Trade
Trade
AT HOME
AT HOME
Always !
BY AL FAIRBROTHER
SINGLE 'COPY S CENTS
SATURDAY, ; MARCH ii, 1916.
ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1902.
RAILWAY STRIKE
IS BA CK fO NATURE
HE IS IN BIG BUSINESS
UNCLE RUSS KNEW
FRESH AIR FAKE
VUways
Brotherhood Planning to
HE STORY is that in
May there will be the.
greatest railway strike
ever known in America.
It is claimed that the
voting- has been on all
this year, and that by
May every thing will be
in readiness. The arbitration policy it is said
has never been satisfactory to the brother
hoods. For awhile they had internal dissen
sions, but now they are together and propose
to simply demand eight hours a day at the
present ten hour wage, and time and half time
for all over time put in.
The railroad men insist that such a demand
cannot be met ; that already the men employ
ed get 45 per cent of the gross earnings and
that to accede to the increased demand would
spell ruin instanter. ;
One of the officers of one of the brother
hoods sets the case concisely in this state
ment :
"I don't think there will be any arbitration
this time. I think all the arguments will fol
low the strike order, not precede and delay
it. v 'v:'. - , -
' "I am not authorized to speak officially,
but I have had ample opportunity to observe
the temper of the men. It is my whole
hearted belief that they have had enough of
this so-called arbitration.
"Arbitration no doubt is quite all right.
But the principle has been, much abused The.'
men have submitted to meditation in the
past. It never produced the justice promised.
This is the spirit of the men. It is not the
mere words of their leaders. The men are
running this. -
"Our present demands are brief and can
not be misconstrued. We shall ask for an
eight-hour day at ten-hour wages and time
and half time for overtime work. If our de
mands are not acceded to the men will walk
but. The arguments will have to come later.
Every railroad in the United States is affect
ed." . .
The magnitude of the threatened strike is
indicated by statistics. The capital securities
of the railroads directly affected total no less
than $20,247,300,000. The number of strikers
would be between 350,000 and 400,000, while
the mileage affected totals about 250,000
miles, every steam railroad in the United
States being involved.
The wages of the men threatening to strike
in 19 14 amounted to $400,000,000 ; the reve
nues of the roads involved were $3,047,019,
908 in 1914. Thus the proportion of gross
revenues that the roads paid to their employes
under the present schedules is 45 per cent,
while the proportion of total expenses of these
roads represented by employes' wages was
66 2-3 per cent.
It is estimated that the increase over the
present wage schedules, should the new de
mands be granted, would be between 25 and
4.0 per cent. .
The number of stockholders in the affected
roads is about 600,000. The unions involved
are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemeri, Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conduc
tors. .
If this goes through well, it would natur
ally paralyze all business if the railroads re
fused to yield, and if they yielded according
to their side of the story it would also par
alyze business. So we shall see what we shall
see in May.. . -
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A Little Foxy.
Henry Ford's name was filed as a candidate
for President in Michigan. It was advertis
ed that he was running. It was talked that
he was wanting to be on hand provided any
thing happened. But the other day he be
came excited and demanded that his name be
taken off the ballot. But it happened that he
had waited until too late. He was informed
that the name must remain. Wonder, really,
if Henry didn't wait until he knew it was too
late before he made his demand. Looks that
way to those who have watched Henry at his
best.
Bryan And Gore.
Bryan and Gore will be the Peace orators
at Durham in April. These two distinguish
ed gentlemen will doubtless draw large
crowds. And when it comes to talking Peace
they are certainly at home. But it might be
before April we would have no Peace.
A True Bill.
It isn't always how much you know, but
how much you can make the other fellow
think you know.
Study Of Ape A Hunch For
Man To Imitate.
VS.
HERE is. after all. something
new, now and then, under the
sun, despite the observation of
Solomon to the contrary. And
the newest thing pulled as a
health measure doesn't come from
the doctors and that makes it
look good. Out in Chicago there
lived a man whom you may know as Matt
Roeder, and Matt claimed that he was a phy
sical wreck rheumatism and stomach trou
ble putting him almost out of business. He
was unable to sleep; he walked a great deal
and in his walking passed the zoo in Lincoln
park. 'Looking in at the animals he observed
that the giant ape, the nearest thing to man
in appearance, always slept sitting up with
his arms folded and his head on his arms.
