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ONE MAN WITH A
GENIAL SMILE IS
WORTH TWENTY MEN
WITH A GROUCH
A MAN WITH A CORK
SCREW ON HIS KEY RING
IS READY FOR AN
EMERGENCY
BY AL FAIRBROTHER
Bl'BSCRIPTION 1.M A YEABf SIVGMD COPT I CBNTS
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914.
ON BALE AT THE MEWS STANDS AM ON TKAINS
ESTABLISHED MAY 190a.
CARE FOR THEM
A RIGHTEOUS CAUSE
IS LOSING HIS POWER
LIES DON'T HURT HIM
THE OLD STORY
Richmond's Decency To
Care For Fallen.
HE social problems arc
now claiming the at
tention of the people of
Virginia, and one law
proposed has raised a
great deal of discus
sion. It is a law which
says the women of the
slums of the dark under-world must move
on and naturally those who have some sym
pathy for the fallen, are wondering what will
become of them in the last run they are forced
to make. Georgia May Jobson President of
the Social Service Federation, writes that her
organization will see that all these women
are taken care of; that no one of them need
flutter around like a bat in day-light; that the
Social Service Federation numbers 7000 good
men and women who will part with the coin to
see the women taken care of it the bill passes.
But then comes in one J. H. Drake and
takes a new tact. He talks abdut "commer
cialized virtue"- which is a new one, says
these people well to do are being paid to work
up this scheme. The Presided calls him the
short and ugly name, and explains that min
isters of the gospel of this city and the mem
bers of the Social Service Federation, made
up of good, clean men and women, do not have
to be and are not paid to do everything in
their power to make this city and State a safe
place for the boys and girls of today and to
morrow. Mr. Drake replies by saying it is brutal and
indecently cruel for the state to make roofless
a crowd of women at the behest of a few fad
dists. This remark was what called forth the
ire of the woman and she handed him a pack
age with an inner seal. : .
The good women of Richrrond propose to
are for the fallen sisters ; propose to find de
ent shelter for them, and employment. This
is a worthy cause and is much better than
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cnasing ine nuniea imngs irom one town 10
another, allowing them to spread their immor
ality. It is not only protection for decency
"but it suggests a bit of humanity worth while.
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Will Raise a Subscription.
The Charlotte Observer insists that the Old
Man of this star spangled banner become a
"'jiner" far enough at least to mingle with the
press gang, at its annual reunions. It even
goes so far as to reveal a great secret, and
tells why heretofore we haven't become one
of the White Lambs. The Observer says :
"Col. Al Fairbrother of Everything con
fesses with regret that personally he knows
but half a dozen editors in North Carolina.
This is because he is not a member of the
Press Association and the rason he is not
a member is he didn't like it because Secre
tary Sherrill declined to credit him for five
plunks, the price of admission, and the same
-which all members have to put up before get
ting in. We have often felt like advising
Fairbrother to send Sherrill a five dollar bill
one of the kind that looks as if it had iust
come from the printing press and with it a
couple of twos to pay dues for a year or so in
advance, and get in line for the presidency of
thel association. The Observer has always
entertained an idea that with Fairbrother as
President there would be some new stunts for
the association, perh. - trip to California.
At any rate? it would not hurt for the Colonel
"to come in and sit at the table with the boys.
It would do no very grea violence to his anti
It would do no very great violence to his anti
jining record to get into the association. , The
Observer has a committee ready to show him
in the front way."
We have turned the matter over to the exe
cutive committee of . the Pressing Club of
which we are! a member in good standing. If
we get a favorable report we shall appoint a
committee and attempt to raise by popular
.-subscription, the number of plunks necessary.
We think, possiblythat we will make it a bond
issue. If . we float 'em all right, we'll send the
lock of our hair ; the color of out hazel eyes
and a photograph before, and after taken, and
see if t is possible to get in. This thing of
handing out to us a chance to get in line to be
president appeals mightily to our vanity. To
be President of a Press Club and a Pressing
club simultaneously would be the crowning
glory -of Si life of shame. It needs but this to
fill our cup of happiness. - It may be as we
write, the impulse and the desire seize us and
hold us spell-bound it may be, we say, that
we will call a special meeting of the Pressing
Club tonight and take the question up before
any of those interested have a chance to side
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v ri . Not In Season. '
The New Bern Sun exclaims: ''New Bern
the garden spot of North Carolina." Yes,
but who is making garden this time of year?
Where You Could Do Much
Material Good.
