THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 27, 1921.
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MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1921.
AN ACCEPTABLE POLICY
Chairman Griffith of the Mecklenburg
Highway Commission declares that it
will be the policy and purpose of his
board to build good roads to the
churches and to the school houses of
Mecklenburg county and that, in his
judgment, if this county can develop a
system of consolidated schools, cen
trally located and have them accessible
to good highways, one of the chief bene
factions of good roads will have been
realized. And unquestionably he is cor
rect. Good roads are not primarily for the
purpose of enabling people to get to and
from their trading centers. That is, of
course, one of their chief objects, but
it does not stand out as the only bene
faction to be derived. The construction
of a system of good roads throughout
the county, arterial and lateral high
ways together, will develop the life of
the country church and in this under
taking wrapped up also the very des
tiny of the country school.
Time was when children were accus
tomed to walk three or four miles
through any sort "of weather and over
any sort, of a road to a country school.
That was the habitual practise and in
those times nobody had figured out any
thing better than this in the way of
an educational development. Now, how
ever, children don't walk, that far to
a school house and are not going to.
They are demanding a school either
within easy walking distance or they
are requiring a big truck to haul them
to the central neighborhood school. And
whether one admires or d!slikes this in
novation, it is obvious that this is one
reform that is here to stay. The edu
cational policy and system of the whole
State is leaning in the direction' of the
central consolidated school and good
j-oads leading to it so that . children
from a distance may be transported by
trucks thereto.
It would appear, therefore, that the
chairman of the highway commission is
thinking in terms of modern- education
al thought, when he expresses the de
termination to give first aid to those
communities whosechurches and whose
schools a.re requiring better road ad
vantages. And we venture, too, the assertion
that in the execution of such a policy,
the road authorities will find themselves
meeting with widespread favor and gain
ing the liberal support and sympathy
of nearly 100 per cent of the citizens
of the country.
The umpires in the South Atlantic
league are beginning to have their
troubles. As the season advances, the
leaders are naturally on keener edge
and the losers are getting sorer and
sorer, which makes the situation in
creasingly difficult for the arbiters.
Added to this very natural condition
has been the excruciating heat, enough
of itself to incite almost anybody
to" acts of criminality. However, it
must be accepted by both players and
spectators that the umpires are mere
human beings, without super-gifts and
with only the same number of eyes pos
sessed by the race in common and that
when the time comes that they are
the autocrats of the diamond, the game
itself will deteriorate into final nothing
ness. .
WHY OPPOSE IT IF IT IS GOOD
Dr. H. Q. Alexander of the Farm
ers' Union and other of this organiza
tion's officials declare that they are
in no wise opposed to the idea of co
operative marketing that, they have Jong
been giving themselves over to a study
of some plan to bring this about, and
that they favor it and are working for
it, but, nevertheless, they are opposed
to the idea of such marketing which is
being prompted by the farm bureau.
And the reason they oppose this plan
is because BIG BUSINESS seems to be
behind this organization. It really
would seem, however, to make little dif
ference who is behind it, if it is the
right thing,- and admittedly it isit
ought to be uniformly supported by ev
ery man and every association of men
having the larger interests of the farm
ers at heart. Could it possibly be
that these officials the Farmers Union
are opposed to this plan of co-operative
marketing because, forsooth, it was
somebody else who fathered it and not
the union itself? We are merely ask
ing for information. '
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE
COUNTRY?
"Preaching the baccalaureate sermon
to the graduating class of Dartmouth,
Rev. Luke White of Montclair, N. J.,
declared that . one of the great trou
bles with the country toddy is an ineffi
cient parenthood. He asserts that the
disposition to blame the young people
with air maladjustments of the times is
wftfng and that it is rather the parents
who are to be censored for many of
the wrongs of today and much of the
evil-doing. ;
That's pretty good gospel. The rear
son that the children of this generation
arre disobedient, for instance, is because
the parents are not making them obedi
ent, for instance, is because the par
ent. No child, in any generation would
have been in subjection of parental con
trol if such control had not been brought
into play. It is instinctive in children
to want to have their way and, there
fore, to be disobedient. They get that
from the old Adam and the parent who
rocks along under the conviction that
his child will grow finally into obedience
and parental respect of its own accord
is proceeding on the wrong theory.
Parental punishment has practically
become obsolete- Time was when par
ents regarded themselves as in authori
ty and had instruments at their com
mand to enforce such authority. You
see very little evidence of such author
ity in these times. Parents lament the
way their children carry on, but it is
hardly more tnan a mere lamentation.
