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IDLE TO LOCATE
lAI WHO ATTACKED
ASHEVILLE WOIII,
£5 Negroes Arrested in the
Case But All Have Been
Released by the Ashe
ville Officers.
WATCHING CLOSELY
NEGRO DISTRICTS
Several Negroes Taken Be
fore Woman But She
Could Not Identify Any
of Them.
Asheville. Aug. 18. —OP) —Some 25
negro suspects arrested since yester
day afternoon in search for a young
negro who is alleged to have crimi-
assaulted a white young woman
of a local sanitarium had been releas
ed today, it was announced by Sheriff
E. M. Mitchell, identification failing
in each casee.
Several of the negroes taken on sus
picion were brought before the woman
who indicated none of them was her
Qseailant.
: Chief of Police Messer said today
he is working on valuable cities which
mny lead to an arrest shortly. The
negro districts of the city are being
closely watched.
The alleged assault occurred on a
mountain path on Sunset Mountain
in a secluded spot not far from the
sanatorium. The woman, who is said
to be about 30 years of age. was an
exercise patient of a tubercular sani
torium, and was taking a walk along
the path shortly before noon.
The negro appeared suddenly and
seizing her by the throat dragged her
about 50 feet to a spot behind a log
hidden from the trail. He is alleged
to have threatened to cut her throat
if she cried out.
Details of the assault in the hands
of the authorities were not complete
today. Yesterday the authorities were
of the opinion that the negro had not
succeeded in his attack; today opin
ion was expressed that should he be
captured he- will be indicted for crim
inal attack and face trial for a capi
tal offense.
SIX HUNDRED NEW
STUDENTS REGISTERED
Certain That This Number Will Be
Exceeded at the University.
Chapel Hill, Aug. 17. —More than
six hundred applications for admit
tance to the freshman class of the
University of North Carolina next fall
have already been received by Thomas
J. Wilson, Jr. registrar. This num
ber which is a substantial increase
over the applications received at the
corresponding time last year indicates
that the number of freshmen entering
the University at the opening of the
Fall quarter on September 17th will
run well over 800. Seven hundred
and fifty-three applicants entered last
fall.
A new system of registration giving
special attention to freshmen, will be
put into effect for the first time next
fall. The system, which is tire same
as that used in many of the large uni
versities, divides the registration of
the freshman class from the upper
classes.
The entire class will meet in Me
morial Hall September 15th at 9 a.
m. for instruction in the routine of
the week. The students will be or
ganized into twenty-five registration
teams of approximately thirty men
each. A faculty advisor and a stu
dent assistant will be in charge of
each team. The remainder of the
day, from 10 o’clock untii 5, will be
devoted to consultation with the deans
of the respective schools and with the
counselors. physical examinations,
learning the location of rooms and li
brary tours.
At 7:30. o’clock Tuesday night the
class will meet in sections for mental
alertness tests.
Registration by teams will take
place Wednesday, September 16th. In
addition to registration there will be
physical examinations, group lectures
on student government and the honor
system, and the continuation of li
brary tours. At 7 :30 the class will
assemble in sections for placement ex
aminations.
Thursday will be a general settling
down period. In the afternoon ques
tion and answer meetings will be held
in Gerrard Hall, for the attendance
of those who have tangles they *want
straightened out. That night, al
7:30 o’clock, the freshmen will meel
by schools for instruction from the
deans of the various school. Classes
which should have been held Tfcurs
day, will be postponed to Saturday foi
the freshmen.
To show the end of the bitter feel
ing which existed at one titme be
tween the sophomores and the fresh
men, the sophomore class, in co-opera
tion with tiie dormitories, has ar
ranged a series of smokers to be held
in dormitories all over the campus
Friday and Saturday. The Univer
sity sermon Sunday evening will enc
the activities for the week.
~r Had Been the Rounds.
He took her hand in his and gazed
proudly at the engagement ring he
had placed on her fair finger only
three days before.
"Did your friends admire it?” he
inquired tenderly.
"They did more than that,” she
replied coldly. "Two of them recog
nized it”
Barks From a Pup Tent.
Oversease we had to face liquid
<re, and nowadays we have to drink
it.
Bummers may come and summers
may go, but some straw hats go on
forever.
If all the fellows who wear plus
fours were laid end to end it would
be a good thing.
FAIRS TO BRING FARM TO
25,000,000 PEOPLE IN 1925
Approaching Cabarrus Fair Symbolic
al of Remarkable-Growth of Agri
cultural Exhibits In United States.
In 1810. one fair; in 1925, two
thousand fairs.
In 1810, an attendance of about five
thousand; in 1925 as estimated at
tendance of approximately twenty
five million.
