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associated PRESS DISPATCHES -■ - • I —— VOLUME XXVII County To Join City In Plea For I. C.C. Hearing Petitions of City and Coun ty to Be Given to Inter state Commerce Commis sion at Charlotte. WANT ONES TO COME TO CITY If Granted Hearing Local People Will Attempt; to Show Why Lines Should Come Through Concord. Cabarrus County lias joined with ♦he City of Concord in waging a vig orous fight to secure the lines of the Piedemonr and Northern Railway Company through Concord and at a called meeting of the Roard of Coun ty Commissioners held Saturday af ternoon at'2 o'clock at the Court House the Board of Commissioners passed a jietition which will be pre sented at the hearing of the Inter state Commerce Commission, which begins Monday, in Charlotte, makes a idea that the County of Cabarrus be given leave to intervene in the hearing and become a party thereto. The petition, passed Saturday af ternoon, was presented to the Inter state Commerce Commission, along with the petition of the City of Con cord which was passed Friday night by the Board of City Aldermen, at the opening of the hearing of the In terstate Commerce Commission which met in the Queen City for the pur pose of hearing the application of the Piedmont and Northern Hallway Com pany respecting the completion of Cer tain portions of its lines and for a certificate of public convenience and necessity in connection therewith. The petition of Cabarrus County is as follows: Petition for Leave to Intervene. Comes now your petitioner. County cf Cabarrus, and says that it has an interest in the matters in controversy in the above entitled controversy, and desires to intervene in and become a party to said proceeding, and for grounds of proposed intervention, says: 1. That petitioner. County of Ca barrus, is one of the duly organized counties of the State of North Caro lina. 2. Petitioner says that it has an ipterest in the completion of the lines of «he Piedmont and Northern Rail way OBffifWny: tW the completion bf the said lines is necessary and will be of great convenience to the present and future welfare, and development of the County of Cabarrus and its cit izens; that said County has a impu tation of 40,000 people, has a large number of textile and other manufac turing establishments, and that said County is a fine agricultural section; that said County is now served by on ly one railroad and that the service rendered by said railroad is not ade quate to meet the needs of the com munity and is not transportional ser vice as the County and its people are justly entitled to; that the County is very much in need of additional trana- Itortional facilities, and particularly in need of the interurgan railroad proposed to be constructed by the Piedmont and Northern Railway Com pany. 3. Petitioner says that the railroad to be constructed • should be con structed through or immediately adja cent to its county scat, the City of Concord; that said City, with its im mediate environs has a population of 15,000 or more, lies to the West rath er than to the Hast of its centre, and serves ns the shipping point and pas sengers to a large territory of each its own and Stanly and Rowan Coun ties. the nearest railroad point East of it being twenty-five miles distant; the petitioner prays that the Pied mont and Northern Railway Company be permitted to construct its lines, but that it be required to so construct its lines as to run through or imme diately adjacent to the City of Con cord. Wherefore, said County of Cabar rus prays leave to intervene and to be treated as a "party thereto, with the right to have notice of and ap pear the taking of testimony, pro duce and cross-examine witnesses and be heard in person or by ( counsel up on brief and at the oral argument, if oral argument is granted. This the 18tb day of June, 1027. *■ COUNTY OF CABARRUS. By C. A. ISENHOUR, Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. Attest: 's , L. V. ELLIOTT. / Clerk to Board. The petitions of the City of Con cord and the Cabarrus Cbunty for a hearing in the matter to be discussed by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion was presented to the Commission this morning at 10 o’clock by Frank Arrofield and B. W. Blackwelder, at torneys, representing the City and County. If the petition for a hearing is granted the attorneys are prepared to have arguments prepared to present to the Commission members to show that the proposed extension of the Hnihvay Company’s lines is a neces sity for the future welfare and growth of Concord and Cabarrus Cbunty. They will nlso make the plea that the proposed extens'on coming by Con cord will be of great convenience to the residents of the City of Concord and of Caparrus County, and that the service now given by the railroad which has its line through Concord, i« not inch as it should be and not what -the City and County are justly enti tled to. and that there is a particular need for the interurban railroad pro posed to be constructed by’ the Pied mont and Northern Railway Com •,/. * <V : ‘ v , .1' The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolines LdttMinfe Small City Daily ♦ THREE-POWER NAVAL CONFERENCE AT GENEVA Special Conference- Limited to Thru Powers Elects an American Score ! tary. I Genera. June 20.