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Program for March ,25th.
WSB Atlanta Journal; (428.3) TO :45
talent. iv ,
WEEI Boston (475.9) 6:so tenor; 7
orchestra; 7:30 musical; 8 orchestni'; 9
Sfofonians. ‘ ■ ? h
IyWQB Buffalo (319) 6;55-10 musical;
bs-ilS.dance.
|-WfcßH Chicago Post (370.2) 7 book
ehaty Riviera theater; 9 talk, tenor; 11
guitars, sbngs..
WMAQ Chicago News (447.5) 6 or
gan ; 8 Chas. I\. Highham; 8:15 con
cprt. i '■■* ■! ‘u'.* • ' '
WGN Chicago Trijjtiriq (370.2) 6 or
gan ; 9 :ijO ensemble, string I ' l quintet; 8
folk songs; 10 orchestra, jazz artists.
KY W Chicago (536) 7 concert; 8
musical; 8:30 around the town; 9 ;45
musical; 1 Insomnia Club, orchestra.
WLS Chicago (345) 7:15 Lone
scouts; 8 K. F. D. program; 9 corn
huskers, symphony, opera.
WLW Cincinnati (422) 6 concert; 8
springtime program, shrine baud.
WEAR Cleveland (389) 6 coheert.
WOC Davenport (484) 6.30 Sandman;
6:50 educational; 9 musical, entertain
ers. y
KQA Denver (3231) 9 orchestra; 9:10
play, instrumental, classical: 11 dunce.
WHO Des Moines (526) 6:30 orches
tra ; 7:30 soprano, pianist; 9 symphon
ic; 9:45 orchestra.
WWJ Detroit News (352.7 ) 7 News
orchestra, poet: 9 dance.
WBAP Fort Worth Star-Telegram
(475.9 ) 7:30 string band; 8:30 orches
tra; 12 serenaders.
PWX Havana (400) 7:30 concert.
KNX Hollywood (336.9 ) 8:30 orches
tra ; 9 concert: 10 instrumental:. 11 vo
cal. instrumental ; 12 orchestra.
WOS Jefferson City (440.9) 8 ad
dresses, classical, violinist, operatic.
WDAF Kansas City Star (365.6) 6
SHAMELESS caps
Statesville Daily.
When it developed that the Secretary j
of State was buying expensive motor j
ears for u<e in his department, and that'
there was rather free use of State owned j
ears for private purposes, it whs a die-1
tinet jolt' to many people. It was # sur
prise to find that a man of Jfie uti-’
questioned standing and integrity .ot the!
Secretary of State would sanction offi-1
rial extravagance; that's just what it!
was—extravagance at the expense of
the State.
But it is a greater jolt to learn of!
outstanding extravagance in the State
highway department. Probably no of
fieni in the service of the State in many 4
years Mp had so large a share of pubjje
Confidence as Mr. Page, the head of the
commission. That confidence had its
basis in the bell * that Mr. Page is a
man of exceptional business capacity.
His honesty was taken for granted. But
personal honesty in a public official
counts little if he hasn't the capacity to
BO administer his office as to get the
niost and the best work for the smallest I
expense. It was bo'icvcd that Chairman j
Page hnd' that to the fullest degree, and i
it was the belief that he was getting for 1
the State a full dollar's worth of work j
fob every dollar expended that sanction
ed for him the highest' salary ever paid
a public official in the State. Ceneral
opinion wasthat he was worth the
money; that he earned it.
Now it fal,l<s out that Chairman Page
has permitted gross extravagance in the
private use of motor ears at 'public ex
pense. The recent ‘ General Assembly,
moved by the developments in the office
of the Secretary' of State, passet) an act
ninjMng it a misdemeanor for anybody to
use k State owned car for any private
phnffi«c Whatever. Now comes the
auditor of the highway department and
volunteers the information that the laW
•will save the highway deportment SfJO,-
Ttf&Z ZSJT
plain language, been taTkmg and using
the State's property as their own to the
extent (estimated) of $50,000 a yenr.
Every month of the twelve employes of
the highway commission used cars at h
of' the State—ipt in the performance of
devices, for joy rides, etc. There is no
school of the air; 8 classical; 11.45
Nighthawks.
