The next meeting will be January 21st, at the Municipal Hall when it is hoped the music will have come and the chorus work can be started. The club is always open to those interested in music. Premier, Baldwin is facing an unemployment crisis. -New York Post. are.
about sixty-five independent States in the world.) In. Operation the The practical experience of the League during its first three -and a half years of life has not only wrought out, in a group of precedents, the beginnings of what might be called the constitutional law of the League, but it has also- shifted the emphasis in activities of the League and foreshadowed important modifications in its constitution, the Covenant. At its birth the Covenant the League "bore, vaguely in Article and more clearly in Article XYI, the impression of a general agreement to enforce and coerce. Both of those articles suggested the action of world not now which exist. never How existed far and the present League is actually removed from functioning as such a state sufficiently- exhibited in its dealings with Lithuania and Polan over Vilna and their common boundary, and with Greece and Italy over Corfu.
Experience in the last three years has remonstrated probably insuperably difficulties in the way of fulfilling in all parts of the world the large promise of Article in respect to either its letter or its spirit. No one now expects the League Council to try to summon armies and fleets, since it utterly failed to obtain even an international police force for the Vilna district. Each assembly of the League witnessed vigorous efforts to pret and modify Article X. In the fourth assembly an attempt to adopt an interpretation of that article essential agreement with the senatorial reservation on the same subject, in 1920 was blocked only by small group of weak States like Persia and Panama, which evidently at- The Leadership of the United Obviously Recognized Another significant development the constitutional practice of the League is the unwillingness of the League Council to intervene in any American controversy, even though all States in the New World except three are members of League. This refusal became evident in the Panama-Costa Rica dispute 1921 and in the quarrel between Chile, Peru and Bolivia, a quarrel which impelled the last two States to absent themselves from the Third Assembly, wherein a Chilean was chosen to preside.
Obviously the League intends recognize the of the United States in the New World precisely as the United States claims This is nothing less than the servance. of an unwritten law. limiting7 the powers and duties the League Council, defined in Article XI of the Covenant, to questions that seem to threaten the peace In- Actual Operation if not in Realizes the Principle and The, operation- of the League has therefore. evolved a Council widely different from the body, imagined 7 the makers of the that Covenant. of It can employ no force but persuasion and moral influence.
Its only actual powers are to confer and advise, to create, commissions, to ercise inquisite, -conciliative and arbitral functions, and to help elect judges of the Permanent Court. In other words, the force of circ*mstances is gradually moving League into position upon the foundations 'so well: laid by the world's leaders between 1899 and -1907-in the great international councils that period. The Assemblies of League and the Congresses of International: Labor Organization's are successors to the Hague Conferences. The Permanent Court has at least begun to realize the highest hope and purpose. of the Second Hague Conference.
The. Secretariat and the Labor fice have become Continuation Committees for the administrative" work of the. organized world, such as Conference -lacked resources to create but would have rejoiced see. cannot be economically and 'spiritually. separated, belt the power public opinion to the new machinery, A The SIMPER SEMI 1-WEEKLY 82.00 PER YEAR, SINGLE COPY.
NSVILLE, FRIDAY, JAN. 11, 1924 ESTABLISHED 1889 Irisburg Grower Gets Fine Price For Tobacco Crop H. M. Land, one of Irisburg's progressive farmers, finished selling his crop of tobacco today at the Banner Warehouse, and was well pleased with his prices. Mr.
Land only planted 14 thousand plants, which returned him $999.74. He deposited the money for his crop in one of the banks in town and says he much prefers: to. sell on the open market, and get the cash all down when sold, quirements still further. Article: and XVI, in their original forms, have therefore been practically condemned by the principal organs of the League and are today reduced to something like innocuous desuetude. The only kind of compulsion which nations can freely engage to apply to each other in the name of peace is that which arises from conference, from moral judgement, from full publicity, and from the power of public opinion.
States in the New World Is by the League the Old World. When the. United States is willing to bring the two halves of the world together for friendly consideration of common dangers, duties and needs, it will be possible to secure, if it is desired, closer co-operation between the League organizations and the PanAmerican Union, already a potential regional league. It is conceivable that the family of nations may eventually clearly define certain powers and duties of relatively local significance which may be developed upon local associations or unions. But the world of business and finance is already unified.
