North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR THE CONCORD TIMES PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Entered as second class mail matter at the post office at Concord, N. C., under the Act of March *B, 1879. J. B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publishei W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor Special Representative: FROST, LANDIS k KOHN New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle KEEPING COUNTY HISTORY STRAIGHT. ' How mafty counties in North Carolina have"in published form a county history? We wager the opinion that the number Is small, this matter being, one that has - failed to attract and receive the atten tion it deserves. We have been content, as it were, to rock along, leaving such i matters to the State Historical Commis sion or some other agency. Most of the i North Carolina counties are rich in his- V’tory but their inhabitants just never have thought much about preserving in form this history. A ' For this reason we are gratified that | : the North Carolina Historical Commis sion has inaugurated a movement looking to the organization of a local historical society in each of the one hundred coun tries in the State and the appointment of ■ • an historian, in each county who shall be delegated to write the county's history, y There are several persons in Concord fully capable of doing this work. We hope the Cabarrus commissioners or oth liier proper agencies can see fit to carry out the suggestion in this county. plan is set forth in a letter sent a few days-ago to the county superintend —ents and city superintendents of educa tion throughout the state. It is as .fol- * . •-ri “North Carolina has a history which surpasses both in scope and in richness of many of the states in the Ameri lari Union. But whereas state history ■els been preserved and made available t>y the State Literary ana Historical As sociation and the North Carolina Histori cal Commission, local history in- North Carolina. has not generally had that sys tematic promotion which its importance deserves. What has been done for state fhistory should and can be done for local history by local agencies. In New York, a state law requiring the appointment of a local historian in each town and city has stimulated greatly the preservation and writing of local history. “In every county in North Carolina there exists historical material without which an adequate county history cannot be w ritten; yet if not collected and pre served, its destruction is certain. In ev ery county there has been a record of achievement w r hich, if written, and pub lished, would stimulate local pride and achievement and add to the knowledge of North Carolina history. In every coun ty there is someone already experienced in historical work or deeply interested therein, who, if given the position of lo cal historian, would be honored and stim ulated to greater efforts in collecting ma terial, writing history, and organizing a association. In every county there -Jij a sufficient number of persons inter ®%sted in history with which to form a county historical association. In the face of these conditions, there is no need for those interested in the cause of edu cation and history to await the legal es tablishment of the office of county his torian. If results can be achieved inde pendently, the prospect will be favorable for legislative co-operation two years hence.” - , PROSPERITY INDICATED. If tax payments are an indication of prosperity then North Carolina is all right financially at the present time. Indications now are that by June 30th a total of $27,583,000 in State taxes and $200,000,000 to $205,000,000 in federal taxes, a total of $230,000,000 or more will have been collected in this State during the year. There are indications further more, that a credit balance in the State treasury of $1,650,000 will be shown at the end of the fiscal year. Most of this j increase in federal revenue collections is due to the steadily mounting sale of to 'bacco stamps, chiefly cigarette stamps. Orr one day in May, more than sl/)(}0,000 | worth of cigarette stamps were purchas ed by North Carolina cigarette manufac- , turers. The increase in the collections of Fed eral taxes in the state by the Internal Revenue Collector lias been phenomenal, according to the figures for the first elev en months of the current fiscal year as made public by Gilliam Grissom, collect vor for North Carolina. During May, internal revenue collec tions amounted to $18,381,949.05, wlych was $3,528,976.83 more than was collect- ( ed in May, 1926. Collections for the past eleven months amount to $170,610,013.36, which is a gain of more than $12,000,000 over the same