, , s e ptemb er 17, 1923 EE OF ETRIBUTION y ©tnnf.BßOwN e coMPiMty, 19*3 I "%EGIN HERB TODAY I Ved sent by ££ |^%i ? aS's!r l ; k , a nJv.u I feiHrith the Indians for fine I P rcfit l *«%<> Ned ■ furs- 1 linn's share to I S.JS. accompanied on the voy- I Com e l!® a f . cc I f"'; Lenore Harden- I ST» I frtfce sarae ni£r ht following I from Seattle, they I certain heavy stores. I loaded t . en j n charge of the I C*P ;ail ! Kill assisted by McNab. I &«• ‘fi-fs UP mind to avoid I Bess aristocrats as much as I the ,tt r Thev in turn igrnore the I poss;b ie * I Sv CO CN WITH THE STORY I " was such a little group of I ® n-ilr eight In all. The ship I mere dot In the expanse of I TBS AroU nd them endlessly lay I Wept by unknown winds, I W'vt the winter's cold, like I ““J itilf in its infinity and its I fir,Wear. The life they had left I KWWas already shadowed and I Jr7 t!;e farewell shouts, the laugh- I the gaiety, the teeming crowds I £ moved and were never still were I Jake something imagined, unspeak- I Mv far off. Only the sea and the I Iw were left, and the craft strug- I Hns wearily, ever farther into the I empty North. I Lenore found herself oppressed by I w unreasoning fear. Realities were I wtting home to her, and she was I EiTof them. It would have been I user not to come, yet she couldn’t I told why. The launch was I wholly comfortable; she was already I accustomed to the cramped quar- I ten. The men of the crew were I corneous, Ned the same devoted 'over as always. The thing was »iore an Instinct with her: such pleasure as the trip offered could not compensate for an obscure uneasi ness, a vague but ominous shadow over her mood and heart that was never lifted. Perhaps a wiser and secret self within the girl, a subcon sciousness which was wise with the knowledse of the ages before ever her be;ng emerged from the germ plasm was even now warning her to turnback. It knew her limitations; aso it knew the dreadful, savage { realm she had dared to penetrate. The North would have no mercy for ! her if she were found unworthy. Perhaps in her heart she realized 1 that she represented all that was the antithesis of this far northern do malr.. She was the child of luxury aud ease: the tone and spirit of these wintry seas were travail and desolation. She was the product of a generation that knew life only as a structure that mems civilization had built; out here was life itself, rav and naked, stripped and bare. She was lawless, undisciplined', knoffui;: no code but her own de sires; all these seas and the gray fog-laden shores they swept were in the iron grip of Igcw that went down to the roots of time, dhe had never looked beyond the surface of things: he heart that pulsed in the breast of this wintry realm lay so deep that , only the most wise and old, devotees to nature s secrets, could ever hear it b?a;. She hau the unmistakable •fear that, in an unguarded rno- E ~.. she had blundered into the of an enemy. Ever she < a malevolence in the mur ®'ir of the wind, a veritable threat “J~® soft voices of the night J? , R f hts ' her innate "sense of ' 'try told her, were unspeakably u ‘ l '‘' She had never seen such i j.. ' lore - They were so large, so \ jl l o e '. and ■ so unutterably aloof, -.ju.mes the moon rose in a splash fa/«' er ' a:!Cl itS love ii n °ss on the " a3 a thin ” that words i like* • r ‘ Tet Lenore did not she could not put in - /./;■ ;^, or a:i •ibeir beauty those : d ' ?rnaved and disquiet- 1 r - u hey, too, were of the r( jiJi- I , rj ""' IVnnani < ;im- Will Wait on X ' ' • •"'‘‘I 1 *- it. — Secretary luj o " ’l*' 1 National *ns ' l ’t-of—i..nn I i *.aM‘hai! lea that lie would 'i"a e..iM-erning tin* ir ■ 1 claimed by the kti. , U .-nil ciiib-.. |tending :|,>m other clubs involv- Mi ,- ■ : .p „ ,l '- '' A. M< I.aurin ami •i*.VC"?.- M! " X " !a 1 •'•him and Mr. •'■•vcral hours Tliurs ' 1 *it viifls»»ti College', visit ~ '4'j• rJ.-■ •• 1* nee Little. (~M ’IKMK!) PROOF it. , i Uha, , 1 ‘ ,|l was the one thing she could not and i dared not accept. 