S ******** * V »C i, TWO-.SECTIONS TODAY VOLUME -XXIII TRADES DAY The Day of Big Opportunity Concord Trade Days, May 24 to June 2, Inclusive All Roads Lead to Concord During the Ten Big Trade Days From May 24th to June 2nd SENATOR SIMMONS TO BE AT TRINITY COWMEN!'EWENT Nine Trinity {'allege Classes will Hold lint » inn—Class of ’73 Leads Tllftil. i Durham Mmy Hi. Hon F. M. t»ran htotis. of New Bern, senior senator fr: m North Caro ina, will ■•attend' tin* Trinity college commencement, June 3-6, to be present at the reun'oh of the class of 1873, according to an nouncement made today. The 50th anniversary of his class j will top the listof nine class hold-> ing reunions. The reunions .u ihe n'ne classes will occupy part of j alumni day at commencement. Tues- i day, June 5. .. ; Senator. Simmons will probably j speak the sentiments of h s c ass M ' the alumni dinner which will be held j at noon. Theodore Wlamngnam, j prominent businsss man of Kansas j City, and Dr. W. H. Pegram, Trinity’s gfand old man. will also be in at ! tendance at the reunion of the class . of 1873., The class of 18S3 will ce erate its | 40th anniversary and the class of .1898 its 25th anniversary. Other j classes which will hold reunions are 1903, 1908. 1918, 1920. and 1922. Class secretaries are co-operating with the alumni in stimulating interest in me reunons, Alumni activities at the com mencement wi 1 properly get under way Monday afternoon. June 4 when the alumni-varsity baseball game is played. In this gam? members or the famous .team of 1908. captained bv Tom Suiter, of Rocky Mount, will play the ©anally famous varsity of this year. Suiter's outfit n oppea op w'th everything in sight that year and are expected to provide stiff re sistance for the youths of today. The address "byXsome prominent alumnus previously staged Tuesday of the commencement is this year being foregone and (he presentation of the plav of ’•Ruth.” written by Prof. H. E. Spence, wi 1 take piece. A business meeting of the alumni will precede *he atag'ng of the play. Difficulties Have Value. A happiness that Is quite undis turbed becomes tiresome; we must have our ups and downs; the diffi culties which are mingled with love awaken passion and increase pleas ure. I CABARRUS COUNTY FAIR| I V • CONCORO, W. C. I OCTOBER 16, 17, 18, 19, AND 201 38 tii \ • The Concord Daily Tribune REPORTS COMING BACK Experience of Two Southern Negroes ’ in New York. Monroe Journal. George Johnson, colored, heard about j fh(> wonders of New York. where white people called a colored man "Mister" j ami where there was no diserimina-1 Him on account of race, color, or pre- I \ions conditions of servitude. It! Sounded good to his ears, and lie re- j solved to lose no time in making New , York his oyster. He conveyed the in-! formation to another colored man. Jut- ! ins Brooks, and made New York also j look good lo Julius. went._ | But that is not all of the story. The j remainder is gleaned from The New j | York Herald. And The Herald gain ed its information partly from the po- j lice and partly from George’s own] | statement. The Herald says that ] j George admitted his change of view j openly in the' court.’ right ir front of | [all tin' New Yorkers who happened to .lip standing around. And George add- 1 jed that he wish some of; the white j folks would take the news I wick down I south to the darkies who felt that] I they were being underpaid and undev ! few and that New York would make a great pleasure resort for them, and ; tell .them not to act hastily in coming ! Up. | George told how he and Julius had j ] arrived in New York and sought work ami never were able to find any. i When their funds gave out and there Were no old neighbors to drop around on and get a lift, they conceived the] idea of boring their way into a cloth ing store. , The police found them at this business and refused lo regard it as a joke, hence George was ted tot make his confession in open court he- | fore being sent, along witli Julius, up I .to Elmira's prison for an indefinite j length of time. And it is no three months’ affair at that. An Indefinite length of time means that they tuny re-1 main in the New York hoosegow a . long, long time. And when they put them in up there they don’t make any provision t'fir conversation out of the window with passershy. Obliging Grandmother. Employer—“l let Miss Smith off ! three days to see the last of her grandmother. What’s happened to her?” Caßhler—“She wrote this morn ing to say she expects to be back to morrow, as her grandmother 1 is dying as fast as she car..”