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DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS BE GINNING TO APPRECIATE THE VALUE OF THE REMEDIAL LEGISLATION WHICH IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED BY THE WIL SON PROGRAM. The Indianapolis News, in a recent Issue prints the following from James P. Hornaday, its Washington cor resuondent: "Whatever the final judgment of the country on the Wilson legislation may be, the new laws will stand for several years, in any event. If the next House of Representatives should be Republican the new Congress be Republican the new Congress would be powerless to change any of the legislation, for the Senate would still be controlled by the Democrats. In all probability the Senate will be Democratic for a good years to come. Nothing short of a political landslide of almost unprecedented proportions could dislodge the Democrats from control of the body on Match 4, 1917, -and there is no prospect whatever of the political complexion of the body changing before that time. "So the country might as well ac cept the new tariff law, the Federal reserve law and the anti-trust legis lation that is to be enacted as fixtures Under the circumstances there does not seem to be any real reason why business should continue to wait on the Congress. It thoroughly under stands the new conditions with which it must deal. While the anti-trust leg islation has not yet been completed the country knows about what the leg islation is to be. Has Better Grasp "There are indication that the country is arriving at a better under standing of what the President is driving at in a legislative way. At any rate the legislative body has a better grasp of the situation than it had a year ago when the President was starting off with tariff legislation. The President from time to time has tried to make it clear that what he calls his major legislative program has for its fundamental purpose the removal of artificial restrictions to business which have grown up with the rapid industrial development cf the last century. It is very generally understood here that the President has never believed that these restric tions could be removed with out busi ness feeling something of a shock. It was realized that following the enact- f nf the Wislntinn there would have to be readjustments which would for a brief time seriously impeae vne currents of business. Favored a Few Industries 'The first restriction which Presi dent Wilson insisted his party, through its representatives in the Congress, should remove, was a pro tective tariff which everybody realiz ed unduly favored a few industries at the expense of all others. The re moval of this restrictionbroughtforth the cry from the favored ones that iIH be ruined. The new tariff law has now been in effect eight months, and the dire calamities mat were to follow its enactment have not mnw;nli7orl Tt. ia true that the hieh protectionist politicians have tried to make it appear xnai ministries suffered as a result of the new tariff rates, but economists very generally agree that this is not the case. As a matter of fact, some of the industries, Ttahio nm fine them, the woolen in dustry, have actually found the new a;i i- 1 or, ttiio in larm raies ueiwntwi, " spite of the fact that the representa tion nt those industries told the Con gress that the enactment of the new rates meant ruin. fitnna Hfnnev Concentration "The second restriction, which the President asked tne uemocratic con gress to remove was that which an antiquated national bank act encour .aged. For years under the existing . banking laws money was concentrat or! in Mum Vnrlr f!it.v. snerulation en. . couraged at the expense of current business, and that periodically mere was a money stringency. In these times nf atrincrenov it was most dif ficult to get the money necessary for legitimate Dusiness. so tne reaerai reserve act, designed to correct these defects in the national banking laws, was passed. If it does what the ad ministration expects it to do credit will be equalized throughout the country, and there is every indication that the legislation will meet the ex pectation of its framers. "New York City will not dominate the country financially after the re gional reserve banks begin operation. Thus, a really great restriction will have been removed. J Purpose of the Anti-Trust Laws. trust legislation that is behig under taken at the request of the President is to remove certain restrictions re strictions which gave an advantage to big business. No 6ne questions the statement that big business has for years used its power to capture undue advantages for itself, advantages which tended to produce , monopoly and to stifle competition. In other words, the small business has had to fight for a living, while the large business has had things its own way. "The President believes