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I \K('KSS \K\ DELAY IN GREAT PROJECTS
lt. jrr.u.: Western States to be affected by the devel
1 ?' ,ivvr the Postponement of final actio]
Sttinir-I' ' !!-"!! I'ill until the next session of Congrest
' i,. .r :iil disheartening. The project is too big ti
B,f r.is' a:.:.- t!irough. Even if all engineering matter
nr.! . i: is still necessary for more compatible re
ftr.nrg '"he interested States.
r ;!! uliiii that blows nobody good, and it's an ill dan
K;> r-' water controversy. Every conceivable objectior
Lvfil'iitioti and allotment of water?the "white gold" s<
the lito atul prosperity of lower Colorado basin?shoult
ami every possible misunderstanding should be ironec
tire one ixunul of concrete is poured into the Coloradc
,oint along its mighty course.
reat projects take time in their development. Th<
canal was no overnight relization. The Great Lakes
remv development has claimed the thought and atten
thousand< of people of the United States and Canada
icoln Hie!!way. established several years ago, has noi
my.means iinked the two oceans by a continuous threac
nent.
eople will not he pushed: nor should they be. Our nadeveloping
materially in proportion to its advance ir
n. in literature and in the arts. Many believe we are
o fast. The problem always is to adjust the social and
trend in healthy ratio to the economic. This makes
tness in nationality and for goodness in citizenship, and
(responding stability in business and commerce.
WHY NOT LONGER LIVES?
iw of compensation works in the changing habits and
[life. Alt ho people are having better sanitation, cleanundingt.
preventive measures for health, more shower
d fewer flies, there is a negative factor at work ir
nd concentrated foods and artificial stimulants of all
;en into the body.
still lived as our forefathers lived in matters of plalr
4 simple habits, such existence, plus the modern stani
methods of hygiene, undoubtedly would produce
such as the world has never seen.
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BENEFICIAL CONTESTS
press has it right, a 17-year old Hollywood boy won the
Oratorical Contest by making fewer and milder gesan
any of the six other contestants. Five justices oi
.Supremo Court selected the winner. Now the boy- tc
s wits will represent the United States in an intemarotest
in oratory.
SMOKE THIS IN YOUR PIPE
1 'f ymi will, but be careful where you throw youi
IFrar ?r cigaret stubs and pipe ashes. Careless ^smoken
ftiv" menace to property. Forest fires are probably
PH s"urcc ()f danger. Next come buildings, and th<
pard to growing and harvested crops of grain causec
I 0wn along the roadside.
''beity of smoking has not yet been generallj
a' a'hiked, nor is it likely that it will be so attacked
r "fades. lint no question of personal liberty Is in
10 reckless casting aside of the munitions and leav
-^'b ac! ion directly and seriously affects the oth
tai.ent and genius
K j(* 4}
[ '' and the capacity to create new forms
pon?m'"Tlatinns- Talent is the art of performing th<
' 'hng what Genius has made manifest. The schoo
j " a 1"'( l " and is encored. The same school girl com
! m an'' 's laughed at. Why? Grant that the elocu
f and grant that the poem is poor? there is yet an
"n f?r llii- difference in public attitude.
art'V* ' V ,n accePt ^e new creations, whether ii
hi].' or invention. The one who creates suf
y ( a-ho performs gets the applause of th<
.., V :ls difference in the human make-up. Geniu
1(,r dating !., show that there are stories/yet un
ttniaintccl, inventions unrealized. While Talen ,
B*?Us>n of Cienius, and without which cunning an
'and lauded for her ability to express what Genius
B1 her possession.
the great game of taxation
m taxes wore reduced $1,974,000,000 from 1919 to 192
^nt; while state taxes, during thq same period, in
M}1 tXTeeiit and local taxes, 56.percent.
W"A "f federal economies, total taxes today constitutes
I ^in (,n our national resources than ever before.
"s says we are confronted with three very de mi
V:. First, whether costs of state and local government
L' judged from the standpoint of whether we^cou
^B the present service at lower cost; secondly, w ? ,
?^hods of financing these costs are sound economica
^B hird, whether our state and local tax system? are
A LEAK IN
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in need of a thorough ovcrhaulin
1 allocation of the burden.
l
j The danger from most "overh;
j methods of taxation are devised v
A - - j
dens. The great game of states i
) ?et more taxes," rather than how
load.
