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A . \iis?ust 30, 1923. jliir crm / ~ ilffilE ISLE OF CL retribution ISC J EDISON MARSHALL y © U*nrv*. BROWN 8 COMPANy, 1923 y ff nuuiifold powe l3 ol circum- J f BS eere in conspiracy , _ rf comet this late 1 afternoon. No detail ■ ilnltselt It had been *»“ P °Clr and mournfoily. hot , #*« ,n Se “ tt,e - ’ && e 3 r h3 d been passing the t!l9 TOtera C ' U , b ' 1 9* I** 5 “ t doing nothing in nothing exceedingly bad **T' eve „ unusually diverting: W shim. Finally- Corners spe *‘fT tilney Coburn, hnd Just 1,1 r&oinoneof his hundred so "Br"d . oiaces —this time from ™ f” 00 ■f ‘ 0 young men had met in T,* - Totem C,Ub ' W “1 steward had gone thither fid the j ce Coburn toil glasses ar-G ice. empty-handed from pnrtl, in celebnttion of his i mrtlv because of the X 1 C f the poods that wpebor a“ aL • h - s fr i e nd Ned limit from two “.Winner cocktails to no powerful pr u . nbe r whiskies -'“ntrame about that Ned T-nafmS. to bother him. He drizzle that SSrf-tfce shadows of falling twi- I Send blurred the UshtS ln IT \ St Ned Comet had a fire within | Z or less occupied his j space of time so short that it i resembled some half-glimpsed mci- I t in a dream. Ned found himself. I Sb at his wheel, the car crossw.se I L the street and the front wheels I almost touching the curb, a terrible I and ginstlv sobriety upon Mm I Something had happened. He had | gone into a perilous skid at the cor | get of Fourth and Nladison, the car 1 had slid sickeninpiy out of his con -1 trcl, and at the wrong instant a dark § shape, all too plainly, another auto | mobile, had lurched out of the murk 1 ol the raia. I Ned Comet had had automobiles at I kia command long before it was safe = for him to have his hands on them. | When cold sober be drove rather too § tar. none too carefully, but had an § almost incredible mastery over his I car. He knew how to pick his wheel | tracks over bumpy roads.' and he | knew the ‘exact curve that a (car 1 could take with safety in rounding a | corner. Even now, in the crisis that | had just been, he had handled his | car like the veteran he was. The = wonder was not that he had hit the | other car, but rather, considering the | sperd with which he had come, that | It should continue to remain before | his sight, but little damaged, instead | o'being shattered into kindling and | dust. Nevertheless it was not yet = time to receive congratulations from | spectators. There had been serious | wtisetjuences enough. He was sud ! d «ty face to face with the fact mat | in his haste to get home for din.it-r ! had very likely obliterated a nu | men life. | There was a curious.4iucLlled nhap | on the dim pavement, just t>ev<.nd | the small car he had struck. It «.-♦*>_ | a Slrl; she lav very still, and tra* | &ce half covered by the arm seemed | white and lifeless. And blasted | ®y a terror such as was never known | all his wasted years, Ned leaped. s fell to his knees at ner | side. I , Tlie car had struck was one of I :A th ° USands of “Jitneys” of which | a so often spoke with contempt. BOV'S and GIRLS * WE HAVE- “ C: skates A hat Roll 1 Wate> that are Guaranteed I i R >ll * I ! Wates that Outdistance all others r.nlrt ,"r y ' ,cs tljat provide Outdoor Exercise for 0 1 • au.i'pitl-. ll ' a Rair of These Skates Today I •>” I Ritchie Hardware Co Y °UR HARDWARE STORE ®^I!ISUNO TRIBUNE PENNY COLUIfI The girl was a shopgirl or factory worker, on her way home. Shaken with horror, but still swift and strong from the stimulus of the crisis, he lifted her head and shoulders in his arms. Then the girl smiled ln his face. "I'm not hurt,” he heard her say, seemingly in answer to some sense less query of his. She shook her head at the same time, and she smiled as she did it. **l know what I’m saying,” she went on. "I’m not hurt—one —bit!” The little drama, as if hurled in an instant frem the void, was already done. Tragedy had been averted; it was merely one of the thousands of unimportant smash-ups that occur in a great city every year. Some of the spectators were already moving on. In just a moment, before half a dozen more words could be said, other cars were swinging by, and a policeman was on the scene asking questions and Jolting down license numbers. Just -£or a moment he paused at Ned's elbow. "Your name and address, please?” he asked coldly. Ned whirled, turning his eyes from the girl’s face for the first time. “Ned THE GIRL SMILED IN HIS FACE. Cornet.” he answered. And he gave his father's address on Queen Anne Hill. “Show lip before Judge ltossman in the morning,” he ordered. "The jitney there will send their bills to you. I’d advise you to pay 'em.” "I'll pay 'em,” agreed. "I’ll throw in an extra twenty to pay for their loss of time.’’ "This young lady says she ain’t hurt,” the policeman went on. "It certainly is no credit to you that she ain't. There is plenty of witnesses here if she wants to make a suit." "I'll give this young lady complete satisfaction." Ned promised. He turned to her in easv friendliness a queer little crooked smile, winning and astonishingly juvenile, appear ing at his mouth. “Now let’s get in m> fiir “I'll take you home — and sve ran talk this^over." Si .. unvoted him out Madison, into ,i lisMict of humble, modest, but re.-;>. ( table residences. “It's lucky •_!\vj cam,- along I don't often get a ;: ide clear to niv door.” ! "Lucky: 1 want to say If it wasn’t | for all the Pick in the world you'd be ! going to the hospital instead. I’m 'taking aIT the blame for that smash >j hack there —I got off mighty lucky. Now let = settle about the. dress— • a few other things. First— •lvon re hure you’re not hurt?” I ! He w;:> a little surprised at the ! ; gay. girlish smile about her lips. : I “Not a particle. It would be nice 11 I could go to the hospital two weeks - or so. ju»t to rest —but 1 haven't the conscience to do jt. I’m not ever ’ scratched —Just pushed over in the ; street. And I’m afraid 1 can’t ever .! charge you forthe < dress. I’ve always had too orach cmmlmmm, Mr. Cornet.” “Os course I*m going to pay ■■** “The drees cost only about twmmtj dollars—at a sale. And It doesn't seem to be even damaged. Os course it will have to he cleaned. To wave you the embarrassment I see grow ing ln your face, I*ll gladly send the bill to you If you like—" In the bright street Hytit he looked up, studying her face. Her skin had a healthy freshness, pink like the marvelous pink of certain spring wild flowers, and she hail delicate girlish features that wholly suited his appraising eye. This girl in his car was In her early twenties — over, rather than under — of medium height, with the slender strength of an expert swimmer, yet her beauty . was that of a child. He couldn’t tell, et first, in Just what her beauty lay. Other girls had fresh skins, bright eyes, smiling lips and masses of dark lustrous hair— and some of them even had the sim plicity of good manners. Ned had a quick, sure mind, and for a moment he mused over his wheel as he tried to puzzle it out. But soon after this Ned Cornet caught himself with a whispered oath. He was positively maudlin! The excitement, the near approach tp tragedy, the influence of the liquor manifesting itself once more in his veins- were making him stare and think like a silly fooL The girl was a particularly attractive shopgirl or factory worker, strong, and athletic for all her appealing slenderness, doubtless pretty enough to waken considerable interest m certain of his friends who went in for that sort of thing, but he, Ned Cornet, had other interests. The gaze he bent upon her was suddenly indifferent. They were almost at their desti nation cow. and he did not see the sudden decline of her mood ln re sponse to his dying interest. Sensi tive as a flower to sunlight, 6be realized in a rhonent that a barrier of caste had, dropped down between them -She was silent the rest of the way. "Would you mind telling me what you do —in the way of work. I mean?” he asked her, at her door. “My father has a business that employs many girls. There might be a chance—” “I can do almost anything with a needle, thank you,” she told him with perfect frankness. "Fitting, hem stitching, embroidery—l could name a dozen other things.” “We employ dozens of seam stresses and fitters. I suppose I can reach you here—after work hours. I’ll keep you in mind.” An instant later he had bidden her good night and driven away, little > dreaming, that, through the glass 5 pane of the door, her lustrous blue eyes had followed the red spark that i was his tail-light till It disappeared > in the deepening gloom. » II 1 CORNET .