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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1921. The Charlotte News Published By THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. V. C. DOWD .... Pres. nd Gen. M?r. JULIAN S. MILLER KJltW V. M. BELL Advertising M.t. Telephones. Bmlnes Office It Circulation Department zTl CUy Editor Editorial Rooms Printing House la3 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news disnatche credited to it or not otherwise credited in this pancr and also the local news published All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also ar reserved SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier. One year $10.00 Six months S.M Three months ?..9 One month 8? One week 550 By Ma!!. One year 8.09 Six months 4.00 Three months 2.0) One month T5 Sunday Only. (By Mail or Carrier) One year J.fifl Six months 1.30 TIMES DEMOCRAT. (Semi-Weeldy) One year 1.50 Six months 75 "Entered as second-elass matter at the postoffice at Charlotte. N. C, un der the Act of March S. 1897." TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1921. -GROWING OLD The inevitableness of growing old is the sooner felt by those who are de peding upon their bodily activity thin any other class of the peoplo, such as those who lead an athletic life It doesn't take long for the muscles to lone th-?ir suppleness, for the joints to stiffen and the body to move more slowly un der the enervating touch of tinu-. Those whose careers are more sedentary feel ;t soon enough. It is the fate of all to become veterans in the course of mere ly a few years, whatever be the occu pation of the mode of living- The tides of time move swiftly and relent lessly and there is no turning of them back. It is heartening, however, to find men somewhat aged in the pursuits who still retain something of the fresh ness of youth, the vigor of their young manhood and their whilom agility. Par ticularly so in the realm of athletics. "We are thinking of this moment of the veteran baseball pitcher of the Pitts burgh team who has been doing such wonderful service for his team this season and whose good work ought to have been rewarded by his team cap turing the National League trophy, Babe Adams. Back yonder in 1909, he was a hero whose name was on the lip of ever. small boy. He won three games of a world's series against De troit and emerged from that classic with his glory established in the king dom of sport. It was a feat attained to only by a demi-god in those days. Im mediately thereafter Adams began to go into eclipse. He was the victim of prophecies. The wise heads knew that even then he had reached an age which would carry him out of major lojjti cany, but he still stuck around, not pitch ing impressively, but pitching, never theless, until this year a he is com ing near his 40th birthday, he has been the mainstay of the Pittsburgh team in the pitching department. Ani Adams has a story to recite id the sort of a life he has lived which is the sole explanation of his unusual prowess. If he would tell it to the young men of the land, it would become a powerful recitation of the art of self, control, of orderly habits, of the con servation of his manhood through sob riety and right living. And because he has lived thus cleanly, he is doing what has seldom been done in the whole sphere of baseball, having a pheno menal year of success at his present old age. He has defied time to put its handicap against his skill and so far as present indications go, he will be pitch ing winning baseball five years from now if he wants to stay in the game that long, an age unattained by any other active player in the game today. THE MOST PROGRESSIVE STATE Dr. Claxton's remark at the exposi tion the other day that North Caro lina is the most progressive state in the union has appealed to the fancy of many of our contemporaries who have taken up that statement and seem to f.nd great delight in it. It is some thing to be tickled over, indeed. Dr. Clax ton is not a mnn who can commonly be called a booster just for the sake of boosting. He is a man of candor, con servation in his views and when such as he deliberately makes a statement of this kind, it arrests attention. Come to analyze that statement sober ly and in detail, we will find that there l.s a basis for this claim. What other State is doing what North Carolina is doing in the matter of permanent road building? What other State is doing nearly so much, in proport'on at led3t. with its capacity, as North Carolina in . A X J A.! O tl ' 1 A. A xne mailer 01 euuwiuim : nnal uiner Ko a 1j lnnlflnp ui parnMtlv tnwjirrl " ine wenueing oi us unioriunaies as North Carolina. The State is pouring its millions into these enterprises and they are enterprises that spell progress. They mean something for the human factors in the State: they mean better.' Citizenship, better neighbornoods, a more compact society and a higher stnndard of life and these are the secrets '.f any greatness in a commonwealth. Material prosperity must show itself ?n a socia1. development if it is worth the men tion and it ia but a step from the social to the moral and higher development ti a people. EDUCATION ONLY CHANGES THE SIZE? The colleges continue to remind us of the growing interest being taken in education, witnessed to by large ma triculations this year when every ma terial circumstance conspired to re duce the number of young men and maidens entering the colleges. Verily, the people of North Carolina, especially. are obsessed with the determination to give their children