Friday, September il, 1925
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fcMJiAQ ; i when tastefully arranged, give the finishing touch of
■' F I ra'Jh artistic beauty to the-home. To cleanse them proper
' BE't ly in the home, where facilities and experience are
11J |« lacking, is an almost impossible task. Besides, wrong
b ;j|! methods may, prove disastrous to delicate materials or j
wffjtjl" 2T r : Let our. modern cleansing and dyeing service do ,
5$ * j this work for you. We can renew their beauty and j
fi ?si; i restore their wholesome freshness.
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I Educational Progress. -
1 University Letter.
I In*l9oo all public school property
I j? 11 Carolina was valued at sl,-
j 007,t>84. In 1024 public school prop-
I erty was valued at nearly sixty mil
lion dollars. In 1899-1900 we spent
all told on public education $1,062,-
31W. In 1023-24 we spent $29,747,-.
075. Os the total expenditure $57,-
P AO went for outlay purposes in ISO!)
IpOO, while in 1923-24 we spent for
outlay purposes $10,668,410.
Twenty-five years ago the average
soliooHieuse' In North Carolina was
worth -$158.65. The average school
house is now worth more than eight
thousand dollars. In 1000 there were
more than five thousand white one
teacher Bchools in North Carolina.
Ip 1924- there were 1,633.
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In 18#!)-1!)00 tlie average length ot
the school term was 70.8 days, against
443.4 days in 1023-24.
Four hundred thousand children
were enrolled in school in 1900
against nearly eight hundred thou
sand in 1924. Only liaH of those en
rolled were in average daily attend
ance in 1899-1900, against 72 : liter
cent for 1923-24.
- In 1900 there were only thirty pub
lic. high schitols in the state with a
total enrollment estimated at 2,000.
In 1923-24 there were *738 public high
schools with au Enrollment of 63,875
pupils. In this particular the bulk
of the growth has taken place since
1919. As late as 1916 our high
schools graduated only 1,001 students,
while in 1924 our high schools gradu
ated 0,900 students. Our education-
al system has been functioning long:
enough for the high schools to begiw
to show/real results. The increas
ing number of high school graduates ,
tvitbin very recent yeurs is the most'
amazing fact in the educational prog
ress of the state. Our schools have ;
finally begun to bear large crops of !
fruit. f
Modern Artist: "I do wish, my
good wbnittn, that when you clean my
studio you would put things back
just as you found them. Now, how
1 the dickens am I to k'ndw which
way up this picture ought to go?”
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Tli ere arc i-y* many things wrong
with the world .you haven't much
■ time to worry over
one. (
TWE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
DINNER STORIES
‘ On t&o Job.
A girl from tha telephone exchange
fell asleep while «t Wurth.
The preacher announcing the hymn
said: “Number 428.”
“FH ring ’em again,” she mur
mured.
“Step- right up, Ihdies and gentle- ]
men,” shoutjsd the. showman at the I
circus, “and see the woman ght savfed I
in two before your very eyfcs.- Only '
25 cents.” . 7. V -
“I’ll risk a quarter,- said a man
tp hiafcelf^“though. *f eoursc, it must
he a trick. Otherwise, they'd charge
more.” ~.
Wife:. “What’s the matter, dear?
ir»u took worried.”
Husbaiid: “The books at the ofice
won't balance.” '*
W r ife: “Can’t you buy some peve
ones?” T®,
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“So Brown took a course in first-,
aid? Is he good at it?”
“A little hasty sometimes. A man
Was nearly drowned yesterday, and
the first thing Brown dfd was to
throw a glass of w.ater in his face.”
One of . those qpuntry gentlemen who
owns a farm ffi .Brown county but:
lives in Indianapolis and only spends
his 'week-ends ;on the farm asked a
neighbor down in Brown: "Did you
’know that T. C.: Steele sold the pic
ture he painted of your farm?”
The farmer made no reply and then
the country gaotleman told him the :
price ,the (artist got for theveanvas..
“I jU6t I had known the. feller
like the place well enough to pay
that tor a picture of.it,” the farmer
said. “I'd ’a sold him the foo
$390 less than that.” * ..
Wetwash: “What drove the light
house keeper’s wife crazy? Loneli
ness?” . , .
Roughdry : “Not exactly.- She was
listening in at the radio while a big
dTy goods store ashore was describ
ing a bargain sale for the next day.”
