North Carolina Newspapers

Jones Law Strikes Fear Into “Wets” Prohibition law With Tushes Caus es liquor Veterans To Move Bark From Road. Greensboro.—The bootleggers and distillers of North Carolina may not have the Interpretation of the Jon es law down to a tine legal point but they arc not going to split hairs over the matter. According to pro hibition officials of the middle dis trict the whiskey veterans are ob serving increased vigilance to avoid contact with this law with tushes. Where one man formerly watched i at the output ot a liquor still .there are three today. Tug $10,000 maximum fine and the five year imprisonment or both is not likely to lx* imposed in every instance or even in a majority ot the eases but from the whiskey man's point of view It allows judges dan gerous privileges that might be ex ercised tn aggravated cases. The dispute, if any, between Levi H. Bancroft, district attorney of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. assistant attorney general, over the recently enacted Jones law and where it applies is a fight over a distinction without a difterenee. Greensboro lawyers and court officials believe. It is pointed out that under this much discussed Jones act the dis trict attorney has probably no dis cretion as to how lie shall bring Ills Indictments. If the defendant is charged with making, selling, transporting, im porting or exporting intoxicating liquors then the district attorney must present his indictment to the grand jury, charging a lelony. Un der the old national prohibition act he could indict first offenders for a misdemeanor. The discretion seems to be with the federal judges, who by the Jones act may impose penalties as small as imposed under the old na tional prohibition act but for the maximum penalty may go as far as a $10,000 fine or a five-year im prisonment. The act is short and to the point. It cuds with the Implication that it is the Intent of congress that the Judges who Impose penalties there under shall discriminate between the slight violations and those of a more aggravated or commercial na ture. Under the old national prohibi tion act the maximum penalty for a first offender for selling whiskey was a $500 fine. In cases of trans porting, selling and manufacturing the Jones law gives judges as wide latitude extending from the present minimum to the five-year-$10,000 maximum. Eleven years ago Anton Kramer and Nick Cansbrirk were buddies In war. They became separated and each believed the other dead. The other day they were reunited in jail at Grand Island, Neb., where both are held for minor offenses. WE AIM TO PLEASE mtr readers by instilling a little pep in our ads so ve il tell you that our idea of an efficiency ex pert is an old maid advertising for a husband so she can remove the moth balls lrom her hope chest. Our idea of efficiency is to use Sinclair gas and Opaline oil exclusively. There's more satis faction in its use than merely listening to our commendation of it. We back up these products because we know that they are wtII deserving of the trust you place in their quality and pur ity. Distributors Saunders Tells Why Oar Kids Are What They Are—Teachers (The Bank Clerk and Soda Jcrker in W. O. Saunders’ Elizabeth City Independent! "I see they are going to cut down the number of teachers to our grad ed schools," said the Soda Jcrker., "And all the time I had been led to believe that the enlarged equaliza tion fund provided by the last general assembly was to give us longer school terms and more teach ers.” "That was another legislative joke," said the Bank Clerk. "The general assembly voted an increase to the gasoline tax, but roads don't get it; it goes to reduce taxes on lands. Same way with the higher taxes for schools; they wont help the schools. In fact the larger equalization fund for schools is go ing to mean fewer teachers and cheaper teachers nil along the line.” "Well. I thought school teachers were cheap enough already!” said the Soda Jerker. "Right you are!” said the Bank Clerk; "That's the trouble with our educational system today; school teachers are too cheap. At the salaries paid, pedagogy has little appeal to the seasoned and experi enced man or woman and we are compelled to recruit our school faculties from the ranks of flappers and callow young male graduates ot our colleges and universities. "And what is the result? We are entrusting the important work of shaping the lives of our young to a lot of amateurs; it is like employ ing the blind to lead the blind. "The school boys and girls of our times need highly trained leader ship more than any tribe of young sters that ever came before; and they're not getting it. No man who has never had the experience of fatherhood und no woman who has never had a child of her own should be entrusted with the serious re sponsibility of molding the lives of other people's children. "How can you expect to develop character in children under the tutelage of a lot of ignorant and in experienced young teachers whose own characters haven't yet been formed? It can’t be done. "But that is the pjan we pursue and in many states a woman who is married is not permitted to teach in schools at all; the very fact that she has acquired that much experi ence and the larger sympathies dis qualifies her for a position as a teacher. The result is that our school faculties are filled with burn ing. restless, absent-minded young females