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PAGE FOUR —————— n»e Concord Drily Tribune. fcygagfejrsgiMai ' TSfe ASSOOATEX^PBJBHH The Associated Pr«u It exclusively entitled to tbe use for republication of all Bears credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lo cal news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Special Kew'esentatire FRoStTLANDIS ft KOHN *25 Fifth Avenue, New York Peoples' Gas Building, Chicago 1004 Candler Building, Atlanta BnCered as second class mall matter at the pestolllce at Concord. N. C., un der the Act of March t, I*7». 1 l J ' SUBSCRIPTION RATOS m the city of Concord by Carrier; (tee Tear Six Months M 2 Three Months —— 1 ;“” Outbid?” 1 ? theStatV'theSubscrtptiuP- Ia the Same a* in the CHy oSSiX S 3 SMStftSS 3u"S£ <sa Six Months J'jj Less*Thsm n Three Months, 50 Cents a Month _ __ all Subscriptions Must Be Paid In Advance RAILROAD SCHEDULE In Effect June 28, 1925. Northbound. No. 40 To New York 9:_B P. -J. No. 136 to Washington 5.05 A. M. No. 36 To New York p No. 34 To New York 4.43 P. M. No. 40 To Danville 3.15 P. M. No. 12 To Richmond 7A.OF.aL. No. 32 To Wash, and beyond 0 .03 P.M. No! 30 To New York 1:55 A. M. Southbound. No. 45 To Charlotte qlS'p'M No. 35 To New Orleans 9 ..)<> P. 51. No. 29 To Birmingham 2 ;35 A. 51. No. 31 To Augusta 5:ol A. 51. No. 33 To New Orleans 8:25 A. M. No. 11 To Charlotte 8:0o A. M. No. 135 To Atlanta 8:35 P. M. No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. 51. No. 39 To New Orleans 9:55 A. M. Train No. 34 will stop in Concord to take on passengers going to Washington and beyond. Train No. 37 will stop here to discharge passengers coming from beyond Wash ington. All of other trains except No. o 9 make regular stops in Concord. fl BIBLE THOUGHT! || X—FOR TODAY— III Bible Thoajrlita memorized, will prove *jg i! priceless heritage in after year* jg HOW GOD BLESSESTh* Lord thy God shall blew thee in all thine in crease. and in aU the works of thy hands, therefore thou ehalt surely rejoice—Deu teronomy 10:15. AGAIN LEADS IN BIRTH RATE. Figures contained in the Health Bul letin. issued by the State Board of Health, show that in 11124 North Caro lina again led the nation with its birth rate, while its death rate was the same as that for the registration area. The birth rate for the State was 31.6 per thousand of population anti the death rate 11.9. There is one phase of the report that should get careful study—the infant mor tality rate. We are leading the nation in bringing children into the world, but we are allowing too many to die. How ever. the report notes that the increase in the infant mortality rate occurred in tiie rural districts. The rate for 1923 was 76. S as compared with a rate for the rural districts of the registration area of 77.4. In T. 124 the rate for the rural districts of the State moved up to 79.8. an increase of two per thousand, while the rate for the rural districts of the registration area dropped to 71.0. a de crease of 6.4 per thousand. On the oth er hand the urban rate for the State dropped, the rate for 1924 being .100.7 as against 109.5 for 1923. a decrease of S.B per thousand. The rate for the ur ban districts of the registration area dropped from 77.9 in -923 to 72.8 in 1924. a dererease of 5.1 per thousand. Among the 14 cities of tile State with population of 10,000 or over. Gastonia led with tile highest birth rate, 41.0. with New Bern having the lowest 24.4. The same relative standing of these two cities occurred ill 1923. Gastonia and Salisbury divide honors for the lowest death rate. 10.7. a rate cons : derably un der that for the State. Salisbury was lowest in 1923 with High Point second. The highest rate is 24.0 for Asheville. Raleigh being second with a rate of 20.7. It should be noted that the rate for Ashe ville is materially affected by the large population in tuberculosis sanntoriums there. comi«ised almost altogether of non residents. The rate for Raleigh is also adversely affected by tile location of two large State institutions, the inmates of which are non-residents. Salisbury for 1924 achieves the lowest infant mortality rate, 61.5, taking first place held by High Point in 1923. Twelve of the 14 cities obtained a reduction in the infant mor tality rate for the year. High Point showed an increase from 69.6 to 93.4. and Wilmington an increase from 