These figures, in a nutshell, tell the
story of the marvelous growth of the
American fair from the humblest be
ginning to its present-day status as
an important factor in agricultural
education. They are of especial in-f
terest here in view of the approach
ing Concord fair which will be held
October 13-17.
While the fair idea has been taken
hold of tremendously in the United
States, it is not native to this coun
try. Fairs run back to ancient days,
but in the olden times they were more
after the manner of a bazaar or mar
ket, only held with less frequency,
very much like the fairs in vogue in
Germany and other European coun
tries today. The American fair traces
its ancestry back only to about the
middle of the eighteenth cent?|r>%
when a group of progressive farmers
in the Tees River valley in northeast
ern Britain joined to bring their live
stock together for comparison. It
has been termed the first agricultural
fair and was the model after which
were patterned the hundreds of coun
try fairs both here and in England.
Origin of Fairs.
Elkanah Watson, of New York, has
been credited with being the father
of the American fair. In 1815 Wat
son organized the argicultural so
ciety of Albany, N. Y., and proceeded
to establish fairs and cattle shows in
the neighboring counties. In 1819,
due mainy to his influence, the New
York legislature appropriated ten
thousand dollars a year for six years
for premiums on agricultural and
home, manufacture products. In 1832
the state agricultural society was
founded and work started in other
eastern states. But while Watson
was busy converting farmers and leg
islators to the value of fairs, the Co
lumbian Agricultural Society held
what is believed to be the first exhi
bition cf its kind in Washington, D.
C. in 1810.
Pittsfield. Mass., shortly thereafter
inaugurated regular agricultral ex
hibits, and from these first small ef
forts grew up our system of commun
ity, county, stated, district, national
and international fairs which cover
practically every section of the coun
try.
The development of the fair in the
United States has been one of normal
growth and expansion, according to
Samuel R. Guard, who is one of the
leading exponents of agricultural ex
hibits in America. The successful
contestant in a local fair naturally
wished to compare his products with
those of winners in other local fairs.
That was how the county fair came
to be. The state fair with its wider
appeal was the next logical step, and
there county winners went to settle
disputes on the relative merits of their
products. Eventually this lead to
competition between states, culminat
ing first in the interstate fair, later
in the national show and finally in
the international exhibit. Many a
national champion grain grower or
I livestock breeder today can trace his
success to some little honor captured
at the county fair years ago.
Inspires Ambition.
The appealing thing about the coun
ty fair is the opportunity it offers
, the farmer to compare his own work
| with that of his neighbors and so in
t spires in him a healthy ambition to
improve himself and his work, states
j Mr. Guard. Within easy distance of
j his home, he can examine the best an
j imals, grains, fruits and vegetables,
j poultry and honey and determine
where he falls short of the mark.
Likewise his wife can pit her needle
work. her baking and pastry her
canned fruits and vegetabes against
those of other farm women and enjoy
the thrill and reward that comes out
of victory. Altogether the country
fair stimulates friendly competition
that haS been responsible for much of
j the farm progress in the past cen
■tury, he says.
The educational value of the farm
j implement and equipment displays
that are part of all the better fairs
j is one of the most commendable fea
| tures, according to Mr. Guard. State
and federal government exhibits bring
home to the farmer lessons in grow
ing his products more economically
and efficiently, and household furnish
ings and labor saving devices on view
: work directly for the improvement of
country life.
PERSON PULLS NEW
ONE TO GET MONEY
Passes One Dollar Bill With Ten Dol
lar Comer.—Failed to Work Here,
However.
When checking on the day’s sales
at Cline’s Pharmacy Monday night,
it was found that a clever attempt
to make money at the expense of the
store had been made. A one dollar
bill was passed for a ten dollar bill.
During the course of the day, some
person in payment for a purchase
. handed over a one dollar bill. It was
folded in such away that only one
corner showed and on this corner was
pasted a piece torn from a ten dol
lar bill. It seemed to be the idea
that the clerk would fail to open it
and give change for the large amount.
That the ruse did not work was
shown by the fact that the cash reg
ister checked up all right.
Unusual Mail Robbery.
Waukegan, 111., Aug. 19.—0 P)
unusual mail robbery at Highwood,
near here, was. disclosed today when
it was learned that a pouch of regis
j tered mail, thrown from a Chicago &
| Northwestern train rushing through
j the village, was snatched up by a
man who leaped out of an automobile
and escaped.
The postmaster at Highwayy said
the registered mail received at his
office often contained $4,000.
No Pedestrian.
Said the bank teller to the new
girl who was making a deposit;
“You didn’t foot it up.”