who are using the school room as an ante-room to matrimony and whose chief Interest in teaching is to get enough clothes to attract a likely male who will take them out of the school room and give them their freedom. Very few young women who seek employment as teachers in our public schools take their profession seriously or seri ously intend to make a career In it; they become teachers out of a rest less desire to get away from home, nnd for lack of something better to do.” "Well, what about the young male teachers?” asked the Soda Jerker. "I Just don't understand them at all,” said the Bank Clerk: "they don’t seem to belong to this life at nil; I am utterly incapable of class ifying them or appraising them; I never have been able to figure out just what or why they are.” Record Number Of Women In Prison In North Carolina Raleigh.There are 86 women in State’s prison, a record for all time. Warden H. H. Honeycutt revealed. Recently records of all kinds have been falling at the prison. Nearly every month sees more new prisoners brought in than the month before. The majority of them young men—many of them young white men. Now the record for women prisoners has fallen. Of the 86 women, 24 of them are white women. Most of them are killers. The oldest, both in years and term of service is Nancy Cur ley, 82, who was sent up from Swain county in 1914 to serve 30 years for murder. The women are employed in the sewing rooms and the laundry. A tew work at making chair bottoms. Old “Aunt Nancy” has no regular task. When she is able, she does odd jobs. She still looks forward hope fully to the day her sentence will be ended. Already this month 107 new prisoners have been received, mak ing the total number of inmates 2, 175. Chlckrns. i Greer Citizen, * With liens selling at 30 cents a pound and trying chickens at twice that price, local farmers should be able to pick up some extra change. The northern markets have invad ed this section for chickens during recent years, and there is no reason why South Carolina can not supply the demands just as well as Tenn essee or some other state. The de mand lor chickens right now is greater than the supply. Good news for the deprest sugar industry. The early strawberry states promise nearly 9.000.000 more quarts than a year ago—Boston Herald. 51(8 FLIPPERS ■ TEBBIBLE Topeka, Kan—The 192D flapper jnts a poor sendoff at the hands of Mrs. Susan Smith, 108, of Pleas anton, the oldest person In Kansas, ‘ I have not come into contact personally with the present-day young girl,” she said, ‘'but if all I hear and read of her is true, then she must be a terrible creature.” Mrs. Smith admits, however, ffiat in the days or her young woman hood, about 1840, that she and her friends occasionally shocked their ciders by their conduct. ‘ We often went to dances, the old-fashioned barn kind,” she re lated, “and many times did not get home until time to start the chores next morning.” But this was because they went so many miles to tne scene oi me event that several hours were re quired to return in the lumber wag ons generally used to carry a large crowd of the youngsters. Chaper ones also were present to keep their eyes on everything. Despite this statement of her own girlish con duct, Mrs. Smith said she thought the flappers were growing worse every year. She had little to say about the young men of to-day, not having read or heard much about their ac tions, but said she didn't think they had changed a great deal in the past century. Mrs. Smith has enjoyed unusually good health all during her life. Her only really serious sick spell occur red in 1918 when she had the flu. She fully recovered from that at tack. Smallpox has been the most dreaded and feared disease in her life. She tells of a preventative em ployed by her parents, and one which she guarantees will prevent the disease, that of applying pine tar on the tip of the nose several times a day until the danger is past. She can hear very well, and en joys listening to the news features read to her from daily and week ly papers. By this means she man ages to keep abreast of the times and to note changes in the habits of womanhood. Mrs. Smith cats heartily three times a day and sleeps soundly at niht. She smokes a pipe continu ously. Her neighbors see to it that she is never out of smoking tobac co. Her eyesight is impaired, mak ing it difficult for her to make her way about the house. This does not prevent her in the least from strik ing a match and applying it to an other pipeful of tobacco just as soon as the one she has smoked is exhausted. She has been a smoker for more than eighty years and says smoking has been an aid in maintaining her good health. Drinking Tragedy In Old Days, Now Statesville Daily. Despondent because her husband was drinking and had remained away from home all night, Mrs. Lon Adams, 31, of Wake county, blew her face off with a shot gun Sunday morning. She left a note stating the cause: said she had more trouble than she could stand and had been unable to sleep. Four small children are left motherless. “Be good to the children" was the desperate mother's last message to the rec reant husband, whose conduct brought about the tragedy. The irony of it. The husband’s conduct drove the mother to desperation, and yet she left to his care the chil dren to whom she gave her last thought. That, of course, was evi dence of the unbalanced mind. If 6he had been