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THE HIGH COST OF
DYING KEEPS MANY A
MAN FROM UNDER
A TOMBSTONE
YOUR NEIGHBOR IS
NOT PERFECT, BUT HIS
DEFECT MAY BE
A VIRTUE
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BY AL FAIRBROTHER
Sl'BNCBIPTION $1.00 A YEAR KIN'GLE COPV S CENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1914.
ON K.4I.E AT THE NEWtt KTANDS AND ON TltAINS
ESTABLISHED MAY 1903.
WHY WE LAUGH
QUESTION OF DOUBT
YEARS WOR TH WHILE
WILL YIELD POINT
LAW ALL RIGHT
When Politicians Save
Us Millions.
E LAUGH long and
loud, to see the state
ment by the Honorable
Hocus Pocus Smith to
the effect that he thinks
the passage of the cotton
exchange bill would save
the farmers of North
Carolina the great sum of $10,000,000 and
the American people at least $70,000,000 an
ntfally. It is a wonderful prophecy. The pas
sage of the bill will not mean the saving of a
nickel to the farmers. Just before the Presi-'
dential election we were told from every stump
that the tariff on all the different things piled
high into a billion of dollars, as these figures
seemed, would help the people. The tariff on
wool, on leather, on meat, on eggs, on
everything under the sun was just simply
suckirig the life blood out of the down trodden
and oppressed. It was a robber tariff with
gum shoes, a dark lantern and a jimmy. It
was a fiendish tariff that followed a man from
the cradle to the grave and took duty from
bis tombstone. And when the tariff was re
duced to a tariff for revenue only all the peo
ple could gather and have a barbecue and eat
the wings of humming birds and chew angel
food and glut themselves for a few cents
provided the iniquitous tariff was banished
from the land forever. '
. And they swatted the tariff for fair. It was
given a solar plexus blow. It was hit between
the eyes and below the belt. It was dragged
out and the people who had saved a little
money or inherited a little money or had a lit
tle money were forced to come across with an
income tax. The things the "plain pee-pul"
were eating didn't decline in price. Beef is
still out of sight everything consumed and
an advancing price, and the treasury isn't as
full as it was, and thousands of idle men walk
' out looking for a job'.
The cotton exchange bill will not make the
farmer one more red copper. It won't do any
thing but throw a crowd out of the game. It
may help from a moral stand-point and
gambling should never be allowed. But to ar
ray the figures like the tariff talkers did it's
all moon shine on a shovel'.
Strange, in this world if they want to knock
out whiskey or knock out gambling, or knock
out stealing or knock out anything immoral
and unjust, the appeal must be made to a
man's pocket-book instead of to his soul to
his bank account instead of to his heart. Cot
ton gambling is wrong and should be abolish
ed. But to tell us it will saye the farmer any
money is to laugh. If all the money had been
saved the farmer which politicians have prom
ised to save him every farmer would be an
individual regional bank, and Uncle Sam
would have to borrow pocket money from
' him. .. '
' " - Trying To Boom Page.
There is a terrible effort being made in' some
'quarters to boom somebody for Governor and
the scheme seems to be to leave General Carr
out of the list of candidates." The last story
from Washington is to' the effect that Con
gressman Page will be asked to run fof Gov
ernor. ; Congressman Page had better stick to
his knitting. General J S, Carr is going to
'be the next Governor of North Carolina the
-old men and the young men' are going to see
that he gets it. ' '
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To Meet In Raleigh.
1 The sixty-first annual meeting of the North
' Carolina Medical Society will be held in Ral
eigh, June 16, 17 and 18. It will be preceded
by the meeting of the. North Carolina Health
Officers' Association on Monday, June 15.
; 'Judge Pritchard hands. down an opinion in
. the United States Court of Appeals, sitting in
Richmond, to the effect that labor unions are
' lawful organizations. I Certainly. they should
" be, if they were not, etore this decision. The
' labor union is lawful. The court" said that
v they must not resort to violence or coercion.
