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BY AL FAIRBROTHER
MIBHCKIPTION 1.00 A YEARi SINGLE COPY S CENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1914.
ON NAI.K AT TIIK NKH'N KTAMM ANI N TKAINU
ESTABLISHED MAY igoa.
IT WAS DESERVED
THE SCREWS LOOSE
IS HIS HAT IN RING?
ELEPHANT - MOOSE
THE GRAY BEARD
A Hazer Gets More
Than Expected.
HIS paper is not blood
thirstyit hankers for
no man's gore but once
inawhile there is a little
spilling of blood, and the
forfeit is a human life,
and somehow we are not
sorry, when wc should
be. Wc have convinced
ourself a half hundred
times that the young
Mr. Smart Aleck is not
, really responsible for his audacity; for his
foolishness ; for his belief that the world is his
, oyster. Knowing this, when one of them gets
bis death wound we should not rejoice we
should regret that his boundless impudence
got him into trouble and sorrow for him. And
yet in the face of this preachment this cold
and calm analysis of the facts, wc are not sor-
' ry, but somehow or other rejoice to know that
'the hazers who attempted to enter the room
of a student in St. John's College of Mary
' land received a wound that proved fatal
There were five of them attempting to break
open the door and they were told not to at
tempt to. enter the room and a bullet found
its way through the door from within and
one student, one hazer. was dead.
; The reason we are not sorry is because the
lesson taught here may be a lesson learned,
The hazer, with all the laws against him and
with all the precaution that can be exercised,
still attempts his brutality and to know that
students who do not want to be hazed, pro
pose to protect themselves from hazers, just
: as they would protect themselves trom other
" styles of highwaymen, is encouraging. -
; Of course we know that the .dead would-be
hazer left behind friends who must sorrow and
relatives who must weep but" the lesson is
worth while.
. Down at Chapel Hill the hazers who killeo
Rand should have been perforated with bul
lets. And down at Chapel Hill we understand
some of the students went prepared to shoot,
and we haven't heard much about hazing
since. Whenever the custom prevails that the
hazer is to be shot and public sentiment is
behind such a custom, then the unlawful and
brutal sport will cease. "And whenever it does
cease thebetter off we all will be. This thing
of defending hazing as innocent play of boys
is all rot. . Too many times students have been
the victims of murderers and the game might
as well be stopped altogether. It is not neces
sary. . -
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The Gretna Green.
A Louisville, Kentucky, Judge, Samuel B.
Xirby has just delivered himself of the op
inion, based upon figures gathered, that pec
tle who marry in haste and who rush off to
t some Gretna Green generally live together but
a few months. .
; Quite natural. . The man who' proposes to
make a world-wide bargain generally under
stands what he is about, and makes i haste
r slowly. The woman who falls in love at first
sight of some bully boy with a glass eye gen?
. erally falls out of love at second sight of the
same fellow.: Hasty marriages have been the
cause of much woe. And now nd then a long
courtshipextending over six or seven years
nas aiso proven disastrous. 1 ne iacis seem
to be that about twenty-five per cent of the
married people are not properly mated. The
per centage gamefigures in, all things, and
' here on earth we have nothing yet that is per
fect. We only hear of the unhappy marriages.
The millions of contented married folk flow
"along like a deep river.. We only hear the
stream murmur when it strikes the rocks and
onil-woou. 00 wuu inc. uiamcu : ycupic.
Those who are not mated howl dismally and
finally wind it up in the divorce court. 1' 1
r , , . 1' ' ' ne,xnevuauie.
" I Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons sues for a. divorce
; and claims that her, husband threatened to kill
her and she tears he will. .Robert was the
cuiuiipiuu . ucavjrwcigin, pnze-ngiiier ui' mis
country. We gave him medals and we gave
. bim front page and we gave him applause.
The man who writes a book to, enrich the"
world starves in a garret, and the brute who
happens to have enough bull strength : to
knock out any, other man is the, hero of the
hour. Of course Mrs.. Fitzsimmons will se
cure her divorce all right but that will do
her no good. , . ,
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Supply And Demand., , t
.The farmers in Pennslyvahia "have agreed
to have a rooster day and kill all the roosters
r - that cp"3fS will no lonrer be ert",!e, and tl.us
But Where, Has Not Yet Been
Determined.
T IS understood that if you do
not blow your own horn an
English sparrow may build her
nest in it, and therefore we do
not blame Mr. Roosevelt for
talking. He wants to be presi
dent and if he can bamboozle
enough people he will be. His
talk is the talk of the ordinary political spell
binder. Just before sailing for Spain Satur
day, where he goes to attend the marriage of
his son, he gave out an interview in which he
said the tariff law passed by the democrats
had done nothing to help the people; the
trusts hadn't been stopped in their career ot
pillage, and then wound up by explaining that
the platform of the progressive party would
work all the magic that poverty dreams.
