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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 8, 1879. * , j B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publishes W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor Special Representative: FROST, LANDIS & KOHN New York. Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Augelee and Seattle r- FOR PLAYGROUNDS. The Winston-Salem Journal says with justice that “North Carolina cities have been deplorably derelict in their duty to provide recreational park facilities for the rank an<4 hie of their citizens.” [ ' That is the truth. With few excep tions towns and cities in North Carolina have not given this subject the thought and attention it demands. Wfe have been {willing to rock along under the old sys tem in vogue when there were wide open spaces in every community and the mat ter of providing the youngsters with • a playground never was brought up through necessity. • * Gastonia is one of the exceptions in the State. There a 2ff-acre tract has been set aside for the park and playground and e The Gastonia Gazette has the following to say about the matter: ‘‘One cannot help thinking of the beau tiful lines of Joyce Kilmer's matchless poem "on ‘Trees,’ while he stands under the sheltering shade of the magnificent oaks, elms, poplars, and dogwood which make Gastonia’s new 20-acre park and playgrounds a veritable bower of loveli ness. .Announcement will be made with in the next few days of the date and pro gram for- the formal opening of this beau ty spot by Chairman Tom \\ ilkins of the, city park committee, Gastonia did a splendid day’s work when it acquired this piece of property and as the years go bv and money is available for its fur ther equipment and 1/eautification, thfe citizens will acquire more and more a, feeling of thankfulness to.the city fath ers whose thought for the future brought about its acquisition.” The Journal thinks this is a matter that cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. “The cost of this tract to Gas tonia has not been made public,” says The Journal, “so far as we know, but no matter what it cost it will be worth many times over what the city pays for. it. Without adequate parks a city is a spir itual desert and ntf city in North Carolina is too small or too not to need at least one park of commensurate and am ple proportions.” Judge W. C. Harris, of Raleigh, now serving on the Superior Court bench but formerly judge of the Raleigh court, says he ‘“never saw a boy so sorry but that something could be done with him,” and in this connection he suggests parks and playgrounds in every city and town as a means of reaching the heart and mind of the youngsters. In discussing this matter Judge Harris was quoted as follows in the News and Observer: ‘ He thinks that supervised play will* be a factor in reducing the number of youthful violators of the law. The chanc es are that any attractive outlet for the emotions and the physical energies of boys will keep them out of mischief. “Unfortunately ror present-day youth, bootlegging offers a highly alluring es cape from the commonplace. There is element of danger about it and the boys like that. There is an element of speed, of racing here and yon in powerful auto i mobiles, and boys thrill to that, Yhere is an element of matching wits against the "authorities, of putting something over, and that, also, has its appeal. Put all these things together and add the fact' that otherwise good citizens are still lending a sort of respectability to whis key, making the dealings a combination J-,of circumstances that act like a magnet to certain types of boys. “Maybe playgrounds would have sav ed these boys. Maybe they will save oth ers. It is absolutely safe, though, to say. that anything that will make bootlegging less attractive as an adventure will con tribute its share to the safety of yduth.” The question of* a playground and park for Concord has been brought to the front again and we offer the above infor mation for the benefit of those who want to give to this question careful and stud ied thought. Several times in the past the matter of a playground has been brought up infor mally in Concord but somehow that is all we have done. We discuss the matter, v look over suitable locations and then drop ttae whole question. We should follow up the action of the Concord Kiwants Club by deeds and not Jatk. We understand that an 8-acre tract Jvas_ been made available for a park. If that is true then we should exhaust ev ery possible means of developing it be fore dropping this question. THE LAW