THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 1, 1921.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1921.
IN PLEASANT PLACES: The Lord
is the portion of mine inheritance and
of my cup; thou maintainest my lot.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleas
ant places: yea. I have a goodly her
itage. Psalm 16:5, 6.
HUNTING SEASON.
The season for hunting in Mecklen
burg county opened Thursday and the
cannonading of game began early in the
morning. Hunters from the county and
hunters from the city crossed each
other in the fields and kept up a veri
table bombardment during the day .The
season lasts only 40 days and the sports
men of the city especially wanted to
get an early whack at the game in local
(ields.
Some very effective work has been
clone through the efforts of the Mecklen
burg Game Protective Association to
keep premature hunting down to a min
imum and farmers report that there
has been less hunting before the season
was legally opened than has been the
case in many years.
There is one other caution to be re
minded of even now when there is
legal right to hunt, that is the necessity
of getting the consent of the landlords
before going on their fields. This is not
merely a courtesy that is due the own
ers of lands in which game abound, but
any person who fails to recognize' such
as proper is liable to arrest for trespass
ing. Any farmer has a right to forbid
any hunter from coming on his land if
he pleases. Often as not the man from
the city who has friends in the country
simply supposes that it will be all right
to hunt on these lands of his friend and
then to branch off a little, perchance,
and get on the adjacent lands of his
friend's neighbors without any disturb
ance being raised.
Some reported ill feeling has come to
the motice of sportsmen in the city be
cause of the efforts made through the
formation of the protective association
to break up early hunting and if there
is any widespread misunderstanding
among the rural folks of, the purposes
of such an attempt, this will only go to
add to their annoyance and irritability
if urban hunters roam their fields with
out having exercised the courtesy of
seeking permission.
TEUTONIC HOSTILITY.
Some rather eminent Philadalphia
doctors are raising a rucus because of
the way New York is treating the re
nowned Austrian scientist and surgeon,
Dr. Adolph Lorenz who has come over
to show his affection for this country
and his appreciation of what it has done
for Austria in its late national calami
ties by performing operations without
cost on the poor of the metropolis. One
I'hiladelphian objects to the reception
of Dr. Lorenz because "he is a Teuton",
which, of course, he is, but if the Amer
ican people propose to put embargoes
on all who are simply Teutons or who
have Teuton blood in them, we might
be left somewhat lonely as well as in
great need of the services of some of our
brethren.
We can quite well understand the en
mity that has sprung up in the world
against those of our enemies in the late
war and how that it will require genera
tions to eradicate this hostility from
the veins of the American people, but
in the case of Dr. Lorenz there seems
to be no reason for entertainment of hos
tility toward one who aims to utilize
himself so practically and so essentially
for the healing of those in this country
who might otherwise never receive the
touch of surgical alleviation.
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFEAT.
If the conference in Washington does
not end in dismal failure, it will not be
the fault of many of the writers who
are assigned to "cover" this epoch
making event. They are spending the
most of their time pointing out where
in the leading envoys of the nations
are apart from one another, wherein the
conference is not progressing a had
been expected and then they proceed
to indicate how it is that one clan is
pitted against another and how envies
and jealousies and intrigue are being
built up at the foundations of the con
ference in order to undermine and ulti
mately to defeat it.
It is unfortunate that there should
be so much of this tone of writing. It
has a disastrous psychological effect. It
will creep into the minds of the con
ferees inevitably and there produce a
spirit of depression and abject despair.
If the writers would confine themselves
more to hopefulness, pointing out th?
differences of opinion only as these may
be smoothed over instead of magnifying
them, then it would be possible to bring
about a better atmosphere and produce
a great spirit of co-operation and of
unity in purpose.
In their dismal forebodings, suggests
The New York Times, they overlook the
central facts in the project for naval
disarmament. One is that the scheme as
presented by Mr. Hughes has marvel
ously well stood the fire of criticism.
The naval experts of both Great Britain
and Japan acknowledge the skill and
completeness of the American proposals.
