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7-; Trade Trade AT HOME AT HOME Always ! BY AL FAIRBROTHER SUBSCRIPTION ll.M A TEAR SINGLE COPT ( CENTS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1914. ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS ANI ON TH.1INS ESTABLISHED MAY 190a. ON RIGHT TRACK MULE OR SUBMARINE ONE WHO MADE GOOD POLITICIANS MEDDLE THEDUKES AGAIN tr V V Always ! yy Durham To Have City Manager In Charge HE people of Durham have made a great step forward. They are going to employ a city manager. He will be a man chosen by a mayor and four alder men, and it will be his bus iness to run the town to employ policemen ; to em ploy all officials; to contract for street work; to do everything in fact that a manager of a big business would do. Ha is to be found. He needn't live in Durham. He can be picked up in Kalamazoo or Timbuctoo all he need do is to nuke b'ood, and if he fails to make good he is to be discharged, just like the cotton mill men would discharge the superintendent just like a railroad company would dispense with the services of a man who didn't fill the bill. There will be no politics in it. It will be bus iness from the first base to the home plate. Of course the mayor and board of aldermen will be consulted but if a little street needs some thing here or a street crossing needs some thing there a street light is demanded, this manager looks at it just as he would look at the demands of his big plant were it individ ually owned. The manager is to be employed for four years provided he makes good. This is an ideal proposition, if you want a Commission Form of Government. The way we have it in Greensboro we have politics entering into it that is to say, the three commissioners who do things are elected by the people, and of course where politics plays its part it always interferes. If the Commissioners get 'away from politics there are those shrewd enough to force politics in the game. With a manager and a board of aldermen representing the dif ferent sections of a city, the board isn't con sulted. "See the manager" and the manager from a business stand-point acts intelligently. Of course there is one remaining if, and it en ters into any and every plan, and that "if" is, if they select the right kind of a manager. The tight kind of a man may not be found in North Carolina, but he is somewhere in the world waiting to be called. We expect to see Dur bam lead all other cites in its form of Gov ernment. Greensboro progressed when she adopted the Commission Form, and she will progress further one of these days by adopt ing the Managerial system. That is the one that seems best, wherever tried, and we are glad" so progressive a town as Durham, now in the height of a great prosperity, has concluded to adopt the newest wrinkle in city govern ment. She is to be congratulated. Thoughtless Cruelty. The Thomasville, Georgia, Press, wanting an item, filled up a hole with this gem a par agraph that is cruel, thoughtless and unneces . sary: New York city him discarded the stripes for ber convicts ad kss adopted a blue suit that costs 09 cent as a con vict nniform. We don't like the Idea. The stripes are lerogntsed 'the world over and It is so conspicuous It never falls to carry the brand that is deserved with It. That is the proposition. Object to changing the snaky stripes the odious and repulsive uniform to one that makes it impossible to distinguish a convict from a rogue outside the prison. While it is true that the stripes go through they eat into the quivering flesh and forever leave their hideous markings, to make a convict wear them is to add additional insult to his shame, his helplessness and his degradation. The savage idea of man was to make a uni form that could be distinguished make it so that the state could work its caged and wretch , ed captive make it so that if he exercised his primal instinct to escape it would be easy to shoot him to death or identify him on the high way, v Ninety per cent., of the men sent to prison are victims of circumstance. Either in passion or in hunger or in desperation they Commit ...... n f-.1t .An 4.La AinA l.ml Tlf scribed by man, and thus violate the law. i ney are arrested, indicted, tried and sent to a living tomb for a term of years. The world forgets them because the world doesn't care. But in order to get the last drop of sweat from the pain-eaten brow; in order to draw the last minute of toil from the unfortunate creature, lie is rigged out in a loud-speaking garment a lot of zebra stripes in order to let the world know and all men know that he is a victim that he is a desperate man, because forsooth, be was detected in doing something that So ciety said he must not do. There never was any reason why a convict should be humiliated and disgraced by don ing a uniform of stripes. Society .does not demand it, and the man's security to the law is made no stronger. . Society primarily asks only that the, offender be placed in confine ment in order to restrain him from committing What Is The Real Difference As Articles Of War. T seems that this country lost one big order many millions involved when Charles M. Schawb, president of the Bcth K'hem Iron Works turned down a gigantic order for submar ines. Mr. Schawb had received orders for a great number of submarine boats to be built for foreign nations in war, and the scheme was to ship them to 'Canada and from there to the belligerent coun tries. President Wilson thought to build submar