IS MEANT FOR ALL. Judge W. F. Harding, speaking be fore the Forsyth county grand jury on Monday, stressed this important fact—- that the prohibition law. was enacted for all of the people. We seemingly have forgotten that tact, not only as it applies to the prohibition law but to other laws as well. Too many of us are violating the law on the as sumption that the law was meant for the other fellow. “The enforcement of the prohibition law,” Judge Harding told the jury, “is more than catching the man with the half-pint —the man who works all week and spends a dollar on Saturday night for a drink of liquor. Your criminal docket is well filled with the names of 4 4 such as these. “The man who says lie is in favor of prohibition and has a case of whiskey de livered to his residence in the wee small hours of the night is a mighty poor pro hibitionist and the officers of the law who fail to strive to get these just as much as they strive to get the man with the half pint, are not worthy of the name of offi cers. The court that doesn’t enforce the law against all classes alike is not worthy of the name of a court. “The jury is the court. Os course the judge presides and passes upon the law but it is up to the jury to decide the facts in the case. And it is up to you, mem bers of the Grand Jury, .to say whether the facts shall justify a trial. “I am not passing on whether it is sin ful to take a drink of whiskey or to have whiskey in the home. But if it is against the law it is wrong. And it is your duty, gentlemen, to report to this Court any violation of the law, whether you your selves think it is sinful or not.” The Winston-Salem Journal thinks judge Harding struck at the fundamen tal cause of the alarming prevalence of crime, namely, disrespect for law, when he said: “If it is against the law it is wrong.” “Too many individuals,” says The Journal, “think they can govern their conduct by what they believe the! law ought to be, rather than by what the j law actually is. “Nothing is more responsible for the present unprecedented disrespect for law in this country than the evil of which Judge Harding complains when he says: ‘Some few people want the punishment for the violation of the prohibition law extended as far as the middle class, but very few care to have the wealthy man and the powerful punished.’ "The law was written for all. And the courts should see to it that it is enforc ed with equal justice agaihst all. Until they do so enforce it. we shall continue to have a large element of our population who openly and brazenly defy the law.” Judge Harding and The Journal are both right. Look over the court records and you will sec the justice of the com plaint "both make. . We are too prone to sympathize with the man of power or money when he gets into trouble. We are wigorous in our efforts ofttimes to catch the man with the half-pint but we seek all sorts of ways to excuse and free the man who buys the contraband in wholesale lots. There is no difference between the two in the eyes of the law. There should be no difference in the manner in which justice is meted to them. THE COTTON MILLS OF TAR HEELIA. North Carolina continues to lead the rest of the world in the cotton textile in dustry. According to the recent bien nial report of the State Department of Labor, and Printing North Carolina leads the nation as the greatest cotton goods manufacturing State. The report points out that while there has been a substan ital growth in the textile industry during the last ten years, it was not until two years ago that the State attained first place in the manufacture of cotton goods. The report of the State department shows further that Massachusetts has ■ more spindles in place than North Carolina, nearly twice as many, but North Carolina leads Massachusetts in cotton spindles hours hy more than a billion spindle hours or about six per cent. During the last five years the ag gregate spindle hours per year, for Massa chusetts has decreased more than four I billion, while North Carolina increased her aggregate spindle hours by three and a half billion. The aggregate spindle J hours for North Carolina is now approxi mately twenty billion per year, against less than nineteen billion for Massachu setts. Gaston county leads the state in spin dles in place the eighty-eight mjllfs having '4,116,760 spindles. Os the seventy-three ' counties in the United States Wit’h more than one hundred thousand spindles twenty-one are in North Carolina. ! r The cotton mills of .the state reported 83,528 employees, with about two dozen NO TIME FOR FLOOD VICTIMS. President