PAGE FOUR J, R SHERRILL W. M. SHEHRIIi, 1 Editor —-MiiKoFis —: ASSOCIATED PRESS Thd Assorted Pre» is exclusively entitled to tba uae for rapublieatioß of *n new* credited to it or sot •tfcerwi** credited in this paper and also the lo- All rights of republicition of spec ial dispatches herein are alee reserved. Special Representative FROST, LANDIS A KOHN 225 Fifth Avenue, New York Peoples' Gas Building, Chicago 1001 Candler Building, Atlanta Entered as second class mail matter at the postoffice at Concord, N. Cylin der the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the City of Concord by Carrier: One Year ! $6.00 Six Months 3.00 Three Months 1.50 One Month * .50 Outside of the State the Subscription Is the Same as in the City Ont of the city and by mail in North Carolina the following prices will pre vail: One Year $5.00 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 Less Than Three Months, 50 Cents a Month All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance RAILROAD SCHEDULE In Effect Nov. 29, 1925. Northbound No. 40 To New York 9 :28 P. M. No. 136 To Washington 5 :05 A. M. No. 36 To New York 10:25 A. M. No. 34 To New York 4:43 P. M. No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. M. No. 12 To Richmond 7 :10 P. M. No. 32 To New York 9:03 P. M. No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M. Southbound No. 46 To Chhrlotte 3:55 P. M. No. 35 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M. No. 29 To Birmingham 2:35 A. M. No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M. No. 33 To New Orleans 8:25 A. M. No. 11 To Charlotte 8:05 A. M. No. 135 To Atlanta 8:35 P. M. No. 39 To Atlanta 9:50 A. M. No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M. Train No. 34 will stop in Concord to take on passengers going to Wash ington and beyond. Train No. 37 will stop here to dis charge passengers coming from be ytfbd Washington. All trains stop in Concord except No. 38 northbound. A,BIBLE THOUGHT TODAY— Bible Thought* memorised, will proee • nricelese heritage in after years- THE PRINCE OF PEACE For unto us a child is born: and the gov ernment sfiall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, The Prince of Peace.—lsaiah 9 :6. “IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?” Once upon a time a little girl in New York City' was almost heart broken because her playmates told 1 her there was no Santa Claus. She could not make herself believe any such thing. So she wrote the editor *" of The New York Sun. and the editor , who was Charles Dana, sent her > answer through his paper. She wrote : "Dear Editor: —l am 8 yettrs old. Some of my little friends say there is Sh no Santa Claus : J. “Paita says ‘lf you see it in The *»’ Sun it's so.' “ "Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?” - And Charles Dana wrote this re * P>y! "Virginia, your little frieuds are K wrong. They have been affected by r the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They thing that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellef', - - as compared with the boundless word about him, as measured by the intelli <■ geuce capable of grasping the whole of '' truth and knowledge. « y "Yes. Virginia, there is a Santa Hi Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and * joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no *, romance to make tolerable this exist — ence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal »’ light with which childhood fills the v' world would be extinguished. “Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well: not believe in fairies! a. ; . You might get your papa to hire men !*•» to wateh inwall the ebimneys on E Cbristimas evKjo catch Santa Claus, |e but even if they tlid not see Santa Claus coining down, what would that pi, prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but fe* that is no sign that there is no Santa if Claus. The most real things in the st. world are those that neither children §* nor men can see. Did you ever see | fairies dancing on the lawn? Os Is course not, but that’s no proof that E they are not there. Nobody can eon- Ct. celve or imagine all the wonders it* there are unseen and unseeable in the BEf> ’“You tear u|>art the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, Et but there is a veil covering tiie unseeu jfr world which not tha strongest man, It. not even tb«. united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, * cqaid tear apart. Only faith, fancy. * peitry, love; romance, can ptish aside tlMIt curtain am! view 'the picture the |§, M&ernal beauty and glory beyond! It JL is.all real? Ah. Virginia, in all this gi world there is nothing else real and | abiding. ‘Rwea.'Shdfhp>tfves.'tos&ivetdf.,A thoiis inws as jUj be Will glad the heart of ’ 0 ■ . ; ai!s_!