“No,” ehe replied innocently, "I
took a taxi.”
However.
fIIILUN'S POLAR
FLIGHT CANCELLED
EOR THE PRESENT
Explorer Advises Friends
In United States That
Weather Conditions Are
Very Unfavorable Now.
WILL MAKE SOME
TESTS IN NORTH
Arctic Party Will Not Re
turn to States Without
Accomplishing Part of
Proposed Tasks.
Washington, Aug. 19.—(A 1 )—The
MacMillan polar flight has been can
celled. **•
MacMillan and his explorers will
proceed, however, to carry out other
objects of the extension including sci
entific investigation, from the present
base at Etah, Greenland.
The change in plans was announced
today by the National Geographic So
ciety after it had been advised by
MacMillan that the project of estab
lishing an advance base on Cape Hub
bard and flying from there over the
frozen northern 6ea was not feasible
because of this year’s unusual weath
er conditions.
The veteran explorer advised the so
ciety officials that in view of all the
circumstances, to go ahead with the
original plan would be to attempt
"the impossible.”
BOILER BURSTS ON
STEAMER AT NEWPORT
Three Firemen Believed to Have Been
Killed. —A Hunted in Hospitals.
Newport, R. 1., Aug. 19.—The death
list of the Mackinac disaster suddenly
mounted to 17 this morning (Wed
nesday) with the report from the
Newport naval station that that num
ber had been identified. The explos
ion of the boilers of the excursion
steamer last evening caused injuries
to more than 100 passengers and mem
bers of the crew but earlier reports
had placed the total dead at four with
14 in a dangerous condition.
The injured were taken to the nav
al hospital and the Newport hospital.
Scores of passengers with superficial
wounds went to their homes after be
ing given first aid treatment.
All the injuries were caused by
scalding steam escaping from the
boilers. The boat was bound from
Newport to Pawtucket.
The bodies of the vessel, which car
ried 677 excursion passengers, burst
when it was opposite the naval train
ing station in Narragansett sound. It
was said that a patch placed on the
boilers last night had blown off.
The steamer was headed for the
shore and a distress call was sent to
all battleships in the harbor.
Boat loads of injured were taken
to the naval hospital.
Naval medical officers and every
physician in the vicinity were called
upon to assist in caring for the in
jured.
The usual excursion crowd consist
ed for the most part of women and
children. Panic among those who es
caped injury in the explosion is be
lieved to have added to the casualty
list.
The explosion tore the entire mid
dle section of the boat apart and scald
ed passengers and officers who were
near the engine room. Nearly all the
passengers came from Pawtucket.
Among them were 10 policemene all
of whom were reported injured.
The fear-crazed crowd in the ex
cursion steamer became frantic and
many jumped into the water. Two
yachts reported picking up men.
Report of Explosion on Vessel.
Washington, Aug. 19. —(A*) —A re
port on the explosion aboard the
steamer Mackinac received at the Na
vy Department today from the naval
hospital at Newport said: “Seventy
nine casualties received from steamer
Mackinac at 7 p. m. August 18th.”
"Twenty received treatment and
were sent home; 29 died; 30 remain
in hospital, of which several are in a
critical condition.”
Attack President of Bulgarian Cham
ber of Deputies.
Paris, Aug. 19.—(A*)—Forty Bul
garian communists late last night
waylaid and beat up the President and
vice-president of the Bulgarian cham
ber of deputies. The attack was made
as they emerged from the Decorative
Arts Exposition.
Two police officials came to the res
cue of the Bulgarian statesmen, and
pushed them into an automobile which
was proceeding up the Champs Elysee.
The communists followed the bus, how
ever, and stormed it. Finally a force
of policemen scattered them and ar
rested two of the most violent.
Fighting the Billboards.
Monroe Enquirer.
The billboards that blot the high
ways so often seem to be face! by a
concerted attack all over the country.
The censure arises from the ruth
lessness of the advertisers in so plac
ing their boards as to destroy much
of the scenic beauty of the highways.
It is due to the failure of the bill
board interests to appreciate the fact
tbat there are legitimate uses and lo
calities for such advertising where the
rights of the general public will be
fully regarded.
As an expression of this hostility
to such advertising, the State of Maine
has passed a law which will put an
end to all such advertising in that
state.
Farmers who put all their eggs in
one basket and sold them co
operatively this year made a good
’profit, say marketing specialists. The
cooperative marketing of poultry and
eggs paid handsome return in some
North Carolina counties.
