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The Lincoln County News UNCOLNTON, N. C Issued MONDAY and THURSDAY JOHN T. PERKINS, Editor. Entered as second-class matter De cember 31, 1906, at the Post office at Lincolnton, N. C, under act of Con gress of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price 1 year 2.00, six months $1.00, 3 months 76c. Take It by the year. Outside First Zone, $3.00 per year. Label on paper shows date subscrip tion expries. If change of address is desired, don't fail to give both old and new address. .MONDAY MAY 9 1921. MOTHER'S DAY OBSERVED SUNDAY. Yesterday, the second Sunday ra May was "Mother's Day." This had been set apart in honor qf the "best mother that ever lived," your mothe. The day was fittingly observed in Lincolnton at the churches especially where special programs were observ ed. A large number wore a flower in honor of mother, which caused them to reflect over the worth of mother and of her never failing love and service. Perhaps the celebration of Mother's Day caused us to think of a fact sel dom coming into our minds that mothers work is never done; she is on duty night and day, Sunday in cluded, and caused us perhaps to won der why mother does not have one day off out of each seven. THE MOTHERS OF MEN Write us a song, some competent pen, Of the Mothers of Men! Set it to music of purest strain, Sing it sweetly, sing it again, To the Mothers of Men! Employ the angels in the choir Accompany them with David's lyre, For the Mothers of Men!! Touch every heart with music sweet While children play at mother's feet, The mothers of Mui! Stir the living, amuse the dead, Make every son lift high his head. To the Mothers of Men! Write us a song to music set, Write it now, "lest we forget" The Mothers of Men. James J. Burke. Reidsville. Making predictions is dangerous business. You don't catch Herbert Hoover making them unless he is sure. He denies he said that the supply of oil in Mexico would be exhausted in eighteen months. The incident recalls the prediction that sugar would go to a dollar a pound and cotton fifty or sixty cents. News and Observer. A "WORD FOR THE RETAILER (The Newport News Herald.) "Rents are still higher. Freight rates are out of the question. It's a crime! Light, heat, water, taxes and delivery expenses are at the very highest. In fact, all overhead is in creasing and the margin of profit is decreasing. So after all, where does the retailer come in?" ' "This paragraph is taken from the body of a striking article on the re tail merchant by Albert W. Atwood in The-Saturday Evening Post in which the writer gives a clear and fair state meivt of the condition of the retail trade today throughout the United States and the unhappy predicament of the retail merchant. It is a state ment of conditions as he found them by canvassing tne trade. It is not the argument of an unprejudiced observer Mr. Atwood shows that the retai merchant is betwixt the upper and the nether millstones. He is between the manufacturer, or jobber, on the one hand and the consumer on the other He can not regulate prices in either direction. He must pay the market pnee ior his goods and he must sell at tne price the consumer is willing to pay. If his goods will not move afthe price at which he has marked them he must mark down the price to fig ures that tempt the purchaser. "He has only one weapon," savs Mr. At wood, "but this is a powerful one. He can start the consumer buying again if he only makes the price right. Com petition is excessive and organization ana co-operation, as compared with many other branches of business, a a minimum. Thus it is literally impos oiuic iur reiauers to renect in any concerted or well-ordered manner the great changes in underlying cond tions. The wise merchant, and es pecially the one who is financially Birong, nas 'Deen quicK to clear his shelves ot high-priced goods and re place them with cheaper stocks." "That 'is the condition everywhere and Newport News is no exception! When we remarked the other day that some things in Newport News were as iney were during war times, we did not have in mind, of course, general mercnanaise, ior everybody knows that the slash in prices here is nnnm. cedent. In many instances, prices have been cut in half, and in some lines of goods prices are even lower than they were before the war. The fact is, the retail merchant has been pioneer in the downward movement, and if all cost had been reduced in the sum proportion, there