THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 4, 1921. The Charlotte News Published Wy TFTE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. V. C. DOUT Ps. and Gen. Mgr. JULTAV . MILLER.... .'. Ktor JASPER C. HUTTO. City Editor W. M. 3KLL Advertising Mgr. Telephone. B'lKfness Off ........ Circulation Department zJJ City EUtor ;JJ Editorial Rooms Printing Hons MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press I xc!siTelr entitled to the nse for republication of al! new dispatches credited to It or not ntherwlf e credited in this paper and also th 'em I news published herein. AH rights of republication of special titftpatrhes herein zho are ."eserred. STTOSCRHTtON RATES By Carrier. rre year ;...L$10.M St month .,..,....... Three months 5.6 One montn 'M One veek JO By Matt. One year .0 Sir mcnths 4.WJ Three month 2.M One month .71 Sunday Only. (By Mail or Carrier.) One year 2.M Six months 1.S TLMF.S DEMOCRAT (SemiWeeklyJ One year i.SO Sit month 71 BRITAIN AND-AMERICA t War is impossible between Great Britain and the United States, declares Sir Auckland Geddes in his address at the commencement exercises at the Uni versity of Virginia. Well, it certainly ought to be rated as one of those contigencies .which must not be allowed to. come about. Still, it may not be s impossible as we might want to believe. There are agencies at work .in this country that are trying their wry best to disturb the amicable relations exist ing between the two countries. They have always been active. They wereLable. the condition of the crop will SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921. STILL A VACILLATING REPUBLIC One can not possibly tell yet wheth - er the United States, during the Hard ing administration, is going to do its duty and measure up to the fine obli gations of world-leadership imposed upon it by events of late years or not. Over in this country, the President is using high-sounding - phrases and ex pressing the loftiest type of sentiment in regard to the matter and one who did not understand him would instant ly come to the conclusion that he shares identically the same convictions as to our world-duties as did his predecessor- Bat over in England, there stands in the Court of St. James, as the repre sentative of the President and as the spokesman of the Administration, George Harvey who has lately given voice to the most contemptible bit of bigotry ever asserted, perhaps, in that influential post. Either President Harding or George Harvey is not telling the truth about what the United States ought to do or what it proposes to do. One of them is is expressing narrow-minded, nation alistic sentinent, and there is rea son to believe that the latter is more representative of the Administration than is the former. The tail is wag ging the head. The present administration was cer tainly enthronged upon its .appeal to the nationalism of the American peo pie. Mr. Wilson's attempt to write aN greater ideal than that of a single -. rmndexiness into the convictions of his . fellow-countryment was magnified as f being an attempt to introduce an inter nationalism that would swallow up ev ery nation subscribing to it. Nation alism of thn nld Rplflah inHio,,oi;cti sort never ran so high in America as in x'""o iiiwii iiitr iJicsciiL rres ident was elected to his position by the greatest majority ever recorded by an American President. The people list . encd to the prejudiced appeals of re publican orators to the effect that it was time the United States was ad dressing itself to its own problems and duties and paying less attention to the problems of the outside world. They put the republican party in power be cause of its promise that it would have nothing to do with the other nations. President Harding subscribed to that doctrine. He was opposed to the conven ant of the league of nations as an in strument voicing our sympathy for in ternationalism. As a Senator he .vot ed against it except with reservations that really cut the heart out of it and during the campaign, he repeatedly said that if he were elected President, he would see to it that the United States ueorge Harvey, as the next ranking apostle of the present administration, did not hesitate to say in this country that the American people would never consent to entering the league, and when he stepped into' the ambassador ship in London, he repeated ihe same conviction with a bluntness and brus- queness that was appalling. He virtu-! ally told the European people that they J V r IT net -WW-- 11 -a : - E " ' uismiss iorever the idea of America entering with them into such a wicked combine as that involved by the leacilp nf nalinn. Hence, the supposition is allowable that it is the studied purpose of the Ad ministration to keep the ideaf of na tionalism aloft in this country and to spurn the suggestion that we have other duties to perform in relation to the remainder of the world. President Hard- ing is beginning to understand, obvi ously, what that sort of alooftjess is going to mean and how serious and far-reaching -its consequences are go ing to be. but he is committed to the program and he is hedged about on all sio.es Dy men as etrong-minded as he wno reruse to allow their convictions to broaden and their hearts to soften ana tneir consciences to become auiek ened, men who are determined to have an America for Americans and to tell tne rest or the world to get along the uesi it can. relentless during the war. They asserted that the war was noth ing more than