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PAGE FOUR The Concord Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Entered as second class mail matter at the post office at Concord, N. C., under the Act of Marc 8, 1879. J B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor Special Representative: FROST, LANDIS & KOHN New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angelas and Seattle GIVE HIM A CHANCE BUT NOT A FREE HAND. Alfred Denton, convicted murderer at the age of 14, no doubt is a victim of cir cumstances. He has been denied the benefits enjoyed by the average boy and girl in North Carolina, and this lack of training' is demonstrated by his disie gard for law and custom. It is said he was taught as a kid to operate a still and flic murder is alleged to have grown out of his ill-feeling for a man he thought had reported his still. ' ; He is a victim of circumstances, we re peat. and should not be kept in prison with hardened prisoners if there is a chance to redeem him. but just the same •he should not be given a free hand eith er. Governor McLean has paroled the vuuth and will send him to the Training School at Rocky Mount, provided Dr. Anderson, of the State Hospital, does not find that his mentality is such that he should be kept from other boys. That’s the important point now. Den ton lias shown bo inclination to regre|t his crime. He is said to have made threats against other persons, both be fore and since his conviction. He is not penitent. Rather he is arrogant and •boastful. Can the State afford to turn loose such a boy among the other young sters at the Training School 0 Governor McLean was wise, in our opinion, in .'sending the boy to the State Hospital for observation. lie will be kept there two weeks and his future de termined bv his acts at the hospital. If he is insane he has no business at the Training School. she still feels that he has the right to do as he pleases he has no right at the Training School. These schools are not prisons; they are institutions where love, kindness, and discipline mould unfortunate youths into better citizens. Most of their students arc kids guilty of minor violations of the law. They are not murderers nor do they have the instincts of the murderer. Denton’s inclination may be the result of environment, and we believe it is, blit just the same he has it, and there would he grave danger in turning him loose with his dostrines among the bunch of boys at the Rocky Mount school. Bet ter that he should suffer than that the influence of his warped mind be turned loose on the boys at the State institu tion. It's an unfortunate condition, but it exists just the same, and there are things other than Denton's welfare to be con sidered. There is no way to tell what detriment might result from Denton’s association with other boys, especially since he might feel that he got even with an enemy without paying much price for his crime, and might try to spread this doctrine among the students at the school. He should be watched careful ly before being given a chance to asso date with the other boys at the school. So long as there is a determination on his part to continue in the life of crime we think lie should be kept apart from the students of the school. There should be a spirit of repentance on his part; at least a desire to go straight. And there's another side of the pic ture. The students of the school who have been shown that crime does not pay might have just the influence needed to change Denton. They might prove' to him by precept and example the benefits to be enjoyed by right living. Their manner of living, and their change of heart might lie the spark needed to kin dle within him a desire to go straight.- It’s a rather serious job this thing of trying to handle such cases as this. If Denton is not sane, however, hg should be watched. Ts he is sane officials of the school should see to it that he does not teach a doctrine in keeping with his mode of living. They should try to get all of the good influences of the school expended in his behalf. DO WE REALLY WANT PEACE?