Monday. Somber 10, 1923 ********** # *#*** * *dpf\inGS IN OUR * J VILLAGES * i*f * * * * flowes. . , t) ‘ (( |T community is right T‘ v ;“‘‘i'is writing- Mfii -‘ r r : n ,,„n V .-,l somewhat since ( rop llf rt'" llf lil :!‘ i^rit . who lias been visit- T" M - . i Mi--- Ddell Worthy, in jnf to >r ■•' ( 4;,'turned home. T;. , j,', nhery and family Mr ].'l week near Alarahvillei spoilt' Walter Harr. Mrs. U. Mi .Mr ;|U ' Hattie Hitch spent one Itarr ali,! ' - Allison Drove visit da) I:,s ' -I. F. Harr, ing M r ‘ ',. inl her of people spent last '* (’rooked <’reek fistying. The day were: Mr. and T!.\^ i , ' r,J "; I ‘ (1 ",e V and family. Airs. Hat- M-* Sim Vivdt’ and Morrison Hitch, jir K,t, :“; If . \V 1.. Harr. Mr. and Mrs. • Mr , :lli i, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Dees. { ’ ~i Mi. and Mrs. S. F. Harr, of es r |l “'"lj;j (K I.riia and Annie*Barr. of M'-nt'". - ' j X | r> Walter Barr, of M"t " \| r ;in ,| Mrs. J. I*. Barr. )l..rr««. '■ 1 , s i >r> Marshal and Lau "f K 'p Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. J. r '‘ U T. a' 1 nnl family, of Allison drove, 1 ' p‘i;,n was bo.ll and rearer in M r ; j t !’ ~,1,1 it was a great pleas -1 ul ' ,n "! -|Jj' to «et back and spend the l!u ‘. ,V W I- aiul S. F. Harr. It re *'r.,i !*', „f his boyhood days. Miko Hart sell is sending -the *' | k. Hargett spent last week .r!' ts Natives near Hickory drove. ',! Mrs. s. M Marr and son. Wat ‘^l | If't’oncot(l. spent Thursday at Mr. S’ Mrs M . I- Harr’s. ,u . 1; of Marshville. is visiting , M ' ,\irs. Will (’hristeubury. The Koad Hog. Having made rip its mind that notli • improve the ‘breed of road bogs.” ,* v -the lowest rank in the ape l',.; an ,l what one might consider as Lmmi.'l redemption.'' the Durham Herald ’•n believes that a drastic application of the law will serve to decrease their ' -'Hie careful driver." says The Herald, ‘■is "only protected about oO per cent.. .j i;lt js. he assumes half of the* danger in pc';ng out on the road. The State legislature has passed certain laws for controlling traffic and the cities and towns have other laws. The State high way commission has put out a lot of rales which will aid in reducing the risk. There are sufficient laws and rules for providing a reasonable degree of safety f„ r jhc motoring public. The fault is that there are too many fools who think they know more how traffic should be guided than the legislators and the State "highway commission. Those are the fellows who from the shoulders up are standing invitations for kidnapping by ivory limiters, and the best friends of the undertaker and casketmaker. The average automobile driven has r least mie narrow escape from an ac cident in every oft miles he travels. Sometime he will have two or three good opportunities to get killed in traveling a couple city blocks, and then some times he -will drive all day* without got ing scared half to death, but the average t’’! be one close call for about 50 miles of travel. That is a tremendous risk to have hanging over one every time he g"cs out for an automobile ride. A tVw evenings ago, a Durham man only by what seemed to be a miracle avoided two serious accidents while going to Ra leigh on account of cars parked along the hard surface road without tail lights. "Every day there are numerous es -1 apes from wrecks by persons coming into .heavy traffic streets without slow ing down to see if the way is clear. I nning corners without signaling to the car belling is another means of getting to the hospital. Dashing bystreet while passengers are alighting is 'mi a booster for the business of under- Those folks who are constantly endangering the lives of others should "** sdven an 'opportunity to improve the county roads for periods of about six month*, then 1 they would appreciate the Privileges that the roads offer to motor- A Very Probable Amendment. 'imrlotte News. _ The Carolina Motorist, published at •reensboro, has let it be known that e proposes officially to challenge the • ortii Carolina liailroad Stop law at next session of the Legislature. It r '.'‘ s n °tice on both the insurance com i'3tiies and the railroads, the twain of “in being held responsible for the mea . "Hich. in the estimation of that Hi learion, entails so many inconven .'' p its assets are overweighed. 