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1 HE CHARLUfTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE. N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 19, 1921. The Charlotte News Published By TI1K NEWS PUBLISHING- CO. Corner Fourth and Church Ms. WHAT IS KILLING THE PEOPLE. The insurance records indicate that WHAT MR. HARDING IS DRIVING AT. I It is clearly in evidence now tnat Mr. this has been the healthiest year ever j Hardin is ieadin toward one of three 'experienced in the United States ana J possible courses in connection with the , , , -.:rar,a such records were in-j framing of a foreign policy lor this IV. C. DOWD Pres. and Gen. Mr. ! troduced at a late convention of .government. V ILLIAN S. MILLER limtor . , , T He is either heading the country to- iV. M. DELL... TELEPHONES: Business Office f irculation Department . . . Tity Editor F.ditorial Rooms Printing IIoo$ . .Kditor t AHvertistns Max. 1 the Association of Life insurance Presidents and were presented by the president of the Metropolitan Life In surance Company, who submitted statis tics covering the deaths of policy hold- peis in 37 leading American lire insur ance companies during the first 10 months of 1921. The fingers indicated . US 279 . 277 . 362 .1539 iHirRir.R A SSnriATET) PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively. a OVYerms cf the life insurance death entitled to the use for repu&ncauon t . 1 a J i. A SI. tm ail news fljspatcnes crenucu m . not otherwise credited in this naper and also the local news published htrin. . . . . All right of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Hy Carrier. One year 510.00 Siv months 5 ? 2.50 .83 .29 8.00 4.00 2.00 .:5 2.fi Hx months t.S0 Three months Tine month One week By Mail. fine year . . . r. 5'it. month Three months )ne month Sunday Only. Mic year rate from 9.58 per thousand, in 930,. to 8.24 per thousand in 1921. Applied to ward the league of nations, or he is planning for a new association of na tions or he proposes to make the dis armament conference a. permanent sitting body to function in the stead of these other two. There are reasons to believe that he inclines toward this last as the best proposition at this time, although there is no earthly way to figure how it is possible for this conference to do what either n. leae-ne or an association of na- the population of the two countries, as;.. ,.,, TIMES-DEMOCRAT. (Semi-Weekly) On- year i' months . t.50 .75 "Entered as serend-class matter at he postoffice at Charlotte. N. C, under he Act of March 3, 1897." MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1921. RIGHT REASONING : Let us rea son together, saitli the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall he as while as snow. Isa. 1:18. USE OF SLANG. At last has been found a. defender -C slang., although not outright. Harry 5. Paul, president of the National Coun cil of Teachers of English, eays that siang is more trenchant than the usual English phrase and as such, is permis sible, although one should remain on suard lest it be overworked. Fact is that English purists are some what difficult to find any longer. While they hel out stubbornly against the introduction of diluted English into cur rent expression, they have apparently ziven up the tort and admitted that the task is beyond them, concluding, like, President Paul, that even the gross crudeness of slang is at least permissible now. If two boys are fighting, says Mr. Paul, it would be ineffectual to tell them 'to desist", but if they are told to "cut it out", they are likely to understand exactly what it meant and the depth of the admonition. All of which may be true, but if such deviations as this are continually allowed, it v.ill be only a little while until we will-have an amost -omplete language conveyed to us from the street. Tt has already become popular to transport the usual vogue of the side .valk to the newspaper and to the pulpit. 'ome men are preaching these days in the lexicon of the gutter because, they contend, the language is more easily understood and, we suppose, as Mr. Paul says, it is more 'trenchant". In other words, men with public messages to de liver claim that they come nearer get ting their thought "pver" when they ouch it in the phrases of the newsboys, the uncouth and the unlettered. It is therefore, unfortunate that a great dignified body of men and women, associated under the name of those who are "Teachers of English" should make rny compromises at all , with slang. Nothing has a more insidious tendency to corupt the noblest, amplest and most flexible communication known to life, the English language. Not only does