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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C FRIDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 3, 1921. The Charlotte News Published By THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. w. c. DOWT3-. . n0 Gen.5!r: JASPER C. IIUTTO. . ... . fit? W, M. BELL. Advertising Mgr. Telephone. ; Pusfness Office Circulation Department . City TMltor fil . Editor'ai Rooms Y" Printing House 1030 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assorlated Press is exclusive! entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or nl otherwise credited In this paper and also the 'oral news published herein. An rljrhts of republication of special dispatches herein also are veserved. SUBSCRIPTION RAXES By Carrier. One year S rS Six months J22 Three months 3.60 One montn On week By Mail. -aa On year Six months 4-W Three months 2.00 One month Sunday Only. . (By Mail or Carrier.) One year 2.60 Six months 1.30 TIMES-DEMOCRAT (Semi-Weekly.) One rear . 1.50 Six mbnths ; Tl .t . FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1921. SAME OLD WORLD Europe seems to be pretty much to day what Europe was in 1914, a great continent of armed camps with one country trying to outdo the other in the number of young men habilitated for military service. The war that was tc put an end to all wars and to ush er in the reign of perpetual peace has turned out to have been some ther sort of a war. Due largely to the terms of the peace conference at which trained diplomats of Europe snapped and snarled and growled at one another because of the theory that the victors ought to get the spoils, the world is still a bt tie-ground and the people i.re still being whipped in military' organi zations. In recent discussion of the army Dill in the French Senate, it was sfated that the number of men undsr the colors was 830,000 divided as fohows: frenchmen, 572,000; natives of North Africa. 152,000; foreigners and natives of other colonies, 106,000. To show what conscription in peace time means for France: On April 5. last 100,000 young men passed through the Paris railway stations to report to the colors at garrisons in east France, Alsace and Lorraine. Thirty thousand of these were from Paris alone. The number of troops Germany has is a matter of keen dispute. Under the Versailles treaty she is not to have more than 100,000 men and officers in her army. But there still are various ether organizations which the Germans say are merely police and security for ces to preserve the republic from bolshe vism and monarchists, fbut which the French say are mere camouflage for armies-in-beginning. The British army for the current year is 341,000 as against 525,000 last year. Omitting about 55,000 temporarily on the lists, the real strength of the army this year will be about 285,000. Of these 201,127 are British and 84,200 are col onial and native Indian troops. Hungary is limited to a small army by the peace treaty. . But her strength is estimated from 100,000 to 250,000 tens, with French benevolently locking on.' . . Bulgaria, by the treaty of Neuilly, is to have only' 20,000 troops. She has, in reality, 33,000. Greece engaged in active warfare with the Kemalist Turks, has 250,000 under arms. Poland has aboijt 600,000 under arms and Bolshevik Euiisia.is thought to have the same 'in her soviet armies. The other figures, are official as they can be secured, are: Austria, 30,000; Belgium, 105,000; Czechoslovakia, 147, 300; Denmark, 15,400; Finland, 85000; Italy, 30,000; Holland, 21,400; Norway. 15,400; Portugal, 30,000; Rumania, 160, 000; Spain 190,715 Sweden, 56,200; Swit zerland, 16,000; Jugoslavia 200,000; Esthnia, 30,000; Turkey 50,000. PROBLEM OF THE UNEMPLOYED The problem of unemployment is not only hot being solved, but it is becoming more intricate, as unemployment Itself becomes more widely increased. There art nearly four million idle workmen in the country, according to the best estimates available, and, contrary to the general impression, it increased instead of decreased during the past month. There are nearly a half million idle men in New York State alone. There have been gains in some industrial lines, such as in the automobile industry, in the leather and textile industries generally, but the. pickup in these branches has been offset by disaffection in other lines, such as steel,' lumber and ship building. Unemployment is serious-largely be cause of what it suggests. It is not an industrial disease itself, but the symptoms of one. It intimates certain grave disorders- in the economic body, just as the boil op the body intimates impure blood. In its recent issue of The Guaranty Survey, a monthly . pub lication of the Guaranty Trust Com pany of New York appears an analysis of the unemployment illness in which it is stated, that "no element of the. derangement in industry better illus trates the cumulative effects of local maladjustment than involuntary idle ness. The cessation of earnings is promptly felt in the curtailed buying power of the groups directly affected and the reduced consumption which this entails means lessened demand for the products of the labor of other groups of workers, sqme of whom in turn are