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PAGE FOUR The Concord Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Entered as second class mail matter *t the poet office at Concord, N. C., under the Act of March S. 1879. J B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor I Special Representative: FROST, LANDIS & KOHN New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas Oitj, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle GETTING RID OF THE PEDDLER. From the Asheville Advocate we leain of the excellent method employed by an Asheville woman in ridding her house of a peddler, and we pass the secret on with the hope that it will aid our readers .in driving off the • men and women who come to town for a day or so, gather in - all of the money they can and then take it on somewhere else with them. Con cerning this woman and the peddler 1 he Advocate says: “A few days ago a peddler selling silk hosiery stopped at the door of an Ashe ville home, and, according to information Reaching this office, began interviewing the ladv of the house. “As soon as he reached a period, the ladv started talking. Tam so glad you called,’ she said, whereupon the sales man had visions of a fine order. ‘I am on the finance committee of our church/ the ladv continued, ‘and I know how much you are interested in all our local enterprises, so 1 am going to let you make a subscription to our pastor's sal arv. lam so glad you called this morn ing/ “The peddler swallowed his Adam’s apple a time or two, sparred for words that were not contained in his and finally said: ‘Well, you see, lady, I do not live here. My home is in At lanta, and the family gives something to the church there, so I guess you’ll have to pass me up/ “The lady was a member of that finance committee because she had pow ers of salesmanship herself, and contin ued to press her argument why’the man selling goods to Asheville people should contribute to the support of Asheville in stitutions, but she didn't get the sub scription, and as soon as he could do so, the young man bowed himself away. “The incident has its virtues. Build ing up a city is a community effort. The place where we live is built up in the degree with which we co-operate. The peddler drops in, gathers up all the orders and loose cash he can, and then departs. He means well, wants to make a living, but he cannot co-operate. The more peddlers and the more business they do, the poorer we become as a com munity. “ I he next time a peddler rings your doorbell, h:t him for a contribution to your church or community chest.” The peddler, and many of them are abusive and discourteous when their proposition are turned down, won’t hang around much after you try to get him to give something. Such a policy is against his training. He goes about collecting all he can without aiding the city or town where he makes the collec tion. Unless the peddler is known Ho you and is known to represent some worthy enterprise or reputable company you had better let him alone. And the best wav to do this is to ask him for something. That will scare him off in short order. PINCHOT STILL FIGHTING. Former Governor Pinchot ‘isn’t at peace yet with the Republican machine in Pennsylvania. He doesn’t like the manner in which Vare defeated him for the Senatorial seat and he is not afraid to say so. In a detailed letter, addressed to members of the Republican National Committeee and sent to newspapers throughout the country, the former Gov ernor says he is pointing out certain mat ters concerning Yare and his campaign so that the committee “about; to assemble in Washington to consider matters af fecting the honor and welfare of the par ty and its success in the coming cam paign’’ may clear itself of responsibility for Yare or stand with him before' the world. He advises the party not to “wink at a bought-and-stolen election” and he does this “from official knowledge of it as a former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania.” In his letter, in which Mr. Pinchot gives certain facts and data, the committee is advised that if Vare is seated “the American people will adjudge the' Republican party guilty of conniving at the purchase and theft of an election, and doing so for its own political bene fit.” Time only will tell the effects of the' letter but we have an idea the plain spoken former will not be heeded. The Republicans put across a Harding administration and got away with it. They had Newberry in the Senate and got away with it, and his expenditures while not as large as Vare’s, apparently were for the same purpose. Since the Vare senatorial election came up a Republican primary has been held in Philadelphia and Vare’s man was ov erwhelmingly elected. Does that indi cate that the voters of Pennsylvania are dissatisfied? The whole political sys tem in Pennsylvania is so rotten that the leaders are not afraid of any back-fire from the voters. They know just what the voters will do and they make their plans accordingly. We predict now that the committee will have nothing to say