BY AL FAIRBROTHER
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 A. YEAR, SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1915.
OX SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND TRAINS
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1902.
THE DOPE FIEND
Is Fast Being Put Out
Of Business.
E HAVE before said
that we believed the best
piece of legislation ever
put over by the ' Con
gress" of the United
States in twenty-five
years was the Harrison
anti-narcotic- act which
almost puts out of busi
ness the dope fiend. Of course if we were
measuring material things and not human
' .souls we would say the reserve bank proposi
tion was the best legislation, because never
again ckn we have a panic unless there is a
. reason for it but in the matter of a soul
caving proposition the Harrison act looms
-conspicuously as the most important.
And still safe-guards are being thrown
around the distribution of the deadly and sub
tile drugs which have dethroned reason and
made maniacs of otherwise good citizens. A
.recent ruling of the Treasury Department or
ders the discontinuance of the practice of sim
ply indicating the serial number of the drug
gist on a prescription for narcotics for renew
al. Hereafter the name and address of the pa
tient, the date, the names of all the ingredients
and quantities, the full name and address of
the physician and his registry number must
appear on all prescriptions calling for narcotic
drugs ,or preparations or remedies coming
within the scope of the law. -
TJhis-makes it still harder on the doctor,
maybe, but it is well worth while.. The aver
;e ( physician doesn't want to prescribe these
s, and the ; one - who does and who has
. a ... Iri.i0.n. ..act:.irjlliventuaiy . wte ail
tie uooe fiends outfit Used to ibe so very easy
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-iTici'Crti11H ;wr nt-n-Hi-fr fialf QnmpthiTio- t1l jItv
. would ;rnake drunk come ' but.tney 'are now
s'-cff the market. Certainly the reformers should
s aaI m-sA aatOI" TViio low Itirl " A miT-MCC " Vl
next srerieration will praise it to the skies. It
is doing a world of good.
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Wilmington In Lime Light.
The trial of several city officers, including
the Mayor of Wilmington, charged with the
unlawful use of money in securing their of
fices " is on this week, and naturally much in
terest is manifested throughout the state.
. It "is said that wiile none of the indicted
men have ever been arrested they are going
to fight te case just: as though they had been
arrested. It has long been the talk that
Wilmington politicians use money to secure
"what they want, aid Judge Rountree, of
Wilmington who instigated the investigation
stated from the bench that such practices had
to "stopl :
: Just what the outcome of the present in
dictments will be is problematical, but ; the
chances are that future elections will be differ
ent. It doesn't do any harm to occasionally
look in upon the practices of politicians.
Mellin's Testimony. ,
In - the dreary proceedings of the New
"Haven investigation Mr. Mellin, the ex-president,
testified the other day that Roosevelt .
told them not to worry that he would protect
them if they refused to consider a proposition
from Morse to buy their steamboat lines. Of
course Teddy had no right to promise the big
combination protection ; perhaps he will deny
he did promise it but it is very strange that
all .the trust busting that was ever attempted
was knocked into a cocked hat by Teddy if
the stories are true. That is why he is dis
credited today: why "his name is no longer
one to conjure with.-
Still Friends.
Mr. Bryan gives it out that he and Wilson
are still friends. .. Yes, no doubt of that but
Mr. Bryan has often shown some of his friends
what they should do, arid unless the wind is
blowing in an opposite- direction than that
indicated by the weather vane, Mr. Bryan is
going to .ask. his friend several questions be
fore the - convention. ' Especially that v one
term plank must be explained along with some
other ilwgs. ' ,: i,y U
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The talk in the House of Commons to the
- ffecthat the English wiirnot-win so long as
Earl Kitchner is in the .war' office looks like
there is a "strong under current of discontent
in England; and when: there:ist discontent and
the country: divided the ;?Germarafctake, new
TAXES IN VI R GIN I A
The Laws Leave Little Chance
To Dodge.
HE Virginia law concerning
taxes is very strict. .They are
now digging deep into the past
and exhuming lost records and
finding that estates for years
escaped just taxation, and they
ire being made to come across.
The law there also is that the
people in authority have a right to go to the
bank and ascertain how much money is;on de
posit by a certain, citizen by all the deposi
tors, and if the deposit in the bank fails to
agree with the amount listed, the authorities
have a right to impose a tax to correspond
with the amount of cash on deposit on a cer
tain date.
This is a new phase, but the Attorney Gen
eral has ruled that the law of the state is that
all banking institutions in the State are re
quired by law to furnish on demand complete
lists of their depositors and the amount of
their "time deposits" and "saving deposits."
