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QUALITY AT LOW COST CHAMPS MADE AND L UNMADE DURING YEAR Many Pugilistic Titles Changed Hands During 1825. Xew2?ork. Dee. 19.—Many pugilis tic tile* have changed hands during the yeifi* now nearing its close. Os i the I itl'eholders who held place at the top of jjie heap in the nine different division* on January Ist last, only .three 'iiirvc retained their crowns. In •one or "two of the classes the title > lias changed hands more than once during the past twelve months, jf Jack “Dempsey still retains the world's' heavyweight championship, after n»pre Phan two years of idle ness so far as ring work is con ; eerned. The middleweight crown still reSs upon the head of Harry Oreb and the welterweight champion ship ha* been retained by Mickey ’Walker?" At the-Yankee Stadium on May .'l9 the world's light heavyweight crown i changed ownership, when the skill and generalship of the veteran Mike McTigue. yielded to the determined two-fisted assault of youthful Paul llerlenhadi, of Astoria. X. \\, in a .hard-fought 15-round battle before a capacity, crowd of 40.01111 spectators. | On January 15th Renny Leonard voluntary gave up the world's light weight .championship, after having 'defended* the title successfully for sev en years, To determine his successor ■'the New York State Athletic com mission ■ conducted an elimination tournament in which practically all :of the lightweights of class were given an opportunity to take part. The BsV ” * £ rything F Save enough to pay {or your Christmas Turkey by plopping at our store. Stocks Complete. Prices Right. . A pirmseasy. Open at night until Christmas.' •.• i ... 1 •.-v*. . final event, on July 14th. brought to gether ajiiiimy* of Buffalo, aiul IStanfsTaus* Loayza, of Chile. Goodrich, who a year previous had been almost unknown. annexd the world’s title by defeating Loayza by a technical knockout in the second round of a 15-round bout at Long Is land City. Less than three weeks ago, on De cember 7th, Goodrich lost the title to his fellow townsmen. Kooky Kan sas, the fight taking place in Buffalo, the home town of the two battlers. In a stirring 15-round contest replete with action every second The veteran challenger outscored the champion and was awarded the title. On April Ist. at Philadelphia. Mike Ballerino, of Bayonne. N .J., was crowned junior lightweight champion of the world, receiving the judges’ de | cision over “Kid” Sullivan, the title holder, at the end of tfaeir 10-round battle. The contest was fiercely fought. Ballerino retained the junior light -weight title until December 3rd. On that date, at Los Angeles, Tod Mor gan, a Seattle youth with a long reach and hard hitting ability, annexed the championship by scoring a technical knockout over Ballerino. The year opened with no recognized champion in the featherweight divi sion, Johnny Dundee having given up the tile some months before. To determine his successor an elimina tion tournament was conducted in New York. In Madison Square Gar den. on January 2nd, Louis (Kid) Kaplan, of Meriden, Conn., proved his right to the title by scoring a, teihnical knockout over Danny Kram er. of Philadelphia, in the .ninth round of a 15-round match. At Madison Square Garden, March 21st, a new world’s bantamweight champion was crowned, when Charley (Phil) Koseuber, of New York, re ceived the decision in a 15-round con test with Eddi “Cannonball’’ Martin, defending champion. The world’s flyweight championship was made vacant on July 14th by the death of Papcho Villa, the titleholder. in San Francisco. Frankie Genaro, by reason of two decisions he held over Villa, was generally accepted as his successor. On August 23rd Generoa’s crown was toppled from his head by Fidel La Barba, a Los Angeles school boy. in a 10-round bout held in the Southern California metro polis. What Has State in Way of# Old Mu sical Instruments? Greensboro, Dec. 10.—(>P)—Just what has North Carolina in the way of old and unusual musical instru ments? Dr. Wade K. Brown, dean of the school of music at North Carolina College here, has set out to find out. He is making an efFort to build lip a museum of such instruments at the college. He hopes to find many different kinds of instruments illus trative of the mechanisms used in days gone by. He believes there may be some very old violins in the state, as well as other old and unusual in struments. and. in any case, he has set out to learn just what North Carolina has of this kind. THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE I COUNTRY,! bORRESPONDENd ALLEN. We are glad to see the rain and hope that we will have more. Mr. Martin Phillips, of Charlotte, spent Sunday evening with his sister, Mrs. Lester Flows. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Estridge, and family spent Sunday evening with her mother, Mrs. J. T. Estridge. Air. Hubert Flowe. of Charlotte, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Flowe. Mrs. J. T. Estridge is not very well at this writing, but is aide to be up part of the time. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Estridge, of Charlotte, spent Sunday with his mother. Mrs. J. T. Estridge. Air. aud Airs, lloy Estridge, of Char lotte. spent Sunday evening with his mother, Airs. J. T. Estridge. He eame down in his nex Essex. Airs. J. R. RrafFord, of Derita, spent Sunday evening with her daughter. Airs. James Flow. A large crowd enjoyed the picture show at Clear Creek high school last Friday night. AVe hope that Santa Claus won’t forget us at Christmas. We all like for Christinas to come. A READER. NO. EIGHT TOWNSHIP. Airs. Liza Karrier is improving nieely at this time. Airs. E. AI. Hurloeker is spending the week with her daughter. Airs. Lee Petrea. Rear Creek school is progressing nieely with Airs. A. Shunkle principal and Miss Annie Relle Rowland assist ant. Air. and Airs. Frank Honeycutt and family and Lee Whitley and family spent Sunday with Air. and Airs. John R. Rowland. Look here, Venus, as you said a man raised a potato weighing nine pounds and four art arcs, there was one raised iu eastern Cabarrus that was so little that it could not be weighed on gold scales. If you oan beat that, trot out your little pota toes. BLUE EYES. NO. TEN TOWNSHIP. Farmers have had fine weather for sowing and fall plowing. Wheat and oats sown early are looking well. Discouraged because of the present price of cotton, some of the farmers will quit fanning and will seek em ployment in other fields of endeavor. Os course every one would like to see higher prices paid for cotton, but so long as tlie producers reject the tried principle of diversified farming and look with suspicion on organiza tion and co-operation, just so long may they expect to be exploited. No one blames the manufacturer for the low price of cotton as he is only looking after his end of the business. Why can't the farmers learn to look after their end of the business - ' For until they do this exploitation will continue. Christmas will soon-be here, and if going to town on shopping exposi tions by the people is a good barom eter, it certainly will be a merry one. One thing certain, the low price of cotton as yet has not affected gas. Alack I|)ve, a respected coloml man, died recently. Mack was 65 years old, attended to his own busi ness and let others alone. Dick Brown is on the sick list. J. 8. Russell, of Cabarrus, is the most active man for his age of the township. He is 83 years old. and for two nights last week he rode to the hounds in a fox chase and at the end of the w- ek he had cut cedar poles which he sold to the Cedar Lum ber Company of Cabarrus for .$lB. Despite his age Air. Russell is a good dancer and can step the fantastic toe with the ease and grace of an acrobat. He sleeps well, eats but little and takes a lot of strenuous exercise each day. There will be a Christmas tree at Bethel Church Christmas Eve at 6:30 o'clock. Appropriate exercises are being arranged by the Indies of the congregation. In addition to other prizes that will be distributed, every member of the Sunday school will receive a prize. The public is cordially invited. Alerrv Christmas to all. , H. WHITE HALL. Basketball is a real sport for the White Hall boys these cold days. Mrs. C. A. Harrison and son, of Salisbury, were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Christenbury Sunday. The White Hall literary society met Friday, December 11th. The follow ing program was rendered:' Roll called and minutes read. Recitation —Alartin Kiser. Jokes—Hurley Thompson. Riddles—lrene AlcAfanus. Reading—Sadie Joyner. Debate. Query: Resolved that brooms are more useful than dish rags. Affirmative: Rftth Kiser and Willie Linker. Negative: Kate Bost and Grace Kiser. The judges decid ed in favor of the affirmative side. Reading—Dovie Bost. The society .then adjourned, to meet on Friday, December 17th. Alisa Dollie McDonald. Miss Ruth' Kiser, Miss Margaret Corzine and Miss Alice Marie Thompson repre sented White Hall at the biscuit campaign Saturday, December 12th. Airs. B. F. Russell and daughter, of near 'the Hartsell Mill, were visi tors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Russell Friday evening. S. H. Linker is having a new home built near where he is living no*. Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Christenbury, of Route 7, and Mrs. C. A. Harrison, of Salisbury, were visitors in Char lotte Sunday evening. The White Hall boys went to Wine coff Friday evening and bad a basket ball game with the Winecoff boys. White Hall won by the score of 17 and 18. They will give ns a return game after Christmas. '' The second team from White Hell also played the second team at the Training School, The White HaU boys won by the score of 27 and 20. Tbs Roberta beys won from the first team at the Training School by the score of 10 and 12. Lloyd Garmoa and Claude Little played with the Rober ta boys. You are missing a fine story if yon do not keep up with “Bobbed Hair” I in The Tribune. CAROLINA KID. MIDLAND. Mrs. Frank McManus and children. Rachel, Ol'n and Green Moore, spent Sunday in Knnnapolis with Iter sis ter. Mrs. B. B. Helms. MKs Laura Aine Shinn spent the week-end at her home in Oeorgeville. Air. arid Airs. H. 1,. Albright, of Charlotte, visited Mrs. Albright's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Furr, last week. Ait. and Mrs. C. W. Barrino and children, of Alarshville, were the guests of Airs. Barrino’s mother, Mrs. C. E. Tucker, Sunday. Aliss Louise Green spent the week end with her sister, Airs. R. A. Brooks. Al sses Faye Black, Pink Willeford. Emma. Bonnie. Jessie Nelson and Carl Blakiney spent Saturday in Char lotte. Aliss Ida Alae Widenhouso spent the wek-end with Miss I.a ura Alae Shinn in Georgcville. Aliss Mattie Lee Cooley, of Con cord. Misses Pink Willeford and F«ye Black, were dinner guests of Mrs. J. C. Sossamon Wednesday. Air and Mrs. A. J. Furr, of Char lotte. have been visiting Br. and Mrs. J. A. Clontz. Air. and Airs. S. Z. Aiuilis and children, of Cornelius, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Williams Sunday. Air. Waldo Nelson, of Monroe, spent the wek-end with Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Blakeney. Airs. B. L. Barrett has been visit ing her daughter. Mrs. J. B. Roberts, near Concord. Mn. A. P. Widenhouse has been in Coinord on business. Ai iss Virginia Hartsell won the I prize for No. 10 township in the bis cuit contest conducted by Miss Cooley. The prize was a silver fruit basket. Aliss Mattie Lee Cooley, the county demonstrator, spent Weduesday at the school building with members of the woman's club. They made very at tractive baskets and trays. WRITER. STANFIELD. Air. and Mrs. L. F. Pusser spent Sunday in Midland with their daugh ter. Mrs. Roy Little. Mr. G. C. Greene and son. Lloyd, spent Saturday in Albemarle. Airs. Jane Honeycutt S|>ent Sunday night with Mrs. V. L. Mills. Air. and Airs. George Barbee and two sons, Clyde and Homer, spout Sunday afternoon in Stanfield. Air. and Mrs. Oates Flowe and children spent Sunday in Stanfield with relatives. Miss Eunice Love spent the week end in Oakboro. Elder Monk, of Kentucky, preach ed an interesting sermon at Clark’s Grove Sunday morning. A large con gregation was present and all enjoy ed the sermon. Mrs. W. C. Love, of Kannapolis, is spending awhile in Stanfield with rel atives and friends. There will be a Christmas exercise and a box supper at the high school auditorium at Stanfield Friday, De cember 18th. Everybody is invited. Miss Arelene Taylor spent Sunday in Stanfield with relatives. Mr. and Airs. Dewitt Little and little daughter, Peggy Earl, of Char lotte, spent the week-end in Stanfield with her parents, Mr. and Airs. I). L. Thomas. Mrs. Roy Tucker and children spent Sunday, with Alias Mary Easley. Mr. Otto Ritchie, of’ Richfield, is spending this week in Stanfield. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Alorgau and chil dren spent the day in Stanfield re cently with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mann and little daughter, Aiildred, spent Thursday night with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jonah Alann. Air. and Mrs. R. V. P. Rinehardt and children, spent Friday night with Air. and Mrs. X. N. Furr. Mr. S. A. Jenkins spent the week end in Stanfield with home folks. LOCUST. Farmers are doing right much plow ing during the fine spring-like weath er. The churches here are preparing Christmas exercises. Hie Baptists will have theirs on the night before Christmas. The Presby terians on Christmas night. Miss Hattie Green, of Albemarle, was the week-end guest of Miss Bes sie Smith. Mr. and Airs. D. G. Turner spent Saturday night in Oeorgeville. Miss Eunice McManus, of Midland, was a week-end guest of Miss Velma Little. Mrs. L. J. Little is suffering from the effects of having a bad tooth ex tracted. Relatives here have been visiting Mrs. Corinnn Biles in a Charlotte hospital, where she underwent an op eration. Mrs. Dovie Coggin returned Sunday to her home at Badin after spending a coaple of weeks here with her daugh ter. Mrs. C. L. Smith. Mr. and Mr*. Smith and daughters accompanied her and spent the day. The greatest attraction for th's place is a pet coon for which Glenn Turner swapped his'bull dog. Many grown persons have never seen a live coon and this one has many visitor*. Willie, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Raimon Coley, fell on a snag one eve ning last week and injured one of his eyes badly. The injured member is bloodshot FAITH. ' The Christinas exercises will be held at the Faith Baptist Church on December 29th at 6 o’clock in tbe morning) Mr. and Mrs. C., L. Shive and daughter, Alene, of Spencer, were out [ on the granite belt Bunday and met with .Venus. I We met D. V. Pool in Salisbury, Route 4. He aays he has been read ing Venus’ items forty ydafs. Ho is one of tbe good Mg farmers of Rowan county. ( Hr. and Mrs. W. A. Crayton and Clyde, and t»n»R*n ns] Charles, and Miss Grace Teeter, all of Kannap olis, and Alonso Crayton and sister, Jessie, and Mias Bessie Rowland, of Locust, all motorad to Faith-Sunday to saa Vanua because they have bean reading his items ao long. Mias An nabel! has Vanns' birthday and brought him a beaiitiful flower in a white bowl of pebbles. She is a pretty girl. John A. Peeler J. T. A ray and Mr. Shnnek motored to Wilmington Mon day, will stay there Tuesday and come back Wednesday on a pleasure trip. Mr. Shank goes to get a mess of oys ters right out of the shell and says he will briug Venus a aeashell when he comes back. One rich lady ' from a big city writes to Venus for a list of his old time tilings ar.d the' price. Here is the names of some of those pretty girls who attended the sale at Albert Lyerly’s. A. U I.ingle cried the Sale. Venus bought the hornets nest and some other old-time things and they gave him part of an old time set for his collection. One good family living on West Buffalo Street, Concord, got a dollar jar of ecxema salve recently and it did so much good they jumped in their fine car Monday and ran up to Faith and got nnotber dollar jar. That’s the wav to do. Who cares for that little distance between Concord and Faith since automobiles have come about and roads made good. H. F. Ketehle killed his big fat hogs in Spencer Tueeday and J, M. Laughlin killed his big fat hogs in East Spencer Monday, the biggest hogs Venus .saw this year, all extra large fine hogs. You, can’t beat them for large fine hogß. John W. Miller, of Spencer, has an old Cannon made in 1492 and has been in their family over 255 years. If you can beat that, trot out your cannon. VENUS. HARRISBURG. Some rainy day. We are having what seems like a spring shower. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hall spent the week-end with the latter’s parents and Mrs. Hall is remaining a few days on a visit. Blither Taylor, who works with the Postal Telegraph Company at Gaff ney. S.’C.. is spending a few days at home. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taylor, of Charlotte, spent Sunday with the for mer's parents Mr. and Mre. J. W. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Teeter are staying at their home in this city. Miss Lucille Cochran, of Newell, spent Sunday with Miss Frances Sims. Most of our friends seem to be doing their Christmas shopping. We see cars go by that look like they might be Santa's sleigh. We thing Santa will have to use a Ford this year, as it doesn't look much like snowing. Come on. Carolina Kid, and give us some more White Hall news. KRAZY KID. DAVIDSON COUNTY BOY IIS NOW A MILLIONAIRE R. Jones Workman Once Drove Bread Truck —Now Heads Bakery of His Own. Islington, Dec. 17.