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4 THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 30, 1921. The Charlotte News Published By THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. W. C. DO WD Pres. and Gen. Mgr. JULIAN S. MILLER Editor IV. M. BELL Advertising Mgr. TELEPHONES: Business Office 115 Circulation Department 2793 City Editor 277 Editorial Rooms 362 Printing House 1530 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not ctherwiso credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATE9. By Carrier. Ono year ...$10.00 Six month 5.00 Three months 2.50 One month .-. .85 One week 20 By Mail. One year 8.00 Six months 4.00 Three months 2.00 One month 75 Sunday Only. One' year 2.60 Six months v 1.30 TIMES-DEMOCRAT. m (Semi-Weekly) One year 1.50 Six months 75 "Entered as second-class matter at he post office at Charlotte. N. C. under he Act of March 3, 1897." FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1921. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.' A Sure Guide: Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Psalm 37:5, 7. Rl ti nivr. riTivirvkiiim That was a remarkable story carried in this newspaper the other afternoon to the effect that the Associated Char ities was offered: more Christmas goods for the poor of the city than there were poor who needed them, that the city's generosity simply overran the fieJda of need presented here. A little while back this newspaper had occasion to say that in $he making of citizenship In Charlotte, a new era had arrived when nearly 600 of the rep resentative men and women of this community sat down to dinner at the annual meeting: of the Associated Char ities and there pledged themselves anew to the social, civic and Christian duty of looking more alertly after the indi gent of the city and being more liberal Svith their means in providing for their needs. , Such a fact seems, therefore, to have been concretely indicated in the record of distribution from the offices of the Associated Charities during Christmas. We doubt if there is u city in the whole country that can truthfully repeat the story told from the lips of workers here who know whereof they speak and who, if they are partisan at all, are partisan toward tho needy and who, therefore, would not allow themselves to lean un duly to an exaggeration of the city's charity. We think this means a great deal for Charlotte. It will not be heralded, of course, with any of the loud acclaim and the popular plaudits that would be heard if some skyscraper were to be announced as being contemplated of some other tre mendous investment were pending for the material upbuilding of the city. We are somaterially-minded that we notice the building of an office structure, but the building of a man never excites even our interest. We do not even recognize such construction and creation as going on at all. HCnce the public's indifference to the real genius of that civic devel opment which is brought about when those who are in need in a community have substantial evidence of the sym pathy and helpfulness of those who never knew what the meaning of need is. Charity is not merely an act of grace and kindliness. It is construction in citizenship. It not only lifts from pov erty, perchance, but it lifts also in ideal ism and stirs those social sympathies, v.nd that spirit of neighborliness that will not tolerate such thing3 as pereonal envy and malice and Jealousy and dis content and destruction of government. The man who is against society is the man who thinks society is against him. Tho moment, therefore he is convinced l hat society is with him, the attitude is reciprocated. He becomes a partisan of the majority, a defender of law and or der, a sympathizer with those things upon which any community is funda mentally founded. That's the meaning of the extent of charity as it has been allowed to develop in Charlotte. It is making better citi zens, making Charlotte a finer place for everybody to live in and until Charlotte is as good a place for one man to live in as it is for any other, "it will not be the sort of a city it can become. CHANGE IN AMBITIONS. One can not read the biographies of the great men of half century ago and undertake to. make a comparison be tween their dominating ideals and the dominating ideals of this generation without coming to the conclusion that a vast change has taken place in the ideals of men, or, perhaps, to be more accurate, in the ambitions of men. The comparison is also of doubtful advantage to the present generation. Reading of the lives of these great men fifty