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.everything wm Established May. lBtit, and la Independent
in Ail xnings ma neutral in noming.
Everything- la Sold at all Newa Standi In North Carolina
If lea Fall to be Bappiled ravor D by Dropping a Card,
Entered second-class matter at tbe Postofflce at Greens
boro, N. C, uuder Act of Congress of Marcb J, 187U.
Address eIl business communications to Everything,
Greensboro, North Carolina.
"After yea re of active experience In newspaper work,
and with newspaper men, 1 am more than ever conrlnccil
that a newspaper cannot afford, auy more than an Indi
vidual, to be without character: nnd thnt aa a miin'a
character la summed up fiom bis life, from the good he
has done, the evil be has prevented, me homes he hns
brightened, and the hearts he hna gladdened, just ao
Will the inexorable Judgment of posterity, and of the
ireater punnc, to wnien uo passion nor projuii-e or tne
lay ran appeal, measure out merciless Justice to the
Journal whose sole ohjeet and aim It bus beeu to coin the
woes of tbe human nice Into grist for Us owner." John A.
Corkerlll.
There'i Something Doing.
, There is more ahead of North Carolina,
politically considered, than many men have
dreamed. V-
"- A political upheaval is imminent a politcal
' earthquake threatens to disturb the entire
state and a new alignment is sought.
There has been a meeting. There have been
completed arrangements for a gathering of the
so-called progressive forces progressive not
alone in politics where the initiative, referen
dum and recall are to be staged to a dance of
uvaiu niiviv uvviiiin,ui viyjil aiiij; auu
er socialistic demands are to be seriously con
sideredbut progressives in the social, moral
and intelectual movement that has been
camped on the outskirts of Present Condi
tions, making ready to advance and do battle
with the Things That Are.
It is charged that Politicians who have a
., smoke-house filled with Cut and Dried poli
cies and programme can no longer dominate.
The cards are being shuffled and a new deal is
the order of the day.
These self-proclaimed leaders of Right and
Righteousness are not new men in the state,
but men who have not heretofore been able to
advance politically because of the working
of that much dreaded Monster called the Ma
chine They propose, if what we read between
; the lines is in plain United States language,
to sweep the board; to stand aside the pro
fessional politician while others may enter who
in turn may themselves become Professional
Politicians. It will be a war between the
Inns and Out with men like J. W. Bailey,
Clarence Poe and other ambitious men to be
come the occupants of the Saddle.
It is to be a fight between the stand-patters
and those who favor progression along all
lines of advancement and it means, if it
means anything a split and a wide open split
in the old democratic party. . It is the re
kindling of the fires that lighted to dusty death
the democratic party a score of years ago when
Russell and Butler and Pntchard and other
republicans walked up and checked their bag
gage for Raleigh and Washington, leaving the
war-horses far behind. I,t is an awakening of
the Public Conscience. And the stunt is bill
ed to be pulled off labeled Democracy instead
of Populism as in other years.
, And no sooner had the announcement been
made that such a programme was on than
the news came that Mr. Clarence Poe would
stand for Governor representing the Progres
sive propaganda as he now represents the
Progressive Farmer. The Farmers' Union, all
the organizations which have had life in the
last few years will join in this new crusade,
and the politician of the old school the moss
backed and dyed-in-the-wool democrat will be
ft on the beach while the tide of progression
hes out. It all looks good in print,
t how is it going td ctne out in the
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bnmmmmmf ii paita-gj-jt-aW awn wal iWiii Mmayai
wash. The Progressive democrats are ultra
on many measures and the republican party
and the Independent party constitute a force
that must be reckoned with. If the new party
dares to assert that it is democracy; if it takes
citizenship hardly out of its swaddling clothes
and presents it as its ideal and as the personi
fication of the New Age and the New Time
we will not be surprised if we see In North
Carolina, not the Progressive democrats in
power but the Independents men of all par
ties rushing to the polls in sufficient numbers
to elect the Independent the man who says
democracy is too slow and the progressive too
swift. '
North Carolina is no longer wedded to its
idols. Its idols have become battered by the
force of time, and when Russellism came and
showed the way and democracy shied from
virtue's narrow path and joined with Populism
to thwart what was claimed the Machine In
Politics the "side-stepping stunt becomes an
easy one. There will be gray-beards and there
will be nonprogressives who will ask on what
meat doth these, our new Casars feed, that
they have grown so great? There will be the
battered warriors of a thousands baittles the
Machine men, if vou will, who will take affront
at this bold suggestion that legislation needed
has been cast aside and that the voter has
been misrepresented.
