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f4 i. THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1921. i 1 ' ' '.: : ! i lr 7e Charlotte News Published By THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth ana Church Sts. W. C. DOWD PrM. and Gen. Mgr. ILLIAN S. MILLER Etor W. M. BELL Advertising Mgr. TELEPHONES Business Office Circulation Department City Editor Editorial Rooms Frintins House . 115 2793 . 277 ,. 363 .1530 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. . . . All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. One year fM-M Six month 50 Three months z.a One month One week , By Mail. One year Six months Three months One month Sunday Only. mo year 85 .20 .C0 4.00 2.00 .75 2.68 Six months 1-39 TIMES-DEMOCRAT. (Semi.Weekly) One year ....... 1.50 Six months 75 "Entered as second-class matter at I he postoffice at Charlotte. V. C, under Hie Act ef March 3, 1897." TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1921. MAN'S APPEAL: O Lord, revive :hy work in the midst of the years. Habakkuk 3:2. THE LEGISLATURE. . Passing in the neighborhood of 500 bills, the Legislature for the pat two weeks has come mighty near establish ing a speed record. Called together for the consideration of two primary mat ters of legislation, the municipal finance bill and the school deficit, it went far afield and1, while transacting no other business of State-wide importance, local bills by the score went into the hopper j and came out trimmed and finished for the statute books. i The General Assembly is to be com plimented for its effort, for the facility with which it transacted business, for the things it did not do, as well as for those which it did! do. It was not inimi cal to any of the great movements which it set going at the January regu lar session, as some had intimated it might be. There was no interference with the programs of road construction and enlargement of the State's educa tional and charitable institutions. These two outstanding occomplishments of the regular session, calling for tne ex penditure of a sum of money which North Carolinians a few years ago would not have believed existed any where in the world, were not meddled with In the least, the Legislature pass ing them over as a part of its finished work. The educational bill engaged more at tention than any other issue arising, as might have been expected. Critics of Dr. Brooks seem to be rather generally scattered over the State. As in the case of any man who launches forth into the great deep, who institutes reforms, who takes the leadership in vital movements for the wellbeing of the masses, there are obstructionists to his program. They let him know during the meeting of the Legislature that they are none too friendly with all he has in mind in re lation to the enlargement of the school system of the State, but it is a notable tribute to his vision as well as to the strength of his personality and leader ship that, in the face of powertui pres sure, he got through everything he sought at the hands of the General Assembly. There are those who arc disposed to contend that the plans of the present state superintendent of education are going to cost more money than the State can atford to spend for the edu cation of its people. Such criticism does not well lie in the mouths of those who have no sugges tion that the State's appropriations for its institutions of higher learning are getting more than can be afforded. The truth is that the State ought to be pri marily concerned with the euucation MUNICIPAL MONARCHY. The bill which is reported as havin been passed by the Legislature purport ing to give commissioners of public safety in those towns and cities having the commission form of government complete supervision and control over the fire and police departments is only another tendency toward that czarism which, at best, the commission form can hardly be kept from invoking. It already represents entirely a system and theory of government contrary to that ideal of representative government which a de mocracy makes mandatory. When there are only three men having con joint supervision over all public de partments it is about all that can be endured by the people who believe in the fundamentals of a democratic gov ernment, but when an effort is made to lift some certain department entirely out of the lap of the entire board of three men. elected by the people to have Every time a hymn is sung old i Hiram Hank will hold his tongue and I only move his feeble lips and shake a shimmy with his hips. "I always keep my mouth shut tight," said he to me last Sunday night, ''because each time I make a sound the congregation looks around. Now, I have got a splendid bass that can't be touched around the place but every time I try it out the folks in church will look about. Everyone foreets the choir. One miaht think the control over all public affairs, and! f.""" on f,re- The children laugh, the ladies gnn and old men stroke a serenely to place it m the lap of one crinkled chin Although I try to sing man, we care not who he may be, it is j my best the people think it is a jest, a plunge headlong into municipal mon- 1 have noticed thit same thing when . . . . f other .oiks attempt to sing. A tenor archy of the most vicious type. Welor good baritone Had better let the don't know who was responsible for the hymn alcne. for people in the pious introduction of a mpasnre nf this sort. I pews will surely whisper round the ...... .l. i , , , , :i tnews. A singer feels a mental-lack vub