April 30, 1927 Si.HM b ,™£ on °* * PeCIet.ence are unnecessary deaths andblindpess of infants, and avoid ably invalidism, suffering and deaths of, mothers. In most European countries the midwife has been a fixed institution for hundreds of years, and receives a strict course of training and supervision by the government. The training of the midwives in Germany, where they are required to spend six months in i govern ment obstetric hospital, under the instruc tion and supervision of trained obstetric ians, is far superior to that which the great majority of physicians receive in 'this;country'before graduation. Holland, France, and Italy give a two-year, and Norway, Sweden, and Denmark a one .year course of training to their midwives. England faced this problem, and solved it as late as 1902 by the establishment of the ‘Central Midwife Board,’ by an act of Parliament entitled ‘An Act to secure the better training of midwives, and to regulate their practice A The system is :Somewhat similar to that of Germany, the midwife beitig trained in am obstetric hos pital for six months, licensed after exami nations by the Central Midwife Board, and their work supervised by the govern ment. New York has established a train ing school for midwives, but it small to more than touch the problem in the city afone.” AT LEAST WORTH SAVING. , /General Sherman gave an accepted de scription of war when he said “war is hell.” No doubt he arrived at that con clusion after seeing hundreds of men kill ed and scores of others injured. War is terrible and should be outlawed, but just the same we are killing more people in accidents than any war ever killed. y 7 During the past'year ninety thousand persons were killed in the United States and more than 2,500,000 were injured in accidents of all kinds. A fourth of these were children under fifteen! ( These figures have been compiled by Charles E. Hill, General Safety Agent of New York Central, who has prepared a pamphlet for public distribution as a part of the railroad’s contribution to the nat ional safety campaign whidi is sched uled to be put on in all the schools of the country May 1 to 7. Each day of last year, says Mr. Hill, 246 children under fifteen were killed and 7,000 injured in accidents, “twenty times the. total casualty record of American soldiers during the World War.” What are we going to do about it ? It is a common thing to hear about peo-. pie valuing their children at a million dol lars. Certainly we value them highly. How about the children of. other people? We agree with the Winston-Salem Jour nal in the belief that' “they are at least worth saving.” LONG STAPLE COTTOJJ AGAIN. Union county farmers are interested in long staple cotton this year. As a mat ter of fact the farmers down there, get a premiunv every year for their cotton. They grow a longer staple than is grown on most farms around here. The Monroe Enquirer says; “Local cotton buyers find ready market and indeed cannot supply the demand for 1 1-16 inch staple for which Union county is famous. “T. J. W. Broom, our county agent, has been instrumental in securing co-op eratjon of a great majority of farmers, in planting the Mexican Big 8011, or like varieties, of cotton which produces the longer staples. “Another thing which is gratifying. Union county farmers this year propose to plant every acre of cotton they can af ter growing home supplies in sufficient quantity for their needs. Union county is in fine shape and the farmers in gpotitf spirits.” •We feel sure if enough Cabarrus farm ers would produce long staple cotton they would profit thereby. Such cotton brings more on the market than the .short staple variety and it takes no more time to produce it. In this part of the cotton growiug section our people must resort to quality rather than quantity. We can not compete with the west in production, but wc can successfully compete with any other'section in quality if we will just do it. ‘ After an exhaustive survey covering a period of 05 years, hoy and man. we have reached, the de finite conclusion that anything cooked with baton with the single exception of .eggs,, injures the bacon. —Ohio State Journal. Talking movies having keen perfected some of the motion picture actor* *iU bayc to brush up with a correspondence Hchool course.—Passaic Her- Although women ate »<*v wearing only about, one-fifth of the. clothes t*>«* Wtofc 10 years ago, Lfoksbi closets an? Just as tg'«ktMS for hnsbasdUhr thinks the young; folks ut lode* are THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE JACKSON NOT ALL BRUTE. Stanly News-Herald. , 1 We have been reading a aeries of articles carried in a well known magazine, dealing with incidents in the life of “Old Hickory” Jackson. The, articles were very interesting, tout w* didn’t like them for the reason that they only played up tbs blood and thunder aide at that great warrior and statesman. The articles told at his duels.and his rough and tumble fights, his political straggles, and really did not give exact justice, to the man who, while rather rough, was yet tender. We looked for incidents In his life showing up the humane aide of Jackson, but they were not in the articles, or were so few and far between, that the reader is inclined to get Andrew