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HOi>COE MITCHELL RESiG^fS. Continued from Page 1. v/ho were famous for work in several jcrntinen.ts formed themselves into an impromptu committee and rushed in three automobiles to Matchers hotel to teli him while he was packing up what a fine stand they thought he hrtt? takeij, for standards to which Mr. H&arst.has act yet risen. Tl'e American delegaes even held ioi‘ Mitchel an impromptu reception, during which Justice Frederick W. Lehmann made a short speech con- ^i*atulating the reporter. Thus Mitchell made his exit from Kiagara alone, and without a Job. From one view-point he had gone there as an agent of all the people who read newspapers* honor bound to transmit news truly. Fi^>m an cthei. he had gone there as a wage- eairner in pursuit of a living, bound, in ?3rder to hold his job, to transmit to his employer the kind , of news his employer wanted. Mr. Hearst's greatest newspaper trie^ to force this view upon him. In messages urging him not to resign and in other messages asking him to reconsider his resj^jnalion, the. newspaper urged him ‘‘to be a good soldier and a good boy** and again '‘to send th^ news facts and leave the policy to the editors.” Mitchell as the one in whom to repctse his confidence. It was that he "wished Mitchell to gat*ier all the repOFtorrrn party together and keep them ready for an immediate return to the condi date*s car in the railroad station. The rest of the confidence was that things were going badly—that Mr. Wi2so:i miglit at any moment withdraw from rhe day^s pi*bceedihgs. I was among tlicse told to stand ready for a hur ried return to the train. X never ki:eiv yntil the train was on its way baf!k. to New York and Mr. Wilson himself took up the theme with the rest of us why it was that one of the reportei'S had given us such an un usuj‘,1 messagei This bit of background to the Mitch ell incident at Kiagara is necessary bev’ause it will throw some light on the manner in which he was veceiv-. ed there. "COME HOME COMFORTABLY/’ A final message releasing ifitcheli ui^ed him to ‘‘come home comfort ably*’ and to remember that “good soldier? are patiem evf»n if superior make nn^take^.'' I am not writing this story of a newspaper problem in order vo glorify a man who has quit hi.s job. I am writing it to invite the public to consider some of the things that go or behind the telegraph wires. As a reporter who has been on the job for ten years I have felt tor some time that the pubHc ou^ht to be in* vitcd in; that it ought to take a hand. The case of Mitchell presents the problem in concrete form. Hearst whe- he -mployed MitchcP, hapiK-n- ed to hire a reporter who was ready to fight for standards which can nev er be wholly enforced, I believe, until ♦he uublic takf?-- ^';nd. TL*» sccrct of Henr.st^s >.i:.i:u:a faking I: out be cause Mitchell wn .i ’• a usur*! Irearrt rejjcfter. He wt’>-: « ew to Kearsv al ihoj-rh old t • iiriporlant depi'rtrnents Crf Journalism \ no first tif'^ I saw Mitcholl he '»var> on ’-ie end of n telephone wire ancJ the home of E.. U. Harriman, ui. Ar den, v.ar, on u\r wl!ici end. Uaniman wai' Jyi.ng, ac >>rciii5-; to some iejjorts, and according to o i'.'i he was already dead. The m*r. duty :3S near as they could iret to Harriman's home were plainly cxcited a?; the climatic point in a bisr situation approach ing:. .MiTCHJ-XI/S S*ASKlON FOU FACTS, I !^otcd ?