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. 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 ——wm 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 -* ■ ■ 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. ■t . \ - • THE AIRPLANE INDUSTRY. f , .• j . C \ ~-• W *, i , $ 1n t F"• t t** * 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. * V 1 ’’ ' - 111 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. * * • i Brandon Smith, ot Charlotte, is the guest of friends here for several days. > » * ■ ; 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. ,• / * • ’ Mrs. R. M.. King and children left Wednesday for .Virginia Beach, where they will spend several days. • • • , Miss Miriam Morris, who is nurs . ing at the Germantown Hospital, in Philadelphia, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. A. Morris. \ * *. •' 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 . * * ■* Miss Pearle Abernethy has as her guest Misses AddiertMat McMarlaud and Edna Smith, of Charlotte. * r r- y Mrs. B. L. Roberts. Master Joe Lynn Roberts and Miss Annie Brown are spending the evening in * v • Mr. and Mrs. J. Clyde Gaither, of Charlottesville, Va., are spending sev eral days here with Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Mauldin. * . * * Mrs. C. A. Gussy, of Cleveland, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Dayvault. * \* a ? » 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. ¥ # * Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kennett return ed Tuesday from a week’s visit to Myrtle Beach, S. C. m .- W m Miss Ruth Crowell, who has been visiting friends in Statesville, has re turned to her home here. * * * Charlotte Observer : Mrs. Charles E. Lambeth and sons, Harvey and Jimmie, have gone to Wrightsville Beach to spend a week or two. * • • Mrs. J. C. Rowan returned Tues day to her home from the Charlotte Sanatorium, where she has been a pa tient for several weeks. • * • 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. * * * Mrs. John K. Patterson returned to her home Tuesday from Rooky Mount, she she spent several weeks w'ith her daughter, Mrs. George Edwards. • * m 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. •m ■ m 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. \ m m » 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. • * % 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. m + m Stanly News-Herald: Mr. and Mrs. 11. L. Miller and family, of Concord, spent the week-end in the city with relatives. • * * 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. * * * Mrs. U. P. Dunmon left Saturday for Alabama where she will visit rela tives for several months. * * • Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Byrd leave . this week to spend several days at Wrightsville Beach. * * * , Miss Coleen Wingate is confined to her home with an attack of mumps. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur P. Clark have [ returned to their home on North Spring street after visiting in Char ' lotte for several days. • • Mrs. A. W. Smith and daughter have returned to their home here after spending several days with relatives at Granite Quarry. !* ■ » 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. » » •- x 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! WILL vj ■ GOODYEAR Til ■ AT GIVE A 111 v * IB • PRICES I E- 1' 30x3 Pathfinder /h* A I ml 1 Pathfinder fin I t % ,at m) I Oversize A. W. Cord An f : . - at $9,951 V 29x4.40 Balloon $0 fiP I » - at 3)0,331 29x4.40 A. W. Balloon SlO 95 I 1 BUY NOW AS THESE PRICES WILL NOT LAST 1 LONG I Yorke&Wadswortil I • Union and Church Streets j The Old Reliable Hardware Store I fl i t 1 * • r ' i stinctively - Ck ■athing Si to reverse ones opinion entirely-' 1 * - '! n i ■■ < Little Switzerland where she will be a counselor at Camp “As You Like It.” • * * J. G. Parks, G. Ed. Ivestler and John Murr are spending several days at Lake Wacommaw, fishing. v • » • Archibald Cannon and Joe Barrier who attended the Whit e-Parham wed ding in Kinston, have returned to s Concord. » » - 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. • * • 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. * * • , _ Dick Kichurds, of Liberty Hill, S. ! Cm Popular professor at the Concord I High School last year is visiting in Concord ~for » few days. *• - ? Misses Elizabeth and Ruth vault are leaving Friday for' CJete land, where they< will be the guests of Mrs. J. R. Steele. * w - 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. • • • Tom Boyd, of Greenville. S. C., i a visitor in Concord today. 9 9 9 M : sses -Louise, and Bessie ebb have returned from a visit in the eastern part of the state. 9 9 * Robert S. Wheeler, of Chickamau ga., Ga., stopped in Concord, a short time Monday afternoon cn route from New York to his home. • • 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. 9 9 9 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. • • » 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. ** * *• * 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. r Kj vre HAVE IS pt USEII FUR SAlffl* One j One Buiek t* One One One Ford One Ford T Stand 31 •J| pH^