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.V- ' , THERE IS A REASON FOR CRIME WAVES AND OUR LEADERS SHOULD DETERMINE IT. MORE ATTENTION TO SAVING THE SOUL AND LESS TO POLITICS SHOULD BE OUR AIM BY AL FAIRBROTHER SUBSCRIPTION 11.00 A YEAR) SINGLE COPY I CENTS SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1914. OX SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS ESTABLISHED MAY 190a. BARE BONES BLEACH HAS LED A BUSY LIFE ONLY A BILLIONAIRE FICTION ECLIPSED I II ' w v PALE LUNA' LIVES r . '1 At Least Flammarion Says It Does. l HE most interesting writ er, so far as our opinion goes, of this age, is Ca mille Flammarion, the wonderful French as tronomer, and we arc glad to have him come to the defence of the moon, and attempt to prove that it is not a dead world. He thinks now, after careful and pains taking observations, that the moon shows signs of having homes, of life. His last shon. story on this subject is worth while because he says we accepted the word of one astrono mer and for a long time all agreed that the moon was a dead crust ; an old wreck that lost its place and was held in position by unknown forces but here in late years astronomers have reached a different conclusion and he is one of them. We do not undertake to say that it makes any difference to us whether it is dead or alive; we know we know nothing about it, because astronomically considered, we havk but little knowledge but somehow, we never liked to think of the moon as a dead one. We never could harmonize the propositions that a. - - J I 1 J - J T-" 1- jk nda a uiau nui iu a uuwitLb mt-ii was floating around and found lodgment because of certain forces and then have science, wall eyed and majestic, tell us it controlled the tides and at one time was supposed to have a peculiar effect on the mind of man. We never could reconcile the belief that the planet nearest us was dead and we never be lieved that God Almirfitv had left anvthin&r : o 4 j u helpless and useless in his universe of worlds. We always wanted to think that Pale Luna was a part of the great system ; we always wanted to think that maybe as the world grew old man's inventive genius-r-say ten thousand years from now, would create some kind of a vehicle by which man could reach the moon and that the earth could have an interchange of thoughts and ideas with some sister planet. We didn't want to feel that this old earth which was our home was an "orphant" alto gether and to know that Camille Flammar ion, better equipped than any astronomer in the world today, comes along and says he is morally certain that the moon is not a dead world, makes us feel a little better. Possibly to the man chasing dollars; to the man running for office ; to the man escaping the hill collector, it doesn't make any difference and maybe it doesn't to us. Flammarion says it would take just twenty-eight earths the size of the one on which is located the office of Everything to reach the moon and as we progress in science and air ships and wire less that is no great distance. To commun icate with Mars may be too wild a dream, but of the moon has life and they do things there, the chances are that in some distant day we will establish communication with it. And that is a grand thought. If we could only know something, about even one other world then we might change our mode of living heret A Little Strange. It is more than passing strange that so many of these reformers who are out shed ding crocidile tears for the children who toil always want about $250 for a three hour talk. Why don't they, if sincere, talk for the chil dren for nothing? . Why get on the circuit and demand these big figures and go into quiet communities and raise dissatisfaction between employer and employed? ? Simply because it is the road of easy money, and they know what they are doing. Our greatest teacher, the one who was sin cere and who revolutionized the world, didn't ask. for money. He did good for -good's sake and that, was His mission. Imagine an account in the first book of the Hew Testament, for instance, telling how Christ delivered his Sermon on the Mount under the auspices of some lecture bureau and charging about $250 for the talk. . ' 0 Aii Epidemic. ' Seems that, crime becomes . epidemic and at one time last week the pictures of five wo men in different parts of the country were played up as the pictures of women who had wantonly killed five different men. All charm ingsome were young wives some were jilted lovers but five only shows that crime waves are just like heat waves. , v .. I ' Jurist Dies.. - f Associate Justice Horace Harmon Lurton, of the United States Supreme Court died in Atlantic; City last Sunday. He. was seventy years of age, and heart failure was assigned as the cause of his death. 