90.2 to 12&2. SCOTT INSANE? We wonder when a jury will decide some person charged with murder is not | insane. Russell Scott was tried and con victed for miirder and was sentenced to die. His case was heard by the Govern-. or of Illinois, who refused to interfere. with the court’s decision. Then Judge I Oavid grajited Scott another chance >by j ordering him examined %s ‘ to his sanity j and the jury promptly [finds him insane. Scott's lawyers polled something new 1 in this ease. They said he was suffering 1 from “cell insanity,” brought on by hi* long confinement. They did not even* arggei that he was insane when first brought tp trial, but rather that his «m --•’ , ' ' » : Judge Oglesby, Youngest Judge, Brings Optimism to State Theodore Harris in Asheville Citizen. If Judge John M. Oglesby, youngest of North Carolina’s Superior Court mag ‘istrates, may be regarded as spokesman for tbe State’s juniorate, the new genera tion of laborers in the field of jurispru dence brings a message of optimism to the citizenship as awhole. The ancient Latin saying, "juniores ad labores.” the younger men for labors, seems appropriate of quotation in con nection with Asheville’s discovery that the representative or the fresh school of judges is impressed with the demand for vigilance in the correction of pressing ills; but confident there exists no lack j of capability for their solution. Judge Oglesby has presided over both civil and criminal terms of sufficient! length to give an idea of ills standing. Buncombe has awaited the coming with more than ordinary interest, recognizing in him a specimen of the clement of Tal lied life which is coming more and more to the front in the management of its affairs: the veteran of the World War. Governor Angus Wilton McLean has been especially impressed with the im portance and recognition of the soldiers and while Judge Oglesby was regarded by the executive as possessing many other qualifications for the bench, it is ■ known that his military status was among the outstanding attractions for the governor. The new judge is well oil the sunny side of 40 anil is a fair representative of that group which has come to the forefront of public affairs during recent years. A study of his charge delivered last week and widely discussed by mem bers of the bar and the laity, reveals an i undaunted hopefulness that may augur ; well for North Carolina’s immediate fu ture. The judge told his jurors that | the average citizen is dependable and law- j abiding. The congestion of the courts. I the great number of crimes and various 1 other conditions conducive to pessimism j are deplorable and worthy of earnest at tention but they are not, as some would inieate, a symptom of tile times. Small Element. It is a very smaTT element that fur nishes the names for the criminal court dockets and flaunts the decent citizenry. Judge Oglesby e ntinued. Two conflict ing forces are in battle formation, those j of righteousness and unrighteousness. It is the belief of the jurist that those marching beneath the banners of right greatly outnumber their adversaries al-j though it is often true the evil element wages more spectacular warfare How ever. there must be no tendency to un derestimate the necessity of caution. With ali its advances, modern civilization is ■ threatened with ominous handicaps. Ad mitting that aimost every man lias a different reason to offer for some present distressing tendencies, tile judge express ed the conviction (bat America's chief danger, shared by North Carolina, is loss of respect for constituted authority. | Symptoms of this hazard are seen ill the home, tile school, the church. It takes no particularly keen scrutiny for \ one to discover, in many family groujis. a feeling among children that their elders are not deserving of the obedience that parenthood once demanded as a right and received as a voluntary offering. ■ Fathers and mothers are less inclined to enforce their demands for deferential re- i gard" than were their fathers and moth ers ; and children are less prone to pre- ■ sent it. The result is far-reaching ami corrosive. One of its immediate signals' is seen in the schools where pupils and teachers alike seem lax. Instructors do not require of their subordinates nor proffer to their superiors the spirit of cireunispeetion that ought to be a corner- j stone rs