I |j,e polk County News f - WEEKLY 3Y THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY LOUIS LEHMAN. Editor ..-i.iffu ? :lt Tryon, N. C., as Second-Class Mail Mattt Under Act of Congress. w terms of subscription display advertising rate lorty Cents Per Column Inch, Flat Advertising, One cent Pet Word, Cash In Advene WHEN WE SAY ("TRYON") matu'i of identity every community has a name. I Ktd illueh or New York, Prattville or Montreal. Th( matters little, so long as th(e community gets prope: for its resources and just recompense for its good works .|,jai today is not New York or Montreal, it is ("Try \mj when we say ("TRYON") we mean more than th< i i ll nt.^c tr> thp finnnpinl ctahili+v n-f thp enm Itll'l* 11 I H l t'l'Ill I ' 1 ' 11 L V * "* lv * ** *V<1 ?J VM W *? A WJ V A V1*V ?/ ho entire surrounding country the limits of which ar< nsurate with the influence of our people and institutions py) stands for more than the material frameworl ^o ovos can see. n wo say ("TRYON") we mean its stores and business and the hard-working men and women behind them. W< ho shops and industries where citizens labor to give theii lastiro of service to the community and to bring food i shelter and happiness to their families. We mean th< 5 who administer the local government and insure out under law. We mean the institutions that represenl land education without which none can tell the outcom< ization. We mean the children as they play, whose in. i bespeaks hope for the race and in whom we live agair s of our youth. We mean the farmers and country peo> honor ("TRYON") by sharing with us their patronage iking this their center for business and fellowship. W( he stranger and tourist who come our way and enjoy th< dations and attractions that ("TRYON") offers. We ur civic and social organizations that strive to make out nity more prosperous, more genuinely hospitable, more is. We mean the man of wealth who puts money into ion and contributesto the financial stability of the com lave named only a few of the factors that go to make up nmunity of which we are all proud. But it is by recogand fostering these and similar elements of community p devt'lopmen that ("TRYON") may hold its place ir I County and in ("TRYON"). rthat we have stated what we mean when we say pi"I. it is only fair to state what we don't mean when let a GREATER ("TRYON"), and that is we don'1 1AYBE or PERHAPS! * * * SQUIBITORIALS We'll Get To Work Subway her great advantage in living and working in ("TRY5 that we don't have to worry about strikes on subways i like the people of New York City. * * I The Swimming Swedes en ha> launched a drive to compel every Swede to lean 1 <.nod! When Sweden gets as overrun with automo1 this country there will be no recourse for her pedesother than to plunge into the briny deep and swim tc * Has A Bootlegger A Conscience? the '.ovi-rnment plans to put gasoline into denatured J "take it more difficult to secure a beverage. But why tore poison? Will bootleggers then take the trouble tc the yasidine? The move would seem to imply that boot Ikv is fit to drink but it isn't, as the death records As long as alcohol is made somebody will be foolist to drink it, gasoline or no gasoline. * Political Complexion Changes -?S Ang.-lc.s Times, in jocular vein but half meaning it al Brookhart was nominated because most of the lows 1 ar(> in California. If that is true it looks as tho th< itatc is in for some conservative voting this fall. ? Fame In Name fore Roosevelt, of Political fame, and Francis X. Bush f motion picture fame, are examples among thousand! N oi more or less distinction who gave their Christiai Hieir sons, if the father is one who achieves, sucl I hlts much value to the son; but if the son writes to< Pits promiscuously it is rather damaging to the father * ? There Are Still Stills B*' "f ' men and women were locked up during the 12 : 1 ar just closed in one of our American cities .,f people would equal the population in any on Wr,,'ls (it towns and villages all over this country. Jer '"' aks to the effect that "a whole town of 868 peo ' up for drunkenness in one year there wi ^Hnk' else doing in wet and dry circles. * America And World Peace Anieric ans have not advanced any selfish proposal *ll0? with the disarmament discussions is the opinio: 1 'lihson, the American Minister to Switzer anc W Native value; but what has America done in a posi 1 L J THE POLK COUNTY Ngf& ' , "1 SPARE THIS TREE 3 r nil JJ. - tive way? Great, big, wealthy, powerful, intellectual, uiselfish, 2 sympathetic America ought to come out more positively and tl . pointedly for disarmament while its star of empire shines ai c brightest. There can be no danger in moulding worlc opinion u; toward amicable adjustment of international disputes. In such N 3 action America has everything to gain and nothing to lose. ^ ; The real danger lies in allowing disarmament to die in confer- tl pnpo fll oro 1CJ Q oVl on/in rv? o *?Atriir/? 