1 When The Call Of The North Allures. URED by the call of the North eight more explorers have been reported dead these members of the Stefanssen party an arctic expedition that simply followed in the wake of so many other like foolhardy ven tures. The world mourns for Captain Scott it sometimes pauses long enough to shudder over the fate of Sir John Franklin and it laughs to think how Peary and Cook got home and claimed the medal while the other fellows left their frozen bones at the boreal pole. There is a law against selling whiskey to an habitual drunkard. There is a law to protect the idiot and the imbecile who is helpless. There are laws made for the protection of So ciety in general and special rules for the bet ter protection of individuals thereof especial ly in regards to dunacy, etc. But it seems to be that every year some fool is allowed to organize an expedition to go somewhere where there is no need to go; to try to cross the Atlantic ocean in a balloon ; to do some fool hardy thing in no way worth while, and yet no law to stop the idiocy. Seems to us that after awhile these expe ditions would be called off. Seems that they have the South pole and the North pole pretty well under survelliance and it also seems that after they get to them there is nothing to report. The men who go leave families to suffer and to sorrow; the world is not enriched by the sacrifice they make and why governments will applaud these foolhardy adventurers is more than we can understand. . 0 The Milk In The Cocoanut. ' We have insisted all along that the state wide primary, while an excellent thing for the politicians who use the democratic party as their mask to further all their ends, is a direct blow against popular representative govern ment. We are not caring about party when it comes to electing men to public office. We favor a platform and the man. If a democrat is corrupt we do not think he should be elect ed. If the primary prevails and a corrupt dem ocrat is nominated by the primary the peo ple who voted for him in the primary are leg ally bound, if they vote at all, to vote for him in the election. Such a course absolutely gags the voter, binds him hand and foot sand-bags him into silence and submission. The following special telegram in the Sun day edition of the esteemed Daily News of this city, tells the whole Story: "The Democrats of Durham have decided that the legalized primary is about the only way they can have full control of the nomina tion of their county and legislative officers. In the last primary it is known that a large num ber1 of Republicans and others who have not been supporting the Democratic ticket in the past, took part in the polling. In some in stances they were challenged and all who vot ed in the primary agreed to support the ticket." .- ' .Of,. The only way to have full control is to al low no man to vote for his representative un less he is willing to vote for the man who is a democrat no independent is allowed to vote; no man is allowed to attempt to select his rep resentative unless he agrees to swallow the dose the politicians put up to him. That is destructive of popular representa tive government; it is simply a party ma chise, no matter what you call it, getting early into the jrame and takine all in sight. The organization wins whether it is heads or' tails and that is why we oppose a legalized primary. ' It might be all right in a country where there were two parties but where it is all one way, unless the independent voters have a chance, it is cut and dried, and there is no other way around it. Reckless Extravagance. An Atlanta dispatch reads : "Four hundred dollars reward for the find ing of Mrs. Elois Nelms Dennis and Miss Beatrice Nelms, either dead or alive, Was of fered here today by Mrs. John 'W. Nelms, the wealthy mother of the missing women. It was announced that half of the sum would be paid for the return of either of the women, whose mysterious disappearance while on a business and pleasure trip to Texas has arous ed widespread interest." . , To think that a wealthy mother would reck lessly offer two hundred dollars apiece for missing daughters, especially if there was a belief they had been foully dealt with, stag gers belief. , , , With such an exhibition of. the total oisre; gard of spending money what is a poor man to do? ! 4?, " - J L fcn-im. .V ..... gl That it is a fact that a mail once in always wants to stay in, the case of Joseph B. Forak er once named Fire Alarm Foraker, because of his prominence concerning the "rebel flags" under the Cleveland administration and their return, furnished abundant evidence. For a long time United States senator and attorney for the Standard Oil Co. and now a candidate for Governor again, Mr. Foraker has had a wonderful busy public career. He was born in Highland County, Ohio, July 5, 1846, and entered the Union army as a private when 16 vears old and came out at the close of the war as first lieutenant. Af ter the war he worked hi? way through Cor nell College, and began the practice of law in Cincinnati in 1869. Ten years later he wa elected a judge of the superior court of Cin cinnati and remained on the bench until 1882. He was the Republican candidate for govern or of Ohio, in 1883, but was defeated at the election. In 1885 he was elected to the gov ernorship and served two terms. In 1897 he was elected to the. United States Senate and sreved in that body until 1909. Mr. Forker's most notable performances as a member 01 the senate consisted of the Cuban interven tion resolutions, which brought on the war with Spain ; the resolution prohibiting corpor ations exploiting Cuba after the war, the sta tute under which Porto Rico is governed, and the motion in executive session of the senate by which the old Clayton-Bulwer treaty was abrogated prior to the United States acquir ing the right to construct and control the Panama canal. : ."; . ' 0 Congratulates Osborn. President Wilson has congratulated Col onel Osborn