A PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE OPBUILDJNC OF AMERICAN
VOL.
VI.
HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
BURLINGTON. N. C.. DEC. 5.1918
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inq CompIeti6n,
Ite beautiful
jyl New Store Near- 3,000 Thrown Into Idleness
.T. 1).
immediately after inven-
taken after the holi-
By New Tariff.
Phoenixville, Dec. 2.—Probably no
Add New Safe Deposit
Boxes.
The Alamance Loan & Trust Co.,
better example of the effect of the has recently added a new series of
new tariff law can be found in the safe depoi^it boxes, to be used by their
country than in this town of more ; many customers for protection. The
than 10,000 inhabitants. The force large number of deposit boxes which
and truth of the prediction of Chas. i they had were all in use making it
M. Schwab and other business men i necessary to ad another series.
& h. B- Whitted, which has
05 '''■ construction for the past
finonths, is nearing completion.
Nvill arrange to move into
‘ . ». •
V,?
- has been _ _
The building and lot cost ov~ , condition of the iron! The new system is the Yale sys-
'■'Viionn The large spacious first - -
^ building will be used for
^-oodp, shoes, notions, while the
will he divided, the front
ied as a coat suit depart.ment
^ar as the millinery’ depart-
"'l; the average building by the use
tiio orison glass, which give an
..a.uH'e of light, and makes the
iioor as light as the first. The
f.nain^ is also provided with rear
which will be used largely for
rhe
civing of goods. This enter-
iirni is to be congratulated on
jrei^ction of this excellent building
adds much to the appearance
>iain Street, and gives the block
3 soliil frontage of nice buildings.
^orth Ciirolina Red Cross Seals Com
mittee.
Chr-rlotle, Dec. 4.—“Buy Red Cross
?ea!s ar.d Kelp Stamp Out Tubercu-
•' This is the slogan on 45,000
i,.vdov.- cards that have been sent
♦0 various parts of the state by the
ir-.tc Red Cross Seal Committee.
Tht' seals were placed on sale on De-
^en.ber 1. in nearly all the cities and
ir.'a large number of the larger towns
Oi the State.
Stroi'i!? committees of leading cii-
izen? ate at the head of the work in
Usl of these places. Hundreds of
|.astor.s of the state will preach Dec.
Tin, on tuberculosis and the need of
preventative work, and other hun
dreds of talks will be given in the
public schools on the same theme
during the first weeks in December.
The State Committee has Iready sent
out -100 sermon and lecture outlines
and has ordered 200 more. In many
f.',ii.;tio5 the County Superintendent of
Schoo!.=. has taken up the work and
speak on tuberculosis in the
schools and place the seals on sale.
Hundreds of thousands of Christ-
ifias packages and letters sent out
oy X'arth Carolinians this year v/ill
I'ssr J^C'd Cross Seals as a marker of
ihe sender’s interest in this, the great
er of all humanitarian movements.
It snay take years to ccomplish it,
biic the time is cominag when tu-
bercuiosis v/Ul be conquered as yellow
fever has been and its terrible rav-
?j!es on theh uman race cease. The
Red Gross Seal is a powerful educa
tor that is helping to bring that Good
Dav.
and steel industry under the Under-jtem of locking which is known the
brought home with more force than j world around as the most sturdy sys-
wood free trade measure, is nowhere tem to be secured. There are only
it is here. itwo ways of securing entrance into
' j these boxes the one by the key of the
th. rear a« ^ i™7r Jved Pennsylvania Railroad Cuts Hours of f
„t The rear is much improveu , . by the key of the person who rents
• Work m Shops. ; it. These Ws ate kept in the large
Altoona, Pa., Dec. 2.—Ihe predic- : vault of the bank which gives double
tion in today's ^‘Press” that the'safety to the valuables entrusted in
Pennsylvania Railroad would begin a ; them. If you use one of these you
policy of retrenchment was fulfilled may rest assured that you are safe,
here today when orders were issued ; not only from fire, but theft also.
