ursday, Aug. 11, 1925
8 You’ll soon need it. Better let us get it ready
4 <|Pptpfe> for you.
Cool evenings are coming when a top coat will 1
be comfortable. Cold nights, even, are not so far i°
ahead.
n> Got ont your fall and winter overcoats and let' i»
A W**/ us em an overhauling.
[l\ J We clean through and through by a process that j
J1 j leaves' no odor.
We press them into neat shapeliness. If they
• *^Lli need repairing, we do anything from .-sewing on
buttonstorelining. ■l
Send your top coat or overcoat to us early. This
hSeHuCh® gives us ample time to do good work and have 1
’ * ;?SR| jrTpjioß| l them, ready for you when they're needed.
#9l lift Phone us now. See phone number below. ,
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I j PHONE 787
*Allfß Bob’s Dry Cleaning Co.
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CPOSING THE MEXICAN
JUMPING BEAN.
Pathfinder.
hat makes the Mexican jumping
jump?. This is ones of the qiu-s
--whieli the Pathfinder receives j
dic-ally. The Nat : onal GeograpU
ociety lias just issued a bulletin
lis interesting subject.
. man may b« unable to lift hini
jy this bootstraps but a tiny worm
insect can not
Heist itself without the aid of
a or feet. but. as if to make the
more difficult, performs tile act
house four times as big as itself,
ring the house along.* This is the
le’ story of the celebrated Mcxi
jumping bean, or 'broncho' bean
,js known in Our Southwest,
'he Mexican jumping bean may
le seed of any of the three or four
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members cf a family Of'swamp tt'Ofs.
listed officially under the ponderous
title of euphaPbinceobs plants, when
infested by a full grown larva of the
small gray tortricid moth. Whop the
plant is in blossom the math lays nn‘
j egg in one part of the flower. That
part of the- flower grows with the rest,
but. iu&tend of becoming a pod for the
seed of the tree, it turns into a homo
for the Insect. The egg soon hatches
into a worm, which occupies not about
a fifth Os the pod or shell.
When the seed polls drop during
the summer the husk splits into three,
parts—two containing eeert. The
third is xvhat is known ifs the jumpv
ing’bean. The latter is a triangular
brown pod about the size of a peanut
kernel, with two plain surfaces and
one curved surface. As soon as the
pod falls from the tree the worm or
larva inside coils up, then, lets itself
go suddenly, like a catapult, giving a
forward motion to the pod. Some
times it rolls from to side and
sometimes moves fairly consistently in
one direction by leaps and jump*.
"Late in w,inter tjie larVa cuts a Cir
cular door thtoagh the seed walls,
strengthens jt wjth silk and trans
forms to pupa. The moth b»ou after
pushes its way through this prepared
door. ■, The jumping bean is not the
only growth ini which, insects make
their home. The cherry gall ‘on oak
trees, or oakupple, is another exam
pie.’’
As a result of disastrous forest
fires in California last year, 10.000
acres of public laud and forest have
been closed to the public and camp
ing and soking restrictions have been
placed on another several million
acres of forest land. ~
TH£ C6NCORD &MLY ’mißtJke
DINNER STORIES j 1
Tanderfoot Bride—ls it healthy
out Here?
Cowboy —Healthy? Say; tuey Uad . .
to ahoot a couple of people to start I
a cemetery.
Marie —Can you drive with one
hand ?
George (excitedly)—Yes. *
Marie—Then pick up my glove. .
Nellie —Did she moke you feel at
home ?
Jimmy—No, but she made me wish
I was.
He—You grow more beautiful
every day. __
She—You exaggerate too much,
Jack.
He —Weil, every other day, then-
Farmer—Hi, there! Can't you see
that sign, "No fishing on these
grounds?”
, Hastus—Co'se 1 kin see it; but I
ain’t so ig'rant us ter fish on no
grounds. I's fishin’ in do pond.
"And what are you in for, my poor
man?”
