brought from the Gene
teres Of France, were landed last
week at Brooklyn and the heroes were
honored with a solemn parade and i'm
pressive funeral ceremonies at the
army base there. Prominent army and
navy officers, high representatives Of
the government, governors Of several
states and many other distinguished
persons took part, and President Har-
ding sent a message and a wreath.
TNTIIE presence of President and Mrs.
L Harding, cabinet members, high gov
eminent officials and arctic explorers,
a handsome memorial was placed
Thursday on the grave of Rear Adj
miral Robert +. Peary in Arlington
national cemetery. Following sug-
gestiOn made by Peary during his last
illness, ii is in the form of a huge
spherold of granite, representing the
earth, with the North pole, which he
discovered, marked by gold star. The
memorial was unveiled by Admiral
Peary's daughter, Mrs. Edward STAFF
ford, who has born in the Arctic re-
gons and was long known as the
Snow Baby"
DRESIDENT HARDING has not yet
L Yielded to the demand that he give
specific reason for the sudden dismis-
sal of Director Wilmeth and all d.
vision superintendent Of the bureau
OF printing and engraving, merely
stating that II was for the good Of the
service. Louis A. Hill was made d.
rector and a committee began check
ing up the stock Of the bureau. Re-
ports that there had been wholesale
duplication Of Liberty bonds were at
first denied, but later Mr.. Hill adj
mltted there might be basis for the
rnm0r. This bureau cleanup started talk
Of impending wholesale dlsmissals in
other departments.
Q ECRETARY OF THE NAVY
y DENNY has taken official notice of
the activities Of certain reasonable
societies having their origin in for
eign countries" and has warned the
officers and men of the navy TO be-
ware OF their sinister propaganda to
undermine the morale Of the navy and
to inslnuate into its personnel ele-
ments of dslOyalty and disorder
ID REPRESENTATIVE TINKHAM Of
IN Massachusetts, consistent OPP
ponent of the Anti-Saloon league,
made a hot attack on that organiza-
ton on the floor Of the house, denounc-
ing Its political activities and charg-
ing II and It's subsidiaries have fire.
quently violated the federal statutes
by making false returns. He admitted IL
would be useless to ask a congressional
inquiry because the league controls
completely, and therefore he
made a public request that the Depart
ment of Justice investigate the facts
he had submitted,
The latest display of the power of
the Anti-Saloon league was the pas
sage by the house of a bill for the de-
OF aliens who violate the
and narcotic laws. Several
members protested that the bill merely
made the United States safe for Amer
lean boot-leggers, but 1t went through
by n vote of 222 to 70.