Coolidge, it is rather official i ly stated, will call Congress together in • October. Th,e President has not made ■ definite announcement to this effect but Senator Smoot, who talked with the Pres ident, is rather certain about the matter, ! and the President himself has not. denied that he now plans to call the solons to the capital two months sooner than usual*. And for what reason? To get rid of Congressional matters so the President and other party leaders will not have anything like Congress to inter fere with them when the national conven tions are held next June. You are wrong in the supposition that public demand for Congressional action for the flood sufferers has anything to do with the matter. The President has in formed newspaper meri that the flood situation has nothing to do with any plans he might have for calling Congress together two months earlier than the us ual date. No, the needs of humanity are not en tering into the question at all. It is purely political, the Chief Executives and his advisers probably working on ,the theory that if Congress can get started in October it will finish its work in time for the Presidential campaign. What care the politicians for the needs .of the Miss issippi flood sufferers? They want to get Congress over with so they can de vote all of their time to the coming cam paign. >, Just what is to rehabilitate the flood sufferers no one seems to know. More than 700,000 are homeless. From now until October they will have to be pa tients c os charity, without the definite knowledge that Congress will do any thing for them then. We do not contend that Congress would be in position now to make plans for the definite control of the Mississippi but we do contend that something could be done to make possible a livelihood for these people. That’s the big question to day. It may take months and possibly [years,for Congress to agree on a. solu i tion for the flood problem but it should [take but a few days at the most for ! something to be done for immediate re lief. But what cares the administration? It must devote all of its time and energies to political questions. McADOO'S SPEECHES. William G. McAdoo may not be a presidential candidate but there is no de nying the fact that he is out against Gov ernor Alfred Smith. The former cabinet member has spok en several times recently in Southern States and on each occasion he has had something to say about the prohibition law and its enforcement. This indicates that regardless of his future political am bitions he is going to do everything pos sible to keep the Empire State Governor from being the Democratic nominee next year. McAdoo’s position in this matter is sound. He has the law behind him and at the same time lie has the sympathy of the Southern vote at least. There are Spates in the East and West that favor , modification or repeal of the 18th amend . ment, but such sentiment is vastly in the j minority in the South. People below the Mason and Dixon Line, or at least the majority of them, want the present law retained. They fear modification as the first step toward repeal and for that reas on will oppose anybody favorable to mod ; ification. Mr. McAdoo has said nothing in his ; speeches about his future hopes and plans ' l but just the same he has made clear his ’ [position about the prohibition question, ’ which no doubt he thinks will be a big ’ factor in the next presidential campaign. He* is an out and out dry and warns the > world that he will oppose anybody who } has different views. v - , Prohibition should iiot be a question • in the next campaign. The law says we L shaff have prohibition and the people are 5 not going to change it. The question 1 shouldn’t come up, we repeat, but it will 1 and Mr. McAdoo knows it will. He is 1 getting himself definitely lined up on the 1 dry side now. r Concord police officers are .endeavoring - now to make effective a one-hour parking ■ r law in the business district. Co-opera-! 1 tion on the part of the public wouid make l the question an easy one but £uch co-op i eration is not to be expected without bol-1 - stering from the police department. Chief j t Talbirt should see that.one officer at' -■ least, spends all of his .time checking up on cars parked in the one-hour zone, and - that persons who violate ‘the layv getipp r lice -recognition. - 5 -That’j» tifae* onty ivky rto ; make the law effective.! i park any where ’so long as the police' al s low it. If this law is to be effective the police will have »to make it so. ’ j The gasoline tax hits the motorist, who in turn 1 hits tlTe pedestriaii.