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Thomas Wilson oOo- A DELIBERATE CAMPAIGN ' TO CONTROL DURHAM The, time has come when Durham must say who is to eontrol the city who is'to spend the money of the taxpayers in whose hands we Place the care and future of our children wun -trust our health and that of our families-to whom we give the power to regulate our individual freedom as well as our collective progress. Durham is facing one of a series of vital decisions which affect not only the present and future of the city but of all Durham county. Durham county politics, within the city and without, have never been particularly good or particularly bad- except in; spots. But the city and county have done remarkably well and -generally ' managed to secure government by a majority of the people. We have had., perhaps, our court house rings, our city hall rings, our cliques here and there. But we have never been -in such - Immediate flanger as exists at present, of seeing the city ultimately rass into the hands of a small minority. ., There is a deliberate campaign, which has been under way for the" past twiXyears or longer, to gradually centralize all" control of all public affairs both city and county, within the hands of a very email, but rather powerful group which is using the morning paper as its mouthpiece and which has only bee prevented from making: several Important steps in that direction by the eternal vigilance of those men who have the interest of the whole people at heart. Durham turned to the city manager form of government. It was in .principle, a very wise move. The managerial form is perhaps the most auvanceu iuim ui ............ means be kept the instrument of the pcope and . not deteriorate into a club to be used over the heads of the city, nor the medium Of sewing up control of all our property, all our taxes, all our . resources, to carry out the aims of a small minority who are more concerned with their own fortunes and their own schemes, than they are with the desires of the people they are popularly sup posed to represent! ' . County-Wide Tax Only Small Part. When all of us look at tho issue of the county-wldo school tax, remember this The county-wide school tax is not a single issue. It is but one phase of a great Issue, of who shall rule the people or those who are. behind the opposition. It Is not a matter of dollars and cents. It Is a matter of fundamental principle, and if we stop now to count the pennies, we are most likely lost. . The official minority which threatens Durham, and which -has as one of its leading figures Mr. 13. T. Rollins, has already made some proflss. It .controls the present city council. For that reason chfjjjles are desirable at the coming council elections, the primary on Bile 21st and the general election on May Oth. To strike at the rod)3)f the, evil, Durham musf turn her attention not only to the Bchool tax but to the battle for the four inside places on the city ' council. Some attention will also be necessary to the candidates from the outside. More upon the council question will come later. Minority Vote of the Council. What happened when city extension developed? When city ex tension was being framed, the question arose as to the number of representatives to be given the outside territory. The move to allow East Durham and West Durham less than two members each on the city council was defeated. A move to then decrease the total number of councilmcn by re-districting the entire new city Was like wise defeated. Faced, therefore, with the fact that the board would number reive rather than eight, with a mayor In either case, the minority " now "In "power realize' that by the smallness of their own numbers, the larger council reduced considerably their chances of maintaining absolute control of all the city's business. The move was there fore introduced, to make possible the conduct of city business by a vote of less than a majority of the council. Fortunately that move was defeated. But, let it ,be understood, that the backers-of the minority council vote were confident it would pass. They anticipated no such up rising of the public which followed the expose by The Sun and which flatly defeated the move. ' Assessments ami Street raving. And so they were planning two other moves. One was the assess ment ,of improvement benefits" to the possible, extent of 100 per cent., against property adjoining or near, though the Inside as well as the outside benefitted by such public Improvement. Further they planned the measure which would permit street paving without petition,' which is to say without the property owner having the slightest voice, except through the council. It was in this connec tion that the proposal was advanced to largely diminish or nullify the representative power of the outside by permitting a minority to decide such questions as assessments and other people's