would be no need of lutner re-adjustment, and business generally would be stablized. The cost .of living would have been lowered to to 'Irresducible minimum.' and all branches of trade and industry would be in a state of revival.'' FOURTH-CLASS POSTMASTER EXAMINATION. The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an exam ination to be held at Lincolnton. N. C on May 28, 1921 aa a result of which it is expected to make certification to fill a contemplated vacancy i!fthe po sition of fourth-class postmaster at Denver and other vacancies as they may occur at tnat omce, unless it shall be decided in the interests of the ser vice to fill the vacancy by reinstate ment. The compensation of the post master at this office was $344 for the last fiscal year. Applicants must have reached their twenty-first birthday on the date of the examination, with the exception that in a state where wotien are de clared by statute to be of full age for all purposes at eighteen years, women eighteen years of age on the date of i the examination will be admitted. Applicants must reside within the if territory supplied by the post office it for which the examination is announc ed. The examination is open to all citizens of the United States who can comply with the requirements. Appficantion blanks, Form 1753, and full information concerning the re quirements of the examination can be secured from the postmaster at the place of vacancy or from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Aplications should be properly ex ecuted and filed with the Commission at Washington, D. C. at the earliest practicable date. It is interesting to know that thpre dent in the United States, but what Americans want to know is how many hyphens are included in the lot. New York Herald. indications are that this will be an excellent year. for the raising of eve rything except wages. Pasadena Post. 1 Another argument in favor of ever lasting peace is that it would give us time to finish paying for the war. Fresno Republican. Twice the world has been free of racial hatred: when Adam was a young fellow, and when Noah came out of the ark. Pueblo Star Journal. The Greensboro News says: "The community has been stirred to whole some indignation, and serious consid eration has been stimulated, by the foul murder of one of its officers of the law. This sad event may also serve to emphasize the fact that Greensboro is a blessedly peaceable and orderly community. The occupation of a po lice officer is rated as extra-hazardous one, and citizens of even so orderly a place as Greensboro should always re spect their officers as men who cheer fully expose themselves to danger all the while; yet prior to the day before yesterday it had been many years since a Greensboro officer lost his life in line of duty. The whole country, the whole world, has experienced an increased violence and terror these latter years, the inevitable result of a great war, with its hardening influ ences. We have seen somewhat of this baleful shadow of the event in our community, but relatively it has been little in evidence, so far; what ever may be the community's lot in future . TWO NEGROES "PULL BONE" WHEN THEY OFFER TO SELL OFFICER GALLON LIQUOR. Durham, May 3 Clyde Mims and Henry Council "Pulled a bone" when they offered to sell five gallons of blockade whiskey to a plain clothes officer here yesterday morning. They offered the whiskey at $12 per gallon and found the officer a willing taker. The information that he would have to supply a car did not deter the sale and the officer agreed to meet them at 8 o'clock last night on the Alston avenue extension road. He met them, taking two other officers alonfes and brought back the negroes and five gal lons of corn. A report from a newspaper corres pondent at Bahama, Durham county, today declared that information had been received to the effect that Claude Bowles, who murdered Jasper Ellis last fall, had been placed under arrest in France and was being held for American authorities. The report mentioned that a son of the sheriff of Person county was in France at this time and had recognized the fugitive. One of Person county's deputy sher is however, also a son of the sheriff, and at present in charge of the sher iff's office declared he had no such knowledge, stating that his father was at this time ill in a Raleigh hospital and that he was in charge of the office and would know of anv developments in the case. Bowles, it is