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|lp The Concord Daily Tribune
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DRUMMING UP WAR WITH MEX
ICO. . | ;
There is new trouble between the Unit
ed States and Mexico and unless certain
tactics are dropped there will be blood
shed.
Take the attitude of The Washington
Post, for example. The Post, it should
be remembered in this connection, is
owned by Ned McLean, the friend of
hall and the late President Harding and
the man who was used for a screen for a !
time in the passing of SIOO,OOO between I
Edward L. Dohenv and ball. His opin-'
ion, then, may be accepted as outlining j
toe tee.ing of certain moneyed interests, i
especially interests associated with oil.
In discussing the situation in Nicara
gua as it relates to the difficulties be
tween the United States and Mexico, a
recent editorial in the Post said in part: |
If war should develop between the
United States and Mexico it will not he
the fault of the United States. The Am-I
crican people have no grievance against 1
the people of Mexico. American ‘oil
interests’ can not bring on war. Calles,
however, can provoke war. and if lie per
sists in his present course he will surely
clash with the United States. No Presi
dent of the United States has ever toler
ated the prolonged and flagrant violation
of American rights or the establishment i
of an alien system of government upon
the ruins of an American republic.
"The fact that communism and not im
perialism is making an attack upon the j
republic of Nicaragua does not alter the]
obligation of the United States to en
force the Monroe doctrine in all its vig-1
or. Communism is merely another
phase of imperialism. It seeks the ad
vantage of a few oligarchies under the
pretense of fighting for the proletariat.
It is a deadly an enemy of the American
system of self-government as was the
French occupation of Mexico. But for
the Monroe doctrine and Abraham Lin
coln Mexico would have been under he
heel of European imperialisin. It has
passed under the heel of communism,
which is destroying the ancient rights of
the people. Communism is now Peeking
to extend its power over other republics
in defiance of the Monroe doctrine.
The movement, if continued will in
volve destruction of American life and
property. Therefore, if it continues, it
will provoke war.”
Here we find a newspaper at close
touch with big interests and not far re
moved from the administration and its
friends already absolving the United
States from any blame should there be
war with Mexico. The editorial itself
means little, to be sure, hut it shows the
attitude of certain groups which would
■welcome war with Mexico.
' Thu wools in the tdilorhil, thinks (lie
rattle a sword and talk complacently
about the impending conflict. We shall
certainly go to war if that kind of spirit
governs our approach to a solution of the
difficulties and we should certainly please
an important group of the American peo
ple if we were to go to war.”
Greed is at the bottom of the newest
difficulties with Mexico and the issue may
as well he accepted as such. Oil compan
ies with big grants in Mexico, grants
I secured for nothing, are complaining
j about certain laws governing the grants.
And here we have the fine example of
prominent men and prominent newspa
pers taking for granted the fact that the
United Sates will trump up other causes
for war while the whole thing is hinged
about covetousness.
Under the new Mexican law owners of
oil reserves who acquired title prior to
the enforcement of the Constitution on
May 1, 1917, are required under penalty
of forfeiture to apply within one year for
confirmation of their titles, and to accept
concessions for not more than fifty years
from the time exploitation work began.
This is the l'ock upon which threatens to
go to pieces the rickety structure of
friendship built up in' the last few years
between the United States and Mexico.
The Christian Century Says:
“The strength of the Porfiiro Diaz dic
tatorship was in two privileged classes—
the Church and the landowners; and the
coffers of that dictatorship were kept fill
ed by grants of land, oil and mining
rights to the concession-seekers of the
earth. For absurbly small sums these
foreign soldiers of fortune, some times
as individuals and some times as corpora
tions, secured immensely valuable nat
ural rights. Mr. Edward" L. Dohenv, for
example, secured the 380,000 acres of the
Hacienda del Tulillo, the foundation of
his immense holdings in oil lands, for
$335,000! And some idea of the average
size of these foreign holdings is given by
the announcement that the petition filed
with the Mexican government by the
British oil interests, accepting the pro
visions of the new law, while it repre-
,only 401 lots, contained a total of j
approximately 300,000,000 acres!”
