North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR THE CONCORD TIMES PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Entered ae second class mail matter at the post office at Concord, N. C. f under the Act of March S, 1879. J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor 1 Special Representative: FROST, LANDIS & KOHN New York. Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle CARROLL TO PRISON. Attorney General Sargent, acting up on advice of physicians, rules that Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, must serve his sentence of a year and a day in the federal-prison at Atlanta. Carroll had been at Greenville, S. C., where he was taken from a train in April while en route from New York to Atlan ta. His condition had been described as rather serious by attending physicians so the government got two experts to examine the theatrical man before deter mining what should be done with him. The attorney general in ordering Car roll to report at once to the prison said the two physicians indicated in their re port that there was nothing serious in Carroll’s condition. In fact the attorney general left the impressiori that the whole thing was a fake or'ruse, adopted by Car roll as a means of escaping the sentence. Furthermore the attorney general rul ed on another point—the time Carroll’s sentence started. He ruled that the time spent in the hospital shall not apply on his sentence-and that lie- must spend a year and a day in the prison in addition to the time he has been in the hospital, i Carroll is the victim of his own devices just the same we have felt'all along that there was something genuine to his illness. We have not seen a report by Greenville physicians to the effect that he was' not physically fit for a jail sen tence, but juSt .the same the fact that they continued in attendance and did not report otherwise led us to believe that the Greenville doctors thought should not go to prison. Knowing the'character of these physicians we were ipclined <to the belief that Carroll was too ill for the penitentiary and should be sent to some nerve specialist for further treatment. However, the government rules other wise and when such a ruling is made there are but two courses open—one is an appeal to the courts and the other is to accept the degree without murmur. Carroll pulled a ‘‘bath tub” party at which a woman played a prominent role. ; When questioned by a grand jury he de nied that a woman got into a bath tub, this testimony being in direct contradic tion with other testimony offered at the trial. He was found guilty of perjury and the sentence followed. Carroll made his first mistake when he staged - the ‘bath tub” party and then followed this with a more serious one — telling a lie. He is the victim of his own devices, we repeat, but just the same we are not convinced that reputable physic ians of Greenville would take part in a ‘ fake’ illness to aid him, and somehow we are not convinced that his illness is a ‘‘frame-up” in the usual meaning of that expression. READ SMITH OUT. Representative Hammer, Solicitor Zeb \ . Long and Frank Hampton, private secretary to Senator Simmons, met at Washington this week and after their , conference they let it be known that Governor Smith would never do for the Democratic presidential nomination. They didn’t say that he couldn’t win necessarily, *but they said that his can didacy, if he is nominated, would wreck the Democratic party in' the South, a - thing aparently more to be dreaded than the election of a Republican president. That is one of the things that has Dem ocratic party leaders in all of the South ern States worried. Most of the leaders, if you please, are politicians. Further more they are office holders or have rel atives or friends who, are office holders and they are not willing to take a big gamble with the presidency and risk their own jobs in so doing. We have heard it argued many times that the nomination of Governor 1 Smith would ruin tfie Democratic party in the South. While it is agreed that the New York governor might get the electoral vote in these disrupted Southern States, at the same time it is pointed out that the work of many local organizatioris, which have held various counties and districts in line year after year, w r ould te made null and void. Many Democrats who would decline to vote for the Repub lican presidential nominee, it is said, would also decline to vote for any of the other Democratic nominees, and the whole thing would ruin the party. ' A' That is a stronger argument, from a political standpoint, than * any other brought out- against the