There was a hunch hidden somewhere in
the park. And the hunch came to Matt ana
told him to ape the ape. Matt couldn't shake
off the idea and finally, in despair, he con
cluded to try sleeping sitting up. He tried
an old straight backed chair ana the first few
nights it was a hard luck story. Every mus
cle in his body ached, but he kept on listening
to the whispered words of the invisible
hunch, and in six months the sight of a bea
made him feel sick. Then he discovered the
all night shows were running and he went to
them and slept till morning. Matt hands it
out this way:
"To sprawl upon one's stomacn or back in
a stuffy bed is ridiculous and injurious as
well. In such a posture the heart, stomach,
and lungs are compressed until they nearly
cease their functions, as is attested to by the
weakened pulsation noticed several hours aj
ter retiring, and by the uncomfortable feeling
in the region of the stomach when one has re
tired after having eaten a hearty meal, the
greatest injury, however, is done to the nerv
ous system by compression of the important
nerve centers.
"I formerly weighed about 160 pounds.
Now. I weigh more than 190. In the year I
have saved considerable sums in room rent.
I use a room merely to keep my clothes in."
Take it, gentlemen of the jury, take it, but
not from us, but as Matt hands it down.
There is a lot of reason in what he says about
changing the position ; cramping the heart
and all that. The wise old ape sits up and
sleeps and certainly he enjoys good health.
Man stands up half the time and lies down at
least a third of the time. Even a cow when
she lies down doesn't cramp her organs. Nor
a horse. But a man absolutely reverses his
machinery, and it may be, that after all half
our aches and pains and illness is caused by
lying down when we ought to be in a sitting
posture. Wonder who invented the lying
down process. Sancho Panza wanted God's
richest blessings to fall upon the man who
first invented sleep but did he say to lie
down to it.
Maybe if we would all start a cult now to
ape the ape we might get better health ; bet
ter heart action; better muscle result. But
who Would give up a first class bed for a
straight backed chair. Few, we dare say.
With Germany.
If we get into a war with Germany it will
not add anything to our glory. It will be use
less and foolish; But it seems that some of
the men who make munitions ; some of the
men who know how to get the fat insist that
we shall mix up. However nine tenths of
the American people are against war and
we have a half notion that Congress would
hesitate a long time before it declared war.
President Wilson can bring us only so close.
It takes a vote of Congress to say whether
or not we shall fight. And when it gets to
that point, as no honor will be involved, we
believe Congress will vote No three to one.
They Met.
The Executive Committee of the demo
cratic party met in Raleigh Wednesday, and
of course the glorious news was given out,
confidentially, by Chairman Warren, who
ought to know, that the country this fall will
go democratic. In Raleigh the week before,
it was given out confidentially by men who
ought to know, that the country will go re
publican. o
Self Defence.
So it is said that the gentleman who killed
the mill foreman will plead self-defence. The
hope is that it was self defence, but the facts
so far given out indicate that it was nothing
of the sort. However the taxpayers . will
cheerfully bear the expense of the trial and
the man who killed his boss will .have sym
pathy in many quarters. 'Twas ever thus and
'twill be always thus.
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N THE names of those big concerns on
the western coast signing up against the
government censorship of moving pictures, it
looks good to the North .Carolina and espe
cially Greensboro folk to see the name of P.
D. Gold, Jr., as President of the National
Drama Corporation.
Mr. Gold has always : been busy, and
whether in insurance or moving pictures he is
at the front. The National Drama Corpora
tion is staging its movies on the coast, near
Los Angeles. Thomas Dixon is writing the
story, and Mr. Gold is President of the cor
poration. Many North Carolina people have
stock in the new production ,to be called, we
believe, The Death of a. Nation and as Dix
on wrote it it will be good.
As we said above it pleases us to see the
name of P. D. among the hig concerns of the
new period. O
It was a pleasure to his Greensboro friends
to see Mr. Gold in.!this.city this week. He
wstxtcitaei$:it arid will return at
once to Los Angeles. The other day when
we were in Los Angeles P. D. took us over
his plant and it is an immense affair. All are
glad to know he is making good.
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Now Then.
And now comes the Journal of the Amer
ican Medical Association and says doctors
should not send consumptives to a mild cli
mate during the winter.
Of course the cheap skate who writes that
sort of dope knows just about as much about
consumption as anybody knows because no
body knows anything about it. Each day
the learned doctors disagree and each day
they are giving nervous people additional
fear. They are breaking down the forces of
the victims they are filling them full of
prunes, and no man knows anything about
consumption. It is doubtful if the germ has
ever been found. It is not doubtful, how
ever, that the newspapers and doctors are
killing more people than consumption kills.
