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A, BIBLE'THOUGHT
K —FOR TODAY—
Bible Thought* memorised, will prove «
priceless heritage in after years
WAY TO LIFE He hat* shewed
tliee, O man. what is good: and what
doth the Lord require of thee, but to
do justly, and to love mercy, and to
walk humbly with thy God?—Micah
6:8.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
To our patrons and friends we ex
tend the season’s greetings with the
hope that the Yuletide will be a sea
son of particular pleasure and joy.
And we add the wish that the New
Year may bring fruition to nil cher
ished dreams, and success ami liappi
~ ness to all.
ENGLISH PUBLICITY FOR
NORTH CAROLINA.
Every North Carolinian will read
with pride the following paragraphs
from an article by C. It. Fay, the
„ eminent English economist, which The
University News Letter quotes from
The Economic Journal of the Royal
Economic Society, London:
A citizen of North Carolina can say
with truth all these things:
“My house, or rather the house in
which I live, is made of wood which
quite probably was cut from the moun
tain forests of my state. It is
lighted with the cheapest electricity
in the U. S. A. My furniture was
made at High Point. N. C.. a furni
ture town second only in its output to
Grand Rapids (Mich.) and rejoicing
in a Furniture Exposition Building
with six acres of .floor space. My
kitchen utensils were made at Badin.
N. C., on the Yadkin River, the sec
ond largest Aluminum plant in the
world. My towels OH me from Kan
napol s, N. C., the world’s largest tow
el mills: my table covers from Roa
noke Rapids. N. C.. the largest da
mask mills in the S. A.
“My State prqduces more cotton
goods than any other except Massa
chusetts : $52 millions in 1912, $229
millions in 1922. The stockings which
I and my family wear were knitted at
Durham. N. the hosiery center of
this continent. It is the fault or va
gary of our digest’ve system if I eat
any but native-grown foods-—grape
fruit and bananas excepted. For my
State, which some years ago was
twenty-seoond in the list, is now
fourth in agricultural production, fol
i , lowing Texas, Illinois and lowa."
Thus we find the name of North
Carolina carried into English homes
by a noted Englishman’s newspaper
story. We are getting publicity the
world over luid we are living up to
the fine things being said about us.
P North Carolinians have every reason
p to be progd of their Btatg and they
I should take pride in themselves for
fc- after all the progress of their State
j&: is nothing more than a reflection of
fe their own progressiveness. Natural
It resource-, we have had all the time, yet
f our people are just beginning to cash
K (in on them. The opportunities are
4, gregt in North Carolina how because
the citizens of the State are creating
the opportunities.
BUILDING IN NORTH CAROLINA
H Building ami ei win erring contracts
Ba awgrded ‘in North Carolina during
| tbyr month of November to
g $6(382.500. according to the most au
| thotitative statistics available. This
l was a decrease of 33 per cent, from
October, but an increase of 30 per
cent over November of last year.
The month’s record Included: $2,-
228,900 or 35 per cent, of all con-,
struction, for public worka and utili
ties; $1,289,700, or 20 per cent for
i 1 residential buildings: $916,000, or 16
per cent, far educational buildings;
and $745,000, or 12 per eent., for
commercial buildings.
Total construction started in North
Carolina during the past elevten)
months has amounted to $98,752,400.
This is a 36 per cent, increase over the
first eleven months of last year, and a
22 per cent, increase over the twelve
months of last year.
“WORKING UP” EVIDENCE
AGAINST LEDGERS.
The House declined to forbid dry
agents from “working up” evidence
against bootleggers by‘ruses and plots,
but General Andrews, the prohibition
chief, comes along with the warning
that agents who squander money while
getting evidence will be dropped from
the service.
The majority of the people, includ
ing those persons who favor prohibi
tion, think little of the practice of
agents who snoop around and by trick
succeed in purchasing liquor from a
bootlegger, and the practice becomes
especially unpopular when huge sums
of money are spent for such evidence, j
There is a case where agents spent
SI,OOO working up one case. The!
’legged probably was not fined enough ;
to pay the expenses in the case.
TODAY’S EVENTS
Thursday. December 24, 1925
Christmas Eve!
There is an old tradition that bread
baked on this date will never grow
mouldy.
