THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. fc. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 24, 1921
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Maray Specfaffs for
Try and be on hand promptly at 9 o'clock every morning as there are
many new things that are thrown out at a price, that are not mentioned for
lack of space.
This Chain Sale is one of the wonders of the South and contains more
real genuine bargains than any other sale that has ever been attempted.
JUST RECEIVED TWO LOTS OF " VOILE AND OR
GANDY DRESSES AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES.
$3.98 Values ' CI .85
at j. DJL
$4.98 Values CO. 85
at . ,...)
One table of Women's Corsets 95 C
One table of $2.50 Corsets $X
Entire stock of Trunks, Suit Cases and Hand Bags
above 98c at 20 per cent off in this Chain Sale.
In addition to our already reduced "prices on Rugs, we
offer during this sale only an extra 10 per cent discount.
SHEETS HALF PRICE
72x90 Seamless Sheets, ten dozen for 9 o'clock Satur
day and Monday morning, limit 2 to customer Q
MOHAWK BLEACHED SHEETING, 49c
ALL DAY Saturday and Monday we will sell Mo
hawk, 81-inch bleached Sheeting, best grade manu
factured, sold recently up to $1.50 per yard. A(
Special at Tt5!
YARD WIDE PERCALE, 10c
Full yard wide Percale, perfect short lengths to go on
sale, one lot Saturday morning and another lot Mon
day morning, values up to 35c per yard. Sale "1
price XVrl
PAJAMA CHECKS, 10c
Full yd wide Pajama Checks for Saturday morn- 1Ap
ing at 9 o'clock and while it lasts l"t
IMPORTED ORGANDIE, 68c
Very sheer quality Imported Organdie, pink, blue, maize,
helio, nile ,etc, quality that is retailing up FQp
! to $1.00 per yard. Sale price
MARQUISETTE VOILES, 22c
Full Mercerized Marquisette Voiles, values up. to 65c
per yard, to go on sale Saturday morning 22 C
BED TICKING ON A 6c COTTON BASIS
Full width Mattress Ticking, per yard
at
5c
Good quality Mattress Ticking, per yard . . QJL
at....... ... ...... 02C
Sateen Mattress Ticking, per yard X6iC
ACA best guaranteed featherproof Ticking
CRETONNE, 15c
36-inch Cretonne in all the new dark medium "J
and fancy designs, values up to 35c JLtJv
COLORED VOILES, 18c
36 to 40 inch Colored Voiles, all this season's newest
patterns, values up to 65c per yard "1 Q
Sale price JLO 1
32-INCH GINGHAM, 10c
One big table 32-inch Gingham, all good dress
patterns, warranted fast colors XUC
32-inch Fancy Plaid Dress Gingham, values up "1 K
to 35c, for lOt
35c GINGHAM, 161c
All standard Dress Gingham, values up to 35c per yard,
including the newest Spring and Summer - CtX-A
patterns, warranted fast colors. Sale price XU2 v
CROCHET SPREADS
Full size Crochet Spreads,' $1.50 values 85 C
68x88 Crocheted Spreads, extra heavy weight. (J"f .55
Sale price p JL
86x90 Marseilles Spreads, a $7.50 value. CQ.95
Sale price tJ)o
COWHIDE OVERALLS, 85c
A genuine, nationally advertised Cowhide Overall,
recently sold for $3.00 per pair QP
Sale price OOC
MEN'S DRESS SHIRTS, 65c
Men's Percale and Madras Dress Shirts, values worth
up to $1.50, 60 dozen in the lot, one half to go on sale
Saturday morning at 9 o'clock and remaining 30 dozen
Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Special price JCTv
of ODC
Men's Blue Chambray Work Shirts, values up ET O A
to $1.00 OoC
Men's Percale and Madras Shirts, values up OET
to $2.00 ........ .. . yoc
Pongee Negligee Shirts, soft collars, also ox- QK
fords at $1.68 and ipJL
STRAW HATS
Men's Straw Hats, values up to $2.98 CI .65
Sale price tp JL
Choice of any sailor Straw Hat in the house.