about Yare and Smith. They have never mentioned oth er party scandals and there is no reason to expect a change of heart now. WORK AS CURE FOR CRIME. „ • Judge John M. Oglesby, who has pre sided at sessions of Superior Court in all sections of western North Carolina, says that there has not been before him on charges of stealing or violating the pro hibition law any man regularly employed. In other words, Judge Oglesby thinks idleness is responsible for many law vio lations in the State. “The idle brain is the devil’s worshop” all right, in the opin ion of 'the jurist, and idle hands are al ways ready to carry out the schemes hatched up in the idle brain. fudge Oglesby, speaking at Asheville, remarked about working men seldom ap pearing in court on larceny and prohibi tion charges, and he sentenced one man to serve 12 months when the man was con victed of violating the prohibition law. He denounced idleness and at the same time he sought to prove by action that law violations do not pay. That is one of the real tasks of the courts today. If it can be proved with out doubt that crime does not pay, then we will have fewer criminals. So long, as the man too lazy to do honest work can get along by stealing or selling li quor he will never go to work. But if the courts will sentence him to the chain gang, make him pay for his crimes, and convince him that crime will not be tol erated. then we will get somewhere with the important task of halting lawlessness. Too often the courts show too much leniency. It’s all right to lecture the criminal, but it is far better for society when the lecture is followed by a chain gang or prison sentence. The average criminal doesn’t pay any attention to a lecture. He may look penitent enough while in the courtroom, and he no doubt will make all kinds of promises, but if the court allows him to escape with a lecture and fine, he will soon be back at his ne farious vocation. There is much idleness, it seems to us, because so many of the idle find means by which they can secure the necessities of life. These people don’t go hungry. Rather they go out and steal something or sell a gallon or two of contraband. So long as they escape they are not going to work. But if enough of them are caught and sent to jail, the practice will be halt ed, and something worthwhile may be be done. WHOSE MONEY ARE YOU SPEND ING? Yours? You earned it? Think a moment. If you have SIOO and you owe SIOO on past due accounts, you have no money. You are spending money that belongs to your creditors. There is the matter of honesty in volved, but consider, instead, the matter of sportsmanship. When you opened that account which is still unpaid you said to the merchant, “I want this merchandise but I haven’t the money available to pay for it. Let me have the goods and I will pay you in thirty days.” j So the merchant trusted you and gave you the goods which cost him actual money. • It’s not the “sporting” thing to do, to let your friend, the merchant, hold the bag for you indefinitely. He needs the money to buy new merchandise so he can sell it again. That’s the way he makes his living. If you have his money and hold it, you are keepeing him from earning as much money as he ought. Sometimes mer chants actually fail in business because too many of their friends didn’t think it necessary to pay their bills. Do the sporting thing. Pay the bills you owe. Release the money that is tieed up in your occunts. If you haven’t the money to pay, go to the merchants you owe and tell them frankly. You will find them fair and willing to assist you in any way to con veniently liquidate the debt. Any debt is a debt of honor. Partic ularly so when the transaction is based solely on your word —on your promise “I will pay in thirty days.” STILL GOING FORWARD. Dr. Edgar Knight, of the University of North Carolina faculty, admits that edu cationally North Carolina is making prog ress, but he does not think yet that we have, reached the stage of development that calls for much praise. Almost ev ery time he speakers, either in or out of the State, he criticises the State’s educa tional system, and laments the fact that we have not done more. Speaking in Richmond on Thanksgiv ing Day, Dr. Knight criticised the State for its “backwardness” in education, and while admitting-that we have made prog ress said the: things we have done “as educational achievements would pass un noticed in States with really advanced school systems.” About the same time that he was speak ing the State Department of Education was making public figures showing that this year North Carolina is spending “be tween $35,000,000 and $37,000,000 on its elementary and is every day hauling to and from school more thaYi 100,000 children. The rural schools have benefitted since 1921 to the extent of $20,- 000,000 from the loan fund established by the Legislature and on top of that is an “equalization” fund of $3,250,000 a year. In addition, the State is spending thou sands on vocational and agricultural schools. All of which makes Tfie Charlotte Ob server