'Such realities as i these, the wide-stretching seas and the infinity of stars, were rapidly . stripping her of her dearest delu . sionsr and with them, the very ’ strongholds of her being. Hereto : fore she had placed her faith in su perficialities, finding strength for her spirit and bolstering up her self respect with such things os pride of ; ancestry, social position, a certain social attitude of recklessness that i sh e thought became her, and most of all by refusing to believe that life contained any depth that she had not plumbed, any terrors that she dared not brave, any situation that she could not meet and master. Hut here these things mattered not at aIL Neither ancestry nor social position could save her should the winter cold, hinted at already m the frost of the dawns, sw.oop down and find her unprotected. Her own per sonal charm would not fight for her should she fall overboard into the icy waters. Here was a region where recklessness could very easily mean death; and where life itself I LENORE SOUND HERSELF OP- I PRESSED BY AN UNREASONING ! FEAR. f,- was suddenly revealed utterly be yond her ken. But there was no turning back. Every hour the Charon bore her farther from her home. Mrs. Hardenworth, whose habits of thought were more firmly estab lished, was only made irritable and petulant by the new surroundings. Never good company except under the stimulation of some social gathering, she was rapidly becoming something of a problem to Ned and Lenore. She was irritable with the crew, on the constant verge of insult to Bess, forecasting disaster for the* entire expedition. Unlike Bess, she had never been disciplined to meet hardship and danger; her only re source was guile and her only cour age was recklessness; so now she tried so overcome her inner fears with a more reckless attitude toward life. It was no longer necessary for Ned and Lenore to seek the shelter of the pilot house for their third whisky-and-soda. She was only too glad to take it with them. More than once tne dinner hour found her glassy-eyed and almost hysteri cal, only a border removed from actual drunkenhess. Never posses sing any true moral strength or real good breeding, a certain abandon begun to appeax in her speech. And < they had not yet rounded tho Alas- ' kan Peninsula into Bering Sea. To Ned, the long north and west ward journey bad been even more a i revelation. He also knew the fear, the disillusionment, a swift sense of j weakness when before he had been LENOIR ST I'D ENTS ARE WELCOMED TO HICKORY Over 200 Report For the Fall Term.— Interesting Addresses Made By Var ious Persons.* Hickory. Kept. 14.—Formal welcome to the over 200 students of Lenoir-lihyne college was extended last night by I)r. John C. I’eery, president : Mayor Euert Lyerly of Hickory: Rev. C. S. Kirk patrick. pastor of the First Methodist church, and S- H. Farabee. editor of a local newspaper. Rev. AY. H. Hiller of JacksonvilV. Fla.. who brought his daughter here to enter college. also spoke, and several musical numbers by j students were given. A reception in | honor of the faculty ami new students i was held in one of the society halls, | after which cream and cake were serv ed. In his talk to the students. President I‘eery reminded them that they were en tering in a new world.’ and that what they do now willl be reflected in their later years. He urged them to avail themselves of their opportunities here, t.» make friends not only among the students but among members of the faculty and others and win friendships that will be a valuable heritage in later years. % • Fugtivc Held For Theft of a Million- Chicago. Sept. 14.= —R- I. Salinger.-al leged to have used the United States mails in defrauding South Dakota farmers out of $1,000,000 and who has bepu a- fugitive from justice since he for feited his bonds of $1.1,000 after an in dictment had beeu returned against him ! in the courts at Sioux Falls, S. ! D.. in 1017, wak arrested in a hotel j here today by department of justl-e agent;. j Mr. Clifford Hahn has returned from * Asheville, where lie attended a conven tion of agents of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. perfectly sura in him m strength; out there was also a more complex reaction—one that be could not ana lyze or put into words. He couldn’t call it happiness. It wasn’t that, ns *eßs the mood that follows the bear log of wonderful music is also bap, piness. Perhaps that was the best comparison: the passion he felt was Something like the response made to great music. There had been times at the opera, when all conditions were exactly favorable, that he had felt the same, and once when he had ’ hsexd Fritz .Kreisler play Handel’s J “Largo.” It was a strange reaching x and groping, rather than happiness. | It was a stir and thrill that touched • the most secret chords of his being. [ He felt most at night when the great, white northern stars wheeled r through the heavens. It was good to see them undulled "by smoke; they - touched some side of him that had r never been stirred Into life before. At • such times the sea was lost in mys ' tery. f The truth was that Ned. by the will of the Red Gods, was perceiving ■ something of the real spirit of the > North. A sensitive man to start with, he caught something of its mystery 1 and wonder of which, as yet, Lenore : had no glimpse. And the result • was to bring him to the verge of a far-reaching