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SUB ' UE COPT S CENTS SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 19 15. ON 8 A LB AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS ESTABLISHED MAY 1902. Grit EX I THE SEED SOWN. ARE COMING OUT NOW HE IS MAKING GOOD KNOCKED SKY HIGH LESSON LEARNED BY AL FAIRBROTHER Just' A Word May Live All Time. E ARE all allured by numerals and when we talk in them we do not comprehend, nor do we really -appreciate, their significance. When we say a man is worth y a million dollars, we "say it because he has perhaps. somewhere in sight two "or three hundred thousand dollars but we say a million, with reckless disregard of the facts. Newspapers s have talked., about immense circulations, an'tf ..the average advertiser who goes into'a publi- cauon aoesn t realize mat me extra iwo or three hundre"d thousand claimed would mean a world of difference. We talk about our country having a hun-' : dred million people, and no one of us can see" in our mind's eye the great difference there is ' between a hundred million and eighty million. We are gigat on what man has termed "round . numbers,.' We figure out that the navy of the army costs eight hundred and fifty-million dol lars and it would be all the same if we said a thousand million, because .we cannot mentally cinerentiate between the numerals when they get big enougli to be either astounding or ap palling. - . In his talk to his Bible class last Sunday at the Jrresbytenan church, JJr. YV. L,; mith was - talking about; figures, .about great numbers, of people who had gone "to hear Billy, Sunday andit. seemed .wonderful because as many as forty ' thousand people had been in the audi- ence ? tone time-"But," -said Dr. Smith, ."the . i U"vil V CI CU JL1 - IUC Ctl Ul -. J w .ursc -wai Christ's S ercicn -on the-; . . tiiostvyonderful, ' the jnosic bm-; .ve sermon eygr yher&bjr manraad it: . 1 nineteen hundred years--and; is as ;cci today?i;ft; i. vas delivered, and it will still be fresh and laspifingand, beneficial Tas long as the world . - vvnu so u v may uc wiui a. .uiiiiicu .uuun. , ' ' -" : ii--:-. . .- - j " i: . vnay 110,1 Dccome-a tau or lasmuu iix uLciaiuic litVr-it imntafn"! the essence-of truth, and mor- JullY'Wliat- 10" icauics uidy uvc wugti iuau .' the popular fad something to please but not - 1 - 1 ' IT ' "iL-it. J ML,,. , . . . t . r . i . man - who says sometning 10 ms . inenu . or Itq idlv in a rmwd; should alwavs remem- - ber that he is sowing, seed that it Dut one ni i v ill lie i if-t ci i i mil in ivj. va aiiu laot j- long as . time.. . - : ' ; ; . '-' ' " i'i-';. ; ? Dr: Smith pointed out that Christ's person- ;. ality was such that he did not seek the multi-, r-tudes that, no brass band or advertising or solicitation was necessary that the sublime "r and eternal truths he uttered to one person 9inU "X IWv UCl auiia lu., IX . ilia . tt)uouv.o ; -' ToKrVif tViic Keranse rnanv men think there is no use for them to talk about reforms ; v no use for them to give thoughtful attention to V' Heeaeci correction ul tuuscs, ucwusc uicjr naw no medium of publicity and no crowds flock to hear them:" Whether the, newspaper has ten or ten thousand! subscribers, makes no dif ference. Tf it is "on the right track ; ifi it is seeking to aid humanity ; to build its section Into commercial greatness ; if it is trying to work reforms in the . social structure or at tempting to give hope arid cheer to the erring r fallen brother, it can do great good. And the evidence is sufficient when we remember the words of Dr. Smith td-the effect that "the greatest sermon ever delivered on the earth was heard by but twelve people." A thought worth cherishing. " - Candidates For Different Of fices Announce. AST WEEK we explained that it was our.belief that we should make no change in the City Commissioners. Since then an other candidate has come out for Mayor and we understand that still others are expecting to announce at an early day. Mr. James H. Cook is in the field and while he hasn't laid "clown a platform yet he feels that the present Commissioners have done things that he wouldn't have done, and he says so in a gentlemanly, straightforward manner. As we understand it the campaign will be pulled off "above the belt" so to speak, and the South Side is going to demand recognition. Though it is to be a friendly campaign, even that isn't what we would like to see. We feel that our charter gives us ample op portunity to. recall those who1 do not measure up to -the demands of the majority of voters. We know that if we want a law passed we can, by petition, submit it to the people. If the Commissioners passaiy law we do not like we jpan vote it off the books. v. " Therefore it appears to us, at this juncture that those gentlemen who have announced should think it over ; conclude to devote their time and energy and what money a campaign will cost to boosting the city : Like the esteemed News, if any of them can "show us" where they will do better than the present commissioners; if they will "show us" where the - present- commissioners have made any grievous blunders, we are open to convic tion. But at this juncture we do not see the need of getting up a great big city fight. Our "charter happily precludes the necessity forit. r.