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GREENSBORO DAILY KEWS. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1922 Wfci . -4. lu. GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS and icuoaui Pkllk Cntr Day la tk a. h. 4. B. IOTKEII.,,, SARLB) CtOnPSJT A. L. STOCKTON. Mita Mi saves! mv i mi Hrimti telly owlr. (Ma nwi lb wee nrk, sk-ta , Sallr, tci Sanaa?, r. , TW kMM Ka k w fa nnutrsttai ef an estMSI w iwesiMsuss r in m"" ".- Set Mixta anSttil M ak MSW Ski wv l-w SMS pwiM SMSBL ll nrttt m noMmtka kt SUNDAY. DECEMBER II, MM BORROWED BRIEFS. She's a katsertn Syracuse Herald. he'a a kalterout ','. Moat artificial bait Is mad to eato fishermen, not fish. Kl Palo Times. Th Democrats appear to hart run the wrong- Bryan all thoee years. Columbus Ohio Stat journal. " Now that th nltan ta looking tor work h micht start a newspaper column oa how to keep harmony in th household. Little Rock (ate.) Democrat. . - Bank East th sentiment It said to that people would Ilk te haua lla-ht llouora back, but not tk a- oons It the didn't Inelu' IKuor.wl . Kanaaa city star. No, Oontl Radr, road hoti are . not included In the pis; census now wins; taken by th government. Brldgaport Pest. New York undertakers want a Will Raya or a Judge Land la There are aotne actors and ball player who would be Tory wllllnfj for them to feava both of those eenUsmen- .Ut ile -Koca..4AriM -Oasatt PARAGRAPHIC. , At-chool , Day by day, id every way, we're seddinr bedder and ! bedder. Ai for old NinetMn-Twoity-Two, this is the day 4bat says he' through. 13 As they say in sections ef Little Alex and the Free State of Wilkes, pretty nearly everybody has got the cold. ' t Or as Salisbury and Winston- Salem contemporaries might print it: I " You're thru. ' Well, it is interesting to find oat that the 'Atlanta police headquar ters might bays been worth ,rob- . bing. - At any rate, you -ant accuse Mr. Daugherty of failing to go after the man higher up. He wait just about as high as H was possible - The department justice, in other words, has decided that the phrase, "doUar-a-year," was en tirely a figure of speech, the fig ures in writing being something else again. Or to frame theviame idea with touch of pungency from the ver warnlar. "22. H's 13 for YOU. That 1 if a thing can be framed with a touch of pungency; which we doubt . It's a biz town when four and a tjuarter million dollars' worth of bouses make no more change in its appearance than the building pro-; gram, of 1922 has made in the ap pearance of Greensboro. The weather, the last day's batch but one to be furnished by one thousand nine hundred twenty-two: Cold without severity, for the most part, eloudyX In afternoon; easterly winds. f' - Page W. C. A. Hammel and ask , Mm if there Is any of that licker left, and if so, to come a-running. It seems next door to Impossible there should be anjnf H left; Hcker don't last that long these JatteV times. Still, if this" community bji got to have sn epWermc, W. C. A. might as well understand that he's expected to find some, somewhere, and get. on the job. The Christmas gift of 100,000 to Guilford college is contingent on the raising of $276,000 more by the friends of the institution. But thst should present no insurmountable difficulties. Considering the bene fits that the community and the state have drawn from Guilford in the past, the investment of an ad ditlonal $275,000 in the school -in order to extend its work is obviously the best sort of good business. AN ENCOURAGING DEVELOP ,,- HENT. v.." . Maybe Mr. Borah did it Hsybe be didnt At My rate, something has persuaded the administration that it la time for some high of ficial to say something about re parations and the' United States. So we bear th secretary ef state opening an address with this sig nificant paragraph: Th eonoml conditions In Eurooe gtve us th greatest concern. They have loner reoelved th earnest oon. ((deration of the administration. It la Idle to ear that w are not Inter ted In thsss problems, for w are aeepiy interested irom-an ooonami standpoint, as our credits and nar kets are Involved, and from a humani tarian standpoint, as th heart of the American people oe out to those who are In distress. Wi cannot dis poss of these probleaae by calling them European for they are world oroblema and w cannot escape th Injurious consequences of a (allure to settle mem. Mr. Hughes has not lost bis power of clear and forceful