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PAGE FOUR p nn , nri l TWIIw IVlKnna jriLmKßflX iwocltu XU tor • th> ffiSrmpßßM zrJutSP mod mlmo the lo- AilrShtm of repabllcmtlon of special Ulspatch— hsroln ars also rmmerved. - ■OBacygnow rates la the City pf Contort by Carrier^ eSM s: ftuwlf? fe *2W -±m Hx , I<JS All Subscriptions^"* 1 Bo Paid » No 40 To Newark »:28 P- S. No! 138 to Washington 5.05 A. M. No. 38 To New Tork No. 34 To New York 4.4 d l - m. No. 46 To Danville 3.15 P. M No 12 To Richmond 7.1« t- m No. 32 To Wash and beyond 9_03 P.M No. 30 To New York 1 ..>5 A. . . Southbound. No. 45 To Charlotte oi'S p M No. 3b To New Orleans 9 ; £> £ No. 29 T* Birmingham 2.35 A. M No. 31 To Augusta 5.0 l A. M. No. 33 To New Orleans 8 ; _oA. M. No. 11 To Charlotte 8.00 A. ai. No 135 To Atlanta «’os P- M No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M. No. 30 To New Orleans 9 .5o A. M. Train No. 34 will stop in to take on passengers going to Washington passengers coming from beyond Wash of other trains except No. 39 make regdlaz-Stops in Concord. l" A BIBLE tHOUGHTj I M —FOR TODAY—§ THE FIRST AND THE IkASTt—I am the first, and I am the last: and be sides me there is no God. . . .Is there a God besides me? yea. there is no God: I know not any.—lsaiah 44:6. 8. A PUBLIC PLAYGROUND FOR CON CORD. The matter of providing a public play ground for Concord has been presented to the aldermen and a committee from that body has been appointed to make in quiry into the advisability of establishing such a recreation place for the children of this city. It is to be sincerely hoped that the committee will make a favorable report. For years this movement has been under way but so far nothing definite has been done. The Kiwanis Club several years ago asked the city to establish a public park for the benefit of the children but nothing was done. In this connection it is interesting to read some figures which recently were made public in Capper’s Weekly. That publication says that ten years ago Wash ington. IX c., had seven baseball dia monds in its public parks and about 17.- 000 players. Now there are 21 diamonds, and 80,000 youngsters in the capital anxious to play on them. The director of the parks, C. O. Sherrill, says if there were more playing space there would be 150.000 boys playing baseball in the Washington parks. Os course baseball is but one feature of the public parks. There are tennis courts, all kinds of amusement apparatus, and other features that appeal to youths of all ages and sexes. The Charlotte News wishes there “was a ball park here for every lad that want ed to play baseball.” for “then it would come to pass that the. real virtues of recreational activities would be reaped.” Vacant lots, streets, old fields and front yards are seizes! here now by youngsters seeking places for recreation. How much finer and more wholesome would it be if these recreational activities could be properly supervised on a real playground. SENATOR UNDERWOOD TO RE TIRE. Defiirte announcement from Senator Underwoqd that he will not be a candi date to succeed himself dill not come as a surprise due to the fact that several weeks ago he intimated that he has had about enough of Washington life. The Senator in his foruinl statement says when his preseut term expire in Murch, 11127, he wjll retire from the Senate. Senator Underwood is another South ern man prfoo lias gained an enviable rep utation as a public servant. This is hard for any man from the South to <Jo in Congrfss, yet the Alabama Senator proved himself of such worth that he was supported as a Presidential candidate in the last Democratic eoavention and dur ing his tenure of office has held some of the most important committee assign ments in Congress. caiier'.iiirtto lojf a^ W to^Se^i nUD,ber ° f ervtH j brilliantly. He gained hi* greatest tari# law and performed other eonsploj. “‘c' DOHKNY’S ALIBI. Edward L. Doheoy finally comes for ward with his alibi He says he con tracted the oil leases with the United States government becanse he thought there would be war in the Pacific in 1921 and because naval men thought tfie gov , eminent shbuld have' the fields in such position that they could furnish the prod ucts without delay. Nothing was said about the matter at the time, the oil mag nate stated, because the arms conference was in session and he thought rumors of war might disrupt the conference. Government counsel in the oil lease suits see the master in another l : ght. It was in 1922.. that "the leases for the oil preserves were, signed, they pointed out, and the arms conference treaties had been signd before the control of the oil fields was transferred to the Interior I>epartment, which traded them off to the oil companies. Doheny no doubt wants to get out of the matter with as good grace as possi but but he is not putting anything over on anybody. He wanted the oil