The worlds of scientific knowledge and human effort are nearly st Isolation of any kind is increasingly impossible and the world organization, already, centralized, is no more likely to return to disconnected effort than the United States is likely to revert to the Calhoun: of State Rights and Secession. States, including Germany, are members of the International. Labor Organization of League. There League Employs No Force tributed Article a protective power that it possesses only on paper. States, in -possible fear of unfriendly neighbors, must decide whether the preservation of a form of words in the Covenant is more vital to their peace and security, and to the peace and security of the world, than the presence of the United States at the council table of the family of nations.
As to Article XVI, the Council of the League created a blockade commission which worked for two years to determine how the "economic weapon" of the League could be effciently used and uniformly applied. The commission failed to discover any abligatory procedure that weaker powers would dare. to accept. It was finally agreed that each State decide for itself whether A the Covenant has been committed. The second assembly adopted a radically amended form or Article XVI from 'which was removed all reference to the possibility of employing military force, and in which the abandonment uniform obligation was directly provided for.
The British Government has since proposed to weaken: the form of re- The Council, resolving loose and large theories into, cleancut and practice, has been gradually reconciling the League, as an organized world, with the ideas of international interdependence, temporarily. obscured since. 19.14 by the shadows of the Great War. No one can deny that the organs of the League have brought to the service of the forces behind those ideals an efficiency, scope and variety of appeal that, in 1914. would have seemed incredible.
It is common knowledge that pub-lie opinion and official policy, in the United States have for 8 long time, without discrimination of party, been favorable to international conferences for the common welfare, and to the establishment of conciliative, arbitral and judicial means for setting international disputes. There is. no reason to believe that the judgment and policy have been changed. Along these same lines the League is now plainly crystalizing, as has been shown, and at the touch of the United States the process can be expedited. In no other way can the organized world, from which the United States devised for the pacific settlement of controversies: between nations and standing always ready of use.
(Continued on page: four). Original Conception the League Hopes of Hague Conferences DON'T FIRST, NATIONAL 4- BANK Martinsville, Va. 4: Vol. 33, No. 81.
Edward Bok Prize Peace 0 Submitted to Popular Vote Plan Proposes Entry into World Take Court and Part in. Urges: Outlaw that ing War- Provides for Co-operation by United States; Every Citizen Can and Should with League of Nation but Not Entry into League as Present Constituted. FULL TEXT The complete manuscript of plan No. 1469. Providing for: Co-operatin between the United States and other Plan Number There Is Not Room for More Promote International Five-sixths tof all nations, includ-1 ing about four-fifth of mankind, have already created a world-organization, the purpose of which is "to promote international co-operation and" to achieve, international peace and security." Those nations cannot and will not abandon this system which has now been actively operating for three and a half If leading members of the United States Government ever.
had serious hopes that another association of nations could be formed, such hopes were dispelled during the Washington Conference by plains intimations from other powers that there is not room for more than one The United States -Has Already With the League The United States Government, theoretically maintaining policy of isolation, has actually gone far, since March -4, -1921, toward. co-operation with other nations to achieve and pre serve the peace of the world." The most familiar part of the story is the. work of the Washington Conference, wherein Harding Administration. made a beginning of naval disarmament, opened to China a prospect of rehabilitation and joined -with Great Britain, Japan and France to make the Pacific Ocean worthy of its name. Later- came the recommendation that the United States should adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice.
34 Officially or Unofficially the Many League The United States Government has accreditedits representatives to sit as members "in an unofficial and consulting capacity" upon four of the most important social welfare commissions of the league, viz: Health, Opium, Traffic in women and Children, and Anthrax (Industrial Our government is a full member of the International Hydrographic Bureau, an organ of the league. Our, government was represented by, an "unofficial observer" in the Brussels Conference. (Finance and Economic Commission) in 1920. It sent Hon. Stephen G.
Porter and Bishop Brent to represent it at the meeting of the Opium Commission last May. Our Public Health Service has taken part in the Serological Congresses of the Epidemics Commission and has helped in the experimental work for the standardization of serums. Our government collaborates with the League -Health Organization through the International Office of Public Health at Paris, and with the Agricultural Committee of the League Labor Organization How, Can Increasing Co-operation (and the Organized The United States, already so far committed to united counsels with League agencies for the common social welfare of all of which has some bearing upon the preservation of world peace, the question before us may take this form: The United States Can Extend the League's Social Without any change in its present policy, already described, the United with the other humane and reconstructive agencies of the League. To four of these agencies that Government had already sent delegates with advisory powers. It properly accept Invitations to accredit members with like powers to each one of the other welfare commissions.