This will doubtless increase the revenues a
great deal. Heretofore the man with a few
hundred dollars on deposit subject to check
has felt that if he paid his debts he would have
no deposit and he should not pay taxes.
Many men go to a bank and borrow a, thou
sand dollars, give their notes bearing six per
cent, interest and deposit the thousand. In all
justice that man should not pay taxes on
money borrowed because it really is not his
own. But the tax laws are so mixed up that
it: is hardly worth while to discuss thejm. We
have ever insisted and we believe we are right,
that a man who owes a thousand dollars on his
home should have the benefit of a rebate for'
tK-?t amount -ec2"vthnman' of vhoni he'
j .ia-.ation.. ; lit : tliwii
the state-gets double taxes and that is man
testly -wrong. But the tax makers the leg
islators always monkey with the revenue busi
ness, just like Congress does with the tariff
and some pay double and others escape with
out paying anything. . ;
Atlanta Happy.
Atlanta has long been looking for a new
murder mystery. Accordingly a human foot
has been found in the dumping grounds, and
that is all the papers need for a month's glor
ious excitement. Of course it is understood
in newspaper offices that the human foot was
secured by one of the newspapers dug up and
carefully concealed in the dumping grounds,
and from this time on until something else
happens the great murder mystery will be
the juicy theme for an all day's rag-chewing.
In New York they don't need the human foot.
A hat, a piece of dress with a little ox blood
on it ; a veil torn and evidence of what seem
ed a scuffle near an obscure seat in a park and
the yellows there spin miles of theories. The
artists draw upon paper and their imagina
tions have all kinds of exciting things in mo
tion. Atlanta being younger and less preten
tious concluded it best to secure a human foot
before she went to it. But it is on. ,
Not Necessary.
Mr. Bryant from Washington hastened to
repdrjt that there was no intention on the part
of the administration to oust Kftchin as lead
er of the House. Well, from the way Claude
is talking these days there would be no use to
attempt it. He is running his own boat and
perhaps couldn t be ousted.
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Rings True.
Zeb Vance Walzer certainly rings the bell
on the suffrage question. Read his letter to
the Charlotte Observer copied elsewhere in
this issue. He certainly leaves the objector
little room in which to stand.
Good morning Are youf or': Preparedness? p
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For Contempt Of Court.
Judge Ben Lindsay still keeps on the front
page and this time he has been fined $500 for
contempt of court for refusing to give up cer
tain information. He claimed the informa
tion came to him in a privileged manner and
he ' wouldn't come across. He has thirty days
for appeal, and of course he will appeal. '
Only A Few Weeks.
Say, bud, do you know that it is only just
a few weeks until Xraas and why don't you
do your Christmas shopping now?
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- Mr. Kitchin says Mr. Wilson's proposed
Preparedness programme will shock the civil
ized world. Mr. Kitchin is certainly in dead
earnest and we must admire his candor and
his fearlessness, v He isn t taking any orders
he is wearing his own think, tank and ex-,
pressing himself fully and freely.
HON J ELWOOD COX
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MR. J. ELWOOD COX, the High Point
banker and prominent Guilford county
citizen was honored in New York last week
by being chosen Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the National; Bank section-of
the American Bankers' Association. This was
an honor worthily bestowed, and the many
friends of Mr. Cox will ;congratulate him be
cause of the recognition:
Mr. Cox has long been prominent in finan
cial affairs of North Carolina; has been iden
tified with many public '-affairs and was once
the republican candidate" for Governor. Every
thing was pleased to see that a North Caro
lina mari was thus highly honored, and it
knows Mr. Cox will take care of the duties
and responsibilities of the position. .
A Great Fight On.
Strange how the Almighty Dollar makes
men forget their better ; selves. Strange how
they. fight for it; die for it but it has been the
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from .Aveel: to week by'llteratu. sent from
different states concerning the climate and its
effect on the fellow with a bad lung.
' New Mexico fights Arizona, Colorado fights
'em all, and Nevada ascertains the fact that
there is no place like the high mountain ranges
of that section while the wide plains of Texas
come and say there is the only place. Then
comes our own State Board of Health which is
no more than ordinary mortals and proclaims
boldly that the "home treatment" is the
thing; that a man who goes to a far off cli
mate without the price for treatment is fool
ish, etc and so on.
And finally it has resolved itself into this: No
authority has yet appeared on tuberculosis.
The so-called and self appointed ones hun
dreds of them there are, disagree on most
points except fresh air. And we all know that
a change of climate ; a change of scene is good
for even that tired feeling. .There is no rea
son why a man can't go to a . new country with
a weak lung and nurse it. He doesn't neces
sarily have to have a doctor, for the doctor
will tell you frankly there is no medicine that
will cure the disease, and what will he do for
you? He might tell you you shouldn't make
a fool of yourself by over exercise but you
know that anyway, and why employ a man
to tell you that? No use at all.
