PAGE FOUR Fhe Concord Daily Tribune 1 J. B. SHERRILL Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor I MBMBICR OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for.republication of | •11 »ewß credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lo •eal news published herein. All rights of republics tion of spec ial dispatches herein are alas reserved. Special Representative ’ FROST, LANDIS A KOHN ?25 Fifth Avenue, New York r feopl-s ’ Gas Building, Chicago 1004 Ccudler 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 In the City of Concord by Carrier: • One Year $6.00 Six Months 3.00 niree Months 1.60 ; One Month -50- Outside of the State the Subscription Is die Same as in the City Out of the city and by mail in North Carolina the following prices will pre ' m 3: One Year $5.00 , Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1-25 Less Than Three Months, 50 Cents a ( Month All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in . Advance RAILROAD SCHEDULE l In Effect Jan. 30, 1026. Northbound No. 40 To New York 0 :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 I*. 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 No. 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 S:ls 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 comm; from be yond Washington. All trains stop in Concord except No. 38 northbound. 1 1] I X—FOR TODAY—I |i| Bible Thoagt.ta memorized, will prove a (gl BJ priceless heritage in after year* ( S| GOD’S GOOD GIFTS :—The Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.—Psalm 84:11. THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE CON SIDERED. R. A. Doughton, who has charge of the State bureau which issues auto license tags, has ruled that many of the sub-stations maintained last year for the convenience of the auto own ers of the State are to be discontin ued this year. Last year there were 62 towns and cities in which the licenses could be secured. That year the total has been cut to 22. The new ruling means that Concord and Cabarrus people must go to Charlotte or Salisbury to get their tags. Commissioner Doughton argues, we believe, that the sub-stations were op erated at great eost to the State. Practically everything at Raleigh is operated at expense, still the opera tions have not been halted. It seems to us that the people should con sidered. The sub-stations were of great convenience to the people and after all these people pay the taxes. • Certainly they pay the taxes by which the auto license bureau is oper ated and so long as they don’t kick .. we don’t see where the commissioner • bas any kick coming. Homebody else s lieard from on the matter of the automobile license tag distribution. The High Point Enter prise : ‘*lf High Point must go to Greens boro for license plates, it*werc better - that the local motorist have recourse by mail direct to Raleigh. “The contract with the motor club for distribution has been signed. The expense allowance has been cut. Six ty-two offices were kept open last year; 20 will be kept open this. We suggest that the chamber of commerce take a hand in this matter of general interest now. High Point will be wanting to know promptly that the several thousands of license plates *■ needed here will not require several thousand needless trips to Greens boro.” THE PRESIDENT'S COAL POLICY Tho New York World, learning that President Coolidge and the Re publican Steering Committee have agreed not to do anything about coal at this session of Congress, offers the following as “Mr. Coolidge's record on the subject of coal:” jT 1923—Strike. Recommends study of proposals made by Coal Commis sion. 1024. No strike. No 1 tioia-. fe' 1925—Strike. Recommends Coal Commission proposals. 1920 —No strike.' No recommenda tions. i; Jke World contends that “there 4a;. a . good ehouce of another strike book,' if not on anthracite, then in bi tuminous," and it predicts that when the strike comes “Mr. Coolidge will anrtbnncc that he can do nothing be: can# Congress has not given him the ' power to act.” “If the public bc ftarws it,” continues the world, “then i the public will believe anything.” Coal is a rather dangerous subject for a politician, therefore the Presi dent is letting it alone. Os course during the anthracite strike, just when a settlement was certain, the “spokesman” of the White House came forth with the Information that government agencies had been at work all along trying to brigg about a settlement. This came the day af ter the same “spokesman” had told the world that despite a request from Congress, the President was going to do nothing. t In other words, the White House tried to leave the im pression that the Coolidge adminis-: tration brought about the settlement | when as a matter of fact the President : has done nothing for fear of making | somebody mad. j CAN SMITH QUIT? Governor A1 Sm:th announced some time ago that he was ready to quit politics. He is not going to be a candidate again, he said, for the gov ernorship of New York. It seems probable now that he will have to run again or quit in the face or Republican opposition. The Leg islature of the State refhses to do anything the