street . paving, through less than a majority council vote. Incidentally, these two moves were also defeated by the watchfulness of those against whom they were very largely, directed. . ( .. ., , . ; So much for the effort to control, by minority, ' the councir and all the city's business, an effort, which, be it marked down, has not been abandoned and will continue where the opportunity pre sents, from time to time. Dictating to the Health Board. Next, there was the deliberate attempt to control the health board, ' last June when tho board and the city manager failed to agree. The manager was one member of the board, an adviser. He took the attitude he was its preceptor. He took the attitude that his recommendations to the council should be regarded rather as orders. And when he could control neither tho health board, or the council's vote on health, despite tho backing of one particular member of the board and his powerful minority, ho refused to have anything to do With the health board and absenteed himself without leave from Its ses sions until such time as his-minorlty could move the council to relieve him of thatVluty. But the fight on the health board is not done. It Is coming again. There will be persistent efforts to gain control of the board, with tho ultimate hope of either reducing it ,within Its present status, to a mere sanitary department, collecting refuse and inspecting food and sanitary conditions without authority or funds to enter the broad field of campaign against all disease, or by ef lecting the same result through the medium of a .city health de partment under the manager himself. Mr. Stanley's Head. , Next there was the bitter attempt to take off the head of W. R. Stanley, because ho would not- submit1 to domination by the mnna- a'.-o t-l t-rhici hint ana Mr. Stanley escape J. the minority which now sits in control. of Mr. tr.e the fo:! but :re v c.r ii d in ear r.".!r city election. t : .lelVrse, ds tht cf the ( f a rr.pu: : fdtt U es:aU:h rortinuation in rower after the coming will "moan the ultimate removal r.ley and probably a welfare department u-der the city. Now the srliool Board. Finallv "the guns are opened on the school board. The school board has always been a thorn in. the side of those who are fUhting , county-wide tax. In fact their 'policy is opposition to the schools under any circumstances, until they have been tied up under con trol of the manager and this same minority, either with or without the existence of a school board, so .that schools may be curtailed in keeping with the same backward ideas which a decade ago were sufficiently wide-spread in the entire State of North Carolina to seri ously retard -education. As a matter of fact among the minority is a distinct antipathy to advanced education. More bitter however. Is the attitude of the men in question against those who disagree with them. And the same policy of going after the scalp of those who do is being fol lowed in the school field as in others, in a direct effort to force the dominance of this council minority on schools as well as everything else. It will be remembered that these forces withheld title to the city high school for a ridiculously long period from -the city school board. When the city agreed to expend, as part of the purchase price of the old high school from the school boa-d, $13,000 on the grounds of the new city high school, the manager withheld the money because his ideas were apparently not going to be followed by the school board in spending it. And If we mistake not, the city manager never did turn loose this money, which certainly should have been expended at the discretion of our very capable school board, until he did get his own way . In the matter. Now the boast is open, as Holland Holton makes plain in his article today, that -two members of the school board are to be kick ed out this year, simply because they do not go along with this council clique. They are Slajor L. V. McLendon, chairman otMhe board and Mr. Gilbert C. White. Neither needs any defense here. What Mr. Holton did not say, but which is true nevertheless, is the fact that this same minority has planned, after election two of their own choice, to bring pressure upon Mrs. F. L. Walker, another member of the. board, swinging Mrs. Walker to a point where she will cast a deciding "vote for the ousting of City Superintendent Frank M. Martin. The move is also directed against Marion B. Fowler, business manager of the school system 'and one of the most capable and clear-minded of Durham's young men. Both of these men are marked for the axe because they are executives and men with intellects', not mere bookkeepers and figureheads, because they, look to the interest 'of the whole people and the entire school system and not to the dictates of this, same coterie. Knowing Mrs. Walker as we $o, we believe the opponents of the county-wide ..tax