think “something should be done to get Doctor Knight, the North Carolina educational pessimist, and the State De partment of Education closer together.” We agree with The Observer. We don’t think North Carolina has reached a stage of perfection with her educational system, but Hke The Observer we “wonder the location outside of North Carolina of those States that have what Doctor Knight regards as ‘really advanced sys tems’ of education.” Dr. Knight should be allowed to plead for better schools but it is hardly to be expected that North Carolina in a brief space of several years can bring about everything he hopes for. We are progressing and that’s enough. We will improve from year to year and it’s impossible to do more. SHOULD MENTAL DEFECTIVES MARRY? Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, head of the public welfare department in North Car olina, has prepared a chart showing what it has cost Wake County and North Car olina to support one family in which the mother and father are mentally defective. This one case was chosen by Mrs. John son who no doubt could find many others, because it was so typical of what often happens when mental defectives are al lowed to marry. Thiß couple was married thirty years ago and it has cost the State and county more than $32,000 to support them. Eight children were born, two died in infancy, three are in the Caswell Training School for Defective Children, one, now 15, is being cared for by a Raleigh family be cause of his weak mental condition, one is in a prison and the other is being sought for a law violation. Six'children and none of them normal? Six children and all of them a burden on the State, without the ability to build or create anything. All of them victims of a law that allows mental defectives to marry and produce children. Mrs. Johnson thinks the mental defec tives should be segregated or made in capable of giving birth to children. Cer tainly it is not right for such persons to marry so long as they are capable of bringing into the world children who can not care for themselves; children who have but one chance in a hundred of be ing anything but a burden on the State. The children get no joy out of life, they produce nothing, they add nothing to the public good, and they are incapable of producing their own livelihood. They are are a burden and a care, and must go through life as such. Th is is an important matter. The finan cial side is not to be overlooked, but the physical, moral and mental sides are more important. What shall be done? Are we to allow mental defectives to produce children when there is but one chance in a hundred that the children will be ‘thing like normal? Is it right to the chil • dren themselves? Is it right to the nor mal citizens of the State who must sup port them? SHOULD NOT BE FREED. Friends of F. W. Sparrow have sought to obtain his freedom from prison where he is serving a term for mutilating a pris oner in the Martin county jail several years ago. Governor McLean consid ered the case at length but could not find just cause for releasing Sparrow. The Governor was right. Sparrow was convicted of a very revolting crime and so far as the public can learn there is no reason why he should be freed. He was convicted of being a member of a mob that took a man from jail and muti lated him, without giving the prisoner a chance to prove his innocence. There is no more serious crime than that of taking the law in hand by a mob. The prisoner may have been guilty, as Spar row undobutedly thought he was, but that didn’t give Sparrow and the others in the mob the right to take him from jail and mutilate him. Mob rule is being crushed in North Carolina and if Governor McLean had freed this man such action might have been misconstrued by those who would take the law into their own hands as an evidence of the breaking down of the spirit of determination against mobs. We cannot afford to countenance the mob spirit in any way. For the past ten years, especially, there has been growing in this State a spirit of protest against mdbs. The public sees the horror of having prisoners executed without the ‘ right of trial guaranteed by the Consti tution. Our people do not want to af ford any measure of relief to those who would violate the law by taking the law into their own hands. Several times within the past seven years soldiers have been called to duty in North Carolina to protect prisoners. 