Governor wants, making t almost necessary for him to run again or leave undone those things he told the people he would try to get done. Just why the New York Republi cans want to keep Governor “Al” from quitting politics is rather hard for an outsider to understand. They have no chance in the world to defeat him, whereas they might defeat some other Democrat. Governor Smith wants to quit office, we believe, still we \loubt that he will do it so long as tho Republicans ins : st on defeat ing every proposition he sponsors. DOESN’T LOOK GOOD. R. R. Clark in Greensboro News. The commissioner of internal reve nue has ruled that the President’s sal ary is not liable to the income tax. wherefore Mr. Coolidge receives a re bate of and will pay no income taxes on his $75,000 per hereafter. The question of the liability of the presidential salary to the income tax was raised during Harding’s term. Harding paid the tax ami it is said the estate will receive a rebate of $26,000. The internal revenue* com-! mission er’s ruling is based on the de cision of the Supreme court that tlie salaries of federal judges are not tax- , able. The North Carolina Supreme court held similarly, it will be recall ed as to state judges and state tax. The court decisions as to judicial salaries was based in each case on the provision of the constitution which says that salaries of judges shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. Obviously that was intend ed to prevent hostile legislative bod :es legislating judges out of office by cutting their pay. Just how taxing the judicial salary at the same rate j that is imposed on all and sundry could be held as “diminishing’’ the j salary within the meaning of the con- j stitution only the judicial mind can i fathom. Rut the judges have invar-: : nbly found for themselves and ns they : are the last word iu the matter, hav- j ing the power to exempt themselves j from taxes, the decision stands. I Just how the judicial salary dec is-1 ion is construed as exempting the] President isn’t explained, but it is I presumed that the internal revenue commissioner actiMl on uie rilling of the attorney general’s office. Rut it doesn’t look good, tlrs exempting offi cial salaries from taxes. It savors of preferential treatment that is con trary to the spirit of a democratic country. * 1 New Handy Pack More for yottt money and the best Peppermint Chewing Sweet for any money j ”1 AIN’T GOT NO MA" [ TXie Uplift. k : The other day The Concord. Trib-. • une carried a statement that there k wer;e nine boys in one of the oity • school rooms that did not have a ' change of underclothes and their con-1 : dition was impressing itself upon the : comfort and agreeableness of t’ac : room. The King’s Daughters issued , a distressed call. Right on the heels of this call John J. Rarnhardt, who -rejoices in 1 doing helpful deeds, and others, re ' sponded to the occasion. C!o»h was ! j secured from certain mills and car- ! • j ried to t'he school rooms. Little j pants were, fitted on the boys from! I the Kings’ Daughter®* closet (a great j I idea in itself), and then the boys j j were asked to carry home certain quantities of the cloth to their moth- J ers to have it converted into proper underclothes. All save one seemed gloriously hap py as they held up their little hands in accepting the propositio—all. save one. “Well, Johnnie, do you not agree to carry home some of this doth and have your mother to make you some nice, clean underclothing?” lie was psked. The little fellow, poorly clad, dirty and unkept but with honesty in his eyes, sadly re plied : ‘“I ain’t got no tna de^d — and my grandma can't do anything like that.” Here is a condition in the midst of an apparent plenty—some are troubled in knowing how to spend their money; others troubled in know ing how to get clothing to cover their nakedness atid food to sustain their bodies. It makes no difference that ; somebody has failed to do his duty, t’.iese children are not responsible—! they came into the world without be-' ing consulted —and it is a glorious thought that men and women among us. forgetful of their own comforts and conveniences, freely volunteer to right wrongs that occur here and ev erywhere. The world is growing better—some times mightly slowly—but it has good impulses and right will some day pre vail. We are our brother’s keeper, is more and more being accepted. ' He Didn’t Trade. Gee McGee, the humorist, of Ander son. S. C, says in The Daily Mail: A man offered me a beautiful mountain lot only fifteen miles from Rrevnrd last week for only $5,125. This price included the war tax and one telephone pole. This lot measured # ! fifty feet in front and ran back into j the mountain a distance of 02 feet 1 and then up toward the sky -4.1 feet I have not decided whether I would to tunmel a hole into it and j build in the hole, or have all t’iiat | dirt dug out and hauled off. was mighty scarce where this lot was j being offered. You can stand at the foot of it and look in every direction and there was not a speck of real estate anywhere near there. I am sorry that land is getting so scarce up in the mountains. There seems to be plenty of it