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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, 1921. The Charlotte News Published By THE NKWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fciirdi and Church Sts. IV. C. DOVVD. . '-. .Pr. and Gen. Mar. ItLTAN S. MILLER Editor IV. M. BELL Advertising Mr. TELEPHONES: Business Office 115 Circulation Department 279:5 Cfrv Editor . . 377 Editorial Rooms Prfattins: .House 1530 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. Th Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the tie for republication of H news dispatches credited to it or not otherwiso rredifed in this paper nd also the local news published htrein. All rfihts of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. SUBSCRIPTION" RATES. liy Carrier. .. On year .$10.00 iv months ... 5.00 Ihree months 2.50 One month M One week .SO Bj- Mail. One year 8.00 Sit months f.flrt Three month's 2.0ft One mouth 75 Sunday Only. One year .60 months 1.39 TIMES-DEMOCRAT. Semi-Weekly) On. year 1.50 Si.v months .75 "Entered as second-class matter at the posfoffice at Charlotte. X. C. under 'he Act of March 3, 1897." TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13, 193 j. GOD'S WORD STANDS: The grass withereth. the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. Isaiah 40:8. THE SOUL OF ALL IMPROVEMENT. There was a large portion of good horse-sense in David Harum's utterance I hat you can never have an honest horse race until you get an honest hu man race. Herbert Spencer changed onlv the Phrase when he declared that there is no political alchemy whereby golden conduct can come from leaden instincts md Carlyle said it better than either ;-f them when he asserted that "thd -,-...1 .11 --'ui in 1 improvement is the ie miprove- men 1 01 me soul . The trouble" with the world sentially that its governments is not are bad nor that u needs more laws and great r machinery for holding the bad in check nd giving an outlet to the good seed in society. The trouble with the world is that i needs something done to its inner life, to its conscience, to its other self, 10 its immortal part, and no matter H-har. may bo done on the surface that looks like it might introduce the Jlillen inm. the sober truth still confronts 113 i hat the change must develop from with in the skin. We hear a -rreat deal in these times about the need for legislation that will make bad men more obedient to the 'iwH and bad governments more amen" b!e in the decent sentiment of society. And we have been trying that almost s.nce the world began. From the earlv, infant clays of the race a barrier of statutes hn been erected and he!j out in front or iniquitous men. but thev have consistently leaped in and kepc up ;:icir mischief and perpetuated their malconduct. Legislation has absolutely failed so far to create an ideal society. Certainly force has failed also. There is nobody to claim today that war has made humanity any better or that, since it ntis been washed in the blood "f slain millions, it has gained some sort of remission. Even those who were Uy enough to reason that, according t-v science, wars were biologically ner cssary in order to kill off the weak, the u'ny. the misfits and the unassimilates in society, seem to have crawled into 'heir holes. The picture which "world society is presenting today answers in uie negative every suggestion that wars are morally stimulating and soci- lly wise. Never before, p.rhaps. since ivilteation dawned nas there been such rascality, such immorality, such lasciv iousness. buch dishonesty, such c r-upt-ness, such pure, old-fashioned, backlot in. The whole world is temptt-iorn vith it in some form or other. Ilaciul 1 nd social and physical wretchedness lies crawling over the face of the earth, livery where there is disease and disoiv rer and rtisaivc.r.ssrr.ent and dislaTitncs from right. War ha.j mnde a thorough si-.sss of hs job of purifyin? tilings, of learing uj) the muddied watciv, 01 elim inating evil and making humanity bet lor and nobler and more soulful. And everything else attempted has met with failure just as grim and hid--ous. Nothing that man has done or can 10, it seems, will have the effect so universally sought. So we come back to where Carlyle !( us Avhen he made his great discov- rry that "the soul of all improvement is the improvement of the soul", until there is a thorough ablution from with in, the grime is going to stay on the surface of things, until something touch ? the hidden depths of humanity with the sabre-thrust of regeneration and re birth, we will never come into that at tainment of peace and quiet and world calm Trhich we are now running to and from to find. Battleship scrapping is not the 'only ort that : taking place in the' disarma ment conference. North Carolina has the highest birth rate of all the States and probabilities are that it has the lowest death rate also. And the journey from the cradle it ine sia.e is cenamiy as Pleasantry - - pent. as safe and decent and comfor- 1 able here, as i any other surroundings imaginable. I- ' LODGE, THE INTRODUCER. The interlocutor in the performance at Washington within these last few days is none other than he who has said so many things lately, and then done the opposite, that nobody knows! any more when to believe him or when to lay confidence in him Senator Lodge. It was the august Senator from Massachusetts who proposed the four cornered affair which has been announc ed as the forerunner of the peace 0 the world. the young league of nations which