Monday, October §6. 1925
THR USE or POTASH
. CcauriMee Outlines Recommendations'
Fee Fertilising Tobacco.
Raleifli, Oot. 20.—G*J—Beeuase of
tceent agitation about tho use of mu
riate of potash and sulphate of potash
in fertilisers for tobacco, a oommit
. te* abronomists recently met at I
State College here to outline recom
mendation* for the fertilizing of bright
tobacco and dark tobacco in the
states _of North Carolina and Vis-,
ttlnfa.
~ committee was composed of
Dr. W. W. (lamer, of the United
States department of agriculture at'
Washington: Professor T. B. Hut- 1
ehesen. of the Virginia Polytechnic i
Institute; E. (1. Moss, director of the ■
tobacco branch station at Oxford, and
U. G. Liles. W. F. Pate and C. p
illiams, of the division of agronomy i
at State College.
After a study of the question, the
Tnmmittee agreed, insofar as bright
tobacco was concerned, rhat frem 800
to 1,200 pounds of fertiliser per aeve
should be used in the drill at, or
just before planting. For the Pied
mont section, it. recommended either
an 8-8-3 mixture or a 10-4-4 mixture.
It recommended for the coastal plain
section an 8-4-4- mixture, and stated
that where the sandy loom soils con
tain large ainouqt of organic matter,
E nitrogen should be reduced on#
cent. Where the soils are very
y, the potash should be increased
two or three per cent. Where sand
drown or magnesia hunger prevail,
the committee stated that fertilixers
should carry at least two per eenf.
of magnesia. This may be derived
from sulphate of potash-magnesia,
dolomilic limestone, or other material
carrying magnesia in a form avail-i
«ble to the plant, it was pointed I
out.
As to the sources of the plant food
constituents, the committee recom
mends that the phosphoric acid he de
rived from, acid phosphate, f The pot
ash should be derived from either sul
phate of potash magnesia, muriate of
potash, or sulphate of potash.
Discussing the use of potash, the
committee saj’s:
"Available experimental data at the
this time from bright tobacco sec
tions of North Carolina and Vir
ginia have shown that muriate of
potash generally produces tobacco of
equal or better yield and market value
than that produced by the use of!
sulphate of potash. In view of the
fact, however, that experiments haA?!
shown that an excessive amount of
chlorine in fertilizers for tobacco in
jures its burning qualities, it is rec
ommended (that 'such fertilizers be
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I compounded with the above named
J sources of potash In such proportions
that the fertilizers shall contain not
! more than one Unit of ejiloripe for
two units of potash."
! For sources Os ammonia in the
coastal plain section, the 'committee
recommends that cne-balf of the am?'
) tnonia should be derived from organ
ic sources,\ preferably cotton seed
meal, tafikage of fish scraps, and the
other half from nitrate of sod, at
• sulphate of ammonia, provided that
at least one-half of the iporgbnic ni
trogen comes from nitrate of soda.
For the Piedmont section, one-hird
i of the ammonia should come from or
, ganio sources and the remaining two
j thirds from inorganic sources, with
! at. least one-half of lie inorganic ni
trogen being derived from nitrate of
soda.
j It was also recommended, aecord
| ing to Professor O. D. Williams, head
of the department, of agronomy at
State College, who announced the
committee’s recommendations, that
small quantities of dolomitic lime
stone should be used to prevent sand
drown, and he stated that dolomitic
lime tfas the only form Os lime rec
ommended for use on bright tobacco
lands. ,
In applying tbe lime 1 , the commit
tee stated that there should be an
initial application of one ton per
aero of finely ground dolomitic lime
stone broadcasted over the entire area
at least four months in advance of
planting. ' Thereafter, on soils show
ing a response to this treatment", an
application of 1.000 pounds may be
broadcasted in the fall in prepara
tion for tobacco the following year.
This amount should be used where
the rotation does not include tobacco
I oftener than every third year. Where
| tobacco conies more often than this,
the amqunt of limestone should be re
stricted to 500 pounds, applied in the
drill before planting.
The committee stated that - tobacco
in tbe future should try t 6
use air precautions to seqpre the best
possible grades and advised that spe
cial attention be directed towards the
imp'.ovement of the burning quality
of the lens.
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Denatured Music.
Elizabeth was told to practice for
half an hour after lunch. She went’
off to do so. but her father eduld hear
no sounds of piano-plnying. After a
| while, he called out:
I “Why aren't you practicing. Klix
! aboth?”
