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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N.C FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER' 2, 1921 ; ' - - ' ' ' The Charlotte News Published By THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. . C. DO WD.... Pres. and Gen. Mgr. 4LLIAN S. MILLER Editor W. M. BELL Advertising Mgr. TELEPHONES: Business Office 115 Circulation Department 2793 Mry Editor , Editorial Rooms Trinting House 1530 COUNTRY WIDE TENANTCY. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. t. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of r. all news dispatches credited to it or X not otherwise credited in this papT and also the local news published herein. . 'All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. v One year $10.00 Siv months . . . . . 5.00 Three months 2.50 ' One month 83 One week 20 By Mail. One year 8.00 Six months .4.00 Three months j.00 One month 75 n Sunday Only. . One year 2.60 (; Six months 1.30 TIMES-DEMOCRAT. (Semi-Weekly) One year Six months 1.50 .75 Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Charlotte. N. C, under ; the Act of Slarch 3, 1897." FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1921. ' THEY SHALL NOT BE WEARY: b They that wait upon the Lord shairre i new their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31. CHRISTMAS SEALS. Efforts will be made by the Charlotte -VVoman's Club to sell $4,000 worth of Christmas seals here this season for '.he benefit of the tubercular-afflicted of ;, the community. The mere statement of that fact ought ! to be sufficient to release public inter est into this enterprise. Those who hav any sort of a glimpse into conditions in this city can quite well understand that the mark has been set none too ;high. Every cent of this money is (.needed right away to apply to allevia tion among the indigent sick of the community; those who arc in the bonds ot this dreaded disease. ; Other cities in the State are throwing themselves earnestly into this method ;f obtaining relief money for their poor jancl indigent sick. Greensboro is espe cially interested in an undertaking of .this sort and that city is also becoming interested in the matter of procuring a hospital for the tuberculars, such as Charlotte and Mecklenburg county have already moved to consummate. The sale of the Christmas Seals is an annual undertaking staged for the benefit of the tuberculars of the com munity. Those who are in charge of the J. W. Bailey has sent broadcast over the State a speech he recently delivered before the convention' of the Farmers' Union In which he undertook to show that the agricultural conditions in North Carolina are in a sad sort of a way, and: came" near proving it, too, by statistics. Mr. Bailey indicates in his address that j tenantcy is developing, at a rapid rate, 362 i tliat tne landlords are making no money, that their income is far below the aver age of workers generally and that the biggest governmental and social prob lem ahead is to take some' definite step toward an alleviation of this condition. The truth Is, as this newspaper un dertook .to point out a few day's ago, tenantcy is increasing in the State, but not only here. It is increasing through out the country generally and this is one of the less hopeful signs of the future stability of the country. The University News Letter presents in its curent issue a study of the problem of tenantcy over the United States at largo, in the form of a. paper presented to the North Carolina Club at the Uni versity by S. H. Hobbs. Mr. Hobbs shows in his paper that the condition of tenantcy is not peculiar to the South at all. During the last forty years, he says, it has made staggering increases in .the United- States in particular inj the South, the Middle West, and the Lake Shore States. We have been mov ing rapidly as a nation out of a land of home and farm ownership into a land of home and farm tenantcy. Forty years ago just one-fourth of all the farms in the United States were oper ated by tenants. Today 38.1 per cent are operated by tenants. Every decade has ushered in an increased tenantcy rate. During these forty years the num ber of farms operated by owners in creased only 31.5 per cent, while the farms operated by tenants Increased 139.5 per cent, or more than four times as fast. Every geographic area in the United States, except the New Eng land States -which long ago moved out of agriculture into manufacturing, has increased in farm tenant ratios. The increase has been from around one mil lion farm tenants forty years ago to! nearly two and: a- half million farmer tenants today. Farm tenantcy has never been a prob lem m New England because her soils and crops are unsuited to tenant farm ing. Excepting Maine, it is not an im portant agricultural