on the good work he has done since he took charge of the revenue depart ment at Washington. Inasmuch as we last week congratulated the Colonel and printed his picture, it appears that the President want ed to be with the big crowd that is singing the praises of Colonel Bill. 0 ; : Waking Up. The National Educational Association has been having a meeting the past week in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and many among the na tional educators read the riot act to those people who would attempt to teach sex hy giene in the public schools. It was pretty generally threshed out and all seemed to agree that when you allowed the mystery and sacredness of sex to be discussed and taught in the public school room you had taken a step backward that could never be re called. ;: It was the opinion of those w ho talked that parents owed it to their children to tell them all about the mystery of sex; that it was a solem.n duty, because, by answering honestly the questions that the child might propound the chances were you saved them from many immoral steps but to teach it in the schools ; to lay bare all the mysteries so sacredly guard ed would tend to impure thoughts; to bad morals. It was wisely contended at this meeting that knowledge, never made purity and in this instance it was liable to prove very dis astrous. We are glad such a great body has taken this view of the question. It is time that the faddists and reformers who appear to be willing to forget all that is decent and all that is pure, were called. Never Better Said. Nothing could be better said than this from the Wilmington Star;' Cut it out and paste in your hat (and your sun bonnet, too, my dearie.) It reads : , "Humanity, instead of warring on itself, should war on the fly, the flea, the bed bug, the mosquito, the rat, the trash pile and the junk heap." In all. candor there , is more need for some moral laws something to stop the crime wave in North Carolina than there is for a state wide primary to keep the democratic politi cian? in power and pie, .. The trade at home slogan sounds round the state. The mail order house is the one that our merchants need fear. i v . And About Ready To Drop The Sack- T IS worth more than a pric ing notice to think of Old John D. Rockefeller, who lat week passed the 7th mile stone on life's journey and the old man with all the pounding, with all the worry: with all the doubts that fill his mind, is said, bv his physician, Dr. H. I. Bigger, to be in bet ter health today than he has been for years. He plays his game of golf each day; rides a bicycle and rides in an automobile. He is afraid of anarchists who threaten him ; of grafters who try to get to him; of tax collec tors who want him to. cough. On his birth day he received telegrams from crowned heads from men prominent in business over all the globe, and checked up his books and found that he was a billionaire the only one in the whole wide world. We have been told by a gentleman who has been pretty close to Old John that the only thing in all the world that worries him is the thought of what after death? He has tried noi to take the Good Book literally, and he won ders, they say, about that passage which says a camel no more could thread the postern of a needle's eye than that a rich man could get into heaven. Old John has tried to give away his money. He has given lavishly but it comes a con tinuous stream of gold flowing forever and forever into his coffers and while he tosses a million here or ten million there he wakes up to find that his graft has worked while he sleeps and he is possessed of more of the dross than ever. But he is going out pretty soon, now, Old John is he is going to cross the river with no pocket in his shroud and no change coming. He is going out alone, going to leave his Bil lion Dollars which have done him no particu lar good going out on the same boat with the beggar and the pauper going to ride across the eternal sea and never speak a word to a soul on board. We have always been sor ry that John has been so badly used, and re gret he didn't really get something worth while out of life. But he hasn't no matter what he may say or think. Again New Bern. And after the 20th of May Myth or Reality was threshed to a frazzle; after it had been decided that Colonel Aus Watts was the man who originally struck Billy Patterson; aftei competent authority decided how old was Anne and the Ignatius Donnelly cryptogram failed conclusively to prrc; that Francis Ba con and William Shakespeare were one and the same now come some of the papers itv this grand Old Tarhelia and want to do away with a space and make New Bern one Word. Not on your autographed edition of Hoyle on games. The dictionaries, in their pronounc ing departments all agree that Newbern is one word but if the folk down New Bern way want to say that they spell the name of their town "New Bern" we say that they should have the last word. We have known men named plain John Smith to change the style of orthography to Johyne Smythe, and it always seemed queer to us but if John wanted to put it up that way it was a right John had. . New Bern is a live, hustling little city down Craven county way ; it has a great many pro gressive citizens, and when they all finally agreed that their letter heads ; their post-office every bloomin' thing having to do with the name should be two words and should always be "New Bern" we take it that they should not be molested. Therefore we go on record for New Bern two distinct words, and orders are herewith issued to all compositors, proof readers and stenographers to use it that way or not use the word at all from this repository of truth. 