Thursday, Feb. 25, 1926 / The Concord Daily Tribune J. B. SHERRILL Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lo cal news published herein. All rights of republication of spec ial dispatches herein are also reserved. Special Representative FROST. LANDIB & KOHN ?25 Fifth Avenue, New York Peoples’ Gas Ruilaiug, Chicago 1004 Ccndler Building, Atlanta Entered as second class mail matter at the postoffice at Concord, N. C., un der the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES l In the City of Concord by Carrier: ! One Year $6.00 1 Si* Months \ 3.00 | Three Months ; 1.50 I One Month .50 Outside of the State the Subsaription Is the Same as in the City Out of the city and by mail in North Carolina the following prices will pre vail : One Year ' $5.00 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 Lees Than Three Months, 50 Cents a Month J All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in ▼ Advance RAILROAD SCHEDULE In Effect Jan. 30, 1920. Northbound No. 40 To New York 9 :28 P. M. No. 186 To Washington 5 :05 A. M. No. 30 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 9:03 P. M. No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M. Southbound f No.- 45 To Charlotte 3:45 P. M. No. 35 To New Orleans 9:50 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. i All trains stop in Concord except No. 38 northbound. f JL^biblethoughtl I X’—FOR TODAY—I § Bible Thoagl.ts memo riled, will prove e 111 IB! priceless heritage in ester years- HI ETERNAL LIFEThou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,' and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbor as thy self. This do, and thou shalt live. — Luke 10:27,28. ■ I rss JDQES THE CRIME LIE IN GET -1 TING CAUGHT? i The sentiment in North Carolina today is that it is no harm to vio late the law if you don’t get caught.- Judge Hnrding at Hickory. In developing the text quoted above in an address before . the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, accord ing to the Hickory Record, Judge Harding gave an illuminating illus tration of the countryman who weijt to the city where lie had many friends. He needed some money so he called on his banker friend, who charged him ten per cent, interest. He was tdk cn to the club by other friends and there lie saw men gambling and drink ing. He stood on the street and saw city officials and other persons violat ing every speed law on the statute books. He gained the impression that people were expected to violate laws when in so doing it gave them more money or more pleasure or more of whatever they particularly wanted. So, the story runs, the countryman went home and fold his wife the con ditions. They decided they were be hind the times, and they needed money. He got down his old still and set it into operation on the branch be low the house. He was caught block ading and sent to the roads for a long number of years. His city friends shook their heads and said, “Too bad.” The Record makes these weighty ob .servations: W The Story is a simple one. It car \ ries out the sentiment that it is all right to violate the law if you don’t get caught. Many families keep whis key in their houses because they do not approve of the eighteenth amend ment. Their children see that disre gard of the law and it starts to grow ing a greater disregard in their breasts. They begin drinking whis key and carrying it around, all be cause they have been taught that vio lating the law is not a moral viola tion. The condition runs on and criminals are made, and there we have our five out of seven prisoners at the bar who are white persons. The-'tle groes are learning to respect the law, since only two out of seven brought into court are negroes. There is, no privileged class to set the example, and the law is more evently distrib uted. The News apd Observer thinks the flduting of the law by the “higher ups” » is responsible for practically all oth er crime. “The flouting of the law by the ‘higher ups’ who have enough pull or shrewdness to escape punishment,” says the Raleigh paper, “is responsi ble for much of the crime from the men who violate the laws passed to prevent monopolies down to the law against bootlegging. Judge Harding’s arraignment and his telling illustra tion should give pause to men of edu cation and wealth who think the law was not made for them. The need is for judges and jnriea who will enforce the law equally against all offender*, rich and poor, high and low.” It was only the other day that a Concord man remnrked to us that he believed fewer negroes are in court now because they realize that in a majority of the eases they have to pay for their