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PAGE TWO 150 CASES OF MEASLES j; • REPORTED LAST WEEK Whooping Cough Was Second M>ith 113 Cases and Diphteria Ihird With 101. , . Raleigh, Sept. 20—Measles led in the number of contagious diseases re ported to the bureau of epidemology during the week ended Saturday, with 150 cases reported, says the weemy •eport of the state board of heaitn, re eased today. Whooping cough was second witn 113; diphtheria, 101; scarlet fever, 73; typhoid fever, 50, and smallpox. 1. Totals for the same week of 1926 showed but 13 cases of measles; 191 whooping cough; 101 of .diph theria; 26 of scarlet fever; 89 of ty phoid and five of smallpox. | I When You Say “I DO” You can’t add more weight to your words than when you place .on the left hand of the bride, a Ring from this shop. Starnes-Miller- Parker Co. . i Jewelers and Optome trists CONCORD COTTON MARKET Cotton -20 Cotton Seed -52 Mi CHARLES H. WADSWORTH DENTIST Rooms 401-402 Cabarrus Bank Bldg. 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K , * * i| ~ -*■- —— 0A Step Ahead in New Fall Footwear The new sytles are out on display to delight you with their beauty, quality and low prices. <ro ne to aa G. A. Moser Shoe Store DIRECTORS NAME NIXON PHYSICAL DIRECTOR AT “Y” Raleigh Y. M. C. A. Man Is CHosen to Direct Athletics Concord “Y” —Reports Cfctober Ist. ‘ C. C. Nixon, of Raleigh, was elected physical director of the Concord Y. M. C. A. Wednesday night at a meeting to the board of directors. Mr. Nixon 'reports for duty October Ist. For the past four years Mr. Nixon has been physical director at the Ral eigh Y. M. C. A., and for a number of years he has directed physical edu cation at the summer sessions of the University of North 4 Carolina. He knows volley ball, basketball, wrest ling, boxing and other exercises in the class of gymnastics. “Mr. Nixon comes witn every prom ise of doing high class work,” said Secretary H. W. Blanks this morning. “Immediately after the Cabarrus Fair Mr. Nixon will institute classes in physical education in the city schools. “The Y. M. C. A. contemplates a busy winter season. We hope so much to have a varied program that will afford exercise and entertainment alike to the people of Concord,” continued Mr. Blanks. “With Mr. Nixon in charge of the athletics we should have some thing that old and young will look forward to with keen anticipation. We hope to have splendid basketball and volley ball teams, gym teams, and the like.” The Y. M. C. A. hopes to sponsor a successful basketball league among the churches in the city as one of its principal eventsof the winter program. Still another proposed feature is to create athletic competition among the local business men with different kinds of teams. Makes Great Spurt. Taking the lead near the last *ar across the mountainous stretches of Montana, Charles spurted away from two close rivals in the Class B race, for smaller planes, and he was follow ed a few minutes later by Holman, in the Class A race, for larger planes. Holman made a difficult landing on the bare rim of one wheel, after loaing one of his tires. The two fliers immediately unofficially announced as winnerse* of the events. Holman as winner of the major event, would receive a prize of SIO,OOO and Charles $5,000. An eight-inch crab with labeled shell was recently captured on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. It had been liberated eighteen months before at Aberdeen, three hundred miles away. CRISP WEATHER OF WEEK MAKES FOLKS TALK ABOUT FAIR ; Fair Spirit Spreading as the Time For Opening of Big District Event Draws Nearer and Nearer. The fair spirit is getting into peo ple's bones. The brisk and sparkling weather of the past several days has reminded folks that Fall is here, and in the Fall the thoughts of people hereabouts turn to the big Cabarrus Fair. With the opening of the Cabarrus District Fair just three weeks off the public is getting all pepped up over the prospects of the biggest fair event in the history of the State. They have been told from year to year that each succeeding fair will be “bigger and better than ever” and not having been disappointed even once they have come to the point where they put full confidence in such predictions. They are ready to believe now that the 1927 fair will eclipse all others in lo cal history, and with this confidence comes determination not to miss a single one of the many good things booked for the week. So far as officiate are concerned the fair could begin tomorrow. The grounds are in shape, the stables, ex hibit halls and other buildings have been inspected and repaired where needed, the race track has been work ed and put in fine shape, and hun dreds of other details attended to. Roads leading to the fair grounds will be worked between now and the first of the month, the parking spaces within the grounds have been put in ffoape already and only the last, minute details, which cannot be looked after until a day or so before the event begins, remain to be settled. Reports reaching Concord bring tid ings of record breaking attendance this year. As a whole the farmers will be in better financial condition than thev were last year, employes in the textile mil’s in the district have been steadily at work throughout