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r World By WALTER WILLIAMS, LL.D. (Dean of the School oj Jautmlam of the Unttcnitv of Afisteurl) NOT PEACE, BUT A SWORD Milan, Italy Is more democracy the cure for dt-rnocraey? Certainly th trend in European countries is tcwaid the trial of the prescription. The demand for an ex tension of the suffrage is confined to no nation, but may be heard from Great Pritain to Greece, from big Rus sia, where the desire is for a duma chosen by a genuinely popular vote, to little Portugal, where the slight semblance of a republic seeks to hold power by permit! im; all men to vote who vote the ticket cf the republic. Italy Gets Mantood Suffrage. I:i italy, where U..s leiter is writ ten, the most colossal experiment in the txtentk.n of this ku IT rage is hav ing its lirsit trial. The. electoral lav, passed by the late chamber of t'epu ties, raises the number of voU is iu Italy from 3,:!19.2(Hi to .TG.oO, an increase of more than five million. Under the new law Italy has prac tically manhood suffrage for the entire nation. All males thirty years of age and over, and all males twenty years cf age and under thirty who can read and write, or who have performed military service, are permitted to vote. Illiteracy and non-performance of mili tary iuty alone exclude from suffrage end these only where the age of the prospective voter is under thirty years. It is an experiment, which, though paralleling it in seme degree, f..r surpasses even the war measure, v. liieh thrust unprepared the colored men cf the United States into poli tics. Tlie questions as to the extent to which the Italians heretofore ex cluded will avail themselves of the new privileges and the manner !n which they will exercise their right of choice, can not now be answered v ith any degree of accuracy. 1 he In- ouly of a minority. This Is particu larly desirable in the final ballotinga where the candidates have not been selected or nominated in a popular convention or primary election. The scenes at preliminary meetings and today at voting places in Milan resemble the scenes at an election in the United States, with some differ ences. Making the rounds of the "poll ing places with rep.orters from the Carriere del Sera, Italy's most widely circulated newspaper, was not unlike visiting the polls, with American re porters, en a congressional election day. The er.ger, excited crowds, the hired helpers circulating candidates' circulars, the one or two policemen to preserve order, the voters in line to cast their bullet it was not unlike an American t lection. Pc'itical Bossism to Increase. In making a Greater Italy, what will be the results of universal suf frage? The mayor of an Italian city, returning for a day from a holiday in Switzerland, that he might cast his ballot for a Liberal deputy, "a sup porter of the great Glolitti of the school of Cavour," expressed one opinion: "It means the immediate awakening and going forward of Italy." Another opinion was ex pressed by a Milan merchant: "It wil; set back Italy a, hah century by f iving votes tc this great mass of ignorant men. The elections will be dominated by priests who wish cleri cal deputies chosen or by professional demagogues .who care nothing for Italy's real needs." Perhaps a more veil-considered view was that cf Ir. M. Horsa. a Milan journalist, opposed tn thr fiinlitti pnlirv. lint symnathetic with progress: ' For a time the eflect will be to give strength to what you mm " 1-21V'-. Scene in Italian Chamber of Deputies Aden, Arabia. Steaming across the low 45,000 In 1908, and are now 64,643 Mediterranean sea, the latest view of The British navy numbers 146,000, the Kurope was of the Italian peninsula German 23,176, the United States 67,' and of the island of Sicily, where Mes-; 907 and the French 63,596 men. eina, earthquake-overwhelmed, yet lies ; Profits In Armament and Coal, in ruins. Three Italian war vessels lay ; The Krupp trials in Germany show at anchor in the southernmost harbor. 1 to what lengths in bribery the ereat J. W. AUSTIN, M. D. PracticeUimiled to Eye, Ear, Ncse and Throat, South Main St., next to P. 0. HIGH POINT, N. C.I VVm. C Hammer K. C. Kelly HMAER & KELLY Attorneys at Law Office Second, door from street in Lawyers' Row. DR. D. K. LOCKHART, DENTIST ASHEBORO, N- C. Phone 28. Office over the Bank. Hours. 