They are not resorting to those means
to enforce their authority which was
common in the old days.
Another cause for the inefficiency of
modern parenthood is the exaction
which modern society is entailing upon
fathers and mothers. Time was when
a mother regarded her household as her
castle and her children as the worthy
objects of her untiring care and inces
sant zeal. She hau no other burden
commensurate with this. There was
no other duty falling upon her shoul
ders in any wise comparable with this.
But today's mothers have a great many
other things to do. They turn over
their children to the house maids and
seek the bargains up-town or attend the
social functions which are a part of
modern society's program. When it
comes to the mental development of
their children, they turn over this im
portant task to intellectual wet-nurses
and get out from under this tremendous
ly exacting task.
In the case of the fathers, the duties
of business, the demands of industry,
the keenness of competition, the acute
ness of trade rivalry, are making such
demands upon them that they have little
time for the duties of the home. They
are forced, they say, to turn the de
velopment and care of : their children
over to the mothers and the mothers, in
turn, pass these duties on to the hired
servants, so that; in the long run, par
ents are having but little to do with
the care' and culture and development
of the child of today.
And it is this that is auguring so ill
for the coming generation- The chil
dren of today are developing into man
hood and womanhood without having
learned the fundamental . lessons of citi
zenship, the chief of which is obedience
to authority. Learning little of such
a duty in their relations today, they will
soon pass On' out into society with no ex
perience in tb.e art of subjecting them
selves to the will of the majority and
to the mandates of those who are duly
set up to govern. Hence, the wide
spread disregard of the law and order
and authority and hence, also, the grow
ing 'evil of having a childhood in this
generation that is shaping its own des
tink and give its own slant to future
citizenship.
"The sword has been broken in Ger
many. We must go to work" is the
eminently sane advice which Chancellor
Wirth gives to his fellow-Germans. And
the pity of it is that in the United States
the sword is being sharpened and that
the government is not planting itself in
the direction of the - constructive de
velopment Vof its' people, but rather in
the direction of further domestic insol
vency and international strife.
AROUND THE CONFERENCE TABLE
The London administration is making
a worthy move in inviting the Irish
leaders to a conference where will be
discussed the details of the long strug
gle which has kept England and Ireland
in a contrant and rumors war- If
the conference is approached in a spirit
of amity and for the honest purpose of
trying to smoothe out difficulties, it
will be effectual toward the promotion
of the peace so ardently longed for.
If, on the other hand, malice is brought
I to the table and jealouies and , the old
vicious spirit which has so long char
acterized the Irish leaders and the Lon
don stand-patters, then the effort can
only prove worthless. The world is
in sincere and earnest hope that the
disturbance over the waters may be
calmed, for the good of both countries.
It is a mockery and a travesty upon
modern civilization that England and
Ireland can not live together in peace
and contentment. and devote their mu
tual interests to their constructive de
velopment. Admiral Sims, somewhat facetiously
remarks that he got what he deserv
ed, but even so, he did not get all he
deserved.
KILLING DISARMAMENT
The understanding was that as a re
sult of the league of nations covenant,
there would be no further need for
specific treaties between any two or
more countries, but the surprising fact
develops that England and Japan are
about to renew their alliance and that
effort is being made by the present
Washington administration to bring
about an alliance between this country
and Great Britain. If these things
continue, there is no hope for a limita
tion of armaments. Countries that
are not in these' special alliances will
not think of curtailing their armaments
and it would hardly be reasonable to ex
pect them to, whereas the countries
making the alliances are careful to
avoid any agreement tending to reduce J
their naval and land strength.
THE PROPHETS ABE CHANGEABLE
One has to make up his own mind
as to whether or not business condi
tions are getting any better or getting
any worse. Opinion of those who, be
cause of their intimacy with business
matters; ought to have expert judgment
on this subject, varies with, the change
ableness of human moods- Ask a fin
ancief today what the outlook is and
he may tell you that it is much bright
er and that the upturn has definitely
set in, that money Is much . easier to
get, that business in showing a keen
edge on all sides, that industry is fast
recuperating and that by. early fall, we
will never know that we have been pass
ing through Baca's valley. 5
Ask this same man a week from now
and he may have eaten salmon balls for
supper and not have slept well: or some
thing might have happened to him that
made him grachy and unpleasant, and
consequently, h is likely to tell you
that business is in a plague of a fix,
that 'industry-is about to starve, that
money is hard to get and people are dis
posed to buy nothing at all and that,
unless some miraculous change comes
into the markets, we will all be facing
starvation by the time another harvest
is reaped.