-kept well within -1 the speed laws oh his way back to his father’s beautiful home t on Queen Anne Hill. He was none t too well pleased with himself, and s bus thoughts were busy. There ? would be some sort of a scene with Godfrey Cornet, the gray man whose , self-amassed wealth would ultimately ' settle for the damages to the "Jlt “ ney” and the affronf to the munici y palitv—perhaps only a frown,..a mo s ment’S cc’dness about the Ups, but a t scene nevertheless. No one could look at Godfrey Cor net and doubt that he was the vet -0 eran of many wars. The battles he l had fought had been those of eco y nomic stress, but they had scarred 4 him none the less. Every one of his fine features told l the same story. His mouth was e hard and grim, but it could smile with the kindest, most boyish ple«*- a ure on occasion. His nose was like r> an eagle’s beak, his face was lean _ with never a sagging muscle, his _ eyes, coal black, had each bright points as of blades of steel. People e always wondered at his trim, erect j form, giving little sign of bis ad s vanced years. For aU the luxury 3 with which he had surrounded his e wife and son, he himself had always n lived frugally: simple food, sufficient e exercise, the most personal and de n tailed contact with his business, e (Continued In Our Next Issue) CHARLOTTE TO STIDY CLINCH FI ELI) LEASE Opposition to A. C. L. and L. and N. Railroads Getting Coal Line is Growing. Charlotte. Aug. 2S- —A public 1 meet ing is to he held here under the aus pices of the chamber of commerce and the Charlotte Shippers and Manufactur ers association with reference to the proposed lease of the Clinchtield .and Ohio railway to the L. and X..*the A. C. L. oc-tlie Seaboard Air Line. Opposition to the proposed consoli dation of the Clinchtield with the Louis ville and Nashville and the Atlantic Coast Line, or the dominance of the Cl inch field" by those roads, has been growing in business and commercial circles of Charlotte. W. S. Creighton, traffic manager of the shippers and manufacturers associa tion. pointed out some of the factors governing the situation- The issue comes up at Washington before Ahe Interstate Commerce com mission September 24. $6,000,000 Credit Arranged For Caro lina Cotton Cooperatives. Raleigh, ug. 2S.—A- E. Ring, secre tary and treasurer of the North Caro lina Cotton Cooperative association, and John H. Rotishall. representing the Citizens National bank of Raleigh, have just returned from New ork city, where they concluded arrangements with the National. City bank for a line of credit for the North Carolina Cot ton Growers Cooperatives association of $(>.000,0000 and at a very satisfactory rate. In addition to extending the credit of $6,000,000. the bankers said that if more money was needed, they wanted the Tar Heel men to come back to them. You’ll find it difficult to make your life if you have no dufilculty in making f 'THE CONCORD TIMES Facts About Next School Term Made Public by Prof. Webb Everything is about in readiness for the opening of the public school on Sep tember 10th. Prof. A. S, Webb, super intendent of the school, gave out the following statement this movping rela tive to the opening of the school, con ferences for teachers, entrance of stu dents and books to be studied: “The city schools will open Monday, September 10th. "The high school teachers will hold a conference in the High School'at 11 o'clock September Nth. and till tin* teach ers will fit tend ti general teachers’ meet ing in (Vutral Grammar School at 4 o'clock Saturday, September Nth. “There will he no changes in. tho book list of the high school except that the girls in the tenth grade will take biology in place of physics. “In the grammar schools Thompson’s United States histories will be used in tin 1 fifth and seventh grades in place of the ones used las) year. These books were clTfTTiged by the. State last year but there were so many other changes that we were allowed to use the old books another year, but they ar£, no longer on the State list. The State speller will he used in all the primary and grammar grades. “The music books will be ordered as soon as the music supervisor reaches here. All other books are at the book store ayd should be provided tit once. “The uonrd has secured as supervisor of music in all the schools Mr. Price Doyle, of the State Normal College of Missouri. He comli to us with thorough training and wide experience. We m-e expecting a first class music course to add wonderfully to the effectiveness and attractiveness of our schools and be a source of pleasure and satisfaction to the community as well. "There seems' to bo some misunder standing about the classification in the primary and grammar grades. We pro mote children twice a year now. The Prohibition Hastened Harding’s