And she answered: "Oh, but I am,
daddy.”
"Then why don't l hear you?”
“I am practicing tKe reats!”
i I Only Fools See No Gpd
Says Or. Win. U Poteat
: Winston-Salem Journal.
"The scientist who says there Is po
■ God. nq spirit world; no miracle, is
1 the foal of the scripture. - * declared Dr.
. William Louis Poteat. president of
. Wake Forest college, in an address be
. foge more than a thousand ipen In the
! Brown Memorial Church laat night, in
which he defined the spheres of soi
| ence, and of the soul. Members of the.
. Billy Sunday club wh<r were meeting
jointly with the organized Baptist
, Men's Sunday school elasses of tbe
city gave the distinguished educator
, a hearty response, and roppy of the
leaders described tl)e speech one of the
most intelligent and inspirational to
' which they have over listened.
After explaining that science could
; not explain electricity or life dr most
. of the important things in its own
; sphere and few indeed of those in the
’ realm of the spirit, Dr. Potfht finish?
[ ed with a far-reaching analysis of
conditions and a beautiful picture of
science seeking for God.
Serit God In Hu Garden.
“We are forced to conclude that
■ there are spheres of reality to wh ! eh
1 the method of apparatus of science are
' inappropriate. The plough and pick
■ for the solid earth, the airplane for
i the expanse above, the sense and sen
' son for the material world, the moral'
• and spiritual faculties for the world
i of spirit. And these are as reliable
‘ ' n their sphere as those are in theirs.”
■ Then it was that he defined tM scien
tist who denied tbe existence of tho
■ soul and of God as the fool of scrip
* ture.
"Today, with ampler radiance,” he
concluded in his last two sentences,
“The heavens declare the glory of God,
| and the solid firmament of the psalm
ist, dissolved now lato tho. exhaust of
, the illimitable universe of'stars showtj
i tbe overwhelming haudiwork with new
and overwhelming impressiveness. And
. so I thins of science as walking to
. and fro in. God's garden, busying it
i “elf with its forms of beauty, Tt*
fruits and flowers, its creeping things,
its beasts and birds, the crystals shut
in in its stones, thus gold grains of its
sands, ami coming at length in the
': cool of the long day upon God himself
walking in his garden.”
Introducing Dr. Poteat as a man
i who had stood like old Pilot Mountain,
dauntless and unafraid In the face of
the darkest storms, Santford Martin,
editor of The Journal, speaking as a
teeneher of the Berean Biple class,
said;
"I have stood on Roaring Gap and
lboked out over what is to me the
most beautiful panorama in the world.
Far away on the plain below looms
the old Pilot—so well named. For it
the Pilot Mountain .Baptist Associa
tion was named. It is always there,
j so strong, so certain, so immovable—
| to me the very embodiment of power
r and stability. I have seen the clouds
|. come up and the storm rage and, peer
as hardas I might, three was np
I Pilot. But then, when the storm bo4
spent its forces and the cloud? had
< Mown away, there it was with head
up undaunted and unafraid.. And I
[ have thought of Goldsmith's immor
f tal l^ies,
[ “ 'Though round its breast the rolling
clouds are spread,
[ Eternal sunshine settles on its bead.’
I "All of us admire and revere pow
! er, stability., strength, whether in the
I granite of a mountain or .the charge-1
j 1 ter of a man. We foten&bl afcf(ss
: Work ami storms' iuffy'-'lSjrc; an 4 y|t
1 they can stand unmo^Aj^ffitliffaft^S.
I We love mountain nlmvvSafF'emp
we can coupt oh aftcti'flie'twrUlt ailftj
„ the storm always'td .bAteeVe—a i>tft>t
on the far skyline—a 'pitot for otAer
; men who march with. ritceh forwarel
Such a man la William Lou> PoUttf*
Rows Are
Mr. Martin sat down 4nSi! a ,shtfri»,
spontaneous outburst of
Dr. Poteat seemed deeply "tdovea Hr
several minutes as he began" 'm
dress, 1 after expressing hisrkupfSCta
tion, briefly.
Right and left ■ pews were backed
: with members of the Billy Shnday
Club. A score wer#"in l£ie .bfilCOny,
and eight members from the.'Rohaojte ‘
club were present,'three of thepf sft
ting on the stage and taking part in
the program. 8. G'. Oajtley, 'Wate pWb
f ident of tbe Virginia EyankeHstic
l club, declared that the RoahoW Billy
Sumlay Club is doing ggeatrst
| work of any club in the ongghjlatlrm.
