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FOR BETTER SPEECH
Much Interest Taken in Kannapolis
During Better Speech Week, Febru
ary 18-24. • U
Mr. Editor:
The Educational < of the
North Carolina Federated 1 Woman's
Chib is on record as co-operating with
the schools of North- Carolina in the
observance 'of “Better Speech Week., '
which was February 3s-24. The Club
of Kaimapolis. after presenting the
matter to our local schools was very
much gratitie 1 at the. response given
by the teachers and. pupils in essays
and posters submitted. A committee
from the club selected the best papers
and posters which were forwarded to
Mrs..C. <Haworth. Burlington, X*. C.
Here they will be judged witJi many
others from different parts of-North
Carolina and cash prizes given the
. winners of the best e-says and post
ers.
Following are live of the essays se
lected,,, which were written by pupils
of grammar grades of the Kannapolis
schools: X.
Why Wo Should Spent, Hell or English.
Coed EngliTi is a key to success. If
you use correct English you can as
sociate with nice people. You can
speak in public plije.es and interest iye
people to whom you are speaking.
. It is easier to get a position if you
speak correctly.
It is important in both social and
‘.business life, Xo person can ever hold
* a high position it he does, not - speak
correctly.
• - LILLIAN OWEXSBY.
Ten years old: lit'th grade.
' Why We Should Speak IJelter English.
Your father, mother and teacher are
judged by the way you speak.
Suppose you would get a letter and
it would not have good English, would
you be as interested in it as you would
in a letter that, had good English?
If you were going to get a business
job you could get it easier if you used
good English.
If you used bad English they would
say you did not have enough educa
tion to for them. /
TJ you speak good English around
little children lr will teach them to
speak good English too.
America leads the world in every
way. V* hy not let it lead in English?
• RACHEL KKTXEU.
Age 31 ; liftli grade.
Why vYe Should Fbe Better SpccEi.
I think it is very good to have "Hood
Speech Week/’ because it teaches us
to he careful and pot use such awful
words that we do not need at all.
1 have often noticed that cvhn
though you go to school at! your life,
if you do not lake advantage of your
English you cannot go very far in
life.
If you tan do everything else per
fectly and cannot use good speech or
cannot write a good hand, they do not
want you.
People should be very proud that
they have a nice warm school and good
teachers to teach them English.
iAits of petTpie do not take advantage
of their education and learn to speak
good English. If our teachers worked
hard* to learn good speech we should
too; - • i ■ .
If \ou will e\er notice when a great
preacher or speaker gets up to talk
you will always notice that, he al
v-vs uses good English. If you over
;pb a liymn book and sit down and
look through if, the words are justj
right. If you will then look at the
notes, you will see that they are just
€n the right place and they would
sound awful ifijtliey were not. That is
the very way |t is with our speech. It j
does not soiifid right in its wrong
place.’
For tins reason I think you should ■
study real lujj-d on English, so you can
speak it rigbft. Some people think we
study English so we can use big;
words, lmt it isn't that: ft is to know j
what word to use to express our- ,
selves.
All clerks should speak good Eng
lish to their customers.
Ks BY ELOISE KETCIIIE:
Age 12.
Why We Should lse Metier Speech. j
There aYc many reasons why we ,
shoukiuse better speech. One of Hie;
greatest reasons why we should use 1
tester speech is that we arc judged !
by our speech everywhere we go.
Strangers have only our speech and i
tin- way wb act to judge us by, when
wo go to a place where we are not
known.
] To uso good speech is not to use
such big words that we do not under-j
stand but to use simple words that •
are correct and that we understand. |
When we use good English we can
j express ourselves better and we can
make people understand us easier,
j Speakers and singers have to use
good English, or people would not go
■ to bear them speak or sing.
If we should ho called on to speak
or sing in public we would be very
much embarrassed if we did npt use
, good English. If we used ghod Eng
lish we could make a good speech or
: sing well. Wo are judged in business
and social life by the way we talk.
When we use good speech we can
[ g't good positions, and we are welcom
• od in society.
| In correspondence we should use
l good English, and if we use good
i English in correspondence we have
more correspondents and our corre
spondents are bettor pleased with our
' letters.
j G»rls and boys should begin to speak
j cori -ctly win n they are young, so tln.t
j when tin y ir< «Icier they n 'll b< bef
it or prepared for life.
I , SADIE CLAW SOX.
< | Age 13.
I I Why We Should Use Better Speech.