Governor. Let the politicians in the Squth understand that their prestige is at stake in the Dem ocratic national convention and the going j will be hard for the Eetnpire State Chief Executive. ■ I "■ - s . AUTO ACCIDENTS According to the State Highway Com mission, 42 out of 100 fatal automobile' accidents in North Carolina were due to speeding. Which means, in other words, that about half of the persons killed in these accidents did so because they violated the law. The Winston-Salem Journal hints that many of the drivers of these death cars were drunk at the time, de claring, ‘‘the man-who mixes liquor and gasoline is usually the most daring speed er. That’s another reason why Judges should never fail to take licenses away from automobile drivers who drink.” The report shows that 1$ of the 100 accidents w r ere due to railroad crossings and 13 to reckless driving. Other caus es included: pedestrians walking on high way, five; reckless driving, four; intoxi cated drivers, seven; blinking lights and children playing on highway, three each; skidding and cars parked on highway, two each; driving on wrong side of road, one. Nobody knows what the count is for the six months of this year for the reas on that the time has not expired, but from July 1,1926 to January 1, this year, there were 930 automobile accidents in the State, 979 persons were injured 110 were killed. All last year there were 1,633 acci dents, 1,639 persons injured, 185 killed. Several accidnts occurred because the driver was asleep. Here are some nota tions : 10-2-26 4 a. m. ran into ditch, driver asleep; 7-18, 7 a. m., ran off fill, three injured, driver asleep; 9-29, 5 a. m., ran into, ditch ? one injured, driver asleep; 11-3, ran into bank, driver asleep. 1-14, 4‘ a. m., ran into ditch, driver asleep; 8-22, ran into telephone pole, four injured, asleep, and so on. ■ < i *J, . Concord people who have recently vis ited Lake Concord are convinced that there is no need to fear about any water shortage in Concord this season. More than 400,000,000 gallons of water are im pounded in the dam, and during the wet seasons such as we are having now, none of this water is being used. The creeks supplying the normal demand are run ning at full capacity now and the reserve supply is just being held for future emer gencies. JEALOUSIES AROUSED. The expected has happened. Disgrun tled aviators are trying to belittle the feats of Captain Lindbergh and Clarence Chamberlain. Most of the world was ready to ac claim the men who crossed the Atlantic in airplanes, but the under-current of jealousy is in evidence now. Charles A. Levine, who flew' with Chamberlin, ap parently was so disappointed at the fate c/f his plane that he seeks to establish “luck” as the reason for Lindbergh’s ffeat. And Lloyd Bertaud, who was first named to fly with Chamberlin, criticises the lat ter's flight, saying “sloppy navigation” was the reason the Columbia did not reach Berlin. Levine in his statement seems to have established the fact that he and Cham berlin made the flight primarily for the purpose of taking away from Lindbergh the latter’s glory. In a statement to the United Press soon after his arrival in Germany, Levine dealt at some length on the fact that he and Chamberlin flew farther than Lindbergh, reiterating in the rather brief statement that Lindbergh was lucky while he and Chamberlin were not. Bertaud, the public no doubt will feel, was “sore” because Levine dropped him when he insisted upon certain guarantees. However, there is no denying the fact that Levine and Chamberlin seemed in doubt as to where they were going. They asked for direction once and then became lost in the fog, in reality covering enough mileage to have reached Berlin. All of this criticism and apparent jeal ousy makes us like Lindbergh better. So far he has said nothing about his rivals for trans-Atlantic honors. When he heard that Chamberlin and Levine had reached Germany, established a new long distance record, he could easily have told how he could have flown on to Ber lin or Warsaw. Examination of the gas oline in his plane showed that he had enough left after reaching Paris to have carried him 600 or 700 miles further. He said nothing like that, however. He prov ed that he is a good sport by sending con gratulations to the men who broke his record. T ,X- f , >. - Ley me. we contend, showed- poor sportsmanship wh|nfhe follow ing statement to the‘United iPriess,'car-' ried in’ a copyright dispatch: ** Kottsbus, Germany, June 6.