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THE CONCORD TIMES
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
Entered as second class mail matter at the poet*
office at Concord, N. CL under the Act of March
5. 18Y9
J B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher
W M. SHERRILL. Associate Editor
Special Representative:
FROST. LANDIS A KOHN
New York. Atlanta. St. Louie, Kansas City.
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VALUE OF MINERAL PRODUC
TION.
The nation's mineral output has a val
ue of five to six billion dollars a year. In
1925 the value was $5.677,630.000, and
nearly half of this huge total was produc
ed in five states, Pennsylvania, Oklaho
ma, California, Texas and West \ irginia.
This data is given by Paul W. Wager in
a recent issue of the University News
Letter. >
Pennsylvania, with its wealth of coal,
natural gas, cement and clav products, is
the leading mineral producing state. Ok
lahoma and California, with tnelr exten
sixe oil fields are second and third in rank.
Texas, in addition to its petroleum and
gas wells, has rich sulphur deposits.
West Virginia is rich in both coal and oil.
Ohio and Illinois both produce coal, pe
troleum, gas, cement and clay products.
These seven states produce over three
billion dollars worth of minerals annual
ly.
Not only are* there three Southern
States among the leading five mineral
producing states, but several others rank
among the first half. Kentucky ranks
ninth, Missouri sixteenth, Arkansas sev
enteenth. Alabama twentieth. Louisiana
twenty-third and Virginia twenty-fourth.
These six states produce, however, less
than the single state of Oklahoma.
North Carolina has a great variety of
minerals but few in sufficient quantity to
make commercial mining profitable. Ac
cording to the United States Bureau of
Mines North Carolina’s total mineral
output in 1925 was only $9,504,065. This
is in disagreement, however, with the r§-
port of the State Department of Conser
vation and Development* its estimate be
ing $10,699,442. Even if we accept the
more favorable report the total is not
large, nor would it affect North Carolina’s
rank of thirty-seventh among the states.
The encouraging thing is that North Car
olina’s mineral output is increasing rap
idly. Its products include building stone,
sand and gravel, clay products, feldspar,
mica, coal, and some iron ore..
According to State Geologist R. J. Bry
son, there are a number of deposits of as
bestos in the western part of the state;
probably the largest and most promising
one being in Avery county. In 1919,
North Carolina held third rank in asbes
tos production in the United States, but
at that time all of the material was ship
ped out in crude form. Mr. Bryson re
ports that in recent years deposits of the
mineral have been found in Ashe, Yan
cey, Avery, Caldwell, Macon, and Jack
son counties.
An asbestos plant, which is a new in
dustry for North Carolina, is being erect
ed at Minneapolis, Avery county, by the
National Asbestos Company. ,It will
have, according to newspaper reports, a
daily capacity of thirty tons and the out
look for the success of the venture is
promising. The asbestos found in West
ern North Carolina is not of as fine qual
ity as the Canadian type, nevertheless it
can be used for many purposes. The
principal uses of the North Carolina va
riety are asbestos cement products, asbes
tos shingles, heat insulating cements, in
gredients for paints, filtering and pack
ing. v
There is an increased interest and de
velopment in the clay and stone indus
tries. This is especially true of clays of
the slate belt for brick and tile purposes,
of granites and ryolites of Orange and
Moore counties for building and road
work, and the marble quarries in Chero
kee county.
North Carolina leads all other states
in the production of feldspar, and, ac
cording to the report of the state geolo
gist, has produced from thirty to fifty per
cent, of the total output for several years.
North Carolina ranks relatively high in
the production of mica. There are scat
tered deposits of gold in the state, though
the seams have been too deep or the con
tent too slight to make gold mining com
mercially profitable. There is a great
variety of precious stones in the state,
but not extensive enough in amount to
warrant commercial mining. North Car
olina’s minerals have been characterized
as nature’s sample case, and that is a very
satisfactory description.
The brick and terracotta industry
could perhaps be further developed, and
also a greater use be made of the native
building stone. The construction of the
Greater Duke University from native
stone offers a demonstration of its pos
sibilities. North Carolina has no great
mineral wealth, but it has a variety of
mineral products whose exploitation may
develop local industries of importance.
