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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 21r 1921.
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relief from which has only recently
been" granted through the form of an or
der from the Interstate Corporation
Commission. And yet before even the
benefits of this order from the govern
mental authorities are enjoyed, the rail'
road? come with a proposal to revise
the rate structure as it applies to North
Carolina and further to victimize the
people, the business and manufactur
ing interests and the consumers gen
erally, with a new and higher revision.
It is time that definite and determined
action is called out against such a
move.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1921.
One reason that the British people
will understand the recent indiscretions
of Harvey and Sims is that there are
some even among their own who have
the happy faculty of making mokeys
of themselves in season as well
out.
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TAXES
People don't like to pay taxes- The
debt of the citizen to the State is al
ways difficult to t-Dllect. There are
always delays about it and lots of kk-I:
ing so far as the average citizen is con
cerned. He puts a very small premium
on the privileges of citizenship and he,
therefore, holds on as long as po6ible
to the tribute which the State right
fully exacts from him.
Taxes ought to be, with the good in-
tentioned citizen, the easiest debt he
has to pay. They represent his obliga
tion to the State for all it is doing for
him, his obligation to society for im
provements and progress and cLandar-Js
of living. They constitute the price
that must be paid for development.
Citizens who favor stagnation, who are
satisfied with present attainments, wbo
are unconcerned about ths preservation
of law and order, who ai- indifferent
as to the sort of schools in the com
munity or the sort of roads, would na
turally rebel against the. levying of a
tribute for the purpose of supporting
such institutions and maintaining such
standards of civilization. But those
citizens who believe in these things and
who conceive that they are individually
liable for their proportionate part of
the cost of these things ought never
protest-against the payment of taxes.
It is an infrequent citizen who is
not at this time raising a howl about
his taxes. He thinks the State is tak
ing too much out of his pockets. He
will say that there must be a terrible
leakage somewhere or that the State is
creating and maintaining too many of
fices that so much money is needed
from the citizens. He does not seem
to understand where the money is go
ing or what the State can di vith the
millions that are rolling into itti treas
ury, or for what the city or the county
are spending the amounts which they
receive.
The truth of the matter Is that we
ought to have more to say about what
these high taxes represent and rather
compliment the people of North Caro
lina that they are not living in a low
tax atmosphere. That commonwealth
which is taxing its people to the end
that they may enjoy all the benefits
of civilization, that they may have the
best schools procurable, the best roads
that can be built, the best institutions
for the lame and the halt and the blind
and the feeble-minded, the best type of
government, the best of everything,
that is the commonwealth that people
want to live in.
On the other hand, the community
that is existing on a low-tax basis is
generally that community which has
a minimum of these best things, ir.at
has poor roads and old shacks of school
houses, that has only ordinary enjoy
ment. Jforth Carolina, in times past, has
thought itself to be unable to enjoy
these more advanced benefactions. The
people were content with low taxes and
with poor roads and with a rating for
illiteracy that will remain a shame and
a disgrace to the State, but we have at
last awakened to the conviction that
in this commonwealth we are able to
have as good as can be procured, that
we can pay taxes in any sum necessary
In order to have those things needed for
pur enjoyment, for our progress and
tor our development. The low-tax ideal
has passed out of the minds of North
Carolinians and with it has gone the con
viction that the State is too poor to set
In motion those processes upon which
growth and development and life more
ahundant are predicated.
THE EDUCATIONAL WAVE
It is an amazing development of the
citizens of North Carolina that they
are indicating a determination to spend
whatever amount of money may be
necessary for their educational uplift.'
That the State has long enough been
satisfied with average educational oppor
tunitles for its people seems to be a
conviction that has swept the common
wealth from the mountains to the sea
side. Ten million dollars in bond issues
for school buildings have been voted
since January by 87 communities in 55
of the counties jOf the State.
This tremendous amount of rroney
has not been given by the plutocrats.