1 ‘ > imr deny that the law goes a , ' ' :lv " hi preventing accidents, but m, , ‘ !at a J f “ ss <f r »*tie statute would the purpose equally as well, at the t " lU * r ' lu, ‘ allowing automobile drivers 'Mpipe some of the many disadvant and iuconvenienees that the present an liisive law provokes. tiri-lv I|l 1 | IS f i,i °! ) ' Vol, lh appear to be eu , ! 1 ‘ nCitde. Some way ought to U>,7 ' * >v ' v^'( 'h Hie law would "‘••l’stic. at least allowing auto -2I 1 " , ' , '" ss _ without stopping at thir ti t,a ' n s are so infrequent 1 „ practically no peril at all \y, ', ' :,, “‘‘td. There are crossing at iMtss ' ‘‘'” lsan, f s of cars undoubtedly a,id . av to ol |ly two or three trains ~fr , 1 ‘•'-proportion, therefore, -smacks y,„l . concession to the railroads .are i* 1 , r ", tlic public. And there also ,I , ' l ' crossings in the cities 1 “diti",' 1 .'• lu '“ ss law is. somewhat in tr about untold confusion Im doubt that the law will I-cgidiu.' Mt , -* l ° n, * xt session of the able t’■~ '*• should be, not to en v()i]i tv . ,l '‘ ''h iver to evade all respon t.he a 'i p crossings, but. to make ’"‘^roads''." iIS them and the tribiir,.,] balanced and evenly dis tuui'b „„ s 'i stands now, it is too "uc way. Mdhon Pounds Marketed in w,is„ n . ; Y Uson nff; .1 ‘ following are die \ Vf . p i Kuros of tobacco sales for 'I iiy II Gth, furnish 'lies- •»(,-ij,. A ’^iohnson, supervisor of ’ P oun ds sold for s4tis,- •iN. i-v\ aV, ' raK,> of a hun k'" openeri "o wp «*ks since the inar '? :i, -A!i(I04 ” Pounds sold for Per hunUred! 11 rOU " d UVei ' Uge ° f LEAVING THE FARMS. », Charlotte News. Senator Capper, who is one of the or ganizers and originators of the farm bloc in the Senate and who is known the country over as an able' jirotagonist of the cause of the American farmer, in a recent address, made the declaration that 000.000 farmers will leave the fields this year for the industrial centers and oc cupations unless some rejnedial measures are adopted by which they can be reliev ed of plighf. And the drift, he predicts, will continue to the Great White Way until the purchasing power of the farmer is restored to a more near ly ‘normal ratio. It was because of a knowledge of the sad and serious situation that exists on the American farm, the Senator remark ed. that induced him and others j u the Senate to promote the farm bloc for the procurement of legislation which the ag ricultural interests demand in this new day. Commenting on what the farm bloc discovered when it set itself to its task of looking into the status of the Ameri can farmer. Senator <’upper declares that we found our system of distribution to be the most expensive and inefficient of any country on earth. AVhen the ccnsumer buys a dollar's worth of the products of the farm, according to Gov ernment statistics less than 30 cents of the consumer's dollar reaches the farm er. The manufacturer, the wholesaler, the merchant, the railroad, all pass on the increased cost of production and dis tribution. hut the farmer is powerless to pass on his increased costs. He is com pelled to take *what is offered. •W e must get some relief from exces sive transportation costs reasonably soon. 1 believe that freight rates are too high and mu*u come down. Today it costs 22 cents to ship a bushel of !H)-cent wheat from* the heart of the Kansas wheat belt to Chicago, ’ our leading grain market. Five years ago it cost II cents to ship a bushel of $‘J wheat from Kansas to the same market. When the freieglit. charge was 11 cents a bushel the farmer was making a good profit on his $2 wheat. But he has lost money on every bushel shipped the last two years at the pres ent freight rate of 22 cents a bushel. He knows that two railroads carrying the bulk of the Kansas crop are earning from 12 to 14 per cent, on their cnpitdl stock, while he >ost on his 11)21 and 1022 uaunt crop and will lose on nis 1023 cop. Can you blame the farmer for feeling that hi is not getting a square c. ul . Jns't it appaient to any fair -1:,. idl'd man that the farmer’s reward for hi* labor an i investment is wholly out ol -balance with the carrier’s reward for it- service an 1 investment V" Smallest Precinct in the United States Has Four Voters. St. Louis, Sept. 8. —A* voting precinct in St. Ivouis county, with four perennial