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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS DECEMBER 26, 1915 4 i a foremost place ficance, as well as put new complica I take and keep Were is not for the back country THE CHARLOTTE NEWS tions into the labor problem, it presented us with another problem fully as pregnant with social weal or woa "This city is now great because From Other Sanctums of its manufactures, its homes and its but that it is not greater is jas the first. The leisure 'problem, as Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Notes (By James R. Kintloe, Secretary.) due to. two principal causes. We are so well satisfied with ourselves and with things as they are that we are surrounding Charlotte and all other Southern towns and cities, business would be dead in these cities.

In view of all of. these facts, which all of us have known all along, the present congress will be asked to pass without further delay adequate rural credits legislation to meet the needs of an agricultural business Sure Thing. Mayor Kirkpatrick of Charlotte wants a navy second to none. AVonder if our Charlotte friends think there is a chance of rehabilitating their old navy yard. Cleveland Star.

wen as tne problem, demanda our earnest thought and effort. Modern have Increased the leisure time of the industrial unit, and at the same time have decreased the opportunities for recreation. The fatigue occasioned by highly spec ialized labor makes the long working hours, which were possible under the old regime, impossible today. The Weekly Luncheon. Once again we want to call the attention of the membership to the slow to awaken to the wider opportunities that are only to be won by exceptional ALERTNESS AND ACTIVITY old saying that 'the Lord helps those who help themselves has a very pertinent application to cities as well as to individu first weekly luncheon to be held in whose valuation runs into the billions Denominational Teachers.

rooms of the chamber of commerce at CANDIES 1 o'clock Wednesday, January 5th. These meetings one hour only satisfaction that comes from making als. And one lesson of that humiliat Nunnallv anH a ing is that, instead of completed article and being known and judged thereby exists in industry mighty eleventh-hour effort to win will serve as the clearing house of the organization. They will give all an opportunity to bring new ideas for discussion and advance proposals (Presbyterian Standard.) One of the warmest debates during the recent sessions of the Baptist Association in this city took place over a mation that Baptist schools should employ only Baptist teachers. Mr.

Archibald Johnson, editor of "Charity and Children," being a newspaper ihan, was broad enough to see the lack of wisdom in such a and he therefore characterized it as the big of dollars. It is suggested that there be twelve regional rural credits banks capitalized at six billion dollars and through these fanners may borrow at rates of interest not to exceed Bix per cent. Here in the South fanners know what it is to suffer because of a lack of adequate credit to pursue their farming operations. True, this year for the betterment of the business or profession in which each member is no longer. This joy and satisfaction must come from something else if we are to preserve the necessary physical and nervous equilibrium.

The demand of labor for shorter hours is not entirely a desire for more money for less work; fatigue, consciously or unconsciously, is the real driving force of this demand. The leisure-time period is the part of our existence that makes or breaks engaged. It will be the place to bring matters concerning the entire city to Daily ami SuodHT. IBS riBLISHIXi CO. Corver Fourth nod Chtirch the next time Philadelphia wants something it must GO AFTER IT EARLY AND HARD.

Another is that, if the, chamber of commerce is going to succeed in its ambition to become the spokesman for a united and aggressive Philadelphia, it will have to win a few of its major undertakings. AND TO DO THIS IT MUST NOT WAIT UNTIL THE ISSUE IS ALREADY DECIDED AGAINST PHILADELPHIA." SELAH Fancy BaskeS Cies More than 57 variPM Boxes. large in ur Manicure3 SetsESTlNS Leather Goods' Collar Boxes, And many others. Tryon DnjgTv P- O. Station oe introduced and talked over, and it is the purpose of the officers to TV.

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Editor BEL J. 318. the banks of the South have been provide meaty and constructive programs for each Wednesday luncheon. This office will be glad to hear from any member of the -chamber who wishes to suggest anything that will be of interest, and will arrange time us. An American philosopher remark gest piece of foolishness he had ever heard- He afterwards, at the earnest request of his brethren, withdrew the offensive term; but like "the man convinced against his will," we have no doubt that "he is of the same opinion still." Thi3 motion is in line with the views of old-time Baptists, who wished to make their church a close corporation, to build a wall around it, and have no TelepboacB.

