THE CHARLOTTE NEW?, CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 2, 1921.
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GOTHAM COPS
4 More Profitable Fields.
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Correspondent. v
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ivl' '1;,V0 found thls ritV prime
' -lining the List few years
;i iVi-nn m migration back to Ffrt
!:::u ' u ' "p.i'.'a-s a'-id Los Angeles, ac
W 'V1' i survey of conditions
r.Mie Welfare Commission-
warnings in newspapers
jug money to street pan
i.; ' ...lyeil pojice activity in
. i Uy of undesirables and
in.iance of feeding tramps
organizations nave op-
drive professional tramps
'sr.'irs hi re.
lust cnin or winter there
.able decrease in the num
rs in Bryant, City Hall,
j.mi other parks- which have
'. ,'-111 the favorite camping grounds
,-"il!c- DfSt-d, worn-out work dod-
WOKK or. GET OUT.
jiiin- department hastened this
: :r,re i 1,1 ultimatum to tramps
o,.',;":h. -v t'ar.t :?o to work or leave
v' city- Tin- alternative to these two
Verses w-as an offer of workhouse
-"-itcnccf p'Ji'h as are meted out to va-r-ir.t?.
Tlie result is that the thou
"of professional panhandlers who
"?'"'e mrc to take advantage of the
'.c,rp:o'::. fiii situation have been
n a larpe extent weeded out. In
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the comfort it gives.
IDEAL FOR BABY'S
TENDERSKIN
Socthinq MidHeAlinq
hays gone South and West, cr to other
cities where their wireless advices told
them that the "pickings were good."
one remaining panhandler explained
the situation thus: "Most of the guys
have gone to better holes. For the last
rew weeks most of the stemmers (slang
tor prof esionaj tramps who beg for a
living) have been moving en. It got
too cold to sleep in the parks,, and
business got bad on the streets. For
some reason or other the people, who
had been liberal with their money be
fore, became tight, and it got harder
to make a living by bumming. Most of
Wie out-of-town tramps have gone
Smith IW tr U nr,. . .
v. v me urn, wnere mere are
reports of work to be hari
-short-time work that the beggars will
u. ii j.ecessary in Jive.
FEW REGULARS LEFT.
A fewof the regular tramps still
linger about the parks. In front of the
cheaper restaurants, where scores con
gregated a few months ago, one may
now see two or three tramps and no
more. Some of tho tramps have obey
ed the police order to go to work. But
most of them have "moved on "
Discussing the situation, Commis
sioner Coler said:
"A good part of the remainder of the
persons who beg on the streets will be
removod by plans now under way. Ap
plication will be made to Washington
BOYS' PARENTS
ARE TO CONFER
Faculty Members of High
School Will Meet With
Them at 2 :20 O'clock.
A meeting between faculty members
and parents of some of the six upper
classmen who were sent from the Alex
ander Graham high school after they
were alleged tb have placed "devil caps
in the school coridors will be held
Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the
school building.
Robert Walker, Morgan Speir, Paul
Whitlock, and Nelson Jones, seniors,
and Garrett Morehead, a junior, accept
ed the alternative of Dr. E. H. Garinger,
principal, of being sent home or staying
and being punished, by leaving the au
ditorium where the student body was
in session Wednesday morning. Douglas
Schiltz, a senior, decided to remain and
receive punishment.
The meeting Friday will be for the
purpose of threshing outt hme question
in its entirety. Some of the parents are
either for authorization to take care said to have taken exception to the
Of Or for nrftvlsinne tn 1 -,--. ri;nn I riri-mcjit irn rf T,- ( lorino-or -rcA thflV
now stranaea in this city. Many of
these men were stranded here by the
NOT CONCERNED
ABOUT ECLIPSE
Discounts Recent Disquiet
ing Reports About the
Moon's Actions.
BY ABBE TIL MOREUX.
Director of the Observatory of Bourges.
Written fcr the International News
Service and Petit Journal.
Paris, Dec. 2.A recent statement
by the English astronomer, Crommelin,
seems to have caused considerable emo
tion, m the public mind. The last
eclipse of the moon, he believes, proves
some of our theories false. Our satel
lite, he says, is disobeying the univer
sal laws of gravitation, and if the
phenomenon continues we shall be con
demned some day to have the moon
tan on our neaas.
The fears inspired by such a pro-
nouncemem nave caused many of my
friends to write and demand my
views.
