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'IKE CHARLOTTE NEWS FEBRUARY 2. 1918 The Charlotte News Fublisheu Gaily and Sunday by ! THE EWS rUBLISHIA'G CO. XV, C. Dowd, PrelKt and Gen. Mfr, Telephones! City Editor Business Office Job Offlct. .... 277 115 1530 J. C. PATTON Editor. MRS. J. P. CAXJDWELX.....City Editor. A. W. EURCH .Adv. Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATSS The Chlote Xewi. Daily and Sunday. One year iix months . Three month One month. One week Sunday fmly One year Six months Three months ....... Tima-Dniocrat. Semi- Weekly. One yeax Six months Three month! ift.OO 3.00 1.60 .60 .12 2.00 1.60 .60 $1.00 . .50 .21 ANNOUNCEMENT. The attention Si Ihe public is re spectfully invited to the follow!: Ia future. Obituary Notlcec la H" morlam Sketches. Cards of Thanks, communications eroonsingr the cau of a private enterprise cr a political candidate fend like matter, will be charged for av the rate of Ave cents a line. Thare will be no deviation from this rule. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1912. cavine to the other officers, whose fiHonrta saV-tta&t the only hop to en fnrpA the laws of Raleigh is through the voluntary and unpaid efforts of an officer of the temperance society wno lives in another place: "Raleigh wants no grand stand plays and no attempt to make this aggres sive temperance worK a scape goai. The business of the omcers is 10 en force the law. Let them, do it!" DURHAM SUN SOLD. The Durham Sun was sold this week for something over two thousand dol lars. It-is understood that with certain papers involved, the plant brings about $12,000. The Sun entered the afternoon field in Durham and it is said that new managers spent something like $20,000 in making an up-to-date paper. There is no doubt but what the Sunshas been live, newsy and entertaining, but it is the same old story of biting off more than can be chewed. It is an extremely difficult matter in this day and time to put a newspaper on a paying basis. Very few daily papers have been suc cessfully launched in the South in the past decade. Readers demand more for their money every day. Expensive features are made necessary and very few newspapers are making any large degree of profit. They can not under present conditions, and the field is al mist perillous for the new paper. We regret that The Sun became embar rassed. We trust that new owners will be successful in their efforts to put it on a steady basis. MR. DAVIS IN LIME LIGHT. . Dev. R. I. Davis, president of the State Anti-Saloon League, has been un willingly forced into the limelight of late because of the attitude, of Ral eigh officials, whom he had attacked for non enforcement of the prohibi tion law. Mr. Davis had charged that the laws were not being enforced and he demonstrated the case with which liquor could be secured. Immediately from certain quarters it was Insisted that Mr. Davis be called upon to name the guilty parties. The majority of peo ple, however, seem to realize that offi cials were chosen for that purpose and that the steps taken against Mr. Davis were unwarranted. The News and Ob server comments upon the matter in the following Interesting manner: "There has been a great deal of talk about issuing subpoenas for Rev. R. L Davis, the State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League because he would not take upon himself the duty to enforce the laws of Raleigh. Mr. Davis stated that his purpose was to show that the law was being violated in Raleigh, and to let the officers and the people of Raleigh understand that ir the superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League through others, could buy plenty of whiskey in Raleigh while the State Temperance Conven tion was in session, other folks could ouy it and that the people of Raleigh could get the evidence themseees and punish and stop the crime ifthey wished to do so. There deal of hue and cry on Monday from the lawless element, demanding that Jir- uavis be brought into court and compelled to give the namps nf tho parties who purchased the liquor which he exhibited. Some friends of officers seeking to shield them, were verv vig orous in denouncing Mr. Davis because he did not come forward and furnish iii-s eviuence. Hearing some of thfT iuna oi iaiK, one of the leading citi zens of Raleigh said to bne of the officers: If I were an officer of the city of Raleigh I would be ashamed of myself to ask a visitor to furnish me the evidence to enforce the law; a TP?? 6 ashamel to say that an Anti-Saloon League officer could get more evidence about crime in Raleigh than I could get.' And that statement was applauded. T 3,he s"5"estion was made to Police Justice Watson that he issue a sum mons for Mr. Davis requiring him to return to Raleigh and give the evi dence. Judge Watson very properly took no hasty action, not desiring any grand stand plays. What the people of Raleigh want