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WHY NOT REPEAL IT?
Statesville Daily. V :
In Catawba Superior Court this
week Major George E. I.yerly. of
Hickoty. chairman of the Catawba
county 'highway commission, plead
guilty to on indictment charging in
effect that he, as a public official,
traded-with himself as a private citi
zen. the same being contrary to the
statute made and provided It was in
evidence that Major I.yerly was one
of the largest stockholders of the Shu
ford Hardware Company, of Hickory,
ami that ns chairman of the h’ghway
( commission he had bought for the
county, from the company in which
lie was a stockholder, goods of the es
timated value of approximately $5,-
000! It was' also developed nt the
hearing, according to the news re
port. that Major I.yerly had “possibly
saved Catawba county between fifty
mid sixty thousand dollars.” Wheth
er buying about $5,000 worth of goods
from his comuany saved the county
the amount stated, or whether the effi
ciency and good husiness management
of the chairman saved t'.ie amount in
other ways, isn’t explained. Judge
Webb properly ruled that the saving
wasn’t an excuse for violating the law
but that he would consider it in miti
gation of punishment imposed, as he
did. The punishment was a fine of
SSO. which leaves t'-ie impression that
the offense isn’t seriously considered;
and it isn’t.
“Saving the public money” is an
old excuse for violating the law which
prohibits an official trading with him
self, directly or indirectly. It is j
brought forward on all occasions. The
saving isn’t impossible. A public of
ficial might offer his own goods for
public use at a less rate Chan others
would offer. He might, as an act of
patriotism, furnish the staff at cost
or less. Or Jie may figure that his
services are worth so much more than
he is paid that he saves t,he public
Immense sums in that way. wherefore
he should be allowed to make a little
profit by dealing with himself as part
compensation for his invaluable serv
ices. Fact is the big savings we hear
about on such occasions are usually
figured that way. And while they
are largely, if not entirely, imaginary,
the calculation being made by an in
terested party, there are numerous
public officials who figure that way
and boldly, not. to say brazenly, at
tempt to justify their nullification of
the law by saying they are, entitled
to make additional compensation on
the side. They do the work; why
should they not be allowed to make
a little something as part compensa
tion for their sacrifice, take a sort of
Commission from the great saving
they affect. It never seems to occur
to these that if they feel that the
allowance provided by law isn’t suffi
cient for their services they can get
out. Not at all. In fact they would
resent and resist any effort to re
move them. Their patriotism is such
that they fear that their successors
may not save the public money. There
fore they insist on retaining the privi
lege of serving and saving at a sacri
fice. for the public good, with such
additional commission as they may
deem is coming to them.
No doubt this law is violated in
nearly all the counties and municipal
ities in the state. Certainly it has
been violated in Iredell. In some in
stances there may be no monetary
loss to the public. An official en
gaged in private business may, and
often does, feel that he should have
the same privilege to furnish public
supplies as any other business mgn,
as long as he sells as low as auybody
and doesn’t hog the trade. Major
I.yerly may have felt thgt way. He
may have made no extra profit off the
county as a business man; in fact he
may have undersold competitors. But
the wisdom of the law is so plain that
it ian’t arguable. Once the public of
ficial, put in place to guard the pub
lic interests, begins trading with him
self us a private individual, what is
likely to happen is so apparent that
t the law was made to guard the offi
i dal from temptation—temptation to
i which the beat of them would yield,
| But little attention is paid to the
i law. In counties and municipalities
| pot only, but in State boards and cora
i missions, infringements may he found,
i directly and indirectly. Sometimes
| companies are formed to take con
i tracts for public work, or to sell pub
-1 lis supplies, through which, indirect
| Is, public officials profit. ty may be
i insurance companies that bond can
| tractors, banka through which they
, will do their banking business, dr some
i other concern that s contractor may
| have a tip to patronise for hie own
i good. Seeing- that the law isn’t taken
i seriously, and when anybody it in
-1 dieted he appears as a martyr trying
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
to save the public money for which lie
is penalized, why, not, following the
logic of Judge Harding ns to speed
, laws, repeal the whole business and
’ let him take who can! That would
bo more just to those who stand off be
cause hf conscientious scruples, while
those who have no scruples get theirs.
kVny way it would give the patriots
(?) who would have (?) the public’
money a chance tb do the saving (?)
without being bedeviled by the sus
picious who impugn their motives
while they arc sacrificiting and serv
ing for the public good (?).
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B. H. ALEXANDER HELD
FOR HITTING TWO MEN
One May Die as Result ot Being
Struck By Greensboro Man’s Car.
—Drunkenness Charged.
Charlotte, Kt j). 13.—Another was
added to the scries of recent automo
bile accidents here when (wo well
known Charlotte men were injured,
one perhaps fatally. A- N. Roger,
steward of the Mecklenburg hotel,
and It. C. Mooney, restaurant em
ploye, were were run down by nil
automobile driven by B. H. Alexan
der, of Greensboro, who eras held on
a charge of driving an automobile
while drunk. Other charges later
may be preferred, and he was denied
bail.
