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RED LIGHT TALK
WILL BE CONFIRMED
HE IS NOT DEAD ONE
DRA WS THE CROWD
MUST BE UNITY
BY AL FAIRBROTHER
Goldsboro Figuring On
The Situation.
UCH discussion is on
just now at Goldsboro
concerning the moral
situation and the people
are wondering what to
do. It is claimed that
the red light district
flourishes in spite of all
that can be done ; that
the men who violate the law give bonds and
finally juries fail to convict and a whole lot
of hot air is wasted.
1 Greensboro has of course some of the paint
ed ones in her very "midst' but because of
the laws passed to protect this county we
have a pretty clean slate. Goldsboro could
follow us in this regard and she 'would find
that the immoral . ones would not flock like
black birds to the town and use it as a roost
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Colonel John D. Langston, of the local bar
of Goldsboro gives out an interview, and in it
are some hot shot and a whole lot of good,
common sense. Among other things he says :
"Now while we realize that the building up
of a ' moral conscience in all .the people is a
slow process, yet there are a few rules that
could be observed by moral men and women
of professed piety, that would, in my opinion,
put a decided check upon certairr kinds of
immorality that have been properly con
demned. The question is have we the cour
age to apply these rules, are we too cowardly
to put to a practical test our professed desire
to rid the community of immoral conduct?
The rules I suggest are three in number.
"1. Regairdless " oOoctafsttlon"; refusefo"
entertain socially, or consort with socially,
the woman whose life you are satisfied is not
straight. If her life is crooked' enough for
you to gossip about, you can safely apply the
rule, or you convict yourself of slander. Wo
men of the lower world have no respect for
their prototypes of the upper world. Then
why should you?
"2. Refuse to recognize socially the man
whose professed life is saintly, but whose
moral conduct, from all reports, is not safe.
You only judge houses of ill fame by reputa
tion, and while I doubt if reputation is a safe
rule by which to convict or condemn, it is
equally safe to apply it to the libertine who
is making his daily rounds under the guise of
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"3. Deny to your daughters, parents, the
privilege of accepting calls from young men
whose reputation you may know is besmirched
and who are reputed to be intimate with evil
women. Surely you are not afraid of making
some one in high position mad if, at the same
time you can protect your home and society
at large? Don't let your daughter dance with
him or speak to him on the streets. The man
who holds your daughter in his arms in the
simple movements of the dance is responsi
ble, perhaps, for the criminal life of some
poor creature that you would condemn to a
long term in jail. Give him the same dose
of medicine. .You only know the poor paint
ed creatures by reputation ; you know the
young libertine equally by reputation. You
are dodging the question when you say you
don't. Both are unsavory. You cannot pun
ish the one by imprisonment, you can put the
social ban on him. Social ostracism may
save him, and her through him. The woman
of ill repute says to herself ,! T am as good as
he is and they do not appear to think less of
him.' Are they justified?
"I will open the subscription list and nom
inate the mayor of Goldsboro as trustee of
the funds, and I will subscribe the 'proceeds
from the sale of one building lot at Herman
Park annex to the building of a Y. M. C. A.,
just to see how many old 'buffers' we have
got in this town."
The Colonel has simply taken another way
to present the contention of Everything for
many years. to the effect that so long as there
is a double standard of morals the so-called
"social evil" is hard to curb. What he hands
out is worth thinking about, and some day
bis rules will be observed.
Some Mystery.
The Rev. Sidney Love left the state about
February first, and it is claimed has not been
located. He was prominent in prison reform.
It is said that he handled none of the money,
and his leaving and maintaining such a sil
ence puzzles his friends. Another reformer
named Crab tree was said, to De looking into
Love's past history and this may have had
something to do with his departure, it is sug
gested. So far as we know Love did a good
work in this state. He always seemed to be
a sincere man; thoroughly in love with his
work, and we regret that he has seen fit to
leave us and his work.
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Brandeis Will Doubtless Go
On The Bench.
T SEEMS that Brandeis will
! be confirmed. The Hon.
y -"I ...If T T . t r .
,iauue owanson, united states
Senator from Virginia, in an
interview in Richmond the
other day said: "The commit
tee has not yet filed its report,
and discussion of the Senate's
action is therefore premature. I believe, how
ever, that unless the evidence ' against Mr.
Brandeis is more serious than now appears,
he will ultimately be confirmed. The con
firmation may be held up for a while, but I
think the general sentiment of the Senate is
for him."
