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FAGS TWO ; Gloating. The editor of the Raleigh News and Ob server ead our story telling why we didn't go to Charlotte. , Not only on these broad pages was it printed, but Editor Harris, of the Charlotte Observer, knowing the pro prieties of the occasion knowing that grief ; gnawed deep at the vitals of our pure young heart offered consolation and shared our great sorrow. He reproduced what we, in anguish and humiliation, had written. He gave us cheer, and proffered the use of a flying ma chine next year. But the vandal of the Ral eigh paper tears anew the heart strings. He brings back to mind that which we would for get. He fails to remember that a sorrow's - crown of sorrow is remembering happier things and he appears fiendish in his desire to make bleed again a heart wearied with the world's uses. He says: We yet fail to understand why the Colonel of the Greensboro Record failed to get to Charlotte to mingle with the President, the Secretaries. ' the Governors, the Mayors, and the other Colonels, not to say the Majors and the Minors on the Glorious Twentieth, after his fer- - vld declaration of May Nineteen that "Going, yes, we're going if we have to walk. We're going to give the seal of approval to the Event." t Editor Britton or his Able Hired Man, whoever he may be, knows full well the tried to flag the train. He knows that when we were seen at the depot the engineer pulled the throttle wide open and exceeded the speed limit. He knows, and that is why he rubs it in, that Disappointment engulfed us and sub merged us. But he does not know, base catiff that he is, that a lacerated heart is healed only by the kindly touch of Time. And just as we were recovering he steps in and throws a bushel of salt on the fresh made 'wound. But there will come a time! O . Now Then. Just where Berryman Green, a member of the Virginia legislature, stands on the ever in teresting question of woman suffrage, we do not know. That he isn't qualified to assume that a woman is not man's equal we are cer tain. The following news item in the Dan ville Bee proves what we are saying: Hon. Berryman Green, member of the House of Dele gates from Danville, is walking around today with his bead swathed in bandages as result of a culinary exper ience he underwent yesterday afternoon. The member of the House says that he was boiling a ham and while In the act of removing it from the stew pot it slipped stnrf foil hank In tbo )n i 1 i n rr v4fai -onl.i fhin " ! 1 , 0.U3UAU . Kaiuiug I water about his head and face, causing severe injuries iun.u ut-essiiaieu me aiieunou oi a pnysician. rortu nately his eyes and other facial organs escaped and lie hopes soon to recover from his little accident. Think of that, all ye cullinary artists since the days of Hannah's Song of Thanksgiving. It was there related that it was the custom of the priests that when any man offered sacrifice the priest's servant came along and while the flesh was seething took a flesh-hook with three teeth and struck it in- the pot; or kettle or caldron and eT that stuck to the flesh hook the priest took and'kept. Now had Mr. Green been a good Bible student he would have known how to proceed with his h?mi. .. Qr,,hadjie been, as well qualified as the average woman, he never would have allowed that ham to fall back into the kettle. Were Mr. Green just a plain private we would refrain from commenting. But when a man is a law-maker, a member of the House of Delegates, and doesn't know how to cook a ham he reminds of us some doctors who do not know how to cure one. However, we hope the scald will not last long. We hope the ham was nicely cooked, and that the servant's of the priest didn't come in and take the most of it. There is al ways something about a ham that is inspir ing, poet, it will be recalled, stiuck his flute and sang: "Ham fat. ham fat. frying in the pan There s a mighty sight of gristle on a ham fat man." ' o - ' " ' Hush'. With an audacity unequalled since the cus tom of gift-giving was established by the In dians, the Charlotte Observer unqualifiedly says: . - v, J tiixty babies were recently entered in a prize show at the Saxon Mill village. The two winners, under sTrict medical rules for the best health and physical form were children of parents who began mill work a the aTe oTw It cannot be possible. The mill children according to all the devotees of the child labor propaganda are imbeciles, dwarfs and degen erates. The absurd idea of there being a per fect baby born to parents who soiHheir hands Wrth honest; toil. The Observer prints this afixT still wears a box head that if vou see it m the Observer it is so. ,.But seriously such contests such exam ples knock into a cocked hat all the fume and loam of the people paid to weep. ' v . " ' o ':. Good Enough. -The great alienation suit which was to have been pulled at Durham and which would have been food for the human buzzards who least on certain kinds of carion has been set tled out of court, and