deeds. The certainty of the law. then, is making a better citizen of the negro. The same should be said of the white man. We will have less crime when the law reaches all white men as it now reaches all negroes. DENY CHURCHES HAVE WEAK ENED IN FIGHT ON RUM. A militant denial that the churches have weakened in their support of prohibition has issued this week over the signatures of high officials of the Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church. The joint statement characterized the recent prohibition survey of the research deportment of the federal council of churches as “an inexcusable betrayal of many church bodies; de clared there had been no apparent change in the sentiment of the peo ple as a whole and appealed to church members to unite in support of the law. It was the first time high dignitar ieß of the Methodist organisations had joined in a common outline of their views of prohibition. The statement was signed by Bishop James Cannon, Jr., chairman of the commission of temperance and social service pf the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Bishop William F. McDowell, presi dent. and Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Dr. Thomas H. Lewis, president of the general conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. The Churches were pioneers in the fight against liquor and they are not going to lessen their efforts to keep the present law enforced. If there is any change on the part of the Church it will be for a stricter law and a more determined operation of the present law. Liquor advocates recently received much encouragement from an alleged vote among the Episcopal Church members. Later the whole thing was disclosed as the opinion of several per sons rather than the conviction of the membership of that particular denom ination. rum Massing bad, AVERS MISS BOOTH Parlor Drinking Will Die Out in Time. Says Commander of Salva tion Army. New York World. Present day violations of the pro hibition law were pronounced yester day by Commander Evangeline Booth, ’of the Salvation Army, to be merely a itojievard and drawing room fad," which would soon die out, and then the government, she said, could calm ly and without any fuss deal with the law breakers juet as those who milr er or indulge In any other forms of ‘human liberty’ are dealth with.” Her statement defending prohibi tion agninst the criticisms of those working for modification was made to the Anti-Saloon League and made public by Stnte Superintendent Ar thur L. Davis. A copy of her state ment will be sent, it was announced, to every member of the New York State Legislature and to Gov. Smith. Commander Booth points out that her father, who founded the Sajvation Army, began by salvaging men and women in and about the bars of Eng land, and that to this day, the Salva tion Army has held rigidly to its pur poses and feels it had a great deal to do with the enactment of prohibition in America. “It is an illogical thing to say that because a new law has not worked ’.ike magic, it is best to cast it aside and return to the original state of vice, which; because of its awfulness, prompted the enactment of that law,” she said. “Such a think would make civilization backward. - “If prohibition has lifted up a new element of rum-drinkers who can af ford to pny bootleggers’ prices for immature or poisonous liquor, then, indeed, it is but a passing condition that soon must disappear. If it is now an indoor sport among those who can afford to throw away their money to carry flasks, give cocktail parties and flout the prohibition law as a matter of amusement, then it is but the clatter of teacups in the boule vards that is distracting the public, and has nothing to do with the humble side streets and the great open spaces which make up the real America, be cause of their overwhelming major ity.” First Laborer—You poor fish, you get only $4 a day while 1 get $6. Second Ditto—Yes, but when a wet day .comes I lose only $4 while you lose $6. Skinny People Need Iron with Cod Liver Oil Ejjy to Toko In New Tablet Form How to Order at the Drug Store Surprise those who have been calling ! f o ® “skinny” behind your back. Fill out hollows. Have well-rounded limbs. Get plump, ruddy cheeks. Take the world's two famous body builders —Iron and Cod Liver Oil. Not the old, nauseous. 