Jackson from the wrong ungle. As a matter of fact “Old Hickory” was a born ■fighter. He Apparently loved strife, and yet he was as tender as a woman. This is proven toy a circumstance told toy Kendall. After one of his battles with the Indians, Jackson's troops found an Indian woman who had been killed in the fight. Held in her lifeless arms when found was her baby, unhurt., The child, a hoy, was carried to Jackson’s headquarters at the same, time the other ludian prisoners were delivered in camp. General Jack son’s heart was touched with sympathy for the motherless and friendless little Indian baby. He attempted to hire some of the captured Indian wo men to nurse and care for. the child, but none of them Would take the job. “His folks are all dead, kill him, too,” they told Jackson. But “Old Hickory” Jackson was too manly and too brave to allow such. He had a small quantity of brown sugar which he ordered, pne of his soldiers to use with a little water for the child’s nourishment, as the little fellow seemed to be starving. In this way the baby was kept, alive until the General and his attendants arrived back in a small town where he was sent to be nursed at Jackson’s expense. Upon his return from the campaign this rough Old Fighter took the Indian baby, home, named, him Linooyer, and with the willing aid of Mts. Jackson, reared him as tenderly ns'if he had been his own son. We will leave it to any person who has made a study of men if that did not show up the real heart and character of Andrew Jackson in a more ac curate light than all the tales of all his duels and fights and battles. And yet the writer in the well known magazine, in the year 1927, never once related any such fine story of the man who was the subject of the articles written. THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. Charity and Children. On the 4th day of May the Southern Baptist Convention will meet in Louisville, Ky„ and con tinue, in session until the following Sunday. Pre liminary meetings will he held beginning on. Mon day, and thus practically the whole week will be covered. The prospect is gbod for a great gathering of Baptist people from the southern section of the United States especially, but front the north as well, a large delegation will be ptesent from semin ary men and women who-will make the journey to Louisville to revisit scenes once familiar to their eyes, but now transformed into wondrous beauty with the new and splendid buildings and the. grounds apart from the {madly city and with grasses and flowers that charm the eye. It will ho a great l convention, first because it is a great place to meet, and also because it is filled with the Baptist spirit. A strong effort will, probably he made to divide the convention. It ought to be divided. The people beyond the Mississippi river are very different from those who live on this side. The western spirit is vigorous and strong. The people are pushing, and enterprising. The. churches are growiug by leaps and bounds. The east is more conservative and somewhat slower, and less breezy, but more; steady and reliable. Each cohventiou Syould toe! large enough and tooth .plenty,strong, ..The election of a new president wijl toe one of the important matters before the convention, Ur. McDaniel, who served us so well, declines to accept the office for another term on account of his health. ( Mention hns been made of J>r, Vi t . .T. McGlothlin for this hi|h and honorable place. He is the president of I Furman Univeristy of Greenville and is a man of fine judgment and a master of parliamentary law. He would make as fine a president as the conven tion could select. The payment of debts on our bjoards. will be the most important work before tho convention. This debt question has troubled us for years, and every year rises up to demand attention. The question of evolution, let us hope, will net vex our people this year. So far as we know no other djvjsiyg question will arise to keep the convention from giving all its power to relieving our boards of the burden under , which they are staggering. DEMOCRACY’S SUCCESSOR. Twin City Sentinel. , “It is a fact of profound significance that Fas cism should capture, and; hold and, govern Italy, and that the small Communist party should seize upon The ruins of war-broken Russia and hold it against all comers. One has, to admit that neither in Russia nor Italy do the masses of the population seem to- resent the dictatorship- of these associa tions.” Thus H. G. Wells proceeds in arguing for his theory-v that a “new phase in human affairs" is .destined to make its appearance. Mr. Wells pre dicates this “new phase” upon the ‘belief that there is « profoundly serious minority in the mass of our generally indifferent species.” This minor ity he expects to see invested, or invest itself, with the power of government. For government then would toe a “world-state ruled by a self-devoted organization of volunteers.” Whoever essays to take issue with Mr. Wells regarding the possibility of some such u world state superseding what is now called democracy must toe prepared to answer the obvious fact that the great mass of people, do, hot appreciate their functions as, mentbeys off democracies. The major ity of people make no effort to participate in t In activities of government by democracy. They as sign their; obligations to tbg.nnUiority and are con tent to toe ruled toy,it as long as they arq comfort ably fed and well, attended to in respect to their other wapts. But the minority is' far from being ideal in, its attitude, or activities and stands in Imminent danger of being supplanted toy a minority that “is profoundly serious.” illustrations he ad duces from Italy and Russia. ON FOUR PER CENT BASIS. News aud Observer. .