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I TAKING THE "KICK"' OUT OF WAR.
|v,.ryi>no knows that we covet no territory, we entertain
no imperialistic designs; we harbor no enmity toward any other
people." -1,1 President Coolidge in his Merporial Day address at
The -tatement is correct, except, unfortunately, the first i
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nhrase. "ex cry one knows." Everyone ought to know, but every- k
p.,. <n'\. and that is what causes wars. iThe failure to under- t|
statu! tiic other fellow is the worst enenky of peace. Amer- b
ia ilor< not seek revenge, she nurses no grievances, just as the
rrcsiili-Mt -ays. and if we can get the other nations believing it, 'J
ami it' iu' can helieve it of other nations and they of one another, )c
tht-iv wiil he little need of a World Court. England, France, Ja- n
pan and ""hof civilized peoples may say the same.
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']"r. differences in racial customs, languages, commercial al
li'rac'.a - 'ligions and social conduct cannot k?
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liilt'ti uharmonious relationships. It is not only the resort w
r war : : ;in* "redress of wrongs and the enforcement of rights" w
ait living people seek to avoid, but to do away with mis- "
Borders; and ings that bring about the necessity or the intention ~
t ! ?.- !' to war.
War i> becoming less probable all the time, because the peoHple
of the world are getting together and understanding one an- 0,
other as never before. The radio, the airplane, the institutions sj
Hot fraternal ism and fellowship, peace and disarmament confer- p
ernvs. \\ rid-wide service in combating disease and evils such as ei
Biareetie-. are agencies for closer relationship and better under b;
Mstaiuling atr.niig world inhabitants. ol
The late war against the Riffs by France and Spain was m
Hfrowned up- n even to the point where the Riffians got some un iesenvd
sympathy along with some that was deserved. Even tt
Hlhe French government got tired of the struggle and the French c(
w. IV mnr?> cn Tho novt j.i '
|r "ai mat IUVII1S upuil mis glODe 01
* stiil more unpopular. And when, war becomes both ei
angular and unprofitable, there will be no more of it. The ri
kick" will i t moved. What *i-u, " "l
ttw ma!:it.,uu. i pv^uiaiity to anybody would be about ti<
jne-hajf'oi' one per cent. That would make war quite unprofitibl}ynnd
extremely unpopular.
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THE RAILROAD'S DOLLAR. p
Whi n you spend a dollar with a railway company, here is 111
khat becomes of it:
One cent goes to pay the officers. i
Forty-one cents pays all other employes. i
Eight cents for locomotive fuel. s
Eighteen cents for materials and supplies.
cents for loss and damage, injuries to persons and insurance.
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Three cents for depreciation and retirements.
IScven conts for taxes.
Two coiits for equipment and jointly used property.
Twelve fonts for interest and other fixed charges. j,
S;x " "ts is the balance of operating dollar for stockholders n
land pri.pfiiy improvement. ' f
Tiif.st figures are given out by the Western Railways' ComI'ublic
Regulations of Chicago. The last item, of six
ftnts, not mean that the stockholders get a 6 per cent return.
J: explained that for every dollar paid to the railroads N
Kyr,>,r !the road had about $1.60 of capital stock outstand- h
1 he net dividend was 3.8 per cent with an average dividend n
?l per cent. ; S
Tin' ligures are more than interesting. Assuming their cor- ^
they are even convincing that all of the money received a
} j?ur transportation companies does not go to the owners or d
t0 Wall Mreet. .Much of it comes back to the people. ?>
j. the increasing power of rescue. j
A (i, ,v of men and passengers are saved from a sinking Hud- ?
KiVfi- steamer, miners are rescued from crumbling shafts, 1
"owning persons are pulled to shore and resuscitated, and chil- (
: grownups are snatched from burning buildings. This
'o :ie increasing power of rescue, j i
1' fie are more accidents in this age because there are more
nore hazards taken, more lives risked in industry, in
'T"t a exploration and in the ordinary duties of life. But the
f aapcnsating effect is the modern methods of rescue and
" R-vilitii-s for prevention of disaster, j
r>l aul, pulmotors, electric drills, life saving apparatus,
sill enter into me general
ami the human element of protection ... Thanks be to
scheme of safety and deliverance *r?m for relief.
