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PAGE FOUR The Concord Daily Tribune ' jTbTsHERRILL. Editor and Publisher „ W. M, SHERRILL, Associate Editor “member of the associated press The Associated Press is exc usively entitled to the use of republication of all news credited to for not otherwise eretli.ed in thin P.P" the local news published herein. All rights ot repudiation of special diapatehea hereto are also reserved. Special Representative: FROST, LANDIS & KOHN New York, Atlanta. St. Coula, K * n “>' J?** San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle Entered as second class mail matter at: the postoffice at Concortl, N. C.. under the Act of March 3, 1879. . . “ SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the City of Concord or by Special One Year 3^ Six Months j Three Months State' the Subscription is the same as in the City. Out of the city by mail in North Carolina the following prices will prevail. ? ne J ea L ;;;;; iso Six Months , Three Months •• • .. 'Tu Less Than Three Months, 50 Cents a Mouth All Subscriptions Are Due in Advance. 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When you subscribe for the paper you are entitled receive every issue for the time you have paid for. If you do not receive it regularly, it is a favor, not a bother, to let us know and we will make every effort to correct the trouble. THE IMMIGRANTS INCREASE. Despite strict application of the quota provisions of the immigration law of 1024. admission of aliens under it in creased from 406.106 in the fiscal year 1926, to 538.001 in the fiscal year 1927, ended lune 30, an increase in the past • t year of 41,895. A record number of de portations was registered during the fis cal year 1027, 11,662 aliens having been sent away under warrant proceedings. Alien departures in 1927 numbered 253,- 508, but still left a net increase in the alien population .of this Country of 284,- 493, as compared to 268,351 for the fiscal year 1926. That is to say we have in creased our alien population 552,844 in the two years 1926 and 1927. We are bitterly opposed those who would take down the barriers. If any thing, we say, let’s make the barriers higher. Let’s cut down on the quota igain. Many of the foreigners make good cit izens and are to be welcomed, but there are just as many who are worthless. They don’t come to America with the idea of aiding America. They are not primarily interested in the upbuilding of a greater nation. They are looking for something easy, somewhere to exist, i And too, many of them are radicals. They bring in dangerous doctrines and seek not to build up but to tear down. Hundreds and hundreds of them are in sane, and other hundreds are ill. They are a drain on the national life of Amer ica. The population of the United States is increasing by natural causes at such a rate that soon we must take more drastic measures to keep' the immigrants out. We will need the work that is given to them for our own people. If there is to be any change in the law let’s make it more difficult, not easier, for them to get in. POPULATION OF OUR ALMS HOUSES. r ' A Nation-wide investigation of alms houses made by the Department of La bor in 1925 showed.that 137 poor farm properties had no inmates at all, while 38.5 per cent, had less than ten inmates each. ; According to Secretary Davis, there are 2,183 almshouses in the United States, with 85,889 inmates. These in stitutions, have 345,480 acres of land. The value of land is estimated at $42,- 252,178, and the buildings Tiave an esti mated value of $91,748,747, and the value of the furnishings is $10,369,928. The total value of the investment in land, buildings, equipment, and furnishings is $150,485,231. In his article Secretary Davis brings out the interesting fact that in 1922 near ly one-half of the entire population of the almshouses was made up of cripples, epi leptics, deaf mutes, and blind persons. He says many of the inmates of the poor houses are children who ought to be placed in orphan asylums, or other insti tutions specially designed for the care of children. There are insane persons in poorhouses who ought to be placed in asylums for the insane, where they can be treated by professionals. There are also feeble-minded persons who ought to be placed in institutions adapted to their conditions, and there are sick and dis abled persons in poorhouses who should be in hospitals and infirmaries. The American Issue, reciting figures on the subject, shows that in 1910 there were 91.5 inmates in almshouses to every 100,000 of population while in 1923, in mates of these institutions had decreas» d to 71.5 per 100,000 of population. Secretary Davis, studying the figures and noting the decrease, declares that “the poorhouse must go inasmuch as they have served their usefulness.” He takes the position that there has been such a widely diffused for the better in the economic conditions of the Country and that prohibition has wrought such this field that there is hardly any use of continuing these institutions. NOT SO BAD. As.a whole we have little faith in sus pended sentences. There are times, es pecially with first violators of the law or in cases where the defendant is ignor ant and youthful, where such sentences are best, but as a general proposition .we have little faith in them. However, we read one the other day by Judge Grady that sounded all right. It really had some power to it, and it doesn't require much to be done to be come effective. That’s the chief reason we have little faith in such sentences. The defendant goes on off and often no one takes the trouble to check up on him. He takes about as many chances as ever and in most cases he gets away with it. ludge Gradv was in Johnston county a few weeks ago and a defendant con victed of violation of the prohibition law was given the following suspended sen tence:- “Defendant is sentenced