region and farm tenantcy has remained static through out the last forty years', standing still at t.b per cent. The same is largely true of the Middle Atlantic states where tenant farmers have always cultivated about one-fifth of the farms. In the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain states, tenantcy ratios have risen or fallen slightly as farming has been profitable or unprofitable. In the great agricultural region of the Middle West and the Great Lakes, farm tenantcv has steadily increased, the rise being e- - num one-nttn or all farms operated by tenants forty years ago to nearly one- third at the present time. In four of the Corn Belt states the tenantcy ratios now run beyond two-fifths in Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska The farm tenant problem is a serious one in any state or county, and the in creased ratios of tenantcy are beginning at last to attract attention in America. If it is a serious problem elsewhere it is an alarming problem in the South, for campaign will utilize the money derived jit is in the South that tenantcy has from it through the channels of the As sociated Charities, which organization has more tha nit ca nattend to in the way of offering immediate relief to those afflicted with tuberculosis ; It is entirely-plausible to argue that the investment of $4,000 in this enter prise is an investment in the interest ff Sflf-TM-a;CiT-iro irt T7- , ... . uvi nvm. xvery cent tnis or any other community puts into the en terprise of relieving those who have tuberculosis goes also to prevent its further spread and the holding of its germs down to restricted atmospheres There is a sense,, therefore, in which out of nothing more than selfish in stincts, it will pay the city to put what ever amount the task may require to reduce this disease to a minimum here The better it is handled now, the less of it there will be to handle in the years to come WE NEED SOMETHING. Whatever else may loom in the dis tance as necessary for the quieting of me nations or the earth, it is inevitable, as the President seems to have screwed up his courage to indicate, that the world must have some sort of concerted action to put down rebellion and strife and lack of discipline. Austria is about to fling itself into the maelstrom of a mutiny against economic and social conditions now prevailing. Ireland does not seem possible to satis fy without the shedding of blood. France is raising a row because Bng- ""m ""i" a moratorium for Ger many, suggesting that what Germany ought to have is a receivership. Russia does not get.any better. And all through out the world there is an atmosphere of tliscontent and threatenings to resort to force. A league of nations or an asso ciation of nations might not be all necessary to curb some of these tenden cies, but there are few so foolish as to deny that some sort of a union of all the nations, an organization that would consider the parts in relation to the whole, would go a long way toward Bteadying the situation and . bringing uceiee ot restrumess to the fcnguished world. . made most rapid increases both in num ber of tenants and in the per cent of farms operated by tenants. Forty years ago just a little more than one-third of all farms in the sixteen Southern states were cultivated by tenants. Today exactly one-half of all the farms in the South are operated by tenants, and in cotton and tobacco counties nearly inree-tourths of the farmers are tenants. The farms operated by tenants in the South number 1,591,059 and these land less farmers with their families number eight million souls. American farm tenantcy is larjrelv a Southern problem for it is in the South that almost exactly two-thirds of all the tenants of the entire nation are con centrated. To be exast, 64.5 per cent of all farm tenants in the United States are located in the sixteen Southern states. And the great REASONS FOR CANCELLING FOCH ENGAGEMENT. Marshal Foch is not coming to Char lotte because the Southern Railway Company would not enter into a propo- Isition with the . other railroads to fur nish a special train to him without cost. It is well that the real reason for can cellation of the Marshal's engagement should be given in order to put down other rumored reasons which, in repe tition, are unfair and unjust and un called-for in the premise. President Harrison of the Southern refused to co-operate- with the other railroads because, he contended, it , Is against the law to: furnish special trains, Congress passed the law and has not cancelled it and would not make a spe cial ruling for this particular occasion and he takes the position that the Inter state Commerce Commission has no au thority to allow the railroads to make an exception. He also contended that it would be unfair to the public served by the