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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, JANUARY 25, 19141 V.- ; .r.' ft " f i -v Ik i it '.i i 1? PBirt mm am aMUmmmmmm w hmbmwwi""""" 'The American Home the Safeguard of American Liberties." Office of "The American Home the Safeguard of American Liberties." i he lechanics rerpetu uilding & Loan A B ssocia WE ANNOUNCE The Maturity of the 50th Series. Which Gives to Our Shareholders This 'ime, the Sum of 9 o WILL BE WELL' r REPRESENTED ST LYONS The 50th series closes with the 2nd weekly payment in January, and all shareholders in this series can get their cancelled mortgages or money on and after January the 15th, 1914. ' The maturing of a series is always a source of gratification to our offi cers and directors. It is a happy time for the great numbers who will ac quire clear titles to their homes a realization of their dreams and happi ness and contentment. We are cancelling mortgages for 104 of these hap py individuals this time. Paying them the total amount of $107,950.00. Besides, this series brings $111,157.50 to the 109 Non-Borrowing Share holders. This goodly amount of cash will be p aid out right here in Char lotte. Think, then, of the glorious things that happen at the maturing of this 50th Series. 104 Happy Horn e-Getters. 109 Non-Borrowing Shareholders, receiving $219,107.50 Total. On February 1st, Our Books Will Be Opened For Our 63rd Series Subscriptions for shares and applications for loans can be filed then, the first payment being due March 7th. We want to keep building larger and vour co-operation is earnestly desired . R. E. COCHRANE, J. H. WEARN, - Sec. and Treas. President. (BY WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS.) Paris, Jan. 21 The action" of Unit ized ion of the International Municipal ity Exposition to open May 1 at Ly ons will be second in comprehensive ness and general excellence to none t-n the grounds, according to Oscar Moser, the commissioner in charge of the American exhibits. The 2.00U square yard floor ispace allotted to American cities has been practically exhausted and not an inch will he left utter the next few days. An ex traordinary amount of space in the palace of fine arts, machinery hall anH nihpr hiiilHin.ws snafifi not in cluded in the 2,000 square yards mentioned is being taken by Ameri can firms and business houses. j The exposition plans as its central ! idea to show the best systems of mu nicipal government from every coun try in the world. Mayor Herriot, ot Iyons, declares it will be the most complete thing of the kind ever at tempted. Every conceivable form of government will be .shown, and the mayor believes that Lyons will be the gathering place for city-welfare workers from every quarter of the globe during the exposition period. The show ends November 1. Ambas sador Myron T. Herrick is highly pleased over the showing American cities are making. New York, Phil adelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco are other cities have ar ranged for big exhibits showing their forms of city administration. The am bassador has personally devoted much time boosting the Lyons Expos sition, not only, he says, because he thinks great good will result to American municipalities by participa tion, but also because France has been among the leaders, in working for the success of the San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition. It is a sort of Franco-American entente-cor-diale on the exposition question which he has fostered to the utmost. In addition to the ambassador, James Hazen Hyde, formerly of New York; B. J. Shoninger, president ot the American chamber of commerce in Paris; Captain Frank Mason, consul-general here, and others, are members of a committee working not only tor the success of the exposition but for closer relations generally be tween France and America, commer cially, industrially and educationally. It is understood here that representa tives of the leading chambers of com merce throughout the United States have announced their intention- of vis iting the exposition. Their idea is to get as many new ideas as possible on citay building and city administration for use "back home." Mostly Contemplative WHY BOYS LEAVE SCHOOL. (By T. W. CHAMBLISS.) It is plain what is meant in the ihe by "god works." Doing justly, io-ving mercy and walking humbly with God," is God's summing us with To live for others, to suffer for oth ers, is the inevitable condition of our !eiug. To accept the condition glad ly, is to find it crowded with its own joys. The difference between religion and morality is the difference between cause and effect. The believer accepts .both, while the moralist knows only the latter. night he brought back one dollar as the earnings of his first day's work. He "handed it to his father saying, "Papa, you shall not suffer as long as I can work." The longer I live, the more I am certain that the greatest difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insig nificant, is energy, invincible determ ination a purpose once