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- v :T -V;;- - 1 i . . i; 1 - FOUNDE -A.D O 67 VOL. XCIII NO. 3 2. WILMESTGTON,- K. C, SUKJ3AY MOMEfG, OCTOBER 5. 1913. WHOLE NUMBER 13,44 7, - J" --. - ' ' J- ' -' - ' 7. " SECOND SECTION PAGES 3 TO 14 HOW YOUNG DIXON WON SCHOOL MEDAL Being- the son of a great man isn't the' easiest job a (young man can have. Somehow the world in which he finds himself expects him to deserve a share in his father's glory, if only by reflection. It isn't easy, bot on" the other hand the position has its ' ad vantages -the father can always be relied upon to furnish the luminance necessary Tor the reflection. Thomas Dixon, 3rd, realizes all this. His father is the celebrated novelist and playwright, 'whose, works, "The Clansman," "The Leopard's Spots," "The Sins of the' Father," "The South erner," etc., have earned world-wide fame. (Mr. Dixon's own production of "The Leopard's Spots'" by the way, will be seen here at the Academy the evening of October 16th. Young Dixon "attended school at Pawling Institute, a famous New York academy, and tried in every way he coujd to be .worthy of the name he borej He succeeded very well in" be ing popular with his -classmates and his instructors, did something in ath letics and pursued his studies, with diligence. But the school really expected some , thing startling from Thomas. His father was one of the most talked of men in America, whose every publica tion, act or utterance created a sensa- tion. Surely his reflection should show something of this. It did. At Pawling, the announcement was made that the annual oratorical con test would be held on a certain date. The students were much excited over the prospect. What boy does not like to make speeches? Thomas Dixon, 3rd, entered the con test. He meant to win the medal, and started -his work of preparation by boarding br train for New York City. He went straight to his father whom he found in the throes of. composition, at work upon the manuscript of "The Sins cf the Father," It takes a brave man to invade the den of a literary lion , when he is like that, "but Tom had the courage, and in' he went. ; '" "Dad," he blurted, "they're going to give a medal at school for the best "speech, and I'm going to win it.' rou don t say , replied the novel- a punch, that will make cm sit up and take notice, eh? I have it! The very thing, boy," He began to rummage among the papers and manuscripts scattered about on his desk. He found what he was looking f&r and handed Tom some typewritten sheets. "This' ought to fill the bill," he said. "It's the best speech 1 even made, but one I have never delivered." . The boy read what his father had given him. - He recognized it. "Why, this is Gaston's speech, from 'The Leopard's Spots'!" he cried. - "Exactly," said the author, "and you shall have the honor of being the first one of the Dixons to utter it." , He laughed as new thought came to him. Before, a Northern audience, too. How do you likethe idea?" "It's the goods, dad," shouted the youngjjian. "Hurrah for Dixie! Hur rah for. Dixon! and .Hurrah for every thing that's got a pix on it!" He grabbed up bis uat and rushed back to school. The day of the contest came at last. Proud mothers and fathers, friends and. of course, sweethearts journeyed to Pawling to h?ar the speeches and to cheer on their favorites. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dixon, Sr., wore there. Seated well down in front tho famous author and his wife sat and wait ej for their young hopeful to come forth and orate. But Tom was foxy. All the Dixons have been good generals or stage managers and he was no exception. He believed in, letting the other fel low do the charging. He waited; held his fire. Some of the boys made splendid speeches and were cheered to the echo. The judges of the contest gave tbem high marks. . Mrs. Dixon began -to get nervous, fearing for her boy's success. Leaning over to her husband she whispered: "Oh, he'll never make it. I. wish he wouldn't speak, at all. They've already decided to give the medal to that last boy." "You just wait, mother," said Mr. Dixon, patting her hand reassuringly, "Just wait. Tom's all right." Finally Tom was announced and a thrill of anticipation went through the audience. The mother gripped her husband's hand hard. The young man rose. For a moment ist, reluctantly laying aside his penrne stood silent, waiting for tne ap "Yes, -I am," said the ? boy firmly, "I think , they kind of expect me to, and I've just simply got to make good for. your sake as, well as mine," he added significantly.' .; ,..;,v. y. .'"That's the proper spirit anyway, - said - the faihwc--But why do they' expect you to win?" ;-: . - v Well," replied Tom, a little - diffi dently, "you're about the best speech maker in these parts, and and I'm your son, and. I look like you, and oh, you know how it is, Dad." "Yes, I reckon I know how .it