54- wuolr/\ p " *?vti wiiviv ao w viiunv,^ vi a Lciitux j iu icviyc it aiiu uraivc yi it bear fruit. tt ; * EVEN PRESIDENTS NEED VACATIONS ? t Congress has adjourned for the summer. The temperature lE i rises in Washington. The White House door slams and a pad- 01 Is - lock put on the door of the garage. Some kind neighbor will t, 1 look after the cat, or possibly it will be taken along. White ti Pine Camp, a beautiful spot in the cool Adirondack, is the ft summer White House where President and Mrs. Coolidge are a' enjoying a season's respite from strenuous Washington. d: The job of being President probably consists mote of worry if than of work. Every physical convenience is provided wherever 11 he goes. Even his mental labors are augmented by a highly trained staff. It is the grave responsibility as chief executive _ v U. of a great nation that bears heavily upon the shoulders of a ti President. c< d o OLD FASHIONED NEWS cused. ere she was a wife, and rals- Ci ? ing the question whether such rela- s r (From the Greensboro Daily News) tionship was pertinent to the quesI Those who like old-fashioned ?f eligibility as a juror to try n . ,, . .a charge of murder? It may have C( new.s the sort of news that made , , happened before the present term of n the newspaper, cannot complain at , ,. . .. ... , , . court in Albermarle; but If so it 1 yesterdays cargo of it. Testimony i 1 . . , . . has happened so seldom that it is 1 i of the beating to death of convicts ? ,. .. , . , .. t, news. Both these features of the tl , 1 t>v a hnss- of the razorine to death. ... ... t u u u j v " ..... trial have that peculiar dramatic i of her husband by an eye-fllUng , , , P . . , . , ? quality which playwrights hall as a r< young thing (she has occasionally " . - . . .. . rare gem discovered. fi been referred to as pretty, and at first it pleased the reporters to de- ~ 11 ., . ,, , , ._ ,,, A ; HOARY LIBEL n scribe her as a child wife ); a v dozen dead in an inn fire; young w woman killed by automobile and the (from The Ashevllle Times) P woman driver of it jailed; a life Henry Lane Wilson was the Am- *s ' sentence for complicity in a murder erican Ambassador to Mexico when 9 of front-page fame, gun fight In a President Madero was assaslnated. ?. street of a great city, seven people _. , . _ 11 , , .. .... ,. , .. .. Shortly after this tradegy the p wounded; identification of the dls- y membered body in another, serial ch?rge waa whispered abroad that h murder mystery, the victim a young Mr. Wilson was "morally reepons- 0 woman; 13 executed for plotting ible" for the death of the Mexican ^ 1 against a president's life; with a statesman and that he was too intl- g ' tale of conspicuous heroism of 100 mate with Huerta who, no doubt, " - picked men of the marines, 49 banks plotted Madero's assainatkm. 1 gone to smash in one state| in ond When this report gained enough 0 day, a new record made in traveling currency to demand attention. Amthe circuit of the earth and a few bassador Wilson disproved It to the a more items by way of contrast? complete satisfaction of the Amen- n such was the front page. To be can people. He brought forward sure, there is the widely-held con- conclusive evidence showing that he 81 1 viction that no front page that has had really interceded in Madero's be- a r not on it a good first chapter of a half after the latter had been de- h murder tale can be as newsy as posed. ? ' one that has; and a lot of people Recent event,s however, create the e evidently prefer their news high suspicion that this charge may be n ) with incidentals Of degeneracy, revived. In resisting some of the c' [ whereas all these tales, as tales, are claims for damages presented 0 relatively clean. But It was far against Mexico by American citizens, from a dull page. jt has been argured by our Southern fl Such narratives are produced In that Madero had not been slain, a this sinful world in sufficient