North Carolina Newspapers

BY AL FAIRBROTHER PARDON BOARD britts mileage bill r 1 T D- To Question 1 o Lome tie- - , Jure icgioiuiui c HE politicians talk about amendments generally something to help them along In one way or another. They never look after other thing's". In North Caro lina, because of re --. - - iiffc cent official action of the Governor, the ques tion of the pardoning power is being wide ly and freely discussed. It appears to be pretty nearly a uutuimuua up""" v.. be changed-hat the Governor o I law should should not have the power to become the fin he power to become the fin- r . . . , al "tribunal" as Governor Craig" interpreted lip himself. The Raleigh Christian Advocate k 11111 , , . . , . . they are not entitled. a church paper, and having nothing to do after time the scandal has been aired, with politics, presents the matter m this but -t has always been impossible to get the forceful and convincing manner : It says : Congressman to vote to reduce his own in "We have no desire to read Governor Craig come. The hope is that Britt's bill will pass, a lecture for commuting the death sentence There is no possible chance to excuse this to life imprisonment in the cases of Ida Ball petty graft. It is dishonest in a moral sense. Warren and Christy ; nor yet are we zealous A Congressman gets $7,500 a year and then to weave any garland for his brow on ac- comes in with a big rake off for mileage and count of that act. We take it that he dis- often splits things with clerks who are some charged his duty as he saw it in the light of times paid for doing nothing. ... the facts laid before him; and whether he It is well that a republican has introduced acted wisely, or whether he made a mistake this bill, because the republicans have been is only an incident in the-larger view of the in power longest and never repealed the Jaw. motions under which we are living. This Now let all the good democrats come to paper is not concerned wtih partizan politics, nor with purely theoretical principles ui government; but in" the pardoning power of the governor as it exists today there is a question that touches very vitally the en- forcemen of-lawandthaHnvol p 1 j : 11 . . 1 4- n A .i unitr I lerence Derween a weu lcguwicu wiuiuumv; and one in which a large element of anarchy prevails.. v. "We have been long convinced that the pardoning power of -the Governor needs se rious modification, irrespective ot who may occupy that seat of honor. No man ought to be subjected to the pressure which these fre quent appeals put upon him. This seems to cover the case, and the hope is that at the next session of the legislature steps will be taken to change the present . m i J custom. A board 01 pardons is a very guuu. thing. Five persons can better determine these perplexing questions, and the responsi- bility is thus removed from one man. YVe need a change in this particular. A Deserving Charity. Jim Pemar is a blind man. He is indus trious and frugal. He owned a little home west of the city. It caught fire and burned. He was left destitute. His wife died a cou ple of years ago. He has five children. Kind hearted people have already subscribed a couple of hundred dollars or more to help him build a new house. More money is need ed. Mr. John Sockwell, of Greensboro is re ceiving donations. If you have an extra dol laror even fifty cents, and desire to aid a deserving man, blind and destitute, and ren dered destitute through no fault of his send it to Mr. Sockwell. - - ' Still A Mystery. Although the city, county and state offer ed a reward for the apprehension of the man or men who killed Brady in Greensboro, no new developments come. The theory that he committed suicide obtains, and on that . the case rests, and no one seems interested. If "murder will out" perhaps some day we will learn the particulars but right now it looks like the case was closed. ; -- .. 7 Good Enough. A man named Mayhew has been pardoned by ' Governor Craig because the evidence on which he was convicted turns out to have been manufactured. The man' who was wit ness against Mayhew has admitted he swore to a lie. And thus poor Mayhew, innocent, has given five years of his time to the state for a crime he never committed. There should be a law to reimburse such people. But there isn't. 7 0 ' " A Wasted Boom. T. Coleman de Pont, the powder man, and perhaps the biggest and best boomer for good roads concluded he might be president, and the "business man" idea was sprung. Many pictures and many stories were print ed but the de Pont boomlet fell about as flat as Henry Ford's peace party. By the way where is Henry Ford these dark days? O : It appears that the anti-saloon league has filed its protest against the appointment of Brandeis. Seems that tlie lawyer, is getting His from all around.. Strange he would per sist in wanting the place. - " - f - - SVBSCBIPTIN $1.00 A YEAR, SINGLE COPY S CENTS Do Away With Congress- men s (jraft. T MUST come this reduc- b&Q tion of mileage now paid to ' r -nA it Vio11 come, and come now. Con gressman Britt, a republican, has introduced a bill in the lower house reducing mileage to the actual amount expend ed. If it costs three cents, charge three cents -but not twenty cents as now. paid. The government has been looted, for lo, these many years by democrats and republi cans. In the very old days when men trav- 'led by stage the mileage allowance was 1 j . - mtla aorh nrav I on- --' OTPscmpn rrossin? the continent twice each . ; . .