THE CONCORD TIMES
CONCORD MAN WRITES TO
GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS
In an edition 4»f the Greensboro
Daily News Sunday, August 16th, ap
pear a letter written by a Concord
man, Rev. P. E. Lindley, in answer
to a series of articles by Charles
Coon. The articles calling forth this
response were on the subject of col
lege English as found in college cata
logues.
Mr. Lindley has lived in Concord
for several months. He came here
to take charge of the Methodist Prot
estant Church during the summer
months and will remain here until
October list. He is professor of edu
cation and religious education in High
Point College;
The text of the article iB as fol
lows :
Editor of The Daily News:
We who have found the time and
patience to follow Mr. Coon’s noisy
outbursts on “College English,” are
puzzled to know just what the gentle
man Ls trying to say. If he means
to suggest that college catalogues are
hard to understand he is only stating
a fact which everybody knows. Any
one who has read a college catalogue,
a baseball guide or an income tax
blank may, no doubt, share Mr.
Coon’s perplexity. But even at that
there is no particular need of casting
up a cloud of smoke just because a
few technical terms are used in de
scribing a college course, or because
an institution desires to bring its ad
vantages before the public. The first
of these principles is inevitable. The
second also is primary and essential
to human progress.
In the first place, no bulletin citn
describe its courses other than in
technical terms. To outline a course
in psychology one would not employ
agricultural or street language. It is
no discredit to the course to have it
described in psychological concepts.
It could not be otherwise. Who would
expect to find a course of sociology
described in terms of sharps, flats,
major and minor chords, tone' rela
tionships or musical keys? Any course
has to be outlined in terms of its con
tent. And it frequently happens that
the reader knows nothing about these
words. They are not placed there
because he knows them. They are
there waiting to be made known. No
one need expect the catalogue writer
to describe everything in terms of the
layman’s vocabulary. This would be
the same as to blame the ancient
Greeks for using "gamma” instead of
“g,” since we are more familiar with
the latter.
For example. Mr. Coon quotes the
Cullowliee bulletin which mentions the
topic, "Innate tendencies and their
neural bases,” "correlation of traits,”
etc., and suggests that this “bun
combe must surely strike with whole
some awe” the students who are pre
paring to teach. Again, while dis
secting the Greensboro Colllege cata
logue, the gentleman grieves to find
the well used phrase, “from within
outward.” Hence he declares, "The
law of within outward” (notice he
misquotes the words) and the bring
ing of the voice and body into sym
pathetic and harmonious response in
personality must be pure buncombe.”
Well, what does the distinguished
educator of the ea6t expect to find in
a college catalogue? Does he expect
Cullowhee, for instance, to describe
the course in any less technical words?
Does he want the entire course to be
given in the bulletin? Certainly the
full course cannot be simplified into
everyday English and spread on the
pages of the catalogue* A few cen
tral topics and psychological terms
must suffice! The full purport of
the terms can never be given in the
outline. The course is not given in
the caatalogue. The course is given
in ffne classroom! All difficult names
and terms are not to he simplified in
the bulletin—that’s what the one hun
dred and twenty semester hours are
for. The gentleman’s argument re
minds one of the man who, without
the konwledge of a letter in the al
phabet, got mad at the optician be
cause he would not seD him a pair
of glasses he could read through!
As to the second principle, name
ly, bringing the advantages of an in
stitution before the public, I must
state that no man of ordinary judg
ment would attempt to operate his
business by advertising its unattrac
tive and weak features. The college
officials know that in the quest of
education young men and women are,
in some measure, aware of the edu
cational elements. Beauty, health,
morality and socialibity go into life
development. The school that has
these, or any one of them in an ex
traordinary degree, is only exercising
its brain by giving forceful publicity
to the same. Nature has willed that
these splendid elements shall- help
constitute the fuller life and college
heads contain sense enough to know
it.
But I am no lover or maker of
college catalogues, and lienee am ex
cusable under Mr. Coon on the point
of English. College bulletins, no
doubt, may often deserve a place on
the "index” of imperfect grammar.
But still I wonder just what the
getleman is trying to say as he swoops
down, violently attacks a prudeent
paragrapher and then proceeds to
make his escape through a cloud of
rhetoric. P. E. LINDLEY.
Concord.
Missouri Editor Prints a Book of Pen
Pointers.
For the last three years E. J.
Melton has been editor and owner of
the Caruthersville, Mo., Republican.
‘Pen Pointers,” a small volume made
up of a collection of paragrahps writ
ten by Melton for various Missouri
newspapers, has been printed in the
office of the Caruthersville" Republican
and issued by the writer. It con
tains such pertinent observations as:
"Venison is deer meat. But look
at the price of beef.”
4 Some men look down gun barrels.
Others leave their wives for other
women who “understand’ them.”
