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m ?oooJ-cJa?e mittw Augutt 5, 190*, at tbe p-?JnflV?
t. ?? P., undar t h? ?ctpf Man* ?. 1870.
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........ 1.60
....... 8.00
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promptly. tnlephona or writa thi* offioa. Bntaeritan desiring
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JAtfES L. i .
OASL GOEBCH.
WAsmypQToy. north cai
TwbIto moro shopping days until
going to start in next week.
Now that the British cabinet crisis has passed, we are again being
entertained with rumors of changes in our own cabinet*
Of oourse there are some persons who will still give diamonds this
Christmas, but the real elite, who don't mind how they spend their
money, will actually give coal and bread. k
SELLING OURSELVES FOR GOLD.
In this week's issue of the Saturday Evening Poet there appears
an interesting cartoon which is worthy of study.
It depicts John Hull in tbe role of a saloon keeper, with Uncle
Sam leaning over the oth<?r side, of the counter in a highly hilarious
condition. Over one arm, John Bull is holding Uncle Sam's hat, his
?oat and his shoi^s (representing American goods.) He is engaged
in pouring out a drink for llncle Sam from a bottle labelled "British
Gold Shipments." A cunning leer is spread over lxis face. Uncle
Sam, with one hand on John Bull's shoulder, appears to be very joy
fal. "John ol' bo\," he is saving, "I never felt richer in my (hie)
lifer
The cArt<vn very aptly presents our true condition. Prosperous?
Yes, indeed! We're so prosperous that the world is spinning around
before our eyes, that are so dizzy we cannot maintain our balance; in
other words,- -we're beastly drunk. Our normal cool judgment is
gone. We are incapable of acting rationally.
All that we crm see is GOLD; glittering, bright and shiny gold!
Our minds think of nothing else. We have lost all our reasoning
power and ail that we run figure out is that the more gold we have
the more prosperous we will bo. We are willing to give everything
we have? ?our food and our manufactured products, our ships ?
EVERYTHING, just so thut the flow of gold from these foreign
nations wili continue.
Yes, we are willing to do oven more! We are willing to ship back
the gold that tins been paid for our supplies. We have already loan
?d out close to $2,000,000,000. As long as the rate of interest re
mains high enough, we are as eager to continue making loans in the
future.
Two men are shipwrecked and casf upon an island. Before leav
ing their vessel, they each managed to save something. One gained
possession of a large amount of gold and the other carried off all th?
food supplies that ho could. When they arrive at the island, th<
man witli tiiu i'c d gn;:cs enviously at the pile of guld that his frient;
possesses. Ho lo: .^s f r it and he d reams of it lie asks for some of
it, but is refustd. .Finally ho offers to sell some of his food for it
The other, after appearing to demure, finally consents to buy some
of the food. But thi3 merely arouses the greed of the man wifh tin
food to a greater extent, lie oilers all of his food for the other'?
gold. The offer is accepted. For a while, the man is overjoyed
and happy but before long the pangs of hunger make themselves felt.
Ho begs for n morsel of food, but his friend spurns him. He offer:
to. give back all of the gold for just a small bite. The other agrees
to make the exchange.. But that bite fails to satisfy, and at last the
man starves to death, having lost both the food and the gold.
What is going to be the outcome of the policy under which we.
a* a nativn, art* operating under at the present time? The effect;
are already beginning to uiake themselves felt. We have more gold
than wo have ever had before, but our supply of food is stead ih
diminishing, ilany of our people are starving in order that the
war in Europe may be continued. As fast as we can, we are loaning
the money back again to the foreign powers and we are bound to
realize that they cannot pay it back at the specified time. We will
l>e unable to expand our industries because of the capital that is tied
up in this manner. We are due for an unhappy awakening, but we
pray that the awakening will come before it is too late.
No man of prominence has ever emphasized the value and impor
tance of professionally trained teachers with better logic than did J.
Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture in President Cleveland's
Cabinet, when lie said :
"We demand educated educators. We demand professionally train
ed teachers, men and women of irreproachable character and well
tested abilities. We demand from our legislature laws raising the
standard of the profession and exalting the office of Hie teacher. As
the doctor of medicine or the practitioner at law is only admitted
within the pal" of his calling upon the production of his parchment
or certificate, so the applicant for the position of instructor in our
primary and other schools should be required by law to first produce
his diploma, his authority to teach, from the normal schools.
