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-f-6 & (Sbarlott Ctotttr raUtaM Stmt taf btki Ttw at M Boat . Chunk atroe. , . ,.. . r - Un4 gear af IhrttleaUaa. aTsbBahod to USB, . - A. W. Bank. Sanaa Manager. Waa at Bank, Mliar. . A. rarhaaa, ataaag. tutor. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. T.'.a Associated Praia to exclusively entitled to tha uaa for republication ot all news dispatches wredtted to it or not otherwise oradltad in thia 4yaper and alio tha local nawa' publlahtd therein. THE SUNDAY OBSERVER, SUKUAY. AUUUhi 21,' 1V21 . Tola newspaper receive! complete reporta of Die Associated Press, and aluo maintain! ipeclal correapondenca bureaua in Washington, the Bute Capital and at other, important State new center aVMtK.'mr-I'lON B.tTJCS (fernst la Aavnaee. I wm, 4 1 M nth S Mont ha .... Mnatha .... 1 Year By Carrier Dally and Sun Ur. I (1 lie ie.ee - Br Hell Dalljr and Sunday. . I ' U til Ml Br Mall Daily Only. I I.TI III tie 4 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. ' Look at the printed label on your paper. Tha elate thereon ihowa when tha lubicriptlon ex piree. Forward your money In ample time for re newal. Notice date on label carefully, and If mot correct, plena notify ua at once. 8ubaorlbara bearing '.he addreia of their paper chanted, please state In their communication both the OLD and NEW Address. EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1921. THE LID ON THE STRIKE. OVERNOR Morrison established a con dition at Concord which Insures return to employment, not only there, but in any other part of the State, of people who may so desire and under guarantee of no Interference by force Or intimida tion. Whether this return be imme , eUate or gradual, it is an assured eventuality. He 'njso : established a condition under which the tnlll owners and the operatives may agree among themselves, without let or hindrance, upon the (terms governing employment. Furthermore he . (made it plain that every labor organization has tha- fight to negotiate the system of collective bargaining provided the other party to the pro posed bargain is willing to enter into such. He ) made it clear that the existing situation must be I worked out to a conclusion, but by peaceable tmeans. Perhaps the reluctance he manifested in (ranting the persistent request of the labor lead ra that he come to Concord and-make public expression of his views and opiniona waa based upon the fact that he could not do otherwise . than merely elaborate the views and opinions he . bad already expressed and a further empha siting of the lawa controlling tha situation, That he made elaboration is a' fact established to i tha satisfaction of the State. Labor and capital paying due respect to the mandates of the Com monwealth, as promulgated through the Gov ernor, there should be no need for any further atrika altuatlona in North Carolina. It would teem, that violence must be done to the law in development of a strike of any, kind. In other words, the law establishes privileges for both employers and employes which would Involve a atrika la tha classification of an illegal perform , ance. If labor should be inclined to observe the lights of employers, and If employers should give faithful recognition to the rights of labor, the SUGGESTED JTBW SERVICE. Tha poaalbllltie of the Norfolk Southern, to develop into an important passenger carrier is now bain auggeete and it to possible that a new Pullman service may be eaUbllahe4 out of CharlotU over that Una. Tha proposition la for a Pullman to be operated between thia city and Washington, N, C, and a etudy, of situation and prospect make it seem good. Tha matter to be lng pushed by Mr. P. W. D. Jonesof Oaarlatu, "wraung ui unamoere of Comntaraa in this city, Raleigh, Wilson. , Farmvllle. Greenville and ..Washington. Tha people of Charlotta may not have given much thought to the Norfolk Southern possibilities, as they have been dls posed to regard it aa a local proposition, in the ,,main. But that railroad could establish a throughJ service which would prove of Immense convan. lence to the larger travel In and. out, of thia city to Raleigh and eastern points. - The majter may oe oest understood through the letter which Mr. Jones has forwarded to, the Chamber of Com- morce secretaries, ho naa been agitating this movement for 10 yeara and it looks like" success ought to crown his perseverance. Mr. Jonea re minds the public that ' several yeara ago the Southern Railway commenced the operation of a Pullman sleeper-between Greensboro and Raleigh hauled by a through freight train, and now this line Is operating four sleepers every night, three locals and one through car. : He believes there is no doubt the Norfolk Southern can be induced to try the