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HIGHWAY CONTROVERSY
GROWS HOT IN TEXAS
With Governor Out of Town, “Pa”
Ftt-gu&n Takes I p Reigns of Gov
<r ament.
Austin, Tex., Dec. 2. —.lames E.
Ferguson, husband and advisor us
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, and
Attorney-General Moody renewed
with vigor today their battle of.
ittatementK centering around the con-1
ran let the American Road company
;b.v the Texas highway commission. i
Ferguson, former governor of Tex-!
as, and veteran of a .number of hard
fought political eampaigna. wolfed
at the claim that Moody had served
the state by foix-ing the American
Road company to confess judgment
in court of SOOO,OOO. alleged excess
profits on the highway contraet. He
estimated Moody’s prosecution of the
road company in the end would cost
the state at least $900,000, the pro
fit made by the company, and that
the cost likely would reach $1,800.-'
000, the profit plus $900,000 which 1
he declared the state probably will
have to pay for a second course of
asphaltic treatme t on 'OO miles of
state highways.
In, reference to the probability the
suit of the attorney-general will cost
the state $1,800,000 Ferguson spoke
of "the great legal gymnastics of the
youthful attorney-general." and de
clared "let these enthusiasts of the
youhful attorney analyze these flfe
ures to their heart’s content and they
can uot deny or escape the fact that
the state got the hot end of the poker
a« a result of Moody's big suit
against, the highway commission."
Moody replied by characterizing
Ferguson's statement as a “labaretl
attempt to juggle the figures and
mislead the public mind." He em
phasized his answer “was not made
in justification of anyone but in
order that the people of Texas may
have the truth and not be deluded
and deceived by the attempt to jug
gle mud misstate facts.”-
Shortly after his reply to Fergu
son’s charge, the attorney-general
squelched the rnmmor that his
formnl answer was to be taken ns an
indication he will run for governor
in 192 C.
"My answer carries no such signi
ficance,” he said.
KIPLING IS SERIOUSLY
SICK WITH PNEUMONIA
Condition of Famous Author “Anx
ious But Not Serious,” Physician
Declares.
London. Dec. 2.—Rudyard Kipling
has been stricken with double pneu
monia at the little Sussex village of
Burwnsh. Late tonight. London was
filled with nlarmixt report. One was
that the disease had developed rapid
ly and that the condition of the noted
author had become worse.
Lord Dawson, the king’s physician,
was called in consultation wit'j the
regular physician, and this evening lie
informed the Associated Press upon
his return to London that Kipling
was suffering from double pneumonia
and his condition was "anxious but
not dangerous."
Close friends of Kipling received
* telegram- -nt S- o’clock tonight from
Burwnsh. with Kipling’s name at
tached, saying that the doctors were
satisfied with his condition, but that
tiie disease must run its course.
A College Where Smoking Is itauned
To the Editor of The Observer.
I note i that there seems to be a
growing thought that sometime in
the future it will be necessary for
girls’ colleges to permit their stu
dent to smoke—in other words that
smoking will be a necessary part of
college life for both men and women.
It may be interesting to know that
at li-ttst one large and very prosper-
ailures Among Oil Wells Cost $90,000,000 Every Year
W l 1 M £|3Ek ip
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SwicuUßßeFiMeiy/ at Houston
CHICAGO Twenty-three per
tent of all wells drilled for oil
Save been failures, according to a
bulletin issued by the American
Research Foundation here.
“Drilling oil wells has cost $12,-
100,000,000 since the beginning of
the oil industry/* says the bulletin,
"and all the oil ever recovered has
brought the producers only $7,-
100,000,000. Eighty percent of
irella drilled in wild-cat territory
tever struck oiL >
“Dry holes for the last few
rears have resulted in an average
oas to.operators of $00,000,000 a
tear. Probably the costliest fail
ure ever drilled was In California
rhers a well that did not strike
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
Main Street to Grand Opera
, 1 j
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Twelve years ago Luella Melius left her home town of
(or Europe to develop her voice. Now she has made her debut with th*
Chicago Opera Company and is hailed as one of the great jfiinds’J_of .the
century. She is a coloratura soprano»
ous institution, namely Onierlin Col
lege at Omerlin, 0., has never per
mitted any of its students, either men
or women, to smoke and smoking
mentis expulsion. Moreover, no mem
ber of the faculty was allowed to
smoke. I was a student at Obevlin
for two years, 1883-Sfi, and this re
quirement WHS earnestly and honest
ly observed by the student body.