discovery: that of his own weakness He had never .admitted weakness before. He had always been so sure Os himself, so complacent, so self sufficient. But curiously these things were dying within him. He ■ found himself doubting, for the first time, the success of this northern adventure. Could he cope with the realities that were beginning to press upon him? Would not this northern wilderness show him up as the weak ling he was? 1 For the first time In. his life Ned Cornet knew what realism was. He supposed, in his city life, that he had been a realist: instead he had only been a sophist and a mocker in an environment that was never real from dawn to darkness. He bad read books that he had acclaimed among his young friends as masterpieces of realism—usually works whose theme and purpose seemed to be a bald faced portrayal, of s«c—but now he saw that their very premise was one of falsehood. Here were the true realities—unconquerable seas and starry skies and winds from off the waste places. Unlike Lenore, Ned's regrets were not that he had ever launched forth upon the' venture. Rather he found himself regretting that he was not better fitted to contend with it. Per haps, after all, bis father had been right and he had been wrong. For the first time in his life Ned felt the need of greater strength, of stronger sinews. What if his father h'ud told the truth, and that strict trials awaited him here. It was no longer easy to disbelieve him. Almost any disaster could fall upon him here, in these wastes of sunlit water, in the very shadow of polar Ice. The sun Itself had lost its warmth. It slanted down upon them from far to the south, and It seemed to be beguiling them, with its golden beauty on the waters, into some deadly trap that had been set for them still farther north. It left Ned some way appre hensive and dismayed. He wished he hadn’t been so sure of himself, that he had taken greater pains, in his wasted years, to harden and train himself. Perhaps he was to be weighed..in the balance, and it was increasingly hard to believe that he would not be found wanting. In such a mood he recalled his father’s words regarding that dread realm of test and trial that lay some where beyond the world: “some bit ter, dreadful training camp for those that leave this world unfitted to go on to a higher, better world.” He had scorned' the thought at first, but now he could hardly get it out of his mind. It suggested some sort of an analogy with his present condition. These empty seas were playing tricks on his imagination; he could conceive that the journey of which his father had spoken might not bo so greatly different than this. There would be the same desolation, tho same nearness of the stars, the empti ness and mystery, the same sense of gathering, impending trial and stress. (Continued in Our Next Issue) NEWSPAPER MEN TO APPEAR BEFORE COURT John G. Dickson and Max Ahemethy Called to Appear Before Judge 15. F. Long. Salisbury. Sept. 15.-—John (J. Dick-- I son, managing editor, and Max Aber nethy, editor of the Greensboro Record, were subpoenaed by Superior Court Judge B. F. Ixnig to appear before him this morning. As far as can be learned here, no charges have beeu made. The two men were cited to appear before Judge Long this morning at 9 o’clock.as a result of an editorial in the Record on Thursday. September 17tli. criticising judges for ‘arbitrarily increasing sen tences imposed by the lower courts.” The editorial made particular reference to Judge Long for increasing the sen tence of Roy Cauble. Cauble was given six months in Rowan county court and Judge Long raised the sentence to eight months. No charges will be made against the men until after they confer with Judge Jong it was thought here. The men did not appear at 9 o'clock and the time was changed. It is said they will be here this afternoon. » . _ CHARGES AGAINST JULIAN NEW BERN ARE DISMISSED Was Cliarged With Manslaughter as a Result of Auto Accident in Which Tliree Men Were Killed. Elizabeth City, X. C\, Sept. 15.