Ikursday, August 2, 1923.
An Echo of 1808.
Philadelphia Record. '
If the public memory were a I’ttle 1
more tenacious, tve would not nave
heard durian the 1020 campaign so
• much chiping about the terrihl-' l>emo- i
cratic blundering in , the conduct of our
part in the world war. The Democrats. '
under the Wilson leadship. performed in '
'that conflict incredible and unprecedent
ed feats that brojight an unpnritf’.cd
victory. We do not refer to the actual
fighting, in which the glory was abso
• lute’y non-partisan, but to the responsi-,
bility and direction, which rested alone
upon 'the Administration.
Do Republican Executive ever blun- f
der in war time? One would think not: '
but we notice among the items of 25,
years ngo today, to be printed in this
issue, a curious reminder:
General Shaffer's official report on
the spread of yellow fever among the
American trooi>s at Santiago reported a
total of 4278 cases, which approximated
over one-fourth of his entire command.
The spread of yellow fever, even at
that early day. was entirely preventable
■ by ordinary sanitary prfentions; but
the same neglect of sanitation that was
a scandal in our camps, killing off the
soldiers like flies, prevaled in the expe
ditionary force, with results that are
shameful history.
If the methods of 1898 had been fol
\ lowed in 1017 the Kaiser would not now
be residing at Doom.
Rumor Monger Active.
Charlotte Observer.
Thr.e despicable demon, the Wild
Rumor Monger. was abroad and
active in the land again Monday and
Monday night. He started the. rumor in
some part of the country that the
President had died, and kept it. going
throughout the day and evening, causing
numerous people in ('hurln'tte and per
haps in many other place to telephone
the newspaper offices and make earnest
inquires to learn if the rumor were true.
Os course there was absolutely no
foundation for the reports. The Presi
dent was seriously il\ and the news of
his condition was carried all over the
country throughout the day and night
over the wires and printed in all edi
tions of daily pa tiers everywhere. Rut
even the printing of the truth amt its
circulation throughout the country
could not choke off the Rumor Monger
—or head off 'the lie which somebody
wilfully started.
Miss Armfleld Dies While Taking
Ether.
Charlotte Observer.
While taking either in preparation
for an operation for the removal f
adenoids. Miss Myrtle ArmfieH. aged
IS. died at 9 :30 o’clock Tuesday morn
ing at the Charlotte Eye, Ear. Nnsd and
Throat hospital in West Seventh street.
Miss Armfield was engaged to be
married in the near future to Connelly
Robinson, young' attorney of Charlotte.
The wedding was to have taken place as
soon as she hail recovered from her
operation.
Dr. .1. P. Matheson. a member of the
Eye. Ear. Nose and Throat hospital's
staff, cause of death. ,jto
“paralysis of tho r yl
precaution had been taken. Miss Arm
field'4 pulse had been taken and found
to be normal and her general condition
was good. Dr. Matheson said. "It is one
of those strange unavoidable incidents
for which we can give no explanation,'
he said.
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| BUSINESS AND THE OUTLOOK. 1
Philadelphia Record.
Wall street quotations may be "the 1
beginning of everything or nothing." as
John Maynard Keynes said of Premier
Baldwin's statement. Stock liqudntion
continued to the close of the market, all 1
down the list in a movement attributed l
to the work of bear operators in the
absenee of support and the . desire of
many prudent persons to trim tneir
sails. The collapse of the German mark 1
in some quarters is locked upon with
1 apprehension. The tone of George M.
I Reynolds, the Chicago banker, upon his
)return from Europe, was decidedly
, pessimistic, particularly in his sug
gestion that American money shouldn't
'be sent over there —it "might bo need
ed at home." In the mehntime H. Park
er Willis, the veteran economist, is to
bo found freely criticizing the Federal
Reserve Hoard, which he says "con
sists for the most part of inexperienced
men who have no acquaintance with the
system." and their efforts to do some
thing for the farmers so alarm Mr.