And so long as they do not do that they are
not only lawful, but a mighty good thing. La
bor would be put on the hog in many instances
were it not for organization. The Jabor. unions
- have missed it in the past by, their boycott
v-work and their attempts at coercion. But it
. seems they have learned a lesson. - .When la
bor organizes and goes about its business sim
, ply refusing to work for insufficient wages it
will win every time. When it organizes and
undertakes to sand-bag into silence the man
, t ' 9 expects to pay the coin it loses ground
t is the 1 jor question in a nut shell.
Concerning The Celebrated
Early Case.
EEMS to be just one plague take
it thing after another and if we
can't conclude to determine be
yond doubt the identity of the
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7S Hft-tV Hi"" who sirutK limy rauerson
zk we want to know if Thaw is in
sane or did Frank kill the factory
girl Mary Fhagan. And just
about as these things drop out and become
common-place along come the Wise Men and
propose to prove that the late Mr. Early, the
Carolina leper isn't a leper at all. Early Is
a North Carolina man who contracted leprosy
in the far east, and who was detained a long
time at Washington, D. C. Finally he was
sent to Port Townsend, Washington state, and
from there made his escape the other day.
He got back to Washington City, registered
at a first-class hotel where the vice-President
lives, and sent for a newspaper correspondent
to interview him. The correspondent of course
recognized Early and he was again sent back
to his original camping ground. But now
come the Wise Men and claim that Early
isn't a leper. He is going to have the matter
tested. He is going into court and claim that
he can prove he isn't a leper that people are
unduly frightened.
Wonder if he'll get the front page and if ex
pert handwriting men and alienists and spell
binders and hook-worm specialists and pel
legra doctors will take his pulse and every
thing else in sight? Wonder who really could
tell if he has leprosy? The case of Mr. Early
promises to be worth while. ' And finally if he
hasn't leprosy the government will give him
a Peary medal and a pension and do all sorts
of things and then John can break out in the
Sunday papers with a story steen columns
long, in colors telling "How It Feels To Be a
Leper and Guess of How Many Beans Are
in ajar." Wonderful what isn't happening.
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No Use. V-:.:---The
esteemed Winston Journal wants us to
refer to the live town as Winston-Salem. We
do not propose to unnecessarily wear out our
hyphens. They cost a nickel each these
mats do and Winston is the town, after all.
Salem is a part of Winston but Winston was
never a part of Salem. Salem is a thousand
years old and Winston is a lusty kid that grew
up in front of her and around her and put it
all over her. True the post-office department,
through respect to the aged, allowed Salem to
hang to the coat-tails of Winston but Win
ston is the Stuph and to her alone we sing!
The Rumblings,
The Lexington Dispatch heard things. It
saw things in the last primary scramble and
this is what Mr. Varner has to say about it :
"The rumblings in the various districts of the
State last Saturday were only a curious 'salute
of 21 guns' warning the present officials in
North Carolina, who have been in office for a
long time, to vacate in 1916, and give away to
other patriotic Democrats who have been
'standing out in the cold working for the suc
cess of the Democratic 'party and for the good
of the State. The time has come when the
people are going to demand a change and not,
permit any man or set of men in any county,
district, or in the State to remain in-office for
life. There should be frequent changes for
the good of the party, for the good of the
country, and for the good 6f the office holder
himself.. ...''.;:'--,t:! ": :- :::.