tuc j-jt loiat. u. & i v u j.u .licv Aiaivi no thinking cap adjusted before it allowed a bill of this sort to go through. AFTER THE RESERVE BOARD. Senator Overman has taken out. his weapons with which to assault the man agement of the Federal Keserve board, ndicating that the somewhat popular denunciations of the management of '.hese banks during the past IS months have ascended unto the high places. Undoubtedly, the policies of the re serve beard have been unpopular with he masses and with a great many bankers, business men and industrial leaders. The policy of deflation which it instituted: by an arbitrary increase in .merest me, maiis money ius i masses, with affording common .line nefi. some tuntena. money snouiu have been allowed free inflow into the THE GOODFELLOWS PROGRAM. The Goodfellows Club, at its annual Christmas meeting which falls this year on Wednesday, proposes to hang up a. stocking for the poor and the destitute, for those to whom it is accustomed to minister through the efficient services of a number of nurses and through a clinician as well. The Goodfellows is an organization that has had a wonderful rise to popularity. There is no other just like it anywhere in the country and the reason that it has multiplied so extensixely and come to be so strong in its personnel is because it has a pro gram that appeals to the average man with a human heart in him. No organi zation that seeks to reach down to the under-levels of life and there set in mo tion the process of alleviation and of re creation iu health, in industry ?rul in a contented domestic life, could fail to j summon into its fold the citizenship of a community. It is doing a work that is guaranteed to perpetuate the organiza tion nnd to make its services of en durable worth-whileness. channels of trade and industry for iheir stimulation, has been castigated :hrougout the country and some journals have not to this day let up in the severity of their anathemas. On the other han'd. the policy inaugu rated by the board has many defenders among bankers as well asntr busi ness men. They contend that" if the inflation had been allowed to continue, if nothing had been thrown in its way. the money values of the world would have gone into nothingness and the latter state of things financial would have been worse than the former. Nevertheless, quite apart from the irtue or vice of deflation per .se. the foderal reserve board can be condemned for the manner in which it instituted this reform. Granting that it was right and economically sound and necessary, there was no occasion to shock the horses with one full jerk of the reins. The stop might have been made more gradual: the board might have announc ed openly that its policy would, be con tinuous rather than peremptorily abrupt, so that the country would have been given a little time to make ready for the great change which awaited it. It seems to us, and always has, that l his phase of the situation represented the larger blunder made by the board in its management of the financial in terests of the country during that critica.! period succeeding the war, when 'he world needed to get back to terra iirma and when it needed somebody to lead it back, but when, also, it was stunned and shocked by the suddenness with which the descent was ordered Ly the board. school accommodations to the rank and file of its people, to the wiping out of the great wall of illiteracy which stands high in this commonwealth, and what ever it may take to accomplish this pur pose may be considered well spent. While we have no objection to the building up of a great Lniveisity ana other great institutions of higher learn ing in the State, that sort of . an expan sion of our educational program does not touch the most, insistent need. Dr. Brooks is trying to bring about a more efficient teaching system, a more sub stantial type of school building, better rural schools, such as will be commen surate with the best in the larger towns and cities of the State, and we sub mit that while that program means a lot of money, the State will reap its dividends from whatever it may cost. INEVITABLE TENDENCY CITI CHURCHES. AMONG to see the folks in church look back, as if to say. 'Another note is bound to split the scoundrel's throat'.' It's get ting so that no one dares to try to sing the saintly airs. One sees little synco pation in the modtrn congregation." Hiram Hank is right for once. One might think himself a dunce to see the people look about because he helps the organ out. If you are one who looks around in church each time you hear a sound, lay off of this sinful whim when Hank attempts to sing a hymn. Really there is nothing wrong when some poor soul joins in the song. Grab your book and clear your throat and also try to hit the note. Copyright, 19:11, by Xetts Publishing Co. GENERAL MORRISON IS ON RETIRED LIST Washington. Dec. L'O. lajor Generai John T Morrison was placed on the retired list today after more than 45 years of active military duty, having reached the statutory age of retirement. At his retirement. General Morrison commanded the fourth corps area at Fort McPhevson. Atlanta, Ga. He serv ed in France during the World war, participated in the campaign against Santiago. Cuba, during the Spanish American war, and also in the Phillip Pine insurrection. He was born in New York in 1S5S and was graduated from the Military Academy in 18S1 . The crowds that ai lining the streets and thronging around the counters these days indicate anything but that the financial condition of