1 his shows the determination by officials to stamp out dastardly attacks by mobs. In several instances mob members have J been sentenced for their activities and THE CONCORD TIMES the public generally has approved of their convictions. Governor McLean was right in the Sparrow case. We can afford to do nothing that will encourage in any way the mob spirit in North Carolina. Governor Byrd, of Virginia, suggests that Governor McLean be offered as a presidential candidate at the next Dem ocratic convention. The suggestion has been made before and no doubt will be made again, with the public taking but little serious interest in it. We do not have any idea that the Democrats will nominate a Southern man but we hon estly believe that Governor McLean could hold down the office. And for that matteer we believe there are scores of others in the South capable of effi ciently handling the job. The fact that a man is from the South does not mean he hasn't ability enough to occupy the White House. Governor McLean is an able executive and a man of unusual bus iness ability and so far as a capable can didate is concerned he is as good as the Democrats have to offer. But he’s from the South, and this means he won’t get the nomination. STOPPING DRUNKEN DRIVERS. Charlotte News. VTVJfIH Judge John Oglesby, speaking from the Bum combe County Superior Court bench, voices two sentiments on crime control abounding in thought, but with them comes the natural question. “What are w f e going to do about it.?” We, along with the remainder of the world, are becoming harden ed against explanations of what’s wrong with the world, and it is only when action is taken to cor-, rect the exposed evils that the outbursts count. With the tirst of Judge Oglesby’s assertions, the constituted authorities can do little. “Work,” he says the judge, “is the panacea for most viola tions of the law. During my time ou the bench I have yet to see a man guilty of larceny who has been regularly engaged in work.” This is a tru ism that has been handed down through the cen turies from a time even before someone coined the phrase that ”4111 idle mind is the devil’s workshop,” and still no effective way has been found to deal with it. Vagrancy laws help some, but only in a small way, and the fact still remains that if it were possible to keep our criminals at work stead ily, the crime outlook would be considerably bright ened. With Judge Oglesby’s other remark we are more concerned, and the judiciary as a whole should be. “I had rather turn a drunken man loose on the highway with a loaded shotgun than with an automobile,” he declared, and the public will agree with the judge. But the people cannot; atop drunk en men from taking cars out on the highways# They can bemoan and lament the presence of intoxicated chauffeurs and watch with horror the mounting toll of deaths and accidents attributable to such causes, but it is up to the men on the bench to close the roads to the drunks. It is not enough that the judges offer up their regrets and then let the defendts haled before them on this charge off with fines or suspended sentences. Not that Judge Oglesby does this. We are referring to the entire judiciary. Admitting, as they all will, that intoxi cated auto drivers are one of the biggest menaces to safety in the Country, they alone can correct the wrong by putting such fear into the minds of men that when they start drinking, the last thing they will want to operate will be an auto. Months on the chaingang will be found the most effective rem edy. SAVING IT WITH FIGURES. •r News and Observer. Where the Governors of two States are gather ed together there is apt to be big news. Yester day there were two Governors, but so far as the greater occasion was concerned, they were just in dividuals, just units in a crowd of 28,000 persons who went to Chapel Hill, not to see the Governors or to hear them, but interested primarily in two groups of jerseyed, padded and helmeted young men who battled mightily in the new Kenan Me morial Stadium. • It was a good day for North Carolina within the concrete bowl and miles Southward in Columbia where State College helped to hold the State’s gridiron honors safe for another Thanksgiving. At Chapel Hill, the Governors talked. The new Ken an Memorial Stadium was presented and accepted. But it was accepted with an enthusiasm that shov ed officialdom out of the concrete stands by the cheering throngs who packed the bowl full and running over. William R. Kenan, the donor of the stadium and Mrs. Kenan were there. They did not need words of speakers however notable to convince them that this was a gift for which the University of North Carolina and North Carolina itself, are supreinelv grateful. The 28,000 did that. CASUALTIES OF THE HUNT. Hngh Point Enterprise. Conditions have changed in the South since the squirrel hunters in the ranks of the Confederate armies made a fine record of marksmanship. A great many Southern men still are hunters but the report of a season of shooting is not complete without the human casualty list. The opening of the hunting season is marked by stories of deaths here and there incidental to inexpert or careless handling of firearms and these tales of casualties run right through to the close. Once the South ern man used his gun to hit a definite target. Now it seems that his shooting is indiscriminate and wild. A day in the field now with the aver age armed maan is about as dangerous on an av erage as a day under fire in the World War. Safe handling of firearms is not an art to be acquired along with a fetching hunter’s outfit at the sport ing goods store. A generation ago, in North Caro lina thirteen year old