THE FIRST SHALL BE
LAST PRIMAL WOMAN
WENT NAKED AND IS v
GETTING BACK TO
FIRST STYLE.
A KIND WORD OF .. i
THREE LETTERS
SPOKEN TO A LIVING
MAN IS BETTER THAN A
SONNET TO A CORPSE.
BY AL FAIRBROTHER
SUBSCRIPTION 11.00 A YEAB SINGLE COPT 8 CENTS
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1914.
ON 8AI.E AT THE NEWS STANUS AM' ON TKAIN'8
ESTABLISHED MAY 190a.
IS IT THE THING?
THE CUSSIN' WORDS
TEDDY COMES BACK
MUST BE THE WEIGHT
POST GOES OUT
The Question of Tobac
co Up Again.
HE General Conferences
are on one in Oklaho
ma -and one in Tennes
see and some other
places di ffcr cut
churches deciding what
is best to do, and we
note some of them are
again grappling with
the question of whether
or not a minister of
the gospel should use
tobacco. It is said by
men who claim to have some knowledge of
what tobacco will do for the nervous system
that cigarettes make wrecks of young men;
that cigarette fiends, so-called are liable to' do
worse things and again it is claimed that
tobacco is not quite the thing yet it is one of
the great crops of the South. Do away with
smoking and chewing and snuff dipping and
.you have done away with the tobacco crop.
It ends in smoke. The farmer who raises rye,
and barley, and corn and fruit can find other
uses for it than to make whiskey or brandy
he can cut out the distillation of spirits and
yet his crops find ready market for other pur
poses but let the tobacco be prohibited and
it is good bye to that crop.
It has long been a question about tobacco.
Some say it is a great solace some say it
wrecks the nerves and leads to other things.
All are agreed, we guess, that when a man
becomes a slave to it he becomes a slave to
a mighty filthy habit. There is really no
excuse for chewing tobacco or smoking to
bacco. It is a habit, pure and simple, ac
quired, no man knows just how he got to us
ing it. Those who do not use tobacco get
Along-just as' well as those who do.. ,v:
v . If jt 'be' true 'that in this'"unriatufal-strain
where we all find ourselves, we need a stimu
lant and we don't believe a word of it but
if true, tobacco is perhaps least harmful of
all the drugs and opiates on the market.
Business women do not use tobacco.
Thousands of busy and successful business
men do not use it. Some men smoke exclu
sively; some chew exclusivelyand some men
chew and smoke. The whole thing is filthy.
It is dirty. It is disgusting. Nothing more
revolting than to see a man with his mouth
full of tobacco ; two red streaks running down
the sides of his chin ; see him spitting on the
shirt front and the sidewalk and wondering
why he wants to engage in such a filthy mess.
We would say that young ministers, those
who haven't formed the habit, should be told
that they couldn't form it. The old philoso
pher who wants to bite off about three ounces
of sun-cured before he starts his Sunday ser
mon should, not be molested he should be
allowed to continue, but it does look like the
church should be the first to issue its edict
.against the use of a narcotic that is absolute
ly worthless; that is disgusting; that is un
necessary. In the meantime we urge all farm
ers to plant all the tobacco they can find room
to plant, and assure them that the Greensboro
market will pay the highest price for it.
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The Boosters.
The North Carolina 'merchants have ac
cepted the booster idea and most every town
sends out merchants; and delegations to get
acquainted with the folk, in smaller towns and
solicit their trade. Last Monday a crowd of
three hundred left Charlotte to drum up trade
in new territory. Greensboro merchants have
tried the booster trips and find that they are
'worth while; Advertising must be done in
all kinds of ways that will prove effective.
And the calling personally on the people in
small towns and along the way no doubt helps
wonderfully.
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, Hits 'Em Hard.
: Mr: John Sprunt Hill, of Durham, a mem
,ber of the American Commision of the Land
Mortgage Credit association recently deliver--ed
an address at Louisville and concluded it
as follows:" '
("In this vast country we have a mighty host
of usurers, land loan sharks and. blood-suckers
' in high places as well as' in low places.. Such
people are violently opposed to lowering the
-tates of interest to anybody. These people
" are going to fight 5 per cent money to farm
ers with all their might and main, openly and
secretly, consciously and ' unconsciously, in
; ihe halls of Congress and in the byways and
"hedges.'"
; "We glory in such opposition, we welcome
their fight; our cause is right, their legions
; will be defeated in this i world, and their
mighty 'hosts will be sent to eternal damna
tion in the world to come. ;
' "It is not Mammon, but God that rules. Our
. victory will be complete." , , . 1 .