Everything, independent in ts politics, ad
vocating the greatest good for the greatest
number, and with it all a careful chronicler of
the things that happen as the busy world spins
round, will look upon this threatened cata
clysm not with wonderment, not with alarm
but with a calm and determined purpose to
record what happens and prophesy what might
happen.
If the Progressives wanted to select men to
put over certain legislation that so-called
stand-patters have relused with scorn, tne way
to have accomplished the purpose would have
been different than that proposed, lor twen
ty-five, or thirtv men representing: a new
school of politics to meet and declare that
they are the people; that they propose to de
clare war on the old party's 'onduct and the
party's leaders because the war-horses arc
the stand-patters gentlemen ot tne jury, ana
if it please your honor, there is going to be
something doing in North Carolina politics,
the like of which has not been since demo
cracy went down disgraced, disfigured and dis
banded and Marion Butler and Governor Rus
sell became the masters of the situr-tion.
Democracy is not progressive, in the sense in
which wc employ the term. President W il
son is not progressive, as Roosevelt is Pro
gressive. President Wilson is onlv handling
down the law as it was promulgated years and
years ago and his own and only issue that
appeals to all democracy is the tariff. Presi
dent Wilson is making a president second to
none and yet he is an officer elected by a
minority vote because a majority of two mil
lion people expressed themselves in favor of a
protective tariff. Had there been no family
quarrel in the republican party there would
have been no democratic president. Therefore
when the progressive looks at democratic suc
cess and thinks the progressive idea has been
adopted by a popular vote he must look
again. Roosevelt stood firm for a protective
tariff, ylaft was for a protective tariff and a
majority of two million men voted for a pro
tective tariff. Mr. Wilson and his tariff for
revenue only slipped in by reason of a family
quarrel.
In North Carolina there is a sentiment, and
we are glad to say a growing sentiment in
favor of better morals ; in favor of retiring the
lawyers from the legislature; in favor of giv
ing equal justice to all something not now
done but to spring a new party and have it
sprung by men politically ambitious, means,
perhaps that disaster will follow. The repub
lican party in North Carolina only wants a
family quarrel in the democratic household
and it will spring into the saddle and ride to
victory.
Now Do They?
The esteemed New Bern Sun, a most
sprightly sheet, has this to say:
"Another California millionaire has been
arrested for violating the White Slave law.
The affair is duly chronicled in Col. Fairbroth
er's Everything with the comment. "He gave
bond, and the affair will doubtless be fought
out on the front page." Newspapers try to
give their readers what they want, so let those
readers over the country who miss their old
friends, Caminetti and Diggs, take heart."
Well, as a matter of fact, do the readers of
the newspaper want the salacious stuff that
we always see played on the first page? Is
it not a fact that the newspapers are the ones
guilty of making the reader think he wants
the scandal; the blood curdling-: the atrocious;
the terrible; the shocking the blue blazes and
the yellow streaks that run through the cur
rent events of a day?
If the reader wants it, and knows he is go
ing to get it, why does the newsDaoer always
feature the biggest scandal on the front page
with box car type and set the other things in
small type on inside pages? Isn't the news
paper the one that has set the "style" and the
reader has stood for it stooc' for it until he
thinks it is coming to him?
