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PAGE FOUR | file Concord Daily Tribune — W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tbs .use lor republic# Uon of all nows credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lo eal news published herein. rights of republication of spec ial dispatches herein are also reserved. Special Representative FROST, LANDIS A KOHN •25 Fifth Avenue, New York T Peoples’ Gas Building, Chicago p i . 1004 Ccndler Building, Atlanta Entered as second class mail matter at the postoffice at Concord, N. C., un * der the Act of March 3, 1879. “ ! SUBSCRIPTION RATES In the City of Concord by Carrier: i One Tsar $6.00 Sy’Mx Months 3.00 Three Months 1.50 ■ One Month -50 Outside of the State the Subscription ’ Is the Same as in the City ’ Out of the city and by maU in North Carolina the following prices will pre vail: * One Tear -i $5.00 - Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 Leas Than Three Months, 50 Cents a Month All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance RAILROAD SCHEDULE In Effect Jan. 30, 1926. 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 t ; No. 45 To Charlotte 3 :45 P. M a I No. 35 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M No. 29 To Birmingham 2:35 A. M No. 31 To Augusta 6:61 A. M No. 33 To New Orleans 8:15 A. M No. 11 To Charlotte 8:60 A. M * No. 135 To Atlanta 8:37 P. M No. 39 To Atlanta 9:50 A. M No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M Train No. 34 will stop iff 1 Concord to take on passengers going to Wash Ington and beyond. Train No. 37 will stop here to dis chargepassengere coming from be yond Washington. All trains stop in Concord except No. 38 northbound. • I X—FOR TODAY— I [U Bible Thooy’.tl memorized, will prove e [il JESUS SAID:—And I. if I be lift ed up, will draw all men unto me.— John 12:32. . IT’S NOT FOR ECONOMIC REAS ONS APPARENTLY. The Concord Chamber of Com merce has offered to operate a branch of the license bureau of the State in this city without cost to the State. Feeling that they could render a real T service to the auto owners of the coun- 1 ty and city, officers of the local eham- i ber made the proposition to the State j and their offer was rejected. Under the plan proposed the State , would siend the license tags to Con cord. just as they will to the twenty odd sub-stations in the State, and an attache of the local Chamber of Commerce would issue them to the auto owners of the county. The usual commission would not be claimed by the Chamber, the idea being that the local branch would be of great ser vice to people living in and near this city. Certainly that proposal seems fair and just enough, aud the refusal of the State to accept it indicates that some thing more than economy is behind the decision to do away with the branch offices. More than sixty sub stations were operated last year and the number this year has been reduced to less than thirty. It has been con tended by State officers that it cost too much to keep the stations in oper ation. yet there would be no cost un der the Concord plan. In fact the plan would mean a saving to auto own ers. Under the new ruling they will either have to drive to Charlotte or Salisbury, each city 20 miles from Concord, or send to Raleigh for their tags. "• ( That means anything but economy to tlie local people. In such matters as this there should be no set rule. The auto license bureau should be op erand for the best interest of the i>eo ple, and Cabarrus and Concord peo ple can best be served by the estab lishment of the branch office in Cou j cord. WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPEN-. ED HERE? In England one Ignatius Lincoln was executed for the murder of a : man Whose home be entered. His jf an exiled former M. I*., was j | s on the continent when he heard that li his son. 20 years of age. was to be I- ..executed by the government for the fc : -murder. He set out at once for Lon *'Bon, determined if possible tv see bis . non before the duy of execution. K ; It is reported that 50,000 persons I • ‘in England signed a petition asking I' that the day of execution be postponed “ until the boy's father reached London. * Tile petition did not halt the verdict ' of the court,, J . Wonder what would have happen ed to such a prisonecr in this oouli fe - ‘ry >'■*" the dm 'place he probably Ifc would ~hpve escaped serious punish- Ej. lnent (echuse lie was only 20 years of age, and if he had been sentenced to | ; 'die Ml manner of pressure would . have keen brought to bear to stay the gs execution until the father arrived. j. | > England has few murders tor the simple reason, that murderers there seldom escape the law. Sentiment does not enter into the matter at aIL If a man there takes the law into his oVn hands he is almost certain to pay for his deed. That is the reason we i have more murders in some of our i cities than does the whole' of Eng land. THE SOUTHERN EXPANDING. Four million dollars are to