we are glad it has. -1 he only suggestion we have to make is that we do not see how a man or woman can place a price on love. If a fellow really stole the love of someone well, in this world that is a commodity that cannot be bought then why can it be sold? A Great Industry. The gold production of 1 North Carolina in creases. The output for 1915 was over 2,000 ounces more than in 1914. In other words the production of gold in this state last year was $172,000. If each state" in the Union would do as well as that we would never in the world hear anything more about free silver. Bruce Wright. We were pained to learn of the death of Mr. Bruce Wright of Raleigh. For many years we have enjoyed his friendship. Al ways with a glad hand and a warm heart he welcomed us. As a traveling salesman he was known by thousands of people in North Carolina all of whom will missftfim. He had a charming personality thought along his own lines and was always brave enough to tell what he thought. We know that be yond the lmes his soul is at peace. Mostly In The Mind. These Preparedness people talk wildly and glibly and really they do not know what they are saying. We are already prepared for all that has happened. Our friend, the -Wilmington Star says: ; It's poor politics and also peanuts to delay adequate preparedness in this country. It Is like camping on the edge of a volcano under the belief that it Is not liable to erupt. We have been running this Western World for several years now and up to this sad hour we have been prepared for all that came along. ; We Weren't half as well prepared when the Hanko-Spanko war came as we are today and all we did was to roll up our sleeves, buckle up our suspenders and whip Spain in about a two forty gait. We put on a war tax and got so much money we had to take the tax off before the war was over. ''With all the world on crutches ; with its men filling trenches ; with no nation in shape to fight save Japan which wouldn't dare to do it, there is no reason for any great amount ot i'reparedness. It is a propaganda put out by munition makers and men big in commerce. There is no country coming here to fight America and if there is we can prepare in ample time. The fact that we are already furnishing munitions for all the fighting countries save Germany, shows that from our plants we could get things to going in a few days and manufac ture all the needed supplies. We may be camping on a volcano. But be cause we are we are not picking the tuffa out of our eyes before eruption. We might have an earthquake tomorrow that Would put us all to the, bad but because of what might hap pen we are not tearing down our brick and stone houses and replacing them With rein forced concrete. There might be a drought lasting for ten years but we are not filling our warehouses with grain anticipating such an event because we know it would rot before we needed it. And those who think a little bit about it, and do not throw a fit of hysteria because the publicity campaign of the Pre paredness munition makers-is run on such a large scale as to frighten nervous people, are opposed to building a navy that would be come obsolete before we could use it. The Preparedness programme is purely one of money making. The hope is to get Con gress excited to stir up -the people and let loose a few billion dollars to enrich those en gaged in commerce. There is no more need of the United. States spending big money on a navy than there is of her building two post offices in each town. The United States is a pretty big concern and before - any invading army could do much damage you would see us ready to repel it. What nation could fight us? None save Japan and outside the Hobson sobs she couldn't last long. Wonderful how we all fall for the programme put out by the men who see dollars and want dollars. We" arebettef prepared lodayhanver in our history. Each year we are preparing and no Nation has ever yet got our scalp. And no Nation is going to get it. As The Law Reads. It was not long ago that Melville Davisson Post, a government employe and a learned lawyer wrote articles for the Saturday Even ing Post in which he deplored the tendency of the times as regards the multiplicity of laws On the books and the millions of so called "predecents" which have been estab lished. We quoted from these articles and regretted ne did not continue. Here is a little story from the Monroe Journal which contains enough food to cause a whole state to stand up on its immediate hind legs and demand that such things should be impossible under the name and guise of justice: After being out for about 40 hours the Jury in the case of Denton Telephone Company vs. Varner, in Davidson County Court, returned a verdict in favor of the plain-. lybout n actual property value was con cerned in the case, hut it took nine lawyers, over a dav of Superior Court and about .30 witnesses to untangle It wh wwt veS amount,: 38.45. The issnf was T .AVlU :uner' wbo 'ives near Denton, should be allowed to rent a