THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 14, 1921.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1921.
SCHOOLS FOR LAWYERS
There is a great deal in what Judge
J. Bis Ray Ray has to say in regard
to the tutoring of lawyers in schools
which prepare young men for this pro
fession with the theory of their prac
tise, but the judge will recognize him
self at once as being entirely unortho
dox. It is the opinion of this jurist
that any young man who wants to
practise law ought to be allowed the
privilege of hanging out his shingle and
going to it, even though he may have
come straight into the law from behind
the slow or from behind the counter.
He said from the bench the other day
that he does not approve of the State
demanding of its men who aspire ;o
practise lav that they must pass an ex
animation before being admitted to the
bar, that experience alone ue crn'ints.
anyway, one's fitness for this profes
sion and that if a man is not strong
enough to jump right into it and de
velop in the school of experience, no
amount of technical education will avail
to make him a successful practitioner.
Of course, that is perfectly defensible
from one point of view. No education
carries with it a guarantee of success,
but it does carry with it a capacity for
mind-husbandry, for utilizing the intel
lect most advantageously, and thus aid
ing in a successful career.
Besides that, the requirements in re
gard to examinations are not merely
to assure young lawyers that they are
ready to enter this profession, but also
to assure the profession that it will not
be imposed upon and that there shall
be a uniformity of standards recognized
in it.
It is not good for society that quacks
should abound in any profession. The
profession is not entitled to public re
spect that lets down the bars indiscrim
inately and shouts a way of entrance to
multitudes wanting to crowd into it- A
man who would undertake, for instance,
to practise medicine without thorough
ly preparing himself, without allowir.g
the State to see by means of an examin
ation that he is prepared, would be a
peril to society and the State would
be criminally guilty of auo vin him to
run at large in its confines. There may
be no peril to society in the untrained,
untutored lawyer, but there is? a poril
to the profession itself and that is the
vital reason that a definite standard is
set and that any who would come in is
required to measure up to that standard.
OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE HERE
It should be a matter for general con
gratulation that Charlotte is to have
immediately another country club, that
in Myers Park, with all the features
of a modern out-of-doors place of play,
tennis courts, swimming poo'., golf links
and such accoterments, that there
may be gathered for healthful and help
ful exercise a large number of tne peo
ple of the city.
The Charlotte Country Club has prov
en a benediction to many men, women
and children in Charlotte as affording
facilities for bodily refreshment and
exercise. The Myers Park ov.u will
soon be reckoned likewise for those
who are to be privileged to enjoy its
bounties and some of these days, we
are still hopeful, the city will have an
abundance of public places of play,
creational institutions, ard club houses
with all the privileges and all the fea
tures of modern institutions, so that
tha public generally may b? p,ivcn the
opportunity of enjoying what the more
fortunately situated in the ciy can rVw
command for themselves.
The American people are iufcfc. awaken
ing to the vital importance of recrea
tion. Perhaps, our fathers didn't need
it. They were rugged in their j-.a-t
lire living close to the suil and their
environs were not such as s ;pped their
vitality as today's environs in society
rnd in industry. Competition then
was largely fiction: today it te tragically
real. Tn that day also our forebears
look, things easily: there was no speed-craze-
They went nbout tlieir work
in a somcvbat happy-go-lucl-.y fashion,
too:; their time, worked hard but sen
sibly and me to the close of -. dcy's
work fat i; ued in body, but with minds
undimmed by the multiplied vcxUions
of modern business exactions. Under
circumstances like that, there was no
particular occasion for them tc h.ive golf
clubs and tennis courts ana jwini-i:ng
pools and al- of these other elements
of moderi. clubs.
It s very different today. Work is
different 'it's harder, more ener .ati-i,
more xecationsu. Competition flrives
men to excesses in labor. They are
forced to over-exertion ami it is a com
petition largely in the application and cx
ercise of wits, more fatiguing than the
combatting of muscle and brawn. It is
this new type of industry that is un
dermining the health of the people and
this new anp-le of business that is turn
ing men's thoughts toward recreation
as a f vn: of restoration more helpful
and curative than pills or prescriptions.
