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i i i ASUEBORO COURIER, ASHEBORO, N. G TKaiwkj, September 1, 1924 fir If . Hates and Comments r ' An, era-ipU of what i;:teriMve tnef-haDdisiag tod chemical r-n-rch ew de ta at high costa uf Liu i Ming it nowhere more practically proved thaa in the limestone brunch i f the ' koflding Industry. A fe . rrs ago i the "atripping" or limestone :u-t had to b dug out laboriously b haml te- rfo the solid quarr' face "enough to work and was laM a.ide as ' Waste. Now this waste often brings . more than half the value uf the quarry itself. Huge water bottle. and ' Mason fruit jars are now made from this limestone dust The miner in the pit is BOW safeguarded from explos ions by this same dust. It is also used in fertilizers. In most cement limestone is the basic element. Va riegated limestone which was former ly a waste product of the limestone quarry is now being used in building construction and has helped in the lowering of construction costs. The limestone quarries this year will pro duce about 3,000,000 cubic feet of building material. "I WILL BE HARSH AS TRUTH" It was evidently the intention of the Republican campaign managers to set President Coolidge on a pedestal, as it were, clothe him with all imagin able virtues of the high office which he holds and remain quiet as the tomb over the gigantic oil steals and proven evidence of corruption en gineered under his very nose at Washington. The finger of scorn was to have been pointed at those who would stoop so low as to charge the responsibility for these steals at the door of the administration. But John W. Davis h;s shattered their pedestal and smashed the win dows of the glass house. He has charged Coolidge with a moral failure to align himself with public honesty. He has drawn a legal indictment of the administration's responsibility for its lack of moral indignation and prompt action over the oil spoliation and scandal in departments of the ad ministration. To those who object to the strong language used by the Democratic nominee no better answer can be made than the sentiment expressed a long time ago by William Lloyd Garrison, a New England writer: "I am aware that many object to the severity of my language, but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as jus tice." STANDARD HIGH SCHOOLS Prof. J. Henry Highsmith, State High School Director, says that the most encouraging feature about the development of high schools in North Carolina is the intelligent interest which is being taken in the matter of standardization. People all over the state not only in the urban districts but also in the rural districts are de manding that children be given the advantages of a standard school. A standard school is one that meets the following requirements: 1. Four-year course of study. 2. Length of term, eight months, or 160 days, exclusive of holidays. 3. Whole-time teachers, holding proper certificates. 4. Length of recitation periods at least 45 minutes. B. Fifteen unit required for grad uation. 6. laboratory facilities for tht teaching of science at least two sciences. 7. Library of not fewer than 300 Volumes. 8. At least 4! pupils in average daily attendance. 9. Maps as required. The difference between a Group II, Class A school and a Croup II, Class B, is one teacher ami an average daily attendance of 2o pupils. A Class A school has 4 teachers anil an ererage daily attendance of 70 pu pils, while a Class B has 3 teachers nd 45 pupils. The total number of accredited eheoU, white and colored, in the tat Is oer 400. It is encouraging to note (hat 89 school, were placed , on the accredited list as a result of ' . tie wvrk last season. Among the ' Mboola added to the accredited list ef Jane 1st, 1924, was Trinity ligM aehool in (his county. f V Today fa increasing number of , yeong people are going to college af- ter graduation from the high schools - ,' and anises tM high school from which they graduate b aa accredited school - It U tneotiTe&lesA for tkera U enter " the -freehmaa laaa of a ttaadard eollege.' Often Oef Bod theneelm !nedraUlr ptpn4 te lake ti wotk la e&llere classes wUck b aredV ealod ift 1 fhorwgs frtpaimtioe la aa acrr.Ktl big KfeML ; Randolph, r r,ly lis trt accredited achooU e4 i m be lop! that before many 1 a number ef eUier eaoeta may I on the aemdit4 list. , J. The question v-iih the Miccessful merchant is not hat it cots to ad vertise, but what it wi.l coet Lot to. advertis. Acconunjr to Mr Kelly a number who hae failed have found that failure to foot the advertising bill means the sheriff's keys in the lock and the sheriff's notice on the door. Manufacturers of many well-known brands of clothing, automobiles, foods, meals, and