And that is about the size of it. Half the
Senators expressed great astonishment at the
President's selection ; many swore they would
not vote for his confirmation ; newspapers
talked and the witnesses were called. But
before it is over the "administration" will be
endorsed.
And this is the pity of it. Unless there
was absolute grounds for refusing to confirm
a man in this high position there should have
been no suspicion cast. It is bad business
to discuss a man who is to be a judge on the
bench of the court of last resort. It gives
ignorant people and well informed people as
well, a chance to "knock the government"
to question the fairness and honesty of the
judiciary. )
If the President thought an appointment
would call forth all the abuse and criticism
that has been heaped upon Brandeis' head he
should not have invited it. To "keep the
judiciary pure" has been an axiom for all the
years we can remember, and certainly to keep
it, from reproach 'or suspicion is just as neces
sary. It is our opinion that Brandeis is too
much of a socialist to be placed in the respon
sible postiion. Temperamentally be is dis
qualified. So strong is he in his opinions and
prejudices we do not think he could hear a
cause justly. We hope we are wrong; Be
cause it looks like he is going to go on the
bench. Those Senators who insisted a mis
take, had, been made are going to vote for
him, it seems. That settles it.
Must Wait Awhile.
The prohibitionists and woman suffragists
have been informed that no vote will be tak
en by Congress on their amendments this
session. In turn both parties are angry and
charge trickery. But those busy , say Prepar
edness is Paramount, and of course when a
Paramount comes , along all other things are
side tracked.
Will Not Run Again.
Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels,
announces that he is not a candidate for Na
tional Committeeman from North Carolina.
He says he has held the office for twenty
years, and now that he is at the head -of the
Navy he will not ask for re-election.
The South Remembered.
Secretary Daniels asks an appropriation of
one million, four hundred thousand dollars
for the navy yard at Norfolk. It seems that
Joe is determined to keep his section of the
country up to the front. .'-
Gratifying.
It must be gratifying to Colonel W. H. Os
born to see so many of the newspapers writ
ing nice things about him. He has made
good as Commissioner of Internal Revenue
and his North Carolina friends are glad to
know it. '. !"
Do Not Get Frightened.
If you think you have Doodle Bugs hold
your nerve. Do not get frightened by all this
lurid dope you read. More people die from
fright than die from the disease. Hold your
nerve and don't -read the rot being sent out
by syndicates and spell binders.
They Say.
It is talked that Gilliam Grissom may be
forced by the republicans of the Fifth Dis
trict to run for Congress. Mr. Grissom will
make a lively fight he will no doubt have
an original platform and he works day - and
night. But it is hardly in the stars that any
man can this year defeat Major Stedmanv
Those inside seem to think that we could
get the Coler road by putting up but a small
sum of money. Better get busy and put it
up get Coler's road in and then go after the
Duke road and Greensboro would be a
hummer all right. Both are in sight-j-both
can be gotten. But things we need for .the
most vpart obst something, and we will have
to cdme across.
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MANY of the politicians are apparently
gloating over the fact that E. Carl Dun
can was defeated for National Committee
man. Many of them claim that he has been
politically effaced. But he is not a dead one.
He will come again and he is here. Mr. Dun
can is one of the men who have helped to
build North Carolina. He is a railroad man
and a banker. He gives employment to. men.
And we are willing that you should take it
from us that a man like Carl Duncan who
makes it possible to give work to many men
is worth more than fifty politicians who work
only their mouths. Duncan is as big as ever
and the temporary political defeat in no
way disturbs him.
Not Unanimous.
, The managers of Daughtridge's campaign
say that Bickett hasn'tf got all the votes by
-a long shotr-WeopTisHsctrne' -but-we
fear the Attorney General has "bagged his
game." Daughtridge will of course get some
support, but the politicians have decreed that
Bickett is the man and naturally what they
decree comes to pass.
Send Him.
There is a movement on foot to elect Gen
eral J. S. Carr delegate at large to the Na
tional Convention. The General is a Wilson
man, through and through, and his friends
should see to it that this honor is bestowed.
That is about all the General will ever get
from politics in this state, but not all that
he should have had, by a long shot. General
Carr -is now in Calif orn" 1 but will be home in
a short time.
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Portrait Of Caldwell.