_vAj > ■ AJWISS CHOICE. r hi j i . - *■■•< e ' ; .To Major Wade Phillips, of Lexing ton goes the job of directing the State ' Department of Conservation and De velopment. His department is charg ed with conducting a systematic and intelligent effort to conserve the nat ural resources of the &tate and like wise these. Major Phillips and his aides, to do their work intelligently, must let the rest of the world know what the re sources of the State are. This must be done so that oar water power,* oli raate. soil and geographical location will be exploiter! in a dignified man ner. They should not send out prop aganda. They should send out facts intelligently and authentically prepar ed. The Department of Conservation and Development was created by the last Legislature. In addition to de veloping the resources of the State and telling the world about them, it must go further and tell the rest of the world what we are doing in the build ing of roads, schools. Churches, fac tories and mills. v Major Phillips has been successful in life because he has given to every undertaking initiative- and energy. He is prominently known as a lawyer, i He won fine recognition as a soldier and as a private citizen of North Car olina he has worked for those things that tend to make the Tar Heel State a better commonwealth. The appointment is a most wise one. The new department should prosper under the leadership of so able a di rector. SANTA CI.AI S AND THE MOUSE fin- Christmas E\e. when Santa Claus •Came to a certain house To fill! 'he children’s sthekings there. He found a little mouse. "A merry Christmas. little friend,” Said Santa, good and kind. "The same to you. sir.” said the mouse; “I though you wouldn't mind “If I should stay awake tonight And watch you wor a while." “You're very welcome, little mouse,” Said Santa with a smile. And then he filled the stocking up Before the mouse could wink. From toe to fop. from top to toe. There wasn't left a chink. "Now they won't hold another thing,’’ Said Santa Claus with pride. A twinkle came in mouse's eyes. But humbly he replied: 1 "It's not polite to contradict; Your pardon I implore. But in that fullest stocking there I could put one thing more.” "Oh, 'ho! laughed Santa, “silly mouse. Don’t I know how to pack? By filling stockings all these years I should have learned the knack." And then he took the stocking down From where it hung so high And said: “Now put in one thing more, I give you leave to try.” The tuousie chuckled to himself And then lie softly stole Right to the stocking's crowded toe .Vnd gnawed a little hole. "Now. if you please, good Santa Claus. I've put in one thing more. For you will own that little hole IVas not in there before.” How Santa Claus did laugh and laugh, And then he galy spoke: “Well, you shall have a Christmas I cheese < For that vice little joke.” CUTEST THING New York Mirror. The teaeher was giving the class a lecture on gravity, and said, “Now, children,''it is the law of gravity that keeps us on this earth.” “But, please. teacher,” inquired Johnny, “how did we slid? on be fore the law Was passed?” “Have you a nice room in your house?” asked Tommy of a lady visitor. “Why do you ask.” “Oh.” lie replied. “I heard daddy say he would prefer your room to your company.” Mother told Sylvia that as times were hard they should give up some thing and asked her what she would prefer to give up. “Soap,” came the prompt reply. Using Cross Werri Eludes Again. The New York World has resumed the use of cross word puzzles. This paper, in which the cross word puzcle appeared, gave up the puzzles some time ago, but requests from hundreds of readers have now them back into the pnpar. The lijre of the cross word puzzle seems eternal! This news follows closely on the heels of the news that the Boston Advertiser has resumed the publica tion of the eross word puzzles dis tributed by the International Hyndl cafp of Baltimore. Devotees of the pastime may well rejoice, for recent developments tend to disprove the rumor that the magi cal lure of the cross word puzzle has vanished. „ L It was in..Delmonico's that salads of. Chicken : and lobster .. v (hut made , their appearance, that, chicken * in king ami lobster Wewbtirg were ijj . vented, that French fried potatoes. Russian dressing and terrupiu were first served in New York, a tel that I minute steak was invented by Ed ' win Gould. . , j CHICKEN THIEF DROPS BAG BUT KEEPS GOING ’ Bo wan Man and Hi* Son Chase Rob | her Bat He Escapes.