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PAGE FOUR "THE CONCORD TIMES PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS - Entered as second class mail matter at tbe post office at Concord, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. J. B. SHERRILL. Editor and Published W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor Special Representative: FROST, LANDIS & KOHN New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City, ’ San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle AGAIN WE SAY “AMEN.” We hasteti to utter our approval of tjie manner in which Governor McLean act ed when 400 prisoners went on strike at ■' the Halifax county farm. The Governor had pictured before him an ugly situa tion and he took no chances. He order ed soldiers to the scene and as a result has been nothing more ‘serious * than the smashing of furniture and the 'breaking of windows. no: „ . , • , . . ' . The time to act .in such emergencies is • I( £t the beginning and Governor McLean {Sknows this. He could have waited until T things cooled off, but that would have 1 been too late. The mob would have done ;i,ts worst by that time or done nothing. In either case the soldiers would have not been needed. \ ) While these prisoners were trying to ■ take the law into their own hands a mob 'was doing just that in Arkansas. A ne ,gro was charged with attacking a white „i Another and daughter. The mob took / ,ihe negro to the hospital to be identified, J. u drove him out near the outskirts of the HTpit'y, hung him, tied his body to an auto J and dragged it through the streets and -}i 'then biimed the body at a stake. We are told in press dispatches that ['fthe mob soioutnumbered the officers that >l4he latter had no chance to do anything. J ?Tlie only thing they did apparently, was ;i ,|o station tbemseleves at street corners ; and direct* traffic, which was unusually ..heavy due to the mob and its activities. Why was the prisoner ever placed in , jail where a mob could easily.take him? Where were the officers all cif the time Vthe,. mob was marching to the hospital and having the negro identified ? *L Therp was plenty of ,time for troops to called out. No doubt there is a nat ional guard company in Little Rock. AYhen that negro was caught the soldiers should have been on hand to protect him. There was another mob in Little Rock this w eek, seeking a negro who attacked a white girl. Feeling against the negroes was running high and State officials should have recognized the seriousness of the situation when the Carter negro at tacked two women. The North Carolina plan is the wiser. ,jj'lt is better to be too well prepared than not sufficiently prepared. The soldiers : were not needed at the prison farm but no one could tell what might happen ■when the trouble started. Certainly the '“•presence of the khaki-clad guardians of ! the law* did not tend to make the prison ers any more rebellious. ( j The soldiers w r ere not called upon for .anything except guard duty. Prison of ficials handled the men. Water and food were taken from them until such time as •r they were ready to accept the law*. The men do not want to work but 55 hours a week, with a half-holiday each Satur • .day. Just a touch of spring fever maybe. Work on the farm comes hard at this season after short and cool days during the winter, but we predict that the plan to quell the mob spirit w r ill prove successful and that in a day or Two the men will give their labor gladly in ex change for water and food. if. f . READY FOR SHOW-DOWN. » The Piedmont and Northern officials have decidecLto drop the matter of jur isdiction and fight for an extension of their lines in the two Carolinas on the grounds .of necessity. Several weeks ago representatives of the interurbaj4 .company asked the Inter state Commerce Commission to decide .whether it had jurisdiction in the mat ter of extensions for an interurban com pany, the P. & N.‘ Group contending then that in its original petition it included the right to extend its lines later. The I. C. C. has not yet ruled on this matter, so the interurban officials “have decided to carry the fight on another line—the need of its extensions in the two States. Perhaps the P. & N. group has come to the conclusion that the I. C. C. would claim jurisdiction in the matter and de cided the quickest way to setfle the whole thing would be to present arguments supporting the contention that the exten sions are necessary for the proper growth of this great Piedmont Section. - Other rail companies are fighting the interurban but just the same we feel that the commission will be convinced ,that the new lines are needed. Final de cision in the matter no doubt will rest with citizens of the section to* be served by the proposed extensions. If these cit izens give such co-operation as they should they can prepare a strong case