11 X think we should use better speech
. l>ecause good English is one of the
• most important things in getting a
i good position. If you cannot use good
| English you cannot place the words of
-a letter correctly, and if you send a
Hletter to a business man the words
t are not placed right he will know that
! you cannot speak correctly. Then he
t will throw your letter in the waste
1 basket and vyait till he gets a good
: letter and that way you might lose a
i good position with a big salary,
c [ You never see a Congressman with
l bad speech, because if he could not
1' speak correctly and went up before
ihe public to make a speech the peo
ple would not elect him. They would
elect somebody who could.' speak cbA
rectly. j
If your friend introduced you to a
stranger and he or she could not speak
< orrectly.' it might embarrass your
friend, and you would judge the
stranger jby ids speech. •You would
not think much of him. Some people
do not judge by a pi*??: ranees but by
ihe others’ use of their speech, espe
cially .the good business men. If you
do not use good English some of your
schoolmates will not associate with
you, because they might think if they
go with you they might start speaking
incorrectly.
JAMES WALTON,
Age 34.
Deceit ing \evvspapers.
The Virginia legislature recently
passed a law imposing a penalty
upon persons intentionally giving mis
information to a newspaper for pubii
catiou. The Index-Appeal, of Peters
burg. says this fact does dt seem to
be thoroughly understood and pusses
if along with emphasis. It cites a
case when' it received a statement
mr publication that a certain >oung
lady had gone to Washington on a
visit, and that her visit was ac
companied by I lie announcement of
her engagement *to a certain young
man whose name was given. The Pet
ersburg “paper continues:
‘•This newspaper does not puolish
such, announcements unless they are
accompanied by the names of the
persons responsible for them. The
family of the young lady,in this in
stance was communicated with and
she was righteously indignant that
such a statement should have seen
given out concerning her daughter.
The young Inlay in question is not.
yet. sixteen years of age and The
mother says there is no truth what
ever in the reported engagement.. vVe
shall never know the object of the
individual win* sent the false state
ment to the newspaper. We probably
shall never know his or her name,
otherwise prosecution would assured
ly follow and would have been in
htitutcyl tliir, time
“Meanwhile, any decent citizen is
at perfect liberty to fi rm any opinion
he may choose regarding the general
character of the man or woman who
sought thus to harm the reputation
of an innocent young giri.’’
S'
RI FFS E. JOHNSON OF
WINSTON-SALEM DEAD
Was Grand Standard Bearer of the
Grand Encampment Kniglits Tem
plar.
Winston-Salem. March 13.—Rufus
E. Johnson, grand standavd bearer of
the grand encampment Knights Tem
plar of North Carolina, died at his
Uoiue here Monday. His age was 43
years.
He was stricken with apoplexy
while attending a Masqpic meeting at
the temple here three weeks ago. He
was prominent in religious, fraternal
and social life of the city and for~2l)
ye.ars was with the It. J. Reynolds To
bacco Company, head of the sales
clerical department* at the time of his
death.
THE CONCORD TIMES
SOLICITORS ARE PI T
ON A SALARY BASIS
.Measure Fixing Salary at $4,500 With
Expense Allowance in Effect Octo
ber Ist.
Raleigh News and nbosrver.
After October 1. 1d24. solicitors' in
the Several judicial districts of the
State, will l.e placed on a salary of
s r.-'iH) plus an expense allowance, in
iieu of present fees. That measure,
representing extensive concessions, is
the only result of the program em
bracing four reforms in the judicial
system of the State which was ad
vocated by the legislative committee
of the North Carolina Bar Associa
tion.
After passing the Senate the pro
posal to increase the number of ju
dicial districts in the -State was
killed in" the House and dependent
upon it were the other two prnposi
ritions. changing the numhc.r of judi
cial circuits from two to three and in
creasing the time for each judge To
ride on district from six months to a
year. After failure of the relist riet
,'ng measure became assured, bills
poured in changing or increasing the.
terms _< f court in tin* several counties
and such measures were passed for
■Wilson. Robeson, Catawba, Avery,
Hertford. Iredell. Granville. Forsyth,
Yancey. Randolph. Washington, Pas
quotank. Nash. Edgecombe. Scotland
and Hc.mlerson counties as well as
th<‘ Twelfth Judicial District.
Aside from the Kn Klux legislation,
the two branches of the General As
sembly struck their sharpest disagree
ment over, these measures. The. bill
to increase the number of judicial dis
tricts with the, recommendation of the
Bar Association committee cut. from
30 to 27 districts in lieu of the pres
ent 20_was passed by the. Senate early
in the session. However, the measure
languished in the House, the commit
tee reducing the number of districts
to 24 and liie House killing the entire
measure outright.
Tile House passed a measure plac
ing tin 1 solicitors of the Slate on a
salary of $4,000 a year, with, an ex
pense allowance of STSO, and made the
measure effective January 1, 1024.
