pY AL FAIRBROTHER
POLITICS WARM
The Ministers Taking A
Hand In Richmond.
E CAN talk all we want,
and resolute until the
pink and yellow cows
are coming home to the
effect that ministers
should not mix up in
politics, but when they
get good and ready they
go Into politics just like
-a duck takes to water and you can't keep
.. cm out. ..' '
In Richmond, where there is growing a ter
ribly dirty mess in the council, the ministers
are taking a hand. In twelve or fifteen
churches in that city, according to the papers
from there, is denounced the action of the
Board of Police Commissioners of Richmond
in dismissing Detective-Sergeant Fred I
Krengel, presumably because of the officer's
testimony in the recent vice investigation.
.Several pastors, who have taken a deep inter
est in the recent reform movement in the city,
made the Krengel "case their theme, and the
- Police Board's course received condemnation
in many respects more severe than has been
given the proceedings of any public bpdy in
Richmond.
It seems that Krengel had furnished infor
mation to a committee which involved a cou
1 3le of the police commissioners and the idea
was to s-'de. track Krengel. It was shown thai
Krengel as applice officer dealt in rings and
guns and sold them to people of the undex
" vs-orld at big prices. This, it was contended,
was everlastingly wrong, because it put the
-officer under certain moral obligations to his
customersjbut despite; this fact .the ministers J
it seems are defendmg'lCrengel, the man'who
, trafficked in jewelry. ':.; - C
So warm have things grown that it is alto
gether probable that the Police Commission
: will be abolished. Several officials have re
signed, and all the way through there is noth
ing at all inviting about the situation. '
7 . o
The Poor Booze Artist..
The old drunkard gets it going and coming.
"He is. an outcast and as the years go by he
.gets hit harder and harder. He suffers and
suffers not only the wild delirium which ex
cessive use of whiskey brings but Society is
slowly and surely outlawing him. A dispatch
"from a western city reads :
Every saloon in town is to be placarded
with the names of habitual drunkards and a
warning that the persons listed must not be
sold any intoxicants. Cards, which are now
. being prepared by the police department, are
to be posted in a conspicuous place in each
bar room and must be printed in type large
enough to be easily read. They will contain
blank spaces for the insertion of names of
those who may fall from the water-wagon
.after the date of posting.
" This is tuff, my masters. Imagine an old
tummy going into the bar room and order
ing up a Scotch high-ball and just as his
mouth begins to water to see the bar keeper
look over the list in "big letters' and say
to him my friend you are jjlack listed. The
.Society .'has decided that you can't have any
more. It didn't black ball you when you
first commenced to go on your downward
road. It didn't try to head you off. It wait
ed until you became an outcast until your
money and your health and friends were all
gon until you stood a wretched caricature
of your former self ; until you had dishonored
those who loved you until you were down
and out, and then to add to your deep humil
iation and fill full your cup of degradation it
posted our name in large letters and said you
could no longer get a drink to satisfy that
strange appetite that almost unquenchable
thirst known only to a drunkard. They could
have helped you years ago; they could have
posted your name as a possible drunkard and
thus have headed you off. But they waited
until all hope was gone ; until you were a
wreck and of no account to God or man and
, then they rushed in with the big letters and
posted them here and say to me that I can t
let you have what now you really, sadly need.
Good day, old sport your lines are not in
pleasant places.
The Right Man.
Durham could not have found a better man
one more practical, more progressive for
President of her Chamber of Commerce 'thin
the Hon. Tames H. Southgate. Durham is to
be congratulated.
: o
A Change.
"MV Ti O BatrheTor who has been editor of
the Durham Sun the past year has sold his
interest to Mr. Roger Steff an, of Columbus,
Ohio, who lias assumed,, charge. ,; Mr. Batche-
lOr Will 1U1 Lllw 1 vuiaiu aaa iyuiuaiii-
SUBSCRIPTION f 1.00 A YEAR, SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
IT WAS YEARS AGO
An Old Man Signed Up For
Leon Brandt.
T IS a juicy plum, this Greens
boro post-office and it dan
gles up there in the sunlight
but it doesn't seem to be a daz
zler. Leon Brandt looked at it
for a long time. He ped
dled a petition and his friends
signed up to beat the band.
But that was way back yonder. The other
day in Leon's cotton office an old, decrepit
and gray haired man came in to see Mr.
Brandt. Just happened in, in fact, didn't
know where he was going, but seeing Mr.
Brandt, remarked that he would rest a spell.
"Certainly, make yourself at home," said
Mr. Brandt, cheerfully.
"What mought be your name?" queried the
old man. .
"Brandt is my name," remarked Leon.
"Brandt, Brandt, Brandt yess, yes didn't
I sign a petition for you for postmaster when
I was a boy?" asked the trembling old man.
