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BY AL FAIRBROTHER
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ON SALE AT THE SEWS STANDS. AND ON TRAINS
SUBSCRIPTION l.0 A TEAR) SINGLE COPT 1 CENTS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1914.
ESTABLISHED MAY 1902.
WOMEN ARE FOR IT
HE IS A LIVE WIRE
A BITTER ELECTION
IS FOR PARENTS
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HE DOUBTS HIM
Says Wilson Bows To
Wall Street
I TRANCE how different
the colors seem when we
look through glasses of
different hues. Down
here in the pine woods
where tobacco is a trifle
off in price, and where
cotton is struggling for
ten cents a pound, we
all, or most all, have
been led to believe that
Woodrow Wilson is the one great man of all
the country, and we worship him admire him
and insist that he has given us an administra
tion worth while. The republicans and the
progressives think differently and the other
day in the Senate, Senator Bristow boldly
charged that the administration had abjectly
surrendered to the Wall Street interests and
further said : "I believe that the President
knows exactly what this conference report
does and that he is supporting it because it
does. I am convinced that the President has
surrendered his Administration to the most
sinister influences in the Republic. There has
been no Administration since the beginning
of this Government which has so abjectly sur
rendered to the Wall Street interests as this
has done."
We had been led to believe that Wall Street
and its infamies of the past were but dim re
membered stories ; that in the passing of
Morgan, the elder, the Street had gotten out
of the class of highwaymen and brigands; that
Wall Street had become only the residing tem
ples of the money lenders but they would no
more be vicious.' But here comes a duly ac
credited United States Senator and hurls the
hot stuph at the President, not by intimation
but in plain United States English, and of
course such a speech goes into the Congres
sional Record, is printed and becomes a part
of the common record of the common country.
And so it is on down the line. The many
men of many minds stand up and give down
their grave opinions and the chances are that
all are right or all are wrong.
In our beloved North Carolina there is much
flap-doodle on both sides concerning the
Amendments and the primary and what is
strange is that a state like North Carolina
which has enjoyed more material prosperity
in the last twenty years than she ever before
enjoyed in all the dreary years of her existence
is painted now as about to go on the rocks be
cause of the three Amendments for instance :
One to change the name of war between the
states, or rebellion, or something or other;
two others to cut out of the constitution two
sections referring to laws in progress when
the old constitution was adopted just as
though they would make any difference. Why
worry about taking those obsolete sections
out? What hurt do they do? It is as though
the stingy man who had used a wart for a col
lar button had concluded after a friend had
given him a metal collar button to use instead
of the wart, would worry about having the
wart removed. What harm do those two sec
tions do and why put men to the trouble to
vote them out -when they are meaningless and
are not burdensome or confusing?
And so we have the spectacle of a state
wide canvass to increase the pay of the legis
lator to six dollars a day as though three
dollars more a day would secure any better
law making ability. If we are to go after
ability and presume to pay for it, fifty dollars
a day would be a low figure.
; All in all there are but two Amendments
worth considering, one is the six month's
school term, and the other is the tax section.
However the school term can be made six
- months without the Amendment, and the pres-
nt tax law would secure us all the revenues
we wanted if enforced and impartially admin
istered. If the present tax law can be defeat
ed by one man with a diamond ring, as has
teen gravely charged, then all the tax laws we
could put on the books would meet the same.
, sad fate.
But back to the. subject we all hav$ our
ideas and our ideals whether it is Bristow in
the Senate or your Uncle down here spoiling
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That second Raleigh meeting of democratic
progressives backed up by the radicals, re
minded us of the English and Japanese fight
ing together. The difference was that even
the Japs refused to rally Colonel Eugene
Holton being the only rad we saw. , ' ,
Woman Suffrage. '
Every day witnesses new recruits coming
into the woman suffrage camp. It will not be
long until we have national prohibition and
universal suffrage. Say along about 1920. And
it should k?rren before that. . , , ' v. ' '
They Can Consume The Sur
plus Crop.
LL hands seem to be earnest
about this wearing cotton, or cot
ton wearing campaign. The stir
ring letter by A. W. McAlister
gave the idea a strong start in
Greensboro, and in other towns
the citizens realize what may be
accomplished. The Woman's
Club of Greensboro endorsed "to
a man" a resolution presented, and all the wo
men are enthusiastic over the cotton wearing
campaign.