Among the peasantry of Europe
there is a belief that if the light is
let go out on Christmas Eve some j
one in the house will die within a
year.
In Trinity churchyard. New York |
City, a wreath will be placed today |
on the grave of Clement Moore, auth
or of “ 'Twas the Night Before Christ-j
mas,!’,
Today, for’thc first time, all govern- j
ment departments and independent es- 1
tablishments in Washington. D. C..!
are to close for a three-day holiday.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
tonight will again demonstrate their
neighborly spirit by attending the
dedication of a big community Christ
mas tree and taking part in the carol I
singing.
According to announcement made at !
the headquarters Os the National Bu j
reau for the Advancement of Music. j
some 2,000 towns and cities of the j
United States have arranged for or
ganized Christmas carol singing to-j
night.
This evening Pope Pitts is to close j
and seal the holy door in the basilica I
of St. Peter’s, thus announcing in the |
presence of pilgrims from all ends of
the earth, the close of the twenty
third jubilee year recorded by hie-!
tory.
The navy's traditional "sweethearts
and wives" Christmas Eve toast will
be given at eight bells tonight in
the wardrooms of American warships!
wherever they may be on the seven!
seas. Undoubtedly (he Christmas j
spirit will run just as high aboard j
the war vessels as in the days before
it became necessary to drink the toast
in distilled water.
EMBARRASSING MOMENTS
New York Mirror.
1 saw a middle-aged man. who re
sembled a friend of mine, on the
street. I rail after him and slapped !
him oil the back. “Hello!” I began, j
and stopped almost overcome. It was >
a stranger.
Wishing to make a good impression j
on a girl the first time I took her)
out, I walked into a restaurant. When I
the bill came around I realized that
I would not have enough money to j
cover the bill and tip, the waiter. I ,
placed a dollar on the table resolved |
to take it away when she was not j
looking, but she returned and say my •
performance.
I was feeling very tired and warm
and had to hang on to a strap in
the subway. When the train made a
sudden turn I found myself fumbling
about like a drowning person. A lit
tle boy who was seated beside his
father said : “Oh, daddy, doesn't that
man swinging around remind you of
the dm Liken man we saw in the
street ?”
BRIDEGROOM ARRESTED
WITH LIQUOR IN AUTO
Waxhaw Man on Way to Claim Char
lotto Girl When Officers Nab Him
and Best Man.
Salisbury, Dec. 23.-—A tnan from
Waxhaw on his way to Charlotte to
be married, who was held here when
officers found whiskey in his car and
afoo in him, is still in jail, but will
be brought to county court tomorrow
'to have his case further considered.
He was fined $25, but Ims been unable
to raise Ihe amount. His best man,
who was accompanying him, was sent
up lot 30 days, but today that sen
tence was changed to a $25 fine and
lm has retflrneij to him home in
Greensboro.
The men were arrested when their
ear stalled just after they had made
a left turn at a corner in the busi
ness section of the city, where no
left turn, is allowed. Tlie would-be
groom pleaded to be allowed to pro
ceed to where his bride wqs await
ing him, hut even the display of bis
wedding ring was not sufficient to
cause the “cop” to lot him proceed.
Btudy, ; oi.'Washington's traoMMir
tuQou •iowssthat ..it' oasts
»*« car -driver there IL# cents a
mile to run his automobile.
Silence is golden. Thlff may ex
plain why there are few rich men in
politic*.
LOCARNO—HOPES AND FEARS.
Dearborn Weekly.
Hymns to Locarno have been many
and fulsome; we join ia the.hopetbat
they wiU all come true. Failure to
join in the hymn should not be in
terpreted as antagonism to the hope.
If two assumptions were true, Lo
carno might mean much. That is, if
it\were true that there is or was any
possibility of war in the next quar
ter-century over the Franco-German
boundary, and if it were true that
nations regard diplomatic signatures
as binding in desperate circumstances,
Locarno might be said to have given
standing ground for preliminary ef
forts toward the prevention of war.