—Florence (Ala.) Herald. tHE TIMES ABOUT TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR . SERVICE. The flights of Charles A. Lindbergh and Clarence Chamberlin across* the At lantic have led to optimistic predictions that it will be only a matter of a short time now, before regular air service across the “big pond” will be a regular thing. ,' ,j ; ■ / In this connection it is interesting and worthwhile : to fiote that the h\iators themselves, best in position to know, are not nearly so hopeful. Colonel Lindbergh,) who first crossed the Atlantic from NCw York to Paris in a plane, and Orville Wright, America s first flyer, are id disagreement with those who, think the two recent flights have made trans-Atlantic flying an easy andi accomplished thfng. Mr. Wright said a few days ago that important advances must yet be made before regular commercial service can be maintained across the Atlantic, and Col. Lindbergh in discussing flying, said it would take possibly ten years of re search and preparation to place trans- Atlantic flying on a solid foundation for regular service. Col. Lindbergh, howev er, expects trans-Atlantic flying within ten years. The feats of Lindbergh and Chamberlin are not to be minimized, of course, but there is a vast difference b.etween such 'flights and regular air service over the Atlantic. Such service means more than just finding some one \yith the abil ity and daring to pilot such planes. The pilots and builders of the planes know this. They know and realize the dang ers pertaining to such a venture. They know the airplane has not yet been per fected to such a degree that regular ser vice over the Atlantic can be made with out intermediate landing places, and it will take at least five years, and maybe ten, before plans for such places can be perfected and the stations built. WATCH CONDITION OF ROADS., The County Highway Department been efficient in road building in Cabar rus County. Under its supervision many improved highways have been construct ed, other important roads have been im-j proved and conditions generally made better. However, the duties of the department do not cease with the building of the, roads. It is just as important if not more important, to keep the roads in repair as it is to build them. In fact, it is a useless expenditure of money to construct modern highways, and then leave them to the ravages of the elements. The State Highway depart ment spends more time on maintenance than on construction and the county de partment should adopt a similar policy.’ Many of the roads in the county need repair work. Practically all of the dirt : roads need scraping and there has been sufficient rainfall in recent weeks to make this possible. Some of the roadsVbuilt within the past three or four years have; been allowed to become rough through lack of attention. They are washing badly and show plainly neglect. Road forces in Cabarrus should be suf ficient in size to maintain the highways. If necessary the roads should be divided into districts'sucfi as is done by the State department, and the supervisor of each district should be held responsible for his road. That seems the easier plan but if. not acceptable to local conditions some, other effective plan should be adopted. ' >■ The old stage road from Concord to Charlotte is one that should be given at tention at once. Another is the Gold Hill road, while there are a number of con- : necting roads that are filled with holes, showing that they have not been worked in many weeks if not months. mills failing to report on this item. Os these employees 49,792 are men, 30,582 are women, and 3,144 are children be tween the ages of fourteen and sixteen. Nearly sixty per cent, of all cotton mill employees are adult men. The number of employees between the ages of four teen and sixteen is decreasing. Making due allowance for the mills that failed to report, it 4s estimated that the capital stock of the four hundred and six cotton mill companies of the state | amounts to approximately two hundred j and thirty-five million dollars. Sixty-one mills failed to the val ue of output. Making due allowance for these, including the mills that were idle, | it is estimated that the value of output of | the cotton mills of the state for 1926 was three hundred and fifty million dollars, which was considerably more than the total value of all .crops produced in the stiife-.Jast .{y ear*Tjjej above data (do .not inbliijdt thd knktitfg--(mills. ; • ■, ■; ——r- » I • : r KNITTING INDUSTRY IN STATE;. 