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f 4 i M ' I- ... 1 BY AL FAIRBROTHER ELASTIC QUART Hop t Can Be Made ;Many Gallons, -, HE .Anti-Saloon ' Lea gue,, through its state Secretary, R. L. Davis, conies into the -newspapers and says that the final bill, with its quart of limitation and several other things, "is a deem ed victory vfor Prohibition. It may be. Theo ; retically"the blind tiger man cannot do much with a quart every fifteen days but the real . -blind tiger man has never depended much on open shipments of whiskey. Whiskey is ship ped in double barrels one man we know .shipped over a hundred barrels of whiskey .small barrels inside coal oil' barrels and car? ried on a blind - tiger traffic that was fierce. The railroad company does not. know what is in a barrel of lamp chimneys, and if there are "ten gallons, of whiskey in a crate of automo " bile -tiires the carrying companies cannot lo cate it The blind, tiger man does a big busi ness "when he runs, and doesn't depend on the railroads for -all of it. , " . - t . The moonshiner is the man who knows the post'ofce address and the place to meet the I lind tiger in the dark. 'The moonshiner has en more plentiful in this Fifth Congression ' district the last year than ever before And .a t impossible to ship in much whiskey in - 1 ? cg: :ealed packages c will . be ?- ir ?r will be more -t anti-saloon fact ..1 w IJttO ;s. ve are glad the anti-saloon people feel they had a partial victory. We are of opinion, however,"" that it should have been whole or none. We cannot see how the legis lature can j ever explain. If we voted prohi bition, -and. we did, we should have prohibition.-: Some of the quarts some of the folks -will always have on hand will become amaz ingly elastic. Three or four gallons coming in the dark, and the one old quart in daylight. They used to tell a story that the Southern -"railway owned one old mule and used him to put on a freight train on Sundays so they could claim live stock. That old mule was re sponsible for the- movement of a million cars. And the man who receives ten quarts of likker nicely labelled MaCauley 's History of Eng land, by .slow freight will exultantly receive his part in the open, and people who" are not philosophers will marvel, and .wonder why it is that a quart of likker under the new law -will last sixteen times as long as a quart of likker under, the old law. - , - The Primary Bill. Pruned, - clipped repainted, black-ey ed and hammered to a jelly was the fate of the far heralded . primary bill. . The Amendments meant a primary bill that would sand bag into silence all voters. It was proposed to make a man take an oath that- he would do so and so and had such a measure ever passed in many counties it would have been good bye demo cracy."""'" w . . - . We opposed a state:rwide primary bill Jae cause it was an attempt of politicians to put the party in their breecherloons pocket and walk off with it. What we want is popular representative government. We want a right to go ; to the polls and vote like we want to vote and for the man who will come nearer filling the bill according to our views. The proposed primary law would simply sand bag the. voter. And -wd were glad that no such measure got through the. legislature. We must all conclude that this legislature, while having a few radical men, was'inclined to be sane and constructive. Let us have another like it. All Of Them. ;--v There are today more different kinds of .fakes on wings than ever before in the world's history. We - laugh about the :pld Roman augurs who put it over the credulous but . there are more Roman augurs abroad today plying their vocation than ever before.. It is in every line of endeavor that the grafter is in .evidence, and two thirds of them have a "per sonal organ" to further their game. "-''. Wants To Know. . " V The Winston Journal wants to know what . the republicans could hope to do in electing a president next year.- It insists that the Sen Vv ate is-democratic and will remain so". There V; fore if the republicans had a president and could get the:House. with them, the Senate Would tie their hands. There might be some v ihing in this- but you never saw a politician listen to reason he looks-at pie. ' , . . SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 A YEAR; SINGLE COPT S CENTS A GREATER QUESTION What Are We-To Do- With The Moonshiner: OR ways mysterious sr refer us to the moonshiner; the gentlemanly blockader who goes out in the woods and sets up his plant and com mences to r make whiskey He is about as daring as "any man on shore. The owner of a priyate ship will paint his vessel, and he takes pains to conceal himself but it seems to be an easy matter to get a dozen men and put them to making whiskey in defiance of Uncle Sam ; in defiance of state laws and county laws and city laws. ? 