That, we dare say, is an experience
that many- have been having in their ef
forts to find out from those who are
expected to know what are the symp
toms of business betterment. Any sort
of an outlook is usually determinable
from the prophets of the watch-towers
in accordance with, how these feel or
how their digestive apparatus is work
ing. The thing that sticks in one' craw
about Jack Dempsey and his muscular
prowess is that he might have utilized
a lot of his punch against the Ger
mans, as did so many thousands of his
fellow-Americans not nearly so large
ly endowed with brute strength as he is,
but he didn't.
COST OF LIVING FIGURES
The Concord Tribune presents a very
interesting comparison of retail food
prices today and thTs time a year ago
in the form of an advertisement taken
from the window of a grocery firm in
Kannapolis. This advertisement shows,
on the one hand,-that 100 pounds of
sugar cost this time last year $30,
whereas today this same 100 pounds
of sugar costs $8 and if a purchaser
is disposed to spend today the $30 which
were required for a bag of sugar last
year, he will get in addition to the su
g;ar, 98 pounds, of good flour, one peck
of. ground coffee; 16 pounds of rice, 10
packages corn flakes, bushel of Irish
potatoes, 12 cans" of corn, ,12 cans of
tomatoes, 12 cans ' of salmon, 12 cans
of pork and beans, 7 cans of sauer
graut, 6 packages of oat meal, 6 pack
ages of grits, 6 packages of washing
powder, 6 cakes of soap, 8 pounds of
lard, 10 pounds of syrup, 8 quarts of
white beans, one broom, half bushel
meal, all of these, JLtdms in the aggre
gate being "worth only $30.
"Verily, it would appear that the cost
of living is not as high as it is "cussed
out" to be. '
The Baltimore Sun is alarmed because
there is a storm brewing in this coun
try, but the real cause of alarm is that
there is so much , of the other stuff
brewing also. ' " " '
The genius of the rain Saturday
was that it was nothing less than a
downpour and nothing less than that
would have been sufficient for the needs
of the ftelds.
CURB MARKET IS
IN OWN jpLDING
For First Time in ... Its His
tory, Sky is Not Roof of
the "Outside Market."
New York, June 27. After several
decades of nomadic existence along
the main highway of the financial
district, the "outside market," cor
porately known as the JJew; York Curb
Association, today moved into its jiwn
spacious quarters on the western fringe
of Wall Street.
For the first time in its long and
picturesque history, "the curb," to
quote one of its chief officials, "will
cease to have the sky as its roof
and will find shelter within its . own
four walls."
The new building of the New York
Curb Market, now virtually completed
at a cost of about $2,250,000, in
cluding the ground, is an impressive
structure located on Tripity Place, di
rectly back of the famous Trinity
graveyard and extending westward to
Greenwich street.
Already the executive offices of thfc
association have been installed and,
although the financial . district is pass
ing through a period of post-war de
pression, the guiding spirits of the
curb believe the new headquarters
will mark the beginning of a new
and prosperous . career.
Of the entire membership as now
constituted variously estimated at 400
to 600 almost 25 per cent of the old
guard of veteran members have threat
ened to hold aloof and continue their
operations in the roadway of Broad
street.
This faction may find itself balked,
however, by the attitude of the city
authorities. The police long ago found
it necessary to "corral" the members
within an irregular square because
their Increasing numbers obstructed
street traffic.
Among the members of the Curb
Association are a number of men more
or less directly connected with the
"Big Board," as the Stock Exchange
is known In the Wall Street vernacu
lar. Some Stock Exchange firms have
voiced their opposition to the idea of
a regular home or headquarters for
the "curb." Others believe it will add
to the strength and responsibility of
that organization. -
One of the arguments advanced In
favor of a fixed habitat for the curb
brokers has been that it would elimi
nate an undesirable element.
An Unforgetable Monumental
Spectacle
"LYING LIPS''
BROADWAY
Mon., Tues., Wed., ThursT
GOOD GRAMMAR
HELPJX) WIVES
Elegant Speech Big Aid in
Holding the Affections of
a Husband.
By MARJORIE REX,
International -News Service.
New York, June 27. Cultivate your
speech, married women", if you would
be permanent wives.
