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" 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.
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; "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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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