ITTLE BOYS make the big
men, and the big men will al
ways be better men if they
are started right. The child
who has a good home and
everything apparently neces
sary to make a splendid cit
izen sometimes goes wrong-
people yet are in ignorance
just why but it is true. When a wayward
boy develops he isn't necessarily lost. All he
lacks is training that he has failed to receive,
Overindulgcnt parents often spoil their chil
dren. There is lack of discipline; there arc
causes which are not on the surface. The
Stonewall Jackson Training School is a State
institution that takes these wayward boys and
makes 1 men out of them. There the boy is
taught things he never knew. He is put to
work; he is educated; he is given employment
and instead of running wild he is cultivated.
The Training School is a state institution. It
has been started and started on a small scale.
The women's organizations have helped; pri
vate individuals have helped everybody has
said a kind word and the state has appropriat
ed about one tenth of what it should appro
priate for such an institution.
But in the days to come the appropriation
will be increased. Each year will witness sub
stantial improvements and when one build
ing is completed that much is done. Just now
about ninety boys can be taken care ot the
demand is for over a hundred and ninety. Mr.
J. P. Cook who started this school: who has
given of his time and means to support and
sustain it has again Started the monthly
publication known as the Uplift printed at
the school, the mechanical work done by the
boys and it sells for One Dollar a year.
Every man and woman in North Carolina
should send a dollar for this publication. There
is a profit in it at one dollar a year, and Mr.
Cook wants the publication to yield enough
revenue to build another building. One Dol
lar is not much of an assessment. You will
give one dollar for many things and think it
worth while, The one dollar you will send to
the Stonewall Jackson Training School is a
dollar cast upon the waters that will come
back ten fold. It will help make better citiz
enship. It will save to Society some bright
mind. It will help in a hundred ways, and
Everything wants to see everybody send the
dollar. You get value received in the Uplift
and you are doing some real genuine good.
Send your dollar to the Uplift, Concord, N. C,
and feel better for having sent it.
He Will Go In.
While there has been some talk by editors
who do not like him, and some talk by politi
cians who would like to secure the place, the
chances are that the voters of the First dis
trict have decided to return Maior Stedman
to. Congress. There is every reason why he
should be returned, and no reason why he
should not be. The Congressmen in North
Carolina measure up with Congressmen from
other states. The Winston Journal wants us
to groom a man who will be the leader of the
House but that man was n"ver groomed in
advance. Men may or may not become' lead
ers. Many people thought that Jim Blaine,
"that prince of parliamentarians" should have
been president. Tie groomed himself for it.
The Maine people always counted him presi-.
dential timber but he didn't make good.
There can be but one leader and North Caro
lina is about to secure him now by reason of
promotion and if we get one in a life time
we have done exceptionally Well. . Major Sted
man isn't ambitious to- be Wder. He isn't
there to exploit himself but to help his con
stituents and represent his people. The man
who goes there to play for leader premeditat
edly, must play politics and make all kinds of
combinations, . The man who goes there to
represent his people doesn't care for self and
that's why we don't believe in grooming a
leader before he has, even had Congressional
experience. ' ' , ) ;
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That New Railroad.
All the evidence is that we are to have the
new railroad. Those in position to know what
they are talking about say the road can, be
built in seven months,' and that gives plenty
of time to complete it and claim the two hun
dred thousand dollar bond issue voted by the
Greensboro live wires. , .
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' The- Yancey ville Sentinel,' ever s alert to
what is what, suggests that inasmuch as the
Panama Exposition opens in February, 1915,
now is the time for editors to start as it is
a good long walk! -. . . '
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The papers seem to be going after "Fight
ing Bob" not long ago the leading figure in
the world of Progressives. LaFollette was the
first to announce himself as a progressive can
didate for President. He swore by all that
was good and bad, and we guess it was a true
bill, that Roosevelt offered h'wi support and
when Fighting Bob tried his platform on the
people and won out in Wisconsin Roosevelt
saw the opportunity, and side-tracked Bob and
took the chariot himself and rode to defeat.
But had Roosevelt been true to his promise
no doubt LaFollette would have put it over.
And fearing him again the papers are handing
it to him in a way not at all cotnplimenatry.
The other day a New-York paper said:
"Senator LaFollette's recent course seems
to indicate that he is of that unfortunate type
of men who oppose whatever they cannot or
iginate and who are unwilline" to ioin any
march they Cannot lead. He did good work
when the task was that of destroying an old
machine, but he shows himself unfitted for the
higher labor of building anew. Senator La
Follette appears to be dwindling sadly."
And of course this is advance stuff stuff
flflflflffl fiflflfijtaoin
put out to keep Fighting Bob off the ticket
next time. Strange how they go at it early to
slaughter the innocents but they do and
the slaughter is really something frightful.
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The White Way.
