■Sijhirday, June 19, 1926
1 WHY IS AN ENGINEER?
Bates and Pages of Blueprints and
■ Graphs Before the Highway.
8 Tribune Bureau
■ • Sir Walter Hotel.
■ Raleigh. June 19.—What is a
Just a strip of concrete or
Bpbait upon which to drive vour
* Yes. but it its more than
Hat. Have you ever stopped to think
W>t that strip of road was visual iz-
H in the mind of a Highway Com-'
engineer, then transferred to
and pages of graphs and Wue-
before ever becoming an
Bn«l highway.
Tribune correspondent was in
office of one of the Highway'
engineers this morning.
whom was spread a seemingly
roll of graph paper, with
aig-sagging up and down. He
■•me curious and asked whai it
On this roll of paper, at
representation of the new
soon to be built near Saluda,
Saluda mountain and the
mountains in that section.
curve, peuk, bluff, ravine and
was shown, together with the
of the material—whether rock.
a mixture, and in what por
—also t’.ie steepness of the
along the route.
it was explained, it looked
like so many sprawling lines;
when it was shown what the
lines were for, it was al-
to see the road as it
be when completed.
cpiestiou "why is an engineer”
nsivercd as \Vell as the question
does North Carolina have the
*■ roads in the United States?”
ROB NESTS
■INI* DEVOUR I.ITTI.K BIRDS?
■ finest ion Has Been Settled Once
if For AU.
® Tribune Bureau,
y* , Sir Walter Hotel,
June lit.—Do snakes real-
nests and devour young birds,
the stories about such reptilian
merely tigments of the imagi
■'U on the part of under-ripe
The question Isis now
settled once for all 1 Snakes eat
Here's how.
oe a reconnoitring tour a
: |gH days ago, a party of engineers
S the State Highway Connnis
|H. composed of 11. E. Noell, I>is
-9> Engineer. It. (}. Browning,
were coming, down a
trail on Buck Creek mountain,
■t of Marion. The trail was nar
the undergrowth dense and the
slow.
trail was not an old one—it
as if it had been in use since
days of Daniel Boone'* said a
of the party in telling of the
JBb- "All at once we heard a great
in a clump of laurel near I
!■ trail, and a mother Woo'd Thrush |
■ "Swamp Robin'* as some call [
Bam. was making an awful fuss. Sol
stopped to investigate.
■"On parting tile branches, we saw j
■ large brack snake, which later
■re.v«l to be*nWr<vfhnn five feet lorrg, I
■piflß ap the branches and in the i
■'< *f devouring one of this mother
two fledglings. The second lit- j
■ fellow sat quivering on the edge '
■ the nest awaiting his turn, when
■ r - Hooper knocked the big snake to
■e ground, and. sCemied on its head.
■> the soft ground he was unable to
■t'sh its head, and it quickly coiled
B*>ut his leg, almost pinning him j
■own. Einally. however, he was >
■>le to move his foot so as to ex-1
the snake’s head, whereupon the
■her membem of the party were i
■ble to hit it with a club and killed j
But the snake did not disgorge the i
Bird.
■ Yes, snakes eat birds!
B No New Tax Cut in Sight.
■lie Pathfinder.
■ I’resident Coolidge put a quick stop
■ rumors that another tax cut was
■nniuent. Though he expects a |
■ensure surplus, he does not t’hiuk
■ "’ill he anywhere near large enough
■ warrant a further slash in taxes.
'■ fact, he does not see another cut
■>' several years to come, or at least
there is a reduction in our na-
debt. He explains that the
■ll effect of the last tax eut will
be so apparent this fieal year as '
■ will be during the next two years, i
■f thinks Congress should go slow.-j
■ ill expenditures to avoid a possible [
Tlie t’.iief executive is not i
■ optimistic as Secretary Mellon, |
■ho predicts a treasury surplus of i
•300,000,000 at the end of this month. !
flTius outlook, coupled with statements '
■rijije President and cabinet mem- j
■p that America is enjoying unus-1
prosperity, led some political
to anticipate another tax re
"J if Professor Kid
meant anything bv it."
: "B.v what?"