fixed, and death or victory. Here is the boy again. It was in the Sunday-school class in a Missouri Sunday school. The teacher was tell ing about the great catches of fishes, and was vividly and earnestly empha sizing the great number of the fishes. One of tha boys listened incredulous ly and impatiently for a few moments and exclaimed, "Oh, I bet half of them ere turtles." Children are greatly interested in the events of their parents' early lives. "Distance," in such cases, "lends en chantment to the view." The grand mother often renders important ser vice to the children by telling stories of old times. Those early days have romanitic fascination to the little ones whose lives have but recently be gun. If the story be one of pioneer lifft in th nlripn tim the children f appreciate it immensely. The become; united to tne past oy weaving a cnain of memory for them, and they gain a sense of solidarity with their ances tors. The family traditions, ideals and sentiment are conveyed to them and perpetuated in their thoughts and actions. It uplifts children to be brought into the line of heroic men and women, who stand out on the dis tant horizon in ideal and beautiful figure. We cannot estimate the ef fect on the character and standards of children when their ancestors are exalted before them. It is true that such may have been ordinary men and women, but when idealized, they become saints by whose deeds chil dren are impressed and elevated for Life's struggles. Two boys went to gather grapes. One was happy because they found grapes. The other was unhappy be cause the grapes had seed in them. Two men, being convaslescent, were asked how they were. One said, "I am better today." The other said, "I was worse yesterday." When it rains one man says, "This will make mud;" another, "This will ay the dust." Two boys examined a bush. One observed that it had a thorn; the other jhat it had a rose. Two children looking through col ored glasses, one said, "The world is blue;" and the other said, "It is bright." Two boys having a bee, one got toney, the other got stung. The first Called it a honey bee, the other a ttinging bee. "I am glad," says one, "that it is 00 man." "I am sorry I must die," lays another. "I am glad," says one, that it is no aorse." "I am sorry," says another, 'that it is no better." One says, "Our good is mixed with svil." Another says, "Our evil is mix ta with good. A minister in search of health ar lived in a Texas town seeking the benefits of its climate. On the wav. lie had been ribbed of forty dollars, the last of some funds provided by mends before he left home. So he 'ound himself penniless in a strange place and physically unable to work, He moved with his wife and five chil dren into a small vacant house. His wife began at once to look for some means of earning a support and so got to doing sewing and washing. One nay while she was out their second Kon, nine, years of age, said, "Pap 1 am going out to get work, too. In a Jittle while he got a- job- blacking eboes at a barber shop, and the first It may be proved, with much cer tainty, that God intends no man to live in the world without working; but it. seems to me not less evident. that he intends every man to be hap py in his work. It is written, "In the sweat of thy brow" but it was never written, "in the breaking of thine heart" '"thou shalt eat bread." And find that as on the other hand, infinite misery is caused by the idle who fail in doing that was appointed them to do and set in motion various springs of mischief in matters in which they should have had no con cern, so, on the other hand, no small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take upon themselves and force upon others, of work itself. Were it not so, I believe the fact of their being unhappy is in itself a violation of the divine law and a sign of some kind of folly or sin in their way of life Now, in or der that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of other people for its con-1 firmation, but a sure sense, or, rath-j er, knowledge that so much work has been done well, and faithfully done, whatever the world may say or think about jt. Around a coal yard Willie's mother used to make him play. She called him in and whipped him at the close of every day. She dusted him and scrubbed him in a manner that seemed cruel, But every week she made him yield $8 worth of fuel. Ex. Good intentions are all right in their -way, but it takes constant tfse to prevent them from getting rusty. (American Machinist.) At least half of the boys the coun try over leave school as soon as the! law allows, which is usually 14 years of age. But only a small percentage leave through any real pressure from their parents. That is, the great majority of parents worship educa tion per se and are willing to make whatever sacrifice is necessary to continue their children in school. On the other hand, the majority of employers who have work to of fer which is fit for these boys do not want them until they are at least W years old, and many not until they are 18. The amount of money