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MEBANE LEADER “And Rig^ht The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter V'ould be Sin. Vol 4. MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1913 No 89 : i price good !, you Ithings We Ir little ITOFE LSOiiable icos, len and you see )ds. had in in men, other. iL «. C. rd in ion to =RIE Notice to Tobacco Farmers At a called meetinjr of the Mebane Tobacco Board of Trade on lust Wednesday the 17th it was decided on, to begin the daily sales of Tobacco beginning October 1st. promptly at 10 o’clock A. M. instead of at 11 as ill the past Our farmer friends we are ready to receive you any hour of the day you get here but be? to urge that you get here promptly in time to sell your to bacco by 10 o’clock, that will give you time in which to get your money from the Bank, also to necessary trading. We have more room and better faci- hties for handing your tobacco than ever before. K \V. GRAVES, Sec'y. Treas. Mebane Tobacco Board of Trade Mebane, N. C-, Sept. 22nd 1913. At Mebane Tues. Sept. 30 Dr. S. Rapport of Durham will be at Mebane at thf Mebane Hotel Tues. Sept. 30lh, for one day onlj^ for ♦’he purpose of examing eyes and fitting R[lasse». If yo\i need any eyeglasses or spectacles he will furnish you the right kind at a moderate price. Bingham School items. In., roveinents at Bingham School- new members of faculty- old and new boys coming in. The session of 1913-14 .Bingham School at Mebane began Sep't^ 22. The faculty which is one of the best that has served the Institution in years is oil hand ready for work. Major L Saunders Gerow, Conrman- dant of cadets, is a distmguished grad uate of the Virginia Mili'a.'y Institute and was prominent in many lines at that institution. He is very popular with the cadets. (’apt. M. W. Hester, teacher of English, Latin and French, is a very prominent graduate ot the Citadel, the military college of South Carolina. He c anes to Bingham with the highest r-commendations in every line. Tapt. Allen Huffman, the new teacher of Music, is already much tinught of. He teaches wind, band and stringed instruments, vocal music and piano, and has had a wide-experi ence covering a number of years in orchestra and band work, his special instruments being violin and piano. Cadet Capt. Kesler Cobb and Cadet Adjutant Charles B. McCutchen will be instructors at Bingham this year. Both have been leaders at the Institu tion for some years. Mr. Henry Blanchard who is one of the best baseball players in the Soath, will coach the baseball team, and Mr. Max Zielminski, who has made a fine record in football, will take charge of the football squad. Extensive improvements are now going on at Bingham A first class electric light system is being installed. The best quality of Madza lamps have been put in as they have t)een found to be the best for purposes of students and have been so recommended by the Boston Public School Committee on lighting. The very best shades have also been purchased. Col. Gray has also had a number of grate>; made and is expecting later in the fall *0 install coal grates in place of the former method of heating which has been in use Sunday night the Young Men’s Christian Association had a very en joyable and interesting meeting. Mr. James Holmes, President of the University Y. M. C. A., was present and made an exceedingly helpful ^dress. Mr. Holmes is an old Bingham a;:d was warmly welcomed at the school. The Bingham Y. M. C A., will send a delegation to the State Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion to be held at Durham October the first. Out In Kansas. Word comes from Kansas that dur ing the first six years of prohibition in that State, ir.sr.n'ty has decreased slightly over 16 per cent, or about one in six, as a direct roFult of the greatly decreased use of a’cohol in all forms General increased efficiency is claimed all along the Ifne, but-it is very hard to determine cxactly the amount cred itable to prohibition. Good for Kan sas. Our own sb;tistical experience satisfies us that Kansas is not faking on us. Other states wiU continue to “get wise” and “get on the water wag on” from time to time, and alcoholism, like yellow fever and plague,, will be come largely a matter of record, Mrs, Pankhurst’s Coming: Among woman-suffragists the coming of Mrs. Pankhurst is awaited with misgivings. the foremost exponent of methods of violence, it is easy to foresee, the British militant is.likely to hurt more than help the cause of equal rights in this country. Much will depend upon the attitude maintained toward her by the American leaders of the movement. Thev have to deal with a public which has no sympathy with arson and bombs, and which is yielding more and more readily to * orderly agitation and appeals to common sense. Even that .section ot local suffragists most disposed to idolize Mrs. Pank- hurst is careful to explain that in tendering her a dinner it “in no way inrplicates its Executive Board or its members in any approval of the use of physical fo»*ce in political revolution.” This leaves it somewhat in doubt whether they believe that “physical force” is good only for Englishmen, or whether it is good for neither English men nor Americans. As a rebel Mrs. Fankhurst is to be welcomed; as a defender of incendiarism sh«» is not to be judged.