The Charlotte News meets the issue
squarely when it says "outsiders have
been plundering Mexico of her n iches,
and the present Mexican government is
seeking to regain for her nationals a nart
at least of their national heritage.” Am
ericans have been the chief plunderers
and their selfishness, their determination
to keep what they have and their utter
disregard for arbitration has led them to
believe they can bully the United States
into a war with the Mexicans.
MORE COULD BE DONE.
The law passed a few years ago reqirr
ing all applicants for marriage licenses
to he examined by a physician has done
some good hut it has not corrected all the
evils by a long shot. The trouble is not
with the law but with physicians.
By this we mean more could be done
under the law if it were rigidly enforced.
\\ e arc not in position to ascertain such
information hut we would like to know
how many couples seeking the physician’s
certificate of health arq really examined
We do not mean that all physicians
pay no attention to the law, but we do
mean that many of them arc careless
about it. There have.been instances in
Concord where health permits were se
cured by couples in no condition to be
married. No doubt the satne thing has
occurred in every other city in the State.
The medical professional as a whole
should not he held to account for the
faults, of a few of its members, to be
sure, and that is why we believe the law
would accomplish more if changed so a.s
to require county health officers to make
the examinations. If there is no county
health officer then one physician in each
county should be appointed to make the
r examinations.
j The law was not sponsored by the]
medical profession in the State, it is
said, and the physicians no doubt would
not object to such a change. By having
one physician designated to make exami
nations any laxity in the enforcement of
the law could easily be traced to its
(source and the profession as a whole
would not suffer as it does now because
of the indifference and carelessness of
■ some members.
j .
I Nuvtiifbcr was one of the wettest in
the past forty years, North Carolina rec
ords show. The rain fall during the
month w v as about two inches more than
normal, while in some sections it was as
much as 7 inches above normal. Decem
ber too, has been exceedingly wet, and a
check may show more than an average
j precipitation during the month. The
1 State 1 is about 30 inches short on rain for
Afie past two: years; and iany.it cxecssj/Slfn
be/easily used. tlie ’-w inter as a
whole will beWetter than usual andlthht
by Spring we may have regained soise;qf
the loss suffeied during the unusually
dry summers of 102 j and 11*36. 1
'HE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
WISECRACKS.
President Coolidge asks Congress to Support
the present policy of government, but fails to
say what it is.—Gadsden Times.
No, it isn't that Senator-elect Smith has hali
tosis. —Tampa Morning. Tribune.
There is little or nothing in Mr. Mussolini's
photographs or the things he says to suggest that
he dumps his own ash trays.—Danville (Yu.)His’.
In gambling it isn't the first loss that is so
expensive; it’s getting it back.—Troy (Ala.) Mes
senger.
| Arguing with a woman has about as much of
i feet as back seat driving.—Albany-Decatur (Ala.)
I Daily.
j The movement to put more melodious whistles
!on locomotives is one that should be carried out
] "toot sweet.”—Nashville Banner.
Taxidermists and taxidrivers are much alike,
except that the latter skin a higher class of ani
mals.—Daily News, St. Petersburg.
The Wall Street Journal opines that if stock
j exchange seats continue to rise they'll soon be as
expensive as seats in Congress.—Gadsden Times.
DANVILLE MINISTERS DARES THE IRE
OK MILITANT HAM.
Ralie&h Times.
North Carolina lias had a good deal of ex
perience with Rev. M. F. Ham, whose revivals in
numerous cities and towns have as a rule created
excitement, divisions and hysteria requiring a
long period for recovery. He has worked out a
smoothly functioning system of religious ballyhoo
which generally brings down the bacon. He knows
something of mob psychology and is a master of
intemperate speech. When liis meetings get to
going well, he has the community in which lie is
corking pretty well divided between the hyp
notized and the browbeaten.
Danville. Virginia, has had experience with Mr.