It has been yoted out of their own
pockets by the people themselves who
are convinced that education is vrth
all that It will cost them and all that
it will cost their successors. It has
been voted by the farmers of the te,
by those whose losses in cotton and
tobacco deflation have run into millions
of dollars.
The producers of these two commo
dities in this State are said to be short
$162,000,000 in receipts from last year's
productions and the cotton manufactur
ers are short millions more, nobody has
the daring to estimate. And yet these
bonds have been voted in communities
where cotton and tobacco farmers pre
dominate and in sections where the cot
ton manufacturing industry is ascen
dant. Well does The University News
Letter remark that "this is the most
cheering thing in North Carolnna in
this year of business depression".
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FREIGHT RATES
Shippers of the State have been sum-
tnoned to Raleigh Friday to organize
themselves, according as the Corpora
lion Commission may advise, against the
general and far-reaching advances, in
freight rates which the carriers are
proposing to make effective In North
Carolina.
The sentiment of the people or North
Carolina, not only the shippers but all
ther classes likewise, is set solidly
Igainst this move on the part of the
railroads. High freight rates have al
teady done the State incalculable harm,
Ates have been thought unjustified and
BAD TEETH AND BOLSHEVISM
A London physician has ascertained
that the insanity of Lenine and Trotsky,
the bolshevik leaders of Russia, is caus
ed by bad teeth.
Science discovered some years ago
that imperfect teeth were the cause of
many ills of the body, some of the mind
and a few of the soul. After diligent
exploration, the doctors of laboratory
found that decayed roots of the teeth
set up infections that permeated the
body and started trouble which, if not
arrested, would sooner or later seriously
affect the entire physical and mental
structure.
Nevertheless, it is a somewhat novel
theory thata bad molar will make a -bol
shevik of a man. Ofttimes one of this
sort has diven a man temporarily mad,
has wrecked his nights with incessant
pain and otherwise disturbed his normal
equilibrium, but in a majority of in
stances, such contortions Qf pain have
ended about the time the dentist's office
was approached, only, to be resumed
when the home had been reached again.
Bad teeth also have been known to oc
casion somewhat violent outbreaks of
temper and domestic felicity has been
upset because, forsooth, some major
member of the' household was( groping
about with a swollen jaw and an aching
tusk, but we submit it to be a new
discovery that a bad tooth will implant
a strange" and subtle and destructive
philosophy of life in one's mind.
The London scientist should pursue
his studies along this line and perhaps,
he will find that the whole trouble
with the world today, is molaristic, that
humanity is suffering from defective
teeth which have wraped the mental
and moral outlook and which is mak
ing men fit subjects either for the peni
tentiary or the insane asylum. Who
knows but that if such researches are
pursued far enough, it" may be found
that a bad tooth is more to be dreaded
than the moonshine made out of con
centrated lye for its power of vitiation
and destruction.
In the case, however, of the two
champion bolshevists of the world's his
tory, the-fact ought to be definitely as
certained whether they are just natural
devils or whether bad teeth hath made
them mad. In this latter event it would
profit the governments of earth to chip
in and buy them a set of malse teeth
each, to the end that they might be
restored to "normalcy" and that the j
heresy which they have been preach
ing so relentlessly might perish from
the memory of men.
No matter how a person acts, he'll
find to his chagrin that he will have
to pay a tax that rakes his income
In. Some one ought to find some day
a certain kind of tax to pay, or show
the government a way to fill their big
kale bin without demanding surplus
cash for this and thatwe do, and charg
ing us a tax on hash, cool drinks and
Brunswick stew. If Uncle Sam would
take a hint a splendid way to fill the
mint would be to advertis'e in print a
tax on gossip, too-
A gossip tax no doubt alone would
bring more needed kale than any kind of
tax that's known. When some one
spreads a tale just charge a tax of 15
cents or maybe more for each offense.
The revenue would be immense. The
idea could not fail. When some old nag
says, "Well. I see Bill Jones has hurt
his wife they say he got upon a spree
and ripped her with a knife," the gossip
tax would come in fine with 15 cents
charged for each line in which there
was a bad design or motive to start
strife. If one cop took a street in town
and had it well patrolled, he's run
enough old gossins down to fill the mint
with gold. No matter where he might
meander he could overhear some slan.
der. Even on his front veranda he
could hear it told.