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Wallace MeCammant. of Oregon, upon whom President Coolidge seeks to confer a Federal judgeship, says he gave’no pledge to vote for Hiram Johnson at the G. O. I*, convention of 1920. Mr. Johnson says otherwise. Now comes Representative William D. Upshaw, ardent dry of Georgia, denying that he made a pledge to L. .1. Steele not to run again. Mr. Steele says otherwise and cites a let ter written in 1924 in which Mr. Up shaw said that "regardless of opposi tion or no opposition I do not intend to run again." Mr. Upshaw has now changed his mind. One of the compelling reasons, he declared today, is that “the Prohi bitionists of this country are insisting that I remain in Congress because the wet and dry issue seems to be coming to a head and they want me here to aid the dry cause.” “Furthermore,” explained Mr. Up shaw’, "I am under no obligation to Mr. Steele, because lie campaigned against me almost to the end and did not see me when I went to Atlanta to see -him nnd have a full under standing. He did not get out of my way until the middle of August, just three w’eeks before Election Day.” ul ~ DEVELOP INTO PNEUMONIA Persistent coughs and colds lead to serions trouble. You can stop them cow with Creomulsion, an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. Creo mulsion is a new medical discovery with two-fold action; it sooihes and heals the inflamed membranes awl in hibits germ growth. 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(SULPHUR IS BEST TO CLEAR UP UGLY, BROKEN OUT SKIN Any breaking out or skin irritation on face, neck or body is overcome quickest by applying Mentho-Sulphur, says a noted skin specialist. Because of its germ destroying properties, nothing has ever been found to take the place of this sulphur preparation that instantly brings ease from the itching, burning and irritation. Mentho-Sulphur heals eczema right up, leaving the skin clear and smooth. It seldom fails to relieve the torment or disfigurement. A little jar of Rowles Mentho-Sulphur may be ob tained at any drig store. It. is used like cold cream. • v| , Pot Frtt Samplt Mail This Advtrfiirmtnlto THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE goama Published by srrangement with First National Picture*, Inc. THE BTORY THUS FAR Joanna , pretty, modern, a shop Hr! making her way alone in the world is informed by her employer, Gordon, that an unknown man has piven her a million dollars to spend is she wishes. There are no con ations, no “ strings ” to the gift. She is not even to know the name of her benefactor. Overwhelmed by this undreamed of wealth she is tent to Eggleston the banker where the money is on deposit. He edn tell her nothing more than the in formation the has already gained. CHAPTER 111. (Continued) “I am sure Mr Graydon explained to you, or didn’t he?, that you are not to know the answer to either ot those two questions—yet. Some one who wants you to have it, someone whom the bank, and L know very well and in whom we have complete trust as to his mo tives, has put the fortune at your disposal. He has even directed the bank to replenish the fund if you meet requirements beyond the ini tial deposit—until such a time as he may give further directions.” "You mean that after awhile he will give me directions?” “Not at all.” And in the tone of the banker’s promise, more than in his words, Joanna knew that whatever might be the outcome of this fantastic conversation, she would not need ever to ask that question again. "If your benefactor has direc tions to give,” Eggleston went on, with the banker’s manner of mon otonous dwelling upon the detail of a financial bargain,” they will be given the bank, and will have to do only with additions to your funds, or the cessation of them. At any rate, the present deposit of one million dollars, which includes sec urities we shall be glad to negoti ate for you should you require the cash, is at your disposition and none of it may be withdrawn from you. It could not be, in any event, as It has been completelyt rans . (erred to your account.. You must accept it, to do with it as you will. You will not be asked for an ac counting.” “And it’s really true that I don’t have to go back to the silks? To my Job at the store?” Eggleston’s smile was quizzical. "I should be rather astonished to know that a young woman with a million dollars in the bank’s vaults was concerned as much with the selling of silks as the buying cf them.” "Joanna nodded. “If I had a mil lion dollars you can bet the last shot on yonr hip—l mean you can bet I’d do a lot of buying, all right 1” “I wouldn't wonder!”, Eggleston commented, shortly. Joanna looked ap at him quickly, detecting the hardness In his voice. “Oh,” she assured him gravely as if to defend herself against his implied disap proval; “I wouldn’t put It all Into dancing pumps, you know!” The girl floundered. She’d never thought much beyond dancing pumps and their kindred things. “What