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Trade Trade AT HOME ATHOME Always ! Always ! BY AL FAIRBROTHER BUB8CBIPTION 11.00 A TBAB SINGLE COPT I CENTS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ax, 1914. on s a 1,1c at tub nkw stands and on trains ESTABLISHED MAY 190a. IS WORTH WHILE IT IS END OF WORLD KILGO HITS EUGENICS TAKE AN INVENTOR Y GOOD SHIP JASON Warden Sale To Give Convicts A Smile. VER AT Raleigh, Warden Sale, of the state penitcn tiary, has done something we are glad to record. He has purchased a first-class mnvmnr nirfuri maftiinn ift TW! , ,5fiLg' on the circuit with the play-houses, and each Wednesday night proposes to give the prison ers a moving picture show. Colonel Fred Olds gives a lecture along with the movies, points out what is. between the pictures and it is said the prisoners enjoy the treat immense ly. Many of them of course had never seen a moving picture until this feature was recently introduced. There will be the fish-blooded cynics to sneer and say a prisoner has no right to be en tertained, but there arc thousands of people in North Carolina who will be glad to know that each year Humanity makes a step further forward. The man who gets into prison is a human being. If he is a hardened wretch; if his nature is perverted and he indulges in crime, he is unfortunate, for we all know that he has less enjoyment than a moral man who is honest. If a man has murder in his heart, certainly that man is a miserable wretch because no man wants to murder unless he is a natural murderer and if a "natural mur dercr" heredity or some disease has made him so. The light fingered man who steals some thing hardly ever intended to do it, and if he hadn t done it he would be happier. So we insist that men who have offended so- ciety and who give up their freedom to be- come convicts for a period of time and then ex-convicts for life, deserve some constdera tion. We contend that ninety per cent of all prisoners are diseased mentally. If we see a man with his leg off or his hands deformed we are touched to pity. And so we should be touched to pity when we find an intellectual cripple a man who can't help being a sneak thief. We must lock him up; we understand that, but if we lock him up we escape his de predatoins and there is no reason why we should inflict cruel punishment. We should regard him as our unfortunate brother, and if we can make his life happier while he is in prison we should do so. We congratulate -Warden Sale and Colonel Olds. It is a good work they are doing. . 0 . A New Head. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has been running for all these years with just the words: "Times-Dispatch" and it now gets a new head and calls itself the "Richmond Times-Dispatch." That's loyal all right, but every man, woman and child down in this country kaows the Times-Dispatch is printed in Richmond, and every newspaper office in the country also knows it. However to fly the name of the town from the mast-head is good stuff. We omit the name of the town in our date line and fly it from seven other pages of the paper. 0 Still Growing. The meeting W Charlotte of the North Car olina Woman Suffrage Association was no big shakes, but it was'big enough to show that an organization has been perfected and that as . the years come and go it will develop strength enough to do something. Judge Walter Clark is the most faithful of suffragists. He always responds to invitations and he always says something worth while. Mrs. Henderson makes a first-class president, and within a few years the women of America will vote. And the fact that there is an organization in North Carolina helps the cause just that much. 0 Already Named. The esteemed Salisbury Post says : " The Charlotte Observer and the Greensboro News are premature In discussing the "Next" governor ot the state.. 'His name will be announced in due time, at present It is only whispered about in spots. 'Oh, we don't know. It is pretty generally understood among : many people f that the "next" Governor has already been namedAnd his name is General Julian S. Carr and he lives at Durham, N-,C. - - v The Cheerfulness Of It. , v " Passing out from the sordid things things like the Frank case and the why and where fore of the defeat of the constitutional amend ments, Editor Martin of the Winston Journal last Sunday morning handed us a couple of good stories under the respective captions : "Join The Civic League,", and "Red Headed Girls." .; .:i:i:0.:V..-v;. ; That wasthe stuph the Sunday symphony and the folk who read the Journal got some- According To The Seven Day People Who Talk. HE WAR brings hope at least to the Seventh Day Advcntists, and just now wherever they are, they insist that the end is near. We never took much stock in the Sev enth Day talk, because we un derstand that the end was to come some day in the twinkline of an eye, and therefore wc didn't exactly be lieve that by the Bible the dates could be fix ed. But the Advcntists claim that this last war absolutely proves the truth of prophecy as interpreted by them, and they tell us to be ready for what is going to happen. One particularly bright light of this parti cular creed is now telling the Richmond peo ple to not wait a minute, and he says that the fact that the Turk has thrown himself