Other taxes could be stopped If we
would charge a sum for every hint a
person dropped about a -poor man's
rum. The gossip tax would be no joke,
for it would always keep us broke.
We'd certainly have to bear the yoke
and soon learn to keep mum.
Copyright, 1021, by Xw Publishing; Co.
LIVING COST DROPS.
New Tork, June 21. The cost of
living in the United States dropped 2.3
per cent in May, according to figures
made public by the national industrial
conference board. The total decrease
from July 1920 to June 1, 1921, was
20.8 per centleaving the net increase
between July 1914 and June 1921, at
61.9 per cent..
to remark, as showing how rapidly
North Carolina is moving up, that we
have doubled our investment in public
school properties during the last six
years. In a single year we doubled our
expenditures for public school support.
From 12 to 24 millions in properties,
and from 6 to 12 millions in annual
support tells the story. In March
1921 the General Assembly doubled the
total working income of our state
schools of technical training and liberal
learning; and further, it' authorized a
bond issue of six million dollars as a
loan fund to encourage the consolida
tion of public schools. ' Manifestly the
lecal communities of North Carolina are
feeling the stimulus of these courageous
measures, and they are responding with
signal heroism.
For two and a half centuries we have
said in North Carolina that we were
too poor to educate. We now believe
that we are too poor not to educate.
Eighty-seven alert communities in fifty
five counties are acting upon this be
lief. The school-tax willingness of these
communities ranges from three dollars
per inhabitant in Gastonla to one hun
dred eighty-four dollars in Monroe, or
so at least in school bond issues since
January 1st of the year.
In the bulk total of school bonds
voted Greensboro leads all the rest. But
this bond' issue is only fifty dollars
per inhabitant, and thirty smaller com
munities make a better showing. Among
these little communities are Rich
Square, Bunn, Creedmoor, Carthage,
Hillsboro, and Lakewood. Thirteen of
these got under a school bond burden
of more than one hundred dollars per
inhabitant. Hobbsville and Moncure
beat Greensboro three to one!
Kinston is considering a school bond
Issue of nine hundred thousand dollars;
which is ninety-two dollars per inhabi
tant; but as already noted thirteen
small towns have already voted bond
issues of more than one hundred dollars
per Inhabitant two of them one hun
dred and fifty dollars per inhabitant.
Smithfield in the heart of the cotton
belt voted school bonds amounting to
one hundred thirty-two dollars per in
hablntant. Goldsboro is contemplating a bond is
sue of six hundred thousand dollars,
which is fifty-three dollars per inhabi
tant. Tihtry-two cities of the state have
already voted bond issues beyond fifty
three, dollars per inhabitant. Among
these are Morehead City, fifty-nine dol
lars; Carthage, seventy-eight dollars;
Snow Hill, one hundred saven dollars
and Moncure one hundred eighty-four
dollars per inhabitant.
Salisbury has recently voted a bond is
sue of five hundred thousand dollars,
which is thirty -six dollars per inhabi
tant. Forty-nine towns of the state
have already voted school bonds beyond
thirty-six dollars per inhabitant. When
you check over the list of these brave
little communities, what Salisbury has
done looks fairly small.
As for Louisburg, a bond issue of six
ty thousand dollars, tor thirty-one dol
lars per inhabitant, is nothing great.
Fifty-three towns of the state have al
ready done better than anything Louis
burg proposes . to do.
