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PEACE AND SOCIALISM ARE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES MADE IN DREAMLAND BY ' SLEEPING ARTISTS. IF YOU ARE THIRTY YEARS OF AGE, TO BE FORTY SEEMS OLD, BUT AT FIFTY SIXTY IS YOUTH. BY AL FAIRBROTHER SUBSCRIPTION ll.Ot A YEAR; SINGLE COPT I CENTS SATURDAY. AUGUST 15, 1914. ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON T BAINS ESTABLISHED MAY 190a. BLAME IS LAID BUSINESS IS BETTER AND Y'S PLAN FAILED TEDDY IS LOSING OUT THE LIME LIGHT At The Door Of People Who Read. HE WAY it looks it seems to be the same old story always told told so often in this world of woe that if the other fellow didn't do this or didn't do that then we would all be as good as angels. Possibly this is true possibly it ought to work, but it doesn't. The other fel low is the one to blame. Germany says the war isn't her fault and all the other nations hasten to insist that they are innocent of bloodshed. Over in Virginia they have been trying a woman for murder and circumstantial evidence has been the only evidence adduced. But the lawyer for the lady, R. Lindsey Gor don, in doing the last spectacular stunt be fore the jury in his attempt to sweep it off its feet and leave a picture that it couldn't dis miss, utteeed a great truth when he said: "The newspapers in Virginia have done this -woman an injustice which they can never re ' pair. They have published every fact that tended against her and have suppressed every fact in her favor. I have come to the con clusion that the 'love of money is the root of all evil," and he said that it was this love that animated the newspapers and detectives. "I shall argue this case in the fear of God, fearing nothing else. I want to say to you in all fairness," addressing the spectators, "that though many of you have come here with hon est intentions, some of you have come for the same motive which impels the newspapers to send their representatives here. By your love of sensationalism you help the sensational newspapers. You create a demand for them, and are equally responsible for their sale. If yon did not read them they would not be Qub- Lots of truth in that, my neighbors you and I are guilty and alone responsible for the yellow journal for' the vile and loathsome sheet that you allow to come into your home laden with filth and garbage, the stories of blood and crime. You cry for more and still for more no matter what the depths of de pravity the paper reaches you still want more- Not "all" of you, perhaps, but if the reading people of America would say that crime was assisted by t these sensational stories ; that because criminals were played up as heroes and women depraved and vicious were paraded in the newspapers as creatures of importance thus inducing other women to play the same role and declare that they had to stop printing this slush and muck, insisting that slop jars of indecency had too long been overturned on the unsuspecting public pres to and it would change. The magazines, two or three of them, are just now going the limit in the matter of in decency and many of the newspapers think that a murder story in all its ghastly hideous ness is quite the thing and when they find the people want more of that the dose is promptly administered. , The freedom of the press is a wonderful pro positionbut whether it should enjoy all the freedom it takes is a question that should be settled. If the people must feed on these buz xard feasts if what they want is the dirty stories of crime and shame then why not all the newspaper publishers get together and conclude that maybe they could help some in the way of reformation by withholding from the diseased patient the dope that is now so freely given? Brooks Of Johnston County. ; We are glad to see that F. H. Brooks won in his fight for recorder of Johnston county, Mr. Brooks is the man who insisted that the party didn't owe him anything that he still owed the party something, and wanted to pay it by again serving it as recorder. That was the boldest stand we ever saw taken. It was what the Frenchwould call a "kod de taw." It was the stuph. J It won, hands down, and of course Brooks will be elected by a big ma jority: . ., . ; And hereafter, when the battle-colored pa triot comes up and says the party owes him something let him beware. Let him follow Brooks let him insist that the party owes hltti nothing but have it known that he thinks le owes the party something and wants to pay thebill - in services with a salary at tached. ' Wait for the progressive convention that is going to declare against bosses and in the same breath endorse Theodore Roosevelt, the King of the Bossical Islands. , ' ylf Everything suits you tell your neighbor 1 3 ought to send in his name. This willinci- "y he!p a good cause and it might help Than Politics In All Munic ipal Affairs. ROM theories wc all should be delivered but wc are not. We note that Councilman T. W. Wood, of Wilmington, is now advocating a muni cipal owned gas plant. The Star presents his case by say ing that Councilman Wood would purchase the present gas plant from the private corporation if it could be bought at a fair price, otherwise the city would build in opposition. Then the Star continues in this fashion: "Concilman Wood's idea is that the city, by owning its public utilities, can not only furn ish service to the patrons at a lower rate, but also may have whatever profits may accrue to be used in public work. He stated yesterday that in Atlanta