It figures out. The one true science, mathe
matics, proves that if we will all consume even
a yard more cotton than we have been con
suming, the mills of the world will be pushed
to take care of it. And we all can do this.
Cotton has sneaked down the aisle when linen
was flaunted cheap silk has been disported
under many colors but now Cotton conies
down the platform and appeals to you to help
out to again crown him King. Why not
change the proposition and make cotton Queen
because the women folk can wear so much
more of it than the men folk. A man can wear
cotton shoes ; he can wear cotton handker
chiefs; he can wear cotton neckties and a
good cotton shirt would be quite the thing.
It is simply a matter now of getting up a
National Wave of Enthusiasm. If we can put
it all over the continent if we can get each
man and woman to understand what it means
the price of cotton must go up, because the
supply will hardly meet the demand.
And there you are face to face with old Hu
man Nature, the greatest paradox the world
contains. We are all kicking because sugar
and other things have gone up in price the
Department of Justice has sent out secret ser
vice men to want to know why all of us have
demanded cheaper living and looked at the ad
vancing prices with horror and alarm and
yet, like little children we propose now to start
a campaign to increase the price of the shirt
we wear, whereas congress made a free trade
law in the hope of decreasing the price of the
coat we wear.
Wondrful but there are eleven cotton
states down this way and they have produced
about three million bales of cotton more than
they should have produced and loyalty sug
gests that we help out. And we will, every
man and woman of us. Wear cotton and then
wear cotton.
The Longest Battle.
It is said the Battle of the Ainse has already
been the longest battle in the world by sev
eral days. But that doesn't argue anything.
It simply means that more men have been killr
ed; that nothing has been gained. Many hop
ed that the allies would win but even then
Germany would get back into her own coun
try and defy the invaders for two years. She
is the most powerfully equipped nation for
fighting the world ever saw. Had she gotten
through Belgium as she had a right to think
she would, Germany would today have been
in the saddle. But the Belgian detention is
what made the war so long drawn out. And
the end is not in sight.
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Our Six Point.
Some of the papers thought our war news
which we set in the smallest type in the shop
was a scheme just to be different. But after
reading the same old stories for the last two
months they are concluding that we were
handling the manufactured dope just about as
it should have been handled.
Durham's Fair.
Durham pulled off her fair this week the
first held, and it was a success. The weather
wasn't all that could have been wished for,
but the fair becomes a fixed fact in Durham
county.
And this just because a half dozen patriotic
men concluded it was worth while. So often a
few men interested in a county's welfare can
do big things. It beats politics all to pieces.
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The Raleigh Meeting.
The One Hundred. and Twenty Regulators
didn't all get to Raleigh.'; In fact there wasn't
a corporal's guard in attendance- : When a
hand full of men assume the role of dictators
the common people "most in generally" look
with suspicion on them, and leave them se
verely alone.
The Commission Business.
We have received several letters endorsing
what we have had to say about there already
being too many commissions in North Caro
lina. More commissions mean more expense
an office for some fellow who thinks he has
discovered a Roman mare's nest. Cut off some
of the useless expenses now going on and the
treasury will not be empty. .
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BELONGING in the files of this paper be
fore it is any older, is a picture of R. C.
Hood, the livest wire in Greensboro. Not that
he is a live wire in a literal sense, because
there is nothing shocking about Mr. Hood
but that he does things, and docs them well,
is why we figuratively refer to him as an ani
mated wire.
Mr. Hood has been in Greensboro some
where around ten years. He came in with iu
bill board announcement; he didn't have a
brass band to announce his arrival he just
came here, and the first we heard of him was
in the newspapers when he was advertising
for sale a house or two which he had built on
Edgeworth street. He wrote advertisements
that carried the snap and ginger of a man
who was alive, and that was our introduction
to R. C. Hood. Then he got busy in the mat
ter of Civic work. He wanted things done this
way and that way .and always in a way that
was proper and that appealed to people.
Mr. Hood has been a dynamo in this town.
In the matter of bond issues; in the matter ot
street improvements and in the development
of different sections of the town R. C. Hood
has been the drum major of the procession of
progress. We are not handing him any prunes.
We are not a hot air artist we are simply
saying that Greensboro owes much of its com
mercial importance to R. C. Hood and we cer
tainly are glad to be permitted to place his
portrait in our Gallery of People Worth
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Let Us Do It
Let us get busy and figure out some way
to spend $250,000 in schools and play grounds.