That is what might, with due propriety and
strict regard for the unities be called the pure
Great Problem Before The
Supreme Court.
T APPEARS that the
Supreme Court of North
Carolina is called upon
flWiiHI E$S?5i nuodiniK Tin. 1nt nut
of the ordinary case be
fore it was to decide
wheher or not a lady of
pronounced color re
marked to a policeman who told her not to
drive through the town of Spencer that she
would drive wherever she please. The
policeman arrested her for disturbing the
peace disorderly conduct being the charge.
The coal black lady took the case t6 the
Supreme Court for final adjudication and Jus
tice Walker in writng the opinion found that
inasmuch as only the policeman was present
her exclamation did not disturb the peace, as
there was no peace present to be disturbed.
The court did not undertake to decide wheth
er the word damn, as used by the lady, was
real cussing, but the lady won out. Webster
gives us several uses for the word which
seemed to enrage the' policeman, and the lady
perhaps had the advantage.
The Winston Journal wonders what the
court would have said had it been necessary
to decide the question right oft' the bat: "Is
damn swearing?" ,
We venture to say the court would have
held that it wasn't cussin' in the first degree
because lexicographers insist that the word
is "sometimes used interjectionally ; impera
tively, and intensively," and it would be alto
gether how it was used; why it was used and
a whole lot of things that lawyers could fig
ure out.
Generally speaking it is a word that need
hot be used. It is not profane, because we
say that something .was. aianjnable outrage
and use the word to condemn something or
other, with no profane 'thought or profane ap
plication. Colonel Jim Southgate says there
was once an Egyptian coin called dam and
there is a town in California called Yubdam
and the word, while often used with pro
fane intent still gets around in polite circles
meaning no offense.
However it may be, it was a funny thing
for a Supreme Court to be called upon to de
cide whether, when the word was employed
by a coal black lady she disturbed the peace
and dignity of Spencer a town where no real
cussin' was ever heard and where all is as
harmonious as the morning stars which for
ever sing together in the azure skies.
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Burns In Bad.
There is no use to attempt to deny the fact
that Burns is in had in the Frank, case.
Whether he went about to do what the public
thinks he has done, we do not know. But he
certainly has diminished in size. He hasn't
measured up to the methodical, the wonderful
Sherlock Holmes. He has been accused of
doing things he should not have done. He
was a hero Burns was,' and it is to. be re
gretted that he has fallen. Let him explain
his, part, fully, or let us wrap around him
the oiled paper and lay him gently away. It
is his move now. We want to think him great
but he must square himself in many
charges made against him.
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Going After It.
Noth Carolina is going to try to get the
Attorney General to say that the old Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad was taken
by the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line in
violation of the Sherman law. The evidence
is said to be almost convincing, and if it hap
pens that the Attorney General of the United
States sees it as the Attorney General of
North Carolina sees it, we are liable to have
right here in Greensboro a competing line. If
this all comes about a9 many hope it wU,
Mr. A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro, the man
who worked up the evidence will wear an ad
ditional feather in his cap.
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' ' " A Good Thing.
" It is' a good thing that the Shriners took
their camels with them to Atlanta. Atlanta is
a dry town and the camels can get through as
the meeting will not continue quite fourteen
days. '
Everywhere in the state it is politics poli
tics, and of course the ,man who wins out," no
matter how, congratulates himself upon his
popularity, whereas, he is , often the ; most
unpopular man in the neighborhood. S It is"
the pull, my son, the pull, that puts , men
over. : ,
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' That new ; Government I. building which
Greensboro "was going after hasn't gotten
much closer than one of our steen story hotels
built on paper, ,
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After months in the wilds of Brazil Roose
velt returns to America loaded for the Beast
called man and it is now, no doubt, his de
liberate intention, to whoop things up until
1916 at which time he hopes to be nominat
ed by the "people" called republicans, bull
moose, any old thing and he is going to run
for President. If his life is spared he will
make the race and the chances are that no
power of earth can keep him out of the Presi
dential chair. '
Already he1 has challenged the policy of Wil
son he goes after Bryan and the whole ad
ministrationhe refuses to think of running
for Governor of New York, and he expects to
again be "our President."
And you can talk to this one nd that one ;
to men who utterly despise him ; to men w ho
respect him; to men who doubt his sanity
and all of them agree on the one point if he
runs he will almost make good.
It was thought for a time that Roosevelt
had hit the ceiling; it was thought he had
seen his best days but from all over the
country he has friends talking about him
and inasmuch as he, is such a great person
ality, the chances are .that he will succeed.
