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-THE CONCORD TIMES
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
Entered as second class mail matter at the post
office at Concord, N. a, under the Act of March
s, is 79. /
J B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher
* W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor
Special Representative:
FROST, LANDIS ft KOHN
New -. York. Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City,
San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle
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WHAT’S IN THE PAPERS?
.In York, S. G., a negro attacked and
killed an aged woman; members of a
sheriff’s posse captured him arrcFhe is be
ing held in the State penitentiary until
the trial. N
The widow of Sheriff Wills if jailed jn
Greenville, S. C., in connection with the
murder of her husband.
Persistent mobs continue to, trail in
Caldwell and Burke counties the negro
who clubbed to death little 15-year-old
Gladys Kincaid in Morganton last Tues
day afternoon.
Mrs. Anna K. Montague is on trial in
Asheville for the murder of Mrs. Mary
R. Cooper.
' A Durham doctor and a Raleigh worm
an have gone on trial upon the charge of
performing an illegal operation.
In. West Virginia a man is in jail
charged with slaying his invalid ‘.wife
with a club.
A* New Orleans midwife, is held under
a $2,500 bond pending her trial upon the
charge of selling a three weeks old baby;
In £plumbus, Ga., a barber shop pro
prietor was.shot and killed yesterday dur
ing a brawl with a cotton mill mechanic.
".Columbus Marcus, of Clayton, John
ston county, is being held in jail for mur
der, the charge b<ing that in a drunken
craze he his wife.
Two companies of the South Carolina
National Guard were ordered out to pro
tect the lives 'of fhe'negtoes who are
charged with killing a rural policeman.
S A moonshiner dies in Roanoke from
-wounds received in a pistol duel with Of
ficers. _ . - » *
A white woman in York, S. C., is at
tacked by a negro who is riot yet caught.
‘‘This is part of one day’s news gath
ered from the North Carolina papers,”
explains The Hickory Record, “as it per
tains to the happenings in the South. Os
course if we delved the least hit into the
northern and eastern . papers tile list
could have.been appreciably
“And then somewhere we read where
President and i Mrs. Coolidge went to
hear the hoy preacher again and there is
real refreshment in news of so innocent
a nature. And we remember seeing that
Lindbergh refused to be interviewed and
that he turned his back upon a flapper
who tried to hand. And such
trite news* as the little hoys who attempt
ed to drop dynamite into the smoke stack
of a speeding train is downright amusing
in its simplicity.
“No wonder we marvel at our civiliz
ed nation.” •
- WOULD STOP MOBS.
Governor Richards says he is not go
ing to allow mob action and lynchings in
South Carolina. The statement is a rath
er optimistic one and many may think
the Governor is covering too much terri
tory. but it must he admitted that he is
starting in the right direction. ,
The Governor points out that he “in
herited” one lynching from the McLeod
administration and he is determined to
prevent others while he is Chief Execu
te. He seems to have adopted the
North Carolina plan of action and if he
sticks to~ it no doubt his boast will he
. carried out
The Palmetto Executive is calling out
troops just as soon as some serious situa
tion arises. He is taking no chances, in
other words. He thinks the ounce of pre
vention will eliminate the need of a pound
of cure and we believe he is right.
\There was action by a mob in North
Carolina soon after Governor Morrison
assumed his duties in Raleigh and that
has been the last one in the State. Some
times, to be sure,, he called out troops
when his advisers thought they were not
necessary, but he played safe. He took
no chances, and as a result county officers
became more alert, more determined and
more effective. Many of them, no doubt,
accepted the presence of troops as an in
dication that the Governor did not think
they could handle the situation, and these
may not have liked it, hut just the same
there were no lynchings and that is what
the Governor was after.
Governor McLean has followed the
same tactics. He has not w aited until the
horse was stole.n before sending troops to
lock ,th'e. stable; door. He lias called out
tfotopsUon f several when it ap
peared that serious trouble might arise,
and no doubt this action has saved the
State from other black marks on the
pages of its history.
ik Governor Richards can stop lynchings
South Carolina a!! fight if he will just
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do it. The troops are at his command and
they have a powerful influence for good.