ine boats for a nation at war would be in violation of the neutrality law, and after Schawb called on Mr. Bryan and explained fully his proposed scheme, Mr. Wilson said it would not do. Later Mr. Schawb telephoned that the or der was refused, that he wouid build no boats. And this is funny. Here arc agents for all the foreign countries in America buying up all the mules in sight, and what is the difference, when you come to sift the matter down to the last point, between an army mule in action and a submarine boat? The mule is the most comprehensive piece of machinery in the world; he is a great artil leryman he can tote a gun and from his back you can shoot it and he never blinks an eye. And if America can furnish army mules to bel ligerent nations and keep within the neutrality statutes why in Sam Hill can't she build a sub marine boat? These arc the questions ladies and gentle men, which we submit to you in all candor and pause for a reply. To Make A Law. Judge Glenn Brown tells us that he is going to try his very best to have a law passed for Guilford county looking to compensating con victs for the work they do for the state. We are glad Guilford will lead in this matter. But we are also informed that inasmuch as the state democratic platform is pledged to some reforms in our penal system, we are liable to secure a law for the whole state. That would be the thing to do. Dr. Poe is working hard along this line and promises to do all he can at Raleigh this winter to secure the enactment of a law that will treat more humanely the unfortunates who err. Why Cert. The aged Clawson, of the Wilmington Star, who has lived more stories . than the average platform spell-binder, is figuring on the stage. At least it looks like it from this paragraph. He asks: If a man enn work up a number of popular ideas and incorporate them into such phraseology that be can make ii hit as a lecturer, hasn't he the right to go on the plat form and exchange the wheels In bis bead for the wheels in the pockets of those who want to pay their money for what tbey think Is chuck full of supleucy aud edification? Why cert. The wheels in the head are al ways worth the wheels in the trouserloons pocket. The man who can hold an audience and who can get an audience in these days of moving pictures and moving politicians not only has the right,' but it is his duty, to take to the platform while the crowd takes to the woods. further depredations. Society does this to pro tect itself. In the second place it has been the theory of unfeeling men that the convict must be punished that he must be the wearer of stripes ; that he must be manacled ; that he must be stood over by a guard with a shot gun; that all the indignities and indecencies that can be heaped upon him are deserved, be cause in a moment of desperation he fell. The man who trips and falls; the man who steps aside from the narrow path and violates the laws of society for the first time, may be as good a citizen as fifty per cent of those not detected and prosecuted. There is another per centage which seems to possess criminal ten dencies, but instead of Society attempting to reclaim them and reform them, and make cit izens out of them, she heartlessly and brutal ly condemns them to prison, subjects them to torture and to humiliation, and when they do come out, their hand is raised against law and against order. . We are in favor of doing away with stripes. We are in favor of putting men on their hon or and if they make their, escape let them go because such men will be caugflt again. If they are desperate men let the state confine them and givi them no opportunity to escape. But we object to the tax payer paying hun dreds of able bodied men salaries to stand over the chained and manacled victims of cir cumstance with double barreled guns ready to shoot them if they make a move for their lib erty. Let it be understood that the state still recognizes these men as human beings; as men still fSossessed of honor, and let them know that good conduct means parole and par don, and we have advanced. Otherwise we are as cruel as Tamerlane. . If " X x v OUR Gallery of North Carolinians of Those Worth While would never be complete unless we printed the picture of Mr. W. H. Wood, Secretary and Treasurer of the Amer ican Trust Co., of Charlotte, one of the big gest banking concerns in the South and one of the most successful. Mr. Wood is a young man was born in No:th Carolina, and when the American Trust Co. was organized he was part of it and has been a prominent and con spicuous part of it ever since. Mr. Wood is also the largest stock holder in the Charlotte Obscner Printing Co., being, we believe, Sec retary and Treasurer of that corporation. Since the death of Mr. Tompkins he has been made secretary. In the life of Charlotte Mr. Wood has al ways played a leading part. He has always been a booster; always been progressive, but conservative, and he numbers his friends by the thousands. Governor Craig made him President of the North Carolina railroad, not because he was a politician, but because he was a successful and deserving business man. Mr. Wood has many friends in Greensboro, where his honored father and mother live, Ma jor and Mrs. W. W. Wood. Mr. Wood is hardly yet in the prime of life, being along about the forty mark, and Everything pre dicts greater things for him. No young man in North Carolina has achieved greater things than Mr. Wood, and his success has been in the fact that he "stuck