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PAGE SIX What the World Is Doing As Seen byTopular Mechanics Maguiitej Crutches on Casters Built for Dog.: to Heap Cure Auto Injury Paralysed in the hind limbs as the re sult of being struck by an miomobile, “Sport,” a pet dog owned by a Wiscon sin man, was pronounced incurable and • preparations were made to chloroform him. But an inventive veterinarian beard of the case, designed a roller cage in which “Sport” could push himself about with his forelegs and now the uOg | is said to be well on the road' to recov ery. Strips of scrap iron were bent and bolted to form the support, which, when completed, resembled the frame for a small kennel. “Sport’s" injured members were held from the floor by means of bandages passed under his body and over the top loops of the cage, where they were tied with strings. The dog was taught to use the Contraption by placing him in it before he was given his food, and he would then push himself cflong to his dish. Now he has learned to baric until he is put into his wheel chair and manages to travel a considerable distance each day. The gradual exercise and pro tection to the injured limbs are working what is expected to be a complete cure. * • * Connecting Phones to Amplifier There is a right and a wrong way to connect phones to an amplifier. If they are incorrectly connected they become ’ demagnetized and soon lose their sensi tivity. The simplest way to find which is the I COUNTRY!! correspondence; MISSION The health of this community is very good at present. On last Sunday, March 7st, quite a number of relatives anti friends gathered at the home of Mrs. H. I). Crayton and gave her a surprise birthday dinner. Her daughter. Miss Ethel Crayton, of Badin. gave her a nice birthday cake. Mrs. Crayton received many other gifts which she appreciated very mueh. Mr. Furr and four little sons, of Albemarle, were present and rendered some fine piu suc, which was enjoyed very much by all. They all departed late in the af ternoon wishing Mrs. Crayton many more happy birthdays. Miss Laura Hatley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hatley, was married last Sunday evening to Curtis Eury. son of Adam Enry, of Mt. Pleasant Koute 1. We wish them much joy and great suc cess in their coming years. William Smith made a welcome visit at the home of Miss Della Herrin's Sun day. Carl Lambert made a pleasant call to see Miss Bertha Hinson Sunday after noon. Misses Cleonia Crayton and Louise Mann and Cletus Lambert and Frank Mauney motored to Palmerville Sunday to carry Miss Zula Mauney back to school. Cletus and Clifford Herrin attended the play at Oakboro Saturday night. Miss Zula Mauney spent Saturday night with Miss Essie Almond. Miss Ethel Crayton, of Badin, spent the week-end at home. James Furr made a pleasant visit tot see Miss Essie Almond Sunday after noon. SMILES. ST. STEPHENS Tlie Lutheran Brotherhood will meet at the church next Saturday night. These meetings are very instructive and helpful and it is hotted that a large crowd will be present. The Woman's Missionary Society will also meet at the parsonage at the same time. The young people will render a life service program, “Who Follows in Their Train.” on next Sunday night at 7 o’clock. Miss Virginia Turner, principal of Nussman school, spent the week-end with home folks in Concord. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cline spent last Sunday in Concord with Ray Cline, who is convalescing from an operation for appendicitis. C. MILUNGPORT The high school students of Milling port high sqhool wilf present .a drama in three acts entitled, “A Deal In Ducks,’' in the school auditorium on Saturday night, March 7th, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The public is cordially invit ed. Admission free. The characters follow: Jack Gillmore, editor of Sandburn Echo—Claude Palmer. Albert White, Jacks’ college chum— Jay Rowland. John Hardnock, capitalist and land owner—Theodore Lyerly. Mike McConey, the printer’s devil— Allen Wagner. Ruth Hardnock, Jack’s friend —Lamelle Moose. i Betty Hart, Jack’s assistant—Minnie Sue Sides. Time: Soon after the United States entered the World War. Place: Small middle western town. Time of playing—about two hours. Music by the high school. LONESOME, THAT’S ALL. CONCORD ROUTE SEVEN Dock aad Rowe Tow, of Monroe, were visitors at the home of O. V. Helms j The .party whidt was given at the home I , . ■ ■ -j beat connection, is to plug the phones in at the last step of amplification and tune the receiver to the loudest possible sig nal; then remove the phone caps and lift one edge of the diaphragm with the fin ger until it clears the edge of the shell. When the phones are connected in one direction, you will observe a stronger pull than when the connections are reversed. When the connections are so placed as to obtain the greatest pull on the diaphragm, | put a mark on the phone terminal that was connected to the plate of the tube. Thereafter always connect the marked terminal to the plate. * * • Manicure Set on Neck Ribbon Holds Tools in Handle A manicure set so small it can be hung on a ribbon worn around the neck carries rail the various, instruments in a hollow ‘tube which forms the handle for the arti ■cles when in use. Any of the tools may be adjusted in