slang cheapen the pure language, but it l'as the reflex influence of coarsening the characters of those who use it. It is, therefore not merely degrading to the great language which we speak, but its influence upon the lives -of people is Perceptibly bad and it is getting worse is the habit extends its far-flung do minions. Where shall we ultimately find ourselves unless a halt is called? From 'vamp' and 'hooch' and 'guy' and 'take it from me' and 'cop' and 'flivver' and 1I such tommy rot, where do we go next? TAX RECED?TS DECLINE. Tax receipts of the government dur ing the fiscal year 1921 decrease nearly $1,000,000,000 as compared with the pre- vioys year, while the cost of collection increased 32 per cent for each $100, ac cording to the annual report of the Bureau of Internal Revenue made pub lic by Commissioner Elair. Collections by the bureau during the fiscal year totaled $4,593,0000,765, against $3,407, 580,551 for the fiscal year ended June ::0, 1920, a decrease of $812,579,486, or 15 per cent. Of the total taxes collected during the year, income and profit taxes iffgregated $3,228,137,673, compared with $3,956,936,003 in 1920, and miscel laneous collections totaled $1,366,863,091, against $1,450,644,248 in 1920. During the fiscal year 1921 there were produced from, material other than fruit 86,365, 65$ taxable gallons of distilled spirits, a decrease of 13,250,133 gallons from 1920, while 34,993,134 gallons were removed from bond, an increase of 6,772,245 gal lons over 1920. The majority of the 9, 000,000 income taxpayers are meeting their obligations on an installment basis. The business deflation and depression following the war are responsible in large measure for the somewhat start ling falling off in governmental revenue. Stricter economy and added efficiency are called for in both individual and governmental administration. This is one way and a splendid way of helping lo minimize the evil effects of reduced a whole, these ngures mean 153,000 less deaths than last year, which year itself had a much lower mortality than was experienced in prior years. The 1920 in surance figures show that influenza has almost disappeared from the United States aifd Canada, while there has been a decrease in pneumonia amounting to about fifey per cent from 1920. Mortality due to automobile accidents, however, is showing a fifteen per cent increase this year, a probable total of 10.000 deaths being indicated. Homicides and suicides also show large increases. The companies furnishing these sta tistics transact about 80 per cent of the life insurance business in this coun try and. as compared with the records made similarly in 1920. they reflect some interesting truths about the general; healthfulness of the people of the United States this year. Some amazing declines are found in the tabulations. For instance, 14,941 per sons died in this country during the first 10 months of 1920 from influenza and this year, during the same time, only. 1,730. From pneumonia 22,243 died in 1920 and 13. 70S this year. The differ ence in number of deaths from tubercu losis is not so great. This dreaded dis ease seems to run generally at a uni form level, and the level is always high. In 1920. 23,288 died of this disease and 22,443 this year. Blight's disease i3 an other one of the frequent maladies that shows little difference. It killed 14.652 in 1920 and this year it was responsible for the deaths of 14,359. Cancer shows an increase this year over last by more than '1,000; suicides increased by S00, homicides by 300, auto mobile accidents and injuries by 300, scarlet fever by 300 and diphtheria by 300. During 1920, a total of 205.941 policy-holders in these 37 companies died as against 184.S60 this year. "We note" the report goes on to say, "that fifteen out of the tweny-one classi fied causes of death show. a lower rate than they had for the year 1920. In some instances the reduction is very striking. Only six out of the twenty one show increase. It may be of interest to consider some of the more import ant ones in relation to the problem of improving average mortality. "We see at the outset that about twenty-eight percent of deaths during this year have been caused by diseases which Under our present habits of life are pretty sure to continue at high ratios among the various causes of death. Those diseases are cerebal hemor rhage, organic diseases of the heart and Brighfs disease. In the main they are ailments of the more advanced years of life. To a very great extent they mark organic and functional break downs. Therefore, we turn for hope to the other causes of death constituting 72 per cent of the total. It is