The citizens of Statesville presented to the
State Tuesday, through R. R. Clark, editor of
the Statesville Landmark, an exceptionally
fine portrait of J. P. Caldwell, North Caro
lina's biggest editor. Joe Caldwell was the
one man in North Craolina who early blazed
the way for freedom of speech. He didn't
stand on customs. He thought and then
wrote out his thoughts and printed them.
Often he jarred the slats of the gum shoe and
whispering multitudes, but .finally he made
the path clear and many have followed. Joe
Caldwell will live long in North Carolina.
Some Joke.
And wouldn't it be some joke were Mr.
Hammer to use the persecution, as he feels it,
against him as district attorney to land him in
the halls of the American Congress as a duly
qualified member? Wouldn't it jar the slats
of the Randolph rads who are still on the
war path and who up to this sad hour have
refused to be. comforted? It would, Pauline.
Easily Understood.
There is to be a great "Congress" held in
New Orleans on April 14, to discuss the
South's attitude on lynching. There is no
reason for such a Congress. Judge Walter
Clark recently made it plain why there are
Iynchings. It is because the people have a
right to feel that murderers are too often
turned loose by juries and pardoned by Gov
ernors. That is the real reason.
More Notes.
Another boat has been sunk on which were
some Americans and naturally we will send
some more notes to Germany. It will be no
surprise to see us in a war with Germany
but the cause should be sufficient.
In His Haste.
When Governor Craig referred to himself
as a "tribunal" he must have thought he had
already received his commission for Judge
Boyd's place on the Federal Bench.
. Well, this is All Fool's Day which will
account for our going fishing.
Brutal Prize Fight Crowded
The House.
ND THE "world grows better
as men grow old," the inspired
poet tells us but really it looks
sometimes like the "human na
ture" that is in us all demands
a chance to show itself. There
are laws against prize fighting.
People undertake to say they are
brutal. Moving pictures are not
allowed to present secenes from prize fights
and yet last Saturday night in New York,
in Madison Square Garden a prize fight was
pulled, and this is a part of the description of
the setting:
"The garden never held a larger crowd.
Carpenters worked so late building seats on
the floor that the doors did not open on time.
Promoter Tex Rickard was sorry, he said, but
his sorrow was of the cheerful order, for
every one of the 13,000 seats was filled. A
few $25 tickets were in the box office when
the doors opened, but they were soon sold.
Speculators found it easy to get four times
the original price of tickets."
Never held a larger crowd. Thirteen thou
sand seats were filled and tickets selling for
$25 each. Speculators selling tickets at four
times the original price and when the brave
bully boys went to it they fought ten rounds
and the "champion" broke his right hand and
finished the job with his left.
The papers made it the spread. Bulletins
in newspaper offices throughout the country
played the fight up by rounds and streets
were filled with people eager to see what hap
pened. Sunday morning came and people
professionally on their way to Church dis
cussed nothing but the fight and all regretted
they had not seen the brutal display.
Possibly " howeveiywg" are getting" betterr
Possibly, however, the , world grows in spir
itual strength but it doesn't seem that the
prize fighting business is at all on the wane.
The Franking Graft.
And now the attention of Congress is be
ing called to the fact that mill?ons of pieces
of mail are carried unlawfully because of the
too free use of the Congressman's frank.
If the post-office authorities would whittle
down this piece of graft and then make news
papers and magazines pay their share of the
freight the post-office department would pay.
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One Will Do.
Because there are a half dozen men run
ning for Attorned General Editor Hurley is
impelled to ask the question: "How Many Do
We Need?"
We would say that one, Hurley, one, is an
elegant sufficiency.
No Apologies.
We have no apologies to offer for our in
sistence that Dr. Frederick A. Cook be giv
en a square deal in his Polar claims. Let the
Committee go to it and if Cook is a fraud it
can easily be proven. But the man is entitled
to a fair show.
Richmond Pearson.
It is now said that Richmond Pearson isn't
satisfied with the side tracking given him in
Asheville last week and that he proposes to
get in the saddle and take to Chicago a full
set of Bull Moose candidates.
A Prediction.
After the High Point road is built we pre
dict that within ten years this county will
have similar roads running all over it. If the
asphalt-concrete road proves a success, and
at the price it should, farmers from all sec
tions will see that it pays to buy the best.
Not Until July.
The election will not get warm until July.