IT HURTS BUSINESS.
The Anderson Independent quotes two
conversations, one with a grocer and an
other with some other business man.
They are applicable in Concord and al
most every other city. They read:
“There is a man in this town, one of
our ‘best’ people, who owes me over SHOO
for groceries. When I went to him a few
days ago and asked for some of it he said
he would pay me as soon as he could. It
wasn’t three days after that when I saw
him driving a new, big automobile down
the street.”
Another business man related a
lar experience: ‘‘l went to a man who
owed me a little matter of $25; He look
ed as if he were going to cry and said he
had never been so hard up in his life, did
not know where in the world he was go
ing to get money to live on until fall.
The only reason I, didn’t give him five
dollars to help him out was because I
didn’t have it in my pocket. In less than
a week from that day he gave me a lift
down the street in a fine new automo
bile.”
No doubt there are many tradesmen in
Concord who have or who could make
similar statements and who could .pro
duce their cash arid credit books to sub
stantiate their charges.
Business of this kind hurts. If there
were just one or two persons who owed
each firm it wouldn’t be so bad, but there
are scores of them and the total in the
course of a year represents a rather stag
* *
gering amount.
The loss has to be carried and every
other business in town feels the effects.
It is all right to be in debt honestly and
legitimately for a worthy purpose, but it
hurts business when other debts are in
curred.
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MORE STAY THAN LEAVE.
While 538,001 aliens entered the Unit
ed States in the course of the fiscal year
ended on July 30 last, alien departures in
the same period numbered 253,508, re
sulting in a net increase in the alien pop
ulation of the Country’ of 284,493, as com
pared with 268,351 for the fiscal year
1926.
More than 88 per cent, of the newcom
ers last year came from ten countries.
Canada, contributing 81,506 immigrants,
led the list, followed by Mexico, with 67,-
721 ; Germany, 48,513; Irish Free State,
28,054; Great Britain, 24,160,. Italy. 17,-
297; Poland, 9,311; Sweden, 8.287; Nor
way, 6.068, and France 4.405. While the
permanent immigration for the year
shows an increase of 30,687, or 10 per
cent, over that for the previous year
when 504,488 immigrants entered the
Country’, the bulk of this increase came j
from only two countries, namely, Mexi
co and Italy’.
From the former, 67,721 immigrant
aliens arrived in the fiscal year 1927, as
against 43,316 in 1926, an increase of 24,-
405.
In the case of Italy the increase of 9,-
044, was comprised largely* of vetefans of
the World War and their wives and chil
dren, and of wives and children of Unit
ed States citizens, immigration from that
Country jumping from 8,253 in 1926 to
17,297 in 1927.
WANT HIGHWAYS THROUGH
TOWNS.
Harold M. Lewis, executive engineer
of the Regional Plan of New York and
Environs, says in a recent paper on hand
ling traffic that “for many years merch
ants and business men considered a mul
titude of vehicles upon the streets on
which they fronted an important asset to
their business.”
Mr. Lewis could have used the pres
ent tense just as well, for the same atti
tude is held by many citizens, particu
larly in the smaller cities and towns.
They take the position that the main
highways, whether state or national,
should pass over “Main street” in their
home towns.
McCready Sykes, writing in Commerce
and Finance, finds evidence of a passing
of this attitude, however.
“It is only in recent years, as though
motor traffic has grown to such enormous
volume, that it has begun to be realized
that it is far from publicity for a
city to route through traffic through its
main streets, and that little business
comes to it by reason of a through high
way being so located.
“The amount of retail trade initiated
by the occupants of passing cars merely
because on driving through they have
seen the shop windows must be utterly
insignificant. Persons who wish to trade
have no difficulty and seek the business
streets anyway.” / i
One of the worst offenders in this Con
| nection, says Mr. Sykes, is the city of
. Providence, Rhode Island, which routes
its main highways right through the
. heart of the city, and “Providence is one
of the most difficylt cities in the country
. to get through and out of, and thousands
[ °f motorists, picking their crowded and
. tortuous way through its teeming streets
' must bewail the strange policy that per
, mits such discomfort.”
