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PAGE SIX MR. DUKE AND HIS WORK FOR HUMAN BETTERMENT Durham Herald. Modi has been written and published in the newspapers, as matters of news, concerning his benefactions to Duke Uni versity; the great lift forward he has given the institution, and its improve ments; its aims and aspirations; its greater buildings; its high standard for the education of the people, dropped into the minds of the people of America, wherever press dispatches are used in pa pers. All of this is great, ennobling, in spiring, thrilling. It shows the big tiearted generosity of the man, and his enthusiasm for whatever he undertakes. But here and now we want to speak of the spirit of the man. Let us get a vision of the motives of his mind, and. dynamic power behind all of this great movement; this cherishing and nourish ing of an educational plant which is des tined to be a leading beacon in this American nation, under whose educa tional drippings rfie present generation, and generations yet unborn, may receive the highest instructions; the most fin ished and polished Christian education that can be procured. A scion of a humble family, born on a farm amid rural environments with meagre advantages, save the “old field school,’* deprived of the opportunities that are now afforded the seekers after knowl edge; Mr. Duke has a vision of what a Avell-rounded education means, and it is his heart’s earnest desire, if observations prove anything, that the best in t,he land shall be in the grasp of every seeker af ter knowledge. It is his will that the door of opportunity shall stand open to every honest endeavor. His lost oppor tunities. in early life, shall not be those of any other boys and girls of the fix ture. While the plans are for a great uni versity. with every known facility, see how his love for his native county and state threads itself through the texture of hut great and thoughtful mind. He started on the highway to his fortune in Durham and achieved grandly. He has come back to the land and the spot of his nativity lie loves, to expend his wealth at its fountain source. The rock which will be fashioned and Mosaieed into the beautiful buildings to adorn the old as well as the new campus of the greater Duke university, will be quarried from the bosom of mother earth, from localities over which he has struggled a bare-footed by in days of yore. It is a tender and touching recognition of love for home and state. Everything homey will go into polished buildings as a lasting memorial to what North Caro lina can produce, and how it can be used to serve humanity. Every touch, will in the completion, will be a home tie. The atmosphere of the new Duke Uni versity, will be the prospective ozone of North Carolina materials fashioned into attractive beauty. The best talent pos sible to secure will preside over this new education ark of the,covenant Mr. Duke lias made higher and loftier things. Ev ery detail, down to the minutia of the thing of least importance, has been filmed in Mr. Duke’s mind! It is a great work of love—love for others and their eleva tion to higher planes, and the world made better by his having “passed this way.” He is building an educational monument in the hearts of his countrymen, not only in this generation, but the generations yet unborn. While this great enterprise, and great undertaking, the Duke University, will shine up from Durham like the beautiful aurora borealis, behind lihis southern light, this time, and at the core is the touch-stone—love; Christian love that showeth “its faith by its works,” love for others; love that worketh to will and to do. and Is doing it. That is the spirit of the man w4io has invited Duke University to {step up higher, and lead in the front ranks. Pesney’s Assistant Manager Now in Albemarle. Albema rle Press. Mr. ,T. B. Gibson, the assistant man ag erof the J. C. Peney & Co., Store to be opened up in Albemarle early in September, has arrived from Kelso. Washington, and is now getting, down to business helping Mr. Strate in planing and getting ready for the big opening, which they plan to make one of the big gest events in the mercatile life of the city. f * Mr. Gibson, like his chief. Mr. Strate. brings that hail-fellow-well-met spirit with him from the far northwest, and with that air of business hostle pro gress. which characterizes most western ers, he will be a decided addition to the business life of our town. Albemarle ex tends to jiim a cordial welcome. During 1024, Palestine received as immigrants 11,851 Jews. *••**- V DO YOU WASH AT HOME? If you do, you of course must have sanitory, durable, non-leaky wash tubs. Let us install our new porcelain laundry tubs with both hot and cold water faucets and your laundry will be right up to date. Our tubs can be easily fitted to any make of washing machine. E.B. GRADY PLUMBING AND HEATING DEALER OHw mi Show Emm U E . CorMa St <MM nmm BMW HOME GUARDS FIGHT BANDITS. i The Pathfinder. "Reward—s2soo for every dead ban- I dit!” That is what Chicago banks are offer ing for every desperado killed in the 1 net of robbing a local bonk. The wave of bank hold-ups makes this step neoew -1 sary. However, the reward only goes to officers engaged in the performance of their duty. "It's no pleasant thing to consider placing a bounty on human life.” re marks Chief of Police Collins, "but 1 am sure this reward will cut down holdups,” “Too bad that things have come to such a pass,” says State’s Attorney Crowe, “but there is no good in being • sentimental about it. A bandit nlive coats the state a lot of