"THE INVINCIBLE B
Judge Warren R. Voorhis, in a
values in the financial statement
t figures shown on the balance sh<
j ture.
"I like to study the items of a
ity with which I am acquainted;
( and buildings, $200,000'. This is
, describe these buildings.
I "But I see a broad browm river
s trees, a high green hill rising bel
I gray slate, warm red bricks and
the reservoir are shining in the si
ed with whitewashed stones, whit'
grass ad whitewash are the clean
The entrance gates are open anr
I trees- and children run about in the
sign to stumble over."
Judge Voorhis then contrasts su
1 by its unsightly appearance and
' which pervades the whole organize
repels people. Continuing he say
"I would not expect a utility to
'invisible balance sheet' by large
were long ago told that the thin
bought with money, but good ju<
and unfailing ant sincere courtesy
the men and women who help us
tures, this 'is the legal tender whi
vincible balance sheet.'
f "A public utility with its treas
> may with confidence expect to f:
. and income account adversely afft
vinsible impinge u{w>n things mate
WILL REVOLUTIONIZE ti<
ROAD WORK wi
lie
' (THE COLUMRIA RECORD) I>a
r Through the perfection of a refin- Wl
; ed process for making cement, it will
j bp possible to build a concrete highway
and use It at the expiration of
24 hours, according to drastic tests t
r made in the presence of more than
| 100 city officials and highway en- of
gineers at Dayton, Ohio, the other to
day. w'
Not only will the new cement ie
- shorten the time in paving work of fr
all kinds.Sbut it costs no more than pi
the cement now used in construction, M
which in the present order of things th
is required to "ripen" for 21 or 28 ni
days, according to the way the en- ar
? xl- ohmit it | (li
i gineer on me jv,? ...
? R. R. Cogian, chief chemist for the di
j company, is the discoverer of the si
revolutionary process for making w
new highway work immediately a
available, and for performing similiar d(
- service in all buildnig plans through- P<
out the country, if not, indeed the w
world. h<
' Now to the test. Miniature stretch- qi
-1 es of highway. were built on com- d(
e company grounds. They were per- tr
g mitted to "crude" for periods of 72, af
I 48 and 24 hours, respectively. Then a|
' a truck, which, with its load, weigh- tli
e ed ten tons, was sent over the pave- Si
- ment, back and forth, crosswise and pi
g in every other way it could be made oi
to travel. T
Following the test at both slow re
and high,' speed, of the pavements, hi
Large rocks were then placed there c<
was ot even a mark or a crack on yi
4 these rocks and the truck ambled tf
^ over. The rocks were crushed, but oi
again the surface showed no wear, gi
scaling or cracking. A great beam
& was placed on the surface and the r<
truck operated with the same re- tc
e suit tJ
These tests were made to show ir
the tensile strength' of the new con- tl
o crete. The officials of cities through- ei
T out the country and their expert en- ci
gineers declared the new material n
it will not only speed up and revolu- a
THE POLK COUNTY NEWt
THE DAM
j that is aft "to ya
' endanger the.
whole. structure j
V or the dam! m
10 in the interest of a faire
luling" schemes, is that ne
without removing old tax bui
incl cities seem to be "how 1
to reduce the per capita ta
ALANCE SHEET"
. little sermon on the huma
, as contrasted with the co
jet, paints an interesting pi
i,?i _i i- ~ ? u 1: ~ .,i.:
uaiancu Niieei ui a puunc uu
for example: 'Station grounc
an attempt by arithmetic t
, a level place set about wit
lind it. The buildings are c
white stone. The waters i
in. The driveways are marl
h is old-fashioned, but gree
est combination in the worl<
i people sit about under th
> grass with never a $5.00 fir
ch a property with one, whic
I the unfriendly atmosphei
ition of the company, actuall
s:
build up tne asset side of il
money expenditures, for w
gs of the spirit cannot - t
dgement, common sense, ta<
, thoughtful consideration fc
serve,, these are the expend
ch effects changes in the 'ii
ury empty of , such currenc
ind its regular balance she(
Kited, so closely do things ii
rial."
>nize highway construction, but
ill be similar benefit in constru
hi of foundations for buildings at
rticularly in hastening bridg
ark.
