?*rr ; THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 1926. The Polk County News PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY LOUIS LEHMAN, Editor Entered at the Fostoffice at Try oil, N. C., as Second-Class Mail M:*t>'r Under Act of Congress. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION On# Yoar v 2.0C Six Month* 1.25 Thro* Months l.OO DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATE Forty Cents Per Column Inch, Flat L?gal Advertising, One cent Per Word, Cash In Advar.ce J i6 DOES RECKLESS DRIVING INVOLVE MORAL TURPITUDE Of late tin' country has hoard a good deal about "moral turpitude." It has been a phase common to the legal profession for many gentrations. But not until Lady Cathcart was refused entrance into the United States on account of a divorce tangle has the term become more or less lay property. How many offenses under the law involve this moral turpitude Where does moral turpitude end an mere inhibition by law begin? Civilization recognizes that such crimes as murder, burg ' < 1 iU?;? lary, kidnaping, treason, etc., are mnerenuy uuse anu men i>eipetrators depraved to the extent to which the acts are committed. Coming on clown to larceny, forgery, bad check writing, and fraud in its many elements, we find less serious (tho none the less excusable) violations, for which the law provides penalties. Civilized man believes these offenses to be wrong even in the absence of code or status. Where, then, is the break moral wrongs and wrongs made so by law? Can anyone say? It is by force of public opionion and moral restraints that legislatures and courts define the rights of man. Is reckless driving of an automobile an act involving "mbral turpitude?" Not unless the people are bold enough to pronounce it so, and unless public sentiment and conscience back up the declaration. A few years ago no one would have considered the fast driving of a vehicle in the same catagory as felonies; yet with the present-day traffic problems all recklessness in the operation of a motor car is a serious thing to consider. And when the reckless speeder is classed as a felon along with the murderer, the thief, the traitor and the common crook?when intelligent men and women first slow down their own cars and then justly frown upon the criminally careless as they would upon the ransom seeker who steals their child?we will see less of these J potential murderers charging up and down our public highways in their hell-bent rush to get nowhere. We "ain't" thru yet. If sending thousands of pounds of steel, tin and rubber down a street or highway at 50, 55, 60, 65, or 70 miles and up an hour does not involve "moral turpitude," then Lady Cat heart is an angel, and Jesse James should rise from his grave and shout, "Folks, look how good I was!" Public opinion must assert strongly against this business of speed and recklessness! Community consciousness must be felt to a degree where it will not only be extremely unpopular, but extremely unpleasant to thus endanger the lives of human beings needlessly. And a good many people could well start at. home in the solemn duty of speed reform! Excessive speeding does involve moral turpitude! It involves broken homesbroken limbs and broken hearts! It involves little children! It involves society as a whole and the community in particular. Let's be careful! There's nothing "smart" about reckless driving. i VITAL FACTS ON WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES At the end of the first year comes the cotton wedding anniversary. The wife relaizes tht her silk hose won't jibe with husband's income, so she gets some cotton hose. But does she? The second year is the paper wedding. Husband's paper is overdue at the bank, so he pays it off by giving more paper. The third year is the leather anniversary. Father gets a nice leather strap (any old belt or razor strop will do) with which to impress junior that he is to mind. Father starts early. The tenth year is the tin wedding. They trade in their tin i; ? u&zie lur a ikjw unu. The fifteenth year is the crystal wedding, so they get a crystal radio set with four sets of ear-phones. The twentieth year is the china wedding, so they see China. Mother declares she never wants to miss any of those travelogue films. The twenty-fifth year is the silver wedding. Along with silver in their hair, they realize that they have more silverware than silver. The thirtieth year is the pearl wedding. Pearl spends Thanksgiving at home, and brings along a string of little Pearls. The fortieth year is the ruby wedding. Ruby manages to get back to the old home from far-off Honolulu. Ruby has always been considered a jewel. The fiftieth year is the golden wedding. Ruby and Pearl, and Junior, now the eldest, begin to scheme to get father's gold and what silverware he and mother have left. They find out that all is not gold that totters. This anniversary is also known as the gold-rush. The seventy-fifth year is the diamond wedding. But who wants a diamond after waiting that long? NORTH CAROLINA FOR STEADY DEVELOPMENT A boom is a blessing only when the cost of its inflation does not exceed the solid values that it leaves behind.