The whole idea originated from the be
. hes that automobiles, especially those of
: tourists, mean increased business for the
. merchants. And then, too, there’s civic
pride behind the movement to a certain
extent. Persons want the tourists to see
the best parts of their tbwn, and usually
“Main Street” offers the biggest busi
> ness houses and many of the prettiest
• homes.
However, the motorist is due some con
sideration. He does not care particularly
about seeing every town that he passes
through, especially if such a process
► means hardships in getting about. Watch
the average driver in towns where he is
familiar with the streets and see where
he goes. He will take the most direct
route out of town, unless he has business
there, and in that case he stops anyway,
whether the highway takes him through
the center of the town or not.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
Who is responsible for conditions in
Indiana ?
With one Governor just home from the
penitentiary, the present Governor under
indictment and the Mayor of Indianapo
lis convicted of violating the corrupt
practices act, evidence ( is abundant that
something is rkdiially wrong in the State.
The Klan has been active and power
ful in the State in recent years and begin
ning of the overturn ofAhe Klan regime
came when the head of the order, who ac
cording to ev’idence submitted at his trial
was a “big boss” in State politics, was
sent to the State prison for murder.
He had been of great help to the Gov
ernor and others, he has charged, and he
thought they should have protected him
when his evil hour came. Instead they
let him go to jail without an effort to
save him, so he “spilled the beans.” They
may have tried to help him, but at any
rate they couldn’t keep him from behind
the bars, and the thing so irritated him
that he begaff to talk. 5
That’s when the latest trouble started.
He mentioned all kinds of things* and
the mere mention of these led to results.
The Governor is under indictment and
the mayor of Indianapolis has been con
victed.
And who is responsible?
Why the people of Indiana themselves.
They insist on sticking to a party that
has helped them none. They wouldn’t
change their politics even in the face of a
convicted Governor. , They saw Governor
McCrary sent to the Atlanta prison, yet
they turned right around and elected men
of the same party. And now some of
these men are in trouble themselves.
What will they do next?
Turn right around and elect Republi
cans again. The party is controlled by
the party bosses and they don’t care what
goes on in the State so long as the people
don’t care. It’s useless to talk about
graft, greed and the like in public office
so long as we follow an example set by
the people of Indiana. The voters them-*
selves are to blame.
HEAR THE FLAPPER.
The modern girl and boy, especially
the former, claim lots of attention. The
so-called “chiek” is recognized btit for the
most part the public watches the modern
girl, usually referred to as- “the flapper.”
Sh is accused of all kinds of things, but
is she really guilty?
Certainly it would be difficult to con
vince the modern mother that her daugh
ter is not all right, although the daughter
does things the mother never did.
We are always interested when the
“flapper” rises up to defend herself. One
of these replies was printed recently,
signed by a girl as “Just a Girl of This
Generation.” Here is a part of what she
had to say about the modern girl:
“As for flappers smoking cigarettes, I
don’t think it’s any worse than our moth
ers and grandmothers smoking pipes.
The older generation started the fad. We
are keeping it alive. __
“Remember, short dresses spell person
ality. My mother and grandmother both
used corn starch instead of powder. Corn
starch is injurious to the skin. Nowa
days chemists make cosmetics so they do
not hurt our skin. For rouge, the older
generation used dampened red cloth.
What could have been more* harmful to
the skin than those strong dyes used in
coloring the cloth? >
“As to pitting parties, most girls draw
the line at the kiss. The modern girl
dreams of her hero, her cottage, and the
children which will make her life worth
while. Those are my dreams, too.”
There’s her answer. What say you?
“WHERE WEALTH AWAITS.”
“Where Wealth Awaits You” is the
title of an attractive booklet recently is
sued by the Duke-Power Company. It is
a summary of the several advertisements
appearing in national publications by the
Duke Power Company.
