PAGE FOUR : Jk« Concord Daily Tribune W*" J. B. SHERRILL f- Editor and Publisher iff. 1L SHERRILL, Associate Editor ? MEMBER OP THE sf ASSOCIATED PRESS ' The Associated Press is exclusively ' • gstttltid to the use (or republication of •0 news credited to it or not otherwise ' : credited in this paper and also the lo * sal news published herein. All ricbts of republieatigd of spec , hi dispatches herein are alas reserved. frost^JlnSibA*KOHN 525 Fifth Avenue, New York Peoples’ Q«s Buildins, Chieago 10W Cindler Building, Atßsnta l| Entered ns second class mail matter at the postoffice at Concord, N. C., un dsr the Act of March 3, 1879. 11? SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the City of Concord by Carrier: /One Year 18 00 1 SEt Months 3.00, , Shree Months 1.50 One Month -50 Outside of the State the Subscription ' ? Is the Same as in the City i Out of the city and by mail in North j Carolina the following prices will pre wail: One Year $5.00 s Six Months 2.50 t Three Months 1-25 ] Lass Than Three Months, 50 Cents a Month All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in f Advance s ' RAILROAD SCHEDULE 1 In Effect Jan. 30, 1926. Northbound < No. SO To New York 9 :28 P. M No. 136 To Washington 5:05 A. M. No. 36 To New York 10:25 A. M. ■ No. 34 To New York 4 :43 P. M. No. 46 To Danville 3 :15 P. M. No. 12 To Richmond 7 :10 P. M. No. 32 To New York 9:08 P, M. No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M. Southbound Me, 45 To Charlotte 3 :45 P. M No. 35 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M. No. 29 To Birmingham 2 :35 A. M No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M No. 33 To New Orleans 8:15 A. M. No. 11 To Charlotte 8 :00 A. M No. 135 To Atlanta 8 :37 P. M No. 39 To Atlanta 9:50 A. M No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M Train No. 34 will stop in Concord to take on passengers going to Wash Ington and beyond. ' Train No. 37 will stop here to dis charge passengers coming from be yond Washington. All trains stop in Concord except No. 38 northbound. r^—FOR TODAY—I tfj Bible TboogMs memorized, win prose e |§l H . r nriceieas heritage in after rears J3j THE TENDER SHEPHERD:— He sha 1 feed hie flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom.—lsaiah 40:11. OUR MENTAL DEFECTIVES. Dr. W. A. Anderson, associate pro fessor of Sociology in State College, in an article in Agriculture and In dustry, states that mental defectivism is on the increase in the I'nited States and in North Carolina. In his article “he lays tjown as a thesis the following statements,” to quote from the Charlotte News which says the “condition challenges the best thought of the State, that the actual number of mentally ilefeetives is already very large; the group is growing faster than the normal population and is therefore a constantly growing bur den and an ever-increasing menace; mental defectiveness is a major cause of other social ills, particularly pov erty. erime, and vice, and the losses from these maladjustments may be charged in part to it; therefore to seek systematically to solve this prob lem is imperative if we are to main tain the intellectuality of our people and solve the other major social prob lams.'’ Wq takes the record made during the draft days of the war and reminds us that an analysis of 1,700.000 men has shown that 10 per eent. of such a number had a mentality not greater than that of a ten-year-old child and that, on this basis, there are in Am erica not under 10.000,000 people of inferior mentality. i The same ratio would give to North Carolina 200.000 of these defectives which, out of a population of the size abounding in the State, reveals strik ingly the tremendous prevalence of this unfortunate condition among our people. Dr. Anderson says that the State of Indiana made a very careful study to discover the mentaily defective in its population. On the basis of the utmost care it wus discovered that 2.1 per cent, or over 56,000 people, were of a very low grade of mental ity. Twenty thousand were of such a grade of mentality as to demand im mediate care. . In New York careful examination | . of the school population revealed the | Si', presence of 15.000 children of a very low feeble-minded grade. | VASSAR LIFTS THE BAN. it Vassal- College is the latest institu %.