for the interurban. If they are content (to let the P. & N. carry the fight alone the commission may not see the matter ■ in the true light, and the request may be denied. We repeat that we fail to understand why the Southern and other lines are fighting the^proposal. It is true that, the interurban will get part of the business these other lines are now getting but at the same time new business will be cre ated and in'the long run we believe the Southern will get more business than at present. * The Southern is to be considered, as are the other lines whose business might be affected by the extension, but the chief point to be considered by the commis sion, it seems to us, is the welfare of the community to be served. We wonder how many shippers in this section of the State will go before the commission and testify that they don’t think the P. & N. extensions are needed. We have an idea that no such witnesses can be found. This Piedmont Section is just begin ning to grow. New enterprises are ready to begin operations in sections not now served by a rail company. Some of the sites are on the proposed route of the P. 6 N. and the future of the manufactur ing enterprises depends upon rail ser vice. Surely the Southern and the other roads do not propose to extend their own lines, and that vast section which would be served by the interurban exten sions is entitled to rail facilities. MEAT AND MILK ANIMALS. ' - , ■ ..L,. In, a survey by the University News Letter it is shown that Cabarrus county rapks 27th in the State in meat and milk animal units. The State aver age is 2.38 meat and milk animal units per farm and the average in Cabarrus is 3.08. In this study horses and mules have been omitted, attention being given only to food-producing animals—cattle, sheep, and poultry. In order to determine whether one county is more heavily stocked than an other, it is necessary to reduce the.dif ferent kinds of livestock to some unit Jbasis. Agricultural economists have adopted the term animal unit to mean one mature head of cattle, or a horse, and have reduced other kinds of live stock to their equivalent, based on feed consumed. On the basis of the amount of feed re quired to maintain stock it is generally agreed that the following arc the equiv alents of an animal unit: 1 steel or cow 1 animal unit 2 calves or heifers 1 animal unit 7 sheep c 1 animal unit 14 lambs 1 animal unit 5 hogs _. 1 animal unit 10 pigs 1 animal unit 100 chickens 1 animal unit In this interpretation the News Letter has followed this schedule except, so save work, has considered nine sheep and lambs combined equivalent to one animal unit, and seven hogs and pigs combined equal to one unit. The figures from which this table was prepared are those of the United States Census of Agriculture, 1925. Ashe, Buncombe and Haywood coun ties lead in the total number-of meat and milk animal units and likewise rank among the bes.t five on the basis of such animal units per farm. Other counties with a relatively large total of livestock (exclusive of work animals) are Meek-* lenburg, Union, Wilkes, Johnston, Guil ford, Madison and Wake. Five of these ten counties are in the beef cattle area; Mecklenburg and Guilford owe their po sition to dairy and poultry farms which supply the nearby city markets; Union has developed both dairying and poultry raising to an unusual degree. HOOVER AND FOREIGN DEBTS. Secretary Hoover was active in ses sions of the Pan-American meeting held recently in \\ ashington, the purpose of the meeting being to consider world sta bilization and peace. Secretary Hoover was given opportunity to discuss these matters and he did it boldly and sanely, showing a policy almost in direct opposi tion to that in vogue with Secretary Kel i There was some diplomatic language to Secretary Hoover's utterances but in plain language he told his hearers that it i is poor business to lend money to for leign countries for unproductive enter prises such as war. And of course war is unproductive. As The Winston-Salem Journal says, “wars are the most unproductive of all human enterprises. They settle nothing. They unsettle everything. And they : leave behind them—rover and above the unspeakable human suffering which they entail—staggering debts which must be* paid by posterity.” : Take this position and stand alongside it that of Secretary Kellogg. There is an immediate clash for the latter thinks we should let foreign nations have money for the prosecution of war. Take Nicara gua, for instance. Several-, loans have been made to that country, all with the approval of Mr. Kellogg, and practically all of the money has been spent for war machinery and munitions, purchased for the most part from the United States government. Part of the money, we are told, has been expended for the pprpose of “bal ancing the national budget,” deficits eas ily accounted for