THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 29, 1921.
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HARDING STARTS A FLURRY.
President Hardin.? has thrown out
the suggestion that the present Wash
ington conference may be broadened
into something greater than a mere
DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT.
Wc said the World War was to '"end
war", to break the power of Prussian
militarism as being at least the domi
nant war-factor in the world and as
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if no other power would ever be" guilty
i r9 Kiitliiiiw .,-, r.1 1 nil ' 1 V o V 1 VI O 'i J !
meeting ior the discussion of limitation1 I
I Germany developed. But now Germany
of armaments and his remarks are caus-1 has hevn diaarmed, the whole of Eu-
ing a great flurry. It is generally agreed ' rope, has raised its annual expenditures!
for war, compared with the pre-war j
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ma i wnat me i 'resident meant to con
voy was his impression that the pres
ent conference might taJ.ce up the propo
sition of an association of nations, such
as he suggested while a candidate for
the office which the American people
gave him.
Senator Borah was first to fly at the
throat of the President for whom he
has no special regard, anyway. He says
that the association of nations which
is in the mind of President Harding is
nothng more nor loss than the old
Wilson league of nations and that is
enough in the estimation of Borah
to condemn it. Senator Borah, however,
is at least honest in his convictions.
He didn't light the league of nations
because Mr. Wilson was prominent in
standard, by three-fold; Japan has in
creased expenditures for her military
establishment three times; France has
increased the cost of her army more
than four times; Great Britain, three
fold, and is now spending the enormous
sum of more than a billion dollars an
nually. And the UNITED STATE, FAR
REMOVED FROM THAT CONTINENT
AND FROM ASIA, NOT CONTENT
WITH THE AVERAGE INCREASE 1 11
ABROAD, HAS MULTIPLIED ITS EX
PENDITURES FOR WAR BY SIX j
TIMES. j
Bet us take our expenditures of 1920
of four and a half billions. On all civil :
departments we spent 4.8 per cent; on
Public Works 1.4 per cent; on Education
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its formation, but because he violently I Research and Tublic Health 1.3 per cent;!
opposes the principle upon which it was but on war. nast and future. 92.6 rer
erected. And by the same token ho will cent on
our past wars 63.2 per cent.
j fight any suggestion of an association cm future wars 29.4 per cent. That is,
of nation that puts America in thejin this peaceful nation, we spent less
months 1.30
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Tl'ESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, lS'.'l.
RIBLE TIKH GHT FOR THE DAY.
GREAT THINGS: Fear the Lord,
and serve him in truth: for consider
how great thins he hath done for
you. 1 Samuel 12:21.
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ONE ELEMENT OF COSTS.
People who are went to complain as
to present-day high prices and brag as
:o what tlvy former:;.- were able to buy
iho same commodities for leave out of
consideration some facts which may
seem small, but which have a very per
tinen: connection with the factor of liv
ing cos;.. Cot of delivery is one of
thenk Aforetime when a man wanted n
of goods at the store, he went
got it. Tclrnhonosi i-i-.i ....
. ....... int in t.JA-
istence: the automobile was only in the
imaginations f men and the uniform
custom was that the man who took the
goods out of stores was the man who
bought them. The factor of delivery has
since then come to claim an import
ant and vital place in the equation of
costs. The Greensboro News puts the
case admirably when it says that "when
you take a $1,500 motor truck, driven
by a chauffeur who is paid anything
from $5 a day up, and use the outfit,
onsuming a dime's worth of gasoline
fiid a quarter's worth of wear and tear
m tires and machinery, to deliver 15
cents' worth of prunes, there is an econ
omic waste involved a waste that
somebody has to make good.
"Goods are not. and cannot ever be
delivered free. Somebody has to pay
for that service, and if the merchant
H already trimming down his profits as
c osely as he can. to pay for that serv
ice out of his own pocket would bank
rupt him. He must add that cost on the
prices of his goods or go broke: but if
bis customers persist in demanding
mw. v,nar :s ne to do? Obvi
ously, ju-t what he is going charge a
little more for the goods and satisfy the
purchaser's whim.
"One important reason why the cost
of living is as high as it is lies in the
fact that there are too many house
wives in this town who are ashamed
to be seen with market-baskets on their
r.rms. Shopping by telephone is always
expensive. When a woman calls over
the telephone for a can of green peas
she usually says simply 'a can of green
peas.' Then if the merchant has on his
shelves one brand at 17 cents a can and
another at 20 cents, is there any doubt
as to which he is going to send? Indeed,
would he not be more, or less, than
'human, if he failed to send the can in
which there is the greatest profit to
him?
