Thursday, May 20, 1926
Hie Concord Dafly Tribune
J. B. SHERRILL
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THOUGHT! I
I M TODAY—J 1
1
Trust and Waver Not:—Trust in 1
the Lord with all thine heart; and
lean not unto thine own understand- 1
ing.—Proverbs 3:5,
ENOUGH INVESTMENTS RIGHT .
jS»4S .Vt HOMB. i -J
We find ourselves ready to add an 1
emphatic “amen" to a recent editor- !
ial in The Salisbury Post which ad- 1
> vised caution in the purchase of war
nway real, estate with the hope of ,
making a fortune in the transaction. <
The Post rightly says that the man t
with money to invest in dirt can get 1
deals near home and in such case he ,
can see what he is getting. Further
more be is a part of the community,
he understands conditions and the
general price level of things. When
he buys at home he does not have to
take the advice of some out-of-town
man. He is on the ground and can
see for himself. Says The Post:
“In plain speaking, let’s he sen
sible, safe, sound and practically
minded. Getting a little foothold in
the loveliest* mountains of earth, or
down where the placid waters run to
the Sea is desirable and not to be
scorned or even discouraged, but there
is wisdom ih being sane and sensible.
The Salisbury paper then goes on
to give the home real estate men
some advice as to their own busi
, ness, intimating that a little more ac-
I tivity on their part might result in
I more sales of home dirt.
The Post says:
“If home dirt were given a eom
’ paratively small amount of kind
words, intelligently and honestly plac
ed. as the wonderful developments of
the day there would be a deeper ap
preciation of the home lands and per
haps a degree less of regret to ac
cumulate in the after years. The
profound silence of the realtors of
the home eircle is impressive and may
be held responsible in' some measure
at leaßt for the strong appeal which
the green fields far away make to
those who are hungry and thirsty for
some of mother earth.”
IN JUSTICE, TO REYNOLDS.
The old Charge, “he didn’t enlist in
the war” is being brought into the ■
Overman-Reynolds fight by foes of the
Asheville man. Some one started the
talk and it, has been passed on to all
sections of the State.
In justice to Mr. Reynolds it seems
right to say that he was registered
for service in the United Stntes Army
on September 12, 1918 and had been
notified that he would be called for
service on November 14th, 1918. So
1 far as the records show he claimed no
I exemption. Mr. Reynolds pursued
the same course of millions of other
men who, being too old for the, first
draft, stood-hy until the government
saW a need' for their services. .
From Mr. Overman’s headquarters j
comes the report that the attack on |
Mr. Reynolds was not started there.,
That Is gratifying. We are of the 1
opinion that the attack, regardless of
its conception and administration,
will serve to the advantage of the
Asheville candidate for many persons
give their sympathy! to the man who
is unjustly attacked.
} MURDERS IN THE U. 8.
“The economic loss to the nation
from the 12,000 murders in the Unit
; ed States iu 1925 was very serious."
■ Thus spoke Frederick L. Hoffman,
‘consulting statistician to the Prtidbn
’ tin) Life Insurance Company of Am
| erica, last week; and further: "The
.evidence (after comparing the U. 8.
murder rate of 11.1 per 100,000 for
1 1925 with the 10.8 rate for 1924) ex
i tending over a long period of years is ]
I quite conclusive that the normal Am
erican rate is now approximately twice
as high as the corresponding rate for
Italy, often referred to as the classic
. land for mnrder.”
I Jacksonville, Florida, Mr. Hoffman
Mid. ranked highest in rat/last year
—72.3 per 100,000 (58.8 in 1924);
Memphis next with 59.0 (00.7 in
1924). Immediately, in lower line
came Birmingham, Savnnnh. and
New Orleans. All tbeje are South
ern cities.
In umber of homicides Chicago top
ped the list—s 63 (509 in 1924; rate
18.8 against 17.5). New York came
next—374. a decrease from the 387
of 1924. Third was Detroit—243.
PATTERSON HEAD
OF TEXTILE BODY
Charlotte Man is Re-elected Secre
tary-Treasurer; Convention Closes.