Southern and to the stockholders to allow a - diversion of its funds for this cause when ther are so many im provements which the road ought to be making and when the present financial condition of the system does not per mit the giving away of money so sorely needed for other purposes. President Harrison is, of course, per fectly defensible in these statements and assignments of reasons for his course. The fact that he was willing to go -down in his pocket and start a fund among railway executives to finance this trip indicates that he has no hostility to the proposition except such as is begotten by a wholesome deter mination to abide by the law, to give his stockholders a wise administration of their funds and to give the people served by the Southern first considera tion. ' He will probably be criticised in some circles for not joining in with the other roads on an occasion of such import ance as this and making an exception which, as a matter of fact, would not create a precedent of which he is prob ably fearful. Time was when railroads were generally imposed upon by digni taries, by Presidents, by Senators, Con gressmen and others who thought that the roads ought to furnish them special trains, free transportation and every other accommodation at their beck and call. This has been eliminated by the law which disallows the railroads to bow and scrape at the command of some eminent men of the country und Pres ident Harrison was of the opinion that this would not merely be a direct vio lation of that law, but the setting up again of a precedent which the roads would be obliged to honor in the future The community, along with others along the line of the Southern, is very greatly disappointed that it is forced to cancel its plans for the entertainment of the most distinguished military lead er in the world and in the first blushes of its disappointment, it may feel that President Harrison was entirely un justified in his assumptions and too scru pulous in his adherence to duty. When a second thought is applied, however, and nis reasons are given an unprejudiced study, the incident will pass out of memory and no grudge will be enter tained toward the head of the South ern. Lucy Luke' has Inst her beau because she kept him waiting so. Often when he came at eight he had to sit and wait and wait, while Lucy hummed her j witless songs and curled her bob-r bed . hair with the tongs. By the time :. she fixed her hair and dabbed some , corn starch here and there the small gong on the old Big Ben had rattled forth, "It's ten! It's ten!" Thon she ; found her fiance had gone oif homo j and hit the hay. The town is full of Lucy Lukes. Ona ' mignt think they primped for Dates ; if one would only make a date and sc.? ; how long they like to wait- "Tick-tick-tick!" the old clock goss as they I put on their evening clothes. For I hours one might sit and muse and sigh, 'Perhaps she's lost her shoes!", or think that she had fallen dead wttSJe giving shampoos to her head. The minute hand goes ioerffinar round. Tha : j old clock ticks its deathly sound. Far ! ou roosters lamtly crow. You sijh. j "What keeps her waiting so?" The moon -noves half way through the oky I and stars blink sleepily on high is Lucy struts before the glass and tell3 herself, "I 'speak for class!" A dab of powder on her nose means one more pause and graceful pose, while every pose means one more dab. She soon looks like a marble slab.- When at last she seas her beau he cri.-s, "It's too late for the show." Obviously, each Lucy Luke Ies-irvas to have a stern rebuke. If you havo one or two cowlicks, why not start to work at six and have them covered up by eight? Do not make your lover wait. The surest way to lose :i beau comes when you keep him waiting so. copyrigui, max, by Jfew Pabllsblns Co NEW GOAT FROCK IS VERY SWAGGER The budget of National expenses to be presented next week to Congress carries with it appropriations amount ing to $3,500,000,000. Only a little while ago this country was startled with the information that it required a million dollars to run the government. W have run the gamut to the present enor mous National expense almost over night and still there are folks who won der what it is that makes Federal taxes so high. PUSHING THE WORK. Since about November 1, the State highway commission has let contracts for 228 miles of hard-surfaced roads in the State at a cost of more than $4, 000,000 and bethween now and the end of the year contracts for another 100 miles are expected to be awarded. This is an indication that Chairman Page and his force'sare doing what he said would be done. erettimr mart DUIK of these liner activities stm-to in z xrd tbe eisht hunarea coun- - Th anywhere on earth. . Llon ot ine Btate icceive immediately the benefits of the construction of these