added to the list of the unemploy ed. The economic loss to the country, of course, is incalculable. Strikes and lockouts, it has been unofficially esti mated, are costing workers nearly $1, 000,000 daily in wages lost, and costing employers approximately $5,000,000 a day, largely as a consequence of the refusal of some workers tp accept reas onable revisions of wage scales. "Not every proposel cut in wages is reasonable, of course, but when a group of workers insists upon the main tenance of extreme war-time wages, al though the cost of living and prices in general have been largely reduced,their contention is not well founded. "Such resistance to the free opera tion of economic forces which are gov erning and compelling the present re adjustments in industry is only na tural, but it is also futile. And the sooner labor recognizes and accepts that inescapable fact, the sooner will labor profit by accelerating industrial stabilization and a revival of business. Lower production costs, which consist chiefly of labor costs, are absolutely essential to economic stabilization and renewed prosperity. "In most cases, however,' wage re ductions havenot provoked strikes, al though there are numerous instances of more or less prolonged resistance on the part of the workers affected. It is desirable that wages should not un duly lag behind' commodity prices in the downward revision of both, and equally desirable that wages should not be forc ed too rapidly as compared with prices. It is inevitable, however, in a period of declining prices and wages that here and there one group" of wage earners is for a time in a relatively favorable position as regards real wages, or the purchasing power of the money receiv ed, while on the other hand, another group experiences a sharp curtailment in real wages." THE STATE SVILLE ROAD It is gratifying that steps are tc be taken at once for, hard-surfacing the Charlotte-Statesville highway. The project will cost a cool million but it will be worth it. The State Is to pay for the job, the two counties having agreed to supply the greater part of the money for a term of four years, to be repaid in fou ranhual' instalments. " This looks; to. he. a happy solution of fhia' issue. The Charlotte. Statesville road is cne of the most important lead ing into either Charlotte or Statesville. It Is particularly consequential to thia city for the reason " that' it traversed a fat section of the State and gives this community outlet to a vasiV ttxritor tally rich back-country, the mountain section, which for the years " has been denied proper avenues of . approach to the State's first city. ' This will be the first road construc tion of consequence -to be undertaken by the State in this district and it , is a happy circumstncea, it seems to us, that the first road to be built ' is' one that is not only In immediate need of building, but one that has such poten tialities to it. In discussing deficiency measures, the, republican congress can qualify as in expert. It wWd make a poor out, however, attempting intelligently to flis. cups efficiency matters. Warren Hi Stone, head of one of the tailway brotherhoods, has just been vot ttf a salary of $25,000 per year. It must eost something to belong to the Broth NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL Soon after Secretary Denby of the navy took charge of his post, he start led his republican friends with the brazen announcement that he could not see wherein the naval department of the government had been poorly handled by his predecessor, the Hon. Josephus Daniels. In fact, Secretary Eenby said that he found the navy in first-class condition and was especi ally complimentary to Mr. Daniels and associates for their efficient manage ment of this difficult department. Along comes the new commissioner o" internal revenue and after proper ly deposing, says that he finds busi ness in that department to have been splendidly managed, all of its affairs in excellent shape and that he has nothing to criticise in the administra tion of his predecessors. This Is certainly surprising informa tion. Frorn the- way the republican politicians were cavorting during the last presidential campaign, we had rea son to suspect that Mr. Daniels had scrapped the navy, dynamited all the ships we had and ordered the seaman to go to plowing, and that the affairs in the internal revenue department were so confused that you couldn't tell heads from tails. Some of these days, maybe, it will dawn upon the country that when the republican spell-binders go up and down tha .land . bragging that their party has a monopoly on all the brains and all the efficiency in the nation, it will be put down for what it is worth, a sheer bit of political chicanery and demagoguery. CONDEMNING ALL BY ONE ! A post card comes to this newspaper from one signing himself - as "James Bearden" in protest against what he terms "respectable-appearing " profi teers". He asserts that he was charged 30 cents for a piece of tobacco that costs 20 cents everywhere else and that he was charged 17 cents for a glass Of lemonade at a drug store when in other stores 6 and 11 cents are the charges, for the two sizes of lemonade. "I was thinking of locating