Only in non-essentials have they been
challenged. This puts our Government
in a position to insist upon the main
features. These, indeed, have already
been agreed to, and the rest will surely
follow in due time. And the other fac
tor which the doubters and desponders
ignore is the immense pressure of public
opinion, all over the world, which was
brought to bear upon the conference
from the moment when Secretary
Hughes made the bold statement of the
American plan. The delegates of all the
nations represented at Washington are
keenly aware of what is demanded of
them by the desires of all peoples, and
also of what will happen to them if they
do not rise to their great opportunity.
In their hearts they know that there
must be no such word as fail.
VALUE OF CROPS.
The bureau of the ceusus has shown,
from the data- collected in 1920, that
corn heads the list of American crops
in value and that cotton comes along
third. The acreage in corn, however,
was two and a half times what the
acreage in cotton was.
' The 20 leading crops of the United
States in 1919, arranged in order of val
ue, were corn, hay and forage, cotton,
wheat, oats, potatoes, tobacco, apples,
barley, sweet potatoes, rye, rough rice,
grapes, peaches, kafir and milo, oranges,
sugar beets, peanuts, dry edible beans,
and sugar cane. The total value of these
20 crops was $13,754,290,926, which rep
resents more than nine-tenths of the
total value of crops shown by the Four
teenth Census.
Corn heads the list, with a value of
$3,507,797,102, or almost $1,000,000 more
than hay and forage, which stands sec
ond on the list with a value of $2,523,
050,224. Cotton ranked third, with a
value (including cottonseed) of $2,355,
169,365, and wheat ranked forth, with
a value of $2,071,078,801. These four
crops combined represented a value
amounting to $10,460,095,492, or 70.9
per cent of the total, value of all crops
harvested in 1919.
The next four crops in order were
oats, with a value of $855,255,468; pota
toes (white), with a value of $639,440,
521; tobacco, with a value of $444,047,
481; and apples, the leading fruit crop,
with a value of $241,573,577.
Japan may not like to be overridden
in its wishes about increasing the ratio
of naval armament, but it is not likely
that Japan will have the daring to try
to break up the conference because it is
in the minority.
THE MATERIAL DESTRUCTION OF
WAR.
No intelligent country can come to the
conclusion that it can keep on at the
present rate in preparing for future
wars. Anybody with even fair intelli
gence ought to be able to reckon, judg
ing only from the record of destruction
of the past war, tha-; a halt must be
called before the whole world will be
forced to ask for a receivership.
The direct cost of the Great War is
estimated to have been 186 billions of
dollars; its indirect cost 355 billions. Its
direct cost alone is . seven times that
of all the wars from the French Revolu
tion to the present combined. The late
war has impoverished the world. The
national debts of the world, given in
dollars, have increased as follows: that
of France today, has increased seven
fold, and her forty-six billions of debt
mortgages half her wealth. The debt of
Austria has increased ninefold, mort
gaging the greater part of her wealth.
The debt of Germany has increased
thirteenfold to fifey-five billions, repre
senting far more than half her wealth.
That of England, twelvefold, to thirty
nine billions. While the United States
has increased its debt nearly twenty
fivefold, or from, one to nearly twenty
five billion dollars. The total debts' of
the world now stand at 2-79 billions,
or more than a third of the world's
wealth. An English economist estimates
that England"has lost through the war
the entire savings and economic gains
of a generation. Other countries have
lost much more. The world is a poorer
world than it was in 1914.
The decision of the Supreme Court
in regard to the charter of the Rama
Rural Community means that the
county board of education is still su
preme in the authority of fixing school
districts and that nor attempt toward
incorporation overshadows the 'original
rights of the county board.
ANOTHER LANDMARK GONE.
Hardly had the embers of the historic
Chambers building at Davidson cooled
that a landmark at the University of
North Carolina also went down in ashes,
the old University Inn, one of the famed
Institutions of Chapel Hill ancLa build
ing about which cluster many tradi
tions. Unlike Chambers building, how
ever, the University Inn was generally
regarded as an eyesore and it had been
the plan of University officials who
bought the property some time ago
ultimately to destroy it and build upon
the site a new structure for University
Use. And this will greatly temper the
Regret over the passing of the landmark.