- . ... to which Britt's rescue give us a house cleaning and it will be good campaign material for the democrats. Will they do their duty? Do Not Get Excited. Mr . . . Bugs and holding meetings ana naturany . . n I alarming those who now and then are told that they have T. B. Do not let these lay- - 'I men, who really know nothing about what they are talking alarm you. There are at least one hundred other diseases much" worse than the Doodle Bug entertainment. If you think you are nursing and harboring Doodle Bugs, don't get frightened. Look to your diet. Get a little more out door exercise. Walk and take the long deep breathing cure; sleep in a room ventilated. The sleeping porch is useless just a tad. ventnairon 01 t-nnr c15r..nor room fresh air croiner in and ' all that is necessarv. Tuber- m1 5 -V. "1 w miosis is not infectious hundreds of doptors ous, restless and fidgety, sits suave and corn claim and observation proves that it' is not.- posed under almost any tension. And when The doctors have gone wild over the dis- ease and tne laymen wno love xo sauui xxc , - 1 .1. . :i-t,-..- TJ An . .. . 1 ti-. . i. 1 on nave tomea me anvu tuuiua. 1- not let anv of these things frighten you. Make a bLe fignt and ou will get well, Tust take you cafe in time.- That is all there is about it is auoui il. . . . .... 1 -o 1 Last Night. According to the High Point Enterprise Mr. Gilliam Grissom and Judge W. P. By- num spoke in High Point last night. That is they were to speak. This' paper goes to is tney were to P w Mr Grissom press before the meeting but Mr. Grissom makes there, we take it, his maiden speecn as a candidate for Congress.. Of course Judge Bynum will hand down the protection dope ; he will go alter democracy anu we ia.e it that the campaign is on. Major Stedman will find that his friends will look after his interests while he is on duty at Washington, and our friend Grissom will extract some pleasure from the campaign. But this year, especially after the June conventoin, the path of democracy will be easy in the Fifth dis trict.' These Days. Take it from us, Mike, these are the days we think about that old log; that quiet pool and the big bass that is talking politics to his neighbor. It is there that we would like to be with a live bait and about an hour to show him how easy it is for some things animate to make terrible miAakes. The Last Echo. K Perhaps the last we will hear of the Leo Frank case was when the mother of the mur dered girl settled her suit with the pencil company for which she was working. . The rP was settled out of court. The mother wsc w a o l li - . had asked $10,000 for damages and how much she received will always be a mystery. Frank certainly paid the bill in full. :' ' - Generally The Case. We npte that ir is the other fellow who makes the mistakes. So far as we can recall we never made a mistake in our sad, young life, but the other fellow has made a bushel c 11 -: - 01 them. - - . - - - - ' SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1916. la tham makes good it-it- -mc.m rpHE Cotton Trade; Journal, of Savannah, 1 Georgia one of the big publications hav ing to do with the cotton trade of the coun try, has recently paid ji deserving tribute to our fellow townsman, Mr. J. E. Latham. Of course it speaks of him only as a cotton man but the folk here know. him to be equally as conspicuous in other walks. His cam paign here last week for the Y. M. C. A. showed that he is an "all round man" al ways leading in matters in which his city is interested. As president of the Chamber of Commerce ; as an interested farmer for he has a great plantation in Alamance as a live wire in all things which go to help in a constructive way Mr. J. E. Latham gives freely of his time, his money and his energy. The Cotton Tradojotiwtslsays: 'J. E. Latham, cotton man of the Laro- .H with Greensboro as his base for opera tions all over the cotton belt, figures in the press dispatches for a cotton deal he made . ' 1 " " recently in taking some $100,000 worth from the Willinghams of Macon, lhis is cred itable for Macon, but no unusual thing for Latham. He is what may be called a real cotton man of caliber. From seclusion as a young man in New Bern, he has advanced in the business by degrees until now he is probably second to none of them in the Pied mont ' Tn his office Mr. Latham is most pleasing, being the embodiment of culture nnn no isnpn rennemeni 10 a ucicc mat m- 1 " . r. , , r j . : -:-c- 1 iAm',r-,t'mri for man whn while I submerered in matters that make others nerv SpiitJ 1 1XA auillliativi w ...m. ' 7 economic or other broad subjects are sug- J u-. A: r c-mc- fhom with a thoroiiprn- I gcic. nc-uisi.uaaV3 ...v.. - Q -.oo r.,1rctanr1 nor that lmnresses one mo 0 - - ana unucri.iiuig mai nn1vv.o ..v. . .. 