commercial attempt on the part of England to rule the ifcdus try of the world.that it was a pre-con-ceiyed plot of her ruleers to get some lit tle ' nations to start it so that, in the long Tun, England would come out of it with her hands full of rich possessions, with her ships still ruling the com merce of the world and with her terri tories greatly magnified. They told us then that "England, you know, always wins the last battle". And since then the gossippers have been equally busy. They have been trying to create resentment against Eng , OUTLOOK FOR COTTON "Cotton is poor in condition and in prospects"- - That is the rather cryptic way the Crop Report Service of the department of agriculture at Raleigh has of ex pressing the status of "the present cot ton crop. . It has received 567 reports from over the State and it gleams from all of them the facts suggested by that phrase. -Th condition in the State is .63 per cent of a normal. That looks as if a marked curtail ment in production is in sight- Unless weather condtions are extremely favor- not materially increase for the reason that this estimate of its present status is based largely on the poor. sta,nd pre vailing and this defect is beyond remedy There is another reason that the production is going to be limited which is not related to the stand, the health fulness of the plant, the conditions of weather or any of these other ex ternal " influences. It is in the spirit of the producers. They are pessimis tic and out of heart. They don't seem to care much what becomes of their cotton crop. They planted it under provocation and they are working it somewhat the same way. They lack that interest and zeal which was mani- land because of the Irish question. They ."rested a little while ago when the pros- MISS REX TELLS OF ONE GEORGES Manhasset is the Proudest of All Long Island Places. have been telling us also that England is at the bottom of the peace treaty which is paralyzing Germany and which is making -France stand to the rack in demanding the full execution of the terms of the treaty. They always see a sinister motive in everything that England does. The carrions would have us at war before breakfast with England if they could '.have their way. They are not lcyal Americans. For he most part, they are so notably pro-Irish that they lie-lost the balance of their judgment J o- they may be German-Americans or '. duction will result. some other sort of hyphenates in whose blood runs an ancestral hatred for "Eng land. It is these people, for the mostf part, who are running to and fro, stir ring up' strife, seeking to create popu lar dislike for England and at all times ready to put the wrong .interpretation upon English policy. In the face of these conditions and this insistent propaganda, America shall have to keep its head on its should ers if war between the two countries is to become an actual inr.nossibiIuy. It is unthinkable that tl.-e rtal Am ericans of America could ven " enter tain an idea of war with Fngland. They are kindred nations, . the best blood of The two being combined to give to- tie world at this moment what it possesses in the way of civilization and Chris tianity. They are inseparable also in the trust which has been committod to their keeping, the trust of nothing: less than civilization its:l?, the great commitment of world destiny. If eith er of these two nations should lorfeit it franchise in this great enterprise, there is no way to estimate the extent of tho disaster which would (oilow. There are innumerable points of iden tity between them, of actual blood kiu bliip, a fraternity in heritage not only but in ideals. They ought to regard one another as brethern, carrying IIkc the weight of the world upon tl.eir shoulders, and if nothing else wns ir. volved, the measure of such a r-?spon sibility ought to be sufficient to make war between them impossible. pect for 40 cents per pound was held up before them. And this is an element that will be influential in determining the outcome of the present crop. Production de pends in large measure upon agricul tural interest, upon the investment of enthusiasm in the culture of crops by the men who make them. If they are unconcerned, out of sorts and care less, they will not be so keen to get the grass out or to plow the crop as frequently as will be needed and other wise to tend it so that a normal pro- IMPORTING HAY We see by one of the exchanges that come info this office that a neighboring county has developed the habit of im porting annually $50,000 worth of hay to keep its livestock and cattle going. We don't have the figures for Meck lenburg county, but chances are they would show two. three or four times as much hay bought outside of the county. Why it is not entirely posible for Mecklenburg and every other county in the- States to make its own hay? It certainly is a crop that, requires no ela borate soil conditions. If given a de cent chance, hay will make itself and -often it has ,a habit of making against the efforts of the producers of other crops. There are some grasses, of course, that will not flourish in Meck lenburg, but there are others which will make just as good hay as can be bought anywhere. Here is a source of leakage that ought to be stopped in stantly not only here -but throughout the entire State. Times must, be getting a great deal better. A group of bankers offer to lend the State ten million dollars and the State refuses to become a custo-mer- The new Governor of Alaska is nam ed Bone, but