period last year. And'since collections in June, 1926, amounted to $21,620,902, collections for June this year should run considerably over that, with the result that the total internal revenue collections for this fiscal year should be in excess of $200,000,000, ac cording to Mr. Grissom. The Budget Bureau expects that the total collections for the entire year in the revenue division will amount to fully $13,483,000, as compared with collections of but $12,672,000 for the preceding year, and that the collections from the gaso line tax and the automobile license sales will amount to approximately $14,100,- 000, as Compared with collections last year of but $12,229,000. This would make the total revenue col lected from all sources for this fiscal year amount to $27,583,000, as compared with a total revenue for the preceding fis cal year of but $23,499,528, which means that approximately $4,063,472 more will have been collected this fiscal year than last, and that there will be a surplus or “credit balance” of about $1,650,000, ac cording to the Budget Bureau. All of which indicates that prosperity is no total stranger in North Carolina. AS EDITOR SEES NEEDS OF STATE Santford Martin, editor of The Win ston-Salem Journal, addressed the alum ni of Wake Forest the other night and in his excellent address discussed the prac tical needs of North Carolina to usher in a better day. He declared that for the price of five miles of concrete highway we could build an institution that would not require youthful offenders to be put in prison with hardened criminals. That is a mat ter that ought to receive serious consid eration. Here is what North Carolina needs de clared Mr. Martin: What 'North Carolina needs most to day is not industrial leaders of wider vis ion so much as political leaders in whose ears the school bell rings louder than the cash register. In his first inaugural, W oodrow Wilson summoned to his side “all forward-looking men.” He wanted no other type. In his transition period, in; which industry' and culture must learn to live together in the same house, the commonwealth will be safe only as she succeeds in summoning forward-looking men to places of responsibility and pow er. When the fight was on against the dis tillery and saloon there were those short visioned men who said the battle could be won by local option. In the fight on ignorance, a far more strongly entrench ed enemy of the race than the liquor traffic ever was, there are these who say the battle can be won by local option. North Carolina needs leaders who can see that local option in public education has served its day and that the time has come for the State to put its resources back of the fight against ignorance just as it final ly rallied its forces against the liquor traf fic. In the battle that is ahead, the first ob jective is a free ballot. Government nev er will be humanized in North Carolina until all the voters shall have a fair op portunity to cast their ballot without fear of intimidation or the dread of em barrassment at the polls. The present system at the voting places tends to pro mote and foster, not majority, but minor ity rule., W c should have an election system in North Carolina that will tend to encour age, not discourage, a majority of the people to attend elections. We should have a system that invites and challenges all men and women, no matter what their station in life, to be good citizens. We should have a system that will make it as hard as possible for people to be voted in groups and as easy as possible to ob tain the independent expression of indi vidual opinion at the ballot box. ABOUT DRUNKEN DRIVERS. The law passed by the last General Assembly requiring judges to revoke drivers licenses for all persons found guilty of driving an automobile while in toxicated or “under the influence” of liquor is being challenged. The trouble see-ms to be that judges do not agree as to when a person is intoxicated or “un der the influence” of liquor, j One man hailed into court in Winston- Salem under the law had his license re voked and he immediately appealed. The judge of the next highest court told him it was all right for him to drive his car, taking the position that while it was proven that the man had been drinking it was not established that the was “un der the influence” of liquor. So perhaps the law, so generously ap plauded, may not mean so much after all, if all judges take the position that they have the right to determine when a man Vis intoxicated-or “linger, the’ififlufence.” Judges do have much authority in the matter of discretion but we are convinced thal members of the Legislature did not intend to leave this matter of discretion open when this