other wars. The position of Secretary * Kellogg means that the United States has been encouraging foreign wars by furnishing the necessary cash. Nicaragua and other South and Central American countries can’t carry on war very long; they have not enough money. But Mr. Kellogg comes along and deyises plans by which the missing cash can be furnished, and as a result civil warfare in these foreign lands. ; TEST OF COUNTY FINANCE ACT. Machinery has been set in motion for a test case on the recently enacted county finance law. In a friendly suit brought in Guilford county a restraining order was sought to keep Guilford county com missioners from selling $1,500,000 worth of bonds under the new act. Judge John M. Oglesby declined to permit the order and the way was opened for the matter to get to the Supreme Court. State officials for the most part think the law is all right, but a bond expert has ruled otherwise, and the only way for the thing to be settled is to put it up to the Supreme Court. If that tribunal finds the law o. k. in its opinion, then the bond expert will naturally drop the fight and the counties can issue their bonds under the terms of the act. However, if the court rules with the bondsman, then there will have to be a special session of the Legislature or this phase of the county government reform legislation postponed until the next ses sion of the Legislature in 1929. Certain legislative acts made the law invalid, the bond expert says, while the State con tends that the bill was legally adopted. Those persons bringing the suit are not opposed to the law. They are just.trying to get an official ruling so counties in the State will know whether to issue bonds under the law or resort to some other method. * QUEER REASONING. Mrs. Ruth Snyder admitted these facts on the witness stand: That she received a sash weight in the mails from Henry Judd Gray, knowing he was to use the weight on her hus band’s head. That she left the door of her room open on the night of the murder so Gray could get in. That she refused to throw the weight away, although she knew its purpose, because it was Gray’s property and she wanted to give it back tx> him. That she poncealed jewelry in her home to keep Gray from taking it. That’s queer reasoning. Here we find this wife admitting that she concealed jewelry but opened the! way for the murder of her husband. Ap parently she was more concerned with material things than with the life of her husband, and the jury no doubt will be reminded of this many times before it retires to reach a verdict. Gray seems to have been more frank. He says he struck Snyder but denies that he was acting alone. > He admits al most wholly his part in the murder plot, .whereas Mrs. Snyder seeks to put all of the blame on Gray. A We do not see how any man could have gotten away with this ‘stuff had there been any opposition from the wife. Governor McLean is going to cut out some of his conferences. Hereafter lie will meet regularly with newspaper men just three times a week, whereas in the past he has been meeting them each day. The reporters, however, have the privi lege of calling the Governor when they think something big “is breaking,” and can communicate with him at any time when in their discretion such a step is necessary for the proper fulfillment of their duties. SCHOOLHOUSES AND PROPERTY. In 1925-26 Cabarrus county ranked 68th among the counties of the State in the number a.nd value of schoolhouses and property for rural white children. The county ranked 21st among the counties in the number and value of schoolhouses and property for rural colored children. In State School Facts we learn that in 1925-26 there were 54 white schoolhouses in this- county, valued at $394,075. This was an average value of $7,298, with an average value per child enrolled of $72.45. For the same year thefie were 24 ciolor-' !ed schools with a value of $143,100, an I average of $1,096 a per student value of $30.29. The total appraised value of. all the public school property used for piemen- THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE tary and secondary educational purposes was $84,541,828. on June 30, 1926. This was an increase of $13,835,993 over the preceding year and nearly three times the value of property used for these purposes during 1920-21, five years going back still further the value Os the school property in 1925-26 was* more than twenty times the value of that used in 1905-06. The change in the number of school houses from year to year is very inter esting. At the close of the school year 1925-26, there were 6,795 schoolhouses in which elementary and high school in struction was given to both the white and colored children of the State. Two years previous 1923-24, houses used for this purpose;: and in 1904-05 there were 7,376, approximately the same number. In other words, the total