expression. He has covered the situation in that utterance presented it as lucidly as anyone In Jhe country, could have presented it' He is equally clear and precise in bis qualification : f. They are. however. European prob lems la th sens that they cannol be solved without tha consent of Europeajs governments. Wi cannot consent forxhem. Tha key to ssttle ment la In their, hands, not In ours. ' The American secretary of state therefor proceeds to set forth very diltreetly but very : definitely v an American suggestion namely, the appraisal of Germany's available as sets by a disinterested jury. ' He Is explicit and emphatic in his asser tion that this jury must be made up of competent financiers, free from political entanglements; and he ex presses the opinion undoubtedly with authority that the most emi nent American financiers would be willing to serve on such a jury. ' . The problem of reparations m the political sense would still exist, even .after such an appraisal had been made. But it would be enor mously less obscure. It is pretty gen erally agreed now that the question (s no longer what Germany owes. but what Germany can pay; and no sensible method has as yet been adopted to get at that. Mr. Hughes', suggestion, therefore, Is 'in accord with the plainest common sense. Furthermore, it la hardly credible that tha administration would make sKsuggestioii of this kind were it not prepared to use moral suasion, at least, to see that the resultant program goes through. If a non political commission, including American experts, renders a judg ment as to what Germany is capable of paying, then the American gov ernment would doubtless use its good offices to scale down repar ations claims to that sum. 1 As to our owns claims against the allies, Mr. Hughes neatly passes the buck. It is a question exclusively within the power of Congress to handle, says he; suavely adding that Congress to date has made a shock ing mess of it: It has created a commission and instead of giving that commission broad powers such as the administra tion proposed, which quit apart from cancellation might permit a sound discretion to be exercised In aocorCV anc with the facta elicited. Congress hsa placad definite restrictions upon the power of the commission in pro viding for th refunding of these debts. The inference is plain if Con gress is incompetent to attend to its own business, why should it attempt to intrude into the affairs of the executive, by compelling the execu tive to call a conference on repar ations? There is evident hare s certain divergence of viewetween the administration and Congress? a divergence of view, if not a dis position on the part of the admin istration to bust Congress' one .0$ the beezer. i . , However, wsrfare in vjrasbington is of minor interest only. Hie main thing is the fact that the administra tion is viewing the European situa tion ; realistically, and apparently proposing to deal with the facts as they exist, and not as we might like te have them. And this is. an en couraging developemnt.-' ' ' ' BOOKS FOR THE LAWYER, There is' no class of men less in need of sdvic from the Daily News sbout what to read than the lawyers. fcven more then doctors they em ploy books ss the tools of their daily labor, and librarians admit that, as a class, they are the best resd people in the state. Never theless, on the book review page to day there is a list for lawyers; how- Carolina Is not a reading state principally because North Caro linians hav been so slow to realise the value of books as tools. Tech nical works and works of reference w may be willing to admit into that classification but th novels of Charles DickensT Tet we are ready enough' to admit that the more a business man knows of human na ture, the better bis chances of 'suc ceeding In business. Now where Is there a greater store of information kboat men than in the "books of the great masters of fiction t It doesnt exist Yet North Carolinians as a whole rarely think ef even th greatest of novels as being by any possibility a business asset t the reader. ' ATHLETICS AND GIRLS. The New York state supervisor of physical training in the schools makes the point that girls need ath letics involving team play and the suppression of the Individual for the benefit of th group even more than do boys, since women are coming to 'bear equally the obligations, of citJsenshlp. v Th point is interesting. If team play, as