1 . 0 The Mileage Steal. Congressmen again voted on the mileage steal and twenty cents a mile is what they say it comes to. The rate is two cents but a Congresman who gets but $7,500 a year wants Uncle Sam to help him pay the Pullman por ter. Kinston Getting Busy. Kinston is wider awake on the woman suf frage question than any other town in the state it is claimed, and when the state conven tion is called Kinston proposes to have a larg er delegation present than any other town in Eastern North Carolina. Well, why not? Kin ston is a town of culture; a town of live peo ple; and certainly all the live, people these days are for woman suffrage. A few of the ossified gentlemen, with a surface of petrifac tion where their hide originally was can't see it but can they see anything? . . . ( In The Case Of Ashe ville Bank Wreckers. TRANGER things hap pen outside the books than in them, and that is why we have always been told that truth is stranger than fiction. Mr. J. E. Dickerson who has been doing a few months in the federal prison at Atlanta and whose home is in Asheville, has been paroled, and is free again. It was over sev enteen years ago that Dickerson, along with Breeze and others, was convicted for wreck ing a National bank at Asheville, and perhaps a harder fought fight is not recorded but fin ally he got a two year sentence. Judge Boyd in the May, 1913, term sending him to At lanta for two years. Good hehavior cut it down and after 14 months Dickerson comes out and what does it amount to? There seems to be no doubt but what he was guilty as found. The bank was wrecked and old man Breeze still has something the matter with him and can't go to prison although it was decreed he should. Those two men, while serving practically no time, have been punished more than had they gone like little men and taken their med icine. They spent money limitless in em ploying lawyers ; they were held up before the country as bank wreckers and their living graves were always kept green because of the hard fought battle and now that Dickerson has paid the penalty what has he left. Nothing- And what has old man Breeze left and why doesn't he come into camp and go to prison if only for a few days? If there is any disgrace about it he is completely disgraced. The vic tims of the bank which Breeze wrecked are almost all dead ; the friends of Breeze are not as enthusiastic as he may think they are and these two men, then almost in the prime of life, money mad, simply spilt the milk and have drawn out an existence of unhappiness and of despair. They do not know it, but the law of retribution laid its heavy hand on them ' they got full punishment fot all they did. If Dickerson can find anything in the way of solace outside the federal prison if he can spend his remaining years with anything ap proaching happiness, we hope that he may do so, We have read of men being mangled by dynamite when refusing to surrender to of ficers; we have read of men going into exile and evading the officers of the law until they died. We have read of all kinds of punish ment being meted out to men who were crim inals but when Eugene Holton camped oil their trail and remained on their trail and fin ally succeeded in getting the courts to sen tence, after a seventeen year fight we take it that they were the two most severely pun ished men in sixteen states. They thought they could defeat the ends of Justice but Holton said nay. That is why their punishment has been so severe. 0 Where They Want It The farmers and the small towns are the ones who want prohibition, because they see in it only the moral side. The dirty dollar hasn't stood between them and duty. The following dispatch shows how' it stands in Virginia. "Out of an estimated total of 140,000 quali fied voters in Virginia, 69,936 have signed petitions calling upon Governor Henry C. Stuart to call a state-wide election to decide whether or not liquor shall continue to be sold in the State. The petitions have been certified to the Secretary of the Commonwealth and will be presented to Governor Stuart tomorrow. He is expected to call the election for Septem ber 22 as provided by the enabling act passed by the last Legislature. "Of those who signed the petitions 57,356 come from counties. Richmond furnished only 1,976 while Norfolk had 2,137. The total is four times the number necessary to author ize the calling of an election. The enabling act provides that if the "drys" carry the election, Virginia will banish liquor on November 1, 1916. 1 These figures suggest that Virginia will adopt prohibition by at least 60,000 majority. But the big towns no, there is a dollar in it, ' and they want the dollar. o -:".:-.;'; .'. : Want Clark. . v. ; . His North Carolina friends are urging Judge ' Walter Clark for the vacancy caused by Judge Lurtons' death. The Judge is an able lawyer and inasmuch as he preaches so many , strange doctrines possiblv what nii-U be well d f ed as socialistic doctri - . oull be r ' : bench 1 ing to see him on t' down hi9 views c- for i.
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