THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 28, 1921.
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GOVERNOR BICKETT.
The State learns with intense regret
of the sudden striking down of former
Governor Bickett who has been over
taken in the midst of his years. Gov
ernor Bickett is held in uniformly high
esteem by th people of his State. There
have been other Governors who devel
oped more striking leadership along
some given lines, some with a finer 1 titudes of the people.
profundity, but lew who reached down
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Circulation Department 2793 i closer to the common levels of his fel-
.ST Ill low-citizens and seemed to interpret for
Frmtins House ! ! ! ! i . . ! ! i! i ! "ilSSO ' them tneir hiheI aspirations and
larger laeais. tie was tne uovernor or
the common people of North Carolina!
and by them beloved, a man greatly
gifted in speech and whose presense on
the platform was always an inspiration.
It is shocking to consider that his emi
nently good services for the State are
done and that one who seem to be
worth so much still to the common
wealth should be laid aside at his com
paratively young age.
Governor Bickett came to be the cnief
executive of North Carolina by a
strange coincidence. He was rewarded
with the office because of the speech he
made in the Charlotte convention in
1908 when he put in nomination for
Governor the venerable Ashley Home
in the notable Kitehin-Craig-Horne con
test and when the then young attorney
made one of the most remarkable and
dramatic public addresses ever heard in
this State. Not only because of the
merits of the man whose interests he
was espousing, it was tacitly understood,
unless there is a different situation with
the people. The calandars have nothing
in the world to do with the making' or
unmaking of business. Time-periods
have no influence upon economics.
There are organic laws which are oper
ative in the kingdom of business and
these laws are held in their rightful
orbits largely by the conditions and at-
If 1922 is going to be so much of a
better year than this, it will be because
organic industrial conditions justify the
change and these organic industrial
conditions hinge entirely upon the
status of the human element in the
transaction.
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H'EDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1921.
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
All Ne?ds Supplied: The Lord is 1113
shepherd; I shall not want. Surely good
ness and mercy shall follow me all the
days of my life; and I will dwell In the
house cf the Lord fo rever. Psalm 23
1, 6.
THE PARDON OF DEBS.
We don't know what moved Mr. Hard
ng to pardon Debs, but we have our
3vn notion about it.
It may be that the President was ac
tuated by purely humanitarian impulses.
He may have reasoned that if there was
originally a reason for putting this arch
-editionist behind the bars, that reason
has been removed by the cessation 01"
hostilities and no good purpose can be
served by keeping him in the penitenti
ary any longer.
He may have reasoned also, we don't
know, that Debs ought never, in the
first place, have been sent to prison.
There are lots of people in this country
who are opposed to the punishment of
men merely because they - hold views
liiff erent from those commonly accepted.
They contend that free speech is at the
iasis of American government and that
ihe Constitution upon which this conti
nent is founded recognizes the rights
of a man to say and to believe anything
that his whims and caprices may sug
gest. Or it may be that the President
thought the release of Debs at this time
may result in a strategic political move
for himself and his party. The Socialists
have fullen out with the Democratic
party because they accuse the leaders
of that party, while in power, with
the imprisonment of Debs and with
other acts that held them in check.
Mr. Harding may reason, therefore,
that by giving this leading Socialist his
freedom, the party may be so appeased
that it will turn, in natural gratitude
toward the Reepublican organizr.tion
more effectively in coming elections
than toward the Democratic.
However he may have argued to him
self, certain it is that Mr. Harding has
not followed a popular course in his
performance toward Debs. The Ameri
can Legion, which constitutes the rank
and file of the soldiers of this nation
who went to war. and there were some;
4,000,000 of them, was bitterly opposed
to the pardon. Joining in the request
to the President that no amenity ba!
COTTON IN THE BACK YARDS.
We wouldn't undertake to say that
the farmers of Mecklenburg are in ex
cellent financial shape, but it is abun
dantly obvious that they are nowhere
near being prostrate by what has over
taken them within the last two cotton
seasons. Traveling through the country
side, one can see stacks of cotton piled
up in the back yards of farmers and
bales of it on plantations where one
is not accustomed to seeing any stored
cotton at ail this time of the year. In
many instances, tenants are holding
theirs along with the landlord, hoping
for a better price and, even while
holding it, they seem to be able to run
along comfortably and to be far from
down and out in matters economic.
