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THE CHARLOTTE HERALD (Founded January, 1917) Published Weekly by The Herald Publishing Company of Charlotte At 32 South College Street, Charlotte, N. C. Telephone 4126 ' Postoffice Box 163 MANAGING E9ITOR_--Tom P. Jimison EDITOR. __..James F, Ba'rrOtt Always boosting for a better community, stronger men, protected womanhood and unlim ited opportunities for childhood. We are endeavoring to promote a closer affil iation and a more effective co-operation between producers and consumers for the - conimon good _ of all. ' t ' Corrmiunications on any and all subjects of general interest selected. No communications, however, containing a rersonal attack on any man or woman will be published. Words and acts of public men and women may be as severely criti cised «s the writer may desire, but the line is drawn on personal attacks. Or.e Year-_$2.00 Six Months_$1.00 Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice ■n Charlotte, N. C., under act of Congress. March a. 1879. /•A PERSONAL WORD. I have become editor of The Herald. I want to make it the foremost labor paper in the south, if not in America. This cannot be done in a week, and it cannot be done without the active support of the workers of Piedmont Carolina, especially the leaders in the movement. There fore, I earnestly request that all and sundry of the working people come by and tell me what’s on their minds. • Boys, let’s get started right. Come by the office and make yourselves at home. Come in end tell us what you think ought to be done. This paper is being run for you, to help you to realize your ambitions. Come'on in and tell us how we can serve you best and we will be there with bells on. TOM JIMISON. THE DUKE BENEVOLENCE. J. B. Duke, famous financier, has exercised rare judgment in the disposition of his immense for tune. Denied an education himself, he has seen the need of schools as few men of his day have. Ee has made frequent gifts to the cause of edu cation, notably to Trinity college, and now he eclipses them all with a vast sum to build a great university. The south has long needed a university which would take rank with the big institutions of learn ing in the north, and it is particularly fitting that the plans should have been dreamed cut by a North Carolina man and that siich institution' should be located in this great state. Trinity college, object of so much of| lence, will no doubt iversr have to go to New. England for our theology, to Baltimore and Philadelphia for a medical educa tion, nor to Boston to get that which the Boston ians call “culchaw,” and the- southern mountain eers call “book lamin’.” Mr. Duke is to be commended for the way in which he has bestowed his splendid gift. There are practically no strings to it. He shows that he is wise in his day by insisting that the new institution gives first consideration to the train ing of teachers, preachers, lawyers and doctors. These are most needed, especally the teachers and physicians. His statement is clear and simple, free from the phraseology of pompous piety. Preacher Bateman is wrong in allowing that the gift will hang crepe on Methodism because it is not stuck o’er with references to Christ. Mr. Duke’s provision for old preachers, for orphans, for rural churches, shows that he has a wonderful appreciation of the value of Christianity, and so far as orthodoxy goes, although it may not be to hi3 credit, he is probably as orthodox as Bate man. Euck Duke is not the most popular man in North Carolina. It is easy to cuss him because so many will agree with you. But he has done much for the state, and now heh as put her entire citizenship, and indeed the whole' country, unde” obligation to him. The Herald gives its unstinted praise to Duke for, the matchless way in which he has turned his great fortune back to the people who helped him to make it. THE CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT. Agitating against the nronosod eh'dd labor amendment is a perfectly legitimate occupation if a person thinks that way. But it is absolutely ridiculous to put forth such arguments an that congress seeks to prohibit all wo;k for children, that it is seeking to take away cur liberties, o~ that our national legislative body cannot be trust ed to deal with such a question. In the first place the amendment is designed simply to take the matter of child labor out of the bands of the state legislatures and place it in the hands of the congress. It is therefore simply a question cf which can handle the matter to the best interests of childhood and youth. The matter of prohibition and many other questions have been shifted from the states to the federal government with beneficial results. Liberty is a relative term. The state takes away our liberties when it forces us to send our children to school. It takes away our liberties when it says that we must not hire our l ids out to the factories before they have reached a cer tain age. But in taking away our liberties it brings our children into a. larger and juster libe' ty. But the most foolish contention of all is that the congress cannot be trusted to handle lhn ouestion. Congress can handle the liquor prob lem, can be trusted to elect a president under certain circumstances, is capable of declaring war, passing conscription laws and sending millions forth to die in the trenches, but when it comes to legislating in the interests of our childhood that great body of men must not be trusted! WISDOM. “All of our greatness was born of liberty, even our commercialism was rocked in tbe cradle of democracy, and we can not strangle the mother without destroying her children.”