'There will be no political disturbance of
any importance during 1914, but there will be
changes all along the line in 1916,"
Yes, those shivering patriots standing out
in the cold waiting for a bone to gnaw. Those
patriotic democrats who want pie and who re
fuse to be comforted without pie, heard many
rumblings. But the rumblings were the peo
ple rushing, to vote for Page and Webb at
the divine ratio of four to one as against the
men who were shivering. ' ;
' The Congressmen from North Carolina have
made good ; they have been hi some instances
turned down because of the howls of dema
gogues but in these parts we are going to
keep on returning Congressmen who have
made good. The excuse that a democrat is
hungry ; that he wants pie and has no parti
cular qualifications will not longer cut any ice
with Norfh Carolina people. '
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More Truth Than Poetry. -
' After all there Is more truth than poetry In the
following editorial paragraph from the Union Re
Dubllcan: "Again the name or Gen. Julian 8. Carr
is being mentioned as a Democratic candidate for
Governor. Few may bare done more or contribute
ed more liberally to their party than General Carr
and received less.. Like, our esteemed citizen,
Hon, C. B. Watson , he has always been sacrificed
for men far less deserving of the honors 'within
the.gtft of a party." Winston Journal '. -;'
"He has always been" but he Will not al
ways be. ' Jule carr will be the next Governor
of North Carolina.
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Mr. W. T. Gentry, President of the Southern
Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company re
cently celebrated his sixtieth birthday, and the
thousands of employes of this great company
were all wishing him longer life and greater
happiness. Mr. Gentry is well known in North
Carolina and has many friends, warm, per
sonal friends throughout the whole South. His
life story is a story of Success Success wrung
from what at times seemed the impossible.
We desire to add our congratulations upon the
success of his journey thus far and wish for
him many more years of usefulness. The At
lanta Constitution editorially said:
"V. T. Gentry, of Atlanta, yesterday cele
brated his sixtieth .birthday. He kept 'open
house' to his friends in his beautiful new
home, 'Virginia Manor,' and was presented a
magnificent silver service by his associates in
the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company, of which he is the head,
"Mr, Gentry is a business builder of the best
type."'
"Twenty-five years ago he came to Atlanta
from Virginia as manager of the Atlanta tele
phone exchange. In those days, Gentry was
virtually the whole telephone system of At
lanta. At that time the Bell boasted only a
few miles of wire, locally, and a few hundred
telephones, and with a nominal staff of which
Gentry was the head.
1 he aptitude and creative ability the man
has played in this quarter century are best
illustrated by his steady promotions to be head
of the Southern Bell and the Cumberland sys
tems, which supply telephone service to the
vast territory south of the Ohio River and
eastward from the Mississippi River to the
Atlantic Ocean. The larger features of this
phenomenal development are traceable to his
executive ability and specialized knowledge of
the business. A smaller man or one less dar
ing would have held back the evolution of the
service in this section.
"If Mr. Gentry is paramount as a builder,
he is no less winning on the social and person
al sides. His temperament is one of magnet
ism and individual charm, drawing all manner
of people to him. His outlook has been broad,
enlisting his sympathies and energies for each
phase of civic advancement and the public
welfare. Among his most attractive charac
teristics is the faculty for making happiness
contagious among his: friends-and all with
whom he comes in contact.'
"The birth anniversary of such a man is more
than a personal event. The Constitution felic
itates him upon the celebration of yesterday,
extending the hope that many more similar
celebrations are yet to come, each marking a
broadening of his fine citizenship and practical
usefulness." : v -
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Be Natural.
Be what you are. Don't try to imitate some
other fellow, and don't try to borrow plum
age of some other man. If you think the
world is flat, be brave enough to insist that
you think so be honest enough to admit it
you are wrong.
: If you are getting bald, don't wear a wig
the wind will some day blow it off and your
baldness will become a scandal, whereas, now
it is simply a misfortune without offense.
If your whiskers are gray, don't paint them,
because the coloring will wear out in spots
and you betray your attempt to defeat nature
hi her royal plans. 1
If your teeth decay and you want to chew
bull beet during the high cost of living, go to
a china shop and purchase a set of porcelain
you Can't help that.
And above all things if you believe in any
thing say so-i-if it is woman suffrage or pro
hibition or hook worms or pellegra or cabbage
snakes and if you don't believe in 'em say so
in just the same loud tone of voice., :
Don't whisper. Don't try to make believe.'