They are spreading out a lot of thories and
filling the patient with fear taking from him
his nerve and making'him give up the ghost
without the fight that would win.
These theorists should be suppressed. If
they refuse to hold their yawp they should be
imprisoned. The time has come when men
who talk about these things should be made
admit that it is all theory and that they have
no absolute knowledge. This will save fifty
per cent of consumptive patients.
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Free Trade.
California citrus fruit growers go to Wash
ington to insist that the United States put a
tariff on citrus fruits because Italy and Sicily
were dumping in their products at such low
figures that the home growers were losing
money. It is also observed that the ultinfate
consumer gets his fruit no cheaper but be
cause of a lack of tariff to keep the foreign
product out the home man is losing money.
But free trade is the motto of democracy
and what difference does it make if the citrus
growers of this country are put out of busi
ness? None at all, it seems.
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A Suggestion.
In order to add zeal and zest to the bull
beef business and to give the sacred City
Market a little life why not have the city pull
off a free wrestling match down in the mar
ket every day- say about four o'clock? This
would draw a crowd and help out in the
sales.
Will Be Great.
' They say the San Diego fair will be as
great as the Frisco show. We tried to go look
at it, but there hadn't been a train running to
that city for two . weeks and we were told
there would be none for three weeks. Five
weeks cut off from the world is a long time.
Those who held tickets can wait until next
year and then buy some more tickets.
The Sage Millions A Power
For Good Today.
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T SEEMS that money bags
plays his part, and an import-
Part m- tne economy of
lslrt I this old world. Were it not for
money bags, indeed, there
would be no princely endow
ments; no magnificent be
quests; no great things done
on a magnificent scale. There would be no
available money to buy bonds wnen the small
town wanted to pave her streets ; there would
be no way to float a hundred different kinds
of semi-public enterprises, such as street car
companies and the like. And the schools and
churches and colleges would go begging and
never have the splendid equipments tney now
enjoy. It is essential that some men save and
keep together the wealth they make. All of us
pitied Uncle Russ Russell Sage in his days
of money lending. We wondered why he
would save and save and scrape t6 keep to
gether his great fortune of many millions.
Ve shuddered when we saw him wear a
straw hat for three seasons in order to avoid
expense and yet he left intact a great many
millions and made his wife the person to dis
burse them. The other day sne gave to the
Syracuse University a college of agriculture
to cost several thousand dollars, and for years
since the death of her husband she has been
lavish in aiding different charities. Had
Uncle Russ dissipated his fortune; had he
lived along in riotous expenditures for this
and that and left nothing but a little handful
of gold, there would be no Mrs. Sage with
her wonderful magic box of wealth. Uncle
Russ knew how to get it together his help
meet after he is gone knows how to spend
it in the right way -and therefore, while we
regarded Sage in his life 'time as a miserable
mi9errr4ie3 was indeed a benefactor of. his
race. And so are all who save their wealth
because finally it breaks through the iron
vaults and like water coursing through a des
ert freshens and gives life to many things that
otherwise would wither and die.
Changed His Views.
Rev. Richard Wilkinson, D. D., of Peters
burg, Virginia, after being a Methodist min
ister all his life, since he was 17 years of age,
preached his last sermon and joined the
Episcopal church. He has been a preacher
in many Southern states is well known and
well liked. It is said he didn't like the four
year term pastorate. He wanted to settle
down somewhere and identify himself with
his town. In his letter he said:
"The only word I have is that there has
been no change of faith whatever. The theo
logy of the communion to which I go is the
identical theology of Methodism. The twenty-five
articles in the book of discipline of the
Methodist Church of America were taken
from the thirty-nine articles of the Church of
England, but their condensation and adaption
involved no change whatever in theological
statement. I am going to the communion
where the thirty-nine articles unabridged are
the basis of the doctrine, so that I continue
to preach the same old gospel I have always
preached. On next Sunday morning, March
12, God willing, I shall preach my first ser
mon as the minister in charge of the Church
of the Good Shepherd of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, of Lexington, Ky."
If all this is true, again we have a good
reason for unity. One day that must come.
Chicago Doctor Springs
Theory On T. B.
Greensboro's Trade Carnival.