telephone on a country line or whether he would have to surrender it to another man who was a stockholder In the company. ,,s In all candor courts should be for, other and higher purposes. -o- This Will Suffice. " It was duly recorded in these pages of a passing day why we didn't go to Charlotte. And in commenting on what we had said the Observer gives us an assurance for the sweet subsequent. It says: There wasdisappointmont at this end of the line too because of Fairbrother's failure to materialize but next year we shall hope for better luck. We will lend for him getting K' ShUld there be o other way of A flying machine will suffice. Ordinarily we would prefer going by wireress but were we - to get: mixed up in an S. O. S. call and land somewhere else, again it would be dis appointing. Therefore, my children, we live m the Grand Hope of doing the stunt as stunts similar should be done, and on dress parade in Charlotte next year we hope to be not only the Principal Attraction-but with our Whiskers, Paramount. Don't Tell Us. Don't tell us that the women are not busi ness. Business from the shoulder and imme diately off the reel. Charming the while, but business still We note that at the forthcom ing Biennial Convention to be held next week worJ tn :i? NW York City' the business wonn alread-r ged two hundred women doctors to be the Susans On The gatef SC f il,ness of any r the visiting conwntknf Vh CVer saw a man made advanco V abUt PP1 doctors in adAa1nCt?' preparedness-well, we should say. All the political conventions we ever at- - ot OM !he olU conSS waV 10 see that an arm v rf kii t.. T Certainly. The Raleigh News and Observer, in dis cussing the claim of this paper that voters are practically disfranchised by the new primary law hands down this as part of a rejoinder: The legalized State-wide primary takes tbe place of the political convention. Of course no man who is not a ' Democrat would ask to take part in a Democratic con vention, for that-is a party matter, and if it was found that a man whose political affiliations were not known was attempting to take part in making nominations he would be asked to say where he stood. The same rule applies, of course, to the Republican conventions. ; -.- 'Tt also takes the place of the primary law under which people in Guilford county voted their choice for years. Under the former primary law a voter could go to the primary and there declare his intentions of voting for the state democratic ticket and he was allow ed to vote. All he had to do was to declare himself and tell the names of those for whom he was voting. We have voted this way for many years and thus had a right to express our choice. The new law absolutely disfranchises the voter. He must tell the registrar his politics. He must tell the poll holder his politics. It has been the proud boast of this country that the ballot was free. That at the polls a man could express his choice. It was for this that we adopted in many states the Australian ballot. Because of the new primary law a man is disfranchised. True he can vote in the gen eral election. But he must vote for the men handed him. by the political party that as sumes to take possession of his business. There is no other" way for him. It is the same thing: as though a man were at a hotel and the bill of fare was passed him. He can read it, but when he goes to order, the waiter tells him to take corn bread and bacon that is all there, is. And if he doesn't take corn bread and bacon he goes hungry. He can't order chicken and he can't order beef steak. The democrats and rennhlirnnc election. They do not let the average citizen who is independent in this section, have a chance to express a choice. The average citizen holds back and takes what the waiter brings him and then the "leaders" declare he has had a choice. The new primary law will be repealed. It will be amended so it would not know its own father. The voters are already in revolt. And all the cheap talk about a man 'having the right to vote at the November election" . is tommy-rot. As the law) now stands a thou sand good citizens in Guilford are absolutely j r t -1 m . aisrranenised and many ot them arc on the war path. o Wonderful, Wonderful. And while we have been pointing out the manifest- unfairness of the new primary law the democratic paper.vhave been insisting thatjthe "primary should be given a trial" am3 especially strong aiHrfe defender has'liccn' the Winston Journal. - ' But behold it now comes forward and ! makes this astounding proposition : We like the suggestion made by Mr. J. A. Hartness of statesville that candidates agree among themselves not to have a second primary. That Is the sensible thing to do. Mr. Hartness is himself a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination of Secretary of State. He has written a letter to his opponents offering to waive his right to euter a second primary, provided no one gets a majority iu the first and asking the other candidates to agree to let the one receiving the