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ESTABLISHED MAY, 1902.
BY AL FAIRBROTHER
SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1916.
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MEANS DEFEAT all cats must go gentry reflected a goodly pile this DESERVES DEATH
Republicans Fighting In
Party Ranks.
HE usual thing happen
ed in the state before the
convention of the Grand
Old Party. In each
county there were fights ;
there were dissensions ;
there was bitterness en
gendered. In one coun
ty, Craven, for instance there was some lively
talk when the name of Carl Duncan was men
tioned for National Committeeman ; in an
other county Cox was endorsed for Governor
amid wild applause while in another he was
bitterly opposed and almost a fight followed
the mentioning of other names and all this
was seed sown which sprout weeds and
does no good. 1
The republican party, if it stood together,
is not hopelessly a minority party in this state.
But it makes itself so because of the petty
quarrels and the exhibitions of anger by the
so-called imagined local leaders. And each
county, in its round-up, showed that but few
of the patriots were out for. the party or its
principles but for pie alone. Had the lead
ersthese little two by four local leaders
who tell their children that they have seen
Teddy's teeth been sincere in wishing success
for their party they would never fight out in
convention their local prejudices ; they would
be big enough to make a programme and car
ry it out go in to win for party principle and
not for pie.
Here in our own beloved Guilford the re
publican party is about like a half hundred
. -cages of - wildiimls3JM&
enas, wild cats, lions, tigers all roaring and
screaming in their cages and walking up and
down and looking out the bars of the cage
and when they get into a convention the re
sult is about the same as" though the animals
. got loose.
They will not get together. There are a
half, dozen imagined leaders we need not
name them, but each one imagines that he
is the Atlas with the Grand Old Party on his
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All over the state it is the same thing. The
party is hopelessly divided; it is between bull
moose and elephant it will never go to the
polls and put its full strength in the ballot
box and how can such a crowd, unless it
changes tactics hope to attract new members
from other parties?
There was -a chance this year but it is
doubtful if the party will stand together.
Two And Two Are Four.
The many millions of peoples of the world
split on many things. They wrangle over the
right road to heaven. They quarrel about
forms of divorce. They dispute over the tar
iff. They fight about their politics. They are
disunited on the question of preparedness.
They differ as to forms of government. They
can't get together on the court house site.
They are up in the air and argue free silver
or tariff or something or other; form parties;
have churches, cults, fads and creeds and
ach man perhaps thinks he is right. And so
they go to the lonely grave convinced or un
convinced as the case may be.
But when you go to any one of them be he
believer, deist, agnostic, infidel what not,
tell him that two and. two make four he
readily agrees, and says "it is even so."
Why? Because mathematics is the only
true science we have. Astronomers will dis
agree. Naturalists will fighf over their con
tentions. Geologists are. wrong and Science,
so-called in all spheres can't get together ex
cept on the basis of a mathematical proposi
tionand all seers and all laymenfool and
sage alike, come in and say "yes, it is true,
two, and two make four
aU ,1v ac n dWs and delves
will l,r?ncr out of the pres-
ent chaos a-true science, a science which he
can prove as'he can. prove his multiplication
table. And when he does, and not until then,
will the sons of "men dwell in harmony as the
morning stars now dwell, and sing together.
No fnction--no noise all pleasant and peace
ful. That will be the millenium. And it will
come. '"''
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Worth While.
Editor Gray of the Raleigh Times, in an
editorial headed "Give The Woman Exit" cer
tainly sized up the Warren case. We hope
the Governor will read that and act.
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Marion Is There.
As these pages were going to press it was
stated that Marion Butler was in Raleigh de
nouncing Carl Duncan. One time a jackass
kicked a man and the man made no com
plaint. He said he considered the source
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Chicago Crank Makes
On Useful Feline.
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T SEEMS that now the kit
tens and the cats are to come
in for some of the new reform
ers to have their time. A Chi
cago man has started a crusade
asrainst cats of all kinds. He
has for his slogan "Song birds
forever, and a catless world
in 1920." It is gravely claimed by this parti
cular nut that cats kill song birds. That
wouldn't interest the hysterical and grasping
world but he also shows that cats carry
germs in their fur. And when you can run
up a germ banner good bye wnatever it is
that breeds it. New Orleans on a theory as
doubtful as the Fourth dimension has just ex
pended nearly five million dollars to kill rats
while the five million invested in finding
out how to cure the bubonic plague would
have been a surer thing. But rats, they said,
carry germs and the promoters of the rat
exterminating scheme got the money.
