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r. I 1 THE MORNING HERALD, AUGUST 25, 1915. 1 PAGEITVE T n 1 U IniUUUUUOU See Us for Your obacco Flues n) Best Quality Lowest Prices WILL REMEDY m t More Funds and Better Mor al Support Will Come from Campaign. and j1 ans Hardware Store NEAR FIVE POINTS OF COMMERCIAL CLUB More Funds With Which to Work Will Mean More Work Will Be Done jj ZTWHER.E CROWDS GOrTjil jj His. Beloved Violin Murdock McQuar- rie in a two-reel Big U drama a pow erful story. The Elephant Circus A fine vaudeville act and little people in fur (Ditmar's Educational.) . Cupid Fixer A Nestor Comedy that will drive the blues away. COMING TOMORROW DRIVEN BY FATE A three reel Imp Drama featur ing Violet 'Mersereau and William Gar wood. Also tomorrow, The reel of pic tures that was made in Charlotte and in which the winners in the free-trip contest features, alluding .Miss Blanche llerndon, ' of Durham. 51 PH R LAYS Pc LUX.t WrZJMA 2- FOUNDED 183S. CHARTERED IN 1859. TRINITY COLLEGE. DURHAM, N. C. A Southern College of liberal arts with an established national reputa tion for high standards, noble traditions, and progressive policies. Its large endowment fund makes possible its fl rst-class equipment and large faculty of well trained and carefully chosen teachers. Student fees low. Comfort able, inexpensive rooms In carefully supervised hygienic dormitories. Classical. and scientific courses leading to the bachelor's degree. Grad uate courses In all departments. Schools of Engineering, Education ana ll'JV. JtoFor catalogue and Illustrated bookl et address 1898- -THE TRINITY PARK SCHOOL- -1915 "Why is the commercial club to be enlarged and revitalized?" was the question a Herald reporter put to Mr. N: 'E. Green, manager of the local BlackweH-Durham tyranch of the American .Tobacco company, in an interview yesterday. Mr. Green, who is a director o.f the club and active in the new move ment, replied at some-length. He said: "The commercial club is hand icapped in two ways; first, by lack of funds; second, by lack of proper mor al support. The second impediment has been the natural outgrowth of the first. The coming campaign will rem edy both faults. There is no ques tion but what the American city bu reau will succeed here as elsewhere. Every man who is not a member of the commercial club, yet who should be, will be, made a member of the club if it lies within human power. livery present member who is not a live, aggressive worker for the club and for Durham, will be made a worker, and a credit to the organiza tion." "An organization of this kind," he continued, "becomes the 'trouble de partment' of every citizen, the clear ing house for all suggestions and ideas. The chronic kicker is con verted by its mechanism into a really useful citizen, because it directs his energy intelligently. "Without this commercial club who will see, that the whole city of Durham is not exploited for the sel lish interests of a fc-w? Who will keep his finger upon the pulse of the nation and say when it is time foi Durham to take advantage 6f the big opportunity which now and then comes to every city? Outside of the real estate man, who is there to re ceive and negotiate with a new comer .relative to the location of an industry or ousiness ot any Kind.' Who is there to take such a party in hand and give him the truth about the city, present it to him in a favorable but impartial light and devote to him whatever time all of this calls for? "Tho proof of the pudding is always in the eating. A look over the com mercial field discloses the fact that every progressive city has an organ ization of this kind. It may not b called a commercial club, it need not he, but its functions are the same: Ii is the champion and safeguard of pub lie affairs. "The old saying that in union there is strength is as true today as it was when the Homan father taught, the lesson to his vigorous sons by invit ing them to break a bundle of sticks and when they had failed, untied the bundle and . broke the sticks singly across his knee. "The commercial club should1 bo and will be the strong and effective union of the business and professional men and women of Durham, to pro tect its welfare and to promote it traua. vvnen JJuniain prospers we all- prosper. The commercial club, operating under proper conditions can make Durham prosper." THINKS WAR SPIRIT IN AMERICA IS DKAU. SIK SCENERY. Located on the campus of Trinity College. Faculty of well trained men of tiucccssful experience as teachers. Special individual attention given by masters to students. For health Ioca tion unexcelled. Well equipped study liii'I under a master. Excellent build ings and beautiful grounds. Every efci.Tt exerted to make the school an ideal homo for boys. Expenses rea ro'iable. For catajoguc address V. W. I'EELE, Headmaster, Durham, N. C. Six Silver Plated Ice Tea Spoons ...... O Q fl fl Six Engraved Ice Tea Tumblers V U II U LOOK IN OUR WINDOW. Snider-Wilcox-Fletcher Comp'y In Opening Play at Academy "When Dreams Come True." The last word in scenery has been spoken by Philip Dartholomae, au thor of "When Dreams Come True," which come to the Mr. Bartholomac announces that in the ballroom episode the scene is painted, not on the canvas of com merce, but on