—New York World, To Raise a Million for Salvation Army Gen. Bramwell B'H)th, head of the Salvation army of the world, is sodin to come to New York. During hjs vis it to America he will vissit the princi p»l cities. He will make a wnsider- able stay in Chicago The exact date of his aifrivat has not yet been fixed, but Will be not later than November. The purpose of his visit, beyond an inspection of the army in America is to take part in a whirlwind campaign to secure $1,000,000 to build the two memorials to the founder of the Sai*; vat on army, the late Gen. William Booth. The money campaign in which Gen. BramWell Booth will take part have their centers in Chicago and New York. Training schools costing $500,- 000 are to be erected in each city. One thousand men, friends of the army and willing to give it part of their tinr.e, will take a week in an effort to round up the entire $1,000,000. The sum of $220,000 already has been secured, and it is hoped that $200,000 will be secured from the churches of tne country. A scheme to get every church to send in $5 has not, hoY/ever, aroused much enthus iasm or brought in as much money as expected. A big mass meeting to welcome Gen. Booth is being ai ranged for Carnegie hall. New York City. Gen. Booth will be the chief speaker and wlli in augurate the campaign in New York to complete its purt ot the $1,000,000 fund. > It is commonly supposed that popular interest in the question ef a future existence has declined. In fact it was never keener in the days of orthodox belief. What has declined is interest in theological disputes and doclrinal quibbles. But there is eager attention to every hypothesis of science that seems to lessen the gulf between the known and the unknown, to any discov ery in atomism or in the nature of the elements that appears if only for the time being to supply a key to the future. Will science yet bridge the interval between fact and faith? Sir Oliver Lodge says that “gradually we may hope to attain some understanding of the nature of a larger, perhaps ethe real existence, and of the . conditions regulating intercourse across the chasm.” And he is convinced that “personality persists beyond bodily death.” It is these vipws announced by a man of the highest scientific attainments in a time of increasing scepticism that give his discussion of a speculative subject its importance to the reading Public.— New York Work. A Helpless Graduate Qirl. Recentfy^we heard of a girl who has graduated, in one of the State High Schools. Took th« course laid down by the Department of E^ducatlon. She had spent months and months pouring over Latin and Geometry in order to graduate. She knew then what she wanted to do—that is be a teacher in primary work, and yet during all her high school course, made according to order, she had not been giyen one hours instruction in the woik she was to do after she left the high school. Now id not our school course, made to order a travesty on the maxim “Learn to do by doing.” There is,' sonr.ething radically wrong with any course of study that does not prepare a boy or girl to do what will have to be done. by them when they leave school The girl referred to will be in primary school this winter doing something she does not know how to do, and what a great injustice has been done the girl and what a greater wrong has been done the children in her care and somebody is responsible for this. — From Catawba County News. *& TO RAIIBOAD RATES May Turn Down The Prop osition From the Railroads The Greeniboro News says: The special legislative freight rate commission, consisting of E J. Justice, ol Greensboro, W. B. Council, of Ca tawba, and N. B, Broughton, of Raleigh will meet in Greensboro to consider the latest proposal of the railroads relative to the frei^t rate situation and to submit to Governor Craig a report the* It is believed that the report will be unfavorable. Mr. Justice, wuen seen refused to make a statement for the publication, on the ground that it would be of doubtful propriety for him to discuss in advance a report that will be submitted to the governor, but little doubt remains that the proposition, as submitted, will l>e reject^ by the commission on the ground that it gives no assurance T>f any substantial relief. The railroads* new proposition, in so far as it relates to rates from eastern points, is contingent on the consent of various connecting lines. These railroads the state has no interest