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PAGE FOUR K VERT WEEK. BY AL FAIRBROTHER SUBSCRIPTION tl.00 PER TEAR IN ADVANCE Legitimate Advertisements Solicited Terms on Application Subscription Books Open to All Advertisers. OFFICE: in WEST GASTON STREET PHONE No. Everything was Established May, 1902, and is Independent In All Things and Neutral in Nothlnr. 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 ay 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." John A. Cockerill. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1916. Germany Is Right. , If a man is found in Greensboro toting' a gun he is arrested charged with! carrying con cealed weapons. The presumption is that he is going to shoot somebody, if opportunity of fers. . Germany proposes to sink ships carrying guns, because it has a right to presume they are armed in order to shoot something and presumably a German submarine would be that something. The absurd idea of merchantmen carrying guns, claiming that they fear pirates when they know Marion Butler is in Raleigh rais ing hades with Duncan is laughable. If the English vessels are armed they are armed for business. Their idea and their orders are to destroy submarines. And if passengers want to go on these ships let them assume the en tire responsibility. Do not let the United States intimate that there must be reprisal for the dead if the dead happens to be Amer ican. .. . . The United States has no honor to defend. When she sent her ships and soldiers to Mex ico and made the bluff at Old Man Huerta, now in glory, she forfeited her honor. Huerta never saluted the flag. He defied the United States and the soldiers who fell at Vera Cruz died and were forgotten. Mr. Wilson in his watchful waiting did not see that his country lost her honor. But it did. So this noise Wil son is making about holding Germany ac countable if she kills any American adven turers who might be on armed ships is all buncombe. If the ships are armed the hope is they will be sunk by the Germans. For the reason that good citizenship demands that we do not tote revolvers. There are no pirates on the high seas in these days. There is no need for armed merchantmen. Were there need France would arm her boats but she doesn't. England, the swaggering old bully is wear ing gum shoes. She is making believe but Germany is wise and on to her curves and we are glad that Germany proposes to sink every armed English vessel she sees. And if Americans are foolhardy enough to take the chance, let them take it. But they should not be allowed to thus furnish an excuse to throw this country into war. Looks Better. Since it appears regularly now in its new spring dress the Winston Journal is along with the first in typographical beauty. And from the other end Colonel Martin always makes an interesting paper. We are glad to note the prosperity of the Winston newspa pers. .. . ft 1 Harrison's Address. Before the Chamber of Commerce at Char lotte last week President Harrison, of the Southern railway made a notable address. His subject was "What the Southern Railway Means to Charlotte and North Carolina," and it was a speech that should forever silence the spell binder and the man who worries about the cost of shipping a gallon of sorghum molasses from New Orleans to Norfolk cheap er than it is shipped to Greensboro, although 'I Tin cfs t hrnu ?h Greensboro to get to Nor folk. The molasses sorrow and the banana grief have caused more people to be filled full of prunes than anything else we can now re call. -V : President Harrison gave interesting and in structive figures as to pay rolls; as to im- provements made and contemplated, ana nn ally concluded by saying: . For the considerations I have stated I do not feel that I am claiming too much when I assert confidently that the interests of Charlotte, of North Carolina, and of the South are inseparably bound up with the interests of Southern Railway Company. I credit our advertising de partment by the assumption that you have all heard that "The Southern serves me &ouiu. iut uimciauuu o not onlv the statement of a fact of which I trust I have given vbu some proof tonight but it is also the exprcs ..: ! . ..mhiHnn T7nir tlnit device we DroDose to MU1I Ul l illiii'ili""' . demonstrate that patriotism is not a monopoly of the politician; that efficiency is not a monopoly of the theorist. We propose to use our great opportunity in constructive work on the lines of sound business. We have a country worth working for; a country with an elastic quality which indicates vitality. President Harrison has made it his duty and pleasure to go before the people and tell them that the Southern railway was a part of the South that every man is interested or should be in its growth and development, and his talks have done much good. For years we have pioneered alone in this field. We are glad the policy of the Southern railway has been changed. We are glad that the company is making it plain to all citizens that when the railroad prospers the sections which it traverses must necessarily prosper. Half the money paid to the company goes back to citizens who work for it. But the rail way develops lands; it locates factories and while municipalities employ men to exploit their advantages and pay them for their labor, the Southern railway is working without re ward and adding every day material wealth to the state. The Industrial department goes into Eu rope, goes into other states and brings here desirable citizens. Of course the Southern expects to get its share in increased freights,, as these new farms are developed or as the factories ship their outrput but we stand here to say that the Southern railway has done more for the material development of North Carolina than all other agencies combined.