In the first place I must reassure
them. The problem is not new, be
cause it was raised very clearly by
Halley, (the discoverer of Halley'a
comet) in 1693. At that time astron-
inactivity of the American merchant
marine. Some steps should be taken to
care for these helpless men. for there
are thousands of them in New York,
all unable to find work. Th city is
taking steps to deal with the unde
servfci,?. Some of the tramps who came
here to beg, not to work, have gone
to Blackwell's Island for terms in the
workhouse. The city found this an ef
fective way to warn them that pan
handling: had to stop. Few of these
men took advantage of legitimate
charity At one time they became an
gered at the city -and picketed the
municipal lodging house in the man
ner of strikers and held up men going
there for the night."
are also said to refuse to condone any
breach of discipline on the part of their
children.
The five students sent home Wednes
day were dismissed pending the con
firmation of their expulsion by the
school board, as explained in Thursday's
edition of JThe News. The action of the
principal in sending the students home
must be confirmed or rejected by the
school board within two weeks.
The five boys involved in the affair
were not in school Friday morning, it
was said.
orny showed that the moon posesed
a movement quite different from that
of other celestial bodies in the sense
that its movement was not uniform
but accelerated. That was learned by
examining ancient eclipses. In 2,000
years, the moon seemed to have ad
vanced in space by about two times
its diameter, that is to say, that it
was far from occupying the position
assigned- to it by the law formulated
by Newton.
LAWS OF MECHANICS.
At first it seemed simple enough
that the acceleration would continue
and that one day the moon really
would fall upon the earth. But such
a problem tempted the genius of Lap
lace, and that skilled mathematician
proved in 1787 that the phenomenon
explained " itself easily by the -laws of
celestial mechanics.
We know that the earth describes
around the sun in the course of a
year, not a circle, but an ellipse. Lap
lace demonstrated that this ellipse
does not always Have the same form.
We can compare it to a hoop upon
which one exercises a lateral pressure,
aind which, in consequence, is flattened
a little.
At present this ellipse becomes year
by year more circular and in 24,000
years it will be nearly circular, After
this it will tend to become elliptical
again for more than 40,000 years.
SOLUTION OFFERED.
Now. since the moon turns around
the earth, at the same time being sus
ceptible to the influence of the sun,
one can readily conceive that every
REMODELS WESTERN v
NEWSPAPER PLANT
E. H- Clement & Company, contrac
tors, have been awarded the contract
for remodeling and- repairing the
change in the distance of our globe building of the Western Newspaper
from ihe sun would have its effect
upon the position of the moon. In
other words, according to whether we
are nsarer or farther from the sun,
our attraction on the moon increases
or decreases, and consequently, the
moon must increase or diminish its
speed of movement.
At present, and since a long time,
the moon has been increasing its aver
age speed. The increase, however, is
insignificant, for in one hundred years
the moon has hardly advanced in its
trajectory more than ten mijes.
All this, we must admit, is theoretic
cal and by no means absolutely ex
act. When we have greatly improved
our tables on them oon and its va
rious positions, we shall still bo in
capable of predicting for a long time
in advance what place the moon will
occupy in the heavens. The errors
will be very small, but they exist, and
the proof is the fact that at each
eclipse of the sun we notice some small
error of some seconds in the time cal
culated and the time actually observed.
Union on North Graham street, which
was damaged by fire several weeks
ago.
The remodeling will have as its main
feature the addition of a new story of
the same dimensions as the rest of
the building. There will also be ex
tensive remodeling on the interior in
accordance with plans drawn to make
the building more suitable as a home
for the corporation. The contractor
will begin work at once and expects
to have it completed in the near future.
HEST COLDS
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Over 17 Million Jan Used Yearly
Reports of a new oil belt in Mexico
indicate she is not yet ready for recognition.
DRUG STORE GETS
VISIT FROM THIEF
The Stonewall Pharmacy on West
Trade street in the Stonewall Hotel
building was burglarized Wednesday
night by burglars who showed both
cleverness in effecting an entrance to
the store and fastidious taste in selec
ted goods after they entered.
The store was entered from the rear.
The burglars did not awkwardly break
a window or door to get in iut used an
auger to bore a number of neat holes
in the wooden jwinel of the door around
the lock. After this was done,, it was
an easy matter to take out the lock.
Once inside the store, the burglars'
evidently took plenty of tme to make
a careful selection of goods. They
showed a preference for the finest
grades of candies in the store, taking
a large quantity of such goods. Many
kodaks were also taken, along with a
quantity of films. Other goods are
missing. The theft was reported to
the police department.
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