residents, is believed to have the smal lest ‘ population of known qualified vot ers of any precinct in the United States. The precinct is at Washington Uni versity, just west of St. Louis city, and the four residents are wondering how they can distribute themselves at elec tions to’provide the necessary six pre cinct officials. The quartet, however, takes comfort in the fact that some members of the faculty stay at the dormitories when the university is in session, and some of tlu'se may be qualified voters in St. Louis county! Those who reside at the university throughout the year are Jake Reichert, a janitor, and his and Morris Boorstin. superintendenT of buildings and grounds, and Mrs. Boorstin. For merly they voted at the county court house at Clayton, but at the last session of the State Legislature a law was passed providing for a board of election commissioners in St. Louis county. This law necessitated a redistricting of pre cincts. as it forbids the adjoining of municipal and rural, or unattached ter ritory in a precinct. As AVashington University is not in a municipality, but is surrounded by municipalities, it was necessary to make the grounds of the institution a sepa rate precinct. The unique precipet will hi* in operation for the first time Sep tember 18-20. when a registration will be held in St. Ixiuis chanty. DAVIDSON AUDIT PROMISES THRILL Shortage in Accounts Found, It Has Been Reported. Lexington, Sept. <5. —Courthouse cir cles are agog here over the audit of the books of jthe county from 1918 to the beginning of the present year. This work was done by the State Auditing Bureau and consumed abo t ut eight months, the State bearing the cost above the sum of, $4,000 guaranteed by the county. What the audit contains is as. yet known to but a few. No summary has yet been prepared and the county commissioners have under consideration what action they shall follow as a re sult of several items covered by the au dit. They expect to collect a good many thousand dollars from former office holders, it is known —and the matter may not stop there, it being rumored that there are things that might be termed sensational that the auditors have dis covered. As soon as the commission ers, have canvassed the report its bend ings are expected to be made public here, and they are certainly being await ed with interest by those who from time to time have heard rumors as to what lias been found. Makes Terms. * Paris, BepL 8 (By the Associated Press). —The inter-allied council of am bassadors in its note to Grece made pub lic today, lays down terms providing that satisfaction be . given for the as sassination of the Italian mission engaged in delimitation of the Greek-Albanian j frontier near Janina on August 28th. The terms are very similar to those in the Italian ultimatum, part of whi<;h was rejected by the Greek government leading to the Italian occupation of the island of Corfu. The council holds that an outrage committed under circumstances attend ing the slaying of the Italian “directly involves the responsibility of the State and territory' in which it took place.” Weather For Next Week. AVajihington, Sept. B.—The weather outlook for the beginning of the week : South Atlantic states: Generally fair but with a probability of local showers the latter part of week; moderate tern- 1 perature. ; 1 LOCAL MENTION Miss Jessie Deaton, of the clerical-de partment of the Patks-Belk Co., is enjoy ing a vacation at present. Rev. L. A. Thomas is in Albemarle today to preach the dedicatory sermon at ! the dedication of Sf. Martin’s Lutheran ! Church. | Miss Ruth Morrison has accepted a position with the Parks-Belk‘Company. , Hhe began her new duties with the company this morning. One case of scarlet fever and two cases of whooping cough were reported to the county health department this morning for over the week-end. Air. Charley Linker has accepted a position with the St. ('loud Barber Shop. This gives the St. (,'lpud shop a person nel of six barbers. Friends and relatives here of Mr. Jesse Griffin have been advised that he is rap idly recovering from an operation which lie recently underwent in a hospital in Columbia, S. C. Mr. I*. G. Cook, who Infs been criti , cally ill for some time, is able to sit up for a short time each day now. His condition today