suggestion, and this is the proposition: v A sleeping" car from Charlotte to Washington. N. C, leaving here about 10 p. m. would give direct service to Raleigh and eliminate the objectionable change that wa are now forced to .make at Greensboro via the THE NEW APPEAL. ' '': 1 .Tha Society for Visual Education, with head quarters In Chicago, has started out on a earn. paign zor reform in dress, and It to using tha propaganda of corset-makers m part of Its am StL-IJUIV A Southern. This Pullman car would reach eigh about 6 a. m. and be attached to Norfolk Southern train No. 2, leaving Raleigh at 6:30 a. m. and arrive at Washington about 10:30 a. m giv ing excellent through eervtce from Charlotte to Raleigh. Wilson, Farmville, Greenville, Washing ton and intermediate nointa. Rotnminv im. sleeper would leave Washington on Norfolk Southern train No. I arriving Raleigh at 8 p. m. and connect with train for Charlotte leaving Raleigh, say at 11 B. m. and arrive Charlotte 7 a. m. Mr. Jones is confident that auch an arrange ment would give the . traveling public a splendid service and bring Charlotte in closer touch with the eastern part of North Carolina, recognized as the greatest tobacco producing section of the woria, as well as the progressive and enterprising towns we have named. Furthermore, if this ser vice is inaugurated and advertised, it would un doubtedly bring to the railroad a fair return upon tne investment. atrika would be an institution of the past. 1 First is tha established right of citlsena to - make contracts between themselves. It Is this wry freedom to make contracts that is the foun dation of free Government The neat point Is tha labor has tha right to organize and It has the legal privilege to Institute "collective bargaining, But It cannot force this principle upon the other arty, in case that party is not willing to accept Ht. Thia right to collective bargaining la guaran jteed to them under tha Constiutlon, but with the (restriction specified. In further manifestation of 'the rights of labor, it may be well to quote the Governor. "No man," he aays, "has any right to all labor to the bar of public sentiment and lec ture It for seeing fit to exercise its undoubted ht to organise, and endeavor when organized to bargain for all concerned. I declare to all forth Carolinians that It la wrong to undertake create prejudice against and excite enmity to rthe labor people In North Carolina, because they awe lit to exercise their liberty Tor their Interest In their own way. So far aa I am Informed, organ ised labor does not eontend for any principles or pegal right of Importance of which I have not Can, and am now, as a citizen, a champion. As how they shall exercise their liberty, and whether they always exercise It wlselv or not Jta no man's business and the lecturing and abuse Jf them Vhlch emnates from some quarters ' 'ahould ba stopped." . On the other hand, it is aald In relation of the privileges guaranteed for employers that they Itava the right to contract with organired labor, land they also have the right not to contract. If jthey deem that course to the interests of their business. "This would no longer be a free coun Jtry," aays the Governor, "if cltlzenB were forced to contract with any Individual or group of Ind ividuals with whom they did not want to con itract" Neither the Government nor any official an make them ao contract under the law, and , kartaermore, no law of the kind could be enacted Ainder tha Constitution. ; The Governor dwllvered ha horning truth when he declared that "dearer (than our entire Industrial fabric and all the wealth we hava accumulated Is the prlnolple of liberty Involved In tha right, duly regulated by Cw, to rraeiy contract and be contracted with Mut any lawful and moral matter, properly the Igubjeet of a contract. It is true that we are our brother's keeper, but I think the time has arrived whan , wa bad better recognize more of our brother's liberty, and permit him to attend to his wa business. No man owes anybody an apology In tha country for entering Into, or refraining , from entering Into any business contract, or refus ing to antar Into a business contract which, he may aee lit to refuse to enter Into." , Tha Governor, after making clear the legal righto Of organised labor, of unorganized labor and of tha employers of labor, maintained that thesa rlgnta must ba respected. He concluded tils statement of facta with an appeal which ahould have beneficent effect His appeal was directed to all conflicting claasaa "to submerge and forget their class consciousness and class In terests in an unselfish devotion to the precious principles of our Government." , We should think that Governor MorrLton's re marks, expressed with tha sincerity of a great oul