It has already received invitations from two of the latter." It is, secondly, immediately practicable to extend the same kind of cooperation, whenever asked to do it, 80. to include participation in the work: of the commission and technical committees of the Labor Organization. The record shows that such An Immediate Step Is Adherance A third immediately step is the Senate's approval of the proposal that the United States adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice for the reasons and under the conditions stated by Secretary Hughes and President Harding in February, 1923. These, three suggestions fori inof creasing nations are co-operation in harmony with the with family pollcles already adopted by our Govern-, ment, and in the last caser with a A DON FIRST NATIONAL BANK Martinsville, Va. 0 More Large Stills Captured by Law Officers Reported Constable Nolen and Baker with State Prohibition Agents Baker and Shelton Make Raids in County- -One Still of 500 GalIon Capacity-Other Seizures.
B. A. Anthony, J. B. Baker, pro-hibition-officers; and I.
E. Nolen continue their activities in destroying the manufacturing plants of the illicit liquor industry. On Tuesday and Wednesday six distilleries were destroyed. On Tuesday ofternoon, the above named officers with state agent Shelton destroyed three copper plants on the Henry road one and a half miles from Oaklevel. The largest distillery was 500 gallon capacity, and the other two were of 300 and 100-ballon capacities.
All were in operation. There were 83 gallons of whiskey and 8,000 gallons of beer destroyed. -All distilling apparatus was cut-up, except the caps and" worms, which were brought to Martinsville.No one was found at any of the distileries, as a signal man gave warning to the operators at the approach of the officers. On Wednesday afternoon, the same officers destroyed three copper plants one mile north of Philpott. At the approach of the officers, a signal was heard, and it is suspected by the officers that all the operators fled, as the plants were in operation and no one could be found.
The largest this group of distil-. eries was of 200-gallon capacity; one 150-gallon capacity; one 125-gallon. Thirty-six bushels 24 boxes, 13 five-gallon cans, 10 gallon whisky, 4 bushels of malt, 4 bushels of rye, 4 pounds of hops, 4 pounds of yeast and one set of gear were destroyed. The caps and worms were brought to Martinsville and turned over to the authorities. The Robins Class Plan A Party 'The Robins Class of the Methodist Sunday School met with Miss Margaret McCoy, on Tuesday Plans were made for an attractive tea to be- -given in the dining room of the Methodist church.
A profitable hour was spent in the study of the Sunday School lesson for this week. A delicious salad course was served by the hostess, assisted by her mother. Martinsville Banks all Had Gratifying Year's, Business Three Strong Financial Institutions Serving Community's Interests and a Growth -Large Earnings, Deposits and Resources Shown by Annual Reports at Stockholders Meetings This Week. OUTLOOK GOOD FOR 1924 OF PLAN Nations "to achieve and preserve the peace of the world" is given below, including the author's reasoning: 1469 Than One Organization to organization like the League of Nations. The states outside the organizaed world are not of such a character that the United States could hopefully co-operate with them for the purpose named.
Therefore, the only possible path to co-operation in which the United States can take an. increasing share is that which leads toward some form of agreement with the world as now organized, called League of Nations. 3 By sheer force of social international gravitation such co-operation becomes inevitable. Gone Far in Co-operation of Nations Not long after that action President Harding wrote to Bishop Gailor: "I do not believe any man can con: front the responsibility of a President of the United States and yet adhere to the idea that it is possible for our peountry to maintain an attitude of isolation and aloofness in the world." -But since the proposed adhesion to the Permanent Court would bring this coutry into close contact at one time and point with the League of Nations, and since such action is strenuously opposed for exactly that reason; it' is pertinent to inquire not only how much co-operation with the league and its organs has been proposed during the life of the present Administration, but also how much has been actually begun. United States Is Represented on Commissions the International.
Institute of Agriculture at Rome. In February, 1923, Secretary Hughes and President Harding formally recommended that the Senate approve our adhesion to the Permanent Court ander four conditions or reservations, one of which was that the United States should officially participate in the election of judges by the Assembly and Council of the league, sitting as electoral colleges for that purpose. Unofficial co-operation from the United States with the work of the League includes membership in five of the social welfare commissions or committees of the League, in one on economic reconstruction, and in one (Aaland Islands) which averted. a war. American women serve as expert Assessors upon the Opium: and Traffic in Women Commission.
