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__ WEDNESD’Y, MAY 13, 1931
TWINKLES
Satu^ly ^ We*k:end shoppin* earl>-- It may rain again
A surgeon now claims he can perform an operation thal
will cure alcoholism. Operations of that type have been per
formed before—fatal ones.
Among other things the continuous rainy Saturdays are
Playing havoc with the afternoon plans of hundreds of base
ball fans. And that borders on a real calamity at this season
of the year.
The population of the North Carolina prison is now the
greatest in the history of the State. And this time next
year, unless the Democratic spell-binders have lost some of
their resourcefulness; that will be blamed on Hoover pros
perity as in the prison one gets three squares per day if not
m solitary confinement and on a cracker-and-water diet.
l he relation* between Governor Gardner and The Ra
leigh News and Observer must be a little more strained than
we thought. ’A member of The News and Observer staff
writing his weekly article to The New York Times referred
to the chief executive as “Governor Maxwell Gardner.”
Wonder what Maxmilian. or plain Max. thinks of that ?
The editor of Ivey’s store news thinks that the legisla
tors, had they known they were to be in session so -long,
might have picked a better place for it than Raleigh. The
wisdom of that suggestion may have been discounted had
not Representative MacLean apologized for. saying that there
was “too much liquor and too many women” on hand in Ra
leigh.
CAUTIOU8 CALVIN
ARTHUR BRISBANE gets a lot of kick on occasions out of
the calm, unemotional Ueclarafions of former President
^Calvin Coolidge. One quoted by him recently is more typi
cal of Coolidge than any we’ve ever heard. Coolidge and
Borne friends were discussing the European war debt. Some
one in the party suggested that It might be well to send a
delegation to Europe to talk over the debt. “They came over
here to borrow the money,” Coolidge interrupted, “why
shouldn’t they come over here to talk about paying it back?”
IN CAROLINA AND IN NEW YORK
IN NORTH CAROLINA we talk a great deal about how dry
we are and how wet New York is. “But,” notes The
Asheville Citizen, “a great deal more is done about drunken
drivers in New York—a wet State—than in North Carolina—
a dry State.” An evident truth.
A list of those whose driving licenses are taken away
for drunken driving is made public two times each month in
New York and the list is published in the newspapers. The
list includes other offenses, also, and in a two-weeks period
during April 769 licenses were revoked. Of the 348 revoca
eations in New York City, 56 were for intoxication.
How many drivers’ licenses are revoked in North Caro
lina and how many drivers are forbidden to take an auto
mobile on the public highways for driving drunk in a two
weeks period? And what effect, if any, would the making
public of the list have upon violators and prospective viola
tors V
MURDERS IN SMALL CITIES
WITH A BIG PERCENTAGE of present-day fiction and
movie themes centering about organized crime in ad
dition to the daily newspaper stories of gang killings and
crime waves, the average person reaches the conclusion that
murder and crime flourish in the big cities where organized
rackets are carried on by criminal gangs.
In daily conversation we hear frequent references to the
danger of living in Chicago or some of the other large cities.
Few of us have stopped to think that the homicide rate in
many of our smaller Southern cities is higher than that of
the racketeer-infested large cities. If we have heard it, we
soon forget it; because, perhaps the activities of the big-city
gangs are more sensational that our small city killings and
attract more publicity.
Frederick L. Hoffman has compiled figures for the
Spectator showing that the homicide rate in Memphis, Tenn.,
is the highest in America. Atlanta is seconu, a close second.
Commenting upon these enlightening, and somewhat startl
ing, figures, The Washington Post says: “These cities had
about four times as many murders per 100,000 population
in 1930 as did Chicago. The rate is particularly high in sou
thern cities. Augusta, Ga.; Birmingham, Ala.; Jacksonville,
Fla.; Lexington, Ky.; Macon, Ga.; Miami, Fla.; Mobile, Ala.;
Nashville, Tenn.; Savannah, Ga., and Shreveport, I-a. all hi\\
homicide rates of more than 80 per 100,000. The rate for 31
leading American cities during the same year was only 10.9.
