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OEOKOH PUTNAM,
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
. Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord; for he hath de
livered the sou! of the poor from the hand of the evil doers.
Jeremiah 20:13.
The Tarheel State
A 252 page edition of the Charlotte Observer, the largest
edition of a newspaper ever issued in the south, calls public
attention to the amazing progress and prosperity of North
Carolina. Over a thousand pictures illustrate the agricul
tural progress of the state and an equal number of special
articles portray development, which is summarized in the
terse announcement "North Carolina pays more federal
taxes than any ten or twelve southern stales."
The occasion of this mammoth issue is the celebration by
the stale of the 150th anniversary of the issuance of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, wherein residents
of Mecklenburg county asserted on May 20, 1775 their in
dependence of British rule
continental congress over a
anniversary has been observed
Throughout the hook-worm belt, the Ku Klux Klan burns
its fiery crosses in triumph, the Anti-Saloon League finds
easy pickings in the way of collections against the demon
rum, the hell-fire revivalists do
ing souls for dollars, and all unite to fight the devil in the
form of evolution, but not North Carolina. The spirit of
the old Mecklenburgcrs still
fanaticism.
Georgia permits peonage
not "white, prolestant and gentile," Florida varies the skin
ning of suckers in swamp-lands with' fatally flogging en
slaved convicts, Tennessee forbids the teaching of science to
her clay-eaters but none of this for North Carolina. The
light of liberty, though it dickers at times, still burns there
as of old. Evolution is not
lynchers are penalyzed, even
a
North Carolina has just
the south, but the north as well, by trying, convicting and
sentencing a mob of the chivalrous protectors of southern
womanhood, who broke jail, carrying away and horribly
mutilating a Jew traveling man suspected of assaulting a
white girl at Williamston. Twenty-eight were arrested, six
made complete confessions, the ring-leader got thirty years,
his assistants six to ten years, those who drummed up the
crowd got two to three years, and those who look no active
part, but were among those present were fined $500 each
and the Jew proven innocent.
This conviction of lynchers, bearing out the favorable
impression made" by the Charlotte Observer, is convincing
evidence that North Carolina is
flection of the south, but the
f Flax Importations
The market for llax in the L'nited States is shown not
only by the importation of nearly $100,000,000 of linen
fabrics and products but also by the importation of llax
fibre, of which we do not begin to raise enough to supply
the limited needs of the little manufacturing dime.
Federal statistics show that in l'.vl'i there were imported
into the United States 21o(i tons of hackled llax fibre, valued
a $2,181,391 and 5281 Ions of fibre not hackled, valued at
?1,filO,K7(i, the total importations being valued at $:!,72,270.
In 1021 there were imported 1011 tons of hackled fibre
valued at SUI.'S.IOI and 2878 tons of fibre not hackled,
valued at $800, IS!) a total of $2,00:(,.".!t:!. The decrease in im
portations from the previous year was due to the fibre not
being available, either in Europe or Canada.
In 1923 Canada exported to the United States 1035 tons
of fibre valued at $2.'!:!,878 and in 1021, 1008 tons, valued at
$181,890. The other importations were from Europe.
On account of the excellent quality of the fibre raised in
the Willamette valley, where climate conditions are as near
ideal as in Ireland and Flanders, this valley is the logical
site for the development of a great linen textile industry
which should in time rival the cotton textile industry
of New England.
As the automobile industry centered at Detroit, the tire
industry at Akron so should the linen industry center at
Salem and the way to assure it is to speed-up the financing
of the proposed $010,000 mill.
M
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PETITIONS FOR
HI
With 11,173 : ii;ii.itiU0s ;tt.irh
f'l, thi; complptnt pctllinu.s fur i ho
run it iuhim of the tolmrcn lax .it t
oT the 1H2." lc;ist;i!urc wi'i't iiv
mm It'tl to the seciviary n( hUW"
yctitct (l.i y it nil will Iio forma 11
rili-il tiK hooij ns the mv.naliiii'H inv
rhiM-Ueit by the (;itt' department.