here" concludes, Mr. Bearden, "but goobye". Of course, if Mr. Bearden was really serious in his intentions of coming to Charlotte to live, he would not allow himself to be brooked by being over charged on' two items, presumably in two different places of trading. He cer tainly should be more generous-minded than to judge the whole of Charlotte merchants .by what he discovered in a couple of establishments. - The, thing he should have done when he was charged 30 cents for 20 cents worth of tobacco was to have refused to make the purchase and then gone into other stores until he found what he wanted at the price he was willing to pay. And then, if he thought 17 cents was outrageous for a glass of lem onade, he might have dropped in some other drug store and found -exactly what he wanted for 11 cents. Mr. Bearden's protest, which, by the way, we have no disposition to mini mize, for there are stores in Charlotte, perhaps, that continue to charge more than ought to be charged, opens the opportunity to say somewhat generally that persons, criticising are generally too restricted in their observations. They think they are being overcharg ed on some certain item and then pro ceed to lambast every merchant in the community and conditions in general. Because, forsooth, they have been vic timized in one place on some one given article of merchandise, they leap to the conclusion that the same would happen to them at any other place. As a matter of fact, they might have been able to find, had they made the ef fort, that some other would have sold them the article much more' cheaply, and thus spared them the bad results of getting out of humor. The public has developed, however, a disposition to take snap judgment on many of these matters, to spread stories of ex cessive charges to the hurt of perfectly innocent merchants who are trying to sell their goods only .at a reasonable profit. It is this one thing that is doing more a,t this- moment to hinder a re sumption of retail activity" than any other one thing, the tendency of tire people to include all merchants in a blanket charge of profiteering, even though they refuse to do them the fair ness of first finding out if there are no exceptions. It is an- opportune time to say also that the best way in the world to break down the high prices which seem to continue to prevail in some places is to quit buying these high-priced arti cles at these stores. Purchasers ought to go from one place to another, make comparisons of prices and then when they find a store that seems to be do ing the right thing and not trying to overcharge, they should patronize it. This sort of a custom would require but a ,shbrt while to take the high pricers off their perch and, in the end, it would be doing a favor to the main body of retail merchants who are hon est and square ' and who are not en gaged in profiteering. "fill) DR. WALTER RATHEN AU IS SEVERELY HECKLED Berlin. June 3. Dr. Walter Rathenau the new minister of restoration, was severely heckled by members of the nationalists, German peoples and ultra radical parties ' yesterday when he took the floor in the Reichstag during the debate which followed the address of Dr- Writh, the chancellor. He told the deputies that nothing contained in his industrial philosophy or in his public activities would conflict with the plans he had mapped out in connection with the reconstruction program. He said he purposed to keep his ministry free from politics and war profitteers, and expressed the belief that reconciliation was needed in the carrying out of the gigantic task before the nations. "The world," he declared, "is not composed of chauvinists, nor is it made Ujj of 1,500,000,000 foes, but it hold a large body of fair-minded individuals, whose eyes were turned toward Ger many, and who were inquiring 'What will Germany do; will her life be devoted to the fulfillment of her lebt?' The work of rebuilding the devastated zone in France is , , not a national, , but a world problem. It is a' running sore on the continent of Europe, and until it is healed, world peace is unthinkable. MILK EDUCATION The people of the city are being ac quainted with the tastliness and. nutri tious value of milk during the week due to the graciousness of the Jersey milk producers of the county and it is a move for which they are entitled to commendation. The people ought to be educated to the value of milk as a diet to the end that they would ' consume greater quantities of it and less of other drinks that have nothing but hurtful ness in them. We are of a notion that this demon stration will go a long way toward in creasing the sale of milk in the city. It ought to. Charlotte is not using enough and never has. It ought to consume sq much milk that the pro ducers of the county would have their hands full supplying the demand: As the situation is new, however, milk production . in Mecklenburg is at a low ebb in comparison with what it should. De in a county of 80,000 such folks as Mecklenburg has In it- WAGES OUGHT TO BE HIGH The country will be a great deal better off if "it can manage to con tinue on a relatively high-wage scale. And being a creditor nation, there its no reason in the world that it shouldn't continue high wages if it