"Let us investigate the high cost of
living by all means; but let us inves
tigate it honestly. If part of it is due to
the false shame and laziness of the pub
lic, let us emphasize that fact as strong
ly as we do the possible shortcomings
V, the retail merchant. We cannot hope
to soive the problem otherwise."
same boat with Europeans. He simply
is hostile to the whole idea of Ameri
can co-operation. Wrong, of course,
but honest in his notions.
Another official of the Administration
who does not like the Harding sugges
tion is Mr. Hughes who, while he has
never vigorously opposed the league of
nations idea and has no opposition at
all, as we have understood, to a meeker
sort, such as in the mind of the Pres
ident, feels that it would be
unwise at this conference to broaden
its call and extend the discussion to
other than the issue for which the con
fererees were brought togeher.
Frank Pimonds, one of the clearest
writers on foreign affairs and one who
seems to be about as closely in touch
with the American-European relations
as any other, frankly says that Euro
peans are tugging at Mr. Harding in
the hope that he will push his plan for
an association of nations. They ' don't
care so much about what name is at
tached to it. What they want is the
United States linked up with them in
than eight per cent on construction
and over ninety-two per cent for de
struction. We spent more than seventy
times as much for war as for education,
public health and research combined.
Compared to the year 1891, we are
spending twenty-three times as much
on our Navy and twenty-six times as J
much on our Army. In those days a I
first-class battleship cost two million
dollars; today one costs forty-five mil
lions. Then we armed a soldier with a
cheap Springfield rifle; today we must
provide machine guns, tanks, airplanes,
bombs, poison gas, and vast chemical
laboratories of destruction to equip the
modern soldier.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES MEETING.
It will mean a new day for Associated
Charities work in Charlotte if some 600
or 700 of the city's more progressive
leaders, men and women, are brought
together at the anuual meeting of the
organization Tuesday night and allowed
to see and made to know something
of the splendid efforts of the Associat-
a concert of strength and Influence led Charities. This city is not doin
GROWING LONG STAPLE.
Gaston county farmers are not con
cerned so much about what the boll
weevil may do over there as they are
rbout the prospect of getting the cot
ion producers to make a better variety
of the staple and to this end an organ
ization meeting is to be held in the in
terest of long staple.
Some farmers of Gaston have been' ex
perimenting with long staple and while
their short-staple brethren have been
.selling thtir crops for 18 cents, they
have been able to command twice that
figure.
It has always seemed strange to us
that so little long staple was produced
in this general section of the county and
notably in Mecklenburg county. The
claim has been that it could not be
put into the ground in the Spring
Boon enough to give it sufficient time
to mature, but thia argument has been
flattened out in the experience of some
Gaston farmers who have made as great
ft per acre production with this as they
formerly did with the more common
breeds
Long staple i3 the elite of the cotton
family and as such it commands twice
ha high a price as the mongrel breeds.
Jt is Just like a registered pig or cow,
it is recognized as representing greater
value and when it is brought to the
pa&rket, that value will be honored,
that will perpetuate peace and keep Eu
rope from falling back into the same old
welter of strife and warfare.
Commenting upon the probable com
ing of Lloyd-George in this' connection.
Simonds declares that behind his visit
is the hope !tt least that he may be able
to stir the conference into consideration
of some sort of friendly co-operation
between America and Europe. '"From
the London point of view" says this
writer, disclosed in many British news
paper comments in recent days, the
Washington conference is a failure to
date because it has not resulted in an
American effort to bring about a re
duction of French armies in accordance
with British conceptions: because, too.
it has not opened the way to an Anglo-American-Japanese
association to re
place the Anglo-Japanese alliance. From
the French point of view it has been a
profound disappointment because it has
not led to the revival -of the Anglo
American guarantee of France against
German attack. Italy, too, is obviously
disappointed because she. too, hoped to
see Washington restrain Paris and
Briand meet with a complete defeat,
instead of getting away with more than
a quasi-victory incident to the- decision
of the conference not to go seriously
into the question of land armaments.
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THE DAVIDSON FIRE.
The most impressive phase of the fire
which burned the main dormitory at
Davidson college was the spirit which
saturated faculty and students as they
stood looking into the ashes of the his
toric structure and, amid ringing elo
quence and shoutings of the students
in an outburst of college pride and
spirit pledged themselves in common
to the prosecution of their work and to
new endeavours for the future.