is reported by relative** as much improved. Mrs. Bessie Long Hartsell has resum ed her work at Efird’s after enjoying a vacation. She spent some of the time in Charlotte and Mt. Pleasant with rel atives and friends. x Mr. Clifford Hahn and Miss Elizabeth Hahn will leave tomorrow for Hickory, where the_Jatter will enter Lenoir Col lege. From Hickory Mr. Hahn will go , •<> Asheville, to attend a convention of Metropolitan Life Insurance Agents. All persons who are interested in tli.e Center Church cemetery are asked to meet there Thursday afternoon, Septem , her 13th for the puriiose of cleaning off , the cemetery. They are asked to bring , tools. The condition of Sheriff AV. P. Mabrey, who has been confined to his home for severa.v days with a severe attack of tonsilitis, is reported today as improved. ; He is not yet able to return to his of ; lire in the court house, however. Marriage licenses were issued Satur day toutin' following couples: Daniel ’ Black welder and Miss Elva Furr, both of Concord : Glenn Scoff and Miss Lot ‘ tie Sifford. both' of RockweH; and Rob ’ ert E. Stewart, of # Charlotte, and Miss Sosalyn Threadgill, of Concord. Prof. J. B. Robertson has returned from Raleigh, where he spent several days. While in the State capital Prof. Robertson conferred with State school ’ officials, and made plans concerning the conduct of schools in Cabarrus county I this year. Mrs. Charles Starrett died Saturday night after a lingering illness of more than a year. Funeral services were held Sunday and interment was made at the I Enochville cemetery. The services were . conducted by Rev. B. S.- Dasher, pastor . of the Church of which Airs. Starrett had lieen a lift\ long member. Aliss Lelia Tuttle, missionary -support ed by the Woman's Alissionary Society > of ('entral Methodist. Church, was heard ■ with interest by a large congregation at r the church yesterday at the morning ser : vice. Aliss Tuttle has been in the mis sion field for many years and she is al ■ ways heard with interest here when she , speaks on her work. , Alacon won the pennant In the second half of the South Atlantic race. By .. winning a game Saturday the Georgia { team won the pennant and this week is . playing Charlotte for the season's eham ! pionship, Charlotte having won the first . half. Wilson won in the Virginia League, defeating Richmond by one point, ■ and probably will play a series with the winner of the Charlotte-Alacon series. At the Bethpage . Community Club 1 meeting Friday night representatives of the Cabarrus County Fair were heard ' with interest. Representatives of the Fair will speak at two community meet ings in this county this week and after that they will visit communities in other counties which adjoin Cabarrus. Great interest in the fair is being shown in every community, representatives of the fair state. School children who have not yet been , vaccinated, can get the treatment at the office of the county health department each afternoon this week from 3 to 5 o'clock.' The StatU law required all children to be vaccinated before begin ning school and the treatment will be given this week at the health depart ment to accommodate any children who have failed so far to comply with the law. A number of cases were on docket for trial in recorder’s court this morning. Among the defendants were 14 charged with gambling, nine of them having been arrested immediately after the offi cers flushed the covey of gamblers yes terday afternoon. Three of the defend ants were charged with speeding, one was charged with intoxication and another with using profane and indecent lan guage. Farmers of f'abarrus county who are members of the Co-operative Cotton Growers Co-operative Association should deliver their cotton either to Concord, Kannapolis, Harrisburg or Midland, ati officer of the association stated this morning. "The cotton should be deliv ered during the last three days of the week, when this is possible,” the officer stated. He pointed out that the asso ciation this year is making an advance of $(»<) on each bale weighing 400 pounds or more. Mecklenburg Tax Levy 87.1-2; 20 Cent Road Tax Refused. Charlotte, Sept. 7- —A tax rate of 1 87 1-2 cent was adopted for the county for the fiscal yeaV 1923-24 at a meeting of the board of commissioners today. Thus is an increase of 11 1-2 cents over the rate obtaining the past fiscal year. | I The refusal of the board to levy a 1 road tax of 20 cents on the SIOO of property, means the immediate abandon t ment of a number of road projects. Crowned Again. Atlantic City, Sept. 7.