KHJ Los A n ßel eK (405.2 ) 8 concert:
8:80 children; 9:30 glee club; 10 lec
ture ; 10:30 features: 11:30 instrumen
tal j 12 orchestra.
Louisville journal- (399.8)
WHAD Milwaukee. (?75) 8 dance.
WCCO Minneapolis-St. Paul (416.4)
7 services; 8 program ; 10 :30 orchestra,
singing team. ’ t ■’* "7,-
WKAF New York (492) 6 Synagogue
Services; 6:30 army band ; 7 :30 soprano,
basso; 8 Atwater Kent; 9 quartet; 10
orchestra.
W.JZ Ned* York (454.3) 6 orchestra;
7 Wall Street Journal'. 7:10 NYC air
college; 7,25 soprano; 8 mandolin quar
tet-: 8:15 opera in English: 9:30 dance.
WHY New York (361.2) 6 entertain
ers : 6:45 health talk ; 10 per revue; 11
orchestra.
WNYC New York (526 ) 6:35 dance:
7 :30 appreciation of music ; 8 :45 songs.
KGO Oakland (361) 6 concert.
WOO Philadelphia (508.2) 6:30 or
chestra; 7 concert; 9:03 recital: 9:30
oTOlkestra.
WIP Philadelphia (508.2) 6 talk.
KDKA Pittsburgh (309.1) 6.45 talk; .
7:15 (alk ; 7:30 concert.
WCAE Pittsburgh (462) 6:30 Sun
shine girl; 7 concert; 8 concert; 9:30 '
concert. ' ■ '
KGB’ Portland Oregonian (491.5) 8 1
concert: 10 debate: 12 Melody men: 1
WKAQ Porto Rico (340.7 ) 6 concert. •
KFO San Francisco (429.5) 9 or
chestra : 9:30 band; 10 pianist, soprano, ]
baritone.
WGY Schenectady (379.5) 6 pro- i
gram. '' |
WBZ Sprigfieid (333.1)) 6:30 lecture; ]
7 concert, tenor: 7:15 jlncle Bill, pian- i
ist; 7:45 literary editor; ’*s‘concert. -
I that much extra for themsejves. It was :
there tnd they gritbbed it off because 1
|.they could. Chairman Page, we are told. I
i had been “trying” to get his men “not i
jto use State cars for social purposes,” <
but it seems filed paid no Attention “to i
him. ' .
j Now let that sink in- Chairman Page/ (
j knew the use of Slate eArs “for social 1
j purposes” was wrong. There is no pr?- ! 1
j tense that it was considered a part of 1
j the perquisites of the jdb. He had been 1
I ''trying” to get the boys to lay off 'the 1
j joy rides at State expense. What do you ;
] think of that “trying”? Here is a super
; executive, drawing $15,000 a yenr and 1
believed to be worth it, who permitted ;
his employes to make use of State
property for provate purposes at the
rate of $50,000 u year. Good heavens!. -
If that were a man of some other
family what Henry Page would say :
about that would take the hair off. i
Now confidence is gone—not a ques-f 1
tion of Mr. Page’s honesty, but con- 1
fidence in hjs su(»er-abi”ty. There have j
been outcroppings of complaints' ot ex- 1
travagunee in State highway manage- ’
m<mt. Now about everybody who lias be
| lfcved there is and 'those
who didn't, will beliete evne the wildest!
rumors of waste; and these who don’t,
* want to believe them will have their
mouths closed. Their line of defense is i
gone. If that $50,000 a year waste —f 6 j
call it by a polite name—had been made
public while the Legislature was in ses
sion. nothing could have stopped the
legislative boys so changing the member
ship oftfic compiifisiqn that some present
members wmtM' ltave gotten ’ fiat in a
hurry to avoid being thrown out. They
were nmind to do that, anyhow, ants
only desisted out of respect of <}'ov- Mrt
Kean; and some of rft who thought they
were wrong about it are almost sorry
now that they didn’t go on.
If You’re a GaJßfiuesser. Gnrss Thf» j
I know a wofll plural number,
A foe to and stulnber.
’Most any word y<ni choose to take,
By adding “s” you plural make;
But if you add an “a” to this.
Behold the rodamorphesis—
Plural is pluriigpow no more, 1
And sweet wlmf litter was before.