Death, Ex-Gov. Sproul Declares in London By Wireless to The New York Times. London, Aug. 28. —Prohibition has tened the death of President Harding, in the opinion of ex-Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania, who said today, in dis cussing prohibition in an interview in The Evening Star: „ “1 think President Harding's death was accelerated by the fact that he thought it his duty, because of prohibi tion. to set—a public example npd ab stain from the use of liquor. He was accustomed to take an occasional drink of Scotch whisky. “1 am his personal friend, and I know, and in that laborious trip to Alaska,l'm sure he missed it.” Washington. Aug. 28. —■Continuation of the declaration by ex-Governor Sproul in Londpn that President Harding thought it his duty, because of prohibi tion, to set a public example by abstain ing from the use of intoxicants, was given tonight in a statement obtained from an intimate personal friend of Mr. Harding. This friend asserted that, while he did not agree with the theory that prohibi tion hastened Mr. Harding's death, it was true that Mr. Harding had not touched any intoxicating beverage-since the delivery of his Denver speech on June 2."ith Jast on law enforcement. The President, said this friend, had decided to live tip to tin* principles on which his .Denver speech was founded and “practice what lie preached.” “I do not take any stock in tho theory of Governor Sproul that prohibition has tened the end of President Harding,” declared this friend, “and I regret that Governor Sproul has seen fit to discuss the subject in London: but it is true that President Harding had practically abstained from the use 1 of liquor in re cent months, and that he had not touched THREE MORE ARE DEAD./ VICTIMS OF POISON RI M Only One of the Men Identified. Many Arrests For Drunkenness Over Week- End. Philadelphia Record. Three men are dead and four others are in a critical condition in central city hospitals as a result of drinking poison liquor purchased in the Tenderloin eider saloons. Scores of other imbibers of the 10-eent death-dealing hootch are in the hospitals recuperating from the effects of the booze. In the same section of the city here the victims were found un conscious in the streets, the police ar rested 140 drunks who had taken but a few drinks. So however, were those few drinks that the men who had taken them threatened to create a riot Previous to Saturday two others died in the Hahnemann Hospital from the effects of the liquor. With five dead, and several in a serious condition, the police and prohibition officials are again consid ering the advisability of raiding that sec tion infested by the cider saloons. Sev eral months ago the prohibition agents described on a score or more joints in the Tenderloin and confiscated gallons of the poison booze. So much publicity had been given their raid*before it was consummated that many of the places had plenty of time to close up or re move the contraband spirits. “Religion a Great Need.” Declares Jus tice Taft. Boston. Aug. 2S.—The need of relig ion in the present crisis is stressed by Chief Justice William H. Taft in a statement issued by the Unitarian News Service in connection with announcement of the thirtieth bieuuial meeting of the General Unitarian Conference, of which the gt-liief justice is president. The meet ing is to be held September 11-16 at New Haven, Conn., in the buildings of Yale University, in conjunction with the annual Ministers Institute and chapter convention of the Unitarian Laymen’s League. “Honest doubts in respect to thg ortho dox creeds,” says the statement of the chief justice, “should not be permitted to weaken the influence of religion or to engender inertia in the maintenance of religion and of the church. I feel as if Unitarianism in view of the discussion in our sister churches has become more and more important in furnishing a ba- first half of each grade is known as the "B” section and the second half as the , “A” section —each section is just half a year beliind the other. This arrange ment makes it possible for a pupil to | skii) a grade more easily as he has to; advance a half a year at a time and in j case lie fails to make ltis grade he is ( put back half a year and not a whole year. “Each teacher is instructed to advance a pupil to the next section just as soon as it is to Ihe child’s interest to do so. As a general rule it is a great deal bet ter for a child not to -skip a