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ESTABLISHED 1876 LINCOLNTON. N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 14. 192 J. 5 Cents Per Copy, $2.00 Per Tear. A FULL HOUSE SAW MINSTRELS Large and Appreciative Audience Witnessed Al Webber Greater Min strels Friday Night Grand Street Parade at 6:30 Enlivened the Town Crowds. -. - The Al Webber greater Minsterels show, composed of local talent showed Friday night at the Auditorium to a full house. The audience showed its appreciation by liberal applause of the solos, duets, Choruses, and the clean negro ministrel jokes. The en tire cast rendered a very creditable performance for amateurs and many complimented the show saying that the evening's fun was well worth the price. A feature of the evening was the appearance of the Lincolnton four quartet of Saxaphones with several numbers, including "Silent Night," by special request. At 6:30 a grand street parade of the minsterels and band was pulled off, with mounted officers leading the parade and opening the way through the crowds. The parade and band en livened the town and was much en joyed. A number'bf out of town peo ple attended the show. It is under stood that the minstrel will show at the big auditorium of the Union High School building near Reepsville on a date to be named, the school au ditorium having a seating capacity of 700. Following is the program rendered at the show Friday night in Lincoln ton: Program. Grand Introductory Overture by the Entire Company Introducing "The High Brown Babies' Ball," "Tulip Time" and "Dreamy Alabama.'' Grand Minstrel First Part. "Dear Old Pal O' Mine" Mr. J. Robert Reinhardt. Quartette, Selected. "Alice Blue Gown" Miss Ruby Padgett. "Land Of Old Black Joe," Mr. Lee Bullaboy "Tripoli" Miss Padgett and Mr. Reinhardt. "Asleep in the Deep" Mr. A. W. Webber. "Old Black Joe," Mr. Hugh War lick. "Sweet Mamma, Tree-top Tall Miss Padgett. Olio. A few Minutes With The Orches tra. Old South Quartette Suffragette Speech Mr. Harry A. Page. Saxophone Quartette Messrs. Roy Warlick, Frank Ledbetter, J. Will Proctor and Hugh Warlick. Lewis Womock's Jazz Hounds. Characters : Head Waiter, Mr. Webber; Chief Maid, Miss Padgett, Mr. Camp, Mr. Johnston. Bell Hops Mr. Proctor, Mr. Leo nard, Mr. Warlick, Mr. Womack, Mr. Arrowood, Mr. Reinhardt. Porters Mr. Ledbetter, u4r. Bulla boy,, Mr. Page. Orchestra: Mrs. L. V. Padgett, Mr James Warlick, Mr. P. F. Yarborough, Mr. Bennie Sigmon, Mr. J. C. Coffey, Mr. Frank Barkley. "Vote for school Bonds." LINCOLNTON HIGHS WALLOP REEPSVILLE In the fast base ball game FrHay afternoon the Lincolnton High School team played circles around Reeps ville fast team. The score being 10 to 5. The outstanding feature of the game was the pitching of Setze: backed by the speedy catching of Beal. The rest of the team accounted for themselves quite remarkable con sidering the amount of practice they have had. Batteries for Lincolnton, Grabriel, Setzer, Beal. Umpires, Beal and Tilson, Coach Edwards. .The High school will cross bats with Mt. Holly , at Mt. Holly Tues day afternoon. REVALUATION WAS NOT HARM ED IN PRINCIPLE Raleigh, March lO.Revaluation was not repudiated by the late general as sembly .according to members and re views of the work done by that body. How much damage was done to North Carolina's tax morals no ap nrnisal has vet indicated; but those who stood for revaluation declare that no principle was deserted and that tax legislation was all designated to get at the truth of property values even as it sought last year "to make even as it sought last year "to maice tne tax books peak the truth." EAST SPENCER SELLS ITS MU NICIPAL BONDS Spencer, March 10. The town of Bast Spencer has sold a block of $40, 000 30-year six per cent municipal bonds to I. C. Abbott and company, of Charlotteville, Va., a large contract ing Arm which recently elected a brick building here for the People Bank of East Spencer. The same firm has been awarded a contract for the erection of a new brick and stone school build ing for the town at a price of $40,596. T"he building will be two stories, with basement and auditorium and 10 class rooms. It will be equipped with all modern facilities for a school build ing including a heating plant. It is to be finished by the opening of the fall term of school in September. Mr. and Mrs. Voter, register and vote for the School Bonds. Registra tion Books now open. Look up the Registrar in your ward and have your name booked. .Registrar can regis ter you wherever you find him. He is at your precinct all day Saturdays only. Register and vote for school pro gress in your town. TENNESSEE AND NORTH CARO LINA SYNODS JOIN HANDS IN FORMING ONE SYNOD. Local Lutherans are intensely in terested in the merger that has been effected between the Tennessee and North Carolina synods. The meeting at which this step was taken was held at Salisbury last week. "The United Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina" is the name chosen for the new body and it will include all the membership in the North Carolina and Tennessee Lutheran synods. The