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PAGE FOUR THE CONCORD TIMES Published Mondays and Thursdays • Entered as second class mail matter at the postoffice •t Concord, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1< • _ j b. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor //■•if \ : Special Representative FROST. LANDIS & KOHN 225 Fifth Avenue, New York i*.- . Peoples’ Gas Building, Chicago 1004 Candler Building, Atlanta ■ ——— lll -j . - -J- I ■■■" T" PEOPLE WON’T GO TO MEETINGS. ! ~ The Salisbury Post answers the question, •Twhy do voters not attend political speak jfmg's? with this statement, j: Because ‘‘the average political speaker has |}nothing to offer an audience, therefore he does \ ‘not get one. He has no ideas, no special in formation the average man needs or wants, and : he totally lacks anything byway of a construc [ itive program.” * . All of which is true.. The average political •speaker knows no more than the man who ■ reads the newspapers and that class is becom ing legion. Our people are better educated, •therefore better able to think for themselves. The politician need not have his feelings ihurt by the size of his crowd, however. . Lack of interest in public speaking, as The Post isays further, “is not confined to political speak . lings. The biennial lack of interest in political speakings is but the continuation of the full |vear’s program. The same in large measure is true of religious gatherings, and many civic programs are killed in the making. It only re quires a few mistakes to turn the people into skeptics and keep the whole* speech listening population at home —or somewhere the attrac tion seems more alluring. “This thing has been badly overplayed. Pro grams have been overloaded —killed, and folks have grown weary. Start but to arrange a program and nine times out of ten it will be jkilled in the making. Then we wonder Why the folks stay home; they have about stopped! taking chances. If the President were to come ' •to Salisbury the chances are than he would not j •Want or expect more than ten or twenty min-j utcs. the chances also are that local program ( makers would extend it to two hours and dis igusi the people. “So when we are asked why people are not j attending political speakings, answer bv say ing they are motived by the same reason as in other classes of speakings to which they are invited. Alluring offerings are always at hand. Gas is comparatively cheap, so are . picture :shows, and.the shining moon and good roads are not without appeal. There are too many calls for the average man or woman to be got ten under roof to listen to a man or woman without message or entertaining features talk for hours.. „ •*•- , . f “People are not going to delibeixiTelyTnvite j themselves in to be bored. The speaker who : has nothing to offer other than some rehashed 1 idea, or some palaver of last year’s vintage is not going to draw. He need not wonder why his seats are vacant and the people talking Will 1 Rogers, and Harold Lloyd. *The average speaker today has to talk against the world, j and he simply is not equal to the task, j 'We doubt if the two major parties in the i state could show special requests for more than ! a half dozen speakers, and not many repeaters ; for these. The folks are busy and are not go ; iug to be disturbed, unless they are offered | something to tempt them to leave off what j they are doing imd rush to other offerings. ! “After the election, November 2nd, there will remain the same tendencies. The same : folks whp refused to listen to a political speech \ will refuse to go to listen to other men talk. It is time to realize that program makers have so badly overdone things that a wary public is : well ready to take .care of itself by ducking—- : and there is no use to complain, nor any use \ to try to force things. They will not be rush ; ed into our way of thinking, and doing, and so f much the better, too.” Time was, too, when a public gathering of ; any kind was an “event” in the average town: ■ People went just to get away from home as much as anything else. When huge crowds • attended political and other gatherings they • went for lack of something eHe to do as much ■ as anything else. They didn’t pay arty mo,re heed to what they heard than do the. small / crowds now. But times have changed. The people have . then autos, thetr fraternal orders, their movie \ theatres and other attractions. Instead of find • ing something to do in this