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THE CHARLOTTE HERALD (Founded January, 1917.) Official Organ of The North Carolina State Federa tion of Labor, The Charlotte Central Labor Union and Affiliated Crafts And The North Carolina Farmers’ Union. Published Weekly By The Herald Publishing Company of Charlotte At 32 South College Street, Charlotte, N. C. Telephone 4126. Postoffice Box 163. JAMES F. BARRETT.Managing Editor TOM P. JIMISON_Contributing Editor DR. H. Q. ALEXANDER.—Farm Editor Six Months_$1.00 One Year--—$2.00 Always boosting for a better community, stronger men, protected womanhood and unlimited opportunities for childhood. We are endeavoring to promote a closer affilia tion and a more effective co-operation between producers and consumers for the common good of all. * » Communications on any and all subjects of gen eral interest solicited. No communication, how ever, containing a personal attack on any man or woman will be published. Words and acts of public men and women may be as severely criticised as the writer may desire, but the line is drawn on personal attacks. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice in Charlotte, N. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1923 THE END OF THE TRAIL. (By Clarence E. Flynn in The Christian Herald) I must travel the miles till the journey is done, Whatsoever the turn of the way. I shall bring up at la§t at the set of the sun, And shall rest at the close of the day. Let me deal as I journey with foeman and friends In a way that no man can assail, And find nothing but peace at the roadway’s last bend, When I come to the end of the trail. We are brothers who travel a great, common road And the journey is easy for none. We must succor the weary and lighten the load Of the pilgrim whose courage is done. Let me deal with them each on my way to the west _ : W«llh a mercy that never shall fail, And lie down to my dreams with a conscience at rest When I come to the end of the trail. -o HARDING IS GONE. The suddenness of, the circumstances surround ing the sad event, and the perilous times in which occurred the death of President Harding cast a gloom over the peoples of the whole world. Men and women suffered, when the news was flashed that the President, apparently regaining his strength, had been called to cross the river. Affairs of the nations abroad, the rapidly devel oping political situation at home, combined to make President Harding the most outstanding fig ure in all the world. The, world court plan, as recently outlined by the deceased President, was the vehicle upon which political parties and party leaders in America hoped to ride into office, and across both the oceans, in all the countries of the world, the world court plan was being con sidered-and discussed. r~ , In the very midst oT this trftnendous interest, the silent ami silencing hand of death reached dQwn into that San Francisco hotel room, and led the soul of the great man away to join McKinley, and Roosevelt, and Lincoln, and Washington, and other kindred souls whose memories still live in the hearts of all men. Sympathy in the nation’s loss was divided, however, for the picture of that patient woman, that loving wife, that partner, comrade, sweet heart of the great man, who has stood so faith fully by his sid^, is ever in the minds of the mourners. The Ration has claimed the departed hero for many, many years. His time was not his own. The very nature of his public duties took him away from the wife he loved so well, and his devotion to national duty robbed the good wife of many hours that should have been spent with her. But there was no jealousy there. She gloried in his achievements and spurred him on to still greater deeds. It was fitting that her voice was the last he heard before responding to that of the angels who had come for him. It is fitting that a grieved nation should divide its sympathy with the man who did things, and the woman who helped that man in his every task. Many citizens loved the departed president, yet held opinions on public matters opposite to those advocated by the great man. None, how ever found, fault with the man, Harding. He was a great man, clean, upright, honest and intensely sincere. His greatest fault, according to those who did not endorse all that President Harding did in Tiis public life, was in selecting personal and political friends as his advisors, allowing his true friendship to outweigh his judgment in weighing a man’s peculiar fitness for a par ticular work. But can that be called a fault? Isn’t three something admirable in any man who places a real valuation upon friendship? Does it not denote a greatness, a bigness, a character, that is appealing? But whatever the minor differences of opinion may have been, all Ainericans are in accord, that the United States has lost one of her biggest men. A nation bowed in grief is the most emphatic expression of love that can be given. The paudits of a nation for the President’s life are woven into a wreath of honor and placed upon his silent bosom in death. Angelic voices whisper in to the ears of saddened friends, and speak words of hope and encouragement as they say, “Thy friend still lives. His work goes on and on. The great ideals he expressed for his nation and for the world will some day cease to be ideals as they - become realities