—John P. Alt geld. FOES OF CHILD LABOR BAN URGE MOB SPIRIT. Opponents present a shameful spectacle in their fight against the federal child labor amendment. These opponents have abandoned their states’ rights’ plea and are attempting to terrify the people with hair-raising tales of a governmental Frankenstein that will crunch the nation’s chil dren in its remorseless maw—just as the mills and factories, for instance, are now doing. , Their untruthful statements and their inuendoe3;! would'be ludicrous if helpless children were not involved. Throwing principle and decency aside, the prof iteers of child labor pose as the good fairy who would protect childhood from the one force that has waged war against these profiteers. Gibberish by the most irresponsible is accepted as everlasting truth and mole hills are reared to mountain size if these but terrify the people. The Georgia legislature reached the heights of this inanity when it declared that adoption of the amendment “would give irrevocable support to a rebellion of childhood which menaces our civili zation.” / ' « The claim that congress will stop all farm labor under 18 years of age is the most popular demagoguery of the amendment foes. In 1916 and in 1919 congress believed it ha< the power to regulate child labor. In neither in stance was a farm labor prohibition considered, or even suggested. Amendment foes do not tell the people tha’ the states have the power to stop farm labor, or any other labor, under 18 years. The reason that the power is not the same reason that would deter congresd^^Bp^fe opinion and the lawmakers’ common ' Many states prohibit child labor under IS years in certain callings, such as night messenger service, lead mines and other callings that are morally and physically harmful to minors. The federal amendment would give congress the same power, though this would be limited to 18 years. There is no limit to the right of the states. These facts are ignored by the amendment foes. They reject reason (and truth. They appeal to every passion, prejudice and hate to develop a mob spirit that child labor profits may continue. The men and women who resort to these meth ods are unworthy the name of Americans. They are the wolf pack, whose records is 100 per cent opposition to social legislation of every kind. Mob appeals and wolfpack tactics have no place in a democracy. Sunbeam, Colorado, has been taken over by the women, but the men will never consent to give an’fc do it, but those two worn-,' jovelniors-elect undoubtedly would like to get together between now and inauguration time and discuss that important question, “What shall wre wear?” Folks drowned their troubles once upon a time, but now the women shoot him. Charley Chaplin’s anger over the publicity given j his latest matrimonial venture is only a mild I “peeve” compared to the rage he would have felt | had the newspapers given the event only the space j it really merited. The airship Los Angeles acted rather dizzy j after returning from that christening trip to Washington. Perhaps it gto a sniff of something while at the national capital. Some of the many excellent societies fer the j relief of the blind ought to extend their efforts to induce a lot of motorists. A mother's love is greater chan a wife’s. Ills ; mother believes his lies. !’ In Kentucky a teacher was fined $1 for whip ping a child and many a teacher will think it | was dirty cheap at the price. | Members of congress are fairly unanimous in ; j classing themselves as underpaid. Yet this does j not prevent them from indulging in earnest and j expensive efforts to hold their jobs. A current magazine prints a yarn about a stingless bee, but there’s no point to that tale. If good news would travel as fast and grow I as much in the traveling as bad news there would be a lot more fun in life. The science' of bank robbery seems to bo ad, ! vancing faster than that of protection, against it. Stunt airplane operators have now been added to j keep the spectators busy while the robbery is being carried out. Keep that school girl complexion, says an ad vertisement, and all ‘ pharmacists do. — Some will see special significance in the fact ! that C. Bascom Slemp has been spending his after-election vacation “in Virginia.” 1 Buy your Christmas goods early and you won’t have to shop later cn. One possible excuse for sinking our own war ships is that no other nation ever has shown ability to do it. The Illinois State Journal says a realtor is a man who buys land by the acre and sells it by the yard, but in some low-lying sections they j charge for it by the gallon, | There is nothing like hard work—for the other j fellow. THE TUBERCULAR HOSPITAL. K - •* The peope of Mecklenburg pourity decided by an overwhelming majority on Tuesday to erect a tubercular hospital. This is in line with the progressive policy of the County and the state. It would have been a serious blow to the county had not this progressive policy won out. Un stinted praise should be given to those who had the matter in charge. It is a tribute to then wisdom and work as well as to their foresight and" vision. There was no element of enthusiasm save the one fact that the folks were interested in suffering humanity. There were no drums, no parades, no money, no political pulL There were only weary women, with flushed cheeks, men with pale faces, children with an opportunity to become infected with the fearful white plague. ; And yet the citizens of Mecklenburg came out. came more than five thousand strong, and said by a great majority that we would take of,our abundance and equip a place where those who are afflicted with the disease of tuberculosis could go and be treated humanely, and if possible be cured. The election insures the erection at an early date of a suitable place to treat the victims of the world’s most dreaded disease. It demon strates to the world that the citizens of Charlotte and Mecklenburg county are thinking of other things than money. It brings a ray of hope to those people in the county who are wasting away with the dreadful plague. It gives the lie to those utilitarians who would have the public believe, that money is the summun bonum of our exist ence. We are confident that Mecklenburg, leader in so many things which are worth while, will set! an example for the rest of the state in the treatment of its citizens who have been so unfor tunate as to contract the disease of tuberculosis. Our climate is equal to the best in the treatment of the malady; our doctors rank with the best in the .south; and if sympathy and loving attention are useful, we will simply save the victims of the disease and make this county a model for the rest of the state. There are always those who