new synods will contain about 40,000 members and will include practically all the Lutheran churches in the State as well as several in South Carolina, Vir ginia and other States. Rev. J. L. Morgan, of Salisbury, present president of the North Caro lina Synod, was elected president of the new synod. Rev. H. B. Shaffer, of King's Mountain, is recording sec retary, Rev. E. H. Kohn, of Mount Holly, statistical secretary, and J. D. Heilig, of Salisbury, financial secre tary. The movement for a merger has been under way for about a year. It having taken definite form during the past few months, both synods were called to meet at Salisbury and each voted separately and unanimous ly to effect the merger, adopting a uniform plan of organization. Although a permanent organiza tion is formed the terms of the mer ger will be printed and distributed among the entire membership of both synods and the members of each con gregation will vote on the question. Until this vote is taken the merger can only be termed as temporary. However, a canvass of the situation by leaders in both synods indicate that the merger will be overwhelmingly voted by the membership. REAL BEER SOON TO BE OBTAIN ABLE AGAIN New York March 10. Real beer not near beer soon will be ob tainable in New York as a result of a ruling by former Attorney General Palmer, made public yes terday, whereby permits may be obtained for the manufacture of beer for medical purposes con taining more than one-half of one per cent alcoholic content. Jacob Ruppert, president of a large brewing company, announced that his concern would begin manufac ture of real beer immediately. He de clared that there was no question of the legality of such a course if the pro duct is to be used as medicine Other ltuge bicwers said they also would turn out some real beer. PRESIDENT AND THE TARIFF Wall Street Journal. If President Harding is not careful he will find himself falling into his predecessor's fatal facility of epi gram. There is a phrase in his in augural address which perhaps means even more than the speaker suppos es. President Harding said: "We must understand that ties of trade bind nations in closest intimacy. and none may receive except as he gives." That is utterly sincere, and it cov ers a tremendous lot of ground. It impeaches the policy of a protective tariff which tended to exclude foreign manufacturers. LITTLE PROSPECT FOR DECREASE IN RATES NQW Chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission Not Optimistic As to "Future. Washington, March, 8. The general railroad situation affords little pros p'ect of general decrease in freight rates, Chairman Clark, of the Inter state Commerce Commission, today in formed Senator Harris, of Georgia. Replying to a letter from Senator Karris inquiring as to the possibility of a reduction in freight charges, Chairman Clark said: "The situation is not so good now as it was in December. There has been a substantial falling off in general traffic. The average operating ratio of the railroads of the United States is something over 00. That means that for every dollar that the railroads earn they pay out in operating ex penses more than 90 cents. Due to the narrow margin between revenue and operating expenses and fixed charges a good many are not even earning their operating expenses. Under these circumstances it is difficult to find an argument in favor of reducing rates unless instances in which it can be shown that the rates are stifling th; traffic and the lower rates which would still be compensatory would ef fect a movement from which there would be some returns." FRANCE WANTS U. S. TO JOIN A MODIFIED LEAGUE OF NATIONS Paris, March 10. It was stated at the foreign office today that negotia tions were under way between the French embassy in Washington and the state department, in an effort to induce President Harding to favor acceptance of a modified league of na tions. The French position is conciliatory and is believed to relate to expres sions by officials connected with the present Washington administration made during the peace conference. KING'S MOUNTAIN MONUMENT GREATLY DEFACED York, S. C, Mar. 9. Souvenir col lectors have almost carried away the $80,000 monument erected, by the gov ernment to commemorate the revolu tionary battle at King's Mountain, 15 miles from here. Reports from the field say the shaft is so badly niched and scarred as to be greatly defaced The site" is remote and wild, and said to be much used by moonshiners. Schoolmistress. "Well, Freddie, dear, what did you learn yesterday?" New Boy (after deep thought.) "You ought to know you teached me." Punch. REGISTER NOW AND VOTE MARCH 29th FOR SCHOOL BONDS New Registration For Everyone NO MATTER How MANY TIMES You HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED SCHOOL BOND ELECTION. Supt. Epps. of Mt. Airy School, a Lincolnton Man, Feel Interested In Lincolnton's New School Program- of $200,000 For Schools. Editor Lincoln County News: I have been informed that Lin colnton is contemplating issuing $200,000 worth of bonds for school purposes, namely