that his anti-trust legislative program will serve to remove some of these re strictions, under which small business has operated. It is believed that a rightly enforced law against "price , cutting will materially help the small- er concerns. The prohibition of in terlocking directorates will, it is be lieved, also give the modest business . a better show. The Inter State Com rnerce Commission has found that the inflation of railroad securities has lm posed a burden on business, and the President's program provides that this burden shall be lifted. Setting Business Free, "Thug it will be seen that the one idea of Betting business free runs through the administration's entire major legislative program. Even with the enactment of the anti-trust bills the program will not be complete. There will be other restrictions to be removed. For instance, the President ; is of the opinion that farmers havj not COMMENT ON CURRENT NEWS We admire .President Wilson's course in conferring with the leading business men of the country, .but feel slightly peeved because we were not included in the invitation. .How ever, we have hopes that some .good may result iron the conferences. A Mattoon, 111., man is offering for sale a log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln lived while studying law. That's the limit. And we hereby serve notice on all people that no cib in which we may have graced in life time is to be peddled around after we are dead. Yet we have no serious ob jections to energetic local merchants using them for window displays. Some people never have any pain except the brand they inflict upon others. "Bumper crops this year," is the cheerful word from Washington. Give us the crops without the bumps. Extra! Extra! Special discount sale on the remnants of Mexico. Distressing oversight: John D. Rockefeller has not been invited to liiscus big b'.isinuss with .hj Pjsi- Chicago Methodists are holding an old time religious camp meeting, and resolutely refuse to discuss women's dresses or the lack of them. If fashion continues its mad whirl, fig leaves will soon be in great de mand. Congress is playing horse. But even that is better than playing pol itics. George Fred Williams has ceased to be a diplomat, but he has the sat isfaction of knowing that he blew up with a loud roort. . Huerta voted for himself for pres ident of Mexico, and that made him the unanirncus choice, etc., and again etc., Turn out the Guard. Salute General Depression. An American has just installed the first soda fountain in Dublin, but the natives were unable to find the bung hole. A Chicago judge leads the van in inflcting severe punishment upon of fenders. The sentence passed upon one culprit was that he "find a wife and get married within one year . Why all this yelping about bie bus iness. You'd take it in chunks if it came your way. Blessings upon Rockefeller. He forgot to raise the price of oil this ween. . There's no rest for the wicked. Congress is still at work. Now just what would you think of a man wno expects a woman to mar him for himself alone. fai. Louis proudly announces the traping of 6,554,000 fles. What's the market value To make your scarecrow effective, it should be made to resemble a bill collector. Doctors advise "lollinc" ns an flirt to long life. In that case some men ougnt to live forever. 'Tis said women workers in France turn out ready made suits for twen ty cents each. Let's go. Many a man sends money to the heathen when he won't give a poor neighbor a rtleasant lnnu- If you are just pining for a chance m pan vm.n your money go out and uuy your wue a new model 6ix cylinder washing machine. Cured of In.1.al.n. '. Mrs. Sadie P. Clawson, Indiana. i-a.. was Bothered with indigestion. "My stomach pained me night and aay," she writes. "I would! feel bloated and have headache and Deiciang after eating. I also suf fered from conetlnatinn. Mr )nh. tcr had used Chamberlain's Tablets and they did her bo much good that she gave me a few doses of them and Insisted upon my trying them. They helped me as nothlnz else has done." For sale by all dealers. be able to. borrow money on as favor able terms as other business men, and it is his wish that this burden shall be lifted by farm credits legislation, i "The President has tried to make it clear from time to time that there is not a thing anywhere in the entire DrOCram that OUO-ht to friorhten nnv legitimate business. Big business of course is not in sympathy with what is being done, and when the President recently made the statement that the present busings depression is psycho logical in character, he had in mind the thought that the opposition of big business to what the Congress has been doing and is doing the influence of big business on the business of the country in general has much to lo with the feeling somewhat prevalent that business cannot go ahead as