the summer, and business conditions gen erally have been so good that there is every reason to believe everybody will be financially 4 able to “take in” the fair. Dr. T. N. Spencer, secretary of the fair, has been assured that the races this year will be on par with the ex cellent ones of the past. Last year more than 125 horses were quartered at the grounds and while the number this year may not be as great, be is confident that the century mark will be reached again. An added attraction this year, and one calculated to attract hundreds, will be the automobile races on the last day of the fair. The races will I be sponsored by the A. A. A. and i gome of the best dirt track drivers in | the country will compete for the I prizes. • It’s going to be a whale of a fair! [ Better arrange now to be there. ! DR. GEORGE LEVEL I TO PREACH SUNDAY NIGHT IN CONCORD | Famous Baptist Medical Mis sionary to China to Fill | Pulpit at First Baptist | Church. | Dr. George W. Level, one of the i outstanding Baptist medical mission j aries in the field today, will fill th' 4 i pulpit of the Concord First Baptist > church next Sunday night, according [ to Rev. C. Herman Trueblood. Dr. i Level is touring churches in the south I while home on a furlough from | Shanghai, China, where he has been i for the past ten years. Mr. Trueblood said of Dr. Level's | visit to Concord: “We feel indeed i fortunate to have Dr. Level visit our [ church. He is a brilliant man. par | tieularly outstanding as a speaker, n i physician and as a Christian leader. 1 Dr. Level comes of a family _of , preachers. One of his brothers. Rev. I L. B. Level is connected with th 4 1 Sunday School board at Nashville; , another brother. Rev. J. B. Level is i nastor of the First Baptist church in 1 Ho’uston. Texas. He has one brotner. ' Rev. L. W. China who is serving in 2 the foreign fields. Rev. Frank Level > is student secretary of the Baptist f church. | A cordial invitation Is extended to > Concord people to hear Mr. Level f who will bring a message on missio.i- C ary work in China and the existing > conditions there now. Dr. Level will c speak at 8 p. m. Song services, how s ever, will begin at 7:80 p. m- I ' CABE OF IN ALL SIZES AND AGEs" • Little Girls’ Coats ™ Y 5 SHIRTS AND SUITB Sweaters SWEATERS $1.69 T 0 $4.59 SWEATERS $1.69 T 0 $4.95 I Little Boys’ Coats 5 All Colors, Navy, Tan dj JAC to dj*l J jj Tweed Mixtures Viiifj w Itl# f J BirwflfifSl ngjuljH MpM'WMmm Saß^aWMjffggsjß^M FI S H E R ’ S ! THE SMARTEST. ALWAYS mm THE CONCORD TIMES NEGRO BOY INJURED WHEN HIT BY TRUCK HERE LAST EVENING John Luther Eury Painfully and Perhaps Seriously Hurt When Struck by De livery Truck. Struck by a delivery truck on Tournament street yesterday John Luther Eury, colored boy, was pain fully and perhaps seriously injured. The accident occurred about 5:30 p. m , and officers declare that Robert Ellis, driver of the truck, did not stop after striking the boy. He was arrested last night and is being he'd in jail, his bond having been fixed at S3OO. Officers investigating the accident reported that marks on the street in dicate the wheels of the truck were almost locked when the brakes were applied. The murks indicate the truck slid for about forty feet just before and after striking the boy. Ellis did not stop to investigate the accident, it wae said at police head quarters, and he was not arrested until some time after the accident. Chief of Police Talbirt sent officers l to the Eury home thie morning to as certain the boy’s condition. They re ported him badly bruised and skinned but so far as wae known he suffered no broken bones. When it was learned that his condition might become se rious Ellis’ bond was fixed in the sum of S3OO and he has not been able to secure it so far. The injured boy is a son of Erneat Eury and the accident occurred near hie home. - AUTUMN ARRIVES TRUE TO STYLE; COOLER WEATHER Season of Styles, Football, the World Series, Rushes Around Corner in Natural Stride Today. Autumn is here! The Fall season arrived today true to style as the sun crossed the equator in its southward trend. Brisk weath er, the kind that makes one step live ly nnd think pertly, prevails in con trast to last Thursday when a relent less September sun sent the merucy soaring to new high levels for the Summer. Inroads to coal bins were made by many families ""who fired the fur naces, open grates and other heating apparatus to drive the chill from the homes. In the downtown sections some Rtores also fired furnaces. Those families who have not as yet pur c'bnsed the winter supply of fuel were able to locate enough wood for fires. Autumn is here! It is the season of grandeur in color and sports. New styles are observed; the trees change their dress of green to flaming color* of red, orange, brown; football with its frenzy attracts its colorful throngs. BLANKS TO SHOW SCENIC PICTURES AT LOCAL CHURCH Y. M. C. A. Secretary to Dis play Pictures of Midnight Sun and Lapland Deer on Next Tuesday. Motion pictures, showing scenes of the midnight sun and the wild deer of Lapland ns well as other scenic wonders of Europe will be shown in the auditorium of the Second Pres byterian Church next Tuesday by H. W. Blanks. The scenes were taken by Mr. Blanks while he was touring Europe during the past