which boys up to these ages can earn is certainly not in any de gree an equivalent for the education which they should obtain in the two or four-year period. The almost uni versal plea on the part of the chil dren is that they hate school and want to work. What does this mean? What part of school life do they hate and what part of shop life do they crave? One of our correspondents, who has had abundant opportunity to in vestigate these matters holds that the largest cause of this defection is a lack of willingness to think and to take responsibility. That is, it is a form of mental laziness. As he views the situation a boy feels that he can dodge responsibility for cor rect arithmetic. English and every thing else he is taught in school by entering a shop. There, at his age, he is almost automatic in its na ture, which requires almost no thought and little attention for its successful completion. He is only given work which does require thought and willingness to do it; which means that many never rise at all and the rest comparatively slow ly. To a boy 10 hours a day in the shop spells more liberty than five hours in a school room, because in the shop he only does what he can easily do without mental exertion and with out worry. In the school room he is expected, at least, to be constantly on the alert and strained up to con cert pitch. A new airship 'is being constructed here by th? Astra-Torres people to be completed by February, which, the builders declare, will break all existing records for speed for this class of air craft. It is to be built along entirely new lines and will be the size of a respectably large ocean going steamer. The gas bag, instead of being a single piece, will be made up of three "lobe." The designers say the cars third of the circumference of each section adhering to the adjacent lobe. The resigners say the cars can be suspended from the bag by much fewer ropes and both air re sistance and gas-leakage is reduced to a minimum. Two cars will be used. Each one contains two engines of 350 horse power each, giving the ship 1,000 ef fective horse power. It will be 360 feet long and 60 feet at its greatest circumference. The front car, or "bridge," will contain an array ot controlling and regietering instru ments and a wireless outfit with a radius of nearly 400 miles. The rear cabin will carry the military staff, ammunition, etc. The cars, which have already been built, have a de cidedly military look with Hotchkiss repeating guns protruding from the port holes. The- craft will make a speed of nearly 100 kilometres an hour, according to the constructors That the once, all-powerful, univer sally spoken French language is los ing its hold is the contention of M. Emile Laley, a scientific writer. He is one of the most widelv -jiioted Frenchmen. "If France continues to aaqw the matter to follow ts own natural course," he said, "the pres ent generation may have to tak? part in an '1870' of the French language just as the preceding generation un happily witnessed that of our mill tary glory and political position." FOLKS ARE NOT Dili Sft FUST . iS J1FJLI (BY BURTON K. STANDISH.) Washington, Jan. 24. Folks may be living at a. faster pace than they did in "the good old days," but, on the other hand, they are not dying nearly so fast. This cheering news is contained in the census bureau's report on vital statistics for the year 1911, show ing that while the death rate was 19.8 per thousand population in 1880, the death rate in 1911 reached the low water mark of 14.2 per thous and. Only 839,284 persons died in the registration states in 1911. Tne registration area now includes 63.1 per cent, of the total population, or 59,275,977 in 1911. The census bureau recommended that this area be in creased by the passage of effectual birth and death registration laws, es pecially in the south and middle west where registration is practically un known. Of ihe 839,284 deaths during the year 1911, 9,622 were suicidal. This suicido record exceeded suicides ot the previous year by 1,052. San Fran cisco furnished the largest number of suicides per capita with a percentage of 39.4, while St. Louis, Los Angeles, Denver and Oakland trailed along closely behind in the order mention ed. More whites than blacks died by suicide and California had '.he highest rate, with Vermont at the bottom. Nearly four thousand of these deaths were homicidal, and 50,000 were due to "undefined violence. " Montana had the highest rate in this classification with 126.9 per 1,000 population, and California, Pennsyl vania, Colorado and Washington foi- owed in that order. Memphis, Tenn., had the highest city rate in that clas sification 191.7, with Scranton, Pa., Birmingham, Ala., N. Y., and Boston, Mass., next in the order given. These deaths and percentages relate only to deaths of "undefinable violence." Deaths among the rural population are apparently on the increase.