Grammar is the best friend of the
woman who wishes to retain her .hus
band's love, according to Miss Aubrey
aton, of the Chicago branch of the
Y. W. C. A., whose classes on how to
get and keep a husband have brought
great happiness to her students, it is
said.
Man is certain to be lion-ated by
such expressions as, "Gea, ain't them
waffles grand!" or "I ain't nevor drank
such swell coffee," when they come
from the rosy lips of his careless
sponse.
"Poor grammar," Miss Eaton s.iys,
"has caused more domestic intcl'cities
than all the burnt soup and nard
boiled eggs in the world."
But there is a deeper reason fcr un
happiness brought about by Jistv'ng
to such perversions of English. The
one who commits the transgressions
against correct speech engenders in
the mind of the other something which
causes martial dissatisfaction.
Miss Virginia Terhune Van De
Water, famous author, who has writ
ten many novels . and stories treating
of martial problems, told me today of
her convictions ojf this subject.
"This touches upon one oi: my neb
bies," she said earnestly. "I have a
firm belief that the secret of a great
deal of disillusionment in marriage is
the fact that one of the ..parties to the
contract is ashamed of the other..
"Such secret shame kills love.
"For instance, suppose I kno;v some
woman who has a very presentable hus
band. She is. proud of him and wishes
to present him to me. He meets Ji.e,
and .in his speech may either double
a negative or perhaps make a coarse
remark. He has thereby wounded the
sensibilities of the wife" who viahvd
him to make a good impression.
"I think if a man had to hear man
gled English at the breakfast table, pro
vided he were an educated man, he
would contsantly have a feeling of
shame for his blind folly in marrying
beneath him.
"'Poor grammar," with all 'due res
pect to the lady who used the phratse,
doesi not exist. There is no such thing
as 'poor grammar' or 'bad grammar.'
"Grammar is the standardization and
the science Of correct use of language.
"But I do not thing an educated man
unless caught when very young, would
marry a woman who expressed herself
poorly. Such speech . offends the ear
and the sense of good taste.
"There is another point: Although
many ill-bred women offend men with
mistakes in English, many educated
men offend their wives with slang and
coarse stories sprinkled in conversation.
"I knew a very charming woman
who, in a fit of pique, married a man
far beneath her. He has little self -qonr
trol and. when excited or angry lapses
into the" vernacular, with which he is
familiar.
"Believing as I do that secret shame
of one's life .partner causes most of
our martial infelicity, I always urge
women to keep themselves up. There
is a time in youth when it is very in
terestlng to dress, to give attention to
the accessiories of one's toilette.
"Later on in life, when good looks
often vanish, then it is an absolute
necessity to look well. The office work
er, any woman in business, realizes
this.
"It is the business woman's duty to
keep up. What does a man think after
working all day with women in his
office who are as well and appropri
ately dressed as they are able, when he
goes home to a woman who no longer
takes any Interest in her own appear
ance? He loves , his wife and wishes
to be proud of her, but she won't let
him, and it hurts him by her own indif
ference; ' She has let go."
ELECTRIFIED GRAIN
THE LATEST THING
Carmangay, Alberta, June 27. Elec
trified grain seed has been planted ex
tensively by farmers of southern Al
berta this spring for the first time in
Canada and, as far as known here,
for the first time on the American con
tinent. .
A plant for the treatment of seed by
this electric process has been establish
ed here. It is already taxed to Us
full capacity and will be enlarged immediately.-
The electrification of seed,
it is claimed, will increase the harvest
yield, eliminate the germs of fungoid
maladies, and improve the quality of
the grain.
The process consists in placng the
seed in a bath containing rietallic
salt, such as calcium and sodium
chloride, and weekly electrify!-: the
liquid. After the electric current has
played over , the grain a certain fixed
time the solution is drained off ;nd the
seed dried.
The object of the salt, it is traid, is
not only to decrease the resistance of
the seed coat, but to maintain conduc
tivity during the period of scermmn
tion. Calcium and sodium chloricM in
correct proportions, it is declared, tim
ulate growth and give strength to ihe
new roots.
The new process has created wide
spread interest among farmers in this
part of western Canada and many of
the largest wheat growers of the re
gion, which is a heavy grain producer
have sown hundreds of acres t.h5.3 year
with electrified seed.
N. A. A. C. P. IN SESSION.
Detroit, June 7. A parade of sev
eral thousand negroes Sunday opened
the 12th annual convention of the Na
tional Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. The meetings are
to continue through Friday. At th-
opening session a message of greeting
from President Harding wate read.