But Teddy is mistaken. He has often been
mistaken and while president brought us a
panic the like of which was never seen. Shin
plasters, script, no money at all and everything
about to go to the bow-wows but he forgets
all that, and, if remembering it, lays it on to
the other fellow.
There are no laws to govern prices of pro
ducts except the natural law of supply and
demand with cold storage eliminated.
The other day in this white man's town
Mr. Oscar Pearce, a grocer, was advertising
butter, a prime article, at 25 cents a pound, and
his announcement said it was the regular 35
cent kind when butter was not so plentiful,
And that told the story.
There are too many consumers. Too many
men wanting to buy something to eat and not
enough men producing something to eat.
Here iri North Carolina we are only a part of
a day and a night from New York city and our
chickens are rushed up there and sold at New
York prices and paid for at New York wages
and down here we pay New York prices with
North Carolina wages-and we are pinched.
The tariff has nothing to do with cheapen
ing the prices of things which are scarce. The
coffee we buy came in free. They had a tariff
on it and they took it off in order that the
American wage earner could get his cup ot
breakfast coffee as cheaply as possible and
behold, coffee advanced several cents a pound.
Clothing was the great bone of contention.
The spell binder who shed his artificial blood
'for the "pee-pul" insisted" that he wanted to
see the American wage-earner properly dress
ed and didn't want his wool coat taxed.
That always got rounds -of applause. The
truth was, and the truth is, that there isn't
a dollar's worth of raw wool in any suit of
clothes made and the tariff lowered, hasn't
lowered the price of coats and never will.
The man who makes the clothes gets but a
scant wage. The man who sells them makes
something. 1 The man who retails them put
on a living profit profit enough to pay rent
and insurance and wages but the wool in the
clothes isn't figured in the last named price
paid by the ultimate consumer.
But taking the tariff off of wool knocks the
sheep industry into a cocked hat the same as
taking the tariff off of sugar is putting the
beet growers out of business.
The man who eats the things made and the
man who wears the things made isn't getting
them a cent cheaper and all the platforms of
all the political parties in the world are not
going to make 35 cent butter sell for 25 cents
unless the people make more butter and
thus let the supply exceed the demand and
then 35 cent butter will sell for 15 cents. And
there is no way around this except when cold
storage gets control of it and puts it away
and holds it for high prices makes it scarce
and keeps it scarce.
'We ace a Nation run mad. We are now
running over twelve hundred thousand auto
mobiles and seventy-five thousand of them are
for business and the rest for pleasure, and of
course it takes money to live. We are indulgr
ing in all kinds of extravagant ways and un
til we reform; until more of us get back to
the farm and produce something prices will
remain high and .Teddy can't help it, Wilson
can't. help it, and rt'o power on earth can help
it. And a crop f iilure would bring us to a
proper understanding. ; ' ' , -
, , , Thaw Having A Good Time. ;
Harry Thaw, in company with sheriffs and
oth,er. Officers has 'gone to a summer resort
where he will remain during the heated term.
A prisoner, but one not. worrying, he is hav-,
ing the time of his life. And all the time he is
proving: that he is sane and' wise, and one of
these days he will go free. Jerome has perse
cuted him and that is all there is about the
Thaw case. !",,!,... , ' t '
If you have' failed even'up. to this time to
perform your duty it isn't yet too late to swat
the fly. 1 ' , .
That Maryland student who; sho the hazer
perhaps didn't intend to kill him but if the
1 r 1 ' :'t t' en tryinsr to break in the door
I ' -n 1 t v ' "i t' 1 1 "
V I
art i j f
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The stories floating around Washington are
to the effect that 'Joe -jFollc wants to be Presi
dent sometime. It will be rememberd that
Missouri had instructed for Folk for Presi
dent, and Clark receiving some outside en
.dorsements, Folk got out of the way but
Folk was really more popular in Missouri
than Clark. Folk had cleaned up the St. Louis
crooks and he was wearing feathers in his hat
And the feathers were not of his own pluck
ing. Friends had brought them to him and
decorated him.
He was recently appointed chief counsel for
the Inter State Commerce Commission and as
such he has insisted that the New Haven rail
road schemes be laid bare and in this he was
opposed, it is freely claimed, by the Attorney
General, and the President sided with Mc-
Reynolds. But Folk insisted and the result
was that Mellin's story laid bare a string of
chapters of criminality that surpassed any
thing fiction ever attempted tt portray. .