Only UolMl filptmtnre of bona fulr
villein an require la make tin?
pelltlnlH Rood.
It was nrcossnry that lh pe'f
tionn, to mako the referendum ef
fective, be filed on or before Muy
27. Two day remain fur tho fil
ing of the him bill and t lie tliltlm
hill referendum!?, nnd Indication
received by tho tocreinry of state
ore that the bus bill pctltlona will
bo completed nnd filed on tintr
There in nome. uncertainty relative
to the tithinK net, which Impose
upon ficlf-ftUHtatnlnR state activi
ties tbe requirement Hint 10 per
cent of their proceeds go into tho
fenerol state furtu.
The effect of the referendum of
each measure for which the peti
tion! lire completed will be to hold
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Editor and Publisher
preceding the declaration of the
year. For the past century the
as a state holiday.'
a land oflice business in sav
survives and freedom worstf
and funeral pyres for persons
only taught tar-heelers, but
though they bo preachers.
set a fine example, not only to
not only Ihe mn.-t prosperous
most civilized.
up the ellif Hvenos of the net
pen dim; l he ivliivniltim vote .tt
the Reneral election of I'.ti'i;. The
referendum t.f the tobaciM t ax
:ilonv will impair I lie state's fina'l
lal program by iieatini; n tOiorl
iro if fiiiitN mor,. set inns In. in
u eer before existed in I he
state, duo (o Hie curtailed Mate
lav levy of !,i;,t December ulikti
t he tub. i ceo lav was siippo-d to
meet. i wan estimated (hat the
lobaec.t lav v ould vU'lil more than
M.rtnn.iiint fop the biennium. The
fit htm; iot win estimated to pro
duce abi'it $l'.iVtiiin. The bw
bill. Ihmie.h a teveime measure. S
not one of the measures on the
state finatieial pi nj; rani.
The rompledd petitions for the
tobacdi lax referendum show if
natures by count 1 s follows:
linker, .W; Itenlon. 244: t'rooU.
Sft; Clackamas. 11m.; Columbia,
73; Deschutes. I -I; HourIm, 149;
Jackson. i:t,S; Josephine. 44,
Klamalh. 41; I.tnn. ISO: Marlon.
723; Polk. IfU; Tillomook. SO:
rinnlllln. ml; Wasco, 203; Mult
nomah, U.01.S; Kane, 120; total,
14,173.
GOLF EXPERT QUITS GAME
Lumber! .Tame I tra Id, the well
known Kolfer. will be too busy to
tnk part In important golf tournn
menta ihhi year. He lifut not lout
interest In the name, but has be
come an authority and speelallnl
on laying; out Rolf course, and hi
time is booked many months
ahead.
TODAY'S
HORIZONTAL
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211. J-;(,i1lnuilioll
22. 'oitiin iliri'ctjon (all.)
2:t. Tlloroimiily (Ji. l'ffi.)
2.i. l-'otirtll nulc musical .sr;ili
211. Direction
2. .Stiff
lill. I'l'l'lllll
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VA CA TION by Violet Dare
tiiii:vi:s iv hocikty
Nathalie and Phil Leland went
cm Into the ci'y.stul-rooin. I drew
the curtain uside so that I could
watch tht-ju. The room was not
very large, just a supper-room,
and afi it was empty their voices
echoes so that I could hear every
thing they said.
"You know that I love you, Na
thalie," Leland said. "I had to
bring you up hero where we would
ho alone so that I could tell you.
You do care for me, don't you?
Tell me that you do!"
Nathalie drew back. Ho held
one of her hands; ahc twisted her
arm, trying: to free her hand, but
could not.
"Why I'vfi-lviiown you so, short
a time I don't know " she paid.
I cou 11 tell from her voice that
she was nervous.
"Oh. you do know you must!"
he insisted. "Why do you go on in
this way, not married, and yet not
free why don't you divorce your
husband, and marry me?"