hundreds of other items have built up their reputation and national sales of their brands through advertising. When you go into a store to select a suit of clothes the chances are a hundred to one you are going to ask for a certain brand or ask the name of the brand of suit the merchant is trying to sell you. The same thing applies in the pur- chase of hundreds of other articles. The desire to own a certain brand of clothes or make of car has been en- gendered by advertising. A merchant may have his store full of the best merchandise that can be bought and his prices may be more reasonable than his competitor across the street, but unless he tells the people about it through newspaper advertising, chances are he will soon have to take a broom and sweep the cobwebs out of the doorway. Probab- ly the best known car in the world is the Ford car. Any man can tell you about a Ford. He sees dozens of them a day and chances are he owns one, has owned one, or intends to purchase one. The average man would think that It would be useless and a waste of monev to advertise rord cars. Yet Henry Ford i. spending millions on advertising his cars, This paper carries a Ford ad. in this issue. Thousands of other papers are carrying them this week. Thousands of billboards extoll the merits of the Ford car. It pays Ford to advertise else he wouldn't spend his money for advertising. It pays the other deal ers to advertise. Practically every body knows a Buick car, yet the liuick people are a dvertising and have an ad. in this week's issue. The same could be said of hundreds of other lines of goods and many other makes of cars. These are merely ex amples. If it pays these people to advertise, how much more is it going to pay the local merchant to advertise his goods and his store in the home cussing the confidence of the people m paper? the Coolidge administration says: . "What have they seen at Washing- A SEARCHING ANALYSIS iton to inspire them with confidence? What example have they had to re- ; The New York World has a most mind them of the virtues that make searching analysis and effective crit- a nation great or of the ideals that icism of the acceptance speech of inspire men to disinterested effort? President Coolidge. It takes up the "They have seen an essential part speech of the President and answers of the national defense betrayed by it item by item, and states at the a Cabinet officer for a bribe, end of the answer that evidently ac- j "They have seen his colleague in cording to the President's speech the 'the Cabinet so ignorant of his busi ness said about anything that mat- ness and negligent of his trust that ters the better". The comment fol- he aided the corruptionist. lows. ; "They have seen the wool pulled 1. "The only practical way to se- over the eyes of the President of the cure responsive political action was United States, his whole Cabinet, by the formation of parties." and of the man then Vice President, The Republican party deserves now himself the President, who sat full credit for its geniuses, Secretary in that Cabinet. Hughes ami Secretary Mellon, and "They have .seen the Attorney Gen no blame for its black sheep, Secre- eral of the United States the inti- tary Fall and Chief Forbes and At- mate of the President and yet the torney General Daugherty and Sec- associate of a sordid and lawless retary Denby and Senator Newberry, crew. 2. "A reduction in the annual "They have seen an Administra cost of government of $2,041,000,- tion, proclaiming itself peculiarly pa Ooo " triotic, that succeeded in demonstrat- The Republican Party finds it less ing the peculiarity of its patriotism expensive to administer the govern- by surrendemg the care of the dis ment in time of peace than the Dem- abled veterans to a vulgar thief, ocratic Party in time of war. Among . "The people of this country know the well-known savings of this Ad- that these were not the weaknesses ministration are the $225,000,000 of individual men; that Fall, Forbes w asted by Forbes and the $100,000,-, and Daugherty were not isolated ac- (KK) profit that Doheny promised himself from Elk Hills. 3. "By means of a protective tariff we have saved American agri culture. ' Under this wise policy we saw an economic revival. "Notwithstanding all this, agricul ;,,,;f tn on em of most nerious depression. fice. No member of the Administra- "Due to a change in the world sup- ! tion gave any help to the men who ply, prices of products have begun exposed the gang, but, on the con to improve." i trary, very power of evasion and Thus agriculture was revived by ! obstruction was employed to prevent the tariff. It was also not revived! the exposure and cover up the re by the tariff. 