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QV"f ... . : mm .SCBIPTION PRICE PER YEAR $1.50 CASH IN ADVANCE. PUECHASED The North State;, Dea U92 The Caucasians, May 22, 1913 Combined Circulation 15,000. THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION jWlNgTQN-SALEM, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1922. AD. the, Nw TfcaVs Tit to Print" EelUbUity tha Msla Fsstars, N0.18. WMV a i i ii i . L AN HONOR TO. OPPOSE THE ; MAJOR. HtkU t .Jctbf a meeting at Greensboro, of the Fifth District Repub- BKCUtive Committee, at the Staff Hotel, with Mrs. J. Lindsay .nMA of this city, recently chosen St for Congress, the Greensbor rTLyj that preliminary plana wrc LyLi thorough campaign by the first Candidate for the job North i 'ju ha ever had. ; ' , ' ' Ma. Pa"on is going into the fight iih tB b energy and enthusiasm. make a large number of speech kui endeavor to cover the entire Lid. She is approaching the cam aid with delight, she said, and she Ljcodw the opportunity to work ac frtU nd in person for matters that & items of vital importance. Ik committee confined its meeting to liaeussioii of the coming campaign. J. jjpasjan of the coming campaign. J. R. mt Kted as temporary chairman. No ifinanent chairman or secretary was sa but a call was issued for another gjtag in Greensboro May 20th for flection of both these officers. At setting also more definite plans Vie campaign will be made. This I wis to lay the foundations, thai aid; they will build later. . jaaJei Mrs. Patterson those present ut: Mrs. -Alice Joyce Nutt, of Greens dao;' 0. B. Webb, of Mount Airy ; C. j.Jok of Stokes county; J. R. Jojct, of Reldsville ; J. T. Salmon, of Detain, aiid A. F. Young, of Forsyth. Tw Btmbers were not present. 1 do want to say that I consider it honor to run against so fine and faonbk 1 gentleman as Major Sled on,", Mr. Patterson said after the acting "I have known him for a long tjornd there is r.ot a more splendid m anywhere. The very fact that he is the campaign will insure the nigh put which it will be conducted and I tttonx iuch a fight." Ma Patterson' spoke with enthusiasm ol it campaign plans. She is looking iomd to the campaign with pleasure, the aid, and five minutes.', conversation wits la on the subjects would convince U7 mu that she is going to put up one , hik d a fight. The first woman con i (rouonal candidate the State has had bowi a thing -or two about politics al mdy. She knows what the is going into ad she ia, frankly, glad of the chance. There if too much at stake in this wintry at the present time for any per m to dodge a responsibility," she said. , H the people want to send me to Con ftm to try to help the situation in the ; United States and in the whole world, in I am going to try my best to do noything I can to help. There is plen J of work to do and it requires a lot i thought Yes, and prayers, too. I am ghd of the chance and I want to have a "hire in the work that Congress has J fit to do to lead, America in the tre I nendotis task of stabilizing the whole It i; nothing less than that ahead thia country, she Said. position of the United States in thole field of international relations I be one of the leading issues of the ?iitn," Mrs. Patterson continued. ..lWke on this subject with unusual and It is evident that it, is near t la heart Mrs. Patterson has travel ed Europe. She served in the Balkans ti& the Serbian aid fund during the wdhai seen something of war and fctruction, of disease and of famine nt hand.- "I know Major Stedman is a veteran the CivU War and has faced bullets," 'd, "but I am a veteran of the What Uncle Sam Owes. Here in brief is what the Government "a and when it must pay : ' , - Billion Tu ... dollars Public debt is about 23.5 thii amount there falU due thin the next 15 months a to- -&1 of about- . 6.2 i2 billra isjnade up of the following : . . torj Notes 3.5 " IS months (May 20, 1923) JT Certificates 2.2 i varying amounts in fronTl 10 months. ''s securities months (January 1, f ' J addition there are: ifowy Notes .. June and September, 1924 62 6.9 TI7C f jr. . . . ww mature in thU order: - " Billion 1- (1923) .Victory Liberty Loan....'7 3J 'tmable June IS and December 15, 1922 1(1927. W;r 20, 1923 nf Third Liberty Loan 3A I (19J81 r S?lnb 15, 1928 i,AL1TSUbeTtt Loan 6 3 Mdeniable October 15, 1933 lOnOctobfr IS, 1938 W9) Second Liberty Loan..... 3.3 1927 k Nov'mber I5. vkS 1942 i!a L,berty Loan.... 1.9 tumble June 15, 1932 - :ter.KJUn? .147 C 0 Trfive is, by i? .maturity of the First itrffl,n,,947notonh' a of ' llY . ? S5.become Payable but .0c of t V r..'