1 ; - ; r Last Friday in Durham ' county Sheriff Harward and deputies Belvin, Morgan and Pleasants made a raid in Mangum township and caught three out of five men engaged in operating the biggest distillery, ever capturea in Durham county and those who recall the raids Jack Shelburn used to make know this Friday catch was going some. , - At the time of the capture the operators had on hand enough beer to make, a hundred and fifty gallor&oi-whiskey ; twenty gallons of dry mash were destroyed and 2000 gallons" of beer emptied. The outfit was brought to Dur ham and three of the men captured, one white and two colored charged with operating an. il licit still were jailed. v '. - ' It is said a dog was also on the job, but when he saw the officers hemade a clean" get-a-way running faster than tfiemen and ne'ver looking back. He ' Irnew that she- was doing something unlawful and didn't want his num ber displayed. ' ; . '.."''r:'-.-' ' ' -. "'rr, England Talks,j3is i;.i.-iii.o..s. . c-,vu." to .Kj-tiikiiyf fnci' of - course this ' might raise another ' question. " There is more chance today of Uncle Sani going to war with Mexico and with the na tions now belligerent than since the trouble began. . . ; A ' The long drawn out fight has gotten all the nations on the nerve line, and they all hate to see Uncle Sam at peace. They understand that if he remains at peace this must, preforce, be the greatest nation in the world. It will be the Great Department store from whicn the world must look , for her supplies until order has been restored abroad, unlil men are born to fashion things. Knowing that this temporary commercial supremacy would be come; permanent commercial supremacy all the powers" abroad would be mighty glad to see Uncle Sam get into "it. Maybe though that Divinity which shapes our ends will keep us free of sanguinary engagement. Let us hope ! Let us pray! William Rockefeller. William Rockefeller a very rich man not as rich as his brother John D. but possessed of enough dollars to keep a million wolvtsi from a million doors for many years, has again been asked to plead in the New England rail way scandal. He says not guilty and he is sick. A very ill man. For years he has had no health, and . because of some juggling in the railroad business of w;hich he was a direc tor, he must come into court and be annoyed and harrassed. ; He is not an active business man ; he perhaps knew nothing about what the directors did but because, some of them were trying to be crooked, all must take their medi cine. Very few directors ,direct that is un derstood. . " - , - Something In This. The Wilmington Star is constrained to re mark that legislators - are the only class of people who work faster without pay than with it. ' ' " . ' The members monkey along the first part of the session doing nothing. ! Then they get moderately busy and finally work three or four days without pay and do more ral busi ness in a week than in a month on full pay. Watchful Waiting. The esteemed Winston Journal says if is satisfied with the Primary bill. Well, the primary bill ought to satisfy most any one. It is full of holes and meaningless, c It isrit good a primary law as Guilford had and has had for years. - When they eliminated the oath part, the politician was lost. That was his cinch. Ed. Farriss' We .certainly regret the departure of Ed. : Farriss from the world of men and from. the newspaper profession. - Mr. Farriss was a vvell known lawyer as well as . a newspaper . man. In ;High Point he was universally esteemed, and his sudden death shocked the state. Ort. i. UKUrtI, M A JXl.il ' .13, I915. WINSTON MAY RUN DOWN Raleigh way it is talked freely and insistently that Judge R. W. Winston will be a candidate to succeed Congressman Pou. Judge Winston is one of the. big lawyers of the state. He is a good speaken He belongs to the Winston family that always made good, and to see him in a Congressional campaign would mean that feathers tail feathers and wing feathers, would fill the air. It has been our contention always,' that when a man, makes good as a public servant he should be allowed to remain as long as he wants to re main. ; ' ' : In the. case of Congressman Pou he will have to explain more satisfactorily than he has yet done why -he, appointed Gattling . post master of Raleigh. But,ordinariIy that should make no difference. - The Conin-essman should has explained tHat satisfactorily to his friends, there is yet a great talking point in it, and if there is a fight .the talking points will be rais ed. Judge Winston would give Pou a race for his money no doubt about that. - u Treasurer Lacy. State Treasurer Lacy has had a "few as persions thrown at, him" and he doesn't feel at all good over ly So he has called for expert accountants to come and go over his books and examine his system, and let them make a statement to the public. Lacy is tired of hearing the small talk. It is so easy to swat a man and blacken his character. Lacy hasn't done anything wrong and maybe he hasn't done? anything right. But he is honest, and his books will show no shortage. The chances are that the politicians want to get rid of Ben Lacy. He happened to fall into the office was a locomotive engineer. He made good and he