developed on athletic fields. with its constant insistence that the individual player shall think for the team and act for the good of th team, ' is first-class training for citizenship and few will deny It then it, ought to be as valuable to the woman as to the man, since the woman henceforth shares equal ly with the man the rights and duties of eitisenship. Naturally, the pro tagonist . of this , theory . doesn't recommend - th same game for girls that boys play; he merely calls for as high a degree of organiza tion of girls' as of boys' athletic teams. , But, like many another plausible theory,, it is to be doubted that his assertion of girls' greater need is based on a careful estimation of all the facts. Apparently it goes oa the assumption that the lives and activities of most women hav been radically modified by the enact ment of the nineteenth amendment That we venture to doubt The ex pression of the feminine influence may find an outlet through dew channels; but the influence itself is unchanged. That is shown by the fact that practically every election sine woman suffrag was estab lished would hav gon just as .It did go bad all women', votes been thrown out. , At that, any human being is bet. tef for a little training in the sup pression of self for the good of the group, whether that group be the team, the family, the community or the state. It is good for girls as well as boys; but we do not believe thst girls stand in any greater need of it than their brothers. STATION CONTRACT AT LAST. The municipality of Greensboro and the Southern railway months ago reached an agreement , in prin ciple on certain things they wish to do, in connection with the erec tion of a new passenger station, that may or may not be legal, in the contemplation -"of the Supreme court of North Carolina. Reputable lawyers have expressed - opinions both wyfcHJe party! to the 'agreement,' is minded to do an illegal act, or an inequitable act, or an act prejudicial to the rights of either party or of anybody; but because some of these things have not been done hitherto in just the manner in which -it will be neces- ary- to.-i -tnsV there no way to 4eternunith facta its Uliteial legality except that of submitting to them in the form of suits at law in th courts. Th attorneys for th city and th company have, after consider able delay, at length, come together on" details,--and' the 'form 'of eon- tract proposed is thi morning 'sub mitted to the ' Greensboro public which has voted approval o the en terprise in principle, it is tn un derstandingat least nothing Is known to the contrary that coun cil is prepsred to ratify this agree ment after the people have bad time to consider It, and if no good objection thereto arises. So far as the Daily News can see, the con tract proposed meets the numerous points rsised and debated with con siderable energy a while ago; al though we do not profess to have ever, it is not our list it was pre- bsred by an eminent member of the profession for his prof essionan given It exhaustive examination, One item in a report on road con ditions furnished by the Carolina Motor club and published in this paper yesterday morning reads: "Hillsboro to Greensboro, bad, five miles out of Greensboro." The old road between Hillsboro and a point near Mebane "is heavy in wet weather, but from Mebane on to Greensboro the road is not bad five miles out of Greensboro or any where else. On the contrary. Due to official procrastination, there are two detours. The one at Gibson- Tills can be negotiated without chains, a maintenance gang being onstalftly on th job. The other, at South Buffalo creek, is good Elsewhere th road is paved, ex cept that it may be necessary to get off the pavement for a short distance between Mebane and Trol lingwood, in order to pass around brethren, anff tha editor of th book review psg pass it on un touched. It is worth the attention of others than lawyers, however, as an in stance of th way a brilliant mem ber of a learned prbfession Is abl to convert all sorts of books into tools of his trsde. The list Is made up of books likely to be helpful in teacning the lawyer to provs his point, and It includes authors, from Quintilian to Arthur Train.' The compiler, indeed, flatly asserts that acquaintance with two of the hovels of Charles Dickens ought to be made s condition of admittance to the bar; no youngster should be licensed, he thinks, until he has