PAGE FOUR EVER T WEE K. BY AL FAIRBROTHER SUBSCRIPTION tl.OO PER TEAR IN ADVANCE Legitimate Advertisements Solicited Terms on Application Subscription Books Open to All Advertisers. OFFICE: ii i WEST GASTON STREET PHONE No. Everything was Established May, 1902, and is Independent in All Things and Neutral in Nothing. Everything is Sold at all News Stands In North Carolina If Ton Fail to be Supplied Favor us by Dropping a Card. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Greens boro, N. C, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all business communications to Everything, Greensboro, North Carolina. "After years of active experience in newspaper work, and with newspaper men, I am more than ever convinced that a newspaper cannot afford, any more than an indi vidual, to be without . character ; and that as a man's character is summed up from his life, from the good he has done, the evil he has prevented, the homes he has brightened, and the hearts he has gladdened. Just so will the inexorable judgment of posterity, and of the greater public, to which no passion nor prejudice of the day can appeal, measure out merciless justice to the journal -whose sole object and aim it has been to coin the woes of the human race into grist for its owner.'' Joha A. Cockerill. .. " ST"" The Laymen's Convention. Meeting in Greensboro this week is the greatest convention held this year in North Carolina a year which has been marked by many notable gatherings at which world problems have been discussed. The laymen's convention is greatest of all because it deals with the vital things or basic principles upon ' which all other movements for human welfare are founded. No matter what the method, no matter what the name, underlying the countless endeavors to build the ideal in human character and human in stitution is the common foundation stone The Rock of Ages, indestructible, unchanging the same yesterday, today and forever. The tendency towards unity in the service of a common Master; the spirit of religious tolerance and co-operation which has made it possible for men of all denominations to labor together harmoniously for the humanizing be fore the attempted christianizing of the world, is eloquently expressed in the personnel no less than in the size of the gathering which Greensboro is honored in entertaining. Busy business men men of large commercial inter ests who never get out of reach of the uni formed messenger boy; men with large public responsibilities pressing heavily upon them ; men of all ages, all classes and all creeds, have heard, and obeyed, for the time at least, the command to "Follow me." The laymen's movement, organized only a few years ago, has made rapid progress in "the stupendous undertaking of sending the gospel to all people. It has given an impetus to all other missionary effort and brought the thoughtful layman to a realizing sense of in dividual responsibility. It is a wonderful or ganization with a wonderful w.ork ahead of it, and all of Greensboro feels the inspiration of its presence. ; - o ; "Standing Together." In the dim after-glow of the fight to secure Hardlv Consist Asks Daniels To Resign. . ' , j: Ai- JVir. xiearst Writes annthft- The New York Sun in a recent leaums . --...wU,6 lJFlcucl tu torial oYa Z accused Secretary his papers and explains that he has always Daniels of attempting to smother facts con- been Temperance but is not for prohibi- cerning the condition of the Navy. It showed prohibition territory you can what Fletcher said was necessary and pro- always get a drink and that drink is whiskey ceeded to hand the North Carolina man a few -more dangerous than a lighter drink. hard ones 1S true' and Mr- Hearst is really in The Sun said- earnest about temperance, why doesn't he ad- During his administration of the Navy A'OCate prohibition of whiskey. In New York secretary .unnieis iias aone notning :r;,tlr his anu liOSlOh. LhlCaPT San Fr.Icn A T more t uni - , i - o , luuvivu auu .l-kj t incompetence ana irresponsibility inre t""J"v ";' ,i report renin rkuhle nprforniant-o In onnr.r.-ssiiitr tlie an""-'' , which Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, commanding im. lautic Fleet, made on August lo, VMS. Then it went on to show what Daniels said :ludcd: and what Fletcher said, and then cone Mr. Daniels interlarded his report with verses, l"""" from Carlyle's "Hero Worship." filled SV'., i',i.h he page after page, glorified the Vera frui exploit, v huh lie said has been 'told in prose and poetry," and wound up by saying that "this has been a proud and solemn year ior the American navy." But nowhere i" l's report did -Mr. Daniels show an intelliirpnf knowledge of the uavy or seem to ronllzo Ifa lim1rntinn, .l uhortcoiuincs. The inescapable truth is that Josephus Daniels sup pressed and concealed Admiral Fletcher's report because by contrast it would have revealed the glaring ignorance and utter incompetency of the ofnVi.il head of the navy. It was an outrage upon the people of the United States, who are entitled to know the state of the service at all times aud to judge for themselves whether the Secretary is equal to his