largest number of votes in the first primary be declared the party's nomiuee. Mr. Hart uess very sensibly takes the position that the second primary is a needless expense for two of the candidates that the man receiving the most votes in the first primarv will almost certainly come out In the lead in the second and that the second contest is useless. It is fair to all candidates to let the man receiving a ploralltv be declared the winner, and not only saves the candidates much time worry and expense, but likewise is a boon to the people' A second primary would mean that thousands of our people at the busiest time of the year would have to loe time from their business una furma moni. i. something that Is as good as decided before' thev go to the polls. We hope Mr. Hartness opponents will agree to his suggestion and that other candidates will follow the good example, thus doing away with the necessity of a second primary in North Carolina this year. 'We print the entire article because it so plainly states our position. Wre have insisted that the second primary was a farce and a useless expense, and because we said so we were held up and charged with treason. But here comes the democratic candidate for Secretary of State and says we arc ever lastingly right without mentioning our name and whoop-a-lee here comes Santford Mar tin yelling "Me Too," "Me Too" and agree ing that the proposition to hold men up for their money is foolishness. Wre want to know and have asked repeated ly: "Wrhy have two or three elections when one should suffice?" and now the candidates themselves arc wanting to do what we said should have been done in the first place. This paper feels fullv and comnlerHv vin dicated. Already all people who think have come to the conclusion that it is a hardship to ask candidates to go through two or three elections in one year for the same office. What the democratic party should do and will be forced to do is to repeal the present primary law. That is what we early said and if you will listen and look out just that thino will happen. & Something Should Be Done. In the "local doings" of the Danville Reg ister this item appears: Much complaint was heard about town vesterday be n,Vf fnihe,h T,nds ond at times this was verv severe. reltion ltP,e-dnfHm 8treets and carr,wl -rections. It was noticeable that but a small part of the usua afternoon crowd of shoppers was on the streets ,T bJ L frnd tlle,r trn,1e materially curtai ed tor the .The complaint was unquestionably just And something should have been done. When the people didn't like to let an ice plant make a reasonable profit on its risk and capital in vested, the city council got busy and threat ened to start a "municipal ice plant," and why the same socialistic theory should not ob- ;Vh-1S CaSe we are at a loss to know. What business have the present high winds to operate to the discomfort of Danville citizens? Why not start a new Wind Works or least make a. threat: along that line. The !! f1!?1?". the socialistic Danville council is cu l. ims ma"er with a suggestion that it act p. a. q. ; - - . The Wrong End Of It. Perhaps well intentioned, but certainly misinformed, the Lincoln Times says a say like this in talking about the fact that 144 dozen bottles of Pepsi-Cola arc brought from Charlotte to its town and consumed there by the thirsty sons of toil. The writer believes these drinks are injurious. Xot only physically, though there is no doubt in the world that they are continually carrying chemical agents to the stomach that the system has no need of and that the system will be better and stronger if it is saved tbe work of carrying off these unnecesary things, but they are causing our young children to grow up to spend money idly to waste it, and that Is not God's purpose for it. Of course the editor of the Times is en titled to his belief, but inasmuch as Coca Cola went through all the courts and proved conclusively that Coca-Cola was not an in jurious drink, handed down evidence that is absolute and irrefutable, writers should not jump too hastily into print with beliefs. Pepsi-Cola also has been proven harmless, and if people want to drink it they should not be charged with taking dope. The children do not drink as much of the soft drinks as is believed. You hardly ever see a kidlette rushing with his nickel to buy a soft drink he wants candy or chewing gum. And if he did spend his nickel for a soft drink he should have the undoubted right. It is highly proper for young men to save their money; to get a start in the world but to campaign for children in arms to save their pennies and their nickel, to deny themselves the little pleasure that they get from spending their mite, well we say let them go to it. In the first place children have no money but what their parents give them. Therefore if the kid spends it "idly" as the Lincoln Times suggests, the parent is to blame. And it would be a hard father who would give his darling kid a nickel and then take it away from him snd put it