1 The University News Letter informs! us that the knitting industry is second jin importance among the textile group of the State. “Our textile development,” says the News Letter, “is confined large . ly "to the manufacture of spun yarns with weaving and knitting coming more and • more into prominence. ' <\Ve have-on ly > recently begun to turn our yarn's into fin ished goods. In gradually passing from a producer of course, and fine yarns to a manufacturer of finished goods we are only repeating the history of the textile industry of other regions.” There are one hundred and twenty-nine active knitting mills in North Carolina. Forty-five of these have been established during tfie last seven years, and eighty c'ght, or more than two-thirds of them, since 1910. The principal products cf our knitting mills are cotton hose, sheets, and draw ers, union suits and half hose. The capital stock of our knitting mills is approximately thirty-seven million dol lars. This includes a conservative al lowance for several mills that failed to report on this item. The annual value of output, including estimates for mills failing to report on this item, is approximately fifty million dollars. The value of output for 1925- 26 was considerably larger than for 1924- 25. Knitting mill employees number ap proximately fifteen thousand, including estimates for several mills not reporting on this item. Nearly two-thirds of the employees are women, nearly one-third men, and two and a half per cent, are children between fourteen and 'sixteen years of age. Ten hours constitutes a day’s work and sixty hours a week’s work. BUILDING IN THE STATE. The North Carolina Real Estate and Building Record, published ,in High Point, directs attention to the fact that the construction boom last year is well sustained in North Carolina. As a mat ter of fact, the April figures mark an in crease in investment over that placed in [ housing in the same month last year. The publication says: “When business gets a little bit dull, most people are prone to yell, cuss and discuss ‘the slump’ in business. Dull business is more or less a state of mind of the individual. It is the result of a | slackening of sales effort in many in stances. The slump hits ’em, and they awake to the slackening of orders and more steam is put to the sales force. “However, the month of April, 1927, shows a decided building increase over the month of April, 1926. To' be exact, $580,653 in ten leading North Carolina cities. The following table gives the ex act figures: * April 1927 April 1926 Asheville $3,355,593 $1,200,109 Charlotte 034,850 316,200 Durham __ 289,633 281,'453 Gastonia 41,835 154.525 Greensboro 436,212 293,931 High Point 277,120 320,525 Raleigh 1,095,575 188,601 Salisbury ", 116,500 54,740 Wilmington 101,700 52,500 Wins-Salem 556,584 362,365 State Totals -- $3,805,602 $3,224,949 “Business is Good in North Carolina! Put some more steam behind efforts and get your share of it.” APPROPRIATIONS—TAXES. , ’ Statesville Daily. A decade ago legislative appropriations aggrega ting more than seventy million dollars—at one session—would have been impossfbe in North Carolina. But we move fast when we begin to figure in millions. Total appropriations by the legislature just adjourned aggregate $72,247,790. Considerably more than half of the amount —about fortyone and a linlf millions —is for permanent improvements. Thirty millions of the amount is for roads. This will be, paid out of the road fund the tuxes from gas and mbtor cars. Appropria tions for the maintenance of the State's educa tional, charitable and penal institutions and all other departments and institutions supported from the general fund, aggregate a little more than thirty and a half niilrlons for the ensuing two year—at the rate of q little more than fifteen millions a year. Naturally the State’s expenses increase from year to year because the State’s business enlarges as time passes. There is greater demand year by jear on all the State’s institutions—even on the penitentiary; and of course more monev is re quired to run them. To meet the increased expenditure there was \ ery little increase in taxes. Os couse there is no State property tax and the average nran is not affected by the increase. It’s the county tax rate that affects the average man and what that will be depends on the county’s circumstances. The increase in the equalization school fund to $3,230,- 000 will reduce the tax rate iu some counties. The law provides that a county must levy as much as 40 cents on the SIOO valuation before it can share in the equalization fund. Some counties have been compelled to levey much more thau that and they can cut down. But to