responsibilities and a help to or a drag on the navy. We do not hesitate to sav that Josephus Daniels is the most unfit administrator of our first line of defence in living memory, and we know that he enjoys neither the confidence nor the respect of the rank and file. Except Mr. Bryan in his conduct of the State Department, no American has done the countrv greater injury than Josephus Daniels in the use of his power and opportun ities as the head of the Navy Department. The service would rejoice and the country experience a sense of relief if he would resign an office for which he never had any qualifications. Of course Mr. Daniels has his side but the fact that the Fletcher report was to be con fidential until it was smoked out, and the fact that Daniels insisted the navy was all right when it wasn't will be hard to explain. About Right. Several years ago when we insisted that the Panama Canal would never be a success we were held up as a pessimist and a man with a grouch. We kept on insisting until it was GREENSBORO, N. C. Wonderful Prophets. Now and then a politician goes to Wash ington, remains about three days or maybe but two days, and he comes back and 'gives out an interview to the effect that the whole country is for Wilson. Now and then a man travflc arncc tVta stttnAnt 1 '. 1 . . w . , mv vuuuuLui, iiR.c our triend Walter Murphy, of Salisbury, and comes home and says the whole thing is solid. - " "-i"im noivu iu me. i man can learn no more of what is going to take place in this country by visiting Washington than if he visited a Raleigh cemetery. There arc no soothsayers or Roman augurs in these davs who can tell what will happen. It is absurd but excrutiatingly funny to see newspapers' play up in big headlines the prediction of the man who has "been to Washington." But, advertising pays, it hath been observ ed, and we take it that the politician who goes to Washington wants to see the home paper play him up, and naturally he tells what he Mr. Hearst says prohibition doesn't nrn- .neard; . V.e d?ubt,ess asked the bell boy who hibit. But that is an old song-because oro- S!?"1? ?,m water, and the bell boy says nioition comes almost prohibiting. It pro hibits at least eighty-five per cent and that is Angeles where Mr. Hearst publishes newspa pers and refuses to accept whiskey advertise ments there are possibly fifteen thousand sa loons selling whiskey and whiskey is the thing that chains a man to rum's terrible chariot. Looks like if Mr. Hearst is really in earnest about his temperance ideas he would align his guns against whiskey. If he wanted to advocate lighter alcoholic beverages he could do that and be consistent. But to be against piuiuuuion ot wniskey is being for it. worth while. For years we were against prohibition. But we saw it tried in several states, and we are here to say it not only prohibits, in a large measure, the old toper, but certainly keeps the bar room from the gaze of the boy grow ing into manhood. Mr. Hearst is not consistent though he may be well intentioned. the whole country is for Wrilson" and these glad tidings are brought home. If the G. O. P. gets together that two million votes lost last time will elect a president in spite of all that can be done.; - Going After Henry. It hath been observed that the evil men do lives after them, and here already the envious ones have dug into the Sacred Past and found nas come to stay. It is already an institution, Censorship. - The movie men are doing all they can against the Hughes bill for government cen sorship of moving pictures. There is no need for such a commission. The vulgar picture, like the vulgar drama, is already a thing of the past and just why another set of public officials, at public expense, should be put on the public we do not see. . The picture show for Judge Allen the place made vacant by opened, then, like the brave bo v. we arc we Lamar on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, we can't get away from Colonel Britton's famous editorial on "Stand ing Together." In that he said that "the signs" that Allen would be appointed looked most favorable, and pointed with wonderful pride, as it appeared, to the fact that Con gressman Britt, although a republican, was first a North Carolinian, and had placed his support back of Allen. We have been informed that raanv npnnlp who saw the Allen campaign worked from North Carolina knew there was not the re motest chance for his appointment. It was shown that North Carolina had already se cured more than her basket full of the pie, and the President never once dreamed of appoint ing Judge Allen. It was a nice thing for Judge Allen's friends to support him; it was a recognition by neighbors, which is always the best possible endorsement, but Colonel Britton celebrated the event in advance and naturally it made a joke of the whole business. Hereafter we no-- gest that when a North Carolina man is run- came into camp and bowed to "public opin ion and admitted that we guessed we were mistaken. But in the middle of last year the old ditch was closed. It was heralded that it would be open before January. A great com mittee of specialists was sent to look at it. The members of that Committee knew noth ing at all about it of course, and they wisely and gravely informed the world tint the slides would soon disappear and the canil would be running. But January has come and gone, and this is tie last message fom General Goethals: "It : is not "Interned to open the canal until a safe and practicable perniateut channel Is assnr...! 