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NOT IN THIS WAR, f (1" if llfi I I T f" "S C7) DEAD SOLDIERS AND
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BY AL FAIRBROTHER
SUBSCRIPTION 11.00 A TEAR SINGLE COPT 1 CENTS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1914.
ON SALE AT THE NEWS KTAN18 ANU ON TRAINS
ESTABLISHED MAY 190a.
ABOUT THE BOSS
NOW ALL BUY A BALE
UNCLE JOE A WINNER
WHY BOOST HIM FREE
SCARLET WOMAN
There Is No Boss In
North Carolina.
NE MIGHT think to read
all the stories vc are get
ting these days about the
boss in politics that the
Boss was a terrible mon
ster. We rejoice to know
'jS ,"2J3 ha there are a few bosses
'fcU'iRo&s' m North Carolina at least
enough to head off now and
then the wind-jammers and hot air artists who
itch to get into office. We are glad that we
have such men as Simmons and Overman and
Osborn and Watts and all the others who take
a hand and head off the other fellows who
would be bosses if they could. There is no
use to talk about the boss in politics because
the boss is the man who makes things go. In
the old days the statesmen we honored and
the statesmen we revere were bosses. It
takes a boss in the political game as much as
it takes a boss in any other game, and we are
glad ih.it Cameron and Travis and Watts and
others insisted that the state convention
should not endorse the statewide primary.
On the other hand there is Brooks and there
is Poe and there are other men of ability who
are not now counted in, and who generally
speaking are "agin' " the bosses but put these
men in office put them in power and let them
be forced to assume the responsibility of run
ning things and you would hear them de
nounced as bosses. The politicians of North
Carolina are mere human beings. They want
office and those who get office are at once ac
cused of being bosses and then when they
loose out we hear of the fellows who go in as
being bosses. It wasn't long ago in this state
that one newspaper possessed of supernatural
power discovered the Fifth District combine.
Of course such a combination never existed
but the minute the story was circulated it
passed current with the people, and men were
out with sword and spear looking for the ter
rible tombination a combination that was
impossible. But for a long time you couldn't
get any one to believe it wasn't so and men
to this day are sure of it.
Politics makes strange bed-fellows, it hath
been observed, and if any slate is now made
out by the bosses for the year-'1916-.it is liable
to be changed a dozen times and those who
are cronies today may be bitterly opposed to
each other next year.
The talk about a Boss in politics in North
Carolina is moon shine on a shovel. It is hot
air. Prune wafers and chewing gum. There
are no bosses political down this way, There
are some fellows in and some fellows out.
Change the situation tomorrow, put the outs
in and the ins out and you would still hear the
cry of Boss Rule and Machine politics. It is
a joke. There is nothing doing.
To Buy A Bale.
The meeting at the Court House to Buy a
Bale of cotton didn't enthuse very much. The
idea seemed to be that to buy a bale of cotton
didn't mean much but it seems to mean much
in other towns. Three million bales of cotton
would be a great many more, perhaps, than
the Southern states could buy but the spirit
was what appealed to many. Winston is go
ing to organize a Buy a Bale club and we
hope that Greensboro, now that a few have
started, will keep up the enthusiasm, and buy
at least a hundred bales.
Of course we can't help the farmer. If a
hail storm had ruined his crop we would all
have chipped in and done something, but the
fact that he can get eight cents for his cotton
doesn't leave him a subject of charity by a long
sight. ' . ' -. ''.'-,-
Mr. Latham said very wisely, that what we
should do was to get the cotton exchange open
and give the whole world a chance to buy cot
ton futures, and maybe in that way the price
would go up. The cotton exchange makes it
' possible for the world to have an idea of what
cotton is worth. There is no reason why the
exchange should be knocked out because
some people gamble on it. The exchange sets
the price shows what it is worth, and the
farmer is protected by reason of it, and the
speculator knows what he is doing. To open
the cotton exchange would come nearer bring
ing the farmer into his own than anything!
else.
A Merchant Marine.
It is an ill, wind that blows nobody good,
and this war is going to cause the American
Nation to have a merchant marine either by
subsidy or otherwise. ' ', " : ':' .'V
There is no reason, and there has never been
a reason, why a Nation as strong and import
ant commercially as America should not float
its gonfalon over the ships on the seas when
freighted with American commerce. The war
lias brought home to us a lesson we should
long ago have learned. AncVnow we will heed., J
And Help The Farmer Out
Of The Low Price.