read the cas of Jarndyce and Jarn dyce in "Bleak House," and Bsrdell vs. Pickwick in "Pickwick Papers." But th opportunity that this writer points out to lawyers is open (o men of any other profession, and lu particular to the unclassified host known as "business men." North AN ANNOUNCEMENT. The North Carolina Good Roads association,' as has hitherto been disclosed, finds it necessary to offer a program of legislation for the session of the general assembly now about to open. That Is to say, a program of legislation is necessary the state highway commission will be one proponent, state officials in general who are in any way con cerned will doubtless be in agree ment, and since the program pro posed meets the approval of the Good Roads association, it Is highly appropriate that this body should lend its service In work supple mental to an enterprise in th In auguration of which it bore so con spicuous and brilliantly effective a part. The. contemplated supple mentary legislation is of a char acter that would be presumed to have tha - approval of Governor Morrison, and to . be presented to th legislatur in gubernatorial refswnraendatlon. It 1 of so highly Important a nature that prudene demand that every disposition be mad te support th bills that will b Introduced. ' ;' All of which means th nces ity for Miss Harriet M. Berry re suming aetirlties as secretary of tk association that will require all her attention and splendid Industry. Mis Berry Is therefor today re signing her 'position on th staff of th Daily News and will pres ently open th association's office at Raleigh. Th eocistartal duties hav been merely nominal sine and for a period prior to Miss Barry's association with th Dally News. This newspaper Is heartily in ac cord with th plans and purposes with respect to highway legislation and 'desirous of eo-operating in every possible way; and it Is per-. eel-red that Miss Berry ought to be entirely free to devote . herself to th duties of th secretarial office and without any connection or ssso ciatlon that might possibly be prejudicial to that work. IT. - A doctor do not. hav .200 catarrhal fever eases at on time between April vend November. Ther are no epidemic of -' In fluenza, grip, Boeifea " Pfiftr, corys, cold or similar complaints in spring,- summer or autumn. Proprietary ' medicine advertise ments accumulate) dust on the dump in newspaper office until th approach of th -winter solstice, when they come trooping Into the advertising columns. '. Spring .would doubtless be, as the poet says, but gloomy weather if we had nothing els but spring; but -the proprietary business would not yield racing stable and private yachts, either, and th medical schools would turn out few practitioners compared to what their product is, seasons be ing a now arranged. Mankind does not seem to learn how to live, and th medical pro fession does not teach how to live, in winter. Surely In view of the wonders science has been achieved that might be possible for people to learn to keep in as good health in ana asauan aa another. Ther Is an epidemic ia tbJ. com munity, or if the word lacks ac curacy, a wid prevalence, iner- Ung rapidly ta th past few days, of a rang of allied maladies that seem to be highly contagious, and are characterized by, pain In the region of th spin, among other things; although, H Is clear enough from report of physicians that -a multitude of cases are mild and un accompanied by any symptoms char acteristic of a -virulent epidemic. While similar conditions hav been reported for weeks in various places, we believ that If .th doc tors will compere note they will find these facts: In Greensboro it came in sudden onslaught It was practically synchronous with the change from a spell of five days of extremely mild weather to sever, weather, the present un settled season, ,-i It followed close after Christmas day, and with it comfng holiday celebrations wert "fctfll nwmerons. Now; there was practically univer sal stress continued up to Decem ber 25. In addition o th ordinary labor, social activities, etc, nearly everybody was "getting ready for Christmas," and for many this en tailed heavier , work and - longer honrstthai 1 usual; ;ningllnj(: Jn towoX:ra tension, anxlety-i- everybody, W a word, keyea up to the top notch. Reserves exhausted, resistance- drained down. Then double boliday; intemperancer-how many In th audience tan .assert that they were not Intemperate