Many of these young men and Women
roomed in the houses throughout the
town amt the rule was respected no
matter where they were.
C. O. VARDELL, .
President Flora Macdonald College.
Red Spring, Nov. 30.
Two Forms of Death Punishment in
Kentucky.
Frankfort, Dec. 2.— </P) —Kentucky !
is unique in having two forms of
death punishment, linngiug and elec-1
tlocution. Hanging is for crime*
against women; electrocution for rimr j
dor.
The 1920 legislature passed the
hanging law. A Lexington hanging
recently was the first one under the
net which brought back the discarded |
gallows, which Clerk Goodman of the j
Kentucky Court of Appeals, said ims I
deterred unlawful commissions pro-;
nouneodly.
Rabbit Turns Tables cn Hunter, j
Mullhousc, Alsace-Lorraine. France, I
Dee. 2.—A rabbit turned the tables;
on a hunter ami woufded him with!
his own gun in Xeufbrish Forest to-
DBIU.IMO CREW
oil represented an investment of
$300,000. One company spent
more than $1,000,000 on five fail
ures.
“The loot of stock promotion
fakers who took the public’s
money and never drilled at all is a
loss not figured in these estimates.
There is as much danger today as
in the past In investing in fly-by
night oil schemes and companies
not tacked by a personnel of in
A fanner named De Mouelie, while
inspecting some traps, laid down fiis
shot ttun in order to take a captured
rabbit out of a snare, when another
rabbit dashed out of a thicket and
sprung shot gun's trigger. The
hunter received the full charge in his
back but was able to crawl home. A
physician sent him to a hospital.
Talk to Pretty Girls Is One \Vay to
Live Leng.
Oxford, Eng.. Deo. 2.—G4>)—Listen
to music, look at beautiful things,
chat with friends, wear your best
clothes and talk all you can to pretty
girls, if you wish to live for many
years.
This is the adviee given by Pro
fessor Friar Bacon, of Oxford, where
the average age of the heads of all
the cplleges has reaehed seventy years.
Among Pile educators a conclusion
prevails, however, that longevity is an
accident,rather than an achievement.
Danger Ahead.
Butli had been taking .shots in the
arm as a typhoid preventive.
“Mother." she eomplnined, after
the doctor had departed from his last
visit, "if they don't quit giving me so
many punctures I’m going to have a
blowout."
Offspring: “Why do they have a
buffalo on our five-eeut pieces, pot)?"
Progenitor: “Because it no longer
bison nickel's worth. Go (o bed."
telligent and skilled oil operators.
“Standard Oil. Sinclair, Texas.
Royal Dutch Shell, and other great
oil companies are constantly pros
pecting: for new oil areas and de
veloping new oil fields throughout
the world. Only companies
equipped with scientific and rhor
oughly trained men have more
than a fighting chance to win in
a business that is becoming mom
■ CMtly every year.”
GOVERNOR MeLEAN IS
HEARD IN' NEW YORK
(Continued From Page One)
however, interfering with those whole
some functions of government which
are so necessary to the continued
progress and well being of the peo-
' In my own slate," said the speak
ing. turning to tile problems be lias
met in N'ortli Carolina, "we have only
recently gotten away from an old and
inelastic system, perbapb more em
phasized in its failures to meet mod
ern requirements that was tlt«- ease
in many other commonwealths. There
were approximately 73 departments,
institutions, and other agencies ad
ministering the state's affairs. Many
of these hnd been given overlapping
duties nnd responsibilities which
caused much duplication of effort and
outlay. We bad no centralized con
trol. and no adequate supervision was
lodged anywhere."