years ago and of their boyhood fifty years "before that, one is subtly impressed with the fact that the higher ideal then was to develop the intellect. They had the dreams of writing great books or excelling as preachers or ora tors, to become statesmen in the high est sense of the word, to shine as men of culture and mental refinement, to go to the front in intellectual achieve ments. These are not listed today among the major ambitions. One hears the college lads of these times talk in such terms, as to their future, of "getting along", "making industry hum", becoming mil lionaires, "doing big thingB". If they speak of some giant who has preceded them and whom they would emulate, he is most often some great industrial chieftain, or a great engineer, financier, lawyer, politician or man of the world. The writer, the poet, the college pro fessor, the preacher, the great thinkers are beyond their emulation. And throughout the colleges of the country that same general observation is patient. The thinkers are not held in as great repute as the stars of the base ball and football field. You don't hear very much ado being made over the young student who has risen to the heights in oratorical attainments, but the fellow who knocks a home run is carried off the field on the shoulders of his : fellow-students. The editor of the college magazine plods without ever get ting a tap of appreciation from those surrounding him on the campus, but. the gridiron master who makes an end run of 50 yards for a touchdown is hoisted to the ekies. Doers rather than thinkers are the idols of the generation. A young fellow who once won three debates against great university teams, a boy of unusual brilliance and of foren sic talent, was scarcely noticed by his fellow-students. Three secret fraterni ties ignored him. but carried on an open competition to get their hands on an other student who was an outstanding football player, and the young mental giant, in a moment of bitterness, re marked that "Brains don't count here", which, as a matter of practical fact, is the truth generally in colleges with some limitations. Ostensibly, brains don't count like legs count in the col leges of today and that is one reason that so many of the young men are being subtly turned away from the great professions that call for the develop ment of mental culture and intellec tual expansion. They witness how the world has little use for them, how it regards them in the matter of financial support, how society brushes them aside to honor "some two-by-four, scatter brain who, forsooth, has accomplished some physical stunt in college, and nat urally enough, the boy turns his sights in the direction of those professions that the world honors the more greatly and pays the more richly. FEW THERE BE LIKE THIS. It was the ambition and the plan of former Governor Bickett, had he lived, to retire from the practice of law and devote his life to instruction of young men and women in citizenship, Dr. E. C. Brooks, his close, personal friend re lates. Governor Bickett had told Dr. Brooks that just as soon as he got out of debt, he proposed to make arrange ments with some institution, probably the Appalachian Training School at Boone, to engage in this sort of work for which he had a passion. The Gov ernor went out of the executive office a poor man, in debt, and went back into the practice of law because he hoped to liquidate his accounts in a few years and then consecrate the re mainder of his life to the great task of teaching boys and girls what the mean ing of citizenship is and what the larger functions of life. And that is another mark of the sort of a man Governor Bickett was. He had no ambition superior to that of be ing of service to his State. He wanted to be remembered not for tho great ora tions he was capable of delivering, and many of which he did deliver; not for tho great, brilliant arguments before the highest legal courts of the land and some of these were epoch-making, but he desired, above all things else, to be Useful in his day and generation, to be remembered as ono who served his fellow-countrymen.. That is not the ordin ary dream of the prominent men of community, State or nation. The usual ideal abounding among them is to make money, to gain notoriety, to hear the nattering plaudits of the multitudes re sounding in their ears, to have the veneer of 'greatness which either riches or fame o'r popularity thrusts upon them. campaoign down there nothing less than a sweeping success. He is convincing them that if they would: be saved, they must exercise a little of their own energy