■ tiuu for girls to lift the ban on smok f in*- The sturdy body by a large ma jority voted to extend to those of its •l Tpembcrs who wished to smoke in the i;:, -jjpite of tile fact that "it is still the desire of the student body that you JhouM not exercise you# liberty to do | no," the right to two indoor smoking m places within the campus. SpiC'S'x years ago strict regulations "Covering stnpking by students in the were adopted.; Last year a j was sent out anil 433! out of 957 students answered “yes"; if -to the question. That probably de cided the Student Association's vote ! ii:£ifor while the majority do not smoke ] Is *tl>ei( undoubtedly felt that they should Efhot-iaterfere with the liberty of those girls who smoke without parental ob jection. There is no denying the fact that thousands of American girls smoke. Vassar may be taken as a represen tative institution and the fact th- find, for example." he says, “that a man five feet eight inches, at the age of twenty-five, when he is in 1 the prime of his muscular manhood, should weigh 147 pounds, and that ! the same man having arrived at the . age of fifty years should weigh 162 pounds. That is to say. that when his heart and lungs liave been sub jected to a quarter of a century's ad ditional wear and tear it is regarded as normal for him to impose on these sorely tried organs an addition- al burden of fifteen islands. ■ "If we consider for a moment,” continues the professor, “what the addition of but one pound on a horse's back means to its chance of winning a race, wo cau form some (estimate of what nil addition to fif teen pounds on a man's back means |to his chance of achieving even a moderate place, in the human race for efficiency. Vs we look beyond the outward seeming in a case of pro nounced corpulence, we cau realize that the padding which is stretching the abdomen, obliterating the lines of intelligence on the face, producing a banana shaped wad in the nape of the neck and distorting all the ’ curves of external comelines is neces - sarly distorting and embarrassing * the internal organs in a similar manner. "It shortens life both directly and indirectly. It shortens it directly by clogging the wheels of being and brings life to a close in sorrow and tabulation soon after fifty whereas 1 if obesity had been avoidel or cured, as it easily can he in' the early (stages, the life would have ncen (worth another thirty years' purchase : and pleasure. It shortens life rft , directly by decreasing and weaken ing the powers of resistance in In . fectious disease. 1 "Don't he fat. and anyway, don't make « joke of it," concludes the specialist. stars tor Marquette Rif ANY famous -iM IVi athletes have T, > been developed at Marquette Unlver W One the Jjh recent sea ijla, is La Vern jgllilk lnlweg, two sport WBKHBM Mm jjlij|C - -i - AdHHHfe p aye HhWJFM jttMyyl wBEF ’iiini han jH| IHH :ue weights JWM® T&fpl * 1 4|BBjpP y Jj|9 l||iji|pl on the track ■!&, ' JlHff ||Hi I> U the grid jt-ajjljjap MjEßm&t "nil. galn i 2fjiF *- fume at ! - n ion last W full. The weU- Ujß Nr fT f " Eckersall went so fat as to place DIP weg on his All- J America. *• \ As a track ath lete Dil weg t s pne * the best bets jKKfl the Milwaukee - , < . . school holds. He's ' >i ■ A i,- . considered a eer- tain polnc-wlnner i (in several events. 'X, Vi * iThe shot-put is bis : H*—*h**sM*iXsSMSte ..... *—umsumsmsw specialty, however. “ —— " • —1 ——— ■ SEN VTE IS FOR REPF.AI, OF INHERITANCE TAX House Conferees Protest and Leave Conference—Return Later in the Evening. Washington, Feb. 18.—The dispute between the House and Senate reve nue bill conferees over the proposed repeal of the inheritance tax reached such a stage today that manager for the House walked out of the con ference. Senate conferees flatly declared they would insist upon repeal of the tax apt! t'ue spokesman of the House took an equally determined position, insisting upon restoration of this tax to the measure, as approved by the House. An impasse developed and finally House members announced they would retire until the Senate was ready to yield. Then They Returned. Some of the House conferees left the room and the others refused to discuss the matter further. At the end of 45 minutes, however, rite con ference was reopened and all members left tonight smiling, although no agree ment had been reached on the inheri tance tax. The row was the culmination of | I many spirited disputes which have marked the confer?nt-e and was one of the few times in recent legisla tive history that such a situation has developed. It also qiffered from meat congressional disputes in that it was a distinct fight between the Senate and House without party lines, j Voted For Repeal. The three Republican and two 1 Democratic members of the Senate group all had voted for repeal of the inheritance tax when it was up for decision in the Senate. While the House had voted to modify consider ably the present inheritance rates it has never voted for repeal of this tax and its representatives in the con ference insisted its sentiment there was strongly against such action. 