- ' ' And yet there be men -well intentioned, but misguided citizens, who would crucify this great commercial enterprise. Fol De Rol. All this talk about Butler taking the Ham mer case to the floor of the House is moon shine on a shovel. In the first place the floor of the House wouldn't.be the place for it, and in the second place there was nothing but some politics in the Hammer case. Hammer might have aided and abetted in a thousand , things in Randolph and if the things suited the politicians there would have never been a voice raised. As we have often pointed out, there is no better agricultural county in the state of North Carolina than Randolph. There is no better all round section anywhere, and were it not for the political feud which has been on there for years Randolph would quickly take her place among the first coun ties. But every year there is a great political fight. The republicans there can see no good in the democrats arid the democrats there can see no good in the republicans. We have liv ed many years in North Carolina and cannot recall a single year when ballot box stuffing was not charged by one side or the other. The fact that Hammer has been a politician and an editor and then when he was made district attorney, naturally to take his scalp would be business. But the charges made against him, even if sustained, were not enough to oust a man from the democratic crib. We again offer, gratuitously, our oft given advice to the good fellows of both par- ties in Randolph: .forget the past get busy for development of your towns and county ana when you die you will die happier and leave much more of the world's goods for your children to enjoy. W. F. Burbank Dead. We were shocked the other morning to read of the death of Mr. W. F. Burbank, pres ident of the Winston Sentinel.' We were in San Francisco and had intended going the next day to see him. He had gone to a hos pital a few days before not, he informed us, for an operation, but for observation. He had written us cheerfully at Phoenix and given us advice to keep a stiff upper lip. We had expected to see him on Tuesday and on Sunday he died. All that we could do was to send a tribute of beautiful California lilies to the undertaker at Oakland the fun eral was to be held at Los Aneeles and afmin were we reminded how uncertain is this little life of ours. Mr. Burbank had not been feel ing himself for over a year but hoped to make a fight and win. We first formed his acquaintance twenty-five years ago when he lived in Winston and conducted the Sentinel which he purchased from Mr. T. O Fnv TT was a native of California, married there, and nau great property interests in San Francisco and San Jose. Burbank was a man of good parts a "good citizen" as Joe Caldwell used iu &dy. ne leaves a wile and several children and hundreds of admirers. Not On The Stump. Judge Frank Carter, candidate for Attor ney General, gives out the story that he has not written a letter or made a speech nor does he intend to. He says he is attending strictly to the duties of his present office. Well, per haps his hired men know more about cam paigning than the Judge. He has headquar ters and it is very easy these days to tell the stenographer what to do. It All-Is True. We read in a wail of woe: evidence of corruption amongD-Taw-maker8 and. even among the Judges, who should know only justice and integrity. w, oca rinh mra vhn iA htmv their country ana IOUI their hands and soli their souls with most infamous dealings and most shameful profits. w ooa Amprirani a nnt the dollar above every consideration of right and duty, above the claims of our common numanity. No doubt about it. And we see men drunkards and we see them wife beaters but not all men are drunk ards and the per centage of wife beaters is small. And we see beautiful women, girls, sell their souls for fine clothes and we see virtue side-step and go hurling down to hell but not all women or Hrls ro wrong. Now and then there is a corrupt judge but not one in a thousand. Now and then a rich man might betray his country the same as now and then a poor man betrays his country Prisons are filled with all classes of people- but because a few go wrong; because a cer tain per centage of the race fails in its duty to man's prescribed laws or does not observe the stern mandates of God is no reason why we should conclude that all is lost. Just now in a world with countless billion people the criminal class is smaller than the soldier class -a class being called up to be butchered