Tuberculosis is a disease that claims its
thousands of victims. It is a disease that is
not understood. There are no medicines
which check its progress. Therefore the man
afflicted or affected must take his own case.
He must live right. He must avoid colds; he
must avoid unwholesome food and he must
keep out of red hot, rooms. He must have
some good air to take into his lungs- and if he
has good sense he can run the boat as well
alone as he can with a dozen doctors.
Many of the doctors have commercialized
a. great plague and the bulletins issued, non
sensical and ' contradictory, had better not be
read. - It is time reason was appealed to, and
the victims of the doodle bug were put wise.
Any kind of a dry climate is good for weak
lungs or good lungs. There is no mystery
about that. And a change of climate to a de
pressed person will alwaysdo him good. And
millions of men with tuberculosis recover
and millions die who are frightened to death
by these fool bulletins issued at the expense
of tax payers. Better for all concerned had
the great campaign of publicity never been
started. '
Bible- Study.
With all the Great Men quoting scripture td
prove the war is right and wrong and that
Preparedness is the stuph and isn't the stuph,
those who need Bible Study may get an inspiration.
; Still Wondering.
And they are still wondering when the Pan
ama canal will be ready again. Some say Jan
uary first--and some say, "O, pshaw' There
are predictions that it will never be a success.
Of course you will this year buy more Red
Cross Seals than you; did last. It is a most
worthy cause you are helping. . -
DYING OUT OF TUNE
Negro Killed For Failing To
Keep Time.
OMEHOW we have always
thought one of the funniest
things in print was when Cinna
the poet, explained that he was
not Cinna the conspirator, and
Shakespeare made the crowd cry
out: "Kill him for the verses hei
has mde" but as funny a thing
and as strange a thing was where the Peters
burg, Virginia, negro, William Hayden, killed
a colored brother because the colored broth
er failed to "keep tune" at a singing practice.
It appears that there was a singing class
and one John Flippen, black as the night,
couldn't keep tune, and Hayden criticised him
until finally the word "liar" was passed with
the usual forceful prefix, and Hayden shot his
man and killed him. Naturally he pleaded self
defence, but the jury couldn't sustain such a
plea under such circumstances, and accord
ingly Hayden was sentenced to eighteen years
at hard labor in the penitentiary. Tragedy?
Of course it is a tragedy but the world
brushes it aside that he was only a nigger.
But no matter what he was, to think that be
cause a man was singing out of tune in a
world of discord it cost one life and the lib
erty of another.
How many men are out of tune how
many are unmolested!
Again: Bryan. ,
Since Bryan spoke here the other night the
curb stone oracles have been talking, and it
has been solemnly agreed by some of the wis
est ones that Bryan should haye resigned
sooner than he did; that waiting, so long it
looked like he wanted purposely to embarrass
i the administration! ' ' . " -"w
That may look pretty good on a movnfg
picture screen but if you stop to analyze it,
it won't stand. In the' first place Mr. Bryan
was chosen as Secretary of State by Mr. Wil
son, and accepted the position because, as he
presumed, he was a man fitted for the posi
tion. It was the highest office the president
could bestow, and he was rewarding Bryan
because Bryan and Bryan alone made it pos
sible for Wilson to secure the nomination.
Indeed, Bryan ignored his instructions as a
delegate, and refused to support Clark and
went to Wilson, and thus made him possible.
But Bryan figured it that he had been a
great man long before Wilson had been heard
of in many sections. He was essentially a
great man and had pronounced views on all
subjects. As Secretary of State he expected
as he unquestionably had a right to expect,
that' he would be consulted and that his per
sonality would be a part of the office. If not,
why choose eminent men for the big posi
tions? Wilson, however,- ignored Bryan's views.
He sought to use him as a stenographer and
rubber stamp. He didn't care what Bryan
thought it was what Wilson thought, and a
ten dollar a week man would have answered
all the purposes.
Naturally this wouldn't go with any self
respecting gentleman of ability and reputa
tion. Bryan felt it keenly, and was looking,
doubtless a long time, for some way to escape.
Finally it was unbearable and, to save a
"family row' he quietly resigned.
That was fine. Now had we been in Mr.