and agency in such a redemption, that nobody else is going to make -any atonement for them and that their only hope lies in their own initiative. Here in Mecklenburg county, how ever, we seem to be entirely content to let things rock along 41s of old. Only a few cotton growers have fallen in with the movement. In some sections of the county and by some who call themselves leaders of the agricultural classes, the movement is being opposed and openly fought. And thus it has been since the beginning of the ages. Some of the virgins have always been wise and carried oil along with them; others have alwayB depended on what little supply they had already to carry them through, and their lights have invariably gone out. COMBINING HEALTH WORK. It is gratifying that the health work of the city and the county will, here after, be consolidated in one department and ' the whole county treated as a unit, with '. Dr. McPhaul in complete charge. This ought to mean that some of the very effective and rigid health pre cepts which are enforced in the city will also be enforced in the county, that the same care and diligence exercised toward the children of the city will be displayed in the countryside, and that the rural people will be able to command such public expert services as have heretofore been available . somewhat ex clusively for the urban population. There is no reason that the idea should not work admirably and to the great benefit of the people of the county as a whole. Dr. McPhaul has given abundant indication of his capacity to handle the local health work; his knowl edge is no more conspicuous than his painstaking energy and alertness and these are essential in an office such as he fills. REORGANIZATION OF THE 35TH A BLUNDER St. Louis Mo., Dec. 30. Speaking at the thirty-sixth annual convention of the American Historical Association, here today, Colonel C. H. Lanza, U. S. A., asserted that "everybody blunder ed" in the Thiryt-Fifth division of the American Expeditionary Forces in France on September 29, 1918, and that the division was withdrawn for reor ganization. Colonel Lanza said his conclusions were drawn from an exhaustive study of the division's operations and from reports sent in by officers in action. ' He said copies of communications in support ot his assertion were on file at the War Department. The division was composed of Missouri and Kansas national guardsmen. j Finding of the parole given to Gen eral uornwams-Dy vjeorge wasmngton after the former's surrender at York town in the American revolutionary war was told of Toy Morgan P. Robinson, Richmond. Va., State historian of West Virginia. He said he found the docu ment in his office. The return to his professional duties of Dr. I. V. Faison, veteran and be loved physician of the city, has been an occasion 6f felicitation from his multitude of friends in this community as well as in other parts of the State where he is so popularly known. Dr. Faison belongs to the older school of the city's physicians and his long, faith ful and eminently successful service in the homes of "the community's young and old has made him more thari a mere personality. He has really be come institutionalized. The doctor is about the streets with much of his whilom zeal and enthusiasm in his work, apparently little worsted by the severe iilnoss to which he was subjected for IX weeks. . 1 SAPIRO HERE AGAIN. Aaron Sapiro, the genius of co-operative marketing in California, is back in North Carolina trying to lead the people of this State into the green pastures and by the still waters of a saving system of cotton and tobacco selling. Sapiro is here for no money-making purposes. It is nothing to him personally whether North Carolina farmers follow this sys tem or not, but he knows that unless they do fall upon such an idea, they are doomed to continue selling their products below what they are worth, doomed to take the other fellow's price for the stuff they labor and sweat to produce from the ground. Throughout the Eastern half of the State this California wizard is speaking, hundreds and thousands are hearing him and, better than that, following him. They are falling into the co-operative marketing movement with a readiness that makes the THREW WIFE INTO FIRE SHE CHARGED PICKET RIGHTS DEFINED. The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a deliverance on what constitutes illegal picketing in connection with labor strikes and rules that such is unjustifiable in law when car ried to the extreme of "importunity and dogging". Decisions as to whether specific in stances of picketing come within