among them that we must seek large results in the prolongation of the average hu man life. "Though we learn that tuberculosis has caused the enormous total of 22,443 deaths, that is to say about one in nine of all deaths that have occurred in 1921. we have in mind for purposes of com parison the fact that no longer than ten years ago its ratio stood at causing nearly one death among every four. This remarkable drop in the tuttercu losis rate is one of the most conclusive prof of how much can be accomplish ed when cause and cure of a disease become matters of common knowledge and of community concern. "Within very recent years typhoid fever has been relegated to a place of minor importance, though in former years it played sad havoc with the lives of our people. This in large part is true of diphtheria that dread destroyer of child life for centuries past, which in re cent years has been largely brought under medical control and thereby put in a comparatively minor place among the causes of death. But a comparison of deaths in 1921 with 1920 and earlier years, shows guch an alarming increase in the mortality caused by these two diseases as to teach us that eternal vigilance and constant application of medical knowledge is the price we must . ipay for escape from death?dealing micro organisms. There is really no longer a good reason why Typhoid fever or Smallpox or Diphtheria should be epi wemic in this country anw yet we find them rising too frequently to that proportion in certain localities because people either fail or refuse to employ the means through which they had been brought almost to the vanishing point as causes of death." The present Administration has learn ed a vast deal as to, the status of the league since this conference opened. Such men as Balfour and Briand, in 3 9 h s s Plato Budd is out of bed. He cured the bad cold in his head by cursing his high temperature and ceasing to look for a cure. Now when the cold first struck the man h.? thought that he could find a plan whereby he could breathe with ease. He tried some quinine mixed with cheese. When this did not choke his ill he rodo out to a moonshine still and filled his feeble biscuit pits with fiery hootch that soused his wits. When he had finished with his sprees he moving among the leading satellites of J spent the day in one long sneeze, and the present regime, in conferring with I" night cried, "I'll cure my head . c . - .iwith soap suds mixed with graham Cabinet members, with Senators and hretLdr Thi8 but vr0ved a step too far with Congressmen, have been putting I and greatly increased Budd's catarrh. j Then he triecFhot exercise. The bad ing, at least,' the impression that it, is far from a back number and that it is, equally far from being scrapped, If Washington has learned any one thing better than another since this confer ence opened, it is that the league of nations is an entity, and a permanent entity, and that any thought of de stroying it by keeping this government out of it may as well be dismissed- That sort of information would nat urally impress upon the mind of any thoughtful and reasonable intellieet the advisability of the United States shap ing its foreign policy upon that as a basic fact, namely, that the league must be recognized, that there are 43 powers already signatory to it and that whether this nation, enters it or not, it is to remain as a fixture of the future. But if Mr. Harding is finding opposi tion in " his party still too strong for broaching this subject again in the Sen ate, he is evidently considering the feasibility of getting back to his pre election platfprm and trying to frame an association of nations, an organiza tion that will have left out of it some of the objectionable phases of the league, but, to all intents and purposes, becoming a substitute for it. His idea would be to create this association to run parallel with the league, not to de stroy or becloud it, but to become an ally with it, other powers to be in cluded to such number as may desire to come in and the purpose of the move ment being to accomplish the desirable ends which the league will accomplish. There is no particular reason for such a project as this, but it would be better for the United States to associate itself with other nations in such a pro gram rather than remain aloof and entirely apart from them in their en deavours toward world-co-operation. The most unreasonable plan winch seems to be in his wind is to make the present disarmament conference do the work of both the league and his pro posed asociation of nations, merely organize it Sov permanent purposes and have it function in the stead of the