—Aliss Cather ine Campbell, (Miss Columbus), retain ed her crown as “Aliss America” for the second straight year tonight. WEATHER FORECAST. 1 Fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler on 'coast tonight. , tHE CONCOR D TIMES Imported Revolution Threatens The United States, Says Mine Workers I New York. Sept. o.—The United | Aline AVorkqrs of America today made public the first of a series of six ar ticles charging that “red forces, under the direct supervision of Aloseow. are j attempting to seize control of the or ! ganized hrb#r movement of America and j use it as the base from which to carry !on the Communist effort for the over throw of American government:" “Imported revolution is knocking at the door of the United Alines Workers of America and of the people of the United States and Canada.” say** the in troductory article, which adds that its ‘ disclosures are “the result of an inde pendent, searching investigation by the miners'. organization which led directly to original sources.” Through a revolutionary movement on this continent the Communist Interna tionale at Aloseow has undertaken, ac cording to the miners, to carry out tlje following program : “Overthrow and destruction of the federal, state and provincial govern ments. with the elimination of existing constitutional forms and foundations. “Establishment of a soviet dictator ship, absolute in its exercise of power, owing allegiance to only the cbmmunist or third Internationale at Aloseow. "Destruction of all social, economic and political institutions as they exist at this time. "Seizure of all labor unions, through a process of boring from within them, and ytilizing them as it strategic instrument in fulfillment of their revolutionary de signs upon organize?! and constitutional government. COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT BRIGHTENS LIFE ON FARM Great Strides Have Been Made Through Work, of County Agents. Durham. N. H., Sept. 8. —Significant changes tending to check the economic trend which has been sapping farm life have been brought about by county agent work in the interest of better farming, according to a report by .T. C. Kendall, director of cooperative extension work in the University of New Hampshire. Tak ing as a basis conditions in Sullivan county, where in August ten years ago county .agent work was first begun, Di rector Kendall points to numerous de velopment which he attributes directly and indirectly to extension activities. “In the first place, the spirit of aloof individualism has very largely gone." Air. Kendall says. "People in the old days used to go to meeting to scoff at the agricultural specialist: now’ they stay and ask questions. They used to think .it was a mistake to share their ideas oii farming with each other; now they get together and discuss ways in which they can cooperate to advantage. .“But the advance has not been one in spirit only,” he adds, and points to scores of new houses built according to extension recommendations; to standard feeding; tin* testing of two score thous ands of birds; and to hillsides of Alao iutosh apple orchards destined to the axe and saved only by demonstrations that the scab could be controlled. The building up of cow-testing asso ciations, the tendency toward better sires, hundreds of alfalfa fields that yield .three crops instead of two, farm ers exchange which do an annual busi ness in the state of $1,200,000. are all evidences of the movement, Mr. Ken dall assefts. Substantial results in making farm life more desirable for young people and their elders alike are also observable. He points to better balanced meals, more economical and attractive wardrobes, walls of more prepossessing appearance and kitchens with modern conveniences. Last year 10.000 women worked together to make each other dress forms of gum med paper, cooperated in making pat terns and helped each other make fire It is our privilege to serve a large and grow ing number of the most substantial and suc cessful citizens of Concord .and Cabarrus