Butlcs CJTcc C'tr Elite i.yoios Jot Office 115 277 36: 1530 for giving it consideration on the pro ed: "Tell me what a man does every night from eight to ten, and 111 tell you, what he is." The influences that determine character, the activities that increase ability and make for growth, are most acute during the 200 N. Trvon. I- more liberal than ever before in handling the crop moving funds, and the very credit extended at the cheap rates charged bas already had the effect of putting our farming Interests back on a basis of solidity even though twelve months ago ruin faced Phones 21-22 "Fine, it's a good thing go ahead and put it through." Well, can I depend upon you to help? "Really now, I would like to, but I am too busy. See if you can't get some one else." Don't be frazzled about it, city builders are not made of that kind of stuff any way. dealings with the Samaritans.

It is SDRSCniPTlOX RATES rh CfcMrlntte fw. nJl Sunday.) vtar tx txontnt Or" Oep mtK gram of a convenient meeting. Every member of the chamber 'of commerce is entitled to attend these noon-day luncheons, and we won't turn away an occasional non-member. The membership is wanted at the meetings, where the benefit of each member's advice and best thought may be given. the entire farming business of the by no means in accord with the views 1 6.00 3.00 .50 .12 South.

Make Her A Queen of the modern Baptists, who are broader, and who wish to make real the uni- tv- of hcllovorQ We hear little nowadays but talk of Onir.) "preparedness" but to our minds here! They are nQj sinners above all Gali- On rear 2.00 1.00 .50 This Christmas raor.th" is an issue which vitally affects the leans, because they, do such things leisure-time period. Many of our social ills, treated as isolated problems, are nothing more than ramifications of our recreational conditions. The saloon offers opportunity for camaradirie and communication with cur kind, and the first visit is for these and not for booze. The dance hall and the pool-shack lure youth with purposeless leisure on its and prostitution and burglary flourish. Commercialized pleasure is concerned with dollars and not development, and gets as much as possible, giving r.

minimum in Commercialized "The man who has his nose to the grindstone doesn't always sharpen his wits." Tfw-Vmrrt. On yMr Stx moijth Thro 51.00 .50 Chamber of Commerce Notes. This office is in receipt of a request from The. American City Bu Give her Houljigani Ettrart i Toilet Water Another Newspaper for Charlotte. "The Exhibitors Weekly," a publication for the exchange of ideas and boosting the things that lead to the betterment of the moving picture industry.

Do you know that we have in Charlotte at least six film exchanges, all of them employing a lot of splendid men and women, and bringing into Charlotte and spending in Charlotte thousands of dollars weekly. That these concerns and their local Kater'! nt t.e Pot orice at Charlotte, X. C. reron-l cl. mntter.

SUNDAY MORNING, DEC. 26, 1915. greatest industry of America, an issue which may presage the independence of the American farmer, an issue which involves the "preparedness' of American farmers to keep pace with the upward stride of business in all other lines. Cheap money, easily obtained, will put farming operations of the South cn a new basis and will mean a new era of undreamed wealth and prosperity. This kind of "preparedness" to our minds is vastly more important than that cf mobilizing all government revenues in the effort to defend ourselves against a foe that does not exist.

THE HELPLESS. reau for weekly copies of our local newspapers containing our column of "Notes." Secretary Stoddard writes; "This is certainly a very excellent scheme from a number of standpoints, which you have yourself outlined very clearly." Suppose some of bur members write us and tell us what you think of them it's the only way we have of find representatives are "live wires" ancf There are others, and that, too, in our own Church, who would confine every one connected with a Presbyterian college to the Presbyterian Church. That the majority should be, no one would dispute, but when you make the faculty strictly Presbyterian, we doubt its wisdom. In the first place, you publish to the world that you only wish Presbyterian pupils, which would necessarily limit your patronage and cripple your resources. Then you cultivate a spirit of narrowness in religion that is bound to react upon your character- The time has passed when any of us can claim a monopoly of the truth.

