North Carolina Newspapers

page FOUE THE CONCORD TIMES PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Entered as seeond class mail matter at the post -1 office at Concord, N. C., under the Act of March \ 3, IST9. *i- / _ !J B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor Special Representative: FROST. LANDIS & KOHN New York. Atlanta. St. Louis, Kansas City, e San Francisco. Los Angelct* and Seattle , ! [1 >.■!«<»■ ; ' WHO OWNS THIS PROPERTY. ••• - ± ] From what w& cW learn the chief i point of difference between the City of 11 Concord and the Southern Railway Com ; i jftpy relates to the demand by the City \\ that tlie, company erect Page guards on l both .of,.the street from the bridge | over Buffalo Creek’ to the trestle bridge (over the Southern’s, spur track. Before this question can be settled own- Sership of the land adjoining the;street must be determined, it seems us. llf £j- the Southern owns this land then the de ll maud js a proper one. If the Southern 1; doesn’t Own this land and the land is not s*? on the right of way then the demand is <■ not a proper one. , The distance from the trestle bridge to £ t the creek bridge is about 500 feet,.,. The P l Southern contends that its right of way | i extends only 200 feet from the center of 3* | the main line, and if this contention can i be supported by facts then the Southern b t as we see it, has nothing to do with plac gt ing, gnayd .rails along the street. If I the city can pfovp that the Southern owns f lands from the trestle bridge to the creek Sj; bridge or that the Southern’s right of way « extends from the trestle bridge to the * * creek bridge, then the Southern has an jf:: interest in the guard fails or fence. .. gl ThevSouthern contends that the street 1 which extends over its overhead bridge gjj $ and trestle bridge, had been accepted as a ® I street by the city -long before the two g| bridges were built by the company. That ■. is another important—matter in connec- 1 1ion, with the dispute. If this street had S s been . accepted prior to the building of |f ? ihe bridges then we say the building of “ the bridges in no way changed the fact g ; ; that the street' was city property. Certainly the records will show what * part of the street from the bridges to the ereek is on railroad property. The rec ords will also show or should show what promises the Southern made. If these promises are not recorded, then the city has no case. MORE FOR TAXES THAN DIVI DENDS. The larger railroads of the nation are paying more now in taxes than in divi dends. ,According to an article appearing in the current issue of Nation’s Business, the large railways of the United States within the last six years, have paid SBO,- 000,000 more in taxes than they had paid in cash dividends to their stockholders. In five of the last six years, railway taxes have exceeded railway cash dividends by amounts varying from about $300,000.in 1020 to $36,000,000 in 1023. In 1925 the excess of taxes over cash dividends amounted to about $18,000,000. Striking changes have occurred in the past fifteen years. In 1911, the year in which the Inter state Commerce Commission adopted the present system of railway classifications, the taxes paid by the large railways Amounted to $98,600,000, while their div idends were $397,100,000. Then taxes started their upward climb and dividends began to slip, with the result that in 1925 taxes had increased 263.3 per cent, over the 1911 level, while, dividends were 14 per cent, below the 1911 mark. Since 1911, in other words, the taxes paid by the railroads has increased from twenty-five cents in taxes fpr every dol lar of dividends to one dollar and five cents in taxes for every dollar in divi dends. NO GROUNDS FOR CHARGES. gi. More and more the public is reading between the lines to discover there is was no grounds for the charges made by Secretary Kellogg recently that the Unit ed States was watching Mexico because the hplshevists were setting up a govern ment there from which they hoped later to gain entrance to the United States. \Y e are tired of such excuses. Now ev ery time some nation makes a mistake | and seeks an alibi the bolshevist is given the credit for such mistakes in action. Apparently heads of governments have reached the conclusion that the word i . frightens the public to such an extent that any error can be concealed behind the excuse that the “reds” did so and so. There is absolutely no proof that the Soviets.in .have gained any foot- I , liofd hUMexieor 'J&sla matter of fact there is evidence to the contrary and we have every reason to believe the -“reds” are no more numerous nor any more active in Mekicb; than in the'Uniled States. > * It is true that soviet leaders at auneet- Hu \ ing during 1925 expressed the desire and hope to gain strength in Mexico. That doesn't mean that the hopes and desires were realized. In fact, no sooner did the desire