reducing the shop forces at all its j — ■
plants here and cutting the working | Prevent Colds,
hours at two plants. The .machine’ Many elderly persons shut them-
shops, employing five thousand men, selves into their homes with the be-
will go on a schedule of forty hours »ginning of winter and do not go out
a week to-morrow. They have been | of doors again until warm weather
working fifty-five. The time will be : comes again for fear of taking cold,
apportioned to four days of ten Just as regularly they develop a cough
hours each. A total of 175 men was which stays by them all through the
suspended indefinitely. cold weather. They take fresh cold
At the car shops, employing three ^ from time to time and when the spring
thousand men, the same hours also'arrives they are weak and anemic
will go into effect tomorrow, while 125 and it takes a good deal of outdoor
men W'ere laid off. exercise in the warm summer weath-
bing...N etaoin Bhrd shrd hrdlurdll, er to restsre them to some sort of
No change has been made in the | vigor again,
working time at the Juanita. shops, j Now is the time to prevent these
where locomotives are built, or at the ^ colds, by taking daily exercise all
South Altoona foundries, but a num- ' through the winter. The windows of
ber of men have been suspended at the sleeping room should be open sirf-
both places. ficiently to get fresh air to breath all
All told, between four hundred and night,
five hundred men have been dropped, j A positive preventive of colds is to
Not since the 1907 panic has the bathe down to the waist is cold water
company cut its working force or the every morning and then rub with a
hours in Altoona. coarse towel until you arfe in a fine
: glow. Have someone close the win-
Monumejit to Sir Walter Raleigh, dows fifteen to thirty minutes before
^ 4 A ’ the bath so that the air of the
Rchmond, Va., Dec. 4.—A meetng tt xut • ^
. , -T ^ f J 1 4. +« IS modified. Have the basm of water,
of the North Carolma delegates to t. •
, ^ J. XX. A • ^ he wash rag and towel on a chair be-
the Conference o - e raerica ' side the bed, sit up in bed while wash-
mittee in .the Kjljrest of celebatwn ^4 « limis warm.
of the 100 years of peace between the
more than three minutes
English speaking peop e, for the sponge and riib and then
treaty of Ghent was held at the Jef-
J* T T _ J 1 'fi u ^ V. II ■* w
ferson Hotel, Richmond, Va., Decem-
This plan has the recommendation
-Other Elon
Dean Lawrence Lectures
Items.
Eion College, Dec. 5.—Elon College
^il have thi'ee representatives at the
Intsrnational Student Volunteer Con-
veniion of College Y. JI. C. A. Men
to be held t Kansas City, Mo., Dee.
iy-Jan. 4. The famUty will be repre-
?ented by Prof. E. A. Campbell. The
stiifJent body wH sent Messrs. W. C.
I'urcuil and W. T. Scaxboro.
The college is to have a Japanese
tu'ter the holidays. Miss Tasio
>. a graduate of the Girl's School
' i Mvo Christian Church; Utsunamiya,
is the young lady in question.
L'xr,r-nc5e;; ia this country are to
Mr, J. Beale Johnson and
ber 3 and 4, ^tnd a op e e . o ow being tried many times under var-
ing resolution: , , ^ ious conditions, always with success
'‘Whereas, is was recommen e y proper precautions are taken,
the conference ohat eac s ® ® ® With the outdoor exercise and the
Union should adopt some suitble me- careful of the diet. Eat only
morial to mark this grea • nourishing foods, meat only once a
■^‘Therefore, to illustrate the glory
of the English race, bo in is coun ^ strain upon the stomaclu Many
try and the mother and, we a cold has been taken after a too
exceedingly fit to commemorate the giving the system more
landing of Sir Walter Ralei^ s co^ readily dispose of.
ony on Roanoke Island, in No There is no limit to the good a nurse
olina, being the first settlement of the districts if she is
English on the American continen in fj. ^orl: and has tact
1585; and,
“Pereas, it was suggested by the
North Carolina delegation, through
the committee on patriotic, organiza- i
tions, that in furtherance of this idea j
' and good judgment in carrying it out.