I think you did, said Mr. Brandt. Years
ago I thought I would like to be postmaster.
Wilson was elected and naturally I thought
that that grand old soul-inspiring proposition
to the effect that to the victors belong the
spoils' would go, and I got busy. I got every
man in town, almost, to sign up, and I remem
ber now you were a boy and you signed.
"But it has been so long ago I had
forgotten.
"Then you hain t postmaster yit, to any
alarming extent?" the old man asked.
"No, not yit and I am ott of the race.
So it seems that if Mr. Wayland Cooke
wants the job wants to give up his profes
sion to hold a piece of pie four years, it is his
for the asking. If Cooke doesn't want it the
Hines t getting it.; 'Hiries ; has' befcri a 1 haraT a
worker a good citizen, and. in . every way
capable. ' ".:';; '
Early In The ' Season.
We are a firm believer in the proposition
that banks should advertise that they should
insert in proper mediums their cards to the
general public with which they desire to deal
but there are some things about their at
tempts to obtain publicity that puzzle us.
For instance we are informed that one
great bank in a western city no use to men -tion
names is sending out indiscriminately.
to the entire press of the country a four-page,
expensively gotten up circular, printed in two
colors, showing by clearance house figures
that it led in the game last year and a part
of this in the matter of business. On one
page, incidentally, is a statement of affairs,
and on other pages are figures that may or
may not be instructive to the average man.
But why should a bank spend its money,
thousands of dollars, in fine printing and of
ficial envelopes and two-cent stamps, in send
ing to every one horse and two horse editor
in the country this statement of fact?
What does the ordinary editor- of a country
weekly with patent bowels and a C. O. D.
package at the express office care whether a
bank has a surplus of almost two million dol
lars when the aforesaid editor hasn't a sur
plus of thirty cents. .
Why should a banker or. a bank want to
send out a statement of business to all the
editors and not send them any business? How
many of these letters, although carrying a
two-cent stamp and sealed, will be read by
editors ? When opened and. found to con
tain nothing but a beautiful two-colored state
ment conveying the information that a bank
has a business of forty millions, including a
surplus of almost two millions, isn't it natural
that the waste basket will receive such infor
mation? Tantalus held his job in the water
and looked at the luscious fruits but Tan
talus was a Phrygian king and these money
kings have the editors in the water and are
holding the seductive figures of big surplus
age over them and why should it be?
Of course we understand that a banket
has a right to make all the display of other
people's money that he wants to make; if he
has forty millions of other people's money on
deposit he can afford to have two-colored
stationery printed conveying the information
to country editors but it looks like he would
rather want a megaphone.
We have on our desk one of these beautiful
two-colored folders, and the figures look all
right to us and we really wondered if they
were sent broadcast. v.
It might be that it was intended for a
Christmas offering three months ahead of time ;
perhaps 'so, and after all Was direct from the
heart and the advertising feature was not
considered at all. . Let us hope that we have
solved the problem.
All Should Come.
4 he Central Carolina r air to be held in
Ureensboro will be worth coming miles to
see. Are you, oming? You should come.
..- . j - o . , . - - ...
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 19 15.
BENEFA CTION DA Y
PRESIDENT W. P. FEW.
v
ENEFA CTION DAY" at Trinity Col
lege was appropriately celebrated last
B
Monday, and Colonel John F. Bruton, of Wit
son, made the address. Among the many in
teresting things he said was this :
"Speaking of benefactors I can afford to
mention at least two without being invidious.
One must be justly termed the great pioneer
benefactor of modern Trinity. Mr. Washing
ton Duke. Always sane, practical, simple in
his manner of living, proud but not arrogant,
brave but not self centered; a monument of
strength grourfded in a faith like unto the sim
ple faith of a little child. , -
"The other is of more recent date.in the list
of benefactors a young fellow, red-headed,
without a college education, but possessed of
a wife, two babies and a small' f-Vrm .vith a.
( ort "" rr' ' J J" - r
Algn-niUlucu wr -. .. U'aJ : .
ter advising him of his opportunity, rf His
modest enthusiasm was a sermon in itself.