really wants to. The. thing that has distinguished Am erica from many competitor countries, in the mere matter of industrials, was its wage schedules, the fact that it paid its laborers s.uch salaries as en abled them to live comfortably, dress well, eat the best things, wear good, stylish clothes, have well-fitted - homes and then have in these homes some of the comforts and conveniences that make for 'a high standard of living. Europe with its low wages has . also its corresponding type of citizenry and civilization, great hordes of ambition less workers who drop off to sleep at night in any sort of an old shack and never know or enjoy the comforts end the invigorating helpfulness of home influences.. The difference is in stan dards of living and the standards of living are determined by what the labor ing people are able to earn and then able to invest In . those things that add contentment and satisfaction. The. disposition so apparent today to cut tle heart out of 'wages' and to get back on a pre-war platform is too pro nounced and it is wholly indefensible from an economic point of view. There is no justification, of course, for ' a continuation of peak wages, just as there is no defense for peak prices on commodities. But' it would be hardly less than disastrous to drop back to 1914 in the matter of wage schedules. We have nojausiness going back to 1914 in anything. THIN PEOPLE NEED BITRO-PHOSPHATE All that most weak, nervous, thin, mentally-depressed people need Is ten grains of pure organic phosphate with each meal for a few weeks. That's what nerve specialists in Lon don, Paris and New York are "prescrib ing with wonderful results. It is natural food for nerve and brain cells and is known to such re liable pharmacists as Jas. P. Sto-nra & Company, as Bltro-Phosphate. Be cause of its power to help crutte healthy flesh and strengthen weak nerves, much- of it ,is being, sold to people who are lacking in vitality. CAUTION: Although Bitro-Phos-phate is an "excellent aid in relieving weak, nervous conditions, its use is not advised unless, increased weight is desired. . . ' Bargains are the " goal of all, and people rake- up kale the minute that they hear the call of any auction sale. A cry oX "Going going gone!". will make the people rise at dawn to ascer tain what's goiner on. It's never known to fail. No. matter, what you've got to sell, just climb upon a stand get a' megaphone ajid yell, "See what I have on hand!" Then the wide spread . bargain greed will doubtless cause a. big stampede 'and you will see the people speed from all' parts of the land. . ,. ' Price and -quality don't matter when once the people come. You can force them with your chatter to buy chewing gum. A string of beads, a box of tacks, washstands, glasses, old hat racks, and even empty paper sacks find ready sales with some. Just hit your hammer on the wall and cry, "What have we here?" and buyers will flock to the hall. Ten thousand will appear. Even If you ran 'and hid the people will team what you did and hunt you up to make a bid. The hu man race is queer. An old brickbat would bring fortune at an auction sale. It's only there that such ex tortion does not mean the jail. An old torn shirt and two soiled collars could be sold for thirty dollars. When one bids the whole crowd follows close 1 yon his trail. They have no idea what they buy, and bid without a thought. Though prices soar up to the sky and kale dees not run -h 3rt. A man will rush in at the door and bellow, "I'll give two bucks moreI'll outbid any on the floor! That ni-jht gown must be bought." Business never would go' down and there would be much kale is every shop in town would have an au :tion sale. People who we thought were poor would madly dash in every store and try to purchase half the floor. Our shops would never fail. MEXICO WILL DEPORT-1 . ALLEGED MURDERERS; i Cleveland, Ohio., June 3. Arrange ments have been made through Secre tary of States Hughes and Governor Davis,, of Ohio, for the Mexican authori ties to deport Deminic Benigno and Car los Colettl to an American city, where they will be arrested immediately and extradited to this state, County Prose cutor Stanton declared today. This is necessary because of the lack of , ex tradition treaties with Mexico. . Benigno and Cojetti were arrested in Mexico City last night. "Benigno, who is under indictment for firs degree mur der, is said by the authorities to have beear the leader of a gang which mur dered Wilfred C. Sly and George K. Fanner is a payroll holdup December 31,. last. Although no charge has been "i placed against Coletti, Prosecutor Stan di Uh saidi action would be taken in time to insure that ' the two are Drougm back-ft Cleveland -together-."Cleveland detectives are in Mexico and, according to Stanton, aided Mexi can v and. United States authorities in making the arrests. The other members of the gang are being sought. Samuel Purpera and Frank Motto are in the Ohio penitenti ary awaiting electrocution August 29 for their part irt' the murders and an other, Louis Komer, is awaiting trial under first degree murder. Copyright 1921, by rfews rubllshing Co. WONDERFUL! IS WHAT SHE SAYS Memphis Woman Testifies to Beneficial Results She Has Received