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The daily times., 1922-02-02
BOOTLEGGERS ARE
TRYING TO REMOVE
LIQUORS POISON
GOVERNMENT FORMULA
Prohibition Officials Declare
That the Activities on Part
of Illicit Manufacturers Will
Require Complete Revision
of Government Distribution
of Alcohol.

Washington, Feb. 2.-Bootleggers
throughout the country are evolving
a new industry, the rectification of
denatured alcohol, prohibition Off
cials said today which probably will
necessitate complete revision of the
government system of distribution.
Reports have been received it was
said that some of the government
formulas for industrial alcohol lend
themselves readily to rectification so
that illicit liquor dealers are obtain
ing the denatured spirits under gov
ernment permits and by various pro-
cesses making it more or less drink
able.
Usually large quantities of indus
trial alcohol, officials said, have been
withdrawn in some localities, ap-
parently for use of manufacturers of
BARRIERS supplies and toilet prepara-
tiens, but after being subjected to a
chemical process have found their
way into the channels of the boot
leggers trade.
A revision of the present permit
system as now in vogue it is under
stood is under consideration with
a view of checking a diversion of de-
natured alcohol into unlawful hands.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
WRIGHT ROUSE IS
GIVEN A RESPITE
Was Within Thirty Minutes of
the Electric Chair When
Governor Granted Respite.

Raleigh, Feb. with prepara-
tions all made and within 80 minutes
set for his electrocution Wright
Rouse, aged negro, today was granted
respite of two weeks by Governor.
Cameron Morrison in order to COM
plete an investigation of Rouse's
case.
Rouse was convicted in Greene
County court last fall of the murder
of VIM. Whitley, Walstonburg
merchant and farmer He was sem
fenced to die in the electric chair
last December but was granted a re-
spite until today on recommendation
of the trial judge. Whitley's widow
and Will Hayes are now serving life
sentence for completely in the crime.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
INCREASED TAXES
TO MEET SOLDIER BONUS

Increased cigarette tax the i'm
crease amounting, to - cents on L.
900, 25,OOO,OOO
Increased tobacco tax, cents a
pound, $5,OOO,OOO.
Increase on documentary stamp
tax, $40,OOO,ODO.
A tax of two cents on each bank
check, $30,O0O,OOO.
A license tax of SO cents a horsf
power on automobiles.
The total was $3OO,OOO,O0O. Mr.
Mellon said the bonus would cost
$425, a year for the first two
years and told the committee it could
extend the list of taxation sources to
make up the deficit. He made it clear
he was not recommending any Of the
sources.
The treasury secretary opposed the
general sales tax on the grounds Of
cost and difficulty of administering.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
(By Max Abernethy.)

Raleigh, Feb. 2.-Dr. w. S. Rank
in, State Health Officer, is writing
physicians in North Carolina enlist
ing their aid in the interest of the
memorial which is now beng planned
to the late William G. Gorgas, sur
geon general of the United States.
State headquarters have been
established at Raleigh and the cam
paign for contributions will be con-
Quoted from this city with General
Julian S. Carr, of Durham, as chair
man. The Gorgas memorial, as plan
ned, will be raised by popular sub
scription from every State in the un.
ion and North Carolina is asked to
give 100000 of the six million dol.
lars.
With this money research labor
atory is to be erected in Panama City
site and $5OO,000 having already
been contributed by Panama, and
The daily times., 1922-02-02

Forecasts had indicated that the
Bonomi ministry's internal and for
eign policy would be attacked when
parliament assembled today. A sharp
dispute has arisen over the govern
ment's attitude toward the Vatican.
Some sections of parliament were
blaming the government for the fact
that Italy was left out of the Pacific
pact framed at the Washington con-
ference and because she had been Sc
cluded from the agreement between
Great Britain and France which pro-
tected the latter from foreign ag-
gression.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
GO VERNMENT
WATCHES MINERS

Washington, Feb. 2.-Plans of the
government to cope with situation
which might arise in the strike of
coal miners when the present agree
ment expires at the end of next
month were being worked out by the
department of justice it was said by
Attorney General Daughtery.
He said he was watching conditions
as well as efforts of the railway work
er and coal miners to combine in a
fight against decreased wages.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
SUGGESTS UNITY
BETWEEN ROADS
TO REDUCE: COST
McADOO GIVES ADVICE
Declares That the Only Possi-
bic Competition Between the
Roads at Present is in Ser
vice; Terminals Should be
Used Jointly; Double Tracks
Should be Shared.