others. That is impractical, if not impossible- This conference has had but one specific end in view: a league or association cf nations would have a. thousand jobs to do. Disarmament, which this conference was called to gether to consider, will remain a de tail of whatever sort of a project the powers may unite in, but taken apart from all other issues, it will never be come a sufficient basis for bringing about that sort of comity and conccert of aetion as will be demanded by society in the in terest of peace or that will be actually brought about ... through the . operation of the league of nations. The trouble Mr, Harding confronts i3 to satisfy not merely , his own con science about this great enterprise, but to satisfy also the wishes of the people of America and meet the views also of some who are, very close to "hinV: in this Administration. The general 'uncjer. standing is that Secretary Hoover, in his official family, is out-and-out for the league of nations now.-It is. also accept- led that Secretary Hughes has more faith in the league than in anything else so far proposed and these men are powerful factors in the Administration. They come mighty near being the Sauls among te prophets surrounding the President and they are undoubtedly lending their influence toward some pro ject by which America can face its duty courageously and do it manfully. cold 5ttled in his eyes. He starved himself for If,, days, "but grew worse in a thousand way? and in his mind resolved to dire on one fried goat and uvo raw swine. The druggist's cup he drained to dregs, but got more wobbly on his legs. At last with disgust in his ey he said. "I'll simply stop antf die." That selfsame day, so we were told. Plato shook his chronic cold. If you have got a cold like jBudd'don't try sawdust mixed with mud or fol low some galoot's advice that might land you in Paradise. Put your pills back on the shelf. A bad cold only dies itself. Copyright. by 'ens Publishing Co. fa 'MONEY IS TAKEN ! r KUIU IjUNUt XLVlUJCi hase Street Resident Loses Money and Ring During the Night. , Willis Long, bt 203 Chase street re ported to polite, officers Monday .morn ing that his home had been entered some ime during the early morning hours and that $42 was taken from his trouser pockets as well as a large sap phire ring which Mr. Long said he had just purchased Saturday. He lives' to the rear of the Presbyterian hos pital. Mr. L.ong found his trousers out in the field near bis house, about 100 5'ards away, with their contents gone. The robber apparently entered the house by the front door which was not locked, Mr. Long said. There was no indication that forcible entry had been gained. Mr. Long reported that he had not heard any noises about the premises at any time during the night, but that a j neighbor of -his had observed a light in the room where he left the money and ring about 2 o'clock. Mr. Long was sleeping in an adjacent room. His sister and brother.m-law were sleeping in. another part of the house and they heard no commotion during the night, the supposition being that the thief entered thfe front door, quiet ly looted the pockets o" Mr. Long's trousers, picked the ring up from the library table and accomplished the robbery with such ease as to create no sort of disturbance. THE CALL FOR SELF RESTRAINT. This community is passing through a period of righteous indignation that severely tests the extent of its self control. It has been a long time since such an outrageous act as was attempt ed Saturday night on the Matthews road was perpetrated here and it is a mat' ter of question whether there has been such an affair that has about it more phrases of aggrevation than this. The condition of the popular mind is, therefore, grossly inflamed. Men shall have to restrain themselves to prevent the usual outbreak that follows on the heels of such barbarities, but -this news paper is confident that the sober sense of the community will prevail and that there shall not be upon the escutcheon of the county the further blemish which unrestricted passion would bring. A "IT V AMERICANS AS EATERS. The average American eats more than a ton of food a year, Secretary Davis of the labor portfolio in the Cabinet, has discovered. The exact amount is 2,664' pounds per man per arjrium. Per hap'g, this is one of the emanations for the many and long laments about the cost of living,-we are just natur ally spending more for food than is either good for our pocketbooks or our stomachs. The average American wage earner consumes 1,775 pounds of food every year. The average Japanese con--sumes 905 pounds of food per year. Sec retary Davis said. It is probable