and actualities.” PRESIDENT COOLIDGE. If accident and destiny are synonymous words, then President Coolidge is a man of destiny. Never before has a man ascended to the high and mighty office of President of the United States whose pathway through life was marked with ns little achievement to warrant that prog ress as is the case in President Coolidge’s life. Ills most ardent admirers can find nothing out standing in his life except that most awful twisted and exaggerated tale about the Boston police strike. There are a hundred men in Charlotte, any one of whom could have done with ease all that President Coolidge did in that Boston situa tion. Many of this hundred would have, no doubt, done the thing even better than Mr. Cool idge perform his wonderful task. But it hap pened at a time when the whole nation was hys terical, as a result of the war, and too, while the open shoppers of the nation were waging a great fight against the labor organizations of America. Mr. Coolidge issued orders to the commander of the troops—and then went to bed. The news paper and magazine writers did the rest. Cool idge became a “great” man—and was nominated for vice president of the United States in a con vention that did not even represent the senti ment of the numbers of that political party. The men in that convention which nominated Coolidge for vice president had already named a man as candidate for president who could not have polled over 25 per cent of the republican vote in a pref erential primary. Then those same convention members, after their long and hard political fight in nominating a president, were reminded of the fact that a candidate for vice president must be named. * # / Tired, worn out, intoxicated with excitement and other things, the convention nominated Mr. Coolidge for the vice presidency, with nary a thought of the very thing that happened that now places him in the biggest offiicial position in the whole world. E A creature of circumstances, all the way through. Or is it destiny? Is it just a new and short road to the top of the ladder? Here tofore even our vice presidents had achieved some greatness, either as statesmen, warriors or educators, something that marked them as men of great ability. Not so in the present case. W|e are not trying to say that President Cool idge will be a failure. God knows we wish for him, as our president, the very best success that can reward his efforts. His success means the success of the nation, and regardless of how one may feel toward a president, personally, it would be a poor American indeed who would want the President of the Uhited States to have anything but the greatest success. President Coolidge may be a man of destiny. He may be the very man needed for the present important period in national development. There is something peculiar in the man’s rapid rise from obscurity to the leading and most commanding position in the world. That picture, here in the good year, 1923, of a man being sworn into office as president of the United States by his old daddy, in that daddy’s kerosene lamp-lit moun tain home, is an attractive picture. It is alluring. It is romantic to the nth degree. It causes one to really wonder whether it is accident, or destiny, or the great handiwork of an Almighty God who has never forgotten His children. Whatever it is, this thing that has worked so Strangely in American life, upsetting political machines, not taking into account any political bosses, giving to America a president never groomed by anybody, has brought a new some thing that bids fair to try out and fully test America’s political ingenuity and scheming. Regardless of all else, Mr. Coolidge is now President Coolidge, America’s chief executive, and every true American will stand by him in every laudable undertaking. fs IT RELIGION OR REPUBLICANISM THAT PROMPTS THIS LETTER? The following letter is our reward for telling about a fool carpenter in Charlotte who is losing 20 cente an hour, ten hours a day, because he hates the union. Read this letter, and digest it, and pay particular attention to that portion of the letter saying that the acceptance of Jesus Christ is the one and only way to real peace. We most heartily and genuinely agree with the writer on that point. But just put this in* your hat: The writer of this letter to The Herald enclosed some clippings from The National Republican for our perusal. Hie says we must accept Christ, and he does not enclose any Scripture to bear out his religious views, but he does enclose some rantings from The National Republican. So when you read his letter, keep these facts in mind, and ask yourself whether our friend is actuated by politics or religion. The letter fol lows: 5 Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 1. Editor, The Herald: I read the article you had in your paper last week, criticzing tha carpenter for not liking the union. - I want you to understand that there are plenty of good honest carpenters who are Christian gentlemen, and who do not belong', to the carpenter’s union or any other union. If you were the kind of man you should be, you would not use such language. You talk about the labor unions making peace and prosperity. There was never a greater false hood told. Where there is a labor union there is hatred, envy and strife. Instead of cursing men for not joining the union