—How a David son county farm boy of a score or more years ago. with meagre educa tional advantages, has risen to the ranks of the millionaires and is now president and general manager of the biggest baking concern west of the Mississippi, is told in clippings from California dailies and trade journals just received here. R. Jones AVorkman, head of the California Baking Company, at San Francisco, which a few days ago op ened to the public its new baking plant, one of the largest nnd most ef ficient in the world, is the man, the young man, for he is yet only in the vicinity of forty. About 50.000 peo ple visited the new banking factory when it was thrown opetf for inspec tion upon recent occupancy, includ ing some 6000 grocers who handle the products of the concern. San Francisco papers and trade magazines of the Pacific coast country pronounce Mr. AVorkman a Wizard and his plant the last word-in effi cient production of bread. The new building erected especially for the company is 200 by 200 feet, three stories high occupying half* a city block, with streets built all around it. It houses on the ground floor all of the bread trucks, most of which are electrics, and is so arranged that loajling is done with the greatest pos sible speed. The top floor contains bins to handle 25.000 barrels of flour at one time and on the middle floor there are two gigantic traveling bake ovens capable of producing 10,000 an hour, or nearly a quarter miHion dur ing the 24-hour period. Mr. Workman began work practic ally as a day laborer upon bis arrival in California and for quite a while drove a bakery truck. When the earthquake and fire had swept the city it left him standing in the bread line, but now he has created what is de clared the moat famous “bread line" on the Pacific coast. He succeeded in consolidating four large baking concerns in San Francisco into his own, and eliminated all brands ex cept one and baß hammered that into practically every honfe in and atound San Francisco. His baking concern is now a $1,800,000 concern and, it is learned here, Mr. Workman now possesses control of the company. Although the west has been very kind to him and baa responded to his energetic efforts to carve out a for tune and establish himself as one of the big business builders, he takes every opportunity available to run ba<* to the scenes of bis boyhood, to visit his mother and other relatives in the county. Several other mem bers of the Workman family are also now/ established in California and are doing well. V In England in the Middle Agee, the right of erecting dove-cotea or pigeon-houses was one of the privileges attached to manors, and as such was rigorously protected by law. In Scotland by a statute still nominally in force no person is al lowed to build a pigeon house unices ha owns land of a certain value with in two miles o( it. Mr. Duke; Even On His Death Bed, Never Lost Interest In His Work New York, Dec. 16. —James Bqch anen Duke, the “Buck" Duke of tobacco, died with the industry clasped like a nursling in his arms- Other American giants have grown to financial stature with an indus try, and then—when fortunes too vast to be spent and almost too vast to be counted were offered to them sold out. And the industry, which had been ho eagerly bid for by the investing public, became a wallowing derelict when it wan de serted by its officers and crew. Duke was one ofthc small number of American industrial leaders who enthusiastically assumed the respon sibility for the structure he and hie associates had built. He was always conscious that farmers on tobacco plantations from the Carolina*, around the world to Sumatra nnd back again, looked to his organiza tions for- their livelihood. He knev.- that beside these farmera stood the factory workers, the salesmen, re tailers and clerks of the industry, the makers- of machinery, the shippers and exporters, and back of them all the investing public. Duke’s spirit went out warmly to meet this trust in him. His Last Days. The chairman of the huge Duke endowment, George G. Alien, who for many years enjoyed Duke's con fidence, tells of his last days: “The latter part of July he had to take to his bed with wbat proved to be hk* last illness, but his mind was never free from the things which counted most with him- I-ate one night the nurse, noticing he was not asleep, asked him what his trou ble was. "He replied: ‘Don't disturb me now, nurse. I’m building a steam plant down South.’ "A few dnys later he calls four of us in conference at his home in Newport and decided that steps should immediately be taken for the building of a large steam, plant as an insurance against shutting down in dustries should there be a recurrence of the drought of last Summer. “Shortly thereafter the nursh, again observing he seemed restless late at night, inquired after his comfort anil was met with the re mark, ‘Nurse, don’t disturb me now. I am laying out the grounds of Duke University.’ “And finally, just eleven days prior to his death, he sent for me and with great emotion in his breast said, “Allen. I have not provided suffi cient funds for carrying out the complete funds which I have in mind for the university. I want to arrange to give au addition $7,000,000 to complete the building program.ss It will be difficult to discover Tn all history such devotion to a great cause. Intolerant of Publicity. James B. Duke died two months ago. His building of the American Tobacco - Oompnny has for years been a familiar part of the Ameri can legend. The man, himself intol of publicity and impatient with its methods. remained less well-known. The AA’orld news service has sought to find out now what dis tinctively James B. Duke stood for. Bernard M. Baruch, economist, social philosopher and former chair man of war industries board, gave this as his opinion today: “About 25 years ago a number of men in AA’all Street started to buy the American Tobacco Company. The principal sellers were the insiders, at the head of whom .was James B. Duke. Great consternation fell upon the buyers when it was found that Mr. Duke might dispose of all his holdings and leave the company. That was the first time I commenced to get an intimate picture of this most important figure in the history of the American indiwtry. “It is ns an industrial leader and not as a financial leader, that we must think of James B. Duke. “From this time on he became the center of the group composed of AA’il liam C. AA’bitney, Anthony Brady, Thomas F. Ryan, AA’idener, Elkins. Payne and others, who built up wbat to generally known ns the American Tobacco Company interest. Mr. Duke easily dominated the situation because of his knowledge of the manufacture nnd distribution of the product. AYhile we must give to John D. Rockefeller the pioneer place in the -development of great Indus tries In America, the second place can easily be given to James B. Duke, John D. Rockefeller was in a raw material field, whereas James B. Duke had to do with a manu factured article, made in older places of manufacture like England. The development of the American Tobac co company to what it is today is familiar to- everybody." Admired Rockefeller. Whenever persons amuse them selves by making lists of the build ers of American industry, two names are certain to occur, Rockefeller and Duke. The younger man never loat an opportunity to express his bound less approval of the elder. Before his death, he said he intended to place a tablet at Trinity College, TURNS BLIND AFTER TAKING SOFT DRINK TbomasviU* Man Says It Made Him Deathly SMt—Another Man Sent to Hospital. Thomasville, Dec. 17.—D. J. Lamb; formerly city policeman but ■ow an employe of Amazon cotton mills, tells a story about his ex perience with a bottlff of well known soft drink. After taking three swal lows, he states, be turned deathly sick and became as “Mind at a bat," falling helpless in Us tracks. He was picked np by observers who removed him to the open air where be was able to practically clean his stomach of wbat be termed “the poison-" Another story which Mr. La^tb Saturday, Dec. 19, 19?5 now Duke University, with the names of the six greatest Americans on it for the inspection of the stu dents. The names were Rockefeller, the elder Morgan, McKinley. Mark Hanna, Lincoln and Washington. He admired Mr. Rockefeller’s phU-t , antropies as heartily as he admired his business methods. The Duke en dowment was modeled' upon the Rockefeller foundation - Mr. Duke,' his associates say, felt America's contribution to the cul ture of the world was the discipline of hard work and the prosperity re sulting from it, and in this discipline be left his heroes personified- He was known to express approval of but ope of the historical characters of Europe, Michaelangelo. “There to dc |«ne i.we him in this country ” he is reported to have saltl. “He's been dead for centuries and tourists are still taking money to Italy and spending