place in a few moments and are as easily manipulated as the ordi nary kinds. Resembling a fountain pen, "the compact set is small enough to be carried in a purse or pocket. The parts are protected against loss or rust in jury by a closely fitting cap. of Miss Daisy Simpson Saturday night was enjoyed by a large crowd. Floyd Hartsell and Bertie McDonald, of Harrisburg, were visitors in our com munity Saturday night, and Sunday. L, R. Ferguson is on the sick list. Jack Allen, of Flowe’s Store, is real sick at present. WILD ROSE. FAITH -- I A supri.se wedding took place the 23rd of February when Miss Loma Barger P and Hugh Robertson motored to York, S, £.. and were married. Mrs. Robert | son is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barger. , Mr. Robertson is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. G. ' D. Robertson. Venus and their many , friends wish them a long happy life. One lady writes and says send me an , other jar of your eczema sgive. It is doing my sister a lot of good, and I be lieve it will cure her eczema. Adolphus Brown is one of the good , farmers of Rowan county and makes more then he can eat at home now. ’ Since his children are married and settled off he sells thirty pounds of butter a . week, twenty-live gallons of milk and three gallons of cream besides ever so much other good things to eat. He has , eight children, ail living, seven girls and one boy, and twenty-eight grandchildren and has never had a death in the family. , If you can beat it, trot out your family. VENUS. LOCUST Mr. and Mrs. Utley, from near Char- I lotte, spent awhile visiting Mrs. D. W. Turner one day las week. Ben F. Holley accompanied Misses Mary Furr and Emma Treece home from Kannapolis Saturday and was their guest until Sunday afternoon. George Page has purchased a new Ford. We learn that the Ku Klux visited our neighbor village last Saturday night but do not know their object. How deceiving is the weather! Feb ruary led us to believe that winter was gone and here comes old March with one 1 of the coldest nights we have had. Several persons haye been gardening and some have begun preparing their . land for farming. Friends of Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Honey , cutt will be pleased to learn of their ■ improved condition after having been • very sick for more than a fortnight. Mr. Honeycutt filled his regular appoint ! ment both Saturday and Sunday, and Mrs. Honeycutt is able to sit up some. When L. J. Little’s store was broken open and robbed a week ago last Sun day night he lost $lB in cash, about that much in cigarettes, some shirts and a number of other articles. He has no trace of the rogues. Mrs. D. W. Turner was hostess to the . Home Helpers Clqb last Thursday, af ternoon. After the regular business ses sion Mias Holmes gave a demonstration on making of quick breads with which she served delicious hot cocoa. The hostess, assisted by Mrs. Simpson, served a most elegant repast of cakes, custards, pickles, jellies, etc., with hot coffee, which each one enjoyed to the utmost. C. L. Smith was right painfull hurt Monday morning while at work near Stanfield when he slipped on the frozen ground and fell, knocking out several of his teeth, with a portion of the jaw bone. He was rnshed to Albemarle where he received medical treatment. P. CLEAR CREEK. Springtime is here. The farmers have 1 begun their work. There will be preaching ut Clear Creek Church every fourth Sunday at two o’clock. Mrs, Roma Widenhouse is spending the week-end with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Ferguson and lit tle daughter spent Sunday afternoon with 1 Mr- Mrs. J. J. Funy of Midland. ' Miss Lnla Mae Widenhouse and Miss Vertie Ferguson are liking their work in I Kannapolis jnst fine. Novel “One-Boy'’ Seesaw Most playground seesaws require two persons to operate them. Finding thi. feature objectionable, a schociboy with on inventive turn of a»jnd devised a see saw equipped with a movable counter weight, which enabled him to operate it alone. The counterweight consists of a wooden box placed near one end, and two lengths of 1 by 2-in. wood, attached to the box and to a pair of handles, which are pivoted on the seesaw within easy reach of the operator. The distance from the box to the center of the seesaw should be about the same as that, from the center to the seat on the other end. .’. quantity of sand, approximately equal in weight to that of the one using the seesaw is put in the box, and then by moving the box back and forth the balance can be readily changed, causing the seesaw to work just as if two persons were operating it. The counterweight end of the seesaw is boarded in as shown to confine the move ment of the sand box. * * * Coloring Brass Gray To color brass gray, first clean the sur- ! face off with alcohol, polish it to an even , finish, making sure that all grease and • finger marks are removed, then immerse ! the work in a solution of arsenic chloride 1 • (poison). 