Be just perfectly natural:
;. The photographer will tell you to look nat
ural and wink occasionally and you. should,
not forget the fact that you are always before
a camera bfef ore the eyes of other men-and
if you try to put on frills you haven't got or
conceal frills you have fjot you'll be" photo-'
graphed in spite of Fate. - ; - - - v .
But Simply As A Matter Of
Self Defense.
MAN need not lie a philosopher
to predict that unless something'
unforeseen and undreamed of
happens, the militant suffragette
will finally win. She ought not
because violence should never
be rewarded, but' the I".nglili
suffragette has the nerve and
the good Lord knows she is not a
quitter. The other day in Belfast, Ireland, a
number of the militant ones visited a newspa
per office, the Telegraph, and seeing the mag
aging editor proceeded to knock him to the
floor, pounce upon him and heat him shame
fully. Then they went to the office of the
Xews-Lctter and whipped the editor of that
paper until he was about all in. He was car
ried to a hospital to ponder on what he had
allowed his paper to say, and nurse his bruises.
Countless houses are being destroyed, and in
stead of decreasing in violence it appears that
the women have just begun their campaign
of lawlessness.
The other night one of them forged a card
and gained admission to a reception where
she threw herself before the King and begged
him not to use violence against the women
and it is hard to tell where the matter will
end. It is said if the authorities resort to vio
lenceif they use the soldiers to put down the
militants, that women of rank stand ready to
join and it will mean the slaughter of thou
sands of English women. In other words if
they have an organization that laughs at death
and it comprises wives, sisters, children of
the ones in power, they dare not turn the guns
on those they love.
Never in the history of the world was such
a problem presented. And it is our guess
that they will win, by force and violence,
what the American woman will win by tact
and good manners.
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Seven Days.
A busy world a world onward and upward
but where are we going? The Wilmington
Star announces that it will hereafter appear
as a seven day paper it took a postal card
vote of its readers and the majority said sev
en days. ' :"'''
The Charlotte Observer first fell into 'the
seven day habit, then it was followed By the
Greensboro Daily News. The Asheville Citiz
en next came across, and then the News and
Observer. Now the Star falls into line and
we suspect the Winston Journal will be, the
next. People want to read the news every
day; they will finally want a Sunday evening
paper. That has been tried in some of the
cities and wasn't much of a success but we
are growing to it. Papers every hour will
soon be demanded in small towns. In the
great cities they pull 'em every hour not so
much because there is a demand, but for cir
culation. The Wilmington Star is a first
class newspaper, and to be in the procession it
had to come across, it thought. Railroads run
trains at all hours of the night and the twenty-four
hours are Working hours these times.
Banks run all night in some cities and pretty
soon the dry goods stores will be forced to
keep open all the time. Electricity has turn
ed darkness into light and everything living
except the chickens works right along. And
the Old Rooster has been getting up at mid
nfght to crow as long as we can remember
in fact he first started this night work.
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After Them.
The merchants' association of Salisbury has
concluded that Mr. Slow Pay and Mr. Dead
Beat had too long been denied the publicity
that is due them, so they propose to make it
possible to give publicity to these two dis
tinguished and well known people who have
relatives in most all towns, and whose names
are registered at every store where credit
could be obtained, j
. Mr. Slow Pay means well enough but he
might as Well hustle. Mr. Dead Beat is a pro
fessional, and' he goes through the world get
ting much for nothing, and the man who is
prompt must pay his bills. The merchant
must figure on the Joss end of his sales and
if Mr. Dead Beat could be cast aside there
would be no column of losses hence the mer
chant could either sell cheaper or make a de
cent living out of his business. , ' ,
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A Ring Tailed Twister.
Iowa has been visited by a cyclone that left
death 'and destruction in its path. The cyclone
comes" in all sections-but the' middle west,
seems to be more frequently visited than oth
er places.- HowevCr we are not bragging.
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A snail doesn't get in a hurry, but if you
watch him you will observe that he generally
gets where he is going. . And maybe he enjoys
the trip. , . , " : - . ' - ' ,
Just A Mistaken City
Council Acts.