into the war across the seas proves conclusively the prophecies of Daniel. He says when the Turkish power is driven out of Europe and es tablishes his capital at Jerusalem, that he shall come to his end as a governing nation, and when that event takes place a time of trouble shall break upon this world that will eclipse anyining mat nas ever preceded it. This will shortly be followed by the personal and littral return of the Saviour to this world to take His people to heaven; and the wicked shall be de stroyed by the brightness of His coming. Another speaker has declared that the pro phet John foretold all that is happening now, over 1900 years ago, and that everything shows that Christ is soon coming to earth and the good will go to heaven and the wicked be eternally damned. It is said that these two preachers created quite a sensation in Rich mond, that the places of worship would not hold the people. - The hope is that the end is not in sigi.t. The hope is that this old world will roll aloiyj for a few more million years. The hope is that no one will get excited but accept whatever happens as the right thing. Divested of all its black mourning; all its tip-toe stepping and its whispering, Death is only after all what Nature decreed, and if the world suddenly winds up it isn't going to disturb any of us be cause we'll know nothing about it. For the most part all men try to do the best they can. If they fail and fall no man wants to see them punished, but if they are punished it is only their own fault. We like to see the preacher tell us what he believes, and if he sees a sin ner throw him a life line and give him a chance to escape. But to get up any excitement just now about the end of this old world, we fear it is too late. This old world, take it from us, Mike, is wound up for many millions of years. We, as the atoms placed here and endowed with intelligence, should do all we can for one another. In doing that we have done our duty. Because when we love one another we are happy and heaven is happiness. " 0 ' Thanksgiving Proclamation. Governor Craig has issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation setting aside Thursday the 26th as the Day: The Governor also asks all min isters to call for a special contribution for Bel gian sufferers the Sunday following Thanks giving. . 0 Good Enough. The Federation of Labor proposes to make a strong fight against militarism in the United States. This is a fight worth while. There is no real reason why any country should main tain great armies provided you educate them all on the same lines. 0 To Fight It Out. We had supposed, possibly because we hop ed it, that John B. Sherrill in his fight for the post-office at Concord would have no op position. But now come M. L, Widenhouse and John L. Miller and say thev think they'll take a hand. This makes it three cornered, and when the three get things pretty lively some fourth fellow will come up and fall in as a "compromise." That is generally the way it is. ' Durham After It. Durham wants a commission form of Gov ernment. . Durham may not want it quite so bad after she tries it awhile. What you want is a form of Government that puts the whole thing out of politics. Then you will have something. The Dayton plan is the best yet. Some Day. " Some day, if the world doesn't come to an end as is now freely predicted in some quar ters, we will perhaps be able to understand who the leaders are and what they led. It seems that the leaders didn t lead much in the Amendment fight, and yet we are assured that all the leaders were for them. - How comes that a man who leads doesn't lead. 1 . , . . ..ri -v v"? 1 p f . I y , - d D ISHOP JOHN C. KILGO doesn't fall for JD the fluttering fads that fill the school houses and the city halls. He isn't in favor of anything that proposes to introduce science in the pulpit. He thinks-you can't harness geo logy and Genesis and drive them to the same wagon. In Norfolk recently he is quoted as saying that Eugenics was something out of place and its advocates "the vulgarcst crowd I know of." He is further quoted as saying: If any of the ministers wanted to put on aprons and become chefs in ecclesiastical soup houses, tney might do so, but that his commission was from heaven. "You are engaged too much with temporal things," he declared. "You are trying to make the gospel a means of temporal comforts. You talk about Christian civilization as if it were a sort of hyperdermic to be administered for earthly pleas ure. "It is impertinent to stand up in the face of God and talk about modern sociology as the real thing. I suspect any theology ot javing delirium tremens when it goes In for science.' - So it will be seen that the Bishop isn't ty ing any fads to his chariot. He is preaching the pure stuph as it was writ of old and he seems to be able to defend his position. The Randolph Meeting. Reports from the Randolph meeting show that no one was killed, and as there appears no list of wounded we take it that things passed off pleasantly. But, men, let us tell you some thing. No matter what side was doing the talking, there was a determination exhibited in Asheboro that makes things look a little better. No matter whether ballot boxes were stuffed or not ; no matter if bull-dozing, intim idation and ballot-box stuffing