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Abolishing Death Penalty Is Not Religious, But Practical Problem (By Sir -Basil Thomson, K. C. B., formerly head of Scotland Yard and Chief Commissioner of Police, Written specially for l.NS and London “Daily News.’’) London.—The question "f main taining capital punishment for wilful murder ought to be consid ered not in terms of religious or humanitarian sentiment, but from the practical standpoint whether murders would increase if mur derers were sent to perm! servi tude for life. It is very interesting to read the arguments of those who were opposed to the abolition of capital punishment for all felonies, ex cept murder, one hundred years ago. There would be, they said, an enOnaou* increase in felonies, just as those who advocate the “lertalionis" for murderers arc saying today. Prophets All Wrong Like all these prophets, they were wrong, and if we may judge from the stultification of every prediction on social change* in the past, the abolition of capital pun ishment in this country would not be followed by the smallest in rrsaae in the number of murders. Far It is not the seventy of pun-, ishroent which counts with crim inals, but its certainty. When Romily said that the Eng lish criminal law was written in letters of blood, the police were, inefficient; and there was more than a sporting chance that a man ! might spend a lifetime in commit- : ting crimes without being found out The old law that hanged n man for theft did certainly reduce the number professional criminals, though that defence for it was not adduced by any of its apologists. Even while the death penalty for theft waa still in force its incid ence was uncertain, for looking through Assise calendars of the eurl.v nineteenth century we find an increasing number of death sentencei| commuted to transporta tion, until, by the year lftSO, the execution of a condemned man was the deception rattier than the rule. The object aimed nt in those day*" was to terrorize people into good behaviour. • Effect Of Severity ll il only when crimes far ex ceed the number of arrests that one finds sentences becoming in creasing severe. Their very servity may eTr in the wrong direction. The ^uuan animal is so curiously constituted that the idle, washing youths who took to highway rob bery actually enjoyed the adula tion of the mob as they were being driven to Tyburn, and in that thea trical Intoxication seemod to for get what they were to suffer. It is a curious reflection that the abolition of public executions has more prohably prolonged cap ital punishment in England, for in these softer days modern humani tarian ism would have been stirred to its depths by sensational ac count* of public executiofw in the ■ newspapers. The practical argun*cnts against abolishing capital punishment are —first, that it is a deterrent; sec f oud, there ire from time to time murderer* of so callous ami brutal • a type who stir the public sense of justice to such an extent thai , lynch law may be resorted to. Judge Lynch still lingers in the «' " 1 Mew .. ''-i "tswii' ..... ■ United States, but that is because of the interminable delays and the uncertainty of arrest and con viction which still prevail in sonic of the States of the Union. hew ivxeeumiw The number of executions in England rarely exceeds tor. out of a population of K>,0(10,0()0 and it is quite likely that juries of the twentieth century. like juries of the eighteenth, shrink from their plain duty, when they think that a verdict of “Guilty” may send a fellow-creature into Eternity. When we hang a nflan we do not know what punishment we are in- j flirting. We do know that the men who are reprieved though they may have committed murders quite as heinous as those for j which other men go to the gallows.! are far from being the worst crim inals in our prisons. In spite of the establishment of the Court of Criminal Appeal, the responsibility of advising a re prieve still exists with an execu tive officer—the Home Secretary. It does not seem fair that an ex ecutive officer should lie called up on to act ^is a super-court of ap peal to bridge the vast gulf which lies between death and a life sen tence of penal servitude. This power of reprieve might be used exuerimentaly as a lest before leg islation is resorted to. All condemned men might auto matically be reprieved until we see whether murders increase. Cherryville Wants On Road To Toluca Gastonia Gazette. At n largely attended dinner given in the New Central hotel at Cheiryville Thursday night by the Cherryville Chamber of commerce that organization had as its guests members of the board of county commissioners and a number of citizens of the other townships. Mr. David P. Dellinger was toast* master and welcomed tjie visitors, outlining the project for which the Cherryville chamber is seeking the support and co-operation of the county officials and citizens of all parts of the county. It is the pur pose of this body to petition the state highway commission to take o'-ov the present hard-surfaced roa l which leads from Bessemer City to Cherryville, make it a state highwuy extending it north of Cherryqville to connect at Dave Beams store with the state high way which is now being construct-' •'<1 from