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p fHE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
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VALUE OF NORTH CAROLINA FARM j
LANDS.
j .As listed for taxation, farm land in Gaston'“
\ county is twice as high as land in any other .
county in the State, according to the recent (
* annual report of the State Commissioner of
j Revenue. Lands in Gaston are listed at $181.54
| per acre against $5)8.92 in Durham, which rank.-,
, second, and $86.14 in Mecklenburg, which |
j ranks third.
j Statistics compiled from the report of the
: Commissioner were carried in a recent issue of
■ the University News Letter and show that .
i the total value of all property listed for taxa- j
: tion in North Carolina for the tax year 1924
j amounts to $2,7 14.483,919. Os this amount
: land, meaning mainl}- farm land and improve- 1
: ments thereon, is listed at $964,515,849. There
*nte more than twenty-nine million acres of land 1
listed for taxation, exclusive of town lands,
manufacturing properties outside incorporat- 1
ed -towns, mineral, timber and waterpower
properties. .Some of this land is really not
farm land, but property of lumber companies
and so on. However, for all practical pur
| poses these twenty-nine acres may be consid- j
f ered as farm land, improved and unimproved. 4
Town real estate, manufacturing'properties,
i outside incorporated towns, and mineral, tim- '
| her. and waterpower properties are listed at
| $838,811,689. Farmers pay taxes on 53 per 1
j cent, of all real property listed for taxation in j
I the State.
J . The census authorities estimated the true j
, wealth of North Carolina at four and a half
| billion dollars for 15422. It would be more <
j than that amount for 1924. The tax books J
[ show' two billion seven hundred and eleven
; million dollars listed for taxation. Thus only ’
i 60 per cent, of the true wealth of the State is
; on the tax books.
‘ With Gaston occupying the topmost rung of
on the ladder at the strangely high rate of
$181.54, strangely high by comparison, at least,
we find the County of Graham at the bottom
with a tax valuation on its farm lands of $6.02.
Concerning the land assessment, The Char
lotte News says:
“It is a far cry. of course, from the assess
ment of Gaston's farm lands to the assessment
; of similar lands in Graham County in the
i same State and, without dogmatically assert
| ing that either Gaston is too high or Graham
: is too low. both affirmations can be made if we
; a re'proceeding on the assumption that there
ehoald be some degree at least of identity be
tween taxable values in this State.
“It is the variation that makes the whole
thing appear so ridiculous.
“It is for no outsider to declare what ought
; to be the taxable basis in one county and what
in another, but it ought to be the' duty of the
State to say with all the authority at its com
mand that there shall be that uniformity at
least which comes about frpm the practice of
| making the tax . books tell something of the
* truth about real values.”
p The University News-Letter remarks in
| timely and pertinent fashion “some counties
approach true values on the tax books, while
j in others the policy is to,assess at some agreed
upon per cent, of the true value, as 55 per cent,
in Orange county, 75 per cent, in Durham
; County, and so on. No one has been able to,
give a legitimate reason for our policy of al
ii lowing the various counties to list property ac
| cording to local likes and dislikes. And what
| is even woflje, there is often no uniformity in
p \listmg-property within a county. Some pay
W% tq» 'lpmih, oA»ers not eprrngh. The most
. casual perusal of The, logal tax. sheets is the on*
lly proof needed to substantiate this point. For
fc. pure ftcfidtvthere is nothing that beats the tax
i boofcs. To illustrate: the ownef of one of the
I inost attractively furnished homes in a pros
| pwcms jmd-State town Hsts his personal prop
i
erty at three hundred dollars. Oriental rugs,]
- antiques, the motor Car and other items do not
have much value to him, on the tax books!”
We heard a story something like this right
t here in Concord. A man friend that a
t, mistake had been made in his taxes when he
s saw an increase in the amount. Asked if he
had listed anything not listed the year before
he said no, and went ahead to mention some
■ of the things listed each year. And included
in the list Were two new Ford cars, listed at
sls each!
If people would really list their property at
■ anything near its real worth the tax rate in
every county in the State could be reduced
and still there would be more money for the
counties than ever before.
CAN’T WE GO STILL FURTHER?
