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ESTABLISHED IN 1866. A NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. Terms of Subscription--$2 00 Per Annum VOL. LVI. WELD ON, N. C, TIIUHHDAY, NOVEMI5HK 3, 15)21. NO. 27 Net Contpnti llFluid Draohm I H F C 3 llif!l 'it I 1 For Infants and Children. N ALWHIOl-OrBRUIS'"' W AVcjolnblpIVcparalioofcrAs i linijl hctwiwhs and Howes ,ThcwtiyrromoiinDi4e5tlon il Cheerfulness ana KC5i.wi 6 neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. Not Nvmioo"! JslhUt Sulti AtiistSttd ItlitirbmattM i.rihit Sugar A nf.ifiil Kpmcdvfcr ConsiiualionanUDiarrhoe" N and l'ewMsnm" -- - i 4 -r- nnn resnllii"1 iliprcfrwMmmaMf iV.i Simile Si""0' ISEW YtWV. Exact Copy of Wrapper. B1U SALE OF End of Season Specials. mm Final riean Organdios.Voils, White Goods Big line cf Attractive Oxfords and Pumps and Men's Shoes Going at Little Prices. Wonderful Sale on Boys and Men's Bummer Clothing 4. L. SWliBtlCK, The Busy Store, mmmmmmmmm. We are not boasting. We are only suiting a raci unJ what hundruU of satisfied patrons say about us. I it-sides excellence of goods, we ;ilso lay claim to promptness and carefulness in the riilnm ot all orders. I sell groceries as cheap for cash as any one in mwii, ami w ill deliver same FREE OF CHARGE. L. E. HULL, Netr Batchelor't Opera House.l THE B1I OF ORGANIZED HKMi Conducted under strict Banking princliles and ihe same efficient management which has marked its success in the pist. Your bus iness is respectfully solicited, which will have our careful aitemion Quentla angary President S. M. Vlei - The Citizens Bank HAI IFAX, N. C. W E Invite the people ul Halifax and surrounding country to pat ronlze thli Bank. Why not have a checking account? It Is necessary In these times. It saves you money, and you have a re ceiDt against payments to your creditors. Besides It gives you i landlm In vour community. W Sound Banking, and Invite you lo r The smallest account receives as with MS. We pay 4 p r cent. Compounded Quarterly on Favlngs. Cvsm i ad talk U avar evil us. Wt asset! jm, jrau s us. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the. Signature. of In Use For Over Thirty "Years CASTORIA tHt OINTAUH COMKANT, NtW VONK BIT. . mm mm mm mm mm mm m - Up of All mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm &m mm mm WELDON, N C m um a mmu WEI.UON, NX HALirm Gary, Presldent. H. M. (irciftirj fleshier. e have every facility known for open an account with us. much attention las the at Rest la 9 IWAP uuvr A VP RAILROAD PUN 10 GET RATES Propone to Reduce Wages and Return All the Saving by Reduction In Charges. FULL TEXT OFTHE PROPOSAL Statement by Thomae DeWItt Cuyler, Chairman of the Aeeoclatlon ef Railway Executlvet on the Situation. Following a meeting In Chicago, October 14, I'M, of the presidents of Dearly all thu leniling railroads In I lie country, Mr. Thomas DeWItt Cuyler, chairman of the Association of Hall way Ksemtlres, made the following statement: At a meeting of the Association of Railway Kjtoctitlves today It wan de termined by the railroads of the United States to seek to bring about a reduction In rates. And as a means to that end to seek a reduction In the present railroad wagea which have compelled mulntenunce of the present rates. An application will be made Imme diately to the United States Hallroad Labor Honrd for a reduction In wages of train service employee sufficient to remove the remainder of the Increases made by the labor board's decision of July 20, 1920 (which would Involve a further reduction of approximately 10 per cent) and for a reduction In the wages of all other classes of rail road labor to the going: rate for such labor In several territories where the carriers operate. Te Reduce Ratoi ae Wages Go Down. The foregoing action Is upon the anderstandlng that concurrently with such reduction In wages the benefit ef the reduction thus obtained shall, with the concurrence of the Inter state Com ni one Commission, he pass ed on to the public la the reduction of existing railroad ratee, except In so far as this reduction shall have been made In the meantime. The managements have decided upon this course In view of their realization of she fact that the wheels of industrial activity have been closed down to a point which brings depression und dis tress to the entire public and that something must be done to start them again In operutlon. The situation which confronts the railroads Is extremely critical. The railroads In 1!)2) realised a net rail way openitlni; Income or about 2,- 00, 000 upon n property Investment ot over 119,000.11110,000 and even this amount of $(12,000,000 