The booklet is a simple, concise state
ment of facts about the Piedemont South
which should challenge the interest and
pride of every Southerner. As Mr. John
Paul Lucas, head of the department of
publicity and vice-president of the com
pany says:
“We have not attempted in this booklet,
to paint a vivid and exaggerated picture
of the opportunities and advantages
which Piedmont Carolina holds for vari
ous forms of industry, but have striven
merely to present in simple, concise form
the actual, pertinent facts,”
It is not a wild statement of fanciful
figure and rhetoric, but a plain statement
of facts.
Peoeple in the Piedmont South do not
know enough about the region in which
they live. It is one of the most favored
spots in the United States and this book
let tells some of the reasons why. The
Duke Power Company is performing for
this section a great favor in inviting cap
ital and industry to locate here.
Supporting the claim of relatively eas
ily developing wealth, the booklet states'
THE CONCORD TIMES
a comparison:
"One of the country’s most spectacular
examples of increased values during the
last twenty years is afforded by the rich
section of New York city lying in the
neighborhood of 42nd street and Fifth
avenue and embracing the region around
the Grand Central statipn.
"There during that twenty-year period,
wealth has increased 631 per cent. Dur
ing the vsame period, the total wealth of
Piedmont Carolines has increased 660
per cent!
"Conditions here are on the make.
With increasing values, expanding mar
kets and activity general throughout the
section, prosperity is assured to any en
terprise that enjoys reasonably capable
management.
"Perhaps the best index of the oppor
tunity of individuals is the contrast be
tween the 10-year increase in per capita
wealth of the Piedmont Carolinas and
five of .the nation’s richest states —105
per cent, in one case against 36 per cent,
for the other.
"Nowhere else in this country are in
dustrial values being built so rapidly and
at the same time so solidly as in this new
frontier of opportunity.”
ABOUT THE STATE FAIR.
1 People interested in a State Fair for
North Carolina are said to be irritated
somewhatx because nothing definite has
been done toward having the fair next
year. Some weeks ago the people of
Raleigh voted bonds in the sum of $75,-
000 to aid the fair, and there is on hand
about $125,000 secured from the sale of
the old fair grounds property.
The complaint is made that this is not
enough to begin with and that the asso
ciation probably will need more mcney.
That’s foolish.
The Cabarrus Fair Association has
made money every year and there was
nothing like $200,000 invested in the
plant. The local association has 48 acres
and about SI,OOO invested for each acre
in buildings, etc.
The State Fair could be started with
100 acres of land and SIOO,OOO for build
ings, grandstands and the like. That
would leave SIOO,OOO, the interest from
which would pav many of the premiums.
There is ground available for a larger
field but a fair ground twice as large as
' the one here would take care of present
needs.
Later more ground could be added,
but we believe 100 acres would be enough
as a starter. That would provide lor the
track, midway and all of the exhibit
buildings needed for the first year or so.
These could be erected, we believe, for
SIOO,OOO. The buildings at the local fair
grounds are modern in every way, and
they were erected at a cost of about sl,-
000 to the acre. This includes the track,
one of the best in the South, the grand
stands, the stables and barns and various
halls for exhibits.
We believe it is possible for the State
to get a capable man to manage the fair
and make money. It can’t be run through
politics except at a loss. It’s useless to
name men at the head of the association
unless they are capable of advising about
fair matters.
Other State Fairs make money and one
in North Carolina would do the same if
properly managed. 1 The District Fair
here has been a success because it has
been made a district fair. The profes
sional exhibitor has been kept out and
people have been made to understand
that it is their fair. That could be clone
at Raleigh just as easy as in Cabarrus,
and once the idea is established the fair
will carry itself.
WARNS OF EXTRAVAGANCE.
<
The Manufacturer, a publication devot
ed to business, laments the fact that the
people of the United States are becoming
more extravagant, and this is being re
flected in extravagance on the part of
municipal, county and State government.
This paper says:
"Eleven billion dollars a year in taxes
is now spent by our country.
"The man who can get the most money
out of the State or Federal government
for himself or his locality is too often
considered the smartest politician.
"There is a premium placed on public
extravagance in State and municipal af
fairs, and we are told the people do it
themselves, but this is a poor alibi for
public officials. Incompetent people get
bigger pay for less work in city, county
and State jobs than is generally paid for
the same work in private employ.