■ The cold steel df a bayonet has a mighty
i influence on mobs. In fact steel, both
* hot and cold, is about the only thing that
will bring reasoning to a mob.
When the people learn through experi
ence that they will be given lt’o. j
ity to take the law into their own hands
they lose the desire to do so. It would
5 be difficult, we believe, to organize a mob;
in North Carolina. That is a mob which
would really take a life. Determined ac
‘ tion- by two Governors has brought about
this state of affairs.
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THE AIRPLANE INDUSTRY.
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Quoting figures from the Aircraft Year
, Book for 1927 and other sources the Iron
Trade Review says there were about 2,-
182 planes, in the service Jn the United
( States at the close of 1926, of which 969
were commercial planes, 201 air mail
planes and the balance army, navy or
coast guard craft. The army and navy
services include sixty stations and air
fields, laboratories and other services. The
air mail service employs seventeen regu
lar and eighty-nine emergency fields, sev
enteen radio stations, seven shops, twen
ty-one hangars.
There are 4,000 landing fields in the
United States ranging from 'crude fields
to extensive airports, such as that at
Cleveland, valued at $1,250,001).
The trade director shows 471 plants or
units manufacturing parts and accessor
ies, and a total of 420 air service opera
tors, 16 air mail operators, 34 aerial adver
tisers, 21 exhibition flyers and a total of
! nearly 200 other employees in various
other branches.
This does not include orders for thou
sands of tons of structural steel for han
gars, steel towers, boundary, radio and
telegraph service, gas and electric lights,
or the 600 beacons on the transcontinent
al airw r ay.
The airplane industry, is growing so
rapidly that one can hardly realize its tre
mendous development.
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Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is to make a
trip around the country in the interest of
aviation, say New York reports. This
should appeal to the noted airman be
cause it is in line with his announced in
tention of taking up no work that did not
have the development of aviation as its
purpose. Certainly the man who flew
first across the Atlantic from New York
to Paris should be the man to talk avia
tion throughout the nation. He plans to
visit cities in all sections of the country
and no doubt he will be heard by record
crowds at each stop. Col. Lindbergh
knows aviation, its possibilities and its
limitations, and he will be performing
a splendid public service with his series
of lectures and demonstrations.
MILLIONAIRES INCREASING.
k There were more millionaires, judging
by income tax payments, in the United
States in 1925 than ever before in the his
tory of the nation. In that year 207 per
sons paid taxes on incomes of $1,000,000
or more against a total of 206 in 1916, the
next highest year.
No doubt many of the 1916 millionaires
owed their wealth to the World War
whereas in 1925 world conditions were
such that money could not be made so
easily. In 1924, for instance, there were
|; only 74 of these million dollar incomes,
the increase in the year being phenome
’ nal.
Statistics show that in Cabarrus coun
' ty 540 persons in 1925 paid income taxes,
' with a majority of them in the class be
' | tween sl,ooo and $2,000.
Seven persons in 1925, including two
in Michigan and New York, respectively,
and one each in Illinois, Oklahoma and
j
Pennsylvania, filed returns showing in
comes of $5,000,000 or over. These, of
course, were the largest of the year.
Few of the millionaires resided in the
South. Florida had three and Maryland
t two, but there were no others in the
1 strictly Southern States. New York had
96 of these milloinaires, Pennsylvania had
* 28, Illinois and Massachusetts had 10
each, Michigan had 13, Ohio 18, Califor
c nio 6, Missouri 4; Connecticutt, Indiana
and Oklahoma 2 each, lowa, Nebraska
and Wisconsin one each.
The average net income of those filing
’ returns was $5,240, with an average tax
of 3.35 per cent. The total net income
for 4,17 i,051 taxpayers for 1925 was $21,-
z 894,576.403.