1 oz., and water, 1 pt., until tl* j desired shade is obtained. Wash in clean I warm water, dry in boxwood sawdust, and ; warm and lacquer with a thin pale solu- 1 tion of bleached shellac in methyl Uoohrd, using a broad camel’s-hair brush. Miss Josephine Widenhouse of Xo. 9 township, and Tom Furr, of Mt. Pleas ant, mptored to South Carolina Saturday.! We’wish them much joy and u long and. happy life. DAN PATCH, j Sinning Away Parental Rights. A controversy concerning the custody ! of a male child which had been left on | the doorstep of a stranger Household, i when about two months old. engaged the : attention of the Supreme Court of Ala bama, in Children's Aid Society v. Davis, 100 Southern Reporter. 3J5. The j ■ child, through the kind offices of a • 1 physician and with the approval of an j 1 agent for the Aid Society, had been | placed in the custody of a family that | had been unofficially assured that they | would be allowed to keep the boy. Mr. j Justice Sayre said, in discussing the case in the majority opinion : “The parents, a young couple, live with the wife's father in the neighbor hood of Tallassee. The father of this 1 child, for some months before the trial in the circuit court, earned good wages as a carpenter, but his accumulated pos | sessions amounted to his wearing ap parel and a Ford car not paid for in full. Appellees, on the other hand, are well-to-do people living in the city of Montgomery. “But, let it be understood, this dif ference in the circumstances of the parties, while it may signify much in the future life of the child, is by no means conclusive of the question here at issue, for, if these parents are to be deprived of the custody of their child, it must be for some weightier reason than that suggested. We think , such reason is to be found in the story of this child’s birth and its life up to date. “When it was discovered by the mother’s family that she was gravid with this child, the prospective father and mother —to whom for convenience we may refer as appellants—went to Tuswegee, in company with the mother and brother of this mother, wnere ap pellants intermarried according to law. Then, evidently to conceal their folly, they went to Georgia where tills child was born between four and five months later. Two months afterwards, while in Montgomery, on their way back to Tallassee. this child was disposed of as we. stated in the outset. Thereby ap pellants sinned awny their right to the child.” A dissenting opinion was filed by Mr. Justice Gardner. Started With One Mule Half Fold For. Progressive Farmer. Our recent request for letters on culti vation experiences brought us a remarka ble letter from a farmer in Cleveland County. N. C. He wrote:— “I was married in 1901 and started out to farm with one small mule half paid for. I bought a scrub cow on credit, but did not have a hog. I rented a farm. Thiß was before I knew about your paper. Later I subscribed for The Progressive j Farmer. Now I am working four mules, I have some Jersey cows, seme hogs, and ! own a farm of 108 ncres on a state high way six miles from a thriving town in which we sell produce weekly, and some-! times dnily at some seasons of the year. I There is no paper against our farm, and • for this I give The Progressive Farmer 1 eredit. , “Now let me go back and tell you how; I started. I bought quail at 5 cents each | and sold them for 7 1-2 cents. In this way I earned enough to buy my license * and a suit to get. married in. In 1902 11 farmed with my little mnle and made one I bale of cotton and a small amount of corn. Since that time I have read your 1 paper regularly and have tried to use my own brains to the best advantage. I raise my home supplies tor my family and stock and cotton for my surplus crop.” Tha first brick house in America, ac cording to historians, waa built in 1632 by Governor Craddock at Medford, Mass. THE CONCORD &AILY. TRIBUNE GOVERNOR BECOMES THR FINANCIAL HEAD Os the Stats Government as Wen as the Executive. CBy the Amor la ted Preaa) Raleigh. N. C... March o.—Under the terms of the Executive Budget Act pass ed by the legislature last week and which Will become the law of North Carolina after its ratificnthui, the Governor be comes the financial as well as the execu tive head of the State Government. In him will be vested power* of control over the finano’al policies of North Carolina which arc broad and far reaching in their scope and which give him the right to call upon any department or any in stitution at any time to make a repprt 1 of its operations, its system of account ing. its outlays for improvements and such other information as the Executive deems necessary ,in arriving at his de cision regarding its financial opera tions. appropriations to be allowed it and whether the said institution or depart ment is operating in an economical man ner. The net places all departments and in [ stitutions on an appropriation basis, elim inates all minor appropriation bills and provides for one general appropriation measure every biennium to enre for the expenses of operating all departments and institutions. It however, gives to the Governor the power to submit to the Leg islature, if he deems it necessary, a defi ciency appropriation bill to take care of unforseen necessities of operation. , The present Budget Commission is sup planted by an “Advisory Budget Com mission” composed of the chairman of the finance and appropriation committees of the House and Senate and two other persons to be named by the Governor. The Governor will hold the title of Di rector of the Budget and will appoint an Assistant to tile Director. Budget Bu reau will be created which