} California and Florida, the two states that have been particularly blessed and cursed with so-called booms, both have suffered the strain of inflation; but in spots where real values were, the sediment that was left became something real and worthwhile. But where no real worth was revealed in propor tion to its advertised value, where only unscrupulous sharks sought to get rich thru undue influence, there was left in the wake of the storm sad talse of financially ruined men and women. North Carolina does not want these Uncre ated values. Ad t KEEP TO ' . I! isinjr of communities is as 1 il it is ethical and honest. W \v!':ii we are all striving for. i onsumcs capital in proportion e c uicer into the products of ] remit in a house, a plow, a fac rain- ; matters not which, s< and every hour of labor applic returns of sound investment anc North Carolina and I'olk Co people are a determined lot whe wi.eel. V'e want no gangsters t it is because North Carolina is roving nomads are likely to c Every honest real estate dealer keeping t!?m out, for they hi proiperity. If North Carolina c linuv the K""?l start it has madt and expansion that is based on t he ballyhoo of the financial eh I I Any business, organization, ii piolcetion under law owes a s< That includes about everybody. STRAINING AT A GNAT I Something must lie done to make i: less easy for people to get liquor and something has been done. Not only are Americans to kept from learning where the vile stuff is gettable in this country but where it may be procured in Kngland when ' tli. y are there. A guide book called the "Key to bondon" has been forbidden entry into this country because it contains an advertisement toiling where certain cherry brandy may be bought Kondon. The h -Id up is based on the provision of the National Prohibition baw which makes it illegal to advertise where liquor is sold or how to make it. The "Key to London" tells where liquor may be bought in London tlier fore it breaks our law. What difference that the law was intended to lessen liquor selling in this only and that, the lawmakers did not care how much selling there was ! in England? The law reads thus and so?therefore enforce it. What are we paying our law enforcement offieiaLIs for- unless it is to detect I such gross violations of Prohibition? . Apply the law as it is writ?somebody must have something to do. Look over the newspapers and magazines published in other countries which come to this country and if they have an advertisment of any liquor selling confiscate and burn them. Watch for the London paper that shows the advertisement of the tavern known as "The Crown and THE STORMING This picture Is typical of many i gates of the ScsqulCentennlal Intarbal the 150th anniversary of the signing being celebrated. Ths "shot" was mat long sweep of historic Broad street, the left can be seen one of the capitals ol factures which covers nearly eight ac of the finest exhibits ever seen. The bar L JLL f-Nfc POLK CdUNTY NEWS. THE RIGHT J | oS^rpilJ LEADS "TO W I CHANCE! 1 laudable as advertising of goods hat North Carolina wants, and is the steady development that to the ability of capital to turn human consumption. This may tory, a skating rink or a bin of d long as every dollar invested xl are commensurate with fair 1 honest toil. unty are normally sound. Our n they put their shoulers to the ,vhoso aims are predatory. And enjoying solid values that these ontinue their ways among us. in North Carolina will join in irt business, they prevent real an remain level-headed and eon , we will see a period of growth something more substantial than larlatan. istitution or individual claiming ilemn duty to support the law. ,Oarter," or "The (Mown and Camel," ; willi the cuts showing foaming beakjers of mil brow n ale. * Destroy the I I'etit Cer.tim,. of Paris wilh its adjvertisement of a rotlssiere where vin lilane is served. Of course there will be carping J critics who wilj say that already every person old enough to imbibe knows that liquor is buyable in England. They wilj point out that by their very remonstrance in Amerijcan newspapers Prohibitionists themI selves advertise that liquor is soild t ?.. ?: .. I. ti? : 1. . i. ? . on iinri^ii nuupn. i iif^ ? ii| a?i) mat it is absurd to pick on a foreign guied book?well, lot them say; they will laugh at this staraining at a, gnat ?let