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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1916. on sale at the news stands and on trains
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1902.
HARD ON NEWSIE
NEW GERM THEOR Y
MAN WHO CAN DO IT
IS MONEY WASTED?
IS HERE TO STA Y
BY AL FAIRBROTHER
e Liquor Ads Make
Work For Boys.
HE NEW law being
enacted and in force in
several states which pro
hibits newspapers or per
iodicals from printing
liquor advertisements
works a great hardship
just now. The news
agents in the big cities in
the northwest employ
boys to paste white pa
per over the advertise
ments in periodicals containing them. For in
stance a "New York periodical which reaches
Seattle and has a few small ads about popular
brands of champagne or "Wilson, That's All"
must be covered with white paper before such
publication can be sold. The regular subscrib
er gets his periodical delivered by Uncle Sam
and the ad is there, all right; because that is
interstate goes from one state into the home
in the original package, so to speak.
But gradually the periodicals will see that
likker advertisements will not pay, because
the burden is put on the news agent, and
naturally he will get tired of pasting the
white.
The mail order business will not be inter
fered with by these laws, because the likker
men will simply pay for mailing lists and deal
direct. The newspaper- publicity will not be
necessary because the direct personal appeal
the offer to send a Quart of Chemically Pure
right to yrour express office for so. much per
will get to the man's desk and if the thirst
abides the order will be sent.
The best part of some of the new laws is
that part which makes it a penitentiary 01
fence to receive likker by express or mail or
any old way. That gives the world a chance
to test prohibition. - The real thing. This
North Carolina law which yields the point and
gives all a chance for a Sacred Quart once in
two weeks is no law at all compared with what
the wild and woolly west has done. Out there,
where the osier sighs to the sage brush, ana
the Wichita Yellow Dog sleeps they put in
the crimpL And if what Old Man Grant said
to the effect that the way to get rid of a law
that isn't popular is to enforce it holds good,
they certainly are trying to get rid of the
laws in some sections. A year in the peniten
tiary for selling one drink of booze, and no
questions asked, if caught red handed, is what
we would call "drastic" and to the point.
Positively A Good One.
Whenever you see a critic a man who
knows it all he looks wise and you stand in
awe because he assumes to know more than
you, and foolishly you let him put it over. And
so many wise ones talk about literature and
art and make us tired.
It happened out in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
not long ago that the Art Association opened
its doors and people flocked to see the great
paintings. One called "The Blue Pool" by
George Bellows hung from the walls and at
tr acted a great deal of attention because Bel
lows had done the chore. For three weeks it
was discussed and admired. At the top of the
picture was a great dark blotch and several
white specks floated about the horizon. Spec
tators were confused, but dared say nothing.
Two artists of international repute came to
explain the picture and expatiated at length
Modern in treatment, they said, curious but
interesting. School children visited the gal
lery. It was explained to them. Finally an
officious woman walked in.
"What's the matter with that picture? It
gives me a headache. Turn it upside down."
After much protest the experiment was
tried. The black splotch became a harmless
rock, the white specks tiny ships. The blue
pool descended, a sane, normal body of water
surrounded by rocks beautiful and simple
far removed from futurism.
And so it was left for a woman to tell the
critics and the men of international repute
that they were looking at a picture which was
upside down and they didn't know. "It is
wonderful but is it art? is the old, old ques
tion. But this really happening does us good
We have seen these Smart Alecks trying to
explain with big words and a far off look,
and we knew they were bluffing. Glad in this
instance they were so completely called.
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How Was This For Nerve.
In New York two robbers got a man in the
back of his store and as it took both of them
to loot the place and they had no rope to tie
their victim they put him in the coal bin and
shoveled a ton of coal on him. By the time
- the merchant got out the robbers had done
their chore and gone." That was a very clever
way to hold a man down.
Modern School Of Science
Reverses The Old.
ND AGAIN doctors disagree.
They are forming a "new school"
and this new school is going to
prove as doctors have proved
everything that always was later
shown to be false that disease
causes germs instead of the
germs causing disease. In other
words this new school of delvers sets up the
proposition that germs are a part of the human
system; they are always in evidence; that it is
only after disease takes hold that they feast on
the afflicted part. It is shown that the body is
reduced to a corpse immediately those worms
commence their feast. And so it is claimed
that if a man has allowed disease to molest,
say his lung, there is a germ which asserts it
self after the lung has become diseased it has
been lying in wait Preparedness is the word
all the time, but it is impotent and can do
nothing so long as the lung is healthy. And
so down the catalogue of human ills. This new
school says all the germicide dope that one
day filled the papers and people showed con
clusively that germs had nothing to do with
producing disease hence a suggestion for
new exploration.