Sale price
Panama Hat, values up to $3.9S
MEN'S PALM BEACH SUITS
...$1115'
Men's all wool Blue Serge and novelty wors- - A. 95
ted suits values up to $35.00. Sale price .. tP-I-I
A genuine Palm Beach Suit, best make
Sale price
BOYS' PALM BEACH SUITS
Boys' genuine Palm Beach Suits, with label, in new
nifty styles and 1
$12.50. Sale price
nifty styles and patterns, values up to (Sr7 QK
Charlotte, M. C.
MOVABLE FORTS
FOR COAST LINE
Fortresses on Railroad Line
Will Protect the Atlantic
Cities.
T x By T. N. SANDIFER,
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.
Washington, June 24. Moving fort
resses, camouflaged-streaked, and belch
ing 16-inch projectiles, may some day
keep an enemy fleet at bay off a vital
spot on America's shores.
These "f ortrtsses" - will be formidable
groups of the ; "42-centimere" type of
gun, mounted on railway carriages,
which will be used for the first time
as coast defenses. . v .
Realizing from European war experi
ences that . the powerful long-range
guns now carried by battleships make
permanent fortifications of questionable
value in defending our coasts from an
attack at sea, , the War Department is
rapidly building - up the long-contemplated
system of railway artillery with
which it is eventually hoped to girdle
our coasts. -
Our coast defenses are as strong as
it is possible for such works to be, but
me zact tnat tney are in fixed position,
and the fact that it is possible to lo
cate them, make other defenses de
sirable, if not actually essential. The
capture by Japanese and British storm
ing parties of the powerful sunken tur
rets comprising the defenses of Tsing
Tau, German China, early in the war,
following bombardment from the sea,
has demonstrated that this character
of fort is not as secure as had been
formerly considered.
Accordingly, the war department con
ceived some time ago the plan of sup
plementing our fixed coast defenses
with movable batteries mounted on car
riages which could go by rail from
point to point. This would mean that.
in addition to the stationary t batteries
making up the regular fortifications of
a seaport, other groups of batteries,
equally powerful and capable of moving
to any advantageous point or to any1
threatened- point, could keen un a
smashing fire on the enemy fleets, with
out having to wait there afterward
while said enemy got the range and
returned tne compliments. This is the
general plan. i
It did not progress so rapidly until
the close of the war found the war
department holding in its hands more
big guns, with movable railway mounts
or tne latest type, than they ever
thought they would get. So they set
to work, and a full report of their pro
gress and a new list of the technical
requirements of the new service have
been made to Congress and may be
made public later.
It is proposed to establish the first
regular railway system adapted to the
use of railway guns at a point within
strategic distance of the area which
military experts have calculated an
enemy undoubtedly would pick if he
sought to reach the vital spots of our
Atlantic coast. For, the purpose of the
defense chain war department experts
have selected a- former war camp, Camp
Eustis, Va., and asked that it be held
by the Government from the general
sale of camps and turned over to the
military authorities. This camp, it is
said, is the only one now ready whicn
is adaptable to the peculiar purposes
for which it is wanted. First, it is
strategically located, so that it is de
sirable as a permanent area. Second,
it already has twenty-two miles Of
trackage and is accessible to a main
trunk line, so thatjt can be linked up
with another area if necessary. Third,
its buildings, landings and other founda
tions were made specially solid, so that
the camp is already in condition to re
ceive the extra heavy loads.
If this camp is turned, over as de
sired, it is planned by the Coast Artil
lery to send units of the railway artil
lery there for training, after which
they could be dispatched to other areas
as they are ready. In the meantime
the Eustis site would have a permanent
garrison, with heavy movable guns,
ready to respond in several directions
to any threat either from the sea or
to support the hasty defense by the
army corps in the attacked area, if the
enemy should land.
FRIEND IS FIRST
NEED OF DOPER
Coke Eaters Can Be Saved
But Have to Have
Help.
By KENT WATCON
International News Service Staff
' Correspondent '
St. Louis,' Mo., June 24. Twithcing
lips, wan, drawn and haggard facial
features. Nervous glances at the pass
ersby; ' He discontentedly brushes his
fingers across his nose peeks furtively
up a dingy , storway, disappears.
An interval passes.