The Senate amended the bill by in
cretsing the salary to $4,750 and post
poning the effective date until July 3.
The form which the Ml finally
took was finally evolved in a confer
ence. committee. •
While the two branches of the Gen
eral' Assembly were at odds on the
two measures and while leaders of
each branch demanded passage of the
one. in return for favorable considera
tion of the ether, populav demand is
largely responsible for tin* different
fates accorded the two "bills.
There has long been a feeling in
the State that compensation of prose
cuting officers bn a fee basis smacked
tpo much of blood money and publi
cation of the fact that some solicitors
in the State receive about $34,0110 a
year, or more than twice as much as
the Governor or Chief Justice.* of tile
Supreme Court, created a sentiment
that the continuous presence 'in the
city of a number of the solicitors
could not overcome. There was gen
eral agreement to place solicitors on
'a salary ami the chief disagreement
conic on the size of that salary.
No such popular demand, except
from members'of the ban who were
themselves divided, could be f-ite.d in
support of the proposition to increase
the number of judicial districts in
the State and the pleasure was fur
ther weakened by rumen's that ap
pointments had already been agreed
upon and included a number of mem
bers of the Legislature. A further
rumor that the redistricting measure,
had already drawn also con
tributed rp the downfall of the bill.
Senator 1 ' Tapp, of Lenoir, and Har
gett. of Jones, introduced a mea
sure making members of the General
Assembly ineligible for appointment
to an office created at a session in
which they served, but each time the
bill was defeated by an overwhelming
vote. The same pair of ultra con
servatives made, an unsuccessful effort
to prevent any increase in the four
emergency judges who have already
taken advantage of the retirement
law passed in ltd.
BANDS (IF GYPSIES KEEP
COUNTY OFFICERS BUSY
Automobiles Loaded With Them Are
Told to* Keep Moving by Officers.
Lexington. March 15.—Bering bauds
of gypsies, who now travel in auto
mobiles, on their way northward from
Florida arc now giving the county
officers no little concern. Deputy
Gilliam went to the northern part of
the county early this morning and di
rected six automobile loads of them
to keep moving, after residents had
complained of their presence. A few
mouths ago a band that moved through
that section committed a number of
overt acts, ’including the securing of
several considerable sums of money.
They paid it back on court order, paid
the costs and kept going.
Hardly had the deputy returned
from this trip until word reached the
sheriffs office that two carloads of
Hi*' rovers were encamped last night
in the southern end of 'the county,
where they are, reported to have se
cured mouc.v, chickens, eggs, money,
meat and other things without having
gi\en value received. It was report-!
ed ti warrant had been issued for their
ttrrest.
A New Ford Joke.
Monroe Enquier.
. Mr. John H. Mi.ls, popular carrier
on Route 3. Monroe, came across a
good “Ford joke” the other day. It
may not be brand new, but since old
friends are best, they always receive'
a hearty greeting after a period of
absence, so it is re-told:
An evangelist was exhorting his
'congregation on worldliness and the
sins of over-indulgence. “Why. my,
friends, said he, “Fords are carrying
lots of folks straight to hell!” \
“Glory hallelujah!” shouted an old
lady of the congregation.
“My dear sister, whjy do you say
that?’ inquired the preacher, properly
shocked.
“Because,” said the’excited sisier,
“Fords takes ’em there, hut always
briagjf 'em' bach. GRirV be!” - * ’
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Over .$1,500,0GQ,000 worth of
man ufactures 4 were sykl n> United {
States last year.** ' *
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“A ROTTEN LIE”
With Temperature lOfi. She Says,
“You See I Have No Bottle to De
ceive you.”
Escanaba, March v ls.—After making
a statement today that she used a
flesh colored hot water bottle to de*
ceive local doctors for three weeks in
to believing sheyhad a temperature, of
: 114 and above, Miss Evelyn Lyons to
! night came out with a flat denial that
; she had used any such article to pro
j duce her high fever.
| Miss Lyons, who in her statement
i today had said that she perpetrated
, the hoax on doctors as a joke know
ing that she would finally be diseov
-1 ered, attempted to prove tonight that
a hot water bottle was uitsuccessful
S» raise her temperature by placing a
lermometer in hot- mouth in the
resence of newspapermen. When re
‘ moved the .reading was KMJ. She did
j not touch or move the thermometer
I in her mouth to any noticeable extent
but when tlit* thermometer was placed
under her arm which likewise, wits
not equipped with a hot water bottle,
j the reading was normal.
I refused to make,- any explana
tion of the difference in readings.