Brains are the greatest natural
resources.”
"Imprisoned thoughts are in brain
cells.”
Every business house in Apex,
Wake County save two, offered to
contribute one or more premiums
for the community fair to be held
there this fall, reports County Agent
John C. Anderson.
STATE COLLEGE WILL HAVE
SIX LETTER MEN RETURN
Prospects Good For a Brilliant Back
flX.—Lne Must Be Developed
Prom End to End.
It is a rather hard matter to guage
with any accuracy just what strength
State College will have in football this
year. The team may turn out to be
anything. It may spring to the fore
front or it may be struggling for bot
tom place.
In the case of Carolina, Make For
est and Davidson, there were enough
old players returning to make it pos
sible to estimate approximately where
they would stand. With State it is
different.
State College alumni who have re
cently visited the College and confer
red with the coaches have brought
back the news that five letter men are
sure to return. This gives a total of
six experienced players to start with
as opi>osed to twelve returning to Dav
idson, fourteen to Carolina and eigh
teen to Wake Forest. All of the five
sure men are backfield stars; the one
possibility is in the line.
This gives the coaches a pretty
task in constructing a totally new
line to prepare the way for the expe
rienced backs. If, in this Herculean
task, the coaches are successful, then
State inay be looked to as having one
of the outstanding elevens in North
Carolina. If a line cannot be devel
oped in a couple of months, then
State will wallow round in the'slough
of bottom position. It all depends on
the line.
Taking first the players who re
turn, it will be noted that there are
some men the equal of any in the
state. Al Johnson, briliant halfback,
was was unanimously selected on the
mythical All-Carolina elevens and
who was even placed on several South
ern selections, will again return to
State. Al is easily one of the best
men in the state. He is fast and is
good on throwing or receiving a for
ward pass. His end runs are some
thing to write about.
In addition to Al there is Jean
ette, quarter of last year’s team. He
is a ten second man and will probably
be used this year at halfback, accord
ing to information brought here from
the coaches. Both the Shuford boys
will return and should better their
playing of last year since both were
on the injured list during the entire
season. Both men are halfbacks.
Faulkner', a full back, will take again
his old position.
These five men would make a good
backfield for any team. But’ the line
is where the coaches will have to
worry.
It is barely possible that one of the
Logan boys from Shelby will return
as a linesman. The entire remaining
portion of the forward positions will
have to be filled from last year's sub
stitutes aud freshmen. To make mat
ters worse, all the freshmen stars
were backfield men. The line was lit
tle to brag on.
Jack McDowell gives prospects of
becoming the foremost, quarterback in
the state. He has a good head and is
a ten second man. The coaches con
sider him their most Krililant pros
pect. Another freshman, Hunsucker,
from Shelby, is also a good man.
The coaches are pleased with “Pea
nut” Ridenhour’s work at quarter and
consider that he has good prospects
of making a valuable man. The Con
cord boy played in a number of fresh
man games last year and will be giv
en a chance to show his mettle, it is
said.
CHILD KILLED IN AUTO
ACCIDENT AT BIG LICK
Three-l’ear-Old Daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Luther Morton, of Oakboro,
Loses Life.
Stanly News-Herald.
A most shocking accident happened
at Big Lick about 6:30 o’clock Fri
day afternoon when a Ford touring
car driven by F. W. Dry, of the Oak
boro section, ran over Rachel, the
little three-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Morton, of Oak
boro, killing her almost instantly.
The accident happened just in front
of the home of Jonah Cagle and was
seen by several persons other than
the driver of the car. As Dry was
driving along the street, according to
reports, at a rate of from 15 to 20
miles an hour, the child ran across
the street immediately in front of the
car, making it impossible for the driv
er to-stop before striking the little
girl.
County Coroner T. Finch Morgan
was immediately, called, and he went
to the scene of the accident A jury
was summoned and it was decided
that the accident was unavoidable.
Dry stated to the jury that he saw
the child by the side of the road, and
slowed down. He then turned to
speak to some one on rhe other side
of the street and when his eyes were
again turned he saw the child imme
diately in front of his car. He said
it was impossible for him to stop. He
seemed very much torn up over the
tragedy.
A Londoner with a reputation as
a pugilist had gone from London to
fight a Scot farmer whose great
strength had been praised in the
press. He the yard of the
Scot, tied his horse to a tree and ap
proached the farmer who was work
ing nearby. "Friend,” he said, “I
have heard a great deal about you
and I came a long way to see which
of*us is the better wrestler.”
The Scotchman, without answering
seized the young man by the mid
dle of the body, pitched him over
the fence and returned to his work.
