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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE,' N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTER.NOU.IN, SEITEMBEK 14, 1921.
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State Commissioner Reports
Inch Idleness In Big Cities
Ky JULE Ii. WARREN.
n Correspondent ot The New.
;:a;eigh, Sept. 14. "Unless condi
. --s change materially for the better
time soon, you are going tb see
s I linos and soup kitchens in the
.;, r cities of the country," declares
.missioner of Labor M. L. Shipman,
- has just returned from a meet
; the International Employment
w..-es in Buffalo. X. Y. The com-
...p'oner is convinced of his first
V:,, region of several weeks ago when
returned from a visit to some of
; Northern cities, that employment
virions are much better in North
vlina and possibly other Southern
ps Vian they are in the Northern
lie found more people unem
. . wd in the North than the reports
m the various bureaus indicate
to are in this State, when the popu-
r,s are compared.
H e main trouble with the situation
now is the inability of the
loyors to get together on a reduc-
m the cost of production, and
-mlency on the part of some of
, l irprer employers . of labor not to bo
to take a smaller profit than
. , have been getting. He believes
. ilxner conference of the employers
. . h has been called for an early
will help conditions considers vk-
.: is possible to get the employers
: labor to see that unless they open
:: hops and make the business
.ch will keep them open, conditions
. : cei very much worse instead of
:r. The commissioner of labor be-.-,-
the Hoover conference has much
!.:! il good in it, if it can put
some of the things Secretary
: '-rt Hoover has in' mind in asking
: : the meeting.
-! connection with his discussion of
unemployment conditions gener
Mr. Shipman makes public the
: of the work of the employment
an? in five North Carolina citi-
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has steadily shown large
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That evidence of public
favor is attributed to
public appreciation of the t
fundamentals of our bus
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long. Therefore, we sell
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matter of business and
?v;j pay strict attention to
the value of service in
winning new friends and
holding friendships pre
viously won.
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30 West Trade St.
Phone 175
w in he week ending Septem
ber 10. During that week there were
requests for work from 232 men and
6d women. Employers of labor asked
the different bureaus to find men for
0 Jobs and women for 62 jobs. The
Ave bureaus referred 263 men and
63 women to possible places where they
could secure jobs, and actually found
jobs for 239 men and 46 women, which
la a pretty fair batting average as
compared with the registrations. The
division of the cities follows: Charlotte
55. Greensboro 40, Raleigh 72, "Wil
mington 67, "Winston-Salem 51, or a
total jobs founds for 285 people.
Of this number 87 were skilled la
borers, 125 unskilled, 30 clerical and
professional, 8 industrial and 25 do
mestic. THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS.
Students, from every section of the
State continued to come to Raleign
on every, train today to enter some of
the educational institutions located
here. The heads of the various
schools declared it was impossible to
get an . accurate idea of the registra
tion and class work would not start
until the latter part of the week, and
all of the registrations would not be
completed until that time.
Both State College and Meredith
College were filled to capacity with
boarding students last year, and the
indications ryjw are that there will be
even larger numbers of students at
both of these institutions this year
than last. Rooms are being secured
for the out-of-town students at homes
in the community. St. Mary's and
Peace Institute are also crowded.
The city schools opened on Tuesday
for organization, with a registration
that is over 500 larger than the pre
vious year. The high school alone
showed 100 more students this year
than last. This is considered an espe
cially good sign, for the department of
education ha been making an effort to
get more students to continue from
the grammar grades through the high
conditions are not causing
any big decrease in "the number of
boarding students at the various other
institutions in the city. It was pre
dicted during the last session of the
legislature that the schools were rid
ing the tidal wave of prosperity which
had washed IV unexpected amounts of
money in the rural communities of
North Carolina, but that the schools'
would not need so much room during
the coming year. Many students would
drop out of the higher institutions of
learning, and would enter some kind of
immediately gainful work. But that
prediction is not carried out this Sep
tember for despite the economic condi
tions and the crop disasters and price
dropping, the farmers of North Caro
lina are sending their boys and giris
to college in just "as great if not
greater numbers than ever before.
State College, where many farmer
boys come, will have more than it can
comfortably take care of.
COL. JOINER'S SNAKE STORY.
The Norwood dispatch ot the black
snake which swallowed a door knob
and was afterwards killed arouses the
interests of Colonel Andrew Joyner of
the Insurance department, who is some
thing of a student of nature and
philosopher along with being statisti
cian and publicity man for the de
partment, for he has a snake story
that lays this Norwood yarn in the
shade. He does not doubt the sugges
tion that the Norwood snake sivallwi-d
the doorknob. In fact he believes
it entirely plausible but thinks the
snake would have died of indigestion
if it had not been killed.
Colonel Joyner's story might be
properly entitled "The Sin of Greed"
or "The Evil Effect of Mixed Diet" for
it has to do with a lady snake who
swallowed a china egg and some othor
things which did not balance up her
ration properly, and thereby got into
trouble.
