, CHARLOTTE, N. C SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921.
THE CHARLOTTE NEWS
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WILL COTTON BECOME EXTINCT?
The movice migrht be disposed to won
der, in the light of boll weevil destruc
tion and its spread throughout the en
tire cotton district, if in the course
of years, unless stamped out, this in
sidious insect will annihilate the cot
ton industry. The stories of the wee
vil's activities read like the tragic re
cital of a pestilence. Its invasion is
serious: where it launches its attacks,
cotton production is practically cut off
entirely and all known means of either
limiting the sphere of its operation or
holding it in check are rather indefi
nite and disconcerting, one may be in
clined to conclude.
The truth is, however, that the boll
weevil will never materially interfere
with the production in the South of as
much cotton as the South needs to
grow. It makes no difference what
these figures may be. If the world
needs 20.000,000 bales, the South can
produce it in spite of the boll weevil,
all things else being equal.
That may appear to be an eccentric
statement, but it can be supported. In
those sections of the cotton belt where
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By Carrier.
One year $10.00
Six months 5.M
Three months 2,30
One month
One week 20
Bv Mji!I
One year 8.00 ; experience with boll weevils has cov-
Jliuiiiii ...... a nil '
Three months ifil
One month ?5
Sunday Onlv.
(By Mail or Carrier)
.nc mr 2.60
Six months 1.30
TIMES-DEMOCRAT.
(Semi-Weehly)
, One year .
i Six months '75
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1921.
WHY TIIE'V SUCCEEDED
Down in South Carolina the other
day, some 30 or 40 miles from Char
lotte, a visitor was asked by a resident
of that section if he knew. So-and-so
of Charlotte, mentioning the name of
jone of the city's pre-eminent, business
men. "Well, 1 knew him when a boy"
the man said "and he had about as near
nothing as any boy who ever lived
in South Carolina- He went to work
in a little store doing the most menial
service: in a short time he was promot
ed a little, then some more and then
again until at length he had amassed
enough of money to go to Charlotte, a
big city even in those days, and enter
business for himself."
The name of another outstanding man
of Charlotte was mentioned during the
conversation and the South Carolinian
remembered him also as a boy, how that
he had started at the very bottom and
worked his way to the forefront until
today there is not a merchant in the two
States whose name is more widely her
alded. Was the victory of these two men
in their businesses accidential? Why
was it that they have achieved distinc
tion, have amassed fortunes and thous
ands of others who were raised in close
proxity to them and with them have
never been heard from in their mature
life? Is a special favor administered to
some few that they go to the top and
the vast majority of all the others
grovel in the dust of the valleys? Is
luck the factor in moulding their lives
into greatness and the lives of their
compatriots into mediocrity? None of
these.
The man wins who wisely utilizes
what Providence has given him for the
purpose of forging his way toward' the
top, his intelligence, WHO UTILI-
ered a number of vears. mnrc cotton
is now made per acre than was former
ly made- It is being produced by in
tensive cultivation, by scientific culture,
by an intelligent application of com
mon sense to the equation. It can
not be done until the farmers, first
of all, have, with the aid of govern
ment investigators and scientists, dis
covered what is the peculiar character
of the soil on their farms, what the
peculiar character of commercial ferti
lizers that soil will demand in order
to produce prematurely and what other
scientific processes must be followed
in order to overcome the onslaught
of the weevil. If cotton can be advanc
ed in the stages of its development,
if, in other words, it can be made to do
in July what, under haphazard arrange
ments, it has been doing in August
and, therefore, gain a month on a nor-
may crop-season, it will not be pestered
with the boll weevil. The insect does its
work during the latter part of August
and early in September and attacks
the smaller bolls, what is known as the
"top crop". If. therefore, this top crop
can be develoned
intensive 'cultivation and by reason of
the application of special forms of fer
tilizers which will be hurry it along
so that by the time September is reach
ed it will have been speeded toward ma
tuprity, there will be no peril from the
weevil.