the scholastic structure. No teachers. Judge Oglesby observed, lias the authority to inculcate principles that are contrary to law. No preceptor has the right to set his own private opin ion against the statutes of his common wealth. Regardless of any view that tinenient lias deranged his mind. Os course the alienists were on to testi- j fy for the State and the defense. One! group was just as reputable and promi- ' nent as the other, yet they disagreed as!' they always do in such cases. The State alienists said Seott was all right now: I those employed by the defense said he ■ was insane. There is just one experi- j ment we would like to see tried. Get a bunch of alienists to examine a man ! without telling them which side they', were to be employed on. and see what! they would do. Scott lias ben committed to an insane, asylum as a result of the jury's verdict and if he ever gets normal again lie will face the death charge again. The chance* are he will never recover, certainly not until his lawyers see some loop-hole they think he can escape through. French astronomers predict a “hard winter” because they see condition now just as they were about 1780 when, ac cording to historians, the winter was very severe. We don't know enough about astronomy to argue the question one way or the other, neither do we know any" one who lived through the winter of 1780. but we do know the winter will be a hard one to the man who doesu’t but his coal in time. The anthracite strike may be averted but just the same coal prices are going to be higher than they are now and there is every rason to believe they will be a dollar or two higher then they were • last winter, Nazim-) va Is Divorced. New York Mirror. Alla Nazimova, screen star, is di vorced. I She obtained a decree from her hus j band, Charles Bryant, while in Paris. There were many report of this, but Naa ,imova refused to affirms or deny them until yesterday. | Then, she issued the announcement 1 through her manager. Mrs. Jean Adams, j St, Hollywood. [ 'NaziinoVa recently returned from three | months abroad. I Australia had 483 brides under sev enteen years of age in the year 1923. > The youngest was only thirteen. Better business methods and better ser vice and harder work than ever before are n-eded. he may entertain of the propriety of the law'g passage or the wisdom of its pro visions, it is his duty to obey it. If i his conception of his preeeptorship is such as to prevent compliance with law i in the presentation of iiis lessons, the, ■ proper course for him to follow is to re linquLsh his -position and combat the I i law in the right place. The judge be lieves. too, that the pulpit is no place for ministers, with ideas which do not conform to the vows they took when licensed, to ventilate their views. Ecclesiastical Forbears Two generations of preachers spoke j Chioagh the judge, both his father and j granduther having been ministers, he j said. In fact, some of those who heard the charge were inclined to remark that a great part of it might with propriety have been offered as a sermon, in a pul pit. If be were invited to condense a j guiding principle for consideration and adoption of America's law-abiding eiti- 1 zenship, he said, it would be. Keep sa- j cred and inviolate the saered principles | of constituted authority. He would rec ognize the material progress of this com monwealth and foster a proper pride in it. But he would likewise remind its citizenship that many of its boasts are ; sorry rodoniontads as long as North Car olina permits a murder a day within its borders. The young judge believes the state's homicide record is the worst blot on its pages, relating its modern his tory. Buncombe is particularly interested in the new judge's opinion of reckless and j drunken drivers, inasmuch as these wind ■ ing boulevards, to be enjoyed, must be , j kept safe. Tile man who is destined i to preside over the criminal courts here ) for the next five months expressed the I belief that a manhood which cannot keep | its highways safe for its wives and daughters might well scarify its hard surfaces and admits its impotence to en | force its laws. .Tttdge Oglesby believes it is better to turn a wild drunkard loose I in congested spots with a double barreled. I loaded shotgun than to allow him to' bend over tile wheel of a motor ear with