W spent in the South soon by the Southern Railway systejn for improvements on six of its southern lines. The South ern is making money now with its ser-1 vice to the South and very wisely it is expending much of this profit on bet ter facilities for a growing section. Approximately 1,000 miles of track age will be constructed to provide bet ter passing facilities and roadways and structures will be strengthened to permit the use of heavier ami more powerful locomotives. The lines affected by the improve urant program are: Chatfanooga to Macon via Atlanta ; Bristol to Chat tanooga ; Chattanooga to Memphis: Richmond to Danville: Winston-Sal em to Charlotte: Selma to Suggs ville, Ala. On the line between Chattanooga and Macon, an important section of the Southern’s route to Florida from the west, electric automatic signals will be installed, together with tele phonic train dispatching circuits The improvement between Winston- Salem and Charlotte will give an al ternate line of heavy capacity be tween Greensboro and Charlotte. Those between Selma and Suggesville will increase train capacity between Selma and the port of Mobile. Those on other lines w’ill w'ork for general improvement of the service, the an nouncement said. Praises Mr. Simmons on Work on the Tax BilL Washington. March 2.—Senator Simmons continues to receive words of commendation of hi# work in con nection with 4 the new’ revenue biil. JS. S. Parker. Jr., of Greensboro, writes the senator: “There are some of the adminis tration features that I could wish changed, but of course the bill is a great improvement on any wc have before, and in spit*e of the fact that you represent a minority party, the! improved features, both in tax rales | apd in administration matters, are! largely attributable to you. The great middle class of the people, v:ho. are the salt of the earth, should be grateful to you, and the Democratic ‘ party everywhere recognizes you as | f?ne of its leaders, and in North Caro-1 lina I believe every citizen feels a] pride in your achievement.’’ The Chicago Federation of Labor has a membership of 400,000. t I DON'T FORGET Oliver Day FRIDAY, MARCH sth Best Improved Walking Cultivator ij made for only $37.50 i No. 10 Genuine Oliver Points, only ij; each 37 l-2c ; No. 13 Genuine Oliver Points, ea. 45c 10 Per Cent. Off on All Farming Im- jj: plements One Day Only Yorke & Wadsworth Co. * Phone 30 v Phone 30 ij; The Old Reliable Hardware Store i j OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOeDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCCOOOOOOOOQOC I A Woman’s Crowning Beauty Is Her Hair I By scientific methods we aid nature by giving you a, I head of Beautiful Ringlets, the envy of your friends. We Specialize Permanent Waving and Marcelling 1 Our Methods Please. ' 1 PHONE Mft FOR APPOINTMENT : 1 'V ' ■ ■ i Parks-Belkßzailty Shoppe 8ooooooe»ooooooooooooooooooow»ooooooooooooooooo§ . "- ~ V I ■- : V 'vV--.-. t , ! STANLY IS WINDING UP s, CONSOLIDATED PLAN Contract Has Been Awarded For !| Last Three ot the County's New J 1 Schools. j Albemarle, March 2.—The. contract ! for the construction of three new cen r. solidated school buildings has just ■ ljoen let by Stanly county’s hoard of education. These buildings are all to be of brick and thoroughly modern. One is to be. located at Qskboro. which will have twenty standard class rooms and an auditorium; an ' other is to be located at New Lou- I don, which will have twelve standard I I class rooms and an auditorium; the ■! other will be located at Richfield and < will have ten standard class room and i ! an oduitorium. i With the completion of these three new buildings all of Stanly county’s consolidated schools will be provided with substantial brick buildings with only one exception, and a four-year construction program hi which 121 standard class rooms in substantial brick buildings have been provided for the children of rural consolidated schools will be completed. This con struction program places Stanly coun ty among the foremost in county school development in North Carolina. This building program has been car ried out without the necessity of is suing even one dollar of school bonds. Community co-operation, a moderate tax levy for the purpose and Stanly county's allotment from flic State's building fund have accomplished this result. The building cost has been only $2,000 per class room, which is said to be far below the average. Consolidation in Stanly county's schools has been phenomenal and is now practically complete. Five yjars ago there were in the county thirty lone-teacher, thirty two-teaeher and four small high schools. Today there are oitly six one-teacher, six two teaeher schools, while there are four teen consolidated schools of from six to more than twenty teachers. And how. according to a recent article in State School Facts, published at Raleigh, Stanly county ranks second in percentage of pupils in graded class rooms. Added to this record is the fact that Stanly county ranked second in school attendance last year. Thirty-nine trucks carry about 2.300 Stauly county children to school five days in the week and this is made possible in part by Stanly's wonder ful system of highways. The county will he placed about second in rank for transportation of pupils this year. Another distinction which tSie school authorities here claim, is the | efficiency, of the teaching force and | according' to a recent report of Dr. | N. W. Walker, of Chapel Hill, to the president of the university out of a | total of 549 teachers from about sis- ; teen centers in tlie state enrolled in ! the extension course in education. 