concerned only for the welfs t of his people and of his Bute, ahould have had th effect ct soothing the turbulent spirits, in restoration of a full understanding and the feeling of brother hood. At any rate, it pliced the lid over the trike and art the screws for tha people to turn THE GUARDED JAIL. Another mob has been taught that it is best to near aue respect for the law. There waa the usual provocation to mob demonstration In the Knoxville case. The negro under guard was charged with having committed a criminal as sault upon a county achool teachen an occur rence that had aroused the fury of the commu nity. The Jail was placed under heavy guard by police and soldiers, the defense being reinforced by a machine gun. The people constituting the assailing party, as well as the spectators to the occurrences, had reason to know this and to rela Ize the possible consequences of an attack on the jail, but some of the hotheada in the nrn 1.4 the way, and a shower of bullets was the re ponse. n was a case similar in manv reano.-t. ro mat wnich occurred in Alamance, in this State, not 10 long ago, and was somewhat similar :hv Brabham incident in Charlotte, still further DacK. The mob should have come to realize the ract by this time that when the law calls armed forces to its assistance, that armed force is there to act. The attack upon a guarded Jail has be come a dangerous experiment and one which to be avoided. monition. It quotea quits aenaibly from a, Bap tm Ojuch paper tha uncontrovartlbl'a doctrlna that "the moat direct and speedy cura for 'tha 4raaa stay ilea in tha hands of parents ' who pos- aaaa tha vara and highly-prtoed ability- of keeping theV eJalldfan free from fatal fads. Thia abll ity la uajuaily developed by beginning early, by being positive and at the same time sympathetic with children." Neglect of this dootrine la per haps the responsible cause for the existing con ditions in ypung society. But we were coming to tha matter of the corset, the absence of which In tha equipment of the young lady attired for the danca has caused ao much public control versy. They are now, endeavoring to emphasize the evils of the corsetless costume through the medium of tha moving picture film, and wa ma! see one or mesa attractions in Charlotta one of mesa oaya. Tha film to put on the screen as an example of tha value of corsets to health aftd tha preservation of a youthful carriage. That to tne appeal to the young woman, who to nat urally concerned in keeping her "figure" a-ond. xne picture aa displayed to Void of any indication of advertising, and It telle a story that Instantly caicnes ma interest or tha young women in the audience. It would seem to be, In fact, a story with a moral. A young girl la shown Amuliw for a dance. She hesitatea at first, gazes approve ingly at her slender aelf, and then decldea not to wear her corset. As she completes her toilet her mother enters a graceful, wall-preserved woman in tha earlfr forties. During tho chat that fol- lows tha mother mentions her debt to correct corsetry for the protection of her health and beauty. After aha leavea, daughter considers. Staring into the mirror, she visualizes herself many years hence, ' her neglected figure badly poisea, ner whole bearing giving the suggestion of Ill-health. Thia reflection gives place to an other image of tha same woman, at tha sama age and In the same frock, but now radiating the charm of health and vitality. This picture, too, fades, and the .young girl to again seen seated before her glass, reaching thoughtfully for her corset. That would certainly appear to be an appeal to the human that is In the young woman. mother might argue and scold as much as she pleased, but It would have small effect, so far as making her daughter alter her determination to go to the dance attired according to the prevail lng style; but let her impress upon the mind ot the young woman that In discarding the corset she was setting out to let her form go to wreck, and back would go the corset lnstanter.- Isn't It so? THE OFEW FORUM Aa Editorial T4 tee the Pestle Bray I to tba Woman Who Cried . Out! . To tha Editor of tha Observer! . The public haa been regaled ad nauseaum with casea ot attempiea seduction In recent newspaper re porta, Ona young man has been sen tenced and another remanded .for trial. A great deal of sympathy for th young men and condemnation of the young women ' hava been ex nressed. The young men hava been condoled with on tha ground of tha old double standard, which makea lasclviousness pardonable ' in men and unpardonable In women. Soci ety says to women: ."Buffer your shame in silence. Recourse to pub licity excites naught but. derision." To the young men It says: "Boys will be boys," and smirxi at tne wouldjje accusers. It