else, then?", Eggleston re peated. There was nothing for Joanna to do but fall l>ack upon her subter fuges. She had many subterfuges. They covered a multitude of a girl's needs nowadays. “Wait until something like what you’re kidding me about really hap pens," she said, at last, brightly. ‘Then watch me!” “Perhaps that will he the better bargain,” the banker agreed, his roioe still hard In the unpleasant way the girl didn’t like so well. He pointed to the opened check book which lay forgotten at her hand. “It will begin to feel real, won't it, when you have filled out one ot those?” The girl’s wits swam again. She nicked up the book of long, slender leaves, and examined it curiously. Hera, at her finger tips, would be the test—the test of the impossible dream these two old men, her em ployer, Graydon, and his friend, Eg gleston, were pulling her into. She clutched at an obvious excuse to postpone what she was convinced would be the tumbling down of the bouse of cards that was being built Cor her. *Tve never bed to write out one ot these," she protested. “I’m afraid Pd gat it twisted." The man who had been watching from the window came abruptly in to the room. A sign, merely a pi eating of the eyes, passed across pie girl between him and the bank er. Joanna turned sharply when She realised a new figure was standing almost Beside her. She knew, instantly, that she had been right In feeling an additional pres ehce In the room. When she looked bp Into the newcomer's face a sud {flen fear, a sense of danger, tingled •long her nerves. She had met many men In whose slightest ap preach rite always recognized a f*~lTT~ffl Mtt » jMd •gainst bar battlements. Unconsciously she stiffened In her But Eggle ston spoke calmly: “1 have forgotten to present Mr. Brandon. He is very close to me, in a manner, and is interested in your extraordinary circumstances —of which I had fold him. He begged me to let him pay you his compliments.” Brandon bowed, easily, his man ner marking him Immediately, In Joanna’s mind, as one who could make devotions gracefully at any kind of feminine shrine. She re flected that he would be the sort that would dance well and say things that fitted the music. "But I am going to ask Miss Man ners it I may not do more than offer my congratulations,” Brandon said, smiling down at her. "Per haps she will allow me to help her draw her first check. That will be something I shall always re member—when Mi3s Joanna has taken her place among the bill tops.” Dazed again by the Imminence of “Never mind the Daddy Cohen stuff" Joanna admonished. “Trot out the wrap.” the test, Joanna obeyed him silent ly, the letters made by her pen running together in a black misi as he pointed out the place for her signature, the date, an : —the amount. After one or two attempts she signed her name to his satis faction and her own. Then she wrote in the date —as supplied by Brandon. "And now,” Brandca said, softly, almost caressingly, ’"he amount.” She looked across the table, at Eggleston. He nodded. "Any amount you need—or that would like to carry away,” he said. A wild impulse stirred Joanna's blood. She would make the test a real one, puncture the bubble with one stroke of her pen. Her finger's firm, now, a light of determination in her eyes. She would demand a sum which would—well, something would happen then! Her pen shaped the line: ’’One Hundred Dollars!” Brandon laughed. He lifted the check, so laboriously—and, then defiantly, written out. He read the amount aloud. A twinkle came in to the eyes of the banker at the other side of the table, but he said nothing. “Let’s try It again," Brandon said, looking down into the puz zled face of the girl. "A hundred dollars will hardly buy you—what shall you buy first, wasn’t it danc ing pumps, you said? Well—surely you will want more than one pair. Here, let me fill in another check for you.” He tore the paper he held, crum pled It, and tossed It aside. Pull ing the check book to his own hand he filled in the money line. “Ten thousand dollars!” “There, he said) as he placed the paper for the girl to sign, "That will make a better beginning for you! ’’ The banker touched his bell. A messenger responded almost Im mediately. "Yon will have this cashed at once,” the banker ordered the mes senger. “It is the first draft upon the new account of Joanna Man ners. And bring the money here. She will want It immediately.” CHAPTER IV. The First Triumph and Defeat With the crisp notes of her tern thousand dollars spread on the table before her, with Eggleston, the grave, impenetrable banker, and Francis Brandon, debonair, easy mannered courtier of the new world into which she was