was the order of the day as charged, there were in the move ment men who meant business, and if it has been the custom to run elections most any old way in Randolph it must stop. The voter in North Carolina must be pro tected. The action of those zealous to carry the Amendments, having the audacious nerve to mark them all "Yes" and hand them out as Simon pure democracy, while not constituting a legal offense, certainly showed to what ends some of them will resort to carry a point. The Amendments were happily defeated. But had there been a free expression of the people, instead of defeating the tax amendment twenty thousand it would have been about "thirty thousand. And in Randolph those re publicans who want fair play have gone about it in the right way. They will have it and that mass meeting, where no violence was of fered, was worth while. Next year the repub lican party will gain three hundred votes in Randolph county simply because honest men do not believe in the tactics once used by the Mississippi night riders. Wants $5,000. The news is that a man named Hayden sues a man named Smith in Durham for $5,006 to in some way take care of his lacerated feel ings. It is alleged that Smith, a contractor, secured the affections of Hayden's wife and carried her away to Salisbury without his con sent. .' ; '. Of course the setting to this story is not new. From all over the world we have read similar stories, but we never could see how or why a man could expect to receive cold coin for his feelings. Especially if the wife of his bosom preferred another man and said so. Get Down To Brass Tacks. Let every friend of General J. S. Carr get down o brass tacks and, tell Ms neighbor why we need a business Governor for the next go round. General Carr will be the man who can hold his party together in 1916. Good Luck To Him. Colonel John D. Nicols celebrated his 80th birthday in Raleigh last Saturday. - Colonel John has been prominent as a Mason and as a republican, and lime has dealt gently with him. Here 'is wishing him many more birth day celebrations. And See What Number You Really Have. V.T us know where you are lin eil up? Are you for it or "ani"' " it? Are mi helping boost or are you knocking? How intiih harder will it lie for you to go down town and insit (hat your city i jut the tiling. )nlv a few little hitches here or there, liut everything will come out i.i the wash; everything will lie jtit right in jut a little while? Here is Thanksgiving coming along and we want to know are you going to wonder what you have to be thankful for, and put on a grouch that distorts your features and gives you the look of the Rev. Dismal Horrors just sending your soul to perdition. Can't you smile and say you guess tilings are all right? Suppose you haven't had a square meal for a week, don't you know you are better off than if you had your collar bone broken, your house burned down and your family all buried? Don't you know that no matter how hard you may have been hit you could have been hit harder? Why should you expect all sunshine. Doesn't the hearse go every day to the grave yard? Doesn't the sheriff levy somewhere each day? Isn't it true that some one has broken a bone or lost his house or his horse or some valuable property every minute in the day. Why get a grouch and queer things that might be pleasant? War? Of course there's war across the pond and you may be losing five cents a month on account of it. But think of the brave boys who go out to be shot down. Think of the weeping mothers who give up their young sons to be killed by invading foes. Think of the sweethearts who loved and lost, and think of the millions of human beings who will never come borne. Then because you haven't made more money than you really need you have the nerve to predict hard times; to wonder if your miserable carcass will pull around the corner free of a gun shot wound. The sunshine is still in the sky all that God Almighty ever made. There is work for you and all of us. Get busy. Talk for your town. Talk for your country your state and your neighbors. Forget that you are such a miser able man by making a little sunshine, o For Awhile. The recent election settled all questions for awhile. The people of Greensboro will have a little election in May, but the chances are that it will be quiet. The three commissioners are to be elected, but we understand that but little, if any, oppositon will be made to the present incumbents. There is really no need at this juncture to get up a fight. You can't satisfy everybody, and it is hardly necessary to exchange officers just to hand somebody a job. If fitness alone were looked to, then there might be a chance to make comparisons. But in this world of strife most everybody is a good fellow if he thinks your way. If he doesn't think your way he is poison. Fitness is hardly ever considered when you run a man for office. It is the fellow, the party or the faction that sticks out most prominently. Wonderful Growth. We don't want to entertain you with fig ures. We don't want to lose you in numerals, but the reports tell us that in fifty years the United States has more than quadrupled that is to say, she has just grown so fast that we can't keep up with it. This ts a great old world, and America is the Union Depot. Every convenience for the traveler, and growing all the time. ; 0 Doing Good Work. Judge E. B. Cline is doing some good work in several ways. His latest good work was when he "skinned" a Shylock who took money from a man on whose bond he had gone. TtiP elfin-flints who orofess to do vou a fav or and then take all in sight can not be expos ed too otten. Good Enough. And now they are going to have the slogan "Made In North Carolina," and as we have cmSM hetnre there is a chewine srum factory at Salisbury and very few people know it how ever our folk chew gum made here or there and everywhere except in North Carolina. These patriotic odes are very pretty but that's about all of 'em. . Progressives..,'-: .