"The cost of Federal Government has
, gone down since the World War, but the
cost of State and municipal government
has risen from $2,227,000,000 in 1913, to
$7,400,000,000 in 1925. The increase of
public extravagance is shown on every
hand by demand for everything of the fin
est and most luxurious quality.
"If local taxes are to be reduced, we
must inject more business and less poli
tics in management of government af
fairs.”
We are extravagant in government be
cause we have become extravagant in ev
erything else. We see something we
want and we buy it, whether in cash or
on credit.
It’s the same with our various govern
ments. If there isn’t enough tax money
for the things we want in our county,
city or State, we just issue bonds. Easy,
you see. Just like buying luxuries on
credit.
There is no nation in the world as rich,
or as extravagant. There must be a lim
it somewhere.
PLANT CREPE MYRTLES.
We are in sympathy with the wish of
the Concord man who wants to see hun
dreds of crepe myrtles planted in Con
cord.
Last year several civic organizations
started the movement for the trees and
several hundred were planted but we
need additional thousands. They should
be planted along the sidewalks as well
as in yards.
Fewer trees carry greater beauty than
the crepe myrtle and they can be secured
at a nominal price. Certainly Concord
would be a prettier city if the suggestion
of this man could be carried out.
Senator Overman denies that he and
Senator Simmons are behind a nation
wide anti-Smith drive. He said that he
and Senator Simmons are against the
New York Governor for the Democratic
nomination but they had taken no part
in a movement for any other candidate.
The whole thing seems to have arisen
from the use of the Overman frank on
letters containing a McAdoo speech. In
his speech Mr. McAdoo assailed the
liquor interests, and the W. C. T. U. and
other organizations asked that he dis
tribute the speech under his frank, Sena
tor Overman xplained. He said this use
of his frank did not mean he was support
ing McAdoo or fighting Smith, although
he explained that he is not a Smith man.
We hope L. A. Fisher, superintendent
of the water and light department, will
be able to carry out his plans for a bor
der of shrubbery around Lake Concord.
The lake occupies a naturally beautiful
spot, but the crepe myrtles, dogwoods
and cedars he plans as a border to the
lake would add greatly to the natural
loveliness of the spot.
THE PRIZE FOR IRONY.
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Wilmington Star.
The 1927 award for unconscious? irony is hereby
bestowed upon the beetling brow of Mr. William
Harrieon Dempsey, erstwhile contender for the
world’s heavyweight boxing crown.
With his old title within his grasp, his opponent
dazed and reeling, Dempsey pausedin his pursuit
to taunt Tunney and beg him_to come back and
fiightJ The manner in which Mr. Tunney responded
to this invitation is remindful of the Memphis
Negro who said something of the same sort to the
German army.
This dusky soldier, so rhe story runs, saw his
first front line trench in a quiet sector. There had
been a lull f° r days. So intense was the stillness,
that even ventiyesome meadow larks had renewed
ther songs.
Tiring of the monotony, the Memphis soldier, re
enforced by genrous drafts of “veen blonk” mount
ed to the parapet and shook a threatening fist in
the general direction of the German trenches three
hundred yards away.
‘‘Hay thar,” he intoned, "Hey yo’ Gummans.
Whereat is yo’ ole wiah? Here I is come three
thousand miles from Memphis, Tennysee to git
some action, and here yo' all is setting oveh theh
as quiet as an ole biddy hen. Bring on yo’ war, I
craves actions.’’
His harangue was drowned by the explosion of
a German high explosive shell which crashed almost
directly in the American trenches, buryifig the
impatient African beneath a ton of dirt and debris.
Painfully and' slowly he crawled from his slimy
berth and gingerly felt his arms, legs and head to
see if they were still intact. Reassured on this
point, he turned a quizzical gaze toward his
platoon commander.
“Lootenent, suh,” he said softly and with marked
awe, “Say dis for dese Gummans, Dey sho’ God
does give yo’ service.”
Perhaps Mr. Dempsey, if his mind is working
better today, may admit to himself that Mr. Tun
ney, when properly approached, certainly does give
service.