It is known that all doctors nine-tenths of
them, know nothing about disease or its origin.
The science of medicine is not a science but
a theory. Chemistry does its stunts scienti
fically. But because it has its causes and ef
fects does not prove why. Men set up a
guess; write a book, exploit themselves as
Great Men and along come a million medical
students and are obliged to accept "the au
thorities." And behold there are no author
itiesexcept those who belie ve certain things
but do not know certain thing-.
In the days of William Bryan's first cam
paign, men knew free silver was: the pancea,
just as much as doctors know that quinine is
almost a specific for malaria. They have tried
out the quinine and some claim it a specific
but there is no specific. They tried out free
silver, theoretically, and had free silver been
adopted, after adjustment, the World would
have gone along the same as before.
The germ alarmists have been overdoing
the -trick. Therefore thoughtful men, in order
to head them off, to save the health of a na
tion which is in jeopardy because of fright,
propose to hand down a new theory and prove
it just as effectually as the germ man has
proven his theory.
It is within the recollection of men not much
over fifty years of age that all doctors insisted
that men must be bled. They must give up
blood no matter how weak they were. Doctors
carried lancets, just the same as ten and fif
teen years ago, and many today, carry a hypo
dermic needle, and when one has a pain squirt
a horrible and subtle poison into his blood to
ease a pain that is caused from some trouble
that a doctor should know. The bleeding
theory was absolute. It was proven to a T,
but today you never hear of the indiscriminate
bleeding of Pale People and you don't see so
much dope shot into the system since the law
says it mustn't be done.
If the theory becomes accepted that disease
causes germs instead of germs causing it be
hold, and you wlil see something new and the
young doctors coming along will perhaps
gradually adopt it because anything can be
proven if the "authorities" set it up and write
a book and again the fear that now fills the
world will be lifted.
Verily, we progress.
Plenty Of Them.
Some say the G. O. P. has no leaders, but
the following list shows that some people think
there is ample material. The Republican pos
sibilities who are listed include Representa
tive James R. Mann of Illinois, Republican
leader of the house ; Mayor Thompson, of Chi
cago ; United States Senator William E.
Borah, of Idaho ; former Senator Theodore
Burton, of Ohio ; President Nicholas Murray
Butler, of Columbia University, New York;
Senator Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa; Henry
D. Estabrook, of New York; former Gov. Her
bert S. Hadley, of Missouri ; Myron T. Her
rick, of Ohio, formerly American ambassador
to France; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and
John W. Weeks, of Massachusetts ; Gov. Whit
man, of New York, and Gov. Willis, of Ohio.
And this is taking no account of Teddy, the
Terrible. And the chances are that no ac
count will be taken of him. He would elect
Wilson if nominated, and no mistake about
that. Of course our friend Zeb Vance Walzer
cannot see it tha way, but that is the way it
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Conscience Bunions.
A tight shoe will cause a bunion on the foot,
and too much general cussedness will cause
bunions on your conscience. That is why a
clear conscience doesn t palpitate.
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5ERVING the public in any capacity is
proverbially anything but a bed of roses.
When the service is wholly and absolutely a
labor of love,- it is particularly trying when
the wheels of any part of the machinery fail
to run smoothly. What makes it doubly hard
is the fact that those, capable of filling such
positions are always busy people people oc
cupied with private or public concerns for
which they are responsible, and which are sup
posed to present difficulties of their own.
In the recent investigations into the condi
tions at the Soldiers' Home, Colonel Baldy
Boyden, the recently elected chairman of the
Board .of Directors, has combined with a clear
head and mteligent understanding of facts
presented due consideration for all who might
be affected by contemplated changes, giving
those charged with laxness and incompetence
a chance to prove their right to be retained be
fore recommending their removal. In giving
them a chance t? make good after being
shown the wayV He is simply carrying out the
Golden Rule as between employer and em
ployed. P s j:
State Daughters of the Confederacy along
with all citizens of North Carolina who want
to do the right thing for the old soldiers, are
demanding immediate reforms in the manage
ment of this important state institution. Col
onel Boyden has promised that reforms would
come, and they arc willing to leave it to him to
find a way. One of the ways in which he has
begun his workis to put a woman on the
Board of Directors, and now it is up to the
legal authorities to decide whether or not she
shall be allowed to serve.
Nobody envies Colonel Boyden the task
that has been given him to perform, but all
feel that if any man in North Carolina can
harmonize the warring factions and make of
the home the kind of place it was intended to
be, Colonel A. H. Boyden of Salisbury is that
man. and so there will be much interested
watchful waiting.
