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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6, 1921 The Charlotte News Published Wy . THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. , Comer Fourth and Church Sts. W. C. 1)0VD .Pres. anfl Gen. Mc.. JULIAN S. MILLER iiAl'SSir" v JASPER C. IIUTTO City Editor W. M. BELL Advertising Mgr. Telephones. . Jinsfne?! Office Circulation Department Z3 City Editor ;J; Editorial Rooms 6- Prfntinfer Honae 1630 member associated press Tha Associated Press .is PrI"s!ve,S entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also th 'oral news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein slso are tesenred. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier. One year 'J12?2 Six months . -0 Three months 2-jJJ One month ; One week ( By Mall. One year .00 Stx months ; -W Three months 2.00 One month " Sunday Only. (By Mail or Carrier.) One year 2.60 Slxmonths 1,30 TlMES-DEMOfRAT (Semi-Weekly.) One year , 1.50 Six months the brand of sunshine will be exclusively of the Fahrenheit variety or whether there'll be a little of the "Pollyanna" kind thrown in to offset the .Polish, Irish and several ot"her varieties of world problems. to MONDAY. JUNE 6, 1921. . SOMEWHAT PLATITUDINOUS EVEN iF PRETTY i "T can think of an America that can maintain every heritage and yet help humanity throughout the world to reach a little higher plan. But whtn I pledge our America to wdrld helpful ness, at the same time I exact the pledge that America will cling to her own Independence of action and to . her own conscience." Thus President Harding yesterday in an address at Valley Forge. In the light of the position of the great Republican party of which the speaker is the titular chief, "every heritage", "her own independecence", "her own conscience" eannot be inter preted in any other sense than a con tinued rejection of the Versailles plan for settlement of the world difficul ties. , -, "Help humanity to reach a little high er plane",' "pledge America, to w'orld helpfulness", in ''the light of the ordin ary meaning of -language must mean a sharing in the prompt settlement of the difficulties that beset European civi lization, nearer to chaos now than, .possibly, appears on the surface, and therefore and thereby endangering so ciety throughout"" both hemispheres. The utterance is. dignified, even cold ly beautiful, but is it more than,.a mere utterance? If it is to be a pro gram of action there needs to be iri jected into it a vast amount of defi niteness now lacking. The world's ills cannot be healed by the utterance of a paradox, no matter how well expressed. Messrs. Harding and Hughes have an enormous task on their hands in this direction and hidden down deep in the bulk of the hopes for their success, harbored by all their fellow-citizens, ir respective of party, their lies no small amount of curiosity over the method by which America, while holding strict ly aloof, surrendering no part of her independence jof action, is still to "help the world to a little higher , plane." INVESTING CONSCIENCE IN CITIZENSHIP Describing conditions precedent the deplorable race riots .in Oklahoma, a resident observer jyhose conclusions were published in this paper, has this to say: ' - "The average Tulsan has been too busy with his own private affairs to invest his conscience in his citizenship, the result being that law enforcement here has been lax for years and gamb ling and bootlegging have gone on little molested. This has developed a law less element." The atmosphere of indifference to civic duties nourishes everywhere the growth of the poisonous plant of re sistance to constituted and just author ity. .The lawless element in Tulsa may have been a greater percentage t of the population than in some other communi ties but that faction was no more gen inely present in the Oklahoma town, than it' id in many another community in United States whose, traditions reach much farther back into the past than J the fourteen years which cover the per iod in which Tulsa has emerged from the village chrysallis into the "100,000" class. , ' The phrase of the Tulsan observer, "too busy to invest his conscience in his citizenship" suggests not only the need for such an investing .but an inquiry into the reason why it is not being more generally made- American citizenship, is today a prouder posses sion than ithas ever been before, bath ed as it now is in the blood of the thous ands who. died in its name on the fields of France andi in the tears of other A TROUBLOUS WORLD Penrose is peeved. The bulky as well as brainy senator from Pennsylvania does not like the way certain things are being done or rather are not being done at the other end of the avenue and is speaking out .'in meeting said meet ing being a gathering of newspaper men who met him on his arriva in