from Tak ing Tanlac. . So many people throughout the United States arid Canada have testi fied to having used. Tanlac with such splendid results following influenza, grippe, operation, ' typhoid and pneu monia, and other troubles which bring on a run-down condition, that it has become' universally recognized as one of the most powerful reconstructive tonics of lcpresent age. Another striking statement in con nection with this fact was made by Miss Mildred O'Hara, of 926 Delaware St.. Memhis, Tenn. "I am enjoying better health today," said Miss O'Hara, "than I have in ten years and I am glad, to make a statement that may cause others who are needing . something to build them up to learn about Tanlac. "Five years ago I was operated on for appendicitis and was never able until I got Tanlac to get my strength back. My health was bad for a long time, even before the operation, and I just seemed to be gradually going from bad to worse. ' - ''I just think it is the most won derful thing 1 ever heard of that three bottles of Tanlac should make me feel so fine after I had suffered so long. It has given- me new life, strength and energy that smakes living a pleas ure. I used to have constant head aches, but now I never ' have one at all. Tanlac has been my friend and I will never go back . on it. It is just grand." MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESD Y BROADWAY COMMITTEE REPORT S ODIOUS SLANDER London, June 3. Efforts on the part of extremists in the Australian House of Representatives to introduce the re. port of the unofficial American com mission of 100 on Ireland into the offi cial record were defeated yesterday, says a Melbourne dispatch to The Lon ddh Times. . M. P. Considine read the conclusions of the American commis sion and, while . he was thus engaged, Sir Roberts W. Best, of Victoria, de-' nounced them as "vile and odious slan ders upon the empire". The motion to include the report in the official record was lost by, a vote of 36 to 9, the minority being made up of laborites. Several representatives of the labor party declined to participate in the voting. For Your Floors I I For Your Furniture STOP LOOK LISTEN The slogan of the ages. The Bible full of it. Path of life lined with it. Humanity in, living contempt of it. THE SURE PENALTY. Hell's overtaxed quarers. Wreckage of character anH body. . Orphans-Asylums-Prisons-Almshbuses 1 all point back to disregarded ' S. L. L. Meantime yet once again Warned IS YOUR INSURANCE" O. K.? ALEXANDER'S V Sensational ... v Banded Sailors.- Y Worth ?5 to $10 9.95 We handle nothing but the best in Milli nery, ..f ; . It MR. - - x ,-.. 39 East Trade St. GA v For Men, Young Men And Boys $45.00 YOUNG MEN'S SUITS, $25.( 1 big lot Young Men's Suits, made of the newest striped material and the newest young men's models, made in single and double breasted models. Sold by some stores for. $45.00. Priced ; $25.00 TWO SUITS FOR $25l00 1 lot All Wool Serge Suits, also Men's gen. uine Palm Beach Suits. Made in dark and light colors, special, 2 suits for MEN'S PALM SUITS, $9.95 1 lot Men's Genuine Palm Beach Suits . , light and dark colors. Slightly imperfect Priced . , . $9.95 Men's Mohair, Palm Beach and Tropical Worsted Suits, beautiful range of pat terns, Priced $12.50, $14.95, $19.95 $24.95 - MEN'S SUMMER HATS Men's Summer Straws made in plain and rough straws, beautiful shapes 98c, $1.50 $2.00, $2.98, $3.98. MEN'S PELT HATS Men's new light weight Felt Hats, made . of the newest shapes and colors, $2.98, $3.98, $4.95, $6.95. MEN'S FURNISHINGS 1 lot Men's Dress Shirts made of fine grade Madras, beautiful patterns, regular $2 values. Priced $1.00 J IMEN'S FINE DRESS SHIRTS Mn's extra fine Dress Shirts made of best grade Percale and Madras, made of the newest patterns $1.95, $2.50, $2.98. NEW NECKTIES Men new Neckties made of the newest shapes and patterns 50c, 75c, 98c, $1.50 menus' hosiery a Men's- Cotton Sox, all colors 10c and 15c Men's Lisle Sox, colors, Cordovan, black, grey, navy . . . . . . . . ..... .. 25c and 35c Men's Silk Sox, all colors 50c, 75c and 80c SUMMER UNDERWEAR Men's Nainsook Union Suits, made of good grade material. Sizes 34 to 52 75c, 98c $1.25. " CAPS Big, lot Men's Caps, the newest styles and colors . ........ . 98c, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 Boys' Department Boys' Worsted 'Suits, made of all colors and new models ,$7.95, $8.95, $9.95, $12.95 BOYS' NOVELTY WASH SUITS Boys' Novelty Wash Suits, slightly soiled, atalmost half price. Good material and well made : . . ....... . . . 98c, $1.48, $1.98 BOYS' CAPS Boys' Caps, made of Serge and Fancy Mix-. ; tures . . ...... . . 50c, 69c, 75c, 98c LITTLE BOYS' STRAW HATS Big lot Litle Boys' Straw Hats, all colors, at ...... . . ...... . . 50c, 75c, 98c, $1.48 BOYS' ODD PANTS and Khaki Cloth : . : . . , . . 98c, $1.48, $1.98 SHOE DEPARTMENT 'Special for Friday, Saturday and Monday All Bion F. Reynolds' Oxfords, made m.aU '-.leathers, $18.00 value. Sale price $9.9d Ralston Health Oxford,, rhade in tan, black and CordovaiC $12.50 and $15.00 value. Sale price . .... . . . . . . ... 8.5U 1 big lot Men's English Oxfords. Regular $10.00 value. Sale price $4.95 and $5.9o EROS.
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