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Tough Times, These.
The Living Church, the organ of the Epis
copal church in America is out with a leading
article demanding that all ministers hereafter
be bachelors because the high cost of living
renders it impossible for a preacher to secure
salary sufficient to keep a family as it should
be kept.
Seems that this is absurd, but the Church
paper gives facts and figures, and appeals most
solemnly for its cause. Wonder why the gay
old earth doesn't cheerfully contribute to these
men of God. If you go out after money for a
commercial organization most always it is se
cured, but when a man who is in the soul sav
ing business; who is representing God Al
mighty here on earth is admonished not to get
married lest he starve, because of the niggard
ly salary given him, there is something, my
brothers, radically wrong. We all know that
but few ministers are paid enough, but it would
seem that a church should not undertake to
hold its organization if it is not able to pay
a man enough money for his services to main
tain his wife and family.
Heard From.
And after a long and unbroken silence
Harry Thaw has been heard from. He ex
pects now to open an automobile salesroom in
New York. Truly it can be written that "a
fool there is" just the same as Kipling had it
a fool there was.
Too True.
President Wilson in a dramatic appeal for
Preparedness solemnly assured a western au
dience that he "could not tell what a day would
bring forth." Too true. No man can tell what
a day will bring forth. Even the president
has his limitations on that.
Get Ready.
One twelfth and over of the Glad New Year
is gone so better get ready to do your Chnst-
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mas snoppmg now.
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One Already.
One month already gone and another just
about to tumble on swat tneiime nies.
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Extravagance Of Rich Man
Prosperity For Poor.
OW LONG, how long, we
wonder, will people be fooled
PriwS by the hot air of those vvho
i T Evfevil lJ rail out against wraith Hn.
long before the people under
stand that there is no money
"tied up" in any enterprise,
unless it is in jewelry, filled
teeth or the arts that consume
virgin gold. In New York the other day a
great divine for that section railed out against
tnc expenditure of a few dollars for a big din
ner by men who have the price. In his slob
bering he said : ,
Mready preparations on a colossal scare
are afoot for New Yorkers revel at $40 a
head. Can you conceive of more infamous
mockery of mankind's misery? Where do we
pare down our luxuries? What to us that
millions of Serbs, Poles and Belgians face
death for lack of the crusts we throw away?
Must we be bothered by the tears and hunger
and homelcssness of scores of millions of hu
manity in the war blighted lands?"
Didn't that poor ass know that the forty per
wasn't wasted at all that it was simply com
ing from the strong boxes of the rich to go
into circulation to help the poor. The same
day this preacher talked the New York Sun
announced its bread line for New York, said
it had something over $2,000 on hand that had
been contributed and as long as that lasted
every man who wanted a loaf of bread could
get in line and receive it. Maybe the $40 per
plate let loose a little money which didn't go
to some far off country but helped the shiver
ing and starving poor right there in the be
loved pastor's beloved town. The 40 per didn't
go far. It remained right in New York. If
it was used for a dinner one night it was out
the next morning doing other chores maybe
some hungry children got a portion of it. The
waiters, the bell boys, the people who furnish
ed the viands it went, scattering, pell mell,
but remained on the job of doing good or do
ing evil.
The miserable wretch who termed this din
ner an infamous mockery is a man who uses
words and doesn't think. It was no mockery.
It brought no hardship, it did no harm it sim
ply let loose in New York among the many a
few thousand dollars which had been held by
the few. It was a good thing; it was proper,
and the men who turned it loose are benefac
tors of their race. Some day there will be a
law against the mouthings of such blather
skites as the Rev. Dr. Edward S. Young, of the
Bedford Presbyterian church who employed
such language to array the poor against the
rick.
A New Boosting Game.
Governor Capper wants every Kansas school
boy and girl to write a letter to some friend
outside the state telling why Kansas is a good
place in which to live.
There are about 350,000 school children in
Kansas above the third grade who should be
able to write letters. None of the letters
would go to friends in Kansas, but all to
friends, relatives, or prominent people outside
the state.
If three hundred and fifty thousand letters
go out, it certainly would make a noise for any
state. But really the letter written by a kid,
because it was a fad to write, would mean but
little to a prospective settler.
But Kansas is the birth place of fads and
freaks and it is fitting that Kansas should do
this.
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Up In The Mountains.