on Christmas day! Ton did not drink! a thing! C: Probably not j there was considerable complaint of scarcity, although it is a known fact that the flowing bowl was In evidence here and there. - Didnt smoks too muchT How about eating? . Big Sunday dinner That 1 Usual. Bigger Christmas dinner of course. Con fectionery, cake. More late hours. Tired stomach in a tired body com pelled to work furiously overtime. Then the raw weather, sudden change from almost vernal; and all the doctors' beils start a-ringing. And there you are.. Cant we human beings manage any better thatn this? Can't the doctors man- t .1. e age us any Detieri There is one thing that may, per haps, be given profitable considera tion, even at this late day:, this thing seems to be highly contagious, Ponder that There is some risk of damage, in discussing these matters, by fright ening folks. But if the whole com munity could get frightened enough to realize what contagions means, it would probably do more good than harm. Greensboro, it appears, built more than one residence a day in 1922 and yet that shortage of .400 houses that sh had in 1920 .has not yet been made up. For one thing, all the desirabls lots within the pres ent 'corporate limits are now so ex pensive that a man of 'moderate income cannot buy them; and yet a poor nan cannot afford to build outside and deprive his family of the advantages th city offers. .... I OUR RANKEST INFIDELS. And what concord hath Christ with Bellalf or what part hath he that be- lleveth with an infidel T Beoond Cor Inthlans v When th Anglican movement was st Its height and Cardinal Newman hid th church standing on its head, Thomas Hnry Buxlsy startled th world with a declaration that Cardi nal John Henry Newman, author of that glorious "Lead Kindly Light," was a skeptic .... ,. ... Paine a hundred years earlier had observed that Infidelity consists not in believing or disbelieving, but in pretending to , believe ' when one really does not But there was no prepense about Newman, He be lieved Intensely In God; but he did not believ In man. And for all the ecclesiastical hysteria about men's belief in God, ' the Trinitarian doubts, th evolutionary conception of creation, disbelief in man Is as disastrous form of uribellef as th aggresslv and dogmatic doubt of God. ... '. And this form of infidelity Is more common than atheism, ag nosticism or even.simpl theism. Disbelief In man is the parent of a whole brood of unfaiths which 're press life, discourage progress and beget despair, ' The theologian dis believes in man in his ability to reason on divine things, to know divine truth, to- hav direct personal fellowship with God; believes thai man's Maker has not andowed him with th ability adequate for the place ,he ought to occupy .or th function he ought to fulfill. So this theologian becomes sn ecclesiastic r a dogmatist, or both, constituting a priesthood" who are to stand tq orphaned man in th place of God, and to teach on authority truths which man & incompetent to obtain unless he submissively accepts them from the church and its creed. Th philosopher disbelieves in man in his ability to enter at all upon the sphere of invisible truth, or to know anything which is not proved by sensible demonstration. So the philosopher becomes an ag nostic declares that man must ever remain In ignorance of those things it most concerns him to , know, namely, whether he .has any Divine Law-giver and any undying future. So this philosopher banishes man from th tropical land with its flowers and fruit, to the treeless, shelterless desert that ia without God in this world and without nope in the next The politician disbelieves in man in his ability to bold th helnf of bis own career, to judge his own in terests, to choose bis own course of conduct, and to administer .his own life. So the politician constructs a paternal government, not -unlike that of Bussia through so many dreary years, or a government of landlordism such as has cursed Ire land so long, or of bosses and rings such ss have damned New York and Philadelphia lmost immemorially. Th political economist disbe lieves In man-fin his essential man hood, and thinks of him as a thing, as "a hand," a commodity; believes that .every hour "taken from hi drudgery in th mine or factory will be spent in sleuthing for block ade booze; believes that at best the wage-earning man is not a man at U, ut a mere 'machine which may