VOLUNTARY WAGE REDUCTION.
Thousands of employees of the e-reat
packing houses of the country have
voluntarily accepted wage cuts. They
sent representatives to confer with ron.
resentatives of the packers, looked at
tne Dooks of the concerns, balanced the
accounts, saw what the packers w
spending and what they were making,
ana men decided that out of self-inter
est, it would pay them to take a reduc
tion in their wages.
This is one of the most satisfactory
developments of the times in reference
to the attempts being made toward re
adjustment. Perhaps, factory owners
and other large employers have not
been sufficiently aggressive in the way
of indicating to their employes what
their financial situation is. They have
left the workers in doubt as to wheth
er or not wage reductions were really
essential to a proper conduct of their
business and, therefore, the employes
have naturally given the benefit nf tha
Utoubt to themselves. They have reason-
KU on ine supposition that the com
panies are able to pay the same old
wages and unless it is shown otherwise,
they will continue to have that notion!
The packers revealed their books to
their employes, made clear to
them the financial situation;
put the proposition squarely be
fore them either of accepting the
wage reductions or forcing the industry
into a standstill and when these work
ers saw the truth they did not hesitate
as to which course to pursue.
THE STANDSTILL IN THE
MARKETS.
Those who expected that the econo
mic system of the woVld would bo
straightened out in a year or two after
the war are finding that they were de
luded, that the disarrangements of the
war will require a much longer period
than they expected to become cleared
up, and order established again in in
dustry and in trade. That accounts for
the fact that today in one part of the
world people are starving for corn and
in another part ofythe world they are
burning it becatise they can't sell it and
the further fact that cotton is con
gested in the South and people are freez
ing elsewhere because they are without
the fabrics with which to clothe them
selves. One country has raw materials
another has machinery, another has
coal, and yet there is no process of co
operative exchange between them. The
whole economic system is still badly
battered and shattered.
EXPOSITION HAS
(Continued From Pajje One.)
while she made a little speech about
him.
"You people here have seen Mr.
Barthelmess' pictures and admired
them as everyone else has but there
is one thing I want to say about him.
You have never yet seen him in a
play that contained the slightest sug
gestiveness of any kind, and you nev
er will. You 'will never see this boy
in a picture that your young daugh
ter or young son may not view with
entire propriety and with the assur
ance that there "is nothing hurtful
about them, but, on the contrary,
much to uplift." The statement drew
the biggest applause that has been
showered upon any speaker since .the
convention opened.
SHIRLEY MASON DAY.
Thursday is Shirley Mason day at
the exposition. The noted star of the
Fox studios arrived in Charlotte early
Thursday morning and was given a
great oation by the movie people here
and by the public. She is petite and
attractive off the screen and about the
streets as she is on the screen and Ma
son fans had no trouble in picking her
out at once.
She held an informal reception at
the Selwyn hotel, where movie fans,
theater owners, salesmen of the pro
ducing houses, press representatives of
the movie houses and many others
gathered to pay their respects. She
was to pay a visit to the exposition
building during the afternoon and will
also be there Thursday night to take
a stellar part on the program.
Thoso most interested in the exposi
tion expressed regret Wednesday af
ternoon that Adolph Zukor, nationally
famous picture producer, could not be
here as he had anticipated. H. B. Var
ner, president of the North Carolina
Division of the Motion Picture Exhibf.
itors' League of America, . received a
telegram from Mr. Zukor Wednesday
afternoon expressing regret that he
would be unable to be here.
Sidney Cgjien, president of the Mo
tion Picture Exhibitors' League of
America, was one of the notable per
sonages it the convention Wednesday
afternoon and night and spoke Wed
nesday afternoon at a called meeting
nf exhibitors at the Selwvn hotel. ;
BUSY MAKING PICTURE.
On Wednesday and again on Thurs
day Secretary Herbert C. Wales, Cam
eraman Freeman H. Owens and others
were busy making the picture that is
going to be one' of the big souvenirs
of the convention and that is to be
shown here. The first few feet of it
were made in Ivey's department store
Wedrt23day morning. Other parts of it
were made in Myers Park, with Rich
ard Barthelmess helping in the direct
ing and other features of it are being
made at Myers Park and at other
places about the city Thursday. Queens
College, Lakewood Park and other
places about the city are being used
as "location" for the nicture.