Atlanta, Ga., May 19.—Samuel
Finley Patterson, of Roanoke
Rapids. N. C., was elected president
of the American Cotton : Manufac
turers' Association at the .closing ses
sion of the annual convention here
today.
James J. Gossett, of Williamston,
N. 0., was elect ed finst vice-presi
dent, and George 8. Harris, Atlanta,
second vice-president.
Winston I>. Adams, of Charlotte,
N C., was re-elected secretary-treas
urer of the association.
Girls Who Fled From Industrial
Home Caught.
Charlotte Observer.
The majority suffers from the
wrongs of the minority, says nn old
proverb.
Such was the case Tuesday at the
Mecklenburg Industrial home for de
linquent girls when for the first
time in several moons the honor
system was curtailed.
And all because two girls took ad
vantage of the system and made
good nn escape only to be back at
the industrial home yesterday and
put under guard with the other in
mates.
The two girls were Mary Eliza
beth Deaton, 16, and Elizabeth Free
man, 18, who are believed to have
crawled upon a truck that carried
them to Willis Newells' service sta
tion where they were apprehended.
Miss Julia Alexander to Read Decla
ration.
Washington, May 19.—Mies Julia
Alexander, of Charlotte,: has been
selected to read the Mecklenburg
NDeehmrHvm of liidependertW"to ffie
North Carolina Society here Thursday
night. She is a descendant of a
signer. Everybody is looking forward
to her coming with great interest.
Spitzbergen is the one place in the
world where it is possible to live in
comfort without illness, for, owing
to the arctic air, it has been found
that no disease germs can exist there.
Norge Pilot
Col. Umberto . Nobile, famous Ital
ian flier, who piloted the Amundsen
dirigible Norge from Rome, where it
was built, all the way oyer the North
Pole, followed the order of bid govern
ment chief, Premier Mussolini, and
dropped the Italian flag an the Pole,
, * while Oapt. Amundsen and •Xieut.
, Ellsworth died the same ceremony with
i the Norwegian and American colors
| The Italian members of the Expe
-1 ditkm raised in the warm climate of
1 Southern Europe, suffered more from
* the Arctic cold than MSeir’brothers
from the N*Tth.
,1 How Norge Looked Over Pole
This composite photograph is an artist’s conception of ho\
the dirigible Norge looked as it sailed over the North Pole.
h photograph of the ship was superimposed on an authentic
scene within the Arctic circle.
Will It Take Sales Tax to
Finance Eight Months Schools?
Goldsboro, N. C., May 19.—UP—
"It now appears that the educational
forces will endeavor to finance the
eight mouths school term through a
sales tax or some other special tax to
be collected" from the merchants of
the State, and the merchants may be
put "in the position of opposing an
eight months school term if they op
pose sales taxes."
Such was the declaration here to
day before the North Carolina Mer
chants Association of J. Paul lieon- <
ard, of Statesville, secretary of the
association, in his annual report.
In this effort, the educational forces
have the avowed support of at least
one organization with many votes and
much real or imaginary political
strength,” Mr. Leonard added.
"His convention should not only go
on record against sales taxes and
their kind, but should immediately in
augurate an active campaign against '
such, and should get into polities to
the extent of seeing that the right
kind of men are sent to the next Gen
•wßrtiwmHr ’mr&m irfi? •
personnel of the next Legislature is
of more than usual importance be
cause of the progress that has already
been made toward putting the State’s
affairs on a business basis under the
leadership of our present Chief Execu
tive—Nothing should be allowed to re
tard or hinder this progress.”
Mr. Leonard referred to “the defeat
of the special merchants and
sales taxes proposed during the last
General Assembly" as “the greatest
service that your Association has ren
dered the merchants of the State," and :
pointed to the fact that “you were
warned in your last convention by no 1
less personage than the great business 1
Governor of the State of the danger ■
of further attempts to place the bur
den of sales taxes and other special
taxes upon you.”
Mr. Leonard next referred to the so
called “bad check law" “passed
through your efforts duiing the last
Legislature,” and pointed out that
"two Superior court judges have de
clared” the law unconstitutional, but
that, due to the way the cases have
come before the Supreme court, that
body has not yet passed upon the va
lidity of the law. If there is real dan
ger of the law being declared uncon
stitutional, it should be strengthened
in the next General Assembly, Mr.
