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THE CHARLOTTE HERALD (Founded January, 1917«) Official Organ of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor 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 EDITOR—--..James F. Barrett CONTRIBUTING EDITOR_Tom P. Jimison FARM EDITOR_____Dr. H. Q. Alexander Six Months_$1.00 One Year. .$2.00 Always boosting for a better community, stronger men, protected womanhood and unlim ited opportunites for childhood. We are endeavoring to prom6te a closer affilia tion and a more effective co-operation between producers and consumers for the common good «f all. . Communications on any and all subjects of Seneral interest solicited. No communications, owever, containing a personal attack on any man or woman will be published. . Words and acts •{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 tn Charlotte, N. C., under Act of Congress, March ft. 1879. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924 EDWARD L. KEESLER. It is good, even in death, that a man may be spoken of in the most sincere mapner. Ordi narily, we say that a deceased citizen, has lived a useful life and will be missed in the community, and folks read it as a mere tribute to the dead. Somehow, we would like to get away from this ordinary manner of writing in speaking of the sudden death of Edward L. Keesler. Of course everybody who ever looked upon the fine, open countenance of the genial man, who met death last Saturday night, will regret his passing. Others will say, in the natural course of remarks, that a good man* is gone. To all of this we agree most heartily. There is another point we would like to speak about in connection with the going of this man. 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Come sea our attractive* lin^h'-.r: ia*i ^fh vi ’ tlif *30100 imm li'givifitt *a .yfaJta iuod-l3^i» ;?♦»* i.c Weddin FOR THE JU NE BRIDE. Our stock of Giit Suggestions at this time is very plentiful and diversified. A visit to our etore will convince.you. rfa/- j \«i. aotht&f J k two Y . oil* Parker-Gardner Co. 7 S.V A! - ffeSisfetW.©' S-. . - J ■ ■’ —... ; V : , ------ audience who would listen to these words—as the members of that audience, sit in the places each call home—who will be deeply, very deeply, interested in these lines. * * Home is perhaps the swieetest word in the. English language, next to that of God and mother. Home from where the couples—the lads and lassies, leave their parental roofs, to i join hands and fortunes on life’s great voyage. Among the first and certainly the most cher ished hope of such a couple, was a home of their owp. That is where Edward L. Keesler entered into their lives. He had a message for them every day in the daily newspapers telling them how to obtain that home they wanted so much. No douibt, relatives and friends will erect a. magnificent tombstone at the hpad of $he gaapl where Edward1 L. Keeper’s bo^es lie meuldj^i^l in the dust, yet the beautiful and effective mon ument erected to his memory Will be around the hundreds of firesides, where home is home indeed," the fathers, mothers and little children—-homes they were enabled to possess through the life work and constant messages of Edward L. Kees ler. His advice was to invest in the budding and loan association and thereby own a home. As one who listened to that advice and with four beautiful little girls gathered about him, where the comrade and this writer sit, in a home bought according to the .plans of Edward L. Keesler we join in a humble prayer to God to have Edward L. Keesler’s Home Up Yonder, furnished with and surrounded by every beau tiful thing that he so constantly urged upon those here on earth. MR. PERSON’S STAND. R. M. Person takes a bold stand in defying the bootleggers and their followers, patrlons, sup porters and kinfolks, in his race for sheriff of Mecklenburg county. In an advertisement in this issue of The Herald, Mr. Person, who has been a member of the legislature, now asking for election as sheriff, states frankly that he defies the bootleggers and all their lath and kin, in his contest. This action may not be good policy, but' it is certainly an act calling for the admiration of the citizenship. Rufe, as he is known, may consider bootleg ging the greatest crime being committed in Mecklenburg county, Some there are who would raise a point of difference and say that working women sixty hovys a week is worse than boot legging. We’re not going to argue the question in this short epistle, more than to say that Mr. Person has struck a popular chord in fighting bootleggers and no doubt will receive the solid support of those who work women sixty hours a week. s "*W FROM PENS OF O JfclERS SHIPMAN STANDS ON HIS RECORD. ' -- , \ (Winston-Salem Journal.) In view of the service the Depaftfiaent of Labor and Printing has rendered the people of North Carolina under the direction of Commissioner M. L. Shipman, he is perfectly justified in announc ing his candidacy lor renomination and election, and in basing his’ c ai'didacy entirely on his record as a public“sCrvan j j,*,* jrt ^ jj & It is true, as It. SHip*na*»«aays»*hi 'ih»-?ian-iJ jabuncement, thal jlaudiffjit?