And now, because the cat is a common car
rier a germ carrier, there will be a cult go
ing after all the kittens and all the cats. Bet
ter save them and put them out to killing rats
and mice they kill a billion a year and thus
save the expense of killing the rats later on.
Song birds toil not, neither do they spin. A
good rat cat is worth more around a house or
barn than a million song birds. And as we
all can't build rat proof barns and houses,
better have the cats. They are on the job
working over union hours.
But, pray thee, my lord, the germ theory
man has the floor and the call. He can go in
where angels fear to tread and bring back the
goods. One of these days we will all under
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;ta.nrti: theKcoression m&reiilvtastn now
"What fools these mortals be."
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The Automobile Supreme.
The automobile has. practically commanded
good road building all over the nation and
its commands have been heeded. The auto
mobile has stood up in puritanical towns
where Sunday was a sacred day and where
nothing was allowed to keep open shop and
demanded that a garage be open all day on
the Lord's day and the good folk stood for
it. The automobile has made progress, but it
has wiped out many traditions. The reason
is so many men of so many minds own and
operate automobiles that they bring mankind
on a common level so far as they are concern
ed.
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O. P. Heath A Suicide.
Charlotte was shocked last Monday when
'O. P. Heath, one of the best known cotton
men of the state committed suicide in his of
fice in that citv. Heath was about sixty years
of age. Two years ago he met with financial
reverses, but it was understood that he had
retrieved his fortune and was doing a fine
business. Strange that men will fight for
years and finally when they get just about
where they wanted sit down and blow out
their tired brains. Mr. Heath was a first-class
citizen and many friends will mourn because
of his rash act.
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Goes Death One Better.
It is said that Death loves a shining mark,
but not as intensely as yeggmen love the
West Durham post office. For the fourth
time within a little more than a year that of
fice's safe was blown open last Sunday and
the contents some $40 taken. All told that
office has yielded some five thousand dollars
to safe blowers.
The Quart Law In Virginia.
Virginia is to have a Quart Law, but on a
little different scale. There will be the local
option feature. If one county wants the quart
law to obtain it will express itsen at an eiec
tion. If another county does not want tne
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Sacred Quart to invade its territory it can say
so at the polls. Say, what is the matter with
that? ' .y--::yyyy-:'y-yy:'-yy
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Missing.
At Raleigh Wednesday it seemed that the
Bull Moose were missing or wearing masks.
They did not come to the salt lick in the
open. '" ' ;V.; ;
Another One.
It is now discovered that we can vote an
other $50,000 in bonds. Why not wait and
some day p. d. q. make it $250,000 and then
we could do some things long needed and
worth while?
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IT IS gratifying to his many friends in the
2 South and especially around this section of
North Carolina to know that Mr. T. W. Gen-
try has again been elected president of the
Southern Bell Telegraph and Telephone Com-
pany. While the entire executive organiza-
tJr, v.- r-pWtfr1 to know that Mr. Gentrv
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cessor again is a uiuute to .wouucnui
ability. Mr. Gentry is a native of Virginia,
but has done things in North Carolina as a
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telegraph man before associating with the
f W lifp Vinvv
he worked himself from the lowest rung of
the ladder to the top" one in the business he
chose, reads like fiction. We never knew a
man who had more energy; more pluck; more
determination to do things he undertook to do.
Under the management of Mr. Gentry the
Bell Telephone service mjthe South was made
lis"m?aHlrpetf
It was because of his great executive ability
as general manager that he was chosen presi
dent some years ago and for the same rea
son he is being re-elected each year. Here is
hoping he may remain at the head of this
splendidly equipped organization as long as he
remains on earth and may that be many
years.
Died At His Post.
Deputy Sheriff Hawkins, of Halifax county
went to arrest a criminal and was wounded,
fatally, dying within twenty-four hours. Haw
kins was trying to arrest a man named Collins
on some minor charge, and when Collins re
sisted arrest fired on the deputy. Collins has
been captured and of course there was "strong
talk" of lynching but the question is: Should
deputy sheriffs or other officers step into the
face of death. If the man they are going af
ter is notoriously a "bad man," and the fact
can be established in advance, why not take
two or three men armed, to make the arrest?