Alaska lacks a great deal of being the only Strfte that has one tor a governor. ON A PRACTICAL MISSION The masses of the people will applaud their President as he steps into the gilded offices of the Interstate Com merce Commission to inquire of that body what it is doing to give the peo ple relief from the present burdensome freight rates. Here is one evil that ought to be removed fnstanter, one burden that the people ought not to suffer from any longer. We can under stand quite well, of course, the rea sonings of the railway authorities and in five minutes they can convince al most anyone that they are bound to charge high tariffs or quit running their trains. Admitting all they have to say to be true, however, the conditions which make it necessary for them to charge such high rates can be removed and the props knocked out from under present unjust tariffs. High freight rates are contributing unnecessarily to the continued high cost of living. For instance, we often hear nowadays of carloads of commo dities reaching a point with a high freight charge upon them then the com modites themselves cast at the starting point. Obviously, so long as such con ditions prevail, the people are going to be crushed with The President will enhance popular estimate of his practicafl-mindedness if he can manage to stir up the powers-that-be in the way of giving some sort of speedy relief in this line. k THE CHALLENGE OF DISASTER Brave-spirited men have always ac cepted disaster as a challenge. They have not sat supinely and let the tides overwhelm them. They, rather. have stood straight up and with tense muscle and courage soul shrdluuuuu muscle and courageous soul, faced the oncoming distress with a determina tion to rise superior to,it and to come out a conqueror over" it. There are times upon the country now that call for such heroism. The tides of adversity are sweeping high and relentlessly. They are bearing men and business and trade . and industry and fortunes down before their resistless sweep. Cowering before the approach of these evil floods, men- are allow ing themselves to fall into-despair.' They Mr. Bryan's plan for revamping the democratic party ought to be put in the same place his heart was right after the San Francisco convention, but it ought to be put . there a little more securely. Sporting writers have a inh which should win them great names when they sU, down to tell the mob about our baseball games. It- seems the local vanity has drifted to profanity and fans are near insanity. The club has missed its aims. Everv av hear the news that Charlotte lost the fray. . It seems that thv intone tn lose 'their battles every day. In games cumesi nere sz")ia there thev only seem to fan the air. and loeal "sports are in despair. Their hair is turning grey. The sporting writers have to grin and bear the trouble well. In order to protect their skin they cen sure what they tell. Thev say, "The players pass the buck. Their middle name has been hard luck." The truth is they have run amuck. The team has gone to hell. r The sporting writers will win fame when history is made. The way they write up every game, puts artists in KEhf They beat arond the bush with skill and use the term "A bitter pill and other wnriis tn n mi..,. . , . - -uc Will. They don t want to upbraid. They write .uiies up wnn care about the home town team. They haven't got steam Tf 6 Z Say' "Put on M10 2t,m. enderly they write the m about the games the players lose. I'm glad I am not in their shoes. They sail a troubled stream. It takM a SLhX 'hough"ul S5' to" baseball dope. Their language is as smooth as oil. their word as soap. Every day ttfe team grows W"e' a"t ks calling . fofthl ;,;;:r- P.?ng writers want to tj ! ' y 1 around and mope. If tw. L y ey get more hold. "I " , cf 11113 me writers Lw T," lo. col and-care not in a rage and saturate the sporting SL ad rds of this "KSSS iram must learn to play. Copyright, 1931 by Xewg Pnbllshfng Co. GOVERNOR IS ASKED COMMUTE HARRIS Written by Margery Rx for The International News Service. New York. June 3. They of Man Kasset are the proudest of alj who dwell on that Long Island.. For. is it not so that Georges, the f Gorgeous, has chosen that spot as a - nice quiet one in which to nurse the 4 grudge which, of a .certainty, will be settled July 2? - On that date Georges and Jacques, otherwise Carpentier and Dempsey, : will publicly pick a Quarrel and cause a, scene which will be witnessed by anxious thousands. ' ' Not "a sign of human inhabitants was visible as we approached the. chateau of M. Georges Carpentier, A heavy drizzle of rain brought out a flock or challenger angleworms which were' promptly demolished by. champion robins. "Beware of the Bull' reads a sign on the fence. So we were pre pared for anything which anyone might try to tell us. M. GEORGES SLEEPS. But M. Georges ' was taking a nap. Sleep he would until 3:30, Would we wait? But yes, -absolutely! Carptn tier's life is now as well regulated and coddled as though he were a prize baby, a debutante primed. to make the season's greatest success, or any fa vorite of the footlights who is wise enough to save and guard her health and looks. Out at the big barn, where an out door "gym" has been fitted up for the Frenchman, trainers were scurrying about tightening ropes, adjusting and blowing up punching bags and looking over the exercising machines. Soon would Georges rise from his dovny couch and hit hard leather. Here waited Francois Descamps, manager of Georges; "Gus" Wilson, a