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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919.
FOR THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE.
There is very Kttle real leadership
in either the Democratic or the Republican
parties?has not been for a
number of years?'but the Republicans,
being in power, have more opportunities
for making asses of
themselves and they are passing up
no chances.
The big issue before the people
now is the Treaty of Peace, which,
nf rrmrsp. includes the Leasrue of
Nations. It is a vexing problem and
the sooner it is settled the better this
country and the world will be. Instead
of trying to help reach a so
lution of the question the Republicans
are doing everything in their
power to embarrass the President.
They are making of a big issue a
matter of. petty party politics. The
slogan is "anything to discredit
Wilson."
The latest development is the Taft
letters to Will Hayes, chairman of
the Republican National Committee.
Taft in his usual easy, ingenuous
way, suggests that the Peace Treaty
is all right, but that the Republicans
had nothing to do with making
it; therefore, it necessarily must be
at fault. He further suggests, to
salve the Republican sense of conceit
and to give the impression that the
Republicans have won a victory that
certain paragraphs ef the, treaty be
changed by way of compromise. The
Republicans hail these two letters *of
Taft with acclaim as scoring a party
victory over Wilson, who, after all is
* the Democratic party in a national;
sense. They even went so far as to1
publish them prematurely in their,
eager desire to furnish a symbol of
party victory.
The Taft letters have not helped1
matters any and when read analyti-j
cally they do not mean anything
more than a request for clarifying!
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At present the Republicans are interpreting
the treaty as suits their
selfish aims and are attacking the
document on all sides and with a
blindness of vision that is as amusing
ps it is disgusting.
England has ratfied the pact.
France intends to do so within the
next ten days. Italy will follow suit.
Germany has already "come clean."
America, of all the great nations
is held back because the Republican j
politicians care naught for the rights
at issue, care for nothing in fact'
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save tnat wmon tney accompnsn re-j
fleet success on them.
The Republicans have never .got-:
ten together on what they
Thus the Democrats are in a better |
strategic position. The Republicans
are making speeches and attacking
the treaty generally, but have set
forth no concrete set of reservations
which express their viewpoint. Sen-;
ator Knox offered a resolution which'
would separate the Peace Treaty:
and fche Leaenie of Nations, but his
suggestion fell with a sickening thud.'
Mr. Root offered other suggestions.1
Now conies Mr. Taft, and Mr. Taft
is a nice somebody whom we.
wouldn't like to offend, but he seems!
altogether too eager to save the day
for his party. Unless the Republicans
get together and set forth their
position plainly and succinctly the
Democrats will still have the edge.
In the end the people will decide.
Let the Republicans talk their fool
heads off. Wilson will soon go before
the people and make a direct
appeal and it can be safely said that
he will have a message for the peo-|
pie that will be well worth hearing..
Therein lies hope for action; for thej
people have a power for coercion
that is well understood and 7?j$>ected
even in the United* Abates Senate.
PENNY POSTAGE.
Congressman Moon, of Tennessee,
is nothing if not sanguine when he,
says that one-cent letter postage can'
be established and the postoffice de-j
partment still ?arn a surplus of
I twenty-five million dollars a year.
I He stipulated, however, that other
I aIoccm n-f mail "shall he made to pay
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the cost of handling." . Well, we are
thankful enough for the return of
the two-cent letter and the one-cent
postal card to let further reform rest
for the nonce. In the postoffice,
moreover, good service is the public's
prime demand, and cost a secondary
consideration.
Yet we may look forward to a
time, though cautious oracles will
name no date, when Mr. Moon's opi
timiiiii shc.ll be fulfilled. A recent
writer, recalling the British postal reform
of 1839, which was the forerunner
of cheap postage throughout
the world, observes that it was a
model of what' every innovation of
the kind out to be?'scientific, mathematical,
clearly thought out, reasonably
imaginative, disinterested and
democratic." Of Jttowiand nui, tne
father of that achievement, we are
1 told that he could not have failed
I long with penny postage, "because
! the proposal had been so intently
, studied, particularly on the economic
j side, that there was) simply no case
against it." The ridicule of bureaucrats
and a few other interested or
i naturally contemptuous persons was
I so overwhelmed by public opinion
| that Parliament appointed a special
i committee inquiry, and in less
than three years from the time Hill
began his studies, penny postage was
on the statute books."
It will be observed, however, that
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postal responsibilities in the United
i States of America today are incomparably
heavier and more complex
than in the British Isles eighty years
ago. Still, with airplanes and a
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! score a yet greater reform, if we find
! another Rowland Hill.?The Atlanta
! Journal.
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j COTTON CROP AND PRICES.
i Mr. A. R. Marsh, Editor of the
| Economic World of New York, and
i a well*known cotton authority, pre
sents the following opinion of the
j cotton situation:
"The Depatment of Agriculture
places the expectancy of the crop of
1919-1920 at 10,986,000 bales of
lint cotton, as compared with an ac-J
tual yield of 13,040,532 bales last
year, ll,iV)2,000 bales two years,
ago, 11,450,000 three years ago, and
11,192,000 bales four years ago. j
"There is nothing that can be
called comforting for the trade in'
the successive figures of the cotton'
crops since 1914, as just given. For-j
merly it was the tradition of the;
trade, based upon long experience,!
that three short crops of cotton in!
succession in the United States are!
almost beyond the bounds of possi-l
bilitv. Yet we have already had fourj
short crops in succession since the
monster crop of 1914, and there is
every reason for thinking that the
present season's crop will constitute
the fifth short crop of the series.