the advantages of an education. It is a fine prospect for the future to observe this tendency and yet, thre may be such a thing as parents conceding to the colleges a power to do more with and for their children than belongs to these institutions. They may be passing the buck and throwing the burden off their own shoulders over to the shoulders of the colleges. A father said the other day that he had the am- bition to give is boys and girls an edu- cation and then, if there was anything in them, they could manage to ascend in life themselves. And there is where the rub comes, "if there is anything in them". It is a mistake to suppose that the colleges can put something in them. Unless the average boy or girl who goes to school has the stuff in them before they en ter, they will not have it in them when they come out. A college never changes the sort: the best it can do is to change the size. If there is something in the stu dents before they go to college they will have a great deal more in them when they come out and then fathers and mothers who sacrifice to give them an educaion will see of the travail of their hardships. But, alas, if there is nothing in them, well, it will be a grave disappointment to see them when they come out. An education may put a little gloss and veneer on them that will cover up their uglinesses and crudi ties for a time, but after they get out in the heat and stress of a career, the shimmering gleam of culture will peel off and they will show their old na tural aptitudes and proclivities. BEHIND IT MUST BE A PLAN The conference for the limitation of armaments is not to be scoffed at by any means and yet, granting that it will come upon maximum success and all that is hoped for it wHl be realized" there is no reason to believe thac it, of itself, will serve to do what the league of nations will do. At best the arma ment conference will study plans and procedure how the nations may cease preparing to fight: the league of nations penetrates more deeply thin that and has to do vitally with the removal of the causes for fighting. The league of nations is world-organization and world conciliation. Tt sub stitutes a world-court and a common force and with this substitution it would be natural for armament to pass of it self sooner or later.. When men no long er have any occasion to go armed, they don't go armed. And when the world gets in that attitude of a peaceful so ciety or community or neighborhood, the nations will discover that they don't need to have big battleships and stand ing armies- One of the dominant causes for pa6t wars has been the absence of any common force in exercise against them. There" was no central letris'.tur,- and a competent central court to throw themselves against the business of war and hence, upon the occasion of one nation being agfrieved by another, it an nounced the opening of hostilities and they went at it. The league cf rations sets up just these institutions it fur nishes a plan and an organization which may be thrown into the equation and even when the nations may have agreed to limit armamets, it will br found that these institutions are still needed. - The newspapers announce that the Butler faction in the jUite G. O. P. i.s preparing to have a rov.nl with Mr. Morehead over the selection of a State chairman. Some people never' know when they are run over and flattened out. DOWD ROAD SPEEDING It would be happy circumstace if some of tHose who are accustomed to the gratification of their speeding mania on the Dowd road would be apprehend ed and if Judge Ray would have a chance to see them in his court after he had opportunity, in company with Chief Orr, to observe how the traffic laws are disregarded on that important highway. We have a notion that wjiat he would do with them would be a plenty, but, except for some crime that might result from speeding, violators of this law will continue to be defen dants in minor courts, unfortunately. Some of these days, perhaps, it will be possible to bring them before some Su- vuuii juufce iur sucn orrenses i against common safety and in that day we may expect a change of heart on the part of reckless speeders. The Dowd road conditions are un doubtedly bad, but hardly worse than are conditions on any hard surfaced road in this county. And when at length hard-surfaced roads shall tra verse all sections of the. county, we may reasonably anticipate a serious nrowth of this speeding proclivity. Unless steps are taken to curb this practise, we will in that time have presented to us a problem that will challenge the best thought and the most scrutinous dili gence to cope with. ' The nation has made a bumper crop c? corn and gtm there g somJ tak - ... i l cuucuig the number or revenue agent The American National Association for the study and prevention of tuber culosis estimates that at least $20,000, 000 is involved in thp manufaMitm oa . f fflV n sale oi rake cures for consumnt nn in this country and that the miscreants who thus exploit the sufferers from this disease make a net profit of $10, 000,000 annually. Not only are the so called remedies of no avail as curatives, but they are actually harmful in that they divert those who need positive cures from sources whence they might '.get relief. iTHE HUMAN TOUCH IN ORGANIZA TIONS The success of the membership lunch eon of the Chamber of Commerce sug gests the thought that this organization ought to strive more with one another the members in touch with one another and to keep in touch with them itself. I There is nothing like the. human touch