to build a new High School and another Primary building. I am glad to note that the progressive people of Lincolnton are thinking in such large numbers. It appears to me that you are going at it in the right way, if your needs are like most towns. Personally, I think that is the only way to go at things important as schools or good roads. Half doing either will eventually cause an enor mous waste of money. I firmly be lieve that if our people had voted bonds enough and had built hard sur faced roads when they first began to build good roads in this state, that today we would have our road pro blem solved at a much less expense than it is. The same thing is even truer of the schools. Statistics show us that we have wasted millions by voting just enough bonds to, in a way, take care of present needs, and not enough to build for the future. As a result, old buildings are giving place to larger net, Imilclino, .r lnp nto hpirUf worked over and built to, which is nev er satisfactory. I am of the opinion that the most expensive road is the cheapest, and that the cheapest way any town can get good satisfactory schools is to build for the future. I do not know a town that docs not have enough stores to take care of its trade; enough automobiles to take care of its transportation and plea sure service; enough garages to take care of the cars; but I know few towns that have a sufficient number of schools to take care of their children. This is du'e laigely to the fact that our people have not been fully awak ened to the real needs, and to the im portance of having adequate equip ment for the training of the most valuable asset any town can have its children. Permit me to say before concluding these remarks, that although I have lived awav from Lincolnton most of the time the last ten years, there is not another town in the state that I have quite the same feeling for, or that I would feel so much like calling home. And for that reason, I feel a deep interest in any progressive movement that might be launched for the betterment of its citizens. I am proud of your splendid streets, and shall be prouder of your adequate school facilities when you get them. sincerely, L. M. Epps. Mt. Airy, N. C. Show your fine churches to visitors, then vour schools and see if said visi tor does not make unfavorable com parison or go away m silence, thus showing that he is a charitable being. Vote for school progress. But how can you be for a thing when you have not shown your interest by rigister ing. Too much money is the reason ad vanced. It may seem to be at present, but in n short time, it uncolnton grows, you will decide it was not. Unless Lincolnton practices race sui side in 10 years the new school build ing would be crowded, judging by the past. The present building was too large when it was erected. FARM DEMONSTRATION NOTES (W. L. Smarr.) Mectinir of Cotton Growers Thursday. All farmers are urged to attend the county wide meeting at the court house on Thursday, March 17th at 11 o'clock. The meeting will be addressed by a representative of the Co-operative Farm Extension Work of this State. This speaker will outline the proposed system of marketing at least of 200, 000 bales of cotton for the farmers of the state. (This plan will be present ed over the entire South) North Car olina has been marketing 70 per cent of its cotton crop in four months. That is not marketing, but merely "dumping" the cotton. California is now marketing 25 of its chief crops through the system that is proposed to market the cotton. The growers of these crops would rever think of returning to the indi vidual grower selling his product. The farmers can never progress and gain satisfactory financial returns un til they market their products. We can grow more crops to the acre in North Carolina than any where else in the world, and we market it as poorly as we can imagine. It is up to the farmers to help themselves. The proposed system does ' not propose to organise the farmers, but organize their products. Meeting to be held in Interest of The Fair. Immediately following the above meeting, the matter of Lincoln Coun ty having a fair this fall will be dis cussed. If the people are interested in a fair for Lincoln County this fall, we want to know it so that we can be gin now. The directors of the Fail Association wishes to know if the peo ple are interested. It is a splended idea that has been advanced by admirers of President Wilson to create a fund of half mil lion dollars, the interest of which would be used as a reward to be gi ven every year to the one rendering the greatest service to humanity. It was Mr. Wilson's chief aim in all of hjs public work to lighten the burdens and the sorrows of th hiimililc nonnl. of the world. It is not surprising that uie rorrner rresiacnt is pleased at tho use that is to be made of the fund if it is raised as in nil nrnhahilif ir if ni be News and Observer. , NOTICE Under and by virtue of the power auu aumority oi an act ot the General Assembly of the State-of North Caro linaratified on the 21st day of Feb ruary, 