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OLD QUESTION UP
NEW COUNTY TALK
AT ELEVEN TO ONE
CASPER HEARD FROM
DEFIES SIR JOHN
BY AL FAIRBROTHER Grit
Wh at Are Necessities On
Sabbath Day.
ANY men of many
minds fill the benches on
the courts just the same
as they fill the-chairs, at
the corner grocery. One
judge holds something
is law and another
judge says, it isn't. In
our North Carolina Su
preme court we always "find, or most always
find dissenting opinions, and the learned
'judge who doesn't agree with the majority
hands down what he thinks and it reads good
to the layman. So in the Supreme Court of
the United States often the judges fail to
agree, and of course a majority decides.
. Out in Oregon the other day a judge of the
court, pretty high up decided the Sunday clos
ing in a rather - unique fashion. There had
been, for many years a law on the books for
bidding the sale of certain articles on the
Lord's Day. Other things were allowed to
be sold and other kinds of business were op
crated, but because a grocer wanted to sell
.groceries to people who wanted groceries and
claimed they were necessary in their business,
; The case went to the! court and the court
held that if the law allowed any one article to;
;he sold all articles commonly used could be
oldj and that otherwise it would be religious;
discrimination and religious discrimination
was unlawful. , . -
In- other- words as the ' world progresses we
think street, cars are necessary. Because "we
cr Sunday -of course it is proper to ruxi' the
nrr'Te. : Because someof us want oiir ;shoes
sist tue shoe shine parlor is a "necessity. ;v - 7
Arid mv worthies, what 'wmilfl n 'mnri rf -n"
necessity than a pair of breecherloons provide
eda bull dog had caught you by the bosom
of your only pair and rendered them useless
by a large and widening gap. But if you
want a pair of breeches and a clothing store
were to open out ana commence selling them
gracious, me, it "would not do.
In California all the grocery stores and half
the dry goods stores run on Sunday just a
habit and a custom, and no kick is coming.
As a general rule Sunday observance is a
good thing, and where to draw the line has
puzzled philosophers of all" ages. The Oregon
decision is something new.
Have You Met Him?
Have you ever met Mr. Itsnoneofmybusi
tiess? He comes to you in a confidential sort
of way a gum shoe movement, so to speak,
and he takes you off to one side, and he tells
you in a low and tearful tone of voice: "Now
of course it is none of my business, but I heard
So and So, naming the person, say something
about you, and then relates it, and of course
I thought you would be glad to know it."
And of course you immediately get on your
iighting clothes; you feel badly because of the
information received. You believe it, and
maybe it is so but why should a man or wo
man burden you with such unpleasant things?
In this old ragged sleeved world we have
enough to contend with that we see or hear
ourselves, without Mr. Itsnoneofmybusiness
coming in to tell you what he has heard. It is
seldom a friend comes and says: "Old man I
heard So and So saying some mighty nice
things about you. He forgets that but if he
hears something that will make you feel un
pleasant and angry all day he hastens to im
part' his information and the question is: What
good has he done?
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Positively To Close.
The Panama Exposition at San Francisco
positively closes on December 4. The man
who wants to see the show must be there be
fore that time. President Moore has written
- a letter and says that the rumors it would
continue are not true that December 4th is
the last day. Pity that that pile of buildings
must de destroyed. The figures will show
the crowds were immense, but stock holders
will not retire from business on account of
dividends. .
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Governor Slaton. '
Atlanta sends out word that ex-Governor
Slaton is in that city attending to his law
business; that he walks the streets ind no
violence has been offered him. Good enough.
Maybe the Marietta band of brigands is or
ganizing." Gone.
The fly-swatter is out of a job. A few sad
eyed and weak flies are seen looking out
across the river, but they are all in. The swat
ter didn't get 'em all this summer but hecan
resume . operations in May. .
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High Point Wants To Be A
County Seat.
T SEEMS that something new
must be dug up for High Point
to hang her scalping knife on,
if she wants the new county.
Because she , couldn't get just
the proper kind of road work;
road work that seemed to her
the only thine she im-
mediately met and resoluted about a
new county. The High Point court house
was seen in the air; the increased taxes that
such a move meant were as nothing to the
indignant citizens but presto ! the Board of
County Commissioners met and ordered that
road work, just such as High Point wanted
should proceed.
Accordingly the blue prints for the new
court house for the new county have been put
away ; the excuse to rebell or to secede has
vanished, and there is now nothing left but
the matter of state rights.