is true man as a .class have a natural Impulse which, thank God. Is rare in women. It Is said that 15 per cent Of un married men are unchaste, while it is exactly opposite with women. Men are decidedly . tha aggressors. and most of tha women who yield are fooled, and fed with lies, either of promises or of downright pre vaflfatlon, taking advantage of ig norance. Tne woman l aes an me chances: the man takes none. It haa always been this way, but tha auto mobile has emboldened the mala of lafe. A good deal of fornication gets by unscathed because of druggists' aids. Each case is simply an eating ulcer In the social order, and ag gravates social disease, making so ciety rotten at heart. Marriage and personal purity are the only nope of the body politic. Death to civil ization is sure, as the moral law to disregarded. While it ttook tremendous moral courage for a young woman to face her would-be seducer In court, all her Innate modesty crying out to her to suffer her shame in silence, yet she haa done the public a serv Ice to put the mark of adultery on him. A condoning public win let htm try to laugh it off. but the scar let letter will abide till the blood of a Redeemer wasnes it away. The young man's attempt at Justl fi cat ion is the old Edcnlc scene re enacted: "The woman tempted ma, and I did eat." And it is sadly true that the modern woman'a dress PLUG UP THE LEAKS , Is MAXWELL iS THE OPEX. Corporation Commissioner- Maxwell and there is not,a better fellow In the State is disposed to enter mim objection to The Observer's "figure of speech" the publlo 'may have a suspicion that Mr. Maxwell has bean located behind a fence with his gun in a crack, waiting for Watta to coma along." He thinks auch a statement to out of harmony with anything he has ever done in his life. He haa bean In the habit of doing his scrapping in the open. Perhaps Mr. Maxwell had In mind the circumstance! which might have justined tha conclusion that he would take ,!. un ura upponuniiy. Ana we are going to amend to the extent of saying that we might have known that any waiting attitude ne mignt nave assumed would have been, not behind the fence, but in the middle of the road, and that Watts, seeing him from afar, vould nave come right along, Just tha same. - HAPPENING IN MASSACHUSETTS. The excitement at Barnstable, in Massachu sons, is still being continued. The white mo uia noi succeed in getting the negroes out and lyncning mem, but while the sheriff and his forces were yet holding the Jail a menace arose from another source. The negro population In tnat part of Maseachuietn became Incensed at the attempt of the mob to lynch the three negroes implicated in the usual crime, and determined, on their part, to take the negroes away from the sheriff to take them from the keeping of the law. so they organized ,a raiding party, and hearing of what was transpiring, the sheriff wired for State troops, and there ensued a period of considerable excitation in that part of tha good State of Massachusetts. The negro troubles are nui connnea to the South, ly any means. m 1 THE CONTRADICTION OF WALLACE. Bum mim 01 me; results of the visit to concord by MV. Wallace, the "personal reoresen Utlve" of Mr. Gompers, was a speech In which ne told the strikers that the mill men of Concf.rd wer,e responsible for the sending ot troops there in ms address to tne . people it was Governor Morrison s flrst care to clear away any such im pression. The troops .were sent there on request oy -tne mayor, tha chief of police and 'upon the statement pf the sheriff that he and tha police could no longer control the situation." The Gov ernor also made plain the restrictions he had thrown around the exercise of duty by thi mili tary. And so the last appeal by the labor lead ers to the passions and prejudices of the strikers ten to the ground. e - GERMANY'S PEACE TREATY. Information from Berlin Indicate that the Ger. man Government will' be coming along with Its treaty or peace with the United States probably during the present week. The German Govern ment, It is stated, is assured an ample majority In the Reichstag when the Treaty, "which is now being given its final draft." comes up for ratlfl. cation by that body. From which we are tp in fer It is Germany that is specifying the form of peace it li to agree to under the "resolution" peace suggested by the United Stale! Govern ment. In that case It would seem we are to have a strictly "Madi-ln-Germany" peace. AN EDITORIAL OUT OF TUNE. We are surprised to And In the usually con servatlve Fayettevlllo Observer so extravagant an editorial expression aa it gave voice to ln.con ment on the sending of troops to Concord and Kannapolla to maintain order. It supposes a case where cotton mill workers were giving trouble, and