It is a very serioue error, aays Mr. Hoffman to assume that
these crimes of violence against the person are chiefly of
gangster origin.
“With the exceotion of Chicago and Detroit, the homi
l
cide rate in the larger cities is considerably below the aver
age. What is still moresurprising is that murder seems to
be increasing in the smaller cities faster than it is in the big
cities. The American homicide rate is higher than that qf
any civilized country. Murder is still pn the increase, while
the number of convictions steadily diminishes.”
THE DAYS OF THE TEXAS RANGER—WHEN LAW
WAS NOT IN DISRESPECT
A MODERN OFFICER of the law is not respected as he
should be because of an undermining influence that has
crept into society in the last decade or so to build a disre
spect for law enforcement.
Many years ago a man wrote a vivid word portrait of
“The Texas Ranger,” a fearless fellow' who knew nothing of
modern bribery and shirking of duty. It has been reprinted
many times; will be printed many times again. It comes, as
The Spartanburg Herald says, “out of the old Southwest, out
of the wind-swept mesquite lands along the Rio Grande and
out of the parched sand stretches toward Amarillo—a chal
lenge to the men of today:”
The Texas ranger is not so handsome as an eight
dollar-a-week. dry-goods clerk, but he is more courag
cous^than a Numidian lion and tougher than~a Mexican"^
burro. His language might sound barbaric in a London
drawing-room, but he can ride a broncho pony and kill a
horse thief at 600 yards with his eyes shut. His man
ners are not exactly Chesterfieldian, but his deficiency
is offset by the aestheticism he displays in scalping an
Indian. He may not be up on the tariff, but he can fol
low a blind trail at a gallop and never miss the way. It
is possible that he cannot tell the difference between the
hypothesis of atomic evolution and a lunar eclipse, but
he recognizes a rustler at sight and can name half the
outlaws in Texas.
He cleans his gun, washes his shirt and repairs his
saddle on Sunday, but will share his only dollar with a
man in want and toss his last biscuit to a hungry dog.
His salary is meager and he does not profess to love his
country as dearly as does a candidate for the legislature,
but he will tackle a bunch of rustlers singlehanded and
round ’em up. He never saw the inside of a college, but
he has been the advance courier of civilization and has
made life and property safe in Texas. Half the time
he gets no credit for his work. He does his duty just the
same. Shortsighted legislators grumble and growl when
they are called upon to pay his pittance, and every year
cut down his appropriation. He goes right ahead killing
Indians and desperadoes. Penurious taxpayers insist
that he’s a burden on the state. He returns their stolen
cattle and horses, brings to justice the man who robs
them on the highway, and guards their homes.
The ranger is hardly ever out of the saddle. He is
the original “solitary horseman” who has been scouring
the plains since the dawn of the dime novel. The ranger
can ride harder, shoot straighter, fight longer, live t
rougher and make less talk about it than anything that
walks on two feet. He wears a sombrero and spurs;
thus accoutered and with a two-dollar blanket he will
\ defy the rains of summer and the wdnter snows. He
generally dies with his boots on and, as the state does
not furnish rosewood caskets and cemetery lots, his corn
fades wrap him in an old blanket and
In an unmarked shallow grave
They lay him down to rest;
His saddle for a pillow,
His gun across his breast.
Nobody’s
Business
OEE McGEE
The Fight Last Nifht
flat rock, s. C„ may 11, 1931.
deer mr. editor:
1 rec’d yore foam message to rite
up the fight which was hell last
nlte In our little town betwixt bat
tling ed. keezer of texaas and slick
Jones of georgy, the farmer being
the western light heavy weight and
the latter being the heavy feather
weight of georgy—which blowed In
to town last week.
round 1
keezer danced around Jones and
ssatched a left to the jaw and Jones
struck him In the stummlck a soft
blow to the right and they grabbed
holt to one a-nuther and was sep
perated by the umpire who got a
hard lick on his nose ansoforth. and
then the gong was rung, score: 3
hits and 4 runs and 5 errors.
