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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N, C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 24, 1921. A 11 ft The Charlotte News Published Fy TI1E NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourtli and Church Ms. tt C. DOWD Pres. and Gen. Mgr. JIXTAN S. MILLER v.---Editor W. M. BELL Advert isms Mgr. TELEPHONES: Hiisiness. Office J1 Circulation Department 2Ui Tif v Editor 2i7 Editorial Rooms 36- Printing House 1530 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Pres is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches crciited to it or not otherwise credited in this paprr and also the . local nws published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Hy Carrier One year .$10.00 Siv months 5.00 Three months 2.50 One month 85 One week SO By Mail. One year 8.00 BACKGROUND OF THE IRISH PEACE. The English and the Irish have been lighting for about 800 years over the same issue, the issue that is thought finally to have been ended with the agreement made a few days ago by Lloyd-George and Sinn Feiners repre sentatives. Generally the war between them has been of hearts and minds, but at least once in every generation through these eight centuries, the differences have broken forth in blood shed. The policy of Home Rule in Ire land was that which brought defeat to the great Gladstone in 1886. Since that THE YOUNG MEN'S STATEMENT. The statement issued to the public by the young men who wrote the bill in troduced In the Legislature and which was designed to give , Commissioner Huneycutt plenary powers in his de partment is so full of fallacies and is such a stringing out of sopphistries that it requires no answer of itself. Touth and inexperience show themselves in j every syllable. That portion of it, however, which I is intended to draw a comparison be tween the powers now enjoyed by Mr. Huneycutt and those held by the other two commissioners, must be immediate ly refuted. Neither Mayor Walker nor Commissioner Sancill is given any time the specific issue of Home Rule rightS) by tne commission charter, inso-I has never been off of the political hori zon in Great Britain. Home Rule, through all these years, was no nearer being given by England and yet so consistently refused, that a far as extent of power is concerned, j which Mr. Huneycutt does not. already have according to the poplar interpreta tion of the law and according to prac- tive. Every one of them is on the same group of Irishmen came to the conclu-, i,as?s- The charier makes no discrimina sion that their only hope lay iit absolute tions. The statement indicates that independence of the Mother Country. tiu.so vounK men desire the public to be-1 It was this groiip that organzed them- ,j that the commissioner of public i selves under the Gaelic name of Sinn Fein and it made very slow progress until the Easter rebellion nearly sixi Six months 4.00! years ago with the subsequent execu- i lree months Zmv tjon Qf pearce, the leader, -and his associ- tine montn .. Sunday On!.4. One ear 2.60 Six months L30 TIMES-DEMOCUAT. (Semi-Weekly) Om- year 1.50 Six months . . . '. 75 "Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce at Charlotte. N. C, under the Act of March 3, 1807." SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1921. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY. Prayer Answered: I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. This poor man cried, and tile Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. Psahn 34:4, 6. VISUALIZING ROTTENNESS. Judge Webb, sitting at a trial of an especially repugnant case in Greensboro, recently delivered an opinion from the bench that it would be morel" to the betterment of the wayward young, if they could come into the court room at that moment and witness how, when the winds are sown, the whirlwinds are reaped. He thought that those of immature years, who are disposed to go the gait, looking upon the sordidness of that particular case, observing the wretchedness there and the spread of pathos and sorrow that have grown out of it. would repent of their ways and turn suddenly back into the high ways of rectitude and integrity. But hardly do! It is the case now, as it has ever been... that if men believe not the prophets, Vhey would not believe, though one rose from the dead. It ien't visualization of error that t'" young need. If so, there is enough of rottenness and filth observable every day to disgust them to the tip3 of their toes and make them stop in their tracks. That is one of the great mistakes in V modern theorizing. The average moving picture'is founded upon the same false conception. It shoots on the screen a whole lot of stuff that is suggestive of the salacious and the unrighteous, closing with another scene intended to prove that what has just gone before is unwholesome and wrong, the effect being a mere sugar-coating