"Willis that he describes the situation
as "hazardous." But we are close to
August 1 with midsummer slackening
in some quarters and s'ight price reces
sions observed in others. There is lack
of uniformity in the various industrial
lines. In some there has been something
of an accumulation of goods, the result
of heavy spring production with modern -
tion in buying.
Dun's Review of last week's develop
ments says that hesitation characterizes
the situation in some important staple
lines and checks ‘early orders, bur in
other departments of trade new busi
ness is in fair volume for this season.
Conditions as to the growing cotton
crop bear heavily on the markets for
cotton goods, anil while some interest
is always manifest at this period, it is
greater this year because of the larger
cotton acreage and the possibility of a
very heavy yield. In the meantime cot
ton goods production is materially re
duced. as operators are indisposed to
continue output with existing uncertain
ties. New England producers now re
port substantial orders for shoes, and
hides are more active, with prices for
stap’e grades higher.
Steel shows but little change, and no
special development is looked for before
September, when heavier buying is ex
pected. with a possibility but no certain
ty of slightly lower prices. Pig iron
production continues to decline. with
more furnaces scheduled to blow nut.
The recent consolidations - in steel have
put Jones & I.aughlin to fourth place,
instead of its old place as “the largest
independent." Now HeThlchem routes
after the United 'States Stee! Corpora
tion. and the Youngstown third. Judge
Gary reports that progress has been
made in evolving it plan for the elimina
tion of the 12-hour day in the steel in
dustry- He has held several conferences
with presidents of the Steel Corpora
tion's subsidiaries, and will continue
these conferences during the present
week.
In a couple of day the Government
cotton report as of July 25 will be is;
sued. It is expected to be
ahead’of the earlier estimates. tme
enthusiastic guess is that the yield from
the Texas crop alone will bring *300.-
000.000 to the planters. The textile
trades show a somewhat broadening
tendency. The primary markets are
getting rid of the. dullness of several
past months. The question of replenish
ment of supplies now appears as the
moving eittise for new market commit
ments. and the prices of unfinished cot
ton cloths, considerably below previous
levels, seem to invite renewed activity-
The showing of the women's wear
fabrics of the American Woolen Com
pany takes place tomorrow. The raw
wool market continues to show an im-
proved tone. In the West the market is
considerably quieter, most transactions
being on consignment.
The wheat market in Chicago drop
ped to the season’s lowest level. July
closing at OflVi. July corn opened at
89%. a new high on the crop.
, Bobbed Hair.
Philadelphia Record.
Just two years ago. in the summer of
11131, the vjftuous merchants, bankers
and other employers of female he'p in
Chicago declared war on bobbed lmir.
If must go, they said; it. or its wearers.
But the women saucily tossed their
shorn locks in the very faces of the vir
tuous bosses—and stayed. The fight for
bobbed hair" in business was won by
the women of Chicago long ago; and
the course of empire, westward taking
its way, has now reached the l’aeific
coast, where it %as achieved another and
a more imiiortant victory. It has proved
its right to an honprabie place in the
domestic circle.
Judge Thomas Graham, of San Fran
cisco, hus come forward with the as
tounding news thut, far from being
home-breakers. bobbed-haired women
are the real home-makers and home
kee|iers. In 1500 eases that have come
under his observation in the divorce mill
over whieh he presides, the Judge de
clares, not one woman with shorn locks
has appeared either as plaintiff or de
fendant. From this the learned Judge
draws several conclusions. He figures,
for one thing, that relief from the
tedious nuisance of “doing up” the hair
morning and night—to say nothing of
the occasional washing, after which one
simply "can’t do n thing with it!”—
tends to give a wife a "courageous and
optimistic disposition.” (Those are the
Judge's exact words). The learned
Judge also handled down the further
opinion that "husbands do not like
wives with bedraggled hair.” No one
will deny this; but it is also a fact that
ail husbands do not like bobbed hair,
and tliat most do like the well-groomed
coiffure whieh argues other neat and
orderly virtues in the wearer.