Boger was pertinps fatally injured,
reports from Charlotte sanatorium
said. His skull was fractured aud
he sustained other injuries about 1
the hodK hut no bone was broken.
I’olice officers reported that Boger
was .dragged perhaps 30 feet under
’the car- Mooney sustained a fractur
ed right leg and his body was severe
ly bruised. Physicians said they ex
pected him to reeiver, according to
reports from the hospital.
The accident produced its hero in
the person of A. G. Ivey, of Rock
Hill, S- C., guest of the Mecklenz
burg hotel, on the street before
which the accident occurred at
about 8 p. m. Eye witnesses told
police officers , that after Alexander
-l\ad struck the two men he apparent
ly made no effort to stop the car, a
sedan model, Ivey, a witness to the
accident, jumped upon the running
board, succeeded in opening the
door and applied the emergency
brake, according to reports from in
vestigating officers.
REPORT FOUND TO
BE MISLEADING
No Unusual Departure of‘Students
From Davidson College.
Davidson, Feb. 13.—Highly exag
gerated and erroneous reports are
circulating over the State relative to
the number of withdrawals from
Davidson College this year. Solici
tous inquiries have been coming to
the college as to the authenticity of
these rumors.
Official. statements issued refute
these rumors, since anouncemect
has just been made that there are
five more students on the Davidson
campus today than there were a year
ago today, the present enrollment
being O!K>.
The total withdrawals up to date
have been 54; the corresponding
withdrawals of last year were 42.
This includes both voluntary and re
quired withdrawals. These facts are
from the official report of Dr. YV. J.
Martin, president of the institution
who will make this statement before
the board of trustees at its meeting
next Wednesday.
Twenty-seven students were re
quired to withdraw at the end of
this semester because of failure to
measure up to the scholastic require
ments of the college, this number
being larger than in the past. It was
explained, however, that this num
ber was augmented somewhat by the
fact that fewer students withdrew at
the Christmas holiday season and
prior in anticipation of failuVe in
studies than have heretofore with
drawn. Partial account for the in
creased number was the fact that
the passing grade this year was in
creased five points, the present mark
being 75 per cent.
Two Kinds.
Little Louis hud gone to the
kitchen to observe old Aunt Sally,
the colored cook, at work’ making
biscuits. After he had sampled one,
he observed:
“Aunt Sally. I can spell, now.
Tirae are made out at d-o, do.”
“But that doeeen't spell dough,”
Louis’ mother corrected, as she en
tered the kitchen to give the cook
some orders.
W’herehpon Aunt Sally thought
that she, too, would enter the discus
sion- So she eaid :
“DereH two kinds of do, chi’.e.
‘Do* what you shuts, and ’do’ what
yon. eats.”
' WANTS REJOICING AT FUN
• ERAL.
I Charlotte News.
I A Cincinnati man, dying left or-
I ders that SIOO of his estate should
be spent to furnish music for his
■ funeral and to provide a luncheoq
for the singers and for his friends
i Nothing unusual in that, on the
• faee of it. Solemn feasts and wailing
dirges have characterized el nbo nit e
■ funerals ever since the days of
; Homer.
But this Cincinnati reversed
the usual idea. Instead of an oc
casion of mourning, he wanted the
luncheon to be a time of mirth and
smiles; and he asked that the music
sung at his funeral be of a light,
cheerful nature. The who’e cere
mony, he thought, should be a
festival of rejoicing.
That’s news because it's unusual.
Fit did he have the right idea?
To answer such a question is to
take all our notions about life and
death out of the musty closet, where
we ordinarily keep them, aud ex
amine them thoroughly.
It is largely because our notions
on those matters are so confused
that the funeral is ordinarily a time
of such unrestrained grief.
We know that it is sweet to be
alive- The fine joys of human friend
ships. the pleasure of walking in the
streets and mingling with other men
and women, the struggle and victor
ies and defeats that make up the
daily routine— these things, for
! most of us. are good, and when one
of is called to leave them all and
go, we do not know where, we
grieve. For we can see surely only
that our friend has had to give up
life in exchange for something that
may be better—and may not.
And so, when n man requests that
there be no sadness at his passing,
but gaiety and gladness, we are sur
prised.
Probably we will never be able to
attain to a steadfastness of faith
sufficient to keep us from mourn
ing when loved ones die. The mere
pang of parting, even if we are sure
that those who have died are hap
pier than before, will always bring
the tears. Yet we may hope that we
can reach a calmness and a certitude
that will enable us to say, when we
ourselves approach death:
"Do not grieve for me. Death is
nothing—it is only an incident. The
world, on the whole, is a good
world, ami death is the one thing
that it gives to all alike. How, then,
can death be bad for me? I do not
know what it will meau, exactly,
but I am sure that it will mean
something good- I am not afraid;
you must not be sad.”
What Price Crime?
Prof. J. L. Gillin, University of Wis
consin. x
Shameful to state, one out of
every 3(10 persons in the United
States is put into jail or prison
every year.
That percentage doesn’t include
the people who are assessed fines or
those who are placed on probation
instead of being jailed or fined.
