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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 9, 1921. The Charlotte News Published Try THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. V. C. DO WD. Pres. anff (JSen. Mp. JUI.IAN S. IVfTLLKR r-f&$r JASPER C. HUTTO. . ... . . J&JB$ W. M. BELL.. Advertising Mgr. Telephones. Business Office Circulatlen Department City EMitor ;J; EdJtorfai Rooms Printing House 1S8q MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier. One year ',12$2 .Six monthn ... J-W Three months One montn One week By Mail. One year Six months -00 Three months 2.00 One month 75 Sunday Only. (By Mail or Carrier.) One year 2.60 Six months . 1S0 TIMES-DEMOCRAT (Semi-Weekly.) One year 1.50 Six months 71 'toasts3 THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921. GOD SPEED! Again President Harding: utters his wish that the world may find the path way of permanent peace. Again, how ever, he repeats that the way to reach this goal is not in the direction of what he terms a "super-power". To illustrate the possibilities, he re fers to the notable fact that Canada and the United States have a boundary, virtually without an armed man upon it, extending from Maine to British. Col umbia. In more than a century 'this border line of thousands of miles has not heard a shot fired in anger. No American can fail to appreciate the blessing confered by the happy re lations existing between us and our neighbor to the north. No reflecting American could but wish that there were some such relations existing be tween the French in Lorraine and their neighbors across the Rhine, between the Poles and the folks in Silesia of an other race, between all the squabblers in the well nigh uncountable little wars that are in progress in whatever lands. As a matter of fact, though, such trans-bounary relations are quite the exception. The world is in a mess by reason of the prevalence of relations of a directly opposite nature. President Harding and his party have caused America to turn its back upon a plan for the peaceful settlement of the re sulting difficulties, a plan not perfect indeed even in the claims of its most enthusiastic, supporters, but one which, in the belief of many briljiant and .deep students of word-affairs, was the best that has yet been devised and emi nently susceptible of improvement in the light of actual experience, if the peace-seeking peoples of the world were but willing to give it a chance to gain that experience by. putting it to the test. Such a flat rejection entails upon the head of the most powerful and most greatly blessed nation of the earth the duty of substituting a better plan for world peace and of getting it launched. It is understood that Messrs. Harding and Hughes are at work upon such a proposition and will launch it at the proper time. Regardless of party af filiations their fellow-countrymen will wish them God-speed, and only carp ing critics will indulge a sneer, should the new plan prove clos&ly to resemble the one worked out so painstakingly at Versailles in 1919. IN RE THE PREVAILING FASHION It is sai dthat Miss Jane AddamSfcpf Hull House fame is willing to guarantee "the morality of woman's dress as now decreed by fashion", and that Dr. "Woods Hutchison,, one of the country's foremost authorities on health matters praises the same styles as "the most healthful woman has ever worn". De spite which high authorities, some of us-humbler mortals are still wondering what will come or rather go next. PASSING STRANGE The Russian Soviet Government in the first flush of its triumph "abolish ed" money along with many other capi talistic snares and devices. Later they relented so far as to au thorize a paper currency which quick ly reached the level of value made fam iliar throughout the South In Confed erate days when the housewife took her money to market in a wheelbarrow and brought her purchase home, in her pocket-book. Now Lenine sees, according to. re ports, advantages to be reaped by re suming the coinage of the precious me tals. The old government mint in Petro grad was found, upon investigation, to be practically intact and workmen were employed and orders issued to get busy with the old equipment. Which has given rise to one of the strangest coins in the history. of mint ing, since the Lydians first made the practice Known to civilization several thousand years ago, namely one issued by the, soviet revolutionaries and cir culating under their authority despite the fact that the portrait effigy upon it is that of Nicholas the Second, for mer czar of all the Russias. Verily the impatience and Carelessness of the Soviet authorities have pro duced a coin which must give rise to Homeric laughter among any gods of aneient Olympus that may chance to be taking an interest in things to the east 'fit the .Vistula just now At DRAWING ROOM COMEDY Remember the howl that was put up just after the armistice about bring ing William of Hohenzollern to trial for, his crimes, against civilization? About how he was to be torn from his refuge in Holland, with the con sent of the Dutch or without it, and arraigned befpre the bar of an aveng ing justtice? Well