THE CHARLOTTE NEWS FfibRUARY 7.1911
The Charlotte News
PublisAen ftafty ana Sunday by
THB NVWii FVBf.ISHING CO.
W. C. Dowd. t*reB. aad Gea. M«r.
Tclcpkoacai
rtty Editor
iVustp^as Offlcfs .Hz
Job Offlca IIS*
J. a PAJ'IOS
A. W. CALDWBLL City Editor
A. W. BORCU 4dvrtUlng Mgr.
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Fpfl^'tfullv invited to iMtf following:
• n /utur«, OoJtuary Noilcfs, In Me-
■^cr!n*\i .'i.otv'hea. C«r^i» of Thank*.
I i'**i"mnic.itions ei^c'^uslng the causa
vi .« rrlvcite e^.rerpilse or a political
inTI.^tvi r.nrt natter, will ba
i. i’K"'! ^cr at the rats of fiva cents
c 1 r? There wllJ ba no deviation from
tr:ule.
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1911.
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position of authority. The lesson will
be a dear one, and no doubt the state
will be called upon to suffer the slings
and arrows of ridicule throughout your
regency, but anything to forestall an
encore. Go it Blease.
Old Tolli\or
mauinr: lots of
:fio trade of
all tiK'
tl'.e tailor is ♦
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h’.isinoss men, ♦
wealthy ladr,. ♦
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\\ iiile others arc coii!i)laining
th;i! tiiii\j^s are niighty slack,
l'.( s luby as a bumblc-wasp,
ani athiln^ to his stack. I or-
piindry >;annonts. and ask
I’. n they'll i)c done; he
;>:ii.lios fur a niomrnr, as sol-
oi i”;,' as one w’ao has no sort
;■! f>ir iiiie, empty talk:
NOur r.ii> will sure be
ready at half past ten o'clock.”
He ^’’\ts me tliis assnrance
.‘•r.d i,raveiy turns away, to
tii'i'or wi'h his tjpcline around
scmt- otiier Joy. All sorts of
Miiri.us may lKii>ron before the
'miir lie s( t: iK'iehance there'll
a lel';'?c of \^aier beastly
. a tiri' ir.a,' sweep the vil-
HLi*'. a e,. eliue snort around,
• a iu.'v.ing earthquake
V. ^ : liaM itw lip the ground,
'['lit re may 1-'' labor riots, there
!'• lattice's shock —but my
i'iiu.' v;iil ! e ready a' balf past
i“i' o'elocl:. Old Tolliver the
i::’.;pr is pr«'>i)eious ad wise:
!.'• Tieve" uia! os e.vcuses, he
TU'Vt^:’ (i^ als in li«'S. ’le's careful
wi Ii l..'-^ !'nnv.iL-o, buc when
till* same i- made, it’s good as
r(>>a! warrant—and so he gets
trv.de.
WALT MASON.
^CopyriRht, 1011. by Gearge
Matthew Adams.)
TEACHERS UNDERPAID.
In demonstrating the shameful dis
parity between salaries of school
teachers and clerks in state depart
ments, the Spainhour bill is beneficial.
It falls short in that it provides no
fecompense for the formeY". As poinir
ed out in the bill the salaries of clerks
range from |1,000 to $1,200, while
school teachers get only about $25 to
$40 per month,' and many ^profe&sors
in state colleges less than $1,000 per
annum. This is true, and more’s the
pity. But what benefit is to be de
rived from the contrast? If provision
were made to pad the teachers salary
from the pruning down to clerk’s pay,
then there would b-; an object to a
measure which appears, . as It
stands, to do little more than
suggest an outrageous compai'i
son. The teachers are shameleseiy
underpaid. No doubt of that. And it
is a matter to be regretted that the
efficient school teacher, who has
spent hundreds to equip hims-elf or
herself, should receive less remunera
tion than a clerk in a state depart
ment. Rut one can scarcely look
in any direction and not find similar
illustrations where the teacher shares
the brunt of the situation. It is a
fact which' should paint a blush of
tsharae upon the cheek of every one,
that many compete - and earnest
teachers are paid smaller salaries than
janitors employed in school buildings.
But what is to be done about it? The
disparity cxi&ting between wa^^es of
clerks and teachers and carpenters
or almost any other class of day
laborers. There are few malefactors of
great wealth among clerks. True, the
^.vstem V. hioh ranks- the teacher under
them in pay is bad, but scarcely any
fault of the clerks, but rather of every
citi:'en who supinely notes the injus
tice done teachers with never an ef
fort to correct the same.
The legislature could render a great
service by making a sincere effort to
reward teachers in accordance with
the value of services rendered, and
as a suggestion of the necessity of
such action the Spainhour bill is of
value.