day of highly or ganized effort the hard thing to do is find time to stay at home. THIS FREE ACTIVITY BUNK. [ Right in the beginning we want to, commend, ’ local school officials who after hearing an ad dress here recently by Miss Lucy Gage, of Nashville, Jenn., told the Concord teachers to get the besr points from the address and leave the rest alone. Miss Gage,, it seems, is an ad vocate o/ tree activities in schools, this mean ing nothing rilore than the children are to be allowed to do as they please. Miss Ga|>e, and we have the word of many teachers for it, told her bearers here and in Sal isbury that to correct a child in the primary de partment is Unthinkable. Free activity, she claim*-, develops.the child and lie will acquire other worthwhile thiygs as lie grows older. That may be all right as a theory but We wouldn’t give a snap of our 'fingers for any school that employed all 'of the methods Hie outlined. For instance, in Salisbury she told the teachers that in one city she visited she ac tually heard a teacher tell a child to quit run runmng back and forth through the hall mak ■m„ a noise. It is little less than a crime, she intimated, for the child thus to be “curbed." Again, she maintained, parents often are re sponsible for “curbing” their children so their initiative is killed. To illustrate, she said that many parents actually had the nerve to make their children get up from the table and wash their face and hands. This is all wrong. Let the child alone, she says, and gradual y he will | learn to wash his face and hands. C’s course,. she offered no solution for the other members , of the family who are thus forced to sit and j watch the dirt on- the child’s face. Miss Gage severely criticised any school sys tern that allows children-to be taught anything . in the first grade and she doesn’t think much should be taught in the second grade. Just let them alone seems to be her plan, and they will gradually acquire knowledge. Free activity should take the place of text books, shr has been, quoted as saying, and to illustrate she told of. how she had allowed chil dren to build houses 9 r anything else they wanted to build during school hours. Students should have saws, hammers and nails and should .be allowed to use them any time. Les sons should not be assigned by the teacher, either. The subject to be studied should be left to the children. Miss G#ige told this story: She had a “pest” in her room and always he was bother ing the other children. One day as a boy was sawing away (and she was having a reading lesson for girls in the same room) the pest slipped .ip behind the boy and pinched him. The boy sawed away. Again the “pest” pinch ed him. The boy sawed a\Vay. Again the “pest" came along and this time the “pest” polled bis hair. Tic 1 :I.c boy got/Up. turned the "pest” over his knee and spanked him. That’s free activity. She saw the whole ' thing but dared not intervene for fear she ! would “curb” the boy’s initiative. How in I the name of heaven does she think those girls [could have been thinking about their reading while all the sawing and ,fighting was going on? And how would anything ever be done if the teacher dared not correct a student? Or how could the parent ever control tin* house hold? _!■■•■ } This free activity is bunk. Think of every child in a school room getting up end doing what he or she wanted to do, regardless of what the teacher was supposed to be doing. One might want to read, another might want to saw, another might* want to run about the room and still another might want to shout and sing. Under the theory of free activity the teacher must not correct them. Free bedlam is | what would result, call it what you may. NO LIMIT TO THE THING. • There seems to be no limit to the present cot ton crop. Tl>e government now estimates that the total yield will be 17,454,000 bales., an in crease of almost a million bales over the first October report. More than 8,000,000 bales of the present crop already have been ginned and the government therefore estimates that half of the crop is yet in the fields or has not been taken to the gins. The result of the forecast was a drop of $1.50 a bale in the price of the staple on the New York Cotton Market. The thing gets worse and worse insofar as the production is concerned and makes more imperative some action to keep millions cf bales from the market. Local farmers we are told, are not marketing their crop, working on the theory that by holding