213 j of them were in Stanly county. Stan- | i ly county also led in this work last i j year. I The value of Stanly county school J ! property now, not including the city school property, amounts to over one- I half million dollars. THE CONCUR DAILY TRIBUNE ;'j ’tj. .' if"' < V s ti/ i. i •*„ I Publishad by arrangement with First National Picture*, Inc. 1 [ THE STORY THUS FAR Joanna, a pretty, ultramodern. ; shop girl is told by her employer i shat she has been given a million dollars to spend by an unknown . benefactor. She I* not even to ,*now his name, there are no “con iltions” to meet before she can get I the money. Nothing more than 'his can be gained from banker I’ggleston, nor his suave, man cbovt-town nephew, Brandon, who informs her that he intends to make love to her while" helping her write her first check. Dazed by this sudden deluge of wealth, hurt because her friends and acquaintances will not believe in her she returns home happy after an orgy of buying to find John, her old-fashioned sweetheart 'nd Brandon awaiting her. Bran ion is suave, John silent —almost boorish. After Brandon leaves John informs Joanna that he docs not believe she came by the money honorably. He is angry. CHAPTER VII. (Continued) “I haven’t lost my head, Jo," he said. “It’s you. And 1 was afraid I was afraid it was coming, some thing like this. 1 knew you could never weaw'your skirts up to your knees, Jo, and flavor yonr kisses with cocktails, and be as you ought to be. You've laughed at me and called me a fool when I've told you that what you and your friends think is smart is only polished dirt. ! wasn’t old fashioned, Jo: It was only that 1 wanted my girl to be different, and better—aud safer! I could never get away with It. though—so whatever it is. it's hap pened, hasn't it?'' He had not rais. 1 his voice He had kept hi 3 even tone. The sor rowful, quizzical smile remained at his lips. Joanna was helpless; ev er)- fibre of her was wounded and useless. All that she could say was: “You really don't mean it—John! You (dent think that I would . . . !” j “Think?”, he replied. "Think? j Why. what I am thinking Is, that j oven to-night, when you must have I known that you would have to tell me something, some better lio than you planned, you meet me—mebt me with this other man here too-* in a gown like that! Half bare! Trufe t’6 the last to the morals of your kind, and your crowd:’’ She heard her own voice, slit* pleading with him; but it sounded as if it were coming back to her from a great distance. The horror in her eyes had spread through he body jfcd numbed it. She laughed, and cried out that he was playing with her. Then she fell into a chair and shook it with her sobs But, so suddenly that it the man who watched hor. she got onto her feet and faced him. Her words were very distinct, now: “You said, a while ago, John, that vou couldn’t get away with it when you wanted me to be different than I was—than my kind and my crowd. Well, there’s a lot more Just like you! You didn't have anything to get away with. And you're not getting away with any thing now!” She Chought, Becretly, that he would protest, and that after awhile he would be himself again. , and take her into his arms, and 1 ask to be forgiven, and believe and | kiss her. She would explain about i Brandon, about Graydon and Eg • gleston, and he would enter Into | her mystery with her. But he went i oat of the room, slowly, put on his i hat and coat, and shut the door | behind him. i Joanna sank to the floor. In the i. midst of the pretty pieces of the [ alabaster box In which she had i treasured the only Jewel she had. CHAPTER VIII. 1 Joanna Makes a Decision After a time the girl, huddled on the floor ih a heap of bobbed 1 brown hair and clinging gown and | silver stockinged legs, stilled the i birth of a new sob and stopped the i convulsive tremble o< her bare, vel | vat soft shoulder*. Her eyes, as i quick to dry as to dim with mols i ture, which Is the why of youth, se | lected a spot on the parlor carpet, i Just beyond her too*, and fixed on i It. So ahesat vary quiet, find stared, [ straightening out the Jumble ot I her bitter, vary bitter thoughts, i She realised that that she couldn’t [ think sensibly, for the things that > had happened during the hectic 1 day were not sensible things—any | of them. It was a