—OP)—The con vocation by the United s States of the three-power naval conference at Gen eva and. ns it was afterwards arrang ed, on the property of the League of Nations, of which the United States is, not a member, opened delicate ques tions touching the organization of the conference. Great Britain and Japan ns mem bers of the I-engue formally requested facilities for the. conference, nnd Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the longue promptly offered all fac ilities that the conference thought they would need. As this was a s|x>eial conference limited to three powers, it was finally decided by the three nations to select a secretary general who would be n citizen of one of their countries. The ! choice soon fell upon Hugh R. Wilson. | who had 'been appointed American minister to Switzerland only a month | before the calling of the conference. ! Sjnce 1024, Wilson hail been chief [ of the division of current information ! at the State Department in Washing- I ton, where he was in daily and some times nightly touch with the scores Os newspaper correspondents Wilson was born at Evaußton, Illinois, in 1885, is a graduate of Yale, took post graduate work at Paris nnd began his career in business life at Chi.cago. His diplomatic life was inaugurated by serving as private secretary to the American Minister in Portugal. Then he hecnine secretary successively at Guatemala, Buenos Aires. Berlin, Vienna, Berne and Tokyo. In .Tnpen he wns in close touch with the lead ing Japanese of the day. including Admiral Baron Snito. who is the chief Japanese deiegnte to the conference which opened today. BAPTISTS WILL SEEK FUND OF $1,500,000 This To Be Distributed Among Church’s Schools in State. Mere dith Gets Millions. Charlotte, June 20. —One million five hundred thousand dollars will be sought by the general board of the North Carolina Baptist convention in thw memorial fund campaign! it is an nounced here. Tlie general board at. ♦ wniit meeting in Raleigh voted,in sifm aitthorized frotn $600,000 to $1.5000.000. The fluid is to be used for educa tional institutions as follows: Wake Forest college, $280.000; Meredith college, $1,000,000; Mars Hill Junior college. $K. _ >.(XM); Wingate Junior college. $60,000; Boiling Springs high school, $40,000; Caniiit bell college. $40,000; Chowan college, $20,000. The remainder will be used to de fray expenses of the campaign. THE STOCK MARKET Speculators For Advance Regain Con trol of the Price Movement. New York, June 20. —CP)—Specula- tors for the advance regained control of the price movement in today’s stock market after an early period of irreg ularity, but trading was rather dull on the rally. Uncertainty over the change in brokers loans last week, the total of which will be made public by the Federal Reserve Bank after the close of the market, tended to keep trading in check. The close was firm Sales were 1,- 800,000 shares. , The early offerings were readily ab sobbed by covering or scale down buy ing, which nppeared to be partly for the trade. July rallied from 16.50 to 16.68, and December from 17.08 to 17.27, or about 6 to 8 points net high er, Vbut later mouths were slow to fol-' low the bulge. Eastern Carolina to Back P. and N. Extension Plans. Goldsboro, June' 19. Eastern North Carolina is making plans to day to add its voice to those urging the granting V>f the application of the Piedmont and Northern railway for light to extend its lines to Win ston-Salem. One hundred manufac ture™ and dealers of the section will be represented at the hearing before the Interstate Commerce commission examiner, which begins tomorrow in Charlotte, by W. L. Thornton. Jr., of Wilson, secretary nnd traffic mana ger of the Carolina Shippers nsso ciotion, incorporated. . pany. The meetings of the Boards of City Aldermen and County Commissioners were called here Friday following the receipt of the report that officials of the Piedmont and Northern Railway Company had decided that the propos ed extension of its lines would not come through Concord but would go about six or seven miles west of the/ City. The rumor circulated on the streets of the City Friday was that the Rail way officials had known for 'some time that the route would not include Concord and that they had not made 'any mention of it when representa tives of the officials held conferences here and urged individuals and enter prises to,write letters to the Inter state Commerce Commission urging that the proposed extension be grant ed on the grounds that it was neces sary to the growth of the community •nd would also be a convenience, pv er 100 such letters were sent from the City and. County urging that the right to make the extension be granted, the local people thinking that the linen, would come through Concord. 