you had better be on your knees praying for them. There is one and only one remedy for world peace and happiness. That is to accept Jesus Christ and serve him with all our hearts—then we will have peace. A WIORKING MAN. Charlotte, N, C, In the columns headed from “The Pens of Others,” The Herald is reprinting one of the ar ticles sent us by the writer of the above letter, which he clipped from The National Republican. This good man is wront in his whole concep tion of life, especially that dealing with the labor movement. The Herald has asked him before to come around and let us get acquainted with him. W,e want to tell him that the non-partisan policy of the American Federation of Labor does not mean that labor is opposed to the republican party, as a p'arty. Labor is opposed to, some of the candidates the republican party places on tickets, national and state, just as labor is opposed1 to some candidates nominated by the democratic party. It is not the party, nor the man, that labor fights or supports. It is the things that party or that particular candidate stands for. Labor will fight any candidate, on any politi cal party ticket, who is more interested in big business and special interests than he is in God Almighty’s men, women and children. We believe that isSgpeal religion. As to the statement that wherever there is a labor union, there is strife and trouble, we pass that up as the expressions born either of ignor ance or maliciousness. The fact that there are more than five million union men and women working in Amreican in dustries today, and that a greater peace prevails in America’s industrial life than in that of any other country on the globe, gives the emphatic lie to our letter-writer’s assertion. If a carpenter wants to Work for fifty cents an hour, when he could be getting seventy cents an hour, and will do this for the sole .reason that he hates the labor union, that is his business. He has that right. W<e also have the right to think him a fool for his actions. In fact we can prove by almost any body that he is a fool—a pitiful fool. He may be a Christian gentleman, honest, sincere, and all that. But he is a fool, just the same. More than that, he is untrue to his wife and children. That additional 20 cents an hour would mean bread and meat,, clothing, education, less work for the good wife and bigger opportunities for the children in that home. Whatever else such carpenter may be, he is a fool-—pure and simple, and we’ve been praying for just such foolish men a long time. We are pray ing for the coming of the time wheh all working men, women and children shall receive a suffi cient portion of the wealth they produce that their lives may be full, their children* educated, their homes safe, their lives secure—regardless of what political party is power. If all workers were as contrary on their jobs as some of the craftsmen are when attending meetings at the Central Labor Union hall, the industrial world would be in one awful terrible mess. __ - ■ ■ • ’ i SAFETY WORK BENEFITS TOILERS. Wisconsin is decreasing industrial accidents and workers of the state are benefitting. Results attained in Wisconsin indicate that it is possible to largely decrease the number of acci dents that kill and injure workers and that pre sumably this can. be done without seriously cut ting down production. That safety and increased production do not always get along well together is the conclusion arrived at by the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters as a result of an analysis of industrial accidents just completed by the bu reau. The bureau found that in the case of some machines it is not difficult to design guards for the “point of operation” which will prevent acci dents without reducing production but that on the other hand, it is difficult to meet both these conditions in the case of other machines. Wisconsin, however, has been reducing acci dents as the result of organized work to promote safety. That the safety work has not reduced production to any extent is indicated by the fact that no loud howl" has been raised by Wisconsin manufacturers. If there had been any great cut in output following installation of safety devices, they would have raised a cry of protest that would have made the welkin ring. Death benefits in Wisconsin have been raised from $5,200 to $5,600. Children under one year are to receive $1,000 death compensation and the permanent disability term has been increased from 780 to 900 weeks. The rate of payment for temporary disability has been raised from $16.90 to $18.20 a week. Burial expense allowances have been increased from $100 to $200. * All these increases in benefits, with others that lack of space prevents mention of, have been made without increasing the average burden on employes. The results show in a striking nianner what safety work can accomplish. Decrease in the number of accidents permits larger benefits for those victims of accidents which even the best efforts of safety engineers have been unable to prevent enitrely. Workmen should study and remember what Wisconsin has done for safety. The state’s work is a conclusive reply to greedy employers who say that safeguarding machinery does little to prevent accidents. WiHY MEN HUNT “OTHER” AMUSEMENTS. Just a few days ago a man living in a North Carolina town was exposed as living