that really does no good. The intensity of the first impression can hardly be wiped away by the later pabulum, no matter in what gtrength the latter dose may give. Somehow or other, the human soul ,register3 a wicked impression more 'keenly and more deeply and more per manently than a good impression, and the moralizings ' of the motion picture can hardly be counted upon to become endurably corrective. It is not more instruction in vice, more screened scenes of evil, more sights of courtvretchedness, more mag nifying glasses to look upon the unseem ly and sordid and dispicable of a so cial ; infection, but. that determination in youth, planted there in the home, in the I school room, in the church, and planted there irrevocably, to hold one's celf above the stain of the streets, no tnatter how popular it may be to become a little soiled sometimes, that will even tually count' in the purification of society. ates in this enterprise. The Sinn Fein organization was fan ned to flame by the martyrdom of Pearce and five others. It swept all Southern und Western Irleand in the parliamentary election of 191S and those elected then Refused to go to West minister, but organized the Dail Eire ann and since then in the Emerald Isle there have been two authorities, that of the British government and that of the Dail Eireann. A war of assassinations and reprisals has made Ireland unhappy for years. Last Summer the British government offered totreat with the Dail Eireann government as the representative of the people of the Southern part of the Isle. This effort was imperilled by De Valera by reason of his arbitrary and doctrin naire attitude, but other Irish minds have proven shrewder and more practi cal and, they availed in negotiating v. treaty with Lloyd-George. The treaty provides that the Irish Free State may make its own tariffs, have its own army and its own postal system, and generally act as an inde pendent government. Unitil Further ar rangement, the British navy will be responsible for the defense of Ireland by sea, and her naval and air forces will have special privileges in the use of harbors and landing places. The Northern area is given a month to de cide whether it will come into the State or not. If it does not a boundary com mission will determine the final line between the two. Such a boundary com mission would in probability take from the Northern area certain sections of Tyrone and Fermanagh, in which there is a Roman Catholic and Republi can , majority, and might add to it cer tain Protestant sections in Ayan, Don egal and Monaghan. The treaty makes very careful provision for the protection of religious and political minorities, as follows: "Neither the Parliament of the Irish Free State nor the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall make any law so aseither directly or indirectly to endiw any religion or prohibit or re strict the free exercise thereof or give any preference or impose any disability on the account of religious belief or re ligious status, or effect prejudically the right of any child to attend school re ceiving public money without attending the religious instruction of the school, of make any discrimination as respects state aid between schools under the man agement of the different religious de nominations, or divert from any religi ous denomination or any educational institution' any of its property except for public utility purposes and on -the payment of compensation." The people of this community ought to keep themselves interested in, what it is proposed to make, one of the great est gatherings of a patriotic nature held in Charlotte in a long time next Wed nesday, the occasion being the celebra-1 tion of the birthday of former President Wilson, at which time also the campaign for the Wilson Foundation will be start ed locally. safety is not already on a parity with ' other commissioners in the matter of authority. That is not the case. It is not because of a constitutional; defect in the charter, therefore, that these young men were moved to their very unwise performance. Ihe status in which the commissioner of public safety finds himself is merely the posi tion of a minority and, happily, for the city, even the dogmatic and autocratic and undemocratic commission form still honors the constitutional- right of a majority rule. That is about all that is left to commend itself to democrtic thought. The other two commissioners, constituting a majority of the three men in whom the total responsibility of gov ernment is vested, have only the supe rior rights which the majority in any issue is entitled to. Mr. Huneycutt's status is. therefore, no fault of the charter. It is purely personal and not institutional. That is the only contention made by the statement which deserves public correction lest the false impression might get abroad that the commission charter, as it now stands, discriminates