- al though thitf variation, according to the report, may be due to greater accuracy of registration tnan was formerly practised. The city rate, however, continued to be higher than that of the country districts. New Orleans and Albany, N. Y.. broke even with 20.4 as the highest city death rate, and Seattle, Wash., with 8.8, was lowest. New Hamp shire's death rate of 17.1 was the highest state death rate, as against Washington's low mark 8.9. Some statisticians hopped to the defense ot New Hampshire by. claiming that be cause so many of the young people have left the state and that the popu lation is composed of more old per sons per capita than any other state, this does not reflect on the Granite Commonwealth. New York had a death rate of 15.1, while foreign ci ties such as St.. Petersburg, Trieste, Dublin, Moscow; Venice and Rio de I , Janerio showed rates of more than 20 per cent. The statistics showed that women do not die as rapidly as men, and tnat children under five years of age die more rapidly than children over that age. More than 112 children in every 1,000 die before they are one year old according to the figures. This enormous rate is exceeded onlv in the death rate of those of 75 years and over, the death rate of the latter being 138.9.. Between the ages of ten and thirteen the rates are lowest, the rate being 2.2. Infant mortality is shown to be on the decrease. The report declares that the death rate of infants under one year of age decreased nearly 19 per cent in the registration states in a period of eleven and one halt years. Fall River and Lowell .Mass., both cotton mill cities, showed the frightf- ful infant mortality rate of more than 200 deaths per 1,000 babies under one year of age. . Hfcarl trouble,, cancer, pneumonia. congenital debility, kidnev trouble and tuberculosis were the leadinc causes of "natural deaths." Pellasrra deaths increased over the 1910 rate while tuberculosis which claimed 1.59 victims m every 1,000 of popula tion, and cancer decreased as causes of death. Ours Is A Sanitary LaupH Disease germs find no resting place here. Cleauiinoss is detail is a rule rigidly enforced. Every precaution is taken t,, our patrons the best service possible. It only takes a phone call to get the best, remember th n.i; numbers. Sanitary Steam Laundry 392 PHONE 393 MEANING OF EDUCATION. A Kansas paper recently, compli mented its local merchants on their marked advance in advertising meth ods. "We have the best dressed wid ows in the state," it said. The next day it explained that it meant win dows. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Joe. "What is the easiest way to drive a nail without smashing my fingers?" Josephine "Hold the ham mer in both hands." Ohio Sun Dial. 4s ftfa (Ohio State Journal.) At a meeting of high school prin cipals in Syracuse, N. Y., it was de clared that there is confusion in ed ucational thought in this country and that it is due to the fact that educa tioh has not received a standard defi nition. That is a very sensible con clusion to come to. Education, so far as the school habit is concerned, is quite lost in the jungle of vagaries It is largely a matter of standpoint and anything is educational if it agres with a man's own idea or pur poses m life. All this trouble comes from the fact that we have abandoned the true idea of education as expressed m the word itself. Go to the die tionary for the primary meaning. It comes from two Latin words e, out and ducto, lead to lead out. To lead what out? The spirit, the divine en ergy, the intuitive power. That is education; but we are perverting the process and instead of leading out we are filling in filling with material ism, that chokes the very avenues of th espirit. Our educational process will never work well, never exterminate selfish ness, greed, impurity, vice, until we go back to the primitive idea and build our education upon the divine spirit. There need to be no confusion about this. Intellectual education alone is a cheat. It is a wonder the preachers don't get onto this fact and make Rome howl. From factory to us from us to you, that's how you get v-i ture when you buy at this store. No jobber's or middleman's profit. What they usually n,t.r the ordinary buyer, you save by making your selection here We go direct to the makers the specialists in each par ticular line. -We designate to them what we want insist ing always on highest quality first, then we fix the pric: at the lowest possible figure consistent wits safe am; sane merchandising. . We hare just received a large consignment of furniture lor lor, Dining Room, Library, Bed Room and Kitchen, that we would jd compare, with other furniture offered at like pr: Lawin,irRobbins Furniture Co 24 sgJJJ!f f Far-like " At The "Big Key" Sign. AiiKiads of cook Staves t Ranges ?. - i Heaters; .4 a- 1 C FOR SA Charlotte Hardware Co. What it take3 to Supply The Hardware Trade, we: have iL No matter how much noise a man makes in this world, he has to keep quiet at his own funeral. Florida Times-Union. 0HICHESTER SPILLS J Ladles! Arsk yonr Di-ncar'st for t Clii-ehos-tcr s IKansonU Brand, 'ins in jeiea ana tioia metallic boxes," sealed witll Blue Rlbhon. 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