grade un less he io behind his grade and is mak ing up lost time, or for some other spe cial reason. “The teachers will be glad to advise with the parents about this matter at ? any time, but the teacher is in a posi tion to be the best judge of the matter. A child can he advanced to the next section at anytime that lie demonstrates that he can do the work. “As soon as the new high school building is s occupied one teacher from each_of the first five grades will be moved, from Central School to the Cor bin Street School. Tn order that there may be no break in their work when the transfer is made the children from South Union, South Spring. East Cor bin. East Depot street, etc., will be as signed to the teachers that will be trans ferred to this building. “Beginners will not be admitted after the first three weeks but a new class will be formed at mid-term. “All children must he vaccinated against smallpox before they can be en rolled. “Our teachers, so far as I know, are all ready for their work, ttjid we have a corps of teachers of whom T am espe cially proud and with the hearty co operation of all our patrons we are look ing forward to a splendid year's work.” j an intoxicant as a beverage since the de ! livery of his June 25th speech at Den ! ver." I "The late President Harding was nev .er much of a drinker.” continued this j friend, “but it is true that he liked an j occasional Scotch. During the last few j months of his life lie drank very little, j and 1 do know that lie told an intimate (friend on the Henderson on his way back 1 to the states from Alaska, that lie had never taken a drink since the date of the delivery of his Denver law enforce ment speecli. To this friend, the late President declared that he had made up j his mind to ‘make good’ on his Denver speech, and had done so.” Mr. Harding was on his way to Alaska j when, in his Denver speech, he pledged dry enforcement by the Federal govern ment and hit at the stand taken by Gov ' ernor Smith of New York on tiie State j dry law repeal bill. “I do not see how any citizen who cherishes the protection of the law in organized society may feel himself se cure when lie, himself, is the example of contempt for the law.” Mr. Harding de clared. Another statement in the Denver speech was that “reverence and obedi ence must spring from the influential ; and the leaders among men. as well as I obedience from the humble citizen, or else the temple will collnps.” In another part of his speech. Mr. •Harding asserted that “the resentful millions have the example of law de fiance by those who can afford to buy and are reckless enough to take the risk, and there is inculcated a contempt for law which may. smile day. find expres sion in far more serious form. It is the partial indulgence which challenges the majesty of the lew, but the greater crime is that of the impairment of the moral fibre of the republic.” sis for religious inspiration. Such a conference as that the Unitarians will hold in New Haven 1 doubt not can be made most useful' in the present crisis.” Illegible Writing. Washington. Aug. 29.; —Postmaster Ueneral New. who is working on a new chapter in the great di\ima, “Why Mail Goes Wrong,” lias announced that a special campaign is being conducted to direct the attention of postal workers and the public to the frequent mis carriage of letters because of the simi larity in the names cf towns in various states. Mail addressed, for instance, to Sum merton. South Carolina: Summertown, Georgia: Summerville. South Carolina, and Lumbcrton. frequently is sent to the wrong place due to illegible writ ing. I) over, North Carolina, and Mil for. Texas, also have considerable trou ble getting some of their mail because the addresses fail to make clear the state in which the town is situutecL Something to Think About. Mr. H. W. Baker, an attorney of Wnsh-j ington, writ(#= The Tribune as follows: "As a native Southerner, naturally I take great interest in the Southland. T have just returned from a motor trip through the South and am amazed at the wonderful progress being made in roads, schools, etc. And yet the North and the West are still the money sections of the United States. “I think that one reason for this is that the North and West. 1 produce in ventions and when it is remembered that over 95 per cent, of all money thtyt chang es hands is for patented goods of goods made on patented machines, the result is only natural. ' Last year, for instance. North Carolina secured 139 patents, or 1 to every 15,411 people, while Califor nia. another agricultural state, secured 2.326 patents, or 1 to every 1.473 inhab itants.” 