*Iitcholl becaui^o he wa^ wv‘-king high tension and at the same time was’cool, f nnticcd in V\’hat he :-ent down to his paper a little lat er, a real ras.non foi* co’t: facts. There were jione of the U-;mminfrs lb'll other ''*'‘porter?i \vr'‘>te in. I heard him again u little late”. At OyvCer Baj% soo.'i after Roosevelt’? return from America., yellow newspa pers published so much inaccurate matter thut the Colonel shut down on ther r.ll—save one. Koscoe Mitchell, I heard, wa'. given the privilege of coming to the Colonel's liome once a day, apd cra-rying back to the tele- grsipli i-tai ii>r at Oyster Bay such news as there for distribution, as he saw f.i, to other reporters. I ni*:l Mitchell again while we both wc:-e assig’ned to Woodrow ‘VVilsow^s campaign for the presidency. .At Syracuse, while the now weli-advor- AT VERA CKUZ. The last time Mitchell figured in the news before )ie was sent to Niag ara waq whea .A.mericaii. warahips wti-e about to depart for Veia Cruz. It became a “newspaper secret^’ that tJic Navy Department had refused to tako any Hearst man along on a. war jihip. It also became a matter of Park Row discussion that the Hearst ex- etiilives turned to Roscoe Mitchell who had recently acci^pted employ ment on Hearst’s American. TvIitcheU t*’epho7jed to Josephus Daniels, Sec retary of the Kavy, and received a re«dy permission to join the fleet. Daniels throughout th campaign had been in charge of the publicity sec tion cf the Wilson heado.uarrer? ar.d iviU'Vi' and could judge Mitchell's work : i. bad i'ef.-n delivered to ythei’ isi:- pers, JiitcheU went to Vera Cru'/. aboard a United States warship anil soon af- Tei* he returned he found that the Hearst newf^paper.s were in another muddle with the government depa)*t- ments. ir. was imoprtant to consiiier this muddle, becausp n has a Waring on the peculiar personal responsibiHtles Mitchell assumed at Niagara. In the Hearst headquarters in New York it became known that the Wash ington bureau “was ail in as to hand ling the mediation conferences at Ni agara, that n Tie uf the Washington nun were on “speaking terms” with thv mediators. More than that, the information coaveyed to 5Ue home of fice was to ihi effect that one of the nu*diatoi‘S had torn a Hearst report er’s card ap lud had thrown ihe frag ments in his face. TIR.N TO .MiTt'HKLL. Aifam the H-jarst forces turned to Mitchell. They knew the high esteem ::i which he »var. held personally by ihc.t who know him. 1 am net going to tfi! hei\j why Mitchell accepted cm- pl.iment from Hearst. That has to du with the esr.i^rience as a resoprtor ir. the i-apacity utifamiliar to ihe pub Hc— the caparity of a wage-earner wt vking al want on the inside appears a highly sweated trade, however much it .fiiay app2‘.jr from the outside t*/ be u noble and romantic profession. ^^itchell on May 10th found him- !\i:U on his w ly to Niagara with tl»e information uo :uau. GETS SILENCE TREATMENT. Mitchell left the party after a brief ‘silence treatment.” Just inside the hotel doors he met Hobert F. Rose, the attache of the State Department at the negotiaions. Wih Rose the siuatioji w'as different. He knew' Mitchell and the things for which Mitchell stood. Without any .hesitation Rose re versed Mitchell’s progress away from the delegation. He forced him. abok and personally irttrodcced him to the cleiegatcs giving at the same tinie a i-trong and unequivocal guai-antee that ihe delegates would always find them selves receiving a square deal from his friend and oId-tin;ie associto' Al ter that Justice Lam^ar and Judge Li-hmann talked in Mitcheirs presence, pdnntting him freely to the informal dlicussion. To each of the mediators and to iho 3/exican d^hgntes Mitchell gave hi.