BY, AL FAlRBROTHER
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COPT 8 CENTS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1915.
ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS
ESTABLISHED MAY 190a.
XTRA SESSION
To Adjust the Revenues
: ; Seems Certain.
HE announcement is
made that President
Wilson will doubtless
call a special session of
Congress soon after the
March adjournment. It
is said that he is deeply
concerned ,. about the
economic condition of the country ; that with
a big deficit confronting the treasury some
new legislation is necessary and it should be
had at once. - It is said-in Washington and
sent out by correspondents that the present
tariff law is not what 'we want that there
must be a scientific revision of it, and the fin
an'cial situation Isn't all it could be if the laws
were a little differently adjusted.
And so we take it tnat there will be a session,
.running a few weeks or a few months, and
irom that the, democratic party will hope to
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. The general discontent abroad in the land has
leen designated .as psychological but there
is also a great deal of he real thing about it.
Wh ether some of the conditions are to b e at
tributed wholly to politics we do not know,
but it does seem strarge when our exports are
r cater than ever in pur history running now
to over a hundred million dollars, that we
v? anything but the very best , of
V l,'ationvare furnishing hun
: ' M ?fs "worth of manu-
; we are sending
FIGURES ARE NOT BAD
The Booze Business Is Grow-
ing Less Now.
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ERE in North Carolina the
prohibition law has been run
ning several years, and each
day the express companies
bring booze into each town.
The illicit stills are operating
too many of them, and blind
tigers are here and there and
" " everywhere and because of
this some men think prohibition is not a suc
. cess.
The recent agitation ove.- the anti-jug law
caused figures to be presented which to the
man who doesn't stop to think look appalling,
but they are not so bad. All of our laws are
violated. Even in: countries where they have
no whiskey men kill each other, and women
steal who never took a drink in their, lives.
Crime of all kind continues its carnival but
we are going to keep on insisting that the pro
hibition law in North Caiclina has worked
wonders for the present and miracles for the
future.
The man who had cultivated the gentle art
of drinking likker before the prohibition law
went into effect may continue to supply his
wants by the jug train, the blind tiger or illicit
still route but the boy who walks along the
street sees no bar rooms. He is not waiting
until he gets big enough, wixious. to explore
the mystery of the den with painted windows.
He doesn't know anything about the back door
and the rnidnight revelry which erstwhile was
on. He grows to manhood, and finally, , he
escapes. The next generation of men will
know but little about lockers and the idea of
having lost their "personal freedom" will
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SECRETARY FORESTER of the Cham
Ober of Commefce tells us "that this year the
policy of the Chamber wil! be to do a great
deal of personal advertisingvfor the city. Ex
cursions will be run as of tenuis once a month
to all the towns near byy and on these excur
sions will go representatives of the Chamber
of Commerce; wholesaleUnd retail merchants
and all the boomers and boosters who can go,
telling about Greensboro, what " we have, what
we want, and inviting the near by ones to
come and trade with ui-and live with,; us if
they are seeking a;cha$re of base of opera
tions. - .
: This is good news. We are glad the Cham
ber is going to-do this" kind of work. It is
better business than jcircular letters ; it is bet
ter business than any other kind of, publicity.
Personal contact is something- that always
- -tr, with its. bitterness-, their soulskt yc eje 0n yreens?oro and on
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OLD BO YS WERE AT IT
The Chicago Newsies Play
The Old Game.
OR A bit of human interest
something that appealed to
us with touching force, that
idea of the "Old Newsboys'
Day" in Chicago, took the
bakery. Last Thursday four
hundred former newsboys,
some of them 70 years old
and some of the millionaires, were at their old
familiar corners vending papers. One of the
old timers hired a band to draw a crowd to his
standand the regular "newsies" stood watch
ing the performance in delight.
Mayor Harrison was enthusiastic and went
the rounds buying papers ; clerks stopped to
buy of their employers, and thousands of
copies were sold that -would not have been,
sold. The entire proceeds went to charity. It
is a regular day once a year in the Windy
City, and certainly it is a unique proposition.
Those old multi-millionaires living again the
grim days of their "child labor" the days
that gave them experience and taught them
something about work and how to save and
the value of money. It was a day off for them
and of course they enjoyed, hugely, every
minute of it. We certainly would have been
delighted to have seen the 400 in action it
would have been worth while.
Rockefeller's Foundation.
It seems that Rockefeller has what he calls
a , "Foundation" many millions of dollars
several hundred millions ; he has directors, and
he wants the government to control it; to
practically manage it. The idea is that a vast
sum of monevill lwawsbe available for all
... cientific research; (in fact for any-
V ' ; 1 e very thhig, that is supposed -to" re-
SOLVED MYSTERY
How To Get The Non-Supporters.
UT "OF much agitation
comes, sometimes, great
good. The question which
has long vexed our mor
alists and philosophers is
what to do to punish a man
who would not support his
wife and children. To jail
for
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bring about the result, but Indiana has pass
ed a law that has one tooth the right kind of
a one. When a man refuses to support his
wife and children according to a bill just pass
ing in that state, he is tried, and if found
guilty, fined $500 in cash or a sixty day sen
tence at hard work. The entire wage tic
earns on public works goes to the support of
the wife and children, and we take it that
such a law will have a tendency to make the
fellow who heretofore has been able to shirk
his duty sit up and take notice.
If he has the price the $500 will help as long
as it lasts, and if he hasn't he goes to public
works for sixty days and earns wages which
go to the family. Now we consider that solvr
ing a great question. In this way the hard
ship is alone on him; he becomes publicly dis-'
graced and he is made to labor for those he
wanted to neglect. Strange that such a happy
solution to a world problem wasn't before
thought out but it is onward in all things.
We commend the Indiana law to the legisla
ture at Raleigh. It is worth copying in every
state in the Union.
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