1 .1 more of the presence ot a college president than a cotton merchant. Back of that peace- ful countenance, the soft-toned voice and pleasing diction he employs, is a trading f , r -1 : . ia. nerve tnat maices iainain a cuiisi-u-u i.v- er. He knows all about the pit-falls of ad- visine- and hesitatiner. Once he reaches a de- ri;on he :s not-swerved off the track by rat- te(j brain gossip so well known to the trade, Hi's plan is to secure all possible information bearing upon any contemplated move, and then seeking seclusion, he makes up his mind r.svcholoeical moment, then acts un .1,iiatiAc.1 He does not go about setting l watch bv the time-piece of every one he encounters. The J. h.. Latham company De comes, therefore, under his guidance, a tre mendously , safe and efficient factor in hand ling spot cotton to Carolina mills, and the methods devised and actually put into prac tice by . its founder, assures it a long useful and profitable career." Get Busy. They talk about new hotels and about new depots and new court houses but what is the matter with getting busy right now and voting a few bonds for Bird Coler's road. That is one thing needed in Greensboro and one thing we can get if we go after it. ." 1 ' ' ' O ; Opened For Business. The city schools of Winston are again" onen and no traces of disease were found among over a thousand children. Looks like there was an unnecessary scare in the Twin City, v Now Then. According to ground hog theories; goose hones and musk rats, a man can now take . . ... , , . v 4. 'em off with impunity. We don t know what impunity means, out we once neaiu ic wiu used in Raleigh and as it matches our com plexion we use it. : : Let 'Em Know. Always let a man know where you stand. TVm't deceive him. Don't play a double game lie honest witn yoursen - anu y uu . I feel better. This is advice. . . - , . '- ... 1 e " Ml ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS is not all hot air Several Big Things Just Ahead tor Ureensboro. N OTHER new, hotel, on paper so far, but happily 'looking good at a distance, is scheduled for Greensboro. It is now An nounced that we are to have a $455,000 building on the pres ent site of the Guilford. The naners have been drawn; the r agreements reached, and all that is necessary, according to inside information is for the people of Greensboro to subscribe stock to the amount of something like $35,000. That looks easy. Greensboro has many very good hotels but no big, distinctive hotel nothing like other towns. And until we have a fine hotel and a big depot and a few things like that jt? Pretty pass it has come to when two we can't boast much. But all these are in the democrats in these days of prohibition dem making. ocrats; peace democrats; preparedness dem- They tell us that we are going to have in "If J -nnrt Virtt1Ca that W1 I V I Guilford county a new court house that will be the pride of every citizen. That we are on the eve of a big expansion. Not a boom, but an expansion that means much. T.he re cent developments of the T. E. Latham Co., the Irving Park progress all these real de velopments mean much to Greensboro, lne streets are in better condition than ever be fore. New paving is going on. The sewer system has been almost perfected in the new extensions, and the man who doubts about Greensboro being a big city would wonder if the sun would ever shine again. It is a sure thing, and never surer than right now. Back To Nature. The shoe men tell us that shoes will soon go to $10 a pair. Why not hike back to Na ture? Men were never made to wear shoes. Why the toe nail? That was given man to help him climb trees. The shoe has pinched and dwarfed his foot but the toe nail lingers. Sometimes it grows in. Sometimes it is a nuisance, but Nature, knowing that the time would come when shoes would be scarce has saved the toe nail in order that men may hike back to the bare-footed days' of the long ago. Therefore, beloved, better go bare footed this summer and get your leer tonea up for a bare-footed winter Beusc when hrtp5 p-n to ten aoiiars many ui us wm vut o - - em OUt. They Say. Those who have their ear to the ground to rUmblines of what may happen tell us . .1 nrpttv soon we are to have a new court tnai preiiy suuii c tw - - ... , n.u:rr 1 1 ...un ura Vi -1 i-f it ,t will rp a.tninr nouc, uu - ..... - - - of beauty. And-the hope is that it will be placed somewhere by itself and that the splendid corner now adorned by the tobacco a k.,;t;nrr coon hp orcunied bv a skuhcu uuuuiu6 - 7 , fourteen story sky scraper. That, beloved, - a is in the wind. Teddv Still Boasting. . . t.. Vc From the -way Theodore boasts he thinks he nas tne nominauuu rbial slip. The Old uiaj .v. f - . . 