9 a.m- to 12 m. 1 v-m. to 5 p.m be raised by the great armament firms of England and other countries. "They must be the servants," he said, "and not the masters. Some people will try to involve by suggestion the naval expenditure in 'a cloud of suspicion. Let them mock. I am convinced that a reduction of naval expenditure is necessary for the welfare of civiliza tion. It is a question that docs not only affect governments and diplomats but concerns parliaments and the peo ple. We must not be discouraged by want of success. The time will come when the present expenditure and competition in naval armaments will be a thing of the past and when the great naval powers will look back upon it with feelings of regret." The significance of these words in the making of a different world tomorrow comes from the fact that they are the carefully-considered utterance of the head of the navy of the greatest sea power in the world. Finance Against Increased Armament. Other forces are being brought to bear, though as yet vainly, in favor of limitation of naval expenditure. Some a larger number than the ordi nary news-reports of the day indicate a number, too, that is growing in extent and influence, would substitute a peace policy for arbitration by the sword and thus make unnecessary, ex cept for police duty, the army and the navy. Among the "pacifists," as the advocates of world peace are de scribed, it Is interesting to Americans to note that the European press class Voodrow Wilson, the president of the United States, and Champ Clark, the speaker of the house of represen tatives. In Europe the financial inter ests of the continent have been more effective than the eloquent advocates of peace in preventing war. It is an open secret that two years ago these financial interests averted a general war on the continent. They are now becoming aroused to the evils result ing from "the mad rush of increasing armaments." Disarmament Sentiment Growing. Sentiment on the continent of Eu rope is changing toward a saner policy of disarmament and of arbitra tion as opposed to increasing military establishments and appeals to the sword, though this sentiment has not vol honn ,V,la in svnraao ItuolF In Tin. I Turn, nloht Into dT. GlTM hetterllif'ut i ' i . than gu, iM-trifity or 19 ordinary gMtfjqU litlcal international agreements and imptontentbthocoot. .Fo'''"mmBrf(?6tfriw legislation. The repeated strife in the crry It. iikiio iu own light from Balkans is only an apparent exception 1 2?g"Tci,"1R miut In the general trend. The raw, un-i COSTS 1 wtJi li Ml HI . , , . , ' . I Wil pay for itself In ninety days, rlisrinl npfl nennlea nf the mountains t,... .v.. .u set their neighbors' houses on fire. ' No wick, no chimney, no mantle CRAVEN & REDDING Lawyers Law Bide. Asheboro. N. C. General practice. Special at tention to land litigation. Crim inal practice and collections. Loans negotiated- Coming to the coast of Africa at Port Said, Epypt, northern gateway to the f".uez canal, the tremendous contribu tion to the prosperity of peace, which the Frenchman DeLesseps gave to ibe world, the flr.;t objects seen were a dozen battleships of a French Med-, iterranean fleet. Thus runs the Euro pean continent to naval display ajid all the expenditure that it makes nec essary. Blocking the path of prog ress by water is the battleship, barring armament firm at Essen, through its directors and managers, went in order to obtain contracts from the German government. Indictments were found against the Krupp officers and agents, largely in consequence of revelations in the reichstag, by Liebknecht, a So cial Democrat. They were charged with bribing members of the military and naval establishment between 1903 and 1913 and the disclosures at the trial proved their guilt. More than the highway to prosperity upon land this, however, these disclosures gave the army stands and even the air is heavy with the shadows of war bal ' loons driven to and fro above the earth. Europe is an armed camp and the seas around are roadsteads for the navies of many nations. Europe's War Fever. "Shall we permit the Mediterranean sea to be a French lake?" says an Italian cabinet minister, and be pre sents to the new chamber of deputies a bill for $20,000,000 for naval con struction, four superdreadnaugfats of 28,000 tons each. "We must not be eclipsed by Oennarnf," declares the French minister of war, and