l.incolnton to Toluca, where it joins the road leading from Shel by *1 Morganton. All the speakers of the occasion stressed the point that the open ing up of this road as a state highway would not only benefit the town of Cherryville, which is not at present on any hard surface State Mbut would bring trade and traffic from a splendid farming section of the western and north western parts of Lincoln county t otbc towns of Cherryville, Besse mer City, Gastonia. Belmont and , CHiarlotte. It would provide the shortest and most direct route from Charlotte amt Gastonia to Morgan ton amt would be strictly in line with the state highway commis sion's policy of Unking up county i scat with county-seat by a system of modern hard surfaced highway. ...... i , \ ■1 IDEAL DOWNTOWN LOCATION One of tie 4tU Hotels HOTEL owta f 4M J HOTELS 1 CAIRO COLONIAL FAIRFAX NNtnwqut TURN MALL dtlways A ROOM with Runnim WMfA a room with RRIVATI WATC*. mtm n »3 OWtATEP >Y HAOOUX, MARSHALL, MOSS fr MAUORY wc. WIITf KAA/UF /igrcofY Of OWftW PICTORIAL GUIDE MAP OF WASHINGTON LOW ROUND TRIP RATES To ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., and NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Round Trip Fare Shelby To Atlantic City $22.50; to Niagara Falla $32.35. Tickets will be on sale one day each week from June 21st to October 6th, and arc limited 17 days from date of sale. Stop overs allowed on return trip at Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Cfifl on Dearest Seaboard Ticket Agent for dates of sale and other information or apply to H. A. HARRIS, Agent JOHNT . WEST, D. P. A. Shelby, N. C. Raleigh, N. C. Prison Battler-Is Training For Big Fight This Mo.ith Raleigh.—(INS)—Charley Man gum, the “fighting: prisoner" is working Irani for^is coming fight that may net him a mythical title. The only inmate of a state pri son ever to go in for professional boxing, Mangum is slated to meet .'Terry Rdberts, middleweight champion of the Carolinas, on the night of June 24. It probably will be the first time in ring history that a prisoner ever has tried to gain any sort of title while confined behind pri son walls. I Mangum is doing hard training leach night, sparring with his part ners, Gallagher and Kid Turner, the latter n giant black from Bor ton. This will be the closing ring card for ihe present season at the penitentiary and Mar.gum will be given a rest until next fall. Other bouts on the card call for Charley Hauser, of Fort Bragg and Bennie Mack, of Charlotte, to sling gloves at each other for | eight rounds to set lie their old ar | gument which had its inception when this pair battle through ten ! rounds ttf a draw; Tommie Gal lag j her, lightweight champ of the l Carollhas will exchange wallops | with Jess Lasgo, of Charlotte; two j negro bantams yet to be selected will put on the first bout of the evening and there probably will be a battle royal to start off the night’s entertainment. It now appears that the Amer ica-to-Europe fliers will be as thick this summer as the non-stop swimmers of the English channel were last summer. President Coolidge picked the Black Hill o? South Dakota for a summer home. A prospective candi date should hkve a vacation color scheme a little less dismal. Tom Tarheel says hia cows sent T< n: junior to college last year. 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"There are i ,000 rural school ! children in Cleveland county who i prepare their lessons every night i by electric lights,” said Hon. O. ' Max Gardner in a recent address, i while discussing the idea of making ' conditions more favorable for the rural dwellers. And does any one wonder that Cleveland county is one of the wealthy counties, that it is the home of men who have made that county famous all over the state? Improve the condition:; on the farms, make the farmer in telligent and prosperous and the entire world will be blessed there- j by. Advice to Reporters. I.enior-News Topic. A young man asked us our opin ion about entering the newspaper field. We answered this wise: If he can listen with a smile to tiresome things he’s heard offtimes before; if he can refuse to do what three or four people ask him to d<; without making them mad; if he i an write in a way to make people iaugh when he feels like cussin”, or in a way to make them weep when he feels like cracking his heels to gether and laughing out loud; if he can remain silent when he feels like he”ll burst wide open if he does not talk; if he can argue with out getting mad; if he can refuse a" woman’s request for free publicity I -’ithout making all the members of I her set get mad at paper; if he can leact to the loss of a good news story and catch a better one on the r*bo"r>d: if he can explain a typo graphical error without using up more than 30 minutes’ time;; if he can concentrate and write intelli gent copy while three different con versations are going on around him, several typewriters clicking! away and the telephone ringing and j | ■ *w* subdued hum of the presses in j i the next room drumming on his | ears; if he can explain why Mia. I Jones’ poem on “The Sylvan Depth | of October Woods” did not appeal j in the paper without her husband j stopping his advertising; if he can take a four-line story and spread column story and condense It to two paragraphs; if he can read proofs without overlooking an error and write headlines without murdering the king’s English; if he has n nose for news, an itch for writing and an inclination to work 15 hours a day, then we’d adivse him to get into the game. Man Burned When Truck Catches Fire Rutherfordton.