15250.000 Thief is Arrested in Texas- Laredo. Tex.. Aug. 27.—Joseph Mar eino wanted in Chicago and Warren. Mass-, on charges of absconding with bonds valued at $250,000 from national banks, was arrested at the international bridge here today. He is meld in the county jail in default of SIOO,OOO bonds. Some men make their pleasures ; others buy them. STOP LAW IS SCORNED B1 MOST CAR DRIVERS Railroad Men Out of Spencer Say Public is Ignoring Law Everywhere. Spencer. Aug. 2N. —Engineers, con ductors and other trainmen running out of Spencer in large number and covering perhaps more than 1,000 miles of road in every direction, towards Asheville. Greenville, Columbia, Salma. Monroe. Va., anti other places, state that the new state law requiring motorists to stop at grade crossings is being disregarded to an alarming extent. The engineers are ‘especially ■» watcli- USE THE CITIZENS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY in your efforts lo accumulate money for any purpose. Here you can matte deposits in any amount .from SI.OO upwards, our four per cent, inter est, which is compounded quarterly, helps ’ your funds to grow, while our sound methods assure absolute'safety for every dollar.' Open your Savings Account with us NOW. i riTI7I7\IC BANK AND TRUST CO. CONCORD Ipislgjggft N * c - Southern Railway System *it i*- Popular Excursion Washington, D. C., Friday Aug. 31 Round Trip Fare From Concord *lo= Schedule Special Train and Rround Trip Fares: Leave' Sschedule Round Trip Fare Charlotte. 9:05 P. M. $ll.OO Concord 9:45 P. M. , 10.50 Kannapolis 4 9 :50 P. M. J 0.50 Landis 9:55 P. M. . 10.50 China Grove 10:00 P. M. 10.50 Salisbury : 10.25 P. M. 10.00 Arrive Washington 8:50 A. M. September Ist. A rare opportunity to visit the ation’s Capital. BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL GAME SEMTEMBER 2nd—Washington Americans vs. New York Americans. See Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson and otheer great stars in action. Tickets good four days and three nights in Washington This is a fine opportunity to spend the week-end and Labor Day in this beautiful city. • ' Tickets good returning on all regular trains (except No. 37) up to and including train No. 33 leaving Washing ton, D. C., 9:35 P. M., September 4th, 1923. Tickets good in day coaches and Pullman sleeping cars. Make your sleeping car reservations early. For detailed information apply to ticket agent or ad dress, R. H. GRAHAM Division Passenger Agent Charlotte, N. C. THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER RANKS as the biggest newspaper published between Washington and Atlanta, and its news service ranks second to none. «Jt is connected with all the principal news centers of-tbe State, the National and the World. Uy three leased wires of The Associated Press, and receives the full night and day double trunk wire service of that greatest of all news gather ing agencies. Also it lifts a corps of correalsindents covering the news of tlie-Carolinas by telegraph, telephone and mail, supplementing the work of its own sta.ff and The Associated Press. It's market news and sports departments compare favorably _with those of the big metropoli tan papers. In addition to-furnishing all the news that is worth print ing. The Observer, daily and Sunday carries a variety of features second ond to none in the Uarolinas, numerous special articles by famous writ ers, women’s features, comics and pictures, and is the only jsiper in »he Uarolinas that carries a section devoted to the interests of all Exter nal orders. SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL 1 Mo. 3 Mr. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 75c $2 25 $4.50 $9.00 Daily without Sunday 65c SL7S $3.50 $7.00 Sunday only 4<> SI.OO $1.75 $3.00 PAGE FIVE ful and if + here is any one clalss of men in the country who know how the law is observed it is tha railroad man. They state that when the law became ef fective July 1 there was a general tendency to observe it and to stop at tlie crossings, but pow. at the end of fiO days, great numbers oft motorists have grown careless and not (only fail to stop as required by law but flout the trains and apparently play with dan ger. i ... A chair us alcoholic research is to be established at one of the Japanese uni versities. . • r