in the bank. The child doesn't know the value of money. To it the nickel is as big as a dollar, because it knows a nickel will buy candy and the dollar could do no more. Quantity with the kid docs not enter the equation. To it "suffi cient unto the day is the evil thereof." It may be that soft drinks are "unneces sary things," as the Times points out. And so are three fourths of the articles consumed by the human race. Why jewelry? Why neck ties? Why black your shoes? Why wear anything but hand-me-downs blue overalls? Why have dishes when tin pans will suffice. Wrhy have a table cloth because the bare j table would hold the meals. Why have a mil- I lion things we consume and enjoy? ..Why ! save all the money and not spend any what ; gooa would it dor l he soft drink people J give employment to people. They build j business blocks; they spend money as they ' make it, therefore nothing is lost to com merce, and if the kid enjoys a cool and re- J freshing drink why not let him have it? ' But the Times perhaps doesn't tarrv long on the above . .proposition.. The. milk "in, the,; coca-nut is found in the next paragraph of its"; article which says: j Yet the Idea remains tb.it if our people will drink these 1 things we have a home con.-ern that is puttiug out as pood an article as is made in that line and that spread . the profits at home, that tu-lps our ihurrhrs. our m-hooU t our charities and Interests. i There you have it. The children are spend- i ing their money "idly" if they buy the soft I drink made elsew!tt-e but if it is made at : home gadzooks! the money spent idly helps j churches, schools and charities. " ; We see. The Times should remember that we do not live to ourselves alone and if a j soft drink made in one town will help schools t and churches and charities it will help the i same worthy cause in another town. i The soft drink has come to stav. Those which are not harmful, and we know of none that are harmful, have taken the place of the vile near beer; the whiskey and wine that not long ago made men drunkards and outcasts. The soft drink has been a blessing to human it v. An Important Case. Whenever we have an important case brought before us for adjudication, and the papers recording the doings of the world bring many such cases, we "most in general ly" attempt to go to the bottom of the cause and then try to impartially render a judicial opinion that will be pleasing to all parties'. When we find that we cannot satisfy oursell on certain points we invariably refer" the case to Judge Rufus Clark, of the Statcsville Landmark, who always disagrees with us and men taxes us with the costs. But we feel that as the court of last appeal, Judge Rufe is safe, sound and conservative. The other day in New York, it is recorded that Isaac Goldman who owned the finest pair of dark flowing whiskers ever worn by mortal man had them out for a personally conducted airing. These whiskers reached to his waist and looked like an alfalfa field in an irrigated district. As Ike beheld them in the glistening sun his heart was glad. He thanked the Giver of all good for this wonderful bunch of aspar agus for it was pleasing to his eye. But as he looked in wrapt admiration along came one Frank Gallagher who made a plunge and grabbed the whiskers and pulled so hard that he extracted by the roots a full hand of them. Naturally Ike was indignant. His crown ing glory had departed from the earth his wide flowing beard was forever ruined. Nat urally Ike had the fiend arrested. It was claimed in court that it wtis all an accident. Gallagher claimed that just as he was pass ing Ike his foot slipped and in that mad ges ture which a desperate man will make to tain his balance he clutched blindlv in the air and the death grip was on the beard. Now what we want to know is could such an accident have occured? We want fudge Clark of Statcsville to review this case and put the costs on Ike. if he Can. If hn ran't rwill stand , for it as enlightenment at any rpnee save honor is what we seek. GREENSBORO, N r What's This? "Do me ears deceive me eyesight " h Ho I hear footsteps approaching on hor -back' and here comes Colonel ant Martin and writes in cold type : The people are not ready to tackle any mor tutioual amendments yet. awhile and won't tl - U time, we fear. ue .' s..m And ,'twas only a summer ago that Colo Martin said all the people of North Carol were in favor of the Ten Sacred 1? ments. He printed a parallel column and ' " one were all the lawyers and politicians ! the state a unanimous thing for 'emand the other was the name of Chairman Tra and yours truly and he said gravelv and re' proachfully that we were the orilv "two mr in the state opposed to them. ' And here he comes with the above utte ance. How can it be possible? What chan-e has come o er the dream of his sad vn,,, heart? We pause. We ponder. We' are di-5 tressed. - 1 copic 01 uuniora will be pleased to kno. that the Hon. A. M. Scales will be a candi date for State Senator. Mr. Scales ha been twice in