'suits. SATURDAY, r-.it- hai Tr a r.ntrr e.Uu.-.-..d ,r 1 t"t ' - re a:. fcherr lr '. .'.r much-r.e-lt: .: ar.i: l.'.e 5 -Ihe 107.(XK WO -o ir.:... nil ;. the .r a'. irat '..'ic.r i : . l . i t-c t lax- payers Who will cuM.!.-.e to pay tair or. the neccesane life under me i ordney-McCun.U-r tariff 6. "We beliee the people of the Nation should continue to on the property and transact the business of the Nation. "We believe that the safest place to declare and interpret the Consti- tution of the United States which the people have made is in the Supreme Court of the United States. "Let us always remember the poor, "We should, therefore, have a system of taxation under which the people as a whole are most likely to be prosperous. "The foreign policy of America can best be described by one word peace." And unflinchingly we take our stand on the eternal truth that the earth is round, that water runs down hill, and the less said about anything that matters the better. WHY SHOULD THERE BE CON FIDENCE? The Republicans have raised their hands in holy horror that John W. Davis should raise the issue that the people have lost confidence in the government. I hey say tnat tne People of the country have confidence in the administration of President Coolidge and that Davis is stepping outside of the bounds of reason and propriety wnen ne attacKS tne sacred personage of the President. Some of them have gone to the extent of call ing Davis a mud-slinger because in his speech of acceptance he preferred to call a spade a spade and name the rascals who while holding offices of public trust allowed the government oil reserves to be looted and took bribes for permitting the deed to be clone. The best reply to these critics of the Democratic candidate is made by the New York World, when, in dis- cidtnts. They were the very inner circle of the Administration. And while Fall, Forbes and Daugherty were still in power no member of the Administration, neither Mr. Cool idge, nor Mr. Hughes, nor Mr. Mel lon, lifted a finger to dislodge a gang . thev knew were unfit for public of- 4 ll.e UiSJ: ' 9BKBKBEKIHHKKKBHmKEKBKKMKBIBHttKHKmWtt&KKH& . ' t : "i ...'.-.". --'. ; .. -.' . Mi1-. ''. '' - : ' ' ' W -Iji1' V:'.-'V,';lf.i:! AT TH1EAR;RANDBEM "On the basis of t-t record John W. Davis rightfully points an at casing finger at Calvm Coolidge for naming uttered the libelous sugges tiun that, after all, these art but in cidents provoked by the demoraliia Uon attendant upon a great war' Viiih justice he spread the respon sibility "beyond the list of criminals themselves' and charges Calvin Coolidge himself with failure in a moral crisis to range himself openly and decisively on the side of public honesty." "THE PARTY OF MORAL IDEAS" Calvin Coolidge was Vice President and presided over the senate when charges were made against Fall, Den by, Forbes, and Daugherty. He sat in the President's cabinet while the matter of the oil leases was being discussed. He knew Fall, Denby, Forbes, and Daugherty personally, tie was in almost daily contact with them. Yet the Republicans would have the people believe that Calculat ing Cal was innocent of any knowl edge of the oil scandals, knew noth ing of the graft in the Veteran's Bu reau, and was ignorant of anything wrong in the department of justice. They would have one believe that all this was inherited from the Harding administration. They are unfair to the dead, but what matters when a Presidential campaign is on? If Cal vin Coolidge was ignorant of the oil scandals and the fraud in the Repub lican administration; if he knew noth ing of the $100,000 bribe that Fall got for his ignominous part, then he couldn't understand plain English. Not only did Silent Cal keep his mouth shut tight when under the Harding administration the resources of the nation were being dissipated by a bunch of crooked office-holders, but from that good day until this he has never opened his mouth in adverse ciriticism of any of the grafters ex cept in pious platitudes. He did not ask for the resignation of Daugherty until he was forced to do it by the senate and by popular insistence that it be done. Even after McLean, mil lionaire Washington newspaper pub lisher, admitted that he lied when tes tifying to the oil disclosures Coolidge wrote him asking advice over a fed eral appointment. He keeps as his private secretary a man who traffick ed in federal appointments in Virgin ia. All this is not hearsay. The records of the investigating com mittees have the facts in plain En glish. The whole gigantic steal would have been consumated had not Senator Thomas J. Walsh, democrat, smoked the rascals out. Even then neither Harding nor Coolidge express es anything tending toward