The Modern Politician.
“The Biggei Job,” an article
by
-c mot
.K-th.er, Rev. J. Lee Johnson, both
■ > (.'ar.le;)as. After studying in Amsr-
Sato is to return to Japan
u rrilsiionary to her own people.
The executive board of the College
''''"■'il I'iioet here tomorrow evening in
ihe rrc-udent's office. Many matters
a routine character will be attend-
su lo oy thein. One item of especial
jjynt-icu interest will be the decision
to hov/ best to house and equip
re.viy created Domestic Science
^’epa-trnent.
The schedule of fall term examina-
tioas has already been posted and
P'fcpaiation in earnest for them has
W. P. Lawrence, Dean of Men,
head of the English Department,
gave ifist evening a wonderfully inter-
locture on the Bronte family,
portrayed the eccentricities and
Peculiar traits of each member and
■'*'>'atly pleased his auditors.
committees having same in
have recently met here to ar-
■an^e for a new Christian Church in
‘‘iRh Point, Rev. J. F. Morgan, pas-
> iinU in Reidgvilie, Rev. L. I. Cox,
^stor. The Reidsville Church is to
a brick structui-e and will cost
$5,000. TKl^t In High Point is
^ be a frame building to cost about
?2,000. :ro5.*rv' .= ■ '
there should be erected in the City ; j^mes Hay, Jr., will be one of the
of Raleigh, a monument to Sir Wal- ^jjg Philadelphia .Snsday
ter Raleigh and his colony; and, | “Press” for December 7th. It tells
“Whereas, it as adopted and en- story of a modern jiolitician, an
dorsed by the General Conference ^itra-politician in fact, no longer
that ws should erect this monument vules of his district leader,
to that brave soldier and sailor, that (pjjg primary and the new at-
brilliant statesman and diplomat, that tjtude of the people tov/ards their
bold explorer and generous coloniz- j-epresentatives have relegated the old
er, that leamed scholar and knightly type to the scrap heap. The man who
cavalier, who after the lapse of cen- succeeds in Congress is the man who
turias shines forth as one of the specializes, for a few ("an hope to
great men of our race-«Sir Walter , amount to much in all the rnuloifari-
Raleigh; therefore ^ | ous interests over v/hich the govern-
“Resolved, that these resolutions | sway. Mr. Hay’s hero
be sent to the Raleigh News and Ob- done hi.s work well and faces the
server, the Wilmington Star and the renomination with confidence.
Charlotte Observer, v/ith request that; ^
all state papers copy the same. j
“Resolved that we hereby request j Sellars Returns From North.
General Julian S. Carr and Col. Bene- j ^ Sellars, of B. A. Sellars
ban Cameron to perfect an organiza- ^ Clothing Department, has re-
tion for the purpose of carrying out ^eek from the northern
the above resolutions.” ; market where he has been buying
' suits and overcoats for his firm. He
OiiUo » Job to Pour Out ail the Liquor tells us that he succeeded in securing
Collected | some big values it being the end of
„ , ’ , .p ' the season mth the manufacturers.
Asheville, Dec. S. Mem ers o Sellars is always on the alert for
sheriff’s department were kept busy i
today pouring whiskey into a bath ,
tub in fte county jail, J “ | jjn,. Dollie Pickar, of Saxapah»w,
flower into the sewer. That portion ^ ■ ' -4. , v
of the intoxicants seized during the earned to Bex Hospital Eale.gh,
recent investigation which is suitable j Thursday for an operation,
for hospital uses has been turned ov-1 Mr. and Mrs. George Williamson,
er to the Mission Hospital. Other in- | of Saxapahaw, were shopping visi-
toxicants, %nfit for use as medicine, tors in town Thursday,
are being destroyed.
In view of tlie fact that a larp part
of the whiskey comes in half-pint bot-
iDtroduces Two Bills in
Tile Senate.