Bilk. He says that thereby he has attained a certain lighting effect of unquestioned beauty and effectiveness. Mr. liartholomae, be it known, is equipped with one fortunate advant age carefully kept away from most makers of manuscript, lie is rich. He ca nwrite checks on s.Ik if he wants to. Let this not be taken to mean that only his wealth makes it pos sible for him to get in the limelight. He is the author and producer of "Overnight" and "Little Miss Brown," both successes which have increased his bank account, and he is the pro ducer of a number of vaudeville acts equally successful. However, when one sets out to make scenery the possession of a bank balance is a d.stinct aid ot art and the uplift. In addition to the silk set the play also reveals three other complete scenic offerings all shown in three acts. London, Aug. Z'. Writing in the Daily Mail, Sydney Brooks, who has lived a great deal in the United States, says that a friend . returning from America tells him the) most pop ular song there now is, "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier." Mr. Brooks quotes the song and continues: - Behind the sentiments expressed in this city there is rallied, in 'my judg ment, a force of American opinion such as has never yet in any country been devoted to the cause of peace peace at any price, peace regardless of justice and Rational dignity and rights. I do not, of course, mean to imply that this instinctive abhorrence of war, of any war and all -wars, of war in itself and apart from all questions of right and wrong, is as yet the dom inant feeling of the country. All Americans are pacifists just uow, but the minority that sets the preservation of peace above any oth er consideration whatsoever, while a larger minority than has ever been known in any other land, is still a mi nority. Most Americans will go far and even very far to avoid war. But they will not go any lengths. When I first went to the United States, all but twenty years ago, 1 found a country that for the dropping of a hat would have gone to war with Great Britain over a few hundred square miles on the borders of Vene zuela.. I found a country eminently high spirited, rather given to making in ternational mountains out of mole hills, not without a decided strain of bellicosity in its composition, apt to detect, "enemies" and "crisis" where none existed, swift, as it showed in Cuba, to cut with the sword a tangle that could not otherwise be unravell ed, and not in the least afraid to meet and tackle the responsibilities of expansion. That America is certainly not dead. It may not even be slumbering. Kut very obviously it is not the America which is now in the ascendant.- It it; not the) America which finds itself to day represented in the white house or in congress or in the foreign poli cy or the preponderant popular opin ion of the country. The United States at this moment is more pacifist than ever before in its history. Nor is its pacifism mere ly the reaction from the horrors and waste of the European war. It is a movement of thought and sentiment that within the last four or five years has made a sudden and an extraor dinary advance. A phenomenon so striking in its contrast to the pres ent state of the old world and ce novel in American experience is worth illustrating and worth, if possible, ex plaining.' For tho past four years Mexico hrs been ground iby civil war into an archy. The United States is Me? co's immediate neighbour. It pos sesses three rights whTch hitherto have been held to justify the inter vention of one country in the inter nal affairs of another the fight to tial affairs of another the light to suppress contagious chaos, and the right of a strong people to rescue a weak one from being crushed by mur derous factions into bankruptcy and starvation. In addition there is im posed upon the United States gov ernment by the recognized and pe culiar obligations of the Monroe doc trine the. duty of safeguarding the lives and property of foreigners. These rights the United istatos has deliberately refrained from ex ercising. This duty with equal de liberation it has Sailed to discharge. And there cannot be much doubt thai the passivity of the government lias had the support of the great majori ty of the American people. They shrink from going into Mexi co not merely because of its cost or its difficulties or the aftermath of responsibilities, or its effect upon Spanish-American onininn out lie- cause, above all things, they do not regard intervention as morally jus tified. Tho president himself told them. only a few months ago that it was none of his business and none ot heirs how long the Mexicans took n settling their domestic affairs or how much blood they spilled in the process. '1So far as my influence goes," he declared, "whilo I am president, no body shall interfere with them." Americans have been killed in Mcx- co, have been captured and held for ransom, their homes have heon loot- d, their crops destroyed, their cat tie and horses stolen, their industries and properties to the value of many hundreds of millions have been ruift-ed. eimeti SpMs II! Mrs. Florence Peace and daugh ter. Miss Gladys Peace, of Crecdmoor, passed through yesterday for Klo.n college where the latter is to enroll In