601. BOWS IS FUST »IT»ESS IT P. 8 N. HEIRIN Pointed Out the Advan tages of the Completion of the Electric Line to the Two Carolinas. STRONGLY URGED THE EXTENSION The Governor Says That the Line Serves the Most j Thickly Populated Sec tion of the Two Stages. Charlotte, June 2ft.— UP) —The au thority of the Interstate Commerce Commission to pass •on the plans of the proposed Piedmont & Northern Railway extension today was again questioned when a hearing on the pro posal opened here. Hackell C. Davis, examiner, con ducting the hearing, was infortped at the opening by Mark W. Potter, of New York, representing the electric line, that jurisdictional questions brought up in the case would not be waived by the company. He asserted that the proposed construction was not in the' nature of new lines, but in stead. a completion of lines already in operation. Governor Richards, of South Caro lina, was the first witness in the hear ing which is expected to last a week or more, with a final decision probably several months distant. The Palmetto State governor pointed out what he said were the advantages of comple tion of the Piedmont & Northern to the two Carolinas, and asserted that it was required "as a matter of pub lic convenience and necessity.” The governor said that the line serves the most thickly populated sec tions of the two states. He forecast a much more rapid development of the Piedmont section of South Caro lina if the lines are extended, and urged that the requested authority be granted. “South Carolina is in the midst of its greatest industrial development, and our- people will be greatly disap pointed if the commission does not permit the eapipletioji.ot the PJfdmoot * 'Northern which will be a great fac tor in promoting that development,” snid the governor in closing, Governor Augus W. McLean, of North Carolina, followed flic South Carolina Chief Executive on tlie stand. He told the examiner he was acting in his official capacity, nnd that he had no desire to antagonize the rail roads opposing the petition. The development in the section through which the electric line oper ates. the North Carolina governor said "has been phenomenal” nnd comple tion of the proposed extension in this state will take traffic from existing lines for a time, but he forecast that the anticipated development of the territory would noon produce traffic that would more than counteract the loss. ■ “We must not tfiink in terms of the present,'s, he said. Urging the examiner to visualize the needs of 25 years hence “when this continuing and abounding development will have had oportunity to go forward.” Sam Rlease, chairman of the South Carolina railroad commission, advocat ed the granting of tlie petition. He said the freight traffic in South Caro lina's piedmont section “already is great." and that .that section “is ..un dergoing an intensive development” which makes imperative the comple tion of the electric lines so there will be a direct line from Winston-Salem, to Greenwood, South Carolina. The Piedmont and Northern and as sociated interests, A. .T. Maxwell s|ieaking for the North Carolina cor poration Commission said, “have made wonderful contributions to the sec tions they serve." Further indus trial growth, he continued, "will be stimulated by completion of the pro posed extensions.” Mr. Maxwell commended the ser vice supplied by the Southern Railway and declared the Corporation feels that competition that would be afford ed by the P. & N. completion would "materially benefit and promote the the development of the section.” IDEAL WEATHER GREETS THE GOLFERS Southern Amateur Golf Players in Special Match at Charlotte. Charlotte, June 20. — UP) —Ideal weather conditions greeted southern amateur golf players as they teed off this morning in the special 18 hole pro amateur match, preliminary to the an nual tournament a of the South Golf Association. Amateurs alone occupied the courts this morning. The professionals will have the course to themselves this afternoon. Because of this it will be late this afternoon before any results o< the preliminary events will be avail able. As the first amateurs teed off short ly after 9 a. m. today only a dozen or more persons were in the gallery. It was expected that this number would be greatly augmented before noop, as admirers of the vari ous players came out to watch their favorites. A total of 18 pro-amateur teams had been formed when the first teed off this morning. Managers of the tournament said this would be aug> meqted before the last got .away from the No. 1 tee. CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1927 IjFN WILLIAM C. McADOO Who will appi-ar in the Hearing U the Extension of the P. & N. in Charlotte PUBLISHERS WILL MEET IN ATLANTA Josephus Daniels to Make Address At Southerners’ Convention. Atlanta. Ga., June 20.