money, and ' stands a good chance of getting away from punishment. A dead bandit ia the beat kind of a bandit.” “We hope to make it nearly aa profit able for a policeman to kill a bandit as it is for a bandit to kill a policeman.” explains E. X. Baty of the Cook Connty Bankers’ Association. The incident that brought this meas ure about was the apprehension of a bandit caught iu the act of robbing a bank. He shot a pM iceman but a court imposed a senteuce that jrermits parole in nine months. The same man previous ly served a similar sentence on a like charge. Illinois. lowa. Minnesota and several other states are trying to stem the crime wave by organizing civilian guards armed by the federal government. These groups are especially active in rural communities where most hold-ups occur. lowa bankers offer SIOOO for each captured bank robber, dead or alive.” Pour thousand vigilantes now patrol small towns and country roads in lowa and that state seems to be well satisfied with her experiment. There the legislature has raised the penalty for bank burglary ti life imprisonment. Over 300 citizens sworn in as deputy sheriffs are protecting banks and busi ness establishments in Minnesota. They operate as county units directed by sheriffs. Some banks in Chicago aud other places have gone a bit further by em ploying armed guards to patrol the com munity in autos. A few are equipping their vaults with an arrangement that releases tear or sneezing gass when an attempt is made to open them by force. Besides. bank messengers in many places have been provided with gas bombs by the army's chemical warfare service for emergency use. Because of the gang war which killed three of six notorious brothers in Chi cago's underworld within six weeks, that city has declared harsher measures for gun-toters. A thug not long ago In vaded the city hall and fired at a po liceman. . Clifford Braider and other members of the Y. M. C. A. are urging New York to adopt the eat-o'-nine-tails as a crime curb. The last in England, Canada. Deleware and part of Maryland and Vir ginia. they say. shows that a man who has felt the lash is seldom a second .of fender. Tire Flapper School Teacher. Mouroe Enquirer. Last spring a I'nion county citizen de plored the fact that a little girl teacher of the flapper type had been selected to teach his children. “We have a man in our community who is a splendid teacher, but lie hasn’t been to summer school and hasn't the proper credits aud units whereby to command a salary.” Later this same citizen said the 18- year-old girl teacher proved to be “a kid who kept no order,” ami consequently the Children made little progress iu , their Studies. * , Units and degrees in North Carolina within the past few years have become the open sesame away and beyond every thing else to the young man or woman who aspires to teach. The following is from Views and Interviews of the York yille, S. 0., Enquirer, aud illustrates the point: Conversed the other day with a young friend of mine, a graduate of one of the South Carolina colleges, who has been teaching most successfully in a big pre paratory school in a nearby state. “Going back to your old job?” I in quired. "No, I think I’ll go back to school with the idea of working for another degree.” : “What's a-matter, haven’t vou an A. B.r i “Oh, yes; but you see it is likf this: ‘ln tile teaching business a person is judged and ranks not according to his personality or his experience or that sort of thing any more; but according to the number of degrees lie has. , “I can go to school another year and | get away with a master of arts degree. | ami with that pxtrn degree I can com mand a teacher's job with considerably more salary attached than with.an A. B. I don't think the M. A. is worth a darn except for the purpose of , increasing pay; but that is what I am after. Just a business proposition.” Five thousand watches are pawned every day in New York City. - '■■■ M ——,i i r Our New Mechanically Refriger ated r i J Autopolar Fountain r keeps ice cream in the most per r feet condition. With this new au tomatic refrigerating device, it is possible to hold the temperature to the zero mark if desired, ana this insures all ice cream and drinks in the best of condition. ! PEARL DRUG CO. O-MjUl New Courthouse Wanted by Most ofreople In Mecklenburg County . Mecklenburg Times. , “What is the opinion of the peopli - ■egarding the new courthouse?” was the inestion asked the chairman ot the i ward of county commissioners. R. Neal- Hood. His answer was “They all want : t.” There are a few objections to the iroposed plan of selling the present iroperty and selecting a new site on which to build a modern courthouse and 'nil. but that was not more than they 'xpected. Borne people object to every movement and specially one regarding the affairs of the connty. Around the eourthouse the people tre much ’n favor of the movement and it is one of the lending topics of dis-‘ mission. Most of the county officials 'inve meen in crowded quarters for sev eral years and see the need more than' it hens. Every nook and corner in the building is used aud some small addi tions have been made to provide space that was absolutely needed at once. The ]ieople in the county as well as those in the city have hurried to com mend the commissioners in the an nouncement that a new courthouse might to be built now. The commission ers are ready to move just as soon ns they have sounded out the opinions of t’l the people. There is some difference of opinion is the kind of building and the size but every little regarding the selling of the property where the courthouse is now located. This property is testimated by some real estate men to be worth $700,000, and the jail property is values! at around $200,000 making a total of about $0,00,000. It is believed that the new building including the jail and county market house could be built for about $1,200,- HEAVIER INFESTATION OF WEEVIL IS REPORTED Southern and Eastern Counties of North Carolina Are Hit Hardest. Raleigh, Aug. 4.