SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1921.
THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1921.
A TOTAL REPUDIATION
President Harding is about to com
plete the final renunciation of his cam
paign pledges in respect to what he
would do with the league of nations.
David Lawrence said in his telegraphic
dispatch to this newspaper Saturday
that there will be no "association of
nations", the project which Mr. Hard
ing consented to espouse if he wad
elected. Of course he was under no
particular obligation to make public
what he would do about this all-important
matter then. He, while Senator,
had voted for the league of nations with
the reservations written into it by
Senator Lodge and the presumption was
therefore, that his vote represented his
attitude toward the league.
Bessought. however, by spokesmen
for thousands of republican voters who
favored the league, Mr- Harding repeat
edly committed himself to a plan to
formulate an association of nations, if
he was elected president of the United
States, and on this pledge, he received
votes that possibly ran into the mil
lions. For there were millions of re-
THE EXPOSITION
With tho details and the plans involv
ed in the Made-in-Carolinas Exposition
which will be formally opened Monday,
the public is by this time fully acquainted-
The uproarihg amount of
work that has been done in connection
with it, the versatility of the exhibits
from manufacturing plants and natural
resources of the State and well-rounded
display of what North Carolina is,
what it has done, is doing and will
yet do, make up a story which, of course
can not be presented so crytically as
to do it justice. The people must needs
attend and see for themselves the ex
tent of these things in order to get an
adequate appreciation of the scope of
the undertaking as well as the mag
nitude of the exhibits of North Caro
lina's inhererent prowess and natural
greatness.
Within these lines let it be sufficient
therefore, only to recommend that the
people of this community and the peo
ple of the whole State avail themselves
of this educational course in "Know-
ENTITLED TO LAUDATION
A contributor to the columns of
the current issue of The Asheville La
bor Advocate from North Charlotte
makes the statement in connection with
the recen textile strike that "the strik
ers have won for their community some
thing that is far better than a point
of controversy between employer and
employe. They have won the confidence
of a large number of Charlotte citi
zens." 0
This is a statement of fact to which
the citizens generally of this whole com
munity will gh-e assent and it is an
attainment of which the workers in
the North Charlotte vicinity may well
feel proud. To have emerged from
such a crisis as fell upon these people
and to be able to assert "that "law
and order have reigned supreme, noth
ing has occurred ever to call out police
and no attempt made to intimidate any
employe of the mill who expressed a de
sire to return to work" is a record that
any community of mill people may feel
proud of and it is a record, too, in which
the people generally will take pride.
, Perhaps, those on the outside have
an inadequate appreciation of what goes
on In the community where a strike is
in progress. The genius of trouble is
that it takes swift wings and shows it
self in hydra-headed form. The evil has
the speed of a meteor, but the good
trails along with the swiftness of a tor
toise. In such communities where there
are industrial difficulties, it is hard to
keep the best part of humanity and the
best things in men and women to the"
,top. The passions will slip away from
(them sometimes in a thoughtless -moment
and occasionally good people Nvill
say things and do things that, a mo
ment later, they realize to be wrong and
a mistake. That is characteristic not
merely with mill people, but with every
body. It is a common failing of the
f.esh to let passions ascend when there
are disputes and controversies, to sub
jugate sober sense and calm reasoning
and refuse to think a proposition
through.
It la unfair, therefore, for a disinter
ested spectator to stand apart from
such controversies as these and express
a dogmatic opinion as to what ought to
happen and what ought not to happen.
If these outsiders happened to be in the
shoes of some of these peopl who work
in these plants, chances are they would
do exactly what the operatives do and
think exactly as they think. After a'l,
In the basic things there is no material
difference in humanity. One man is sub
ject to the same moods as another and
the fundamental ingredients that, reside
in one fellow reside also in another.