* Fpfbyed to check t id rec&Mj “rfients and introdi c| impro^e^m^thpdsj'', ^ui*if is true that these ^dpiting experts, when they had finished their task, announced that they had fail ed to find any errors in^the Department of Labor and Printing, and' could suggest no improvement in the system in vogue in that department. More over, these same Experts stated that the Depart ment of Labor and Printing was eafeily one of the most efficient iand most economically admin istered of all the jState departments. • In view of this^ record, Mr. Shipman can well afford to assure the Democratic voters of North Carolina. that he |s not making any; personal or political claims whatsoever in support of his can didacy for renomination in the June primary, and that his candidacy, is-“based absolutely on my record as a public j servant.” >•' And unless thc^Te is a political revolution in this State, a complete upheavals the ballot box in June, he may Jtfell “await the decision of the Democratic voters of .the State bn June 7 with hope and confidei^ce." Somehow the word ■ loyalty has an appeal to the true man, that has ho substitute*In the Epg lish language. We’vO had '*pdany loyal friends and have loved eWery one of them, yet we be lieve if a convention of our friends could be held,- they would all join us in the unanimous decision that W. ;|W. Alexander, {hie old gray bearded patriarch^ of Rock Hill, S. C., is the most loyal friend The Herald has ever had. Brother Alexander was at the- Central Labor Union Tuesday night, ready as he said, to fight for Jim Barrett, tight or wrong. He says Jim has been right s<j ,many times, that even if he should be. wrong dnce is no reason why a friend should desert him. Aj^d that is what we call real friendship, i Charles Gibson, a Prominent Farmer, Defends McLean’s Record as Member of War Finance Board % »lm’W!4iwwdHo *iiteiiiy '»Wbbi* knowing that if they ' were better informed they would not harbor or indulge for one moment, in such cheap attacks on any one much less a man that has done as much as Mr. McLean has for the farmers of North Carolina,, in the trying time of deflation by the Federal Reserve Banking Board. I have been more than surprised to hear good farm ers carried off their feet by cheap political clap trap talk accujsing Mr. McLean of voting for deflation and favoring with W. G. P. Harding and Mr. Houston and the members of the Federal Reserve Banking Board. The truth is that Mr. McLean was nevena member of the Federal Re serve Banking Board, or any other Southern man other than W. P. G. Harding, and a Mr. Houston that somebody said was born in North Carolina near a place called Goose Creek, and as all of we farmers can testify from our sad experience of 1920 and other years since what a devil of a goose he was. As for Mr. Harding we would have been better off if he had ^been . picked from Trotsky’s cabinet. Those are the men with their cohorts that put the farmer and five‘million of other men on the bum in this nation, and not Hon. A. W. McLean. I remem ber of 'reading in Capper’s Weekly, a paper published in Topeka, Kan., by Senator Capper, and he is a re publican at that, and among other thipgs, he said that whatever had been saved to the farmers it was owed to Hon. A. W. McLean, of North Carolina, and Eugene Myers, of the War Finance Board, but you must remember that his board could not function without the assistance of the Secretary of the United States Treasury, cashing checks and drafts from, the War Finance Board which they refused to do. If Mr. McLean could not get the drafts cashed to replace the money that he loaned Mr. Wanamaker to pay our farmers when he presented them to the Federal Reserve Banking Board, and they .refused to honor them on account. of, tu rj$ing* the, secj&tgpjy,, of the treasury. How could he5 or his board function? Someone said yes, Mr. McLekn voted to stop war financing, and that there was three , hundred and eifehty millions of dol lars in the hands of his board at the time, and he cduld have loaned that out to help finance the Cotton, but refused, Now jthat Mr. McLean act ing wiser, and showed more strength of character, aM economic foresight than any mah' I know x>f in all of Our agricultural and financial his tory, and mak&s him the largest in the south or west, for his financial foresight. Now let’s see what would happen „ if he had favored loaning the millions out. There is no doubt but that the big foreign money, in terests along with Mr. W. P. G. Harding, and Mr. Houston, believed and hoped that he wxrnld. If all this money had been loaned out of the board’s hands and none coming in, of course, the war finance would have ceased to exist, or as we might aay, it would have gone into the hands of a receiver, namely, the treasury of the United States just as had been hoped for by the power ] that put deflation on and it would I never have been reestablished any j The Call of the Open Road! ,1 How many times have you heard the call—the summons to the distant mountains, to the far away Seashore or to the cool TCachaa of the green, woods? ownership T of a * cat will your visitiq^j^ttg ’ftepgj it your convenience. not let us !'sno m < a Overland Blue Bird s or a Willyft-Knight Car today, or if you have been con* sidering a used car we have sev eral very excellent buys in stock. Dail-Overiaod Co. 438 W. Trade Phone 2596 •raw* r '■% «• more, i }What did Mr. McLean do? He went to Washington .time after time ltd! gat moji^y to,, finance our farmers; and' all we farmers know how hard it was to ;get money after w4 had f sold and had our little bond in' some instances, confiscated at 85 cents dn the dollar. Those dear little fellows, that we eat cornbread and black molasses to enable us to buy at one hundred cents on the dollar. Noto after ail was gone and we had nothing vmore to give and every farmer in North Carolina knows that this is true, we could not get a dollar out of a bank, they just did not have' it. If we would give our names and about the amount the government would place with them to loan us. Now what money was this but that three hundred or more millions that was in the war Finance Board hand this very money that was saved for we farmers till the hour of the' greatest need that business or agriculture ever saw. Everywhere then were leaving the’ farms, merchants and bankers com mitting suicide, robbery and murders in all walks of -life and traitors of society,, and every man becoming suspicious of his neighbor or friend, little children naked and mothers barefooted and emanciatqd for the want of proper food. Men by the thousands