..me Pwnt indebted- n,:,:..bilion dollars, will have Sneaking P Major Stedman's War Record, She cites the Fact that She Also Is a Vet erin Having Served in Serbia Con gressiohal Committee Talks - Abbtit Campaign. world war and have faced, riot bullets, but the typhus. I know a little about what happened in Europe and is hap pening now." he wi wearing when she spoke, a Crosa of the Order of Mercy, presented by King Alexander in recog nition of her work. "The United States is now the great stabilizing force in the world," she said. "It is keeping the whole world steady a,nd this country itself has got to be kept steady. There can be no chance run that will involve America. If anything hap pens to America, the entire world will crash." ' , , Mrs. Patterson spoke of the possibility of a German and Russian alliance as of utmost importance to the safety of the world. She said that the United .States working with France, Great Britain and Italy could do much for civilization China "the Quaker of nations," as she called it, was of great importance-as a friend of the United States and she wants that friendship strengthened. . On these and other international mat ters Mrs. Patterson talked with deep feeling. She will bring them into the campaign in the fifth, she said, be cause she regards them as of immediate J importance to the people of the fifth district - Reduction of taxes will be another campaign issue with the Republican candidate. "Business is being taxed to death," she said. "I know and every householders knows that if I have only a certain sum, say $100, for a certain purpose, that it won't do to spend $200. We have got to supply the same idea to tie national government. We have, g.;t to spend only a much as we have. I v ant to get the views '-f business all owr th fifth district cu this subject It is certainly of great importance to all of us." Mrs. JPatterson said there was no pos sibility 'of a joint debate between her and Major Stedman. "I don't think it would do any good," she said. "In fact I believe it might easily do harm to both sides. But of course I plan to speak all over the district. I want to go every where and meet as many. of the peo ple as possible. That will cqaag later. It is too soon, for that now." "There is one thing I want stopped right now," she said, and she pulled a clipping from her bag and read these words.' "It has been made plain that woman suffrage is not yet popular in North Carolina and men politicians re sent any political action on the part of their women folks." "That is from Red Buck Bryant in Washington," Mrs. Patterson said, 'and it may be Red Buck speaking personally or as representative of. his party. I know Red Buck. I have read a lot of his hunt ing stories and I know he is familiar with many weapons but I don't believe he knows much about the. African boomerang. In the hands of a skilled hunter the boomerang, when it is thrown, will hit-the object aimed at and then come back to the hand- of the thrower. "But if it is not skillfully thrown it will come back, not to thre thrower's hands, but perhaps to crack his skull. Mr. Bryant is trying to hit me. I think there is danger of the boomerang's com ing back .to hit his own party. There are a lot of women voters among the Democrats and they don't like this talk about their not being wanted in politics. When women are advised to keep out of politics, does that apply to allwomen or only to Republican women?" Let Her Come. A Pennsylvania weather prophet says that the summer ot win De uic coldest since 1879. Beginning April 15th, and continuing until the last of August we will have cold winds, sleet, rain and t Vr rnmf. We can stand a- 91IUIT) - c, nvthinr. We have been oppressed with politicians, office seekers, tin Liz zies, a world-wide war, a carnival ui Democratic admin- Satratinn. abnormal tax valuations, high taxes and about everything else imag inable. If other people can stand the cold summer we hope to pull up in the ft close second. And an, Almance county man bobs up. and says we are to 1 Ar'xrr cummer than tost: that the dirt daubers are building close , to the ground this year . Let the wiia worm o ' .: We'll be gay and happy still "Ex- change. . - Severed Friendships. 1,-t. ,1.. anA. would destroy they , V UU11I U- .... , ( first make mad. And behold I th : woj r:unn. Krak with hi friends, Harvey, Garrison, Bryan, Lansing Lane. , , V r .nn Tiniue. Reed ana f t. r..u!m bustniK the a now lujiiunj. , . 1 Son. Wilson ha. aho busted the frd ship of about all the real chums he ever 1 1 nr.l.rliil tmstrr! nau. ?.