alleged, bru tally murdered F!!is after he had won the hand of a girl both loved. Ellis is said to have been cranking his car while his wife sat in the front seat when Bo-vles walked up and shot him from behind. DR. M'PHAUL DISCUSSES NEW STATE MARRIAGE LAW Gives Reason Why So Many Go To York, S. C, for Licenses Question of Education. Charlotte Observer. "There are three reasons, and all of them are based on ignorance," de clared W. A. McPhaul, city physician, "to account for the exodus of marry ing couples into South Carolina. "First," said Dr. McPhaul, "there is the question of a few men who hes itate at paying the physicial exam ination fees for their-examinations in the city. Perhaps many do not rea lize that the cost of a trip to York county for two or a half a dozen peo ple will cost much more than the license will cost. "Second, the candidates for mar riage, like so many other people of the world, don't like to have to do a thing they feel they must do because of legal compulsion. Many a man re fuses, to be married here in Mecklen burg and at home because a law has been passed to make him undergo an examination H he is married at home so ne makes the trin tn th Sntv, Carolina towns just over the way. "Third, there is that class of men who fear to undereo the mmin. tions, feeling that the reanlt vill Ho. bar them perhaps from marriao-o Ctt hub cjbss utiie can be said now, since they have a way out, though I can not see why the wife-to-be does not grow suspicious in manv of t.hM cases and begin to ask confusing ques "The law will never comnpl nsnnl,, m uumn to it, declared Dr. McPhaul with emphasis. "It is a miMtinn n education and public opinion. When tnese are developed, then we may look for results. "The question was varinnalv cussed at the meeting of the North Carolina state health lOfficsrs, asso ciation and manv countioa alnn v,a line both of South Carolina and Vir ginia are havine a similar to that of Mecklenburg." Dr. McPhaul said that he also read a paper before the association Healino in prrt with this Question. A ROCKINGHAM CORONER'S JURY Greensboro News. Astonishment and indie-nation in Greensboro have met the news that a , Rockingham county coroner's jury nas neia Patrolman Oakes under .$2,500 bond for shootinsr one of the gang that murdered Patrolman M.. Cuiston under Cakes' eyes. What on earth is a policeman given a gun -for. he is not to be permitted to usei in a case like that ? If Oakes had had reason to believe that the car he was chasing, single-handed, was oc cupied by mere whiskey-runners, the case would have been entirely differ ent, and his use of his gun might have been criticised as reckless and unjustified. But he had just seen Tom McCuiston shot to death by somebody in that car, and he had no reason to know that two of the three men in it had got out at the Battleground. Naturally, he was under the impres sion that he was going up against three desperate men, three red-handed murderers, in fact. And he had no body with him except a civilian driver whom he had picked up on the street. Single-handed, he had stuck to the trail of the gang for 40 miles. A man who will do that is no coward; and a brave man does not shoot reck lessly These considerations have given to the Greensboro public the unpleas ant impression that an attempt is be ing made to railroad an efficient of ficer to the penitentiary; hence the exasperation. We doubt, however, that there is sufficient ground for the vrath that has been excited by the coroners ver dict. It seems much more probable that the coroner's jury acted merely out of abundance of caution. It may have been unnecessarily cautious, but there is vast difference between even excessive caution and a deliber ate desicion to support a murderous gang of whiskey runners' against the officers of the law. Before savine things that we may regret about Reidsville and Rockingham county, let us, wait until the regular officers of justice over there have acted. It remains to be seen whether or not the solicitor will even present the case to the grand jury; and if he does, it remains to be seen whether or not the grand jury will find a ture bill. We have no idea who composed the coroner's jury: it may have been pack ed with friends of the wliisl:ey gang, as some indignant citizens of Greens boro are alleging. However that may be, we are, perfectly sure that all the machinery of justice in Rockingham county is not in the hands of block aders and their sympathizers. Even if