Ham of the usual kind, and recently it was pro
posed again to invite him to come to the city for a
series of meetings in April. According to custom
the Ministerial Association was called to extend
the summons. To general surprise the pastors
refused to lend their sanction to the proposal.
Immediately the part or the city which is cap
able. of partisan feeling over a revivalist was up
in arms. A mass meeting was held at the Y. M.
C. A. Laymen present voted to ask Mr. Ham to
come notwithstanding. Fervent speeches were
made denouncing the action of the clerics. Fun
damentalism raised its head. The Ku Klux Klan
is featured in.the controversy. Four months before
the meeting is to start, there is every evidence
that it already has sharply divided the congrega
tions of the leading churches.
It remains to lie seen whether Mr. Ham's
gizzard contains tin- kind of sand that will bring
him into open conffict with an aroused ministry.
It would he ail out of linewith recognized methods
of barnstorming evangelistic science for him to do
so. Usually the procedure is, first catch your
ministers, and then have them turn their churches. ]
lend their choirs, boost among their congregations
for the success of the show in tiic big tent. As u I
rule, the ministers so approached yield the point !
with ns much grace us possible. They “co-oper- i
ate. even if hy doing so they disrupt their own i
ministerial routine, take a back seat for weeks j
while an alien shouts a crusade of soul-winning, |
see large amounts of money collected for expenses I
and good-will offerings, finally to he left to cope I
with the embittered, the sliders and the emotion- i
ally spent who make the hack-wash of what fro- ;
intently becomes a community orgy that sobers up !
slowly and with pain. True, the ministers in such j
a case tacitly concede the implied charge that, i
as pastors, they are weak and irresponsible !
failures. But they hold on meekly while the big!
mail comes whooping in from abroud, and even j
try to look as if they like it.
Danville ministers, having suffered once, have I
stiffened their hack-bones. Rev. Mr. Ham, if he |
comes will have the opportunity of smashing some ,
of the churches he is fond of denouncing, even
while he accepts tlieir aid. But he will find a
fight in which the officials are not fixed in advance
and where the public will have a chance to take
sides. We imagine the Danville mens—as pretty
a scrap as was ever imagined—will not be pulled
off.
THE ESTIMATES TRUE.
High Point Enterprise.
The latest report on cotton production in the
1 lilted States for 1920 seems to prove the au
thenticity of flic federal crop estimates. Evi
dently. if the new figures are approximately cor
rect. the bureau condition reports that have been
furnished from time to time during the year are
justified.
Tiic attacks that arc made on the cotton crop j
estimating service are .shortsighted and foolish.'
Maintaining blindness as to facts docs not soften j
the blow when the actual conditions are damaging i
to the growers’ welfare. Market reactions from J
time to time indicate that the estimates are scru
pulously kept .* ecret until the day of. revelation
and this and former comparisons of them with
gaining reports show that they are compiled faith
fully anil expertly.
The grower has no just kick at the service Un
cle Sam is rendering. He should encourage sta
tistical interest, on the government's part, be
cause it is only through full realization of all
the facts of the trade and the textile industry that
the southern cotton grower can lirpe to wqrk out
his own problems.
THE GI ILTY.
High Point Enterprise.
Outstanding men of Raleigh—leaders'iu church
and fraternal circles, in business and industrial
enterprises—are charged with the murder of L.
G. Forsythe, victim of a rum runners’ tragedy.
The charge is made by Captain A. L. l' letalter,
world war veteran, speaking before a meeting of
the Lion’s club.
The buyers of whiskey maintain the condition
that environs and induces such crimes. Captain
Fletcher says that the rum runner would go out
of business except for the patronage of these pil
lars of the social life of every community.
Is lie right in his charge?
Os course ho is right? The men who are mak
ing the market for whiskey are not only uncon
sciously or carelessly superinducing murders like
that of Foreythf but other crimes that arc worse.
It is bad enough for Forsythe to lose his life
by violence but it seems that be was taking his
chances with known dangers. Others, men, wo
men and children, arc almost equally unsafe be
cause of underworld operations financed by the
sale of bootleg. The money that finances them is
derived, as Captain Fletcher observes, from the
purses of respected men who are law-abiding gen
erally, save and except for the contempt they show
for the prohibition laws.
