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van JHAKU)iTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE. N. C FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 16, 1921. The Charlotte News Published I?.v THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. C. DOWD.... Pros, and Gen. Mgr. ILLIAN S. MILLER Editor IV. M. BELL Advertising Mgr. TELEPHONES: Business Office '. . 113 fircuJitioii Department 29: City Editor 277 Editorial Rooms 3(5? Printing1 House 1330 LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE. The effort made to bring about an increase in the salary of the treasurer of Mecklenburg county indicates a decid ed legislative tendency in these times, a tendency on the part of Representa tives generally to put through legisla tion upon which the people have not been informed. Understand us as having no sugges tion to make that this attempt on the part of some o the county's Repre sentatives, in this particular case, was without raiiso TVo cii MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. fnfo entitled to the ue for republication of i the increase in urban population was themselves, they would very probably H news dispatches credited to It or four times the increase in country pop- be in favor of allowing the treasurer nol otherwise credited In this napcr j ulation and from 1910 t0 1920 the urbanan increase from $3,000 to $3 600 the and also the local news publiRhea j . I v ' ' herein. ! increase was six times greater than the year, but we are speaking only of gen- III l . m LI? A ? - . n:f ' , 1 .... 1 W, T , . . .;u rigm nt repuDiiraiiun i pcim nuiai. nai vcuueuuies ana noi oi tins partic- There is. therefore, no Ion THE TENDENCY OF POPULATION. Fourteen of the largest cities of North Carolina absorbed nearly half of the total increase in North Carolina's popu lation during the last two decades. These cities were Gastonia, Rocky Mount, High Point. Winston-Salem, Asheville, Durham, Greensboro, Wilson. Charlotte, j Salisbury, Goldsboro. Raleigh, Wilming ton and Newbern. ! During the 20 years in question, the ratio of dwellers in the countryside de creased from S2.3 to 71.4 per cent of the BURCH PROSECUTION CLOSED. Los Angeles, Dec. 16. The prosecu tion in the trial of Arthur C. Burch for the alleged: murder of J. Belton Ken nedy rested its case late yesterday. Ad journment was taken until Monday on motion of the defense. ' ECS cSijtpatches herein also are reserved. f lf w J if M i I i PN I ;er anv ular incident. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. One yejr $10.00 j M.v months n.QQ Three months 2.50 Ope month 83 One week , 50 By Mail. doubt as to the tendency in population! And this tendency is -not only marg in North Carolina. It is decidedly away ed as to Representatives in State Leg- from the farms and into the cities. That 1 islatures, but as to representatives of means that . North Carolina will soon 1 city governments and to representa lose its agricultural standing and be-; tives in the National Legislature as well. 1 'A come, more and more, industrialized in its society; the cities will grow large The people are no longer consulted first and mandates taken from them. Man- One month ..!!.'!'."!'.!!!..!.!!. ,45'scts n anc sonie economic reforms are Sunday Only. Hnc year t.m Six months 1.30 TIMES-DEMOCRAT. (Semi-Weekly) One year SLy months. 1.30 .75 "Entered as second-class matter at he postoffiee at Charlotte. N. C, under he Act of March 3. 1897." I RHJAV. DECEMBER 16, 191. THE ROAD DECISION. The decision of the Supreme Court as to which of the two county bodies, the commissioners or the highway board, is liable for the balance of S42.000 due on the Monroe road, turns out pretty much as has been anticipated and. in addition to being right in law. is also l ight on morals and right according as the public would have it. The people of this county have voted lor all the road money which they feel like voting for at this time and it is their desire that the road bonds avail able be utilized entirely for this purpose without having to resort to any other additional levies for road construction. If the court had decided in favor of the missioners. who have no road-building-funds at all, would have been forced to resort to a special levy to make up this amount. That would have been -.'.uite contrary to public sentiment as to what was right and proper jfhd just in the premises. The Monroe road was completed, $42,000 worth of the work v,-as done, after the highway commis sion acceded to authority in road-building work in this county and it stands to reason, therefore, that it inherited the contract for this road along with all other heritages connected with road work of all sorts. There has been no dispute between the two boards about it except as to which was within its legal rights to pay the bill. If the county commissioners hud conceived from the outset that they lad any law upon which they could 'move in liquidation of this bill, they uould have paid it without a question: uid so woulS the highway commission for that matter. The Supremo Court wa3 asked to give . ruling on it only for the purpose of establishing authority for paying tha rebi. There has, been no feeling or any t ort of unfriendliness about it between the two boards. And neither could be publicly censured for having moved so auticusly and bo slowly in winding up this matte?. set in motion by which the population can be held to the country. Ought .t to be held there? Wherein can the State become the greater, in agriculture or in industry? These are pertinent questions. They can not be an swered, assuredly, within narrow limits. It would take a long treatise to discuss the issues properly, but the mere recita tion of the statistics ought to be enough to produce serious thought among those who want to see North Carolina come into its kingdom. The inevitable result of the city-ward drift in population is to increase the cost of living, to put consumption re quirements so far beyond native produc tion that we shall be forced to look else where for those basic products upon "lie year n.uiijanci the countrvside win te more sparse-1 dates are more nearlv c vpn thom t , Sis months 4.00 L. .., ,, 1, 1. : . 