When his lordship recovered his
breath he stood silent.
“Well,” said the farmer, “have
you anything more to say to me?”
’ “No,” was the reply, “but perhaps
you’ll be good enough to throw me
my horse.”
Seeking Safe Blowers.
Gastonia, Aug. 18.— UP) —Police
were searching today for unknown
parties who blew open a safe in a
filling station here last night and es
caped with S6O in cash. The au
thorities here offered SIOO reward for
information leading to the arrest and
conviction of the intruders.
—' r
An angry man opens 'his mouth
and shuts his eyes.
AGREEMENT IKES
IT EAST MATTER
; TO SETTLE DEBT
Belgium Will Pay Debt to
United States Within 62
Years Under Agreement
Made at Conferences.
PLAN IS STUDIED
IN BELGIUM NOW
t
The Attitude of Great Bri
tain Is Not Known as
London Officials Have
Nothing to Say.
Washington, Aug. 19. — UP)—Bear
ing the personal approval of Presi
dent Uoolidge. terms for funding the
Belgian war debt to the United States
have been worked out by the debt
commissions of the two nations after
negotiations of unusual brevity.
Little more than a week was re
quired to bring accord on the pro
gram of repayment of the little king
dom's debt which was fixed at $417,-
780,000 as of June 15, 1925.
The funding plan agreed upon late
yesterday came in the same month
which eleven years ago marked the
opening of the World War.
The terms provided for a remission
of interest on $171,780,000 loaned
prior to the armistice, and for a part
remission of interest on the $246,-
000,000 borrowed for reconstruction
work.
The agreement, subject to ratifica
tion by the American Congress and
the Belgian government, was described
as recognizing by the United States
“a weighty moral obligation” as a re
sult of assurances given the little
kingdom by President Wilson at the
time of the Versailles peace confer
ence, and also the right of Belgium
to particult treatment by this nation,
to particular treatment by this na
tion.
The terms call for complete pay
ment within 62 years.
Studying Arrangement.
Rrussels, Aug. 19.—The Belgian de
partment of finance today began its
study of the arrangement reached at
Washington for the funding of this
country’s obligations to the United
States.
It is expected at least 48 hours
must elapse before the effects the
agreement will exercise on Belgium’s
finances can be judged and an opin
ion rendered as to whether it is con
sidered satisfactory or not.
London Silent.
London, Aug. 19. — UP) —Official cir
cles her£ were silent today regarding
the settlement reached in Washington
for funding Belgium’s debt to United
States.
Tiie impression was given, however,
that the favorable nature of terms was
to be expected, and that unless close
study revealed new angles at present
unknown, the British government will
not depart from the previous policy of
refraining from pressing Belgium in
connection with financial obligations
to this country. %
Not New—But The Truth.
We may have our differences of
opinion in matter of politics; we may
not agree on the subject of religion;
some of us have notions that other
folks think are crazy and other folks
have ideas we thing lake in sound
reasoning; but on one point we are
all agreed; we all want to see our
home town grow and prosper.
Some experts contend that good
trading facilities build population and
real estate values; others say that
good 6tores follow population, but
again all agree that local prosperity
can never come until adequate trad
ing facilities are established.
Good stores are the life of any
community. Moreover we know we
cannot have good stores if they are
not profitably supported. No town
was ever built by its inhabitants send
ing their money out of town. A dol
lar spent in town travels from home
to the grocer, to the butcher, then to
the hardware merchant, and so on
around the whole wheel of home
trade. Spent in the town the dollar
remains in the town and adds to the
town’s wealth. By and by some man
gathers enough of these home float
dollars, builds another home or makes
an addition to his store, and so value
increases, benefitting everybody. Spent
out of town the dollar has gone for
ever.
There are some folks who buy their
speels of cotton and now and then a
yard or two of goods at home, but
when they want to buy a fur coat or
a piano they get out the mail order
catalogue or go out of town. • They,
use the home town merchant to fill
their petty needs but when he has
a chance to make areasonable profit
they forget him. It’s scarcely fair,
is it?’ And if it is, it isn’t very sen
sible. 'We are all working together
to make the home town brighter and
better and the property of every one,
our own included, more valuable.
Too Late.
•Oh, George! George! Come!
Startled out of his nightre George
sprang from his bed at the sound of
his wife’s voice.
George! Oh, George!
His wife was in peril. She whom
he loved better than life itself—his
young wife, his first and only love!
George! Quick!
He scrambled into his clothes! Not
a moment was to be lost. He must
save her.
George! George! George!
At last hte was on his way down,
three stirs at a time, to arrive
breathless in the dinning-room.
Ah! George, you are too late! Too
late.