there is a gas plant, owned by a corporation which has made a net profit of $400,000 on a gross income of $800,000. Other cities are making money from their plants, he declared, and are charging a lower rate than the consumer has to pay in Wilmington." No doubt in the world but what a private corporation can make money out of a gas plant because it puts things over. Everybody must have water and therefore the city need not hustle for business. But if the city owned a gas plant it would never extend a line unless there was present profit in it; it would never spend thousands of dollars urging people to put in gas stoves or sell them stoves on the installment plan in order to secure customers it would drag along letting most any old thing do and the profit wouldn't be worth talking about. Again if the city owned the plant there would be more politicians to take care of and the "pee-pul" would demand low er rates and those using gas would get them and altogether it wouldn't be worth while. If the city of Wilmington or any other city would let the public utilities alone; make laws to control them and govern them, the service would be better and the people would be better off. The Atlanta gas plant makes money be cause it hustles and because it does things. If a private company owned the water works in Greensboro the city would be better off infinitely better off but we happen to own them and will continue to operate them. The private corporation always gives better ser vice ; always puts things out and makes a man pay for what he gets. In this town houses have been furnished water where forty or fifty boarders took their meals and ten or twelve lived at a certain rate and when three people occupied the same premises the rate remained the same. Surely a private corporation would not have stood for that either the three peo ple pay too much or the forty or fifty got wat er away below cost. There is no business in handling the water and there perhaps would be none in handling the gas. Councilman Wood has a beautiful theory but government or state or city owned public utilities never pan out. They look it on paper but they do not do it. ' Terrible Punishment A local news item in the Wilmington Star reads : ' '"" , , . "Two pairs of trousers stolen from the store of J. H. Rehder & Company; No. 615 North Fourth street, are responsible for Sam Simp son and Robert Miller, both colored, each get ting 12 months on the county roads on charges of larceny. ; Simpson tried to sell some trous ers at a pressing club and this led to his arrest by the police. He implicated Miller as having been connected with the stealing of the trous ers and the latter was arrested by the police early yesterday morning and convicted." ' And yet we talk about the fiendishness of the people in the old world. We wonder why men are so heartless as to declare' a universal war and when you stop to flunk that two hu man beings are sent to the roads; to stripes and put to work for twelve long months each for stealing a pair of pants costing probably not over three or four dollars great . God, gentlemen, you cannot condone such business. No matter if the state needs good roads; no matter if it seems to be business to hold the black brother in subjection and fear a city or a state that will hand out such decrees can not hope to permanently prosper in the sight of God. ; v:'-' " . , - We have white men in North Carolina who murder and go free. We have them who loot banks and despoil homes and they are never sentenced. :, But get a nigger before the court and the time is. not counted. Any animal is en titled to protection and we claim that to send any living thing to twelve months servitude for' stealing a pair of breeches is an outrage. . ( And Still No Peace. . General Wood a Major-General, if, you please, urges an increased number of men in the U. S. army. We had thought' all along that grape juice policies would call the war r"f v r F0 ' v j crease the warriors? - 4 , '" ' 1'"- 1 ; I l' J T"v ATHER hard lines for Andy Carnegie, - to look over his beloved Europe and sec . all the dead and dying; hear the moans and groans of innocent men lying in their own blood hard lines for a man who has thought so much about peace; dreamed so much about it and spent so much money for it. Andy has been a disappointed man, in this world of movies and tight lacing he has had lots of money, but he hasn't been able to buy what he wanted. Trye he has given out a whole lot of advertising novelties in the way of libraries his name always on them but he couldn't induce the country to adopt his simplified spelling, and now it seems that his dream of universal peace is a joke. After the wars have played therhselves out; after thou sands of men and millions of treasure have been given for this last folly, a peace commis sion might come in aid get some signatures, on the principle that p man recovering from a fearful drunk swears that he will "never again" touch the accureed stuff. While on the stool of remorse with tepleted exchequers and fattened grave-yards There might be a will ingness to swear off war arid sign the pledge for peace but just so soon as the Nations again get fat and saucy away again will go the troopers marching to war and death. Andy is to be sorrowed for he has made a beautiful bust of all he had hoped to do. ' ' o - His Maps Against Him. The news from Germany that Mr. Archer Huntington, the well known New Yorker who is president of the National Geographic So ciety, was, with his