0 Three months ' 00 ecincu, ums me uivn.a.ii umu woiauuii 13 yuseeu snu ine voters con sulted aiterwarus The cart is in front o? the, horse. Government in a democracy has its foundation upon the authority of the people. Representatives urc chosen merely as vehicles through whom the people may express themselves and in dicate their will. It was never the in tention of the founders of our system of representative government to have men go into the law making bodies and there write their own wills instead of the wills of their constituents. They are supposed only to represent the people. Of course, representing- Ihe people is sometimes a difficult task. The Repre sentative must use his own judgment in determining what the people want and what they do not want in cases where there has been no referendum tww I which our wellbeing depends. That situ-! taken. In such instances, he is obliged ation has already developed in some localities. It exists in this community. For 10 years, the disproportion in sup ply and Jemand in Charlotte has been acute. So many people have deserted to gauge public opinion as best he can and then to act accordingly. He is sup posed to do what a majority of his con stituents want done. , It would be well to get back to this the farms and come into the city that j early practice in our representative gov ernmental bodies and give the people a chance once moi-e to be the final au thority in all of these . instances. This is their country. They are capable of running, although Mr. Taft once said they were not. and they are entitled to retain this privilege which the framers of the Constitution gave them. THE TESTIMONY OF OFFICERS. Mecklenburg juries need to have more faith in the testimony of the officers of the law, Judge Bis Ray said on the occasion of a recent term of the court here. Judge Ray is somewhat brusque ' r.nd crude at times, says things that have an edge to them, and naturally, therefore, is easily misunderstood, but he i sa well-meaning judge and wants to see the laws enforced. He was speak ing of the tendency to depreciate the tes timony of officers in a certain class of cases that find their way into the crim inal court rooms. "If an officer of this county were to drop dead, the average jury would stick a pin in nim before accepting it as a fact" Judge Ray said, remarking upon this frame of mind of the average jury. Court attendants do not find it out of the way to agree with the judge. There is a very manifest disposition on the part of some juries either to disre gard entirely or to minimize the testi mony of officers of the law who swear to facts as they have gathered them or recite evidence as it has come to their notice. Officers, of course, want to bring about convictions. If they have any prejudices, they are on the side of the law and against the evil-doer, but, at the same time, their natural inclinations are no sharper nor more definite than those testifying for defendants, those who have a special interest in the out-1 ;ome of cases and who, for this rea son, are likely to have then feelings r their friendships sway them in the recitation of their testimony. We do not undertake to assert that the testimony of officers ought to have the right-of-way every time and that juries can afford at all times to depend ibsolutely upon these men. Nevertheless, if we get into the hobit even of miminiz ing thetestimony of these men whose duty it is to break up wrong-doing, we not nly bring discouragement to them, but we tinker with the very foundations upon which the social order is establish ed' and this practise, run to excess, will make law enforcement a veritable trav- i Mecklenburg, the county, is no longer supportin g Charlotte, -the city. When we consider the fact that a removal from the county to the city doubles the prob lem of consumption, it is not difficult to understand this process. When a farmer moves from his country place ti the town, he not only deprives the productive population of his own serv ices as a producing unit, but he become? 1 a sneer consumer wnen he takes up his residence in the town. Thus he both sub tracts frao mand adds to the equation, the result being that his transfer doubly accentuates this problem of supply and demand. ' Dr. Branson, of far-seeing eye and gifted in social analyses, discussing the general situation in the State as this cityward c!rift is now indicated, hos some very pertinent observations to make. He is of the opinion that whether the movement is economically jvood or bad. it will continue .