in order to quell this trouble "a Democratic Governor sent troops into a Republican county." It does not regard ss the important point that tha presence of these troops had a salutary effect. "Not at all," remarks the Fayetteville paper, as it proceeds with the strangely sounding proposition that "the political end of the matter is what 'took the cake.' The political coup made by Democratic Governor Morrison in sending troops to help out the situation In a d Repub ucan county that'a what is called politics, aa politics is played in North Carolina." The Fay etteville Observer Is peculiarly unfortunate in both conclusion and expression. When that paper reads of the incidents of Friday In Con cord and has read the statements made by the Governor, it aurely must feel a self-imposed duty to set Itself right with iti people and a State with whose welfare it should establish a more Intelli gent Identity than is represented In its unjust editorial expression. It haa assumed an attitude that Is, against the best Interacts of the State and one In which only the State's enemies could rejoice. joyi RRENT OBSERVATIONS BY THE NEWSPAPERS . Putting Wilson la a Hole. (From The Knoxville Sentinel.) VI voted to put the President in a hole.' and and we did It" The above sentence is quoted from the speech of Chairman Fordney, made in the house Wed nesday in support of the Administration tax bill reported by his committee. Aa chairman of the Waya and Means Committee Mr. Fordney Is one of the chief outstanding and probably the most potent individual factor of all in tha legislative department of the present Administration. The two or three great and far-reaching measures that vitally and Intimately affect the fortunea ot every man and woman In the country which have so far been begun or acted upon by the present Congress bear Mr. Fordnay'a name, indicating his distinctive domination of their purposes and principles if not their actual authorship. Chairman Fordney, introducing his tax revision bill, made tha opening speech In Its advocacy and defense. Mr. Fordney'a method of dnimr ihi. we learn from tha press report of the speech. waa by devoting most of his time and energies to assailing the policies of the former Adminis tration and denouncing It on the score of its ex travagance , and autocratic doing.. Mot of his speech of an hour, Mr. Fordney himself Is quoted as saying in concluding it, was "a little about the bill and a whole lot about tho Democratic party." bo wa nava the spectacle of a sorely tax-bur. dened Nation of over a hundred million pcopis, with all of Ita uncertain and well-nigh distracted business Interests waiting breathlessly to learn pf rue nature of tha measure on which their vital fortunes depend and without definite assurance as to which they are and must continue to be at a standstill, while the author and sponsor of the measure pleasures himself waging partlian po litical warfare on an Administration which has served Its day and passed oqt. Tha Soviet, Idea. (From Tha Philadelphia, Record.) Tha Soviet withes, all relief food and money turned over to It, or distributed under its direc tion. Tha President and Secretary Hoover will not assent to this, and we do not believe that tha Allies, who have promised to assist, would trust the Soviet. The, Moscow authorities have ap pealed to tha world for relief and the world will take Its own measures to Insure that Its gifts siiall be usod for relief and for nbthlng else. Wa and other countries sre not going to feed the Bolshevist Armies, or allow our gifts to be used purchasing another lease of power by tha Soviet. nothing but a sex appeal to tha cava man's instinct, which has not dis appeared in the modern male. For God's sake, and for the sake of moral order, let's reform modern female attire. Don't wear your dresses so low at the neck or so far above your ankles. While the men admire your displayed charms, they attribute mora than vanity as your reason. Many modern mothers are down right simple who send their daugh tera forth in the prevailing styles. and fathers are idiots and cowards who refuse to command their house holds as did Abranam or 01a. can wa not get back to religion and da eency once more 7 o that otner young women will sacrifice their feelings and cry out aloud and let the public know who these forni cators are. Under tha Mosaic law the crime was punished by death If and many other states. While our Savior was -'very tender with tha sinner, ha inspired bis disclplea to write that fornica tion, unchastlty in unmarried peo ple, was sura to land the soul In hell. Let sinners repent, and seek for giveness and cleansing In the blood of Christ which alona can wipe out such guilt. Let all our young men give up their low feeling! and, like Job