The same secrecy which hedged
about ihe departure of the colonel to
African jungles is maintained anent
the w’edding plans of the Gould-Decies
party. Try as we might only the brief
est rumors could be secured for a
suspen&e-mad public. Aside from a
few’ thousand photographs, a mile or
so of advance description dope, a ba-
tallion of motion picture artists, a
page or so of telegraphic dispatches,
the entire affair has been veiled in sec
recy. We devoutly trust that the
groom-to-be brushed his teeth this
morning, had sugar in his coffee, and
tipped the shine boy, but as regards
the important details we are left only
to the power of conjecture. Such a
bunch of tightwads with their infor
mation we have scarcely ever encoun
tered.
GO IT SLEASE!
'1 he ear oon’^t of the Greenville
.\rw ; dr^'v a powerful reprimand to
i!.*- liewhihkered, pompadoured and
ra iibunc’ious governor cf South Caro
lina in Monday s papei. It was
I'rtgnant with biting irony, powerful
ir; the lesson of mockery which it car
ried. It was entitled “Wade Hamp-
ton'.s Chair." and the picture showed
a long-haired imbecile-looking pigmy,
rrouchlnp in one corner of the seat
jnoe occupied by a statesman. The
pii Ture alone carried tones of object
essons. It is a long call. Indeed, from
:he day of Hampton, when statesman-
t^hip v^•as in flower, to the reign of
:h!i- bubble on the political surf—and
the picture portrayed the chasm.
Prom the cay he first got off an
Inaupural address, which should have
shamed the most shameless ward
heeler, until today—scarcely a month,
we have watched with consuming in
terest the career of this man whom the
people of a great state have, in a mo
ment of forgetfulne&s, reared to the
highest seat .of ofilce. We had first
fancied that perhaps the governor had Confederacy—50 Years After.
a erouch when he oenned his first mes Constitu-
a groucn wnen ne penned nis first mes- Convention of the Confederate
sage to the people, and that, ensconced States of America was in session in
in high office, he might learn to forget j Montgomery, Ala. Delegates repre-
the littleness which had behedged his i s^^ting six southern states in propor
tion to their electoral votes met on
Greensboro Is going to try the com
mission form. A town that managed
to grow from 42,000 to 15,000 in 10
years should be benelitted by any old
form of government.
The Spartanburg papers are doing
their best to get their tightw^addish
constituency to loosen up with con
tributions to the interurban.
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career.
But not so.
To date the governor has Issued
nine firpeclal messages. His stock of
verbal sulphuric acid, like the wid
ow’s mite, is replenished daily.
iWth one fell swoop of his majestic
hand he obliterated some thousand or
more notaries public.
Another imperial edict Informed the
supreme court that It was not the
only pebble on the beach. In short
his highness told the dignitaries of
the bench, in brief lang:uage, that he
was the governor of South Carolina,
and that the majority which elected
him had as much brains as the mi
nority. He further reiterated his avow
ed Intention of rewarding his friends
with the spoils of office, regardless of
what the supreme court might or
might not say.
Go it Cole. Sick ’em. A political
pigmy they wanted and a political pig
my they got. Dod drat the supreme
court, and the constitution. Are you
not ?;ovemor, and therefore greater
than all powers temporal and eternal?
Juncture precedents. Shatter the sym
bols of authority. Revel In scenes of
dissolution! If the newspapers and
ministers of the state could not teach
Uie people the folly of electing a
blatherskite to ofince, perhaps you can
ihake the demonstration yourself. So,
let ’er go gallager. You’re governor.
Show ’em just what a little political
»nountebank can do when put in a
Feb. 4, 1861. They adopted Feb. 8 a
temporary constitution. Feb. 9, voting
by states, they elected Jeflierson
Davis president and Alexander H.
Stephens vice-president.
Mr. Stephens called the Montgom
ery congress “the ablest, soberest,
most intelligent and conservative body
I was ever in.” The'eminent dele
gates approached the breach with be
coming gravity. They were honor
able men, most of them deeply religi
ous, who believed themselves in the
right. Not for one moment did they
consider their movement revolution
ary. They believed that they upheld
the true theory of the federal union.
Many constitutional students still
hold the southern view of the right of
secession under the constitution of the
United States. That belief may have
prompted Representative Bartlett of
Georgia last Wednesday to resent in
the house Gen. Keifer’s use of the
word “rebellion.” To defend one’s
constitutional rights as one sees them
is not subjectively a rebellious act.
Even the term “civil war” is in that
view equally inaccurate, though less
objectionable. As defined in the
south, it was “the war between the
states.”