He will for the next Yew months defend his
alleged discoveries in the wilds of Brazil ; he
will show how the river he found runs up
hill ; he will make good all his claims and have
the front page whenever he wants it and he
knows the value of advertising. He has come
back, T. R., has, and he has doubtless come
for a definite purpose.
In North Carolina nine-tenths of, the old
time republicans are for him for him tooth
and toe nail so to speak. 1 Unlimited money;
unlimited in everything save modesty and reserve,-
Theodore Roosevelt is very liable to
be the next president of the United States.
Single Tax.
- -The advocates of Single Tax are generally
intense in: what they do. The late State
Journal was always explaining why single tax
was the thing. Ninety men n each hundred
do not believe in single tax. The late Joe
Fels said those who wanted to believe in it
generally - were owners of land and didn't
want to adopt it.
Single Tax is a great theory but it will
not work. The farmer would be the hardest
hit ; the man with the vacant lot or the big
lot cannot see it he s'ees that it means a
chance for the man of great; wealth to build
magnificent buildings and ' pay no tax on
them let the ground foot the bill.
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Memorial Day- was fittingly observed. The
old soldier gets fewer in number each year
and it will not be long until only the Sons of
Veterans can celebrate.
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Plenty Of Negroes.
. Guilford county for a long while' didn't
send enough grist to the electric chair. Here
of late the colored man has been used, and
the hope is that the next white man who com
mits cold blooded murder, will also be taken
care of as he should be.
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-" Helping Out
It was alleged that an old man some sev
enty .years of age brought a thirteen year old
girl to Greensboro under false pretenses, in
order that his son might marry her. The
joke was turned when the old gentleman was
arrested for abduction. ; :
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Beasley In.
; ' There was much speculation as to whether
Beasley would go into the primaries to oppose
Page. He sends word thaf when the roll is"
called he will be there. ' He printed his own
tickets and thus saved $250. That is where
the printer comes in on the ground floor
Congressman Page put up the $250 because he
didn't have a job press. ' ,
i Senator Overman isn't losing much sleep
over his campaign. He seems to be running
well in every county with no opposition. That
is the way it should be.
Court Decides Short Weights
Will Not Do.
I ME when the peo
ple who buy thin are
going to i 11 si -l that they
gel what they pay for
anil verv properlv this
M! xhuld be the case. At
53 frrT-r--? .-ilivlmrv nut 1 in 1 " .M'n
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a concern was indicted
tor ellmg short weight
in coal and the courts held that it was guilty
no matter about careless drivers or about
anybody else. l.at week in Richmond live
dealers in ice were brought into court to an
swer to charges of selling short weight on
ice.
And all this is proper. In these particular
days of the high cost of living the man who
parts with bis dollar wants at least all that
is coming to him. The ice wen for many
years here and there and everywhere have
been accused of short weight and it is often
to get correct weight. A man rushes out and
wants ten pounds of ice and the driver saws
it oft". He must guess at it. If it weighs but
nine pounds he can't well get another pound
and so he lets it go at that. It will final
ly get to be that the ice people must freeze
their ice in different sized pieces, making al
lowance f6r melting. In Greensboro there is
anNiron clad ordinance against short weight
caused by the arrest of a driver a year or
two ago. A citizen weighed his ice and found
that he had been gold-bricked. He had the
nerve to complain, and the hope is that here
after in this town those who sell ice and coal
and everything else that must be weighed,
will see to it that the scales are balanced and
that the customer gets all he should get.
It may take a little time, but honesty in the
matter of selling these things, might prove to
be by far the best policy. The law is on the
books and the people are willing to kick. Be
cause a ten pound chunk of ice looks very
small, anyway.
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Mr. Watts Must Surrender.
The edict has "gone forth" to the effect
that Mr. Aus Watts, who fir'od a colored gen
tleman as janitor of the public building in
Statesville, because the colored gentleman was
conducting a panting emporium instead of
janitorizing, must re-instate the knight of the
goose if he, Watts, continues custodian of
the building. Watts fired the darkey and in
stalled a confederate soldier. But the civil
service commission reported and found that
Watts had no right to fire a man for no other
reason than that he .conducted a panting em
porium on the government's property.
Let this case be sent, also, to the mediators.
Let the A. B. and C.'s tell us whether in this
white man's country a colored nigger can run
a panting emporium in a government build
ing when he is drawing a salary for janitor
izing. Weighty questions like this should go to
the Hague. They should go to the hundred
and fifty four progressives who collected in
Raleigh to hear J. Hampton Rich introduce
his ringing resolution agin' fraudulent adver
tising. Aus Watts has no right to interfere
with a man's panting emporium. The good
will of such a joint is worth money. The
"old stand" is worth much. Think of the
janitor being firmly established in the old
stand where people could be pressed while
they waited and think of the cruelty of Aus
Watts in kicking him out and putting in his
stead an old confederate soldier who needed
the money. . ; ,;'
. That is the way Washington looked upon
it. Let us hear from the Hague. ; Let us hear
from Clarence Poe who believes in segrega
tion. If we could get segregation Aus Watts
and the Colored Brother wouldn't have to be
in the same building.