of old, make a covenant with their eyes that they will not look upon a maid, though I guess tha maids will do all they can to attract the masculine gate. REV. J. O. GARTH. Charlotte, Aug. 20. Mr. noose Makea a Statement. To the' Editor of tho Observer: I will thank you to give ma brief space In your paper to "state my case." ror 1 ao not oeneve tnai hava been treated fairly, either by the city commissioners or in the re ports that appeared In the news papera After 18 years of service on the city police force I was first re duced from a sergeaney to tha ranks and then dropped entirely. If I am an unfit man for public service It has taken tha city a long tlma to find this out, for during tha past IS years I have handled the antira street and sanitary work of the city, have served aa sergeant, and hava Iwayi tried to discharge my duties faithfully. If my case could be sun mltted to tha man and women of Charlotta' I am confident that 1 would get aa high a vote of conn dence aa any man on the force could gefe today. In tha matter of Bud Llnoard, your paper saya that I tes tified to his character, when it waa Carl Llppard who was being triad and not Bud Llppard. I did not tes tify to the good character of either Carl or Bud, and told the court that did not know enough .about them to make such testimony. My offense seems to be that I spent two nlghta at Bud Llppard s house on my way to the mountains and one on my re turn. I was on my vacation at tnat time, and do not consider that It to tha business of tha city commlislon- r where I stop or where I go when on leave from duty, so long as I am respecting tha tows. I was trying to find a man to take ma to Catawba station when I started on my vaca tion and Bud Llppard, whom I do not know wall at all, kindly offered to take me and Invited ma to stop at his home that night, which I dtd. I hava no apologies to. make to any one. I do not think I hava been treated squarely by the city, which I have alwaya tried to serve faith fully, and do not believe that tha people of this town approve thia summary action, As to the matter of personal character, I will go on tha stand with any man connected with the police, force and let reputa ble citizens ten what they think of my character. , E. M. HOUSE!, Charlotte, Aug.20. ; MRS. REYNOLDS AGREES TO BE D. M-CANDIDATE WINSTON-SALEM, Aug. 20. At a meeting ox General joaepn wins- ton chapter, Daughters of American revolution, held today at Terry hall, country home of ex-Judge E. B. Jones, announcement waa made that Mrs. w. N. Reynolds, wife or tna head of the Rr J: Reynolds Tobaoco company, had consented to permit herself to be considered as a candi date for president general of tha national D. A. R. The announce ment was received with Intense en thusiasm by the members ot tha chapter. For several years Mrs. Itoynolds has been one of the lead ing and most active workers in D. A. R. circle, both in the slate and national organizations. -:''?..! 41 . : 7 : n i i i ., a"awx. ."vj J at , ,: I , m r wmmmmm aaaaaaSaiBSBBBBBBBBBBaBaaB. 1 :.' ' . !t J NEW BOOKS j the woman resisted. Sea Deuteron omy 22. It is a capital offense In-iJ"""" " empi to exploit It. Shi North Carolina and manv other fmtrprta nature In terms of aelf. FLAME AND SHADOW. By Sara Teasdala. MacMlllan Company. Outstanding among America's women poets is Sara Teaada.le. who inrougn ner latest volume. Flam a and Shadow, has elicited unqualified praise suae rrom nam reviewers and lovers of verse. Tha reading public a long suspected tnat Miss Teas dale represented tha bast In English verse. The beauties of her latest dook connrm public opinion AmOnST OUr wnman niiata Anl Edna St. Vincent Mlllay can ap proach Mlsa Teasdala in the airntilait finish and lyrical quality of her poems. Miss Teasdala belongs to mat steadily growing achool of writ. ers who ara professed apostles of oeauty ana the natural not wor shlppera of nature in tha obvious spirit pervading Wordsworth's na ture poems, but with a virile love ot natural objects and of the human form as an exalted and concrete presslo nof the spirit diffused in na ture, woraswortn advertised na ture: Miss Teasdala sines of its bean. ties because ahe Cannot ba silent, but makea no attempt to exploit It. She Her tonaa ara not aa deen and full aa thosa of some of her contempo raries, nut the harmonies of her music ara without a flaw. Tha fiuts is small bat perfectly tuned. Her poems are wreathed about! with an ircense-lika fragrance of happy hours spent cioa. i0 nature and in the patna of beauty, in "Meadowlarka" ahe rises with apparent ease to tha very neignta of artistry. "In tha silver light after a atorm. unaer . ma dripping boughs Of nrurnt new a-raan. I take tha low path to hear tha meadowlarka ' Alona and high-hearted aa if I