Everybody in the trade knows that,
but for the reduction in consumption
brought about by the war, so great
a falling off in America's production |
of raw cotton as these five short]
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c$ops represent would have meant
thji severest kind of cotton famine J
all ovar the' world and a rise of the i
-r:~2 of American cotton to amazing;
hel-'htz. Indeed, there are the best of ^
reckons for thinking that, if there:
had been no war at a'll, the present;
price of cotton would be indefinitely!
higher than it actually is.
"It is scarcely to be wondered at;
that considerations of this order, in-]
disputably based upon realities, con-j
firm the majority of the trade in its
confident belief that before the 19191
crop of Amercan cotton has beenj
marketed price levels much above!
those now obt^djjgf will be reached!
This belief, mor&AA', is probably in
accord with the ^Rt judgment of
the most experienced and conservative
cotton merchants. At the same
time, it has to be remembered that it
is of the very nature of great commodity
markets that their major
price movements in either direction
?upward or downward?should consist
of a series of ebbe^and flows,
and that there are only too often
most discouraging postponements of
events that are clearly foreseen rod
that in the end come to pass."
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FLIGHT LAW MUST BE REVISED^
I
For the third time, now, and within
not many weeks, a dirigible balloon
has taken fire from a spark of
mysterious origin and been almost
instantaneously destroyed. The first
I of these accidents, the one that hap1
pened near Baltimore, resulted in no
Incc n-f li-fo ihnt nnlv hwamp t.hi>
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airship was at anchor on the ground
and its crew were not on board.
When a dirigible was blown up in,
and perhaps by, a thunderstorm, the
other day off the coast of England,
its whole crew perished, and now
| comes the still more terrible disaster
i in Chicago, with fatalities not only
! among the men operating the balloon,
but also among the employes
of the bank building upon and into
which it fell with all the effect of
several incendiary bombs of the
largest size.
These occurrences not only illus'
trate and emphasize the peculiar and
1 dreadful dangers incidental to the
| use of the lighter-than-air machines,
| they bring most forcibly to attention
i the need of reviving and again enI
forcing the ordinances passed by
| most cities soon after aerial journey1
ings became possible for men, fori
bidding and penalizing flight over
j municipal territory.
While the war was in progress,
! these ordinances, for what then
I seemed, and probably were, suffici!
ent reasons, were allowed to become
! "dead letters." Aviators then flew
; where they chose, and often over
cities in response to invitations more
I or less urgent from the residents of
them. So far as known, however,
none of these ordinances were repealed,
and, as the excuses^for their
suspension are now passed, they
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i snouia again ue emurceu. oucn en|
forcement will not interfere at all
| with the training of aviators of any
j kind, or with their actiivties, which
every day are becomng more varied
and valuable. It is, therefore, in
every way commendable, and it is
especially necessary that dirigible
j balloons should not pass over or
| hover above areas at all densely inhabited.?New
York Times.
| ROMANTIC WEDDING
ON SUNSET MOUNTAIN
A wedding of interest was - that
, of Miss Lucy Zachary, of Sylva, N.
! C., to Mr. J. Robert Cochran^ of
; Abbeville, J3. C., which took; 'place
j July 16, on top of Sunset Mountain.
The wedding party motored from
Waynesville to Asheville, then in
the afternoon on to Sunset. Just
as the sun was falling (behind the
distant hilltops the impressive ring
ceremony was performed by Dr. E.
K. McLarty, pastor of the Central
M. E. Church, of Asheville, in the
presence of a few immediate relatives
and friends of the bride ,and
groom. x ; |
The bride was never more beauti
ful, in a handsome gown of beaded
white duchess satin. The maid of
honor, Miss Jessie Zachary, a. sister
of the bride, wore a blue georgette
crepe. Acting as best man was Mr.
Henry G. Chatten, of Atlanta, Ga.
Accompanying were Miss Janie Coward,
of Sylva; Miss Lillian Green,
of Waynesville; Miss Dixie Coward,
of Webster; Dr. L. J. Hooper, of
Asheville, and Mr. 0. D. Biddy, of
Hendersonville. ^ *
Mrs. Cochran is the daughter of
the late Dr. J. M. Zachary and Mrs.
Alice Zachary Norton, of Cashiers,
North Carolina.
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ivir. anu mrs. L/oenran win maKe
their future home in Atanta.?The
Atlanta Journal.
A Baby Boy.
There is a brand new ,boy at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Hill.
He came Saturday morning and is
going to stay for an indefinite time.
He has no name as yet but is lively
enough to make himself heard
around the house and to keep his
parents up at nght.
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BIRTH.
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Born?Baby girl, to Mr. and Mrs.
Joe T. Hughes, Sunday morning. It
has been named Carolyn Huguelet. j
The Park.
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The Monument Park is being
greatly improved by the work dose
on it in the last several days. The
grass h& -*>?^ &it fthd all tSFshrufrs
trimmed up into handsome shape, j a
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