Jare.onemore barking up the wrong, tree. Mrs. Walker has always been actuated by a desire to administer the schools for the best Interests of all Durham, she is responsible for a great amount of the progress Durham has made, and Durham may accept' our word for the fact that she has sufficient will power and backbone to remain true to 'her convictions. Mrs. Walker win do what she conceives to be right, all the pressure to the contrary notwithstanding. ' ' Whom to Trust. , And so we see the real purpose of the county-wide tax opposition. We get a glimpse of the gigantic scheme of which this school -tax and its, five cents on the hundred dollars is but an incident, a cog in the whole wheel which is designed to break Durham and Dur ham's spirit. There is a thirst for power and influence here which gravely menaces all of us,' which means the setting back of Durham's fortunes twenty-five years,' if not balked. We ask Durham to remember , the tactics against the welfare department. . . ' . We ask Durham to remember the tactics against the health de partment. 1 ' , We ask Durham to observe the tactics against the non-polltlcal school board. We ask Durham to remember the tactics for 100 per cent, Im provement benefit assessments. We ask Durham to rememWS1 the tactics for street paving with out petition. ' , We ask Durham to remember the tactics for conducting the city's business by a minority vbte of the council. , Then we point to the similar tactics, through any weapon, fair or , foul, through inside pressure and outside propaganda to defeat the extension of city schools to all the city. We ask Durham to remember the morning paper is the mouth- piece of this organized minority and to weigh Its argument accord ingly. . - ' V ( Review, then, the record above. Remember if you will that The Sun in every case opposed the attempt to arbitrarily saddle these impositions upon the public. Remember The Sun has no axe to grind. Remember The Sun has attempted to serve all' its readers, and when the time comes to vote for the county-wide tax, place your confidence where you think it Is best placed. , ; ! oOo- ' BEWARE, IT'S UP TO A MAN TO HELP HIMSELF All things may come to- him who waits, but without doubt the good is more or less indiscriminately mixed with the bad and a long time In arriving at that. There is one thing certain. Unless we expect to sit around and "crab" for another four years about the type' of men who sit on the city council and the things they try to put over on us, we had better get out our political tools and operate. The time is growing mighty short within which a citizen may file a petition which win make him 'candidate Jn the city election. Of course, if we are perfectly satisfied with the way things are going, if they are going, there is no .reason to stretch a, leg. If, however, we have become considerably' disturbed ' oyer the course of local human events and hope for something better, we had best put some action, behind the Uiope. .Hope is a wonderful thiijg in Its place but it has no place in victory. It Is the strength of the de feated and downtrodden. r The time Is at hand for . some scenery shifting. 'The publlo is ripe and some of our present office holders are over-ripe. The only ' thing which will keep the affairs of the municipality from taking upon an increased odor of putrefaction Is the Injection of some fresh fruit. Bring on the candidates. oOo AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR . NEGRO SPIRITUALS Tuesday night of this week, the white people of Durham are to be given the '"opportunity of hearing negro spirituals sung only as members of the colored race can render them. The Harriet Tub man, colored, branch of the Y. M. C. A., is presenting the spirituals. A chorus of sixty" voices, assisted by the State normal quartet Will previde an evening of music which will be entertaining and moving, to those who have the good fortune to be present. . In addition, poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, one of the most talented members of his race, will be read. The concert Is to be given in the atfditorium of the Hillside Park school. V ,. .rr3 Scorer cr Later ' I : i S ' ;ii ' s II I nl VIUIl -ABlfllll fllVAHI III I i ' V I i mm - - i V vi M r I l a mmm i - SAVC Birth Announcements The following white births were re ported to the Durham city and coun ty health department during the week ending March 28: Mr. and Mrs, L. E. Kerr, East Dur ham, boy born March 18. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Henry -Nichols, Route 8. Durham, girl, born March 20. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fowler, AVest Darham, boy, born March 10. Mrs. and Mrs. Jesse E. Whitaker, C04 Roxboro street, boy, born March 25. Mr. and Mrs. II. A.