Philadelphia recently. Item: There aretstill too many Demo crats on Uncle Sam's payroll. Penrose coesnjt believe in that sort of a thing He thinks a little more efficiency might have been shown by the administration in the wielding of the official axe. "I am having a. record made," he declares, "of the Republican officials who were dismissed from office upon the advent of the Wilson Administration.'' For Penrose to seek to imitate Wilson in any matter must -cause a chuckle to the imitated statesman, even if in this case it be somewha like Socrates learn ing Greek. Never since the eloquent Marcy nearly a century ago enunciated the doctrine "To the victors belong the REPQRTQRIAL ASIDES. cate the" money, of the state for road 7S- , U UUUHig , 1UL- Ul Uilt Will during the next 12 months. By Jule B. Warren. ft-.-,---- 4 Talk of the telephone variety will be a little higher in the future. The men who started the saying that talk was cheap probably made his ob servation before the long distance tele phone conversations were made pos If the legislature would come here and merely fix th'e municipal finan :e act and not tamper with other things, i there would be ' much less objection to. a special- session. "'-'. -: The postoffice department never seems quite so efficient as around th first of the month when "bills come in. Now that Tulsa, has staged an East St. Louis race riot, some of the mis guided friends of the r.ce in the nc-t.i will be horrified that such a thing could liave happened in the south. Governor Catts seems to have bean impartial in' that he is alleged to hav? pardoned both those who paid iact those who did not have the price for :i pardon. . A 12 per cent cut should not wor.-y railroad labor if the cost of living has decreased as much as statisticians, say it has. Nobody loves a fat manuhtil he goes into the movies and then- everybody wants to see him. , These southern European emigrants who don't like water to -drink -and make no use of it in the batjj tub, probably figure, this element was given man merely for the purpose of water ing his lawn. J . ' T-.' As we see it, the camel was outragn.5 when they narhexf that new dance the Camel Waltz. - The $3,050 North Carolina folks lost in live stock last year does pot Include the Wild Cat stock, which was about the liveliest of all. ' GERMAN COMMANDER CONFERS WITH BRITISH - ' - .... . f Oppelri Silesia, June " 6. General Hunneker," ''commander'1 of British troops in Silesia, and General, von Hoefer, leader of German Mefe'nse or ganizations, were to confer (today -relative to the situation which has arisen as -a result of conflicts between Ger mans and Poles in. many 'districts of Uppet Silesia. The "French have sent an ultimatum to General von Hoefer, -saying that, . unless the German de fense -forces, 'which have been fighting the Poles near- Gross Stehjhtz, are cr tn retire.' the French troops will be v withdrawn from the industrial sec a th . nlphiscite zone. i litj va. . . X- PRICE OP A WIFE is London, June 6. Fjv Inf. nM3 ' . ins, a.m more, is to be or a wite, according to a rf fied convention between t,v Pounds the entlv t?rtt- r(li. ri'i. i tions Deiween thP tiK.. . rn. uuiuci aue oetween Liberia and I- V!l" Women's rights 'are to v,p even m the West Africin Sn l yuviuea in the. ' 'j? ticn tnat no claim can ho n-' , m'ea. spect ot a. woman excent h,. ' u In band, and that no woman nLhker K pelled to return to a claimant her wiH. mant m- Well, if the telephone company can enforce its order about, better service, 4-1.,. nJJJ. 1 , . . 11 -a- Vil . ' tiie auuiLiunai monev aiiowjea win nor i worry -the, average telephone subsCriD i er. . From the whit man's standpoint .the onlv favorahln lisrht vet thrown on spoils", has there been much hesitancy rthe Tulsa riot is tht the trouble" a3 heroic dead. Why is it that in that citi zenship it seems so unusual for its pos sessors to invest their whole con science? Possibly one of the reasons lies fun damental in human nature, in its readi ness to accept its greatest blessings as a matter of course. The warmth of the June-time sun, the blowirfg of its refreshing breezes, the coming of harvest time, seem no more matters of course than do the safety and free dom and stability of society as it is constituted around us. Yet for that safety and freedom and stability many had to agonize in generations gone before and out of their agonies has sprung our comfort of today. , Many centuries ago a Roman con queror held an assembly of Greeks at the city of Corinth. He proclaimed that Rome was giving to Greece its free dom. The happy Greeks shouted at the top of their lungs and called down blessings on the head of the Roman pro-consul. , The comment of a recent historian of the Corinth gathering is incisive and to the point. He thinks the Roman general's smile must 'have been contemptuous, as