1m. i ..... presen. although drcdires in the t...t that they (an maintain ...i.. among the ruins that Henry Ford, the votary or Peace, once belonged to a rifle team and gave out medals to the best shooters, claim ing that every man should learn to shoot. Maybe it is true. It hath also been observ ed by able philosophers of the past that a wise man changcth his mind, and that a fool doth never do so therefore Henry stands up among the Wise the men of wisdom. No doubt When the fires of Youth burned brighter Henry thought a whole lot of things that now find no lodgment in his mind. If he once was a warrior and scalped men and re- iormcd and changed his mind and seeks to make amends for his sanguinary career of youth, let us give him the glad hand and for get the Past the Past with its dreams and sorrows. and the public will take care of its morals. Hard To Understand. Only a year ago President WTilson was op nosed to Prpnarp("np; Tiist nmv hp icn't r 1 j " Bryan's Peace propaganda forced Wilson to get on the other side lest Bryan would swal low Wilson. So Wilson goes out to make the people see things he himself couldn't see until he felt his political fortunes were involved. It looks at this distance that Mr. Wilson will soon be an ex-President. He is trying to play politics and is a novice at the game. At Random. possible at mouths have showi annel when not Interrupted bv passinir shins "Ueasonable assutance Is desired that tkls .'an t tained under navigating coiiditiots. The slides in watched carefully aid be main- are l.f.inr. as soon f. .,Kw.....: cient tn, inotifr l ..u '" are suin- ------ -- i"v,..,ipu v,, ,,e a,., M,..mci,.. r'ounhTSr ,hat tlC ' - route may be adequate." r-"-" ror UMng tll0 Now to the man who krows anything" about quick sands take the sands say of the PNtte river in the west, and he knows that the more SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1916. A Big Thing For Guilford. The action of the county commissioners in session this week puts Guilford county at the head of the list of North Carolina counties in the matter of road building, a position most enviable m this hustling age of high speed and sharp competition along all lines: To have more miles of good roads and those good roads rff Ua. .m . 1 ! nil. iiiL-nuiw uiiui ine election is over or the appointmnet is made. It is embarassing to celebrate the advent of twins when there is nothing doing. All the North Carolina dele gation was busy but that didn't indicate anything. Wilson had never suggested that he would appoint Allen ; he never gave any one an intimation, and to celebrate the event before it happened, inasmuch as it never hap pened, is at least embarrassing. However we hasten to assure our friend Britton that we are still "Standing Together." : - o Suppose The Case. What would Old Guilford think if our com the very best that can be built, is something m'ssioners proposed to spend over three mil worth working for and worth talking about 10 tne ettorts ot the .Merchants and Manu facturers' Club of High Point, and the Good Roads bureau of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce much credit is due for the early realization of a dream which progressive citizens of these two leading Guilford, towns have long cherished, and now that it is about to become a reality there is a general feeling that the completion of the new highway will result in a closer community spirit which will mean bigger things and better things for both towns and the entire county. Some especially optimistic go so iar as to believe that a concrete-asphalt highway " between Greensboro and High Point will put to rest forever, or for a long time, the talk of a new county, to which uia ihiis are opposea. it will be a bond of union which will bring the people in such close touch that Greensboro and High Point will be practically one each the suburb nf the Other according to the point from which you start. And in course of time not necessarily a very long time either, the Inter-Urban trol ley will come along and the highway will be a long street of beautiful homes in which- will reside men and women doing business in one or the other of the "twin" cities. .Yes it was a great day for Guilford when the commissioners voted unanimously to make it the leading county in the state in the mat ter of road building. Already it is the leading county in the state in the number of automo biles owned and operated, and to hold that place there must be the inducement of good roads over which to travel. It is charged that the machine wears out the county road, but how about the county road wearing- out the machine? As the machine is taed the county road looks like the owner should have some protection. mng for an office or his friends