( Rigsbee, 1011 Angier avenue, boy, born March 20. Sri-,, and Mrs. Eric L. Woods, Hydo I'.irlt avenue, boy, born March 23. I SHEARINGS WANTS XEW TELKPHOXE There Is one Durham lady who Is very much in favor of the new auto matic telephone system, as, accord ing to her story the automatic tele phone is one of the best devices she knows of to entertain her four year oil boy. . "You know, I think the new system is the grandest thing. All I had to do when I lived in , was to sit my little son down by the telephone and just let him turn the dial to 3SG yes, that wa3 our num ber and then our telephone would ring, and he would just be so pleased. He used to amuse himself for hours, playing With the telephone," the wo man stated. BETTER START EARLY Now is the time for all good men, and women too, to begin the war against probably the greatest pest of the hoSehold the fly. If the war is started now, the opposition won't be so great later. By killing one fly to day, we will probably be saved the trouble of killing a t housand, a month from now. All breeding places for the pests should be eliminated. The health department has already inau gurated a war against files, and the citizens have been asked to lend their co-operation In the battle. , This paragraph is written just to re mind husbands that it is getting the time of year for l.ghtning storms, and to prevent them from calling a phy sician should they And their mate in hidiirg. TELLS AGE OF FISH . See in the' papers where a profes sor in a northern institution has dis covered a way of telling the exact age of a fish by a stone in the fish's ear, which grows larger each year. Wheth er the professor's discovery will bring him much fame, is not known, but we do if he can discover 'a way of telling the mact ase of a woman, he' will create a big sensation. TIME TO HIDE . If some afternoon you go home, and find your' wife lying in bed, with her head and ears covered up, or find her hid in some closet, don't think she is sick or has suddenly lost her mind. But on the other hand, glance out the window, and see if It is lightning. If It is, you will then know the reason of the better half's curious actions, and if it isn't then you can tell the storm and strife that the storm is over, and she can come out of hiding FULLY RECOVERED An unpleasant incident occurred on the platform of a crowded street car. A man who boarded the car while the latter was moving accused, another of having been In his way. A rather unpleasant argument ensued. At last one of them, unuable to extri cate himself from the useless argu ment, called in despair: "That shall do! Let us quit! Either you or I must be crazy." Whereupon the other enthusiasti cally exclaimed: "I was but yesterday discharged from a psychiatrical hos pital as fully recovered." SIMS So many mothers have started us ing rouge their daughters' may quit it or be considered old-fashioned. Georgia moonshiners used a church bell to warn of revenue olneers; a real booze ring. Terrible news from" Italy. Ten feet feet of snow i ii phic es. "We h ope it " doesn't kill the spaghetti bushes. ' CLOSE FIGIRIXG "Did you tell the' landlord he'll have to put new paper in the flat?" asked she. "Yes," answered he. "How did he behave about it?" Most cordially. He grasped my hand, and told me my call had saved him the 2-cent stamp necessarv to send the notice that next month our rent will be raised." IT'S A FUNNY WORLD We ave living in hopes that spring wtfft -make people too lazy to work crossword puzzles. t A horse will pull your cr out of a ditch. And very often horse sense will pull you out. Tho first sign of spring, as we warned last year, isn't reliable until you see the last sign, of winter. Norfolk (Va.) jailer got arrestel Charged with bootlegging. Maybe keeping bad company did it. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) WALL PARAPETS NOW I PLACE 'MM HOTEL Coping and Large Vass-Like Or naments on Top of Washington DukcTHoite Being Added." Birds Know Train , LANCASTER, Pa., March 28. A local train between here and Quarry vllle may not be a flyer, but it is a bird train. All winter the fireman and engnleer have been throwing out food along the track. Now the birds flock out of the woods every time the whistle is blown. Keeps Canaries Dry NEW YORK, March 28. An ink well water bowl for panaries has been invented to decrease the num ber of birds which die while being shipped on a railroad train. Hereto fore the movement of the train splashed out water and caused the birds to catch cold. The new bowl won't release any water except when the 'bird pecks it. To Save Terrapins RALEIGH, N. C, March 28. The diamond-backed terrapin, highest priced American turtle, has been air iinost exterminated by wholesale. methods of killing them off the North Carolina inlets. The state fisheries department has decided to prohibit terrapin catching for "five years. Former Senator DlaL-' Foimer Senator Nat Dial, of South Carolina, has received his reward for deserting his colleagues and voting with the President on the