I science, human sympathy and organize
I s. men are so wet-minded the roofs of their mouths leak
I When they talk. , * '
I 11" cautious of the fellow who says his latch-String s j
?u'- There's a string to it. t j
I h ,, was j? the eat'was 'playin'g on his fiddle, no wonder
the row jumped' over the moon.
I many of us are putting one foot down on speeding and
the other foot on the accelerator. A
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OVERLOOKING THE HORSE
One could feel nothing but pity for the blind man in the picture who
.'onders why his carriage does not move when he says "Giddap." He
nows he is sitting in the wagon with reins in hand, and that he is going
tirough all the usual performances of a driver. But he finds no results
ecause the horse?the pulling power?is not attached.
Th 4a r?v on ?? ?-' " * '
...... ...on ua? a n-ii.-niiiauii' excuse, mr ne cannot see. Hut ttiere are
lanjr men with the power of physical sight who are in the hopeless preicament
of the blind driver because they fail to see important things but
>ok for the results that come from them. As an example, we have the
lerchant who expects business to move without advertising to pull it on.
Every successful business establishment will admit that consistent
ivertising furnished the power and momentum on their upward journey,
ad that it is still an indispensable agency for them. If true-in their case,
te small merchant cannot afford to sit on his unhitched wagon and
ait for some miracle to move htm along, for no matter how good the
agon, which corresponds to his stock and store, it cannot travel alone,
coept down hill.
COLLECTIVE THINKING.
Much as we may prize our right of individual opinion and
nr cherished form of private enterprise, there must of necesty
be a certain amount of collective working out of community
roblems. There is a certain pride and a certain ambition that
zery citizen possesses which, if put into the common pot and
acked up by co-operative effort, will result in the advancement
f Tryon and the entire community surrounding it for many
iles.
There should be a clearing house of ideas which will mean
le realizationjof ideals. To accomplish this the citizens of our
immunity should work together as never before. The law fixes
tr boundaries and political units and prescribes our form of gov nment.
It merely sets up the house and tacks yp the house <
Mate STni put into ettect the developments that ? ii'"6.' "llu 1
an to reaches destiny. na p r,v>b*aCALLING
A CRIMINAL A SPADE.
A dispatch from Boston tells of the sentencing of Charles
onzi, financial "wizard,' from seven to, nine years as a "com,on
crook and notorious thief."
White collar crooks have been pampered too much with highlunding
names. They have been made too heroic by pleasant
ords and phrases. Such appelations as "dapper bandit," "shoofcig
sheik" and "romantic rascal" are all too nice. Ponzi got the
ind of name as well as the kind of sentence he deserved.
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If our forefathers had been foresighted, they would have
ritten it "life, liberty and the pursuit of our right of way."
Now that Germany has filed her application for membership J
i the League, we suppose the matter will be referred to the com- j
littee on helmets and poison gas.
THE PARAGRAPHER. j Golf.
If Pol>by Jones keep up his won
? derful exhibit of golf this week In
By Albert L. Berry. , .
England, that he showed last week
* ona ' when he played 36 hole In 134, the
Vice President Dawes seemed to n,.insh wi? cive him a titlei caI1 hIm
ave forgotten his determination to j Sjr an(j confer knighthood or
jform the rules of the I nited States s0,ne (,tlior honor on him. For th?
enate. Experience must have taught S(.ore Wils n0[ onjy remarkable, but
im that he was up against a stone ((,n strokes upder par. The Rritish
'all, as the United States Senators 0p,,n jr()]f championship began this
? .> a taw unto themselves. The free> | aI1(| will have 117 competitors.
om of a Senator to talk as long as The roRuIt wi? ,)C eaKerly watchea
ip desires, and upon an> subject, or j)y g0]f,,rs 0f America. Besides
& many subjects, or without any sub- jj0hhy joneSi Walter Hagen, Emmet
ect, as long as he has the floor, and pr(,n(.i, Cyril Walker, .Jim Barnes,
he Senator has voice, has long been yt,orge von Eim and other Americans
in established privilege of a Senator, ilave qualified,
ind the Vice President has no power
o stop him. Home Town Topics.