a double life. It was a shock to all who knew him. Little publicity was given the matter because of the prominence of the principals in the tragedy. In talking to The Herald about the trouble, this man told a pathetic story. He had a good wife and beautiful children. He loved them. Hie worked hard for them. In fact, he all but slaved that the family might have a nice home and some of the pleasures of life. He worked long hours, making extra money for those children and the wife and mother. “Then one day I discovered that none of my efforts were appreciated,” this man said. “The girls were getting up some size, and they had lost all interest in me and in the home I had pro vided for them. They kept their mother all out of sorts. When I did get a chance to have a few hours at home, there was no pleasure. The children wanted to go some place, or there was always a bunch of other folks in our house, or some of our children were gone. W<e could not have even a meal alone and in peace. The worry of the thing had my wife so she was all nervous and wrought up, and there was but little pleas ure or comfoi’t in her society. The children grad ually grew into the habit of criticising their lim ited pleasures and opportunities. They plainly showed they cared nothing about the hard work I was doing for them. “At first I started going to picture shows and to other places, evenings, just to be to myself and away from the quarreling children and the racket they kept up, with the house always filled with other children what time the kids were at home. From that the tragedy occurred. I was lonely in my own home. I was hurt because my efforts and hard work brought no praise, or even comment, from those for whom I was working. I accidentally met a woman whose charm ap pealed to me. I did not, nor do I now, love her. With her I had peace and quiet and rest. These were denied me in my own home, so I grew to spend more and more time at this other place, ^(e were discovered. Now I am disgraced* so is my family. I don’t know just whose fault it is. Perhaps it is mine. Yet I know if there nad been any rest at home, and if my family had appre ciated the work I did for them, I would never have been in this predicament.” Whose fault is it? There are many answers to that question. W,onder how many men are battling today with the same problem? Do you know men who are lonely in their own homes, where their own chil dren are happier when “going some place,” or always have some one at the house when the man gets home? There is a sympathy for the poor devil who is in this mess. -o KEEPING IN THE PUBLIC EYE. Union men and women must support the labor press because the public press does not give suf ficient space to matters affecting organized labor. That was the sound advice given the other day by'the New York State Council of the Allied Printing Trades, in convention at Buffalo. The labor press is the only press the worker can depend upon to support his cause through thick and thin, through times of peace as well as times of stress. Unless the worker supports his press when times are favorable for its development, it will not have the opportunity to grow and strengthen itself for the time when it perhaps will be the only medium through which the worker can present his side of the controversy. There are many ways in which the worker can support the labor press. Of course his first duty is to subscribe to his labor paper and see that his fellow workers do likewise. Then he must talk labor press whenever he sees the opportunity. He must point out what a strong labor paper can do for the cause of trade unionism. He must direct attention to the fact that the labor paper serves the community by ekposing corruption and in justice. He must show that the labor paper not only ends the activities • of rascals who rob and exploit the people but that it makes those dis posed to try the same game, think twice before embarking on a career which is pretty sure to be ended by the white light of publicity. Friends of the labor press must also be alert to aid the editor in making his paper of the greatest interest and value to union men and their families. They can often suggest articles and features which will prove of interest. Of course the editor usually knows about the calling of strikes, signing of new agreements and other important labor news in his community but he may not, always know of less important events wdiich are of much interest to his readers. Among these are dances and other social affairs given by the unions or by organizations made up largely of union members. A timely “tip” on these affairs with all the details, including names of committee members, will be appreciated by the editor. He will also appreciate information on affairs and events of all kinds effecting union members. Thus by supporting the labor press, organized labor gains greatly increased publicity for its cause, with h consequently widened sympathy for and appreciation of, the aims of trade unionism. HOTEL CHARLOTTE IS NAME CHOSEN “Hotel Charlotte” is the name se lectecrtor this city’s big new hotel winch is nearing completion. Some how the report was circulated that the name “Hotel Woodrow Wilson” Jiad been selected, but the manage ment says this is erroneous, and that “Hotel Charlotte” is the name that the South’s best hotel will be known by. INDIA. Strikes.