- Canada's Army. Were the nation, generally to disarm . . ranada there would be as enccuvc.j .- r - cference4 rWtatoft-r thousand A" ' .rv of almost nine mil- Hon people m"be a record-Toronto Globe. . - - . Toledo Cradles Goldfish. 't'j. rvn Wsts of the largest GAU8HT10I1 THE FLY. "LAtJOH ANDJTHB WOELD ' LA3tfOn$ WITH 0tf." Wltit Our $hih tad iat Pot Oaptued ot a IJumoroui Vain - Trosi Out Extliang. " STAR-TliNG ! Biggs-Hervteetb ire 'like the stars." JiggWhy?" r . , , , , Biggs-fThey come out every night' The Boys Magazine, I , MA'.AS JEALOUS. j. Teachel Jolmhyi if you don't be have I'll? have to send a note to your tamer. - . Johnny-Yoi'd better not Ma' jeal ous as a cat a : ; IT TO DAD. Matter . "Yes, 5dear4 : ;' "Tell nie faiiy story before I go to sleepwillour; . ; "Wait; till Sour father comes home, dear ne ii teii? u botn one. THE CESSER EVIL. "The rtfcourtniled that I should pay my divorced wife alimony as long as she stayed single. ' "Wel" . "After six fy merits I remarried her!" From' Judgfe : S WHICH? Old Darkey (to shiftless hearn till voir! is married. Is son) "I you?" Son (ingratiatingly) 1 ain't saying I ain't , I Old parkey. (severely )-"t ain't ask you is you ai't; I ask you ain't you is." America! Legion Weekly. VANfS HIM WORSE. "MyShusband," complained the young wife, "is so 0iritanicaL He jdoesn't be lieve ir theatres, dancing, bridge or any of the t modern forms of amusement.", "Inded!" aid-her confidantthen soothingly, "bjlt remember my dear, you took him forSibetter or. worse." "I know," as the reply, "and I can t help thinkinghow much better it would be if jie'weri. worse." Boston Tran script ? . Dt NCr DO -ANY GOOD. A doctor brought a dispeptic farmer a big,, browrij pill. "I want you to try this pill at bd time," he said, "it's a new treatment and if you can retain that pill on. your stomach all night long it ought -to by all means cure .you." The next" day the.Sdoctor called again. "Did you nianage io retain that bill on your stomach ?" hei asked eagerly "Well, sir, the pill was Alright as long as I kept awaked' saidthe farmer, "but every time I turnecf over, or fell asleep, it roll ed off --i . . ! I REFORMED. "And. at er request you gave up drinking?" i "Ycfs, sir. j "And you uit cigarettes for the same reason. A . i "I idid.'-' I "Arid you jpo longer swear because of tier disapproval?" Atost assuredly. "And it ws for her that you gave up dancing, pofer parties and pool play- jngr: - "Absolutely;." j "Then wh did you not marry her?" "WelL sirs after all this! reforming I saw H couldo better." I HE EEDED "SAND." "Sand in Shis gizzard" is a schoolboy expression, denoting anyone having that covered con&odity, has fight or pluck a-plenty to iSarry him tar in any enter prise, Here & a little yarn, picked up in passing, which is entirely too good not to repeat:' . t niiwn at Wnorhtsville Beach the moon- lieht and the balmy sea breeze tie knots in your netfes and make you wish you had -been Wfn a twin to enjoy it twice. It fets into every vein land you can hardly keep;your feet on tne ground. A vounK fellow was there in the moonlight, i'ith the sea breeze coming in Ijke that and he was I with a pretty girlThey it down on the beach, and finaHy got hf s arm around her, then the bovi eot Beared. The girl didn't. They nevpr do. lie sat there! and couldn't movev but finally looked at .her and she said-';- i , "Well, why don't you kiss me?" ow "I av, s-sand In my moutn. "Swallow: it," said the sweet ycung tliuig, "youlpertainly need it!" Federation of Churches. There liais been many on the part ot bring aboutta unification en. ut the 'results up to earnest efforts Christians to of the church date have not been encouf aging. The present move ment of theederatktn of churches, how ever; seemsS to 'be working more mtel ligehtly and: more hopefully than any of its tpredece&ors.-.Philadelphia Record. (t woulf be a great missionary Endeavor, if advantage in for no other reafbn, to gq to the heathen, in name but no intelligice in many ! instances, with one! Lord, ne faith and one baptism. Under the present condition,, with over twil hundred different f denominations corf prising jfthe christian cburche, all headed the lame way, buit along different routes, it nibst be confusing to the hea then who fid a unit hi j the Confucians, Buddists, Mohammedan and Catholics in their respective faiths. And they will quest ioji this difference as 'long as ft txis.)