SERIOUS problem confronts the
cotton growers, and if the Amer
ican people can be loyal, and they
most always are, now is the time
to come across and buy a bale of
cottoii at ten cents a pound. It
will cost $50 to do the trick but
you have the cotton. You may
find yourself a Winner by several
dollars, because when this war is over, and it
will be over, those foreign countries will be
trying to raise food stuff and they must have
cotton. Even those left who heretofore want
ed linen and silk will make out with cotton
because the war will leave them poor in purse.
If a million men buy a million bales of cot
ton it helps just that much and it isn't much
trouble to hold a bale. A bale of cotton would
be really as good an investment as an automo
bile. While you couldn't joy ride with a bale
of cotton you could feel great joy in knowing
that you had contributed to the happiness of
the cotton farmer.
Greensboro has already set the pace sev
eral have bought a bale, and the chances arc
that many citizens will help out. All over the
South the "Buy a Bale" game is being played
President Wilson being one among the first
to invest $50. All of us remember a few years
ago when cotton was down to a few cents a
pound and we know that it was ruination, to
the farmer. If investing $50 in something
which promises to bring back all invested, will
help the country we all should be patriotic
enough to dig down, and we have the price to
come across.
Our country is so big and there are so many
million people, if each man who can afford it
will buy one bale or more at ten cents, the
price of cotton will be maintained, and the
farmer and those whom he patronizes will not
suffer any inconvenience. Buy a Bale and if
it looks good, buy another bale. .
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The Way To Help.
While we are talking about eight cent cot
ton and short tobacco crop and hard times and
all the other ills that can be imagined, did it
ever occur to you that you could avert many
financial disasters if you would do all your
trading at home? Do you know that the big
mail 01 der houses have grown rich off of peo
ple in distant states, and the big mail order
house has never contributed one dime to sup
port that state? Do you know that every time
ycu send a dollar away from home you reduce
the strength of yo.ur home town? Do you
know that your local merchant and your local
manufacturer deserves your support and when
you support him you are aiding yourself?
All this is true. And right now, more than
at any other time, you .should do all your trad
ing at home. Don't think because you get
some alluring offer from a mail order house
that you will save money. You might save a
few cents on the order you send in, but you
lose more by getting your money away from
your section. Keep the South's money in the
South, and always buy at home. This is bet
ter than all the politics you can talk in a
month. j
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v To Nominate A Senator.
The republicans are going to nominate a
candidate for United States senator. Just
who will carry this burden is not yet known.
At this writing the matter is veiled in secrecy.
The committee meets this week, but we go to
press ahead of the news. :
Of course Lee Overman will be elected by a
rousing majority, and the republican will be
counted among the lost. But the sublime nerve
of nominating a man when he stands no
chance in the whole world of winning is what
challenges our admiration, and makes us won
der what there is about politics that will make
Mr. Gilliam Grissom devote his time to run
ning headquarters. But he does it, and does
it with as much enthusiasm as though his par
ty was in the saddle and expected to elect
every officer down to the Justice of the Peace.
We hear so much about wanting a new tax
law that it is to laugh. Why not enforce the
law we have? Why not cut out about sixty
per cent of the useless extravagance now in
dulged in by the state? When was there a
legislature that didn't fasten some new com
mission or some new set of officers on the
state? A new tax law will do no good unless
business methods are introduced and followed.
There is no reason that this state with two
million people and all its , increasing values
should run in debt. If the present tax law was
enforced we would have a .big surplus in pur
treasury and the tax rate would be lowered.
Too much property escapes taxation , that
should be taxed. We all know this and in
stead of enforcing the law we cry loudly for a
new law. Why new laws when we do not en
force the.laws we have? , ' , .
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T J NCLE JOE CANNON- has been nomin
V ated for Congress in his home district and
the chances of his election arc said to he good.
It was always charged that Uncle Joe was a
Boss from away back; that he. was a tool of
corporations, that he was an undesirable cit
izen but the people in. the Danville district
seem to think well of their old friend and
neighbor.
Uncle Joe Cannon is a politician of the old
school. He is as brave as a lion, and a suc
cessful business man. He of course favored
a merchant marine years ago ; he believes that
American workmen will receive better salaries
under a protective tariff; he belongs to a past
age yet that past age handed us down some
pretty good rules to go by. We have always
admired Uncle Joe; we like him personally,
and we rejoice to know that his people nomin
ated him. Of course it is hard to tell in these
mixed times of war and commercial demoral
ization just what the voters will do, but it will
not surprise us to see Uncle Joe returned to
Congress by a-haodsofiie majority.