rap idly as it Bhould. The adminsitration holds to the view that when business realizes that the reform legislation is a fact and that it is going to stick, there will be more of a dispbsition to accept it as its true value, and to go ahead at full speed under the new con ditions." Severe Attack of Colic Cured. E. E. Cross, who travels In Vir ginia and othr Southern States.was taken suddenly and severely 111 with colic. At the first store he came to the merchant! recommended Chamberlain)" Colic, Chollera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Twa doses of It cured him. dNo one should leave home on a Journey without a bottle of thl" preparation. For sale by all dealers. , , . ! . i t, i SOME RANDOLPH HISTuRY J. N. Steed, of Washington, D. C, Writes Interestingly of the Origin of Randolph County. Editor Courier: It is a source of gratification to me as a native of Randolph, to note the interest manifested by the people in the early history of our county. It is a subject which has been too long neglected, and, unfortunately, many sources of information regarding our colonial period are forever lost. But we still have many traditions based on fact which should be carefully pre served, and I hope at no distant date an historian may come forth who will write a history of Randolph coun ty as it should be written. With reenrd to the rrentinir nnd naming of Randolph, I can give some I hitherto unpublished facts, which 1 think would be of interest to students of county history, and in doing so.you will pardon me if I have to inject a little personal family history into the narrative. Captain John Steed, of the 4th Regiment of Virginia Revolutionary troops, was a native of Virginia and' married Mary Randolph, daughter of. Simon Randolph, of Brunswick coun ty, that State. Captain John Steed had four sons, Nathaniel, Moses, Mark and Jesse. Nathaniel Steed was a student at old William and Mary Col-! lege, at Williamsburg, and while there learned surveying. In 1770 he re-; moved from Brunswick county, Va., I to North Carolina and settled in what I is now Randolph county. Moses set-: tied in Montgomery county, and Jesse in Warren. u-hen Vaninh . a ,,t nf Guilford and Rowan counties, Nathan- iel Steed (the great-grandfather of the writer wna emnlnverl tn mnlto the survev. and it was throuc-h his influ- ence that the county was nr.moc! "Randolph", after his mothev'i. .ami ly in Virginia. I have th se ia.'ts from the papers of my gran.i-'rrhe:1, Charles Steed, who represented Ran dolph in the Senate from 1818 to 1822. There are still many old names in Randolph, such as Cox, Craven, Red ding, Bulla, Henley, Moffitt, Blair, Winningham, Winsiow, McCain, etc., who were identified with the Revolu - tionary period of our county. If the descendants of those original settlers would only dig among old letters, rec - ords, official documents, etc., no doubt many interesting facts would come J. NATHANIEL STEED. Washington, D. C, July 15, 1914. EDITING IS LIKE PREACHING We ouite acrree with the Rale.Vh Times that the following item is Wllhelmlna and her baby rule, about the best explanation we havel The baby has Just now been offl seen regarding the attitude of editor cially discovered ln Europe. As the and reader toward each other: real maker of tomorrow's world the "Editing a newspaper in some re - spects like preaching. The gospel trutn must be presented in the form of generalities or eome fellow will get hit and howl, says a recent writer. Few people like truth, even in homo pathic doses, if it hits them. "But while preachers and editors are criticised for what they do say, no one thinks of giving them credit for what they do not say. Yet what they keep to themselves constitutes the major portion of what they know about people. "Very many pt-ople harbor the be lief that newspapers are eager to publish derogratory things. T'is a mis take. There isn't a newspaper that could not spring a sensation in the community at any time by merely telling what it knows. There is not a newspaper that does not keep under the lock of secrecy, scores of deroga tory things which never meet the public eye or reach the public ear. "Deciding what not to print is the most troublesome part of newspaper work. How many good stories are suppressed for innocent relatives and for the public good nobody outside of a newspaper office has any idea of. "In some cases he who fles into a pasion because a newspaper prints passion because a newspaper prints ers uncomplimentary has every rea son to feel profoundly grateful to the newspaper for publishing so little of wnat it Knows ot him. And often times the loudest bluffer is the most vulnerable to attack. A bi no;se is oiten a device employed to cover trep idation. Newspapers' put up with Diutting than anv other asrencv wonlH endure. It is not because they lack courage; it is because they are un willing