Suppose the newspapers were not in any
way venal ; were not in any way anxious to
scoop their neighbors; were not caring so
much about a few street sales and would re
solve, all of them, to cut out the front page
scandals; the grotesque and most repulsive of
the day's news don't you know the people
would stand for it and instead of expecting
the stop jar of indecency to be turned over
them every morning they would form a taste
for something else?
The moving picture show illustrates this
point. At first it was claimed that the movies
must sprinkle the blood and the lust in the
pictures in order to have an audience. Then
the censors came and cut out things that
wouldn't do. Communities went further than
the National Board of Censors and cut out
still more but you do not see any falling off
in the moving picture business. Herr in
Greensboro the local censors have cut out run
ning yards of films and they are now build
ing another play house, and the crowds still
go to see what is allowed. , . i
There is ho use to educate people to be
come depraved in their tastes. The people
take what you give them and naturally want
to hear the latest scandal. But it is the duty
of a newspaper to get above that. To hand
out only clean and elevating stories and
when they all do that, the public will not want
the dirt and slime and blood that have always
been considered the best front page stuff only
because it sold newspapers. If such things
were not printed finally the people would buy
just as many papers printed cleanly as they
buy now smeared with the reeking and un
speakable stories of crime and sin and shame.
o '. ";
Conference of Social Service.
We are glad to see the Conference of Social
Service of North Carolina battling for better
thing.s and among them insisting that the
prisoner's earnings go to 'his family. This is
an old hobby of ours we have been advocat
ing it in this state for the past fifteen years,
and wc rejoice to know that finally there is a
public sentiment being created in favor of it.
We are of opinion that the man who goes to
prison is sufficiently punished by reason of
his abridged freedom. We believe that the
state has no right to take his labor and coin it
into profit for itself. If there was ever any
such thing as "blood money" trie wage earn
ed by a convict and turned into a rich state's
coffers is certainly blood money.
The man who impulsively commits a crime
generally upon conviction, leaves behind him
a wife and children or some one dependent
upon him for support. The idea of imprison
ing him is first, to punish him for what he did
against the law, and in the second place to
protect Society from his further unlawful acts.
The prison is made to protect Society as much
as to punish the culprit. But the wife, who
is innocent of- all crime ; who had nothing to
do with the unfortunate circumstances that
left her without support, certainly should be
protected. The man should be put to work
and the wage he earns, above his actual cost
of sustenance at the penal institution should
be sent to the family left often times destitute.
This would be but common justice. If the
prisoner has no family, then his wage, above
the actual cost of his susterance should be
credited to his account, and he should under
stand that upon leaving the prison, after he
had paid in full the debt he owes the state for
his trangrcssion, there would be due him a
certain amount of money, however much he
had earned by hard work. This would give
the prisoner new hope. It would sustain him
in his humiliation and disgrace, and he could
make a high resolve to do better upon gaining
his freedom. As it is now he looks forward
to the day of his release with thrills of pleas
ure until he sees his actual condition, and then
he reasons to himself "But what can I do? I
go forth a marked man. I am disgraced. I
will have no money. I will have a cheap suit
of citizen's clothes to take the place of these
stripes. Without means I can do nothing"
and naturally instead of planning great things
and good things, he is figuring what he can
do to make a stake and perhaps planning a
robbery or a murder. He comes out, instead
of a reformed man, a man soured on the
world; with murder in his mind if not in his
heart he is desperate and made desperate by
the same Society which pretended it was pro
tecting itself by incarceratine" him. If prisons
are meant in any way to be reform institu
tions then we must pay a man a wage for labor
while he is there. The state has no business
to coin his life into gold for its own use. Such
an idea is barbarism.
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And we are also glad that the Social Ser
vice people are insisting on a higher moral
plane as regards the owners of houses rented
for immoral purposes. - Twenty years ago
when we worked hard and succeeded in a
great measure in breaking up the district
known as Smoky Hollow in Durham we point
ed out the way. We printed the names in
black type of those who rented the houses to
these fallen creatures, and behold, the good
women of the town made the good men of
the town ashamed of themselves and the
houses were no longer rented to such people
for such purposes and that ended the life of.
the "district." :' ':.