—W. A. Whir- I low Is Dead. | Salisbury, Dee. 18.—Having been pestered considerably by chicken thieves of late and having lost fifty chickens during the year, J. Clarence Bernhardt, a rural letter carrier con nected with the Salisbury office, gave chase last night to a thief who had just emerged from bis hen house. Mr. Bernhardt and his son used a ear and when they overtook the visi tor and ordered him to halt and he did not they opened fire on him. When Mr. Bernhardt's gun fired the Seeing man dropped a bag of chickens but never hesitated. While Mr. Bern hardt thinks he struek him. there is no definite evidence that be did. The chickens in the bag numbered eight. IV. A. Whirlow, 38 years old, died at Miami. Fla., death being .caused by a heart attack. Mr. Window's mother, Mrs. R. C. Whirlow, lives here, as does a sister. Mrs. T. M. Casey, and three bothers, Zeb. Henry, and Carr Whirlow. Another sisiter is Mrs. Baxter Long, of Charlotte, and other brothers are R. P. Whir low. of Griffin. Ga., Lawrence Whir low. of Jacksonville. The body will be brought to Salisbury for inter ment. Let Them Do Their Worst. Statesville Daily. "Voluntary drunkenness usually furnishes no ground for exemption of criminal responsibility,” declares the Supreme court affirming the cbuvic tion of young Trott, whose car killed young Evelyn I{owe at New ton. That is a principle of law form erly frequently enunciated by the courts, in the days when liquor was a recognjaed article of commerce. Latterly' it has been rarely heard. On the contrary there has been a marked disposition in recent years to excuse the drinker a? irrespon sible. The soundness of the reasoning can hardly be quentiioned. and the surprise is that it isn’t applied in every case since liquor has been out lawed. When liquor could be lega'iy bought, and drinking was the custom there was some ground for ekcusitij the drinker. But now the drinkea is a violator of the law, and his con duct as a result of the drink is sim ply an added offence, _j which goes along with the rule that one engaged ill an unlawful act as responsible for results, no matter how innocent the. intent. Young Trott was drunk and asleep on the back seat of his ear when the car struck the young girl Another was driving mid Trott was. on the face of the matter, apparently innocent. But his conviction of sec ond degree murder and sentence of 10 to 15 years in state prison Was on the theory that if he had obeyed the law and kept sober, the fatality need not have occurred. It is some satisfaction to know that the law can reach the drinking motorist some time. But the satis faction would be far greater if he was reached before the results of his conduct become serious—before there is dangerous or fatal injury to inno cent travelers. But so long as the in ferior courts suspend judgment on drinking motorists, impose a fine, or sentence • them to go to Sunday school. or something like that, view ing the offence lightly because no serious damage has resulted, so long will the drinkers be encouraged to get behind the wheel and take a chance. In eases win re these offences are massed lightly and serious or fatjn consequences occur afterward, it would serve the ends of justice if the judges who failed to apply a check when they could were made co-defendants, for they have their share of responsibility. A scheme of unemployment relief was attempted in France in 1848, by tlie institution of national workshops which found—or more often made work for the unemployed, for which they were paid a standard wage. But so many men left their ordinary work for the national workshops that the latter had to be abolished in order to. preserve the stability of industry in general. Here&your| reserved seats r Do YOU like, fine concerts? They are singing through your home right now. Or lectures, home talks, or the speeches of the President? They are “on the air” too. Or is it dance . » , Rsdio music? Whatever you prefer, you can steers capture it, with the simple, reliable, guaranteed —and beautiful ! Atwat er Kent RADIO , Let ns demonstrate Yorke & Wadsworth Co. fttfi do ucx>m daily mmm DINNER STORIEB ~ /•"tier' Getting Even Wi b Barber. As the Rost Office deck handed out a dollar’s worth of stamps he asked: "Don't