in and no shadow of control over. Moreover, the proposition, if accepted, will stop the state from taking any action adverse to the railroads on account of a dispute over interstate rates. These two stipulations, in the opinion of many, including President Tate, of the Just l«'reight Rate association, render the new proposition not merely valueless to the shippers ot the state, but an actual disadvantage, inasmuch as it ties their hands for a period of^t least two years Willie’s Reason That the average youngster is usually there -vith a ready reason was demon strated the other day by a story told by Congressman John R. Walker of Idaho, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. The family was gathered in the den of a happy little home in an Elastem t jwn. Father was reading the sporting page, mother was embroidering pink sunflowers and Willie was supposed to be getting his lessons, but Willie wasn’t “Willie,” suddenly exclaimed mamma ooking up from her embroidery, “have you studied your geography lesson?” “No, ma’am, ” was the fr&nk rejoiner of Willie, who was listening to some thing that sounded like great joy from the street. “You haven’t?” severely responded mother. “Well, why haven't you?” “Because,” exclaimed Willie, “papa says that the map of the world is chang ing every day, and I thought that would wait until things got settled bit.” The first person to be arrested un- ^61* Wisconsin’s anti-gossip law is a Is this to be taken as a vindica tion or as illustration of the discreation which is the better part of valor ' the officials charged with enforcement of the law. Construe it as you please we pa -.i. The Answer A soldier crossing the barrack square 'vith a pail met a sergeant, who notic- that Pat was wearing a very dis reputable pair of trousers, intending J* report him for unsolierly appearance 6 stopped him and asked; Wheee are you going? T ’ get some water, sor,” answer ed Pat. ^ VVhnt, in those trousers?” “No, sir, in the pail.”—New York ulobe. Why The Ring Was Given Back / “So your engagement isbroKen off?” said the girl in gray. “Yes,” replied the girl in brown, frowning at the recollectior. “What was the matter?” “He basely deceived me. You see, it was this way. I asked him one day to promise me that he would never again smoke cigarettes. He promised. Then I asked him to refrain from the use of tobacco in any form. He promised to do that. Later, ■ I told him 1 had a horror of any one who touched liquor, and he agreed never to touch it. After that I suggested tl'at 1 thought the clubs had a bad influence on young men, and I should expect him to give them up, and he said he would.” “Well you didn’t ask much of him, but I suppose he deceived you in the matter?” “Oh, no! I could have forgiven that. But just when I was congratu lating myself that I at , last had re formed my young man, I found that he didn’t need any reforming. He positively was not addicted to any one of the bad habits I made him promise to abandon. It was a terrible shock, and I broke off tha engagement right away. There was no longer anything in it to make it interesting!” Keep The Fairs Clean. . Several state fairs are open to se> vere criticism because of the character of seme of the so-called attractions. Wholesome amusement and entertain ment have a large legitim nte place on fair programs. Low vaudeville and suggestive and indecent sideshow ex hibitions have no place in an institu tion which caters to the general public and least of all in a state fair. Public opinion condemns these insti tutions as neither necessary nor de sirable features of a state fair. The only reason advanced for their contin uance is that they bring a certain rev enue to the fair trea.sury.. This does not justify the condition in the eyes of the great agricultural masses. Pub lic gambling, the sale of liquor, and in decent, suggestive or fake sideshows should be vigorously excluded from every fpir ground. Li^t of Letters Advertised For the week ending Sept. 20 1913. 1 Letter for Mrs. Tanie Sykes 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 These Card “ Mrs. Lenora Roundtree “ Mrs. Aimie Jones “ Mr. Garfield Crawford “ Mr. J. J. Baird " Mr. J H. Therrell ** Mr. Hubert Richmond “ Mr. V. F. Jones “ Mrs. M. E. Dodson “ Miss Mailha Woodin letters will be sent to the DANVILLE BOOSTER CLUB. Editorial-iNew York Wcrld September 11, 1913. It is easy to criticistr particular schedules of the Underwood-Simmons tariff. It is easy to ci-iticise particular schedules of any tariff. But what ever may be the faults of the Under wood-Simmons measure, it is an honest tariff, enacted by a free Congress. Its mistakes are honest mistakes. Its shortcomings are honest short comings. Its errors of judgment are honest errors of judgment. This tariff was framed in the open, not in secret. Its schedules were not prepart'd by special interests seeking their own private