the Senate; is an able lawyer and a progressive citizen. Guilford county inter ests will be in good hands and all of us should rejoice to know that Mr. Scales has consented to undertake the thankless job of a winter in Raleigh. T" i r e Problematical. The Durham Herald puts it in this wav: Colonel Fairbrother. along with some of the rest'J j party VonvenU. " "y ,he a ti ! Being a direct question we evade the point j at this time. Because that is not the question before the house. Wc claimed the right to l,e j tested. Under the primary law as admimV tcrcl in this county the registrar informed im ! that because we were independent we could i not vote in the primary. We were to be de ! med the opportunity to bind ourself to sut. port anyone. ' ...That.was where wc came In with the kick Wc claimed the right to have opportunitv to join the party if we wanted to join it. "Ve claimed the right to look over the field and go to the polls to vote. But because we had not proclaimed ourself a democrat or repub lican we were to be denied the right to go to the primary Heretofore when we participat ed we bound ourself to support the candi date nominated if we took part. This ha been denied us. Therefore we have been dis franchised. And there is no way around the proposition. Since the new registration in this county was knocked into a cocked hat by the state board perhaps the embargo has' been raised. Wc hitherto have been singing about what they were doing. But as their proceedings have been declared illegal there may be another hen on. , . . . o j-- Willing To Let It Stand. The opposition to Lieutenant Governor Daughtridge plays the populistic song. It understands that with the tailed element of humanity ; the Weary Willies of the curb and the slubberdegullions of the gutter, the successful man is not want ed. They understand that by an attempt 10 poison the minds of the "plain people" so called by them, but in fact the irresponsible rabble that has a voice, they can get votes. To paint a Banker, a railroad man anv one successful, as a "malefactor of great wealth" is the happy chore of the professional noli- tician. The Journal, in exultant glee, attempts to prove to us that the managers of Daught ridge have denied that he was a banker. Wc can't help what some of them have done. We ; nave quoted .Mr. Daughtridge s manager in j this county as boldly proclaiming- him a. ; banker. We know he is a successful business j man. Our regret is that he isn't also a rail road man. ; Our choice is Daughtridge Bickett is a I politician. He has been attorney general for I eight years. He hasn't done the big con- 1 structive things Daughtridge has done. We have insisted that North Carolina needs a. 1 1 ' .. . . - ; ..uiiii;, nouTiior. jnis long belore Bickett j announced himself. W'e didn't know that Daughtridge was a banker and business man j until we investigated. W'e found that he is j big and broad and successful. That is why j we would rather see him Governor than j Bickett. Oratory which Bickett possesses in j a great measure is good stuff for gate re : ccipts but what we need just now, and more than ever, is a broad minded, progressive businses man as Governor. Linncv is not a I business man he is a lawyer and "politician. ; So is Bickett. Therefore the Business man and Banker and Farmer will get' more votes ! from the free thinking people of North Car olina than any other candidate. The primarv may nominate Daughtridge and it mav not. But the primary will not be the expression of the people by a long shot. The Journal savs its say in this manner: Colonel Fairbrottier. faroufu tiie Greensboro Iteconl. cotHinues to proclaim Lieutenant Governor IlauphirM or KfN-ky Mount to be one of the snc-essfnl bankers of the Ti!a!': S,nr we ,"n,,H' n Colonel attention to the f.it that the managers of Mr. Ian(rhtrilce's .Mmnjipn for .h Riibernatori.-il nomination deny th.it their inau U .1 banker ami insist that the newspapers ,, not refer to bim .is . banker, he comes ba. k with an attempt to prove that .Mr. naught ridge I a banker. And we must .-onfess that tli" ; "71 a prtnry go,d showing, having obtained th I.kms in support of his -ontentton from the literature rein out from the Itanghtridgo headquarters and from an inter view publisb.il in the Kc-ord by Mr. Diiugbtridges ro.m ager in Greenslioro. We are willing to let it go at that, and hope the aggressively-progressive citizens of North Carolina, those who want to see our old state take forward steps in the great com mercial revival that will soon be on. vote for a Business man as against a Politician. But if they do not do it, we shall still stand firm in the conviction that thev should. -o- If this old Nation will sit up and take notice of the business methods of the four or five thousand women in New York this week, it will conclude that perhaps the woman part of the. world i a great- intellectual lamp which should be lighted on election day.
Everything (Greensboro, N.C.)
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