THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1921.
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GUBERNATORIAL. FATALITIES.
A strange fatality seems to pursue
the distinguished sons of the State who
' are made its chief executives. The sud-
i den, unexpected passing of the lamented
' Governor Bickett brings strongly to
V. C. DOWD.... Pres. and Gen. Mcr. 'mmd the Providence that appears to
-JULIAN C. MILLER Editor . follow those who leave the Raleigh man-
W. M. BELL ..Advertising Mgr. jsion Going back to the days of Gov-
ernor Aycock, who died within a com-
jparatively short time after he left the
!293 office there was Governor Glenn who
. . 27 was not permitted for long to mingle
. . 363 ! with his people after leaving the execu-
Governor Kitchin followed Glenn te
Raleigh and left the office broken in
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his life being despaired of. Then came
Governor Bickett who was, allowed
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921.
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
A Sun And Shield: The Lord God
is a sun and shield; the Lord will give
srace and glory; no good thing will he
withhold from them that walk up
rightly. Psalm 81:11.
-Jj compjetely on the retired list, although
uon uuvastuuauy ume uccn uu
from.
There is no reasonable explanation
of this strange fate which seems to be
following the Governors of the State
aside from that indefinable something
that is decreed for the sons of men by a
higher agency than that of man. The
office itself, while of exacting demands,
is not so notably beset with difficulties
that it would undermine the physical
stamina of its occupants, taken separ
ately from other engagements inciden
tal to it. Of course, in both the cases of
Craig and Kitchin, strenuous campaigns
in connection with their candidacies and
a somewhat strenuous continuance of
public speaking served greatly to deplete
their physical strength.
TIME TO TALK PLAINLY.
Cordele Hull, new chairman of the
National Democratic organization,
makes a terrific arraignment of the
Republican party and its policies in the
;ate campaign as well as its record so
far made during this administration. It
was the opportunity, as Judge Hull saw
it, to indulge in some plain talking and
he did not balk. He called things by
their right names and in his denuncia
tions there was no tincture of mercy.
The country may not yet be in a mood
to accept what he says altogether as to
the malignity of the Republican party
leaders, but the country is at least get
ting the scales off of its eyes. It is see
ing things from a different angle than
that from which it viewed political exigen-
CITY PUBLICITY.
It is gratifying that the Chamber of
Commerce proposes to make publicity
of Charlotte one of its attainments dur
ing the new year. Charlotte has not
' been wiven the sort of publicity it
ought to have had for the past several
years, largely, we take it, for the reason
that the times have been so confused
and there have been so many other
things for the Chamber of Commerce to
do that it had to leave this off until a
more convenient season. That the mo
ment has arrived to return to this nor
mal function of such a body seems tQ
be indicated by a decision of the direc
tors to make this one of the big under
takings of another year.
There are right and wrong sorts of
publicity, a definite, concise, properly
directed publicity that is worth all it
may cost and that strikes the mark.
There is another sort of a hit-and-miss
variety, indiscriminately-directed. Improperly-conceived
and shot at random
which hits where it is aimed, at noth
ing. It does no "good at all and repre
sents merely a throwing away of money.
Charlotte has all the advantages that
any community needs to have to justify
a liberal program of municipal adver
tisement, publicity of a sane, dignified,
well-defined sort and a program that
will be worth more than can be forecast
in the continued development of the
community. It is, therefore, very satis
fying that the Chamber of Commerce
has its eye on this sort of activity and
proposes to launch forth into this en
terprise with a zeal and a determination
that will make its efforts count.
While not disposed to analyze criti
cally the attitude France is taking in
the Washington conference, for reasons
elsewhere pointed out in these columns,
it is a little perplexing to know where
France expects to get the money which
must be forthcoming if it carries out
the naval program now being consider
ed. If France is so flush, it might be
'well for her statesmen to be considering
that amount of money they owe Amer
ica and at least take some steps to pay
the interest on it, if not the principal.