profit and accepted by subservient committees. Its rates were not manipulated by lobbies niasqueradmg in the guise of disinter ested patriots. It was not bought and paid for in campaign contributions* No membar of Congress who helped pass it was engaged in manipulating the stock market while he was manipulating the schedules. It is the firat tariff in fifty years which was passed by the representati ves of the peoplo. and not by the rep resentatives of privilege and plutocracy. President Wilson describes the contest as “a fight for the people and free business which has lasted a long generation.” It wrs even more than that. It was a fight for honest repre sentative government. The interests that framed the Mc Kinley A!c had no share in the Under wood-Simmons bill. The Gormans and the Smiths who mutilated the Wilson bill had no opportunity to mutilate the Underwood-Simmons bill. The men who bought the Dingley tariff from Mark Hanna found no market^n the Sixty-third Congress. The protected extortionists who persuaded the Repub lican Party to commit suicide with the Payne-Aldrich bill had a different kind of Administration to deal with this time. The National Association of Manufacturers who “accelerated" poor Taft’s Tariff Board had to deal with a President who publicly denounced the lobby. They had also to meet an exposure of their methods in The World’s Mulhall revelations which have destroyed the most complete conspiracy that special privilege ever organized for the secret control of government. Differences of opinion in regard to particular schedules become insignifi cant in comparison with the spirit and manner in which the Sixty-third Congress has dons its work. Regard less of all criticisms of rates and clause?, this bill marks in tariff-making the actual lestoration of government of the people, by the people and for the people in all that the term implies. Tariffs come and tariffs go, but a free Congress is the highest manifestation of republican Iself-govemment. Organization Of Young Business Men Are Doing Good Work. In this issue of the Leader appears an advertisement of the Danville Booster Club, an organization of young business men of Danville, Va., setting forth the advantages cf the city as a trading center. The club conducted a “Booster Trip” last April, seventy-five business men spending four days on a special train visitin{2 many nearby towns and getting acquainted with the people. The plan of advertising this Fall includes a ten weeks campaign in all the newspapers in the territory. The aim of the Boosters is to develop community spirit, and closer businpss and social relations between the city and the surrounding country. The idea being to. buy in Danville what you cannot buy at home, and to market your products in Danville where the best prices are obtained. Danville is the largest loose leaf bright tobacco market and has ten big warehouses in operation this year. Mr. Jas. I. Pritchett, Jr., is presi dent and Mr. W. A. Moorman is sec retary of the Booster Club. WARNiNG TO PUBLIC. Keeping The Faith. Not before in nearly seventy years has a tariff-reform bill bien steered through the Senate with so slender a party majority behind it. Kot before in this time has so slender a majority s.) firmly resisted all temptation to break the party’s pledges and faith. Whether the Underv.ood bill has been greatly Improved by the Sena e’s an.enuments is a debatable question. Some of th€3e amendmei t j, such as the one taxing cotton futures, seem to have no legitimate place in a measure of this kind and ought to be eliminated in conference. The increased duty on •lodern art we regard as indefersible. None the less, the Democratic majority in the Senate deserves a vote of confi dence and congratulation from the American people. It has done what the party set out to do. It has helped the House revise the tariff downward. With only one vote to spare after the Sugar Dem ocrats had taken their proper place w.th the Republicans, the Democratic Democrats held together regardless of all external pressure from sections that demanded special privileges and from interests that demanded special privileges. There is no Gorman-Smith scandal to blast the reputation of the party and give the lie to the verdict at the polls. There is no tariff bill that a Democratic President is compelled to denounce as “party perfidy and dishonor.” Senator Simmons has done in the senate what Mr. Underwood has done in the House, and both of them have effectually disposed of the myth that a Democratic Congress is incapable of keeping its promises or of legislating intelligently. It is no injustice to either of them to say, however that this work could not have been accomplished with out the leadership of President Wilson. He has weathered the decisive test of a Presfdent and can lay before the country the conclusive proof that he tas a united working party