law was passed. It is our belief that the solons thought they were making it mandatory for judges to impose the certain and stated sentence on every one convicted of driving while intoxicated or “under the influence.” If that was not the intention of the solons why the law? There was sufficient law already on the books for judges to re voke licenses when they saw fit to do so. Is the man who has taken one drink “under the influence?” That’s the big question it seems. In our opinion a mam may take one drink without being in toxicated but he can’t take one drink without being “under the influence” of liquor. We believe even one drink can affect a man’s driving ability. One drink of liquor can chance a man’s sense of distance, making it dangerous for him to drive, for the man at the wheel must be able to judge distance if he can do nothing else. ‘ - If judges are going to decide the mat ter of intoxication and “influence” then the law means nothing. The Supreme Court may have to decide the matter finally, determining how much liquor a man ordinarily has to have before, he is drunk or “under the influence.” HEADED IN RIGHT DIRECTION. The Charlotte Observer finds-from a statistical agency the discovery that few er murders were committed in this coun try last year than in the year 1925. “The reduction is encouraging but it is nothing to brag about,” the Observer finds, since the murder rate for 1926 was 9.9 per 100,000 population as against a rate of 11 for 1925. The statistics show that for the year 1926 there were 510 murders in Chicago, this being 53 less than the total for 1925. “The murder record in this country is one of distressing contemplation and is in marked contrast to the records in Eng land and Canada,” says The Observer, “which countries are unable to under stand it all, so comparatively free are they from crimes of the kind. Canada and England are comparatively free of murder because they hang murderers. Prompt arrest, trial, conviction and- exe cution are the order in their courts. . The Observer wonders “just what de gree of responsibility do the courts of the United States share in this record?” Next after Chicago in come the following cities:: New York with 340 murders ill 1926, and 374 in 1925; Detroit with 327 in 1926 and 243 in 1925; Philadelphia with 178 in 1926 and 192 in 1925;-St. Louis with 134 in and 163 in 1925; New Orleans with 141 in 1926 <and 154 in 1925; Birmingham with 124 in 1926 and 112 in 1925. CHAUTAUQUA AGAIN. Concord is to have the Redpath Chau tauqua again in 1928, seventy-four busi ness and professional men of the city guaranteeing the attraction, which again will be sponsored by the Woman’s Club. Just before the final program for this ■year was concluded Wednesday night 1928 season tickets were distributed and it is understood that enough were sign ed for to care for half of next season’s guarantee. Persons who signed these tickets should consider their action as a binding obligation and should not hesi tate next season to take such tickets as they agreed to take. If every one will do this the task of rajsing the money next season will be an easy one. Nothing but high class entertainment was offered this year during'the Chautau qua program. The same has been true year after year. The Redpath enter tainers -rank with the best in the nation, no doubt, and their programs here were entertaining and instructive this year as they have always been in the past. It is money well spent when the Chautau qua is brought to town, and those indi viduals and agencies which made possi ble the excellent program this season de serve commendation from the hundreds who so profitably heard and saw the pro grams^ Captain Charles A. Lindbergh has de clined so far to capitalize his adventure. It may be that he will accept some con tract that will mean a fortune, to him, but if he does the contract may be expected to be of such a nature that he can contin ue his aviation career. In discussing va rious offers that have been proferred, the noted trans-Atlantic flier made it plain that he does not intend to take up in the future any work that will hinder his avia tion experiments. Several noted motion picture producers, men with influence and wealth, have sought to interest Cap- Jain Lindbergh in movie contracts but he has signed none of them, showing a keen business sense and at the same time prov ing that he did not fly from Npw\ York to Paris solely for the money-in yen ture. His attitude has'certainly not de creased the favor in which he is held by the public. He made the light as a means of increasing the efficiency of av- I iation, and not as a means of making a fortune. He is as unusual in this as he f Me coNdORDti ME S is in his ability