Too often we hear of brave officers deliber
ately walking into death simply because they
are brave. Discretion is the better part of valor
and the wrorld docs not applaud the "brave
man' 'who gets killed unless he took plenty
of precaution.
The Maxwell Case.
When it comes to figures and "figurating"
Mr. Maxwell will take care of Mr. Butler. The
republicans have a high plane upon which to
fight just now the proposition particularly
of tariff. But if the mud geysers are to go
into eruption, and it seems that is the pro
gramme, the democratic party will have an
increased majority. Decency still sits the
saddle in North Carolina.
Nebraska Going It Strong.
With Mr. Bryan still domiciled in Nebras
ka and Burkett running for vice-president and
Henry Eastbrook running for President, Ne-
braska has a larger place on the map of the
world than usual.
Had No Right.
We note where a coroner's jury in this state
finds that a guard who killed a negro convict
who was trying to escape was justified in
shooting. There is no law for that kind of
murder.
Lots Of Squealing.
The old proposition is that to shear a hog
brings out much squealing and but little wool.
It was something like that in the New Haven
anti-bust-rust-crust-trust case.
Judge Clark, Take Notice.
Judge Rufus Clark who discovered that
there was no such thing as a cork leg, will
please take notice that in Missouri willow is
so scarce that one manufacturer has turned
dnwn an order lor zsu arxincia.1 ices
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willow wood altogether. ;
Two Hundred Tons Of Gold
Like Cord Wood.
OR the first time in the his
tory of the Sub-Treasury or
the Assay Office in New
York city a solid pile of gold
bars 6 feet high by 6 feet
wide by 11 feet long, larger
in size than three cords of
wood valued approximate
ly at $102,000,000 was stored away in one of
the vaults of the former building at the end
of the year.
The bars are British sovereigns melted
down and are 916.6 fine, which is 16.6 finer
than the gold used in the United States mints.
In the big cube of bullion there are 16,345
bars, averaging about thirty pounds to the
bar. United States Assav Office experts sav
gold weighs about two tons to a million dol-
lars - the hoard approximates 200 tons in
weight
Doesn't that jar you? When a man goes
out an(j looks at three cords of wood all nicely
piled up, if it's his, he thinks he has a small
fortune but to think ot three cords ot solid
gold gold that came across the pond in coin- I
ed money, given up by the English and we
j d u d bafs Three CQrds of solid
id at onc time, and by this date doubtless
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it has increased to four cords. And to think
that it only took about three months to ac-
cumulate so much. If Old Man Aaron could
come along these days and induce the people I
to hand over all their gold the while he fash
ioned a Golden Calf gosh, wouldn't it be a
big one bigger than the Durham Bull !
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Don't Hear Of 'Em Now.
We don't see any characters in the recent
fiction that take-hold -of the mothers of the-
land like, say, the characters of St. Elmo, by
Augusta Evans Wilson. That old book thirty
vears aero had a run for fair the most im
possible fiction ever written, but St. Elmo was
the patron saint of hundreds of mothers and
the land was filled with children named bt
Elmo and Edna.
But in the cheaper scribbling of today there
are no immortals. They are moving picture
characters just thrown on the screen for a
one nijrht stand. The old writers writ human
nature. Thev intensified it often and exag-
cj
gerated it and elaborated it, but it touna max
resnonsive cord which makes the whole world
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kin. There are no longer great editors there
are no longer reallv ereat generals there are
no longer Great Characters in fiction who
stand in the lime-light and who are remem
bered for the ages. Jack Falstaff did well to
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live in his age, lest he would oe iorgotien.
Tiny Tim and David Copperfield and Squire
A 1 5V orthv and well all that grand troupe
which walked the boards even Sancho Panza
with his proverbs and wise sayings lived in a
Golden Age. Had they been cast now, in our
hurry and our lack of appreciation, they
would have been forgotten, and the grand
chorus of the people would have been John
Lowlow's lines: "Bring in another horse."
Just Money.
A couple of convict guards who were
escorting nine convicts to a railway camp al
lowed them to escape. It was proven that
the guards were drunk and the convicts took
their departure from the
train while the
truards slept. Heavy fines were imposed, out
mnr than hnes should DC aemanaeu m &un
a case. 11 an a gudiu uttu "U j . v.
to be drunk and let criminals go free it might
nnen a wav for craft that would be terrible.