included hack mull ih y for prior years received from the government ot approximately ti4.0on,000, thus showing, when the operations of that year alone are con sidered, an actual deficit before mak ing any allowance for either Interest or dividends. The year ended in serious depres sion in all branches of Industry and In marked reduction of the market d msind for and the priceB of basic com modities, resulting In a very serious falling off in the volume of traffic. Roads Forced to Defer Maintenance. In this situation, a policy of the most rigid economy and of postpoa Ing and cutting to the hone of the up keep of the properties was adopted by the railroads. This whs Hi the price of neglecting and for the time deferring work which must hereafter and In the near future be done and paid for. This is lllimtr.it ed by the fact that, ns of September 15. 1921, over 18 per cent, or 374,431 In num ber, of the H eight cars of the carriers were in hud order nnd needing re pairs, iigainnt a normal of had or der of not more than liiiimo as Is further illustrated by lit deferred and Inndeqi ue maintenance of other equipment : id of roadway and struc tures. liven under iliixe conditions, and with this large bill charged up against the future -which must soon he provided for and paid If the car rlers are to perform successfully their transportation duties the re sult of operations for the first eight months of this year, the latest avail able figures, has been at a rate of net railway operating Income, before pro Tiding for Interest or dividends amounting to only 2.6 per cent per annum on the valuation of the car rier properties made by the Inter state Commerce Commission in the recent rate case, an amount not suf ficient to pay the iaterest on their outstanding bonds. Roads Earning Far Below Reasonable Returns. It Is manifest, from this showing, that the rale of return of i or ( per cent for ths first two years after March 1, 1920, fixed In the Transpor tation Act as a minimum reasonable return upon railroad Investment, has not been even approximated mucb lees reached; and that the present hUjh rates accordingly are nut due to any statutory guarantee of earnings, for Here Is so such guarantee. Ia analysing the expenses which have largely brought about this sit uation, It becomes evident thai by far the largest contributing cause Is the labor coet. Today the railroads pay out to la bor approximately to cents on the dol lar they receive tor transportation services whereas In 1918, 40 cents on the ooliar went to labor. Oa the first dsy of January, U17, CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Year Always bears the Signature of when the Koveniiueiu took cbni.. of wages IUiuukIi the Atlaiusoti Act, he htbur cost of the railroads had nut ex ceeded the sum of about $1,4118,000 000 annually. In liK!iJ, when govern ment authority mude the Inst wage Increase, the labor coHt of the rail roads whs about 3,0(18,000,000 an nually, or, If continued throughout Hie year instoatl of for thu eight months during which tun wage Increases were lu effect, the labor cost, on an annual basis, would huve been hugely In etcusu of ;l,!ltHi,iiiiij,il00 an Ho reuse, since tile government took charge of ni 1 1 rod il wages In the Adamson Act, of approximately $2, 4fo.uiio,ion annually. In thu light of the.se figures, It Is manlfeut that Hie recent reduction of wages Hittlioiiiied by the Ijtbor Heard, estimated at from 10 to 12 per cent, in no sense meotH or solves the prob lem of labor costs, und In no way makes It possible for the railroads to afford a reduction of their reve nues, Thousands of Rates Alrsady Reduced. Indeed, during the past year Ihere have been between four und five thou sand Individual reductions In freight rates. On some railroads the reduc tions In rates have amounted to more thun the reductions In wages so far made, und on many other railroads the reductions In wages allowed no net return on operations, but merely pro vided against the further accumula tion of a ili-llcit. The point is often made that agricil-l ture and other Industries are also suffering the sumo immediate difficul ties as the railroads, why, therefore, do not the railroads take their medi cine like anybody else? The ans wer lies in several facts: 1. The railroads were not permit ted, as were other Industries, to make charges during the years ot pros ferity, making possible the accumu lation of a surplus to tide them over the present extreme adversity. Ac cording to the reports of the Inter state Commerce Commission, the rate ot return In property Investment ot the railroads of the United States for the past several years has been as follows: Hate of returns earned by railroads of the United Stales on their prop erty Investment: I'ur cent ...4.14 6.1& 1912 I13 1914 (.17 i e i c -4.10 . i.m .