I have had my fling at the Mayor;
Sishop Manninq. jn fac^ j ^ave had several flings at
The ability to create faith in men hint, and I know that others have had.
is what has made Bishop Manning s() j secured a copy of the charter of
the outstanding and leading churchy the town of Tryon and read it careman
of America. To him belongs the fully; secured copies of such ordlfaith,
the courage and the steadfast nances as I could, then I examined
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ability to carry through the nomesc i the orncial
and grandest cathedral ever built tn'for u,e p;lst two years.
America, the glory of New York City, The first thing I found on studying
and one of the greatest cathedrals or tiR, charter is that Tryon has the
the world. It has not only made men best form 0f village, or town gQTeni
wonder, but it has piade men think, m,,nt that th0 best minds on p^mic
and will stand for centuries as a mon- jpa] government have been tjSflt
ument of glory, of human achievement devise ? a mayor, a busines2?Bn
and colossal grandeur and beauty. ager and a board of commisjtofiers
' elected by the people. I fopnd tha
The International Eucharistic Con- the total operating expensejfeof th(
gress being held at present in Chi- town of Tryon for the yeajS^ndini
cago seems to be the greater event May 31, 1925, was $5,400; (MM- whei
I of the year, and is attracting more a man can run the town fStTryoii
(attention and larger crowds than the pay his chief police, keep U^e towi
- . ... ?? ??jpriv condition as it^?is bee;
Isesqui-centennial at Phiiaaeipmu. meim u .
mayor of Chicago and many of the i since I came here, in Octoi?$r las)
city officials are Catholic, but the collect the town taxes, licensS^ kee
Congress has drawn the attention and all the books and accounts vtaSt, ar
the co-operation of many leading men necessary, pay the town's attorney
outside of the church. President pay for the yearly audit of theD^
Coolidge sent Secretary Davis to de- and his own salary for $5,400 a yea:
liver his letter of regret and express I take off my hat to him and his con
his regrets at not being present. Jmissioners and withdraw my flings.
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To Talk Economy.
(Spartanburg Herald.)
Tonight In Memorial Continental
hall in Washington about 1,500 important
officers of the government
departments will meet for the purpose
of hearing the president preach
economy. After his talk, these officers,
being the men directly concerned
with the" actual expenditures
of the government, will proceed to
discuss among themselves the financial
needs of the country ^or the
coming fiscal year, which begins July
1. They will look over the records
of expenditures for the past year, and
try to find places where economies
may be effected. No doubt representatives
of various departments will
be on the alert to find items in the
accounts of other departments which
they think might be pared down a
bit. In fact, each department of the
government, through its accounting
representatives, will be required to
justify its needed expenditures to the
satisfaction of those in charge of the
meeting.
For the meeting will be in charge
of the budget commission,-that business
organization of the government
which has been functioning for five
years, and which will tonight engage
in its eleventh formal meeting. It <
will be in rharee of Flireetnr W M i
Lord, who has been chairman of the 1
commission since General Dawes gave ;
up ^hat position to get into the cam- |
paign of 1924. 1
There are two views of the opera- 1
tion of the budget commission since '
it was organized in 1921. To one '
group of citizens it has meant only t
another expensive bureau of the gov- 1
ernment In Washington, pretending to 8
operate toward a reduction of ex- 1
penses but without notable success 8
in that endeavor. To another section I
of sentiment, the organization has far '
move than justified its existence. It^ r
purpose has been the scientific han- *
dling of the finances of the govern- 1
ment by estimating in advance of ap- 1
propriation the amounts that will be 0
required, and exerting every possible 1
nresKure to keeD exnenditures withtn I
those estimates. It is the foe of thelo
"deficiency" appropriation, the time- 1<
honored method of taking care, at the 8
end of the year, of expenses that tl
have come up during the year in ex- o
cess of appropriations, thus creating y
deficiencies. It has not entirely sue- 0
ceeded In these efforts, but there is 0
plenty of evidence to indicate that it l?
has had some restraining effect upon Oi
method8 of expenditure
President"tfoolirflfd'Ts
be both personally and officially in l'
favor of economy. His talk tonight
will probably be worth listening to, '
worth reading and worth putting into
practice.