The east furnishes now and then some evi
dences of activity in the movements of the
disguised Sir John Barleycorn, but nothing
like the west. In fact when' Sir John does a
stunt in the eastern part of the state he gen
erally wears a mask; comes in as excess bag
gage; floats over through a news agent; slides
through in an automobile looking like a tour
ist party preaching prohibition but when he
goes into the mountains on the west, he tears
off all disguises and walk boldly and unafraid
in the Land of the Sky.
Just why this is we are not prepared to
state, but it is a fact that when John is ap
prehended at or near Asheville he comprises
many component parts perhaps twelve dozen
pints and forty or fifty half pints, ready for
distribution.
It may be that Immorally Stunted in that
section constitute the majority. It may be
that Sir John has been promised immunity by
many make believe authorities. The fact,
however, that he so often is tripped; so often
hailed into court and fined and imprisoned
should finally show him that he is being dou
ble crossed. Asheville leads the procession in
exposed blind tigers. Moralists can claim that
the human sleuths are more alert in that pro
pinquity but the chances are that the Sub
lime Thirst is more often heeded and subdued.
Prohibition Laws Are
Working All Right
GRATIFYING part of
the New Year's news is
that the recently enacted
prohibition laws in the
several states are being
enforced. Of course as
was to have been expect
ed the court of last resort
has been appealed to in order to find out if the
law is "constitutional" because it is a severe
jolt to the personal liberty of many who were
engaged in the likker business. It is said that
something like twenty million dollars of brew
ery property alone was knocked out of com
mission; an army of bar-tenders thrown upon
the mercies of a rude world ; thousands of store
buildings had their personal liberty interfered
with, and are vacant, and to be sure there
is nothing else to do but appeal to the Su
preme Court.
Many people thought the Arizona law was
drastic ; that it would finally be the overthrow
of what was termed "prohibition folly," but
the laws of Arkansas and Idaho beat it all to
pieces.
In Arkansas the law provides one whole
year in the penitentiary for violating a law
that is "lid down" all over; and in Idaho the
situation is described as "drum tight."
Colorado was humane enough to give a man
four ounces if the physician said he must have
it, but no prescription can be refilled. It takes
a new one each time and that means a hard
ship or prohibition.
It is early in the year yet to determine just
how the new laws will finally work, but those
on the ground say it looks like the officials
are going to enforce the laws. .In fact it is
said the whiskey people are about to lend their
aid in the enforcement, believing if likker is
really and actually prohibited there will be a
change of sentiment. It is urged that now the
rich and well to do can get their supply and
therefore are satisfied. The whiskey men are
wondering if there was to be a universal
drought ; no club ; no medicine nothing doing
at all, if there would not be a change.
We doubt it. Sir John Barleycorn, in our
opinion, has lived his life of shame and degra
dation. He is passing. He will live in history
as the greatest miscreant and murderer, thief,
seducer and incendiary ever known to a sin
cursed worlds But his days of conquest are
over. He fights far out in secluded trenches
but he is paralyzed. He is vanquished.
Can't Put 'Em Over.
The movies can do wonders but they can't
throw the human nature juice into the Life
and Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford. That
unique character must be followed closely. It
is the way the author tells how Jim did the
trick. The pictures can't portray it. No more
than the pictures can make Nancy, in Oliver
Twist, when Bill Sikes is going to kill her ex
claim: "Bill, I have always been true to you
upon my guilty soul I have." No picture can
bring that climax spectacular to your mind. It
takes the words and all the words that led
up to it. Even the author's preface to Oliver
Twist helps get Nancy and her character in
your mind and to see the picture of Sikes,
in his desperation, and Nancy pleading doesn't
make the thrill that the book makes. And
when J. Rufus Wallingford does a stunt in the
story it is so natural ; so true to life that the
picture somehow lacks the blood, the action !
Aye, the action!
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The Pool Room.
The recent pool room agitation in Durham
suggests several things, but the most import
ant point is, why will proprietors of pool
rooms allow the disreputable element to hang
around. There are many decent pool rooms.
Many of them are conducted on a high plane,
while others are the places where the roughs
and toughs "most do congregate."
And it is for this reason that the pool room
is generally regarded with suspicion. The
proprietor is alone to blame. The one running
a disreputable joint spoils the whole pro
gramme. Generally it results in a war against
pool rooms and the good go down with the
bad. There is no reason why a crowd of
bums and vagebonds should be harbored in a
pool room. Any self-respecting proprietor
would open the door and tell them to begone.
When this is done, the pool room will assume
a general reputation for decency.
California's Discovery.
California fias discovered that the land
which grows grapes-will grow other things,
and therefore the great grape industry will
simply give way to better things. With
Hearst coming out against whiskey it is said
California will go dry. Hearst's papers are
powerful on the Coast. f