- T'lie Raleigh News and Observer, ex pressing the opinion that “there are many people who arc unwilling to do anything or risk anything for peace,” declares further that “if the United States and Europe were willing to spend as much for peace, in. men, money and thought, as they spent in, 1911-10 for war, the. world would soon.find a substitute for war." That’s ; right. It’s all right to talk about ending war but we arc not gping to reach that happy slate of affairs until we find a substitute and this will not be done until the nation- of the v. or Id are willing to work as hard for peace as they do for war once the war is started. Charity and Children says the trouble is that so many people want war. Thev don’t make any real effort for peace be cause they want war and its attending horrors. We are not a pacifist but at the same time we think too much talk about war preparations is not good for a nation. \\ e believe in reasonable pi e paredness but in our opinion it would be far more beneficial if as much money were spent in efforts for peace as is spent in preparedness. A recent issue of Charity and Children carried this editorial discussion of oui attitude toward war: Bertrand Russell, the English mathe matician-philosopher, who is lecturing in this country, says that we have wars be cause people like wars, and for no other immovable reason.. The nationalistic ex cuse and even the economic interests he regards as excuses, not reasons, for wars. The real reason is that we like to fight. At first-glance it seems to be a silly ar gument. but when one stops to think there are Several things that support it. For example, on Armistice Day the American Legion in Plainfield, N. J., re fused to march in the parade attending the dedication of a new war memorial be cause the memorial has carved on one side the words of Isaiah: “Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” This, say the Plainfield Legionnaires, is pacifist doctrine. Os course it is. The Bible is full of pacifist doctrine, for is it not the book of the Prince of Peace? If pac ifism is treason, then the religion of Jesus of Nazareth is treason, for it is pacifism incarnate. This action oi the Plainfield veterans goes to support Russell’s doc trine. When they would cut that in scription off the monument, they confess that they .wish for more wars. Nor are they the only ones, by any means. We tell ourselves that war is all wroiig, all wicked and horrible; but it is precious little we do to prevent war. Jn view of the record of the last ten years. Bertrand Russell’s view cannot be dismissed light ly. His words may seem silly, but when one ponders them they grow corrosive. FINISH AT HOME FIRST. The Manufacturers Record makes the wise suggestion that American bankers with huge sums for investment, should concentrate upon American investments before pouring their millions into Eu rope. The money would he safer in America, it seems t?> us, and at the same time it would be devoted to enterprises that would develop America, making the en tire country richer. The Record says: “Take Florida, for instance. It passed through a wild boom when many of its own people and many outsiders overtrad ed badly. First mortgages could now be placed on many- of these properties on a basis which would furnish greater safety to,the investor than is provided by a large proportion of European securities which are being floated among American investors. Moreover, this money would stav at home. Jt would help to develop America. It would enrich this Coun try to a far greater extent than we will be enrich* d by some of these European investments. \\,e are tying ourselves up in the financial affairs of Europe to an extent that may in time to come endan ger our very future as a Nation. W hen Europe has gathered from this Country all of the millions it is possible for it to secure, it is entirely possible to think that by reason of war or other difficulties a large proportion of these investments may be repudiated. W e could not go to war to collect them, but we could pro duce so much diplomatic trouble as to bring about the possibility of a war upon this Country. Human nature has not yet reached such a point that nations can be fully trusted in times of great economic pressure not to fight for what they believe to be their existence.” Florida was mentioned only as an ex ample of what The Record means bv in vesting first at home. There are other States where these millions could be used to advantage, both to the man with the millions and to the public general!}. Every State lias resources as yet unde veloped and in most instances this is due to lack of capital. 'flic more develop ment we have at home the less dependent we arc on Europe and this is a point of much importance. THE WHITE CASE. Down in Gaston county they indicted a man named White, for embezzlement, jit being charged that he did not turn lover all of the money lie collected as a i tax collector. Ihe case dragged along | for several months, finally'being docket ed when a special term pf court was ar ranged. 