trait of bar’s to rebel when thing* weren’t right; she couldn’t analyse, or trobe for rea sons, or ask herself if she were to blame. That la. ah* oould ask ts she were to hlsaM when things got Into a jumble, hut her lnvar ’ iahle answer waa "No!” Tims yra« when the spirit of Joanna was submissive and amenable to disci pline, and to the learning of les sons out of experience. That was a long time ago—before she had to make her own way about and compete with other girls with the ones who were on the square, 4s well as those who weren't. She gradually loet her sense of lubmig stvenoes then. /Whoever criticlisd her, except hereqlf, wrong. As her tongoa grew smarter, more and mors accustomed to giving than It received; and her lips grew { redder and mors provocative, and j her skirts tfccame shorter, every- admittedly loved. Even he oould never understand a girl—a real, square and above-board girl who ■ lad to fight like the devil to keep ip with the other girls of this day ' and age! John had objected to 1 almost everything she did or wore ' or said. He’d preach by the hour. ; Once, In thie same parlor—this lingy, frayed hoaven-wlll-protect he-worklng-girl "drawing room only,” John had brought her a lot if clippings from a newspaper. 1 Some funny old bishop had said 1 young women ought to wear mother hubbards or something like ' -hat, and somebody else so old ; fashioned that he read bed time - itories had told the» newspapers : that in his day girls didn't take an occasional drink out of their part ner’s flasks. Good Lord! In his day! He and Noah were so buw advertising a flood In their young days they couldn’t appreciate hav : ing to take a nip of something else besides water Just to keep up apj pearances! And John couldn't un derstand that neither she nor any Brandon had come lor her —he had chosen the brightest of the fashionable rendezvous tor their evening. girl she Knew really Uked the beastly stuff, nor cigarets. Simply had to go in' for both or else go into dead storage. John wa« wrong, then: Tonight, his insane suspicion of the money that had been given ner for a rea son she couldn't fathom, simply proved how wrong he had always been—about her. Ana he wasn’t coming back, as she was sure that he would when he slammed the front door. Always, their quarrels had ended In a kiss and a few min utes of wonderful 6ilence very close to each other. To-morrow, of course, she could go to him ahd straighten out his mind, easily. She could even take him to Mr. Graydon, or to Eggleston, himself. Then John would be contrite, they would have thelx silence together, and make their plans. That was what she could do. But this had been a deep nurt. Being so utterly ufijust. the bitterness of the wound was Just a bit magnified by Joanna’s admission to herself that other times she hadn't had near so much right to fight bock. He'd come to her, now, would John. Come without calling, and say, 'Tin sorry!” When she had definitely sealed this bitter verdict in heT rebellious mind, Joanna was conscious of Mrs. Adams, sitting on the sofa in a corner of the room. She had come in quietly and had not dis turbed the reflections of the girt on the floor. Joanna smiled up at her wanly: "Funny, isn’t ttU’ she said. “Ev erybody thinks! It seems nobody can believe anything, these days, that's good to believe. About girls, I mean. First the chauffeur. He was earnest, too, because he thought he had a perfectly rlne i date with me, and deliberately ■ crabbed It. Then Cohen, who as much told me- that furs tor , maids were symbols of darkness, i Now John! Funny, isn’t it?" , The landlady, whose kindly old ! face was a mirror of all her men tal transformations, nodded her ; head. “Yea, Jo, It's tunny, but maybe : Its not so funny, either. Some ■ times I don't sleep nights thinking about you girls, you and Georgie I and the others I've got and had. i I’d try to be a mother to all of you, it you’d let me, but you never will. ! Georgie told me day before ydster ; day or. maybe, it -was the day. be t fore, that mothers were too old - fashioned for up-to-date girls to be i bothered with. She said that moth i ers who were any good were like - flannel underwear. Wore well, I - think She said, but dldfit have i class . ” l "Ye*, that’s like Georgie,” Jo- I anna agreed, from her place on the i floor- "Bat I don't think she's i really In bad. She’s Is with a i crowd <hm travels prerty fast, and i T< Aisii.» , kn«w"only vaguely r yma say. words coming' klowty, ‘‘that yon haven’t had, what you call ft smash ? All that money yo» : had In your pock*rtiook, and yon say there’s more besides. Yon know !” l Before the steady gaze orvthe girl on the floor, the landlady fal tered. The eyes that stared at her made her uncomfortable—uneasy with her doubts. “You see, Jo," ] she argued, plaintive In her self justification,’’ the things a girl like !