boys were much more effect ive and safer handlers of weapons of the hunt thaA the majority of men are today. ADVERTISING THE STATE. Charlotte News. It was a worth-while suggestion that Theodore rL Brice, editor of Commerce and Finance, of New York, made last night before the Cotton Manufac turer s Association of North Carolina. Oalling at tention to the progress this State has made in re cent years. Mr. Price asserted that virtually noth ing had been done to advertise this advance “Why, if one-tenth of the effort that was ex pended m booming Florida had been devoted to ex ploitation of your resources, the result would have been a Nationwide consciousness of North Caro lina and the trainloads of tourists who now pass through your State on the way to objectives that are better advertised would stop off.” Those words are worth North Carolina’s ear nest consideration. While much attention has been called to this State Nationally, it has come almost entirely in the natural course of events without effort on the part of the State! MONEY IN PECANS. Gastonia Gazette. Farmers who, ten or fifteen years ago had the vision and foresight to go into the pecan business are now reaping the profits of their venture. An acre of pecan trees will yield more in ready money than two or three acres in any other high priced crop. And the pretty part of it is that the crop is made with the minimum of labor and outlay. The trees cost little and the crop almost makes itself. Some care and attention, of course are required to make the product the choicest and besfr, but not anything like the labor needed in making a cotton or com crop. * # ANOTHER DENOMINATION IS NOW MOVING TO RESTRICT DIVORCE. Raleigh Times. It is a significant development that another one of the great religious denominations is now mov ing toward the drastic restriction of, divorces as authorized by the church. The proposal this time will go to 10,000 Presbyterian ministers and will be submitted to the next General Assembly. Its consideration was authorized by the last gen eral meeting of the church. Under the terms of the new law divorce would be authorized only up on the Biblical ground of adultery and, it is as sumed, only in the case of the innocent party. There are two schools of thought in connection with divorce. One is the extreme "companionate marriage” as a preliminary testing period of a wedlock for which that earnest little man. Ben Lindsay, was recently so roundly denounced. At the other extreme is the utter and irrevocable quality of the marriage tie as instanced in the case of the Roman Catholic Church and in the State of South Carolina. The decision must rest finally on whether marriage is to be considered a civil contract or religious sacrament. Legally, of course, the tie is purely civil. Re ligiously, it is a church function of prime import ance. It is somewhat in the nature of an an omaly that in the case of a union entered into with the authority and blessing of the Deity, churches afterwards in effect rescind thqir own ac tion by remarrying persons, who have been relieved of their obligations by purely civil devices and statutes. YVhat is the intent of those who marry, when they marry? Are they entering on a bar gain Involving benefits, pains, compensations and costs such as might be incorporated in an agree ment to build a garage? Or are they making a pledge before a higher court? Civilly, there must always remain confusion in the marriage laws of a nations composed of forty eight more or less independent sovereignties, each of which owes some degree of comity to the iaws of its neighbors and to those to whom they have been applied. Religiously, churches will scarce ly err in dealing with the divorce problem in gen eral as one for themselves in particular, with the chief end in view of making marriage, so far as its sacramental quality is concerned, an institu tion fixed and inviolate. WE’RE MARCHING ON. Asheville Citizen. Here is something to confound the dejected sta tisticians who have been telling us that, because jonly fifty per cent, of the voters go to the polls in national elections, our democracy is a failure and political inertia has the republic in a paralyzing grip. They are triumphantly contradicted by Henry M. Hyde, writing in The Evening Sun of Baltimore. Mr. Hyde, having dug up some official reports of elections held in Baltimore county more than 180 years ago, trumpets forth optimism and good cheer. The documents show that on November 14, 1792, with George Washington opposed for re election as president, only four qualified voters took the trouble to vote for ten out of the fifteen candidates for Presidential electors in Baltimore county. The sheriff in charge of the voting was so dis couraged by this “inertia” that he kept the polls open for three more days; and in the entire four days only fourteen citizens voted. This is as tounding when it is borne in mind that in the cen sus of 1790, two years before the election under discussion. Baltimore county was set down as having 3,500 heads of families, practically