promptly the senators and deputies, amid far .Test appeals to national patriotism, enact Into law a measure providing .for ihree years, Instead of twd years, of amaalsery military servioe. Ia Berlin. a .Zeppelin airship, built avow edly for military use, explodes, killing many persons. The war lord gives a . military funeral with high honors to the dead, sends another 1 airship to float above the capital that all may see and orders others to be construct ed with all possible speed. The fever lsh struggle between European nations for the largest and strongest army and navy shows itself In the articles publicity to the enormous profits de rived by the Krupp concern and showed where the fines from the tax payers' pockets went The result is to strengthen the cause of the advo cates of disarmament Patriotism, which bluff old Doctor Johnson called the last refuge of scoundrels, is shown to be in naval expenditure argument the first resort of thieves. But war vessels must be operated and maintained as well aa built and here the owner of ooal mines and, more recently, si no oil is used for fuel, the owner of oU prosertles Is, la various ways and for bis own per sonal ends, a sealoos advocate of mora and bigger ships. A drcadaaugat burns 40 tons of beat coal every hour. British landlord draw royalty of SO cents a ton for coal mined. Every British dreadnaught in use, therefore, means $300 a day to the owner of the ooal royalty. The "Naval Holiday" Proposal. "Perhaps that Is why," said Keir Rardie, the British labor leader, "some of the peers and their friends in the house of commons are so keen to In crease the navy I" Perhaps, also, it is one reason why the nobly eloquent appeal for a year's naval holiday of XOTICK. Having qualified as Admr. on the estate of Fannie V. Calder, deceas ed, belore w. C. Hammond, t'lerk ol the Superior Court of Randolph county, all persons having claim agains-t said estate are notified to present them to the undersigned. duly verified, on or before the -'1st day of March, 1915, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re co very; and all persons owing paid ei-tate will come forward and make immediate settlement. This 17th dav of March, 1914. MARY F. CALDER. Ramseur, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1. SOOCarcdle Power & I'SBaaL To Try In Your Own Wuroo That the conflagration spread no far ther was due to the self-restraint of more civilized Europe and to a senti ment for peace, which was non-existent a few years ago. All this must be written with some reservation. The millenlum of peace and inter national good will m not imminent, but, notwithstanding the portentous figures of expense which have been quoted, there are signs of the dawn. trouble, no dirt, no odor, r.o imoke. Guaranteed t yews. Fob Sale B L. F. Fentrlss. Frankllnville, N. C mm r ! THE BANK OF RANDOLPH Asheboroi X. C. Capital and Surplus, $00,000.00 Total Assets, over 250,000.00 With ample assets, experienc and protection, we solicit the buisness of supremely suggestive, pemaps, is the the banking public and feel safe in behavior of European nations In re- saying we are prepared and willing cent crises of international disagree- to extend to our customers every fa ment. Fifty years ago, twenty years, ,cl.Hty and accommodation consistent possibly ten years ago, these crises j 11 baie ua,,K,"S- they have been settled by conference. The recent treaties have been written with the pen and not the sword. They smell of tobacco smoke, not powdei And not what a man says when noth ing is happening to him reveah his D. B. McCrary, President. W. J. Armfield, V-President. W. J. Armfield, Jr.. Cashier. J. D. Ross, Assistant Cashier. NOTICE Ed. Lyons will take notice that at real self so much as what he does a sale of real estate for taxes by the when something is happening to him. Sheriff of Randolph County, on the And nations, which are but collections lst day of June. ls th undersign of men, are, in this, as otherwise, like ?d Purchased a tract of land contain unto them. They are many men, but I" ty1 .acf?s m Tabernacle TOin, u ij .township, listed jn the name of Ed. " u,c Lyons, for the year of 1912. That Church Influence for Peace. said time for redemption will expire The powerful aid of the spiritual on. the 2nd day of June, 1914, and if group of the church in Europe is cast said property is not redeemed for