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When' you subscribe for the papper you .-re entitled to receive every issue for the time you have paid for. t you do not receive it regu larly, it Is a favor, not a bother, to let us know .and we wll' make every effort to correct the y^rouble. i CARE OF ?EEBLE-MINDED. ~~ I fj Jh The University News Letter S. H. I Hobbs, Jr., makes a survey of the treat s iDient accorded the feeble-minded in the States of the Union. The figures r .-Show the South is far behind the festof IS"' nation in this work, not a single State having facilities for the ;,.t>«are and treatment of the feeble-minded f population. jjsa. 1 Mr. Hobbs finds that the States do not vary greatly in the proportion of the to tal population that is feeble-minded but I there is great variance in the number of t "'.Such cases reported in the several States, i due to the facilities afforded in different States. !'X The survey shows for instance, that 'New Hampshire has many more feeble minded in institutions than North Caro- K lina, but that does not mean there are I-- more feeble-minded persons there per if* population than in North Carolina. It means, if anything, that New Hampshire is doing a greater work in this respect than is North Carolina. It means again that New Hampshire is treating more of her feeble-minded than is North Caro lina. Mr. Hobbs finds that only a small part of the feeble-minded in the United States are in institutions provided for their care. : The vast majority are in the community, where many of them get along reasonably twfell and are partially or wholly self-sup porting. Numerous others are found in almshouses and in penal and reformatory institutions. : , The feeble-minded are usually divided into three classes: idiots, imbeciles arid riiorons. An idiot is a mentally defective jv person having a mental age of not more . than thirty-five months, or, if a child, an intelligence quotient of less than twenty jfive. An imbecile is a mentally defective J person having a mental age between thir ty-six months and eighty-three months, inclusive, or, if a child, an intelligence tjuotient between twenty-five and forty i: rtine. A moron is- a mentally defective li||ferson having a mental age between eigh i ty-four months and one hundred and for fe>; ty-three months, inclusive, or, if a child, pyh intelligence quotient between fifty and fe North Carolina has one institution for H the care of feebife-mindfed, the Caswell p* Training School, located at Kinston. This sfchool was authorized in 1911 and open fe ed in 1914. There is no private institu pV-tion in the state for the care of feeble [ ritinded. The Census Bureau reports that I on January first, 1923, there were three H liiindred and eight inmates in the Caswell If Training School. Our rate of inmates in I tikis school is 11.3 per one hundred thou llUswnd white inhabitants in the state. Thir ; ty-fouf states provide for a larger pro portion of their feeble-minded. The IgNStites that rank below us are seven South |fc«rn States, and five far western frontier |||, ffljttes that are too new and young to have & Blveloped much beyond the individualis .Bjgisase in recent years in the number of win -iikwlrti' , * '■****■*■»■*■>■»' m —re land forty-fear in IMS. V &' >., | A most glaring fact js that although ( about riihety per cent, of the negro popu lation of the United States live in the | South, no Southern state had provided an institution for the care of feeble-minded negroes as late as 1923, There was a I private institution in Louisiana that had seventy-one inmates.-' North Carolina has a,training school for negro boys sim ilar to the Stonewall Jackson Training School for white’ boys* but no institution for feeble-minded negroes. Exclusive of the Southern states, all other states ex cept four that have institutions for the care of feeble-minded whites, also have institutions, for feeble-minded negroes. In three of these four exceptional’ states there are practically no negro inhabi tants. Seventeen states have higher rates of negroes than whites in institutions for feeble-minded. Were feeble-minded ne groes admitted to institutions on .the same terms as feeble-minded whites, it is prob able that the rate for negroes would be higher in all the states. The establishment of separate state in stitutions for the care of epileptics is a comparatively, new development in the care of this class. In 1923 there were on ly nine state institutions for epileptics, located in the following states: Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Texas. In North Carolina the institution for ep ileptics is not a separate one, but a de partment of the state hospital for men tal diseases at Raleigh. RED CROSS FLOOD CONTRIBU TIONS. Official figures by States and cities of ov er 100,000 population on the fund of the American Red Cross fdr 'relief of the hundreds of. thousands of sufferers in the Mississippi River flood area have been compiled for the Manufacturers Record by DeWitt Srnith, assistant to the vice chairman of the Red Cross, and are pub lished it? the issue