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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER VI, mi. The Charlotte News Published By T1IK XKWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Churcli A TASTE OF THE LEAGUE. Sts. Instead of having a league of nations constituted by all the powers of the j world, such as .Mr. Wilson And the I great statesmen of Kurope cnceived and framed, the Republicans have con cluded! that they can hake an improve ment on that idea by having a league with only four powers in it, namely, the United Suites, Great Britain, France and Japan, "us four and no more". So far as the terms of the proposed pact oC tthe four exeat powers are concerned, this is a league of nations, although running under the name of an alliance. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. -i course, .ur. uson was jazzeu aim The Associated Press is exclusively sabred, too, because he even thought entitled to the use for republication of JoJ. rushing 1nif, country into a league Mil news flispaii'iies mwiru W C. DO WD. . ...Pres. and Gen. Mar. II LI AN S. MILLER Editor W. M. BELL Advertising Mgr. TELEPHONES: Business Office Circulation Department City Editor Editorial Rooms '2:X Printing House to it or credited in this paper Jot nations wnien wouia present me as local news published j pect of any sort of an alliance or com- not otherwise and also the htrein. , . , All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. year One SK months Three months One month One week . . . By Mail. One year Six months Three months One month Sunday Only. One year Six months $10.00 3.00 2.59 .85 .20 8.0O 4.00 2.00 ,T5 plication, with internal "affairs of Eu rope. How often in those days of league debate, the immortal utterance and ad monition of Washington about '"entang ling alliances" was thrown before the attention of the American people by the same folks who are today powerfully j physical propertie behind this new combination of the pow ers, which is nothing in the world but the very sort of an alliance against which Washington warned his countrymen. Aside, nevertheless, from showing in 56H j vivid colors the completeness of the THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA. It has been hard to get. Reports sent by various agencies have differed so widely that the run-of-the-mine reader of the newspapers and magazines has been unable to tell heads from tails of the situation. And Russia' is a country in which the world has an intense, inter est, a consuming curiosity, an eagerness to learn about the country and its peo pie which has only been tantalized by the thousands of contradictory stories, the little patches and shreds of truth have come from over there. More lately trained newspaper cor respondents have been ransacking Rus sia to find out the truth and to depict conditions as they find them for the benefit of the readers of the American dailies. These correspondents have writ ten interestingly. They have been'show ing us a great country filled with tor ment, whosa millions are famishing, whose children are dropping dead on the streets, whose fathers are in des pair, whose mothers are tortured, whose BSC 11 They called him "Ixmg Shot" Bill McGee because he soaked his cash in 14.000 pounds of tea and 13 tons of hash: He owned a cafe on the block and said. "I'll add this to my stock for food wil eo un with a shock. I do not fear a crash." j And so he hired a six-ton truck to ! haul his hash and tea, and cried. "O gemini! I'm in luck. High prices won't hit me." But while the hash was being stewed a great drop hit the town in j food and "Lonar Shot" had 10 notes re-! newed to run his "Busy Bee." He sold j hash below the cost: the tea he gavel -.nnll mtt fi o-n i'a wViat ho ' l A V, V. V HIV 4 1 I ' 1 L v t nu l ' i t - ntiro r t-t -k -,mi I - r :ii-p rim finwn. wnose .uiuu ii. railroads are streaks ot rust, whose in- ( Jg wpekf. a Qne cou(J on menns of i TIMES-DEMOCRAT. (Semi-Weekly) 1.30 Un vear 1.50 i months 75 "Entered as second-class matter at the. postoffice at Charlotte. N. C, under the Act of March 3, 1897." MONDAY, DECEMBER 1?, 19'M. THE UNTAMED TONGUE: He that Neepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he that openetli wide his lips iihall have destruction. Prov. 13:3. DRAINING THE WORLD OF GOLD. 1'nele Sam has a monopoly on the cold of the world, even through a major ity of his subjects have not yet had any reason to appreciate in a personal way this new financial fact. Treasury offi cials reported a while ago tliat the ITnitcd States has $3,000,000-000 or one third of the entire supply of the preci ous metal of the entire globe. The comp troller of the currency has indicated ome alarm that this country should have so much of the aggregate supply f the world's gold and many financial statesmen see in it a reason that the world-adjustment which has been so mtently desired is still delayed. "We ire accumulating more gold than we need", the comptroller is quoted as say ing. 