to operate a plane for long stretches at the time. FEW FARMS IN STATE MORT GAGED. Taken as a whole few North Carolina farms are mortgaged, according to the 1925 Census of Agriculture. Os the 132,- 610 farms operated by full owners only ,24,983 or 18.8 cent, were mortgaged. In f two States, it is shown, are the ratios of mortgaged farms lower than in North Carolina —Virginia 18.6 per cent, and West Virginia 11.8 per cent. , For the JJnited States slightly more than one third of all farms operated by full own ers are mortgaged. The ratio of mortgaged farms is high in such states as California, lowa, Min nesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wiscon sin, and lowest in West Virginia, Vir ginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Ten nessee. N The University ,News Letter thinks the low per cent, of mortgaged farms in the South is due largely to the fact that mortgage houses have not considered Southern farms good risks. The News Letter also says “it is a mistake to infer that a low ratio of mort gaged farms is a healthy or favorable sign. The business of the world today is conducted on credit. Credit may be used wisely or unwisely,' by farmers as well as other groups. The wise use of credit is as good business for the farmer as it is for the factory operator. But it must be used wisely, and too often the mortgaged farm is not the result of a productive investment. Few North Car olina farms are mortgaged, either for consumptive or productive purposes. “Whether or not a large per cent, of mortgaged farms is good or bad depends entirely upon the nature of the debt se cured by the mortgage. A farmer who goes in debt to increase the earning pow er of his farm does just what other prop erly conducted businesses do. It is just as good business for a farmer to use bor rowed capital as it is for a railroad, or a factory or for local, state, and national governments. The farmer who mort gages his farm in order to buy luxuries and consumptive goods is acting unwise ly, of course, and such practices should be discouraged. Many farms are mort gaged during periods of depression in ag riculture, and this is unfortunate. But to incur debt in order to make the farm more efficient as a producing unit is good business. “It-is interesting to note that the ratio of mortgaged farms is usually high where farmers are wealthy and prosperous and low where farmers are poor. The farm ers of Denmark are conceded to be among the most prosperous in the world, yet their farm debt is appalling. The debt has been incurred to make agricul ture more productive and the farm more efficient. The Danes operate largely on borrowed' capital, and much of their prosperity is due to their wise use of this borrowed capital.” WHY THE CHANGED PLANS? ~x~z Newspaper correspondents in the cap ital say that when they met for their us ual conference with President Coolidge last Tuesday morning nothing was said about Captain Charles A. Lindbergh go ing to Washington upon his arrival from Europe. The matter of the young air man’s daring feat was mentioned several rimes, it was said, but the Chief Execu tive made no mention of any plans he had to receive the flier in Washington in stead of having him met at New York. Then suddenly Tuesday afternoon came the announcement that Lindbergh would go to Washington, to be received by the President. At the time the flier had not been consulted, it'was said, and his wishes were not known when the an nouncement came from Washington. One correspondent, representing the New World, said the President’s decision to welcome Lindbergh came with unexpected suddenness because of the fact that in the capital much was be ing said about the apparent lack of in terest being shown at the White House in the airman’s home-coming. This cor respondent said a number of persons had been heard to comment on the fact that at first the President intended to go on to his summer White House and miss Lindbergh a day or two, rather than re main at Washington to show such hom age from this government as has been paid by European governments. There is something behind the plans outlined for the President. Is there a political motive behind the sudden in terest being taken in the matter by the administration? ; FOURTEEN ERRORS OF LIFE. A London judge has listed what he ■ considers the Fourteen Great Mistakes of Life, as follows: { 1. It's a mistake to attempt to set your own standards of right and wrong and expect everybody to conform to them. 2. It’s a mistake to try to measure the enjoyment of others by your own. 3. It’s a mistake to expect uniformity of opinion in this world. 4. It’s a mistake to look for judgment and experience in youth. 