RADIOS ON THE FARM,
e ~
e Fhe Radio Service of the Department
d of Agriculture advises that there are now|
t 1,252,126,' farms in the United l Stated
- e quipped wllju r a <fJo rep ei.yin g ; set s. ■ »
This estimate wasp oiin returns
* made by county agents
5 1 throughout the country and showed a
126 per cent, increase over the 553,000
s sets estimated to be on farms July, 1925.
t lowa led the states with 9§,990 farm,
radio sets, or an increase of 160 per cent
since 1925. Indiana was second with
81,144, but this figure represented an in
crease of 377 per cent, as compared with
: the 1925 figure.
Other leading states included Missouri
with 77,510 sets; Nebraska with 69,784;
; Illinois with 65,832; Ohio with 63,448;
| Kansas with 62,055.
! The largest < percentage of increase,
j however, was £hdwn in Utah, where the
numbeV of sets was estimated at 6,061 as
compared with 899 estimated iff 1925. ’
How farm .radio sets are being*
the program preferences of tne farmers;
and their own ideas for improving pres
ent service were also set forth in an
analysis of replies to a questionnaire sent
to 10,000 farm radio owners, and included
in the report.
These replies show that American
farmers prefer radio talk to music nearly
two to one. Voluntary comments accom
panying the formaf answers indicate a
strong dislike for jazz. In music they
want old-time tunes and classical ihusic.
NEW AUTO LAWS.
The public, so far as we have been able
to discern, is more interested in that
phase of the new auto law which gives
them more freedom than in those phases
which would control their actions.
That is, the average driver is more in
terested in learning what he can do than
in ascertaining what he cannot do. How
ever. with the law this is not the method
to foHow. It is just as important to know
what not to do as it is to know what to
do.
For example, we wager that 90 per
cent, of the auto drivers know they can
drive 45 miles, an hour after July first,
and the same 90 per cent, don’t know they
can’t keep stickers and other reading
matter upon their windshields; that it is
unlawful to honk the horn just for the
fun of honking; and that hereafter reck
less driving carries a heavier penalty
than heretofore.
The law against the stickers is a good
one'. *The diving girls, the slogans of va
rious kinds and other materials are not
needed on the auto. There should be
nothing to attract the attention of the
driver. The average man has all he can
do anyway to keep his car clear on the
highways. Too many persons are like
the man who crashed his car into another
and gave as his reason the fact that hp
had so many safety-first signs off* thb
windshield he couldn’t see.
We should pay attention also, to the
clause which forbids the useless honking
of autoahorns. Just let some people get
in a traffic jam and they add to every
body’s discomfort by blowing their horns
as hard as they can. Os bourse this
practice never moved traffic any faster
and oft-times it causes further delays. It
is a dangerous practice and one that
should he stopped.
The new laws are all right but we have
an idea that the one giving the driver
permission to drive 45 miles an hour will
get more attention than any of the oth
ers. We need them all, to be sure, but
the others carry less of an v appeal than
this one, and somehow we fear they
not get the attention they deserve.
i DAWSON RESIGNS.
John G. Dawson has resigned the,
chairmanship of the State Democratic
Executive Committee and his successor
will be namfed in the near futflre. Attor
ney General Brummitt is recommended
by such men as O. Max Gardner and
Senator Simmons, and certainly if there
is enough of such support he will have no
difficulty in landing the important job.
Mr. Dawson resigns to give his atten
tion to business matters which“sorely”
need his attention. He loves the work,
he says, hut feels that he can no longer
give it the time and attention it de
i mandiv
He has served well as head of the party
in the State. He has maintained a fine
Organization, has kept in touch with vital
matters at all times and has seen his par
to continue in strength from year to year.
Mr. Dawson no doubt has made many
personal sacrifices in order to stay in of
fice as long as he has, and is
chosen as his successor will nave to do
the same thing.