summer. Mr. Blanks filmed 2,000 feet of scenic grandeur, and has shown the pictures at sev eral places recently. When the pic tures were shown at the Thompson Orphanage in Charlotte this week the president commented to Mr, Blanks: "The pictures were both enjoyable and highly instructive.” The name for the little blue berry frow which Huckleberry Finn’s name was derived changes so with its geographic location that had Mark Twain written his book in Devon or Somerset it would have been Whortle berry Finn, in Surrey Hurts Finn, in Hampshire Bilberry Finn, and in Scot land Whinberry Fin., ( A man without a single idea is less boring than one with only one idea. MR. TRUEBLOOD IN REPLY TO EDITOR, GIVES HIS SERMON Local Minister Sends Letter to Editor of Salisbury Post Relative to Recent Ser mon He Preached. Rev. O. Herman Trueblood, pastor of the First Baptist Church of' this city, has Sent the following letter to the editor of The Salisbury Post: Concord, N. C. September 20th, 1927. Editor Salisbury Post, Salisbury, N. C. Deair Sir:- There appeared on Monday, Sept. 19th, in The Concord Daily Tribune, an editorial reproduced from The Salisbury Post, Under Ihe caption: “Extreme Talk Useless.” In your editorial, copied by the Tri bune, you make a number of state ments which I wish to point out to you as seeming to be very inconsistent The opening statement‘in your edi torial ia: “A Concord minister is quoted as calling A1 Smith a ‘Political Judas.’ ” Now I am the minister who used the term “Political Judas,” in a sermon delivered in Charlotte last Tuesday, at the opening meeting-of the Mecklenburg-Cabarrus Baptist As sociation. , However, I did not call AT Smith “A Polictical Judas.” Moreover, I did not call anybody else “A Political Judas.” I did not mention A1 Smith’s name, nor did I mention the name of anybody else. The newspaper re porters, and editors, misquoted, and misrepresented me, as they so frequent ly do in reporting the addresses of public speakers who have different ideas from those of the newspaper fraternity. If the newspapers want to take the words “Political Judas," which I used, and make out of them a cap to fit the head of A1 Smith, I certainly have no objections. When you consider that A1 Smith has defied the Constitution of the United States by refusing to “concur” with a state law in uoholding the 18th Amendment, the cap “Political Judas,” may proper ly adorn the head of A1 —notwithstand- ing you look upon him as a “strong personality, and a PATRIOTIC gen tleman of the first degree.” However, if the newspapers want to exercise "the freedom of the press,” and apply the words “Political Judas” to A1 Smith, they have the “freedom” to do so: all that I ask is that they not take the “freedom” of misrepresenting me What Did I Really Say In My Ser mon? I was not making a political speech. I was delivering a sermon from the subject: “Keeping The Faith,” sug gested from the text: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. I have kept the faith.”—2nd 'Timothy, 4 :7. In the course of my remarks, I made a plea that church members “keep faith,” not only with their God, and with their churches, but that they "keep faith” with their state and na tion as well. Touching upon the duties of a Christian, as a citizen, thi? is what I actually said : “Moreover, we are bound by the ties of spiritual patriotism, A true, Christian is a citizen of two worlds; he is a citizen of the Kingdom of God. and he is a citizen of the United States. Indeed, he is a very poor representative of the Christian religion who can imagine himself too busy to take any stock in the welfare of his state ; too indifferent to cast his ballot on election day for clean officials and righteous laws; too engrossed in per sonal aggrandizement to serve upon the jury when called upon to help execute justice; too pious to have anything to do with efficient govern ment, because “politics is rotten!” Impure politics is a challenge to every decent citizen, within the chiirchr and out, to help purify the open sores on the body-politic, and help safeguard public morals. -^ “We are supremely indebted to the builders of this republic. The founda tion stones of this nation were hewn from the rock of Christianity. At birth, our country was christened San Salvador —"Land of the Saviour." Our fathers landed over here upon their knees, in an attitude of prayer to a righteous God. Throughout all our glorious history, as a nation, the message of the Cross of Christ has voiced in our worship, and in the fundamental law of the land. “But today there are those w T ho. apparently, despise and reject the en tire spiritual heritage bequeathed us by our forefathers. Under the guise of “Academic Freedom,” and “Personal Liberty," they would “ram-rod” their doubts, and sould-destroying heresies down the throat of America. The hour has struck for the forces of righteousness to bestir themselves and refute the false claims of evil minded men, and pettifoggying poli ticians. True the church and state have been separated, and rightly so, (probably as much Baptist blood, if not more than any other, has been spilt in getting the church and state separated); however, no special mar riage license has ever been granted to Satan to wed the state just because the church and