Two philanthropic agencies in the United States have between them pledged more than $400,000 to support either the work of the Epidemics Commission or the League inquiry into conditions of the traffic in women and children. Between the United States World Be Secured? How can increasing co operation between the United States and the porganized world for the promotion of peace and security be assured, in forms to the people of the United States and hopefully I practicable? Its Present Co-operation with Welfare Activities States Government could, first, show its willingness to co-operate similarly co-operation is already begun. The single common purpose of all these committees is the collection and study of information, on which may be based, subsequent recommendations for national legislation. All conventions and resolutions, recommended the first three congresses the International Labor Organization, have already been laid before the Senate of they United and, without objection, referred to the appropriate committee. No different procedure would have been followed it the United States were member of the Labor Organization of the League.
A to the Permanent Court policy so, old and recognized that it may now be called traditional. They do not involve a question of membership in the League of Nations as now constituted, but it cannot be denied that they lead to the threshold of 14 that question. a Any further step toward co-operation must confront the problem of direct relations between the United States and the Assembly and Counsel of Afty-four nations in the (Fifty-seven, The three banks of Martinsville, had their regular annual stockholders and directors meeting this week, the First National and the Peoples National on Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock and the Piedmont Trust Bank, Wednesday at p.m. -The report of officers of each of the banks showed all three of the institutions in excellent condition, with the record of a most successful and satisfactory year's business. The stockholders were highly pleased with the results of the year and the splendid condition of the banking houses in which their money was invested.
This feeling was expressed by stockholders in each of the meetings with expressions of appreciation of the fine work and capable management on the part of the officers and directors of each of these banks. First National At the meeting of the First National, Mr. H. C. Clanton presided and Dr.
J. P. McCabe was secretary. The president's and Cashier's reports showed the resources of the bank at the close of the year to be in round. numbers $1,750,000, deposits capital, surplus, undivided profits and reserve amounting to $202,766.52.
Net earnings for the year were $22,598.15 or a little more than per cent, from which a dividend of 18 percent was declared and paid to stockholders and the balance passed to surplus and undivided profits. After the reports were heard Chairman Clanton took occasion to express in well chosen remarks the appreciation and gratification of stockholders of the showing made for the year and the present fine condition of the institution. All the members of the existing board of directors were re-elected for 1924 as follows: E. L. Williamson, J.
M. Shackelfor, R. S. Brown, A. J.
Lester, J. C. Greer and H. N. Dyer.
A meeting of the board followed immediately upon the adjournment of the stockholders' meeting and officers of the bank were re-elected as follows: President, E. L. Williamson; Vice-President and Cashier, J. C. Greer; Assistant Cashier, J.
C. Shockley, Jr. Peoples National At the same hour on Tuesday the Peoples National held its stockholders' meeting in the directors' room of its banking house with Mr. H. S.
M. -Accompanied By Little Daughter--Found By Officer in Isolated Cabin in Chestnut Knob tion Had 90-day Furlough From Williamsburg Asylum, for Insane- -Passed Check on Henry County Furniture Company. WANTED IN OTHER TOWNS Woman Arrested For Passing Worthless Check On Merchant Identity Not Known Here, Gives. Her Name As A -white woman giving her name as Eva Finney with a girl about 14- years old whom she claims to be her daughter Lois were taken Thto-custody here Wednesday night on the charge of passing worthless checks. The specific charge against the woman here was the passing of a worthless check for $25 on the lienry County Furniture Company last Friday the transaction being with Mr.
J. W. Townes of that concern. Mr. Townes sold the woman ten dollars worth of merchandise and she presented in payment a check on the Citizens National Bank "of Durham, N.
for $25, the check bearing the name and signature, of Wilber -Mr. Townes accepted the check and gave the. woman $15 in The check was returned by the Durham bank as worthless, party whose name was signed to the check being unknown. Mr. Townes at once made inquiries to ascertain if possible the whereabouts of the woman, and.
by accident got the information. that a woman and girl answering the description of the parties wanted were located in an isolated cabin about two miles south of the Horsepasture road near the chesnut Knobb section. Accompanied by police officer H. H. Dudley and Robert Hill, the latter having given.
the information as to the whereabouts of the woman, Mr. Townes went to the cabin last night and the woman girl were taken in charge by the officer and lodged in jail here. An examination by Mayor Brown. yesterday and, communication 14 with Teague as chairman -and Cashier Brown acting as secretary. On account of the absence of President C.
B. Keesee on a foreign trip, the annual reports were submitted: by the Cashier Mr. J. A. Brown.
These reports showed the excellent condition of the bank and a splendid year's business, exceeding in net earnings and growth those of any previous year of the banks history. earnings were $24,047.53, or a little over 24. per cent. out of which a dividend of fifteen per cent was paid to stockholdrers, and the balance added to undivided profits. Capital, surplus, undivided profits and reserve at the close of the year amounted to $193,111.24, with deposits amounting to over a million dollars and resources of one and a half millions.