wara a queen. What hava I to fear In life or death wno nava known three things: the kiss in tne nignt, The whlta flying Joy .when a song Is born. And meadowlarka whistling In sil ver light." Many of the poeme Included in this - little volume are' Joyoua in tone, but at timea In the lilt of the most spirited line ona catches an undertona of pathos and sorrow The poat'a heart la broken by tha uiusive oeauty and tragedy of lite, but her grief ,1a concealed in song. "Life, you have put me In your aeoi And I must servo you long But oh, the debt Is terrible That must ba paid in song." There ara many quotable lines in the book. Ona of the ' most beautiful is "Only tha Lonely Are Free." Thia is a theme that holds a strong appeal for Miss Teasdala She recurs to it time and again in ner verses. Perhaps the best lines lit-the en tire volume ara tha following: "Places I love coma back to me ilka music,- nusn ma ana neai ma when I am tired." Like many modernists Miss Teas- dale is In doubt about Ufa after death. But she Is confident that the future home of the soul, how ever splendid, cannot- surpaas the beauties or this world, she writes; "We will come at night to these resounding beaches And tha long gentle thunder ot tha . aea. Here for. a single hour In tha wide starlight Wa shall be happy, for tha dead ara . rree' , It to a great temptation to quota at length from a ovlume so com pletely filled with charming verse. but space does not permit it. One of tha bast, and perhaps most typical, of her poems is "The Wine:" "I cannot die, who drank delight From tha cup Of tha crescent moon, 1 . And hungrily a men eat bread, Loved the , scented ; nights of t June. . ; . The rest may die but Is there not Soma emnging atranga eioape for -' -ma Who sought In Beauty, tha bright wina , Of Immortality?", ; 'V ; Discussing new books recently received at tha Carnegie library, Miss Anne Pierce, librarian, wrltea: The truth about tha treaty. By An dre Tardleu. ."Tardieu, the right-hand man of Clemenceau, makes his disclo sures Of what went on 'at Versail les, even behind closed doors. He writes from a French point of view, arguing In great detail for the full exaction of reparations' from Germany, and naturally con- LOOKING BACKWARD- Ham f fntsrttt to Ptopl of Charlotte and Caro Unas, From Tht Obstrvtr of This Oate. 1911 and 1901 TEN YEARS AGO At Klnston yesterday morning a fire destroyed tba large buggy manu facturing plant of the Ellis Carriage company, a warehouse used for tha sale of leaf tobacco, a Urge ware house and threa residences before It could ba checked, entailing a loss of $100,000. Tha first native tobacco sold on tha Durham market waa that of C. D. Beavers, of Person his lot of 170 pounds bringing him an average of IS canto. Tha big 10.000 horse power aux iliary plant or tha Southern Power company at Greensboro has been completed and will probably be fired ior tna nrst tlma this week. Tha primary department of the First Baptist church will have a picnio at Electric nark In North Charlotte Friday of this week. Jeasa E. Clark, of tha staff of Tha Ralaigb Evening Times, spent yes terday in the city with friends Mra, M. C. Tate is spending the weak with Mra. T. B. White at Lake Kanuga. Rev. L. R. Pruette leaves this morning for Mooresboro to conduct a series of meetings 'this week, Mooresboro was Mr. Pruette's first pastorate and he to anticipating his Visit theer with much pleasure. Jackson Beall has returned to the city after an absence of five weeks on a business trip. TWENTY YEARS AGO joe lour-year old daughter of atjucuaii, wno uvea on onn iryon etreet, ran away from ' jeaieroay afternoon and uroumi several nours of misery to hap na rmntm Bhm - a.it , oy . iong, standing on tha banks Of tha creek naar ftvrwlli , even at tnis aany data it to aald n in streets ins i a cnanotte man or iwo wouia ilka to go to Congress tnis year. nm, me nne norse belonaln -to ma Charlotte are department, died last Monday. wnargen wurr attempting to Incite a not u. . ueissanbainer was lined ana casis. na was ona among me lesuve noiioay maxers wno want to tne county jail to discuss tha lynching of William Monroe. Tha sixteenth annual session of the Mecklenburg and Cabarras associa tion will b held at tha First Ban- tilt church at Concord, beginning to morrow morning and remaining In Tha new Trinity college library building, which to tha gift of J.: B Duke, is rapidly being poshed to completion. ? The Progressive Farmer of Au gust 4 haa a very Interesting article on tha race question written by Dr. w . . . . .. . d. Alexander 01 mia city. -, James F. Hurley, editor of Tba Concord Tribune, was a visitor in tna city yesterday. ? .-. curring in Clemencesu's policy." Crowding Memories. By Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrlch. 