"He advertised a lecture on
and when J bought a ticket
marked 'Admit One',"
stnrs and strips was first cur-
H 1 across the frontier into Germany
IHthe American army of occupation
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Dinner Stories -
Likee \\’orkee-
A Chinese newspaper poblisbed this
letter from an applicant far work:
Sir: I am a Wang. ... I can
drive typewriter with gpod noise and
my English is great . . My
last job has left itself from me, for
! good reason that large man has dead, i
It was on account of no fault of mile 1 .
So, honorable sirs, w'.iat about it? II
I can be of big use to you, I will ar
rive OH spine date tbit yqu should
guess.”
Mm in Doubt. y
The very small boy with vne very
large gua was standing in a country
road, . 1 i',
"What are you hunting , Bub?"
asked a passerby.
“I dunno,” he replied fraukiy, “I
ain’t seen if yet."
Teacher—Harry, Who do you per
sist in saying that no woman can be
president?
Harry—Because a candidate must
be over 35 years of age.
you find your job
makes you unpopular?
Collector —I don’t thiuk so. Why,
very often they ask me to c4ll again.
She—l’m very economical in ttie
use of money, but. my husband cannot
keep a cent.
He—You're mistaken. He kept
sl6 beloging to me for twelve
months.
Manager—Your handwriting is all
right, but can you write shorthand?
Applicant—Oh, yes; but it takes
me longer,
T'.ie minister's wife, while calling
on a member of the congregation.,
mentioned, with excusable pride, that
her daughter had won the prize in
a music recital.
Her listener at once showed her fel
low-feeling.
“I cat) understand your pride," she
said. "I well remember how pleased
1 was when our pig took the first
liriic at the agricultural show.”
Magistrate—Have you appeared as
a witness in a suit before?
Witness —Y'cs, of course.
Magistrate—What suit was it?'
Witness—A blue serge suit.
Sandy Mclntosh had just returned
from a trip to the old country.
“Ye promised us," said his young
est son, "that ye'd send us a penny
post-card from Edinburg, father, and
ye didna do so,"
j "Aye," admitted Saudy. “and it
I was ma ain fault, lad. I weut and
lost it."
| “Doan you start no fight with me,
j man. Ah's been decorated ill de
1 wn r.”
I "Maybe ypu'x..\vuz, but iu nuih opiq
its lime yuh-got redecorated.”
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; W*vtx TO Tb PEOPLE SUNDAV SCHOOL CLASS |PUBLIC GATHERINGS?! ENVELOPES 1
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RIMER.
There will be a childrens’ day pro
gram ■ rendered at Prosperity E. L.
Church Sunday, June 20th, at 8 p.
in. Everybody is cordially invited to
attend this program.
Sir. and Sirs. Brown Bost, of Salis
bury. visited at Mr. and Mrs. M. B.
BuckwelFs Sunday.
Misses Nora and Grace Safrit, of
Kanuapo’is, spent the week-end with
Kicir sister, Mrs. Frank Kluttz.
) W. A. Safrit visited his family at
Kannapolis over the week-end.
Pete Buckwell, of Kannapolis, and
Dock Buckwell, of Salisbury, visited
their brother. 51. B, Buckwell, Satur
day and Sunday.
Miss Inez Penninger spent last
wpek at her sister's, Mrs. YV. A. Sif
ford.
Mr. and slrs. Charles 'Williams, of
Concord, visited a few hours at B.
B. Faggart's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sifford, of
Concord, spent Saturday night and
Sunday with srr. Sifford’s parents*
Mr. and sfrs. John Sifford.
Ira Corl, of Kannapolis, was a wel
come visitor at T. 0. Stallings Satur
day night and Sunday.
There will be Community Meeting
at Rimer school house Friday night,
June 18th at Bp. m. An interesting
program is being planned. Kvery-
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the concord oaii y tribune
body is invited. BLUE EYES?
CONCORD ROUTE THREE.
There seems to be a good bit of
harvesting around here now. It is
so hot and dry that what grain is
planted ripens fnst.
M*w-and slrs. Leonard Shive and
son, “Billy,” of Salisbury, spent Sun
day with .Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Misen
heltner.