£ pledge that he was not responsible for Heart's editorial policies, that as a rtporter he v.'anted to give the facts c.i the developments and to give them fahly. He was accepted on that basis, was giyen respectful and ade- fjUate hearings when- he came for Mew.s. Then the trouble began. STJ.CKS TO THE PACTS. Mhrhell filed a dispatch giving the actual dm-elopments.' He was hope- fui in tone, since the mood of all con cerned was optimistic. Ne.Kt day MiU-heU bought a Hearst paper. Not . i;o word of his dispatch was in the i'.'sc . But the Niagara date line was there just the same. No persoii on ih-.' ground could possibly have writ- ic; , with any regard ofr the facts, ih«! ?tory that appeared. It was a Hfc;!j>t Story—simmering v-ith insin- rations that President Wilson was luckiiig down and yielding, fn a hu- mijiating manned to each demand up- him. 'Ihe issue for Hearst’s man at Ni- igf-ra was interesting' to himself, to vA the others reporters and to Mr. Rose who knew him. He had made I trsonai pledges; and he had been re ceived on those pledges. ihe Hearst home oiRce wa.s not to .lijn ui: in.s;trument through w’hich he ouhJ force over to the public at targe fujrn Niagara a trained man's obser- vaiions iu.’d views about a mf.tter of critical national moment. The chief Hearst paper was not a paper that rhc reader could pick up with any us- sui’arice that a dispatch dated at Ni agara than th=i desk of .some writer in ihe liearst oifice^. C’shor reporters, whose papers per- n.ittcd them to serve the public hon- /Jt'ws, looked upoi\ MitchelTs pHj^ht with mingled fteiings. They all knew, of ffurse, wlia- had happeiied for they Lad l)een in thi» telegraph oiRcc while Mitcheil wa> v»'i iiin)j, alongside them- scl\(.-s^ and in the tiuestions passing !)u lv. :s)id forlh they had become well Wi;ri', of tiie general nature of Mitch- il’s dispatch HOME COOKING SHOWS. Th(. offense of the first day was not the end. .\s the Hearst papers v,?ould coatin5K* to arrive the dispatch rom Niagara wouUi continue to show cviCent'C of home-cooking in the Amer en, th;u none of\icjjj, office. Some of it would te gen- ti-ose connected with the mediation I there would be whole v.t>uld have jjiiything to do with pr.j'agraphs of inserted material, clev erly designed to give an appearar^ce of trouble in the mediation proceed- inirs and shameful concessions on the Kea-*st man. 11c even knew of the in cident of the toni-up card. On the morning of May 20ih Su preme Court tU:sL'ce Lamar and Judg-'i lAhniann, die American delegates, laied c'ji the poixrh o£ rhe Prospect, on rhj .-Kmericari side. News paper men known to them to be wor thy of their cor.ndence w^re grouper iK ur them and a general “I'amily chat’* was in progress Into this chat a your:g man tvith South- tisetJ trap was being set to put Mr, hiitchet Jace and a siightly Wilson in a position that would make him appear to be a pleasant compan ion of Murphy, Mr. Wilson felt com pelled to give a confidencc of the ut most importance to some one of ns, We were together on a porch outside of a club house in which Morphy wao already seated at the luncheon table, and Mr. Wilson was momentar- 4iy expected to resume a sei-t whi:;h he had abandoned. WILSON REPOSES CONFIDENCE. Of the group Mr. Wilson cho^ erii accent projected himself. He went op to Justice Lamar and Judge Leh- mar.h and introduced himself, since none of the reporters there made a move to do so. He told them his name wa.