But it is too late now. The Powers have
decided. There is no backward path and no
returning no second crossing that river's
flow. As the ship sinks, Aus Watts will re
sign as keeper of the building and jump
ashore, Great will be the excitement the day
he turns the government building over to be
used as a panting emporium' but great things
are what mark us as a Nation.
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How It Happens. '
- A few days ago we were fishing, and we had
baited the hook with a small perch a little
sun perch about as big as your three fingers.
Presently a silver perch about three times as
big as the sun perch came after the little fel
low, and while he was struggling and figuring
out how he could swallow it, along came a
bass that weighed about three pounds .-. and
picked them both up and went sailing away,
apparently in high glee. And we thought
how much that was like human-nature. We
have all seen the little fellow swallowed be
cause he made too much noise. , " '
Worth Hundred Million
And Unhappy.
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I'.ADS like romance,
does the story 01 Charles
V. Post, multi-millionaire,
blowing out his
brains, just after every
thing was adjusted to as
sure him happiness and
pleasure in his declin
ing years. Post was the
man who made the
breakfast foods and pos
tum made one hun
dred million dollars in the clear, tie naa
some intestinal trouble some time ago and on
a special train hurried across the continent,
having the celebrated Mayo brothers operate
on him and he returned to Southern Cali
fornia pronounced cured. The morning of
his death his physician had told him he was
all right. He called for his latest tailor made
suit, spent much time in dressing, putting on
all the finishing touches possible; told his
nurse he wanted to lie down awhile and after
the nurse left the room, he laid down on the
bed, took a rifle, put the barrel in his mouth
and with his toe pulled the trigger, blowing
the top of his head off the bullet going into
the next room.
And that was all there was of Mr. Post
the man who insisted "there's a reason."
He had a hundred millions. He had divorc- :
ed his first wife and married his stenographer
and he had been troubled with neurasthenia
and he couldn't sleep and perhaps "there
was a reason."
He had just purchased the most palatial
residence in Santa Barbara a city of won
derful residences he had just bought .two
whole city blocks, and he had decided to spend
in that delightful country amid those magni- ;
ficent surroundings his declining years. He
was sixty years old burdened with a hun
dred million dollars and he couldn't sleep.
Wonder if there was any retribution about
it? Wonder if the fact that he had divorced
his wife and married his Stenographer didn't
have something to do with lack of sleep? .
Wonder if he wasn't happier when he didn't .
have so much coin and when he was liv
ing with the woman whom he wooed and won
when a younger man? Sometimes these
things interfere with sleep; sometimes these
things take away all happiness. Certainly
Post didn't get much out of life he simply ,
got a lot out of the pocket-books of other
people.
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Far Away.
A woman appeared on the stage at the
chautauqua tent in 'Winston a night or two
ago and proclaimed that heaven was her
home. She insisted on this proposition and
the Journal said she was demented. Doubt
less a woman who claims heaven as her home,
finding herself in Winston-Salem would be
a little flighty.
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As It Was.
When we used to run a newspaper in Dan
ville there was a man named Ayres living on
the North side and a man named Ayres liv
ing on the South side, and the North side
man was addicted to the use of likker. About
every Monday evening the North side man's '.
name would appear among the drunk, and
down printed in the Bee. The initials of
these men were the same, and every Tuesday
the South side man would come' in and have
us explain that it was the other fellow.
And in like way the Hamburg Fishing Club
is explaining that no member of it was mixed
up in the shooting scrape out there the other
day. The shooting was dono toy a camping
party on the other side of the pond and be-
cause Colonel Joe Reece with newspaper ac
curacy located it at Hamburg some of the
anglers are afraid that the- general public
might mix them up with the bloody riot. But
not so. The Hamburg fishing club is com-'
posed of men who fish and who would scorn
to shoot at anything save a fish hawk. 1 vj'.i
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The Trade At Home Policy.
The man who trades at home; who banks
at home; who boosts everything home made
that he can boost, is helping himself as much
as he helps others. Every farmer who sends
away a dollar to a "mail order house is hurt
ing himself. He is making a smaller ta- 1
for the merchant; he is decreasing t1
..of city real estate. He is standi"
light and he isn't gettij?"' m
in the long run.. Trade at
your city, your county an ! -
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T"''iy decid