5. It’s a mistake to endeavor to mould all dispositions alike. 6. It’s a mistake not to yield to unim portant trifles. v 7. It’s a mistake to look for perfec tion in our own actions. 8. It’s a mistake to worry ourselves and others about what can not fie reme died. ‘ . •’ . 9. It’s a mistake not tp alleviate, if we can, all that needs alleviation. 10. It’s a mistake not to make allow ances for the weaknesses of others. 12. It’s a nfistake to believe only what the finite mind can grasp. 13. It’s a mistake to live as if the moment, the time, the day im portant that it would live forever. 14. It’s a mistake to estimate people by some outside quality, for it is that within which makes the man. BENEFICIAL RAINo. Following a drought season of several weeks, rains throughout North Carolina during the past week have aided crops and water supplies. Rain has fallen in practically all sections of the State within the past week or ten days making it pos sible for farm work to be carried forward satisfactorily. There has been plenty of rain in Ca barrus. Since Saturday, May 28th, there have been daily showers, the precipita tion in most instances, being sufficient for local, needs. While Concord's water supply is guar anteed by the impounding dam complet ed last ) r ear, some sections of the county were facing a water shortage when the rains came. Wells in some parts of the county were beginning to show the af fects of the dry season and some appre-, hension had been aroused by the drought. The rainfall , during the past ten days has been sufficient, however, to relieve any threatening shortage and if anything like normal conditions prevail in the fu ture, there should be no shortage this summer. Crops as a whole, are making satisfac tory progress in this county. Cotton is off to a good stand and other crops, while not so good as last season, and this ap plies especially to wheat and oats, are satisfactory. U BALE OF COTTON A WEEK. Gastonia^Gazette. The equivalent of a bale of cotton a week is the record of a Rowan county farmer, Mr. R. L. Shuping, who sells a considerable amount of but ter. milk and other dairy products in Salisbury every week. Salisbury has a curb market and on Saturdays Mr. Shuping s#Us there. On Tuesdays he makes deliveries to his customers at their homes, accord ing to information from the county agent, Mr. W. G. Yeager. Mr. Shuping's sales this past Saturday morning consisted of 30 pounds of butter, 36 gallons of buttermilk. 16 pints of cottage cheese, and 27 pints of cream, returning to him a total of $324.35. and this with his Tuesday sales of a somewhat lesser amount is returning to Mr. Shuping SSO or more a week from his small dairy herd, or turn it around, Mr. Shuping is making a Tmle of cotton each week in addition to his other farming which is no small quantity. Mr. Shuping’s bale of cotton from his cows is being made at a very much smaller outlay of time and labor, and investment than would 'be a bale of cotton each week, and he is carrying home the money. In addition his farm is *becoming-more fertile, his boys are interested in farming, and Mr. Shuping is not worrying about the low price of lint cotton, high taxes, nor anything else in particular, but constantly on the lookout for a good milk cow to add to his small, but growing herd. THE TKACHES’ PLEDGE. High Point Enterprise. That North Carolina's one hundred counties can furnish forth a contract between school authorities and teachers, pledging the latter not to “fall in love,” not to dance or dress immodestly and not to encourage or tolerate “the least familiarily on the part of any boy pupils” ought not be partic ularly surprising to those familiar with the almost infinite variety of Tar Heelia. The astonishing thing is that Prof. Charlie Coon’s contract contains these provisions which amuse the rest of the coun try and which impress some home school men as insulting to the teachers. A young lady who could definitely contract not to “fall in loVe” during a specified length of time has remarkable control of her emotions and no doubt should make a superb disciplinarian. But we fancy that a teacher whose pledge will suffice to keep her loveless is quite safe from love even with out her signature to the covenant. We also incline to the opinion that an occasional teacher confer ence about deportment for the benefit of recruits to the teaching staff would ! be lefcs offensive and more effective thafi any sorfeof contractual obliga tion the teacher might assume iu the beginning. THE STATE WATCHING. Hickory Record. The man who takes the place of Dr. Poteat at j ake lorest will step into shoes that resemble the proverbial battleship in size. And for that reason j the whoe state is watching. The Salisbury Post | has