THURSDAY'S PROGRAM.
The program for Thursday after
noon and night at the exposition fol
lows: PROGRAM.
Shirley Mason Day
A Fox Star.
Thursday Afternoon.
1:30 p. m. Doors open.
2:30 p. m Concert by Pennsylvania
Serenaders.
3:30 p. m. Louis Kalbfield, Jr., and
"Clarice," Klever Kids.
4:00 p. m. Actual production photo
play scenes.
4:30 p. m. Final selection by orches
tra. Thursday Evening.
7:00 p. m. Doors open.
7:30 p. m. Light opera airs by Penn
sylvania orchestra.
8:15 p. m. Louis Kalbfield, Jr., and
"Clarice."
8:30 p. m. Introduction of stars.
8:45 p. m. Production of scenes in
photoplay. Freeman Owens, director.
, 9:00 p. m. Dancing. Music by orchestra.
Mr. R. C. King Tells a Wonderful
Story About Rats. Read It.
"For months my placewas alive with
rats. Losing chickens, eggs, feed. Friend
told me to try RAT-SNAP. I did. Some
what disappointed at first not seeing
many, dead rats, but in a few days
didn't see a live one. What were not
killed - are not around my place.
RAT-SNAP ' sure " does the trick "
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Mrs. Luxenburg Doo Little was
buried this a. m. She passed out in the
town's hospital from a lack of vim. She
killed herself by taking pills to cure
imaginary ills. Fhe said, "I'm yellow
at the gills. My chance for life is I
sum. iier gizzard was m perrect
state, postmortem doctors swore, but
still the wretched reprobate complained
that she was sore. Each morning for
the past 10 years she told her friends
through limpid tears that she had sharp j
pains in her ears and rheumatiz galore. ;
Each day folks would pass her by and
ask, "How do you feel?" and she would
answer with a sigh, "I'm ailing in the
heel." She was never loath to shout
to all the world about her gout, and
daily yelled her sickness out with cus
tomary zeal. She might have lived a
hundred years if she had worn a grin
and dispelled all her sundry fears about
her flimsy skin. The old hag crossed
the river Styx because of countless
daily kicks. The Devil crowned her
with some bricks and clubbed her on
the shin.
Those who shout their daily ills to each
who passeth by, and .swear they're yel
low at the gills or feeble in the eye,
will go up through the Devil's flue as
pessimists are went to do. The city
has no place for you whose one word
is a sigh. Even if you have a corn that J
is so large around you cannot get your
right shoe on see that you make no
sound. With kale campaigns and in
come tax the folks have too much on
their backs to listen to your feeble
quacks. Let surplus smiles abound.
Copyright, 1921, by News Publishing: Co.
PATTERSON CLEARED
OF MURDER CHARGE
Orlando, Fla., Dec. 1. The case of
Lena M. T. Clarke, former postmis
tress at West Palm Beach, and Baxter
H. Patterson, a chauffeur, jointly
charged with the murder of Fred A.
Miltimore, former employe in Miss
Clarke's office, who was shot to death
in her hotel room here August 1, was
expected to go to the jury late today
or tomorrow.
The defense closed its cass yesterday
and the State, in offering rebuttal tes
timony, announced just before court
adjourned that it had only one witness
to introduce at the forenoon i essicn
today. Indications were that argu
ment of counsel for the prosecuion
and defense would be lengthy.
Miss Clarke, In her testimony, said
Patterson had nothing to do with the
killing of Miltimore and that he had
been employed only to drive her from
West Palm Beach to Orlando.
TO DIVIDE SHIPPING ROUTES?
New York. Dec. 1. A plan to divide
the world into shipping zones and allot
routes to the various nations by joint
agreement, "thereby restricting cut
throat competition and restoring pros
perity to the maritime industry," was
made public yesterday by Frank C.
Munson, president of the Munson
Steamship Line.
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