down here wher you can plow and hoe and make 41 ■ living by working. I didn’t trade. A Hot I>rayer. ! The Roanoke News printes the fol i lowing fervent prayer which a eol | ored minister made in behalf of a j i brother minister; “O. Lord, gib him j the eye ob de eagle dat he may spy | out Sin afar off. Lay his hands on | the gospel plow. Tie his tongue on | the line ob truth. his heart on 1 de gospel pole. Row his head down I between his knees and his knees down in some lonesome, dark and narrow valley where prayer is much wanted to be made. Noint him tv id de kerosine tie of salvation and sot 1 him oil fire.” New York (.Tty has more than a 1 hundred languages and over a thou sand dialects. THE CONCO&b DAILY TRIBUNE j Published by arrangement with Flrat National Picture*, Inc. 1 I p THE story thus far Joanna, pretty, ultra-modern, thop girl is informed by her em ployer, Gordon, that an unknown man has given her a million dollars to spend as she wishes. There are no strings to the gift —no condi tions to meet —she is not even to know,the name of her benefactor. Rhe endeavors in vain to learn more from banker, Eggleston, where she meets his nephew Bran don, a man-about-town, who helps her write her first check and tells Joariha that he intends to make love to her. Dazed with the amount Os money, hurt by the fact that hfr shop girl companions and the mer chants with whom she deals, spend ing her new found fortune, believe her to have gone the limit‘d se curing the money, she returns home that night expecting to meef John, her hopelessly “old-fash ioned" girlhood sweetheart. CHAPTER VI. (Continued) This had been Joanna. The very breath of her, the rest and the pretense of her. It was Imita tion fur, but good enough to serre Its purpose Its lines had the ewagger. even If its lining was only mercerized 'cotton. Mrs. Adams had marvelled often at the uncom plaining patience with which a girl like Jo could put her hunger into a .thing like this —the hungers that ten and fifteen cent lunches, and I scantier breakfasts, piled. She ! shook her head dubiously. The j trouble that had been in her eyes j deepened to an inward sadness i B>e took the coat into her own i rorni, laid it across the foot of her 'bed tenderly and then brought the j JSOC note, which she folded and •lipped into the handkerchief pock •t in tre coat lining. Then she sat town te think, forgetting all about the flowers on the table in the "drawing room only ". Upstairs Joanna was trying also to think. She sat down on the bed and put her chin in her hand, her elbow propped on a crossed knee. But the room imprisoned her too tightly. The walls, dotted here and there with photographs es boys, a movie star or two and a framed lithograph of Niagara Falls, pressed in on her and suffo tated her. She more space. With al! that money in her bag, knd with more, all the jnoney In the world, more than she ever pos •ibly could get rid of. she must get •ut again, out onto the street where the crowds were, Into the •tores, and buy, buy. buy! She’d never been able to buy, Joanna hadn’t. Always she’d had to shop and haggle. The fellow who ran the store in the office dis trict, where she bought (limy, sheer things of tinted crepe de chines, hfe'd collapse when she shoujfi walk In, call for his fan ciest sets with real hand worked lace on them, the ones he hung in . his showcases for the same reason Cohen hung the mink in his win dow—when she should walk In, eali for these expensive sets and pay the price withoul haggling him down a dollar or two. She’d go around there now! Tomorrow after she’d talked with John to night she could take an hour or two and think Think what to do *nd how." She slipped out without seeing Mrs. Adams. At the corner' she hailed a taxi and fllbat first to the qhop where the dainty things tn ere# were. But she- was disap pointed. The shopkeeper didn’t collapse. He was calm. As If such a lavish purchasing were not at all unusual to one who dealt In such dainties. Joanna lost interest tn his wares and in him. Suddenly this little shop with the gaudy, hut enticing window display, and the rack* filled with billowy, sofl ! things tn every conceivable tin! j and shade, became unpretty, unin -1 Yttntg. She com parted her pur i chases, though, and went oot to her wafting cab. I She remembered her first plc ■tc. Strange how her thought* were slipping backward during | these hours! That picnic! Be | cause she bad been particularly I food for a week her mother had permitted her to go with the other I girls, older girls, without a guard ian to restrain her. And she wae tn such a stew when the baskets were spread out and the girls and boys broke up Into parties and hunted out the swings and wading places around the little lake There ■*ss so much for her to do. so much sheer Joy to garner In. that •he ran »bout In circles unable to jnake np her mltsd #here to begin, ihe was like that day. hot it w»* funny that she should remember. And queer, too, that today she had something of that same old, silly feeling that had come to her dur ing the picnic afternoon. She had stopped for a rntnnta that afternoon between racing from one excitement to another to