“The Gjovernor and State Treasurer hake for a lqug time put the sale of State bonds at four per cent as the goal toward which the State should bend its efforts," said State Treasurer Iney when the salg *t that figure effected a saving of $25,00(1 a year, or $375,000 in the life of the 30-year serial bonds, in interest over the last bond sale. It -speaks highly of the grasp anil wisdom of the Governor aud State Treasurer aud speaks trumpel tongued of the solidity ami, standing qf the Com monwealth of North Carojiua. For some years the State has borrowed momw at a comparatively low rate qf interest for school djstricts tcj.ibujld public schools. 'Tills has saved much money. Where a city pr county gqyernmehi js well managed, and can insure the State uguinst loss, wl jy is it not worjli while for .the, Council of State to borrow money)for Jocai; iin . prove meats for the otljer depart tgelijs of govern meat at four per. Cent*.* Some of them now pay .sir au<| most of them site i«r cent. Most of the people willing to surrender their cpnvieUous are in peison.Ti-Wiustou-Hulcm Sentinel. « . «- - VW ’UV a —- — , :TLmmodwsa idea of roughing it is to drive with one window open ia a dozed car.— Sydney Review U,~~" i A man called a telephone number. He thought he remembered the num ber, but when asked the person who answered the phone if that was the Bachelors’ Club, and the person said no it was the Maternity Hospital, he discovered that his'memory had erred, and he had missed his number by just one. He nearly got his number right, but he might as well have missed it by a thousand, or ten thousand, or ten million, as to have missed it by one, so far as results were concerned. If you miss your train by one min ute you might as well have missed it by an hour or two hours. A mdu can nearly do a thing and be a complete, failure. He can be 'just as complete a failure as though he had not nearly done the thing. "1 almost got him to sign the contract,” said a traveling representa tive, “but at the last minute he backed down.” Getting the man to almost sign the contract didn't get anybody anything. Sometimes in spite of everything a man can do the nearest he can come to liis goal is the fatal nearly. That , plucky cool-headed air man, who jumped from his falling plane and clutched to the rigging of a parachute in which -a fellow aviator was de scending to safety, and missed b'y an inch, might as well have missed by a mil t e as far as saving his life was concerned. Fate is grim. Fate is as cold blooded as a corporation counsel. You do or you don’t, and that is all there is to it as fur as Fate is concerned. A courageous effort and n plucky failure, a brave smile and au aching heart mean nothing to Fate unless success accompanies effort. But do they mean nothing to Fate? Who knows what Fate" thinks? Who knows what is in the back side of Fate's head as she imperturbably looks on? No one can tell. There arc those who assume to tell us all the inner workings of all ,she great unseen powers. But they are guessing. If they arc convincing guessers they make folks think they know. Who knows what kindly feelings fate may have for the chap who doe 6 his best and fails trying? Who knows what advantage that gives him here and hereafter? One thing we do know : there is some law which we can see working out right here amongst us to the effect that the chap who tries and tries and tries, and keeps on trying his level best, eventually gets somewhere. FRENCH DOCTORS FIND TUBERCULOSIS SERUM Claim Serum Will Be Effective in Pul monary Cases. By HARRY It. FLOUT (International News Service Staff Correspondent) Paris, April 29.—Three famous French scientists claim to have prac tically solved the problem of finding au anti-tuberculosis serum for the erne of human pulmonary tuberculo sis. Doctor Philippe A. Kfouri. Profes sor Gabriel Petit of the Academy of Science nnd Professor Panisset of the National Veterinary School at Alfort have worked for years on the prob lem. It was a foregone conclusion they declared that the serum would have to be derived from the blood of a per son or animal afflicted with pulmonary tubAeulosift. For variofis reasons it. was impossible to take the blood of human patients. The scientists first experimented with dogs, rabbits and other animals, inducing in them pulmonary tubercu losis. The serum derived from their blood, however, was not of sufficient intensity to combat the disease in the human body. They next experimented with horses at the National Veterinary School, Well known for their resistance to the disease.' The problem whs especially difficult since it was necessary to in duce only pulmonary tuberculosis and not a general tubercular condition. 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