And the man of the office needs this
variety erf exercise no more than the
man of the mills. He, too, 's hai-d-pressed.
His burdens are unrelieved.
His unbroken periods of work are de
s'ructive to health and the peculiar
charoctir of his occupation has led to
the experiment of short-hours in the
interest of efficiency. It would make tre
mendously more for acceptable work
manship if all the industri::! classes had
access to parks and places of play where
they might get exercise and alleviation,
and refreshment and new vitality for
their labors.
And especially have parks and play
grounds come to be regarded as vital
in the life of the child. We are just
coming into an appreciation of the fact
that it is more economical tc sper.d
hundreds of thousands of dollars to fol
low the natural aptitudes of the child
in its formative, plastic period of life
than it is to spend many more hun
dreds of thousands to cure them after
society has failed to take account of
their early inclinations. Intelligently
directed play is being regarded today
as an influence not merely in the- shap
ing of more perfect bodies, but in the
fashioning also of more perfect minds
and in the mouding of more perfect
characters. k
It is commendable, therefore, to see
these recreational centers increasing in
this community and to have this evi
dence that the public has such a regard
for them that they can count upon ade
quate financial support.
OPPOSE COOPERATIVE MARKET
ING We see by The Greensboro News
that the Farmers Union of Guilford
county is making a public fight against
the co-operative marketing association's
plans of trying to get sthe cotton rais
ers of that community to sign up i:nd
deliver their cotton to this central agen
cy of the farmers to turn loose on
the market.
It is beyond us to explain how any
organization that claims to have the
wellbeing of the cotton growers at heart
can deliberately bring itself to oppose
a movement of this kind. The only
possible chance for the South to get in
position to control the price of cotton
is through some such means as this.
That ought to be clear. Surely the
officials of the Farmers' Union will not.
approve of . the present indiscriminate,
slip-shod, ..haphazard methods of mar
keting cotton, methods by which near
ly all the staple raised is dumped on
the markets during there months of
the year and sold at prices deflated be
cause of this onrush to the markets.
And yet it sends its forces againset
the only organization that proposes re
demption from this unbusiness-like and
destructive system, the only organiza
tion that has come before the intelli
gent farmers of the South with an ap
peal that is not merely fascinating, but
that fairly bristles with practicality. It
fulfils every demand that the cotton
grower has been making for fifty years
in respect to control of the markets.
It offers opportunity by which the
men who make cotton can stand up and
demand the price they shall receive -for
it. And yet it is being antagonized
by an organization that is supposed to
be engaged in looking after he wellbe
ing of the farmers!
COMMUNICATIONS
DR. JOHNSON APPROVES.
Editor of The News:
It is -a splendid omen in these
materialistic days, when the editor of
a virile newspaper, like The Charlotte
News, takes up his pen in defense of
the Christian Sabbath as was so finely
done in your puper of September 7.
This is not the - first lime, however,
that this thing has been done by Tho
News, for I recall the universal com
ment -hat was made on an editorial
of The News in its stand for the Vo
servance of the Lord's Day when an
attempt was made to have an open Sun
day in Charlotte while the soldier
were at Camp Greene. The writer wis
not a citizen of this city at that thru;,
but saw-the editorial copied in a N w
yerk paper with most favorable com
ment. Your diagnosis of the attack recent
ly made on The Lord's Day Allianee
is correct. It is simply a camouflage
on the part of certain combinations of
alien and un-American elements wh
behind this Bmoke screen, are tryirg
to dissipate the Christian Sabbath ind
commercialize it for their own selfish
ends.
All this propaganda as to the pro
mulgation of "blue laws," was started
by themselves, hoping, by this method,
to throw dust in the eyes of the people
as to the rffil purpose of The Lord s
Day Alliance, which has for its pur
pose the protection and preservation of
the Christian Sabbath as a day of re.it
and worship.