against the office of commissioner of public safety in the conferment of au thority and power. The explanation offered by the young men becomes humorous as it touches upon the question of practice in the city courts which, they allege, is being de nied some young lawyers and in which others of their profession have built up something of a monopoly. Logic is en tirely dismissed from the minds of the authors of the bill as they seek to set this up as a foundation upon which to de fend themselves. If it is right and pro per to upset, overthrow and tear at the very vitals of constitutional govern ment in Korth Carolina towns and cities because, forsooth, a few lawyers are not able to get as much, criminal court practise as they might wish, it is just as logical for the vagrant and the jobless to seek to destroy the foun dations of our national institutions be cause, forsooth, they arc out of work. If, however, we were able- to confess that the explanation offiered by the young men has a substantial foundation, if it were based upon fact and logic and justice and right, the method used in! their attempt toward reform would still call for severest denunciation. There is never any justification for any sort of "a sneak" bill, the legislative-measure that is hustled to the Gen eral Assembly and there, by clandestine methods and under cover of secrecy, railroaded through to the statute books. But when an attempt is made to follow this same process with a measure that would virtually tear to pieces the whole structure of municipal government in North Carolina, when a bill as radical as this is not allowed to come to the surface, when the people are totally ig nored and the public traduced, it is small wonder that criticism would be so severe and condemnation so pitiless upon those who have such scant regard for public rights and esteem for the ' sacredness of government. Mr. Lodge's failure to explain the four-power, pact in his late speech is not a matter to be especially surprised "about. Mr. Lodge's failures along this line for several years have been the most conspicuous element in his alleged statesmanship. WORST OVER FOR FARMERS. Commenting upon the present very unfortunate plight of the farming class es of the country, Secretary Wallace makes the hopeful statement that there "seems to be good reason for be lieving the worst is over and that we may reasonably hope for gradual im provement". It is at least consoling to the farmers to learn that "the worst is not yet to come" and to have the Sec retary express the conviction that agri cultural light is seen to break from the long spell of darkness that has envel oped the activities of those who make their living, and the living of the world, by the sweat of their brow. The farmers Aiave been in a terrible situation, and with them went every other class into the same sort of an economic Gehenna. Farmers diffuse their misfortunes to every gradient of our society and that is the reason that it is perfectly sense less program to try to have any sort of prosperity other than that which springs primarily from agriculture. Vhen the developers of our raw mate rials find the going good, everybody else does likewise, and vice versa, as la very plainly witnessed to by what hag happened during the period of the de-pression. NORTH CAROLINA CROPS. Major Graham, commissioner of agri culture, figures it out that North Caro lina ranks third in the sisterhood of the States in crop wealth this year, placing the aggregate values of crops produced in North Carolina at $303,837,400. Texas and California are placed ahead of North Carolina, the first with a valua tion of $460,452,100, the second with a valuation of $389,852,900. New York fol lows North Carolina with a valuation of $281,309,500. Tobacco, with 295,000,000 pounds and ?85 ,450,000 is first; cotton with 337,700, 000 pounds lint and $59,000,000 is sec ond, and corn, with 48,700,000 bushels and $40,908,000 takes third place. This would seem to be a sizeable pile of money that has been produced in the way of fresh wealth from the fields of the State during the past year, especi ally so when current prices for these products are computed. And yet, in spite of the enormous totals here represented, the farmers of the State have been hit a blow below the belt. They have suf fered from deflation as no other class of the people. They were caught, with a big crop year before last because they thought,, and had been induced to be lieve by men whose advice seemed worthy to follow, that the world would consumer everything they could possibly make at a profitable figure. Then it was, just at a moment when they had multiplied their production, that the bottom dropped out and they were forced to accept staaggering losses on their products. That experience was followed this year gy a smaller produc tion, but alao by prices hardly better than those prevailing in 1920 and the fact that