hard-surfaced roads. Another indication produced. by these figures is that the cost of construction has come down to a point where the State road building authorities are being encouraged to prick up a little. It has been costing too much to build thest paved roads. As good as they are and as necessary, it is difficult to reckon where there is $40,000 the mile value in them. The State certainly could not afford to build extensively at any such stag- J gering figures as have prevailed until ' a little while ago when both materials and labor descended somewhat. The average contract now is being awarded On a basis of around $25,000 the mile, which is enough, but so far below the former peak, that encouragement comes to let the dirt fly at this price. Mik - 6 j1 -.'STF 4 N 3 ttt This navy blue tricotine coat frock for trotteur wear is a very dashingr model. It is simplicity it self, but that very simplicity marks it as distinctive. The wide sleeves, collar and skirt are all trimmed With stitching in maroon silk. Great Britain, as an ally of Japan, is trying to get the Japanese point of triew properly presented to American Selegates at the disarmament conference ind that ought to be comparatively easv we snouid imagine that the American lelegates already have the Japanese point of view and that's where the rub lomes. Knowledge of exactly what fapan wants and! Is insisting upon is frhat is now causing a probability of a rious hitch In tho nAffotlationa. UNFORTUNATE FEELING. Public notices being given from citi zens in various parts of the county to the effect that the lands have been posted and that no hunters from the city need ask for permission to hunt during the open season there is a con crete ilustration and evidence of what has been somewhat generally hinted at ror some time, namely, that in certain sections of the county and among a cer tain class of the people there is resent ment against the late effort made to break up premature hunting this sea son. It is deplorable that such a misunder standing should exist. It really makes little difference that the occasional hunter from the city is not to be wel comed on lands where he. nerbans. hn been at home before, but the larger! misfortune is that the countrv wnmJ have altogether mistaken the purpose behind this movement. The whole motive of the pronosition was to protect the birds for the far emu not tor the so-called "professional hunter" of the city. No new law was in voked to the accomplishment of RPh an end. No new proceduce was instituted with the sole exception of employing a whole-time game warden to co-operate with the constables of the various town ships, m the enforcement , of the oureiy, it tne people from the ruralside would consider these basic facts in con nection with the movement, they would not feel that it was purposed entirely tne oenent or the You Have Oil In Your Hair If too much, it is unpleas ant. If too little, your hair looks sick. Keep your hair and scalp normal by faithful use of ED.PINAUD'S HAIR TONIC Refined Fragrance American Import Offices ED. PINAUD Bldg. NEW YORK UNKISSED SENIOR IS PURITY LEAGUE HEAD for 'professional hunter",, but rather had for its objec tive enforcement of the law. ' v New York, Dec. 2. Jack Weinheimer, star halfback and captain of the New York University football team, and re puted to. be the only unkissed senior on University Heiehts. out with additional claims of distinction ! iea.uersnip ot the class of 1922 puritv mO rrn " Founders of the1 organization, which Men. c.harter members, have announc ed that its rules do not limit member ship, though there is suspicion that its membership may., be limited for. ntw reasons The members have pledged themselves : , : ,6 , To .treat the fair sex. with! 'deep 'rev ZVlt Gi t0 rard the king of intoxi nfl, ! a dangerous vice to b curbed m?a; to eschew all forms of gambling; to regard profanity as an un necessary use of language an- dto ab wn smoklns. j OSTEOPA THY Is the science of healing by adjustment. , DR. H. F. RAY 313 Realty Bldg. DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 61t) Realty Bldg. DR. ARTHUR M. DTE . 224 Piedmont Bldg. Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUEST Bras well & Crichton (Composed of R. L. Braswell and W. J. Crichton, Jr.) Announce the opening of offices at 803 Commercial National Bank Bldg. Ahe PurPse of doing a GEN ERAL INSURANCE BUSINESS, 1ularly representing the PRU DENTIAL INSURANCE CO. of America. Pbpne 1697. Pi O. Box 996 BELK BROTHERS r Winter Is Coming In Spite Of All This Worm Weather SO BE PREPARED Schloss, Styleplus and Belk Hand tailored Suits made of All Wool Blue Serge, French back worsteds made in regular, slim, stout, long stouts arid young men's models; $19.95, $25.00, $29.50, $35.00. 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