1 The return of the House managers to the conference was taken generally tnnight to indicate they would win ' their fight for restoration of file levy | to the bill The conference is ex- j peoted to act on this as well as thei other rate schedules before the end of the week. An agreement on the tax reduc tion bill between the Senate and the House conferees by tomorrow night, permitting final ratification and en actment of she measure early next week, was predicted tonight. At the conclusion of the fourth day of conferences on the bill. Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, head of the Senate conferees, made the predic tion that the differences between the two branches of Congress would be compromised. Beth sides stood firm again today, however, on their differences involv ing $125,000,000 in additional tax re ductions voted by the Senate above those approved by the House. Ad journment of tKe Senate tonight until .Monday made it impossible for final action by Congress on the bill before next week, but if the hope of the eon ferees for an agreement is fulfilled, it will be possible for the House to act on the compromise Saturday. This would permit Senate action Monday. Tlie measure will bee"me laW vrhen I’resident Cootidqe signs it, and many of fine reductions, including those oil incomes taxes and a large number of sections repealing excise levies, will become effective immediately. ' There is a village -n England called Tadley-God-Hcip-t's. _ * ' / “pRIGIDAIRE electric re- f ”i« ration ke «p® y° ur I JlrHal food as fresh and wholesome l M as t^ic dey you bought it. And ' it operates automatically. Come in and* let us demon strate Frigidaire. 4 STANDARD BUICK COMPANY Display Room 47 So. Union St. Phone 876 or 3«3 . J. B. RAIFORD, galwaan me eoNCoftb daily tribune TODAY’S EVENTS | Saturday, February 20, 1928 Centenary of the birth of Charlet* C. Stevenson, mine owner and gover | nor of Nevada. England's period of official mourn ing for the late Queen Alexandra will end today. Mary Garden, the world renowned opera winger, today enters upon her fiftieth year. The trial of several of the alleged ringleaders in the franc forgery con spiracy is afi^ieduled to begin today in Hilda pest. The United States Steel Corpora tion. ttie largest industrial corpora tion in the world, today completes the first quarter century of its existence. Two hundred years ago today was born Colonel William Proseott, who 1 commanded the American troops at | Hunker Hill and who told them to wait “till they saw the whites of t)ie euemv's eyes.’’ Tonight in Carnegie Hall, New York City, the Navy Cross will be pinned upon the brerfst of Captain George Fried, of she steamship Roosevelt, in tribute for his rescue of the seamen [ from the British steamer Antinoe. Educational leaders from every sec tion of the I'nited States will gather m Washington today for the opeaing of the fifty-sixth convention of the department of superintendence of the National Education Association, the sessions of whiCa will continue until next Friday. Southern Textile Stocks Show Small Decline. The upward trend of the market on southern textile stocks which has pre v vailed fur the oast six months showed a decline of 18 cents per share dur* itig the past week, according to the weekly average of twenty-five leading stocks as compiled by R. S. Dickson & Co. I Although trading in common stocks was fairly active during the week, only four of the stocks quoted by • the above company showed gains in ! bid price, while a number of issues | showed slight losses’ Sibley •$4.00. i Anderson $5.00, and Drayton $2.00 per share were the only losses worthy of note. A Million Dollar Cape. Before the white man came out of his lands to the east of Hawaii and the yellow man journeyed east tu * rear'll it, the native Hawaiian got along in sweet content with the fauna and flora of his islands. Os things that flew he knew only three birds, the dove, the mamo and the o-o. The latter was a small biark bird with I a blight gnldvn f*ntlil'r on melt breast. The main", wore some brilliant red feathers. Kings and ehiefa wore enpes and eicaks made from these feathers to 1 show their rank. In the Honolulu museum there is kept in a steel vault a great gohten feather cape that lie longed to King Kamehame'iu the First, who flourished about the end of the eighteenth century. It took hundreds of thousand* of feathers of hirds that never had m ate than two of these [larticular fealfters at a time, to make the cape, wlileii readi ed from the shoulder* to the knee- of the wearer. The eape now is in sured for a million dollars. 