Washington, Dec. 3.—For 15 years
bills introduced in Congress by Dem
ocrats did not count for more than
the paper they were printed on. The
tablies turned when President Wil-
si>n took the Oath of office. Bills put
in the till by Republicans now do not
mean much.
Undet the new regime North Car
olina statesmen expect to be instru
mental ia enacting some Democratic
legislation. Senator Overman has in
troduced at this session two import
ant bills that he expects to get
through. One provides for the con
struction of good roads and the other
authorizes the Supreme Court to pre
scribe forms and rules and generally
to regulate pleadings, procedure, and
practice on the common-law side of
federal courts.
Senator Pverman’s bill to provide
for the construction, maintenance and
improvement of postroads and rural
delivery routes, through the co-oper
ation and joint action of the National
Government and the several States
in which postroads may be establish
ed, would put the states and the Fed-
erar government on an equal footing
as far the money goes.
The bill provides: “That there shall
be appropriated out of money in the
treasury of each state for the build
ing and repairing of good roads for
'star '.arid rural routes the sum of
$500,COO for the year ending June 30,
1915, and to annual increase of the
amount Of such appropriation there
after for 10 years by an additional
sum of $25,000 over the preceding
year. No state shall receive any of
the benefits of this act unless such
state shall appropriate a sum at least
equial to the amount herein appropri
ated for a similar purpose.”.
The Postmaster General and the
Secretary of Agiiculture are to be
charged with the proper administra
tion of this law.
The Overman bill would give North
Caroli.na in the course of a few years
about $1,000,000.
The^6ther Overmaii bill j* which may
become a. law at this session, provides
that the Supreme Court shall have
power to prescribe the forms and
manner of service of v/rits and all
other processes; the mode and man
ner of framing and filing proceedings
and pleadings; of giving notice and
serving process of all kinds; of taking
and obtaining evidence, drawing up,
entering and enrolling orders and
generally to regulate and prescrib'e
by rule the forms for the entire
pleading practice, and procedure to be
used in ail actions, motions, and pro
ceedings at law of whatever nature
by the District Courts of the United
States, i'
The Clayton bill provides for com
pensation of clerks of United .States
District Courts was reported from the
House Judiciary Committee today.
It provides that on and after the first
day of July, 1914, all fees and. «imolu-
ments authorized by law to be paid
to clerks of United States District
Courts shall be charged as heretofore,
and shall be collected by said clerks
and covered into the Treasury of the
United States; that it ;;hall be the
duty of all clerks to acc;;ur,t quarter
ly for ail he fees and e-aoulments
earned by them.
The clerk of the Unted T r.'.tes Dis
trict Court for each of the following
districts shall be paid, in lieu of sal
aries, fees, i.er ccntums, other
compensatior s now allowed by law,
an annual salary as follows: For the
Eastern District of M.'^rth Carolina,
$3,500; for the Westcr.i District of
North Carolina, $4,500: for the dis
trict of the State of S'.uth Carolina,
$4,000; for cu::h of tbs districts of
Virginia, $4 500.
WHO EVER HEARD OF HIGII
Carr
It is announced at .Washington that
there is to be a thorough investiga
tion into the cause of high. prices,"
This is almost unbelieyaljle. Why in
vestigate something that does not ex
ist ? High prices—^why, there is no
such thing! They were to persh on
the enactment of the nev/ tariff law.
The bill Was passed for that purpose.
We have Mr. Wilson's word for it,
that under the new tariff order of
things a high price was to be a thing
as rare as the dinasaur or the ptero
dactyl or other creature of the dim
and distant past.
Investigate the cause of high prices
Investigate the cause of high
prices? Why, the cause was'known
to the country. The Democratic par
ty told it. In the most fervid words
of type and throat they declared that
the tariff was the one and only cause.
Cut down the tariff and low prices
would follow as the iiight the day.
Put them in power and the cost of
living would have a Humpty Dumpty
fall, and, like that fabled gentlemaR,
“all the king’s horses and' all the
king’s men” could hot restore it to
its high wall again.