I It was decided by the chib that it
| would travel to the convention at
; Charlotte by a special tr||n'. which
would leave here Sunday morning, at
7 o’clock, J.A. Bolich, trainmaster of
the Southern Railway, announced that
be had made all arrangements, and de
clared amid hearty laughter, just be
fore the vote was taken, that ”1 am
going to take the .train to Charlotte
! if nobody rides on it but me.”.
Charles Adec gnade tbe motion that
the club travel by train instead of au
tomobile. '
B. W. Stonebraker, former president
of the Roanoke Billy Sunday club of
Roanoke, offered the opening prayer
I aand Dr. D. Clay Lilly, pastor of the
I Reynodla Presbyterian church, pro?
j nonneed the benediction. Charles M.
I Norfleet, president of the Billy Sun
day dub, heard the preliminary re
ports of the club indicated hun
dreds of reconsecrations and close to
| a hundred conversions in recent meet-
I ings. These reports were liberally ap
| plauded. Frank P. Tilleye, president
of the Berean Bible Class, tygg chair
man of the meeting. A vote decided
that the next meeting of thp Wganiz
ed men’s classes, will be held at the
1 FUrtit Baptist ChuivlF'three weeks
hence. ‘-' i ,
Two solos were sung by Brs. Au
drey Clore LeGrand, and, Wrte wall
received and" ffeely applauded. She
sang a bright selection, “Jftck Frost,”
. and the the lyrie, ‘Tn The Time of
Roses.” .. '
| Dr. Poteat’s discourse was a dteens
sion of the “Nescience of scieence/f or
lack of knowledge of science ahobt
things spiritual. As a scientist ha epp
sidered electricity and many things in
physics which science must admit it
could not explain.'
“Ask a scientist ‘what, ia lifer Opr
ner him and he will say it "competes
to—’ but that is ae'far as he din
i «n attempt to exidaip llfe he^de
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
scribed teat extraordinary work in
marble, Venus de Milo which hail
brought so many to tears. Suppose,
he sard, it was pounded into dust and
all its remains put in n sack, its ele
ments could be analyzed by science
but it -would pot he the Venus. Its
personality would be gone forever.
The same is true of life. Dr. Potedt
declared, affirming that it never has
been explained because science can
place its fingeg only on a dead object,
that life dies before science can analyze
it; that the best science ran say of
lif# is that “It is vibrating ether."
An abstract of his address follows:
The Nescience of Science.
“Ours is the age of science, and yet
people; otherwise intelligent still en
tertaiu misconceptions pf what it is, of
its method, results, and • bearing. Os
course, science -s the Latin name of
whaO the Greeks called gnosis and
the English call knowledge. It is the
ordflred body of facts so far as the
,hiiman mind is competent to discover
and report it. {t is ordinarily knowl
edge carried forward to exactness and
fullness anil system. The average
man knows that there are many ani
mals of many kinds. In the hands
of the scientist this vague and inexact
knowledge grows into the science of
zoology.
“And so there is nothing remote or
magical about the method of science.
It is the method of common knowledge
applied with care. First, facts, that
is, objects and processes, are observed,
The facts point to a conclusion, or
theory by which they may be explain
ed. Later, the suggested tlteory is ap
plied to a wider range’of facts, is
tested by,experiment, which is obser
vation under controlled conditions. If
the theory continues to fit the accumu
lating store of facts, it acquires the
dignity of ah accepted scientific gen
eralization and becomes n part of the
body of knowledge which we know as
science. If not, it is revised, or dis
placed. *
"The instruments of science are
tbe senses and their extensions. If
the .object is too small for the eye, the
microscope is available; if too distant,
the teleseope. For exactness the ap
paratus of refined measurement is pro
vided. Accordingly, the symbols of
science are tne clock, the footrule gind
the balance.
"The results which iiave followed
such investigations of an army of de
voted workers are enormous in volume
and importance. There has been an
illimitable expansion of the universe
in space and time. It is not too much
to say that the body of knowledge
achieved in the last 150 years is far
greater than the achievements of all
preceding ages.