of June 9 of that paper. They show $14,371,095.52 collected in the 48 States, Alaska and the District of Co lumbia up to May 31. Added to this are $101,822.95 from insular and foreign chapters, $47,977 at large and a Red Cross contribution of SIOO,OOO, making a grand total of $14,623,895.48 to the be ginning of June. North Carolina didn't do any too much in this crisis. This State, the figures show, contributed $160,730.30, sent in by 115 Red Cross chapters. However, in comparison with the other Southern States; and especially with those States whose population is no greater than North Carolina, this State held its own. Contributions from some of the South ern States follow: Chapters Amt. Alabama 76 $153,042.11 Arkansas 50 97,000.00 Florida er 158,334.59 Georgia 109 134,464.79 Louisiana _______ 43 210.150.16 Maryland 22 193,881.15 South Carolina 57 63,234.88 Tennessee 8? 251,059.11 Virginia 112 167,622.37 Texas 188 338,000.00 Twenty-four of the largest cities in the nation had fallen short of their quota on May 31st. Included in the list were Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Seattle, Providence, Scranton, Toledo, Akron, Syracuse, San Antonio, Salt Lake City, Cambridge, Lowell, Jer sey CitjL Spokane, Tacoma, Kansas City, Kans., arid Fall River. Neiv York City Exceeded her quota, giving $1,589,000’ on a quota of $1,200,- 000. Os 70 cities of 100,000 population or over, 46 exceeded their quota. It is easier as a rule, to get frirtds for a cause of this kind in urban than rural sections. We do not mean that city peo ple arfe iriorejifoeral than country people, but it is easier to get the message to the city dweller than to the rural dweller and in addition relief organization and agencies are as a rule better organized in the Cities than in the rural sections. North Carolina cities did well, espec ially in this immediate section, but in some of our rural sectioris the relief call met practically no response at all. Farm people dkfh’t seem over anxfous to make contributions despite the fact that the greatest sufferers from the flood were people living from the soil. The Red Cross asked for donations of $15,000,000 and the total secured by. June speaks well for the generosity of Ameri ca. • "1 nhall never return to Europe. lam getting too old. I have crossed the Atlantic 70 times. The . best proof Lam getting old is the fayt that I am i ' Perhaps jit upbe ' £*>■«« I’ tJhe^At' tiilie' in ■Too much help from mb'fher Ms robbed man; • a youth;of, the traits of itfiatlve and impendence • Hart he afrst hateiftr sricceed. When Fradsricfo j ls~ * *Wn ll wfdW lß f dlraUF Frederick Fun- THE CONCOife DAILY TRIBUNE sasiiAmify A-ii. . 111 TYING THE COUNTIES. Statesville Daily. 'UjH . The State Highway commission has prepared a contract designed'to .give the commission complete authority in. roqd location. Under a Supreme cqurt decision the commission, once it has take® over a road for State Upkeep, inky not change the loca tion of the road withoutthe consent of the cfepty governing county commissfonerh or the counjy highway commission,, if ; there Is a county highway commission in charge of roads. The Statk commission is now taking. oven more roads for State upkeep. The revotnies of the ootu mission permit it to'increase State road mainten ance, thus relieving the counties tp some extent. To avoid getting a road on it? hands without au thority to change the location, the State commission has prepared a contract which county cospmifaion ers, or the road governing body of the county’, is asked to sign before the State body Will tithe over additional road upkeep in any county. Re fusal to sign the contract would mean, it is as sumed, that the State commission would deeKnc to take the road in charge. Thus the State road body is in position to make the county authtffity yield to its wishes. The contract reads as follows: WKereks, the present location of said;road has not been surveyed or examined with sufficient care to enable the State commission to deter mine to what extent, if at all, said present location j may 'be the most practicably route for the perma nent location of a State highway to serve the traffic between said termini. ■ “And whereas, the said county is desirous of>- i ing relieved of the maintenance of the existing fetal prior to the determanation of a permanent locatibn. “Now, therefore, it is agreed that the State High way, commission shall take over as a temporary rouise, the said county road, as now existing, and the said county, through its road governing ,Mdy, hereby consents and agrees to waive all rigbta to protest or contest such change, alteration or com plete new location, as the State Highway commis sion may hereafter determine Upon, to serve Jhe traffic between the stated, termini. . "i --“ And, after such new location may be made.Uo absolve Hie. State Highway commission from any and ail cluinrs oil the part, of thy said county gs to further maintenance of such portion, or the whole, of said ’road as may fail to coincide With Hie new location.” ( If :wo are to maintain the roads, 1 say the State highwaymen-in