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PAGE FOUR THE CONCORD TIMES PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Entered te second class mail matter at the post office at Concord, N. C., under the Act of March 3,1879. ’ /- . ; • r , - ■ ■ ■— ' ■ ■ ,ia * l ■■ ■ 1— J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor ’ Special Representative: . ’ ' FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 1 New York. Atlanta, St. Louia, Kansas Citj;, San Francisco. Los.Angelea and Seattle f - !■ ■ . - KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE. The Asheville Citizen , recently ran a serial entitled, “Jesus of Nazareth, the world’s most perfect biography, by Dr. Luke.” The. reactions to this story are varied. Many of The Citizen readers thought the article was written by some radical modernist and the publishers of the Asheville paper were roundly' de nounced by letter and by word of mouth. : 6ome said “this man Luke” was? an infi del. As a matter of fact the Ashevillei pa per was only running the gospel of Luke in serial form and many of the readers did not recognize it. Here is what the paper itself says: “The Citizen editors are used to the .criticism of persons who have read a story and have found ap error. They are ever read)kto correct such errors, but to ' be .criticised for publishing' portions of the Ifoly Bible has caused no end of amusement within the sanctums of these so-called sacrilegious editors, who have been accused of propagating ‘red and radical literature.', v ' man, however, vfas conciliatory. He said that he had read a part of the bi j ography and thought Dr. Luke was a * fair writer. He added the comment that * he had never read any of his work before. “One of the most remarkable comments » made was that of a man who is supposed "\o be fairly well versed in the works of tfie Bible. This man advised his friends not to read the biography as ‘this man Luke was an infidel.’J Ofte young lady, a church worker in Asheville, was asked if she was acquainted with the work of JDr. Luke. She saitUshe had a relative, who wrote religious pamphlets and books, and thought that he might be writing such a feature under that nom de plume. “A prominent citizen of Asheville was approached on the subject and was ask ed if he had been reading the daily in stallments by Dr. Luke. He said ‘No’ very emphatically, and added that he imagined that LTr. Luke was just another one of those ‘modernists’ and had decid ed not to clutter up his brain with such pestiferous piffle. Another local light wanted to know if this were the same Dr. Luke who wrote ‘Dr. Luke of Labrador.’ This correspondent had reference pdssi bly to the book bv that name written bv Norman Duncan. “One local lady, widow of a clergyman, gave a decided dig. She said that she read several installments before she real ized that it was from the Bible, but then decided that it sounded better in the pa per. Still another trudite stroke brought out was that of the person who ventured to say that this certain Luke was Saint Luke and that he was a lawyer and not a doctor. , One good church worker said that it was high time that all these para phrastic pamphlets, on the ‘Good Book’ were suppressed and that such writing could not hope to surpass the Bible in ex pressions or in the good accomplished through this fake medium. In fart, he .admitted he was exceedingly fatigued with personal translations of the Bible and had sworn completely of? reading any of them. * “On the other hand the editors receiv ed a number of compliments for running these ‘radical’ statements from the pen of an ‘infidel.” “The ‘People’s Forum* carried letters almost daily from admirers of Dr. Luke. A few of them, however, were vague. In many instances the stories were praised, but the writers of the communications re frained from venturing enough comments to condemn them as students of the Bh ble.” Many “Believers” in the Bible limit their faith to the dispensation between the covers of the Book and take no chanc es on excerpts they do not recognize. Confidence in His character inspires the belief that Jesus, Himself, would be con demned in * the average pious codern Ycommunity in this country as a radical and a “modernist” if lie were here, dis turbing the smug complacency of many, as He undoubtedly would. BANNING AUTOS AT COLLEGE. Princeton university authorities have decided that students with"automobiles on the campus don’t get along well in tfijrirstudies} so after*June of tips year stiiddutjf at'that university are übi allow ed to have automobiles. The decision has created considerable discussion among college