fields first of all because he saw millions in them and his alibi has beep-shaken to pieces by the counsel by the government to fight him in his campaign to keep the fields under his control. TYPICAL WILL ROGERS LETTER Sends SIOO Check as a Contribution to the Stone Mountain Memorial. Acknowledging n Stone Mountain Memorial half-dollar, sent hint by The At la ntn Journal. Will Rogers, the funniest man in vadueville and popular writer for The Journal and other lead ing newspapers, sends a letter as full of good humor as it is expressive of s:n cere appreciation. Evidencing the fact that the coin hit something hesides his funny boue. Mr. Rogers enclos.es his check for if 100, made payable to the Stone Mountain association. His letter follows: WILL ROGERS New Amsterdam Theater New York June 19. 1925. Mr. J. S. Colien, Editor, The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga.. Dear Mr. Cohen: I received your Stone Mountain half dollar through the mail, which is a tribute to the honesty of the postal de partment. Too bad my old friend. Will Hays, was not in during this distribu tion. He could have made enough to retire.pn. Am enclosing, a check for one hun dred dollars to help pay lawyer fees in ease ( of another “walk out" of sculp tors. Y'ou say the figures of Davis. Lee and Jackson will measure 105 feet. If you will study our history you will find that this is far too small. Good luck to a wonderful -'dea. Sincerely yours. WILL ROGERS. P- S.—ls you run out of granite to carve. I will use my influence to send you the senate and congress. Coolidgc on Religion. "I am profoundly convinced, however, that the American Nation sincerely wants from the church a continuance of its works on religion, humanity and moral leadership. "If there were even a remote dan ger of the withdrawal or the decadence of the religious influence. I think we may be sure that the realization ot that danger would cause a more acute and widespread concern than any otuer menace to the national well-being." USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PAY? Make Your Summer Free From Ice Worry. Install Kelvinator electric refrigerjUion in your refrigerator and you can forget all about ice deliv ery this summer. will keep your refrigerator much colder aad your foods punch better and longer. When you go visiting it will stay odd while you are gape. Kelvinator requires po Ume>qr attention apd jp trouble-free. It usually costs less tq operate Kelvi- , nator than to buy ice. Phone or call fat details. Yorke&W^o^, I Kelvinator | v » h . Oid.at Do»...ic Ei.fttl. Roller. ct oj n J DINNER STORIES * ii ■■■. No Us* For It. -• f * I lllinks: “He claims .he never uses pro. ifanity.” [ Jinks: "Well,, should he? Re’s' I a bachelor, has no car. never plays golf,- doesn't work errtss word , puzzles, owns no radio set and doesn’t make enough to have to make out an income talk report.” “Then this,” asked the rejected suitor, "is absolutely final?” "Quite!” was the calm reply. “Shall I return your letters?” “Yes, please,” answered the young man. “There’s some very good material in them I can use.” Specialist : “If you saw a . man with nothing on but the brim of a straw hat and with a cake of soap in his hand, jump over Niagara Falls—you wouldn't think he was crazy I’’ 1 ’’ s> “ ’ > Insurance Lawyer: “Cebtainiy not. I would think he was going to take a bath.” Roth: “I bear Sgra Heath wrecked his auto down the mill road last night. AVhat was the cause of the accident?” Graham : “Chickens!” Roth: “B’gosh there should be a law against letting chickens run in the road.” Graham: ‘TFhese chickens were in the car.” , < Rad the Goods on Him. The gentleman farmer’s fruit had been stolen and his only clue to the culprit was a fingerprint left on an unripe plum. He had a photographic enlargement ma<k. “Jake,” said the farmer on meeting the employee he suspected, “some one robbed my garden the other night.” “Did they, sir?” replied Jake, inno cently. “Y T es,” the farmer continued sternly, "but the thief left his mark behind him.” "You don’t say So?’* said Jake, ner vously. “Yes, I do. You see this?"—and the farmer produced the enlarged reproduc tion. Jake paled visibly. "I see ’tain’t no good denying it,” he said. “I pinched the fruit all right enough, but how you got that impres sion of the seat of my corduroys I’m hauged if I know.” WITNESS IN FLOGGING CASE ADMITS HE TRADED OFF WIFE Got Other Man’s Daughter, the So licitor Discovers. Fayetteville, July 2.