The country listened to the siren
song of Democracy which told how
prices would fall and the eaimings
of labor remain the same. It seem
ed to believe that a miracle could be
worked, that the manufacturer could
be hampered and wages and employ
ment keep on just the same. There
were those who were rash enough to
advise that an investigation into the
real cause of high prices be made be
fore action was taken. But such the
Democrats laughed to scorn. The
country dismissed its political phy
sicians, the ones who had brought it
safely through many a period of dan
ger, and put itself under; under the
care of a new doctor and his guaran
teed remedy of tjariff revision.
And now the medicine turns out
to be a quack remedy. No cure has
been worked, no benefit has been gain-
ed. Indeed the patien^ .shows symp
toms^, worse thanyhefbre. V ^
ready loss of industrial vitality, there
is poor money circulation, the pros
perity pulse is weaker and the busi
ness heart is in need of artificial
stimulant.
How great is the difference between
promise and performance! How dif
ferent the picture from that of a few
months ago when with flags fljfing
and people cheering the name of
Woodrow Wilson was affixed to a bill
which was to be a panacea for all
cost-of-living ills! Already the plat-;
ing has Worn off t his measure of al-
h^ged I pure gold(-r-the brasai shows
through. Prices are even higher than
before. There are dark clouds Where
sunshine was scheduled.
So now an investigation will be^
made as to the cause. It is apparent
even to the Democrats that a high
tariff does not make high prices. Some
other cause must be found. The new
tariff law has failed in its supreme
test. And there has been esta.blished
the greiat fact that to act first and
to investigae aferwards as to the
need of action, is the policy of those
who are nov.r bur rulers.
Mrs. S.. G. Boland has suflSiciently
recovered from an operation to be at
01 tne wnissey ... friends are
ties, the sheriff's deputies say a i ' ^ see her improving so nicely,
will be several days before they can,®
finish thfe task of clearing the jail Dr. J. F. Spoon returned a few days
“har^oom.” The retrcests of prison-[ago from , near Hartshorn where he
ers to a4d in jthe dfeslwctioiiof Ihe w$s the ^uest of his father who was
whiskey h»v« ieea.TefuB^. ^ is~ much improved.
Mr. FinL;y rn-Estates ;f $185,-
00000.
Wa&hi.?g'toii, Dec. 4.—The ir.ta W.
W. Finley, presider.t of the Southern
Railway Company, left an estate
valued at $185,0K) according to his
will, made last March and filed today.
A life interest is devised t-o his wife,
Lillie Davis Finley, and at her death
it goes in trust to the five children.
Should Mrs. Finley re-marry the trust
created becomes effective at once.
Mr. Finley explained that this lat
ter provision was inserted at the
special request of his wife and not
on account of any lack of confidence.
In proof the testator in the follow
ing sentence appointed his wife as
executrix.
Real estate in this city and a farm
in Pftu^ler county, Virginia^ /alued
At $125,000 and insurance, scoc&a and
bonds, valued at $60,000, comprise
the estate.
Big Tobacco Break on the Market.
One of the bggest tobacco breaks
of this season was sold here during
the past two or three days. The
weather had been out of order for sev
eral days so the farmers could not
get the weed ready. When the sea
son came the farmers were on the
job and worked out a load and carried
it to market. The warehbusss all had
tobacco and the farmers all w'ent
home with money. There certainly
can be no better place to sell the
beautiful golden yellow than On oUr
market. We extend a cordial invita
tion to all farmers to come and we
believe they will be well pleased.
In every 1,000, marriages solemniz
ed in Great Britain, twenty-one are
between first cousins. Among the no
bility the rate is much higher, amount
ing to forty-five in 1,000.
Nation-Wide Search for Girl.