^ Mitchell and that he had com; to Niagara for Mr. Hearst's New York American. He joined the party—but there was no further attempt to carry on the conversation that had been interi’upt- ed. Reporters and delegates alike semcd conscious of the need for re straint in the presence of « Hearst \iiKYu of Air. Wilson and Mr. Bryan. Mitchell made explanations to the .American delecatt'S and the media- iors at first. He iiied to 'sr^uare his personal pledge:? with the results, by feinting out what portions of the daily Niagara dispatch were his ap.d n'hal portions iiaci nevt?;* been .«?eTit hy him. It is not an easy thing to go into voluntary martyrdom, although those v/iio do not have to make the journey may think it is. Mitchell was think- i’Tg of. I don’t know what, during I ho few' days he continued to fight the issui* out with the Hearst executives. Buo I do know that he has children in school and that the jobs for one earring a wage at his particular tr&de are rather far apart and not easy to obtin. Mitchell sent protests to the Hearst fe.xecutives with apparent success, for he announced to his fellow reporters. SALE OF «£AL ESTATE. By virtue of the poi^er of jpele con- tained in a certain deed of trust exe- cu^d to the Central lioan & 'fi'ust Co., cn the 20th day of March, 1&12, and duly registered in the of^ci of the Register of Deeds for Alamance County, in Book N - 55, page? CtCA to «V0 of Mortgage Deeds to secure , ths payment of six certain bonds, default having been made in ,the paym^^nt of said bond. The uriderslgned trustee will yypose to pubUc sale to the high est bidder for cash at the Court House iJoor Qf Alamance County on SATURDAY, ALGUST 1, 1314, vt 11 o’clock A, M., the toUowing l&nd cC'iv«»yed by- said ‘i-c ?.i iu trust:- A .’ertain lot ur parcel of land in B irjington Tov/nship, ^Vlamance Coun- ■y, State of North Cuiplina, adjoin ing the lands of Henry Newlin, G. H. 'fioxli T and 0* .ifci*.' and . b^.unded as 1o11l\v£* Begininning at corner of Geo. H. Troxier’s iot on- street running thence N 54M:* E. with the street 190 feet, thence N. 38^° W. 167% feel to cci- ner of Henry Newlin, Jhenee with said Newlin 138 feet to corner on said Newlin line, thence S, 38?1° E 200 feet to the beginningr, containing three-fourths acre, more or less. This the 7th day of July, 1914. CENTRAL I.OAN & TRUST CO., Trustee. Ifas Voui Child Worms? Most children do. A coated, furred Tongue; Strong Breath; Stoniac'i Fains; Circles uiider Eyes; Paic, S iS- Icw Comple.’iicn; Nervous. I'Vetf')!; Grinding of Teeth; Tossing in fileep; Peculiar Dreams—any one of t'.esn indicate Child has Worms. Get a box of Kickapoo Worm Kiler at otice. It kills the Worms—tha cause of youi- child’s condition. Is Laxative and aids Nature to expel the Worms. Sup plied in candy form. Easy for cHl- dren to take. 25c., at your Druieist. Weak Kidneys Often the Result of Overwork. On several occasions I have been unable to work and suffered seve*'e pains in the Lack, due to my kidneys. I called on a doctor of Kipon, \ivis., but reveived co relief. 1 tried Br. Kilmer’s Svpar'if'-Koot which gave .me instant relief. J was then able to resume work. Swamp- Root is the only relief I can get frnm kidney disease wh> ii I am siil jf.t lo in the spring o£ the jear. 1. am writ ing this testimonial through m.v own free will that su!I-rni of kHiiey and bladder diseases " ill know of the won- denui merits of iiwemt-iJooc. I le- commend Dr. Kilmer’s Swurnp-Kott whenever I .;an and I'lways have a bottle of Swamp-Root in my *io,i.