-.'.. The Progressives have been calling the Con servatives Reactionaries. A reactionary wants to kick out of the traces. ' Well, wasn't that what the progressives of democracy were try ing to do, when the conservatives came along and stood pat? . , ' f Sails Away To Make Happy Hearts. Hr-.X the American col lier Jason sailed for Eu rope last Saturday she carried a total of eighty two car loads of Christ mas presents for the chil dren of France, England, Belgium. Germany and Holland, and a little later another ship with rcent. f.,r Russia and Poland will be dis patched. The cargo consisted of twelve hun dred tons, and in it were fourteen carloads of children's clothing, five carloads of woman's clothing, one carload of men's clothing, five carloads of toys and fifty-seven carloads of miscellaneous presents, foodstuffs, boots, shoes, etc.; a total of eighty -two carloads. And it was called the good ship Jason and truly it had for those little children of the war chilled world a golden fleece. It was the Santa Claus ship carrying presents- from every state in the Union little gifts from happy children living in a land where Peace still dwells and has not been disturbed; trinkets and clothing and toys for men and women and children those who live today the hard' lines of grim visaged war. Thousands of school children went to see the good ship Jason sail, and all the world will wish it a prosperous voyage and let us hope that no mine will be struck to destroy it. The ship will go to all the ports and discharge its cargo of commerce and love, and wherever the idea originated to have this Santa Claus ship to have Old Kris Kringle cross the sea and give with lavish hands to those in need and in distress, we do not know but -we do know that when the suggestion came, Christ mas was at once in the hearts of all and never was response more spontaneous. The next ship will go to Russia and Poland and it, too, will be freighted with articles for the ones who are in distress. There is something about this business something about that Santa Claus ship that gets next to all of us that proves, indeed, the world is kin. Good luck to the good ship Jason and may its cargo make light the hearts of the countless thousands bowed in sorrow mourning for their dead. President Wilson Was There. A delegation of black men Africans so journing in the United States, called on Presi dent Wilson the other day and one of them, a Boston Negro, offered some language to the President that was insulting to the chief exe cutive, and the interview was ended in a jiffy. It was the attempt of the President to in form the African that the white man wanted to treat him right and said some good words for Sambo, but Potter wanted to argue, wanted to take issue with the President, and Mr, Wil son informed the delegation that if it had any further business with him to secure a new chairman. And that is where the African loses out. Or dinarily some vain-glorious darkey with more mouth than brains shoots out things the aver age Negro doesn't want said, with results al ways against the Negro. If a delegation of ne groes wants to see the President or any white man, let Booker Washington or James B. Dud ley be chosen chairman and the right thing will be said and the result perhaps accomplish ed. Because either of these two men would know What to do and neither of them would ask anything impossible. Washington ; and Dudley are the two greatest Negroes in Amer ica. Good Luck To Him. Mr. C. C. Ho6k, who retires as president of the Greater Carlotte Gub leaves behind him a ' record worth while, Mr. Hook was a live wire; took hold of one carrying about five thousand volts, added another five thousand ' ,10 it, and hands it over to his neighborj The Charlotte folk do things and have done things. Charlotte is getting to be a city. It is already more than a big town, and a few live men have made all this possible. Charlotte never advocated putting the Dukes in the peniten- ' tiary. Instead of that, Charlotte asked the Dukes to cnmelthere and they came. And . that policy has made Charlotte. '" ' .0'" The Tax Dodger. . The tax dodger was to be handed a law that, would compromise with him. He hadn't ask-' ,ed for it. He hasn't yet admitted that he , dodges taxes- But the man who set up the amendment proposed to . give the tax dodger about a thirty cent rate and ask him to please come into catni. . But that didn't world The way 'to do is to make all people pay a just amount of taxes, and if that is done we will have all the money we need for legit'.nate pur poses. ' v .
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