to twelve months in jail and assigned to work on the public roads of Johnston County. By consent and a special favor to the defend ant. said sentence will not commence un til prayed for by the solicitor or presid ing judge. But if at any time within ten years the solicitor or presiding judge shall so request, in or out of term, the clerk shall issue capias for the defendant to any county in the State and he shall be committed, and said defendant shall begin and serve his sentence in full. The judgment of the judge or solicitor in or dering capias shall be final and conclus ive. As a condition to this judgment, and in order to prevent said sentence from be ginning now, the defendant is to pay the cost and he agrees to remain of good be havior, law-abiding, and to permit the officers of the law to search his premises, or any vehicle, motor or otherwise, which is in his possession, as being used by him or his agents, without warrant. It is ex pressly understood that the defendant accepts this judgment in good faith, and agrees to all its terms and he agrees that in case of capias being issued, he will not appeal from or object to the same by habeas corpus proceedings or othei - wise.” - - OUR CONSTRUCTION RECORD. August construction contracts in the 37 States east of the Rocky Mountains amounted to $552,487,000, according to F. W. Dodge Corporation. This figure showed an increase of 3 per cent, over the July 1927 total, but was 8 per cent, un der the amount reported in August of last year. The decrease from August 1926 has no great significance, since that month happened to be the peak of 1926 contract letting; a peak which was ex ceeded by the record contract volume of June this year. The territory covered by this record includes approximately 91 per cent, of the total construction volume of the country.' Last month’s record brought the total of construction started in the past eight months up to $4,274,871,100, as compared with $4,247,408,400 for the corresponding ejght months of last year, the increase being a little over one-half per cent. Included in the August building and engineering record were the following important classes of work: $209,455,700, ~or 38 per cent, of- all construction, for residential buildings; $119,740,500, or 22 per cent, for public work and utilities; $76,915,300, or 14 per cent, for commer cial buildings; $41,039,500, or 7 per cent., for industrial buildings; and $41,435,200, or 7 per cent, for educational projects. Contemplated new work reported last month amounted to $690,666,000. This figure was less than one-half per cent, un der the amount reported in July of this year. However, there was an increase of 21 per cent, aver the amount reported in August of last year. Construction contracts awarded in August in the Middle Atlantic States (Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia and Virginia) amounting to $69,000912,500 was the highest August contract total yet on record for this dis trict. A railroad project in the' city of Philadelphia to be built at a cost of $7,- 000,000 helped to swell the month’s rec ord. August’s total showed an increase of 14 per cent, over the August 1926 to tal, as well as an increase of 30 per cent, over the amount reported in July of this year. . Last month’s construction record in cluded the following items of note: $22,- 912,900, or 33 per cent, of all construction, for residential buildings; $21,215,400, or 30 per cent, for public works and utili ties ; $9,367,600, or 13 per cent, for com mercial buidings; $4,801,400, or 7 per cent., for industrial plants; and $4,774,- 300, Or 7 per ct:it. for educational proj ects. During the past eight months there was $501.931.000 worth of new building and engineering work- started in this district. The above figure showed a gain of 18 per. cent, over the corresponding eight months of last year. new work reported in the Middle Atlantic States last month amounted to $72,520,300. There was a drop off 44 per cent, from the amount re ported in July of this year, but an in crease of 28 per cent, over the August 1926 total. The total volume of construction con tracts let in the Southeastern States (the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Lou isiana) during August amounted to $47,- 429,200. This figure showed increases of 7 per cent, over July of this year and 3 per cent, over August of last year. 3he most important items in \,he August con tract total were: $18,070,700, or 38 per cent. o* all construction, for public wwks and utilities; $14,362,300, or 30 per cAt., for'residential buildings; $4,584,100, or 10 per cent., for commercial buildings; and $3,861,100 or 8 per cent., for educational projects. The Southeastern States had $104,805,- 400 in tontraets for new. building and en gineering work during the first eight months of this year, as compared with $533,709,400 for the corresponding’ eight months' of last year, the decrease being 20 per cent. Contemplated projects reported in this district during August reached a total of $65,499,700. This was a gain of 12 per cent, over July of this year, as well as a gain of 6 per cent, over August of last year. FINDS FAULT WITH OUR POLICY Rev. T. W. Smith, who we years ago learned to love and respect as a minister and neighbor, teacher and counsellor, finds fault with some recent utterances in this paper. On the bottom of a clip ping from an Atlanta paper we find this notation : “It appears The Tribune has fallen from grace on prohibition. T. W. S.” It would have made matters clearer for us had Mr. Smith pointed out the offend ing articles but since he did not do this but sent us a marked article about Gov ernor A1 Smith we presume recent ut terances in this paper concerning the New York Governor have been mistaken by the former Concord minister now re siding in Atlanta. Perhaps Mr. Smith takes the position that any one who can accept Governor