WORTH READING MANY TIMES.
Winston-Salem Journal.
An editorial that appeared recently in The
Southern News Bulletin ought to be read many
times by every boy and girl, man and woman in
America. The Southern News Bulletin is edited
by Lauren Foreman and is “devoted to the interest
of the Southern Railway System and its em
ployers.” But people everywhere, of all vocations
and professions and of every walk of lire should
be interested in and stimulated to greater efforts
by this editorial. Here it is:
“There is no formula—no means by which a
man can be successful in any undertaking unless
he believes in himself and believes in the things
he wants to do.
“It was Napoleon’s undying faith in Napoleon
that made him the great man of his lime.
“Confidence, faith, faith backed by training and
ability—that’s the thing.
Nine-tenths of the millions of people who go
plodding through life barely making a living, have
the ability to really do something big. What they
lack is confidence They think they can’t do this
and they think they can’t do that, so they don’t
even half try.
"The self-confidence of one man multiplies his
powers a hundred times—the lack of it subtracts
a hundred times from the powers of another.
“This does not mean that you should go about
bragging. It simply means that no one will place
a higher value on you than you do on yourself.
“The value other people place on you must be
determined by you alone. So remember—high
values come in ‘cans,’ never in ‘can’ts. ”
IN 1947 WHAT?
Cleveland Star.
Tomorrow night an estimated throng of 160,000
people will witness the greatest sport spectacle
ever staged when Tunney and Dempsey face each
other in the ring at Boldiers’ Field, Chicago. Just
how many millions more will listen to the one
voice telling the story of the fight by radio it is
impossible to estimate. As it is the thirty-minute
fisticuff will put to shame the great sport event
saged by the ancient Romans.
How the world moves.
Back when the late Col. Gardner carried Com
pany K away to the Spanish-American war what
do you suppose the people would have said had
some one predicted that hundreds in this section
would hear the Chicago fight just as it happened
through the air as a medium? Men hate to be
lsughted at. No one would have dared predict
such a thing then.
But, let us look ahead.
In 194( the hundreds who tomorrow nights’ll
listen in in this section, will, if living, be seeing
every equally a* far away. Tele
vision m 20 years should be - more nearly perfect
than modern radio with its static. Laugh if you
will, but remember that the manner in which you
will hear the fight toorrow night was beyond com
prehension just a few short years ago.
Some women visit cosmeticians so frequently they
actually look beauty-shop wornV—Louisville Times.
Monda y. October
A H,CH percent^m^
Greensboro N ews • ™
7"' '<*«»«• in the
lives of France and i
«» T will b, „„ .b>
Each being interested j n m tn * are
tions between the , Wo ' h ' ! *ProO
desirous of promoting the 'T**
think it best that the th, S
war be laid on the shelf Uof
“Let us glorify our war t,
this is Kaid to epitome i *** *
Briand and Dr. Stre™ „ hf ul *s bl
ploits. but do not reopen the « |
the war in which they fell *• Q eetl °n
How accurately thic ro ’
Daily News does not p m
burg called up the question 2***
Poincare has been constant f »* i
articles repeatedly and , 1 '*• h«
with the growing number of |
a clearing of the path to troth
both countries have been J,T
If Briand ,„d Str P «ma n
they can perform a miraele r, Sto b fc
they cannot do it and must'know
that yesterday story ft
of bunk as any that has com, * h 8 *
recent months. . out of q,
The effort to reach truth
ficial edict. War guilt is and "r^
problem for the historians J£ IDs *
perpetual dare which wiii‘,i ' r ° rli
receive their attention X ot r dt *
th* truth, not to demand full
of evidence bearing on th. .itu.rio
the thousands of tortuous paths'
all the maneuverings to reachth?! i#4d
between Serajevo and the first
be to abdicate the very name of £
nounce the moral purpose of ,]] , 15
history. It is inconeeivale that ,
expect such a situation to prevafi 0! *
During the war itself, it \ t , n
general collapse of historians as of
They were caught up th ,
men of any clan, were ,bl, “1
the lessening of that pressure f O JT
them back at their U aka. Th. „|fo>
of all government* in war times the
the Blue Books, the Green &* ks J?