MR. .WILSON'S BIRTHDAY.
Former President Wilson passed his
65th birthday Wednesday and received
telegrams of congratulation from every
section of the country, from all ranks
of his fellow-citizens, from those in high
places, from those in the low, from titled
I heads and lowlv villagers, from parti-
cies a few months ago and one can San friends and from acquaintances who
not follow the writings of the metropoli
tan observers, even of those of rigid par
lisanry, without detecting a taint of
gross discontent and dissatisfaction
with the way things are turning out.
It would be unwise to become too dem
ocratically optimistic at this stage of
'.he proceedings, but if events are not
shaping themselves for an overthrow
the party that is now messing things
t:p, it will be only because the Re
publican party is too financially en
thraned to be overturned. If the people
have a chance, unthrottled and unfet
tered, a chance to express what is in
(heir minds, a chance to vote their con
victions, their displeasure at the pred
atory, selfish and destructive policies
of the Republicans will be emphatically
recorded.
WHY NOT BOUND FORWARD?
When one surveys the uncounted re
sources of this country, the marvelous
position of leadership it occupies among
all' the nations of the world in the
way of raw materials and capacity to
convert these into the finished fabrics
which society demands, one wonders
what it is that it is holding us back,
that will not permit us to bound for
ward at a pace unparalleled in the his
tory of this republic. As The Manufac
turers Record says, with about six per
cent of the World's population and six
per cent of the world's land area, this
country has one-third or more of the
world's accumulated weolth. It is pro
ducing one-half of the world's coal and
iron and steel, and two-thirds of the
world's cotton, thi-ee-fourths of the
world's sulphur, eighty-five per cent of
the world's naval stores, the bulk of the !
world's phosphate, and seventy per cent
of the Avorld's petroleum. It has forty
per cent or more of the world's railroad
mileage and over forty per cent of the
world's gold supply. In nearly every
other line of human activity its re
sources in raw materials, in soil poten
tialities, in climatic advantages, in geo
graphical location as relates to world
trade with Europe on one side and Asia
in the other, Canada to the north of
us, and Mexico and South America with
!heir vast opportunity for trade south
?t us, are in keeping with the achieve
ments already made.
are opposed to him in politics, but with
him in ideals.
The incident is taken by some of the
correspondents to indicate that Mr.
Wilson is "coming back" not, of course,
in the sense that he will ever again
physically be able to assume any place
"of leadership in his party or in the na
tion, but in the sense that he is coming
back into the affections of the people
and into their endorsement of his poli
cies and practises.
We don't think Mr. Wilson is coming
back to the people quite so much as
we are sure the people are going back to
him. It is the people who have been
away. They have folowed the" flesh-pots
and deserted him and the right and the
truth and the way to national life. They
are trooping back to find him standing
where he has always stood, on the pillar
of a Gibraltar unmoved by the caustic-isms
of men, fearless of their anathmas
and unaffected in that unconquerable
spirit that has enabled him to stand
heroic and adamant in the face of the
most merciless onslaught of mudsling
ing to which any American President
has .ever been subjected.
COMING OF MR. MAXWELL.
It is a great pity that it .will not be
possible, or at least expedient, to allow
A. J. Maxwell, when he comes to Char
lotte Jan. 11, to address a popular meet-
A NEW THEATRE.
The Chamber of Commerce will find
the people of Charlotte with it in the
movement to bring about the construc
tion of a modern theatre in Charlotte
during the coming year.
We have had a lot of talk about such
an institution; it is now. time to -have
some definite action. There is no reason
in the world that Charlotte should not
boast a well-equipped, modern, commo
dious opera house. The time is ripe for
the establishment of such an institution.
The city auditorium, which is now be
ing used for the' occasional theatre
company that has the daring to try to
unfold its wares in that -sort of a barn
is generally regarded as being unfitted
for this purpose and it is unfair to the
shows as well as to the patrons of such
to have no better place than that for
this sort of an entertainment.