County. If you are not already identified with this bank as a depositor it would give us much pleasure to add your name to our books; ■ . ] I .' CITIZENS ill CONCORD || jUmijj | ll We Carry The Best Thing in the World to Walk On SHOES! PARKER'S SHOE STORE Between Parks-Belk and McLellan 5c and 10c Store “Invasion of the United Mine Work ers of America, with the ouster of its present officials and leaders and the sub stitution of a leadership commun ists. . * ' “A well organized movement being promoted within the Big-Four railroad brotherhoods and sixteen railroad trade unions to amalgamate all rail workers into one departmentalized industrial union, controlled by a single leader of communist principle and affiliation. “Seizure of the American Federation of Labor, with the ouster of its officials and, through such seizure, gaining con trol of its—affiliated units and trade unions. “Conversion of all trade crafts unions into'single units of workers within an industry known as ‘lndustrial Unions' V*’ith co-ordination under a super-soviet union owing allegiance and accepting the mandates of thb Communist Internation ale and its subsidiary, the Red Trade Union International at Moscow. “Through conquest and subjugation so the labor unions and conversion and mo ld ization of farms and other* related groups, the overthrow of existing insti tutions and the creation of a condition similar to that which now prevails in Russia.” The article charges that a vast net work of agencies for the dissemination of communist propaganda exists in the United States. This system, it is al leged. is a veritable octopus of inter locking directorate, with 200 local or ganizations, 4T» national ones, and a membership that runs the social scale of the continent. less cookers. In addition, Mr. Kendall points to boy's and girls’ clubs and asserts that the significance of 2,000 youngsters train ing in various farm and home projects is not to be easily waved aside. CO-OPS NEED NOT PAY INCOME TAX Provided There Is Proportionate Distri bution of Proceeds of Sales. Washington. Sept. 7. —A proportionate distribution of the proceeds of the sale' of their products to the members of co operative associations was declared by the Internal Revenue Bureau here to be the only method by which the income of such associations is made tax exempt. The bureau's findings were announced in a final decision amending previous income tax regulations. The new regulation provides that co operative associations - acting as sales agents for farmers, fruit growers, live stock growers, dairymen and others, or engaged in the marketing of farm prod ucts and turning back to tlfe producers the proceeds of the sales on a pro-rata basis, are exempt, from income tax and shall not be required to file returns. “If tin* proceeds of the business are distributed in any other way than ou such a proportionate basics,” the regula tion continued, “the association does not meet the requirements of the statute and is not exempt. The accumulation and maintenance of a reasonable reserve for depreciation or possible losses, or a re serve required by a State law. wr a sink ing fund or surplus to provide for the erection of buildings and facilities, will not destroy the exemption.” The regulation makes it clear that in every case the association will be requir ed to show that the ownership of the stock has bqfu restricted to producers. The regulation extends the same tax exemption to co-operatives which operate as purchasing agencies for organized pro ducers, allowing them all privileges ex tended to the associations engaged only in selling. Story-books for blind children con tain raised pictures which the little ones linger over lovingly with their fingers. We could build i . 4# ' a Wall around Wall Street • Put these hats in the center and every banker and broker would turn out head first a winner. . That’s how thorough we have cornered the hat market. We don’t take our hat off to any other display the State affords—and men who have been here are vouching for this statement. Youst>an’t wear your old straw any longer—and your Spring felt ought to bet pensioned to the Attic. i New Knox Fall Hats $7.00 up Others $3.00 up New Fall Caps ' New Fall Shoes Browns - Cannon Co. 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