it at home they are making the demand greater. Certainly this would help if done by farmers all over the belt. The United States has never produced such a cotton crop as' the one this year. Farmers who planned to get 32 bales, for instance, and i cultivated to get 12 bales, are getting 20 In some instances the over-production is even 'more. The farmer planted too much cotton. , to be sure, but just the same he'did not know what kind of a season he -would have, and no ! doubt many of them would have cut the acre : age could they have seen in advance the pro duction they would get. Governor McLean, bankers, warehouse ex , perts and others who are in close touch with the situation in the State, met in Greensboro | the other day and formulated plans to retire at ■least 500,000 bales. If similar steps could be j taken in all of the States great good would re ) suit. . j It was the concensus of opinion at the • Greensboro conference for storing facilities and : financial aid were sufficient to care for the ~ crop, so the farmers after all will be just as ( well off if they hostile crop. I I WANTS TO RIDE WITH VICTORS. • ( / j I’resident -Coolidge refused to aid many Re publican Senators in their campaigns for re nbnlination and he has followed the same pol j icy in regard to the election. Therefore it is of interest to see where he has sponsored his • good friend Senator Butler, of Massuchusetts, who .is having j a rather lively campaign with : former Senator David J. Walsh. ; . Some people take this as a sign , that the 1 (’resident is a little uncertain about the suc : cess of his Massachusetts colleague and wants to add what influence he has: That is not the - J-'ase in our opinion. Massachusetts is nur- the conccRHTIMES TO NON-VOTERS. Winston-Salem Sentinel. i Every community has citizens and res- I I idents. The difference is that the citi- i | zens vote. If some party should arise with a plat | form to do away with voting, the people ! would arise in their might, and snow that j j party under 'as un-American, un-demo | cratic, out <ff tune with our republican j form of government, a hideous monster seeking to deprive free American citi j zens of the sacred right of the ballot. But j as no such party has arisen, or is likely to arise, more than half of the people en titled to vote don’t bother to exercise i their rights. Nevertheless, after failing to vote them- ' i selves, they feel perfectly free to cuss out the government that the voters put in office. Funny, isn’t it? And tragic. 1 Only a few people vote because it is their privilege. Most people who do vote, are actuated by a desire to vote , against something or somebody instead of for something or somebody. As Jong as things are going all right, they don’t j bother to take the time to vote. But let things go wrong and they rush to lock the stable door the horse has de parted. .It doesn’t seem to occur-to them that if an administration has been good, it is just as important and more so to keep it in office, than to wait for a bad adminis tration and then vote it out of office. You can be dead sure of one thing. If you don’t vote for the man or the policy you believe in, you-are in effect voting against your belief because unless you vote you can’t possibly offset the vote of the fellow on other side. Your man will be better able to do the things you want done if he is given a big majority—a vote of overwhelming con fidence. . , If lie gets in through your help and starts to go wrong, you have a perfect right to take him to task. But if you did not vote for him you haven’t the right. A non-voter hasn’t much influence. mally a Republican State and Senator Butler in addition has the support of the capitalists who own the manufacturing plants of the vState. He has great wealth and no doubt does not hesitate to use it. We would like to see Senator Walsh in the Senate again but have no real hope that he will be the victor. Therefore, we take the po sition that President Coolidge. being just a human being and a politician after all, wants to ride with the victor. He didn't take any part in the fight in other States because there was too much chance of defeat for his man. But in Massachusetts he feels perfectly safe and by commending his friend he gets before the people as the sup porter of the man they support. Ile figures that position will aid him later when he strives to further gratify his political appetite. v — ' BETTER EQUIPPED WHITE TEACH ERS School Facts tells, us that the average schol astic training of all white teachers in the State in 1925-26 was nearly two years in college. 