ali of them eligible to vote. What it means, says Mr. Hyde, is that in 1792 in that county less than one half of one pgr cent, of the qualified voters took the trouble to go to the polls in a contested pres idential election. And yet today, with fifty per cent, of our voters casting their ballots, the professional croakers pre sume to say that “things are not as excellent as they were in the good old days.” As usual, the good old days were so perfect because so much has been forgotten about them. It is true that we have an alarming number of citizens who welsh disgracefully on their patriotic duties. But this is no reason to say democracy is a failure. It simply means that now, as always, there are a lot of men and women who are willing to let oth ers do their work for them ; a condition that has had to be dealth with ever since civilization began. JUDGE MEEKINS TO THE JURY. High Point Enterprise. The lecture of Judge I. M. Meekins to the fed eral grand jury on the limitation of the freedom of the press seems apropos of nothing in -particu lar. We would not assume that the judge was voicing that impatience of a few occupants of judi cial place with the nosing around of repoiters sometimes manifested in less formidable manner than by an address of such length to a grand jury. The judge told the jury that the power of the press does not include an absolute right to the particulars about all litigation. Parties to civil actions may have their cases adjudicated privily if they so desire and the court is willing. The opening of the courts to the press was ordaiued orginially to assure the citizen against star-cham ber proceedings an criminal charges. Judge Meek ins said, and he indicated his belief that there are eases originating in the courts that should not be aired in the press. Doubtless this observation is true and it may be equally true, as the judge said to the jury, that inexpert or careless handling of reports by por tions of the press serves to reduce the public con fidence in court machinery, but wouldn’t official efforts to rule when the press might functions as dispenser of court news, and when it might not, be essentially, a censorship subject to dangerous misuses? ♦ The press dangerously and objectionably mis uses its present liberties at times, unquestionabl? as Judge Meekins believes, but bettor that than muzzling of the press to suit the afueamishness of parties to litigation at all times. Better a free press than a free government, said the greatest of minds in early American history, and Judge Meekins cannot talk that off in the most scholarlv and exhaustive exposition of the possible legal limitations of the liberty of the press. NO QUARTER FOR MOBS. Charlotte News. Governor McLean has acted wisely in refusing a pardon for F. W. Sparrow, one of the men sent to prison for aiding in the mutilation of an ac cused man by a mob in Martin county several years ago. North Carolina has set out to show all whom' it may concern that this State will not tolerate mob action and will make it hard for those of fenders who are convicted of such criminality When members of the Martin county mob who dragged the young white man from the jail and 0n , the Btren * th of slightly incrim. ♦•! VldeD u? Whlch he was later beared, it was a titanic blow against lynch law Last year the State took another step in the y hen members of an Asheville mob that attempted to storm the Buncombe county jail and smze a young negro were sent up for long ernor'nf.? more were the act * ®f Gov ernor McLean u calling out the National Guard on two occasions to compel respect for the law when lynchings appeared imminent. Such stringent action in behalf of authority shows clearly and conclusively where North olina stands. There is no greater crime that can be committed than for a gang of men tn bloodedly take a prisoner out and murder him because of unproved charges, without permitting the man the fair chance to defend himaelf whinh the Constitution guarantees. In condemning this evil lies the great backwardness of the South as compared to other sections of the TTnt#>n j North Carolina cannot Utadl. position of countenancing the thing. * r M . OPPOSES ANY CHANGE. Franklin Times. The State Textbook Commission has made un of the f ßtab, fi, *T , .> ‘7 ,he Os the State. Lets hope it makes no chanae that will scrap the books already in use. Thursday, I ,GNoK "’: 7^rl Asheville Times. " Education is no H some of the shrew,!,*, ° M nals are literate an ,j U „ H , ’ n " st <ian ft 2B evidence on many s„K .■* nf " r ®H. d!B| while education prevents „ y^B In their study of t h* v ‘ * Professor Steiner. „f , '' B N, na B olina. and Ray M. R n ' convicts in the cam;.