capable of reason ing, the possibilities of what would be in store for little children left to the care of a drunken father would have nerved her to continue the battle for them. There isn't anything to suggest about the prevention of a tragedy ol this sort. Drunkenness has borne its evil fruit since the beginning and will probably continue to the end. Time was when a tragedy like that in Wake would have aroused a sentiment that would have voted out barrooms. The sentiment was aroused and the barrooms voted out. But not all the drink went with them. The reaction of such tragedies now should be the crea tion of a sentiment that would make the manufacture and sale not only, but the use of intoxicants, practically impossible in a civilised community. That, it would seem, would be the natural follow up of the abolition of the legalized sale. But we seem to have near exhaust ed our capacity for indignation against the things that promote these tragedies. Having passed the law we are content to let it go at that. Having been considerate of the drinker in the days when in toxicants were on open sale, on the theory that his environment was responsible for his weakness, we remain considerate of him in large degree, notwithstanding his offend ing is multiplied. Carolina Is Picked By Most Of Tourists Salisbury Post. Old North Carolina runs away with another first in the list of stat es. The American Automobile associ ation reports that its nation wide questionnaire has been completed in which motorists, the country over have been asked to name their fa vorite motoring state and why. 78 per cent of the people answering that questionnaire picked North Carolina as their favorite state. It is interesting to note that the questionnaire was sent to several thousand motorists in each state and that 23 per cent of those an swering have been in North Caro lina. The others have heard of the charm of the Old North State. 'Many interesting features were brought out when the results of the wholesale referendum were tabulat ed,” Mr. Roberts said. ‘ For in stance, 50 per cent said they prefer red touring in this state on account of the wonderful roads, while only 24 per cent gave scenery as the pri mary attraction. An average speed of 35 miles an hour was preferred by 36 per cent of the answers and 71 per cent said they did not drive at night. "Hotels were visited by 68 per cent of the motorists, disclosing that tourist and wayside camps are los ing their appeal, while 81 per cent Df those preferring hotels said they selected hotels by signs and tour ing advice and publicity from clubs affiliated with the national organi zation. ‘Hot a single complaint of dis courtesy or bad treatment at the hands of municipal, county or state officers while visiting in North Car olina was reported on the question naire, which was a striking contrast to the answers filed regarding treat ment in other states. Florida and Pennsylvania, in the order named followed North Carolina as favorite touring states according to the an swers to the questlonaire. In 1928 more than 5,750,000 tourists visited the southeast, expending over $425, 000,000, and the fact that only 23 per cent of the 78 per cent who pre fer touring in North Carolina have visited the state indicates that the tourist travel in Tarheelia this year will exceed all previous records.” People in this country are be ginning to hear of North Carolina and especially the Piedmont and “The Enchanted Land” and “The Land of Tire Skies.” And why not? Travel the wide world over, the tourist will never find such charm ing scenery; such invigorating cli mate and such hospitable people. The only drawback of the Caro linians is that they are loathe to boost the charms of “The Enchant ed Land.” Boosting made California and California’s charms can never hold a candle to the charms of "The Land of The Skies.” We would like to see the state put on a big national advertising campaign; to sell the charms; the air and the everlasting grandeur of the state. If that would be done, the question aire would be almost a perfect per centage for North Carolina as the ideal place in which to tour or visit and live. A Wave In Prison New York—Hattie Campbell, 55 who must serve 2 1-2 years in pris on, has obtained a week’s delay of the law in order to get a perman ent wave. She and her husband were convicted of stealing diamond bracelets. TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL ES TATE. Under the power of sale con tained In a certain deed ot trust executed by Louis P. Ponder, single, to Union Trust company of Mary land and Insured Mortgage Bond corporation of North Carolina, Inc., as trustee, which deed of trust is of record in office of the registry of Cleveland county. N. C.. in book 155, page 155, page 75, said deed of trust having been given to secure notes therein described, and the said Louis P. Ponder not having paid said notes the holder of same having requested foreclosure of said deed of trust, the undersigned trustees will offer for sale for cash at public auction to the highest bidder at the court house door in Shelby, N. C., at 12 p. m., June 3, 1929, the following described lot or parcel of land, situated just east of the city of Shelby, N. C„ and be ing lot No. 9 in block B of Cleve land Heights, developed by Gard ner and Mull, plat of same being of record in the aforesaid office in plat book 2. page 21, Beginning at a stake in east edge