bonus fight in the senate. He has been placed by the President on the lame duck roost as one of the members of the commission to investigate Muscle Shoals. If It concerns the farmers In any way, the Republicans name a commission. It is so' much easier than It Is to do' something. Raleigh News and Observer. Mrs. and Mrs. J. S, lthew, Durham, Route 4, boy, born March 2D. Xo Milk Spilled NOME, Alaska, March 28. The milkman here never has to worry about spilling his milk. Reindeer milk is delivered in frozen cubes equal to a quart of pint. As long as it re mains frozen there is no deterioration in the quality. , Egyptian Barley Helps SAN FRANCISCO, March 28. A barley brought from Egypt is proving very successful in the semi-arid re gions of the west. It grows during jry seasons when other grains perish. Wives to Sign Husband's Cheeks PHILADELPHIA, March 28. Not the Tiger, nor the ape, but the hog in man is endangering family life town. days," declared Dr. J. Howrad Melish of Brooklyn, N. Y in a Lenten ad dress to business people hero in the t. btephen s . Protestant .!;.:..;, ;.,-, church. Money matters, he said, caused "much marital uiiiu., ., woman, he contended, kIioiiUi' n nanclally Independent and the hus band should give the wife an allow ance as tho first step In this direction. "The banks should require two sitr natures on every family chock," Dr. RARE MAP OF JEWELS PARIS, March 28. The costliest map in the1 world is in the Louvre here. It is a map of France with the groundwork of polished pasper. All the principal towns are marked with precious stones and their names inscribed In gold. The rivers are strips of polished platinum, and the 87 divisions of the country are arranged as a wonderful scheme of blazing gems. The map was made in Russia, and was a gift from the czar at the time of the Franco-Russian alliance. ALL PARTITION WALLS WILL SOON BE C0MPPLETED Electricians Have Started on In tricate Task of Pulling Wires Through Building. Melish declared. "Every woman ft her husband's partner; she helps him to produce his income and he should recognize that fact." ' A Bad Shot "Yes," said the teacher, "We have- several plants and flowers named with the prefix 'dog.' Of courss, the 'doe- rose' and 'dog-violet' are well known to you all. Can any of you tell me others?" For some seconds the class re mained dumb. Then a britrht idea. Illuminated the face of an urchin, and up went his hand. - "Collie flowers, miss." London Weekly Telegraph. Trine Friend (refusing to laugh) I heard that joke six months ago. Comedian (tartly) Well, you ought to see it by now. Judge. Churchill's Story Here is one of Winston Churchill's latest stories. A lecturer was holding forth on the subject of Fear. "Only those who have -been roused fromtheir sleep on board ship by the terrible cry of "Man overboard," can fully realize its meaning," said the lecturer. ' That s not right!" Interposed a Ut ile man in the audience. ''I heard it once, when I was not aboard a ship. anu i realized it more than anybody.' lou couldn't' objected the lec turer. "Oh, yes I could!" Insisted the lit- 41 . IIT il . u num. x was me man who was overboard!" London Tit-Bits. No spectacular changes have made themselves prominently noticeable during the past week through the, work which is being done on tha ' Washington ' Duke hotel, . yet the work is moving forward. The pass erby notices that window sash have been placed In the frames on two or three more floors. Up on the roof during the past week workmen have been seen at work putting up the. parapet, Its coping and the tall, vase like ornaments placed at uniform in tervals along the parapet. , Inside where the man on the street cannot see so very well, the work Is being pushed on. Partition walls are now all completed with the ex ception of those on the basement and . top floors, and these will undoubtedly be completed by the end of another week. . The finished cement floors have been laid on all bedroom floorswith the exception of the 14th and 15th, and the 14th will soon be laid. Plasterers are pushing their work on, both those who are applying the brown coat and the white finishers. Electricians from the Durham Pub lic Service company, which has the job of putting in all electrical fix tures, are now at work pulling the electrical wires through the many conduits throughout the building. Up on the roof of the hotel, Invis ible from the street, the two stair ways leading out are now being housed in. Up there, also, walls of the housing around the elevator ma-' cnlnery are also being laid. During the past week furniturd and furnishings have had the does attention of those who have the re sponsibility of making these selec tlons and purchases. , Women's clubs have become nu merous In Turkey. A few years ago they were unknown. Moths can smell, scientists have ascortaiili'd. - - r I
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