that the actual amount, of food consumed by the average American is raucji less than that indicated abpve, for much of the food bought is wasted ni one form or another, and a iarje portion is thrown away as not being edible. Even so, the indictment . of overeating brought against Americ 'will have the support of the American conscience as a rvalid Indictment. No nation in the world sets such a bountiful table as America, and no nation in the world has accumu lated a greater crop of diseases and ailments than has America . through over-indulgence in the table. The aver age American going to his doctor for examination and advice will be almost certainly told he is eating too much food. A cheerful oid follow, over 90 years of age, an effective worker at that age and lively as a kitten, said recently, "The majority of Americans kill them selves with a knife and fork." CHRIST-QUEST IS FRAZER'S THEME Powerful Lecture Delivered by Queens College Head at Y. M. C. A. Dr. W. H. Frazier, president of Queens College delivered the Christ mas sermon at the men's meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon, us ing as his subject, "The Quest for Christ.' W. B. Bradford, who presided at the meeting, read the Scripture. les son, which was the story of the wise men's search for Christ. Launching immediately into his sub ject, Dr. I'razer related a story of be ing on a tall building, and watching the crowds on the street hurrying to and fro. Some one in the party re marked that each had a destination. Dr. Frazer declared that all have an objective, and wondered at the objec tive of his hearers at this Christmas season. In the quc-st for Christ there are four groups of persons, he said, the seekers, the fearful ones, the literal ists and the keepers of the eterpal truth. The seeker were the wise men of the Hast, who seeing the star in the heavens, followed it and were led to the place where the Savior of Man was. The speaker discused the great light seen by Paul on the way to Damascus, the revelation to the woman at the well, the visicn of St. Joha on the Isle o Patmos, when the glories of the New Jerusalem were revealed to him. "I know that whatever our need, whatever is necessary, if we but seek Him 'lonestly the star will guide us to Him." The speaker asked the purpose of the quest, showing that the wise men came to offer costly prifts and not in the idle curiosity of Herod. One's life is changed by coming into the pres ence of Christ, said Dr. Frazer. who added that the wise men', after wor shipping Christ, refused to return and inform Herod of His abiding place, but returned by another way,' When Paul came 'nto the presence of Christ, man ifested in the lignt on the Damascus road, his whole life was changed, even ins name, said the speaker. The 'iteralists, said Dr. Fraaer, were the scribes and Pharisees, who were content to accept the statement in the Bible .that, Christ was to be born in Betnlenem. When .tne feavior was hern, these men, ' did . not stir them selves, believing the propheey fulfilled when Christ was born in Bethlehem. Mary and Joseph were the keepers of the eternal truth, said the speak' er. Present-day Christians are also keepers of the eternal truth, he said. The Ivey Choral Society, under the direction of Mrs. Coral Hayner-Baker, sang a number of Christmas carols. WAKE FOREST HAS PROGRAM FOR DEBATE Wake Forest, Dec. 19.-Wake For est's complete .schedule of debates for the Spring t.rm of 1922 consists of three debates with prominent colleges and universities throughout South. The colleges that Wake Forest will debate are Stetson University of Florida, Da vidson College of North, Carolina, and Oklahoma Baptist University, , The first of these debates will be held April . 3 at Wake Forest with Oklahoma Baptist University as oppon ents. The query for this debate is He solved, "That the Federal Government should enact legislation embodying the principles of the Kansas industrial court for settlement of industrial dis putes in public utilities." Wake Forest will uphold the affirmative aide of the question. As a return debate, Wake Forest will meet Davidson College in Char lotte at Queens College on April 7. 