back of him. This is something that Mr. Cleveland could never do. It is some thing that no Democratic President since Jackson has been able to do And Mr. Wilson has done it without threats or intimidation or bluster and without bribes of patronage. His victory is the victory of an unwavering appeal to principle, fortified by honesty, intilli- jjence and sincerity. On the other hand, it is no injustice to the President to say that he could not have accomplished what has been accomplished except for the intelli gence and patriotism of House and Senate Democrats who were determined that their party should wipe out the stain of the Gorman-Smith tariff. It is a great party victory that has been won, but it is infinitely more than a great party victory. It is a great public victory. It is a great victory for responsible, representative govern ment, and it ought to give the American people new faith in the integrity ot their institutions. —New York World. Wilkes Connty Men in Mexico. Dead Letter Office Oct. 4 1913. If not ailed for. In calling please .give date of list. Respt. J. T. Dick, P. M. Mebane, N. C. See Dr. Rapport at Mebane at the Mebane Hotel, Tues. Sept. 30th. Eyes need glasses and it is unwise to “put off” to-day when you must wear them. Graceful submission at the first indication of need of glasses is the safe and sensible way.« (From The Wilkes Patriot.) Messrs. Henry and Robert Ogilvie formerly of this county, but who for several years, have been holding po sitions with a large mining concern at Chihuahua, Mexico, have been, hU along, at one of the centers of activ ity, during the troublesome war times in Mexico. The mines have been clos ed down for some time, but they and two others are alone remaining there, looking after the mine’s property, They have have been cut of from out side communication, even the malls being ^rried only at infrequent inter vals, b^he casual automobile travelers Department of Agriculture Would Have You Eat What You Want. Beware of freak diets and of fakers calling themselves food experts; eat what you want when you feel like it, giving attention to clean and whole some cooking. This is the official advice of the De> partment of Agriculture, in a warning to the public issued last week as a re^lt of an Investigation just finished bjr Government specialists into the operations of self-styled “experts in dietetics.” • “Some of the advocates of freak diets are sincere,” says the warning. * ‘Others are fakers who seek to make monetary gain by advising peculiar 'systems of diet. Neither class can of fer trustworthy advice. “Much of supposed scientific advice now being sold for a price is really little more than folklore. A greac many of the statements which are used as arguments by the experts for their diets have been traced by the Government specialists and found to come from works on diet written so long ago as to be no longer considered of value except to the student of the history of dietetics.” Trouble of The Coming Year (From Le Cri de Paris.) Old Moore, who is listened U) in London as Madame de Thebes is at Paris, predicts for each year the politi cal happenings Usually his prophecies are made in November or December. This year he has advanced the date. His predictions are none the happier. He announces for the first third of the year 1914 a great sorrow in the royal family and in the last third of the death of a great personage whose disappearance will convulse the whole country After this an eminent mem ber of the English Cabinent will also be “(he victim of an attemptcid assassina tion.” other nations will be no less troubled. He predicts earthquakes in the United States, violent windstorms, in undations, explosions of mine damp and epidemics. France and Germany, says Old Moore, will be on the point of coming to blows, and will only stop on the threshold of war. As for China she will be inundated with blood. A single ray of light brightens this black horizon. Old Moore promises victory to the suffragettes, who will besiege the British Parliament, he says, in March or April. Chas. I Stewart, editor of the Enid (Okla.) Morning New?^ announces his candidacy for the United States Senate froTB Oklahoma to succeed Senator Gore. Stewart is a native of North Carolina. (Charlie Stewart, as we always call ed him, did his first newspaper work on the Twin City Daily at Winston as an employer of present editor of The Mebane Le..der.) Preparing for the Worst. After staying in Washington and perspiring ail summer to get tj fight tariff revision and currency reform, the republican senators are sending home for their winter clothes so the democrats won’t be able to freeze their out. It is pathetic evidence that republican senators will stick to their trust, till it freezes over so dives can get out on the ice and skate, —Wilming ton Star. ; I' > '
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