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PAGE SIX 'i 1 x ' ■Hrwi v « 1 x he llfLr jggi :''' x ' . \ f|||| j ' * \ 3§»j»& Curing the off season Joe Bush, star pitcher, recently traded by the New York Americans to St. Louis, divides his time between bowling and music. Bush is an evnert bowler and an • accomplished musician. ATLANTA’S SAD PLIGHT Philadelphia Record. The city of Atlanta, Ga., as is general ly known, contains the headquarters— the kloncilium, the conjoliuiu, the pan jandrum, or whatever else the central authority may be called, in the barbarous jargon of the Ku Klux Klan—of that illustrious order. Ordinarily when a small city is honored in this way it takes pride and solid satisfaction in the fact, because the possission of such an institution brings not only prestige, but substantial trade as well. Rut Atlanta, once hailed as the most progressive city of the South, is not happy in the K. K. K. Instead of booming, as so many other southern communities are doing, it is said to be actually retrogressing. So alarming has the situation become that the other day seventy-tive of the leading business men of the city, representing thirty-eight civic organizations, met to consider the matter. They came to the unanimous conclusion that "something is radically wrong with the city,” and they appointed a committee of five to submit reform recommendations at a meeting this month. From The Atlanta Constitution we learn that these are some of the ills that affect the Georgia metropolis: “Lawlessnes is driving hundreds of citizens and industries from Atlanta and keeping as many more from coming. here to make a home. “It was a question of who belongs to the ‘secretest’ order as to who stands the best chance to get elected at public of fice "in Atlanta and the State of Georgia. “A big secret organization is running politics and ruining Georgia. Our mayor, our governor and our secretary of agriculture openly admit being members of the order. “One of the largest corporation in At lanta is planning to move to another city because of exorbitant taxation and the manipulation of this taxation and the tax laws. "There are 5,443 vacant private homes • in the city of Atlanta. There are 443 empty apartments. There are 1,212 va cant stores in "the city. From the-Ara- ; gon Hotel to Ponce De Leon Avenue alone—ths right in the heart and show place of the city of Atlanta—there are 49 vacant stores. This is the largest number in the civic annals of Atlanta. “Public schools—police, city, county and State —are subsidized. It is not so much the extremely heavy taxation, ~ l ■ l ■ - 1 1 ■b^ACH, as Buick builds it •i- is available on either of two 111 r • fine Buick chassis. ThequaL j M *i ity is identical in both Master j , Coach and Standard Coach. ‘ •’ Both bodies are by Fisher. The only difference is in wheelbase and price, t * In addition tm Stack's hr* Case* madtls, that trt twaUy~thrte other Bmiek styles t» cho*st from. w 1 ATH/Alw oUivlv vUMi Arl i I but the manner in which the tax laws are manipulated. There have not been six men who have served in the city council of Atlanta who ever saw $2,000 in cash all at one time.” There is no reference here to the K. K. K. beyond the allusion to the “big secret organization that is running poli tics and ruining Georgia.” But it is veary clear, tired of seeing its prosperity and poulation wane, is disposed to take drastic measures to correct the existing evils. Thus a spirit of lawlessness may be bred to check that which has already done so much harm. This is not a pleasant picture of the plight, to which an American city may be reduced, but it seems to bea perfect ly* logical consequence of allowing an irresponsible organization to usurp the functions of the courts, and the other duly constituted offices of civilized gov ernment. is a warning here to other communities which may have fal len into the same error as Atlanta. The Court House Bell. Lexington Dispatch. Senator Woodson, according to The Salisbury Post, is worried because there is no bell on top the Rowan county court house to announce to the world the working of the processes of justice or summon the .citizens to public meet ing. The senator has started an agi tation to have the need supplied. He is not one of these who enjoy seeing a town put on such hifalutin airs that it discards all the old Customs. Os course, the court house bell is no longer needed to notify the folks of the village that someone has killed a beef and that they can come and buy by the quarter or the hunk. All of our country seat towns have gotton too large for that. Most of them, however, have got ten the new court house fever and a whole lot of the new buildings are with out belfries. It may be old fashioned to be clang ing a bell to announce the convening of court or a public speaking, but we are with Senator Woodson <qi the proposi tion that court houses ought to have bells. In fact.i we’d almost as soon live in a town where no one gets ex cited when the firm alarms sounds as to live in one that gets so doggoned bigoty it wants to get rid of the court house bell. USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PAYS DREAMS HE IS FIGHTING AND AWAKENS AND KILLS Vision Is So Real Postmaster Arms Him self Before Battle With Two Safe Burglars. Pittsburgh, Jan. B.