Captain Fletcher is poiutiug his finger at the
guilty men.
This talk about ’bankruptcy” for the Charlotte
Speedway need not worry. The Speedway is
there; all it needs is reorganization and an adver
tising campaign. The Speedway rnuv yet remain
a big asset for Charlotte.—Raleigh News and Ob- j
server. /
The Hickory Record and The New Bernian arc
udvocating a law that wi(l require fights ou a)l
vehicles.' They declare that tluv laivNajhlfyingf to
automobiles ought ‘all ‘vdMetys
on thc-ipublic higbwiiysi4-Ral<4^ t Kew» «i<|{Ob
server. 5 i
Fearing the of the ,of
barbers, the men barbers of Honolulu have ap
pointed an auti-flirtiug committee to watch leidi
uiue shops.
I ANOTHER NEGRO HEU>
IN ASHEVILLE KILLING
Sam Caldwell. Who First informed
i Police ofthe Crime, is Lodged in
| Jail.
; Ashevi'le, Dec. 28.—Sam Caldwell,
negro taxi driver, joined William
; Avery and his wife. Mary, in the city
jail tonight and members of P.e po
ire dejMtTtment felt that progress in
! the ta.-k of unraveling the most
| baffling Christmas mystery in the
i history of the city has been made.
Others front the negro section
j where the lifeless ami horribly mang
j led body of Miss Mary McGuire,
71-year-old nurse, was found are'ex
pected to join those already in cus
tody as the grim net the law tight,
civs about half a dozen suspects.
Wild rumors afloat iu the negro
quarters tonight brought a dozen or
• more badly scared negroes to the po
lice station to inquire if some mem-
I her of their families was being held
"on suspicion." Some of them were
! persistent and the sergeant on duty
; bad difficulty in making them be'.cva
I that the jaws to the new jail had mt
I closed upon the one sought. Amusing
| incidents of this kind stqod out in
I sharp contrast to the sorbid dr.mia
that was being revealed bit by tiit.
the story of the murder of Ashevill 's
most loved and highly respected wo
man.
I It was Sam Caldwell who called
the Avery house, where the “chit•
tliug stunt" was in progress, to i:-
quire about the woman who had been
found delrd. lie had called from up
town many b’oeks away from the
scene of the crime and when taken
into custody could not explain the
occurrence to the satisfaction of tin l
police. He made an attempt at an
j alibi, according to the officers, but
this was contradicted by other facts
| in hand and when lie refused to M'k
i further he was placed in a ceir in
the city jail to think it over.
While the officers arc by no means
convinced that they have the mur
derers. they are certain that the more
recent develoiimcnts point to murder
i rather than accident. Work that lias
| been done quietly is expected to
'bring additional developments ?>.-
I night and the police are hopeful that
I once started the investigation will
leather sufficient momentum that all
j the facts surrounding the brutal mur
der of the nurse will come to light,
j Rewards totaling SI,OOO were in
j creased today to $1,400 when Gov
ernor A. W. Mel.ean. on behalf of
j the state, offered the difference.
I More money is expected and thi>
I is hoped, will have a telling effe jt in
j solving the myettery.
i Kenner and I tonne Cotton Letter
I New Orleans, Dei'. 28.— I Cotton
j was moderately reactionary today
owing to a renewal of hedge selling
lon a small scale and realizing by
i recent buyers. There was also some
selling for a reaction on theory nd
: vnuco had gone far enough. Weak
i ness in stocks was a contributing
factor. The weather was bad with
j rains over all state* except uortli
j west but temperatures were low in
I that section and a cold wave was
predicted on heels of the rains. TU i
I weather somehow seems to have lest
jits stimulating effect, probably no
j count recent advance. There was
therrefore litt'e to stimulate or eu
courage fresh buying in view of dis
ixrsitiou of many recent buyers to
cash their profits. Exports continue
run heavv and are now MIA.OOII bales
aiiead of last 'year. Exports are ex
pected show further gains as freight
rates to continental pirts have been
reduced 35 cents a bale beginning
January 1. Trading sentiment is re
actionary at moment and indications
arc that prices will work some lower,
before realizing moyement runs its
course.