The Democratic party has served
[North Carolina faithfully. The State
; has enjoyed progressive administrations
without scandal or abuse. There has
been no waste of money except as is nat
ural in any business the size of a State.
Fhe men chosen as a whole have given
generously of their time and talent to
i- their work; they have striven almpst
without exception :4oJ lidnbitly hud faith
fully icarry out thefr IdMes.' 1 " .U /
For these reasons the work of the chair
man is not as difficult as it might be It
takes time, of course, but the task is
' nothing like it would be if the State were
not so successfully and progressively
, managed by the Democrats.
THE COMfiMBS
- PERSONALS.
1 Miss Gertrude Gibson has gone to
- Washington, D. C., where she will vis
it for some time. Before returning
home she will visit in Norfolk, Va.
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i Brandon Smith, ot Charlotte, is the
guest of friends here for several days.
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; Mrs. T. H. Webb, Miss Mary King,
and Miss Nora King left yesterday
afternoon for a motor trip through the
, mountains of Western North Cftro
. lina.
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’ Mrs. R. M.. King and children left
Wednesday for .Virginia Beach, where
they will spend several days.
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, Miss Miriam Morris, who is nurs
. ing at the Germantown Hospital, in
Philadelphia, is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Z. A. Morris. \
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Miss Pearl A borne thy, of Harris
burg, has returned home after spend
ing a few days with Mrs. S. J. Host,
of this city. 1 .
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Miss Pearle Abernethy has as her
guest Misses AddiertMat McMarlaud
and Edna Smith, of Charlotte.
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Mrs. B. L. Roberts. Master Joe
Lynn Roberts and Miss Annie Brown
are spending the evening in
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Mr. and Mrs. J. Clyde Gaither, of
Charlottesville, Va., are spending sev
eral days here with Mr. and Mrs. L.
L. Mauldin.
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Mrs. C. A. Gussy, of Cleveland, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. F.
Dayvault.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Caldwell, their
daughter, Miss Martha Caldwell and
their .grandson, Victor Summers Cald
well, left yesterday morning to visit
the family of Dr. Caldwell at Laurin
burg.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kennett return
ed Tuesday from a week’s visit to
Myrtle Beach, S. C.
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Miss Ruth Crowell, who has been
visiting friends in Statesville, has re
turned to her home here.
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Charlotte Observer : Mrs. Charles
E. Lambeth and sons, Harvey and
Jimmie, have gone to Wrightsville
Beach to spend a week or two.
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Mrs. J. C. Rowan returned Tues
day to her home from the Charlotte
Sanatorium, where she has been a pa
tient for several weeks.
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George S. Graeber is confined to his
home on South Union street ou ac
count of illness.
Frances Ann Cannon has returned
to her home in Charlotte, after visit
ing her cousin, Mary Frances Baru
hardt, for several days.
' Miss Rebecca Day Vault left yester
day for Brevard, where she will be a
counsellor at £amp Illahee during the
summer months.
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Mrs. John K. Patterson returned to
her home Tuesday from Rooky Mount,
she she spent several weeks w'ith her
daughter, Mrs. George Edwards.
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Mrs. E. H. Brown, who has been
in Philadelphia, Pa., for several
weeks, is visiting in Norfolk, Va., be
fore returning to her home in Dillon,
8. C.
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Friends of Dr. Earle Henderson
Brown, who is a patient at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Hospital, at
Philadelphia, Pa., will b£ delighted to
learn that he is able to- be up and
walking around the hospital. How
ever, it will be several weeks before
he can leave the hospital for his home.
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Miss Minnie Smith, and nephew,
Harry Oliver, of Roland, will arrive
today to visit Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Brower for some time. Miss Smith is
a sister of Mrs. Brower.
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Mrs. W. Archie Brown returned
home Wednesday from the Charlotte
Sanatorium, where she had been a pa
tient for ten days.
Mrs. W. H. Gibson, Mrs. T. H.
Webb, Miss Mary King, and Miss
Nora King left Wednesday for a mo
tor trip through the mountains of
North Carolina.