“It is not surprising that modern
science, flushed with victory, was in
higp conceit with its omnipotent meth
od. It came to feel quite generally
that tbe universe was a closed system
of Inviolable sequences, impersonal,
without trace of intelligence or will,
ifs own sufficient cause. In many
minija God was shoved off the last
lodge of. mechanical fact. The super
flung over the edge of the world into
natural was rolled np as a scroll and
twe abyss. Science was well advanced
in plucking the Heart of mystery out
of nature, and a few more years of
the unflinching application of the
principles, of physics and chemistry
wo.uld set men free from the last sup
, It. was dogmatic and arro-
important to know what
s§rlSris? It is hardly less import
*°. imow what. you cannot do.
1880 science began to recognize
Its. (imitations, .as well as Its capabil-
Jti?s, Jrtrf its confident and supercilious
bearing began to. relax. It'saw more
and rikore clearly problems whose so
lution merely led to the central inys
tegite. before these crucial problems
it. stood in despairing impotence. In
the ;reslm of physical nature, for ex
ample, matter itself, under the new
light ptaj ug upon the atom,. becomes
the deepest of mysteries. Is it the in
teraction of positive and negative elec
tricity? What is electricity? Vibra
tions of the ether of a certain ampli
• tude of wave? What is the ether and
vyhat makes it vibrate? ‘Nescio, I do
hot know, your physicist must reply,
rather than iScio, I know.’ His sci
ence at this critical point of inquiry
has become nescience. Your chemist
records a certain squence and such
elements unite by chemical affinity in
a certain valence to form substances
quite different from the constituent
elements. Atjk him why that se
quence rather than some other and
what chemical affinity is ‘Nescio,’ he
will be forced to reply. And proto
plasm—ask your glologist what it is.
He will say it is a chemical substance
of unimaginable complexity and the
physical basis of life. 'But is proto
plasm a chemical conception when the
first step in analyzing it destroys its
characteristic property? Ask him
what this characteristic property ‘life’
is. ‘Nescio, he is compelled to reply.
“In the realm of personalitiee the
mysteries multiply, for thoughts are
united with things. And one might
say that, unless science has explained
Plato, or St. Francis, or Shakespeare,
or you, it has explained nothing.
Wbat is thought, br memory, or emo
tion, or faith, that deep-lying capac
ity to apprehend the world of spirit?
‘Nescjo, nescio;’ is the only' word
which' fits the lips of science. There
is no algebra of love. The attraction
of two souls does not vary inversely
with tb» square of the distance.
“We> arc forced to conclude that
there aty spheres of reality to which
the method and apparatus of science
are inappropriate. The . plough and
pick ft)r solid earth, the airplane for
the expanse above, The senses and rea
son for the material world, tbe moral
and spiritual faculties for the world
of spirtAnd these are as reliable in
their sphere as those are in theirs.
The scientist is the fool of Scripture
when he says, ‘no God, no spirit, no
miracle-’’
"Today with ampler radiance the
Heavens declare the glory of God, and
the: ae)jd firmament ot the psalmist,
dissolved >ow into the expanse of the
illimitable naiverse of stars, shows the
Ditrlbe bffh'iwork with new and over-
Wjhdming impressiveness,
, ’’Apa so I think of science as walk-
ing o and fro in God's garden, busy- {
ing itself with Its forms of beauty, its
fruits and flowers, its creeping things,
its beast and bird, the crystals shut
in its stoned, the gold grains of its)
sands, and coming now at length in the;
cool of the long day upon God Him- j
self walking in His garden."
OUR WEALTH
North Carolina Second In Scuth in
Wealth Produced in 1923.
Kal'igh, October 24. — UP) —North
Carolina stands fifteenth among the
state* in the total production cf
wealtli from industries, agriculture,
mines and forests. The total wealth
produfed in North Carolina from
these sources in 1923 was $1,513.3(58.-
000. Only one southern state, Texas,
dwch is tenth, ranks higher than
Nijdh Carolina',-
These facts arc shown by figures
compiled by a H. Hobbs. Jr., of the
department of rural-social ooonomices
of the University of North Carolina,
and published in the current fcstie of
the University .News Letter, just re
ceiv'd here. The figures were com
piled from official data released by the
federal bureau of the census and the
geological survey, Mr. Hoobs says.
He points out that tfie sources men
tioned -industry', agriculture, mines
and forests—“are the main basic
sources of wealth upon which we all
live directly or indirectly.”
. Ncth Carolina's total wealth pro
duction of more than a billion ggid n
half during the year 1923 was divided
as ‘follows: Industry, $951,911,000;
agriculture, $513,400.000: forests,
$88,051,000; and mines $\0.000.000.