the agitation, then of whirlwind proportions, has simmer ed down in the months that have since elapsed into an actual trial held at Leipsic in which certain very subordin ate German officers are the defendants. Of the progress and implications of that trial the London Evening Stan dard says: "In each case a subordinate has been chosen for prosecution and it was open to him to plead that he had merely obeyed the instructions of his superior officers or the regulations of the Ger man army. In the cases of three de fendants nominal sentences were passed In the case of a fourth we have an acquittal. Opened in the spirit of a drawing room comedy, the proceedings are degenerating into a farce. The Bri tish authorities may have done actual harm by placing subordinate officers on trial unless they have determined to bring home the responsibility to Tir pitz and other arch criminals respon sible for the policy of f rightfulness at sea." The trouble is that nations have long been supposed to be exempt from dictates of morality or even humanity such as are held rigidly to obtain in the case of individuals. False as is such a philosophy and dire as are its results in every time of war, its exis tence or rather prevalence cannot be denied- To punish severely a German lieuten ant for a deed committed under orders and in the name of the Fatherland, even were that deed the shooting of Captain Fryatt or the doing to death of Nurse Cavell, would be to exact a pen alty from an individual for the false thinking of ten generations, supposed ly civilized. To mete out justice to the Hohenzoll ern or von Tirpitz would be to revive by his martydrom a cause now outworn and happily falling into oblivion. So what are you going to do? Wrightsville Beach, or rather the un dercurrent at that resort, Jias already begun to take its toll of lives. And yet a modicum of extra caution in each case would cause the ocean's hun gry maw tc go unfed. WELL DONE In denying to the New York Call the privileges of mailing, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia seems, to the layman, unversed in legal intricacies, to have merely taken a small step in the direction of self-pre servation. As the attorney who pres ented the case for the Government commented, the integrity or the free dom of the press is not involved but merely the prostitution of that free dom. "During the progress of the war," declares the Court's opinion, "the Call waged a persistent campaign to em barrass the Government in its prosecu tion and to imbue the minds of the readers of the publication with the thought that it was a class war, fought not for the democracy but for groups of capitalists. "After the. armistice the efforts of the Call were directed towards imbu ing its readers with a sense of in jury and prejudice, not only against the Government but against organized society and toward justifying to those readers the horrible nightmare of crime that had been committed in Russia and in inciting and encouraging like crime In the United States." If the "freedom of the press" amend ment to the Constitution is to be in voked successfully in aid of spreading such doctrines as those fostered by the Call, it will not be long until there will be danger of that venerable and high ly useful document taking its place with the code of Hammurabi and the regulations of Potsdam court etiquette on the shelf reserved for instruments that have been . but are no longer in effect. "Nine More Women In Stillman Case" reads a headline. Won't some body please insert into the practice of the New York courts the "executive ses sion" that is being kicked out of its stronghold in the United States Senate? "DESCENDING NIGHT" Since the Latin Quarter of Paris tam ed down we've always had our doubts about the degree of said taming, but no matter Greenwich Village has alone furnished a living ideal of the traditional Bohemia where long hairedl men and short haired girls could starve and enthuse amid picturesque surround ings in the sacred cause of Art, spell ed with the biggest "A" obtainable and as many "r's" ' as you could persuade your throat to roll. In accordance with the high prero gatives inhering in such a representa tive position, the front of the Green wich Village theatre was recently ad orned with a poster entitled "Descend ing Night". The metropolitan raner-a so far we have seen them, have failed to reproduce the poster for the benefit of their constituencies so we are unable to say precisely what "Descending Night' looks like. A sufficiently ac curate idea may be gained, however, from the statement that it makes the lamented "September Morn" look like an overdressed female while "Nude De scending the Staircase" is not in its class at all as far as scantiness of drap ery is concerned. But even Greenwich Village is not what it was once. Did "Descending Night" remain upoh the Village thea ter's front billboard? It did Just long enough for critics to get a stern and unartistic magistrate to view it. That Official in his barabarous zeal ordered it removed and removed it had to be. Is the title "Descending. Night" an unconscious prophecy of the twilight that is descending