authorities as well as among students, and brought out the fact that similar restrictions are in force in other universities and colleges. It is not an uncommon thing Iqt a stu dent, says The Pathfinder, or several ■ students to buy a delapidated second -1 hand car and run it for all it is worth, ev en .in a reckless way since no great amount of money is involved. Though . some of these cars are put to practical use a great many others, educators fear, are for joy-riding, petting partjes and other reprehensible purposes. In : fact, study; of the crime wave has defi nitely involved the auto as a contributing factor toward juvenile delinquency. Opposition to the use of cars by male and female students is voiced by almost all the leading college heads. Princeton and Vassar are among the institutions which object to autos. “The use of au tos has never been allowed at Vassar on the grounds of safety, democracy and in terference with academic work,” explains the latter. Princeotp adopted the curb when it was found that most of the 200 students who operated cars there were behind in their studies. The senior stu dent council resigned in protest. The ban is effective July Ist. Inquiry by the American Automobile Association revealed President Coffman of the University of Minnesota to be one of the few educators opposed to elimi nating the student car. Dr. Coffman ex plains : “Any artificial restrictions upon young people in the use of automobiles must be regarded as only temporary so lutions. For universities to take the po sition tliat they will refuse automobiles to students is npt, in my judgment, the proper way to solve the problem. Re sponsibility for self-control must be built up in each student and restrictive legis lation should be reduced to a minimum.” If all.of the students, at a college or university could have an 'automobile there would be little opposition we be lieve, for under such circumstances the auto w r ould be accepted as the usual thing and would create no barrier be tween students of all classes. It’s not wholesome in many' universities, espec ially in the South, for the sons of rich men to ride around in their automobiles while the majority of the students have to walk. V; The practice creates a spirit of class distinction to a degree, and such a spirit is not wholesome at any college or uni versity. Too, the student with an auto mobile handy at any times may be ex pected to spend less time on the campus than he otherwise would ’do.- The auto is liable* to make him appear, “superior” and nothing else does so much as this to put a boy at college in the wrong light. The boy w ho spends most of his time off the campus misses much of college life. He makes fewer friends ‘and thus loses one of the finest things of college life. INFANT MORTALITY RATES. Cabarrus county ranks 6081 from the top of North Carolina_counties in mater nal and infant mortality rates. The ma ternal mortality rate in the county for 1925, the last year for which figures are available, was"4.6-j3er 1,000 live births and the infant mortality rate for the year was 18.7 per 1,000 live births. S. H. Hobbs, Jr., in the University ..News Letter, goes into the matter fully, finding that Clay county appears to have ranked best in the state for the year 1925, with only 13.4 deaths of infants under one year of age per one thousand live births. Pasquotank had the highest in fant death rate with approximately one infafft death for every seven children born during the year, or one hundred and thir ty-five infant deaths per one thousand live births, an appalling infant death rate. North Carolina has a high infant death : rate compared with other states; Out of thirty-seven states for which data were reported by the Federal Census in 1923, only (ten states had higher infant death rates than North Carolina. 1 Not only is the infant death- rate high ’ in North Carolina, but also-the maternal mortality rate for the state was 8.2 per one thousand live births. During the year 1925 six hundred and ninety moth ers were feported to have died from puer r peral causes, that is causes resulting 1 from childbirth. Six counties reported no deaths to mothers resulting from child ’ birth. The rate was highest in Jones rcounty with 20.2 deaths of mothers re sulting from childbirth per one thousand | live births. In thirty-three counties the ♦maternal mortality rate was, above ten per one thousand live births. There ap ’ pears to be some tendency for counties with high infant death rates to have high maternal mortality rates, but there are many exceptions. A study will show that the counties ► which make the best showing are mainly