to his knitting;" ap plied himself and equiped himself to meet any demands made upon him. Younger men, just starting out in life, can learn from Mr. Wood's success much that will be beneficial to them. Still Hi'Ai Handed A mob at Florence, South Carolina, lynched a negro. His crime was hiding under a house during the absence of the men folk. After they took the poor devil out and hanged him they riddled his body with bullets. , Of course he had done nothing wrong, so far as known. He might have been hiding from other people. He might have had his head full of mischief. But to mob a man and riddle his body with bullets because he had hidden himself under a house suggests that we are rapidly grow ing to a state of civilization on ' a par with barbarians and savages. Still Talking It. Some of the politicians are still telling the people that it was ignorance that defeated the amendments. Let some of these fellows who are calling the men who voted intelligently against the amendments a bunch of ignoram uses, run for office, and they will be wise enough to swat those who are insulting them. Should Be Thankful. It was related that when Senator Ingalls was in Washington and his magnificent home containing his splendid library was destroyed by fire nothing left but a heap of aches, he wa? notified by wire of the terrible loss. He wired back to give his thanks to the brave firemen for saving the well. " And ir looks now that the directors of the Milton Bank recently looted by Cashier Hines should pass a resolution thanking him for leav ing the building. The net assets of the bank are placed at $14,225.84 and Hines took $16, 224.93. other words he took more than the bank had, and leaving the building, showed that he was not on the hog. Liver Pudding. And now Colonel Santford Martin is pre paring his winter's supply of liver pudding. Hear him: It's about time for liver pudding; and sage and pepper, that combination In which Winston-Salem excels all the rest. Colonel Fairbrotber to the contrary notwithstanding. Search us but this liver pudding business is beyond us. There may be such a thing. We hope there is, but you will excuse us for not passing the plate for more. Thank you, we fear the Winston liver pudding is a myth. Want To Oppose Wilson Con cerning War Equipment. I'.l'.MS that the politician- are - willing to go any depth to make hay riii" 1 no matter what re-uh-. Hjii lu-t niiv the republican are in ft si-ting oil knowing all about the secret- of the go eminent con cerning ln r prcparedne-s for war. l're-iileiit Wii-on thinks that just now is not a good time to be examining our guns for fear that other nation- might won der why. Hut there appears to be a demand to know just what we have in the matter of coast defence; just what we have in the mat ter of ammunition in all things that might be of interest were we to declare war or have war declared against us. Congress is now debating the question and the hope is that Congress might find some thing else to do. Certainly we should be pre pared for war the lesson from across the sea shows what kind of a fix Belgium got into, and certainly she wasn't looking for trouble she had no chip on her shoulder, and yet she got the worst of it. The United States should be prepared for war just as long as there arc nations ready to go to war. No matter how we feel about it as a nation, if other nations remain war-like and some of them conclude some day to pounce upon Uncle Sam, we should be fully prepared to meet all who come. We are big enough and rich enough to do this. We need never be the aggressor but we should have hip pockets in all our breeches and if necessary tote a gun in 'em. Another Bryan Rumor. And now the busy ones are saying that A. Mitchell Palmer, unsuccessful candidate for United States senator from Pennslyvania, is to succeed Mr. Bryan, as Secretary of state after March 4. It is said that many democrats have insisted that Bryan must leave the cab inet. Of course none of us know about what Mr. Wilson will do or what Mr. Bryan wants to do, but we will bet dollars to doughnuts that Wilson never asks Bryan to resign. Were he to throw him out, as some papers suggest he will do, it would be good bye the hope of democracy. Mr. Bryan is too big a man to be used as a jumping jack. He carries with him too much power. Mr. Wilson will never forget that Bry an alone made it possible for him to secure the nomination. But if the republicans get together and go out on a tariff campaign what about the two million majority of votes which were cast for a high tariff against Wilson, and divided be tween Taft and Roosevelt? Roosevelt is no longer in the calculation. He is the deadest political duck ever left out doors. If the re publican party comes together in 1915 with a tariff campaign there will be no doubt in the world as to results. We presume that is con ceded. o- Cutting The Big Salaries. The Atlantic Coast Line has cut the salaries of all employes receiving more than $200 a month. Hard times is the cause given, and when the big officials cut their salaries we must conclude that there is a reason for it. Too much adverse legislation is what has hurt the railroads. Let us hope that our legislature this winter. will be constructive and not de structive. : 0 Funny, Isn't It? Funny how the lawyer politician has been working his shell game. He goes out and gets some fellow to announce him for an office and then he takes the stump and tells the people what they need. Wonderful, wonderful, won