PAGE FOUR Fhfc Concord DoQy ] “' ■ — - A'g Tfct Associated Press In exclusively entitled to the uh for republlcatton of *U »«r» credited to R or not otherwise Cal Rows published* horein. All rlghtp of repißillcatlon of special tlapatches herein are also reserved. U . Special Representative FROST, LANDIS ft KOHN 125 Fifth Avenue. New Tork Peoples’ Qas Building, Chicago (•04 Candler Building, Atlanta Altered as second class mail matter at os poetofflee at Concord. N. C.. un der the Act of March 8, 1(79. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the City of Concord by Carrier: Ctae Year 55.00 Six Months *OO Three Months 1-fO One Month —, -6® Outside of the State, the Subscription Is tho Same as in the CUT OUt of the oity and by mail in North Carolina tho following prices will pre- Tear 35 00 Six Months f {>o Three Months ---■-r , 125 Lena Than Three Months, 50 Cents a Month Alt Subscriptions Must Be Paid In '■* Advance RAILROAD SCHEDULK In Effect June 28. 1921. Northbound. No. 186 To Washington 6:00 A. M. No. 86 To Washington . 10.25 A. M. No. 46 To Danville P. M. No. 12 To Richmond 7:25 P. M. No. 82 To Washington 8.28 P. M. No. 88 To Washington 9.30 P.M. No. 80 To Washington 1:10 A. M. Southbound. M No. 15 To Charlotte 4:14 £• KS IS R iK.“ H i £ SS Ji'R «FBS is £ £ No 11 To Charlotte 9»5 A. M. NA 186 To Atlanta 9:18 P ’ M i L TODAY—J ~ _Bc Charitable :—Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spirit ual.**’w?#Qre a OJie n spirit of meekness; •;considering thyself lest thou also be templed. Galatians 6 :1. Prayer: Most merciful God. help us to bear one another's burdens aud so fulfill the law of Christ. Amen” CARELESSNESS BES't KILLER. According to figures made public by the State Highway Commission careless ness is the best killer on the highways of the State. Common carelessness was re sponsible for the greatest number of au to accidents on the State highway system during the last four months of 1924 when 27 persons were killed and 844 in jured iu a total of 421 accidents. , Tiie commission also has released a traffic census of the highways of the State made on January 8 of this yean, showing the density of traffic at Various points throughout the State. In general the number of accidents is shown to be related to the density of traffic in each of the nine highway districts. Tho re port shows for the first district 1.016 ve hicles and 48 accidents; second district 1.862 vehicles and 37 accidents; third district 831 vehicles and 16 accidents; fourth district 2.747 vehicles arid 58 accidents: fifth district 2.124 vehicles and 120 accidents: sixth district 2.225 vehicles and 32 accidents; seventh dis trict 1,164 vehicles and 37 accidents: e-ghth district 1.317 vehicles and 29 ac cidents ; ninth district 2.358 vehicles and 44 Accidents. It is explained in the re port that traffic density is based upon the number of vehicles passing over a given road in one day. Carelessness and reckless driving caus ed 113 of the 421 accidents during the period. Speeding caused 89 und intoxi cated drivers 34. Blinding headlights were responsible for 20 smashes and driv ing on the wrong side of the road result ed in 16 collisions while 19, accidents were caused by faults in the cars. Driv ers who went to sleep at the wheel caused seven accidents. Speeders killed eight persons, the high est for the period. Three children who ran out in front of cars were killed. There was only one accident at a railroad cross ing during the period and that did not result fatally. jn the sixth district which includes Cabarrus County one person was killed and 23 ‘injured during the period. Auto accidents are increasing daily but we have not learned a lesson of care fulness yet. It is a horrible toll the auto takes, esjiecially when we remember that carelessness is responsible for most of the deaths. PROHIBITION A PROBLEM. Mental disease in New York is decreas ing. The insanity rate in 1924 was 67.9 tier 100,000 of population against 69.4 ,:n 1923. The „1017 rate. 73.6 was the highest in that State’s history. Drug insanity also is decreasing. Nine teen new cases were admitted to the in stitution last year in New York, against 22 in 1923 and 20 in 1922. However, the picture is not entirely rosy, for against these