1 lie case had no more than started when it was announced that an agreement had been reached and that the harges would not be pushed, The agreement, as might have been ex pected, concerned money. White and a relative paid $11,500 and his bondsmen paid the remainder of the deficit of about $26,000. The bondsmen, of course, were anxious to have White pay as much as possible, and it seems that the $11,500 was all that he could raise. The bondsmen paid the other, under the apparent agreement that White would not be prosecuted on the embezzlement charge. A court policy based on restitution is all right at time, perhaps, but such a pol icy always leaves the public with the im pression that the defendant escaped pun ishment because of his ability to pay. Suppose, for instance, that White could not have paid the $11,500? Would the bondsmen have' been so generous and so anxious to have him freed? Suppose White and his relatives could not have paid anything at all, would the charges have been dropped? We are always glad to see bondsmen escape without monetary loss but just the same such cases as the one involv ing White always leave a bad taste in the mouth of the public. Justice should be even-handed. There should be no thought of money when the court room decisions are to be made. If White had been a man without money he would have been tried and probably convicted. The fact that he was able to pay back part of the money he is alleged to have taken does not make him any less guil ty. _ There are too many cases of this.kind How can you convince the man without money that he gets the same treatment as the man with money when such in stances as this arise often? ' NEW USES FOR COTTON. Successful use of heavy cotton fabrics in the manufacture of truck wheels and casters is outlined in a survey just com pleted by the new usues section of J he Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc. These have been used for several years with such satisfaction in hospitals, banks, department stores, restaurants, factories, office buildings, libraries, and railway ter minals as to indicate a large potential market in every manufacturing plant, and particularly in textile jdants where a great variety of trucks is required, ac cording to E. C. Morse, in charge of the new uses section of the Institute. “In pur study of this use of cotton,’ Mr. Morse stated, “it was found that the fabric could be so utilized as to make a wheel of remarkable durability, and at the same time combine the silence of soft materials. "'flie fabric in these wheels is cut in diagonal strips so that all wearing sur faces are on the ends of the threads of the -cloth. When cut according to the desired pattern the strips of fabric are sewn together in blocks for convenience in handling. 'These are assembled in ring formation and then compressed by hydraulic pressure to approximately 50 per cent, their original diameter. Into these solid fabric tires steel center plates and a flanged bug are forced under pres sure, and the wheel or caster is then riv eted solidly together.” Other advantages of these fabric wheels and casters, in addition to their durability and silence, are their protec tion to finely finished floors, the fact that they are unaffected by high temperature and moisture, and their economy through long service. DID THE GOVERNOR HURT HIS CHANCES? Governor Smith at last has discussed the question of prohibition aiuLthe gen eral public is interested now in the effect of his statement on the people as a whole. Speaking to a group of women he said that he was for the enforcement of the Yoldstcad Act so long as it was the law but that lie. thought it should he repealed. T hat is not going to suit the advocates of prohibition , it seems to us. The Gov ernor . said that as a county, citv and State officer he had pledged himself to uphold various law-s, several of which lie did not like, and while he had obeyed the laws and- had sought to enforce them at the same time he felt that lie had the right to try to change them. That s the. way he feels about prohibi tion. So long as the 18th amendment is the law lie pledged himself to its en forcement, all of the time reserving the right to work for its modification of re peal. And is that position any different from the one of officers in the present admin istration? .Secretary Mellon was a whis key manufacturer and no doubt lie feels that the prohibition law shoTild he re pealed, but just the same Tie advocates its enforcement so long as it is the law. The Smith statement will hurt him po litically for this reason, .principally, it seems to us —those people who will not vote for any man known to have wet in clinations will tear that a!! of the time ht THE CONCORD TIMES would be President he would be seeking the repeal of