of state highway No. 20, or the Asheville - Charlotte - Wilmington highway at a point which is locat ed 172 feet from J. A. Wilson-Sam uel Green old line, and runs thence N. 43 deg. 39 min. E. 204 feet to a stake in the line of lot No. 22; thence with the lines of lots Nos. 22 and 23, S. 43 deg. 36 min. E. 60 feet to a stake, comer of lot No. 8 in line of lot No. 23: thence with the line of lot No. 8 S. 46 deg. 30 min. W. 197 ft. to a stake in the east edge of state highway No. 20, the same being corner of lot No. 8; thence with the east edge of said highway No. 20, 50 feet to the be ginning. This May 1, 1929. UNION TRUST COMPANY OF MARLAND. INSURED MORTGAGE BOND CORPORATION OF N. C., Inc. Trustee. Newton & Newtons, Attys. Star Advertising Pays \ir Terminal Of Future Provides Every Comfort For the Traveller Seattle Air Depot Will Have A1J Conveniences Of Railroad Station. Seattle, Wash.—The old, dishev elled, wind-swept romance of air travel is doomed to be replaced by comfort. For the first time in the United States, and probably in the world, an airport passenger depot is to be built on the principles of a rail road terminal. This is the Boeing airport now under construction by King's county authorities at Seat tle, Wash. Passenger traffic will pass from the ticket office through the pas senger concourses directly into the ,-abins of the planes without once caving cover, just as in a modern \ilroad station. No more slopping about a muddy landing field, dodg ing whirring propellers. The Boeing airport, to cost ul timately $1,500,000, exclusive of the 160-acre site, will be the first ma terialization of the “airport of the future” as conceived by he airport engineers of the Austin company of Cleveland, Ohio, engineers and builders. The eyes of the entire viatlon industry are focused upon he port and some authorities pre let that it will revolutionize air t construction. Even the Croyden Field in Eng land, the Tempelhof Field in Ber lin and the Llttorio airport at Rome are said not to be compar ableable in design to the port being built for the west-coast city. Although a purely pubic enter prise, it is named in honor of Wil liam E. Boeing of the Boeing Air plane company, one of Seattle's leading citizens. Covered Concourse. The passenger stations will con sist of three building units built above the covered concourse. There are loading areas for the planes—one 160 by 75 feet, the other 160 by 125 feet, both with 25 feet clearance. The construction provides for indefinite expansion. When the passengers alights from his taxi at the station, he enters the general waiting room, pur chases his ticket and goes to the passenger concourse on the mezza nine level. There he may watch the arriving and departing planes through windows while awaiting his own. When his plane is called, he de scends one of the stairways and walks through a railed-in passage way and the open cabin door of the plane directly to his seat. As planes taxi to and fro be tween the loading area and their hangars there Is no danger, as in the present type of airport, of hit ting a careless visitor strolling along the taxi-ing runways. No one can gain access to the field except those with business there. Ihe station is to be provided with all the conveniences for travelers to be found in a railroad station. In addition to the general waiting room on the first floor of the main building will be a restaurant, con cessions, air mail and express de partments, and rest rooms. It will also house offices for United States customs and immigration inspectors as Boeing Airport will be an ofi: cial port of entry. The upper part of the main wait ing room will be on the mezza nine. On the first floor of the inter mediate pier will be department of commerce and field offices; on the mezzanine, the pilots* dormitory, radio room and weather bureau. The lights control room will be on the first floor of the outer pier, and the airport manager's office on the mezzanine. The observatory will be located above, on the second floor of a tower. The entire construction will be of brick and steel, including the hangars detached from the depot, and will comprise 55,650 square feet of floor space. Building is being rushed in order that the “airport of the future” may be in full opera tion before the end of the year. lomDinea .terminals. “Hardships in air travel were cheerfully accepted by the public In the novelty age of aviation, when a trip in a plane was regarded as an adventure.” said W. J. Austin,! president of the Austin Co. "Nowadays when a business man, quite as a matter of course, takes a plane to keep a business appoint ment in a distant city and returns the same day in time to transact business in his own office, he wants to appear presentable and be comfortable, “European airports are no models for the United States, for the peo ple of this country are accustomed to and insist upon a degree of com fort unknown there.” Austin predicts that American cities eventually will build terminals where air, rail, bus, and, in some cases, water- transportation will] converge and be co-ordinated. It takes a stubborn dry to favor prohibition as it is, and a stubborn wet to favor liquor as it is—The Pathfinder. It Sure Makes A Big Difference. Chicago—Sam Potts Hall, who J deals in statistics, made a discovery that has caused even Manager Joe McCarthy to ponder. 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