-o long as present conditions remain. '"The problem is worftl-wide" he says, "and it is not to turn people back to the farm or to keep people from leaving the farm, but to make farm life efficient, prosperous satisfying and wholesome for country minded people who choose to ;ve n the country; There are now ind will always be many country-minded people in every state and nation, but uc present they are tiing driven out of the country by xin tn durable conditions, economic and social. If these conditions cannot be cured, and in the main they must be cured 1 y the country people themselves, tnen country life in North Carolmn. will fall into decay as in the New England and the North Atlantic sta:es. The indus trial supremacy of this area is now im periled 'oy the decline of agriculture. As a rasult eastern factories are being moved into regions of larger food pro-; auction and lower food costs. Mean time New E.iarlnad manufacturers are spending millions of corporation money for agricultural rehabilitation in the Eastern states. j So far iu our histoiy. we havi.- hid This is Undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable Springs we have run across this time of the year in this part of the country in a long while. . THE YAP CONTROVERSY. About all the newspaper readers know about what is called the Yap con troversy is that it has suddenly become qute sizeable for some reason or other, and that the United States has been drawn into it. Yap is a small island 400 miles west of Guam, bought by Ger many from Sptin in 1899 which became at once a center for her cable lines, of which one went to Shanhai, one to Guam and another to German New Guinea. When Japan drove Germany from the Pacific in 1914 she seized this along with many of Germany's Islands in the Pacific Ocean: the end of the cable reaching Shanghai she cut and connected with Japan. The sudden interest of America in Yap has been due, first to President Wlson's plan to internationalize" it. a plan not accepted by the allies, for they were already under expressed ob ligations to give it to Japan: and sec ond, to Secretary Hughes' use of it a.s the fulcrum for his diplomatic attack on the proceedings of the League of Nations. He contended that neither the allies nor the League of Nations could dispose of Germanj-'s captured territo ries without the consent of- the United States by whose aid Germany had been overthrown, and that, therefore. Japan could not claim exclusive possession of Yap nor of any of the north Pacific Is lands, even though given to her by the allies. Japan's reply to these contentions has All Girls Love Beauty Beauty of features is nature's gift, possessed by few. Hah beauty can be cultivated by every girl, with the aid of ED. PINAUD'S HAIR TONIC (Eaa tie Quinine) II you have beautiful hair it is your duty to preserve it. Faithful use of this famous French hair dressing in sures abundant, lustrous hair throughout the years. ED. PINAUD'S is pure and fragrant. American Offices t PARFUMERIE ED. PINAUD ED.PINAUD BLDG. NEW YORK. 1 1 1 11 mi 1110 IiL 1 I hppn first tVi.lt Tflritain Franco enrl Tfoli- too many producers of farm products, ,.,, , , . agreed in 1917 before America entered an dtoo few local consumers. Our towns and cities have been too few and .oo small to furnish ready, profitable mar kets for any farm products but cotton and tobacco as surplus money crops for c.emand for these in the markets of the world reduces the net income of our farmers to the lowest possible terms. The way out lies (1) in bread-and-meat farming and (2) a large con suming public at home, (3) with cotton an dtobacco as surplus money ci-ops for local and for world-wide consumption. Activities of city and county officers against blind tigerism these day remind us that they are seriously interfering, no doubt, with at least a part of the public's plans for an egg-nog Christmas to a rather alarming extent. SERIES OF FIVE LECTURES. The Mecklenburg Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina is promoting, in connection with the Y. M. C. A., a very instructive program in bringing here for a series of addresses some of the most outstanding leaders at the University for the Winter. The first of these is to be held Friday night when Dr. Howard W. Odum. sociology professor, introduces the course with a lecture on "Democracy and Active Citizenship." The several professors who are com ing here are among the most expert loaders of progressive thought in the is to follow later and Dr. B State at this time. Dr. E. C. Branson is to follow later and Dr. Eraneon has come to be known as a powerful leader in economic and social movements in North Carolina. It will be well worth the time of the people of this community to hear! these addresses. They will be DrofitahiP 'to them as well as entertaining. 1 the war, that Germany's possessions in the north Pacific should come to her at the final peace settlement: second that there is no record of President Wilson's reservations or plans regarding Yap in the minutes of the Paris Peace Confer ence; .third, that all mandated areas had been regularly assigned in the regular procedures, America having failed to at tend the Commission on Mandates though invited; the fault therefore, is with America, not with the League? fifth, that nevertheless she was willing to make special arrangements with the United States in regard to the Yap uuam cable, and sixth, that it would ' be better and much cheaper to lay a new cable from Guam to Shanghai and gfve it to the United States than to come to blows about so trivial an affair. TODAY and SATURDAY MADV-- PIMM 'UTTLEL0RD, MTLEDOY A Superb Picture Added TOPICS OF THE DAY PRICES: Adults 30c till 6 p. m.. then 40c. 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