-ocoi Editor, t . i ' ' : , ; 1. , ,x . ANOTHER POOR; j: ' " - s I :::: : ::.' Miss lsabelle Roclefelleif With the arrival in New York of little Violette Helene de Talleyrand; daughter of the former Anna Gould, and sometimes called the poor little rich girl, in charge of a maid, come renewed reports of domestic differ ence between the Duke and his Ameri can wife. Little Violette was almost sent to Ellis Island on her arrival, being rescued at the crucial moment by her aunt, Mrs. Fmley J. Shepard, formerly.Helen Gould. While Vioirtte, LITTLE STINGERS. From the Columns, of Don Laws Yellow Jacket. Our watch on the Rhine cost ua $240,000,000. ; . "Communism is sound, says Le nine. Sure, Mike. Nothing but sound. Yes, Hiram, it looks as if things continue as they are going that the pub lic will have to go to jail to get away from the criminals. You can't make a silk purse from a saw's ear any more than you can bring this country back to normal with a Democratic program. An exchange says that outdoor ex ervise in conducive to long life. Not air ways, brother. Take aviation for in stance. The more you fly the sooner you die.. Even if they don't tax us for the bonus it is a dead sure thing that, they will bone us for taxes to pay off the Wilson war waste. " ; - : . Since writing "Woodrow. Wilson As I Knew Him," Joe Pat Tumulty has learned that he lacked a whole lot of knowing Woodrow. Reports indicate that a baby is born every nine minutes in New York, but it takes something like that to keep up with the number of murders. Trying to straighten out eight years of Democratic extravagance with one year of Republican procedure is about like trying to support a seal-skin wife on a muskrat salary. The radio scientists are talking a lot about "wave lengths" but the thing that behooves the average citizen most is to see what he can do to shorten the crime wave. You may scribble it all over the mantel piece and carve it on the big arm chair that the less we have to do with Europe's political poker games the bet ter we will fare. We never could understand why it has become a characteristic with Demo 11. C. DOG LI. Must Be Listed for Tax Amount of Tax Own er Liable for Damage By His Dog or Dogs. OUTLINE OF DOG LAW FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Amount of Tax. Any' person owning or keeping, about him any "open female dog of the age of six months or older, shall pay annually a license or privilege of two dollars. Any person owning or keeping any male dog other than an openlfemale dog of the age of six months or older, shall pay annually on each dog so owned or kept a license or privilege tax of one dollar. DOGS. TO BE LISTED. , It shall be the duty of each owner of a dog to list the same for taxes at same time and place that other personal property is listed, and any person fail ing or refusing to list such dog shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding $50 or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. Dog tax shall be due and payable on the first day of October of each and every year. If tax is not paid by De cember first thereafter, the owner shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. No owner shall wilfully allow his dog to run at large at night, under penal ty of $50 fine. The owner of a dog that kills or in jures any live stock or fowls, shall be liable for all damage and cost of suit. Sheep-killing dogs must be killed by their owners, when notified of such damage. If he refuses, he is guilty of a misdemeanor Mad dogs must be killed. To every person paying the license or privilege tax shall be issued by the Sheriff a metal tag, which shall be at tached to a collar to always be worn by the dogs. 60 Paint Eiffel Tower. . To give the Eiffel Tower1' a coat of paint requires the services of fifty paint ers working three months, LITTLE; RICH 1GEIL"? i. de ' was being- detained, Miss IsabeHe Rockefeller, daughter of Percy Rocke feller, madeentryon her. return to Amn r " . crats to give their first thought to the welfare of the people of foreign coun tries. True Nationalism as well as char ity begins at home. Figures recently compiled show that there has been a deficit in operat ing expenses on Henry Ford's railroad. Perhaps Hank has mislaid the financial wand. Too much Muscle Shoals on the brain, perhaps. - , . Too much Democracy brought this country to the condition that it is now in, yet the Democrats are admonishing the voters to take another dose of the same dope this fall, on the theory, we suppose, that the lick of a dog is good for the bite. Yes, it was Wilson Who announced xhil we had no selfish ambitions and desired nothing in return for the