Before reading further see if you can
“LET GEORGE DO IT.”
Monroe Enquirer.
When the average citizen of th’s com
munity gets what he considers is a “dirty
deal,” from whatever source the deal may
spring, the average citizen thinks it is
the duty of the newspaper to expose the
"crook” and keep his name out of the!
fight. - j
There are people in this community J
whose main thought of the newspapers is!
that they are to serve the public, fight I
i its battles, boost its town, yell for home j
trading, bra* on focal merchants, (doss)
over local vices, exaggerate local virtues,'
headline unimportant boosts for business,
go crazy over the town’s future prospects
and stay crazy over the general excel
lence and wonderful ability of the sub
scriber to do the thinking.
These people are hair-trigger critics of
the of the news, of the print, of j
the policies, of the honesty, of the motives,
of anything nnd everything ,in the piper
that does npt carry out the principles set
forth in the'ijujjginatiop of the thinker, as
set but in the first paragraph above. 1
When it comes to paying a subscrip
tion for the ■'journal they read the paper
at the barber shop or at the home of an
old maid aunt. When it comes to adver
tising they are quite certain that every
body in trading territory knows their
line, and the marvelous bargains there.
When it comes to advice they have Sol
omon looking like a mudfish and when it
comes to cash they make the mudfish look ■
like a mammal.
To get the idea into their eraniutns ,
that a newspaper fist, fqremost, uic] all ,
the time is the business of the owner, j
with the same aim in Business that a ,
shoe store, or a dry goods store, is prac
tically impossible. The newspaper is a ,
Place of free puffs, in their eyes, a de
vice to serve the community nnd leaders :
therein, without being entitled on the
other hand to loyalty, support or encour-
Sgehient.
Newspaper editors, who experience this
phase of the public misconception as to
their business, should be flattered. It is
the unconscious admission of the public
that the newspaper bus-’ness in the past,
has been unselfish, working for the com
munity and not for the dollar. The edi
tor should seel flattered—that is about
what he will get for his trouble.
Os course, this editorial is for those
a We to pet the point. There are many
for?! frieb# of (he press in our midst,
but there are also many other, thought
less, selfish, and envious. There are ifier
ebants wbose practices have been above
reproach, and there are others whose ad
vertising like their money, is obtained
through sinister devices. There are sub
scribers who co-operate in helping the
office force, who tell them the new s, make I
splendid and cotivefseji-, thercJ
are those who send in",an”article' to be]
printed, in the nature of a free sorvic*c.!
and then get out and talk about you for
not printing it, when as a matter of fact
they haven’t bad sense riwiigh to see *t
in print. ~ 1 ' ■> ■
Not Good as it Looked.
Lexington Dispatch. 1 '
North Carolina voters anxiously
jumped at the constitutional amend
ment providing for fifty ndr cent exemp
tion from taxatio on Mortgaged homes
up to the amount of SB,OOO. Since mort
gage holders are also supposed to -pay
and the mortgagee has to pay fntefest
on the obligation over his hoMe, if looked
like -this amendment promised 'relief
from double taxatiou.
! A review of the act in the North Oaro
lina Law Review holds that the amend
'ment will bring practically no relief. It
I permits the holders of the mortgage to
j list it also at half tart- vajap. as well as
giving the own<* of the mortgaged home
and lands this privilege. But the amend
ment requires that the loans madjC for
not less than one year arid at riot over
five arid a “half per cent interest. Since
such loans are about as plentiful as
hen’s teeth. The jtieview takes the view
that little benefit will ever be derived.
The lender is required to live in the
same county as the borrower to get the
benefit on listing his property provided
lie has been able to get the loan for not
river five and a half pe.r cent and for not
Jena than a year. Since fewriaouritics now
list real estate at over fifty per *Vnt
actual sale value th’s provision amounts
to nothing even if advantage cbuhjfTie
taken of it. ' • ’
questions which, coming frone anybody
else, would have been thought im
said. .• ■' ■ ’ ■ -
ma'am," said parishioner. ‘Tt’sj
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
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THE COOLIDGE MENTALITY
Philadelphia Record.