-' : The Cost Of Dogs. It really doesn't pay to raise dogs, they are ry expensive. Mr. Postley has cost-us a at deal, of money, anc we fear he will cost e He pays a poll tax and neyer votes, 3 ait Christmas he asked us to open him an .nt at the American Exchange Bank he he. wanted .ready . money to buy bones i the market was right. ' He will break us He. has a 1 savings account and already 13 to; his credit. President Vaughn says ostley is the first dog to open an account erhaps it will set a new pace. . WJien he .. his "fifty" next Christmas we "suspect he , , 111 paint . the town. Maybe, though, he will tart a bone factory and 4:hus help out the com nercial enterprises of Greensboro. A'OP'ish Commission. t North C rolina is going to, have a $10,000 fish icommi: ;on, a. few fat offices to protect the. Sfihini? intc. ts. This is well We also need game wartl , but we are not going to : get .." " High Treason." " . tainiy it; is hiii. --sonv Williaiii:,SpF0ule, president f the Southern. Pacific system iri a talk; at a 1 dinner . in. Chicago dared utter a" few. ; truths-and of course he will be discredited by tne politician. v - . " He said prosperity is real or .it does not ex ist. And that is a great truth although we have been asked to believe that if you think business is good it is good if you think it isn't it isn't. : ; - ;, - : - . . Like the Arabian Nights stories all you have to do is to call a gene and, tell it to build you ta castle and presto, the castle appears. Tell it to take away the castle and presto, the castle disappears. -: But that isn't it. Business is a material, a tangible thing, and if 'it is on it is on, and if it isn't all the saying so in the world will not make it so. Mr. Sproule finally concluded his speech by saying: " , . - "To secure that prosperity I urge the Imperative neces sity of taking business out of the atmosphere of attack into the . old fashioned-go-ahead atmosphere of business initiative and American, enterprise. I urge relief from the fads, ; fancies and isms which have ' filled" the streets with unemployment and put away the dinner pail of' the working man empty on the shelf of the impoverished home. I urge the restoration of confidence in the fact that American business men - are the - peers : of any in the world.. Finally, I urge that the public interest in trans portation is that it shall be prosperous in order that it may be a successful and energetic aid to all the business it is designed to serve." And that is the issue. Put out of the way the fads, the isms the new strange gods that poli ticians have set up to inflame the mind and disturb the well ordered conditions. We know and you know that business men are not the ones who have turned in alarms. Who were the alarmists the calamity howlers ? Politicians ambitious men who wanted of fice and wanted glory. They have sought to disturb the commercial peace. They have in terfered with the big business and the big things commercially not for the good of the people but for their own glory for their own agrandizement. C ' Thoughtful men, and women, too, who would see here again the great-wave of pros perity must tell their children not to listen tor these seductive politicians, y They must arise in their might, and demand that until business men complain the politician must not be al lowed to poison the mind of the people. Hap pily the pendulum' is swinging, the, other. way swinging towards a more" conservative policy. Here in America we can have " the greatest Nation of them all. It is youngest, it is strongest it has" the opportunities. .Weed . out. the ambitious demagogue who seeks Only to further his end at the expense of the masses, and we have wrought well. We rejoice to know that President Sproule dared to speak his mind. ; - .. -. ".- Base Ball. ' Greensboro is going to hold her place in the base ball league. . In electing Mr. RJ G. Sloan as president, of the League the. right man in the right place has beejr chosen. Young, : en- .ergetic, "a good business 'man and a lover of legitimate sports, Mr Sloan will doubtless put some ginger in the business' end of it that will keep Greensboro on the map. -'jr :;: - - f . DURING the excitement about the many clerks employed by1' Senator Simmons it has come to light that Captain Samuel Ashe is not on the Senator's pay roll but is an ex pert employed by the Government. Captain Ashe is thoroughly competent in any line of duty because he is a veteran news paper man. And when ?you find a newspaper man past the sixty-five year old mark attempt ing to hold down a government position, take it from us, he will hold it - down, and he wouldn't accept it unless he knew he could hold it down. We are glad it has bee"n shown that Captain Ashe is earning his salary; that he wasn't picked up "just to make a place for him" as has been talked. North Carolina owes Cap tain Ashe more than it ever paid him, and if Uncle Sam has a place for him, we feel cer tain that every man in the State will stand by him. : He is capable and not a dead-head in any enterprise. o An Interesting Campaign.. :.. Some time ago Everything .conceived the idea of a, co-operative campaign on the sub- ject of 'trading jit home'.. The Merchants' "As sociation.: joined "with nsy andwhile-vve do not knbw. what definite good was done' in Greens-.' boro and Guilford county -we do lenow ' that the State papers helped out on the propaganda as a estate affair. At least a dozen of. them copied our advertisements and at least twenty of them liberally copied out special articles. This sort of an educational campaign is worth while at this time. Every paper in North Carolina should havimer away on the subject; hammer away both early and late, and one of these days there wilL be a change. Funny how a campaign of publicity along lines of reason will grow, and the good it will do. It wasn't iong ago th?t Mr. R. C. Hood of Greensboro, started off the Civic League idea and members