New York, Dec. 4.—- A nation wide
search was begun today for Helen
Bums Whitehead, an eleven-year-old
the Masonicetaoin shrdlu cmfwypmf
’ girl whose home is Hunter, N. Y., by
the Masonic lodges of the United
States. According; to informatidn in
the hands of detectives the White-^
head girl is heliey^d to he hiding in
this city with her half-brother, dis
guised as a boy.. - i-
Raleigh, Dec. 4.-—Durham citizens
Will ask General Julian S. Carr to al
low. them 1^0 carry his name to the
next Democrai^ convention as its
nominee for Goyernpr of North Car
olina. ' _
Sumter C. Brawley, several years
chairman of the Democratic Eexcu-
tive Committee of Durham, and Par
ham’s reprcsentaiiye in the lower
House, was in' the city last lught.
When asked what about a rumor ‘that
came here a day or two ago relative
to General Cair’s possible entry into
the race, Mr. Brawley said:
“The rumor ^11 be reality if Gen-;
eral Carr consehts to allow his friends
to present his name. I believe such
consent would riisUlt; in everybody’s
voluntarily stepping aside to illow
this long unrewarded and distinguish
ed citizen of North Carolina to be
made its Governor without opposi
tion., '
“Those Who will more than likely
make the race are able, young and
strong. But they are young and a
wait of four years would do good
rather than harm. General Carr
could be norninated without opposition
and it would be a fitting climax to a
car^r which Has been marked for its '
public service with reward for that
seirvice marked for its absence.
“General Carrj so far as I know,
is yet unaware thiat outside his home
town there are niahy prominent men
who feel about this just as we do.
All over North Carolina there are
people who long ago made up their
minds that if General Carr is ever in
position to be voted for by them,
they will do it. . t believe if his friends
will press his claims, he will consent
to run.
“I know he is ijipt seeking the of
fice. But he has never declined ohe
when he could do a semce. You
remember, three years ago when we
nominated him for thie lower House.
Thre Was nothing in the legislature
that could help him. He was taken
from his vast business interests and
his siljrvice in the House necessitated
his employment of a special secretary
to do hi£ work^ but he went.
“Julian S. Carr in the Governor’s
office would bring back to it the fast
receding Old South of fine hospitality
and Democratic siniplicity, because
he was a Confederate soldier and be
longed to the old regime. It would
be one of the last oppoitunities for
the present generation to see the old
way of doing things.
“But it is not fo^ these reasons that
we are urging him to run, but because
his services hayie been so unselfish
and so great. He bihnot plead these
lest somebody impeach his modesty,
but >ye can. The schools and churches
all over North Carolina testify to his
generosity to them. The University
and Trinity; the denominational
schools of all faiths, and the fraternal
organizations Oif the State have felt
his generous gifts whenever there was
a need to be supplied.
“The Democratic party has found
him its largest contributor to its funds
when funds were ^^he hardest things
to get and campaign expenses raised
with great difficulty. These free will
offerings have made him preeminent
among the philanthropists of North
Carolina and he has not had his re
ward.
“As a business man he has given
employment to countless thousands
and in the business side he has been
one of the very leaders in all welfare
work and social uplift. North Car
olina has not had a business Governor
in niany years. She has an oppor
tunity now to nominate and elect one
of the biggest ones in the Southern
States.
“I believethat the very suggestion
of this molrement in your paper will
start a Carr movement that cannot
be stopped J^iid that nobody who holds
inmind his great Beryices to the
State Will oppose him is ,he is willing
to make the race.”
Mr. Bradley declares that he has
found many fi*ienda who will be glad
to malcei a personal canvass of the
State in the interest of General Carr.
Mrs. j. C. Bttcil^nAn is: BpeniiiR^
few days at .^reensboro, tter
of her sister, Mrs. G. A. Hood.
Prizes are to he given to girls in
the Western College for Women at
Oxford, Ohio, who make the greatest
improvement during a certain period,
jiot only in^lhteleetual growth, but in
physical d^yelopment.
Her..F'ame..
*‘iai * the Tirbii^ seem to' I^k
up'
tifcils loMt cotl^Uoii
of 'Hrld iiledidiiief in our neighborhood.'’
—LottiaviUt C^nrief-JounwL