-e. I pus-ehased Swamp-rt.;!!t oi Mr. C. J. Burnside, Orugist, isf 202 Main St., Kipon, Wi3. Very ii jly y-^urs, THOMAS J. LVNCII, 525 Newberry Street. Kipon. Wis. THE IIORTH CAROimA COLLEGE OF ACBICUTURE AND MECHANl. ARTS This St»t« Ihdustrlal College offers strong courses in Agricultia-e, Horti culture, Stock-raising, Dairying, Poul try, Veterinary Medicine; in Civil Electrical and Hfechanical Engineer ing; in Chemistry and Dyeing; in Cot ton Manufacturing, and in Agricultu ral teaching, four year courses. X»'o and pne year courses in Agriculture and in Machine Shop Work, Facultv of 61 men; 733 students; 25 buildings; excellent equipment and laboratories for each department. On July 9th County Superintendeiits conduct en trance examinetions at each county seat. For catalogne write E. B. OWEN, Registrar, West Ralergh, N, C, Littleton College A well-established, weU equipped, and very prosperous school for Girls and Young Women. Fall Term Begitm Sept. 16, 1914. For catalogue, address J .M, RHODES. LITTLETON, NORTH CAROLINA, ' aocuTT A4mu Arem0 iM Hali 8t. Eey. Jm. W. Row, Paster. Prmcbinc «very fourth Jitukdsy 11 «. m. and 7 p. m. Suadsr Sehol •y«7 Siuid«r A. Prtyer Uittiag Wadnaiday, T:M y. L«diM' Aid S«eUt7 first Sim4»r at- tens'Mo. KPISCdPAL Th* Chardt at The Holy Coufortar. Tint Be,. JTohn Benners Gibble, RMt«r. Settees:. Every Sunday, 11:00 a. m., and 8;M p. m. Holy Communion: First Sunday, li a. iii. Third Sunday, 7:S9 a. in. ’ Holy and. 'faints’ Days, 16:00 a. w. Sunday School, S:SO a. m. The public is cordially inviteA All paws tree. Pina vasted ihoir, CHRISTIAN CHUBCH. THE NORTH CAROLINA State Normal and Industrial College Maintained by the State for the Wo men of North Carolina. Five regu lar courses leading to degrees. Spec ial Courses for teachers. Free tui tion to those who agree to become teachers in the State. Fall season begins September 18th, 1914. For catalogue and other information ad dress Jt’IJ,US i. FOUST, President, Greensboro, JS. C. CHM»IEST1» SPILLS BRAND 3'M*' t>r«OTi«l for CTn*CISB&-TRB 8 BUKOifif hiUND FiLlS iu Kko ssd, G«2.d SRttftUlc boxfs, »c%led with &lai SihhoB. TAicm fso orusi, 9ni«sM «•« tk fVr C«?^|(a>TZS . miAjmmma be.aiio for year* >r«t«rled aa Sr:'., Safest, Eelutilli. 80LD BY ALL ORUfigtSTS EVERYWHERE IUJ Norfolk & Western I have read tlie abcv.i st;itcment that Thomas J. Lynch Do;'-;ht I!r. Kii- itier’s Swamp-Root at my store and made oath the above statement Ir true in substance and fact C. J. Burn®. Ic. Subscribed and sworn to before me this I5th day of Nove.iiljcr, ISJl. P. A. PRE.Sr.'N. 1 Letter to i Dr. Kilmt>r & Co., j Binghamtun, New York, | Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You. iSend" tan cents to Dr. Kiimer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sam ple si^e bottle. It will convince any one- You will ali;o receive a book- if. of valuable information, telling about the kidnej-s and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention The Twice-A-Week Dispatch, Burlington, N, C. Regular fifty-cent and one-dol- iar size bottler for sale at a!l drag stores. “That man must be an insidious lobbyist,” declared Congressman Grump. “What has he done?” inCjuired Con gressman Wayback. "Ha invited me to share a bottle of grape juice with him.”—Pittsburg Peat 2:10 May l«, 1814. Leave Winston-Saiem: 6'.50 A. M. daily tor Roanoke and in- termisdiat* stations. Connect with Main Lme trains North. East and West with Puilman Sleeper, Dining Car*. P. M. daily for Martinsville Roanoke, the North and £ast. Pullman Steel Electric Lighted Sleeper Win»ton-Salem to Har risburg, Philadelphia, New Yofk. Dining Cars North of Roanoke. 4.