Some of the book companies doing business
with the State of North Carolina have agreed
to cut the prices on the books. This reduction
has been made possible by the fight waged by
certain North Carolina officials when they
learned that despite contracts with some com
panies the latter were selling books for more
in this State tflan in Tennessee.
However, the reduction should not end the
matter, for it may- be possible that the books
can be made still cheaper. The State Board
of Education should investigate the system
used in every State in the Union so as to be
in position to make recommendations to the
next General Assembly.
Full inquiry made result in big savings to!
the people of the State. Take for instance the!
State of Kansas. There, ' according to N. L. |
Broughton in an article in The Raleigh News j
and Observer, the State leases plates, prints j
its own text-books and sells them at cost. In ;
other States no doubt other systems are used ,
.and it is only reasonable to presume that we
can well afford to take advantage of the exper-!
iences of other States in trying to reach a solu-!
tion to this hiatter.
In his article in The News and Observer Mr.
Broughton gave the following prices paid in ]
Kansas as against prices paid in North Caro-:
lina (four books mentioned):
Algebra, in Kansas, cost.7o cents, retail 81!
cents; in North Carolina, $1.32.
Arithmetic (Elementary), in Kansas, cost j
36 cents, retail 41 cents; in North Carolina,!
$1.13.
Arithmetic (Advanced), in Kansas, cost 38!
cents, retail 55 cents; in North Carolina. $1.43.1
History, in Kansas, cost 60 cents, retail 6!)
cents; in North Carolina (2), $1.50 and $1.84.,
English (Bonk 2) in Kansas, cost 36 cents,!
retail 35 cents; in North Carolina $1.32.
Snglish (Book 2) in Kansas, cost 36 cents, j
retail 41 cents; in North Carolina, $1.32.
WISECRACKS.
Hope the fellow who predicted a cool summer has spent j
most of his -time in a telephone booth.—Ledger,
land, Fla.
They wear rouge instead of veils. But veils are not j ,
expenesivp. Why not wear powder for stockings?—Sun.
Durham. X. e.
A New Jersey preacher says must persons afflicted!;
with tin l "psycho-analysis’ fad will hr cured if you ask
them to spell it. At that it is easier than deanthroiKtnior
plrzation.—Register. Mobile. Ala.
Always look to -re if medicine is marked “poison,”
ami read radio programs for "sopranos.”—Ledger, Lake- j
land. Fla.
A university professor discusses the ’•homing" ten-1
(hairy of inanimate objects, but of course makes an ex
eepron ip the ease of the lost umbrella.—-Register, Mo
bile, Ala.
Mussolini S effort to dictate the kind of clothes to be
worn by the jvomen of Italy may make it necessary for!
him to shave his head.—Banner. Nashville. Teiin.
Europe agrees to pay us everything left over after we |
agree to cancel everything she owes us.—Bee. Danville, i
Va.
FRAUD IN B.VNKRI PTCY.
New York lYprld.
In a series of articles beginning today The World dis
closes some startling facts concerning a type of commer
cial fraud which has attained large proportions during
rhe past three years. This is the fake failure or “crook
ed bust, by which legitimate business concerns in the
l nited States are defrauded yearly to the extent of some
$250,00th000.
Fraudulent bankruptcies are not a new evil; it is the
insidious methods by which they are devised and the di
mensions which they have attained which now make them
a peculiar problem. T util recently the harpies who (have !
devised these huge swindles have had nearly everything |
in their favor. Manufacturers have given them easy
credit; when the fictitious bankruptcies came the cred
itors have been more anxious to settle for a few emits on
tlie dollar than to prosecute. Even wheu prosecutions
have been initiated the Government attorneys have been
■so swanrped with work and the court calendars have
been so jammed that the one year during which the of
fenders were amenable to criminal proceedings might
-lapse before the ease could be called. And when a
conviction was obtained the average prison sentence was
in easy way for the criminal to “earn' his loot.
Only during the past year has any substantial prog
ess been made. A new federal statute which became ef
fective this month put* more teetli into the Bankruptcy
Law. Thanks to the excellent co-operation between the
United States Attorney's office and the Natiuual Asso
ciation of Credit Men, some notorious offenders are now
serving prison terms. Much remains to be done. More
adequate court machinery and more careful credit rat
ings would help to check the evil, and creditors them
i selves can co-operate by exercising greater caution in
, taking on new accounts and by refusing to compromise
with a money settlement when fa’lure is not honest.