Now, Nathalie had talked with
me about doing that very thing.
of course, yet when lie spoke to
her about it I could ee that rath
er startled Iter the way in which
she turned to hint, sharply, show
ed me that she hadn't really con
sidered doing it.
"Nathalie tdea.se " he adi,
ind suddenly took her in his arms.
At that moment there was n flare
of light, from a flashlight pow
der that had been st-t off on the
further side of the room, by the
window. Nathalie cried out in
amazement and just then the girl
in red came running across the
room, from her hiding place by
the window.
"Ho this is what you have been
loing -making love t another
VOO KIN BET TOUR
LIFE HE'LL NEWER
TOR.&ET ME THANK.
COOONE-bs THE
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Multiplication
TUESDAY,
woman when you were pretending
to be true to me!" she exclaimed
to Leland. "Well, it can't go on.
I've got proof now that's all I
need." The man who had been con
cealed behind the window curtain
stepped forward with his camera
in his hand. "I've got all the proof
I need " tho girl in red went on,
motioning toward him.
"What does ths mean?" Nathalie
cried, drawing back. "What is It?"
"Oh, you know what it means
lie's been making love to you.
and you've been encouraging him,"
the girl told her. "You think that
because you have money you can
flirt with any man you like. Well,
this Is tho time you've gone too
far. This pretty little love scene
has been photographed the pic
ture will look nice in the papers
tomorrow."
"Hut you can't you wouldn't"
Nathalie turned to l'hll Leland.
"Can't you do something? Isn't
there any way of stopping tills?"
Leland shook his head.
"There's nothing to do. Unless "
he turned to the girl in red, "un
less you'll let me buy you off.
Money's always talked with you.
How much do you want for Ibis
pictu re?"
"How mueli? Ten thousand dol
lars! And you haven't got ten cents
I know you!"
He turned to Nathalie again,
helplessly.
"I guess we're done for, then,"
he said. "She'll go' through with
this I know her.'
"lint if It's money, I could pet
that," Nathalie told him. J low
easily she was walking into their
trap! "I can't have litis picture
published. My family oil, I can't
have that!"
"Js your pride worth ten thous-
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nt id dollars?"
the girl in red inde
ed. "I'hll's isn't. Give me your
pearls us security, and you can
have him."
Nathalie was unclasping the
ponrls that ncwtled about her
throat when I tdepped forward, t
felt that the little game hud gono
too far.
-Nathalie, don't do that," I said
quietly. IMtil Leland nnd tho girl
in red whirled n round to face me,
as I walked over to Nat hallo and
iwt my arm around ber.
"Uon't let them frighten you," I
said to Iter. "This Is justJ)lack
niail, and unless this whole" affair
Is dropped at once, there'll bo sori
ous trouble, but not for you."
"What do you mean?" l'hil Le
land demanded of me.
"Oh, you know what I mean
that you and this girl framed this
(wholo thing to trap Mrs. Jordan
Well, the little plan baa fallen
through and unless you got out
of here and cease to annoy Iter, tho
report that was made to her hus
band by private detective this
morning will be turned over to tho
police."
There hadn't been any detective,
of course and Nathalie's husband
knew nothing of the whole affair.
Hut I didn't think it necessary to
stick to the truth, under tho cir
cumstances. Thil Leland turned so pale that
I knew there must be something
in his past that he didn't want
known. He blustered for a mo
ment or two more, then turned and
left the room, with the girl in red
and the man with the camera. And
Nathalie, still bewildered, let Nick
and mo take her home.
r did not sec her the next day,
but the morning following that I
met her when 1 was out for my
daily walk.
"I never can thank you enough
for what you did for me, Nancy,"
she said. "I can't even begin to tell
you how much I appreciate your
help. I wonder if you'd do some
thing more for me lake a message,
to my husband for me."
Tomorrow Tangled Tit reads
By Gcorue Mr.lfnnus
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