Winston-Salem's eight hundred thous
and dollars of school bonds Is only
seventeen dollars per inhabitant. And
High Point's six hundred thousand dol
lars for school buildingsVis only forty
two dollars per inhabitant. On a per
capita basis, forty-four cities have done
better than High Point, and only seven
school communities make a poorer show
ins than Winston-Salem,
PAINS IN
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more than a negro murdered Caused by Woman's Ills and
Cured by Lydia E.Pinkham s
Vegetable Compound
The negro Williams down in Moul
trie, Ga., who murdered a little 12-year-old
girl, deserved to pay for his
crime with his life. It was a dastard
ly, revolting . crime and justice would
not have been content with anything
less than an eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth in this case. And Williams
would have died July 8th. He com
mitted the crime only a few days ago, i
arrangements were perfected for an im
mediate trial, he soon faced a jury and
judge, was convicted and sentenced to
die on this date in the electric chair.
Then as he was being taken from the
court house, a mob seized him from the
hands of the officers, took him out into
the woods and lynched him, one of
the most excuseless lynchings yet record
ed even in Georgia-
Lynchings are usually committed in
the heat of passion aroused immediate-
lv after the commission of a crime. !
People lose their heads and let the ani
mal in them have full dominion. Or
sometimes, they wait awhile and after
reflection, come to the conclusion that
other guilty men have managed to es
cape just punishment and for fear that
their own man might be so lucky, they
agree to take no chances, with the
courts, and off they go into the woods
with him.
But in this case, neither of these two
major conditions prevailed as govern
ing motives for the mob. The murder
was committed several days beforehand.
There had been time for the cooling
of. the sudden, surging passions of the
friends of the little girl and her family.
And there was no uncertainty as fo
whether the courts would function or
not. The courts hal already functioned,
swiftly and unerringly, and in the
course of only two weeks, the negro
would been killed by the State, in full
compliance with the strict terms of
the law and justice.
None of the stereotyped reasons for
the rule of the mob existed in this case.
And the ugly affair is made only the
uglier. The mob merely reverted to
the barbaric and with hideous audacity
and grim defance of the proprieties,
the gangsters who murdered John
Henry Williams murdered also the most
majestic thing in Georgia, justice.
THE PRO-LEAGUE REPUBLICANS
The recent letter of Dr. Hamilton
Kolt to President Harding is typical
of the attitude of the pro-league repub
licans all over the country, a "great
Ibody of men who voted for President
Harding on his own statement made
during the campaign thaty he would
use his offices for the promotion of an
understanding - between the powers- of
the world. They are finding themselves
at this time holding on to the last
slender thread of hope, with all the evi.
dence against them, that this Admin
istration will do anything in the way
of thus binding the nations..
And the fact that there are so many
men of Dr. Holt's standing and prestige
who will never be satisfied until the
league of nations or' its eqivalent is es
tablished with the United States in it,
makes it inevitable that if this issue
Is not faced squarely by the Harding
administration and settled rirht. it will
loom up again In the next Presidential
campaign and the country will submit
to a genuine referendum on it.
FRENCH DEMOBILIZATION.
''- Paris, June 21. The cabinet today
authorized the war' minister to begin
demobilization of the entire class of
1919, June 25. The decision wad reach,
ed on receipt of a report that the
classes of 1920 and 1921 had bean train.
Grafton, Pa. "I was troubled with
inflammation and pains in my sides and
back. Alter doctor
ing with dmerent
doctors and not get
ting relief, I had al
most riven up hopes
when my sister told
me of Lydia E.Pink
ham s Vegetable
Compound, and
knowing thatshe Bad
really been helped by
it, 1 purchased it. I
was unable to do my
work at that time.
but after taking several bottles of the
Vegetable Compound I can now do any
thing about the house or farm that a
woman should do. I have a four months
old baby that is the healthiest and big
gest baby for his age that I have ever
seen. I am willing for my letter to be
used for a testimonial to tell other suf
fering women how much your medicine
has done for me, as I give Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound all the.
praise." Mrs. Blair L. Fisher, R.D.1,
Box 37, Grafton, Pa.
Working early and late lifting,
carrying, and the heaviest of houshold
duties is it any wonder that it results in
backaches and kindred ills. . But every
woman who suffers as Mrs. Fisher did
should profit by her experience and
S've Lydia E. Pinkbam s Vegetable
mpound a fair trial.
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