Stating that he was moved by a sense of duty
re declared his desire to put into the veins of
Trinity College some of his life blood; that
by economy and by work on the outside he
could and would contribute $50 to the endow
ment of Trinity College. The foregoing is my
excuse for recognizing him as worthy of men
tion alongside of the old man who found a
joy in lending of his blood to the life of this
institution. "
"Mr. Washington Duke's first substantial
gift to Trinity was, I believe, more of a pro
test against ignorance and poverty than an ab
solute commitment of approval of character of
work being done Following this protest he
without doubt watched and waited subjecting
the plant and its product to severe tests. I
verily believe he consulted the, book with
which he was most familiar in making his
tests. He sought out the wonderful prayer of
the man of the Old Testament whose name is
a synonym of wisdom: 'Give thy servant an
understanding heartN (a hearing heart) that 1
may know good from bad.' Did he discover
evidences of hearing hearts among the stu
dents? That promise by Christ of immeas
urable wealth. 'Blessed are the meek for they
shall inherit the earth was his by right. Re
calling that the word 'meek' is closest akin in
meaning to the compound word 'gentle-man'
as used in the old days, the thought of com
panionship and service dominating, he must
have found quiet enjoyment in discovering in
the annual product turned out, gentlemen,
companionable men, anxious to help their fel
lowmen. Always sane, always practical, he
made few nystakes. His subsequent gifts,
large and frequent, betrays to us his conclu
sions that hearing hearts and gentlemen are
cheap at any price. By virtue of his own and
of the benefactions of his honored family and
others Trinity College stands today not so
much as a protest against ignorance and pov
erty but as an effective, successful agency in
the propagation of wisdom and wealth."
Under the Presidency of Dr. W. P. Few
Trinity has taken a high place among the edu
cational institutions of the country, and is
still advancing. f
, -o
Killed Horses.
There was a case tried in Charlotte where
two young men wer charged with driving to
death a pair of horses. In the Recorder's
court they were found guilty and fined $100
each and part of the costs. . The case was bit
terly fought, and after the trial was over the
defendants gave notice of appeal to Superior
court.
We hope it can be proven that they didn't
kill the horses. We would not like to think
that in this age and in this state there were
two young men so lost to all decency. If they
are not guilty we hope they will be acquitted.
If they are guilty we wish there was a law to
send them- to the roads for ten years. -The
maii;who is guilty of cruelty to animals, wan
tonly cruel, has no place in Society. He be
longs on' the roads or should be confined.
wMar " -- rm -.
. . ' ' -. ? V
' ... " .
i
'
L . ...
ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND N TRAINS
THE HAT WAS PASSED
A nd The Millions Were Pour
ed Into Jt.
MAN who has less than thirty
cents in his pocket and who
hasn't any money elsewhere,
may think that five hundred mil
lion dollars constitute quite a
jrile of the yellow dross, but that
was the quantity the Morgan
syndicate piled up for the Allies
in a few days' time. Not only five hundred
million, but before they could close the books
the amount was over subscribed fifty millions
cf dollars.
Some people think and talk as though pri
vate individuals didn't have the right to loan
money to their "furrin' " cousins. But they
1'ave.
In this instance it wasn't the United States
loaning the money, it was just a bunch of
United States fellows who wanted to get in
on a six per cent proposition. Of course it
might happen that the old countries, England
and France will go broke, and if they do, and
1 epudiate their bonds, they will have five hun
dred millions of "Yankee' money without
paying for it. But the average man who has a
million to subscribe also has nerve enough to
take the gamble.
We wired our broker to buy a block of this
stock but we waited until after the books
had closed, and sent the message collect.
This country could quickly raise three bil
lion dollars if it was thought necessary so
immense are some of the fortunes here.
CH
Different Now.
The sculptors; the painters; the writers of
"-"-U held dear in memory -
1 ;
. jt ... ..." ia art;, arid .wuilc .wu
know that Fielding nd By r or! .'and Pop's and.
Sterne wrote stuff that today could not go.
through the mails except only because they
are so-called "Classics" never do we cry for
their crucifixion nor -do we destroy the price
less legacy they left to a depleted world of
prudes and pretenders.
Sacred are the ,names of these Immortals.
True were they to attempt today to write
a Don Juan ; a Tom Jones ; A Farewell to
London; a Tristam Shandy we'd lock 'em
up and put stripes on 'em and proclaim to
the world that they were guilty of writing
obscene literature and the Finger of Scorn
would point at them with a persistence as
everlasting as the needle pointing to the pole.
If some tombstone maker were today to
develop a genius as rare as Phidias and at
tempt to chisel an Apollo Belvidere or a
Venus de Medici and put out in front of his
joint a placard saying, 'step within and see
the statue embodying the highest ideal of
manly beauty, and also cast your hazel eyes
upon the elegant chaste and noble sculpture
of female beauty unapproached and unap
proachable a forty dollar a month police
man would have that tombstone cutter up be
fore hizzoner in twenty minutes, and it wouid
be good by Venus and Apollo.
Were a merchant to expose for sale the
Grecian master's "Venus rising from the
Sea" he would be pulled for disorderly con
duct and exhibiting obscene pictures but
still if you. will go to an art gallery you will
stand before these things in awe and speak in
whispers because their sublimity subdue.
And these are our immortals no chance now
for any such immortality. What made a man
immortal a thousand years ago would make
him immoral today.
Therefore it comes down to the proposition
that genius, like dogs, must wear a muzzle.
o
Sensitiveness.