South Greensboro is going to put in a
Great White Way, and if she does of course
her big sister this side the railroad will come
across. The Great White Way of Charlotte
costs some money but it is the best expendi
ture ever made bf city funds. This town is
missing it in not following suit. Charlotte at
one time was smaller than Greensboro we had
her on the run but running after us. She
built a few sky scrapers let loose of her purse
strings, and the result is that South Carolina
is now a suburb, and parts of Georgia will be
brought in next spring. Greensboro must get
over the idea that she is a country village. She
can be a big town if she will Watch Charlotte
grow and cut her cloth after a similar pat
tern. .. ' .: .
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Mr. Page and His Letters.
It is now reported that Mr. Page Henry
A. Page, proposes to write a series of letters
and show by them that Overman should
not be returned to the Senate. Mr. Page is
a man with the price, otherwise we would
gratuitously advise him to save his ink and
'fountain pen. (
Mr. Page will cut no ice. The man who
goes about seeking to destroy another man
isn't as'well received as he once was and if
Mr. Page has any information it will fall on
deaf ears. If Senator Overman is guilty of
arson and murder and theft and highway rob
bery and Mr. Page charges it it will make no
difference, because the peoole of North Caro
lina have known Lee Overman too Ions; to al
low' any charges to rest against him. The
democratic party has honored Overman and
he has honored his party. . When it comes
time to elect a Senator Mr. Overman will go
through without any opposition worth while.
The newspapers of North Carolina have turn
ed down the letteers so far, but it is said that
he has finally secured one willing to print the
dope. Let it come, and then let the people
rally and give Overman such a rousing reception-that
all hands will never again seek to
throw mud even if the mud looks white.
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1 Will Move to Charlotte. .
As announced in Everything some weeks
ago Bishop John C. Kilgo will move to Char
lotte. Of course Charlotte will rejoice, but
what will Durham do? ' Durham without John
C. Kilgo will hardly be the same place. . Kilgo
put Trinity College on the main line.
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s. No man ever contemplated suicide who was
square with the world. So square yourself
and keep square. .
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That Is What Speaker Clark
Says About It.
HE man who can let a lie fall on
him and run off like water off
a (luck's back is simply a phil
osopher. Ordinarily call a man
a liar, when he knows he is a
liar is a fighting proposition.
But when an old man can say:
"I have been lied about so
much I have sort of got used
to it," like Speaker Clark said the other day,
that man is nearer happy than a lot of other
mortals who worry about what their neigh
bors say of them.
It seems that a college professor out in
Chicago was criticising the Speaker's way of
counting the votes in the famous Mulhall
charges concerning the lobby and Speaker
Clark simply replied by saying the charges
were "untrue, brazen and outrageous, and a re
flection upon the integrity of the House."
Then he added he had been lied about so
much he had sort of got used to it.
And that is the stuph. When some fellow
slanders you ; lies about you ; throws off on
you no use to order a coffin for him or your
self ; no use to work yourself up into a passion
and feel bad all day over it just think what
Champ Clark said, that you had been lied
about so much you were used to it anil ner
haps enjoying it.
So as we progress in material thiners ; as we
develop in constructive ways so our philo
sophy broadens and deepens and a man can
call another man a liar and make him feel
good over it.
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Quits The Game.
Fred Hull, bank examiner quits the game
and gives way for a democrat. Mr. Hull has
been a bank examiner for many years and cer
tainly proved a competent man. All kinds of
people democrats as well as republicans will
bear testimony that Hull did business in a
business way. Of course there will be good
democrats make good examiners, but why
these business offices should be political, when
service and experience are so necessary, we
do not understand. Why have civil service
in subordinate positions, and kick out the best
in the higher places?
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Terrible Fire. (
The Missouri Athletic Club burned down
last Monday and thirty-five people were
burned to death. There seems no way to
avert these stampedes no matter about fire
escapes or cool headed men. Fire fills with
the greatest fear and people lose their heads.
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All Over Now.
And the state chairman has been selected.
But what is a state chairman going to do se
lected by the stand-patters when a progressive
party is being born? It seems that the pro
gressives have already commenced to deny
that they mean to capture the state to take
all the pie from the stand-ps tters. But the
stand-patters will be there when the roll is
called and there is no doubt some sensation
al politics ahead in the Old North State. We
are glad that we are only an interested looker
on. . O
It looks like Mr. J. V. Bailey was doing a
whole lot of talking. Wonder if he expects
anything to fall his way from the political or
chard. The prunes are plentiful.
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Buy It At Home.
Always look and see if the article you want
is made in your home town. No matter what
the article, first ascertain if you can get a
home made article. If you can, buy it. Don't
figure that you save a few cents because you
might get another article a few cents cheaper.