“Yon s/e I have, not bottle to de
ceive you,” she said, "and still today
ih.v temperature is 14M>. You can fig
ure it out to suit yourself. I have
no statement t<)( make whatever ox*
I eept that the whole story of me be
ing a fake is a rotten lie.”
WOLTZ C ANDIDATE FOR
OFFICE OF TREASURER
Announcement First of Hard Fight to
Make Clean Sweep of Government
, Officials.
Raleigh, Marlli 15. —Senator A. E. x
Woltz, of Gastonia, will be candidate
fur the Democratic nomination for
state treasurer in lf>24, according to a
story'published in The Raleigh Times
today.
The announcement of Senator
M oltz "is ex landed to be among the.
first in ti series that will mark a
hard fight for a clean sweep in the
state office, ’ says The Times.
/"Mr. Woltz is a 'member of the Gen
e>':il Assembly for the second time,
having served in the House in Ib'M ”
it continued. "He was born at I>ob
smi. Surry county, educated at Siloam
Academy and the University and, like I
Treasurer Lacy, belongs to a string!
of fraternal organizations that takes
up five, lines in the North Carolina
manual.”
Lcnine and TroSky VYiil Die, is ’
Crane’s Relief.'/ i
London, March Y-U—llusfia’s lead-*
ei,". Lenine and Trotzjty, are doomed*
to die. according to Charles R. Crane, j
former American minister to China I
who has just left London for the.!
United States after a five mouths’
jstay m Europe.
Mr. Crane, who lias visited Moscow
and Petrograd uMndleallv [in the
<simsc of the la*, decade.‘said that
the soviet premier was unquestionably
in a dying condition. Trotzkv, he as
serted, is suffering from an obscure
malignant abdominal trouble. He is
«>bliged to remain iu bed for long pe.-
time, and his malady dees
~y JdeW to medical treatment.
Thursday, March 15. 10 ,,
DO YOU WANT TO HAVE
A GOOD CREDIT KATIN
Conccrd Merchants’ Assotkuion .V
Getting Ip a Rating <»ui*ie.
Mr. Editor:
| I wish to call to tb«' ait
j the merchants of (..’one*ad ana <■
! rus county—but more 'parii-rVv
i the people who do credit bn; - v
j these merchants —a matte;- t> i :
; lieve will he of grave inn-red f«
! concerned. v -J
i There is nothing more —,
t a community than a s and *-i •
of doing business. I'.-a.f
; good pay, tfcid prompt j.
j titled to credit, <uid peep!'- w."
(Slow pay and po<m pay. an n 1
! titled tm credit to the sat::' 1
It lias been tlu» intern a , :
Mcrchanls Associa ion to - '
thorough/grade rating guide : 1
cord and Cabarrus county, a 1
we intend to doj Hh’.'"vit. in a
days the readers < f tl:u c..,,r
j perk, will see soijie con > filer;: hi* -nr
tising in councijtion v.-flii t '■ "•
The Co-operative Merj-auii •
of Syracuse, N. Y.. which I
number of years been g ttiag 1
it rating through 11 • * •a ’ ' ,
has reached our suction.. 'J
of North Carolina is di <1 1
zones, and three of ti;> c
\ already lmd their <-t§d.i t ‘ '
Compiled, and they Raw
vice hnd in the posse>.'i":i 1
chants during -the. pa;-; *>'•" •
The sections in which i’ : ■- t
the case have found t
able asset to their Mi-ia •
the greatest protections t<> '
j citizen that has been U< * 1
midst. 11l this book eye: \ a.
arid and child In the s*
rated, stating whether th
cash_ onlA-or if’they bt>; 1
and whether they pay pr<-e
ly, or. are bad pay, air 1
warn the merchant' ' ■ ■
a parly is "No good.
The success of tiii- vk
j sections has been j*’ * •M 1
! Merchants Astoria tie 1
j and we have unanimuu h
tin’ interest of the na i
section and also in the inn '•
honest people in our scHi' i.
ly endorse this weri;. ; a<i
! with the men who arc tr;. i
jfect it.
To those wild are at in - •
; in the payim nt of their
'would like tfr make- t ■_
| that for the sake of a go
i tills book, to settle .\orr
promptly and start, wiiii <
I IVe ask also tin* he.. ft
of the merchants wlicn ' .
representatives of- this
Agency, in getting up <
for this work. /
This notice i>« nut hero ■
Merchants Association '
A\H. JARRA'n _[
Senator and ;Mrs. in " (
arrived in Salisbury
from Washington. Son:*t ’ r
although suffering ;‘from
is not' confined to Ij;s h* “
ported as tw-ing slightiy i:- 1 ; ' r ‘. s
wi'l probably spend tlie £ !l I .*
of his vuesgtiou in
stated....