is to have the sale of liquor stopped, and no mere hue and cry in the attempt to get a scape goat. Solicitor Xorris has written Mr Davis asking him to furnish the evi dence, and, if Mr. Davis ajrtoso with honor, he will comply wi-fi7hls request, but the Charlotte Xewslooks at the matter in the proper light when it says : " 'Raleigh officials are making a grand stand play by issuing, 'ad testificandum' papers for Superintendent Davis of the State Anti-Saloon League. Mr. Davis had offered several samples of blind tiger liquor, purchased without any trouble in Raleigh. He refuses to name the party who made the purchase. It is the business of officials to prosecute these cases, not that of Superintend E.D,avi8 18 Probable that these officials would find no great difficulty In" securing evidence if they made a strenuous effort, without being forced to rely upon an outsider to furnish the proofs.' "It is the business of the Raleigh officials to enforce the law in Raleigh It is a cry of impotence when they Bay that the only possible chance for them to enforce the law is in getting Mr. Davis to give them the evidence If the Raleigh officials cannot get the evidence, and the Raleigh people are bo asleep and indifferent to the reign of anarchy that goes on almost under the very eaves of the city hall, then, sven if Mr. Davis could furnish enough Bvidence to prove the guilt of certain parties, the lawlessness would still go on by other parties, because Mr. Davis sould not stop his business to come to Raleigh and , enforce the laws, for which we have a number of officers paid by the taxpayers of the city. It Is the business of Raleigh people to lee that it is not a lawless city, and the people here pay big taxes to hire offl. cere to enfqrce the law. If they should lie down how and say "We cannot do anything, Mri Davis is the only man on the face of the earth who can en force the laws of Raleigh,' then in Ihe name of all that is fair and right, ice ought to employ Mr. Davis and pay Ho, Jjhe salary - which Ve are now "By the way did Charlotte ever get the Norfolk Southern," Spartanburg Herald. . Get it? ' Why it is packed away and forgotten and we are now about to land the A. C. L. Will Spartanburg never catch up with important news of the day? Four thousand wildly enthusiastic Virginians thronged a, hall to hear Governor Woodrow Wilson speak last night. Evidently the conspiracy has had little effect in the Old Dominion. gjfcjven loiarKable NO. 7. THE CHINESE WALL. We have less admiration for the ap netlte of Woodrow Wilson since he refused to visit Charlotte, in order to keep a dinner engagement in Phila delphia Philadelphia ( of all places! If anything would put a Kentucky colonel in a bad humor it would be Columbia, S. C. That is a noisy trip for Colonel Watterson to that place where "There is not even a telegraph line." Did the ground hog see his, her, or its shadow, Phillips? The town. "Pink Lady" captivated the FROM OTHER SANCTUMS Who Can Zen? The Charlotte News has a punster who has about gone the limit. If he -fdecsn't stop soon we suggest that he be canned. Gaston Progress. Who Killed Myrtle Hawkins. Who killed - Myrtle Hawkins, the Hendersonvllle, Nl C, girl whose body was found in Oscdola lake last Septem ber? This is still a question unan swered, but one that is being eternally asked by the press and the people of North Carolina. This week has seen a decided revival of interest in this mystery by reason of many communi cations on the subject appearing In the Asheville Citizen. These commun ications throw very little, if any, new light on the tragedy, being in the main theories and articles submitted In de fense of authorities who have been subjected to criticism in connection with the case. - There has been an impression that the state of North Carolina was push ing this case and had under way an investigation that might in the end clear the mystery, but from a letter from the chief of police of Henderson vllle this seems not to be the case at all. This officer says he has been told that there are no funds available for the further Inquiry into this tragedy and that such investigation as has been made since the inquest closed has been at his own expense. The public was left under the impression' that the nurse, who disappeared so) mysteriously and who was believed to 1 have knowledge of the death of Myr- tie Hawkins, would be run down and brought back to Hendersonvllle to tell what she knew. So far this woman has not been heard of and there is nothing to Indicate that any special effort has been made to find her. This Myrtle Hawkins case is sort of a double mystery. The girl's death is a mystery, and the manner in which the case has -been handled is also somewhat mystifying. Spartan burg Herald. The most gigantic project ever un dertaken by man was the building of the great Chinese Wall. This wall, after many centuries, remains for the greater