number of schoolhouses increased gradually year by year from 1904-05 till 1918-19. Since that year the number of schoolhouses at the end of each successive school year has been decidedly less than each preceding one. - Therefore b,y having an annual increase in the value of school property, and an an nual decrease in the number of school houses, the value per schoolhouse from year to year has increased at a greater rate of speed. In 1925-26 the average value of school property per schoolhouse for the State was $12,306; in 191 F-19 it was $1,978; and in 1904-05 only $432. From 1904-05 to 1909-10, the average value of property per schoolhouse did not double; from 1909-10 to 1914-15, to 1919- 20, it more than doubled; and from 1919- 20 to 1924-25 it more tran trebled. At this rate the average value of a schoolhouse at the end of the school yea r 1929-30 will be approximately thirty or thirty-five thousand dollars. I The average value of the rural school housfes for white children is $9,727; whereas for city children the average schoolhouse has a value of $102,550. The average value of the rural schoolhouse in 1925-26 was not as great as the average value of the city schoolhouse in 1904-05. This is due, of course, to the many small schoollpuses in the rural districts that are stilf in use; wdiereas in the cities due to concentration of school population large b'uildings were erected at a great er costl Due to the advent of hard-sur faced roads, the consolidation of schools and the transportation of pupils have been made possible in the rural districts* This fact largely accounts for the decrease in the number of schoolhouses from 1919- 20 down to the present time. J The average schoolhouse used by the rural colored children w r as valued at $124 in 1904-05 and $1,668 in 1925-26, whereas the average schoolhouse used by the city colored children was valued at $3,134 in 1904-05 and $31,069 in 1925-26. In other words, the average value of the rural schoolhouse in 1925-25 was about one half of the value of the average city schoolhouse in 1909-10. In 1904-05 the value of rural school property per white child enrolled was $4.79, whereas fn the same year the av erage value of city property per child en rolled was $37.61. During this year the average value of colored school property was $2.07 and $12.00 for each respective division. In 1925-26 school property for white children averaged $92.53 per rural child and $250.41 per city child, a difference of $157.88, or over twice as much. In this year, 1925-25, the average value of color ed school property per child enrolled was $18.96 in the rural schools and $86.94 in the city schools. It is evident, therefore, even though there has been a considera ble decrease in the number of rural school houses that the per capita value per rural j child enrolled in school has not kept pace nor reached that of the city child. The average value of property per rural white child is not quite where the per capita city white child value of school property was in 191V20. The 4,402 schoolhouses used for white children were appraised at $73,729,278, and the 2,393 sthoolhouses used for col ored children were valued at $8,812,55(7 — an average value of $16,749 and $3,683 for each schoolhouse of each respective race. The white pupil enrolled has an average of $130.70 worth of school property in vested, and the colored pupil. $34.61. The city schools, are very much better equipped with property than the rural schools; and the larger the cities, the more property there is available for each child. In the eight largest city systems the average value of school property per child enrolled is $291.92 for the white race and $107.42 for the colored race. " City Groups II and 111 having an equal num ber of schoolhouses, each also has about an equal .amount of school property for eAcli child fdr each race. The rural schools have less property per ch ild, than any other group—s92.s2 per white pupil and $18.90 per colored pu pil- - There site more schoolhouses used for the education of . the white children of Wilkes county than any other /ural sys tem, 124. There are fewer schoolhouses for white children in Camden County, 8. The 124 schoolhouses are appraised at $460,740, or an average value of $3,716 per schoolhouse and a per capita value of $51.91; whereas tfie 8 schoolhouses in Camden county are valued at $90,000, or an average of $11,250, and a per pupil value of $84.75. Washington County has the largest per capita investment per rural white child $252.38. The lowest per capita in vestment is in Cherokee County at $21,29. This is a very wide range, nearly - 12 times more property per child in Wash ington than Cherokee. In 1924-25 only 13 counties had a per capita investment per white child enroll ed of SIOO or more; in 1924-25 there were 33 counties in this group ; and in 1925-26, 39. This shoWs the