However all interested were satisfied with
the decision, so we guess we can't appeal the
case.
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Funny But A Fact.
The funny thing is that the cneck flasher is
alwavs a winner. Finally he gets caught, but
never until he has soaked fifteen or twenty or
a hundred victims. Merchants claim to be
wise: they read of the check flasher, but he
comes along today and tomorrow and most
always finds some one willing to give up the
coin.
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Plenty Of Time.
It will be July before the campaign gets
really good and interesting. All these stories
we hear now are pipe-dreams preludes which
amount to nothing.
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Very Beautiful.
That was a 'very beautiful fall of the beau
tiful snow last Monday night. It often hap
pens this way when the ground hog sees his
chadnw and when he doesn't see his shadow.
Therefore the ground hog is discredited. Yet
the glorious climate ot North caronna is sun
on and on still.
Ida Ball Warren Should
Pay Peanlty.
VER a thousand
negroes
and hundreds of white
men have been put to
death in North Carolina.
The hangman never hesi
tated to build the gallows;
the people understood that
if the murderer was guilty
beyond all question, the
penalty would be paid. And men and women
thought it right that the law should be en
forced. Thousands of criminals, convicted for
many different kinds of crime, when notori
ously guilty, have served their terms and
there was no commotion. It was presumed
that the Law should be supreme in its . ma-'
icstv.
But over at Winston a murderess commit
ted the most heartless and diabolical crime
possible to imagine. She had been a wanton
and a man married her and did all he could
to make her respectable. But she was a
speckled bird. She continued to consort with
another man; she planned the killing of her
hi:sVand with her paramour, was, as Judge
( larl: expressed it from the bench, the Lady
Macbeth of the enterprise. When the body
was cold she saw it thrown into a trunk and
carted off and dumped into a river and she
w..rc the smile of a blushing bride while the
tragedy was on. Brutal, heartless no bar
barian was ever more indifferent.
And yet the lawyers are sending petitions;
the Governor is to be asked to pardon her;
the state is talking about it, and from outside
the state come the sentimentalists and butt in.
h -Kep"a"prTlirnc5wwonderiri ' wily" h
guilty twain has not been removed to Kal
eigh and placed in the death cell of the peni
tentiary. Governor Craig has told the attor
neys to get in their evidence before the 20th
of the month, and many are hoping and ex
pecting that executive clemency will save the
life of this fiendish woman this harlot this
wayward wife who imbrued her hands in her
husband's blood.
If she escapes the death penalty then we
had better sell the electric chair and an
nounce, gloriously, that we are through with
capital punishment. For if ever in God's
rr00d world there was one person who should
make her exit as the law prescribes and as the
court ordered, that woman is Ida Bell War
ren. o "
Perhaps.
And so Colonel Wade Harris comes in as
defender of the ground hog. Wade explains
that a few little snows; a few cold snaps with
the machine low enough to, freeze the water
pipes; no sun shine and all sorts of weather
will naturally come but the ground hog
theory still obtains. It would seem to us
that Colonel Harris with the Mecklenburg
Fact sustained would be satisfied to let well
enough alone. There is no doubt now about
the Declaration but for Charlotte folk to at
tempt to establish the Ground Hog Theory
well it might arouse suspicion that this is a
world of make believe.
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The Health Bulletin.
That delightful fiction published by the
State Board of Health and called the Bulletin,
that beautiful publication that spent its
money for pictures of nigger privies in
Greensboro and thought it had a scoop, the
last issue carries a horribly executed picture
of a group of people and says under it:
"Coughing and Spitting bpread 1 ubercu-
losis." Therefore, beloved, take it trom us
that you must not cough. Such atrocious
things as are often perpetrated in the Bulletin
are infinitely worse than all the diseases cata-
logued.
Again A New One.
Wilson calls for a show down regard-
-in the question of armed merchantmen. Mr.
ViiSOn is evidently the funniest man we have
ever had for President.
To J. Hampton Rich:
Here is standing uncovered before
you.
Take anything you see.
Judge Justice Candidate.
It is given out that Judge Michael Justice,
of Marionr will be a candidate for Congress
from the Tenth district. Judge Justice is an
able man and has many friends. He is not
radical, but safe and sane.
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The Question.
Good morning has your cook been inspect
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