< you talks about, and knows about, and the places you go! Georgia wear* her clothes too tight and she says that's wha girls are supposed ! -to do nowadays. And you wear dresses that you ought to never cross'your knees in—you oughtn't to sit down at all; it's worried mo , a lot And you smoke, Jo, and I’Ve heard you swear, too. That's why [ John was ready tq believe f" “Ypu mean that’s why you be lieve, toot? “1 “won’t believe, if you tell m« it isn't so, jo. I’ll just believe la you and Til take back the money you gave me.” Suddenly the land lady was confused. “I’m sorry, Jo but I put the five hundred dollars, and nobody knows what a god send it would be to me, In the pock.t of your old wrap. The coat’s on your bed, now. If you say It coin* to you all right, like you say be- i fore. I'll take It dear, and bless j you for It Joanna scrambled onto her f«<t < straightened her frock, brought s •trap that had fallen back, onto her shoulder and, without a word, ran i up the stairs to her room. JVhen j she reappeared she held tho bill. She put it into Mrs. Adams’ hand and folded the worn dngers ab-xu ! it. Neither she nor the landlsAy ( spoke. Mrs. Adams pulled ths i bobbed head down and kissed it ! “For once," Joanna n>mark*4 when she straightened up, "I w.at a drink. I'm going to wait until Georgie comes in, if she makes It early enough, and if her boy doesn't get the air too quiea I'll buy them a taxi wo fie wo hunt an all-night bootlegger.” Georgie arrived, cany—oae o'clock. Her companion of the eve- i nlng was sufflctenly equipped te i supply Joanna's unaccustouwu J need, ana glad of the -v~euse for t lingering over his dismissal To \ anna's bitterness v.us ci-.ttawcd, ] but far ft-on banished, when a I streak oi gray, stealing a--rows tfce ] court of sordid back yards, warned j the t-o pajama-clad girl* propped ( up in Joanna's bed, that If Utey were to aave any sleep at all . against the exclte-ment3'of the day to come they must get between the covers and trust to the hn>ieen»eM to awaken them. Many ho<j*» had been built, some of stone that ware destined to stand forever, seme cards that would be blown nw»y. With her awakening to tbe naw day —the first full day of her new estate, varying emotions rushed ia confusion into Joanna's mind. Jfar first thought was of John. WUh it came the surge of recollection of the scene in the “drawing Toom only.” She winced at the sudden memory. She would get hold of him right away. She wouldn’t loae a minute—before he went to hu j work! She buried her hand Ut the I hair on the pillow beside her. I Georgie had stubbordly shut bet eyes, refusing to be ordered up by any housemaid, but opened them wide at the viciousnes3 of Jotitgi'e tug at her shingled head. “Pile out and get dressed,” J*- j anna commanded. "And be quick I —you can make up afterwards. I Bring some things in and we’li oak Mrs. Adams to let us cook th«u in the kitchen for breakfast—nad l want you to telephone from dawa I stairs on your way out." Georgie, her wits not fully gath ered, broke off short In a general remark to the effect that Bum* people had thefr crust. Thing* came back to her, especially that she must send word to the star* that ehe’d broke a leg, or her n«*k, and couldn't show up at the •■Oh counter until the next .day, and that Joanna was going to take her shopping. She blotted out her firwt remark with: “Surest thing ywe know.” And, In her own concep tion of the way people kept their , affairs straight, she added:) “I’ll make the telephone in aboei two minutes, What did you eay John's number is?” But Joanna decided she wouldn't telephone to John. The hurt was too lively, and bitter. She did«l even want to ever hear from him again. Brandon hod said sbe mustn’t make mistakes. That her perspective was no longer that of the shop girl’s. Brandon! Who, and what, was he? He must b* mixed up in this strange affair of hor's in some way, hut he. denied it. She didn’t Uke him. \ Why’ She wee afraid of him. Why l Wasn’t H because she was afraid of him. of hie association with her unexplainable good fortune r that she didn't like him? He had been so quick to begin hie ac quaintance with her, end he freak, ly said he waa going to be devotee ' to her. . Yet Brandon had nothing to do with her amended command to Godrgie who had whistled her wag into the few clothes she habitually wore and who was asking what she’d say to John when she got Mm. , Joenna replied,. tart ly- “ft don’t 'WWtf’you'to qsU hta. Dont be silly.Tl was .only' joklnk. 'I Jost get the bfeaktaet. Take a fivo I hundred dollar bill and tell mo what delicatessen men look Uke - whan they have fits.” 7* ” Jbell-harris furniturecol if / I 1 “A RESTFUL SLEEP” | f . ’ A ’I ) When in your bedroom the furniture and floor cover- i j lings all-merge into a happy setting that spells a restful i I | “good-night”; where deep springs and buoyant mattress I | give assurance of bodily ease. Each effect in the ropm | gradually loses it’-s distinctness the pictures become hazy, and Soon one is fast asleep—in a sleep that knows no dreaming. 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