derful. But the shell game has been discov ered. No longer will it be so easy in North Carolina to hood wink the voter. Judge Clark 111. Because of an attack of acute indigestion Judge Walter Clark of Raleigh almost passed away from earth last Friday night. He was unconscious for several hours, but happily, was restored. The announcement of his crit ical illness called forth expressions of genuine sorrow from all over the state, and all rejoice to know that the able jurist is now practically himself again. At Pikesville, In renewing for his paper, Mr. Erastus Smith, of Pikesville, N. C, writes us to ( say: "Keep the name of General J. S. Carr before the people for Governor. I am an old soldier, and want him as Governor of our State." Many men write like Mr. Smith and when the time comes the politicians' are going to wonder why it is that a man can be nominat ed without going into the race. Some History About The Trinity Donation LITTLE straightening out of history is neces sary ju-t here. Because John C. Kilgo went off half-cocked concerning the pulling down of Old Glory, some of the pa pers of the State are crit icising him severely, and perhaps he needs calling for this particular uprising. But it make- u- laugh to see them put the Dukes into it- to -ay that a man who could "pull the legs of the Dukes like Kilgo pulled them" and all this and that trying to mix the Dukes up in what Kilgo said. It is funny. History is nev er written while men live, but a little history concerning the Dukes and Trinity might now be worth while. We were living in Durham, North Carolina, when they were going to move Trinity College. Dr. ates, a Methodist minister, a presiding elder and as good a man as ever lived any where, and as able a man as ever preached in North Carolina, came to our office one day and said he was going to try to secure some help to get Trinity to Durham. Durham was am bitious and we ail were mighty Had to hear that such a prospect was in sight. The Doctor said that General Carr owned the old Black well race track, and if he could get the Gen eral to agree to give the site, a great many acres of land, and valuable, too, he believed he could get Uncle Wash Duke to give the money we believe it was a hundred thousand dol larsa large sum for those days. We didn't think that two men would feel able to stand such a burden. We frankly told the good Doctor so, and he said: "Never you mind. Don't say anything about it in the paper yet but I believe it can be done. It should be done." And we wished him well. Here we want to say what we have before written and what we have publicly said many a time, there never lived a more honest man rugged, guileless, square in every way, than Uncle Wash Duke. He was a sincere man and a God-fearing and God-loving man if ever there was one on earth. We knew him very well. The matter was put up to General Carr, and we all know how he always let loose of his purse strings for any righteous cause. We know that he has given more money to churches and to schools and to deserving charity than any other man in North Carolina and he told Dr. Yates he would gladly donate the land. Uncle Wash Duke said he would give the required sum and Durham, to a man, re joiced. We have the printed files of our news paper, and no announcement was ever receiv ed in Durham with greater joy, It wasn't only the Dukes, but it was General Carr as well Washington Duke and General J. S. Carr, at the solicitation of Dr. E. A. Yates, moved Trinity College to Durham and hand somely endowed it. Those are the facts. Being a true Christian gentleman, and having been successful beyond his wildest dreams, Mr. Washington Duke gave again to the College he loved and he did it because he felt he was helping the cause of Christianity. Naturally what the father had helped to build the two boys, Benjamin and James B. wanted to help and voluntarily Mr. Buck Duke gave a library and then each year these two successful men have voluntarily con tributed, and will doubtless continues to contri bute to this great Southern institution of learning. Kilgo never "pulled the Duke's legs" there was no leg-pulling process necessary. The Dukes have plenty of money, and because their father, then not as lich as he was in after years, wanted to build Trinity to an institu tion of respectable size and importance, these two devoted sons followed only-in his path. That is the long and the short of how the Dukes helped Trinity. Nobody ever pulled their legs. Their contributions have been made cheerfully made at first, before John C Kilgo was ever heard of in North Carolina; made when John Franklin Crowell was the : head of the institution, and we do not see why Trinity College, such a magnificent school and so handsomely endowed, should be compelled to have these things, untrue, said about it. Having lived in Durham at the time ; know ing that we were the first person to whom Dr. Yates ever mentioned his scheme to locate Trinity in Durham; knowing inat General Carr had as much to do with bringing Trinity to Durham as the Dukes had because its coming was conditioned alone on his giving that valuable tract of land, we feel that it is up to us, while yet living, to get history . straight. That1 is why we write this at this time. ' . ..- ' Worth While. . The Belgia,ns all admit that but for Amer ica thousands of them would have died from starvation, Old Glory to their eyes has bee a the Star of Hope.
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