That has been the process of farm
ers in the weevil belt in withstanding
its invasion. They have, of course, in
instances of big farms, used spraying
machines to dust the stalks. Tractors
are utilized down in those States where
cotton is' produced on thousands of
acres to the farm and they can hold its
damage to a negligible degree by means
of this device, but spraying is out of
the question as practical process for the
average farmer. He will be forced to
quit its cultivation before resorting to
this extreme, but there will be no nec
essity for a widespread use of these
tractor machines for spraying or any
other spraying device if the simple
plan of intensive cultivation is restored
to.
That means, of course, that cotton
cultivation must pass from the slip-shod
methods of the past, the methods gen
erally employed by the tenant farmers,
especially the colored tenant farmers.
They have never raised cotton by the
books- They raise it largely by luck,!.
and they raised it largely for the boll
weevil because they abstained from all
ZES it, constantly, seriously, full-time
Almost everybody is sunnosed t
" 1 "i-i"-"vco jl utwK moaern ana pro
gressive and scientific in its cultiure.
their brains on occasions, otherwise
they would not be unrestrained in so
ciety, but it is pathetic to witness, how
slothful the average man is in utlizing
his mentality, the only instrument given
him by which he can shape his career
and channel out for himself a destiny.
Mental energy is what is required to
achieve business triumph, outthinking
the other fellow. thinking oftener than
he does and thinking more profoundly.
That has been largely the secret of the
success of the two Charlotteans, these
mutual acquaintances of the South Caro
lina man and the Charlotte visitor.
They have exercised their mental tal
ents instead of burying them and the
harvest has been natural. It will not be
otherwise with any . other man who is
. energetic and diligent in the use of his
mental capacity.
In the real cotton belt, however,
where the weevil has been fought
for several years, they can produce as
much cotton today as ever by limiting
the acreage and concentrating thoir
attacks on the insect,, by producing
early crops, by rushing the plants to
maturity with special forms of fertili
zers, by frequent plowings and by be
ing able to give a few acres more of
their time and attention than was
the case when the many acres were
planted in the staple.
We have no way of checking up on
the government weather man station
ed here, but when he said that the
thermometer registered 95 Friday, he
Iliust have meant 195.
COST OF ROADS CHEAPER
It is the statement of the State high
way officials that permanent roads can
be built now for just about half what
they cost a year ago. They were cost
ing a year ago about $40,000 the mile
and, if their estimates are correct, they
ought to cost now about $20,000 the
mile. The saving can be effected in
the decreased cost of supplies and avail
able cheap labor.
If these surveys of road-costs are
correct, it would seem to be the part
of wisdom for all road-building offi
cials to speed up their contracts for the
fall months to the end that advantage
may be taken of these declining prices.
Of course, both materials and labor may
be cheaper, but when a deflation amount
ing to 50 per cent can be grasped and
taken advantage of, it is obvious that
such a decline should be utilized to
full measure. Moreover, the placing of
these contracts would release a vast
amount of money which can be used in
the State to good advantage during the
fall and winter months, open up ave
nues for employment to thousands who
may otherwise have nothing to do by
which to earn a living and thus be
come a creative force while, the balance
of the distance is being covered to nor
mal times- I
SUMMER ASSEMBLY GROUNDS
Not to be outdone, the Associate
Reformed Presbyterians, the Seceders,
as they are called, have bought for
themselves an elegant summer assembly
grounds in the mountains,- a develop
ment already available for immediate
use and thus one that will spare them
i. 1 . . .
me necessity ot starting from the
ground up. They have been exceeding
ly fortunate in acquiring the property
known as the Heidelburg Academy
estate, bo acres of beautiful sloping
fields and orchards, with drive-ways,
parks, athletic grounds right in the
heart of the mountains three miles from
Hendersonville. A three-story stucco
building sufficient to accommodate hun
dreds of guests goes in the transaction,
the entire estate being purchased for
something like $30,000.