—Newspaper publishers from fourteen Southern states will assemble here on July 4, 5 and 6 for the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association convention. A program touching nil phases of newspaper publication hns been ar ranged and elaborate entertainment features planned. . , Monday, July 4, has been designated as “Editorial Day;" Tuesday, “dr ruiation and Mechanical Day," and Wednesday, ’’Advertising Day." Josephus Daniels, publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer, and form er Secretary of the Navy, will speak at memorial services Monday after noon. A golf tournament will be played Tuesday with medal scores to counts Recording to plans. Bobby Jones, win ner of the Walker Cup last year, and former national and open cham pion, will be official referee. John A. Park, publisher of the Raleigh Times, president of the as sociation, will preside over the busi ness sessions. NEGRO WOMAN IS KILLED ON HIGHWAY Husband and Child Hurt.—Hit By Car Driven by Sylvester Taylor. Salisbury, June 20.— UP) —The wife of Ed Peeples, negro, was instantly, killed on the .. SaUsbory-MorktwiW highway, several miles across the riv er in Davie county Inst night. The husband was painfully hurt and is in a Salisbury Hospital, and one child of the couple received minor injuries aird was taken to Cooleemee for treat ment. this taking, place when a large roadster driven by Sylvester Taylor, young white man of Salisbury, ran into the party, the members of which were walking along the highway on their way home from night services at a negro chnrcli nearby, Taylor was arrested by Davie county officers shortly after the accident, and taken to Mocksville to await a hearing. Monument To War Heroes To Be Unveiled on July Fourth The Tribune Bureau Sir, Walter Hotel Raleigh, June 17.—Commemorating the deathless deeds of North Carolina heroes in three wars—the Cherokee Indian war of 1761. the Revolutionary war and the World war—the monu ment which has been erected at Gill espie Cap. near Little Switzerland by the North Carolina historical commis sion and others will be fprmally dedi cated and unveiled on July 4th. at what is expected to be one of the big gest celebrations ever held in ■western North Carolina. After devoting months to the formu lation qf the program, the complete roster of the day’s events was made public today by Justice Heriot Clark son, of the Supreme court, who has been the motivating spirit back of the erection of the monument and in the planning of the exercises which will attend its unveiling. The bronze tablet, sunk in the face of the monu ment, and which tells the dramatic story of the state’s heroes in three wars, was donated by Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Niven. The exercises attendant to the dedi cation and unveiling of the monument will open promptly at 11 o’clock on the morning of July 4th and will be completed, in sufficient time to allow the thousands of people who are ex pected to be present to enjoy their basket dinners by noon. There will be but two speakers, former Governor Cameron Morrison, who will speak on "The Heroes of King's Mountain.” and General John Van B. Metts, ad jutant general of the State, who will speak on “The Accredited Fact”—and tell how the Thirtieth division, made up of North and South Carolina and Tennessee troops broke the Hinden burgh line in the World war. The guests of honor will include Governor A. W. McLean and all the State officials, the members of the State historical . commission, old sol diefk of all wars, and the members of all the various patriotic aud his torical societies, members of the State Supreme court, the general assembly, United States senator, congressmen and district judges. The public is also Invited. The monument proper,' built of na tive mountain stone,'is teti feet square at the base and 25* feet high, and iB located on a plat of land 7ft feet square on the line between Mitchell and McDowell counties. The plot SHOES SELL AT SI,OOO IN PARISIAN SHOP Paris. June 10.—(A*) —Rumors that an exclusive shoe designer recently sold a pair of shoes for 25.000 francs or SI,OOO are caus ing squeals of astonishment in the dress world. Tlie shoes, said to have been purchased for a foreign client, had heels of seal gold with a rich en crustation of semi precious stones. Paris quotes this as the highest price paid for slices without prec ious stones on them. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Lower. Rut Later Rallied Buying on Rains or Shower Re port*. New York. June 20. — (A") —The cot ,ton market opened easy today at a .decline of 5 to 9 points under liquidn- Ition and local or southern selling, ap- Eparently inspired by relatively easy [Liverpool cables. Some buying on rain or shower re ports from the South rallied prices back to abqiit Saturday’s closing quo tations, but offerings increased on the bulge, and liquidation of July con tracts seemed to have rather an un settling effect on, sentiment. July sold off to 16.50, n net decline of 12 points: while December declined from 1719 to 17.98. or 11 points net lower, but the end of the first hour. Cotton futures opened easy: July 16.55; Os. 16.92; Dee. 17.12; Jan. 17.19; March 17.38. FOUR INJURED TODAY IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Driver Had Fallen Asleep, and Ma chine Crashed Into a Tree. Raleigh. June 20. — UP) —Four per sons were injured, one seriously, early this morning when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a tree on the Raleigh-Smithfield high way. at Auburn Ift miles from here. Miss Nannie Riggs, a business col lege student here, was seriously injur ed. while W. R. Trull, Miss Sinn Riggs and Chauncpy M. Jones, all of Ral eigh. suffered cuts and bruises. Jones said that Trull, driving, had fallen asleep on tlie long week-end Trip home from the Ba.vboro section. DR. HICKS CHARGED WITH SHOOTING YOUTH Case at Hickory is Continued Until Next Friday Morning. Hiiokory, June 2ft. — UP) —Dr. F. B. jjioks, prominent dentist of this city, 'wtrs brought before Judge W.B. Coun cil' in Hickory recorder's court this morning, on a charge of shooting and slightly wounding Everett W. Fin eannon an Oakland Heights youth, last Saturday night. The case, however, wns continued until Friday morning. The particularly brilliant shade of red paint which decorntes (he store fronts of the oldest and largest sys tem of chain grocery store* was the distinguishing feature of the original store of this system, which was open ed in New York City nearly seventy years ago. was donated to the historical commis sion and the State By J. Qttnice Gil key, D. E. Hudgins, George W. Chap man nnd Ed. Ballew. The bronze tab let bearing the inscription telling of the noble deeds which the monument commemorates, is sunk in the side of the stone shaft. The inscription on. the tablet is ns follows: “On Friday, September 29, 1780, a large part of the American army passed this spot under eommande of Colonels William Campbell, Isaac Shelby and John Sevier, on their march to the Battle of King's Moun tain, where the British and Tory forces, numbering 1,187, on top of the mountain under Colonel Patrick Fer guson, were killed and captured and their leader slain on October 7, 1780. The American volunteer patriots, un der Colonel William Ben jamin Cleveland, Isaac Shelby, John Sevier, Joseph McDowell, Edward Lacy, James Williams, Samuel Ham mond, Joseph Winston, Frederick Hambright and other daring leaders in the war for American independence surrounded and went up the mountain and thus defeated the British and Tories. With the defeat of King's Mountain began the downfall of Brit ish rule in America. !' “The only regiment intact in the Carol inas, eas of King's Mountain at 1 this time was the ‘Marion Bridage', famous in song and story, commanded by General Francis Marion. In the war with the Cherokee Indians in 1881, 30 men under the command of Marion, were sent to dislodge the Indians at Etchoe Pass, so the main army could go through. Twenty-one men under Marion were killed by the first fire of the Indians. Marion was unhurt. The heroism of the early patriots should never be forgotten. The conduct of Marion and his men at Etchee Pass almost equaled the heroism of Leonidas and his *brave band of Spartans at the Pass of Ther mopylae. “The highway leading to Marion is named in his honor—Etchoe Pass. “It was the North and South Caro lina and Tennessee troop* (30th di vision) in the World war. that broke the Hindenburg line. “Erected by the North Carolina His torical Commission and Heriot Clark son, W. C. Niven and Reid Queen, committee.” , CHAMBERLIN AND LEVINE ABE GUESTS OF AUSTRIAN PEOPLE Completed Fortnight Stay on German Soil After Their Momentous .Trans- Atlantic Flight. i THOUSANDS WERE READY FOR THEM When Order Was Partially Restored Someone Came Forward and Offered a Stein of Beer. Vienna, June 2ft.— UP) —Having completed a fortnight's stay on Ger man soil after their momentous trans ocean flight from New York. Clarence D. Chamberlin and Chas. A. Levine were guests today of the Austrian government. "Guten Tag wien” (Owl day, Vien na), with these words Chamberlin greeted the Austrians when he nnd I-evine step|>ed from their plane Co lumbia on their arrival from Munich last night. Notwithstanding a pour ing rain, thousands of Viennese were gathered at the Aspern air field to greet the Americans who were imme diately Kin-rounded nnd carried on the shoulders of admirers. Wives came a few minutes later as passen gers in one of the half dozen escort ing planes. Aftw' shaking hands with cabinet ministers nnd other officials the party was driven around the field through dense crowds, the band meanwhile playing the American anthem. When a semblance of order was re store and a path made for the ma chine someone stepped forward and offered the flyers a stein of beer. It was the second great welcome of the day! for when they arrived at Munich from Berlin in the afternoon all of Bavaria apparently had turned out in their honor. WILD NEGRO DRIVER INJURES FOUR PEOPLE .. r . —t- Yictims in Critical Condition.