Os the half-million people sent to
penal and correctional institutions
in the United States in 11)10, 91 1-2
percent were sent to jails and work
houses. Half oft hem were committed
to jail for the non-payment of fines.
We have an enormous investment
in the 10.000, jails, lock-ups and
police stations in the country. The
prisons use 135,000 acres Os land
worth $30,000,000 and machinery
and tools worth $4,000,000. Occupy
ing these lands and buildings are
75,000 men.
Yet ottr prisons don't pay f
Americans are the most murderous
people in the civilized world. We
had. in 1921, 8.5 homicides per 100,-
000 people. And, as far as we can
judge from statistics, the rate has
been steadily increasing during the
last two decades. Tile newer crimes,
such as automobile stealing, are
growing by leaps ami bounds.
Crimes cost an enormous amount
of money. In 1922 it was estimated
that criminals cost the taxpayers of
the United States three Dillions of
dollars.
Almost.
The secretary of the bar associa
tion was very busy and very cross
one afternoon, when his telephone
rang.
'Well, what is it?” lie snapped.
"Is this the City Gas Works?”
asked a woman's soft voice.
"No, madam.” roared the secre
tary. “Thit is the Bar Association of
the City of Louisville.”
“Ahj" came from the lady’s end in
the sweetegt of tones, “I didn't miss
it so far, after all, did I?"
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TWO ARE KILLED IN
AN AUTO SMASH-UP
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■ Baines and Son Victims of Accident
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1 High Point, Feb, 14. —F. .T. Baines
i was killed instantly and his son
Rainey Baines, probably mortally in
‘ jured in a bad automobile smash-up on
’ the. High Point-Winston-Salem road
| this morning about 10 o'clock. Two
others, Raymond Baines, another sou
of the dead man, and Pete Jones, sus
tained minor injuries.
T’iie accident occurred half way be- j
tween High Point and the Twin City I
when a Ford- roadster and Dodge|
touring car met ns the Ford was at-1
tempting to go around another auto-1
mobile. Pete Jones, driving the I
Dodge, in which the Baines were rid-1
ing, said the Ford was running at a'
terrific speed toward Winston-Salem.
He pulled bis ow.n automobile as far
to the right of the road as lie could
to keep the Ford from hitting him,
he said. The Ford apparently struck
the rear end of the Dodge, wher F.
J. Baines and his two sons were sit
ting on the rear seat. Mr. Baines
died without moving out of liis seat.
Reports heard here tonight say
thot a High Point man, who was driv
ing the Ford, is being held by police
at Winston-Salem.
The Dodge was practically demol
ished, while the Ford received less
damage.' Occupants of the lighter
automobile are said to have escaped
with few injuries.
Mrs. Pete Jones and her 14-montha
old boby miraculously escaped injury.
They were sitting on the front seat
of the Dodge.,
The Baines people live at Winston-
Salem, it is understood.
RED FLANNELS MORE
SENSIBLE THAN SILK
Qnca Took 20 Yards to Make a
press But Now Three Are Ample
! For the Flapper Tye
(Jew York, Feb. 12.—The woman
of (he “red flannel days" was more
sypaibly dressed and healthier than
the; modern flapper, E, M. Thirkield,
70-year-old merchant of Franklin,
Ohlp, said today at the closing ses
sion of the 15th annual convention
of- the National Retail Dry Goods
association.
■ Pin those days” he said, “we used
to sell 20 yards of silk for one dress.
Now a woman buys three yards and
considers that ia more than enough.
Then there were only three or four
shades of silks to be obtained; now
there are hundreds.
“The men of 50 years ago were
superstitious beyond all believing in
'the matter of what they wore. In
winter it had to be medicated red
flannH underwear and only a few
people of the better classes could be
induced to wenr white merino.”
The speaker pointed out that there
are 4.300 different articles of wom
en's underclothing on the market to
day and 1,800 different kinds of
stocking for the fair sex.
Graighton C. Hill, of the Bnbson
statistical organization, warned the
merchants of the “serious evils,” con
nected with installment selling,
which, he said, were certain to bring
trouble to merchant who do not put
a check on this practice. \
Wool From Waste.
London, Feb. 13.—A new yarn,
with the warm, soft feel of lambs'
wool, is being made from the waste
product of the artificial silk indus
try. The new “wool” is shimmery
and dyes in beautiful colors. Com
bined with real wool in making
serge and other goods, it improves its
appearance as silk does. Commercial
ly. the new yarn is the same as arti
ficial silk, for it is made from scraps
or directly from cellulose or wool
fibre by the identical .process.
One of the latest applications of
electricity is in the treatment of dogs
for distemper. Exposed to ultra
violet rays for fifteen minutes at a
time, the treatment is said to be very
effective.
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A large paint concern, in further
ance of an advertising and introduc
tory campaign now in progress, offers
to give, free of charge, five gallons of
its best house paint, any color, to one
property owner at each postoffice or
on each rural route in this county.
This concern wants its paint on a
house in each locality this season
which is the purpose of this remarka
ble offer. It aim wants a lead sales
man In each county. Persons inter-
I ested are requested to write the Kero
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