—The charges of manslaughter against Julian Xewbero, growing out of au automobile, accident which resulted in the death .of three men and ]>aiuful injuries to auoth-j or and himself, ' were dismissed for lack o fevidence when he was given a hearing here today. • , The cdurt first ruled a finding of prob able -cause against Xewberu but reversed the decision when the prosecution indi cated its belief that its evidence would be insufficient in a jury trial. THE CONCORD TIMES BELIVES FAIB WILL SHIM INTEREST IN CABARRUS COUNTY W. A. Gvercash Expresses Delight With County Fair, and Thinks It Will Mean Much to Agriculture. SPECIAL EDITION ALSO DELIGHTS Mr. Overcash Thinks Public ity Given in Fair and Indus trial Edition Will Be Great Advantage to the County. That the average man and woman in Cabarrus county hardly appreciates the wonderful agricultural resources of the county is the opinion of W. A. Over cash, past president of the Retail Mer chants Association, and proprietor of the furnishing store that bears his name, in commenting on the special edition which The Tribune and Times is now working on for publication October i)th. ”i was delighted that a fair associa tion was formed.” he said, “because noth ing will stimulate the farmers more than a tine display of the products of our soil. We are all going to get our eyes opened October Kith to 20th in connection with what Cabarrus county can produce. While we all know in a general way that we have a fine farming county, it will take the fair to collect together the exhibits which will drive home on the minds of all beholders, that Cabarrus is -in a class by itself when it conies to variety and extent of agricultural wealth. Our cotton, our corn, our wheat and our grain will stand comparison with any county in the state. Our soil is excel lent for fruit and vegetables, and a begin ning is being made in these two lint's of husbandry. The fair will go far to en courage more farmers to diversify their efforts. Livestock will thrive in Cabar rus. It is among the safest and most certain enterprises the farmer can take up. because livestock is growing into money regardless of weather conditions, and there is a ste.vly market the year round for butter, milk and cream. The fair I am sure will prove a great stimu lus to livestock. “But a fair, unless it is advertised and well attended will not help. The decis ion of The Tribune and Times to publish a special edition devoted to boosting the fair and recording the agricultural and commercial growth of Cabarrus, is most timely and happy. It is just what is needed to properly complete and round out the plans of the Fair Association. The association has provided the way for greater agricultural development through the inspiration and education furnished by exhibits. Now The Tribune and The Times is going to make sure that the work of the Fair Association is made 100 per cent, effective. I think the spe cial edition just prior to the Fair will guarantee a tremendous attendance and will make fair week OcW>er 16th to 20th one of the most important- weeks in the history of Cabflrrus county. I am glad to learn that the special edition is being heartily supported by all classes of busi ness men. That is what I would expect from the people of Concord. New Ginning Law. Raleigh. Sept. 1“». —The last session of the Legislature enacted a law' which becaso operative August loth that re quires every public gin to number con secutively every bale of cotton ginned and to number it that the number can not l>e removed or disfigured by ordi nary handling. Many ginnery seem to have some misunderstanding concern in the law which is given here in full. Section 1. That any person, firm or corporation operating any public cot ton gin. that is, any cotton gin other than one ginning solely for the individu al owner, owners, or operators thereof, shall hereafter be required to distinctly and dearly number, serially each and every bale of cotton ginned, ine on* ft the following ways: (1) Mark in color upon the bagging of the bale, in figures; (2) attach a metaT strip carrying serial number to one of the ties of. the bale and ahead of the tie lock, and so secure it that ordinary handling will not re move or disfigure the number: (.’i) im press the serial number upon one of the bands or tics around the bale. Section 2. That any person, firm or corporation failing or refusing to com ply with the preceding section shaTT be guilty of a misdemeanor for each and every offense, and upon conviction shall be lined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days. u rr Section 1. That this act shall be in force from and after August fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred ami twenty three. law Operated Fast in Case of Walter Parnell. Salisbury Post. , Quick justice was meted out in the case of Walter Parnell, young white man who shot Deputy Sheriff Raukiu near Woodleaf last Thursday about noon and theu made his escape, taking with him the wounded officer's pistol, and who was captured on the afternoon of the following clay. In less than a week after I’arnell was arrested by Officer Rankin at a saw mill in western Rowan, lie bad made a murderous assault on the deputy, recaptured, imprisoned, a true bill returned by the grand jury, the case called, a submission entered by the prisoner, he was sentenced to eight years on the Rowan roads and had been taken to the