COPS USE THE WIRELESS.
Pasadena, Cal., June 27.- Wireless
telephones installed on the automobiles
of the anti-burglar motor fleet of the
Pasadena police department recently,
enable officers to communicate with
headquarters while their machines are
in motion. Every machine operated by
the department has been so equipped.
F D A
A READY FHIENP IN TIME OF
TROUBLE
ATTESTED BY LONG RECORDS OF
"MONEY FOR ASHES"
ALEXANDER'S
F. D. THOS. L.
Insurance.
Alway Protects Never Sleeps.
TIME REMOVES
NOTED OLD ELM
Landmark Named for Inr
ventor of Telegraph Killed
' by Diggers.
Washington. D. C, June 27.The
famous "Morse. Elm" is no mo.vv 9he
old landmark .which has stood itthe
corner of. Fourteenth street aril Penn
sylvania avenue aincfe the national cap
ital was laid out v has succumbed at
last to time and the exigencies of me
tropolitan' civilization, despite the lnsti
efforts of government tree sur gepnu
land forestry experts to save it,
The famous tree has just boon re
moved by order of District Superinten
dent of Parks Clifford Lanham. nn-1 its
aged trunk will probably be broken iP
into souvenirs. !
Except for the "George Washing' on 1
Elm," at Cambridge, Mass.. unoer
whose spreading boughs the general. is
said to have assumed command of the
Continental array, the old Morse Kim
might claim the distinction of be;ng :he,
best known tree in America. It v.-ia
one of the " first trees to hi ivn a
place in the Hall of Fame for 'Trees',
with a history by the ; American For
estry Association. It w.is named "
Samuel F B, Morse, : inventor of the
electric telegraph, who, according to
tradition, often, sat beneath its friend
ly shade in the days before ht had
achieved fame and recited to none ieo
credulous acquaintances his pI;um fc-r
transmitting messages by electricity.
Before the tree was removed a dele
gation from the John Burroughs OiuU
visited the spot as guests of the Amer
ican Forestry Association, ani Super
intendent Lanham. who had char ef
the obsequies for the old elm. explain
ed why the tree had died. "Cutting
away many of the roots to permit the
widening of Fourteenth street. heip-d
to kill the old elm, and the undr?
ground heat from the hotel boiler room
hastened the work of destruction." Irfih
ham said.
Guticura Soap
Clears the Skin
and Keeps it Clear
Soap. Ointment, Talcum, 25c erywher. Samples
free of Cuticara Laboratoriea. Dpt. Z. Hal tan, Haas.
STERLING SILVER
HAND-PAINTED CHINA
CUT GLASS
We are sure our showing will of-
fer many helpful suggestions.
In workmanship, quality and beau
ty, every article we display will be
found genuinely pleasing.
B. F. R0ARK
Jeweler, Diamond Merchant
Silversmith
10 North Tryon St.
a word
to the wise
If you haven't bought a
new suit in recent months
it means you haven't seen
the new lower prices on
Kuppenheimer good
clothes. Don't buy a suit
until you do.
The Men's Store
34 So. Tryon
J
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THE SECOND FLOOR WILL OFFER
MONDAY REMARKABLLE VALUES IN
AN IMPORTANT SALE OF
Women's and Misses'
..v:..-ouP-.Dre$ses
You will find on sale on our Second Floor
tomorrow, Monday, a very extensive col
lection of these Voile Frocks, closed out to
us by one of the-largest manufacturers
in the country at great price reductions.
LOT NO. 1.
lie
Every style that discrimination can sug
gest. In plain and pastel shades. Sizes 16
to 46. Represented in this lot are values to
$10.00. Specially featured for Monday's
selling
LOT NO, 2.
Voile Frocks
EIGHT DOLLARS AND NINETY-FIVE
CENTS is the particularly attractive price
tomorrow, Monday, for this group of voile
Dresses, which represent values to $15.00
and specially priced for get-acquainted
purposes at
$8!
INFANTS' AND CHILDREN'S DRESSES
ON SECOND FLOOR AGES 1 TO 6
M
For Monday on our second floor a
Wonderful Sale of
if ants' and Children'
Dresse
Fine White Organdie and Sheer Voile
Dresses priced
98c $51 '
Some of them slightly mussed from
handling, 1-4 to 1-2 off for Monday.
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LOT NO. 1
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LOT NO. 2
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