Washington, Feb. 2.-The cost of
operation of the nations railroads
could be enormously reduced and ef-
ficiency increased by well directed
and unified system of operation un-
der private control, VIM. G. McAdoo
war time director general of rail-
roads, declared today in cOntinua-
tion of his testimony at the interstate
commerce commission committee in
quiry into the present railroad sit
uation.
Declaring there is no competition
at present between the railroads in
either freight rate or passenger fares
Mr.. McAdoo said the only possible
competition at present was in SER
vice. He added that while railroads
gorge" themselves with business
which they have not facilities to
handle the public would profit il it
were possible to have carriers make
common use of terminals and have
parallel tracks of competing carriers
considered double tracks for the
benefit of both.
1.-The public has paid a high price
for alleged competition" said Mr.. Nc
Adoo "its alleged advantages to the
public are largely mythical
The daily times., 1922-02-02
CARDINALS
IN SESSION

Rome, Feb. 2.-The conclave of
the sacred college which is to choose
a successor to Pope Benedict XIV be-
gan it's sittings today. The So cardi-
nails which are in Rome went into Sc
clusion today and when the great
oak barrier was closed they were cut
off from communication with the out
side world until their task was COM
pleted. The balloting is not expected
The daily times., 1922-02-02

CHICAGO GRAIN OPENED
Wheat, May 12O, July LOS.
Corn, May "a 3-S, July Sc 1-S.
Oats, May 80 1-8, July 40 IA.
CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSED
Wheat, May 1928, July 1.O7 3-8.
Corn, May 81 5-8, July Sc 5-S.
Oats, May 80 3-S, July 40 3-8.
Money 1-2 per cent.
- Sterling 429 1-2, Francs 837, Lire
469, Marks 40 IL.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
HARDING MAY
DELAY REFUNDING

Washington, Feb. 2.-President
Harding objects to some of the
provisions of the allied debt refund
ing bill as passed by the Senate
according to a statement understood
to have been given the ways and
means committee Chairman Fordney
said action would be deferred until
he could consult with the executive.
The daily times., 1922-02-02

PRICES TRANSFER TOO HIGH.
A prominent business man of the
city was complaining this morning
that the transfer hire here is about
double what it is in other places, and
that the authorities should take some
steps to prevent extortion in that line.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
STOCKS.

New York, Feb. pools resumed
bullish activity at the outset OF to-
days trading effecting advances OF
to points in Gulf State Steel, At
lantic Gulf and Electric Storage Bat
terry. Local fractions, foreign oils
and low grade steels also strength
ened.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
ITALIAN CABINET
RESIGNED TODAY
Some Dissatisfaction Because
of Italy's Treatment at the
Washington Conference.

Rome, Feb 2.-Premier Bonomi
announced the resignation of the
Italian cabinet in the chamber of de-
puties this afternoon according to a
semi official agency.
The daily times., 1922-02-02

James Henderson Weddington, for
mer mayor of Charlotte, and a lead
ing merchant of that town and post
master for eight years died yesterday
at his home in Charlotte.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
GENERAL NEWS

French Gallaghan of Frederfcks-
burg, Va, and Edward H. Dillon of
Stafford county, Virginia, are dead
as result of a PISTOL duel late Tues
day at Dil1on's home.
The daily times., 1922-02-02

Postmaster General Hayes will
spend the next ten ays in Miami,
Fla, in an effort to regain his
health which has been poor for sew
eral weeks as the result of cold.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
WEATHER.

For North Carolina generally fair
and colder tonight and Friday, fresh
to strong westerly winds.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
IL O'CLOCK MARKET

Mar. 16.62-B, May 16.31-A, July
15.91-B, Oct. 15.45-A
Spots Wilson market 15c.
The daily times., 1922-02-02

Gates, Pa, Feb. 2.-Seven men
are known to have been killed and
22 others are entombed in room
one and one half miles from the
mouth of the Gates mine of the H. G.
Frick Coke Company near here as
the result of an explosion early to-
day. Trained rescue crews from all
parts of the fields are working in
relays struggling in an endeavor to
reach the shut-in men
The daily times., 1922-02-02
- O'CLOCK MARKET

Wheat, May 1.21 IL, July Los IL
Corn, May 5-8, July Sc 1-2.
Oats, May 80 II, July 40 3-s.
The daily times., 1922-02-02