Major Henry 11. Curran has been ap
pointed Immigration Commissioner at
Ellis Island to succeed Robert E. Tod,
who has resigned. Major Curran is for
ty-five years old and a graduate of Ynle
University and of the New York Law
School. At one time he was u reporter
on the New York Tribune. Major Cur
ran was wjth the *A. E. F. and in 1919
he, was chosen by the Republicans to
run for borough president of Manhat
tan. He was elected, the first man ever
put in that office on a straight G. O. I*,
ticket He is a writer and lecturer on
politics, t .
I Nearly a million-women in-Germany,
are now engaged in commercial pursuits,
IRENE CATTLE DENIES
SHE HAS PARIS DECREE
Dancer Arrives From France With
Niece. Dog and Goat. But Minus Di
vorce.
New York. July 30.—Irene Castle to
day returned from Pnris with a pet
gout. A group of reporters met her on
the dock when the Lafayette came
alongside, and she got their goats, too.
For the dancer flatly contradicted
dispatches from Paris quoting trom
Court records to show that she had ob
tained a divorce from Robert E. Tre
man, Ithacti manufacturer. Miss Castle
dec'ared she didn't have a decree and
hadn't asked for one.
To back up this statement, she said
she expected to meet the Majestic when
that liuer arrives Wednesday bearing
Tremnn. At the White Star offices it
was said the first cabin list did not show
Treman's name, but that he might have
engaged passage at the last minute.
Ho the waterfront is waiting to see
what Wednesday will bring forth.
"I have not a divorce, and I have
not instituted proceeding for one," de
clared the dancer.
Leon Trotzky. Now Ruling Ruusla, Has
No Need for Clock.
Moscow. July 7.—Since Premier Lenin
became seriously ill, iicon Trotzky,
Soviet Russia’s war commissar, has be
come the foremost figure in the Soviet
government. He has no working day.
Every workmaft. laborer, or employee
in Soviet Russia has, an H-hour work
ing day conspicuously looked after by
the trnde union council and guarded by
the labor code. . But Trotzky has none.
His working day is much over K hours
and ns regards time, day and night are
treated alike.
Trotzky begins his day with the news
, papers. They serve him as a means of
every day human connection and busi
ness information. He reads them just
as lie Woul listen to a report by one of
his officers and very often the rfewspaper
information is followen by quick inter
pretations and action.
Very often a news telegram, a re
porter's item, or a quite uninteresting
interview paves the road for an import
ant decision. Then at various times
during the day and night. Trotzky reads
and dictates.
He always reads with a pencil in
hadtl, which ho holds like a surgeon
holds .liis instrument. He underlines,
annotates, numbers the author's thoughts,
assocites them, makes polemical 'nous
and the book returns from his anato
mical desk like an embalmed corpse.
-• He dictates queries, resolutions, de
partmental instructions and advices, or
ders, articles. pamphlets. brochures,
friendly and sarcastic letters, .replies,
reminiscences—short and long ones, dry
gnd fierce, always bright and stylishly
polished. Everything clear, excct. and
business-like.
A detachment of cyclists an I motor
cyclists, day and night, carry all over
■ Moscow with war-time speed this state
: business literature of the war commis
sa-.
During the day. the quiet of his eab
: inet is brseiged by telephone enl's. In
this wav Trotzky valued as an
•‘ ( (iTv'cdWfinunie.tt ion. tie
i disposes of half his work.
ie his work. Trotzky does only what
• he Mmlself must and can do, everything
; else being completed by other—his ns
• sist nts. He writes an artielc.otliers—
I Übratians—will .find for him the neves
- sary quotations from Marx or any
. (Slier writer, as the ease may be.
Trotsky's office is a combination of
. simple but mighty tilings; stenographers:
i telephone twitchboards ami a good au-
whieh curtails
. movement and serves to economize on-.
crjjy. He rests by passing from one
. work to another or indulging in irts.
\\ her. feeling very tired. His favorite
( snorts are hunting, fishing, croquet :tt(d
{ ■:l:ess.
Woman’s Right to Bare Arms.
New York World.
Woman after centuries discarded her
wimple and exposed her face. Man
countered by perceiving that she had
legs, and she was forced to cover them
or be ostracized. After several cen
turies she has won the right to ex
pose them. Civilization lias grown to
agree with the bus-driver in Punch that
“legs ain't no treat to tne.”