WHAT TO'DO W^TH THEM
GREENSBORcj) DAILY NEWS)
The troubles of the superlntendei
a convict camp which has con
be the name'for a county prise
here able-bodied men under se
noe are confined as distinguish
nm a jail, wliere men under su
cion are confined, impress Dr. I
. - Buie, countji health officer. 1
e Guilford central camp he fine
ne negroes afflicted with lazinei
id pretending j it is sickness tin
sinclines them to hard labor i
lly imposed by the court for the
ns. "What afe you going to (
ith them?" the health officer aski
reporter. Of! course it was u
;rstood between them that the i
J- ??iVI.
'rter was^ not going to uo uuyuiu
ith them; in classical languag
i don't belong to do anything. Tl
lery was rhetorical. Superinte
Hit Greeson is as kind as can b
ies to make itj as easy on the m<
i possible, butj they do not apprei
t his efforts.) The men swei
ley gamble, Ihey play cards <
unday?or at [least, the last whi
ings out there! were for infractioi
! rules agaiijst these inqulrk
he doctor "wapn't willing to go <
icord as favoring flogging," b
3 sees the problem of handlii
invicts become "more trying ea<
ear"; and what is a kind super!
mdent, who tries to make it ea
a the men bpt is not appreciate
Ding to do with them?
Doctor Buie would have to stop
jad a considerable library In ord
> find the answer to his questii
lat would (Satisfy his (sciethtil
ilnd. What to do with convicts
le subject of a rapidly growing 1
rateure, much of it the record
linical experience. But offhand, i
iost anybody [who knows no mo
bout the subject than we do,
: ? - ~ZJf laarz i i
than Dr. Buie does?which may be
much more?would answer, first off,
"stop their rations."
If so inclined the^jailer might in
addition quote Scripture to them:
!"If any would not work, neither
should he eat."
THREEFOLD REVOLUTION FOR
AGRICULTURE
(GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS)
Benjamin C. Mash, "agricultural
student and philosopher," prescribes
as follows:
Reduction of the farm population
by removal of "three or four million"
farmers from the farms. If
by farmers he means adult men,
that would mean a shifting of population
from the farms of ten or
15 million people.
A corporate form of farm produ'c
tion, application of factory methods,
farming to be done by corporations
and not by individuals.
- A much reduced farm acreage.
Any f the three things would be
practically revolutionary in effect,
the change from individual to corporate
production being actually revolutionary.
If the industry is in need
of a threefold revolution it must be
sick indeed. Even sicker than appears
from the declaration that in
the half decade ended last year
capital invested in farming returned
only three-tenths of one percent per
annum.
What is proposed is the abandonment
of great part of what may
be called the present physical eq>r
ipment of the industry of agriculture.
A " much reduoed farm acreage"
means in its logical extension
W the utilization for each crop of those
p. lands and those only which are best
adaptod to it. All lands which by
reason of situation or soil constl,x
tuents are not especially adapted to
the production of anything needed
by the people, not markedly superior
grain lands, or vegetable, or fruit
or textile lands, would be discarded
n from the agricultural industry as so
Id much useless equipment. That would
e_ not depreciate the intrinsic value
of the land as a whole, since that
selected for use would do what the
1- whole of it had been doing before
js supply the needs of the country and
of the export market; but it would
have the effect of wiping out the
capital investment of all those ownors
who have no land at all that
^ would be needed under the new system.
Most of it would have a pott
tential value as a producer of for*
i- ests but it would require some genii
orations for that potential value to
j be developed to any considerable ex?
tent as actual value. The evo16
lution to "intensified" farming is
ie well advanced, and wherever there
has been a notable increase of the
, productiveness per acre and abandoment
or practical abadoment of fields
'e of low productive potentiality, coexy
latent with an increased price of all
lands, there is overcapitalization of
the farming industry. Corporate in's
dustry in substituting more efficient
re for less efficient methods also dis?e
cards any sort of equipment, no matter
how much it may have cost, and
does count this loss but counts it
cain: whatever salvage is obtained
from property no longer needed is
1- s0 much added. If you can conceive
of it as theoretically possible
immediately to organize all agrlculy
tural capital and assets into corporit
ate activity that would apply the
1- principle of intensive cultivation
then great part of the > country's
area would become practically value*
less. It might seem good business
to carry it on a low valuation belt
cause of the eventual yield of timc
ber?and then we should see prac'd
tlcal forestry indeed?or it might
e- seem good buisness to let it go for
what it would bring, and let somebody
else work out the long experiments
of forestation. What will happen
if the thing should come about
at all would be by gradual process,
it in which there would be deflation of
ie the investment In agricultural lands
>n and losses taken.
n" First of all, says this philosopher.