'Other countries, by sending us their gold, are weakening their power to uphold the gold standard. TKe pend ing of. this gold also lessens their ability to maintain an assured ratio of ex i hange and to buy what they need to use and we need to sell". Students of tht situation indicate that the United States wjll be compelled to move along some line that may bring1 about a. stabilization in exchange or run the risk of seeing the gold standard gravely impaired. There are some advocates of the cre ation of an international currency me dium for the purpose of international trade. There are also many opponents to such a proposal. Many American leaders think that this would operate de cidedly to the disadvantage of this coun try. American business will be shocked by any plan that would tend to stabil ize exchange. Nevertheless, some plan must be evolved by which American manufacturers will be able to compete with the lowering currency values in other countries. It. is the view of Comptroleer Cris inger that American business men and financiers must give serious considera- t ion to measures of this sort to assure resumption of normal production, to re tain the fields of trade opportunity now closed in favor of cheaper price competitions, and in order to bring about financial and industrial equilib rium over the world. It is well to re member, however, that although Fed- pral reserve banks have increased their holdings of gold more than I$402,000,0t)0 in the first half of the year, only three vf the 14 leading countries of Continen tal Kurope have sacrificed any of their reserves of gold to the United States. These are Holland. Sweden and Den mark, and they by less than $1L',000.000. The 31 other countries report, a net ' icrease in their gold holdings of about i'.OOO.OOO. These facts should somewhat, lessen the alarm manifested in certain administrative and congressional cir cles. The new gold which has come to i he United States has come mainly from African mines through London, from India, in exchange for silver, and from Russia through various continental (.enters. inconsistency of the Republican sena tors and more especially the narrow -brainedness of Lodge, his conceit and selfishness and malignity, there is no doubt that tho four-cornered affair will accomplish, in part at. least, what the League of Nations would have complete ly accomplished. It is only giving the world a' small slice of an apple instead of a whole apple. It. is only taking a feeble step in the direction of that goal which the league would have attained at one sweep. If' the arrangement can thrive with out incurring the ill-will and antago nisms af the balance- of the 40-off states of the world, if it does not in fact arouse their suspicion and jealousy .and thereby defeat the purpose for which ic was created, it will redound to the interest of world-peace. It would seem to make it certain that the four great powers will themselves remain on amicable terms. It will elim inate the bugaboo of war between the United States and Japan. It Avill settle the unrest which suspicion is always arousing between Kngiand and the United States. It will quiet the ditem per which has lately shown itself be tween France and Great Britain. It will simplify the pact between England and Japan which the United States has been worried about and. so far ns these four master powers are concerned, it be comes a guarantee that war between them will be avoided in the future. It does not guarantee peace, however, insofar as the remaining majority, but smaller powers of the world are con cerned, laying aside Germany and Rus sia which were not signatory to the league of nations. We have a notion that this four-angled pact will be en larged some of these days so as to in clude both Germany and Russia and. of course, that would form a combination against which the balance of the na tions of the globe could never hope to cope. dustries are ccilapsed and whose social order is torn' and tassellated to threads. The strange fact brought out by a ma jority of these correspondents is that the most of the people, in spite of this condition, prefer the present regime to the old days. They claim that Sovietism is giving the under-classos a chance, a chance to starve, we take it. They further contend that tho spirit of liberty has been released and that the gov ernment is at least interesting, almost indeed to the point of being a fascina tion. And we read these stories of Russia and wonded if even this is the truth about the people and their country, re maining fcirgely unconvinced. Obviously, the correspondents, no matter how fair ly thev may have tried to deal with their duties, have been allowed to s?e only what the Soviet masters permit ted them to see. They got the news from the better side. An unbiased judge of newspaper stories knows that Russia is in the thickness of impenetrable dark ness., is still the tragedy of the contin ents of the world, in spite of what may be said of its external appearances. Kurope is making slow recovery, Mr. Hoover finds out. which is another mark of kinship between Europe and this country. We may well credit the statesmen of Great Britain with authorship of the four-power pact. It greatly simplifies the aggravating Anglo-Japanese pact so far as that country is concerned, even though it has only a smattering o other merits as it .-el ites to the peace of the wnole world. SCHOOL FACTS. There are in the United States more lhan 25.000.000 school children. A fifth f the total population of the nation i in the school house. There are 5,000, 000 of those of school age who do not o to school, in spite of the inducements which are offered and the laws that have been passed to compel attendance. There are more than 1,650,000 boys and Sirls of 15 10 1!) in the high schools. There are 600,000 school teachers and the number of teachers is 250,000 short of those needed for the children who are to be taught. There are in the col leges and universities about 263,000 stu dents, nearly half of whom are in the State, universities. Pennsylvania leads the States in the number of college in stitutions with 67; Illinois 59, New York comes next with 54; Ohio has 53 and Missouri 41. AN IMPORTANT TEST. The new farm demonstration agent for this county can apply himself to no