round 2
Jones made a dive at keezer and
fetched him a heavy lick with his
knee and bent him over and then
kicked him In the hips and keezer
retaliated with a right punch to
the left ear of Jones who ketched
the majority of the jolt with his
fist which was dubbled up and in
the way of keezer. Gong, score: 1
hit, 1 Jump and 4 errors.
round 5
this round was skipped onner
count of 2 other fellers having a
fight In the ordinance about a bet
they put up on keezer and jouee.
and it created more Interest than
the reglar prise fight and as soon
as ever thing got quite, the polees
man took them off to the cally
boose, and they missed the other
fight, but they diddent miss mutch.
bound 4
the first thing keezer done to
Jones was to clinch him and it was
all the umpire could do to pull him
apart from him. and while the um
pire was lighting a cigaret, Jones
drove a hard left to keezer's nake
and stove him up a right smart and
then one of the refferrees bawled—
"foul,” and rung the gong, score: 4
hits, 2 runs, 5 errors, 1 fowl—no
boddy out.
round 5.
Jones seemed to have the edge on
keezer, but hl$ no6e was bleeding
allso. after hopping about like 2 old
roosters, for 5 minutes, keezer come
down on Joneses head with both of
his fistees and almost drove him
into the ground and they they
clinched again and whispered some
thing to one a-nuther, and then the
gong was rung, and the umpire
called it a draw.
well, mr. editor—i know a man
and his wife who has better fights
than tilts one ever little while and
l don't hafter pay nothing to see
same, always rite or foam me a day
| or so ahead of time when you want
fights rote up.
yores trulie;
mike Clark, rfd.
A Bare Race.
I have been “scared to death”
several times in my life. The worst
frightened I ever was happened
when I was about 10 years of age j
I remember it just like It was yes-;
terday. I was on my way home from
school one night, il had stayed at1
the railroad station till after sun
down, waiting for a Third Reader
that the engineer of the freight
train, which was late, promised to
buy for me in town.)
J eot mv bopk all right and paid'
the engineer 33 cents for It and then
lit out for home. A bear teas out in
that community. I don't .think 1
can remember a single year that
there wassent a bear or a wolf or
some other varmint running wild
In our neighborhood. I never could
find out who let. these animals get
loose, but pa and tna always knew
about these death-dealings ma
chanes, and we kept on the look
out for them. and stayed in at
night.
We lived only 5 miles from the
school house, just a nice morning
wall:. I recall that the path which
led to our home was a dark, weedy
wooded, crooked path. I was about
half-way home, having trotted along
at about 45 m. p. h. so far; It wa'
nearly 100 percent dark, no moon
no twilight, no nothing—except me
and fear and trembling. But 1 gal
loped along and whistled for com
pany's sake.
Just as 1 rounded a curve
where the weeds and bushes were
right out in front of me, but in
stead of rating me he went on down
the path ahead of me. My lirir im
mediately began to point toward
the heavens above, my teeth chat
tered like unto a kettle drum, my
knees trembled as no knees had
ever trembled before. I was welded
to that spot: 1 coulddent move a
muscle or utter a sound.
When I came to my senses, I had:
no desire to remain a fixture in the:
path. The bear turned off and|
walked out into the woods. I pass-1
ed him so quick he possibly thought:
I was a “hant." I threw out my
clutch, and went into high forth- ■
with. I remember that I overtook:
and passed a rabbit, and I ran into
a leather-wing bat who happened to
be going my way. and I Jumped
fences and sprouts and logs that
1 could not crawl over the next day.
I lost my 33-cent book, my old:
cap was msslng, there wassent but I
2 toe-nails on both of my feet, my]
coat was run out-of, and I never!
found it, my britches were ripped1
from here to there, but X finally
landed in tho back pi-lzza and1
fainted. I was revived by midnight.;
And I told about the bear, and what
a BIG BEAR he was, too. But when
I went out the next morning to!
prove that the bear was a bear by]
his tracks, they proved to be hog|
tracks, and we even found the old
ho* rooting around .the place where:
X flew front. I am still scared of;
bears to this day, as wel as big
white ho*s.
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