impunity. The inebriate and the ex j emplar of recklessness will do well, it appears, to stay off the surrounding tracks until early January, at least, i If there are noisome resorts in Bun . pombe, where parental care of years and Christian fathers and mothers' righteous , examples may be corrupted in a night, j with physical ruin and moral disintegra i fion to a coming generation, they are | j here because Buncombe wants them, the Cabarrus man reminded the jurors. No law is impossible of enforcement if the | community it affects wants it enforced. , Spending exactly an ’hour in the delivery of his charge, the judge reviewed the va rious crimes that jurors must consider, [told of the investigations they must make! , and gave them some advice as to their j conduct in the. jury room. While he ’ I was not inclined to emphasize the ini- 1 portance of one law over another, per haps his reference to gambling is worthy lof consideration, inasmuch as Asheville, , during each session of the as sembly. sees an effort made' to legalize horse racing in Buncombe. Gambling Scored. ] “I know of no habit under which the .moral fiber more quickly crumbles than ; tlie gambling habit." Judge Oglesby ob served. “A bonding expert once told Ime that more good men go wrong in .Louisville. Ky.. than in any other South ern city, judging by the records of bis , firm in paying deficits of trusted em ployes. It is a known fact that their ' speculations start in bets at tile race : track and their erifiies end in various t types of misconduct." Judge Oglesby j believes that gambling, regardless of its natures, ranks weTl at the top of the 1 curses of the country. Asheville, home of many bridge parties at which check books are quite as prominently displayed as score cards, might ponder that deolar ation. I Charged With Chaining Grandson to ! Bed Post. | Fayetteville. Aug. s.—Mayor John H. i ( «><>k is today investigating the ciroum i stances surro.Hiding the home life of Walter Parker, 12, and Harvey, his 16- | year-old brother, following a hearing in which their grandfather. (Jib Parker. ■ was charged with assaulting and cruelly treating the younger of the boys. The two boys live with their grandparents i ill Campbell ton, or East r jtyetteville. , and police charge that Parker chained |the 12-year-old boy to a bed post for ; five hours Sunday be ause lie went to I Sunday school without his permission-. During the taking of the tixtknonv in the mayor’s court further evidence was brought out which resulted in me added charge of assault when the boys and neighbors testified as to a severe beating given the smaller lad by his grand" (father, allegedly because lie attended Sunday school on another occasion without obtaining the grandfather’s con sent. Mayor Cook reserved his decision in the ease until lie could investigate the facts further. Comity Welfare Officer John A. Martin is awaiting the mayor's action, and will probably take some step to see that the boys are given a bet ter home. The lads testified that their father was killed in an accident in a local factory several years ago and that i they did not know where their mother is living. Mother of Babe Must Scive Term on Roads. Raleigh. Aug. 6—Despite her eix month's-o'd babe. Ruth Green, negro, will have to serve 30 days on the roads for bootlegging under a sentence im posed by Recorder Rink Horrid i n city court today- Ruth has ben before the judge regularly once a month since her child was born, and each time she was let eff with a fine out of consideration for the infant. The courts'* patience broke today, and, arranging to have the baby eared for, ordered tbe woniau to the roads. Canada is to have a flag of its own soon. A red ensign bearing the Cana dian arms is at present flown over Cana dian building abrond. Although it has never been authorized, this flag, pr the flnion Jack with the Canadian arms in the center, may be decided upon, or an entirely new design may be arranged. The Hudson Bay Company, having kept records since 1846. finds that there is an Increase in the number ot rabbits, [foxes,, and box a,wry eleven years. THE CONCORD DSILY TRIBUNI wnikm B**Courtney i Copyright, lftSJ , “THE LOOTED MAIL* with Meat* 1 j v * - Warner Bros. , SYNOPSIS Bob Wilton, a young tramp, Mat saved tit Limited from ditatter on a trestle in Granite Gorge, and Mat rid den into