And Folk insists that he is going to the
bottom of other things. He is a scalperwhen
on the war path. He makes a clean job. The
administration doesn't want to keep big busi
ness boiling but if Folk does what he threat
ens to do ev,ery railway in the country will be
placed on the operating table. The operation
may be successful but the patient is liable to
die. And Folk all the time keeps in the lime
light while knowing ones say that maybe it
will be Folk instead of Wilson who will be the
nominee in 1916.
O
Plenty Of Them.
The latest figures show that there are in
North Carolina 9,300 automobiles one for
every 237 persons. ' These figures are interest
ing.. There are about as many horses as ever
about as many buggies in commission and
yet almost ten thousand automobiles and the
most expensive, part of the automobile is the
time they waste, ,
; The city makes money out of them in more
ways than one. Take for instance in the mat
ter of watering the lawni v Hundreds of peo
ple who Jike to dally with the hose find them
selves riding and let the sprinkling go; - There
is something about using the hose that does
not resemble, work. Often you will see the
proprietor using the hose on the lawn while
the servant, supposed to do. such chores looks
on as the "boss man" handles the nozzle of
the squirt. ,' ,
- We are not agin' the automobile. We think
it a Jgreat institution and.no doubt but what
it has come to stay. To stay as long as men
ride. But it is a matter of common comment
that many people own automobiles who can
not pay for them ; who neglect to pay other
bills. But these same dead beats are always
with us were with us before the automobile'
came and will remain. -
. The joy ride 1 worth while; vThe automo
bile is a necessity in this hurry-up age, and
the next ten years will witness them cheaper
in price and better In construction. And fini
ally every man win own one every well to
! man every man who wants to extract a
'e pleasure out of life. , ' '
Trying To Eat Pie Out Of
Same Manger.
OYK OX I', another srems to lie
the idea of the old time rads in
this state just now, and they
Vj'TM.j are taking the initiative and
T"' referendum, if not the recall,
111 the vain hope of getting to
gether. Like a pair of twins
fighting for the supremacy of
pie, Colonels Carl Duncan and John More
head have signed up a letter addressed to the
chief fugleman of the Progressive party, tell
ing him that they must get together if possi
ble. , While they didn't say it they intimated
it, and old Job's protestations might he used
to fit the case. Job put it up "Jt I have walk
ed with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to
deceit, let me be weighed in an even balance
If .my step has turned out of the way and my
heart walked after mine eyes (which spotted
pie) then let me sow, and another eat."
Really it looks like they were willing to
come into camp and surrender name, give up
evervthintr even let the others eat it they
can 'Only defeat democracy.
But it will never go. In this land of the
brave and the home of the free the progrcs
sives will progress and the rads will chew the
rag.' ;
We can imagine the old time Taft republi
cans breaking bread with the swift gentlemen
who flew the track to follow the fortunes of
the man who wanted to be King who today
boasts that he hau prepared to defy the laws
and send an army into a peaceful country with
orders to pay no attention to courts or any
thing else.
With some Mr, Roosevelt is a god. With
some he is an ideal man a great leader. But
there arc others, self-respecting gentlemen
who will never form an alliance with the pro
gressives. That is as certain as anything in
this world. That is why the democratic party
will win out this year and next year and as
many years as Mr. Roosevelt assumes the role
of dictator. .
In their letter they say that there are over
a hundred thousand republicans in this state,
and with a proper line-up they can carry some
congressional districts. That sounds well. It
looks well on paper but even the mountain
districts are lost to the divided party.
Those who imagine for a moment that any
republican-progressive or progressive-repubr
lican boosted by all the forces they can com
mand, will defeat Major Stedman are as
strangely deluded as was the enchanted
Knight of La Mancha.
O
For Dr. Henderson.
Because of the resignation of Dr. Venable,
Mr. A. H. Price, of Salisbury, a trustee of
the University, wrote some nice things about
Dr. Archibald Henderson, and said in his
judgment he' was the best qualified man in
the state of North Carolina to fill the presi
dent's chair.
O
Wonder what the disappointed seekers for
post-offices who have been lampooning Major
Stedman will do now, poor things?
O
All Right At Last.
The Rev. Father Odenbach, of Cleveland,
Ohio, startles the world by saying a man can
learn to walk on the water, just the same as
he walks on the ground. It is simply a mat
ter of perfect equilibrium balance.
He went out and walked for the boys and
they seeing, pronounced it good.
Possibly it can be done., Few of us ever stop
to think that our walking on the ground is
quite a feat. Take an ordinary post and stand
it up and of course it will fall over unless per
fectly balanced. We start out and learn to
walk. We balance ourselves and must keep
a perfect balance or, over we go. The head is
what must be perfectly balanced to walk on
water Odenbach says. Generally when we have
tried to walk on the water we didnt do it.