'Memories of Important persons intimately known. Among them ara the Bootha, Howells, Dickens, Julia Ward Howe. Longfellow. Holmes. Lowell. Mark Twain. Whistler. Bret Harte. Browning. Irving, Harriet 4 Beecher Stows and others who touched tha circle of friends of tho Atlantle Monthly's editor naif a century ago." Mirrors Of Washington. Author ship Anonymous. "This book does for our states men and public men what the gentleman with a duster did for eminent Englishmen In The Mir rors-of Downing Street,' Painfully plain troths about tha major per sonalities of tha present and re cently past ara are . told the mlnda, hearts and souls of the great men of America are dissect ed. Tha author apeaks In plain English and does not minca mat ters where hla discussions ot tha personalities and the psychology at me atatesmen oc today ara con cerned. : , FOUR COMMUNITY FAIRS FOR CATAWBA COUNTY County Fair It Scheduled to Be Held In Hickory Early In CAROLINA POEMS. nn tauvxq or ariocxm. By Smtm Jardaa pamatoaa. Plaintive tha plpaa amid the trata ' - I .Wbara ratarhlle Sates ef magie eallaa.' And sylvan aonaa with rnalodr eolhralted, Aa buttarcHps easnarsd tha vaaraat " seiema NEWTON, Aug. 10. As report' ed by J, W. Hendricks, county Ci- rlculutral agent, under tha ausploe of tha Community Fair association, four community fairs will ba hsld in catawba county this rail. Not' withstanding tha fact that tha state waa unable to give any aid to fair work this year a premium list of 1B0 has been made up by local subscriptions from business men and individuals over the county. . The outlook for the fair work In Ca tawba this year to much better than it waa last year, and especially is tma true in regard to the commu nity fairs. Each community fair will show in competition 'at the county fair In Hickory in October. The dates for the coming falfi ara as' follows: , 2t, L. M. Pharr, president, C. G. Thornburg, secretary-treasurer. Mt. Olive Thursday, September SS, W. T. MoRee, president, Ver non Long, secretary-treasurer. Kllllane Friday, September 80, O. Luta, president, H. E. Mouser, secretary-treasurer. Charity Saturday, October l, C. Hub Herman, president. A.1 O. Kil liant secretary-treasurer. Tha Catawba county fair will bs hsld at Hickory October 4 to-tf. w i Farm Engineer Here E.J R. ' Ra- ney, farm engineer of the state ex tension department, with headquar ters at Raleigh, is spending several days in Mecklenburg county super vising the installation of a hv- draulogram .water system on thu farm of Joi Robinson In Derltn township. , Rlppla (!, r The silver watarflew Intonad the santhwlsd'S tranelo. ' , Low twaniad the lata at sap's last lull; Tla .fflnffl thvlhm A IHIl-h- . , An arrow of wild saaaa clave the southern . .' "71 ' ... I 1 f. The maon. dsath-whlla, ' Prlastaas ef lisbk i . Dropped drystal tears wlthla tha all '. - vr cu) of night. ; : III. ,. ll-y A' rtd rose noddlns la the autumn wind. A .. - A . 1 4 . - fall; i ; i : uw,im mra a low, urn, vwmvmr iwi A woodland stream as daoplad aa a! nortnam nina. Q Tho tan ot frost .wlthla "he still . ; sir, , ., Dam! traas slowly yielding te d ';; . spnlr, ' ' . ; ' , .' With ampty Urd. aaata in tbalr m erald hair. . ,.:!.. , ; , ;. v rv. ""j) Y The soldanrod In bloom along tho lane. , And btrd-halla tinkling home it eleae ef dart . , ,(-. , '? Ctehlnt-of aloud, loft spina ef temples' ' ' gray; , ' t ,- r : Upon each brook tho snnaot'a scarlit . ItSlH) ' . ' J;. ' i .' ' Tho tintinnabulation of tho balls: ;' Tho scant of daw-wot haathsrod della; . And mualo mounting In subllmer . ' swella. , i Chant low the dfft; ohe Daaaaa, tHat fair - quaan .'v.: Of llvht and love whsre deaaad a, festal throng. - - ... To lura of saphyrs and to lilt of song ; , Beneath tho young moon's horn of III-;, vary ahaan. . . ', : ' sjhe paaaes softly t put tha plpaa awar: Tha traoa ware fold-ombroldorod yea-' V V terdafj : ' And on tho hllli waits wlatar, gasnt , sod gray, .. -t.. , forg ot, the pipes: ao more the wildwood ' rlage 1 . . With illverjr tonaa whan love daneod thar with Juno! Beneath tho mills of the Win Wltah- moon, j Mute, mute the moekblrda Joy-draafe 'carollnsi. ' Ahl let har sleep, . '! Plaeld, ealra and deep, 1 While winter his whits vigil ret-Saii keep. , , . rf Wadeaboro. N. C, Aug. If. ; ; . 5 MRS. D. C. FINGER, DIES -AT HER HOME IN STANLEY 'Mra D. C. Finger, one of Oaston county's oldest oltlxens, died at her home Friday evening and was burled at Stanley Saturday. She In survived by her husband. D. C, Finger, one sister, Mrs. M., L. Caimlor, of IUver Wend, and two daughter!, Mrs. C. B. Bhealy, of SIS North Pine street, this city, and Miss Lucy Finger, of Stanley.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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