because of man's written law. The dollar is often put above all other con siderations but not always and here and there on life s broad highway we really find men with millions doing great good. The old idea, an idea that obtained but a few short years ago to the effect that dollars stained men s souls is being surrendered. The great men of the country are begin ning to see that those talented money makers are wholly human; that they are essential in the race of life; that men with a million do big things and great things, and without them there would be little happiness. No longer is the multi-millionaire pilloried before the world as a human vulture; no longer, does the mob crv crucify the man in Big Business. The world is rapidly learning or at least accepting what it should have al ways known that the rich man is essentially the prop of the commercial fabric, and with out him there would be a world of starving people. The rich man who may see more in a dollar than the profligate is the man who makes it possible for the wage earner to live in happiness. Cut out the rich man and La bor would find itself begging from door to door. . o A Demagogue. Lexicographers have finally taken notice Too long, and far too long the demagogue escaped definition. He wore the patriot's masque he fooled the people by posing as a voice in the wilderness. The Century Die tionary thus places him in his pew hands to a long waiting world his number. It defines him as follows: "An unprincipled popular orator or leader; one who endeavors to curry favor with the people or some par titular portion of them by pundering to their prejudices or wishes or by playing on their iguorance or passions; specifically an unprincipled political agitator; one who seeks to obtain political power or the furtherance of some sinister purpose by. panderiug to the ignorance or prejuun-e oi tne populace." Now when you call a man a demagogue you have authority, if he looks like the above pen photogra'ph. And how many of them have you seen -in North Carolina? How many of them have "curried favor" with the people by "pandering to their prejudices or wishes" or "playing on their ignorance or passions?" You can count a score of them men who played the game uiiblushingly and success fully. Now that the lexicographers have de fined this menace to Society why not make a law to punish him to put him on the roads for disturbing the commercial peace? We take a man by the slack of the pants and drag him before the bar of justice if he disturbs the "peace and dignity" of a city bv boisterous noises; by interfering with churches or schools or public gatherings then why, by the same token, inasmuch as now we have the picture and number of the demagogue not take him when caught red handed disturbing the commercial peace and interfering with the well ordered conditions, and yank him before the bar of justice and put him on the roads for say six months? These leather lunged blatherskites, describ ed above, appear in all states and in all sec tions. They should be suppressed by law the same as any other disturbing force. o Sure Mike! The Yancey villc Sentinel says: The new primary law is the biggest bowl of mush we ever saw dished out to professional politicians. It possesses dozens of objectionable features to the honest, conscientious voter, but its worst trait is that under it the office can no longer seek the man; a man must go Job fishing and pay for his tackle. The Inalienable right of me people to select nt servants for their offices is ruthlessly swept away. We are not one of those who delight in exultantly shouting "I told you so" but in this case when the politicians were putting the mess over we raised our voice long and loud. But the politicians were on the job and why concern oneself about the people if the politician is at the crib? The Sentinel has diagnosed the case but too late now. Our Manners. We make our manners to the many news paper publishers who sent to us, during our sojourn in the wilds of Arizona, their papers. They were more interesting in Arizona than we ever found them here at least we thought so, and those sent to us were always inter esting reading in Greensboro. Guess when a tellow is a few thousand miles from home he gets lonesome and doesn't know it until he picks up a paper from his home state then he i reaas every line in it. o- Strange, Isn't It? People have, just about quit talking about the war. When it first came on the bulletin boards were scanned by the hour. Now the VlAtsI 1MAn i . . A.xvi mics aumce, ana otten they are not read. How soon we become accustomed to things- no maiier now dreadful they are. One Way To Look At It. There are several ways to look at a propdsi tion and several ways may be the right ways, but we hardly see the logic of the following from the Omaha Bee: if th narnio hnslness were operating to turn criminal characters loose in Nebraska alone we might put some check upon it. but, unfortunately, the parole mills are grinding convicts out irom prison vana iu mure iuuu half of the states of the union and, once out, they roam at large until they strike some community in which they come to