to use their power to destroy or ruin unless the interest of society imperatively demands it. It might be well for some people to reflect upon these truths and in silent gratitude acL-epi, miia admonition less worse be fall them." Exchange. Trinity News Mrs. Hayes has returned from a visit to South Carolina. Prof. D. C. Johnson is attending the Teachers' Institute at Greensboro. Mrs. Webster, of the hotel, will leave soon for a visit to Waynesville. Mrs. Hayes entertained the Book Club Thursday afternoon. Delicious refreshments were served. Prof. Johnson is having a telephone put in his home. The ladies' weekly prayer meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Will Leach next Friday afternoon. Mr. Fred Ingram, a traveling man, is in Trinity for some time. Mr. White, our postmaster, is at tending the M. E. Conference at Gib sonville. Aunt Julia Parks is right ill again. Mrs. Fisher, of Salisbury, is visit ing her mother, Mrs. Ellis. Beet Diarrhoea Remedy. If you have ever used Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy you know that It is a suc cess. Sam F. Guln. Whatley. Ala .. writes, "I had measles and got caujght In the rain, and it settled in mv tnmgh flnrt hnvcln T hail an awful time, and had It not beenl""1 lUH WOB " "4 OI for Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera aid artisans 100 to 130. In the case of Diarrhhoea, Remedy I could not pos- si bly have lived but a few hours longer, but thanks to this remedy, am nnow well and strong." For sale by all dealers, i Making Tomorrows World By WALTEH WILLIAMS, LL.D. TOWN AND HOUSE PLANNING Amsterdam. Burns figures are duplicated noiianu, iuu or f a s c i n a tion al ways to students of history and life, has last year had more than its usual fasci nation because of its international congresses and its local celebra tions of the cen tenary of the freedom of the Netherlands. Per haps no celebra- s t,on m tractive A at , vJI 1 where, fcgSitfj other was more at tractive than that Amsterdam among exhibitions, was held, under the direction of a group of enterpris- Jn Putch women, a special display, on 016 DankB of the Amstel, to show the ' evolution Of tha Social and intellectual nosition of woman since 1813. Feat - , crea of the exhibition were contrast. lng middle class houses ot IS 13 and of 1913, each with ita kitchen, d.alng room, bed rooms and furnishing com plete. Other departments showed the change in the kind of profluct of woman's work in the one hundred Tears, as nurse, housekeeper, teacher, In business and professional life, 1 Europe Awake on Baby Question, ' Inspecting the exhibition, under the guidance of the honorary secretary, ; Mrs. J. E. Van Buuren-Huys no more significant section was seen than that deTOted to chili.me, W this was set forth, by charts, maps, official reports, and wax figures, the changed thought of the world, particularly of conti nental Europe, regarding babies. Ap propriately was the exhibition held in "onana, wnere tne oeiovea yueen 1 Infant is being studied by the state. The fact is that you can not have a farmer or a merchant or even a Jour nalist without first saving a baby. Ex cept Adam and Eve, and Minerva, the goddess-professor, it seems clear enough now that the origin of adults must be traced back to babies. It rr tomorrow's world Is to be what we aQ nope it to be, the babies must be con tinuously cared for. And one of the newer and more far-reaching ques tions In the old world is the baby question. The child-section In the woman's exhibition in thla quaint Hol land capital shows progress In Its study and solution. " Congested City Life Slays Infanta. ' The reports of European congresses and of the more recent English-speaking Conference were displayed In pop ular form. The effect of the crowded conditions of city life upon Infants was suggested by chart and picture. Figures furnished by John Burns, Brit ish Minister of Re'h, were shown. Mr. Burns' figures contrasted the per centages of infant mortality in con gested and open districts, in districts where mothers worked and neglected their children, with others more fa vored. In Hampstead, London, the rate of Infant mortality was 71 per thousand; in Shored! tch, at the other and more crowded end of London, the Infant mortality was 145 per thousand. In Lancashire, where women worked in factories and where many children were therefore uncared for, the infant mortality was exceedingly high, three or four times the rate in districts where women of the same class did not work. With such facts European governments are studying plans whereby mothers should be mothers and not machines. Doctors are more successful at ear ing their own babies to become adults. Mr. Burns found that doctors' babies died at the rate of only 40 per thousand, while In the case of the up per and middle classes of Great Brit- mme iw. tne case oi unsKiuea laborers 