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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. CHARLOTTE, TS. C THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, ltZl 4 - " 1 The Charlotte News i I Published By ! THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. IV. C. DOWn .... Pres. and Gen. Mar. JULIAN S. MILLER Editor Telephones. Business Office Circulation Department 2731 City Editor 877 . fi rt . v Off1 ; PrWi fno TTniieA 1530 ,; .i- ... ft i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. t xne AMociaiea rress is pinuitivn,' i entitled to the use for republication of ; all news dlsnatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published i herein. i All rights of republication of special Dispatches herein also re reserved SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier. One year $10.00 Six months Three months 2.3(1 One month .81 One week 21) By Mall. One year S.09 Six months 4.00 , Three months 2.V One month 75 Sunday Only. (By Mail or Carrier) One year 2.60 Six months 1.30 TIMES-DEMOCRAT. (Semi-Weehly) ; One year 1.50 : Six months 75 "Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Charlotte. N. C, un der the Act of March 3. 1897." THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1921. INTEREST IN DISARMAMENT The whole world seems suddenly io have awakened to the burning neces sity for action looking toward a limita. tion of armament: sudden because, while there has at other times been passing interest developed in this sub ject, never before has there been such a popular uprising demanding that this thing be done. There are two or three reasons that tend to give a thor ought explanation to the present agita tion in reference to disarmament. One and the chief of them perhaps, is that the whole world has got enough of war and the world is believing that armaments have a lot to do with the genesis of war. The public is begin ning to believe that, after all. there is not much of a victory to be won in war, that it is about as burdensome upon the one as the other, that war is UNEMPLOYMENT EXAGGERATION Whatever the motive prompting Secre tary of Labor Davis to give the pub lic more re-assuring facts and opin ions in regard to the unemployment sit uation, he has a great deal to say that ought to be stimulating. It may be, of course, the Administration would like to minmize the industrial situation in America at thi8 time. It would not look well for unemployment figures to reach hitherto unapproached proportions while a party is in power that was ranting to get control of the reins of government and that told the people that if once it could apply its intelli gence and leadership to the business equation of the country, nil would speed ily be well. Let the purpose of this explanation by the labor department head be what it may, some comforting logic is pro duced by his figures and he might have made the situation look even a little more nice if he said that there are normally between 2,000,000 and a,000, 000 workers in this country who do not work. If Ave take this estimate of ja tural idleness, idleness that prevails when there is an abundance of work to be done and an abundance of pay to be given for it, and subtract it from the records outlined, we will discover that, relatively, there is no tremendous amount of idleness in America at this time. We doubt, after all, if through out the whole country there are more than 2,000,000 men who are thrown out of employment. The balance of those not working now don't want to work and wouldn't under any industrial con ditions unless forced to by the officers of the law. Ono accustomed o observing social and industrial condition m this com munity knows well enough ihat idle men can be seen in drovrs whether times are good or bad, whether work is plentiful or scarce, whether wages are high or low. They hang around trc street corners or loaf in th-j pool rooms and are professional drones and slug gards. Counting such as these the na tion over, the present period of depres sion has not thrown nearly so many out of work as we may bo inclined to believe in some abjectly pessimistic moment- HELPING SERVICI? MEN It is greatly to be desired that gov ernment agencies are finally on the right track in sending out of what is known ns "the clean-up" squad which is a party of government officials looking up former service men, getting in personal touch with them so that their wants and needs may be directly sent back to Washington and that whatever is com ing to these men in thi way of com pensations of all sorts will not longer be delayed. This work is being carried on as a provision of the Sweet bill which creat ed the Veterans Bureau which is a consolidation of many former agencies working in the interest of wounded soldiers. It merges the War risk bur eau, the rehabilitation' division of the PCocational training of world war veter ans and that part of the "public health service which had to do wit-i treat ment of sick and disabled sol