the falL Miss Alene Pattion spent several hours in this city yesterday witfi Iriemls while returning to her home at Greensboro Irom a trip to Seven Spriugs. f I But to all appeals for protection their government has ansvered in effect that the interest and response bility of the United States ceased, when they crossed the Rio Grande. In the same way the treaties be tween the two countries have been torn to shreds, the remonstrances ,ui l the personal emissark-s dispatched by the president have been openly in sulted. Still the United States govern ment has held its hand, nnd th American people answer all criticisms! of Mr. Wilson's policy by gratefully j reflecting that he has kept the ; peace. J I do not in the least criticise cither his attitude or theirs. I am only ; trying to set it forth as it is, to mak-1 1 clear the moral principle behind it. : and to show how far it is removed ; Irom the spirit that governed Anieri , can policy even as recently as mo Roosevelt ian era. ! For what emerges 'from a study of Mr. WiUon's Mexican policy is the conviction that the United States ai- , proaches international emergence s from a different ethical standpoint, with a different conception of tin meaning of national honor and inter- . ests, and with a still more widely di:- $5, 4 and 3.50 Trimmed Hats for 59c 12 l-2c Gauze Vests now 3 for 25c $8, 7.50 and 6 00 Dresses - Choice $1.98 $6 and 7.50 Long Linen Auto Coats for $1.98 $5 to 2.50 White Washable and Silk Waists $1.00 New torduroy Tamo' Shanters - 50 and 75c Rose and Blue Silk Sweaters, New, $5.50 19 Crepe Kimonas were $1.25, now 79c Table full of Choice Remnants Waists for 19c, $1.25 Dresses, 50c KRONHEUMER: ferent estimate of the value and mol ality of force in human affairs, from thoso which obtain among the -governments of Europe. - Unquestionably the ' idealism which operates so strongly in the American people, their remoteneSH from ,1110 broils and fierce juxtaposi tions1 of the old world, the security afforded them by their distances and their geographical position, the spa cious, tranquil and unhampered at mosphere in which they !iv, the un precedented mixture of race:? which, spread over their vast area, has made it difficult to evolve a vivid national consciousness .the needs and. oppor tunities of material development which necessarily absorb so much of their time and thought, (heir dread oi encouraging sectionalism at home by a conlliett with a lluropeaii power claiming kinship with many millions of their citizens, and above nil the urim lesson that this struggle h?s taught them of the realities or mod ern war unquestionably all these factors make tin; Americans lace any issue, of war or peace irom a point of view uniquely their own. Twenty years ago the United States would hardly- have -negot iated oyer the sinking of the I.usitania and tho' murder of more than a hundred American citi.eris. Tl would have been beside itself .with irenzy. To day it manifests a horror and indig nation that even in three sho"r. months have lost much of Uio'r force1. Twenty, yeais ago it would hav: known how to deal with any Kiip.j. pean government that ignore:! mo.-:' of its demands for reparation and guarantei s and rejected the rest. To day, while anxious and perplexed, it. resolutely seeks the peac iul way cut. Til old belligerency :s dead and if, in spite of all their i fforts.. the Americans are drawn into !!: war. it will be in noj spirit of. Chau vinism or adventure but simply and solely under the ompuKioii of a do ry that, however distasteful, could not be shirked. Mrs. R. J. Machcn. of Mecklenburg, passed through yesterday for Eloii college. Miaker of Munitions. Should a foreign enemy get a foot hold in Atueriearu could "accomprsh what the insane bomb thrower failed to do hold J. P. Morgan and his folk Ji'istage. Morgan's house ought to be able to pry a heavier indemnity than all of little Belgium. If it were not Jhat the payment of tribute would fi nally be taxed on the poor household er, it ndght not be a bad idea for someone with the power to do it, to levy upon the big . fortunes of certain Americans. Should Germany 'dec do that war with the United States would be desirable, that decision would come largely because of the fact that our manufacturers have accumulated a huge surplusage of g ild through furiiishiuent of arms to the enemy of the Teuton. The man ufacturer who stands on his unques tionable, right to sell ammunition to any who comes to buy and now ig nores the popular desire that we do' not become an arsenal for the allies, would be the man to float the huge American loan to equip tho men of this country to fight in caao of war. Why Condemn the Carpenter WHEN HIS SUCCESS LIES ENTIRELY IN YOUR SELECTION OF A MILL CAPABLE OF EXECUTING CORRECTLY HIS IDEAS. 0 Why Condemn the Architect WHEN HE IS DELAYED AND HANDICAPPED BY POOR MILL AND LUMBER SERVICE Why Condemn the Contractor ) WHEN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO PRO DUCE AN ARTISTIC JOB WITHOUT PROPER MA TERIAL AND MILL WORK. INSIST ON DEALING WITH A FIRM WHOSE RE LIABILITY HAS BEEN PROVEN BY THE SUCCESS OF THEIR CUSTOMERS. Everything in Lumber from the Pillars to the Roof. Yard on Milton Avenue. Phone 174.
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