This gives all the strong denomina
tions of this immediate section a sum
mer home for religious and educational
activities- The Baptists are at Ridge
crest: the Methodists at Junaluska: the
Presbyterians at Montreat while the
Young Men's Christian Association nso
maintains a summer shrine at Blue
Ridge. These assembly grounds have
become veritable meccas for the Chris
tian people who not only want to spend
the summer amid the splendours of
North Carolina mountains but who
want also to avail themselves during
their summering period of opportunities
for enriching themselves mentally and
religiously. It has become an inspirit
ing innovation and the evidence is that
the Seceders do not propose to be out
done. They have purchased a piece of
property that can be made one of the
handsomest and most delightful resorts
of this kind in the whole mountain coun
try with the expenditure of a little
money.
IT HAS BEEN DONE
Those who set out to contract for
200,000 bales of North Carolina's cot
ton under the American Farm Bur
eau's co-operative market plan announce
that the goal has been reached and ex
ceeded, that 40,000 more bales than were
sought have been enterd under con
tract. It was not expected, moreover,
that the 200,000 bales would be signed
up before January 1, but a gain of
four months in the time alloted for
this transaction has been consummat
ed. This is an epochal event among the
cotton forces of North Carolina and the
success which the plan is meeting
throughout the South argues that it
will become South-wide in its ultimate
victory. It is epochal because it heralds
the day when the cotton market will be
more nearly itf the hands of those who
produce the world's cotton. The pro
cess of this organization, insofar as it
relates to the selling "of cotton, makes
it impossible for the farmers who de
liver their cotton to this co-operative
society to have a voice in its sale. When
they sign a contract to deliver their
cotton, all their cotton, to the bureau,
they deliver to the bureau all au
thority to sell that cotton on the best
terms and at the best time that its
judgment dicates. In other words, the
plan is to make an end of this age
old business of dumping the cotton
on the market as rapidly as it is pick
ed and. therefore, so congesting the
early market that it breaks under the
loadr The plan will be followed of de
livering cotton to the market as the
market can absorb it and only as it can
absorb it. If a certain number of bales
are needed during any one month, the
bureau will be in position to sell that
number of bales, and thus the orderly
processes of supply and demand will
become regnant in the cotton markets.
It is a matter of a great deal of re
gret that Mecklenburg farmers in larger
numbers have not entered into this ar
rangement. While no campaign has
been systematically carried out here,
the opportunity has been given to local
farmers for several months to align
themselves with this organization and
they haven't done it to any marked de
gree. The most of them seem to be
waiting on the other fellow. There
has been a sore lack of initiative as
well as a systematic effort made to
enlist the support of the farmers gen
erally in this county.
The plan is being fought by Dr. H. Q.
Alexander and some others who do not
believe that it is a good thing and who
take the position that the farmers have
no business trying to produce and sell
their cotton both, that other agencies
are already organized and have the
capital necessary to carry cotton, where
as the farmers have neither. The op
position of some, of these who have
been strongly identified with the State
Farmers' Union and whose counsel is
still powerful among some classes of
farmers may have counted somewhat
against local success, but the real rea
son, as for the aparent lack of interest
in this enterprise seems rather to be
modesty of the farmers in selling their
cotton for a period of five years to an
impersonal agency. It is a breaking
of tradition at which they balkj appar
tntly turning over to the other fellow
a vital transaction which the Individ
ual farmer has been negotiating on his
own responsibility. It is only when
one recognizes that two can come near
er putting ten thousand to flight than
one can of chasing a thousand that the
average farmer will be inclined to tun:
this affair of his over to a coopera
tive movement of this kind.
FINDS WAY TO
KILL HYACINTH
Water Plant Has Long Been
a Hindrance to Naviga
tion in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Sept. 3. After nineteen
years of expensive and laborious effort,
with only varying success, interested
shipping interests and government ex
perts now express the belief that a
method has been found that will solve
the problem of the water hyacinth
which is choking practically every bay
ou in the state with its green and lav
ender floral magnicence.
The new method, which was suggest
ed by Governor John M. Parker, is
the simple application of live steam.
Preliminary reports from expsrinv.-nta
now under ay, according to govern
ment agents, indicate that the gov
ernor has at least pointed a way to
check, if not exterminate the plant
that has proved such a inen.ic-i to
Louisiana's inland waterways for the
last twenty years, and which, accord
ing to government observers, is now
threatening the fresh water portion
of the Panama, canal.