Woman is now engaged in combat
about the right to bare arms. She is
eager to prove that her arms are not
immoral. Fifth Avenue at noon is
filled with workers and shoppers who
appear to' be bound for the opera eight
hours before tite curtain rises. Nowa
days the street dress fails, to meet the
tan water-mark of the bathing suit at
the shoulders.
Out in Chicago several forces in the
business world are condemning Roman's
new transgression. The People’s Gas
Company has declared that arms, in ef
fect. are immoral. Sleeveless dresses,
to use the military phrase, “Mre not uni
form and shall never be worn.” The
Federal Reserve Bank (here believes the
interests of efficiency are furthered when
woman swathes herself is an many hot
clothes as man. Marshal Field & Co.
forbids light-colored hose, even though
dark colors are warmer,
It seems that woman had best leave
well enough alone. If she wins the
right to sleeveless gowns it is historic
ally consistent to believe that she will
have to return to the wimple and the
veil.
IF ANY ONE HAS—
Killed a pig,
Shot his wife,
Got married.
Borrowed a stamp.
Made n speech.
Joined the army,
Robbed a bank,
Bought a Ford,
Sold a dog.
Lost liis wallet,
Gone fishing.
Broken his neck,
Bought a house.
Committed suicide,
Shot a cat, f
Been away. \
Come back home, I
Moved his office.
Taken a vacation.
Been in a fight,
Got licked.
Has no oil stock,
Got rich, ,
Made a bad bet, !
It’s news ' I
Send it to the editor, j,
—Columbia _ Aljura} News. j
Beunos Aires, the capital of Argen
.tina, is the largest city lying south of
IHE CONCORD OAILY TRIBUNE
ORCHARD ROBBING A CRIME I
Auto Parties Stent and Destroy Products
of Fanners.
A Pennsylvania farm woman who has
just cause for coraplnint tells her side
of the story in the July issue of The
Farm Journal.
"City folks have no idea of the cost of
production of a farmer's crops. 1 have
a feeling they never will until farmers
have poster campaigns, stating their
methods and costs of production.
"As it is now. many city people seem
to feel that God grows it and the farmer
simply goes and picks it. That idea
is also in the pleasure riders in autos
(perfectly respectable people), who
wouldn’t steal a spool of cotton for any
thing. yet steal farmers' vegetables,
fruit and even take bags of clover.
They don’t seem to think they are steal
ing and resent it when you say they
are."
Let the Discussion Go On.
New York World.
Senator Krookhurt. of lowa, is again
lemanding an extra session of Congress
o save agriculture from an "impending
calamity” byway of creating a govern
nent marketing agency. Senator Cou
'.cns. of Michigan, sees away out
through government regulation of the
rroduce exchanges-to e’iminate gambling
in foodstuffs. Editor William Allen
White, of Kansas, says that the basic
trouble with the Western farmer is
transportation, as it. has been for forty
ears- —"we are overloaded with freight
•ates." Finally comes ex-Secretary
if Agriculture E. T. Meredith in one
lay’s run of news on this particular
übject with the finding that the situa
tion is not as bad as represented—is bail
•hiefly for the farmer who grows only
wheat.
Many voices, almost as many diag
noses of tile case and just as many
remedies. Still there is hope for the
patient. We notice that even Sena
tor Brookhnrdt is becoming less positive
Tr regard to the more desperate reme
dies proposed. A (government fartn-
Tiarketing agency is now presented as
sni.v a temporary measure of relief.
Permanent cures are to be found rather
in co-operative control of production
and marketing among the farmers thein
selves.
This would be getting somewhere. By
all means, therefore, let the discussion
go on freely and openly. It is bound
to become less discursive under "such
•onditions and more concentrated on a
few specific propositions and their cold
examination in reason enlightened by an
uncovering of all the facts. Most of
>he remedial legislation so far suggested
is absurd and much of the remainder
would be without any substantial effi
■ney. The contribution of even so
level-headed a business man ns Senator
Couzens belongs to the latter class. Tile
country, and most of all the farmer,
cannot afford to be stampeded into cure
ill legislative action for agriculture more
than for any other industrial ills.
