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PAGE SIX ' iy| HI I !■ ihi |mb\|ii au \ ; lloil II * Jsl IHI jll H| \m\ I JmJ ul\ » 111 H I^U. Ilf jßßSMn JH l ' n ' The Greatest Value Giving Event of the Season Wonderful Bargains in Ladies Dresses COTTON IS STILL KING No Worthy Substitute For Cotton Has Yet Been Found. Washington,, D. 0., June s.—The in crease in the popularity of artificial silk, or : rayon, as it is now called, has been mistaken by many people as a challenge to cotton. Important as the growth of the youngest of textiles has been, it is not more than a one-hundredth part the size of cotton. Any one of the great j spinning centers of the United States! or England easily outstrips the world's output of rayon. Neither wood, flax, silk. hemp, nor jute approaches cotton in popularity, though flax may one day give it a serious challenge. But no worthy substitute for cotton has yet been found. Last year's cotton crop was the best for ten years, reaching over 25.500.000 bales, or 12,500,000 pounds. Yet there is stilt a shortage. The United States, after keeping half ; her crop, sold the rest to the world for some $800,000.00. The most of the ex ported cotton went to the mills of Lan cashire. which last year shipped enough rotten cloth tie provide every person in the world with more than two square yards. Clothing, however, is not the only out let for cotton. The automobile calls fqr large quantities, and in tire manu facture the United States absorbs nearly half a million 400-pound bales. Auto mobile tops, soatsCeusliions and curtains also find claims for cotton. Railways, i too. make similar demands for furnishing cars with seats and cushions, “plush”! and artificial leather —all based on cot- I tot). ' | Leather belting in factories has been largely replaced by belts made of heavy cotton duck, or of rubber supported by strong cotton webbing. Cotton hags for cement, coal and grain call for cotton, which is also required for the linings in boots and shoes. When war visits humanity, cotton cletles the troops, covers them at rest, and protects munitions aril supplies from the o’ements; while as an agent of dev astation its employment in the manufac ture of high explosives is well known. On the other hand, it finds hags for sand used in the trenehes. and gives the awn jugs and tarpaulins on warships. Experiments with cotton produced a soiuhle form called proxylin, used for coat ! i)g the linen wings of aeroplanes to make them taut and waterproof. I’roxy lin is also used for split leather, travel ing bags, furniture, upholstery, and high grade patent leather. A coating on gas nsfitKles gives them stability. Bln,e polish, shoe heel enamels, finger nail polish, and even corn cures are man ufactured from this amazing fibre. Mo rion picture films, thousands of miles of I %em, are cemented with a cotton prepa ration. ".Cotton lacquers are used as protect ting coats for silver, brass, copper, and pciished metals. Artificial pearls, watches apd jewelry of many kinds are cotton lacquered. Enamels too, for pen-hold ers, buttons, clock dials, and thermos flasks lave long been mide from cot ton. Imitation amber for pipestems rind eigarette holders, imitntb-i ivory for ctiknbs and brushes, by no means exhaust a list of novelties made from the pod of Old-fashioned ice boxes were too wasteful—that’s one reason why the > Automatic has replaced them. If your KB BKjr ice bills run too high—if your foods . don’t keep perfectly during the hottest weather—let us show you what an Au tomatic will do. Generous size model. Concord Furniture Co. | the cotton plant, ! Mention of ii.e part eottjn has played] in pushing back the boundaries of eivi- 1 lvratid- must be made, ant in this W'Uk!; tv sewing uiactrne has also ;.ia,-ei] a I wyrrry part. The two hive spread the I use of cotton in (very backward country] it> .lie world. I 71 DEATHS CAUSED BY HEAT IN PHILADELPHIA | Scores of Prostrations Reported. —so.- ] 000 Persons Slept in Park Saturday I Night. Philadelphia, June 7.—The torrid | wave which has held Philadelphia in its j grip for a week today exacted a toll of - deaths, directly or indirectly at tributed to the heat. Scores of prostra- j tions were reported. The maximum temperatures here was IIS. Other points in the state reported temperatures of 1 i 100 or more. It was estimated that 50.000 persons t slept in Fairmont Park last night. Since I the start of the record breaking hot I wave last Monday, a total of 150 deaths] attributed to the heat, have been reported 1 in this city. Chain Letter Goes 22 Years, j "There were'- 13 children in the- Younker family. They moved to different sections of the country. At length they ■, became very delinquent in writing and at, times One hardly knew where the others i