increasing value of school property in these rural system^. Buncombe County has more money in vested in rural school property for white pupils than any other county, $1,844,190. Five counties, Buncombe, Guilford, Rob eson Rockingham, and Johnston, each has over a million dollars investd e in school property used for white rural chil dren. ABOUT “DOUBLE” PARKING. Efforts by police officers here to break up “double’’ parking in the business dis trict have brought protests from certain persons who base their claim to a “dou ble” parking privilege to the fact that many persons drive their cars downtown in the morning and leave them parked in the same place all wav.' So long as this is done, it is argued, other motorists must either spend much time looking for parking places, walk some distance or go elsewhere to do their buying. It has been suggested by Chief Tal birt that merchants refrain from the present practice of leaving their cars parked on the. busiest streets of Concord from morning to night. Certainly this would relieve congestion considerably. Many clerks ride to work in the morn ing and leave their cars in the s?me place, right in front of some store, until they are ready to go to dinner. They come back after dinner and park again in front of some store. There are scores of these cars par-ked along Union street every day. Store owners and professional men who do not need their cars but once a day are doing the same thing. The result is that the motorist who drives to the business district on business has difficulty in finding a place to park. Many errands in stores can be attended to in a minute or two, the time limit for “double” parking, but this is not always The case and the result is the would-be I buyer has trouble spending money with the merchants. Most business owners and clerks could parking space in the rear of their stores. Removal of these cars from Un ion street would materially relieve the present unsatisfactory condition. . THE PIEDMONT & NORTHERN. Charlotte Observer. , The dispatch in The Observer yesterday from its Washington correspondent to the effect that the Piedmont & Northern Railway, without waiting for a dieision in the matter of jurisdiction, is going to push its case before the Interstate Commerce Commission on the broad ground of public con venience and necessity means that this little pied mont interurban system is going so the mat im mediately with the Southern, the Seabord Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line, and the other large sys tems. This move indicates the fullest degree of confidence upon the part of the officials and'at torneys of the Piedmont & Northern. This new development in the matter of the P. & N. extension rather definitely brings into the fight the industrial and other business interests of the piedmont section of the Carolinas and that part of the public iu this section that is interested in its continued industrial growth. If the plea of the Piedmont & Northern for a certificate of public convenience and necessity cannot be supported by the demands and the opinion of industrial and commercial leaders then it may be assumed that 1 such a certificate will not be issued by the Inter state Commerce Commission and that the P. & N. will remain the incompleted project that it is today. And if the building of the incompleted sections of i the P. & N. as originally planned will not stimu late, promote, and aid in the further industrial devlopment of piedmont Carolinas then it should not be built. It is now for the people of the cities, towns and counties interested to.determine whether the proposed new links of the P. & N-. Railway would be helpful in the continued industrial development of these communities. And the people of these communities need not deceive themselves as to the sort of fight that is going to be made on the projected development by the large systems. These larger systmes* have already made it apparent that they are going to oppose the new project with might and main. j lhe Observer believes that it judges correctly the opinion and the determination of the people ot this section. If it does properly appraise the feelings of these people it does not hesitate to pre dict that there is going to be a battle royal; that the Interstate Commerce Commission is going to 1 be shown conclusively that the completion of the i projected links of the P. &X. arP liee ded for the ! fullest industrial development of. this section; and I that this projected mileage will be built. It does i uot berate to predict further that within a few, years the building of these lines will be resulting m increased freight traffic on the larger systems, “.!*.