Let every citizen become loyal and look at the
investment. The bonds can be put over in
some way, and money could not be better in
vested. If some fellow would come along and
offer some big things with wheels to go round
some great factory, we would shell out rath
er than miss it.
Hundreds of people cannot come to Greens
boro because of the crowded condition of our
schools. Let's get busy and build them. Let's
make a levy for a four year's assessment on
special taxes, in some way. Schools are a
necessity, so let's go to it and build several
good school houses.
Just a little talk from the right people right
now will help wonderfully. None of us can
take anything away with us all of us can
manage to pull through so let's educate the
children we have here and ask for others to
come. In truth the money will be returned
long before any of us here now die a natural
death. " , .
They Are Learning.
People are already learning the lesson that
if you grind a railway company down to the
last penny it is crippled.- The railways of
North Carolina should be allowed to increase
their freight rates at least ten per centtheir
passenger rates should be fixed high enough
to insure good service.
To say this, because the railway is a cor
poration that hasn't any particular personality
is to be guilty of treason but we all know
that the more successful a railroad company
is, the more it will do for, us. '
The people of the state are learning this,
and within a few years it will be hard work
for the politician to inflame the people against
railways. ' . .
Old Man Van Wyck started that racket in
Nebraska and it spread all over. He was fin
ally defeated and the people didn't seem to
care; The railways are property belonging in
fact to the people, and the people should give
them all the money they need to develop the
country and help build up our commercial
interests. . ' 1
With the Panama canal opening with ev
erything looking good for the South, the rail
roads could do us much good, if they were"al
lowed to have a surplus. ' :
.Let us think over this proposition carefully
-let us not cripple the railways and thereby
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Wilmington Scene Of Great
Excitement.
I'KK, Mike, and there lias Inert
something doing down by the
sounding sea the past week. 'I'Ikv
have been basing an election In
trail t a franchUe to an oppo-i-tinn
company to the Tide Water
railway concern and of all the
confusion that has been on noth
ing before like it was ever known.
They had men arrc.tcd because of past rec
ords in other towns; the men went to answer
charges and the cases had been dropped by the
prosecuting attorneys; affidavits were made
that certain men were to receive money on
election day and the council held a special ses
sion to consider it.
Advertisements as large as bill boards were
taken in the papers and while it doesn't make
any difference how the election went the meth
ods were most reprehensible, and suggest lack
of civilization.
It is strange that a couple of rival corpora
tions can't fight out a question of franchise
without charging men with selling their votes
before the election; without going back to a
record and besmirching the character of a man
who was in the "midst" because the matter
of franchise had nothing to do with whether
one individual was a saint or a demon.
But Wilmington is built that way. It wasn't
long ago that she floated a newspaper with the
avowed purpose of cleaning up the town. The
town is still there. Only a few years ago some
of her citizens were going to pour kerosene on
houses of doubtful reputation and burn them
to the ground. Wilmington is a good town ; a
substantial town, and she has a cracking good
newspaper there, the Star but some of her
people are hysterical at times and do stunts
that shock the nervous people this far inland.
Trains Being Put Off.
Those who want cheaper rates and who in
sist upon it will perhaps be obliged to' have
fewer trains and less accommodations. It is
a law of commerce and if traffic isn't in sight
a railroad doesn't have to lose money. It can
curtail the same as an individual can curtail.
The Southern system is doing a business of
three hundred thousand dollars less a month
than a year ago and three hundred thousand
dollars make quite a wad of the long green.
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The Patriots.
Those Hundred and Twenty Patriots didn't
materalize in Raleigh. The Invitation Com
mittee materialized, but that was about all.
Colonel Eugene Holton delivered his famous
Mark Antony address over the dead body of
Ceasar in fine Style. When it comes to stand
ing for the people, A. E. is there with both
feet.
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National prohibition in 1920 is the watch
word. And it will come just as certain as to
morrow morning's sun will rise above the hor
izon and look us in the face.
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Better Streets.
It is a safe bet that 1915, just over the hill
yonder, will witness more pavement and better
streets than Greensboro ever had before. That
hundred thousand dollar bond issue is going
to give us about eight miles of paving.
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The Fair Next Week.