prevent any fudging that 40 cents for schools must be levied on a valuation fixed by a State board of 11 men—one from each nmgressional district and the lieutenant governor. o rem°\e from the local valuers the temptation to hold down the tax valuations fixed iu the coun ties asking for a share in the fund, and determine whether they are coming up to the average. Not ? county authorities would have no scruples wß*B*£*® their £i|ll share of the tax-by under mhqttion while they took<inottey off Wther Counties. Tim arrangement provided to‘bead tlultfcbff jshouUl ' able to fix a fair standard of Ijydlue fin - the couuties—something it is most difficult to fix on i account of politics and (local influence I f-i lYhat has become 6t that Lng list of amateur weather forecasters who wore"? so certain last sprttfg , a winter?—Cincinnati Enquirer. ‘Hi v 1 AA-tH J • Wr itten by r»r to sinners j A'nM thesfl ban,!* tlv of lif " - i..u s . h “ k ™ "'<■ lixa.K <lear friends, but lias <] away r ui “ ,s ’ s " "n.oh‘3-:® ■ ” So j n »l and ,h Pv hav, ‘ ri’beid so many sweet th( f Ki* that h a ;Sfl an<l P'-aised the 111 ; ilp,i(,p - Tl * last beat was mi „i e Savi ">- took Ilis m undertaker and , m d tlm immortal . . speed of elec tr j citv jj lul we h( 'art ThereU 1 ® ha 'PW; 1 was to eyes that had never rind, with His So,, A'V ■ and twenty elders. knew them all." Such confident f aith iri J face of the great advJj^B • !> a '-e fought a good J,**® . is remindful! also , ls U for his own tomb: * ‘Tmler the bread , J Dig my grave and l et j, <Da<! did I live .nd if A;«l I lay m, .w,™* Tins bother™, ‘Here he lies where k7*M Home is the sailor. And the hunter. STRAIGHT TAuTSj Winston-Salem Journal I Judge W. F. Harding m his charge to the grind*,* said one thing that needstsfcH house in North < j every other public forma, frtil j ‘‘The enforcement of the | Harding told the jury, "is J* man with the half-pint-d** week and sjiemls a dollar drink of liquor. Your crimiiiJH with the names of'such “The man who says he is j® and has a case of whiskeyde|l in the wee small hours of feß poor prohibitionist and tiieoM fail to strive to Vet the# aB strive to get the man with* worthy of the name of oW doesn't enforce the law agsiati | not worthy of the name of n “The jury is the court. (* presides and passes iipoutM! the jury to decide the facts ind ‘ up to you. members m tie 5 whether the facts shall justifyi “I am not passing on whether a drink of whiskey or to luuml But if it is against the law it ii your duty, gentlemen, m rept violations of the law. wbetkr it is sinful or not." When J udge Harding says 1 law it is wrong." he strikesr cause of the alarming prevail disrespect for law. Too mat they can govern their cowba lieve the law ought to he nit law actually is. Nothing is more respon'Mti precedented disrespect for laxM the evil which Judge Hardin|«k j says: “Some few people wall the violation of the prohibit* far as the middle class, butraf the wealthy man and the M The law was written fordl should see to it that it is ecf-ffl tice against all. I ntil they d* shall continue to have a big population who openly ami In* LEVINE AM) THE I Durham Herald. This fellow Charles A. I** . Chamberlin s passenger os * York to Berlin, has the ‘"IbP know whether to applaud "t hard to place. Anyone* * nerve or courage or this that made him decide t* with Chamberlin. Dit. sqp>e of his conduct that commercial motive. Hi' government postmaster " flight to Berlin is also ma to do a bit of hard tfimkmS• were addressed to liirn'e. ■ being the first t<> go a iri , airplane, those canee e< • ■ collectors, some estiin*™'. ( around a SI,OOO each. to the glory of Chamber uc Chamberlin, and *7 „ except as company. daring aviator cant a.- a sticks around pretty public exercises. The whole world honors to Chamberlin. “ j, decided just what ' t|f i enee rather comi’“ tJ t as according to h° D '’ r ‘. . sticking around the » ‘ off considerable 01 7^ 1 he was with Chamber* ; ( he? How are you g-' * much credit tor tm jjflti* seems to be addbug;' that would be ah' Chamberlin api’ ear -^^-< telling]^ Calhoun Tones. a J A preacher came . •» Y r .n editors do •• 4 way : You eon. u ,, r , did you could net j • a failure." ,’ Jlie will‘d ; and the minister »» all circumstances : ! hers, alivC or de < more than ,>I1 ] e .’”!* t o*B ! necessary to Je. , i# ** 1 and the pulpit g" bru.*« .....I I*7 flrrf : virtues int" big •’ a 4 the grave st,,l ! P ' ‘ lt wi ll^ virute’’ An the very .tlit»ugh ,u , f u asu tr f work,'and told «■ tii bride while m ,p L - - fence.
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