The Presbyterian Church has the truth, as we see it; yet when we remember the many sides truth has, we realize that it is possible that some one" else may see one side, differing from our view, yet equally true. It Is well for the pupils to catch that broader view of truth, and to see the truth in others, and that truth is too big to be grasped by any one mind. The wisest college presidents today interested in the progress of Char lotte, is evidenced by the fact that two of them have taken out membership in the Charlotte chamber ot Give her Roger Rally's F-tract, Toilet Waier, Powder. Give her Pivers Azurea La trifle, Safrona. a Djerkiss Extract, Toilet ter, Powder.

Ua" Cory's Jaquimenot Rose Mary Garden and that' latent of all Lady Mary. Thefe gifts are the kind that count. See our window at Jno. S. Blake Dm? Co.

Phones 41 and 300. On the Square- commerce and there are more to fol The ma i who's waiting for help to do his task, down to the dump goes skating, where drad whangdeo-dles bask. -I've asked my neighbor, Perkins." sys helpless Willyum Weed, to help plant my gherkins, and sow my nutmeg seed, and when he comes, you betcher, we'll make things hum around; and tr.en I'll ask Bill Fletcher to come and roll the ground- He waits and keeps on wait ing out whether or not we are wasting our efforts. We are here to please you. low.

Welcome to Charlotte, gentlemen, pleasure debases the recreational desires and then justifies its low standards by the old chant, "We give the people what they want." We are not born with a desire for wicked amusements any more than we are born with a thirst for loquor. A raising ol the standards of amusement for the people will never come from commer cialized recreation. "The Recreation Inquiry Committee" of the state of California, appointed by authority of the legisla ture, in the course of its report issued last September, says: "The nineteenth century was the century of the machine, the twentieth wlll.be the century of the man. Our interests will center about the individual as a living, responsible factor in the community, and, in the spirit of conserving human strength and resources, attention will be paid to preserving and fostering the leisure time of the individual and the community. No social truth is more deeply written upon the hearts of men today than Percy Mackaye's words: 'The use of a nation's leisure is the test of its twice welcome to your interesting publication, and thrice welcome to the chamber of commerce.

Call upon us when we can serve you. MR. FORD'S MISSION. We are not among those disposed to The belligerents have set Europe back farther in one year's fighting than fifty prosperous years can put them forward. If you want to keep 3rour city going backward, keep on fighting it's a backward business.

F. D. A. ing, nor tries to make things hum, but spends his time berating the friends who do not come. He s'ts and scolds and whistles, and waits, and never stirs, while fields grow up to thistles, and juicy cockleburs.

He'll wait, and keep awaiting the friend who never comes; he'll sit, all effort hating, a-twiddling of his thumbs, until, to end the circus, a i cart comes to the gate, to take him to the workus, where other paupers wait. The delegate who's wending his way to wealth and fame, is cn himself depending, throughout tr.is mortal game. are those who make their own denomination predominate in making up their faculty; but who are also willing to employ others, when they are teachers of real ability and Christian character. The world and the Church have both advanced loo far in broadness of vision for any one denomination to say, We alone are the Lord's people. Will You Due It? Whatever you do, don't fail to do what you should do pay your dues when they are due.

When? January 1st. Nothing's Wrong Here. "What's the matter with this town? Nothing, sir, it's you! Are you helping it along? Lots of things to do! Finding fault with this and that Doesn't cure the ill; Taking oft your coat and hat Is the way to fill the bill! "What's the matter with this town, Anyway? you ask; If there's anything that's wrong, Righting it is your task! Knocking, maybe, has its place, But it's up to you With a bright and smiling face To do some boosting, too. "What's the matter with this town? Matter is that men Find it easier knocking down Than helping up again; Let's get busy right away, Lots of things to do; Nothing matter with the town. The matter is with you.

poke at Henry Ford those hateful words. "I toid you so." It is true that we never expected anything to come of Ilia strai ge mission, but down in the heart of most of us there is something akin to admiration for the fellow who makes a stab at anything in all sincerity and then, confronting the impossible, announces that he has failed. We rather suspect, too, that much more has been credited to Mr. Ford than he deserved. We doubt if he realiy had any notion that his expedition would be the direct force in ending the war.