were. In 1003 George Y'ounker, of I Nashua. lowa, decided to bring the de-! ilinquent writers up to date by starting! j a family chain letter. He wrote the first , ' letter and sent it to one of his sisters, j He asked that she add a letter and map ] out the best route for its travel. Some members of the family didn't think I much of the idea at first. That is. they were "from Missouri” and had to be shown .that- it would last. For 22 years now- this chain of letters has been carrying the family messages to the 13 brothers and sisters. During that time one sister died but the brother in-law kept the letters going until his daughter was old enough to be the 13th letter writer. This family does not con sider the number 13 unlucky. The entire family are strong believers in chain let ters. The bateh of letters has only been lest twice and then it" was soon started on its round agaiu. It takes this family chain letter about two months to make its rounds to the 13 members. An un usual thing about the Younker family is that none of the six brothers or his six brothers-in-law smokes. Scope Seeking to Quash Indictment. Dayton, Tenn., .Tune ft.—Announce ment is made here today that John T. Scopes, defendant in the evolution test ease, will make a motion that the in . dietment against him be quashed on the [ ground that the Tennessee stntute pro hibiting the teaching of evolution in the . public schools of the state violates both the state constitution and the United . States constitution. The motion to quash has been tentatively drawn, nlleg . irig numerous violations of the constitu . tion. | | i f USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PAYS THE STATE CAN END , CHAIN GANG HORRORS i ! Mrs. Johnson Urges Abolition of County i Road Camps. Letting the State Take 1 Charge. j Raleigh. June- s.—" There should not |be any county convict camps. The work ing of prisoners' should be , under the State government as a part of the State's I prison system.” Mrs. Kate Burr John ! son. eommmissioner of charities and pub jlie welfare, said today.' suggesting een j tralized control, long practiced by her board, as the only satisfactory remedy j for intolerable conditions in convict ] cami>s such as those disclosed by the re port of the Gaston county grand jury. ; Prison evils are not confined to one ] gang, tjie inspectional work of Mrs, John son's department shows. | Energetic inquiry by local authorities might disclose conditions in other conn tties equally as bad as those alleged in I the Gaston camp, where eight white men ] are said to have been beaten by a “drunk en whipping boss,” and vdere 35 prison | ers are said to have slept in filthy, ver min-infected beds in a room permeated ■ with four odors. j Eighty or more counties of the state j operate chain gang camps, and the rec ords "of Mrs. Johnson's office point to only a scattered few camps that make any sort of showing as to sanitation and hu- I man methods of conduct, i "North Uarolina has outgrown the county convict system,” she said- "It j is a relie of the days immediately fol ! lowing the Civil War, and wfl are now j too progressive and hit mane to alllow eort ' dition to continue to exist as. they havf." ! Mrs. Johnson advocates, and has rie-, , emtneuded in report after report, the do I ing away with the county systems and the commitment of all convicts to the State's prison system, where they could be worked under a centralized method of control. The trouble with the county system is that in most instances there is no re sponsible or qualified head. The count} commissioners have charge of the camps make the regulations for the treatment and care of the prisoners and for work ing them, yet the commissioners have I ir°HUNTB GUARANTEED MjjW" \ I SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES ATT KW (Hunt’s Salve and Soar), fail in - I II fj the treatment of Itch, Eczema, //l Ringworm, Tetter or other Iteh- s ing- ekln dleeeeee. Try thie treatment at our ri*. ECZEMAIP Money back without question A” A4 1 if HUNT’S GUARANTEED I SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES Alt (Hunt’e Salve end Soap),fail inf [pf. pt'J the treatment of Itch, Eczema, J[ Ringworm,Tetterorotheritch- f If / /I ing akin dtseaaea. Try thie 1 * v * « I treatment at our risk. PEARL DRUG COMPANY ) THE CONQORD DAILY TRIBUNE too many other duties to perform to give the needed attention to the conduct of the gangs, so that, in the final analysis, the condition of a camp largely depends on the local camp boss or superintendent. If the State should take over all con victs, a central agency could be provided charged with the sole duty of lookiug after the conduct of the convict system. Mrs. Johnson suggested. Opposition has been registered by some to that plan on the ground that it would be expensive to send prisoners, under sentence of only 30 or 00 days to Raleigh for commitment. But that could be overcome by establish ing camps iu the different seetiens of the state where they could be, committed, it is argued. Not until the State takes over the cqn vict system now conducted by the coun tries will there be relief from intolerable prison conditions. Mrs., Johnson said. Virginia has abolished the county camp and has adopted the State system. The change has brought a great improve ment. GIRLS STRICKEN WHEN DANCING RECOVERING All But Five Well After Strange Seiz ures—Kept Doctors and Nurses Busy. Webster, Mass., June 7.