- Apparently : ecstasy characterizes his
reappearance. He straightens up, as
sumes a superficial dignity known only
to his realm: " He is personified sua
vity, challenging, the world to read be
hind his impassive mask of a flushed
face.
Another interval passes- -"I
can let you have a million, if you
need it," he says, glancing up. "Nice
blue suit you have. " What're the brass
buttons for? You're an aviator! I'll
give you a couple of airplanes. I
own the largest factory in the world."
"The operation started me," one of
the old-timers said to me when I asked
him what caused him to take up the
habit. "God" but I'd give my right arm
to be free from the stuff! It's gnawing
my soul away. The craving is what
runs me nutty. No price is too big to
pay for the stuff when you re out
There's nothing like its influence sort
of a heaven. Joy floats all around.
You don't know fear. You own the
world. Money grows on trees. Ev
erything's new and beautiful.
"I had a pus pocket on my spinal
column. The doctors didn't seem to
know what was the matter with me,
They kept me doped up. My family's
prominent in Kansas City now. They
don't know where I am . Don't you
tell 'em, for God's sake! After I'd
suffered an aeonv of ten dava a doc
tor made an incision in my back, and
I got well but I was a "dope-head."
I didn't want to quit them. It was the
only joy of life . to be under the inf lu
ence of the stuff.
"You could outwrite Shakespeare if
you'd take a 'shot,'" he said with a
cackling laugh.
His humor was passing. .
"I'm stuck," continued the prisoner
of fate. "I'm being railroaded to the
coop. I'll be better off, though,. I want
to get straight again and then I'm
going to start all over. I'll preach to
'beginners if I can on the same old
inspiration the stuff gives me- If you
ever get a 'shot' you'll understand
why it forms a 'come-back,' habit so
quickly. .
"Why, I went to heaven last Thurs
day. I played with the angels, ate
nectar of the gods with them. Swell
bunch. Rode up there on wings. Light
as feathers sailing through the air as
if on a bed of silk.
"The next day I was in hell. Not so
nice. I suffered for the sins of all the
world. Always a yawning blankness
with the heat. No objective in life. A
sort of a what's-the-use philosophy.
Pain. Distorted mind- A brain which
became a living flame, itching sensa
tions corraling the nerves into a cor
ner, where they are useless. Spurned
by everything good, ebbe'd to aching
by wonderment of whether you'll ever
get another 'sniff.' That's the inven
tory of the maniac a 'doper' becomes
when he misses out. "
Churches don't do enough good, the
doper" told me.
"Preachers seeking publicity by ca
vorting around and decrying evil," con
tinued the snow-bird," unwilling to let
me depart. "They don't seem to care
to stoop and help the,'down-and-outers'
in the world's 'hotel de gink. V A 'doper'
can be saved if anybody cares about
him. Society seems repulsed by the pres
ence of a 'bird' who's hit it hard and
just drifts in down because. it's the
easiest way. Weak men need the help
of the churches. Lot o' these 'dopers'
get bailed out whije their trials are pend
ing. They go back to the habit. The
preachers don't go down to the federal
courts and offer a chance in a heart-to-heart
talk."
MARRY A "PAL"
OR NOT AT ALL
So Advises Miss Sybil
Thorndike Who Pleads for
More Freedom.
By EARLE C. REEVES,
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.
London, June 24. The remarkable
slump in marriages in Great Britain
during the last year, coupled with the
publication here of sensational divorce
figures from the United States, has
caused serious discussions as to the
reasons for the so-called failure of the
modern marriage. i
Miss Sybil Thorndike who is, with
out exception, the most versatile ac
tress on the British stage today will
have none of it .
She admits that modern conditions
make contemplation of marriage a
problem, but she comes to the front
with a truly remarkable defense of
that well-known institution which, we
are told by some, is becoming a mis
erable failure.
"Unless she is very much in love,
the modern girl is inclined to be afraid
of marriage," Miss Thorndike declares.
"Yet. marriage, at its best, is the
most happy, exciting and delightful re
lationship possible in this world. Even
if there is not violent love on both
sides marriage can still be a very good
thing.
"In the finest type of marriage you
get a comradeship which is impossible
in any other relationship.