effect.’as they perpetrate the held- i up. We reserve'the right to make such changes in location, if any, as we. may deem necessary, wifli dut asking anybody's permission. And having the long end of the rope—or all the rope, yon 1 might say—the State highwaymen have their way. WHAT WE NEED. Hickory Record. Sant ford Martin, editor of The Winston-Salem Journal, has outlined a program for North Caro lina. His suggestions, or needs, have been attract ing deserved attention throughout the State and there is reason why they should, thus— What North Carolina needs most today is not industrial leaders of wider vision so mu,ch as politi cal leaders in whose* ears the school bell rings louder than the cash register. In his first inaugur al, Woodrow Wilson summoned to his side “gll forward-looking men.” He wanted no other type. In this transition period, in which industry and culture must learn to live together in the same house, the commonwealth will be safe only as she succeeds in summoning forward-looking men to places of responsibility and power. When the fight was on against the distillery and saloon theer were those short-visioned men Who said the 'battle could !be won by local option. Ip the fight ou ignorance, a far more strongly en t reached enemy of the race than the liquor traffk’ ever was, there are these who say the battle can be won by local option. North Carolina needs' leaders who can see that local option in public edu cation has served its day and that the time has come for the state to put its resources back of the tight against ignorance just as it finally rallied its force against the liquor traffic. In the battle that is ahead, the first objective is a free ballot. Government never will be human ized in North Carolina until all the voters shall have a fair opportunity to cast their ballot without fear of intimidation or the dread of embarrassment at the polls. The present system at the voting places tends to promote and foster, not majority, but minority rule. We shotiid have an election in North Carolina that will tend to encourage, not discourage, a ma jority of the people to attend elections. We should have a system that invites and challenges all inen and women, no matter what their station in life, to be good citizens. We should have a system that will make It us hard as possible for people to be voted in groups and as easy as possible to obtain the indeiiendent expression of individual opinion at the ballot box. A SPfeCIAL SESSION—IN OCTOBER. New York World. From the point of view of flood relief there is one good thing to Ibe said about the proposal to call a special session of Congress in October. The problem ot rehabilitation, which is bound to de mand attention sooner or later, will be better off by two months in this case than if Congress does not meet until December. Meantime, 700,000 vic tims of fibod will be returning “to what is left of homes and farms (as Mr. Hoover puts it) to take up lift again in the face of heartbreaking discouragement and losses." For at least the next four months, or until conditions become so bad as to force the Administration to change its policy, we shall drift along. No adequate plans have been made f«»r the work of rehabilitation. Thou sands of (food victims will be left to their own] devices. Even if all the money now asked for "credit corporations” is raised by private sub scription. even if the most favorable rediscount privileges ate secured from the intermediate credit banks, even if ways are found to loan from these private funds without collateral, and even if the distribution is managed with perfect even-handed ness, the per capita credit available will be . And this fofr rehabilitation work after what Mr. Hoover huts caled "the greatest peuee-time calam ity" of which he says: "Often enough there is but the bare land to wel come them (the survivors) back. ****.. Thousands have had their home washed away or damaged, businesses have been prostrated, crop* have been detroyed, hundreds of thousands of animals have perished, resources of food and forage are gone.” Well, thhre will be no special session of Congresa to supply ertdit and assistance now. Even the idea of a special session in October has nothing to ; do with “tße plight of the Mississippi flood suf ferers,” we are told by The World’s Bureau in Washing toil, and other reports agree. "Emphasis . was placed Instead upon the desirability of having Congress transact its business expeditiously in . order to prepare for early adjournment for the conventions dud Presidential campaign." No session of Congress now, regardless of the flood. But U session of Ooitgica* phi lined especially for the purpose of dean ing dp the Vare case and ; passing a tax bill in time for a June convention; , That is t** program new. lit iS.'HMMng to be praudsf.,,' ,j. i | !