Crater City with Jim Fowler, the meal derk. At the ttation the conductor hands him a purse which has been raised by the passengers at a thank ofering. He refuses to ac cept it for himself but tones it to Potts and Spike, fellow-vagabonds. Then he accompaniet Fowler to hie home. Jim it happy and excited, for | he expects to find that he hat become | a father. CHAPTER ll—Continued ■No- one paid any attention to Bob, ■who softly closed the door behind him, then leaned inconspicuously against it—his feeling of intrusion changed, unaccountably, to one of apprehension. Jim did not look at the infant long. He cast a loving glance to ward the doorway of a darkened ad joining room, then whirled joyously upon the Doctor and framed the \ question that was uppermost in his heart. “And—my wife—•” The doctor snapped his bag so berly. Bob, watching, saw the mid wife, Mrs. O’Leary, clutch the baby close to her in a scared way; saw the minister wet his lips. The Doc tor, in whose face were the lines ' and the cares of hard fights and harder responsibilities, conceived words that his voice failed ha bear; then seemed to expect that the tes timony of his face would serva be yond the need of speech. But Jim, in a sudden frenzy, caught hold of him and shook him. “My boy,” the Doctor forced him self to say in an awkwardly fiat and tired voice, “your wife is deadl” j ' r Bob wu barely quick anoagh to ■Batch the infant from its peril. CHAPTER 111 Bob, the shabby and bruised hobo, in that tragic moment had a leaden feeling that he was sacrilegiously out of place, and wished that he ' were a thousand disinterested miles away. But this selfish thought was dismissed the next instant by a self forgetful wave of human sympathy for the man who had befriended him. Over that slenderly fine and idealistic face, so flushed with love and adoring pride and happy ex pectations only a few moments be fore, there now came such frozen and bloodless vacantncss as might be on the face of a lost soul before Ihe Final Bar, struggling to grasp the sentence of eternal condemna tion he has just (heard pronounced by the Maker. Bob had never seen such naked tragedy. He felt himself relaxing limply against the jamb of the door way, through which he had barely stepped. Jim, on rigid limbs, moved stiffly toward a dark door. The sepulchral silence of this outer room seemed a hallowed measure for that inner one. The doctor, knowing full well the devastating menace of such a pent up flood of emotion, shook Jim as if in an effort to break loose the key log of his emotions. , “Cjme, Jim, my lad—don’t—don’t But even the professional witness to grief realized the futility of words, here and now, and forebore. Jim had neither beard nor felt. For a long, long time these four —doctor and minister, nurse and hobo—stared toward the unsoluble darkness of the door td that room wherein was- entombed life and love, hope and happiness. No sound came from this first and last meeting of living death and dead life; no sound to relieve the .anxiety of the doctor. A The Higher Criticism George, the village loafer, had by Home means edged pant toe doortender and was among those present at a dramatic per formance by local talent. Before the show -wan half even he was slibwings signs of restlessness.-j> :! ! “How do you like the show, George?" asked the man next to him, "Well.” was the reply. "If I wasn't . settin’ down, I'd feWlihet was wastin' j time.” REMEMBER PENNY ADS ARE CASH «, Winti Bros. Bias, it a plctnrixation of Oil story by . Piets res, lao, , wise in stsch crises, or of the woman, r who held in her arms the restless, i wriggling, living cost of the sacri • fice. The doctor said at length: , "He must break, and cry—oir be, i too, will go.” | The silence became so oppres ' sive that the slow and tense breath ing of the four adults, the fretting 1 of the newborn, the unduly hurried ' ticking of a tpantel clock some [ where, the rasping whisper of the gas-jet, and, like a mourner’s dirge, the vague murmurings of the shut out tempest only seemed to make it more tangibly real and intense; it was a breathing,' curiously alert silence. Bob never knew how long that wait—that silence—that frightened tableau of watchers endured. It might have been a minute or an hour, but it was unfadingly inked in the white memory cells of his mind with the indelibility of dustless