become known than President Cal les warned that their tactics would not be tolerated in Mexico. Before Secretary Kellogg offered such a lame alibi for his Mexican policy he should have investigated matters more thoroughly. He should have had definite information to give the public. The stuff he made public shows the; attitude of the soviets but it does not show the attitude of the Mexicans. That’s where the trou ble comes in. It is all right .to say the bol shevists want to set up a government in Mexico, but it is not all right to say the Mexicans want the bolshevists unless the latter can be proved. Certainly Secretary Kellogg has not proved this. He was just trying to fright en the people, apparently with the hope that if he could picture the “reds” al ready in Mexico lie could get forgiveness for a regrettable policy toward Mexico. Senator Norris, Republican, sees through the whole thing and has written the following, based on a poem by 1 James Whitcomb Riley: Once there was a Bolshevik, whp would not say his prayers — So Kellogg sent him off to bed away up- A And Kellogg heard him holler and Cool idge heard him bawl, But when they turn’t the kivvers down, he wasn’t there at all. They seeked him down in Mexico, they cussed him in the press; They seeked him ’round and ’round an' everywhere I guess. But all they ever found of him was whis kers, hair and clout— An’ the Bolshevik will get you if sou don’t watch out. BIG BUSES. “1 see where the bus operators want the Legislature to give them authority to increase the width of their buses to 90 inches,” said ja Salisbury man yesterday. “The only (king left for any of us to do is to get out of the way and stay out of the way,” continued this same speaker. “The bus people will ask for this in crease in the size of the vehicle legally permitted in the State in order that they may squeeze in another row of seats, which means more room inside for the bus operators and less on the outside for the thousands and thousands of drivers of smaller cars. If this is true, if these few inches will give them room for an additional then the ntaximum is now too great and the size ought to be cut down rather than bury Post. It there are to be any changes to the law regulating the size of the buses we say make them smaller. It is natural -that the bus companies want to get as many persons in the buses as possible but other people of the State are to be con sidered in this matter. The buses are none too safe on the highways now. They certainly get their half of the road when passing another car and should their size be increased they would occupy still more of the highway'. WHY THE EX-SERVICE MAN IS > ’ “SORE.” We are still of the opinion that former service men will be better off if they keep their bonus certificates intact. That is, we mean the man holding such a certifi cate is better off if he does not take them to the bank for service. However, this docs not change the opinion that the gov ernment handed the man nothing but a “lemon” under the present plan. , We think the government would have been wiser, maybe, if it had stipulated that the certificates would have no value until after 20 years. That would have been the frank thing to have done for in most instances banks won’t take the cer tificates at present and it looks like the holder will have to wait 20 years or the greater part of that time to get his mon ey- : This niuddled situation is due mostly to Secretary Mellon and his oft-repeated charges that there was no money to pay the bonuses now. That is the reason Congress did not make them payable at once. Yet we find the government facing a $500,000,000 surplus at the end of the year and many ex-service men go ing about begging for loans on paper en dorsed by the United States government. ‘ Labor in discussing the matt.cr, says: i “It is not too late to remedy the injus : tice. , Instead of begging banks to loan [money on the certificates, Congress . should immediately authorize the Treas s urv to make the promised advances.” Again quoting from Labor we find the ; following: - j; T ’ * r ’ “All political parties were committed to > the principle pf. ‘adjusted compensation’ l for the in tin who served im the World ) W ar, but tlie: bill finally?: pi.it through - Congress now proves to be a good deal of -a ‘gold brick.’ “Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is primarily to blame. He fought eveiy move to aid ex-service men, even going to the extent of repeatedly misrepresent ing the condition of the Treasury in or der to head off bonus legislation. “He eould always find a deficit when Congress was discussing ‘adjusted com pensation,’ but he could alw'avs discover a surplus when Congress was consider ing a scheme to reduce the taxes of bloat ed wealth. “It was Mellon’s plea that the Treasury could stand a direct outlay which led to the wretched certificate plan now disgracing the country —and, instead of a deficit, we have a half billion surplus. “But, Mr. Mellon, though foremost of sinners in this regard, does not stand alone. * President Coolidge made the Mel lon figures his own, and threw his influ ence against a direct payment.” ' THE BORAH LAW. Senator Borah oft-times been class ed with the radicals in Congress and it is rare that he deserves a place with the conservatists, in his position with regard to American interference in Nic-' aragua he is both sane and conservative. Senator Borah takes the position that the United States should take some steps to settle the difficulty there since it has taken the trouble to intervene. That is right. We can ? t keep our troops there forever and apparently there is not going to be peace under present political line ups. Briefly, what he has to advise the Ad ministration is simply to give the people of the Latin-American country a chance to do their own voting on the government that they want and cease trying to dic tate to them what they have got to do in this matter. That is sound reasoning. Let the peo ple of Nicaragua decide with the ballot what they want. No the adminis tration will be opposed to tnis for the very reason that Diaz is not so popular and Sacasa might be named. As chairman of the powerful foreign relations committee, Senator Borah ha« more influence than the average Senator and his utterances are deserving of much consideration. It is as The Winston-Salem Journal says in its comment on the matter, de claring that “if what Senator Borah says is true, and there can be no doubt but’ that he speaks the truth, then the United States has been and is occupying the rather critical position of trying to dic tate to the Nicaraguans with no other aim in view than the protection of American financial interests there. ‘We, of all the people in the world v ought not to under take to impose upon the people of an-; other nation a government which they do not want, says the Senator, and who will take issue with him. “Would the United States act toward Canada in the same way she is acting to ward Nicaragua under similar circum-’ stances? Would the United States ven-I turc to dictate who shall be Premier in 1 Canada and which party there shall exer-. cise power? Hardly. Why, then, not be I as fair toward Nicaragua as towards Can- j ada. The people of Nicaragua surely have an inherent right to say who they want in control of their government.” THE HOME NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY. Judge Finley in his charge to the Gas- 1 ton County grand jury Monday eniphasiz-' ed tlie fact that the home is the starting point in all developments of character and that the lack of home training is the cause of much of the lawlessness in the land. “if a child win nut übey his parents and is not made to obey them,” said the judge, “he-will not obey his teachers at school; if he will not obey his teachers, he will not obey his preacher, or the sheriff or the policeman. The next step in his ca reer is the lockup, the chaingang or the electric chair. I can not emphasize too strongly the need of the right sort of home training in our homes.” Judge Finley in his charge was speak ing of the alarming amount of lawless ness and crime in the country and it is significant that he should designate the home as one of the agencies not doing its i full duty toward the child. His utter -1 ances are a challenge to parents who have become indifferent to the proper training of their children. There must be some thing to such charges as Judge Finley ' made for they are being uttered in the court, in the pulpit and from the other > public places. • | Sunday morning in Raleigh Rev. W. A. Stanbury, pastor of one of tlie largest L Methodist Churches in the capital £ity, is sued a similar warning from life pulpit. » lie was talking about the alarming in crease in the number of divorces in the [ state and the reasons for this laxity. “In i an age which delights to call itself more [ scientific and Christian .than any which THE CONCORD TIMES lias gone before,” this country out-dis tances every other civilized country in the number of divorces with the possible ex ception of Russia, he declared. As a remedy for this condition, Dr. Stanbury suggested, first, that the homes from which the young people come be im proved. - - ~ , “The home is the center, and it is more than anything else, the determining fac tor in one’s life,” he declared. “We can not have happy, industrious, virtuous citizens, men and women of character and power, unless they live in homes of the right sort. Yetvit may seriously be questioned whether we. take any real ac count of this as parents.” He pictured the home not only as a place to receive instruction and prepara tion for the sacred responsibilities of home-building in the future, but as * & place for the development of strong char acters. • ’* ' ‘ ! j SUGGESTIONS FROM CHIEF JUS TICE