Roger Sullivan who was supposed to be a
terrible creature, the man whom Mr. Bryan
has always fought so hard, was also chosen in
a legalized primary as was Uncle Joe, and
to save our life we can't see what good a leg
alized primary is if two such political desper
adoes as Cannon and Sullivan could get in
under it. But they were nominated and the
chances are not remote that they will be elect
ed. We are not caring anything about Sulli
van, but we would like to see Joseph Cannon,
of Illinois, again a member of the American
congress.
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The Great White Way.
While other towns are still trying to get
their great white ways, Greensboro is pleas
ed to state that she will have her White Way
ready to turn on the juice by the 15th of De
cember in plenty of time for the Christmas
shopping.
This expense will be cheerfully borne by the
people of this progressive city. The merchants
wanted it, and the merchants certainly are
entitled to most anything they ask for. In no
other town in which we have ever lived did the
merchants respond to public appeals as cheer
fully as they do in Greensboro. But the White
Way will help all citizens. It is simply an
advertisement. It helps boost the town. It
calls attention to Greensboro, and causes the
stranger who comes within the gates to con
clude at once that he is in a live town and
live men like always to live in live towns. The
Commissioners made no mistake in ordering
the White Way.
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North Carolina Represented.
Dr. H. Q. Alexander and Representative
Doughton, of North Carolina, were named by
the cotton growers at the meeting in Washing
ton this week as members of a committee to
handle the cotton situation. That congress
had done all in its power in providing an em
ergency currency was emphasized by Senator
Simmons, who wanted the public to under
stand that Federal aid had gone the limit.
In Clover.
These are the days when both Mr. and Mrs.
Tightwad' are happy. They have so many
neighbors who are trimming close "enduring"
the war times. But when the war clouds
break away the thrifty neighbors will open
up, leaving Mr. and Mrs. Tightwad alone in
their misery.
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Maybe its because we're getting old ; maybe
it's because the war is on ; maybe it's because
well, we don't know why it is, but a circus
doesn't get our steam up like it did say fif
teen or twenty years ago.
Looks like Uncle Sam wasn't going to get
mixed up in the European war, but you can't
tell what is going to happen in Mexico. The
new president down there says the stars and
stripes are offensive to him. '..., v; ; '
The Politician The One With
Great Nerve.
I'lTOSI'. the case': Suppose we
sit down and get the names of
the self-appointed ones who want
to administer the altairs of state.
No matter whether you select
North Carolina for the test take
any state and you always find
that the self proclaimed leader of
nun is a politician. He is a professional poli
tician. Generally he is a lawyer, and he sets
up his pins without an invitation from air
man on earth; goes out and rants and tells in
telligent people what they should do paint
the ideal man as full of reform measures as a
cur clog is full of fleas, and after his harrangue
he exclaims: Behold such a man!
And the people the units the single fel
low here and there the individuals who make
up the total, the majority go out and yell and
whoop and spend their money for this heaven
born patriot simply because he was foxy
enough to get them started.
The Salvation Army- may pass its plate and
receive a few pennies but let the politican
run for office and he enthuses people to go
down in their own pockets to put up money
to elect him ; to give him a lucrative position ;
to give him honor and prominence and the
fellows who voted for him are laughed at
and they never tumble to themselves. They
repeat the programme year after year and
the other fellow wears the honors and the dia
monds. And they call it politics. In no other game
in the world will a man so liberally give of his
time and money as politics. Why does he do
it; Because he thinks that the man he is help
ing will reward him in some way. He doesn't
know how he wants to be rewarded. He never
stops to think it over and conclude, as he
would have to do, that he couldn't be reward
ed but he thinks he will be and he dreams
and works and the Mr. Smooth who bellowed
for the people whom he laughs at rides in the
Pullman car and gets the kale seed.
Of course it's human nature. But human
nature doesn't stop to think or it would not
allow itself to be used in such a manner. Why
should a hard working citizen tear his shirt
for an oily tongued politician? Why? And to
save your soul you can't answer the question.
You can't say "Pie" because the pies are not
made big enough.
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Guilford For State Wide.
Guilford democrats have officially endorsed
the state wide primary amendment, and the
democrats will be called upon to vote for its
adoption.
Every man to his liking. So far as we are
concerned, we stand alone, "grand, gloomy
and peculiar," and boldly assert that the prim
ary plan is simply putting the collar on a
voter and if the people want to wear a col
lar, it is up to them. The politicians are the
thoughtful ones; they want it; and they will
perhaps get it. It is the outs, always, against
the ins. The outs think that perhaps they
might accomplish more. But we are in favor
of a free ballot ; of but one election and the
legalized ftate wide piimary means two elec
tions and it is only politics, and riot popular
representative government, of which we
boast. --'
Looks Like We Lost It.