1 When Abraham Lineoln was offer ed a glass of fhatnpqgne on a sea voyage as a cure for Wo seasickness I he refused on *the grounds that it made men on land seasick. » OhotWU IMS Wmm Biw. PkttrM. tm. -Satan In Sables- with Lowell Sherman la a plcturlxatfon of this noveL ( U " U “ SYNOPSIS Prince Michael Yervedoff, wealthy philanderer of Parte, tired of para eitical friends, falls honestly in love with Colette, on unworldly girl, and rebuilds his werthful in terest in life through befriending her. But he is saddened by the suicide of his young brother, Paul, who has been vamped for revenge by Dolores, one of UichacTs cast offs. Michael plans to atone for his misspent life by a great humani tarian project. CHAPTER Xll—Continued Dechine oiuickled understand lagly. "Than you will be very | lucky, if fm will permit me to eay so. Yon remember that might in Le Coeur Mort, Monsieur, when i 1 told you that oil and water would I never.mix? I may be presuming ' to speak like this, and if so, I ask : your pardon, but I was wrong— for .that young lady would grace the palace of a king!" “I won't put you In my black books for making that remark," Michael smiled, "and I'm glad that you approve of her." “Approve of her? Pardon. Mon sieur le Prince, who am i to pre sume In such a manner? All I can say Is that I am overjoyed she will be there. But tell me, sir, what Is your plan?" "I have a big estate there, with many acres of ground, and I am going to arrange things so that soon an army will live there—” “An army? What do you mean, Monsieur?" “Yes, an army, and you will be Its Commander-In-Chief. An army of boys from the slums of Paris: boys who never had a chance In the world and who have missed the sunshine altogether. They will come out there and will be taught gardening, for instance. Each one will have a certain plot of ground for which he will lie held strictly responsible. That will be one of yonr tasks! 1 can see tt all In mjr mind. Dechine, as fie d rank in (he tntoxtcai itig reality of her warmth and nearness. clearly as day. Barracks will go up. The project will be devel oped so that boys can be there all the year round. Trades will he taught. The boys will be edu cated and turned out prepared to take their place !n the world. Then the physical side must not bo for gotten. I can picture you now put-' ting all these j’oungsters through their exercises every morning with yonr old anny snap and vigor. What do you think of the plan?" Dechine was breathless. “A wonderful one, Monsieur, and one that I know you will find happi ness In. What a world of good It will accempllsh! It la wonder ful. Monsieur immense—superb! No one but you would ever think 9f It!" "Then you are with me. ehj” "With you?" Dechine gripped the steertng wheel until his -Ttnuckles showed white; he glanced sidewise at Michael and •aid with tense earnestness: “Let me say something that ia in my mind. Monsieur, if 1 may. I feel like a man once more, thanks to you. and when I fall to follow you, when I fail to be at your dis posal. body and soul, night and iay. well —It will be because 1 am put there!" He nodded his head back in the direction of the cem etery. Michael felt toe touched to pake ah Immediate reply, but when the car stopped In front of Colette’3 home he grasped hands with Deehlne —a long, eloquently wordless avowal of deepeet friend ship Michael-Hound Colette sewing— and humming as she sewed. Ha marvelled at the Joy she took hi she simple little gift of flowers he brought to her. SlHy. playing in the adjoining room, came to greet Michael with grave affection. -I have something for yon, young Itr.’’ Michael announced. \ Billy took this as his cna to con* I Oct the search of Michaer.i pockets ihat was a customary formality Shelby May Soon Have Woman Kfa» Shelby. Feb. 18.—Shelby may soon have a Ktt Klux Klutt for warn itif. ’ According to tin tm,;(KUK rmfcct jadjt! out from the Klgvciyi of the Shelby Kn Kliu Mach an orgauia*- tiof iato be disetnsned. At a meeting of Klanumen one nisbt bin week, according to. reports 1 the major iUrttgle of the Moumn s kteh organization will address local klanumen in regard to organising $ branch for women, dust who this upon the occasions of Michael’s (< visitations. His delight, as usual,!, was boundless when his skill In ( sear Ain g overcame Michael's ex- i perience in concealing — and he dis- ] covered a bag of bon bona in i Michael’s hat. He proffered the dainties, first to { Colette, then to Michael; each took i one decorously, Colette with a lit- ' tie curtsey, Michael with a grave ] bow —greatly to Billy’s amusement, i "Billy, ” said Michael suddenly, 1 "your Aunt Colette has often teld 11 you of the country. How would i you like to go there to live?” ] “With the grass, M'sieu, and the | cows —?” ■ / ( “Yes. and the countless trees and ] brooks—” “ —and the birds and butterflies, i and I coujfl have a dog of my own, j and a cat, perhaps ?