quantl- tihere would have not been any such J* ty, right along, to satisfy the reason- claims. The inference from this 1 ale desires of readers in the way argument was that Mexico would > of old-fashioned news. But it is seek to hold herself blameless by a I respectfully submitted as at least charging Wilson with the respons- ? i open to doubt whether the sage of ibility for Madero's death. . .. t ? K? ?, , f< ancient times who declared there n sucn reaiiy prove? iu uC uuo umwas nothing new under the sun has den of Mexico's contention then she p ever heard an ex-convict testify to will breathe the breath of life into ^ having bedowed his pillow nightly an accusation that has no basis in a with tears as he prayed for a whip- fact and that should not be exhum- 11 ping boss. And when was a venire ed. Such a defense on her part 0 " ever called before that had in it one woujd toereily suffice to create n } man, let alone two, enamoured in another source of discord between r< 1 former days of the wife of the ac- the two countries. ? 1 ? IV 1 Lincoln's Double Lives In Nevada | Judge Qua. & BqB, oounty jodgr at fieno, Nov, b not aoty aouoonM the man who looki awat HJm Ubooln," bat la ocaotty Unoobrt height and weight, *x foot tow 180 pounds, and waa bom b a lag cabin In February Aa a youth ta Texas be atrot deer, tmfcey, gttt ^ rails and excelled at wfatfUng and Be baa mm Pnperao^^^Cha > ":.' ' \ GETTING AT THE FACT8 Within the past few weeks then ave been reports from what seemi n unusually large number of coun .es of the charges of Superio: ourt judges to grand juries ii 'hich attention has been called ti tie prevalence of particular of ?nses, chiefly offenses agajnst th< quor and traffic laws, Whethei lere has been an unusually larg< umber of such charges makes n< articular difference. The procesi i unending. Generally the state lents from the bench are in broac -- fr" . irms. It is Impossible that the; lould be accurate tn detail because le Information upon which detail i statements could .be made " doef ot exist. It Is easy to fsay thai iere are many offenses kgilnst thti lw or that law becauf fifth of mses are a matter of genera nowledge, but further than that nc ae can go. For the state has notb ig upon which to go. In spite ol mtinued talk about law violation! -millions ot words?the subject as not been approached scientific lly, and the state cannot have rea nowledge ot what it is doing t< revent crime, or detect criminals r handle criminals until it knowi te facts. Reference has been made in these ilumns from time to time of the Ilssouri crime survey, which is the iost through that has ever beet >ade in this country, and no doubt >ferences will be made again. The lghtest glance at the results ol lat survey reveals the well nlgb Rounding Ignorance that prevail! pon the subject, generally, and it orth Carolina, as in some othei lates, in particular. At the meet ig of the American Bar associatlot lis Week the director of that sur ey, Arthur V. Lashly, told soma king of what had been done it athering Information. He told, foi istance, of a study of ten years eclsions of the state Supreme court i criminal appeals, seeking to find at, among other things, where de iya originated. That study showed lat the elapeed time from the date le crime was committed to the in >rmation was fUed was, on thi trerage, three months 27 days; fron le date information was filed u Isposition by Circuit court (equiva >nt to our Supeilor court), fiv< lonths 27 days; from the 'date ot le disposition by the Circuit gour > the perfection ot the appeai, serei konths 19 days; from the date ol le appeal to hearing by 8uprem< ourt, five months 16 days; fron ate of hearing by Supreme court ne month 27 days; from date o: rime committed to disposition bj upreme court, 24 months 27 days Or, to note another bit of infor latlon, here Is a statement of crimi onditions in St. Louis for the 1! vonfths running from October 1 924: to October 1, 1994: In St. Louis, during the year o .le survey, there were 13,444 mur era and mans laugh tern, burglarlei ibberies, larcenies, embezzlement! -auds, forgeries and automoblh lefts committed. During the aami eriod 1,420 cases (one in nine; ere taken to the prosecutor by th< Qlice. The prosecutor refused U isue In 456 of these cases, leavini 64 which were sent to an examln lg magistrate tor preliminary hear lg. Exactly 300 were discharged oi relimlnary examination, leaving 61 eld for action by the