—Lind bergh was lucFy and \\t 3/ere not. * v If i we had had oiie.tenth of Lindbergh’s luck a* ■.. we would have done much better. The wind was against us seventy-five per cent, of the way. When we strtick the heavy fog we had to go 221,000 feet high. I can tell you that was not com fortable. • J 1 * On Account of our detour, which we made to avoid the storm centers, our gas ran out just at the moment when Berlin was within our grasp. We were forced to come down for lack of gas near Eisleben at 5:55 this morning. We got a new supply of gas from the nearest Lufthansa station, but we did not take on enough. We were in such a hur ry to get to Berlin that we did not stop long enough to fill our tanks. After we left Eisleben our magneto be gan to give us trouble and, as luck would have it, we were compelled to come down when we were over a big stretch of swampy ground. It was impossible to find a decent land ing place. Still, we flew for forty-four hours and covered 4,000 miles as, against Lind bergh’s thirty-three and a half hours and 3,600 miles, but Lindbergh was lucky and we were not. v COST OF STATE GOVERNMENTS. The department of Commerce of the Federal Government shows that the pay ments for operation and maintenance of the general departments of the State gov ernments of the 48 States for the fiscal period closing December 31, 1926, or the first fiscal period closing prior thereto, amounted to $1,040,234,452 or $6.98 per capital. This includes $263,251,544, ap portionments for education to the minor civil divisions of the State, and $4,974,- 014, payments of soldiers’ bonus in 17 departments was $9.19, and in 1917, $4.19. The payments for operation and mainten ance of public service enterprises amount ed to $9,076,346; interest on debt, $76,- 869,095; and outlays for permanent im provements, $486,358,061. The total pay ments for 1926, therefore, were $1,614,- 537,954; for 1925, $1,614,562,230; and for 1917, $517,503,220. The payments for soldiers’ bonus in 1026-were $50,910,664 less than in T 925 but there was an increase in apportion ments for education of $9,201,016. ‘ Interest charges also increased $9,207,- 147 over those for 1925. Os the total payments in 1926, 64.4 per cent, was for operation and mainten ance of the general departments; 0.6! per cent., operation and maintenance of pub lic service enterprise's; 4.8 per cent] for interest on debt; and 30.2 per Cent] for outlays for permanent improvement^. Os the! payments ,for operation and maintenance of general departments,^39.9 per cent, was for education; 17.2 per cent., charities, hospitals, and correc tions; 15.1 per cent, highways; 8.4 per cent., general government; 5.8 per cent., protection to person and property; 6.0 per .cent, development and conservation of natural resources; 2.4 per cent, health and sanitation; 0.3 per cent., recreation; and 4.9 per cent., miscellaneous, the lat ter including soldiers’ bonus. The outlay payments for permanent improvements were principally for high ways, constituting 81.4 per cent, of the total outlays. The next in importance were the outlay payments for education, amounting to $36,435,473; and charities, hospitals, and corrections, amounting to $30,150,736. The total revenue receipts of the gov ernments of the 48 States for 1926 were $1,655,494,919. This was $529,315,026 more than the total payments of the year exclusive of the outlay payments for permanent improvements, and $40,956,- 965 more than the totaf payments includ ing those for permanent improvements. Not since 1919 have the States as a whole had a surplus of revenue receipts after meeting all governmental costs including capital outlays for permanent improve ments. AGAIN THE ATLANTIC IS CON QUERED. ~■■. n' I,"-* ' Again the Atlantic has been conquered from the air. Clarence Chamberlain and Charles Le vine wrote their names in aviation his tory on the line under Charles A. Lind bergh’s when they flew from New York to Germany, covering about 4,000 miles, in 42 hours. It is probable they would have reached Berlin had they followed the shortest course. The world did not thrill at this feat as it did just two weeks before when Cap tain Lindbergh, alone in his single-motor plane dashed from New York to Paris, but just the same this latest fligfit will be of great importance in the, development, of * aviation. . These men: were tnHtfg 'to do more - than {cross' tile Atlahtdc^B|ey i were testing tlieir plane as Ho endurance, and fuel consumption. 