This fact makes the statement of the
writer to The Labor Advocate especially
significant as showing that the mill
workers of the North Charlotte com
munity, amid all the trials and vexations
of the strike period, held their heads,
maintained law and order, had respect
to government, understood what their
duty was and then had the courage to
perform it. It is an accomplishment
over which not only these citizens them
selves ought to feel greatly elated, but
i. speaks volumes for the citizenship of
Charlotte as a whole and writes in in
telligible longuage the story of the sort
of folks that predominate in this community.
publicans who disagreed with their j m North Carolina". That is a phrase
party leaders when the league of nations j that has been passing from lip to lip
was being killed by the powerful few j through this commonwealth for these
of the Senate oligarchy.
Within the last few months, friends
of the league. Republican friends of
it, have been insisting that Mr. Hard
ing indicate what his plans are as to
his proposed association of nations.
Notably Dr. Hamilton Holt, editor of
The Independent, was one of the re
publican friends of the league who has
been bothering Mr. Harding considera
bly about his plans in respect to the
league. Dr. Frederick Lyons continues
to indicate in his religious weekly, The
Christian' Work, that he and other
great leaders in world-peace movements
will hold the president responsible for
the carrying out or final rejection of
plans to get an association of the na
tions in lieu of the republican senate's
refusal to accept the Versailles treaty.
And others like-these, great, big out-,
standing republican leaders, spokesmen
for tens of thousands of republican vot
ers who want to see this country do
somethig tangibly to indicate its desire
to promote internaional peace, have
been insising all along that the Presi
dent, to keep his own plighted word,
could not do otherwise than to foster
some scheme to get the United States
aligned with Europeans in such a mo
menous Enterprise.
Mr- Lawrence says, however, that the
President has virtually made up his
mind that the project can not be con
summated, that he will not further urge
acion in reference to an association of
nations, and that he will stake all on
what is done at the coming conference
on limitation of armaments.
This will, therefore, complete the ef
forts of President Harding, under the
dictation of the few bitter-eriders, to
keep the United Sttaes from facing an
opportunity of a century and from do
ing a duty, the like of which has never
before been present to this republic.
Not that any great things may have
come of a sporadic movement to line
the United States up with Europeans in
anoher pact called by some name that
would distinguish it from the league
of nations.! We have grave doubts
whether the other great powers of the
world would have consented to the un
dertaking of any new agency of this
sort. They probably would have told
the United States to go back and attend
to its own business after they had
been so violently fooled and duped by
what the senate did but it would have
been reasuring to his countrymen, at
least, if the President had honestly ex
erted himself, exercised his own mind
about this matter, instead of yielding
so abjectly to the Wilson-haters who
surround him so pitiably renounced the
pledges he made to his fellow-citizens
when he was seeking their suffrage last
Fall.
last few months. We have suddenly
determined in this State that we know
a great deal about our neighbors, but
that we know next to nothing about
ourselves and there has been a well
defined plan in the mind of some of
the leading patriots of North Carolina
to get their State properly presented.
This Exposition will fit in delicately
with that ideal. It will enable peo
ple who think they know North Caro
lina already to discover that they are
really ignorant of what it is in the
matter of manufacturers and natural
resources. It will undoubtedly open
the eyes of the unsophisticated and
magnify the opinions of many whose
position and whose travels and studies
have revealed to them already much of
the greatness of the State.
The event promises to be opened un
der favorable omens and to continue
through many days attracting the multi
tudes from far and near because of its
innate worth and because, also, of the
splendid opportunities to be afforded for
hearing unrivalled musical programs
and addresses by some of the nation's
most outstanding leaders in business
in conjmerce, in education and in states
man ship.'
The distinctive phase of it, however,
is that it is educational, primarily, in
that it will furnish such a concrete
opportunity to learn more about this
great old Commonwealth and thus to
develop an intenser devotion to it and
a more virile determination on the part
of tie citizenry to co-operate in all of
its great forwardlooking movements.