upon the Bohemia that the Village so gamely tries to represent? AN INTERESTING EXPLANATION A difference in understanding of the guns meant in an order was the cause of the famous charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in which six hun dred English cavalrymen dashed them selves to pieces against several score thousand Russians. A similar misun derstanding as to the meaning of the word "assault" is offered by the New York Herald as the cause of the blood shed and conflagration at Tulsa, The theory is so ingenious as to merit at tention. "Because the word 'assault", contend the Herald, "long has been and -is gen erally misused in the United States to mean 'rape', Tulsa endured a riot in which a million dollars in property was destroyed and thirty persons were kill ed." Following this somewhat sweeping generality, the Herald defjnes the legal meaning of the word assault and con tinues: "A negro man . in Tulsa stepped on a white girl's . foot and she upbraided him for his clumsines. The negro an swered back. A row resulted. The ne gro was arrested and a newspaper said he was accused of assaulting a white girl A few lawless fools took the word to mean rape and started the trouble. . . The Jradegy of Tulsa has proved again that words are dangerous things-" Accepting the Herald's version of the facts it is materially at variance with other reports, apparently authentic, as to the origin of the trouble was it the misinterpretation of the world "assault" or was it a too little v restrained racial bitterness, combined with a vastly too small respect for the law as such, that lay at the bottom of the subsequent dis-i order? We have our own idea as to which had most to do with what hap pened. Of course the Herald is wel come to its opinion. That words are dangerous things, as the Herald asserts in its concluding phrase, no reflecting man would think of denying: but the events in Tulsa offer very little more support to it than does Einstein's theory of relativity or Lenine's reported chargt-6f attitude, or the mpons of jfipiter. With three conventions, a gigantic pageant and city School commencements in Wilmington this week, the city by the sea will be in danger of contract ing giddiness from such a rapid suc cession of one thing after, or rather on top of, another. COL. GALBRAITH The whole country may well feel the loss of Col. F. W. Galbraith, Jr., na tional commander of' the American Le gion, who met his death early this morning in an automobile accident at Indianapolis. Galbraith served with great distinc tion in the expeditionary forces and his usefulness as head of the great, organi zation of service men and as their lead er in multifarious constructive plans in these post-war days was marked. To ability he added a rare power of personal attractiveness which bound his fellows to him and gave an open ing for the exercise of his uniformly wholesome influence. A lover of his country has jgone. Peace to his ashes! Durham county commissioners have voted $24,000 to build a Durham county cottage at the Jackson Training school at Concord. The investment is one bearing the highest rate of interest known to the commercial world, said in terest being payable in character, man liness and general worth to be exem plified by the lads who will be occu pants or me new cottage in the years 'a . . . . . to come. About the hardest job In town is held by Laurence Jones who sends the evil doers down to jail for rolling bones. When he must make decisibns rare he sits upon the judge's chair, bites his lips and pulls his hair with countless moans and groans. Every day thei'd is a case which calls for painful thought. A man is brought into the place. He had the goods when caught. But lawyers cry out, "Oh, Judge Jones, every child that this man owns has lumbago in all its bones. Thsir days are running short. His wife Is sick with yellow chills, his mother with the mumps. He spends his money buying pills. His life is one of bumpi Hi9' spouse could never bear te load if you should send , him to "the road. Forgive the wild oats that he sowed He only had the dumps." And Judgo Jones in distraction rubs an aching brow and scans his book for action to oe used in such a row. With count less tears upon his cheeks he raises up nis nead and speaks, "I'm forced to give him thirteen weeks. It hurts me much, I vow." Every day it's just the same. The lawyers In their speeches show the judge the man is lame accused of steal ing peaches. The judge then twitches both his ears, turns his head and bursts in tears and screams, "I'll give him fourteen years despite your sad beseeches." Every client lawyers take have wives and mothers' ill. They cry, '"For 'lis grandmother's sake I know yourXhonor will." Then they show tne judge his crutch, and Laurence looks and boohoos much, but still he sighs "He got In dutch they found his liquor still." - The life Is sad of Laurence Jonea. Each day is full of shocks. On still days you can hear his groana and moans for many blocks. He grabs his dook, lajcea a glimpse, and saya, "i'u sorry this man limps, but my book says to give such simps six months at breaking rocks." Copyright 1921, by News