1 Various condi tions they met and conquered on the trip and ijt is to the credit of their splendid plane as well as to their nerve and ability, 1 that they were able to itay ln the air the concord times about 42 hours. Chamberlain and Levine will nqt be accorded the honors that went to Lind bergh. Theirs was not so spectacular a flight. They did‘not arouse the enthus iasm of the public as d,id Lindbergh be cause they were not alone. In the dark watches of the night they had companion ship, they were in position to be reliev ed of the duty of driving the plane hour after hour, and they had sufficient space in their plane to allow for food and water. Their flight no doubt will mean as much to aviation as the flight of Captain Lindbergh but they will have been for gotten long before Lindbergh. People in quired as to their progress, but there was lacking in this endeavor the suspense, the nerve-racking element that caught at the heartstrings of the world when Lind bergh set out alone and caused the world to spontaneously honor him when he gracefully set his single-seater to rest on French soil. We express this hope—that the arrival in Berlin of Chamberlain and Levine will do as much to cement the friendship of Germany and America as the arrival of Lindbergh in Paris did to bring France and America closer. our Furniture industry. According to an official source of infor mation the furniture output of North Carolina for the year 1925 was more than fifty-one million dollars, or about two thirds the value of the state’s bumper cot ton crop of 1926. The furniture industry is our third most important industry, ranking only after tobacco and textiles. North Carolina’s position as a furni ture state is often*misstated. According to official Federal data for the year 1925 there were six states whose furniture output exceeded ours in value. How ever, two of these states barely nosed out North Carolina. The following table ranks the important furniture states ac cording to value of output in the year 1925 : Value of State ~ •' Products 1 New York L $155,826,117 2 Illinois 109,230,867 3 Michigan 99,130,108 4 Indiana 80,687,630 5 Wisconsin 53,915,692 6 Pennsylvania 52,607,048 7 North Carolina 51,208,238 8 Ohio • 47,586,668 9 California 36,726,511 10 Massachusetts 33,638,635 11 Virginia J. According to a study recertify reported in the University of Virginia News Let ter the annual value of North Carolina’s furniture output has increased from slightly more than six million dollars in 1904 to more than fifty-one million dol lars in 1925. In other words, the value of furniture manufactured in the State in 1925 was more than eight times as as in 1904. Only four states experienced a larger total increase in value of Output, our gain over 1904 value of output being forty-five million dollars. We now hold a higher rank as a furniture state than ever before in our history, so far as we are able to discover from available data. WAS UNUSUAL AT LEAST. J. D. Norwood, former Salisbury bank er and prominent Democrat of the State, was at least unusual in his approach to the Atlanta federal prison where he will spend three years. Most persons of such prominence as Mr. Norwood make a great noise when they start for prison.- Most of them in fact, do not start until they have exhaust ed every means at their command to es cape the sentence. Some times they go so far-as to appeal to the President before entering the prison, while others seek free freedom on every technicality of the law before allowing a prison door to shut behind them. - V ■ A t f •• Mr. Norwood was different. He ap pealed from the sentence of the convict ing court, to be sure, but once the appeal was* acted upon, and unfavorably for him, he went about the matter of getting his business in order without public ado and the public as a matter of fact, had lost sight of him when he reported at Atlanta. That, it seems to us, is the more sensi ble way for men to look at prison sen tences. They can fight and argue and talk until they disgust tfie public, and in most instances such tactics get them nothing. Mr. Norwood apparently is re signed to his fate, a fact that may work for his benefit after all. From Washington come intimations that President Coolidgeand members of his official family] are not pleased with , New, York .hints that Captain Lindbergh 1 Jias invited to Washington for po • litical reasons: Stjch :changes have been made ail'd 3 th<*re ‘ mas * been "protect from j various sections of the about, the changed plans which calLfpV debarfcatioji at Washington instead--of 1 Ntfw York. The President said nothing about receiving the flier/'an4'lys ch^ng? ed attitude was seen as a political move > by certain New Yorkers, who wanted the . flier to come first to that city after readi ly irig America. It does seem to us, as a . matter of fact, that it would have been . better for the President to have received : him later in