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WOULD NOT APPOINT HIS REL
ATIVES.
Well-known Washington correspond-’
ent during the dull season between con
gressional sessions has been probing into
the facts as to congressional clerk hire by
North Carolina Representatives and Sen
ators with some rather interesting re
sults. One of the conclusions reached by
the correspondent is that four members
of Congress from this State have enabled
relatives to earn nearly six thousand dol
lars a year by employing them in clerical
or some other capacity. Such employ
ment of kinsman or in-laws by Congress-:
men is legitimate, but nepotism on the
part of elective public officials is likely
to evoke some criticism.—Greensboro
Record.
Woodrow Wilson, when' President of
the United States, set that
all other men in office should follow. He
declined to appoint a brother and cousin
to office and while he may have caused a
row in the family he played square with
his constituents.
In its issue of March 9th, 1913, the
Washington Post in its “interview” col
umn, said that President Wilson “is not
going to he charged with nepotism.” It
added that “it is known that he declined
to give any encouragement to the candi
dacy of his brother for the membership of
the Senate.” The Post went on to say;
“Friends of Capt. A. M. Wilson, of
Portland, Oregon, a cousin of the Presi
dent, have been urging the captain’s ap
pointment as a member of the Philippine
Commission. Captain Wilson’s friends
went to the War Department in a body to
see Secretary Garrison,” said Col. R. A.
Harvey, of Portland, “and urged the Sec
retary to recommend the captain’s ap
pointment. The Secretary listened pa
tiently to the visitors and thgn declared
that hc'had talked with the President
about the appointment of Captain Wil
son and that the President had told him
emphatically lie would not appoint his
relatives to office.”
In making this decision at the begin
ning of liis administration, President
Wilson was following the principle laid
dovyn by Jefferson, who declared a hun
dred years before that “the public will
never he made to believe that an appoint
ment of a relative is made on the ground
of merit alone, uninfluenced by . family
views r nor can they ever sec with appro
bation offices, the disposal of which they
entrust to their Presidents for public
purposes, divided out as family proper
ty-”
TAR SUPERVISOR AND AUDITOR.
• John L. Miller has been named tax sup
ervisor and auditor for Cabarrus County,
and lie has a job that demands common
sense". 11c is going to be criticised more
than praised but he 7 has bccii before the
public long enough to lake this sensibly,
and lie should be fearless enough to do
his duty regardless of what the public
has to say.
There will be all kinds of complaint
when the revaluation of property is begun
and Mr. Miller should be careful in his
selection of township assistants. A man
on this job should know local conditions,
should understand and appreciate land
values, should take into consideration
improvements that make some farm land,
especially, mote valuable others, I
anti above-all else should be capable of
listening to reason.
We do not; mean that Mr.’Miller or his
assistants should change their valuation
!’ figures each'time get a complaint or
someone criticises them; rather we mean
, that they should be ready and willing to
hear the complaints and give them due
consideration. The tax supervisor and
his assistants, whoever they may be,
are merely human after all, and may be
expected to make mistakes, but these
will be less numerous if common sense is
used in dealing with property throughout
the county.
The public should be lenient with Mr.
Miller and his aides. These men have a
difficult task and art important one and
they should be burdened with as few
complaints as possible. It will do no one
anj r particular good to censure and com
plain for we feel sure that the supervis
or will be glad to entertain any reasona
ble request for adjustment. Where the
property owner that he has cause
for adjustment he should go to the sup
ervisor or list taker and state his propo
sition. That is much better than the
method many will use—a method of crit
icising and censuring behind the backs .
of the The former method will
get results if adjustment is justified, while
the latter will result in nothing but hard
feellings.
The tax supervisor and auditor .were
made mandatory in a bill passed by the
recent Legislature. The two offices have
been combined in Cabarrus by the coun
ty Commissioners who were anxious to
comply with the law and at the same time
to keep down expenses.
UNDER THE STEERING WHEEL.