If such was his dream it was wild indeed- He says he (To be Continued Next Sunday.) Passing resolutions and passing the hat are now passe in modern commercial organization practice. TWO BIG PORKERS. The Innovation in Charlotte. There was tried out in Charlotte last week a new plan in the entertaining of delegates, this plan upon the initiative of the Baptist State Convention, and the reports of this are that it was found to work so well that it will be continued by the Baptists in their an Thinking Good makes happiness. Paul fays "Whatsoever things are true hatsoever things are of good report THINK ON THESE THINGS." If we will just start it the habit will grow then in deed and truth the angels" song, "Peace on earth good will to man" will girdle the earth.

Greetings Alexanders F. L. RURAL CREDITS LEGISLATION. It is not a matter over which to brag that for over one hundred years has accomplished something worth (Oxford Public Ledger.) Mr. J.

H. Renn, of Route 6, killed two hogs last week that tipped the scales at 1,110. The largest pig weighed 600 That beats tobacco and it also argues that there is no reason to send West for meat. Buy at Home. If you don't believe the people of Charlotte are patronizing Charlotte's stores you evidently didn't get down town of an evening last week.

The tough thing about not buying at home, especially on Christmas, is that if the gift doesn't suit us we can't send it back. nual meetings. And we doubt not but the congress has failed to provide a I while I "getting the people to thinking monetary system' which would put tne upon the subject of peace, and he may American farmer on a borrowing par-1 be risrht. that the Baptists having "broken the ice" there will be other great gatherings in the state which will adopt the "Have you' ever noticed that the fellow that 'oars in with 'it can't be isusually a pessimistic shrimp with a head full of apple sauce?" It is possible for a fellow to be bent on matrimony and still be perfectly straight. ity with men engaged in other business pursuits.

Through the years our financial rules and regulations and laws have been gradually extended and broadened so as to reach most of the prin Merry Christmas go to church today pay your debts on January 1 resolve to attend the first chamber of commerce luncheon on Wednesday, January 5th. ciple lines of business, but to this day the farmer has seldom iouna Chicago's Recreational Problem as Related to a City-Wide Filler Home atmosphere with esquisite lasting: fragrance ED. PINAUD'S LILAC The creat French oerfume. winner of highest international Horner Military Academy. Those who witnessed the "stunts" of the boys from the Horner Military Academy, in front of the chamber of commerce last Monday afternoon, were treated to a pleasant surprise.

The Horner Military Academy is a Charlotte institution of which Charlotte should be proud, and is deserving of the moral and financial support of all Charlotte. Do you know The gretatest trouble Mr. Ford confronted seems not to have been foreign resentment of his mission so much at wrangling among the guests who had accepted his invitation. These guests seem to have been hopelessly divided on almost every issue that came up, and naturally with a "house divided against itself there was een less chance of the Ford party having any potential influence upon the war in Europe. The whole world, with Henry Ford, hopes for the day when the shambles in Europe will be brought to an end, but it is scarcely possible that any peace initiative will be fruitful unless made by some of the interested nations themselves.

Call Ford's mission "A foolish er same plan. This plan is for the partial entertainment of delegates, and is known as the Harvard plan. Under this 'plan those people who entertain delegates to conventions provide lodging and breakfast, the guests arranging at their pleasure for dinner and supper, or as some prefer to put it, for luncheon and dinner. We believe the general adoption of this plan will prove of benefit to both entertainers and entertained. Thus it appears from the reports concerning the Baptist State Convention in Charlotte, and that organization is going to continue It.

It relieves the people of a communiy of a strain, and at the same time is a relief to delegates, who find that they have desired time in which to follow the bent-of their will, in place of attempting to show to their hosts that their hospitality is ap (By J. R. Richards.) awards. Each drop as sweet and fragrant as the living: Lilac Klncervm A nr1 oKraf er1 Raid I "I don't See hoV (Continued from Last Sunday.) Recreation for all the people, adults you can sell such a remarkable perfume for 75 cents a bottle -ana a whether or not such support is given? as well as children, is absolutely We know it is not, but we also know neCessary, e.nd the money and effort remember, each bottle contains 6 oz.it is wonaenui viiuc. Ask your dealer today for ED.