1921, entitled, "AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWN OF LINCOLN TON TO ISSUE BONDS", a special election is hereby ordered bv the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Lincolnton, N. C., to be held on the 29th dav nf Mnwh 1Uir pose of submitting to the Qualified voters of said Town of Lincolnton, N. C, for their ratification or rejection, tne proposition ot issuing $200,000. school bands, said bonds to be dated May 1st, 1921, of the denomination of $1000.00 each, and maturing se rialy, five bonds on the 1st day of May, in each of the years 1926 to 1936 inclusive, and ten bonds on May 1st in each of the years, 1937 to 1951, inclusive, interest not in excess of 6 per centum per annum, interest pay able semi-annually. Said funds to be used in purchasing land, and buildings und the erection, construction, remod Lng, equiring rnd furnishing of build ngs for public school purposes -and no other. Said election to be held under the rules and regulations of municipal elections held in said Town. If a majority of said qualified voters shall vote "For School Bonds" on the proposition submitted for the issuing bonds for the purposes aforesaid, then it shall be deemed that the proposition receiving a majority of such votes is favored and ratified by the majority of the qualified voters of the Town of Lincolnton, and the Board of Alder men shall cause bonds to be prepared and issued for the purpose so approv ed by a majority of the qualified vo ters of the Town of Lincolnton, and when sold by the Lincolnton Graded School committee as called for in said Act of the General Assembly above mentioned, to levy a tax in accordance with the provisions of the act, That is, a tax sufficient to pay interest and create a sinking fund to pay off said bonds at maturity. That the vote on said bond issue shall be by ballot, which shall be written or printed, and those voting for the is suing of the bonds shall have written or printed on their ballots, 'For School Bonds," and those voting against said bond issue shall have written or print ed on their ballot, "Against School Bonds.'' That it shall take a majority of the qualified voters of the Town of Lincolnton to ratify said issuing of school bonds. That in pursuance to the power con fered upon the Board of Aldermen by the Act of the General Assembly above-mentioned, a new registra tion is hereby ordered for said elec tion of the voters of the Town of Lin colnton N. C, Said new registra tion to begin on the 1st day of March, 1921. and to continue to twelve (noon) o'clock on the Saturday next proceed ing said election date it being the 26th day of March, 1921. That the. following voting precincts be and the same are hereby establish ed as follows: Ward one, Guy Haynes' Blacksmith shop ward Two, K. M Roseman's Warehouse Ward Three Daniels Store, Ward Four, P. Y. Rudisill's StoreThat the voters shall vote in their respective wards. Notice is further given that the fol lowing Registrars and Judges of elec tion are hereby appointed Ward One J L. Thompson, Registrar; j. p, Mul len and G. M. Haynes, judges: Ward Two, R. H. Dellinger Registrar, Robt. Wood and C. D. Stroupe Judges. Ward Three L. V. Padgett, Regis trnr Howard Maunpv and D. P. Johns ton Judges: Ward Four, G. Lee Heav- ner Registrar, W. N. Williams and Q Ed Crowell. Judges. By order of the Board of Aldermen of tne Town of Lincolnton, ratified on the 25th day of February, 1921. J. T. Perkins, Mayor of Town of Lincolnton, N Attest: H. A .Self Clerk of the Board of Aldermen, Town of Lincolnton, N. C. f28-4w THE WORK OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (News and Observer, 10th.) The General Assembly of 1921, which adjourned sine die yesterday morninir at 2 o'clock, was both progressive and , conservative. It was progressive m adopting the most advanced financial program perhaps of any General As sembly in the history of the State. It was conservative in putting its foot down hard on certain proposals which if acted upon favorably would have up set the progressive work of previous Legislatures. "Hold fast to that which is good" was an animating principle with the lawmaking body. While the General Assembly was in progress a spirited discussion was go ing on in the State as to whether North Carolina is a rich State or not. One view was that North Carolina was a poor State and the other that it was a wealthy State. Both views were based on the same state of facts. The Legislature may be said to have adop ted the opinion of Governor Morrison expressed in his inaugural address when he said that North Carolina is rich enough to take humane care of its defectives and unfortunates, to guard itself as far as an enlightened knowledge of p'reventinve medicine will enable it against sickness and suf fering ,to provide adequate schools for the training and education of its children, to build a system of roads suggested by sound business and to da all other things reasonably neces sary in the discharge of the high duties of a great State. The General Assembly certainly took no counsel of fear or of cowardice. It reckoned