The Morganton News-Herald says
“next to the drunken driver the greatest
menace on the highways is the child driv
er.” The Salisbury Post disagrees, and
with some reason, taking the position that
next to the drunken driver the greatest
menace is “the little headed fellow who
drives another man’s car.”
, We have ample reason to give a loud
“amen” to the Post for daily here one
marvels that the “little headed fellows”
don’t kill themselves and about everybody
else on the streets. The driver of the
other man’s car, says The Post, usually
“drives a truck, for which he feels no re
sponsibility or care. It is not his to main
tain or keep gas in, and he knows that
the responsible man or woman who does
not wish to get injured in the car he or
she owns, nor wishes the car.injured will
stop or get out of his way, so he has the
right of way by a process of elimination.”
The Post argues further, and with log
ic, that the best way to get facts is to
ask the men who furnish the cars for the
other fellows to drive. “If you want fur
ther proof,” says The Post, “of this driv
er's ways and costliness of it, ask one of
these business men who buy trucks and
gasoline and put this type of driver on
the seat. Get his figures for original cost
and upkeep and add that to the general
cost of living in the community and one
gets another object lesson in the expens
ive ways of one of these loose drivers who
care little what he does and whom he in
conveniences.” Os course there are ex
ceptions to the rule and The Post ex
plains that it is talking “of a type to be
found everywhere handling the steering
wheel of a delivery truck. We see this
class daily and,we get out of their way,
too.”
The Salisbury editor sums up the sen
sible thing to do iivthe last sentence. We
have seen no way to curb the driver who
has nothing invested and the best thing
to do is to keep out of his way. Certain
ly there slibuld be some law or method
by which truck drivers would be made to
stand an examination and put up bond.
It endangers the lives of everybody else
when irresponsible men are turned loose
with an auto, especially when the auto
doesn’t belong to them.
ANOTHER COAL STRIKE.
New Work Sun.
No general strike of coal miners iu the history'
of the industry has attracted so little attention as
that which takes out the bit mu i nous miners in the
central competitive district at midnight. An
thracite miners’ strike, though anthracite is a com
paratively negligible element in ,Jhc coal industry
outside of the States on .the Atlantic coast, is al
ways looked on as a calamity. But when the
union soft coal miners‘in the States pf Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio and the western epd of Pennsylvania
go out the public ipays virtually no heed to them.
This is due to the coitfbslon and demoralisation
that, exist, in the soft coal business. In the bitter
competition between the yufon apd npu-uuion mines
the nmi-uiiionisjts have U.ud all Urn best of the ,
fight because their malingers have been able to
adjust cost to (prices. The union mines have, been
losing business steadily to their rivals, Tt has been
demonstrated that the nou-unionists can supply
practically nil the coal that is needed, consequently
’ a soft tmiil miners’ strike does not. mean a coal
famine, though it iilay inconvenience pome con
sumers, injure some mine owners und embarrass
soiue miners. ; |
The strike that begings tonight resolves itself
into a local nnuoyance. It does not attain the
dimensions of national misfortune.
Sending notes to a Chinese government is pu n
paw with arguing with a Chinese laundrymau over
a lost shirt.—Watertown Times.
In' the arnntnmeuL race our bandits leud those ‘
of sJLother nations. —Brooklyn SBg'le.
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A CODE OF ETHIfS FOR LAWYERS.
Winston-Salem Journal.
Sooner or later most professional groups evolve
for themselves codes of ethics as a manual of ideal
conduct. As such they serve the excellent purpose
of giving the members of the profession a yardstick
by which to measure themselves and their col
leagues. Speaking before the Junior Bar Associa
tion Monday night. Judge William F. Harding
said : “The function of the lawyer is to match
character with character; to keep the State clean
and honest and produce a soul that lives for right
eousness.’’
Few persons have ever expressed a noble and
ennobling ideal more succinctly for the practice
of any public profession that that, and the lawyers
everywhere could probably never find a more satis
factory one both for themselves and the public
whom they endeavor to serve. The public has never
quite put the stamp of approval ou the lawyer.