While men are toiling on in strife
the women get the best in life. Tne
speeder who defies the law is some
sweet girl or charming squaw. The
speeder who spends time in jail is al
ways some down-trodden male.
Now take Miss Hank, a blushing
flower, who dotes on three-score-ten an
hour. At 60 per she spies McClain,
who's cross the Alps for any jane. He
lifts his cop hat with a smile and sslva,
"Put on another mile!" She then parks
near a water spout, but McClain does
not run her out. She shops until the
early night with no globe in her bu;-i
rear light, Thile Cop McClain just
scrapes and bows and says, "That's
what the law allows." He lets the fe
males go their way. He has not pinch
ed a girl' since May.
But here comes Old Man Hiram
Hank in surplus haste to reach rtis
bank. The passersby flee in alarm sis
Mac jumps out and waves his arm.
He shouts, "Hands up! Give me your
name or fall before the gun I airn!"
Old Man Hank throws up his paws,
while past him vlash the speeding1
squaws. He stands before Judge Jones
with groans and hands the court some
20 bones. While there Mac comes bacK
with a bawl, "He parked before the
City Hall," and Hank grabs once more
for his purse and sighs, "Hades is not
much worse."
The women cry for equal rights, but
still they get by without lights. They
park and speed just where they please.
The female life is one of ease. lt'3
man who should stand up and bawl,
"Equal rights for one and all!"
Copyright, 1021, bj-News Publishing Co.
TEACHING TRAINMEN
HOW TO BE POLITE
STREET IMPROVEMENTS
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Charlotte will be keenly interested
in the Governor's, appointment of a
successor to the late Judge Allen inas
much as a prominent Charlottean is
mentioned as probably one of those who
may be called upon to fill a new and
important position for the State by vir
tue of this appointment. In the event
Df Atorney General Manning's appoin
tnent to thf Supreme court bench to
take Justice Allen's place, chances are
that Mr- Hariot Clarkson may be en
throned as attorney general and thus
In one stroke, the Governor will have
promoted two his choicest friends and
two of the State's eminent barristers.
Office desks, chairs, tables, tiling
devices and safes. The most complete
Atock in the Carolina s to choose from,
found & Moore Co. Phone 4542. 23-tf
It is gratifying to learn that the city
commissioners are anticipating an ex
tensive improvement of city streets, that
thoroughfares which have long been
in need of permanent paving are to
get attention. The pity of it is that
financial conditions will now allow the
city to give the streets in the heart
of the city some repairs which they so
sorely need. The condition of a num
ber of the principal streets of Charlotte
i, lamentable. They ought to be gone
over almost entirely and revamped, but
information from the office of the com
missioner of public works is to the ef
fect that there is no financial resort
in sight which would justify a hope
that such an improvement might be
made by time within the near future.
This is a sort of improvement for
which the city would necessarily have
to bear the expense while the streets
under prospect for paving will be con
jointly paid for by the city and the citi
zens who are contiguous property owners.
UNDERWOOD'S CHOICE X
President Harding, has ,sele';tocl Sen
ator Underwood as the democratic rep
resentative on the conference on limi
tation of armaments.
It is a matter of doubt wh -ther the
President selected Mr. Underwooi be
cause of his ability or because he want
ed to commit the democratic represen
tation in the Senate to whatever is
agreed upon at this conference, Mr.
Underwood is the democratic loader in
the Senate and if he, as a member of
the commission, agrees to c-itain poli
cies in connection with thU matter,
it may be figured that this will hf.i tl.o
mouths of the minority in the upper
chamber.
Nevertheless, if the results of the
conference are what they should be, if
definite progress can be made toward
a reduction in the naval strength of the
nation and if by so doing the powers
determine to take a great stp in the
interest of international peaces it will
not lie in the mouths of the minority
'to attempt to block the wayThat would
be entirely too much like th2ir republi
can colleagues and, in addition, there is
no reason that they, as representatives
of a party or for what may appear to.j
be political effect, should try to stand
in the way.