are askine- for you scoop 'em out the mord thev return T11Pv an appointment for him, that we do not shoot constitute a subterranean ocean millions of gallons aye, billions, and they will never cease. The Panama canal? we have 110 doubt, will prove a failure. We said so before it was' dug; we said so when it vas completed and we say so now. W'e can e in it the finger of Kctnbution. c stole th countrv; we burn ed homes ; we murdered people to get the right of way and now it is bung seen to that we do not enjoy the fruits dioiored bv the blood of innocence. And all in all, we guesi we are getting just about what is really coning to us. O ; Senate Will Fight It. The twenty-five million dollars appropria tion for good roads, to be allotd to states in just proportion to what they need and deserve, has passed the House, but it ks feared the Senate will knock it out. Here is where the city fellow ind the coun try cousin clash. The irrcat cites claim thev will receive no benefit from goodroads. That the rural districts where . favor (ism will be played will be enriched ; private owned land will be enhanced, and the city t;i payer the consumer, will pay the greater part of the vast sura. Fame Reinforced. It once was, and not so long ago, that the .v-vjuuuiur; me cx-i'resident ; the ex-Has Been could take the lecture platform and do a stunt under some lecture bureau and thus separate a rubber-necking world from its coin. But only those endowed with leather lunus and the thrill of the bird could hope for the job. The man who couldn't "make a speech" was not in it. F But now all is different. The moving pic tures hold hope tor the inarticulate statesman out of a job. Xot long ago Governor Walsh, of Massa chusetts, now down and out politically was ot tered Jm 5,000 a week to stand before'the cam era and do silent stunts. He refused, but it was a bona fide offer. So the man who holds the job and uses the first page to record his official stunts can be in it 1 hink of the opportunities Cole Blease will have some day. AS IT WAS. The l.o y stood on the burning deck lie held a union card- lie walked out in the yard. o THE PICTrRES DON'T TALK. txff Baft,. Walling mute if not motionless. U Iost when he remains lion dollars in one year on good roads ? Wouldn't there be heart failures and nervous prostration and suspended animation? And yet out in the state of Washingtonin King County in the year just closed $3,018,988 were spent for construction and maintenance of good roads, and the end is not yet. This was all spent outside city limits the people of the county paying for it and enjoying it. And that is the only way to do a thing. Men who build sky scrapers build them as they want them. Men who build houses which are fit, build them all at once and then thev' have something. Guilford county has spent a whole And in order to defeat the bilj the Senate will be worked to a finish. Loos to us like the city would be benefitted. the whole United States is made more vahable and the lot of money on good roads and many of the land made more profitable to tl each crrrA rriAc r 1 1 -: r c i t""u "oua utv.dusc ui.-iacK:oi iunas ior main tenance have gone to the bad and it was just so much money thrown away. In road build ing and bridge building the county should build the very best and then have a fund to maintain them like a railroad company main tains its tracks. Mr. J E. Latham suggested a plan which was to have young men become road superin tendentsgive out about five or six miles of road to keep up. Put up a sign that this six miles of road is maintained by John Smith or whoever he might be, and the best kept stretch to be rewarded. And of course the young man would receive something for his daily services -but take it from us there would be competi tion for the prize and the roads would be main tained. But think of it and gasp. Three million in a year by one county for good roads and all satisfied ! who makes a living will be a beifficiary man , After All. When we read of the twenty icf of in Colorado where seven loc The Vice President. It is said that th - t-.v.n .c-picMuent, .Mr. -Marshall, of Indiana, is not just the man Mr U ilson will want as his running mate. There fore the friends of Mr. J. Ham Lewis the gen tleman of historic whiskers, are pushing him mildly to the front. uMf- Lvis was born in Danville, Virginia He has spoken in Greensboro. Those who saw his wide wealth of whiskers in the old auditorium will never forget their splendor. His speech was commonplace, but his whis kers were brilliant-brilliant as Diamond dye -Mr. Lewis also lived in Atlanta where he practiced law and had a meal ticket punched wice a day. With this hope-the faathat he which r i? mICm,an and has whiskers I S Iit?rall-V be,at the ba"d. looks like he might add strength. The whiskers would pull him through Mississippi. P AND THEN THE BUST. . rUml PUtS thrUgh hIs 811 bii dollar rurai fZu V e a e,TeS a chance . i.i 1 1 i m . - wuic uunn. nni r ha business is the mo 1117, ,i , un PaPer tne ehiekeu the world BntTorked out If .i Prflbi,e ntr.,1 ,st k m . . ea wut Ir 18 the most deceptive. Th iiii ii ? KT-k r it. 9 .t sound