—Mjore than 10,000/ Bur man and Indian laborers are invol ved in strikes in the Burma oil fields and Ahmehabad mines. The strikers are demanding increased wages and the recognition of wage equality be tween American and Burman skilled 'workmen. used Fords and chevrolets All models; all prices; easy terms. Open evenings until 9 o’clock. HIPP CHEVROLET CO. N- Tryon St., Corner Eighth., IMPERIAL ENTIRE WEEK , starting MONDAY “Enemies of Women” Vicente Blasco Ibanez Author of “The Four Horsemen” and “Blood and Sand.” FEATURING Lionel Barrymore and Alma Rubens A Picture that You Wjon’t Forget. JOHNNY“BOZO” MATTISE “THE INVENTOR” Matinee Daily 3:30 Night 7:30—9 NEW STOCK GARDEN SEED All Varieties In Bulk ONION SETS Stock and Poultry Remedies CHARLOTTE DRUG CO. I. N. Edwards, prop. Corner E. Trade and S. College PHONE 2663 Cochran & Ross Co. Moving — Packing — Storing Long Distance Haulinu PHONE 52 Corner Sixth and Graham Streets AND HIS Gayety — Opening Bill — The Buyers' Guide Arranged herein in alphabetical order will be found a guide for those who want information concisely and quickly as to the whereabouts of the most con venient and dependable places in which to shop. Those merchants whose advertisements are listed below are reliable Charlotte business men whose wares will pass the test of the most rigid scrutiny and who may be depended upon to represent their products as they are. Just run down the alphabet until you,.^pd the name of the article you desire to purchase and you will find instantly where it may be procured. Say You Saw It In The Charlotte Herald AUSTIN’S MARKET - - - carries the best of all kinds of meats, fish and other household necessities. Their prices are reasonable and their service complete. 305 W. Trade St. BEAN’S SHOE SHOP 511 West Trade Phone 5447 Qualty Shoe Repairing Prices Most Reasonable c HERO COLA Grape Melo There’s None So Good. D E AMERICAN RY CLEANING CO. Cleaners and Dyers 1406 South Tryon Street Work Called For and Delivered Reasonable Prices VERYBODY likes to eat a good meal or* a nice lunch, well cooked and served in a clean manner. This is the record of hte Southern. Hotel & Cate 509 West Trade F' G ARMERS HARDWARE COMPANY has a large and complete line of tools for carpenters. Also anything that is needed on the farm, field or house hold. 48 N. Collge St. ET A POLICY— on your child from birth, re gardless of its being issued in other companies, by the LaFAYETTE LIFE INS. CO. 301 y2 W'. Trade St. Hair dressing MAXINELLO SHOP “A Beauty Aid For Every Need” Mrs. M. McGee E xpert Operators in Attendance 12*/2 North Tryon Street Permanent Hair Waving ; NSURE YOURSELF ANI) CHILDREN in the LaFAYETTE LIFE INS. CO. Office 301 y2 w. OB PRINTING -Of All Kinds Neatly and promptly exe cuted by competent work men. CHARLOTTE HERALD Phone 4126 ENNEY’S TEAS AND COFFEES are enjoyed by thousands of people in and around Char lotte. Try them and you will agree with us. KENNEY’S—23 S. Tryon St OYAL O. O. MOOSE Takes care of you and your wife while you live. Your children educated and taught trade. Ask any Moose or see W. R. Wiseman, representa tive, 224 N. College Street. Phone 3785. Most people know that the best work and1 service is given by WRIGHT’S PRESSING CLUB Phones 4043-4908 320 South Collie Street ! Tra(de St. 'h DRINK U GRAPE A Flavor You Can’t Forget In' Nil Grape Bottle* UR TERES Guaranteed 5,000, 8,000 and 10,000 miles. Cjur prices are right. 30X3%, $7.25, $9.50, $11.75 All Sizes—Special Prices. Giant Tires Sales Co. 203 South Church St. urity Market Western • and Native Green Meats and All Kinds of Smoked Meat* 202 South Church Street Phone 3020 UEEN CITY Chinese Hand Laundry We Do All First Class Work at the Right Price Prompt Service 14 South Poplar Street R ADIATORS EPAIRED AND REBUILT By Expert Workmen Save your old ones, we buy, sell and exchange all kinds. CHARLOTTE RADIATOR COMPANY 210 East Fifth St. PHONE 516 216 E. Fifth St. Charlotte, N. C. T IRES FALLS TIRES EVERGREEN TUBES ‘‘George Says They’re Good” GEO. A. NEWMAN 2.7. N, College St, phone 42,5.7, U KNOW THE LaFAYETTE LIFE INSURANCE CO. is <a Home Company See Supt. Merrell at 301 1-2 Wtest Trade St. (upstairs.) V ULCANIZING Our Specialty Phone 287 (By Men Who Know) Any Size Tire Can Be Repaired from 3 to 9 Inches Free Quick Truck Service 512 South Tryon Street MOTOR ACCESSORIES CO. We Recharge Your Bat tery in 24 Hours No Charge for Rental . s i: u. Battery C SERVICE L Willard J station Phone 5444 610 South Tryon St. TRA GOOD READING Jobs, Printing of all kinds for quick service. None too large or small. Phone 4126 or call; 32 S. College Street. The Charlotte Herald OU GET First Class Food At Right Prices AUSTIN’S RESTAURANT North Charlotte See the Fat Man As Proof I NOEL’S HYGIENIC BAKERY 506 South Tryon Street Phone 325U Bread, Pies, Cakes and Fancy Pastry Use Them and Be Strong The Mecklenburg Dairy Company, Inc. HIGH GRADE DAIRY PRODUCTS Corner Ea*t Fourth and Caldwell Streets J. A. YARBROUGH ROBT. E. M’DOWELL N. J. ORR President Vice-President S«oretary-Treasurer Distributors Of PASTEURIZED, SAFE, SANITARY, QUALITY “MECKO” Sweet Milk* Butter, Sweet Cream and Buttermilk “MECKO” ICE CREAM in REGULAR and SPECIAL MOULDS of FANCY DESIGNS. QUALITY FOOD. PHONES 3636-4855 j CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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