Industry, it will be seen, produced al
most double the amount of wealth
produced by agriculture, while the
wealth produced by mines and t'.ie
forests was almost negligible as com
pared witli tlfe figures for agriculture.
New York leads all states with
$9,601.3(14,000, and Nevada was at
the bottom'd£ the list, with ‘ total
wealth produced of $73,393,000. The
standing of some of the other south
ern states in relation to the total
production of wealth follows:
Louisiana. 22nd ; Tennessee, 23rd ;
Alabama, 26th : Georgia.' 27t’u ; Vir
ginia, 2Kth; South Carolina, 29th:
Mississippi, 54th : and Florida. COth.
TODAY’S EVENTS
Monday, October 26, 1925
One hundredth anniversary of the
Completion of the Erie Canal.
Baltimore today celebrates tite 50th
anniversary of the opening of its eity
hall.
Seventy-five years ago today the
Northwest Passage was discovered by
Capt. Mao Lure in the “Investigator.”
Problems of child guidance will be
discussed at a three-day conference
on modern parenthood to be opened
in New York today under the auspices
of the Child Study Association of
America.
To restore “a professional back
ground to the drug store, now .ob
scured in an age of commercialism,”
the American Pharmaceutical Asso
ciation has set aside the week begin
ning today for a country-wide observ
ance of "Pharmacy Week.”
Streel lighting, paving, electric
traffic signals, sanitation, water sup
ply, public safety, fire preventtion,
and many other municipal problems
will be discussed at the annual con
vention of the American Society of
Municipal Improvements, which opens
today in Des Moines.
Thousands of manufacturers will
be represented at the convention to
be opened in St. Louis today by the
National Association of Manufactur
ers. According to announcement, the
ceavention will attempt to “unify the
wish and requirements” of industry
in advance of whatever legislation
may concern it at the coining session
of Cpnqress.
GREEK TROOPS START
TO BORDER
Indication That Greeks Intend to En
large Scope of Aetlvitites.
Sofia, Oct. 24 — UP) —Large con
tingents of Greek troops continue to
be sent towards tbe Bulgarian bor
der. the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency
announces. It considers this an in
dication that the Greeks intend to
enlarge the scope of their present of
fensive.
The government says that the
Greeks have pierced Bulgarian terri
tory to a depth of more than seven
miles on a 20-mile front.
Five Thousand Snapshots a -Second.
London, Oct. 24. —The British gov
ernment possesses a motion-picture
camera, the only one of its kind in
the world, capable of taking 5,000
separate pictures a second. This mar
vel of the “movies” has taken four
years to manufacture and cost over
$75,000. It weighs four tons, and
photographs, on ordinary film, pic
tures that make the present so-called
slow-motion film look , rapid.
The government is using the camera
to study the effects of armor-piercing
sheila on various kinds of armor
plates. Every detail of the bursting
shrapnel, the action of a quick-firing
gun, or the recoil of a gun, can be
studied with the aid of this won
derful invention.
Tbe film "runs on a drum that re
volves 1,000 times a minute, 18,000
feet of film passing behind the lens
in a second. To counteract the ef
fects of centrifugal force and to keep
the film in contact with the drum,
the air is exhausted from the under
side of the film by means of a vacuum
pum|>.
The strongest daylight is not
strong enough for exposures as rapid
as 1-65,000th of a second or less.
Powerful searchlights have enabled
3,0(K) exposures a second to be made,
but greater speed will not be pos
sible until a more intense light is
available.
Auto Rakes Called Off.
Washington, Oct. 24.—GW—The
automobile races scheduled for today
at Laurel, Md. were called off on ac
count of weather conditions. They
probably will be held Monday or Tues
day. ,
A team of Irish women hockey play
ers lg planning for an early visit to
America.
POPULAR PIJSA FAILED. I
0 rvi'csboro News.
It will be observed in passing that
insanity, a reasonably sure rook of
j defense for the white in a criminal
I trial, is as a rope of sand for the
colored' who has committed a crime
against the white. In Forsyth Sit I
perior Court a negro teas convicted'of ■
the murder of a white man. There '
seemed tp be no doubt of his guilt, j
After his conviction evidence reached I
the judge that there was grave doubt |
of the sanity of the defendant. It j
was, stated, if memory serves, that
he had been under treatment in an
institution for the insane in a distant
state. In any event the evidence con
vinced the judge .that the matter
should be looked into. He set aside
the verdict and ordered a new trial.