But since it was not at all probable
that the next war would start over
the question of the German boundary,
and hardly possible that it shahid be
started by Germany at all, or eyen
by France; and since it is not prob*
able that any nation would honor its
signature at the risk of its national
life, the whole matter leaves the world
just about where it found it- With
this possible exception—that Locarno
may indicate a new temper, a new
good will, which ujay spread. The
agreement as it stands does not take
in the more active war centers and
makes no provision for the restraint
of the more probable war makers in
Europe. The assumption that France
and Germany, once restrained, will
keep the peace of Europe does not
seem based in-fact.
What is done is precisely what cir
cumstances would have required in
any ease, namely, thpt Britain is
called in as umpire in any war that
might be started. It gives Britain
the balance of power, as between
France and Germany, in military mat
ters, a position which she occupied
without Locarno and" which has been
foreshadowed in every agreement pro
posed by her.
The most that can be said is that
if Franee is truly suffering from fear,
the word of Britain might have some
effect in allaying that fear. But if
she is suffering from revanche, Lo
carno may permit her to become more
provocative. Whereas, Germany, if
she had no intention of making war.
is just where she was before. And
if she intends making war she has
an advantage she did not possess the
last time in knowing the opposing
lineup. The remainder of Europe,
the really dangerous parts, the Lo
carno plan scarcely touches.
However, the circumstances have
been most difficult, and if the states
men really have found an element of
peace and have utilized it and fixed
it intoi the European structure, time
will declare it. And time alone will
deelare it. There has been a rather
noticeable overflow of iiolitieal adver
tisement accompanying the business
thus far. Solid contributions are
not usually of the kind to receive so
big an initial boost. Thos who await
the verdict of time will be wise.
“Wet” Money From Abroad?
Dearborn Weekly.
‘“Pussyfoot” Johnson may be right
in saying that the anti-prohibition
agitation in the United States is be
ing maintained by European interests.
When the United States went dry. it
rocked the liquor business the whole
world round. Even now there is
more about the "failure” of prohibi
tion in Britisli journals than in all
the “wet" newspapers of the United
States. American visitors are con
stantly interviewed and when a “wet"
is found, his testimony is painted on
the skies. Yet the concensus of re
turning British visitors from America
is that the thing works and that li
quor smuggling has greatly lowered
Britain in American esteem.
If prohibition is as inefficient as the
“wets” say it is, why do they wish it
abolished or-modified? Their profits
are surely greuter under a non-en
forced law. But If prohibition is ef
ficient. and if 4s shown in state after
state, and test vote after test vote,
the country is unchangeably dry, why
docs the “wet” impaganda continue.
Does any "wet" propagandist honstly
expect that the United States will ev
er he "wet” again?
Then why Lie continued hue and
cry? Probably “Pussyfoot" John
son has the clue. The example of
the "dry" United States is exercis
ing a mighty influence on Europe.
There is a silent change of attitude
toward liquor. Who would have fore
cast, even five years ago. that the city
of Glasgow would abolish liquor at
its official functions? Yet that has
come to pass. "the business’’ is not I
so respectable ns it once was. When
a great lord recently arose and said
tnat "whisky won the war” because
the by-products of the distilleries went
into the munition shops and also
made yeast for bakers, it was prompt
ly pointed out that America, without
whisky for munitions or yeast, played
no mean part in the matter.
If the “trade” could get rid of that
constant reference of America, it
would he vastly worth while. Worth
enough to pay gold into the American
“wet” campaign, anyway.
Tariff on Toys Takes tIOOJMO.OOO
Worth of Joy Out of Christmas.
Washington. Dec. 23.—The tariff
duty of 70 per cent, on toys was de
scribed today by Representative Hull,
Democrat, Tennessee, as taking “wqch
of the Christmas'joy from the children
us America.”
The amount of tlie tagiff levy in
excessive and extortionate prices on
American children for their toys dur
ing Christmas, lie said in a stateq.mil,
will easily approach $106,000,000.
The American tariff beneficiaries were
enabled to fix this rate on toys in the
turiff law by dramatising the ghost
of German competition. ’ Mr. Hull de
clared Germany was no longer a se
rious coimietilor of this country in
toy manufacturing and dsclared teb
tax was an "economic outrage.”
Tlie Chinese do not bury their dead
underground until a ”lneky day’’
(topics, -tbs corpses often being kept
in wood*n boxes for many days as
centers of disease lijfeirtfon.