the Washington conference offers as the first concrete agreement it has reached behind closed doors. Either Senator Lodge believed in the original league of nations which he led to defeat or he does not believe in this latest handiwork of his. With the excep tion of the mere and insignificant mat ter of numerics, there is no vital differ ence. It has reduced the number of pow ers signatory to this new-fangled con cert of the nations to four, whereas the league has 46 nations already signa tory to it. He has changed the lan guage, of course, from that in which the Versailles document is phrased, but language is elastic. Different words and) different sentences can be multiplied that will say the same thing and rep resent identically the same principle. And yet. in spite of the kinship be tween the two. in spite of the fact that in the practical operations of both, there can possibly be no far-reaching differ ence. Lodge nsti!s the largest and belter league a vicious blow at the base of the brain, and then comes tottering out on the stage fondling this new thing. It is this change of fronts in his part and on the part of the present Republi can administration that is so everlast ingly detestable, indicating with a new emphasis that there was nothing in the Wilson league which they opposed ex- cent the oersonalitv behind it. Of course. that has been generally understood, but not before has there been such absolute and invincible proof furnished. The evi dence before has been largely circum stantial: it has become direct and irre futable now. Another interesting phase of the situ ation is that Lodge was chosen to pre sent it. selected as the one man who would be held up before the world as the author of this new plan and the founder or" the peace which it is sup posed to be the harbinger of. There is method also in this madness. President Harding and Secretary Hughes probably imderstand the temper of the Senate and how that this great bodv once be fore stood itself out against a great de vice of peace because, it said, the fram ers had not taken the legislators into 'confidence and the executive of the na tion had sought to pull something over the law making department of the gov ernment. Mr. Harding takes no chances, there fore, on a recurrence of this mishap. Surely, the Senate can not longer count itself entirely out of the proceedings when its own leader and chief Admin istration spokesman brings forth this royal paper from his own chest, thereby giving the Senate itself the honor and the preferment of having initiated this wonderful movement for world peace. A bunch "of me-toos who have never known what it is to shake their heads when the bell-wether sets out in some direction will docilely fall in line, the President reasons, assuring hm that after ths measure receives the execu tive O. K.f it will not fall before the merciless opposition of a slighted and jilted Senate. We suppose this was also done at the suggestion of Mr. Lodge since he seems to have assumed all the-. responsibility of leading in a move ment to bring the whole world peace by bringing just four of the nations of the jO or more into an alliance, than which none, conceivable would be more anti Washington. A PROPOSED HEALTH SURVEY. A health survey has "been proposed for Mecklenburg county and we would certainly raise no voice against it, pro vided we don't merely get a survey and nothing else. Surveys have become the fashion. They are of all sorts and all of them develop facts in connection with the life and activities and conditions of the people which are interesting, and many of them are alarming. Survevs are worth, however, ony in proportion as the facts disclosed beget action. There must be a practical application of the disclosures. Merely learning what a giv en status is may add to the storehouse of current information, but it does not effect alleviation. A health survey of this county will bring to the eye of the public a great number of situations and truths which have been denied us before. If it shall be followed by such action as will be curative where a cure is needed and cor rective where correction is called for, it can be made to be worth all that it may involve in the way of both ex pense and effort. Certainly no information ought to stand us in better stead than that re lating to the health of the people of this community. Nothing else is as ma- j 'II.- lenaiiy important as health. There is no field of public endeavor to which we may more urgently and pertinently ap ply ourselves than to the conditions of disease and indigence throughout this county. They are the enemies of a cor rect social order: they tear away our industrial structure and they prevent any sort of a wholesome and rational development. K we. therefore, propose to have a survey made of . the health of the peo ple, let it be determined- before that we shall have the courage to face the reve lations ,and the patriotism to apply the remedy whatever it may entail. The combination that has been work ed out between England, the United! Slates and Japan probably makes China wonder where has gone all of that burning zeal for its future that was sup posed to be consuming the American srovprnnipnt ar, a . - "..v. jnua ican people. Xo wonder the Chinese delegates to the conference saw the front door and j kn5W what it was meant for x THE ARMENIAN'S NEED. A special and urgent appeal is being sent out through North' Carolina for some sort of remembrance for the Ar menians. Josephus Daniels is at the head 'of a committee