We would go further than the Social Ser
vice people have gone. We would-demand a
single standard of morals. . We would make
the man on the same plane as the woman who
sins. In Guilford county the woman is dis
criminated against. One or two immoral acts
on her part is prima facie evidence that she is
guilty of crime and a road sentence follows
whereas, her coparcener in the crime may do
with impunty a hundred times what she dare
not to do but once or twice. Without the man
lo form the guilty compact there would be no
violation of the law, and we hold that it would
be common justice to make a law equal in its
punishment for both offending parties. When
that is done you have struck the foundation of
the evil you have with a single blow reduced
that sort of lawlessness fifty per cent. The
day is going to come when there will be but
one standard of morals man and woman will
stand on the same footing;. It should be has
tened. :. . :. - ,i -.-
The law to make cohabitation of races a
crime will meet with the hearty approval of
all good citizens, and should have been passed
long ago. Indeed, we had always thought
such a law obtained.
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Whenever the citizens of any state will for
get their dollar chasing long enough to look
about them and see what is needed to
strengthen the social side of life, just that soon
will there be a purer moral atmosphere. The
law means nothing unless back of it is the sen
timent to enforce it. To secure this senti
ment ' there must be lots of work done by
those who are in earnest' Everything, will
gladly aid in any of these reforms, first, be
cause we think them right, and in the second
place because many of them are reforms we
have advocated in this State, single handed
and alone for the last twenty-five years. It
takes time to bring about reforms -but they
are coming. -t '
The Women And Their "Organ." , '
When Everything came out in its new form,
in November, its editor conceived the idea
that a distinctive woman's page a page edit-:
ed by an experienced newspaper woman ; a
page devoted to woman's work in the state ; a
page which would give a woman's opinion
from a woman's view-point on passing events
would add interest to his publication a
publication intended to be the most original
of all publications. True, there vhad been
pages devoted to women melted up into strips
of pewter and sold at a dollar a page to coun
try publishers; there had been pages appear
ing in the "patent inards" of weekly papers
called "Woman's Realm," and all that but
Everything was the first publication in North
Carolina to introduce a woman's page prepar
ed, edited and written in the shop by a woman
who knew how.
Naturally wc were surprised to see another
newspaper claiming that it was the first to
start such a page, and then like a crowing
bantam rooster asserting "It s only natural
for other papers to wish to copy after us as
it is the standard in all lines for the other pa
pers." We are willing to let it go at that.
But before letting it go we want to say a
few words, and we hope the women will profit
by what we are going to say. The Federated
Women's Clubs of North Carolina mean a
great deal. They stand as a wonderful power
for good. They Can shape the destiny of this
state if they stand united. No other force is
as great in moulding public opinion as the
collective minds of the intellectual women of
a commonwealth. They are above the fjlth of
politics. They are beyond the littleness of
self exploitation. Their labor is always a la
bor of love. They have patriotism which as
serts itself when no pie is near. Their splen
did faith in .the future of their country Is sub
lime. Their belief and hope that Man will
finally be regenerated suggests prescience, for
the belief is firm and the hope unshaken.
What individual women have done for indiv
idual men, so women banded together and
working for a common cause civic righteous
ness can do for the world. For you can't
get around the proposition that of all the good
things or the bad things in a man's life, some
woman or other was at the bottom of it.
Therefore we want to caution the good old
girls, early in the game, that they mustn't im
itate men and allow dissension to enter. Tran
quility, calmness, patience, forbearance
these be thy gods, O, fair and earnest ones
do not forsake them.
The trouble now? There is a tempest in
the tea-pot. There are clouds lowering, and
without, a storm is brewing. nd why? All
because some several newspapers have in
stantly concluded that the women need an
official "organ" and each newspaper has its
special champions and already within the
household of this collective sisterhood bitter
ness has been engendered. Let us tell you.