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Stanly News-Herald: Mr. and Mrs.
11. L. Miller and family, of Concord,
spent the week-end in the city with
relatives.
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Stanly News-Herald: Miss Sarah
Miller, of Concord, is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. C. I. Miller.
Mrs. Lou Watkins and daughter,
Maxine, are the guests of Mrs. Arthur
Fink on Crowell street.
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Mrs. U. P. Dunmon left Saturday
for Alabama where she will visit rela
tives for several months.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Byrd leave
. this week to spend several days at
Wrightsville Beach.
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, Miss Coleen Wingate is confined
to her home with an attack of mumps.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur P. Clark have
[ returned to their home on North
Spring street after visiting in Char
' lotte for several days.
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Mrs. A. W. Smith and daughter
have returned to their home here after
spending several days with relatives
at Granite Quarry.
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Mrs. John F. Yorke, of Charlotte,
1 was a visitor in Concord on WeUnes
. day.
C Miss ILou today for
New York, where'fehe wilU joist Mrs.
Gales Pickard’s party for a European
tour of several weeks.
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Miss Hazel Wehb Russell, of New
i Y'ork City, is the guest of Mt\ and
Mrs. A. <S. Webb, at thciq home ou
Bell Avenue. Miss Russell wjli
leave Concord Friday morning for
look here!
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Little Switzerland where she will be
a counselor at Camp “As You Like
It.”
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J. G. Parks, G. Ed. Ivestler and
John Murr are spending several days
at Lake Wacommaw, fishing.
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Archibald Cannon and Joe Barrier
who attended the Whit e-Parham wed
ding in Kinston, have returned to
s Concord.
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Mr,, and Mrs. T. J. White and
daughters, Eloise and Rose Ellen, and
l Carey White have returned from Kin
ston, where they attended the mar
riage of Thomas White to Miss An
> nie Jordan Parham, which was sol
i emnized on Tuetlday.
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Miss Rosa Caldwell is expected to
-return today from Leaksville, where
• she was an attendant in the wedding
• party of Miss Lucile Reid and Harry'
i Eagge, which took place on Wednes
day.
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, _ Dick Kichurds, of Liberty Hill, S. !
Cm Popular professor at the Concord I
High School last year is visiting in
Concord ~for » few days.
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Misses Elizabeth and Ruth
vault are leaving Friday for' CJete
land, where they< will be the guests
of Mrs. J. R. Steele.
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I, _Mr«. P. R. Rankin and daughter,
of Mt. Gilead, passed through Con
wrd today eu route to Brevard. Miss
, Rebecca Dhyvault, who wffi be at’
Camp Illahee, joined them here for
the trip.
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Tom Boyd, of Greenville. S. C., i
a visitor in Concord today.
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M : sses -Louise, and Bessie ebb
have returned from a visit in the
eastern part of the state.
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Robert S. Wheeler, of Chickamau
ga., Ga., stopped in Concord, a short
time Monday afternoon cn route from
New York to his home.
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Mrs. W. J. Hill aud daughter Hud
low, returned Monday afternoon from
the Charlotte Sanatorium, where the
latter recently underwent an opera
► tion on both feet.
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Franklin Cannon left Tuesday for
Blowing Rock, where he will be the
' guest of his aunt, Mrs. W. W. String
fellow at her summer home.
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M iss Mary Donnell Smoot M ’'
; turned from Franklin and Blue Ridg*'.
I where she spent the week with friend.-.
; She will go Sunday to Bladenboro.
, where she will be an attendant in the
j weddingr'of-Miss Laura-Mae M arson
j and 1 Herbert -Ray Dobson. - which w’ll
Jake place on Wednesday, :July Oth.
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Friends of G W. Petrea. North
Church street, will regret to learn
that he is -seriously ill at his home. A j
report from bis bedside this morning
stated that a little improvement ' va '
j shown in his condition.
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