task of more immediate importance than that of leadership in the cotton co operative marke-ting movement. It is beyond us to explain why the farmers of this country are not taking to this proposition more eagerly. In other sec tions of the State, sections which we are generally disposed to believe not quite so progressive and forward-looking as this, the movement has swept like fire. That is notably true in the larger cotton-producing counties. The State, as a whole, is far ahead of the quota originally assigned it for sub scribing to this movement, but Meck lenburg lags and is slothful about it. Perhaps, 'what is needed is just the sort of leadership which Mr. Jones will give it, a thorough, concentrated effort by one who knows what he is talking about and one who is able to present the proposition concretely and appeal ingly. There is no doubt as to the basic worth of the movement. The plan is ad mirable. It suggests the only feasible foundation upon which successful cotton marketing in the South can ever be attained. It is the one project so far launched that reaches to the whole depths of the cotton problem and that assures the man who makes the cotton that he may have a voice in determining its worth upon the markets. That cer tainly has been denied him before. Is it rot time that the privilege is being ac corded him and that he himself be mov ing toward guaranteeing for himself this right? JONES TO HELP SELLING PLANS New Farm Demonstration Agent to Take Co-opera tive Marketing at Once. the "Busy Bee" was "We sell only hash and, tea." It broke up Bill's cafe. . It takes no surplus search to learn that there are quite a batch besides the boss of this concern who count eggs ere they hatch. When prospects of a! big drop come they tell you that their j trade is bum. It's hard for uss to pick j out some who do not get a scratch, i But should you have much stock on hand and one day get a. -wire that. there's a big drop in the land don't set j yourself on fh-e. It's no use to get deathly ill and cash in like old "Long Shct" Bill. We all must help push up the hill. You'll lose out if you tire. Copyright, J92I, by v Publishing Co. jerusaleCfell to an army cook Keys of City Were Turned Over to Him by Mayor; Was Hunting Eggs. New York, Dec. 12. It was not Gen eral Allenby, but a British army cook en gaged in an egg hunting expedition, who wrested Jerusalem from the Turks in 1917 or such at least was the "insida story" related last night by Major Viv ian Gilbert, of 'London, in an address at a Brooklyn Y. A I. C. A. Major Gilbert, who was a member of the expedition Allenby 's expedition, not the cook's said the incident, laf r to become a subject of much mortifica tion to the Moslem inhabitants of tho Holy City, came about as follows: "Jerusalem was. evacuated by tne Turks on the night of December S. 19:7. We discovered this t'ie next morning when a stupid orderly, who had been sent to a small village in our possession for eggs, missed his way. He had gone in the opposite direction, and returned to report, in great perplexity, that "a cove, surrounded by a crowd had give-i him some keys and" made him a spcee'i when he asked for eggs". Jt turned out. the major Ka:.l. that the "cove" was the Mayor of Jerusalem, who. deserted by his Turkish. defyr.-l-.vri and presuming the English forces to be descending on the city, ha.l "surrend ered" by handing over the keys of tli city to the first man he saw in British uniform. , ' As it turned out. he continued, the ceremonv proved to have been erocl practice for the mayor, as itv tli? l- It seems to be just about as sale to Kpeed over the highways as to consume the stuff they are bottling in the woods pr.d ravines and selling under tho uJarijUl.9X real oods, - MOVIES IN THE SCHOOLS. Chicago is among the first cities ; of the-country to introduce the movie as a fixed nart of its educational curriculum. It has also promised the children that they will be given a mixture of educa tional films with those of the most pop ular screen stars, and those in authority contend that school-going will instantly become more popular as a result of this diversion. The result of the experiment, will be watched with eager interest by the edu cational authorities everywhere. There is no gainsaying the fact that the movie has a. great educational value in its proper place, but there is some doubt as to whether It is . wise to make: the procurement of information as easy as it will be through the avenue of the screen. Things easily gotten are not of ten kept long and knowledge that is picked up without some sort of mental effort is not likely to plant itself per manently in the minds of the young. If the easy methods of acquiring knowl edge weaken one's ability to reason and to analyze and to search and to toil, an irreparable injury will have been wrought by the movies in the school houses. Renewal of the campaign for the pur pose of obtaining pledges of Mecklen burg cotton growers to, sell a certain amount of their rnotton through co operative marketing agencies employ ed by the American Cotton Association will be one of the first tasks under taken' by Charles S. Jones, new farm demonstration agent of the county, who arrived here recetly to take up his work, succeeding Charles E. Miller. Mr. Jones will address cotton growers at several points in the county this week, at meetings to be held in town ship centers each night of the week. During the previous campaigns in this countv a number of farmers signed up, particularly in Berry hill. Steel Creek and one or two other townships. The campaign which Mr. Jones has planned is intended to present to other cotton growers of the county arguments as to why they should pledge them selves to sell their staple through the co-operative marketig agencies whievi cotton growers everywhere hail as the best solution yet suggested for the mar keting of the South's cotton crop. The campaign will probably be continued for some weeks bevond this one. MEETING PLACES The places where meetings of farm ers are to be held in the county this week are: Tuesday night Downs school house. Providence township. Wednesday night Kell school house. Providence township. Thursdav afternoon. 