This favorable situation is to be ac
counted for in only one way. It results
not by any intrigue or secret diplomacy ! from the practise which has been grad-
but by the processes of common consent, ually growing in this county toward
that at some strategic time the good , diversification, toward putting depend-
services of Mr. Bickett on that occasion
and in the campaign for Mr. Home
should have recognition at the hands
of the people. It was the logic of circum
stances, therefore, that after Governor
Kitchin, the nominee of that convention
should serve his term, then that Locke
ence in other crops than cotton to give
the family a little money to run on
during the year. Many farmers find
that they can make enough money by
selling odds and ends on the local mar
ket to keep them running, at least to
keep them from having to ask the banks
Craig, defeated by Kitchin, should have jfor money with which to get along until
followed in the executive mansion, the
other meritorious award should be pass
ed out and the eloquent young lawyer
who was the sensation of that memora
ble deadlocked convention be allowed to
come into his own.
If there was ever any other single
they can sell their cotton. They market
eggs and butter and milk, grow vegeta
bles and sell farm products of varied
kinds during the Spring and Summer
months and from the sale of such
things, they receive a revenue that
stands them in good stead while they
Ask Sue Lipstick what she weighs
and she will knock you in a daze by
telling you one twenty-three a score
more than she looks to be.
Now here is where the error lay
when Sue went down the street to
weigh. She had a fur coat on her back
that, made the light scales bend and
crack, a bundle from a dry goods
store that made her weigh some two
pounds more and in her paw a large
hand-bag that almost made her right
side sag. As heavenward the arrow
went, she cried, "My penny is well
spent, for I have found to my delicht
1 1 weigh more than 1 did last night.
If this keeps up, I'll weigh a ton be
fore the week is half-way done." AM ,
so sne smiles and strokes her chin to
ee how far the skin sinks in and
pulls a nickel from her kit to get five
pennies for the jit, trusting that by
half past four she might have gained i
a few pounds more. After two more j
avction sales she springs once more j
nc 3taitr vviLii iJucKxitjes oi every
sort mat she has been outside and
brought. "Aha!" she cries, "I gain
by bounds? I've put on 13 surplus
pounds!" Not knowing that she's skin
and bones, she sings with laughter in
her tones and spreads around a hun
dred tales about the way she broke the
scales.
, To make the scales correctly tip
carry them back home and strip. Al
though you want your real true
weight to tip the scales past 98, you
have no right to toot your horn
with bundles and a fur coat on. Place
your junk upon the shelf and don't at
tempt to fool yourself.
Copyrleht, 1931, by Kew Publish iuj; Co.
moreThan hundred
million were spent
speech in his life that serves to crown !are producing their large money crop,
the departed Governor's career as a
pubic speaker, it was that delivered be
fore the Southern Society of New York
which is cotton.
Thus it is that in the Fall of the year
they find themselves free and easy to
while he was Governor, a classic in its do with their cotton largely as they
kind and one that was printed injpiease. They owe the merchants, the
pamphlet form and given nation-wide j banks little. Nobody is pressing them
circulation. It was an address that hasjto pay that which they owe and, conse
been rated as giving North Carolina thejquentiy, they are thus enabled to hold
climax of the publicity it has deserved on to their cotton until the price gets
within the past decade and there is no
possible manner of measurement that
will take into full account the poten
tial virtues of that single speech for the
Old North State.
Governor Bickett's administration was
marked by simplicity and by no great
outward, dramatic strides on the part
of the people whose chief servant he
was, but there was a calmness and
evenness of temper during his reign, a
spirit of tranquility and quiet that was
pervasive and that was traceable to his
own amiableness of disposition and
belovedness of character. He was a
peace-maker where storms of industrial
passion raged and in the councils of
men in the State where acridity and ani
mosity broke forth, he was the chief
apostle of the gospel of suavity and
amity. Thus he came to be greatly
esteemed for other gifts than his native
eloquence, for that gift of soul which
was his to reach down to the under
currents of strife and discontent and
bid the turbulent waters of society be
still. i
LOANS ON REAL ESTATE.
One of the new fields being exploited
by insurance companies is that of aiding
in home-building and otherwise assisting!
their insured in coming into possession
either of their own farms or urban
properties, the companies making long
time loans liquidated by payments over
a long number of years. It" is under
stood that there is one insurance com
pany maintaining large offices in Char
lotte that has $5,000,000 in such loans'
m this immediate territory and durjng
the first ten months of 1921, it is stated
1 American life Insurance eompanies have
right. f
That is the development which ac
counts for the presence of so much cot
ton on so many farms of the county
this winter, at a time when one might
suppose that the farmers would have
been driven to the market with it in
order to realize enough revenue with
which to meet their obligations.