Wifey: “We certainly need, a new
car, honey-boy.”
Hubby: “Yes, nngel, but how con
we arrange it?. We owe S2OO still
on our old car and another S2OO at
the grocer.”
Wifey: ’’Can't, you apply, one of
those bills against the other and have
theia%call it square, or something?”
,1 • ■■ —i_i- :;• 1 : -
He: “‘Do you think you could
learn' to love me?”
She: “Well I could tell better af
ter the first lesson.” •
TODAY’S EVENTS.
Friday, Speetnne b etaoin mi nu
Friday. September »1, 1025.
Seventy-fivg years ago tonight Jem
ny Lind made her American debut at
Castle Carden, New York City.
Greetings to Baron Byng of Viaiy,
famous World War commander and
present Governor-General of Canada,
pi bis 03rd birthday.
. Nathan I-copolu and Richard Taiob
•today complete the first year of their
life sentence for the murder of 14-
year-old Bobbie Franks in Chicago.
On this date, in 1777, was fought .
•the battle of Brandywine, in which
the Stars and Stripes was first car
ried into battle by the Continental
army.
Vice President Dawes is scheduled,
to arrive jn Los Augeles tpday for a
visit of Iwo days, iil the course of
which he Is expected to deliver a pub
lic address.
Friends of Williain J. Bryan have
been invited to meet in Washington
today to "discuss plans for a national
memorial to the celebrated Demo
cratic leader and statesman.
Fifty thousuud members of the Ku
Klux Klan from the South and -
southwest are to assembly today at
Arlington, near Dallas, Texas, for a
great convention and rally.
At Vergenne?, Vt., a monument is
td be dedicated today to Commodore ,
Thomas Maedonough, who commanded
the American fleet in the battik of ;
Plattsburgh,’ fought on this date ia
1814.
Young City Miss: “There isn't
much pep to the girls out here, is
there?”
Farmer Jimison: "Pep! Wahl. I
dunno ’bout that. lady. Now dig
mawnin' our gal, Sarah, milked fifteen
cows before breakftfst.”
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fY CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON 'For blind,
sickehlng, unreasoning ter
■ ror," said an army aviator,
J-life hasn't anything to offer equal
■to the sensßtion»»of a man's first
(parachute Jump. I mean letiihg
fco- for tha drop. After the 'chute
opens it’s all right Anticipation’s
the killing part. V'
* * • •
UWT H EN the United States
entered the war I was
/ cakt for an artillery ob
server After a little preliminary
training they strapped a parachute
on mv back, looking and feeling as
little like anything that would let
me down easy as any other little
package from a dry goods store.
"They showed me how to pull
the ring that opened it, and then
they bundled me Into the basket
with the instructor. Up shot the
balloon. I was scared to begin
With. ■: ■»-. ~4f. nyo-K*
"The balloon’s motion, upset my
stomach, too. •! felt deathly siek.
"About a mile high, it seemed to
me, 'Over you go,’ said the in
structor. _
44/CAREFULLY I lowered my
self, gripping thq basket
edge with my fingers. r 1
<UJa't toe 1C jagjt dw*»'. '
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ATTACKING A POLICY BEFORE
■ IT’S TRIED.
-High Point Enterprise.
Before the State's budgetary sys
tem was ten days*, old, it sustained at
tack nqt only from an important mem
ber of the Council of State but from
tIH! President of the North Carolina
'Press Assoeiation. .
"Pnrsimouy” -is assailed as retro
gressive before economy even 1s allow
ed to show what it can do in operat
ing the State intelligently and satis
factorily. And are Mr. Everett and
il". Bratton unwilling to try a busi
ness-like administration of public af
fairs? *
The reports from Raleigh have mag
nified every move made by the State
Salary and Wage Commission. The
questions asked State employes in a
general data gathering effort for the
Commission were “played up,” as was
tlllT indignation of college professors
and girl stenographers at the intimate
character of the problig.
So before the new policy was in
effect, it was thrown into a measure
of disrepute.
But all this .will not swerve the
Governor. Mr. McLean is a. business
man, pledged to give the State a busi
ness administration. He confessed
recently that the task was a harder
one than he thought it would be, but
he indicated no weakening of will. The
hudget system will be given its try
out, and once tried out the adminis
tration that dares from it will
db so at its own risk and the hazavd
of J the political party that supports it.