fwsilydegenerate into a brut. Th dogmatism of th first th agnosti cism, 'of th second, th bossism of th third, and th pessimism of th fourth, all hav a common origin- disbelief In man. . The great questions of the day divide men into two classes: those who believe in-man and those who d not- That's every blessed bit of th trouble in the American in ternational policy. America does not trust the men with whom sh lately fought Those who believ in man ar optimists and those who do uo ar pessimist. On looks for ward to progress with hope; the other desires tq keep things as they art, lest the. last stat be worse than the first The en believes In msnhood suffrsge, in emancipation; tin other believes that nun should be kept in a state of pupilage be cause of a fear to trust him. The on would abolish the Indian reser vation and absorb the Red Men Into our American citizenship; the other would keep him a ward of the na tion, because it is impossible to be lieve in the Indian, In his manhood. One would restrict suffrage to Americans, to property-holders, to male voters; th other believes more in men than in any particular class of men. One opposes Home Rule because he does not believe in the Irish, the other favor it' because he does believe that the Irish ars men and has faith in the dormant manhood of all men and in the power of liberty to avoke that dor mant manhood and develop It .The one would keep the church obedient to the, .hierarchy ami moored to an cient creed; the other believes man Is a temple of God; that revelation, inspiration, and the Incarnation are perpetual facts; that in every man is a capacity for seeing God, know ing, obeying and living with God, living in and for God. The most of those whom w call good Christians, believe and dis believe, ar skeptics, are pessimists snd even tnstlcs. They have no troubl believing in God but they ean find no sensible demonstration of God adequate for the soul's need. They do not believe enough in msn to se that he has a capacity for PROBLEM FOR THE CLA SS IN "A UVltiG WAGE" ' II A CHINAMAN FISHWG FOB POIXYWOGS ON THE YAtOTZKKIANO CAN SVFPORT A FAMILY OF U OJ I -l CBVTS A MOUTH . .. . t. -,y;-... . . ' ewi-oTrff-wv-i AND A FARM BR WORKING 18 HOURS A DAY CAN SB LL HIS CROP FOR ALMOSTfcNOtIOH TO PAY fBI INTEREST ON THE MONEY HB BOHBOWBD TO BUY SBBD " ' 'BE ALMOST TIME TO IKi ANCTMEH. BICK ' J e- J PW I ' O.V MUST AND A BIUCKMASON CAN LAY ALMOST HALF AS MA NY BRICKS 'AT 115X0 A DAY AS HB DID FOR fCO A DAY I YEARS AGO i 11 UW MANX WILD DUCKS OUGHT THE GOVERNMENT TO GUARANTEE TO X FOR WORKING 1 HOURS IN MOD AND ICB WATER VP TO HIS KNEES. TO FEED A FAMILY OF FIVBI - God, and ability to receive Him, to fellowship with Him. They disbe lieve utterly In man,, ; e u While the most of us ar resolving ut strengthen our faith, we could not make a. nobler start than to be ghv'Bt th ground and' build up. For our faith in God will rest mightily on man as he manifests Him. " "PUBLIC PULSE A MESS AOS SUPREMELY . DIVINE. Editor of Th Dally Newa: I- waat te express my appreciation of th prominent place you save th Scrlptur of our Lord's birth la your Uonday'a tsau. That message Is so simple yet su premely divine In Its oontsnt. .. Her w hav the fact the mys terythe Joy and th proclamation n, Hnl..Mil a.lu.tlnii You save th measag to thousands who' never thought . of coins- to church to thank Ood for HI unspoak abl lfU ' O. W. kvCLANAB-AN. Frledens Bvanscllcal Lutheran Pastorate, . Qlbaonvlll, Poo. . Nu. A. AND T. CONTRIBUTION TO NEW BERN. Editor of Th Dairy News: On th first Sunday In December, I asked (ha faculty and students of th A. ajd T. eolles to make a con tribution for th New Bern sufferers. Ths followtns; Sunday, tks names of the contributors and ths amounts were read la our ohapel services amountln to 1110.17, I am having this letter of acknowladcment from th mayor ot New Bern read la our. chapel, but as there are. many con tributors who are not members of our faculty or student body, I will appreciate It If you oould find space to reproduoe this letter, which Is a sopy of th original I hav on flies. JAB. B. DUDLEY. Oroensbore. ' President. (Inelosurs) , , Pear Sir: On behalf of myself and all th people of ttla community. I desire to slnosrely thank you for th do nation from th students of th A and T. college of 1110.47, which has aided us In tha relief work, now be ing carried on. to rllv th fir sufferer In recent fir disaster hers, which