for disarmament and peace. The ta.xes on .?.r before said date, the pur- church exists under many names and 1 T j FICH Purchaser with doctrines and deeds much at j This Marc'h 2 1914 wcna8er- variance. Set aside the large section ! ' of a so-called Christian church which : NOTICE drills soldiers in Ulster, inspires blood-1 The Homestake Mining Company ritual persecutions In Russia, blesses will take notice that at a sale of real statues to Moloch in Germany, and estate for taxes by the Sheriff of worships Mars and Mercury, militar- Randolph County, on the lst day of ism and commerce, everywhere. Unto June 1913 the undersigned purchas- these who call themselves Christians eu a ,lra" ,CI lunu containing tix Toix-oi, 1 o j ,v, acres in Tabernacle Township, hst- r.1.-),.,' , ,t- ... , , . . . ed in the name of The Homestatce S L l othi ldt brinT Mining Company, for the year of not peace-but a sword. They, for 1912- That said time for redemption consideration of temporal power and will nvni n fVi OnA ,in c T,m afternoon teas and t-.it livings, aro 1914, and if the said proprty is not re newing mm to tnis end an over this deemed tor taxes on or before said continent of Europe. Verily, they date, the purchaser will demand have their reward. Are they not chap- deed. lains-in-ordlnary to Mars at a good . T. J. FINCH, Purchaser. stipend which enables them to dress This March 2, 1914. in purple and fine linen and fare , ., Blimnf HOMkIv AVPrv Hnv? Hna moot. AOlltfc, and hears them in all European lands. orth, Carolina. Randolph County it t Superior Court, Before the Clerk u -"u .uC.ufc 6'" ineodore G. Henry et al the church, in mosque and synagogue, . Vs. in cathedral and chapel, in monastery John D. Henry et al. and mission house, which, lncreas- The defendants. John D. Heory ingly potent and numerous, pleads for arid Charles W. Henry, will take peace and spiritual, as opposed to',lotlce that an action entitled as merely temporal, things. Almost oriaboVe has been commenced a'gainst entirely a paradox is it that the trav elers who look below the surface, who go In and out among the . religious leaders of the European peoples, agree that the spiritual forces are reassert ing themselves in a surprising way and that, despite the blatant material Ism of the European world of today, the world of tomorrow Is to be mad by and for the things of the spirit. In this fact lies large hope for the advocates of peace and human broth erhood. Even amid the throbbing of the war-drum he who listens may hear "the still, small voice." The mightiest of the spiritual leaders in Europe is his holiness, the pope. To an American Journalist, granted an au dience at the Vatican, said the kindly old gentleman who is the head of the great Catholic church: "I hope that your great nation will spend its time In strengthening Itself !n all goo1 things and refrain from war; war re fatal to tb.fi progress of mankind." them In the Superior Court of Ran aoiph county and that summons has issued for them in eaid action returnable before the Clerk of said court at hisNoffice In the county court house in Aeneooro. N. C. on the 20th day of April. 1914: that the nature and subject matter of said action la as follows, to-wit An action to sell for division among petitlonres and defendant that certain lands in said county of wnich the late Jas. P. Henry died seized and which petitioners and defendants now hold as tenants in common and to also allot the dower In money of Viola J. Henry in eaid tanas; said defendants will fur ther take notice that thev are r quired to be and armear before said Clerk at the eaid time and place named for return of summons and answer cr demur to the petition filed In this action or the relief demanded will be granted. This March 20. 1914. W. C. HAMMOND, Clerk Superior Court, Randolph County. (QrDr thiit Headache tsk J j yMimrm'WTiitT'ititiiiitii'Ynti'Mi' ' 1 -- r- f 1: 11,.'. ixir pr Oh, i'n: a Soapmker all right. And it's so EASY--so QUICK! Just dissolve a can of me In a quart ol water, funv p:.ur mm watrr into toLi' pouac t..' ciciica ureusc, no BO I I.ISU at all. And you will hnve ?ecn rnimJs of fine, hard soap, iiic. worth, and 1 only cust 5c, a ::U kel, a huit dime. only ' 3aaaE I am RED DEVSL LYE GET ME AT ANY GOOD STORE SAVE MY. LABELS 3 ONLY I What do you do fop your fruit? 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