howl about in creased taxation when a matter of this sort comes up. But their cries have got them no where in this instance. The decisive majority in the elec tion serves notice on the tax dodgers apd the reac tionaries that the people of this county are de termined to care for the unfortunate at what ever cost. The citizenship of the county has done itself proud, and The Herald rejoices with all forward looking men and women of the county that we are to take front rank with the coun ties of, the state who put human welfare and happiness above the dollar. NAUSEATING. (Lexington Dispatch.) George Vandewater, who writes to the New York Times from Charlotte, says that the “brag ging” he hears in North Carolina is nauseating. George writes that he is a New Yorker traveling in North Carolina and South Carolina, and that when he gets back home in New York he never jggli foi? perhaps the most of the folks Georgie knows in “dear old New York” knotv only about “east side and west side”—which arc thel imits of the earth. Those who have kept track of events for the past few years will be ready to admit that this North Carolina bragging is nauseating to some cf the New Yorkers and New Englanders. But the statistics that the United States government has been collecting have been more nauseating. It has made some of them downright sick. In New England some have be^n frightened ; more than nauseated. North Carolina hydro-electric power and North Carolina cotton mills are a bitter dose to New England. Less than three months ago a New England exposition was held in Springfield, Mass. They had a governor’s night and theb urden of every speech but one was that New England was in grave danger of losing her position of eminence in manufacturing. The South was pictured as a menace to that section. Only one of the wholeb unch, a ileutenant .gov- ^ ernor, even said he rejoiced in the prosperity of any other section. He is understood not io be popular up there just now. Those who are inclined to get a little sick of our bragging should keep in mind that for fifty years we Tar Heels were targets for their flings, and we stood it without raising very much of a hullahaloo about it. It does look like they could be sports enough to keep quiet during our inning, especially since the little exercise we are indulg ing in is not intended to wound anyone—which cannot be said about their brand. Many of the newspapers have written lengthy j editorials congratulating the American Federation of Labor because it did not indorse the third party. I In as much as there is no third party it seems j that the papers are a little previous. In a. recent speech at Winston-Salem Governor Cameron Morrison declared that he had no lot nor part with preachers and and teachers who think they have sprung from a tadpole or a mon key. The governor seems determined to straight en us out in the field of “lamin’ ” as well as in the realm of political economy. Buck Duke deposes and says that he favors edu cation along sane and practical lines, whereupon Preacher Bateman arises and remarks that such a course will hang crepe upon the door of the Methodist church. A hard saying, verily. Now it is being noted that President Coolidge j is likely to rank among the best dressed of presi- I dents. Mrs. Coolidge impresses one as a woman ! who would expect her president-husband to keep his trousers pressed. ~-i Most of us are like this pay-as-you-go road building business; if we had to do it we wouldn’t go far. Opportunity doesn’t give a rap if you are asleep. The faster you live the quicker your creditors catch up with you. Hello, Fellers After all the unusual and peculiar circumstances I find myself at last where I have wanted to be for many years, as high mongol-prestidigi tator of The Charlotte Herald. You know I have had a lot of ups and downs and ins and outs, as the religious folks are wont to say, in my efforts to be useful to the workers of North Carolina. Much of the time I have been hog-tled and have had to strain at the leash every time I made a remark in the interest of the toiling multitudes. *But now I am free, and I shall endeavour to use my freedom to my own satisfaction. Jim Barrett has been the chief ramrod for a long time, and he has done what he thought was right, pursuing a course which he though! would result in the greatest good. But his course has not met with -yt>ur approval nor with mine. We have thought otherwise. But the election is over and all the waters of former times has run under the bridge. It behooyes us now to stand shoulder to shoulder and march boot t$‘Jt>oot labor s greatest endeavour, namely to organize the unorganized workers and to obtain for the toiling multitudes a larger liberty and adjuster wage. Now, Fellers z b t I put the matter squarely 'up to you. I aril editing the paper. I am going to put all the punch and pep and vigor at my commafid in the thing in an effort to make it the best labor paper in America. You know me. i. i ;. You, know that there will be no question of where The Herald will stand on the great questions confronting us at this time. But here’s what I crave to say. I can howl till the cows come home but it will do small good unless I have an audience, i can whoop it up for the workers until I get black in the face, write editorials till my right paw is paralyzed, get us anywhere.. mp ifB' The Herald wants you to have a larger share of the world’s good things. But in its fight the editor must tote home a little bacon semi-occasionally. The blue-eyed heir apparent has a big appetite. Payrolls have to be met. O shucks, fellers, a thousand things have to be done that makes it poso lutely and absotively necessary to have a little kale come loping into the office. Whereupon, brethren, take heed, and send iii your back sub scription right at once. It will put all the smiles in Mecklenburg to hold ing a carnival at The Herald office, and it will add vim and vigor, punch and push to the paper. C’on now while the invitation is extended. Yours in Labor’s Cause, TOM P. J1MIS0N hi\ -?■ *rd Just Send Us $2.00 And Watch the Paper Climb the Heights
The Charlotte Herald (Charlotte, N.C.)
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