One Hilarious Sabbath.
Charlotte Observer. < !
Sunday was a hilarious day for the
1 automobilists. * Twenty-five of them lost
heir lives upon the railroad crossings.
Perhaps there were still others who chal
lenged tin* right of way of the locomo
tives whose unhappy fate did not reach
the news associations and the press
wires. But the more than a score of
deaths that were placed upon the official
record will be more than sufficient to
, point the moral and adorn the tale.
With this record for a day confront
ing them, there are still those who will
question the right of the State to' pass
a law requiring automobilists to come
"■ to a stop before crossing a railroad track
at grade. They will maintain that the
■ railroads ought to station a watchman
at every crossing to protect the automo-
bilist from liis own imbecility. They
claim tite inalienable right of man to
'commit suicide if he wants to.
And not all of these deplorable acci
dents were at far-away places. At a
crossing near Wadesboro, in this state,
a young man and a young woman lost
their lives; and another girl was seri
ously injured.
Trains do and must run upon fast
schedules. They run upon stationary
rails that are themselves an advertise
ment of danger. It is a simple thing
and a reasonable precuation for the au
tomobilist to stop upon approaching a
track, and satisfy himself that no train
is approaching before venturing upon
the grade.
The record of Sunday is evidence su
perabundant that North Carolina is ev
erlastingly right in attempting to pro
tect automobilists from their own folly.
Their contention that the railroads
ought to be required to maintain watch
men or gates or both at all crossings is
an admission that they ought not to be
allowed to traverse the highways with
out a guardian. If the gates or the
watchmen are needed, then surely there
>s a danger from which the automobil
ists ought to protect themselves. The
surest protection is to stop and look and
listen.
That such a law is beneficial is proven
by tiie record prior to Sunday since the
luw lias been in effect in North Carolina.
There has 'been a very encouraging
dearth of automobile accidents ou rail
road crossings. This shows that the
majority of people are amenable to law
and reuson. But there are those who
do not want to be made to observe this
or any other law. These desire to speed
at will over the highways, endangering
their own lives and the lives of others.
They want the railroads and inter and
intra-state traffic to he mntle amenable
to their individual preferences. It is
these at which the law is aimed and
who are responsible for most of such
accidents ar those of Sunday.
Japan has retired 850 officers, includ
ing seven generals, since August, 1922.
The Japanese Government lias announc
ed that it will shortly discharge from
the service, 1371 additional officers, in
cluding four generals, seventeen lieaten
unt-generals, and thirty-three major gen
erals. Many retired officers have entcr
! the Department of Economics of the Im
i periul University to qualify for civilian
occupations.
In Spanish cities at eleven o'clock at
night the doors of all rooming houses
are closed and locked. After that hour
one can get get in only by calling the
guard or watchman of his particular
block. This is an old Spanish custom
j which holds over to the present day in
nearly all the cities of Spain. The
watchman carries a lantern and the keys
to all the houses under his charge.
1 usb tub runt toLim*—lT mil
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At a cool and cheerful
place, he rules with a
smile of welcome. He's
quick with his hands and
quick with his thought, and
ne knows how to serve just
what you want * when you
come in all thirsty and hot.
Drink
GwffiZa*,'
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Famous Old City.
The Hague lms n population of
860,000. It Is located In southern
Holland,..and is the sent of the Dutch
government. It Is a fashionable and
handsome city with fine streets and
avenues and attractive squares.
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Observations of Oldest Inhjhitam.
One reason why the fools Who used
to drive horses Instead of cars hail so
few accidents was because the horses
at least had some sense. A cur hasn't
any more than the driver. —Cincinnati
inquirer.
PAGE THREE
Younger Generation Amazes.
A t\yent> year-old bridegroom baa
•applied f«.r a divorce, and declares
married life is bunk. The Intel
ligence of the younger generation Is
i source of increasing amazement te
us.—Topeka Capital.
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