this comment to make about the-matter: Tiie trustees of Wake Forest are taking their j time about selecting the successor to Ur. PoteHt. I truthfully states Charity and Children. Editor Johnson commends the wisdom of this course, for he rightly sees in hasty, ill-considered action, danger of ipisfake. Ihe Baptist church has a number of ineq capable.;of handling this, job, but reijientbering that it is perhaps tbe bifgqtfti- job, tbit fte'dfirtrh has m the state, the right man should be found, must be found. A misfit there would be disastrous and it would be hard to right.” Remembering the time when the red nose of an excessive drinker was called a rum blossom, we ! suppose nowadays the adornment is really a coru , flower.—Kansas City Star. M0, %l the «^Sl ■ ? ml “ore of tw -> w the h n ri an i.SsB j Herbert H„ (n . 0r | successfully ■ |«H sympatic 8 ,n future \vil? persons made h J .** farJJ® ■ been iu the He is specific j n , , better health c, m(li \ tw ® ' of cro I>*- Already '' nH • taken against tvpjjj 01 * been taken in the flj of thousands 0 f . 1 a £ ainst these affected by the flood** t:on much mure rig ’ health regulations ? « served. u 1 : Mr ; Hoover p] aus •» B they have returned toV^B seeds so that thev ‘ thus tm ‘ themselves LyM The rtau„,b ohorCSl displayed now v m : and impatient ■ r d "■* t» O'! ■ they express more convir'.- *■ of the generosity of thej **B than by voicing their mg to return and lighi hearthstones that have W ® i i -—.. l T 0 KEEE i Rocky Mountain Telega ■ i Violators of the unifor* M acted by the recent mg more severe penalties [ sections of the statute aj? cents fee which will go t 0 Jj] police judge or clerk o? «r«t J • a full record of the case, it i* J : lina Motor Club officials. * While specifying that an involving violation of the : to the motor vehicle conuM article six makes it plain Z! shall not be deemed to mai f l of record. The abstract mißtj, magistrate, judge or clerk allowed a 50 cents fee whidtj against the persou convicted. Clerks of courts of record ty after any final judgment oj | violation of any provision nf | send to the commissioner a \ judgment of conviction. I’tw, also be forwarded to the egg viction of any person of manslq felony in the commission of it used. The commission will in , i its office and they will be'opt of any person during reaseut ■ Clerks will receive oO centsf» against convicted persons sores Attention is called to the in required to stop in case of sea particulars as to name, aiidm and other data and render up Conviction of failure to stop hi entails a penalty of itnprisoinia; • 530 days nor more than one van jails or in the state prison fen nor than five years tbsp than SSOO nor more than JoiM and imprisonmga+r" , WHAT IS EDIC.UI Wilmington Star. The latest contribution to eaw tion comes from .Mr. Arthur ftij editorial writer of the Hears! if says: “By the way. fathers and nij their sons lack college eduettifti Lindbergh went to no univcnitM school was a plow on his fafeH Os Amrse parents will fe w very thing, provided their e.>wti to permit them looking thwsj University of Y\ isconsin cated. Naturally, iiS . is the normal thing forfouPj* science teachers to bring then . ignorance, and it is amazingly h Representative Lindbergh !*• Charles, to become an except We really wonder why so many other good illustnWJj education. He might h;v» -•■* quit Harvard to ship a that O. Henry learned t'’*™ If the distinguished Heart . it would be highly i'»^ uf '- ?| penitentiary alumni , : world, and to read a coni!* the advantages of two .'«■ against four years in THE JI RY A. M) Tfil! High Point Enterprise. fj Os late years western its distinction ns the tei.tr of whiskey in this state- P prohibition bureau wd • • whiskey in the omntry * hill, but he cannot say is relatively its notable Eastern Carolina is the mountain country evidence and made his liquor in detail old days and the eastern tax paid. Bin«;e proh| b hofP j has been inspired b. ,|| converting his corn cr" has erected stills wbichJM eer’s little equipment The easterner has cut timber that he ha> outside of the M that the jury case coulda t tak< u ~w r lJ discovering a big ,s • fV deputy sheriff leads a J factory. DOES PROHlßff^ i Winston-Salem - entlU^: h}bi ;f» J Does prohibition h* M railroads in the >' ■ tr »ia* i 1915 of those ! who have violate' j I i, )g . Although the nu* lily, though no' ’■‘I 1 yet the ntimbet • ■ creased. In 1 ** *i charged for 'lran (fUt . H , 1919. it was I.H l. t per ceijt. In had ’tl* following yeav j The trend <>t M jt j ol i b ! dictates that pi" 11 sV jci°®! , V intoxicating hq""’- ; M the worker, whether contend. ' ' ,i.(i h^ l!l?3i 4 The Chinese «wj . j fighting they ba'e - , I people ha'e v