will be a de partment of the Executive office. The purpose of the act is to vest in the Governor "a more direct and effective supervision of 611 agencies add institu j tions of the State; for the efficient and cconomca 1 administration of all such I agencies and institutions; anti for the , initiation ami preparation for each ses , sion of tlie General Assembly of a bal j ant ed budget of state revenues and ex j pemHtures.” ! Whenever the Governor desires iufor- I motion concerning the operation of any j department or institution he will have the power to summon the head of that institution or department before him in order to get the information. If neces sary, he has the power to have ilie Red and to make such changes in the books of any department or agency aud nuditing systems of the departments and institutions ns may be necessary in or der that all financial data will be imme . diately available at all times. The act | also vests in the Executive the power of j recommendation to the Legislature for I such changes In management and general ; conduct of the various departments and j institutions as arc in his opinion neces ! sar.v for the more efficient operation of said department or institution, j One of the important features of the new system is that concerning nppropria ! tions of money. The act provides that ! the State Treasurer shall not have the , power to disburse l any funds except as ) provided in the terms of the Act. That j is. the Treasurer no longer will have ■ power to disburse to various institutions land departments at their call. He will only be allowed to pay out. fuuds in the amount named in the general appropria tion act submitted to the Legislature by the Governor after it has been approved by the Legislature. Heretofore, many departments have drawn far in excess of the Budget Commissions recommendations and those departments and .institutions which have not been on an appropriation basis have for the most part incurred heavy overdrafts which are chargeable against the General Revenue Fund of the State. These overdrafts have in the past six or seven brought about a deficit in the state general funds of ap proximately nine million dollars as of June 30, 1925, when the affairs of the biennium are wound up. The Executive Budget system proposes to take account of this shortage in the general fund, amortize it over a period of years; tuff of the revenue of the State, provide for ap propriations for each department and in stitution so that the total will not ex ceed the total revenues of the State and hereafter tto avoid any deficit or over draft. Under the new latv the department and institutions commissions and other agen cies of the State government will appear before the Director of the Budget with full data on expenditures during the past biennium. This appearance before the director is scheduled for September of the even numbered biennium years. The members of the Advisory Budget Commission shall, upon request of the Director, who is the Governor, sit with the Governor at such meetings. Public hearings will take place during Novem ber biennially in the even-numbered years and all responsible heads of bureaus, de partments and .institutions will be requir ed to attend these hearings when the needs of departments and institutions will be set forth. By the fifteenth of December the Director is required to have completed a survey of all needa for thq coming biennium and, if the Director and the Advisory Budget Commission agree they -shall prepare a budget report to submit to the Legislature at its open ing. Very often, under the present law, the budget commission’s Report has not been ready until half the legislative ses sion is ended and much time is lost, ! crowding financial legislation to the cios -1 iug days of the session. If the Budget Director and the Advisory Commission jdo not agree, the director shall submit ■ to the Legislature his views on the Bud- Igetary needs for tha biennium but shall | cause to be incorporated in such views (the divergent views of the Budget Com- J mission on the points where they do not • agree. The Director will accompany his j recommendation with a budget message Ito the General Assembly supporting hiH recommendations and financial policy and explaining increases or decreases in the 1 appropriations for any department or in ; stitution, a discussion of proposed chang es in the revenue laws, proposed bond is sues and full details and such other in formation as he deems necessary to sup port bis recommendations. He shall al so submit « full statement of the State’s financial condition as of the last June (thirtieth, the end of the fiscal year, and a statement of all special funds existing outside of the General Revenne Fund of the State. He shall also estimate the condition of the State Treasury for the *7"-- ' ~~~—f - next two fiscal years, living his esti- I mates as of the end of each fiscal year. A Ml’ will be prepared by and with the ad -1 vice of the Commission embodying pro- I posed appropriations to be known as the Budget Appropriation Bill. The Dirgct » or and Commission also will prepare a . Budget Revenue Bijl which will, in their i 1 estimation, raise the necessary income to i care for the appropriations which they .'recommend. Provision shall be ninde for -'a contingent