Bryan's shoes we would have gone ahead as
Secretary of State in our own way, and when
it became necessary for the Secretary of State
to express his views it would have been our
own views and not those of another. If this
pinched the toes of the president, we would
have regretted it, but we would have remain
ed on the job until asked to resign. That
would have caused a first-class row but we
would not have cared for that. Because we
vould have figured that Wilson knew who we
were before he proffered us the portfolio and
knowing who we were he might expect that
we wouldn't "me too it" not to a King.
But big, and genuine, Mr. Bryan, doubtless
regretfully and filled with humiliation tender
ed a resignation that was eagerly accepted
and the moment Lansing was installed the
papers were full -of the fact that the president
was "consulting Mr. Lansing." But we had
never seen where he was consulting Bryan
not on your tin type.
It is our opinion that Mr. Bryan made a
great sacrifice in resigning he should have
remained asserted his rights and allowed Mr.
Wilson to ask him to resign. But instead of
that he got out of the way didn't want to
cause trouble, and we glory in all he did
MEN WHO DRINK
Are Not Wanted In The
Railway Service.
Funny It Is.
Quite funny to . see the . republicans and
democrats lined up for what has been termed
Preparedness. It looks.' as though, while riot
in power, the republicans are going to get just
what they wanted. Plenty of big war con
tracts and there is no war ' Funny it is!
of all
NCE. INAWHILE men
wake up, and when" they"
do, they go the whole hog,
to use the homely phrase.
Just now the B. & O. rail
road company is making a
' crusade against the use
of likker, and it has men
out with kodaks taking
employees who are caught
pictures
annKing. irns picture which portrays
the man with the goods in his mouth is used
as the evidence and no denial can be made.
The only thing would be to set up a claim that
it was a picture of your double but that
would hardly go. The B. & O. has finally de- .
cided that it wants no men who drink. ' - '
It wasn't long ago that a ranroad man took
to his likker just like a duck takes to water,
but gradually the sentiment has been growing
and now it seems that to take but one drink,
if caught in the act, means a loss of the situa
tion. The railway has also made an order
prohibiting serving whiskey to people injured
in a wreck. We recall that it wasn't long ago
that whiskey was the first thing to administer
and now it is entirely cut out.
With all this growing sentiment against
whiskey; with facts proven that Sir John real-.
ly has no standing in court or the druggist's
it would seem that revenues from Tohn's
sale would decrease in greater proportion. It
would seem that crime would stop short. But
it doesn't, and the only hope is that the line of
drunkards ,is growing shorter that in say;
twenty-five years after all the old ones arer
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gone mere win oe iewer new ones.. Viewed
radical, and will ptrhap-be followed by other
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rviter a long ngnt tne ueorgia . legislature
has passed all the likker laws it started out
to pass. The law prohibiting advertising in'
the papers or in any other way in the.state is
the most startling because some of the Sun
day papers have been filled with the mail order
propositions. .
The Georgia law gives the man with a .sub- .
lime thirst the same rights he enjoys in North
Carolina. That is he may receive two quarts
a month and two big drunks a month ought
to be enough for any man. Wonder why men
give such privileges and talk about prohibi
tion in the same breath? If theAvhiskey is
wrong why let a man debauch himself with
two quarts? Why not cut it out like men
and let it go at that. These cheap compro
mises only open tfie gates to illegal practices.
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He Had The Price.
Mayor Mitchell, of New York, upon the re-;
vival of business, underwent an operation for
appendicitis this week. The Mayor is young
yet and this accounts for having postponed
the fashionable operation so long. We only
now and then hear of these operations. The
poor white man and the nigger must . go
through l'fe without enjoying the sensation of
losing the appendix because they haven't the
price. Hut fter awhile, when the high tost of
Jiving ri res a lower lei perhaps it will be
for us all to enjoy the operation. .
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Wonderful.
Not long ago and this bid town was croak
ing to' beat the band about'the monopoly of;
railways-we were being told that we were
Dottiea up ana no man could hope to do any
thing. But we hear no more about it. The
old town is growing and everybody is pre
dicting increased business, and not a word
about railroad rates. It is safely predicted -that
the Coler road will be in here by January,
1917, and doubtless the Duke road will be
along in a year or two but we hear nothing
of these glad tidings. ' ,"
lhe town seems now to think monopoly a
bloomin' good thing. It is well.
A Great Many Notes.
This country has sent, more notes abroad;
the last year than you cancount almost, an
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have done. They are still sinking ships vith
Americans on board; they are still holding up 'J-
our commerce; tney are still doing just about
what they want to do and we write notes
that do not even startle
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like the note writing business was simply a
pastime and stood for nothing. "
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While Greensboro enjoys the initiative and
referendum she never played with -'em except ;
once upon a time when the Socialists wanted
a city conducted meat market. , . v i