ALBERT S. JOHNSON.
MR. JONAS TAKES EXCEPTION.
To the Editor of The News:
I ma a constant reader of your live
paper. I get it every day from your
local newsboy.
Your editorial headed "Intolerance:
j was a very timely and well written
editorial. I wish it could be read and
studied by every citizen of the.- State.
But the force - of that editorial wis
broken by the very next editorial in
the same issue, in which you expressed
the sentiment that Dr. W. S. Rafikin
should be rewarded for his very intol
erant, bitter, if not childish, personal
attack upon the Surgeon General be
cause Dr. Rankin thinks differently
from the Surgeon General about pellagra-conditions
in the South. The writ
er thinks Dr. Rankin must surely think
less of himself after seeing his cheap
diatribe in print. However small the
Surgeon General may be Dr. Rankin,
judging by his attack, proves himself
the smaller. "
Then there is your editorial, belit
tling personal attack upon Senator
Lodsje. Again your editorial column
carried about the most intolerant, vici
ous, uncalled-for personal attack upon
Chairman Fordney I have ever read
in a respectable daily newspaper.
It seems scarcely possible that the
same heart breathed the thoughts in
the article in "Intolerance" that could
harbor the bitter, intolerant sentiments
expressed in the personal attacks men
tioned. I have no brief for the gentle
men you have so belabored. They may
be all wrong in their ideas, but per
sonal abuse of them does no good. It
simply spreads personal ill feeling
against men who differ with 3'our
readers in thought, and encourages the
spirit of intolerance" you seem to' de
plore in others. It is s.-id that on one
occasion a young lawyer asked an old
practioner what snouia u 'ft",'"
barrister when both1 facts and law ap
peared L be against him. The advice
given was that in such cases Give
Jour opponent h I." To Jhls0" vour
one would gather from some of your
editorials you would say 'Them's my
sentiments."
Whenever our leaders and. our
newspapers learn to substitute argu
ment' and reason for personal .litt eness
and spiteful spleen and cheap billings
gate, the spirit of intolerance among
the people will no longer retard our
spiritual, social and political advance
ment. -
CHAS. A. JONAS.
Llncolnton.
RECKLESS DRIVING IS
CHARGEDTOPREACHER
Petersburg, Va Sept. Howlng
an accident of Sunday night, in which
his automobile struck and killed W; J.
Cummings, well known grocer of tms
city, "and injured nine others, Rey. K.
L. Matthews, a Petersburg ministei ,
has" been charged in police court here
with reckless driving. Mr. Matthews
is also under $500 bond for his appear
ance before a coroners jury, the in
quest having been postponed to await
the outcome of the injuries to the sui
viving members of the party.
DEMOCRATS NAME HOOKER.
Danville, Vi.. Sept. 14. The Demo
cratts of the " fifth Virginia district, in
a delegated convention of three hund
red men and women, Tuesday nominat
ed J. Murray Hooker of . Patrick eoUnty
for the unexpired term of the late R.
A. James in the sixty-seventh Congress.
UNCLE JOE THINKS
AMERICANS BL
Washhington, Sefpt. 14. r
Cannon, eighty-five-old youncv
House, today laughed at pessimist,
"iClo
'Americans today, in tru
ings they enjoy," said tho vt-tc-i-, v
a hundred political battles. n ?
"Why, back in Danville, 0, s
ago, before the days of gas a-.-.k'J
lights, and other marvelous- ,nvv.
that have brought comfort t u,,. , "
pie, the folks of the town 0!.1(.ri
eyes in amazement at the kri, '
oil lamp in a store window, ar-
"Just look back to those ,-;iVR ,
do I remember when the peor:..' ihi-J'
ed down on the main street r, sc,eu;;?
first kedosene lamp burning in a" 3
low dip cancue.
"Now, see what we enjny !,,,iav ;
life's comforts and convenient
are the happy days, but so i.v rea,
it.