-6.1 . l it 2.4S 0 11 1S16 llltiuttl your) mil mill lulu 1S1!II 1916 (calendar year) 8.16 It will thus be noted that during the years when other Industries were making very large profits, wbeu the prices of farm products and the wages of lubor were soaring to unheard-of heights, the earnings upun railroad Investment In the United States were held within very narrow limits and that they have during the past lour years progressively declined. Roads handicapped More Than Other Buelness. 2. The railroads nre responsible to the public for providing adequate transportation. Their charges are lim ited by public authority, and they are In very large respect (notably for labor) compelled to spend money on a basis fixed by public authority. The margin within which they are permit ted to earn a return upon their In vestment or to offer Inducements to attract new capital for extensions und betterments Is extremely limited. However much the railroadB might desire, therefore, to reduce their charges In times of depression, It will be perceived that the limitations sur rounding their action do not permit them to give effect to broad und elas tic policies which might very prop erly govern other lines of business not thus restricted. tt has been urged upon the railroads that a reduction in rates wilt stimulate traffic and that tnoraafid traffic will nro tuct the currlwrB from the loss Incident te a reduction In rate.. Tlir railroad niaiiiMr.inentl cannot disguise from tii.m Itttwe that this suggestion Is nitr.ly con jectural and that an adverse result of the experiment would be disastrous, not only to the rallroada, but to the public whose supreme need Is adequate tnnis porutlon. Consequently the railroad manesvineiiui cannot reel justified In placing these In strumentalities, so essentia! to the puhllo welfars, at the hasard of such an exp. rl meut based solely upon such conjecture. Farmers Especially Need Lower Ratee, It Is evident, however, that existing transportation chargt-B bear In many ernes a tilBriporllouitte relationship tu the prices at which commodities can lie sold In the market and that exlslliis luhor nnd other costs of traiisportiition thus Impose upon Induetry and agrleultura generally a burden greater than tte y should near. This le esiieelslly true of agriculture. The railroad niuiiaKvmente are feeling sensitive to mid sympathetic with the distressing situation and d ?! A to do everylliing to assist In rellev t tt that Is eniupulalile with their duly to furnish Iralisnortutttm which the puhllo must have. At the moment milroads In many eases are paying 4" eenta an hour for un.killed labor when similar labor is working along Ride the railroad and can easily lie ob tained by tin in at !! cents nn hour. The railroads of the country iiuld In IKll a total or eonaiiicntmy over il.niui.iliHUtiio to unskilled labor alone. However dc.li-i.hla It may be to pay this or that schedule of WHSi'S, it is onvlous tnat It cannot be paid out of tile railroad earnllius, unless ttie tndustrUn which use the railroads are ciinul.le ol niectluK such charges. Tile rallnculs, and through them the people generally era alsu hampered In their ennri lu economise nv a schedule of wnrsllig rulri and conditions now In force as a batitage from the period of reuerai control ana uuneia by tne ra road labor board These conditions are expenaivv, uneconomic and unnuceBuury from the point of vtvw of rallrvas opcra tlcn and extremely burdeuaonu upon Out pubilw which paye the bill. The schedule ol ttases alio ol woiKkng conditions pie vents the railroads from dealing equita bly with their labor and ooata in aecoi-J. ance Wttli rapidly changing conditions ant the great variety of leual considerations wnicn ougnt o control wagea in diRor ent parts uf the country. The ralh-oade are aeeking te have these rules ead wei'Miie couu none abiuaatej The railroads will seek a reduction In wages now prdposed by tint requesting the eanctlon of the railroad labor boarC The rallruads will proceed with, all poe elble diapa'cri, and ne soon las the rallroat labor lie -.rd shall have given Its assi-nt to the reduction in wages the general re eaotlun tn ritee will bs put into erTtjejL Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR I A Clever people often make you think that ou don't think what you think'you do ihink. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA SMILES, It isn't the fellow who has a smile Because of the smile of others, Bui the fellow who counts is the fellow who smiles In spite of his scowling brothers; Or whether they smile or whether they don't. If he's true to his own soul's light He will keep on smiling through thick and thin; He will smile For the sake of the right, The old song says If you smile for them They will have smile for you; But the man who smiles if they smile or not Is ihe man who will put things through The man who smiles because it's his heart That brings to his face the glow Of the peace and the power of his part In the great world's daily show. To do things just to gain in return Some gift or some grace of life Is only a half-way style to win In the toil and struggle and strife. For ihe best old grace of joy In doing and serving along With a smile that is sweet as ihe smile of a boy Till your smile makes labor a song. SOMEBODY'S MOTHFR. The woman was old, and rugged and gray, And bent with the chill of the winter's day. The street was wet with the recent snow, And the woman's feet were aged and slow, She stood at the crossing and wailed long, Alone, uncared for, amid the throng Of human beings who passed her by, Nor heeded the glance of her anxious eye, Down the street with laughter and shout, Glad in the freedom of school let out, Came the boys like a flock of sheep, Hailing the snow, piled white and deep. Past the woman so old and gray, Hastened the children on their way, Nor offered a helping hand to her, So meek and timid, afraid to stir Lest the carriage wheels or the horses' feet Should crowd her down in the slippery street. At last came of the merry troop The gayest laddie of all ihe group; He paused beside her and whispered low, "I'll help you across if you wish 10 go." Her aged hand on his strong young arm, She placed, and so, wiihout hurt or harm, He guided her trembling feel along, Proud that his own were firm and strong. Then back to his friends he went, His young heart happy and well content. "She's somebody's mother, boys, you know, For all she's aged and poor and slow. "And I hope some feller will lend a hand To help my mother you understand If ever she's poor and old and gray When her own boy is far away." And somebody's mother bowed her head In her home that night and the prayer she said Was "God be kind to the noble boy, Who is somebody's sun and pride and joy." LONG LIFE, This Is the Secret of a Lonf Life and a Happy One. Sometimes we see a woman whose old age is as exquisite as was the perfect bloom of her youth. You wonder how this has come about; yuu wonder how it is that her life has been a long and happy one. Here are some of the rea sons : She knew how to forget disa greeable things. She undersiofHl the art of enjoy ment. She kept her nerves well in hand and inflicted them on no one. She believed in the goodness of her own daughters and that of her neighbors. She cultivated a good digestion. She mastered the an of saying pleasant words. She did nut expect too much of her friends. She made whaiever work came to her congenial. She retained her illusions, and did not believe that all the world is wicked and unkind. She relieved the miserable and sympathized wiih (he sorrowful. She reiamed an even disposition and made the best of everything. She did whaiever came to her cheerfully and well. She-never forgot that a kind woid and a smile cost nothing, but are priceless ireasures to the dis couraged. She did unto others as she would be done by, and now thai old age has come to her, and there is a halo of white hair about her head, she is loved and considered. This is the secret of a long life and a happy one. CAUSE FOR MIRTH. When the young mistress of the house entered the kitchen she car ried herself with great dignity. She had, incredible as it might seem, come to call the cook to ac count, Bridget, she said, 1 must insist you have less company -in the kitchen evenings. Last night 1 was kept awake by the uproarious laughier of one of your women friends. Yes, mum, I know, Bridget ad mitted cheerfully, but she couldn't help it. I was telling her how you tried to make a cake yesterday morning SOUR STOMACH INDIGESTION UeJIord'i Black-Draught Hightj Recommended by aTeaaeisea Cractr lor TroaUis R luldag fraa Ttrpid lirer. Bast NnhTllle, Teaa. Tke effle tency of ThedforeVi Black-Draufht, thi fenutne, eherb, Urer medicine, h vouched tor hy Mr. IT. N. Pareois, I trecer ot this city, "tt It wltkont doubt the but Urer seedlclee, sal 1 don't seller I could (et aleif without It. t take It tor seur stosaaeh, head ache, bad Urer, ladltestloa, ant al! ther troubles that era the result at a torpid Urer. 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