on a commonwealth, with its face to the future and to the morning. There will be carpings and murmurings and complaints but we are convinced that the sober thought of the people of the State will sustain the legislative body in the great bulk of its work. The most ambitious program out lined by the Legislature was the road building program. In this a move ment, unprecedented in its size and scope, was launched. Projected at a time when depressed financial condi tions made every one anxious and u commonly prudent in individual un der takings, the program seemed to ninny honest and patriotic people as entirely too great. But the splendid succoss which had attended great road building enterprises in othor States and the widely held belief that good roads were in the nature of a perman- SSfa inVfeh?mldoriaekl M pie more closely knit together, a hap pier and richer rural life and the strengthening of the tics which bind a large part of our population to the country where it is fullv understood the asic production must be, proved to be controlling considerations, and the great program advanced by the Good Roads Association, with a mem bership of four or five thousand and the cordial endorsement of the Gov ernor, went through without any de termined opposition and in the clos ing stages of enactment practically with unanimity. Of course the test of the wisdom of the Legeslature in this large under taking will come- in the expenditure of the funds. The Highway Com mission can make the action of the General Assembly result in the great est internal improvement in the his tory of the State or it can make the people thoroughly regret that it was ever decided to invest fifty million dollars in roads. We believe that the Highway Commission has been well chosen and that it can be depended upon to jealously scrutinize the ex penditure of every dollar of the State's money. It has on it some of the ablest and safest business men in the State, men who have made sig nal successes of their own business and who are noted for their business sagacity. The State's money for road construction and maintenance will be wisely invested under the direction of a body composed of Frank Page. R. A. Doughton, John Sprunt Hill, W. A. Hart, J. Elwood Cox. Word H. Wood. W. A. McGirt, John C. McBee, J. E. Cameron and James G. Stikeloather. Next to roads the matter which in volved the greatest expenditure and perhaps was the hardest fought was the matter of permanent improve ments of the State institutions, educa tional and eleemosynary. There were earnest advocates of a six-year pro gram for these institutions, with a'l expenditure of twenty million dollars, or approximately that. The Legisla ture mot the demands of the propon ents of the larger program with a very substantial concession as to ap propriations, but insisted on a two year program. This was a disap pointment to many friends of the in stitutions of higher education. Never thelcss it was in many respects a de cisive step forward and should result in enabling the institutions to meet the demands which may be made up on them before another Legislature can be elected. Public sentiment in the State will fully sustain the Legislature in its liberal attitude towards the eleemosy nary institutions. We understand that provision has been made that when the buildings in contemplation are erected all of the State's insane can be comfortably housed and pro tected and the institutions for the other classes of unfortunates and de fectives also adequately provided for. These people and the Confederate v terans really have the first claim on the State. The State's obligation to care for them and to care for them suitably is binding and unescapeable. The public schools of the State re ceived attention at the hands of the Legislature in the form of a law con solidating and simplifying the various acts controlling the department anJ in the provision of a fund of five mil lion dollars for school buildings in needy communities. The latter un dertaking received surprisingly rmall attention, but it was because there was little division in the Legislature over the wiEdom indeed the necessity of strengthening the educational faci lities for the children of the State. Good schools are essential in a demo cracy and efficiency in instruction is greatly promoted by the provision of suitable buildings. This provision, looking to the improvement of the building plant of the free schools of the State, was one of the many con structive acts of the General Assem bly. Thoughtful men and women have thought for a long time that a more vigorous regulation of the moving picture Oicatres in this State ought to be provided. The feeling resulted ir. a determined effort to induce the leg islative body to adopt the censorship plan uf regulation as already in effect in a feeling on the part of some who undoubtedly wanted to do the best thing for the youth of the State and shield it as far as possible from un wholesome and destructive influences, that the censorship plan might not in practice work out as claimed by its champions but that