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. ’ /-
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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
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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
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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.
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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. "
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