Walking is not a "loKt art” in
Berlin, for hundreds of thousands of
jietlcHtrians fill the parks and boule
vards on pleasant evenings and Sun
days. 1
THE CONCOfttf DXILY TftifcUNß
BEHIND THE SCENES IN A 1
MOVIE ntODUCBE’S WORK
Chick Foil of Hard Work But One of
Most Interesting in the World.
New York. Dec. 24. —OP)—The
life ot-n movie producer is chockfull
full of hard work, but by admission
is one of the most interesting in the
world.
He spendn million*; of dollars in
carrying cut ah annual production
program. He reads aud sees all the
best plays and many of the bad ones.
He thinks nothing or ordering a com
pany “on location” in Europe, Alas
ka, Porto Rico, or the Sahara. Act
ors, outhors playwrights, poets,
artists, models, directors, statesmen,
royalty and financiers are to be
found among his acquaintances.
Take Jesse L. Lasky. When he
comes to his office in the morning, on
his desk in a long summary of tele
grams and cablegrams from the
world over.
A story has beeu purchased
especially for a star. A director has
been selected. The producing depart
ment has obtained actors of the
supporting parts, Locations have
been selected. The producing depart
ment has obtained actors of the sup
porting parts. Locations have been
designated. 11l fact, everything vir
tually is ready for actual work to
begin.
But here is a telegram to the ef
fect that the star does not like the
role: neither does shq care for the
story, and is in tears over the pros
pect of having to do it.
"One of the necessities of good
work is happiness in doing it.” said
Mr. Lasky "If the star is an im- 1
port ant one and advances good
reasons for not doing the picture,
the whole thing has to be postponed
and another actor found or another
secenario selected. I have to decide
what is to be done.”
"There also is a cable from Sing
laud. saying the company’s option’ is
about to expire on a very important
literary work. Another message* from
a company on location gives the news
that raiu has so delayed work as to -
send expenses of the production far 1
above the budget. Should the scenario
be recast, omitting the scenes in j
question, or should the company re
main a few days longer in the hope
of improved weather?
The telephone rings and a play-|
"■right tells him that the big Broad- j
way success on which he had bid '
$50,060 and had virtually closed the
deal, lias attracted a better offer from \
another producing company. Will
Mr. Lasky raise the ante?
In walks his secretary with word j
that a niece of a cabinet lucinher |
has presented a letter of introdue- |
tiou. She is beautiful and wants to !
get into the movies. Or it may be a
French or Itmwian man or woman of
title with the same ambitilpi. j
Ordinarily, an aide would handle
applicants, but owing to the impor- ;
tance of the introduction, Mr. Lasky !
sees the person. He then is late to an j
engagement with one of his favorite j
stars, or is past due at the projection j
room, where a new photoplay awaits |
his criticism.
Luncheon, and sometimes dinner.
iH devoted to a business conference
with officials of the company, play
wrights. authors and actors. There
arc men to be sent to Europe to ob
tain material for a big production.
Uiqiorta on productions already
being exhibited must be read and oc-.
casionally changes are to be made.
A man who has spent months in
the African jungles has- completed a
picture which the company may de
sire. Another photographer wants to
go to the Arties to make a film-
Thomas Meighau may want a Vaca
tion. Another dtr may ask a raise in
salary.
These—and a thousand other
questions—riie producer must de
cide. not a small one being the var
ious legal affairs.
Horsemeat Becomes French' Luxury
With Rising Prices.
Paris, Dec. 23. —(/Tb—Horsemeat.
formerly “the poor man's beefsteak.”
has become a French luxury. Scar
city of buteherable animals is given
hh the cause of its enormous increase
i n price.
One pound of choice horsemeat at
the local market recently was quot
ed 9.56 frans—about forty cents.
Pork chaps could be had for 8-56,
roast beef, for 9.06 and mutton for
7.56.
Besides the gradual disappearance
of horses "on the hoof" available for
the markets, a tax of one franc
twenty-five centimes per pound plac
ed on the meat was said to have in
fluenced higher prices.