PINAUD'S LILAC. Ff.p cenU our American offices will send you a testing bottle. It rite today. PARFUMERIE ED. PINALD, Dept ED.

PINAUD New York expended to gratify this human necessity, evident all through history, the good people of Charlotte will re spond liberally, as they always do in deserving cases. JL preciated. And at the same time the stamp the leisure-time period of tne people as being tremendously important. The play instinct does not die with childhood, nor indeed with adolescence; it calls for expression throughout life. Spencer says: "We stop playing, not because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." George Johnson's statement "What are you fellows going to do?" Nothing, my boy, your dad didn't build this town that way he was one of the fellows who was on the job with "What can we fellows do?" rand" if you wish, but for us we rather admire the fellow who had the nerve to tackle the impossible.

Store Open Evenings hosts, relieved of the responsibility of having meals at varying hours for convention delegates, are able to attend meetings and really show great' er courtesies. The Harvard plan of entertainment appears to be one which meets a need anl we believe that its use, wherever tried, will give greater satisfaction both in being entertained and in entertaining. News and Observer. That Military Training Camp. Well, it looks as though the military training camp has been lost to Charlotte and to North Carolina.

However, we need not feel discouraged. However much we think of Charlotte we must realize there are other cities. While we can't get everything we must remember that" we can't get anything by just sitting around and waiting for the good things to fall in Charlotte's lap things don't come that way. We have to be up and do that the child is a process and not an entity, should have been made with the word "man" substituted for "child." The great and important changes of youth do not continue through life, but there is no. specific period 'at which we can say afl change ceases.

The desire for pleasure, for recreation, is as long as lite itself, unless the play instinct has been allowed to atrophy. Recreation is not only re-creative but it is a possible power for development at THE dO-AFTER-IT-TOWN It is the that lands the baton in these days of fierce competition between municipalities for factories and railroads and conventions, and people and payrolls and things The town which sits down and waits for things to happen, which waits for things to come its way usually never gets out of that sitting posture. Things don't come of their own volition to thi individual or to thd town. Mr Kinsloe stresses the Importance of a policy of go-after-it-iveness in his comments on this today, and It is well that he does. Preparedness "Patriots." If Senator Tillman's bill to estao-lish government factories for making munitions of war should pass there would be an appreciable slump in the enthusiasm for a bigger military es any age.

The analogy 'between the ing every minute with our eyes and ears to the ground, and when we tablishment. The patriots who manu facture "preparedness" are extremely near rumbling of things to come that solicitous about the safety of the nanotte should have we must be prepared to mobilize our forces and country. Charity and Children. his livestock holdings, his farm machinery, his prospective crop, his lands and buildings a ready tormoi collateral for the right sort of credit. True he has always always been able, If he so desired, to purchase supplies from time merchants and pay tor same on his coming crop but every farmer in the South knows what ruin-bus rates are paid when this is done.

It has always been possible, for him to place a mortgage on his property and thereby secure funds needed to pursue his business, but all know what sacrifice this means. The building and loan association sprang into existence to benefit the prospective home owner who did not have the cash to purchase outright his place. It enabled him to secure easy credit, at reasonable rates of interest, and with a system for payment which was not burdensome. And from the time the first association was started until the present day thousands of people have been enabled through these associations to become home owners, who could not have done so otherwise. The merchant has always been able to borrow, on his capitalization and stock, funds necessary to conduct his business at reasonable rates ot Interest.

All lines of business have found money available at reasonable rates, with the single exception of the farmer. For him it has been a case of either making too heavy a sacrifice to get funds" needed, or else of facing the uncertainty or getting not getting moneys needed at the banks. In brief, the cotton manufacturer who has twenty thousand dollars invested in. his mill has always been able to secure cheap money but the man who has twenty thousand dollars tied up in a farm has had no such guarantee. This situation is the more remarkable when it is renembered that the very bone and sinew of our financial fabric Is composed of the agricultural assets of the nation.

It is said that eighty per cent of the voters of North Carolina live in the rural sections. These men pay taxes. They support the government, state, county and national, just as the men in town do, and yet what material recompense have they received in such natters as this now under discussion? GO AFTER what we want and can get. Mere letter-writing never sot any play of children and the past expe-rieces of the race, wherein the chiM passes from- crude and often savage acts to constructive play and ultimately to ethical concepts, suggests the civilizing influences of play. The civilization of the child is actually reflected in its play.