is, son," said the father, smiling at the boy's ingenious flattery. "What can I do to help you out?" The youngster thought a moment before replying. Finally he said: i "I want to give 'em something good, dad. Something with a punch in it, that'll make 'em sit up and take no tice. Say," he cried struck by a thought, "What was the best speech you ever made " Mr. Dixon looked at his son quizzi cally, his deep 'set eyes twinkling. "I suppose you want. to 'go and do like wise'?1.' he asked. "That's the idea," said young Tom. "You know it doesn't make any differ ence what kind of a speech it is, or whose, as long as I deliver it myself in the competition." "Yes," said the father gravely, "I think they would want you to do that much anyhow. Let me see, now," he went on "thoughtfully, "a speech with plause which greeted him to subside. Tall as he was, like his father, with the same piercing eye, the same grace ful , carriage and '. commanding pres ences - "Syhen he began tospeak his voice filled the hall so Ahat -each hear er could understand every word, ::s "Gentlemen of the convention," he began; '.'the question before you. is; 'Shall North Carolina with her centu ries of proud history North Carolina, the home and birthplace of American Democracy, sink at last, into the filth of Negroid corruption'?" At the conclusion of the first sen tence the audience was electrified. Every ear was strained so as not to miss a word. Tom's text had "made 'em sit up. and take notice." He went on: "What is our condition today in the dawn of the 20th centu ry?" Our State lies prostrate beneath the heel of the negro! Our city gov ernments are debauched by his vote his insolence threatens our woman hood and our children are beaten by negro toughs on their way to school. While we pay his taxes. Shall we tol erate negro inspectors of " these schools, negroes in charge of white in stitutions? Shall we tolerate the ar rest of white. women by negro officers and their trial before negro magis trates ? "Let the manhood of the white race, with its 4,000 years of history, answer these questions! Gentlemen, it is no longer a problem of bad government. REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH OF STEAMER AGROUND. Bag - J: x The steamer Mohawk, of the Manhattan Navigation Company, photographed' after it had run aground, six miles off Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson river, with more than 300 passengers aboard. All those on board were safely transhipped to' rescue boats. v - !We fag befiihet'the age, dragging this black corpse to -which he. are chain ed. Who shall deliver us from the body of this death? "Hear me, men of my race, Norman and xCelt, Anglo and Saxon, Huguenot and German martyr blood! We must rise, strike down the negro as a ruling power, and restore to our children their birthright! "Is the negro worthy to rule over you? A hundred years ago in Hayti and San Domingo he rose in servile insurrection and butchered 50,000 white men, women and children. He has ruled these beautiful islands since. Did he make progress with the exam- iple of white civilization before him? xno. mit yeEteraay we received re ports of. cannibalism in Hayti." Tom paused. He was delivering a speech that had made history and he wanted to note the effect it was hav ing on his hearers. They sat spell bound, it was something new for them, this problem, most of them w ere hear ing it for the first time; the judges' pencils lay idly in their laps they were forgetting to grade the young declaimer. wealth, virtue and intelligence of the community by the debased and the criminal is a return to barbarism to which no race of free men can submit. "Nations are made by men, not by paper constitutions and paper ballots. We are not free because we have a constitution. We have a constitution because our fathers, who cleared ine wilderness and 1 dared the might of kings, were freemen! it was in their blood-the evolution of centuries of struggle and sacrifice! "We grant the negro the right to lite, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness, if he can be happy without exer cising kingship over the white man, or dragging us down to his level. But if he cannot find happiness except in lording it over a superior race, then there is not room for us both on this continent!.. And we will fight it out on this liue, if it takes a hundred years, two hundred, five hundred or a thousand! It took Spain eight hun dred years to expel the Moors. But when the time comes the Anglo-Saxon can do in one century what the 'Span iard did in eight. "When I refer .to the negro's su- Tom continued: "A government of premacy, I use words in their , plain meaning. Negro supremacy, means the rule of a party in which negroes predominate. , "I call your attention to one typical county of over 40 thus degraded in this State the county of Craven, whose quaint old city was one the cap ital of the