The college faces a big money loss.
There is no doubt about that. It will
require at least $150,000 more than the
amount which insurance on the building
will make available to replace the dormi
tory; it is absurd, therefore, to contend
that there is any great rejoicing that
an old and out-of-date building has been
destroyed by fire, but there is a signifi
cant sense in which Davidson College
will find itself some of these days to
have profited by this adversity. Already
it is running through the -minds of the
alumni of the institution to set in mo
tion plans for building a great dormi
tory, one that is both larger and more
acceptable in every particular and the
mere suggestion is enough to guarantee
that such will come to pass.
Davidson College belongs to a denom
ination in the South that is abundantly
able to give it whatever it m.-iv noi
v
for its services. There is a lot of Pres
byterian wealth in North Carolina un
der cover, awaiting an opportunity, wo
feel sure, to be revealed during such
an emergency as this and to come into
use for such a great cause as this mis
fortune inspires.
Charlotte's interest in this as well as
its regrets over the ;idversity .is aculer
than elsewhere in the State for the
reason of the intimacy of the relations
between this community and the college.
We have a feeling that somehow or
other it belongs to us; there are so many
ties binding the two together and so
many instances of comity that community-interest
is stirred in any event
that is of immediate and far-reaching
concern to the college. For this reason,
we have the idea that the movement
for replacing the doomed dormitory
with a modern structure that will be
a credit to the institution and useful for
another generation will have its begin
ning right here among some of the
firiends of the college or Presbyterians
in general, who have a conception of the
value of the institution and the splen
did work it is doing among the educa
tional forces of North Carolina.
enough of this sort of work: that is, it
i3 insufficiently supported out of the
public funds. What it spends on the
poor and needy of the city is largely
in the form of free-willing offerings ;
from the churches rather than in the
form of an appropriation from the city.
While these offerings are making pos
sible a vast amount of charity work on
the part of those who are so efficiently
manning the office, the city could well
afford to double its appropriation or
trebel it, for that matter, to the end
that the community might see to it
that its indigent are properly nourished
and cared for in their sickness and dis
tresses. The annual meeting Tuesday night
has been designed to indicate to the
public something of the extent of the
work that is being done and something
also of the character of this work. The
efforts of those who have promoted it
are deserving of a generous outpouring
of the people.
There is nothing in the community
of more immediate importance to us
than the development of a greater con
cern for those who are with us always
and for those who are continually in
bonds.
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REALITY OF A NEW AND VITAL
ROAD.
Bids will be opened in Raleigh Tues
day for construction of a part of the
Charlotte-Statesville road lying in
Mecklenburg county and also for a
part of it lying in Iredell county, a total
distance or aoout zu miles. At some
later date, perhaps in December, bids
will be asked for on the remaining
stretch in Mecklenburg, which guaran
tees that the work of constructing this
important highway will be undertaken
within the next few weeks.
This is gladsome tidings to Charlotte
people, even as to the folks up Iredell-'
way. The Statesville road is one of the
most important thoroughfores connect
ing Charlotte with the outside world
and its completion will mean the open
ing up of a vast and unexplored ter
ritory along the route and beyond.
We have a notion that Savannah has
had its wrath kindled not merely be
cause prohibition enforcement agents
entered the wrong house in their search
for liquor, but that they are in the
habit of entering houses of all sorts.
Savannah is not so very strong for
rigid enforcement of the country's laws
relating to whiskey, if we have the
correct slant on that city's sentiments.
ALLEGED SMUGGLERS
CAPTURED BY POLICE
New York, Nov. 29. Seven alleged
smugglers were arrested by the harbor
police early today after a chase in a
launch from the side of the steamship
President Wilson, during which several
shots were exchanged. Before the cap
ture was mwde, the police declare, sev
eral bags containing bird of paradise
feathers and liquors were thrown over
board by the accused men. Seven hun
dred cases of goods were left on the
launch when it was towed to a dock.
CONGREATION OF RITES.
Rome, Nov. 29. (By the Associated
Press.) The Congregation of Rites,
which deals with the questions of the
beatification and canonization of saints,
met yesterday in the presence of the
Pope to discuss the heroism and virtues
of Right Rev. John N. Neumann, bishop
of Philadelphia,
death in 1860.
from 1852 until his
OSTEOPATHY
Is the science of healing by
adjustment.
DR. H. F. 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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