to keep alive any organization- It may be possible to accomplish splendid re sults in a technical way without any recognition of these social phases of life and the Chamber cf Commerce is, of course, not a social organization in a strict sense of the word. It is con stituted, however, by social I eings and if these dominant Instincts of theirs are not fanned to flam?, ths usual pro cedure is for them to ailcw their inter est and zeal in any cause- to lapse. Occasions that bring together the membership of thhf strong organization need not be studied. That is. there would be no profit in merely trumping up some excuse to bring the members together, but there could be some genuine basis for their assembling together, some no table speaker might be brought at stated intervals or some distinctive program of interest might be put on which wi uld serve the purpose not merely of allowing an opportunity of fellowship, but of inspiring and instructing and edifying them. It is .not a good tning to keep any body of men, whose aims are iden tical, whose organized purposes are the same and whose idea's run along together, apart too long at a time. The Monroe Journal has a panygeric on muscadines and it will eat enough of them, it will have a paroxsym- THE SUPREME COURT RACE Governor Morrison is having a ditti cult selection to mr.ke betweeti Judge W. J. Adams of Carthage an-I Thomis P. War:i-u of Newbern for the place on the :!ipr-.-nio court bench ma do va cant by the cVath of Judge A'Ik. The commentators .'tre about agreed ilvS. one jf these two men will be givt.-n the pot. fither Momlaj or Tuesday, by appoint ment from the chief exe; ;riv.v. Beth h:iv- oualificatiorv that s:and out, but from the standpoint cf : udicial capacity, it seems to be generally agreed that Judge Aa; ins is by f ir the abler man and inasmuch as he comes from the eastern section of the St-nc-, it would tti fit'ir.r that he be named Mr. V;ir ren is an able lawyer also and would not be out of place on the bench at all, but his political proferments in the past, the fact that he htld the chairmanship -of the democratic org-ini- zation in the State, has led some to I the conclusion that his appointment might partake too m ion of the political and that the Supreme court bench should call to its service men who are distinctively judicial and unrelated to political activities. And that sugges tion is beyond successful contradiction. The fact that the city administration is planning permanently to improvs many miles of streets indicates a re turn to healthful conditions in the local business world. There has been but little street paving done in Char lotte for the pat se'xral years and this sort of work will naturally be in order -not only immediately, but Some what repeatedly in the future- A city is known by the streets Jf keeps and Charlotte's good name is to be chesen above Charlotte's great riches. "A woman's clothes show tempera ment" says a fashion note and wc ob serve that they sometimes show even more. -Z. STUPENDOUS FIRE LOSSES It would seem that just ' cw. when the problem of housing the people of this nation properly, is an absorbing so cial and industrial problem, a little, more attention might be paid to the annual destruction of what homes we already have. Our attention is called to the statement of the National Board of Fire underwriters estimating that more than 25,000,000 people of this country .ire im properly housed, or nearly a fourth of them which means that 5,000,000 new homes, springing up overnight, would not more than give us what we n-ecl at this time. And yet it is further esti mated that on every working day of the year, 889 dwellings are destroyed by fire in this country with a financial daily loss of $283,000. In the last five years dwellings worth $30,000,000 have been burned to destruction. It is evi dent not only, therefore that we must , build more substantial structures, bt that more common care" must be exer cised and much of everyday negligence with fire and inflammable materials re duced. Judge Ray brought himself into con siderable notoriety, or The News did it for him, by printing what has had to say the other day about young lawyers going to law schools and his dogmatic utterance that he opposed the custom of compelling them to submit to a legal examination. The Times of Raleigh jumped all over him and The Times of Asheville corns swiftly to his de fense, which shows that a man can say almost anything and divide his audience on the proposition. The cotton farmer will never have the degree of independence which he is entitled to bestow upon him so long as he brings his cotton to the market and asks abjectly what he can get for it. He is entitled to that prestige and power which will entitle him to de mand a definite, profit-giving price for what hs hands have made and he will have it when the co-operative market ing movement shall at length have brought him into his own. One of the greatest screen tri umphs of the decade THE AFFAIRS OF AXATOL" IMPERIAL Commencing Monday. GOVERNMENT IN (Continued from Pag One.) out really knowing the financial condi tion of the county or how to economize. '2 The number of delinquent tax payers in many counties is entirely too large. The leakage here is great, and is almost entirely attributable to poor government. "As a result it becomes necessary for officials to increase the tax rate in order to provide for a shortage that is partly inexcusable. Good government in this respect would result in a saving of public funds, and at the same time it would increase the