appropriation in the Apro i jpriation hill in order that all expenses of • [the state may be brought within the Bud ; I get. Any institution desiring extra funds i | will have to submit its reasons to the Di ; | rector who must approve before the ex . tra funds will be granted. This, however, must also be submitted to the Governor and Couneil of State for final approval. On years where a new Governor is to take office, on December 15th the Govern or-elect shall be called into consultation with the then Governor who will submit a ropy of the revenue and appropriation measures and the report of the Budget Bureau and Budget Commission to him. This is for the purpose of allowing the incoming executive to become faipiliar with the financial status before be takes office. The General Assembly has the same general powers .it now has with reference to changing the features of the revenue and appropriation bills and for conduct ing hearings on them. It is provided however that no increase shall be made in the appropriation bill by the General Assembly unless a similar amount of revenue is provided. The Auditor will not have the power under the new act to allow any monies to any agencies unless that agency has the written approval of the Governor’for it to draw the said amount. No depart ment or ageuoy will be allowed to draw more than one-half of its biennial allot ment of funds in any one fiscal year. Under the terms of the act the fiscal year is set from July first to the follow ing June .‘{o and on such dates the state finances shall be balanced. The State Highway Commission is ex empted from the operations of the Act. Despite the fact that the legislation radically changes the fiscal policy- .pf North Carolina; it aroused little comment or discussion last week iu either House and was passed uuanimoitsly by both. TODAY* SEVENTS Saturday, March 7, 1825 Today will be observed as Arbor Day in California and Arkansas. If Champ Clark, the Missouri states man, were alive today he would be cele brating his 75th birthday anniversary. The annnnl Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show'will be opened at Fort Worth today and continued through the coming week. Delegates will assemble in Geneva to day in readiness for the opening of what promises to be one of the most important sessions yet held by the Council of the League of Nations. Thomas E. Hughes, who retired this week from the post of Secretary of State in the Coolidge cabinet, plain* to sail for Bermuda today for a long vacation before resuming his law practice in New York. Sunday, March Bth. Gen. Bramwetl Booth, world head of the Salvation Army;, today enters upon his 70th year. The annual meeting of the Alabama Conference of Social Work opens in Mo bife oday'for a three-day session. REMEMBER PENNY ADS ARE CASH Never Get B often the firrritureis moved and halls. who use Pee sing and other floor-abuses will not show. It dries over hand you have a floor that will VSjL c STUCK . r . ;)L| I ■cv. OHI 1W W i ft 6 / ■■ ■ ■■ ' - POSTAL EMPLOYEES' INCREASE. i ■ .. ... - Statesville Daily. • . The postal employes get their increase t in (lay, arid no more deserving salary in - crease was ever passed. The amount will t average S3OO per annum each, effective ■ January 1 last. But the President and > the majority of Congress steadfastly re > mused to permit this act of simple jus r tree until the increase was taxed on the - patrons of the postal service.y'The C rate iufrease, effective April 15. next, is ■ expected to brihg in about .$00,000,000 i of the $08,000,000 additional required ■ for the postal workers.’ Tlir increase'! ■ rates will bear rather hard on the news , papers, ns well as some of the other post • office patrons. Patrons of the service are glad that the folks who do the work i —and real work at that—are to get a tle . served increase. But they will never un derstand nor appreciate the logic that taxed them extra for the increase while members of Congress and cabinet officers get a much greater boost in the ! r pay. . and it is found that thgre are ample ,* ■ I Why * there are more than a million Buicks a <—2. : There would not be more than a million Buicks in active use today if Buick had not, through the years, produced a motor car of unvarying and superior qual ity. In every detail, every Buick is an example of how well a motor car can be built. STANDARD BUICK COMPANY When better automobiles are built; Buick will build them ‘ " s 54 .? ( g r- Saturday, March 7, 1925 ■ ,■ ■ ■ -■ funds the treasury to meet that with out an extra tax on anybody. Hi ere were ample funds to meet the postal workers’ increase, too. Mr. Coolidge started out mighty bold by declaring that taxes must be levied to meet nil extra expenditure. And then' he didn’t have the nervf to stand up when Congress reached into the treasury and boosted salaries of the membership and others higher up. But tltafs the usual rule. The , little fellow has an awful struggle to grt his—and then more than often he doesn’t 1 Willie—Pa sent me for a piece of ropo like this. Hardware Dealer—How muon does ho want? VTillie—Just enough to reacn irom the goat to the fence. On the fact of statistics the propor -1 lion of male convicts in prisons to : females is 10 to 1, and the proportion of hardened criminals is (12 per cent t<* : 17 per cent.