—The taking of testimony in the Skipper-Jackson flog ging care was completed in Cumberland Superior court here todiyr. The testi mony in Walter Jackson’s defense took up the morning sessiion and the after noon was devoted to the state's rebuttal. Jackson’s defense hinges on an alibi sworn to by himself and members of his family and neighbors. The purport of their testimony was I that Jackson spent the entire afternoon of May 26 on his Vlantatioh in Robeson county, retired about 10.30 and did not ■leave the premises that night. Rob Collins, a defense witness, was badly confused on cross-examination and finally admitted under Solicitor .Mc- Neil's and W. C\ Dowing's questioning that he had recently traded off his wife for another man’s daughtter. John Locklear. Croatan. for the state, testi fied that the day following the whipping of Rudolph Willard, in Cumberland county, Jackson told him in his store in Buie that he had shot a man who jump ed on his running board near Hope Mills and that he expected the Cumber land sheriff to come after him any mo ment. Jackson denied ever having any conversation with Locklear. THE CONCORD DAILY. TRIBJtJNB PuUUkMW arrangement with First National Pictures, Inc, | and Watterson R. Rothaeker. £ CHAPTER XIV (Continued) It was In the early afternoon that wa started upon our journey. The young chief walked at our head aa our guide, but refused In dignantly to earry any burden. Be hind him came the two surviving Indiana with our shanty posses sions upon their backs. We. tour white men talked In the rear with rifles loaded and ready. As we started there broke from the thick silent woods behind us a sudden great ululation of the ape-men, which may have been a cheer of triumph at our departure or a jeer of contempt at our flight. Looking back we saw only the dense screen of trees, but that long drawn yell told us how many of our enemies lurked among them. We saw no sign of pursuit, how ever, and soon we had got into more open country and beyond their power. As I tramped along, the rearmost of the four, 1 could not help smil ing at the appearance of my three companions In front. Was this the luxurious Lord John Rox ton who bad sat that evening in the Albany amidst his Persian rugs and his pictures in the pink ru- The little red warriors hung upon the words of the speaker. dlance of the tinted lights? Anti was this the imposing Professor who bad swelled behind the %rcat desk in his massive study at En more Park? And, finally, could this be the austere and prim figure which had risen before the meeting at the Zoological Institute? No three trails, that one could have met tn a Surrey lane could have looked more hopeless and bedrag gled. We had. It is true, been only a week or so upon the top of the plateau, but all our spare Cloth ing was in our cr.mp below, and the one week had been a severe one upon us all, though least to me who had nqt to endure the han dling of the ape-men. My three friends had all lost their hats, and had now bound handkerchiefs round theiy_, heads, their clothes bung In rihbons about them, and their unshaven grimy faces were hardly to be recognized. Both Sura merlee and Challenger were limp ing heavily, while I still dragggd my feet from weakness after the shock of the morning, and my neck was as stiff as a board from the murderous grip that held ft. We were Indeed a sorry crew, and I did not wonder to see our Indian companions glance back at us oc casionally with horror and amaze ment on their faces. In the late afternoon we reached , the margin of the lake, and as we emerged from the bush and saw the sheet of water stretching be fore our native friends set up a shrill cry of joy and pointed eagerly in front of them. It was indeed a wonderful sight which lay before us. Sweeping over the glas sy surface was a great flotilla of canoes cooping straight for the shore upon (Which we stood. They some miles out when we first saw them, jbut they shot forward with great swiftness, and were soon so near that the rowers could dls linguist) our persons. Instantly a thunderous shout of delight burst from them, and we saw them rise from their seats, waving their pad dles and spears madly In the air. Then bending to their work once more, they flew across the Inter vening water, beached their boats upon the sloping sand, and rushed up to qs. prostrating themselves frith loud cries of greeting before the young ' chief. Finally one of them, an elderly man, with a neck lace and bracelet of great lustrous glass beads and the sklo of some beautiful mottled amber-colored animal slung over his shoulders, ran forward and enlbrqccd most tenderly the youth whom we had saved. He then looked at ns and asked some questions, after which he stepped up with much dignity and embraced us also each In turn, thee, at btj order, the whole trlhe Iqy down upon the ground before ns in hemaffift- Personally 1 felt shy and unoomtortable at this oh. .1 is. Utm but &.Het*er , sun. strokjJrhts fi end looking; around at them, “hot M&SBtertliSZE Europeans. ; Strange haw correct are the instincts ot the nature} man!" It was clear that the natives had come out upon the war-path, (or every man carried his spear—a long bamboo tipped with bone—his bow and arrows, and some sort of club or stone' battle-axe slung at his side. Their