1C0 to 250, and tn the case of farm workmen, despite their brutally low wagec, only 97 per thousand. The :mK-iiwt I mssmXHtfMr i it ri from, ; practically every other country. j Save Babies and Make 8oldlera. Continental Europe and, more latter-! ly and more leisurely, Great Britain j are establishing medical inspection ot ; children at school and, to a less de-1 gree, at home, to reduce the Infant mortality. They seek thus to have the ! doctor do for other children what he ' has been able to do for his own. Medical Inspection came in Great Britain as a sort of by-product of the Boer war. A London Journalist, of the staff of the New Statesman, in relat ing the discovery of babies in the United Kingdom, said that during and after the war many would-be recruits 1 suffered from physical defects and an official Inquiry was set on foot to in- j quire into physical training in Scot land. The report was unsatisfactory ' as regarded the conditions found. By I a bold hypothesis, certain observers, j however, were led to Inquire whether these spoilt adolescents had not once ! 1 keen younger and Dr. Leslie Macken zle verified this induction by a visit to the North Canongate slum of Edln burgh, where certain small creatures wero found, who might be regarded as inchoate specimens of the spoilt sol diery already encountered. Having examined the children at school then the first official medical Inspection in Great Britain he came to certain conclusions which led to a general In quiry In England also. It seemed probable that no known type of dumb bell, Indian club, or strangulation ap paratus for strapping one's self to one's bedroom door, would have the effect of straightening knees bent by rickets or replacing teeth lost ten or fifteen years before. Then came med ical inspection of schools in Great Britain as it had come In Germany, France and other nations earlier. Government Care for Mothers. Beyond care of the child at school by medical inspection and the success ful effort to reduo: infant mortality it has been diminished 30 per cent in ten years, though the general death rate has been diminished only 13 per cent and the ravages of tuberculosis that great "captain of the men of the death" to borrow Bunyan's phrase, only 18 per cent there has come consideration of the mother. If in- IK'"' Street and Canal In Holland. JWS1&SL tints are to be saved alive to furnish a proper supply of adults, the mothers must be protected. Thus the logic of the more or less paternalistic govern ments of Europe and the Amsterdam charts show the mother as the civil ised state's care. nWMKaa, The French, in whose country the baby Is held In higher regard, per haps, than anywhere else In the world, seem to be pioneers. First, they sup plied babies with milk. Then they fed the mothers who nursed them, for It Is a curious paradox in France that, in a country where babies are su preme, so many babies are nursed by foster-mothers. Next the French be-, gan to feed the expectant mother and ( found the result highly successful. At ; the Conference in London on infant i mortality a most valuable and signlfl-! cant discussion dealt with ante-natal ' hygiene. The chief oause of Infant mortality, it was conclusively shown, is a defective condition of develop ment at birth and this depends up on the facts of ante-natal life. Moth ers are Nature's original device for the prevention of infant mortality. Hence the care of them by the state. Beeides the charts on Infant mor tality, Indeed supplementary to them, other charts showed the effect of al colholism and disease In the parent upon the life of the infant. While the state's growing concern in the care of children, from their birth and before, is mainly brought about by the state's desire for phy sically strong soldiers In It? army, it has had a good effect in many ways. Schools for mothers have been estab lished, better housing conditions pro vided, parks opened, and many meas ures some fantastical, but all well meant have been encouraged. "And a little child shall lead them." Regulations to Safeguard Children. Scotland; under a new Act of Par liament, provides for the actual (not merely on papery medical Inspection' ot children and for the care (including the supply ot food and clothing) of neglected children and children in iso-i lated districts Another recent Parlia mentary Act, applicable to all the United Kingdom, provides inspection' et all charitable institutions and1 "homes." One thousand little children.1 are burned to death in Great Britain; annually. The new act compels part eats or house-owners to have guards, on their grates and take other precau tions against fires. Juvenile courts with plenary powers, are established. Parents are required to attend thia- eourt and. if they have not properly looked after their children, must take the punishment or pay the fine which would otherwise