the court's inhibition must be left for deter-, mination on the facts in each such case, it was declared, but the court suggest ed that pickets should have the right of "observation, communication and persua sion," and might further be limited to( "one representative for each point of ingress and egress." The case before the court arose out of a strike at the American Steel Foundries plant at Gran ite City, 111., where 1,600 men were nor mally employed. While attempts to in fluence another's action cannot be re garded as aggression or a violation of the other's rights, the court declared, "importunity and dogging become un justifiable annoyance and obstruction which is likely soon to savor of intim idation." In the present case, "all argu ments advanced and all persuasion used were intimidation," it was held, adding that the pickets should "not be abusive, libelous, or threatening," nor "ap proach individuals together." The courts must, however, "prevent the inevitable intimidation of the presence of groups of pickets, but' may allow missionaries." This decision of the United States Su preme Court will nullify the decisions of courts which have declared all pick eting unlawful on the priciple that suc cessful picketing alwaj's carries with it the implication of intimidation. It is a decision which seems eminently fair. It will clarify many a strike situation for both employers and strikers to have before them a clear distinction between lawful and unlawful picketing. Hiram Hank has cracked his shin and knocked the bottom off his chin. They say that he received his hurt by tripping on a soiled shirt that lay upon liis bedroom floor and blocked the gass- age through the door. Upon this news I made a sprint up tc his room to take a squint. I jotted down the things I saw. It looked like there had been a war. His bathrobe lay upon the chair entangled hi his underwear while here and ibere ' a lEir of pants were thrown around the room by chance. Thirteen socks were or. the floor, and now and then an apple core. His trunk tray rested on tho rug. I stepped into his snaving mug when I sprang back with hectic haste to ketp from mashing his tooth paste. Epistles and old peanut sacks were strewn at random in my tracks. A week's work with the strongest broom would fail to clean up Hiram's room. Considering the mess it's in, no wonder Hiram cracked his shin. I myself sprained both big toes wnile walking round among the clothes. Such chaos has no excuse. It sim ply means a screw is loose. Would that all who live this way could crack a shin or two some day. Hang your garments on the rack, get the broom and clear the track, for soiled shirts upon the floor bespeak of dumb ness, nothing more. Like room like man the saying goes. Take care -of your dirty clothes. Copyright, 1011, by Kem Publishing Co. SEARS-ROEBUCK IS IN BETTER CONDITION Chicago, Dec. 30. Sears-Roebuck & Company last night reported the sale to Julius Rosenwald, president of the company, of certain of its Chicago real estate for $16,000,000 and the gift of 50,000 shares of stock from Mr. Tlosenwald, thus permitting the company "to go through this -period of readjustment with its capital unim paired and with a small surplus." Mr. Rosenwald already has made the first payment of 25 per cent in the real estate in cash and Liberty bonds. Mr. Rosenwald's gift of 50,000 shares of stock, having a par value of $5,000,000 was on condition that thei shares be not sold for less than par, and that he be given the option, for a period of three years, to purchase them from the company at par for ctsh. SEES GREAT SAVING FOR LOCAL SHIPPERS Shave, Bathe and Shampoo with one Soap. Cuticura Cuticfcra Soap I J the f storiuf orttf styrasorsfcaTing. Triangle Music Ca Pianos -PHONOGsTTpMS-MuSicoTltcfM se west oia st. . phon( s-te Charleston, S. C, Dec. 30. Kivy Cunningham was held yesterday by a coroner's jury at Branchville on a charge of throwing his wife, Rachel Cunningham, into a fire Monday night. She died Wednesdav. her antp-mnrtpm statement declaring that the husband Was responsible. ,. Cunningham declared that he and some neighbors heard his wife scream and rushed into the house and dragged her out of the fire. He claims, ac cording to the authorities that she became 111, and fell into the flames. ST. PAUL ELECTION. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 30. St. Paui ! win continue to operate under the commission form of government as the result of the defeat of a proposed new charter at a special election here yes terday. Approximately 38,000 votes were cast of which 16,123 were for the new charter and 21,549 against. Triangle Music Co. PIANOS-PHONOGRAPHS- MUSIC ROLLS - RECORDS SO WIST 313 ST. PHONE. 