Too late?
Yes, baby had his toes in his
mouth and he looked too cute for
words! Why didn’t you come when
I called? A r |
CHARLOTTE EVENS COUNT
WITH KANNAPOLIS CLUB
Visiting Slabbtet Was Heavy Contrib-,
utor in Winning Ball Game.—Lee!
Hits Homer With Man on Base. j
BY JAZZY MOORE
(Special to The Tribune)
Kannapolis, Aug. 14.—The Villa
Heights, Charlotte Sunday School
League leaders, batted the Kannapol
ians to an even break in their series
here by taking the final tilt, 7 to 4.
The first game was won by a 2 to 1
decision over the Queen City leaguers
earlier in the season.
The locals wore first to count, n
walk and a double generating a run
in the first inning.
Disgusting.
It took the Villians three innings to
overcome this lead. But the third
stand they started in slamming and
Kannapolis started in throwing wild
’ ly, and when everything had calmed
down Villa Heights had a trio of
markers. Not so bad! James took a
walk to open the fourth stanza and
took second unmolested,* and advanc
ed to third base on a wild pitch and
scored when Hopkins sacrificed to
center. Heart breaking! Again
James walked to raise the curtain in
the sixth act. Causel caught one of
Champion’s fast ones on the end of
his bat. and manipulated a long soarer
to right. Alexander, who hadn’t ev
en seen the ball all day, finally slap
ped out a whoozy roller, tallying both
men. To make matters worse, Sum
mers came along in the ninth to
throw in an extra run. Really dis
gusting !
Feature Hay of the Game.
Johnny Johnson saved Villa Heights
the trouble of making a run in the
eighth. Hopkins belted a long one
to short field and Johnson was in too
far. Running at top speed with liis
back to the ball, Johnny appeared to
be in a hopeless chase as far as mak
ing a putout was concerned. By a
sudden lunge in the air he speared
the ball, back hand, and returned it
before a run could score.
Lee Hits Pellet.
An error by Summers allowed Kan
napolis to push a lone run over in the
eighth. In the final scene Mr. Lee
came w’ithin our line of vision.
He said to himself he must an
nex a circuit cloud before the game
was over—and he clouted furiously.
The ball sailed away in the general di
rection of Concord. It was a homer
that was responsible for half of our
runs. Saunders was perched on first.
Both Picthers Hit Freely.
Both Willie James, former Danville
Piedemont hurler, and “Lefty” Cham
pion, one of the local mainstays, were
hit rather freely. Too many bases
on balls proved Champion’s undoing.
Three times Champion walked the
opposing slabblst and three times runs
were chalked up for Charlotte.
\ Gastonia. Next.
The next station is the Gastonia af
fair. as a prelude to the “titled se
ries” with Fayetteville next week. The
Gastonia boys have been playing some
good baseball and fans will regret it
if they fail to see these celebrated
youngsters perform. The game will
start at 4 o’clock at the Cabarrus
field.
CABARRUS BEAT BLEACHERS
AND GO ON THE TOP
Mauldin Loses Hard Battle After
Holding Gates at Bay For Three In
nings.—Final Game Next Tuesday.
(BY JAZZY MOORE)
Kannapolis, Aug. 15.—Cabarrus
and Bleachery fought five innings of
the best league ball ever seen here Fri
day. Cabarrus was fighting with their
backs to the wall to break a deadlock
that has existed between the two teams
for some and with the heady
“Bub” Sullivan on the hill, the Cabs
finally defeated the Bleachers 4 to 1.
Gives But Two Hits.
Like the immortal Robert E. Lee.
Paul Mauldin emerged from the con
flict a loser in the abbreviated engage
ment, but the little fellow covered
himself with undying glory in the
first bitter struggle with the Cabs.
No better baseball has ever been
pitched on a Kannapolis diamond.
Master of his knuckle ball, king of
his curve, and uncanny in his perfect
control, of everything he had, the
Bleachery star hurled such baseball
that for three consecutive innings the
Cabs were heled hitless and without
a run. It was three up and three
down, with the fielders having easy
chances most of the time. Mauldin
deserved that ball game if a pitcher
ever did deserve one. The great
trouble was that his teammates could
not make a run for him. Only two
fluke hits were given the Cabs.
Score by Innings.
Bleachery made their run in the
second inning when Lipe doubled to
center. Centerfielder Gilliam was all
set to make it a clean play, but it
was a trifle too far to the left for him
to handle. The pill evaded his grasp
and before a play could be attempted
Lipe had strutted down the home
stretch. Another Bleacher secured a
hit before the inning elapsed.