"I had two black snakes about one
of my tobacco barns down in Pitt
county." Colonel Joyner declares, "kept
them there to catch the rats about the
plt.ee. The chickens on the farm,
with n If nnwlpdes neculiar to the
! i female of the poultry species, made
up tneir minas mat ine toDacco uai n
(was" an ideal place for depositing tneir
i er.,gs, and had consequently made nests
I in many places about the barn.
X-SUXXlia - . . 1 ' M& .w-w i J
season, I noticed one Dig Diacis sna.K;
come out of the barn every day, climo
Ma I a tree and drop from one of the limbs
J I to the ground. This snake did this
! acrobatic act so often that it aroused
! my interest, and going to my old nat-
ural history I found that shakes,
i after eating an egg, would climb a
j tree, crawl out on a limb and fall
' to the ground for the purpose of
j breaking the egg! The next day Mr.
Snake mounted the limb, I shot him,
and true enough found out why I
had not been getting my regular
j quota of eggs from the barn nests.
"Knowing this about a snake's na
I ture and habits, it tickled me to
j think of that old Norwood snake climb
l ing a tree and falling out in an effort
j to break the door knob," Colonel Joy
ner continued.
) "But let me tell you what the lady
' snake around my barns did. She was
j eating the eggs also, but she was a
j believer in the conservation of energy.'
' Instead of laboring, over climbing a
i tree and falling off a limb to break
i the egg shell, she had discovered a
j small crack in a fence and after
i swallowjng the egg she would crawl
j through this crack, the pressure on
I her body breaking the egg and enabling
her to dgiest it.
j "It was this circumstance, coupled
I with her greed, which prevented the
I use of a shot gun to rid the barn
' of this particular robber," Colonel Andy
continues. "Like the Norwood snake
i this mate of the tree climber made
j the mistake one day of swallowing the
; china nest egg instead of her regular
' diet. On the day she made this
undiscriminating mistake she started
to crawl ' through the crack in the
fence and was about half way through
when she spied a gay and festive
cotton tail in the fence corner. Put
ting her well known charms to work,
the lady snake cast the . spell of her
evil eye on this little rabbit, and soon
bad him near enough to swallow him.
This she did in short order and then
tried to continue her journey through
the crack in the fence- But when
her body reached the china egg further
navigation was impossible. The china
nest egg would not give and the
fence crack would not stretch.
: "So there she waa with an indigest
ible china egg in that part of her
body on one side of the fence, and the
rabbit in the head end. After strug
gling yainly for awhile, using up
the strength of her tail trying to
bre'ak the china, and the strength of
the other part of her body trying
to digest or disgorge the rabbit, she
I gave up her snakely gnost.
j "Haying seen that with my own
! eyes, and knowing the nature of the
' snake, every time I think of that old
j Norwood snake falling out of a tree
i trying to break the door-knob it
1 tickles me better than a minstrel
show," the philosopher and nature
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ich in Color and
f nil of Mystery
jftutumn comes with its van of new
costumesb ringing from the mo
distes workshop all that they have
designed for this coming season.
Jhese displays embrace the most
exclusive in apparel and accessories
to which we cordially invite your
inspection
dhursda
day,
and
Saturday
frocks
for Fall have been treated
to the straight silhouette
perhaps with malice of forethought since it
affords such wide scope for the display of
eccentric Oriental trimmings of the most
voguish contriving.
are fashioned along two silhou
Juits
ettes tlte jaunty box coat
swinging loose from the shoulder or the
long unbelted jacket, straight and slim.
Foremost fashion forecasters state, "It's a
matter', of taste which one women choose.'
Xinri ntit n ne new tailored styles
llfCoJfO possesses a primness that
is bewitching, a modesty that well becomes
it, a practicalness that makes you long to
wear it. And Autumn lingerie needs are
so many.
Jkirts
be selected for sports and
shopping but costume Blouses, quite long,
elaborately ornamented and in many smart
new shades Mohawk, Hydrangea Blue, Yel
lowstone, are Autumn's distinctive offerings.
of- which at least one is so es
sential and more . than one in
these dashing new striped and plaided fab
rics so desirable, are wonderfully varied.
They're a veritable summons to the sports
woman. GOr 1 0 an(j patterns are an induce
ment even to the novice who has never
before been tempted to design her own cos
tumes. The woolens of exquisite softness and
the pebbled texture of satiny crepes are at
tractive starting points for the Autumn
wardrobe.
f 1 in every size and shape may be
JTCaIS said this Fall without exagger
ation and fine feathers bedeck manym pf them.
For sports, for shopping, for evening wear,
are becoming hats in the season's mode.
JyfUSl&rlf of weave, and though long
er skirts have come, Hosiery will still be
prominent for Autumn footwear takes such
pleasure in sandal effects.
flfiioc e worn with the tailleur
vyjlUVftS an(j others as accessories to
evening t gowns besides the many in-between
Glove needs are met by our Autumn groups
in a way that insures correctness.
rife m the new season's mode, made
QsUl4(& of luxurious deep pile fabrics
exquisite in color and beautifully combined
with fur shawl collars, cuffs, pockets and
panels are almost as rich as Coats of all fur.
"CHARLOTTE'S SHOPPING CENTER
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"A BON MARCHE STORE'
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