eateh her breath Mwl to say to her self with ihlldish eagerness that ■he was glad she's bean—good To day when aha came out of the Hngerie shop she was glad in a way that she had. been —well, per haps there were-jo; medals hang , InVlshln" & and a 'fa”er . were where she crtld go to th-m j today. ThejFd give lots of room to . Sfi‘B • v' vv ?: ‘-ifr / IN. - ' * showed through and some other things, but she could look them straight in the eyes Just the same. “Tt would be so splendid if they, or one of them, could be here now! This climax to her reflection* and her memories of the picnic oc casion revived the glow la the slim, eager body. There Wasn’t anybody to share with her, except John, so she decided to just let it go at that. He’d help her, too, to reason out something about the thing that happened to her. Sh)l by herself simply couldn't. By late afternoon what, with some hectic scrambling into and out of her taxicab, she was ready for her descent upon the silk coun ter. She tried to forego that logical detail of the day. but couldn’t. Courageously she had slighted the shops and stores where girls of the counters and offices got thofr copies of avenue modes. She bold ly went onto the avenue Itself, even Into the upper section, where to be admitted as a patron is an award of honor which, earned, brings a marvelous deference and where she was called "Mademoi selle.'* The result felt upon the “I don’t know why the moUey was given me, nor by whom. You must believe me John, and help me.” silk counter as a sudden breath of some exquisite narcotic that sweeps the senses into appalling ecstacy. Joanna had timed her visit clev erly; she appeared during the lull between the leisurely shoppers who finish early and the last min ute crush of the hurrying, belated ones. Trailing behind a spacious grande dame who was threading her way through the atsles. she suddenly stood at her old counter, only on the other Stde of it, her gray gloved fingers tapping sharp ly on the polished wood, in obvious imitation of the department buyer. With her roguery dancing out of her eyes at every face behind the -eouater— the faces of her workday friends—she purred sweetly: "Good morning, young ladles!" At that moment Joanna's voice was the silver tinkle of ineffable Inner harmonies. Store patrons sitting at the counter turned curiously to scan the newcomer. In the attitudes of the girls who served them they sensed a drama. It was Georgle. Joanna’* best chum and also one of Mrs. Adams' • flapper*, who was first to find her tongue. "Good Lord!" she . breathed. “Look what the stork’s dropped!” Then there was a rush. Joanna without ceremony, oblivious to cus tomers with bellows of vari-colored silk in their hands, stepped back into the aisle and swung arornd for Inspection. "Miss Twenty seven” had be come thp slender wraith of a hot lofcse flower, all perfuto*. softaass and delicate oolor; beneath her mink wrap she shone vaguely grey- tailleiir that tell srrafkht from underneath her shoulders, but hugged her hips; skirt that dropped into straight lines without a touch of trimming or vagrant pleats or colors: a thing that was infinitely and ex pensively "avenue;" grey shear hoajs of a quality that echoed Info the very souls of Georgie and the rest! Slippers, slippers that were wondrous things of some skin with the sheen of grey velvet! A rav Ishitig little hat. grey with a splash of scarlet at the side. Georgia es tlraated the very simplicities of that hat as next door to being priceless. A single flower, but that •• or chid. nestled at Joanna’* waist There baa an Immediate baWi of tolces. punctuated presently 6y the sharp reminder of an Impatient ctialomer that there were those With wants to be attended to. "So ybu weren-’t fired after an?" Georgle exclaimed when she had summoned her wits. "Here we've been picking out the hymns for sow funeral all day and you— yok'f* pulled off whatever yoo'te MM* off! Let the tidings ioo«e. J 0! What's what—and who?" Georple’s tone bad dropped to the confidential lewil. Joanna's ey«* 9aftfoS»fed Immedt, cliß warned. Georgle stared at her. “Well, for. the love of—" The girl on the other aide of the counter, oa the t j outside now, Interrupted sharply: "Yes, that’s what I said. YouYs 1 plugging in the wrong line!” She bad intended so let “Mr. i Good Morning” (east his eyes also, i but suddenly she lost the flavor of j her play. She swung smartly about and without as much as a nod, leaving an endless volley of questions completely unanswered, she elbowed her way Into the Street. she had thought of going up tA Mr. Gragdon see her and to ash of him some more, wild questiona but she forgot. ' Why did everyone, even Georgia, whokout of. some very definite un derstandings between them, should know her pretty well—why d!0 alt ] of them think things? What was \ wrong with the world, the whole i world? Was there no one who really knew about a girl? Not even among other girls? Something very profound was stirring down below the surface of the deep brown ayes of Joanna, but it was still too abstract a con fusion for her to grapple with. She wa9 singing again when she reach ed home. The world for some un> fathomable