"We call no educated quark or charlatan to perform surgery upon
the bodies of our children lest they may be deformed, crippled, and
maimed physically all their lives. Let us take equal care that we
entrust the development of th? mental faculties to skilled instructors
of magnanimous character that the mentalities of onr children may
not lie mntilated, deformed, and crippled to bfclt and limp throurfi
all the centuries of their never-.ending livea. The deformed body
will die, and lx> forever put out of sight under the ground, but a ,
mind made monstrous by bad teaching does not, but stalks forever I,
among the ages, an immortal mockery of the divine image."
This plea of Mr. Morton for professionally trained teachers waa i
made the platform of the first national conference on teacher train
ing for rural schooli which met at Chicago in September, 1914, in
its nation-wide campaign for professionally trained rural teacher*.
Wotfc* at tUrrtrrr of flm* Plane.
I h#r? chit a?r bwn appointed
?"Mlw by the Fwi.rat Court of the
Property and taalnea* of the Wut
larlom. Llchtia* Company anil win
eentlnoe to operate tha ran plant kr
<*r?m of tha Court nntll farther no
?"? rromft paymont fa reqneeted
of all ' billa do a tha Corapaay and
Mttlemrat ahooM bo n<( with Wat
M?r*1? niount, at till Comptif'i
ome?. No othor pcrooa U aatkoriMd
t? r??l?. or p?f orot mon.r In m,
nome or to tettpt or Incur .n* okll
Mtlon on th. port at th? Comp??y.
Thlo flwatir 4. 1?1? i
onoham t. i.baoh. >m|W. I
T
m%)4| !? trying to OUnk up
Unaf to |lf? tbair triads for,
rlatmu praaant. Nothing (a to
u yo?r >h?tgn^ for tr?ry
r praaeat la only rained by ths
irv and c?nta It coat. I
BAKBR'S ATCDIO.
I WAS ttandlhg.
IN FRONT 0 U
RUSS BROTHERS' store.
THIS MORNING.
AND THE window*.
WBRK FILLED.
WITH TOTE.
OF ALL kinds.
AND THERE were.
THREE OF tour kid*.
STANDING* THERE too.
AND THITwrrlooktif.
AT EVERYTHING.
IN THE window*.
AND THEY W.
PICK I NO OUT.
WHAT THEYSraaU*.
SANTA CLAU8.
TO BRING them.
AND EACH one.
HAD A lone list.
OF THINGS.
THAT HE wanted.
AND ONE little fellow.
JUST STOOD there.
AND SNIFFED.
(AND IT reminded me.
OF MY cold).
AND HE looked sad.
AND HE didn't.
HAVE ANYTHING to MJ
AMD ONE of the others.
ASKED HIM.
WHAT HE was going to get.
FOR CHRISTMAS.
AND HE said:
"I DON'T guees.
"I'M GONNA getnothln'."
AND THE other boys.
LAUGHED AT him.
AND THEN told him.
ALL OF the thlnga.
TH/T THEY were ?olng to get
AND THE other boy.
DIDN'T SAY anything.
AND HE 3 oat looked.
AT THE windows.
AND SNIFFED.
AND DIRECTLY.
THEY ALL went away.
AND 1 wish.
THAT I had.
ABOUT A million dollar*.
AND I can't help.
BUT FEEL sympathetic.
TOWARD "BOY8.
THAT LOOK sad.
AND SNIFF.
I THANK yon. '
, SAYS BIG EATERS GET
KIDNEY TROUBLE.
Take a GIhm of Cold Water and Kid
neco to Fluwh Kidneys If Back Hurt*
Omit All Meat from Diet If Yon Feel
Rheumatic or Bladder Bothers
The American men and women
must guard constantly against kidney
trouble, because we eat too much and
ill our food is rich. Our blood Is fill
ed with uric acid which the kidneys
strive to filter out, they weaken from
over-work, become sluggish; the
ellmlnative tissues clog and the re
hu It Is kidney trouble, bladder weak
ness and a general decline In health.
When your kidneys feel like lumps
of lead, your back hurts or the urine
la cloudy, full of sediment or you are
obliged to seek relif two or throe
times during the night; If you suffer
with sick headache or dizzy, nervous
spells, acid stomach, or have rheu
matism when the weather is bad, get
from Davenport's Pharmacy about
one dozen kldneco tablets; 'takp one
with a glass of water before each
meal for a few days and your kidneys
will then act fine. This famous rem
edy is made from perfectly harmless
Ingredients and acts quickly and has
been used for generations to flush
and stimulate clogged kidneys; to
neutralize the acids In the urine so It
no longer Is a~ source of Irritation,
thus ending baldder disorders.