For a schism based avowedly upon
constitutional grounds the Confeder
acy as a government was little chang
ed from its northern model. The
Montgomery congress combined law
making with constitution-drafting and
the election of a president-by adopt
ing the whole body of federal statutes
as it then stood, including the tariff
HASNOSUBSmm
Absolutely Pure
The onty baking powdor
mBtSm mm Royaf BragiB
Oramm of Tartar
MO ALUM.NO LIME PHOSPHATE
of 1857. The slave trade was forbid
den in the provisional constitution,
though to this there was some objec
tion. Afterward under the stern com
pulsion of war the draft w^as as harsh
ly enforced in the south as in the
north. The doctrine of secession from
secession arose and v.'as vigorously if
inconsistently combated. Toward the
end of the desperate struggle the great
name of Lee stood sponsor for a pro
posal to arm and enlist negro soldiers
as the north had already done.
By the close of the war there was
little logical difference in the frame
or the conduct of the two govern
ments. Both had arbitrarily grasped
dangerous “war powers.” The south
had gone even further in this than the
north. It fixed prices for produce,
ran railroads, passed sumptuary law's.
Its need was the more imperative.
Wiih slavery gone beyond hope of re
covery there was nothing in the nature
of the theoretical dispute to prolong
the conflict. A more generoiis and
far-seeing reconstruction policy might
ha\e sooner healed the remaining
causes of ill-feeling. But healed they
are now and w'e may turn to glance at
the place of the south in the reunited
country.
Had the south achieved freedom in
1SG5. impoverished, exhausted, weigh
ed down by a great war debt, hamper
ed in industry and in International re
lations by the incubus of slavery, what
would iiavc^ l)een its history? We
may only know’ what its history has
been. Its population has nearly
trebled, the whites increasing more
rapidly th&n the negroes. Texas has
grown since 1900 more than its entire
population in 1S60. and has jumped
from the twenty-third state tp the
fifth. Florida’s people have more than
quintupled.
So deficient in mining and manufac*
tures as to hamper it greatly in the
war, the south has now fiourishing in
dustries. Its agriculture has become
far more diversified, yet its great sta
ple crop of cotton Jias more than trip
led the five-year average of 1856-60,
and the “cotton states” are growing
far more rapidly than the middle west.
No city of its rank has paralleled the
marvellous increase in ten years of
Biriuinirham. Ala., a town which in
1860 did not exist. In education,
white immigration, railroads, the
south has been transformed within
two decades.
And the nation as a whole has
growA in fifty years far more truly a
nation. Sectionalism is less mischiev
ous, prosperity is more diversified,
rancor has all l»ut departed from po
litical discussions. And perhaps there
has not been a time since the war
when the statesmanship of the south
was so needed in Washington as now%
or so likely to win the gratitude of the
north.—New York World.
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CHENEY’S
EXPECTORANT
JPPLD#^
Special to The News.
Raleigh, Feb. 7.—In response to a
complaint to the corporation commis
sion by the mayor of Thomasville,
the Southern Railway Company is
arranging to build a modem passen
ger depot at Thomasville and it will
be pushed to an early completion. '
The report of the condition of state
banks at the close of business Jan
uary 7 has been compiled by the cor
poration commission and the summar
ry shows the total resources and
liabilities to be $63,412,244. Compar
ed with the statetnent made to the
corporation commission last Novem
ber there is an increase in capital
stock of $113,813; Increase in depos
its, $2,090,560; increase in total re
sources, $1,265,692. The present cap
ital stock is $9,030,247; surplus funds,
$2,096,195; loans and discounts, $43,-
494,315; deposits subject to check,
$29,368,298; time certificates of de
posit, $6,492,948; demand certificates
of deposit, $3,863,609; savings de
posits, $7,032,354.
Mrs. E. B. Barbee died at the Bar
bee home on Blount street last night
and thef uneral will take place Tues
day. She was Miss Anna Thraves,
of Virginia, the family home being
near Richmond. She married Mr. Ed
B. Barbee more than a year ago.
She Is survived by her husband and
an infant child.
The portrait of Joseph Monford, an
early grand master of the North Car
olina gOrand Lodge of Masons, was
shipped from the Masonic tmeple
here to Halifax today to be used at
the unveiling of the monument to
Monford at which there will be ad
dresses by Governor Kitchln and
Deputy Grand Master W. B. McKoy.
The ceremonies will be on next
Monday.
A Whale Story.
By Associated Press.
Charleston, S. C., Feb. 7.—A re*
port reached here after 3 o’clock yes
terday that a fifty foot whale had
been captured off Cole Island, near
Cha,rleston. Many years ago a large
whale was caught in this harbor
where it stranded, its skeleton being
in the museum here. 1
This Week’s
Suit Reduct
Are Final
It would probably be (in fact it would be) to our int -
ry these few Winter Suits over, but this woul(’ .a ‘
the policy we intend to pursue in our big new
take care of itself. XJnheard-of price reduction^; n-i- ■ ^
$12.50 to $17.50 Winter Suits reduced to
$17.50 to $37.50 Suits reduced to ’ ’ .