figure's the fttate hospital commission for the Empire Htate sbans an increase of alcoholic insanity, j';* Last year 373 such victims were taken into institutions, while in 1923 the num ber was 276: in 1929 only 122. The Salisbury Post thinks the in cwmse “is due no doubt to the low grade Bailor uuijveyfcd bytjur bootleggers." The font rightly sair*(“tht problem of pjuhi bitidu. enforcement isW tough one, partic ularly when so mauy hold the law in ] •m<*h liirhfc rnravtT" The law not only is held & “light ter 9 M they will not obey it. The bootlegger is hard to catch when many influential men buy the rotten stuff the ’Rigger has to sell. These men seal their when they make the pur-• chase for it is just as unlawful to buy liqnor as it is to sell it. Naturally they are not going to squeal when by so do ing they will get themselves in as much trouble as they bring to the bootlegger. It is a “tough problenl” and will con tinue to be until more people eo-operate with the officers in enforcing the law. a :— jl. _ jbt YOUR INCOME TAX No. ai Taxes paid or accrued during the tax able year are reducible within limita tions prescribed by the revenue act of 1924. Such items include taves on per sonal property and real estate, wheth er business or residential. So-called taxes assessed against local benefits, such as street paving or drainage, which tend to increase value of the property assessed, are not deductible, since they are considered as constituting the cost of a permanent improvement. The federal income taxes may net be deducted. Other federal taxes, howev er, are deductible. Examples of mis cellaneous occupational taxes are taxes on propietors of shooting galleries, pool rooms, bowling alleys, customhouse brok ers and stock brokers. The federal es tate tax is deductible from the gross in come of the estate of a descendant iu as certaining the net income of the estate subject to tax. Postage is not a tax. It is a pay ment for a service. It is not an allow able deduction as a tax or otherwise to a person not engaged in business. To a person engaged in business, it is an allowable deduction as a business ex pense. Taxes paid by a tenant to or foi a landlord for business property constitute additional rent and may be deducted as such. To the landlord such payments constitute taxable income. Taxes paid by a tenant to or for a landlord for prop erty used by the tenant as a .residence are not deductible. In this case, they constitute a personal living expense to the tenant. In either case, if the land lord includes the amount of such taxes in his gross income, he may also take as a deduction the same amount for taxes paid. If, however, the taxes paid by a tenant include an amount for a “local benefit.” the landlord must include such amount in his gross income and can , not take any deduction therefor. The Bad Check Law. “The irassage of the check mil urged by our association will serve to check the bad check nuisance iu the State, provided the merchants aud others have the nerve 6o bring prosecutions under it." said J' Paul Leonard, secretary of the North Carolina Merchants’ Associa tion and editor of the Carolina Ketniler, who is in the city. “The law applies to all worthless checks except post-dated checks.” The Ipw as enacted is: "Section 1. Any persou, firm, or cor poration "who shall draw Or deliver to another nuy cheek or draft signed or purporting to-be signed by such person, firm or corporation, and drawn on any bank or depository for the payment of money or its equivalent and who shall at the time of delivering any such check or draft as aforesaid, have insufficent funds on deposit, in or credits with such bank or depository with which to pay such check or draft upon its presenta tion, and Who shall fall to provide such funds or credits for the payment of such check or draft upon its presenta tion, or within ten days after written or verbal notice of non-payment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court. "Sec- 2. That the word ‘credits’ as used herein shall be constructed to be an arrangement or understanding with the bank or depository upon which such check or draft is drawn for the payment of such check or draft upon its presenta tion. “Sec. 3. Prosecution under this act shall bar