ready to strike or. destroy the .lives or property of others. Never in the history of any country were the people in such desperate state of mind. I have lain down at night, shuddered and trembled with fear, that the people in their desperation would start something. I know if they did that the conditions in Rus sia and Mexico were only zephyrs compared to what we might expect here. Now Mr. McLean was labor ing day and night at Washington to get money to the bank so that they, could make loans to the farmers. He got nine millions of dollars out of this, very fund, ah$ you fellow farmers got your money. You paid your merchant and other bills and cheered up. Where was‘Mr. J. W. Bailey during all this period of mis ery and distress? £>id, or have we heard of him having; anything to say for the good of the farmers or the factory hand or carpenters or bricklayers pr,any other one that labored? Suffered just as much as if^at farthers. But Course, this all happened before Mr. Bailey discov t (Political Advertisement'.) Defiance to Bootleggers and Other Professionalviola tors of the Law. TO THE PUBLIC: * ’ ^ # _ • ' */■ / . . . / . j Two reasons impel me to make a public statement regarding my candidacy for sheriff of Mecklenburg County. These are: FIRST?—The questions from a large number of voters as to where I stand pn law enforcement 'and what I propose to do about it if I am elected, and, SECOND:—-Reports that have come to me from many sources that the bootleggers and other organized violators of the. law are actively combining and centering their efforts against me. The answer to the questions as to where I stand on law enforce ment is: I stand four-squUre against violations of any. and all laws and I recognize the crying need for vigorouis and aggressive action against bootlegging, road-side immorality'and otherforms of law lessness which are undermining not only the character of a large number of our people but are breaking down that regard for law and order which is the very foundation of our American civilization. If elected I propose to personally lead and direct such officers as shall he charged with the maintenance of law and order in the county. And I assure you that no officer shall be accepted for this important work whose character is hot above reproach and whose capacity and courage can not be questioned. I shall hold every man under, me to the strictest account for his conduct and the performance of his duty. I woujld not offer myself for the high office of sheriff were I not ready to pledge myself to the most rigid enforcement of the law and to the faithful performancje of the usual routine,; duties of the office, l am Aiming upon niy record as a citizen and a^ a member of the last •^thrpP IKE^ions^f the, Legislature from this couhfcny., My life is an open book and no one wjho knows me even casually can be in doubt ^ tfe to^whdre' r’ stand QX **$> ’nibfal or legai iss&. ;V A The above paragraphs may be noted by the,bootleggers and other professional violators of the law. , I defy them and invite them to do thqir worst. R.M. PERSON M«y 24, 1924. Charlotte, N. C., R.' F. D. 8 m* a si%le ham thw» the old farmers erect that he was„ paying more for was paying jm the whole hqg. . It is well for Mr/ HHley that the whole hog was new Bfin if *i$ was* The farmers would ^jet enough money out of a hog to pay -their taxes ahd then have some money left* Mr. Bailey knows it is amount of taxes that the farmers are paying but the ■ • • ' __*- Ai* /vAttirw* otiahof^ fact is they are'imt .getting enough for ham. If the/ Were, his appeal and statements about high taxes would fall ond«.af ears. I don’t .be lieve that therfe fe^anything that cap, be done to help our farmers dr laborers that Hon. A. W. McLean will not* do. I know that he knows the needs of the agricultural class better than Mr.^Bailey, oj ^almost any other mtm North Carolina.. I have never mef Mr. McLean at any timfi or placef but I have kept close oil every move he has made since he first went to Washington, and I know that be* has been unjustly abused. He has been the friend of farmers everywhere. Of all the sad things that farmers are guilty of, it has been their ingratitude to those that fought their battle for them. They never stand up for the man that works through rough and tough for them, never eating or remembering that a friend or servant in time of need will be a double trusted friend at all. times. We. are always grumbling because we get so little from o.ur lawmakers. We are such in grates that' I often Wonder that we get anything. I will cite one case of farmers in gratitude. There are hundreds and perhaps thousands local an<| national. William Allen spent the better part of his life in congress back in -1825 up to 1844 or there about getting the homestead law through congress. -This law made it possible for farm ers to homestead their homes from the government. All over the state of. Ohio and all the rest Of the na tions in that day there was big land 4 company’s that got possession of the land just as we have at this day and time. Big interests then got hold of all the money. Land Bill AUen (that was what he was re called) got his bill through but he came out of congress broke in for tune and, health. All the years had be6n spent for and in the interest of farmers,; and where dp you sup pose he died%'f^iin a poor house in Ohio in sight^«^omes and farmers that his lab^r^^l;' provided for. A few farmers ‘^t^STorth Carolina, it appears as if-’would turn Mc Lean out in the swamps of North Carolina to die in sight of thousands that his heroic.- ^rork saved. Those and many others are the reasons that I a® ^or-Mirl McLean.. . „ • 1 My highest dmbition is to save those that save me. , , A farmer, * (jHAS. GIBSON. R.F.D. 5, Box 3^ Charlotte,', NVjC. ^ ,,s £ ' (Political Advertising.) r.ii-■■
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