even moral disgust over the actions of the Republican cabinet office-holders. Af ter Coolidge succeeded to the Presi dency he did nothing until his hand was forced. He was perfectly willing that Silent Cal should remain silent although the whole United States was disgusted with the whole business and the cry from one end of the land to the other was "Turn the rascals out." In this campaign we hear of the Republican party as the "party moral ideas". Never has any ministration in the history of country been more the tool of of the "powers that prey". The oil scandal was not a sporadic outburst of a disease. It was the outgrowth of a well planned campaign on the part of the "powers that prey", not only to fatten the purses of the oil barons with the navy's reserve oil supply, but also to enrich all predatory inter ests with money that rightfully be longs in the national trersury. Who can forget the Iniquitous tax bill framed by Secretary Mellon in which the income taxes of rich individuals' and the federal taxes of large cor porations should be cut to the bone while the millions of little fellows got little or no reduction; or the incon sistent arguments of this millionaire, Mellon, against the bonus, making statement after statement that the nation's business was running at a loss and then showing after hig hand was forced that there was a three hundred million dollar surplus In the SEPTEMBER 6 thy treasu ry ? Is it a wonder that the people of the country have lost confidence in their government? Is it a wonder that the independent voters are look ing elsewhere than to the Republican party for salvation? It is high time for house cleaning. FIRST YEAR OF NEW CHILD WELFARE LAW The North Carolina State Child Welfare Commission has announced the result of its first year's work. The commission has followed the plan out lined and recommended by the 1923 General Assembly. The first eight months were devoted to a careful inspection of all cotton, hosiery, furniture and tobacco plants in the State, as well as many depart ment stores and miscellaneous manu facturing plants. The report of this inspection is as follows: "The total number of children found j working in this State in the 2,089 plants visited was 4,691. This in cludes 387 cotton mills, 130 hosiery ! mills, 125 furniture plants and 1,209 miscellaneous plants. These figures ! represent in several cases, a number j of plants under the same manage ; ment. Practically all the larger in dustries in the State required several ' detailed inspection forms to cover the number of buildings controlled by the same management. . "There is a total of 3,160 children in cotton mills between 14 and 16 years of age. Five hundred and nine-eight children between 16 and 16 in hosiery mills, 446 in the miscellaneous plants and 360 children in the tobacco plants of the State." The last few months of the year 1923-24 were devoted to following up cases in child labor, sanitation and fatigue law of the State. Of the 667 children between 16 and 18 in age working without certificates, 350 were certificated for employment, 272 were removed from work and 45 were found to have been more than 16 years old. All sanitary violations in the plants and stores inspected were corrected as provided in the sanitary laws of the State. All machinery hazards were also corrected. In every industrial plant and store inspected, seats have been provided for women employes as pro vided for in the fatigue law of the Stat. An gust Bids Fair To Break Records With less than an inch of rainfall during August the month has brok en the records for dryness for 45 years, the United States weather bu reau announces. The previous rec ord for dryness in August waa 1.06 inches of rain in August 18&4. The highest record for rain waa 14.61 inches in August 1908. The new 1924 ejty directory of Greensboro gives the city a population of 48,500, an increase of 4,195 over the government census of 1923. THE OSTRICH i Democrats Raising Money With "Vic j tory Clubs The Democrats have found a demo cratic way to obtain money by or ' ganizing "Davis-Bryan Victory ! Clubs". North Carolina has more i than a hundred of these clubs on the active list and a number that are not active. This state ranks fourth in I the number of clubs. Raleigh leads in paid-up memberships. Asheboro has raised $120, Albemarle $210, Lex ington $225, Ramseur $80, Thomas ville $175, Wadesboro $120, Lumber ton $200, Monroe $105, and Mocks ville $70. -LIGHT leduetionf now in fore ihMhmuiht maco-ilatre Pj-c bck to h Lvl, WHy do without electricity when OELCO-UOHT low pries nd en unusually eary linno M pltn plmc it so easily within your reach. 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