state have been di vorced from one another. “Loyalty to Christ does not forfeit duty to state; there is no iiherent conflict between piety and patriotism; there is no incongruity between Chris tianity and good citizenship; there is no impassable gulf between law and gospel. The same authoritative word of God which enjoins us to ‘render unto God the things that are God’s,’ commands us with equal emphasis to ‘render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s’ —the state. The person, therefore, who neglects his state is scarcely better than he who ignores his God. Let it be definitely under stood, that to follow the cross does not necessitate a repudiation of the flag, to serve God does not demand a be trayal of Caesar. “The insistent call of duty demands that we ‘keep faith’ with our state, as*well as with our church and God. It is imperative that we ‘keep faith’ in the selection of officials to govern our country. By the conscientious, patriotic, exercise of the sacred vot ing privilege, all the God-fearing men and women of this fair land, should bar the doors of the White House, and very other high office of the coun try, to any woukl-be political Judas, from New York, or anywhere else, seeking to betray this nation into the hands of a booze-erazed mob of lawbreakers, who would make a door mat out of'the Constitution of the United States, and crucify, on a cross of commercialized vice, the greatest moral reform ever enacted into the law of our land. “How timely, in this connection, are Lincoln: ‘Let Reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in the schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be v ritten in primers, in spelling books, and in almanacs; lei it be - - 1 fro*-'' nulpits, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short* let it become the political religion of the nation. Let the old and the young, the rich apd the poor, the grave and the gay, of both sexes and of all sexes and of all colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its alters.’ ” The above is the exact declaration which I made in my sermon in Char lotte. In your estimation it may be "foolishness of the first magnitude;" find it may not, according to your editorial* “bear the searchlight of truth.” However, I have no retrac tions or apoligies to make for what I said in the sermon in question. 1 am perfectly willing for the public tr ! draw their own conclusions from what T said, and thereby decide upon the merits of what I said. Any news paper, that cares to, can so garble i speech, and butcher quotations, as t< it appear in the eves of thf public, as “foolishness of the first magnitude.” However, I take you to be a fair minded editor, although writing a mis leading editorial on “hear-say, mis quoted, statements of the press.” . I hope you will do me the justice to publish this statement in your valuable paper, and thereby set both yourself, and me, straight in the public’s eye. In conclusion, it may be of interest to you to know that, so far as I hav< been able to learn, you are the onl;. one who has taken issue with me con cerning what I said in my sermon; and, I feel that your editorial would have been different, had you, at first seen the exact statement which 1 made. More people have commended this sermon, than any I have preached in a long time; and they are from all walks of life; among them a college president, and the president of a large manufacturing plant. I have received a number of requests to repeat the sermon. In addressing this communication to you I have had no desire to enter into a newspaper controversy—a news-' paper has the advantage of having "the last go,” in an argument; the., usually use this advantage. One word concerning A1 Smith anci your editorial. In your editorial you ay, concerning Mr. Smith: “He rep resents something many of us are not for and have spent our lives opposing only chance." In other words, lik* "dumb-driven cattle to the slaughter," you would "stick to the party,” follow the party bosses, and meekly swallow anything your party “puts up,” al thought he “represents something many of us are not for and have spent our lives opposing.” You may call such a policy “Party Loyalty,” I call it political weakness “of the first mag nitude !” Yours very truly, C. HERMAN TRUEBLOOD Pastor First Baptist Church, Concord, N. C. HAVE THE FOLLOW ING USED CARS FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE 4 One Chevrolet Coach, late model. One Chevrolet Touring, late ! model. One Hupp Coupe One Buick Touring One Ford Touring One Ford Roadster Standard Buick Co. PHONE 3p3 jt " h ■ Fashion §J S' ~b E PA btmemt — Will give their Annual F J Show Friday evening, J ber 23rd at 8:30 o’clock, j new Concord Theatre, Jt living models showing thj Latest and Newest Fall zhandise. % m Be on time so as not tol my of the models. I < H fTOCIIif Jor f( The Acme of Chic h FALL FROCS \ An Advance Showing ' Destined to be the $14.75 Your opportunity to attaiti *• ing frocks in modes that v ’ e?ta sweeping the continent. hU ers ari ian couturieres, rushed t 0 our you. In this splendid collectl the®* ; informal and business wear, dows. 4 22 South Union St. K RE^IV CONCO f R o D r w 5«"« I —r^j OUR PENNY IDS’ E: T HJ
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