The governor reviewed the history
of the development of this state dur
ing the past fifty years, and then
launched into a discussion of his ef
forts toward reforming t'lie govern
mental system to conform with his
ideas of what it should be in the pres
ent age.
During his campaign for governor
last year, he said, he "urged that the
time had feme to apply to the admin
istration of the state's affairs the
same principles and methods of busi
ness economy necessary for private
enterprise to prosper and serve. At
my request more than 30 measures
were, enacted b.v the General As
sembly of 1023. having for their ob
ject improvement in the methods of
government administration.
“The most important measure
enacted into law was an act estab
lishing an executive budget system
whereby the budget bureau in the
executive department becomes a su
pervising department of finance and
business administration under the ex
ecutive direction of the governor, who
supervises tile financial affairs of the
state very much in the same way
that the executive 'head of a large
business supervises the various de
partments of that business.
"The governor as director of the
budget is given continuing oversight
and control of the fiscal affairs of the
state and its various departments,
hoards and institutions, so that he
is not only tile supervisor of tile gen
eral fiscal operations id the govern
ment. but also director of economy
and efficiency.
"Other legislation supplementing
nnd making the executive budget sys
tem effective consisted of acts:
"Repealing numerous existing sta
utes authorizing the payment of money
from the treasury without limit as te
the amount or the time within which
the money could be expended.
"Requiring all revenue collecting
agencies of the state to deposit daily
with the State treasurer all moneys
belonging to the state.
"Consolidating all the principal rev
enue collecting agencies under the de
partment of revenue.
"Providing for the lasping of all
appropriations for maintenance unex
pended at. tile end of the liscnt year.
"Kestnblishing a complete system of
personnel classification whereby nil
services are classified and a range of
salaries fixed upon the basis of the
actual services performed.”
As a part of the executive budget
system, tile speaker said, the legisla
ture declared it to bo the fixed policy
of the State to maintain a balanced
budget. North Carolina has also
adopted a system with relation to
bond issue whereby the bonds are re
tired during the life of t'he improve
ments for which they are issued.
“Our people," continued the execu
tive. "have arrived at the definite con
clusion that it is as necessary for
the executive head of government to
have adequate supervision and control
ever the various departments of gov
ernment, for whose success he is held
responsible, as it is for the head of
any great business to have such con
trol and supervision. To withhold
neeessnry power from (lie chief execu
tive. mainly because it is possible for
him to abuse it. is to weaken the
most important function of onr sys
tem of government."
The North Carolina governor point
ed out the importance of business
methods in government, and efficient
men and women in public service,
hut declared that the rewards of pub
lic service are not on a parity with
those for ability and industry in pri
vate enterprise. Emphasizing tfte
fact that the cost of government vit
ally affects the cost of doing busi
ness. he made his suggestion for a
school for governmental executives
and employes:
“It seems to me that there is a
place in American life for a new kind
of constructive patriotism. Why
should not great business organiza
tions like yours take up seriously
this important aspect of patriotic
service; the matter of supplying a
trained personnel for government ad
ministration. We have throughout
the country great schools which pro
vide instruction necessary for the
management of business and industry,
technically and theoretically. Is there
not a more important place in our
educational system for training in
the principle and technique of efficient
government, administration? Why
should not our business men appre
ciate more fully that the duty to in
terest themselves in the conduct of
government is in reality no more than
ordinary regard for an important ele
ment of overhead cast in the manage
ment of their business?'’
The North Carolina executive closed
his address with an appeal to the bus
iness men of the country to “throw
the weight of your experience and in
fluence on the side of efficiency in
the management of public affairs."
N'ortli Carolina State College Textile
School.
J. E. Sirrine & Company, of Green-1
ville, S. C., have prepared plans fori
ah eighty-foot addition on the Tex
tile Building of the North Carolinu
State College. Raleigh, N. C. The
contract has becen awarded to Galli
van & Company, of Greenville, S. C„
and construction will begin imme
diately. When completed, the build
ing will be 75x230 feet, three stories
high. A complete heating, lighting
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