grief. Inferentially the Bee says that all paroled prisoners finally come to grief the second or third or fourth time. It says in as many words that once a convict, always a convict. It silently suggests between the lines that no matter what a man earns in prison he is en titled to nothing in the way of reward. It places the helpful, industrious, rule observing prisoner in the same class with the trouble maker; the mischief brewer, in other words because a man has erred, no matter how, the Bee suggests that there to him should be no reward of merit. At school, in Society, in business, every where else what has been teritjed "good citiz enship" counts. The Bee would say that all prisoners are the same. ' But even admitting that, in the nature of things nine tenths of the prisoners are finally discharged their term expires and they will naturally again "roam at large" and of course "strike some other community in which they will come to grief" according to the Bee. Well wouldn't the chance for "roaming at large" be less if the convict had been rewarded writh some time rather than pluck him for the last minute? Looks to us that way and that is why we favor paroling men who have to their credit the one best thing in a convict Good Be havior. Ten Thousand Columns. Within the past month there have been wasted at least ten thousand columns of more or less valuable space by high browed pro phets telling us about the G. O. P. situation. Even the Saturday Evening Post has allowed Sam Blythe to consume pages telling just what would happen, and what Teddy might do and yet with all the prophecies, no man has arrived at any definite conclusion. Generally after the situation is carefully analyzed the conclusion is that if Roosevelt doesn't do something then something else might happen. This year of all others is the Year of Mystery. In both parties there is much doubt as to the stage setting just before November. There may be a Peace party in the running; there may be an Independent Party to oppose Roosevelt if he captures the nomination; there may be a Bull Moose party to oppose the stand patters if they win at Chicago, and therefore no telling what will happen. And that is why all these wonderful predic tions made from week to week are of no avail. No matter how the conventions put it it may not stay put. There is Revolution in the air the Mexican germ has crossed the border. The big ones of both parties are on the war path, and no man can tell what will happen and this time -what may happen before the conventions is more important than what ever happened before. An Old Subject. The Charlotte Observer some time ago car ried a leading editorial on what it termed "Charity Advertising." It is an old subject, but the Observer perhaps rendered conspicu ous service to the craft when it gave the space to it. The General Public that general public which has facts pounded into it year in and year out ; which is reminded personally and publicly by every newspaper in the land that it costs money to print; that General Public which wants something from the publisher for nothing, never seems to understand, or, if understanding, to heed. The Observer makes the point that if a church is going to give an ice cream supper it understands that it must pay for its ice; lor its nunc; ior tne room; ror tne labor but it comes expectantly tripping up to the busi ness office of the newspaper and tries to put over a five dollar advertisement, the one thing essential to success, for nothing. But no matter how often told each recur ring season tlie committee has a grouch if the paper undertakes to charge for its wares, the same as other business people charge for theirs. It might be news a two line item to announce that a certain kind of supper was to be given but to pad it; to puff it; to occupy space insisting that people attend why, then, as a matter of course it becomes purely a business proposition and the servant, or the vehicle, is worthy of its hire. The Poor Worm And Ant. Walking along the street not long ago wuth a friend a worm was crawling over the side walk and pretty soon a big red ant was seen hurriedly going to the post office, or some where. Our friend remarked, "You are always talking about animals having so much intel ligence. Do you think insects have any?" i.u t-r iu. i .i juic,. we tutu mm. we insisted tnat every thing God made had intelligence. "Then whv do these creatures walk over the sidewalk? If they had intelligence they know they would be killed." That might have seemed to one not a phil osopher a knock-out proposition but we ex plained to him that according to the figures published by the Raleigh Age Gazette sixtv per cent of the people killed by railways was the result of tresspassing. And are you going to deny that a red headed man hasn't intelli gence, we wanted to know. And so has a red headed ant. It is now given cut that Henry Ford will spend a million dollars in a campaien of edn- j . cation against the preparedness program, in which he sees war as the inevitable result. The suererestion that larire sums of mnnv will be spent with the magazines and newspapers win give me patent side house a new