MRS. SCHAUM WILL ENTERTAIN.
Mrs. Norborne Schaum has issued
invitations to bridge party to be
given Tuesday afternoon at $3.50 in
honor of Miss Eliza Carr.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
N. Y. COTTON CLOSED

Mar. 1886, May 1856. July 1870.
Oct. 1854, Gee. 1850
The daily times., 1922-02-02
LIVERPOOL CLOSED

Mar. $50, May 9.27, July 9.24,
Oct. 9.02.
The daily times., 1922-02-02

Ny. COTTON OPENED
Mar. 1912, May 1915, July 1899,
Oct. 1850, Dec. -.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
LIVERPOOL OPENED

Mar. 9.65, May 9.57, July 9.53,
Oct. 9.25.
The daily times., 1922-02-02

Gates, Pa, Feb. 2.-The bodies of
nine miners killed in an explosion in
the Gates mine of the H. G. Frick
brought to the surface at noon from
the entrance one and one half miles
from the door of the shaft.
Twenty men it was stated were
miners working feverishly to reach
them expressed the opinion that all
were dead.
The daily times., 1922-02-02
nine KILLED IN
MINE EXPLOSION
TWENTY ENTOMBED
ALL MAY BE DEAL
ALL MAY BE DEAD
Miners are Working Desper-
ately to Release the Men
Who Are Entombed One and
One Half Miles From the
Door of the Mine; Nine
Bodies Were Recovered.

Gates, Pa, Feb. 2.-All hope for
the miners imprisoned by an explo-
sion of the H. c. Frick Coke Com
this afternoon when rescue workers
came across seven bodies in the part
of the mine affected by the blast Nine
bodies had previously been brought
to the surface. Checking the work
men believed to have been in the
mine, officials said the men still un-
accounted for had probably perished.
The daily times., 1922-02-02

THE WILSON DAILY TIMES, AN
ADVERTISING MEDIUM THAT
GETS DIRECT RESULTS FOR ITS
USERS, FOREIGN AND LOCAL
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
Keep the Highways Open.
Motor Cars and Trucks Now Stopped
by Snow Part of the Year.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: More
than $500. 100000 is invested in New
York State highways. This does not
include the investment in town and
county roads. For four months of each
year, one-third of the year, because New
York State has not as yet passed laws
requiring the State Highway Depart
ment to keep the roads open in winter
for auto traffic. this 5000, 100000 is lying
idle. Is It good business that such sums
ehould be utilized but two-thirds Of a
year?
Approximately $4,000, 900 is paid by
automobile and truck owners for licenses
each year, but these owners are able
to use the highways only eight months
out of the twelve. Is this condition fair
or businesslike?
There are hundreds Of millions in
vested In motors and trucks. Is this
money to be rendered useless one-third
OF the year for the lack Of law to
keep the roads free from snow?
The State should pass laws providing
that the main arteries Of traffic. at least,
shall be kept open twelve months In the
year by the proper removal Of snow. 1t
is not very expensive Job.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, January 21.
The New York herald., 1922-01-22

ments, but few of them can maintain
full divisions. The onicers to COM
mand most of the divisions and all OF
the corps and army units must come
from the Regular Army.
General PERsHING made his requests
TO the committee in terms of broad
national expediency and not in a mar
row military spirit. He did not hesi-
tate to discuss the weaknesses of
regular officers. He recommended q
plucking board to remove officens not
qualified to train the new citizens
army. He also described the present
officers corps as topheavy, and pro-
posed to increase the number of Lieu
tenants at the expense OF some of
the higher ranks.
General PERsHING demonstrated in
his statement to the committee that a
soldier can see the needs of the Regu-
lar Army in terms of national need
without suggestion of defending mar
row professional interests. His re-
quests are entitled to all the atten-
ton a national service of such i'm
portance demands.
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
Faults of Prisons.
An Authority Says Inmates Are Cod.
died and Do Not Have to Work.