. * A JOURNALISTIC FEAT.
1 Winston-Salem Journal. >
1 The "Progress Edition” recently issued by the Ruth
- erf-oed ■ County News is an outstanding accomplishment
. in North Carolina weekly journalism. The ed'tion eon
tains one hundred pages, or six hundred columns. The
‘ told. Editor R. E. Price, of The News, is thoroughly
1 dory of Rutherford Comity's progress is graphically
“sold" on h)s county. He is convinced that “no comity
in, the State, is making He says the
t farmers; of-, Rutherford "lire nfejfiag strides—
- improved methods and diversifying
r “In good roads and schools,” be continues. "Ruther
t ford is not surpassed by any county in the State. In
“ Itralth, public buildings, and pure Anglo-Saxon stock
' we lead the State. It is nothing unusual for people -to
live to be 90 to 100' and mqre years of age in this c0un
..... , ...
CoNc6lii‘ DAiLV TftifeUNE
ESCAPING CONVICTS W*
HAVE BEEN CAPTURED
“We Will Get Them All Sooner or
Later,” Says Warden Norman.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Waiter Hotel
Raleigh, Sept. 3.—Prisoners are
like banauas —they come and. go in
bunches, according to prison authori
ties. who report the recapture of three
voluntary "vacationists” in one day.
J. B. Vickers, Charlotte “killer” j. s
back iu prison, though wounded when
he tried to escape when in the shadow
of the prison walls. I key McMil
lan, who escaped from the,Polk prison
I farm after u spree on tomato wine, is
being held in Greensboro, and Syl
vester McNeill, sentenced from Samp
son county in 1916. has been taken
into custody in Long Island, Vir
ginia. Tlie recapture of the other
prisoners who escaped recently is now-
considered only a matter of days by
prison authorities. ,
Vickers was serving a ten-year term
for murder from .Mecklenburg county,
where lie was convicted on circum
stantial evidence of ’.laving beaten a
fellow workman to death wit a ham
mer or monkey wrench, robbing him
of his weeks' pay. then throwing his
body in a clump of bushes. He es
caped August 29th in Charlotte, where
he had been taken for a physical ex j
animation by the veterans bureau. He
had served eighteen months overseas
nnd had been gassed. He was cap
tured in Spartanburg. S. ,C., A-ugust ;
23rd nnd hroght * back to Raleigh,
where lie tried to escape just before
reaching the prison. He was shot
by the deputy who had him in charge,
but is now improving and believed to I
be out of danger. “1 don't blame
him for shooting me." Vickers said,
j (Vickers died later at night in the
] state prison. I
! Ikey McMillan, negro, sentenced to
| from twenty to thirty years for mur-1
I der from Guilford county, wVs one
| of two negroes that escaped* from the
prison farm near Raleigh a little
! more than a week ago, after having
made a quantity of tomato wine from
I stolen tomatoes and staging an orgy.
He was put in solitary confinement
! for pmskmeut, but an accomplice
! clipped tlie locks from tlie door nnd
j set him free while tlie other prisoners
were at supper. He was captured
when lie turned up in Greensboro,
1 where he was well known, after a
i former convict had "tipped off’ the
! police.
i Sylvester McNeill, negro, sentenced
i to a long term from Sampson county
ill 1916 for attempted rape, and who I
1 escaped in 1922. lias been captured
| in Virginia, after being free for four
! years, and is being he'd for prison
authorities, they have been informed.*
McNeil is a clever negro and has
| ieuded capture for a long time, but
i this time venture back too near home
1 and was taken.
1 “We got them all sooner or later," !
said Dr. J. H. Norman, warden of
| the state prison, "it generally takes |
! about thirty days for a convict who
i lms escaped to cease being cautious i
j and come out from his hiding places, i
i CALL OF DEMOCRATIC f UIMAR- f
IES AND CONVENTION. j
j As Chairman of the Democratic j
Executive Committee of Cabarrus j
County. I hereby request the Demo- j
cratic voters of said county to assem- |
ble at their respective voting places j
on Saturday, September 4th, 1926, at
2 o’clock I\ M., for the purpose of |
expressing their preference in the se- j
lection of a Democratic County Tick- [
et, and for the purpose of sending del- j
egates to the county convention, j j
Concord. Kannapolis and Mt. Pleas- j
ant will vote by ballot beginning at j
; 2 P. M„ and closing at 6 o'clock I’, j
M.. and all persons voting in said';
boxes will be considered delegates to
the County Convention.