Commonwealth. What are the facts? Permit me, gentlemen, to read you the list of negro office hold ers of Craven county they include a Congressman, a. member of the Legis lature, a register of deeds, the city attorney, the coroner, two, deputy sheriffs, two county commissioners, a member of the school board, three road overseers, four constables, 27 magistrates, three city aldermen, and four policemen. There are 62 negro officials in this county of 12,000 inhab itants, ami their member of the Legis lature is a convicted felon.: The white people represent 95 per cent of the wealth and intelligence of the com munity, pay ,95 per cent of its taxes, and are voiceless in its government. "Would a county in Massachusetts submit to such infamy? Nof Will the children of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill demand such submis sion from the children of Washington and Jefferson? "I confess, I am in a sense narrow and provincial. I love mine own peo ple. Maudlin sentiment is the froth of civilization, as crime is its dregs. Race, and race-pride, are the ordoina anices of . life. A true citizen of the World loves his own country and his own people. ""So I canfess I love my people. I love the South. The stolid, silent South that sneers at paper-made poli cies and scorns public opinion. The South, old-fashioned, medieval, pro vincial, worshipping the dead; and raising men rather than making mon ey family-loving, hcme-building, tradition-ridden, if you please. The South, cruel and cunning, when fight ing a treacherous foe with brief vol-" canic bursts ol wrath and vengeance yes! The South eloquent, bombas tic, romantic, cnivairous, proud, kind and hospitable. The South, generous and reckless, never knowing her own interests, but living her own life in her own way.- Yes, I love her. In my. soul are all her sins and virtues. And with it all she is worthy to live. "The courage of the Celt, the no bility of the Norman, the vigor, of the Viking, the venergy of the Anglo, the tenacity of -the Saxon, the daring of the Dane, the gallantry of the Gaul, the Freedom of the Frank, the earth hunger of the Romans are all yours by the lineal heritage of blood, lrom sire and dame through centuries of culture. Will-you halt now, and sur render to a mob cf negroes? "I repeat: is the negro worthy to rule over you? Ask the history of the 3,000 years he has owned the conti nent of Africa. For centuries he has crunched acres of diamonds beneath his bare black feet, yet he never pick ed one up from the dust until a white man showed him its glittering light. His land swarmed with powerful and decile animals, yet he never dreamed a harness, cart or sled. A hunter by necessity, he never made a Weapon worth preserving beyond the moment of its use. He lived as an ox, content to graze for the hour. With league on league of ocean and miles of inland seas, for 4,000 years, he watched their surface ripple beneath the wind, heard the sweep of. the storm over his head, gazed on the dim horizon calling him to worlds that lie beyond, stole his food, worked his wife, sold his child ren, ate his brother, content to drink, sing, dance, and sport as the ape. And this creature, half child, half animal, tne sport ot impulse, whim and con ceit, pleased with a rattle. with a straw, whose speech knows no wora ol love, whose passions once aroused are as a tiger's. They have set this thing to rule over 'Southern manhood merciful God! It surpas ses human belief! "I ask you, my people, freemen, North -Carolinians, to rise today" and make good your right to live. ' The time' for platitudes is past. Let us, as men, face the world and say what we raean. v J "This Is a white man's government, conceived by white men, maintained by white men through every year of its nistory and by the God of our fathers, it shall be ruled by white men! If this is treason, let them that hear it make the most of it. From the eighth day Of November, we will not submit to negro domination anoth er day, another hour,, another moment. Back of every ballot is a bayonet, and the red blood of the man who holds it! Let cowards hear, and remember this. Man has never yet voted away his right to a revolution." Tom raised his hands high abpve his head and with ringing force de livered his concluding sentence. "Citizen kings, I call you to the con sciousness of your kingship." For a moment after he had finished there was silence the greatest trib ute to his powers an orator can: ex cite. . Then the storm broke. Cheer after cheer for Tom rang out ' from his schoolmates and round after round of applause from the visitors. It was n6t until after the conclu sion of the exercises that the judges (Continued on Page 14.) BUREAU SAVES MILLIONS During First Six Months of This Year Unique Bureau Brought About Decrease of 1850 Tuesday 4 1 the Worst Day. , (Special Star Correspondence.) New York, Oct. 4. That fire pre vention is a pronounced