TAFT , 1 j Few are better cjualifiiecl to j speak with authority on the subject <?f crime and its cure than William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court , of the United States. In an authorized interview, appearing in Collier’s this week, he gives a prescription for curing crime, which, for brevity and complete ness, i* probably the best solution ye]t. of fered on the subject. After pointing' out the various causes which contribute to making the United States the most lawless country on the globe today, he makes the following defi nite suggestions for action by the various State Legislatures, many of which are now in session: State governments must assume their duty with regard to detection and prose cution of crimes. State attorneys general and depart ments of justice should be supervising centers for the co-ordination of all police officers. The States should organize their own detective services and constabularies. County prosecuting officers should be under control of and answerable to the State attorney general. Give.rural districts more police protec tion. Provide more policemen in the largest cities. Give Judges more power in the inter pretation of evidence than they now have in most States. Simplify codes of procedure. Abolish juries in minor cases, and abolish Grand Juries in States. Limit delays by appeal %nd limit ap peals to one court. Put Judges under a central control which can assign them to districts where Ithey are needed, and thus insure prompt trials. It is a fact that various 7 agencies for law enforcement do not always work in harmony. Oft-times this is due to jealou sy as well as to ,_the ignorance of one group of officials as to what another group |is doing. The Winston-Salem Journal agreses with this opinion, declaring “one ’ of the fundamental weaknesses of law J enforcement in the United States is the J almost complete lack of co-ordination and co-operation between the various agen cies which are clothed with tjie authority of enforcing the law.” The Journal thinks well of the sugges tions offered by Chief Justice Taft. “The plan offered above (referring to Mr. I Taft's recommendation) will to a very (large extent,” says The Journal, “correct (this very obvious evil and thus eliminate a multitude of harmful legal technicali ties which tend to lower the morale of of ficers of the law and furnish aid and com fort to the notoriously guilty. “Sooner or later 13w enforcement must develop a technique which is able to ov ercome the tremendous efficiency of crim inals and crooked lawyers in defeating the ends of justice. At present, law and 1 order are on thq defensivq, and they will continue to maintain and perpetuate this sorry spectacle to the great enjoy ment of criminals until the State Legis latures awake to the stern responsibility of rehabilitating a wholesome respect for law and its impersonal and impartial en forcement. ( “The North Carolina Legislature is now in session., Why shouldn’t North Caroli- , na lead the way by being the first State I to enact into law these excellent sugges tions of the greatest legal authority in America?” By having more co-operation between the various law enforcement agencies we could save money and at the same time make the laws more effective. I LEADER IN HIGHWAY EXPENDI- U TURES. I ' :; r h “ ; I j ~ — f — y North Carolina is : the # leadihg State in the Nation now in highway expenditures, figuring the expenditures on a per capi ta basis. \ During 1925, the record shows, four other States spent more for highway Work - i - - • - than did North Carolina, but on a per capita basis this State led all the rest. Those States spending more than North Carolina that year were Pennsylvania, New York, Ilinojs and Michigan, all of which are far wealthier and more popu lous than North Carolina. Thus we find jtjjat from records in the University News Letter, that in proportion to population, wealth and area North Carolina leads the United States in construction and maintenance of highways. | We should continue at the top for >ve are getting ready now for the State Legis lature to authorize the expenditure of an other $30,000,000. Certainly that will keep the State among the leaders. We were interested to See from the News Letter figures that the entire South shows up splendidly in State highway ex penditures. Os the first 24 States in high way expenditures 11 are located in the (South. The Southern States spent ap proximately two hundred million dollars on State highway construction and main i temince in 1925. . f There is another interesting item in connection with the figures on highway expenditures. That is the fact that most jOf the money for.such work is now coming from automobile a(nd gasoline taxes, With the increase in income derived from the sale of auto license and gasoline taxes there has been a decrease in taxes on real and personal property. There has been a