There are probably numerqus reasons. One is that
the majority of people have little personal contact
With them. Moreover, the controversial character
of their work perpetuates a popular prejudice
against the profession. The very word, lawyer,
suggests crime with all its sinister associations
and this notion unfortunately colors the public
opinion of all lawyers.
It is also a fact that numerous members of the
profession are no credit to the fraternity nor to
themselves. The fact that this number is relatively
small has little weight with the public at large
Who are inclined to hold all lawyers responsible for
the reprehensible acts of the few vicious ones
who are, as a rule, generally in the limelight. ’ The
courage to be poor as the result of unfailing honesty
is perhaps no less lacking among lawyers than in
other professions, but because of the reputation
which lawyers generally enjoy it cannot be too
.frequently emphasized or too clearly stated. Judge
Harding has done a worthy service, both for the
public and lawyers as well, by reminding both of
the fact there are honest lawyers and that su.ch
are both a credit to themselves and the communities
which they serve.
MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET.
News anil Observer.
It was a year ago that The News and Observer
suggested it was by no means improbable that
cotton would bring 10 or 12 cents last Fall. It was
considered so improbable that none of its readers
paid any attention to the suggestion. Those who
doubt the prediction have only to turn to the issue
of March 22, 1928, for verification.
Candor compels the further statement that it
was not felt anybody would pay any attention to
the editorial. It wns backed up by the views of a
leading agricultural editor of the South, but he
didn’t expect to start a movement for diversifica
tion. There was little incentive then for diversifi
cation, there is every incentive now.
‘‘When cotton reached 30 cents a pound, there
was a widespread feeling that the world would
never again See low-priced cotton," said The News
arid Observer one year ago, ‘but, though cotton has
not fallen to the old low price of other days, it is
now freely predicted that next November it will
witness 10-cent cotton if a 16,000,000 bale of cotton
is raised.’’ x *
While that seemed like talking up a pipe, there
were many farmers here and there who saw the
hand-writing on th wall, and they did diversify.
So many in fact that in spite of the largest crop
in its history with low prices, North Carolina got
through the crisis in much ibetter shaipe than was
thought possible by students of economic conditions
in the South.
With the chaotic conditions in China, it would
be unwise indeed for North Carolina farmers to
trust to cotton and tobacco as a sole means of sup
port if it be possible to avoid it. This is only
an added incentve for diversification, as a surplus
of both cotton and tobacco was produced last year.
There is every incentive this Spring for diversifica
tion this year.
Eveh when there wns small incentive apparently
to diversify intellingent North Carolina farmers
were seeing the necessity of making both ends meet,
and were preparing against the day \ylien cotton
und tobacco would slump in price. They are diver
sifying on a much larger scale this year,according
to Agricultural Editor Jeter, and it is indeed
gratifying to learn that, the North Carolina farmer
is learning to keep his feet on the solid rock.
Only by so doing can he achieve independence.
22,001,303 MOTOR CARS.
New York Sun.
The Bureau of Public lloads at Washington
reports that there were 22,001.393 registered motor
cars in the United State at the close of 1920—an
increase of 2,000,000 over the year before—and the
registration and license fees collected by the various
States reached the sum of $288,282,232.
If America developed in the last centrury along
the railroads instead of along the highways that
served the purposes of earlier generations it is
clear the motor car is bringing back the joys of
the old days, with a difference. Good roads are
becoming the rule instead of the exception every
where. and those who lived even before the steam
engine came in would be astonished if they could
come back and see what has been accomplished.
No longer do the denizens of New York city
complain that they have to pay most of the cost
of new highways in the Adirondacks. A good
road is a good road no matter where it is und part
of the assets of the whole State.
ADVERTISING AS NEWS.
Editor and Publisher's News.