—Ac cident Occurred Near Clyde Sunday Night. i. AsheviHr, June 20.—*•'Four -par sons were in critical conditions in" Asheville hospitals today, the victims of the wild driving of a negro on the Waynesville highway near Clyde last night. Three others were in hos pitals severely injured and at least five others were recovering from minor wounds. The accident occurred at 9 o'clock last night when the automobile driven by Julius Whitmire, 17-year-old Can ton negro, plunged into a crowd of fifty persons assembled on the highway to watch a wrecker pull an automo bile from a ditch. Whitmire aud his two male com panions in the automobile are in Bun combe county jail held for Haywood county authorities, who Sunday night rushed . the men to Asheville when they learned a mob of more than fifty men had formed iu Clyde. Will Farmers Take Worm? Borah Asks. Washington, June 20.—1 n further comment on President Coolidge catch ing trout in the Black Hills of South ' Dakota with worm bait. Senator Bor- ' ah, Republican, Idaho, declared today that the question now was whether the farmers also will take the worm. “It is evident that the fish have taken the worm," he said., “The ques tion now is will the farmers 'take it.” THE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fennere & Beane (Quotations at 1:30 P. M.) Atchison 170 American Tobacco B 135 American Smelting 130% American Locomotive 110% Atlantic Coast Line 185 Allied Chemical v_: 141 American T. & T. 130% American Can 53% Baldwin Locomotive 226% Baltimore & Ohio llB% American Brown 12% Bethlehem Steel 50% Chesapeake & Ohio lB3 Corn Products 54% Chrysler 40 Coca-Cola llO% DuPont „ 243% Erie 52% Fleishman 40 Vrisco 115 General Motors 204% General Electric -- 103% Gold Dust 55% Hudson -i. ’ 85 Int> Tel. 138 Kennecott Copper 62% Lbrillard - 32 Liggett & Myers B 118% Mack Truck 117% Mo.-Pacific Pfd. <- 107% MO.-Paeific 57% Norfolk & Western 184 Stand. Oil of N. Y. 30% New York Central 153% Pan American B 59% Producers Refiners 29% Rock Island - 116 R. J. Reynolds 136% Seaboard Air Line 37% Bouthern-Pacifie 116 Stand. Oil of N. J. 36% Southern Railway 126% Studebaker 50% Texas Co. 47% Tobacco Products 100% IX a Steel ... __ 121 Vick Chemical __ 50% Westinghouse 122% Western Md. 61% Nations Of Peace/^enevaToday NEED FOR BETTER TRAILED SCHOOL TEACHERS IN STATE Need for Additional Normal Schools and How to Provide Them. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. By .1. C. BARKERY ILL. Raleigh. June 20. —A question that is likely to become the chief issue in the 1929 general assembly—the ques tion of additional normal schools, and how to provide them—is to 'be the dominant problem that is to be dis cussed in the anuiinl conference on Elementary Education, to he held in Chattel Hill July 14 and 15, under the auspices of the State Department of Public instruction. For while all phases of elementary instruction will 'be considered, the major part ofl the program will be given over to a discussion of the sup ply and demand for trained teuchers. And this discussion will focus atten tion upon the present exceedingly in adequate teacher-training facilities in the state, mid bring to a crux the necessity for expanding the normal schools of the state if the in-state out put. of teachers is to keep pace at all with the demand. But especially is there a need for better trained elementary teachers in the schools/of the state, ami it is for the purpose of discussing the problem of how to obtain and to make plans for a more adequate supply, that the conference on elementary' education is held each year. But. it. is exiieeted to have more significance this year than ever before, largely because of flie report of the State Educational Com mission, calling attention to the great lack of teacher training facilities in the state, and its recommendations that these existing faciliies be en larged. All of which means that the next general assembly not only will he call ed upon to materially increase the appropriations for existing normal and teacher training schools, but will also be called upon to set up one or more new norma! schools. Which ill turn will mean considerable local competition oil the parts of sections and cities to secure the new schools. Te Educational Comniissin, in its reiairt dealing with teacher supply and demand, set forth two niajor principles. First, that any year in a child's life should be considered as equally Important as any other year, and that hence a child of six, yearn of age deserves an ettciefiiitly trained teach er just, as much as the child