be assessed against the child. Jail imprisonment for chil dren and the death sentence for them are abolished. Children under four teen years of age are not allowed In, any part of a public bouse used as a1 drinking bar. Alcohol may not be given to children anywhere under the age of five years, except in the case of illness. Cigarettes or cigarette pa pers may not be sold to children under sixteen years old nor other tobacco believed to be for the children's own, use. Policemen and parkmen may take away the tobacco from boys whom they find smoking. Local au thorities are empowered to establish. Choice of Employment offices to assist the young in determining upon em-i ploymcnt. Co-uses to Large Families. Great Britain has changed the mater nlty ber.oflt of its national insurance law granted by the state to become the absolute property of the mother. France is trying an experiment toward, checking the decline of the birth rate and promoting child welfare by grants of bonuses to large families. Under a law passed by the French Senate and the Chamber ot Deputies Just ad journed, needy French parents with more than three children below the age of thirteen years will receive an annual grant of f 12 to $16 for each, child beyond that number. It is esti mated that about $10,000,000 will be expended annually. The cost will be shared by the nation, the departments and the municipalities. Neglect of Babies Breeds Crime. If the child is saved to become an adult, does the lack of care in In fancy affect his moral character? A corollary to the Amsterdam charts la a report of a statistical study of the English convict by Dr. Goring, of Parkhurst Prison. The conclusions of Dr. Goring are that convicts, as & class, are markedly inferior to the general population in physique and general capacity, though there is no "criminal type." The forehead, ears. Jaw, of which we have heard so much, are the merest moonshine. The con dition most closely related to petty crime, the most fruitful source ot nearly all that Is meant by crime, is mental defectiveness. This defec tiveness is a result, in an overwhelm ing number ot cases, of the lack of care of the child at some period ot its Infant life. "Every step in the direction of mak ing and keeping the children healthy," runs the prominently-displayed quota tion from the Chief Medical Officer of the London Board of Education, "Is a step towards diminishing the preva lence and lightening the burden of disease for the adult and a relatively small rise In the standard ot child health may represent a proportionate ly large gain in the physical health, capacity and energy of the people as a whole. As a general proposition It may be said that a state can. not ef fectively insure itself against disease unless It begins with its child rea State Now Hears Infant's Cry, The baby In Europe has been found out Always heard at home, he Is now taken into account in the mak log of laws, the cleansing of slumav tne planning ot towns. This newL Knowledge may mean more rapid. Change, for the Infant's cry js, ever more potent against cruej I oclai con ditions than even "the curses of the strong man in his wealth." The baby, the chief asset of the civilized state, is having more Intelligently and con tinuously that state's chief care. And .babies areUie stuff out of which aauits are maae. Yet, upon returning from the beaa tiful and inspiring exhibition of the Dutch women, we found two nine-year-old boys, tipped towards pauperism by American visitors, running night and: day the elevator In the Amsterdam, hotel, while outside the hotel door, In the gathering darkness, In the crowded, narrow, thread-like Kalver Straat two wan-faced and ragged girls, scarce older, begged alms. (Copyright, 131. by Joseph B. Bowie j Pragmatism. ' Bat while the pragmatic solution! seemed to many a deliverance from worse evils, and a most useful meth od of exploring for truth, it was gen-j e rally felt to be unsatisfying, rather tentative than final, writes William Ernest Hocking in the Yale Review. Pragmatism taken alone leaves belief too much to the accidents of volition and to main force, too much to the vote and hence exposed to the veto Its God can offer support and comforti to men only on the condition of being' first upheld by them. Just in propor tion as necessity drops out of moral truth and option takes its place, the moral atmosphere Is rarefied, and ef fort to maintain belief results In swift er fatigue. Men are willing to respond! to the pragmatic incentive, to be act ive In the making of truth, wherever; reality is seen to be unfinished andl plapt'.c. but In all such actlr'.ty there is needed sometliirn to FtanJ upon, pomethin;' which we neither rr.alro nor) have made, aomcihlrs iaderesi!9ntly real and certain. There must M something behind pragmatism, . J
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