—A1l but five of 150 young women delegates !to the convention of the Massachusetts league of girl's clubs had .recovered today from illness ft-hich if fro ted them almost simultaneously Inst night during and after a dance wbikt yy«s part of the convention ■ Physicians were not prepared to state defini'jply what caused the ill nesses. Some aserihjfd it to the heat but others said the sypiptoms were similar o those of ptomaine poisoning. .None of the patients was ip a serious condition. The first eases came to the attention >f physicians while the dande was in progress. Shortly afterward scores of delegates were seized with cramps and nausea. From that Time until early this morning virtually every doctor and nurse in the town was kept on the jnmp giving treatment. f An investigation, i.; being made. Water Power on New River. A water power investigation of New River, in Ashe and Alleghany Counties, will be begun by the North Carolina De partment of Conservation and Develop ment within the next ten days. Major Wm. D. Harris, acting director of the Department, and Mr. Thorndike Savile, hydraulic engineer, were in con ference with the Board of County Com missioners of Ashe County, Monday. June Ist, and secured co-operative funds from the County with which to aid in making the survey. New River is one of the largest rivers in the State which has not been sur veyed for its power. It is esti mated that there is‘a minimum of 50.000 horsepower on the}! two forks of this | stream, and it is jijrobable that there is more than lOO.OOIf. horsepower which can be economically developed in the i future. New Rive* rises in the moun tains of Watauga County, flows through Ashe and Alleghany into Virginia and ultimately into the Ohio and Mississippi, being on the west side of the Blue Ridge water shed- Additional significance is given this water power survey, due to the fact t that there are considerable deposits of [ magnetic iron ore in Ashe County, near I New River. Contract For School Awarded at Spceer. Spencer, June (I.—At nn almost all night session of the Spencer school board Friday night a contract was let to A. R. Lnzeby, of Salisbury, for the erection of a splendid and modern high school building for Spencer at nn ap proximate cost of $130,000. work to be gin pt once and be completed by Feb ruary. A contract for the electric wiring was let to T. M. Casey, of Salisbury, for $863, whi'e the contract tor the plumbing and heating was left open un til Monday night of next week. The general contractor, Mr. Lazen by, was engaged to erect the structure on a cost, plus, basis, by which the school board expects to effect a big sav ing. The plans which were adopted by the school board a month ago were drawn by Leslie N. Boney. architect, of Wilmington, who met with the board Friday night assisting in awarding the contract. Thinking hla owners, when they were visiting a neighbor, had gone back to Tower City, N. D., from Log Angeles, Calif., where they had just moved, a collie dog walked 8,050 miles back to the old home. In the fifty year*' history of the Ken jj lucky Derby, the famous classic of the Star Student - I I H NEA S ■ Miss LoW Evelyn Boone. 17, of Wichita, Kas., has Just finished her final year’s work In high school and her first year’s work In college, do ing both together for the past' nine months. She has Just been given a high school diploma; next year she enrolls as a sophomore in Falnnouat College, Kansas. TODAY’S EVENTS Centenary of the birth of Commodore Alexander A Semmes, who had a long and distinguished career in the United States navy. Cardinal Mundelien, of Chicago, cele brates today the thirtieth anniversary of his ordination in the Catholic priesthood. President Coolidge. is scheduled to speak today at the Norwegian-American centennial celebration at the Minnesota State fair grounds. The present term of the Supreme Court of the United States ends today, when the court will take a recess until next October. In celebration of its tercentary, Quincy, Mass., today will stage an elaborate pag eant dealing with outstanding events in its history of 300 