the law, and that as Presi dent he would have more influence than as a private citizen. Governor Smith is an excellent executive, a courageous, fair and square man, and the most ardent prohibitionist no doubt would admit his fine traits of character, but at the same time they question whether prohibition would prosper under an out and out wet. ' The statement was frank and above board. at any rate, proving again that Governor Smith is not willing to make any move that might indicate a desire on his part to deceive the people. He is for what he is for, and the people know what to expect. THEY ARE GETTING AWAY FROM v US. The Hickory Record recites this im posing array of new industries lately come to the South and wants to know what is the matter with North Carolina communities that they are letting all these good things slip: “Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is to secure a $0,000,000 bag plant; Selma, Alabama, is billed to secure a large unit of the Kraft Cheese Company manufactories; Lenoir Citv, Tennessee, has obtained a large Pennsylvania knitting mill; Elizabeth an, Tennessee, has secured a rayon plant which will ultimately give employment to over 30,000 people and will give to Johnson City and Elizabethton an addi tional population of 130,000 while Sum merville, Georgia, has secured a new northern hosiery plant. All of these plants have been secured by co-operative effort. The people of these Southern towns have placed their shoulders to the wheel and pushed for new developments, new industries, and they have secured them. Meanwhile what have we Tar Heels been doing while some of the larg est industries, of the nation have been north to south? Where were our civic organizations and com mercial bodies when the great American Bemberg corporation decided to .come south and did come south, locating at Elizabethtown? Where were we when the $6,000,000 bag plant skeddaddled down to Tuscaloosa?*’ The Gastonia Gazette noses that “Statesville is one North Carolina town that has not lagged behind," and points out that “a silk mill, a woolen mill and a shoe factory arc among the new plant" recently brought to that town through the activities of its chamber of com merce." Burlington, likewise, is men tioned as “another town that is adding to its payroll." Charlotte likewise is said to be “adding new industries every month.” i It’s a fact, however, that many Tar Ilcel towns are too indifferent in this matter. They don’t fight for the new enterprises, and as a result the towns that do light get them. Concord should be able to get anything that other towns and cities in the State get. \Yc don’t tight hard enough. We just sit and wait for some new concern to break into our midst. COULD THEY ACCOMPLISH ANY GOOD? Democratic members of Congress arc said to show a hesitancy to organize for control of the next Congress. It is pos sible that they could control the Senate with the selp of the insurgents and in case Yare and Smith are not seated, but would they be wise in doing so? They should have first of all in mind the good of the country, but there is no assurance that they could get enough support on all their measures to put them across. In the House the Repub licans Jiold the balance of power, and the Democrats in the Senate would not be able to really accomplish much if the House was against them. And there’s another reason why the Democrats should be slow to jump at the chance unless they are assured of full support —a presidential year is com ing and the Republicans could lay all blame for Congressional action to the Democrats. \ 1 1 his is a Republican administration and it should remain as such. The Dem ocrats could outline and carry through a program that would be of great bene-' fit to the nation if on all matters they could maintain the balance of power. Uut suppose some important measure came up and the insurgents blocked it? I lie Republicans of course, in the next campaign, would lay all of the blame to the Democrats. During the Harding and Coolidge ad ministrations the Republicans have been in power and Congress has done little that • was constructive and worthwhile. | President Coolidge is still the titular I head of the party and he and his co-work ers should be held responsible for Con gressional matters. As a rule the ad ministration rules supreme, regardless of the make-up of Congress, unless there L an u verwhelming majority tor the party of which the President is not a member. The Democrats do not hold such power, and President Coolidge should be allowed to retain respOnsibilty for what Congress does. ABOUT FREE PUBLICITY. Addressing a convention of advertisers