The water , hyacinth appeared in
Louisiana immediately after 1 he Cot
ton Continental exposition here in 1884.
The plant, which is a native of South
America, was exhibited at the fair and
its beauty was greatly admired. At the
Hiram Hank has gone insane. He's
iinsr cain. Dancing
up and down his cell he cries, Aha!'
I hear the bell. Hllo? Who rings.
Hiram Hank? By Gad. you say you
want the bank? Well, tell her you want
263, for 3942-J gets me." And then he
tries to change his tone to imiuiie
telephone. Later he drops to his knees
and bellows out, "Long distance,
please!" Then he paces round the floor
in silence for an hour or more, and
finally cries, "I said Monroe not Doise
City, Idaho! Well, ring complaint, con
found your hida! You centrals should
try suicide." He then is struck with
morbid pains and butts his head to
crush his brains.
Nc wonder Hiram lost his mind. The
nuts are freequent of this kind. Your
brain will soon be overthrown if you
hang round the telephone. It takes a
person . half a day to get a friend a
PI
hinrv nwav. And then you will be dis-
close of the fair a number of plants 1 connected ere you discourse as expeci-
were taken to the country districts ed. Long distance cans axe uuw
vain. Its best to eaten an uiiwui.u
train. When you hear your own phone
for growth in garden pools. When they
overcrowded the pools they were
thrown into nearby bayous, where they
caused heavy losses by choking the
bayous and streams to such an extent
that small vessels could not make
their way through the tangled mass
es of foliage and roots Avhich at places
extended for miles and miles with no
break of channel through them.
From a beautiful curiosity in 1884
they became a decided menace in 1896
and had so clogged a number of
streams that an appeal was made to
Congress for relief and, in 1899, $25,000
was appropriated for the purpose of ex
termination. Since then hundreds of
thousands of dollars have been spent
in the fight.
Today there is hardly a stream in
Louisiana that does not become so clog
ged with the hyacinth that navigation
is almost impossible in the summer
months.
HAND PAINTED
GOWN IS COMING
Autumn Feature to be In
troduced from London
This Fall.
Local Boy Scout authorities are for
tunate in being able to command the
services of Mr. James E. Steere as scout
executive for this city. Mr. Steere is
one of the most experienced men of the
country in this line of work and has
for the past year held an important
national post. His return to Charlotte,
his old. home, will be welcomed by his
many friends and acquaintances and
we have a right to expect that local
Boy Scout activities will flourish un
der his strong administration.
MARKET TO OPEN
SEPTEMBER 20
Statesville Expects Good
Price for Tobacco; Mrs.
Hicks 103.
Statesville, Sept. 3. The Statesville
tobacco market will open on September
20. J. L. McCormick, who has just
returned from the markets of South
Carolina, states that the best grades of
tobacco will bring a good price on the
local market this season. The crop
this season will be short as compared
with over a million pounds sold on the
local floors last year. The best grade
of fobacco brought a good price In
South Carolina this season, some
bringing as high as 99 cents per
pound, which is most encouraging when
the prices of 15 and 25 cents for the
best grades last year are taken into
consideration.
Mrs. Charity Hicks, 103 yeras old,
winston-saiem, is spending the
London By Mail Carlo Norway, in
ventor of the hand-painted frock, which
is to be an autumn fashion feature in
London, is on the eve of departing to
the United States to introduce the
fashion there for the fall season.
Norway, one of the leaders of tho
younger art colony in London, con
ceived the idea of painting on silk, ve
vet and similar textiles during Ion
years of experimenting in various
methods of painting and etching.
His txhibitions at London art gal
leries were always popular, and he nai
been the hit of several general exhibi
tions with his varied work in painting,
pastel,, applique, wall and window dec
orations, glassware vases, bowls, lin
cuts, curtains and even wall-paper.
A few months ago Norway began
stencilling on cloths. The work was
done largely for his own pleasure, mere
ly to find what effects were possible.
A brother artist, Louis Fox, thought of
the possibility of applying the stenci.'
ling to dress materials. This was a
great success, and Fox suggested mar-
Kfiing sienciuea irocKs ana eown,.