Washington, since the gov . ernment did not sponsor the trip and he . sailed as an average American. New ■ York represents America more than : “Washington does, although the seat of the government is in the latter city. How . ever, when the President spoke his wish ! es were met, despite any feeling that . Lindbergh or anybody else might have . had. . ! v After July 2nd government insurance . be reinstated. Fofrn/;r service . men who have allowed their insurance to lapse are urged to investigate the mat ; ter immediately. The government insur ance is cheaper than most others, it can be paid for monthly, semi-annually or an [ nually and has many features that are [ incorporated in other policies. The time ■ to act is now. There will be no rein ; statement after July 2nd. SIMMONS PREPARED TO “CARRY ON”- North Carolinians no doubt were in ■ terested and delighted to hear several 1 days ago that Senator Simmons is physi -1 cally fit. Governor McLean let it be • known that the senior North Carolina • Senator had recently been given a thor ough examination, after which physicians , announced that he was physically fit for his Senate duties. Senator Simmons is in western North ; Carolina now, giving a needed rest to his » nerves, and after Lis visit there he ex : pects to return to Washington in the Fall, ■ fully capable of conducting the various : affairs that will fall to him as one of the : best known and most influential members of the Senate. Senator Simmons is 73 years of age but the public has found him always able to conduct properly the,affairs of his of fice. He is one of the hardest workers in Congress and his prestige there today is nothing but recognition of his labors. THE MORGANTON FINDINGS. Winston-Salem Sentinel. ; Regarding the death at Morganton hospital of H. B. Williams, the Attorney General finds that “the man’s death was not caused nor hastened by neglect or mistreatment by the hospital authorities or the attendants,” as members of Williams’ family had contended. Yet despite this official hading, the question asserts itself: Had facilities tor taking care of the inmates of the Morganton TnstitUt ion been better, would Williams have died as soon as he did? Testimony given the hearing by the superintendent and assistant superintendent of the hospital w'as clearly indicative of inadequate means for. rendering the patients the care which a sche dule of normal attentions would specify. Through out the entire hearing no evidence was adduced to support any charge of deliberate neglect or mis treatment. It was lack of sufficient number of attendants that was responsible for Williams get ting into the pitiful condition that could easily be interpreted as contributing to his death. It is to be devoutly hoped that the people of North Carolina, and especially the officials of the State, will not allow the inevitable conclusion that lack of adequate facilities at the hospital w-as in some degree responsible for the death of Williams to be obscured by the Attorney General’s verdict that neither neglect) nor mistreatment had anything to do w T ith his demise. The State is peculiarly charged with the care of its dependent and help less children. In the discharge of this duty, the sense of feeling that the State has fqr suffering and misery is iuetfaceably disclosed. RICH WAITING MARKETS. Raleigh News and Observer. The 'Southern Power Company is doing a notable and valuable segvice to the whole South, and the country as well, in the series of advertisements it is inserting in widely circulated national publica tions like The Literary Digest. It compresses into a few words the very things that are calculated to draw attention to the 'South and increase its prosperity and invite new settlers and new in dustries. Its advertisements are so worded as to do this" without too much detail and without ap parent solicitation. Its last advertisement con tained the following: Some idea of the potentialities of nearby markets ‘ may be gained from these facts: Annually Southern textile mins purchase $107,- 000,000 worth of equipment, machinery and sup . plies. Only a small part of this demand is supplied bt Southern manufacturers. Imports into the South of ceramic wares amount to $45,000,000 annually—chinaware, wall and floor tile,, sanitary ware, electrical, porcelain and re fractories. 