;d "we have literally got to get two or
8" three million farmers off our
farms." So far, the removal from
^ the farms has been a financially
*s bloodless operation. Industry has
38 absorbed them; and the migration
will logicaly continue to the sat38
uration point. The hiking of Mr.
ir Marsh is along economic lines and
1? what may happen?what apparently
will happen?to individualism in
n" this triple revolution disturbs him
,?- not at alL
? ?? f.nrnlina has had
| jp'or ytjtti o AfVAbu v,?
'e> reason to be familiar with the Idea
ie that the dlverson of population
n- from field to factory?and if fey
'?? reason of the increase in manu3h
facturing population and produc3i
tion of wealth a man quits farmir?
lng to become a doctor or a mer>n
, chant, it is essentially the same?is
P- economically logical; and whether
as the idea is being much considered
>s. or not, there has beenj a subon
aidence of the discussion of the old
ut "problem" of keeping them on the
ig farm.
sh
In- Men may come and go, but ideals
sy live on forever.
,d,
, The King of Italy should have
to time now to get up a new game of
er soitaire.
on
1c Women have a chance nowadays,
is Think what a good opening the lowit
ly can opener presents.
of
al- Adfersity builds character. Even
re a man with a can usually is bent on
or getting somewhere.
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A story that has aroused stormy
debate for a long time is this:
Many years ago a young man employed
in a bank dashed across the
street about ten in the morning and
entered the law office of an old
friend of his family. Incoherently
he disclosed to the attorney the fact
that he had been embezzling the
bank's funds to the extent of fifty
luuuoauu uwwaio, inai ny uau iuol .
It all In specuations by means of
which he had hoped to be able to
replace It and make more; and that
the bank examiner was in town and
would no doubt discover his defalcations
that afternoon.
"Have you still access to the
bank's cash?" asked te lawyer.
"Yes."
"Then bo get fifty thousand more
and bring it to me immediately."
The young man did as Instructed.
Then the lawyer took him to the
office of the president of the bank.
"Mr. President" said the lawyer,
"This young man has just come to
my office and has confessed the embezzlement
of one hundred thousand
dollars from your bank. He is of an
old and respected family, as you
know. The examiner, he tells me,
will discover the loss some time
this afternoon, uness you can help
me devise some way to avert this
disaster."
The president of the bank was
stupefied with amazement and wild
with indignation, but after a short,
violent conference he agreed to let
the boy go unpunished if the amount
lost could be refunded by his friends.
At the last moment of grace the
lawyer reported that he could get
together fifty thousand dollars and
no more. The banker, anxious to
recover what lie could for his stockholders,
consented to a compromise
HAS TAMMANY REFORMED
(SPARTANBURG HERALD)
Gustavus Myers, who published a
"History of Tammany Hall' a number
of years ago, has written an article
for a current magazine in
whic^i he asks, but does not deflnely
answer, the question as to whether
Tammany Hall has really reformed.
Mr. Myers points to the fact that
the present leader of Tammany,
Judge George W. Olvany, is,a man
of an entirely different type from
those who have for more than a hundred
years served in that capacity.
The typical Tammany leader, he
states, was of the practical contracting,
salloon-keeping, joint-operating
stripe, such as Tweed, Croker, Murphy
and some of the earlier ones. On
the other hand, Judge Olvany worked
his way through school and university,
and has been a more or
less reputable lawyer throughout his
career. He served as a Judge of
one of the New York courts for some
time prior to his selection to head
the great political organization. Hl?
professional life, Mr. Myers believes,
has been ethical and proper, and
upon this fact, to a large extent, the
Tammany historian bases his hope
that the organizations's professed
reforms will prove to be genuine.
In an interview with Mr. Myers,
Chief Olvany declared the policies
under which he is undertaking to
operate the organization. He declared
that there was to be no graft, no
wire-pulling, no job traffic. Everything
is to be carried on in the most
honorable manner, both in the organization
of city affairs, so far as the
organization can influence those affairs
through its political control of:
the city administration.
Mr. Myers indicates that he is
frankly skeptical as to the performance
of this altruistic Tammany
program. Knowing the organization
as he does from long study of its
operation, he finds it difficult to believe
that it can change its policies
so radically. All that the can hope
for, it seems, is that performance
will follow reasonably well the promise
outlined in Judge Olany's attitude.