grand Jur: r prosecutor. Forty of these wen iscbarged because of failure of th< rand jury or prosecutor to act O le 624 going to trial c?urt> 61 ere nolle pressed by the proeecut r; 2 were discharged by the couri >r various reasons; 110 were trie* nd acquitted, or discharged oi umerous grounds?a total of 204? saving 42 to be sentenced. Twenty Ix of these were paroled; 20 filet ppeals in the Supreme court; Ieav ig 374 persons actually punished hvloualy a system no more etficl nt than this showing of 374 punish tents out of 13,144 major crime Dmmitted needs revision (through ut. Just as obviously talk of revlsloi itile. You learn that for murde nd manslaughter in St. Louis oni erson out of six is punished ant >r robbery and burglary one outo 5; or in Kansas City ten murden nd persons guilty of manalaughte scape for one that is punished; foi lie 624 going to trial court, 6i ir burglary, 50 escape for on< unlshed. North Carolinians do no ave information, nor the mass o dditional information on the man er in which sentences are carrlet ut, or what class of persons com ilts particular crimes, or how pa ales are working, or whether th< (fleers are able to make arresti 1 only one out of nine cases as It lissourl. Nor will the state evei ave it until It sets out to get If. Missouri got It by the contribu on of $50,000, chiefly by bustaesi iterests. Fifty thousand dollars li ot a small sum. But it costs th< tate annually nearly $11,000,000 tc ry to protegt the lives and prop rtly of its people and the lossei through criminals in that state rut > $90,000,000 each year. A lot of our ministers ought tc ractise before as well as whai ley preach. How to become famous: ch*ng< our name so it will fit oioely inU eadlines. Italian earthquakes are caused bj lussollni pounding his fist on th< esk. / , , . . y*\ I. -v r mm^,m L-??? r The recent and successful at- f< * tempts of the monarchists to regain i * control of Germany by establishing r ' a dictatorship, with Hugenberg as 1 ' the Mussolini of the occasion, drew a 1 attention/again for a short time to : the stupendous fact that the kin? ' has gone to join the dodo, the cave f ' man and the prehistoric horse. i i The final destruction of mon-H archy became a certainty, as we t now know, upon the ?day and mo- f ment that Austria, backed by Ger- i many, declared war upon Servia. t At that moment the end-of kings t came. They had been the oppres- 1 sor8 of the world for centuries. 1 They had been in danger of over- c throw since the French Revolution, t They had retained their enormous 1 private fortunes, secured at the ex- c pense of their people, mainly by f abandoning their claims to divine I right, and by allowing people to f govaiTJ themselves. Through the centuries they retreated an Inch at a time, yielding power only, not l property; but their subjects still a were loyal until the unfortunate r moment that they undertook to c shoot all Europe to pieces. When i the great war was over the kings 1 were gone. I q T-* _ i ii A?- - ? i _ ; B made many friends because of his f interest and activity in behalf of forest conservation. As a Senator e > his name was given to the law aui thorlzlng the first purchases of 3 forest land for protection by the i t Federal Government, s In 1922, vigorously dissenting from 1 3 Congressional opinion on the peacef time strength of the Army, Secre1 tary of War Weeks said in a pub- j j lie address tnat congress naa reacn- i t ed a low ebb of efficiency. It was 1 a bold, an almost rash statement i for a Cabinet officer. But plain i - speech was characteristic of the man. ] Sincere and fearless, John W. I Weeks was an able and upright pub lie servant. v I !. 1 I. CAPTURING THE WORLD The automobile has its victories no less renowned than war. It is 1 - literally capturing the world, pene- < trating the remote corners and winl ning the fancy of the most backr ward peoples. Reckoning the earth's t s population at 1,748,000,000, there is t I now one car for every sseventy-first < f person. i The cars are not/evenly distributr ed. For instance, Afghanistan, c ri perch high at Indian's northwestern { II blackdoor, can boast of only one au- \ i tomobile for every 1,2000,000 inhabit tants while the United States has f one car for every six persons. Be- I eween these two extremes of car 1 I density lie the other countries, great c - and small, civilized and barbarian. The amazing part of it Is that the ) automobile is still a