consisting- of many prom- inent State officials and other leaders in the thought and action of the State which is trying to present this need in telligently to the people of North Car olina. The very fact that the cause has enlisted the heart ful interest of such men as these may be taken to indicate that it is more than merely worthy, rather than it is imperative and strate gic. Christianized nations are not dealing properly with Armenia and never have. We wonder sometimes if. in the case of Great Britain and America who seem to have, in an especial sense, this burden and duty to face, they are not disposed to lose interest in Armenia merely be cause there is nothing in that country except people with a great, glaring need. It has been said of the United States, for instance, that its people, love Mexico, because of the mines and the oil there. It has been said also in England that it is particularly fond of Mesopotamia, for instance, because there is oil there also; solicitous about the South Africans because in South Africa there are dia mond mines, but neither the United Stales nor Great Britain seems to care much about Armenia because in that country there is nothing but people who cry continuously their acute wants and needs and aches and pains to the civiliz ed Christian countries to whom they have a right to look. BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING. If it Mas a violation of the traditional ! Policy of this country to join the lea ue of nations- it is equally as great a viola tion of the same policy for America to join three other powers in a pact to keep the peace in the Pacific. If it was a violation of the sovereign ty of the L'nited States to belong to a concert of the nations that would set up a world-court for the determination of justiciable issues, it is a violation of the same sovereignty for the United States to agree with three other powers that, in the event of any issue arising between them, all of them shall move together in the settlement 01" the diffi culty. Possibly, the philosopher is mistaken who said the rose is as sweet when call ed by some other name. The same principles which lie at the foundation of the four-power alliance are the principles which also lie the foundation of the league of nations. The league of nations was ridiculed and castigated and its authors were treated with calumny and contempt be cause of their daring to propose even such a thing for this country. ' The four-power pact, however is a sweet-scented document in the estima tion of the same critics of the Wilson league, designed to play aJ)ig part in the maintenance of the peace of the world, exactly the thing that advanced public sentiment of this country is in favor of. It does make a difference what a rose is called, after all. HUMAN PLAN IS TOO EXPENSIVE. In a volume prepared for the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, Prof. Ernest L. Bogart declares that all the wars of the Nineteenth century, in cluding the Napoleonic wars, and run ning on through all the struggles of" the BalSans, show a loss of life of 4. -109, GOO; the dead of the World War reached the staggerding total of 9,995.771. It is generally reckoned that the worth of a single life, economically, is s about $3,400. Counting the dead as measuring up to that average, the economic loss to the world from this source alone has run up to S33.000.000.000. The prop erty loss on land is estimated to have been $30,000,000,000 and that on sea about S6, 800,000.000. The indirect cost of the war in the way of stagnation of production is considered at $45,000,000 -000. The combination brings the aggregate cost of the World War up to the incomprehensible- fisrure of SMS.Oftn nnn . 000. This war resulted because humanity has been trying to solve its problems in terms of human thought and human transaction. Wars will continue to re peat tmemselves until the race faces about and tries the plan of the Prince of Peace. What is the world spending on that plan? It is estimated that Christian activities of all sort through out the world are costing about $500,000, 000 annually. On this basis, the money waste of the war would have supolied funds for the Christian churches and Christian missions for 200 years. THE CONVICT PROBLEM. Chairman Griffith of the highway com mission is being quoted as having re marked upon the vastness of the convict problem in this county and how that it entails more solicitude than any other single distinct phase of his work. We have no doubt of the correctness of that opinion. The convict system has always been somewhat of a. problem in county administrations, whether much was said of it or not. And we speak not no much of its mere management as of the exactions which its details make upon those in authority and, more espec ially of the cost of .the system. It has been agreed among others who preceded Chairman Griffith into authority over the maintenance of convicts that it would be much cheaper for the county to hire men to do what work they do. Those who think the .