i mountain counties and extreme eastern • ftidewater eounties, with pe£- • ulation ratios. There are verylfew ex ceptions to this rule. The counties that ; make the worst showing, those having > high infant death rates, are located in : the eastern half of the state. The last ■ twenty-three counties appearing in the table are with one exception all loea.ted in the eastern hifff of the state. The ex , ception is Forsyth where the negro ratio is high. It will be noted that almost •' without exception the counties tljat have ; high infant death rates have high negro population ratios. The; negro infant j death rate is ordinarily about, fifty per cent, higher than the- white infant death rate. However,'there are many counties with large white population ratios that have high infant death rates, as Davie, Surry, Polk, and others. Children born alive but dying before the first birthday numbered 6,591 in North Carolina in Probably a large number of infant deaths were not reported. More infants die in Nortp Car olina each year than there are people in many counties of the State. The rate is appalling. The cause is largely ignorance of the proper care of infants, > More ade quate facilities for the proper instruction of mothers, young and old, would greatly reduce the infant death rate. This is a matter that should demand the attention of health authorities more than any other in North Carolina. We are making progress with the elimination of certain diseases that formerly killed hundreds of our citizens each year but we are not making the progress we should make in the fight against infant deaths. North Carolina has the highest birth rate of any State in the Union but we are los ing many of our babes through ignorance and carelessness. Especially is this true among members of the colored rae«. THIRTY LYNCHINGS IN YEAR. Lynch in gs in the United States in creased from 17 in 1925 to 30 in 1926, says a report compiled by a committee of church men. Practically the entire in crease was in Southern States. Again North Carolina takes position with those States whose records during the year were not blackened by mob vio lence. It is true that mobs were active in the State but officers saw to it that the mobs Avere frustrated, thus carrying out their duties in the''face of unusual difficulties and at the same time proving' to the rest of the South that there *is no excuse for mob violence when officers perform their duties. i High officials in the State of .North Carolina have not hesitated to take dras tic action when mobs threatened tp take the law into their own hands, and this determined action has meant the jlefeat ofi*the~lavfr violators. You can’t fandle mob members with gloves. They are desperate when they form their cfowd and desperate methods must be adopted in combatting them. Troops have been called out in North Carolina on several occasions within the past several years and they have upheld the law. Members of mobs who stormed jails have been sentenced to the chain gang and others who took a prisoner from a North Caro lina jail and mutilated him are serving sentences in the State prison. That’s the proper way to break up the mob spirit. Officers can’t afford to cud dle men who would take the law into their own hands. You can’t reason with a mob when it is on duty, for while reas oning is being done the mob moves on to its goal. There is no excuse for Ivnchings’in any State in the Union. Where lynchings occur there is usually a careless spirit among officials. Stern, energetic, deter mined county officers can prevent lynch ings iu_most instances. North Carolina met the threat in recent years with de termination and as a result there has not been a lynching in the State in five years. UNDER THE STEERING WHEEL. The Morganton News-Herald says, “next to the drunken driver the greatest menace on the highways is the child driv er.” The Salisbury Post disagrees, and with some reason, taking the position that next to the drunken driver the greatest ; menace is-“the little headed fellow who drives another man’s car.” We have ample reason to give a loud ; “amen” to the Post for daily here one marvels that the “little headed fellows” don’t kill themselves and about everybody I else on the streets. The driver of the ■ other mail’s car, says The, Post, usually j “drives a truck, for which he feels no re ; | sponsibility or care. It is not his to main ■ tain or keep gas in, and he knows that the responsible man or woman who does ■ not wish to get injured in the car lie t>r she owns, nor wishes the car injured will stop or get out of his way, so he has the right of way by a process of