of 14 years of age. Second, that although the high school teacher must be specialized in one or two subjects that are perhaps more difficult than the subjects taught in the elementary schools, the ele mentary teacher, on the other hand, must have a more highly diversified training. But with 22,641 teaching positions ojien in the state in 1926, and with the annua! supply of teachers from all the state institutions amounting to but approximately 1,000 annually, both white and colored, and state can not possiblely hope to keep up with the growing demand for additional teachers, unless it greatly expends its present institutions, and provides new ones. In making a survey of the teacher needs in the state from 1925, to 1950, the report of tile Educational Com mission says: “At the present, time the annual output of the in-state institutions is approximately 900 white elementary teachers, and about 750 white high school teachers. Their training var ies all the way from one to four years of college work. “If the 'present supply figures are maintained, by 1930 the supply of white elementary teachers trained in in-state institutions would be only 25 l>er cent of the demand and by 1950 only approximately 21 tier cent of the demand. If the present supply of white high school teachers is merely maintained, the supply would be only 88 per cent of the demand by 1930, and but 47 per cent of the da mud by 1950." The figures for the negro race are equally illiminating, and show even a greater deficiency. The commission, in summing up its findiugs, came to the conclusion that the untrained teacher is costly, and inefficient; that the teaching standard must, be raised, that the well trained teacher cannot afford to work on a six months basis, and that existing in stitutions for training teuchers are “insufficient to meet the demand.” All of which means that the next general assembly will have more to think about'than a larger equaliza tion fund, or even ail eight months school term. In China there is only one quali fied doctor to every 749,000 in habitants. CAN YOU SCORE TEN ON THESE? 1— Name the Minnesota city where Captain Lindbergh was reared. 2 Who was Fitzhugh Lee?' 3 What office did he hold during the first McKinley administration? 4.—What happened in Havana liar dnring Lee’s term of office? 5 What followed ? 6 Who invented the typewriter? 7 How many thundershowers oc cur daily on the earth? 8— What is the most thundery reg ion of the earth? 19— Where is thunder rarely or nev er heard? 10—What is Absolute Zero? TODAY’S NEwl TODAf| *. i iiM NO. isM America, England and Ja pan Open Discussion <Mt'! Naval Disarmanent at - Geneva. OTHER COUNTRIES : WATCHING MOVf J Extension of 5-5-3 Prirmfcf pie of Naval Streng|(|j Proposed Today to t)H| 3-Powers Conference, | Geneva, June 20.— (Ar>) —Extension of the 5-5-3 principle of naval to cruisers, destroyers and submarinea * of the i'nited States. Great BritgjNO ami Japan was proposed today Wth* three-powers naval limitations confer ence by tile American delegation. fgH Opening the conference, called President Coolidge, Ambassador Hmn Gibson, the chairman, proposed ’that cruisers be limited to tonnage of 250,- 000 or 300.000 tons for the United States and Great Britain, and 1 or 180,000 tons for Japan. Destroyer total tonnage would,.'a|H9 restricted to 200,000 or 250.000 bujpil for the two larger powers, and to 126,- .? .000 and 150,000 for Japan. Maximum tonnage for American and British submarines would be 60,000 to 90,000 tons, with 36,000 to 54,000 top* fixed for Japan. Gibson presented his proposal* afe.-’j ter a brief address in which he prp- .* seated an expression of gratitude to tlie powers from President Coolidge and declared that “the United Stafe* is prepared to accept a genersl» pwK gram providing for as low a total ton nage" as acceptable to the other JtdW-J era. He expressed regret that France am| . Italy were not active participants it»: the conference, and urged Japan and ; Great Britain who with the United, - States are the powers “which now lead 'i in naval armaments” to assue responsibility for initiating furtWf: naval limitation.” “If we are not prepared to limit," lie said, "we could not expect others to do so.” '.‘xaßß It was understood that under tba | Gibson proposal the t mted State* j would be obliged to scrap approxi mately 62,000 tons of cruiser? and ■: destroyers, mostly of the latter class, and 80,000 tons additional upon com- J plefion of cruisers now bujMing?C-*#i|gj Old ships virtually obsolete, bf which the American navy has many/ would be scrnpfied to make room lor the new ones. Under the plan it was expected tjipt Great Britain if she completes present • building program would scrap approx imately 58,000 tons of cruisers and Japan 40.000. 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The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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