We have always contended that if High
Point wanted to "leave the union;" if she
wanted to secede, she had the undoubted
right. We have always doubted her wisdom
in wanting to do such a thing but unques
tionably she has the right. But the cooler
heads will think long before they vote for a
new county. It means a useless expense and
it doesn't mean anything in fact. To be the
big sister of Greensboro H a much more de
sirable rating than to be the little county of
Aycock or something like that-f with an in
creased burden of taxation. Perhaps with the
road building as she wants it,'High Point will
now' subside from, her belligerent attitude,?'
V . . Taft Warns The Public '
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Ex-President . Taf viewing"' the" ' worft fof
' "The theory that by treating criminals as ifT.
they had no criminal tendencies you can elim
inate them is one that may work in some
cases, but the exceptions will be so many as
to make the policy ultimately ridiculous and
worse than ridiculous most harmful."
This may be true, and doubtless is true, but
the reformer is only reforming because there
is not enough leniency shown the convicted
man. The real criminal the fellow diseased,
or, who is naturally a criminal because he
can't help it, must not be given too much
freedom and he needs but little sympathy.
The trouble with us is, however, that we do
not differentiate between the born criminal
and the unhappy creature of untoward cir
cumstances. The man who lives a decent life ;
who is clean and upright for forty years and
who falls because of high pressure of one sort
pr another, should never be treated in the
same manner that we treat the low-browed
murderer but slightly removed from the chimp
anzee. But we find him guilty and huddle
them all together. The sensitive man ; the
man who was once useful to Society, and who
can again be useful if given a chance, should
not be classed with the professional criminal
nor should he be treated with the same se
verity. ". --v-
So it is with the woman who errs. There are
doubtless women bent on going to hell and
nothing will stop them. They become pro
fessionals brazen and defiant but there are
Other women who make a fatal error but one
misstep, and, if apprehended, thv are cast
down in the same dirty gutter with the pro
fessional drab who scoffs at God and defies
man. The erring one should be given all the
sympathy that an austere world can muster.
She should be given a helping hand. Be
cause we need money for other things, than
maintaining two prisons; to have the select
and the elect we have made it a custom to
throw all prisoners together ; to regard them
as scrap and let the world regard them as
vicious and depraved. All prisoners are not
of that type. Big men and honest men and
good men have fallen. Not because it was
their choice or their expectation but they
got mixed up in something and made the
fatal error of taking things belonging to an
other, or passion blinded them and they took
a brother's life. Those kind of men those
unfortunates, should have better treatment
than the hardened self-willed murderer or
thief the professional who has it in his heart
to kill and steal. '
Just how we could ever regulate this no
man has been able to say. Hundreds of re
formers have appeared. Hundreds of theories
have proved worthless but there will some
time come a day when the criminal classes will
be properly separated when the man who
can yet be useful to Society will be reclaimed.
But so long as we dump them all in a com
mon heap ; so long as Society refuses to
recogflize its own receipted bill and keeps on
insisting that a man is "an ex-convict" just
that long we are not doing it right. Ex-President
Taft is doubtless right in what he says
but the fact still remains that inside the
penitentiary are better men thart" many on the
outside and those with good hearts and good
blood-should be saved. J
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N THE Atlanta Journal of Sunday we read
a story concerning our friend Mr. S. C.
Dobbs, of Atlanta, that really did us good.
Mr. Dobbs is the sales manager of the Coca
Cola company, and his duties take him all
over the United States and his hours of work
are sometimes eighteen a day. Naturally he
understands that continued hard work, with
out recreation means the wearing out of ma
chinery, so he plans each year to take a trip.
Not to pack three or four trunks with fine
clothes and go to some fashionable resort
but to get away and beyond what we term
the "busy haunts of men."
. This year he hiked to ,the Rocky Moun
tains. , He went in the vicinity of the Yellow
stone Parkr-weivt' out in6 the wild waste of
mountains "and snow and': pines-f-out ; where
tere is; -dzone and' where'-Nature, hasn't "been
make their homes in the mQuntainTa&tnecs.
.Ir. Dobbs took horses and guides and
guns and threw himself into this "happy
hunting ground" for just one month wanted
it understood that unless sickness at home or
something terrible should happen he was not
to receive a letter or a telegranT; wanted
nothing to interfere with the pleasure he had
planned and the pleasure he realized.
He says that after finishing his hunt, camp
ing out and sleeping in sacks on pine tips on
top of two feet of snow; after killing deer and
shooting at bear; after getting lost in a bliz
zard and fighting six hours to get back, to
camp, he drank in enough of Nature's Com
pound to give him an additional five year
lease on life and enough energy to run him
on high speed for anothek year.