chain gang and put to work, beiug taken to the raod camp yesterday afternoon. With Our Advertisers. The I’arks-Bclk Co. is receiving new arrivals for its shoe department every day. lu a new ad. today prices .on a few of; the many numbers are given. Miss ‘Clara Henry ;is' again with this story in charge of the alterations. The Citizens Bank and Trust Company cordially invites you to make use of the splendid banking facilities it offers. De posit something regularly in this bank. All the master modes iu millinery for Autumn at Fisher's, $3.95 up. See new ad. today. STOCKHOLDERS OF PEOPLES BANK TO LAUNCH PROJECT Chance Name and Officials; Awaits Ap proval of Depositors, Comptroller. Sa'isbury Post, 14th. The Peoples National Bank will he reorganized. This decision was reached last night at an enthusiastic meeting of the stock holders of this institution. * Wit I)iu a few minutes after the meet ing was called to order by Chairman W. H. Gibson, the remainder of the SIOO,OOO which was necessary, was readily sub scribed. The stockholders were in ses sioir-only a few minutes. The name of the bank and new officers and a complete change in the personnel "ill be made, it is stated, after the~prop osition gets definitely underway. Reorganization of the bank is tenta tive upon the consent and approval of the comptroller of the currency and and a favorable vote of a majority of the de positors. It is understood that the comptroller of the currency is anxious for the bank to reorganize and start again on a sound basis. A committee was appointed to attend to all preliminaries and work out the matter of reorganization. The commit tee is composed of the following men: I • N. McCubbins, T. M. Kesler. ,T. R. Maynard, N. W. Collett and W. H. Hob son. This committee meets today at 2 p. m.’ to begin working on plans for t4ie reorganization of the bank. At a fture date, a mass meeting of the depositors will he held as soon as the stockholders have organized and formulated a concrete proposition to of fer tin* depositors. The depositors will be asked to sign a release of approximately 50 per cent, of the amount of their deposits. As the bank makes 5 per cent on deposits, the .depositors will be credited for that amount, and so on. until, the stockhold ers and depositors hope the par value of deposits or stock can be realized. At the meeting last night approxi mately $15,000 was subscribed. The $85,000 had been previously subscribed. This project, if agreeable to the comp troller of the currency, means that the recent par- value assessment on the stockholders will not become effective, pending the outcome of the new under taking. Piedmont Starts Monday. Green shorn, boro and Danville dubs of the Piedmont league will start their post-season series to determine the circuit's 1923 cham pions here Monday afternoon. Greens boro won the first half after a hard tight and Danville Thursday made cer tain the last half by beating High Point 10 to 1. while lialeigh was losing to Greensboro. 1 to 0. The first two game* of the series will be played in Greensboro, the next two in Danville, after which the clubs will alternate until one wins -four victories. Durham, 1022 winner. finished this season in the cellar. t Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meuning and children. of Winston-Salem, arrived in Concord to spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. IP'S. Williams. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM _ tual service was the “Best Friend” of 1830. train on what is now the Southern^ pioneer engine, and 70,000 cars, operating on from the Atlantic the Mississippi, the far northem gateways at Washington, Cincin nati and Louisville —and the western gate ways at St. Louis and Memphis —to the ocean ports of Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and Jacksonville —and the Gulf ports of Mobile and New Orleans. Operated by men of the South, who have been bred in its traditions to understand its problems and its needs, the Southern keeps pace with the South. The investment in its properties is now more than $710,000,000, —of which $285,000,000 has been expended in * the pas', two dechdes., . With the continued cooperation of the people if 'l ' iof the South, we will be enabled to com -1 NL'v mand the capital for the greater transpor \ tation facilities that Southern development demand. ihvay System * last year spent in tkeSouth —fa * $20,000,000 more than \t SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH 4 NORTH CAROLINA GOES OVER THE TOP Exceeds Her Quota for the Japanese Relief by $25,000. "Washington, Sept. 14.—North Caro lina, the Red Cross announced, has gone over her quota for the Japanese disaster. She had exceeded her total by $25,000 and was going close to $30.0000. Washington. Sept. 14.