1 he subject for this debate is Resolv ed, "That- the Federal Government should own and operate the coal mines of the United States, constitutionality waived." Last year Wake Forest met ana deteatea Davidson m ftaleixh. With a simi'ar auery to that of the Davidson debate, Wake Forest will at tempt to out-argue Stetson debater; before the Southern Baptist- conven tion when that association mets in Jacksonville, Fla., about the tenth of May. Wake Forest is meeting Stetson University this yeai at the convention instead of Baylor University, which Wake Forest had debated at the con- ventioh in tht past. TWELVE VESSELS ARE RESTING ON SANDBAR .Burtaio. JV. Y.. Dec. 19. An exami nation today of the grain fleet, part of which was blown' shoreward from the lee of the main breakwall in yester day's 95-mile-an-hour gale, showed that twelve out of the flfty-four vessels were resting on sand bars, but none was m, a position ot: danger. The damage from the storni in the citv. along the lake short and on the east shore of the Niagara river between here and Niagara Falls was estimated at $1,000 000. Scores of boathouses and squatters' shanties were swept into tne river, which was " 10 or 12 feet higher than normal owing to tho wind blowing down Lake Erie and piling up water in the narrow chan SLIGHT DECLINE IN WHOLESALE PRICES 1 9. A : slight prices occurred Washington, Dec. slump in wholesale during tne month ot Aovember, ac cording to statistics made public by the Bureau fo Labor Statistics last night. TIig Bureau's index number; based on 327 commodities stood at 149 in No- VHWber compared with 1.50 for October, The largest decreases occurred a,mons farm products. Clothing and metals also were cheaper, but no. change- was noted m foodstufrs. In fuel and build ing materials, prices averaged higher. ATS- Make Appropriate Gifts Every man loves to own a pretty nobby new hat, and we know of no better stock to select from than our big stock all sizes and colors, shapes and styles. - Besides hurt' dreds of other essen tial and - appropriate gifts. $5.00 up OSTEOPATHY lis the science of healing by adjustment. DR. H. F. RAY 313 Realty Bids. . DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty Bldg. DR. ARTHUR M. DYE 524 Piedmont Bldff. Osteopaths, , Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUKST Bras well & Crichton All Kinds INSURANCE 803 Nothing Else. ; . Phone 1697 Commercial Bank BlUg. Charlotte, X. C. ELK BROTH Era IE SSLt iTO;A,llES" P BETTER Suggestions Fo r Belated Shoppers Numbers of New Items for - Those Who Have Lots of Things Still to Be Bought Just See Them! i SWEATERS SPORT SWEATERS In White, Navy, Red, Biwn. This is tfye standard $10.00 and $12.00 'College Sweaters $7.50 and $8.9.1 New lot of pretty Sweaters for misses and children, Brown, blue and red . .... . ..... . . . $1.98 and $2.98 First Floor UNDER THINGS New lot All-Silk Satin, Crepe de Chine and Pussywi!. low Camisoles, Teddies and Gowns. Camisoles '$1.69, $1.98, S2.4S All-Silk Teddies i $2-98 to $8.95 Silk Gowns $3.95 to $9.93 These are new values better than ever. Satin and Crepe de Chine Bloomers $2.98, $3.4S, $3.9.1 Values up to $6.95. A clean-up on hand-embroidered Philippine Hand-Work Teddies and Gowns $2.98, $3.48, $3-95, S4.95 These values up to $7.50. First Fluor 1847 ROGERS BROS. SILVERWARE Six knives, six f orKs, dessert size $8.50 Six knives, six forks, , dinner size . $8.93 Six Table Spoons, dessert size 85.9. Six Table Spoons, dinner size , 6.95 Six Tea Spoons . . ,v , S3.50 Six Orange Spoons $3.98 Six lee Tea Spoons " $4-95 One Gravy Ladle . . ...v,y. v , ........ . ." ; $2.50 One- ileat Fork" .. .y ; iv . , . . ; , ........ $1.98 One baby set, Knife, Fork and Spoon $2.50 One baby Spoon and Fork $1.98 All this is 1847 Rogers Bros. Silverware the very best silver plate made. ' ' ' . ' ... First Floor Bath Robe Blankets Special holiday sale of Bath Robe Blankets, beautiful line of colors $2.48, $2.98, $3.98, $4.95 Former values, $3.50 to $7.50. . - ' ' First Floor ' LAPIES' KJD GLOVES Don't put off any longer to buy these. We can fit you this week in Kid Gloves, all colors and sizes $1.69 to $4.95. Sample line Ladies' Knit Gloves 19c to 59c . " " First Flocr HANDKERCHIEFS Boxed Handkerchiefs, all kinds, plain whites, whites . with embroidery edges, colored edges, etc., 3 to box i '. 25c to 85c r ine Lmen Handkrechief s in the plain or embroidered aJ r : 15c, 25c to 49c Madeira Linen Handkerchiefs 50c t$ - First Floor SILK UMBRELLAS New line of Ladies' Silk Umbrellas. All colors and assort ment of fancy handles $4.95 to $9.95 - " ' Fiivt Mqrtex Bath Towels $1.00 to $1,50 vaLues in fine Martex Bath Towels, all colors u 65c to S.I.W First Floor HOSIERY a ,flo,by exPress this week already Here. , All Silk Plain Hose,-all colors 98c to S4.o0 Fancy Silk Hose, the special colors, browns and blacks at . . . . , , . ... , $2.00 to $4-!j The Sport Hose 98c to $2.o0 " - ' -First Floor FINE STATIONERY Fi?e,.?ox ,Papei" raakes very attractive gifts; in pretty holiday boxes, 39c, 49c, 69c and 75c. 39c up to $5.00 per box. -First Fsr l pEQfc- BEOTHE0
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