. It is Mr.Dobb's philosophy that if the busy
man ; the hard-worked man ; the man who
must needs get close to brain fag and that
tired feeling will simply take one month off
out of twelve for rest and recreation out in
the wilds and beyond all business cares, that
he will not only live longer but will enjoy liv
ing more fully and in the eleven months will
do more work than he will do in twenty-four
without this rest.
The Journal gives some pictures of : the re
sult of the hunt trophies in big deer head
and other evidences that Dobb's hand was
steady when he got his bead on his forest
friends. Happy is the man who sees it as
Dobbs sees it who gets out into the open
and takes on enough genuine fuel to feed the
engine eleven months out of the twelve.
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Where Will We Get It?
If we put over the billion dollar prepared
ness programme where will we get the money
to pay the bills in this delightful free trade
afternoon?
We already have a war tax in times of
peace. .: . :.
We already have an income tax which is
infamous.
We all have to stick stamps on telegrams
and notes when we give 'em and how, by all
the horned toads of eafth are we to raise the
billion, unless we put on a tariff tax which
would make both Dingley and McKinley rise
from their graves and in excited voices ex
claim:. "What's that?" ' .
Any business man will tell you that if you
make an appropriation for a billion dollars
expenditure there must be devised some,
ways and means to secure the money.
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Frederick Ward.
Mr. Frederick Ward, one of the old school
of actors, was in Greensboro this week and
delivered a lecture to the Normal girls. Mr.
Ward is one of the few remaining tragedians
who charmed audiences thirty and forty years
ago. He is worth while as a lecturer and al
ways pleases his audiences.
Wonder why. and. where the .next National
Exposition will be held?
It looks like Qaude Kitchin isn't going to
be alone, by a long procession. -
He Seems To Be Enjoying
Prison Life.
HE average man adjusts himself
gets down to his environment,
no matter much what it is, in
short order. If it is on the
plains where you can't see the
end of the world you are still
crowded or if you happen to be
confined in a cell you can make
yourself believe you have plenty of room, and
that surroundings are most pleasant. John L.
Casper, let us call him Colonel John L. Cas;
per, now doing nine years in the Federal pris
on at Leavenworth for defrauding the gov
ernment in the whiskey business, thus booms
his "home town" in the Winston Journal:
"I don't see anything wrong with the Leav
enworth prison except being locked in a cell
from 6.30 to 1 a. m. This is a city within it
self. By that, it is meant that the prisoners
make practically everything that they use.
"This is a clean place and just as up-to-date
as some of the hotels. The dining-room is
superb, and music is dispensed by large
United States band during meal hours. The
rations are first-class, and cause a man to put
on weight. I think regulations in the way of
sleeping and eating will make me feel young
er at the expiration of my time.
"We have a half holiday each Sunday, and
motion pictures half a day during each week.
We have a large library. Dental and medical
services as well as spectacles are free here.
There are no striped clothes. The ordinary
laborers wear blue overalls. I am a clerk in
the clothing store and am classed as an of
fice man. All office men wear blue pin-striped
jackets, and have all privileges accorded a
first-class prisoner. There are 12 men, in our
department, all nice fellows . . - :
'.-.VWe only .work about-half the time except
ri.,r:r,rr . 'ri.ih irhen a'lot of prisonerF come'
it. . ..ci ..it ttrvc-n cccrsjzriTt v. f . ..
shaves when-needed. I expect to doiithful
work sb that in the course of 30 dayyl can
get out of a cell and have a bed in oy of the
dormitories where I will have a dozen fellows
as. company. S. L. Williams is my cell-mate,
and he has a clerical job in the record clerk's
office. It is a good place.
"I am only allowed to write every fifteen
days, and receive visits from relatives and
friends every fourteen days. But never on
Sunday. Can see lawyers any time. No pa
pers or magazines will be delivered at all un
less sent by the publishers themselves. I am
allowed to purchase here any kind of tobacco
but none can be sent by mail. All letters are
delivered after being read and resealed by the
mail clerk on duty in the prison postoffice.
Postal cards to reach me must be addressed
in care of postoffice box No. 7, Leavenworth;
Kan." "
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Hard Lines.
Hard lines befall the blind tiger man, and
sometimes the authorities go beyond the
speed limit as we view it. The other day in
Danville a man named Albright was arrest
ed for selling likker. The case came on and
the evidence was not sufficient to prove the
case. The man was set free. But another
warrant was at once issued charging him with
being suspected of selling likker. The Bee
tells the story in this way:
Albright was. bowever. re-arrested after belngr freed of
the "selling charge and faced a warrant of being sus
pected of Belling whiskey and in default of $100 security,
he went to jail for thirty days.
Now that is going too swift. The man was
found not guilty and then thrown in jail, be
cause he couldn't give a bond of $100 he was
deprived of his liberty.