pitying the men who did not know "that freedom could NOT BE "GIVEN but" must" be "WON AND KEPT. ' Amercai's freedom has been won and that, winning vindicated by a century and a half of progress. Will that free dom be kept?' ' Another reason, perhaps, for the in difference so wide-spread to the impor- in assigning said spoils to said victors. There isn't any now, the problem con fronting the present "victors' being one involving rather the distribution of the "pie" without at the same timv causing the entire disruption of the "organization" by disappointed hungry ones. precipitated by the negroes. If we can just keep the cottbn Ciop 66 per cent of normal until harvest time, the farmer will have ai chance of getting a little above, normal for tii-3 crop. If Dempsey wins over the French man it will not because the Am?r Item and a much more serious mat-; ican Legion, is pulling for him ter than the other: The few from the Penrose standpoint they are few Re publicans who "hre being given their due in Pennsylvania" are' being gently appenaea to me payroll oy me enorts , America may be mixiS to a fall in of the bland Philander C. Knox, junior; it? educational movement, but we w:ll Colonel Aus Watts has made two appointments and has not fulfilled pre dictions by picking a revenue doocUec yet. senator, rather than by those of his a&tute colleague. This is perilously near high 'reason to the principles of the party as Pen rose learned .them at the feet of that tens of thousands who w.eep for theip1"1 aPstle of practical politics, Matt THE WRATH OF THE ARKANSAS The wiping out of a large portion of the city of Pueblo, Col-, by water and fire, forms a story of disaster which baffles description. In fact, the first messengers from the stricken town who made their way to safety' to ask for immediate help found themselves entire ly unable to give any . idea of what they had Witnessed. Their minds were ,so oppressed with the horror of what they had been through that the put ting ot the things into mere words was a task beyond their powers. Only those- who have been through similar scenes can realize even a small part of the actuality. A Galveston man, who saw the disaster of a score of years ago, or a Dayton man, , who went through a similar agony more recently, might be able to picture to himself a wall of angry waters eigh teen feet deep and twelve city blocks wide and the destruction that would result. For those whose experience has leen less terrible, a genuine grasping- ox me situation is practically impos sible. The frightfulness of lightning which seemed to partake of the deadly accur acy and destructiveness of a hostile bar rage combined with the overwhelming-hess-of two successive cloudbursts to make the doom of the city complete and for the time irreparable. In .the face of the wrath of the forces of na ture, man's mastery of the elements possibly the proudest boast of all his material achievements, was wrested irom him and he becarhe a puny play 'thing of death and destruction. We harness the lightning to carry our messages, we ride these days literally upon the wing's of the winds, but we are not yet exempt from the cataclysms ot nature which demand their toll un u" -"i;uiiisLances ... or horror - wJiich cause the blood to congeal and the brav est to blanch. f DETAILED INFORMATION WANTED: Sir Oliver Lodge declares that the territorial sphere is coming in for more than its usual amount of sunshine this summer owing to the change in the area or the disposition or something of the sun spots. Coffin of the Raleigh Times wants to know whether Ollie got his "dope" by scientific calculation or merely from the Ouija board. While Sir Olliver is giving us the details he tuiirht be-specific, also, as to whether! tance of investing conscience in citi zenship, is to.be found in the spirit of disobedience which has taken such a hold upon our people within the memory of those who have not yet at tained their fiftieth birthday. Time was Avhen children normally obeyed their parents. The sporadic exceptions brought with ' them :. such dire penal ties, from childhood's viewpoint, as but to emphasize - the rule. The contrary has, in this good year of 1921, grown so common, as" to have become a sub ject of jest- - AVhen the children who do not feel the galling of the bond of parental dis cipline grow in their turn to man hood and womanhood they are well pre pared to furnfsh that "lawless" element of whom our Tulsa correspondent writes. Which is not to say that every curly-head who disobeys its mother is headed straight to the perdition of crim inality, but merely that a certain pro portion of such curly heads, unrestrain ed in childhood, will not meet with blesse'd and disciplinary restraints later, and will grow up into a manhood and womanhood whose ideas as to the dis tinction between liberty and license