lease on life. GREENSBORO, N n How Would It Sound? If the worst came to worst and Wc h have another ticket, just in order to y people pent up with peace explode ' tn selves, how would it look to see one field like this: For President, W. J B For Vice President, Henry Ford Henry felt that way about it how 1" look if it read: For President, Henrv FV iui vice .rresiaeni w. J. Bryan. If p . i j ljrVan would maemanimousiv nut h;mcif o j "imotii at the end of the ticket and sro out wUh A c r u me tail a killing there would be many votes such a basket. And if it ho tr trne that Mr Rrvan l,ic v,: i -t . " . as U seen,. , j ins Kime out f Wilson, you can't tell what he won't do H is not a dead one, and he is the strong "tTC sonality in the United States. And then if Teddy concludes that after an the Bull Moose party must not die and h puts up his friend Hiram Johnson, of Califo nia, and takes the stump for him there Ji' v vui iduuig rapmiy m tnat basket too Perhaps never before on the political checker board was there such a mystery as is on this year right now. Early Spring will perhaps give us something definite, but right now it is nothing but mystery. o Captain McNeill. Captain McNeill, of Fayetteville, was a Ion? time Mayor. And no better man ever lived. But the Captain finally found he had some enemies, politically, and the last go round in a municipal election the Captain was defeat ed. And now they say there will be something doing in Fayetteville. Many of those who opposed the Captain and thus contributed to his defeat have come into camp and gone to the Captain and told him they made a mis take; that he was indeed the man to be Mayor and it is said that already the campaign is on with the Captain's hat in the riner. It is not known whether the present incum bent, Mayor Gibbs, will run again, but it is said that R. H. Buckingham, a former alder man will perhaps announce, and this means it the Captain gets into the race, and he doubt less will as friends are loyal and insistent, there will be more doing this year in Fayette ville politics than has been on for a long time. o ... Colonel Blair Talks. Colonel W. A. Blair, of Winston, one of the most delightful speakers in the state, the oth er evening delivered an address on Longfel low' at Salem College. Colonel Blair, while at Harvard, knew personally the world's gen tlest poet, and no doubt the talk given by the Winston banker was a treat from every stand point. o - No Doubt About It. The United Society of Christian Endeavor wrote Governor Craig wanting to know about prohibition and its workings as applied to Xorth Carolina under our present law, and the Governor, replying, said: "Prohibition in North Carolina has done much good, con-diu-infr to the economic, moral and intellectual develop ment of the State. There is no disposition to return to the license system." A proposition to return to the license sys tem in Xorth Carolina would be snowed un der by at least one hundred thousand major ity. Prohibition may not prohibit all the likker but it prohibits at least nine tenths of it. And that is worth while. The centipede has the pace that kills. At Random. AS IT WAS. The loy stood on the burning deck (He seemed to he la doHl.t) And then he went llow. l,y Heck (And put the fire out!) RIGHT NOW. There were a few winter plants And they should le potted And a few winter flies And they should be swatted. CHANGE. Funny to read that General Coxey who led the Hoboes on to Washington way back In 1903; who had his son-in-law, Carl Brown, aud his daughter, Xelly. on the White Uor.se of Victory get on the grass for spectacular effect, would today be a big man and talking of running for Congress on the Big Business Ticket! o THE FACTS IN THE CASE. Life is real, life is earnest. And the grave is not the goal; The Doodle Bugs must all be routed And we have to pay for coal ! SCIENTIFIC. We used to think that Johnny had A chronic case of worms But when we called the doctor in Why Johnny he had germs! WOILD DIMINISH IT. If it came to pass that Teddy forced himself on the republican machine even that Gilliam Grissom smile would come partially off. o THE YEGG3IEN. This is surely a world of change and short change at that. Safe blowing was once the business of the princes of the criminal world and now it has got to be a staple with the American tramp. But the hobo that in troduced it to the Weary Willies was one of the few who ever fastened his name on a class. He was John Yegg and he begun breaking Into safes with a high explosive in the sunny clime of California. Now all the low clasi burglars in the land are called Yegg men. The band wagon Is the place to ride and you can get a seat in It If you accept what has been prepared. If you want to blaze a new way you must lead the proces sion and walk through the tall timber. The fleece that a lamb loses In Wall Street is woven Into automobiles, steam yachts, private cars, picture gal leries and lordly mansions en Fifth Avenue. But the lamb Is not. The wettest throat has the thirstiest morn. ; o The man who said wealth baa wings referred to the bird on the dollar.
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