-15 P. M. daily for Roanoke and lo cal stations. Trains arrive Win.ston-Salem 11:00 A. M., 1:10 ?. M., 9:35 P. M. Trains leave Durham for I^oxboro, South Bliston anu Lynohburg, (i:45 a. m., daily, and .5:-30 p m., daily except Sunday. W. B. Bevill, Pass. Traff. Mgr. W. C. Saunders, Gen. Pas. Agt. Keep Bowel Movement Regular. Dr. King’s New Life Pills keep stomach, livel and kidneys in heatlhy condition. Kid the body of poisons and waste. Improve your complexion by flushing the liver and kidneys. “1 got more relief from one box of Dr. King’s New Life Pitls than any med icine t ever tried,” say C. E. HatSeid, of Chicago, ill. 45c., at your drug gist. aer Church and Davia Sraata. A. B. Kendall, Pastar, I g every Sunday, 11 :(Hi a. a,, a. ■;* P- W. Sunda. '>•, 9;46 a. m. Jefan Jt. Foste ijerintandont. Christiaii 'vor Servicei Suadajr evenings 'o. Mid-Week . Service, »rvy Wednesday p. m. Ladies’ Aid a«u ionary Sotiiatjr meets on Uonc " tha Mco^ , Saadety in eucb c. A cordial invitation ex. A Church Home for vigi strangers. t ta all. -•dfot PRESBYTEE^AN CHDRCH. Rev. Donald Mclver Pastor, i Services every Sunday at 11:00 a. j and 7:30 p, m. Sunday School at 8:4S a. m. B. B.'J Sellars, SuperintendaDt. * Prayer Meeting, Wednesday at Tjle ! p. m. The public is cordially invited to ali services. BAPTIST CHUBCH. Rev. Manm W. Buck, PattKr. Sunday Worship, 11:00 a. m., acdl ?:3S) p. m. I Sunday School at 9:80 a. m. i. L.I Scott, Superintendent. I Praise and Prayer Serrices, Wadna»-( day, at 7:80 p. m. 1 Christian Culture Clasii, Satur^y •tl 3:00 p. m. Church Conference, Wednetday b«l«. first Sunday of eaek roontli, 7jl p. m. pbaervance at Lord's Supper, Sntj 8uitday !b each month. I Woman’s Union, first Monday ef aackl mcnth, S:S9 p. m. THB SI£THODIST PR0TSSTAN1 CHUBCa Eaet Daria Street. Rev. Georce L. Curry, Paitor. Services: Morning, il;00 Evenins, tjS. Prater Meeting, Wednesday evanlagc.. Ladies' Aid and Missionary Soeie^aa every Monday afternoon after irsi Sunday ir. each month. Smtdsy School, »:30 o. m. J. G. *osr- ers. Superintendent. Good Baraca and Philathea Classen, You ar£ invited to atteixi all the£A M. E. Cai'RCH, .SOU'. FRONT STREET. Rev. D. H. Tuttle, Pastor. Prcacliiiig Bvery Sunday morning avd evsiiinp. Sunday School. 9:30 a. nu W. E. Sharpe, Superintendent. Prayer Service, Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Epworth League, 7:00 o’ctsek «v«ry Su.nday evening. M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH. WEBB AVENUE. Hev. Frank B. Noblett, pastor. Preaching every first Sunday at 11:0« a. ni., and 7:30-p. m. Secosd Sno- day at 7:30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at * H. P. Moore. Superintendent. t Everybody welcome. CHURCH DIRECTORY j REFORMED CHURCH, Corner Front and Anderson Straits. REV. D. C. COX, Pa.itor. Sunday School every Sabbath at 9:45 A. M. Preaching every First and Thiid Sab bath at 11:00 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. Mid-Week Serrice every Wednesday, 8:00 P. M. Everyone Welcome. Parsonagft Comer Front and ’TtoUiD- ger SbiettM. MACEDONIA LUTHERAM CHURCH. Front Street. Rev. T. S. Brow», Pastor. Morning Ser«--!e* at 11:00 n, a l\o services on third Sundays. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Prof. B. Robertson^ Superintendent. Teachers’ Meeting Wednesday, 7:8 p. m. (Pastor’s Study). Woman's Missionary Society, firatj Thursday in every month at >:8 p. m, L. C. B. Society, second VuaniKf every month at 3:36 p. in. Luthar League, second asd SvBdaya at t:09 ». m. Vaqwra at S;M «.
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