wife, arrested and both of them held as spies recalls the delightful story written by DeMllle and called the Dodge Club In Italy. . The leading character in that charming story was an Amreican Senator, and he was always getting into scrapes of one kind and another. Finally he was smitten with the charms of a beautiful titled lady and she wanted to know of him if he adored poetry. He said he was full of it; that poetry was his passion; that he lived on it and that poetry was always his theme. Then she asked him to quote some thing from his favorite author, and to save his soul he couldn't quote anything because he had never read a poem in his life. Finally, how ever, to make good he recalled a part of a hymn by Watts, and quoted that with much feeling. It was "Oh, that my willing soul would stay In each a farme as this. And alt and ting Itself away, to everlasting bliss." He was induced to write this for her, as her conception of the English language was limit ed and she wanted the heart throb for her very own. He wrote it and finaly when it was found on her person the Senator was arrest ed as a spy and the grave --court of inquiry, with fiendish glee, introduced the strange writ ing to prove beyond question that the docu mentary proof was there. When an interpreter had translated the lines and read them to the grave and reverend judges there, was much disgust. And so, perhaps, when the stolid German police ascertain that Huntington had a valise full of maps concerning only the American Geographic Society it will feel badly bored. Of course those German detectives believed they had caught red handed a wicked spy with a full set of war maps of all Europe. . ! However the dispatches state that Hunting ton was stripped naked when searched and that his wife was subjected to insults and in dignities by the German police. If this be true such things as that may call for reprisal and that is how we might easily get mixed in war. -, : The state wide primary plan is a plan to get your vote and put a collar on your neck. Keep away from it. Remember we have done well enough in the past the new measure is a political measure. The less politics the bet ter,. i '. 1 ' : r " - The state-wide primary will keep Durham county always grandly, democratic but it won't give an honest man a chance to swat a dishonest democrat Isn't Playing Game In Consist ent Manner. N THF. New York fight Mr. Roosevelt certainly lost several points, and Teddy stock is away below par. He has ad vised in Louisiana and even in this beloved state, against fus ion ; against accepting anything that looked like republicanism and the bull moosers, proud of their chief tain, have taken his advice without saying a word against it. , But when Teddy endorsed Harvey D. Hin man, the out and out republican candidate for Governor of New York, he broke his forces and if ever a popular idol was broken into a thousand pieces Teddy was broken when he hit the ceiling. It is said that six hundred faithful Roose velt bull moosers rebelled; that a fight almost ensued and that the Goldsboro convention, with its pistols and broken faces, was a nur sery frolic compared to what happened in New York. Those who were faithful and who disagreed with Teddy accused him of using the same steam roller that ground him to mince meat in Chicago, and from now on Teddy Roosevelt stock isn't quoted on the political exchange. He is what the books call a dead duck. For awhile it looked like he was coming again; as though he would be the leader in 1916 but his action in endorsing Hinman shows that he is not sincere in what he has been pretending because up to a few weeks ago no republican looked altogether lovely in his sight. Teddy is a gone gosling. Gun Toters. The Elizabeth City Independent says: "The average little County judge in North Carolina has got more sense than the crowned heads of Europe. The little county judge has learned that if folks didn't tote guns there wouldn't be so many gun tragedies. Folks who carry guns are tempted to use them. And so the little county judge imposes a heavy fine upon every gun-toter who is convicted in his court. When folks quit owning and carrying guns they will quit shooting each other. But Saunders must get all nations to lay down their guns at one time. That has been the hope but another hope is coming to the Hague. However the Nation and not the individual carries the gun. The policeman carries a gun around with him and the North Carolina judge doesn't interfere because the law says the policeman has a right to carry a gun and every policeman carries one. Why? To protect him self from the lawless or the man he would arrest.-': And for the same reason the Nation totes its gun. The United States isn't building war ships to kill people provided people keep away', The United States might lose her head and go to shooting, as Germany has done, but that isn't to be presumed. The policeman might get full of dope and shoot up the town but that isn't to be presumed. If there were no guns toted by any nation then we might look for peace but if there were no lead pencils or writing materials there would be no Independents. Human nature is human nature and if there are no guns there will be spears and bows and arrows and the arrows -will carry a poisoned point That is human nature in a breech clout, A modern battle ship is human nature in a plug hat but it is the same old human nature that was in young David when he swiped Goliath with a slung shot. : It Has Come To This. ' Out in Colorado they