you want to send something by parcel post! Have a money or der? Or a package of postcards? Well why not buy some stamped envelopes? Always bandy, you know. Would you like to telephone? The booth's empty?” After-nnstvering emphat'cally in the negative, the purchaser beat a hut ried retreat. A bystander looked at the clerk in amazement. “Ob. that's the lo,cnl barber,” said the Rost Office Clerk with a pleasant grill. "Did you lieitT me get even with him ?” . Cop: “Did that car hit thia wom an ?" "No. It slowed up for her to go by and she fainted." Brown: "Were you hurt while on the e'even?” Jones: “No, while the eleven were on me.” The Girl (archly) :/ “Did, I ever show you where I was tatooed?” The boy (naively) : “No.” The girl: "Well, we can dri'c around that way.” She: “Now what are you,M*o|fKjg for." He fas car copies halt) : “I’ve lost my bearings.” She: "Well, at least you are orig inal. Most fellows run out of gas Jack: "I'm wla ( ] to have met your wife. She sAms to have taken a fancy for me.” Bill: "I'm sorry you didn’t me.-t her sooner." Mother: “George brought you home late last night.” Janet: "I know he did. Did the noise disturb you?” Mother: "No. but the silence did Jrate Wife (discovering husband on front steps fiddling with the dflor knob) : "What are you doing there. Webster?” Husband (continuing to turn tin knob) : “I'm trying to get Pitt - burgh.” Jane-—Oh. Mary. I’ve a secret just for you. I'm engaged, but don r tell anyone. Mary—Marvelous. 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None the is aboard a yacht ooith Lacy, Pooch, McTish, Doc and Soveetiiall strangers to her until a feoo hours be fore. There has been fighting and much talk of bootlegging and pur suits by revenue officers. \ k CHAPTER X—Continued “Just tell the flip gentleman what you'll do to him, when you get loose —pretty now, an’ polite, ol’ dear. Awl that aiii't pretty, Poochie! Say, Sister, yuifl better stick your fingers in your ears. When Pooch Is sore, what he says, ain’t fit for publication in the ‘Police Gazette.’ ” It was all very incomprehensible, Lacy ref 1 e cte d uncomfortably, Sweetie’s charge of intimacy on the part of the girl at his side with a grotesque figure like Pooch was mpossible, and made pvfely through malevolence, of course. But kim she must be connected itl some way. He decided he must talk with sweetie. She was shrewd but vol ible. and if voluble might say too much. However, he did not feel so milch like pumping her when he had est the ,other girl and had joined the dim, figure now at the rail. Pert as were hlr sharp little features, hard (he snappy black eyes, her face was ittractrVe, pathetic as well—almost hat df a child, he thought, yet as »lds as the ages with a wisdom it He almost threw her in the cock pifc should not have had. And feeling the pity of it, he made a bad begin ping. “You’ve got too good a mind,, little one,” he said, “to waste in a game like this.” “For Gawd’s sake, haven't you any other line?” she retorted tartly. “You was handing that to Sister a minute ago. But I notice, like most iky pilots, you pass the hat first, and fifty grand's some c’llection, I'll tell the world.” “That’s so. Well, I’ll cad the ser mon. It’s your lead—or, is this any better?" And, muttering t<# himself, “Rotten taste with the other looking on, but I must find out about that ship,” he placed his arm around the tight little waist, and not at all ten tatively. ” At which -Sweetie softly yielded to his embrace and her arm stole round him in turn. A moment or so they sat, con versing in slangy and inconsequent ial nothings, she snuggling closer, when suddenly his hand closed on hers, like a vise. “No you don’tl” he exclaimed. She giggled. “As a dip, I’m a dumb-bell,” she said, not at all em barrassed, “but never mind; go on don’t let a little thing Jike that break up a petting party.” “You’re right. Such a contre temps but adds to the needed spice to love.” j “-‘Country town idd* spieel’ Say*, are you thinking of goirtg ashore to Bayville? You are the limit,” she added, “and no three miles to you neither; you stretch dear to Bermuda.” “Speaking to that motion,” ke re plied, “I wonder if that where the Swede promised.” “Wise, aren’t you?” she asked sweetly. “You think just bedause you’ve loved me up a little I’ll give you that info’. Well, you can leave your fin there awriVViit-tint's nil the good it’ll do you.”