it to see his pictures. Believed in Work. Duke said emphatically, “a man ought to be.put in jail if he doesn't work every day. It makes no dif ference how much money he has. Food must be produced every year. No man has the right not to work." His judgment of his country' was: “The United States works harder with itR brain and brawn than any other nation in the world does.” Baruch telling of his intimate as sociation with Duke while he was chairman of the industries board, said today: “From an intimate knowledge of the present day merchant prince, I should place James B. Duke first. I never saw a man who made a mdre exhaustive-examination before enter ing a proposition, nor any one who struck with ttuch great determination after he had entered. He hail the most unbounded fncts iu thV country and its future, and inspired every body with confidence in his belief in the widespread opportunities for young men. “About five years before his death he told me of what he was thinking about in the way of spending his money for others. He wue thinking more about that than anything etoe. The final form -that his plans took changed sos the better over what he then bad in mind. If he had lived five years longer, his study of educa tion and educational I nm sure, would have brought advances to the whole general cause of educa tion. Unbounded Faith in Futurp “Mr. Duke belonged to that race of giants whom I knew in my boy hood. composed of J. P. Morgan, Rockefeller, Bogegs, Harriman, Ba ker; "Ryan, Widener, all of whom ' had the most unbounded faith in the future of this country. In that .great group only two are left. George F. Baker and Thomas F- Ryan. “Mr. Duse never seemed to get dW- He was always thinking about the future, look at bis development of water power, particularly in Canada. I never saw anyone grasp more quickly or see further Into the development ot the rayon industry. Up to the very last that* I saw of him he was talking about the de velopments of the fufbre in these and other industries and particularly that of fertilizer. "Government interference in busi ness, was abhorred by Mr. Duke as much as nature abhors a vacuum. I was very much struck.by the thought he qo forcibly exprewed when he said he was delighted that the government had broken up the American Tobacco Company, 'and that the government, or anybody else, would have to fight him to get the pieces together again, because the competing parts pf the American Tobacco Company made more money than they formerly dhl as one undertaking. Believed In Big Wages. "Grave doubt was expressed to me by Mr. Duke as to whether some institutions were not getting larger than men could manage; whether we were not getting too many big units and not • being able to get enough big men to run them. .This was very interesting, coming from' a man who was said to embody t\>e idea of the trust principle or moiio ptfld of industry. “He often expressed to me his be lief in paying big wages because that meant greater prosperity, and said that manufacturers and men as a rule, were short sighted in this re gard. He seemed to be anxiooa to, have everybody make money In every transaction he was in, particularly those who were managing It. I “Beneath the surface I never saw a more lovable or kindly man, but I always felt he would resent the idea that anybody believed be was that kind of man.” “His mere presence always inspired confidence,” said George G. Allen. "His life was a genuine Inspiration to all with nrhotn he came in con tact to put forth their best efforts. ;He radiated strength of character, , enthusiasm, a sense of fair dealing, a desire for the, things worth while in life, and a loathing for the thinpi i which are low and petty and mean." tells is more serious but on a neigh bor, Wiil'Foafß, who was also drink ing a bottle of the same glnd of drink. According to hfe statement. Mr. Fouts had most of a bottle when he discovered a partially decayed mouse in the bottom of the bottle. He immediately turned very sick, when .a physician was called; A ptunp was used but seemed innef fectual In removing “the pofeon" from his system. Mr. Fouts was tahen to a High Point hospital where he is still suffering. Mr. Lamb says hja eyes are still giving him trouble from the effects of bis drink. Only two States of tko Union— Colorado and Wyoming—have nn broken straight-line boundarfe a on all sides.
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