348 If superior quality and rea sonable prices are any induce ment to you, you should buy yourself a new Overcoat It is impossible to describe the many garments that we are offering, but you will find an ample assortment of styles and materials and at extreme ly low prices. So. Tryon Removal of war tax from express shipments effective January 1 will re sult in enormous savings to Charlotte shippers in the opinion of R. Id. Eck ard, local agent of the American Rail way Express Company, who estimated that the country-wide saving will total at lease $1,500,000 monthly. j The 1921 revenue bill, which elim-. inates war tax on all express ship ments, becomes effective the first 5f the year and Mr. Eckard points out that the Government will collect no tax on shipments sent C. O. D. which ar-! rive on or after January 1, even though they were forwarded prior to that date. Treat your beauty fairly ! No matter how lovely your features are you cannot behoityattracUve with a red blotchy oily skin Resinol Soap andOinhaenl make bad complexions smoother softer and generally charming 5oolhinq And He&linq Triangie Music Co. lNOS-OMO(jAn - utC 5:0115 - BtCO50 O WEW tt ST Nor r is, Samoset and Block's Fine Candies In all size packages. Make this store your candy headquarters. Our candies are always fresh and we handle only the best kinds. Arcade Pharmacy Ir e. PHONE 777 324 South Tryon St. it S ror OFFICE WeH avelt Desks, chairs, safes, filing cabinets, book keeping systems, etc. Consult us about your office needs. Pound & Moore Co. Phone 4542 OSTEOPATHY Is the science of healinff by adjustment. DR. 11. F. RAY 313 Realty Bids. DR. FRANK LANE MILLER 610 Realty Bldg. DR. ARTHUR M. DYE 224 Piedmont Bldg. . Osteopaths, Charlotte, N. C. INFORMATION BY REQUEST Protection is the first and greatest reason for life insurance. Prudential policies provide the utmost life insui-ance protection. Braswelf & Crichton Agents Prudential Insurance Co. 803 Com'l Bank Bldg. Phone 1697. 7 DC1A BKUintKS Big Variety f " Offers a High Grade Mens and Boys' Clothing At Prices That Rep resent a Great Saving No one can fail to find the Suit, Overcoat, Hat or shirt here, of the Style, Quality and Price he wants to pay. We have bought for this sea son the choice of values on the market and now offer them at prices that are ultra-attractive. Men's Suits . Schloss-Hamburger and Styleplus hand tail ored Suits made of fine blue serge, blue angd brown pin stripes also French back worsted made in regulars; slims, stouts and young men's models. $25.00, $29.50, $35.00 $39.50 Men and young men's Suits made in all the newest models and material. Made especially for Belk Stores and made by the very best manufac turers. $14.95, $19.95, $25.00 Men's Overcoats We have gone through our stock of men and young men's Overcoats and marked them down to clean up. We don't want to carry over a single one. Our stock is all new clean stock. Reduced to $8.95, $9.95, $14.95, $19.95, $25.00, $29.50 Men's Hats Men's new felt hats made' in the newest shapes and colors. $2.50, $3.50, $4.95, $7.00 Men's Dress Pants Men's dress pants made of all wool, blue serge and fancy mixtures. Sizes 28,to 54. $2.98, $3.95, $4.95, $5.95, $6.95, $8.95 Men's Dress Shirts Men's dress shirts made of fine percale and madras, plain and fancy patterns. $1.00, $1.50, $1.95, $2.50 Men's Ties Men's new silk ties made in the newest shapes and pattern. 50c, 75c, 98c, $1.50 Men's Gloves Men's driving gloves 98c, $1.50, $2.50 Men's fine kid gloves $1.50, $2.50, . $3.50 Men's Underwear 'len's ribbed and fleeced shirts and drawers 50c, 98c Men's ribbed Union Suits. Extra quality. All sizes 98c, $1.25, $1.48 Men's Sweaters Men's Sweaters all colors and sizes 98c, $1.48, $1.98, $2.98, $3.95, $4.95 and up. Men's Caps Men's Caps. Made, of blue serge and fancy mixtures 98c, $1.48, $1.98, $2.50 Boy's Suits Boys' School Suits made of serge and fancy worsted $4.95, $6.95, $8.95, $9.95, $12.50 Boys' Pants Boys' Overcoats. All materials and colors 98c, $1.48, $1.98, $2.48 Boys' Pants, made of serge and fancy mix tures 98c, $1.48, $1.98, $2.48 Boys' Underwear Boys' ribbed Union Suits. Good prade. all sizes 75c, 98c $1.25 Boys' Sweaters Boys' Sweaters. Colors, Grey, Naw, Maroon 98c $148, $1.98, $2.48, $2.98, $3.95 Sale of Men's Pants at $2.95 1,000 pair Men's and Young Men's Ail-Wool Blue Serge fancy Worsted and Cashmere Pants; values up to $5.00. Size 28 to 50. CHOICE $2.95 500 Men's Felt Hats, black and all colors; values up to $5.00. SALE PRICE $2.95