it might prove an instrument of oppression and operate unnecessarily to the disadvantage of what has become one of the greatest and most important business of the State. Accordingly, the Legislature contented itself with strengthening the law for criminal action against proprietors who permit the exhibi tion in their theatres of immoral pic tures. Under all the circumstances it is likely that this was the wisest disposition of the matter. It is to be hoped that public sentiment in the various communities will be so vig orous and virle that there will be prompt action in any instance if there is violation of the law, and that the proprietors themselves will enter into the spirit of the law and make prose cutions unnecessary. For some years now the State has been divided over the matter of as sessment of property at its actual value. The State last year put in ef fect the system of assessment at ac tual value. There was much com plaint, together with persistent ap peals for relief. The Legislature has proposed a plan which promises to give relief where it is deserved and to withhold it where it is not deserved. Real estate should bear its just pro portion of the taxes but no more. There should be no panic on the part of the appraisers and the commission ers, who are to act with them, but an honest, calm and dispassionate effort to arrive at just assessments on the basis of actual values. By no means should there be in any community a return to the old slipshod system un der which some property was assess ed at approximately its value and other property at only a tithe of its Lu A&tetht& e HvM longer collect a property tax, but the counties make the State and if sourc es of county revenue are not availed of on a uniform and consistent plan the development of the State will be one-sided and unsatisfactory. In this connection it is well for county boards to review to remember that they are to meet on April 5 for the revision of assessments. Dissatisfied owners of real estate also should be on hand promptly with their complaints. The boards of review have to report to the State Tax Commission- not later than April 20, so that there ar but two weeks in which to effect the revision. The establishment of a Revenue Commission to have charge of taxes will doubtless prove to be legislation of advantage to the State One of the hardest fought Questions before the Legislature was whether the Mate should secede from the ad vanced position it had taken in Dublic welfare work. Vigorous efforts were made looking to a policy of reaction in this important activity, but wiser counsels prevailed and a law was worked out and adopted that was sat- stactory to the social welfare work ers of the State and guarantees a con tinuance of the work of saving youth ful delinquents from criminal car eers. The policy of liberal support for the State Health Department long followed in this State is adhered to by the latest Legislature to consider the Mate s needs. North Carolina is committed to the theory that money in disease and death prevention is money well invested. New and ad vanced laws also were passed, such. for example.as the one for medical ex amination preliminary to marriacp. and these will facilitate the work of the Health Department. Another decisive step was in the larger appropriation for Confederate pensioners. A hard battle was waced over this question. The amount asked for was $1,300,000 annually. The ap propriations committee would agree to only an advance of $100,000 annu ally. After lengthy debate it was de cided by a close vote to make the to tal annual appropriation one million dollars. It is very fortunate that this recognition of the needs and deserts of the veterans was taken. As these old men grow older their needs are greater. They should be the objects of generous solicitude on the part of the State as long as they live, and another Legislature should be even more liberal than theJaody just ad journed was. Two things the Legislature mieht have accomplished and didn't were the repeal of the primary law and tne repeal of the six per cent inter est law. That it left these two princi ples untouched was proof enough that it was a Legislature responsive to the will of the people. The primary has its faults. But the way to remedv a disease is not to kill the patient; it is to cure his ills. Eight per cent in terest was thoroughly repugnant to tne public sense ot fair play as be tween borrower and lender and when the lawmakers began to hear from home they realized that they had been wrongly advised in even considering the practicability of an eight per cent interest law. A law which the Legislature was asked to pass and did not pass was one looking to a sterner hand in deal ing with the moonshiners and boot- legers whose activities are cursing the State. The Governor, much of whose program was enacted into law, SHORT ITEMS A minimum of $219,000, or a maxi mum of $538,000 for constructing and maintaining roads in Mecklenburg county is provided for in the new act creating the Mecklenburg highway commission, this to be raised by