are hopelessly coiffused. t An American inherits freedom with his citizenship. He does not inherit the privilege, if privilege it may be called, of diregarding the laws of the land, properly enacted by the will of the majority of his f ellowcitizens. Yet such disregarding of the laws is so general and persistent as to cease to a. sjreat ueai ot comment. Not disregard of the laws against murder or highway robbery, perhaps, . but a total indifference to regulations of a minor nature. Acorns grow to oaks and lawlessness is a growth of aston ishingly '. rapid enhancement, under conditions of popular prejudice and in a moment of popular excitement. As witness the civil war which disgraced tne tan; name of Tulsa. It may be a far cry from the failure to reflect that the blessings of civilized society entail civic duties to the active incitement to and participation in riots and . bloody murder. It may be an equally far cry from filial disobedience to the arson of a thousand humble dwellings. One who witnesses the em ergence of the stream from Lake Itasca woum scarcely visualize the Mississippi as it pours its turgid volume into the gulf many hundreds of miles away. None the less the great Father of Wa ters rises in the little Minnesota lake. And similarily there is a spirit of dis order and selfish disregard of the foun dations o'f our American society and civilization, theorigin of which may be. discovered in precisely the failure to i invest conscience in citizenship things small and great. . Quay. Penrose's power is built on the machine- It's a good machine. Quay built it originally and it has not suf fered under the driving of tle Elisha upon whose shoulders Quay's mantle fell. Biit how in the name of all the. gods at once is any machine even if Quay built and Penrose-driven going to run smoothly . without "pie", the time-honored fuel of political vehicles? ' Can the faithful be counted upon to remain faith ful without reward. District attorney ships and postoffices and things like that need the careful oversight of ,an. experienced distributor and Knox, how ever muchlie may shine in a diploma tic and international way, has much to learn about the machine in Penn sylvania, its likes and its needs. So Penrose has gone , back to I'hils delphia to be-on the scene ofc act'on. He is in a position in Washington to have the directing and final -word on tariff and tcation alike, and there is crying need of haste- in both matters from the Republican viewpoint,- but the big man has no time to fool with national questions when his beloved machine needs adjustments or rather "pie". Meanwhile the President goes down to week-end with the bland Knox at Valley Forge. Does that mean a per sistence in the path which is so dis pleasing to Penrose? Will Knox still continue to name the men who are to replace Democrats on the payroll in the Keystone State? Alas! How troublous this world is in June even after such a November as that of 1920! h?ve the distinction of being the first nation to fall because of over-education of the masses. You have probably' noticed that the fellow who so tarnestly protests againot any more financial drives, is the same fellow who has not let these drives deprive him of any thing in the pat. If the Corporation Commission will abate the " 'scuse me, please," nuisance, the subscriber will not have mucn kick against the increase. One trouble with the average puo c utility is .that its employes seem tc have a hotel waiter's idea about what is meant by service. PASS THE SMELLING EDISON SALTS TO If President Harding said anythin:; to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, when- he visited it recently, thut will hurry rjlong the decision in the Virginia cities rate case, North Caro lina folks will almost agree to vote for him in 1924.- HINDOOS CHALLENGE. ' London. -'A : polo team composed of the $"est players in Spain which will . be' captained ; by the King of bpam, Us to visit England in June. The Indian Polo Association has decided to ask thf United) States fo send A- team to has been the -cow which furnished the j India In the course of the next year milk for the A. T. & T.XJo.' for two. The strongest team at present in India is composed -of native piayers Hand Painted , In other words, Commissioners Pell and Maxwell think the Southern iJell Despite the prohibition of the ..manu facture of whiskey the stock on hand has increased 109,000 barrels during the past three months. That stuff must multiply in storage. It is hopea mat arrangements win. be made to have international fatches between the United States and , Spain. In one respect Europe is more for tunate than the United States it dous not have any immigration problem'' ijji vvuiiy wiin. INGROWN TOE NAIL- TURNS OUT ITSELF, A noted authority says that a few I The council of . state refuses to be j drops f "Outgro" upon the skin sur- very much frightened with the susses tion that the money market will not improve in the near future. International political waters -do not seem subject to pacification by oil.. The republican's are just now finding out that what the democrats said about reducing expenses during the campaign are about true. roimdins the ingrowing nail reduces inflammation and pain and so. tough ens the tender, sensitive skin unde neath the toe nail, that it can not penetrate the flesh, and the nail turns naturally outward almost over night. .'Outgrc' is a harmless, antiseptic manufactured for chiropodists. How ever, anyone can buy froni the, drug store a tiny bottle containing direc tions. - ware" For those who Epe Wedding Gifts we ar!, offering a most beautiful assortment of hand painted china. These pieces are elegant and particularly appropriate. R0ARK Diamonds, Clocks, Watches, Silverware. 10 N. Tryon Street cm Till ll ,11 IH1 ZS2 We have it from sources that are usually reliable that this season's spring chicken, fried brown with swest mild gravy, is unusually toothsome. The average man did not have to wait for Dr. Hrvey Wiley to inform him that home brew was bad for. the human system; he found it out the morning after. v If . these hot days continue Dave Blair can make himself a mighty pop ular man by ruling with Mr. Palme. on the question of beer for medicinal purposes. Colonel Harvey wants to be known as "Mister." not as "Colonel" in Eng land; prob;ibly because he hasn't Ki time to inform folks about how he wen his military title. If the Jrailroads are as badly off a ? the managers say they are, we can't understand the motive of the I. W. W.'s who tried to steal a train. Prices must be the exception which proves the rule that it is much easier to come down than it is to go up. - With the counties reqfly to dupil- -.""-" tor ' F rocks of Voile Frocks Word comes from Seattle that a "for mer sailor and lumber jack" has es tablished a new record in an "army" intelligence test with a perfect score ui ii pumis in. 16 minutes , wnat-1 ever that may mean. - ! One of the questions asked him note that "one" and remember that he made a perfect score on all in 13 minutes was the meaning of su.ch words as: ageratum, architrave, cham fer, cleisstogamous, alshim, gambit, guimpe, intaglio,, metacarpal, mitosis, nada, paomology and simony. When Edison reads that news one of two things will certainly occur. ' Either he will fall down in a fit or he Will send a hot Wire to the Pacific coast of fering that "former sailor and lumber jack" any, or perhaps every, old job in his Jersey establishment. WANT RECORDNUMBER OF TYROS FOR MEET "Every Pythian a Dokie" is the motto which Pythian Tddges of the state have been asked to aopt by Suez Tem ple, D. O. K. K., officials in prepara tion for the golden jubilee ceremonial to be held in Greensboro June 15, ac cording to letters sent out by Hunter Marshal, Jr., secretary of the temole. .The largest number of tyras for one ceremonial in the "history of the iemp;e is wanted for the trip across the Khor assan sands- during, the ceremonial and to this end the fficials are trying to' get an uytnian lodges to inaugurate a , campaign for applicants. To add iterest to the campaign for tyres, the officials have offered free railway fare uoLn to ana rrom Greensboro to all Dokies who "sign up" as many as 10 tyres. Several . hundred Dokies from Char lotte and this section of the .ate are expected to attend the golden jubilee ceremonial in Greensboro.- WHITE KID One strap Oxford, French heel, overed heel, turn sole an extra special value at - $10.00 BROWN KID Oxford, a beautiful model, with baby Louis heel, one-strap button, leather heel, at $8.0.0 A1 1 1 in Mr. Harding talks smoothly and in some respects, is acting the sams way. YOU DONT NEED A FINE COMB. Ifyou use Kil-ve for your children's heads. For sanitary reasons, your domestics should, use it, too. Abso lutely harmless, non-oily, non-sticky and doesn't interfere with color or growth of hair. Kilve destroys all vermin, and the eggs! or nits that cling to the hair. Buy it today atr drug stores 35c, 65c and $1.25. uon t, be ashamed to ask for it.. COLONIAL STRAP OXFORD In light tan calf, with military heel, welt- sole. 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Gay Tuxedo models with belt and patch pocekts; ., others with trim button front and notch collar, smart pockets and belt. Colors are Brown, Blue and Heather mixtures. Fine for street wear, business mountain or -seashore. ' PRICED: Slimmer Skirts . Handsome pleated Skirts that conform in every way to fash ion's, latent edict, ."beautifully tailored models, in Paunella Cloth, Plaids . and Novelty Stripes, for any outdoor occa sion or for business wear - m $7 m up- BELK 25 ' . . - It .f -
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