111 3922-25 the index of scholarship for the State was 515.3, whereas for 1925-26 the index was 519.1. This means that within three years the average training of the white teachers of North Carolina has increased .66 of a college year, practically 6 months or an average ,of 2 months a year. ~ If the State is divided into two parts rural and city, it is found that the rate of progress is greater in the rural systems than it is in the city systems. The average index for the rural schools has advanced from 464.5 to 536.8, whereas the city index has changed from -611.8 to 708.8. In other words, the gain in the rural index was .723 of a year and the city index gain was .370 of a year. However, sight must not be lost of the fact that the average index for city schools started with 67 1.8, nearty<-v> years of college training; whereas the rural index for the same year was 464.5, slightly more than a half year jjf college training—a difference at the begin ning of the period of over two years training and of less than one ami three-fourths years at the end of the period. This fact together with the wide existing difference in the training of the rural and the city is the significant fea ture, of the analysis. The highest average scholastic training for any group of schools for the year 1925-26 is found in Group I. The average scholastic training of the teachers in the eight cities com prising this group was 3.233 years of eollegi ■ ate education. 1 City Group 111 had the second highest index, - 7 20.9, which represents 3,209 years above high . school graduation. .In fact this group as a 1 unit has made : the,greatest plqgrtNs of the city groups during the period. r City Group 1 j had an index of 682.6 in 1922- 25 and 715:3 in 1925-26 indicating that during! this period the average teacher in this group j j improved her training .327 of a college year, j Niue of the rural systems in 1925-26 luid 100 per cent, of their white teachers holding stand ard certificates. These counties were: Dur ; ham, Currituck, Wilson, Guilford, Scotland, ; Warren, Chowan, Polk and Graham. In 1924- i 25 only five counties made this record —Dur-j | ham, Guilford, Warren, Gates and Polk, i Only four of the cities listed in the table had j any teachers with less than standard training, ! and in these four the percentage of non-stand . ard teachers was very small. There were twelve of these cities in this class in 1924-26. It is evident that there is a very definite ten dency for both rural and city systems to em ploy only teachers that hold standard certifi cates. . There were seven counties that actually had teachers with slightly less training last year than in 1924-26. These counties were: War ren, Hoke, Johnston, Greene, Avery, Union, ; and Brunswick. The Dare County teachers had on an average, slightly less training than in 1923-24, but slightly more than in 1924-25. These are the only actual decreases in the training of teachers in any of the counties. MANNER OF LIVING MAKES THE DIF FERENCE. The Cornell Agricultural College recently published budgets kept by families of two generations on the same farm. .In 1880 the family spent $321.45 while the family of 1924 spent $2,563.76. Items of heat, automobile, gasoline and labor account for the increase, it is shown. The Gastonia Gazette points out that the increase in the budget has increased eight fold and wonder whether the joys of life have increased in proportion. Continuing the Ga zette points out: “In the earlier, simpler generation the major expenses were four: food, clothing children and church. Each of these items cost in the year between SSO and SIOO. In the year 1924 the church dropped out as a comparative major item, even though in 1924 more was given the church than in 1880 by about 30 per cent. In the modern year food, clothing and children remained three of the four major items, but the fourth was the new major, and it topped all the others. In the Cornell budget this item was denominated ‘General Operation/ In 1880 it cost $19.96 and in 1924 $691.65. “Papers and books jumped from $2.50 to $161.70, far passing the* church and showing one of the greatest percentage increases of any. although not the largest total/’ The figures were gathered by Prof. Ralph A. Felton, extention professor of rural school organization, who wrote W. G. Hooker, sec retary of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper association: “ ‘The father’s family bought cloth by the yard, but the son s family bought ready made clothes. The education of the son’s children js costing twice as much as his own, due to the fact that teachers’ salaries have nearly trebled.. The father took two papers only; the son, during the year, bought a set of Harvard classics. The father’s family light bill for the year was nine gallons of kerosene, $1.08; six lamp chimneys, 59 cents, and one wick, six cents, a total of $1.73. The son spends two dollars a month for fuel for his lighting svs tem, while the upkeep and depreciation is $75 a year.’ “The professor further explained that the son has ‘all sorts of modern conveniences.’ Al so that the son's doctor bill for the year 1924, ‘is especially large because during the year his wife had a rather serious operation at a hos pital.’” WILL APPROVE STATE REGIME. \ oters of North Carolina are well pleased with conditions in the State and we agree with Robert R. Reynolds, “Our Boy,” in the belief that this approval will be demonstrated at the polls next Tuesday. North has been sanely progressive. W e have outstripped the rest of the South, yet we are not wasting our money. The people of the State have “equitable prosperity,” and the Democratic leaders have planned with the view to aiding the Republican as well as the Democrat. Capital and labor,” said Mr. Reynolds, “are walking nearer hand in hand than ever before in the history of the State,” and that statement is accurate. V\ e predict that the approval of Democratic rule will be given with a rousing vote on No vember 2nd. GARY’S RULES FOR SUCCESS. Judge Elbert Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, gives the following uiles for success, saying they aided him in be coming a wealthy man : Be approachable. Uet a good education. s Select your occupation with care and stick to it. Be clean and healthy, mentally, morally and physically. Be diligent; keep appointments and prom ises. Be reasonable, fair, patient and exercise a good disposition. ; Make ayoi<4 making enemies. \ Follow the Golden Rule. Be patriotic, respect officials, observe the | luw. • .. ’ § \ V. ' ! Be honest. I Mussolini is probably one Indian who can master even hit own spaghetti.—Sun. Durham. N. C. '. - ~ ■' ■ fk ' - 1 FILTHY COMBS STIR PROTESTS < McPhaul Seed Improvement But De ! clares There’s Room for More. Charlotte Observer. Action to compel barber shops jr. \ , Charlotte to conform to the laws »n j | regard to sanitary equipment was im minent yesterday, following the com- , plaints from citizens regarding the condition of combs, brushes and other utensils. While baking the assertion that ,the shops had ‘improved 100 per cent.” in the past ten years, Dr. W. A McPhaul, city-county health officer! said there was still much room for improvement. The owners do not see to it that each comb and brush is sterilized after use on-a customer, Dr. McPhaul said. On'.y one shop in the city conforms to the law in this respect, he added. The law was quoted by Dr. Mc- Phaul as follows: ‘•Every owner or proprietor of a barber shop shall watfa or cause to be washed thoroughly at frequent inter vals and to be kept clean at all times all combs, hair brushes, hair dusters and like articles and shall also ster ilize or cause to be sterilized after each separate use by immersion in boiling water all mugs and shaving , brushes and shall disinfect or caus** to be disinfected by a method approved by the heall’a officer of the city of Charlotte all razors, clippers and tweezers after each separate use there.> 0f “No barber shall use for the service of any customer any comb, hair brush, j hair duster or like article that lias not ! been thoroughly washed and is clean j at the time of service, nor any mug. l shaving brush, razor, scissors, clippers | “hr tweezers that has not been st**ril ezed or disinfected in the manner hereinbefore required.” The law% Dr. McPhaul pointed out is one of the many laws today which are qot observed on account of the multipilicty of ordinances. For the sake of health, as well as cleanliness, it should be enforced, he added. SI,OBO Is “Blessod” Clean Out ol Sight By Gypsy Magician. Winston-Salem Journal. Mary Jane Barber, colored wom an. 1045 North Main St., is a sad but wise woman this morning. a Gypsy gave Mary Jane a complete education in the management of her financial affairs yesterday when she blessed SI,OBO, the property of the