steady tendency in this direction since 1921. In that year the combined-income from motor vehicle licenses and gasoline taxes amounted to 25.9 per cent., the gas tax revenue amounting to les than one per cent. In 1925 the income produced from these sources was 43.5 per cent, of the years total, and the gas taxes alone amounted to 13.5 per cent. In the same period taxes on property specifically for road purposes have drop ped from 11.2 per cent, to 3.3 per cent, of the year’s total income. Including the in come from appropriations and miscellan eous sources, most of which is raised by property taxation, the 1921 per centage was 20.7 and the 192$ percentage was 10.5/ Funds raised by the sale of bonds were, also smaller percentage of the total in 1925 than in 1921, being 21.3 per cent, in 1925 as compared with 27.8 per cent, in 1921. North Carolina in 1925 spent $32,588,- 514 on highways* with Pennsylvania, the leader, spending $62,294,366, and New York, in second place in total expendi tures spending $49,368,770. Among the Southern States Texas rank ed second with expenditures 6f $19,985,- 007 and Kentucky came next with an ex penditure of $14,916,316. Other States spent: Tennessee $14,379,189; Virginia $14,071,555; Oklahoma $12,937,673; South Carolina $9,132,953; and Georgia $7-,- 902, 428. 1 It’s hard to realize, but there arc more, automobiles than telephones in the Unit ed States. According to figures prepared by Edward S- Jordan, motor car manu facturer of Cleveland, there are now 4,- 000 more motor vehicles than telephones in America, and the excess probably will be greater if we maintain the present rate of buying power. The telephone, in com parison with the automobile, is cheap and its use has spread greatly, yet we find a comparatively View industry, much younger than the telephone, spreading even more rapidly. The initial cost of the telephone and its upkeep amount to a sum much less than the cost and upkeep of an automobile, but just the same there arc more of the latter than the former. The comparison is a striking illustration of the popularity of the auto and the pros perity of the people. WISECRACKS. .High schools arc all right but unnecessarily high costs of education are all wrung.—Greensboro Record. The French have raised a warship sunk -234 years ago, but nobody has raised a howl at Gen eva over this addition to their navy.—Danville (Va.) Bee. The basketball season is in our midst, and so it is the mothball season. Some kind of ball ipl the year.—Greensboro Record. Old John J. Unpopularity seems to follow Uncle Bam like bis shadow. —Nashville Banner, I The unemployment problem for many is hoW to keep that way.—Gadsden Star. To poison or not to poison, thats the question man fall is because he wonders for what reason the other mau when he falls. —Albany- [ Decatur Daily. | You can now plan to complete those tilings that | you resolved to do in 1926.—Tr0y Messenger. ! Fountain, we imagine, won by a spurt.—Sun Rays, Durham Suu. Isn't it jieculiar there are always purkingplaces for banditsV-Talladega Home. If everything alleged is true, it's baseball in more than one sense.—Tampa Tribune. If half of what we hear is true, modern liquor I should be called “lunashine.”—Arkansas Democrat. ! ( Keep on and Varc will begin to think he is t unwelcome in Washington.—Sun Itays, Durham - Sun. [ Ktills are harder to locate. Maybe the officers ’find themselves lost, in a maze 0 f smells.—Arkan V What does the ofdtuiier do with 4 the hours he u.W frt tfiwiul making rings with the ends of his mustache?? —Gadsden Star. Having read both the Republican and I>cin«- cralie pffitforuis wc feel if either of them keep up to their promises, wonders- wfll be performed. —New York Commercial. ( j - i - i i V-ii'.HA Thurs day, j M J ■? . WR income Persons whose net in.-. f . chiefly from salaries <>r v <!rj| R9R cess of $5,000 should ; U ;.k* ti"!- SHi'R ! turns ou Form 1040A. ’ : -^ER : J Persons whose net in< • ■ f-R ■ profession or business. / > "'/“'•'Rig , the sale of property _«.r re:,;. was less than $5,009. .n,. ’ r ‘/R SMB • larger form. 1010. The ,, f p*'R' M quired. also, in cases wh.-iv 111 fii excess of $3,000. regur iR 11 1 salary, business, professi-.-... , sources. L ; m Copies of the forms :1 ...., . | K/flB collectors of, internal rev*- y. Rjl a form, however, does n„ t ofTiis obligation to tile :r-i a , on time —on or before Mar-h i:, '',jßß| return is tiled on n calendar year may be obtained at -mi,-,.. „ .• ■ 1 revenue and deputy collect.. r . Rffi ed on request. • "ml* *|j The return must he sw.. r y If ii or other authorized T .. /'R Xo charge is made for this II J of collectors and deputy <•-./..« • lfv ' c R<| YOUR INCOME t'\\ 11 No. g I Ili The normal tax rate under the mjr - 1926 is 1 1-2 per cent on the first .q,,*R | of. the personal exemption, f, ie>lit f..' r jl*ci etc., 3 per cent on the next RuOn | ■ - cent on the, balance. 