The frocks were an immediate hit. The
Duchess of Rutland, Lady Cunard and
Lady Hamilton were pioneer wearers,
and, as an absolutely individual diqn
could be guaranteed, it was not Ic-nr;
before the idea had caught on.
For several weeks, orders have been
multiplying from dealers. In seme
cases individual designs are wanted; in
others a dozen or more frocks cf one
design.
It is almost impossible to dunlicate
designs except from the original sten
cil. Any sort of design is possible Most
have been figured: in some, allaorical
designs of animals, birds ani fish
have been used.
The oil paint used is impervious -o
water, and will not crack. rue to the
success of the experiment here. Nor
way decided to go to New York for the
autumn season.
FRENCHCHILDREN SAY
GOODBYE TO LEGION
Paris, Sept. 3. By The Associated
Press). Two thousand American sup
ported fatherless children of France
waved good bye at the St. Lazaire
station to, the one hundred members
of the American legion who have been
visiting France and Belgium. The
legion men were leaving for Hnvr t
embark on the steamer Leopoldina for
home.
The children waved Amprii-an fiao-c
and kept up shouts of "eep, epp, ooray"
steadily throughout the farewell speech
es preceding the departure of the spe
cial boat. One of the denartir.tr vic
tors caused a small, disturbance by pin-'
urns me itgion insignia on a small boy
who forthwith was beset by envious
comrades.
The plat form was decorated with
American and French flaa-s x hQt.,
lion of French infantry and a battalion
of republican guards formed the escort.
of
week with her son, S. B. Hicks, of
Harmony. Mrs. Hicks is a nativo of
Iredell county, but removed to Winston-Salem
some time ago. Shi reach
ed the 103 mark in May of this year
and in view of the fact that sno is as
strong as many women at 50 and 60,
her friends are predicting that she
will enjoy another quarter of a
century on earth.
The Statesville Daily has rounded
out its first year and with Its issue
of yesterday embarks on the second
year. .This paragraph from the pub
lisher, Pegram A. Bryant, is taken
from the number of September 1
"While the publisher has not got rloii
nor made a profit the first year, he
finds much to encourage him. The cir
culation has passed the - 1,000 r?ark
without any special solicitation. Many
of the subscribers have been kind
ei?KS J0 tel1 Vs that the' are Pleased
with the service we hav .LJ1
and that the naner h .. . ' .
thing to which they look forward I every
week-day afternoon." every j
STRIKE AT LILLE
MAY BECOME GENERAL
Iille, France.
strike which began in the middle of!
:r. ; . "lttlgie iormea by the
cities of Lille, Roubaix, and Turcoing
the manufacturing center of France
to which the transport and building
trades unions have adhered threatens
to become general. The affected unions
met this evening to consider such a
measure.
The strike was called as a protest
against a reduction in wages, the work-
ndint t"n5, that officlal statistics
Lending to show a diminution in the
Th VinTerenot justified by facts
The manufacturers desired to put into
ptrCourCUt m WaS6S f frty centis
MOTOfcLESS AIRPLANE.
Berlin Sept. 3.A report today from
Hesse-Casel Prussia said that an In
gineer named Klemperer succeeded In
traveling five kilometers (3 1-8 mfles) n
a monoplana without an engin? cover
m? the distance in 13 minutes He fs"
said to hav started from a point Vo
metres high and to have maintained
thatlevel about ten minutes
Everybody In Charlotte
WM. B. DeMILLE'S
"THE LOST ROMANCE"
IMPERIAL THEATER
Monday, Tuesday, VVednfsday
holl nt nie-ht it's best to ponder well
for what's the usee to leavee your slum
ber to find theey did not want your num
ber? Hesitate to try the wire should
vour dwelling catch on Are. Go in per
son to thee bank. Reemember poor old
Hiram Hank.
CopyTlscht, 1921, by Xews Publishing Co.
WIRELESS TELEPHONE
FOR THE FIRE CHIEF
Wakefield, Mass., . Sept. 3. Installa
tion of a wireless telephone on the au
tomobile of Fred D. Graham, chief of
the fire department, to enable him to
keep in constant touch with headquar
ters no matter where he may be, is
planned by local officials.