part we played in the World War and now many of Wilson's satelights declare that we ought to ask nothing for the $11,- 000,000,000 we loaned Europe. Civilization rests upon the Home and Church, but if the Church leaders are going to accept Darwinism and the Home folks are going into the Ankle Show business, then the Devil might as well rent out hell for a golf ground and move the fireworks to the United States. Of course Congress can't clean up the whole dadbla'med wreck at once, but the most important legislation now before the country is the enactment of a sane and sensible tariff law. That alone will save the people enough money to pay the soldier bonus The necessity of this country re maining entirely aloff from European affairs grows more st ricking every day. Just as sure as God made Adam if we enter into any dickers with Europe we may expect to have to send our boys over there again to settle the question. How many want to go? Republicans and the Pri maries. With the final date for filing notices of candidacy for the various judicial, senatorial and other contested districts, State and Congressional offices closed, the .indications are that the Democrats will not have opposition m three of the Congressional districts, the first, second and ninth, no opponents for the Demo cratic nominees for judges in. 10 dis tricts and no opposition for the solicitor ship in 10 districts. The Republicans will have things their own way in the seventeenth judicial district, where no Democratic candidate has filed for so licitor against the Republican. Raleigh news item. (The Democratic State primary will be pulled off in June. Republicans take little interest in it. They had just as well oppose one Democrat as another. The primary is another of the useless Democratic expenses that could well be dispensed with and will be if the Re publicans carry the State this Fall. Let the respective conventions nominate the candidates. It was done years ago sat isfactorily and the Republicans most generally do so now and it can be done again. lit fact there are free school books, abolishment of the State Revenue Commission, Oil inspectors, modify or wipe out the "untimely" revaluation act, and many other things that will be done if the Republicans carry the State. We can expect no relief from these things from the Democrats. About all their platform says 5 to praise the pres ent State administration and present conditions.) Local Editor. Danish King Crochets Shawls. The King of Denmark delights in crochet work. At an early age he de veloped a taste for this sort of work, but as it was considered by his parents to be effeminate he : did it secretly. Queen Alexandra possesses a line shawl jnade by big hands, . AS WE GO TO PRESS. Earthquake kills several? persons'. and does great damage in Tokio. . j , Tobacconists in Eastern Carolina, are urging: farmers to plant a short crop of the weed. i China's president appeals to factions to avoid further civil war; and foreign complications. -y . j Salisbury, N. C, has a rubber plant turning out, 500 tires a day and em ploying 250 persons. I J Marvin Peeler, a Faith, N. Cn con tractor, is badly burned by a premature blast at the granite quarry. 20,000 men are holding levees in place at weak points along the Mississippi in lower sections of Mississippi. "Uncle Gus" (A. B.)i Gilkey, died at Marion, N. C, aged 93 years. -He was known all over his county and had many friends. j Mrs. Cambert Martin, a prominent Wilmington, N. C.,' woman, is a candi date for commissioner of New Hanover county. For 48 hours after Dock Lewis, a Castle Hayne negro had committed sui cide, Sunday, his hound dog remained by his body. j John Temple Graves, noted news paper man and lecturer, will deliver the commencement address at Guilford Col lege, N. C, June 6th, Governor Small, of Illinois, is being tried before Judge Clair Edwards in Lake county circuit court on a charge of conspiracy to embezzle State funds. Fayetteville, N. C, re-elected E. R. MacKethan, Mayor, Monday, for water works extension by a two to one vote and voted hogs out by the same major ity. At Wilmington, N. C., Tom Gaillard, a sporty South Carolina darkey, was shot to death by Son Belle, Saturday, for paying attentions to Annie Calder, Belle's fiancee. The school bond election held recent ly at Taylorsville, was carried by a ma jority of 61. There were ;309 votes cast for bonds and 46 against. There were 493 registered voters. Five persons were killed and two in jured by a S. A. L. train striking a truck, driven by Rev. B. C. Pickett, near