success is evi denced by the record of Gotham's new prevention bureau. Upon its estab lishment 77 inspectors were put on the job and they made 132,601 inspec tions. Resulting therefrom were 64 ar rests and 40 convictions. One of these firebugs- professionally known as "Izzy the Painter" -confessed to start ing 300 fires. During the first six months of 1193 there were 6,605 fires in New York and fire losses aggregat months of 1913 there were 6,605 fires and $5,819,001 of losses for the corre sponding period of 1912 ; showing a re-' duction in fires of 1,850 and in losses of $2,238,686. In this prevention bu reau has been worked up from com plete card records of every fire a sys tem of maps and charts that are most comprehensive and valuable and fur nish some curious and interesting fire figures. It appears as a regular thing that more fires tatae place on Tuesday than on any other day, January is the month of most fires, and Septem ber takes last place. The favorite fire hour is between 8 and 9 in the even ing and worth noting is the fact that Paris records show the same. Three years of fires have been tabulated un der this system and, strange to relate, the various sections, of the city all' show practically the same percentage of each year's fires. ". Penny lunches are being provided this year for all of the 25,000 or more hungry children attending New York's public schools by a felfare bureau which has recently been privately en dowed with the income from $1,000,-, 000. These lunches are served from a number of central kitchens located conveniently for taking care of from one to five schools each. For his pen ny the pupil receives a bowl of vege table soup with bread, which in itself is a well balanced meal. The younsr- tickledl sfter may also spend additional pen nies tor nome-made cookies, sand wiches, bananas, etc., but not until after partaking of the nourishing warm soup. The menus are, of course, va ried according to the different na tionalities served kosher food where Jewish children predominate, macaronj and menestra in Italian neighborhoods and so on. These "welfare kitchens have already put out of business most of, the basket and pushcart vendors of, cheap ., ,and , unwholesome candies and cakes, pink popcorn, pickles and similar trash, -which means that. the teachers' , medicine chests will from now on be less in play. The newest means of livelihood has been happily hit. upon by a bright New York woman who terms herself a "chaperone-chauffeuse." ' According to her story, when the necessity of choosing an occupation arose, she had no capital save her clothes and her auto. So fond was she of her car that, in thinking of ways and means of keeping it. she conceived the idea of making it pay for itself. The idea of chaperoning school girls, young wo men and out-of-town parties in shop ping and" helping them in whatever connection a car might be useful met :; with immediate response and her ser-1 vices were in such demand that the '.. very first month she cleared more than $500. Naturally other lines of service were found from time to time and now she has a busy and well paid staff , of highly intelligent young . Women who can not only run a car but are well informed and tactful, familiar with the shops, tearooms, hotels and (Continued on Page; Ten.) r Every Honorable Man Is Invited to Become a Charter Member of the New r r n tau uMp.gjii. iijm ; ... .ii ' : v. ..lull -ti"" -"rarrmtJi." yr rffrrrmcBBBaa urn Charter has been applied for, and when received, a meeting of the applicants for charter membership will be called to meet at the Court House to effedt permanent organization, eledt officers, and frame constitution and by laws. Make application for Charter Membership now CE. GREENAMYER W, A. McGIRT W. H. STANSELL GEO. HONNET E. H. MUNSON J B RICE ROWLAND A. WRIGHT IKE W. SOLOMON D. F. HOLLO WAY GEO. S. BOYLAN C. C. CHADBOURN WILMINGTON STAR CO. CAPE FEAR HOTEL CO. EUREKA DYE WORKS WILMINGTON STAMP AND ' PRINTING CO. STERCril-BANCROFT-RICH CO. DIXIE LAND AND DEVEL- OPMENTCO. BERNICE C. MOORE N. J. CROCKER V , J.B.McCABE THE PAYNE DRUG CO. CLARK - LYNCH LUMBER CO. HANS A. KURE J. H. HINXON SIG. ZULAWSKY W. N. HARRISS MEARES HARRISS B. FRANK KING SAM'L SEiGLER D. N. CHADWICK, JR. THOS. E. COOPER L. W. DAVIS C. E. BETHEA FRED. BANCK B. H. STEPHENS A. O. SCHUSTER JOSEPH A. PRICE GEO. T. HEWLETT P. W. WELLS JAMES HOWARD W. I. BAXTER W. M. PECK R. S. MOTTE C. D. WEEKS J. S. McEACHERN SAM'L R. MAXWELL JOHN W. BLOMME J. J. LOUGHLIN F. W. DAVIS A. W. PATE Col. WALKER TAYLOR C. N. EVANS F. E. HASHAGEN & CO. EVERGLADE CAFE F.P.JACKSON W. W. LOVE WM. STRUTHERS, JR. J. M. SOLKY ADOLPH GOODMAN J. M. WOOLARD It is understood the feeiwill bie $25 per year for three Years. CHARTER MEMBERS WILL BE EXEMPT FROM DUES FOR THREE YEARS. 7i- v5 .. 7-" 'i (i 7 r- Temporary Orgaiiization Committee ''77 v. ,
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