puling infant. J i It is barely thirty years ojd. The > I next quarter of a century, beyond I r dout^, will witness the multiplication of cars at a still greater rate. The time seems to be not very far i i off when the last survivor in the l II dwindling ranks of pedestrians will i s be looked upon as a fceak. > ? Paying income tax reminds one of i tithing, except that tb.. t*n percent i i is what we get to keep. ??? i If there's anything in words the ) public, as well as labor and capital t: is always bound to be hit by a strike. > I The after-dinner impromptu speak- i ?' er who says he Is "too full for ? words" ought to. be investigated by jthe Federal agents. v r I r Along with reviving the old things ) why not more, of good old common I 'sense? t ' l"jj l ip mmA ' r u** THURSDAY JULY 22, 1926 ianEugene Read '^l HE KING OR THE FLAG HI >rce was the only principle that lay )ehind governments. Defenders of nonarchy are to be found in New Kjfl fork, SL Louis, San Francisco and ill points between. The chief claim made by the deenders of monai^hy as a formal nstitution was, and is, that the ting is a personality around which he sentiment of a nation can father. In democracies this feeing centers around a flag, and M jfl hese defenders of monarchy say hey prefer a person, a'ways picturng that person as a romantic, galant, benevolent and efficient indivilual, and forgetting the corruption, he tyranny, the inefficiency and the icenuotisness tnat nas always iharacterized monarchs. Like the rogs that preferred King Stork to iing Log, the reactionary prefers a \ ^I Personally I prefer a flag to a ting. It cannot consume the subitance of the poor. It cannot comnit adultery or waste the taxes of i nation upon harlots. It cannot tribe parliaments. It cannot Issue otters of the seal. It cannot emiroil nations in wars over family luarr&ls. It cannot get drunk, and ill toes not upon occasions become in- , sane. It is never under age. It :aimot oppose the will of those who ight for it, nor levy taxes wlth>ut the consent of the people. It s never a foreigner and always speaks the language of its maKers. [t does not oppose progress, makes 10 official appointments of evil Iriends, and hides mo personal crimes within the glory of its silken folds, it arouses the idealism of a people without fastening upon that idealism :he stains of apology for private ives 'that are vile and public acts :hat are injurious. Democracy has not yet proven hat It is the highest possible form )f government. There may be improvements to come. But in Its i election of an emblem it has hosen one that at least in theory epresents the will of the people iver whom it floats. ? ? ? m NEWSY TOPICS ?| And we used to be afraid oi Many a man wears his hat over he weak end. Knowledge is always worth what- ? *ver you can cash in on it for. II There are fewer automobiles itolen. Everlbody alre'ady has one. ' One great trouble with the world s, it takes too much for granted. ^Dleicians and historians will parey over the rice and fall of China. A fool and his money are soon jarted; which is a lucky thing for he fool. The proper proportion when buyng a suit is two coats and three pairs of pants. Africa is becoming civilized. It has frl ieen discovered that the women it'Lar very little clothing. i 'fffl The railroads make the long 4 [SI taals, the trucks the short hauls, ind the burglars the rich hauls. The wets and drys each believe hat "one-half of 1 percent reiers ;o the degree of correctness of the >ther's views. New that they are taking the luotation marks from around wets ind drye you can look for two more vords In the new dictionaries. In the Morman tabernacle at Salt ^ake City you can hear a pin drop, )Ut in some of our churches you :an't even hear a coin drop. The "average business man's 1000-word vocabulary" ^vill be 3004 vhen he has mastered Geneva, irotocol, reservations and adhesion. The bootleggers have all the uuuc;. inuuc; tuuu uio cictuuuD, iVhat chance have t'hie advocates of noditication or repeal of the Volitead act? ' . Wives read the fashion notes tnd their husbands' p y them. ] They can streatch the price of ubber b it it will coma back. The next great political party will le the Nonpartizan Party. Many of the advertisements we eal are interesing if not true. 1 The coal industry does not need lationalizlng: it need rationalizing. 'k If the coal people starve will it ' ? >e a case of women and children tt"t? ' > ,'A % : [I