1
A form of fear, greatly exaggerated by in
trospection, is sensitiveness. There are mo
ments when petty slights are harder to bear
than even a serious injury. Men have died of
the festering of a gnat-bite. Like all negative
emotion, sensitiveness grows with indulgence,
and easily becomes a fixed habit of thought
and feeling. Sensitiveness feeds on the crea
tions of a morbid imagination. People fear
what' others may say about them. This kind
of a fear is a deceiver. It mikes one think
that their neighbors are digging pit-falls in
their pathway, where all is smooth and pleas
ant. The remedy is to center your thoughts and
interest on what you are and what you de
sire to become, and think less about what
others think or say about you. -Be something,
and do something and stop turning your imag
ination over to things that mav never happen
the "will o' the wisps" of the mind. "Half
our misery from our foibles spring." Center
your attention upon some noble work or as
piration. Forget yourself and what others
may say about you. Thus sensitiveness can
be over-come, and your heart nill hear a thou
sand melodies unheard before.
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1902.
AND JOHN WON
Barleycorn To Continue
In Minneapolis.
INNEAPOLIS, up- by
the laughing falls of
Minnehaha and White
Bear Lake and four
hundred bar rooms has
again given Sir John
Barleycorn lease on life.
I Last fall the legislature
: nr:
m mmeboia passed a
local option law and some eighty-six counties
in the state have voted dry under it, while but
seven counties have voted wet. That looked
like maybe Sir John would get it in the neck
but four hundred bar rooms constitute quite
an array of "preparedness" within themselves
while the natural rooters, owners of buildings
clerks; drunkards; average drinkers and so
forth and so on until you can't count 'em make
quite a pull.
So Minneapolis remains in the wet column.
The Four Hundred Bar Rooms will continue
to hand out the whiskey and the beer and the
..inn . 4lm rrm. Z 1 V. ' A. '11
mt, tuc iuutuuanis win continue to
belly the bar and drink the coffin varnish and
embalming fluid and think they have won a
victory. But the scales will finally fall from
the eyes of the blind and deluded. "Business"
was what was the matter. The" saloon people
showed the other people that "Business"
would suffer and business always, has he
right of way above a human soul. But when,
they learn they will find that business does
not suffer that prohibition communities have,
moreand better business than communities t
carrying the cancerous scab of likker.
Should Be Dispell?"!
TK
t..
lc? l:... ...
day and the . .
convict will be tried and, convict v . 1..
der as he should be. If a man commits a crin,
and the law says he must be put out of the
way must go to prison, he should be sent to
prison, and if the state undertakes to work
him and he tries to escape the law does not
justify the murder that is committed in try
ing to. capture him. The state should make
him secure" while in its custody it should
protect his life and not take it. If the state
wants to get labor ouV of him it must take
the chance of his escaping. It can chain him
but to murder him has grown to be an alto
gether too serious matter. Scores of men.
some boys, have been shot down like dogs by
these brutal and ignorant guards and one of
these days there will appear on the scene "a
humane prosecuting attorney and the mur
derer will be indicted and hanged for his un
lawful act.
In these times they tell us in whispers that
it is unlawful to shoot a man down but if you
don't shoot many will escape. The state in
its greed to get work out of the condemned
wretches is willing to now and then unlawful
ly take a human life but some day that will
cease. And it should cease. It has gone on far
too long.
o
Dumping The Product. v j
Months ago, away last spring we wrote sev
eral stories on the subject: After the War
What? We figured it out that the old coun
tries would want ready money. We saw the
picture of the South after its devastation
saw it in its rags and its hunger in '64 and
we wrote that the warring countries would be
relatively in the same condition. We said that
it would take a tariff wall higher than any
ihing Payne or Aldrich ever dreamed of to
keep the products of those countries out of
America that they would want coin gold.
Their people will work for twenty cents a day.
They will have what they want to eat, but
their gold will be gone they will want ready
money, and if they can find a market where
they can dump their products they will cer
tainly want to get into it.
The Wise Man who do not want to admit
that the present tariff law is a failure, which
it is, say they will frame up something that
will not allow goods to be sent in here' at
prices below cost of production. But cost of
production is what will amaze the world. Men
and women will be eager to work for twenty
cents a day anything, to get goods to the
market and reap something for the labor. Cost
of production will be less than it ever was in
the history of the world, and the American
wage earner must either go up against that
twenty cents a day wage or quit the game and
let the foreign product come in, unless we put
up a tariff wall that will keep it out.
This is just as plain as a white patch on the
seat of a black pair of pantaloons with your
coat off.
On The Job.
Major Stedman is in Washington" getting
after the authorities and urging them to get
the cargoes of licorice tied "up set loose st the'
tobacco manufacturers in this state can keep
their wheels in motion."
ill