Many persons have doubtless wonder
' why I’reeident Ooolidge, after putthig
his ideas of economy into practice, even
to the cutting down of the number of
towels and paper drinking cups used iff
j the White House, sdgned the outrageous
] bill passed by Congress raising the sal
jaries of Representatives and Senators
j from $7,500 to fio,oo(> a year. This sad
dled an extra burden of nearly $1,400.-
000 upon the taxpayers of the country
| without any corresponding benefits.
The explanation of this seemingly con
tradictory action is to be found, accord
ing to a friendly apologist, in the .pecu
liar Coolidge mentality. The President
was, as is well knowu. opposed to the
bill, and he deferred action upon it until
the last moment possible. Then he ap
• proved it with reluctance, apparently in
the belief that a veto would be futile in
.view of the almost unanimous action of
Congress in passing the measure. Com
menting on this seeming discrepancy be
tween preaching and practice, ’ The
Springfield Republican, a supporter of
the President and for many years in
dose touch with his public career, makes
this analysis of his mental workings
which may be found ..helpful iu explain
ing his course to less well-informed per
sons: i ' , i ;*
It is characteristic of Mr. Coolidge
that until action takes place by which he
becomes irrevocably committed no decis
ion or conclusion his mind mav favor
assumes any finality. A question remains
open until it is closed by circumstances
Conversely it accounts for his character
istic reluctance throughout his career to
commit himself on any -public' question
concerning which he is not required to
express ah Opinion. Ry these methods he
Persistent, racking coughing, which
py rapidly weakening your entire sys
there
the roughing, whjk the both gives a
i U rs^&cilSfn“Mfe n | 1
which the best doctcrs have found to aid ia
quick relief. Contains no opiates or other
sssis^msssi
lIs^LIVER
lady Sar* She Took Cardui aqi
Ner? Saw Sock Improve- v
W-WmSo Weak
Couldn't Stand.
Weathersby, Misa.—Mrs. Jamea it
Hall, of this place, writes that aim
waa “setting weaker afl the tlmrf*
thf Ship’s tonic,
■wan tlm brought to her attention
After she had taken Cardui a while,
“I suffered all the time and had
■U. tn> cold fled flfthhy , i|S
not have any color, t had alwaya
been a very active woman—used to
iS-SifSvi
sent for five more, By the time
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instinctively to reduce to a mini-1
mum the number 9f his mistakes. Many
other public men have followed a simi
’ lnr course. T%e la'ty Sir John Macdon
[ aid. tjie Canadian statesman, described
! the method' graphically in saying that
• fie jtev.er made rip his mind how to vote
in the House of Cominons until he wnlk
-1 ed across tfiq poor to line rip in the di
vision. Tj ■
There waa general disappointment that
the President did not send in a veto and
challenge Congress, while there was still
time, on the issue presented. He could
have thrown the entire responsibility on
the legislative branch'; he must now share
it with the legislative branch. The re
sult is that his economy plumage is per
ceptibly ruffled.- That is the price he
pays for yielding. ,
The President must have weighed this
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<. W'*vk ■*;■-& -i£fS. «&<&-.* ■■
..ypprl
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against the advantages he antidpatea from
his action in signing the billsuch ad
vantages for example, as may accrue
from avoidance of a conflict in closer co
operation between the Bxeceutive and
Congress in putting through the Adminis
tration’s program at the next session.
Iftstory in a Nutshell.
Some time after the school system was
adopted by the navy a Filipino was di
rected to write an essay on George Wash
ington. His contribution as as follows:
"George Washington was sore because
American pertfins was not free. He sails
for England on my ship aW say to king:
‘I express declarations of Independence
for American persons.’ King, he say
‘Nothin’ doin’ and Mr. Washington tell
Admiral Dewie to shoot big guns at him.
Bimeby King, he'say he Will not run over
Tuesday, March 24, 1925
fr irj
American persona
do it,’ he say, and today AniericaS per
sons she i* fre4.” w t&
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pl£.’^“ rd ** W Ojgs
ha7en,t | * *«M l#»t
didn t have time to finish the dozen.’’
A well-known yae vainly • en
deavoring to write the ether day when
he was repeatedly interrupted by 'teis
sir-year-old 80®. "If you ask me ope
more question,” the harassed. writer dC
clatied at last, “J will go out and drowa
myself.” • J • ■ •
“Father,” came the small voice, "may
I come out arid see you do |f S’ ■