11 q The strrta* lattes apply to lir . t i; . II | of SIOjOOQ, as in the revenue a** ~<lll % maximum race, however, under tht'iS J reduced to 20 i>er cent, which :!|ipl w ßf§ come in excess of SIOO,OOO, instead () V, |a|| of 40 per cent on net income in R / as was provided by the lln’l ""'Rfl The exemptions are f., r and |3.a00 for ■married per- ‘‘..'■l and heads of families. In is entitle<l to ,a credit of spin f,, r dependent upon lliin for chief 1 ‘person is under 18 years of ag*o„ r self-support because meutall\ | ive. Such dependent- need n< .r !s.V!R*i| the taxpayer nor a member h\ ; term “mentally or physieallx ilrf (vr not only cripples and those mentally persons in ill health and the aged. A taxpayer, though /unmarried, rh. R | in his home one, or more relatives f,vf..R | exercises fainjly control, iis the head I control, is the head of a family nnti fRJ the same exemption alhUved a marriwM J Also he may claim S4OO for each example, n widower who sunpomii Rl an aged mother and daughter 17 .mR entitletl to an exemption of s:!.."•<to 1 a family, plus a credit **f S4OO for nR I ent, a total of $4,300. The S4OO cre*iit.^Rl does not apply to the wife or taxpayer, though one may be "totally i upon the other. I I YOUR INCOME TAX I No. 4 |.| Anomalous- as it may seem, a married and. yet single for the ; urp<>*R income-tax law. To be allowed ar $3,500, a married couple must, iiavc "iR gether,” in the eyes of the law. forth*.qß able year. However, iu the absence *.f residence together, the question of and wife are living together »le|mnh character of the sei>arati<»n. If, husband is away on business, or if. essary reason a temporary full exemption is allowed. The vl-ife at a sanilSarium. or her because of ill-health does not change and the full exemption is allowed th*' But when- the husband deliberately ;i, : R uously makes his home at one place andiß at another, they are classed as single each is allowed an exemption of si.•‘ion In the absence of continuous together, whether a person with deiwsß latives is the head of a family, and the* titled to an exemption of s3,i*oo. also depa the character of the separation. , If a & away on business, or a child or other <f, away at whool or on a visit, the cotiinmk ing maintained, the exemption applies. 1: ent is oblige<l to maintain his dei>en<lerM in a boarding house, while he lives e/d exemption may still apply. But if l>enc;a dependent needlessly and continuously iw the status of the head of a family does irrespective of the support given. NO STATE PROPERTY TAX Mil STATE REVI AEATION Winston-Snlebn Journal. Whatever the- Legislature does -or d*e with Judge Francis D. Winston's bill 0 support and control of North Cardinii schools, there is one thing th** Legidat* not do. If ever the State decides to g" hack' ■ perty tax, before it can even think of tab a step, the legislature wiH have to pc* a complete revaluation of real property a Carolina. Under the present system of county c vatuations, it is im]>ossihle for the Suit* a property tax for State purposes, vie f gross uAid intolerable injustice to most / of the Coiniu«»nwealth. If the State fixes the rate. ti»e Mut* the values. That is the only fair' met led f? the State will ever again b** able to l*'' s ' real and personal property. As a matter of fact, the State •* abondou the property tax a few yrijirs ’*■ cause it was im]N>ssiblc tin* Stab' f* projierty tax. the bu/deu of which «»ul‘l* equally by all the pe*qde. So long as the counties have | -ow i t o* 1 some couuties will have low value' air The State rate uhist be uniform, j ft i' 4 therefore, that under a uniform St.d** ‘ ,l of proiierty for taxation, the i*eo]»(c *■/ s " 3? ties will jmy a great deal more 1 itji" Treasury in proportion to their ® «>f pther counties will pay That’s why a State proiierty tv * *> uut * without State valuation of propeity. MIS t NDERST AN DIN 6? Kinston Free Press. Former Speaker of the House K r / Uharlotte, charges a Charlotte m , '"i ,:, f r ' with violating his contideuce in gi i - I 1: t cation to a statemeut regarding th« ci?! 1 - school law. He does not name the --'/'v but the Free Press is incline*! t<* tin " there was any premature publieati'U - view's, it was due to a luisundcr/- ( a deliberate violation of confidence-• I-' pai»er reporters, a general nil* - ;l ' / (•on keep secrets aud wh»* do so. 6Vrr ' | the cuse, they would very soon d*""> ; deuce of their friomls and remove i sources of their newspaper itiform ( respecting news|iu|>er |*eoi»h* wotid '‘i> “turn their thumbs” down ou an presen tafive who would violate a <•”. up to the nowMpajiemuvu-\ylio»L Air. * , ; ; ' rr “ whoever lieTtfay-be, to say*.something. Tlic old assertion that all girl different is erroneous. If they did a lc " e ‘] would he wearing cotton stockings. —i ••/ ' The nearest thing t«j fruud that ib'.' J prove ou Cobb is that he was lbe --" :|,r stealer ou earth.—Gadsden Tunes.