Publishing Co. ELIMINATION IS PROPOSED. Boston, June 9. Elimination from membership in medical association of physicians who wilfully fail or refuse to comply with local or state health laws for the prevention of disease was urged Wednesday by the preventive medicine and miblic health tutinn WORLD'S BIGGEST ISSUE OF BONDS German Securities Are to Be Quoted to Investors, at Bargain Kates. By CHAS. McCANN, TJxmted Press Staff CotTesptmSBt. London, June d. Germany' new rep arations bonds will be market! - if they get that far at a price between below 45 and S5 per cent of their? face value. sThe highest estimate 63 or 65i per cent is given fcy government officials. The other 45 to $0 :s an optMistic financial one. Though Germany will deliver tx the Reparations Commission the initial" frr stalment of her $33,000,000,000 in bonds on July 1, there is so far no informa tion as to what really is to happen to the world's biggest bond Issue. Officials point out topotential irtve'sr tors that the bonds are backed by the entire resources of the German Errfpire. Financiers point out that the bond mar ket is bad and that Germany's dtpara tions record so far is not dazsslingl? good, or likely to become so for liviite a time. Two things will help largely to de termine the price of -the bonds, whteri and if marketed. First, Germany's record from June.l, when the first, instalment of reporatictis $250,000,000 is due, to the time he bonds are marketed. " Second, investors' confidence in Ger many's ability and intention to pay tStte interest ann nrinninal. Prospective buyers probably will asfe" themselves: First, is it to Germany" a advantage to make the issue attractive when the lower the price the cheaper? Germany or individual Germans, couMj buy them back, thus discounting heavS- ly the reparations bill? Second, Is there any means by whicl's Germany could repudiate the issue ai' some future time? Third, If the bonds are all marketed, would, the Allies protect investors at; any cost In the event Germany attempt- i notice Of the early gold prospectors', ed to evade payment; inasmuch as theyjBert Knapp has secured a diving suit are not backed by Allied credit? .land will explore the bottom of the Official and financial replies to the V wif t-flowing Feather River, first question are. No. To, the second E and third, replies "vary. I . Investors mav comfort themselves with the thought that, if the issue is the biggest in history, the holders, no matter what or who they are, will be the largest body of creditors in mstcry If it is possible to market only 1 per cent of the bonds', 99 per cent will be held by Allied governments to whom thev represent in some cases a pr&cti cally sole barrier aealnst bankruptcy Jf 99 per cent are marketed, ' th?y will be in the hands of-individuals who pre sumably would do their best to force their governments to take active steps to make the issue good. The Allies hope it will be possible to market most of the bonds, if the price is "high" enough. They hope also, that either the original or smbae ouent buyers will be Germans. The in ducement is a heavy reduction in the actual total of reparations to be prvid to outsiders, and knowing the financial power of Germany there are Tiany who believe this will be the solution. If pthls is the case, it will be years before Germany actually benefits, as the bonds are to be issued by the Reparations Commission, as Germanv is ble to pay interest and sinking fund on th?m from her stated annual payments of f.Din,oirj 000, plus a twenty-six per cent tax on her exDorts. To the investor the inducement will be a $100 five per cent bon-1. rcaf keted at perhaps fifty, "backed by the entire resources of the German em pire." His response presumably will be in proportion to his success in satis fving himself that there wi-I te co. lectors .willing . and able to keep? the necessary portion of the empire s re sources at . the command,; or ine pom holders. if " Is . WEATHER FAVORABLE IN THE COTTON BELT Washington. June 9. Conditions generally were favorable for cotton dur insr the week which ended . Tuesday, the national weather and crop bullet'n Wednesday announced. The crop made fair to very good progress during the week. Moderate to heavy rains occur red In much of the Western portion of the belt, but rainfall was of ft local character, mostly light, in the Central and Eastern portions; temperatures were above normal, except i- the .more Eastern districts.' Cool nights were; unfavorable fo rapid growth in the : CarOlinas. Rarn is needed in some Central and Eastern localities. Late planted cotton has germ inated slowly in Tennessee and AU bama owing to insufficient moisturs Very good progress was reported from Georgia, although the crop is small and late and the stands poor. Cultivation made satisfactory prog ress generally and chopping has been completed in much of the belt. Weevil are reported in some central and Northwestern counties of Texas, in the Mississippi delta counties, southern Alabama and central and southern South Carolina, while the pest . ia spreading everywhere in Georgia. THREE AMERICANS IN FINAL ROUND Glen Eagles. Scotland, June 9.