That, while simple justice, was j
most unusual. It is rare that ver-,
diets in homicide cases, or in criminal
cases generally are set aside. The
custom is to present the facts to the
governor, if it'is believed the defend
ant is entitled to relief. This is |
mentioned, to show that the judge was
evidently much impressed by infor-.
mation coming to him after the trial. I
The ease was mil on trial a second
t : me a few days* ago. The superin
tendent of the Raleigh hospital for
the insane, who had examined the
prisoner, gave it as his opinion that
the man was insane. Another wit
ness, a minister, gave a similar opin
ion, although he. could only judge by
observation as a layman and that sort
of testimony is of minor value. The
jury promptly convicted of first de
gree murder. There is no criticism
here of the jury. They had the right
to believe or disbelieve the evidence as
to sanity.
But considering that insanity is
such a common and a very effective
plea one is fnoved to speculate on
whether local feeling on account of
the crime, and racial prejudice, may
not, even unconsciously, have influ
enced the decision. It is not the pur
pose to say that injustice has been
done in this ease. The governor can
give relief if he should be convinced
that it is deserved. But the purpose
is tp say that if insanity is to save so
large a proportion of the criminal
whites, then the colored criminal must
of necessity share/in its benefits. The
discrimination will become too glar
ing, especially in view of the fact that,
because of ignorance and depravity,
there is reason to question the mental
responsibility of many colored crimi
nals.
Ancient City Discovered in Mitchell
County.
About two weeks ago the follow
ing appeared in the papers, and if
there is anything to the story it is
slow in getting to the public.
John R. Bartlett, of Penland,
Mitchell county, North Carolina, nas
unearthed something akin to the
tonfb of King Tut. In a letter to
Senator Overman he has asked for a
government expert to look into his
find.
"I have on my place on Bear creek,
four miles north of here, an ,‘indent
city, uncovered by mining,” Mr.
Bartlett wrote. “Would like to have
you give me the names and addresses
of the government geologists who
handle this kind of matter, and if
po.-sible some one who could read
the inscriptions on the engraved
rocks. Can get out samples of the
rocks and forward mem if they wish
to see them.
“I haVe discovered an idol partly
jutting out, with about six feet
still in the ground, with writing on
it, this should weigh from six to
eight tons. Two large stones set up
nprth and south of this large one,
about six inches thick, show a lot of
writing. The best information I can
get istliat this was done from 400 to
000 years before Christ. The stones
are cut smooth.
“I would like to sell this property
f it is of’•any value for the mineral
here is in it.”
The Smithsonian Institution and
not the geological survey will inves
tigate the story of the uncovering of
the ancient city. Its bureau o f eth
nology will gather the facts. The l
story of this discovery, with its re
port of the giant idol, has aroused
nation-wide interest.
From numerous places in the
South reports of buried Indian cities
have gone to Washington, but noth
ing like those from Penland to the
effect that an idol weighing several
tons had been found.
Government scientists are very
cautious in accepting storiies of the
finding of petrified persons, ancient
buried cities and quaint idols with j
inscriptions on them. They suspect!
fakes, like the Cardiff giant. Twenty i
years ago a “pertrified” man that I
did not pan out was was found at
Hendersonville, X. C.
But if Mr. Bartlett has found an
idpl—even an Indian idol—that
weighs six or seven tons, as he as
serts, he has something of great in
terest and value. The Story of the
find at Penland will be carefully
looked into.
Husband Vents Views on Tie-Buying
/ Wives.
Editor New York Mirror: All this
drool about women objecting to their
husbands helping them select their
clothes makes me sick.
My wife hounded me almost to
the point of madness because I wore
suspenders. She said it was “old
fashioned” and felt ashamed when I
did it—though why she should be
heaven only knows as I never Showed
my suspenders to any one else.
She still insists in choosing my
neckties—flowered ones, the kind you
make curtains of and which causes
all your men friends to kid you.
ONE WHO KNOWS.
Favors Girls Who Don’t Possess the
Flapper Traits.
Editor New York Mirror: I have
read the letted of “Sophisticated” in
which she says that die has received
proposals from intelligent men, and
that home girls are not favorites with
men. Any man worthy of the title
“Intelligent” would not propose to a
girl like “Sophisticated” and the mod
ern flappers. I intend tp yet mar
ried, but when I do I will selet a
girl who is a non-smoker, non-drinker,,
in short, everything that our modern
flapper lacks. RICHARD.
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