has been there a long time. And nat urally they want to get him out. But when the auditing company gets through there will have been no mare's nest discovered. Lacy is all right. o A City Market. And now Charlotte is trying to destroy the only privilege and pleasure left on earth the opportunity to buy meat of local dealers here and there and everywhere about the city. Some of, the wise ones want a city market. Better let well enough .alone. Raleigh's new market isn't at all popular. Many claim Greensboro should sell her market house and let dealers have sanitary markets in different sections. Why not bunch the stores in one big building? Why not bunch all the differ ent kinds of business in one building and let it go at that? The City Market is a back number. ; '" ' o ' . - - - - How About It? - v An Associated Press dispatch of Saturday said that war orders for materials to Pittsburg alone had given employment to at least 150, 000 men. Now if one city gets orders to put 150,000 laborers, to work, and skilled laborers at that, how, in Sam Hill is the war making times hard. It is estimated that ten hundred million dollars are being expended in this country by the belligerent Nations. Had it not been for the war where would we have been? That is the way it looks to us. ' This Grip Business. There seems to be no doubt' now but what grip is catching. There seems to be no doubt -but- what Jong continued wet weather brings it around and hatches, out .the Man Eating Germs. -We. have had the worst seige of the grip for, the. past two months we ever had and the trouble seems to be that we can't get rid of it at all. We mention the fact so that any shortcomings from our think tank will be understood. s i i 9 1 1 ON 8AU AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON. TRAINS IT GROWS IMPORTANT Greensboro Sends Some Things Around World. ERE in Greensboro are some great things commercially. For instance we have life in surance companies and fire insurance companies that place business in dozens of state; we have the Cone Ex- ykM&j port Co. that sends stuff over alj the world and we have many other things which we will mention later. Just now we are calling attention to Greensboro as a cotton market. The J. E. Latham Cotton Co. is one of the biggest in the South; it has immense warehouses and han dles iriany car loads of cotton in and out each day. Last week this enterprising firm wlnci goes .after business sold to a firm in Moscow, Russia, a big order. To escape the risks of belligerent countries and their war ships and their submarines, this order will go across the Atlantic ocean and through the Panama canal and then some fifteen thousand miles over the Trans-Siberian railway or two thirds the distance around the world but it will arrive in Moscow.. And it will be from a live cotton firm of Greensboro, N. C, and that is what we are singing about. The world isn't very big if there are live men studying its maps. - . : o Our City Canijpaign. It looks now as though we were to have a little ginger in our. city campaign. There is a long list already announced and we under stand there will be more. If the present board hasn't made good it is up to the voter to say so. An, election, always settles these little differences. Under our charter all the people rotvregardloss of politics so thre is. ho rea- 1 o?fV,hy a nfcjontO X navenwi- nyv iUL. r' - - . t . - n ; ' A Difference. England is now saying she will not treat sub-marine officers captured according to their rank. She holds that sub-marine war fare is not civilized and those operating the boats will be tried for murder after the war. This done, perhaps, to make it hard to get of ficers for .the submarine fleets. When they are captured, no matter what their rank, they are held prisoners and thrown in with the common stokers and all fed alike. This is pretty hard medicine for a man who was wearing a great uniform all sprinkled with medals. But war is war, and if the submarine can help win it is as much desired as anything else. Talk about civilized warfare there is no such thing. o- Certainly. The Supreme Court of the United States set aside two laws confiscatory v of railway property last Monday. One .was where the legislature had made a low rate on coal and another where it had made a two cent pas senger, rate on some West Virginia roads. Were it not for the Supreme Court some of the wild-man legislatures would bankrupt the country. We had a double.dose of it in North Carolina. . ' o Likes The Law. The Winston Journal, mighty hard to please on many questions, says the new jug law is the bet we ever had. That is the way, we guess to look at it. Not exactly what was wanted,, but better than we ever before had. That shows progression and advancement of a cause. To have submitted the question to the people again would have been suicidal. Perhaps the Journal is right. Find cause for congratulation in the fact that it is better than any other, and maybe some day it can be made still better. o- To have weather on the eighth and ninth f