—lnfestation of cot ton flelds by tlie boll weevil now aver ages much higher than at any time last year and is much heavier in southern and eastern counties of the state, grow ing progressively lighter in the western cotton area. Franklin Sherman, of the state division of entomology, announced today. Mr. Sherman reported that a number of county agents and the 20 special boll weevil experts employed through the summer by the argicultural extension service of State college had furnished the information on which he based his findings. “The heavier infestation of the insect is met with a favorable attitude of mind toward dusting." Mr. Sflermnu said. "There is more than four thnes as much dusting being done ns in any previous year, and much of it is carried out under improved conditions. Cultural methods and conditions have averaged good. Cot ton is making excellent gt-owth and fruiting heavily. Os the direct methods of boll weevil TOntrol. there is no doubt but that the standard dust method is now uppermost in the minds of the best farmers.” Mr- Sherman's deductions were drawn from his own filed trip and examina tions. from reports received from Dr. 11. IV. Leiby. who has been in the field almost constantly during the summer, from Bruce Mabee, extension en tomologist. who spends his entire time in the fields and from county agents and extension specialists. For the eastern section, it appears ■ that infestation has greatly increased during the past two weeks. Mr. Sherman reported. Henvier infestation is found on • rank cotton on black land. During the week, ending July 30, one eastern ob server re|K>rt<Hl that on nearly every i farm there was one field with infesta . tion as high as ten per cent. Ten to 25 ■ per cent was very common and in some cases this ran as hight at 50 per cent. . The hit. dry weather was having some . deterrent effect however i Some of the observers and field men . reported that parasites were at work on the weevils in some eastern counties . and where dusting was done there have been outbreaks of the leaf aphis. The , red spider is also reported active 1 in widely scattered fields. In territory around Raleigh, dusting is needed only in scattered areas and the increase of the weevil is being re . tarted by the hot dry weather. * COW WITH RABIES IS KILLED IN ALAMANCE Four Membtrs of Family Taking Pas -1 teur Treatment as Resalt of Drinking Milk. Burlington, Aug. 0. —Four members of ' the family of A. M. Barnwell, whose . home is three miles north of Cross Roads l Church, are taking the Pasteur treatment, ; the result of one of the cows on the t farm having rabies. They had been drinking the cow's milk. They are Mr. and Mrs, Barnwell, his son and daugh -1 ter. Dr. J. P. Spoon, a veterinarian of this city, was called in by Mr. Barnwell to see “a sick tow.” He and Mr. Barn well went to the pasture and found the cow standing peaceful. Mr. Barnwell advanced into a thin scrub patch where the cow was l and knelt down to tie a rope on the cow’s legs to throw it down for an examination. A sudden warning, Dr. Spoon said, was all that saved Mr. Barnwell from being the victim of the cow's horns as it be came infuriated and lunged at him. He arose in time to parry the lunge by grabbing the horn and sidestepping. A moment later the cow spied Dr. Spoon and lunged at him. He hit it on the no«e with hie fist as it swept past, he said, and it turned and made a second rush at Mr. Barnwell, but missed. Then it ran off. From then on until it was killed by a rifle ahot, the cow stampeded the pas ture, attacking, breaking and uprooting small trees and tricket growth. In this mad orgy tbe beast tore one horn from its bead. Cats, dogs and other household pets, will not ‘be abandoned by New York City vacationers this season. The 8.P.- C.A. haa 17 ambulances which will be used ia transporting the animals to a place where they will be property cared for daring the vacation period. The director of the budget haa report „?° OU m 8 tta * we goveram on ea. THE CONCORD DAILY, (TRIBUNE 100. The difference could be taken care of by borrowing money for a short term. If the proposition. required a big bond issue a great many of the people would be shy of the idea. The plan of including a county mar ket house in the program is pleasing the women of the county. Especially are those interested, who have taken any part in the market which has been operated in the basement of the court house for the past IS months. For six years the women of the county federa tion of home demonstration dubs have been wanting a market house and shed. Sometime ago when their committee had almost given up hopes of getting a building they opened the market in one little room in the courthouse basement. It at otiee met the favor of the best women of Charlotte who found it an ideal place to get fresh country produce direct from the producer. Two times this space has been enlarged by order of the county commissioners and it is now crowded. In addition to tbe space for booths where the women can .sell their chickens, eggs, cakes, fruits and vegetables and fruits can be sold from the wagon and trucks. This market has started the jieople of the county to growing more vegetables and raising more poultry. It makes the farmers more prosperous, and provides a steady income. The money is kept at home aml spent largely with local mer chants and deposited in tbe local banks. Mecklenburg county needs the new courthouse and if it continues to pro gress and go forward without delay it should be built now. RECOMMENDS PLANTING OF QUICK MATURING CROPS Because of the Shortage of Foodstuffs, Due to Protracted Drouth. Raleigh. Aug. 6.