White Oak, Ga., a few days ago. Near Marion, N. C, Sunday, on the Central Highway, Miss Mull, of DrexeL very unthoughtfully jumped from a car going about 25 miles an hour to secure her hat, which had blown off, and in the fall, fractured her skull. Her,, injury is possibly permanent if not fatal. "Crusaders." composing wives and children of 114 war prisoners, went to picketing the White-House in an effort to get President Harding to release them. The President says he ; will welcome these visitors under ordinary circum stances, but not as picketers. : Sandy Moore, a well known Caswell county farmer was put under a $2,000 bond at Yanceyville, a few days ago, on the charge" of running over and killing Christiana Dix, the infant child of Hur ley Dix, and for injuring Annie Weadon at the same time, who was carrying the Dix child. One thousand reported killed or wounded in all-day fighting between Chinese factions near Peking; Sun-vat-sen joins forces with Chang Tsolin; American Legation asks Jor additional warship; martial law in; Peking. In oth er words there is a revolution in the Celestial Empire a ruinous condition for any nation. Sunday, about 6 miles from Reids ville, N. C, the body o a white infant, cut into bits, was thrown "from a pass ing train. It was wrapped in a couple of newspapers, one ai Winston-Salem Journal, dated December 4, 1921, and the other The Atlantisj a Greek paper printed in New York, dated April 26, 1922. Mrs. J. W. Draughnj and Miss Janie Anderson . were instantry killed and J. J. Dell was seriously injured at High Point, N. C, May 1st, when an auto mobile in which they were riding was struck by a Southern passenger train, at a crossing near Barni' Manufacturing Company plant. The three had just quit work and Bell had offered to take the young women home. Basil H. Hedgecock cashier of the Home Savings Bank at High Point, N. C., is said to have an alleged shortage of $40,000 in his accounts. The cashier's father, J. H. Hedgecock puts up a bond of $10,000, the cashier himself secur ities amounting to $30,000 while Presi dent Wrenn, his brother, L J- Wrenn and George T. Penny, stockholders and directors, put up a bond of ?1 00.000, which renders the institution solvent beyond all question, j Look Out! A navigator passing near Pata gona recently saw what he describ ed as the enormous creature known pre-historically as the plesiosaurus looking hungrily at bin vessel. If some promoters of big things for county, state and aation ore not curbed, we will havea Tax Plesios aurus, not loolting Jiungrily at us (as he is just now, but getting a full meal off of the assets of our people. Gaston Times. The Highway Death Toll. The National Highway Protective Society reports that 111 persons met death by automobiles and motor trucks in the Stated of New York during March. The number in creases. In March last year 108 per sons were killed by motor-driven ve hicles, and in the same month in 1920 but sixty-one were killed. Knowing the conditions, what; is the remedy? Experienced. It is said , to be eay to get a drink it Maine, but 'then the people there hare had more than fifty years' experience trith a prohibition law. STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER. Are .We Heading Towards "Bankruptcy and Bolshevism? Taxes Cannot Be Re duced Without First Reducing. Expenses. Local Editor: About the silliest twaddle a man ever listened to, in: my estimation, is the. Democratic manner of explaining to the people of the State, why taxes are so burdensome. These explanations come to us by the column in all the "dem" sheets, and are about as enlightening as the old colored preachera exegesis of the why foreness of the earth's revolutions. He was explaining that this terrestial globe upon which we live, move and have our being, revolved over and over each twenty-four hours by the motive power furnished by a large turtle upon who's back the earth was resting. A small boy in the audience wished to know, what the turtle was resting on, and the old preacher railed out at him. "Hush, you darned fool, you are "spileing" my preach. It seems to me that if these dem edi tors were called upon to explain their logic on the cause of high taxes, they would be in as' bad a predicament as the above referred to preacher. They have reached the point in their discourses now where they are labori ously elaborating on the unwisdom of revaluing the property of the , State at the time they did it. They are almost admitting that the whole matter needs doing over, and of course it will cost money to