- ttO money out of these men whose services it gets for nothing are mistaken accord ing to the opinion of many of those who have been in these positions of re sponsibility. There is such a vast ex pense attached to their care and upkeep that, out of the work returned by them for these things, the county finds no dividends. i TRYON STREET WILL EMPLOY SECRETARY An executive .secretary is to be em ployed by Tryon Street Methodist church and $1,400 has been raised to be applied to the yearly salary. Decision to ?nr:pov the assistant to the pastor was reached at a meeting of the Men's club at the church Monday night. Thoie Avas considerable discus sion of the proposed step, but when the ballot was taken unanimous endorse ment was given. The executive fom mitlee was authorized to proceed at once and employ a rt-yr. Guy A. Myers, president of the club, acted as toastmaster. He introduced the speakers as follows: Judge W. F. Harding. P.ev. H. G. Hardin, pastor, Kent Blair, Tom Matthews. L. W. Win gate. Will Bobbitt, W. D. Wilkinson and D. F. Henderson. The church now employs a director of religious education, whn is paid l.v the board of st wards. With th- ad dition of the executive secretary, fi nanced by tne ?(n"s club, it will be lh? enly . chtrvch in the Western cenforetica ! with both officers, it was said. MENNONITE COLONY REACHES ALABAMA Yellow Pine. Ala.. Dec. 13. One thousand Mennonit-s. occupying IS cars, r'rrived her? today from Regina. Saskatchewan. The colonists brought with J em cows, horses, sheep, house hold -9'Tects. vehicles and farming im plements, and they are prepared imme diately to start housekeeping and prep - aration of the soil for next year's crop. An advance guard had pur chased lands and provided temporarv shelter. The Mennonite colony is situated in the heart of the Alabama lumber belt, where timber is plentiful and the soil productive. Past stretches of unim proved acreage afford the colonists ample opportunity to gratify their ex pressed desire to engage in agricultural pursuits in a sequestered section. Few of the number arriving had ever been so far South, it was stated, and the change from the frozen .North to a mild and sunny clime brought manv expressions of pleasure. ROGER D. EASTLAKE IS ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Montross. Va.. Dec. 13. Roger P. Fastlake. naval petty officer, was n'ac ed on trial in the Westmoreland countv circuit court here today for the murder of his wife. Mrs. Margaret Easttake. whose mutilated body was found on September So in their home at Colonial Beach. Ya. Eastlake is charged wiT the crime jointly with MHs Sarah Knox, a Baltimore trained nurse, who will be tried as soon as the former s trial is concluded. Decision to try the victim's husband first was reached by the prosecution as a result of late de velopments in connection with th crime, which is regarded by the au thorities as one of the most hideous in the criminal history of the State. Mr. L B. Cook Tells How Cuticura Healed Brother "When my brother was three weeks old eczema broke out on his head and face in blisters and then scaled over. His hair became very thin, and he just scratched and cried all the time and could not rest day or night. "The trouble lasted about eirht months. We tried everything we heard of with no re suits. I read your advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Ointment and bought some, and after using three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, with the Cuticura Soap, he was completely btaled." (Signed) L. B. Cock, Har rison, Georgia. Cuticura Soap daily and Cuticura Ointment occasionally, prevent pim ples or other eruptions. Tfeey are a pleaswe to use. as is also Cuticura Takurn, a fascinating fragrance for perfuming the skin. rtrU,Sp.H, MriibiiVKui " Sa2dewy jrhtec. Biwp 8ae. Omeoeot2BiB0s. T!eaBie. jgSag Caticara 5sp ihTts witaout nf. Give Candy This Christmas The chief requisite to a Merry" Christmas is CANDY. Both young and old enjoy it. We have: SAMOSET BLOCKS NORR1S In attractive boxes. Arcade Pharmacy Inc. PHONE 777 324 SOUTH TRYON ST. OSTEOPATHY Is the science of healing by adjustment. DR. H. F. RAY 313 Realty BWg. DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty Bldg. 1 DR. ARTHUR M. DTE 224 Piedmont Bldg. Osteopaths. Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUJ28T Braswell & Crichton All Kinds INSURANCE Nothing Else. Phone 1697 Commercial Bank Charlotte, N. C. 803 Bldg. HOLIDA Y Christmas giving may be as generous as one wishes, bi the better spirit of the times frowns upon frivolous expendi tures. Let your gift to her be one of beauty, surely, but let it be useful beauty. An opportune time for buying Christmas Gifts as well as things for personal wear. For today and Wednesday these lovely Suits, Coats and Wraps bear special prices as a pre-Holiday offering. Second floor. . 1 1 f! ' ' Coats and Wraps They are all Coats of the better kind. Some, with rich, Fur Collar and Cuffs, others in belted or semi-fitted models, developed in Bo livia, Pollyanna, Veldyne and Normandy. Formerly 39.50 to $75.00 $24! um ' Bath liLK ill -ffiEuHMB tOFBETTEK VALUES .J WELCOME Suits Small lot of Coat Suits, in this season's la test styles, fur trimmed and plain tailored models, in Suede Velour, Duvetyne and Vc lour; colors, Navy and Brown. These Suits were formerly priced $59.50 to 89.50. Now S39 .50 and ain Capes Something the children will surely enjoy, not only for Christmas, but for a long; time. Some of them with school bag. In colors Navy and Brick. Sizes 6 to 14 obes Of fine Blanket Cloth. A Robe is a practical gift which a woman values when styled and finished as well as these are. Satin trimmed and tailored styles in a variety of attractive colors $2M t0 $72 R obes Lounging Robes of fine Corduroy and Wool Eiderdown; Pink, Blue, Rose and Tan, Braid and Satin trimmed. Long tie sash. Nothing more .appropriate for Her on urn jiimii vmaummm ittn lit. wwym ll um 'vi ' hi tin 1 MUl ill ''WJI SBLU IT FOR tJSfig i ii ii immi ii ii n ii m - T l.lMl.