—A safe robber, be lieved to be John Wallace, of Oswego. N. Y'., was shot ’to death early today by Postmaster Herbert Park, of Gibsonia. who surprised two men in the act of robbing the post office, so he opened fire with a rifle. The men ran from the building and m4dt> a stand behind a pile of cinders, returning the fire. After an exchange of ehiots lasing several min utes. a bulet from the postmaster’s rifle found its mark in the chest of one man, who was killed instantly. The other ecaped. The postmaster told county detectives that he was awakened by a vivid dream that he was battling with a negro rob ber. Leaping from his bed he discovered a light burning in the post office build ing. He armed himself and as he ap proached the office a shot greeted him. After killing one robber, the post master went to his office, where he found i i»i—'in —i Southern Traditions t /': ■ The South abounds in rich traditions of accomplishment. The Watch Tower \sBPPy of St. Mark’s Castle, St. Augustine, is typical of hundreds of historic land ; * marks. It was over 100 years in build* , ' ing and was finished in 1756. ; The experience of five generations of fine Coachbuilders makes possible this new ANDERSON , - ! _ v V is no finer body fort and the same freedom gJiJfiSthan that on the from annoying squeaks and iISSQ Anderson Aluminum. rattles after thousands of miles Six. The framework is of ash as on the first drive with your | ; and oak cut from Anderson’s ANDERSON. Test the exhilara^ own i timberlands during fall tion of .flexibility and power or winter when the sap is low«- of the synchronised 50H.P. ’ r est and the wood hardest. The power plant —a six cylinder , ri lumber is air dried for a year, Red Seal Continental Motor, §■■* " then cut to shape (not bent) carefully engineered into a and finally laminated, fitted, perfect chassis* screwed and glued toother You can find no greater motor , . mtooneweardefyinguntt.On car value anywhere than la *l9 framewoA « la,d aluml- offered by ANDERSON-a i product of the Carolina, that , • I 1 kMjhrck* 22 is creating a sensation every. ' j r m or more operations. Is it any , 1 F wonder that a car like this la *js} v >,* . beautiful and enduring! CWand see It. let Us take Coachßilt Anderson Aluminum Body; 6 YOU for a tide* DHve It VOIUV Enjoy the luxury of quiet com- self. Thence" tlon; Borg & Beck Clutch, Snubbers; Mo* gfesSS Carolina Automobile Company 720 Soutb Min, Chirloiic. Non, Carolina' " THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE ... n, - "Os the tnen had knocked the combination knob from the *afb and had prepared to blow it open with nitroglycerine. Valu ables in the safe, including S.BOO In cash. $650 worth of stamps and a registered mail pouch, were Untouched. TEXTILE WAGES REDUCED FOR NEW ENGLAND MILLS 40.000 Workers to Fed Force of 10 Per Cent Cut, Effective January 14. New Bedford, Mass., Jan. 9.—The New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers as sociation voted this afternoon to reduce wages in the cotton mills 10 per cent, the cut to become effective January 14. The reduction will affect approxi mately 40.000 operatives in this city alone. Following the announcement of the pending cut. a union official stated that' the various labor organizations will call meetings of their members within the next few days to vote upon the question. Each union* will report, the result of its meeting to tho textile council, the governng body of the labor organization which inturn will report the final outcome to the cotton manu i faotureus association. At present the mills are operating on n scale that is 80 per cent normal. This is said to be 10 per cent better than the I scale on which they were operating last mondny. Mount Shasta's Mud River. One of the most curious eveats of glacial history, which occurred recently in California, Is described in The Scien tific American. A warm and dry sea son, unusually prolonged, so melted one of the large glaciers on the south side of Mount Shasta as to set in motion a river of mud and rubble, which in two weeks completely altered te topography of an entire valley. We read : "Glacial motion is ordinarily infinitely slow and its visible effects are the re sult of years and centuries rather than of days and weeks, but this recent flow was so rapid that it endangered the lit tle town of McCloud, south of the moun tain. i "Owing to the geologic formation of ; the mountainside, composed largely of a combination of volcanic ash, sand, and pumice, .the moving stream gathered in : its passage a tremendous accumulation of debris. As the body proceeded down the steep slopes, it cut channels through the deposits of crumbly- ash left by a former volcano, creating deep, miniature Can yons. The walls of these were contin ually undermined and frequently caved m, temporarily clogging the flow. The banked-up accumulations became so heavy as to break through these dams, releas ing thousands of tons of mud and giv ing the entire mass fresh impetus. “Mud was deposited over an area ten miles long and about three-quarters of a mile wide. Vegetation was submerged. Small animals, such as squirrels and chip munks, were trapped and buried. . M tire deposit hardened the hot sun is solidified to a jelly-like consistency, and would support the weight of a man. Later it dried and hardened into a firm, pumiceous earth. Owing to the large percentage of sand in its composition, the new floor of the valley is brittle and can easily be crumbled in the hand. It probably never will support so varied a vegetation a« the fTcher earth it covers. ■ The south slopes of the mountain from an altitude of about 10,000 feet, Saturdays January 10, 1925 where Whitney glacier lies, were consid erably altered during the period of the flow. Observers say that repeated wint ers of light snowfall, combined with hot summers, inevitably will change the as pect of the entire mountainside and cause similar flows from the glaciers reaching into the higher altitudes." K. K. K. to March Masked in Marti! Gras Festival. Shreveport, I*, Jan 9. Masked parades in full regalia will be held in the principal cities of Louisiana by the Ku Klux Klan on Feb. 24, Mnrdi Gras Day, it was announced today. This day hns been excepted from the Stnte Anti- Masking Law. The parades will be held at Shreveport, Monroe, liaton Rouge, Alexanders nnd Lake Charles. Mardi Gras Day is celebrated in Louisians, especially by the French Catholic population, with carnival parades, masking, street dancing balls and general frolicking. Dost season, for the first time in five years, no American league club batted .300 as a team.
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