eter nity. Slow, Infirm Steps—and Jim emerged from the dark tomb. The lines of his agony had set dry and hard on his face; his dully bright eyes stared straight ahead seeing nothing—or, at least, nothing that was within the ken of those who watched him. So oblivious was he to external Impressions that he did not even blink in the sharp change from the blackness of the room of death to the brightness of this room of new life. He walked toward the outer door and the storm. The Doctor, with the kindly ig norance and blundering psychology of his class, to whom grief is a gen eric thing, to be met and humored and broken thus and go, said, “Come, Jim," slipping an arm around the young man’s shoulders with the fatherly license of a life long healer and friend, iconic—my boy—” Then adding lamely, in wardly baffled by the insufficiency of his power of suggestion, “It can’t be helped—there’s nothing to be done. Cry, now—have a good cry— it will do you good!” Jim did not even know to shake the restraining arm off. He merely walked unheeding, from under it. The minister stepped after him with gingery softness, and said monotonously, “Why not try pray er, my son—seek your comfort and solace sh the filial, hope of all those who grieve—” Jim shook the minister's blue white hands off as though they were sticky caterpillars. “Go to hell!” he said In a low, thin tone, and walked on. as if he had neither heard nor spoken. To Bob, as a disinterested observer, it appeared that the minister’s quick discomfiture grew out of ruffled pride in his own sense of weak ness, rather than sympathetic feel ing for Jim. Bob felt himself an audience to a shadow drama. Here was life bared to its essentials; here was a tiny hinterland parlor transformed into a tragic stage. Lasts urged by instincts developed in the lore and tradition of her sex that told her the canny thing to do in such a case, Mrs. O'Leary im posed her matronly bulk in Jim’s way and held out to him his new born. “Take the little one, Jimmy —” she said tremulously. Jim automatically received the in fant into his outstretched hands, and a announced the beliei of the professional watch ers that surcease for Jim was at hand. Bob. however, seeing in Jim’s face a dull insensibility of what he was doing, was not fooled. It was well that he had not been, for with the others temporarily off guard there would have been a hideous ante-climax to the tragedy. For Jim, with a sudden snarled curse as he realized that he was holding the baby—the hateful price of a faded rose—raised it to dash it to the floor. Bob was barely quick enough to snatch the infant from its peril. Then Jim, with a dry, insane laugh that raised brittle echoes in the room, disappeared out into the night. t “He must be followed,” cried the Doctor, “or he may harm himself 1” i “He must!” agreed the robust minister. Bob pushed the infant back I against the ample bosom of Mrs. : O’Leary. i “I was thinking of that,” he said , quietly to the Doctor. “I’ll take t care of him!” E I - ~ , (To be continued) Not Dumb But Dumber. “Alia 1" (-hurtled the poor nut. "I have a good scheme to get rich quick. I'll ojien a floral shop.” j “But when are you going. to get your capital to buy Vibe flowers V” asked the trine guy. “Don’t need any; that’* the beauty iof It all. I’ll, cater only to funerals where flowers are omitted.” The task of publishing a da : ly newspa per wUs ftisvcr quite so complicated as it m today. , / | BELL-HARKIS FURNITURE CO. * | Greater Comfort in a Home is Only 8 Received From One That is Home Like ] ; v ‘. -a . | ; I Our Display of Bedroom Suites is Especially Complete at this Time All of the popular period design are presented in the ' ' various woods and finishes, and at the low prevailing 11 prices they represent vales that cannot be duplicated else- P ' where. Come in and see these suites. Full suites priced !'< from $78.00 and up. ( , jjj i t i > ’ ] | BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. | I —: Sewing ut an old fashion ?(l machine is nothing L 9 more or less than a tradi- ■ S| tion today in the modern uJH home where wise minds have decided that every- ||H thing thjtt saves time and sB ?nergy is economy. Let flkjs us demonstrate one of Bgl 'these small motors that jl run sewing machines. B*B “Fixtures of Character" W. 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