2 o'clock Ar lington school house, Clear Creek. Thursday night Bain Academy, Clear Creek township. Other dates will probably fixed for the latter half ot" the week and tor next week, or - weeks succeeding that. The purpose of Mr. Jones is to lay tUej matter before all cotton -growers of th i county. It is also likely other help.wiul he drafted to put the campaign on over the entire county. Mecklenburg -;.itt!-ty has lagged behind other counties, in the previous efforts made o cbta'.n pledges, whereas the county i3 ustiw?ly one of the first in the State to adopt fa progressive measure such as the mar keting idea is recognized as tii iar. NORTH CAROLINA QUOTA SIGNK! Robeson county, according to Mr Jones, has already signed up per cent of the cotton grown wim Ms bor ders to be sold through the co-operative marketing system. North Cavotina, us a whole, has signed up more than 150. 000 bales beyong its quota. Trip fiit quota for the State was fixed at 200, 000 bales. More than 350,000 have been pledged already. Other Southern States have uTao sign ed up the original quota expected -f them and gone beyond that, according to Mr. Jones. The movement -s regard ed in many quarters 8S the most for ward step ever taken in the South t3 overcome th problems of marketing and disposing of the cotton crop. To further the quick carrying vit of the idea and to show cotton growers how the co-operative marketing -svs'.om has worked with other agricultural products in other sections of the county. Aaron Sapiro, organizer of the California. Fruit Growers Association of Califor nia, was brought to the South last Spring to lecture to cotton and tobacco growers on the advantage of organiz ing along the same lines as the fruit growers of California. His arguments are credited with having had much to do with creating sentiment among cct ton growers for the co-operative market ing system. Mr. Jones, is himself a marketing' ex pert, having headed that branch cf State work dealing wjth marketing. tary was forced to repeat the jrteess three times thereafter. I "Brigadier Watson was -informed," J he said. "and. going into .iv't-nsd'e n, i formally accepted the keys cf the city. I But the division general decide a that he was the fit person to capture Jrru-1 salem and ordered Watson to return f the keys. i "This wTas done and some hours l-it; the general, aecompimed by a aorgcous retinue, accented th keys from the mayor for the third time. "But when the division gvnernl sent a telegram tO General Allenby. lho lat ter replied tbnt he would take the c'ty, ir:d he did so two days later. "The mayor died two -.v-jok? after war it was said that he conrrate.l pneumonia from so much running around bareheaded." "Eskimos only bathe once a year." says an explorer. Lo, the poor Eskimo and his friends. FORDS RUN 34 MILES ON GALLON GASOLINE Start Easy in Coldest Weather Other Cars Show Proportionate Saving. A new carburetor which cuts down gasoline consumption of any motor and reduces gasoline bills from one third to one-half is the proud achieve ment of the Air-Friction Carburetor Co.. 326 Madison St.. Dayton, Ohio. This remarkable invention not only increases the power of motors from 30 to 50 per cent, but enables every one to run slow on high gear. It also makes it easy to start a Ford or any other car in the coldest weather. You can use the verv cheapest grade of gasoline or half gasoline and half I kerosene and still get more power and more mileage than you now get from the highest test gasoline. All Ford owners can get as high as 34 miles to a galkm of gasoline. So sure are the manufacturers of the immense saving their new carburetor will make that they offer to send" it on 30 days' trial to every car owner. As it can be put on or taken off in a few minutes by anyone all readers of this paper who want to try it should send their name, address and and mae of car to the manufacturers at once. They also want local agents, to whom they offer exceptionally large profits. Write them today. Adv. OSTEOPA THY VIVIANI SOON TO DEPART. Washington. Dec. 12. (United Press.) Rene Yivuni. head of the French delegation to the "Arms Conference, may leave AYashington Wednesday or Thursday to return lo France, it was stated unofficially today at French Is tho science of healing by adjustment. DR. II. F. RAY 813 Realty Bids DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty Bldg. DR. ARTHUR M. DYE 224 Piedmont Bldff. Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUEST Brasweil & Crichton All Kinds INSURANCE Nothing Else. Phone 1697 803 Commercial Rank BUlg. Charlotte, N. C. Helpful Suggestions For Christmas Shoppers LADIES' GLOVES Christmas line Kid Gloves in all sizes and colors $1.69, $1.98, $2.50, $3.00 Chamoisette Gloves 59c, 85c, 98c, $2.00 Ladies' Silk Gauntlet Gloves $2.50 Ladies' Short Silk Gloves in all colors 85c, $1.00, S1.50, $1.98 CHILDREN'S AND MISSES' GLOVES Childen's Mittens, all colors 25c, 39c, 48c Children's Finger Gloves 59c Children's Knitted Bootees 39c, 50c, 69c LADIES' HANDKERCHIEFS Three in box. 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