"The Gloomy Gus of business nv
wake up to the big future ah -ad. jj;
prosperous, most resourceful ,f aii r;
tions, the business men of th.-o -
States are blind to many n ivant.:
for which they should be thankful "v
MODIFY DRASTIC ORDKR.
Milledgeville, Ga. Sept. 14.--a dras-j,
order from the Board of Trustee",
few weeks ago that no more mijt'
be admitted to the State" sanitarium
the insane until space is avails
through death or cure of present i
mates, was modified Tuesday aftf-mo
when Governor T. W. HaroViek cr
f erred with members of th; '.'nurd. "
Mr. Kihloss the new prohibition en
forcement officer for North Carolina,
announces his intention of keeping all
democrats now in the service- who show
faithfulness and efficiency. We are
wondering if Mr. Kohlos.j realizes that
this is not good republican doctrine.
Lloyd George says ho sti'l is hopeful
that America will see its duty and come
into the league of nations, lie evi
dently, figures the country is going
democratic some of these times.
GASTOMA AND CHARLOTTE
The Gastonia Cazetto has a right ring
ing suggestion to male; to the citizens
of that thriving ritv to tho effect ihat
hey should by all means put on a "Gas
tonia Day" during tile Imposition. It
proceeds to submit seme rather perifn
cnt counsel as to the feeling which
should prevail between tho citizenship
of the two cities, and its advice that
th naming of a special day which would
be delivered over to Gastonia people
vould help materially jn showing the
right spirit is both excellent and time
ly. Charlotte and Gistonia have a great
t'eal in common. There "is developing
a spirit of rivalry between them which
ought to be bracing instead of blight
ing. Competition ba.:omes suK klal when
it develops acrimony and there is no
righteousness in rivalry that runs to
wrath. The utmost cordiality must
prevail between these two neighboring
cities. We are separated only by a
span, insofar as geography is concern
ed, and in all oth-.u basal essi-nlials. Jn
'industry, in citizenship, in s-ocial euvir
' ons and in racial heritages there is
a bond of identity between us wbi:h
jmust not. be impaired by passing misun
derstandings and improper spirit.
THE DOCTORS' BUILDING
The doctors of Charlotte seem to be
determined that the lawyers will not
outdo them. They propose to have
a home of their own, as we interpret
the plan for the ten-story building on
North Tryon street to mean that the
medical fratenity has plans for a cen
tral office for its followers.
The lawyers have found their build
fng not only an agency of great con
venience in that thev are so thrown
together, but also an economical in
stitution, and there is no reason that
the doctors should not run upon a simi !
lar experience.
It is a matter at any rate, that the
public may feel felicitous over, that
the .physicians of the community are
lending themselves to the construction
of another skyscraper here and thus
materially aiding in the physical and
material progress and development of
the city-
GeoV;
by some means or other Lloyd
;e and De Valera manage to get
together and settle the Irish prob
lem, some politicians in this, country
are going to be hard up for thunder.
THE SOUTH AND MR. GOMPEHS
President Gompers of the American
Federation of La'uor has a very fine op
portunity before him in th.j South whitn
er he comes to deal witn what he desig
nates as a developing t -itils crisis- Mr.
Gompers probably does not know inti
mately the -people of th3 fovjth and
their almost blind adnorenee tie fun
damentals as once delivered by the
fathers, but if he will come with sound
doctrine and constructive advice, he
will find the South responsive to his
appeals and ready to co-operats with
jhim in his leadership of the vorking
people into right channels ard toward
the destiny of better conditions.
We have no idea what he is going to
do or say when he reaches Atlanta and
takes a survey of the textile situati6n
throughout this Southern country", but
we credit him with wisdom enough
and prudence to observe the Southern
sanctities and abide by them, to un
derstand immediately that sentiment in
this part of the country has moulded
definitely already in behalf of greater
advantages for the men who earn their
living by the sweat of their brow, but
that the South is not a .'er:il2 field for
even the remotest taint of liberaliAn
along any lines. It is a section of Ameri
ca where no sort of an autocracy can
hold its head up overnight.