colored woman, after which the money disappeared as well as the Gypsy. Officers are searching-for the Gipsy. Yesterday a Gypsy came to Mai;. Janes home and told her that sir was going to have a good deal of bad luck, but this could be averted if Mary Jane would bring her money to her so that it could be blessed. Mary Jane went down to tli<-| bank in which she had recently de posited her money that was received from the sale of her' property in South Carolina. The Gypsy placed the money in a wrapper and it in some mys terious manner and told Mary Jane not to take the. wrapper off until she had returned the money to the bank. The Gypsy then left for other parts. Mary Jane carried the money back to the teller at the bank and told him to replace the SI,OBO to her ac count. The teller took the wrapper off the package and told Mary Jane that there was no money there. Mary Jane then reported the oe curanee to the police. Solid Comfort. T'ncle Zeke had decided to go north in search of opportunity and money. He boarded the train at the little southern station one mild November day, wearing his Sunday suit of light weight seer-sucker. Two days later lie landed in the city of Chicago, in the midst of a terrible blizzard. The wind shrieked through tin: streets, and bliudiug snow and cut ting sleet met the darky the moment lie stepped off the train. ' With no friends and a very small amount of money he soon found himself facing these elements. In a very short time, he was lying in a back alley, frozen quite stiff. - There the city garbage men found him, und, dumping him into the cart alongside the dogs, cats and horses took him to the city incinter ater. # The body of the darky was chunked in, along with the other dead bodies, and the door closed. After waiting long ‘enough for the intense heat to consume all the bodies and refuse, the firemen returned. They NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE. By virtue of a power vested in me by a certain mortgage deed executed to me as trustee by Howard Bust and wife, Ophelia Rost, and duly recorded in the office of Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County. X. C.. *» Book 59. I ►age 275, I will, on Wednesday, No vember 24. 11)20, at 12 o clock ,M.. sell for cash to the highest bidder at tie courthouse in Concord, X. C., the fol lowing tract of land: Lying and being in Wapd 4 of the, City of Concord. Cabarrus Count.' , j State of North Carolina, on Lore - - j Alley, adjoining the lots of Mollic Houston. Chas. M. Branie. and other-. Beginning at an iron stake on tie went side of lire's Alley, corner of; Mollie Houston and runs thence acros> Lores Alley X. 38 3-4 E. 120 feet to an iron stage, foruer of Mollie Houston; thence N. 47 1-2 W. 48 ft to an iron stake, corner pf Chas. M. Uranic; thence with his line 8. 37 1-2 W. .132 fe. to an iron stake on tin side of Lore’s Alley; thence with lire’s Alley S. 55 E. 45 ft. to the be ginning. subject to an alleyway 20 ft. in width, adjoining and parallel with the last described line. The above property was conveyed to the Southern Loan & Trut»t Co. by Maggie Morris und Julia Martin. Sold to satisfy the provisions of said Mortgage. The above tract is sold-.subject to a mortgage deed held by J. M. He udrix. | Trustee, recorded in office of Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County : u Booh No. 47. page 279. This the 25th day of October. I : >2G. M. B. SHEKKIX. Trustee. Armfield, Sberrin & Barubardt, Attorneys. I Thursday, oj opened the tho aßh <* and heaj> ? u d » «»:,i vhTu'\ •« quick ‘foi-p j ’/“s; fro, » all dat TH HKK l‘EKs«xsj R«>ch« ~„7' York States. St 'V Ur, . 1 "1" furv ai(| - , 't St <>ru:s that „t fore. t.MIMt- “ iner^ - u as>.«- ausetts I Three , 1(1 HW ■ .Persons or this rt “r* «»'i towkTSJji »»rbor , *1 W!,s affected. C ' Jas! *i smashed 'Jt *« away and . " d N the streeis. minute blew at -." u| 1 ( hurtled the Wllt //’ ,ni 4 j; !,rhor - buffed small IggFg fenny col I 'Veil burke, J* I'* 1 '*- " berroeli. ' «'«■ **'•' . J'jS.i.J .Strayed Itlacit MatTh f""" \ Jatakor.. \V a y jj ail J Two-Horse Farm f or J I i‘.tr",f kM llal.—\ alur Hh'ihlß Saturday. Mi-s I> J 2 Big Hallowe’en lijjfl Lake Friday and Tun prizes— (,| |( , on Hoe: - and oik tiime. .laeohs Bros. ■ I \si—Tuestby K\nJ : Jv.ilinapftiis and |i HM brown -nit cas,. elot Ims. Iltuaid ifJ ]’>. < a-mr, Route W. For Sah—Will yfl Yeniin C.t|, <’ ,h,„r.e si arl- iivtai. man. I,’miiv 1. 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