* " iSj could discover between Ik ; r 7 *hat results are noteworthy d!il '° ar.H Os the number tested j n - ■ that not one had rh ;' it B school education and , l)v ;u,v «ienuß high school grade. Thirty "fl negroes were found tota,j v Jr Wr WB cent, were unable tn r «arf ,'u ltera te anriH This atud.v of ,|„ other important p„ji,» f '! " u b school authorities and nt , * ''’’r.si-iarß illiterates, 2tiN were u v . " 1,1 g'atraiß teen to twenty years, ydinn ' ' a «MrB that the compulsory *, h,„d . *' forced so far as Vl Hw h *d nr. t jH Th. authors ~f this J , camps do not undertake f ,,. Q >B the effect of ignorant w they present them . ", for themselves. s l*“aii vt> r y In addition to the ..rthodn, B portant. of course , it „ ■ training. Ihta tva- th. ington and the educational aml ? f cr„ ».,« hav. from putting it into praetie. ,• *°*B people of North Carolina have support of negro education mnT °“ sj ß r.gard it os a„ and bett.r rflatioits tb. “■ SOME GlWK^wi^lGlJ Petersburg Progress-Index. fl A Boston reader of the \e* v s . H nuts the following Republican year: urw t For President. l!Cs—r. H Vice-President Ex-Secretary Denbr I Secretary of I.. D ohenv % ’ ■ Attorney General— W. j. . ■ Platform—" Oil is well." H Page Henry M. Daugherty I Why should Harry Sinclair be ■ there to be no regard for Colonel rZ ■ head of the Veterans' Bureau term for robbing wounded soldiers of Zfl sands of dollars provided for them hr B government, wiil have expired bv tufl 1928 campaign opens? And 7t 'dl B when national honors are be !ng standing Republicans Governor ana. who has just finished his enforced LB Ifittta for Stealing State fun*. , h<IBW looked. There also should be t.™,,.,., 1 ® New York lady Republican who, as -- ■ State, took such excellent care 0 f 3 relatives out of the fund provided by 'j»fl ture for the taking of a State census. ' B WHAT BOWLEY IS EXPECTINfiB High Point Enterprise. H The interesting and attractive Fort Bragg. General A. J. Bnwlev predieS involving the United States within theß years. He criticised the "cats and whelpiS ing pacifism, pifflle and no preparation.’’ "I am not a militarist. 1 do not want tk States to have a chip on its shoulder to mil nations jealous. I want an army and m enough to protect this great civilization “Plenty of us will live to bee another* will come within 30 years—-such is history.' This delightful swashbuckler overlook! rather interesting lesson in his historical i He failed to learn that the most diligentp tion has invariably failed to produce u and navy big enough to protect this great * tion” of an* given era. Civilization seemiof ful durability and military support of ti creaseS their fragility. We must try the, tiality of civilization instead of "riviliutioa SPINOLE ACTIVITY, Columbia State. Cotton mills of South Carolina Jin some months in hours per month of Win per spindle in place and now comes the eea reau’s report showing that the lead was n maintained during October but was increaie Here are the figures: Average for the New England Stales, For the United States, 238. For the cotton growing States. 312. For all other States, 193. For South Carolina, 340. North Carolina alone stands with Boatk lina in the bracket beginning with 300 tw« October index for that Staff being 319-hflO next highest States are Tennessee, 2W. ( 294, Alabama 291 and Mississippi 28T. S of the listed States outside the cotton bek ed average running time for October «f »• * 200 hours. THE NEW CLASS OF DOCTOR* Washington Dispatch to New lork Tisec According to reports at the Treasury, ti degree of D. H. I>.. or "Doctor of flifh ** has been awarded to 25 special agent*. *» been attending the first term of the (kffß prohibition school, which opened on The ageuts took a course in "General ment Problems.'' and now are 10 , relU various districts and spread learning B®°® fellow workers. Dean Seymour I.owman, who a^° l Secretary of the Treasury in charge of P enforcement, announced that the post-graduate course dealing w|r^.. *2 foreement problems.'' would open * ®'- What degree successful completion o advanced course would win. he di- n n A VICTORIANMRON hoBiSR The Wall Street Journal. Forty-six years ago. u oJ Chester A. Arthur wa/in the Wjg Queen Victoria on the throne o - j “Pennsylvania Limited,” the w " r . jj train, was inaugurated. That was tomobile was as yet unheard of. just being introduced iD public u befoye the War With Spam. , Since the start the , wl never missed a trip, operating ** T _ D fct«d! both east and westbound. P ba ‘ , (J one-way trips between a* representing a distance of '’ x carried more than 6,000,00 P* 8 * AMBIDEXTERITY' The Ohio Stare Journal. «#l Another thin* a fa.thful do is to prove by two nDgwK , £ torials in the same issue /• U Ejrtf* country is now enjoying ac T / uneoP^f* 1 prosperity, without a f art ‘ d a l»o tW any nook, corner or cranny. portation taxes must be r «' e o pport»® tic manner a, th» »ort J stimulate industry and p desire it. _ the^ostj> hEEP ‘ Salisbury Post. , in one * , l J! This advertisement app '» 1 plb rr W newspapers at Perry. - • " j e {jod 01 “Lost strayed or gi f * "J odist sheep. 1 he - v browsii* • k i f When last seen they of indifference. Anyone hrin, them hom, .*-* 4 ample reward- 1 frid a* 6 , R | drive them unto the V (i< Rft. . and report to .be «“ d £ ! £Tded Plenty of fodder will lost That’s one way of
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