Or, rather, the talk of election. This year
will witness perhaps the most exciting elec
tion in many years. Wilson will be trying to
go back the republicans will doubtless make
a bust in Chicago and the dear old party call
ed the G. O. P. will find itself worn to a fraz
zle and because of the man who popularized
the word.
Looks like Mr. Beasley should throw his
hat in the ring and go before the people. The
fact that he does not endorse the Prepared
ness talk might be the making of him.
Thousands of people in North Carolina are
against the proposed measure. Your Uncle,
for instance.
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Those who are waiting for June haven't
long to wait but some of the presidential
makers will regret that June ever came.
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Base ball is now in full bloom, and the
rooter is happy, and the yell. sounds natural.
In Order To Get The
Best Results.
E HAVE often thought
that to put over any
really big thing took
simultaneous action
that if a cause or a
business was alone it
was much harder to get
people awakened. If it
is in the automobile business, or any other
business, the fact that there are many makes
of machines and many men engaged in the
business has a tendency to more quickly
popularize the article or convince the public
that "everybody's doing it." But we never
before thought of the simultaneous revival as
helpful to create religious sentiment. Rev.
Dr. Edward N. Calisch, the gifted Jewish
rabbi, of Richmond, and well and favorably
known in North Carolina, last Sunday preach
ed a sermon on the subject and he said "sim
ultaneous religious movements serve to trans
late sentiment into action. They make for
truer citizenship, closer fellowship, and no
bler brotherhood. Let us hope for a day when
such a movement will not be merely city
wide, but world-wide."
The chief value of revivals, said Dr. Calisch,
lay in the fact that they engender religious
enthusiasm, and, properly constituted and di
rected, such enthusiasm is that which con
verts the highest intelligence and the finest
moral sentiment into righteous activity. No
virtue, he said, is safe that is not enthusiastic.
"The time was," said Dr. Calisch, "and per
haps is yet, when religion , was a subject of .
contempt to the superior v.in - culture and .
knowledge,' a thmg" for; women" and" children;
food for the weak and 'immature, but of no
value to the strong and knowing. But this is
merely the assumption of conceit, and the
presumed intellectual superiority is merely
the arrogance of ignorance.
"There is a danger, however, or enthusiasm
being overgreat. Religious enthusiasm is
especially susceptible to this danger. It may
readily become fanaticism or bigotry. But
the extreme at one end is as false as that of
apathy and indifference at the other. There
is a golden mean between fanaticism on the.
one hand and listlessness on the other. A
well directed religious enthusiasm strength
ens the finer impulses and gives birth to nob
lest action."
Dr. Calisch likened religious enthusiasm to
electricity, deadly in its ungoverned activity,
but wonderfully useful and valuable in well
ordered and directed channels. It is to hu
man life, he said, what the unknown current
of the skies is to the body politic. The creeds,
theologies, catechisms and rituals are the
poles and wires and fixtures by which it is
made available. These, too, he said, like the
conductors of electricity, must be modled
and improved as man progresses.
And this "tip" from the learned rabbi
should not be. forgotten. When one church
starts a revival, let all churches get busy and
have the whole town talking. And if twenty
men in a dozen different places confess their
faith it will be easier for. the next twenty to
do likewise.
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A Radical Change. "" J, :
Postmaster General Burleson proposes to
abolish about 50,000 post masters. His idea
is to have one post-master in each -county
with all the other post-offices in that county
the same as sub-stations in a big city. A clerk
would handle the other offices and report to
the county postmaster. - '
. This looks like destroying one of the allur
ing dishes of the pie counter. It is said the
Postmaster General has many Congressmen
already committed. It is a new idea, but
looks good. It would save much expense and
that is what Uncle Sam wants to do just now.
Rev. Russell.
Rev. Russell, the Brooklyn divine, who
sees the millenium right here, is speaking in
North Carolina. He has large sales for his
books. He has the old idea of the world
enders of years ago, and draws large crowds.
He hires an opera house and hands out the
dope. Perhaps he is happy, and thinks he is
doing good. Possibly he can do no harm.
Let him proceed.
Poor Wilcox.
Wonder what Wilcox, doubtless innocent
of crime, thinks now about sentiment. It
was said he would have been pardoned had
not sentiment played a part sentiment for
the mother of the girl who disappeared. If
Sam Christy deserved what he got, certainly
Wilcox should be pardoned.
Well,. March didn't go out just like a lion,
but more like some amphibious beast.