And if such is the tale of progress and
independence which is to be told of
some of Mecklenburg's- producers, it
could just as easily be the story written
of every one of them if they would only
follow in the pathway of these pioneers
into diversification. There is still an
unfilled market here in Charlotte. Not
near enough is being made in the county
to feed those in the city. The urban pop
ulation is still forced to buy much of its
produce from afar and is buying much
of what it eats from distant producers,
thus taking money out of the city that
should be left right here in Mecklen
burg county for the profitable develop
ment of both city and county alike.
New York, Dec. 28. More than $100,
000,000 was spent by the American peo
ple for toys and games during 1921, the
Nation.il City Bank has figured. The
factory value of toys manufactured in
this country has more than trebled, it
is estimated, since the war cut off the
supply from Germany, chief source of
America's toy imports. The value of
toys made here in 1919 was given as
$46,000 000, compared with $14,000,000
live years previously. Capital invest
ed in the American industry advanced
from 810,000,000 in 1914 to $25,000,000
in 1919. Toy imports declined from
$8,000, OOQ in 1913 to $1,000,000 in 1918,
while imports rose in 1920 to $6,000,000
and to $10,000,000 in 1921.
Exports -Of American toys jumped
from les sthan $1,000,000 in 1913 to
$4,000,000 last vear.
NORTH DONEGAL
FAVORSTREATY
Six Dail Eireann Members
, Called Upon to Work for
Ratification.
An itching
skin
quickly
relieved
RE
Soolhinq and HeaJimj
You don't have fo waif ;
Oneapplicafionofihis
$enf le oinf ment brings
heartfelt relief and healing
shown this man, were other organizaJPUt Ut 261-000'000 on city and farm
Lions and thousands of Americans who!
were moved to make vocal their pro-'., . real estate morteage loans of
tests by their knowledge of the seditious , hfe comPanies have been doubled
activities of Debs and his coterie durin- te" years' increasing from $1,228,000,
the war and who feel that no man who &t the end of 1911 to $2,468,000,000
hurled assassin's bullets at the backs I n ctob,r 31st f the present year. The
of American soldiers ought to have 1 omuum 01 iarm mortgages is slightly
amnesty shown him. And that is the
popular sentiment in America today.
No doubt about that. One can sense
that fact from onvwatkns n too
streets; it is easily detected in the ma
jority writings in the newspapers and
anywhere that the issue is discussed,
t he preponderance of opinion leans heav
ily against extenuating the punishment
inflicted upon Debs.
After all, however, there is some
doubt if any act of attempted suppres
sion of these things has the result
which may be hoped for. Sometimes it
is best to give the calf the rope and let
it dangle it around its own neck until
Anally hanged. If you put a sufficient
amount of powder in some compressed
tube and1 set it off, the explosion is in
evitable and the damage it works is in !
measurement with the amount of now
der compressed within such limitations
in the lead, but the new mortsraees now
being made indicate the beginning of a
returning trend toward the city.
Real estate mortgages have jumped
from eecn3 to first place in tho nt
of life insurance investments, displacing
railroad nin-if iao n-i-.;7. ,
mnuu ivu. uy a large
-e ueginning of the decade
just closing. Real estate mortgages now
form more than 32 per cent of the
total assets of $7,300,000,000 held by
the companies to mature the policies
oi tne American people. Reilroad securi
ties, which formed more than 35 per
cent 10 years ago, are now about 26
per cent. The amount of the railroad
securities increased from $1,383,000,000
to $1,793,000,000 at the end of 1920.
Policy loans of $820,000,000 rank third
and United States Government bonds
of $772,000,000 are a close fourth, being
x unc ctaseis. utner in
Belfast. Dec. 2S. (By the Associated
Pres) A convention cf Sinn Fein clubs
of North Donegal, held at Buncrana,
has adopted a resoldtion by unanimous
vote expresing satisfaction with the
Irish peace treaty as embodying the
essential of Ireland's freedom and
safeguarding Ireland's honor. Reports
submitted before the vote showed that
each district in the constituency fa
vored ratification of the pact. j
The resolution called upon the six
Dail Eireann members representing the
district not only to vote for the treaty
but to use their influence to bring
about ratification. Failure to do this,
the resolution stated, would be regard
ed as letrayal oc the best interests of
the country and gross contempt for the j
opinions of the constituents.
Donegal, although the most north
ern Irish county, is under the South
ern Parliament, being one of the three
counties excluded from Ulster under
the Government of Ireland bill of
1920.