The County Convention will he held
! at the court house in Concord, N. C.,
: on the following Saturday, September !
111th, 1926, at 2 o'clock P. M.
i All voters, men and women, re
j gardlcss of past political affiliations,
! who propose to support the Demo-
I ntic ticket in the November election,
i are cordially invited to participate in
the coming primaries and Convention.
C. A. ISENIIOUR, Chairman,
Cabarrus County Dem. Ex.'-Com.
16-e. o. d.
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Melrose Leads all, not just a
| Little, but away above ayd I>e
‘ yond all, and has done so for
' more than 25 years.
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‘ | in Quality.
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I But just as soon as they do, we begin
1 1 to get on their trail, and we soon
have them. A man can conceal him- j
•' self for four or five weeks fair’jr well, I
but not for much longer than that, f ir
; then he begins to hanker for bis old j
j associates and his old haunts and wiil |
. almost invariably wander back. And i
i then we get him.”
FULL PARDON GRANTED
WYATT, HOLT’S SLAYER
Former Raleigli Detective Had Served
Six Months of Penitentiary Sen
tence. *
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
'( Raleigh, Sept. 3.—Jesse Wyatt, for
| mer linleigli policeman, sentenced to
a term of eig’.it mentha in the state
prison last December for manslaugh
ter. following the fatal shooting of
Stephen S. Holt, of Smithfield, by
Wyatt, who mistook Ho't’ft automo
bile for that of a liquor runner, is
today « free mail as the result of an
unconditional pardon granted him by
Governor A. \V. McLean. Wyatt
1 lias served five months and seventeen
days of his sentence, and would have
been discharged from the prison Sep
tember 22nd, owing to time off for
; good behavior. Governor McLean has
steadfastly refused to parole Wyatt,
j though such action has been requested
I from the time he was first sentenced.
However, being convinced that the
j shooting of Holt was largely acci
dental, but at the same time believ-
I ing that W.vntt should serve enough
;of liis sentence to let. it be a lesson
| to ethers to be careful in the use of
l firearms, even though they be officers
! of the law. Governor McLean lias de
|i-’iiied to act until at the present time,
j I tern use of Wyatt's excellent record
| while a member of tlie Raleigli police
: department and because on question
of reformation was involved, a pardon
I was grunted rat lieu than a parole,
since g parole always implies subse
quent reformation and good behavior
during the time of the parole.
Many recommendations for c.ein
: ency for Wyatt were received, among
ihem a letter from Judge Garland E.
Midyette, the trial judge. Vio said
| thin he was convinced that the shoot
ing was what the public would call
incidental, and that the minimum
] term <f four months wits sufficient
! punishment. The mother and broth
-1- of the man shot down by Wyatt
: also wrote that they felt justice had
been done and that they were not op
[Hised to the granting of clemency to
3L ~
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a heavy pair of soles that will
stand up to their duty unflinch
ingly. iVe will remake your
shoes and save you the cost of
a new pair less the reasonable
price we charge for repairs.
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your skin needs '
i Cleansing, Toning, and Nour- ,
ishing. And so Elizabeth Arden
advises that you use each day
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Salons: ,
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SOMEBODY' BEEN FEEDING HIM
Wyatt. So without in any way ojii
tloniug the act of Wyatt ami warning
the officers of the law generally that
they must use caution in the use of
firearms, the governor granted the
pardon.
Chief Winder Hryan, of the Raleigh
police department, said that Wyatt
would not be given a position in the
department now. but that it might be
considered at a later date.
The youngest executive head of any
great railway system in the world is
E. W. Beatty, president of the Can
adian Pacific railway, who reached his
post at the age of forty.
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Buying Rugs here is very easy. We have large tables on
whjgh 1° display them. It is easy to see just what a rug is.
Come and see.
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Out of the High Rent District Where Parking Space Is
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