In a letter congratulating the London Daily
Mail on its recent enterprise in increasing its size
to accommodate a large volume of advertising that
for years has been crowded out through space
limitation, Adolph S. Ochs this Week reiterated his
well-known opinion that advertising is the very
essence of news and added the following Observa
tions which we believed is a classicu! statement
of scientific advertising technique:
"The value of advertising, when properly safe
guarded and selected with discrimination, cannot
be over-emphasized for the newspaper reader," he
wrote. “The advertising columns of a newspaper
do,not consist simply of sold space. To the greater
bulk of readers they represent a vital source of
hews. They captain information which enters into
the daily lives of the people and affects (heir in
terests frequently to an even greater extent that
news does. Many of the advertisements your daily
publishes are read by far more people than any
single item pf news is, but to secure this reading
public the advertiser must make bis announcements
so interesting and attractive that they can compete
successfully with news.’’
T*IE HETY DOLLAK CAR.
Asheville TimeS.
Judge Shaw would liayc "fifty-dollar ears" barred
from the streets and highways as menaces to pub
lic safety. Passing sentence fin. Haywopd O'Neal
negro couvicted of manslaughter in the kjjling of
Mrs. Carrie Henderson with liisaptompbilc, Judge
81mw said that these cars arc responsible lor
most of ,the accidents. He added :
When you want to stop they go ahead and when
you want them to go ahead they stop. O'Neal,
when you get out of jail, you wulk, These old
w’recks of curs aren't safe for a man Jo drive. !
Civilized life seems jo demand duress jegulatjmi;
but Judge Shuw bus, proposed something ' that
would well serve the eaiitie of traffic safety. la
the hfisence of eiyforcoablc rules for the inspection
of fltese Inachiues, be sure when you buy one, that
you get it from a responsible dealer or from some
,one else volt can rely upon. And by all means
keg that it is tested thoroughly liefprc you risk
to Its response to. directions your own life and the
lives pt others.
f The Officious Friend j
il By WICKBS WAamOLDT |
Probably you have encountered the
officious friend. lam thinking of a
recent experience of a eweet little
woman who heard that an acquaint
ance of hers had been taken suddenly
ill.
She knew that that acquaintance
did not keep a cook, so although she
herself wtax ill, she prepared a nice
meal' for the *ick woman's fumily,
with some special delicacies on the
tray for the-sick woman; and she put
the whole business into her car and
drove to the sick woman’s house.
When she rang the bell the door
was opened by the officious friend.
When she saw the woman on the
porch with the tray she told her in
a voice of stern rebuke that the,sick
woman was too sick to see anybody.
“1 had not hoped to see her,” an
swered the woman with the tray.
"I just brought over some dinner for
the family.”
"Oh!” replied the officious friend
severely, “I’ll take it;” then as an
after thought as she closed the door,
"Thank you.”
“It took all the heart out of me,”
said the woman who had tuken the
tray over to the sick woman’s house.
"I cried all the way home.”
I remember what an officious friend
did for me once when I was sick.
She was exceedingly good. She came
and stayed at the house and did ev
erything she could. But somehow
what I think of, everytime I think of
her, is that she made soup out of
Long J ohn. >
Long John was a chicken that I
had raised from the egg. The crea
ture was then a year old and I had
never been able to determine whether
she was a rooster, or whether he was
a hen. The thing crowed and it
sang. It was built like neither a
hen nor a rooster but more like a
crane.
I had become tilled with a burning
desire to unravel the mystery of that
animal. I shall never forget my feel
ing of blasted hopes when on coming
out, of the delirioum of fever I asked,
“How is Long John?” and heard that
officious friend say blithely, “Oh, we
made soup of Long John.” Os all
the chickens in the chickens yard she
had to pick on Long John.
However, thank God for friends!
Officious or otherwise.
WAR VETERANS TO HAVE
TASTE OF FRENCH LIFE
The Ranks of the Second A. E. F.
to France Rapidly Filling.