There is the feeling in stage circles
that the footlights are going to blink
again, throughout the United States
in the course of a few years, that while
the movies have not by any means run
their course, they are soon to share
more liberally with the spoken word on
the stage and that the great theatrics
of other days is to be revived. Wrhen
that time comes, it would be well for
Charlotte to have made ready for the
renaissance and to have provided a suit
able theatre for the companies that will
send their stars and their troupes
through the South. Otherwise, Ave will
let some other city closely proximate
to us get what is deservedly ours in
this respect.
SOCIETY BEAUTY, FORMER ACTRESS,
SUES BISHOP ON SLANDER CHARGE
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, Mrs. Marion McAllister Smith.
Alleging conspiracy on the part of the Right Rev. Herbert Shipman,
suffragan bishop of the Episcopal diocese of New York, Mme. Ann
Guerin and Maurice Leon, representatives of the French government,
and others to slander and blacken her reputation by representing her as
a notorious French courtesan, Mrs. Marion McAllister Smith, formerly
Miss Mercedes Hearne, member of a prominent Texas family, has
brought suit against them in New York city. She asks $200,000 dam-
IBELK BROTHERS!
S COMPANY-
EARTHffOMEBROBLEMS
MPS. ELIZABETH il THOMPSON
The selection of J. D. Norwood of
Salisbury as successor of Thomas D.
Warrren, State chairman of the demo
cratic organization brings into that
office a business man of successful at
tainments and an upstanding; coura
geous, progressive-minded Democrat un
der whose administration the party
ought to be able to continue its majes
tic sweep forward.
HANGED ON ITS OWN GALLOWS.
It does not lie in the mouth of any
American to criticise the French for
having wantonly wrecked the plan for a
limitation of armaments. It was gener
ally conceded from the outset that some
body would wreck it, but few thought
it would be France. Almost everybody
believed it would more likely be Japan.
The French, nevertheless, have about
turned the trick and left the American
plan of disarmament stranded on the
rocks.
France has done, therefore, for Amer
ica in its ambitions to lead the nations
into a general sememe of disarmament
what America did for the nations in re
fusing to come into the league of na-l
tions. That is the Nemesis of the pres
ent situation. Chickens have come home
to roost, fhe gallows that Haraan built
for Mprdecai was the scaffold on which
Haman himself was hanged. Nations'
can sow the wind and reap the whirl
wind just as well as individuals. The law
of retribution has not been dropped
from the statute books of God.
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.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: My daugh
ter is to be married the first of Janu
ary. Her wedding is rather sudden
although she has been -engaged for
some time. Her fiance has had a pro
motion which will enable him to mar
ry at once.
I am a widow and all of my chil
dren are married or living away from
home except this daughter. She and
her husband refused to live with me,
but they have invited me to live with
them. They say. however, that they
want to start life with their own
things and do not want the old furni
ture, pictures, etc., in my home. If I
go to them I will have to sell or
store my belongings. I don't know
what to do about it and want your
advice. MOTHER.
Keep your own things and your own
home as long as you can. I am sure
that you will be happier that way than
to give up everything that is yours
in order to be with your daughter.
Besides, it will be better for her if
she and her husband can start out
alone. Give t them a few years by
themselves. "After ..children come con
ditions will be different and if you
want to go to them then there will be
more chance for you to be happy to
gether. The old saj'ing that two is a
couple ancr three is a crowd is espe
cially true when a young couple starts
housekeeping.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
fifteen years old. Would it be all
right to walk home from school with
a boy? My parents object to my go
ing with boys. I go to the show
Wednesday night and my sister goes
with me. If she sees anything?' out of
the way she comes home and tells my
parents. Would it be all rigfit for a
boy to bring me home from .the show?
BROWN EYES.
You are too young to give so much
thought to boys. AValk home from
school with your girl friends and en
joy them for a few years longer.
You will grow old soon enough.
Your parents are right in thinking
you are still too young to go with
boys.