tiers. It is believed that this bureau is going greatly to exped'te matters be tween the government and the service men and the country knows that it is about time the government Is getting down to real business on this enter prise. There has been so much red tape and twisting around' io bo done that the real service which the government meant to perform for the soldiers has been incompetently an1 Inefficiently done. There are tens of thousands of soldiers who are entitled to claims and who have not been abiu to get them. There are multitudes of others who are entitled to various benefits of one sort or another who have been neg lected. The new burea.u is taken away from the treasury head and is directly under the President. The bill, known as the Sw?t Bill, calls for the employment of a director at a salary of $10,000 nor year and Col onel Forbes has been chotn for this post. It creates fourteen resrii nal oII:ces and 140 sub-offices. It will cost the gov ernment near $400,000,000 to maintain this department, but at any cost it'cu&ht to be efficiently maintained and the for mer service men put in position to get what they are entitled to. It is at Ie;.st encouraging to nop? that these men will in the future bi able to get a hearing without unrolling ten million yards of useless red tape. defeat for all who have ;o go into it. The World War has just left the uni verse stranded financially, sick, wearVi impoverished not merely in money but in idealism and thoroughly discouraged. We have had a year of distressing ex perience in the social, political, indus trial and moral spheres- We are told that this came from the war, that it was a part of the aftermath of war and when people begin to see and per sonally experience how devastating war is upon their pocketbooks, they get a material point of view about the tiling which changes their convictions. The world is being convinced that tais hi.ge burden of war comes largely from the system of multiplying armament.?. We many indulge in all the sophistries we phase, but the fact remains that what a nation arms for is not peace but war. Another reason for this sudden popu lar interest in this cause ;s a realiza tion of the expensivenetrs of arma ment. That fact is bearing do.vn upon us in these times with x new revela tion. The public has discovered that just now when the world ic- thot to pieces, when disease and pestilence are stalking through the eaUh, when bol shevism is rampant, when orderly government is threatened, when there is want 'and penury and even starva tion, the world discovers that in the midst of all of these horrifying harvests of war, we are paying NINETY IM2R CENT OF ALL OUR TAXES? GcIlTJXG HEADY TO FIGHT SOMEBODY AGAIN. Nobody has the daring to fig ure out what percentage Europe is paying for the same cause, but that rep resents what this country is doing and if is the cinintry tnat is supposed to ! the real leader in peace movements. Another tnd, we are hoping a very vital re:.vn, for this sud.don interest in the limitation of arm: merit i that the peoijio are disgueste.l with the spirit which is behind the maintenance of great armies and powerful navies. The average man would not live in a community where everybody walked about with a knife in the belt and a rifle on the shoulder, and a big cannon poked its nose out of every f"ort yard. I-e would get out of that s rt of a com munity in haste bemuse that spirit would, be repugnant to him. And, per haps, the people of all the rations Dave suddenly come to the conclusion that the maintenance of battleShios and poi son gases and armalas of airships and powerful instruments of distrucUon and death does not quite fit in with -he stan dards of modern civilization and with the order of things in a world that is supposed to have learned some sense by this time Whatever the causes to be assigned, the tremendous fact is that the world is freshly interested in this subject as is witnessed to by the great gathering soon to be held in Washington when envoys of all the large powers will seek to find a common meeting-ground on JUVENILE CRIME In the past six years j' vetnlo crime has doubled. There seems to bo no end of organization whose business it is to reach down into the guter and pick the delinquent boys and girls from their enmeshments of filth and slime. Chil drens' homes are multiplying, juvenile courts have become a fixed order and institutions are springing up almost every day to .remind us of the ovii in child-life, the presence of baneful in fluences to v.'hich they are ordinarily sub jected and their growing .unrestraint. Students of history tell us that this is no more than we might expert as a part of the backwash of war; that it has always happened that a great war was followed by frequent murders and a veritable cavalcade of every sort of crime and that little children have been caught up in this tidal wave of vitiat ed morals. Students of observation tell us an alto gether different story. They might sim- ply look