Do not forget that Tuesday the big Central
Carolina Fair opens in Greensboro. Rail
roads will give reduced rates. Ten thousand
dollars wil be given in premiums. All sorts of
amusements ; all sorts of entertainment. The
school, the farm, the shop, the home will be
represented. Secretary Daniel says this will
be the biggest and best fair ever held in
Greensboro. And we say the Central Carolina
Fair is always equal to the State fair. Let all
who can attend 6ne of the four days.
To Adjourn.
President Wilson gives it out that there is
no use for an extra session, that all the impor
tant legislation can be gotten through , with
by the itsh of October, but many of the Con
gressmen who want to get back to their dis
tricts are afraid it will not be until almost the
first of the month. If this is the case the con
gresmen will do but little speaking. Their
friends will be obliged to make the welkin
ring and perhaps that is the better way.
Official Count
4 The official count in yirginia discloses the
fact that John Barleycorn, Esq. j was knocked
out by 30,365 majority. This was a pretty se
vere blow to John, but he has been hammered
worse than that.
To Know More About
Their Girls.
HF.RIL I.s no particular
reason why a newspaper
should be made bear the
sfirrows of the human
race, and no particular
need why a newspaper
should aid in any way in
causing undue excite
ment. Hut there may be
some reason in proceed
ing with a few remarks,
based upon the following
letter, duly signed and punctuated, by a very
well known Greensboro citizen. The letter
reads :
Dear Everything:
ou have much in your paper to aid in the
moral uplift of the community, but do you
know that right now in Greensboro it is said
that there are many women of the underworld?
That young men are enticed to go where they
are, and the law does not seem to be invoked?
1 would thank you to call attention to this
state of affairs.
Respectfully,
Like all such letters the name is not for
publication. The editor's name is always for
publication then why not an aggrieved citiz
en sign up, and thus help share in the task of
setting things to order?
We do not know that there are any great
number of underworld women in the town
we know there are some, or, at least, it would
be strange if there were not. In all towns
there are bad women and there are not many
of them. Now and then they entice youth,
but youth generally doesn't need much entic
ing. The police force of Greensboro measures
up with the average police force, and we could
not justly blame the policemen because they
do not arrest and bring before the bar these
offending women. It takes some pretty
straight evidence to convict a woman of va
grancy and it should. When they become
notorious and flaunt themselves before all eyes
they are generally run in and sent either to
the workhouse or to some other town.
There are not many of them, and where
we should commence our reformation is not
among those forever lost but among those
who haven't yet started the downward path.
The parent is too often to blame. There is
no use to mince matters, and we might as well
say it, because it is a fact, there are many
young girls in every town who turn out to the
bad because they have run it rough shod over
their parents. The parents either blind or -foolish,
allow these little girls to be out at un
seemly hours ; allow them to joy ride with men
they hardly know and how can we expect
hatching of Pekin ducks if we set the hen to
guinea eggs? '
Certainly, we will always help in the great
work of better morals, but we would rather
join a crusade against parents who allow their
daughters to do things their mothers would
not have dared to do, rather than commence
throwing stones at a lot of pitiable, painted
hags who are already living in the consuming
fires of the hell which only such despicable
and wretched creatures know. The Greens
boro police are not to blame. ; These fluttering
bats drop in here now and then others are
bred here and the shame of it all is, they are
girls who had a right to expect a parent's care
and a parent's protection and did not receive
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The parent who thinks he hasn't a responsi
bility in telling his daughter where she can go,
with whom she can go, and when she shall go '
has another think coming to him.
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The Judge Peebles Case.
Many of the papers are commenting on the
contempt case where Judge Peebles took a
couple of editors and sentenced them to jail
because they said things about him which he
found, judicially, were not true.
The papers wonder why it is that a judge
can send a man to jail without a trial by a
jury of his peers and the truth is he can't do
it if you will follow the case through to the
higher courts. 1
The Peebles case was an exceptional one.
The editors charged that he was drinking .
whiskey to excess, and that made the Judge
angry. The old school of gentlemen insisted
on the right to drink likker, and just what ex-.'
cess is has never been fully defined. Some men .
can make a better trade when half seas over
than when cool sober and because a man has
taken on a few drinks it doesn't follow th? "
is incapacitated for business.
The Peebles case is causing all kin-"
ment, and the Statesville Landm
matter how this particular c?c
cided, a new law will be par
otina. Why not have