Charlotte. April s.—The ranks of
Hie Second A. E. F. of The American
Legion nre rapidly filling it was an
nounced today by James Leonard, of
Lexington. Department France Con
vention Officer for this state upon
information received from Howard I’.
Savage, National Commander. The
journey over this September for the
ninth annual Legion convention will
afford many comforts unknown to the
soldiers who made the trip in war
time.
After two years of intensive pre
paration for the great trans-atlantic
movement the Legion is able to an
nounce complete plans for the con
vention. It will be held in Paris,
France, beginning Monday, September
19 and ending Friday, September 28,
1.927. The business sessions of the
convention will be held in the famous
Pulece Trocadero, government exhibi
tion building. The headquarters of
“40 and 8.” 'fun making And honor
j Society of the Legion Wil be in the
(Hotel Palais d'Orsay. The Legion
Auxiliary will have headquarters in
the Continental Hotel. ''On the first
day of the conventon a great Legion
parade will pass in line before Mar
shall Ferdinand Foch, supreme allied
commander, General John .T. Persh
ing, wartime commander of the A. E.
F„ and prominent officials of several
nations.
The Legion has obtained one half
fare for round trip from the veterans
home town to the ports of embarka
tion on this side. A fleet of twenty
eight of the largest ocean liners, of
which the giant 8. S. Leviathan is
flagship will carry the Legionnaires
to France. Round trip scamship fares
on the official Legion ships range from
sl-15.80 to $370 on most of the ships
while on the S. 8. Leviathan the rates
arc from $151.50 up. Legionnaires
will have full run of the ships and
a program of entertainment will make
the overseas journey enjoyable. The
lauding ports abroad will include
Boulogne, Havre, Cherbourg, and Ant
werp, Belgium.
Fifty special trains will rush the
Legionnaires from the ports to Paris.
Thirty thousand rooms of all classes
have been placed under contract in
the French capital for the exclusive
use of the Legionnaires. Battlefield
and cemetery tours to till sectors of
France and Belgium, where American
troops were engaged, have been work
ed out find win run daily throughout
convention week. Eleven great tourist
companies are co-operating in arrang
ing tours for the Legionnaires to all
Corners of Europe. Railroad fares
have been substantially reduced, not
only in France, but in practically all
European countries. Landing charges
have been removed at the ports and
all of the European countries except
ing Russia will accept official Legion
Indcntlfieation Certificates in lieu of
passport' and visa.
Battle 1 is Waged on Alleged Im
morality.
Raleigh, April s.—State College's
war on immorality continue*.
Student Vigilantes with the piaiec
of President E. Brooks ringing iti
their ears have declared the campus
will be kept pure.
“Things are no worse than in
other days but folks have- thrown
off. fa ’so modesty enough to allow
publicity to be given ..the facte.” a
student leader said.
• “The trouble is with! the, old fol
lows who get terribly alarmed at the,
tremendous knowledge the younger
generations have.” declared Dr. Catl
Cl Taylor, dean of the graduate
efhool.
.fir. Taylor scoffed at. suggestions
that tiip younger generations was
going to thr devil “Just because
PADLOCKING MIGHT HINDER ANOTHER INDUSTRY
light had Been turned on something
formerly kept in the dark.”
“The mo<st wholesome generation
of" wives and mothers the world has
' ever known will come from the girls
of today who have a vast knowledge
of the fundamentals of life," lie said,
adding that “college boys and girls
are not worse than the generations
which have lived before. Their;
strongest safeguard is their know-;
ledge of life."
Duke Has Co-Ed Debating Team.
(By Interhationnl News Service.)
Durham, X. C., April s.—For the
first time in the history of the insti
tution, Duke University co-eds are
taking a part in college activities.
They have started with debating.
The co-ed debating team will meet
the co-eds of William ami Mary Col
lege on May 1.
Duk> debaters are now preparing
for the preliminaries which will be
held on June 94 ■
A man may like a girl to smile at
him, but he hates her to laugh at
him.
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