To THE NEW York HERALD: The let
ter signed Justice" printed under the
title of Life in Prison Is the best con-
tribution on the pampering and coddling
Of convicts and present conditions af-
fecting prison management have seen.
Few persons realize the problems and
conditions that face the prison warden
or superintendent OF to-day. Confine-
ment Of an offender IN penal institu-
tion heretofore has been with the object
Of deterring him from life of crime
upon his release and to deter others from
the same. Inmates now leave institu-
tions more crininally inclined than when
they entered and do not fear return,
prison industries have deteriorated and
there are few institutions where the In
mate actually works moro than two or
three hours a day when he should be
doing an honest eight hours at hard
labor, and prison discipline is extremely
poor throughout the whole country. as
evidenced by disorders and killings.
Undoubtedly there Is much to find
fault with in our probation and parole
systems. though right In principle, but
much more fault can be found with our
prison system. When will the public
wake up and demand that the coddling
Of inmates cease. ana that institutions
be administered efficiently without bru-
tality and according to law, and that
prison industries be reorganized with
inmates performing eight hours q day
actual work?
Present conditions call for sweeping
investigation. non-poiitical and nom
partisan, by level headed men who
win look into the matter from q
practical standpoint and who are not
likely to be swayed in their judgment
by sentiment or theory. however plausi-
BILE or beautiful. S. w. BREWSTER,
Major u. s. M. c.. retired, assistant
superintendent New York City
Reformatory.
NEW YORK, January 81.
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
New IreIand's Foreign Trade.

The Irish are already making plans
for doing direct business with Ger
many. Mr.. BEwLAY, the Irish trade
commissioner to Germany, tells THE
New YORK HEEALp's Berlin Bureau
that Ireland probably will be a great
buyer OF German goods and will ex-
pect Germany TO buy literally OF
Ireland's food products.
It might have been expected, for
sentimental reasons, that the new
ireland would look first to America
for direct trade relations. But bust.
ness is business, and that Is what
viii control the imports and exports
or the Irish Free State. Ireland will
not buy from Germany the things
that she can BUY elsewhere cheaper.
Germany will not buy lreland's but.
ter ~ the Danes make lower price.
ireland will sell her laces and her
bacon In the United States unless she
can get better pr'~ Elsewhere. She
Will buy here her s.seI and beef, her
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
A Baseball Professors Salary.

The news that JOHN McGRAw is to
receive salary of s65,000 year for
five years for managing the Giants
must fin the young baseball fan with
admiration and longing.
Some of the fans elders will won
der why an income almost as large
as that of the President Of the United
States should be earned by the man
ager of baseball club. They do not
reflect that the national game is now
one of the sciences and that the
greatest professor Of it must be paid
better than any college president.
A baseball manager must be a
judge Of new timber, for his human
material is constantly wearing out.
He must know at a glance whether
Pitcher Doe of the Bush League has
mind, temperament, strength and
science capable Of being developed
into big league star. 4
He must understand his old play
ers SO well that he will know just
when they begin to lose their batting
eye. when they slow up fraction of
a second in stealing a base, when
they begin to "arch" the ball in
throwing across the diamond, and
when they lose that zest which makes
Wagners and Collinses.
The baseball genius must know his
adversaries almost as well as his
own forces. He must know the quail
tiles Of opposing pitchers, the weak
nesses of the enemy's team at the
bat, on the bases and in the field.
He must guess not only what the
other fellow is going to do but what
the other fellow thinks he, the man.
ager, will do.
Even these abilities can attract a
salary Of s65.O0o a year only in a
business which has a huge income
But baseball In this region is so
popular that the gate receipts of two
big days will about pay the man.
iger's salary for year.
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
Winter WEAKNESS.

o It's snow. snow. snow,
Through the dreary. eerie dsy
And It's blow. blow, blow.
Under the frosty night,
When will the winter go
On its shrinking, Sinking way7
When shall we once more know
The dream and the fond delight?
o the rain, rain, rain,
II would seem like vernal song!
And this numblng sense of pain
With the melody would pass;
/ pine for the north winds wane,
And long Ooh, how longD
For tho glory sheen again.
The glimmer upon tho grass.
/ must b!de, my heart, must bide.
But when she comes over the hill,
shall greet her as a bride.
She of TIE daffodil hair,
Spring. the hyacinth- eyed,
With the witching and wayward will,
Old as times ceaseless tide,
Y*Sever and ever fair
CLINTON scoLLAnD.
The New York herald., 1922-01-22

grain and -four. her coal and shoes
If the American prices are right.
Nor need England worry about the
Irish trade. The competition which
will come from revived Irish indus
tries will only add to the zest of In
ternational business rivalry. Eng
land may lose some of the money
she made as an intermediary in Irish
commerce. but Ireland, in her new
spirit of friendliness. will buy Eng
lish goods when they cost less than
American or German or any other
kind of goods.
The population of ireland is about
the same as that of the boroughs of
Manhattan and Brooklyn. All they
can produce above their own needs
will be eagerly bought by a hungry
world--if the price is. right.
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
Its Name Misused.
-rrest I'm square, Not CoIIectins
Money for Ex.Service Hen.