around them and te'.l of a vast-i ly more vital reason for the prealenee of crime and for the delinquency of young boys and girls. If they will ob serve the number of children .vho are playing in the streets some Sunday morning when they are goinsr to church, they might find ample reason for the decadent moral state of things in this country. There were half a million less children in the Sunday schools last year than the preceding year. Does that indicate anything? Dr. John Poach THE SIZE OF TID3 HOUSE Even though North Carolina will get another congressman under the terms of the reapportionment measure and that member may le General Julian S. Carr whom the State would delight to honor, public sentiment appears to be somewhat decisively against increas ing the size of the House of Represen tatives up to 460 members- The truth of the matter is that the lower cham ber is already too large now. One of the perplexities- of the present Adminis tration has been to find committee jobs fj the surplus of republicans who are now members of that body. Of course that could be obviated and I will be obviated at the next election I when the democrats will be bliding back! into power, but even so, the House is entirely too large for comfort and com petency. It-is unwieldly and cumbersome and J presents too great an opportunity for dilatory tactics and partisan combina tions that work to the detriment of necessary legislation. What the coun try would rather like to see is a whole Congress that has a little more quality and not quite so much quantity. SURPLUS COTTON It is a mistake for the cotton hears to figure that, even thougn the present crop will pan out to be no more than 7.- 000,000 bales, a su-plus is being car- Stratom told here the other day in thejried over which will so supplement this which they can agree to no more". 'learn war INorth Carolin;-. Is iu amoii? the first States in the whel3 country in the per 'rrre production of. corn, we speak, of course, of corn in tlva raw. In the pro duction of thf other sort, it is in a class course of one of his addresse-i at the I'irst Baptist church that chinches are dying in New York at the rate of ten a year. Does that spell anything? One does not need to be puritanical m view to understand that in such retreatings as these the cause for present-day evil is found- Couple these facts with '..hat common observation tells you that chil dren are being fed on so largely in the moving picture shows and vou will have the situation entirely summed up. There's nothing .. strange or aff ling about. It's as logical as the f.'il moon. STATE'S VI LLE VISITORS It's a privilege for the citizens of Charlotte to have as their special guests of the day a large delegation of States villo people who have come down to attend the Exposition. It is States- ville's day at the exhibit hall and the visitors have apparently taken posses sion of the show which it was desired that they do. States ville has come to be one of the most rapidly developing of the cities of the State of its size. It has been diversifying its industry and look ing well to the development of its civic affairs until it compares most richly with any other community of its class in the whole State. It is the metropolis of one of the finer counties of North Caro lina, a good, productive agricultural county and this combination of good farming land as a back-country and a diversified urban development makes for a growing city, no matter where it may be located. Charlotte has appre ciated the coming of the citizens from its neighboring community today and there is gratitude that they have so earnestly lent themselves to make the Exposition a success. short crop as to make a full production j available this year. Ti.i is not the case. While rt huge surpl n i:$ being carried over from other year, notr.bly lt year, it is composed larsj.dv of th lower grades of the staple, grides that are largely unspinnable, in this country. Probably over half of whatever that surplus is, and the thorn v is that it is somewhere around 7X0'j 000 bales also, is not spinnable. H that calculation is anything like correot. it is obvious that there is a veritaVe famine of tho finer grades -of cotton in sight, that the situation as to hes2 specific grades amounts almost to .i famine. We are still living, wo are, dwelling in a great and glorious time, in an age on ages telling when a quarter s worth a dime- Mr. John Basset Moore, a notably law yer of the United States, has been elt ed one of the Judgo of the World Court, an orga.i'z.iti.en created under the auspices of tho League of Natlo'-s, which is dead, of course, to pass upon the judicial m-rs of issues of war which are justiciable. And the strange fact is that this great attorney has con sented to attach himself to this body of death. It has got so in this community that the day is mighty dull which some im portant contract of one sort or another Ja not awarded. BANK ROBBERS ARE ROUTED AT RONDA Winston-Selem, Sept. 15. When