being ushered, silently watching her. Jo anna closed her eyes In quiet com munion with herself. It was real! The fantasy had become a chapter of life with “Mise twenty-seven of the silks” lifted from the valley to the hill top* where there possibly couldn’t be any shadows. Weakly, she made new battle for understanding, and again lost. They, those two men, one of which, riie was sure, knew the whole of the mystery, would tell her nothing. Brandon professed to know no more than she; he dMtend that the banker had told him nothing of the motive or tha source ot her sudden shower of gold. "But,” said Brandon,” you will not shut me out, I hope, from the rest of the wonders. You will let me walk with you, now and then, along your new paths?” With the feel of her first money j in her fingers Joanna concluded j that she must learn to have an answer for things like that. Men | she had known were not gifted at such sonorous phrasings. For the man who said "You look good to me, sister,!” she had her rituals. Something like: "Did you ever win any medals on your eye sight?” She wondered if there were books that taught the thing* that went with a lot of money. So, she was silent a little while. Eut Brandon persisted: "I shall pay ardent court to you, you know! I shall use all the wiles of the fortune hunter. Per haps I am first to enter the lists, and you will let me keep my ad vantage." She felt that he was playing with her. Yet there was some thing sententious in his tone. She wished he hadn’t come so quickly into her new scheme of things. She was positive that he was a danger; that she didn’t like him. She made the only reply she could think of, and immediately knew that it was clumsy; that it didn’t match: , “I guess you’d keep any advan tage a girl would give you." "You mustn’t be prejudiced against me,” _he retorted, with * elaborate earnestness. “1 am your banker’s nephew; he will give me a splendid—what would you say, a reference?" "I imagine Miss Manners will want to begin readjusting herself. That will be a more pleasant task than skirmishing with you. She is a young lady of affairs.” The girl shot a grateful glance to the banker. She liked the grave, forbidding old man. She feared him because of the knowl edge he kept from her, but she felt that she could always trust him. She was puzzled, too, about the lights that changed so often in his eyes. When she looked at him quickly he started a bit, as if caught by some queer surprise. She wondered what he was think ing about when he was watching her. Byt she must take the plunge. Go out, outside! These men would cive her no help—Brandon would help her. but his very manner of easy gallantry put her guard against him. His was the way “Good Morning” would adopt If he knew how. For one thing Joanna had suddenly lost her respect for the Importance of such personages as “Good Morning” Already aisi a managers, department chiefs, even superintendents had become vague and remote. Summoning her cour age. she rose, “If you don't want me any long er. if I may go now, I guess 1 will,” she said, faltering. "May I?" Eggleston got un from his chair and reached his hand acrosß the table to her. "I snail give in structions,” he said, "that you must be brought to me at once, when you come to me—if vou do I hope you will let me advise vou —as your banker should I shall trv never to mane you afraid of me.” Brandon held open the door for her. Joanna was still, uncertain of herself for a while. Then without speaking again, she left the banker’s room and vent into the corridors of the bank. Brandon walked beside her. "You will let me show you to your car?” ha said, smilingly. “Mr. Graydon’s car! Waiting for her! How and then she had had the experience of a taxi wait ing for her. on one of those rare cabaret nights when one of the boys had succumbed to a lavish I urge. Never "her car.” She’d never thought of It before, but she wondered if women felt guilty when they’d left their chauffeurs standing a long time. Os course not. Foolish! She spoke to Brandon, who was guiding her to ward the street entrance , “J’ 1 ' he* You’re laughing at how foolish I m going to be.” she con fided to him. . "} never ?»ngh at such a delightful young person.” Brandon assure 1 her. "And if you are fool thl v You have acnnired t 0 be as «uch so as you wißh." 5. 1 •It is within your reach—you can afford it—in fact, i, 1 with a store like ours—filled with it—you cannot afford to ; 1 . be without it. If you are planning to buy Furniture, we < 1 V',’ invite you to see our Wonderful Lines. BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. 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