That new railroad is perhaps lost for this
year. The war coming on and the money
market being unsettled has put new railroad
building out of the question for awhile. The
bonds we voted will hardly be used, because
the time is now so short that the road could
hardly be built and put in operation in the
time agreed upon to make the bonds valid.
But there is this about it: We can vote bonds
again and we'll certainly do it when the time
comes. ' .
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Arkansas suffragists turned "Newsies" the
other week and sold copies of the Woman's
Journal in Little Rock. So popular were they
with the patrons that several purchasers paid
one dollar apiece for the Journal in order that
the, receipts might afford an encouraging
amount for the suffrage treasury.
Banks All Right.
The comptroller of the currency has issued
a call for a statement of the condition of all
national banks of the United States. This is
not worrying anybody, however, as most of
our banks are prepared to make a good show
ing. .
. Enter The Great Swatter.
Colonel Jack Frost, the most eminent Fly
Swatter in the world, is due most any time.
And when Jack puts on the finishing touches
it is goodbye, Mr. Fly. -
The World Still Won
dering About Her.
WONDr.KrL'L system
prevails on this old
Karth and especially in
many states in the west
ern world. Down at
Kinstun Judge Daniel
tried to clean up a dis
trict filled with fallen
women outc 's desperate and abandoned
hags, who at the best, have hut a little while to
linger here. '1 he Judge was humane. He
knew thai he couldn't reform those fallen and
polluted things; he knew that they were past
all uplifting they were in the discolored gut
ter and they would remain there. He knew
that if they were sent away from Kinston they
would show up in some other town. He knew
that life held no hope for them and for them
the grae had 110 fear.
Some of them were sent to jail a short
term but they must come out of jail. They
must be given a chance to live we can't elec
trocute them we can't put them out of the
way: and the man who sits to judicialy de
termine what must be done with such loath
some creatures reasons and continues to rea
son without avail. Were we to go out tonight,
as a Nation, with one big drag net and bring
in all the abandoned women, women such as
confronted the bar of justice at Kinston we
would shudder before such a sight. There
would be hundreds of thousands rt them
some of the oldest hags you ever saw and
again sweet faced and apparently innocent
girls yet the vast army would be there and
we would look with amazement upon the
round up.
The world is filled with them and they sub
sist only because man makes it possible. And
the men make the laws to drive these despoil
ed outcasts from pillar to post and Society
eternally furnishes new recruits. There is no
use for Kinston to chase the soiled ones out
of her confines when she knows they must stop
within the confines of some other town. He is
a poor neighbor who will throw the dead dog's
carcass into his neighbor's lot and why chase
these despised women from one town to an
other or why put them in jail for a month or
two when punishment does them no good?
And how would you help it? It would take
concert of action. Each state should have an
industrial home for such people and they
should be sent there and allowed to earn a liv
ing The industrial home could put out thou
sands of dollars worth of articles which these
women could make ; they would get an opportunity-to
reform and get far away from their
slimy trails. They would have money to go
and to live on and the majority of them
would live decent lives. It is the self con
sciousness of having done wrong that holds
the fallen woman down at first she hides her
self to hide her shame. The temporary home
for the rescued is all right in its way but
what each state should have is an industrial
home where these women could earn their
own living; where they could earn money to
save and when they felt strong enough, take
it, and go to strange cities, far away, and start
again the journey of life. It could be done
and some day it will be done, and then the red
light district question will be solved.
Going To Change It
Since other articles were written it appears
that they will not tax freight bills -but will
put the burden on something else. What we
need is a programme carefully made out con
cerning special taxes. This thing of letting a
committee in great haste say the word that
puts a hardship on one commodity and lets
another equally able to carry part of the bur
den escape is unjust and unwise legislation. It
is a hard matter to determine what should be
taxed but certainly there should be no spe
cial privileges in the matter, and special priv
ileges is what it amounts to if one thing is -pinched
and another in the same class goes
free. .!.
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The War News.
Were a man to take all the war news that ,
has been printed in the last six weeks and care
fully compile a list of the killed and wounded,
get down the number of guns captured ; of the
miles the soldiers have walked' and ridden
it would be the most wonderful war news a
man ever heard.
The fact is, the war news has been very '
meagre each day. But the enterprising news
papers have been obliged to make a show and T
they made it. Naturally we cannot blame the
news gathering agencies for gues?' ' "
great deal, but when it took the Ger
en days to walk twenty-eight mi!
still advancing on Paris until it
ed they were retreating v
didn't believe all he read.