STYLISH SEPARATE SKIRTS REDUCED FOR AO;
■'■"^-KANC‘
$5.00 to $7.00 skirts reduced to $3.95—Fine pure Wor>V .
crisp all-wool 'Voile Skirts, new styles that were -
ed on one rack and reduced for this week, olioi- r
DON’T OVERLOOK OUR SPECIAL SALE OF S!l- -
- iES
$15.00, $17.50 to $22.50 Silk Dresses, special for chi.;,
in-the-season bargain is indeed worth while. It w
of just fifty new, stylish Silk Dresses at just h \
to $22.50 Silk and Woolen Dresses, special this wo.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY COTTON GOODS R
10c Dark Percales at .... ....
10c short length Dress Ginghams (not manv left f-ov^
sale) ' ‘
8 l-2c yard wide Bleached Domestic at
A number of big values in short length White Gof i-
McCall’s Patterns, Fashion Sheet and Magazines are b-;-?.
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buy a piano until you have writ
ten the great house of Chas. M.
Stieff.
It will only cost two cents
and not only save many dollars
in a purchase, but you run no
risk of securing a cheap piano.
No matter what agent or
dealer is trying to sell you, write
Stieff before you buy.
The artistic Stieff is the only
artistic piano sold direct to you,
instead of to a retail dealer to
resell.
Chas. M Stieff
Manufacturer of the
Artistic Stieff, Stieff Self-player
Shaw and Shaw Self-player
PlaAos.
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I Thies’ Salve, 25c. |
▼ ALL DRUGGISTS T
SOUTHERN WAREROOM
5 West Trade Street
CHARLOTTE, - N. C.
C. H. WILMOTH. Manager.
FOUND—An opportunity io sell or ex
change all kinds of articles. This
column is the place to “tell it to the
town.” ^
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$1.10 Worth i
FOR I
60d:s
For a Limited Time
We are again authorized to
offer ou^ customers One Dollar
and Ten Cents Worth of Palm
Olive Soap and Palm Olive
Cream for Sixty Cents.
Offer is good for a limited
time only and we want all our X
customers to take advantage of T
Hundreds of our customers T
took advantage of these prices V
and values last fall. You can ♦
get the same now. Phone your 4
orders to 4
WOODALL
&
SHEPPARD
“Jordan’s on the Square.**
E. P. Purcell, President.
D. A. McLaughlin, . Pres.
Huylers’
None as good ,
None as pure •
None as wholesome.
We have a fresh supply; try a box
today.
R. Ii Jordan & Go.
The “Rexall" Store.
Graduate Nurses’ Register.
'Phone 7.
Park Avenue
FOR SALE
New 8-room house, well built, with hard w’ood floors an
ii
modem conveniences,
garage. Lot 50x200.
Basement is large enough to be used ss a
HORACE LOW—TERMS EASY
DRUGGISTS
In the Skyscraper Building.
’Ph^e 69 and 166.,
I
BLAKE’S DRUG SHOP
On the Square.
Prescriptions Filled Day and
Night.
Introductory
Bargain
1 Box Velata Powder 50
1 Box Viola Cream 50
1 Cake Viola Soap 25
Special
50 Cents
For AH.
$1.25
John S. Blake
Drug Co.
'Phones 41 and 30C.
Registered Nurses’ Directory.
W. F. Moody. Jas. A. Henderson.
THE BOND ISSUE
On all sides the advisability
of issuing bonds is being dish
cussed. There are many con
vincing arguments being ad
vanced for and against.
THERE IS NO ARGUMENT
We think we have succeeded
in convincing those who discrim
inate that thete is no argument
concerning the real value of the
Chocolates that are different.
Fresh every , week and on sale
every day
39c Pound.
‘ Tryon DrugCo .
'Phone 21 and 1043.
Smoke Havanna Extras. The
5c Cigar with the 10c taste.
Ghariotte Gonsolidated Construe
Gompaoy
#t#iw#ee#e*e
If You Want Dry Coal,
Sta^nda
COAL>
It is all under shed and protected from
the weather.
4Phone IQ or 72
Standard Ice & Fuel Co.|
M. A. BLAND, Sales Agent
INJECTION
BROU
Giv« Prompt a»d Effectual Relief
without inconvenience, in the
MOST OB5T1NATE CASES
No other treatment required.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
The Ground Hog
Saw His Shadow
on Thursday and according
to the observations and tes
timony of the oldest inhabi
tants there are six weeks of
the roughest kind of winter
weather before us.
Rough weather may find
you in need of an
Overcoat
OR
Raincoat
heavy enough for winter
wear, or you may need a lit
tle heavy underwear to fin
ish out the winter. You can
find all these and any oth^
apparel that changing weath*
er may suggest at our store.
Ed Mellon Com