Horaemeat is recommended by
physicians for persons suffering
from tuberculosis and all diseases of
anaemia of the blood. The sanator
iuinw of Southern Franee liuve been
severely hit by the -rise in price.
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Copyright 19M-25. P. F. Collier A Son Co. and O. P. Putnam's Son*
“BOBBED HAIR” with Marie Prevoet Is a plcturlsaUoa of this story hr
1 Warner Bros. Pictures, lae.
SYNOPSIS
Connemara Moon hour to have on
to ua fed her engagement tonight, but,
nstead, she stole away from Aunt
? elimena*s Connecticut home and has
igured in a long series of exciting ad
tentures on Long Island yachts. And
tow Auntie and her lawyer, Brewster,
earching for the girl, find themselves
\hoard another strange vessel. Salt
■nstall jtdams, one of Connie’s suitors,
t trying to explain his identity to the
tysierious Sweetie.
CHAPTER Ell—Continued
She giggled. “How stupid. You’re
lither the Prime Minister of Por
ugal or an admiral in th< Swiss
tavy.” )
Saltonstall Cabot Adams strug
{led into a sitting postifre. “Eor
>od’s sake, Miss O’Reilly, be rea
onable."
Sweetie was human. “Don't agi
ate yourself, dearie.” She sat dawn
teside him. “You're in good com
jany. None of these folks—” she
ndicated with a nod the rough lads
vho had taken command of the ab
icnt Mr. Harvey’s motor boat— “is
locial register, but Ufhy’r? good
dock. You can’t tell what a couple
if generations of money wilt do for
.hem. Now, your folks started
heir nest egg by cheating the In
tians. These boys——”
“Mfss O’Reilly—” he was very
tamest. “I haven't a doubt your
riends are charming, delightful,
perhaps a little abrupt”—he rubbed
nis shoulder—“but perfectly splen
did Yale boys. But what are they
doing here and where are we going
und—for Lord’s sake, don’t lean up
•gain that shoulder.”
GFHDHFGJD
“We can’t make no landing here
abouts."
Sweetie drew herself away stiffly.
“Beg’ pardon. I hadn't meant to
presume on the informality of the
occasion.”
“Miss O’Reilly, don’t misunder
stand me 1" •
She smiled gently.* “Oh, I don’t.”
Then her expression relaxed into
something that bordered kindness.
“I know. The Swede fetched you
a clip on the shoulder. Well, I’m
sorry. I’m almost sorry I tried to
get your goat. But you’ll admit it
was a golden opportunity after all
the welfare work you and your fam
ily have done for me and the likes
of me. It used to be a real treat
for all of us little shopgirls to be
herded out on our one Saturday
afternoon-off to a ‘picnic’ at yotjr
mother's place and be read a paper
on ‘Browning’s Influence on the
Aztecs’ and another on the 'budget
system.’ when you’re making cight
ftfty a week.”
Saltonstall Cabot Adams blushed.
“I’m sorry, Miss O’Reilly. I can
sge now how little that must have
benefited you in your chosen career
pf, say, rum running.”
“Wrong again.” said Sweetie.
“Only the coarser natures go in for
that gort of thing,"
“Then what is it?”
/ . "
She glanced up at the heavens.
“ ‘Last night- the moon had a golden
.rim,’ You don’t get nothing put of
( ine, except abuse. Here—” she
took off her jacket and rotted it into
ia pillow—“lean -your Shoulder up
j against that. It’ll be eakier."
j I|e looked at her. “You’re very
I kind,”
i“Yes, I am,” she snapped. "But
here’s where our conversation ends.
1 IT you’re sensible you’ll lay low and
finconspicuous from this on.” And
jto strengthen her point Sweetie
' aaovgd away.
In tli" January issue of True -De
tective Mysteries, a Maefaddeu pub
lication. you will find various excit
iug stories of murders, of strange hap
pening* and how different detectives
wprk.to solve erhnes. , For instances,
liifrc? are ‘'7*l" Singular Methods of
■L Hhmplirey Howelis ’ aml what hap
pened "hen’ lie and old Jim Devsry
of the police department clashed on
the Hark ness case. “Murder For
B*]e” concerns itself with the killing
of Barnett Bass. the New York chick
en king, snd is’told by Captain *Wil-
Meanwhile the rough lads, one ol
whom Sweetie had referred to a*
Swede, had the boat running rapid
ly, though by no means quietly.