Leonard recommended. He added
that he had no fear of the law being -
declared unconstitutional “if the spirit
of our constitution rather than the
letter is considered by the Supreme
Court.”
Tire secretary recommended that
the merchants should give hearty
support to the proposal in Congress
looking to the “endless chain selling
system,” and as emphatically rec
ommended that House Bill 10, provid
ing for the metric system of weights
and measures,,be opposed.
The report reviews the 10 years
since Mr. Leonard assumed the post
of secretary, and told of the associa
tion's growth from 10 local associa
tions with a membership of 710. to
33 local associations today with a
membership of more than 2,000. He
also told of some of the accomplish
ments of the Association during the
decade, and reviewed the reasona for
the organization.
Mr. Leonard has assumed a “mili
tant” attitude on a number of sub
jects during the year, he told the As
sociation. “One tax fight made dur
ing the year is significant because the
winning of that fight saved the mer
chants of the state handling electric
fixtures between $3,000 and $50,000.
“Your association was largely respon
sible for the securing of a new ruling
from the Attorney General and the
State Commissioner of Revenue which
relieved stores not actually engaged in
the electrical business from the pay
-1 ment of the license taxes imposed
: upon electricians. In another in
stance I challenged and condemned
statements given national publicity by
1 the head of a national credit organi
. zation which I considered unfair and
■ unjust, and defamatory to the good
1 name of the merchants of North Car
olina."
The Governor is commended by the
I report for calling the survey of wom
> en in industry, and it is recommend
e ed that the agency making the survey
•be givene thorough co-operation. Ref
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
erence is also made to the opposition
by the merchants during the last
session of the Legislature to the pro
posal “to place stores and mercantile
establishments under the provisions of
the laws regulating the hours of em
ployment of women." That action
was due, the report says, to the fact
that the complaints filed with the leg
islative committee “were against n
class of stores which do not affiliate
with local mercantile and commercial
organizations."
The Merchants Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company of North Carolina,
which it is expected will develop n hot
controversy during the eofvetition.
was discussed by Mr. Leonard, who
gave figures to show just what the or
ganization has done since its crea
tion.
Mr. Leonard concluded his report
with an expression of thanks for the
courtesy shown him during his ten
years of service.
__ Cliaingang Guards Strike.
(By International News Service)
Sparta, Ga., May 19.—Convicts on
the Hancock county chaingang en
joyed a holiday when a “strike” was
staged by every guard in the camp.
Enraged because one of the road ma
chine men was dismissed, the guards,
six in number, notified the warden
t'.iey would work no longer., The
warden locked all the convicts in
portable steel cages and busied him
self hunting more men.
With the exception of a few
months of the year devoted to nest
ing, the albatross spends its life at
sea, being on the wing practically all
tha time.
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VISIT OF SECRETARY
DAVIS POSTPONED
Due to the Illness of Mrs. Davis.—
Will Come as Soon as Possible.
Raleigh. May 10.—The visit of
Dwight F.' Davis, secretary of war,
that was to have been made to Ra
leigh and North Carolina today has
been postponed due to the illness of
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of ten, they just bring a lot of grief /^n\
home to roost: no pep in the old bus,
Jr ~ no pull on the hills —always a chatter
/ and a complaint from the engine.
“In the long run, it pays to stick to
“Standard” Gasoline—always depend- l^’] 1 »
able.”
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Mrs. Davis, according to a message
received by Gov. A. W. McLean yes
terday.
Secretary Davis had planned to ar
rive in Raleigh early this morning
and from there motor with Governor
McLean to Fort Bragg to inspect the
military reservation there. The plan
was to return that night to Raleigh
from which point Secretary Davis
could go back to Washington by train.
PAGE SEVEN
Regret was expressed by Seeretaqr
Davis at not being able to pay this
visit to North Carolina at this time.
He stated, however, that as soon. “
conditions would permit, he would
carry out. the trip as planned. >1
Mr. Davis has not yet paid an of- 1
ficial visit to North Carolina anil
Fort Bragg since he became secreftflfy
of war and i much interest was at
tached to hiw proposed visit. - f -1