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Not Sure They Want It. a
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(New York Times.) t
Discussion of the doomed Haugen J
farm bill goes on in congress, and Is '
expected to continue till the end of '
this week. Even its friends admit 1
that it cannot be passed, but they con
tinue to argue for it. Under the cir- <
cumstances, their speeches sound un- ,
commonly like obituaries pronounced j
before the death of the patient, but '
still they find no way to stop. There .
is a terrible and cumulative momen- J
turn about a senate discussion, once <
it gets started. Like the heathen, <
every senator is under the delusion ,
that he will be heard for his much ;
speaking. There is also the natural <
| but unavowed desire to deliver ora- ,
I tions in a cause known to be hopeless, |
(simply for the sake of making a rec'
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ord that can be usea in eiecuuuo. ,
One of the commonest arguments
used in congress for the Haugen bill
is that the farmers want it. It may
be that the farmers want it. It may
not be in all respects what those who
advocate it would like to have it, but
they say that the great Middle West,
the militant corn belt, the vast agricultural
interests of the country are
united in demanding the legislation,
and, therefore, it must be granted.
Rut this fundamental conception fs
vigorously challenged by Mr. B. F.
Yoakum in a letter to Secretary MelIon.
Denying that a large majority
of those engaged in farming are favorable
to the Haugen bill, Mr. Yoakum
cites one agricultural organiza
tion after another which is either
: luke-warm toward it, or has gone jnn
i record against it. For example^ the
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national council ui mc
; operative Marketing Associatlcii^flfcas
) taken a referendum on tbe mdUVe
- among tbe members, with tbe tfBlt
- that only 238 votes favored theJfeu>
gen bill, while 1,713 were agahfjPit.
- On the basis of his careful ipqsrles
, and expert knowledge, Mr. JtjjBkum
t asserts that "the Haugen biHafcK not
3 the support of the American Jpmers,
I as hsown by their authorlMwarm ori
ganizations." Yet congreqfl^^appealed
i, to on the ground thgtjHe farmers*
a want it and will not b^Hutically hapa
py until they get lt^y
t, There is always dKer or mauuR
p sad blunders whenVany one undere
takes to "give . Che public what It
7, wants." That prescription, as applied
s to. newspapprs 'and magazines, was
^ made the subject of a caustic and
i- informative little essay by Miss Rose
Macaulay. She found on investlga.!
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tlon that editors and publishers most
insistent upon giving the public what
it wanted were lamentably Ignorant
of what the public really wanted. Of
course, people often had to accept
what was given them, because they
could not get anything else. But this
did not prove what they would not
have jumped at a better article had
they been able to obtain it. And It
may easily be the case that senators
are Just as wrong in thinking that
they know what the farmers want.
Farmers are sometimes compelled to
submit to what is imposed upon them,
Just as are the purchasers of sensational
newspapers and shoddy period- 1
icals, where none others exist, but '
they may actually want something '
very different. Only a minority of '
them appear sincerely to want the 1
Umtffnn Kill on/I o*?on thoir "?J11 not ^
iiaugcu L/iiij auu c?cu IUCJ niu uui
shed many bitter tears when they find 1
out that they cannot have it.
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A Bumper "Carry-Over."
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(Charlotte Observer.)
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According to the "Cotton Service .
Bureau" of the Merchants' National
Bank of Boston, a big "carry-over" '
Situation faces the cotton industry.