the country is bad. There is no sign of depression if one accurately judges by the interest being popularly taken in the purchasing of Christmas goods. Of course, this is a time of the year when people are apt to lose sight of their exact financial standing, and wait until the first of a New Tear to figure up how prodigal they have been during Christmas, if really Christmas spending may be called prodigality. The Baptists of the city have design ed to build another strong church in the eastern suburbs which witnesses anew to the fact that, as Charlotte con tinues to grow and wax strong, the inevitable in church life will happen, the downtown churches must give way i to the spread of the commercial lanes 1 of the comunity. That has happened in all the greater cities of the country, many of the churches in the heart of these ecommunities having entirely with drawn to some suburban field, moving about to keep in the center of their cli enteles. Charlotte is not so big as that yet and the day of the usefulness of the church in the heart of things here is unfinished, but the tendency. to push out farther is already in evidence and it will become increasingly stronger as the city continues to multiply. v To Stop a Cough Quick take HAYES' HEALING HONEY. I Stops the Tickle, Heals the Throat and Cures the Cough. Price 35c. A free LOa of GROVES O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds. Head Colds and Croup is er closed with every bottle. (tues-fri) It is a good thing that the holidays ire on this week, otherwise there is io telling how long the Legislature night feel itself called upon to remain n session. FORMER KAISER'S DISCLAMATION The former Kaiser is very much put out that anybody should suggest that he was responsible for the war and that anybody in Germany should have the blame for it laid upon their shoul ders. If he had so desired, he could have brought on a war in 1905, he says, when England was busy elsewhere, or .'-gain during the Russo-Japanese en gagement, but he was a sincere devotee of peace and was so ardently laboring tor the peace o the world then and since that no such thought ever enter ed his mind. The old man is going to have a lot of history to correct before he gets this statement of his accepted. There has been chronicled such a vast array of facta bearing upon the fact of the war's authorship that the responsibility for It is directly placed and history will see to it that through the succeeding gen erations, it will remain just where it is today. THE NEW AGENT OF MORTALITY. It is a matter of growing concern that the increasing mortality records being made in this country are due in such large measure to the increase of auto mobile accidents. The number of deaths in 1921 reported by life insurance com panies, as originating from automobile accidents was an increase of nearly 13 per cent over the mortality of 1920 from this cause. In these times we are making much of thet iny microbe that is so insidiously destroying human life. Many untimely deaths are being caused by these minute micro-organisms that continue to elude science and baffle the skill of eminent practitioners and much of our time and money is being utilized in the quest for these lurking, hidden sources of death. We are trying to study, to catalogue and to isolate them for the promotion Of longer life and for the reduction of deaths, but we seldom have any refer ence to the bacillus automobilis, as it might be medically termed, whose pres ence behind the wheel of his juggernaut can be discovered without microscope and whose homicides might be large ly prevented by more of effectual polic ing of our public highways and by more severe punishment of those who are responsible for deaths and accidents of this character. The American Legion has gone on record as being opposed to the pardon of Debs, the convicted Socialist, who is now in the Atlanta penitentiary and with whom the present Administration has been carrying on sime very offen sive flirations. We don't believe that Debs or any other man who spent his time firing invisible bullets into the backs of American soldiers during the war is entitled to any merciful consider ation, at the hands of the American people or the American government. The Ivey Choral Club has come to be regarded as an institution that belongs not so much to this progressive store as to the community. It is a musical organization of such talent as would command respect in some of the largest cities of the country and the store pro prietors, the efficient directoress and the personnel of the club are to be sin cerely complimented for the musical en tertainments they are in the habit of affording the people of this and other communities. Girts X Hell App COMING OF MR. DANIELS. The Rotary club is to be favored Tuesday with a visit from former Sec retary of the Navy Josephus Daniels nd during his stay of a day here, he will also address the students of the Alexander Graham High School. Mr. Daniels is held in great favor in this community and his coming will be a delightful event with those who shall hav th privilege of his companion ship during the day and those also who Jwill be fortunate enough to hear him. J. W. CANNON. The South yields one of its great textile geniuses in the passing of J. W. Cannon of Concord, a man who has done more than his part in putting the textile, industry to the front in this sec tion of the world and one who had at tained a place of foremost leadership in this industry In the United States. Mr. Cannon was one of those typical