they have turned one triclj which is by no means as likely as it seems to be from this distance the law-abiding citizenship of that county may ba trusted to see it that they take no more. It is inconceivable that Policeman Oakes should ever serve a single day for killing that man. And the lesson has been taught. The Edwards-Talley-Robertson gang, as bold and reckless a trio as lived in North Carolina, final ly broke out inUT open conflict with the Guilford authorities and the Eds wards-Talley-Robertson gang was in stanly and completely smashed. Rob ertson is dead. Edwards is in jail, with a splendid chance of going to the elec tric chair; and Tally, although mo mentarily at large, will yet be cap tured or killed. And the forces of law and order, so far from being demora lized, were never before as grimly re solute as they are today. The grave of murdered Tom McCuiston is an in superable barrier to any futhe r trifl ing with the lawbreakeis. Resisting a Greensboro officer from now on will not be mere folly; it will be suicide. We do not believe that there will be futher resistance; but if there is, it will mean only that more blockaders will have to be buried. NEGRO CHARGED WITH DEATH OF POLICEMAN IS CAPTURED Greenville, S. C, May 7. William Thompson, negro, alleged to have shot and fatally wounded Policeman George Borroughs last night, was captured by a posse of officers and citizens about 8 o'clock tonight about three miles east of the city, after an exchange of shots in which one of the pursuers was slightly wounded. The negro was brought to jail here. Officer Borrough died about 4 o'clock this morning. GRAND JURY PEONAGE INVES TIGATION RESUMED Macon, Ga., May 4. Investigation into the alleged peonage charge against the alleged peonage charge against John S. Williams, farmer of Jasper county, under life sentence from Newton county for the murder of Lindsey Preston, one of the 14ne- groes who are said to have been killed j on the Williams farm, was resumed by the grand jury this morning. The investigation into the alleged charge' was started by the grand jury Tues day afternoon, when Clyde Manning,1 negro boss on the Williams farm, tes tified. The jury probably will com-1 plete its work late today. Besides in-' vestigating the chares against Wil lias, the jury has gone into the B FOR THE DOCTOR, SALESMAN, INSPE?rOR, CONTRACTOR, COUPE MEANS. I tore calls per day in lees time, protection from weather, ample roominess and comfort, a car of modest, businesslike refinement and elegance. ABOVE ALL, IT IS A CAR OF DEPENDABILITY THE FORD ENGINE HAS THE POWER. WE KEEP YOUR CAR ON THE ROAD. WE SELL GENUINE FORD PARTS. THE HOME OF SUDDEN SERVICE GUY E. CLINE PHONE 191. cahrges which have been preferred against the farmer's three sons, Mar vin, Hulton and LeRoy, who are also under indictment in Jasper county for murder but who have never been arrested. PRE- ffMINENCE. According' to statistics issued by the China Famine Fund, North Caro lina led all the southern states by a wide margin in the amount of her con tributions to save the starving Chin ese. The amounts from the southern states were as follows: Alabama $ 5,787 Arkansas 4,328 Florida ! -1,500 Georgia 9,363 Kentucky 46,050 Louisina 1,870 Maryland 13,712 Mississippi 3,683 North Carolina 63,213 Oklahoma 8,181 South Carolina 14,00$ Tennessee 13,606 Texas 61,911 Virginia 26,553 WHO PAYS FOR ADVERTISING? Frederick J. Haskins. The man who has a commodity tn sell, and who does not advertise, gen erally uses as a sales argument the plea that he can sell more cheaply than his competitor because he s pen, Is not'iinjr for advertising. The real truth of the matter is, that it is an economic imposibility for him to sell more cheaply than his competitor who advertises. Whether a man makes thimbles or automo biles tt costs less to manufacture in large quantities than in small quan tities. The manufacturer who can produce a thousand thimbles or a hun dred automobiles a day can manufac ture the thimbles, of the automobiles, much cheaper than the manufacturer who is making ten thimbles or three cars a day. There is only one way that the man ufecturer can produce nation-wide or world-wide distribution, except at a prohibitive sales expense, and that way is y advertising. KUion-wide or world-wide disteibuticfrmeans in creased production. Increased pro duetion, in its turn, means lower cost per unit to produce. In addition to a lower production cost, the manufacturer who advertis es materially