Kldneco Is inexpensive; cannot in
jure, make no mistake, insist en kid- ,
neco. It belongs In every home, be
ratis* nobody can make a mistake by (
having a good kidney flushing any
time.
threat, *ith bad taste, a slight
beulache. dull eye*? ell show that
fuirxi has. fermented in the tntet
Uqes, and that the body is man
ufacturing poisons instead el
rood V-^od.
Clear it ?ll out Give the
atatuach and bowels a fresh start
Lnirourr.gc the liver to go to
work. Mtnalin does all of this.
tunc, becauiw it follows Nature's
plan, without discomfort, inflam
mation or forming a habit. Coo- j
itipation may be overcome with |
~ LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining uncalled for In this
offlce for the week ending
Washington. N. C.r Doc. *, ltll
MEN? Taylor Bell. J. J. BUtf. C.
E. Bird, Addison Bailey. O. G. CroW
ell, T. A. Conway. G. B. Ellis, Clyde
Elliott. George Taylor, Essie Gay
lord, Mark Jenklns.McKlnley J ones,
H. Latham, Geo. A. Moore, Delia
Moorcfl F. A. MlUa, W. 8. Martin.
C. H. Martin. Nelson Rhodes, W.
Preston Russell, E. W. Smith, C. E.
Smith, L. C. Sidson, John 8. Sim
mons, James G. Stancell, J. H. Town*
send, 'James Wright, John 8 .
WdpfEN? Miss AlUe Breaker.
Mlas Mary Borden. Mrs. Rosetta R.
Furrnan, Miss Bettle Hay. Miss M.
Kate Harris. Mrs. Harry McCoy, Re
becca-North, iffs. John H. Pierce,
Miss Mary Rlngo, Mrs. Thomas Wil
liams. Miss Bell Wallace. Mlas Ma
mie B. ? , Miss Julia Trate.
These leters will be sent to the
dead letter offlce December 12, 1916,
If not delivered before. In calling
for the above, please say "Adver
tised, " giving date of list.
N. HENRY MOORE. P. M.
ADVERTISE W THE DAILY NEWS.
FOR YOUR
ROTA BAG A
TURNIP &
COLLARD
SEED
SEE
WORTHY &
ETHERIDGE
DEMONSTR A TI ON
Numerous varieties of cakes
and crackers will be demon
strated, by
The National Biscuit Co.
SATURDAY
Dec. 9th
At our ?tor*. Come tnd try *omo of
tho gowBw that will bo po? oil oat
WILLIAMS & HARRISON
A COMPANY
' -ifr- TrW* " i i
Colorea Laborers
lANTIDl
Steady Work This Winter
Wages
$1.75 Per Day
No time held back. All
work inside. No time
lost on account of bad.
weather. Comfortable
quarters for lodging
and board. Apply
Pamlico Guano Plant
Below Washington Park
Adverti ** m the Daify Newt and Watch Resu)ts
4. UM)N WOOD
J. LEON WOOD & CO
BANKERS AND BROKERS
Stock?, Bonds, Cotton, Grain and Proriaiooa. T8 Plume St..
Carpenter Building, Norfolk, Va.
Private wirn to New y rrrk Stock Exchange, Obieaga Board
Trade and odur fin an rial oeatera.
Corntpo ndsnce Rxtpeeifvl ly BtUtkltd
(nvtauneat and marginal aoeonnts give* earefnl attention.
ROTfCK.
The annual meeting of tha *t or It
holders of the First National Bank,
of Washington. N. C? wlU be held at
the banking bona* Tneoday, Juum n
tth, 1IIT. X 11 o'clock noon.
A. M. D (J If AT. Oubl?r.
11-4 to l-?.
i'
nice wall ealen.
|Ud to hiTi m>
frtMd. call and
HACKNEY, JR
Union Contra) L
trtct Ami Atla
HP1^
JUST RECEIVED!
A CARLOAD OF
Automobiles
The latest models , showing
many improvements , includ
inq a large hood and more
graceful lines.
THE BESTiLCAR FOR THE MONEY, AND THEN SOME
See these new touring cars
today. No change in price ,
but more car .
""25 Delivered