In addition to being fire chief, Gra
ham serves as fire hazard officer and in
spector oC wires and these duties keep
him away from the station much of the
time. In the past when a still alarm
or other emergency has required his
personal attention there has sometimes
been serious delay in reaching him. By
installing a receiving sit on the auto
mobile and a St-nding set at fire head
quarters it will be possible, it is be- j
lieVed, to ring- him up at any time and
send him speedily to the point where his
presence is required.
Officials of the water department ;ire
watching the exyeriment with some in
terest as they have in mind a similar
equipment for automobile of Superin
tendent Morrison Merrill who is fre
quently called on to answer emergency
calls. 3
Typewriters of all makes sold, rent
ed, exchanged or repaired. Pound &
Mooro Co. Phone 4542. ' 23-tf
OSTEOPATHY
Is the science of healing by
adjustment.
DR. H. F. RAY
313 Realty Bldg.
DR. FRANK LANE MILLER
610 Realty Bldg.
- dr. Arthur m. dye
224 Piedmont Bldg.
Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C.
INFORMATION BY REQUEST
Custom Service
Ready to put on.
You owe yourself a look
at our clothes. Never
was such value for the
money.
No trouble to fit you.
Grey anJ Brown Mix
tures, Pencil Stripes, etc.
34 South Tryon.
The Men's Shop.
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SUITS
Suits of Serge and Fancy Worsteds from the
very best makers and m the newest models
$19.95, $25.00, $29.50, $35.00
Men's new Fall Suits of plain and fancy Worst
eds, in regulars, slims, stouts, $14.95, $16.95,
$19.95, $25.00, $29.50, and $35.00.
All Men's Palm Beach, Mohair Suits, made in
dark and light colors, made in regulars, slims,
stouts and young men's models all going at big
reductions.
HATS
We have just one big shipment of our new Fall
Hats made by Stetson and other standard
makers, all new shapes and colors, $2.95, $3,95,
$4.95, $6.95.
All Straw Hats going at a sacrifice to close
out.
SHIRTS
1 lot Men's fine Percale Shirts, made in plain and
fancy patterns, worth $1.00. Special 69c
Men's extra fine Percale Shirts, regular $1.50 val
ues. Sale Price 98c
Men's Madras Shirts, extra quality, regular, $2.00
and $2.50 values. Sale price $1.48
HOSE
Men's Cotton Sox, all colors r.10c
Men's Lisle Sox, colors navy, cordovan, black and
. grey , ,15c 25c 35c
Men's fine Silk Sox, ali colors 50c, 75c, $1.00
TIES
Men's new Neckties, made in the newest shapes J
cinu pauerns..... .. 35c, 60c, 95c, $1.50
SUMMER UNDERWEAR
Men's Nainsook Union Suits, made by the verv
best makers. All sizes.. mr 75c, 98c, $1.25
WORK SHIRTS
Men's Work Shirts, made of best grade Cham
bray, cut full and . well made 69c, 85c, 98c
WORK PANTS AND OVERALLS
Men's heavy blue Overalls, extra quality 98c and
MIl!l8!$2.4870rk Pa"tS' da'rk COl01S' 98c $L48'
IFOR BOYS
SUITS
School days are here and we are here with every
thing for the boy for school wear. BoyV
School Suits, made of Serge and Fancy Mix-
K $12.50 18 yearS' $495' ?6-95' $8-95'
1 Pfnte Sftf SutS' made with tw Pairs
Pants, made m blue, brown and green. Spe-
.... $9.95
PANTS
B WorSlTM ' Tde l SerSe and Fancy
S $248 thmg fr SCh01 Wear 98c W
WASH SUITS
neatly trimmed. 98c ?ug $L98 $248
CAPS
Boys' Caps, made of Serge and -pw tt-
new shapes and all shlfes?. fsc?
p , XT . UNDERWEAR ' '
Bak Union Suits Ama(je 0f the w.
Slzes- 48c, 75c, 9Sc
grade Nainsook. AH
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mm -w
W8 -sttjirrm ftftoftiw,
i i i - '
S-
1