commenced a war against spitting on the sidewalk. We already had am ple laws against expectoraung on the side walk; everybody knew.it was unlawful. But it seemed a desire on the part of hundreds to continue the decoration and desecration. But the Civic League didn't resort to the law. No arrests were made, but a campaign of educa tion", of placards, of talking 2nd example and while of course men still 'now and then spit on the sidewalk, thousands will be seen walking to the curb and using the ilreet. .Just a cam paign of education. Twenty years from now and a man will no more think of spitting on the sidewalk than he will think of spitting on his carpet at home. And so with the trade at home slogan. There is so much in the proposition that as men begin to understand it; as they see that by keeping the money at home it helps build the home ; tha the South wants to foster fac tories and stores and institutions and in doing so each individual is helped, it will not be long until the mail order blank is unknown. There is no reason why you should trade away from home and every reason why you should help your home merchant. ' When you help the home merchant you have helped yourself. He employs "more men ; he pays more rents ; he makes real estate higher in the cities. And so in all lines. We are very-much pleased with the work we have done along this line, and hope to make a still better campaign later on. In the meantime write it as your slogan: Keep the South's money in the South. i t The Weekly Recorder. ' Those of our readers who each week read the Weekly Recorder, printed in this paper and edited by the Social Welfare League fhvjhat the members of that association are carrying no chips on their shoulders. ' They are labor ing for a better and purer moral and social atmosphere. They want to do nothing that is radical. .They wa" dean pictures, and cleat shows and because they have organized and because they boldly iusist on what they want ,thev are coming pretty close to getting it. We are of opinion that the Social AVelfare League is worth while in many ways--saying nothing at all of the charitable end which is perhaps greatest of all.T If you are not read ing the Recorder,' turn to the page where it is, and read it each week. Tt is refreshing and in structive. . . The Child Labor Bill Did Not Get Over. O IT came to pass that the Weaver child labor bill was de feated. The bill provided for many things that could not have happened and allowed the mills to run as they have been running. We understand that the mill men are very anxious to keep out of mills children under fourteen years of age. They are simply business men, out for busi ness and their mills are supposed to make money for their stockholders. The mill man in North Carolina is broad minded, liberal and understands that money earned must be clean money. He does not want the infant, the child under age to work but what can he do? The parents come to him and say the child is over fourteen years of age and it may be but twelve. The mill man wanted inspectors. He wanted every child under age to be kept at home. It means money in his pocket in the long run, and as cotton manufacturing is to be one of the great if not the greatest industries in this state, always, the mill men are anxious that they be recognized as humane, as useful and desirable citizens. The agitator who wants dtastic laws; who stands up and denounces the mill men as in human slave drivers as fiends coining the life blood of childhood into their grist has gone far beyond the line of prudence. We are glad the Weaver bill was defeated. Men and women who want to regulate the age of chil dren and who are interested in child labor can go to the mill men of North Carolina and find enthusiastic supporters for all reasonable measures they care" to suggest. There is no doubt .about this proposition. Agitators and newspapers appealing to pas sions and prejudices perhaps sincere from, their view point; will find, if they investigate, that the conditions in cotton, mills in North ""Carolina afc almost Ideal." -.But they go ''in and find a little sickly child and they photograph him and they label him a "milL slave" and then they take the picture of another child fed on baby food and a perfect child in physical development and label it the rich man's child" and stand the two pictures side by side, and then harrangue the crowd. In the mill and in the mansion there Will be found physical wrecks in the nursery. In the mill and in the mansion will be found perfect development of chil hood pictures of health. The figures show us that disease enters alike the hovel and the palace and the grave yard and the tombstones show that Death vis its all place$. Out here in our cotton mill towns you find churches and school houses and homes with porches and vines climbing over the windows and roses in the yard you will see in these school houses, maintained' by mill men, hun dreds of rosy cheeked, happy children at play and we have opposed and expect to oppose the wholesale and unwarranted abuse ot.tnc mill men who have made these desirable con ditions possible. We honestly believe that the majority of children in the mill towns are get ting better advantages than they ever got in other places, and that is why we have said that we Relieve there has been altogether too much agitation, and that the facts will sustain our position. j . The Home For Fallen Women. If the Home for Fallen Women is properly conducted it will accomplish a great good. It must be run on grounds of humanity and also ot strict enforcement of the law. Let those sent there be