years. Plains to raise a million-dollar fund for the prosecution of, commercial crim inals will be perfected by the National Association of Credit Men at its thirtieth annual convention, opening today in Washington, D. C. You Don’t Mean It! The following is a single sentence from an article by Dr. Frederick Mote in the JsiJdon Lancet: Seeing that every sensation and every mental image or engrnm leads to a re flex activation which may be apparent or not, according to the influence of positive or negative inhibition; to every sensation and image or preception there must, in consequence of this reflex motor action, result a corresponding kinesthe tic or postural excitation of different stimuli flowing along proprioceptive neuronic systems from muscle spindles, tendons, bonen' and Joints, which, com bined with associated labyrinthine sen sations, form a sensory continuum which is intimately integrated with the exteroceptor sensory continuum on one hand and the motor continuum on the other. Better Looking Women Than Alice? Where? Monroe Enquirer. Well, I see by the papers where Mrs. Alice Roosevelt-Longwort is going to have her picture on a cosmetic package. Friends of the young society leader are surprised if not shocked at such auda cious commercialisation of one’s phyi ognomy. Hut Princes Alice gets all of five thousand dollars in good coin of the realm from the manufacturers of the face powder for the use of her photo «r!Eh’ L . There are lots of better looking women iciM man*tor nOthingT v** Memorial Coins For the Children Here is nn idea for boys and girls to exploit in their home towns. Os course every Southern kid will want a Confed erate Memorial coin. It is put forth by the nation to commemorate the valor and virtues of their ancestors and kinsfolks generally who fought with Lee and Jack son and Johnson and Joe Wheeler and Forrest arid -all the other great southern generals. T)u> boy; or girl of the south who fails to get, ope of these silver lmlf dollars will.have been robbed of a birth right. The boys and girls whose parents came here after the war between the states have also a right to the coins be cause it is largely the gift of the sections they came from and an evidence of a no bility quite ns splendid as that illustrated on any field of battle'. And all will want for every one bought helps just so much to carve the great monument on Stone Mountain which at last is to the" glory of Americans. Now here is the easiest and surest way to get one of these coins:—Save your INSURE When You Start To Build The right time to take hut insorft*MS# & When yotrttar* building. Then if through any cause your building should burn, even before completed, the Insurance will cover your loss. ts etzer & Yorke Insurance Agency Successors to Southern Loan and Trust Co. P. B. FETZER v A. JONES YORKE BEAUTIFUL WAXED FLOORS The New Easy Way to Wax Floors Waxed Floors besides beautiful and distinctive, have many practical advantages. The new easy way to wax floors and linoleums is with Johnson’s Liquid Wax, applied with a Johnson Wax Mop and polished with a Johnson’s Weighted Brush. We still have a few Johnson’s Outfits to offer at a value $6.65 OUTFIT FOR *(- AA $3.40 OUTFIT FOR gn aa A saving of $1.65 qIU.UU A saving of 80c. «pZ>OU - Qt.TohVispn’s Liquid Wax $1.40 l Half Gallon John’s Liquod 1 Johnsons Lambs-Wool Wav Wax . $240 1 Johnson’s Weighted J Polishing Mitt .75- Brust _ $3 50 1 Johnsons Book on Home 1 Johnson’s Book .25 Beautifying .25 All for $5.00 $6.65 All for $2.60 $3.40 Ritchie Hardware Co YOUR HARDWARE STORE PHONE 117 BEST CEMENT PLASTER LIME Mortar Color, Plaster Paris PHONE 74 CRAVEN’S KERR STREET THE PENNY COLUMN G EIS El EVERY TIE The Penny Ads. Get Results—Try Them. Monday, June 8, 1925 niokles and dimes until you have gotten a dollar. Everybody in the family will help when you tell them what yoq are trying to do. Then go down to one of the town bankers and tell him 'you will deposit it and start a savings account if he will give you one of the Memorial coins when they come out on July 3rd. There is hardly a banker will refuse. The chances are that you will be at once tak en upon your proposition, and maybe the banker will give you a certificate good for one coin at any bank in the south, on the spot. This will be almost like eating your pie and having it too. Anyway, go down and talk it over with the banker. If he does, not fall-' In with your plan he will be certain to suggest another as good and are going to make propositions along this mavis- better. Watch the papers: banks line. But don't fail to get a coin some way. It is going to be worth a great deal of money before you are grown. And so is the bank account if you get started right.
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