The institution of the policy of a
balanced budget is not easy in any'
loosely run business. When it is up
plied to the State with its various bu
reaus and departments it is a great
task. The Governor has his hands
full. He needs the support not only
of his counsellors at the cupitol, but
of the press of North Carolina. He
will succeed without that support,
perhaps, but tack of it must make his
undertaking more difficult.
1 THE WAY WE DO.
•Statesville Daily.
Down at Charlotte a man who put
his hands on a young girl in a picture
show was arrested. He explained
that he was unconscious of what he
was doing after he and his friends had
consumed $lO worth of liquor, which
he had bought, lu other words, he
confessed to three offenses—buying
liquor, drinking liquor and insulting a
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as * rousw Suess;,i shouctj say
" /A©OUT EIGHTY I *T =r^g—
ftiowv !i
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M -Leggo.’ shouted the Instructor,
: looking overside And I found I
. couldn’t let go.
"Physically, my fingers wouldn't
unhook. i.
"•'Bingo: The Instructor hit me
on the knuckles with a little mal
let.
1 “It broke my hold. _ . ' . ’
“Whoosh'. I shot down, maybe
'a hundred feet Up went my vitala
into my throat. Just as your In
sides. do when an elevator sink*
from under you too fast—only a
t nob sand times worse. I gave the
ring a yank.
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UWfHAT'S that . .you say*
TV You'd think a man'd be
too frightened to pull the
ring?
“Don't you believe it That's the
one thing he isn't too frightened
to do. I pulled it all right. » V
“Snap! It was the 'chute open
lag dp-overhead. Yoop! I felt an
awful Jerk, nearly tearing me
apart. - *> v*
“Swisji! down went my giblets
to the r soles of my feet-—the ele
vator act again, only coming to a
Sharp stop this time, after a swift
slump down the shaft. *• iiK(
“And then 1 felt myself sway
ing geritly In , the air, with tha
earth coming vp tt> m«et »ie, a9f
■ HI..- .1 JLM.L. ' K '■ " 1
girl, Fined $lO for the purchase of
liquor, judgment suspended for drunk
enness. For laying his hands on the
girl, which was assault, nothing done.
Os course the xiunishment will make
no impression on the man if he is
disposed to repeat. There is no deter
ring effect in a finp of $lO. The light
seutenee was of course because the
man was drunk. Tt lias for so long
been the practice to overlook the con
duct of a man under the influence of
liquor, ulness the offense is very
grave, that we can't tet away from
the custom, even though the law has
never recognized rdunkenness as an
excuse —not in the old days when the
sale of liquor was legalized. By ex
cusing it now we excuse at one and
the same time several offences, some
of them serious. It is a violation of
law to buy liquor, a violation to car
ry it around, a violation to drink to
excess. And the buying and drinking
mean that .we are upholding law vio
lators, contributing to an unlawful
business and helping to keep it going,
aiding and abetting in lawlessness, en
couraging defiance of the law and '
all the evils growing out of trampling
tiie law underfoot. That is the mos’t
serious of all; that’s what buying and
drinking liquor mean. Those who en
gage in that, who defend it or con
done it in any respect, arc contribut
ing not only to nil the evils growing
i out of the liquor traffic and the use of
liquor, but they are actually contrib
uting to the break-down ’of law and
rt-ognized authority.’ »
But hypocrites that we arc, we do
. not take tills law seriously. Many
. who shouted for it never intended to
take it seriously. And to all the sins
mentioned .is added hypocrisy, jfor
. which it is difficult to escape the dam
nation of hell, if we accept the teach
i in'gs of Jesus of Nazareth.
, A traveler passing through a small
country town noticed a post on which
| was marked the height to which the
river had risen during a recent Hood.
"Do you mean to say,” he asked a
native, "that the river rose as high as
that'/” r
“Oh, no,” replied the native; “but; ’
. the children used to rub off the orig
, inal mark, and the mayor ordered iff .
to be put higher up, so as to be out
, of their reach.”
Brighton, the famous English re
, sort, contemplates painting its pave-"
s meats green, iu order, “to give a
more restful appearance.” !
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; Garbage Can 1
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I All sizes and the pjg|||H I
prices are right
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Union and Church Streets
! Phone 30 Phone 3d i
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Deep and Shallaw Well Pumps for Direct or AdW-«
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Concord Kannapolis China Grove 4
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Pressure lubricating system, for everybody I
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