they have been able to make such a record in crop wealth in 1921 is a testimony to their resourcefulness as well as to their industry. AVIATOR KILLED. San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 24. Cap tain Fred Place. United States aviator stationed at Kelly Field, died last night from injuries received Tuesday afternoon when his airplane crashed forty feet to the ground. Captain Place's home address was given a Brainerd, Minn. He had been in the army nine years and came here from Carlstrom Field, Florida. Midnight High Mass will be cele brated by Rev. Father Anthony, O. S. B., at St. Peter's Catholic church Sun-1 day, subject of sermon, "The Happi ness of Christmas." Other masses will be held at 7, 8, 9, 10 and 10:30 o'clock. Rev. Father Ambrose, Savannah, Ga., a native of Charlotte, will officiate at the 10:30 mass and preach a sermon. . OSTEOPA THY Is the science of healing by adjustment. DR. H. F. RAY 313 Realty Rldg. DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty Bldg. DR. AitTHUR M. DYE 224 Piedmont Bldg. Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUEST If You are hesitating about carrying life insurance, you are running away from good fortune and don't know it. Braswell & Crichton Agents Prudential Insurance Co. 803 Com'l Bank Bldg. Phone 1697. BELK BROS. CO. BELK BROS. CO. CA 99 Fliis AftemooE and Umftil 1 0 o Clock TobuI gut S3 kl itf w omen Will Be Able to Pick Up the Last Few Things ey Must Get Th Items From First Floor Silk Underthings : Gowns of Silk -$3.95 to $9.95 Teddies of Silk $2.98 to $4 .95 Camisoles of Silk $1.50 to $2.48 HAND-EMBROIDERED UNDERWEAR Gowns (charming) $3.95 to $6.95 Teddies (Beautiful) $2.95 to $5.95 Hosiery Ladies' Silk Hose of the good quality- $100 to $4.95 Sport Hose very much desired 98c to $4.50 Ha ndke rch iefs Delightful little things which will charm any, woman who loves pretty things. In boxes of three 39c to 69c Individually 5c to 98c Of Silk and Crepe de Chine 10c to 39c Gloves Perhaps she needs gloves. Those that we have are really exceptional values. Kid Gloves $1.69 to $4.95 Chamoisette Gloves 69c to $2.00 Knit Gloves , 39c to 50c And then there are Gloves for children from 15c to 50c Hand Bags Ladies' Handbags 98c to $4.95 Ladies' Beaded Handbags $6.95 to $9.95 Mesh bags ... $4-95 to $8.95 Sweaters Children's Sweaters $1.50 to $4.59 Ladies' Sweaters $1.98 to $9.98 Ladies' Outing Gowns $1.00 to $1.98 Ladies' Muslin Gowns 98c to $3.98 Umbrellas Silk Umbrellas $4.95 to $9.95 Other Umbrellas 98c to $2.98 Children's Umbrellas ... 98c Odds and Ends Linen Table Cloths $5.95 to $19.95 Special in colored Marseilles Counterpanes, blue or pink. Extra good values $4.95 and $5.95 Box Paper ... 25c to $2.98 Christmas Ribbons 5c to 98c Linen Napkins Dinner Size $4.95 to $15.00 Tea Napkins, hemstitched -. $4.50 Madeira Napkins $8.95 to $10.95 Madeira Tray Cloths 69c to $2.98 Hemstitched Linen Towels $1.48 to $2.25 Gift Opportunities On The Second Floor ghirt Waists $1.9$ to $15.00 Y rttlcoats $2.98. to $9.95 Kimonos $7.50 to $18.50 Silk Breakfast Robes $i2.50 to $19.95 Ladies Raincoats . . $4.95 to $1250 Fur Chokers $9.95 to $49.50 Fur Neckpieces $i2.50 to $39.50 Men Can Find Appropriate Gifts for Other Men Who Are Particular For Example Suits Men? Suits $9.95, $14.95, $19.95 Men's hand-tailored Suits $25, $29.50, $35.00, $39.50 Overcoats Men's Overcoats $8.95, $9.95, $14-95 and $19.95 Men's hand-tailored Overcoats $25.00, $29.50, $35, $39.50 Men's fur-lined Overcoats ... $49.50 Men's Gabardine Overcoats $19.95, $29.50 Accessories Men's Hats $1-48 to $7-00 Men's Hunting Coats $3.95 Men's Sweaters ..... 98c to $9.95 Men's Flannel Shirts .j..v.w.wjt 98c to $3.95 Men's Underwear, per suit $1.00 to $4.95 Men's Caps -. - i0?e.'. 98c to $2.50 Men's Umbrella .... $1.00 to $5.00 Men's Bath Robes $3-95 to $9.95 Men's Belts 50c to $1.00 Initial Belt Buckles 75c to $1.00 Lion Collars $2.00 dozen Soft Collars 25c to 45c Men's Kid Gloves $1.50 to $3.50 Men's Driving Gloves $1.50 to $5.00 Silk and Knit Ties 25c to $2.50 Men's Linen Handkerchiefs 25c and 50c Men's Silk Handkerchiefs 50c and 98c Silk Sox 50c to 9Sc Sport Wool Sox a 50c to 98c Men's Knit Mufflers $1.50 Suit Cases and Hand Bags 98c to $25.00 Watches $1.00 to $10.00 Safety Razors .... $1.00 to $5.00 Silk Shirts $3.95 to $5.00 Madras and Percale Shirts $1-00 to $3.00 Mercerized Sox 25c and 35c Cotton Sox " 10c, 15c, 25c Cotton Handkerchiefs 5c, 6 l"4c, 8 l-3c and 12 l-2c Men's Suspenders 25c, 50c, 9Sc And For Boys Boys' Suits, sizes up to 20 .... . . . . . $4.95 to $16.95 Little Boys' Suits $2.98 to $750 Boys' Overcoats $2.98 to $12.95 Boys' Hats and Caps 48c to $1.48 Children's Umbrellas 98c Boys' Gloves, including Scouts 25c to $1.48 Boys' Ties , 25c to 4Sc Boys' Sweaters 98c to $3.95 wm ui wm I . MM MMM M I "THE HOME OP BETTER VAliUBS". THIS STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN THIS EVENING TILL 10 O'CLOCK E