Valiantly she nosed into the heavy
sea and she left a pathway of churn
ing silver behinddier. It was real
ly rather beautiful, but no one no
ticed it.
“You’re t 6 put me ashore,” saick.
Pooch.
“When I get good an’ ready," said
the Swedish person. “We came out
here to fetch something and we
ain’t fetched it yet.” .
Pooch squirmed. “I tell you it’s
dangerous.”
“Who’s there to be afraid of now
we’ve shook the Scotchman?"
Pooch shrugged N his shoulder*.
“You can’t shake a Scotchman. He’s
probably stickin’ to the side of this
very boat now. I tell there was
something uncanny in the way he
disappeared—or didn’t. And the
girl ”
"You’re'seein’ things,” interject
ed Doe, who was listening.
“I’m Hot seein’ ’em. That’s what
makes me suspicious,”
“Shut up,” said the Swede. “We
can’t make no landing •hereabouts,
anyway.” The Swede was a big
man and He had away of. speaking
with authority. “So we’re goin’
right on to 'where we started for.”
’ Pooch bided his time, but he was
not convinced. Meanwhile his eyet
watched the figure that had been s«
casually stowed aboard. Eventu
ally the figure stirred. He was sH
but suffocated by the sail cloth
that had been wrapped around him,
He was bruised and sore. He wasn’t
at all sure, either, what had hap
pened. By some maneuvering h*
managed to peer out through a
hole in the canvas. At first h{
could sec nothing. Very cautiously
be made himself free of the canvas
If they thought he was done for, sc
much the better. He would lie low
until the time came. Then all a)
oncev Lacy’s heart turned over witt
a jerk. There, huddled in a coat
close beside him, was someofie with
a rakish white turban.
“Connemara." He whispered it
but above the sound of the engint
no one could him.
The figure in the turban started
but did not speak or turn her hepd
“I—l thought you’d got awaj
with McTish. Oh, I wish to God
you had.”
The figure beside him started
again.
Lacy stretched forth an gphing
but would-be assuring, arm. “1
coqld have sworn you went over tht
side with him just at the moment )
was engaging these other vandals
You’re not hurt?”
The figure shook her head with
out turning around.
“What a night!” said Lacy. “1
like my adventure, but I like if
toned down to the drawiog-roow
pitch a bit more than this." Hi
stopped. “And I don’t cart about
having you mixed up in this either."
Lacy had away of masculine pro
tectiveness that almost never failed
to charm. The figure in the turban
knew this technique was as old a>
Adam and also th*£ it was only by
some absurd floundering of chanco
that she was its recipient, but sho
experienced a entirely
pleasurable thrill.
Certainly she had a right to play
this game a little longer. This gen
tleman knew a great many things
she wanted to know, that she had a
right to know. Besides which there
was something curiously familiar
about him. She hadn't seen his face,
of course, but his voice and his
manner were remipiscent,
"Would you care what happened
to me?" the figure in the turban
whispered.
“Care—” J His voice indicated
there whs no word in English wor
thy of conveying the intensity of
his emotion. “Os course I care, a
great deal more than usual, so
much more I’m getting a little dis
turbed about it. I’v? cared #»
many times before," he went op
with agTeeabl? candor, “that I can
recognize all the symptoms. I'm no
amateur earer. I have cared in
every capital,in Europe.”
“Really—” ’’***
“It’s a compliment, of course, to
be admired by one who comes with
a record of taste and accomplish
ment behind him.” t
The figure in the turban cleared
her throat. “There aye two school*
on that subject.”
‘ * Connemara—— ’’
The figure did not move.
(To be continued)
—i" ■ ,
Ham A. Jone*. who worked ou the
cnee. "Subbing for Suita Chum"
U the experience of Detective Mar
tin Nolan ami turn to do with Slip
pery A inly Garwon. ex-jail bird and
a robbery that did not come off. ,
Local anti-barberry laws were
passed in Ttance as early ,aa lflflff.
The common barberry was completely
eradicated from Denmark in 11)08,
since which time no black stem rust
in wheat has been noticed there.
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