"Daily , habits, the little discussions
and fusses about children, and also the
livirig together, produce a comradeship
which you 'cannot get in any other
way. -
"There must be freedom that hus
bands and wives never had before and
which is all to the good.
"A married woman knows what is
comely and decent; but, without ever
going beyond the limits of comeliness
CAPITALIST SAYS
IT IS WONDERFUL
President of Light and Pow
er Company Makes Strong
Statement.
R. M. Oates, prominent capitalist,
bank director and president of the
Hendersonville, N. C, Light and Power
Company,, says: "I had a very severe
attack of nervous indigestion covering
a period of over two weeks. As soon
as I bcfean the use of Garren's Tonic
I obtained Instant relief. One bottle
of this medicine has completely over
come my troubles. I always keep a
bottle of Garren's TSnic on hand ready
for use. It is a wonderful prepara
tion and X unhesitatingly recommend it
to any on suffering with Indigestion
or who ifl in a general rundown con
dition." Garren's Tonic is sold in Charlotte
by Beatty's Drug Co., and in North
Charlotte by Haad's Pharmacy.
BAPTISTS PUSH
HOME MISSIONS
Much Progress is Reported
in Work Among Negroes
and Indians.
Des Moines, June 24. Notable pro
gress in educational work among ne
groes and Indians in this country and
the people of Central America, the op
ening of an international Baptist Sem
inary to train preachers for work
among foreign-speaking people, estab
lishment of a boys camp applying the
"Plattsburg idea" to religious training,
and creation of an architectural bu
reau to help make religious edifices
more effective, were among features of
the eighty-ninth report of the Ameri
can Baptist Home Mission Society pre
sented to the Northern Baptist con
vention to day by Dr. Charles L.
White, executive secretary.
Schoojs for negroes and Indians have
been taxed to their utmost capacity,
acording to Dr. George R. Hovey, of
the educational ' department. Through
gifts from the General Educational
Board and John D. Rockefeller, the sal
ary of teachers in these schools is be
ing increased and new buildings pro
vided at Bacone Indian College, Ba
cone, Okla., and Morehouse College, At
lanta, Ga. Indians of Oklahoma have
given $175,000 to aid Bacone. Need
for further extension of this education
al work is urgent, declares Dr. Charles
A. Broows, in charge of negro mis
sions. An intense race consciousness
is furnishing a perplexing problem for
the negro churches. Training of young
people for more adequate service in
church and community centers : is one
help to the solution of this difficulty.
In the United States, said Dr. Lemuel
C. Barnes, the society is co-operating
in 166 towns and cities in missionary
and church evtension work. Recom
mendation is made for more aggressive
organization for smaller cities. In
sparsely -settled areas six general mis
sionaries, forty-three assistants and 169
missionary pastors have had charge
off 220 churches and covered a vast ter
ritory,' where there are no - churches.
There are fifteen Indian missionaries
working among their own people. Re
clamation projects in the northwest,
said Dr. Barnes, foreshadow a big task
along missionary lines in the near future.
and decency, she can, if she has mar
ried a pal, enjoy a freedom unknown
to her grandmother. ,
"The woman who remains unmarried
misses the great experience of mother
hood. , "If the modern girl marries a pal I
don't think she ought- to feel scared. A
marriage between equals is one of the
most wonderful things in life.?
BEER-DRINKING CAT DIES.
Minneapolis, June 24. Cloves, fa
mous as the beer drinking cat, known
to frequenters of the once-noted saloon
row in the theatrical district, is dead
here. Last night Cloves ventured in
to the alley near a theatre, where she
met ten greyhounds coniprising a part
of the show. She fought them all,,
but her proverbial nine lives were not
sufficient to triumph
Special
For Friday
And
SsAurday
DOZEN SHIRTS
$m
EACH
These were taken
from our regular
stock. Some sold as
high as $3.00.
10 dozen White Ox
ford, collar attached
included at this
price.
One Lot Silk Four-in-Hand
Ties
"5.0c
Some of these sold
as high; ; as $2.50
each.
UNION SUITS
25 dozen Men's Sum
mer Uriiofi Athletic
and quarter sleesve,
all sizes
95 c
The Men's Store
: 34 So. Tryon