At this meeting likewise the officers, and directors were accorded an expression of thanks and appreciation by stockholders on account of the capable management of the banks affairs, the successful year's business and the present strong pooccupied by this bank. The old board of directors was continued for the year 1924, composed of C. B. Keesee, T. G.
Burch, A. D. Witten, J. H. Stanley, Harden Hairston, J.
B. Sparrow S. G. Whittle, J. C.
Kearfott and J. A. Brown. At the meeting of the board following the stockholders' meeting the officers of the bank were reelected as follows: President, C. Br Keesee; Vice-President and Cashier, J.
A. Brown. Piedmont Trust Bank At the meeting on Wednesday, of: the stockholders of Piedmont Trust Bank, Dr. C. T.
Womack presided and Mr. I. M. Groves, Jr. was secretary.
The reports of- President -T. G. Burch and Secretary, -I. M. Groves, showed a gratifying year's business and fine growth of the -institution.
The net earnings were $8,623.80, out of which the sum of $5.000 was placed to surplus and the balance added to undivided profits. The capital, surplus and undivided profits at the close: of the year were $170,389.14 besides a reserve fund of $8,175.93, mak-. ing a' total of $178,566.07. The Capital stock of this bank. is with resources amounting: 000.
These figures are to be considered in the light of the fact that" the bank is less than two years old, thus revealing its splendid growth and strong financial condition -at the end of that short period of its existence. The reports were highly gratifying to the stockholders, marking this. banking house as already among the fully established strong and successful financial institution of the community. The stockholders showed their appreciation- of this stockhold- condition not only by. expressions in ers' to.
the officers and directors, but by unanimous re-election of the same board with the addition of Mr. Whaling. The directorate is composed of -the following well-known business T. G. Burch, A.
D. Witten, B. M. Townes, I. M.
Groves, C. C. Bassett, H. N. Dyer, D.
Ford, H. A. N. S. Goode, H.
C. Gravely, R. P. Gravely, Samuel Hairston, J. E.
Howard, C. B. Keesee, V. Price, S. S.
Stephens, Tuggle, C. A. Whaling, S. G. Whit, tle, Jr.
and A. D. Witten: At the meeting of the Board on in the same afternoon the officers of the bank: were re-elected as follows: President, T. G. Burch; Vice-President; A.
D. Witten; 2nd Vice-President, B. M. Townes, Secretary and Treasurer, I. M.
Groves, Jr. the police of other cities revealed a number of alleged facts as to the woman's identity and history. The woman claimed that her mother is a Mrs. Webb of Vinton, that she. was delicate and had been traveling about for her health and was staying at the cabin above mentioned on that account.
It appeared that she had visited many towns throughout Virginia, West Virginia and North: Carolina and apparently had made many purchases at a number of these towns. She came here several days ago from North Carolina went for a day or so to Rocky Mount and then returned to. Martinsville. She had in her possession a furlough for ninety days from the asylum for the insane "at Williamsburg. Communication with Williamsburg and Richmond elicited the information that she was a married woman who had been divorced from her husband four or five years ago, that she had been for some time an inmate of the asylsum that she was wanted in Rich: mond and perhaps other cities for similar transactions to that for which she is.
held here. When closely crossexamined by the Mayor for' an- exi planation of this reason for her conduct she frequently took refuge in the answer, "I don't and there were evidences in her. answers and story that. the was not mentally quite In her valise was found' probably $150-worth of merchandise which she had gotten' in various towns. She and: "the child; who is a rather' attractive looking and girl; are being held by the authorities here for a further; investigation and: disposition of the case.
Death of Mrs. A. G. Price, Ridgeway, Jan. 9.
Mrs. Price died- December 18th, 1923, but. dates were not available till now. She was Minerva Anna Roberts, daughter of Squire John Roberts, a of Matrimony, N. and in the early sixties.
married A. G. Price; and they settled two miles of Ridgeway. Mr. Allen: G.
Price preceded. her" to the grave twenty ago. She is survived by son, Sam Price, of Lynchburg, and two daughters living near, viz: Mrs. Dan B. Evans and Mrs.
Perhaps no: other one "ever lived 86 years and made ad few enemies 'as she did in her community. She wore a quiet dignity and, a smile that endeared her not; only to her neighbork, 1 lut to all wha came In contact with her in her home: She was buried in the at her old beyond Matrimony creek by the aide of she loved s0 well. male.