■ th ' bui J<fi n £ of the original -lines has Unquestionably added to the volume of traffic being handled by those lines today. * The people of the own about 90 per cent of the world's automobiles if they were i all paid for. BuebviUe Republican- Monday taking THE Charlotte News. " 5 We can hardly b! amo r . Methodist Church f or Wi t off t 0 te]l his People that kia * * 1 , devoured the latest w • “Of**" I" ; calummze everything , an<l beautiful and of * th *t» - la U of l if ai,(l save ,hV r e *>i No book written in Wa .., r % [ the sane-minded ness 0 f ‘ , has this latest thrust of 1 ? ,'S in picking up scopes „f ‘ , % i the direction of the , mr t ® u<l Nj i The best critics of X !? 11,1 % of the literary lights, ■ it, of the novelist , charm, even when he j s *«»•* ! ters of the Gospel all pronouncements against him , ’ One of the sanest of come under our obsermfoT . Ernest Garrison who i„ a .I proceeds to take the hide' oft? • fashion : a t *t| ; “Deeper than his hatred*- cynicism about human nature » 'conceives it, it rotten to the [ made up of fools who can [ who exploit them, plus a futile-souls who get crush?!, clasps because they ,!„ J - He believes nothing, but I thLw . that there is, or ought to be if he could only find out whim • belieye it. That is why he is L* - the shortcomings of the Church [! j be offering stones, when somewgJ if one only knew where, there'' 1 only knew what. He is not irm? . the feeding the multitude, benJ That is what makes him a cynic their teeth upon the stones is m „ But for himself he is hungry f M certainty. So he writes a hook their emptiness a comedy, of : performances of the Church a «i» self a tragedy, but a tragedy wifi ‘ - The book of the old wastrel wj! L in the slightest change the opini,, truly know ministers and wh#t«« them in the work of Christ. - It will please those who wj D t> l everybody in the world is a* % themselves are. It may do considerable hara fij the real character and service effej istry are known remotely, if in u , ’ ever. i Sinclair Leris is an adroit aitaf ; book is widely and violently atud riosity is excited, and so it is noth at, in view of the publicity attaint! book has already had a sale of ab«! The price is $2.50, but a w»g find a much better investment fori It isn’t a book you would care a i; library. It isn’t a book you wodl to a friend. The proper receptadf ash can. ‘ In the years to come both fit author will be consigned to the Ut of the world. The man who halt who loves mud will enjoy readiagi If a poison toad had a mind i exactly as does Sinclair Lewis. HATS OFF TO BEUiS Charlotte Observer. Formal opening of the new ilq of the Relks gives distinction to On of department stores of quality wt of New York. It gives this city i tion and a very pronounced one, u ljomC of the largest and most coßfi store . between Washington and il Belk brothers have established herei moth proportions, six stories, wifi 71 feet and a depth of 281 bet square feet of floor space. Anu it l size that the Belk department S® „ but for architectural design a« • rangement and equipment. It w fill all the requirements of the w store and to accommodate a start ( which calls for the service of a people. It is an immense mere** and stands as token of the progress a shopping center. The interest'- local and neighborhood, in tw was manifested on the opening W sight-seers thronged the various The Belks have given pracw* fact that the retail business of ing and keeping the P a s of '' A ing interests. One 'modem 1 other, as one office budding h > , When Ivey embarked on d«j»rt tion the people were manif j . when the Efirds followed su.uM they were overdoing ,lie pioneers in mercantile ell , and Charlotte territory. would be developed, if the I _ of the major proportions ■ pete In quality and volume iu the North, or anywhere ehe ® . their confidence has be* Charlotte is now shopping centers brillbffi W The.enterpnse of lotte’s mercantile fame to development of treul L- tfl >. ment store business at inu i and are willingly W e> J # for the magnificent add, ‘ city’s retail fame and t» drawn is well desen e,. store is a large boast f» It is quite in contrast [ occupied when they » 31 years ago, and . v mi and capability of two to open a store and so soou i kings. DOl ULYJVOK 1 Durham Herald. , lif * Formal dedication of n* jat Blon college a t‘“" : yd contribution to e '* u( “* 1 ,* t o \ another lasting , p! * i \ done so mod. for > J building, costing • through the Duke, and bears 'h* ■ Roney Duke. I,:vpr - 'j lu fc# the generosity <>t one. They have , (li *rJ the same great 'visdom J(( rf characterized then them such proinimm finance. In none A j show more jndgm**" , I the erection of the 0 j hall at Elon. 1,1 f I splendid service ' . |ine l through a desen o - it# * The dedicatory ‘ i at Elon brought l'’'' lll appreciative body ! - Jt .la? ‘i benefactors. Il v “. A'! ' fac-uW’ ' state rejoices w‘U and friends of the " ~ -ire The question g- I,ps ‘ , )V t harder ftU the f^l asked who is the ott News.
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