“Ninc'y years. I was a high-school
teacher and I told my pupils there
wasn't any Santa Claus.”
Jonnny—Pa, what branches did you
take when you went to school?
Pa—l never went to high school,
son. but at grammar school they used
hickory, beech and willow.'
Mr. Smith—When you stay out ;
late does you wife go after you?
Mr. Brown—No, she waits until I
come home and then she goes after
me.
Teacher —Willie, tell me in as few :
words as possible the story of George :
Washington cutting down his father's 1
cherry tree.
Willie—Applesauce.
Need to Advertise.
Gastonia Gazette.
No matter what may be said about
the Florida boom, one tiling has been
clearly demonstrated and that is the
value of state, national and municipal
advertising.
Folks were once wont to ridicule
the idea of a State's advertising its
virtues and resources. They said it
was money thrown away,
honk at Florida. Millions of dol
lars-and thousands, of people are flow
ing into the State because of the ad
vertising. Florida's name is on ev
ery' lip and the word. "Florida” stares
as you'ftdrt every printed page. News
papers and magazines are full of
Florida advertising.
If western North Carolina should
advertise as Florida lias done the
same results would be felt. In fact,
the process has started, and they tell
us that Asheville and Hendersonville
real estate is selling like Florida
lots. \
.-. The whole slate of'North Carolina
needs to learn to advertise. Os course,
we all remember What Irvin Cobb
said about the state and the boom in
Florida is justification.
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ice cream and drinks in the
best of condition.
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On the Square Phone 22
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BY CHARLES V. STEWART
\ NEA Service Writer -t
WASHINGTON.— In the old
days of the development of
the weat, eastern capital
waan’t a bit popular with the very
pioneers who strained all their
powers of persuasion to get It into
the enterprises they were engaged
in promoting.
They had .to have It. but when
they got ft they accused It of hog;
gishness.
I Capital, in turn, accused the
westerners of trying to play it for
*‘sucker/ There was a good deal
of Til feeling between them. If
the capital had been foreign the
feeling would have been lots worse.
It would have had its own govern
ment hack of It. clamoring for jus
tice. /
■ T he western Americans would
have demanded that their govern
ment tell the other government to
go to a warmer elimatfc. Possibly
tt would have done so. Which
would have been very unpleasant.
JUST now the United States is
engaged in financing the world,
as the east financed the west,
here at home, forty or fifty years
•go
Doesn’t it stand to reason that
the rest of the world is going to
feel toward American capital the
LAWLESSNESS.
Asheville Citizen.
In explanation of American lawless
ness, .it is often said that this -is , a
yojmjj country whefe .pioneer customs
and traditions are still powerful.
Writing in the Saturday Evening
I’Q&t, Richard Washburn Child, , es- ,
feetiiillly exposes this fallacy, pointing j
out that Australia and Canada are
also pioneer countries, but countries t
wljiere the British standard of abid- <
ing- by and enforcing the law prevails. I
milt way that puts the United States {
to-.shame. In all parts of the earth, c
ilThtW- old-or new, the law is estab
lished iind does prevail, as .it does not a
prevail in the United States.. |
Jt ,is sometimes said that the as- (
founding criminal record of this nut- '
tion is largely due to-tile-evils of uh
reptricted immigration over a long 1
period of years. That argument- falls j
to; the ground when applied to such a 1
St*t<? ns' North Carolina. Here the I
small percent age of our foreign-born
population is one of one most frequent 1
boasts, yet here, as our judges are al- 1
ways telling-the grand juries, we have
a record of a homicide a day.
Discussing tile prevalence of crime.
Judge Oglesby recently stuted in his
charge to the Buncombe County Grand
Jury,) his belief that tile widespread
lack lof respect for constituted au
tliouity in this country is the -primary
catisiv of America’s ignoble fame as a
1 lawless nation; a disregard for au
-1 tliorify in home, school and State.
