The daily times., 1922-03-06

Hat1On against Governor w. w. Kit
chin. During his travels over the
State boosting things for Senator
Simmons he encountered a stranger.
TRANCE to say Colonel didn't know the
stranger and the stranger didn't
have the faintest idea who Watts was.
The Colonel lost no time in getting to
his favorite subject II
well, how do you think the cam
paign's going?" inquired Colonel
Watts, adding incidentally that 'most
of our folks are going to vote for
Simmons"
The stranger, somewhat heatedly
said: Il would like to vote for Sim
mons but I've heard that this
fellow Watts from Iredell county is
working for him and I'm against ev
erybody and everything he's for"
This was followed by a TRADE of
abuse of watts and his crowd the
stranger refusing to mince words.
''Do you know him?" the stranger
asked and Colonel Watts admitted
that he had seen him many times.
I.'Well, he's a mighty bad character,
so I've heard and I'll have to vote
against him."
Without telling the stranger that
he was talking to that bad char
!, had heard some mighty bad things
said about Watts. The conversation
ended when Watts said: Lots of
folks think Watts is a crook whether
he is or not; won't you have a smoke
with me?"
Andy Joyner, publicity expert of
the State Insurance Department, re-
lates the only known attempt to put
fight in rabbit and he admits that
his failure was rather complete.
Back in the old days before Mr..
Joyner supplied the outside world
with news from Greensboro, serving
as he did more than fifty daily news
papers-that was before the Nsso-
ciated Press and other news gathering
agencies were fixtures in the State
he did his turn on the farm. There it
was that he conceived the idea that
rabbits were too cussed cowardly, and
he persuaded a mother cat to suckle
pair Of homegrown rabbits. In this
he was highly successful and to make
the job complete the then young JOY
ner grated brand-new cats tails to
the abbreviated rabbits. This opera
ton was also a success, Mr.. Joyner
says.
The rabbits thrived land done
we1l'', thanks to the attention of the
old mother cat and then after many
weeks at "catacizing" the new edition
rabbits were put to the supreme test.
They were turned loose in a ten acre
Held with two lean hound dogs. The
dogs made a break for the rabbits,
of course. But instead of running
away the rabbits, cat-like stood up
on their hind feet and, in the words
of Mr.. Joyner, 'just spit" They were
soon finished by the dogs.
Mr.. Joyner's moral is that while
the rabbits had the cat instinct, urge
and promptings to fight back they
were uuSuCCOSoIul DCCduoS 4NdIuI z
: had to be reckoned with.
3 The capital city of the State is
: largely parasitic and because of this
fact it has ever found itself unable
to keep pace with other municipali-
ties in North Carolina.
z Still and all the State government
: has to be taken care of and Raleigh
: thinks it is doing the job fairly well.
Here's some of the property the State
has decreed shall not be taxed by
the city: Four educational institu-
: tions, State College, Peace Institute,
Meredith College, St. Mary's School
for girls; three city blocks on which
3 stands the capital and other States
department buildings; two orphan
ages; State school for the Blind; the
States Prison, and other institutions.
This property cannot be taxed by
the city, hence many millions in prop
erty values is not shown on the tax
neks and revenue comes from what