rate of progress. "3 The fines imposed by magistrates and the fines, forfeitures and penalties of the towns and. counties are not al ways properly accounted for and ap plied in accordance with law. "4 The funds collected are not seg regated in accordance with law. Somel departments, as a result, run far short of their legitimate needs, while others receive more than their share of the funds. Therefore, it becomes neces sary to borrow for some departments because of extravagance or liberal ex penditures in others. Such unbusines'.s like methods will cause an increase in the bonded debt or the taxes for the succeeding year must be raised to meet the deficit. "5 The special local taxes in many counties are not properly levied, col lected and disbursed. The people have a fine enthusiasm for voting local taxes fnr roads and schools. This enthusiasm should not be destroyed because of carelessness and inefficiency in hand ling local funds. In some couties it was impossible for us to find any rec ord of the local taxes levied, the amount of money collected and how it was ex- pended. Moreover we have positive evidence that some of the larger tax payers escaped this altogether. For example, in one local tax district, the Postal Telegraph Company, the Pull man Company, the American Telephone Company, the Southern Bell, and the Western Union, all were entitled to pay taxes but neither had paid a cent of taxes in some years. They were not even on the tax books. This, of course, was pure carelessness. But the rate of taxes had to be increased because of this carelessness. "6 Finally, it is very evident that in most counties there is not enough uni ty of management to fix responsibility and insure efficiency. In certain coun ties the officials begged us to show them how to organize the business so that the people's money might be safeguarded. This is an example of ignorance, pa thetically calling for expert State sup ervision. IS NOTHING NEW. "In pointing out these defects we are not giving people of the State anything new or sensational. The number of letters received and the newspaper com ments since I first called attention pub licly to them are sufficient evidence that these defects have b?en known for sometime by numbers of people in coun ties where they exist. Therefore, we should be considering seriously effective remedies and should act vigorously and promptly. "The first step to take it seems to m, is to arouse the public conscience through publicity that will cause the npnnifl to demand better government. what do you suppose would be the effect on the peopue cf many counties if the exact condition of the business were published in detail in this week's paper and published in terms that the people could understand? Perhaps it would be better not to go into details until the officials have had time to ger their affairs straight. But they must be made straight or the people will be come disgusted and cease to snupport the progressive measures that are now registering a new era m the fatate. ine people should know who are excused from paying taxes and how every dol lar of the money has been spent. The best government is now found in those counties whose accounts are well audit ed, -and published periodically. County auditors have given business like meth ods to many counties and saved the peo ple thousands of dollars and given them confidence in the business manage ment. PROTECT THE PUBLIC. "In the second place State supervis ion should be sufficient to protect the public and to unify county management so as to avoid the multiplication of in dependent officials. The State bank examiner closes a bank as soon as it reaches the danger line. County officials, should be required to meet a similar standard of safety. Moreover, when ever it is made to appear that county officials are incompetent and are failing to meet a given standard of efficiency, they should be removed and teynporary appointments made by some responsi ble county authority until the people have a chance to elect their successors. New and inexperienced officials should be given a reasonable time to qualify for their duties and the State should give them all the help possible. But they should qualify. It is unfair to a sheriff, for example, for the commis sioners to allow his books to run from year to year without a complete settle ment, as is sometimes the case, and then after he has become hopelessly In volved due to a failure to settle an nually, his whole career is destroyed and his personal fortune wrecked as a result. In one county a sheriff, ow ing to poor book-keeping, over paid his accounts by more than a thousand dol lars and he was wholly ignorant of his mistake until attention was called to it. He had settled for the dog tax twice. The state owes it to the indi vidual and to the public to see that both are protected from incompetent officials. TEACH SELF GOVERNMENT. "Finally our high schools, colleges and university should give specific in struction in local self government. They do teach the history and the forms of government, but students receive too .httle instruction in local self govern ment. There will be perhaps 40,000 pupils enrolled in the high schools and 15,000 enrolled in our higher institu tions this year. These within a few years will be the state's leaders, and yet they receive too little in instruc tion in the greatest lesson that in dividual or a group of individuals ever learned namely, how to govern prop erly. "What is good government among students and how can they be taught to govern themselves properlj'? How can they be led to detect weakness and defects in government? "What is a well governed town or county and where can it be found. Is the county or city in which the institu tion is located well governed? What are its defects? Are the public funds safeguarded and wisely spent? If our colleges and university would give spec ial attention to local government and 15,000 students were taught annually to know what is good county or city gov ernment they would be, within a few years, the strongest factors In pre serving local self government and in checking the drift towards centraliza tion of power in state and nation. 