Other students of social conditions
, comment upon the multiplicity of laws
’ the technicality of court procedure,
! which reader easy the acquittal of
criminals. Jurists like Chief Justice
Taft have made special studies in j.
England of the British system of jur-1
ispradence and come home with mini-,
erous recommendations for improving j
the American law courts, ,Still crime!
increases and still the leaders of opin- ;
ion look for remedies.
l’enal reformers assert that the an-1
cient theory of vengeance on the crlm-!
inil is one of the chief reasons for j
American criminality; they argue j
that most of the prisons and convict j
earn pa are schools of crime and that
there can be no checking of the crime
. wave until reformation rather than I
retribution becomes the principal mo- j
live in punishment.
The indictment of lawlessness is'
indisputable; the proposed remedies
arc numberless, and most of them may
contain a grain of truth needed for
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I EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO
same way that the west felt to
ward eastern capital those three
or four decades back? Only more
so, at least so far as Europe is
concerned. _
It Isn’t quite so "bad in fields
like South America. South Amer
icans haven’t got the complex
that they "saved civilization" and
ought to be paid for It. Even so,
they’re suspicious of North Amer
ican capital, fearing, economic,
and perhaps political dominat.on
by it.
* * *
BUT Europeans, at the same
time they accept American
money, because they must,
are resentful of it. They’re used
to Investing their capital, to ex
ploit others, not to having others
Invest It. to exploit them.
Not only do they dislike it finan
cially. but their pride’s hurt.
Besides, they're exceedingly
.grouchy over Uncle Sam's insist
ence on a settlement of his war
loans. Now he's buying up their
.industries, which they don’t want
to lose. He's buying, them up
wholesale, too. His foreign invesl
ments aggregate almost as much
as his war claims, and these are
around 12 billions, as everybody
knows He started buying bonds.
Now he's buying stocks. From a
creditor he’s becoming owner.
our national salvation. Evidently the
problem of American crime is no sim
ple one: it involves ideals, convictions
and practices in the home, in the
schools, .in (lie churches, ill tile courts,
in business amt in the everyday busi
ness citizenship.
Defends Tenantry.
Monroe Enquirer.
The Qhariotte News says i "Forty
three per cent of the farms of North
Carolina ate operated by tenants,'as
big a curse ,to the social life of the
State as it is a blight upon its agri
cultural prosperity.” ,
The foregoing statement is a libel
on a great number ot’proe>psTpus and
good citizens of &?ott*yWarolina. and
doubtless * the ‘writer- thereof- himself
-lives in a rented home.
Why ami how is a tenant a curse
to. the "social life .of the State and a
Might upon its "agricultural, pros
perity?” . - ' 1 •
True, a' man may be unfortunate
who does not own hist own farm, but
does that make him an undesirable
eititzen?
Is he and hits family pariahs, even
if they do work hard to produce farm
products for tfieir own use and for
others who are not farmers?
There are many good business men
among farmers in North Carolina, be
cause of high taxes, find it more profit
able to rent lauds upon which to farm
rattier than to own real estate.
Wily does not The News say of the,
clerks, workers in simp* and cotton
mills here in North Carolina, and who
are renters, that they. too. arc a
curse to the social life- and a blight
upon prosperity?
Let’s be fair to the tenant -farmer
j and not abuse him. Many do not ai
j ways remain -tenants, and it is in
| finitely better that they are at work
i at gainful employment than floafiing
or begging.
! Too. it should he remembered even
! if everybody in this land of ours tlieo-
I retically is born free and equal, many
| there be who must hustle tot make
I it an actuality.
C—
j Washington, D. C., is to have a
i memorial clubhouse as a permanent
. tribute to Susan B, Athony. probably
the most famous of I'ac pioneer work
'• ers for woman suffrage in the United
j States.
\
I As seventy-three young women at
tending a county teachers institute
at Atchison, Has., sivty-seven hat
bobbed hair.
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weight tire? Very few tires have as many ply of coed as H - 1 -
the Hood.
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Phone 6€l Concord, N. C. |
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