—Relief funds collected by the, American Red Cross for Japanese earthquake up to to night amounted to sfaß3.ooo, several of the divisions among which the work was divided haring exceeded the quotas alloted to them. By sections money noted follows: "Washington, $4,165,500; New Eaglaud. $489,500; southern, $173,500; central, $1,077,000 ; .southwestern, $426,000; Pa cific, $650,000; insular and foreign. $210,500. Japan's most urgest requirements for the relief of earthquake sufferers were discussed this afternoon at a conference between Ambassador Hanihara and W. Gordon Brown, purchasing officer of the American Red Cross, with, a view to pro viding immediately such materials as can best be utilized in the emergency. Deputy Rankin Leaves Salisbury Hos pital. Salisbury Post. Deputy Sheriff It. Lee Rankin, who was shot by Walter Parnell, last Thurs day afternoon near Woodleaf when* Par nell, who had been arrested by the of ficer. attacked him and. made his escape, later being captured by Sheriff Krider, who was leading a posse in the hunt for the officer’s assailant, was discharged from the Salisbury hospital late yester day afternoon and is now at his home at the jail, being jailer as well as chief deputy to the sheriff. It was at first thought Mr. Rankin was seriously wounded but it later de veloped that the ball did not penetrate the intestine but after entering the fleshy part of the abdomen ranged upward un der the left arm, where it was extracted Mr. Rankin was able to ride up to the courthouse yesterday and appear before the grand jury making inquiry into the, case against Parnell. He afterward re turned to the hospital and later in the evening was discharged and is now at liome. He hopes to- be able to resume his official duties in a short time. pacific Shipping Increased By 100 Per cent in Ten Years. Honolulu. Aug. 19.—Tlu* growth of commerce and shipping on the Pacific in the past ten years is shown by the fact that the tonnage- of ships arriving here increased in the fiscal year 1923 by more than 100 percent over the total of 1023. according to the annual report off the harbor master. The total tonnage for* 1913 was 2.- 724.424. and the aggregate for 1923 was 5.202.275. an-advance of 3,567.852 in the decade. The number of ships also was much larger, 478 entering in 1913 and 716 making this port in 1923. The harbor Ulster’s {report r;f om mended that better and larger facilities be provided here for handling the ves sels. in vitfw of the increase and in anticipation of further growth. PAGE THREE SPECIAL EDITION OF TIMES ANB TRIBUNE GETS ME SUPPORT Head of Merchants’ Asso ciation Thinks Fair and In dustrial Editioh Will Be of Much Value. V * '* * COUNTY’S LIFE , TO BE OUTLINED Interesting Facts About the County and Fair Will Be Outlined in the Special Fair Edition. » Commenting on the announcement of the management of The Tribune and Times on Wednesday respecting their plans to publish a special editiondepoted to sounding the praises of Cabarrus coun ty and boosting the coming fair, while at the same time recording the remark able growth made in Cabarrus and Con cord in an agricultural and industrial "ay. A. H. Jarratt, president of the Concord Retail Merchants Association, and head of the Southern Motor Service Company, expressed his approval today op the proposal. "Such an edition.” he said, “should serve to encourage us all to greater effort, and to give us the opportunity of seeing at a glance just how much we have all accomplished. It should prove most helpful iu reminding us all that in Cabarrus county we have a wonderful field for activity and that while we have a right to be proud of what we have done, there are still plenty of opportunities for further progress. “The fair, I am sure will be most helpful in encouraging the farmers to adopt a policy of diversification crops. Our soil is ideal for fruit and vegetables. There is no county better adapted for livestock raising - than Cabarrus. The fair I am sure will greatly encourage our farmers to engage in these lines of agricultural activity to a greater extent, and in this way treble and u\ore than treble the agricultural wealth*" annually produced in this wonderful county. A special edition of The’ Tribe and Times, devoted to helping the fair, will at the same time 'help all of our farmers and the business interests as well.” Heads. Lions Club. Fayetteville. Bept. 15.—V. C. Bullard was elected president of the local Lions Club at a recent meeting. R. M. Hors burg was elected secretary and treas urer. Miss Katherine Wolff left Wednesday for Greensboro to resume her studies in the North Carolina College for Womeu.