Yes, you are too young to let a
boy take you home from the show.
Be satisfied to have your sister with
you. Some girls of your age are not
allowed to go to the movies as often
as once a week and you should appre
ciate your parents' leniency rather
lif-i.- r nn.;t t . . J-1
j iiio.il iu v;i infuse incut uujtuatJ mey
oDjeci xo Doys.
"Newly Wed": You can find recipes
for cooking turkey and cranberry
sauce in any cook book.
MISS EMMA BROCK
WEDS R. C. JORDAN
Salisbury, Dec. 29. R. C. Jordan, fa
miliarly known to his numerous friends
as "Jak" Jordan, and Miss Emma
Brock were married in Hendersonville
Saturday and have arrived in Salis
bury, where they will make their
home.
Mr. Jordan is a fireman, on the
Southern out of Spencer. Mrs. Jordan
was for some time an operator in the
local telephone exchange and both have
a larga circle of friends here who will
be interested in the announcement of
their marriage.
OSTEOPATHY
Is the science of healing by
adjustment.
DR. II. F. KAY
313 Realty Bldg.
DR. FRANK LANE MILLER
610 Realty Bldg.
DR. ARTHUR M. DYE
224 Piedmont Bldg.
Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C.
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SCATTERING DIVIDENDS.
Charlotte banks are scattering quite a
bit of money to their stockholders for
the beginning of the New Year, an ag
gregate sum of nearly $200,000 reDre-
isenting the dividends to be mailed out
mff instead or mprflv tho mcwWcv, . , . . .
of the Chariot
of whfch Cia aUSPiCeS but appear to be exceeding y prosero" '
of which organization he is coming, as these dividend checks bw out
Mr. Maxwell will, of course, talk lareelv it k cnCKS Dar out.
of technical air m " !' I! 7 ' 5.? " h&S been a7ear uncertainty for
the sublect of fr; " Til Z .u" r... ne that close, rigid at
tention to business and one that called
the subject of freight rates in the State.
but he is such a versatile speaker, so
M.W1.UIU ju ouui ma.iiers as well as
chiefly for consideration and forbear.
ance in dealing with their clientele. But
coupiea with the elasticity of the curren
cy; system under which National banks
and Trust companies are operating that
belong to the Federal reserve system,
tho people of this community, mer
chants, business men and all others who
have to depend upon their bankers for a
little aid occasionally, would have found
titally interested, .that he would be a
great attraction at a popular meeting.
The organization that. is bringing him
here should count itself fortunate in
procuring 'him and its membership
should make it possible for others here,
outside of the ranks of the shippers'
association, who desire to hear Mr. Max
hi? v.. . , . --.v. uviunauy wouia nave for
ell. : tp have that opportunity. . I themselves in right much perplexity
1922 Christmas Savings Citi
Now Open
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and you will have
MONEY NEXT
CHRISTMAS
CEC.OO CLASS Requires a deposit
tJ5eJ week for the next 50 weeks.
of. $5.00 each'
OnDecember 5.
1922, you will receive a check for $250.00, plus interest.
$0.00 CLASS Requires a deposit of $2.00 each week
for the next 50 weeks. On December 5, 1922,
you will receive a check for $100.00, plus interest.
CJT.00 CLASS Requires a, deposit of $1.00 each week
tPJL for the next 50 weeks. On December 5, 1922,
you will receive a check for $50.00, plus interest.
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tlUC week for the next 50 weeks. On December 5,
1922, you will receive a check for $25.00, plus interest.
CLASS Requires a deposit of 25 cents each
25c
1922, you
week for the next 50 weeks. On December 5,
will receive a check for $12.50, plus interest.
The Commercial National
Bank
Corner Tryon and Fourth Sts.
Capital, Surplus, etc., Over $1,100,000.00
After Christmas Sale
i
of
Ready-to-Wear
Art Absolute Clearance of Women's,
Misses' and Children's Coat
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
ID M PANY