Smith is against prohibition. If that is the case then we disagree with him, not about prohibition but about the qualities of Governor Smith. We are much in fav or of prohibition, as we have always been, but we are not convinced that conditions concerning the enforcement of the pro hibition law will be any worse under Governor Smith that) under the present administration. It is well known that Secretary Mel lon, who has charge of the department which handles the prohibition enforce ment work, formerly controlled the big gest liquor interests in the United, States. He was not in favor of prohibi tion and no doubt would vote against the, present law if such an election should be held. Governor Smith is against prohibition but that does not mean to us that he would allow open violations of the law. There are several constitutional amend-, ments, all just as lawful as the 18th, that are openly violated in the South. Yet, because Governor Smith is known to be against the 18th, he is accused almost of treason. There is no evidence that he would not uphold the law regardless of his personal views. Certainly, there is no one who can justjy accuse him of al lowing or supporting law violations in New York State. We do favor prohibition, sponsor it as a saving grace of the nation and seek to uphold its hands, but we do not feel that its enforcement would suffer any more under Governor Smith than any other man elected to the White House. We take this position, we repeat, because we are not convinced by his past records and accomplishments, that Governor Smith would allow personal preference to con trol his public mandates. LEADS WORLD IN TOBACCO. Winston-Salem Journal. North Carolina now leads the world in the production of tobacco. She stepped into first place last year, when she produced on her farms a total of three hundred and ninety million pounds of the golden leaf. For the first time in history this placed North Carolina substantially ahead of Kentucky. There seems to be jio question but that North Carolina will maintain her supremacy in the to bacco realm. A conservative estimate of the crop now being harvested in the State places the total at 421,700,000 pounds. One of the principal reasons for the increased production of the leaf is the ever growing demand for cigarettes. Another is the splendid price pre vailing on the warehouse floors. It has paid the farmers to cultivate tobacco. It is, in fact, their best paying crop. It is natural that North Carolina, should lead the world in the production of tobacco, because more than half the cigarettes manufactured in America are made in North Carolina. This State is the home of the greatest tobacco manufacturing industry in America. There’s one good thin* about the Russians’ school of assassination. Home work is keeping them out of mischief.— St. Paul Pioneer Press. Nicaraguans hate and fear America.—Thomas P. Moffat, ex-member of Mixed Claims Commis sion. THE CONCORD Time* Miscellaneous Shower. Mesdames J. W. Penn : nger, R. T. Solomon, 8. O. Stone and Arnold Kirk entertained at a double miscel laneous shower Monday nighty at the home of Mrs. Stone on the Kannapo lis Road, honoring Mrs. Robert mon, a bride of last weekj and Mrs. John €. Penninger, who is planning to begin keeping house next week. The entire lower front of the Stone home was thrown together for the occasion, .and this, with the big front porch, provided a spacioua gathering place. Mrs. R. O. Stone kept the register just 'nside the front door and about sixty guests were present during the eevening. . Painty dish towels were hemmed while the enjoyed delightful music, rendered by an impromptu or composed of Miss Beatrice Fisher, pianist, S. 0. Stone, Jr., saxo phone. Gene Eatman, drums, ai?d Vy ron Petrea, guitar and harp. Each onC present was asked to write a favorite recipe and these were made into two books and given to the hon orees. Mrs. Solomon and Mrs. Pen ninger were each presented w tth a rolling pin by Helen uud Eloicse Sol omon. Two large tubs, running over with gilts were brought in by little Miss es Let ha Penninger and Martha V> ar ren. and then began the fun of un wrapping the many varied and useful presents. After all had been opened and inspected, delicious refreshments were served. Mrs. Penninger will begin house keeping in an attract : ve new bungalow on Douglas Avenue, while Mrs. Solo mon for the present, will make her home with Mr. Solomon's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Solomon, on Vance street. Floral Shop Being Remodeled. Remodelling of the downtown quar ters. South Union street, of Mrs. J. A. Walker's floral business, was be gun this week. The task entails a complete change of the building’s in terior and will require two or three weeks for completion. No interrup tion, however, will occur in the busi ness of the office, Wesley Walker stated today, while tJie im provement work is under way. The interior will be modelled es pecially for a floral shop, including refrigeration plant for certain kinds of cut flowers, design rodtai, and other essentials. The floor will be cement ed. and attractive furnishings will* be installed. • Dance Was Lovely Affair. The W T eidemeyer dance given by several young men of the city at Ho tel Concord Monday evening was a splendid- success. A large number of the college set, as well as many visitors, were pres ent, for this, the last big dance be fore leaving for the varioim schools and colleges. The music w’as unusually good. IT PAYS TO USE PENNY ADS Jbr Economical Transportation - ■ /miiManiar/ It • 1 Chevrolet offers w§LJs& Bodies by Fisher at iFf Fall-crown .fenders and bullet type headlamp* em phasise the beauty of Chevrolet Fisher bodies. The Roadster, Coupe and Cabriolet have been given added dis tinction by “Fish tail” modeling of the rear deck. WHITE AUTO COMPANY « 1 E. 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