Jeremy tientham la his "Theory of Legislation," makes the wealth of activities of the leisure-time period one of the two grcR city very far. Had we depended upon letter-writing to get Mr. Warburg to GENTLE RAPS Charlotte we wouldn't have had him and if we depend upon letter-writing The Royal Christmas Gift A PLAYER-PIANO marks of superiority distinguishing a Right You Are. But even the Charlotte News admits that it is for preparedness on the part of Santa Claus for those Christmas stockings! News and Observer. nd sicales a Think of being able to have rianciog parties, mu to iana President Wilson for our 20th of May Day celebration we can just make up our minds the president won't be here.

We must have men of influence with sufficient pride in their city to themselves take the bit in their teeth and be willing to make a trip to Washington or New York, as the case may be, and "land the bacon," and the Charlotte chamber of commerce should be provided with sufficient funds with which to finance such trips, and the official city of Charlotte should do its share in this con with the finest music no end of good times in your own com We civilized people from a savage race. There is probably no necessity at this time for discussing the recreational activities of the although the ever-mentioned Greeks gave the world a complete justification for a system of public recreation in which the municipality accepted full responsibility. With an enormous slave population, and much leisure as a result, they made this period thi great contributing factor in their development. European cities have often remarked upon the poverty of our That is what you have in a good player-piano. Eggsexactly.

Having lost Interest in Indian Runner ducks, the Charlotte News now sings the praises of the common variety of chicken. The lay of the hen so to speak. Ashevillt Citizen. the world! er $400 Charlotte has a magnificent future. Opportunity beckons, and all that kind of thing.

But towns are made out of prospects; realities count in this old world, and realities are merely the results of human activity in effectuating them. If we want more payrolls, if we want to. bring big men here, if we want to make Charlotte the city of one hundred thousand inhabitants we have simply got to get up and hustle, and hustle to the tune of co-operation. And it may be borne In mind here that hustling requires cash. Things worth while don't come free.

The chamber of commerce can do no more than the men of this city, by their personal effort and by their financial support, permit it to do. With both given there is no estimating the Tastness of itg field of activity. It is our hope that alf tho members of the Paragraphers' Onion had the time of their young lives. Get out those old New Year's Bargains Like New as Low as Fine instruments, mahogany case, tone and action like ie The Poor Never Have it. A doctor says that a man over 48 years of age never has appendicitis.

This ought to be very consoling to Hearon, DeCamp, Patton and Billy Banks. Spartanburg Journal. Call pleasurable pursuits. "Americans do not know how to enjoy has been their way of describing the iuj piayer-mecnamsm wun me im" feet condition by our factory experts and fully guaran at once if interested. Easy terms.

lack of attention and thought given ONE HOG $36. A If you cannot call, write at once for particulars nection. Charlotte has a lesson to learn from Philadelphia and should profit by the manner in which that city went after the 1916 republican convention and did-NOT get it. Listen to the Philadelphia Public Ledger: "The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. Two votes for Philadelphia in the republican national committee was the sum total of the results of the mighty effort to bring the republican national convention here, and the committee of boomers who went to Washington are gradually absorbing the xact that their failures was tn a habit of mind which Philadelphia will have to shake off if it wishes to io our recreation.

Jfublic recreation in America is and it has been slow in recognizing the needs ot adults. Municipal music; municipal theatres, municipal dances, social centres, municipal bathing beaches, until almost the present moment, have been regarded as esoteric growths, as functional developments in government impositions upon the taxpayers. (Lincoln ton News.) Mr. H. D.

Warlick, of Reepsvllle, was a Uncolnton business visitor on Wednesday. He said he had learned from Mr. B. F. Lowe, who has been visiting relatives that Mr.

Dan of Guilford county, a forme Lincoln citizen, had killed a porker and sold It on the open market and that the said porker netted him $86. Money In raising pork, of course. Modern industrial and economic! conditions have given the leisure-time) period of the people greater slgnin-l All is over but the hash..