-Only three American professional golfers to day survived the Qualifying rounds or the Thousand Guineas tournament and are eligible for match play in the con tinuation of the event today. They are Walter Hagen, former open champion; Jock Hutchison and Emmet French. None of the others was able to attain the golfing prowess necessary to be among the sixteen men whose aggregate low scores of the two day play I over " the King's course and the Queen's course made them eligible to compete for the prizes. Edward Ray, holder of the Ameri can open championship was the low score man for fifty four holes, his card showing 212 strokes. He was hard pressed however, by Hutchison and A. C. Gavers, both of whom went around in 213. French and Hagen required 220 strokes. F. D. A. A READY FRIEND IN TIME OF TROUBLE ATTESTED BY LONG RECORDS OF "MONEY PORASHES'V ALEXANDER'S F. D. THOS. L. ' Insurance. MEXICO CANNOT SIGNATKEATY As a Condition of Recogni tion, Says Statement of Mexican Government. - Mexico City, June" 9.-rBy the Asso ciated Press;) -Formal signature oij State as a condition to recognition of thev Obregon administration tr."5!fl; ingtorf is impossible, said a statement Mannrf f th Presidential omcc last ;night. President Obregon: declined to Tnf Tiftwsoaoer men but nis privs I secretary, Fernando Torreblanea, sal3 there was nothingr to aaa ta rni Pronouncements by the Mexican gov ernment and that the situation vras not changed. At the same time, a statement was issued by the foreign office declaring tviaf al rnrnmrt-dAi treats between the sirable, but that the Mexican Presides. did not possess the right to conclude a treaty of a political nature a-icli as was proposed by the United States in its recent memorandum to the J lex ical government, "The treaty of amity and com morce proposed by the United States an May 27," said the statement, "con tained two sections, one pertaining to eon merce and the other regarding bet ter poetical relations. The claused rot ative to commerce would be acceptable after the making of some modification aed additions which would avoid later conflicts. . v "In the political phase, the American note was. objectionable, because it con tained stipulations which were con trary to the precepts of the Mexican constitution and which the President, who must, first of all, have regara for the constitution, has no power to accept. The constitution, in effect, prohibits expressly in article fifteen the 'celebrating of conventions or treat ies which may alter guarantees or rights eeatblished by the constitution'." Oroville. Cal. Believing that many 'hidden river-bed channels escaped the KEEP KOOL Hot Weather Suits BeatfiSiiful fabrics that give the. breezes a chance to cut cfcsf the heat waves. Just whrtt every man is looking ibr this . kind of weather. The materials are: Tropic? il Worsteds Palnii Beaches jVLihairs . Shantiuigs, Etc. x Stray Hats White Flanrtel Trousers. The Men's fStore 34 So. Tron. Hand Painted CHINA WARE For those who 'seek Wedding Gifts wa ar& offering a most beaiatiful assortment of liand painted china. Hies pieces are elegant and particularly; apnrop$i&te. B. F. R0AEK Diamonds, . CIoclis, Watches, Silverwaire. v 10 N. Tryon-Streitet B ELK- THE HOME OF BETTER YALUES , Ginghams voiles Organ 0 Of Real Values Ginghams in pretty solid colors, yellows, greens, all shades of ftlues and pink, laven ders, tans browns, etc., and the colors are fast the price is less. It's a 25c gingham at 18C Or perhaps you want the' pretty plaids or stripes we have them in beautiful patterns and at the same price, yard. Jg We began yesterday selling 40-inch Voiles quite a pretty lot of good colors at, yd. If you haven't already bought your figured Voile Dresses or even if you have it will pay you well to see our new Voiles at this Special Late Summer Price now. Voiles 40 inches wide at 39c, 48c and 69c that a short time back sold for double this price. And near the Gingham counter you will find 36-inch Dress Ginghams. It's a yard wide at 15c, and you can buy these 36-inch Ging hams on Remnant counters at 10c and 12V2c On this same Remnant Counter near the Ginghams, you will get yard wide Percale, yard wide Ginghams, yard wide Bleached Domestic, Long Cloth, Curtain Goods, Dra peries, Good Sea Island all a yard wide and only 10c Yd. On the same counter you may find Embroid ery- Cloth, Linen Finish Waisting, White Dimity Checks, Ladlassie Cloth, all 25c goods at 12Voo. 15c and 18c Towels You are going to need some new Towels, Sheets, Pillow Cases for home or the moun tain cottage. Here's something extra good: Large size White Huck Towel a splendid 25c towel, at per dozen 2 Jj LOT 2 A fine Huck' Hemstitched Towel, looks and wears like linen, pretty borders. Extra values, per dozen eo.75 Ask to see our new line of Bath Towels at $1.00, $1.50jand $2.25 dozen and save money. Organdies We Have also made a leading price in solid colored 40-inch Organdies in all the new shades 29c Bed Linens 81x90 Good $1.25 Sheets . ...... . ... .Qgg Come in and see our new Pillow Cases at 15c, 19c, 29c, 33c, 39c. They are better values for less. BELK THE HOME OF dies BROS. BETTER VALUES the ArnricahMedicai Association. - 6 . t i .