dark, angry glances at ttie woods from which we bid come, and tbs' frequent repetition of the word “Dade," made It clear enough that this was a rescue party who bad set forth' to save or re venge the old chiefs son, for such we gathered that the youth must be. A council was now held by the whole tribe squatting in a circle, Whilst we sat near on a slab of basalt and watched their proceed ings. Two or three warriors spokf, and finally our young friend made a spirited harangue with such elo quent features and gestures that we could understand It all as clear ly as if we had known his lan guage. / "What Is the use ot returning?" he said. “Sooner or later the thing must be done. Your comrades have been murdered. What If I have returned safe? These others have been done to death. There Is no safety for any of us. We are assembled now and ready." Then he pointed to us. "These strange men arc our friends. They are great fighters, and they hate the ape-men even as ws do. They com mand,” here he pointed up to heav en, "the thunder and the lightning. When shall we have such a chance again? Let us go forward, and either die now or live for the future Hi safety. How else shall we go back unashamed to our women?" The Jittle red warriors bung upon the words of the speaker, and when he had finished they burst into a roar of applause, waving their rude weapons In the sir. The old chief stepped forward to us, and asked us some questions, pointing at tha same time to the woods. Lord John made a Sign to him that he should wait for an answer and then ha turned to us. “Well, it’s up to you to say what you will do." said he; “for my part I have a score to settle with these monkey-folk, and |f It end® by Tip-' iBS tjiein off the face of the earth 1 don't see that the earth need trdt about it. fm goin’ with our ‘little red pals and I mean to see them through the scrap. What do yon say. young fellah?” "Os course I will come." "And you. Challenger?” ”1 win assuredly co-operate." "And you, Spmnieriee?" "Wq seem to be drifting very far from the object of thfs expedi tion. Lord John. I assure you that l little thought when I left my pro fessional chair in London that It was for tfie purpose of beading * raid of savages upon a colony anthropoid apes.” "To such base uses do come." said Lord John, tmilipg. "Put we are up against It, so whatfa the decision?" “It seems a moat questionable step,” salfl Summcrlee, argument ative to the last, “but If you are all going, 1 hardly see bow 1 can remain behind " "Then it is settled," said Imrd John, and turning to the chief he nodded and ftlgpped bis rifle. The old fellow clapped oqr hand*, dach in turn, while file men cheered loader than ever. K was too lata to advance that night, so the In dians settled down' Into a rude bivouac, tin all aides • thefr fires began to glimmer and pmoke. Some of thpip who had disappeared Into the Jungle came Mffjf Presently driving a young iguanodqn before them- tfilfe the others. It bad a daub of asphalt upou Its shoulder, and U was only when we saw one of the natives step forward with the air ot an owner and give his consent to the beast’s slaugh ter that we understood *t last thaf these great creatures were as mnch priv|te property a* a herd of cattle, and that these symbols whtoh had so perplexed ns were nothing more than the marks ot tb« 0»n»r. H.lplea*. torpid, and BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. j '/ ! NOW IS THE TIME TOBUY THAT j CEDARCHEST . , |j I 1 PRICED VERY LOW We are fortunate iii having<secur ed a large shipment of Chests in all periods which was at prices much lower than the pfesent market values. We cheerfully offer you these bar gains at prices much lower and terms much easier than customary. * Priced from $12.50 to $85.00 See Our Window BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. I ■<.. < Mtrtfajfood A oJbfMrfuffify-* <^S^«JLU. ' rj }f you have been planning to make your homelaH 1 I more attractive by the.ll aid of decorative lightingl 1 | fixtures, we suggest that H you grasp the ity presented by the SflHn rival of new stock here Si make your selection. [»| “Fixtures ot Character” M mM VV. J. HETHCOX Ljj W. Depot St. Phone 669 SOOOOOOOOOOOaa^OOQOO^QOOOOI The I Personal 1 | Touch i Every deto’l of the funeral ar- B | rangements is jiven our personq) I | attention. We endeavor to impress j 5 upon our ' patrons our desire to < K serve them in tbe capacity of j R Wepd“- K In doing this, we hope to mill- 8 S ’ gate «o some small degree their V k burden of sorrow. Wilkinson’s Funeral Home I AMBULANCE SERVICE | PHONE DAY OB NIGHT NO. • CONCORD, N. C. 3 R : 1 11 ■ Saturday, July 4, 1925 USED CARS FOR SALE OR EX CHANGE One Hudson 7-pas senger closed. One Ford Touring One Buick Touring STANDARK BUICK COMPANY QpWtt* Ctty Hw (bet. NATIVE SPRING LAMB J \ ! . f ’ ! ; ' -,1 | J. F. 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