When you buy a home made article you help
the people who live in your town. When
you help them you help yourself. If all the
people would let this idea soak in towns would
be better off. The great cities re buijt by the
people on the outside who send to them for
things to consume.'
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' The people who are cussed out are those
who do things. You never hear people talk
ing about men under tombstones.
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The Frank case at Atlanta seems to be get
ting people in doubt. If the lawyers can prove
all the are claiming now, Frank is not guilty.
But the question is, can they prove it?
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The Twelve Story Hotel which was built
on paper in Greensboro was entirely destroy
ed and all the guests escaped with their clothes
on. Conyers & Sykes didn't get out. .-'
Personal Liberty Again
Brought Forth.
good, and sounds
CORRESPONDENT in
the Richmond Times
Dispatch, defending lo
cal option and Tcgulat
cd bar rooms, gets
down to the brass tacks
which we used to drive,
and his argument looks
good. He insists that
you cannot suddenly change by legislation a
six thousand year old habit which has of ne
cessity become a racial instinct. He says that
a state cannot handle the question. It is a
local proposition. That if Norfolk wants a
horse race Richmond cannot interfere. He
says local option is self government. It is
personal liberty. He jays New England can
not say whether Richmond shall or shall not
have a Jimcrow car law. He says the anti
saloon people are too importunate in the cause
of good. They are blinded by righteous
wrath. He says you can't make a man go to
church, and if you do you cannot canonize
him.
That is the dope he hands out. It runs
smoothly and glitters with well rounded per
iods. Each blow is a sledge hammer blow
he thinks. We used to write that stuff. We
believed it, firmly believed it, and we could
not be convinced that a blind tiger beat a reg
ulated bar-room. We contended that a licens
ed bar-room located John Barleycorn. You
knew where he was, and while there he had
to be as decent as he could be. He had to
keep his face clean and his hair combed. He
had to be gentlemanly in deportment and not
unseemly in any of his conduct. The law
would regulate him, whereas, if you enacted
prohibition you would not be able to locate
him. He would hold forth in blind alleys; he
would bob up here and there and everywhere.
It was our belief, and in the prohibition fight
in North Carolina we went down with colors
sailing. We were willing to wait for time to
vindicate us. We knew that it would.
But what has happened? There is not one ,.
tenth the drunkenness. There are no bar-
rooms for boys to look at; no, bar rooms for
youth to congregate in and start on the down
ward path: The man who wants a drink and
hasn't gotten a mail order filled goes without
it, and his wife is happy and his children are
not robbed. Personal liberty is not in the
equation. The idea of legislating an appetite -out
of a man is not the proposition. The pro
position is, briefly summed up, a state has a :
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rig 111 iu pass any law iui me siaic s guuu nidi
appears reasonable to a majority of voters.
Whiskey has been outlawed in North Caro
lina. There is some whiskey drunk. There
are blind tigers selling it. There are men re-?
ceiving quarts of it by every train and yet
the drunken men are not in evidence like they
were.. The man who could drink or leave it
alone is leaving it alone. The bovs coming ,
on to manhood's estate are not enticed into
bar-rooms for there are no bar-rooms. : Pro
hibition has worked admirably in North Caro
lina. Its best effect will be shown on the ris
ing generation. The old toper will drink to
the grave. But he isn't making as much fuss ,
about it as when he got drunk in a bar room
and brought on a fight.
The sophistry of the Richmond paper's cor
respondent is good. It was our own line of
dope. It convinced us until we saw the law .
work and it works all right. North Caro
lina will never again have bar-rooms. Nation-
al prohibition will be with us by 1920 and
then if men have appetites they cannot con-;
trol they will have to die. And if they are so
thoroughly soaked in alcohol that it is either
likker or death give them death. It was ;
Patrick Henry who exclaimed in an impas
sioned moment, "Give me likker or give me
death" and he got likker. Some historians
say he said liberty but we have his original
manuscript. : . : '- .
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The New Post Office.
Greensboro has commenced to make a little .
noise for a new federal building. She will be " '
modest and ask for not over $300,000. And ;
there is no reason why we can't get the build-;';
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ing. u ine oouui is gTowing anu iije present
nor is nf niir6 inanmiQt-A A ftir. hint- i .
dred thousand dollar post-office building would
look pretty good most anywhere in town. If
we finally get pretty close to it we hope the r;
Government will not come- along and con .
demn property of people who want about three
prices for it. However, peoole who have a
tape line say the present site would do very
well for one of the biggest buildings in this
Ulg IS II IS A pdaiJCU Up dllcLU . hiiu auvut iin
much room is wasted as is utilized. We say
this in order that Winston people who look
only at the outside of our present building will '
not get excited. '
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, The man who hasn't sued tVf ,,!
his last best thrill yet cor : -7 ?