■' W 1 Tpuers. ' fl . : 2chti al uu rieh ßt keei Ve * < * P “ tChH UP -- 8t Paul ! noneer i 0 WATCH OUT CARTAIN , rsy WICK Ito tvaMbCLDT j. - . V " -7 ; * - f ■: - [ : Captain Lindbergh is in danger; he is in more danger than when winging j his plucky was in the dead of night over the dart, ominous, lonesome r ocean. I i Captain. Lindbergh performed an iu ' ' computable feat and the whole world ' is honoring him for it. But the Cap ’ i tain must take case! He is standing on the slipperest spot on which mortal ’ man can plant his feet, the pedestal of unbounded public adoration. , He is in elements more treacherous than I I he encountered during his eerie flight , ' from continent to continent. Now, [as then, a single miscalculation, a ;small misconception, a solitary wrong move, would hurl him from the heights; and great would be his fall, j Remember Lieutenant Richmond I’earson Hobpon; recall his courageous exploit—how under the guns of the j enemy he scuttled the collier Merrimaq iin the entrance of Santiago Harbor to bottle up Cervera's fleet. When this young hero returned to the states, the whole country acclaimed him. Honor after honor was Showered on him. Then at a certain reception, as he stood in the receiving like, a de mure young miss blushingly asked him to kiss her. He did so. The country thought that cute of her and gallant of him, and smiled indulgently. Then all the rest of the girls at all the rest of the receptions wanted to kiss him, too; and the Lieutenant obliged them. Suddenly, without waring the public turned >on him und mockingly dubbed him “Kissing Hobson.” A cheering people quickly became a jeering peo ple, and all because the young Lieu tenant had tried to be a good sport with that people whom he thought loved him. Also, remember Admiral Dewey, the here of Manila Bay. When he came back after destroying the Spanish fleet, we wanted to give him the coun try. We made him a present of a nice home in Washington; and we wanted to make him President; then because the Admiral saw fit to deed that home-we had given him to his bride, we turned on him. We hissed his name in' public places. We fig uratively tore him to pieces. The Admiral was shocked and grieved be yond expression. He had thought the people loved him; and he had loved their gift, and loving it, had given it to his love. We arc famous for slaying our he rocitr , The fuss ' hud * palaver and kotowing and praising and puetHng are no guarantee of our fidelity. The Captain must watch us. He must watch us as carefully as he watched while he was driving the Spirit of St. Louis from hemisphere to hemi sphere. He must watch us more care fully, because we are less to be trusted than his doughty plane. And the Captain must watch him self. He must watch his every ges ture, his every net, his every thought, lie must consider everything he does in the light of its being used against him. He must not relax vigilance a moment, for he is liable at any in stant to drop into a public opinion air pocket. Captain Lindbergh is a young man. a very young man. And he is now in a position that could easily turn the head of a very wise old man. Yes, we kill our heroes. The big ger the hero, the sooner and harder we kill him if he offends us. And we are very easily offended. To lift a man in a day and a half from comparative obscurity to being the most lauded, most talked of indi vidual in the world, is to place a ter rific strain on human nature. If Captain Lindbergh passes successfully this ordeal it will be no less a miracle than his magnificent aero nautic achievement. Y?t the indica tions are that this miracle will happen. ost of the streets in the large cities of China are given very high sounding names—such as “The Street of Righteousness and ty.” Since earliest days the eagle has been regarded iw the symbol of l>ower and of courage. SCALED SHEETROCK, the fireproof wallhoard, af > fords a perfectly smooth | ... surface for any decora* I ] tion. All joints arecon i \ cealed. Never warps- A splendid insulate* —saves fuel, and makes any house cooler in m fop-. 1 National 1/utodier Company jy '' , ; , „ /’IA; , ‘ *l'- .vt- ► ’.l 1 .1. 'A'. i-TT ■ [ L...—L. -A —B3B f Ruling on the Validity of The County Finance Act The Tribune Bureau : i Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, June 13. —The county fi nance act is valid and counties may proceed to authorize bonds under its provisions, as a result of the opinion just handed down by the Supreme Court in the case of Frazier vs. com missioners in Guilford county, affirm ing the decision of the lower This was a test case brought at the instigation of Chester B. Masslich, the state's bond attorney, in order to settle once and f9r all: the validity of this act. The question of whether a physician may appeal from decision of the Bjoard of State Medical Examiners after they have revoked his license and demand a trial in court was a)«o decided when the Supreme Court held that n physi cian might demand a complete court trial, in reviewing the case of the Board of Medical Examiners against Dr. Kobert 8. CarroH, of Asheville. The board had revoked his license be cause of alleged "grossly immoral con duct with patients and nurses” in his sanitarium, and Dr. Carroll there upon appealed to the Superior Court,- demanding a court trial on the charg es. The appeal to the Supreme Court was solely