10 TIA NEw YoRK HERALD: Rsperts
have reached the main once of Tveot
An sgHors that individuals repressnA.
ma themseitss % Re welfare workars
are eollecrng moncy FOR the un,mplov>d
ex-sfr ice men IN the nams or shsx
nsgarine. TIE latest report 10 this ef-
irct reached ~ from Long Island. where
fse young women have been thus en-
nased
Treat 'Ens ss.sye has never author-
lned any on~ 20 ecliect money IN It's De-
hair II Is distributes oniy by honorab,y
asrfarxed ex-servicc men bear rfnw duly
safhFir.d credentials n has consist
sutiy sshsrsd - she policy nat what
The sx-s~rv-cs men want Ia justice not
charity.
We sssa'i ~ vs<y grateful n TIE NEW
Year ffEmslD ON permit "a 70 sssne
warning throaRh ffs columns 20 tnoss
who vouid sw.ndin Kind hearted people
~ poNing ss representatives. az th~
waTaninA We rAnu also sppr~ciats 4.
n thoss persons who have scsn thus i'm
pontd upcn wta commurscsss with "a.
fince we are snxieus 20 locate ana PROS
ecute tas c9-o1~rx
Rorxsr ~ HAvrnnAx.
Eestor IN chief.
Nnw rs~s. ysnusry a..
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
Army Efficiency and Electives,

General PERsHING did a signal SER
vice to the country. and incidentally
TO the army. when he told the House
Committee on Military Affairs last
Wednesday how many regular ON.
GERS are needed to build up an ade-
quate national army.
The military program OF 1920, Gen.
cral PERsHISe said, requires $4,000
regular officers for the fiscal year
1928. In the following year this
number can be cut down to $4,000, to
be raised eventually to 1900 when
the National Guard and reserve or
ganization is completed.
Some critics object that $4,000 off,
GERS are more than are needed for
the existing army of 10000. But the
regular officers have been charged
with wider duties than those in
volved in the command Of the regu-
lar forces. They must give i'm
petus to the formation of the new
citizens army. They must supply the
technical instruction In schools. in
the reserve, in the National Guard.
The world war exposed the dan
gers and essential waste involved in
complete unpreparedness. 1t was
evident after the war that to funk
the entire framework of the war
time army would be but to repeat our
experience after the civil war. Il
would involve needless risk and ex,
cessiye cost to the nation in years. to
come. At the same time the Ameri-
can people do not want the burdens
or the evils of a large standing army.
The alternative 20 complete disarma-
ment was the national citizens army
which General PERsHINo is now try
ing to form. Regular officers have
now n recognized place in the train
ing Of the reserve and of the National
Guard. Congress had already pro-
vided for uniformity in arms and
Standardized instruction
is an even greater need. This can
now be given by experienced officers
Of the Regular Army.
Regular officers are necessary for the
higher command. General PERsHrva
told the committee that the army
should not be alIowea to disintegrate
into mere aggrega'rons of compa-
nies and battalions, as was the case
after the civil war;" but that itl
should maintain a semblance OF tao
teal cohesion and should be trained
In its larger units.
All the States can maintain Ma
tional Guard battalions and regi. |!
The New York herald., 1922-01-22
The Last Straw.

Farewell. Myrtilla!' We must part,
As cruel fate foretold,
You TO pursue your newer art.
to lament the old.
see you dick your cigarette
To mask, perhaps, some slight regret.
In early days. . clingins vine,
You wreati,ed my stalwart form
With tenderness I thought divine,
Caresses shyly warm.
You helped me with my overcoat.
Arranged the muffier at my throat
Your costumes then your figure graccd,
Depending fold on fold,
Their flowing lines correctly chaste.
Antithesis of bold.
Now, with your bioomers, knic1s and
tweeds,
Your "gownS' set up strange occult
creeds.
stood It when my cigarettes
Began to disappear.
A phalosophic mind begets
A certain calm austere.
Zen when you borrowed" ties and
stocks
with manly pluck I bore the shocks.
But now. however keen the pain.
I nuke my final stand.
i've yielded time and time again,
Yet shameless you demand
My goling hose for winter wear"
And that u moro than I'can bearl
MAURICE McRRIs.