As a matter of fact, tho democratic.
Administration which was headed by
former President Wilson start".! the
machinery for disarmament avd the tls
armament commission of the league of
nations has furher prepared the ground
work of this congress in America. But
for what had been previously dorr? along
this line, President Harding would never
have been able to make such, progress
as he has made in this important enter
prise. For that reason ther? is no cause
for the democrats to feel at all jealous j
cf accomplishments in the direction of j
disarmament during the Republican administration-
The country knows what
the previous Administration did and it
will not likely soon forget the wonder
ful services of Mr. Wilson and his asso
ciates in this great project on behalf
of the peace of the world.
Los Angeles, Sept. 9. A novelty
ir. railway instruction departments has
been inaugurated here with the in
stallation of Miss Nina.: Martin as a
"school marm" for trainmen of the
Los Angelos Railway. It will be Miss
Martin's special duty to give conduc
tors and motormen lessons in courtesy
toward patrons of the local street cars.
The Courtesy course will also touch
on the presonal appearance of train
men, and motormen and conductors
will receive lectures from their new
teacher on keeping, their uniforms tidy
and their shoes "slicked."
Fruit stains on linen should be
smeared with glycerine and left for an
hour. They will then readily wash
out.
BIG DAY'S WORK FOR ROADS
A great, day's work for good roads
in Mecklenburg county was done yes
terday when the State highway com
mission and the Mecklenburg highway
commission got together and Commis
sioner Wilkinson of the State board suc
ceeded in having allocated to this coun
ty enough of the State's highway money
to revamp both the Carolina-Mt. Holly
and the Charlotte Pineville road. It is
gratifying also that progress was made
toward getting together on the early con
struction of Charlotte-Statesville road
that part of it lying in Mecklenburg
couny. The only obstacle in the way
of awarding this contract now it the
procurement of waivers of all claims by
property owners along' the route in the
matter of a right-of-way and the under
standing is that the procurement of!
these will be merely a matter of seeing
these citizens. They-, are willing to
sign such waivers as soon as they can
put their hands on a pen and that vh
tually guarantees that in a few days
the engineers will be ready to have bids
submitted on this project.
. Our many years of expe
rience in selling precious
stones is your warranty
against mistakes in judging
quality and value.
B. F. ROARK
Jeweler, Diamond Merchant
Silrersmith t
10 North Tryon St.
Our Clothes
are like custom tailoring
in everything but price.
Beautiful woolens ;
smartest styles and at
prices that will surprise
you.
H. C.
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33 EAST TRADE
OSTEOPATHY
Is the science of healing by
adjustment.
DR. H. p. RAY
313 Realty Bldg.
DR. FRANK LANE MILLER
610 Realty Bldg.
DR. ARTHUR M.-DYE
t n 231 Piedmont Bids
52&2Patlw' Charlotte, N. C.
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ONLY AT THESE PRIGES
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1 case 20 dozen 90x90 $1.50
Each tPX
1 case 72x90 splendid quality djj ,0
Sheets tpJL
1 case 63x90 98 C
Pillow Cases
33c
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Good Muslin cases, 42x36
29c and
Extra good quality, 36x42
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Some Extra
Good Values in
Towels
Good size Bath Towels X9C
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Extra large Colored Border
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Extra large and fieavy White -j
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Dozen Biaper
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ten Hemmed- $X"
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Canton Flannels
and Outings
Very good Canton in the unbleached,
at 10c 12 lie 15c
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Pretty Check or Stripe Outing
Good quality plain white Out- -jj p
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Fall Ginghams
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THIS WEEK WE ARE SHOWING
Very pretty 32-inch fast colored Dres.
Ginghams, in a variety of block
checks; also the pretty Dress plaids
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Just in for this week's sales, 100
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Pattern. tExtra pretty
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24-inch Hemmed
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Ginghams at
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Come in and see the New Wool Plaids
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Ask to see the School Serges in plain
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