Is that right?
We can go down town, according to a
law like that, and throw a hundred men in
jail if we 'want to swear we suspect them of
selling likker. The man was found not guilty,
and that ended the case. This thing of put
ting a man in jail because somebody suspects
something is not in accord with the principles
of this government.
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The Tight Wads.
The Tight Wad family serves its purpose.
It helps out when there are good bonds to
buy. It contributes to the big things, and
while the Tight Wads have but little social
standing and while they are voted common
place, Mr. and Mrs. Tightwad fill a place in
Nature they are creatures designed for the
purpose they serve.
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Not Until Next Year.
The big new depot isn't going to be built
this year but we have the best assurances
that next year it will come. And the Great
White Way will be along about that time, and
also the ten story hotel and well, that's
about all you can take care of this evening. .
The Readsville Review is standing with
Bryan in his platform for Peace. It is against
the Preparedness programme.
Chicago 's Mayor Will
Stand Pat.
HE OLD padded, furbish
ed, time-worn cry of "Per
sonal Liberty" has been
Daradinf in Chiratm All
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the Swedes and Poles ahd
Italians; all the Swiss,
Danes and Norwegians;
all the men from the old
worm wno nave come
here to share our prosperity and make the
New World their home because they couldn't
make it in their own world have been on
street parade to the tune of one hundred
thousand carrying the gonfalon in Chicago's
streets "Personal Liberty," and insisting that
the bar rooms be opened on Sunday. And
the saloon interests are appealing to Govern
or Dunn to convene the legislature in order
that "home rule" can be submitted and the
Chicago people can say whether or not they
want bar rooms to run wide open on Sun
day. Dunn may call the legislature, but if
he does it means only the hastening death of
Sir John Barleycorn in the windy city.
The saloons in Chicago are now allowed
to run six days in the week, but that does
not satisfy the men who claim they lose $400,
006 by closing on Sundays. They want per
petual motion at their mills, and this greed
is what caused the prohibition sentiment to
crystalize so rapidly. Had saloon men been
satisnea to run tneir places or Business liKe
other men run theirs, the people opposed -to
litr-tfpr wniilrl not have harl - trie arcnimprrt
agauisi nig sniuuii Liiy iiavc iiau. . saiyvni.
man wants to open at daylight; he wants to
run all nightf-he wants to desecrate te- Sab
bath arl naturally it T
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personal liberty:, foreigners is not'mtiih of a
showing in a.: city the size of ChicagcX The"
chances are tht Mayor :Thompson will stand
pat, and it is also doubtful whether a special
session would give the saloon men what they;
want. There would be an election to follow
and that might contain a surprise or two.
Right Enough.
A distiller illicit, of course, was convicted
in the Federal Court in Asheville, and it look
ed like a year and a day for him. But his wife
appeared on the scene carrying a baby in her
arms, and she told the court under oath that
the reason her husband was at this still where
he was caught was because he had gone to get
her some whiskey to use as medicine; that he,
wasn't guilty of anything wrong and a lot of
things that a wife could say to save her hus
band from disgrace and prison and of course
looking on such a picture as that, and hearing
the story from the wife's pleading lips, Judge
Boyd let the man go free:
Maybe it wasn't just exactly what Draco
would have prescribed; maybe it wasn't just
what some fish-blooded Judge would have
done but the Judge had the right and the
power to do as he pleased and Judge Boyd
said let'the man go free. -
And because he did it the world is bright
er in some places and Uncle Sam perhaps
has sustained no loss. Of course the Judge
gently read the riot act to the prisoner on the
subject of illicit stilling, and the chances are
that he will never again monkey with the
worm. Judge Boyd did exactly right as we
view it.
Prohibitionists Fight.
The prohibition question in Georgia is
reaching the acute stage. Both sides have
personal encounters and it is all because each
patriot has a bill of his own which he is try
ing to get through the legislature called for
the purpose of making Georgia dry. Georgia
has had too many near beer joints and some
of the big cities have been running wide
open. To make a law to stop the big towns is
the chief aim, but it seems uphill work.
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Making Them Scarce.
In one shipment this week were ten thou
sand war horses from Pittsburgh going to
Europe. The automobile will find more room
for itself on account of the war, and the
horses will be harder tofind. Wonder how
many million war horses have been killed
possibly the figures would be astounding.
Getting Over It. ;
There is now and then a column about that
wedding, but the great convulsion the hur-!
ricane is over. Those ghastly and sickly pic
tures have quit coming, and we presume all is
well. ,
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Look out for the tariff on sugar. It will be
restored. If on sugar why not on other
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