elimination.” The Post argues further, and with log-I ic, that the best way to get facts is to ask the men who furnish the cars for the other fellows to drive, “If yoh.want fur : tlier proof,” says The (Liv er’s ways and costliness of ft, ask one of .these business men buy. trucks and I I gasoline and put this type of driver oil I the seat. Get his figures i'for original cost : and upkeep and add that to the general ‘cetet of living .tn the ■community-and one • THE CONCORD TIMES gets another object lesson in the expens ive ways of one of these loose drivers who care little what he does and whom he in conveniences.” Os course there aie ex ceptions to the rule and The Post ex plains that, it is talking “of a type to be found everywhere handling the steeling wheel of a delivery truck. We see this class dailv and we get out of their waj, too.” Tjie Salisbury editor sums up the sen sible thing to do in thedast sentence. We have.seen no way to curb the driver who has nothing invested and the best thing to do is to keep out of his way. Certain ly there should be some law or method by which truck drivers would be made to stand an examination and put up b<?nd. It endangers the lives of everybody else when irresponsible men are turned loose with an auto, especially when the auto doesn’t belong to them. , WOULD NOT APPOINT HIS REL ATIVES. Well-known Washington correspond ent during the dull season between con gressional sessions has been probing into the facts as to congressional clerk hire by North Carolina Representatives and Sen ators with some rather interesting re sults. One of the conclusions reached by the correspondent is that four members of Congress from this State have enabled relatives to earn nearly six thousand lars a year by employing them in clerical or some other capacity. Such employ ment of kinsman or in-laws by Congress- u men is legitimate, but nepotism on the part of elective public officials is likely to evoke some criticism. —Greensboro; Record. Woodrow Wilson, when President of the United States, set an example that all other men in office should follow. He declined to appoint a brother and cousin to office and while he may have caused a row in the family he played squard with his constituents. - • ; • In its issue of March 9th, 1913, the Washington Post in its “interview” col umn, said that President Wilson “is not going to be charged with nepotism.” It added that “it is known that he declined to give any encouragement to the candi dacy of his brother for the membership of the Senate.” The Post went on to say: “Friends of Capt. A. M. Wilson, of Portland, Oregon, a cousin of the Presi dent/have been urging the captain’s ap pointment as a member of the Philippine ( Commission. Captain Wilson’s friends went to the War Department in a body to see Secretary Garrison,” said Col. R. A. Harvey, of Portland, “and urged the Sec retary to recommend the captain’s ap pointnient. The Secretary listened pa tiently to the visitors and then declared that he had talked with the President about the appointment of Captain Wil son and that the President had told him emphatically he would not appoint his relatives to office.” In making this decision at the begin ning of his administration, President Wilson was following the principle laid down .by Jefferson, who declared a hun dred years before that “the public will never be made to believe that an appoint ment of a relative is made on the ground of merit ailone, uninfluenced by family views; nor can they ever see with appro bation offices, the disposal of which they entrust to their Presidents for public purposes, divided out as family proper ty.” TAR SUPERVISOR AND AUDITOR. John L. Miller has been named tax sup ervisor and auditor for Cabarrus County, and he has a job that demands common sense. He is going to be criticised more than praised but he has been before the public long enough to take this sensibly, and he should be fearless enough to do his duty regardless of what the public has to say. There will be all kinds of complaint when the revaluation of property is begun and Mr. Miller should be careful in his selection of township assistants. A man on this job should kiiQw local conditions, should understand # 'and appreciate land values, should take into consideration improvements that make some farm land, especially, more valuable than others, and above all else should be capable of listening to reason.- We do not mean that Mr. Miller or his assistants should change their valuation figures each time they get or someone criticises them; rather we mean ,that they shbuld be ready and willing to j hear the complaints and give them due consideration.