Southern men who, starling with noth ing save tact, ingenuity, thrift and a persevering industry, arose to the peak in his pursuit and made his talents count for a maximum in the exercise to which they were applied. It's a wonder to us that somebody doesn't get shot during the depredations committed upon the forests of the coun tryside during the holidays in the search for Christmas trees. People in the city seem to regard these trees as public property and think nothing of taking their axes and saws along with them to fell a fine cedar in some farmer's woods. The man who owns the trees ought at least to be consulted about the matter. The community is to be complimented for the level-headedness it is displaying under the aggravation of the outrage on the Matthews road. There is a min imum of hot blood in evidence and hard ly a suggestion is heard that the men who committed this deed shall suffer other than as the law, in its orderly fashion, shall decree. It is enough to feel good- about. JUDGE AS ATTORNEY IS AWARDED VERDICT reciate We offer a few sugges tions in gift articles that are appropriate and are inexpensive. MANICURE SETS IVORY SETS VANITY BOXES TOILET SETS STATIONERY PERFUMES CANDIES And many other useful articles that any woman will be glad to receive as gifts. Arcade Pharmacy Inc. PHONE 777 324 South Tryon St. New York, Dec. 20. Acting both as judge and attorney for the plaintiff, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Callag han presided over a case in Brooklyn yesterday in wheih the jury awarded nine-year-old Eleanor Baur $25,000 dam ages for being run over by an auto mobile. When the case was called the plain tiff's attorney asked a. postponement, saying he had a case In another court. Justice Callaghan volunteered ;to act in his absence, explaining there was nothing irregular in the proeeduro he cause the defendant wa3 likewise un represented by counsel. The little girl testified she had . re ceived permanent injuries when run over and dragged by a machine driv en by Louis J. Gromhert, a Long Island City, garage owner. . OSTEOPATHY Is the science of healing by adjustment. DR. II. F. RAY 313 Realty Bldg. DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty Bldg. DR. ARTHUR 31. DYE 224 Piedmont Bldg. Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUEbT Braswell & Crichton All Kinds INSURANCE Nothing Else.' Phone 1697 803 Commercial Bank Bldg. Charlotte, N C. TFFrt t ) V 1 I FOX BELATED SHOPPERS Numbers of New Items for Those Who Have Lots of Things Still to Be Bought Just See Them! SWEATERS SPORT SWEATERS In White, Navv, Red, Brown. This is the standard $10.00 and $12.00 College Sweaters $7.50 and $8.9 New lot of pretty Sweaters for misses and children, Brown, blue and red $198 and $2.98 ' First Floor UNDERTHINGS New lot All-Silk Satin, Crepe de Chine and Pussywil low Camisoles, Teddies and Gowns. Camisoles $1-69, $1.98, $2.48 All-Silk Teddies $2-98 to $8.i Silk Gowns $3.95 to $9.9a These are new values better than ever. Satin and Crepe de Chine Bloomers $2.98, $3.48, $3.95 Values up to $6.95. A clean-up on hand-embroidered Philippine Hand-Work Teddies and Gowns '. . $2.98, $3.48, $3-95, $4.95 These values up to $7.50. First Floor 1847 ROGERS BROS. SILVERWARE Six knives, six forks, dessert size $8.50 Six knives, six forks, dinner size $8.95 Six Table Spoons, dessert size $5.95 Six Table Spoons, dinner size , $6.95 Six Tea Spoons tf $3.50 Six Orange Spoons $3.98 Six Ice Tea Spoons $4-95 One- Gravy Ladle . ........ ... ....... .... $2.50 One Meat Fork -$1.98 One baby set, Knife, Fork and Spoon $2.50 One baby Spoon and Fork ... . . v. $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 GLOVES LADIES' KID 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 Floor HANDKERCHIEFS Boxed Handkerchiefs, all kinds, plain whites, whites with embroidery edges, colored edges, etc., 3 to box at 25c to 85c Fine Linen Handkrechiefs in the plain or embroidered , at 15c, 25c to 49c Madeira Linen Handkerchiefs .50c to 98c First Floor . SILK UMBRELLAS New line of Ladies' Silk Umbrellas. All colors and assort ment of fancy handles $4.95 to $9.95 First Floor Mart ex Bath Towels $1.00 to $1.50 values in fine Martex Bath Towels all colors 65c to $1.00 First Floor HOSIERY New lot by express this week already here. All Silk Plain Hose, all colors 9gc to $4 50 Fancy Silk Hose, the special colors, browns and blacks The Sport Hose 98c to $2.50 First Floor FINE STATIONERY 39c up to $5.00 per box. First Floor' Gifts Men Like To Receive New Silk Ties 50c to $1.30 New Knit Ties, $1.00 val ues -.. . . ... .... 50c Shirts of Percale or Mad ras,, fast colors, plain or fancy .... .$1.50 to 2.9S Silk Shirts $3.95 to S6.95 Silk Scarfs $1-50 to S3.93 Lisle Hose in Various col ors 25c to 50c Extra quality Silk Lisle Hose for men 50c per pair or G pairs for S2.75 Very good Lisle Hose for men, 35c pair, or six pairs for ... $1.75 Handkerchiefs of fine linen 25c to 98c. Cuff Buttons 25c to $1.08 Fine Umbrellas for men, $1.00 to $5.00 , ; Bath Robes in all sizes and colors $2-98 to $9.95. Felt Hats Men like such gifts as that $2.50 to $7.00 Men's Kid Gloves, extra good quality $2.50 to $3.50 Driving Gloves of all kinds 50c to $6.95. Belt Buckles 50c to $1.00 Excellent Belts 50 to $1-00 If He Needs a SUIT look over those of ours which are priced S19.95 to $35.00 On th eBalcony in the Men's Store are to be found hundreds of gifts for Boys. And they are so very moderately priced The 31en's Store wJ BELKBtf OTHERS COMPANY;
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