I
When machine-guns are brought
into pay, the play part is only for
the men behind them.
Some people want the word "obey"
'taken out of the laws as well as out
the marriage ceremonies.
.
Economist says we ought not do
anything we can't afford to do. How
about paying one's honest debts?
If they get enough beer and light
wines into the political platforms
they wllj float,?but only In the direction
the land lays.
They recently conducted "liquor
hearings" In Washington, but the
record won't shov a thing about
how many corks they heard popping
out of champagne bottles.
Europe wants to meet our delegates
to the arms conference with
open arms. And closed fists.
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"HURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1926
J T7
dan Fugene Read
^WYERS AND GUILTY CLIENTS
at fifty cents on a dollar, and the
young esbezzler got off scot free.
What is your opinion of the conduct
of the awyer and of the banker
in this case? Is a lawyer Justified
in pracltically becotaing the accomplice
of his client? Is he any more
to be excused because he Is an old
friend of the bo?s parents than if
he were not? Is he vindicated because
he hoped by getting the young
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mail UUl Ul 1^^ UlOb OV/flJ iv
ence him to go straight thereafter?
Would his act have the effect of inducing
the embezzler to go straight
afterwards?
As a matter of fact this boy did
go straight afterwards. That has
nothing to do with the problem
faced by the lawyer and the banker,
for all they could use as a basis for
their decision was their opionion at
the time as to the possible effect
of their act upon the young man.
Suppose he had been as crooked
afterwards as before, would that
have any bearing on the case?1
Remember there is no question
as to the illegality of the acts of
the lawyer and the banker. The
question is as to the morality of
those acts. Were they less moral
because they were illegal? Should
laws always be obeyed?
Should any person use illegal means
to assist any other person at any
time to escape from the consequence
of (violating the law? Should parents
stand behind their children who
have violated the laws? And if
parents should, why not others?
, If there are cases in which offenders
shoul.d be aided in escaping
fijom penalties, what line of distlnctibn
would you draw between those
entitled to aid and those not entitled
td it. What do you think.
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CONSCIENCE AND BUSINESS
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(From The Charlotte Observer)
W. R. Manley, Atlanta -banker,
[ was president of - the Bankers Trust
| company, which failed and caused
[the failure of scores of other banks
in Georgia and Florida. He faces indictment
for felony. Now his wife
testifies in his behalf that he has
hot been rational since 1914, and offers
proof of her statement that he
"no longer believes in God or that
there is a soul." Many there be who
will accept the evidence offered by
Mrs. Manley , if her statement
proves to be true, as conclusive that
her husband is not rational.
However that may be, a great
many of us would not care to entrust
our money for its safekeeping in
the hands of a man who does not
believe he has a soul and denies the
existence of God.
It is difficult to understand how a
man can have a conscience who does
not believe there is a God or that
men have souls. If a man has no
conscience, what motive can he have
for dealing honestly wih his fellowmen?
We can conceive of no higher
motive for such a man to be honest
than that "honesty is the best
(business) policy." And a man Is noi
honest at heart who has np higher
I motive than that because if that be
the only restraint to keep Dlm rrom
turning from the straight and narrow
way, he is liable to turn the
first time he reaches the point
where he believes he can eseape the
penalty that society would impose
upon the crook if he were caught.
In other words, a man without a conscience,
a man who believes he has
no soul and that ttjere is no God?
n0 power to punish for wrong doing
but his fellow man?is liable to
take a notion some day that honesty
is no longer the best policy for him
because he can make more money
by being dishonest. When he reaches
that point, those who have trusted
him are liable to pay the price
in financial losses.
Even as a cold-blooded business
proposition, give us the man who has
a conscience and believes himself
to be more than an educated beast.
Watch the man who) Is "honest" only
because he thinks it pays him in
dollars and cents. H? Is liable to
change his mind without giving hie ^
customers warning.
"Not knowing what styles wllj be
twenty-five years hence, it is a little
hard to say where the child ought
to be vaccinated." ? Detroit News.
Not "where," brother, but "wheter."
Railroads claim their big losses in
dining car service is not that they
do charge enough, but on account of
food cooked and Djot used. They
could easily remedy this by putting
more on the plates when serving.
J. Pat Murphy, former baifcender,
testified that Prohibition has brought
great improvement to the West Virginia
and near-by mining fields. Evidently
J. Pat is one of those former
optimists who has quit carrying a
bottle-opener on his keyring.