- The tax supervisor and j liis assistants, whoever they may be, i arc merely human after all, and may be expected to -make, mistakes, but these! will be less- numerous ifi common "sense is 1 1 Used in dealing with property throughout ' the county, • The public should be lenient with ; j\£r. j' Miller and his aides. These men have aj, difficult task and an important one and they should he burdened with as few. complaints as possible. If % will do no onej' i i an) r particular good to, censure arid com plain for we feel sure that the supervis or will be glad to entertain any reasona ble request for adjustment. Wherij the property owner feels that he has cause for adjustment he should go to the sup ervisor or list taker and state his propo sition. That is mueh better than the method many will use —a method of crit icising and censuring behind the backs of the officials. The former method will get results if adjustment is justified, while the latter will result in nothing but hard feel lings. The tax supervisor and auditor were made mandatory in a bill passed by the recent. Legislature. The two offices have been combined in Cabarrus by the coun ty Commissioners who were anxious to comply with the law and at the same time to keep down expenses. WATCH QUALITY, NOT QUANTI TY. Eastern farmers have been warned again, this time by the President of the Atlantic Cotton Association, against planting all of their land in cotton this season. The speaker pointed out that farmers in this section of the growing belt must devote their energies toward getting the best possible staple rather than to growing big crops. The farmer of the west can produce cotton so much cheaper than the farmer of 4he east that the latter must produce the better grade if he would keep in the -competition. This has been true for sev eral years and is becoming more notice able eachy season.; With huge ; tracks and modern machinery the west j ern cotton producer has much the ad vantage but the eastern farmer can stay in the running if he will produce the bet ter staple. The better staple grows as easily as the poorer staple and always commands a better price. Farmers here who produc ed a long staple cotton last seasoh fqpnd a readier market and lligflier pi-i ces than the man who had a* lower grade with a shorter staple. Eastern farmers might as well face the issue and prepare to change their tactics or .stop the cotton raising business. They must go in for quality rather*than quan tity or find their lot growing no better from each year to year. Former Senator Butler, of Massachu setts, campaign manager in the last Pres idential fight for President Coolidge, is preparing for a swing through the west in an effort to “size up” sentiment there for the President. He is going tohspend some time in the farming States, to see what political damage the President did when he vetoed the farm relief bill. All of which indicates that the President is undecided yet about 1928. If he had definitely decided not to make the race he wouldn’t care what the farmers thought. If he had made up his mind not to enter the race he would not establish the White House in the Middle West this summer. He would go where he pleased and let the voters think what they wanted to think. Senator Butler has nothing to do now but look after the President’s interests, having been defeat ed for re-election, go he may be expected to spend the next several weeks feeling the political pulse of the west. ANOTHER COAL STRIKE. New Work Sun. No general strike of eoul miners in the history (»f the industry has attracted so little attention as that which takes out'the bituminous miners in the central competitive district at midnight. An thracite miners strike, though anthracite is a com paratively negligible element in the coal industry outside of the States on the Atlantic coast, is al ways looked on as a calamity. But when the union soft coal miners iu the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the western end of Pennsylvania go out the public pays virtually no heed to them. This is due to the confusion and demoralization that exist in the soft coal business. In the bitter competition between the union and non-union mines the non-unionists have had all the best of the bght because their managers have been able to adjust, cost to ip rices. The union mines have been losing business steadily to their rivals. It has beeu demonstrated that the non-unionists cau supply practically all the coal that is needed, consequently a soft coal misers’ strike does not mean a coal famine, though it miry inconvenience some con sumers, injure some mine owners and embarrass some miners. - The strike that begings tonight resolves itself into a local aunoyance. It does not attain the dimensions of national misfortune. 