If Every Wife
knew what every widow
knows, every husband would
be insured.
Braswell & Crichton
Agents Prudential Insurance Co.
803 Com'l Bank Bldg.
Phone 1697.
The same amount of powder spread l! vestments Include state, county and
out on an even surface and set on I inumciPal bnas and real estate.
8ro would make merely a little blaze and j
smoKe, and be consumed without the
suggestion of a noise. And so it is with
those who have the dynamite of sedition
in their souls. If they the simply given
an opportunity to spread themselves,
they will not do much damage. To com
press them and seek to hold them in
check, out of public view and away from
the crowds by imprisonment is to make
inevitable ultimate explosion.
The country is in no danger of being
overrun by the followers of Debs if
they are simply allowed to run the
gamut of their false teachings. There
Is too much native sense in America
SLYQC to. fescom bolshevik, .
THE BETTER YEAR.
-The Textile World says that the best
thing that can be said about 1921 ia
that it is about over. "Not in the sense "
it continues, "that January 1st, 1922
Is going to mark the beginning of a
business boom, because industrial cycles
do not travel on prearranged dates. But
school boys, ministers, teachers, doctors
and all will tell you that 1922 is going
to be a better business year. It's in the
air and it isn't necessary to be a Delphi
to sense it."
All of which may be so and we cer
tainly hope it is, but the new year is
not going to be materially different in
aay respect from the year just closing
NAVAX COUNCIL FAVORABLE.
Navan, County Meath. Ireland. Der.
28. The urban council of Navan has
adopted a resolution favoring ratifica
tion of the Anglo-Irish peace treaty.
This action was taken at a meeting of
the council yesterday.
CONTINUANCE OF WAR
MEASURE IS FAVORED
Paris, Dec. 28. A bill providing for
continuance of the war measure adopt
ed in 1916 giving the Government
power to increase customs duties hv
simple decree has been approved by
the customs duties committee of the
Chamber of Deputies.
The chairman of the committee said
the favorable report was justified by
the fact that several other countries
were following this svstem. Rnma f
them had even decreed that the duties I
;s pjtm in goia ana had applied a
super tax to make up the difference
in exchange rates. Cancellation of
Fiance's commercial agreement with
Spain had been provoked by similar
measures, he said.
OSTEOPATHY
Is the science of healing by
adjustment.
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313 Realty Bldg.
DR. FRANK LANE MILLER
610 Realty Bldg.
DR. ARTHUR M. DYE
224 Piedmont Bldg.
0paths' Charlotte, N. C.
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After Christmas Sale of
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An Absolute Clearance of Women's, Passes' and Chil
dren's Coats, Suits and Dresses
Women's Suits
Small lot- of tailored and handsomely fur-trimmed
Suits of Marvella, Veldyne and other soft
fabrics. Many of them are trimmed with braid
and beautiful embroidery. Priced $49.50 to
$89.50. To be closed out at
1-2 Price
Women's Dresses
Silk and Wool Dresses, Fashionable Dinner, Af
ternoon and Street Dresses of Canton Crepe,
Crepe Back Satin, Georgette Crepe, Tricotine
and Serge. Some of them are richly beaded, and
handsomely embroidered while others are plainly
tailored. Frocks in the lot to $49.50, now priced
$14.95 to $24.95
Women's Coats and Wraps
Richly fur-trimmed Wraps, straight
line and blouse-back models of Polly
anna, Panvelaine, or Bolivia; all in the
newest and best shades. Coats in this
group that formerly sold to $89.50.
Now $39.50 and $49.50
Women's Coats
Smart Coats for street and general
wear, developed in the season's most
desirable materials and colors, in a
wide variety of styles. Some with fur
collars. Coats in this lot formerly
priced to $49.50. ;
Now $18.50 and $24.95
Children's Coats
and best -material.
for this sale g th fUF tnmmins. SizeS2 to 14 years. All specially priced
End-of-the-Year Sales and Clearances Prevail Throughout the Store
SWEEPING REDUCTIONS ON ALL MEN'S AND BOYS' OVERCOATS
Men's Overcoats Reduced to ,
Schloss and Styleplus Overcokts . 2? SnHo'o95 clo ?S
Boys' Overcoats -QV eoVV $2d.00, $29.50 and $39.o?
Mackinaws .. $2'98' ?3-95 $4.95, $6.95, $9.95 and $12.fc
" ,...$2.98, $3.95, $4.95, $6.95 and $9.9o