do it over, but it will furnish jobs for more men, and how are we going to reduce taxes' by increasing operating expense? It has been repeatedly pointed out by the Republican press of the State that our running expense is nearing the million dollar per month figure. Isn't it as plain as the nose on a boboon's face that it doesn't make any difference how we raise this million dollars a month, so long aswe are compelled to have it? " Suppose we go to the expense of an other valuation campaign, at a cost of another million dollars, won't that make it necessary for us to raise thirteen million dollars next year, instead of twelve million? Suppose farther that in this r.ew valuation we cut appraisements in half, and thus lower the property values to fifty per cent of what they now are, and leave the State's expense budget same as now. Can't anybody see that rates would have to be. doubled in order to raise money enough to meet the expenses ? To illustrate: If John Smith's prop erty is now valued at ten thousand dol lars, and the tax rate is one dollar on the hundred, ha now pays, as his share of the nearly twelve million, one hun dred dollars taxes. If we cut the value of John Smith's property to five thousand, instead of ten thousand dollars and leave the rate as it is, who is going to pay the fifty dol lars that John Smith has saved by the lower value placed on his property? If nobody pays it, where is the State going to get the money to pay its run ning expenses? There is only one way to. reduce taxes, and that is to reduce expendi tures. You can change the rate at every tax paying period, or you may change the valuation between every such period, and neither process will have a red cent's worth of effect on the amount of tax a citizen will pay, unless you reduce the expenditure, and make it unneces- Ku Kluxers Attend A Fu neral. Charlotte, April 26. The first time representatives of the Ku Klux Klan ever took part in a funeral in Charlotte was Tuesday, at the burial of Samuel J. Austin. An automobile came up and six hooded figures got out. One of them bore a huge cross of flowers and led the way to the grave, with the other hood ed figures "following. The figure carry ing the cross of flowers laid the cross on the graved All six of the figures knelt beside thej grave, uttered, apparently, a prayer and quickly went back to the automobile in which they canie, driving off rapidly. News item. In keeping with what is said to be one of the tenets of the organization to render aid where aid is sorely needed, three or four automobiles loaded with robed members of the Ku Klux Klan drove up last night about ten o'clock in front of the home of Mrs. Alfred Beck, in the southern part of this city, and handed her $25. They then quietly withdrew, got into their cars and drove away into silence from which they had appeared. Mrs. Beck's husband, who had been an invalid for several years and had been almost lielpless since being injur ed in an automobile accident a year or so ago, died and left a family of nine children. Two of the children are mar ried and have homes and responsibilities of their own, several of those remaining at home being too young to contribute to the support of the family. This situation is understood by some means to have come to the attention of Klansmcn, whether here or elsewhere this paper is not informed, hence the splendid act of assistance rendered last night in a time of distress. Mr. Beck's remains were carried to Immanuel church, about nine miles from the city in the direction of Hanner's Ferry, where interment took place. (We say again that the Ku Klux have as, much right to organize and maintain a secret organization as any other class of citizens and we commend them in every good work. But should this order emu late their namesakes just after the Civil War and assume the administration of justice, we wil draw the line, If the sary to collect the large oppressive sum. If the State must have twelve million dollars a year to pay its running ex penses, it will be exactly the same bur den to the tax payers, if we collect it by a fifty cents rate on a high valua tion, as if we collect it at a one dollar rate on a low valuation. All this talk about "untimely" valua tions, and the unnecessary burden en tailed thereby is "camouflage" pure and simple. It is indulged .in for the purpose of deceiving the people, and has no more foundation in fact, than did the old darkie's turtle that sat on nothing and kicked the earth over. If the owner of a manufacturing plant discovers that it's