^ Jl)OT BAY If— */ New Y«irk Mirror. V Kay it with onions and make it | ■Bi! , Bay it with needles; she has some fine point*. «<5~ < | *y *,‘Hay it with diamonds ! and give her carrots (karats). Bay it with sunshine and let the moonshine alone. Bay it with treek and pine away. JWaT I Now, during this conversation Connemara had first looked volt umes, thea tossed her head, agafc ret«rned .4o study the darkness ovet the lee rail. Several times she re peated this maneuver, though dis creetly, as She pondered over his status with the gang apd, whaf seemed more important, with the girl. He was undeniably charming; but, then, charming men were some times strangely interested ih gfrla ] far beneath them. And too, sharm- , ing men made, so those experienced- j said, the most expert of criminals. 3 \lt was brave, handsome—of coursq 1 that was not to the point—but h« : seemed so eminently well bred and —well, anyway, Connemara also was finding things a bit incompre hensible. But \yhat was that staccato "put put off quarter! That good looking Harvard boy back again? She made out the lines of the on- Tmuing hulk. It was longer and beamier than Bob’s little craft; larger even than the Bloody Nui sance. And that gruff hail was not at all like the gallant Bob’s. “Stand by, or we’ll fire!” “Golly!” said Connie. ‘They’re looking for my salary again. I knew it was too good to last.” And reach ing for support, instead of the rail she clutched the hand of Lacy, who, at the sound, had sprung to her side. ‘ The bald pate of the Scot, like a moonlit desert with an auburn mor age, appeared once more ovet; the' cockpit. He chuckled audibly.' “Ye’ve lost, Davie; there’s the Swede.” - “Yes, confound your Scotch dour-- ness, or whatever you call it! I be lieve you monkeyed with that en gine on purpose.” He shrugged his shoulders hope lessly, adding, “All right, I’vi pick ed iriy man; you pick your ’sax,’ old Scot. And I hope you get kill ed.” But immediately the demand was repeated from the leader of the crew whom they could dimly discern through the murk, and Lacy turned to the girl. “Can you swim as far as that shore—if we get in trouble?” With her nod of assent, (je pick ed her up bodily and almost threw her in ‘the cockpit, growling out, “Lie low; they may fire”; then, tossing.a life belt after her, tempo rized with Fate as persoiljficd in that insolent voice, by running to ‘he wheel and ordering MtT'sh to address the newcomers as they cir clotl round them. “Who if speakln’ us?” roared the latter through cupped hands yc some o’ them claimed rev enooersi" “You bloody Scotch stool pigeon, bring that iea-goin’ hack of yours alongside or we’ll blow you to—" The Wind muffled this last, but the . speaker's geography, Connie was sure, wds impressively accurate. A moment Lacy reflected, as he caught the gleam of a six-pounder. There were seven against the two, nine if you counted Doc and Pooch, who would bft freed the moment the others tame aboard. His brain, working with lightning rapidity, showed him only one possible way out—a chance in a. hundred, at that. The Swedd’s craft was an old tub, (the nose of their own of steel. It was a desperate expedient he had in mind, but it might succeed. , “All right,” he called, “we’ll go about. You heave to and wait for us.” And whirling the wheel, he swung the nose of the Bloody Nui ered the five boat’s lengths of cleat water that now lay between them, and before the bewfldered crew on the other boat had time to diagnose the maneuver, were upon them. Amidships Ihe Bloody Nuisanie struck, stOving in her enemy's side, and blunting as she did so her own gallant nose. There Was a crash, the shearing of shorn timbers and plates, a wild medley-of oaths, and the smaller boat backed out, as the other craft listed, the water pour ing through the gaping wound in her side. But at this point their own en gine balked; and time had been lost in the extrication. There was not enough clear water now' between the two crafts to repel the hoarders. Up chain and rope, and Qver the rail they swarmed, six of them, tbp seventh falling backward with the bark from McTish’s revolver* which, however, was instantly knocked : from his hand. r i •A IX* S* mw4>wwA Bey it with a bill andrtet in the t01d.., : ■* Bay it with a calendar and get I twelvemonth*. Bay it with a acrew driver and loosen up. s The first Christmas dinner at the SUrjrJUBSt $ •*££! New Burin ml housekeeper* > / I BELL-HARRIS FURNITURE CO. j •> / I HOLIDAY GIFT NUMBERS Here are gifts for home adorn ment, intimate, thoughtful, useful ] imd above all, wanted. 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