22,001,393 MOTOR CARS. New York Sun. Hie Bureau of Public Roads at Washington 1 reports that there were 22,001,393 registered motor 1 cars in the United State at the close of 1926—an ineiease of 2,000,000 over the year before —and the registration and license fees collected by the various j States reached the sum of $288,282,252. • , •‘America developed in the ltfst eentrury aloug the railroads instead of along the highways that served the puri>oses of earlier generations it clear the motor ear i? bringing back the joys of the old days, with a difference. Good roads are )pc<mnng the rule instead of the exception every-! where, and those who lived even 'before the steam ! engine came iu would bp astonished i€ they could; come back and sec whut has been accomplished. I No longer do . the dpirizeus of New York; city complain taatf ihey have to-.pay most «£&be\eost o new highways in the- Adirouducks. A good r«id good road ho matter where it is and part of the assets of the whole State. Sending notes to a Chinese- government is on a! paw witharguing with a Chinese la undry man oyer a lost shirt.—Watertown Times. % Thiira ■ C ° I)E ° F ETfi9 Winsto,<9 Sooner , n . j, for tliein.srive. conduct, .u of giving the by which to leagues. SneaL.i * tuH ♦'on Monday SH!<l; '"'V fu r 1 character wit U *> au(l hn ""'t anti eousness." 1 Fe . v '*. |)Pl ' s '>nx have H eniiobimg i(IeH , of any pnhii, factor,' There are *9 thp ™l«’rity of S 9 .with them, m ' JH9 as . their " afa,nßt tllp Profess?* suggests cri„ lP wit aud notion I? 9 “i* 111 "-’ 11 of at! law?* li . is . ;ils " a fact that J 9 profess,,,,, are * themselves. The v?>»9 small has little w ej ?9 the reprehensible who are. as „ rule. eoumi-c t.. be IS perhaps ] es * , .other professions which lawyers . frequently emphasized Hard mg has ,l„„ e a public and lawyers a/,* ■ the fact there are i„ are both a credit to which they serve.' * WILSOXAXnJ Ohio State Journal. The death last of Woodrow Wilson, late President's career 1913, shortly after to serve his first term. an abtive candidate f,.S the United States Se, irt to such preferment bui 5 whose influence with the at that time, would harr9 Instead of sj tea king • hit SB made it plain to the lieve a man should be service on the score f) { expressed himseif it-ivMjß as a result, the position went to another Itenwcntß President Wilson's political ambition may hatjß in the family, bur. . it was entirely right. PdH be made a family affair. public offices place their payroll the suspicion of pjß naturally and inevitably Public servants should suspicion. I’.y shakittr pdfl it mars their usefulness. ing power should he disqualification Ur a RELIGION Aftl Hickory Uecrd. M Whatever else the reterß inflexion lias done totbel® an editorial in this wct'iiH taught it the lesson [.politics. "There has not the editorial points out. tH the consequences of of state. fl “It h confused the inputs of both Mexico editorial continues. gard any action with countries opinion has national interest. play, and focused on “Strangely enough. live and work together or Gentile. Protestant into partisanship overling been seriously proposed fl^B deal with Mexico, on may do to Americans, Mexicans with respect toy| “Our advice to eludes, “is that we all by the founders ot the the Mexican prr.blein wH dust rial, and political If we stick to this linqflM BOY. THEYVJB Stanly News Herald. Eugene Ashcraft, of the following in his “In looking aver published August IT came across the in small type, with above: “ 'This space has & Go.. Charlotte. X- r “B eeries, Liquors. IB not to advertise f-r “'“lB gets a little dull. * **B|j go to Charlotte. “Should such ‘Wholesale dealer' ", baceo" —it would n i,r <* “Call and see Hriirj • "But there is s^ l " during a busy J(9 need -to invite nJ,,rt L,]B than he cau M-ne is when more busiuo* 5 " Boy, thru uui saf.-* Charlotte now and that ad •»! >eai> '‘C', (js mueh as a man i»J big as a peck hue greatest trading • j uot excepted. THE FIFTV-l^B Asheville 'Hums. * • Judge Shaw " l>llV j '.from the s,rpp! ' J 59 lie safety. .negro eoiixicted - *<i^B Mrs. Carrie 1 ' p ,, 9 Shaw said il«" M most of the When .'on v.am , you want them ! when you g r! jjft^H wrecks ~f «r. " Civilize! I O'- '. , ; but Judge j would, well - P|V 'the absence o, of these niachrP"- ~#9 you get it r ,b »j 9 one else |(H i tir^^B see that h to its response H lives ot oinew ! in the an UF*9 yf all other " Bfl
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