1 Guard will do him if it can at the convention. If not there, at the polls. His name is Den nis either coming or going. -o Hackett Running. r:r,;l nirW Hackett is running for Com ress in the Seventh district. Richard was r---. and manV irood. This or h. will rioiibtless cut some ice in the primaries. He is capable to represent North y v,ai iv Carolina in Washington. Lady Macbeth. The Oxford Ledger gives us credit for calling- Mrs. Warren the Lady Macbeth of the Winston murder. That was used by Judge Clark of the Supreme court in his review of the case, and was not original with this editor. o Maybe Not. The Charlotte Observer says the Machine had about as much to do with the candidacy of Mr. Manniner as Marion Butler had. Wonder if this is an admission that there is a Machine? . .1 - 1 Those who think that luck is a ming w lc found, have another think coming. Luck is cvstem and a man makes it. And now the flv swatter is abroad in the land, and murder is in our hearts. Why the fly if he was not made to liver . . r " a ! 1 1 rL A r oTTpr trae toe'Nojfr - i just a grim, hoary joke, andthat is all.- ESTABLISHED MAY, xgo2. a JOINT DEBATE Machim pol7cs Dis. courages Discussion NE OF the worst mis takes made by the demo crats in this county was when Mr. Hines advised . Carter Dalton that is was against the policy of the committee to allow open debates between members of the "household of faith." This in reply to Mr. Dalton who wanted to know what was best in declining or accepting Mr. Brockett's challenge to joint debate. And that is the way the "Committee sizes up and freezes out and runs things is democrats; free silver dem- ' o o ocrats; weak backed democrats; grafting democrats; even bull moose democrats are not allowed to meet in the open and discuss their views wtih one another fearful a vote might be lost. That is what we call popular representa tive government with a big P. That is the way the "organization" selects a man and puts him over. It is up to Mr. Robert Brockett to get into the fight and stay in to a finish. It is further up to every democrat in Guilford county who wants to have a representative who feels that he enjoys political freedom to investigate this ruling of Chairman Hines and demand 'that the candidates-be 'heard in- joint de bate or otherwise. It is a pretty how" do you do when the Committee rules that it will not do to allow opposing candidates to go to the people with their views on needed legislation. Carter Dalton should "accept Brockett's challenge and abide by the decision of the people and not by the decision of the Chair man of a Committee. There is no other democratic way around it. o Danville's Disorderlies. It seems strange that in a Chrisjian city of thirty thousand people there should exist disorderly places which the police seem pow erless to protect. In urging the authorities to interfere, the Danville Bee says : Again we would Impress upon the mayor, the courts d people - "" . ' . . . t:.s.. .v.i v. criminal na poienuai inmin ... BU crimes of violence have originated. Greensboro used to have disorderly places especially the section known as the Bull Pen, but when the city officials took the mat ter in hand the places wTere broken up. If a I - . m m . condition exists like the 5ee describes it cer- tainlv would be an easy matter to proceed. j If the police know that such places are run- ning why wait for an executive order. Why not proceed? Looks like it would be an easy such laces Qut o commission. But perhaps there is a great deal of hear-say evidence and considerable imagination used. ; o - Got Him. The authorities have arrested a man nam ed Jessup who was swindling young and am bitious authors. He advertised that he would place their manuscripts and he made a graft bv charging for editing, lhen neaiso claim cd to own a magazine that never existed, and in using the mails he made his mistake. He will doubtless have ample time to blue pencil any manuscripts he may have on hand and - - . , his date line will be in the same town in which a federal prison is located. o A Baling Machine. Because of the scarcity of paper old rags and old waste paper are worth saving. The City of Winston has purchased a baling ma chine and all this waste which hitherto went into the incinerator will be utilized. That is the system. Every city should look after this sort of waste. Thousands ot dollars are de stroyed monthly. o Easter Tomorrow. Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and the I ...ooor man tplls us things will be fair. If I o it rains on Easter it rains for Seven years or something like thai Therefore fair weather is wanted. . o Welcome To Our City. The Durham Suns runs a big headline : Shafcesoeare In Durham." Glad Bill visited - owS renowned the world .round.. Hope he'll like the surroundings.