Books, and the whole rainbow varietT
have been riddled and torn to smi l] J
hoods by omission or commission haw £
on all sides. Whole gaps have been 8 Z
the sum total of knowledge bearing
has been increased many times.
If we are yet far from being able a
finger and say, ‘There is guilt," it i, M .
rigorous and trained minds are not mgu
so. It is rather because the problem i, j
complex ; so complex, indeed, that po*jM
never be settled satisfactorily. But that v
stop the effort to do it. None knowi m
than Briand and Stresemann.
TRACED TO THE PARENTS,
Monroe Journal.
Mr. James P. Cook remarks in the Pj
weekly publication of the Jackson Trsinin
that he is puzzled over the fact that
wise men are locating the cause of evil doi]
wrong place, especially as concerns the j
That, Mr. Cook, is due to the fact
wise men, even as the foolish men, speak
feel and not as they take the trouble to
short, according to their particular prejs
“The wrong doing of youth, geath
ladies,” continues the Uplift, "goes back t
vital cause. Much of the crime and mid
which the press is featuring day after di
the youth is due to the absence of honi
home training, home care. The truth
matter is nine-tenths of the evil committ
young is due to laxity in the borne u
Ford cars.”
You have. Dear Brother Cook, spokw
of a certainty. It is well to tell the troth
no apparent result is attained thereby,
case the telling of it can have little. tht
perhaps to exonorate the Ford. The bli
right upon the parents. You hare told
reetly.
But now! You have told the truth. 0
For the most part parents can't help ti
and have not even the capacity to a
their own defects. The public gnwl
help it for it has no standards of chmt
duct, or manners, to which people tr*«|
conform. The church can't do anything
for the church is composed only of#
are like those around them. The
courts can’t do anything about it bs***
post facto agencies. The schools can tdo
about it because the parents tone don t
instead of the school toning up the pul
fact, we can’t see that anyone cas 0
about the general inability of men e
be capable parents. .
The truth seems to be that afteraB ty
for improvement and progress in
their best, and certainly they are M
deni, there is going to be left over a
which nothing much can be done
rather *ad to think this—that a« r
of humanity is doomed to more or “f**
but such seems to be the fact. - *
the mistake of thinking that tb *
fact, and it is being manifest ad
alarming now than it has ever b
to be.
BANKER CONYICTED.
Durham Herald. ,
The strong arm of the la * hi '
grip on an erring banker B
president of the defonet
Trust Company, of Win.ten-. * ,
guilty of embezzling trust un
a sentence of from five to eig .
prison. , . rriffl*
Mr. Maslin was charged with .
worse than the usual run of ’ , oß ira
According to the indictment. y j
funds and accepted deposits
institution to be in an " p 0 ] U ««
embezzled the savings of- if {here i*
been set aside as a trust f■ n , (^oo ld
form of banking obligation \
ed with any greater degree '„
other it ought to be a
funds have been created « d o( . *
who is already dead for j, g(
small children. The benefa
to believe that a trust fun 9
sensible way of leaving . firing^
the case of Mr. Polites ji:
fund is a trust fund, whether
or not. . A . «e. n *oUti |,£ *
The people should take
that the courts ln I people ** **
and more strict with th >
lessly with the banking
thosbwW r*>
Lexington Disp fin*"I’* 1 ’* L
Only those who hove «* *e*
mood them ore ** ’
a community. IVhen QOt pt*
who have money to in n t na. „
the conclusion can be d P jtie? ’ J
not inteveeted enough in
grow. So city ever grew
it grow. That is . it **3*^
silly to re-state it üß de«* u ;; 4
■ to understand ; for tb (0 ptan- -
deny that they are l n^ T of
growth. 'Maybe £ tion eTj
to have printed on > * fX pl® iD
talent., it
might ju.t as well h lit*‘ • J | *|
the ten talents ** ra ]ent J
on,. Some of th.*-" g.ud.fl
Os this amount J
$1,600,000 and r*m- ;n r4l? f A
pulled down added * * I
pocketed the balnn I
bank roll-