RECKLESS HIGHWAY DRIVING
Citizens who are in the habit of driv
ing their automobiles on the public high
ways sensibly and discreetly continue
to troop back to the city with complaints
against those who drive ther? neither
safely nor sensibly. The peril of speed
ing on the highways of "the county is a
growing evil. It must be faced and
sternly dealt with some of these days
by means which are yet to be suggested
as sufficient to curb this practise. The
hazard to life may not be so groat out
on these public, hnrd surfaced roads,
and others that are not yet hard-surfaced,
as on the crowded streets of
the city but the sinister evil is there
and will remain until sufficient steps
are taken to break up this tendency
on the part of some auto drivers Life
is equally precious in the rural as ur
ban community.
In a recent utterance, President Hard
ing patted himself on the back because
he has sv.".h an able corps of advisers
iBurrouudirg him in the cabinet. He
lias seme ttrong men, indeed, but ob
servation leads to the concius'.jn that
lfeaJ&ftlBU.k Jnataptta season';. ,
CHURCHES AND MOVING PICTURES
The census records indicate that there
are something like l,r00 churches in
this country utilizing the motion picture
as an agency for r?l'gious instruction.
There is nothing improper in any church
resorting to such an amazingly tell.ng
method for proclaiming truth. The evil
of the moving picture is not institu
tional. It comes about from the abuses
which are heaped upjn it- The screen
ought to become one of the i.iost effec
tive instrumentalities available, for en
forcing Scriptural truth and churches
that have resorted to It are explicit in
following the advice of the great Apos-
Fatty Arbuckle has extricated himself
in his screen life from many intricate
contortions, but if he manages to escape
the legal entanglement it; which he
now finds him.-elf, lie wi'l bi; reckoned
among the immortals.
RETIREMENT OF MR- MOORE
rJhe retirement of Mr. Charles R.
Moore from the business life of :.he
community after an unbroken period of
36 years of service in the . store that
ha? in late years borne hi3 name, v-iU
be keenly felt in local mercantile cir
cles where Mr. Moore has been pro-,
fesMonally vtgarded s an able and up
standing I'.i-r. of affairs. He relinquishes
his duties with a record of active sery
ce in the shoe busines? of the rity that
will ; i : 1 !y remain a 'iIic.u parallel
for many years and a record con-sir-tent
ai d conscientious devotidn to
duty that ought to be an inspiration to
many others who are you iu the serv
ice of mer;-r.mdising.
REDUCiJ FREIGHT RATES.
l
Petersburg, Va Sept. 14. The Nor
folk and Western Railway, through J.
R. Ruffin, freight traffic manager, an
nounced here Tuesday that, effective
September 28, that railroad with its
connections will make a reduction in
freight rates on domestic grain and
grain products originating in the Cen
tral west when destined to Eastern ter
ritory, including Norfolk and other
Virginia points.
OSTEOPATHY
Is the science of healing by
adjustment.
DR. H.gF. RAY
313 Realty Bldg.
DR. FRANK LANE MILLER
610 Realty Bldg.
DR. ARTHUR M. DYE
224 Piedmont Bldg.
Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C.
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Frocks
Large assortments of youthful frocks,
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$lt0$4M
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Sizes 6 to 22 Years
Regulation Middy Suits made of good
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$4to-.$9
Young W omen9 s' Coats
Every style that discrimination can sug
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Some with trimmings of fine furs. Within
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the junior and the miss might ask in fash
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Priced.
Children9 s Coats
Ages 3 to 14
More than usual thought entered into
the selection of materials, the designing
and especially the workmanship of the chil
dren's coats that we have assembled for
these coming cold days. In all the new ma
terials and wanted shades. We consider
them splendid values at these prices
$4H to $24ii .-.
Children's and Misses9 Hats
Here are the latest models in design of
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Dark shades and the new bright colorings;
you will be delighted with the variety
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We have placed an exhibit of products
we handle which are
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It is very opportunely that we display
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you to see such things and know them, to
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