— Because of the se rious shortage of foodstuffs, due to the protracted drouth in the Piedmont and mountain sections of North Carolina, Professor C. B. Williams, chief of the division of agronomy of the State Col lege. today issued a statement recom mending the planting of such quick ma turing' forage crops as Sudan grass and German millet. "These crops.” Professor Williams said, "should be sown on or before August 15- 20, if there is a rain by these dates, and the ground should be prepared at once, trat they might be seeded. "German millet and Sudan grass should be used in the central and lower part of the Piedmont section, while the millet alone is recommended for the up pier Piedmont and less elevated moun tain sections. "Both these crops will make good hay. The millet is seeded at the rate of from 40 to 50 pounds of seed per acre and the Sudan grass at the rate of 20 to 25 pounds. It will require two months from the time ofplanting for these crops i to develop enough for good hay. "Il it appears that frost will cater them, however, they -should be cut as soon as the frost threatens. Normally, the crops should be cut when the seed heads are in full bloom.” In addition to these two crops. Pro fessor Williams also recommends the . planting of Abruzzi rye. This, he says, , will afford fall grazing and if the cattle [ are not kept on it too much during the winter, there will be some good spring i grazing. I These suggestions are being made by , Professor Williams as a part of the serv , ice the county agents and others .of the > agricultural extension division are en . deavoring to render to those livestock - and crop farmers who have been hurt by . the continued drouth. > Professor Williams stated that seed -1 men would be rendering real service by . getting these theee seed crops and sell ‘ ing them at cost to farmers as well as encouraging farmers to plant them now. i | Ray B. Curiae la From Union. . Charlotte Observer. , The identity of Ray B. Curlee, held , in New Orleans in connection with shooting aud killing his employer, Peter . Viudelin Monday morning, has been es | tablished. _ i Ray Bruce Curlee ia the son of Mr. j aud Mrs. J. I). Curlee, of Mnrshville. I I’nion county: is probably 22 years | old, and worked for about n year in [ Charlotte for tbe U-Drive-Em com pany,. leaving here probably in the sum - mer of 11)22. f The identity wan finally established 'through a telephone call from the Union f Drug company nt Mnrshville ,o The p Observer, bringing the information from i the father of the boy that he had made . an investigation, wiring to New Or e leans aud receiving a message in reply, n which established the identity of the • man in New Orleans- My Qiaiy |l •> : ' r . . i albouf j j jW A\oy \h ! <U£*L | ! M> Attohotvsbl A | fn | Ruth - Kealer Shoe Stare 1 Come To The Charles Stores TODAY Big Lot of Lace and Silk Dresses, Values up to $lO at only AO Sizes 32 to 50 WUivO Men's Broadcloth Shirts AO Special . vOC Guest Ivory Soap « gi 3 cakes for lvC Fancy Checks and Solid colored Q ginghams per yard OC Fruit of the Loom 36 in. Bleached « a Muslin per yard AvC r Men’s Panama, and Straw Hats |VQ . only 1 SOC (MES STORES COMPANY 34 S. Union St. Concord, N.C. Which Bible? Statesville Daily. Attorneys for the defense contended throughout the Dayton trial that the word Bible as used in the Tennessee anti evolution statute was vague and indefi nite. There are different kinds of Bi bles but the statute sa)s ••Bible’’ with out any explanation. In conclusion three different copies of the Bible were filed in evidence —the King James version, the Vulgate, or Catholic Bible, and the He brew Bible in the orignal. If the con tenders were compelled to read and study all the Bibles placed in evidence they would know a lot more than they do. There is of course no serious doubt as to the Bible the Tennessee law-makers had in mind. They referred to the King James Bible. 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The King James version was the Bible of the fathers and there is fear that some of the modernists are trying to fix up a book that will suit them better. This fear is not entirely without founda tion, but most of the revisions have been made, no doubt, with an honest purpose to bring out the truth more fully. But it is admitted that the King James ver- Saturday, August 8, 1925 sion remains a favorite, even among (hose who are not concerned about the re ligious value of the book. The literary* <1 ua 1 jlien of the King James book appeal. * It is a well of English undefined." de . dared Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun. probably the most scholarly news paper man of his time and not noted for piety, in an address recommending the King James version of the Bible to newspaper men for a study of style of narrative-and-simplicity of ex preyed on— a simplicity combining strength and beauty. But possibly admiration for the King James version is accounted for in part by the fact that it was our only version for so long that the new doesn’t appeal. Gold has been discovered in the Cnssiar district of British Columbia.