them laugh. The law is the law isn't it? DR. KESLER'S PLAN Becaue of the constant flow of applications for admission to the opphanage. Dr. M. L. Kesler, head of the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville, reported to his board of trustees at the annual commencement, that he works constantly to make the most thorough Investigations of every application, in order to see whether there is not some relative who might take care of the child. For several years he has worked In close cooperation with the Children's Bureau of the State Board of Chartties and Public Welfare In making the investigations, sending every month lists of the applicants. OF THE GATES r I I ( j) 1 1 uch in*e"? enacted dally at the i" 1 t ?i Exposition In Philadelphia where 1 of the Declaration of Independence la la from outside the gates and shows the ? main artery of the exposition. To the j ! the Palace of Liberal Arts and Mannres of grounds and which houses soma 1 Exposition will continue nnm Decern- ' ( l ANOTHER OUTRAGE (From Spartanburg Herald) It is the duty of the Veterans Bu-J reau to reduce to a minimum the j agonies of those soldiers who, being mentally 111, or under its care for j treatment. It is the announced intention of the Bureau to take such action as will multiply the agonies of these men. In a Washington dispatch outlining General Hines' plan to take into court every World War veteran who is held as mentally ill, to determine his sanity or Insanity, there occurs this paragraph-: "Many patients in St. Elizabeth's Hospltaj in this city under this program will be brought into the public eye for the first time. Application of this program may necessitate revealing the identity of a certain prominent official of one of the largest government departments, who recently suffered a mental disorder." Thus in the announcement of the new plan a confession of the unnecessary sufferings It will inflict upon hoiniosn men. Under the old order, a veteran who had become mentally sick or, to use the commoner word, Insane could he sent to a hospital for treatment without having to go through the grisly business of being set up on a witness stand, there .'to answer the I questions of lawyers for the entertainment of a morbid audience and the information of a jury of laymen who under no possible circumstances, could be competent to pass on an individual's sanity if his condition proved to be at all difficult of diagnosis. But, as General Hines' new scheme is described, there Is to be no escape for any mentally sick veteran from the sickening publicity, and often the ghastly farce of courtroom procedure. Whether he wants to or not, he has got to be haled Into court and have his pathetic condition exposed to a cruel world. That "prominent official of one of ihe government departments, who recently suffered a mental disorder," will, for instance, have to be dragged into court. The privacy he now enjoys will be destroyed. If he recovers his sanity, he will have always behind him that court record marking him as .having been "insane." This sort of thing is outrageous cruelty. It is barbarity itself when it is realized that often a mental patient is put into a worse condi* * J Ikn uon tnrougn caving io cuuuic mo agony of he court procedure. The is only one sane, merciful and constructive way to deal with the mentally sick, whether they are or are not wards of the Veterans Bureau. That is to give them the priviledge of a hearing in court or before a board of alienists when they desire it as a means of disproving their insanity. They should never be 'dragged into court against their will when they admit their illness and want it treated. NEWSY TOPICS Beware of the modern wolf in shiek's clothing. The big Job is to find an all round man who is foursquare. | I After all the blocs and special interests are classified and indexed there isn't any "public" left. , The laboring men produce the things that the rest of the people sen 10 one anotner to mase a living. Newspaper advertising started in the year 1652, and we predict that it will still be going strong in 5216. Putting women into the armies won't soften war. Even if they wouldn't shoot they'd talk the enemy to death. You don't see many political parades on foot any more. A pedestrian's life is too short to risk to save the country. The saddest thing in modern home life is the old phonograph spending its quiet, declining years listening to the radio. Cheer up about disrespect for law! When the Constitution eets two more Amendments it will be old enough to assert its own rights, i! It wouldn't be so bad if the price) of an automobile included the pretty castles and estates painted into the background of the ad. One good thing about that Washington barber who sings insteads of talks: it is easier to applaud when he gets thru than to keep answering back. There's a difference in the theories of government revenue. People pay taxes because of their valuables, and finea because of their woifchlessness. One of the j biggest questions be- i 'ore the countiry today is when to i llscard a suit of clothes. You can 1 itill wear it and save money, or you |i :an make more money by buying a|l tew one. I Lr/sut rat'rsT - politicians or statesmen who are ,,; intellectually interested in good gov-|t.. . H eminent, and who have a passion in fl for public service. The kings and their history furnish us with a 1-s- . son. ,,f ' H A feature of monarchy that is ' H little though about, is that th. real i: object of monarchy has seldom boon govenment. It has been the solfin- i '- M teest of the king and Iho courti< is. i. The control of the government has ' merely furnished the means to grati- . fy that self-interest. Had the til). jcct of all kings been good govern mont, they would have made sacrifi ces that would have led to good gov ernment, but few kings have ever | chose that path. When a man is a bron artist, or musician, or writer, ho will make personal sacrifices to the point of | starvation to express his messag" : and m ike his impression upon tin- i world. The world's great men have done this in such numbers that the mere recital of the names of them ; : would require a catalog. Hut ask : the Kaiser to sacrifice every dollar he took to Holland and get down on i , a bread and water basis to give to Germany his ideas of good govern ]' ment. Would he do it? Ask King - . George to live on a par with a com- " mon soldier or a day-laborer, in order .-A" ..^H to impess the world with his id'-.is. 1 as Tolsty did, and Socrates, and ! Jesus. Would hp do it? There have, been some monarchs who have?AIfred the Great for instance,? but v. how many, all told? Wh:'. sii We did not escape from this evil ':< t _ >1 when we struck off the shackles of t i : H monarchy. We invented new shack H les of our own. Our rulers are main- : i ly interested not in good government ei-n.v-.: H but in the use of power to advance i'i?. : A a private interest. Congress is sup- ,cau-- H posed to be filled with men who rep- i t| CORRUPTING ELECTIONS . (From Asheville Ciiliern) Ami - fl It is not the illegal use of money I wrote j for improper political purposes but \ w'lun >tH 'its legal use which is most to be tlun i:> feared in primary elections, Colonel su" Theodore Roosevelt fs quoted in voter- i.'M : Thursday's Citiaern as telling a Re- bis j la publican club. This was in connec- "'it it th" -''J tion with his denunciation of the '"-gal p -r;- ! H vast sums of money spent In the I limit i Pennsylvania and Illinois primaries, tents o The Roosevelt position can be portur.i'y strongly supported. For every vote stroyi d bought in violation of law several j Bin pi >n: : are acquired by means which do opens ?.: not counter the letter of the law, j it accet-r:'. 4 I hut whlrh ,tn nffenil tho snlrit which I anil V .* brought about the enactment of the vani-i. law. This Is the sentiment that elec- ami "* tions should be the free expression nr., of the will of the people. This sen- five" ! timent favor san equality of oppor- services. tunity among candidates?to secure this opoprtunity the primary was substituted for the convention. U The V* This sentiment considered that the primary would give the poor candi- ? date as good a chance as the rich one?it visioned the voters walking to the polls thinking only of the merits of the candidates?the rich can- j didate's money giving him no advantage over the poor one. But we find in practice that money is an influential factor in elections, and instead of walking many voter conic l-iHIncr (n nnllti in t.innJ nnnn nnt P iu>vh i\/ iuc ill 1111 CU Cell I '' hired by them, however. And , we i note that they are supporters of the ; candidate of means. Don't understand us to say that these supporters were bought?most ly they were not. Rut were not their votes bought without any sale \ by them? We think there Is some j argument to support the claim. Tak, | a look for example at the news story: that in Charlotte a man described j as a "ward boss" has brought sail j against a former candidate, claiming that several hundred dollars are n? - i ing him for services rendered elecThese services consisted in em- ^||9'*P^ ^ the election?and against the eandi i Dec*1? date lackig means. He did not have the money to get his share of the in different, voters. Mioney counted against him in the election as much I'" )H as if the voters had benn bribed. I1 The only consolation to him is the / thought that he was not cheated i, !'' .lt^B If he had possessed the means he ^ tjjK l^1 too would have hired workers and HI""