Our feet got under the water and prilled us
down.
O
Good Enough.
Virginia has long been cursed with race
track gambling, but the bookmakers were last
week arrested and sent to jail and heavily fin
ed, and this means good-bye to that kind of
vice. Gambling is always pretty hard .busi
ness, but the man who "plays the ponies", is
always up against it.
A Cess Pool , ,
The Journal of Winston goes after the au
thorities because on Main street there is filth
that is a disgrace to the city. ; The Journal
says the city stands in the Census figures as
the second largest in the state, and to have
dirty pools of water standing in its main street
is a disgrace. And m this the Journal is ex
actly right , . 1
Sees Hope At End Of
The Journey.
IX(I, O heavens; and be
joyful, O earth; and
break forth into singing,
O mountains" for Dr.
Phelps, Professor of
English Literature in
Yale University, said it
in Raleigh that the gray
beard alone comes into
his own. Dr. Osier to
the contrary notwilh
standing, and shucks to Father Time, too long
the faker with the scythe and glass too long
holding down his job with his books not au
dited, and turning scornful eyes to the allega
tions of Colonel Varner that there should be
rotation in office.
Dr. Phelps was talking to the sweet girl
graduates of Meredith College but he insist
ed that animalism had no joy to compare with
spirituality, and boldly proclaimed that the
happiest years are between seventy and
eighty.
And perhaps Dr. Phelps who is himself
around the middle point about fifty years or (
so of age, is making himself believe that there
are yet greater joys than he has lived. In
other words he simply presents Hope in a new
garb and plods on expecting some day to reach ,
the green goal on the mountain yonder. , ,
We all know how the fox, after he had lost
his tail in the steel trap, gathered together all
his clan and gravely and reproachfully inform-1
I'd them that the style was to wear no tail;
that he had cut his off; that he was much hap
pier; that all his fellows should hurry up and
adopt the style which he had set. But they
didn't do it.
And nowhere under the shining sun toda -is
there youth which would forfeit it for age.
It is all right to have been along the trail. It
is well to have been a path-finder to have
learned which were the innocent flowers' and
which ones bore the thorns. It is all right to
have had the experience which age gathers "
and which age hoards with miser's care but
you can't make this old man believe that there :
are any strawberries at the end of the road as .
ripe and sweet and red as those he gathered '
in the long, warm days of Youth. You can't
make him believe that after Time has swatted
him full and fair, put wrinkles in his face and ,
sorrow in his soul; colored his hair to whert
his own mother wouldn't know him and stoop-; ;
ed his shoulders and dried the' marrow in his
bones, he can hobble down the last ten
mile stretch, looking as it were into' his open "
grave, and extract as much pleasure in the
last ten years where Regret and Failure and s
Sadness and Loneliness dance as grim attend
ants, as he got out of fifteen minutes of the
span of Youth when every moment held out
to him the tragic possibilities of all that all
other men had lived. , :
Tennyson didn't do us right when he said a '
sorrow's crown of sorrow was remembering .
happier things because about all the old man
has left-no matter how much money how
much ease is the supreme happiness of tell
ing for the hundredth time how, "when I was
a boy" he did so anu so. But it was when he ;
was doing so and so that he lived it; that he -enjoyed
it; that he was getting his money's
worth. The mere fact of recalling the chv.
cumstances, while it gives pleasure on the "
home stretch carries with it the sad regret: '
Never again!. ,.:? .:; J
However, as we grow older it is a fine thing '
to adjust our thoughts so that we can accept
the inevitable without losing our temper. But :'
Youth Youth is the stuph ! t "
o ;.:
- Is He Crazy? . . - - if;
Rev. H. A. Hayes, former superintendent of ?
the Methodist Children's Home of the West- v:
ern Carolina Conference at . ..Winston was T;
charged with the embezzlement ' of about ;v
$2,000. The charge stirred up great excite-,
ment, and the plea of insanity was set up and
the gentleman sent to a private sanitarium at -.:
Morganton for treatment. 'H got away from
the bug house and turned up in Chicago. He r
has been sent for and will be tried. ? ; v
. Why not plead the unwritten law. this time? 'p
" . ' Child Labor '
They still talk child labor, but we notice that ,
the children who labor are often better equip
ped for the life struggle than those who are i
idlers. Child labor isn't as deformed a mon-
ster as many people would have us believe.
Must Avoid Publicity.
The Illinois bar association in anmr1
ing resblved that lawyers must 1
interviews in cases in which V
ed. It was decided to 1 -
though the ordinary I !
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