taking two per cent of the estimated value of the establish ment to pay his labor force to operate the concern, would it do him any good to issue stock certificates doubling the estimated value, and thereby be able to pay his labor force with one per cent of the value? If on the other hand he should de cide to reduce the value to one half of its former figure, and thus make it necessary to set aside four per cent of the value to pay his labor force, would that have any effect on his total earn- uigs r Anybody can readily see that it would not. The same plant, operated in the same manner, by the same number of helpers, at the same wage, and getting the same output, would, so far as the relation of wages to income is concern ed, be axactly the same under a one hundred thousand valuation at two per cent, as under a 200 thousand dollar val uation at one per cent, or under a fifty thousand dollar valuation at four per cent. The facts set out in Mr. Jarvis' let ter, or address, published in a recent issue of the U. R. touches the key note. When he shows, in his sensible remarks, that too many people are getting soft jobs. These are put on the State's pay roll, and taxes must be increased in order to provide a sum with which to pay their .wages. The people are objecting to so much of this thing, and the parties respon sible for it are trying to make folks believe that a change in tax rate, or a change in valuation of property will cure the evil. We admit that a change in rate would be good, if we cut down the rate and let the valuation stand, but this, as we have already shown, cannot be done without first cutting expenses. While reading Mr. Jarvis' article we were made to recall a statement attrib uted to some former statesman, who ex pressed about the same idea, this way, "There is too "dam" many great men in this country that are not fit for any thing." If we don't have a change in the po litical management of North Carolina this fall, then I am of the opinion that the people of this State are not yet qualified for self-government. Any body of citizens who care so lit tle for the commonwealth as to allow it to completely bankrupt, and go in to Bol shevism, when it's in their power to prevent it, are unworthy the claim of the intelligent citizenship we have set up for ourselves- S. S. DUNLAP. Waxhaw, N. C. officers and the courts can not enforce the law, then we had better call a hale and see where we are and not del egate this duty to the Ku Klux or any other secret organization.) Local Ed' itor. The Grant Souvenir Coins. April 27th marks the centenary of General Ulysees S. Grant's birth and preparations are under way throughout the country to establish memorials to him in the counties of his birth and early youth. One of the measures for raising funds was of adoption by Con gress, which authorized issuance of gold and silver coins to be sold at a premium. The issue was limited to 10,000 gold dollars and 250,000 silver half dollars. The gold dollars have been selling at three dollars each, and the silver half dollars at one dollar. On one side of the coin is a bust of General Grant in mil itary attire of the Civil War period, and on the reverse side a miniature rep resenting the cabin in which he was born. It is a good probability that the larger part of these souvenir coin issues were absorbed in the North, as the en tire issue of dollar gold coins was sold some days ago. Nevertheless, a goodly number will have found their way into Southern keeping. The coins are and will always be good for their face value Charlotte Observer. ' ' Poem By Uncle John. Friend, let me utter it, under my breath, ain't it a fright to be govern ed to death? Think of the pitiless riders we tote, spurring us deeper each time that we vote! Taxes increastn' and Lib erty squeezed freedom befettcred, de formed and diseased. . . luxuries, things that we seldom may find, cover ed with "license" to fatten the grind . . . . Legislate constant, and legislate strong plenty of fools that must boost it along. . .-, I have grown weary with burden of tax, weary of bjood-suckers leeching our backs! Prone to rebel if rebellion could win. . . "Galling with pain at the fix we are in. Dirty poltroons with a surplus of greed, suck up our earnings and rob us of feed. . . . Hence I am muttering, under my breath, Lord, it's 'a shame, to be governed to death. Your Own, ... .. .. JJNCLE JQIIJJ, Pyabk.)Natioa.( BusincS3 twenty carloads of ftsn
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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