- -Passing Show. CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923 Wedding of Duke of York in Westminster Abbey Above Is the official photograph taken Inside Westminster abbey, showing the actual wedding of the duke of York, second son of King George and Queen Mary, and Lady Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the earl of Strathmore. Be low are the bride and groom, together with the king and queen, on the balcony of Buckingham fail ace acknowledging the cheers of the crowd. JillGl. CONDEMNS CONVICT WHII’IMNG , Sinclair I'rgcs Need of Greater He* | sin For l.auv in Charge to Jury. 1 Wilminglipn May 15.—Declaring , that ‘TRftrajc. ■* • p. rpe'irated by men "who di-'vu so themselves in (tariumss, take out. men and women and beat ] them" is “ton thousand times more j menacing to the public than an the j bootleggers." Judge N; A. Sinclair, 111 - charging ;lr: grand jury at the open-J lug of the criminal court of Superior I'our! ’mac lids morning, also flayed 1 Hie lienor untie, castigated officers of the 'aw who violates rue statues in enforcing the laws, condemned ine widespread disregard and disrespect for law and order and charged that Ihe law is being violated, in many sections es tlie State by admitting prisditers t<> jail without the required medical examination having been given. "Tii ‘ old idea of torture If. r.OllO with Hie dark ages," Judge SimlaT reported, and said that lie had noticed reports of gran!? juries over the State regarding their visits to jails, the re ports simply stating that me "jails seemed al right." In criticizing such reports. Judge Sinclair said that lie honed no such report wohiil he sub mitted by the present grand, jury, re questing' that the grand jury detail its findings, whether they be good or had giving due credit to the officers responsible for the good coml t mis. and for tlm jury to criticize any bad conditions they find existing. He said (lie State lias the right to deprive a prisoner of the liberty, and demand til's services during penal service, but otlrr than this the State could de i maud nothing else. REIGNING OI’EEN OF ERI'ITS IN NEW YORK North Carolina Strawberries Tickle Epicurean Ralate of Golliam. New York World. The si rawberrv, from North Caro- I linn, is Hie reigning queen of the fruit family of I'rj.i, at least for the present week. North Carolina is pouring into our markets bumper crops that delight not only the seller lint the consumer. Delaware and Vir ginia will come later. The uncertain conditions of (lie weather in all parts of the country delayed the strawber ry season, because as a matter of fruit-fact the North Carolina crop should have been consumed by now. But it's true, strawberries are here in ********** j) SECOND i SECTION * 3 NO. 120 Concord Trade Days, May 24 to June 2, Inclusive extraordinary quantities, lust-ions and satisfying with or without the emhellishnient of cream. Some forty-five carloads arrived late Saturday and that many more are ex l eyted.. today. In more satisfying terms, forty-five cars means Approxi mately tiOO.OOO quarts, which, coining ! in steadily and daily, means that there : are ample supplies for domestic con sumption in hotels and restaurants 'and homes. , Tite wholesale price on Saturday ranged from to to 20 cents a quart for 1 choice to fancy grades. The rush to the milk-fund tight anti the rain made tiic street and store vendors rush to | safety from a had loss and strawher -1 rios sold retail in a lot of places as low as, the actual wholesale cost, though tiic average, retail buyer probably paid 20 to 20 cents the quart. II STATE FAILS TO ENFORCE I>RV LAW GOVERNMENT WILL Will Enter I’pcm Territory of State and Set I p Police ami Judical Authorities. Newburg. N Y„ May 16.—The iSth amendment is the law of the land and of every state within the union and the only course open to the federal government ,'s tv use every available means to rnak? effective the law in compliance with constitutional man date. President Harding .tola Wesley Waif, of this city, in a letter made .public today. Mr. Wait, although associated in no way with prohibition enforcement forces wrote the President, urging im mediate action by federal authorities, slum d Governor Smith sign the Dill passed by the legislature repealing the Mullen-Gage state enforcement laws. He also urged Governor Smith to refrain from signing the measure. Conflict between state and federal authorities would he unavoidable should the federal govertnent hs com-' I>e led to enter upon the jurisdiction I and territorv f the state and set up police and judicial authorities in con nection with prohibition enforcement. President Hardi* said. The states, lie added, nr: equipped .with police organizations and judicial establish ments adequate to deal wun rte prob'em, while the-federal govern- 1 , tnent is not. It's as much a question of what you do with your money after you get it ns it is how you got it. ! Money is a man's self coined into currency.

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