business economy, rmers and has no place in JlST A HABIT The repul.Iic.ins in Tarheelia t 1. now. They make nn .J," I wls Jst something I5ut ihev th ?. c BOln to ' springs inate their weakest men ' eVery Tear and then - WONDER. The story Is that Saint Matthew was a tax collector and when he was hidden to follow the Master he lefthis condnrie'hSfZksnrit ST ta HAPPr MAX. Mr. Bryan sits in his study in Miami. Florida, write, m. and pnirtriAio 9 m 7. T. e commoner, sends them in by mail after bis paper is out the A.w.into,i t .." the country under a Lincoln date line whVrh. ITeP advocate has to stv th. i. . V w"at the peace he is not -a dead one" 3 conc,nsive evidence that om snow iives could Illinois.and read of the 5 below in guess we here, after Pretty Soon. On P nf tdara A. j ' . . x ana some other countv Clark Is Right. Speaker Clark is going to fight the stamp tax. Good enough. ;Let the revenue come from something that gives less trouble This not push a snow plow through i ; when w read ot floods never approached i all over the Pacific coast; when v machine registering forty degn .t,.c great iortnwest and then look at our notes on North Carolina weath must perforce conclude that rig; all, is God's countrv. Because we have' had a hPt from all angles than any other :tion. North Carolina is destined, some day, to be the great winter resort in America. South, n California thi& year, has had two storms th t cost many lives and property not to be est nated. . Lven .the and countries, -.New Mexico and Arizona have suffered floods an snows, and Florida has seen freezing weatr.lr more tn Once. Riht herpttio iA vtt. c ... vna imi in oiate is Senator Borah Misguided. Senator Borah, who would like to be presi dent, but who never will be, is out with a pro position looking for government ownership of railroads. He exploded the other day. He wanted an investigation looking to the end of final ownership by the government. Senator N orris, of Nebraska, headed him off by ex plaining that such an investigation just at this time would paralyze the markets. And if the markets are again shot to pieces, good bye the hope of democracy. Government ownership is the last thing America wants. When that happens then the grand commercial fabric we have woven here goes to pieces. Let everv man -write his Congressman tn vt any such foolishnessT CROP IS SHORT. The crop of Virginia statesmen is shnrt i . It used to be that Virginia. always had a favorite and thev nl:iv1 l.ir., i. . yea rs. son NEVER AGAIX. neve' hr S,""""5- nd marrymg-on e uiu ong oi ine Girl I Left In these days of signr we n Itch i nl Me WHERE IT COMES HIGH. People in Greensboro and North Carolina who kick abont street paving should dwell awhile ln Phoe.Ux Arf, and own some property there On 1 T. ' Arlzon' to know about the city proceeded t 8treet,w happen down sidewalks. The fVoiftaeVn, P,aTe U aml P" sessment against the properfv ws f ,and the as .. That would take the breZh W hfIlJno',est sum of Carolina man. oreath of the average North About ONE MORE. more Miirley net in thing of rjuttinp a ntip ion - x o - - --"- oudiiip on telegrams will come to the front with a lynching bee and nuisance pure an,f simpk. Ii we Sus? "av the Derformanrp in Mr-.m mi 1 - r let US nav-witliriM , . . " L VJ t cezrv ru r 1 ore TrouD1e than ne cessary. Champ Clark says he will fight the Stamn art n'U i-. i . gt xne - i" id&i uncn. May he the performance in Wayne county will be for gotten. The state should have a fund many thousands of dollars, to punish such offenders as disgraced Wayne county. That is the only way to stop lynching. The newspapers with one accord wrote steen mliimc , a . . that didn't do any good. The murderers arP win. Cut It Out. Cut out the internal deeds. telerr, ":;7C:uruAmP 2? ntes, w tni -1, '."" nion some- e VT111 .ulieci itseit. V Desperate Measures. Men out of jobs in New York are parading the streets rarrvinn- Knn. i , lUSt aboilt a crrrA 00 In r 1 -r. ... ,v,uu' arC fe taWe your overcoat f d nmbreUa 'i ---.. w mm iometning. it is said several men have in this way landed employ ment. Certainly it pays to advertise-but this looks almost like desperation. Pretty Soon. And now the saucy jonquil will commence o show his head and he won't wear T?lee ng cap, either. He is a brave flower is the i-.riiwu I i na t nn m... 1 . amcie you have you can't claim it. - a an on patent own way. TOUCHED HIM. I saw her once, angelic face! And yet those eyes I can't efface Because she touched me up foTten in rccK. But She Will Han Thev sav tfipro u t . -j j win uc a. iati paign to save the Winston m the chair. But it will avail noth Craig 1S not going to interfere serves death; the jury says she y ".6uti wurt nnas no error n wide cam- deress from g. Governor he lady de- s guilty and li ..er-lunged politician, re in lack.- hubThV'tha3,? hheaUedat5",J the doodle Harness shop and eet n wuu uown to tne uau. 'I'! .t c i t - . I AUCI1i m me -b &uuiy iauy ana torgel it. TO ADD TO THE GAYETY sret ?-y"r w3 rl? s .-k - jrja-- election might as well beheldf'?t0lns to walt "' the is no danger of a new ty yars hence- Tnere think "thegoldone is goSSTnoui maD7 Patr,0tS