prosecution under section 4283. Consolidated Statutes. “Sec. 4. This aet shall not apply to post dated checks or to drafrs payble at a fixed or determinable time after the delivery thereof. “See. 5. That this act shall be in force and effect from and after its rati fication.” Belden, Hill, the new president of Mississippi Valley Baseball League, has had a career of nearly forty years in the game, mostly as n player in the prom inent minor leagues of the South, and Middle West. During a recent football match in Eng land. a black cat took up a position on the crossbar of the home team’s goal. The cat watched the game intently, and though the uprights were struck fre quently the cat remained there. Ordinary Cakes Might do Some times, But Not for New Years See that your Grocer gives you Royalty Cake: Chocolate Cocoanut Strawberry Orange Cherry Lemon Pineapple Plain Rkifiin Caramel , ~ fc.’BM MMtf. ' ' ** ‘ .J js* i -’ r 1 CONCORD^STEMI POLICE MOVE AGAINST IS PLATS ON BROADWAY Productions . Complained os as “Inde cent” Said to Be Doing “Standing > Room” Business. New York, Feb. 17.—Broadway’s list of plays against which complaints have been preferred— most of them said to be doing a “standing room only” business — grew to IS today. This developed at a conference be tween District Attorney Banton, Chief City Magistrate McAdoo and Police Commissioner Enright. Mr. Enifight en tered the meeting with reports only 13 plays ordered by police detectives and stengraphers after citizens had com plained to him against tbe productions. The name of none of the productions was made known, but it was no secret that William A. Brady's production of “A Good Bad Woman” 1 was one of the list. ’ ' Mr. Banton announced he would de tail his own men to investigate the plays already reported upon to the police head, and % then would determine if they were to be proceeded against with the aid of the grand jury. Dolly Madrson. The Pathfinder. Qucs. Please tell me who Dolly Madi son was.—Ann. Dolly Madison was the wife of James Mndison. fourth presi dent of the United States. Her maiden name wan Dorothy Payne. She wne born in North Carolina in 1767. When she was a little girl her parents moved to Philadelphia and embveed the Quaker ' faith. In 1786 Dolly married John Todd, a Quaker lawyer. They had two chil ' dren, only one of whom grew to maturity. John Todd and one of his 1 children died of yellow fever. Dolly 1 Todd as a widow was one of the, most heautiful aud attractive women in ' Philadelphia. One day she sent a dear friend the following note: “Dear Friend: Come to me. Aaron Burr says the great little Mndison has asked to be brought to sefc me this evening.” She and Madison were eengaged to be mar ried in 1794, Madison then being the Democratic leader in the house of repre sentatives. When President and Mas. Washington hard of it they immediately sent for Dolly. “Is it true?” asked the “first" First Lady of the Land. “No, I think not,” replied Dolly blushingly. : “Be not ashamed,” said Lady Wash ! ing. “James Madison is a good man.” | Then Dolly confessed her engagement to the “Father of the Constitution " After | their marriage they went to live at 1 Montpelier, the ancestral estate of the Madisons in Virginia. Since Jefferson was a widower when he was elected president and both his daughters were I married. Dolly Madison, as wife of the secretary of state, became “acting” ’ First Lady of the Land. No woman in 1 the White House was ever more popular ' than Dolly Madisou. After her husband became president she was undoubtedly ' the most popular person in the United States. Her tact, grace and geniality ’ made her loved by all. She never really was a Quaker at heart. She loved the beautiful things of life, and she loved to make others happy. Her old Quaker friends shook their heads and said that 1 Dolly loved too much the things of this world. But they never ceased to love her. She delighted in the ceremonies of ’ the Episcopal church of whi/h she be - came a member in her later years. Her ‘ popularity ns a society leader did not : wane after the passing of her dis tinguished husband in 1836. Congress 1 voted her the franking privilege and al lowed her a seat on the floor of congress, a privilege never before granted to a ; woman. In 1845 Mrs. Madison was the guest of President Tyler on board the V. S. steamship Princeton. When the vessel was opposite Mt. A'ernou a salute 1 was fired in honor of Washington, fine of the largest guns blew up. scattering its deadly fragments right and left . Two members of the cabinet were killed — Abel P. Upshur, secretary of state, and T. W. Gilmer, secretary of the navy. President Tyler and Mrs. Madison were uphurt. She died in 1849. Mrs. Madi son’s only grief was in connection with her wayward son by -her first husband. He was dissolute and many times Madi- J sen paid his debts to keep bint from the clutches of tbe law. Finally his debts caused tbe financial' ruin of hie mother. HWMKMRF.R PENN Y ADS ARE CASH EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO AN-P NOTHAT ivt HAVCS, WITH RSUSM AN“D <£AJSTq, PARTAKEN Tb\© < a=>T/B[K) g T THAT £ KipUL •fi'ALC.eD ON S^Y AMYTHimc^ 1 Hsiee howcvbr^ ~L ... —.— “ .... - THE CONGO® DAILY TRIBUNE !"■ " n np. DINNER STORIES I 2.1 — 1 In Strict Confidence. Two strangers in a train had got into a friendly conversation. The windows had just been opened on acount of the closeness of the day, and the desultory chatter turned to the subject of ventila tion. “I make it,” said one of the passeng ers. “an invariable practice to advise people to sleep with their bedroom win dows open all the year round.” “Ha, ha 1” lauged the other; "I per ceive you are a doctor.” “Not at all,” was the confident reply. “To tell you the truth, strictly between ourselves, I am—a burglar.” Just Misses Him . A negro waa trying to saddle a frac tious mule. "Does that mule ever kick you, Sam?” asked a bystander. “No, suh,” said Sam, “but be some times kicks wha I jes’ been.” Husbands of Some Use. A I.ebanan young woman who repeat edly has sworn she never will marry is beginning to weaken and an announce- 1 ment may be expected at any time. “I never thought I would want a husband sticking around,” she explained to us in confidence last night, “but I’ve gel one of these new shingle boys and to save my life I can’t shave my own neck. I simply loathe waiting two or three liours in a barber shop on other girls who get in ahead of me. It looks as thought I’d have to marry to save my bobbed beau ty.” The Best of Luck. A group of men 1° 11 western town made up a party to hunt bear. Among them was the principal of the local high school, a man of sedentary habits, not at all used to camping, aud morbidly afraid of bears. He was anxious to have the outing, however, so he went with the crowd. All day long the men scouted for bear signs and at night they sat about the camp fire and spun wonderful bear stories until the professor had cold chils. “Yes.” replied the professor. “What luck did you have?” the friend asked. “Best luck in the world,” earnestly. "We never saw a single bear." No Position to Judge. Joshua Kornshux, of Scrabble Corners, was paying a visit to the city and while there ran into a fellow townsman. . “And how do you like the city. Josh?’ he was asked. “I dounno.” was the dismaly , reply. “My wife’s along." Let Your Next Battery Be An EXIDE Use Only the Best 2 Wives, Happy Charles Vaught of Evansville, Ind., fi was living in perfect peace and sup- X porting two wives on $35 a week, X besides buying an auto. And then 8 the police arrested him ter bigamy. X The Dearborn Independent" says: “An B Indian, who once wore tl\e blanket and B received government rations, is \ today Q guiding the Senate of the United States. Q He is Charles Curtis, of Kansas, who ■ ha% taken the place formermly filled by a Henfy Cabot Lodge.” Jr Useful and Ornamental. 0 Mrs. Mandy Jefferson: “IVhat am yo' B husband gwine git yo’ fo’ yo’ buthday ?” A Mrs. Liza Johnson: “Ah reckon. Ab’ll Q have him git me himself a job.” X BUTTER § Fresh Creamery | Butter at all Times. | Made from Cream produced in Cabar rus county: 1 Bound Prints 1-4 Pound Prints Wholesale and Retail | CABARRUS CREAMERY CO. j M S. Union SI MAY WE TAKE YOUR OR DER? for a complete up-to-date sani tary bathroom equipment in your home? Our wash basins, bath- i tubs, foottubs, toilets, etc., are j he latest design and are very easy i to keep clean and white-looking. E. B. GRADY Phone 384 W Show Rom 34 E. Corbin St. \ MOvSCojw / \fA