to determine procedure, the state maintaining that the court could merely review the record of’the case as presented before the board Os examiners, while attorneys for Dr. Carroll maintained that the entire case should be tried "de novo” before a jury. . And the Supreme Court sus tained this position in the opinion written by Chief Justice Stacy. Thus, Dr. Carroll will have to be tried in court on the charges made, and if convicted, will lose his license. Ilvjt if acquitted, the acquittal will over rule the board of examiners, and he will be permitted to keep his license*. In its opinion dealing with the 1 county finance act, the court set up! the principle that it nos . afcjt ts the 1 other Courts can go behind the sig natures of the presiding officers of the senate and house in examining in to the regularity of any law enacted.! Neither can it pnss on the question of the materialness of any amendments Fetzer&Yorke Insurance Agency All Kinds of INSURANCE Cabarrus Savings Bank Building "“r -1 ~ l * • i DELCO LIGHT Storage Battery Plante aud Non-Storage Piute Deep and Shallow Well Nap- and Waahing , R. H. Owen PhOM M Concord, N. C. I W—Mffiill Ilia ■imi ■RIGHT AWAY TCi-tPHONEANfe. V We’re right there ivlteti it comes to a rush order. You rush to a telephone «&d say “Give tHe 576” and tfcll us what’s die Matter. Note ttfe speed with which We will which we finish'the ‘work yW ffisk us te do. CONCORD PLUMBING COMPANY % 174 Kmr St, PhoM 576 adopted or the manner in which they, were .adopted. The county finance* a?t was ques tioned as to its validity in the first place because of some -seeming irreg ularity ip the adoption of several amendments and over the question of whether these amendments- were ma terial or immaterial. If material,' the bill with the amendments would have been required to he read three i succesaive days in both the senate and the house. But the presiding of- ; fleers evidently tHd not consider the . amendments, to be material, with the : result that they were hot read on ] successive days. The journal does 1 not show whether they wfre material or immaterial- amendments. 11 But the Supreme Court holds that 1 even if (he journal did show the nature . of the , amendments thpt this would not affett the validity of the act after j* it had once been signed by the pres- j ident of (he senate and the speaker of the house, And since the act was properly signed and certified by these>. officers, it indicated that the act hajf beecn regularly enacted according to I - ail the rules and laws involved, and that hence the eourt could not go behind the signatures of these officers, no matter what the journal might show. Thus the act cannot be furth er questioned. In all, 30 opinions were handed down by the court, the majority of them of a routine nature. 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Wilkinson [ Concord, Kannapolis, -y Mooresville, China drove j i'"* i " ! ' .'• *5 Mon Hay, Jtini T 927 gn'ffis,, l !—i r-ff-HsaßiUßinvi... =g*i TAR HEEL WOMAN | IN OCEAN TRAGEDY Rescued Sailor Tells Mrs. Phil Pomeroy and Four Others Perished.; - Jacksonville, Fla.,.June }]. —Added to the mysteries of the seas tonight was the explosion and destruction of the . palatial cruiser-yacht, Cinnabar; Miami to New York, off the. North Florida coast ldte Monday night? in which five persona apparently went to their deaths. * ’ ,», '■ i Telling an incoherent tale of death and horror of seeing his companion? one by one slip into the sea from ilia bit of wreckage they had'clung : to, Nick Harabaglia, Austrian seaman, last night was rescued north off St. Johns bar by the crew of the tug, Peerless from the wreckage after he had thus floated without food or water for four days. j I'liose said by the survivor td have I been on the yacht and who are un accounted fqr, are: Phil Pomeroy, Miami ; : Mrs. Potneroy ; u man named M <,or e; an unidentified seaman • an ;*wi identified negto cook. ! Pomeroy was said to have been a former resident’ of 1 Minneapolis, while Mrs. Pomeroy was a native of ’ WaynfesviUe. J | The sailor's story was told in a I rambling way, in which he inter- j mingled three languages. The explosion he attributed to an overheated exhaust pipe. All he remembered, he said, was a tremen dous thunker and fire everywhere, the dark waters and then a groping for something to cling to. When found, Harabaglia was naked, his face and arms skinned and torn, with bad bruises about the body. His hair had; been bleached a dozen colors by the ravages of the stiu and the water. Ileath pise fre'm the waves to take the survivors,, one by pne, ns they! cli(ng to. the wrCcfeage of she yacht; < Harabaglia said, until finally only he and Potneroy were left. , The day before his rescue, the sea man said, Pomeroy declared he could ! not. stand it longer, slipped into thq water and started swimming, up par- i ently in an effort to rieach. the shore, j As sole surviving member of the Gij A. It. post in Bar(on, Vt„ E. G. Col-i jiston, who is 82 years old, carried j out the Memorial Day program andj helped to decorate the graves of hi*! departed comrades.