The first week of April will be devoted to
a trade carnival by the merchants of Greens
boro. During that week everything for sale
will be exposed and the chances are that a
big crowd of buyers will come from the sur
rounding country. Trade carnivals are quite
popular in many states and Greensboro of
course wants to keep up with the procession.
Wouldn't It Be A Mess?
Look over Congress and look over its man
ner of running the post-office and then ask
yourself what kind of a mess the government
would make trying to run railways and tele
phones and telegraphs. Wouldn't it be a
sorry mess? It sure would, sister.
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Great Hurling.
Almost every day for the past two years
we have been reading that another "French
Line Has Been Hurled Back." Seems to us
that with so much hurling something really
serious would happen one of these days.
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All We Want.
The inter state commerce commission and
other federal authorities are just now devoting-
some time to the freedom of the pipe
lines. Just so they do not interfere with the
freedom of the pipe dream we will be satisfied.
Good Enough.
The Winston Sentinel, like the little man
of good manners that it is, comes into camp
and frankly admits that the ground hog has
been discredited. One by one tne roses fall,
and while the ground hog has been a long
time bluffing he has finally been called, and
never again will people nervously await the
approach of February second to see whether
or not the sun is shining. The ground hog
has played his last card. He has been a
bluffer.
About Time. '
It is now about time when the snake fin
ishes up his winter's sleep and crawls out to
look at the world. Accordingly the snake
story follows and we hope, inasmuch as one
Sacred Quart is all we are allowed, that the
snake stories this year will be told according
ly. And a quart, you know, isn't much so
have the snakes small.
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Smooth Ones.
It is reported that in the eastern part of the
state a couple of men are going through the
country selling spectacles at $50 and $100 per
pair. It appears that the men are about as
smooth talkers as ever went down the pike,
and every once inawhile they separate a man
from his coin. All men, and women, should
know that spectacles are not worth any such
price, and if the smooth talkers succeed in
selling them at such figures it hardly seems
that they are to blame.
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Bring It Out.
If there is any other brand of weather not
yet exhibited this March we would like to
see it. Snow. Rain. Freezing. Sunshine.
Sixty in the shade and vet the month not
half" gone. Indeed, March is a bloomin' old
blusterer.
Looks Like It.
Things are running pretty smoothly now,
and it looks like some wild man from Borneo
who wants to go to the Senate after awhile
should start another freight rate war. Start
I something to inflame people.
HAT, HO! And now
comes a Wise Man in
Chicago, a man with
legal right to place M.
D., after his name; a
man prominent in Chi
cago; a man who claims
to know, and he upsets
a theory which has been cherished for, lo,
these many moons. This bold, bad man
this idol crusher this stern iconoclast is Dr.
Charles E. M. Fischer, and he says that this
hobby about fresh air is all a joke that the
real fact is all human beings are full of the
germs which play havoc with the system if
they get the upper hand, and that drafts and
cold decrease the power of resistance and Mr.
Doodle Bug takes advantage of it and comes
into his own.
In other words we are to take it from Dr.
Fischer that the man who goes out in the
cold to sleep and naturally gets colder than he
would in a sheltered room is voluntarily
throwing himself under the Doodle Bug char
iot and seeking self destruction. If it be true
that cold decreases the power of resistance,
and these Bugs are alert and ready and wait
ing to overcome the victim, then these porch
sleepers and these fresh air fiends will be
obliged to take another guess at the Mystery.
We are glad to see the doctors start some- -thing.
They follow the bell sheep. Let some
titled gentleman put out a theory about germs
or about any old thing and the medical jour
nals are full of it and along come about ten
thousand doctors yelling "Me too, me too.
Tbj? truth is medical science is. mis-named. It
is not a science. .There is but ope true science
jrrmAtheriUJTJjned
zle. It is guess work. It is theory. It is of
ten absurd. Let the man who builds the en
gine of an automobile, who knows every part
and piece and recognizes every sound of the
throbbing engine be called in to see "what is
the matter" and he doesn't put his ear to the
hood and reach a conclusion. He opens the
hood, he examines every part and discovers
what the trouble is. A doctor does not "go
into the works." He simply thumps and list
ens and tests and then concludes so and so
and in all candor who would expect his con
clusions" to be accurate? No one. The man
who suffers takes the decree. He says the
doctor said so and so and from time im
memorial it has been proverbial that "doctors
disagree." We hope the Chicago man will go
further.