—Erastus Green, 42, of Waynesville is in the Ruth erford hospital in a critical condi tion as a result of gasoline burn3 and inhaling flames. He was returning from Hamlet with a load of peaches in a truck when he got under the car to get gasolina for a friend whose car was stranded near here on the highway. The heat from the exhaust pipe ignited the gasoline. Sam Season and Wid Hill were returning from a fox hunt and found Green in a critical condition and rushed him to the hospital. Phy sicians say he has a chance to re cover. His truck and peaches were an entire loss. ~ CLEVELAND BANK & TRUST COMPANY "The Bank Of Service” Every day we want to prove ourcelve* t o be what you think we are. The Bank Where You Feel At Home. Cordially yetaru, ^ PRESIDENT. ^ —mi 11 Dad And Daughter In Rcur,‘cn After 58 Years Apart (By International New« Service.) Washington Court' liou .c, Glue. —After searching for each other over a period of fifty years, a father and daughter have been re united in this little Ohio town. When the father, Silas J. Paul, was divorced from his wife in 1877, the couple’s little daughter Jennie, 18 months old, went with the mother. Later, renor.<- reach ed the father that Jennie nad pass ed away. For a time, Paul dis credited the reports, owing to their “grapevine” nature, but fin ally he gave her up for dead, when no trace could be found. The daughter, now the wife of Charles Rothenberger, Kost,,fia 0., also believed her “dad” Jj passed away. About one month ag<>, a f from Washington Court Hftu l moved into a house near the R, a enbetger home in '.sh,* ly. afterward, Mrs. RbthonW,,-w learned from this neighbor p,., her father was still alive and n," ing here. The daughter and h« husband made a hurried trip to thn Paul home here sv.» ' f,,u>.d father, quite aged, ' In; health. ‘ "! Although Mrs. RoU»«ibergi.r ; now nearly 52 years old, "ho jj still “baby’ to her fa .her. “I never expected to sofyoa again on this earth,” the ,,1,| man exclaimed joyously, te::r■; : lr,.nm. ing down hir, thcebs. A PHONE CALL Brinjcs our tr ;r !: f ,r your laundry as roon as it is ready, and it is deliver*id hack aa’ soon as finished so ; hat you have rj trouble <> • <!<•!• .vo'4 v,it| { nd the v; ,atV. faciovy in every .•esorei. and sen: pul o’is olinnliness are uvo virtues observe if in our laundry. •SNOWFLAKE LAI NDRY FERTILIZER FOR TOP DRESSING CORN OR COTTON As it is impossible to get Nitrate Soda, \vc wish to say that we haver 150 tons of good 9-7-2 Fertilizer made up, well seasoned, suitable for Topi Dresser, that wc can ocl! at $35.00 Pcrf Ton at Mill. I Will have car Sulphate Ammonia in' a few days, which is as good for dress ing cotton or corn as Nitrate Soda and; cheaper per unit. | SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO., ’ SHELBY MILL i ' »* ‘ i MECKLENBURG FAR IS CONVINCED Well Kiiewn Planter Says He Wants All His Fcllow-SuffeM to Try the Medicine That Brought Him Good Health jw Happiness. “Until just a short time ago I was in wretched health, all due to my constipated condition from which I had been a victim for many years. After being urged to do so, I used the Herb Extract remedy, now I am fully convinced that it is the very thing to over come this trouble,” said Mr. Clark Helms, well-known farmer and highly respected citizen of Char lotte, R. F. D. No.-l, when he call ed to see the representative a few I could not eat a thing and rave> agree with me. I was weaker all the time and "hue < took various remedies, 1 never find a thing that would MTI any regulating effect or relieve my troubles until I had used >'®j medicine. I was really astonuM* at the quick relief and very ficial results which I .obtained this great herb remedy. ^ow don’t suffer one bit from consllf*” tion, stomach is in fine conuu tmimmtf. mm > i T hal MR CLARK HELMS days ago. | “After seeing your medicine highly praised from day to day in j the papers and being repeadedly ; urged to try ft I started taking it for my ailments in the hope of get | ting some relief. And I must say | that the splendid results were • really more than I expected in 'such a very short time.” In telling more about his condition, Mr. : Helms had the following to say to the representative of nature’s ■ Herb Extract remedy (formerly called Herb Juice) “I suffered dreadfully from headaches, fainty, dizzy spells, biijous attacks and at time my stomach seemed to be on fire so severe Were the gas pains. Dae food digests spieiium-j - regained my lost weight the fart that my system thoroughly cleansed ami re h(*| ed. I no longer suffer "• aches, dizzy spoils and ’ tacks, and I have abundant ^ and feel full of pep a” t> I advise any one who 5 * from ailments simidar u‘ jitine » I had to try this me., am sure you will ag“'e wor; that it is a real wonder ^ when it comes to Pu system in good order For sale and guaran the StepW nteed Paul Webb and Drug Company. d
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