You don't need an official "organ." What you
want to do is to choose no newspaper, but
treat them all on an equal footing. Because
Everything intends to conduct a woman's
page, don't get it under your Easter bonnet
that you could make Everything an official or
gan. Everything is broader than to be the
official organ of any society, organization,
party or combination. It flies at its mast
head that it is independent in all things and
neutral in nothing. It wouldn't be the official
organ of any organization in the world. It
represents fully and truly the Brotherhood of
Man and the Sisterhood of Woman. It wants
no official recognition, 'It dos not want to
commercialize any feature that may be of in
terest. It doesn't want any man or woman to
subscribe because it might be deemed a duty.
But it proposes to have the most interesting
woman's page printed anywhere not a page
of punk filled up with puffery about pink teas
or pictures of new gowns or tedious proceed
ings of the annual meeting of the West Side
Pressing Club, number Three, or the steen
table whist party of Mrs. Colonel Major Got
embeatablock but it proposes to continue to
present a page edited by the woman who
started the first woman's paper in North Caro
lina twenty-five years ago and who has been
engaged in newspaper work all her life, and
who understands how to make an interesting
and instructive page. . A page worth- while
and we are not caring whether it brings one
single subscriber. It is part of the, intellectual
feast we prepare each week at one plunk per
year, single copies five cents and when the
great question of an "official organ" is being
considered, please count us as not being in it.
We have sent out no circular letters; wc have
asked for no favors. But we do insist that
Everything was the first paper in North Caro
lina to start such a page as Everything was
the first paper, years ago to introduce and
maintain a traveling man's ptge.
We want to see the Federated Clubs grow
and do good. We want to see the fair ones
dwell- together in unity and harmony. We
want to see them ask every editor to print all
he can about women and then work and we
only write as we have written, because it has
been brought to our attention that some oth
er editors are laboring under the impression
that we would like to be the official organ of
the Federated Crubs of North Carolina. "
The newspaper that wears no collar ; that
represents no party; that knows no creed ex
cept a belief in God; that does not commer
cialize its editorial opinions ; that stands ready
to speak the truth and never dodge an issue;
that is under" obligations to no liviner man or
woman, is a broader and better proposition
than the one that wears the muzzle of a party
or is afraid to say it's soul is its own because
it has been endorsed by some organization or
other. -:,',"
, Everything is growing and ;t will grow to
splendid proportions. It gladly and willingly
devotes a page to woman and her work ; it
wants to help and it will helpbut it wants it
understood, just as this strife is beginning to
show itself, that it is not even a receotive can-
didate for any honors officially from the wom
an s ciud an it wants is tne, good will ot every
citizen of North Carolina. And if by printing
a clean paper; an inelligent paper; a fearless
and tolerant paper respecting the opinion of
every person and yielding to him the right to
that opinion, and demanding the same right
for its own opinions it will have and hold that
good wm. we nope the women wm not be-
rnma militant n.itViin tYinir fwrt nrkticoh11
v.a.y la.aiatu.iv v.v...a llivi, vnil HVUtfMlviu
and we beg of them to recomider and under-
siana mar. it were Detter to nave no omciai.
organ but spread their glad tidings of great,
joy in every paper where it is possible to se
cure space. i ; '; . ,''..
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The Training School.
Last week we rejoiced to know that Guil
ford had decided to build a' training school for
wayward boys. It is said that the proposition
still has a string to it but the people will cut
that string.
The agitation has caused an expression of
the people, and the people want the school.
And when the people of a populous county
want something, they know how to get it.
And the school will finally b" built ; the way
ward boys will be given a chance and that,
is worth while.
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Change Of Ad.
The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
changes its advertisement in this week's issue
of Everything. Secretary Forester has rung the
bell in each paragraph. That ad is worth
reading in any town in the United States. Just
change the name of your town to suit, and
follow what Forester says concerning Greens
boro. There is snap in the type there is a
crispness about it that sounds like the rustic
of a new ten dollar bill. Read it and profit
by the reading.