reason had picked her out to be good too. When Georgle arrived, breath less from her rush from the store, Joanna was in the midst of her fa verish unpacking of boxes. She had forgotten her pique, and Georgle had forgotten her offense apparently. She plunged in to help, vainly trying to get In ques tions between her squeals of de light over the procession, of sur prising new things. Whatever per tinent queries she had treasured up against opportunity to voic« them were effectually silenced when Joanna remarked: “Lay off tomorrow, Georgle Gel sick or have a boil or something. I'm going to take you to som« j place 1 found today and buy you some real things—whatever you want. But you've got to wear youi dresses looser, little daughter! That black satin you affect Is all right. 1 guess, but when you get the real things that have somi ! bonest-to-goodness style In them why you don’t need to wear them So skimpy to look your best. It you don't know what 1 mean stay awake tonight and think it over, Georgle. I'm giving yon something straight!” "So straight It sounds like a ser mon to me.” the other girl retort/ ed. “And this isn’t Sunday, el ther! But you've got a license al) jlght, 1 suppose." It was a senten tious finish, but Joanna preferred not to take It up. Joanna heard Mrs. Adam? through half open doors tell othet girls in the house that the drawing room has been assigned for the evening atM heard the flippant re joinders that there were lots ot other wide open spaces in the world anyway. After awhile, after she had resigned outright one of her new gowns to. Georgle as an installment of tomorrow’s promise, ?he thought she heard John come in the front door. She listened eagerly, lips hot. eyes shining and body trembltng, bnt there was nd call from Mrs Adams. She fell again to examining herself in her bit of mirror, twisting and squirm ing to glimpse as much at one" time as possible of her gorgeous!; soft and glimmerinr evening gown out of which her throat lifted round and white. She’d always had a frock without sleeves and a fair ly low cut neck, but each of them modest affkirs. had made her him gry for something real—something ' that really would be a gown. At last! Whatj the feel of that dress was to Joanna hobort? bill Joanna will ever kndw. She wouldn't ad mit It herself, and it’s the sort ol thing that can be painted on a can vss or put Into music, but uevet said In words She heard the rattle of the door bell. She signed to Georgle to be quiet and opened her door an Inch or two. She heard Mrs. Adams an swerlng an Inquiry, aqd the voice she heard thea was not John’s, bai the quiet. modulated (ones of the man she had met at the bank— She heard Mrs. Adams' confrr slon. "Why, yes, I’ll tell her you're asking for her.” the puzzled land lady was'' saying “But I don’t know whether to put you in the parlor to wait or not. There's somaonts—her friend —is in there »' r ® been talking to about ner. Sne doesh’t know ne's here yet” And then Brandon's suave voice: "I am sure we will get on fa fnpusly. her—her friend and l We'll talk about her. too, you sea if she is'very long coming down I have brought her some flowers Will you be good enough to band them to her?" . Joanna he*r4 #*»' Adams herd- Jfcg Mm Inta the "drawing room bitty and In her diffident, blunder ing way mumbling an Introduction So John had come In. She was right wbea ahe thought she heard him. And ne and Mrs. Adams feed been talking together ail tile tta« iff. muffled whlspere so sbe would not,, know—fklUtag or bier And now Brandon, a man who sfi« thought knew what was a secret from her. had com*, as be bad lightly threatened, and John would see him. Brandon and John! Sfe* wanted to keep John. She’d never realised before how much. i She didn’t know wby, but Joanna was afraid as sh# went down stairs: so soft and yeung aad bean tlful in her costly new gewn, add so flushed from the day’s events. • but afraid. i >1 (To be continued) IBELL-HARRIS FURNItDRE CAI! I “A RESTFUL-SLEEP" I fl When in your bedroom the furniture and floor cover- j B ings all nwrge into a happy setting that spells a restful 5 jg “good-night”; where deep springs and buoyant mattress } fi give assurance of.bodily ease. Each effect in the room !< g gradually loses it’s distinctness the pictures become hazy, s O and soon one is fast asleep—in a sleep that knows no dreaming. \ N !* [ pawn gray and heliotrope for “Sister’s” walnut S ' i for “Brother Bill’s”, and deep lustrous mahogany for 0 j! Mother and Dad’s Room—all here in wide selection. i? Spring’is coming. Now is the time to look them over. BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO.; Stetson and No Name ] HATS FOR SPRING . 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PEARL DRUG CO. | , x j Phone* 22—722 Monday, March 1, 1926 Tttfc BATH S VOtfftfWtWß ViWtH Torrid days-- ?\WE OP YOUR- 7 p»ila ze Don’t let your temper get the best**? f you during this weather or during the hot days to come. See that your bath room is fitted with the. proper tub and plumbing and you can Laugh at Old Sol. W«fre plumb ers de luxe when it comes to bath room fixtures. CONCORD PLUMBING COMPANY ' L 174 Kerr St. Phone 57« j