part intact, the most gigantic defensive work in the world Imagine a wall thirty-five feet' high and twenty-one feet thick, extending from the Atlantic Ocean half way across our continent, for this mar velouB structure was 1250 miles in ength and you will be able to form an Idea of what a tremendous work was accomplished in its building, and the amount of energy, . money and men required. And all the more wonderful since the greater part of the wall runs through a mountainous country, keeping on the ridges and winding over many of the highest peaks. - Since the accession of the Manchu dynasty in 1644, the wall has been allowed to fall into decay, except at few points where it is maintained for customs purposes. The top of this Wall is paved for hundreds of miles and crowned with crenelated battlements and towers thirty to forty feet high. An army could march on the top of this Chinese Wall for weeks, and even months, moving n some places ten men abreast. The Great Wall of China succeed ed prehistoric stockades, and defend ed that country proper from the wild Mongolian and Manchuria, from which its conquerors and rulers have many times come. It Is so pictures que, with its many bastions and tow ers, so imposing, so massive, so seem ingly endless as it crosses the plain and winds up, as if for picturesque ness sake only, to the crest of the mountain range, "that it needs not imagination," as a writer says, "nor lifelong acquaintance with it as a fact to have it exercise a strong fascination at slgnt the most stupendous work that.jthe hand of man has ever builded, an existing, still serviceable structure that can maintain its pretensions in part with the ruins of Egypt and Assyria." "And this wall looks exactly like its pictures in school geographies! One had half expected that it would not, could not, be so irrationally, unprac tically picturesque, so uselessly solid and stupendous; but Shi-Hwang-TL first Emperor of United China, build ed better than he .knew, and all this modern world must thank him for that enduring monument. One does not really care whether it s two thousand and one hundred and some years old or not; or if millions of men toiled for ten years to complete it. and half a million builders died; or if gov ernment contractors and engineers 'scampel' in 211 B. C. as they do now and left great gaps in , backwoods places where earthworks did as well as solid walls." WTan-li Chang Ching, the "Ten Thousand LI Wall," or Chang Tang, the "Great Wall," is too supremely satisfactory and eye-delighting as an artistic feature of the landscape,, at it winds and rambles in its useless way over the hilltops and far away, for one to split dates and details and to become precisely archaeological. The Great Wall of China is one of the few great sights of the world that is not disappointing. Its solidity and deserted uselessness uplift it and gives it an atmosphere, a unique dig nity, like only to the pyramids. On the Manchurian side the great wall presents a bold face . of gray brick and stone, with towers and projecting bastions, a formidable de fence against the hordes of wild horsemen in the day of crossbow warfare. On the inner, Chinese side, the wall is a sloping earth embank ment, stone and brick facing and cross-walls cropping out here and thtr It has evidently been a build ers' quarry for all the Shankaikwan plain, and there are sun Dnctvs spare by millions, from remnants of walls that run here and there in aim less way on the inner side. Wall building must have been a hab it or mania with the Chinese in those early days, and they built walls when there was nothing else to do, to pass the time, to Keep me peuyus v chief. Weeds and brambles conceal the flagging of the terre-plain, para petB are gone, and many watch-towers have fallen, but a few towers are oc cupied by poor tillers of the soil and their, swarming families. In a recent volume a writer thus describes the Chinese Wall as-it ap pears today: "The deserted towers are melancholy reminders of -past de fenders, who bugled and battled with the Tartar hordes for ages; and Euro pean imagination, by tremendous ef fort, can repeople these battlements and the valley beyond with the oppos ing forces. The civilian feelB the charm of Its tremendous sweeps and curves, the picturesqueness and the poetdy of the ancient place, while mili tary men are possessed and spellbound by this great monument of defensive warfare. "Where warriorB had stood, and the quaint Ming cannon had 're bounded, we basely ate.sandwiches and chicken wings serving as point ers at one military and picturesque feature and another of the great barrier caught a fascinating eye. This wonderful construction makes the Py ramids look like mere isolated heaps of building-stone to the person whose eyes have beheld both. (Next Wetk Seven Great Astrono- 'y'i " '"'v;' ' ..' 'v " " r . 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