1 Tactically all of the textiles used in the ex teusive furniture industry, together with much of the hadware and fittings used by that industry, are imported. And the Carolinas yearly buy in foods and feed products worth $335,000,000. These are only a few of many outstanding ex amples of rich waiting markets. They will amply reward manufacturers who elect to utilize local labor and local raw materials in supplying them. LINDBERGH AND WINE. New York Times. As to the wet-and-dry situation, candor compels one to say that the existing tension will not be relieved by his record 'before or after Le Bourget. Innumerable tumblers of ahaiwpagne have been hfted m his honor and he had touched his lips to the brim, but without* drinking. This obviously brings aid aud comfort to bdthe sides. The wets can that a nation may have witte with honor —the I rench call their toasts to him “the wiue of honor; also that a nation which takes it glass, of champagne is not thereby incapacitated for gen-' erpue admiration of a heroic stranger. But/, on If a . Ss°4 dealJiftj-der to speak, plus\ hypocrisy plus h!n tblopd.; After all,,wHeu omAhas fiowh aerbss the Atlantic on two ham sandwiches and a bottle of water— 'A . 1 Revolution makes as touch trouble below the Rio Grande as evolution does above it.—Shreveport JpurpaL . j "h. : D ***u*l : rJu l h “ Herald. S . Ham ■ 1 1 m DanviU e ///‘Hi. unusual cireumgL 5 * A , most all the J 1 of their ■ encouragement £ ■ rr i,y s ■i;r vh , al " 1 tlwt totle realms ■; ever ’ «*ere ■ want him. and tK* • tack ttere. Z ' r S . . lresb >- "ami, 'S : "Frans to sar newspaper win thi ■ interest in th „ f - T ht, : Mr. Ham ami hi* Sjl the Register ext//'/* , columns, and his daily ' year the RegiZ^ ■ evangelistic • - vear »* printing m * -contrary whatever 2M 1 regarded solely ( ®»i ■ *>fcly by , hat . . ne» S i,a|,„.a ßto „ i ™ B ll i meetinso, it »,||"*«, ' this ne.-sp.K,, - Seated, the jusual st£| values, will b«fapph^ “The reason for Part of the ownership Jz Ham is coining to mUj vdle as a house divi«u| there was a place concord, tins newsp^S - House of Religion x/t | coming of Mr. H am ‘ll ministers of Danville k * worthy of their leadeJ J decided to come to thi« ij! I the fa ce of their nmA. that the revival was i#/! * last campaign, this I1? Zj y that it would simply hjT campaign. “This is Xlr. Ham's laN paper understands that heL l in the It is aL . campaign of its type in ’ evangelists have decided fe b is something that ceutejs* that the church repns% | often these days even of* 5 And where are the "CjqJ ; yesterday? . “The Register wishes Mi. | that those who go to heath by the True Vine. But ti ; unaware of the criticism the , Mr. Ham, and it-is Bet an he is not only coining to aßa ■ ed against itself, but that hi L factor in that division.'’ | ; ROOSTINGuj High Point Enterprise. The industrial departatg company, the corporation Power company, the Soutka ' papy and other allied inter# electrical development in tie r j a series of advertisements i| ; the World's Work,-the Xata ’ nationally circulated ng which proclaim the indmtju portunities of this region. The third of the matter: “Who has not wished fork* i to establish a business, t* j > vigorous enterprise, to bay i multiply its value year after] “You have that chance.. : . to move your business here.* vestments grow into a soldi father's risk has been cat 1? ■ “For he .had to pioneer. S . might happen in developing markets, multiplying ulm are discounted. The hard!* ‘ ready been done. . “State-wide road building i sections of Piedmont Carohn the only work available wist A great public service gr# electric development intoti* industrial employment for® ‘Business men have frnsss . Wealth during the last few! three times as fast as ia industrialized states. Now* with this section, fak?*® 3 tunities to set up your boa* linas, to supply the indaCT here. Serve Ihe rich nC* developed ami that are gw they can at present be “Some-idea of the ]*'!«« kets mav be gained froniw* “Annually Southern tei^ , 000 worth of equipment, a* Only a small part Southern manufacturers. “Imports into the ■ amount to *43.im«W and floor tile, sanitary”* and refractories. , “Practically all "t w . tensive furniture industry, the hardware and fitting are imported. >. - “And the feed products worth- “There are «»nly a -V examples of rich , amply reward *aa uUl “ local labor and loca J . them.” Jj rut Hickory Record. What started an > 'walking champions w £ months ago a w..m< ! Asheville, and ' | Then Charlotte - -« ' -jj walking record..ant >■ Mrs. Reid. -* again. . And what they going t" d - f** are in the pa)* l ' gotten ill tlie „ science of walnin- ' ai ! tributed to fl:f ' '' I walk where it ]> .' j If hiking I sport, we might tramp where yl ' I enough hidden if‘> V* i ' ,, , ,/ddin.' A attraction m l’ 1 where it m much ride. —"'''/la Os the it is estimated th. time.- Poet-- i A senator dc// ' involve an J what of the W