decreases his sales cost, and ho is able to create a demand in advance of his salesman's calls, and less resistance, are able to make more calls per day, and sell in larger quan tities scause of the demand already crea'e.i. The cost of adveritsing is a very smai! per centage of the selling price of ?. COmmoditv. This ner rpntnm i so Sc. all that it is manv times nuHe up by lower production and lower sales cost. It may be argued that noney ex pended, for advertising must be paid for by some one. We have shown that it is not paid for by the produc er, for by advertising he has lower ed other ,osts. It is not paid for by the conlumer, for advertising has en abled the manufacturer to sell to the consumer at a lower price. The man who really pays for advertising is the advertiser's competitor who does not advertise, because the advertiser sc. cuts into the non-advertiser's con sumer demand, that the non-advertiser's production and sales cost are usually high, in comparison with the production and sales of the ad vertising manufacturer. Who paya for advertising? The man who does' not advertise. WOULD HAVE EPIDEMIC (From The Heney Grove Signal) The Government prohibition officer says one or two breweries can make enough beer to supply the sick of this country, under the interpretation of the law permitting beer to be pres cribed in cases of illness. The prohi bition enforcement officer may be a smart man along certain lines, but he knows very little about people. Sto:k up the drug stores and arm the doc tors with prescription blanks and one TOE UNIVER'S AL CAB COUPE fuiCKf Cigarette To seal In the delicious Burley tobaooo flavor. It's Toasted half the men jn America can get sick in a day. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the wjak becomes a stepping stone in the path way of the strong. Say! Be sure to see "The Minister's WifVc Von, Rnnnaf . ' i j .1 , i, i, uuiiii, i. Want Ads 10 cents ser line 6 wds is a lint, FOR RENT Two Urge Front rooms. Mrs. H. E. Setzer, 408 East Main Street. " 2tm!) FOR SALE International Truck. at a bargain. Lincolnton Coca Cola Bottling Co. may9 -tf YOU CAN GET Western Meat at City Market, fhone us your Order Phone No. 145. m5-2c FOR SALE 1 Car Load Best Grade xxxxx shingles C. H. Harrill m5-2t BIG CUT In auto Tires and Tubes. free Tube with each Tire. P. M Keever. m5-3t YOUNG MEN. Women ,over 17, for Postal Mail Service. $120 month. Examinations May. Experience un necessary. Pnr f rAp nnrtipiilnra nf in struction, write R. Terry, (Former ivu ;ervice examiner) 14U3 Con tinental Bldg. Washington, D. C. 6-2t FOR ALL KIND of Job Printing, see Lincoln Printing Co. STOVE WOOD FOR SALE Sawed and split ready for the stove, at $3.50 per load. Call C. O. Childcrs' phone. James Smith Lincolnton, R-l a25-tf FOR SALE 5 Room house nnrl a large adjoining lot all for $2160, on Jennings street. it interested ad dress "House and Lot," care News Lincolnton, N. C. a4-tf. TWO' FORD TOURING Care, 1 Hup Mobile and Buick for Sale. K. B. Nix on, jio-tf FOR SALE Ford Truck. 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MAKE OUR STORE YOUR STORE LINCOLNTON, N. C. Look your label over Mr. Subscri ber and please renew your subscrip tion promptly. Send money order or check, if you find it inconvenient to come in. Lincoln Cor.nty News tf WM. M. SHERRILL, O.D. GRADUATE OPTOMETRIST LINCOLNTON, N. C Latest Equipment and Method. 22 Years Experience Fitting Glasses SPECIAL ATTRACTION AT BIJOU Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday LlUUllllll.llllMnimMif.n HI. 1 UJjTTyjj "Black The world famous horse, who for over forty years has led all others; a thoroughbred in every respect. One of the biggest and beat photo plsys on the screen. Filmed at enormous cost with an all-star cast headed by JEAN PAIGE under the direction of DAVID SMITH V This special production is a faithful portrayal of ANNA SEWELL'S famous story and an inside story written by LILLIAN AND GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER filled with thrills, suspense and exciting climax. Big fire scene, unique race between horse and locomotive, a spectacular atonn. It is the big picture of the year nndjone that will long be remembered MATINEE AND NIGHT ADIMI8SION it aBd 25e. TOMATO PLANTS 10c Doz.; 60c 100, am booking orders for Potato Slips. R. A. McNeely a21-tf DR. I. R. SELF, Dentist LINCOLNTON, N. C. Office: Over Lawing & Costner's Drug Store Phone 85 Beauty"
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