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Special Representative
FROST, LANDIS ft KOHN
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DINNER STORIES
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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 §
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produced in Cabar
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