an ad valorem tax on all property valuations in the county, in addition to the propesed $2,000,000 bond issue un der the provisions of a separate bill. Tom Taggart, of Indiana, at Ashe ville, does not believe the democratic party needs any reorganization now but that the partv will come back strong in 1924 if the leaders do their duty. Lexington and a number of rural districts adjoining the town will vote, April 26 on the question of issuing $225,000 for the erection of a town ship high school building and for a township high school building and far a small special maintenance tax. This newly formed high school dis trict includes the modern textile town of Erlanger with its 1,500 or more population. The arrangement, if voted, will in no way interfere with the organization and conduct of the elementary schools in the dis trict. Raleigh, March. 10. Colonel Harry W. Stubbs, for twenty-eight years a member of one branch or the other of the general assembly of North Carolina, left with his friends here this morning the parting im pression that the session closing Wednesday is the most epochal of the seventeen sessions, Tegular and extra, in which he has seen service. The occupation of the Rhine, if we get it right, is bill collecting. Greens boro News. William J Burns is to placed by President Harding at the head of the secret services forces in the United States. Under an. act just passed by the Legislature a fish commission, com posed of five men, has been appointed to regulate fishing in Burke and Mc Dowell counties. The two counties were placed together in the act be cause the lake at Bridgewater, which it was designated principally to ef fect, lies in both counties. The power is placed in their hands to regulate in any way they see fit the fishing at the late. If they so desire they can re strict it to certain months and pass any rules they deem best to protect tho fish. A law was passed by the recent wtichtmaeT-uictharniln1nti misdemeanor. Hereafter Iredell will have only one representative in the Legislature in the lower house. The county has been put into a senatorial district with Lin coln and Catawba counties. The dis trict will have two senators. The can vass of the senatorial vote for the dis trict will be held at Newton. A YOUNG MAN IS ROUGHLY HANDLED. Salisbury, March 9. Mr. Homer Blackwelder, a young man about 17 years old, living on Route No. 2, ser eral miles from China Grove report ed a rough experience he had yester day afternoon. He states that while in a piece of woods near his home he was seized from behind by two men," who threw a sack over his head took off his shoes and carried him to a small stream nearby and threw him in, leaving him there and going away with his shoes. He succeeded in em erging from the water without any serious harm befalling him and went home and reported the affair and par ties made a search for the men but no trace of them could be found. Young Blackwelder said his assailants were negroes, but what object they could have had in thus treating him is not known. NEGRO BITES MERCHANT Kinston, March. 8. Harry Pearson a clothing dealer, was bit ten in the stomach in an affray with a negro at his store today. Pearson was painfully injured. The negro used his teeth when Pearson struck him in an altercation over a pur chase. particularly asked for energetic mea sures against crime and we feel that the failure to strengthen the laws against liquor was probably the chief sin oi omission tnat was committed by this very extraordinary and forward-looking body. 1'assage of the State-wide stock law came at a time when the State had developed to a point that there was no widespread protest, but it nevertheless took a certain measure of courage for the Legislature finally to take this step ending, it is hoped, for ever tne agitation as between free range and the stock law, which has made for prosperity wherever it has been tried. It it to be regretted that there was not passed as a companion piece to the stock law the proDosal for tick eradication as the latter law would have placed livestock owners of the east in better shape to ac commodate themselves to the changed situation resulting from the 'aboli tion of free range. Considering the achievements of the Legislature and noting its reaction to the various appeals that are made to it, one is strengthened in the con viction that North Carolina is safe in the hands of its lawmaking body. Ra dical measures do not get by. But the attitude of caution and prudence is not sufficient to hold the body back from really wise and constructive leg islation. The jreneral Assembly of 1921 could not be stampeded, but it listened attentively to progressive leaders in both houses and fearlessly embarked in unprecedentedly Urge undertakings because the members had confidence in their State and wanted it to be always in the van- - guard of the American common- wealths. .
The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.)
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March 14, 1921, edition 1
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