in Texas, the business editor of The Dal las News-Journal boldly declared that the advertiser who asks for free public ity asks for something that in the long run will greatly damage him, because free publicity inevitably cheapens and in the end makes any newspaper worthless as an advertising medium. The Editor and Publisher devotes half a column to the editor’s striking address. “A paper filled with free publicity and propaganda cannot hold the interest and confidence of its readers, and that loss destroys the value'of advertising in such a newspaper,” Mr. Johnson said. “Would an advertising merchant allow a billboard to be erected in his frontward just because the board has his name on it? He might sav the advertising had some value to him, but he would also say that such value was more than offset by the depreciation of his own property lie cause of the board. “Every newspaper wants all the news it can get, and mv criticism of the adver tising man is that lie delivers free ad vertising, instead of .the news by which he is probably surrounded. “Hasten the day wHen a man must have more than an office, a typewriter and a letterhead to be an ‘advertising ex pert.’ “It will be a fortunate day for the newspaper, for the readers and for the advertisers when everything that finds its way into the news columns shall pass a valid test of news value and every thing that seeks to sell something shall be confined to the advertising columns." REMEMBER THE CLERKS. Again as the Christmas shopping sea son opens we would remind our readers to remember the clerks whose work will be made lighter if our shopping is done in season. As a whole the stores of Concord have received all of their Christmas goods and the shopper who makes purchases now has the advantage of selecting from the full stock. By waiting until the last week or the last few days the shopper has to take what is left. The lot of the clerk is made the harder by the last-minute shopper. Long hours are necessitated by circumstances but conditions are less tiresome and the task is made the easier by early purchases. If the public could be made to buy early it would not be necessary for the store folks to work so hard during the fc\t days remaining before Christmas. We should remember also, the postal employes who are called upon to handle thousands of packages during the Yule tide season. Those presents we have ready for out-of-town delivery should be mailed now. Jt is easy to mark them so they won’t be opened until Christ mas and such a plan would make delivery of the packages more certain and the lot of the postal clerks easier and happier. Certainly at the Christmas season we should consider others, and we can make life happier for many by using discretion in the purchase and mailing of our gifts. POWER OF NEWSPAPER ADS Winston-Salem Journal. Introduction of the new Ford automobile to the world was preceded by the most extensive adver tising campaign ever conducted for a commercial purpose. Millions were spent to advertise the new oar 'before it was unveiled to the public gaze. This country, especially, was literally flooded with advertising. This is intself may not seem surprising to many, in view of the millions the Ford Motor Company spent in developing its new produet and convert ing its factories for its production on a large scale. It might also be pointed out that an extraordi narily extensive advertising campaign was deemed necessary because the Ford car had been off the market for mouths. But it is signifieaut that this unprecedented advertising campaign was conducted chiefly through local newspapers in every city and town in forty-eight states. For days before the car was placed on public exhibition newspapers carried full page advertisements giving its specifications. Selection of newspapers as the advertising me dium for the Ford Motor Company was not by accident. The Detroit automobile wizard knows that part of the news of the day is gleaned by the public from newspaper ads. There is no other way for him to reach the whole public. Orders received before dealers were able to ex hibit and demonstrate the new models proved the wisdom of the choice of an advertising medium. Newspaper advertising, unaided by salesmen and showrooms, sold cars and will prove the prospect finder for many more sales. The Ford Motor Company is the second billiou dollar business within a year to adopt the news paper as its chief medium for advertising. The other advertises in local newspapers exclusively. MONEY WELL SPENT News and Observer. We are told that women paid twenty four, million dojlats for their hosiery while men 'spent only twenty-due million ‘.dollars for their complete outfits..' For their ■ coinpjete outfit dur ing the year the women paid out almost $£0,000,- 000, while the men-* disbursed about $50,000,000 for persoual adornment. Well, wc say, that the women looked more than 000,000 better than the men, and if the men wh<j> foot the bills do not complain at the expenses, 1 Vrhose business ib it? Thursdi y. h et J A S " M,UIOVb,)L^i Asheville Time, Baseball may ‘ bf> 1 consider the footbOl r I standpoint of estimated that >, " rs an,] tbo college' * of eight weeks. \xu' gridiron warriors • hat U** mated, but , he ", a «»n r p S ,k *«< kj Football operates scale; its seas,,,, j ‘ ° n a unknown to baseball v‘ but « <W I ern California \-*'l mow i>»id S,n,Sj for football s attend TV a Ariiiv-Viw llen «aiH* ] of receipt*; Tt! 1 Basel,all r ,. od ''' different gro„„ s .If “"'V***3 -port. Hroi,sing be, M to any other s„„ ns menaces al„ : , M I,^<l .vouns me, killo, IJ* HI or loss Seri,.,,. n„ lu t 'j* f*b : j Americans , re i ov ' !#,l siml that their **»», J The fans spend «***% J they bet tremendous s l ™™* ,, t»4| just for love of achieve,' 1 tiij »f *.l kuow The ]»o;,|,.\„ J more m money , and much of the ' !,,1 have much to learn : j ' **“*«•.] - f *an. jjJ Elizatietli City Borne bright wiitoriai •• 1:4,1 t the coaipauiouaie .. ' J Judge Ben I.indse.v that 1 about. s,» much as it,,, ' * ’'"bm we already have. X ,,w JS 3 Married coup], little effort to be ~,~ ried life with only T tn Hnd ' s sated tla * H uioii. They have be, 4 of their carnal I, eat that • serve tat they are i„ ~m i H compatible. He ,e a ,|v K P reads True Stories-,* v „... nr ’ < and dominoes; she k,ve»s i« T X' It. takes about three we,;?"" 5 that they are at all times e,‘."V-J ainirt as the poles. Thn 1 tamed conversation f„ r ten n W each other terribly. Much of our divorce problei fact that we have b,nf,sol Vm of marriage with love aiit ] ."j better than that; your > a v,. gi . r as one of life’s bald tt n»atter-of-faHly with n„ ;ij,, ; tered. What modem life neeth K ... marriages. nincli a> n.tnpa n I dare not. give my irU pronii.se is t-> be arrived I A PROMISE MADE IS \ ntgjJ E'lkin Trihiine. I In recent months a dclegati.irof M Wilkesboro. \orth WilkesboM. Bed River, and l'ikin. armed with affidarS from the road commissioners ~f and from the town ami county JViJkes and Sutry towns anti MuntaH Mr. Hanes, eonur, •>,> inner f,»r A, Saji Highway district. They railed alonjil ed Winston-Salem citizens. inclnhtni| Chatham, to ask Mr. Haties to baiit way from North Wilkesbom t» here with Route llis. This mad i»t«l a connecting highway between the ■ towns of Wilkes and Surry. Ruining pci side of ihe Yadkin river through Kol and Ronda. I Mr. Hanes looked favorably u;eic M route, since it was only wnne twestf fl and would connect four or five ixpnnfl west, (’arolina towns. He told the this road would be the first mid nil Wilkes county as soon as the annual mileage increase of State highways iri« came legally operative. I It is only fair to the p*eople "1 mind Mr. Hanes of his promise, hi at has been re-routed through svitW leaving Uonda and Roaring ri'er htgi or rather low and wet. the people rfl live north of the A adkin and south es Ridge have no direct use "! a SOME IHEFEKENH Hickory Record. Now here is the narrative m■ Sunday before last I-a w yer < hnrio W'rote an article on governor A. • appeared in several State pipers, a Tillett declaml that the majoru linians oppt»se,l to the imn, Smith based that opp"'i , i" !l Smith’s wet tendem-.w- i: l" viction. Mr. Tillett s opinion of the editor ot Ha — Last Sunday the Ilaloigi came out in a tw" c"lun with Mr. Tillett on the- i opiK)sitioti to governor >ii,hll ' was quoted in this ]*<ii*«m ■ Now. today the t'liarlaty , with the relieve, l eonteo’ \,. n of the opposition to Mill! religious and not li'l' l,,! ■ the contrary mowiihstamhuv | ; with that is an • , , ,| ~p| |l,g- the h,l> * ' Salem Joiirna claim that the South i' a man’s religion . j.' \ -i The question seems ,' ‘ ,ii opposed to Smith wet? Or, is N r - “ ()N U roMoniU ** Montgomery A<i' * r ? : (• >! veinner on 'i > that "no mail > 1 ' f *i|,* ««■' * in driving: il< Upon to get , ;*•! ties: : that ii ~ ,•>.»»-• nj* > ' drive while ■ ■ • make* the ca: W ' i* it refuses x<> no two expenrm *' _ %v jjilr* .‘W** idcnthnl: I hx tigued is an no knowing ' vi ».-• * do, since In of irrational Not cnoii- 1 ' rious respoi t out for t he , j,„ < but ' , pants of their .1 ‘ lJ n „|, ; i!il’ "( of the drivers nokm\m' Indianapolis V“ ' , 1 A> the time t” 1 Washington rm‘'i .jj on the .capital UiUal it uut f - *~-
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