A rank error by Williams helped
the Cabs to score two runs in the
fourth stanza. Helms’ and Johnson’s
singles accounted for the rest of the
tallies.
Possibly the best fielding play went
to Johnson in rightfield for the win
ners. 'Hutton, for Bleachery, showed
that he was adept at snatching them
out of the dirt, which ability proved
valuable in the game.
Final Game.
The final game of the second half
and of the entire season will be played
Tuesday at the Cabarrus park between
these two clubs. “Hard Charlie”
Brown, from Concord, will twirl ’em
over for the Cabs, while Weathers,
city team pitcher, will get the Bleach
ery assignment.
If is a fact well known to pigeon
fanciers that the two eggs laid by
pigeons almost invariably produce
male and female. Some curious ex
periments as to which of the eggs
produce the male and which the fe
male have resulted in showing that
the first egg laid is the female and
the second the male.
Canada enjoys the lowest freight
rates of any country in the world,
according to figures presented at a
recent official inquiry .at Ottawa.
Thursday a,.
— — —
Piiti
WI El !I||
is getting#
Already Fi Ve
HEARS? T.VKIV:
part i^i
He Is Doing All j
to Land the [u
Nomination to,]
Mayor Dylan.
York. 7^,
five 1i,1a,«
to Mayor. tl„. , lt ; >
getting hotter and
lire participants ; D .yj
rant 1 as shown : n ,
night arc:
Democrats: Mayor *l.
for ronominatioß- on u/J
supported by \V rn R b'J
Senator John J .
nominee supported by G,ld
Republican: Frank b.J
fountain pen mannfaftjl*!
nominee of the
ers; and Win. M.
state secretary John I ul
gents.
Socialist; The R PV . y
as.
Tire independent ]«*.
Hearst political organizatV,
light yesterday at tlieHivS
home of the ' publisher.
were passed unanimous!! >
Mayor Dylan and ronudid
dorsemont of the
a few days ago by W]
Michael McCarthy in the a,
league.
Mrs. Bcrglum
Waterbary. Conn \ir.erio»
We notice that Mrs. Bm
ing the talking now andia
tactfully than her husbanti
tor. has been doing it. s»i
he is willing to complete I
ished figure of Lee in a,
Mountain sculpture, if
done, but that no one e!»j
or other work on his Mj
models, which are eopynpn
is no sign yet that the an
sociation. with which he W
out and w'liich discharged a
him back or would thinki
him resume the work, it
gaged another sculptor,,
Lukeman, to take up atidl
Borgluni's unfinished job a
en no sign of changing tint]
may be that such v”,b.«
subject is getting now is&fl
ing more than .Mr. IJorria
pointment and restless wiili
get back to the work again
Borglum says that her s
about to undertake a siaiifi
North Carolina, where i
to cut an immense pictoris
tory on the face of a n
overlooking Chimney Hod
place of great natural W
the direct path of motor ta
and south. Such of tie
is interested in the matw
doubt be relieved to hear *!
Stone Mountain associate
fied that Lukeman U W
execution of Borglum. ■ an*
so that there is not intw
ting Borglum back in w*
also whether the • himaff
poration really plans *
a big mountain scuiptnr*
Carolina. The only
ing seem to be those
Borgluni’s fate. ■
Man Descended Ft®
Darwin was putting - ®
lie said we descended W
and apes, if ever he di -
cording to Conrad
fessor of zoology ,
university. “Man !>- 1,1
whichever route > v,u
the professor. , y
quite clearly that man »
down the evolutions.. *
far below the monke. 1
at least, the reptile
college dude i* r “ -
•snake.v’ it may be 're
think over bis remi; f ,
has a common orign .
key. although both
prehistoric parents j
thousands of F parb ‘
branch of life and “
es are now widely • ■
about 2.000.000
branches net and P
one limb.
Lafayette in
The following an "
favette appeared ‘
Gazette of August - r> |
As Lafayette }
the late J«b» H . an V : *. 4
the mayor s “ ld r
the widow ot . .&i
He immediately
in the 111 o st , linm)
pressed his ham
burst into
have now lIV( J in
A man, wluh » y 4
La fayettm
English I jU! r lia A i j
“And W'h.' '*iom*.
“being an Awl .*T t 0 E'-’fl
from a long ' |r ,!«* ,
When be
company with re'
the general.
at the quarantiy^
Cadmus, one " , tsj
him both «' 1
and ikn
ferred. H‘‘ ,lU r ,-I 1
phatiea’lv r;;I** !t
:*nu gcncrah^^—
One of th^P^rsC^
"
meet n> * i , 'V
Bridge, V
Sreen. who. a , j
has already
jump record.