The many friends and relatives of
slrs. Effie Edison regret to learn of
her illness and death. She is sur
vived by 'ier husband, one son and
her father. The bereaved families
have our sympathy.
slr. and slrs. M. B. Corl and little
son, slarshal Banks. Jr., of Concord,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Misenheimer.
slr. and 51 Zs. E. K. 51isenheimer
spent Monday morning with slr. and
slrs: R. D. Wilson, of Concord Route
4.
Venus, I saw in your last items
where you said a man found n pig
and put the pig on a bottle and it
was looking fine. I expect it would
have looked better if he would have
put the nipple in tfie pig's mouth so
it could get some milk.
The picnic question must have lost
out. I never see anything more
about it. LENOIR.
DONG GRAND JURY PROBE
Alleged Atrocities Resulting From the
Alabama Convict Lease System.
(By International News Service)
i Birming'.iam, Ala., June 18. —Fin-
ishing one of the iougest grand jury
probes in Alabama history, the Jeffer
son county grand jury investigating
alleged "atrocities” resulting from
Alabama's convict lease system,
charged that youths of high school
age are being worked in prison mines
by the side of "hardened criminals.”
Warden Charles R. Davis and four
convicts were charged by the grand
jury with causing t'.ie death of James
W. Knox at Flat Top mines. Davis
is under $23,000 bond awaiting trial.
The four convicts indicted with him
are in State prison. W. A. Bates,
former deputy warden at Flat Top,
is under indictment on a murder
charge growing out of the investiga
tion. He is charged with killing
Frank Harper, a negro conviet.
The grand jury, 'in its final report,
found it advisable to refer investiga
tion of alleged discrepancies iu finan
cial accounts of Warden Davis at
Flat Top to a subsequent grand jury.
The Stars and Stripes was perma
nently plauted iu Alaska, at Sitka,
October 18, 1867.
IdETH SE.AJUS SECRET
OF THE “MYSTERY MAN”
(i
| Philadelphia Shoe Merchant Disap-
I peared From His Home 20 Years
A*».
(By International News Service)
1 Memphis, • Tenn., June 18—Grim
death has sealed forever the secret
j of Memphis' "mystery man.”
IVhv Henry C. Ivoer.rmann, rorrner
j Philadelphia slioc merchant, suddenly
, disappeared from his home 26 years
. ago and what led him to Memphis
. to spend his last days on earth in a
I “sunshine home" for aged and infirm
, men now probably will never be re
( vealed.
For Koenemann died in a hospital
i here without divulging his secret. He
, lived here for many years, but he
, made few acquaintances and no con
. fidants.
Tile “mystery man’s” identity and
[ the story of his strange disappearance '
becs(me known here a little more than
a year ago when he was stricken with (
. apoplexy and was taken to a hos
. pital.
t Koenemann was 68 years old when
. he died.
The Stars and Stripes was first of- |
. ficially saluted by a foreign goverq- i
inent on February 14, 1778.
Would Not Accept Roosevelt Role.
(By International News Service)
Macon, Ga., June 18.—There is one
person in the world who has no de
sire to enter the movies even when
given the chance by a leading pro
ducer.
He is I)r. Andrew P. Montague,
vice president of Mercer University,
who has been suggested for the role'
of the late President Theodore Roose
velt in a rough riders picture to be
filmed by Paramount.
Montague, it is said, bears a strik
ing resemblance to the late president
—file way Roosevelt would have
looked, perhaps, had he led a life
of seclusion of the school room rath
er than the vigorous out-of-doors life
that he loved so well.
When Montague received the pro
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ducer's letter asking for a photograph
of himself, he smilingly sent the
photograph, but explained that even
though he should be selected for the
T. R. role, he would not be able
to accept it. *
“Too old at forty" is a phrase that '
means nothing in the young life of
1 C. H. Hart, one of England’s famous
long-distance runners. Now turuejjf*
sixty-two, Mr. Hart has recently been
giving exhibitions of his speed and
endurance by running against two,
horses for 12 hours each day.
The stars and stripes was first ear*.,
tied into action on a European battle
field by Gunner William H. Clancy,
of the Royan field artillery of Canada,
at Yimy Ridge, in-IOIJ.