March as cold as any during the whole winter, is something that does not often happen in North Carolina but it is happening just now. o Too Bad All Around. The state makes a big mistake in sustaining the office'of Commissioner of Labor and Print ing. The men filling the place are efficient, and are elected by the people, so no one is finding fault with them. But there are thousands ai.d thousands of. dollars needlessly expended in sustaining such a place. There is really no need of it. The figures are worthless. They do us no good. We have government reports carrying all the information. There is simply an expenditure of money that could be used in other channels. But no one has ever, investigated. The office was once established and it will perhaps re main until some day a business, instead of a political administration, comes along and wipes out a whole raft of things. r h -3 J ESTABLISHED MAY 160a. A MANAGER PLAN Durham In A Big Fight For A Change. NE THING is certain, . and that is Durham never . took a dose of medicine without making a face no matter how sugar coated things might be. Just now she is in the excitement of a city election trying to adopt a charter which pro vides for a City Manager. In the Sun xvb see big, display ads showing where one man power has advanced prices; other big ads showing that the Commission Form is the only thing and committees are appointed to speak to the people and try to have the Manager Plan adopted. The election comes on the 16th of this month and things political, in Durham, are at a red glow. Everybody and the Hired Man is talking; you can't hear much of any- -thing else and by election day a Donny- . brook fair or a Roman holiday will be con sidered tame entertainment to an hour in the Bull City. We have no advice to give. We favor the Manager Plan. We know the Commission Form properly executed beats the old alder manic system and hope the good people of Durham will adopt the latest, and then get the Manager." The Manager-should be em ployed .by the aldermen; his tenure of office should be at their pleasure. His head should go in the basket on a nr.nute's notice if Jie failed to make good; if he didn't measure up, to - requirements, specifications and expecta- tions. Some, men ;wonder if there are . such V men in the world Thousands of them. And,- the city should get JSTich a man : No matter if . i t sen rtr Jfzl a tna zoo orlTJ mb uc toc-get the- j.atv: kn r f i- trzfcZz xv f avoriuail tneayourEave a system. - - The Commission Torm is still politics. ' Itj;: 2 is politics in our city today. The commis sioners must make a fight for re-election every two years and we know it is a world of kickers.. The one m?n Manager would be like the Superintendent of a big cotton mill; or a railroad. When he didn't do right get another and keep getting until the right man was secured. That is the way to solve a mys tery that has been on ever since municipalities were first .established. , Harry Thaw. No matter how often they bring him into court Harry Thaw gets the front page. It is of course because his old mother is there and his old mother has many millions of dollar' and is willing to give them all to secure the freedom of her worthless son. Had Thaw been a poor devil long ago he would 'have been forgotten a mound of eartn somewhere, weed grown, would have been the only thing left fo remind us that a fool had done the world a service. When this is written his third trial is on, and the lawyers will string it out all week, we have no doubt. Exploded. ; Theheory that a railroad company making a profit on its freight business must use that profit for its passenger service was knocked out this week by the highest court. The coun try is rapidly getting some information by the wild legislatures. It costs money to test these confiscatory laws but always they are knocked sky high. After awhile the wild man's legislature will not be doing business. . o . Incomprehensible. . The French have issued an official note de claring that the German losses since thenar have been three million men. This includes the killed, the wounded, the sick and the pris-; oners taken.. These figures are said .to bt correct, and are certainly staggering. The hope of world wide peace is far off. Wben that many men have been lost and the fight still going on and the officers claiming successes well, there is no use to figure on war. Unable To Attend. President Wilson has definitely announced that he will be unable to attend the Panama Exposition opening ceremonies March 20. Thousands on the coast will be disappointed, but the President sees a lot of watchful wait ing in Mexico and elsewhere claiming his at tention. And if he is anything he is onto his job. t 0 . Pretty Soon. Greensboro will pretty soon start to boom in the real estate way. Those who want to see things hum can look out the window not later than April 1st and it von't be an April fool joke either. There is going to be much doing in this white man's town. V MM s -r
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