KENNER AND BEANE.
May Ise Cotton Seed Kor Fertiliz
ing.
TrlOtine Bureau.
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh. Dec. 25.—" Some farmeifc
arc thinking of using their surplus
cotton seed for fertilizing purposes
next year. Wore it not for the fact
that oil'll favorable erebange ean be
made with the oil mills in most in
static's, tli siwotild be a good i>lan lo
follow" says I’rof I). Williams,
Head of the Department of Agron
omy at State College.
“Where anything like an equal ex
change. pound for pound, foe cotton
seed uneal can be made, the exchange
should bo made, as the fcrtilizering
constituents contained in the meal
will be—worth about twice as much ns
the total of those eoutained in the
cotton seed themselves..
“Not only this, but the availabili
High Blood
sure, Item tfou
ble and Pellagra
Quickly Disap
peared
“For two years I suffered
from pellagra, heart trouble
and high blood pressure,” sayS
Mrs. Sank fCiser. c f Lowell,
N. C. “I tried several reme
dies and specialists and got no
relief. I heard of Dr. Dor
man’s treatment, and took two
treatments and was practically
cured.”
Many sufferers of rheuma
tism, female disorders, stom
ach trouble, and other condi
tions caused by impurities in
the blood, have been cored by
this preparation, which cleans
es the blood of all impurities,
thereby enabling you to enjoy
health.
Manufactured and guarin*
•Wwl'i&F, j, , i i*i
j.- Wi iJorbjaU Go.?
) bi Pificviile, £s£>' j;
, Sold in Concord by
PhnuKiui
A Fuu
i h
ty of these constitueirts iu the meal
will be much greater ordinarily than
those contained iu the seed- The
cost of making the exchange should
not be anything near the worth of
the extra nitrogen phosphoric acid
and potash secured by the ex
change."
l*rof. Williams states that when
the oil is removed from the seed,
none of the valuable fertilizing con
stituents arc removed. At the pres
ent prices for cottonseed meal, it is
one of the cheapest sources of nitro
gen this year for use in supplying
this material in mixed fertilizers for
different crops.
Swarms of gnats rising from the
steeple of a church in an English
town, and creating an illusion of
ro'ling smoko, caused an alarm of
lire.
or a a,
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| The thoughtful man jfc
| wants his family to M
U* have the purest of 3
1 food. lie knows ~E
I that the Cabarrus V
£ Creamery’s Pasteur- 3
if ked Milk is a food 11
| of absolute cleanli- V
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WON’T 6l\IC YbU A f RIGHT
-1F Your heating-
RrtRANftEWtNTS ARE RWiKT
If Old Winter tries to fright
en you, you can fell him to
move on about his business if
your house is comfortably heat
dd. We can give you a lot of
Ifeoqd service, when in comes to
ifc clianfce f%c catr*!.'^ls
CONCORD PLUMBING CC
K«r SL 'PtoßTfc
) Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1Q213
Electric Refrigeration Is a Year
Round Necessity
;et our off season prices which are I
LOWER THAIN ALL COMPETITORS
J.Y. PHARR&BRO.
KELVINATOR DEALERS
Again At Close of the Year
we wish to take this means of thanking our thousands of
Friends and Customers, for their past patronage, and their
help to make the year 192 G the most prosperous in our 25
years of business.
Wishing you all a happy and prosperous new year,
filled with many of the good things of life. Thanks.
H. B. Wilkinson
Out of the High Rent District
Concord MooresviUe Kannapolis, China Grove
Why Our Furniture
Looks Like New
**No, it b not really new furniture. It fab
new because Jack and I spent a few chummy
evening* last week giving some of our old
treasures a beautiful new surface with Marietta
paiatn Why don’t you and Dick try itf**
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