la admitted to bs tha great est conflagration In ths history of ths stat. Without your aid th task would hav exceeded .our ability to hav fully ' accomplished th stupendous work oontrontlng us In alleviating the suffering In our midst Your generous contribution and the masnanimoua spirit Whloh you have shown has Incurred a debt of gratitude and appreciation of our entire eltlsenahlp that will last for all time to come. Feeling deeply grateful In terms of unmeasured gratitude tor your aid, loyalty and patriotism, I hav , th honor to bv Sincerely yours, EDWARD CLAWS' . Mayor. VIEWS WITH CONSIDERABLE s . ALARM. , Kdltor of Th Dally News: Tha legislatur will soon be upon us. To th making of Jaws there Is no end. no, not even In taxes. Taxes ar th supposed solution of all vlls, viewed from . a swivel chair stand point Our people ar already over burdened and tha and seems as far as th bag of gold at ths end of ths rainbow. In Pitt county ther ars many farms which can not support owners and pay taxes. ' Property Is verily being confiscated for taxes. And yt while tb poor man Is struggling trying to pay, 1 per eent per montn, It per eent per annum, Is. added to his misfortunes, while the rich man, with his bonds, etc., gets 1 por cent S for paying whsa texts ar due. It that JustlcsT What right hat tha stats to exaot 11 par cent whan It punishes ths man who gets, more than t per eent? Oty to bin tkat batht The question of pension for teach ers and other professions, applicable only to swivel chair operators, will com up and stay up top. Th poor laborer who spend ay kj dars eking out a miserable existence,, with hie poorly fed and shoddy clothed family and th old farmer, who spends his years sweating for taxes,' to pay the pensions, these poor old fellows may go to th poor house, or die from neg lect and penury, but aot a' penny of pensions for them. No. Let them go to th poorhouee. Why did they spsnd all they made? Who cares about them aowT But those higher up for whom the poor devils hav tolled In season and out of season, paying taxes that those swivel chair artists mlaht live In offlo. deserve nothing. The devil only, know th whys and wherefores of such legislation. There Is . unrest. . Something ' Is wrong. Th people ar not all fooled and whan th day of reckoning comes, which will corns, thers will b weep ing and walling and gnashlnet ' of teeth. Socialism Is far more preva lent than I generally supposed. - And It is lanaucai socialism. v are drifting but where? Th courts bear a great part of this responsibility. Inefficient and tod often not th best men are put In office. Especlall might this apply .to many- prohibition enforcement officers. Prohibition has no doubt in soros cases lessened pub Ho drinking, buv.lt ha too often made for worst cltlsenshlp. Judgs Allen says ht hat "no satisfactory view as to ths , solution ot .this question. Twenty-four years on the bench and this Is hi conclusion, well, It would not ds amiss to get rm or seroe en forcement (?) officers, whd hav not too good prohibition records. , I am glad to as asm Indictments for bat lot box frauds. " All crime ought to receive it just rewards But house cleaning might begin sotaewh else and perhaps higher up. Whitewash Ing is a demooratlo prerogative 'and should not be Infringed upon. Th people, those who do th work, ar up against It Farmers and condi tions ar in many places Ilk 1110. Here are taxes almost unbearable. A prominent authority aald only a few years ago that North Carolina had ths worst taxation of any country In ths world, sxcept Turkey. We are now tninaing as win not except Tur key. Mora, courts, more Judges.' Mil lions for roads. And If all roads are built as In this county, we can not see where they ar for th benefit of th people Instead of ths towns, Schools demanding fabulous sums. Why should tha pooplt be taxtd that torn big man's son may get free tuition or reduced expenses at our stats sohoolt when the poor -boy un able to get an education, atanda about the same chance for these benefits as the ons leg man In a kicking ffolio. Judges drawing psnslons, and teach ers wanting them, 'when In th fu ture those who pay these pensions may end In th poor house or want and privations. Swlvsl chair artists of different nrofssslons. holdlnsr eon- rVentlons at Raleigh and mapping out a tax program to thrust upon the peo ple. And never a word about out ting down their .fat pay, or working longer hours. Where will the end be? Verily, the poor -cuss Is getting It In th neck. Taxea, pensions, graft, hard times and a gloomy futur. And th New Year begins with a legisla ture ready to pour down upon him more burdens, If th swlvsl cnair artists prevail. Ia there no balm In Ollead? HENRY T. KINO. Greenville, Esc , 1181. - ASSISTANT SECRETARY, : UNDER WILSON WITH 6 S OTHERS FACES CHARGE (Continued from Page On.) of numerous army officers who, It said, were deceived, misled and overridden by the defendants, caus ing great waata of money appropriate ed bv Congress and hhluatlnable uis Its to th defendants and their aafTik" cMtee.'