'The very first word in education should be government self govern ment, respect for law and order, and how to co-operate in producing a self governing people. We have groups of people organizing into quasi-governmental bodies, manufacturers, commer cial institutions, laboiers, farmers, pro fessional men and women. This tend ency to organize for local self govern ment is a natural soH! instinct. But . the inclination of some is to elevate the i uic ul wieir organization about the law of county and state. This is perilously near Sovietism. The county and state should rise above all and all should co operate to this end. The spirit of de mocracy cannot thrive in any other way." The bootleg war is waxing hot, Toro'c- oa nt rnnm in t V"i iflL.ll. QI booze hounds there are quite a lot who . forfeited their bail. But seldom do . the drunkards frown, for as tney mow distillers down new peddlers move into the town with jugs of booze for sale. Sorrow came when Joo Mosteller packed and left the place. But on his heels another seller came in with a case, and rum sots clap ned their hands with glee and gladly paid the gink his fee for Scotch enough to throw a spree. He sold it by the vase. When - Vanderburg and Long were caught the chaos, was immense. It looked like rum was running short. Dejection was intense. But Har rison, a Georgia -man, hit town and sold it by the can. The drunkards drank it from a pan. They could not stand suspsnse. When he was nabbed, a hectic cry hrfiL-o fmm ct t'hniiflnnd lins. The Wets began to feel quite dry with nothing on their hips. But some k,ind jay came in with brew and sold the town a case? or two, andeonce more joy came in lieu of two or three small sips. -- t- - fl . Til. r w n j Closer, west ana eergeiiin. jritio m running aeaiers in. ji.terna.uy mcj uc their wits to spot the rye and gin. But every time they nab a gink another boob comes with a drink. All you have to do is wink to wet your arid skin. One by one bootleggers fall before the wrilir fun nnil red nnscfl ETlircrlers dailV bawl, "There goes the last dern drop!" But quickly otner nawKsters come wuh fruit jars of the precious rum and business soon begins to hum about his whiskey shop. Copyright, 1921, by "rws Publishing Co PRINCETON NEGRO IS TAKEN BY OFFICERS Greenville, S. C. Sept. 20. A negro who is alleged to have attacked a white woman of Princeton, on the Laurens Greenville county line, yesterday after noon, was caught early today when dogs ran him into a house. He gave his name as Arthur Shumate. Sheriffs of Greenville and Laurens counties and posses of citizens of both counties, searched all night for him. The negro was spirited away by thq of ficers, and it was stated at the sheriff's office today that every precaution will be taken against possible violence to the suspect, who is held in jail here. Messages from the Princeton section re ported the situation to be quiet. The negro ran into the house of Ed Knight, prominent farmer, and was captured by Mr. Knight and son who brought him to the Greenville county jail. Sheriff Carlos Rector and his dep uties stayed behind to outwit an arm ed crowd of white men that had been scouring the woods and highways all night for the suspect. Time to throw away 70ur old Straw Hat. Buy A NEW FELT You will find all the new shades in Browns and Greys here. $5 upwards 34 S. Tryon OSTEOPATHY Is the science of healing by adjustment. DR. H. F. RAY 313 Realty Bid. DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty Bldg. DR. ARTHUR M. DYE 224 Piedmont Bldy. 2Rat.hs- Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUEST New Frocks and Furs are to be Found Here Today ' The Frocks The new, Peter Pan and Bramley Frocks. Made cf good quality wool jersey with white linen collar and cuffs, also kid trimming of red, green and white. In all the new bright shades. .95 to Our Fall Suits are Decided ly Attractive More new Suits. Sold in the Belk way at prices that are less. Long, medium length and box back suits. Ma terials are Tricotine, Serge, Poiret Twill, Ravenna, Ye loraine and Normandie. Fur trimmed models and straight line belted models button trimmed. $2mto $7m Fall Blouses Received yesterday some of the new Blouses. Devel oped in Canton Crepe and Georgette Crep. Slip-over, Tie-o nand button style. In colors: Canary, Navy, Brown and White. The Furs Chokers, Neckpieces and Scarfs. We are ready 10 show you the most popular Furs for Fall. Stone Marten, Squirrel, Baum Marten, Hudson Bay Sable and Fox. $16.50 to $75.00 Frocks of Silk and Wool in Fall Design and Mod erately Priced Just received large assortment of Silk Frocks and Wool Frocks emphasizing the newest dress fashions of the season. Canton Crepes, Satin Cantons, Crepe de i j ;T . m' verge and Tricotines. Plain tail ed models, braided and beaded mndic large flowing sieves with ih colors: isavy, .Brown and Black. :$lt0$49 4d) (LIE 7 ith beautiful ornamental trimmin OS. &(Q) m mm ur .. ii .. jj r