At Random.
SPRING POETRY.
Spring la coming, gentle Annie. In this cold" snap take)
good cheer ' '
Soon the William Goat and Nannie, all the lawns of cans
will clear:
Yes, It's coming, ob, my treasure, noon, ao soon, it will
be here
Tben you know, 'twill be my pleasure, and the limit, on
. nl beer-
Poems like the above sent securely sealed wltb no marks,
aeveu for fifteen centa. , Part-ela post, prepaid. Send a
lock of your hair and a sample of your breath. IlaVe
your hrenth assayed at nearest nasay ofnie and have at
tached affidavit of tits proper officio In, signed before a
uotary public. Please he particular to see that the
notary states plainly In the Knglish language, or as near
It as be la Intellectually capable of approaching it, the, data
bis commiaaion expires. -
. ANOTHER VARIETY.
Tbe Ides of March have come and gone
And Spring, bo gentle, coy nnd shy
' Hus asked Old Boreas to let 'er In
That she may help to swat the fly.
Verse like the above eight for a dollar, securely packed
in aalieatos and shipiied by freight guuruuted against the
search und selxure act.
PHOTOGRAPHED.
Pure as the fairest Illy that ever bloomed on earth
Chaste us buow just fallen from the souipre clouds above
Sending genial sunshine from the jolly gods of Mirth
And that's a half tone picture of the cross-eyed girl
I love! v
WHERE IT STARTED.
When Adam looked the landsenpe o'er'
And saw that Kdeu was the atuub
He anltl: "lienr Kve, Wte're on the pig
The freight rates ure not low uusrl"
Why Rome Howled.
"What!" tbe Imperial Ceuaar said
"You sny that dogs do bark and yowl?
"Well, Jnst you watch me paint things red
And make Old Home rise up and howl."
AS IT WAS.
George Crater on n summer day, raxed the meadow sweet
with bay. He said: "1 like these blooulu' fuds It's,
better dupe tbuu selling ads." . .
It Is really sport to watch the politicians of Nortb Cn.ro
Unn. They are tbe most jealous lot ol mortals ever hap
pening, lustad of there lelng two grand old parties '
down here to cause the best lu each one of them to bob
op, the democratic party gets Into a family row about
every so often. Just now the-Progressives ure going to
try to oust tbe stand-putters. And the stand-putters are,
forming Into Hue, and some, fuss and a few feathers ure
promised, !, ...,.,.
The suffragists and not the suffragettes are forming
their new party In North Carolina. Alreatry a state or
ganisation oas been effected, and before another year tbe
party will be In full- bloom. And as JuiVe Walter Clark
has beeu the Voice In the Wilderness the women will,
through courtesy, be obliged to ask him to accept some
blgb office.. t: ,:''; .- . -.! . .
- It Is a matter of general rejoicing to know that Colonel
Joe Keece's ground hog threatens to surreuder about neat,
Wednesday.. . , v, .
- WHERE ARE THEYT
Where are tbe . 1 ' '
, - Grangers, -
Green baiks,
r Populists, ' -
Farmers' Alliance?
Why they are now lu the camp of the ' ; ! . '' '
Socialists,
'. Progressives, : 1 "w ' '""'"'
. Bull Moosers ''' . ', -' :,: -
And so long as the world stands there will be tbe fel
lows who kick. Kick and maybe right and maybe wrong- ,
but always a minority report no matter wnat party Is
In power or how successful the party s. Human nature ;
finds expression In organised partlcs-tand that, la why
anarchy and nihilism were boru. They were sisters of
despair and couldn't find the way to areas off from the
old parties wltb something reasonable ao they broke off '
and advocated the extreme. While nllhillsin would an
nlhllate everything-, it simply- goes fnrther than the plat '
form of the political party of today. Anarchy simply '
preaches, In its philosophy, that the world should be so
good that no law would he needed. Its theory is bcuuU- -ful
but Its practice la terrible. -
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