-Officers regularly responsfcsft roT 'in administration of construc tion work who found) themselves out ti harmony with tk plans if ths conspirators, th Indictment con tinued, war replaced by others a T part of the program of th defen dants to 'procure control ot tha de- ' termination of tha volley and nlan - o be used in th administration of said construction program of th - United States by and for themselves and tht other eonsplrators." in inia means, ins inaietaieat con- ttnued,-the-conspirators- were-"thus to be In a position to delay. Impede. Obstruct, contravene, prejudice and defeat, and war to procure sad cause to be delayed. Imoeded. ob structed, perverted, contravened. prejuuiGea ana;oexeatea tn true pur- poss and Intent of said lawa and regu- IBUOna SrAfflminl Anari ' 'it ' Farty-aorea Acta Enumerated. t Forty-seven oven acts .were enu merated and othara without nnmho erers charged In th federal accusa tion. . . ' 7.. On count dolared that ths allesrad Conspirators refused during th years oi isii ana 111s to consider various offers madt by reliable contractors to do any required construction work for ins unites states at .less than, ths scale of fee and condensation . cured by .th defendant to be writ ten Into' th various editions of the cost plot contract. - - The defendants also wera said o hav procured oeitons dlrectlv inter. ested la furnishing certain classes of metAolela . , i. . . Poet and pass upon such materials, particularly lumbar. WhllA a.tt. .1. . . .. ... --" vie government eervloe, another count aald, tn d- ivnuenu -so 'maiaamlnlstarsd the lawa and regulations of th UsIUd State at to eurry favor with per sons and oonoerna with whom thay were dealing aa contractor doing the work for th Unltd Stat, and par , tlculartjr with certain persons aadT. concerns among which were oontrao--Q tore Who Were nrnmlntnt 1. .1- strtattlon and engineering Industries to ths and that each of aald oonaplra- tors Would and ahituM ..... . - - , uivai V I them did procure, In return for ouch prejudicial smd favorable adminis tration lucrative positions In said In dustries from and at tha hands of such favored pereons and concerns.1 From August 10, 191?, to March II, ISID. It was said, ths defendants "par tlclpatsd In tb awarding of con- the furnishing of work, laim ervtoet, materials, supplies and othtr woptrty In som of whloh eontraots ana oraers of said defsndanti had a pecuniary Interest and In othtrs r which contracts' and orders some et said conspirators had a direct or In direct interest In the pecuniary profits locKnoiasrs oi oorporatlone, .or member of flrm." It was specifically charred that the defendants, acting between armla- , tlce day, 191, to July l. im, "nre- eurea tn united States to be obli gated for extensive new .war and mill-' Hery -construction, the- exact amourit oi wnicn ia to, tne grand jurors UD- nirown; oai-wnicn mey charg Wat In exoeed of JO,00.000; of which amount la txoest of 111,000,000 was to e tractort selected by said conspirator andatven such work under the cost plu(form of contract hereinbefore reterrea to. ' In a formal atatement Issued to night by Attornty General UaughertJ. It waa said ths Indictments tpok for themselves, and tha responsibility at futur action now-retted upijn ths oourtt ,, ,,i ..,!' ' -v .- a ; "1 feel that It wmiM h kl.l.i proper for mt to oommeut upon a grand Jury action," Mr, Daugherty aald, "It would also bt manifestly Ids- proper for me to discuss what fur- Th lndtotment recited th name vored contractor selected, iv, dj-j ther similar , steps jnay be taken, tr tendinis:" ST'1, ""' ' W 'E conemplation byl th.' depart ment ef justice.". lis asstraater's epsnant . .,''. .v
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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