a gancr of robbers stood outside the De posit and Savings Bank at Ronda early Wednesday morning, waiting for the dynamite explosions that were expected to blow open the doors of the two safes, Enoch C. Sparks, a rural mail carrier, who lived next door to the bank build ing, jumped from his bed on being awakened by the noise, grabbed his shot gun, and running out-doors start ed a barage that sent the thieves hot footing it to the woods. Officers, assisted by citizens, follow ing the tracks of a large automobile, came to Winston-Salem and late yester day arrested Grady Cheek and Grady Smith, charging them with taking part in the attempted robbery. Cheek, ac cording to the police, admitted that he was in Rohda , Tuesday night and said Smith was with him. Both, however, deny having anything to do with en tering, the bank. The bank's safes and the. building ware damaged by the explosion, but not a penny was stolen. Cleek was at one time a member of the Winston J3alem police fore?, while Smith once served in the city health department. OSTEOPATHY Is the science of healing by adjustment. DR. H . F. RAY 313 Realty Bhjhj. DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty BIdg. DR. ARTHUR M. DYE 224 Piedmont BIdg. Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUEST BELK BROS. COMPANY v Today Friday Saturday Our Exposition and Fall Opening Days During Which Days We Will Display Fashion's Decrees In Women's Wear For Fall Frocks Suits Hats We cordially invite you to attend this display of new Fall Apparel on our second floor during these three days. Coats Wraps Blouses We believe you will find it great ly to your advantage to see them and it will be a great pleasure to us to show you. TWO GROUPS OF FROCKS Tricotine, Serge and Crepe de Chine Frocks in a wide assortment of styles, straight-line conservative models and the fancifully cut and richly trimmed styles. We think they are splendid values at these prices $um t0 $29 This group of handsome frocks developed in Can ton Crepe, Satin Face Crepe, Charmeuse, Poiret Twill and Tricotine. Beautiful Oriental trimmings are used. The new sleeves, uneven skirts and other late style features. Frocks for all occasions, moder ately priced Suits Coat Suits of quality and style combined, making every garment specially noteworthy regardless of price. The range of models embrace all needs, from the simple tailored to the elab orately embroidered, fancifully cut and richly fur trimmed styles. The fabrics are Serge, Trico tines, Veldette, Orlando and Normandie. All attractively priced for these three days $24 .95 up. Coats and Wraps Fabrics chosen not merely for show but for tailoring qualities that insure long and profitable wear. Full lined with quality silk. Where fur trimmings are used they are of carefully select ed stock. Some of the new mate rials are Moussyne, Marvella, Gerona and Veloiraine. Wonderful values at these prices $3M t0 $98 $24t0$49a Coats Assortments are full, awaiting your early choice. Wide range of styles and materials. In shades of Browns, Blues, Tans, Greens and Black. Full lined, some with fur trimmings. Others of self material $19ii t0 $39 An Unusual Offering of Silks and Wools for These Three Days New Fall Serges We buy our Serge for 30 stores, getting the very choicest values possible to buy under the very best advan tages. We give you the better kind for your money. The new French Serge, 42 inches wide, all colors. A splendid $2.00 serge for $2.00 value Wash Satin. This is a 36-inch Satin, better value kind. We think a good $2.00 one. Colors are Flesh, .Pink and White 54-inch Plaid Skirtings,- $4.00 values. Beautiful soft finish, all wool skirtings. Small checks or larger plaids. Also the stripes. A good $4.00 value $2M $3.50 quality Canton Crepes We have these in the , pretty shades of Navy, Blues and Seal Brown, 40 inches wide 40-inch Fancy Plaid Skirtings. This is an all-wool material. The very newest thing in colorings, all size plaids very fine $2.00 value. Special .48 $2.50 value Satin Radiant $1.98. Here is a beautiful qual ity Radiant Satin in Navy, Blue, Browns and Greys only. This is a very special value $3.50 value Crepe Satin. This number is 40 inches wide, beau tiful quality. All the new colors. A special for this week $2 .85" 54-inch Velour Coatings. An extraordinary value in coatings all the new Fall shades and colors $21 Crepe de Chine, 32-inch Shirt ings. Beautiful new patterns in Crepe Shirtings. Really a $2.50 value. For the balance of this week $1 .98 36-in. Satin Mesaalines This is an extra good . Messaline at $1.50. We secured , this special number for our regular business in silk department, but decided to put in this week. Practically all colors, at $4.00 quality Moon-Glo Satin. You know what this Satin is 40 inches wide. This is actually a $4.00 value $2M $2.00 value Charmeuse in pretty shades of navy, blues, browns and blacks - . $m 40-inch Colored Charm ens all street colors. This number is worth easily $2.50. Special $1 .98 BELK BROS. COMPANY