The estimate is that world consumption
of American cotton during the 6
current season ending July 31, will be a
about 13,700,000 bales, linters are not ''
being counted. This would leave
2,600,000 bales of last year's crop to
:he end-season supplies, and would
liake a total world carry-over of
ibout 6,200,000 bales. The argument
s that while the consumption of 13,100,000
bales will be much greater c
han the world's spinning last season, A
t will be much smaller than early- d
leason expectations of the amount c
vhich spinners would use. Last sea- tl
ion the world spun 13,142,000 bales, s
luring the early part of this season h
t was generally . expected that the w
elatively low price at which cotton tl
fas selling would stimulate the spin- w
ling industry to such an extent that H
he world would use at least 14,250,- o!
00 to 14,500,000 bales. In some quar- ei
ers it was around 15,000,000 bales. it
And the fact is: The carry-over fa
f 6,200,000 bales will be by far the h:
irgest since the abnormal end-season W
tock in the summer of 1921 following w
he deflation and business stagnation oi
f the previous twelve months. Last m
ear the carry-over was about 3,592,- tr
00 bales, and two years ago it was w
nly 2,754,000 bales. The abnormally nc
irge carry-over in 1921 totaled 9,944,90
bales. ot
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Democratic Deficit. a,
he deficit in the campaign iuuu? 31
he Democratic party brought over 0i
rom the 19&1 election?the deficit, w
hat Is, not the funds, was brought bi
ver?had been cleared off. But It
eems that only a portion was dis- jc
iosed of and that there is still due n
, matter of $150,000, V^'ch 18 heing s<
arried by the national committee in tl
he form of notes in Dan*. JCDOC j SI
fones, financial director of the 1924 h
:ampaign, says the deficit will soon n
>e paid off and he sees bright pros- t;
>ects ahead for the party, but there e
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seems to be a good deal of dissatisfaction
with the methods of finance
and the general management of the
national committee, and it may not
be so easy to raise the money to
clear up an old debt.
It is discouraging to begin a new
campaign with a deficit from a preceding
and a disastrous contest, but
that seems to be the fate to which
the Democrats are doomed, at least
as far as the deficit is concerned.
Once in a while the party wins an
election and, perhaps, for a short fl
time it manages to balance its campaign
budget, but there is never such
a thing as a party purse, in the sense I
the English parties, for example, are
supplied or, for that matter, the Republican
party in the United States. I
For example, it is stated that some
of the Republican senators who are
up for re-election this year are trying fl
to lure from the Republican national
committee, of which Senator Butler
sf Massachusetts is chairman, financial
aid in their several campaigns,
ind it is stated In that connection
.hat the Republican committee has a
irery nice sum put away, which has
ncreased materially since the 1924
election hv rpasnn r?f tho Intoroot ?I
he corpus. That sounds as if the
mm in hand is considerable, and it
irobably runs into big figures.
While the senate is looking so closey
into the expenditure of great sums
n the Republican Pennsylvania cam>aign,
why should it not also endeavir
to ascertain the cause of the Demicratic
deficit and to legislate a remdy?
It ought to be regarded as
gainst public policy for one political
arty to have always a surplus and
he other always a note in bank.
"The Fool Peoole."
(New York Evening World.)
There is to be no legislation In
ongress (or the protection of the
.merican people against the coal lnustry,
because that industry is In
ontrol of congress and has turned
iumbs down. Senator Copeland deerves
all praise for the game fight
e has made to secure legislation that
ould be of service to the people In
le event of a repetition of the
retched conditions of last winter.
Ie made some progress. In the light
r what we now know of the influnce
of the coal industry on congress
is amazing that he progressed so
ir. The fight to prevent legislation
as been led by Senator Neely of
fest Virginia, and that tells the
hole story. For many years Senates
from West Virginia have been
ade and controlled by the coal indusy
in that state. The coal Industry
ants no legislation and it can stand
) light. I
Thus, with sinister prospects of anher
strike, another session of con ess
is to expire without action or
ix Kiek ...em- x
ry of the recent days when they
ere the victims of high-handed robery
and of actual suffering is dim.
They have laid down on their own
ib?something the coal industry
ever does. If they had half the
;!f-interest of the representatives of
le coal industry they would make it
a warm for their representatives In
ouse and senate that the latter would
ot dare do the bidding of the indusry
that mercilessly exploits consumrs
at every opportunity.
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