trainerf Italian Joe Gans, Paul Jour nee these two last will stage daliy matches with Carpentier so he can practice winning . the championship. Then j when the real one comes he will just naturally from force of habit win. At least, someone explain ed it to me that way. "Kappont-yay, he comes," said Des- camp's, and there in a black-bordered gray kimono, standing carelessly on the slippery plank that we all had to walk up to avoid a ditch beside the shed, appeared the French "heavy," who is said to have attracted not oi ly masculine, but also leminine chal lengers. "SWELL LOOKING" PUG. "Tall and swell looking," he wa3 described to me just before he had coma in and the caption didn't need to be changed. Carpentier is no -ordinary pugilist. He has none of the thick-featured battered appearance that is commonly associated with the fight ing profession at least in the minds of persons like us who imagine we could nick out boxers in a .pr.iwfl irom nis shoulders into a trainer's Georges let his dressing gown fall ready hands ai nonchalantly as a so ciety matron would let her sables and chiffon slide into the arms of her miad. After that, though, this indifference to surroundings ended. He became erect, alive, a lithe, springy figure, as he stood there in his high-necked, long sleeved white jersey and navy blue trunks. "That fella's build and his " wallop make it look like some one would have to phone the morgue on account of Dempssy," said a bystander. Georges" had leaped over the green piush rope into the ring, his pale tan face gleam ing. And we forgot everything but watching him. 1 hat s shadow boxing." Tad told me. "He fights an imaginary op- QUEER SORT OF DANCE. Georges seemed to be doing a queer sort oi aance. He skipped and shuffled aoout on his toes, slid across the rlnir! shifted his position back quickly, and struck out clever and unexpected blows at the enemy that we could al most see there, so fired with ..fury did ai. carpentier seem. Then at inter vals he would appear to be expecting something almost like tho "toddle," wnicn movement was supposed to rest 1 1 mm oetween the imitation "rounds." Descamps sprinkled somethi riff on the canvass floor of the ring that looked Jike the powdered wax that is thrown ' on the dance floors. It was resn ana Creorges rubbed his dark blue i shoes in it vigorously every now and men. sometimes when he slid about on the tightly stretched canvas, the floor beneath him seemed to squeak, i which may have been caused by the' ! rsow he had stooped and waiVpri over to Wilson, hi3 trainer, who rubbed a sponge laden with cold water over George's face. Then the boxer opened "iuum ana stucK out his tongu What could that be for? Wilson an swered our unspoken question by tak- j is anumer sponge " with more cold e?L a"d spending out Carpentier's mouth. Chewing on half a lemon com-1 yioi-eu Georges refreshment. mps.. and Wilson fanned w1St:3 wun towels and the Gallic ii, a uug nimseii aown upon .uor ana am some remarkable siums tnat any acrobat might be proud to know. Someone - nearby remarked that the Frenchman was! ail acrooat in a circus owned uy lJescamps, who later taught his ' xtcut vnarge tne art of boxing. PALE-FACED FIGHTER. fipftPCOO T r. n 1 . f . , , 4i, a jxne ieuow wno nevr gets red when he fights. But the Frenchman later on when he punched the sandbag had an, expression that might "well frighten, off anybody. -His eyes naturally 'have . a - droop at the -outer " corner and the lid is slightly lowered ,sq that, when he smiles it gives a languorous -touch to his face. But his lowered fighting face shows those same eyes uplifted,' but with only the white showing,. appareptl5't and his usually pleasant-looking mouth open, but drawn down into an ominous oval.- (-- . Thud-thud-thud, the leather punch ing ftag slammed aiainst . its wooden supports. Carpentier- flung off the long-sleever jersey. - tfh. sleeveless jersay undervlst showed his punches. "He will fight Dempey at long range and keep him .off," Italian Joe Gans told me. "Georges has a terrible wallop.- I ought to Hnow." Georges will.' ga into the ring" at 173, and would, like to put on a little weight, J heardl He is a brainy boxer and may outpoint his opponent, who is twenty-five years old to his twenty seven. ',' ' . Wo 1 departed in the - still pouring rain . and. saw; groups of mosquitoes getting ' ready ' to -report for jobs as sparring partners for the pale Georges' evening performance r TTDTT?!! 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What the situation , would seem tn demand is a stoic determination amone men to be the masters and not the ser vants of transient moods in trade and business, to accept the adverse condi tions under which we are now livin as a challenge to show the stuff out of which they are made, as an oppor tunity to let the heroic in them come to the fore. for executive clemency" are in thK lu5 governor, xne appeal by Har ris to the Supreme Court resulted In a decision sustaining the action tf the for rThi iand .eiter an cation tor a rehearing of the case before the supreme Court or an appeal to the Gov ernor are the only courses left through wnicn the life of the may be saved. Cherries, fruit and foliage embellish essy"eCffiy mV?- the iesy hats. .The foliage encircles hang.asUow as possible on each. side. - j Cuticiira Soap The Safety Razor Shavind Soan F. D. A. STOP LOOK LISTEN The slogan of the ages. The Bible full of It. Path of life lined with it. 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