have the recall along with the referendum and the initiative, those twin beasts of prey which wild eyed men want us all to have as pets, and under the recall sys tem the citizens are going to try to recall Mrs. May Ammerman although she is not a man. Mrs. Ammerman is the accomplished commis sioner of records in Colorado City and the pop ulace claim that she neglects her official duties to do fancy work and keeps books for an out side organization. The lady defies the wrath of the infuriated populace and tells them all to come on that she is not afraid of an investigation. This is the first time a lady who holds office in Colorado has been under fire and here is hoping that she will win out. " .0 Another Wax. Colonel Santford Martin, of the Winston Journal, has declared another war against Russia. He says that when this war is over the armies must march to the gates of Russia and put lier out of business. Well, maybe they must, but when we used to be in the war business one at a time we found the best way. So let us, dear Colonel Martin, get this present mix up straightened out, and then if Russia doesn't give her peasants a square deal we'll organize and go over there. : Always Helps Clean The Dark Places. LITTLE publicity now and then may help some, . and whether the recent stories coming out of Johnston county have been inspired by feelings of humanity, or wheth er politics has played its part in them, makes no difference, provided : the truth is reached and those in charge of County Homes and those responsible for the unfortunate creatures who must live in them are awakened to a sense of duty. A couple of gentlemen from Johnston called on us Saturday names not material here, and one of them said he could hardly believe the statements which the Selma Chronicle had printed but when we told him that other peo ple had vouched for the facts he said it show ed that the Commissioners had merely for gotten their duty. He said he knew one of the Commissioners, as good a man as lived in Johnston county and perhaps he is. The other day we were talking with Com missioner Rankin of Guilford county and he was telling us how hard it was to keep things just as they should be at the County Home. He related the fact that one superintendent, luckily now in glory, used to boast of picking up brick and knocking down the old colored men and women with them; of horse-whipping the unruly, and all such infamous proceedings that would make the blood of an ordinary mor tal boil over. Mr. Rankin said the Commissioners of Guil ford kept a watchful eye on the Home and that now they had a competent superintend ent. But we all forget. to the county home are unfortunates. They have either met with terrible reverses; they have been diseased; they are intellectual or physical cripples of one kind and another. They are not criminals, and if we did our full duty we would treat them with compassion and pity we would tenderly care for them. If those of us who are physicaly and mentally capable of taking care of ourselves; of enjoy ing God's bounties and have health and wealth would pause a moment and consider the lot of these poor human wretches there would be no brutality; no hardships everything would be made pleasant for them. But we forget. We have made ourselves think and believe that a man in the poor house is some terri ble fiend; some fellow who ought not be there when God knows no man is going there if he can help it. The stories we have printed have ; been Vouched for by reputable people and the hope is that by giving them wide publicity they will arouse other communities and cause other County Commissioners to be alert and see to it that charges on the county are taken care of in at least a humane manner. We haven't heard anything from Johnston county since last week, when this is written, but we are sure there has been something doing. ; , : 0 Bravely Spoken. The Editor of the Laurinburg Exchange gives space in his editorial columns to the fol lowing lines, and we. take it that the subject was a close friend of the man who penned the article. It was simply headed "Brock," and was as follows: "He was only a dog no, leave off that word -'only,' it sounds as if it might detract from his worth Brock was a dog, a good dog, a friend ly dog. He was intelligent and affectionate. jolly and playful, well-behaved and smart, and was well thought of by his acquaintances of ; the human species. "Brock died last week, and the family in which he was a valued companion and a be loved pet have cause to be sad. They have lost a real friend, a friend without guile. " 'Only a dog!' How much better this old." 1 fj a won a wouia De it an men were as gooa ana true as some dogs. "God pity the man who, sometime in his life, , has not loved and been loved by a dog!" i Yes. God oitv the man. and the woman, too. A dog's .devotion is one grand song of love. The dog that will love you and die for you if .7 need be; who will starve with you who will refuse to leave you in your wretchedness and poverty is the truest friend you will find in this vale of tears and we are glad to know : that God Almighty did hot withhold from us ' the power of appreciating and returning the love of a dog. 'V.?iJ, J,:.-" :::,.,'::.' ' ' 1 S: sii&E The' state wide primary scheme is one that 6hould not be accepted just off harH ' -n the politicians.' - - - ; " J--.:i-:'utfihH-ir nil Q' ''in ' i Japan may see a good ' Where around Manila ; waist deep on the c "
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