able to make money of their own; keep them there long enough to get the call of the waste out of them; teach them the Other Road and the state will have made a magnificent investment. About All Over. The legislature hasn't much longer. It has given us a few needed laws; it has had thou sands of little local bills that should have been passed by the city council or the county com missioners. The big laws and the big things it got away from, and left plenty of room tor the agitator to run on next time. Brockett A Winner. - In his fight for a new charter for High Point Representative Brockett won his fight. He was opposed by those who thought it bad business, but Brockett ran for the legislature to get that charter, and of course it was a cinch that he would get it. Brockett is a natural born fighterc-but his strength is not in his belligerency but in his integrity. - ro Do Not Forget. The idea of trading at home is not new. It has long been advocated, but many men for get. They think it is all right for them to send away forgetting that if each man thought this way about it we would have no stores no cities. Trade at home always. ' Keep the South's money in the South. That is a good ' motto t6 preach and to practice. : The Raleigh Tragedy Is vv unn vv mie. TERRIBLE tragedy was that enacted in Ral eigh a couple of weeks ago when Speaker wooten and Clerk Ay- cock lost their lives and a senator was disabled for many days because of an automobile accident. These gentlemen who gave their lives in such a tragic manner little dreamed when at the late hour they left the country club to return to Raleigh, that theirs was a ride to death. There have been no particulars printed that we have seen, but the inference is that because they had been on a pleasure trip, and were late, they were try ing to make speed, and the old story of "less haste more speed' was brought forcefully home. -" via 111 tllCIIipilIlg XO . CrOSS railway tracks; in head on collisions and such apparently unavoidable accidents there seems to be no one to blame but this lesson of the Raleigh accident should be heeded by all. Doubtless had the driver of the machine tak- 11 Vlio 1 a A I 1 - 1 .. "joy ride" spirit been put aside, no doubt speaker v ooten and young Aycock would be alive today. - Go where we will we see the man at the wheel bent on doing foolish things. Because there is sp'eed in the machine some driver's think they must get it out, and it is a safe proposition that two thirds of the appalling accidents which occur could be avoided. Men who WOlllH V rrnmp I nrli oriarif- wpr irrn - - . " - -. . . w Tl V to accuse them of violating a1 law that en croached in any way upon their honor, reck jcsly turn- on-the juice alid xce&ippW ir?3 its knowing-that it is a gross violation'of the law but thev think that dnein't rnimr ' v. ai nut wiouiuig ni-- uuvcu ui me tax in the Raleigh accident. We are not attempt ing to show that any one was to blame in par-ticularr-ut evidently, had there been less speed; had there been more attention paid to the machine and the road, and perhaps the hour for returning, the State would not ioday mourn tor two ot her brilliant sons. - Mr. Wooten was a young man of fine abil ity. He made a great fight to be Speaker-of U U I TT 1 - . : we iiuusc iiiu wu.1... iic was ix ictcpiivc can didate for the nomination for Attorney Gen eral of his state, and a bright future seemed to lie just before him. And in an instant, as it -were, "he heard "the bitlows roar above a sunicen snip, -nna we nope-tne irignnui price paid by these men will not have been in vain. A Mare's Nest Proper. Mr. Bruce Craven who has been in Wash ington had a pipe dream coming down on the double tracks. He thought he had a vision to the effect that Governor Craig would be ap pointed to succeed Judge Boyd. In the first place Judge Boyd has not re signed and there, is no power that will cause him to resign unless he says so. And he isn't going to say so. There can be no law that will make him resign. He is there as long as he wants to be there, because in the case of Judge Boyd good behavior is implied. Judge Boyd is today much younger than he was five years ago. If men will observe they will find that when one gets to be about sixty five years of age a change takes place. Often at that age men pass out. But if they get through and pass to the seventy mark they take on new life. Judge Boyd is physically a more" vigorous man at seventy than he was at sixty-five and sixty-six. He will no doubt be our Judge for several years yet. - So far as Governor Craig is concerned he stands no show. Governor Craig is a good citizen, but he hasn't done much as Governor. He has been highly honored and the 'gracious thing for him to do when his term expires as Gov ernor is to gp to work on his own hook and not look for a political hand out. ' Possibly he will do this. The Divine Sara. Sara Bernhardt, the most wonderful actress of the age, has recently undergone a" surgical operation, and lost a leg. She says she is now free of pain; that she expects to open up her i 1 -. 1 .1. 1 ii .1 i jjiajr iiuusc wnwiu t 11n1111.11, iiivi iii litis suuns the remarkable pluck of the gifted woman. Sara, in her time, was the greatest actress the world has ever known. Plummer Resigns.. Mr. Nixon Plummer resigns as city editor of the Daily News. Mr. Plummer is an honest, painstaking, conscientious newspaper man, and has more than average ability. . Just what he will do has not been announced, but it eroes without saying that he will make good wher ever he casts his line. '
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