MAN' can juggle facts
and distort facts and he
can. without any raw ma
terial, make a mountain
out of a mole hill. It
happens that an assist
ant superintendent of
the anti-saloon league of
North Carolina visited Louisburg, in Frank
lin county. North Carolina, United States of
America, one day last week, and in his re
marks brought out some figures that suggest
ed Louisburg wasn't observing the prohibi
tion law to any great extent, and accordingly
we receive a letter from a Raleigh gentleman,
well intentioned, no doubt, but in favor large
ly, of "personal liberty" and he wants to
know how we explain our conduct in asserting
that Prohibition has worked and worked well
in North Carolina, in face of such figures. He
says the whiskey men didn't furnish the fig
ures, but Rev. O. L. Strongheld did, and they
show "if -they show anything, that prohibi
tion is a failure."
But here we beg leave to differ with our
friend and correspondent. He says that in
the month of May 1,100 prescriptions were
filled and that one man received three pre
scriptions in one day each one calling for a
quart of whiskey.
Well, suppose the case that there had been
1,000 prescriptions filled each day the prohi
bition law was being carried out, in that the
men who wanted whiskey had to go to a phy
sician, a member of the State Medical Society
wrote the prescription. The whiskey Wasn't
sold at blind tigers. It wasn't unlawfully
sold had it been there would have been no -
record of its sale, The fact that it was record
ed shows what the prohibition law will do.
Now if the State Medical Society will gently
pass some rules and regulations at its forth
coming meeting next week, to the effect that
no physician can write prescriptions for a
drunkard calling for quarts of the stuff at a
time maybe the Medical Society will help
bear its part in the game that is being played,
and about won by the prohibition party. .
The same thing obtained in many towns.
Physicians wrote prescriptions and druggists ''
filled them as they had a right to do. 4 But
in this town and other towns it was agreed
that the whiskey business had proceeded far
enough and the town simply refused to furth
er grant druggists the right to sell whiskey
on prescription. The result is that thousands
of people who thought they must have likker ;
don't get it that way any more. Louisburg -is
simply mistaken. She thinks she ought to
continue to allow the doctors to violate the
law by prescribing quarts of whiskey to men
who do not have to have it and one of these -days
she will wake up.
The man who gets three quarts of whiskey
in a day at a drug store comes within one
quart of beating the mail order houses who .
suggest that a gallon is enough for any man
to get at One time. Louisburg simply should
be ashamed of herself. She should stop the '
traffic. It is easy to do. Many towns have
stopped it, and after stopping it prohibition
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nas uvuu waning, i) c uu noi sec mat inc
Louisburg sensation in any way suggests that '
I. ioo sales were perfectly in accordance with '
the law made and provided.
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As To Boosting.
The Laurinburg Exchange rises to remark:
Pairbrother says: "The man who boosts his
town in season and out of season is the man who
eventually owns a corner lot and rides in an auto- '
mobile." It's the proper season now and always '
to boost Laurinburg, for lt' a good town every
day in the year and we say this without a corner .
lot or a buzz buggy in prospect.- , . i, 1
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sisting that we keep the South's money in the
South keep on telling the readers of the Ex
change to throw away their mail order cata- "
logues and buy of the merchant that builds
a town and sustains a town you will have
a better prospect for your buzz buggy and a '",
corner lot nn the side.
O. Come Off.
The Durham Sun, in big heads tells about
Another bky Scraper , for Durham and then .
proceeds to explain that So and So will build"
a four story building. We know the sky al-
most touches Durham but a four story build-:
ing isn't going to ; scrape it. We have over : '
here the Public Service Building, five stories ,
high; the Dixie Building six stories high, the
Benbow Arcade five stories hign; tne South- ;
em Life and Trust Building five stories high ;
the Banner Building si stories high; the
McAdoo building five stories high but no one
of them has ever' scraped the sV" - ' wc bv
never claimed it. Just as so
court house matter settle
out' a sky scraper a 1
rattles and a button
ing some.