*’ “Yes, all of that; Billy!” i Billy’s eyes were as round ant 1 shiny and big as any of the bon ] bons in the bag; "Indeed I would i like it; M’sieu”—and here he look- ' ed trustfully at Colette —"if Aunty goes, too!” Colette kissed fillly hungrily. Then both she and the child looked with surprise at Michael, who, keeping a straight and stern, ] face with great difficulty, was shak- i ing his head contrarily; "No, Billy, 1 my plan does not Include your Aunt J Colette. She will not be there— ’’ i Billy’s face clouded instantly and the big tears welled in his eyes. \ Even Colette, though she knew that i Michael must be teasing, was sober ly mystified. Beeing the effect of J his fun, Michael's contrition led i him to make swift qualifications. "Your Aunt Colette cannot go, ' Billy, because she will no longer be j < your Aunt —she will be your dear' 1 Mother Colette, and 1 will be your J Daddy, for we are going to adopt i you after we are married—” Billy had a child's impatience of \ involved explanations; he brushed i them aside to interrupt and com* to the point. "Well, then, will she be there?” i pointing to Colette. “Yes, Billy,” said Michael look- j ing intq, Colette's eyes for a sign that his confident hope was not un justified—anu finding it. Billy wit nessed a final and wordless reassur ance that all was well with this | world in the tender way that i Michael and Colette clasped one an ! other’s hands. But this was all I quite as boresome to Billy as the [explanation of his adoption had I threatened to become; so he merely I returned w ith relief to his toys in the next room, and left the lovers alone. I' Michael sat down and drew Col ette into his lap; she cuddled there as contentedly as a kitten, while he stroked her hair and drank in the intoxicating reality !of her warmth and nearness. After a whi*e Colette said: "Now, dearest Michael, what was all this I nonsense with which you were fin ing Billy s little head?" "It was not nonsense, dearest girl, but a wonderful vision. Do you remember what 1 hinted to you, that day long ago in Ver sailles. of a plan f or the accomplish ment of some useful work in the world to make up for my years of Idleness? Well, here is my—or, really, I should say, our plan— cause it is only through the in spiration of your faith and love that I could carry on." Then he outlined to her in even gTeater detail what he had already explained to Dechine. Nestled against bis broad chest she 11s , teued seriously, her large eyes opened to their widest and gray est. When he had finished she said: "That is not a plan—or a vis ion! It is my Michael himself translated into action—into deeds. The thousands of acres of your estate on that clean and wind blown seaeoast if Old Normandy are no larger than your heart. It is in there"—she tapped his breast lovingly—"that the hundreds of happy, reclaimed little boys will bo romping, and gaining health. . absorbing the truth of righteoua , ness, and being reborn. Inside l there! —in the overflowing womb of your dear, fine heart'” What could Michael say to that. I Nothing—and he said it. What , COU !«J he do? A great deal—and be did it; enfolded and crushed Colette In a sweet embrace, that 1b its solitary minute was symbolic of all the minutes and hours and years of the immortality of their love. Flushed, breathless, ecstatic, they were oblivious to the giggles ! of Billy, who had stolen in to • peek; and to the horn discreetly , sounded by Dechlne In the street helow as a reminder that It was . growing late hud dark. Bnt Billy went to sleep evento . ally over fcla toys on the floor i te th « next room._gnd Dechino i , * ,Bt *0 S,6 *P over his wheel i th* parked car below; while Colette and Michael did not go , to sleep, but sat In that exalted , dreamless state of peace and blissfulness that Is more unheed- I , lag than.sleep, yet knows neither i declining nor awakening, begln . atag nor end, but persists time-' , lessly f- - fever. ■ , [ THE END, jnH-aQdhg "i-s» -■*— piomincut woman Kisin official is aud the night pt her visit were not learned. Miss Dearman Dead. SSlisbury, EiK. 10.—Mi** Susan Dearman. aged 82, who died . while visiting at the Mane of W. S. Beeker. on South Main street, this week, death being caused by pueutuouia. was the fifth Bear relative of Mr. and Mrs. Meeker to be buried since the first of January. 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